The Neosho Daily News from Neosho, Missouri • Page 1

Sworn Circulation This Issue 1813 NEOSHO DAILY DEMOCRAT VoL 44 I'uMtshMj Every Evening Kscept Sunday and Lefnti Exclusive Dny Wire Service Received From United Neosho, Missouri, Saturday, Sept. 18, 1948 Single Copy Five Cents Number 204 Granby Man Charged p- With Manslaughter in Truck-Car Accident Inquest to Be Held Tuesday in Granby Charges of manslaughter have been filed against William S. Cahill of Qranby, in connection with the truck-car accident near Qran- by early Friday morning. Prosecuting Attorney Wayne V. Slankard said this morning.

Cahill, whose '47 Studebaker coupe side-swiped the truck, killing C. E. Rissler and injuring iiis wife, was released yesterday on payment of a $5.000 bond. A coroner's jury was cworn in yesterday evening by Coroner Corley Thompson, and the inquest will be held next Tuesday in Granby, Thompson said. In a statement to officers yesterday, Cahill said that he had been in Republic visiting friends and was returning to Granby when the accident occurred.

He had been drinking, he said. The left front fender of the car struck the left rear fender of the truck, pinning Rissler, driver of! the truck, beneath the cab as it turned over. Cahill told officers that he broke the Bla5S.li the cab with his fist and extriated Mrs. Rissler. he said, hi; went on to Granby i with a passing motorist, and went to the home of his uncle, C.

V. Woods, without calling an ambu-! lance or reporting to the police. Later he returned to the accident scene, at the direction of his uncle, and then came to the Neosho police station and reported the accident to the highway patrol. Meanwhile, a wrecker had been summoned by passers-by, and the truck had been pulled off Riss- ler's body. Mr.

and Mrs. Rissler, who had en in Neosho to sell a truck load of milk bottles, were returning to Sedalia when the accident occur- ed. Runaway Piano Brought Home Leapin' Lena, the runaway piano that attacked Harold Barbee and Marvin Vines, was recovered today after being sold at a household sale at the sales pavilion. The buyer, a second hand dealer in Granby, was very nice about the whole thing, Jolm North, committee chairman reported, and sold the piano back for what he paid for it $12, plus shipping charges. Carl Wimpy of Goodman volunteered his services and brought the piano back to Neosho.

and everything is once more under control, North says. Jack Allen, 50. resident of Granby, shot himself in the today with a 12-gaiinc shotgun. Tin- took place in the bedroom of his home and he was taken to the Community hospital by a Culver-Shewmakc ambulance. His condition is reported critical.

He has lived in Granby for 28 years where he is with the Tydol Oil company. Emory Smith Claims He Owes No Tax and Some Charges Against Him False Neosho Man Reported Missing for Two Weeks Alan Trimble, about 55, who lives in a garage apartment at the rear of 214 West McKinney. was reported missing today by Coroner Corley Thompson. According to Thompson, Trimble suffered a heart attack two weeks ago today. On the following Monday evening he went for his usual five mile walk and has not been seen or heard of since.

He left his apartment and win- down open with the indication that ho was expecting to be back shortly. He is about five feet six inches tall, weighs 140-145 pounds, slender build and has gray hair. When last seen he was wearing blue jeans. 'T' shirt and no hat. Anyone seeing this man is requested to notify the Newton county sheriff.

Farm Equipment Demonstration On Burch Farm A farm equipment demonstra- tion will be staged from 8:00 a. m. to 5 p. m. Monday at the C.

i L. Burch farm was announced i today. One of V'le most modern farms in the county, the loca- tion is 2 V4 miles northeast of Ne- osho. i The demonstration is being put on through cooperation with the Newton county extension service, and will feature land contouring and future terrace building designed to follow extension service recommendations for a proper water conservation program. The public is Invited to attend this demonstration, which will be carried out with the latest equipment designed especially for the purpose.

Neosho Lions Observe National Guard Week National Guard Week was observed by the Lions club at their noon luncheon Friday in the club rooms of the city hall. Rector Mace, who was commanding officer of the old 203rd A. A. A. unit of Southwest Missouri presided during the program.

Talking on the history of the National Guard, Mace told of the first National Guard unit that was in Southwest Missouri at the time he was a child, and told of the progress of the unit up to the present modern and fully equipped unit in Neosho now. Following his talk, Mace introduced Maj. O. C. Banning, adjutant of the 108th Cavalry, who spoke on the purpose and many benefits that the National Guard does for the defense and protection of the nation, state and community.

R. W. Anderson gave an account of the district meeting in Joplin at which Dr. Kugene Briggs, president of Lions International was speaker. Visitors present besides Rector Mace and Major Banning were Clovis Woolard and Tim Taylor of the Neosho National Guard unit.

