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New Orleans' Drunken Birds Skol in Parks, Here's How:
New Orleans—(U.P.)—This city, long famed for its quaint bistros,
todav had one for the birds.
Thousands of migrating robins attracted by overripe berries of the Ligustrum and Paracantha bushes in city parks have been acting strangely, and officials confirmed what sober residents suspected—the birds get titsy.
"They get just as dizzy as coots. Supervisor George Douglas of the Audubon Park zoo said.
Mr. Douglas explained that the berries got so ripe they fermented and the effect, to a bird, is about what a human tippler might expect from a slug of bathtub gin.
The robins arrived in force late in December and since have been stripping off the berries and getting drunk. You need only stroll through a park to see one get his fill, quietly relax his grip and flop to the ground.
With the robins have come black-birds, which one birdwatcher praised for being able to hold their alcohol better than the robins.
"The blackbirds fall off into the grass and then wallow around to sober up," he said. "But the robins! I saw three big ferruginous toplee into the gutter and just lie there."
Photo Meeting's Plan Session Set
Representatives from four photo-journalism fields will meet at the William Allen White School of Journalism today to make program plans for the Third Annual Photo Short Course at the University of Kansas.
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The short course is sponsored each year by the School of Journalism and the University Extension in cooperation with the National Press Photographers' Association and Encyclopedia Britannica.
Representing the daily newspaper field, as well as NPPA, will be Earl Zene, Kansas City Star photographer. John Chandler publisher of the Holton Recorder, will represent the weekly papers.
From Topeka, the art editor of Household, Bob Lofgren, will give the magazine photo point of view, and Den Richards, of the Kansas Industrial Development Commission, will speak for the industrial publications field.
Harris Smith, journalism photo instructor, and Dean Burton W. Marvin will represent the School of Journalism, and E. A. McFarland will be on hand for the University extension.
More than 1,400 chaplains are on duty in the Army. They represent the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish faiths.
Dean Says Reds Pleased With Senator's Attack
New York —(U.P.)— Arthur H. Dean, special U.S. ambassador to Korea, said today the Communists "are undoubtedly chortling with glee" because Sen. Herman Welker (R-Ida). he accused him of trying to collaborate with Red China.
He said Sen. Welker had been "a great aid to the Communists" when he attacked Mr. Dean's role as U.S. representative at the Pan- munium peace talks.
Sen. Welker told the Senate in Washington that Mr. Dean was among those who "in a round-about manner are chanting the siren song of collaborating with the rulers of Red China."
The senator pointed out that Mr. Dean was once an official of the Institute of Pacific Relations, an international research organization which the Senate Internal Security sub-committee has labeled as "an instrument of Communist policy and military intelligence."
In a reply issued here Mr. Dean said:
"I am against the appeasement of the USSR, Red China, North Korea, or any other Communist government or movement. I am not in favor of the recognition of Red China as an independent United Nations. I have not been spreading Communist doctrine in any way, shape or form."
Mr. Dean, a former law partner of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, said he resigned as chairman of the IPR on Feb. 5, 1952 'immediately after Mr. Lawrence on our law research associates, had refused to answer questions before a Senate investigating committee."
"Sen. Welker has attacked me because I did not forsee this," Mr. Dean said. "Up to that time Lawrence Rosinger had enjoyed a reputation for high and objective scholarship among his associates."
Mr. Dean denied Sen. Welker's charges that he "defended" millionaire Communist Frederick Vanderbilt Field. On the contrary, Mr. Dean said, shortly after he (Dean) became a trustee of the IPR in 1946 he and a number of other trustees became "disturbed" about Field's activities and forced him to resign.
House Democrats Predict Failure for Ike Farm Plan
Memphis, Jenn.—(U.P.)-Democratic members of the House Agriculture committee predicted today that President Eisenhower's proposal for flexible farm price supports is doomed to failure.
Representative members of the committee which toured the nation's farmers' workshops would not commit themselves on the administration's farm program, saying they must first study results of the hearings.
The committee returned to Washington today after conducting hearings this week at Enid, Okla., Waco, Tex., and Memphis. Last year they toured the Northeast, South, Midwest and Far West.
Rep. Charles Hoeven (R-Iowa), who presided here, said he could not make a flat statement as to what might happen to Mr. Eisenhower's farm program.
"Flexible supports don't stand a chance in Congress," said Rep. Paul Jones (D-Mo).
"I feel sure that the present 90 per cent of parity support price will be continued," said Rep. E. C. Gathings (R-Ark.).
"We have heard every solution possible to the farm problems," Rep. Hoeven said, "and it varies from different sections of the country. There has been a good bit of weight of testimony on all sides of the issue."
