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MOBERLY MONITOR-INDEX AND MOBERLY EVENING DEMOCRAT VOL. 35 ASSOCIATED PHBSS AND WIDE WORLD TOLL LMABXD WTHB 6ZRVICI MOBERLY, MISSOURI A 4, MOBERLY DTDEX, BST. 181S UOBKHLT DBUOCRAT. WT MOBKRLT MOjnroR, NO. 131 Former Official Accused of Lying in Loyalty Case Val D.

Lorwin Faces Charges of Falsely Denying Red Ties WASHINGTON un-- Val R. Lorwin, a former State Department official, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges that he falsely denied Communist party membership during a loyalty hearing in December, 1950. The indictment, returned under the false statements statute, accused Lorwin of falsely stating under oath at the loyalty hearing that: 1. He never was a Communist Party member. 2.

He carried a Communist Party card. 3. He never held a Communist Party meeting in his home. was one time chief of the European section, division of international labor, social and health affairs in the State Department. Lorwin, 46, and no longer with the government, is a native of New York City.

Lorwin was indicted under a statute which punishes the making of a false statement to a government representative. The offense is punishable by $10,000 line or five years imprisonment. The former State Department of ficial is a graduate of Cornell Uni versity and Ohio State University and once served as tutor in his tory at Brooklyn College. Started in 1935 He entered government service in 1935 as an economist with the old National Recovery Administration (NRA), and became a Labor Standards analyst in 1939. Later, he was with the War Production Board.

He entered the army in 1943 and served as a lieutenant overseas. He was. connected with the Office of Strategic Services in 1944-45 and transferred to the State Department Oct. 1, 1945. YOU'RE NOT SEEING DOUBLE--Ronald Albert, left, and Donald Elbert Selvey, 24-year-old identical twins from Lamar, pose in their new uniforms after reporting for duty at Springfield with the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

The twins --the first set in the state patrol's 20-year history--are both Army reservists. They both also were farmers. (Associated Press Photo) Four Elected As Directors For C. of C. Dickson, Hollenback, Orscheln, Simmons New Board Members Kenneth Dickson, William C.

Or- scheln, Kelly Simmons and Arthur J. Hollenback were elected directors of the Moberly Chamber of Commerce for two years as a result of ballots cast in the mail voting which closed 1. Present members of the board whose terms do not expire are James R. Chevalier, Paul Stevenson and Roy willey. Retiring members are P.

K. Weis, Ben L. Mohney, Ben M. Classen a Claud Bledsoe. The newly elected members will take office Jan.

1 and will' elect officers at an early meeting thereafter. Plans are being made for the annual banquet of the Chamber of Commerce, to be held after the first of the tentative date selected was Tuesday, Jan. 19. The speaker will be announced. Members of the committee in charge are Mr.

Dickson, Mr. Mohney and James Todd. Ofticials Confer On Detour Route For 63 Traffic Work on Underpass On Morley May Be Started Next Week Goes to Hospital For 'Tumor' X-Ray; Gets 7-Pound Son AKRON, Ohio On a physician's advice Mrs. Juanita Furbee entered Akron City Hospital to have x-rays taken for a suspected tumor. Six hours later the "suspected tumor" turned out to be a seven pound three ounce baby boy.

Said the doctor: "She was just as surprised as Two state highway department was representatives, E. E. Baker of I Moberly and Robert C. Kealey ofi Macon, conferred with City Man-j ager H. P.

Phelan yesterday about a detour route for Highway 63 traffic here, when construction is ad er- Paris City Council Votes $50 License On Beer Taverns PARIS The Paris City Council has voted to place a license of $50 per year on any establishment in Paris selling beer or other alcoholic beverages. A city license has never been required here. The council also voted to place a midnight closing hour on all places selling alcoholic drinks. This applies seven nights a week to places selling beer and to package stores. begun on the Morley street pass.

Mr. Phelan said he will be notified by the highway department when the proposed detour is approved. R. G. Kansas City, the contractor who 3s- to build the underpass, is prepared start work Monday.

But project may not be begun for sev- 'ral days. Waiting for Deeds It has been reported here that state highway commission has not given Aldridge an order to proceed. All the real estate deeds in- olved in the underpass project have not been completed. Heavy construction machinery to be used in the work here already is in Moberly, however. Work can be started as soon as state approval is given.

Storm Center Moving Into Plains States Missouri Is in Line For More Moisture By Saturday Night KANSAS CITY is in line for some more moisture as a new storm center moves into the plains states from Nevada. The weather bureau expects the new disturbance to bring rain into the western and southern portions of the state by Saturday night. It may be mixed with snow in the northwest. But until then Missouri is in for increasing cloudiness and colder, with lows tonight ranging from the 20s in the north to the 30s in the south. Some of the colder spots in the state this morning were St.

