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llHonrocftmis-Star The WiortiV LOUISIANA: Cloudy, scattered thundershowers east portions this afternoon; partly cloudy, cooler tonight; mild Thursday; fresh to locally strong shifting winds on the coast. VOL. 100 Full Associated Press Leased Wires MONROE, LOUISIANA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1952 PRICE FIVE CENTS OPERATION BIGSHOT Men Stand Beneath Armed Police Nip Con A-Burst-Live! To Raid Arsenal Try To Go By Tunnel For Arms The fireball from atom blast rises slowly Into the air at Yucca Flats, Nevada. At left, measuring rockets spiral upward keeping pace with the mushrooming blast.

Infantry troops employed in the operation, dug-in three miles from were reported all safe after the explosion. (NEA Telephoto OATH TAKEN BY U. S. ATTORNEY William J. Flcnikcn Is Sworn In Federal Court By HOWARD W.

BLAKESLEE AP Science Editor ATOM BOMB SITE, the first time men have lived, unhurt, who stood underneath and looked up into the flaming, hollow heart of the cloud that rushes upward from an A-bomb. This happened to soldiers and officers close to the giant explosion yesterday at Yucca Flat. It also happened to five congress! men who went into trenches with the troops. They are W. S.

Cole I R-NY, Glen Teague D-Tex, Melvin i Price D-Ill, Chet Holifield D-Calif, and Carl Hinshaw R-Calif. What they saw and learned is the first chapter in a new atomic chart for survival: This bomb was greater than anything in Japan or Bikini, and just KEEPING A SHARP EYE William J. Fleniken, of Shreveport, was sworn in as United States attorney for the western district of by Judge Ben Dawkins over or under the most powerful here Wednesday at 11 a.m. in the we have fired in the United States. Kansas City Levee Workers Speed Up HEADS W.

M. B. A. federal district court room. Judge Gaston L.

Porterie also presided on the bench with Judge Dawkins for the ceremony. Fleniken has been assistant district attorney for some time and acting attorney since the resignation of Harvey Carey. Judge Dawkins congratulated Fleniken on his appointment and stated that he possessed the integrity and willingness to work that would enable to succeed in the position of U. S. attorney.

also possess a kind disposition and That particular identity is secret. The fire cloud followed the fireball, and swelled to miles in diameter, with red flames and yellow gases swirling in whirls bigger than Niagara Falls. The cloud drifted over the heads of some officers. looked right up said one. was hollow, but you could not see daylight through the hole It was like an umbrella and whirling crosswise like a smoke ring.

Guards with guns ready, keep a sharp eye on cell Block 15 at the Jackson, Prison where rebellious inmates barricaded themselves. News- a great knowledge of law which The inner dome was ribbed with will enable you to fulfill your of- and light colors, the dark ones said Dawkins. probably nitrogen appointment is for a The desert under the bomb was period of four years. Daw-kins stat- from rains Saturday and Sun- ed that he sure that no mat- The flash of heat lasted three ter which party was elected to baked this area white, power In the forthcoming presi alkali giving the color. dential election that Fleniken would not be disturbed in his position since he knew him to be a capable person.

Judge Porterie asserted to Flenl- Commies Accused WEST MONROE GROUP ELECTS M. K. Thompson Elected President Of Businessmen's Associotion By LARRY HALL KANSAS CITY. OP-Flood workers built their levees higher at Kansas City today, spurred by the Missouri River fresh destruction upstream and a continued pattern of rain. They said the extra height wouldn't be needed, but they wanted to have In case Both the nation's longest rivers spread destruction in record floods Of JdVTIVTling TdlkS for miles along their length.

The mighty Mississippi Hung lU MUNSAN truce nego- weight at towns along the Iowa ftiators accused the Communists to- border. Crests were expected there day of dodging the main issue today a IBtle higher than blocking arrangements for enforc- year records. a xorean armistice. And along the wild Missouri, the flood brought almost hourly crises. So far.

the Red Cross estimated, 26,538 families or about 105.OuO persona have been forced to flee their homes In the two major floods. The extra protection being built on top of levees at Kansas City is the same kind of wooden boarding'' used to save Omaha, and Council Bluffs, last week. There was nothing in sight, how- Jever, to indicate another disaster one that bit Kansas City, Kan and Kansas City, last July, causing huge industrial dis- For more than two miles in all directions the bomb started fires in joshua cactus about 10 feet high. There was the smell of scorched brush all around. One Truman Pat On Stands Seizure ken that his appointment had the temporary first aid shack burned unanimous approval of the bar as- to the ground.

