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PPBaHi i' i. Uf mmmmmmmmmmmmmm 1 A Newspaper for the Home Information and Entertainment for Every Member of the Family PfligJf Jtttttgf $tw l0rkr Continuing and Succeeding the Poughkeepsie Star Enterprise, Established 1882, and the Poughkeepsie Eagle News, Established 1785 Vol. 71, No. 265 Poughkeepsie, New York, Wednesday Evening, February 25, 1953 30 Pages 5 Cents FINAL HOME IPITIOS THE WEATHER i Cltil; Unlght; WmarrrwV' Ternperatarea 1:1 a. II.

Other weather ra Urmatlen an hack page. Car, Taxpayer Officials Hit Gas Tax Boost Proposal Cite Motorists' Burden; Term Increase 'In justice0 Poughkeepsie executives of three state organizations spoke out sharply today against Republican legislative plans to levy an additional two cent per gallon state tax on gasoline the proceeds to be used for highway and parkway construction. Those who opposed the proposed lncresse were Albert Richard, president of Mid Hudson Chevrolet, Inc. director and former presi dent of the New York State Automobile Dealers' association, Peter Tro a director of the National Automobile Association of America and a member of the Mid Hudson Actvlsnri hnnrri nt th AAA anrf dent Elsenhower said today It will Emll Johnson, consultant to the be terrifically difficult to balance Price Tire and Waterproofing Co the federal budget for the fiscal here and a director of the State ear starting July 1 Citizens" Public Expenditures Sur In his secord news corferfnee Mr chard, declaring he Is since taking office, the President dnnitelj against" the Increase aLo said contended the motorist now is pay 1 This country would be put in mg higher rate of tax than 1 Koine nairl am rrtr nmmny1. a vers difficult) position if it tried to repudiate all International secret made during World President Ciles Budget Problem WASHINGTON fAP Presl $83,000 Asked for Springside; 'Too High Johnson Says of Price i aircements War II But he sa'd In efle that he Is open to suggestions lor Improse nt of the secret agreements resolution he sent to Congress I HE WOl LD MEKT with Prem ASSFRTING THT THE Al TO.

MOBILE no longer is a luxun he said legislators e'lould new recognize It as a nere'Sit) in our econorm He suggested that legislators slew it in that perpec live. 3" onf.r.n,. lh ascncies now are taxing the auto tiouaht such a conference nugnti w. I now Pa approximately J365 dent said that, geographicailj he I automobile would be willing to meet at some hMf w.y point rather than to molor C0njunled the or. 'ss'" lg nal purchase, or the taxes on Eisenhower es.ed that arv replacements agreements resulting from such conference would have to be iron Regular gasoline purchased at fill clad and what he described as sell n.

stations now averages slightly enforcing I more than 27 cents a gallon Of this, I And he said any such corference four nls the present state tax, would have to be with the full nd cenU ls the federal tax knowledge of US allies Legislation now contemplated by i u. rivi n.t. hfiiv, Republicans in Albany would In Communlsts shou'd be permitted to I crease the states tax from four to teach In the nations schools The six cents. Piesident commented that Com munists are capable of perverting MR JOHNSON said he believed sublets this tax on gasoline ls up as high S3 11 anuuiu uc ne auKacsicu laai the state investigate where present gasoline taxes are spent, ntting that It was the states announced plan to use past gasoline taxes for road construction yet the monies are diverted to general fund purposes He said It might be possible to use part of the present four cent state gasoline levy for road work thus eliminating the need for further taxation. Mr Johnson said the motorist now is pojing enough even non controversial See PRESIDENT CITES page 21 Lodge Blames War on Russia UNITED NATIONS, (AP) Chief Delegate Henrv Cabot IxxJge Jr today charged that Russia started and is continuing the Korean war He told the UN Political committee there ls little point in its trjlng to formulate new motorLst now a beln? taxfd out eI truce formulas here so long as the i hIj He ssid he Ls terribly Soviet Union Is determined to pro 1 oppojed to that long the war would heap additional taxation on Emphasizing that he spoke for a the arVing public new KepuDiican ionmu.uiui New York MR TROY AGRFFH that the ji ijimwin i I il I III ii i hi f7jJsWS assisBaff I I lsWSZsssT Hl I rSBSwssMssTO'slslsWsWJEisWsTUsl KliilflL CaMstnsfcs1iViisjilhT SjMSSJBBBBf KsMEsJ 1 sssssBirssssssWHSPSSsRVaaaiBBaaHl LHrsslV aislsMssflsflslslslslslHsslslslslslslslsi fit slslslslslslslslslslslKa PlaaVaMsflsissKfW BsfHT Kr Wl slslslslslslslrVsiVslHsslslHsslsslslslslH sl BMLDIVGS SIIOWV BO In the east fcde of Jefferson street between William and Church streets, arc slated to be removed under a Jefferson street sub standard structures clearance project of the Portghkeep ie Housing authority The Rev Dr Philip Allen 8wartr authority president, said all of the buildings must go as a part of the authority contract agieement Depending upon how long the Pouit ktfpilt New Ycrfctr Photo authorltj's 1143 000 Jefferson street clearance fund lasts, all of the Jefferson street structures ate scheduled to be razed.

