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Carroll Times Vol. 43 Carroll, Iowa, Wednesday, February 20, Pages Delivered by Carrier Boy to the Homi Each Evening for 30 Cents Pjsr Week Carroll Salesman Surrenders in Alleged Fraud Case Call Casey fo Tell About Ship Deals With Morris Stores to Stay Open; Offices Closed Feb. 22 City Prepares to Observe Washington's Birth Anniversary Driver's license examiners will not issue licenses in Carroll Friday, February 22, because the Carroll county courthouse will be closed for the observance of Washington's birthday. The city hall also will be closed all day Friday. So will the Carroll public library, the Soil Conservation service, the P.M.A.

office, local banks and the county nurse's office. Local retail stores will remain open. The postoffice will be closed for window and delivery service, James T. Kisgen, postmaster, announced. mail and outgoing mail will be serviced, he added.

Highway patrol examiners asked that persons whose licenses expire before February 29, the next date the examiners will be here, may renew their licenses at other locations. If persons whose licenses expire before February 29 they may required to take written examinations. The highway patrol examiners will follow this schedule: Guthrie Center and Rockwell City. Friday examinations. Saturday Denison and Sac City.

Harlan. Jeff erson. Examiners will be at these locations between 8 a-m. and 4 p.m. Carroll, Jefferson Publishers to Be on TV Program Tonight James W.

Wilson, publisher of The Daily Times Herald, and Fred Morain of Jefferson, publisher of the Bee Herald, will appear on a television show over WOI-TV from 9:30 to 10 'clock tonight. The show, "Iowa News Con ference," is a weekly feature of the Ames television station. Don Reid of the Iowa Press association and Jack Shelley, news director of WHO, Des Moines, are part ofthe program. Hold Services For Man, Victim of Burns WINTHROP, IA. Funeral services were held here today for William M.

Reece, 68, who died of burns received Monday while trying to light a heating stove in his home. Reece was alone at the time of the accident. Survivors include the wife, four sons and one daughter. Reece was born in Linn county. He and his wife had lived here for 13 years.

NATO Sparked by Fears Congress Will Cut Aid LISBON, PORTUGAL grave-faced Dean Acheson told the Atlantic Allies, opening their ninth council session today: "We must take actions that will strain all of us to the utmost." HOPE FOR NORMAL LIFE FOR YOUNGSTER There is growing hepe that Norma, 2, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Tol- lardo of Oakland, may yet lead a normal life. The youngster was born without arms or legs. Doctors believe she may be able to use artificial limbs if she develops "sufficient equili- brim." Norma is going to the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children where she will be fitted with artificial limbs; which will have to be replaced as she grows.

(NEA Telephoto). In Behalf of ReinbeckMon The Weather SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH UP) U. S. district court will be asked today to postpone the execution of two midwest transients, convicted of murder. The pair lost out on a similar appeal to the Utah Supreme court yesterday.

Attorneys for Verne Alfred Braasch, 25, Reinbeck, and Melvin LeRoy Sullivan, 21, Kansas City, said the federal court will be asked to issue a writ of habeas corpus. A. Wally Sandack, court- appointed counsel for the pair, said, the writ will be sought on the grounds the two men were denied aid of counsel at a preliminary hearing. The state court turned down a similar petition following a hear ing yesterday. Justice Roger McDonough said that "men who pursue every means to prolong their lives often suffer more than those who accept their punishment.

Braasch and Sullivan are scheduled to face twin firing squads Feb. 26 at the Point-of-the-Mountain prison, 20 miles south of here. They weresconvicted for the 1949 slaying of Howard Manzione, a Beaver, Utah service station operator. It is a task for governments and for peoples," the U. S.

secre tary of state said. "We must develop the concrete military strength which alone can insure our people against the destruction and suffering of another war." Two new members, Greece and Turkey, joined the 12 western Allies in a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization of foreign, defense and finance ministers. Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Cunha, in the role of host, broke into the usual welcoming pleasantries with a plea for the admission of Spain to the alliance. He blasted Spain's exclusion as a strategic absurdity, and said defense of the Iberian peninsula was indivisible. Solemnly, Chairman Lester B.

