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The Billings Gazette, Sunday Morning, December 21, 195S 27 Biggest Satellite Blasts Off Chemical Plane Project Speeded Will Be Ready Before Atom Craft Stock Market Makes Advance Rise Is Reported Best in 5 Weeks Grain Futures Irend Is Down Wheat and Corn -Suffer Setbacks British Oiiicial's A Wife Charged in Murder of Son, 13 HASLEMERE. England (AP) Mrs. Diana Bromley, 39-year-old wife of a British cabinet official, was charged at a Guildford Court Saturday with murdering her elder son, Martin, 13. The bodies of Martin and his Oil Rig Blast Injures Three Glendive Man Most Seriously Hurt GLENDIVE (AP) Three men were injured, one of them serious ly, Saturday in an explosion at a new oil rig near Glendive. Another man was knocked down by the blast, but apparently es caped injury.

Most seriously hurt was Ernest Aruthur of Glendive, who lost an eye and was flown to Billings for further treatment, a hospital reported. Also injured were L. O. (Tommy) Thompson and Harley Christ, both of Glendive. Thompson had a hand injury and Christ a smashed elbow.

Coworker Calvin Mitchell appar ently escaped injury. Officials said the four, employes i i I A- i f-l lh 1 of Helmerich and Payne Drilling Co. of Glendive, were rigging up a derrick moved into the Gas City Field 17 miles south of Glendive. They were trying to thaw a compressor with alcohol when somehow it ignited and was followed by a loud explosion. The powerful Atlas missile, wreathed in liquid oxygen fumes blasts fire from its tail at the start of a 17,000 M.P.H.

journey into orbit around the globe. The as it is called, is part of the missile's liquid fuel system. Shooting took place at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Sheridan Garden Club Officers Are Elecied SHERIDAN, Wyo. Officers of the Edith Post Gallatin Garden Club of Sheridan were installed at a meeting at the home of Lena and Freda Schreibeis.

The oficers for 1959 are Mrs. A. G. Yonkee, president; Mrs. Harvey Johnston, vice president; Mrs.

E. S. Post, secretary, and Miss Freda Schreibeis, treasurer. Mrs. Gordon Bower, a past president, was the installing officer.

Mrs. Colvin Brown is the retiring club president Clue to Missing Woman Sought SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) Authorities sought some clue Saturday to whereabouts of the victim of an alleged cloak-and-dagger type murder plot. Missing was Mrs. Olga Duncan, 30.

Police charge that her mother-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan, 54, and two hired assassins seized the younger woman from her apartment late one night. Officers grilled witnesses, trying to pin down a possible area where they could search for the missing woman or her body. Charges of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to kidnap have been filed against the elder Mrs. Duncan; Augustine Baldonado, 25, and Luis Moya, 22.

Bail for each was set at $100,000. A lengthy complaint filed by Dist. Atty. Vern Thomas charges that the oft-married mother-in-law was introduced to Baldonado and Moya after she asked a cafe owner to obtain somebody to help kidnap and kill Olga Duncan. The complaint says the trio held several meetings plotting Olga's death and Mrs.

Duncan paid part of the agreed price. The missing woman's husband, Santa Barbara attorney Frank Duncan, 30, has expressed the belief she is still alive. The two were estranged. The wife was pregnant. Olga Duncan disappeared from her Santa Barbara apartment the night of Nov.

17. She has not been seen since. Lights were left on in the apartment and the door was open. Police Capt. A.

C. Wade said officials were trying to pinpoint possible location of Mrs. Duncan's body before they attempt a search. A street-paving project near the missing woman's apartment was ordered suspended. The two men charged denied any knowledge of the case.

Elizabeth Duncan is held at nearby Ventura, where she is accused of having obtained an annulment Aug. 7 of her son's marriage to Olga by posing as the younger woman. Authorities say Elizabeth herself has been married five times in the last eight years. "BUCK" TLf amseY -7 At' Funeral Services Held For. Big Timber Veteran BIG TIMBER Funeral services for Edward August Dex-heimer, 67, were held at the Lowry Chapel with the Rev.

