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Low tonight 48. High Sunday 78. OXE HUNDRED-SECOND YEAR LANSING EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 1936 16 Pages INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVTCK nDIfT C1TVF1V rTT ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS KiUt SHiVlU Ujrtl3 ESmoN THE STATE eF(ti)TONAI Guarantees Are Hinted T-9 Bullet Wounds In Flyer's Body Confirm Battle Crewman f.n ft I Democrats Open Dull Convention A TL Grand Rapids Meeting Is Keynotcd By Iowa Senatorial Hopeful Police Seek By RICHARD L. MILLIMAN (Journal Staff Writer) GRAND RAPIDS, Aug. 25 Rudolph Martin Evans, an Iowa hog grower who is running for the United States senate, war invited here by Michigan Democrats in state convention to spur them on to bigger and better things in the rural areas of the state.

In his keynote speech, he was supposed to ignite a prairie fire which would singe the garden gates from the Indiana line to above Holiday Control Police, National Guard and Sheriffs Prepare for Labor Day Weekend Michigan state police reported Saturday they will have a record number of men on the highways over the Labor Day weekend to cope with the state's traffic peak of the year. State police will have 922 officers on duty, assisted by 217 national guardsmen. Another 122 guardsmen will be assigned to CHILDREN ABANDONED Warrants charging crutlty war issued Friday against Mr. and Mrs. William Wyatt of Kee-go Harbor for leaving 10 of their 12 children alone for two days.

Standing, left to right, are Jimmy, Billy, Arthur, 11; Bobby, Diane, 9. Seated Mona, Darlene, 10; Sharon, 13; Carey, 7 months, Darwin, 10. (AP Wirephoto) 10 Children Left Alone Bruised, Hungry Brood Sent to County Home; Parents Charged PONTIAC. Aug. 25 OP a war rant charging cruelty has been issued for a Keego Harbor couple whose 10 bruised and hungry children were found alone in their home with only a half loaf of stale bread to eat.

One of the children was hospitalized with a weeks-old burn which doctors say may cause the loss of her hand. The other nine were sent to a juvenile home where the couple's other two children have been since last week. Oakland County Prosecuter Fred Zeim issued a warrant yesterday charging William Wyatt, 29. a produce firm truck driver. and his wife, Ada, 33, with cruelty to children.

Her husband left earlier this week to pick up a load of watermelons in Indiana and has not returned. ALONE 2 DAYS The children range in age from 13 years to 7 months. They were apparently left alone at least two days before police found them Thursday. Sherry Ann Wilkinson. 8, one of Mrs.

Wyatt's six children by a previous marriage, was placed in Pontiac General hospital with third degree burns of her right hand. Detective Harry Maur said she is also suffering from malnutrition and there is evidence she had been beaten. He said there are welts on the child's back, knife marks under her chin and marks on her body indicating she had been tied up. The detective said the mother previously had told authorities the little girl was "retarded" and accused the other children of burning her. But he said the chil- See CHILDREN Page 2, Col.

Bomb Kills Four NEW DELHL India, Aug. 25 Four persons were killed and 30 injured last night in a bomb explosion on a crowded New Delhi street Police said an unidentified person tossed the bomb near a long line of people waiting' to enter a theater. The bomb; thrower escaped. By Nasser Egypt Reported Ready to Promise Unimpeded Canal Traffic LONDON'. Aug.

25 liftEgypt was reported prepared today to offer maritime powers treaty guarantees of unimpeded shipping through the Suez canal. Diplomatic sources in Cairo Said President Gamal Abdel Nas ser would offer the guarantees singly or collectively to nations using the canal as a counterproposal to the demand of 18 nations for internationalization of the Suez. These sources said the offer probably would be outlined in Nasser's reply to the five-nation Suez canal committee. INTERNATIONAL BOARD The committee was delegated to tell the Egyptian president the majority of nations at this week's London Suez conference want an international board to take over management of the vital waterway. Australia's Prime Minister Robert G.

nlenzies, committee chairman, delivered an invitation for Nasser to meet with the committee to the Egyptian embassy here last night. He said he hoped for a quick reply and would remain available for a phone call. There still was no official indication jn Cairo on whether Nasser would agree to receive the committee. The committee was ready to meet him in Cairo or anywhere else he suggests. Beneath the surface calm, there was a feeling of heightening tension in the Egyptian capital.

