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96 sxctions ssctiom cwa C3 mm MS 4 DEATH TREKS Demand State Dept. Cut Global Spending FATAL TO 767, YANKS ASSERT THE ANTIDOTE NEWS SUMMARY OP THE CHICAGO TRIIUHI IA Hitricl SfMiH SEfiATORS HEAR HOIV U. S. AIDS Wadneadtrr April 22. 1353 HUNT VANISHED IRAN NATIONAL POLICE CHIEF STOCK MARKET business outlook 14 Americans to Be Freed Today KOREAN WAR Reveal 867 prisoners died in communist hands.

Page 1 Reds made few converts, says 'a MOVE If) STYLE Illinois marine. Page 2 WASHINGTON World spending defended by state department officials. Page 1 Calumet City Voters Elect ReformMayor Calumet City, notorious for its State st. strip tease joints, elected a new mayor yesterday in one of the chief upsets of multitudinous municipal elections in Cook county suburbs and five other counties in the Chicago area. Of political significance, Wau-kegan and Kankakee again elected Republican mayors, altho Democrats gained two Kankakee aldermen.

In Skokie, where campaigning was unusually intensive. Village President George D. Wilson was reelected. Most of the suburban campaigning was conducted outside the regular party labels. Bejer Wins in Calumet City Stanley E.

Bejger, who was supported by Calumet City elements advocating that the all-night joints on the suburb's State st. be closed, defeated Mayor Frank L. Kaminski, who was seeking a third term on a Progressive Voters ticket. Bejger, son-in-law of former Mayor John Jaranowski, ran as a United candidate with Republican backing. Four years ago Kaminski beat Bejger.

Elected with Bejger in Calumet City were: Clerk, Steve J. Macie- Probers question two on Reds Stocks rise when t-axes are dut Furniture and Cars Makes Night Visit, Fails to Return Shipped Abroad STOCK MARKET Ml I I I I mmaaaammm Stocks foil "when, false war prosperity ends HP OF WAR. jewski, incumbent; treasurer, Rus 0 TAX CUT. 0 am i a BY WILLIAM MOORE I Cblnn Trtbane Ptmi Serrk-el Washington, April 21 State department workers may take their cars abroad with them at the taxpayers' expense. They may take their furniture, too.

One load cost the taxpayers $6,348, and the lng of another cost $16,000. When the furniture gets there, Uncle Sam pays the rent. State department officials told the story of their round the world spending today to a senate appropriations subcommittee. The tale brought from Sen. Ferguson who presided, a call for the department to halve its new 130.5 million dollar budget Sen.

Dirksen HI. said the subcommittee will take a great big ax and cut any item the officials cannot justify. Can't Cut, They Insist 1 But the officials said they can't1 cut a dime from the budget, which is 6 per cent below that of the fiscal year ending June 30. They were speaking of the Eisenhower budget, revised from the 151 million dollar budget submitted by former President Truman. The revision is part of an effort to balance the budget and cut taxes.

The two belong toqctKer. i 3 Orphaned HIS EAP TROUBLE SPELLS DITTO TO ILLINOIS SENATOR Driver Takes 4 Month Spree inStolenTruck George Meuret, 35, was busy explaining to police yesterday at Harvard and Yale. Page 4 Can't tolerate threat to basic law. D. A.

R. told. Page 5 Grunewald quizzed on fee from New York utility. Page 18 FOREIGN Chief of Iran's national police vanishes in the night. Page 1 Three orphaned by air crash win $91,000 in England.

Page 1 Group offers plan for better defense at less cost. Page 9 Queen Elizabeth observes her 27th real birthday. Page 22 LOCAL Policemen finish the saga of a wayward truck. Page 1 Reform mayor elected in Calumet City as suburbs vote. Page 1 Tavern license mystery bared by fatal teen fight.

Page 18 Nine recommended for three school board posts. Page 20 Better rooms pageant offers new look for old rooms. Page 20 Coroner names 24 subpenaed in factory fire inquest. Page 27 Deaths and obituaries. Page 26 AMERICAN Bar groups would let voters decide on judicial reforms.

