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News Notes OF LOCAL mings RETURNS TO HOME James Anderson of Los Angeles, returned to his home after attending the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Charlott Midygett. William Johnson accompanied htm VISITS GRANDPARENTS Miss Pat Kelly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kelly, of Blue Springs is visiting her grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Acree at Chiffl- Miss Kelly plans to remain for one week. DINNER GUESTS Mr. and Mrs. E.

B. Phillips of Chillicothe had as Thursday dinner guests Mr. Phillip's sister, Mrs. Van Venom. Mr.

Vencill and daughters Of St. Louis, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R.

Phillips of Purdin. TO MINNESOTA Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hargrave and children. Donna and Phil, will leave during the week-end for Minneapolis, Minn where they will Vend the week with Mr.

Hargrave's brother and family, D. A. Hargrave. A NEW BROOKFIELD MOTEL Construction of a new motel on South Main street in Brookfield got underway this week, reports the Brookfield News-Bulletin. The 34 units, financed by a group of firookfield businessmen, will be of brick exterior and on XT.

S. High- Way 36. O'HARAS BACK FROM EAST Mr. and Mrs. Charles O'Hara and family returned today from a 2- week vacation trip to the East.

They visited Washington. D. New York City and other places. They were guests in Washington in the homes of his brother, Stanley O'Hara, and family and sisters, Rosalie and Kathryn. Mr.

O'Hara has returned to bis barber shop duties. OPERATES "VEND- STATION Irrin Ellison is lessee of the new Standard Oil Company service station at The Bend. The station replaces one which burned some time ago. Mr. and Mrs.

Ellison and two children are living in the Sammy Babb home on North Washington street. Mr. Ellison was superintendent of the Avalon school system before going to Oilman City to head the school system there. CALIFORNIA GUESTS Mrs. A.

C. Nichols and sons, Craig and Douglas of Merced, Calif. who were met in Kansas City by Mrs. Virgil Bloss. Mrs.

Johnnie McReynolds and Mrs. Carl Nichols, are also guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. C.

Nichols. Mrs. Nichols and sons made the trip to Kansas City by plane. They will also visit in Maynard, Iowa with her parents. Mr.

Nichols will join his family in Maynard in August for a visit and they will then come to Chillicothe for a visit with relatives before returning to California. WEATHER MAY BE EVEN HOTTER IN MISSOURI KANSAS CITY. July 24. Missourians might as well get ready (or hotter weather. Hie weather bureau took an ad- ance look at things to come and reported temperatures through next Wednesday probably will average five degrees above normal.

The normal nigh is 91 degrees. Along with it more humid conditions are expected to prevail over the week-end. About the only moisture in sight, the bureau said, will be spotty showers in local afternoon thundershowers. FATHER OF MRS. HERMAN ADAMS DIES AT NEWTOWN James Com died at 2 o'clock this morning at Newtown, Mo.

He was the father of Mrs. Herman Adams. Vine street. No funeral arrangements nave been made at this Your eyes see thing supside down, but your brain reverses the image. THE WEATHER fair, tonight and Saturday; few thundershowers northwest and extreme north late tonight and Saturday morning; warmer northwest tonight and east and north Saturday; low tonight 65-70 east, 70-75 west; high Saturday in 90s.

Official Yesterday's Maximum 95 Yesterday's Minimum 55 3:00 p. m. None VOL DAILY EDCnOM MISSOURI FRIDAY. JULY 24. 1953 SEC PAGES NO.

173 ie's Bnfer Reported to Have Blasted McCarthy Senator Asks Arthur Eisenhower to Confirm or Deny "Menace" Statement WASHINGTON, July 24. Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) called today on Arthur Eisenhower, the President's brother, to confirm or deny that he called the senator "the most dangerous menace to America. This rabble rouser." Arthur Eisenhower was so quoted last night in a copyrighted story in the Las Vegas, Sun. This paper is published by Hank Greenspun, who has been critical of McCarthy.