Soma sub a.antial buildings must be removed as well as sub standard structures because each area of th trret must be cleaied entirely. Dr Ssrts sa'd The State Division of Housing allows two jean (from last Sept 1) for clearance. Preaident Emil L. Johnson of Poughkeepsie Board of Education today described as loo high" the price obtained on Springside, proposed site0 for a new high school. Prices were obtained on both the Nelson family parcel of about 12 acres, and the 25 acres of the Otto Dieslng tract, Mr Johnson said He declined to make public the figures but a source close to tti' board placed the prices.

Including damages in the case of the Nelsorf family property at between $83 000 and 105 000 Mi Diolng was understood to hae asked 11400 to 11500 per acre for his property, or 135 000 to 13" WO for 25 aires and the Nelson family about (t 000 per acre for about 12 acres, or approximately 1 48 000 The latter figure was known to have Included a damage element. TIIF ACTl'AI, negotiations came to light as Ernest Acker, spokesman for the Nelson family, confirmed a report he had placed price on the property aought by the Board of Education Mr Acker said for the first time loday that he had offered a price on the Nelson family property with the understanding that It would be used only for the purposes of a referendum on the school site alone He added that he understood the School board also had re ceived a price on the Dieslng acres The Nelson family spokesman said that after he had made an offer to the board, one of Its members called him back within two or three dsjs and said that the mem bera had decided against a referendum on the site alone and would go ahead with an election on both a new school and proposed site 3 Burned At Poughquag Clauss Questions Program food, Cigaref For Jefferson Street Clearance r. ii 1 A re 1011.1015 111160 wj U' wiinmjwn, wage i tries committfe, Alderman CUuss (R Fourth ward) in id today cr a I lK Pmitrrilf rrni Hnntinr aiiIKadIv rim nnr nljin Four jear old Courtney McLeod demollih morp (lril par, to which most Rhodes son of Mr and Mrs Augus Russla is acHseiyaasisung me ip hk le Irfa 0ll ard gasolmei nhnrt pon.hnuj,; gressors in Korea on a scale which added lts Rhodes. Poughquag was report makes posalble the continuance of olce to wave o( prolu ed on the "danger Ul at Vassar llaa An I aflf thst aggression and deUrmlnes Its I lncrea5e ln sUte gasoline tax hospital todaj where he being JUIIIljUII LQUllJ State TV Report MR. J0IIN8OV said that the talks with Mr.

Acker 'Involved a reduction ln the al7e of the property to be offered and a damage factor. "We thought the price was too high Mr Johnson said He also made known that at one time, some board members considered purchase of the property without a referendum Mr Johnson said that the board members finally decided we would have to face condemna i tlon proceedings to acquire the! properties yv. i ilie ooitrtl pi rjiiurui. liiru naiu me mcmDrrs arciara at iooji inc place the whole new high school clgarets, copper and aluminum and site up to the voters An innmliM taliin will he taken ance objectnes of the authority to price STABILIZER Joseph to establish a price on the proper I sisn asanas kisaiaBa tintWaalsisB Jb MrjKC tsL yBVBaBasVsaBaBaBaBH lsw iJsvssisisisi rC sasaaaaH tssaasfffc rsAv 4m mtiiin WASHINGTON (AP) .1 "street sub standarded structure same me to clearance nroierl lro" Irom cr groceries, proposition of Mr Clauss said Section 1 clear Poufhktcpft'r Xf Yorfcfr Ptial BI'RTOV KAPLAN', 26 year old former vice president of the Little Dutch OrlU Corp. smiles confidently an he enters th County courthouse today as hU trial nears the f.nal stages Kaplan is accused of criminally receiving stolen watches from Ronald Maurice Wright, 19 former Poughkeepsie Hlg.i school athlete remose all structures ln the east pteehi.1 said controls will be re ltl 'or the purpose of the May 5 I side of Jefferson, between Church t.lned only on coffee and coffee proposed construction of lfs)nls)n I 3P iviiii.m a new high school plant at Spring UUIUII VUJU Goes to Jury ICOP under present circumstances would treated for second and th.rd degree He then listed 10 lacu oacauig a injustice to every motor celved ln fire al hu up this charge which he said the 0ner tn, committee said Soviet UnlordiVroTtheVn "atement taa5 Mr Rhodej! JQC MUMl I WlUlam street will mean 1 conce ntra.es In the dry grocerj M7 Johnson ix pnisxrn ihoi th.

