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Wcoffier: Council Bluffs and vicinity: Fair and cold Tuesday night, low about 18. Wednesday partly cloudy, high mid 30s. on Market Face) KEY to SOUTHWESftRN VOL XCII--NO. 361. COUNCIL BLUFFS.

IOWA: TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1949. PRICE 5 CENTS Snow Blanket on Japanese Misery TOKYO, IP--Heavy snow Tuesday spread a new blanket of misery over central Japan, where eight persons were killed and hundreds left homeless by 20- odd earth tremblers between Sunday night and Monday morning. National rural police said eight were killed and one person was missing. Many were injured but one only seriously. Eighty- six homes and buildings collapsed and 283 others were badly damaged.

Early Tuesday night a 40 second trembler disrupted electric light connections in one Tokyo district. The central meterolo- gical observatory termed the earthquake weak. Its epicenter was about 65 miles north of Tokyo. Mrs. Demptey Stoops and Malinda Ann born'at a local Photo.

first Christmas baby Shoot at 'Donia Auto; Hold Boys Trio Held in Jail for Investigation Malinda Ann Stoops Is First Christmas Baby; 5 Others Born Mrs. Dempsey Stoops, 225 South Twelfth street, visited the maternity ward at Jennie Edmundson hospital Tuesday to get better acquainted i her Christmas present a new daughter, named Malinda Ann. The little miss, weighing six pounds, ounces, has the distinction of being the first child born on Christmas day at a local hospital. She arrived at 12:24 a. m.

The mother feels right at home. She was on duty as a nurse in the pediatrics ward until a week ago. An Abraham Lincoln high school graduate, she has been woxking at the Jennie Edmundson hospital since finishing her nurses training course there in 1948. It is the Stoops'-first child. There were live other new arrivals at local hospitals on Christmas.

Also at the Jennie Edmundson: A son to Mi. and Mrs. Robert Kruse, 1712 Avenue C. A daughter to Mr. and Mrs.

Abe Rose of Carson. At Mercy Hospital: A son to Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Anderson of Pacific Junction. A daughter to Mr.

and Mrs. Leonard Brockman, 1328 Avenue B. A son to Mr. and Mrs. Glendon Lollis.

2456 Sixth avenue. Bus Drivers Strike, and Ottumwans Walk OTTUMWA, --Bus drivers went on strike at 12:01 a. m. here Tuesday, leaving this southern Iowa city of about 35,000 persons without public transportation. A last-minute meeting between company and union representatives Monday night had produced no results.

Thirty-five drivers and eight shopmen of the AFL Bus Drivers union struck against the National City Lines, after the bus firm declined to meet union demands for a 20-cents-an-hour wage increase. The present pay scale is $1.10 all hour. Ottumwa residents went to work afoot and via car pools Tuesday morning. Mayor Hershel Loveless, meantime, met Tuesday morning with the company and planned to confer later in the day with the union. DES MOINES, S--Three youths were being held in the Polk county jail Tuesday for investigation in connection shotgun blasts allegedly fired at a car near Johnston, Monday.

Deputy Sheriff Max Van Rees said the youths held are Robert Shiffer, 18, and Bill Peterson, 15, both of Johnston and Tom Naylor, 15, of Grimes. He said Naylor admitted firing two shots but had no explanation. Van Rees described the incident as follows: Mr. and Mrs. William M.

Donald of Macedonia and Thomas Patterson of Camp Dodge were riding north toward Camp Dodge. An old model car, Donald said, "came along and brushed against our car--it almost forced us into the ditch." Fires At Wheels Donald started in pursuit of the car and when he got within All Americans Make Gains in Quality of Diet Still Much Room for Improvement by Low-Incomers By Howard W. Blakeslee NEW YOSK, Low income Americans are improving their diets, but they still eat less good food than their fellow citizens. This report was made to the American Association for the Advancement of Science Tuesday by Dr. Hazel K.

Stiebeling. More than 2,000 scientific reports the largest number on research ever made at such a gathering are to be made during the six-day meeting, now in its second day. 10,000 Scientists Attend Approximately 10,000 scientists are attending. Dr. Stiebeling, chief of the bureau of human nutrition and home economics of the agriculture department's research administration, said families with incomes of $7,500 or more a year eat about two-thirds more milk and meat than families.

