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ABE MARTIN Some folks arc called green when They're only respectable. What has become o' all th 1 child wonders we used t' know in school? THE EMPORIA GAZETTE SIX PAGES EMPORIA, KANSAS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1945 White Rouse staff of secretaries had agreed to remain for a while, to familiarize their successors with the work of the executive offices. Mr. Truman announced that Matthew J. Connelly, Clinton, who served as his executive secretary while lie was vice president, would be his chief White House aide.

His press and radio representative vail be Leonard Reinsch, who handled radio affairs for the Democratic national committee. Among those asked to remain on the job until his own staff gets familiar with it swork were Stephen Early, Jonathan Daniels' and William D. Hassett, Roosevelt secretaries. Truman Is Heady to Meet Allies President Tells News Conference He Will Be Happy to Confer With Big Five Leaders Washington, April 17 Truman told a news conference gtoday he will be very happy to meet the heads of the other big five Allied powers as soon as possible. In his first conference with newsmen since he succeeded Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Mr. Truman said that he not initiated any move toward new meeting of the Allied leaders. But in response to a question he said he would be very happy to meet Prime Minister Churchill, Premier Stalin and President Chiang Kai-Shek of China soon. ft Mr. Truman added that he also would be glad to see Gen.

Charles de Gaulle, provisional president of France, if De Gaulle cared to arrange a conference with him. De Gaulle did not see President Roosevelt on the latter's return from the Yalta Big Three conference. Newsmen Crowd Office Before a record breaking crowd! of newsmen who jammed the oval To President Roosevelt room and overflowed on to a nearby patio the new President outlined Apnl 17 A somt his major foreign and domestic policies. VOLUME LV NUMBER 22i James A. Sells Ottawa Store The Jas.

A. Poole Dry Goods company of Ottawa will become the property of Edmiston Brothers, of Nevada, effective April 23, according to Jaines A. Poole, co-owner of the Ottawa store with the late Albert M. Gallatin. "One reason for this sale," said Mr.

Poole, to allow me to concentrate my efforts on the Emporia business." Mr. Poole and Mr. Gallatin were owners of the Ottawa store since 1933. Mr. Gallatin served as manager until his recen', death.

The new owners bought the entire stock of merchandise and will take over the lease on the building. They operate other stores at Port Scott, lola, Carthage, and Nevada, Mo. England in Tribute On the foreign front he He is backing to the hut the delegation to the, San united Nations confer- American Francisco ence. He does not expect to attend the conference but will welcome delegates to the opening session by radio. He expects to see Foreign Commissar Molotov of Russia before the latter goes on to the San Francisco meeting.

On-the domestic front he He supports wholeheartedly President Roosevelt's program, of international monetary agreements as included in the Bretton Woods pact. He has always been for the recip- rocal trade agreements program and backs it as it was submitted recently to Congress. He intends to let the curfew and Brownout stand, at least until V-E He iocs not plan to lift, the ban ion horse racing. With 347 newsmen and women packed tightly around his desk, Mr. Truman made his announcements and answered questions while standing.

Reads Conference Rules Dressed in a dark blue suit, blue tie. the President began by reading the rules under which his news conference will operate. They were subsequently the same as those under which Mr, Roosevelt worked. (The basic rule is that the President may not be quoted directly without his expressed permission or when his statements are in Then the President read a letter from Mrs. Roosevelt asking him to express for the Roosevelt family 9 their appreciation for the "outpouring of affection" received after her husband's death.

Surrounded by his aides, who included Fleet Adm. William D. Leahy, chief of staff to the President, Mr. Truman said he wished to make his position clear on some important subjects. He plunged at once into and Queen of Britain and a Prime Minister who wept for an old friend joined American service men and women today in a 40- minute tribute to President Roosevelt in battle-scarred St.

Paul's cathedral. Princess Elizabeth, heir presumptive to the throne, accompanied King George and Queen Elizabeth. With Prime Minister Churchill, who proudly called himself "President Roosevelt's lieutenant," was his daughter, Sarah. The high and the humble were in the gathering of 2,200 which filled the Cathedral. Other thousands stood in the streets in the warm spring sunshine.