nm. burned but their other three chil uD to now the only nrlce men SOVIET FORFICV MINISTER clal Department of Commerce i dren "caped unharmed it was re President tmn Jonnson oi inc dwellings that are ln good condition Items on wh.ch contro.s were re Honed in re; connection with the Andrei Vishlnsk Immediately statistics show that "New York has' ported Mr Rhodes was attended at Poughkeeps Board of Educaton have to go moved iiv.ude breakfast tereals proposed school was that of Archi took the floor to respond angrily mnr ihn isrrnooooo nf St Francos' hospital and his wife at KBid todav a state commission I k. flour, soups Jams tellies and simi tect Roif Dieyer who made I take up the challenge which hghway user tax money to non Vassar hospital which, by a 10 to 5 vote opposec th, h. 'ir Products At the same time the studies for the board He quoted After a 50 mlnute charge by he flung and after study of the hRhHay PUrpoaes ln past ears I I utnonty might have started omce of Prlce dropPi M5000 as a possible price for the County Judge Schwartz, a Courty erbatim record I will answer tne wrtrt that ACCORDING TO Chief Kenneth on me west siae or jenerson street its requirement that ceiling prices desired 37 acres questions he asks" New York vehicle ooerators should MftlIfn ot the Bookman Fire Co, ai television stations mrougnout tne there are more 'The rulers ot the Soviet Union JT PthT DroMed the flre tei one storj state "shared my point of siew" owellngs can stop the war whenever they that new Ir8mf Rho(i horn on lne 'arm One of the stations had been pro a ant to. "Lodge declared in his first th Frank Cores Poughquag last night I posed for the Poughkeepsie area i ta MrvuMn.llvknowslt' the more than $20 000 000 a ear in The chief said that damage was es Mr Johnson sud he agreed with leaUud aulhorlt now hase been off pr.ct.callj and Mr Vlshlnsky knows It timated at J2000 the mjin finding cf the state com ali foods hnm nnin TYrio i v' ll .1.

vi ASIDE IROM A IRV Tf se be lected items suth as rite controls told an eagerly listening group which has been waiting for woid from President Eisenhowers administration on Its Korean po'icv 'Failure to end the fighting in Korea ls not due to any lack of cleverness with words here in the United Nations It Is due to the frankly announced desire of the Communists to continue the war lng the state for th purpose Chief Mallen sa that an ol mission which called IMopo ved JfMn kllt stose exploded sliortn before 9 4o tate enterpne too tosth a In the major meta's fle'd OPS Gas Price Rises In New York State Eisenhower Lists More Nominations clock spread i tlnounh 'he cottngf He and Mis Rnodes succetCed net ng theli ch. drcn from 'he house but in doing so receised burns of the uodj Ch tt sa A that the hari.t WASHINGTON (AP, President buined joungste. Mr and Mis Elsenhower today nominated Albert Rhodes were removed to the hos The delegate was the first cole, former member of Con 1 pltals bj members of the f.re corn speaker in the Korean debate after from KanAa, admlnla. panj A a It I aa KjtM mji ttn At it dia mt uNiimi u. ubi ui.

trator of the Housing and Home sent to give thst explosive Item first place on Its agenda. I ELsenhower also sent to the Sen VISHINSKY DEMANDFO that the nomination of MaJ I Ora the North Noreans be Invited to Samuel Sturgis Jr. as chief of AhQIlf (JhedlGnCG i the Army Engineers succeeding MWWUI WUbUICIIl.V satfl that was nn im, dLscnsa. G'n LewJ A Pick, who has re doublfil talue Tlir local bihool board pieuent 1 ke th ta'e (om misslou. had contended the sta could not Justify spend ng niones for such projects when the slat on i ia, i i U.i, I man oni, on if.

of would be competing with private Mr Clauss there weie only two. enterprise (Further story on page 18) court trial Jur, composed of eight men and four women, started to deliberate on Its verdict ln the case of Burton Kaplan. 28, former vice pres dent of the Little Dutch Grill Corp accused of criminally receiving stolen watches from Ronald Maurice Wright. lB sear old former NFW YORK iAPi An Increase Poughkeepsie High school athlete In wholesale gasol ne prices At lhe morning session Judge inrougntut yora sna New schwsr i irsnted a defense motion to dismiss a consplracj Indictment against Kaplan The urice boosts tilth sarv ar foda ation was the fourth cord. ng to lx alit aierage out 'i Till REASON, Judge Sohwarti steel and kel lhe renuva! u' cei1 nid fiom cig make sure to let rid of poorly con J.

