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Tomorrow's Weather Cloudy, Colder THE HUTCHINSON NEWS -HERALD KIMV-FM Tonight KU-Bradlcy basketball game, Kansas City, at 7:55 p. m. 78TH YEAR NO. 259 HUTCHINSON, KANSAS. MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1950 SINGLE 5c BURNED James and dog, Devil, survey fire damage at home at 121 West F.

Jessup Fires Return Blast At McCarthy Washington (AP) Ambassador Philip C. Jessup branded as utterly irresponsible" Monday charges from Sen. McCarthy (R- Wis) that he has an "affinity for Communist causes." He said they showed "a shocking disregard for John Knightly Motor said ths interests of our country." From the witness chair of a sen- ats investigating committee, the envoy-at-large read a statement (1) denying any Communist sympathies hitting and (2) back Man And Wife Escape Flames; Save Nothing A fire which started from a 6 Hutchinson Persons Hurt In Collision Six Hutchinson persons were in- dripping oil heater gutted thejj ur ed, our seriously, in a Sunday home of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard' James, 121 East at 3 a.

m. Monday. James, who is employed by the hard at McCarthy for making the charges in I particularly at a time when Jessup was abroad conferring with foreign ments. When govern' he con- Jpssup eluded, there was a sharp burst of applause from the 200 or he and his wife were asleep in the 2-room frame home when he was awakened by the heat. "When I woke up the stove was blazing," James said.

"I shook my wife and shoved her out of the house. Then I threw the oil tank out of the front door and ran. I was afraid the tank would explode." As James went out the door, Devil, his Cocker pup, went out, too. The dog's little house was charred with the rest the James' furniture. "I just thank God that we got out," James said.

"The fire department did everything it could, but the place was too far gone by the time they got here." more spectators crowded into the The couple escaped with only room. i their night clothes. Monday accident on US54 near Kingman in which a retired Garden City at farmer was killed. Peter Geier, 74, driver of one car, was killed in the headon crash; his wife suffered five fractured ribs and numerous cuts and bruises, and a son, Tony, 42, received fractures of the left arm, right heel and foot and a broken pelvis. Injured Hutchonians were: Lloyd King, 40, 621 East driver of'the other car, neck injuries and cuts; Albert Poorman, 40, Hutchinson, brain concussion, fractured ribs and leg, and a lung injury; Mrs.

Alaxlne W. Brown, 27, 621 East broken back; Ralph Weaver, 224 West brain concussion; Lottl lokua, 26, 621 East minor cuts and bruises: Mrs. Georgie Koontz, 50, 621 Baby-Sitter Raped, Slain In Columbia Columbia, Mo. (AP) Officers studied footprints and fingerprints Monday in an effort to trace the assailant who raped and strangled a 13-year-old baby-sitter. The body of brown-haired Janelt Christman, a high school student, was found early Sunday in a Columbia home where she was babysitting.

During the last six months, another baby-sitter was raped and a college student was the victim of an attempted rape in the same neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Romack found the body when they returned home. Their 3-yoar-old son, Gregory, with whom Miss Christman was baby sitting, still lay asleep.

He apparently had slept throughout the evening. Prosecuting Attorney Carl Sapp said blood was smeared through, the house, indicating the girl put up a terrific struggle. Footprints were found in a sleet- covered area near a broken window in the house. Police believe the intruder crawled through the window. The state highway patrol also Reds Block Evacuation J.S.

Vessels Jarred From Shanghai Port processing the scene. fingerprints tound The ambRssador-at-large lashed wearing an old shirt cuts and back at. McCarthy after speeding home from a survey mission to the Far East. He said that during his absence his integrity was attacked only by two sources. McCarthy and the Moscow official newspaper Izvestia.

Jessup added: "Anyone who believes in the concept of guilt by association might draw some startling conclusions- from this fact. However, I do not believe in the concept of guilt by association. "Moreover, I do believe that anyone who, without adequate proof, and a pair of scorched They had been his best pants, pants. Mrs. James was still in her nightgown.

