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6 All Points Bulletin GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE Associated Press United Press MONTANA'S BEST NEWS GATHERER Issued for PRICE 5 CENTS VOL. 69, NO. 333 GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1956 inspect in 4 laving of Salesman Strong Arm Thieves Hit If -vihU1' C7 V' fold was found on the body and It is assumed the murder was committed to rob Ward. drove Ward's car 150 feet up a dirt road away from the oiled high-j way and left it. Ward's body was v.

v. Affain ere Dellwo is contacting Ward's com Firm Applies For 2nd TV Outlet Here WASHINGTON (TO The Federal Communications Commission Tuesday received an application from the Cascade Broadcasting Co. to construct a new television station on Channel 3 in Great Falls, Mont. Cascade is owned by Robert R. and Francis N.

Laird, and is affiliated with a TV station in San Luis Obispo, Calif. It is the only application for the outlet. partly concealed in a borrow pit! pany to determine what amount he might have been carrying in by the road, three miles north of Pendroy. Strong arm thieves made their third attack here in four days when they made a vicious attack Tuesday night on Elmo Atler, 44, Los An geles. Atler was forced into a car when he left a First avenue south bar about 8:30 p.m.

He was beaten and robbed of $10 before he managed to escape his attackers when they stopped at a gasoline station on Central avenue west. a. mm Dellwo said the suspect had tire trouble after driving on Highway 89 and hitchhiked back to Choteau to have the tire repaired. This would make the driver giving the murder suspect a lift drive him back by the place his victim was lying. John McLaughlin, an employe in a Choteau service station, returned the suspect to his car with the "tepaired tire.

This would have made the murder suspect pass the body of his victim twice. There was $4.85 in cash on Ward's body when it was found. checks or cash in connection with the novelty business. Dellwo said the suspect had his tire go flat about one-fourth of a mile north of where Ward's car was parked. He is following a line of investigation he hopes will get him the license number of the Washington car and the young man's name.

He is interested in securing the name of a motorist who gave the suspect the ride into Choteau Saturday evening to have the tire repairs made. A highway patrolman reported the suspect received a ride from a person driving a 1953 or 1954 Cadillac bearing a Cascade county license plate. The patrolman said the car was blue, "with sort of a. purple tinge." Teton County Sheriff T. J.

Dellwo Tuesday afternoon issued an "all points bulletin" for a 24 to 26 year-olc man, of dark complexion, driving a 1954 two-tone green Mercury 4-door sedan bearing Washington license plates. Dellwo said it has been "pretty well established" the wanted man is the killer of Charles Denzil Ward, 59, Bculah, novelty salesman found dead along the highway near Pend-roy Sunday, his skull crushed. Three or four persons in Choteau saw the young man upon whom the search centered Tuesday, Dellwo reported. The man was seen at around the time the murder apparently was committed. A check with Malmstrom Air Force Base authorities indicated the man was not from the base, the Teton county sheriff said.

Base officials said no car or man of the description had left the base in the last few days. The check at the base was made because several persons in Choteau had reported the suspect had said he was on leave from the base and was going to Spokane. Dellwo said he definitely determined about noon Tuesday that Ward had been murdered. He suffered facial lacerations The application filed with the FCC said the company plans a station with an antenna of 235 feet above average terrain. Construction costs are estimated at $23,000, according to the application, with first-year operation fixed at $54,000 and first-year revenue expected to be $60,000.

Francis Laird, son of Robert R. Laird, is chief engineer at KVEC-Am-TV, San Luis Obispo. and body bruises. Ho was hospital ized here for observation Tuesday SAFETY CHECK IN OPERATION Police officers and a mechanic from a local auto dealer are shown making safety checks on vehicles on Central avenue Tuesday 'afternoon during the first day of the month-long safe driving promotion feature. Vehicles line up waiting their turn for a check of lights, windshield wipers, mirrors, horn and other safety devices.

