The Iola Register from Iola, Kansas • Page 1

THE REGISTER VOLUME No. 226. The Weekly Register, EnLbliihed 1867. The Iols Daily Register, EiUblUhsd 1897. IOLA, KANSAS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1953.

SneeMMT to TW Iolft Difly Rfiittr, loU Diilj Record, md loU Daily Index. SIX PAGES Marine Outposts Overrun SEOUL (AP) Recklessly- attacking Chinese engulfed two vitjal western front outr posts defended by U. S. Mai rines Sunday night and the first Leatherneck survivors staggered back to Allied lines today. to their last act before their radio went dead, the trapped Mai in the battlelines only three called in their own ftrtillery on top of them in a desperate effort to halt the violent onslaught.

The number of Marines in the battle was not immediately leased. Fourteen Leathernecks of the ISt Marine Division, were the first known survivors of the bloody battles for Outposts East Berlin and Berlin, part of a key hill area on the western front. Fatigued and wan, they staggered back into Eight were from- Outpost Berlin and from East Berlin. How they got out was not learned immediately. It was assumed they worked their way down the bloodied slopes, after' the Reds left the hill during daylight.

They said more Marines may still be alive in the battered bumf ers' and shell-ripped trenches on the outposts. The survivors described the hilfe as a battle-torn no man's land. They said no Chinese were left atop the outposts, which were plaS- Ifred by savage Red and Allied artillery fire during the Red assault. Allied bers and Marine guns pounded the hills relentlessly, but there was no ini- mediate move to retake them. The 5th Air Force said its planes advantage of hot, clear 500,000 pounds of bombs at Communist frontliries from the Berlin outposts to the front in the east.

Sabre jets in their dual role as fighter-bombers, Australian Meteor Jets, and Marine planes pummeled other Red targets deep in North Korea. Meanwhile, the 8th Army said the Communists lost, 6,290 killed and 1,260 wounded across the frorit Sunday mostly on the turbulent east-central front, where the Reds last week hurled their biggest offensive in two years. The figure may have included some delayed reports. The Red with staggering the Communists full control of a vital hill area made up of Outposts Reno, Carson and Vegas, East Berlin and Berlin. Allied observers speculated the Reds grabbed the Berlin outposts in the belief no effort would be made to retake them with an armistice apparently Imminent.

Injured in Crash Near Yates Center Charles Wellert, Lebanon, and Harry Berendzen, Eugene, were brought to the Allen County Hospital yesterday morning after the vehicle they were riding in struck a culvert and careened into a ditch, four-and-a-half miles east of Yates Center on Highway 54. They were siiffering from bruises, lacerations, and possible fractures. According to the- sheriff's office In Yates Center, the accident ocr curred at approximately 7 a. m. yesterday, and officials there said the car was a "total wrsck." US Unemployment Lowest Since 1945 WASHINGTON Wl Unemployment in the United States last year averaged only 1,700,000, the Census Bureau reported Sunday, to reach the lowest point since World War n.

It said also that the number of working wives, about 1:,400.000 in April of last year, topped the peak War year by about two million although it was unchanged from 1951. If you miss your Register, phone 18 between 6:30 and 7:00. U. S. Population June 1 Set at 159,473,000 WASHINGTON (AP) The Census Bureau said today the nation's population was about 150.473,000 on June 1.

This estimate indicated an increase of 2,703,000, or 1.7 per cent in the year since June 1, 1952, and of 8.341,000, or 5.5 per cent since the date of the last census, April 1, 1950. The estimates all included armed forces overseas. Rains Send Streams Out TOPEKA WV-Minor flooding was reported in northwest Kansas Monday in the wake of torrential downpours ranging up to more than six inches. Lighter falls were reported in olner sections of western Kansas has been hardest hit by che state's prolonged drought. The reported wis 6.07 inches 12 miles southeast ol Norton on the forth fork of the Solomon River.

Five inches fell at Norcatur, 4 68 at Norton, 4.80 at Densmore and 3.50 just over the line at Beaver City, Neb. The rains sent Prairie Dog Creek two feet above bankfull at Norton. A minor overflow was predicted alcr Appa Creek. Beaver Creek was expected to go 10 feet over its banks at City Monday afternoon but the weather bureau said such an overflgw would not Dc serious. Other rainfall amounts reported: Edmond .250 irches, Jerome 2.16.

Healy 1.92, Pr.illipsburg 1.22, Belleville 1.21. Gove 1.11, Emporia 1.09, Ness City and Syracuse 1.05. Tescott .84, Smith Center, Wilson ana Collyer .81, Oakley .78, Covert .75, Lamed .70. Brookville .65. Concordia .64.

