The Bismarck Tribune from Bismarck, North Dakota • 1

Hiotorical Hooielrv 7 11-11-53 CHITS UNE Thoughts for Today The Weather Liltle Change Low Tonight Zero VOLUME NUMBER 34 Brovsmg A roun TlTTl TTD IT IT A TTT). FTTTT-m TTTT i. jf mm -a i a a sb a a mm i 'P mm AWA Doka'j Oldest tlfhiz 1873 jjM. BISMARCK, N. THTO5i MARCH 5.

1953 vmrr. sre bra I sins Life bbhina Fast. Moscow-Reoon's tSt -Ar -A- jl gu. Prerroiei-'s CoodKiioini Vrave w. shoe, Pon-t Match Crash Kills Wish CAU O.

At? The qr-tloa for today "When ym tn.nk the ice will go out on Missouri here?" The ansfr Bums, Bowman "March vn. R. Otesa, 903 Sixth 1." Valentin Schmivlt, Klntyre 'April 10." H. L. Eorth.

4-1 Third Ave. "March 2S." 'THAT MAN Tie elect. ---n i Inn? ovfr but re are st.il those who would have 5 referred see the other win. Wednesday morning a an ardent arrival at work and learned it Stalin was near death. li at ence telephoned his wife, a rral alo, to tell hrr the r.

sj. "I Eisenhower will -i cmi.t f'ir thit too," was her j-, cc r. LETS NOT DO IT This ln't 0s.dresel to the ma-1 who are wvi "sports. It is Rapid Ciiy Bulletin Converge on Cfy 1 Engineers Class A Playoffs 8 earns For West By BILL MISSLIN Tribwn Sprt Editor Tlijzh schol letter jackrtj of all color of th rainhow blnomrl ni(irnarck's street Thursdav is tournament opened hrf The oransje and black of Willis- i ton minted with the blue during the three days but cf ose partisan t.ey want to fv-f iu here Tho i tten1 make it a i ment tv way aroim-l if do uhi: h''wt anl bo ren a iyer a free '0'x ir, if they try to remember fafree are human too. The in striped shirts can't see -n ail but they do the best they i n.

them a chance. RESERVED SEATS A local woman a complaint. "I Uh you i say jo: the re- on i Bismarck Hih School gymnasium Friday and Saturday. Halftime entertainment is planned for each game Thursday and for the evening games Friday and Saturday. Featured Thursday will be a boxing exhibition, a Boy Scout demonstration, a square dance exhibition, and a girl's physical education demonstration.

Two smorgasbords are planned for coaches, school officials and tournament officials. The Bimarck Quarterback Club will be the host tonight and the Chamber of Commerce will sponsor Friday night'a Ret-together. Both are scheduled in the Princess Room of the Prince Hotel. Appears Senate House approved amendments calling for a 4U per cent oil pro- oil depletion allowance go before pects that body will concur li th ii.vi. Supporters of he 4 and 27' per cent are coofklent that a vote in the Senate will break the Nonpartisan League Independent coalition which earlier defeated those figures.

One ROC senator said that apparently from one to three coa- Tvri srsts at vr.e in inc siaie v.iasi a lour-t rn arr.rr.t." she said. are nament at Grand Forks next week, rr.ar.y of them, can't afford Opening rounds games Thursday reined sest ticket and matched Bismarck against Minot vcr.evT I bjy a ad.ni at 2:30 p.m., St. Leo's orposite if there are any there'a Dickinson at 4 p.m.; St Mary's bv.t rwni." I told aaint Mandan at 8 p.m., and h-r I d. in't arce her but r.liston opposing Jamestown at u' 1 a.r h-r complaint. 3 30 p.m.

If there were ail the rorrt in rvj tve vnrM War SEMI-FINALS will be played Fri-p. S.Ui.rz th'-re wou'd be no aetv! 5ay with the championship sched-f re.rrv- sen's z-l no exc.i-e u' Saturday. The f.ru. second, them. Iiu: there" in't It ant 1 third and fifth place teams ad- wh.te Jamestown as players and fans of eiht schools moved into the city for the three-day tournament.

