The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 25, 1954, Page 5

- Power Company Made Major Blunder In Filing Huge Suit By G. MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON «#—Sen. Langer (R-Ind) says that. the Arkansas Power & Light Co. “made ’a ma- jor blunder” in filing a two mil- lion dollar slander suit against a witness in a Senate investigation of the controversial Dixon-Yates contract, , . Langer, chairman of a Stnate amtimonopoly subcommittee carry- ing on the probe, told a newsman a “Wall Street crowd” prompted the filing of the suit in Little Rock “with the clear intent of intimida- tion” of witnesses crtical of the proposed contract, which has be- come an issue in the current po- litical campaign. Langer did not -spell out who he meant by the term “Wall Street crowd.” The. North: Dakota Republican predicted that public reaction to the suit will be swift and negative. Defendant in the slander suit is Arthur E. McLean, a little Rock banker who told the Langer sub- committee Thursday that Arkansas Power was ‘‘the most corrupt and ruthless corporation that ever oper- ated within the bounds of the state.” Arkansas Power officials indi- cated the suit—which accuses the banker of making ‘‘malicious, false and slanderoys statements” about AP&L—is not based on McLean’s Senate testimony, which is privi- leged, but on his past statements in a years long feud with the com- pany. . Informed here of the legal ac- tion against him, McLean said “I welcome the suit. . . . They are asking forsthe works—they’re go ing to get it.” Langer reacted explosively when he heard of the suit. Pounding the table, the senator shouted “we are not going to allow Dixon-Yates or anyone else to bluff, scare or in- timidate witnesses.” The North Da- kota senator said his subcommittee would assign its chief counsel, Sid- ney Davis, and hire former Gov. Sid McMath of Arkansas to help with McLean’s defense, if this can Be done- legally. He ordered his staff to prepare an opinion on this point. ‘ MeMath testified last week that AP&{, used money and influence in 1952 to defeat his try for a third term in the Arkansas State House. This happened, McMath said, ve- cause he favored the building.of a steam power generating plaht by a group of cooperatives. McMath said the private utility awag.‘‘the most powerful political influence in Arkansas . .. an un- healthy influence, not conducive to good government.” Arkansas Power is a wholly- owned ‘subsidiary of Middle South. Utilities Inc., one of two firms which make up the Dixon-Yates power group. Langer’s subcommit- tee has been looking into a pro- posed government contract under which the Dixon - Yates group would build a 107-million dollar power plant at West Memphis, Ark., to serve an area of east Tennessee over Tennessee Valley Authority lines. This: private power would re- place TVA electricity which would be. used instead at government atomic plants in Tennessee and Kentucky. This contract, though not yet signed, has been approved in form by the AEC and is to be scrutinized next month by the Sen- ate-House Atomic Energy Commit- tee. Critics contend the Dixon-Yates proposal is an entering wedge by those who seek ultimate destruc- tion of the TVA. The project's de- fenders say .it is the cheapest way to get the needed power. - Langer announced he will seek a Senate investigation of how well the Holding Company Act is func- tioning as a curb on monopoly rren in the aan tote field. r recessing the hearing. in- definitely late ‘Thursday, Langer said in a statement ‘‘there has been considerable testimony that the Holding Company law is longer serving its proper ana —at least insofar as the Dixon companies are involved.” Middle South is headed by Edgar H. Dixon. Another of its subsidi- aries is the Mississippi Power & . Light. Co. Mississippi Power, too, has come under’ fire before the Langer group. McMath testified the Holding Company Act is not accomplishing its purpose, and said it is ‘‘mak- .ing possible monopolies detrimen- ‘tal to my state.” He recommended tightening the” act or its enforce- both, yo New Cabinet For Pakistan By ZAMIR SIDDIQi KARACHI, Pakistan wi — Prime Minister Mohammed Ali headed a new and more powerful govern- ment today while a “state of emer- gency” was maintained to cope with Pakistan’s disturbed political situation, The Prime Minister named a new seven-man cabinet last night after Gov. Gen. Mr Moha: previous ministers and dissolved the Con- stituent Assembly. This body had served as a national legislature during the seven years. of Pakis- tan’s independence. Declaring a state of emergency, the governor general turned full administrative power over to the Cabinet. Demonstrations and meet- ings of more than five persons were prohibited, and censorship was clamped on the local press. Ali had cut short a ‘visit to the United States and artived back in Karachi Saturday, just a few hours before the drastic measures He told the nation in a broad- cast that he new government because “it was my duty, which in this hour of crisis I owed to my country.” Like the governor genera), Aili was critical of the Assembly, He said in his broadcast that ite re cent ‘actions had “provoked a storm in the