Vehicles passing the test receive stickers permitting them to move through future roadblocks without inspection. Safety checks also are being made by service departments of local garages free of charge and are honored at the roadblocks. Unsafe conditions are noted for drivers who must obtain the correction before the sticker is issued. (Story on page 10). (Tribune staff photo) night.

His condition was reported Dellwo said Ward was a mem ber of the Elks Lodge and was as good. known to have carried credit cards Atler told police he was drinking and other cards. No wallet or bill with a man and woman early Tuesday evening. He said he left the bar Auto Crash with them and as they got to the Electrics' Home Opener sidewalk the man hit him and City Lawyer Named $1- a -Year County Deoutv for Drunk Driving Prosecution forced him into a dark-colored sedan parked at the curb. Proves Fatal To Butte Man BUTTE (UV Eino Kaskisto, 50, Hinges on Weather Today According to the victim, the man beat and kicked him until he gave The jurisdictional problem raised the attacker $10 bill.

The car, driven by a second woman, then went west to the gasoline station in the 1400 block of Central avenue Butte, died late Monday night in a Butte hospital of injuries suf The Great Falls Electrics' 1956 home baseball season is scheduled to open at 8:05 tonight in Legion Park following short but colorful by a Montana Supreme Court ruling on handling of city cases involving driving under influence of intoxicating liquor was at least 'The murder weapon was a heavy pair of lineman's pliers, about nine inches long," the sheriff said. They were found near a culvert a short distance from where Ward's body was found Sunday evening by Russell Frisell, retired farmer. west. When it stopped at the station, Atler said he jumped out and ran across the avenue to a drive-in cafe partially resolved Tuesday by the appointment of John D. Stafford, deputy city attorney, as a dollar-a-year deputy county attorney.

fered in a two-car collision at a street intersection. Kaskisto suffered, severe head injuries in the crash, which was so violent one of the cars was knocked at least 50 feet. His 52-year-old wife, a passenger, suffered head and face cuts but did not require hospitalization. The pliers were bloodstained and Under the plan, Stafford will hair was sticking in the blood, Dell cated charges were filed in justice-court by Bottomly against Paul Alfred Gies and Harold C. Kelly, both transferred from "municipal court since the ruling.

The filing of the cases with $300 bonds each made out to municipal court posed an additional problem. Justice John A. Isaacson ordered the men picked up by sheriff's officers, contending the bonds made payable to Magistrate George Millons were not legal in his court. It has been the practice of police officers in the past on traffic violations, including driving while intoxicated, to accept bonds payable to the municipal court. This procedure apparently will have to be altered.

prosecute in Great Falls township wo said. Apparently the killer smashed Ward's head repeatedly cases pending before the police court and justice courts of the city and county" and that such cases cannot be prosecuted other than by the county attorney. Although the city cases will be prosecuted in justice courts, County Atty. R. V.

Bottomly expressed belief these cases could be handled in municipal court. This court, he said, could have concurrent jurisdiction although such actions must be brought in the name of the state. The high court ruling will mean a considerable revenue loss to the city as fines for traffic actions brought by the state must go into the highway fund. The city has assessed drunk drivers an average of $250 per fine. An estimated four such cases per month handled by municipal court would mean a justice courts persons arrested by noon today If we will have to postpone the opening until Thursday night," Campbell said.

"We expect to have an announcement one way or the other so people from out of town will be able to make their plans accordingly." Scheduled for the hurling chores in the Sparkies home opener is lanky John Schieffer who posted Great Falls' first win of the season when the team opened the Pioneer League season there last week. Gov. J. Hugo Aronson will be on the receiving end of things in the pregame ceremonies. The governor will be behind the plate catching while Mayor Russel Conklin will be on the mound and Harold Walker, president of the Great Falls Baseball Club, will be at the plate.