Pearson of Canada rapped a gavel on the flower-banked rostrum in the white marble Portuguese National assembly, and warned that this sessjon may well determine whether the Atlantic coalition will be a strong and enduring association for the defense of peace, or merely a fretful and un easy alliance. The session is faced with the necessity of producing enough concrete results in western military and civil cooperation or risking a possible slash by the United States congress in multi-billion dollar aid. Portuguese guardsmen in bright dress uniforms lined the staircase as the delegates filed into the assembly, among them Sophocles Venizelos. Greek deputy premier and foreign minister. Venizelos declared Greece fully realizes her responsibilities in the organization and she will show the same determination if called upon to aid her allies, as did her tough mountain fighters 'in putting down communist revolt within her own borders.

In private conversations before the meeting opened, senior American delegates expressed conviction congress is in a put-up-or-shut-up mood. Secretary of State Dean Ache son flew in last night with one plum believed likely to sweeten NATO See Page 6 Cleanup Man' Linked to Huge Surplus Profits Truman Appointee Denies It, But Partner Says He Shared WASHINGTON, D. C. Senate investigators called Joseph E. Casey before them again today to tell about his with Newbold Morris, President Truman's corruption sleuth.

Casey, a former democratic representative from Massachusetts and now a Washington lawyer, also will be asked for more details on a surplus ship deal in which he piloted a $101,000 cash investment into a 3 4 million dollar profit for himself and some prominent friends. Casey's group is reported to have paid large fees to Morris' New York law firm for its counsel on some aspects of the deal. Mor is is expected to be called for testimony later. Morris has denied receiving any money in the case. The New York Herald Tribune today quotes his law partner, Houston H.

Wasson, as saying Morris shared in a "normal division" of the law firm's Income. Sen. Hoey (D-NC), chairman of the senate investigations sub com mittee, described the inquiry as one which might: 1. Set off sweeping moves for federal seizure of ships sold by the U. S.

Maritime commission after World war to Casey's group and others. 2, Bring a tightening of the tax laws as a result of testimony that profitable ship charter rentals were exempt from U. S. taxation. Hoey said he also wants to determine "whether taxes were avoided" improperly.

The sub committee disclosed it intends to call as witnesses two men named to the senate a year Ships Sec Page 6 Teachers Going Back to 'Practice' COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA. UP) Some long-time Council Bluffs school teachers are going back to school March 1 to get in some practice State law re quires that teachers have five hours of practice teaching, and some teachers have not met the requirement. So they are going back to school now to fulfill it, although they have been teaching for several years. CARROLL FORECAST Mostly cloudy, colder and windy with snow flurries this afternoon. Partly cloudy and colder tonight.

Thursday increasing cloudiness and cold. High today 20 to 23. Low tonight 10 to 13. High Thursday near 20. IOWA FORECAST Mostly cloudy, colder and windy with occasional snow flurries north central and northeast this afternoon, high 20 to 30 north, 25 to 35 south.

Mostly cloudy northeast, partly cloudy southwest and continued cold tonight and Thursday. Occasional light snow or snow flurries north and central portions tonight and in northeast and extreme north portions Thursday. Diminishing winds tonight. Low tonight 10 to 16 north. 14 to 18 south.

High Thursday 15 to 20 north, 20 to 26 south. Further Outlook: Mostly cloudy Friday with little change in temperature. Light snow southwest portion. The Weather in Carroll Yesterday's high At 7 a. m.

today CAR INJURIES FATAL MAQUOKETA, IA. Martin, 35, of Davenport, died at a Maquoketa hospital yesterday of injuries suffered the day before in a car-train crash at Elwood. He was the father of six children. lowan Repaid Debt Owed for Ha If Century SPIRIT LAKE, IA. letter arrived at the post office a few days ago addressed to "Mr.

