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How to Find It: Comics Page 12 Health Page 7 Cooking Page 6 Radio Page 11 Editorials Page 4 Weather Page 13 THK WEATHER Fair, quite warm today and Wednesday; high today 93 to 100. THE NEWSPAPER IOWA DEPENDS UPON PRICE 5 CENTS DES MOINES, IOWA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 6, 1948. SIXTEEN PAGES Enteral cond-clara matter Oct. 19. 1918.

at tha of flea at Molnaa, Iowa, und.r tha Act of March 3, ISTa. nj A Md mm HO THEY SAY IT WAS A NICE QUIET DAY IN TOWN. Actress Carole Landis Ends Life, Leaves Note WILL NOT MAKE RACE FOR ANY IOWA HOLIDAY TOLL BOOSTED BY 4 DEATHS ARABS REJECT U. N. PROPOSAL OF NEW TRUCE Af -rJ i if WOULD XOU yC ViXr KINDLY LET US PaSS.I tV VoA Film Actress Carole Landis.

HOLLYWOOD, CAL. (U.P,) Blonde Actress Carole Landis, 29, the screen's original sweater girl, committed PUBLIC OFFICE Truman's Party Foes Split on Next Step, NEW YORK, N. Y. (U.P.) Gen. Dwisrht D.

Eisen- hower Monday night blocked a snowballing drive to nomi nate him as the Democratic candidate for president. The general in a new statement said: "I will not, at this time, Identify myself with any polit- I leal party, and could not ac- i cept nomination for any pub-. lie office or participate in partisan political contest." Eisenhower's statement came as the "Draft Ike" movement had seen such key Democratic figures as James Roosevelt, New Jersey Frank Hague and New York City's Mayor William CDwyer jumping on the bandwagon to "dump" President Truman as th party's nominee. The general's statement took the unusual form of a memorandum to Robert Harron, director of public information at Columbia university, which Eisenhower now heads. Roosevelt to Persist.

The memorandum drew an admission from several pro-Eisenhower leaders that he was definitely out of the race. But James Roosevelt asserted in Los Angeles, Cai that the statement indicates that he will not serve as a partisan president but answer a call to national duty." i Roosevelt said he was re-issuing the call for a draft-Eisenhower caucus to be held in Philadelphia, Penn Saturday night. Arvey "Disappointed." However, virtual concession that "Ike" was out of it came from such backers as Leon Henderson, head of the Americans for Democratic Action; Senators John J. Sparkman and Lister Hill of Alabama, and Chicago Democratic Leader Jacob Arvey, who had been one of Eisenhower's most vigorous supporters. Arvey said he "was very di- appointed." The scene of Eisenhower's momentous announcement was the quiet, rain-swept campus of Columbia university a marked contrast to the tumul- tuous Philadelphia convention i halL The general played golf during 1 the day.

He gave a snappish "no comment" to reporters who buttonholed him when he returned to his campus home late in the afternoon. But at 9:30 p. Harron told reporters he would have a state- EISENHOWER Continued on Page Five. I EISENHOWER'S STATEMENT NEW YORK, N. Y.Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower's statement Monday night regarding attempts to draft him as Democratic presidential nominee took the form of a memorandum to Robert Harron, Columbia iiniversity press representative. Eisenhoiver is president of Columbia. Girl, 18, Is Killed by Aerial Bomb. (Tht RegUter'i Iowa Newi Service.

The Iowa holiday death toll took another sharp jump Monday with one death in a fireworks accident, two deaths caused by the heat and one by drowning. The four new deaths were added to a Sunday toll of eight four by automobile, three by drowning and one by lightning. At Storm Lake, Harriet Currie, 18, of Schaller, was injured fatally early Monday when a Fourth of July aerial bomb misfired and exploded in her face. Miss Curne was seated in a crowd watching the fireworks display at the east end of the lake when the bomb was set off about 12:30 a. m.

Hit Her Face. It shot back into the crowd, hit her face and exploded. Offi cials said her face was nearly torn off. Taken to a Storm Lake hos pital, she was pronounced dead on arrival. A graduate of Schaller High school in 1947, she attended Rockford college at Rockford, 111., last year.

She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed ward Currie of Schaller. Her father is connected with the Schaller State bank. Four broth ers also survive.

Youth Drowns. Eugene Fischer, 18, of Calu met, drowned at 3:15 p. m. Mon day while swimming in the Little Sioux river at Sutherland with a brother and brother-in- law. Witnesses said Fischer, a good swimmer, apparently suffered a cramp and went down.