Ocee Johnson of the Lutheran Church officiating. Music was by Mrs. Ted Busha and Mrs. Charles Nicholson with Mrs. Mervin Bell as accompanist.

Pallbearers were Harold Boe, Benie Marley, Thorvald Simon-son, William Felt, Sigurd Hanson and Bert Idland. Burial was in Mountain View Cemetery with members of Sweet Grass Post in charge. The firing squad was composed of Rudy Mosness, Arne Petaja, Don Shay, K. C. Jones, Andy Strickland and Walt Dutton.

The color guard was composed of Charles Nicholson, Orvin Fjare, Ralph Prather and Al Deegan and the Rev. Richard Price, chaplain. Surviving are a brother and two sisters. By GIL MAYO CHICAGO (AP) A small amount of export business this week slowed but failed to halt, the general downward trend of gain futures prices through their fourth week. On Friday, the July and September wheat contracts hit.

new lows for the season. The setbacks in wheat and corn ran to a cent or more a bushel while the few scattered gains included only two, both in rye, of a-cent or more. Most of the bearishness was attributed to the government's final 1958 crop report which showed yields of most major grains to be even larger than the already record highs. said the increases would not have had such a depressing influence on the market if the earlier report on movement of grains into government loan had been more in-line with trade expectations. But all those figures were disappointingly small and suggested, they said, that producers may be holding the stocks against the possibility of rising prices.

-However, so long as huge amounts of grains remain in posi-. tions from which they can move into commercial channels quickly they continue to be a deterrent to any sustained rallies. Wheat cloeed IV cents a bushel lower than a week ago, March corn lower to 'Vt higher, March old type contract $l4 Vi oats 1 March 65; rye unchanged to Vk Higher, March and soybeans higher to lower, January $2.1 Venezuela Oil Setup Changed Venezuela (UPI) -The Venezuelan government ended its longstanding formula of a 50-50 split of oil profits with foreign firms in a general income tax revision disclosed Saturday. The changes were effective immediately following the publication of the new tax law in the official Gazette. The tax revisions were expected to result in the increase of oil royalty payments by U.S.

companies from the present 50 per cent to as high as 65 or 70 per cent. Although the new law provides general tax increase for everybody it particularly affects companies because of the extreme rates in the upper income brackets. The action was first revealed in speeches Friday night by Junta President Edgar Sanabria and finance minister Jose Mayobre but the full significance of the move was not realized until Saturday's publication of the law. Mayobre explained that the tax Teform meant that "the rate currently; applied, which goes from per cent for lower incomes to 28 per cent for incomes over goes now from 2 per cent to 45 per cent respectively." Because the law was published before the end of the year, the increases will apply to operations for 1958, officials said. FOR SALE Monday, Dec.

22 75 -One Brand Hereford STOCK COWS 3 to 6 Years Old (Dehorned) By The ARROW COMMISSION CO. Billings Public Stockyards Phone 2-0056 Workers in the field radioed Glendive, where police met the injured men and escorted them to a hospital. Between 1946 and 1956, Com munism gained control of more than 5 million square miles of territory inhabited by more than 600 million people. Poison ivy afflicts about Americans every year. Salamander HEATERS 175,000 BTU $22.95 CARL WEISSMAN SON, INC.

3425 First South Phone 9-9614 SAVE Use STYR0F0AM The Rigid, Waterproof Insulation Construction Supply Co. i Box 1522 Phone 2-3446 USE GAZETTE WANT ADS. to get the gal a gift she will love Beaded moccasins, tooled shoes Bell-bottom frontier pants Coats and Jackets Handbags Western jewelry Fancy shirts, dresses skirts. These are just a tew of our gift offerings. 4 By ED MORSE NEW YORK (AP)-An epoch-making week of big news saw the stock market ring up its third straight advance and its best rise in five weeks.

