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Itlf, at (k ffiM at Moibu. Iowa, undtr the Att ct lUich 1ST. A 1 Rocket Reaches Height of 135 Miles RUSSIAN HOPE FOR NEW BIG 4 -fa 5 TAXPAYERS PROTEST 1952 SCHQOLCOSTS TEXAN IS SLAIN AS LAND MINE RIPS MAILBOX MONEY MAKES THE NIGHTMARE GO. 1 PARLEY SEEN Noble's Foes Finally; Eliminate Him. Think Red.

to on Including China. By Richard Wilson. From The RfqMer'e Leased Wire. (Thl Rtfiltir'a Wuhlnllon Corrpondnl.) WASHINGTON, D. In spite of rejection by the United States of a Russian But Board Adopts New Budget.

Five taxpayers Tuesday protested the 1652 Des Moines school budget of $9,113,030 as "excessivemand including "many unnecessary expenditures." The men, attending the public hearing on a proposed tax levy of 17,942,102 to finance most of the budgeted expenditures, filed a written protest with Herrold V. Mann, the board's secretary, so that the budget may be appealed i W--f (r It i A i iii) i i Tn v. i i(J Ti k' -(- CS A I I TT 1 i v' i Iproposal for a 5-power conference, there is still an expectation here that the Soviet Union may seek a renewal of across-the-table talks on more acceptable terms. The proposal of Russian Pres GRAPEVINE, TEX Herbert Noble, 58, a self-styled retired gambler who had lived through 11 attempts on his life, was blasted to death Tuesday by a cleverly hidden land mine. Noble was killed when ha stopped his car in front of tha rural mailbox at hia fortress-like Denton county farm home.

When he opened the mailbox door, the mine exploded under his car. "The mailbox, Noble and hia car are no more," said CoL Homer Garrison, director of the Texas department of public sarety. The explosive, either dynamita or jellied nitroglycerine, was planted in a shallow excavation In the hard clay road In front of 1 ident Nikolai Shvernik for a 5-power conference was officially to the state board of appeal. Other persons and organizations, however, praised the budget and school system be-. fore the board finally adopted the budget dismissed Tuesday as a "propaganda trap." But officials still think the Russians may try to revive the -power discussions for foreign ministers conference.

Superintendent of Schools N. McCombs said this is the first budget protest aince 191. He re Narrower Scale. This would be on a narrower scale than the world-wide disarmament agreement proposed by called three earlier protests, Ending in 99. The objectors indicated they particularly were dissatisfied over what they termed a "bumper' fund, a special account, ending in the figure 99, In each division of the budget to meet emergency or AWAIT WORD.

Korean truce talks still remain suspended as the Allies wait word from the Reds giving new guarantees on neutrality of conference site of Kaesong. Allied delegates return to Korea after conferring in Tokyo. Story on Page 4. the mailbox. Killers Hid In Bushee.

Officers said Noble'a killers hid In a clump of bushes about 80 yards sway and touched off tha blast when Noble drove tn tha msilbox. Gene Oxford, who operstes a unexpected needs. They inferred It is too easy to make unnecessary expenditures from funds that are not earmarked. The board in Its budget ex- nearby filling ststion, said tha the Kremlin Monday through the plained thla special account in explosive was hidden in a hole in Russian figure-head president in each division was set as a cush A navy crew makes final preparation at While Sands, JV. for tho flight of the 10-ton Viking rorket that Tuesday roared to at height of more than 1S5 miles, higher than any single-stage mlaslle ever Mred.

Wiring attached to the forward part of rorket supplies external electrical pWr for last-minute checking of Instruments. It falls away as the rocket engine starts. WIKEFHOTO IJFl. ion against unavoidable over-ex PICTURE: Page 1, penditures. Not From Organization.

"The history of the administra the road and carefully covered with earth. tlon of the Des Moines schools Is reply to a message from President Truman of a month ago. Ia any event, offlrlals here are not willing to Include Communist China in a world conference, nor la thl government willing to go over the old ground which has proven so barren in the past, as proposed In the inula ii message to President Truman. sufficient evidence that the in Former Army Coach Asked BOARD VOTES elusion of such funds does not 1,000 Honor Polk Sheriii constitute a temptation to the N. Y.