Two fire trucks answered the call. The house, owned by Alphonso Harvey, was blazing fiercely when the trucks arrived. Firemen pulled James's car away from the house. It was not damaged. "All we had- in the world was All are in the Kingman Memor- hospital with the exception oi Mrs.

Koontz who was treated ant! released. She received additional treatment late Sunday at Grace hospital. The accident occurred at aboul 1:45 and p.m. King had pulled was going east out to pass a car, Sheriff Jim Ingram said, when his car collided with the westbound Geier car. Both cars in there," James said.

"We demolished. Geier died of all new furniture, stove was new." The James' have even the a broken neck and fractured skull. Miss lokua was scheduled to be levels a charge of conscious or ig-' ried three years been and were norant support of Communism at a member of the United States Benato or at any official of the United States irresponsible. "I have no evidence that Son. McCarthy was motivated by desire to assist the International Communist movement even though his words and actions have had that effect." The Weather Mostly cloudy this afternoon, occasional light smow northwest nnd north-central portions, partly cloudy tonight; light snow ending northwest portion early tonight; occasional light snowers or light snow east and south-central portions; warmer east and south portions this afternoon, becoming somewhat colder west and nortlicentral portions tonight; Tuesday partly cloudy, somewhat colder west and central portions; low tonight 15-20 northwest to 28-32 southeast portion; high Tuesday 35-40.

planning to hold an anniversary party next week. He said the only consolation was that he has $500 insurance, but "that won't cover it all." Fire is not new to James. A navy veteran, he was aboard the USS Enterprise, a carrier, when she caught fire. In 1946, his home in Hoisington was destroyed by fire. Italian Reds Strike, Riot Milan, Italy (AP) Thousands of Communist-led workers quit work suddenly Monday and packed Milan's main square in a protest demonstration against strict new government measures to keep order in Italy.

Union leaders in both Milan and Genoa were reported considering a general strike call as a further protest. Crowds of workers many carrying Red banners poured into This is the kind of a snow we the Milan square at mid-day, snar- SLAIN Janett rhrlstman, 13, Columbia, baby sitter, was brutally assaulted and then slain Saturday night. The baby was not molested. The girl's skull was crushed and an electric iron cord was twisted around her neck. She died of strangulation.

HOOD AY'S Palermo, II, Michael and Paul Yoculan, all of Eric, watch Lt. Francis J. Walsh and Sgt. Adam Fcrrajronio count 59,005 they had rg- maininff after bus and rail tour of western Pennsylvania. Neivs From Everywhere Chinese 6 Tong' War Feared In New York by The Ncws- Associitcfl Press An electric iron cord was twisted faces" around the girl's throat.

Her scalp I Chinatown had been pierced several times by immtnent an instrument, apparently similar to a small lead pipe. Police speculated on the possibility that the girl may have attempted to call police at the time of the incident. An excited girl or woman telephoned the police station at about 11 o'clock Saturday night, Policeman Roy McCowan, who took the call, said she was so excited ne (Compiled Herald from dispatches.) New York police Monday feared a new outbreak of "long" war fare in Chinatown. Police squads were slrength- jened after reports that a lot were showing up in When long wars an Slays Twin Sister; 'Would Do It Again Fresno, Calif. A 14-year-old girl, yielding to long smoulder ng hatred, calmly killed her sleeping twin sister Sunday.

Then, said Dan B. Eymann, assistant district attorney, Alice Richard "almost defiantly" told him: released late Monday. was still Condition unconscious of the rest like, 'cause it melts off the walk ling without any shovel help. Hutchinson Weather (By CAA at airport) Sundays' high 29 at 4:30 p.m. Monday's low 25 at 4:30 a.m.

At 2:30 p.m. 33. and falling slowly. 3 m.p.h. Relative percent.

since 12:30 p.m. Sunday. SMUMCir.M. AIRPORT TK.MI'ERATI'nKS (By CAA Communications Station) traffic and delaying street cars and busses. Large forces of police were on guard but took no action to disperse the crowd, which thinned out after a speech in the main square by Communist Sen.

Giuseppe Al- berganti. Many workers returned to their factories but did not resume work. Similar demonstrations took place in Bologna, Florence and Genoa. Yesterday: .1:30 p. rn.