The proposed 3-for-l stock split and dividend boost for American Telephone was a great milestone for Wall Street and brought joy to the hearts of stockholders, America's biggest family of corporate owners. was up on the week to Its alltime high was 310y4 in 1929. Almost singlehandedly, pulled the stock market average to a record high on Wednesday, the day the news broke, and helped to inspire another rise to a market summit on Thursday. The action by directors inspired traders and investors to surmise that the same thing could happen to other high-priced blue chips and these got quite a play. The Associated Press average of 60 stocks rose $3.00 to $209.90 on the week.

This was 20 cents below the latest record of $210.10 reached on Thursday. Friday saw the week's only market decline, an odd accompaniment to the stupendous news that America had launched a 4-ton satellite into space. The same Wall Street that was "Sputniked" a year ago by Russian success in this field apparently saw no reason to celebrate America's achievement. Corporate bonds advanced on larger demand this week but U. S.

government obligations slipped lower on very light turnover. Utilities, foreign bonds and industrials led the corporate rise. Investment quality issues and rails declined. Trading mounted to $34,850,000 par value on the New York Stock Exchange from $32,377,500 the previous week and for the corresponding week a year ago. Compact Ends Patomac Feud MT.

VERNON, Va. (AP) Mary. land and Virginia agreed Saturday on 'a compact to end Potomac River oyster wars that have had fishermen of the two states feud ing since colonial days. The compact, subject to approv al of the legislatures of the two states, would set up a joint commission of three members from each state to regulate fishing and oystering. The two legislatures through joint action would have veto power over regulations of the commission.

Negotiators for the two states chose Mt. Vernon, home of George Washington, as the site for signing of the new agreement because it was there in 1785 that the original compact was drawn. Under the 1785 compact, Virginians were given equal fishing rights in the Potomac gnver, which Maryland owns to the low- water mark on the Virginia side. Virginians agreed to allow free passage of Maryland ships through the Virginia Capes. Fish ing laws were to be enacted by the legislatures of the two states, with concurrence of both necessary for any change.

Troubles aross which led to patrolling of the river by state government boats. In the late 1940s Maryland patrol boats were armed with submachine guns. Both states voted as a conservation measure to close the river to dredging for oysters. Virginia took this action in 1930 and Maryland in 1931. Virginia again legalized power dredging of oysters three years later but Maryland insisted oysters must be taken with hand tongs.

This touched off the oyster wars between fishermen of the two states and conservation officials patrolling the river. Patrol boats, generally from Maryland, chased the oyster dredgers and frequently got into gunfights. At least one man was killed and an unknown number wounded in the last decade. On Dec. 8, 1956, a Maryland tidewater fisheries airplane and two patrol boats, aided by a Virginia fisheries boat, pursued a suspected poacher into the Colonial Beach, harbor in a blaze of gunfire.

Townspeople, crowding the waterfront, were endangered by the shooting. The governor of Virginia protested the "indiscriminate use of firearms" to the Governor of Maryland. The Maryland chief executive complained that Virginia shielded violators of Maryland law. The Maryland Legislature angrily repealed the 1785 compact. Virginia went to the U.S.

Supreme Court. Retired Justice Stanley F. Reed, named special master in the case, proposed an out-of-court agreement and both states selected commissions. Court to Hear Appeal Cases HELENA (AP) Montana's Su preme Court has set 33 appeals for hearing in January, including that of two teen-agers convicted of first-degree assault in Helena's "bum-rumbling" case. Arguments in the appeal of Lar ry Crowl and Richard Shank were set Friday for Jan.

19. The calendar, first of 1959, opens Jan. 7 an.l continues through Jan. 22. Counsel for Crowl and Shank ap pealed after Dist.

