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THE REGISTER Np, Tba WMklr The loU EiUbUdiad 18ST. r. 180T. lOLA, KANSAS, WEPNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20,1952. SmeaHor to Iida OiUr EIGHT PAGES Those which were so apiwrenti.

in, Deer Creejc last week igay have led to the a prohlem plained the lola water department for several years. Pmul Bush, saperintendent, reports-that txmose of the fish It. wks discovered the ot: oUl north of Ibla been dralnliis salt water directly Into Deer As a- the hatdneu Keddw SlTer water has violently from tlmfe to time, aDparenUr without reason. About 10 ago. Bush says.

the. hardBMs of. toe river water dlnUoi rairtdly. He could find no kCinl fnatax HN it until he heanf on PHdaj Qeer Creek was: dotted flotUla ot dead tiOH Buh kBiiii tnat it take atrnvT imiauefi of satt to kUl IMt tkom Vm parU of salt per mtiitoM npertoA tbp Nhe State af' apd SMarday after. AMJa'-JtoMa 9.

QtiaaUt, diatilet tte bwvd, acMmpar Idea a tear of Deer Crecik. Tkmt faUHl. plenty of de- ekyinf fish. They also found that water flowing Into Deer Creek from the pross-Holmes lease tested 23,000 parts of salt and other chlorides. That the in Deer Creek be- loF the lease tfpted 3,300 parts of chjloride per.

nstfUon, according to tests by Ouinotte. leases along Uie creek, one by Cross-Holmes and another by Marvin Bojwr, also were discharging quanitities of salt water into Deer.Creek, Bush rejjorts. Guinptte ordered- all the operators to close down until they corrected the condition. T3he order was complied with at once; Bush said. The operators wiU either construct evaporation pools- or sink wells In which the salt water will be returned to a strata of gravel below the creek, bed.

Gainotfe fowd that I(ria's ws- tff, after itntmamt, oratafatcd 50 pMTto ef per oo Sator- dsy. had Increased to 64. itPH en Monday. Some of the all wells this area. Bush says, salt water and oil.

Tlie mixture; is permitted to stand in a tank or sump until the (ContlaMd en 3. No. 3) County C. T. U.

Meeting Friday The annual convention of the Allen County Women's Christian Temperance Union will be held Friday in the First Methodist Church beginning at II a. m. The delegates to bring a sack lunch. Mrs. Jennie Hampshire, Osmett.

state organizer wtu speak on "The Five Kyes on Temperance Education" during the afternoon. Mrs. Elsie Kester will conduct a memorial service for members who have died during the past year. Annual reports of the officers for the past year will be given. Mrs.

D. B. McCai-ty is president. Special Numbers Feature Closing Band Concert The Municipal Band wlU close its 1962 season Thursday evening vdth a concert which will include three special numbers and several which are repeated by request, Dale Qreitz. director, said this morning.

-Miss Miasterson will sing VtMiaaas' "Time On My tat of the specialties. Dale Newlandi and John Williams will sing a vocaJ duet, "By the Light of the Moon" by Ous Edwards. TtiB other nuaiber is of tmusual because it was only recently traiueribed for a band with solo violin although it has long been a favorite work for It is 'Meditation" from Thais by senet which will be played by Mrs. John Sleeper. The.

band arrangement is by Dr. A. A. Harding, who for many years: has directed the University of nUnois band. The program win include "Rod-: gers and Hart songa" "Bitter Sweefi and a selection of numbers by Oeorge Gershwin, ease of rain the concert will be played Friday night.

Delayed Demo Afeeting! Not Legal, Says Fatzer By JAMES E. LAWSON TcmsXA (AP) Atty. Gen. Harold Bf. Fatzer today reversed jan, earlier opinion by his depart- mtnt that the Democrats could legally recess their party council sefisions next Tuesday and hold them the following Saturday.

