Beatrice Daily Sun from Beatrice, Nebraska • Page 1

Temperatures 3:00 p. m. (unofficial) Low today High yesterday 40 Low year ago 58H High year ago BEATRICE "If You Didn't It In the Son It Didn't Happen" Weather Fair tonight and colder low, night 20-25; high tomorrow east. Member of the Associated Press 3 Break-Ins Follow New Cop Policy Attempt Made To Put In New Inior- mal 1 A. M.

Curfew. Possibly the worst rash of HJreak-ins experienced in Beatrice In one night hit last night shortly after a police notice was issued Uo attempt to stop the petty thiev- Chief of Police Doyle Church nested a notice to officers last night in an attempt to put into effect an informal curfew at one m. Three Entered During the same night three business places in Beatrice were entered. The burglaries, as reported to police this morning, were: the Central Co-Op Creamery, Sack Lumber Co. and the Phillips 68 station at 16th and Court.

However the loot was light. The 'creamery reporting some candy and cigarettes taken. The other reported no loss. Entry into all three was gained by breaking out same pattern. 4 It was just last night that Chief Church posted a notice at the police station telling all officers to investigate anyone on the streets after one a.

m. The notice told the officers to investigate drivers licenses and to ask any transits Co stop prowling the streets. This was the outcome of a burglary at BUd's Drive-In Tuesday Sight in addition to reports of i several autos being broken into. I Church explained this morning What the department has a "black I list" and that all these known peo- Iplj will be checked if roaming the I Streets after one a. m.

Cops "Too Mean" Church also reported that five jjroung boys came into the station I about 12:30 this morning and in- I formed the officer on duty that I the police were "treating them too I ftiean." Church added that no rea- I son for the visit was given by the I boys but that the opinion gathered the officer was that the boys 'felt the local police were blaming them for some of the trouble in Beatrice. In the future the police and patrol oars going to busy at I night in an attempt to stop these I No lead have been found i on the three last night. BEATRICE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY EVENING. MARCH 3. 1949 J.

Felix Code sentenced for crimes committed here In 1946 escapes in Lincoln (story at right). Seed Honors To Gage Men Ira Kin dig And William Tiahrt Receive Awards. More honors came to Gage county today when a pair of local farmers took two of three pre- awards at mier seed growers Lincoln. The two were William A. Tiahrt, Beatrice, and Ira Kindig, Holmesville.

The third award went to August Norenberg, Saunders county. The awards are made annually to the three men in the state who do most to increase lemetery Had In 1948 Association Takes S'teps To Collect Back Lot-Upkeep. Cemetery lot owners who do I not have perpetual care, and still Ido not pay their annual lot-up- charges are In part respon- Islble for the financial loss suf- Ifered by the Beatrice cemetery issociation last year. Steps are Being taken to improve the situa- At the association annual meet- ng this week, Rev. Ross S.

Mc- ICown, chairman, said the oper- lating loss last year was about Expenses were $10,460.64. "Our big problem is to keep our expenditures within JRCV. McCown said. "Hundreds of owners, who do not have care "on their lots, do riot pay the annual lot-upkeep JSharge of $2.50 per lot, but we Hook after the lots regardless. Our costs this past year were S7.441.22." The board is making a ruling that all back loti-care must be Jnaid for before further burials twill be permitted, and that the lassociatlon may reclaim and resell unused parts of lots where the ual lot-upkeep has not been production through seed certification.

Tiahrt has been active ha farming in Gage county since back in 1905. He has always been active in county affairs. He served 12 years on the extension board and is a member of the local Farmers Union. Tiahrt started using certified seed back in 1921. He has used certified oats, wheat, corn and broom grass.

Kiridig moved to Gage county in 1893 and started farming near Holmesville in 1903. He has used certified seed since back in 1929. During this 20 he has planted certified barley, oats and wheat. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska school of agriculture. Both men received their awards in Lincoln this afternoon at the conclusion of the annual meeting of the Nebraska Crop Improvement Association.

