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fuming SCEADEE rrnr DAILY iVECT People Inspiration diJtipn "South Dakota's Leading Newspaper" SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1952. PRICE FIVE CENTS 3TpAGES Plane Nedrs End SECRETARY OF First Commercial Polar Fliahf MAKES STOP Deer Counties 4 Season ancelle in Christmas 1 1 rf Before Kingvale, Califs situated six miles west of Donner Summit on U.S. 40 in the Sierra Nevada mountains, was transferred into a breathtaking scene by the winter season's first heavy snowfall. The town is in the heart of the winter sports area. (AP Wirephoto) Thernal, Calif.

Capt. Slade Nash, Sioux City, waves from the cockpit of an Air Force Sabre Jet fighter plane just before taking off on a record speed flight. He made four roaring passes over the measured course above 'he Salton sea with an unofficial average speed of 699.9 m.p.h. It was 29 miles an hour better than the old record, set four years ago by an American Sabre. (AP Wire-photo direct to The (Story on page 9.) Sioux Falls Gets Wf On Air After Jan.

1 STATE JOB TO JOHN DULLES GM President Wilson Defense Secretary; McKay Gets Interior Post By JAMES DEVLIN Associated Press Staff Writer New York, Nov. 20 President-designate Dwight D. Eisenhower today made three top cabinet appointments John Foster Dulles as secretary of state, Charles E. Wilson of Detroit as secretary of defense, and Gov. Douglas McKay of Oregon as secretary of the interior.

They were the first announced appointments of the new Republican administration which will take office Jan. 20. Dulles, long the Republican voice in the State Department and architect of the Japanese peace treaty, wrote the Republican foreign policy plank in the 1952 platform. During the Chicago convention he was believed acceptable as secretary of state to both Eisenhower and his chief contestant for the nomination-Sen. Robert A.

Taft of Ohio. Wilson, president of General Motors, was mentioned by Eisenhower last September in suggesting the need of "business brains in a 60 billion dollar business" a reference to the operation of the federal government. McKay, 59 years old, began his career as a newsboy. Later he was an office boy for the Union Pacific, Railroad and then an auto sales manager. He began his political career when he was elected mayor of Salem, in 1933.

After that, he served as a state senator and became governor, in 1949, He is a veteran of both World Wars. McKay is a Pres-byterian. Aberdeen Is Named As Mail Terminal Aberdeen, Nov. 20 (JP) The Postal Transportation Service has designated Aberdeen as the terminal for all South Dakota Christmas mail, including parcel post and letters, originating in the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific Northwest is com posed of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota.

Mail from other points will be handled in the usual manner at Sioux City and St. Paul. Charles T. Ross, district superintendent for the PTS, said the terminal for parcel post mail will be established in the Aberdeen Armory for the period Dec. 15-24.

Letter mail will be handled at "the postoffice building. In previous years, mail from points in the Pacific Northwest states has gone to the terminal in Sioux City. Ross listed two advantages for the Aberdeen set up: First, delivery will be advanced by at least three days. This involves one day for getting to Sioux City, one day for handling and one day return. Second, the cost of transportation to the government will be slashed considerably.

The district superintendent said the local terminal will serve 561 postoffices in the state. Train Hits Bus In Texas; About 25 People Hurt Houston, Nov. 20 (JP) A passenger train smashed into a Houston Transit Co. bus this morning, injuring about 25 persons, some seriously. The accident occurred at a grade crossing about 8:10 a.m.

The train was the Santa Fe Grand Canyon, inbound from California and due at the union station at 8:15 ajn. The bus was loaded to capacity, according to early reports. Witnesses reported that the train struck the bus, hurling it down the track. The bus driver, Robert L. Loe 35, was visibly shaken but unhurt when brought to the police station for questioning.

One of the first persons to reach the scene was Mrs. R. C. Rodriguez, 45, who lives near the crossing. "I heard the crash, and ran out of the house.

It was a terrible sight. Everyone was screaming ghd pouring from'the bus." Mrs. Rodriguez said she saw most of the people were bleeding as they stumbled from the bus." "After the first shock seemed to wear off, some of the people who were less seriously hurt went back into the bus to help the others," Mrs. Rodriguez said. Pierre, Nov.