Charles Rooney, Democratic nominee for governor, had an- Tuesday that his party planned to recess its councU ses- aldns because the Republicans "have grabbed all the best hotel rooms." Middle Road As Best Way BOISE, Idaho Dwlght D. Eisenhower loaded his campaign guns for a speech Wednesday attacking the Democrats and calling on America to follow a middle gr course, "rejecting both the extreme left and right." The Republican presidential npfmlnee flew here to make a ma- ioi address from the State Capitol steps. Aides were describing it as the general's first frankly political sneech since he became the party 's standard bearer. In advance of the campaign speech, Eisenhower's executive secretary, Arthur H. Vandenberg put out a statement setting fotth points the general expected ttf; cover.

Vandenberg said: "General Elsenhower in his speech, will denounce the attempts of- leftist political groups to monopolize agreed social goals and to cfdim that theirs is the only way to achieve them. "Tht present administration, the teatrti. wUl charge, is nuining this year with new faces bnt will epntinne to offer schemes like the Brannsn (farm )plan, socialized -jtaedicine and bigger and more gOTernment as its only solution to some the pressing problems that confront America today. "The general will say that some gbals on which Americans today afe agreed employment and good wages, adequate security for better education, better hpuslng, protection of the rights of labor, protection of the right io earn and save, stable be won only if America chooses a course squarely down the middle, rejecting both the ex- (Contlnaed on Page 6. No.

2) Fatally Injured In Charles Lee Fryer, a former re.sl- dent of lola who has lived at.Neo- desha for many years, was fatally injured Stmday evening when he fell from a power line pole on which he working. He died about 24 hours Uter. Mr. Fryer was an employee of the Neodesha city electric depart- pient. He is survived by a son, Arthur tee Fryer.

Sapulpa, and three sisters, Mrs. Dee Sell. Ida; R. Koch, Neodesha, and Mrs. Theo.

M. Myfcrs, PVedonia. Following funeral services at 10 A. m. the Loran Faw- Cett; Home, Neodesha.

the body will be brought here for burial. JWef services will be held (bout noon. BRITISH FLOOD look at the wreckage of an auto amid boulders and uprooted trees at the coastal resort of Lynmouth, England, following a flash flood which wrecked or swept out to sea nearly the entire village. In the center background can be seen the wreckage of another auto swept away when torrential rains on Aug. 15 caused the West Lyn River to burst its banks and race through Lynmouth streets leaving a trail of Wlrephoto.) Other Issues Shift Campaign Spotlight From Farm Prices I By OVID A.

MARTIN WASHINGTON farm prices become a major Issue on how farmers vote for president this year? Pour years ago aj. this time, they were a red hot political topic. Secretary of Agriculture Brannan had already taken out after the Republican-controlled 80th Congress, blaming it for a sharp downturn in grain prices. The Brannan campaign has been credited with a major role in ob- Piqua Man Injured In US 54 Mishap John Mike Lair of Plqua, 20, suffered severe bruises and lacerations of the left arm about 8 p. m.

last night when his car and a transport seml-traller side-swiped on the Piqua hill four miles west of lola. Lair, who was to pitch for the Piqua ball team last night, was on his way there from lola. and the truck, driven by Lloyd A. Lynn of Labadle, was headed east. The cause of the accident nor the responsibility for it were' not definitely established, state officer Ira Norton said later.

Norton was on an off-duty day but answered a call to the wreck. He estimated about $450 damage was done to the left side of Lair's 1950 model car. One wheel absorbed most of the blow on the truck, and a tire was damaged. Lynn was driving for the Southwest Freight Lines of Kansas City, carrying general merchandise. Norton said Lair's injury occurred because he had his elbow on the door.

