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MOBERLY MONITOR-INDEX AND MOBERLY EVENING DEMOCRAT VOL 35 ASSOCIATED PRBSS AKD VIBE WOKIO WIRE MOBERLY, MISSOURI MAR. 25, 1954 OM NO. 224 Record Building Year Forecast in Moberly Business Buildings, Homes Under Construction During Mild Winter; More Being Planned for Spring, Optimistic Lumber Dealers Report This should be a record construction a in and near Moberly and iocal lumber dealers are optimistic. There is considerable building under way now. The mild winter was a boon to builders and their work in recent months rarely was interrupted.

The leadership in construction for 1954 here already has been taken by the city of Moberly, as the Monitor-Index reported recently, and a municipal improvements will include the construction of the Morley street underpass to be started by next Monday. Business building projects Russians Accuse U.S. Diplomats Of Espionage Newspaper Trud Says Four of Staff Spied During Railroad Trip MOSCOW Ofj-- The newspaper Trud charged four memoers of the U.S. Embassy's military staff today with spying on Soviet airfields and other important installations on a rail trip from Moscow to Vladivostok. The Embassy refused to comment on the charges.

Trud, the trade union newspaper, claimed the alleged espionage was revealed in military intelligence reports the Americans left behind in their compartment on the Trans- Siberian Express. It said the chief conductor found the papers at the end of the run. The documents, it continued, "constitute an intelligence report on the main towns and stations between Moscow and Khabarovsk," an industrial and transportation center of 300,000 persons north of Vladivostok on the Manchurian border. "Special attention was paid to airfields, radio stations, industrial plants and the like," Trud The four accused by the paper were Lt. Col.

Howard L. Felchlin, Maj. Walter McKinney, Maj. J. Manhoff and S-Sgt.

Eugene Williams. Trud published what it said were photostat copies of their papers and commented: "If the above-mentioned persons would like to get back their documents, which evidently were forgotten in the rush, they can do so by calling at the porter's office." Did Make Trip The Embassy would confirm only that the four men made a train trip to Vladivostok last September. McKinney is now away from Moscow on leave. The other three refused to give their U.S. addresses and would only repeat what Embassy Counsellor Elim O'Shaughnessy had said: "We have no comment to make." U.

S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen was not available to newsmen. The Trud allegations--which so far have not appeared in any other paper here--caused a flurry in the Western diplomatic colony. The charges were made in the form of a letter to the editor from JSS SK a room of the Missouri Power and thej nd compartment occupied by tne four Americans notes elude the Temple Stephens supermarket nearing completion on Johnson street, the Stephens super market being built on North Morley street, a new building for Connors Tire and Sporting Goods, the addition of six units planned at the Gina-Gay Motel, the 14-unit motel built by George Slater last year on.

Highway 24 west of here, the Standard Oil Company service station being built on South Morley. Other business expansion plans are being discussed. Extensive remodeling is planned at Trinity Methodist Church. Architects at Work Several homes are being built in and near Moberly now. Lumber dealers said they have received inquiries from persons planning to build.

Architects have been at work on plans for homes to be built this year by Dr. and Mrs. A. P. Row- lettc, Mr.

and Mrs. Russell Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Frank K. Westlake and Dr.

and Mrs. W. H. McCormick. "Residential building is off to a good start," said Ralph Mayes of the J.

T. Cross Lumber Company. "We think this year will be a good one and probably a record year of home building in Moberly and Randolph county. The favorable weather of the winter months has permitted building to proceed with only minor interruptions. Numerous starts were reported in February and many other builders are in the process of estimating or planning.

Lower Lumber Prices "There lower prices of construction grades of lumber, by as much as 1C' per cent, which should be of interest to new home builders, and an increased amount of mortgage money is available. Also stimulating the interest in new homes is the building industry's attractive plans and materials to make the home more interest(Continued on Page 7) ROUNDUP TIME ON THE PIERS--New York police herd longshorerren pickets away from a downtown Hudson River pier after the striking members of the old International Longshoremen's Association tried to bar AFL workers from the "pier. In the background are two of the trucks, boarded up to protect AFL longshoremen, which the pickets tried to stop. (AP Wirephoto) Donnelly Announces Tighter Emergency Hay Regulations New Rules Apply Braden Says His Warning of Red Menace Ignored Tells of His Wartime Efforts to Arouse State Department WASHINGTON M) Spruilte Braden said today the State Department "consistently ignored" warnings of the Communist menace which he sent as an ambassador in Latin America during World Sam Semple Heads Heart Association Officers Elected for Coming Year; 1954 Drive Sets Record Sam Semple of Moberly a elected president of the Randolph War II. Braden testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee.