20 (JP) Articlesiof incorporation for the Olwin-Angell Store of Aberdeen were filed today with Secretary of State Geraldine Ostroot. Incorporators of the firm, capitalized at $500,000, were Verta Olwin and Isable Ackley.naU of Aberdeen. AT BASE I GREENLA May Reach Denmark Early In Afternoon Due to Good Weather Copenhagen, Nov. 20 (JP)A big air liner winged toward its Danish home today in the final lap of a trail-blazing commercial flight from the U.S. Pacific Coast across the polar top of the world to Europe.

The Scandinavian Air Lines System's "Arild Viking" took off at 4:58 a.m., CST, from the big U.S. Air Force Base at Thule, North Greenland. Air-line officials said due to favorable weather conditions over Greenland and the North Atlantic, the plane might complete the jump to Copenhagen by 2:30 p.m., CST. The flight is the first of two exploratory Los Angeles-to-Copen-hagen runs which the air line hopes will be the prelude of the first commercial service over the polar route. The big Douglas DC-6B had landed at the Thule Base at 2:28 a.m., CST.

The Viking carried 22 passen gers, a crew of 13, such arctic survival equipment as sleeping bags, skis, snowshoes, snow shovels and rifles, and 500 pounds of mail. Her operators hope to inaugurate regular commercial service on the top-of-the-world route between Los Angeles and Copenhagen soon. The polar air liner touched down at the new 263-million dollar air base the first commercial air liner to use the big field an hour ahead of schedule, after a hop from Edmonton, Alberta. Flying time for the arctic Jump was three minutes over seven hours. For the entire 5,852 mile trip, time in the air was estimated originally at 24 i hours.

Air line officials figured the plane would reach the Danish capital after the jump from Thule, about 3:30 CST today. Yesterday the big Skyliner COV-rerf th 1.S22 miles between T.ns Angeles and Edmonton in six hours and 48 minutes, taking off fori Greenland after a refueling stop of almost two hours. It had crossed over the north magnetic pole about 1:10 a.m., today. First Commercial Flight The flight's successful completion will make the "Arild Viking" the first commercial air liner to fly from the West Coast of the United States to Europe over the North Pole route. This route, giving the Pacific Coast its own gateway to Europe and making Los Angeles an overnight hop from Scandinavia, cuts 1,000 miles off the trip by way of New York.

Col. Bernt Balchen, Norwegian-born veteran of arctic flying who bossed the development of the Thule Air Base for the U.S. Air Force, was among the passengers. Mrs. Balchen was the only woman aboard.

Other passengers included Frederick B. Lee, deputy U.S. civil aeronautics administrator; Hendrik de Kauffman, Danish ambassador to Washington; Assistant U.S. Postmaster General John M. Redding; Gustav Teisen, Alf Keum and Angar K.

Hansen, aviation directors from Denmark, Norway and Iceland; and SAS officials headed by Board Chairman Georg Unger Vetlesen and President Tore H. Nilert. Scandinavian Pilots At the controls were two Scandinavians. Capt. Povl Jensen, a Dane, and Sven Gibson, a Swede.

Before SAS can inaugurate regular commercial service on the polar route, It must get government permission and military approval for use of the Thule base. SAS officials said San Francisco and Vancouver, British Columbia, would be intermediate stops on the route If commercial service is started. Flights would be made as often as the traffic warranted. Nilert es timated there would be two or three flights weekly in each direction. He added, however, that the line had sufficient equipment to schedule daily flights.

Rosenberg Death Date May Be Set New York, Nov. 20 fFfhri execution date for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted atom spies, may be set tomorrow by Federal, Judge Irving R. Kaufman. TT.S. Attorney Myles J.

Lare said yesterday he will ask Kaufman to set the electrocution naie. i The couDle has been in Sing Sing prison's death house since their ronviction March 29, 1951, on chaiges of relaying atomic secrets to Russia. On Mondav the VS. Supreme Court for a second time rejected an appeal for a review of the con viction. ND Card Scene FBI Search For Luchese Is Fruitless New York, Nov.