colintry” and “caused internal strain and bickerings.” After séven years, the Aséém- bly’s work of drafting & constitu- tion was still unfinished, snarled by strong antagonisms and rivalry be- tween different provinces and lan- guage groups. Britain’s Dock Strike Enters Fourth Week LONDON # — Britain’s water- front strike, which has idled 44,- 000 of 767000 cargo handlers in this maritime nation, entered its fourth Federation of wholesale Grocers warned that stocks of imported bacon, cheese, butter, eggs and tinned fruits were running low and said the situation would become serious if the work sepmre continues until next week- The strike has paralyzed the big Port of London and crippled opera- tions at six other important ports, including the key freight-handling cities of Liverpool and Hull, More than 300 ships are idle in the ports. Cargoes worth an estimated 120 million pounds (336 million dol- lars) are being held up. _ A committee of government min- isters which has been keeping aft eye on essential imports scheduled another meeting for today. It was expected the group would recom- mend the use of ttoops as steve- dores if the strike continues be- yond Wednesday, The dockers walked off their jobs in support of a demand for the right to overtime work, Nevada Shows WASHINGTON un — The Census Bureau says Nevada was the na- tion’s fastest-growing state during the last four years while West Vir- sas more tered ones. ee ¥ “Sen. Langer Says Arkansas . American Held |Mendes-France Moves For Fast Action On InPoland]s _| Achieving Economic Accord With W. Germany Freed’ By Reds VIENNA, Austria ’— Hermann Field, a U. S. citizen who disap- peste? in Red Poland in August 1949, has ‘‘been cleared of all charges and released from pris- on,” the Warsaw radio said today. The broadcast said an iavestiga- tion conducted by Polish authori- ties disclosed that the charges agent.” Field will be given “full compen- sation” and action will be taken hig arrest, the report said. Wield’s sectet arrest was dis- elosed Sept. 28 in Washington by jailer, Jozef Swiatlo, a of the Polish secret po- until he fled to the West 10 ago. Field disappeared boarding a Prague-bound at Warsaw. Field is the brother of |, & former official of the . 8. Department who dis- in Prague in May 1949. 's wife Herta also dis- they later were arrest in Hungary. The official communique broad- cast by Radio Warsaw said: “Polish authorities last year or- derd an investigation into a num- ber of legal cases which revealed gross violations of law. In the course of the investigations author- ities unmasked an official of the Polish security service as an agent of an American espionage sys- tem. The official was identified as Jo- zet Swiatlo and the broadcast said he had been responsible for the arrest of several persons, includ- ing Hermann Field. Swiatlo said in Washington last month that he believed Noel Field and his wife were dead. The State Department said notes had been sent to Hungary demanding the re- lease of Noel and Herta Field and to Poland seeking freedom for Hermann Field. A spokesman said the department was acting on the assumption all three were alive. Members of Hermann Field's family said that he had gone to Eastern Europe in part to look for his missing brother. An architect, he also was said to be interested in architectural projects in that area and in aiding refugees. His wife and her two children live in London with her British parents. The broadeast said a number of Polish nationals also were freed when Field was released. Committee Takes Up Final Talks On Disarmament UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., #— The U. N. Assembly Political Com- mittee entered the final phase of its disarmament debates today with a wary eyé on Russia’s Andrei Vishinsky. Last Friday Vishinsky agreed to join the Western Big Three and Canada in a resolution calling for new five-power closed-door on disarmament, Vishinsky agreed with other delegates that the road to real agreement was a rough one but he said there might be light ahead, Agreéments were signed in Par- is Saturday designed to bring West Germany into the Western defense alliance. Moscow countered imme- diately by calling for a new four- ‘power meeting on German unity, adiing: “It is impossible te propose a general reduction of armaments and at the same time carry out remiliterisation of Western Ger- many.” One delegate remarked: “K is certain that what Moscow said Sat- urday, Mr. Vishinsky will say here Monday.” ohereaes* cpe I E TEr*T nee : isk s § 3 5 sf e # fi Ft B E ceil Monday, October 25, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 5 “Test Tube Baby” Law Sought To Determine Rights In Illinois CHICAGO u — The Chicago Bar— Assn. has ordered a study of arti- ficial insemination with a view to recommending a law to the 1955 Legislature. Illinois presently has no law covéring rights of persons involved in “test tube baby” cases. There are two such cases pending in Su- perior Court. Samuel A. Rinella, chairman of the association’s Matrimonial Law Committee, yesterday appointed a two-member subcommittee to be- ing hearings Wednesday. . Rinella said a recent report by a Chicago physician that he performed be- tween 200 and 300 such insemina- tions indicated an immediate need for such a law. Rinella said physicians and law- yers will be called before the com- mittee for recommendations and discussion of these questions to be covered by the proposed law: 1. Defining the rights and liabili- ties of the doctor performing the insemination. 