Judge Lester H. Loble denied a defense motion for a new trial. The youths, now 17, are in the Montana Industrial School at Miles City. They were sent there after Loble suspended their five-year State Prison terms. Charges against the youths stemmed from the stories of two transient workers.

They claimed a teen-age gang attacked them in a railroad jungle near Helena. The prosecutor quoted one of the gang as calling the incident "bum rumbling." To be heard Jan. 8 are separate appeals by Raymond Board, Leo Bean and Merle Gall from their Cascade County convictions of first-degree burglary. Board and Bean received 25- year prison sentences and Gall 15 years. The charges stemmed from the Aug.

7, 1957, theft of $50 from the wallet of J. R. Reynolds, Glendive, in a Great Falls motel unit. Other cases set for hearing by the State Supreme Court include: Jan. 13 An appeal by the city ot Kalispell from a district court injunction against creation of a special improvement district.

Jan. 15 An appeal from a Yellowstone County District Court denial of a request for an injunc tion to prevent the city of Billings from providing water service between mains and private property lines. The appeal of Glenn Eugene Tot- terdell is the last scheduled for hearing, Jan. 22. He appealed from a 12-year prison sentence given him in Cascade County for first-degree assault.

The charge was in the July 26, 1957, shooting of Richard Brown at Great Falls. Brown was wounded in the back. National Safety Counsel figures showed that while one in every 14 U.S. workers was injured during the course of a recent year, the rate was one in 44 for soldiers, on or off duty. brother, Stephen, 10, were found with their throat, cut at their country home Thursday.

Mrs Bromley, niece of horror actor Boris Karloff, was found wander ing in woods nearby with wounds on her throat She was taken to a hospital, and physicians decided she was fit Saturday to make a court appearance. Pleasure Toys Given Approval DURHAM, N. C. (AP) Atten tion Santa Claus: here's some ad' vice from a psychologist. Don't feel guilty about leaving pleasure-giving toys.

Its better than leaving educational toys which children aren't ready to use. And here's a note to parents from Dr. Gelolo McHugh, Duke University child psychologist: "Don't let Christmas gifts to children represent a form of self-indulgence on the part of the adults." Fail to follow this advice, says McHugh, and your child might not react Christmas morning as you expected. "I would caution parents against expecting an equal return in love and enthusiasm from the child on Christmas morning if, in buying the presents, they've really been satisfying their own personal emotional needs," warns Dr. McHugh.

The psychologist, author of several books and many magazine articles on child and teen-age behavior, warns against the high pressure sales pitch for educational toys. Dr. McHugh thinks many parents give their children toys which they think the children need, toys the parents wanted as chil-' dren. The inevitable result is disappointment among children, Dr. McHugh says.

In a nutshell: give the kids what they want, not what you want them to have. Livestock Quotations BILLINGS USDA Weekly Market Summary Cattle, sparse showing gralnfeds, heavy steers weak, heifers steady; bulk supply cows, trading fairly active, steady-strong; bulls strong; stockers, feeders firm; standard-choice fed steers 22.70-25.75; good-choice heifers 25.00-25.65; utility-commercial cows 17.25-19.50; cutter-utility bulls 21.00-23.00; good-low choice yearling stock steers 27.00-29.00; good feeder steers 24.50-26.50, 100 head string good-choice 27.50: good-choice feeder heifers 25.00-27.50; medium-good stocker, feeder cows 17.00-20.00; low medium-low good stock cows 170.00-218.00 per head. Calves, 800; fairly active, firm; good-low choice steers 32.00-36.00; good-choice heifers 31.00-33.90. Hogs, 345; U.S. 1-3 butchers closing 25c higher at 18.00; good-choice weaner pigs 12.00-15.00 per head, few heavier 16.00.