20 JP) The FBI hunted today for Thomas Three Finger Brown), Luchese in. the wake of state crime commission hearings which recessed with testimony aimed at a former judge's financial affairs. The state probers looking into political-underworld links no sooner suspended the public hearings yesterday than U.S. Attorney General James P. McGranery authorized the FBI search for Luchese, wealthy garment manufacturer and ex-convict described as a boss racketeer and friend of politicians.

Luchese previously testified privately before the commission but balked at talking at the open hearings. A two-day search by a U.S. marshal and two deputies failed to locate Luchese. The government seeks to take away Luchese's citizenship and deport him to his native Sicily. Officials are hunting him to serve denaturalization papers.

He allegedly concealed arrests in obtaining citizenship. In the final hours of the commission hearings, witnesses described the financial dealings of 71-year-old retired State Supreme Court Justice Aaron J. Levy, appointed last year as a court referee. The commission introduced records purporting to show that Levy's known receipts totaled $326,000 from 1946 to 1951 inclusive while he spent $406,000 during the same period. Levy's judgeship pay over the six-year period amounted to $168,000 $28,000 a year.

Levy gave this testimony to the commission in private and did not appear at yesterday's session. Isadore Greenbaum, secretary to Levy when the latter was a judge, testified that the judge's son-in-law, David Frankenstein, was active in patronage appointments and sat in with political leaders in the judge chambers. Greenbaum said Frank enstein took over his (Greenbaum's) functions as secretary after mar rying Levy's daughter. In his closed-session testimony, Levy told the commission that Frankenstein acted as his secretary without pay, and added: "I wanted him (Frankenstein) to watch out for me. I didn't trust my own employes." First Break in Auto Parts Ring Washington, Nov.

20 JP) The first break in an alleged big-scale stealing of auto parts from the Willys Overland has been disclosed by the FBI. G-men who announced the arrest of three men in Baltimore, New York and Washington last night said they had recovered $100,000 worth of new jeep parts tucked away in warehouses at Detroit and Baltimore. They said the three men were members of a huge ring accused of stealing such items as axles, generators, and fuel pumps from the Toledo firm. The FBI said those arrested were: In Baltimore, Sidney Gabriel Bergman, 36, Bronx, New York City. In New York City, George Ber nard Goldenberg, 56, Los Angeles.

In Washington, Philip Weiss, 52, New York City, employed by a lub ricating firm in Boston, Mass. $4 MILLION Ft. RANDALL JOB AWARDED Sioux City Firm Gets Contract for Stage Four Earthwork Omaha, Nov, 20 C) A $4,333,648 contract for stage four earthwork at the Fort Randall dam on the Missouri River in South Dakota has been awarded to Western Contracting Corporation of Sioux City, la. Omaha district Army engineers said the contract calls for excavation and placing of 6 million cubic yards of earth, permitting completion of the dam's spillway and raising the dam's closure section from 85 feet to 120 feet, 40 feet less than its ultimate height. A condition of the contract is that Western must be mobilized on the job by next March 1 so that if high water makes it necessary to top the closure section with a levee, men and machines will be available.

The work-is to be completed within the 1953 working season. It is planned that all remaining earthwork necessary will be performed under one additional contract to be awarded during 1953. Engineers today also announced the award of a $1,254,417 contract to Peter Kiewit Sons Sheridan, to construct aircraft parking apron maintenance docks at the Rapid City Air Force Base. The job consists of excavation, placing of square yards of new concrete pavement and the con- LstrucUpn pf storm and waste drain age systems. Henry 11.

Hackett and Sons, Rapid City was announced as apparent low bidder for construction of utilities for communications fa cilities at the Rapid City Base. The Hackett bid, $40,972, com pared with a government estimate of $57,200. Of three bids submitted the high was $76,872. Judges Are Named For Lake Program Madison, S.D., Nov. 20 Judges for the Lake County Rural Youth talent show, which will presented here Friday evening, have been chosen.

