The Daily Capital News from Jefferson City, Missouri • Page 1

DEATHS Otto A Jruns, 59, Dies in Sedalia Otto A. Bruns, 59, a former Jefferson City resident, died in Sedalia early yesterday morning following a heart attack. He was born May 1890, in Jefferson City. He moved: to Sedalia about three years a'go from home here. He, was the son of J.

Herman Brims. was married Feb. 18, 1925 to' Miss'Flora Schnieders of Taos. She died March 15, 1937. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs.

Al Stegeman of Kansas City; two sons," Louis Jefferson City, and James of Taos; two brothers, Ben of St. Louis and Joseph H. of Jefferson City; one sister, Mrs. Theressa. Hentges of.

Jefferson City, and two grandchildren. 1 CAHTM NEWS Saturday Morning, 10, 1949 Thomas Given 6 to 18 Months In Jail, Fined WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 J. Parnell Thomas got six to 18 months in jail and a $10 000 fine today for cheating the government by "padding" his office pay roll. after the sentence was pronounced, Thomas' wife announced.

"I intend to seek the congressional seat about to be vacated by my husband." Mrs. Thomas told reporters her husband's resignation was in 'the mails. It was received shortly afterward by House Speaker Rayburn. The resignation is effective Jan. 2, which will keep Thomas on the government's pay roll the rest of this month and give him upwards of 81,000.

for his first three and one half weeks in prison. A Congress member's base pay is $12,500 a year. Thomas is 54. His wife said She is 48. On Way In Two Hours Less than two hours after he -sentenced, Thomas was on his way to Danbury, serve his sentence in the federal correctional institution there.

Demitv, tJ. S. marshals took him directly" from the courthouse Union station for the train trip to Danbury. Federal Alexander Holtzcff gave an ear-burning lecture to 'Thomas along with. the Jail term and the fine.

He the little man who seven times was elected to the House 'as a Republican from New; Jersey that he 'knew he had a good record in. the 7 first war had done "much good work" in Congress as chairman of'the House, un-American activities committee. Not Mitigating But, the judge said sternly: "These can't properly be considered mitigating circumstances." Holtzoft concluded: Parnell Thomas, it is the judgment of this Court that you be imprisoned in an 'institution to be determined by the attorney general for a term of not less than six months and not more than 18 months, that you be fined $10,000 and that you stand committed until the fine is paid." Until Fine Is Paid The phrase "stand committed until the fine is paid" in the judge's sentence means that Thomas must stay in jail until he pays the fine. If unable to pay the fine, he could, however, take a pauper's oath and serve an additional 30 days in place ol the line. -jv The six months' minimum sentence will permit Thomas to ap- for a parole after he has served that time.

Immediately after the senten- qing, Thomas was taken away bv U. S. marshals. He will be held in the District of Columbia jail until the attorney general decides where he should serve his sentence. Pleaded With Judpe Thomas' lawyer, William H.

Collins, had pleaded with the judge not to punish the congress, man by jail and fine. Collins described Thomas as "broken in body and spirit." Standing before Judge Holtzoff, Thomas did, indeed, seem to bear scant resemblance physically to the rosy-cheeked man who once was the gaval-crack- ihg chairman of the spy-hunting House un-American activities committee. But Thomas took the sentence with no show of emotion or change of expression. Mrs. Thomas, the one-time Amelia Wilson Stiles of Mt.

Vernon, N. was almost cheerful as she talked reporters outside the court after, the case was over and announced her intention seeking the congressional seat her husband is leaving for a jail cell. Surprise Birthday Dinner Given for Mrs. Griffin ASHLAND, Dec. A surprise birthday dinner was given for Mrs.

Helen Griffin at her home near Ashland. Among those attending were her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Pauley. Those from the Ashland church who attended the associational Training Union meeting Tuesday evening at the Memorial church, Columbia, were: and Mrs.