For tSo most tompfttt covtr ago of Class A divisional playoffs and Class district four namfitt, turn to Pago 17. Pic turaa of all Wastarn Division tournamartt ttams on Pago 14. KijM tea mi are for four T'he lnf.ux of to-irnamert vb- Administration Board Ouster Bill Passed By House By JAA'ES J. KLOBUCHAR Tribune Staff Writer A House Nonpartisan Leasrue majority Thursday turned aside HOC opposition to pass a Senate wouiu replace ir.e pres- boar(i of administration with hoard nf control vr i rr. to iirana roms.

lition members would vote for the'fatal heart ATTORNEY GENERAL Herbert Brownell, Jr. is perfectly at ease as he testifies before the Senate Interior Committee on the tidelands. question. His aplomb waa not visibly when attention was brought to the fact that he was wearing mismatched black shoes (below) at the hearing. Shoe on his left foot was a winjr-type while the other one was a plain brogue.

(AP Describes Heart Failure Bulletin MOSCOW (AP)Jo-seph Stalin's heart Is faltering, the latest bulletin from his physicians disclose, and the announcement of his death may be only a matter of hours away. MOSCOW (AP) Joseph Stalin's physician.1 reported tonight his condition is exceedingly gTave. Their third medical bulletin suggested thit the life of the 73-year-oid leader is ebbing steadily away. This third bulletin was issued at 8:30 p. m.

and reported Stalin'a SLif' "I 11 of hrt The bulletin read: "The treatment is at present trregtilariUes in breathir.2 and fircubtl0n' on- (Thl' uCirLulan bo lh.f Tui. "1U lu5. mean; Maun soon would be dead. ii ne was mi aireacty so, and said jit was in effect a description of THE PHYSICIANS' bulletin described Stalin's blood pressure as having decreased as he grew increasingly pale. The physicians' second bulletin had been issued earlier today and described Stalin's condition as of 2 a.m.

The bulletin Issued at 2 a.m. (5 p.m.. CST, Wednesday), disclosed the brain hemorrhage that struck down the 73-yer-old leader of world communism Sunday night affected the trunk section of the brain, in addition to the left sector where the bleeding occurred. HIS HEART action, blood circulation and breathing continued "gravely impaired." it added. (In New York, competent medical sources said on the hasis of the bulletin first report on Staling condition since the initial announcement Wednesday of the illness gave the Russian chief "little or no chance of recovery." A leading Canadian Neurosurgeon said in Montreal that if the medical report was correct, the Soviet leader would now be dead.) "Towards the end of March 4." the bulletin declared, "the state of health of Joseph V.

Stalin continues (Continued on Page 3) Newspaper Execulive Dies in Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS Kingsley H. Murphy, 66, newspaper and radio executive, died Wednesday at his Minneapolis home. A native of Grand Forks, N. Murphy had been a director of The Minneapolis Star and Tribune since 1941. His father, William J.

Murphy, for a long time had been editor and publisher of The Tribune. At bis death. Murphy was president of radio station KSO in Des Moines and also owned an appliance shop in Minneapolis. He was also active in several civic projects, including the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. Embezzlement Charged Former Treasurer Sought vot was 60-52.

one Leader "noCer aliening with rival factions. Xhp measure an outgrowth of rerjrrrnt League Independent over the management of jaytle.town staf ed A light plane which left Bismarck airport Wednesday nijrht carried its four occupants to their death in a crah northwest of Haydraw, S. about an hour later, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The scene of the crash is in Meade County, about 50 miles northeast of Rapid City, S. destination of the plane.

DEAD ARE the pilot. Cl.r.t Cabman, about 30; John Dorsey, S3; Marty Levine, 42. and Ed Roach, 55. The latter three are engineers for the Northwestern Ermi-neering Company who had flown to Bismarck to survey proposed construction at the Mandan refinery. The Beechcraft Bonanza checked out of Bismarck airport at 5-3) p.m.

on the return night which normally takes about I's hours. An alert was sounded early Thursday mornir.3 and the Civil Air Patrol instituted a wide-spread search. Rapid City pilot B.ll Hack-ett recognized tie demolished craft at 7:56 a.m. about six miles northwest of the Meade County hamlet Hackett's radio failed, but on his return to the Rapid City airport he reported the plare appeared to be demolished and he could see no Mjrn of life ia the four bur! ed from the rekaje. CLAUDE YOUNG, Rapid City, took off in a ski-rquipped p.ane tr.

i landed at the site where he determined the four men were dead. An ambulance was despatched from Rapid City and snowpiows are working through the desolate Meade County rarge to clear path to the site of the disaster for return of the bodies. No immediate cause of the tragedy has been determined although the pilot may have run into snow and sleet en route. Hackstt believed the plane itmck the grourd at full flying speed ami bourced more than a hundred yards before coming to rest. The bodies of the men were hurtled from the plane, distances varying from 10 to 45 feet The plane was owned by the Snedi-gar Hying Service of Rapid City.

