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Page Two THE DAILY REPUBLIC. Mitchell, S. D. Monday, March 14,1949 Five Sentenced For Spying On U. S.

Forces Munich, and five men Monday were sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to 18 years for spying on American forces in Germany for Communist Czechoslovakia. A U. S. military commission sentenced blonde, dimpled Gertie Doerre, 26-year-old "Mata Hari" of the case, to 12 years in prison. The heax-iest to Robert Kruse, 44-year-old German who gave the Czechs information on ship movements and on the unloading of tanks at the American-occupied port of Bremen.

A former Czech intelligence officer called Kruse "one of our best agents." Atlantic Pact Will Not Stop Russia-Mundi Washington, D. (IP) Mundt (R-SJ3.) asserted Sunday that "all the Atlantic Pacts in the world" would not deter Russia from going to war once the Russians have the atomic bomb and if war at some points seems desirable to tiiem. Mundt spoke on a Washing- Mnndt spoke on a Washington radia forum (Station WOOK) Kerr said he did not believe the Russians would determine the issue of war on whether they had an atomic bomb. He said the United States still would be "ten years ahead" of the Soviet Union in development of the bomb. To this point Mundt commented: "I think once they get the atomic the country that drops it ten minutes after the other country drops it will be 100 years too late." Kerr said that the Atlantic Pact greatly strengthen the prospects for peace.

He argued that the United Nations was serving the same purpose by clarifying issues in the cold war. Peace, Kerr contended, depends on American strength and vigilance in meeting Russian pressure and possible threats. Mundt, however, suggested that President Truman and the State Department should call a meeting of all the members of the United Nations to consider ways of making the organization "work more ef- fectively" in handling war problems. One issue the "consultative" assembly" should take up, Mundt said, is control of the energy. He indicated he believed that if the Russians -would not then go along in seck- ing workable solutions of this and other problems, they should be out of the United Xations so they would no long- 1 er be able to "obstruct" the rest of the members.

ilundt argued that in that way, the United States could rally 80 percent of the world's peoples on its side. He said that the Atlantic Pact woulcl provide a bloc of less than a. majority of the world's people and resources. Former Premier Of China Is Under Indictment Nanking, iner Premier Sun Fo was indicted Monday on charges of approving the Improper -disposal of enemy alien property to Miss Lan Ni. His name has been 'linked tically with the chaiming woman.

The indictment was voted eight to seven by a sub-committee of the control Yuan (auditing). It now may be referred to other organs of the control yuan for further investi- gation or be sent to the executive Yuan (cabinet) for corrective tion or to the criminal court of i prosecution. Sun, whose father was the George Washington of modern- day China, reportedly was in Shanghai, enroute to his borne in Canton. The indictment alleges that Sun approved the disposal of dyestuffs to Miss Lan Ni while he was premier. The control Yuan, also is investigating a charge that Sun approved the sale of his Shanghai residence to the Central Bank of China for an excessive price.

A charge of corruption against Sun was one of the issues which forced the resignation of his cabinet last week. was the first returned against any high ranking member of retired President Chiang Kai-Shek's government since the Generalissimo stepped down late in January. Assault Case Al Plankinton Enters 3d Day Plankintoh, S. trial of the state versus Bernard G. Koehler of Pianldnton, charged' with assault with a dangerous into Its third day Monday, before Judge B.

C. Bakewell in Circuit court here. The is charged In a complaint by Melvin Lutz of Plank- inura to allegedly have assaulted Lutz in an altercation at Hie Buckhorn bar here. State's Attorney V. P.

Harris is in charge of the prosecution for the state, and Don Fellows Is counsel for Koehler. An all-male jury is hearing the case. Lennox Pays Oif "Of Liquor Store Debt Lennox, S. city of Lennox has paid off three-fourths of its liquor store debt since the store opened last May 24, City Auditor Fred Courey reported Monday. The original indebtedness was J32.W3.

The city hts paid all but France Tries Coste, Famous Flier, As Spy Paris, Ocean Flier Dleudonne Coste went on trial Monday as a spy. He was charged with having been one of the "best paid" agents of German counter-intelligence, working in the United States during World War U. Coste, who with Maurice Bellonte made the first east-west flight over the Atlantic in 1930, denied he returned to the U. S. 13 years later to spy for Germany.