The Cairo diplomatic sources predicted Nasser's reply would flatly reject the proposal from 18 of the 22 nations at the just concluded London conference for in ternationalization of the Suez. But his counterproposal, they said, would leave the door open for negotiation. 'STILL OPTIMISTIC Indonesian Foreign Minister Ruslan Abdulghani. who represented his country at the London conference, emerged from a 90-minute talk with Nasser and said he was "still optimistic" over the chances for a peaceful settlement. Abdulghani said the possibility of a 45-nation conference on Suez navigation guarantees was among the subjects he and Nasser discussed.

Nasser had suggested a bigger conference of all the users of the Suez canal in rejecting the western Big Three's invitation to the London confer ence. "The calls for use of force which were heard in the early days of the conference have fad ed into the background and the desire for peace has come to the fore." Abdulghani said. Before meeting Nasser, the Indonesian minister said he would try to impress on the Egyptian leader "the conciliatory spirit" of the London conference, including the 13 nations demanding internationalization. Indonesia, Russia, India and Ceylon were the conference minority who offered a substitute plan for continued Egyptian control of the canal but with an international advisory board powerless to enforce its recommendations. It was considered unlikely Nasser would make any reply to the committee until he had conferred with the observer he sent to London during the conference, Wing Commander Ali Sabry.

"WHAT ARE the reasons be- hind the seemingly liberal upsurge in the two major parties?" asks T. F. of the home of the late Calvin Coolidge. "I refer to Republican solidarity behind President Eisenhower's and to the Democrats' selection of Stevenson and Kefauver." Answer: I think that both developments, representing changed conditions and outlooks on the part of both the people and their political representatives, are in accord with historic American traditions. The so-called liberals' success did not represent a revolution so much as a reaffirmation of the marvelous flexibility and responsiveness of our system of politics and democracy.

SHIFTS OCCUR ABOUT EVERY 25 YEARS These shifts, as I read our history, occur about every 25 years, resulting from social and economic changes that, slowly but eventually, are reflected in our politics. Andrew Jackson, for instance, shifted control of the Democratic party from the Virginia plantation clique to fanners and workers. Abraham Sea OBSERVER Pag 4, Col. 4 like Pan's fteuis Airman Harold Sylvester Airman's DeathTold Harold IJ. Sylvester, Killed in Automobile Crash iii Germany The automobile death of Harold R.

Sylvester, 21-year-old airman second class, which happened earlier this week in Germany, was revealed Saturday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Sylvester of 2767 Somerset rd. graauaie insmg electronics technician had visited his family and friends here during a furlough in July.

He had flown round-trip from Germany, where he had been stationed for the past year. Only three weeks back on duty at a base near Kaiserslautern, A2c Sylvester was involved in an automobile accident Tuesday. His death later in a hospital was reported by the secretary of de fense. His parents received a letter which gave only a brief account of the accident which occurred on a road overpass inside the city limits of Kaiserslautern. if i fYnvtpH that Iho hftHv Recovered In Search Plane Hunt for Possible Survivors Halts; Ships To Remain in Area TAIPEI, Formosa, Aug.

25 (J U. S. navy air officials confirmed oday that a navy patrol plana was fired on before it vanishea off the Red China coast Thursday. Officials at the U. S.

navai air station at Iwakuni, Japan, said the body of a crewman picked up near the spot where the plane went down had wounds inflicted by gunfire. The navy said examination of the body of Technician "1 Albert P. Mattin of Delta. showed metal fragments from bullets. The wounds did not cause death, however.

Mattin died of multiple injuries suffered in the crash. AiR SEARCH HALTED The navy in Washington ordered the air search for possible survivors among the other 15 aboard the missing plane suspended. The navy said surface ships had been ordered, to remain in the area. Vice Adm. Stuart Ingersoll, the U.

S. 7th fleet commander, had announced termination of the search today. A navy spokesman in Washington said he had asked Adm. Arleigh Burke, chief ot naval operations, for concurrence in the order. The spokesman said Burke replied he concurred only in suspension of operations, but that surface ships should stand by in the area "while results are evaluated in Washington." A duty officer at the U.

S. Taiwan (Formosa) defense command here said he knew of no change in the situation since Ingerscll's announcement Apparently the orders were delayed in transmission. The navy department in Washington announced yesterday the body of one of 16 crewmen aboard the four-engine P-4-M Mer- cator was recovered yesterday in international waters amid the wreckage of the plane about 100 miles southeast of Shanghai. He was identified as Technician 1 Albert P. Mattin, Delta, O.

