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Docking Advocates State School Aid
Wichita, Kan.—(U.P.)—State financial aid for high schools without new or higher taxes was advocated last night by George Docking in his kickoff address in his drive to become Kansas' sixth Democrat governor.
He added: "Good ship Kansas needs to be drydocked for major repairs." Needed are "a new captain and many replacements in the crew," he said. "We've got to have new machinery as well as new mates."
"We are going to cut the fat out of some of the big spending departments, and when we do it we are going to have ample money for the high schools." said Docking.
"In this trying hour," he said, "Kansas needs and Kansas wants a man who will put the ship in order, turning it over a few years hence to those who have proven themselves capable of steering it through
Stressing that he had no ambition to building a political dynasty. Docking offered himself for the governor ship as a businessman with an intense desire and the ability to do service briefly for his home state.
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The candidate said Kansas is one of only two states which does not now provide state funds for public high schools. The high school aid program can and must be started in Kansas, he said.
Docking spoke over a statewide radio network from a Wichita hotel auditorium. He was introduced by Marvin (Mike) Harder, the new Democrat state chairman.
"Any man who takes the helm now and seeks to perpetuate him-held in office will only sink the shin."
"Our finances are in such condition as to permit the launching of the program without new taxes or an increase in present taxes," Docking said. "Other states are carrying on a full school aid program on less revenue than we have in Kansas. We can do it, too."
Docking said money could be seized administration of all state departments.
"I know of one department which has 45 inspectors drawing good salaries and riding around in state financed automobiles. These men are practically duplicating an inspection service performed by the federal government. I say we can cut off 40 of these inspectors and get the job done just as well . . ."
Flood Wrecks Train; 22 Die
Hydrabad, India — (U.P.)— At least 22 persons were killed, 35 were missing and 45 were injured last night when part of a crowded passenger train was swept into the Alerr river by torrential flood waters.
The missing included 27 soldiers who were passengers aboard the train. Rescue workers said they feared the missing may have been swept away by the roaring river.
The leading coaches of the seven-car train were caught by the flood
Railway authorities said more than 600 persons were crowded aboard the train at the time.
Benson Denies Secret Seed Deals
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Washington — (U.P.)—The Agriculture department has denied that it made secret deals with "favored grain exporters" to sell government-owned flaxseed at low prices.
The charge was made by Rep. Lesier Holtzman (D-N.Y.), who said exporters who bought nearly 5 million bushels of flaxseed without competitive bidding made profits of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Disputing the secrecy charge, Walter C. Berger, vice president of the Commodity Credit Corp., showed reporters press releases which contained public announcements of foxseed sales policies.
He also said he knows at least late grain exporter who was "hurt plenty" by flaxseed transactions.
Mr. Holtzman said the department sold 4,850,000 bushels of flaxseed at $2.27 a bushel recently.
Denver —(U.P.)— James G. Patton, president of the National Farmers Union, charged today that drought-plagued stockmen want aid instead of sympathy from the administration, but are not likely to get it.
Nat'l Farm Head Pleads for Aid
Mr. Patton, whose politically powerful organization has been a prime foe of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson's farm policies, made public a letter to President Eisenhower, rejecting the Farmer Union request for livestock price supports.
"I am deeply disappointed in President Eisenhower's refusal to recognize the seriousness of the livestock industry's economic crisis." Mr. Patton said. "It's apparent that livestock producers can expect no effective aid from this administration.
"The administration's argument that things are no worse than they were a year ago is of little comfort to the rancher who faces liquidation of his herd at disaster prices. I believe America's livestock producers are fed up with pious expressions of sympathy when what they need is direct action."
Obviously renewing his attack upon Secretary Benson, Mr. Patton recommended to Mr. Eisenhower he "secure new agricultural advice."
"Especially, I would recommend that the President secure advisers who are less callous to the depression in America's livestock industry," he said.
Paper made with synthetic elastomers and resins can now hold 90 per cent of its tensile strength after being soaked in water as a result of a new process.
Hakodate, Japan — (U.P.)— Authorities today listed 1,743 dead and missing, including 57 Americans, from the typhoon which hit the two northern islands of Japan Sunday.
57 Americans Dead, Missing In Typhoon Toll
The Americans died when the passenger ferry Toya Maru was sunk in the 75-mile-wide Tsugaru strait between Honshu and Hokkaido. There was a total of 265 counted dead from the Toya Maru, 899 missing, and 171 rescued.
With reports still not received from small coastal villages of northern Honshu and southern Hokkaido, the toll was 1,567 dead and 176 missing.
