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Tonight: Akron's BigSesquicenlennial Parade! Sunday: Akron's Soap Box Derby! They're BothFree! AKRON BEACON JOUMI NIGHT FINAL Five Cents A Window In The Coffin Stalin There Page 12 Ohio Most Complete Newspaper Saturday, July 25, 1953 NO. 231 114th Year 30 Pages Flee To Freedom In Fake Tank 450 Hoys Wait Starling iun 10,000 Visit Downs. See Derby Racers mm SODOMY Fool Border Patrol In Wild Dash Car Smashes Barbed Wire MORE THAN 10,000 attended the open house at Derby Downs to see the 450 racers entered in Sunday's Beacon Journal Soap Box Derby. Meanwhile, final preparation were being made for the local classic with crews putting finishing touches on the track, bleachers and. bridge.

Handling crews composed of employes of the B. F. Goodrich Co" moved the tiny racers into the bowl for the public's Inspection, and kept watch over the crowd and the cars last -night. Hlhle uoer 73 Sen. Tobey, Crime Foe, Dies Of Heart Attack WASHINGTON UP) A blood of Sen.

Charles W. Tobey, the who used a ready store of Bible anything else he opposed. fiery Last night, just two days after his 73rd birthday, Tobey died at the nearby Bethesda (Md.) Naval Hospital of coronary IliSliiHIll wliBllif mi pi clot in his fceart took the life New Hampshire Republican quotations to fight crime or attack In his office yesterday afternoon. rne senate, aitnougn naving a heavy gchedule, adjourned until Monday after passing a resolution of sorrow at Mr. Tobey's passing and provided for the appointment of a committee to attend his fu neral.

Services and burial will be at Temple, N. Tuesday afternoon, PRESIDENT Eisenhower, in Quantico, sent a message of condolence to Mrs. Tobey at her Alexandria, home. "There will never be another Sen. Tobey," said Sen.

Kefauver, Tennessee Democrat, who headed the crime investigating committee on which Tobey served. "His outstanding contribution on the committee will be remem bered around the nation," Kefauver added. "People always re-sponded to him after his stern lectures." THE DEATH wipes out the Republican majority in the Senate, but New Hampshire's Gov. Hugh Gregg, a Republican, is expected to name a Republican to fill the vacancy. The Senate lineup now stands: 47 Republicans, 47 Democrats and one Independent, Wayne Morse of Oregon.

Mr. Tobey's green eyeshade. to protect him against the glare of television lights and his way of dressing down accused racketeers with words from the Bible and the classics were almost a trademark of the Kefauver committee's 1951 investigations. The committee dug Into big-time gambling, underworld alliances and vice conditions In cities from coast to coast. Mr.

Tobey, who said the probe showed racketeer ing was a "national disease," once interrupted a hearing to plead, with tears streaming down his face, for a return to religion. But the peppery senator could See SEN. TOBEY, Page 2 thrombosis. He had suffered an TELEVISION FANS will remember Sen. Tobey In this pose as he questioned witnesses during the Kefauver crime Investigation.

AP 7 ii 4 Center of attraction at the cur showing was a gigantic llftln? de vice that will be used at Sunday's Derby to hoist the racers from the ground to the top of the starting ramp. The lift is powerful enough to carry three cars and their drivers onto the ramp, MOST OF Sunday's entries were In the crowd at the Rubber Bowl 'Another photo on Page 20. Special Derby section Pages 21 to 29. to look over the competition, and to get one last pre-race look at their own cars. The boys hovered over their racers with a pride that comes only to a Derby contestant.

Most parents and other adults stayed in the background, but the children younger than Derby age (11 to 15) were eager to get up close. But officials report It was an orderly crowd and "no damage was done to any of the ALL DERBY participants will march in the Sesquicentenhial pa rade tonight through the downtown area. They will meet at 6 p. m. at Grace Park, Prospect and Perkins to receive their racing shirts and helmets.

Maybe the long parade march will tire the boys enough to give them a good night's rest tonight. Ana almost without doubt they'll all be dreaming of becoming the Champion of the 16th Beacon Journal Soap Box Derby, Ground Overhead in This Cage from Our WftahlnftM Burtta WASHINGTON Even the ground is overhead along the fabulous Bio Grande. No, this is not another Texas story. It comes from New Mexico, where government contracts have been awarded for 364 miles of overhead ground wires on power transmission lines of the Rio Grande Project. The overhead grounds are protection against lightning, ac-according to the Bureau of Reclamation, Interior Department.

3rd Marines To Far East QUANTICO MARINE BASE, Va. The 3rd Marine Division Is being sent 'to the Far East White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced to day. The 3rd Marine Division Is headquartered at Camp Pendleton, Cal. Part of the division, however, is In Hawaii.