He was accompanied by one passenger, who was not hurt. The car remained upright. In one city accident reported yesterday, fenders of cars driven by Mildred M. Maxwell. Springfield.

and Mrs. James Christy of lola were dented in an accident in the 200 block on East Madison yesterday morning. The Springfiejd driver was leaving a parking place at the curb as the other passed by. Old Letter Tells How First Adali In Stevensott Family Got His Name (EDITOR'S NOTE: Because of the general interest involved, the editor of the Register submitted the following story to the Associated Press. It was carried on khe Kansas AP wire today.) Polio CliEHims Life Of Sue Siieinnon Miss Shirley iSbannon.

wh6 became ill pMto on Aug. 6, died this monittr at the Kansan UnlTorsityltertleal'Center. She wa? the daughter Mr. and Mrs. Ar-- thur Shannon, Center, mer residents of lola, and the (randdaughter of the late T.

B. Shannon. Miss Shannon was 18 years old on Aug. 11 and was planning to enroll in Kansas SUfe College, this montU; In' addition to bar parents she Is aurvtved by a sister, Jonle, of the biime and a brotber, Thomas, who is with medical undt' in either Japan or Korea. Funaral arrangements have not been obmpletcd.

lOLA. Kas. Adlal Ewing Stevenson of Illinois would be Audley Ewlng Stevenson except for a Tift between friends that occurred about 300 years ago. This piece of information, per- 'haps imknoVn to the Democratic nominee for president himself, comes from a letter in the pose.s- of Angelo Scott, publisher of the lola Register. Scott is a third cousin to Stevenson.

His maternal great-grandmother, Eliza Ann Ewing, married Stevenson's paternal great-grandfather, Turner Stevenson. In the family archives, Scott re- cently uncovered the copy of a letter written in 1926 to his grandfather, Caipt. H. A. Ewing, by Lucius Winchester, a nephew of Swing's.

Winchester had been visiting Iredell County, North Carolina, where the Ewing-Stevenson ancestors had settlea before the Revolutionary War. He wrote: "An interesting bit of information has come to us since we settled in Charlotte. Mj. Adlal Osborne is a distinguished engineer of this city with whom I have come into business relations. When he and Ills wife were calling on us recently, he explained to me the advent ot the- name, Adlal, Into the family.

"Mr. Osborne's great great great-grandfather was Colonel Alexander Osborne, commissioned In the English army and stationed In North Carolina. Col. Osborne had a son named Audley Osborne in honor of Col. Osborne's friend, liOrd Audley, of England.

"Col. Osborne pledged his allegiance to the cause of the Colonists, which fact brought upon him a tirade of abuse frorn his erstwhile frfend. Lord Audley. Col; was so Incensed he changed his son's name to lal, and Adlal Osborne so named was the first Adlal in the line of descent. THls name, was chosen from the Bible where it occurs once, in the 39th verse of the 27th cbapter of nrst Cbronlcles." The letter doe.sn't state but suggests that the name was chosen because of its resemblance in sound to Audley rather than because of its meaning, "The Just," which has been widely commented upon, Scott According to Scott's records, the line of de.scent from the first lal to the last Is as follows: Adiai Osborne's Rebecca, married Nathaniel Ewing in 1770.

A son of theirs, Adlal OsbOrhe Ewing. married Turner Stevenson. Turner Stevenson was the father of the first Adlai Ewing Steven- vice president under Cleveland, and the great-grandfather of the present governor of Illinois. Scott said he was sending Stevenson a copv of the Winchester letter. taining the Midwestern farm support that helped President Truman win his upset -victory over Gov.

Thomas E. jDewey. Insofar as prices are concerned, the history of 1948 is being repeated to a considerable extent this year. Farm prices as a well as prices of many in dividual farm lower now than they were at this time in 1948 and a year ago. Yet, little political attention has been focused on this either by Democrats or Republicans.

