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Carroll Daily Times Herald Vol. No. 269 Can-oil, Iowa, Wednesday, Novcmhor Id, -Ten Pages Dell vwed by Carrier Boy to Uw Each Evening for 21V Pentu W'ffi Okay Loans For Housing 4 Truman Opens Program; 108 Cities Included Approves $20,375,400 Fund for Planning 135,500 Low-Rent Homes WASHINGTON, D. C. President Truman today launched the public housing program by approving loans totaling $20,375,400 to 108 cities for the planning of low-rent IIOITICH for a half-million persona.

The loans will finance the surveys and planning for 500 dwellings in 17 states, Puerto Kieo, and Washington, D. C. Mr. Truman's action was announced by John Taylor Egan, commissioner of the public housing administration, Egan said loan contracts will be signed as rapidly as possible with the local housing authorities. The loans, the first to be made under the long-range housing act approved this summer, are preliminary construction.

The housing developments launched today are to be undertaken within the next two years. Soles Tax Collections Show a Slight Decline DES MOINES, IA. Sales tax collections for the first nine months of this year fall only slightly below those for the same period a year ago, tax commission officials report. They estimate collections for the first three quarters of this year at $34, 800,000. This compares with for the same nine months of 1948.

The 1949 collections reflect $1,740,000,000 in retail business. For the same period in 1948, collections reflect $1,762,000,000 in over-the- counter business. (JKKAT I'ROFILEtt Heir to one of I he great names, and profiles, in American theatrical history is John Barryniore, right. Young John makes his screen debut in a film soon to be released. At left Is the world- famed profile of his father, the late John Barrymore.

U.S. Protests Chinese Fire WASHINGTON, D. C. United States is protesting to the Chinese Nationalist government against a Chinese warship's firing on an American merchant vessel. Secretary of State Acheson told a news conference today that an immediate protest is being made against this endangering of American lives.

Acheson also declared that Chinese communist treatment of American Consul-Gcneral Angus Ward at Mukden presently removes any possibility of considering recognition of the Chinese communist government. He said some progress is being made in efforts to obtain the release of two ECA officials held by the communist regime in northern wKorea. A Russia in response to an Ameri- request is taking up the matter with the Korean communist authorities, Acheson said. Bciby-Sitter, Father Tough Time BERKELEY, CALIF. (JP) -Nine-year-old Eric Weill told his mother a ghastly tale of what "the baby sitter and her father did to me." His bedshect was smeared with blood.

One of his teeth was gone. Mrs. Mercedes Weill, naturally, demanded police action. Patrolman Kenneth Dunham investigated and reported: The sitter, Donna Glancoll. 10, took the, boy home to her parents after Eric locked her out of the house threw her HchoolhoolcH out of an upstairs window turned off the lights with the master switch Kicked the sitter In the shins and "in general acted like a brat." Charles Giancoli, the sitter's father, finally threatened the youngster with a cold shower.

That did no good, so he washed out the boy 's mouth with soap. Confronted with this testimony, Eric admitted all. The tooth had. been loose and he himself had pulled it out. "I am of the opinion," opined Officer Dunham, "that the boy was not mistreated in any way.

If anyone was mistreated, it was the baby sitter and her father." 4 Deaths Ruled Accidental By Coroner's Juries Inquests Held Here to Determine Cause of Glidden Crash Tragedy A car-train crash at Glldden Sunday night in which four Coon Rapids young people lost their lives has been ruled "accidental." Corner's juries made the decision at inquests held here yesterday afternoon. The inquests, called by Dr. J. Lawrence Cochran, Carroll county coroner, were started at Glidden about 2 a. m.

Monday and continued until yesterday afternoon. Killed when the car in which they were riding was struck by the City of Denver streamliner were three members of one family, Nadine, Ed and Wayne Smith, and Eugene Dorpinghaus. Funeral services for the Dorpinghaus youth were conducted this morning. Services for the Smiths will be Thursday afternoon. Marland Rohrbeck and Elva Carsten, both of Glidden, were called to testify at the inquests yesterday.

They saw the accident, having stopped for a stop sign a short distance from the crossing. They testified that the 1939 Chevrolet, apparently driven by Wayne Smith, was traveling at a speed of 20-25 miles per hour, Sheriff Al Thorup said. The Smith car neither speeded up nor slowed down as it neared the crossing, the witnesses testified. The two witnesses said the flasher-type warning lights were working, and that they heard both the warning bell at the crossing and the train whistle. The speed of the streamliner that has no scheduled stops between Boone and Omaha was 80 miles per hour, trainmen testified.