Page IS Stratton OK's toll highway authority legislation plan. Page 14 Sanitary district offered plan for special tax. Page 15 SPORTS SECTION Sox chase five Detroit pitchers to win, 7 to 5. Page 1 George Sauer of Baylor joins All-Star coaching staff. Page 1 Braves and Cubs meet today in Wrigley field.

Page 1 Grimm and Pafko return to scene of triumphs today. Page 1 BUSINESS SECTION Share owners get reports of gains in business. Page 7 U. S. long term bonds slide to record lows.

Page 7 Brownell files civil suit in world oil cartel case. Page 7 FEATURES Abe Martin Page 19 By the Way Page 19 Crossword puzzle Page 3 Day by Day on the Farm Page 26 Drama, music, movies. Part 2 How to Keep Well Page 24 Line o' Type or Two Page 24 Rimes and Remnants Page 24 TV-Radio programs Page 20 Today with Women Part 2 CARTOONS Aggie Mack, Pt. 3, p. All in Sport.

Spt. Brenda Starr. Pt. 2, p. Caesar, 10; Dennis the Menace, Pt.

2, p. Dick Tracy. 22; Ferd'nand, 15; Gasoline Alley, Pt. 2, p. Harold Teen, 16; King Aroo.

16; Laughing Matter. 24; Little Lulu, 10; Moon Mullins, Spt. Mostly Malarky, Nuts and Jolts. Orphan Annie, 22; Peanuts, Pt. 2, p.

Smilin' Jack, Pt. 2, p. Smitty, 16; Terry, 22; The Dailysf Pt. 2, p. The Gumps, 16; The Neighbors.

24; Timmy. 22; Twin Earths, 22; Winnie Winkle. Pt. 2. p.

4. EDITORIALS The Truck License Program; A Heartening Speech; The Menard Whitewash; New Fashions in Dictatorship. 2 (Want ad Pt. 2, pp. 8 19) how he stole a huge trailer truck four ago, irove it 10.000 miles without in- ident, and earned so much money with it that he made a Chlcaca Trlbaac Press Service Springfield, 111., April 21 Sen.

Lottie Holman O'Neill R-, Downers Grovel is accustomed to strange letters, as are most legislators, but today's mail was most baffling. It included this copy of a letter sent to a mail order house in Chicago: Gentlemen: I bought several union suits, heavy cotton, long legs, short sleeves. 44 The rear flaps were so economically designed that I have been sitting on the flap button all winter. "Yours truly, Harry E. Entler." TEHRAN.

Iran, April 21 (JP) Resources of all Iran's security forces were thrown today into a hunt for the national police chief. Brig. Gen. Mahmood Afshartus, 45, who vanished last night in the heart of Tehran. Radio Tehran announced a reward of 500,000 rials about is offered for information on Afshartus, a relative by marriage and supporter of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh.

The cash for the reward will be collected by officers and men of the Tehran army division, in which Afshartus was an officer before taking the police post late last year. House to House Search His disappearance came after a week of political tension, marked by charges between Premier Mossadegh's government and its opponents and by rumors of intrigue. Mossadegh ordered a special commission of the national security council created to handle the case- The neighborhood in which Afshartus was last seen was surrounded today while police and troops made a house to house search. Several persons were reported arrested for questioning. Disturbed by Letter The police chiefs secretary reported Afshartus went to the office later than usual yesterday.

In his mail was a letter which obviously disturbed him. He ordered a car and was driven to a neighborhood near the parliament building. He told his driver to wait at the nearby district police station. The driver waited until early this morning and then reported the chief's disappearance. Foreign Minister Hossein Fatemi told a news conference Afshartus left in the car a gun he habitually carried.

It was Afshartus who directed the arrest of a group of army officers, newspaper editors, and others after Mossadegh's narrow escape in the Feb. 28 riots. He is reported also to have made a number of enemies as secretary of the commission which named army officers for retirement under a recent army shake-up order. Martial Law in Strike Area Martial law was declared today at Kermanshah, where employes of a small oil refinery have been on a sitdown strike for four days. Mounting tension, marked by several demonstrations, was responsible for the government's action.