"I never had any intention of betraying my country," he told the military court. The short, stocky, white-haired defendant termed the charges against him "entirely false." Coste, named the world's No. 1 airman in 1931 by the International League of Aviation, claims he double-crossed the' Nazis by serving as an American agent while supposedly working for the German Abwehr ((terman counter-intelligence The Paris-to-New York flight in a small single-engine monoplane made a sensation second only i to Charles Lindbergh's epic crossing in 1927. To Try 'Lonely Hearts' Killers i In New York Grand Rapids, "lonely hearts" killers were ordered to be turned over to the statfe of New York Monday for a murder trial which could send them tbjSing Sing's electric chair. Circuit Judge Dale Souter iipiield New York's claim to Raymond Ifer- nandez, 34-year-old mail and Mrs.

Martha Becks 29. confessed slayers of two widows.and a baby in a matrimonial bureau racket. The couple was represented two attorneys in their against extradition as upon by Michigan Gov. G. nen Williams and Gov.

1 as E. Dewcy of New York. Softer denied all defense New York won the right to tryithe swindled Jove-stajfved women, for the slaying of'SjMrs. Janet Fay, 50, Albany, in a roonjing house at Valley Stream, Long Island. Fernandez, balding and and his 200-pound mistress, helper, confessed killing Mrs.

in New York and Mrs. Deliphene Dowling, 28, and her 21-month-old fckby, Ralnell Byrori Center, near here. Pictures Of HST And His Vacation Spot Confiscated Key West, The Wllite House Monday confiscated newsreel air views of President Truman his vacation quarters for what Presidential Press Secretary Chajrles G. Ross described as security sons. Still photographers exposed: their films to daylight thus destroying their photos rather than submit to White House censorship.

Representatives- of Pi News, NBC television, the ted Press, International News tos and Acme News Pictures the flight In a navy air They made pictures of Pi dent Truman swimming at enlisted men's beach, of the President and his party waving from the beach, general views Key West and of the commandant's quarters Mr. Truma'h uses as the "temporary White House" while on vacation here. 7 iS Charles G. Ross, press secretaSjf to Mr. Truman, and Rear Adntiral Robert L.

Dennlson, presidential naval aide, were waiting whenithe reporters landed. "Aren't you interested InVtihe President's security?" Ross quoted as asking. fe Suspension Of I Hitchelliie'sPei Term Revoked I Bryan Pranks, Mitchell, of three Mitchell men and two mfioihen involved in the alleged abduction of a 16-year-old Mitchell girl Fefl? 15, was sent back to the state penitentiary hi Sioux Falls for three4fears by Circuit Judge Walter H. Beacat Monday afternoon. Judge Seacat revoked the suspension of Franks' three-year sentence which was passed on him 11 on his plea of guilty to a charge of obtaining money under false? pretenses, The suspension was revoked on the application of Nichol, states attorney, on-Jthe grounds Franks was In Davison county jail serving a 30-day sentence for petty embezzlement.

Although originally Nichol charged Franks with conspiracy to abduct the young Mitchell girl, the charge was changed to misappropriation of property. Franks pleaded guilty to the charge Feb. 21. He admitted selling a $3 jack which belonged to his employer. The jack was In a car Franks borrowed from his employer for "five minutes" and did not return for two days.

It was In the car that Franks, Don D. Miller, 19, Mitchell, Byrl Wanamaker, Eleanor Wanamaker, Ardyce Thompson, daughter of Sam Thompson, and the flrl went to Tripp Feb. 15. Miller, charged with statutory rape, and Wanamaker, charged with selling mortgaged property, still are in Davison county jail awaiting trial during the spring term of circuit court. Also in the county jail are Miss Wanamaker, Wanamaker's former wife, and Miss Thompson.