The train carried the wreck- age six-tenths of a mile. ON TB BROADCAST Three Carroll high school students will present educational radio talks on the fight against tuberculosis over Station WOI at Ames from 3 to 3:15 p. m. next Tuesday. Doris Kruse will speak on "Health Education Is Vital to Tuberculosis Duanc Bushman, on "The Value of the Chest and Jane Smith, "Christmas Seal Funds Promote Good Health." The broadcast is part of the 1.6th annual high school radio speaking program sponsored by the Iowa Tuberculosis and Health association.

Cold Front Moving Into State; Some Snow Falls DES MOINES, IA. cold front was moving into Iowa today, bringing with it strong winds and snow which made the ground white at some points in northeastern Iowa. Mason City reported near- QUICKIES By Reynolds "Can I borrow It for a I want to answer some Times Herald Want Ads!" ly a quarter of an inch of snow was on the ground for a time this morning but it melted rapidly. Dubuque was having a brisk shower at midmorning. Cedar Rapids, Charles City and Waterloo were among points where snow fell.

Thirty-mlles-an-hour northwest winds with gusts ranging up to more than 40 miles an hour were reported at Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Mason City and Burlington this morning. The weather Bureau said the temperature wouldn't get above 45 degrees In Iowa tonight and that the mercury generally would be in the 20's in the state tonight. Last night's Iowa low was 26 at Mason City and Waterloo. Yesterday's state high was 50 at Council Bluffs. 4 Counties Represented At Ag Meet A district leaders' meeting on! tarm and home outlook was in sea- sion at the Chamber of Commerce rooms here today.

In charge of the meeting were Carl Malone, farm economist; Miss Naomi Shank, home management specialist; and William Zmolek, livestock marketing specialist, all of Iowa State college. The meeting was attended mainly by leaders directly connected with farm programs, such as the extension service, Production Marketing administration, vocational agriculture instructors and Farm Bureau representatives. Representatives were present from Carroll, Audubon, Greene and Shelby counties. Larson Rulings Awaited on Two Money Matters $2,500,000 Ag Land Tax Credit, $3,000,000 Bus Funds Involved DES MO IN I A. I.

')') Two matters of finance involving millions of dollars are before Attorney-General Robert L. Larson for decision. One question involves distribution of $2 ,500,000 In agricultural land (ax credit funds. The oilier concerns allocations of S3, 000,000 in state reimbursement of schools for the bus costs. The state auditor's office has asked for a ruling on who shall get the first allocations from the tax credit fund.

The fund has been built up to $11,500,000 sine its beginning in 1945. However, no money has been paid out because the act creating the fund has been in litigation almost since the beginning until just recently. The tJ. S. Supreme court finally held the act valid.

As soon as the Iowa Sureme court receives formal notice of the higher court's ruling, the first of the fund could go out. Cheeks have been written and waiting for months for distribution to county treasurers for allocation. The act provides for state payment of that portion of school 'axes on agricultural lands of 10 or more that is in excess of 15 mills. The $2,500,000 is for such taxes paid in 1947 and .1948. The auditor's office wants to know whether the $2,500,000 should go to those who paid the panied his brother, Raymond.

22, taxes or those who now own the to the tovvi six miles southeast i.T i an concerned, if there has been Collins. Raymond was seeking a job on the microwave tower, one of seven such towers now being built in Iowa as a part of a television relay system. About 20 employes of the American Telephone Telegraph were working at the 185-foot level of the tower when the youths arrived about 10 p. m. The workers a 24-hour schedule on the $2,000,000 a year to W.OuO.OGO an- DEMAN'D HIS RELEASE The U.

S. State Department has demanded that Communist authorities In Helping, China, free American Consul-General Angus Ward, above, and four of his staff. The five. Were arrested in Mukden Oct. 24 charges of heating a Chinese.

The dispute, the U. S. note to the Keds warned, is serious and demands early settlement. Boy Dies In 115-Foot TV Tower Plunge COLLINS, IA. A 15 year- old State Center farm youth fell 116 feet to his death from a platform of a television tower near here last night.

He was Alvin Ohrecht, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Obrecht. The fatal plunge occurred at 1:45 p. m.

after Alvin had accom- Turns Coal Dispute Over To President SAME OLD STORY Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky (right) calls on the United Nations for a peace pact and condemns Western "war-mongers" as American UN delegate Warren Austin (left) adjusts his coat in a "girding for battle" gesture before unloosing an answering blast. You 11 Be A Census Statistic Next April CAP Spc-iial Washington Service) WASHINGTON, D. C. may be a banker or a butcher, a housewife or a horticulturist but next April you also become a statistic any change in ownership. The attorney-general has given an informal opinion on the bus costs matter, and expects to get soon a request for a formal opinion, putting his decision in writing.