Kermanshah is about 260 miles southwest of Tehran. All the refinery's workers except those in the electrical department struck to protest the dismissal of several employes. They also are demanding higher pay. The strikers threatened to destroy the plant if forced out, CLAIM SUCCESS WITH ROCKETS sell J. Cadman; magistrate, Joseph W.

Nowak, incumbent; aldermen, 1st, Joseph W. Wilhelm; 2d, Frank Magdziasz; 3d, Paul Okraj; 4th, Robert F. Berwanger; 5th, James C. Stinson. Magdziasz was the only Democrat elected.

Waukegan Mayor Reflected Mayor F-obert E. Coulson of Waukegan won a second term, 6,059 to 4.893, over Walter Hallen, Democratic alderman. Reelected with Coulson were Clerk Edward R. Holmberg and Treasurer Robert F. Williams.

In the new council, Republicans will have 11 aldermen to three democrats. The old council was Republican, 9 to 5. Aldermen elected yesterday were: 1st, Joseph G. Keber 2d. Aid.

Russell J. Schoenke and for vacancy Earl E. Cashmore 3d, Daniel E. Poirier 4th, Joseph S. Welch 5th, Aid.

Rudolph W. Haas 6th, Jack Smith R.1, and 7th, Murray R. ConTTlman R. Waukegan voted 5,623 to 3.713 to issue $350,000 in bonds to build a garbage incinerator plant, but defeated. 4.551 to 4,067, a proposal to get funds to operate it by increasing the garbage tax.

Madison Victor in Kankakee Ed P. Madison was elected Republican mayor of Kankakee, 5,024 to 4.053, over Democrat E. Erickson. Madison will replace Albert F. Hattenburg.

Republican mayor for 16 years. Kankakee Republicans reelected Clerk J. W. Laffey and elected Edward P. Drolet treasurer and Paul F.

Davidson magistrate. Aldermanic winners: 1st, Leo Klo-nowski 2d, Aid. Harry She-key 3d, Charles A. Lock wood Jr. 4th, Aid.

Albert J. Stang 5th, George L. Pomon 6th. Aldermen Henry W. Wulffe and 7th, Maurice Deneau D.

By gaining two seats. Democrats will have six of 14 aldermen. G. O. P.

Splits in Skokie The Skokie campaign witnessed a split in Republican ranks. Wilson, who ran on a Home Rule ticket, polled 4,789 votes to 3,899 for City Clerk Peter J. Struck, who headed a Republican slate in opposition. Both are Republicans on state and national issues and ran on the same ticket in Skokie four years ago. Struck was second low on his ticket.

The vote, (Piciarmm an pmgm 2 mnd back PANMUN JO Korea, April 22 Wednesday (rP) Eighth army sick and wounded, back in freedom today, told bitter stories of death marches, disease, and hunger that killed at least 867 Americans and South Koreans in Red captivity. Of these, it is estimated 767 perished in four death marches. A feeling grew that the Communists may be holding back some of the seriously disabled they had promised to send home. The Communists today said they would return 14 Americans, five Australians, six Colombians, and 75 South Koreans in the exchange tomorrow Wednesday evening Chicago time. The 14 Americans will bring the total of United States troops returned to 79, about two-thirds of the 120 the Reds have promised to return.

Teic of the prisoner exchange appears on Page 3.1 As the exchange program went into its third day here with the return of more South Koreans, outspoken 8th army repatriates unfolded their stories of what happened. Promises to Tell Story Pvt. William G. Moreland, 23, of Atlanta told of a 300 mile forced march that began with 700 men and ended with only 289 alive. He said he had some were kicked over cliffs, but had not seen that.