Scandia .62, Solomon .55, Cawfer City .54, Cedar Bluffs .53, Elkhart .52, Oberlin Barnard and Herington .50, Liberal .47, Hill City .30, Topeka .27, Lakin .20, Russell .19, Goodland .17, Tribune .06, Wamego .05, Chanute. Salina and Wichita .01, Garden city and Dodge City traces. Lakin reported an additional 1.65 inches in the 24 hours ending at 6:30 a. m. Sunday.

Other amounts reported in that period included .62, at Sharon Springs, .55 at Goodland, .37 at Garden City and .06 at Tribune. Additional heavy thunderstorms are in prospect for eastern Kansas Monday night and Tuesday, the weather bureau said. The forecast calls for partly cloudy conditions in the west arid mostly cloudy skies in the east through Tuesday with showers and thunderstorms over most of the (Continued on Page 2, No. 2,) WHERE NAVY ROTC STUDENTS DIED. The-burn ed-out fuselage of automobile mark scene where 41 men, mostly college students, died In a a Marine cargo plane and wrecked midnight Wirephoto.) Three Persons Killed In Car-Train Crash 1 WICHITA Harper, couple and their young son were killed late Sunday in a car-train collision at Schulte, 10 miles southwest of Wichita.

Dead are Aimel Joseph Ra(z- loff, 29. his wife, 26; and their 1 Vz-y ear-old son. A passenger car on the train was filled with Wichita Girl Scouts returning from the Turkey Creek Girl Scout Camp near Pratt. None of the girls was injured. Drought Still Not Broken FORT WORTH, Tex.

miss heavy rains have caused flash floods in Texas during the past week. Yet a federal soil expert says the state's worst drought is unbroken. A similar situation was reported in rains, but not enough. Louis P. Merrill of Fort Worth, U.

S. Soil Conservation Service regional director, said Monday locally torrential downpours have been "immensely helpful." But he said it will take more general rains over a longer period to end the its fourth year in parts of Texas. Some of the heaviest downpours Sunday drenched parts of west Texas, declared a drought disaster area. But the thunderstorms were spotty. Merrill said he doubted whether more than 15 or 20 of.

the 152 drought disaster counties in west, north and south Texas have had rain. He explained it is hard to say just when a drought ends. But Merrill added that generally you can call a drought broken "when good rains cover a large area and rainfall becomes seasonably normal again over a considerable period of time." Unless this it has not yet. he drought is unbroken. The soil expert said, however, recent rains have greatly helped cotton, feed crops and ranges and have filled dry stock watering ponds.

Light scattered sprinkles which started June 30 developed a week ago into frequently heavy thunderstorms in west, north and east Texas. The Canadian River was running bankfull in the Texas Panhandle. Friday and Saturday thunder(Continued on Page 2, No. 3) Hobby Turned to Vital Use In Building 'Wooden Lung' The Weather KANSAS Partly cloudy west- and mostly cloudy east Monday night and Tuesday; showers and thunderstorms 'Monday night and east Tuesday; thunderstorms likely to be locally heavy east; little change in temperature; low Monday night 60-65 northwest to near 70 southeast; high Tuesday in 80s. for the 24 hours ending 8 a.

m. today. 94; lowest 68; high Saturday, 94; low 69; normal for today 81; excess yesterday, excess since January 600 degrees; this date last est 94; lowest 74. Precipitation for the 24 hours ending at 8 a. m.

today, .60: total' for this year to date, 18.84; deficiency since January 1, 2.65 inches. Sunrise 5:15 a. set 7:42 p. m. Thermograph Readings Ending 8 a.

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Largely through the efforts of one man. Dr. Kent Dudley, the Allen County Hospital' will soon have! a respirator to save the lives of pulmonary polio victims. It also may be used to ease the efforts of patients who have difficulty in breathing from other causes. Dr.

Dudley has spent many hours building the cabinet of the "wooden lung" and assembling its mechanism. It is a beautiful machine which could not be duplicated for less than $4,000 to $5,000 in the opinion Charles Gray, superintendent of the hospital. The retired veterinarian has completed the project in work shop at the rear of his home on South Buckeye. The craftsmanship is all his; however; he giv'es much of the credit for the machine to a score of Iolans who have contributed equipment. Dr.

Dudley conceived his idea of building a respirator last fall and secured working plans from a national magazine. He visited St. Francis Hospital in Wichita and other institutions where polio patients are treated and carefully inspected their respirators. He talked with doctors, nurses and patients. From these he secured ideas he has embodied in his wooden which he believes will make its patients' more comfortable.

