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Sunday Edition Single Copy lOc THE SALINA JOURNAL 40 PAGES INCLUDING COMICS 83rd YEAR No. 330 SALINA, KANSAS, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1954 Kansas Bank Robbed was reported stolen in Lincoln, car was a mile north of highway 96. The bandits entered the bank Wednesday. It was found by just 10 minutes before its noon two state highway patrolmen. Bareheaded, Unmasked "The bandits apparently made a closing time and took only a few moments to pull the job.

They were bareheaded and unmasked. One stood at the door. quick switch to another car," other, carrying a out." money from the vault. The bandit made no effort to rifle the tellers' cages. He quickly herded five bank em- ployes and two customers into the vault, slammed the door and announced: "The first one sticking his head out will get his brains However, Farris said lie stepped out of the unlocked vault and telephoned the sheriff the moment OSWEGO, Nov.

27 (AP)--Two shotgun, said: bandits took about $9,300 in a holdup of the American! An J' bod make a false move State Bank here today forced seven rations into a vault and a11 go lo helll and fled in a persons into a vault He dcmanded all the big bills (he men left lhe bank in a car. I --lens and twenties." The bandits' car was found a' shenff said lom ht and so far i Frank Farris, mayor of Oswego half-hour later in a wooded area a i )iavent Jocated an ne iand vice president of the bank, mile north and a mile east of Oss a them do lL The abandoned. handed the gunman bundles wego, its motor still running. Sheriff John Burris said the car "No one saw the bandits after they finished the job," the sheriff said. "The car was stolen Wednesday in Nebraska and the bank was closed Thursday, so the didn't have much time to 'case the bank.

They must be profes sionals who don't need muc time." The FBI entered the investiga lion because the bank carried fee eral deposit insurance. Sunday Windy Monday Cloudy Founded February 16, 1871 Yes, The Pruzzle Can Be Won--It's Been Done The Pruzzle can be won! A Hutchinson newspaper which done by her husband. He is runs the Pruzzle under the Hamilton county attorney. priate name of "Little Stinker" divided a big pot Saturday between two contestants, Mrs. Ramon Bird, Albert, and Mrs.

Cecil H. Both solved Pruzzle No. 6. Mrs. Bird, who sent in 64! mitted part of her brain work was the re- The Hutchinson newspaper ceived 72,583 entries.

A Topeka newspaper also conducts the contest, with its winners, if any, announced today. A Denver newspaper paid off a en'ries, said she was helped by; award last week. her mother-in-law. Husband Helped The Journal's Pruzzle No. 7 may be found on page 19 of this edition Mrs.

Frey, who sent in 60, ad-IPossible prize money totals $210. Pruzzle No. 7 On Page 79 Admits Poisoning Her 5ih Husband (Another story on page 29.) TULSA, Nov. 27 Iff)--A year-old Tulsa grandmother told police tonight she fed rat poison to her fifth husband five days be-! fors his death Oct. 6, Capt.

Harry St-jge said. shortly before he died in 1952, and of her mother who died the day before Mrs. Doss left for Emporia to marry Morton. Lanning's death also had been attributed to a coronary condition. Doss said she married Braggs in 1921 and divorced him in 1929.

She said she had a daughter by Braggs and one by Lanning. Authorities said Mrs. Doss had been made the beneficiary of small, insuran ce policies by her husbands. tdd questioners she had Mt i coUected on Doss 'f Early Denial early part of her Mrs. Nannie Doss.

Stege report- Mrs. Doss later appeared weary and -more serious. But she stead- ed, admitted after nearly 24 hours maintained she of off-and-on qui that she ipossessed of kind dropped he poison in never poison anyone, I mar- Doss Doss ,8 was the rjed those woman ourth husband to die. th not for The first spouse, Charlie ed was reported living at Alabama, fiheriff AJ City Ala. The other husbands said me( Mor in Lexington, N.

tm on a transcontinental bus. She! Jacksonvdle Fla and Tuba. sajd she beoame County Atty. J. Howard Edmond-, Doss th an ht months cor son said he received a report to- respondence jn night that a fifth husband marded DQSS Harrelson, died in 194a of what was believed food poisoning.