Efforts to save him were unsuccessful. Services have been set for Thursday afternoon at Suther land. The body was taken to HOLIDAY Continued on Page Five. Vandenberg Wins Freedom Award NEW YORK, N. Y.

Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Mich.) Monday was named winner of the Freedom House's 1948 freedom award. Freedom House's board of di rectors "unanimously and enthusiastically" named Vandenberg for the award for leading, "above party and ambition, a united American people in the service of free world." Presentation of a bronze plaque will be made at the organization's seventh anniversary dinner at the Waldorf, Oct 10. Previous recipients of the award included Wendell Willkie, Walter Lippmann, Sumner Welles, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Bernard M.

Baruch and Secretary of State George Marshall. HEAT AND RAINS Des Moines Temperatures. Following are the temperatures jfrom noon to midnight Monday in Des Moines: Map Battle Strategy Against Jews. CAIRO, EGYPT The pow erful military committee of the Arab league Monday rejected any proposal to ex tend the four-week truce in Palestine and voted to re sume full-scale fighting at noon Friday. A member of the committee said each day of the truce strengthens the Jews.

Informants said the committee, Including high-ranking army commanders, co-ordinated all plans for a hig campaign in Palestine and considered naming King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan supreme commander of the armies of the seven Arab nations. Seeks Extension. Count Folke Bernadotte, mean while, still sought Jewish and Arab agreement to extend the truce and proposed the demilitarization of Jerusalem and Haifa port. The United Nations mediator took these steps as both the Jews and Arabs were reported author! tatively to have rejected his par tition plan for a permanent Pal estine peace. Bernadotte said if the Jews and Arabs accept extension in principle, discussions will be held as to its length.

Well-informed sources said the political committee of the Arab league approved a proposal by the military committee to relieve the armies in Palestine of administra tive duties in occupied Jewish set tlements. This would leave the army free to concentrate on military opera tions. Mufti Mentioned. It was suggested it might bring back into the limelight Haj Amin Al-Husseini, grand mufti of Jeru salem and No. 1 enemy of the Jews, who has political machinery in Palestine and might take over most administrative duties.

Making Abdullah supreme com mander would center operations at his capital of Amman. The Jews hoped for peace but prepared for war. They raised the draft age for the army from 35 to 41 and tried out new searchlights purchased for the defense of Tel Aviv. Under the eyes of United Nations observers, 2,200 Jews arrived in Haifa from Cyprus. Another 2,000 were on their way the van guard of 20,000 Israeli officials hope to get into Israel as soon as feasible.

The Jews were taken to Cyprus after vain attempts to smash the British blockade of Palestine dur ing the days of mandate rule WILL FIGHT ON. JERUSALEM, PAL, ESTINE t3 A Jewish military leader Monday night said Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern group will fight on until Jerusalem is a part of Israel even' if the Israeli army accepts an extension of the Pales tine truce. RAPS U. S. TACTICS.

AMMAN, TRANS JORDAN (UJ.) King Abdullah, appeal ing for a change in United States policy toward Palestine, Monday said his people had more respect for Russia's frank aggressiveness than for America's "knife in the back" tactics. The king said he extended his personal greetings to the United States but that present American Palestine policy was alienating the friendship of the entire Arab world. Ship Asks Help; Crashed in Fog BOSTON. MASS. (U.P.)- The Swedish ship Ella Seln reported Monday it had been in a collision in dense fog about 240 miles south of Greenland.

The distress call was picked up by the coast guard and the cutter Sebago was ordered, to proceed to the assistance of the Swedish vessel. The Sebago was at station Charlie, about 60 miles south of Greenland where the cutter Ribb rescued the survivors of the Bermuda Sky Queen last year when it was forced down In the north Atlantis. sively upon judgment a to their military abilities. "Xo Dearth of Men." "Politics is a profession; a ser ious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. "in ine American scene I see no dearth of men fitted by training, talent and integrity for na tional leadership.

On tha other hand, nothing in the international or domestic situation especially qualifies for the most Important office in the world a man whose adult years have been spent in the country's military forces. At least this is true in my case." U. N. Peace Group En Route to India ROME, ITALY UP) A special United Nations plane carrying a 15-man United Nations peace commission to India landed here Monday. Settlement of border troubles between India and Pakistan is among the commission's suicide Monday.

