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Stassen Chats With Leaders at Public Forum SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1346. pje Poitte Heeler 10 Candidates Tell Views to 60 Listeners 6 Injured When Bus Upsets in Snowstorm Srfe UJJLJ ''Try-' .1 Greyhound Bus on Highway 6 Near Iowa City. Overturned (Tho lnw News Servk-f.) IOWA CITY, IA. Six persons were injured Friday when a Chicago-bound Greyhound bus skidded and overturned on Highway 6 KsM'fna about 15 miles east of here during nounced Friday evening. They snow storm.

i are: Driver K. C. Rodine, Des i Mildred Lawrence, 20, Spring-Moines, said the bus went out of I field, 111., State University of Harold K. fstas-u (right) talkn with public forum leaders at Alice V. Myers, director of adult education; City librarian Forrest Siierintendent N.

D. McCombs. control after skidding onto the soft road shoulder. His wife Edna, 26, was among the injured. The remainder of the 44 persons the bus, including 17 standing passengers, escaped with bruises, despite the fact that the bus Victory Gardeners Plan To Continue in Peacetime Mrs.

Rodine, head injuries, Orville Akers, Milwaukee, Wis, soldier, minor injuries, released from hospital. Robert McKenzie, 24, Lowell. injuries undetermined Friday night. The unhurt passengers wer transferred to a passing bus bound for Omaha, and wera brought back here. Most of the passengers escaped through a broken front window.

Three were treated for minor injuries at West Liberty on the way here. CAR KILLS MAN NEAR ALTOONA Struck by a car as he was walking along Highway 6, Henry E. Spriggs, 74, Prairie was killed Friday night. The accident occurred shortly before 9 p. m.

about three miles cast of Altoona. Raymond Wallace. 21. of 1315 E. Twenty-seventh the driver, said he did not see Spriggs tin- til almost unon him.

The clderly man Wallace said, was walkinff toward hl3 wt. bound car on the shouldcr of th9 A Hit bv Door Post. Coroner A. E. Shaw said Spriggs apparently became con- rolled completely over and lay on its left side.

The injured were brought to Mercy and State University hospitals here, where the extent of their injuries had not been an- Iowa student, broken collar bone. Mrs. Kate Peterson, 49, Free-port, 111., broken collar bone and fractured ribs. Arthur Townley, 71. Rock Island, 111., in serious condition with injuries not completely diagnosed.

chairman of the old victory some sort of a public garden- continue to attempt to line up garden areas for interested persons, and would try to interest, enough of his old area chairmen to continue operations, at least on a skeleton tin sis. The garden activity is being; handled at Kidder's office. 621 Se- curities building, between Grand. avenue and Locust street on Sev-1 entn street. J.J Qf pirriv VlrK JltZUril 1 William H.

Kidder, general gardening program in Des Moines, Friday asked help from Shrine auditorium. J-'rom left: Spaulding, moderator, and School WITNESS ROLE FOR OVERT URFF Sheriff Vane B. Overt urff will; be called as a state witness next: week in the ouster case against! four of Polk county's raiding! constables. That was disclosed Friday by County Attorney Vernon See-! burger. He said a subpoena had been issued for the.

sheriff to appear next Wednesday in the opening phases of the district court trial. Willful Misconduct. Testimony of Overtur-ff is expected to touch upon an alleged I i i fc TiortnroA TionA fuSPd and stpPPd onto the Tv" IO 1cuuimcnt. He was struck by the door Kirk C. Stearns, electricians' Post- and suffered a fractured mate, first class, listed as The coroner believes the ing in action in March, 1944.

has'man was falling as he was hit. If I been declared 1 Driving conditions were some-dead, the navywbat hazardous, with a slight department has at the time, the coroner said- Following the forum, Stassen obliged students who asked for his autograph. STORY ON PAGK ONK. Use Wire Ply In New Tires For Strength One of these days your limousine may roll on "wire tires." They will still be rubber, so far as the eye can see, but wire fabric, or ply, may be'introduced. L.

W. Fox, research expert for the Firestone Tire and Rubber told 300 tractor and implement men of new tire developments in a meeting Friday at Hotel Fort Des Moines. Increased Strength. Before the war, cotton fabric was most widely used. The war shift to rayon brought protests from cotton producers, but Fox said it increased tire strength from 25 to 43 per cent.