He was appointed ambassador Colombia in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and later served as ambassador to Cuba and Argentina. Braden told the senators that even after he returned here in 1945 to become assistant secretary of state for American republic affairs, le was unable to get officials of he department to discuss "the vial topic of communism." "All my efforts to get action, eyond a I was able to do on my own against communism in the Americas, were frustrated by" an unidentifiable 'they'," he said. "I had the sensation of punching a pillow "To my mind, the complete fail- ire, despite repeated efforts to concrete results, demonstrates existence of a pattern within he department." The subcommittee, under the Light Company office building. He succeeds Dr.

William R. Newby, acting president of the association. Also elected were: Vice-president, Mrs. E. S.

Lear; secretary, Mrs. Earnest Swcaringen, and treasurer, Ray Gritton. Named to the association's publicity committee were Mrs. J. J.

Gasparotti, Miss Jo Driskell and Dale Low. Heart council members are Stan Green of Huntsville, Dennis Pope of Renick, Melville Shores of Clark, Paul Essig of Clifton Hill, Miss Jos-ephine Westfall of Higbee, Mrs. Cloyd Dale of Cairo and Carl Henderson, Mrs. E. S.

Burton, William F. Ornburn. Mrs. Troy Miller, Mrs. William Van Cleve.

Roy Wil- Icy and Dr. Newby. all of Moberly. Annual Reports Made A a reports of a i were received and Walter Steward, chairman of the Randolph county heart campaign for 1954 and a member of the Missouri Heart Association, also reported. Mr.

Steward said the 1954 goal here was $2.000 and the amount collected during the February campaign was 52,653.57. The a was Sl.OOO more than any previous campaign total, he said. and sketches which constituted espionage. They listed notations on the locations of bridges, factories, airfield, etc. Trud gave the letter a two- column display on the back page, the foreign news page.

Shown Bersted Plant Here Moberly Rotarians were taken on a tour of the Bersted manufacturing p'ant this afternoon, following their weekly luncheon meeting at the Merchants Hotel. Joe Kinshaw, manager of the East McKinsey street plant and S. Ferguson, plant superintendent, were guests at the luncheon. Their visits and the tour of the plant were arranged by Ralph Barnes, club program chairman for the day. Mother Expects Second Child Few Weeks After First CHELSEA, U.S.

Naval Hospital here disclosed today that a Navy wife who gave birth to a daughter 10 days ago is expecting a second delivery in six weeks as a result of separate conceptions, believed to have been at least a month apart. The mother has dual organs of procreation, naval authorities disclosed, an extreme rarity in medical history. The first child weighed three pounds, 14 ounches at birth March 15 and has been in an incubator at the big naval hospital, reportedly "doing weli." The mother is Mrs. Wilbur Chapman, 31, of Foxboro, Mass. Texas County Tornado Kills Mother, Soin Bodies Found About 150 Feet Away From Demolished House HOUSTON, Mo.

Wl--Two persons, a mother and her son, were killed early today when a tornado struck the Bendavis Community, about 18 miles south of here in Texas County. Victims of the blow were Mrs. Sarah Maxwell, 81, and her son, Thomas, about 50. Both apparently were asleep in chairmanship of Sen. Jenner their small frame home when the Cnd), has been engaged for nearly Britain Upset By Reports oi H-Bcmb Trials New Demands Voiced For Ail-Out Effort to Banish Atomic War LONDON' Wt--Britain broke.

out today in a rash of hydrogen bomb jitters. Reports of the awesome and unexpected fury of America's hydrogen bomb test explosion in the Pacific March I prompted fresh demands in Parliament and the press for all-out diplomatic efforts to banish the threat of atomic war The Laborite London Daily Herald, in a rare front page editorial demanded that the United States call any more hydrogen bomb tests before it turns the Pacific into "a souree of peril." It called on the British government to take the initiative in seeking interna- state's" To Spending of Remaining Funds Farmers Who Have Not Asked for Aid Still Can Do So JEFFERSON CITY UP) Gov. Phil M. Donnelly today "tightened the regulations binding Missouri's unique hay shipping program. Yesterday he signed a million additional appropriation so total funds for paying costs on drought relief are $10,854,000.