The governor is no newcomer to Northern Montana baseball, having (Continued on page 16) Occupants of the second car in city police officers for driving ft with the pliers. volved, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Mempa, also of Butte, suffered minor in In reconstructing the case and his investigation to date Sheriff under influence of intoxicating liquor, thus relieving the county attorney's staff of the added juries. where he called police.

The car left the station immediately. Atler's description of the car and its occupants matches those given officers by Richard Shad-oan and Samuel Murphy who were robbed, beaten and left on county roads south of the city Saturday. Both Shadoan and Murphy were forced into cars which contained three men and two women. Shadoan, hospitalized for a severe facial injury, is in good condition, it was reported Tuesday. Dellwo learned that Ward cashed a check for $100, his weekly draw The death was the first traffic fatality in Butte or Silver Bow county since Dec.

27, 1955. It was County Commissioners Otto Pow ing account from the Thrift Novelty Denver, which employs him, ell and R. E. Frost in a resolution appointing Stafford as a dollar-a- the 48th in Montana for 1956 com' pared to 57 on the same 1955 date, year deputy noted that "there is need to employ special counsel to assist in prosecution of criminal at Kalispell Saturday. Ward left Kalispeil Saturday afternoon and had a flat tire prior to his arrival at Browning and apparently forgot to have the flat found in his trunk fixed at Browning, Dellwo said.

monthly loss of $1,000. Another question regarding the CAB Denies Rehearing of NWA Petition high court ruling raised here is Jurors Still Deliberating Murder Case whether the city may rightfully He left Browning at about 4:30 Barkley Funeral Services Set Today in Washington p.m. Saturday for Choteau. Dellwo believes Ward had stopped Four CAP Cadets Going On Air Tour bring charges in other traffic violations already governed by state law. The Supreme Court ruling, however, dealt only with driving while intoxicated.

Meanwhile, driving while intoxi JOHN SCIIIEFFER ceremonies, Tom Campbell, Electrics' business manager, said Tuesday night. Campbell said the opening is not yet definite. "We wiil know by WASHINGTON The CivU his car by the highway, perhaps to rest, when he was approached by his murderer. Following the murder Dellwo believes the killer Aeronautics Board has denied i Northwest Airlines petition for re' CHEYENNE, Wyo. UP) A jury trying James V.

Alexander for murder in the bizarre death of The 78-year-old Kentuckian, a former vice president of the United States, collapsed Monday while ad consideration of a CAB order de WASHINGTON UP) Eight Vir-: ginia students escorted the body of Sen. Alben W. Barkley to Washington Tuesday for funeral services in the city where he climbed to fame. his young wife, Barbara, has been out for more than 24 hours with dressing students at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. He was pronounced dead of a out returning a verdict.

nying Northwest's application for authorization to engage in local air transportation between Great Falls and Butte or Helena. The order indicates the Pacific Texas-Born Quadruplets A juror's request to have reread heart attack a few minutes later. a portion of the testimony, pre House Opens Debate Today On Farm Bill Wednesday, as Barkley wished, a funeral service will be held at sented by the state to discount Northwest local air service case Rose Alexander's story that Bar 11 a.m. (EDT) in the Foundry Hi Methodist Church. It will be con bara died accidentally in a fall, was denied by Dist.

Judge Sam is the proper forum for considera tion of the issues raised by North' west's application for exemption, Doing WelP ducted by the Senate's chaplain, Thompson. Rose, Alexander's first and Falls Banker Heads Slate Trust Firm HELENA UP-Formation of the A prehearing conference has been set for that docket May 9, Rep present wife, is scheduled to go on Orvin B. Fjare (R-Mont) said Tues HELENA (IP) Four outstanding Montana Civil Air Patrol cadets will leave Sunday on a air tour in the Air Force transport "City of Helena." The trip, which marks the beginning of a series of incentive programs recently inaugurated by the CAP, will include a tour of the Boeing Aircraft Plant in Wichita, on May 7. The following day, on the return trip, the group will visit the Air Force Academy at Lowry AFB, Denver. Included on the flight will be Marvin Doig, Townsend; David Hope, Hamilton; Fred La Roque, Kalispell, and Arthur Hanson, Missoula.