They waited outside during the ceremony, and watched the dignitaries file from the church as St. Paul's bells tolled the Requiem. Cities Struggle Against Kansas Flood Waters North Wichita and Ottawa Fight Swollen Rivers; Dry Skies Until Saturday By The Associated Press Ottawa struggled under its third greatest flood in history and North Wichita floods were termed worse than last year 5 Weatherman S. D. Flora today promised dry skies until Saturday.

The Marais Des Cygnes river reached a height of 36.2 feet at Ottawa at 11 o'clock last night, just .3 of a foot under the April, 1944 high. But this morning it had dropped to 35.2 and was continuing to fall. Gov, Andrew Schoeppel called out the state guard to help cope with the emergency and extra deputies were put to work sandbagging the Ottawa power plant Mayor E. V. Gibson said.

A truck load of blankets was dispatched to Ottawa by Red Cross units at Kansas City to aid in caring for the refugees from 70 square blocks under water. Meanwhile the Little Arkansas crested at 17.6 feet last night at North Wichita, .1 a foot over last year's high. This morning it stood at 16.7 feet at Ripley station and was falling slowly. Red Cross officials termed the flood "much worse than last year" At Sedgwick, 20 miles north, the Little Arkansas stood at 22.8 feet and was falling slowly. Flood stage there is 16 feet.

Care for 200 Refugees More than 200 refugees were cared for at Red Cross shelters in Wichita last night after the city Good Evening Emporians has-e been isolated by the flood, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they are isolationists. ocSoclc today 56 rtpgrew Minimum night 40 Maximum Minimum Monday 56 degrees year ago 35 Maximum year ago 45 degrees Cottonwood stage- 26 5 if tt river 23 a ieel Pvf. Frank Riondy Dies from Wounds Pvt. Frank Riondy, of the Third division of the U. S.

Marine corps, died March 5 from wounds received March 4 on Iwo Jima, according to a War department message received this morning by his mother, Mrs. C. A. Riondy, 1231 Exchange. Private Riondy.

who would have been 19 years old April 18, was born in Eureka. Ho attended Roosevelt Junior and High schools, transferring his senior year to Emporia Senior High school from which he was graduated last May. He was a Gazette printer before enlisting in the Marine corps in July. He was trained at Paris Island. Camp Lejeune, N.

and Camp Pendle- rante by the City commission to ton, and went overseas No- the Kansas Electric Power company vember 1. He was in the Marianas effective Wednesday, until the Iwo Jima campaign He ednesdft Is the expiration date of is survived by his mother and his I I old fra lchise which was granted BEAT BACK ATTACK TODAY'S FORECAST with change In temperature; low tonight 2b-JO extreme west, to iiiiper 30's east; Wednesday narily cloudy, llitle change In temperatura. Americans Blunt German Thrust New Gas Franchise Effective Wednesday The new 10-year gas franchise sister. Mrs. R.

M. Scovel. both of whom live at 1231 Exchange. Mrs. Scovel, who has been visiting in Oklahoma, has not bee able to return to Emporia because of the high water.

by a vote of the people 10 years ago. The Power company today presented an agreement, a formality of official acceptance, of the ordinance as published. The acceptance was presented to the commission by Leon Peterson, Power company district superintendent and C. V. Beck attorney.

The Power company had 60 days from March 23 to file the acceptance. The action today results 1S Payment of the 1'i son, Sergeant Kenneth Simmons, is fJf cent franchise tax on sales missing in action over Austria. He Em of is a turret gunner on a B-24 bomber, and had been stationed in Itaiy. He had only been overseas about' two months. Sergeant Simmons was graduated from the Bushong Rural High school in 1941.

Missing in Action SpecliU to The QnzeUe: Bushong, April 17 Verda Speece has received Patton's Army Takes Plauen; Allies Hold Over Half of Reich; Crack Leipzig Defenses HULLETIN 1 THE WAR TODAY Lust-Ditch Stand Is Madness Ity DeU'ilt Macki-rule Absocliitej SVar Analyst The madness of Hitler's Inst-ditch stand, in which he deliberately sacrificing his fatherland in de- spuiritiK effort to save his own life, is one of the amazing pages of history. Having become somewhat accustomed to the upheavals his ab- in Emporia. Mail Campaign for Cancer Control Fund Solicitation for S120O Quote -Will Be Made By Committee This Week In an attempt to collect $1,200 from Lyon countians for use in the nation-wide educational and research program proposed by the American society of Cancer Control, hundreds of solicitations will be mailed out over the county by executive committee members the end I of this week. Those solicited will The 29th street bridge was toda The Cottonwood river at be asked to mail their contributions Lyon County Floods Are Receding Today and sheriff's office evacuated many Cottonwood at 27.4 Had Approached All Time High; K99 Open North The flood along Lyon county val- was reccQing at a snail's commander of Chemnitz rejected an ultimatum to surrender today. The 90th and 26th infantry dt- rlsions advanced on a 15-mile front alonjf the Czerho.slov.ik border and the division rr.ichrcl a point only 4 miles from the frontier.