McCarthy told a reporter today: "I wouldn't believe anything that Greenspun said, even if he said it underoath. It now is up to Arthur Eisenhower to confirm or deny what Greenspun's newspaper had quoted him as saying. 'And even if he says he was quoted correctly I couldn't hold that against President Eisenhower. I dont hold Ike responsible for what his relatives say." Arthur Eisenhower, of Kansas City, was in Las Vegas to attend a Trans World Airlines directors' meeting. Efforts to reach him today were not immediately successful.

Threat of Viol wee Hatted by Police Pickets in Dea istrattc at St. Louis ST. LOUIS, July 24 Police were called today to maintain order at a mass picket demonstration of truck drivers at one of the 11 wholesale bakery plants involved in the four-day old strike here. A spokesman for the Walter Freund Bread said about 500 pickets participated In a demonstration at the company's plant, causing cancellation of pie deliveries. The pie wagon drivers and pie bakers have a separate contract and are not on strike.

There was no violence today. When no pie trucks appeared all but 12 pickets withdrew. A few pickets have been stationed at the company since the strike of local 611, AFL bread and bakery drivers began following rejection of a new wage contract offered by the employers. Presraent Names Hoover, Farley to Commission Group to Study Govern- WASHINGTON. July 24.

President Eisenhower today appointed Herbert Hoover and James A. Farley, former chairman of the Democratic national committee, as public representatives on a new commission on government reorgan- iation. Eisenhower named Atty. Gen. Brownell and Arthur S.

Flemming, director of the Office of Defense MohHiatton, as representatives of the government's executive branch. Under the law creating the commission, 8 additional members will be designated by Congress. Vice President Nixon and House Speaker Martin each will designate 4 2 from the Senate, 2 from ths House and 4 from private life. The new commission will have considerably broader authority than the old Hoover commission. W.

B. SAUNDERS WHITES ABOUT FAffiLLAND SCHOOL W. Saunders of Gillette, wrote Mrs. Luther Boone of Wheel- tag recently that he enjoyed her article in The Constitution-Tribune which told the history of the Fairland school. He knew most of the persons hi the photograph which accompanied the article.

He asked for an extra copy to be sent to Luther R. Wright, Wichita, who was his roommate while they attended the Chillicothe Normal. Mr. Saunders married a sister of Lloyd Rickerson of Chillicothe. Miss Bessie Rickerson, formerly of Chillicothe, now lives in the Saunders home.

The letterhead shows that the Saunders Lumber Company operates yards in Gillette, Hardin, and Ogallala, and has a capital of $300,000. ODD IOBS SERVICE AD BRINGS THEM RESULTS With the conviction. "There's just thousands of little old odd jobs people would like to have done," Bill and Don Sickler this week began Don Bui's Odd Job Service. An ad placed in The Constitution- Tribune's classifieds helped the business get started. The brothers have since mowed a ten-acre field and have got the job of painting a house as a direct result.

BUI Sickler said headquarters for the business is at the Lunch Box Cafe at the present where he operates a restaurant. Landmark Destroyed In Cameron Blaze Fires Lost Night Today Demolish Coal Chute On Burlington Tracks. Fire this morning destroyed an old Cameron landmark of some 50 years standing when flames enveloped a coal loading chute on the Burlington railroad tracks. It actually was two fires that brought the wooden structure down. Coal hi the chute had been removed after the first blaze when it was thought the flames had been checked.

But apparently the wood still was smouldering, for at 6:50 this morning firemen went to the scene to find the chute in flames "from top to one person put it. Cause of the first fire was attributed to spontaneous combustion. It took several hours to get it under control last night. At 9 pjn. when the flames were out the coal was removed.

An inspection showed no evidence of further fire danger at that time. In former years, Cameron was a major junction for both the Burlington and the Rock Island railroads. At one time 12 passenger trains went through there daily, including the Golden State Limited, according to the Cameron News- Observer. The coal chute was hi constant service at that time and was of good size to accommodate both the passenger and freight trains going through. The chute was located midway between tracks leading to St.