BANS UNION FOR POLICEMEN Connection wires dropped In- to a gully along tha roadside, and ran along a fence to the bushes where tha killers hid. Texas rangers said tha killers board of education to spend ex Le Compte to Appoint Io wan TECH ADDITION travagantly," the budget report might have been hit by the hood By Clark Mollenhoff. Of Tti Rifiier'a Wtihlnitea Burtiu InLastRitei of Noble'a car. The officers found Th Des Moines school board NEW YORK, N. Y.

UP) A WASHINGTON, D. Representative Karl Le that it hit the ground not mora C. I. O. union's efforts to or Compte Ia.) said Tuesday that aaformer Army But on such questions as an Austrian peace treaty tha United States is willing to negotiate.

Where the issues can be confined to specific questions on which there is not yet a fixed pattern of disagreement, U. S. officials are still willing to talk. than two feet from whera tha Tuesday voted to go ahead with a proposed million-dollar addition to Des Moines Technical school By William Brown. ganize New York's 19,000 policemen was answered Tuesday with lootcaii coacn naa approached him to discuss appointment switch waa thrown.

of an Iowa boy at West They came from all walks of life Tuesdsy to pay last respects which it voted down last Jan' $50,000 Price, Ha Said. This year Noble had told a TRUMAN HOPES Point. headquarters order that no policeman could join any labor un ion. uary. But they regard it as useless to aid.

Protestors were John P. Burke, 11. Eighteenth Gordon Buell, 11 St Thirty-first Fred Rule, 1144 Seneca Richard Beatty, 2114 In-gersoll and Corwln E. rorter, 11J4 Twenty-fifth tt. The men are not representing any one organization, Beatty said.

Beatty and Burke are members of the Des Moines Apartment Owners association. "We have Just known each other for some time," Beatty said. Budget Adopted Unanimously About 40 representatives of However, LeCompte said he al to Howard C. Reppert, Polk county's popular sheriff for 44 years. The vote ws 4 to 2 for the TO VIEW SOME Texas house crime investigating shop addition, tn be located south ready had the appointment of the committee thst he understood begin discussions of banning atomic weapons production when the Russians indicate In advance Police Commissioner George P.

More thsn 1,000 persons from PLANTS, BASES of the present Tech school build. there waa a $50,000 underworld Monaghan notified all commands boy under consideration snd that the roach whom he Identified as janitors to Judges crowded Grace ing at Fifteenth and Center price on his head. Earlier, Dallas that they wilt not agree to an that any officer who had already ILeated Wire from The tf. Y. Timet, streets.

Methodist church for the, services. applied for membership must District Attorney Henry Wada WASHINGTON, D. Presi Biff Jones, had been "completely Hundred of others viewed the unlimited inspection system. Retaliatory Steps. Those favoring a rail for bids withdraw his application or face had placed the figure at $10,000.

dent Truman is thinking of visit ethical" In the discussion. late sheriff's body as it lay in at tha earliest possible date were disciplinary action. Nor do American officials wish state at the church from noon members Tom Couchman, L. L. ng the nation's military camps All "Doing It." until 3 p.

when the services to rake up alleged American dls and industrial plants to see for The C. I. O. Transport Workers union, headed by Michael J. Quill, said it had Issued a Daubert, Mrs.

James Shannahan and Harry Gross, board president. I made some remark about crimination against Russian trade began. himself how efficiently end eco the recruiting of boys for the Wade had said, too, that ha believed Noble engineered sorrm of the attempts on his life for publicity. He said the stocky, mild-mannered gambler "seems tn enjoy being written up tn the papers." Noble earned his nickname. Parent Teacher associations, and travel when all of the measures taken were in retalia- charter for a police unit here nomlcally funds are being spent Scores of Officials.

There werajfceores of county of Frank Burns and Mrs. Charles T. Cownie voted against it. Mrs. Owen Crist was absent.

football team," LeCompte said. women's, educational, taxpayers for national defense Quill claimed 62 per cent of tion for the fact that the Soviet He told- me all of the schools Union erected the Darners against New York's bluecoats already had Tills was the word given re are doing it and that It Is necea' signed pledge cards. ficials and employees, four municipal and district court Judges, Des Moines Mayor A. B. Chambers, at least 20 city police offi porters Tuesdsy by Represents Board Log.

