The Iola Register from Iola, Kansas • Page 1

THE IO A REG IS VOLUME LII. No. 250 The Wwklr Rosister, 1867. The loll Daily Kejinter. EstablUhed 1897.

lOLA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17,1949 to DmUy RcfUtor, lolft Daily and lola Daily Index. EIGHT PAGES Try Again OnHawaii COLLINS AND BRADLEY INTO NEW Lawton Collins (right) becomes the new Army Chief of Staff with the oath administered by Gen. Omar, Bradley ileft). who had just been sworn In as the new permanent chairman of the joint Chiefs of Staff. The ceremony took place in the Pentagon at Washing- Ion.

Mrs. Collins is at center while in the rear are A rmy Secretary Gordon Gray (left) and Defense Secretary Liiui.s John.son. (AP Wirephoto.) More Heat On Vaughn Sen. Muridt Denounces Truman's Aide As 'Finagling Bargainer' Wa.shington (AP) Senator Mimdt Wednesday denounced Maj. Gen.

Harry H. Vaughan a.s a "linugling bargainer" who applied "prps.sure. intimidation, bluff and blu.ster" in an attempt to get a government worker to viKlate the Mundfs bitter criticism of Vauglian. President Truman's military aide, drew a reprimijtiui from Senator Hoey (D-NO, chairman of the inve.s- ligalions Ilnry said that if Mundt had made such reiiiarlcs at a court trial, the case would be tlirtiwn out of courL But Mundt demanded that his remarks slay in the record The exchange between Mundt and Hoey at the five per- inquiry canio nfter these other developments: 1. Senator McCarthy (R-W i si demanded that John Maragon.

key figure iiji the investigation, be indicted for perjury. 2. Milton R. Pollnnd. a Milwaukee In.surancp man.

testified he (Cantinued on Page 8. No. 2) Ronnie Johnson, 7, III Willi Polio Ronnie John.son, 7 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold John Sav- onbuig.

who was first of having polio a week ago today, is in a serious condition at the Medical Center at Kaiusas City. K.as.. according to a report received by the county chapter of the Infantile Paraly.sis Foundation. It is reported that both of the boy's legs and his right arm are paralyzed. He was ill for nearly a week before he vyas taken to the hospital on Aug, 10.

Ronnie is Allen county's tenth known polio victim since the first was reported 'early in July. Navy Clancels Trip To Antarctic Washington lAP) There will bo no navy expedition to the Ant- artic this fall. Tlie navy announced Tuesday that, due to "compelling rea.sons ol economy." it had cancelled plans to Rear Adm. Richard Byrd back to the polar region to the explorations he started in 1946. Plans for pillar expedition, called "Operation High Jump II." reportedly had in- viiived siune 3.500' men and eight vcs.selsj Predicts Dust Bowl Within Ten Years Denver lAP) A Vniversify of Colorado profes.sor predicts another "dust bowl" within the next decade.

Speaking before a i s- souri Valley authority committee Tuesday night, economics professor Norton Sceber also that only hair tin- Mis.souri Valley is as prosperou.s as tlie rest of the country. To Decontrol Wood Tells DAV Step Taken to Keep From Crippling Vet Housing Cleveland IAPJ Federal housing expeJiler Tighc Woods pledged Wednesday that "not one man" will Le taken off the veterans housing program by his office until the program is cleaned up. Woods, speaking at the national i -ouveiUion of the Di.sabled Amerkan Veterans, said that a slash in his oil ice 's budget with only two allcrnallves: 1 1 1 Vire oiiclhird of his ployes, or 121 Ueconlrol a third of the arras under ftMieral rent control. He said lie had derided on the latter coarse. His budget.

Woods said, had been cut from S-2C, millKuis to $17.5 millions. At the convention Gen. Jonathan I iiaUnnal rommander ol the li.W. wants to know why more hospital betls aren 't' provided for veterans. The hero of and Cor- cla Tuesday with veterans adniinislrator Carl R.

Gray over the i Gray had expressed doubt that the VA couhl "properly staff" the beds, which were cut from the bnildiiic programs, even if they were provided. The VA chief declared there were 4.500 I beds now vacant in veterans hos- pita Is there wa en(jugh pcrsonni-I to take care of them. Wainwrii'iU replied. "I find it hard to bring myself to believe lhat llicre are not enough doctors, to care for 16 thou men," Leads Cops To Cache Wife of 'Public Enemy No. 1' Says $7,500 Part Of Loot From a Bank Louisville, Ky.

(AP) Police dug deeper Wednesday Into the record of an FBI-labeled notorious public enemy charged here with the murder of a patrolman, after they came up with a $7,516 cache. Mrs. June Bircham. 26, wife of the accused slayer-bank robber, Tuesday night led officers to a farm hideway and the money after telhng of a series of holdups in several states. Officers said the former Tennessee farm girl told them the money was part of the loot taken from the Centeimial branch of the American National Bank, Nashville, Aug.

1. Police said Mrs. Bircham admitted driving one of the getaway cars used in the robbery. Suit was filed here by the bank against the accused robber. Earl Bircham.

46. The suit charges he robbed the bank of $25,498.34. He denied it and other accusations. An attachment order against $15,000 and an automobile he was riding in just before his capture here Sunday night, also was filed. This $15 ,000 was foimd by police in the liigh-powered auto.

Bircham is charged with fatally shooting Patrolman Johnny Tennyson and seriously wounding Patrolman John A. Ross Sunday night. Police Lt. Ellis Joseph said Mrs. Bircham al.so stated Bircham shot two Piqua.

policemen last May 29 when they caught him burglarizing an automobile agency there. Won't Try to Swim Channel tonight Dover. England. lAP; Shirley May France will not attempt to the English channel Wednesday night, her manager announced. She had planned to plunge into the channel at Cap Oris Nez.

