The Houae pa11ed the Farm Bill thia afternoon. !he figure - a billion and a quarter. Which ta one-hundretl-end-- at.x ■ill1on more than the Eisenhower Adll1n1atrat1on wanted. 'l'blre wa1 a noisy debate, aa Republican advocate• ot eoonCIIJ tried to cut the total - but the ram bloc won out. Bconc:111 -adlllnt1 deteated - and then the bill was paaaed by an OTerwbl laing vote. ~IDIB8 - TAXES - President E isenhower, today, presented h1a tax proposals - in a formal meaaage to Congress. Arguing - in favor or what he had to say yesterday. H e wants the excess profits tax extended for another au 110ntha - although there•• -:t;J,J;- lllCh opposition in Congress t\pl' •••enaton "'' ••• ,..-,,.-i.e. 11 :; , • • ~ President wants variwa other corporation tuea to be contirued, and repeats what he aa1<1 yesterday- that personal inc011e taxes cannot be reduced until January Pirat ot next year. He declares, 1n explanation, that all tht• 11 neceaaary to correct what be calla - "unsound t11cal and monetary policies or the past administration." That 11, tbe Truman Administration. The budget must be balanced, to obtain - . " "the vital financial objective of a aoum dollar. Secretary of canmerce Weeks declares that t}), II business men will back a "sound-money tax program. IIIMIPIBR - ECOIOMY The Adainiatratton rec01111end1 a alaah in the blldget tor the Veterans I Adll1n1atrat1on. The Truman budget naaed tour billion, tive hundred and seventy-tour million aa the ttpre tor the veterans. Three oondred million to be cut troll that - 1n the Eisenhower program or econ011Y. The Washington dl1patch states that the mta are aure to arouse the wrath ot Veterans' organizations - which oppoae any reduction ot IIODIJ tor tol'lllr soldiers. · -=-------->~ All} ~-ECOIOMY The The latest!-/Amer1can IA:tg1on comes out in illled1ate 0 ppoaltion. CIURCHILL - . Prime Minist e r W inston Churchill d eclares that ne will not invit e President Eisenhowrto London for a "two power" conference, such ae has been proposed. Today 1n ~ ~~· - the Hc,use of Connons, ,...--..111• ••e• -.r11 a illl •• ••II •he ins If 2A ,o tae:Mlon • tefere a e m1bt1e .!d:!h a.,,., l••••x g./ ~ ~ r 4 l 1 ! 1 t th • • tsllwtcc •••• 2 " "F t· , things would g1 ve 110re · pleasure to Her NaJeaty 1 govel'rll9nt and the Br1t1ah people, than that ln:N Preaident 111enhower should visit us. But I certainly do not reel the ditterences of opinion between Britain am the United States, at the present time, would require or Justify a procedure of such magnitude • " He'd like the Prea1dent · to come over, but not tor any "two power" conference. Sf Hl .. ,,n Jessa' t tht11il *he , ,, $ • ( At the smne time, the London Foreign Office issues a statement - that no approaches have been made for meeting POLI'fICAL JOB - At Johnatown, Pennsylvania, today, two candidates, a mill-hand and a housewife - began campaigning for the Jucieat c,t~ f Job in the country. Joe (Chipper) Tomaakovich ruming against " Mrl. Sadie Salem - for Tax ColleJtor of Franklin Borough. 4frhe population of that borough numbers a mere eighteen hundred. The 111111ber of property owners . ~ ~ o hundred and seventy-five. But one of them is the Bethlehem Steel Caapany, with a giant plant - in Franklin Borough. Bethlehem Steel pays about ninety-seven per cent or the total taxation - ldok 1~ with nearly rour hundred thousand dollars a year. The Tax Collector, according to law, pocket• a percentage of the cash he «>llecta - about two-and-a-half per cent. That, levied on the four hundred thousand paid by Bethlehem Steel, makes the income, over a four year term, about fifty thousand dollars. The work on Ile Joo consists, mostly, of accepting a check, once a year, from the giant Steel Company. Figured according to working hours, the pay canes to about twelv e- thousand,five-hundred dollars per hour. lillia■ Oatia of the Associated P~••• declare• that be did not, at any tiae, coaait e1pionage - L~t ia th• aeaning of the tera •• used in lea\ern countri••· !••t•ra But ordinarj7iewa reporting can co ■• under the headin& of e1pionage, behind the Iron Curtain. "Joatia, who wa1 iaprieoned for two yeara in Red C1ecbo-Sl0Yakia, 1a71 b want• to clarify hi• relationa with tbe U.S. labaaa7 i Praaue. Be explains that, upon receiYing a new• tip, he 1oaetiae1 went to the l ■baaay, and aaked about it. lot to gi•• infor■ ation, bat to procure infor ■ atioa. In a ■ ting, he did, of cour1e, pa•• along then••• tip. On that baaia, the Reda accused bi ■ of doing •PY wort for the Eaba■ay. fTh• Associated P~••• ■aJ■ that lilliaa Oatia is exhausted pbyaically, and will need a long rest. - lJT pLQES - 2 went winging to the Pole, and returned - non-atop, no reruel1 ~ ~ ~ , ""'1. '"P~ : 1 3 ~ n 111.