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THE LEAVEN WORTH TIMES, Ninety-Sixth Year. No. 17 LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 22,1952. PAGES (4 o'Clock Home Observers Jolted By Atom Blast Probably Largest Ever Detonated on US Soil Is Spectacular Show By BILL, BECKER ATOM BOMB SITE. Nev of the most spec tacular atomic bombs ever detonated jolted observers "I 1 miles distant Tuesday anc gave 1,500 troops an experi ence they will never forget.

It probably was the larges bomb ever dropped on continents U. S. soil. The smoke blotted oil the troops who.were within four miles on ground area. The bomb burst 42 seconds after release from an air force plant flying at 35,000 feet in a typical high level drop.

Despite brilliant sunshine, the flash, was visible 75 miles away in Las Vegas. Seven minutes later the Southern Nevada gamhlinf capital' rumbled with the concus sion. The shock twisted observer's neck one minute after the'flash. The fireball lasted somewhere from four to 10 seconds: The bomb formed a big mushroom before the concussion Mi ground aero and raised 1iie familiar dirty-dust column. The heat from the blast singed observers' faces at News Nob.

Most wished they were in' foxholes like the troops. The went through a rust yellow, violet, and then turned snow white. Finally, above 35,000 feet an ice cap''formed, and separated from the main ball-shaped cloud. Trucks moved in almost Immediately to pick up the troops before' the radioactive dust could hit them. Several secondary fires started, veteran observers- said.

These were' indicated by darker appearing through the dust base Z'A, miles wide. Thirteen minutes later the main cloud was. drifting-- toward and still retained-'rust and yellow, shades, predominantly Ouster Of Truman Is Proposed Seizure of Steel Mills Violates Constitution, Resolution Declares BULLETIN WASHINGTON W) The Senate Tuesday rejected a move to deny the use of any government funds to carry out President Truman's steel industry seizure. The vote was 47 to 29 in favor of the'spending ban but a two- third margin was necessary lor approval, and the. vote fell short of that.

OPERATION government river boat Chico, pushing a 'barge, was thrown into the battle late yesterday to save Sherman Air Force Base from the flooding Missouri River. When rain and seepage made the top of the.dike impassable for trucks, the barge was brought over to carry and distribute sandbags along dike where needed. In the picture, troops of Company, 94th Infantry Battalion, Fort Leonard Wood, are starting to load barge with sandbags. 'The Chico, which worked all last night and will work all day and tonight, can take about 5,000 sandbags each trip. By dark the dike will have been raised another foot.

Kansas Showers Not Flood Threat TOPJSKA. new of showers gave waterlogged Kansas another soaking Monday night but have New -York's GOP delegates is no'Immediate flood threat Forecaster Richard- 'Garrett warned, however, that a pattern of recurrent, showers and- thunder storms is in prospect for the next few days. The downpours again were heaviest in once-dry Elkhart reported 1.48 inches to tiring the'total mere since-last Thursday to 3.24 inches. Scott City also reported 1.48. Garrett said light rain was continuing to 11 fall in western areas Tuesday morning although the remainder of the state'was getting a brief respite from the showers.

The forecaster said intermittent rain is scheduled to break out in eastern sections Tuesday evening and to continue Tuesday, night in the. southeast and extreme east. Plead Guilty To Draft Evasion Charges WICHITA Two Kansans pleaded, guilty Monday to charges of draft evasion. Eldon Bargen ,21, Newton, was sentenced to serve a year and a day in prison for refusing to comply with the -selective service law. U.

S. District Judge Delmas C. Hill deferred 'sentence for Marvin Burns, with failure to report for induction. classed, aj a conscientious Court officials said Bargen gave no religious reason for his Eolation, and refused Delegate Seats At Stake Today In Balloting' By The Associated Press Voters in New York and Pennsylvania, which rank bne- two presidential nominating trength, ballot'Tuesday dele- 'ates who will go uninstructed to national parry conventions. New York had no presidential reference battle is for Republican and 94 Democratic elegate 'seats at th'e conventions Chicago next poll had but two names oh the ballot, both Eisenhower and Harold Stassen; Democrats and Republicans pick 60 district delegates each.