Gerald John, Miss Sue John, Mr. and Mrs. Farmer Forbis, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Edwards, Reta and Doris Edwards, Dorothy Mountjoy, Lottie Sue Edwards, Virginia Martin, Bonnie Hickam and Mr.

and Mrs. Marvin Jones. Mrs. Lucy Nichols was hostess to the Jolly Homemakers club recently. Two wall healers with fans have been installed in the Ashland school gymnasium.

Miss Mariola.Pauley.. graduated Saturday from the Mariwopd college of beauty culture, Jefferson City. She will be. employed here. Ex-Communists Lead As United States' Ally In Battle of Words With Red BUS SKIDS TO Jefferson City Lines bus skidded downhill to crossways stop in the 1100 block on Jefferson street shortly after 1 P.

m. yesterday. It was one of the-first mishaps reported yesterday due to the snow which fell Intermittently here. Henry Raithel, bus driver, is shown explaining details of the accident to local policeman (behind Raitnel). Named io Honorary John Clifton Thurlo, son of Mrs.

Allalie F.Thurlo, 1319 West High street, was one of five juniors elected to the University Missouri chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic society, Thursday. The five juniors were all top ranking students scholastically. To relieve miseries jrltoout dttlcc, rub ca Mrs. M. Grafe-Dies In Capital City Mrs.

Mary Elizabeth Grafe, 75, died last night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Herbert Fifer, 1627 West Main. She was born in St. Thomas, Jan. 17, 1874.

She was married Nov. 27, 1894 at St. Thomas to August T. Grafe. He County Puts Limit On Twelve Bridges Considered Unsafe A of .12 rural bridges considered unsafe was released yesterday by County Highway Engineer Ross, and an eight- ton load limit was set for each.

limit was established by joint action of the county court and the three commissioners of Special Road District No. 1. County Superintendent of Schools M. Wilson yesterday received a letter from Ross notifying of the action. "I intend to forward copies of the letter to the school boards and also to the bus driv- i ers," Wilson said.

Estimates placed the average weight busses filled with stu- i Lucky Deer Hunter Accused of Shooting Santa's Reindeer The police department usually tries its best to comply with requests of citizens. But yesterday they got one from a tot to whom they could only give verbal assurance that would be all right. A small boy called the station EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is the tenth ot IS dispatches in which the Capital News turns the spotlight on America's 30-year agalnn communism, showing how the. Communist party established itself In the U. what's behind Uie current and where the fight may leid.

The 30-year war against communism in the United States has been, in last analysis, a talking war. Words are the revolutionary's weapon of biggest calibre. Counter-propaganda is the fortress. The Communists have used words more aggressively, more sensationally and a louder bang than the antis. The direct -assault has -hardly been effective.

But real damage has been done by the "echo press" subsidized organs of front groups and well-meaning but innocent liberal publications, which pick up the line without recognizing it. Daily Worker, Sunday Worker, and the party's deep- 'dish intellectual monthly. formerly, "The and now called "Political have been able to garner circulations in the low thousands. They never have made any money and have had to be subsidized by Moscow or by American angels. A goodly percentage of their readership is anti- Communist; study the line, these subscribres know, and you will be better able to refute it.

Hollywood Infiltration The infiltration into Hollywood is. well known because of the pending Supreme court test case against two of the 10 writers charged with contempt of Con-j gress. In the war years there I CIO. Stolbcrg's while it was bitterly assailed by liberals, fellow travelers and the labor press, had a striking effect in the crystallization of public opinion. Today, the CIO News, how edited by-Allan Swim, does a nicely balanced job of crusading against Communists in the CIO ranks, whereas only a few years.ago it often traveled along with some of the most radical.

Tuesday: Achievements in the House un-American Affairs committee. JAN VALTIN Fried' ants, eaten by some people in South Africa, are said to taste like bacon. Ready Saturday and Sunday EGG NOG MIX CENTRAL DAIRY yesterday to tell the police was S0 me penetration of radio, but shortly after both NBC and ABC" took seven-league steps to get rid of the leftists on their writing staffs. In the pamphlet and leaflet fields, no one knows how much stuff the party and its fronts have been able to produce. An attempt to collate this' literature is going forward at the University of Michigan, whose-Labadie collection of radical literature is heavy with Communist On the anti-Communist side, the counter-barrage has been some one had been shooting Santa Claus' reindeer.

