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Bonn Government Launches Attack On Anti-Semitics By HERS ALTSCHULL BONN, Germany (AP) The West German government launched a double-barreled campaign Wednesday night to stamp out anti-Semitic demonstrations by swift court action against hate- mongers and stiffe'r sentences. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his cabinet called ior speedy enactment of a law to increase the penalties for "stirring up hatred against groups because of ir natural origin." The maxi- Coffeyville Fights Attempt To Sto Trains COFFEYVILLE, Kan. (AP) Coffeyville will become the focal point Friday for protests against the "Missouri Pacific's plan to' kill off its last passenger trains between Kansas City and Little Rock. An examiner for the Interstate Commerce Commission two days of hearing testimony at Fort Smith, Wednesday. He will resume the hearing in Coffey The trains, one in each direction daily, stop at Paola, Osawa tomie, Garnett, Durand, Neode- sna, Independence and Coffeyville on their 524-mile round-about runs through eastern Kansas, the northeast corner of Oklahoma and western Arkansas.

Witnesses from Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas testified at Fort Smith that discontinuance of the trains would do economic harm and cause public inconvenience. The governments of all four states were represented among attorneys appearing before the examiner. The, railroad pleaded it lost $124,234 on the trains in the first 10 months of 1959. The Missouri Pacific planned to take the trains off in November but the ICC ordered a delay to permit it to investigate protests. The ICC has up to four months to decide.

If it orders the trains continued the railroad must wait before making another a year move. Richard Simpson Dies at Capitol WASHINGTON (AP) Rep. Richard M. Simpson (R-Pa), for years one of Capitol Hill's leading apostles of conservatism, died today. He was 59.

Death came at 8:15 a. m. at the, Naval Medical Center at nearby Bethesda, where Simpson underwent brain surgery Dec. 14. The operation was to determine whether Simpson had a brain tumor.

The results never were announced! Shortly before Christmas, Simpson's family reported he was progressing. But shortly after that he took a tun for the worse. On Dec. 28 his condition was described as serious. Simpson, a member of Congress since 1937, had been regarded for years as one of the leading champions in the House of high taritfs and traditional Republican economic policy.

He was chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, a party organization aimed at election of GOP members to the House. mum sentence now is three months in Jail; the bill to be s-jfo- mitlcd to the Bundestag will set that as the minimum. A special cabinet meeting also agreed unanimously "that cases under investigation should be brought (o court as quickly as possible and that the penalties should correspond to the severity of the misdeeds," a communique said. Two Germans already have been convicted of anti-Semitic acts. Police say two others beinf held have admitted daubing swas tikas and anti-Jewish slogans on the new synagogue in Cologne on Christmas Eve, the incident which launched the present wave of antl Semitic acts.

The smear- and slogans' abusing Jews kept sporadically in scattered sec tions of the world for the 15th day. Police in all countries affected kept up their hunt for the paintbrush smearers and also sought to determine whether there was any undercover world organ! zation linking them. A top commentator on Moscow radio said. Wednesday thtr anti Semitic outbursts in the United States and Britain aro about as dangerous, as a "slight cold to a healthy person." Some Jewish leaders have declared that the outbreaks smacked of a revival of Naziism and showed signs of an underground fascist movement. Others have branded the anti-Semitic displays tin 1 work of hoodlums, malcon tents and crackpots.

There also have been suggestions that the Communists sparked the outbreak in Germany to discredit Adenauer's government. A West German government spokesman said Wednesday their investigations had failed to uncov er evidence of an organized cam paign against the Jews in Ger many. Blast Army for Poor Cost Guess WASHINGTON (AP) The convptrollfir general cited two cases hi Kansas and complained to Congress Wednesday that the Army Engineers and the Reclamation Bureau do a poor job of calculating in advance the cost'of relocating railroads, highways, cemeteries and utility lines for new water resources projects. The report showed the Army Engineers underestimated by about V4 million dollars the relocation costs for the Wichita and Valley Center projects on the Arkansas River in Kansas. It said the Reclamation Bureau estimated it would cost $30,000 to relocate roads in Jewell County for the Lovewell dam and reser- i project.