Sheep, lambs 50c to fully 1.50 lower; good-choice wooled-shorn slaughter lambs 15.00-15.50; good feeder lambs 18.50-19.50; good whitefaced ewe lambs 19.00-22.50; cull-choice ewes 2.00-6.00. CHICAGO USDA Weekly Market Summary Hogs 100: At the close several hundred head of No. 1 and 2 190-225 lb. barrows and gilts sold at 19.50-19.75 and 29 head No. 1 200 lbs.

sorted for grade brought 19.85. the highest in Chicago since early November. Most No. 2 and 3 200-225 lbs. 18.75-19.25, No.

2 and 3 230-250 lbs. 18.00-18.75, No. 2 and 3 260-300 lbs. 17.00-18.00. Sows ranged from 13.25-15.75 according to weight.

Cattle 100: Prime lb. slaughter steers 28.75 and 29.00, most choice and prime steers under 1,100 lbs. 27.00-28.50, most comparable grade lb. weights 26.00-28.50, most choice and prime lb. steers 25.00-27.50 but few loads prime lb.

weights sold up to 28.50 while few loads choice lb. weights late went at 24.00-24.75, most good steers 23.50-26.50 according to weight, few high good 900-950 lb. weights 26.75, most standard steers 23.00-25.50, few high choice and prime lb. heifers 28.25, most good and choice heifers 25.50-27.75, standard heifers 22.50- 25.00, few standard cows 20.00-22.00, util ity and commercial 16.50-20.00, utility and commercial bulls 22.50-25.00. Good vealers 29.00-32.00.

utility and standard 20.00-29.00. Sheep 100: Good and choice 95-110 lb. wooled lambs sold between 17.75 and 20.00, cull to low good 14.50-17.50. A double deck of choice wooled lambs scal ing 118 lbs. brought 17.75.

Good and choice 95-105 lb. shorn lambs, the ma jority with No. 1 pelts, sold from 17.00- 18.50, 17.75 and down after Monday. Cull to choice slaughter ewes were 6.00-7.50. SOUTH ST.

PAUL Compared with last week's close: Cat tle: Slaughter steers and heifers stead to 50 lower; cows steady to strong: bulls mostly 50 higher; good and choice slaughter steers 25.50-27.00; standard heifers largely 23.00-25.00; utility and commercial cows 17.00-19.00; canners and cutters 14.00-17.00; vealers strong to 2.00 higher; good and low choice 29.00-33.00; slaughter calves steady: stocker and feeder classes very scare and steady; good and choice fleshy feeder steers 25.00-26.75; good and choice 510 lb stock heifers 30.00. Sheen: Slaughter lambs fullv lower; ewes weak to 50 lower; feeder lambs steady; good and choice wooled slaughter lambs under 105 lbs 19.00-20.00; cull to choice slaughter ewes 5.00-7.00; good and choice wooled feeder lambs under 80 lb 20.00-20.50. Hogs: Barrows and gilts high er; sows 25-50 up; feeder pigs 50 up; U.S. 1 and 2 hogs at the weeks best time 19.25-19.50; U.S. 1-3 sows 270-400 lbs 14.25-15.75: good and choice feeder pigs 17.00-18.00.

OMAHA Compared with last weeks close: Hoes: Barrows and gilts unevenly 25 to 75 but mostly 25 to 50 higher; sows 360 ids down mostly 50 higher; bulk U.S. 1-3 mixed 190-240 lb butchers 18.00-18.75; 1-3 270-400 lbs sows 14.00-15.50. Cattle: Fed steers and yearlings aver age choice to prime under 1,100 lbs fully steady to strong; 1,150 lbs up weak to 25, Instances 50 lower; average choice and better fed heifers fully steady to strong; cows steady to 25 lower. Instances 50 off on beef cows; stockers and feeders steady; load big choice and prime 1.059 lbs steer yearlings 28.60; two loads high choice and prime 931- 1.042 lbs mixed yearlings 28.25; high choice and prime heifers 28.00; utility and commercial eows 17.25-19.00; few commercial and standard 19.50-20.00: yearling stock steers 554 lbs 32.50. Sheep: Wooled slaughter lambs steady to 25, spots 50 off: shorn lambs about steady; feeders generally 1.00 lower; bulk1 choice 90-105 lb wooled slaughter lambs 19.25-20.00; cull to good slaughter ewes 5.00-8.00.