The blast that fol- sociation and that he was positive lowed the heat flash blew out most Fleniken would succeed. are Hrcs- a fair minded attorney, trustworthy The than anyone and said Judge Porterie. has approached except in knelt in trenches, two to several In each. They faced the bomb, with heads bowed just below the top of the dirt. They joked, and they jumped up and laughed after the terrific flash Despite Heavy Pressure And Bid To Impeach, Steel Plan Stays WASHINGTON UD President Truman, under heavy Senate fire and facing a House move to impeach him, stuck to his guns today in the fight with Congress over his seizure of the steel plants.

A powerful Senate drive to force him to cancel the seizure order fell just short of the two-thirds of light'and heat had passed. But i majority vote it required yesterday, their trenches felt hot for those But its Republican backers led by three seconds. Sen. Knowland of California re-j Then they learned the first les- I doubled their cries of The Communists replied there your mouth shut. Nearly cast about for other devices, would be progress at were standing still in trenches.

Actually senators, 11 of them less the United Nations Command looking up. mouths open when the Democrats, voted for the changed its attitude. blast drove a wave of dust into i and 29 voted against it. The exchange ended i 19-minute their faces, session of staff officers at Pan-! Every man would have been a munjom. No progress was made burn casualty except for the shad- toward settling truce supervision of the trenches, disputes Communist nomination a tank was placed almost at the (Coaunutd of Russia as a neutral inspector i and Allied insistence the Reds be barred from repairing military airfields.

It appeared more and more that the truce supervision negotiators were awaiting outcome of secret negotiations in a neighboring tent or. prisoner exchange. jedge of directly under the bomb. The hatch was left open to see what would have happened to men Inside. They would have been killed by heat.

Planes on the ground far away had twisted tails or spot bums. Most weapons were not seriously (damaged. M. K. Thompson, a representative of the Louisiana Power and Light Company, was elected president of the West Monroe Association Tuesday night: along with two other officers and four new members to the Doard of directors.

Fred Riser, prominent West Monroe dairyman, was elected vice- president of the club. C. G. Wall, the incumbent Citizen secretary treasurer was re-elect-j ed. Four men elected to the eight- man board of directors were: Eugene Scott, Tom E.

Hicks (incumbent Hugh Taylor and C. L. Smith. Four new members to the board of directors are elected each Unit At Paper Mill May Cost $9,000,000 BOGALUSA CITY FATHER ACCUSED Swears Charges That Commissioner Breached Charter May Take Three Months More To Complete, Install Machinery MUM WITNESSES WIN REVERSALS Poretto, Marcello Freed Of Contempt Of Senate By Appeals Court Not a Republican voted A switch of four votes would have provided the two-thirds margin needed to suspend Senate rules and permit action on proposal to forbid the use of any federal funds in the seizure. The Senate Banking Committee ordered a new investigation into government handling of the steel dispute, which many of Its members have denounced vigorously.

But the group quit talking about reprisals that might demolish the whole wide structure of wage and price controls, although it called a delay in the writing of a bill to continue them past the June 30 expiration date, Highly placed committee mem- bers, including vigorous critics of the program, told a reporter they now expect the controls will be continued without much change. JACKSON, Mich. Heavily- armed state police smashed a piot ot riot-torn Southern Michigan prison's mutineers to break into the prison arsenal today. The barricaded felons, using the lives of 10 prison guard hostages as a bargaining weapon, meantime demanded that Gov. G.

Mennen Williams enter peace negotiations. State police upset a plot of the mutineers to slash into a tunnel leading from their fortress cell block 15 to the prison administration building. The administration building contains the big arsenal. The convicts were reported to have ripped off a metal cover over a tunnel entrance within block 15. A sound of banging and clattering gave them away and a score of rifle carrying state police and guards rushed in to the tunnel to nip the escape attempt.

Negotiations resumed after a midnight peace bid to the holdout convicts from Warden Julian N. Frisbie. There were signs that prison heads were willing to go along with some of the demands. Subsequently, came the demand for Gov. participation.

Earl Ward, insurrection leader, made the demand in a telephone MARINE CITY. Mich. A talk from block slayer was hunted to- Deputy Warden George Bacon, day in the brutal stabbing of an; Ward demanded the governor's elderly widow whose slashed body signature to any agreement. minutes this morning men and prison officials, left, talk with ringleaders of the latest mutiny of convicts in state penal institutions. (NEA Telephoto.) 'MANIAC KILLS ELDERLY WIDOW 14 Stab Wounds Counted After Body Is Found In Ransacked Home was found in her ransacked home.

Police said robbery apparently was the motive for the slaying of well-to-do Mrs. Mabel Foster, 73. i The body, ripped by 14; stab wounds, was discovered yesterday in the home where she lived alone two miles south of here, of the wounds wrere inflicted after I death. Some were so deep they had President Truman, a European NATO official predicts, will choose from among U. S.