The actual cost: $272,000. Joseph Campbell, the comptroller general, also suggested the government coufd save a lot of money if the Army Engineers and the Reclamation Bureau took into consideration how frequently such facilities are likely to be flooded before it decides to relocate them. Jap Hospital Burns; Eleven Known Dead YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) Eight women and throe newfoorn infants were known dead and another five babies were feared burned to death in a fire that razed a two-story Christian hospital here Wednesday night. The'rest of the 145 persons in the Kinugasa Hospital escaped from the blaze, believed to have been started by faulty handling of a kerosene heater in the delivery room. Six patients were injured.

Facing Cameras Answering questions of newsmen after arrival last night are County Attorney Duane Weit (foreground), Sheriff Darrell Earl Robinson, and KBI agents Al Dewey, Garden City, Clarence Duntz, Hays, and Roy Church, Ottawa. Nixon Tagged Conservative In Campaign Crowds of curious citizens, newsmen and photographers jam up in front of the courthouse to get a glimpse of the two prisoners who arrived shortly after 6 pirn. Wednesday. Swedish Maid Testifies at Doctor Finch Murder Trial LOS ANGELES state's key witness, year old Swedish aurst into tears on (AP) The a- slim, 19- housemaid, the witness stand after describing Barbara Finch's violent last moments of ife. As Marie Anne Lidholm testified softily in broken English, Dr.

R. Bernard Finch leaned forward ntently at the counsel table, straining to hear every word. Near the handsome surgeon, his one-time receptionist and mistress arole sat erect, her brown eyes flashing from witness to prosecutor and back. Finch, 41, and Miss Tregoff, 23, are charged with murdering his 36-yi ar-old estranged wife so they could marry and retain community property valued by Mrs. Finch at $750,000.

Miss Lidiholm came to this country in September 1958 to study English. A girl acquaintance Bodies Loy in Gymnosium 34 Die in First I960 U.S. Airline Disaster found her a job with the Finches. She told a six-man, six-woman jury and a packed courtroom on direct examination Wednesday of tho hectic night of July 18 at the Finches' swank home in suburban West Covina. This was her testimony: She heard Mrs.

Finch scream, ran to the garage of the $65,000 Finch home, and saw the pretty, socialite unconscious on the garage floor. Dr. Finch smashes rviiss Lidholm's head against the garage wall, then brandished a gun and ordered her into the family car. The doctor made Mrs. Finch who apparently had into the car, Mrs.

Finch fled. The doctor pursued her. The maid said she heard a shot and a moment later, Mrs. Finch was found shot to death on the lawn next door. Finch and Miss Tregoff were found by police the next day in Las Vegas, Nev.

After the maid finished testify rows of shrouded bodies, victims of 1960's first airliner crash, lay in the Southport High School gym- nashim today awaiting identifica. tion by relatives and an FBI fingerprint team. Thirty-four persons were aboard the National Airlines DC6B which apparently disintegrated in the air and cost wreckage and bodies dve i 20-acre area early Wednesday. None survived. ftirchfri found 32 bodies by nightfall In the plowed fields and marshy piney woods where the New York-to-Miami flight fell.

Darkness and foul weather delayed we search for the remaining victims overnight. C. Trotter, an assistant director of the FBI, came here from Washington with a 4 -man team to hdp identify the 29 passengers and 5 crow, members on Relatives also began arriving to WwUfy and claim their dead. plane "apparently disinte- tot itf frOS UP- known cause," said John L. Morris, a National Airlines vice president.