I um.ru uu ii.h, u. fJ aU() fJ (0 glan(1 rfported by cn piodut's Ciiiar1 however have Va mim Oil Co toda 11 is 10 be regieueu luo saia rrf 0' bs for some lime iPatri Writes Dulles to Be Asked About Pact Decisions fami.es the entire Jeffersun removal of pre curbs since Presi a gaUc.n Soronv ofhiials 4aid. for granting the motion was wm. ninii ne Gcii ris nnovvrr (i irci lor riujins nald The) Wll go I homes ln the WlUIsm W. Smltl, contro's in an orderlv manner be morrow Apaitments fare Apn 30 the date on which Into efle to Alderman Clauss said the buildings already slated to be raied include one verv substantial thrre story brick building, which houses a store and contains at least three WASHINOTON tAP; Secretarv A garage and a tav of State Dulles will be asked to tell they will expire automatical!) Bulletins ROME 'API Foreign m.nlsters that 'no emphasis had been placed on the charge by the prosecution" In the metropolitan New York during the trial The trial Jury now aiea, the new price of Eocony reg ular gasol ne will be 111 cents a I gallon plus taxes, an Increase of 4 'of a cent Th Is Socony first price Increase since July, 1920 io has re imn nators why the Elsenhower ad sect cn 1 area of six Wes' European nations agreed iKAiinnii soda PoughkpTNew doesn want to repudi sald He sad at ton gh urge apeedy approval of DpH POW PiH a.edFr.n Yorker wZi The of wlrrbutTn' v'Vo'ZTmn uslia "ht l0M tM' Armr 'rM, bi KGUrXJTI Md, to be, obed.ence to teachers and CR horn" goverrmems, roje uprising inr the Korean ouestlon If 'repre "Kned aentatlves of the Korean people are And he formally nomin xciuaea cu wnne oi nauuiioir, a iu ut ooea.ence to teacners ana parents vlnlatln them Lodge quickly replied that the ambassador to Mexico, and wu often causes a deal of trouole re 1 Th, nn tvm.v xnt Assembly already had rejected Rus 11am McNear Rand to be deputy bell ous children on one side de coMress a Drooosed resolution ask proposal to invite the North 'director of the Mutual Security manding adults on the other JS Ji VfcVmi nt Koreans and the Chinese Redsisgjncy President Eisenhowers confer Yal a ard other at Its opening session and no rea The President selection of White ence on the farm tr jia is the sub I.

l. son has been given why that deel to be envoy to Mexico was announc Ject of Drew Pearsons page 8 col will decide only on the charge of orlmlnally receiving stolen propertv. Judge Schwartz began his charge to the Jury at noon today. The Jury a scheduled to begin Its deliberation thi afternoon I Both the defense and prosecution completed their summations of the cae this morning Dlstr.ct Attorney Baratta summed up the case for the prosecu lion 1 I)lrN ATTORNEY DANIEL alon should be revetted led earlier In the week. Ban Considered on Left Turns From Market Street into Church prohibiting left turns of traffic fromBr streets Msrket street Into Church street, ln wolja be routed north At present either easterly or westerly dlrec Voutlng is one wrfy south be tlons.

Itween Union and Main streets City Manager Johnson and Traf Traffic now moves both ways in the umn Could It be that our 'teenage addicts are Jul plajful children at heart lenet Alice Hughes on page 6 Miss Hughe tells of a pillow fight between oung dope addicts al a New York hospital uecrge bokouk) revvews various WASHINOTOV fAPi The bodo of former Sen Robert La Fol agreements 'which have been per verted to bring about the subjug tlon of free peoples Earl'er. In his State of the Union message, Elsenhoaer had spoken action Congress to reject secret agreements Sometime later he mentioned reDUd ation of Dorllon; of agreements His resolution would Jr ho hot himself to death r.h., ih. v.tr. do nether It would denounce esterda), leaves Washington today Poughkeepsle'j Traffic comrols 1 Under the new proposal the traffic Isbase ot the agreements by the lor burial in Madjon Wis slon todsy was slated to consider would be routed one i way south for lhe Lenten san also can be I There in the state whose electors I ep. SB.