The 1st Marine Division has been In Korea since early in the war, but Hagerty said he could not say whether that division will remain or be withdrawn from the war rone. "The only thing I can say," Hagerty said, "Is that the 3rd Marine Division has been assigned to Gen. Mark Clark in the Far East theater." rv iife. I Panmunjom May Not See Top Generals Plans Changed For Ceremonies PANMUNJOM (Military personel heading for Korea from Japan was ordered to give up arms and ammunition at Tokyo's Tachikawa Airport tonight amid mounting reports that a Korean truce may be signed within a matter of hours. An Important announcement expected from Gen.

Mark W. Clark's Another Plot? PANMUNJOM tflPl The roof leaks on that peace pagoda the Communists put up here in four hurried days and Communist correspondents said all the leaks are on the United Nations Side. headquarters was delayed at the last minute without explanation. There was no hint as to what the announcement would be, but Clark might annouce the time for signing an armistice halting more than three years of bloodshed. Allied and Communist liaison officers, who met five times today were reported to have wrapped up final details for the sign ing cenemonies.

ARRANGEMENTS for the sign ing were top secret, but informed quarters indicated original plans for the top military commanders of both sides to appear at Panmunjom have been changed and the truce negotiators will sign instead. The 27 copies would then be mailed to headquarters of the commanders. There was no explanation tfor the order banning arms and ammunition aboard Korea-bound planes, but it was an order which would given If cease-fire had been agreed upon. Liaison officers ended their dramatic meetings at 6:30 p. a.

m. Akron time) after three recesses. They announced there would be no meetings Sunday, indicating their work had been completed. REVISED PLANS for the truce signing reportedly call for the senior armistice negotiators Lt. Gen.

William K. Harrison for the United Nations Command and North Korean Gen. Nam II for the Communists to sign the truce and put lt into force. It would halt the fighting within 12 hours. The top military commanders-Clark, North Korean Marshal Kim Sung and Chinese Gen.

Peng Teh-hual would sign at their respective headquarters later. No reason was given for the reported change in plans, but Korean sources had said earlier that Kim might not travel to Panmun- See DETAILS, Page 2 Today's. Chuckle One housewife to another, over the back fence: "I got to thinking yesterday you know how you do when the TV is broken. Acmt Stl New TIRED AND HUNGRY, Emma Bowers, 5, Vests In the arms of her mother, Mrs. Casey Bowers, after searchers found the child along railroad tracks near their Connells ville, home.

With them is Emma's father. The child, mute and hard of hearing, had been missing two days. AP Story on Page 13. 1 Purged Or Promoted? Ike Predicts Red German Rule's Doom QUANTICO, Va. UF President Eisenhower today called the Red government of East Germany "bankrupt regime," and predicted eventual "liquidation of the pre ent Communist dictatorship and the Soviet occupation." The President, here for confer ences of defense leaders, made public a message he has sent to Chancellor Adenauer Of West Ger many, calling anew for free elee tiona in Germany and "formation of a free all-German government, leading to unification" of the country.

MR. EISENHOWER said, too, that the idea of free elections and Unification is in no way Incompatible with creation of the European Defense Community, which provides for a European army Joining forces of France, West Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. Russia all alone has rejected an American move to bring about free elections throughout Germany as a requisite to unification. The' West, German republic, which has signed a separate peace with the United States and its Western Allies, is now linked with the North Atlantic Treaty organization. Gov.

Lausche Leads Sesqui Fete Tonight The years will march In review tonight as the Parade of Progress through downtown Akron marks Summit County's participation in the celebration of the 150th year of Ohio as a state. Led by Gov. Lausche and the mayors of all communities in the county, the parade will move at 7 p. m. south on Main at.

The 19 bands, 33 floats. and 61 marching units will enter the Tonight's Sesquicentennial parade will be televised by WAKR-TV, starting at 7 and continuing as long as there is daylight enough to get clear picture. This will be the first "live" telecast of a major news event by WAKR-TV. business district at N. Main and Federal sts.

and march to Buchtel av. where the parade will turn East to High st. and then north to EL Center where it will disband. THE OLDEST active woman, Mrs. Jennie Burton, 90, and oldest active man, Alanson Barker, 96, will have places of honor in the parade.

Following the parade there will be a reception for Gov. Lausche at Mayflower Hotel. Another big event will be the All Nations Ball, to be held on the parking deck of the M. O'Neil Co. from 9:30 to midnight.

Various nationality groups will perform native dances in costume. I Sunday Sunny AKRON AND VICINITY Sunny today, high near 80. Fair and cooler tonight, low 65. Sunday sunny with a high of 85. Friday's high 73, low 53.