Some political observers have predicted that farmers will be more interested this fall in such issues as waf and peace, taxes, government controls, and chages of corruption and Communism in government, than to farm prices. Agriculture Department reports show that faijrn prices as a whole are two per cent lower than at this time In 1948. They show also that the prices farmers pay out for what they need are about 10 per cent higher than in 1948. This year department reports show market prices for wheat are further below the federal price support level than they were In 1948. In the summer of 1948.

farmers received an average of $1.98 a bushel for wheat or only two cents the support level. So far this summer, wheat prices have averaged around $2, or about (Contlnned on Page 6, No. 1.) Clarence Smith, 81, Dies at Wichita Clarence P. Smith, who was employed by the Paul Klein Lumber yard for many years, died last night at Wichita. He was 81 years old.

Mr. Smith was born at Winchester. coming to Allen Coimty as a young man. He first settled at Moran and was married to Emma S. Carter there in 1897.

A few years later he moved to lola and was employed by Paul Klein shortly after he opened his lumber business here. Mr. Smith worked for Klein for about 40 years, retiring a few years ago. He made his home at 417 South Walnut. He Is survived by a son.

Wallace, of Sacramento, tliree daughters, Mrs. George Trewibold and Mrs. Carter Welch. Wichita, and Miss Margaret Smith, Anthony; and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 3:30, Thursday, at the Sleeper Mortuary.

If you miss your Register, phone 18 between 6:30 and 7 :00. FINAL CONCER -r lOLA MUNICIPAL BAND DALE P. Director THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, O'ClOtk PROGRAM The Star Spangled Banner His Honor, march Henry Fillmore Them Basses, march C. H. Huffine Rogers and Hart Rodgers and Lorenze Hart Including: Johnny One Note, I could Write A Book, This Can't Be Love, There's A Small Hotel, Falling in Love With Love, I Didn't Know What Time It Was and Where or When Mama Inez, Rhumba Grenet Beautiful l.Mary Earl Time On My Hands, from Youmans Vocal Solo by Jeanne Masterson Bitter Sweet, overture Meditation, from "Thais" Coward Violin Solo with Band MrsJ John' Sleeper, Soloist The Stars and Stripes Forever, march Be-Bop Session, By the Light of the Silvery Philip Sousa Walters Edwards Vocal Duet by Dale Newland and John Williams Waggery for Woodwinds' -Hardd Walters George Gershwin Selection George Gershwin Including: Strike Up the Band, 'S Wonderful, Bldin" My Time, lilza, Of Thee I Sing, Embraceable You, and I Got Rhythm.

Semper pidells, march John PWUp Bousa The Weather KANSAS Partly cloudy through Thursday with scattered thunderstorms central Wednesday afternoon and night and northeast Thursday forenoon; cooler west and extreme north Wednesday night and over central and northeast Thursday; low Wednesday night 60 northwest to 70s southeast; high Thursday 85-90 north, to south. for the 24 hours ending 7 a. m. today, 97; lowest, normal for today, 78; excess yesterday, excess since Jan. 1.

666 degrees: this date last year, highest, 94; lowest, 78. Precipitation for the 24 hours ending at 8 a. m. today, 'total for this year to date, 19.58; deficiency since Jan. 1.

4.98 inches. Sunrise 5:44 a. set 7:09 p. m. Thermograph Readings Ending 8 a.

m. Today 82 9 p. m. 82 87 10 p. m.

93 94, 96 9 a. m. 10 a. m. 11 a.

m. 12 noon 1 p. m. 2 p. ...97 3 p.

m. 96 4 p.m 5 p. m. 92 6 p. 90 7 p.

87 8 p. M. 11 p. 12 m. 1 a.

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7 a. m. 8 a. m. .78 78 77 77 76 75 74 73 79 Stock Car Races ThriU at Fair The Fort Scott Racing Association will sponsor and conduct the stock car races at the Allen County Pair on Wednesday of next week.

Fair Secretary OrviUe Krctzmeler said today. Queried about details on the racing, Kretzmcier revealed it will have quite a local flavor. About a half dozen cars owned by lolans have been in competition this summer at Fort Scott and Chanute. lola owners include Al Weiland, George Chard, Earl Cramer, Russell Sigler. and Chii; Weiland and Bill Krause in partnership.

