The Iola Register from Iola, Kansas • 1

saattjitotjaAia-M'aaaB if THE IOLA RE.GISTE i i The Weekly Register, Established 1867. The Iola Daily Register, Established 1897. IOLA, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1946. Successor to The Iola Daily Register, The Ida Daily Record, and Iola Daily Index. TEN PAGES VOLUME XLIX No.

173 The Weather First Jap Women Into Political Arena if KANSAS Occasional light showers Friday and west and south central tonight; not much change in temperature; lowest tonight near 50 northwest, near 55 east and south. Temperature Highest for the 24 hours ending 5 p. m. yesterday, 75, lowest last night 58; normal for today 65; excess yesterday excess since January 1, 793 degrees; this date last year highest 45 lowest 41. Precipitation for the 24 hours ending at 8 a.

m. today, total for this year to date, 1092; deficiency since January 1, .58 inches. Sunrise, 5'10 a. set, 7:26 p. m.

Thermograph Readings Ending 8 a. m. Today i radio-telephone service is given by Richard reporter, who calls his city editor Bell is first in nation to receive permit service. (NEA Telephoto.) Adopt Secrecy Ruling To Keep U. N.

Records From Council Members Refusing to Attend; Adjourn Till Tomorrow New York May 16. (AP) The United Nations Security Council today unanimously adopted a secrecy rule permitting it to keep the records of executive sessions from every U. N. member not represented at such closed meetings. It did not act cn rules for admission of new members when the Australian delegate, Paul Hasluck, objected, declaring some members seem to have the impression that the U.

N. is a private club. The council adjourned until tomorrow after meeting for two hours. The adjoumament left hanging Haslucks request that the matter of admitting new members be deferred and that the council arrange for consultation with the general as eembly before final action is taker. Meet September 3 The general assembly will meet In New York next Sept.

3. The Australian delegate maintained that the charter makes -clear the general assembly is the only organ of the United Nations which has the power to decide on admitting new members. The proposed rules would have applications turned over to the security council for consideration and recommendation to the general assembly for final action. Hasluck was the only member speaking on the secrecy rule, saying he wanted it agreed that rule No. 53, in the batch proposed today should be interpreted very liberally by the council.

Under the new rule, if any delegate refused to attend a private meeting, and yet desired to examir.a the record, the council could deny him the light to see it. Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet delegate who returned to the council session today, voted vlth his colleagues to pass the rule without further discussion. Carlson lNews Speed-Up At GOP Rally Makes Opening Speech Of Campaign For Governor at Memorial Hall Here Friday at 8 p. m.

Representative Frank Carlson, candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, is expected tot discuss several of the vital' problems troubling America in his address at 8 p. m. Friday, at the'' Iola Memorial hatl, local Republicans said today. Representative Carlson left Washington, D. Tuesday night for a series of three addresses, opening at lbla.

On Saturday he will speak at Hutchinson and wlU address a Memorial, day program In- Wilson on May 30. He may return to Washington in the interval between the Hutchinson and Wilson speeches. At Iola Friday night Carlson will make his first speech in his campaign for the, gubernatorial nomination. It Is expected to lay the foundation for his bid for the office now held by Govemor Schoeppel. Prominent in House As a member of the Ways and Means committee in the House, Carlson has played an important part in framing national legislation during the past few years and is recognized as one of the most able men to represent Kansas in the Congress.

He has been particularly active in matters pertaining to taxation and government revenues. The Iola rally has been arranged by the Allen county Young Republican club and the county central committee. W. S. Fees, county chairman, will preside.

With the exception of brief announcements. no program has been arranged. Following Mr. Carlsons address the audience will be given an opportunity to meet him and to ask him questions concerning the national scene. Buddy Poppy i Day Saturday First public demonstration of Everett, St.