Those with the higher incomes, she said, eat more than twice as much fruit as those with low incomes. And the low incomers eat one- Tito Signs Trade Pact With British BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, -Marshal Tito has a new five- year trade pact with Britain and a tidy budget surplus to bolster Yugoslavia against economic pressure by the Russian-led con- inform. Russia and her eastern Europe satellites have boycotted Yugoslav trade since Tito's break with the kremlin and the new trade agreement tightens Yugoslavia's ties with the west. Yugoslav officials said the trade deal would involve sales totaling $560,000,000 between the two countries. (In London, Britain's board of trade estimated two-way trade under the pact would total in the next five years.) To Begin Moving Arms in February Schedule a Month Behind for Europe WASHINGTON, American officials now estimate that Uni- Toll of Violent Deaths at 579 for the Holiday One Person Killed Every 13 Minifies Over the Week-end (By The Associated Press.) At least 579 violent death! were a grim payment Tuesday for the a i n's three-day Christmas holiday--with another long week-end looming ahead.

One person was killed in traffic, fire or one of a variety of other accidents approximately every 13 minutes during the holiday period from 6 p. m. (local time) Friday until midnight Monday. The biggest killer, as usual, was the automobile with 412. A large portion of them were pedestrions.

Fires killed 66 per sons, many of them children. And children were a among victims of 101 miscel- arms and military will begin moving Betty Knoble, and Fred Nelson the Photo. the horse will be at tenth as much frozen fruits and vegetables than the 87,500 class. Nevertheless, she said, the low income Americans have been making significant gains in diet quality. To do this they are spending two-and-a-half times more now on what they eat than at the beginning of the war.

Last year these same low income people added more meat, poultry, fish and eggs, by about 30 percent. They added 20 percent more milk and its products except butter. They also ate more fresh vegetables and fruits. Revolution Going On Met on the Ex-Rodeo Rider, Bluffs Girl to Wed on Horseback A young couple is getting hitched in Council Bluffs Tuesday night on horseback. They are Betty Knoble, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Louis Knoble, 1013 Sixth avenue, a Fred Nelson, 30, of Omaha. They will up in double harness at an equestrian cere- A revolution is going on in feet of it one of the occupants food agriculture-, said Dr. E. at the Western Riding club leaned out a rear window a stakman University of i fired at Donald's front wheels.

A sota jdent of the American short time later another a Association for the Advancement of Science. This revolution, he said, pro stable, enough room for iorses," he said. "Sure, if we have children they'll ride too." The honeymoon will wait until next July and the rodeo at Cheyenne, Wyo. "I'm going to try the broncs just one more time," Fred says. A reception will be held at was fired.

The Donalds notified the sher- Two Newcomers on Twin Girls Feb. 9, Twin Boys Dec. 26 LOS ANGELES, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Yohai are the proud parents of their second set of twins within 10 months.

Monday, the day after their third wedding anniversary, Jeffrey and Michael were born. Each weighed a little more than five and a half pounds. Mother and babies are reported to be "doing fine." Last Feb. 9 Mrs. Yohai, 27, gave birth to twin girls.

lewan, 103, Dies at Sibley; 1 1 1 Relatives S1BLEY JP One of Iowa's oldest dead. Hans Hohlfsen, 103, died at his home here Sunday after a short 1 He had been a resident of Iowa since 1871, and had lived here the last 22 years. William Rohlfsen, a son, said at Sioux City that he believed his father had more than 111 living direct descendants. Runner-up Honors to Duchess of Windsor NEW YORK ff The 1949 list of the world's 10 best-dressed women was out Tuesday, and it reads a lot like last year's list. Only two newcomers are on the roster of fine fashion.

are bioadway stage star a Martin and Mrs. Kingman Douglas, the former Adele Astaire, of Middleburg, Va. Heading the list for the second consecutive year is Mrs. William Paley, slender, brunette wife if the head of Columbia Broadcasting system. Runners-up, as announced by the New York Dress institute Monday, are: 2.

The duchess of Windsor, of New York and Paris. 3. Mrs. Harrison Williams, New York. 4.

The duchess of London. 5. Mrs. Leland Hayward, the former Mrs. Howard Hawks, of Hollywood.

6. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Washington and New York. 7. Miss Martin, star of "South Pacific," of Norwalk, and New York.

8. Mrs. Byron Foy, New York. 9. Mrs.

Louis Arpels, Paris. 10. Mrs. Douglas. iff's office and the three youths were caught about 3 a.

m. Tuesday after a chase. Van Reese said two were caught in open fields. Donald has filed a reckless driving charge against Shiffer, Van Reese said. No charges had been filed against Naylor and Peterson.

On fne Inside Wrong Addresses Gum UD the Mail Because of wrong addresses, postal clerks have 10,000 post Christmas problems to cope with. See story and picture on page 10. Pretty girls are popular subjects ioi art calendars, but they are outranked by the picture of an 8-year-old boy. An Illustrated story of calendar-making at Bed Oak is on page II. A generalized theory of gravitation is the latest and most senational Einstein discovery.

Story on page 12. Glenwood will be host Jon. 10 to a milking clinic for southwest Iowa dairymen. Story and picture on page 9. Nine lowans died in holiday accidents, according to story on page 10.

Propose Raise for Workers If They Help Cut Costs WASHINGTON, proposal that workers be told they can have a raise if they help cut costs came Monday night from the American Federation of Labor. "Most American managements have never seriously tried toco- operate with unions by submitting cost data and assuring union members of a fair share in the saving that could be made by joint effort to reduce cost," it said. "Some amazing results coulc be accomplished if workers were given week by week cost so could see the results of their efforts, and management agreed to share the sav ings with them, determining the just wage increase by collective bargaining negotiations. "At least a goal could be se' of 7 cents, 10 cents or 15 cents more in wages through cost re duction." The AFL made the suggestion in its publication a r' Monthly Survey." It said the plan could help keep up pur chasing power without causing i general increase in living costs. Epidemic Aboard Ship MELBOURNE, Australia, An epidemic of measles an whooping cough has stricke most of the 201 children aboar the refugee ship, Castlebianc which reached Melbourne Tues day from Naples.

Two of th children died. duces better crops and better food plants and animals at less labor and expense. Today a far- er works less than half as long 50 years ago to produce 100 ushels of wheat. Rust diseases that once des- 'oyed U. S.

wheat at the rate 300.000,000 bushels a year now little serious harm. Farm ma- hinery in the last war freed nough land previously used for eeding farm work animals, to eed sixteen million cattle. Santa Pays Return Delivers Ring MUSKEGON, fP The ay after was just as happy as Christmas at the Robert Dillard ome this year. Santa a jaid a return call, as it were. Sometime during the holidays Mrs.

Dillard lost her 31,000 dia mond ring. Monday she got it lack. Mrs. Miles Olsen found ing, which had fallen into a Christmas package Mrs. Dillard had wrapped and sent to her.

Mild Weather to Continue Wednesday The pleasantly mild weathe: is scheduled to continue here for another day at least, the weatherman says. Skies will be spotty Wednes day, but readings are expected to reach the high 30s. Tuesday night will be fair and cold, with a low reading near 18 The high here Christmas daj was 30. The low early Tuesday was 18. Arctic Training WASHINGTON Trainin for work under simulated arcti conditions will be given than 800 naval reserve engineer and SeaBees during the three months at the army's Cam Hale, high up in Coloardo.

Iowa Traffic Deaths Dec. 27, 1949 56 Dec. 27, 1948 5' stables between Vine streets and roadway, south of reels. Ceremony is at p. m.

Tin: bridesmaid, Miss Vera rippie of Omaha; the best man, Marshall of Council luffs, and Judge Allan Arciell, ho will perform the ceremony, ill all have mounts. omething New For Judge "I've been on a few horses in day," Judge Ardell cautiously' dmitted Tuesday. "But never or a wedding ceremony." Their romance started on the rail ride with the saddle club ast September, Nelson recalls. Nelson is a former west Texas odeo rider. He gave it up after leg injury several years ago drive a truck for an Omaha ransport company.

"I realized right away I'd met he girl for me," he recalled. girls you have to hold heir horses for them hem on and off but not Bety," he added. "She could ride." "We sort of got together, found ve had other interests, too," he aid. couple just completed classes in square dancing spon sored by the city recreation department. "We're going to take ad vanced classes too," added.