Many others are owned at Fort Scott and Chanute. Chanute started racing programs about a month apo, and has a new association. The organizations both operate on strict standards that will be in effect here. Cars that will compete arc mostly the lighter type stock cars, reinforced for safety in racing. Although many collisions result, the cars are not wrecked beyond comparatively easy repair.

The drivers wear crash helmets. Most of the lola machines are driven by drivers from other towns. The racing programs are set up after time trials in a manner calculated to provide the closest competition. By the time one of the drivers finally wins top money at the end of the day it has been well earned. The racing program Is scheduled for 2 p.

m. in the afternoon. Iranian Reds Renew Attacks On Americans TEHRAN, Iran (jT) In a renewal of assaults on U. S. military personnel, six American.s in- were attacked Wednesday-by Red- inspired Iranians as the Americans drove through Tehran's streets.

One of Paul Goodwin of the U. S. Embassy staff was struck on the arm by a cabbage. Army officials said he was the only American hit. Maj.

Gen. Wayne Zimmerman, head of the ml.ssion, said routine measures were being taken to keep army personnel out of congested areas and other places where they would be conspicuous. There also were unconfirmed re- norts that American soldiers had been ordered to "make themselves as scarce as possible" around Tehran so as not to be targets for leftists who apparently were working on a definite plan to make it hot for Americans here. The governinent' was forced to call out troops Tuesday night to quell Communist youths, wielding knives and rocks, who battled po-f lice and soldiers in the center of the city. The battle climaxed a series of nightly clashes between the Reds and members of Premier Moham- Havoc On Red Target SEOUL, KOEEA (AP) The U.

S. Fifth Air Force said about 200 air force and navy warplanes hit a Communist ammunition supply and troop billeting area today on the Korea West Coast about 25 miles northwest of the Red capital of Pyongyang. The air force said U. S. Sabre jets damaged one of four Russian- made MIG-15 jets intercepted about 100 miles north of Pyongyang.

Planes from American carriers operating on the Korean East Coast hit the target after noon. They were followed by Fifth Air Force fighter-bombers. There were eight separate targets in the area, the air force said. Four were smashed by navy pilots and four by air force fliers. Returning pilots reported early claims of 58 buildings demolished and five damaged.

Big explosions rocked the area as bombs smacked into ammunition stores. Flames raged through the target, a center of more than 300 buildings. The S. Eighth Army said 3.134 Reds were killed or wounded In the week ended Aug. 14J highest weekly toll in two U.

S. Marines inflicted most of the casualties in the hot battles on Bunker and Siberia Hills near Panmunjom. Eighth Army said the battlefront was relatively quiet. The only actions were minor enemy probes easily repulsed and small patrol skirmishes. Cites Advantages Of Parking Meters "The trend throughout the United States Is to make shopping easier for the motorist and we believe parking meters are a step in that direction," C.

W. Evans told the lola chamber of commerce at noon today. About a hundred men and women attended the meeting. Evans said that he believes parking meters tend to do away with double parking, tend to increase the number of cars which can use a given parking space each day and eliminate the all day parker who is usually a merchant or an employee in the business district. The company he represents will install meters on a six months trial basis, retaining only half of the receipts during that period if the city decides not to keep the machines.

Evans demonstrated a meter whleh wlU accept pennies, nickels or dimes. The customary charge is a penny for each 12 minutes, with a two hour limit. These machines sell for $72.50 each. Installed. The company finances the Installation cost.

The city pays for the meters by for-- wardlng one-half of the receipts to the firm. Evans says the average machine colects $5 per month and will pay for itself in from 26 to 30 months. When the machines are paid for the city retains all the collections. About 20 towns In Kansas, many of them smaller than lola. are now using meters supplied by his firm, Evans said.