The last radio message from the patrol craft said it was under aerial attack off the China coaast CHINA PROTESTS Red China protested that the search conducted by the U. S. Seventh fleet violated Chinese territory. Peiping Radio accused the Americans of an "act of military provocation" and of "grave provocation to the Chinese people." The broadcast charged at least 54 U. S.

planes violated the re near Shanghai and the Tachen Islands Friday. Ingersoll, commander of the Seventh fleet, dismissed the Peiping radio charges. "I have no control over what Ihp ChinocA rnrnmiiniH. th. nists say." The Peiping radio said late Thursday that Communist planes had damaged a "Chiang Kai-shek See PLANE Page 2, Col.

Hawk Wins Fifidit MANILA, Aug. 25 UR Antonio Ferrer shot a hawk that had been preying on his chickens. When he picked up the wounded bird, it revived and clawed him on the face. Ferrer struck back, using i discharged. Ferrer died of a mil 'let wound.

reducing program "after he observed several officers, non-coms and enlisted men who gave the impression of flabbiness." In response to a question, however, Brucker said a Washington directive providing that soldiers who fail or refuse to lose weight should be court-martialed "has been rescinded." "I've seen men in good condition, in good soldierly appearance, as nearly ready for combat as expected under the circumstances," Brucker told reporters after his Ft. Carson tour. Capt William G. Newkirk, public information officer, commented later on recent courts-martial of heavyweights here: "The judge advocate general's office here has announced it will review such cases," he said. Traffic Planned Wife Sees Mate Die Follow inp In Another Car, Watches Husband Crash Into Tree A Grand Rapids man died Fri day evening in ah Ionia county crash while his wife, following in another car, looked on help lessly.

Eight other persons, including two children, suffered minor injuries in five other accidents. Victor T. Kivinen, 42, of Grand Rapids died almost in stantly when his car went out of control on a Portland east of Clarksville. His wife, Leila following in another car, saw her husband's car swerve in the gravel, glance off a cement abutment and hit a tree. She was the first to reach the scene.

PICKS UP CHECK TrooDers of the Ionia state police post said Kivinen had gone to Grand Rapids to pick up his paycheck from the Borden Dairy company and was returning to Morrison where his family was vacationing. En route back, he met his wife when he stopped in the village. The body was removed to the Sullivan funeral home in Grand Rapids. Besides the widow, three children and a brother survive. Emma Jean Saxton, 25, of 1135 Theodore st, who is employed as a dance instructor in Jackson, reported to state police about 10 p.

m. Friday that she was involved in an accident in Church ill Jackson county, about 7 p. m. Miss Saxton told troopers she was en route to Lansing when she swerved into an embank ment to miss a train. A fellow employe, following behind in another car, took her into Lan sing where she was treated for head bruises at the St.

Lawrence hospital. GUARDSMEN HURT Two national guardsmen, Terry L. Donaldson, 18. and Richard Dodson, 19, of Albion, suffered minor injuries about 3:35 a. m.

Saturday when the car in which they were riding, driven by Dodson, struck the rear of a parked pickup truck at Stoll rd. and US-27, just north of the city limits. Samuel Walacavage, 33, R. 1. DeWitt, driver of the truck, and the two guardsmen were treated at St Lawrence hospital for minor injuries.

Dodson was ticketed by state police for speeding and Wala- See FATAL Page 2, Col. 6 News Higlilijdits HEROIC STRUGGLE M. S. U. student wins Ph.

D. despite cerebral palsy. Page 9. SIBERIA U. S.

newsmen get a look. Page 4. HIGHWAYS Key to Lansing's future growth. Page 9. NEW CHAMP Joe Brown wins lightweight title.

Page 16. City in Brief 2 Comics 3 Editorials. Features 4 Health Talks 8 Onlooker 3 Radio, TV 2 Sports 16 State Page 6 Theater 10-11 Vital Statistics 2-6-11-12 Weather 1-2 Accompli ice Kidnaping Suspect Taken From Cell for Trip; Won't Name Pal Aug. 25 WV- Angelo John LaMarca was taken from his police headquarters cell at 4 a. m.

today for another mys terious automobile trip as author ities worked to pin down all de tails in the kidnaping and death of little Peter Weinberger. Reporters learned of the trip at mid-morning but could gain no other information about it A similar tour was made late yesterday amid police efforts to learn whether the mustached, swarthy kidnaper had help before abandoning the child to die in a roadside thicket of honeysuckle vines. WONT NAME FRIEND Authorities said LaMarca. a 31- year-old taxi and truck driver, told them he had taken the Wein berger baby to Brooklyn and left him overnight with a friend a few hours after the July 4 kidnaping. An officer said yesterday that LaMarca refused to name this person and that other efforts to identify or locate the individual had not been successful.