I tUa KIaaItb a CaffS i sisiai in me iu u. u'" fourd one nage 6 Pt memrjeri oi tne rouetie Ruth Milieu writing on page 22 I nut urtu lamuy in ntgn omce lor almost nsu relates one Instance where a worn aa)lng in political speeches that the this century, the only services for an blamed the American league I agreements gave Russia an excuse. Young Bob" will be conducted pennant race for her marital trou to lower the Iron Curtain ln Europe Tentative plans were for funeral ble. and there are bad services Friday at Orace Episcopal The radio and programs But Sen Ta ft of Ohio the Repub church In Madison with Father re on page 23. Ucan leader, tld interviewers he John Keene officiating doesn believe this iteung win oe Mrs La roneue, summoned home carried, Itr enough in the Senate from a Red Cross meeting about tFore.gn Relations committee to In noon esterday by an urgent tele corporate into trie resolution eithei phone call front her husband, found 'repudiation" or "renunciation' of his body on the floor of a bathroom the agreements in their northwest Washington I Sen Ferguson Mich said he house A 22 caliber target pistol ainti In nuea Inn Pharlri IThrii was in his aht hard A alnale bul reU, between the Improvement of the situation," Mr 'fense department todi identified 82 Bohlen about hj part In thf Ygjts let hsd been fired through the roof Johnson contended Korean war cuualt es In 'a new lul and Potsdam sgreemtrti the of h.s mouth Dr Amsgruder nil mM 4S.

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1 1 ll XX CL X. ll r. koje ui.d prisoner compound of uetecri Loruneiie jioui'i jeir ro Ltruifi. chanting fanatic Red, who dened Burial Scheduled in Wisconsin two Ahower of tear ga tinn itliiiaEi rnArs1 that Via Vtael thaw TTN "liT, ntsva lt tisivs me upi i nrormed KapUn of the theft ot Ac Lieut, McManus plsnned to ask tht ban on left turns during 4 to 8 pm. rush hours, Mondays through Frldayi Mr Johnson also made known that ha and Lieutenant McManus planned to ask a reversal of oneway routing of trsfOe ln South and North Bridge streets, between Union block of North Bridge between Mill and Main streets THE CITY MANAGER SAID Lhe 4 to o'clock clearance of cars from parts of Market street had helped greatly to free the congestion ot cart at the Market Church streets tnleraect.on A ban on left turns Mill streets and south and there 'should mike for even greater rortn rerry streets, 16 Reported Killed, In New Korean List WASHINGTON 'AP The De tiviuw vwww K.oren tr cuuau in a new iu ind Potsdam aereemer 2Tffl4 North and South Perrvi Ma theorized that manv run.

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Detween Union and Mill heading south in Msrket street, laounded, one missing and one In takes up Bohlen nomination as 'net of Columbia coroner pro v. joiea, i amoaasaaor to nusaia. I fee laiullette Mil psia 1 i ') JImmmmmmmFT T3ssa mONi sV aaassssssssssssssssssssssssssssssHa asssssH I run I One North Korean prisoner waed hlm lo on the look out for I killed There were no Allied casu jlern altlea Mr Pilnr aald that this testimony The POW command said the Reds slone "provts that Kaplan Is lnno refused to form ranks for a head ctnt cf lhe charge of criminally cuuni ana oegan mining aoout, shouting and chanting POWS ln adjacent compounds urged them on 2 Renters More Want Heat Regulation receiving stoien watches He recalled Isvat former Detective Owens 'estlfled that he had told Kaplan to take the watcl es If they were offered to rt.ni and then to tip hlm off This teems to be the core of the case Mr Prior contended. I He attacked the testimony of I Wrlffht savin. I wouldn't send a.

Mayor Stevens said today he had dog to a dog pound on the testl received two calls from renters ot spsrtments who wsnt the Board of Health to adopt a proposed regulation controlling heat ot rented dwelling units Mr evens Is preai dent ei omclo of the Health board On Monday Mr Stevens had made known nine or 10 tenants had Informed him they believed a heat ting law would not work out to their advantage many ot Wright." Senate Approves Stale Police Bill ROBERT M. LAFO R. i ALBANY (AP Tti senate to. day approied Oor. Deaey'a pro lh i.i..av pveai uiblfwi Ull oiaw rvui A public hesrfng on the proposed lore from MX) ta 1.200.

The bill regulation will be held at thi Citvlwu sent to th Assembly tor Is nan vonigni. pocted apptogal sfliaritftfiiftrttiuiiaiitfii f. tmimim I 1.