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March J. 1ST 1M1 if Car Hits Rear of Truck Near Elthon Is Governor Governor's Gar After Fatal Crash Mrs. Beardsley at Side, But In juries Not Critical Gov. William S. Beardsley was killed Sunday night when the car he was driving struck the rear of a panel truck north of Des Moines.

He was 53. Mrs. Beardsley, who was riding with him, was injured, but her condition was reported "not critical" at Iowa Lutheran Hospital early today. mvmmmm' tl I 0 This is the car in which Gov. and Mrs.

William S. Beardsley were riding when it rammed the rear of a truck on Highway 60 north of the city Sunday night. The governor was injured fatally. Mrs. Beardsley: was treated for injuries not be- lieved to be critical at Iowa Lutheran Hospital.

NOVEMBER 22, 1954. I know it will be to all Iowans, He was a great and certainly his death is a great loss to. the nation as well as to Iowa." i Jake More of Harlan', state Democratic chairman: "That's certainly terrible. It's a shock, a terrible thing. While we, as party often differed with the governor, we held him in very high regard, and we thought he wss repre sentative of his branch of the COMMENT Continued on Parte Twelve.

Will Open Room Of Funeral Boat CAIRO, EGYPT The chamber containing a funeral boat, beside the great pyramid of Giza, will be opened Tuesday morning, Kamal el Mallakh, the Egyptian architect who discovered the boat several months ago, said Sunday. Mallakh will supervise the opening in the presence of Egyptian dignitaries and news men. uriginany referred to as a soiar ooat," tne ooat is now considered by competent arche ologists here to be simply part of, the burial furniture of Pharaoh Cheops, builder of the great Successor Gov. Leo Elthon. Oath Today.

0 i mmmmmm'dJtJm Leaders in Both Parties Mourn, Praise Beardsley Leaders of both political parties, and expressed grief and shock Sunday night when informed of the death of Gov. William S. Beardsley; FIELDS TO BE GIVEN CIIAKCE TO TELL ALL' Noel Linked to Spies Of Both Sides. By Fletcher Knebel. 0f Tht Rttfittr'i Waahlnfton Bumi) WASHINGTON, D.

C. -r-Red Hungary's release from prison of Mr. and Mrs. Noel Field rekindles one of the most involved Washington mysteries since the discovery of Whittaker Chambers' pumpkin papers. Noel and Herta Field are entering a Budapest hospital after five years' imprisonment, according to U.

S. Minister Christ-Ian Ravndal, while Noel's brother, Hermann, has flown to freedom in Switzerland after similar Imprisonment in a Warsaw jail. Hermann said in Zurich Saturday he planned to "remain quieuy in wiizenana ior "complete rest." When and if they return to the United States, the Fields will be the targets of close questioning by congressional committees and intelligence agencies. Chief Questions. A scoe of questions are unanswered.

Here are the chief ones: Was Noel Field a full-fledged Communist who lent himself as a willing tool of Soviet propaganda? Was he a Communist who turned "Titoist" and thus incurred the wrath of the Kremlin? Was he, as the Soviets once claimed, an American secret agent sent to Europe in devious plot to split the Cominform into nationalist groups outside the control of Moscow? Was he just another V. 8. citizen who got tangled in the web of East -West Intrigue through no fault of his own? Probably no one in Washington ha the complete answer, although both the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have extensive files on the Fields. The evidence seems to point, although not conclusively, to the possibility that Noel Field had Communist connections throughout a good period of his adult life. If Field was indeed an American agent, it was one of the best-kept secrets since the Manhattan Project made the atomic bomb.

At least four persons are involved in the disappearing act FIELD Continued on Page Five. NOEL F1XLB. HEBTA FIELD. BKRMANN ERIK WAX WILL SERVE 2 mis AS IOWA'S CHIEF Then He Returns to By George Mills. Leo Elthon, 56, farmer and quarry operator from Fertile, is Iowa's thirty- second governor, succeeding William S.

Beardsley, who was killed Sunday night in an auto accident. Eltnon, who has been lieu tenant governor of Iowa since January, 1953, said at his Worth county home Sunday night that he will come to Des Moines this morning to take his oath of office. He will serve less than two months. Obviously distressed by the news of the death. Governor Elthon said that he was "deeply shocked." 'I loved him," the new gov ernor said of Beardsley.