Attorney General Tells Spy Hunter to Mind Own Business Says Sen. Ferguson's Desire for Headlines Hampering Justice Washington, Sept. 18 Attorney General Tom Clark suggested bluntly today that Sen. Homer Ferguson, mind his own business and let the justice department handle all communist and espionage cases. In a sharply-worded reply to Ferguson's challenge that he prosecute all known communists in and out of the government, the attorney general said: "I would appreciate it if you would quit trying to claim credit for the work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice, and keep your political activity out of the field of serious prosecution of offenses under federal stautes." Ferguson, who is chairman of a special senate investigating committee, said yesterday that the justice department has sufficient evidence in its files right now to proceed against communists in six major cities.

He named Washington, San Francisco, Los Angele, Denver, Salt Lake City and Dallas. Hinting broadly that his department is already preparing to seek indictments against communists in some of the cities mentioned, Clark criticized Ferguson for disclosing "most confidential criminal matters." "Your indefatigable desire for headlines in this regard," Clark told the senator, "is very detrimental to the prosecution of important cases." Change Preliminary Date for Damrill Preliminary hearing for dies- ter Damrill, charged with hit- ting his wife over the head with a pistol during a Saturday night dance near Wentworth. has been changed to Oct. 4 before Magistrate A. R.

Dunn. Damrill's hearing originally was set for Sept. 24. He is at liberty under $1,000 bond, and entered a plea of not guilty to the charge at his ar- raignment. Says Systematic Attempt Has Been Made Since the Lawsuit Filing to Prejudice Him in Minds of People Western Officials Again Visit Kremlin Moscow.

Sept. 17 The western envoys conferred tonight with Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov in the second meeting at the Kremlin since the big four talks on Germany shifUti back here from Berlin. Before driving to the Kremlin at 5 p.

m. (10 a. m. EDT'. the western diplomats met for half an hour at the British embassy.

From i there they drove in their separate cars through the rain to the! Kremlin, each car flyinc its own national flag. The meeting followed by four days the Kremlin session of an hour and a half which marked the resumption of the talks here. The western delegates were entirely non-commital Tuesday after they saw Molotov. The Tuesday meetings was the shortest of the 10 conferences at the Kremlin. It followed a series of talks among the four military military governors in Germany.

Ambassador W. Bedell Smith had hoped to clean up the Moscow talks on Germany in time for him attend the opening session of the United Nations assembly in Paris next Tuesday. But yesterday he was reported to have canceled plans to go to Paris, deciding to stick it out here until the situation cleared up one way or another. Requests Speedy Trial And Says He is Not Afraid of Outcome Monett, Sept. 18 Circuit Judge Emory E.

Smith, 57, named in a federal income tax i added that "this 1 evasion indictment returned at by congress Kansas City, said today that "it, Smlth saki tlmt jp soom.s very strange that before Former Neosho Man To Veterans Hospital Bruce Jeffers of 725 Bycrs avenue. Joplin. formerly of Neosho, was taken by ambulance from St. John's hospital where he has been a patient for several weeks, to the Veterans hospital at Fay- payer of the amount claimed to ettcville, Thursday morn- be due and 0 give him an op- Ing. portunity to inspect the claim i Jeffers has been in ill health and pay if he determines it to be since discharge from the correct." Armed Guards after serving He declared that the tax years over scan.

He was discharg- power. in the hands of certain of- ed in 1945 flcialR. is the "-power to persecute, i ms a fp discriminate and my case was presented to a grand jury, nil the information possess- 1 ed by federal officials was made available to Drew Pearson." Pearson several weeks ago broadcast details of the income tax investigation against Smith, a republican who has been elected to his circuit bench four times in the last 20 years. "I -say I think it is very unfair that a should have to depend on information derived from Drew Pearson, instead of fears at all in this mutter Law suits, he said, were won in court and not in the press or on the! radio. "Unfortunately, it seems that a i systematic attempt has been made since the filing of the law- suit against me to prejudice the minds of the people and break I down their confidence in me," he i said.

He was referring suit for $10.000 judgment which was filed! against him in his own circuit i iiml sons. His parents are Mr. and bt Mrs. Lloyd Jeffers of 201 E. Hickory.

Neosho. had no last February by Mrs. Virginia being furnished by the branch of i Butler Sullinner, former court the government in charge of such reporter. She charged that he matters," Smith said. foITcd hpr to i ckbttck parts Smith contends he owes no tax I of her salary over a six-year "but if I do it's the result of error i period.

The federal indictment or inadvertently. Some of the things charged are as false as they can be. No Claims Anainst Him "I do know that the income tax department has never made any claims to tne that I owed a tax, nor any statement of any tax I owed, nor have I been called now is set upon to pay any tax," he said. "I have been informd that it is tile practice of the treasury department that, before proceeding on tax matters, to notify the tax- Stem Gang Boasts Of Assassinating Counte Bernadotte Says They Shot Him Because He Carried Out British Orders Jerusalem, Sept. 18 (UP) charged that he failed to "report! le Stmi uimK boaslei1 today $8,681 of "kickback" monev ll kllle Count I Folke Bernadotte "because he I ask for a speedy tnal but worjwd for Ulc lllsh nnd delay in tnal was achieved be- rie a out their orders cause the plaintiff u.sked for govcrnment of Isracl ou( nTn nUe 'T aftPr Clawed the Stern and round- questing the hearing by a special i ed up hundreds of iLs members.