She was found dead in her Brentwood home by Actor Rex Harrison. She left a note which gave no reason for her action. A bottle of sleeping plls was found in her bedroom. Harrison told police he found the long-legged beauty lying on the ba floor. In an adjoining room was a note a ssed to 'Dearest Mom- HARBISON.

mie and read: "I'm sorry, really sorry, to put you through this. But there is no way to avoid it. I love you, darling, you have been the most wonderful Mom ever and that applies to all our family. "I love each and every one of them dearly. Everything goes to you.

Look in the files and there is a will which decrees everything. "Good by, my Angel. Pray for me." It was signed, "Your Baby." "Definitely Suicide. Detectives said she had been dead 10 or 12 hours when found at 3 p. m.

"This is definitely a they said. Fanny May Bolden, 37, Miss Landis' maid, told police that Harrison, husband of Actress Lilli Palmer, had been lunching, swimming and dining with Miss Landis daily for the last several weeks. He was at her home for dinner Sunday night at about 9 o'clock. Miss Bolden said the British actor telephoned her late Monday morning and asked if Miss Landis had awakened and she said no. "He told me if she was not up by 2:30 that I should go to her room and awaken her," she said.

He called back, however, and told her not to disturb Miss Landis because he was coming over. Knock on Door. Harrison told police he went to the home and with the maid knocked on the door. "I entered and found her," he saia. i tnought I detected a pulse beat so I called a doctor, The hospital told me to call the police, so I did." Held Ribbon.

The actress was found sprawled in a corner, her head pillowed on a brown-leather jewel box. In her left hand she held a satin ribbon bearing the Lord's Prayer in gold lettering. She was clad in a white lace blouse and a checked skirt. Artist James Montgomery Flagg had described the voluptuous actress "physical silhouette" as "startling, bordering on the magnificent." Miss Bolden said Miss Landis had been living alone since her separation from her fourth hus band, Producer Horace Schmid lapp, whom she sued for divorce Weds at 14; Courthouse -Data Missing By Clark Mollenhoff. A 14-year-old Des Moines bride and her husband, 19, claimed Monday they kept their marriage license from being made public by paying a courthouse clerk $5 to withhold the record.

The young couple, married Saturday afternoon, already have been separated by the girl's parents, while they decide whether to seek annulment of the marriage. The bride is pretty, brown- eyed Bonnie Faler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Faler. of 4223 PICTURE: Page 5.

Bowdoin st. Her husband is Gerald Newton, a navy veteran, who rented an apartment at 715 Sixteenth st. just before the mar riage. Judge "Fooled." Gerald is a production worker at the Globe Hoist Co. Bonnie re- Lentlv comnieted eighth erade at lPanarv TUp mrthPt nf ithe Htv District Judge C.

Edwin Moore, who performed the ceremony at his courthouse office, said he was "completely fooled" about the girl's age. She is 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. She had not had a chance yet COLTLE Continued on Page Five. BLANKET STATE was forecast for today and Wed nesday. The forecast was for tempera tures up to 100 in Iowa again today.

99 in Sioux City. At Sioux City, the mercury reached 99, tieing the reading there for July 1. A new season's record also was set at Des Moines, where the reading was 97. The previous high here was 91 degrees June 2 and 10. Spencer and Council Bluffs also reported readings of 97.

The mer cury reached 96 at Atlantic. Detours were established at several places in southwest Iowa where heat caused paving to buckle. The detours were at points near Audubon, Wiota, Glenwood, Tabor and Atlantic. Inside The Register The Russians Monday broadly hinted their 17-day blockade of Berlin is aimed at starting new four-power talks on Germany. Read story on Page four months ago.

They were married in 1945. Previously she had been mar ried to Writer Irvine Wheeler. whom she married when she was only 15; Hollywood Broker Willis Hunt, and Capt. Tom Wallace, army air force pilot. Her first marriage lasted 25 days, her second 62 days.

Friends said Miss Landis had been suffering from a recurrent attack of malarial fever which she incurred during a U.S.O. tour of overseas fronts during the war. Attorney Jerry Giesler, who was handling her divorce case, said he did not believe the suit had anything to do with her death. The actress had charged cruelty in the suit. First Starring Role.