The Paris, April 17 (A. Germans launched i i toda Fighter Pilots Knock Out 1,116 German Planes Half of Estimated Reserve Nax5 Air Strength Destroyed; Bombers Out Again London. Apnl 17 proximatt'ly i.OOO American normal mind, cine isn't surprised nt Third Army. April 17 I'he violence of the perhaps to his troops to haiiR on at ail costs in face of the heavy bombors ripped Gorman Kmit new Russian offensive. runs true to type In reviving his role of Frankenstein nncl bringing out whut he often luis described as the Bolshevist on a fearsome which he fabricated kntf ago to terrify the German public.

Thc Fuehrer declares that the "Jewish-Bolshevist arch enemy" ie out our people." lie "while old men and it. lr vln to the that Ninth army's Elbe bridge- chll(ircn Iire bcitl murdered, head pointing to Berlin, but the Americans beat off the railways at Orosdon and alonp the Czechoslovakia frontier to the south today the washed out and three schools in Em ri a reached a crest of 27.4 flooded areas were closed today. feefc above normal during Monday The crest passed from the Little 'Eht and had receded less than on? in enclosed addressed envelopes. Names of contributors and amounts of contributions will be published Arkansas into thft Big Arkansas I at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, by The Gazette. The Girl Scouts Truman Nominates Patton and Hodges To Be Full Generals Washington, April 17 President Truman today appointed John W.

Snyder of St. Louis, to be federal loan administrator. Now vice president of the First National bank of St. Louis. Snyder has been a warm persoral friend of the President for more than 25 years.

He succeeds Fred M. Vinson. who was made director of War mobilization and reconversion after James F. Byrnes gave up that post. Snyder has been in the banking business since serving in the first World War.

He has been vice president of the St. Louis Bank since January 1 1943. Snyder was borr. at Jonesboro. June 21, 1896 and attended Vanderbilt university.

He served as a captain in the field artillery in World War 1. cussion of the Bretton Woods international monetary agreements, which he said he would have ported if he had stayed in the Senate. The President said he would have helped all he could as vice president to get this legislation through the Senate. He was for it all the way. Mr.

Truman said with a smile. When 9a. reporter asked whether his endorsement includes the international bank fund which is under fire by some Republicans in Congress, the President replied he was f-jr the whole program. Favprs Reciprocal Trade 9 Asked about legislation to extend the reciprocal agreement program, Mr. Truman said he had always been for that program.

His votes in Congress, he added, would show that. The President declined, however, to express an opinion on repeal of the Johnson act which bans loans bj private American citizens to defaulting foreign governments. Questioned specifically about pub- power projects. Mr. Truman plied that he favored such proposals where the necessity shown.

In this connection, the President WALTER E. WILSON, dis STATE TREASURER, DIES Topeka, April 17 E. Wilson, 63, Kansas state treasurer since 1938. died at Stormont hospital shortly after 1 o'clock today. He suffered at attack of cerebral thrombosis on April 8 and the illness was complicated with pneumonia a few days later.

A Republican, Wilson formerly was a state senator and state bank commissioner. SCHLAGLE TO REPRESENT TEACHING PROFESSION Topeka, April 17 L. Schlagle, Kansas City. president of the National Education association, has been asked by Secretary of State Siettinius to attend the United Nations conference at San Francisco this month as a representative of about 9 a. m.