The board approved the after Bums moved adoption sary for Army to do a certain Announced objectives for the The Cat," by surviving at least and civic, groups attended the hearing, which lasted over an hour. A number supported the budget as sound, "minimum," or conservative, and praised the board's administration. After the hearing, the tive Herbert C. Bonner (Dem. amount of It to play the other police union were more pay, cers headed by Police Chief Frank 11 apparent attempts on his life, both by gunfire snd dynamite.

Ha N. after a Whits House talk of the regular school board log shorter hours and a smaller pen the west in the first place. Both these old subjects, plus the Inclusion of Red China In the discussions, made up the heart of the new Russian proposal. IT. 8, officials described It as "the same old chestnut tied with a new ribbon." without the section pertaining to sion contribution.

LeCompte appointed the boy, with Mr. Truman Mabee, a dozen state highwsy patrolmen and atate bureau of in insisted he was "clean" after 194ft Tech. Walter (Bo) Walker of Ottumwa, Bonner headed a subcommittee vestigation agents. to West Point. Walker, a reserve Florida Battles of the house expenditures In ex when he dropped out of the gambling business, but he conceded in 1950 that he wasn't "long for this world." halfback last year, was slated for Burns said he recognized the need of Tech shops but favored delaying the work "until we have a roof over all the ecutiva depsrtmenta which rec board voted unanimously to, adopt the budget.

Mrs. Owen Crist was the only hoard member absent. The budget, largest In the dis- heavier duty this fall. They called on Russia to live up ommended that existing military to its past agreements before try bases be used where possible before new installations were con Although several Democrats party leaders were there to pay honor to their party colleague, the assemblage was as non-partisan as the many Republican and Democratic supporters he had In winning the sheriffs post three times by wide margins. The scores of law enforcement Last January, Burns, Mrs, Wife Slain by Mistake.

I On Nov. 29, 1949, Noble's wife) died in a gangland plot which was intended for him and misfired. ing to make new ones. Said a stale department official spokesman: "The Kremlin has violated The Iowa congressman said he was sorry to hear that Walker was one of the 90 cadets who have been named for dls-miasal because of "cribbing" In West Point examinations. Mosquito Raid MIAMI.

FLA. (JP) Florida cities snd counties Tfftsday battled what some authorities said was the worst mosquito Invasion in years. On both coasts and In the Interior, the fight waged from trict'a history, is $979,605 above the askings for the fiscal year ending last June 30. The levy is 1080.101 over that of 1950-51. structed.

Cownie, Mrs. Crist and Gross voted to delay building of the Recalling that President Roose obligations to such an extent that The killers could not foresee that icv.ii Huumon. urging its con Noble would lend his auto to. hia velt had made a. few Inspection trips to see how things were go "I've contacted officials snd the world has lost confidence In the Soviet's respect for trestles." While putting down the new structlon were Mrs.

Shannahan, Coiichmsn snd Buell Llndgren, That means an estim.ed school tax rate of 40.182 mills ($40.18 per $1,000 assessed valuation), an Increase of. 2.778 mills from the wife for an early-morning shop have been sssured thst he will be officers present heard the Rev. planes, trucks, boats and even ing along during the war, Mr. ping trip, so when she pressed given a fair hearing on the mat Russian move ss mere propsgan- wnose term hss expired. Ash Letting.

motorcycles. All sections of the Truman said he hoped to make ter," LeCompte said. Glen Lamb, associate pastor of the church, issue a challenge to "see that his (Mr. Reppert's) pol stale reported sn unusually heavy the starter button It touched off a bomb which rocked an area for more than a mils around, and it some RUSSIA Continued on Page Four. field trips himself In the Jones, a former head coach snd Petitions asking the board to invasion of the pests.

nesr future. 37.404 mills levied this year. Oalls It Minimum. After Burke had filed the ob' lectors' protest with Mann, Mrs. William Carlson, 65 Thirty- reconsider its decision to post icies snd ideals are carried out." sthletlc director at West Point, is not now a member of the Army was she who was killed.

pone letting of bids for the pro "It should be our pledge to help A California C. of C. coaching staff. posed addition were circulated In late January. Possible enroll cany out the policies snd ideals he started," he said.