Lewis or Louis Johnson, A Man With One Arm Only, Terrill, la." There is a story behind the letter, which came by registered mail from Mrs. Etta B. Cloake, Doyle, Calif. The letter, which contained $100 in 20 dollar bills, reached Johnson and he recalled he and his friend, Samuel Cloake, were co-workers in a brickyard at Spencer, a half century ago. It was there that Johnson lost his arm.

Johnson had loaned Cloake $100 to tide him over a rough time and the loan had never been repaid. Mrs. Coake explained in the letter that her husband had never forgotten Johnson's generosity and requested before he died that she repay the loan. Her letter said: "With God's blessing, I am almost out of debt." Johnson, who has enough to provide for his needs, explained that he had made many such loans in his day that have never been repaid but he isn't pressing, for collection. H.

W. Meyer To Storm Lake IPS Post STORM LAKE, IA. UP) W. Meyer, transmission and distribution engineer for the Iowa Public Service co. in Sioux City, has been named manager of the Storm Lake district of the company, effective Feb.

15. He succeeds the late V. O. Stafford in the post. School Heads to Address Adult Classes Monday Night Farm Bureau Opposed to UMT DES MOINES, IA.

Universal military training (UMT) is unanimously opposed by county Farm bureal presidents and voting delegates, Iowa Farm Bureau Federation President E. Howard Hill says. Hill announced that bureau officials had drawn up a resolution calling UMT a "threat to the best use of American manpower and money." Hill said the officials, meeting in Des Moines Monday, had instructed him to notify Iowa's congressional delegation of the action. The 200 officials reiterated the position taken by their members last fall that "manpower must be used where it will contribute most to the maintaining of a strong America; at the same time consideration must be given to the preservation and protection of the youth in our nation. "We believe that Selective service should continue to be used as the method of procuring manpower for the armed services.

We oppose the adoption of a universal military training program either as a supplement to Selective service or as a replacement to it. Why vote ourselves a permanent military conscription, affecting boys yet unborn, when we have the present Selective service machinery in operation?" Holbur Dancers First at Arcadia Herald News Service) ARCADIA Marilyn Koenig, Darlene Neppl, Luanne Hinners and Mary Bennier, all of Halbur, off top honors at'the Ar cadia firemen's masquerade ball at the Legion hall here last night, Some 1,500 persons attended the ball. Other prizes were won as follows: and Mrs. Roy Kruse. Arcadia, and Mr.

and Mrs Earl Stribe, Manning. and Mrs. Ray Ries berg, Templeton. and Mrs. Dutch Roberts, Manning.

Stoffers and Billy Schroeder, Arcadia. Ed Felft, Carroll. Grill, Vail. H. G.

Olerich, Carroll Mary Pick, Breda. Senators Study Role of Hiss In Far East Policy 'ost-War Planning for State Department Is Under Scrutiny WASHINGTON, D. C. Senators probing for any subversive influences U. S.

policies in the Far East turned today to the role played by Alger Hiss in post-war planning for the State department. Robert Morris, counsel for the senate internal security sub committee, said Dr. Edna Fluegel of Trinity college here, who formerly worked under Hiss, had been called to testify at a -public hearing this afternoon. Hiss, a former State department official, was convicted of perjury in 1949 for denying he had furnished State department documents to a pre-war communist espionage ring. He now is in prison.

At a sub committee hearing yesterday, Nathaniel Weyl, a Washington free lance writer, testified that in 1934 Hiss was a member of a secret communist cell organized among government workers by the late Harold Ware. At the time, Weyl said, he was an employe of the Agricultural Adjustment administration (AAA). Hiss then was an attorney for the AAA. Weyl testified the cell then was engaged "purely in Marxist study." He said he never suspected these secret communist organizations were "to be used for espionage purposes." He told the committee he joined the communist party in the winter of 1932-1933 and broke with it completely when the Hitler- RECIPIENT OF "SKIN BANK" Roger Hornyak, 18-year-old high school athlete, is the first recipient of the newly-organiied "skin bank" in Cleveland. He was seriously burned about the legs in an industrial accident last month.