Both men and county agent Philip Sutton attended the meeting. Code Escapes; In Burlington Robbery Here Slugged Telegrapher Peterson In February 1946. Joe Felix Code, who robbed the Burlington station here ana sl-igged telegrapher Harry Peterson on the night of Febr. 3, 1946, was reported as one of two prisoners who escaped from the Lincoln State hospital today. The other man, according to Associated Press, was Francis Simon 32, committed from Richardson county.

Both had been transferred last year from the penitentiary to the state hospital. Obtain Ward Key They escaped after obtaining a ward key and unlocking two doors, according to Associated Press. Code had been sentenced in district court here June 5, 1946, to serve six years on charges of assault with intent to do bodily harm, burglary and larceny of an automobile. The 32-year-old bandit broke into the Burlington station nearly three years ago, slugged Telegrapher Peterson and took about $86 in cash. Then he decided to take Peterson him" as a hostage in a stolen car.

Bound Peterson After a harrowing ride the car ran out of gas and Code bound and left him locked 'in a Lincoln filling station. Code was picked up as a suspect by Marshall county Kansas authorities and later identified by Peterson. Records at that time showed Code had a long record, including 12 arrests and five sentences according to the FBL Brought here for trial, Code was sentenced to six years. He was taken to the state penitentiary and last year transferred 5 Legislators Will Seek Plan For Aid Plight Gallon Among Group To Study County Assistance. LINCOLN, Single Copy 5c U.

S. military policemen talk outside Russian repatriation mission In Frankfurt, Germany, which has been blockaded following Russian refusal to comply with American orders to leave the U. 8. zone of Germany. Four Russian officers and four soldiers and their families are in the mission.

Water, gas and electricity has been cut off and the telephone disconnected in the bloodless siege. Food also has been shut off by orders to M.P.'s to arrest anyone trying to enter or leave the -(AP Wirephoto). to the state hospial. Army Puts Barbed Wire Around Blockaded Russ Gas Tax Funds Down About 30 Per Cent LINCOLN, March 3 tax money distributed to the counties hi February was down about 30 per cent from January, State Treasurer Ed Gillette reported today. The decrease, he said, may have resulted from bad weather conditions.

Regular gas tax money sent to the counties amounted to $242,703. The January figure was $357,538. Pawnee Implement Show Set March 15 Bun'i Serrloc) PAWNEE CITY Second annual Pawnee City Auto and Implement Fair, sponsored by the junior chamber of Commerce, will be held, March 15. On the same date Pawnee 1 City will be host to a meeting of six county noxious weed districts, in the courthouse at 1:30 p. m.

With the implement fair as an special attraction, a large attendance is expected at this meeting. Otoe, Gage, Pawnee, Johnson, Richardson and Nemaha noxious weed districts will be represented. JayCee President Ed Ossenkop said the latest in autos and farm implements will be on display. A gala free show will be staged in the afternoon and evening. There will be a free dance following the evening performance.

FRANKFURT, Germany, March 3 S. Army engineers strung barbed wire entanglements around the blockaded Russian repatriation mission today, and. set up floodlights. The explanation was obscure. A military policeman said the new move was to prevent the possibility of food being smuggled in to the eight blockaded Russians, and to prevent them from leaving "On their own," without reporting to American authorities first.

Too Many Trees The Americans -the to fact, ordered them to go and have offered transportation facilities to the border if the Russians leave voluntarily. But when asked for further explanation of the barbed wire floodlights, the military policemen replied cryptically: "There are a lot of trees on this estate and you never can tell what they might try." The eight Russians who ignored the U. S. Army's order to leave by March 1, watched the wire stringing operations curiously from windows of the three-story building. They showed no intention of leaving, although they are cut off from water, light, gas, telephone service and food from the outside.

On the chance that water might leak through to the mission by faulty closed, valves, the engineers even ordered: the March 3 small group of legislators will seek a solution to the state's newest assistance to retain the principle of county participation and yet meet the federal requirement of uniformity. After Budget Committee Chairman John Callan had presented the matter to the senate today, it was agreed that five members who had taken a lead in the assistance discussion should study the question and report back in a few days. Jeopardized Callan pointed out that for the sake of having the counties participate in the cost of above-ceiling medical care, the entire assistance program might be jeopardized. The 1947 legislature passed an act under which the counties and the state share the cost of this supplemental assistance on a 2575 basis. But some counties said they could not afford it, and social security officials hinted that all federal aid for assistance might be withdrawn from Nebraska.