Ten at-large delegates each already have been chosen. Gov. Thomas Dewey seemed to priest pretty well assured for Eisenhower But Sen. Taft. was predicting he would get 20 Taft bowed of out them, of the" sylvania popularity, race.

Penn- saying it was fruitless because delegates are not bound by its results. Never the less, his backers looked for a write-in showing. Eisenhower; forces were banking on a write-in, 'Democrats. Pennsylvania permits crossing party.lines in such polls and the general's backers looked at it this way: A heavy Eisenhower vote in both primaries might cause GOP leaders to throw the'majority of Pennsylvania's 70 convention votes his way in July. A move in Sen.

Kefauver's behalf at the Idaho Democratic convention fell by the wayside Monday when a 12-vote delegation was left uninstructed. A motion to pledge the group to Kef auver was beaten down at the Lewiston meeting. However, Kef auver led in a poll of the 24 delegates delegate will have half a vote. SIGHT TORNADO CHANUTE Civil Aeronautics Administration a report Tuesday a tornado had been sighted 20 miles west of Coffeyville at 10:50 a. m.

headed northeast LATEST CENSUS FIGURES WASHINGTON Hi The census bureau estimated Tuesday the population of the. U. S. on March 1 at about AnnualCounty Cancer Crusade GoiUnder Way This Morning The 1S52 Leavenworth County Cancer Crusade was launched this morning with workers county and up their cami paign literature and work kits at Gushing Memorial hospital. Henry Meiners, chairman of the drive, expressed his hope that the educational messages distributed by the campaign workers would be read as they carry an -important nearly "ialways fatal." life saving informative message.

"The magnitude of our task is indicated by statistics," Meiners said, "and those statistics show that cancer strikes one out of-five Americans. This fact alone makes education a most pressing problem. Once we have taught the public to recognize and act on cancer's danger signals, the cure rate is bound to take a sharp turn upward. We know that cancer is highly curable is Mife, Ute tii4jmrtik agnosis, or delayed treatment is for funds in the 1952 crusade will continue through the month of April ending on April 30. The goal for Leavenworth county is $3,200.

Warden Walter A. Hunter has named a group to handle the drive at the United States Penitentiary, Major General Henry Hodes, has named Captain John L. Dunn to head the drive at Fort Leavenworth and Forrest Ei Bloom will head up the campaign at Wads- Not As the Crow Flies Bill a circulation manager for The Times, has found his driving mileage increased because, of "the flood. Normally he drives about 32 to 35 miles each afternoon to deliver the bundles of papers to Beverly, Weston, East Leavenworth and Platte 'City. Last night- his' speedometer showed a travel distance of 148 miles when he got back home.

His route now takes him through Piper, Kansas City, Weston, Beverly, Tracy, Farley and Platte City and then back through Kansas City. Priest Describes Arrest in China HONG KONG at) 'A Catholic from Indiana said Tuesday Chinese Communists sentenced tiim to death at a mass trial on Easter Sunday and then paraded lim out of as an "American devil." The Rev. Robert W. Greene, 41, from Jasper, said the trial climaxed 16 months of house arrest; and a week of so unreal "it like a bad dream, something that never happened." Greene told newsmen it began in October, 1950 when guards surrounded his mission compound at Tungan. 'In the next months," the priest said, "Communist soldiers destroyed our altar, ripped out the pews and used the church for political meetings." LawmakersSay FederalBudget Must Be Cut WASHINGTON Some influential.

lawmakers agreed Tuesday with the Committee for Economic Development that the federal budget can -arid should be balanced next year. These congressmen said new taxes are out of the question. 1 The CED, a businessmen's research also expressed the belief in a statement Monday MEat' expeh'dif iffes 'could into line with government income without new revenues; But it suggested that if Congress doesn't think so, consideration should be given to a federal retail sales tax except food, housing and articles already subject to direct federal excises. "There aren't any temporary taxes," Rep. Curtis (R-Neb), a member of the tax-writing ways and means committee commented.