U. S. Army headquarters in Tokyo, meanwhile, issued a revised breakdown on the American dead and disclosed that two passengers on the original list survived. They are Mrs. Charles Champagne, Japanese wife of an army sergeant, and PFC. Frank Goedken, 24, of Dubuque, Iowa.
However, 55 other American citizens, including the Japanese wife of another soldier, are missing and believed dead. This group included 49 military, three Army civilian school teachers, one Army department civilian employee, one wife, and one child.
Five ships operated by the National Railways corporation, including the Toya Maru, were lost in the storm with a grand total of 1.455 dead or missing.
Not on the Army list were two other missing American passengers, cosmetics representative Thomas Hunt and YMCA worker Dean Leeper.
Besides the 1,743 dead and missing in the storm. National Police headquarters said there were 1,135 persons injured.
Tentative damage was listed as 676 ships sunk, 620 ships washed away, 2,811 ships damaged, and 26,285 houses damaged or destroyed, with additional reports still to come.
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Pope Sees 100 Steel Leaders
Castel Gandolfo, Italy—(U.P.)—Pope Pius XII spoke for 15 minutes today to a private audience of steel industry leaders, and Vatican sources said he appeared less tired than he was a week ago.
The audience was granted to about 100 delegates to the recent Florence International Congress of Foundries. It took place in the Swiss chamber at the Pope's summer residence here.
The Pontifix spoke to the multination gathering in French. The text of the speech is to be released tomorrow.
The audience was one of a series the 78-year-old head of the Roman Catholic church has granted in recent weeks despite the pleas of his doctors that he ease up in his schedule. A recent return of an attack of hiccups had weakened the Pontiff.
In addition to the special audiences, Pope Pius is making twice-
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Ike Seeks Aid In RR Rates
Denver —(U.P.)— President Eisenhower and Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson joined today in an appeal to the nation's railroads to help ease drought suffering by cutting freight rates on hay shipments into stricken areas.
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American Faces 'Brainwash' Charge
Washington — (U.P.)— Senate investigators called more former Korean war prisoners today in an attempt to show that the Reds used a magazine edited by an American in China in the "forced indoctrination" of prisoners.
Secretary Benson conferred here yesterday with the President and reported drought conditions in 701 counties of 15 states. Other news developments at the Denver White House today:
1. Mr. Eisenhower's staff was believed to be nearly ready to release a public report on the Chief Executive's health.
2. Mr. Eisenhower scheduled a morning conference with Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway. The White House said no emergency caused the conference, that it was a discussion of army matters.
4. The President's friends predicted he would return to his Rocky Mountain retreat at Fraser this week end for a few days of painting, cooking, and possibly fishing during the warmer hours of midday.
The request for lower freight rates in drought areas followed a pattern of last year when the carriers reduced rates for both hay and grain by 50 per cent.
3. The President also planned a morning meeting with Dr. Arthur S. Burns of the Council of Economic Advisors. Dr. Burns reports to Mr. Eisenhower regularly.
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- The former prisoners were to appear before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee which is looking into the activities of John W. Powell. His China Monthly Review pictured American POWs as receiving fine treatment in Communist hands.
Mr. Powell, yesterday refused to tell the subcommittee whether he is or ever was a member of the Communist party, either here or in China.
Now a San Francisco writer and lecturer, Mr. Powell's China Monthly Review, published in Shanghai, succeeded the well-known China Weekly Review published by his father, the late J. B. Powell. Mr. Powell returned to this country in 1953.
He was confronted at yesterday's hearing with a widow of an American prisoner of war who said she received two letters from Mr. Powell in 1951 assuring her that the Chinese Communists were giving American prisoners "greatest leniency." Mrs. Delores Gill of Kansas City, Mo., carefully told the subcommittee that at the time her husband, 2nd Lt. Charles L. Gill, actually was dying of malnutrition and dysentery.
Chairman William E. Jenner (R.-Ind.), asked Mr. Powell what "motive" he had for writing Mrs. Gill such a letter when, as a reporter, he must have known what was being done to American prisoners by the Chinese Communists.
Mr. Powell refused to answer and protested that the subcommittee had "no right" to question him on the letters.
Maj, William R. Shadish, an Army doctor who was a prisoner for three months told how Mr. Powell's magazine was "most commonly used" by the Communists in their "forced indoctrination" of American captives in communist propaganda.
"This man should definitely receive some punitive action," Mr. Wright said.
Mr. Jenner assured him the subcommittee's record of Mr. Powell will be sent to the Justice department "to see that justice is done."
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