Joseph with 30 and Kirks ville with 31. Rainfall during the past 24 hours brought .32 precipitation to West Plains, with lesser amounts elsewhere. Rolla had .23, St. Louis .04, Kansas field .01. City .03 and Spring- Colossus of Rhodes a Hollow Sham, British Scientist Says LONDON m--The Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world, was described by a British scientist last night as a hollow sham.

Herbert Maryon, 79-year-old sculptor-archaeologist, told a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries the giant statue was: 1. Too small to stand astride the Harbor of Rhodes. 2. Made of thin bronze sheets instead of solid bronze. The statue, of the sun god Helios, was the work of a sculptor named Chares, who spent 12 years on his (possibility.

masterpiece. It was erected in 280 B. C. An earthquake tumbled it 53 years later. The story handed down through the years is that the statue stood with a beacon in its hands and one foot on each side of the harbor entrance, with enough clearance for ships to pass underneath.

Maryon said he has determined from a study of classical inscrip- tions'that the statue was in fact 120 feet high and the harbor 600 feet wide, which would make the famous straddle in anatomical im- Conservation Deadline Is December 31 1953 ACP Practices Must Be Completed By End of Year December 31 is the deadline. for several phases of the Agricultural Conservation Program, Melvin Bond, chairman of the Randolph County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee, reminded farmers today. In the first place, Bond said, December 31, 1953, is the last day for filing 1952 applications for payment in the county office. Any farmer who has not yet signed 1952 application for payment his is warned to do so before that expiration date. Any 1952 application not signed and filed in the county ASC office by December 31, 1953, will not be eligible for payment, the chairman emphasized.

Secondly, all practices under the 1953 program must be completed by the last day of year, and all evidence must be reported to the county office by January 15, 1954. No payments will be made for 1953 practices completed after December 31, 1953, or reported after January 15, 1954. A producer who intends to plant corn in 1954 on a farm on which no corn was planted in any of the years 1951, 1952 and 1953 should, if he desires price support on the corn to be produced in 1954, apply in writing for a 1954 corn acreage Airways Beacon In Operation at Bradley Airport City Workers Install Equipment Obtained From CAA in 1951 City employes have erected at Bradley airport a standard airways beacon, obtained in 1951 from the Civil Aeronautics Administration, City Manager H. P. Phelan said this afternoon.

The installation of the beacon is complete except for minor adjustments to be made in the direction of the beams of light the device projects. Initial tests were made early this week and the beacon is in operation, nightly now. The beacon and tower were obtained by the city from a location near Rutledge, on the Kansas City-Chicago airway, when the CAA discarded many of the lights ajong the route. The city manager said: Government Surplus "There was no charge to the ty for the 62-foot steel tower and the 24-inch beacon. The only requirement of the CAA was that it be removed from the site by a certain time and that the property on which it was located be restored to its original condition.

"The work of tearing down the tower and removing the beacon was accomplished in one day by the street foreman, with a small crew due to the fact that entire tower was made up of bolted steel angles. "The new tower and beacon is (at the airport) 15 feet west of the site of the smal 1 beacon which it replaced. It is a 24- inch General Electric beacon, on a General Electric base rotating at 6 rpm, the lamp being 500 watts auxiliary reflectors the equivalent of a Even an Electric Spark Can Start A Fire in Ozarks JEFFERSON CITY UPI It's so dry in the Ozark woods even an electric spark can start a fire. The State Conservation Commission reported today two-fires started in the Lake Ozark region yesterday from sparking power lines blown down by high wind. One, south of Sunrise Beach, burned an acre of woodland before District Forester Joe Jaeger and his men got it out.

The other, in Lake Ozark Kaiser, burned acre. The commission pointed out the fires started despite the showers which fell earlier this week in much of tlie drought area. State Park near a fourth of an and having that make it lamp without reflectors. Total Cost of $3,750 "The tower originally cost the CAA $1,875 installed and the beacon also cost $1,875. The expense to the city, -acquiring it as surplus property, was the cost of taking it down and bringing it to Moberly, the cost of erecting it here with concrete foundations and the cost of purchasing a special green lens to replace a plain lens.