1 LeCompte said he had men fifth president of the Des Hires Florida an SACRAMENTO, CAL. up) ment at Tech may be up by a Then the Rev. Mr. Lamb read a Moines Council of Parents snd thousand next fall. tioned to Jones that Walker was also considering going to the State University of Iowa st the time.

letter written by Mr. Reppert to While Noble dm recuperating in a hospital in Dallas from tho rifle wound ha suffered on New Year's Eve after his wife's death, a gunman fired a high-powered rifle through the window of his room. The last recorded attempt to The firm of Dougher, Rich and This capital city' of California SCHOOLS Continued on Page Nine. REPPERT Continued oh Page Nine. Woodburn hss completed the gen, Tuesday hired a Florida man to run Its) chsmber of commerce.

He eral working drawings and spec is Lewis H. Dsy, currently gen- "Friend of Anderson." "Colonel Jones said he was a great friend of Eddie Anderson ificatlons for the addition which will be a two-story building, 354" ersl manager of the Tampa, Red Again Fails kill him was last March. Jellied feet by 98 feet. chamber of commerce. BICYCLK WANTED! nitroglycerine was found packed in two cylinders of the engina His Driving Test WASHINGTON, D.

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7-2058. For the second time, a Russian The new wing, conuected to tha present stone building will provide needed space for the auto-dlesel, welding, refrigeration and machine shops and four classrooms on the ground floor. On the second floor will be of his private plane. Feuded Binion. Noble also had been shot at in his bullet-proof csr; wounded seriously ss he atood on the front porch of his Dallas home; and embassy official Tuesday flunked a test for a District of Columbia War at a Glance Aug.

7, 1931. automobile driver's license. A second embsssy official passed on second try. WASHINGTON, D. The White Home says President Trumsn is considering a tour of the country to inspect defense installations.

Our commander-in-chiefs have always been sporting fellows who refuse to take political sdvantage of their post-' tion. Every campaign year, they demote themselves to Inspector generals. Chairman Vinson of the house armed services committee asks Immediate action on 163-group air force, and two more super carriers. Gen. George Marshall's army divisions are growing so fast, Vinson haa to figure out soma place to ppt I hem.

The U. S. denounces Russia's proposal for a B-power peace pact ss a propaganda trap. If we dnn't algn, they'll claim we're warmongers, and if we do sign, they'll claim we've given up' the fight for the capitalistic system. The army says to of the Wet Point cadete charged vth cheating will be permitted to reeign.

The army want to give the football playert a chance to enroll in other college where they can follow honorable profeaeional career t. A house committee says a Memphis firm is lOn.000 chairs behind on Its army contract for 118,000 chairs. This Is one crisis the Pentagon will havt to take standing up. Flet(Ker Knebel IFnlted Nations truce' delegates (then coach at Iowa) and would like to see him have a good football team, but that if Eddie gets him LeCompte recounted LeCompte said it was not a matter of "subsidizing" the boy to get him to go to West Point. "He had to pass examinations and he didn't et in on Just football," he said.

LeCompte said he felt the moral deterioration of government officials in Washington had a great deal to do with the boys cheating at West Point, "You can't have 5 percenters, deep freezes, mink coals and RFC scandals and expect It to have no The district traffic department sheet metal, radio, electrical, drafting and applied science department, with withheld the name of the Rua-sisns. return to Korea' after conferences In Tokyo with Gen. Matthew B. Rldgway; talks remain suspended for fourth dsy. Mrs.

Doit Hovey, 341S Franklin Pes Moines, who placed this went ad "We had about tO rails. One party phoned at a. m. and came out to the houie a half hour later and bought the bike." If you want something, or if you have something to sell, rent or trade, order a low cost Des Moines Register and Tribune want sd today! Mail your ad or in Des Moines phona 3-2111 for want ad service. The architects were Instructed The stale department suggested ambushed on lonely country roads.

Authorises believe that Nohle became a marked man more than a decade ago when he began feuding with Benny Binion, then the biggest gambler in Dallas. But after Binion left for Florida in 194 ss a fugitive, life be to obtain federal authorization snd allotment of materials. Alllee put air attacks against Red recently thst the Russians be given thorough examinations. It explained that in' Russia an American can seldom get a MINNESOTA SCHOOL AID, ST. PA.UL, MINN.

(U.P.) The state board of education Tuesday license. The Russians ask them build-up on round the clock bssis. The Register Daily War Map and Fighting Story: Page 2. such questions as "why is a carburetor and what makea it reported Minnesota spent more than In state school aids during tha last school year. came more perilous for Noble, snd he has accused Binion of en gineering tha various CADETS Continued on Pag Four, workT.".