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Democrats GOP Link Farm Price Drop to Election
Washington—(U,P)—Democrats and Republicans today debated the possible effect a 2 per cent drop in farm prices will have on the Nov. 2 election.
The Agriculture department reported the drop in September crop and livestock prices yesterday. The decrease put overall farm prices 4 per cent below a year ago.
Although prices paid out by farmers for living and production items also declined—about 1 per cent—it was not enough to prevent farm prices from skidding to an average of 88 per cent of parity. The average was 89 per cent in August and 93 per cent a year ago.
Strategists of both parties will watch closely to see what effect, if any, a sharp break in pork prices will have in major hog-producing states such as Iowa. A 17 per cent increase in the number of hogs marketed last month was primarily responsible for the price drop.
Administration spokesmen we re quick to point out that seasonal declines in prices are to be expected when crops move to the market. They also said—as Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson has in the past—that farm prices have dropped only six percentage points since the Republicans took office compared to a drop of 19 points during the preceding 23 months under the Democrats.
Democrats have tried to link the fall in farm prices with the GOP administration. Prices dropped to 88 per cent of parity in June, they point out, for the first time since 1941.
Parity is a theoretical price calculated to measure farm prices against farm cost and give farmers the same purchasing power they had during the so-called normal period of 1910-14.
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Washington —(L)P)— Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy has appealed to his fellow senators to hear his "full argument" before deciding how they will vote on a motion to censure him when the Senate reconvenes Nov. 8.
Mr. Williams claimed the recommendations were contrary to Senate precedents and that the censure committee refused to hear Sen. McCarthy's full defense against the charges.
The plea was made on Sen. McCarthy's behalf yesterday by his attorney, Edward Bennett Williams, in a "bill of exceptions" to a report highly critical of the Wisconsin Republican by the Senate censure committee.
The committee recommended that Sen. McCarthy be censured on two counts—contempt of a Senate subcommittee that investigated his finances in 1851-52 and abuse of Brig. Gen. Rahb. W. Zwicker.
"For these reasons," Mr. Williams said, "the proprieties of the situation would seem to indicate that the final judges of this matter, the individual members of the Senate, should avoid predilection and pre-disposition before full argument is heard."
Chairman Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) of the censure group refused comment on Williams' arguments and said, "The report speaks for itself."
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N.Y. Ceremony Opens U.S.Newspaper Week
New York—(U.P.)-National Newspaper Week opened today, emphasizing the role of the newspaper as "freedom's forum."
The opening ceremony was in the old Federal Hall, where the 1735 trial of publisher John Peter Zenger established in America the basis of freedom of the press and the right to criticize freely the conduct of public officials.
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Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York in a statement proclaiming the start of newspaper week said that freedom of the press is the "foundation of all our other liberties."
In ceremonies throughout the country during the week of Oct. 1 to 8, newspaper men will stress the "role of the press in preserving freedom of inquiry and the right of a free people to reasonably disagree in pursuit of truth."
A feature of the cereal reprinting of one of the copies of Zenger's New York weekly journal which caused the publisher to be jailed for criticism of the colonial governor. For the ceremony, newspaper executives gathered in a full-size model of Zenger's pre-Revolutionary print shop to watch the operation of a press believed to have been used by Benjamin Franklin.
Andes Invited to Air Meet
President Eisenhower in a statement addressed to "the newspapers of the nation" said the nation joins editors, publishers, and reporters in observing the week.
Prof. Ammon S. Andes, chairman of the department of aeronautical engineering, has been invited to attend the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics-University Conference on Aerodynamics, Construction, and Propulsion at the Lewis Flight Propulsion laboratory, in Cleveland, Oct. 20-22.
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Batchelor's Wife Goes into Hiding
Tokyo — (U.R.)—The Japanese wife of convicted Communist collaborator Cpl. Claude J. Batchceler fed into hiding today after an Army general court martial sentenced her husband to life imprisonment.
Mrs. Kyoyo Batchelor, 25, who married Cpl. Batchelor in a Shinto ceremony before he was captured in Korea, left her Tokyo home and moved in with a friend to avoid newsmen, her father said.
"She is very unhappy," the father said.
Cpl. Batchelor said he bolted the Reds at Pamunjom Jan. 1 because of the love letters from his wife.
Army Rifle Team to Meet
The Army ROTC rife team will hold a meeting for members and interested students at 7 p.m. Monday in room 15, Military Science building. Capt. James L. Weed and SFC Robert W. Weaver will be in charge.
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Batchelor Aided Red Captors, Court Finds
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The eight officers on the court martial, all veterans of the Korean war, took only two hours and 14 minutes to convict Cpl. Batchelor, and another 30 minutes to determine the sentence.
San Antonio, Tex. —(U.R.)— Cpl. Claude J. Batchelor was found guilty last night of collaborating with his Chinese Communist captors and squealing on fellow Americans during 38 months as a POW. He was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor.
It was the stiffest possible sentence. The Army had barred the court—before Cpl. Batchelor's trial began Aug. 30—from considering the death penalty.
Part of one collaboration charge was thrown out yesterday by the court's law officier, Lt. Col. Donald L. Manes Jr. He said the Army hadn't proved articles Cpl. Batchelor wrote for a prison camp newspaper urged POWs to accept communism.
Line 22-year-old Batchelor, who quit high school and lied about his age to enlist in the Army in 1948, was tried on six specifications—three of collaboration, two of tattling on fellow prisoners and one of participating in the POW camp trial of Wilburn Watson of Corinth. Miss.
Cpl. Batchelor's attorneys made no immediate statement about an appeal. Under military law, the conviction and sentence must be automatically reviewed by three boards. A fourth appeal then can be made to a board of three civilians.
The court martial acquitted the GI on one tattling charge in which he was accused of telling which prisoners threw a rock at a prison camp building.
"I can take it," Cpl. Batchelor said when the verdict was announced.
Cpl. Batchelor, a cornet player in the First Cavalry division band before the Korean war, was the third American convicted of collaboration while a prisoner in North Korea.
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