Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

52ND YEAR NO 199 HOLOCAUST AT JAP OLD LADIES' HOME 8 Carl to the the NO INDICATION CHURCHILL TO CHANGE VIEW 100 AT WORKSHOP HERE help your HEART UND Proposed Evacuation Disturbing to British 16 Point Program Adopted by Chamber eatures Stress On New Industries Dr Daniel Arnon professor at the Univer sity of California in Berkeley has found a method of artifi cially accomplishing photosyn thesis This is the process by which green plants convert sun shine into food and energy Notes from Your Town vauioiic ota laaies name oeiore was worst building fire since the Pacific war air raids Sister Urrieko Sugiyama 42 a nun died when she dashed back into the burning building to carry out another of her charges The home a converted Jap anese army barracks was part of the convent of the Garden of Our Lady belonging to the rancisco Missionaries of Mary help YOUR heart MONTREAL eb ire whipped through the top floors of a 75 year old brick apartment house in the heart of snow cov ered Montreal last night killing 11 persons and injuring a dozen others iremen combing the ruins early today said there was a very slim more bodies re mained to be found Attempts to identify the dead were left urttil today Some were suffocated as they fought through the halls or stairways with flame and smoke Others were so badly burned that even their sex could not be determined immediately As a heavy snow fell firemen scrambled up ladders to rescue a score of frenzied men and women from wooden balconies and window ledges Some 200 people lived in the building but many were out Two women who jumped from the fourth floor were in a seri ous condition with fractured spines Of the 12 persons hos pitalized three were firemen who were cut and burned An investigation was started determine the cause of the fire lu Strikes Hard At Aggie Campus (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) An outbreak of influenza struck on the Oklahoma A campus Wednesday Students and faculty members were advised to stay home with colds to avoid spread ing the disease It was the latest area in the state to be hit by the flu bug Earlier the outbreak had forced shutdown of schools in at least three Oklahoma counties Afton and airland in Ottawa county Vinita in Craig county andCleora in Delaware county hav all closed schools until Monday Dr Grady Mathews state health director said of the flu Wednes day: seems to be pretty well prevalent in a number of com munities But we have heard of no fatalities and I think it is the serious Dr Louise arr school physi cian at Oklahoma City said: feel we have reached a peak and it is on the wane the Oklahoma Dem ocrat adds not an inherent or inalienable right of every area fortunate enough to be part of the territory that now is or may later come unaer tne protection of United Mon Who Admittedly Planned Rubinstein Kidnap Arsenal in Home NEW YORK eb 17 Po lice say frail 50 year old Herman Scholz who reportedly has the possible killers in the Serge Rubinstein case is being questioned about two unsolved bank robberies Scholz picked up Tuesday told how his own plan to kidnap Rubinstein 46 for ransom was carried out without him and re sulted in a job that resulted in the strangle slaying of the playboy financier The quiet mild mannered Scholz not quite five feet tall has been a limousine for hire driver living an apparently se date life in Whitestone Queens for the past 15 years But police said he has an arrest record dat ing back to 1923 and authori ties found a small arsenal in his home assert edly cached against the day he hoped to become a big time bank robber Scholz is being held in $25000 bail as a witness in the Rubenstein murder the high bail set to keep him in custody and protect him from possible harm by underworld mobsters The Russian orn Rubenstein judged to have been worth about $10 millions was slain Jan 27 in the bedroom of his ifth avenue mansion His pajama clad body had been trussed with cord from a Venetian blind and he had been gagged with extra wide adhesive tape Detectives said similar cord and tape were found in home where he lives with his wife and her parents Scholz also told of planning to kidnap gambler rank Costello but of switching his plans in favor of Rubinstein World war II draft dodger Authorities promised no immedi ate arrests in the Rubenstein murder GRD MEMBERS Pat McCue Miami Business man To Serve Until 1956 Governor Decides ORECAST Miami vicinity Generally fair and mild tonight scattered Show ers riday lows tonight 35 40 high riday in the Mike Gives Views On Alaska Hawaii NEW YORK eb 17 (Pl Sen Mike Monroney (D Okla) has urged commonwealth status rather than statehood for both Alaska and Hawaii to keep the United States a block of Writing in the current issue of Collier's magazine Monroney says: is physical strength and symbolism in our land mass that stretches without a break or en clave across the heart of North Monroney said commonwealth status not irrevocable like state hood would give Hawaii and Alas ka complete local self government and virtually all over