CASH.MAN was a regular pilot for Jerry Snediar who operate commercial service flights out of the municipal airport at Rapid City. Dorsey is a water and sewt-r specialist for Northwestern; Levine is a North Dakota and Montana operations supervisor and Roach is grad.ng supervisor for the company. Dorsey is a former Huron. S. D.

resident Weather experts and pilots sail it was possible, tut not likely, the plane ran into icing conditions just prior to the crash. According to the flisht plan filed at Bismarck on h-s take-off, the plane was approximately half hour out of Rapid City v.hich would put the time cf the crash at 6:30 p.m. THE ENGINEERS were in Bismarck to investigate conditions at the Mandan oil refinery site before jubmiting a bid for part of the work. Tom Sorenson. Farzo, of tho Tri-State Excavating Co.

said he (Continued on 31 Use of Leeches On Stalin Raises Medical Eyebrows LONDON OP Tie news that th Soviet Union's top doctors are using leeches on stricken Premier Stalin raised some medical eyebrows in the United States Thursday but cause no surprise In Russia. Thursday's medical bulletin on Stalin's condition said that for the second time "leeches were used to draw blood" presumably In an effort to lower the patient's high blood pressure. In Chicago, a spokesman for the American Medical Association said the blood-sucking worms were out of date both in tic United States and Europe, but rr.aybe the Kremlin doctors wanted to be sure if Stalin died, bo old-fashioned Russian could accuse them of not using every possible remedy. Some observers doubted that Stalin was being subjected to th same kind of bite that used to deflate black eyes. But Associated Press Eddy Gvlmore in a telephone conversation from Moscow said the bulletin meant live leeches, which Russian doctors use frequently and consider highly itors, combined v.th the State Leg session, hat taxed housing facilities in the city to the limit.

The Bismarck Chamber of Commerce has set up a housing bureau to help locate sleeping quarters for visiting fans. Basketball will dominate activl there are numerous "extra' events planned. VISITING students are invited to free dances each evening of the tournament. Sponsored by the Bismarck Chamber of Commerce, the dances are scheduled at the Teen Canteen in the World War Memorial Building tonight and at the ax Fight Certain in BULLETIN Tb North Dakota Sonata today approved a 4V par cent gross production tax on oil fey a veto of 25-34, concurring In tKo Houso amitdmant which cut a Sanato parsed bill from 54 4' a. -r By ALLEN DOE Tribwn Stiff Writor A Senate fight over House-ap-p-oved 4' i per tent oil tax and 27i per cent depletion allowance appeared a certainty late Thursday.

Sen. Clyde Duffy. ROC floor leader, said that a motion that the Senate concur in the Houie-ap-proved rates definitely will be placed before the upper chamber Thursday afternoon. Lawmakers Hea Into Final Action Pending action on House-approved oil measures riveted legislative attention on the Senate Thursday North Dakota lawmakers head toward final adjournment of the 33-d state assembly. House amendments to the gross production and depletion taxes are before the upper clamber for con currence.

The Stnate originally passed bills providing for a per cent oil production tax and 25 per cent depletion allowance. The House Wednesday revised those figures to and 27Va. Traditional closing time for the legislature is midr ight Friday of the final week, but Senate and House leaders wire expressing doubt Thursday that business would be wrapped up by then Scheduled for final action during the next two days were thee con-tertiou bills: Appropriation for State colleges, amended by the House Appropria-(Contmued onj Page 3) He said there is Mill no indication as to when direct network service will be available. "Our plans call for new equi me.it at our transmitter site and the construction of a new building near the base of our present 704- (Continued on Page 3) Twilight on Bloody 0 By HAL BOYLE N-EW YORK IP The hammer and sickle' have fallen from tte nano oi jem-pn oiaua. 'The "Great ComgiV' has we to twilight ctt hfs? Song, bloody nose woras ana acuons ingnienta more people tSan' ar.y other man helpless paralyti w.

unable to move or ask for a drjr.k of ater a complete priener of a small troup of men in he held rc final trust hat terror must ieethe in his darkened brair as st'iinge shadowy vires prooe tn r.umDing oody Moscow's medical in Wire-photo) h- 1 1 Morton Oddly enough, the fugitive re- received a tip-off on the impending an-est from a Minnesota sheriff. Porter has been in Minnesota since leaving Mandan in 1943. Porter, who has been living in Rainey, a suburb of International Falls, was picked up and released before he disappeared. THE BORDER patrol has been alerted as have Minnesota and North Dakota police officers. Morton County States Attorney C.

