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WeatKer Partly Cloudy THE HUTCHINSQN NEWS-HERALD KIMV-FM Tonight Rutchlnson vs. RprlnefleM at Night Editor after ballgame. 78TH YEAR NO. 305 HUTCHINSON, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1950 SINGLE 5c Tornado Rips Veterans Housing West Germans Denounce Red Bonn, Germany (AP) Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer charged Friday that 114 million German, are still missing in the Soviet Un ion. He demanded, in the name humanity, that the Kremlin ac count for their fate.

Adenauer made a special appear ance before the west German par liament after he learned of Thurs day night's Soviet announcemen that repatriation of German war prisoners had been completed. Hie Soviet statement dashed the hopes of families of hundreds thousands of missing soldiers. II came as a great shock to the wes German capital. Many politicians viewed it as a severe blow to the Communist party in the west When a Communist deputy got up to answer Adenauer virtually the entire body of lawmakers with the exception of three Communist deputies present and three others walked out. the official Soviet news agency, said the last group of war prisoners 17,538 of them had been returned to Germany But Adenauer told parliament that German figures show about I 1 million Germans are still lefl Inside Russia.

He added: "These terrible figures must be cleared up. This Is an appeal to the humanity of all Adenauer used Soviet figures to support his claim. He said that in 1945 Tass reported 3Mj million Ger mans held in Russia. Thursday night's announcement said 1,939,063 war prisoners had been repatriated. The chancellor said that Etill leaves more than million unaccounted for.

Washington (AP) State department officials Friday labeled as "fantastic and absurd" Russia's claim that it has repatriated all German war prisoners. They estimated that the s- are holding "at least" 200,000 German troops in forced labor and prisoner of war camps. Continue Liquor Case Kansas City (AP) Charles V. Carrollo, former underworld king pin, and three others were given a week's continuance Friday in their arraignment on federal charges of operating an illegal wholesale liq uor business. The Weather KaiWM Partly cloudy with shifting winds, and considerable blowing dust this afternoon; western winds 80 per how and over; cooler east, partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with diminishing winds; cooler east portion tonight and Saturday; nigh this afternoon JOSS northwest to near southeast; low tonight near 30 north- weft to 40 southeast; high Saturday near 80 north to 60 south.

Forecast for May 5-10: Kansas Quite cold Saturday and Sunday, alow warming Monday and Tuesday, cooler Wed- needay; temperatures will average below seasonal normal; showers and thunderstorms moatly east portion, occurring mostly Sunday and Sunday night and again Wednesday, average fair very light southwestern KantM. ranging upward to about one quarter Inch Wanted for three months: Om modern house with attached storm cellar. Hutchlnson Weather (By CAA at airport) Thursday's high 95 at 3 p.m Friday's low 47 at 7:30 a.m. At 2.30 p.m. 62.

Barometer 28.20 and rising rapidly. at 20 to 30 m.p.h. Relative percent. noon Thursday, .09 inch. Municipal Airport Temperature! (By CAA Communication! Station) Yesterday: 3:30 p.m.

4:30 7:30 8:30 11:30 10:30 11:30 Today: 12:30 a.m. 1:30 I 2:30 a.m. 86 3:30 4:30 811 6:30 791 6:30 7:30 8:30 9:30 112:30 p.m. 1:30 2:30 U. S.

weather obitrvatloni for 14 noun at 6:30 p.m.: BtatlM MM. Mia, Denver Havre, Mont. City Los Angelea Jllamt Minneapolis New York Oklahoma City Waahlngtoa 49 88 81 71 28 30 72 48 7(1 .16 41) 57 Hospitalize 10, Others Injured By Boh Wellington Great crazy dipping tornado ripped apart the Barton Courts housing addition three miles west of here at 11:38 p.m. Thursday, hospitalizing 10 persons and leaving over 200 homeless. More than 300 persons were living in the units which were formerly barracks of the Great Bend B-29 air base.

None of those mitted to St. Rose hospital was in critical condition. Twenty-nine persons were treated at the hospital and released. Some were believed to have been treated at the women's annex the Larned State hospital which is a mile northwest of the housing addition. Others were treated by family physicians.

Police Chief Herbert Browning Eojr Rush slti In Barton apartment, near Great Bend, where twitter itrack late Thursday night. She and husband were tossed from bed but were unhurt. Her four children, also asleep in apartment, escaped without injury. "God was with us," Mrs. Rush declared.