The beacon, as received from the CAA, flashed white light only, whiie an airport having'lighting service on runways on all nights requires a green-and-white alternate flashing beacon. "The city was given an extra tower and beacon from Site 13 (on the Kansas City-Chicago flight) located about 12 miles east of Kirksville, for use for spare parts, if and when neeSed. Greater Intensity "The newly-erected with its much greater light intensity, shoukl be quite an improvement over the small L-801 beacon that has been in service," Mr. Phejan Dispatchers of Four Railroads At Dinner Here National President Is Speaker at Meeting At Masonic Temple Ike Confident as Western Big Three Meet in Bermuda Talks Expected To Bring Better Understanding U.S. Insists All POWs Must Be Freed by Jan.

22 No Extension of Date, Reds Are Told; Balky ROKs Refuse Freedom PANMUNJOM UK--U. S. envoy Arthur H. Dean told the Communists today that unrepatriated war prisoners will be freed Jan. 22 unless a peace conference decides some other course "and no human hand or mind or debate can change it." "We are never going to agree, under any circumstances, to a change in that date," he declared.

Dean and Communist diplomats huddled for almost three hours on plans for a peace conference while Officer Checks for Hole in Road-and He Really Finds It OAKLAND, Calif. The Al ameda County sheriff's office Jas night instructed Deputy LeRo Pierson to "check Cherry Roa near Central Avenue for a hole in the road." He found it, all right, three fee deep and water-filled, and radioe headquarters: "Please send tow truck to me out." ge a few miles away 30 more South 0. PI. Braese, Chicago, president Korean prisoners unanimous- of the American Train Dispatchers' rejected pleas to return home, association, was guest speaker a a a One Changes Allied persuaders in three days dinner meeting last night at the Masonic Temple of the train dispatchers of the Wabash here, the Katy division at Franklin, Burlington at Hannibal and Santa Fe at Marceline. With other guests, 155 persons attended the dinner.

Sen. McCarthy Plans Personal Chat With Ike Report Indicates He Will Seek Conference After Big-3 Meeting WASHINGTON Ml--Sen. McCar, thy (R-Wis) was reported today to who chose life under the Commu- be planning a personal chat with nists and not one has changed his President Eisenhower soon after have talked to 90 South Koreans mind. I the President returns from the Big ROK officers whisked through 30 Three talks in Bermuda. interviews before noon today.

The U.N. Command asked to interview The visitors and guests were wel- 40 prisoners Saturday. The repa- comed by J. N. Sailor, division i triation commission said the re- superintendent here, with Guy R.

quest for an extra 10 was filed too Greathouse, chief dispatcher of the late there were indications it Wabash, introducing the train i still would be approved, patchers from out of town, a Talks Rccess residing 3 i The re liTMnary peace talks are recess until Monday. Dean asked that a Saturday session be called off because he will be in Seoul for conferences with South Korea's President Syngman Rhee. He refused to divulge the subject of the talks and would not comment on rumored differences between the U. N. Command the South Korean government over plans for a peace conference.

added. "It has often mented on that the been coin- obstruction red lights at the field could be seen at a greater distance than the small beacon. This should not be true of the newly-erected beacon." U.S. Studies New Drought Reports In North Missouri WASHINGTON UP-- The Agriculture Department told aides of Sen. Symington (D-Mo) yesterday that it had received new reports allotment by January 10, 1954.

I on 29 Missouri counties not des- Blank applications and acreage jignated as federal drought relief report forms are available at the county Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation (formerly PMA) offices for filing requests for allotments. master of ceremonies. W. G. Landram of St.

Louis, superintendent of safety on the Wabash, and Mrs. Landram attended the meeting. Mr. Landram announced that, with four weeks to jo, -the Moberly division still was -eading in the safety contest for seventh consecutive year over other divisions of the Wabash. Engine Bell Given Sailor An engine bell off steam locomo- ive No.

667 was presented to Mr. Sailor as a gift from his associates on the Wabash by Kenneth Nichols, road foreman of engines. Mr. Nichols said the engine had traveled approximately 4,800,000 miles in its forty years of service. The engine was bought from the American Locomotive Company.

Mr. Sailor expressed appreciation for the gift, saying he had always wanted an engine bell. Invocation was by the Rev. Louis Tirmenstein, Musical were given by Miss Sharon Hayden, playing her accordion, and by Miss Sarah Firiler'violinist, accompanied by Miss Hayden. The program was concluded with the showing of the film "Once Upon the Wabash." Visiting Dispatchers The Santa Fe offices at Marceline were represented by John S.

Roed, superintendent, and Mrs. Reed; P. J. White, chief dispatcher; J. E.

Lynch, trainmaster, and Mrs. Lynch; sistant chief, C. C. Polhaus, as- and Mrs. Polhaus; and dispatchers, accompanied by their wives, Mr.

and Mrs. H. D. Foster, Mr. and Mrs.