"So-called temporary taxes are imposed with the best intentions, but somehow they always become permanent. "In addition, the federal government has waited too long to get into the sales tax field, already preempted by most of the states." Rep Martin of Massachusetts, the Republican leader of the house agreed with Curtis and the CED on the ability of Congress to avoid a treasury 'deficit without new levies. WASHINGTON (AP) A resolu'tion asking impeachment of President Truman for seizing the steel mills was introducediri the House Tuesday by Rep. Hale, R-Me. Along with it, Hale introduced a resolution which would declare the opinion of the House to be that the President violated the constitution and that the steel plants should be returned to private operation.

The impeachment resolution the standard form for such procedure. It was referred to the Judiciary committee, where no action was expected, at least for the time being. It directs the committee to investigate the seizure and report to the House, "together with such resolution of impeachment or other recommendation as it deems prop- In a brief speech, Hate said the President's action was "an assault on the constitution of the United States." Other Republicans joined in the attack on the President. Rep. McCormack of Massachusetts, the Democratic leader, de- 'ended the President and Rep.

Crawford (R-Mich) suggesfed that courts be allowed to determine the legality of the seizure. On the other side the Capitol, he Senate resumed debate on a Republican-sponsored move to forbid government money to carry out the seizure. Two Senate committees called tovernment and industry men before "discussion of tfie seizure. Air Force Not Soft, Vaiidenberg Says SAN ANTONIO reservists had the word Tuesday that there would be no softening of. attitude toward refusals to fly.

THe information came from Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, air force chief of staff, in a statement that minced no words. is one idea I would like to knock in the head," Vandenberg said. "That is the notion that the USAF is th any way proposing to adopt a soft attitude on this question of refusal to fly. "The air force is a fighting organization." Meanwhile, high level air force conferences continued in Washington, and charges for refusal to fly were dropped against two reserve CHALLENGES: AUTHORITY WASHINGTON State Department's broad authority to deny or revoke passports was challenged in Federal'Court Tuesday and a ihree-judge panel agreed to hear the case.

PLATTE COaiPANY TO KG INDEPENDENCE, Kas. Platte Pipe Line Company announced Tuesday its permanent will be located in Kansas City later this year. Boy Dynamites Father To Life BEMIDJI, Minn. 16-year- old boy who admitted dynamiting his father to death and then setting fire to a barn to try to cover up his crime was sentenced to life imprisonment Tuesday. The boy, Lloyd Knutson, pleaded guilty last week to a second degree murder charge.

The life" sentence was mandatory. Lyle told officers he had planned to-kill his father for several weeks "because I hated him." at Randolph Air Force officers Base. Maj. Gen. J.

K. Lacy, commanding general of the crew training air force, said charges were dropped against 1st. Lt. James G. Bristol, 35, pilot from Harlan, and 1st Lt.

Edwin Cox, 35, bombardier from St. touis. The charges were dropped following pre-trial investigations and a three-hour talk between Lacy and Vandenberg Monday. VOTE FLOOD RELIEF WASHINGTON Iff) House passed a bill Tuesday providing The Weather KANSAS Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; intermittent rain tonight east and southeast; cooler tonight with low 35-45; high Wednesday 55-62. Early maximum 70 at 2 p.

m. Minimum 57 at 5 a. m. Yesterday: Maximum 77 at 2 p. m.

Minimum 56 at 1 a. A year ago: 51, 35. KIVER feet, a rise since yesterday of .8 of a foot and 4.9 feet above flood stage. 1 p. m.

yesterday to 1 p. m. today: .55 of an inch. and sunset, 7:07. (Temperature readings from the Service.) Mutineers In Civil War As Battle Rages JACKSON, Mich An angry tired band of mutinous prisoner staged a bloody battle in their cell block Tuesday afte a dispute over what to do with 1 Southern Michigan Prison guard they hold as hostages.