Ail but about S3 million of that has been spent in he past five months of the pro- ram's operation. The rest will be used, if necessary, to carry the )eef and dairy herds through to adequate spring pasture. In amendment to the regulations Donnelly provided: 1. Any farmer who has not taken advantage of the drought relie program so far may do so now under this formula: He can sign up for hay at the rate of one quarter ton for each adult cow any hay he has on hand an less one-fourth any silage he has (The amendment makes change in the two-ton per anima unit formula for those farmers whi already have signed up for th state aid. But it would provid hay for those who thought the; had enough winter feed but fin now they can't quite make i through to the time the pasture are green again.

Maximum of $27.50 2. A maximum of $27.50 in ship ping costs the state will pay each ton of hay. (This regulatio is looking forward to the possibilit that cooperating railroads will en March 31 the 50 per cent drough relief reduction on shipping rate for hay.) 3. Dealers may have to get state approval for any new shipments of hay they order from surplus One Mystery Leads to Another: Soys 7 Story of Finding Rings a Trash Can Here Is True Police Chief, Omar Winn said us morning the story two boys old Sunday about finding some ings behind a jewelry store here as true. The boys sold for a handful of hang'e to several persons a total seven rings, some of them set ith small diamonds and other tones and valued altogether at more than $200.

The police chief this morning ad five of the rings, including wo Eastern Star rings. He is try- ng to recover two other rings he has traced to Iowa. The joys sold those rings, one of them man's Masonic ring, to a youth vho said gave them to his irother and sister-in-law in Iowa. Chief Winn said he learned the wys were telling the truth about finding the rings. They had taken them from a trash can behind the H.

A. Proffitt jewelry store at 314 West Reed street last Sunday. The rings had been discarded in two brown envelopes. Mr. Proffitt yesterday identified the five rings but he said he could not explain how they had found their way out of his store.

Lost and Found Meanwhile, missing jewelry posed problems for other Mober- lyans. W. N. Jennings, 200 South Fourth street, said he lost yesterday an envelope containing jewelry worth $2,500. Mrs.

Lydia Lobbins, 533 West End place, found a ring near Fifth and Burkhart streets and turned it over to the police. Paris Courthouse Offices Soaked as Gutter Overflows PARIS A three-quarter-inch rain here and a clogged downspout on the Monroe county courthouse caused freak damage overnight in the third floor offices of Prosecuting Attorney Tom Proctor and Sheriff Mark Bodine. The prosecuting attorney and the sheriff found their offices soaked this morning with water from the overflowing guttering which bad seeped through the east wall of te courthouse. The officers were obliged to set State Ratings Announced for County Schools Supt. Ornburn Lists 15 Classified AAA, Highest Group Ratings for schools under his supervision have been received by William 'F.

Ornburn, county superintendent of schools, from Raymond A. Roberts, state director of to work cleaning their quarters a' year in what Jenner has called ixposing "the pattern" by which Communists were able to infiltrate the federal government. Mrs. Murphy Heads Board Of Registrars Election Held on Registration Day At City Auditorium Mrs. Ralph Murphy was elected president of the Moberly board of twister struck about 1:30 A.M.

Their bodies were not found untiJ this morning when Clarence Ratterree, a milk hauler, saw the demolished home and initiated a search for the couple. Son's Body in Fence The body of the son was found in a rail fence about 150 feet from where the house a standing. His mother's body was found in. a grove of saplings about 20 feet away. tional consultation "on all the problems involved for mankind in possession of the bomb." The influential, liberal Manchester Guardian also warned of the possible "most serious" consequences of further hydrogen bomb tests.