After flooding North Wichita, including the stock yards industrial area where sandbags were washed out. The Riverside residential area also was inundated. Lowlands along the Big Arkansas were flooded between Oxford and Wichita about 30 miles south, and the stream was rising slowly. The Big Arkansas was 1.3 feet over flood stage at Wichita. At Chanute the Neosho was five The Neosho which crested at 26.3 are assisting the committee in the feet Monday afternoon was down to distribution of information and 23.8 feet by mid-afternoon today.

The complete highway travel isolation of Emporia was broken early today by the opening of Highway 99 north of Emporia. although some water still was on the pavement. Santa Fe railroad and bus travel, although still curtailed and feet abov bankful and was rising an routed was resumed today after inch an hour. Near Parsons it was near com lete suspension Monday, rising but more slowly than Mon- Ncar AU TLme Hi day. The river there was still about 1 The Cottonwood river at the a foot above flood stage and three i Soden early today lacked of the Katy railroads six divisions i onl -3-foot of reaching its.

rUL- men and girls reduced with the mail campaign. Mrs. Lucille Davis, of Hartford, Mrs. Verner Hurt, Mrs. C.

E. Part- ridge and Elmer Sledhoff. committee members, in commenting on the (Continued on page two) attack without losin.tr ground. To the south, the Third nrmy captured the btR Snxnny rail center of Plauen. in effect bisecting Germany, and beat down the last six miles to the Czechoslovak border.

More than half of Germany wns conquered. 101.000 square miles im- I der Allied and Russian banners ami 84,000 miles remaining to the Geriiiiuis. The First nrmy cracked the defenses of Leipzig and fought within sight of the city and also linked up with the Ninth army at Bern- 12 miles southeast of Barby. where the Elbe bridgehead Is be Inn strengthened. 30 Miles of Hamburg- British armor drove to within 30 remainder led away to Siberia Drown the Bolshevist assault in a blood bath." Conscience of a That would be a strange document to come from anyone but Hitler.

Tliis man, who has no more conscience than coyote, raves iCuntluuril on -IRKS six) morning. the ord heights at out of Parsons were blocked by high (peak of 27.70 last" April 23. er Spectators of both floods saw little Crest Nears Independence difference in the wide expanse of Rising at the rate of four inches an hour at Independence, the the Fall river and indicating independence might have a record flood by Wednesday. At Coffeyville the Verdigris.stood at 21 feet and was rising slowly. Flood threats from the Kaw river The Neosho river at Neosho lapids crested during the fell six inches today.

Because of the early season, and advance warning of the flood, farm- City to Sell Remaining Municipal Airport Bonds Sum of $125,000 Will Be Used to Construct Concrete Runway The City commissioners today adopted a resolution to issue and. offer for sale the remaining $125,000 oils losses and destroying" to" of Municipal airport bonds for i of thc tanks. miles of Hamburg and 15 of tho lower Elbe against resistance de- teriora tine; so rapidly that "a quick breakthrough to the river on broad front can soon be expected," AP Correspondent Robert Wilson reported. The British also besieged Bremen. The Germans attacked Lt.

Gen. William H. Simpson's five-mile deep Elbe bridpehead in the Barby sector 52 miles southwest of Berlin with 2.000 infantrymen and 30 tanks. The Second armored and I 83rd infantry division beat back the from Berlin and Russians Tear Open Sectors Of Oder Front Other Forces Launch Offensive to Link Up with American Third Army Troops IMiLLKTIN London, Ajirl! 17 spfurheads have cist the Serinw- Alt-Kricdlaml mail less than 20 miles from HerJin, and prnetrattd the deeply-staggered defenses beyond. lerman broadcast declared tonight the Eastern seri- further development of the airport, five mile.

1 south of Emporin. The on the recom- of the airport adv'isory ers have expressed less anxiety over i CT nm nic Patriot Judge it than about many previous hoods. The streams rose slowly to permit removal of livestcok and other per- were dwindling today as it began sonal Possessions from the lowlands, receding all the way downstream to Lawrenre. At Tcpeka it reached a peak of 24.6 feet, 4.6 feet above flood stage and almost as high as April 1944. But Flora recalled that it was a long way from the 32.7 foot record of 1903.

Present stage at Lawrence was 22.4 feet and standing still. It was 4.4 feet above flood stage there but a foot less than in 1944. While tribuatries of the Kaw still were flooding, they were reeding slowly. The Blue was falling above Randolph where it was 2.4 feet above bankful at 24.4. N'o Flood at Sauna Flooding between Abilene and Junction City, the Smoky Hill river was falling btu it rising at Salina where it reached 19.3 feet, just .7 of a foot under flood stage.