Today he received patches of skin to replace tissues destroyed in the accident. The donors came from a group who offered skin to an 11-year-old boy recently. The local chapter of the national Society for Crippled Children and Adults organixed the group into a "skin bank," and will call on the volunteers as other patches are needed. (NEA Telephoto). Storm Cuts Phone Lines To 34 Towns DES MOINES, IA.

UP) The snow and ice storm which struck northern Iowa yesterday veejed off to the north and spared the southern section of the state today. Highways in the northern half of the state remained slippery and hazardous from sleet and snow but the icy glaze passed up the. south area and instead clearing conditions prevailed. However, the Weatherman warned that another storm is brewing to the west and is ex- Stalin pact was announced in; pec to bring more rain to Iowa 1939. Weyl said he "went to the FBI and told what he knew about the cell about a month after the start of the Korean war in June, 1950.

At 10:30 a. m. today 35 19 21 Weather A Year Ago Fog early in the morning was followed by mostly clear skies a year ago today. Low temperature was 22 and high, 49. Merits of adult education programs will be discussed by Superintendent R.

A. Naffziger and Principal Merritt Jensen of Carroll High school at the final meeting of the combined agriculture and homemaking night school classes, Monday at 7 p.m., in the homemaking rooms. Mr. Naffziger will stress the importance of co-operation of rural areas and the school in determination of adult education program. Mr.

Jensen will point out the contributions that the night school programs make to total family living. Any member of the night school classes who has attended four or five of the meetings is welcome to attend the combined meeting and pot luck dinneu, Ms. Caul Sayr-e, agriculture instructor and Miss Bonnie Buerkens, homemaking instructor, announced today. They added that families of class mem bers are also welcome to come. At this final meeting both instructors will summarize their night school program and will request suggestions for the next years programs.

Membership certificates will be awarded to members of the agriculture and homemaking classes who have met the requirements for attendance set up by the night school council. Entertainment for the event will be provided by the Carroll High school boys' quartet who will present a series of songs. A humorous reading is also planned for the program, Talks Stall On Russ 'Neutrality' MTJNSAN, KOREA Communist insistence that Russia be invited as a neutral nation to help supervise a Korean truce stalled armistice talks today. The Allies offered "in the interest of progress" to pare their troop rotation figure from 40,000 monthly to 35,000. But the Reds would not even talk about No specific progress was reported from another truce meeting on prisoners of war.

And no date was set for a third committee of staff officers to work out technicalities on the final truce to governments Young Married, Group to Hear Organizer Tonight Dale Nelson, regional organiZB- tion director for the IFBF, will meet with the newly organized young married group tonight at 8, in the Roselle hall, to explain how similar groups in the state plan their programs. The remainder of tne evening will be devoted to group games and square dancing. Blue jeans and gingham dresses will be the attire for the meeting. Lunch will be served. PLEDGES FRAT (Times Herald Service) Best, student at Drake Des Moines, has pledged Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity.

This organization is for men of ability in music and interested in promoting music in America. Best is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Best of Glidden by late tomorrow or Friday. Snowfall over the state, which reached a total of three inches at Mason City yesterday, had dwindled to flurries today.

The Northwestern Bell Telephone company reported at mid-morning today that 855 toll circuits were out in northern Iowa and that 34 towns were isolated from long distance telephone communication. The firm said its damage already has mounted to about $125,000. Forty-five crews totaling about 400 men were working on the lines. Among places isolated from telephone service were Spencer, Storm Lake, Sioux Rapids, Humboldt, Pocahontas, Eldora, Peterson, Rembrandt, Jewell, Newell, Fonda, Alta, Blairsburg, Center Point and Coggon. HOME FROM HOSPITAL Diane Berg of Arcadia returned home today from Anthony hospital, where she had undergone major surgery Saturday morning.