"I will do whatever my duty is. We have lost a great man, one of our greatest governors, and I have lost a warm personal friend." 32nd or 31st? Governor Elthon, like Beardsley a Republican, will serve until Jan. 13 when Governor-elect Leo A. Hoegh will be inaugurated as Iowa's thirty-third governor. Hoegh was elected Nov.

2. (While Elthon becomes the thirty-second governor, he is the thirty-first man to hold the office. Gov. Samuel K. Kirk-wood served at two separate times, first from 1860 to 1864 and again from 1876 to 1877.) Governor Elthon will become lieutenant governor, again after Hoegh inaugu-.

rated. Elthon first was elected lieutenant governor in 1952 1 and was re-elected Nov. 2. Thus, he will advance from lieutenant governor to governor, and then will drop back to lieutenant governor again. The lieutenant governor serves a two-year term, the same as that of the governor and succeeds the governor if that office becomes vacant.

Governor-elect Hoegh, who is the incumbent attorney general, expressed the offhand opinion Sunday night that Elthon became governor immediately upon Beardsley's death. The state constitution says: "In esse of the death, impeachment, resignation, removal from office, or other disability of the governor, the powers and duties of the office for the residue of the term shall devolve upon the lieutenant governor." The lieutenant governor is presiding officer of the senate. His salary is $4,000 a regular session. Third to Advance. As governor, Elthon will be paid the rate of $12,000 a year for a little less than two months.

Gov. Elthon is the third Iowan in history to advance from lieutenant governor to the governorship without being elect ed to the higher office. He Is the first to become governor because of the ELTHON Continued on Page Twelve. ASKS FIRMS TO MAIL LETTERS EARLIER IN DAY WASHINGTON, D. C.

(U.E) Postmaster General Arthur E. I Summerfield urged all businesses in the country Sunday to post i their letters several times day instead of letting them pile up until late afternoon, By doing so, he said, business firms can help speed mail deliveries and save the postal service thousand! of dollars. Mr. Beardsley, thirtieth i Iowan to become governor in the history of the state and leader in Iowa highway safety movements, was thrown against the steering wheel by he impact of the crash. Apparently he was killed outright.

The accident occurred about 9:30 p. m. on Highway 60 (Sec ond avenue) about a mile north of the city limits and about a half-mile north of the KGTV television tower. Had Been in Ames. The Beardsleya were returning to Des Moines from Ames, where hey had gone to visit their youngest son, Dan, 20, a student at Iowa State College.

Ironically, the Beardsleya failed to find Dan at Amen. They started hick to "bee "1 Moines without seeing him. Dan later told members of the family he had been at a movie and "didn't get to eee my folks." The boy said he heard about his father's death over the radio and immediately drove to Des Moines with a roommate, Jack Bauer, 18, of Van Meter. In Front Seat. State highway patrolman Glenn McDole said the driver of the truck had slowed down to give aid to a motorist in trouble.

McDole, first to arrive at the scene, said he found the governor lying unconscious in the front seat of his car, his head In his wife's lap. The steering wheel was caved in, McDole said, from the force of the impact of the governor's body. A horizontal mark across the bridge of his nose was the only visible sign of injury, McDole said. "Bill Hasn't Moved." Mrs. Beardsley told onlookers, "Bill hasn't moved," as they prepared to lift him to a stretcher.

McDole said the sheriffs office in Des Moines summoned -Jfe Gov. William 0 mm- -f FIRST TO DIE AS GOVERNOR William S. Beardsley was the first governor in Iowa history to die in office. He was a 'druggist-farmer when elected chief executive of Iowa in 1948. He was a self-made man in every sense of the word.

i An imposing looking 200- i pounder who was 5 feet 10 inches tall, he was Iowa's thirty-first governor. He was one of only four men who have been elected three times.to the governorship of Iowa. The others were A B. Cummins (1902-1908), John Hammill (1952-1931), and Samuel Kirk-wood (1860-1864 and 1876-1877). Governor Beardsley was one of President Eisenhower's original supporters in the middle-west.

He was outspokenly for Ike long before the president agreed to allow his name to go before the 1952 Republican national convention. Stressed Safety. Governor Beardsley was one of the bst campaigners the Iowa Republican party has had in modern times. He could walk around a courthouse square in an Iowa county seat and shake more hands and make more friends than any of his opponents. He was an unusually effective speaker.

It is ironic that death should have come to the governor in an automobile accident. He constantly stressed highway safety in his official pronouncements from his statehouse office. Beat Organization. He gave the Republican state organization a bad beating in 1948 when he defeated Gov, Robert D. Blue of Eagle Grove for the Republican nomination for governor.