The plane will be piloted by Maj. Maurice G. Steward, AF-CAP liaison officer at Helena. trial for murder next Monday, She and Alexander were remar day. DALLAS OP) A 25-year-old wife of an aircraft worker gave birth to quadruplet girls late Monday and early Tuesday.

The mother, Mrs. George A. Hunter, and the babies were all First Trust Co. of Montana "to Unidentified Body Found In Flathead KALISPELL (IP) Flathead County Sheriff Dick Walsh returned here Tuesday from recovering the body of an unidentified man who was discovered by five young boys near Smith Valley, about 12 miles west of here. Coroner Sol Catron and Buck Weaver, Kalispell, accompanied the sheriff, using packhorses to bring the man's body out of the wilderness.

The officers said the man apparently died of a heart ailment about 12 days ago. No inquest was scheduled. The man was believed to have been between 65 and 70 years of age, was about 6 feet tall and weighed about 150 pounds. There were no identification papers on the body except some printed material of the Salvation Army and a Bible. ried in February, two months after Barbara's partially clad body was chipped from a concrete tomb in the basement of the Alexander home in Casper.

Barbara formerly meet demands for trust services throughout the state," was an reported "doing well" in Methodist lived at Hardin, Mont. nounced by President Errol F. Gait, Great Falls. Headquarters will be Hospital. The 42-year-old father, who WASHINGTON US) A new Democratic-backed farm bill was cleared Tuesday for House consideration Wednesday.

The House Rules Committee gave the bill clearance in an atmosphere of surface amity contrasting sharply with the disputes of the past two weeks. Debate is scheduled to begin late Wednesday with a final vote Thursday. The bill, sponsored by Chairman Cooley (D-NC) of the House Agriculture Committee, would give President Eisenhower the soil bank he wants. It omits, however, his proposal Weather 2 Above Zero at Midnight at The Tribune building Great Falls Occasional light snow today, probably ending tonight. Continued cold.

High today. 42. Low tonight, near 30. Thursday partly cloudy. No important temperature change.

High Thursday, 45. Great Falli Precipitation in Helena. works at the Chance Vought aircraft plant, said he was "pretty ex Rev. Dr. Frederick Brown Harris.

The House adjourned Tuesday out of respect to the beloved "Veep," but not before an hour devoted to eulogies. House Speaker Rayburn (D-Texas) made one of his rare appearances in "the well of the House" to praise his old friend. "He was a gentleman of the first order," Rayburn said. The Senate was not in session Tuesday, having recessed until Thursday before the news of Bark-ley's death arrived Monday. It is expected to recess again Thursday out of respect to its longtime member.

After Wednesday's service, the senator's body will be placed aboard a train leaving here for his home in Paducah, Ky. Another funeral service will be held in Paducah at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Broadway Methodist Church, with burial in Mt. Kenton Cemetery. cited" at the multiple births, while Mrs.

Hunter's first reaction to the "It is a separate and distinct company," said Gait, who also is chairman of the First National Bank at Great Falls. "We don't know of any other company in Montana which is devoted entirely Helena Milk Distributors On Carpet HELENA UP) Helena milk dis news was "Oh no! I want two Diplomat Exchange CAIRO, Egypt Egypt will to trust services. 24 hours to last midnight .23 Total this month to date 23 Same month to date last year .09 Normal this month to date .04 Jan. 1 to date this year 2.03 Jan. 1 to date last year 6.37 Jan.