The list includes John Orr, speech instructor at Springfield High School; Adele Clark, state extension music and recreation specialist; and E. C. (Red Stangeland, Sioux Falls. Wayne Pritchard, Sioux Falls, will act as master of ceremonies. Betty Severson, blind soloist, will feature between-division entertain ment.

Betty was originally from Lake County. Some 25 entries have been received in various divisions which are arranged in grade school, high school, and adult groups. OFFICIAL FORECASTS Sioux Falls and vicinity Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, warmer to night. Low 28. Northwesterly winds reaching 25 m.p.h., and slightly colder Friday.

High about 45. South Dakota air and warmer this afternoon with increasing westerly winds. Winds veering to northwester ly 20 to 30 m.p.h. tonight. Becoming partly cloudy and not so cold in east.

Low tonight 25 to 30. Friday partly cloudy. Strong northwesterly wind and colder. High Friday 40 to 45. IOWA Mostly fair tonight and Friday.

A little warmer in nortnwesi nan tonight. Warmer in east and south Friday, but turning colder Friday afternoon or- evening. Low tonight 28 to 33. High Friday 34 to 38 in northwest and 40 to 50 in east and south. MINNESOTA Partly cloudy tonight with possible snow flurries in extreme northeast.

Warmer in south tonight. Friday partly cloudy and colder with a few snow flurries in extreme northeast. Low tonight 26 to 33. High Friday 34 to 42. Local Temperatures Today Yesterday 3:30 a.m ..18 5:30 p.m 30 6:30 a.m.

.18 9:30 p.m 25 8:30 a.m 29 12:30 a.m .22 12:30 p.m ...44 Sunrise today: 6:29 3:30 p.m. .49 Sunset: Relative humidity 49. Total precipitation for year 18.12. State and National Temperatures 24-hour readings, including maximum be fore 6:30 p.m yesteraay ana minimum after 6:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.

today. li Xi Bioux Falls ...40 lTInfl Falls ..:31 23 Rapid City ...47 29 Mpls-St. Paul 39 23 Custer .....41 Rochester ....38 23 Fort Meade ,.47 31 St. Cloud ....36 14 Deadwood ,...37 24 Abilene ......55 33 Hot Springs ..42 24 Chicago 45 37 Philip 41 27 Denver 38" 25 Pierre .36 25 Des Moines .40 25 Aberdeen 39 24 Kansas City .44 28 watertown ...36 22 Los Angeles ,.70 48 Yankton 41 17 Miami .......77 78 Huron 39 23 New Orleans .65 42 TyndaU 40 21 New York ....56 61 Lemmon ,40 28 Phoenix 67 40 Mobridge ....42 20 Washington .,59 56 Sioux City ...43 13 Edmonton .57 34 Fargo ..37 25 Regina 45 28 Grand Fork .35 24 The Pas 27 22 Duluth 33 27 Winnipeg ,...33 26 Ml ACTION IS TAKEN BY COMMISSION Controllers of Land in Area Protest to Dec. 6 Opening Pierre, Nov.

20 (JP) The Missouri River deer season, scheduled to start Dec. 6, has been canceled in Sully, Potter, Walworth and Campbell Counties, Game Director Elmer Peterson announced today. The action was taken by the Game, Fish' and Parks Commission after a delegation controlling practically all of the timbered hunting area in those counties appeared before the group. They protested the ensuing sea son and in specific terms insisted that the area be closed or they would post all the land and keep hunters out, Peterson said. "The deer in the counties affected are concentrated in a comparatively small hunting area," he said.

"And, if hunting was not going to be permitted it was the opinion of the commission that there would be no logical point in having the area open." The season still will open Dec. 6 in all of Dewey and Armstrong Counties and parts of Corson, Zie bach, Stanley, Lyman, Gregory, Charles Mix, Brule, Hyde and Hughes Counties paralleling the river. Refunds for licenses of those who had planned to hunt in the counties where the season was cancelled may be obtained from the county treasurer in the county where purchased. Qahe Dam Is Opposed by J-andowners i James River Valley Group Seeks Lower Reservoir In Petitions Pierre, Nov. 20 (JP) A group of landowners, whose property will be inundated by the Oahe reservoir, Wednesday adopted a motion en dorsing petitions opposing the dam The action was taken after dis cussions by State Senators Frank Ferguson, Artesian, and L.