4:30 5:30 8:30 0:30 10:30 11:30 Today: 12:30 a. m. 1:30 a. 28J 3:30 281 5:30 27' 7:30 26! 8:30 0:30 27! 1:30 26! 2:30 U. 8 weather observations tor 24 noun ending at 6:30 a.

m. Station Man. Mln. .02 57 31 3J 25 Chicago Denver Fort Worth 65 Havre Mont 44 Kansas City 31 28 Los Angeles 76 S3 Iflaml 7S 72 Minneapolis 30 23 New Orleans 73 IS New York 44 30 Oklahoma City 4n 23 Washington 45 29 .05 Inside Stuff Junior college teams pour in- ti Hutchinson. Page 2.

Suggestion made surplus crops instead of cash be given Europe. Page 3. Bay rum victim identified through FBI. Page 3. Drew Pearson says big business beginning an early drive on Truman socialism.

Page 4. Sheila John Daly says fickle girl owes suitor honest dealing. Page 6. Airport may get CAA tower. Page 7.

Wormy gets it in the neck. Page 11. scribed as satisfactory, serious. Five other major accidents and three minor ones resulted from slick roads in or near Hutchinson late Saturday and early Sunday. Two major accidents occurred late Saturday on the K17 Ninnescah river bridge.

A car driven by P. A. Gottschalk, 811 East 1 Fifth, went out of control on the icy bridge and overturned in the west ditch. John Holoubek, 830. East TSherman, and Lonnie Me- 1 Clelland, 725 East Sixth, were passengers in the car.

There were no injuries. The second bridge accident occurred a few minutes later when cars driven by Bob Robinson, Kingman, and Wilbur Ingram 3118 East Fourth, collided. In Hutchinson Francisco Juarez, Kinsley, and Vernoa Jones, 705 North Carey, collided at A and Main doing major damage to both cars. Another major accident was at Fifth and Severance when Charles Dumond 526 East Eighth, and George Hornbeck, 128 East Walter McClauskey, Ft. hit a slick spot at Fourth and Halstead early Sunday and his car slid into a switch engine which is shoving boxcars across Fourth.

Front end of his car was damaged. Minor accidents reported Sunday were: T. H. Christopher, 1708 North Main, and a McVay Taxi, at Fourth and Main; Virginia E. Garcia, 1630 East and Jesse Almanza, 404 Vi West at A and Poplar; Marvin Branson, 313 West and Robert W.

Reck, 223 East Fifth, at 206 North Main. Weaver couldn't understand her. Monday. was debut still "I urged her to calm down and just tell me where she was," McCowan ssaid. "Then there was silence not the sound of a receiver being hung up just silence." After discovery of the body, it was noted the telephone receiver had been improperly placed on the instrument.

The slaying was somewhat sim- to the rape-murder of Marylou Jenkins, Stephens college student, February, 1946. Miss Jenkins was killed in the living room ler parents' home. The house is near tho Romack home. An elec- cord was twisted around Miss Jenkins' throat. Floyd Cochrane, a Negro, was convicted of the Jenkins slaying and put to death in the state penitentiary gas chamber.

Miss Christman was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles The father is a cafe operator. The family formerly lived in Boonville, Mo. Jake Bradford, a Negro, is being held in county jail in the two other cases of rape and attempted Two Dodge Cilyans Die In Crash Near Cimarron Cimarron, automobile crashed into a bridge near here Sunday, killing two Dodge City, residents.

Ida Miller, 26, was killed instantly and Frank Peters, 28, died later in a Dodge City hospital. The highway patrol said the driver of the car, Vernon Pope 29, also of Dodge City, was not seriously injured. Washington (API The stats epartment jaid Monday the Chi- esc Communists have blocked lass evacuation of Americans and ther foreigners from China by ist-minlitfl refusal to lot two land- ig craft into Shanghai. American officials on tho acena ave been instructed to press for econsideration, an announcement aid. The landing craft which ferry tho foreigners from Shangai to tho American President General Gordon con ordered to remain at sea.

he Cordon was Instructed to stay Hong Kong, Nearly 2,000 foreigners including 10 Americans had planned eave probably Monday night in he first such general evacuation ince last fall. The United States ordered all American diplomats and consuls out of the country two months ago after the Communist uthorities at Pel ping seized Amer- can consular property there, Apparently the Communist authorities nt Shanghai had "unwarranted apprehensions" that the landing craft were not com- mcrcial vessels, the slate department said. It said they were strictly commercial craft, turned over to the American President Lines. The two vessels are LST (landing ship tanks) widely used during World War 2 in assaults on hostile beach- s. The 'I hated her.