Louis, newspaper from an auto. The Southwest and start Offer Plan For Union Of India British Draw Up Proposal After Indian Leaders Fail To Unite On Policy London, May 16. (AP) A six-point plan for a federal union of India was announced in the house of commons by Prime Minister Attlee. Published as a government white paper, the plan was drawn up by three-man cabinet mission to India following its unsuccessful negotiations for Indian leaders themselves to formulate a. plan for Indian and an interim government to rule while the new constitution was being drafted and Proposes Coal Strike Arbitration Truman Would Name Arbiter If Opponents Cant Agree; Answer To Be Given at 5:30 93 Seniors Graduate onight Class Commencement Exercises at Memorial Hall at 8:15 Tonight; Brinkerhoff to Speak One' of lifes important mile posts will be passed tonight by the 93 members of the graduating class of the Iola high school at the commencement exercises which will be held in Memorial Hall at 8:15 p.

m. Ten members of the class will be graduated in absentia. Most of them are now in the armed services. Two or three completed their required high school courses last summer and are now enrolled in universities. Fred W.

Brinkerhoff, editor of the Pittsburg Headlight, will deliver the commencement address. Musical numbers will be provided by the Iola high school Symphonette under the direction of Dale P. Greitz. Fleming to Preside Superintendent John A. Fleming will preside.

The class will be presented by Floyd C. Smith, principal of the high school, and the diplomas will be given to the graduates by John McNallv, a member of the Board of Education. The. members of the graduating class are: Carol Beth Adams. Alberta Marie Alexander, Newton Reed Anderson, Frank Ashley, Rolland Deroy Babcock, Fern Esther Baker, Delores Alvenia Bates, Eleanor Marie Beal, Duane L.

Beatty, John Dick Bergman. Barbara Ann Biggs, Joseph Patrick Bosley, Jimmie Brigham, Joan Kathleen Burke, Betty Ruth Burton, Bettv Eileen Callaway, Mary Jeanne Campbell, Gloria Jeanne Canady. Mary Alice Carey, George Bruce Chard, Byron Barton Chaney, Simona S. Chaves, Howard Warren Christie, Marv Anna Cornell, Vena Faye Cuppy. William Bertwen Curtis, Clinton Edward Daniels, George F.

Drake, Lyle William Dreher, Curtis Elmer Duggan, Paul Homer Duggan, Alvin C. Endsley, Kenneth Farnsworth, Frederick Leon Fine, Lovanda Isabelle Fisher, Vernon Henry Garner, Robert Loraine Garver, Margaret Jean Marian Janice Goodsell, Josephine Virginia Haag, Ida Belle Hamilton, Aleene Harmon, Jack Douglas Higginbotham, Lester. L. Hillbrant, Raymond Stanford Huffman, Richard Adams Hunter. Virgil K.

In-groum, Laura Virginia Johnson, Betty Louise Judah, Edgar Franklin Kessinger, Janice Louise Kettle, Lavon Ruth Kinman, Betty Louise Kirby. Kenneth Charles Kress, Leanna Lenski. Vic Lind, Serafin R. Lira, Ruth Elaine Lorance, Maxine Nellie Ludlum, Scott Lynn, Dorothy Edith Martin, Robert B. Mealev, Mary Menzie, Ernest D.

Mitchell, Velma Louise Myers, James R. Nance, Milo D. Nance, Catherine May Neighbor. Jo Ann Orndoff, William Glenn Percv, Wanda Jean Pope, John Morrill Powell, Mary Ellen Reid, Mary Carol Remsberg, Barbara Jean Romeo, Richard Lee Scott, Robert Allen Shanahan. Phyllis Jean Sigler, Larry Ward Simmons, Norma Jeanne Snell, Margie Sprineston, Nina Pearl Stot-ler, Charles Risdon Stroh, William Troxel.

Lawrence Everett Trout, Carl Lee Webb. Ernest Webb, Dorothy Ann Westerman, Marvelle Lorene Wiggins, Verle Mae Wilson, Jackson Francis Womack, Shirley Pauline Wright, Betty Louise Young. Graduated in absentia. 80 Rural School Graduates Exercises to Be Held At Memorial Hall Saturday at 2 p. m.

Lamer Is Speaker Graduation exercises for Allen countys rural grade schools will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday in the Iola Memorial Hall. More' than 80 pupils will receive diplomas denoting the completion of the first phase of their education. State Representative Guy Lamer will deliver the cpmmencement address and will speak on Youths Tomorrow.

Tbo diplomas will be presented by Mrs. Myrtle M. Pope, county superintendent of schools. Special music will include the processional by Mrs C. Krokstrom, Elsmore, a saxophone solo by Earl Oliver and a comet solo by Peck.

The invocation and benediction (Will be given by the Rev. Lynn K. Rupert. Graduates, By School The graduating class arranged ac-ctrding to the schools attended includes the following: 8 Month Schools Old Carlyle Jeanette Kettle. Deer Creek Ethel Jean Britt, Gary Dear.

Hhwk Wise Orville Chandler. Carpenter Harold Hayes. Union David Parks. Neosho Valley Delma Marie Harris, Frankie Marie Mathews. Kenneth Westerman.

East Union Donald Lee Troxel. Oakland--Robert Eugene Wittich. Central Avenue Jerry R. Wolford. Onion Creek Clifford Slater.

Old Elsmore Linda Englehardt, Carol Lower, Blanche Marsh, Ramona Marsh. Center Grove John Strubhart, Harvey Piley. Nilwood C. W. Zornes, R.

Lee Wade. Montevale Jesse Paul Dozier. Olive Branch Joan Bacon. North Fairview Glen Cox Enterprise Ronald R. McDonald, Harman G.

Helman. Salem Billy McGie, Virginia Pettit and Rex Robb. Jeddo Marie Jacobs, Mary Joan Hess. Bernice Riebel and Clyde Roush. Glendale Philip Layman.

Walnut Grove Imogene Sager. Prairie View Carrol Baker, Harold McNeal, Marjorie McNeal and Frank Weiner. Cuppy Jackie Fae Ostrander. Liberty Deloris Farnsworth. East Maple Grove Gladys Row ena Lind.

Elvis Jackson Schlack and Margaret Ellen Reeder. Mildred Raymond Estes, Janice Spillman and Lee Phillips. Prairie Hall Alva Saving. Cottage Grove Louise Grennell. LaGrande Mary Ellen Houk, Richard Gerdsen.

Center Valley Wanda Hardy, Sandra Anderson, Paul Ed Johnson. Prairie Rose Eldon Ford, Robert Stokes, Phyllis De Merritt, Richard Tice. Independence Hilda Larson, Tommy Peck, Gerald Sallee. Silver Leaf Joan Beal. 9 Month Schools Rock Creek Gene Wilmoth.

Petrolia Donald Eugene Whitch-er, Pauline Durham, Paul Durham, Martha Moreland, Merle Young. Gas City Barbara Jean Bunker, Betty Ann Heimann, Donald Jones, Warren Pierson, Robert Sproul, Bernice Shumaker, Jo Ann Sproul, William Thornton. Savonburg Iris Barsby. Judy Elliott, Raymond Gooding, Leon Johnson, Paul Wittsell. Elsmore L.

D. Bacon, William Cox, Robert Johnson, George Ludlum, George Munson and Russell Reeves. Six-Point today a independence adopted. Includes All India The plan set forth these six points: 1. Establishment of a federal union of India embracing both what Is known as British India and the 600 princely states of India.

The union government to have control of foreign affairs, defense and communications and the power to raise money for those purposes. 2. A central executive branch and an all-India legislature. Any major question before Jhe legislature would have to have a majority of the whole legislature for passage and also a majority of each of the two major parties in the legislature the predominantly Hindu Con- (Continned on Page 8. No.

2) Mrs. Frank Fowler, Of Bronson, Is Dead Mrs. Frank Fowler, who lived northeast of Bronson, died yesterday afternoon at the home of her sister, Mrs. O. Thompson, Iola.

Mrs. Fowler had been in failing health for the past two years and for the past six weeks had been under the care of her sister. Mrs. Fowler was born at Bronson and had lived in or near there all her life. She was 55 years old.

She is survived by her husband at the home- a daughter. Mrs. Verla Redfern, Bronson: three sisters. Mrs. Thomson.

Mrs. Mvrtle Burt, Moran, Mrs. Ella Wolf. Eror.son; two brothers, A. H.

Shinn, Ioa, Wriliam Shinn, Ft. S-ctt, and four grandchildren. Funeral sendees will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at (he Bronson Methodist church.

Burial will be at the Bronson cemetery. Tokyo, May 16. (AP). Thirty eight women in attire ranging from trimly-tailored occidental suits to somber kimonos embarked today on careers as the first feminine law-makers in Japan. Their attitudes were as varied as their dress as they took their seats in the newly-convened house of representatives.

Nervous recognition of our hew responsibilities' and a willingness to shun the limelight was voiced by some. Others believed that freedom for women means just that and intend to do something about it. Youngest of the group, and most modem. Miss Sbinue Yarn aguchi, 29-year old former stenographer in her fathers bicycle factory, said she intends to campaign for a five-hour working day for women. Air Crash Kills 27 No Survivors of Accident in Virginia; Bad Weather Blamed Richmond, May 16.

(AP). Twenty-seven persons were killed today in the crash of a southbound chartered airliner which ran Into trouble a few minutes after its takeoff from Bym airport near Richmond and plunged into a rain-drenched stand of pine woods in a vain attempt to return to the field. The twin-engine Wiking airliner came to grief in the heavy, overcast about 1:10 a. m. (EST plowed through the trees and burned on the soggy banks of Doran creek only a few thousand yards from the air-poit.

The airliner left Newark, N. early -last night for Atlanta." It put into Richmond and took off again about a. in heavy weather. The ceiling at the airport was fluctuating between zero and 200 feet and visibility was one mile when she took off. One Extra Person The CAA said the plane carried 24 passengers in addition to the, pilot and co-pilot but 27 bodies were brought out of the woeds from be crash and sent to five -Richmond funeral hemes.

Identification was difficult but It appeared the victims were 21 men, three women and three children. An airline official said normally the operation had been in transporting merchant seaman from the east coast to the gulf coast. This fitted in with an identfication card found in a charred wallet giving the name Frederick J. Spareo. ensian, U.

S. maritime service. The card showed Spargo bom October 9, 1924 but gave no address. Jaycees Sponsor Auction to Raise Project Funds The junior chamber of commerce tomorrow will start soliciting Iola merchants for merchandise which will be auctioned at the Iola theater on May 30, 31 and June. 1 to raise funds for projects sponsored by the organization.

The Jaycees are also selling tickets for Tomorrow Is Forever which will be shown at the theater during those three days. Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles and George Brent are the stars in the film. The Jaycees have agreed to send one Iola boy to the American Legions Boys State at Wichita this summer and have underwritten several other civic enterprises. Funds raised by the auction and tickets sold to Tomorrow Is Forever will be used in financing these projects. Merchandise to be auctioned will be tagged with the donors name.

Business firms which are not called on by the committee are requested to call Charles Cooper. At the Jaycees regular meeting Tuesday night Paul Smith, Wes Clendenen and Charles Cooper reported on the state convention held recently at Salina. It was decided to hold a dance and skating party at the skating rink on May 27. Members of the Iola baseball team will be the guests of the junior chamber that night. Rabbit Breeders to Show At Riverside May 18-19 About 300 blue blooded rabbits will be on display at Riverside Park next Saturday and Sunday when the Southeastern Kansas Rabbit Breeders Association holds its first official show.

A. W. Trowbridge, Iola, and Glen Maglaughlin, Baxter Springs, will act respectively as show superintendent and show chairman. They will be in charge of all arrangements. Classes will be provided for all breeds of rabbits recognized by the American Rabbit and Cavy Breeders association with the exception of does with litters and baby rabbits.

The entries will be judged by Mr. Sterner of Wichita, a well known expert. There are more than 500 breeders of registered rabbits in Kansas and the majority of them live in the eastern half of the state. The public is cordially invited to attend the show and to get a better conception of the importance of the rabbit industry in Kansas, Eat More Than Ever U. S.

Near New Record Food Consumption Despite Hunger Abroad Washington, May 16. (AP). The United States today is eating itself into a new record for per capita food consumption, despite shortages in grains and fats at home, and a hungry world abroad. That is the gist of a report from the bureau of agricultural economics. which bases its forecast of record-breaking domestic food consumption in 1946 on the years statistics to date and the prospects for the coming months.

The bureau, a branch of the agriculture department, said bumper quantities of most foods are expected to be available to meet the nations unprecedented appetite. But if predicted nevertheless that consumer demands will outrun supplies. Some Supplies Drop Suoplies during the next several months are expected to drop below the yearly average level because of seasonably small quantities of some cereal products, potatoes, sweet potatoes, meats, fats, sugar, canned fruits and canned fish. Against relatively short spring and summer" supplies in these items, the bureau said, will be record or near record per capita quantities of vegetables, poultry, eggs, fresh and frozen fish, canned fruit juices, cheese, fluid milk and cream, ice cream, and skim milk products. The bureau said the nutritive value of the per capita food supply is expected to be close to the 1945 figure.

It said the number of calories available per person per day will average about 3300 compared with 3350 in 1945 and with 3250 in the 1935-39 period. Flour Cut to Mean Little Government limitations on supplies of flour and other consumer wheat products will have no significant effect, the bureau said, upon per capita nutritive supplies lor the year as a whole. UNRRA Director LaGuardia, however, came forward with suggestions yesterday on how he thought those limitations could be made more effective for famine relief purposes. At a news conference he recommended farmers be required to market their grain, and not feed it to livestock He also proposed still darker bread and a moratorium on pastry for all Americans. On the darker bread, LaGuardias idea was that millers be compelled to extract 90 per cent of the wheat kernel in manufacturing flour, as against the 80 per cent now required, and the 72 per cent utilized before the food emergency became acute.

Victor Kirk Funeral Friday at 3 p. m. Funeral services for Victor L. Kirk will be held at 3 p. m.

tomorrow in the First Methodist church. The Rev. Lynn Rupert and the Rev. Troy Warner will officiate. There will be a Masonic service.

Burial will be at Highland cemetery. The body will lie in state at the First Methodist church from 2:15 p. m. until 3 p. m.

The casket will not be opened following the service. Check Spread of v'' I II i i Washington, May 16. (AP) President Truman announced today he had asked John L. Lewis and the coal operators to submit their deadlocked contract negotiations to arbitration. Lewis and Charles ONeill, official spokesman for the operators, will give their decision to Mr.

Truman at 5:30 p. m. EST. After Efforts Collapse Mr. Truman announced his proposal to a hurriedly summoned news conference.

He said that Lewis and ONeill both had agreed that their own efforts to settle the coal controversy had collapsed. The announcement was made less than two hours after Mr. Truman conferred for 10 minutes with Lewis and ONeill at the White House. Mr. Truman said that the two chief figures in the coal dispute had told him they felt after overnight conferences with their associates that the coal negotiations held" up to now had completely broken down and that further discussion was useless.

Might Appoint Arbitrator Mr. Truman told the news conference that if the parties were unable to agree upon an arbitrator, he would then appoint one. The two-point arbitration proposal which he suggested to Lewis and ONeill was: 1. The parties agree on an arbitrator to hear and pass upon the dispute. 2.

The miners to remain at work. Both agreed to submit the plan to their repective negotiating committees and report back at 5:30 p. m. Ottawa U. Gets Permit To Rebuild Gymnasium Dttawa, Kas, May 16.

(AP) Ottawa university has received pre-mission from the Civilian Production Administration to begin construction immediately on its proposed new $100,000 gymnasium. President Andrew B. Martin has announced. The old gymnasium, damaged by fire last Nov. 5, is being remodeled ir.to a commons building at a cct of $50,000.