R. Houck, Gettysburg, on the proposed irrigation project in the James River valley, which would be served by water from the Oahe reservoir. The group also voted to author ize directors of the Oahe Reservoir Landowners Association to assess members of the association on an acreage basis to provide funds for a delegation to Washington in op position to the dam. Robert Riggs, secretary of the association, said there were 79 landowners repre sented in the membership. Houck, who has been active in circulating petitions seeking to have the capacity of the reservoir reduced, said about 5,000 signatures have been obtained.

"We feel we have a chance to bring the reservoir down to 6 million acre feet," he said. Present plans for the giant Oahe dam articipate about 23 mUlion acre feet of impounded water. Ferguson, who has centered his opposition upon the Bureau of Reclamation's proposal to bring irrigation water to the James River valley, said, "I don't know about other counties, but I can say for Sanborn (his home county) that it would take the militia to put a ditch through there now." Earlier this year Bureau representatives said that Sanborn County land generally is not suited to irrigation, and that it is not planned to extend the project into the county. Flames Destroy Hawarden Home Hawarden, Nov. 20 The Marvin Klemme farm house, about 12 miles south of Hawarden, was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning and members of the family' escaped in their night clothes.

The family was awakened by smoke and as they started down stairs they were met by flames. They returned to the second story and Klemme jumped out of a second story while the other mem bers remained in a room away from the flames. Klemme rescued the family by means of a ladder. The house caved in, shortly after their rescue. It is believed the fire started from an oil and gas combination range.

Takeoff for the express purpose of protecting the public from "fly-by-night" television set salesmen. W. E. McKenna of Harold's Photography, chairman of the as- buyers in Denver were gypped as "fly-by-night" operators moved in and sold non -standard makes. As soon as the cream was removed from television sales in Denver, he explained, the operators moved out and left the public with sets for which no service is obtainable.

The association is not plugging any particular brands, as an association, but. they do want the public to be cognizant of the fact r.tt. Members of the association's board are Howard Lambert of United Radio Service; Jim Fowley of Fowley Electronics; M. W. Son-nichsen of the M.

W. Sonnichsen Radio Service; Don West of West Radio Service, and McKenna. The FCC made 14 grants for TV stations today, including one to Cowles Broadcasting Sioux The 14 grants, one Of the largest groups to be announced in a single day, make a total of 122 new TV stations authorized since the thawing of the television freeze. To date, the commission has worked down through the first 96 cities on the priority list set up to give first consideration to corn- munities without any TV service War Hero, Bride To Get $30,000 As Wedding Gift San Bernardino, Nov. 20 (P) It's not every young bride and groom who get $30,000 to start housekeeping on.

But then, not every bridegroom is a Congressional Medal of Honor winner. The fund has been pledged to San Bernardino's own hero, Army Lt. Joseph Charles (Chuck) Rodriguez, 24, and his sweetheart, Rose Aranda 22, of Colton, Calif. They will be married Saturday, with a reception to follow in the high school cafeteria, the only place big enough to accommodate all the townsfolk who wish to come. The couple will leave on a Mexi can honeymoon arranged by Southern California Spanish-language newspapers.

In Mexico they will be entertained by President Miguel Aleman. When they return home Dec. 17, a citizens' committee intends to hand them a check for $30,000. The "house for Chuck" campaign will swing into high right after the wedding. Rodriguez, now stationed at Nor ton Air Force Case here, on the Medal of Honor in Korea as a private first class.

He was cited for "an incredible display of valor" in charging up a hill to wipe out five enemy gun positions, killing 15 Communists with hand grenades. 5 SJ i 1 BOAT FOUND, BUT NO SIGN OF LOST BOY Pierre, Nov. 20 A boat believed to be the one In which a 7-year-old boy was set adrift Sri the Missouri River about noon, was found by searchers late yesterday. No trace was found of the boy, Peter, son of Mr, aud Mrs. John Reddinger, who was cast adrift while he and a small companion were playing on the river bank.