benefits of London Still Advocates With drawal by Nationalists rom Lesser Isles LONDON eb A ish American rift over ormosa flared into the open today follow ing US Secretary of State rejection of a British suggestion that Chinese Nationalists evacuate all the China offshore islands British informants said offi cials were particularly disturbed by statement last night that the cause of freedom would not be served by Chiang Kai surrender of coastal positions which the Communists need to stage their annbunced attack on statement made in speech before the oreign Policy Assn in New York was inter preted here as covering the off shore island of Quemoy and Matsu oreign Secretary Anthony Edenin secret diplomatic exchanges has urged Dulles to get the Chinese Nationalists off the coastal is including Quemoy and Mat as soon as possible as the first step in bringing about an ormosa cease fire The British oreign Office received China statement in stony silence But British officials made plain the Churchill government intends to keep advocating Nationalist abandonment of the offshore is lands even if it means an open tangle with US policy makers appreciate all the pres sures on the United States against giving up the offshore one British diplomat said privately we conceal our own attitude The government must face up to the demands of British public opin postpone about $3 billions in sched uled tax cuts The committee is expected to approve by a big margin possibly on Monday or Wednesday Eisen recommendation for a one year postponement of' these tax cuts now set automatically for April 1: (1) rom 52 to 47 percent in the corporation income tax rate amounting to about two billion dollars annually and (2) about one billion dollars in excise tax rates on automobiles cigarets liquor gasoline beer and wineLittle opposition to the exten sion present rates has been vuiceu eitner in tne House or Sen ate' Meanwhile it was' reliably re Borttd jkeyDemocrats planned a strategy huddle Saturday to con sider two questions likely to be much more explosive: 1 A proposal by some ways and means members for a drive now to cut individual income taxes for everybody 2 A move by others to seek re peal of a controversial tax cut on income from included last an sponsored general tax revision bill just alter legislation creating the authority drew strong criticism last night from farm and munici pal groups 'The criticism was yoked at a Senate committee hear ing on the bill at the Capitol' Males Cheyenne repre senting state farmers declared: can outbid the farmer for this water for they can enter into Chiho Hamada 86 told how the oldest resident 96 year old Mrs Machi Okuni'died' were awakened only to see flames and smoke all around san looked about her and said am old enough to she held up her bed quilt to keep the flames back and let the others iremen spread mattresses and implored the old women to jump Harold Gassaway Enid city at torney sought changes in the law to help cities take advantage of it He said the proposed authority after deciding on a project that would be financed by self liquidat ing bond issues wotfld be forced to have contracts to show inves tors before financing could be se cured And cities could hot con sider entering into contracts until (Continued on Page Three) With 115 of 2740 pupils remain ing away from classwork absen teeism was about normal in Miami schools today Supt Nichols announced Nichols said that the fnnr cent absenteeism was mostly in the lower grades at three elemen tary schools where some pupils were forced to stay home because of chicken pox Meanwhile schools in airland and Afton remained closed because of influenza epidemics Schools in both towns will not reopen Monday morning 3 The epidemic also forced schools at Vinita and Cleora to close earher this week State Opens Case in Phenix City Hearing BIRMINGHAM Ala eb 17L' CT) attorneys b6gan their' prosecution of Albert uller with groundwork testimony that may point the way later to eyewitness i accounts of the death a I Patterson Three witnesses testified yester day that the downtown area iny Phenix City where the anti vice crusader was slain was well light Thus if later witnesses tell the jury they saw certain movement the night of June 18 when Patter son was shot the prosecution will have laid the predicate with test! mony aimed kt proving they could have seen them Assist Tural youth in improv livestock programs City planning I City wide zoning program Develop a deeper spirit of loyalty to Miami and increase faith in chamber members 9 Traffic control 10 Airport improvement 11 City parking program 12 Holding existing business 13 Improve Highway 66 in and out of Miami 14 Acquire industrial sites' ree parking for farmers 16 Improve relations with rural communities Robert McCreery Tulsa area director of the' United States Chamber of Commercedirected the workshop in the Community room of the court house Theme of the meeting was one project which would be most important to Miami should the Chamber of Commerce work on in After opening the meeting By ron Hoffman president of the