Moreland said he promised his buddies left behind that he would tell the story when freed. He said the month long march started at Bean camp near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang after he was captured in May, 1951. It ended in a prison camp at Changsang. Moreland. a 2d division GI, was captured near Hwachon reservoir in central Korea when his division bore the brunt of the communist offensive.

He was returned because of stomach trouble. Three Other Death Marches Other Americans told of three more forced marches in which 156 Americans and 200 South Koreans died. A Turkish prisoner estimated 100 Americans died of starvation in his camp alone. Prisoners released yesterday also told of other sick and wounded still in prison camps, many not even in hospitals, who were in far worse condition than those returned Monday and Tuesday. Their stories of life in Red stockades contrasted grimly with the mild accounts given Monday by the first group of repatriates.

Corp. Orville R. Mullins, Covington, Ky, said he survived a death march which began in August, 195L after the armistice talks had begun. The first prisoners returned on Monday had said treatment improved after the negotiations opened. Mullins said that, of 162 who started on the march north from Pyongyang, 101 had died up to a year ago.

Pass Russlaa Soldiers "We passed two Jeep loads of Russian soldiers," he related. They stopped us on the road and tried to get our guards drunk so they would shoot us." While he could not understand the language, Mullins said he could tell by signs that the Rus-rians were trying to get the communist guards to mow down the prisoners. A similar story was told by Pvt. Roger Herndon, Jacksonville, Fla, who said he was in a death march in the bitter cold of November, 1950. Only 60 of the 100 who set out arrived at Red stockades.

Herndon, whose wonunded hand was amputated by Chinese doctors eight days before the march, fgid the faisoners walked for pina Mrarrt payment on a house in PJce Lake, Wis. It all started, he said, when the Chicago trucking company for which he worked detailed him on the day before Christmas to drive the $25,000 vehicle to Rutherford, N. with a load of goods. Meuret delivered the cargo, collected $221 from the consignee, and on the spur of the moment decided to go into business for himself. Rolls Up Dollars His business was aided by the fact that the H.

T. Ryerson company of 2071 Grove which owned the truck, waited patiently for it and him to return without complaining to police. Meanwhile, Meuret rolled up the miles and the dollars. Seven or eight times he parked the big cargo carrier in front of his home at 4116 Gladys av. overnight, and other times he left it elsewhere in the city.

Monday night he had the bad luck to leave it at Congress st. and Keeler a lonely area in which the buildings are being demolished for construction of the Congress st. super-highway. Cop Get Curious Detectives William Kennedy and Joseph Swee saw it and became by Air Crash Win $91,000 (Pictmrm an pmg0 4) tCktcac Trfbanc frcs Bcrrlrcl LONDON, April 21 The British air ministry today was ordered to pay $91,000. the largest sum ever awarded in an English court as accident damages, to the three orphaned children of a Highland Park, 111., couple.

The couple, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Michaels, who were going on a vacation to Scotland, were killed with 12 other passengers when a British European Airways air liner collided with a British air force plane over Exhall, near Coventry, in February, 1949. The children, Joseph Michaels, now 25; Barbara Michaels, 22. and Stephen Michaels, 16, sued the air ministry, which admitted liability.

Judge James Cassels in the London high court approved the settlement. Hartley Shawcross, a former attorney general, addressed the court in behalf of the children. Oa Way to Million At the time of his death, Shawcross said, Joseph Michaels Sr. was 46 and a director of an established family business in the steel and scrap trade. He held one-third of the common stock.

His iwo brothers held the remainder. Joseph's income was about $70,000 a year and had he lived he would now have been a millionaire, Shawcross said. Stories about divorces in America are often heard, Shawcross said, but publicity is rarely given to the strong family ties and the devotion to children typical of American family life. With his wife, who made a corresponding will, Michaels provided for the possibility of an accident in which both he and his wife might die together. The wills showed an intention to divide among his children whatever money might become available.

Futures Altered The attorney said that Joseph Jr. cut short his university education to enter the family business at a modest salary. Barbara is still studying." the attorney said. Unfortunately, Stephen will need care in some kind of home. Hi father had planned to provide an annual income of $7,500 for him." The Judge said that, subject to the British government's exchange control regulations.