"The plane was in -good order and was in the hands of a veteran crew. There was nothing from the pilot prior to the crash that would indicate any njalfunc- tion." However, the altimeter hi toe wreckage of the cockpit showed an elevation of 1,500 feet. And instruments indicated the right wing may have been down as if the plane was banking. It appeared that the crew" and passengers may have known the plane was in difficulty. A National Airlines spokesman said, "judging fr6m the fact that some of the victim's had on life jackets, it can be presumed that the captain had informed the passengers of an emergency situation and was trying to make an emergency wore vest-type lift jackets and several victims were strapped to their seals with safety belto.

There also was an indication that the pilot might have been seeking a refuge the murky, rainy night A chunk of metal was found at Kure Beach, 25 miles east of the crash scene, or about five minutes away at the plane's normal cruising speed. The craft's southbound route would not have crossed both Kure Beach and Bolivia. "It was very definitely part of tine aluminum skin of an airplane, presumably this plane," said an NAL spokesman about the Kure Beach discover)'. Tht en0 hg, found in the 25-foot nose section of the wreckage, bore a notation that the 1 flight had checked with the Wilmington Airport at a.m. Twenty-four minutes later the crew reported the flight was south of Wilmington, thus beginning the 550-mile leg over the Atlantic to Florida.

A stopped watch on one of the victim set the time of the crash at 2:45 a.m. WASHINGTON GoMiwater (R-Ariz) said today thinks Vice President Richard I. Nixon will prove himself a 'satisfactory conservative" in campaigning. Goldwater, who heads the Republican; Senatorial. Campaign Committee, disagreed with some of his GOP senatorial colleagues who say Nixon needs to identify himself as something of a liberal to win the over a Democratic nominee.

Sens. George D. Aiken (R-Vt) and Hugh Scott (R-Pa) have made' such suggestions while denying that Nixon is the choice of the GOP "Old Guard." Nixon had no current opposition for the Republican nomination. "I think the majorityVof the people of the country want a conservative for president," Goldwater said. "That is the impression I get after having visited 43 states in the last few months.

"I believe Nixon will prove himself a satisfactory conservative after he is able to cut loose from the White House apron strings. Now he is tied to the Eisenhower administration policies but he will 'be free to go on his own if he'is nominated." Sen. Styles Bridges (R-NH) said in a separate interview he fears statement she" g'ave West Covina Nixon's. chances to win in Novem- ing for the state, Grant B. Cooper, Finch's attorney, cross-examined Miss Lindholm.

He asked about a Ask Help in lipping Pay of Phychiafrists TOPEKA (AP) The Kansas Assn. of Mental Health plans to contact legislators at the local level in the next few days in a campaign for salary for psychiatric personnel. The b-udget session of the legislature starts next Tuesday. Raymond Briman of Topeka, vice president of the KAMH, said 12 psychiatrists left Topeka State Hospital in 1959. "We have startling facts and figures to show that there is a definite weakening of the state's mental health program," Briman said Wednesday after a meeting of the organization's executive committee.

"One psychiatrist took a position in another state similar to his position in a Kansas mental hospital, but at a $5,500 he said. "He had stressed that he would stay here if he could see even a $1,000 increase above his present salary." Gov. George Docking has indicated that his budget contains comparatively small increases for most state agencies although figures will not be released until Docking presents them to the legislature next week. Briman said a curtailed staff would result in a larger patient load which in turn would create a demand for more buildings. "In 1950 when the mental health program was so weak, the state paid $7,989 for each patient released," Briman said, "in 1959 this figure had been cut to $4,493." The KAiMH asked county chapters to contact legislators at their homes.

Thursday, Jan. 7, I960 Police Capt. William M. Ryan the morning after the murder. Cooper noted that Ryan's report said Miss Lidholm ran to, the garage and saw Finch brandishing a pistol.

On the stand she said he didn't have the pistol until a little later. "Is it as you told Ryan," asked Cooper, "or is it as you testified here?" The blonde maid began to lose her composure'. "Ait this time I didn't know Mrs Finch was dead," she began. "But you knew he (Ryan) was a policeman, didn't you?" asked Cooper. Miss Lidiholm dropped her face into her hands and sobbed.