Forsyth, Mo. Not Afraid of Outcome See the new 1948 Phllco and Refrigerators now on display at Fox Furniture. 65-Vf Mary Emma Hubbard Dies srae Charged In Sale Hospital Today Mary Emma (Butler) Hubbard, 74, died at 1:20 a. m. this morning at the Sale Memorial hospital.

She had been in failing health for the past 10 years. Mrs. Hubbard has been in this vicinity for the past 46 years, coming here from Stella. Her present home Adams. She was a was at 411 W.

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Butler, Wichita, Demands for action keynoted the opening speeches before the council. The assassination was denounced "dastardly" and a deliberate attempt to interfere with the UN efforts to settle the Palestine problem. ButlErr NeosTTb, Troy H. Butler, Neosho. and Jack H.

Butler, Dallas, two sisters, Mrs. Rose Wood, Elmonte, and Mrs. Inez Jackson Wichita, three brothers, Clint Edwards, Neosho, Arch Edwards, Santana, and Edwards, Chil- ivesta, Calif. Thirteen grandchildren and nine great grandchildren also survive. Funeral services are incomplete, under care of Clark-Bigham funeral home.

HOME AFTER NEOSHO VISIT Mrs. W. C. Spencer has returned to Houston. after spending tw months in Neosho with Mrs.

West Green. During two weeks of the time she was here, she accompanied her husband, Dr. Walter C. Spencer, to Niagara Falls. Dr.

Spencer returned to Houston two weeks ago. Mrs. Spencer stayed here to enter her 'son, Maurice, in John Brown college at Siloam Springs, Ark. Jerry Augspurger has entered Joplin Junior college. He graduated from the Neosho high school in 1946 and took a postgraduate course in 1947.

Responsibility in Bernadotte's Death Paris, Sept. 18 (UP) The internationalization of Jerusalem was proposed today by France after a top United Nations official charged Israel with responsibility for the assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte. The French proposal was made at a special meetinR of the UN security council. It was called to determine what action the UN would take as a result of the assassination of its Palestine mediator by the Stem gang. SERVICES TODAY FOR PVT.

EMMET MOWAN Clarence Bergen, pastor First Baptist church will conduct military services for Private Emmet Mowan at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the Union church, south of Stella. Private Mowan was killed in the Pacific theater. He received his training at Camp Crowder, Camp Chaffee and Ft. Ord, Calif. Mr.

and Mrs. Harry E. Rhynard of Ann Arbor, have been spending the week at the parental home of Robert L. Barrett, 323 South Ripley street. Mr.

Rhynard has just graduated from the University of Michigan and enters the personnel department of J. Hudson company in Detroit. Mrs. Ruby Renlck will leave Monday by plane for Riverton, where she will join her husband who is employed there. CTartt-Blgnam Ambulaiuw.

Ph. fa. Russia Warns West They Will Oppose UN Talks on Berlin Berlin, Sept. 18 (UP) Russia warned the western powers today that the Soviet bloc In the United Nations at Paris will battle against any attempt to discuss the German question. The warning was contained in a frontpage editorial in the Red army paper Taegliche Rundschau, often used as an unofficial sounding board to express the Soviet attitude in international questions.

The paper said the German problem, including the peace treaty, belongs in the competence of the big four foreign ministers, not the United Nations, "and Trygve Lie knows it." The editorial also charged that the United States was threatening world peace "in sharp contradiction to United Nations statutes." The Soviet warning followed approval by German communist leaders of the Soviet plan demanding withdrawal of all occupation forces from Berlin and inclusion of the capital in the Soviet zone economy. with ment security of At Tel Aviv, whcic the jails overflowed with arrested sus- pects, tension erupted in a flurry I shall insist on being tried violence. Demonstrators at- at that time and for the first 1 tacked the Soviet Ambassador's time have an opportunity to vin- car, ripped away its flag, and dicate myself. I am not afraid damaged it before police dlspers- of the outcome of this lawsuit." them. Smith usked hi friends and The assassination of Bcrna- the people to reserve judgment dotte by Jews rocked the young until the entire matter was dis- nat ion to its foundations.

A Tel posed of according to law. A viv dispatch called this "black My me and reputation is well sabbath" the Jewish Sabbath niT" Ple my cir ami suki lnc government and cuit and throughout tee state," the people agreed that the assas- ne filiation might have the gravest impact on Israel. Smith was elected to his fourth six-year term on the bench two years ago without opposition. Hear Dr. Bass at Calvary tonight.

34-hour watch repair service. Matters Jewelry. 125-tf THE WEATHER For Missouri (UP) Clear to occasionally partly cloudy today, tonight and tomorrow. Continued warm. High today near 90.

low tonight 62-72. Temperatures The high temperature registered at the fish hatchery was 89 degrees. The low last night was 62. The temperature at 8 a. m.

this morning was 72 degrees. D-X kerosene and fuel oils, measure, quipk delivery. Tel. 908. Edsell Oil Company.

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