Patrolmen followed through with an investigation, but only, found a neighbor of. the boy who had killed a legal buck while hunting. Officers assured the. youngster the deer he had seen draped over an automobile fender did not belong to Santa Claus. Breeders of Hogs Map Plans for 1950 died June 14, 1948..

She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. A. F. Renn of Linn Creek, Mrs. L.

H. Schrimpf of Jefferson City, Mrs. V. J. Hopen of Kansas City, and Mrs.

Herbert Fifer; two sons. Louis Grafe of Kansas City, and Norbert E. Grafe of Arlington, eight grandchildren and five great- grandchildren. Mrs. Grafe was-a member of the St.

Cecilia Cathodic church at Meta and the ladies soladity of that church. Scot, Buddy! We're Deer Hunting; Say, Aren't You a Deer? POPLAR BLUFF, Dec. 9 local deer hunters, Louis Miller and Cecil Marler, rubbed their eyes' and looked again while deer hunting yesterday. There was no doubt about was a fawn with a red ribbon tied around its neck and a small bell dangling from the ribbon. The fawn saw the hunters and cautiously walked up to them, apparently wanting something to eat.

"We tried to shoo it away," said Miller, "but it was gentle and seemingly unafraid. We were scared somebody might see the critter and take a pot shot at it with us standing nearby." When the fawn realized the hunters had no food for turned' and strolled away. Plans for on spans. He said 18-inch A program for 1950 was set up Passive. It was a time hys- had been placed on the bridges at a meeting the board of direc- "tena and much of the stuff was previously stating 10-ton limits I tors of the Missouri Hampshire of the-scare variety, so exagger- and that many had been destroy- Hog Breeders' association yesteday ated and wildeyefl 'tnat its lined.

I in the State Department of Agri- pact was virtually, ml. He said that painting of the i culture offices. Three national ever actual party members. All these and other present- day critics of communism-, from Dr. Dewey to Wilson, have been bitterly assailed by the American Communist press.

The party finds it hard to forgive the man who quits and doesn't keep his mouth shut. It finds forgiveness impossible, for those liberals whose praise it has sometimes trumpeted, when their sympathy ceases 'and all-out denunciation takes its place. But "victims" are undisturbed by such villifications as "Stooge of Wall Street" and "Poison Pen Artist." Coming from such a publication as the Daily Worker, say, this amounts to laurel wreaths. For a day-ih-day-out' counter- propaganda job, the daily press does as well as can be done. The most effective medium has been in straight news, Pick up almost any newspaper and it will tell you.

something about Communist activity in one or more of many schools, labor relations, social relations; foreign relations. Running News Stories The importance of this running news story has been well realized by editors, who in some cases have assigned excellent reporters to do nothing but watch the fronts. Outstanding among these reporters is Woltman, of the New "York World-Telegram, holds a Pulitzer Prize is regarded as the LOXJIS F. BUDENZ formed men on the Communist. movement anywhere in America.

Lyle Wilson of United Press has done a magnificent job of exposing Communist political skulduggery. Another highly noteworthy reporter is-Benjamin Stolberg, who now works closely with the an- 1 ti-Communist writers. Stolberg i prepared? a series "Inside the for the Scripps-Howard. newspapers in ,1938. The material was later published in book, form.

At the time the commies' had virtually taken over thei KEEP IT UNDER YOOR HAT We Have 3 Floor Sample CHROME BREAKFAST SETS $30.00 OFF. EASY TERMS. Tennyson's, 520 1 High WATERY MISERY officers attended. signs on the spans seemed the best solution. The question of the safety of rural bridges arose at a meeting Thursday of the county court and the special road district commissioners, whose primary purpose at the time was-to decide what to do about the bridge over the Moreau river On Tanner Bridge road.