Two Oversize Precincts To Have Relief Two new precincts are in the off ing for Hutchinson'a voting in the Aug. 1 primary and subsequent Total will be 22. The city commission Friday lopped in two the over-size 8th and 10th precincts. The 8th, with 1,102 registered voters, and the 19th, with 865 voters, are bigger than the legal limit of 800 set by state law. (The 8th normally has been over this 800 limit, but the voting was never challenged.) Under a proposal scheduled for a final vote next week, the follow' ing new precinct boundaries would je set: of 17th street to center of 20th, east of Main, west to city limits.

of 20th north and west to city limits, te Main. of Sixth to center of Vinth, west to Plum, east to city imits. of Ninth to north and east city limits, west to Plum. City Attorney Fred Littooy said voters already registered in the 8th and 19th precincts who will vote in the new precincts will not be required to re-register because the changes. Governor As His Puppet St.

Louis (AP) Rev. Holland London says Charles Binaggio, slain Kansas City politician, wasted to him that he had Gov. Forrest Smith "in his hip pocket." The crusading St. Louis minis- er told newsmen Binaggio talked with htm for five minutes after a rally conducted by London in a Kansas City church last May 20. Binaggio intimated, Mr.

London aid, that the pastor was wast- ng his time campaigning against gambling and was indignant be- the minister told his aud- ence "the governor is with us in this fight." "He said he was in contact with he governor more than anyone Ise in the state and had spent 200,000 helping elect him," -the lastor said. "I told him that I had talked with the governor and he had told me he didn't know a single gam- iler in the state, big or little, and was opposed to organized gam- ling." said he was told hat Binaggio had a front row seat led the heckling at the rally the Temple Methodist church, pastor added that Binaggio's inal advice to him was to get out Kansas City. nd The Vone Hurt In Crash Minneapolis (AP) alrforce C48 twin-engine plane with 28 passengers and a crew of three crashed Friday shortly after takeoff from Wold Chamberlain field. No one was injured seriously, airbase headquarters reported. .17 .14 .06 .01 TWIN OPEN was this converted Barton Courts barracks.

This scene was typical throughout the 21 buildings hit. Cars parked nearby were also badly damaged. Vote $250 Millions Slash In ERP Bill Washington (ff) senate voted Friday to cut $250 millions from European recovery funds for the year beginning July 1. The vote was 47 to 33. The slash would authorize the same amount as the house previously voted $2,850,000,000 for the third year's operation of the economic cooperation administration (ECA).

The actual money for ECA must be provided in later appropriation bills to follow the authorization measure. Sen. Bridges (R-NH) proposed the millions cut. A slash of 4600 millions was averted by a whisker on a 40-40 tie vote. Sen.

Taft (R-O) proposed the more drastic cut. Under senate rules, an amendment to a bill loses on a tie vote. Six Republicans voted with 34 Democrats against Taft's proposal. The administration rolled up a comfortable majority against an earlier attempt to make a billion- dollar cut. The 62 to 17 vote defeated an amendment by Sen.

Kem (R-Mo) to slash the $3.1 billions to operate economic cooperation admin- stration for the fiscal year beginning next July 1. In debate on the measure, Democratic leader Lucas (111) pleaded 'or approval of the full amount. He said adopting an isolationist policy would turn this nation into a "garrison state" and double defense spending. One For The Books Manchester, Eng. (AP) Legless Daniel Gemmell, 27, was convicted Friday of driving his motor propelled wheel chair while drunk.

He was fined one pound ($2.80) and his driver's license was suspended for a year. A representative of the ministry of pensions said the government will provide Gemmell with a hand-operated chair until he gets his license back. Suggests Lead In Red Probe Washington (AP) It was learned Friday that ex-Communist Louis Budenz has suggested senate investigators might develop a lie between the Amerasia case and Communist patty by questioning Robert William Weiner, former Communist treasurer. Six persons were arrested in a wartime raid on the offices Amerasia, a magazine no longer published. A large number of secret government documents were found.

Only two persons were ever brought to trial and they received fines. Sen. McCarthy has now charged, however, that officials of Amer- asia were collecting atomic e- crets for Russia. It was learned that Budzcn, managing editor of the Daily Worker until he renounced Communism in 1945, has written the committee that he has "direct knowledge" that Weiner "was Involved (in the Amerasia case) at least in supervising the financial arrangements for the defense in that case." Inside Stuff Gale-Like Wind Buffets Hutehinson A battering wind which at one time hit a velocity of 68 miles per hour rocked Hutehinson Thurs day and early Friday. The wind resulted from a low pressure over Nebraska.

It started with'winds from the east that shifted to the southeast at midnight and at 1:30 p.m. Friday were blowing from the north' west. However, the winds were dropping as the low pressure area moved east. Velocity at 2 p.m. was 33 mps.