To Live On Acreage The idea of the "horsey" wed ding sprang from members of the saddle club when they saw low things were going with Bet ty and Fred. 'There are 150 members," Bet' ty said. "Most of them will be there." The will make its home near Bellevue, where Fred has a house and an acre of land. "I'm going to build a 40 by 40 a i a YMCA after the Former Athlete Dies ABILENE, Cronkite, 38, former Kansas Stat football star and all Big Six con ference end in 1930 and 1931 died at St. Francis hospital i Wichita Monday night.

He suf fered complications after ampu tation of his left leg a montl ago. Transit Strike in Cleveland at End Unionists Bow to Court Injunction CLEVELAND, JP--AFL union- its, bowed to a court injunction uesday and called off the ty's six-day transit strike. By a voice vote, members of he AFL-transit union voted verwhelmingly to abide by an njunction ordering them to give the stiike against the city- wned Cleveland transit system. Busses and street cars were exacted to start rolling almost immediately. The injunction set a p.

m. deadline. Transit officials, however, said to attempt would be made be- ore Wednesday to maintain normal schedules. The unexpected strike by some ,200 persons began early last Thursday. It had paralyzed pubic transportation in the nation's sixth largest city.

To Change Name of Indonesian Capital THE HAGUE, The Netherlands Starting a the name for the capital of the United States of Indonesia will be Jacar- ta instead of Batavia, an Indonesian spokesman said Monday night. Jacarta a "important city." It is the ancient Indonesian name for the big Japanese city. The Dutch renamed the city Batavia when they landed in Java 350 years 'ago. The name is not to be confused with Jogjakarta in eastern Java which as the capital of the Indonesian republic now merged in the United States of Indonesia. ted States equipment to western Europe about Feb.

1 about a month behind schedule. This delayed start means the administration will have only five months to use the $1,000,000,000 congress appropriated to rearm the Atlantic pact countries. Unless the money Is spent or earmarked by June 30, when the fiscal year ends, it will go back to the United States treasury. Rapid-Fire Orders Officials expressed confidence however, that the fund could be spent or allocated within the time limit. Most of the paper already has been done, they said, and the way is clear for rapid-fire orders once arms aid agreements are signed with each country.

Much of the delay stems from the unexpectedly lengthy discus' sions with the British govern ment over explicit terms. Each of the eight Atlantic pact countries that are to get Americanarms must sign separate agreements with the United States which specify how American equipment is to be used in defense of the North Atlantic area. ianeous accidents. the traffic toll was less than the 435 predicted by the national safety council, but Ned H. Dearborn, president of the council, pointed out that the cost in lives paid for the holiday in all types of accidents was higher than the 550 claimed in the Texas City, disaster of two years ago.

Tragedy Replaces Santa Tragedy came to many homes in place of Santa Claus. A mother and her six children per- shed in a fire which swept their small home in San Antonio, Tex. Another Texas family of five was wiped out in an automobile-gasoline truck accident. Texas lead the nation with 55 violent deaths. There were many simple little tragedies.

A 2-year-old girl in East St. Louis, III, choked to death on Christmas candy. In Cleawater, a 12-year-old boy riding a bicycle collided with an automobile and was killed. The driver of the car, enacting the role of Santa Claus, was driving to Largo, to distribute Lord Orr to U. S.

LONDON Lord Boyd Orr, the Nobel prize peace prize winner for 1949, will go to the United States early next month on a lecture tour, the world movement for world federal government announced Tuesday. Windsors in U. $., Wally Says Report on lob' Unfounded NEW YORK, --The duke and duchess of Windson are back in the United States for a while, and the duchess says she is not looking for a job. Asked about reports that she was seeking employment, the former Wallis Simpson of Baltimore said on the couple's arrival here Monday: "I'm afraid that's just a rumor." Then she glanced at the man who gave up the British throne to marry her and added: "I already have a full- time job and I'm not seeking anything." The duke said he had been occupied for some time writing his memoirs. The couple, who arrived on the Queen Elizabeth, said they plan to stay in New York until spring and then go to the duke's Calgary, Alberta, ranch, for the first time since 1941.