Both are serving 30-rtay sentences for vagrancy, Read the Want Ads FISHING ON MAIN a fish-loaded pickup truck collided with an automobile, the overturned and a Washington intersection was a-slither with catfish, enroute to a Baltimore Md market. No one was hurt in the accident. Passersby who helped the driver gather up his fish we're duly re- warde 3- (NBA) Han Near Death Alter Saving 5 From Flames Baltimore, Allain Johns lay near death in a Baltimpre hospital today after snatching five persons from the second floor of a flaming house. The 32-year-old man stood on a burning porch roof at suburban Essex and lifted his wife, his father-in-law, two women and a boy to safety. Then the porch roof collapsed plummeting into the flames.

He suffered a fractured skull and first, second and third degree burns over his entire body, doctors said. Three other persons were sleeping on the first floor. Two escaped with minor burns, but the charred body of the third, 58-year-old Richard Coosenberry, was found in the ruins. To Investigate Salt Content Of Moreau River Washington, D. bureau of reclamation announced today it has halted work on the Bixby dam in South Dakota pending an investigation of the salt content of the Moreau river.

Fears have been, aroused that the salt is. so heavy the water backed up by the. dam may not be good for irrigation, the Bureau said. Construction work was only in its preliminary stage. The dam was authorized as part of the flood control program for the Missouri river basin in 1944.

The bureau said there will be a detailed investigation of the salt content, in both the water and the land through which the river flows to determine its exact source. If explained that earlier studies of the salt content prior to beginning the work had been very sketchy. Pare Sentence Of Woman Who Shot Soldier-Husband An American military government court of appeals Monday reduced to five years the 20-year sentence imposed on Mrs. Wilma Ybarbo, Maiden, for the fatal shooting of her husband, Sgt. John Ybarbo, last fall.

The appeal court ruled that Mrs. Ybarbo, 23, was not subject to military government law and set aside a 20-year term imposed under such law. The court also reduced to five 1 years another 20-year sentence imposed on Mrs. Ybarbo simultaneously under German law. The court decided that the fatal shooting of Ybarbo, of Goliad, was the result of a "long and intolerable course of cruelty and ill treatment by the 'Best Actress' VIRGINIA WAVE, Cathedral Films' star, receives annual award as best religious actress of the year from American Association of Religious Distributors.

The association includes 250 members from key cities in 44 states who distribute to 10,000 churches of all faiths. The, statuette was awarded for portrayal of Concordia role In "Simon Peter, FROM NINE TO FIVE By Jo Fischer You say those letters hare to go out tonight? Very well I'll do them first thinq in the mornina. SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith 3- COWI. BY Hit SERVICE. INC.

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PAT. OFF. "Towser won't perform any tricks you want to hear grandpa do his funny imitation of you giving a sermon?" Black Hills Has Private Storm Over Week-End Rapid City' S. Black Hills had its private storm over the week-end with r. half-foot of snow piling up in Rapid City.

The precipitation tapered off in every direction from the Hills, however, and at mid-morning Monday, while the snow was still blowing in the city, the sun.was breaking through at the airport eight miles east of here. About three inches of new snow was measured over most of the Black Hills except at Hot Springs where only an Inch fell. The storm was expected to leave zero temperatures In Its wake and a minimum of -8 was expected here Monday night. Twenty-mile-an hour winds caused some drifting hi this area but the highway department reported all roads were open but slippery. Only transportation casualty was Western airlines.

The flight to Billings from Rapid City was cancelled Monday morning and the flight to Denver was forced to skip the city because of low visibility. The snow had stopped early Monday all around the Black Hills while It continued to nnow here. The federal weather bureau anticipated light snow to fall here throughout the day. News Of The World In Brief Detroit, er'Corp. reopened its assembly lines Monday after a three-weeks shutdown.

The resumption of assembly line operations brought approximately 7,000 workers back to their jobs. They began work on K-F's new utility models, combining the appearance of sedans but incorporating the carrying utilities of station wagons and light trucks. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS All Times CST Listening tonight (Monday): NBC Cavalcade drama witn Conrad tfagle; 8 Don Voorhees concert; 8:30 I. Q. quiz; 9 Contented Concert; 9:30 Radio City theater "Weather Ahead." Inner Sanctum; .7:30 Godfrey Talent scouts; Rosalind Russell in "What a 9 My Friend Irma.