••o~~~ ,.,.. . ( Those are hitherto secret facts about t~ new Jet bcaber, which is now becoming our number one airplane tor carrying the at011ic bomb. The Air Force plans to produce 110re than two thousand Strato-Jeta - at a coat or five billion - ffl PLAN~ He r ' n s bou v ents of weeks a nd mont h s ago - just mad ub li c . The ir Fo r c e dis los e s m il ita r y se cr ets _ t ~ e pe rform a n ce o f our n B -4 7 tr ato -J F t Bomb e r. bom be r, 1th ix J e t engin e s - which brok e al l d is t a n e an d e n d uranc e re c or s fo r Jet aircraft. Las t year, a t r a t o -J e t ma e a t w e nty-four hour nor-stop flight of twelve thousand miles, about half the distance around the world. Average s peed - five hundred ' miles an hour. The Strato-Jet was r e fueled three times from tanker planes - and, at the halfw~ mark, dropped a five ton dummy bomb. Just as it might have done on a mission to a target and back - a distant atomic mission, ) Ia 1 1 atbe.P AQR , , , , f l i ~ two Strato-Jets crossed I ' the Atlantic from Maine to E ngland, in five hours and thirty-eight minutes. Five hundred and fifty-five miles an refueling. More than a year ago - the first Jet flight over the North Pol e . A S trat o -J e t took off from E ielsen Air Base, A laska, MIO - Anoth e r Mg landed in nmark today. Another pilot of the Polish Rd ir Force dupli ca ted the stunt of the Lieutenant who, some weeks ago, fl ed the Iron curtain in a Russian-built Jet lane . B o th - landing on the Danish island of BornhO 1m. In that previous incident, the Polish pilot brought the Mig in undamaged, making an almost miraculous landing . !M:s11L1ti1:ti.rl8'e•••ba:l\tR on a small airfield meant for .. light planes. Today it 1 B different. The pilot - ~ t h e ,,,. dizzy speed of Jet. The ground was rough am, when the wbeela touched, the plane took a crazy bounce, jumped across the road, and plunged into a grove of trees. That, they say, saved his life - the trees. The right wing of the Mtg was torn off, but the impact was cushioned - and the pilot climbed out of the wreckage, uninjured. Asking - for political asylum. KOREA - AIR - Th only n e about the Jet war in the air states tha ~ our two to aces are - out of i t . Yesterday we heard that c pta1n J o seph Mc Connell, with sixteen Mi g s shot down, would be sent home - t o teach fledgling pilots the tricks of Jets in battle. Today, h e was joined by Ma or Fernandez, whose record of fourteen Migs destroyed was broken by Mc Connell, his former -7' pupil at gunnery school. At seouYJ a farewe 11 ceremony for our two top aces - homeward bound. That's all the news about the war of Jets - nothing doing in the sky. Today, the weather was good for flying, and the S a brejet pilots were out - hoping eagerly to run up their scores. But - no dice. Not a single Mig a p p e ~ coming down from the Manchurian sanctuary. Discouraged, apparently, by the bad luck th ey were having in the battle on high. • M txdllaNa%x TRUCE TALKS - A dispatch from Tokyo tates that our negotiators are awaiting word from ashington on a- new proposal that is being drafted - to be handed to the R e ds. Th e speculation is that we 1 11 agree to a political conference aft e r an armistice, to settle the fate of prisoners who don't want to go home. But we 1 11 insist on a - 'time limit.\' So that the COllllllnists won't be able to drag things along indefinitely. If the conference can 1 t reach a decision within · the time limit, the prisoners would be placed under the jurisdiction of the United Nations. This, we hear, would be a "final" proposal, from our Bide . 0 aauJN - SOLDIERS - In Berlin toda , t American soldiers told what happened to th min six months behind the Iron Curtain. Private Michalovski of P rth Amboy, New J e rsey, and Private Night of 1,os Angles - who were reported to have as~ed for political asylum in the lands of Conununism. They told how, by getting aboard the wrong railroad train, they strayed into the Red Zone, and were nabbed. Whereupon they were urged to stay willingly, and were offered money am good jobs. An easy life - if they would sign a statement..,.......that they were taking refuge behind the Iron Curtain They refused, but the Reds put out the report, just the same - , ~ that the two a.I's w e r e ~ ~ 1 from the West. X: ,( They were threatened with prosecution for espionage, held for six months - and finally released. { with soviet leaders. _.. spokesman denies that the Prime Minister /'- h88 been in touch with the Kremlin for any kind of conferenc with Premier Malenkov. The Foreign Office declares that no rurther move has been made since the Churchill speech last week - when he suggested a top level meeting. - o that's the political p lum - the battle for which began in a primar election yesterday. ft••••''e. 