I don't feel bad because my sister is dead, but I 'eel bad lor my folks. This'll hurt them. I'd kill Sally again if I had he chance." Sally Richard was killed by a 1 single .22 rifle slug into her brain as she lay sleeping about 3 a. m. She was one of the eight sons and -d Mrs.

Edgavd of the family KO Alice could use the phone. Alice screamed, "I'm going to kill you and I'm going to do it with a daughters of Mr. V. Richard. None heard the shot.

port west coast hatchetmen to the dirty work. An unnatura quiet was said to have settled ovei the village. The warfare was feared in the wake of a fight in which one laundry proprietor killed anothei laundryman. then committed suicide. Peace In Chinatown rests on good relations between the Hip Sing and the On Leong tongs and there were reports one of the slain men belonged to the Hip Sing clan while the other was an On Leong member.

The Chinese tongs are assocla- which combine many of the functions of insurance agencies, Diirial societies, social clubs, employment agencies and chambers of coinmerce. rape that occurred mack's neighborhood the Rothe last six months. He is awaiting trial. Super Bouquet Tyler, has offered Hutchinson a Texas rose garden for its new sports arena grounds. The offer came Monday from Chamber of Commerce.

The Texas rose center wants to give the city 100 or 200 rose bushes, "or whatever takes," for the beauty spot. Any rose bushes in the proposed garden that may need replacement during (he first five years would be exchanged by Tyler rose growers. The gift Is a "community project." The garden offer is "in appreciation of the friendly spirits shown in past relations between Hutchinson and Tyler." Tyler won the national Junior college basketball title here last year, beating Hutchinson in the finals. Eliminated in a regional meet this year, the Tyler Apaches were invited to replace an eastern entry which did not come. Eymann said a murder charge would be filed against Alice.

The Hilling was an apprw'eni. case of what psychologists call sibling rivalry rivalry between f- spring of the same parents said Sheriff J. W. Ripperdan. The twins were not identical.

Eymann quoted Alice." "I hated hnr because she was stupid and loud and always acting like a mil. I learned to halo her when were In the sixth nnd over since then this has built up. A quarrel Saturday evening over use of a telephone brought her an- agonism to a boil. A brother, Edgar, 16, held Sally Baseball notes: Oilman DicU Burnett is bringing an "all-star oldtirner" baseball team to Dallas, for an exhibition. Members will include Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Dizzy Dean, Charley Mickey Cochrane, Travis Jackson, Char ley Gehringer and Duffie Lewis.

They will form the starting lineup for the Dallas team in Its opening' game against Tulsa. Grimm is manager of the Dallas team and the oldllmer squad is Just another stunt to draw attendance And the Irrepressible Ray Dumont, another baseball stunt man has sent a letter to Joseph Stalin asking him to send two championship rugby teams to America. In return, Dumont, president of the National Baseball congress, would send a couple of baseball teams to Russia as a gesture of inter national goodwill. Death held tho winning hand In a card game at Santa Cruz, Sunday. Curl Sltzlcr, 71, and his cronies were playing cards.

It came Sitzlcr's lime to play. His friends looked at him expectantly. He didn't move. Tlieii the friends discovered he was dead of a heart attack. Syracuse university physicists revealed Suncay they were working 1 on a research, project aimed at locating enemy aircraft through heat radiated by the planes' engines.

The project ia backed by the airforce. Mrs, Frances Hayes, last surviving child of Rutherford B. Hayes, died Sunday night at 82. Mrs. Hayes once was married to a man named Smith but gun." Another brother, Robert, 13, hid the father's unloaded rifle under his bed.