Two of the prisoners were stab bed and beaten badly in the mele which ended when their bodie were tossed out of the cell bloc by other, convicts. The civil war among the 17 mutineer's, central figures in th riotous, fiery outbreak that brough death to one convict and two mi: lion dollars damage to the hug arisen, came as negotiations wer underway for a truce in the three day-old prison outbreak. The mutineers, in tense parley with prison officials, had indicatec a desire to barter the lives of th 11 guards they held as hostages ir return for promises of no-punish ment for their part in the rioting and improved conditions at th Even as some 600 state polic and prison guards stood watch ove She fire-marked Southern Michigai Prison, squads, of state police wer rushed to another, state institutio Ionia re ports of trouble among its 1,30 nmates. Earlier Tuesday, at Southen Michigan prison, one of the leac ers of the. mutineers, Russell Jar had agreed to "talk to priso inmates by radio in, an effort calm them.

A truce meeting took place out side Cell Block 15 Tuesday morn ng. Jarbo talked 'there with Dr Vernon Fox, deputy warden. Th meeting followed; a telephone con versation between Block 15 am the warden's office. Despite the announcement of the appeal, tension still gripped the prison in the wake of Monday', wild rioting. Two hundred state police ant scores of guards patrolled the pris on.

Practically all the nearly 5.00C nmates were kept locked in eel flocks. of the troopers hac jeeh injured up to Fears have been felt for' thi safety of the 11 hostages, some vhom were seized Sunday night Their captors have made threats mt apparently have not harmec the guards yet. lief in the flood-stricken Missouri Valley. Wanger Given Sentence )f Four Months in Jail SANTA Calif, Movie Producer Walter Wanger vas convicted Tuesday of assaul vith a deadly weapon for shooting lis wife's agent. He drew a four months' sentence in the county ail.

The judge deleted the part of a grand jury indictment which al- eged "with intent'to commit mur- ler," and reduced the charge to assault with a deadly weapon. Rather than proving murder intent, said Superior Judge Harry 25 million dollars for disaster re- J. Borde, the evidence "proves quite to the contrary that he had no such intent at all." RIOTING PRISONERS FLUSHED FROM Michigan State Police ferret out rioting inmates at Southern Michigan Prison, Jackson, from tha mess hall kitchen. The building was wrecked arid set afire by the prisoners during a general riot yesterday. Convicts are white-shirted.

(Wirephoto) Crest Now Expected To Reach 30 Feet Morale Slumps as Forecast Calls For More Rain Bulletin The dike at the Missouri Valley Steel, shipyard broke under weight of water at 3:30. The water immediately rushed in to cover the area. Earlier this afternoon, J. V. Oliver, president of the company had announced plans' to abandon all dike operations and said equipment was being removed or raised tha expected 30-foot level.

BULLETIN A conference on the feasibility of efforts to save Sherman'Air Force Base in face of a predicted 30-foot Missouri River flood crest was still in session at press time. Before entering the conference at 2 p. m. Col. J.

Davis of the Kansas City district Corps of Engineers office admitted the possibility does "not look top good." The tentative decision was' announced at 3:12 this afternoon. The conference is ex- pectedvto continue until about 6 p. m. Troops manning the dike have been alerted to move out on a moment's notice. Strained muscles and shee determination were about all remaining in the arsenal he weary dike workers wh staggered through wa ter and mud to throw feebl punches at'their increasinglj opponent th monstrous Missouri.

Morale slumped under na ture's threat of a flank attack with more rains, predicted jecome locally heavy am. lasting throughout the week This brought another root upward to 30 feet of th already unprecedented floot crests sweeping past Leaven worth. B3' early afternoon the stage a he Chicago, Great Western Ter minal Bridge reached a stage 26.9 feet, a rise since 7 a.m. only .2 of This-left onl. nches of freeboard remaining a Sherman Air, Force Base at For Leavemvorth 'and the Missouri Val ey's shipyard on South Second, Virtually, all mechanical equip.

ment has been made immobile bj the combination of mud, water and spongy earth cradled by dike rom the rampant waters. Last night's rain totaling .55 an inch drenched the workers 'anc )'rpught to a halt the operation trucks at the air field. Officials reported "Operation Chico" was working satisfactoril; nd dikes were continually beini ncreased in height by sandbags Sherman Base. The Chico, an Army Enginee. 0-foot tug with a barge, began perations yesterday afternoon along the dike.