'Pho re • s not :aach do.I,, ebot1t the wt•sP I J1 J:si-: •1J1. I T0118Skov1ch ~ both Republican and Democratic r-... A ncatnations. Mrs. Sadie S lem - nominated on an independent tickets. Chipper is a steel worker at the Bethlehem plant, and he seems assured of - the juctest political Job in the country. ,wons - Down in L ouisiana, tonight, hundreds of square miles of land - ar e an inland sea. The of t h ~ { ountry into muddy, floods have turned great areas swirling lakes. There are seventeen thousand homeless, washed out of their houses, who have taken refuge on higher ground, whe r ever they can find any place above the level of the ■hp deluge. ~ is f'~llows the ~ storm tha swept / a-long the / - and, -final J ~ o u t t~ sea, 11s1, /o ver ;J"' Caroi;nas. ,,Leaving in its wake - calamity of 'l~unda~. / / , / ~u1s1~ - hl,t harde,at of ~ by tp{ trem,{idous r. 1nS . The storm am the downpo\,U' have gone, but there's no relief. Rivers in flood, continue to rise. Me,, a atPOl'l8 lew fran the J.irlf of ~co, ~ah1:ng u tile ~ / / , /"" / , / / / nst tho/'coast t:Jp into the lakes - into whi ~ the ri s ✓ , / / , in. ~ wat~ -- - backipg up th~ / ✓w " ollen tre'-IJIS .-; pu~rig,.,-t6e ~ - The deluge is the worst in the old Cajun country - where the descendants of the Acadians of old are trappera, ,woos - 2 - / ' ,,, fishennen, farmers. Thef CaJuns are having a tough t1:me, a Red ~ro i( ' " offlcial stating: "They're corning out any way ~ ... )Ome', in boats, or wp•• pirogues ~ats mad / ' of tllil.L°'° out l,ogs) / Others ar just ~1ng ut. , ✓ That's the picture - deluge in Louisiana. BROMFIELD At W ic h it a Fa lls, T e xas, the Chamber of Col'J'lllerce is taking action agains t L ouis Bromfield, the author-fanner. They say the model farm he established in West Texas is a Joke, such a flop that it makes the whole neighborhood ridiculous. So the Chamber of Commerce will sue to break a seven-year lease on the property. /,,./ / ijeli.the story of Louis B~omfield "1. s interesting He / / / / /_ ~ / •rd a fine success as a noveliet, th went baclk tot / soil, II. / I ' / / / \I recwll a J- i & it he paid u~ 1n D.l ) ohesa ~ ourity, an d,,, we discuss d / book Just out. A new traruµation r a classic master ece, / . "The Georgics" of Virgil. A p m abo 7 ut practical , tanning - / I / / / / the Roman me,thods , two th011sand ye rs ago. ~anfie ld noted / / / - I / / t~t the ways of plant-1.ng, crop rotation, and so on, wh , / / / / Virgil describe / state)y verse - were s ~ ill use 5, ua in .t~ing today l_} / / In Ohi-0 he established ' tbe Malabar Fa s - and { , / / / wo suo essful books ab0ut t h e agricultural experiment. , I Re ping l crops of grain tran the fields, also crops o f ,altl,es fran the books. / / / - - - - - - - I BRONPIELD - 2 Two ye a re ago, the author-farmer decided to ,; / establish a similar model ~ farm in Texas - leasing four hundred acres of land from the Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce. r ,I But they say th~ model farm can't produce enough gt'Qin to feed ., the cattle. Today Louis Bromfield retorted that the land 1a, in hia words - ''worn out, over-grazed and ruined by oil. You can't expect to turn a desert into a prosperous farm, in two years , " he says. 'Phere was also , a Texa&V'"winds m. S thi " 'like .a / ' / . / tornado, blowing a rd t t 1 t knocked ever a / huge d L intended to house one hundred ~ fiJ,l:Y cat e. - ~ 1g / , -ryeo ~ was lattened. ~Bromfield says the ffhamber of Coanerce won't have to sue to break the lease. He's through down there. He wants no more of model fanning in Texas. W ell, I wouldn't want to get into that argument. It•a a theme for farmers. FAMILY In Buffalo, Emil Noah was let out of Jail today - before his prison sentence had expired. Noah, whose name recalls the flood in the Bible, was in for petty larceny. But his wife made such a plea for his release - that even the of "WJ most hard-hearted judges could not have refused. rMrs. Noah I\ told the court that she absolutely needed her husband home - to control the children. They have eight, and those kids have been driving her to a nervous break-down. She described Noah as - "a model husband, who disciplined the children." tklsx , . . •• n ■aznn■• :1+11a1uaaxw•1tats••••••••«•-.. Well, you know how a distracted mother says, ''You ~ ~ just wait till your father comes home!" But.,Jathe~ lllllldbdml Mlt'kl the calaboose r ~ That persuaded the Judge , and DOlltdu:xauc:Jw•irtP ~o••••AM:x.~11-• XWMtbNUl!D!XIIIDIU:. - and, Nelson, I'll today, Mr. N~ah went home to discipline the children,•• I l 1 ll ,'\ bet it was a hot old time for the kids.