1 to date, 30-year normal 3.10 exchange diplomatic representatives on the highest level with Tunisia and Morocco, an Egyp for advance payments to farmers tributors, including a member of The state superintendent of banks, R. E. Towle, issued a certificate of authority for filing articles of agreement with Secretary this year on contracts to withdraw tian official source says. MONTANA FORECAST the Montana Milk Control Board, were subpoened Tuesday by Board a percentage of their croplands East of divide Cloudy with occasional from surplus production next year. of State S.

C. Arnold, who then rain or snow today and east and south tonight; little temperature chanee: hiehs. Executive Officer A. A. Klemme to testify why they have increased At a White House conference tissued a charter.

boys." The Hunters have one other child, a girl less than 18 months old. Hunter said he and his wife had not chosen names for the quads in fact, hadn't even considered the names. "We were kind of looking for some boys," he said, but admitted that they had no boys' names picked out, either. "We were told it would be three babies." he said. "We weren't looking for four.

I'm pretty excited. I think I'll take the day off." 35-40 north, 40-50 south; Thursday partly cloudy, slightly warmer west; cloudy, a ilson Savs U.S. Trails earlier, Eisenhower and GOP con The new company was authorized tew snowers or rain or snow east. milk prices in the area above the minimum rate. gressional leaders agreed to press to issue $100,000 capital stock.

West ef divide Cloudy with occasional the fight for the prepayment pro Incorporators are Gait; Walter A hearing was held Tuesday vision in the face to strong op Brutsch, Helena; John J. Burke, Reds in Building Bombers rain or snow showers mostly north today, ending tonight; cooler south; highs, 40-50; Thursday partly cloudy and warmer. (Montana weather map on page 21) City Max. Min. CitT Max.

Mln. Butte; Paul S. Gillespie, Missoula; afternoon in conjunction with the State Milk Control Boards' regular meeting. Helena distributors position and Democratic charges it is an election-year "vote buy Bank Head Resigns NEW YORK UP) The Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced the resignation of Allen Sproul, 60, its president since 1941. Daniel R.

Green, Bozeman; Fred Albuquerque 77 48 Minneapolis 58 35 WASHINGTON (IP) Defense Heinccke, Helena, and John Tenge, Billings. were asked to show cause why they had upped the retail price of Boston Secretary Charles E. Wilson con 42 New Orleans 87 67 15 New York 59 45 34 Okla. City 67 59 Calgary Cheyenne milk from 21 to 23 cents since 1954 ceded Tuesday that Russia is outstripping the United States in the 41 Phoenix 86 54 when the board set the Helena area schedule. Chicago DaUas Denver El Paso production of globe-girdling hydrogen bombers.

61 Salt Lake 56 39 38 S. Francisco 63 44 57 Seattle 5G 42 35 Spokane 57 40 43 St. Louis 60 40 56 Washington 65 48 Among distributors ordered to Fairbanks ing" device. The Rules Committee set up a procedure which will permit the Republicans to offer as a substitute a straight soil bank bill with advance payment authority. Republican strategy for the new farm test was worked out at a meeting of the GOP leaders and Secretary of Agriculture Benson with Eisenhower Tuesday.

Rep. Halleck of Indiana, House floor leader for the Republicans, Kansas City 59 testify was Merlin Matson of Mis But he refused to say whether ceptors coming along that will recapture the defensive advantage. Partridge was reported to have made the statements at a secret meeting of a special armed services subcommittee. Sen. Henry M.

Jackson (D-Wash) said testimony by LeMay and Partridge "clearly reinforces" Democratic charges that this country is losing air superiority to Russia. Partridge testified at another closed-door meeting of the sub Sergeant Who Led March Fatal to Six Charged by Marines With Manslaughter Los Angeles 67 he agrees with Gen. Curtis E. Le-May, strategic air commander, that soula. He is manager of the Community Creamery Co.

there which sells milk in the Helena area. the Soviet Union will be ahead of The board's big objection, Adlai Supporters Leading in D.C. WASHINGTON A slate of this country in long-range striking power by 1958-60. "From the best information I have," Wilson told a news con Klemme. said, was that Helena distributors had increased prices without a public hearing.