Basically, a respirator is an air tight cabinet in which the patient lies with only the face and head exposed. A bellows, operated by an electric motor, alternately exhausts air from the cabinet and pumps it back in. These changes in pressure cause the lungs to contract and expand. Thus the patient inhales and exhales without muscular effort. The creation of the vacuum and its release must be at regular intervals (usually about 16 per minute) if the patient is to be supplied with an adequate flow of air through the lungs.

This rhythm must be maintained as few as possible. This requires that the patient; be washed, be able to use a bed pan, perhaps be given shots and otherwise cared for without being removed from the lung or the vacuum broken. These functions can all be i performed through the doors in the cabinet which are equipped with soft rubber caskets. Mirrors in the top permit the nurse to see the patient as she works through the small doors in the side. If you will examine the accompanying photograph you will notice that the large opening for the patient's head is nearly closed by a sheet of sponge rubber.

The small hole fits closely about the patient's (Continued an Page 4, No. 1) Promise to Take Care Of 'Must' Legislation WASHINGTON (AP) Republican congressional leaders told President Eisenhower today they are still aiming at adjournment by Aug. 1, but will hold Congress overtime if necessary to dispose df "must" legislation. The GOP leaders listed these items, along with the usual appropriations bills, as top priority measures: Extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act. The continental shelf bill.

Admission of 240,000 European refugees over a three-year period. An increase in first class and other postal rates. Establishment of a small business administration. A military public works bill. A series of commerce and navigation agreements with foreign Authority for President Eisenhower to send surplus foods to foreign countries in an emergency.

Israel-Soviet Ties Resumed JERUSALEM The Soviet Union and Israel agreed Monday to resume diplomatic relations, broken off Feb. 12 after a 'bomb exploded at the Russian Embassy in -Tel Aviv, injuring three persons, Including the wife of the Soviet minister. Announcements of the agreement were made simultaneously here and in Moscow. (A Moscow radio broadcast heard in London said Israel had requested the resumption of relations in a note submitted through Bulgarian diplomatic a nels May 28,) The bombing of the Soviet Embassy in Tel Aviv on Feb. 9 came after a period of increased ill feeling here against Soviet actions involving Israel and Jews." Israel had protested to the Soviet Union against unwillingness of Communist countries to permit emigration of.

Jews to Israel. Bitterness deepened with the Moscow "doctor's plot" announcement in which a number of doctors, some of them Jewish, were accused of plotting the death of high Soviet officials. $400,000 FIRE AT ANTHONY ANTHONY, Kas. fire that originated in a tire supply company spread to a novelty store, a theater and a grocery Sunday, causing damage estimated at $400,000. The building was owned by Homer Cather, a brother of Beulah.

Cather, beauty shop operator in Iola. Jap Flood Toll Heavy TOKYO of Japanese were rescued Monday from debris littered floodwatcrs as ground, sea and air teams worked feverishly to cut the human toll in the nation's second great flood disaster in three weeks. The sudden flood that started with cloudburst rains last Friday swallowed whole villages at Wakayama on central Honshu Island's Pacific coast about 200 miles southwest of Tokyo. National police headquarters here re-estimatcd the loll at 273 dead, 433 injured and 2,033 missing. Earlier, police said more than 6,000 were dead or missing, but a spokesman reported lfVter those totals listed many duplications caused by chaotic communications.

More than 2,000 persons stranded on rooftops or trapped in flooded homes were plucked to safety by rescue teams searching the swirling waters. U. S. Air Force planes crisscrossed the flood scene, dropping tons of food to stranded persons, while Japanese ships and ground forces scoured the area for survivors. The rains stopped Sunday after two days of cloudbursts sent three mountain streams thundering down narrow valleys.

Flash floods hit valley some before sleeping residents could flee. Although skies began to clear and the rivers to recede on central Honshu, new rains hit in the Tokyo area and the rivers there rose steadily. One young couple, picked up after clinging to debris for eight hours, told how they lost their two children. Shizuo 31, said: "We woke up and heard the roaring waters bursting the dike at 7 a. m.

Saturday. Our house began floating toward the sea at 8 a. m. At the river mouth, surf engulfed us. When we came to the surface, my 4-year-old boy was gone.

"Our 7-month-old baby was washed away." Report a Theft At Sigg Station Gene Sigg, of Sigg Brothers Serv ice Station, 601 N. State told police Saturday afternoon that $25 had been taken from the cash drawer at the station shortly after noon on Saturday. Allen Sigg was working alone at the time, and tile money was taken while he was servicing a car. for a Truce Zoom to New High Work Out Reds List Ten U. S.

