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t. Almanac Along the Way Page 13 Tage 29 Amusements Hs Editorials Page 10 Hndio, TV Page 13 Women's Features Page Hi Bes ordon ammack The Paper With the Pictures THE WEATHER LOCAL Partly cloudy through Friday. Low Thursday night 65, high Friday 85. (World's Weather: Page 30.) In a sermon for children at St. John's Lutheran Church Sunday, the Rev.

Louis H. Vaib a Des Moines, Iowa, Thursday, August 2, 196238 Pages Two Sections made a point with a bang. Price 10 cents Moine U. S. OFFICIAL'S WORD ON THALIDOMIDE ML DnM Not Used.

ill WOT 3NMH Soblen Cedar Rapids And Iowa City Doctors Got It (Cocynsht IW1 by Dps Rislcr and Tribi'irc Compny) A U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official told The Des Moines Tribune Thursday that no Des Moines doctors received any of the tranquilizing drug thalidomide. He said, however, that sev-en physicians in Cedar Rapids their offices in Cedar Rapids and Iowa Citv had received and Iowa City. He declined to supplies of the drug for "in- name the doctors, vestigative" use.

Collecting Drug Evert Atkinson, FDA offi- He said jj f00d and drug cer in Kansas City, said agents are collecting "all of his office has had an agent in the tnaijdomide we find any-'lowa investigating distribu- wnere To U. S. Britain Won't Let Him Stay LONDON, ENGLAND The British government Thursday denied political asylum to Dr. Robert Soblen, fugitive spy, and or-dered him sent back to the United States. Home Secre- tary Henry A Brooke 1 the House of inai were being SOBLEN piven fnr Soblpn tr flown to New York City.

He faces life imprisonment in the Unit- ed States as a convicted spy for the Soviet Union. Explaining the denial of SnhlPn' nlPa fnr nolitical JUUHH a pun ii lvli wv asvium. tsroone saia suuien "is not in danger of persecu- (, tr i ,4 i ImmmWm ii.Ii rr nw. his political opinions or on ers in the Iowa City-Cedar tors we therefore, are abltv racial grounds" Rapids area have not been to cneck out who received the Soblen the home secretarv available during the Iowa in- drug if the doctors kept rec-continued is a fugitive from vestigation. he said, because ords he added, a life sentence imposed on one has been on military duty He sajd the drugs went rartP rmm.

as a reservist and the other to doctors" with spe- QUADS MEET PRESIDENT lawn for another ceremony. The quadruplets were introduced to Mr. Kennedy by Andrew T. Hatcher, assistant Four 16-year-old girls the Fultz quadruplets of Mil-fon, N. Thursday met President Kennedy in the White House rose garden.

The gills were making a tour of the White House when th president appeared on the White House press secretary. The girls (from left): Mary Alice, Mary Louise, Mary Catherine and Mary Anne. COUNCIL'S PLAN The pastor urged the youngsters to direct their energies wisely, not to scatter them about i flout purpose. To illustrate, he first VALBRACHT touched a match to some gunpowder in a dish. It went off with a scattering "poof!" Then he took out a pistol and fired a blank cartridge, demonstrating concentrated energy.

In another sermon, several weeks ago, the Rev. Mr. Val-bracht complimented the young people for their atten-tivencss and participation in the services. "But one young lady has not been attentive and I'm going to present her to you," he continued. Then he went to a side room and returned with his dog as he sought to emphasize that human beings have reasoning powers that dogs don't have.

Music Lover A Des Moines teen-ager who works at a supermarket's pickup station isn't content with the "modern" music that radio stations air most of the time. So he takes to work his record player and listens to his classical records while he works. Unexpected Development Charles F. Wennerstrum, Des Moines attorney and former Iowa Supreme Court justice, went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, for a checkup last month. Doctors found him in excellent condition except for the arm he fractured when he fell over a barricade in a Rochester hotel parking lot during a rainstorm on the night of his arrival.

Long Distance When direct distance dial-ing goes into effect here Sunday, you'll still be able to ask an operator to make the connection for you but officials of the Northwestern Rell Telephone Co. estimate about 98 per cent ot sub-bribers will elect to do their own dialing when they can. Phone company officials also anticipate an increase in long-distance calls the first few days the dialing system is in effect. "Some people will make an excuse to call long-distance so they can test the new system out of curiosity," says Paul Hintz, a company supervisor. "Actually," he continues, "little scientific progress is involved in the new system as far as our company is concerned.

The public will only be doing what our operators have done since automatic switching became effective several years ago." Special Occasion Mrs. Wayne Camhlin of Atlantic, who has been in a neck-to-hips cast for some weeks because of a broken back, wanted to make sure her doctor would remember the date he promised 'he cast could be removed. So she sent him a formal invitation to a "coming out" party on the promised date. He accepted. Some 12 women were quilting in a church parlor at Story City.