Miss Landis began her movie career in 1937 and received her first starring role as a cave woman in David Ward Griffith's "One Million B. made in 1940. After that she rose fast, playing in such pictures as "I Wake Up Screaming," "Orchestra Wives" "Powers Girl" and "Four Jills In a Jeep." The last picture was an account of her war-time tour of army camps through North Africa with Martha Ray, Kay Francis and Mitzi Mayfair. Miss Landis had been out of the movies for a year and a half, but was to go into another pic ture in about a month at Eagle Lion studios. Her last film was "Out of the Blue." Miss Landis was born at Fair- child, and moved to San Diego, when she was a small child.

She was educated there and at San Bernardino, Cal. Dubbed "Ping Girl." After graduating from high school in 1936, she went to San Francisco, where she sang and danced with orchestras. The actress then went to Holly wood, where she was a virtual unknown until a publicity man dubbed her the "Ping Girl." Her real name was Frances Ridste. She was of Polish and Norwegian extraction. Miss Landis is survived by her father, Alfred L.

Ridste of Rich mond, her mother, Clara Landis, Seminole Mrs. 3 Hot! 5 Springs, near Cornell, a sis ter, Mrs. Walter L. Ross, Long Beach, and a brother, Lawrence B. Ridste, San Bernardino, Cal.

HUSBAND SHOCKED. CINCINNATI, OHIO (U.P.) Horace Schmidlapp, husband of Carole Landis, Monday night said he was "terribly shocked" when told his wife had been found dead. He said he was in Cincinnati on a business trip. Schmidlapp said divorce action had been "continuing." VISITED IOWA. Carole Landis visited Iowa and Des Moines in late August, 1945, to take part in a world premiere showing of "State Fair," a movie based on the novel by Phil Stong.

While here. Miss Landis made a number of personal appearances before a crowded city. a 'Ike' Unsmiling About It All sit Text of the memorandum: "I know that your office has for some days been overburdened with innumerable queries concerning my intentions in regard to the current political situation. "My decisions and earnest convictions concerning possible personal connection with thia year's political contest were given to the public several months ago but it now appears there has arisen a question as to whether or not I have changed my position. "Profoundly touched by the renewed suggestion that I could satisfactorily fill high public office, my views with respect to my proper course of duty are still identical with those presented in the letter I wrote on Jan.

23, 1948. "No Room for Doubt." 'In response to any further queries as to my course of action during the foreseeable future, and in order that there may be no possible room for doubt in the mind of any interested American, will you please invite attention to the firm purposes expressed in my January letter and quote tne tollowing as coming per sonally from me. 'I shall continue, subject to the pleasure of the university trustees, to perform the important duties I have undertaken as president of Columbia. will not, at this time, identify myself with any political party and could not accept nomination for any public office or participate in partisan political contests. 'This implies no intention of maintaining silence on any issue of importance to the country on which I may feel qualified to express an opinion." The letter that General Eisenhoiver wrote last Jan.

ZS, which he said Monday night is identical icith his present views, was addressed to Leonard V. Finder, publisher of the Manchester (N. Evening Leader when Eisenhower was being suggested as a Republican candidate. A part of the letter follows: "It is my conviction that the necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power will be best sustained and our people will have greater confi dence that it is so sustained when lifelong professional soldiers in the absence of some obvious and overriding reasons, abstain from seeking high political office. "This truth has a possible in verse application.

I would regard it as unalloyed tragedy for our country if ever should come the day when military commanders might be selected with an eye to their future potentialities in the political field rather than exclu 6 p. m. 7 p. m. 8 p.

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It p. m. Midnight .96 .91 .87 .85 .83 .80 .77 p- P. A new high temperature reading for the state this year was recorded Monday when the mercury reached the 100-degree mark at Sac City. This reading, and others ranging in the high 90's in widely scattered areas, came after tor rential rains, ranging up to 6 inches, had caused damage at several points in eastern Iowa Monday morning.

6 Inches at Lowden. hix incnes or rain Drought a flash flood to Lowden, in Cedar county, 40 miles west of Clinton. Other heavy rains included 5.52 inches at the Mississippi river dam northeast of Burlington, 4.73 inches at Wapello, 4.50 inches at Morning Sun, 3.71 inches at Mus catine and 2.76 inches at Keokuk. A blanket of hot and humid weather continued to hang over other parts of Iowa and no change RR 90 90 92 94 95 p. m.

97 I (II 'I1 1 ill a ins was the unsmiling Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower who first declined comment to reporters asking if he was going to allow himself to be drafted by the Democrats for president. Later hs Issued a statement tbatl oobM not aooen." WIBEPOOro SU.