2. Defining whether the donor is the child’s legal father or whether the mother becomes the sole natu- ral parent. 3. Determining whether the prac- tiee of artificial insemination is adulterous. 4. Is prior consent of the hus- band legally necessary and is such consent a bonding contract? 5. Is the husband, with or without prior consent, legally bound to support the “test tube baby” in the absence of formal adoption? 6. Establishing inheritance rights of a baby born of artificial insemi- nation. Judge Gibson E. Gofman has been asked to rule Nov. 15 in one case involving a 5-year-old boy. The 36-year-old mother, who is su- ing her 48-year-old machinist hus- band for divorce, contends the boy was born of artificial insemination and that her husband is not the father, _ The mother asks the court to Tule aftificial insemination is not contrary to public policy, does not constitute adultery, that the child is legitimate and that the husband has no right or interest in the child. Whether the child was born of artificial insemination is the issue in a second case. The husband, 32, Petitioned for custody of a 3-year- old boy and an injunction restrain- ing the 30-year-old mother from calling the boy a “test tube baby.” Results: of blood tests are to be made known in court Nov. 4. The mother, a physician and a nurse have testified the father con- sented to artiffcial insemination and it was performed about eight months before the baby was born. The father denied consenting and claimed blood tests will prove he is the father. Man Is Killed By His Own Bullet EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — Charles Curry, 28-year-old East St. Louis Negro, was killed by his own bullet in a fight yesterday. East St. Louis police gave this account of the shooting: Curry and Warren E. Jones, 25, another East St. Louis Negro,be- gan an argument in a club. Curry grabbed a .38-caliber automatic pistol from the pocket of another man at the scene after Jones was handed a toy pistol. Curry, standing in front of Jones with his arms around him, shot Jones in the back during a scuffle. The bullet penetrated Jones’ body and fatally wounded Curry. Jones was hospitalized with a gunshot wound in the chest. Jenner Raps Army Education Program In WWII WASHINGTON «7 — Sen. Jen- ner (R-Ind) said last night the Army’s information and education Speedup Set For Final Week Of Campaign 84th Congress today rolled into its final week with both parties plan- ning an 1lth-hour speedup of ef- forts to lure voters still straddling the political fence. The Republican National Comni- mittee announced yesterday that some 100 prominent Republicans will make more than 250 speeches in 36 states during the closing days of the campaign. GOP efforts will be climaxed on election eve by a ‘“‘get-out-the- vote” appeal by President Eisen- hower. National economic conditions, a prime issue in the campaign, will be reviewed tonight by Eisenhow- er in a nationally televised ‘‘non- partisan” talk from Washington. Vice President Nixon, the most active of the top GOP campaign- ers, will speak today in Nevada, Arizona and Idaho. The “big names” among the Democrats who will contribute to the campaign finale include Adlai Stevenson, the party’s 1952 presi- dential candidate, and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate. Nixon yesterday told newsmen in Salt Lake City that he believes the GOP campaign is now “‘in exactly the right position.” He said the campaign “has been gaining in intensity and interest and if this keeps up the Republi- cans will win the Senate and keep the House” in the Nov. 2 bal- loting. Senate Democratie Leader Lyn- don Johnson of Texas said yester- day in Minneapolis that a 10-state swing has convinced him his party will wrest control of Congress from the. GOP. 2 on said Saturday the’ Com- munist party is fighting desperate- ly for an anti-Eisenhower Con- gress. He said this was partly be- cause the Democratic party has “tolerated” the Red conspiracy and many of its candidates belong to a “left-wing clique.” Ta Salt Lake City, Nixon yestet- day commented on a recent Stev- enson statement that the vice pres- ident is direeting a GOP campaign that can be described as ““McCar- thyism in a white collar.” Nixon called this a “typical snide and snobbish innuendg to- ward the millions of Americans who work for a living in our shops and factories...” Nixon said the so-called blue coi- lar workers “have a much keener and clearer understanding of the threat of communism at home than he (Stevenson) has displayed dur- ing his public career...” “Eye Witness” Is Charged In Crime BALTIMORE, #—A 52-year-old junkman who told police he wit- nessed the slaying of a grocer early Saturday has been charged with committing the crime himself. Alfonso’ Hill, a Negro, had told Police he had seen two Negroes enter the grocery about the time of the killing. He furnished