It was pointed out the group included three Annas. "But I'll bet I'm the only one whose second name is Matilda," said one Anna. But the other two said their second names also are Matilda. The three: Mrs. Thomas Johnson.

Mrs. T. Z. son and Mrs. Anna Askelson.

How Levy 3s i 'J WSreehoU P) Cut mills for its operation. The limit does not affect levies for bond payments or em- ploye pension tunds. The city's operation levy for the past two years has been at or near the 30-mill ijmjt Example For example: If the maximum 30-mill levy prodUced $10 million, the city as it has operated in the been able to budaet for $103 million by counting an addit.ona $300,000 revenue from the monevs and credits tax. Until this year, the state has approved this system, but earlier in the year Atty. Gen.

Evan Hultman and Selden ruled that the city can budget only the 30-mill limit, and must include in the $10 million the revenue from moneys and credits. The citv has filed a suit to tets this ruling and the city manaeer proposed an emer- cencv one-mill levy as insur- ance aaainst losing the case, The Gamble 0noLmnnnW01, 1 about 5280,000. If the uiy Budget Continued on Page Thirteen Will Be By James Flansburg The City Council has decided to drop a one-mill emergency levy for next year's taxes and push a court case in a dispute with the state over the right way to levy taxes. TVia- Hacicinn alnnp with a Five Held Hostage in A Capitol Arizona Hearing At Gunpoint PHOENIX, ARIZ. 0P A construction worker forced staff members of the Arizona i Industrial Commission at i gunpoint Thursday to hear his claim for compensation.

Charles E. Milligan, 50, of Tempe, said he would not release his five I hostages from a hearing room in the State Capitol Annex until he had made all his statements "and they have been typed up." i Earlier, Milligan shot his attorney, Stephen Gorey, 46. i in the leg as, witnesses said, r.nrw tripH tn tak-P the pun away from him. Gorey was reported in gooa condition at a Phoenix hospital. Bars Doctor Speaking to a police officer bv Dhone.

Milligan declined a suggestion that a doctor be permitted to enter tne room. tion and possible use oi tne Mormon. HoMolnrvpH rlrnp VJCI lilt II Ut t.IV'VM 0. which has been blamed for deformities in babies. The Kansas City office has jurisdiction.

Atkinson said. over an area that includes all of Iowa, Nebraska. Kansas and a part of Missouri. pive Contacted He saia ine ajjeiu tartprl the five doctors in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City who are "available. Two oth- is on vacation.

Atkinson said it had been established that "about 1,300" tablets of thalidomide were distributed to the seven Iowa physicians by the W. S. Mer-rell Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio. Our check of the five pny- sicians available showed fhat ihey naa given me uiuK iu some pcinerus dui none iu (ju tienfs of chid-beanng age, he said.

He added that in the Unit- ed States, thalidomide had been used as a "geriatrics drug, primarily as a tranquili- zer for elderly persons. He said the five physicians had -none of the drug" on hand when the agent visited Sherri to Sweden Mrs. Sherri Finkbine books flight to Sweden; U. S. plans new regulations on drugs: Page 5.

Bulletin Capt. James Horsburgh, head of the Des Moines police traffic department, was ordered Thursday by Police Chief Vear V. Douglas to forfeit two of his regular days-off. Douglas said Horsburgh had "failed to carry out orders" to remove no-parking hoods from meters and issue traffic tickets Wednesday to six city employes whose cars were parked illegally on Park street between Seventh and Eighth streets. (Earlier story: Page 28) Churchill Has Jaundice Attack LONDON.

ENGLAND Sir Winston Churchill, re- covering from a broken thigh in dlesex Hospital, has suffered a mild attack of jaundice, his personal physi- cian disclosed Thursday. Page 10. Atkinson, at the same time, issued a plea ror tne help of doctors "or anyone else" in locating any of the drug "so we can round it up." He asked that anyone with such information call his office in Kansas City. He said FDA regulations require that "records must be I Hnrtnrs who dis- i'1 pense drugs. "Ac we check out the doc- cjfic instructions that they were "for experimental use." More than a hundred persons in Kansas City, including a few pregnant women, have been given thalidomide, Atkinson said.

Reports received so far shQW that al, of the expectant mothers except one have sub- lsequently iven birth to nor mal infants, he said. The re maining woman, who was not identified, is eicht months pregnant. She has been noti- fied. Atkinson said an dui tn Kansas City physicians who received the drug have been contacted, adding that about 30 doctors there had a supply of the drug on hand. Lad Suffocates In a Suitcase GOLDEN MEADOW, LA.

(Pi Kevin Cheramie, 5. suffocated when playmates locked him in an airtight suitcase, officers said. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Cheramie.

Mrs. Cheramie said she noticed Kevin was missing Wednesday and started looking for him. One child heard her calling and said Kevin was in the suitcase. She estimated her son was locked in about 20 minutes. A physician said resuscitation and emergency heart massage failed to revive the lad Space Saver You can save storage space and get extra cash, too.