"Honey," Cooper asked consolingly, "would you rather take a recess at this time?" She nodded. Superior Judge Walter Evans recessed the trial until today. Prison Riot is Stopped by Gas Conn. (AP) Prisoners overpowered two guards and grabbed their keys at the Connecticut State Prison Wednesday night, triggering a riot by more than 400 shouting, stomping inmates. State Police troopers and prison guards quelled the riot after 2 hours with tear gas and high-pres- sue water hoses.

A fireman and A prisoner suffered minor injuies. Warden Mark S. Richmond said about a dozen overwhelmed the two guards, locked th un in a cell and used their keys to free nearly half the population of Che prison. The warden said prison officials and State Police wiuld investigate to find out "who, when, where what brought it about." The outbreak occurred at a'bout 9 p.m., as guards were completing the task of locking the inmates in their cells for the night after a recreation period. by Thf Totegrant Futher Cltm'nt Goubeaux will be host at a dinner at Downing's this evening for wives and members of St.

Mary's Church committee. Present will be Mr. and Mrs, Ralph Kraus, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Rome, Mr.

and Mrs. Mitch Geisler, and Mr. and Mxs. Ted Ludwig. Khrushchev to Stop in Burma During Trip MOSCOW izvestia Indicated today that Premier Nikita Khrushchev atop in Burma as well at India during his trip to Indonesia next month.

The Soviet government newspaper reported that Khrushchev had been inviM to visit by both Prime Minister Nehru and the government of Burma. Although the accounts did not say he acc tpted it assumed that the would not have been extended and publicized unless acceptance had bf en indicated. Khrushchev is scheduled to leave Mowow about Feb. 10. her may be damaged somewhat if an inflationary spiral results from wage increases granted in the steel strike settlement engineered by the vice president and Secretary of Labor James P.

Mitchell. There was no immediate public reaction from the Nixon camp to reports from Concord Wednesday that the vice president's name will be entered Friday in the March 8 New Hampshire presidential primary. The name of Sen, John F. Kennedy (D-'Mass), an announced candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, is to be entered on the Democratic ballot. Blue Cross Changes Areas A number of changes in Kansas Blue Cross-Blue Shield representatives' areas in this vicinity were announced this week by Wayne Johnston, Southern Area Manager, Hutchinson.

Beginning January 1, Ralph H. Burkett, Garden City, will have four counties added to his southwest Kansas area where he will also be in charge of all enrollment activities. The four new counties are Clark, Com an- che, Kiowa and Edwards. Burkett has served the counties in southwest Kansas since the fall of 1953. In addition to the four new counties, others in his area are Finney, Hamilton, Stanton, Morton, Kearny, Grant, Stevens, Haskeil, Seward, Gray, Ford.

Prior to, joining Che Blue Cross- Blue Shield enrollment staff, Burkett was employed by the Stanolind Oil Company of Cordell, Oklahoma and Montgomery Ward at Emporia. Earlier he taught school in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a graduate of Kansas State Teachers' College in Emporia- His office here in Garden City is at 120 Grant Aveaue, Office 407. I in City Hospitals ADMISSIONNS Loyd Buchanan, Eminence Rt. Janice L.

Craig, 506 Stoeckly. Dona Beth Fisher, 611 Pennsylvania. Glenn Taylor, 605 Jenny. Mrs. Don R.

Renick, Ingalls. Mrs. Leo Steinmetz, Holcomb. Mrs. We 1 i Ridimeier, RFD 1, Mrs.

James E. Woodrow, Lakin. DISMISSALS Robert F. Rawlins, 2010 N. Main.

William K. Parks, E'nrporia. Mrs. Kyle Tipton, 912 Inge. Mrs.