With the winds came a top temperature of 95 in Hutehinson at 3 p.m. Thursday. A rain which totaled .09 inch fell before midnight. A hen nouse. on the Fred Johnson farm, northwest of Hutchinson, was toppled late Thursday.

Friday morning a plate glass window on the south side of the Wiley building was sucked out. A full scale dust storm was in progress Friday between Ellinwood and Nickerson with motorists forced to drive with headlights and at reduced speeds. Other sections of the state were also suffering from the dust. The eastbound Continental airliner, due in Hutehinson at 8:16 p.m., hovered over the city Thursday night for several hours be- landing shortly after midnight. It had made a late start our.

of Den ver. A thunderstorm front held the flight from continuing to Wichita until 7:16 a.m. U.S. Hurls New Charge At Russians Washington (AP) The United States charged Russia Friday with flouting its international obligations in dealing with the Baltic plane incident. In a new note to 'Moscow, the state department declared Russia had put "forward an' "erroneous account" of the shooting down of the American plane on Rejecting for the second time the Soviet claim that the missing American plane violated Soviet-occupied Latvia, the U.

S. declared this government is forced to conclude Russia "has not only failed to meet but has no intention of meeting the obligations which international law and practice impose on members of the family of nations." Is clear this disregard for law, custom and the opinion of mankind constitutes a further obstacle to the establishment of harmonious relations among nations and cannot be reconciled with the Soviet government's continued protestations of its devotion to the cause of peace." The note was delivered in Moscow by Ambassador Allan G. Kirk and was made public here by the state department. The "note made II plain that the charges ainl over the loss of thn navy Privateer plane In the Baltic area with 10 men aboard have reached an Impasse. The were told "It is clearly impossible to resolve this issue so long as the Soviet govern ment refuses to base its position upon the facts of the case." The 400-word note was In ply to Russia's earlier communi cation which rejected the origin al American protest and declared 'verified data" showed a B-29 Flying Fortress flew over Latvia 'to photograph Soviet defense installations." estimated that about 50 persons other than those hospitalized required a doctor's treatment.

Admitted to the hospital were: Mrs. George Brannan, scalp cuts and possible back Injury; Mrs. Donald Benson and daughter, Sharon, both scalp' cuts; Lee Bennington, scalp and arm lacerations; Mrs. Bennington, possible foot fracture, Gary and Julia Bennington; Mrs. Joe Rozar, cuts and bruises; Mrs.

T. E. Smith, cuts and back injury; Eddie Tharp, 3 severe head laceration. Nearly every treated or admitted at the hospital wai In night clothes and soaked by the torrential rain which followed the tornado. Ned Darr, manager of the mu nicipal airport, at the field just east of the housing addition, said he was in the observation tower and saw the tornado dip into the dwellings, rip those in the center of the square apart and bounce over the rest.

As far as could be learned late Friday the torna do hit the earth north of'Ray, at Zook and at Barton Courts, Chief Browning said the firsl word received of the disaster ame when a "young man in a :a.r drove up in front of the ata tion and yelled to us." All phon and light wires had been torn away by the wind. Browning said four ambulances and two trucks were I spa tenet the courts with severa nicks. The Barton county Red Cross swung Into action, sending unit out a midnight. The 130th ield artillery battalion of the lational guard under Capt. Elvie iray was mobilised and at 12:30 threw a cordon around the ourts.

Friday admittance to the addition could be gained only by a pass obtained from Browning. James B. Duffln, general nous ng manager of the Public Hous ng Administration, said the courts contained 21 buildings of which 18 were occupied by 81 families Eight buildings were leveled, nine lestroyed beyond repair and four were still habitable but twisted out of line. The buildings at the Courts wen yplcal barracks type structures one-story, built with wood frames composition aiding and roof an laving plasterboard walla, had been converted into Hutchlnson Elks edge out an- other win over Cubs. Page 2.

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Page 19. Boston (AP) Home, runs by Ted Williams and Vern Stephens ruined the Chicago White Sox Friday as they were beaten 52 by Boston's Red Sox who moved into second place in the American league. Williams' fifth homer of Big Liquor Haul Seized Nevada, Mo. (AP) Federal agents seized 1,000 cases of whisky valued at $50,000 in a raid late Thursday on the 54 Supper club five milcB west of Nevada near the Kansas state line. Alcohol tax unit agents said -the raid was a major blow at the flow of liquor into dry Oklahoma James 0.