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50 Your 2-2-S2 ad is easy to order. Phone CH 3-2111. ask for June Bell. Tell her what you have to sell, your price, phone and address. She'll word your ad for best results.

For hard- er-to-sell items, or those requiring more description, you can use additional lines at the same low rate of 50c per line, per day. Charge your ad, of course! 111111 IIIC V--'WI vv.vi. om-pmpH hv Hpmnrmtir institutions and constitutional guarantees. Slashed Wrists The 61 -year-old Jewish psychiatrist previously was expelled from Israel, to which he fled June 26 aboard a French airliner from New York. His journey back was interrupted July 1 when he slashed a wristband his abdomen aboard an Israeli airliner.

He was hospitalized for a time in London, then transferred to Brixton Prison. Brooke said that, but for the self-inflicted wounds, So- blen "would undoubtedly and properly have been refused leave to land and the airplane would have been required to remove him at once on the plane on which he arrived." Plane i nere was no immediate m- uicduun pmnc ouu.L-n would be put aboard. He was an Israe1' AI Plane when he wounded himself. Earlv reports said Soblen would" be leaving Thursday night for New York aboard a Pan American Airways flight but a Home Office spokesman later commented: "I know for a fact that Soblen will not be leaving tonight. Soblen now has reverted to his former status as a person in transit and it is up to El Al Airlines to say when they can take him." At El Al headquarters in London, a spokesman said: "We have received no instructions from the Home Office so far.

We have no intention of transferring Sob-len's ticket to another airline." Brooke's decision was the latest chapter in a tangled ippal case that becan when Soblpn. convicted in a U. S. rourt of wartime srjvine for lhe Soviet Union, jumped bail of $100,000 and flew to Afler amvinS in Israel hjs brmner-s pass. port, he was deported as an illegal immigrant.

Bigot Gross National Product rouiilrv Parson i- "I don't know whether a fellow's worse off if he can't eat meat because he can't afford it or because of his ulcers." gan had been employed in construction work at Page, Ariz. He injured his back in June. Held in the hearing room were Dr. L. J.

Tuveson, D. J. Morgan, Loren G. Shelley, lorgan, Loren G. Shelley, an unidentified coun reponer and Blaine Dunford, a com- mission empoye.

Between 25 and 30 persons work in the same area of the building. fJavv Releases Mo nesdav all 8,343 reserve offi cers and enlisted men called to active duty-crisis last fall. During their the Berlin iu montns or duty the reservists served in such far-flung locales as the Baltic and the South China seas. Many had returned to the country some time ago but were not released from service until Wednesday. Bathing Suit -Weather Back The weather was a bit more like summer Thursday in the Des Moines area.

The mercury dropped only to 67 degrees here during the night, then climbed slowly but steadily during the morning and stood at 83 by early afternoon, fl gM: half-mill cut from Citv Man- ager Elder Gunter's proposed 1963 budget, would put the ritv property tax rate next vpar at 37.76 mills S37.76 for each $1,000 taxable valuation. That is an increase of a little more than a half-mill cornPa" with this year ratpS37.20 for each $1,000 aa budoet tovoVilo valuation but is l.J on juv All of the budget cutting was done by Gunter, follow- nut ing a policy outline set out hv the council in two closed meetings. "Insurance" The one mill emergency levy was proposed as insurance to make certain that city services wouldn't have to be pared in case the city lnsps it; sui! aeainst State rnmntroller Marvin Selden. State Auditor Chet B. Akers.

anrl the State ADoeal Boaid over tne wuv i.t. na been made in Des Moines. The point of dispute is over the city's share of the state moneys and credits tax and what part it plays in computing the tax levy. State law prohibits a city from lewing more than 30 "I don need any head-shrinker from the commis- WASHINGTON. D.

C. sion." he said. The Navy released Wed- Police manned the hallways outside the hearing room and streets around the building, clearing them of curious onlookers. Police said Milligan had gone to the building for a hearing and the five men were attempting to placate him by going ahead with the hearing. In addition, police took Milligan's wife and a son to the hearing room door in an attempt to lure him out.

Phone Line Milligan's only communication with those outside was through a phone line to Police Sgt. Seymour Nealis. After police took the man's son to the hearing room, Milligan told Nealis: "I damn near killed them all. He had to get past you to in. You get him the hell of this building." Clerks in the Industrial Commission.j3ff ice said Milli-i Racketeer and They have much in common, reports high official of Justice Department Page 15 Hassle Over GNP A larlv's argument for including the value of cake www Help Grandma When you and your youngsters go on vacation, it may be a lonely time for grandma and grandpa.

You'll find suggestions for thoughtful ways you can their loneliness cn 16 baking and other housework in figuring the country's.