The 1949 legislature changed the formula for computing the allocations, and increased the appropriation to pay such claims from Expect 45 For Farm Class's Dinner Tonight Approximately 45 persons are expected, to attend the Young Farmers' banquet and initial meeting of the class at 6:30 tonight in the Carroll high school lunch room. Joseph Bohlen, an instructor in the department of economics and sociology at Iowa State college, Ames, will be the main speaker. D. W. Martens, Carroll high school vocational agriculture instructor, also will speak.

Because of meetings, Leo Fitzpatrick, former vocational agriculture instructor at the local high school, will be unable to attend the banquet and speak to the group as originally scheduled. Special guests at the banquet will include Clarence Bundy of the vocational education department at Iowa State college and Arthur Mercer and Donald Hartman, Iowa State college students who are practice teaching at Carroll high school at present. Forty young farmers have enrolled in the class which will consist of a series of 20 weekly meetings. They are Merle Wiedemeier, Evan Kuker, Clair Hannasch, Louis Masching, Raymond Gehling, Edward Gehling, Clifford Eischeid, Paul Wieland, Thomas Muhlbauer, Donald Reiman, Donald Wieland, Vernon, Earl and Donald Pottebaum, James Tegels, Donald Bauer, Olie Snyder, Frank Reiling, Tom Broich, Robert Sterner, Verlin Danner, Paul Handlos, Walter Tiggefi, Walter Oswald, Vincent Gross, Phil Kennebeck, Albert Lussman, Eugene Hoffman, Marvin Broich, Robert' Baumhover, Vincent Gehling, Lyne Hoffman, John Oswald and, Irvin Loneman of Carroll; Junior Skalla of Scranton; John Wlttry and Paul Venner of Breda, and Robert Schreck, Andrew Schreclc and Leon Schultes of Dedham. are on nearly completed tower.

The brothers started down the dark tower stairway about p. workers said. The stairway is enclosed, tower workmen said, but there are openings into the stair well at the different landings. When they reached the 116-foot landing, Raymond said he told Alvin to "look out for a hose on the platform." But Alvin, walking with his arms outstretched in front of him in the dark, stepped through the opening and hurtled downward, Raymond said. niially.

The department of public instruction figured the allocations of the old formula before asking Larson about it. Now, on the basis of the informal opinion, the department must refigure the claims on the basis of the new formula. 1,025 Attend 2 Performaces Of Junior Play Approximately 1,025 persons received a lot of laughs from the two performances of "Those Web- Alvin didn't cry out once during three-act comedy presented the fall. by the junior class of Carroll high Alvin was a sophomore at State: school auditorium yesterday. Center high school.

Hunter Killed Accidentally Children from the grade schools of Carroll numbering approximately 800 attended the special matinee performance of the play yesterday afternoon. Last night's performance was attended by approximately 725 persons. Music between acts of the play was furnished by a six-piece in- ensemble featuring CLARION, IA. Carl Elvin Reints, 60, of Parkersburg, was strumental shot and killed by Heit V. Huisen- Jack Rose on the drums and the ga, 55, farmer near Parkersburg, irls triple trio of the high school, while the men were hunting ducks er Mapes was featured in the at Wall lake near Clarion today.

ea ding role of Bill Webster. The Sheriff Roy Wilson of Wright I play was under the direction of county said the shooting was an accident. He said Huisenga told him he was walking out into the lake pumping a shell in his gun when he stepped into a hole, accidentally discharging the weapon. I Reints, struck in the head killed outright. Miss Bernice Wilcke.

Starting on April Fool's day 1950, Uncle Sam begins his 17th decennial census. This will require 3238 nose-count- ers in Iowa. When completed, the government will know many things about its big family of citizens, includ- i ing just how many of there are. our employment status, educ.ition. i income and many other facts.

The largest Iowa district office will be at Waterloo. Under this office will be 438 employes. Other district offices will be established at Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs. Davenport, Des Moines, Dubuque, Ft. Dodge, Ottumwa, and Sioux i City.

Iowa assignments break down; includes: COUNCIL 23 in office, 20 crew leaders and 320 enumerators for Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Guthrie. Harrison, Mills, Monona. Montgomery. Page, Pottawattamie, Shelby and Taylor counties. DES 21 in office, 19 crew leaders and 335 enumerators for Dallas, Madison, Marion, Polk, Story and Warren counties.

FORT in office, 23 crew leaders, and 361 enumerators for Boone, Calhoun, Carroll. Crawford, Emmet, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Webster, Wright and Winnebago counties. SIOUX 22 in office, 21 crew leaders, 339 enumerators for Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sac, Sioux and Woodbury counties. The census bureau, somewhat fearful of a deluge of applications for thesp census-taking jobs, emphasized to a reporter that ployes for the district offices and enumerators will not be recruited until next March. Announcement of the schedule for receiving applications for employment will be made then.