Joseph and Kansas City in a T-shaped arrangement. It at first was feared train service would be disrupted, but reports from Cameron indicate all trains got through without mishap and will continue to do so. Although a supply of coal was kept on hand, the chute's heyday was over, since diesel engines have become so widely used. Surrounding buildings were unharmed by the blaze. More Hunger Reported in Eastern Germany Potato Famine Adds to Resentment Against Reds.

BERLIN, July 24 potato famine fanned the anger of hungry East Germans against Communist misrule today. Failure of promised shipments from Russia and her satellites has forced the re-introduction of strict potato rationing, the West Berlin newspaper Nacht-Depesche reported. This was an embarrassing new setback to the puppet East German government's attempt to overcome the passive resistance which continues to spread among its sullen workjers. Communist bosses fought this resistance with a frenzied mixture of new arrests, threats, promises, wage boosts, -and propaganda claims of increasing food plenty. But strikes and slowdowns continued.

The hungry populace clamored for more food. FIRECRACKER BLOWS STEEL INTO VEIN OF BOrS NECK Ray Horton, 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Horton, was treated at the Chillicothe Hospital this morning for injuries suffered to his throat this morning. Ray and his 11-year-old brother, Claude, were playing at their home around 8:30 o'clock when Claude placed a fire cracker in a glass jug and set the cracker off.

A piece of steel, evidently lying in the yard, pierced a vein in Ray's neck and was removed by the attending physician. After being given two shots the boy was dismissed from the hospital. Korean Armislkc May Be Signed On Sunday or Monday Only Cause for Delay Now Would Be Another Outburst By Bhee. By ROBERT B. TTJCKMAN SEOUL, Saturday, July 25.

Sources here and in Washington reported Friday the Korean truce may be signed either Sunday or Monday. Korean date. A usually reliable source close to the talks said here it probably would be Sunday. In Washington, where officials said Gen. Mark W.

Clark has received final authorisation from President Eisenhower to sign for the United Nations, belief was expressed that the signing would be Monday. Washington sources said the day and hour would be set 24 hours in advance and would be announced immediately so the world would have that much notice. The sources both in Seoul and in Washington took into account that the signing date could be upset by some new move of South Korea's President Syngman Rhee, who opposes the truce. The signing date probably was set, tentatifely at least, by senior liaison officers at a meeting hi Panmunjom Friday afternoon. Rhee angrily denounced the armistice agreement Friday, saying some of the Allied promises to the Reds "cannot be allowed to happen." Rhee's new threats brought no immediately reaction at Panmunjom where the liaison officers met for 2 hours.

48 minutes Friday, then recessed without scheduling another session. WASHINGTON. July 24 President Eisenhower and Republican Congressional leaders decided today to seek an initial fund of 200 million dollars, for rehabilitation of Korea after an armistice. The decision was reached at a White House breakfast meeting. Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey and Budget Director Joseph M.

Dodge sat in with the president and the Republican lawmakers for the 90-minute session. House speaker Martin said the administration hopes a truce will be signed soon. He added that plans already are under way for rehabilitation of the war-torn country. Sen. Knowland (R-Calif), acting majority leader of the senate, predicted at a news conference that a request for the initial 200 million dollar fund will be approved by Congress before it adjourns.

Fire Chief Warns Of Dry Conditions Three Field Fires Battled in Past Two Days. After attending to two wheat stubble fires on the Old Wheeling Road Wednesday, firemen yesterday afternoon were called to the same area for the same cause. Burning brush spread to fields of the Raymond Lemon farm which also had been the scene of one of the fires the day before. Fire Chief Virgil Lindsey commented things were so dry that the flames spread extremely fast. "The fire outran me on one field," Lindsey said.