Construction also is undei way on a new womens dormitory to cost $200,000. ago Indicated that she intended to establish. That zone, as this column has pointed out several times, lies roughly behind a line running from the big German port of Stettin on the north, southward to include the new Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria and so to the Adriatic. Included also ore Hungary and the Balkans, with the exception of Greece and Turkey. Well now, if you will question your racial expert he will tell you that the Slavs live mainly east of the 15th meridian, the peoples outside of Russia being the Poles, the Czechoslovaks, the Slovenes, the Croats, the Serbs and the Bulgarians.

And if you will look at your maps you will note that the meridian fifteen degrees east almost coincides with the Stettin-Adriatic line. In short, we have a picture of a zone of influence which is mainly Slavic. Austria falls outside that designation, and actually the western portion of that country is the only continental territory marked down by the Russians and not already within their zone of influence. Mast Await Answer Is all this pure coincidence or has it a special significance? We naturally wont know the answer to that until the Russians signify whether they intend to push their (Cyntlawd Page 8, No, X). Rains May Cover State Topeka, May 16.

(AP) Dry southwestern Kansas, given a taste of moisture last night, might receive more rain today. Weatherman S. D. Flora predicted. While reported amounts of rain were light and scattered.

Flora said theres a chance theyll get more today or tonight. Eastern Kansas, already soaked. Is certain to get more rain today, tonight and tomorrow. Flora said. Rainy, cloudy weather will hold highs over the state generally within the 65-70 mark with the range raised five degrees tomorrow.

Lows tonight of 45 to 50 over the state nrorp nrAPfl tf. Coffeyville, Dodge City and Wichita, each with a high of 70, were the warmest state points reporting1 yesterday. Phlllipsburg was coolest last night at 44. Coffeyville registered 55 for low last night. Would Join Wife In Leper Colony San Francisco, May 16.

(AP). A tall, ruddy army officer, determined to spend the remaining years of his life by the side of his wife in a Carville, leprosarium, was undaunted today by unofficial word from Carville that his request probably would be denied. This possible set-back came as friends of 65-year-old Maj. Hans George Hombostel, a veteran of two wars, pushed his petition in Washington. Surgeon General Thomas Parran was among those with whom the probably unprecedented request was taken up.

Mrs. Hombostel, who is 52, developed skin trouble while she and her husband an army engineer, were prisoners of the Japanese at Santo Tomas in Manila. However, physicians at San Francisco hospital where she is in isolation believe she contracted the disease long before, probably while doing research with her husband among Polynesian peoples. They point out that leprosy usually does not manifest itself until from five to 20 years after exposure. Although she suspected leprosy while at Santo Tomas, the confirmation was obtained here only a week ago.

Major Hombostel has no doubts about his decision to join his wife at the leper colony. I dont consider myself any martyr by asking to be with her as long as we both shall live, he said. Id be unhappy without her and shed be unhappy without me, and thats all there is to it. RIGHT BAIT Brainerd, May 16. (AP).

The opening of the fishing season found George Fisher, Brainerd newspaperman and fishing enthusiast, unable to find a rod and reel to complete his tackle. Then he In- serted a blind classified advertisement in a newspaper. The first answer which brought him the equipment was a surprise. It was from S. G.

Fitzpatrick; Fish-. ers roommate. Three Veterans of Foreign Wars posts in the 'county, aided by their auxiliaries, are completing preparations for Buddy Poppy day Saturday. Women and girls of the 'auxiliary here will be on the streets of Iola all day making sales of Buddy Poppips. They have a supply of 1500, VFW officials said today.

New posts at Humboldt and LaHarpe will conduct similar sales in their areas. A portion of the profits from the sales will go to the posts, where it will be used in service projects. Other portions go to the V. F. W.

national home for orphans of veterans, for hospital care of veterans or dependents, expenses for military funerals for deceased ex-service men, maintenance of burial plots for veterans, and various other types of veterans service work. Sheep. Breeders Re-Elect Officers Allen county sheep breeders reelected officers who have served the past year when the annual lamb dinner of the county association was held, last night 'at the Presbyterian church in HUmboldt. Dave Munson- is president- of the organization, I. M.

Baptist, vice-president, and George Fox, secretary-treasurer. The meeting Is an annual event sponsored by the association with the assistance of- the Humboldt Chamber of Commerce and the county Farm Bureau. Lewis Irwin, president of the Humboldt chamber. presided. The principal speaker was Arlan Schantol, a representative of the Kansas City Midwest Wool Marketing Association, a cooperative enterprise.

Attendance was 125 members and wives. Coffeyville Man Heads Kansas State Firemen Topeka, May 16. (AP) W. B. Livingston, Coffeyville, 1s the new president of the Kansas State Firemens Association.

Livingston, who Tuesday was elected president of the Kansas State Association of Fire Chiefs, was named head of the Firemens Association at the convention yesterday. 'Tobeka, Mav 16. (AP) Fred Baer, president of the AFL International Fire Fighters Association, died of a heart attack while addressing the Kansas State Firemens Association last night. Baer, who came here from Washington. D.

to attend the convention, had been president of the union 27 years. Prior to his election he served 13 years with the Kansas City, fire department. THE EASY WAY Los Angeles. May 16. (AP).

Ira A. Gilmore, 39, and his wife Sybil, 27, have found a solution to the housing problem which has been plaguing them since last October. 'They both joined the army Slavic Nations Fall Quickly Into Soviet Orbit of Influence RURAL WOMEN MEET Coffeyville, May 16. (AP). Rural women from six counties three in Kansas and three in Oklahoma met here today in the first annual rural day at Cedar Bluff camp.

Counties represented were Montgomery, Labette and Chautauqua in Kansas and Nowata, Craig and Washington in Oklahoma. Disease I 4 -A Doubts Ability To Man Enlarged National Guard Topeka, Mav 16. (AP). Brig. Gen.

Milton R. McLean, Kansas adjutant general, has accepted with a lot of reservations the armys tentative plan calling for 7,800 men in the Kansas national guard. This figure, based on population, would double the size of the Kansas guard which was rated at a strength of 3,900 before World War II, General McLean said. Legislation is pending in congress, he said, which would provide state-owned armories. At present the state rents armories at St.

Marys, Lawrence, Kingman and Cottonwood Falls, and a hangar at Wichita for the air corps. An armory at Hiawatha was deeded to the state. Present plans, he said, call for a company strength of 188 men, or 80 per cent of the regular armys table of organization. McLean said this strength, with a 33 per cent annual turnover in personnel would be difficult to maintain in some of the small western Kansas cities. 1 Two Allen County Automobiles Stolen Two automobiles were stolen in Allen county yesterday.

Sheriff Homer Troxel reported this morn ing. The first was a Chevrolet coach which was stolen from the corner of Madison and Washington streets yesterday afternoon. It belonged to M. J. Carter, Iola.

Last night a Ford sedan, owned by Willard Crowell, who lives south of Iola, was stolen while Mr. and Mrs. Crowell were attending a church meeting at Humboldt, BY DEWITT MACKENZIE Word from Prague that the Slavic nations of central and eastern Europe are coalescing into a formal bloc about the Soviet Union is a potent reminder that Russia has organized this huge territory and oriented it toward Moscow in the remarkably short time of the one year which has passed since V-E day. Thats fast work! No wonder the western democracies are showing concern, especially as to how far the Muscovites intend to try to extend this zone of influence westward. s.

Of course Russia already has taken over control of this area, bloc or no bloc, but the development of political affiliations among the numerous Slavic nations is of vast importance. Its of special significance that the influential President Benes of Czechoslovakia is active in supporting the formation of the bloc and has declared that it will be a political and cultural actuality despite the fact that hitherto Slavic unity has been largely theoretical. Slavic Bloc Russias Orbit One of the most intriguing aspects of this situation, as I see it, is that the composite Slavic territory coincides very largely with the zone influence which Russia long Although a state health officer says the spread of polio in has been exaggerated, cities throughout the state are taking no chances. In Corpus Christ workers throw oil on dump to make sure refuse burns throroughly. (NEA Telephoto.).