$14,000 would go to Ralph Michaels, one of the dead man's brothers, as Stephen's The department actually plans to spend more than twice the amount it is asking, since an extra 136 million dollars is not shown in the budget. Of this, 95 million dollars is expected to come from funds appropriated for international information and education activities and 41 millions from appropriations for government in occupied areas. Subcommittee members asked why foreign service workers cannot rent furnished apartments. Thinking of round trip furniture shipments, the senators said it would be cheaper to buy workers new furniture than ship their old. But Leland King, the department's director of foreign building operations, defended the system.

2,237 Work in Paris Subcommittee members expressed amazement at the size of the department's global operations. Dirksen brought out that the department and related agencies have 2,237 Americans on the payroll in Paris alone. Sen. Ellender La. and others sought all day to find out what the great staffs in foreign lands da, outside of what Ferguson called "red tape work and paper shuffling." Dirksen tried repeatedly to get an answer from John H.

Bon-bright, deputy assistant state secretary for European affairs, as to what his employes do. Bonbright was the man Dirksen warned about the "great big ax," but Bonbright only promised to supply a statement later. When questions got too hot, the officials said they could not answer publicly, because national security required secrecy, but would answer as fully as they could behind closed doors. Hits Point 4 Program One phase of the world-wide spending brought from Ellender the charge that the department is establishing socialistic systems in other countries thru its point 4 technical assistance program. Ellender, who toured South America last summer, told his colleagues he found cooperative organizations known as servicios," operated there with American funds under a system established Nelson Rockefeller when Rockefeller was coordinator of inter-American affairs.

American money, Ellender said, la used to finance from eight to THE WEATHER WEDXESDT. Aran- 22. 15S of the $91,000 would be divided between Joseph Jr. and Barbara. Everett Michaels of Highland Park, also a brother of the dead man, attended the court hearing.

"The money will be invested in the trust fund for the children," he said. SET UT MEMORIAL FUND Joseph E. Bud Michaels was vice president and secretary of the Hyman-Michaels S'eel company, 122 S. Michigan av. He and his wife were followers of symphonic activities in Ravinia park, and a few months after their death, friends subscribed to a Michaels Memorial fund that sets up an annual $L000 scholarship to give an outstanding young musician a period of musical study at the school of his choice.

It is administered by a committee headed by Ralph Michaels. BOY, 2, DROWNS AS DOG'S BARKS SUMMON HELP A 2 year old boy was drowned yesterday in a fish pond near his home north of Aurora, in Kane county, despite efforts of his dog to alarm neighbors and avert the tragedy. The victim was John Edward Swanson, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Robert T.

Swanson, who reside in Sullivan 1H miles north of Aurora. The boy's father, who is 26 and an employe of a brush manufacturing company, said the child wandered from the back yard of the Swanson home and apparently within minutes fell into the pond, 250 feet away in a neighbor's yard. The frantic barking of the boy's dog. Tina, led another neighbor to the pond, where he found the child's body face down in the water. Continued ca pge column 1 CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Partly cloudy; high, 74; low, 50; southerly winds 15 to 25 m.

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Elliott, vice president of North American Weather Consultants of Pasadena, CaL, said four rockets carrying silver iodide were launched here Sunday. He said it was the first time rockets had been used to seed rain clouds. Half an hour after the first rocket was shot into the air. curious. They checked with the Ryerson company, discovered it was stolen, and then returned to Congress and Keeler, only to find the truck gone.

But they located it again yesterday, being loaded with frozen eggs valued at $30,000 at the dock of Sol Rich 1131 Fulton st. Meuret walked in to drive the cargo to New Jersey, but instead was driven to the detective bureau- Rich complained bitterly, meanwhile, that his eggs would spoil, but Howard Ryerson, head of the trucking firm, solved that problem when he arrived to claim his truck. He jumped in the cab, started the motor, and headed for New Jersey. WTTv-AAJt fV 7 Si IBica. tVtw.

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