Gathings said he did not think flexible supports would work and that he thought most of the testimony the committee heard bore out his opinion.
"It depends on where you are as to what you hear," he said. "I haven't made up my mind. I'll have to wait until I get back to Washington to study the testimony we've heard."
Rep. Clifford McIntyre, a Maine Republican, felt the same as Rep Hoeven.
Rep. Jones said he was "sure the new program will continue the 90 per cent of parity price support."
Redwood Library in Newport, R.I., is the nation's oldest library continuously operated in the same building. The private library was built in 1747.
New Snowslides Threaten 1,000 In Austrian Valley
Vienna — (U,P)— New snowslides in the "white death" belt of south central Europe sealed off an Austrian valley today, threatening the lives of 1,000 inhabitants.
The Missouri representative also predicted a hard fight between Senate and House over an acreage allotment for cotton.
Police reports said the avalanche that blocked the approaches to the Soelk valley, 40 miles northwest of Graz, dammed a river and created a lake of ice water which is rising toward unscalable mountains.
Kansan Classifieds Bring Results.
Rescue operations in Austria's Walserthal—"Death Valley"—were proceeding today in the faint hope that 20 persons officially listed as "missing" for the past two days might be found live. Abruches on two very two villages are known to have killed 104 Walserthal residents.
Early today, the lake was more than half a mile long, 200 yards wide and 30 feet deep. Ski police were racing to the scene with crates of dynamite, hoping to blast the valley dwellers.
No new deaths were reported today in any of the four countries where avalanches this week have claimed a reported 257 victims, but persistent warm weather in Alpine valleys created an ever-present threat of disaster.
U. S. helicopter teams commanded by Col. Robert L. Rizon of Long Beach, Calif., were standing by to whisk to safety any survivors who may be dug out of the snow.
Residents of the villages of Ziegerberg, Ganertal, and Gamplaschagg, near the Walserrthal, were warned today to leave their homes to escape the threat of overhanging snow masses, but most refused to budge.
"We prefer to remain in our homes," one resident said in a telephone interview. "If our houses are buried, we prefer to be buried with them. To lose our homes would be worse than death."
Washington — (U.P.)— Some 7,000,- 000 taxpayers who pay their income tax quarterly have until midnight tonight to square themselves for 1953.
Tax Payments Deadline Set
By that deadline they must make their final quarterly tax payment on last year's income as well as make adjustments if annual estimates were too low when made last March.
It also is the deadline for filing estimates if one was not filed and if the taxpayers now knows he made enough so that he is required to file such a declaration.
Friday. Jan. 15. 1954
Every citizen or resident who expects to receive wages, subject to withholding, of more than $4,500 plus $6,000 those exections; or other sources, on which there is no withholding, is more than $100.
Persons who must make their declaration of estimated income are:
There are penalties for not filing an estimate, for filing an estimate which is wrong by more than a certain percentage, and for filing an estimate but failing to make quarterly payments.
Those who find they underestimated their income last March should file a corrected estimate by midnight tomorrow, Jan. 15, and pay enough to cover all of their estimated tax on their estimated 1953 income. Those who overestimated their income should put more their estimates, too, and made a reduced payment to finish off their 1953 liability.
Those who filed no estimate last March, but find they should have, must now file an estimate for 1953 income and pay all four quarterly tax installments. The final return is not due until March 15.
Mauna Loa, 13,680-foot-high volcanic peak in Hawaii, is believed to be the world's largest mountain in total volume.
The oldest church bell west of the Allegheny mountains is now in the Catholic church on Kaskaskia Island, Ill.
Dick Powell Draws Fire Of 'Caine Mutiny' Producer
New York—(U.P.)—A Hollywood report that Dick Powell might come to New York to take bows as director of "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" at the play's opening next week was the final straw that caused Producer Paul Gregory to terminate the film star's contract, Gregory said today. The play appeared at the University in mid-November.
The handsome young impresario said he wasn't worried about anyone halting the opening through an injunction. Such a threat was attributed to Powell in Hollywood yesterday before the actor's attorney announced that lawyers for both parties would sit down Monday and try to iron out differences.
"Anyone who tried to get an injunction would have to be prepared to put up a bond for about $1,500,-000." Gregory said, "covering our
New York advance sale of some $380,000 and other assets of the production. I don't think anyone is going to want to try to get up that sort of bond."
Gregory said his action in notifying Powell Tuesday that his contract was voided was in order under the terms of the pact drawn up last September.
"I really don't know what Powell hopes to gain," the producer said.
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