Nylon proved even stronger, and was used in many military aviation tires, but it has one objection, Fox said. "The reason nylon hose is popidar is that it stretches, and then will come back to shape," Fox said. "That is not a good quality in a tire." Experiments with wire-ply tires have proved them to be eight times as strong as cotton, Fox said. Tire Runs Cooler. The heat-conducting qualities of wire have proved an asset, he said.

The tire is thinner, runs cooler, and wears better. The Firestone company also has worked with glass and plastics, but sees the most promise in wire, Fox added. He told implement manufacturers that tires often will be labeled "16-ply rating" in the future, instead of 16 ply. Actually, he said, such tires will be stronger than 16-ply cotton fabric, tires with which users are familiar. They will be tagged, however, in a manner with which-the public is familiar.

Best results with wire tire experiments to date have been on trucks in normal freight service, which have run from 70,000 to 80,000 miles on the new tires, Fox said. Feature of Visit. His tire discussion was a feature of the first visit to the new Des Moines Firestone factory by Harvey S. Firestone, the com pany's president. The Des Moines plant, employ-! ing 1,000, is producing large tires for tractors, farm implements, trucks and busses, and is slated for production of tires for heavy earth-moving equipment.

Passenger car tires will not be made here. Firestone hinted one problem for the Des Moines plant when he told manufacturers the company constantly is redesigning tractor tires according to the farmer's use of the machine. Csed on Highway. "It is our observation that tractors are used more on the highways as time goes by," Fox said. "The farmer uses it to go to the market, from farm to farm, and to a field of his own which is down the road." This has tended to cause faster wear on tires designed primarily for service off the highway, and tire designers are making farm tires stronger as a result.

it produced its first war tire Mar. 16, 1945. He plans to return to Akron, Ohio, today in the private plane which brought him here. The Des Moines plant was huilt bv the defense plant cor- poration with government funds. and is operated bv Firestone under a lease.

"It is our hope and intention that we may be able to acquire it. for peacetime production," Firestone said. Firestone executives who toured the plant praised its single-floor, streamlined design. They said manufacturing in three and four-story buildings common at Akron involves considerable "lost motion." If you want to own your hqme, speak with us about a made-to-order for your budget home loan. Friendly home town men arrange budgeted monthly payments that reduce principal and interest regularly.

Write today lor oar booklet "Guide to Home Planning" iiiib iiir uv 210 6th Ave. Ph. 4-7119 News from all of Iowa's 99 counties is reported in The Pes Moines Register. rr r. ii tXlk it overT? a on The city election campaign became a little more lively Friday right at Roadside Settlement, where 10 candidates gave their views on how the city should be run.

About 60 persons were there. The meeting was sponsored by the Better Government club of Des Moines and Lee township, an organization backing the candidacy of Harold K. Holden for mayor. Most of the evening's comments centered around the public safety campaign. The Rev.

R. M. Powell, Howard L. Stanbrough, Anthony Rortfenaro and Preston W. Evans, candidate for the post now held by Charles F.

Trip-Jet were present. Triplelt was not. Rordenaro, former G.I., pledged himself to halt "the postwar crime wave," and expressed interest in solving juvenile delinquency problems. He said he would, if elected, "appoint a chief of police, not an office boy." Triplett Accused. Stanbrough started off by accusing Triplett of having his campaign posters printed by a firm in Mason City.

Stanbrough added that his posters were printed by Des Moines union printers. The former fireman advocated an eight-hour day for firemen and said he would "find work" for "high brass" in the fire department, who, he said, do not have much to do. Relative to the police department, Stanbrough said he would put women in charge of juvenile! delinquency work who "know how to raise children." Stanbrough said the vice situation in Des Moines is "worse than rotten." He waved a sheet of paper which he said was full of "potential dynamite." He said he would read it if he were "pushed far enough." But he didn't read it. Powell Disagrees. The Rev.

Mr. Powell took Issue with one of Stanbrough's promises that, if elected, he would put a Negro fire crew in charge of Station No. 8, at 511 S. Sixth st. si "If a Negro Is good enough to serve on the Des Moines fire department he Is good enough to serve on it anywhere," said the Rev.