He added the area fields are so dry they pose a hazard should anyone even toss cigarettes from moving automobiles. Chief Lmdsey's crew took the truck right put hi the field as far as it could safely go to combat the i racing flames. A number of buildings were endangered. Lemon has lost a good field of clover from the fires. A MISSOURI WESLEYAN REUNION AUGUST 12 Wednesday, August 12, is the date for the 16th annual reunion of all graduates, students and friends of old Missouri Wesleyan College.

The reunion will be held at Methodist church hi Cameron. The business session at 10:30 o'clock will be followed by visiting and a dinner. The program wUl begin promptly at 1:30. All are invited to come, bring a well-filled basket and table service, meet your friends and stay for the program. Dean Dalke, Dr.

Gale, Dr. Stella Dodd and others are expected. The Kelsey Ensemble will furnish their usual good music. A HEARTBROKEN BOY, HIS HOME Lynn Whitfield, 12, sat in a neighbor's yard for more than an hour, hugging his dog, Rex, and crying as firemen fought to save his family's home in Dallas, which was almost totally destroyed by fire. Destroyed were Donald Lynn's two most prized Apache fort, and a broken cap pistol.

Photo at right was made as the first firemen arrived on the scene with flames shooting out of the front Wirephoto Studying Highway Posloffice Needs North-South Service Is Delayed by Present Circuitous Routings. The Postoffice department again is studying the possibility of a highway postoffice to improve north- south deliveries in Missouri, Postmaster Joseph D. Stewart said today. The Brookfield chamber of commerce recently drew up a resolution protesting "inadequacy of postal service in Brookfleld," sending copies of the resolution to the Postmaster General, Missouri's senators and to several towns. It was reported there that the postal department has approved a highway postal service which would go from Trenton to Unionville and south of the Missouri river to Ft.

Leonard Wood. However, Stewart said he has not heard of such approval. The ideal mote, he believes, would be one connecting the capitals of Iowa and Missouri, from Des Moines through Princeton, Trenton, Chillicothe, Carrollton and Marshall, then either to Sedalia or to Boonville and Columbia on the way to Jefferson City. For years the need has been discussed for better north-south service, since railroads through the state generally run east and west. For instance mail from Chillicothe to Tina and many other nearby communities must go into Kansas City and be reprocessed and sent back in this direction on other routes.

The Postoffice department has improved much service in this local area through star routes. One has operated between Chillicothe and Hale, by way of Avalon, some three years. A star route also has been established to connect Chillicothe and Trenton, by way of Chula and Laredo. A third motor route from here goes through Ludlow and Braymer to Excelsior Springs. Previously, mail to Hale, Laredo and Trenton was two and three days on the road before delivery.

A highway postoffice would be on a broader scale and hasten mail to more distant points. EXTENSIVE DAMAGES OCCUR IN CRASH AT INTERSECTION Extensive damages were inflicted on two automobiles yesterday in a collision at the intersection of Elm and Third streets. According to the police report on the accident, Robert S. Jones of 431 Vine street was driving south on Elm, and Robert G. Newton was driving west on Third when the collision occurred.

After the impact, near the center of the intersection, both cars ended up on Elm street. The Jones vehicle has a damaged front end and fenders and the Newton machine has damage to the right side, frame and windows. FIND COOPER BOY DID NOT HAVE POLIO What had been tentatively diagnosed as Chillicothe's first polio case of the year proved to the pneumonia coupled with a bowel infection, it was learned today. Twelve-year-old Ronald Eugene Cooper was rushed to Kansas City's Children's Mercy Hospital the night of July 7, after physicians here decided to take no chances. The boy was returned to his home here Wednesday evening by his mother, Mrs.

Imogens Cooper, 1403 Polk street. Mrs. Cooper reported Ronald is doing well. EXPLORER'S CLUB IS ASSURED FOR THIRD YEAR Chillicothe will have an Explorer's Club for a third season, Mrs. Earl VanCleave, membership chairman, said yesterday.