Gens. Alfred Gruenther (above), Matthew B. Ridgway and Omar N. Bradley for a NATO commander to succeed Gen. Eisenhower.

Gruenther is Chief of staff. For ten Ward talked through a barred window with Dr. Vernon Fox, assistant deputy warden and prison psychologist. Afterwards. Dr.

Fox to the prison kitchen, presumably to get food for the 173 block inmates, now going into the third day of their fierce holdout. Frisbie tried to conciliate him In an attempt to save the lives of 10 passed almost through the body, prison guards held hostages Coroner Robert Hartley reported, convicts say they will put a maniacal frenzy could the hostages to death if police rush have accounted for the ferocity of their stronghold. A force of 600 the said state Police De- state police and guards are con- tective Elmer Willing. centrated at the prison. It was believed the murder oc- Rioting Monday caused two mil- curred Monday.

The slayer dollars damage to the big ently fled in Mrs. Foster's automo- bouse. convict w-as killed and bile, which was found in Marine at Jeast nifie were injured. State City across the street from the had to fire volleys to get home of her son, Earl, a druggist, equipment into the prison yards lo Mrs. Foster's body was found in tires set by convicts.

a bedroom whose door had been Before the worst of the rioting forced. Two purses in the room 'was state troopers had been rifled and telephone wires cut. There were signs of violent struggle in the bedroom. were injured and three prison guards were beaten. Sporadic outbreaks in various Construction work on the exterior of the big additional unit at Brown Paper Mill is nearing com- pletion but Installation of machin- I were handed down here by the U.

NEW ORLEANS first two reversals in the United States of convictions of reluctant witnesses who appeared before the Kefauver Investigating Committee STILL SICK PARIS, Dwight D. Eisenhower still wras abed today with a cold and throat infection and Juvenile Commission Will Meet Thursdoy The juvenile court commission will meet at the Virginia Hotel on Thursday at 1 a.m. The commission is scheduled to discuss legislation which they will (Continued on Seven) LA. INSURANCE MEN TO MEET but probably only until next March flides said it was ask his comment on results of the New York and Pennsylvania pres- I idential primary elections. (Continued on Seven) (Continued an Seven) First Anniversary Finds Reds Hurl No Big Offensive SEOUL patrol contacts and probes rippled across the Korean battlefront today as Allied soldiers soberly observed the first anniversary of a massive Red offensive.

The Communists showed little willingness to repeat the punch they threw last April 22-23. An eighth Army staff officer said only five small Red probes were reported. Allied continued saturation raids on the battered Red supply lines Wednesday. The U.S. Fifth Air Force said Communist MIGs offered no opposition.

Navy headquarters in Tokyo said Allied warships and carrier-based planes Tuesday gave North East Coast Its worst pounding in months. Red shore batteries opened up on the battleship Iowa, flagship of the U. S. Seventh Fleet. The Navy said there wrere 17 splashes near the big battlewagon, but no hits and no damage.

The Navy said carrier pilots silenced tiie Red guns. BOGALUSA, La. affidavits charging Commissioner of Public Safety Herman Casanova with violating the city charter were sworn out by I. E. Jenkins, a private citizen.

Casanova, charged with selling goods and merchandise, including automobile tires, to the city while a member of the Council, posted $500 bond and issued a statement yesterday saying: welcome an opportunity to have a full investigation, a speedy trial and vindication in the eyes of the public and of the ery and work of finishing up the Flfth circuit Court of Appeals. interior may require three months more, It was stated Wednesday. This work is being done by Morton C. Tuttle Construction Co. At the time the contract as let it was estimated the cost might run between $3,500,000 and $500,000.

Since that time, however, costs of materials have risen and it has also been necessary to add many new items, it was stated. For these reasons, it is now believed likely that the total cost may run as high as $8,000,000 or $9,000 000 When plans were announced for the new unit It was stated that the federal government had granted a certificate of necessity and OTTO MORGAN DIES IN MISS.If'j? Indicted On Income Tax The Louisiana State Association Underwriters will meet in an- impossible to present to Governor elect Robert; nual on May and Kennon and the legislature in con- io ith headquarters in Hotel nection writh correctional institu Frances. It is anticipated that from 250 to tions for juveniles. Joseph Poretto and Carlos Mar- One Of Founders Of Morcello were freed yesterday of contempt of Senate charges on which they were found guilty in U. S.

District Court here. Poretto, a former racing news gan Lindsey Expires In Jackson service operator, and Marcello both health. Otto Morgan, one of the ST LOUIS M. Saigh of! syndicate headed by Hannegan the St. Louis Cardinals and a busi-1 which purchased the club from ness associate of the late Robert Sam Breadoo.

