Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

Two Bottles for Two Headed Calf the 4 7 the if Emmett on the member for Mi RENTADVISORS IMiMAHi Solon Sayi Agricultural Setup Lie4 in Describing Rural Area Conditions LYNEHAM Eng Oct Guided only by the brain" which piloted it to a safe landing in England two weeks ago a Skymaster plane of the Army airforce droned its way westward across the Atlantic to day on the return leg of a history making flight The robot plane which took off from the Royal airforce field here at 6:05 a gmt (1:05 a est) was expected to arrive at Stephen ville Newfoundland at about 4 or 5 eastern standard time if the weather remains good Aboard the craft were Col James Gillespie and a crew of 10 but he declared unless something went no hu man hands would touch the con trols until the automatic pilotbrings the ship in for ri landing at Stephenville Enroute to Newfoundland the big Skymaster is expected to make contact with a ship stationed in mid Atlantic to give it a position check The experimental plane loaded with 3500 gallons of gasoline made a perfect takeoff for (Continued on Tags Two) Zinc Lead Output Off in '46 from igures for '45 WASHINGTON Oct 7 (7) Lead zinc copper and silver min ing in the central states all fell off last year from 1945 the bureau of mines reported today The cen tral states as defined by the bu reau include Arkansas Illinois Kansas Kentucky Michigan Mis souri Oklahoma and Wisconsin The total 1946 value of min eral products in the eight state $83368416 was sligtly greater than the 1945 value of $81643729 the bureau said This was due to generally high er prices as production decreases ranged from one percent for zinc to 18 percent for lead and 30 for copper Silver was down from 118 800 ounces to 71700 The value of production of the various minerals by states as given by the bureau included: Arkansas Lead $436 zinc $20 730 total $21176 Lead $1405010 zinc $11639532 total $13044542 Silver $56076 copper $601658j lead $30326416 zinc $5425096 total $36409256 Oklahoma Lead $2985946 zinc $16970688 total $19956634 7 The bureau said that most of the copper lead and zinc mines oper ated under the premium price plan throughout 1946 During the year premiums represented 54 percent of the total price paid for zinc con centrates 25 percent for lead con centrates and 32 percent for mine output of copper AMERICAN ARM AMILYPLIGHT CLAIMLAYED Robot Plane Returning to Base in Drive Started to Stall Meat amine WASHINGTON Oct 7 OR The Agriculture department is working on ways to keep the pres ent grain emergency from creat ing a late next year and in 1949 The plan as tentatively drawn calls upon farmers to produce large numbers of pigs next year on the gamble that bounteous crops will (Continued on Page Two) Major Trading Canters Double Payment on uture Deals 'Cafes Slash Menus UEL OUSTED LONDON STAR DECLARES Robert Brown's Aberdeen Angus Entry Judged Grand Champion at Joplin Oct 7 WT A hike in margins on the big grain exchanges on the insistence of the government today ushered in the first of President "meatless Tuesdays" to save food for Europe The markets st Chicago Kan sas City and Minneapolis dou bled the eash down payment on deals for future delivery as de manded by the President to curb what he called "gamblers in As the "waste food program moved out of the planning stage and into there were these developments: 1 The National Restaurant as sociation pledged its members to serve no meat on Tuesdays and no poultry or eggs on Thursdays 2 Representatives of the distill ing industry gathered for a meet ing here tomorrow to discuss the request for a 60 dry shutdown 3 The Agriculture depart ment seeking to head off a "meat a year from now talked of asking farmers to plan for maximum hog production and gamble that big crops next season will relieve the feed grain shortage 4 The United Nations food and agriculture organization predicted that more people will die of hun ger next year than were killed in any year of the war and that pres ent shortages will continue beyond the 1948 harvests 5 The Agriculture department disclosed it stepped up wheat pur chases for export to 23963674 bushels last week compared with 9089880 bushels the week before The big grain market's which have contended all along that grain exports and not specula tion caused high prices fixed their new margins at 33 13 per cent Joe Booth Choice Of VW To Serve On Baseball Club County Commissioner Joe Booth carried the recommendation today of the Veterans of oreign Wars post to become a sixth of the board of directors ami Baseball Club Inc Booth would succeed Utter irwho has served board for' two seasons i Seating: of three new direc tors will occur on or about Oct 15 Beauchamp presi dent of the corporation said Be sides Boothothers recommend edfor two year terms are RO (Hoot) Gibson representative of the Rotary club and currently club vice president and Howard Keithley chosen