Sheriff A. I A. Pate of Jacksonville was quoted) as saying Harrelson's 2V4-year-old grandson died of a similar cause' two months before Harrelson. Probe Another Death Edmondson said the woman, Mrs. Nannie Doss, denied knowing' Youth Navy To Sugar Navy whipped Army, 27-20 Saturday afternoon before 100,000 football fans at Philadelphia and won a bid to meet Mississippi in the Sugar Bowl.

It will be Navy's first bowl appearance in 30 years. Mississippi downed Mississippi State, 14-0 to win the Southeastern title. In the only other official action by the Nation's bowl selectors, Georgia Tech was choosen as Arkansas's opponent in the Cotton Bowl. Georgia Tech beat Georgia, 7-3, Saturday. An Orange Bowl opponent for Nebraska is expected to be named Sunday.

The choice lies between Maryland and Duke, which smothered North Carolina 47-12. An announcement on the Gator Bowl at Jacksonville, is expected Sunday. In other games Saturday, Notre Dame rallied to beat Southern California, 23-17; Oklahoma had its hands full with traditional rival, Oklahoma Ag- gies, but won 14-0 and Arkansas beat Houston, 19-0. (Details in sports section, pages 17-20) Weather KANSAS-- Partly cloudy Sunday, older, moderate to strong north- rly winds with local areas of lowing dust in west, highs in 40s orthwest to around 50 southeast: londay partly cloudy, colder ortheast. SALINA WEATHER SaturdayDowntown: at midnight 36.

City Airport: 11:30 pm! 36; Min. 30; Max 60; Max. Friday 58. CAA reported 11:30 pm; Barometer 28.18 rising; Wind west 5 mph; Relative humidity 62 percent. Lowest this date -12 in highest 73 in 1933.

Sunday--Sunrise set 5:10 pm. 1887; TWIN DAUGHTERS of Mr. and Mrs. D. T.

Backstrom, RFD 1, hail the first haircuts of their lives over the weekend. That's Ellen, left, and Susan, 9. You'd hardly know them now without their pigtails. See picture at hottom of page. (JOURNAL PHOTOS) Mention Of Chambers Only Bitter Note For Freed Hiss By Leonard A.

Unger LEWISBURG, Nov. 27 (AP)--Alger Hiss, looking grim and rather haggard but appearing confident, walked to freedom today, asserting- he was "com- jpletely innocent" of the charges that he helped Corn- 7:28 am- Sun- munlst les am; 5:10 pm. Airport Tcmpbralurra (By A A KANSAS CITY, Nov. the circumstances surrounding 1 31 llr Persons were killed to-j death of her latest mate, Samuel ni gW in a two-car collision at the Doss, 58, of Tulsa. An autopsy intersect ion of highways 73 andijjJIOy he died last month of pore- 24 40 we st of here.

3 CROWDED CHOW of Capt. and Mrs. F. L. Ooetz, 713 Cherokee, doesn't have i enough i (o take rare of all nine of her hungry pups.

Donna Goetz, 4, and sister look on. The pups were born i i A i on page 5. (JOVH- PHOTO) Saturday 12:30 am 1:30 2:30 3:30 4:30 5:30 6:30 7:30 110:30 111:30 pm 1:30 39j 2:30 36 3:30 3C 34 31j 6:30 44 7:30 351 9:30 A stretch of 3Va yeras behind the bars of Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary ended with an avowal by the 50-year-old former State Department aide that he meant to "vindicate my name" of the stigma of a conviction for perjury when on he was peppered by waiting newsmen with questions--about his past and future. Hiss carefully framed his answer: "I am very glad to use this chance," he said, "the first I have had in nearly four years, to re- Russell Duck he denied before a federal grandjasscrt my complete innocence jury that he ever gave state se-ifrom the charges that were crests to Red spies. brought against me by Whittakcr Wins Parole Chambers." Hiss was sentenced in five! Latc Hiss went into family the day before yesterday," he said to a'crowd of newsmen and photographers.

"This is my Thanksgiving. I would like to have mine with my family." Chambers, formerly a senior editor of Time magazine now living in retirement on a farm in Westminster, accused Hiss of being a member of a Communist party group. Chambers accused Hiss also of turning over secret Slate Department documents. siege began. international Airport and Long! jjy oning.