The bridge sustained an estimated $7,000 damage Saturday when a car driven by a University of Missouri Student, Leon Michael Miles, struck a rail, collapsing the rail arid part of the flooring. The bridge has been closed to traffic, necessitating a detour for farmers living south of it. Miles has been named defendant in a $7,000 damage suit growing out of the accident. The special road district is the plaintiff. Following are the 12 bridges on which the new load limit has gone into, effect: Honey miles south of Wardsville.

Bond-Dawson two and one i half miles north of Hickory Hill, Taylor-Millbrook one mile southeast of Millbrook. McCann of Decatur. of Enon. of Jefferson City on Bald Hill road. miles south of here on Tanner Bridge road.

and one half miles southeast of Lehman, and one half miles northeast of Lohman. miles north of i ignature Lohman. i mile southwest of Lohman. Ten Long- Years It was 10 long years before a The group had an intermission few of the bolder spirits learned at noon for a luncheon at the that you cannot fight a he with Governor hotel. The meeting was another cold in charge of Milton Windsor.

Mathew dispassionately uttered, is the most devastating of answers. Also present were Hollo E. i This coincided with the discov- Singleton, director of the among many writing men, stock division of the department! that the new Communist philos- of agriculture, and Thorn-I ophy was as phony as Moscow's burg, Jefferson City; R. L. Pern- claim to inventive firsts.

When berton and Harold BouchKr, of it became clear that the Soviet Peoria, Reid Stewart, Cant- was only interested in the prole- Home Grown Fancy SWEET POTATOES ril, Iowa; Raymond Harrell, Princeton; M. M. Coose, Vandalia; Sam T. Raines, Mar- tariat as surface thing, and had as its major aim the expansion of its own imperialism, quand; Jack Beverly, Gallatin; i there was a rush into Paul fiicketts, Hannbn: D. C.

Johnson, Deerfield; Emil L. Wallach, Eureka; Elmen Heiman, La- The most trenchant pens were in the hands of -ex-commies. The result was several five-foot mine; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Me-! shelves of excellent "true con Pike, Maitland; Wendell Walker, Clarence, and E.

E. Jones, Rocheport. Senate Passes Gas Tax Vote Resolution (Continued from coultTTeach senior body. Yesterday's senate session was to have been only a formal meeting to let the lieutenant governor sign bills, but t.h full membership was called back after the governor sent out telegrams urging them to attend. The disputed resolution now goes to the governor for his Rock House Russellville.

-two miles north of It is estimated there are 300,000,000 people in the Western Hemisphere. New York Has Water on Brain, But Little Coming Out of Tap NEW YORK, Dec. New York today is a city with water on the brain, but very little in its reservoirs. Like a broken phonograph record, the city was playing the words over and over "save water, save water." You read it on billboards. You heard it over the The newspapers handed out housewifely tips- an how to be water-thrifty.

With the metropolis facing a serious water shortage, the campaign to keep the mains from going dry was moving into high gear. Advertising. panels of subways and buses were plastered with big red-and-white signs, like: "Don't be a drip by wasting water." Radio stations interspersed their programs with stern admonitions. "Turn off that tap today," says an announcer, "or you may not be able to turn it on tomor- rwo." Newspapers, including the Communist Daily Worker, chorused similar advice. New York Sun front- paged this, suggestion on how to keep clean with less water: "Take a shower navy-style; five' seconds of water to get wet, turn off water, 15 seconds to soap 'up, turn on water again, 20 seconds to you're clean and 'fresh." Sees Phone Strike Possibly Spreading ST.

LOUIS, Dec. local union official says a strike by 20Q telephone installers here may spread to other'cities in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. are the states served by Southwestern B-e 1 1 Telephone company," and a spokesman said the company's expansion program would be tied up if the strikes spreads through the area. The installers are employed byi Western Electric company and are members.of Local 70, CIO American Communications Equipment Workers' union. VUrJSX FLOOR LAMPS (Full Site) 7-Way With Nile Light In Base, Plastic Silk, Washable Shades In Pastel or White.

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