Gordon Macrae show, 8 Det's Go to Met; 8:30 Child's World at new time; 9:30 On Trial discussion. Straight Arrow drama; Sherlock Holmes; 9 American Forum "North Atlantic pact;" 9:30 Concert hall. VA CENTERS LISTED Washington, D. Veterans administration announced Monday that its medical supervisory work will be centered in five key cities replacing Its system of 13 branch offices. Administrator Carl R.

Gray, said the five places where its supervisory agents will locate are Atlanta, Boston, Fort Snelling, San Francisco and St. Louis. G. E. CUTS PRICES New York, N.

price reductions in many of the General Electric company's major lines of home several refrigerator models, home freezers and electric announced over the week-end. Savings to the consumer on these items will range up to $20 per model, the company said. The company also announced that new models of several major consumer products will be introduced immediately at prices "substantially below" those of models they will replace. Tuesday timetable: a. m.

Clevelandaires; 1 p. m. Double or Nothing; 5:30 Sketches in Melody; 6:30 Dardanelle trio; 9 Big Town a. m. Godfrey Hour; 12:30 p.

m. Young Doc Malone; 5:15 You and the Campus; 6:15 Jack Smith song; 8:30 Strike it Rich quiz; a. m. Breakfast club; 10:30 Ted Malone talks; 2 p. m.

Ladies Be Seated; 4:30 Sky King drama; 9:30 It's in the Family Kate Smith show; 1 p. m. Queen for a Day; 3:15 Johnson Family; 6 Fulton Lewis 7:30 Defective story. AMENDMENT OKAYED Washington, D. C.

A proposed constitutional amendment to provide equal rights for women was approved Monday by the Senate Judiciary committee. It now goes to the' Senate for consideration. NEW LAMB RECORD Chicago, Inve'lambs set another new price peak for March Monday at $29.00 a hundred pounds. This topped the previous'record set last week at a quarter less. GALVIN SWORN Washington, D.

H. Galvln, Boston attorney, was sworn in Monday as undersecretary of labor. -5? TONI WORKERS STRIKE St. Paul, of production workers Monday halted operations at the Ton! home permanent wave firm. spokesman said about 40(f employes stayed off the job when members of United Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers (CIO) union, local 409, threw up.

a. picket line. Barton Hess, International representative of the urdpn, said about 350 workers JoineS in the strike. The other 50 are office help. The strike involved a dispute over wages.

Hess said the union had asked 15 cents an hour more and the company had offered 10. A bonus plan was also involved, Hess said. ABC SIGNS JAMES ROOSEVELT Los Angeles, Calif. 3- (U.PJ James Roosevelt, eldest son of the late President, will become the third member of the family to broadcast for the American Broadcasting it was dis- closed'Monday. The Democratic national committeeman for California will be heard as a commentator on the Pacific Coast network starting March 20.

Roosevelt's mother, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, and sister, Anna, are heard together on ABC. JOAN BENNETT A GRANDMA Hollywood, Star Joan Bennett Monday joined Marlene Dietrich as one of screen- land's glamour girl grandmothers. Miss Bennett's daughter by a former marriage, Diana Markey, Sunday gave birth to a girl. The screen star is now married to Producer Walter Wanger.

Her daughter is married to Aircraft Manufacturer John Anderson. Set Rites For Victim Of Volga Farm Accident Volga, S. services for John D. Kleinjan, fatally injured in a farm accident, will 'be held Tuesday. He was crushed when a truck box that had been jacked up fell on him last Thursday.

Fish At U. Of 111. Learn To Steer Clear Of Hooks Urbana, Arthur Witt, a University of Illinois student, goes fishing daily in a fish bowl. He hopes to determine how long it takes a fish to learn the difference between a worm that's free and a worm that's attached to a hook. Witt tosses a free worm into the bowl.

It is gobbled by the fish. Then he lowers a worm attached to a wire. If the fish grabs for this one he gets.the "shock of his life," for the wire is hooked to a battery. Witt has been testing the fish since September. Some of them have learned their lessons, he says.