The roll still is open for enrollments. One hundred and seventy-five persons were members of last season. Monthly programs, starting in September, now are scheduled to include Brazil, Canada, Portugal, the Virgin Islands, India, Mexico, Germany and Florida. There will be no December meeting. Half-Year Highway Death Toll 332 And 4.855 Were Injured On Missouri Roads During First Six Months of '53.

JEFFERSON CITY. July 24 Highway accidents killed 332 persons on Missouri's highways during the first six months of this year, the State Highway Department reported today. Of the total 32 were pedestrians, the rest being passengers or automobile drivers. The death toll was nine less than for the same period a year ago, the department said, adding that the injury total was 4,855, or 176 more than for the first six months in 1952. Property damage was estimated at $3,826,949, the department reported.

The figures do not include accidents occurring within the limits of the larger cities. The cause of the 1,053 individual accidents in June was broken down this way: Running off the roadway 283, mishaps at intersections 271, headon collisions 173 and the remainder from a variety of causes. At least 171 drivers were reported either drunk or having had some drinks. Corrollton Plans 2-Day Horse Show for Next Week A horse show at Carrollton next Wednesday and Thursday, July 29 and 30, offers $1,700 in cash prizes and trophies. Entries are being received daily from many sections of the state.

Carrollton is on the Pony Express circuit and the event is sponsored by the Carrollton chamber of commerce. Louis Uhrig is horse show manager and Mrs. Jack C. Jones of Carrollton secretary. There are 22 classes in the show.

Entrants include Ann Maddox of Macon in the show pony class, Bill Sutton of Kirksville, Scott Higgins, Lament, winner of the national stallion show at Waterloo, Judy Sappington, Columbia; Walter wad- dill, Lexington; Chester Breshear, Springfield: Don Utz, Lexington; Sug Utz, Raytown; Mrs. G. M. Edmons, Mexico, and W. F.

Trenton. TWO MORE FROM COUNTY ENTER CORN CONTEST Two more Livinyston countians have entered the 1953 state-wide M. F. A. corn yield contest.

They are B. J. Seifert, Wheeling, and Charles Damm, Chillicothe. Entries previously announced were Francis Gwim, Edward Hafes, Russell Hargrave and George Collins, John Hill, O. J.

Hopper, Morgan Jones, Fred Laffey, Marion Murray. Marion Nigus, Holton Rickenbrode, Opal Stith and Earl Whiteside. Lieutenant Austin Dies in Jet Crash Husband of Former Anne Meinershagen Is Lost at Sea Near Cuba. Lieut. William R.

Austin, 31, U. S. Navy jet pilot and husband of the former Anne Meinershagen of Chillicothe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Meinershagen, lost his life yesterday when his plane crashed at sea 45 miles from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

His body was not recovered. Mrs. Austin and two children, Dave, 6, and Ellen, 3, were at Trenton yesterday when the news was received. Her father brought them to Chillicothe this morning and they will return this evening to Trenton. The Austins had been visiting back and forth at Chillicothe and Trenton while Lieutenant Austin was on a 9-week cruise.

His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Austin of Trenton. The lieutenant was flying a Panther jet from the aircraft carrier USS Wasp. No details of the crash were learned.

Austin was to have been an instructor after completing the summer training cruise. Lieutenant Austin was a 1940 graduate of the Trenton high school. He attended the United States Naval Academy and was graduated and commissioned an ensign in 1945. He had been stationed at Norfolk, Pensacola, Washington, D. Brooklyn, N.

and Corpus Christi, Tex. For some time, the Austins had been at Jacksonville. Fla. The couple's son was born at Chillicothe in December, 194S. Ellen was born in October, 1949, at Pensacola.

Mrs. Austin received the following telegram notifying her of the death: 'I regret to inform you that your husband, Lieut. William Reynolds Austin. U. S.