Use "Scare" Headlines Newspapers used "scare" headlines over President Eisenhower's news conference statement yesterday that something must have happened at the March 1 explosion that surprised and astonished scientists. In Parliament, Laborites have renewed their demands for some sort of fresh approach to Russia. A few conservatives also have asked questions along tlvese lines. Lord Salisbury, Britain's atomic chief, told the House of Lords last night the "hideous hydrogen omb makes necessary a live-and-let-live understanding between Russia and the West. He warned that no one could win an atomic war.

Other peers expressed similar fTh i section is designed to prep a a for a ow down as pastures become available, so the amount of hay will more closely fit the needs between now and the time of adequate pastures and also so the amount of money available is not over-spent, agriculture department officials said. In other words, the slate does' not want dealers purchase huge supplies of a more- than is needed in their territories immediately, just because the state is paying the freight.) The new rules became effective today. A barn within 150 feet of the fears. Lord Henderson, Laborite, house was left standing. proposed an "all-in" Europe se- Lane Davis of the Houston Her- curity treaty which would recog- ald said the tornado cut a path nize the continued existence of both from 300 to 400 yards wide.

A the East's defense arrangements heavy loss in farm buildings a a the West's NATO alliance. Grade Pupils Offer Annual Proqram at Auditorium Tonight Nearly 400 Moberly elementary school pupils will take part in 'Childhood Fantasy," a program of children's stories in music and larration, to be presented at 8 o'clock tonight in the Municipal Auditorium. The annual spring program will directed by Miss Margaret Lee Sullonk, supervisor of music in Moberly grade schools. reported in the community. I Lord Salisbury said the govern- The tornado, moving north andi would be a to stud the succeeding Miss Ann Wisdom.

Mrs. Edwin Dameron was reelected secretary of the board. There are eight board members and City Clerk R. W. Daly is an ex officio member.

The registrars held their election while they were on duty at the Municipal Auditorium, serving voters who were obliged to register yesterday in order to cast ballots in the April 6 elections here. About 25 persons registered yesterday. 0n east, also struck the communities I of Upton iand Bado, but no injuries were reported in those areas. One of a Series The storm was one of a series of twisters and straight winds which lashed southwest Missouri during the night causing heavy damage in some rural areas. In Christian County some livestock was reported kiljed when barns were toppled.

Gunmen Hold Up Penitentiary Guards, Free Two Prisoners ROCHESTER, N. i Sheriff Albert W. Skinner said junmen a into Monroe County penitentiary early today, One-halt of the money raised this held up two guards and swiftly a will go directly for research engineered the escape of two pris- work The remainder will be used oners. Police claimed the capture locally for heart education work of the gunmen a few hours later. and the prevention of heart dis- Tornado in Kansas WELLSVILLE, W--A tornado struck this northeast Frank- The prisoners were still at large.

They were believed to be still in Rochester. Tie Up Two Guards The hoodlums used a ruse to enter the penitentiary, and after lin County town last night da mag- i out revolvers, tied up two small" buildings on three farms, a and plastered their mouths There were no injuries. Ulth adhesive tape. one of the men was captured in hotel room. The other, he said, was captured by police as he raced out the rear door of a house.

Take Wallet and Car The gunmen robbed one of the guards of his wallet and then stole his car to make a getaway. The car was found abandoned an hour and a half later. The prisoners the gunmen took with them were identified as James Compton, 30, of Du Bois, and Cohocton, Ohio, and Anthony Men- dolla, 45, of Weather CENTRAL" MISSOURI: Windy and cooler this afternoon. Much coldef tonight, lowest in the upper 20s. Friday fair and cool, highest near 40.

MISSOURI Partly cloudy, windy and colder this afternoon; clearing and much colder tonight; Friday generally fair and colder; low tonight 20s extreme north to 30-35 south; high Friday 30s north to the 40s south. Local Weather 8:30 this morning, 54. Minimum last night, 57. Total rainfall, 1.23 inches. For 24-hour period before 6:30 last night: Maximum, 58.

Minimum, 40. 6:30 last night, idea. Churchill Favors Meeting Prime Minister Churchill toM the House of Commons last Monday he had not abandoned his 10- month-old suggestion for an informal meeting between tfie heads of major powers, including Russia, ease world tension. He said "increasing good will in the world" may a war but he warned at the same time of the stupendous problems and perils comprised in the sphere of atomic and hydrogen developments." Many papers carried roundups of latest atomic and hydrogen bomb developments throughout the world. Maps and diagrams spelled out for average Britons just how a single hydrogen bomb could obliterate or devastate much of their island homeland.