sponsoring organization introduced Paim Roberts of Dallas Tex man ager of the southwest division of the Chamber of Commerce and Robert Greenwald who will become secretary manager of local chamber on April 1 Cold Blast Seen By riday Night (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) A cold front was headed toward Oklahoma today but the state was to get another 24 hours of spring like weather before the cold blows in tomorrow night Snow was forecast for the north west tomorrow night with promises of a cold weekend Rain was fore cast for the state tomorrow The overnight low was 27 de grees at Tulsa high was 63 at Ardmore committee will act next week on statehood except a vote in Con President request to gress a Heat nnrl sparks ignited a two story chapel and two other buildings They too burned to the ground 5 The main convent housing 101 nuns and novices mainly Japan ese was spared In the Yokohama National hos pital the suffering survivors mingled Christian and Amens with chants of Some did Others were too feeble Aarau ainida butsu the Budd Many were hard of hearing and hist prayer of mercy for the woke only when flames approached them Senate Supports Governor's Views Oq School Taxes DVT A HOM A Wl ATAX IJIA 4 vU I 1 LT) Senate education committee members today expressed support of Gov Raymond demand for a limit of 5 mills increase in taxes for schools Members discussed the bill at a breakfast although they will not actually receive the measure al ready passed by the House un til it is read in the Senate Administration leaders hope to pass the bill through the Senate Monday and have it on the gov desk by Wednesday That will allow 30 days before a spe cial election is scheduled to be called March 25 to write the act into the Constitution Members of the committee on posed a plan to separate' the reso lution into three measures ex pressing fear one or more sections might be defeated Yesterday Sen Ray ine Gore predicted it would oe spur If it is split voters will have to decide on the extra millage proposal $17 million college building fund and general 4 mill levy for schools separately As passed by the House the resolution would permit all dis tricts with high schools to vote 10 mills additional However Gary has warned he fears themeasure might be defeated if the increase goes over 5 mills Merchants To Hold Meet Here riday Retail establishment operators will meet in the Chamber of Com merce offices at 2 pm riday to discuss future store closing hours nere Jack Homer chairman of the merchants division urg es all members to attend Witnesses Repeat Earlier Tes timony that Ex Constable Masterminded Robbery OKrATinM A fTTV (TP) As the Robert Hurt tor ture robbery trial entered its fourth day today the defendant already had been named by two confessed accomplices as the mas termind of the brutal crime against Mr and Mrs Gurley Lenn The admitted robbers were Charles Edwin York 27 Tulare Calif who was convicted by a jury and is serving 45 years in prison and Adrian Wayne Burns 37 former Cordell constable who still faces trial Each repeated testimony given at first trial last Novem ber when the jury deadlocked 11 1 for conviction during a marathon deliberation session A mistrial was finally declared when one juror became ill Burns swore the robbery was idea that he even suggest ed the method of torture burn ing Lenn with an electric curling iron He Hurt told him and York that would make Lenn give up $300000 they claimed he had cached on his property testified Hurt lent him a gun and entered the Lenn home to take care of a vicious bulldog with which he had made friends during visits with the robbery victims The remaining kev witness for the state is rank Massad whose testimony and wire recordings of a conversation with the defendant caused a sensation in the first trial (Continued on Page Three) House To Act Soon On Hot Tax Issues WASHINGTON eb Chairman Cooper (D Tenn) said today the House ways and means OKLAHOMA CITY eb Gov Raymond Gary yester day appointed seven members of the enlarged Grand River Dam authority and announced his se lection of a fhairman for the Will Rogers Memorial commission The legislature recently enlarg ed the GRDA from five to seven I members serving staggered terms and Gary signed the measure The governor yesterday reap pointed Wheeler Mayo Sallisaw and red Branson Muskogee members of the former board Mayo will serve until 1958 and Branson until 1961 New members appointed by the governor are Pat McCue Miami to serve until 1956 Low ell Nicks Grove until 1957 Wash Hudson Tulsa until 1959 Elmer Hadden Pryor until 1960 and Moore Vinita until 1962 The names were sent to the Sen ate for confirmation and the mem bers will begin serving when they are approved Gary also announced that Henthorne editor of the Tul sa World will be reappointed as chairman of the Will Rogers Memorial commission He will announce appointment of the other six members later Appointment of Wilcoxson Shawnee as a member uie stare Highway commission also was sent to the Senate for wiuirmarion He will succeed LeGere Chandler Weather OKLAHOMA