The counties finally fell to line, averting the need of a special session of the legislature then. But today Callan said about 20 counties say they cannot continue to go along, and Lincoln county has formally notified the state assistance department it has no more funds for participation. Levy Suggested Callan said Assistance Director Neil Vandemoer suggested a way Snowfighfers Pass Mark In Road Operations OMAHA, ftarch 3. army snowflghters passed the 100,000 mile mark in road clearance operations today. Operation snowbound headquarters reported the clearance of 1,666 miles of road in North Dakota yesterday brought the total for the four-state operation to 100,754 miles Of the equivalent of more than four trips around the earth.

In that time 198,000 people have been liberated from drifts and 3,998,556 head of livestock given access to feed. In North Dakota, the only state where work continues, operation snowbound finished up fn Stark county, but at the request of the governor and county commissioners, agreed to continue in Dunn county until midnight tonight. Previously Col. John S. Seybold, area engineer, had recommended that Dunn' county be closed at midnight last night.

Today 470 pieces of snow removal equipment were at work in North Dakota. At the Tuesday meeting it was iorted that there were 156 bur- during the year, and 46 lots parts of lots sold. Sources of income are sale of Rots, interest on perpetual care funds at about per cent, the pentng of graves, and other aall items -in lot upkeep. Rev. McCown was re-elected Chairman, Fulton Jack, vice- ilrman; Roscoe B.

Davidson, retary; E. F. Nelson, treasurer; W. West, superintendent of cemetery; J. W.

Pollock, hairman of the grounds cora- aittee, E. C. Austin chairman of lie finance committee. 'Jack, Earle Howey and A. H.

luckman, members of the board yhose terms were expiring, were -elected. Under the mall route graveling act, an additional $161,802 was allocated to the counties, as compared with $238,358 for the previous month. The regular gas tax breakdown included: Fillmore 1 Gage Jefferson Lancaster Saline $3,113. Under mail route apportionment county figures included: Fillmore Gage Jefferson Lancaster Saline $2,075. Former Wymorean Dies In California Mrs.

Hilda Ray, the former Hilda Peterson of Wymore, died Febr. 25th at her home at Compton, at the age of 51. Surviving are three sons, Paul, Dale and LeClare; eight daughters, Marian, Audrey, Shirley, Jacquelyn, Beverly, Patricia, Barbara and. Sandra, all of Compton; one brother, Oscar Peterson of Marysville, and one sister, Mrs. Jennie Leach of Lincoln.

Born in Wymore, she lived In Lincoln after graduating from high school. She was married June 23, 1919, and lived at Lincoln until eight'years ago when she moved to Compton. Funeral services will be at two n. m. Sunday from the Hodgman- Splain chattel, Lincoln.

Graveside services will be held at four p. m. at the Wymore cemetery where the casket will be opened. All Denominations Invited To Services Members of every church and denomination are invited to participate in the World Day of Prayer services Friday at 2:80 p. m.

and 7:30 p. m. at Trinity United Lutheran church, 9th and The-services are sponsored by the Beatrice Council of Church Women and the business women's organizations. Representatives of City Officials Go To Bill Hearings City Commissioners Henry Brandt and Andy Thomsen today went to Lincoln for a hearing on the legislative bills proposing the state pay. all or part of the cost of maintaining highways within cities up to 25,000 population.

Now the state only maintains highways in towns under 2,500. Brandt yesterday returned to Beatrice from, a three-day session in Lincoln with the state fair board of which he is a member. The board, contracted for churches are taking part tainment for the Nebraska expo- in presenting the services. I sltion this fall. Pony Thrap, 61, Masses Away Here i Francis (Tony) Thrap, 61, ngton railroad engineer of 1118 'efiiam died last night aj Tocal hospital.