Mr. Powell. "I'm opposed to segregation." The Rev. Mr. Powell said he was opposed to arresting persons on minor counts and holding them lengthy periods "for investigation." He promised "constitutional arrests." Evans spoke briefly juvenile delinquency, arguing that emphasis should be laid on prevention, rather than cure.

Virker, Daniels Speak. The only two incumbents present were T. Harry Vicker, finance commissioner, and Arthur Daniels, parks commissioner. They tpoke very briefly. Holden, only candidate for mayor present, said he believed Des Moines is behind other cities nf similar size in progress, and urged a home-building program for G.l.s.

"I will not say I will make taxes lower," Holden remarked. "Tares will have to continue high to pay for the services we want." He said he thought economies could be effected, however, in refunding old bond Issues. Mrs. Marie Christ rnsen, candidate for finance, said she is in favor of improving transportation facilities on the southeast side, and said streets in the area should be improved. Pete Welsh, candidate for parks, viewed achievements of his department during the time he was in office from 1032 to IMfi Stirling T.

VVelker, finance candidate, introduced himself. Denmar Miller, 2835 Thirty-Pixth took out nomination petitions at the city clerk's office Friday for the municipal court judgeship. The office is now held by Harry B. Grund under appointment. A ruling will be made today by the city legal department as to whether an election is necessary this year.

Otherwise Grund will hold office until 1948. T. Harry Vicker, 1123 E. Thirteenth filed nomination papers for finance commissioner, his present office. Vicker's petitions bore more than 4,000 names.

Also filing papers were Preston Evans. 1323 E. Thirteenth for commissioner of public safety, and G. Scott Davies, 2100 Grand for Municipal court judge. John Mihalovich Is Declared Dead Philip Mihalovich, 1117 E.

Ninth Friday said he has been informed by the navy department that his son. John Mihalovich. has been officially declared killed in action. John, 32, a machinist's mate, second class, on the aircraft carrier Langley, was picked up on the navy tanker Tecos when the Langley sank in the Pacific during the Battle of the Java sea, Feb. 27, 1942.

The Pecos then was sunk. Young Mihalovich had been listed missing in action. The sailor's father is desirous of contacting shipmates of his pon who might be able give him further details on the death of the former Iowa Packing Co. plant worker. I his former aids in continuing ing program.

Even though the war emergen cy has passed, Kidder said, many; people who got into the gardeningj habit want to continue making! with the radishes and lettuce. Th machinery whereby vlc-tT garden space was obtained ceased to exist officially at the end of the war. Nothing has been found to take the, place of the old setup. Nevertheless, Kidder said, many persons already have made plans to garden their old areas. He said dozens of requests have come to! him and his old garden chairmen: lor assistance in starting up gardens this year.

Plan Junior High. Many of the areas which were gardened during the war, Kidder continued, no longer are available. The old victory garden area near Hickman avenue and Forty-eighth street no longer is available because of school board plans to erect a junior high school there. Another large garden area at E. Twentieth and Walnut streets also cannot be used this year because of plans for erection of a Ford Motor Co.

plant there. To Build Houses. In addition, many lots scat tered throughout the city are be ing withheld this year because of plans for constructing homes on them. The old garden area at Eifihth and Madison streets, however, is available this year. Kidder said, and many persons already have selected garden sites there.

Another garden area north La, 1 1 1 ri rt 1 rtvnnir ri eighth and Sixtieth streets also is approved. Two other areas, one on the west and one on the north side, also can be gardened but at the gardeners' own risk. Damaged by Water. Kidder said he had a rough time of it from gardeners whose, crops were damaged there last year by wet weather. Roth are in lowland areas: one south of Hanawalt school, 225 Fifty-sixth and the other near the Euclid avenue bridge, north of Euclid, at Twen tieth street and Euclid avenue Prospective gardeners should band together, Kidder said, permit plowmen to prepare several gardens at once for seeding.

This would make the proposition more attractive to plowmen, Kidder continued, and would make the cost per garden less. Kidder added that he would notified his other, Mrs. Mary Stearns, 2423 Thirty-sixth st. The young man was graduated from Glen-wood High school in 1940, and enlisted in August. stkahs.