detail- ed descriptions of them. The victim was Frank Leimkuhl- er, 62. A woman customer found him fatally wounded on the floor of his grocery. Another customer recalled seeing a junk wagon near the store about the time of the killing. Hill, also eharged with attempted robbery, was held without bail. Daring Thief Nabs Fire Engine TOWNSEND, Mass. (#—Thomas Walker, 21, today was accused of larceny—the larceny of a 14-ton, bright red fire engine. The town’s only engine was taken yesterday, its bells clanging and siren screaming, from the fire sta- tion. Fire Chief Daniel Ormsby heard :|the engine and called police when he learned it wasn’t headed to a four-hour search police the fire engine deep in Ashby. . Premier Pierre Mendes-France pushed his program for far-reach- ing economic accords with West Germany today, moving quickly to aris agreements for adding German strength to Wstern defense. In a fireside radio chat last night, th Premier told his countrymen: “France and Germany are two countries whose nearness to one another and whose resources and production require their close as- sociation together.” His talk came a day after the forign ministers of 15 Wetern na- tions signed protocols to three trea- ties designed to make West Ger- many a free and equal partner in the Western alliance against the threat of Red aggression. The Par- is agreements must be ratified by the national parliaments of the countries concerned. Western dip- lomats hoped this could be accom- plished by mid-1955, but they looked for some rough going with the Soviet Union in the months ahead. Russia moved within a few hours after the agreemnts wer reached Saturday, calling for a Big Four conference in November on a German peace settlement. Mendes-France told his radio audience the signing of an agree- ment Saturday with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on the future of the rich Saar Valley removed that obstacle to French- German cooperation. Reminding the French that West Germany is their best customer and ‘‘second most important pro- vider of goods,” the Premier said the two countries need each other. “Because of this,” he said, “we are determined to conclude ac- cords of long duration such as will assure permanent markets for French wheats, sugar, milk prod- | ucts, ete. “Tt is a®o useful to encourage associations between French and| German business and financial in- terests with the aim of making the best of our respective resources, increasing production, and making research to fing markets elsewhere in the world.” . The Premier said the agreement to Europeanize the Saar within the French economy “satisfied rights and interests of France in a way we had called for in vain for a very long tiie.” He said the Saar agreement was “not achieved without pain,” but discounted fears held in some French quarters that close eco- nomic cooperation would give Ger- man efficiency supremacy. It was not just a case of dividing present | limited markets, he said, but to “enlarge our fields of activity and} our markets.” In addition to Soviet roadblocks | in the way of Allied plans for West Germany, Western diplomats also expect Mendes-France to run into| stiff opposition in getting some features of the agreements through the French National Assembly. Large segments of the French people in the past have opposed three things contained in the ac- cords — the West Germans will be able to create a general staff of the army level, form military units at the army group level for integration with the other Allied forces and enter directly into the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion. These factors may sway some votes, but associates of Mendes- France say he is expected to pre- sent the entire plan to the Assem- bly. The various agreements reached Saturday would end the Allied oc- cupation and rearm West Germany under safeguards within a seven- nation Western European Union and NATCO. Twelve German divi- sions would take their place in the Allied defense line. The Soviet Union’s call for a four-power forign ministers’ con- ference said the talks hould in- clude Wstern as well as Rusian proposals for free all-German elections. The United States, Britain and France wre rported standing by two conditions for any such con- ference as outlined in notes to Moscow last month: 1. Russia must agree in advance to holding free, supervised, Ger- man-wide elections for an all- German government. 2. Russia must act in advance to conclude a treaty of independ- ence for occupied Austria. Ike Wants A Gal Halloween when we Americans actually courage the little individuals to free to do things rather as they Eisenhower last night combined a wish that America have a “gay” Honduras Ship MIAMI, Fla. @ — The Coast Guard cutter Androscoggin raced to the aid of a Honduran ship to- day that reported it was in “‘sink-/ ing condition” with 13 men aboard. | gine room was flooded and that! its pumps were not working. How- ever, it appeared that the 13 men were still aboard the 138-foot ship, It was expected to reach the Launa, which reported its location as 90 miles northwest of San Sal- vador Island in the Bahamas, about midafternoon. 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