Police said his lawyers would be permitted to see LaMarca but not his wife or family members. LaMarca. a bushy-haired man with two children of his own, was held without bail for a further bearing next Friday on a kidnap ing charge. He made no plea. Authorities said a murder count probably will be added to the kidnaping indictment sought from the grand jury.

TAKEN JULY 4 LaMarca was charged with kid naping the 32-day-old infant from the patio of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Weinberger's ranch home in West bury, N. Y. "Even if the child were alive when it was placed on the ground, it may well constitute murder, said Dist.

Atty. Frank Gulotta. Under New York law a person who causes a death while com mitting a felony is liable to first degree murder charges, punish able by death in the electric chair. Kidnaping also carries a maximum penalty of death in the elecfric chair. Fall Eager To Arrive Hourly Temperatures a.

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falling. Fall seems determined to eet here ahead of time. The mercurv Dlummeted to 45 degrees at 6 a. m. Saturday, rising slowly to 70 at noon.

The 45 decrees was still ouite a hit above the record low for the date, however. It will be fair Saturday nisht. with a low of around 48. warm ing up slightly Sunday to 78. some snowers are likely in the northern part of the lower peninsula Sunday.

The outlook for Mondav for central Michigan is for showers or thundershowers, with little temperature change. Wounded Officer Still Listed 'Fair' Patrolman Allen Yanrh ed in a gun battle with burglars at a south side eauiompnt com pany last Sunday night, was in "fair" condition Saturday at Edward W. SDarrow hnsnital Hie condition was "about the same" as the day before, hospital attendants said. Falls Off Bike Charles Iversen. 10.

of 2im Marion sustained an injury to his left arm about 10-30 a Saturday whe nhe fell from his oicycic ai izuu roxson st. He was taken to Edward Snarrnur hue pital in the fire derjartmpnt am. bulancev the straits. The Democrats will have to do better than that. Evans, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Earl Warren crossed with anybody's white-haired Uncle Henry, had the role of catalyst between agrarian unrest and Democratic fervor.

He was a dismal failure. UNINSPIRED TONES In uninspired tones, Evans tried to tie the well-being of the farmer to the well-being of the factory worker. Farm people spend 20 to 25 cents of every dollar spent on the goods you manufacture, Evans told his largely urbanized audience. He talked of "erosion on Main street," where store buildings are standing vacant because "the farm income is no longer adequate to maintain a decent standard of living." Slumps in employment are tied to the decline in farm income, Evans pointed out. Farm income has dropped from $15 billion in 1952 to $11 billion in 1956, the Iowan said.

Under Democratic regimes, Evans said, farmers never received less than 100 percent of parity. "And the Republicans have the unadulterated nerve to say to us (Picture on Page 9) that they've inherited a mess," he scoffed. Evans dwelt on his service to Franklin D. Roosevelt 20 years ago. He was special assistant to the secretary of agriculture in 1936-38 and administrator of the agriculture adjustment act front 1938-42.

"The Democrats will continue to fight for an adequate farm program," Evans said. "Such a program must achieve fair prices for farmers, soil conservation, and adequate full supplies on hand not only to protect against vorc ht aUn for us, in thP cold war against the forces of Communism." NO EXCEPTION In this election year, it's nearly impossible to find a politician who is against fair prices, soil conservation, or protection against lean years and Communism. Evans was no exception. The rest of the Democratic convention promised to be as dull. Gov.

Williams and Lt. Gov. Hart already have been assured of their spots at the head of the ticket via the Aug. 6 primary. Only the formalities remained for renomination of James M.

Hare, secretary of state; Thomas M. Kavanagh, attorney general; Sanford A. Brown, treasurer; Frank Szymanski, auditor gen eral; and Talbot Smith and George Edwards, supreme court justices. Names of the latter two will appear on a non-partisan ballot. Jerry Gaddum, Lansing, was named by the sixth district (Ingham, Genesee and Livingston counties caucus) to represent the district on the convention's resolutions committee.

CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE Irving Snyder, Brighton, was elected to the credentials com mittee and Edward T. Mackin to the permanent organization and order of business committee. The district delegates also elected John McGarry, Mt. Mor ns, as presidential elector. The issue of civil rights was conspicuously lacking.

The convention was expected to affirm the national platform, but the state platform as it reached the floor contained no mention of civil rights. Party leaders contended the subject had been well covered in a strongly worded resolution adopted at the spring convention and in the national platform itself. Traffic Resumed On N. Larch St. N.