Benny Saiz, 1204 E. Chestnut. At St. Catherine Mr. and Mrs.

Donadd R. Renick, Ingalls, a boy weighing 7 lbs 6 oz. at 9:40 a.m. yesterday. Mr.

and Mrs. James E. Woodrow, Lakin, a girl weighing 7 lbs. 3Va oz. at 3:31 yesterday.

15 Killed 29 Hurt In Train-Bus Collision WARSAW, Poland (AP) Fifteen persons were" killed and 39 injured when a passenger train rammed into a crowded bus Wednesday night at Opele, in southwest Poland. Officials said the crash occurred at a grade crossing just after an earlier train had passed and a guard had raised the crossing barrier for the bus and several waiting autos. The second train appeared just as the bus reached the tracks. markets LOCAL PRODUCE MARKET- Product Co.) Eggs A's 23 Eggs A's Medium .19 Eggs Large .19 Eggs B's Medium .17 Eggs C't 13e ereant 4 day cream S3 Heavy Hens 8e Light Hens Se GARDEN CITY 5RAIN (Ceopirarive Eejuify ixehantt) Wheat oneh. Mllo uneh, Barley 41.35 wnch.

IS unch. Corn $1.10 uneh. Wheel Mllo onch. M.30uneh. KANSAS CITY LIVESTOCK KANSAS CITY (AP) Cattle 900; calves 100; cows fully steady, utility and commercial 15.00-18.00, bulls, vealers and slaughter calves steady, utility and commercial bulls 18.50-19.50; good and choice vealers 25.00-28.00; good and choice slaughter calves 21.00-24.00.

Hogs barrows and gilts unevenly steady to 25 lower; sows steady to 25 higher; 1-3 200-240 lb 12.35-13.00; sows 1-3 400 lbs and down 9.50-10.50. Sheep 300; fully steady; good and choice wooled 1 a hter lambs 17.00-18.50; good and choice fall shorn slaughter lambs 17.00; cull to good slaughter ewes 3.505.00; common and medium native feeder lambs 13.00-15.50. Savings Bonds Date Postponed Provisions far exchanging Series United States Savings Bonds for Series savings bonds have been postponed until mid- January, S. F. Gish, Finney County savings bonds chairman, announced today.

i quoted from a United States Treasury release which 1 indicated that' "in view of the I 'heavy burden of work handled! by commercial banks and other! financial institutions at the end! of December and early in uary, the Treasury has decided? to delay of the full governing the exchange til about Jan. 15, 1960." The exfl change was originally in November with a Jan. tive date. The exchange was announced by the Treasury to permit persons wishing current income to take advantage of the income features of the series bond. Both the series and the series bond now.

pay a guaranteed 3 3 per cent return if held to maturity, Gish said, Under the exchange arrangement, increase in the value of the series bond need not be declared for tax purposes until tlie bond matures or is redeemed. This tax-postponement privilege has been a part of the series savings bond since 1951 when tlie extended maturity program was announced. Gish indicated 'that public announcement will be made when details of the exchange arrangement are released by fine Treasury. When buying or selling Telegram Want Ads. -Use THE GARDEN CITY SALE CO.

INC. 3rd, Largest Livestock Aucfion In Friday, January 8th. Estimating 2,500 to 3,000 Head 0 200 mixed wbltifaw and black 700 to 750 110 flood to choice whlftfect and Wart ifttri, 700 U5 mlxtd irttr and hflftr 450 121 red wd (00 to 700 II HolittlB itetn, 1050 Ibi, 150 choice whlttfaee stetn and helfon, 400 to 500 lbs. 100 itocfc 19 wMttfoet fetdira htlfert, (00 1 load of with by tide 3 loads daughter eowi 225 butehtr hogi 0 fttdtr Many More imell ComlqnmonK For Furthtr Information, Lifttn To XGLD TV Wttf, and TKwrs. 10:00 to 10:20 p.m.

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