Increasing cloud iness and windy tonight and ri day scattered showers developingver west and north riday and probably turning colder in Pan landle late riday lows tonight 15 40 high riday northwest southeast ANS AS Partly cloudy and windy tonight becoming partly iloudy with strong shifting winds riday scattered showers develop ng late riday or riday nighturning to snow with' sharp change temperature to colder west and extreme north riday night low onight 35 42 high riday 30 lorthwest to 60 southeast i MISSOURI Partly cloudy to ight becoming mostly cloudy and Svdyi riday scattered showers III riday or night tjner west and north today and fij state tonight low tonight Ihe high riday 55 TRIAL OR HURT IN OURTH DAY Apt Building JDEMEMBER Keith un usual Christmas greeting pro ject in 1953 He sent cards to gov ernors of all the 48 states and re ceived return holiday messages from 30 of but not Okla Johnston Murray Well last Christmas the Mi amian tried something different He sent cards to 39 heads of gov ernment in the Western Hemi sphere To date he has hpard from 11 presidents and two colonial gov ernors Not represented however in Holland's collection is our own President Eisenhower A dyed in the wool Republican Holland still hasnt given up hope of a missive the White House eventually218 A street southeast the Miamian has heard from the presi dents of Brazil Peru Ecuador Colombia Venezuela Mexico Gua temala Honduras Salvador Cuba and the Dominican Republic also the governors of two rench colo rues Quadelonnp nni th Miquelon An estimated $277485 paving contract is scheduled to be let next month on the 11 mile sector of state Highway 20 between Jay and the Arkansas state line in adjoin mg Delaware county State Sen Jess ronterhouse of airland said the state Highway commission has set March 8 as the uaic uu open proposals The Oklahoma City firm of Amis and company recently started building the roadbed and bridges on the project at a cost of $308429 Ihe project starting at Highway 59 in Jay will have a 10 mch crushed rock base under two layers of bituminous paving bix foot sloping paved shoulders will have a rock base tapering from (Continued on Page Three) Allie Reynolds May Seek Office in i0KH0MA eb 17 Allie Reynolds who has an nounced his retirement as a New York Yankee pitcher says he may enter the race for ward 1 city councilman in the March 15 pri mary Pilieally said Reynoldg now an independent oPeor wedo owe some things to our community As long as I am going to stabilize myself as a citizen of Oklahoma City I think I should devote some time to public He is a Dem ocrat Harlow Gers whose 20 year service ion the council is the long i est in history here announced he will not seek re election in ward 4 1 Shortest Guy in British Army Is 4 2' Corporal SINGAPORE eb 17 At 4 feet 2 Cpl rank Vincent is the shortest soldier in army Vincent is a cook in the British military hospital in Singapore Chunky robust and easy smiling he hails from Kingston on Thames near London He managed to get info the army during a period of great emergency not long before the German air blizt on London when the army needed cooks Everything he wears has to be made such as size 1 army shoes He weighs 104 pounds He is now 42 and has had 14 years in the seven more to go before he can retire Before becoming a soldier he served 12 years in the merchant navy been used to being stared at since I was a kid and long since got over any embar rassment about he says At the age of 12 doctors put him through all sorts of tests Then they told me they could do nothing for me because there was absolutely nothing wrong with me glandularly or any other way iney said I WAR I Are there nv I the nttlest soldier in army bet there it makes everyone friendly to says incent PormdwHeard During Army Trial BRAGG (TP) former POW squad leader in the same camp with MSgt Wil 11 vison accused of collab orating with the enemy today was crossexamined as the general court martial entered its fourth day Marine Sgt Leonard Massioli yesterday said Olson was unpopu lar with fellow prisoners because of his speeches and articles which he wrote for a camp publication Massioli now stationed at China Bake Calif also said Olson after 1 up On the other hand another wit ness Theron Hilburn a mem ber of the squad of prisoners Ol son led in the North Korean camp said: in the squad ever complained about leader ship and nobody resented the ar ticles he wrote for the camp news paper or 'the speeches he de Jarman Holds Out Against Pay Boost WASHINGTON eb 17 (M ive of six congress men voted with the majority yes terday in passing a bill for increas ing the salaries of legislators $10000 a year The lone vote came from Democrat John Jarman who told newsmen: family can live on the present salary and with that as the basic criterion I do not feel justified in voting for a salary Jarman added he favored an in crease in salary for federal judges which was tied to the bill fnr congressional raises He said he regretted having to vote against a pay hike for the judges Rep Victor Wickersham who earlier spotlighted the fight