by the Jun Chamber of Commerce to succeed Beauchampwho earlierannounced 'he would leave officeinmid October Three other members of the cor board' having one more year to serve under their present appointment' are Wallace Millner Lions club Wess Renegar Cham ber of Commerce and Dr Van Hom American Legion i Directors once finally seatedwill and this election likely will come in another week or so Under corporation by laws talldirectors are chosen for two 'year terms three members be sing subject to change each year Their are to expire on 'Oct 15 thus giving the pewboard plenty of time 'each year'tb plan for next 'baseball COUNTY STEER WINS IN SHOW Parents Advised To Destroy 'Old St Nick' Legend TOPEKA Oct (M A psy chiatrist suggesting that parents stress honesty today condemned the practice of teaching children there is a Santa Claus You: can get just as much fun out of Santa by telling the truth said Dr Brock Chisholm Besides telling your child the St Nicholas legend and other myths are truths might handicap his thinking abilities Dr Chisholm explained it thia way: "If the children think about it they know there is no Santa Claus and that their parents are so they think too unpleasant Let the child know Santa is just a pleasant myth Chisholm ad vised and then go ahead and play the game of Santa Claus "and you and the children will get just as much fun out of Dr Chisholm executive seers? tary of the interim commission of the world health organization spoke last night at a dinner held in connection with the annual meeting of the Menninger founda tion a psychiatnc institution VI ItaMtafcH vwr OaaSar VlL Al VlNO OJ XUi Ca WASHINGTON Oct CH Rep Gross (R Pa) threw a joint session of the House and Senate a agriculture committee Into an up roar today as he accused the Agri culture department of "deliberate 1 falsehoods downright in its description of the' plight of ths average American farm family Senator Elmer Thomas (D Okla) broke in to ask the Agriculture de partment to explain why in view of the 4ire living conditions in rural areas "the department now is trying to break the grain mar ket" Thomas did not insist upon an immediate answer but said would like to have the department explain He did not amplify what he meant by the question Gross bitterly denounced this statement put into the record by assistant agriculture secretary Charles Brannan describing the "typical farm "They live in an old house either in serious disrepair or per haps unrepairable They are without running water tele phones central heating or a bath tub If they have electricity it is still new enough to seem an innovation They windows and doors are poorly screened lies attend every meal spring and summer There are mice in the kitchen and rats around the The statement was made as a part of a department presentation urging Congress to take steps to ward improvement of rural living conditions Gross said "this is an untruth ful malicious indictment of farm families It is an insult to every farmer This indicates the farmer is just Red Roeven (R Ia) sail the statements "an unwarranted in dictment of the American farmer If I made such a statement I would be driven out of my Rep Page (D Tex) argued with Gross saying it is true that more than one half of rural peo ple in some areas of the country live tumble down He said the farmers of Gross dis trict in Lancaster county Pa are not average farmers that they have wealth for gen seems to Page shout ed conditions on the farm are as good as the Pennsylvania gentleman describes them we now have the millenium and we might as well adjourn these hearings TURNER IN HARRISBURG 7 HARRISBURG Pa" Oct UP) Roy i Turner of Okla homa to inspect Pennsyl "turnpike planned a meet ing today with Gov James" Duff to discuss details of the highways construction The Oklahoma governor said last night shortly after his ar rival I was very im pressed with the turnpike and am more anxious' than ever to get work started on one that we plan in He was accompanied mem bers of the newly created Okla homa Turnpike authority' TO MEET ATALVA ALVA Okla Oct The board of regents for state colleges aridpf esidentsof the six state col leges meet at Northwestern State college Oct 27 Ckl M1 'a 4'iatorlcal society Oklfthora 01 ty 5 Cnla Comp Mrs Laura Leiss Lifetime Resident Of County Is Dead uneral services for Mrs Laura Leiss 70 years old one of Ot tawa oldest pioneers wllo died at her home three and a half miles northwest of Wyandotte Monday morning will be conducted at 2 Thursday at the Ottawa Baptist church The Rev Glehn Kauffman will officiate Burial will be in A ceme tery at Miami under direction of the Mikhelson uneral home of Commerce Bom' near Wyandotte in 1877 Mrs Leiss' lived in that community her entire life Survivors include son Alden Leiss two daughters Mrs lora Eide and Velma Leiss all of the home two step daughters Mrs Crawshaw and Mrs Nellie Branick both of redonia' Kas four sisters' Mrs "Anna Alexander of Mrs Lucy Henslejr of Cblorado Springs Colo' Mrs Ethel Crosby: of Laramie Wyb7 arid Mrs Lizzie Thompson of 'Leon grandchildren great grandchildren' Baby Girl Drowns In a Water Can Okla Oct baby girl drowned in a five gallon water can The child was Linda Lou Duncan one year old of Mr and Mrs Harmon Duncan Linda wandered out on the back porch and' tumbled' into the can which was partly filled with water to (Europe noticeable in city restaurants where Miamians I tate their ham and egg 'breakfasts 1 'according to reports of several cafa managers Eyeing' their competitors the food serving 'business most Main street restaurateurs main tained and attitude while adding' a few more vege tarian 'plates and selections to their menus for the noon and evening trade Not one queried however was ready to bear the wrath of this customers by 're ducing the supply of choice meat cuts on lunches and dinners In city meat markets where the housewives dotheir shopping Tor the dinner table some of the butchers noted a minor decrease in sales this morning Whether this slight drop in business was due to the presidential edict or was just a normal: Tuesday slump after dollar day irush re mairied'to be seen in later weeks or the time beef eaters were still in power at local dinner ta bles and lunch counters Short and Sweet Butdtte Winner NEW YORK Win ner' of Hhe ninth prize of $5 in an essay contest sponsored jby the East Side Chamber of: Commerce on the subject and Why 1 Came to the was the au thor of the following: JT came to see the sights Now I am one of GRAIN MARKETS HEED TRUMAN HIKE MARGINS Little Girl May Play on Stordy Legsinuture SPRINGIELD Mass Oct Bright eyed and courag eous little Patty Becker who has hopped on one leg' through most of her seven years of life was ready and anxious today for an Operation that will make her like her chums except for an artificial leg Shriners hospital surgeons plan to amputate the smiling i right leg withered since birth possibly late this week and then fit Patty to an artificial limb Her left leg is normal' Her blond pig tails bobbing jauntily pretty Patty hopped up the front steps of the hospital yes terday and amazed seasoned nurses by carrying her own bag gage containing a few playthings she Tnight require during a period of observation Her' mother Mrs Alva Becker of Schnectady wife of a General Electric company machin ist explained Patty never used a crutch or cane and does almost as weir as other children in getting around in spite of her deformity The tot was placed unafraid in a nice white ward room last night with other children and informed them she was ready for the To hospital attaches she said there is only one thing she wants when ehe goes to the operating room and that is to my doll with I be THEWEATHER and central tonight 'Wednesday cloudy showers slightly cooler jn grwest MISSOURI Wednesday partly 01 cloudy occasional light showers elirrkM'tr rift Ini YlftrhwPRt JlTlf extreme north KANSAS Wednesday cloudy showers cooler west and north Miami a ily News Record armer and Mrs Steve Lute simultaneously feed the two heads ota6 day oWJJerefardheif er born on their farm neir Blackwell Okla The calf has two distinct heads four eyes (theycenter two are glaWd) only two ears and has one larnyx which is attached to its right pves her a good chance tolive and' says she' ls normal in allotherways fei 7 Telephoto) MM A Senator Thomas Against Slicing At arm Prices WASHINGTON Oc CP) Senator Elmer Thomas (D Okla)today expressedopposition t6 any efforts to drive dowri farm prices without similar decreases for in i i dustrial products I Anderson recently iwas quoted as saying he was happy about prices going I Yanking Democratic member of the Senate agricul ture committee told a 'reporter' The senator said that when the agriculture committee makes a tour soon to discuss a long range i farm program with producers he will question farmers about their views and "I think they will agree' that their prices should go down and industrial prices stay arm income has not increasedas much as income of other classes he added i Discussing President food conservation progranf Thomas said he is percent behind LT think it is all right and I am glad it is He as serted will appreciate it 'that way instead of having it done through BAND ESTIVAL mTPDTCUVD A AVU A4 A band festival and carnival Xs'x will be held here Oct 25 with high Lm Jia Mwv: VtaintahrtVinW BV11VUL UMMW AAVua towns expected to participate Americans Given i The Green Light On TMey Legs WASHINGTON Oct 7 Americans be asked to forego turkey on Thanksgiving Christmas and New al though these holidays fall on eggless and poultryless Thurs days under the food conservation program 7 President food com mittee yesterday modified the program to exclude the three holidays It asked however that the nation give up those foods on the Mondays before the holidays UGHTRAINSIN' PART STATE Western Oklahoma" Bejiaf