After service on the submarine S2S, he was transferred to the suhmarine Tulli- bee in February, 1943, on which! he was when it was sunk while tracking a Japanese convoy near the Palace islands. Only known survivor of the TuUibee was C. W. Kuykcndall, Wichita Falls. taken prisoner and later liberated from a Japanese prison camp.

Stearns' wife, of Council Bluffs, recently ovven' to Texas to talk with the lone survivor Besides his wife and mother, Stearns is survived by three brothers, Clark, recently discharged from the navy; Byron, now in service at Brussels, Belgium; and Ralph, of Des Moines. Deadline Tuesday On Drake Auditions Entries in the Drake Civic Symphony Young Artists auditions must he filed before Tuesday, Frank Noyes, director of the orchestra, said Friday. Auditions will be held Mar. 9. Winners will appear with the symphony in- its final concert of the season May 5.

Vocalists and instrumentalists between 17 and 25 are eligible if they are residents- of Des Moines and are studying with Des Moines teachers. Applications should be made in writing to Mrs. Lewis Bolton, 3829 Woods drive. JURORS INDICT GLADYS RAND Mrs. Gladys Rand, former owner of the Mainliner club Friday afternoon was indicted by Polk county grand jurors for violation of Iowa liquor laws.

She is the wife of Pete A. Rand, earlier prosecuted in three liquor and gambling cases. She is scheduled to appear before District Judge Tom K. Murrow for ar- gladys band, raignment this morning. Mrs.

Rand was one of 13 per sons indicted in the grand jury's final report for the January term of court. She was accused of a general violation of the liquor statutes, involving illegal possession and sale of liquor at the club. Conviction would carry a maximum jail sentence of one year, a fine not to exceed or both. The Rands, who live at 1809 S. K.

First had been identified with the Mainliner for more than five years before constables raided it last June. Mrs. Rand, though present at the time of the raid, was not arrested by constables. Hinted During Trial. Hints that Mrs.

Rand might be indicted developed during the recent third offense trial of her husband. A major point in Rand's de fense was that, his wife owned the Mainliner, handled all its business affairs and directed its operations. County Attorney Vernon Seeburger, during the case, once suggested that if evidence showed Mrs. Rand was actually the operator of the club, "she, too, might be in court one of these (lays, herself." She has not been previously arrested nor charged with any criminal offense. Into Custody.

The constables arrested Rand and Robert Knote, a gambling room employee, in the June raid. Iater, Rand and Knote were tried by jury for keeping a gambling house. Rand was convicted and sentenced to serve a year in jail and pay a $300 fine. Knote was acquitted. Subsequently Rand was tried for contempt of a 1928 Jiquor injunction, on grounds his activities at the Mainliner violated the court order.

He was convicted and sentenced to jail for six months. A fine of 51,000 was assessed. Appeals will be taken in both the gambling and contempt cases. Third Violation. Rand recently was tried on a charge of violating liquor laws for a third time, but a jury disagreed.

Still pf nding in district court against him are the third offense case and a fonspiracy charge. i Hand and his wife also have been named defendants in a liquor injunction action, due for trial within the next 10 days. John Kennelley, who reportedly bought the Mainliner from the Rands in October, also is a defendant in that proceeding. Grand jurors other indictments included those, against George Charles Gray, 47. Cleveland, Ohio, for uttering and drawing false checks; Curtis Eugene 31, of, 1029 Twelfth for breaking and entering; Charles Peoples, 25, of 1514 Scott for larceny in the nighttime; and Floyd E.

Yates, 17, Madrid, for robbery w-ith aggravation in the $11 holdup of a Des Moines grocer. Name's of the eight persons indicted In other cases wer with held until they are arrested pr arraigned in court- slot machine transaction in which Strong Front Tires. Constable Basil Grossnickle, Avon! Another trend has been toward Lake, was reported to have been'm0re equipment which attaches involved. to the front end of the tractor. In asking the removal of Gross- making stronger front tires neces-nickle from office, five Des sary.

Moines men accused the consta-j Firestone visited the Des ble of willful misconduct, alleging Moines plant almost a year after A Bachelor. Spriggs, a bachelor, had been living at the home of his niece, Mrs. Clara Cox, of 506 E. Aurora, since November when suffered a broken shoulder in a fall on his farm south of Prairis City. Just before the accident Cox reported to police that was was Spr iggs, who recently stricken with pneumonia missing from her home.