Airplanes scanned the river for 25 miles south of Pierre in the search. Police and firemen also combed the underbrush of heavily wooded LaFramboise Island in the river. They found on unmoored boat beached on that island and theorized that the boy may have gotten ashore, although no tracks were found. Police Chief Morris Michaelson expressed fear the boy may have become panicky and jumped overboard when the boat whirled downstream. Peter was playing with Dick Brown, also 7, when he stepped into the boat and it started downstream.

The Brown boy became frightened and ran home to tell his parents. A five-hour search for the missing lad virtually halted at dark. The missing boy's father Is a building construction worker and his mother is employed at St. Mary's Hospital in Pierre. Veteran Elkton Man Honored by Family Elkton, S.D., Nov.

20 A long time resident of the Elkton community, 91-year-old Julius Wiese, was honored with a large family gathering in the city auditorium Sunday to celebrate his birthday. Wiese was born in Germany in 1861 and came to the Elkton community 58 years ago. He was engaged in farming north of here until his retirement. He lives in Elkton at the John Karstens residence. The nonagenarian is in good health and is able to visit friends every day.

His wife died in 1908. He has one daughter and six sons, 17 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren. The daughter, Mrs. Harry Even, lives at Elkton. The sons are Carl, Elkton; Ferdinand, Alberta, Canada; Chris, Halstad, Leo, Brookings; Otto, Seattle, and Frank, Arlington.

CHUTE SAVES PHOTOG IN FALL FROM PLANE Sanford, Nov. 20 (IP) While taking pictures from a plane, a public relations man fell out over Lake Jessup yesterday. His parachute opened, and he landed in waist-deep water. A fisherman carried him ashore. The photographer, Charles, E.

Rinehart, was taking pictures of a Navy plane for North American Aviation which built it. He was treated at an Orlando hospital for arm and leg injuries. Washington, Nov. 20 (JP) The Association of American Railroads said today that class one lines put 2,096 new locomotives into service in the first ten months of this year, comDared with 2,135 installed in the same 1951 period. The October installations totaled 203, of which all were Diesel except two.

The backlog of orders as of Nov. 1 totaled 883 new locomotives By ANSON YEAGER Argus-Leader Staff Writer Sioux Falls' first television station. KELO-TV. will be on the air sometime after the first ne year, The Associated Press reported today that the Federal Communications Commission in Washington has authorized a television station for the Midconti-nent Broadcasting Co. The station will have Channel 11.

Joe Floyd, president of Midcon-tinent, said that erection of TV station equipment will begin here as soon as it arrives. He couldn't estimate an exact II rrVTT -1 A 4 1 1 date when the new TV station will go on the air. He said, however, that the average TV installation requires from three to four and a half months. Outlay by the Sioux Falls Broadcasting company will be from $300,000 to $350,000 for equipment alone. Floyd said that the 5 kilowatt; transmitter, purchased a year ago, will be shipped from Camden, N.J.,.

at nnr Tnwpr erminment a.lsn will be shipped immediately, he said The firm has awarded an erection contract to the Fisher Portland, for installation of the 578 foot tower and antennae 7Va miles southeast of Sioux Falls at the site of its present radio transmitter. Transmitting equipment will be installed in the present building at the same site. TV programming will be accomplished initially from the transmitter building, which has studio said. Later, programming will be done from the downtown studios of the company. i to 6 Hours Local programs will be film and live to start with, he declared.

Floyd said negotiations are being made now for network programming. He plans from 5 to 6 hours transmission daily; mainly in the evening. He remarked that the North western Bell Telephone Company's coaxial cable from Omaha will not be used initially. There are no micro-wave towers or facilities linking Sioux Falls with other points at the present time. He declared that progress of construction would depend on weather conditions during the next few months.

The firm's own engi neers will install the transmitting equipment. The tower installation will be 500 feet high, with a 12-bay antennae which is 78 feet high superimposed on that. Engineers have estimated that the installation will provide a 10 microvolt signal at 100 miles, or the equivalent of 56 KW. Once construction is completed, the station will transmit test patterns to determine technical data before programming is actually started. Organization Formed Dealers and servicemen in Sioux Falls have formed the Sioux Valley Radio and Television Association I-.