Bond of $1,000 Is Posted By Ben J. Comes Joe Wernimont Says He Was Duped In Interest Purchase B. J. Comes, Carroll salesman charged with selling an interest in a death benefit corporation not authorized to do business in Iowa, is free under $1,000 bond, Carroll county authorities announced today. Comes, object of a widespread hunt during the part several days, surrendered voluntarily to Justice of the Peace W.

J. Schmich and was released after posting bail, the officers reported. An information charging with false pretenses had been filed in Justice Schmich's court by Joe Wernimont, Carroll plumbing and heating contractor and owner of the Wernimont building west on Highway 30. A warrant charging fraud was issued by Justice Schmich following filing of the information. Law enforcement officers staged a wide hunt for Comes but were unable to locate him.

Wernimont, the county authorities said, charges that Comes gold him a one-third interest for $5,000 in what purported to be "Pilgrim Fathers, a death benefit corporation. Wernimont, the officers continued, said he paid $1,300 down on the interest and leased a part of his building to Comes for local headquarters. They said Comes signed the papers as "president" of the corporation. The officers said Comes intimated that the Wernimont location was to be a branch office of the corporation, but the main office was to be at Council Bluffs. The county authorities said they and Wernimont checked with the office of Secretary of State M.

D. Synhorst at Des Moines and found that no such organization as "Pilgrim Fathers, Inc." has been tered in Iowa, or is authorized to do business in this state as a corporation. The county officers said they have not learned whether anyone else has purchased interests in the purported corporation. Justice Schmich has set 10 a.m., next Monday as the time for a preliminary hearing for Comes. IOWA TRAFFIC DEATHS Feb.

20, 1952 42 Feb. 20, 1951 78 ICC Sets Power Line Hearing Mar. 11 DES MOINES, IA. Iowa Commerce commission today set for hearing here March 11 15 applications concerning transmission lines, most of them asking authority for construction. They would add a total of about 42 miles to the power network in the statn.

Four of the applications were by the City of Cedar Falls, asking permission to refranchise existing lines. As to construction, the largest single be miles of new lines in Louisa county, built by the Eastern Iowa Light and Power cooperative of Wilton Junction. Other counties in which construction would take place are Decatur, Appanoose. Keokuk, Dos Moines, Carroll, Dallas, Marshall, Story, and Polk. 13 Seamen to Stay on Stern of Wrecked Tanker CHATHAM, MASS.

(IP) Thirteen weary seamen, true to the tradition of the seas, stuck it out today on the derelict stern of a broken to salvage the hulk. Crewmen of the tanker Fort in half by the winter's worst storm two days up rescue last night. Twenty-five of their mates were taken off the wreck by Coast Guards. Eighteen of them reached Boston th'is morning aboard the cutter Acushnet, while tugs and other cutters hovered around the bobbing- wreckage mapping out salvage plans. It was hoped the stern section could be towed to port, but the vessel's owners in New York, the Trinidad corporation, said a decision might be made today to sink it by gunfire.

The coast guard had said the wreckage is a menace to navigation. The Fort Mercer, loaded with fuel oil for New England ports, was one of two 10,000 ton tankers torn in half in the vicious northeaster storm off the Cape Cod fishing community. Both halves of the other tanker, the Pendleton, washed aground yesterday. The latest batch of survivors brought to 57 the number rescued from the four drifting sections. 'aw JiH TANKER SPLITS IN STORM The stern section of the tanker Pendleton rolls in the surf off Monomoy Island, Chatham, Mass.

It was abandoned by the 32 crewmen after the ship split in two in a raging northeast gale. A rope ladder on which the men escaped to coast guard rescue craft can seen in the item of the (NEA Ft. Madison Okays Fluoridation of Water FORT MADISON, IA. Fluoridation of the municipal drinking water supply has been approved by the Fort Madison city council and board of health. The two agencies authorized an application Monday night to the State Health department for permission to carry out the project.

Fluoridation is a of adding sodium fluoride to the public water supply as a means of combatting tooth decay..