Officers also are trying to learn more about the death of another husband, Richard L. Morton 69, of Emporia. Edmondson said his body had been exhumed and tests are being conducted to de- Two persons were in each car. The dead were identified by officers as Harry Sprague 21, of McPherson, a University of Kansas student; Ronald Lady, 22, Muncie, Burl W. Enloe, 44, and his wife, Martha, 42, of Many Accidents Beach Airport were socked in for the third night last night and Lockheed Air Terminal at Burbank was forced to reduce its operations.

Chambers In Statement The telephone at the Chambers farm rang, unanswered, today but a newsman managed to gain en- to fivel today inss went am a a stalcmenU years but won parole, as provided.elusion at his apartment in ped pcrs0 nally by Chambers on under the law, because of City's Greenwich Village, de- a scra letter paper, saying: behavior. He'll have to to answer all questions! LOS. ANGELES, Nov. 27 (ffi Snips operated cautiously in the ze monthly to a federal officer for'about his plans. "I imagine you all had your HAYS, Nov.

27 lne next ar and a a mond Dumler, 38, Russell, When he emerged from the dinner with drowned today when his boat cap-1 "The saddest single fact about the Hiss case is that nobody can change the facts as they are vour known." Thick fog, compounded by area, where visibility wasijyuff a near here on Cedar blanketed most Southern Calif or- nea zero nia coastal areas today and the Many Accidents and the number of injuries! since Wednesday night when the termine the cause of death on May i Kansas City, Mo. (Weather Bureau predicted more of 18, 1953, of what was then believed Deputy Sheriff Richard Weakleyi the same for tomorrow. 3 heart lment (said Sprague and Lady were in I The traffic accident total rose to Mrs. Doss, a stocky, an eastbound able woman, has repeatedly denied an( knowing about the deaths. Nearly rar tnrnmo- ft 71 vat I a Uil i to.

a dozen weary officials, including officers from Oklahoma and Kansas, have quizzed her since her arrest Friday. She is being held without charge. Leave Sunday Edmondson a i investigators are leaving Sunday for Lexington to check into the deaths there of another husband, Harley Lanning, 54, who married Mrs. Doss Mysterious Calls Frustrate Two other men, in the boat with! Dumler, were able to swim to; I Eye-smarting smog, trapped byj shore Duraler was unab t(J i 5' I VfU an inversion of warm air on lo and wore no jfe preserver js College) received a call Ul of cool air, continued to plague I cnrvfvoH hv hio r- i i i otherwise seemed in good hu- by his widow and four Salma's two Fred Browns Fred Brown (on Ohio) ask.ng mQf and photographers Fred Brown. 414 S.

College, a unidentified caller had bolher- His companions said Ihe boatj a cousin, Fred Brown, living at 111 de him fFred Brown on College) Hiss, of course, doesn't agree--as he reiterated he was innocent of any Later in New York, the mention of Chambers brought the only note of bitterness in the voice of Hiss, Los Angeles basin. Forecast- children the smog may This Morning's Headline News Hiss free, reiterates his innocence, Page 1. Complete rest ordered for Pope, Page 29. New 'vigilance' campaign begins in Russia, Page 29. Bandits get $9,300 at Oswego bank, Page 1.

Knowland asks blockade of China, Page 5. Struggle to save trapped seamen, Page 5. The fog-smog invasion caused countless freak accidents and inci dents. Dear Sal- The only things on the sunny side in smog-bound California these days are the eggs. Yours, Ina Christmas Is All Around Us Already ll I By Lil Johnson "Throngs are in the stores shopping gaily for Christmas gifts.

Let's have a nice story about it," said the man at The Journal's front desk to the reporter with blisters on his feet. "There's nothing gay about Christmas shopping," the desk- bound reporter muttered, still hopeful that the boss could be talked around. "And let's make this gay and light," he said without hearing the interruption. "Let's have human interest. The sidelights that make the Yulctide a special time for everyone from the little ones to bearded old gentlemen.

tell about the old grandmother using licr butter and egg money to buy gifts for the youngsters in the family, about the little children looking at the many toys but too shy to touch them, let's--" Defeated, the reporter gave his typewriter a pat and was off. Christmas was in the air, all right. Even the conversation of shoppers going from store to store. "I got my daughter-in-law a plastic cover for her washing machine," one was saying. Her comrade-in-arms had equally sensible ideas.