J. Schauss said Porter had been employes! as a laborer at a pulp mill iri Rainey. The warrant, issued Feb. 25, was signed by Carl Borge. chairman of the Morton County commissioners.

Sheriff E. L. Anderson of Koocb-icking County in Minnesota was noUfied of the warrant. Minnesota authorities advised Schauss Porter had been picked up March 2 and released on the promise be would return the next day and bring bondsmen with him. March 3, Porter returned but said he had been unable to secure bondsmen.

He was given uctil March 4 to post bond. He did not show up on that date and did not report for work March 4. PORTER LEFT home, carrying a lunch bucket but has not been seen since. His wife and children remain in Rainey. Mrs.

Porter said she received a letter from Porter saying he was leaving and would be back when his innocence was proved. Porter served as treasurer or deputy treasurer in Morton County from May, 1929, to May. when he resigned. He had ben on leave of absence since January of that year. He alternated in those bs with Lawrence Tavis.

now serving a state prison term after pleading guilty to embeiiling $13,000 in county funds. Morton County has filed claims with the state bonding furjd amounting to more than $209,000 in shortages, Schauss said the $73,451.43 listed in the warrant signed against Porter is the amount taken from the county between Jan. 23, 19K, and Jan. 23, 1943. Schauss stated that when and if Porter is apprehended he will be held at that point and extradited to North Dakota to face trial on the charges.

Supervision of the hospital is under 0f tiie board of adminbdra- ton. The bill would abolish the board replace it with a conirol board appointed by the covemor on a diem basis. Polices of the board would carried out by an executive d. rector. ITS FUNCTIONS would be su pnrvision cf the state's charitable i institutions and the cap-! building.

The present board identical responsibilities. It is now composed of three full-time members plus the superintendent r-tlic inunction anUhe labor commissioner, lae V.w Members of the Senate Leajrue- (Continued on Pase 3) KFYR Makes Plans i i'vi 'y ir Ilimarckers five other have teams in the tourna-r-pt some pmvui has to be r-v'e the out of-towners h( rrsny m.les to see the aLut half of the mrrved k-: are to other ci scs il to-irrey. rexi, rervej prav: the insurance of bal-r'4 W.ihnut them re be an ovcrf.O'ar crowd rame and a few per tt an "her. And the price, $4 see 12 excit.n? ba-ketbll docs ret seem excessive me. rrrT T5TTT rnf 1 UUl, DU i KJIAJ V.hen the Flasher Volunteer Fire, heard that fire threat- I the ht.

Anthony bunex S-May, action was im ixitc thf fact that it s-nir hard ard coid. r.t-lrn drove the treacher-1 mJes to St Anthony an -n re f.re truck. They jrt stuck than or.ee a the truck p.ow-1 the f.ie road to the tre ait thrre at 7 m. andi 1 flames ur.t.l the f.re rrpl the tank on track -t a cistern as needed. -a they drove home a' a in A nark by B.ll Reynolds, Flasher 'c ch rf, sums up the stt'i of the crew.

anywhere to fuh' if can tt there," sa a tre 1. The they ma-1e Sunday proves that YES AND NO i -rj. He a 'Ge'n-'rf i was th. last yneral to hold b'ore Was it General I i-o'" I I'-U Use Grant was I was a major general in C.nl Vjr ard both (larf.eid H.rr: were er in th same cor.H.ct. Arthur a eptrtf crrcral in the Yrrk r.l.tia.

All in all. IS of pre were nu.tary uni- at en? time or another. a ANOTHER r. aks; was it that i I f.re unt.l the Betty cf C-rkrr, I tvrr DUPED ON DIET? iv. Ad pu.j a I-.

i if he would id off with a b. ie Mi la 1 it he ever win. Ralph Shalt of the Mott Pioneer Press. r.e.J wuh Ad recently. Here ii report: V.as in the at the Li-n mee.inj.

Sa Ad from several ire -'r 1 cuk! see h- rrv ht hive lost was that I stiemM a l.ttle thinner." hit rs on hero, Ad? n.ipj.'.v, euioarJ. -1 S. fet ent a tv. an psr ital has I i of to in i lower figures. The Coalition held a slim 25 to 24 majority two weeks ago when a 51 per cent tax and 25 per cent depletion allowance were approved by the Senate.

A Republican Organizing Committee move to get the 4li and 27M. per cent figures approved then was defeated. To hold its members together then, the Coalition had to cut its proposed tax from 6U to 5As per cent. ROC members say that at least one of the coalition members who threatened to bolt then will vote with the ROC on the House amendments. Just one vote will reverse the balance of power.