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13 1 JO a. m. DAILY nifFEftATVRI CHART Mlllmum Minimum MUNICH, Germany CP) A homemade armored car, so cleverly built that it fooled Czech border guards, crashed through the Iron Curtain today bringing eight to safety in the West. navanan norder police said a 81-year-old Ciech mechanic, his wife and their two small children, two Czech soldiers and a civilian man and woman, roared across to freedom near Wald-Muenchen In Southern liavaria. They asked asylum.

They first reported the vehicle to be a tank, but said later it Was a beautlfully-bullt armored car with tank treads, so well done that they had assumed it was a Czech army tank. IT WAS decked with foliage as camouflage and as it rammed through the barbed wire barrier near Wald-Muenchen, a Czech army patrol, heavily armed, watched it open-mouthed. They apparently believed it a Czech armored reconnaissance car and held their fire. A Oerman border official de dined to give the names of any of the occupants. They were taken to Cham, near Wald-Muen chen, and turned over to U.

Army Intelligence officials. In such cases refugees are not per mitted to talk with outsiders until Interrogation is completed. But a border policeman said the- young mechanic, a native of Pllsen, told this story: Two years ago he decided to flee. Painfully he collected pieces of scrap iron and steel. Secretly, he built the armored car which was to bring him to freedom.

After 24 months of labor the vehicle was ready, built alone Czech army lines. He fitted It with tank treads. THE TWO soldiers and the two civilians were friends of his. The mechanic's wife was readied and so were their two children. They got a pistol and a tommy- gun and at 3 a.

left Pllsen. In the Wald-Muenchen area, they drove along the frontier where the road adjoins the heavy barbed-wire barricades set up by Czech Army patrols. The young mechanic wrenched the wheel and the tank plunged off the road and headed toward the barbed wire A Czech Army squad watched, apparently puzzled at the sudden veering of the car. They still had their mouths open ag its metal snout ripped the barbed wire and the machine rumbled to freedom wot a cnanenge was made nor a shot fired. Mother Kills Son, Self CHICAGO U.R A mother shot and killed her young son, a cerebral palsy victim, as he sat strapped in his wheel chair and then committed suicide, police said today.

Police described the deaths of Mrs. Theresa Kovar, 41, and her 9-year-old son, Donald, in suburban Berwyn, 111., as a "mercey killing and a suicide." Officers said the mother shot her only son through the heart with a .22 automatic pistol and then shot herself in the head. to the sect's convention in New A Tennessee Boy Scout who V. Edmonds, 14, of Kingston, Fate Of Zaisser, Red Gestapo Boss, Clouded BERLIN WW--Mystery surrounded the ouster of Red. Gestapo Boss Wilhelm Zaisser today.

Rumors he is under secret arrest in East Berlin, victim of a "Beria purge," were offset by reports he would come back to head both army and police. The bull-faced German the "General Gomez" of Spanish Civil War fame was suddenly replaced as chief of state security by Ernest Wollweber and his 100.000 oolice aeenta were nut Last flasps Of War? Always Armistice 'Tomorrow' Is under control of the interior ministry. It was the biggest Communist By KEYES BEECH Bcietn Jurnal-Chl Daily Ntwi Scrflct AT A MARINE BATTALION COMMAND VoST. Korea shakeup in the East German re- public's four-year history, Rumors were that Zaisser who often bragged he possessed a direct pipeline to Lavrenty P. Beria had now forfeited his liberty because of his generation-long friendship with the purged Soviet police boss.

Unconfirmed reports said Wollweber, in taking over Zalsser's office, had immediately begun a drastic investigation of all Zalsser's staff, seeking scapegoats who failed to weed out "Fascist provocateurs" in Soviet zone industry before the June 17 revolt of workers. ZAISSER, WHO has served Russia as a military man for 18 years, was summarily relieved as security minister yesterday and the ministry itself was reduced to See ZAISSER, Page LATE NEWS BULLETINS Seek Bids On Summit Leg Of Pike COLUMBUS UP) The Ohio Turnpike Commission today announced advertising of bids to be opened Aug. 26 on 9.24 miles of the super highway in Summit and Portage Counties. 3 'Witnesses' Die In Crash MAHWAH, N. J.

(UP) A car carrying seven French To Marines the moon was out and the night was quietly rainine and I had road. It is not easy to drive clear night 2 Die, 4 Hurt In Pike Crash PITTSBURGH Four autos and a big truck collided today on the eastbound lane of Pennsylvania Turnpike between Irwin and Harrison City, killing two women and injuring four other persons. Police said one of the autos and the truck burned. One of the victims was tenta tlvely identified as Mrs. Charles Davis of Cleveland.

Both victims were in the auto which burned, and police said the second woman was burned beyond recognition. Police were not able to identify me injured persons. Arctic Heat Wave ANCHORAGE, Alaska UPl Alaskans warmed up again Friday in the second heat wave of the Summer as the thermometer climbed to 80 degrees here. It was five degrees hotter than any previous juiy zt on recora. it was 83 at Fairbanks.