Born Sept. 22, J87, be had suffered heart tttack Tuesday morning. Surviving are his wife, two nughters, Mrs, W. A. (Lena) Uer of DeWitt and Mrs.

D. ICLofene) Van Laningham of sitrice; one son, Wendall of icoln: two sisters, imith of Richmond, and OPS. Ed Lahodney of Beatrice-, rid' one brother, Grover of Lost Supervisor Discovered In Houston Selling Bibles California, Ftuieral services will be Sat- day at p. m. from the Harman with Rev.

Wayne Sreene officiating. Graveside ser. HOUSTON, March 3, A San Francisco official who disappeared shortly after his election more than a year ago, was found last night in Houston! He had just completed a day's work as a salesman. Chris Jepsen Christensen dis- appear.ed Jan. 13, 1948, soon after his election as a city sypervisor, The ll-roan board of supervisors is the governing body of the city and county of 'San Francisco.

hat and coat and a note were found on the Golden Gate bridge. 'It was believed he had leaped from- the bridge. will be at Haddam, paid; tl vn night Christensen, then the pressure thick and I represented the people and I was going to do a job for the people, but there 1 was a machine setup. You 1 can't buck it." He did not deny his identity but said he had not known who he was for months. "I've been doing what I want to do all he said.

It was his first day as a Bible sales- roan. Why don't people let me alone? Just because a 8 acme- body people bother me?" He said he had no plans, that he's Just waiting for his wife. His wife, who thought him dead, Is expected tonight Thaws Cause Some Floods Beginnings Reported On Salt Creek South Of Ashland. OMAHA, March 3. Some local flooding was reported on Missouri river tributaries today as the result of continued thawing- The Omaha weather bureau said continued thawing during the next two days will result in nearly bankful stages on tributaries from Plattsmouth to a point south of Sioux City, including the lower reaches of the Platte basin.

At Ashland, the beginnings of a flood on Salt Creek were reported today. Ice is piling up in every bend, observers said, ana water is spreading over fields southeast of Ashland. The water was about "running board" deep over the highway leading out of Ashland just below its junction with highway 6. The highway department attempted to dynamite the ice this morning but it had little effect and the attempt was given up. The water level was low and at the Salt Creek bridge in Ashland the river stage stood between three and four feet below flood stage.

The Platte apparently is not breaking up in the Ashland area, an observer said. But the weather bureau reported the Platte up three-tenths of a foot there and a stage of 4.5 feet. The Elkhorh still is frozen but water is running over the Ice in the Norfolk, Waterloo and West Point areas. At Norfolk observer Harold Alexander said a lot of the runoff is going into the soil. Name Judges For VFW Essay Contest Judges selected for the local essay contest sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary of the F.

W. are the Rev. Wayne Greene, Hale McCown and Doris McPheron: High school students who are entering essays on "My Part in America's Future" are urged to send them to the Essay Chairman, Mrs. Elmer White, 419 N. 12th, not later than March 15th.

WASHINGTON, March The United States government, In a note to Russia, today gave General Lucius D. Clay full snp- In his demand that the Soviet repatriation mission be withdrawn from the American zone of Germany. The American note, made public by the state department, said Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov's protest against Clay's action was packed with "misrepresentation and distortion of fact." Molotov's protest was delivered to the American embassy In Moscow on February 24, The American note wan to be delivered to Molotov at Moscow today, by Foy Holder, ranking American diplomat now on duty there. The note told Molotov In effect that voluntary return of people to Russia was O. K.

with the American government but enforced return was not. American authorities ordered a street dug. up in front of the headquarters of a beseiged Russian repatriation mission make sure no water reached the men inside. But when the front door opened at 8 a. m.

(1 a. CST) and a Russian officer poked his head out to ask: "Can we have a newspaper?" they got a paper. 1st Lt. Edward L. Covak, Duluth, in charge of the mill- tary police cordon around the mission house, said only Stars and Stripes, an English-language paper, was available.