Of these Newton is the only town which has tried meters and later taken them out. In answer to a question as to what specific plan for metering the business district of lola he would recommend, Evans said that his company's engineers had proposed meters around the entire business- side perimeter of the square but (CoBtlnned en Page 6, No. 4.) Politburo Shift As Propagranda Move WASHINGTON American diplomats said Wednesday that Russia's move to abolish the Po- litbtu-o is aimed at fooling outsiders as weU as Russian citizens into believing the Communist Party setup is being democratized. Experts familiar with Soviet affairs viewed the caU. for a Com- mtmlst Party first in 13 the announcement of a new five-year producion plan as a combination of (A) propaganda and (B) Conununist Party necessity.

The word "Politburo," these officials noted, has become a byword for dictatorship even inside Russia. Tax Take Estimate Drops WASHINGTON money experts expressed surprise today at President Truman's estimate that direct taxes on corporations this fiscal year will yield three billion dollars less than he had figured in his budget seven months ago. However, among the few lawmakers available for comment on the revised budget estimates released Tuesday night, none challenged the possibility that the drop-back point has been reached. Rep. Daniel A.

Reed of New York, ranking Republican on the tax writing House Ways and Means Committee, siald it had been evident to him for some time that retail business has been lagging. He observed that such a condition could hardly exist without a back-lash on manufacturers. Herman P. Eberharter of Pennsylvania, a Ways and Means Democrat, called the decrease in the probable take from eorpora- tions unexpected." He said his personal opinion had been that business tax reeetpta would have been somewhat hlyber than the January estimate of $27300,000,000. In his new Ipok at the budget, Truman figured that not only re- beipts but spending and the yearend deficit coming down.

For the fiscal which ends next June 30, he lowered his estimate of receipts from 71 billion dollars to of expenditures, from $85,400,000 ,000 to 79 bilUon dollars; and of the deceit, from One exception to the downtrend was Individual income taxes, which will bring in about lion dollars, or half a billion more than the January estimate. Truman said his current estimate that corporation taxes will bring in $24,800,000,000 instead of $27,800,000,000 was based on two factors: a lower estimate of corporation profits for calendar years 1951 and 1952, and added experience with the provisions of the excess profits tax of 1950 and last fall's tax increase bill. Formal Opening Of Midwest Store Here Saturday lola's new Midwest Auto Store, located at 1 North Jefferson, will hold its formal opening Saturday serving coffee and doughnuts to all customers during the day. The store, which will specialize in automotive parts and accessories, will be managed by Dean Duncan, who recently moved here from Springfield, Mo. Morris Eakins, who owns a similar store at Parsons, is part owner of the new store here.

Duncan said that a Midwest Store was operated in lola for several years in the 1930's and was forced to close by a fire in the building. Procedure Set for Naming Nominee If Presidential Candidate Dies By JAMES MARIOW WASHINGTON grim thought but practical: What happens if one of the presidential or vice presidential candidates dies before election day next Novemtcr? Chance for an accident may be greater this year. The candidates are going to cover an unusual amount of territory by plane and train. A fatal accident to one of them would leave hla party without a nominee unless a successor could be picked before election day. Democrats and wants to and if there Is time have been thinking of this for years and doing something about it.

Before each campaign they make arrangements to protect themselves, just In case. No presidential candidate of either major party has died before election. One vice presidential can- diate died just before election. And another declined the nomination and had to be replaced. The two parties' plans for such an event are similar bnt not iden- ticaL The Democrats have a rule'which say's that if either of the candidates dies before election day the Democratic National Committee win pick-some one In his place.

This committee' 106 men and women from the states and the party between conventions. The Rejiubllcans select a replacement this way: 1. Their Republican National Committe can do It. It has 138 men and women members from the states and territories. 2.

Or, this committee can call another it is thne to do so before election day. Suppose anything happened now to Dwlght D. Eisenhower or Sen. Nixon. Would the committee call for another convention? It seems unlikely.