N. L. Barnes, Youth Stopped Here Admits Theft of Car Job Joseph Slevin, Detroit, Also AWOL, Patrolman Finds Making a routine traffic check, a state highway patrol officer about 7:45 o'clock last night stopped 19- year-old Job Joseph Slevin of Detroit, driving three miles west of Moberly on Highway 24. The officer learned from the youth that he had stolen the 1949 Ford Dec. he was driving in Chicago 1.

And Sleven said he had been absent without leave from the Army Camp Campbell, since early in November. Slevin was lodged in the city jail overnight. Brought into magistrate court in handcuffs this morning, he waived preliminary hearing of a charge of car theft filed against Mr. and Mrs. C.

R. Machen, TM Prosecuting Attorney Jo.hn and Mrs. S. A. Hise, Mr.

and' Mrs. I Carmody. Federal Grand Jury To Expand Inquiry Into Kidnap Case KANSAS CITY Wl A federal grand jury will reconvene here Dec. 14 to consider "several aspects" of the Greenlease kidnap- ing case, including the testimony of witnesses have not appeared before. U.

S. Dist. Atty. Edward L. Scheufler has declined to say, however, just what line its investigation will follow.

Authorities are still seeking more than $300,000 in ransom money which was not recovered after the arrest of Carl Austin Hall and Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady for the kidnaping and slaying of 6-year-old Bobby Greenlease. SlOn.OOO Fire at Sikeston SIKESTON, Mo. $100,000 fire swept through the Hahs Machine Works shop here yesterday. Only the walls remained standing, fire apparently was caused by a gas heater.

and From the Burlington at Hannibal were H. F. Clark, chief dis- (Continued on Page 6) areas. The aides said the department, dia not disclose the nature of' the recommendations in the submitted by the Missouri Drought! Committee. i It's understood the the upper 30s.

Fair and colder to- CENTRAL MISSOURI Windy and cold this afternoon, high in Department Drought Committee will meet within a few days to study the reports and decide on recommendations to Secretary of Agriculture Benson. Symington asked Benson last week to designate the additional counties as drought disaster areas. Sedalia Boy Pleads Guilty to Mailing Extortion Demand KANSAS CITY lffl--An 18-year- old Sedalia, high school boy pleaded guilty to a charge of using the mails to defraud by sending an extortion demand to the father of kidnap-victim Bobby Greenlease. The youth, Benny Bruce Hatfield, wrote a letter to the father, Robert C. Greenlease.

Oct. 13, in which he said he could disclose the whereabouts of $303.720 in missing ransom money for $10,000. U. S. District Judge Richard M.

Duncan deferred sentence until Dec. 18. pending the preparation of a pre-sentence report. night, jow in the upper 20s. Saturday increasing cloudiness, high in the 40s.

MISSOURI Partly cloudy with diminishing winds this Afternoon; fair east; increasing 'cloudiness west tonight; Saturday increasing cloudiness followed by rain west and south possibly mixed with snow northwest; colder tonight: low tonight 20 north to 30 south; high Saturday 35-45 north; 40-50 south. Leal Weather 8:30 this morning, 33. Minimum last night, 32. For 24-hour period before 6:30 last night. Maximum, 64.

Minimum. 48. 6:30 last night, 55. Rainfall, .05 inch. Held for Circuit Court Magistrate Alex Stuart of Paris, holding court here today, ordered This report came from a person in a position to know.

McCarthy declined to be quoted on the subject, and the White House press office said it hadn't heard anything about such a meeting. McCarthy yesterday disclaimed any intention to challenge Eisenhower's leadership of the Republican party but he reserved the right to criticize the administration "when I think it is making mistakes." "Conciliatory" Tones This was a reply to statements earlier in the week by the President and Secretary of State Dulles rejecting McCarthy's demands for drastic revision of some phases of administration foreign policy. McCarthy's statement was phrased for the most part in- conciliatory tones. But at the same time he appealed over the President's head, in ef feet, to the American pople on the question of cutting off American aid to any foreign country which trades with Red China so long as any American war prisoners are held by the Communists. Departing from his prepared statement, McCarthy urged all who share his view that such'trade should be stopped to write or wire the President, Moberly to Have No Nativity Scene This Christmas Moberly will have no Nativity Scene in TannehilZ Park this Christmas.