Blue was a candidate that year for a third term as governor. Beardsley won that primary battle, 189,938 to That was one of the few times In Iowa history that a sitting governor has been beaten for renomination in a primary. The governor had been expected to run for the Republican nomination for the U. S. senate last spring.

The Beardsley family was the first to occupy the governor's mansion at 2900 Grand ave. The rtate bought the house in 1947. Mrs. William S. Beardsley.

Survives Crash. nulanc deputies to the scene. The governor wa pronounced dead when the ambulance arrived at Iowa Lutheran Hospital. Mrs. Beardsley, also 53, suffered a small cut on her right cheek and was suffering from shock.

She complained of pain In her shoulder and spine, hospital autlioriti'ea said. Recognized License. Those at the scene did not immediately recognize tjje governor. McDole said it was only when he saw, the license plate on the official car that he realized it was the governor's car, the patrolman said. The car, a 1951 Bulck four-door, carries state license.

No. 8. It was badly damaged. The panel truck, rented from the Hertz Truck Leasing Co, in Des Moines, was driven by John Gardner, 54. Passengers with him were hie daughter, Janice, 20, and his stepdaughter, Lois Evans, 17," all of 677 Twentieth st.

All were taken to Broadlawna BEARDSLEY-- Continued on Page Three. Shane BegxtfsJey. A McCarthy Ruse Hinted ByFulbright WASHINGTON, D. C. UP Senator J.

William Fulbright Ark.) said Sunday that Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's spiUlization, which cut off senate censure debate, was consistent wnn as i an effort to pre vent any vote at I nil" I "This wasn't the first time that he. was ordered to a hospital when he )0 was in an em- barrassing position," Fulbright said during a television appearance. Asked whether, he considered McCarthy's projected 10-day stay In the hospital a form of filibuster, he answered: "I have grave suspicions that it is." The Wisconsin Republican is under treatment at the Bethes-da Naval Hospital for what Dr, George W. Calver, capitol physician, reported was "traumatic bursitis', of the elbow.

"An Old Custom." "Asked if he lacked confidence In Dr. Calver, Fulbright said he did not. He added that Dr. Calver did not examine the sena- McCABTHY Continued on Pare Seven. Light Rain Hits Parts of State Light rain fell in scattered areas in Iowa Sunday as clouds and chilly winds made for a typical fall day.

Only at Mason City did a measurable amount, of rain fall and there it was only a hundredth of an inch. Traces were reported at Dubuque, Des Moines, Ottumwa and Waterloo. Temperatures ranged from a high of 52 at Lamoni to 43 at Davenport, with Des Moines reporting 50. Rather strong northerly winds made the day seem Somewhat better weather, though still on the cool side, is predicted for today and Tuesday by the weather bureau. Robert D.

Blue, of Eagre Grove, who preceded Beardsley as governor, said: "It is a tragedy when any figure such as the governor is suddenly taken from the leadership of the state. "It is particularly tragic In this case, because the governor had shown an especial interest in highway safety. It is one of the things he had pressed as much as anything else in his administration. His death 'will be a shock to the state and to all his friends." Hnegh's Comment. At Chariton, Governor-elect Leo- Hoegh said, "That's terrible," when told of the governor's death.

"Iowa has lost one of its greatest governors," Hoegh said, "Mrs. Hoegh and I have lost one of our best friends." "Our thoughts and prayers are with Mrs. Beardsley and the family," Hoegh added. "A Great Governor." State Insurance Commissioner Charles R. Fischer, manager of the governor's two campaigns in 1948, said: "I have served under the governor 3 Vs years.

I never have known a finer gentleman, either in a 'campaign or to work under. He was always kind, and very intelligent and understanding. The state of Iowa has lost a great governor." Former Nelsbri G. Kraschel, Iowa's last Democratic governor (1937-1939), said: "I always thought a lot of Bill Beardsley. I have always felt that he took a constructive viewpoint of every subject that came before "I knew him well in the senate back in the 1930s when he was a state senator ana I was lieutenant governor and presiding officer of the senate.

He came as near being nonpartisan on legislative matters as any person I ever knew. I think in the years to come, he will come to be looked upon as one of Iowa's great governors." Other prominent Iowans expressed their shock and sorrow as follows: 'V Don Tierson of Humboldt, state Republican chairman: "It it a great shock to me, as.