Last year milk was raised from 21 to 22 cents a quart, and in April hiked again to the present 23-cent price. committee Tuesday but refused to discuss his testimony with reporters. LeMay will complete his testimony in open hearing Wednesday. reported the President still wanted legislative authority to compensate farmers this year for land they agree to withdraw from production and place in the soil bank next national convention delegates pledged to Adlai Stevenson moved near a 2-1 lead over supporters of Sen. Estes Kefauver Tuesday night with about one-fourth of the re ference, "they are currently building at a higher rate than we are." He also disclosed the Air Force plans to expand its B52 heavy bomber wings from 30 to 45 planes.

Members of the Milk Control Wilson told newsmen that neither year. the United States nor Russia are turns counted from the District of Board set May 14 for a hearing into the price rise, and have in Columbia's Democratic primary. vited producers, processors and WASHINGTON () The Marine Corps accused S.Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon of manslaughter Tuesday, charging that under the influence of vodka he led six recruits to death by drowning with the threat that every man in the platoon would drown or be eaten by sharks.

At. the same time the Marine commandant, Gen. Randolph McC. Pate, acknowledged the Corps has been lax in supervising drill instructors. Pate ordered a drastic shakeup of the supervisory system, including transfer to another post of Maj.

Gen. Joseph C. Burger, commander of the Parris Island, S.C., depot where the drownings occurred. Pate disclosed the actions to the A Democratic-sponsored measure approved by the House Agriculture Committee Monday contains a soil bank plan but makes no provision for prepayments. House Armed Services Committee which then decided informally to hold off any investigation of its own until the general reports back, before this session of Congress ends, on progress made toward ending "mistreatment" of Leatherneck recruits.

Chairrr Vinson (D-Ga) advised this courje, praising Pate for meeting a bad situation in a "forthright and courageous" manner and telling him: "During my 42 years in the Congress, this is the first time within my memory that the senior officer of any armed service has had the courage to state in public session that his service could be deficient in some respect." ALABAMA VOTING Specifically, the Marines recommended to Secretary of the Navy Charles S. Thomas that the 31-year-old McKeon be court-martialed on four counts and that two other sergeants, Elwyn B. Scarborough and Richard J. King, be disciplined by their commanding officer. They were alleged to have been drinking in McKeon's barracks on the day of the death march, April 8.

Secretary Thomas said charges were being prepared in his office to bring McKeon to trial. He also said he was confident remedial measures outlined by Pate to the House committee "will prevent the recurrence of a tragic incident of this kind." Secretary of Defense Wilson said (Continued on page 2) distributors in to testify. Production, processing and distribution BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (IP) Ala costs all are considered in estab lishing a minimum price. bama Democrats repudiated Gov.

James E. Folsom's moderate racial views, giving a white suprem He said this was made possible because a recent production speedup order will mean "more planes quicker." It was disclosed, meanwhile, that Gen. Earle E. Partridge, air defense commander has warned Senate investigators that Russia has a new jet bomber that can fly higher than any U.S. interceptors now in use.

But he said the United States Airliners Grounded building intercontinental jet bombers at "a very high rate." But he admitted the Russians probably are turning out more than the five B52s being produced in this country every month. Discussing LeMay's testimony, he called the SAC chief a "dedicated specialist." Eut he said "if you add up the desires, needs and ambitions of all specialists you would have an impossible total on your acy spokesman a huge lead over Jets for Iran TEHRAN, Iran UB The United LONDON OP) All of Britain's oldest transport planes, the fa the governor in the primary for national committeeman. i States has presented the Iranian mous four-engine York Airliners, were grounded pending an investi State Rep. Charles McKay was air force with two jet fighter planes under the military aid program. They are Iran's first jets.

gation into the latest of a series stretching his lead from 2-1 toward 1-1 over the governor. of crashes. has some new supersonic inter-(hands.".