Smith, 37, and George Pevac, 31, were arrested anc taken to the Joplln, city Jail They were to be arraigned on felony charges of operating a wholesale liquor business without a federal license, and of falling to keep proper records. Smith owns an $80,000 ranch and a city home in Wichita, fed eral agent E. S. Burns of Joplln the season came with one man on said. Smith had (2,300 in $100 base.

Chico Carrasquel, Chicago's Venezuelan shortstop, belted his ed. first big league homer for both I Chicago runs. bills on his person when arrest PreicrlptloruT rratae Drue. They from our to six apartments per build ng. Rental preference had been to veterans.

The police department, aided by Red Cross and the 'Nationa liuard evacuated over 200 person less than an hour after th tornado struck. Some were tak en to hotels and auto courts, oth ers to homes of friends or rela ives and one family was house 1 the city auditorium. Most of the men of the are; are oilfield workers. Many wer away from home. Mrs.

G. H. Likes, whose hus band was at home, said they ha just gone to sleep when the storm hit. "The wind was blowing hard and It had hailed a little." she said. "I doted oft and when I woke up everything was real still.

Then there was a big woosh. I heard the windows rat tie then I felt the house come apart. Then I was out on the ground." The north wall of the apartmen collapsed along with the east and west ones and the roof. "I got up and called the children. Two were in one bedroom and two In another.

They all answered me and said they were all right," Mrs. Likes said as she burst into tears. "Hearing them say 'mother' was the sweetest sound I've ever known," Mrs. Likes was unhurt and the children received little more than scratches. One son, Henry, 11, had been in the habit of sleeping on the Thursday night i bedroom, the davenport," said pointing into the debris.

ikes' said her husband wag south of St. John on a job" when storm hit. I had Just rolled over on my stomach when wham. It hit. The next thing I knew the house fell on me.

I yelled at the boys to stay In their bed." The boys, Roy and Joe, 10-year. Id twins, were in the next oom. Roy had a minor head cut and Joe had a cut leg. Neither Jijury required a doctor's care. I was pinned in," Mrs.

Rush ontinued. "Mr. Likes heard me ell and came to help. He couldn't nd me at first, but I kept ng and he dug in and I dug out. not really hurt, just sore as boll." Rush, who returned home at 4 m.

after hearing of the tornado, ust shock his head as he surveyed ruined "We're lucky," he said. Mr. and Mrs. M. F.

Kuby and riend, Richard Nelson, were ng at a kitchen table when the torm hit. "There was a big gust of wind, he windows blew out and alls started to shake," Mrs. luby said. "Then the lights went ut." "I just screamed and screamed," Stephanie Ruby, 3, aid. The Rubys were in one of the our units not wrecked, lered minor water damage "from the 1.06 inches of rain which fell.

Gene Allen, a truck driver, said le slept through the entire storm. He was awakened by his wife at a.m. when she heard people run- ling outside their apartment. Friday morning residents of the irea were drifting back to pick ip their belongings. Some tears, others were trying to be areful.

Those who suffered min- ir damage were digging in to elp their neighbors. Everywhere he national guard was at work, oading furnishings into big haul them to the armory at the irport for temporary storage. A school bus from Pawnee Rock arrived at 8:30 a.m. with two eachers aboard. Children were rounded up for school as usual.

The Red Cross had set up temporary headquarters in the munic- pal building and chairman Tudor under disaster Hampton was asking citizens of the city for clothing. Plans to feed the home- ess were being made. Bert Wright, transportation chairman, was using two trucks to assist the (uard in the cleanup work. Also aiding in the cleanup city workmen using city trucks, accordng to Mayor A. Mermes Mermes spent the night at courts or in the police station assisting in the drectlon of rescue work.

The housing situation In Great Bend, he said, was tight, and loss of the Barton units will the situation worse. He said knew little the city could do immediately to ease the housing shortage. Mermes Joined with others on the scene in praise the work of the National Guard unit. Also assisting were the Sheriff, Oils Werhahn and his deputies and troopers of the highway patrol. Two miles north of Ray every building on the Ray Cossman farm was demolished by the twister, but the Coismans were not hurt.

Damage was reported nearby on the Andrew Irion, Edgar Bird and John Miller farms. At Zook Robert Atwater suffered a fractured leg and was taken to St. Rose hospital. Several houses and the school bus garage were hit. he slept in "Look at she 'It's covered by the chimney.

God was with us last night." Mrs. Roy Rush whose apartment is in building with the Intercepted Letter Herbert Browning, Police Chief Great Bend, Kas. Dear Herb: The fast that nobody was seriously Injured in the Bartoa Courts twister Is the closest thing to a miracle that Kansas) has had in years. Yours, Hutch.