for an increase by seeking part time work to cover his losses took the floor to speak in favor of the proposal Rep Tom Steed said he voted for the bill because he thought it was right and justified on Caratalities Dip During January STILLWATER Okla eb 17 Mon automobile accidental deaths in Oklahoma in January were the lowest in several years with only 25 fatalities reported Dr DeWitt Hunt 'zmuuoiua satety specialist said the deaths compared with 42 in Jan uary 1954 and 46 in January 1953 'Deaths due to fires led the causes for the third straight month as 7 persons died Altogether 11 of the January victims died as a result of accidents involving gas stoves Six persons died as the result of falls Labor Leader Guilty Of Blocking Justice TULSA eb UP) Charles Balch 46 general organizer of the AL Pipelines union today was fined $2500 and placed on 18 months probation by US District Judge Royce Savage Savage had found the labor leader guilty on two1 counts of ob structing justice by attempting to racket suit More than 100 business people and civic leaders cited the need of a 16 point Chamber of Com merce program during a short but constructive: workshop here last nifriit Rated one of the most import ant proposed projects was the ac quisition of new industries to in crease local payrolls In order of presentation pro posed projects were: 1 Improved Chamber of Com merce committee participation in civic programs 2 Road network into Miami 3 New industries 4 Increased effort in selling Mi ami 5 ing 6 Utah Reunion Complete as Bewildered Mother Arrives SALT LAKE CITY eb (AP) Mother is home at last for the Katsanevas Mrs Mike Katsanevas arrived at a Salt Lake City air port yesteiday alone and bewildered or seven years she had waited to come from Greece to America and be with her husband But somehow word of her arrival failed ta reach Mike and her children She waited an hour and a half Then suddenly her 66 year old husband and three of her children hurried into the airport waiting room There were tearful embraces 1 and happy exclamations was home Mike had to leave Mrs Katsane vas behind in Greece with seven of his children when he came to America with the other three in 1947 He found work as a janitor at the Clearfield Naval Supply De pot and tried to save so he could bring the rest of his family to their new home But the savins: was slow I nally his fellow workers heard auoui nis efforts and chipped in to bring the family to America in time for' Christmas The children arrived shortly aft er the holiday but Mrs Katsane vas had had to stay behind until a minor stomach ailment cleared up The family still complete One son James is with the Airforc in Arizona Another George is in the Greek army But that will change in time lhe as good as together now Atomic Test Now Set for riday LAS VEGAS Nev eb 17 GP) After three postponements chances for the opening of the 1955 atomic test series tomorrow morning appeared brighter today because the Atomic Energj com mission has an ace in the hole The AEC disclosed yesterday that: beginning tomorrow it has snot ready for detonation in addition to the one which has thrice been canceled since Tuesday The original shot was slated to be exploded from a 500 foot tower on Yucca lat with 1100 military men in trenches 4000 yards away Continuing cloudiness and high winds aloft coupled with sprinkles of rain in the Las Vegas area forced the third postponement last night TINYCHAUEUR UNDERGOES QUIZ OT ABOUT HOLDUPS Pro DOS Ari vari IN MURDER Herman Scholz left 50 vear old chauffeur is escorted by a member of the Queens Dis trict Attorneys staff as he was brought in for questioning in New lork in the Serge Rubinstein murder case Scholz was reported later to be answering all questions between sips of warm milk for his ulcers fNA thiwatai Montreal Blaze Takes 11 Lives Gary Boosts Proposal for Statewide Water Authority ei CITY eb 17 (AP) smiting population in which 44 counties have fewer resi dents than they did 48 years ago at statehood was ad vanced today by Gov Raymond Gary as1 an argument lor the proposed statewide water authority Changing agricultural conditions have brought trends away from the farm and created a demand for industrial jobs That could be met particularly in eastern Okla homa by water development he wrote in his weekly col umn for state newspapers a leave camp returned wereaSEli 100 Lose Lives in lash ire UD Abou an tional Catholic order About TOO aged women died The inmates were mainly pitiful Yokohama police said the blaze' SntLy defective Catholic oldiUdW I lrom dawn There were only 46 survivors police said Nearly all were burnedor injured in jumps from the sec ond floor of their two story Wooden dormitory declared a fire hazard in 1953 Several were in critical condition could do a surviv or cried can hear their screams Hot 1 Oklahoma Historical' Society shOM9horaafCity'5 bkldhEa 0 Miami Daily News Record Published Krery Evenine (Exempt Saturday) and Bund A 4 I A A 4 I )IZ I A Morninn he Uimi A A I A A A I IZI A TLJ I inrrs A KZ nr ftUKUAKY 17 1955 DA 1 1 CKlfqcTiMnAV in ckitc I I I 4 1 gt 2 'A I.