Canadian Jehovah's Witnesses Wanlod Man Spotted?" Chilly 48 Sets Record For Date anivenng AKroniies looxea at the calendar as well as the alarm clock this morning as the thermometer slowly recovered from the lowest dip ever recorded her on a July 25. Its drop to 48 at 8:18 this mora In; broke the record of 49 set ia 190S. Weather men at the Akron. Canton Airport blamed it all on clear skies and a cool air masa moving in from the north to cen ter over the region. They say the same conditions cause frosts here In the Spring and Fall.

However, the forecasters prom ised the thermometer would behave over the big Soap Box Derby weekend. TONIGHTS Sesquicentennial parade should march in temperatures somewhere in the windy 70's and Juvenile drivers nhould roll down the Rubber Bowl ramp under sunny skies with the thermometer in the low 80s. From indications now the week end should be one of the nicest all Summer. RACE RESULTS Jamaica i oi Bjttu I OftI T.nl Tnl ft u. Wwifii.

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Narragansett 1 ItftB't lr t.l las. i ts' aii l.W: Lt'! rint uta York crashed into the rear of a truck here. Two of the party were killed instantly and a third died a few minutes later in Good Samaritan Hospital at Suffern, N. Succumbs To Assassin's Bullet When we left Seoul at midnight was oright and clear. But now, two hours later, it difficulty keeping the jeep on witn Diackout lights even on a We crossed the broad, raln-4 swollen Imjln River, via FYeedom Bridge and were on the road to a njom.

For a yard radius in-side that charmed circle all was peace ful. But around the fringe of that circle the sky flick with the orange flame of ex ploding artil Lt. Col. Hill lery and the ghostly glow flares. of illuminating Within sight of newly built "Armistice Hall" or "Peace Pa goda" take your choice Amer icans and Chinese were fighting ror survival with animal instinct WE TURNED off Panmunjom road when we left Seoul the latest scuttlebut was that the armis tice will be signed tomorrow and drove faster now until we came to this Marine battalion command post.

It was 3 a. m. Inside the brightly lighted bunker It looked more like a di vision or corps headquarters war room than a combat command post. Perhaps a down men, in cluding supply artillery communications officers, sat or stood around a large circular table, running their war. The war itself was ahead of us on i' the outpost named Esther "0 the BEIRUT, Lebanon (UP)tA millionaire newspaper owner and parliamentary candidate," Mouhammad El Abboud, died to Tip On Krendich Fails At Mogadore TWO AKRON DETECTIVES were sent speeding out to Mogadore Golf Course Friday afternoon after a tip came in that George Krendich was seen.

But a search of the course and day in a hospital here of an assassin's bullet. Abboud was shot on Thursday by a man identified by police as Mouhammed Ali Mahmoud, the 23-year-old bodyguard of Abboud's election opponent, Souleiman El Ali. 15 Die In Philippines Fire MANILA (INS) The Manila Daily Mirror reported that 15 persons including six children were burned to death today in a fire" which gutted' a square block of homes in the central Philippines city of Cebu. Property damage was estimated at $1,000,006 in the blaze which reportedly left 1,000 persons homeless. vicinity failed to turn up the 29 year-old man wanted for the murder of Juanlta Bailey, 23, of Akron.

Nevertheless Detectives Carroll Cutright and Woody Meadows be- lieve it's likely that Krendich really was there. Here's why: Krendich, one of the FBI's 10 "most wanted" fugitives. Is an avid golfer. And the woman who thourht she spotted Krendich at Mogadore knew him years axo when he went around with Mrs. Bailey, a former friend of hers.

YMterda hut it 8 (I O'Nell's, is now a waitress at the course snack bar. THE MAN appeared to be a "dead ringer" for Krendich she said, as he walked into the pro shop to buy a greens ticket "He was wearing a suit, not golf clothes, and he sure looked familiar to me," she said. He was tail, about 6 feet, slender build and had brown hair, she said. And that description fits Krendich. Mrs.

Thoman said shis became See KRENDICH, Page I Jamboree Scout Dies Of Polio Atlanta Biirnmk Booun Chain pnm Lot Anlt Eoulwlfl. MUml MlnnetpolU-St, fttw Orleins Vol Tmf Wahlaitoa JAMBOREE CITY, Cal. UP) You'll Find: Church News 4, 5 Radio-TV 7 Theaters 8 Sports 10, 11 Editorials 6 Women's Page 9 04 14 14 14 SO 14 4 100 li 61 13 04 01 ei 14 21 14 eo 13 70 12 Paul was stricken with infantile paralysis at the national Bov Scout Monmouth Fort Erie died today. He was; A. Mrs.

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