Larch st. was reopened to traffic Saturday after three weeks of detouring around construction work on the Saginaw st intersection. Alien, T. Hayes, city traffic engineer, said the wider intersection will tie in with extensive improvements underway on Saginaw st, from Washington to Pennsylvania aves. Since March 4, he said, north-south traffic on Larch had been detoured to Cedar st i help county sheriffs.

In addition, the department will use seven planes and two helicopters for traffic observation. All leaves have been canceled from noon Friday until midnight Monday. EXPECT WORST Lansing police and Ingham county sheriff's officers also will intensify road patrols for peak travel during the Labor Day weekend. Police traffic experts said the highway jam is expected to be the worst of the year. They pointed out this will be the first and, only long weekend holiday of the year and the last summer vacation trip for many drivers.

In addition, many motorists will be returning home from vacation for the start of school. "We have our fingers crossed said slate police commissioner Joseph A. Child s. "Contrary to the rising death total throughout the nation. Michigan has reduced deaths in each of the last four months and so far in August as compared with the same months in 195a.

We are certainly hoping this will continue. Until Aug. 19, state police said. 1.031 persons were killed in traf fic accidents in the state. This compared with 1.164 during the same period last year.

Last year, there were 25 per sons killed on the Labor Day weekend. The high during the past five years was 32 deaths in both 1952 and 1953. 1940 IS RECORD The highest for a Labor Day weekend was 46 killed in 1940. when a four-day period was used in figuring the fatalities. The state police Labor Day count this weekend will extend from 6 p.

Friday until 12 midnight on Mon day. The worst holiday weekend toll was 58 killed over the Memorial Day weekend of 1941, also a four-day period. Six persons were killed on Memorial Day this year and nine on the Fourth of July. Both holi days fell on a Wednesday and the count was computed over a 30-hour period. DR.

ALFRED C. KINSEY getting a B. S. degree in psy- cology at Bowdoin, Kinsey re ceived a doctor of science de gree in biology at Harvard and stayed on as a graduate student for research in insect life. Hb became the world's foremost authority on the life and habits of the gall wasp.

Kinsey started research on sex in 1938 when, he said later, he realized he had no authentic answer to many important personal sex problems posed by students in his biology classes. 'i wiiimuuiijio aaj Wl will be returned here for burialJ admiral declared. "I can't imag-Surviving also are three sisters. ine what would bother me less Sharon, Barbara and Mrs. Louis; than what the Chinese Commu- Dr.

Kinsey, 62, Authority Sperry, all of Lansing. The youth had planned to study electrical engineering in college after another year in the service. He was interested in aviation and had been active in the civil air patrol teen-age program. He was a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints and a member of the church's priesthood. Macaroni Magnate Dies NEW YORK, Aug.

25 OB Emanuple Rnnzoni. Rfi. founder On Sexual Behavior, Dies and head of one of the biggestjhis rifle as a club. The weapon macaroni tirms in tne nation, died Friday. He was born in Italy.

FROM BRUCKER Fat Lads Win Reprieve Army Reducing Order Rescinded BLOOMINGTOX, Aug. 25 (UP) Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, 62, a university professor who became perhaps the world's foremost authority on human sexual behavior, died today in Bloom-ington hospital. Kinsey, who gained fame as the author of two volumes on the personal and private habits of men and women, died at 8 a.

m. E. S. hospital spokesmen said. He was taken to the hospital three days ago suffering from a heart condition and pneumonia.

For-several months. Kinsey had been in failing health and spent increasingly less time in his office at the institute for sex research on the Indiana university campus. Kinsey's name became a household word in 1948 when his first world famous "KinseyReport" on sex behavior of the human1 male was published as a best-selling book. A second volume, on female sex behavior, was published in 1953. It made him even more famous than the first Kinsey was born in 1894 in Hoboken, N.

the son of an engineering instructor at the Stevens Institute of Technology. As a boy, he lived in South Orange, N. J. He worked his way through Bowdoin college, largely with money earned as counselor in summer camps for boys. After FT.

CARSON, Aug. 25 Wl Ft. Carson's commandant "mad a mistake" in insisting that over-fat soldiers trim down to specified weight. Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker said last night He told newsmen, however, "There's nothing wrong with trying to get troops into shape." Brucker referred to reduce-or-else program instituted at this army post by Gen.

Thomas M. Watlington, who ordered courts-martial for officers and men considered too fat to fight Post authorities have said only a "handful" were affected, giving no figures. At a press conference after an inspection, Brucker explained that Gun. Maxwell D. Taylor, army chief of staff, instituted the.