"That's okay," said the Russian, so Covak handed him the paper. A reporter told the Russian "there's an interesting story on page the Ameri- out might be to pass a law requiring the counties to levy up to five-tenths of a mill for this purpose before they levy for any other purpose. Senator Carmody of Trenton suggested another way would be to repeal the 25-75 provisions passed two years' ago. Callan, Carmody, and Senators Benesch, Ogden and Lee will study the question and make recommendations to the legislature. "If we don't take action at this regular session, we will in a special session before the summer is over," Carmody predicted.

Mother, Eight Children Die Exploding Oil Stove Causes Blaze Which Destroys Home. MUSKEGON, March 3 mother, eight of her children and a roomer perished today when flames destroyed their flimsy frame home north of here. The fire roared through the house after an oil stove exploded while the mother, Mrs. Maude Clover, was preparing breakfast. The scene of the tragedy was the little resort community of Lakewood, 12 miles north of Muskegon.

Fireman and deputy sheriffs found the bodies of the 46-year-old woman and eight children ranging in age from 3 to 15 years in the ruins. A roomer, August Taskey also was a victim. Mrs. Clover, whose estranged husband lives in Grand Rapids, also had three other children who at first were feared to be victims of the blaze. Later it was learned they were not at home at the time.

Two grown sons survived Pair Will Go To New York Lonely Hearts Slayers Faced With 1st Degree Murder. MINEOLA, N. March district attorney of Nassau county said today that Raymond M. Fernandez and his 200-pound girl friend, Martha Beck, will be brought here irom Michigan to face a "lonely hearts" charge. Conviction first degree mur der in New York carries the deatl penalty.

District Attorney James Gehrig asked bench warrant against the pair Forrestal's Resignation May Be Today President Expected To Okay Release, Name L. A. Johnson WASHINGTON, President Truman Is accept today James V. Forresttfi long-pending resignation as retary of defense and name Louis A. Johnson, West Virginia lawyer, to the post.

White house Informants said, the action probably will be announcejil'' at Mr. Truman's neWs conference at 3 p. An exchange'of letters between the Forrestal has been prepared release, they added. Last Holdover Forrestal, the nation's first 'setf- retary of defense, is the last cab? inet holdover from the Roosevelt, administration. He was secretary of the navy before he took the top defense job.

Johnson long has figured m. speculation as Forrestal's sor. He is a former assistant retary of war and served as man of the Democratic finance committee hi the 1948 presidential campaign. Presidential associates disclosed during the campaign that Forrestal; Jfernauaei. to speed their turn.

Gehrig said an assistant In his office had obtained a "complete and detailed confession" rom handez the' si was expected to step down after the election. The only question one of tuning. I The president Is known delayed action because of jectlons to publicity given plans. Royal May Be Next White house officials Secretary of the Arniy Kennethj Royall to be the next to of the administration, but they'at' not sure how soon that Secretary of the Air Force 1 Stuart Symington, for 1 signation some of 1 associates had been now expected to stay on tely. Johnson, a Clarksburg, resident, Is World War 1 and a former national com, of the American legion.

Ktt-tt as assistant secretary of the Roosevelt 1937, to. can bomber around the flying world. non-stop "This is through the courtesy of American military police," Covak added politely. The Russian graciously thanked him. The blockade around the Russian mission was slapped on yesterday.

Gen. Lucius D. Clay several weeks before told the Russians' to pull their mission out March since its work of getting Russian displaced persons- back to Russia, Clay said, had dwindled to nothing. the fire but were badly burned before they could escape from the burning building. One was taken to Mercy hospital In Muskegon.

In critical condition and almost incoherent, 17-year-old Howard Clover said the flames leaped out of the stove at about 7 a. m. (CST) when the widow and her family were preparing breakfast. Most of the children were sleeping at the time. Within a few moments the wooden house, once used only as a summer residence, was all aflame.

Young Clover said he stumbled to a window and pulled his 21- year-old brother, Ward, out with Victory Harvey of Montague, one of the first persons to reach the scene, said the two youths I "were like human tag of Mrs. Janet Fay, a former Albany, N. woman In Valley Stream. The body was found In the cellar of a house in Queens county. The Nassau prosecutor said he will send a representative td Albany today to secure Gov.