Navy, was killed on 23 July 1953 when his plane crashed at sea 45 miles from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I regret that his body was not recovered. Your husband died while serving his country and I extend to you my sincerest sympathy in your great Admiral J. L. Holloway, Chief of Naval Personnel." 5 MILLION MORE WORKING THAN AT START OF WAR WASHINGTON.

July 24 The labor department reported today that industry employed almost five million more workers in June this year than three years ago when the Korean War began in June, 1950. The department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said almost 3 million additional workers were added to non- farm payrolls in the first year following the Korean outbreak, about million in the second year, 'and about million workers In the past year. The number of farm employes rose seasonally by 300,000 between May and June this year to a total of 49,400,000. TWO GRAND JURIES MEET AT ONCE IN ST. LOUIS ST.

LOUIS, July 24 (iPh- For the first time in the city's history two federal grand juries will be in session simultaneously. The present grand Jury, which has been investigating alleged labor racketeering in eastern Missouri, will continue that inquiry through next January. United States District Judge George H. Moore said he will impanel a second grand jury next Tuesday to handle routine cases. Extortion by Labor Leaders Found by Federal Grand Jury Action Has Caused Much Damage and Delay: Contractors Are the 'Victims.

ST. LOUIS, July 24 seeking labor leaders" have extorted money from building contracts and union members and made the St. Louis area the worst in the nation, the federal grand jury reported yesterday. The jury said the situation also extends to other parts of Missouri, particularly Kansas City. Illinois and New Jersey.

The situation was caused "irreparable damage and loss" through high construction costs and delays, the Jury said. The jurors reported that some union leaders have called strikes not for the benefit of union members but "solely as a means to enforce the shake-down demands of the labor leaders on contractors." "Large sums of money have been extorted from contractors by self- seeking labor leaders, especially the local business agents add representatives who have stopped at nothing to obtain their material ends," the grand Jury said. Some of the union leaders "carried revolvers with impunity, and on many occasions arranged it so that intended extortion victims and workers who might complain were able to see such weapons," the report said. The report said the jurors heard the testimony on some cases that "were analageous and continued blackmail and the more the contractor paid off, the more he was asked to pay off." At the same time the Jury filed its lengthy report with U. S.

District Judge George H. Moore it returned new Indictments against 14 Missouri AFL union officers 10 replace previous indictments which had been found faulty. All charged violation of the federal anti-racketeering law. Judge Moore extended the jury's term until next January to continue the inquiry. The Jury said it was not trying to "condemn labor and labor unions generally" but was trying to "assist the working man and his community to eliminate a most sinister situation." The Jury said that on many public works projects financed by the state of Missouri, certain labor leaders would attend the public contract letting and then immediately ask the successful bidder "what he thought it was worth to have labor harmony on his Job." "In other cases, he wasn't asked, but was brazenly told he would have to pay a fixed percentage of the dollar amount of the contract in order to be allowed to proceed with his work." Equalization Board Completes Hearings On 1953 Assessments Livingston County's Board of Equalization began today its consideration of each complaint lodged against the 1954 assessed valuations for tax purposes.

The hearings were concluded yesterday. Presiding Judge Frank Bonderer said it probably would be next Tuesday before the board completes its review of each case and makes adjustments, if any. The minute book shows 23 individuals appeared before the board to lodge protests over assesses valuations. Some had more than one complaint. The Board of Equalization is composed of the three judges of the county E.

J. Kerr and Ross Cooper. County Surveyor Leo Saale, Sheriff W. C. (Bill) Uhrmacher and County Clerk Earl Barnes.

MAN JUMPS TO DEATH FROM A RIVER BRIDGE JEFFERSON CITY, July 24 (JP) The highway patrol reported a man stopped his automobile at the center of the Missouri River bridge here about noon and leaped into the water. A patrol officer said the man left a suicide note on the car seat. The body has not yet been recovered. The patrol reported the car was registered in the name of Doyle Brooks Fulton. His relatives were notified at 1 p.

m. They were on the way to the scene..