Flora said a flood at Salina was doubtful. The Solomon and Republican were back within their banks Wichita's 50 was the highest state temperature reported to the weather bureau Monday and Goodland's 25 was the lowest last night. Today's highs were expected to range from 55 in the northwest to 65 in the southeast and tonight lows from 25 in the northwest to 46 in the southeast were forecast. Little spring field work had been done on the river bottoms. Wheat, alfalfa and a little oats are the growing crops affected.

Wheat and alfalfa are expected to escape serious damage if the flood disappears soon. Erosion -was increased Mon- ay Sullivan is chairman. Was Voted The voters three years ago thorizcd the Issuance of $250,000 in airport bonds, half of which was easit of The Ninth army foucht one the hardest battles of the war on the flat Brandenburg plain iivc miles east of the Elbe, within 45 to 52 miles of the beleaguered capital. The First army moved into the Berlin siege arc in the Dessau urea 52 miles southwest of the capital. The Russians were reported 23 miles Issued and lias been spent for the site, two new buildings, a 700-foot concrete approach apron, surveying and conditioning of the grass alr strlps.

The proposed additional develop- day by the lashing of waves during ment oi the air rt includes a con- 4 CFPi.f* imt'n TVI the high wind. Badsrer Creek Bridge Damaged Road and culvert-conditions, already bad. will be further depreciated by the flood. A washout damaged the Badger Creek bridge seven miles east of Emporia and a guard feet runway approximately 3,300 long and 100 feet wide, and extensive grading and drainage work for other landing strips. To Meet CAA Officials A meeting with Kansas City CAA officials with thc airport commit- was stationed to direct one-line tee and thc commission is scheduled President Truman Three Great Loves Influence and Guide the Life of President Truman traffic over the bridge before Highway 50S was closed.

Only Highway 93 north of Emporia had been opcnerl to traffic this afternoon. Recession of thc Neosho may permit the opening of Highway 50S east of Emporia this evening. The overflow and backwater from the Cottonwood still blocks Highway 505 west of Emporia and Highway 99 south of the Soden bridge. Fish from the swollen rivers have soon to present a division of the airport master plan for which the Encircle Leipzig London. April 17 Tho Russians hav dostruction of the Luftwaffe was continued by fighter pi- ilots knocked out a total of 1,116 planes Monday.

Revised total showed that rturtnp; the first 16 days of April. 3.699 German planes were de.stroyed. of which 485 were shot, down In air combat. Allied losses for the same period totaled 485 plants. Enemy plane losses represent about half of UK; estimated reserve str'MiKlh of the Gorman the of the Rhine crossing.

Air force officials worked all night checking and rechecking the record smashing claims turned in by fighter by pilots of the U. S. Eighth air force. AU claims wore verified by combat films. (Cameras on fighter pianos are synchronized to the guns.i "The Luftwaffe has been knocked out," said one placed official who cannot he identified by name.

Nil Fuel for Aircraft Months of of or inn oil hud had effect. The German nir forco hart ample In nt thc crucial moment there, was no fuel to get them into air. There was no letup in the heavy bombing campaign which Carl A. Spnalz, commander of U. S.

strategic air forces in Europe, declared last night had switched from strategic to a purely tactical in support, of the ground forces. As he was Issuing nn order of thp dny to Ampr airmen savins: id open that the strntuRlc air U)iU the strategic air war had the front British heavy bmnbrrs wore east of Berlin and Marshal winging to and to Ivan Konov's First Ukrainian S0lltnern whrro thov at- ar my has launcher! another i 1 1 Gonnnn bottionpriw powerful offensive across in to link One British forre rnrtdo 1.400- witl) the U. S. Third army. round trip from England and the Gorman command tta kcd ht announced today.