Dewey's approval of extradition of the pair. Assistant District Attorney Edward Robinson; sent to Grand Rapids, by Gehrig, has reported back that Michigan will not oppose the return of Mrs. Beck and Fernandez to New York. Michigan does not have capital punishment. A life sentence is the most the pair could receive If convicted of the murder of a Byron Center, mother and her daughter.

The grieving Martha Buck er Mrs. Downing came here yesterday from Palisade, to claim her body and that of her daughter. At the time of his arrest, police found in Fernandez' possession a list of more than 100 names on a "lonely hearts" circular. They said he had singled out with check marks 17 names, most of which mentioned cash or property. The list Included: Mrs.

Edith Johnson, Box 63, Wakefleld, "owns home and has $7,000." Alice Jackson, 304 East 22 Fremont, "home and savings." Dr. Rosenlof, Un Registrar Speaks To Rotary Club, Progress, In' science; of which we see today, to possible by institutions learning, Dr, Rosenlof, of the state university, told Beatrice Rotary club; today. Within the past few days occurred Incidents, which scientific progress the use atomic energy in the laying the cornerstone of a New York bUild? ing; setting up of a telescope times as powerful any ot a round-the-world trip'by 1 air toM hours. The scientific backgn of these achievements is our catlonal system, he The referred to I legislation to jthe tary schools, State sought system of fewer but schools. Rural school has decreased by 58 the number of districts only 2 per cent.

Nebraska has 6,925 school 1 tricta of which 238 maintain schools and pay no school The per pupil cost iff ti ily high and a burden upoi poor pj Commenting on a move' to, teachers coUeges the functJ a university, Dr. Rosenlof was his private opinion -that ought not to be done. Brewster To Post In Nicaraguan Capitol Robert Brewster, recently appointed a U. S. foreign service officer, has received his assignment to Managua, capitorof Nicaragua.

The was received, by his parents here, Mr. and Mrs, Charles Brewster. He is attending the state partment Foreign Affairs, Instl-, tute In presumably will take Ms vice-consular post in Managua shortly after the course ends April 15, Of Flood Controls CRETE, Mayor Thomas today announced a spe9ial control committee to to event of a flood emergency lar to the one which hltt.C Non-Stop Flig ht Crew First 0 nly By Chance last March 18-21. The mayor said tlon Is being, the Big Blue.river the. north parj; of Lord Is commented.

In freeze-and-thaw Karl Nedela chaJbrman, flood 'emergency members and NEPHEW DIES Word has been received by John Martin, 604, Milllkln that his nephew, Jud Richards of Sharon Springs, died 25th. He leaves his wife and several children. His mother was Mrs. Em Martin Richards of FORT WORTH, March crew of "Lucky Lady by chance the first men to fly nonstop around the world, slept off a 24-hour quarantine today. The fourteen men landed at Carswell Air base yesterday, 94 hours and one minute after standby orders became operational.

They had crossed seven seas and four continents, covered more than 23,000 miles, refueled In mld-alr four times and circumnavigated the globe at nearly its greatest gprth. Chance Flays Vart Chance placed "Lucky Lady Its pilot, Capt James Gallagher, and crew in history, Another splane to have made the flight. The i what the -air force chose to call a training mission" got as far as the Azores after taking off last Friday. The engine fire which forced, this plane down sent Lady II" aloft. Gallagher and tUs history-making crew had been on stand-by orders for any emergency that might arise.

Their B-50, an improved sion of the B-29 superbomber, was airborne at 11:21 A. M. (CST) Saturday. The sleek, silvery plane returned to its starting point yesterday at 9:21:55 a. m.

(CST). Shortly Its crew was placed "undey a hour quarantine, ending today noon. The quarantine was part the officers. men were weary-eyed when, tJjey dropped out of bomb Iwy'apojciB, ing and But -medical check, the eja flight and to chance 'to sleet togs; and Blankets, 'bomber, 1 Newsmen commit r- fourteen,.