Chamber of Commerce spokesmen said today that the work of rebuilding the scene cannot be completed in The scene temporarily time. was last reconstructed year, being used for the first time in ten years. Construction of permanent figures for the display was begun this year and is in progress now. President Given Warm Welcome; Conference Opens Late Today. By MARVIN ARROWSMITH TUCKER'S TOWN, Bermuda tft --President Eisenhower met Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Joseph Laniel here for their Big Three conference today with the confident assertion their talks will 'result in better understanding among the peoples involved." The President, host Churchill and Laniel drove immediately 'rom the airport to the Mid- ocean Club, where for five days they will seek to tighten the West- rn Alliance and step up anti-Soviet defense arrangements as well as determine the next moves in elations with Russia.

Foreign Ministers Meet Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who arrived with the President on his special plane Colum- )ine, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault held a pre-lunch conference. The critical Meste problem which is splitting Italy and Yugbslavia was understood to have been discussed. Eisenhower's jlane touched Field at 10:12 resident was silver four-engine down at Kindley a. m. (CST).

The met by a host of Bermuda dignitaries, then strode a few paces over the asphalt to shake hands warmly with Churchhill. Beaming, Churchill then presented the President to Laniel. 'A Great Privilege" "It is a great privilege to'meet this spot with old friends," Eisenhower said into the microphone vhen the greetings ended. "I trust and know that our conversations here will result in better understandings among the peoples involved, and I sincerely hope with, mutual benefit to our respective countries." A crowd of about 2,000 was on hand to welcome Eisenhower. Also iresent was a colorful honor guard made up of Royal Welsh Fu- silieres, Bermuda militia and U.

S. airmen. iVait at Airport Churchill and Laniel, a'ready in 3ermuda, reached the airport about five minutes before the Columbine landed. The British Prime Minister wore a light gray suit with a white laridkerchief protruding from his iccket. He had on the same gray lomburg he wore on his arrival lere from England Wednesday.

Eisenhower stepped off the plane promptly at 10:15 a. m. and was greeted by Bermuda Gov. Sir Alxander Hood and Mrs. Hood, fol- owed by the commanders of the (Continued on Page 6) The diplay is to be in place Slevin bound over to the Decem-! a a i next year ber term of Circuit Court and fixed his bond at 55,000.

Slevin did not make the bond and was taken to the county jail at Huntsville. Swallows His Toothbrush! GENEVA, Switzerland Engineer Charles Scharenwewer was taken to a hospital this morning after accidentally swallowing his toothbrush. Heavy Winds Cause Damage in St. Louis ST. LOUIS (ft Heavy winds from the south, with gusts up to 50 miles an hour, blew down trees and caused other damage in the St.

Louis area last night and early- today. Some store windows were broken, keeping police busy answering burglar alarms. virs. A. E.

Landolt To Be Speaker at National Meeting Mrs. A. E. Landolt is in Kansas City, where today, tomorrow and Sunday she will give a series of devotional talks at a national meeting of executive secretaries of the state missionary societies of the Disciples of Christ. The meetings are being held in the Schuyler Hotel.

Mrs. Landolt, president of the Missouri Christian Women's Fellowship, also will be guest speaker Sunday morning for the missionary Fulton Votes $281,000 Bond hsue for Schools FULTON, Mo. lift A proposed $281,000 bond issue to finance school building improvements was approved in a special election yesterday, 577-183. Korean War Allies Want UN Kept on Call for Quick Session UNITED NATIONS. N.

Y. GB--ling with the Reds at Panmunjom, The United States and its 15 i expected to run into Soviet bloc rean War allies in the United Na-! objections. tions were reported lining up sup- 2. The proposal reportedly would port today for a plan to keep the' provide that the Assembly could U. N.

Assembly on tap after i reconvened whenever a major- closes shop next week. It then ity of the 60 U. N. members deems could be recalled quickly if new i would collide I service in the Independence Boulevard Christian Church in Kansas City. The Rev.

and. Mrs. Landolt were in Jefferson City Monday and Tuesday attending meetings of the coordinating committee of the Missouri Convention of Disciples of Christ. National leaders also were present to review the state program of the churches. The Rev.

Mr. Landolt is a member of the committee, and Mrs. Landolt served as consultant for CWF. trouble arises over Korea. Opposition Expected with a resolution put up by India last night proposing that the As- Observers predicted the project-1 sembly recess until February sub- ed call for an indefinite to the call of its president-rather than outright adjournment! India's Mrs.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pan- would meet opposition on two dit--if the Korean situation warcounts: rants. 1. The scheme, springing from; The Indians are said to oppose Allied feeling that Korea should the idea of reconvening on the not be debated while Special Am- tion of 31 of the U. 60 mem- bassador Arthur Dean is negotiat- bers. SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS.