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IO A VOLUME LIII. No. 270. The WmU7 BmUIOT. KitebliAed ISflT.

fyjUfr. 1897. lOLA, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1950. Won'tBack Schoeppel Charges Senate GOP Policy 1 Committee Refuseg Any Part in KansanW Quarrel With ashingtqn AP) The senate Republican policy committee refused today to back Sen. Schoeppel in his charges of Communist activity in the'interior department.

Sen. Taft cbairinan of the group, told- reporters "the llcy committee disavows ftli responsibility for Senator Schoeppel's charges." The announcement emphasized concern with Republican leaders viewed: Schoeppel's backfiring accusation that Secretary of the Interior Chapman, has "a strong and close, personal alliance" with the Soviet Russtan cause. The Republicaii national committee issued a stafement Friday say- tag it had no advance knowledge of Schoeppel's accusation'. Schoeppel himself has conceded, after hearing blistering. reply from Chapman, that his own language may have beeii "a Uttle strong." Repu'bllcan worry mounted when, Friday, Schoeppel told the senate Interior committee which is investigating his' charges that he Is marshalling new documents and wants to call his own witnesses to back up his story.

Chairman O'Mahoney (D-W who heads the committee, said the request? wopld be granted. Talt told reporters Schoeppel with none of the top its viio constitute the xomiAlttee, and the group (thing to 40 with his fight. "I hope Senator Schoeppel knows what he's doing," another Republican leader, declining to be identified, told a reporter. "My advice have been to accuse nobody of anything unless you haye an iron clad proof." The senator djscllned to tell reporters whom htf plans to call as witnesses, or witat documents he is readying, except that one wit- neiss will be his jidaUnlstratlve assistant, Frank Bow is. a Republican candidate for cohgTess in Ohio, and Uw man who dug up most of the information, Schoeppel said, on which his charges are based.

Bow has declteed to comment. YANKS GREET troops which recently arrived in Korea are gneeted by' Wixerlcans whose positions the British will replace on the front lines. The Americans and British are now tegaged in i fierce counter-attack with the Korean Reds after a five-day offensive by the Telephoto.) Andersoui Supports Sefverence Tax Kenneth T. Democratic (or gctvemor of Kansas, apgke last night; before the lola Kiwanis club in supiwrt of a severance tax on oU. gu and similar commodities.

Anderson, who qwob an In an oU producing believes that Kansas is losing Valuable asset, without proper reMplipense, when it sells gu and to other states. He believes that mineral wealth should be taxed now and at least a portion of the revorae be impounded for the benefit of utinre generations. He said that he does' not believe that a severance tax Wnl necessarily tacrease the price of oil and gasoline to Kansas. Andfusbh out that Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana levy severance taxes aAd their ducts sell here at the same paid for gasoline aiid oil made entirely from Kansas crude. The speaker, who lives at Emporia, gave the Kiwanians a brief sketch of his early! life.

His Career tacluded months spent as a ditch digger and manual laborer in Texas and other; states. He now has extensive ho in ranches, farms and other business A few weeks agoj the Kiwanians were addressed Ed Am, Republican candidate for i governor. John Layle, president, this morning that it is the club's policy to hear boib of the principal gubernatorial candidates In election years. Hansons To Return To America Soon jThe Rev. and Mrs.

Perry C. lolana who are now at tao, China, expeist sail for the UnltMl SUtes neir the of thU month, according to information received by their daughter, Mrs. Burner MUler. Mr. and Mrs.

Hanson first went to China as Methodist missionaries in 1S03 and hava $pint most of the past 47 years working with the Chinese people. Tliey were in the United States oo furlough during World 'War It reitimilng shortly after hoetlllUes CMdlsd. According to pLvamt plans; they will cross the PaetfiiB on freighter Mitned by. the tsbrandtsen Jlines, reaching San Frawlwo on Oct. 20.

Tiiey will visit frWKU on the west coast before cont the trip ta Ma. CABL80NI8FIT Topeka (AP) "They foimd me BoiBid as a dollar," Gov. Friank Carlson Friday on his return from fhje tTniversity of Kansas medical center where he underwent a 2 routine physical checkup. Tbe governor, who is 57 years to a pip Anti-Red BiU Is Vetoed Truman Fears Abuse Of Proposed Reins; Asks Hand to Asiatics Washinpton (AP) President Truman Saturday vetoed a bill denying citizen to persons who mtiy seek covertly to overthrow the government throuRh association with Communist front organizations. At the same time he a.sked con gress to reenact another section of the measure which he had recommended.

That section says the right to become a naturalized cltl- zeji should not be denied or attrldged because of race. The ef- fei'it would be to grant naturalization rights to American residents o'f Asiatic origin. In message returning the measure to the house, Mr. Truman the language of the section on Communist front groups "Is so fague and Ill-defined that no one con tell what it may mean or how It may be applied." ''The result," he said, "might to weaken our naturalization laws rather than strengthen them. The result might also be to jeopardize the basic rights of our naturalized citizens and other persons legitimately admitted to the United States.

"In my judgment. I would be impossible to administer this act without creating a twiilight species of second class persons w.hb could be deprived of citizenship on technical grounds, through their ignorance or lack of judgment." In reference to the section which the president wrote: "At a time when the United NBT tlons forces are fighting gallantly to uphold the principles of free dom hd democracy in it would be unworthy of our traditions if continue now to deny the right of citizenship to American residents of Asiatic origin." Kansas Air Guard Unit lis Alerted Wichita (AP) Officers and en- jlsted men of the 127th fighter Squadron. Kansas air national will be mobilized between Get. 11 and 21, Bep. Ed H.

Rees (R-Kas) said Friday. Rees said he received word of Snobilization plans for the jet- guard unit, headquartered here, from the air force in Washington. The one of the first in the nation to he equipped with 1 jet fighters observed its fourth "birthday Friday. The Weather KantiaH Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Sundiiyi occaaionsl showers norUiwest and extreme west this attemoMi a'hd and in north portion Sunday; somewhat warmer west tonight; low tonight 65-60; blirh Sunday near 85. for the 34 bours ending 8 a.

m. today. 79; lowest, 59; normal for 73; deficiency yesterday, deficiency since Jan. 1, 211 degrees; thte date last year, highest, 77; lowest, 48. Preclbltation for the 24 hours ending at 18 a.

m. today, total for year to date, 31.88; excess since Jan. 1, 3.90 Inches. Sunrise 5:58 a. set 6:40 p.

m. Thermograph Readings Ending 8 a. m. Today 9 a. m.

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7 m. 8 a. m. -60 -61 -61 X61 -64 Sees Bigger World Wlieat Crop in 1951 Washington' (AP) The department of agriculture said today that larger wheat crops are expected this year in all major producing areas of the northern hemisphere, except North Africa. Production is expected to total about 5 per -cent above ythat of 1949' and 7 cent above the 1935-39 average, the department's bureau of agricultural economics reported.

United States production was estimated Aug; 1 at 996,490.000 bushels, considerably below last year's approximately 1,150,000,000 bushels. The Canadian crop, however, was expected to reach 544 million bushels, a 177 million-bushel increase over 1949. Gld-Timers Will Ehjoy Funston Pamphlet Mrs. Ella Funston Eckdall has presented The Register with a copy of handsomely printed 36-page booklet she has written entitled, "The Funston Homestead." The foreward reads: "The following remlnlscenses are written for our children, Lida Eckdall Lees, Frank Funston Elckdall, and Funston Eckdall, lest they be forgetful and not remindful of the lives of their grandparents, Edward Hogue Funston and Anna Eliza Mitchell Funston:" Thus it is a purely private family history written by Mrs. for the benefit of her children.

But it contains as it would have to, a wealth of story and recollection about the early days of the pioneer Carlyle community and the families who first settled and lived there. It is illustrated with pictures of the Funston homestead, which is identified by a state historical marker on U. S. 59 about five hiiles north of lola, and of Funston family. Any lola old-timer would find the pamphlet delightful reading.

The Register will be glad to lend its copy to anyone wijo wishes to look it over. Mrs. Eckdall. who now lives in Emporia, has written that she also intends to send a copy to the lola Public Library in the near future. Strickler Herd To State Fair four-year-old Holstein bull, "Dale Creamellc Ormsby" belonging to Ivan Strickler, lola, has been entered with a show herd of 19 Holstelns in the stock show at the Kansas state fair, opening Sept, 17.

The bull won grand champion award at the state fair here last year and is returning for a repeat performance. He grand champion at the Missouri state fair at Sedalia and the Qtuk. at Springfield, Other entries from Allen county In the stock show are 11 Jerseys from the Knoeppci Jersey farm near Colony and an Angus bull entered by Robert A. Finney from the Wln- sted stock farm near Humboldt. Nearly 1300 head qf cattle have been entered at the Hutchinson state fair, about 900 swine and more than 300 sheep.

Car Damaged By Fire (Snecial to The body of the Tudor Ford Sedan belongtag to lb. and Mrs; Tom Webb was completely destroyed In a'fire Thursday afternoon. The fire, originating under the dash was caused by defective wiring. It was discovered by Mrs. Webb, who tried despmtely to put it out, and finding it was getting out of control turned In the alarmt Firemen responded and ta a short while bad the fire out.

Hie chassis of the car was not damagM. Mr. and Mrs. Webb batUwnwl fbe car oolf atiovt and it waa covered by ihsivanee. Say Johnson On Way Out Secretary of Defense Has Long Been Target Of Bitter Criticism I Washington (AP) A close adviser to President Truman said Saturday Louis Johnson is on his way Nout as secretary of defense.

This administration confidant, who declined to be quoted by name, said Johnson may step out before the general election in November. This report lacked-any official confirmation from the White House or defense department. the current, feeling in congress is that the president is still sticking by Ills defense secretary, Johnson has been" the target, of a swelling flood of criticism from congressmen and other sources. This reached Its bitterest pitch last weekend when Rep. Taurlello (D- NY), in a second, demand for Johnson to quit, said he understood! iJohnson forde the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal out of office.

And only Friday the Marine Corpp league adopted a resolution calling for removal. Mr. Truman has vigorously defended Johnson on inore than one occasion. A IVew Arrest In Mildred Ralph 32, was arrested yesterday. afternoon by John sheriff, and charged with participation in the robbery of Brown Brothers Grocery in Mildred during the night of July 28.

Mihkler has been living in a trailer house in the Mildred vicinity for some months. Page said. James Stockdalc, 17, Mildred, was picked up on August 1 and confessed to having a ptut in the burglary, according to Page. The sheriff believes that a-third-man was also Involved in the-crime. The grocery was forcibly entered some time during the night of July 28.

The thieves obtained about $84 in cash, some cigarettes and other small merchandise Items. On the night jthe Shivlcy Filling station was etitered and robbed of $1.20. Minkler is being held in jall until his prelimintiry hearing which has not been set. SaeeaMor to Tlw loU Daibr loU BMord, ud lola Dailr ladn. FOUR PAGES Report Due Tonight I Truman to Broadciist Proposed Action Under Newly Granted Controls Power Now ashington Truman: w'iil to the nation 8:30 p.

m. tonight a report pn how he plans to use the broadest economic control powers eyer held a United States I The. power grant became effective when the president signed Into law Thursday the control bill passed by congress Sept; 1. It Mr. Truman somewhat greatejr au- 'thorlty than that held by President Roosevelt hi World Waj 2.

One use to curb installment plan buying was invoked a few minutes after Mr. Trurhan signed the bill. This was a federal reserve board order tightening, effective Sept. 18, credit that can be allowed buyers and many other goods. Mr.

Truman himself has said he won't use his new tioning control powers in the near future. So the action will reaph more directlyj Uito the lives of millions'of Americans than any other steps now in the cards. Assignment of material priorities to military producers', and 1 mits on inventories of essential iteiyis to prevent hoarding are reported to bje the next control steps contem- plaied by the administration 'put such moves as thcsi; plus a tightening of mortgage credit terms in line with the new credit limits on goods purchases awaited directions Truman. from Mr. The reserve board, observing that ea.sy credit had aided the post-Korea buying rush, set minimum cash down payment) and maximum payoff limits on time buying: One-third down and 21 months to pay for autos, or iised.

(The board said de'alers have up to now generally been requiring a 20 percent down payment.) -J Fifteen percent and 18 for refrigerators, food freezers, radio or television phonographs, cooking stoves, rang-' es, dishwashers, ironers, watihlng machines, clothes driers, sejwing machines, suction (vacuum) cleaners, air conditions and dehumidl- fiers. I Ten percent and 18 months for furniture and rugs. Ten percent and 30 months for home repairs, alterations and improvements. Articles listed but costing -less than- $100 were exempted from the down payment requirements, but made subject to the pay-off time limits. New Tramc Ligiits Into Use Monday The new trafBc signals at comer of Madison were given a brief and test run morning be in'full operation Monday," Warren engineer, this morning.

The stop and go Ughts will he synchronized with those at Madison, and Washington to enable mptor- tho Jefferson this Ists to pass both intersections without stopping if they maintain a speed of 15 miles an hour. The worked satisfactorily during the test period today but Willis and Mack Percy, chief of police, decided that putting them in operation might caiuse confusion. Next week, while trafBc is comparatively light, local motorists will become accustomed to the signals and be familiar with them before tho Saturday rush. i DININO IN A U. S.

25th Division infantryman daintily shields himself' from the hot Korean sun as his mess kit is filled during a lull in tlib battle near Masan on the southern S. Army Photo via AP Wirephoto.) Gks Slows Miners' Rescue Deadly Black Damp Fills Escape Tunnels, Forcing Use of Gas Masks; Peril Is Great New Cumnock, Scotland weary, gas-masked miner the first of 118 men trapped since last Thursday in the Knockshinnoch Castle through deadly black damp gas to safety shortly after noon today. Rescue workers down breathing apparatus ohe-by-one to the other men, trapped by in 720 feet underground. Their return to daylight promised to be since only one man at a time could get through the gas-filled es- tunnel poiwhed through Frl- night from an adjohilng abandoned shaft. Housewives in this mining town of 6,000 were asked to bring war- souvcnlr respirators to the mine to speed up the rescue-work; Ten of the men trapped In Thursday night's massive cave-in were feared lost.

Eight escaped earlier. The first man brougfht to the surface grimy with coaldust and suffering from was identified as Gibb McCaughtrey, 22. He was carried out on a stretcher-and taken to a hotel. He had been examined by doctors in the old mine shaft before being brought to the surface. The rescue workers reached the trapped men Friday night, but a wall of odorle.ss, colorless black damp gas blocked Immediate escape through tho tunnel that had been bored upward through 30 feet of solid coal from the old mine shaft.

At first, attempts were made to suck the deadly out with big fans. But the process was too slow and the national coal board decided, despite the risk, to bring out the trapped men wearing breathing apparatus. "This procedure will inevitably be prolonged over many hours and may involve some risk," a coal board statement said. Earlier, the coal board had announced that since the use of the breathing apparatus required sper cial training the risk was too great, but the fact that the process of sucking the gas out was too slow changed the plans. New $100 Bills Rain From Sky hiU to enter.

a Mt afire Iqr tank guna in the Naktong river a IMs is (joe of the elfecta 6( tbe ebunter-attadc whlctt tite fiivite Cleveland (AP) Walktag out of Hotel Cleveland Friday night. Claries W. McCom, 40, a Roanoke, Va. salesman saw some green bills' drifting out of the night sky. He picked up seven.

Each was a brand hew These he turned over to the police, but: One woman grabbed three other bills and another man pocketed a fourth. They walked away, McCorn said. who think. they must have blown out of a building window, are waiting for the owner. If no one shows up with the right serial numbers, they said, the money is McCorn's.

Says Apology Due 80th Congress Wichita (AP) President Truman's apology to the marines "pleased" Harold E. Stassen, but the former Republican governor of Minnesota thinks the 80th congress is also due an apology. And Stassen told a rally of Kansas Republicans Friday "If General MacArthur had been put in charge of the entire Asiatic-Pacific area of our action five years ago, we wouldn't be in this weak position today." Hitting at the forced withdrawal of MacArthur's statement on For- mo.sa, Stassen said Americans "were entitled to hear the opinion of this great general. It was a question of military strategy." Charging the president blocked 80th congress efforts to strengthen national defense, particularly the air force, Stassen said "the 80th congress was right and the president was 'wrong. "I believe further historians will say Sen.

Arthur Vandenberg and the record of the Republican 80th congress was the one bright spot in one of the worst five years of American foreign policy of our nation's history." High Awards ToTwoKansans With U. S. 25th Division, Korea (AP) The second highest U. S. decoration the Distinguished Service Cross was awarded Saturday to two Negro for heroism in Korea.

General MacArthur ordered the presentation to: Second Lt. William M. Benefield Pittsburg, Kas. An engineer officer, Benefield with complete disregard for his personal safety cleared Communist mines from in front of an advancing American company under sniall arms fire from Red Infantrymen only 200 yards away. He was killed.

Second Chester J. Lehon. Independence, another engineer officer. Lenon saved his cutoff platoon by leading six volunteers in a desperate attack on the enemy and although woimded refused to leave his men until they had reached safety. Then Lenon refused medical treatment until all his wounded soldier's were treated.

He lived. Threat Allied Troops Close Gap in Defense Line East of City; Lose Battle Mountain Again okyo (AP) AllieS troops snapped shut a daYigeraus Red gap in the northeastern end of the Korean warfront today but lost a foothold at the other end of the f20-mile bat- tleline. American and South Korean troops linked forces east of Taegu to close a threatening 6-mile opening, in the line between Yongchon and Kyongju. UN doughfoots, slogging through mud, had U. S.

aerial support for the first time in 36 hours as sidles cleared. Battle Mountain, most bitterly contested hiU in the Korean battle zone, fell again to an attacking force of North Korimns on the southwest Jront. It was the 12th time in 16 days the mountain had changed hands. The fighting was severe at Battle Mountain, two miles from borned-oot Utman on the southwestern approach to Posaa port. North losses In once again scaling the bald monntsln were heavy.

Bot their greatest losses of the day cnrred In fighting swirling near Battle MounUln. The U. S. 25th Injantry division killed 1,500 Reds there. -That boosted Communist losses on the soutb- lovestem front for the week to well above 15,000 men a division and a half and raised official estimates of Red losses on all fronts to 27,000 troops In eight days about 18 percent of, their 150,000 force.

Three thousand counter attacking North Koreans recaptured the mountain, which dominates approaches to Masan port on the treme southern Korea coast. AP correspondent Stan Swlnton said the Reds drove outnumbered Americans off the peak in a thunderous assault and held it Saturday night. Some U. planes lashed at Red positions in the Naktong river bridgehead west of Yongsan, 25 miles north of Battle Mountain. At least one band of Communists broke from ridge positions opposite the U.

S. Second division's center and fled toward the tong, AP correspondent Don Huth reported from t)iat sector. AP correspondent Jack MacBeth reported from the Yongchon front that Allied forces welded their once broken lines late Saturday at the end of a 3-day assault. Three-thousand South Koreans there rammed out gains of more than two miles southeast of chon to link with American and westward from Kyongju, Which is 18 miles southwest of the Red-held east coast port of Pohang. Yongchon, gateway to Taegu 20 miles to the west, was recaptured Friday from Reds who held it briefly.

Sealing the Ibie helped reduce the threat to Taegu from this battle nank. behind which SO Commonist troops were trying to up for a new thmsi. The second gateway to Taegu from the north was held solidly throughout the day. U-. S.

First Cavalry troops beat back hammering Red attacks against their dominating ridge positions seven miles north of Taegu, the main base of the Korean central warfront. The troopers had given up some high ground before Red attacks down the "Bowling Alley" corridor Friday. But they, clung to the main ridges above the flatlands leading to Taegu. Five More Kansans On Casualty List Wafihlngton (AP) The, defcn-se department Saturday announced these casualties from Kansas in the Korean area (list No. 90): Killed In action Sgt.

Walter Unruh. army, son of Susie Unruh, route 2, Oalva. Wounded Pfc. Tommle B. Linam, army, son of Mrs.

Jesse Llnam, Wichita. Sgt. Burnell D. Hennigan, marine corps, son of Mrs. Marie Hennigan, Topeka.

Missinc In action Pfc. Marvin Marton a'rmy, grandaon of Mr. andUrs. W. Davis, Coffeyvllle.

Pfc. 'Robert E. SJoIander. army, son of Mrs. Helen M.

Larkins, route 2, Concordia. diEVEB THIEF Spokane (AP) Walter Johnson's car stalled on a city street. He did his best but couldn't get It started. Then he went for help. While he was gone somebody stoleh when He got badk, Wt tum police.

1 West To Get Showers Again Topeka (AP) Clouds have found their way back to Kansas the welcomed dry appears at an eijd' for at least part of the state. A. D. Robb said occasional showers are likely In the west Sattirday night and In the north Sunday. There also will be some warming up In the west Saturday night, he said, but temperatures generally will show little change from their recent pleasant High marks near 85 are expected again Sunday after minimum readings of 65 to 60 Saturday night.

Temperature extremes in the 34 hours ending at 6 a. m. Saturday were 83 Phillipsburg, Hutchinson and Garden City at Goodlandl AnnounceBoost In Soap Prices Cincinnati (AP) The Procter It Gamble announced Saturday an Increase.of approximately percent in the wholesale pribe of household soaps. Tbe advance wlU be effMtlve i um must pay for f'ats; and oils.".