Sand is draggec ver the soaked field on sleds owed by bulldozers to the nortl ike. There it is transferred onto he barge. Crewmen then dis harge sandbags to other workers along the dike. Last night student officers of the Command and General Staff Col ege again patrolled the dikes ome 600 other troops manned the andbags. The officers vere equipped with Very pistols ghts, and orders to run for their ves if the siren signals a major reak.

At the briefing -Col. J. S. Dav ave the officers a comprehensive icture of the flood situation. He xplained the mile -long air, strip as a drop of seven feet from the orth to south dike.

Normally the ver bed falls one foot to the. mile If the north dike crumbles, he xplained, the nine-foot wall ol ater rushing across the field ould create a condition he de- cribed as a "rapids." Colonel Davis on to explain le flow of water through the bluffs stween Kansas and Misouri ures approximately 400,000 cubic et, or 30,000,000 gallons, per sec- nd. About three-fourths of this water, said, is passing a new lannel along the Missouri side Tie remainder, or 100,000 cubic et per minute, is passing under 're Fort Leavenworth and Termi- al Bridges. Capt. Earl Russell, an Artillery aison pilot, gave his impressions seen from the air: Both the Chicago, Great Western ailroad tracks, and the Burlington acks, on the Missouri side are erving as dams to impound the ater.

The Great Western tracks xtend eastward to Beverly, om the Federal Prison honor at the east approach to the "tot Leavenworth Bridge. The Burlington form the dam from Flood At a Glance River feet at m. upward revision of crest to 30 feet- Sherman AF Base Dike holding, plan to continue Missouri Valley Dike soggy; continued: operation doubtful. Fort Leavenworth" Bridge- Reported Terminal Wolcott during night when dike failed," Tobacco warehouse' flooded. dike flooded part of the Terminal eastward, to East Leavenworth', Mo.

Captain Russell -said billowing white foam "from 'water cascading over these tracks. Despite rampant rumors that the Fort' LeavenwortH has lifted, tilted, or drifted downstream jo lodge against the Terminal Bridge, it is not time. Following 'their daily, survey of the Engineers said it still remained where placed about 80'years' ago. State highway commission'inspect- ors also found the bridge.in place. Charles E.

president of the Manufacturer's State Bank, today recalled his first trip" across the Terminal Bridge as he 'surveyed the floodwaters from the west approach, -The' bridge was erected in 1893 by a company, oj men; His'father, Snyder, was president of 'the company. On Jan. 2, Snyder with his father'and other officials rode the first locomotive to crosm the bridge. Thousands of celebrants milled about the streets in holiday attire; visiting notables made addresses and heavily were driven across the.span,'to demonstrate its strength. Snyder and hit father together later purchased sole, ownership of the bridge which was sold by.

then to the railroad in 1910, Snyder recalled, the three center ot the bridge are set on bedrock. end piers are set on piling driven 30-to 40 feet in.the ground. Tha ot rbcit and 'old "gondola cars parked on the bridge-to hold it, down. The swift and rising current immediately south of the west approach to the bridge is being eroded by the.action of'the before latest upward revis- on of the relieved the' west bank would "be eaten away, to the-Missouri Pacifia tracks. Water this 'morning; had reached the westernmost track!" W.

N. Deramus he Chicago, Great his father, N. Deramus president of the'Kansas City Southern, inspected here today. Both men walked across the shaky Terminal Bridge and inspected con- litions on the Missouri side." The men "labored under tremendous odds in the 'apparently futile effort to save the shipyard, protected on all sides by emergency dikes. Workmen throughout yesterday, ast night and today loaded- sand- jags at the Geiger cement plant nto small there the ars were pushed.

through knee- water over i submerged rail- pur opposite the west dike. Then rews waded with the bags to the ike and the bags were then rushed the most After last night's rain, the rising vater topped a levy today on MiH Creek at Weston, Mo. and both Hull -Brothers nd the Missouri District tobacco varehouses were flooded with from iree to six feet of water. An emergency tie-in' has been made to.Weston's flooded munici- al water pumping station. Water now being supplied to the' city the rate of 1,000 gallons an hour, bout one-third of the normal sup- ly.

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