Russian riving through tho 30,000 Nazi troops there were fighting skillfully and resolutely, subjecting the million civilians in die city to the tortures of Stalingrad. said Leipzig was com- plMely encircled.) Gen. Omar Eradley's headquarters estimated that the Allies in the west hart 63.000 square overrun miles and that the Russians had occupied 38.000— total of 101.000 Marshal Stalin announced tonight in un order of tho day. An afternoon German broadcast, declared Russian tanks were in action "east of EberswiUde." only 20 I milts northeast of Berlin on thc mnin highway and railroad to Stct- tin. Earlier the Germans said Soviet Another hit Srhwanrlorf.

one one rf the main linr.s from Munich to rhc Danube and ihe Austrian frontier. Hamper Nazi Effort Thc east aiu! west fronts now are so close toRcth'-r in that blocking of rail lines there will verejy hamper German on both The nt where several lines meet, carry arms from the Skoda work.s direct to both airborne troops had hmdcd loss than IA LI i i i square r.nles of Germany. This left I 23 ro th Rcld 1 capi the Nazis only about square miles of the fcstunt; The pace of General Eisenhower's definitely slowed 6 lor been exploring new territory, flood port development are more apt a new bond issue has been author- partly because of stretched ized by the commission. CAA engineers have surveyed thc airport and have expressed a keen interest in it. Further development will provide an all-weather runway to secure greater participation of the federal air agencies in the ultimate completion of the field.

Postwar Congressional appropriations for air- to re- spectators report. A large buffalo fish stranded on the pavement west of town was: picked up by an Em- porian to save meat points, it is reported. Weatherman Harry Bishop wear- During nipht RAF bombed Berlin, dropping 1 nnri Munich. Trsmsoci'sm said a clean brr-ak-I hcrp for the through by the Russians toward! 0 Grrmnnv been re- Berlin hud been prevented. Portrd frmporariiy "At some points the front was; A JJriti 'h air mini-try torn open, but pr.int.-i f)llr ilv of" stout wcrr ialrd oif nlld ni i'LT.

Jthp German resistant in hcslcRcd i wcrc narrowed." the propaganda fkhtrr aponcy number of onomy nirii'-'c The Gcrtnas) command im- Eighth Ton posed a security silence cm nnminff Rr in Mnivlrr-- 1 phicrs or details on nerlin; I hunt with front, the Indicating p'-ajoa ihe situation was con.sldcrcd crui- he nfi r.hr>'e westward accordinK German accounts, i Attack on Front For all practicnl purposes, the i The German comrnuriique salrt capture of PliiUL-n severed Germany i was nttr.cktnK alone a 33- because it cut sonic of the last mi In front frosn ForsL to Rothrn- rcniainins; rail and rond 7'hc burg, near tr.e Saxony border. authcptic sourco Nazis, however. r.UM have routes Saying sortinns of the Berlin cigiit henvv 34 I throuRh Plauen. a front had Jven rlptwrd open, thc wcrp nrvunr Further announcements on thc city of 110.342. had a large tank i German command declared include funds earmarked for Emporia if the city provides a surfaced runway, It is reported by an cities such as Leipzig, Uremcn.

Chemnitz, Magdeburg. Halle and Dessau. The Third nrmy. which occupied captured Plam-n. was about 7.S miles from Russian lines, a front moving were chopped on In the 7 arras of hern Prasruo ir.

The ii By Gecrge K. Wallace Independence. April 17 endorsed a pending proposition in Congress for. establishment ot Valley Authority. He advised a.

reporter to read a speech he made in New Orleans on ihe subject. He did not comment, when Three great loves have influenced and guided President Truman's life since before the turn of the century for family and friends, lor military life and for and the military influence was as strong 20 years in the middle pan, of his life as politics have been later. asked, about the St. Lawrence PI way project. Whtn asked about proposals for Ja fair employment practices commission, poll taxes and other question? of special Interest to Negroes, i today Mr.

Truman replied that all report- Chief ers needed to do to find out his views was to read the Senate record of Harry S. Truman. No Cabinet Changes The President reiterated that he triedTit on" It fitted plans for changing the per- always had. and Truman observing job at his static which had water in and all round it since earJy Monday. The Cottonwood river was over one mile wide (at the south end of Exchange 1 street.

Weatherman Bishop guessed this afternoon that the Cottonwood will not return to its banks before Thursday. The Neosho is expected madp ater fall on its upper watershed. in' government spending always had been his pet theory, and 15 years earlier he had nearly worn out Kansas City luncheon clubs expounding this theory at any and all opportunity. Remembering: some of the ex- Santa Fe Train posures of graft that followed the first conflict. Truman said: "It doesrft do any good digging Rescue Three Emporia Women Marooned 45 Hours Near Florence Mrs.