You're Invited! To open house at the Daily Times Herald plant all day Saturday. There'll be FREE ROSES for the ladies. It's our 20th anniversary as a daily newspaper. Come in and help us celebrate. Everyone is welcome.

Let us show you how we produce your modern hometown newspaper. BLUE LODGE TO MEET A regular meeting of Signet Lodge No. 264 A.F. and A.M. will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the was Masonic temple, H.

L. Silsby worshipful master, announces. IOWA TRAFFIC DEATHS (By The Associated Press) Nov. 16, 1948 493 Nov. 16, 1949 508 Truman To Push Civil Rights Drive By Ernest B.

Vaccaro WASHINGTON, D. C. (JP) President Truman's civil rights proposals were pushed to the forefront of administration "must" measures today behind his fighting slogan of "no retreat and no retirement." The president served notice last his second civil rights speech in five he is enlisted in a finish fight against "racial and religious discrimination." With southern democrats up in arms against his call for anti-lynching, anti-poll tax and other anti-discrimination measures which cost him four Dixie states in last November's presidential election, Mr. Truman threw out his blunt challenge: "We are going to continue to advance in our program of bringing equal rights and equal opportunities to all citizens. In that great cause there is no retreat and no retirement." Mr.

Truman spoke at the Fourteenth annual meeting of the National Council of Negro Women and lavished praise on the record of Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, 74-year-old Negro educator and retiring president of that organization. Mediator Gives Up In Efforts To End Deadlock Further Action Would Be Fruitless, Ching Declares; Files a Report WASHINGTON, D. C. Mediation Chief Cyrus S.

Ching today turned the deadlocked coal dispute over to the White House for action. Ching reported to B. Steelman, President Truman's assistant, that further attempts to get union leader John L. Lewis and coal operators into an agreement seemed useless. After seeing Steelman at the White House he told reporters: "It is our considered judgment that further meditation at this time would be fruitless." Ching said he was filing a written report covering the coal case with President Truman this afternoon.

He said it would not contain any recommended course for White House action but would include a number of suggestions on what can be done. These suggestions were reported to include establishment by Mr. Truman of a fact-finding board outside the Taft-Hartley law with power to recommend settlement terms. Another suggestion was reported to be use of the Taft-Hartley law's national emergency provisions, including a court injunction to'bar a new coal strike. The White House, however, appeared willing to give John L.

Lewis the rest of the week to accept a fact-finding board like the one which helped settle the steel strike. Alabaman Jailed for Three Months William C. Fourtenbary of Aliceville, was fined $300 and costs in district court yesterday when he pleaded guilty before' Judge F. H. Cooney on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.

He was unable to pay the fine, so was committed to the county jail for a period of three months. He will be unable to obtain a driver's license for six months after his release. Health Improvement Association Meets Officers and directors of the Carroll County Health Improvement association met at the Carroll County Farm Bureau office in Carroll last night with Robert Genter of Glidden, president conducting the meeting. A committee was appointed to investigate and have authority to donate funds from the organization's treasury to some health project in Carroll county. Those appointed to this committee by Mr.

Genter were: Mary C. Spellman, county extension home economist; Mrs. Henry Pfiester, county health nurse, and John Halbur, all of Carroll, and Mrs. Donald Pratt and Henry Moore of Glidden. Other business discussed at the meeting included plans for the county-wide Blue Cross membership campaign which is sponsored by the association twice a year.

Weather TRAIN MEETS TOWN Two houses along; the Pennsylvania, railroad right-of-way were damaged and freight cars Uttered the heart of Plain City, when a freight train was wrecked. No one was injured. Hunt For B-29 About To Ditch NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. Mackay radio said today it had intercepted a radio message indicating a United States air force B-29 was believed lost and about to land in the ocean off Bermuda.

Mackay said the message, sent by the marine station at Bermuda, said: "All ships within 100 miles of Bermuda please keep sharp lookout for USAF B-29 aircraft 5289 with USAF markings and silver colored believed lost and about to ditch and may transmit signals on 500 kilocycles." other information was available CARROLL FORECAST Partly cloudy, cold and windy this afternoon and tonight. Temperatures falling from near 40 this afternoon to 22 to 26 tonight. Thursday fair with high 35 to 40. IOWA FORECAST Fair west, partly cloudy east tonight and, Thursday. Somewhat colder.

Strong northerly winds tonight, diminishing Thursday. Falling temperatures this afternoon, Low tonight 20 to 25. Higlf Thursday 34 to 38. The Weather in Carroll Yesterday's high At 7 m. today At 1:30 m.

today 39 Weather A 'tfear it was mostly cloudy a today. Low temperature wi and high, 48..