Military Budget Termed Fantastic
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Officials Ponder Leopold's Fate
Joliet, Ill. — (U.P.) — The Illinois parole board pondered today whether "thrill killer" Nathan Leopold was a rehabilitated genius worthy of freedom or a fiend lucky to escape the electric chair.
Clergymen, professors and friends argued at a hearing here yesterday that the brilliant millionaire's son, who teamed with Richard Loeb in 1924 to kill 14-year-old Bobby Franks with a chisel should be set free.
A law enforcement officer called Leopold's backers "perpetual bleeding hearts—worshipers of the high and pseudo experts."
Leopold himself, balding and paunchy at 48, told the board that 28 years and four months in prison have changed him completely.
"I have learned my lesson," he said. "I am a textbook example of a burned child."
Leopold has an intelligence quotient of 208, slightly above genius, but the group of educators backing his parole plea said they were not "overly impressed" by his exceptionally brilliant mind.
Cook county state's attorney John Gutlaneck asked that Leopold be kept in prison for the rest of his life to "spare a mockery of justice."
When arrested 28 years ago for the so-called "crime of the century," Leopold and Loeb said they picked Franks at random and killed him for the satisfaction of committing a "perfect crime." Prosecutors charged the two philosophy students had a Nietzschean "superman" theory.
Yesterday board member Joseph Lohman asked Leopold bluntly what was his motive for the crime.
"I cannot truthfully give a motive that makes sense, even to me," the slayer said. "It was just a damn fool stunt by a child. It seems as bizarre to me today as it must to all people."
But he said he would not "loss heart" if his parole were refused and would return to his prison work and studies. He has mastered 26 languages and several sciences while behind bars, conducted prison correspondence courses, voluntarily contracted malaria to aid drug research and cooperated in sociological studies of prison inmates.
the killer told the hearing in the stateville prison chapel that "I can promise that if released I will never be in trouble with the law again."
The usual age for marriage in Britain is 19-25 for women and 21-30 for men.
- Washington — (U.P.)— President Truman today sent Congress a mammoth $46.3 billion military spending budget which Republicans called "fantastic" and said could be cut by $10 billion.
They also brushed aside Mr. Trump's proposal that taxes be increased. Even the Democrats refused to take this suggestion seriously. Congressmen of both parties said their goal now is to cut taxes, and the only question is how soon it can be done.
The joint chiefs of staff consider 1954 the "most dangerous" period for America and the free world because of Russia's mounting atomic power.
The 1954 military spending figure, biggest since World War II and $1,900,000,000 more than estimated spending for this fiscal year, accounts for more than half of the President's total proposed budget.
The 1954 budget, as proposed, would provide for continued expansion of the Air Force toward a goal of 143 wings, with 133 to be in operation by mid-1954. The Army and Navy would be held at approximately present strengths but would receive a stream of new weapons on which "deliveries are increasing substantially."
The total for the three services did not include the requests for other overall defense matters—funds for the secretary of defense's office, stockpiling, and civil functions such as flood control.
"This is an expensive program but our national security depends on it." Mr. Truman said. "We cannot afford to lower (our) goals until the free world is secure against the Communist menace."
But Mr. Truman said that barring "new aggressions" or a lag in the rearmament drive, defense spending should ease off gradually after 1054.
Rep. John Taber (R-N.Y.), who will head the money-holding House appropriations committee in the new Republican controlled Congress, said the size of the budget alone constitutes "an invitation to cut."
He told newsmen that "a $10亿 cut is not too much to expect."
Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N.H.), who will be chairman of the Senate Appropriations committee, said Mr. Truman's budget "reveals in shocking detail" the tremendous fiscal burden which his administration bequeathes on the new Republican administration.
"The job which lies ahead is staggering." Sen. Bridges said.
Rep. Daniel A. Reed (R-N.Y.), who will be chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means committee in the new Congress, said he agreed with Taber that the budget can be cut heavily.
Ben, Reed, sponsor of a plan to cut individual income taxes about 51% per cent in this calendar year, said that "there's going to be a tax
cut and we're going to balance the budget, too."
"There is no doubt at all that this budget can be cut,' he said. "This is fantastic."
Bombers Hit Red Bases
Seoul, Korea (U.P.)—Allied Superforts flew through heavy clouds last night to hit an enemy supply center in their drive to keep all potential Communist staging areas off balance.
Eight B-29 Superforts dropped full loads of 560-pound bombs to wreck a 35-acre Red supply center five miles south of Sariwan containing 50 barracks not previously attacked.
Another lone Superfort dropped 10 tons of bombs on a 4,000-foot air-strip three miles south of Hungnam near the east coast.
Fighting along the 155-mile battleline fell off sharply after lightning punches by Allied raiders at both ends of the line killed or wounded 200 Communist troops.
On the eastern front, South Korean troops reported the total number of Communist troops killed in a raid on an enemy tunnel was 134.
The rest were killed in front line skirmishes as the raiding ROKs were returning to their own base.
Gen. Mark W. Clark's Friday morning communique said the tunnel blast was one of five separate eastern front hit-run attacks that "dealt punishing blows to enemy installations" and "inflicted heavy casualties."
Other officers include: vice president, Dewey Benard; treasurer, Jim Christenson; secretary, John Kramer; song leader, Richard Howard; social chairman, Fred Bunch; historian, Leonard Mort; publicity chairman, Arthur Burnham, and intramural chairman, Ivan Henman.
Carroll Smith, pharmacy senior, has been elected president of Sterling hall for the second semester.
Pharmacy Senior Heads Sterling Hall
Ninety-two thousand trackless trollleys, buses, streetcars and subway cars carried more than 10 times the earth's population in 1948.
Sunday Dinner
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The Chamber Music series will present the Griller quartet as the second attraction of the season at 8 p.m. Monday in Strong auditorium.
Music Series Will Present Griller Quartet Monday
This group of musicians one of the foremost in Britain met as students at the Royal academy of Music in London. They were soon recognized as the official string quartet of the academy.
- CHOICE LEG OF LAMB WITH MINT JELLY
- ROAST TURKEY AND DRESSING
- BUTTERED NOODLES
After graduation the members of the quartet decided to pursue a communal career. They adopted the name of the first violinist, Sidney Griller, and began to play.
- GRADE U.S. CHOICE RIB ROAST
After many difficulties the quartet established their reputation and moved to London in 1932. Since then they have appeared in England, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Scandinavia, and Holland.
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English towns that had never heard concert music before and had no concert hall.
In 1937 the quartet made its debut in New York's Town Hall followed by a country-wide tour. During the war the quartet joined the R.A.F. as a group and received the unprecedented designation of Official String Quartet of the British Air Forces.
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Some of the early concerts were given in barns and stables in little
The path to success for the quartet has been hard but they say it has been worth the struggle. An abandoned box car stranded in the small coastal town of Pagham Beach in the south of England was the first official residence of the quartet.
Through the war they played as many as 227 concerts in one year. When the war was over the quartet resumed its concert touring.
In the winter of 1947 the quartet came to the States again.
When their career began they also decided their should be no independent engagements and have followed this rule since. With this idea they hope to preserve the group's ideal of an absolutely homogeneous chamber music ensemble.
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