Miles Morfitt. Mrs. Gail McCoy and Mrs. Vincent Stever. of Emporia.

were rescued at embroidery industries. and i were "clor.ed ngnm in licrcc cnun- tru-y carried nr.ri 1 ijritrrs Eulogizes Roosevelt as Greatest American Friend England Ever Had Ixjndon. April 17 In deeply 11:30 emotional terms. Primp Minister 4is CJtJJijCLeQ I i Ltiur to recede faster because of less rain- A morning after Churr.hill today Franklin 45 hours in Mrs. Mortitfs Chevrolet car on a flooded road a few miles Collides with Freight Topeka.

April 17 B. Good- D. Roosevelt "the vreateit American friend have ever known, rind man, a fireman, was killed and at President Truman, if ho had had Harry S. iruman will start this country on the road tn finrilriK words for almost any that this time, words fnilt-tJ him In trying to convey his for Roowvr-U. School Reorganization Group to Receive Pay Statute Allows Up S30O Year or Committee Members Thf it tried to unpreparedness after the war was detouring or.

Rock Is- i escape Hood waters lno car erLSL of Florence. Thc three younsj the greatest champion of freedom women who had been, in Florence who has ever brought help about a week operating the Rain- i comfort from rhe world to the bow Inn. recently purchased by old." Mrs. Morfitt. became alarmed Sun- I HLs death, tho British day afternoon at the report of ap- I Premier was a "bitter 5oss to humanity." but com- inR on thr of victory, it "an enviable death i nt In Alf r.a:^ St.

Paul's Cathedral bv the Kir.g and Queen. Churchill had hc.ik burst info jpary said he had noiicrd Yalta Truman sponsored a resolution to in southern Kansas. on sonnel o. tne Roosc-ver, cabinet and valiantly to enter again the service set up a committee to check on wa? added vna, he am not plan to oring he had activelv and expenditures. The Senate approved Jnrr.e.i r.

Byrnes bacr: into the gov- inactively for 36 VC-AI-S Knr but cut, thf gov Asked whether Byrnes, former War Mobilization Director, would go to San Francisco for the United Nations conference, Mr. Truman made it clear that he would not. he said, has gone back PO South Carolina: he will be sent for v.ht-n his advice TV for 36 years. But he was 56 years old. a senator in Washington, and not longer able physically to serve.

Became Watchdog ou cut the appropriation to $15.000 tiful flax stationery, nice selection of fine bond station- morning. boards but did not Ret in in which the women sat, food- until their rescue this that President Roosevrlt was Riling, and that when they parted ac andria. he "had nn ir.d^tir.ab'.c strcncrh I thai wrre on handed Truman the chairman- ry Didde oiflce Supply Print- ship because it was his idea. Truman took the routine committee chairmanship and bv hard 24 W. 6th Rejected.

Tniman decided that I lu it glad we Insured with Fred Scott Agency." Uil the next best thing he could do was Hi watch as closely as possible the gcremment expenditures in the war i Another car managed to get over of fear that his the Florence road this morning and w-ere on thc ebb." took the women and car to Florence. The women, who phoned back a-s soon as possible to Emporta relatives, were unharmed from their experience, they said, but wasted no time in getting to Mrs. Morfltfs and strength interest in military Newccmer-Rindom Agency. Real Phone camp Roberts. J.700 The British Premier divriosed' that the correspondence between 1 himself the late Presuient had comprised "more than 1.70o mes- sages." and Raid that be I Churchill spoke tlv m.in he has said in the he was gUd t.

Tri serve c.t a "5 The Prime Minuter preceded his ''-rw-r motion that thr esprr.ví Britain's to OP. rx-hali of the govern- MTN Alfred in Ratllc he ir. his soldtt-rs. on wiio Is in Pvt. Galle i.ne lirtriar.as, With dcoa of his off in hi.t qccu.storned vision and and com- With deep emoiicn Churchill, i end roiiHT Carty Book ing out their r.Tííc world" i rnvub'o WAS his" Men' ssij.

"He his I lro --A! -eh worst ol its on 4 adv. Hi Hi McN.