if rom Scattered Showers Y(BY TRg ASSOCIATED PBESS) fi 'Rain fell in "western Oklahoma today and the forecast indicated more would fall on Oklahoma soil parched by drouth 'i The rain was light and scattered Lawton reported 23 of an inch Chickasha had 18 of an) "inch El Reno 16 Elk City IL 4Waurika J)5 Altus 04 Guthrie 03 rederick 02 and Oklahoma 09 Gage and Pauls Val ley had a tracejj i 4 In several cities tain continued after the 7 a report to theOk lahoma City weather bureau The deadline for planting wheat as pasture for livestock (generally is Oct 15 in Oklahoma Many fanners have held off planting be cause of the dry Boil State temperatures were not as Ifiigh Monday as on Bunday Wau 95 was the Beefl tBB0iSirymPlan GetsLittleAt I Prodirlenf" lari once a Week i VeSfC tarians of the populace may have met with syo cess in some sections of the nation 'but in Miami the meat saving plan had little if any effect The voluntary rationing sought by federal administra tors which is intended to create meatless Tuesdays and poultryless (Thursdays and' thereby hike the food supply New 10 Man County Board Is Organized Here Malone To Be Chairman A new Ottawa county rent ad visory board selected by Gov Roy Turner and appointed by the na tional housing expediter in Wash ington' Chcld its jnitial meet ing inJ9iami this morning with Ben Humphreys director attorney for this area Members of the 10 msn board which is provided under the housing act passed by the last Congress are Orien Worley Wayne Anderson Dr Ma lone Harry Abramson Ogden Charles Chesnut Hen ry Garwood Roy Green A Berkey and Ellsworth (Bud) Botts In their meeting this morning in the local rent control office at the Security Bank and Trust Co building the advisory group sdlpct ed Dr Malone to serve as chair man and named Chesnut as secre tary' The board will meet on the first Tuesday of each month to settle rental problems submitted to them by Director Humphreys who is to remain in direct contact with 'district tenant and property owners The rent director serving Ot tawa county and Crawford amj Cherokee counties in Kansas opens his Security building office Room 205 each Tuesday and Thursday During the remainder of the week he is in the Pittsburg Kas rent control headquarters Mercury Registers 87 in City Today autumnalheat way ere muineu ii Avivn muaj) mm residents were spared irom yu ae gree weather after two consecutn Hava of extreme temperatures Pence city weather observ er said the mercury naiiea av in mid afternoon following a rise from 6o this morning utiiciai ft W9 fin V' Non Traffic Deaths Are Totaled at 36 Okla" Oct" 7 UP) Thirty six Oklahomans lost their lives in non traffic accidents in the last 3(T days DeWitt Hunt uxianoma couege safety "specialist Hunt (listed the causes todav as follows 1 Drowned 8 falls 8 gunsmt 3 1 1 Jvi a eieuLruuui cu cApivoivia shells 3 (children) airplane crash 2 burns 2 lifirhtninr accidental stroke 1 train accident 1 Emanuel Shinwell Target of 9 Severe Criticism Out 1 Attlee See King By GLENN' WILLIAMS LONDON Oct TheLondon Star reported late today that Prime Miniatar Attlee hadremoved uel Minister Emanuel'V Shinwell the chairman of the La bor party from his cabinet in a large scale governmental shakeup Shin well will become war min later a job which does not earry tabinet rank and puts him under immediate supervision of the minister the Star said Attlee saw King George VI this 'morning apparently to go through with the formality of receiving 'the assent to the cabinet' al "transfer Mr Shin I well is likely to be regarded as taa triumph for the moderate ele 4 menta in the aaid 4heStar a liberal newspaper Shinwell had left5 wing support Labor ranks and from Arthur Horner Communist general iecre 'tary pf the 5 mine workers union "who called in a recent speech for 'Attlee to 'leave Shinwell in the position of 1 fuel minister He has been a storm i center of the "cabinet particularly during recur ring crises in national ized coal mines" Secrecy was 'maintained around the long 'rumored changes in port fnlina and no official confirma tion of the report could be obtained immediately 1 The Evening News said' dismissalfrom the cabinet was "a near The political correspondent also suggested that deputy in the "fuel ministry youthful Hugh iGaitskelLl might be MftaiHftTt nr higher job The Star described Gaitskell as "one of the successes among jun ior Attlee whose has been attacked by both tjie left "and right drove to Buckingham "pipalace shortly before noon to ask I the approval a formality changes expected to affect "several senior as well as "junior Yj A 'government informant said shake up would be' annouric' ed in Wednesday morning news papers Newspapers of different polit ical complexion had said that Att lee wanted tot replace Shinwell who was' blamed by political ponents for last fuel crisis The report brought public (Continued on Page Two) Arrests in Kansas May Have Smashed Burglary