By ELTON C. FAY Military Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Air Force probably will have its B70 chemical fuel bomber flying three to five years before an atomic warplane of similar capability can be ready. It may be two or three years before the B70 is perfected to the point where it begins to replace present conventional-powered long range bombers like the B52. This does not necessarily mean that the United States won't have a nuclear-powered plane flying within the next five years. It does suggest that what the atomic- driven plane will do, initially, will be less than the performance of the chemical plane, except for range.

These estimates are available on the basis of official and unofficial statements and in light of known progress and limitations of engineering and chemistry. Air Secretary James H. Douglas said in a recent address that the flying of a B70 is several years off Of the nuclear-engined bomber, he said that unlimited range by itself is not enough "to be useful the nuclear aircraft must be safe for the crew, must carry a large payload, and be capable of considerable speed." There is little doubt that an airplane can be flown with nuclear power, Douglas said. But he made it plain such a craft might not be a militarily useful plane. A recent rash of rumors said that the Soviet Union is flying an atomic powered plane.

Douglas noted that President Eisenhower had said the United States has no evidence of this. The B70 will provide the speed and maneuverability performance which the Air Force hopes later to build into an atomic powered plane. Nevertheless, Air Force tacticians say that during the interim there will -be a place in planning for both types of planes. Their speed and range will differ. They will be part of the "mix" of planes, ballistic missiles, and airborne missiles used against enemy homeland targets.

Rhodes Scholarship Selections Picked SPOKANE (UPI) Four boys from Northwest states were picked by the Northwest selections committee in Spokane Saturday night to receive two year Rhodes scholar ships at Oxford University in England, beginning next fall. The four picked are Erik S. Ronhovde, a student at Harvard University from Missoula, Bryce E. Nelson from Boise, Idaho, and also at Harvard; Rodger Young from Sacramento, a student at Reed College; and Cadet Bradley Hosmer of the Air' a Apurlomu ronroconfintf North Dakota. The four were picked by the' committee from a field of twelve, representing six district states Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota.

The committee was headed by Benjamin H. Kizer of Spokane. There are seven other selection committees across the nation, which will each make a selec-. tion of four boys to receive the Rhodes scholarship a total of 32 will receive the honor in this country. The boys will get an automatic two year scholarship, and possibly three years of study at Oxford, i 0 1202 1st Ave.

North Phone 9-2635 Packers and Exchange Building Mother, Two Small Children Perish In Tiny Apartment NORWALK, Ohio (AP)-A 23 year-old mother and her two small children were found dead of car bon monoxide poisoning Saturday in their four-room apartment in Monroeville, just east of here. Dead are Sarah Elizabeth Swartz, 23; her daughter, Sarah Ann, who was to celebrate her third birthday Saturday; and son. James M. Swartz, 26, found the bodies when he came home from work after 1 a.m. Dr.

Charles Edel, Huron County coroner, said their heater had a defective piping with an opening of almost three inches in the elbow attached to the chimney. OUTFITTERS ELECT CODY, Wyo. Roy Coleman, Cody, was elected president of the Cody Country Outfitters Assn. at a meeting in the Cody Auditorium. Don Siggins, South Fork, is vice president; Glen Fales, Rim Rock Ranch, 'was re-elected secretary.

Coleman and Elvin Carey are board members for the Clark's Fork area; Mel Stonehouse and Fales for the North Fork area; Frances Purvis and Don Siggins for the South Fork; Del Beaver and Ed Larson for the Meeteetse area and S. D. Spiegelberg and Ned Frost for Cody. More than 16 million homes in the U.S. are heated by oil, more than 22 million by gas.

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