She said be last was seen by nighbors sit- ting on the front porch at 9 a. m. State Highway Patrolman N. B. Wilson said Spriggs ap-.

parent ly was attempting- to hitchhike home at the time he was struck. Wilson said Wallace, told him he was driving at a moderate rate of speed. Spriggs' body was taken to the Lyle Burr Funeral home at Miteh-ellville. 1016 Iowa. Motor Vehicle Deaths Same Date, J1M5.

87 .52 One-Fourth Block Sold for $50,000 Recording of the deed disclosed Friday that Joseph Domamcc, operator of the Green Parrot night club, has purchased one-fourth of a business' block at Eighth and Mulberry streets for $50,000. The property, 132 by 132 feet, includes the night club. Majestic hotel and a parking lot. 1 Selling the quarter block was the Majestic previously owner of the buildings and vacant lot. Domanico resides at 944 Loomis ave.

Or INI COCeVCUA COA'ANT IT Probe Upset of 'Stolen' Track police Friday night were investigating circumstances surrounding an accident in which a pick-up truck left the pavement and upset at E. Twenty-second street and Easton boulevard, The truck was reported stolen a few minutes atter the accident by J. D. Cotter, of 2731 Kinsey who said he was the owner. Later Traffic Patrolmen Nick Kerpon and Robert James said they found Cotter in the Des Moines General hospital suffering from a broken shoulder.

The patrolmen said Cotter admitted being in an accident but asserted he couldn't remember anything about it. Cotter had reported the truck was stolen from Fourth and Locust streets. Hannah Grace Eddy Dies; Church Leader (Th Rgi.ir Iowa News Scrvic. JOHNSTON. Hannah Grace Eddy, 70, wife of the Rev.

D. C. Eddy. Newton, died Friday at the home here of her daughter, Mrs. Byron B.

McKibben. She suffered a stroke about five months ago. Services will be Tuesday at 2:00 p. m. in First Free Methodist Church, Twenty second and Clark streets, Des Moines, with MRS.

EDDY. burial in Polk' City cemetery. Mrs. Eddy was prominent for more than 50 years in the work of the Free Methodist church in Iowa. She was a member of the W.C.T.U.

Surviving in addition to her husband are five daughters and one son. Fined $50 in Sale Of Beer to Boys Leo J. Rogers, 1334 E. Fourteenth Friday pleaded guilty in municipal court to charges of making beer available to juveniles and was fined $50. Two charges of contributing to the delinquency of persons under 18 were dismissed.

Rogers admitted he sold beer on sev-eral occasions to two teen-aged boys who he said appeared with notes signed by their parents requesting the beer. Rogers is manager of the Cleveland pharmacy, 1346 Cleveland ave. The boys said they were sent for the beer by three women who invited them-into the house and subsequently were intimate with them. The threa women have been charged with contributing to the delinquency of I -A -a kjr Aff5SS 1 ht Refreshment riSEa 11... niachinp operations Cafeteria Manager.

Seeburger said he also had, subpoenaed Thomas McCauley, former cafeteria manager at the Des Moines ordnance plant, to whom Grossnickle has admitted! he talked about placement of slot machines. Grossnickle testified July 13, however, the machines were not his but belonged to a friend. The ouster petitions against Constables R. O. Barton, Altoona; C.

Smith, Delaware township, and A. F. Kempton, Saylor township, accused them of accepting money for their raiding services from Paul W. Walters, a Des Moines attorney who is now vice president of the Civic Action committee. Walters a Witness.

No subpoena has been issued for Walters, but Seeburger reported he intended to call the attorney as a witness. Mac Byers. chief deputy sher- iff, and the five men who brought the removal proceedings are to be subpoenaed by the state, along with the sheriff. Trial of the case will begin at 9 a. m.

Wednesday before Judge Norman Hays, Knoxville, assigned by the supreme court to hear the matter. 100 Stenographers Wanted Wo have unfilled rails for least. 200 competent stenographers. There is no reason why any young lady with fairly Rood education and a real ambition tn succeed should be a waitress, run an elevator, or scrub floors. To ambitious, industrious youni? women, business training opens the way to satisfactory living.

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