4 DROWN IN CAR Baraboo, said Monday that the car in which four young persons were drowned Sunday in the Baraboo river apparently had missed a curve and crashed in to a telephone pole before careening into the stream. The dead were Dale Curtin, 20; James Burns, 21; Miss Hnrvey, 17, and Miss Roberta Phillips, 17, nil of neixrby Rectls- burs, wis. They hud been on Saturday night dates in Bamboo and were returning home. Hit By Auto, Mitchellite Not Seriously Hurt Cynthia Woodson, Mitchell, was struck by a car driven by Richard Wilson, Mitchell, about noon Monday at North Rowley street and West Second avenue. The attending physician described her condition as "not serious." Miss Woodson was taken to the doctor by Wilson and was sent home from the doctor's office.

Wilson was driving north on Rowley street, according to the police report, when he struck Miss Woodson who crossed Rowley street going west. Gold Leaf Beating Job Dying Out, Man Says Medford, Mass. F. Hoarty, 62, whose cellar workshop turns out gold leaf orders for all over the United States and South America, says his craft is dying fast for lack of apprentices. Among the handful of gold beaters left in this country, he said, his 45-year-old assistant, Henry Graham, is the youngest.

A beginner would have to learn how to produce 2,350 sheets of gold leaf from a single ounce of gold beaten between ox skins with a 19-pound hammers. Huron Convict Walks Away From Iowa Pen Fort Madison, n. George Sahlie, 24, of Huron, S. walked away from the Iowa state penitentiary here last night, the state highway patrol reported. Sahlie was woiking at the prison powderhouse, outside walls, when he walked away about 8:30 p.

m. (CST), the highway patrol said. He had been sentenced in July, 1945, from Woodbury county for larceny of a motor vehicle. Prison authorities described Sahlie as six feet, three inches tall, 185 pounds with brown hah- and eyes. He was wearing blue denim prison clothing when he escaped.

Sahlie has a heart with the initials tatooed on one arm, and the letters "B-u-t-c-h" tatooed on the knuckles of his left hand, the highway patrol reported. Prexy Of US JCC To Speak At SF Sioux Falls, S. Bagwell, president of the U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce and a professor Michigan State college, was scheduled to address about 200 South Dakota Jaycees at a special meeting Monday night.

A state Jaycee board meeting was to be held this afternoon. Senate (Continued from Page One) stead of orders for enforcing mine safety." OMahoney said earlier that Lewis had "assured" Boyd's confirmation by ordering the protest- walkout. Senator Harry F. Byrd Va.) charged that Lewis was trjln? to the Senate. Eastern railroads started laying off 55,000 workers as the mine "holiday" got underway.

Mine owners estimated that the nation's stockpile of 67 1-2 mifflon tons of coal would" be cut to 43 1-2, million tons by the work stoppage. Boyd said he would stay pa the job because "a fellow cant back out of a fight while under fire and keep his self Lewis ordered the stoppage last Friday, calling it a memorial to the "unnecessary slaughter" of 1,015 miners and injury to 50.000 others last year during Boyd's tenure in office. The order to quit work covered all states east of the Mississippi river. Boyd, former dean of the Colorado School of Mines, said Lewis' criticism of him "may be a general attack" on Secretary of Interior J. A.

Krug, or "it may be that Mr. Lewis is piqued because he was not consulted on my appointment," Krng and Lewis have long been at odds. Joseph L. Moody, president of the Southern Coal Producers, said he reason to believe" ihat Lewis may extend the walkout to cut coal stockpiles further to improve the union's position In wage contract negotiations beginning May The union agreement runs to Jane 30. Many miners throughout the coal fields already had been laid off or were working reduced hours because of the warm winter weather which had cut coal consumption.

The miners' annual two-weeks vacation is scheduled to begin Juljf 1. Iron and steel producers said they didn't expect the miners' holiday to affect their industries unless the stoppage turns into a prolonged strike. Only states east of the Mississippi in which coal production did not come to a complete halt was where the Progressive Mine Workers continued on the Job. John Marchiando, head of the Progressives, who pulled out of the UMW 25 years ago, said the walkout would give the "enemies of labor the objects they are seeking." Jack Kroll, director of the CIO Political Action committee, also denounced the stoppage and said he hoped It "will have little effect on repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. The current stoppage was the seventh in the coal industry since Use end of the war.

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