Twins Replace Twins At Post in Germany MANNHEIM, a UP) --Robert and Edsel Campbell, twins from Sarasota, were sent home last week after confusing fellow soldiers at a U. S. Air Force pool here for more than a year. But the soldiers looked twice when their replacements arrived-Louis and Anthony Lamonica, of Hammond, identical Jwini. elementary education.

In Randolph county, the three- director school districts and their teachers receiving the highest rating of AAA are: Brush Creek, Ethlyn Fray: Darksville, Mrs. Given H. Baker; Trinity, Miss Anna Nell Hendren; Milton, W. Everett Meajs; Cottage Grove, Mrs. Bettie Wright; Sugar Creek, Mrs.

Marianna Herman; Benton, Mrs. Helen Bagby; Grimes, Mrs. Genevieve Lynch; Number Six, Miss Thelma Louise Yaeger; Terrill, Miss Mary E. Prewitt; Smith, Mrs. Harold Headrick; Vaughn, Mrs.

Vergal Shives. Three-director districts with AA' ratings are: Ft. Henry, Williams Huntsman; Oliver, Mrs. Mary Freeman. Six-director schools with AAA ratings are: R-VI, Clark, M.

H. Elliott, Mrs. Mildred Wilson and Mrs. Lowell Jones; C-3, Thomas Hill, Mr. and Mrs.

Elvon Richardson; C-5, Roanoke, Mrs. Katye Gooch and Mrs. Sarah Minor. The six-director district, C-l, at Yates, received an AA ratings. The teachers there are M.

F. Beach and Miss Dorothy Maxfield. Firemen on Lookout For Damaged Aerials The changing times have given city firemen a new chore--looking for television antennas blown down by high winds. Fire Chief S. R.

Stinebaker said early this morning a search for damaged aerials had been made in his usual tour of the town. He had found none at that time. and drying out county records because the courthouse janitor is ilL So much water entered the building that some of it seeped through the floor of the sheriff's office and damaged the ceiling of the Sociaj Security office on the second floor of the courthouse. Lake and Pond Levels Raised By Rain Here Run-Off Reoorted as Showers Measure 1.23 Inches Moberly and this vicinity rejoiced today in a rainfall yesterday and overnight which measure 1.23 inches at the government a i gauge at Station KNCM southeast of Moberly. Showers fell at intervals and hailstones a half inch or more in diameter peppered are late yesterday afternoon.

City Manager H. P. Phelaa said this morning workers at Sugar Creek reservoir guessed the rain raised the level of the lake eight or nine inches. He said he thought the waterworks lake and Rothwell Park lake were raised three or four inches overnight. Farm Ponds Benefit Rains Tuesday and Wednesday added as much as two feet of water to some farm ponds with good drainage areas, County Agent Hugh Keith said this morning.

Though the official measurement of rainfall here was only 1.23 inches, farmers in the western part of the county reported approximately two inches, Keith said. A. C. Hageman, who lives five miles north of Huntsville, the county agent that his area received two inches of rain and the water level in his pond rose two feet. The rains this week were described by Keith as "the first in months" to really help the pond situation.

Brief Hail Storm No damage of any consequence was reported from the brief hail storm which hit this area about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Hailstones the size of mothballs fell for a few minutes. One of the day's heaviest showers followed. SEALED WITH A KISS--Five-year-old Karen Albrecht of San Antonio, the 1954 Easter Seal Girl, kisses her dog, Freckles, moments before the pup was placed in its box and taken aboard a plane at LaGuardia Airport in New York for a trip to Chicago. Karen, also a passenger aboard the same plane, is scheduled to make personal appearances in the midwest city.

Later she'll fly to Washington to be the guest of Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower at the White House. CAP Wire- St. Louis Mayor Vetoes Bill to Permit Parking ST. LOUIS Wi--Mayor Raymond R.

today vetoed a bill which would permit daytime parking on several downtown streets. The mayor, in a strongly worded statement, called false the claims of some merchants that the present no-parking rule has hurt sales. The Board of Aldermen will vote tomorrow on whether-to uphold.

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