It is the couple's first visit to the U. S. in nearly three years. Convicts Tunnel Out of Texas Penitentiary HUNTSVILLE, A posse of 100 officers Tuesday searched a heavily wooded area of east Texas for five convicts who tunneled out of the state penitentiary here. Two other convicts--Cecil Bill Christmas gifts to needy children.

A 14-year-old boy in Martin ton, 111., was fatally shot by his teenage brother when the shotgun their father had given them for i a accidentally discharged. Highway Toll Heaviest But highway accidents took the heaviest toll. The safety council's records show that the toll over the three day holiday was above 'the average. The council said that in the first 10 months of 1949 auto accidents killed an average of 83 persons every 24 hours. The average covers deaths occurring long after the accidents in which the victims were injured.

There were 396 accidental deaths over the 1948 two-day Christmas holiday, including 277 traffic fatalities. Obliterates Display on Waffs of U. S. Consulate in Mukden Ward Wields Paint Brush on Red Propaganda Mrs. William Paley list.

tops the mayor of Mukden and they did not try it again during the year of our detention that followed. But it was a different story with the Mukden club, across the street from us. A paint squad put a slogan on the club's compound wall which said: "Get the American imperialists out of China:" It was some months before that was taken off. On Nov. 18, two days after we were forced to shut down our radio transmitter, I was called Students or political workers approve of them on our build- to the communists' military con-- they were in plain clothes I ing.

I immediately wrote to the trol commission and informed By Angus Ward As Told to Clyde Farnsworth, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer My first personal contact with -the communist occupation of Mukden found me wielding a paint brush in the wake of a communist propaganda squad to obliterate a display on the walls of the U. S. consulate. That was soon after the city was occupied on Nov. 1, 1948.

came to our place and started painting their colorful cartoons and slogans on our walls. I went out myself and took one of their brushes and their bucket of water and washed them It was easy. The drawings were in water colors. And the painter just stood there and watched me. Didn't Repeat Offenses I don't know whether the slogans were anti-American or not, but whatever they were I didn't that at 5 o'clock that afternoon they would come to seize our radio station.

Lecrn of Arrest But they didn't show up until 11:30 a. m. on Nov. 20, when they threw cordons of guards around our consulate and all the consular buildings including residences of the staff. They came into my office with a document which one of our interpreters read to me incorrectly he was so nervous.

In Isom and David Crickett McCullough, serving long terms for robbery--were captured without a struggle some six hours after the escape Monday. Hansen Is Named to Finance Officers Post City Auditor Nels Hansen, 913 Fourth avenue, Tuesday received notification of his appointment as state chairman of the National i i a Finance Officers association. The announcement came from Joseph F. Clarke of Wildwood, N. national president.

Hansen is a past president and member of the board of directors of the Iowa Finance Officers association. Elefson Hearing Jan. 5 at Sidney Special to The Nonpareil LOGAN--District Judge Charles Roe, in Logan Tuesday, set Thursday, Jan. 5 as the date for hearing on an application for a writ of habeas corpus for Lyman The hearing was set for a. m.

at Sidney after Judge Roe had conferred with Warren Schrempp of Omaha, defense attorney. Filing the writ of habeas corpusi at Sidney was scheduled to be completed later Tuesday, according to Jay Leeka of'Thur- man, who is assisting in the defense. Filing of the writ had been delayed pending completion of a transcript of the hearing for Elefson. The latter is accused in connection with the death of his grandfather, Alonzo whose body was found to contain poison. Elefson spent a "quiet Christmas," according to Sheriff A.

S. hristopher of Fremont county. He ate the turkey dinner and "trimmings" served 'to all other prisoners. He also received candy and a robe from relatives. (Continued on Page 3) "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe," so this shortage of houses is nothing new.

Hickenlooper, Jensen on Labor's Blacklist WASHINGTON, Two lowans in congress have been placed on a list by the American Federation of Labor as having "opposed the best interests of workers, fanners and small businessmen" this year. Twenty-six senators and 81 representatives are included on the list which appeared in the weekly paper, "The League Reporter," published by labor's league for political educators, which is the political arm of the AFL. The lowans are Senator Hickenlooper and Rep. Jensen, both republicans. the choicest designs iind the most concise patterns available.

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