The time between now and election day is too short for all the arrangements necessary before a convention can even start. So the committee would do it. But. the committee members" most or all of them, would probably want Instructions from their states or territories on how to vote. This might cause a bit of a mess.

Neither party has made provision for instruction of committee members by their state organizations. They'd have to work this out by themselves. Drive Safely Accidents so far this year: Highways In In Tola County 154 59 This date a In Tola 169 ago: Highways In County 57 To Revise Red Party Setup Moscow (AP) The Soviet Union's ruling Communist Party announced today that it will hold its first party Congress in 13 years on Oct. 5 to give the party a sweeping reorganization and set up a fifth five-year plan to increase Soviet industrial output 70 per cent by the end 1955. A decree of the party's central committee, published to all Moscow papers, said the party's top control body, its Politburo, would be replaced by a "Presiditun" which would have the function of "guiding the work of the (party) central committee between sessions." The changes In party tion are provided in a new statute to be taken np by the Congress.

It is clear that the new Presidium of the central committee will have as much or perhaps even more importance than the present Politburo, it is also indeed, it wUI have much the same composition. However, not until after the new statutes are adopted by the com-, ing 19th party Congress in October and the election of the new central committee will the makeup of the Presidium be known. Under the new statutes, the secretariat of the central committee apparently retains much the same functions as under the previous statutes, but the new central com- mittee theoreflcally can make changes in this respect, too. The statutes now heavily stress discipline and vigilance. One of the aims, stated in the statutes, is strengthen by all means the active defense of the Soviet motherland from the aggressive actions of Its enemies." The Politburo, deriving its power theoretically from the central committee of the Communist Party, is in fact the ruling body of the Soviet Union, and thus of world Communism.

It is made up of the Soviet Umon. and thus of world Communism. It is made up of Prime Minister Stalin, party general secretary, and 10 others, plus a number of alternate members, and has wielded unquestioned authority under Stalta. Fateful Import' In Timing Of Red Shift By WILUAM L. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst Moscow's an nouncement' Wednesday of the convocation Oct.

5 of the first all-union Communists Party Congress in 13 years in-; dlcates a strengthening of the Sov-' let dictatorship all along the line. This announcement has been in the making since 1947, but its ing gives it implications which can mean the difference between war; and peace. Moscow's announcement that ifj is doing away with the Politbm-o does not mean abolition of an alli powerful governing body. On the contrary, the announced new Presidium, to act between sessions of the party central committee, will have even more power. It will take over the duties of the organizations bureau, wiiich controls the duties of the organizations bu- reau.

which controls the appointment of key officials throughout the party and government network. The announcement once again brings mysterious Georgi Malen- kov. 50. owl-faced protege of Stalin, sharply to the fore. Malenkov.

probably has had more of a hand in this revision than any other- man. It is Malenkov who is most widely regarded as the successor to Stalin. If the program was long In the preparation, it will be swift In execution, and will be hailed by the controlled Soviet press as a step "toward Communism" and toward peace. It will likely be neither. Kansas City Star's Editor Dies KANSAS CITY Wl Henry J.

Haskell. 78, editor of the Kansas City Star, died Wednesday. Death, caused by complications came af a hospital, where he had been a patient 10 days. He had been ill only a short time before' entering the hospital. A member of the Star's staff 54' years, Haskell became director of; the editorial page in 1910 and had been editor since 1928.

He wan director and-vice president of Kansas City Star. His son, Henry C. Haskell is for-, eign editor of the Star. A sister and five grandchiWreh also survive. The sister is Miss Mary Haskell.

Los many years a missionary In Bui-: garla. Haskell's direction of the Star's-: editorial page won two Pulitzer- 1933. and 1944. The veteran newspaperman: combined scholarship, seasoned reportorial ability, humor and hVely interest in foreign affairs in' his He was bom In Huntington, Ohio, the son of the Rev. and Mrs.

Henri rv C. Haskell. His parents wertt; missionaries for the al Church. Puaeral were complete,.