"I'm. getting mine some hose. Not these 52 whatever they 'are but some heavier ones that ought to last her awhile." In onr store, two adults were caressing a life-like doll. "I wanna walking doll," their old companion wan In another store, the reporter made his way to Santa Claus. "Watch that bicycle, bud." he muttered as one youngster raced past his "corns.

"Also, you there, quit blowing that horn in my ear. I want to arrange with this gay old sprite for a Caddy convertible." Santa Busy He had been mighty busy Saturday and Friday night, Santa said. Kids have been crowding around him every minute. a a beard-spreading smile was no wider than those of Salina's merchants. "The take-off is much better than a year ago," said one department store head.

"It's strong all the way through gifts, toys and wearing apparel as well as furniture. People are buying!" He added that his toy department Friday afternoon had had one of its biggest days. Another manager said that business on Friday, opening day of the Christmas season, was at least 25 percent, above last year. He noted a trend toward practical things. All through the stores can be seen the "human interest" angles that the editor craved to hear about.

There were grandmothers, holding up little outfits trying to figure out how high up the 4-year old would measure. Sweaters were being bought by mothers for college girl daughters. One woman was wondering it wine bottle would be a good gift to give that elderly woman on her shopping list. Kids buzzed the wind-up toys on the floor, women fingered and bought 'lingerie (the male customers for these will be in Dec. 24), men stood by while the women folks looked and bought.

The shiny street decorations sparkled high above the crowds. Yes, Christmas has hit downtown Salina. And, boss, it'll be more so up to and including Dec. 24. capsized when they all stood up to fire at a flock of ducks.

Journal Directory Building Children's Page Cuff Stuff Deaths Dr. Crane Editorials Farm I Oil News 151 Pruzzle Radio, TV S. Ohio. Early Saturday morning--it was any further. "No," said Fred Brown (on When a reporter told him Chambers had been quoted recently as saying Hiss would have a hard time getting a job, Hiss retorted: "Was that his (Chambers') hope or a statement?" Ohio), "you called me about! Al Ule rison nis i son and 12:10 this morning to tell me a two Iawver friends-Chester Lane shortly after midnight Fred! College).

"How did you know Brown (on College) was called about (he phone call?" from his bed by the telephone, i "Why, Fred," said Fred Brown i "Pay me the money you owe," an unidentified voice demanded. Fred Brown (on College) replied it At least, somebody did." and fiobcrt Benjamin--met him in- Fred Brown (on College swears side and walkcd wilh him trough 5j Sports 17 to 20J he didn't owe the voice any didn't call Fred Brown the main gate fo freedom. Mo- Tip Winners 4 Women. 9 to 13 hung up the phone and went back 1 Ohio) in the past several weeks Iater Hiss steadily, 'and took his story to the Salina was engulfed in waves of reporters to bed. At 8 am Saturday, Fred Brown! police.

After: SAME GIRLS? Yep, they're the Backstrom twins, without 14 inches of hair. Streamlined hairdo is becoming, don't yon think? Their dad fo athletic director at Kansas Weslcyan. and photographers. he made a brief informal statement. Chooses Words He spoke extemporaneously and appeared to have chosen his words carefully.

He spoke nearly two minutes without interruption. Afterwards newsmen fired questions at him. H.e replied lo some, ignored most of the others. The lines about his lean jaw tightened and harshness crept into his voice as he mentioned Chambers' name. After saying "This is not a press conference, although it looks very much like one," Hiss went on: "I have only one other thing I want to say at this time.

That is I shall resume my efforts to dispel the deception that has been foisted on the American people. I shall renew those efforts with more enthusiasm because I am confident that their success will not only vindicate my name, relieve my family of harassment, but will assist in the allaying of the hysteria and fear of these clays." Hiss tried lo parry further questioning with a terse "no more.".