But he later put it back in a closet. Sally hud a baby-sitting job al a neighbor's. Alice joined her at 11 p. m. The girls got homo about 2 a.

Sally went to sleep. Alice 1 a awake brooding. She arose, went through the darkened house, got the rifle, inserted a shot Sally. Then she telephoned the sheriff's office: "Como to 4721 Harvey avenue, there's been a murder." That awakened her mother, who grabbed the phone nnd said "don't be too hasty. She's having a nightmare." Alice led her mother to Sally's body.

The horrified mother called officers right back, crying: "It's true." last-minute refusal to let he evacuation proceed apparently ook the state department by sur- arise, although a number of can businessmen at Shanghai have been denied exit permits. These necessary permits, however, have been granted to many American officials and others. Included among those desiring to leave avo many invalids, department said. Ships Leave Strife Area Saigon, Vietnam, Indochina (AP) Two U. S.

destroyers the target of Communist-led riots that tilled three persons and wounded at least 30 others left here on schedule Monday. Sunday 8,000 students and 1,000 workmen, waving the gold-starred flag of Moscow-trained Ho I Minn's rebels, began a march toward the harbor to protest Amerl- 5an backing of the Vietnam government. 'Rioting flared for four hours and before French police dispersed the shouting mob it had burned part of the block-square central market, set the torch to 15 buses and trucks, nnd ripped down French and American banners raised in lionor of the destroyers' visit. The destroyers Stickell and Anderson had been sent here as a gesture of American support for the French-sponsored government of former Emporor Bao Dal. But cries of "Down with American aid," "Down with Bao Dai, and "Long live Ho Chi Mlnh" were hoard from the rioters.

TWIN TRAGEDY Alice Richard, 14, left, is held for the fatal shooting of her twin sister, Sally, in Fresno, Calif. divorced him maiden name, home in Lewiston, Me, and resumed her Death came at her Order Halts Rail Strike Key West, Fla. (AP) President Trumun signed an executive order here Monday heading off a strike scheduled for Tuesday on 12 western railroads. The president's order set up an emergency board to inquire into a dispute between the carriers and the switchman's union of North America. The order automatically postpones the strike for 60 days.

Per- Honnel of the board is to be named later. The railroads are the Chicago Great Western, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, Davenport, Rock Island and North Western; Denver and Rio Grande, Minneapolis St. Louis, Great Northern, Northern Pacific Terminal of Oregon, Salt Lake City Union Depot and Railroad Company, St. Paul Union Depot Company, Sioux City Terminal Railway company, Western Pacific Railroad company and Railway Transfer company- City of Minneapolis. Anti-Leopold Group Strikes Brussels, Belgium (AP) Bel Truman Still Backing Acheson 100 Percent Key West, Fla.

(API Presl- dnt Truman backed up Secretary of State Achcson 100 percent Monday and let it be known that any rumors he might be replaced completely without foundation." Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross told reporters have reached the president that the visit here of Chief Justice son may have some connection with a changn in tho office of gians oppoBcd to tho return ofj £ol tnc presldonli Ros tfi. 1 TTT Vi f.frn VfMlVtrl King Leopold III began a round sal(J of work stoppages Monday, call- out 30,000 men to underscore determined Socialist opposition to the pro-Leopold forces. Tramway and foundry workers walked off the job in widely scattered parts of tho country, but the hardest hit city wan A where 128 ships were Immobilized. The entire port administrative staff, including 126 pilots, joined with 11,000 dock and shipyard workers in a 21-hour strike.

The main sea lock of the port was blocked by the Norwegian vessel Trondager. She ar rived when the strike started. Lock operators said they won't release her until tho strike ends TUBS day morning. 'Those rumors are completely without foundation. No change in the head of tho state department contemplated.

All to the contrary are complete fabcU The president has com. plete confidence In the secretary of state and believes he is running tho department admirably." Intercepted Letter Prescription Service. FraeM Drug. DEAN ACHESON Secretary Of State Washington, C. Dear Dean: Maybe the Shanghai think those LSTs will toe crammed with, U.

S. maybe it wouldn't be idea that. Yours, tlulch.