Pledges PANMUNJOM special record of the secret Korean armistice negotiations shows that the Republic of Korea Army would have to fight all alone if it violates the truce which apparently is imminent. The Communist delegation, blackout on the talks, cited Sunday 10 Allied pledges made to the Reds that the armistice agreement will be kept. Quotes listed by the Reds were confirmed by Lt. Col. Milton Herr, U.

N. Command spokesman, as coming from the official record. Here, in brief, are the Assurances" listed-by the Communists: 1. Receipt by the U. N.

Command of "necessary assurances" from the South Korean government "that it will not obstruct in any manner the implementation of terms of the draft armistice agreement." 2. That ROK forces will withdraw "from the buffer zone after, the armistice signing." 3. That the U. N. Command will not support "any aggressive action of units of the Republic of Korea Army in violation of an armistice." 4.

That the U. N. Command will observe the truce if the ROKs begin aggressive action and the Communists take action to resist. 5. That the U.

N. Command will not give any support to South Korea, including equipment and supplies, if the ROKs took aggressive action and the Reds fought back. 6. That there "is no time limit to the armistice." (The Communists had noted in the secret sessions that President Syngman Rhce was quoted as saying he would observe a truce for only 90 days after a political conference meets to discuss Korean settlement.) 7. That the U.

N. Command will protect all personnel of North Korean, Chinese and neutral nation representatives who enter South Korea to super vise armistice terms. 8. That the U. N.

Command will "to the limits of its ability" see that armistice terms are observed. 9. That the U. N. Command "bears unrelievable responsibility" to recover the 27,000 North Korean war prisoners released by the South Korean government.

10. That the Allies would turn over to the five-nation repatriation commission the remaining anti- Communist war prisoners. Hospital Awaits Patient At noon today, Charles Gray, superintendent of the Allen County Hospital, and his staff were prepared to welcome their tient. They did not know who it may be or why. Perhaps the victim of a highway accident, an expectant mother or some person seeking relief from one of the thousand and more ills which plague the human race.

They do expect this individual to arrive this afternoon or evening. Of one thing they are morning they admitted the patient since the hospital opened on Aug. 1, 1952. Nine Secret Sessions Keep Truce Teams Busy PANMUNJOM (AP) You need da score card to keep track of all the Allied-Red truce sessions at this dusty neutral village today. There were nine secret meet-' ings in all, attended by five teams of Allied and communist officers.

They ran a total of 7 hours, 42 minutes, making it perhaps the busiest day of negotiations in the two years of armistice talks. There was momentary confusion as newsmen sought to keep tabs on two teams of staff officers who held a total of five meetings lasting: till early evening, one squad of interpreters who met once, the liaison officers who met twice, and U. N. and Red members of the Military Armistice Commission, who had their first session. It was thought at first that the commission members met with one of the staff officer teams.

Ike Renews Food Offer WASHINGTON 'Ufl President Eisenhower Monday renewed his offer to send food directly to Soviet-occupied Eastern Germany if the Soviets will reconsider their refusal of 10 days ago to permit it. The White House made public a letter from the President to Chancellor Adenauer of Western Germany, dated Monday, in which Eisenhower said the United States will continue to make clear to the Soviet government fflat the offer of food "was motivated solely by humanitarian impulses and that the food is.available if that government wishes to permit its entry into the Soviet zone of occupation." Eisenhower's letter was in reply to one from Adenauer, dated July 13, and also made public by the White House Monday. Adenauer had offered to "do everything" to make food available "in the most effective way possible" to East Germans. Food already is moving to Western Germany for the East Germans. A sizeable relief program is under way in the Berlin area where East Germans can step across the border and pick up the gifts.

Theatrical Stars To Put on Show For Boy Scouts JAMBOREE CITY, Calif. Hollywood stars come to Jamboree City today to entertain 45,000 Boy Scouts and their leaders who spent a full day yesterday which included a speech by Vice President Nixon and a huge religious convocation. Sunday this 3j000 acre ranch bulged with an estimated 96,000 visitors, here to view the colorful site of the third national Scout Jamboree. Many of the guests were relatives of scouts. Today's program included an afternoon "variety review" with Dorothy Lamour, Dick Powell, June Allyson, Jerry Colonna, Bell Sisters and other entertainers scheduled to take part.

In another afternoon show the scheduled entertainers included Spade Cooley, Roscoe Ates, magicians, square dance champions and animal acts. The program also included a big navy and marine air show. Last night Nixon told the scouts: "You have been taught and have learned yourselves what it is to be to speak your own, minds to live your own lives and to worship God in your own way. "You have not been instilled with the shameful arrogance of the dictatorial mind, the intense hatred and the bigotry of those of your contemporaries behind the Iron Curtain who since boyhood have been taugbt to hate and to fear and to be contemptuous "Let us work toward the day when Boy Scout leaders from all the nations of the world may be able to gather together with you at just such an annual jamboree. The cause of brotherhood and peace on this earth could receive no greater testimonial." The religious program began after Nixon To symbolize the meeting of many faiths, statements were made by representatives of four faiths, Protestant, Catholic, Mormon and Jewish.

The convocation closed with each of the thousands of scouts on the hillside lighting a candle to symbolize the scout oath. Details PANMUNJON of Allied and Communist for the first time the men who would oversee a in nine secret sessions today on the final details of a Korean armistice. Two staff officer sessions were set for 10 a. m. Tuesday (7 p.

m. Monday, CST). The Reds, meanwhile, put the finishing touches on large hut to be used for signing the historic doucument that would end tha three years of fighting. There was no official indication Just when the armistice would be signed, but some observers said it could be within a week. Fighting would end 12 hours after the signing.

A month-long deadlock in the negotiations was broken with a Communist announcement Sunday that the Reds were ready to prepare for the signing. Three U. S. members of the Military Armistice Commission flew here unexpectedly for the first time and met for 1 hour, 50 minutes with Communist members of the commission. The commission, composed of top officers from the opposing armies, would control the buffer zone between the two forces.

The Red and Allied commission members discussed "suggested arrangements which they (the Reds) will consider and probably come back with their proposal," said Navy Capt. B. M. Coleman, McLean, one "of the U. S.

members. Another meeting was planned but no time was given. i The speeded tempo of Monday's sessions heightened optimism for an early signing. The main truce delegations presumably are awaiting a call from the lower level staff officers to set a date for the signing. But South Korean Foreign Minister Pyun Yung Tai hinted more opposition from Syngman Rhee's government might be in the wind with a statement that the Communist agreement contained "many traps." He said it showed the Reds intend to take "all South Korea by subversive activity and by liquidating the army which we have built so painstakingly and with so much expense.

An unnamed Republic of Korea spokesman said Allied assurances meant the U. N. "had lost the war." In other developments: 1. The Peiping radio announced, that Czechoslovakian and Polish delegates who would serve on, a four-nation armistice supervisory commission arrived in the Red China capital. The Swedish and Swiss delegates already are in Tokyo.

2. Gen. Mark Clark, U. N. Far East commander in Tokyo, hailed the Red go-ahead as "most encouraging," and said it "should lead to an early signing." However, he said some details remained to be worked out.

The Reds made public at munjom Sunday a list of assurances they said the Allies gave that South Korea would obey a truce. They said the U. N. Command promised not to support any aggressive action by the ROK Army in violation of a cease-fire. WOODEN LUNG-FOR ALLEN COUNTY HOSPITAL.

Dr. Kent Dudley, retired veterinarian, has nearly completed a respirator which will be available for polio victims in this area. It is to be given to the Allen ounty Hospital within the next few days. This picture was taken in Dr. Dudley's workshop is the rear of his home on South Photo.) Two Motorists Fined for Speeding Frederick C.

Odaffer, 311 S. Third street, was fined $8 plus costs after pleading guilty to a speeding charge in municipal court this morning. Odaffer was arrested here Friday night. Wesley A. Farnsworth, 230 S.

Tennessee, also was. arrested Friday evening, and he pleaded guilty to a similar charge. It was his second such offence, and he was fined $18 plus costs. Charley E. Morrell Dies at Home Here Charley E.

Morrell died shortly after noon today at his home, 1003 North Washington. He was 84 years old. Mr. Morreli was born at Prescott, coming to Allen County in 1891 where he has since resided. He wag a farmer and member of the Methodist Church.

He is survived by his son, Don Morrell of Iola; a brother, Andrew of Oakland, and two sisters, Mrs. Sabrlna Stonburner, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Lula Jennings, Napa, Calif. Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. E.

E. Tillotson at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Sleeper Chapel. Burial will be at Highland Cemetery. 1 Mrs.

Sarah Miller Dies Here Today Mrs. Sarah M. Miller, 82, died, this morning at the McAtee Nursing Home. Born at Rantoul, Mrs. Miller has lived in Iola since 1893.

She was a member of the Free Methodist Church. She is survived by two sons and three daughters, Curtis Miller, Emporia, Lorain and Eugene Miller, Mrs. Carl Orr and Mrs. Nola Akirts, all of Iola; a brother, Milo Adkina, Emporia, and a sister, Mrs. C.

McVey, Wichita. Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. Wayne Devor at 2 p. Wednesday, in the Sleeper ChapeL Burial will be at the Iola Cemetery..