Combine A TOPEKA General Edward' 'Am announced today that 10 persons variously? charged with robbery burglary larceny forgery and re ceiving stolen property had been arrested' late last night in the vi cinity of Coffeyville by state and county officers in that area Arri siid he believed the ar rests hd broken a robbery and burglary ring that had been op crating in' southeastern Kansas during the put nine months The attorney general also said he believed Coffeyville home of seven of those arrested was the headquarters the robbery Paul Beard Coffeyville arrested at Eureka Kas last night and charged in Greenwood county with burglary grand larceny and receiv ing stolen property was described by Arn as being the leader of the group "Arp said the arrest of Beard 'who he said was 'an ex convict climaxed athree investigation by officers of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation Others arrested by Bagents in co operation with Greenwood an4 Montgomery "county officers were identified by Ani as: Ralph "Jrrettr ex convict of ''Sallisaw charged in Montgomery "county with rob bery War Dog Gridder Seized by Mumps "a The MiamiWar Dogs were dealt a blovthis morning when Richard Hudson regular starting fullback was sent home from school with a case of the mumps i Hudson a junior was scheduled to' have started in riday game with the Columbus Kas eleven at Columbus He participat ed with the team in Monday's prac tice at College field? Coach George McCoy said today that the team would continue tha daily practices although most of the members of the team have been exposed to the mumps by Hudson Hudson probably will be back in uniform sometipie next week" BRITAIN PLANS MAJOR CABINET SHAKEUP 9 4 OKLA TUESDAY OCTOBER 7 1947 A PRICE IVE CENTS fj 1 Tn I ui i is a SI iliil uL raa I was first entry in com petition here His steer had pre viously won first place in the Angus division last month at the Ottawa County ree fair Ottawa county farm youths also had the best group of five steers in 4 club competition here This group of ranking aninjals and their owners were Brown's grand cham pion and the second place Angus owned by A Dry third place Angus owned by Reva Ann Mc erron second place Hereford Sally Lou Mcerron and fifth place Angus Kenneth Boyd Gaston ranks Ottawa county farm agent said all 17 entries made by his charges placed well up in the final judging which was conducted by Dr A Weber head of the Kansas State college animal husbandry department In the Angus division the Oklahoma youths claimed six of the 10 top awards ai)d rated high in two other divisions Besides the grand champion and four other winners in the group of five an incomplete prize list shows: Matthews eighth Angus Tommy Brown ninth Angus rances Boyd fifth Hereford (Continued on Page Two) Newspapers Asked To Remind Nation Of' ood Program WASHINGTON Oct 7 Chairman Charles Luckman of the food committee asked news services last night to distribute the following state ment: the editors of the newspapers: "The tremendous support our newspapers are already giving to the citizens food com mittee programis greatly appre ciated Starting tomorrow Tues Oct 7 and every Tuesday following will you feature on i your front page On every Thursday will you' fea tore eggs or poultry Every measure of support to this voluntary program in whatever you deem: most effective will be Hanns Eisler and Wife Out on Bail LOS ANGELES Oct 7 Composer Hanns Eisler and his wife were at liberty on bond today after surrendering to immigration service officials on warrants call ing for Bail of $l000 for Eisler 54 and $500 for his pert wife Louise was deposited for their release pending a hearing The date will be set lat er said Ws A Carmichael district immigration service head Warrants issued in Washington allege' that the Eislers obtained yisas to enter this country by mis representation and that Eisler swore he was not a member of theCommunist party At a recentHouse un American affairs" com mittee hearing the musician ac knowledged she once had been in Germany' I "BULLETIN WASHINGTON Oct '7 National Labor Relations board ruled today 4 to 1 that top AL and CIO officers are not re quired by Taft Hartley law sign non Communist 'affi JOPLIN Mo Oct (Special) An Aberdeen Angus steer en tered in the 13th annual Joplin Junior Beef show by Robert Elliott Brown a 4 club youth from Mi ami Route 2 was judged grand champion of the district event this morning The winning animal topping a field of 130 4 and A calves A BULLETIN JOPLIN Mo Oct (Special) Elliott grand champion Aberdeen Angus steer went for 65 cents per pound here this afternoon enriching the Mi ami farm youth by an estimated $580 Top bidder was a repre sentative of district Safeway stores The reserve champion an imal owned by a McCune Kas 4 club youth brought 48 cents per pound at the auction Ml 71' i I "I 4 i 1 I 1 i i 1 i I 1 ft I 1 Ml Si I I I Mi I 9 a V'l 4 'B Sr I nwr diiiteTirTir i 1 1 1.