THE HOUSE voted 81 to 18, with 14 members not voting, to pass the oil tax bill at 44 per cent Wednesday afternoon. The 27a per cent depletion allowance passed 90 to 14. Final House action on the two measures brought only brief argument The big debate came when the amendments to the bills were considered. After an hour debate, a move by the League to get the tax measure piaced on General Orders for further amendment was defeated in a 45-6 vote. SOME LEAGUE members were holding out for a tax rate higher (Continued on Page 3) BULLETINS WASHINGTON Ui A lean fa Dakota Central Mutual Aid Corporation at Car-rincto, a rural talphon co-optrativo, has boon approved by the rural telephone division of RE according to Rap.

Orto Kruor WASHINGTON Dr. Jo-soph W. Wainborg was acquitted today of a charge of par-jury. Ho was accused of lying when ho doniod to a congressional committeo that ho had boon a membor of tho Communist party. Road to Power Sickle Fall Inquisition! What panic in his mind as his thickened tongue refuses to say what he wants it to say! Maybe he wants to give an order.

Won't anybody, can't anybody bear him? Maybe it isn't an order at all. Maybe the great marshal doesn't want to talk about a battle plan, or purge a satellite country. Perhaps at last he wants to mumble a prayer, or maybe his memory wanders in the lost fields of yesteryear and he is inquiring for Lenin, or Trotsky, the dead friends of his dead youth. Whatever he wants to say, it no makes any difference. He shares in solitude the fate he inflicted on millions of other human TV Stations Okayed Bernard M.

Porter, former Mor ton county treasurer, became the subject of an intense two-state manhunt Thursday after he fled his Rainey, home to avoid arrest cn a charge of embeiiling $73,451.43 from Morton County between 1940, and January, 1913. Japan Premier Sorry for Stalin TOKYO Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida Thursday said he felt sorry for critically ill Soviet Premier Stalin, though he did not see eye to eye wilh Stalin on world affairs. Yoshida made the remark In reply to request for comment from a Leftist Socialist councilor at a meeting of Parliament! upper bouse budget committee. N. D.

Marine Dies in Korea NEW ROCKFORD ur-Mr. and Mrs. Warren D. Day, New Rock-ford, have been informed their son, Gerald, 21, has been killed in action in Korea. Day was reported killed while serving with a reconnaissance battalion of the U.

S. Marines Feb. 28. Day was a student at Valley City Teachers College when called into the service in anuary of 1952. ing for the death of others.

And what docs all his vast empire come down to? A fight for just one more breath and then another. What are the Ukraine and Poland to Lim now, Manchuria or Korea? His arch enemy, the Pope at Rome, prays for his conversion. Millions of others around the world, less pious, would prefer to ring church bells over death. Many in his own country probably feel that way, too. Well, it took Joseph Stalin 73 years to make his bed.

Now he lies in it dead or probably dying, as the rest of the world, already willing to forget him, wonders who will pick up his hammer and sickle now ia the plot againit peace. Federal Communieatons Commission has authorized two 'television stations for Bbmarck. Act. on by tho commission V'ei- neviay grantel the Meyer Broadcasts Co. (KFYR) Channel 5 and the Rudman Television Co.

Channe' 12. Farr.k E. Fitzsimonds. manager KFYR. said bis company will (proceed immediaiely with plans to brm television to the city.

be apt tied before Hill Know, 'v on opera. iu.is wui in B.imarck, ritzsimonas from Stalin Hands does seem certain that the necessary equipment ill be avail-1 ahle for instillation sometime in mx Under fCC regulations, "work road to power. upn the installation must is superb irony' that this rcan beings. Now he, too, is a slave. And, like all the others, death is for him the only way out At this writing the Moscow government reports him still alive.

But, true or fabe, it makes no real difference. Dead or alive. Comrade Stalin is again a stranger to poer. No other figure In the human race ever held such power 800.000,000 people under his direc sway some 1,400.000.00 others worried or afraid of how he would move next "talin took over as a dictator where Adolf Hitler left off. He knew no real peace since boyhood always fighting, plotting, schem wrnm vi aays oi uie appuca- ton's approv val and opTaiu.

ov the station within 90 day fterm history should e.il a tory should e.il a jthat time. Extensions are either case however. sble sai that at U. start t-V I 1 Iv I cal live p'-onns an" films of network pro-rams, which "will be sh-A7i wuhm a tnori lime ar.i their frijinal use on network".