Hannegan died in Following some weeks of failing E. Hannegan. former postmaster October of 1949 J. TL a (Continued on Page Seven) had been given six month sentences after they were tried before Federal Judge J. Skelly Wright.

The Circuit Court not only reversed the lower court's decision but also rendered verdicts of acquittal in both cases. Both men refused to answer questions when called before the Senate Crime Investigating Committee when it met here in Jan- (Contlnued on Rebuilt White House O. K. With Public founders of the large chain of stores of the Morgan and Lindsey system, died in his home in Jackson, Tuesday. He was 67, and had lived in Monroe for more than six years when he was manager of the store here.

Information was to the effect that the funeral would be held at general, has been named in a fed- The indictment against Saigh car- 300 ill attend. The organization has chapters in Monroe, Alexandria. Lake Charles. Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Shreveport, and delegations are expected in large numbers from all these groups. The Monroe Association of Life Underwriters, which will serve as host to the convention, has the following officers: J.

W'. Womack, president; J. W. Webster, vice president; J. Bragan, vice-pres- jident; and R.

P. McKay, secre- eral indictment charging tax evasion of $49,620. The state officers are as follows: T. A. Wakeman, Baton Rouge, the Baldwin Funeral Home in Jackson, Wednesday at 4 p.m.

In- came a national figure when he terment will be in a cemetery in became a part owner of the Card- Jackson. inals. Then in 1949, he bought con- Mr. Morgan was member and ac- trolling Interest in the ball club, tive in the First Baptist Church replacing Hannegan as president when in Monroe and also took deep Saigh had been a member of a income ries five counts providing a maxi- evasion ui mum penalty, if convicted, of 25 The federal grand jury accused iyears imprisonment and a total of President; J. W.

Womack, Monroe, the 47-vear-old attorney in a sur- $50,000 in fines. Each of the Drise action yesterday. He is counts cites a maximum penalty of Jr- Baton Rouge, secretary treas charged with evading taxes on I five years in prison and $10,000 Eunice C. Bush, $108,823 unreported income for the tine. Baton Rouge, national committee- years 1946 through 1949.

Two of the counts claim alleged and trustee In 1947, after his co-purchase of discrepancies in Saigh's personal several St. Louis buildings, he be- Prominent leaders In the insur- income. A third claims a fraudu- ance line will participate on the lent return on the corporation in- program. come hen he served as vice-president of the ball club. Two other counts accuse him of filing fraudulent joint returns for himself and his wife.

By ED CREAGH WASHINGTON (P the reaction of John Taxpayer, his wife and the kids today to their first in-person look at the reconstructed White House. They had read about the $5,700,000 cellar to garret rebuilding job, and they had seen published pictures of the new interior. But not until yesterday did all comers get a chance to see for themselves what the carpenters and decorators had done with all that tax money. And the exclamations of delight would have gladdened the heart of householder Harry Truman If he had come over from the executive offices to hear them. saw the old White House six years ago and I saw the new one said Mrs.

Mabel Hargrave of South San Francisco, Calif. much more beautiful now. The chandeliers are simply agreed Mrs. Clarence L. Fox of Hammond, Ind.

say what impressed me flower arrangements, perhaps. going through again and have another clocked in the first public showing of the new decor. They came from all over the country and from lands as far away as Iran and India. Reporters who mingled with them heard barely a word of dissatisfaction. Ten to noon, Tuesdays through Saturdays, will be the regular visiting hours hereafter.

You need a ticket, a letter from your congressman or anything else. Just go to the east gate and say you want in. After all. your $5,700,000 that All told, 5,544 persons were paid for to interest in civic affairs. He made a wide circle of friends while here and it was with regret that he removed from here to the headquar-i ters in Jasper, Tex.

The organizing ability of Mr. Morgan was recognized by the oth- er members of the firm that were TAZEWELL, Va. Roger Allen his brothers and Mr. Lindsey, and Coon, 14-year-old mute, is being ecls have recelved through his ability the company treated in a Bluefield, W. recommendations of approval from has expanded so that there are hospital after being pinned under an Army board of engineers, now stores in three or four states.

a barbed wire fence for almost projects are for extension While living in Jackson, Mr. Mor- two days. gan, in semi retirement, Young Coon wras found yesterday I Barbed Wire Helds LaFourche, Plum Mute Captive Days Bayou Study Urged In Grip Of Thirst WASHINGTON UPI Eight flood control and waterway proj- and operated large apartment house interests. He is survived by his wife and two daughteis. The daughters are both married and reside in Waco, Tex.

about a mile from where he dis- bor channels and include Savan- appeared Sunday after being Harbor, Ga. and Mobile Har-j object of a widespread search. He Ala. as badly scratched all over his Surveys on the LaFourche-Jump body and his lips were parched Waterway, La. and Plum Bayou, from thirst.

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