France, sometime around midnight, but unfavorable wealiier conditions caused reconsideration. Shirley is a 17 Somerset. high school junior. Ilonneycutt Riles To Be Thursday (Special to Humboldt, Aug. services will be conducted Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Poplar Grove Baptist church for Mrs.

Momie Honneycutt, 54, who died early Sunday morning following a stroke. The Rev. Edward Brown will officiate and Miss Erline Boyd will ftirnish special music, accompanied by Bessie Franklin. Burial will be in Mount Hope. Mrs.

Honneycutt was bom In Louisiana, moving from there to I Oklahoma with her parfents while still a child. Following her marriage she moved to Humboldt where she has lived since. Survivors are her husband of the I home, a son Ed Lee Honneycutt, a foster daughter. Marcella. her father.

Andrew Taylor, Muskogee, a brother living in Oklahoma, I three sisters living in San Franj ciso. and six grandchildren. That Freezer Only One of Thousands Of Gifts to WJtite House Every Year Wa.shington (AP) Gifts for the White House'? They come by tlic ihou.sands every and always hhye. llie home freezer presented to Mrs. HarVy S.

Truman in 1945 has had more than most such receive, because it was linked with the current Capitol hill investigation of five percenters. But actually it's only one tens of thousands of presents that have poured in on the Trumnns since thev inoved into the executive mansloii. Kiir example, from friends nlid admirers have made President Truman probably the best hutted man tne United Stales. Tbe gift hats range in retail val- 'up to S200. They include ten gallon westerners, broad-brimmed Panamas, high silk formals.

pith helmets, long billed sports caps and even feathered varieties given to him by Indians. Americans have been following the cu.stom of sending gilts to presidents for more years than anyone can remember. Those sent by other nations and they iiulurie many of the more valuable ones, hkc diamond and priceless paintings ilic president cannot keep Iho constitution forbids liiin to accept eiits from foreign governments. This government keens i The bowling alley he re i -eivc(l as a present in 1946 from old fririuis in Missouri will remain ml the White House like tlio swimnhng pool that i given to the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The 1 orseslioe pitching court just outside Mr. Truman's office window is another gilt that will future presidonls. I Lots of Rifts, however, are i ly pergonal. Like the hats and upwards of 1 ,000 neckties with bowties predominating ir socks, and even suits. One of the presents Mr.

Truman cant keep: is an almost priceless painting of Benjamin Franklin presented him on behalf of the French goveriuiient. But he can keep enough shirts (Continued on Face 8, No. 1) Tlie Weather Kansas Genermlly i warm and humid through except for acattered afternoon and night-iime thnnder- show-ers west and northcentral; low Wednesday night 68-72; except northwest; high Thursday mid 90s. for the 24 hours ending 8 a. m.

today. 94; est'last night. 69; normal for today. 81; excess ye.sterda'y. 1.

excess since January 1. 128 degrees: this date last year, highest. 93: lowest. 68. Precipitation for the 24 hours ending at 8 a.

m. today. total for this year to date. 30.87; excess since January 1. 7.05 inches.

Sunri.se 5:38 a. set 7:13 p. m. Thermograph Readings. Ending 8 a.

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p. m. Company iNegotiations That Has Tied Docks 109 Days Honolulu (AP) Longshoremen and waterfront across a peace table in a new effort to end Hawaii's 109-day CIO dock strike. The agreement to re.sume direct negotiations developed with dramatic suddeness during a conference Gov. Ingram M.

Stainback arranged In his office Tuesday. Almost immediately olficials of Hawaii's seven struck stevedoring firms and leaders of the International Longshoremen's and Ware- hbusethen's imion began meeting. The first session lasted two hours. Resumption of. negotiations tions, made at the suggestion of Longshore President Harry Bridges, was on the basis of starting "from scratch." The stevedores struck May 1 for a 32 cents hike in their $1.40 hourly pay.

The talks came on top of these maneuvers In court and on the waterfronts of Hawaii and the mainland. 1. Circuit Judge Edward A. Towse ordered a contempt action "or other appropriate action" against Bridges for personally defying an anti-pickettog tajunction obtained by the territory under its new dock seizure law. 2.

The ILWU asked in federal court for an injunction against the dock seizure law which provides for government stevedoring operations. The imion seeks also $3.000.000 damages from the territory and the seven struck firms. 3. The government began its test to see whether it could unload ships with its own stevedores. It sent a 40-man gang aboard the Matson line freighter Hawaiian Merchant.

CIO cooks and stewards and Independent marine firemen walked off in support of the ILWU. With the ship's power off. no cargo, could be worked. 4. Two ships sailed with their CIO marine engUieers defying orders of their union's executive board not to work behind the ILWU's picket lines.

Matson announced in San Francisco it would call stevedores Wednesday for work on the Hawaiian Refiner. The ship is picketed by longshoremen who flew there from Honoliilu. Phone 18 between 6:30 and 7:00 If you miss your Register. Lonely Hearts Case To Jury Late Today New York (AP) Tbe fate of the alleged "lonely hearta" derers (at Martha Beck and Ber lover, Raymond Femandev scheduled to be placed in a jura's hands late Wednesday. The prosecutor, who demanded an electric cJialr verdict early." In the trial, will wind up his nim- mation.

Then state supreme coiirt justice Ferdinand Pecon wUl charge the jitfy of ten men (md two women. Defense colnsel, making his final plea Tuesday, asked that Uie defendants be'spared from But he did not ask acquittal. The prosecution charses ktrs. Beck. 29.

beat Mrs. Janet Fay. 66 -year-old Albany, N. on the head and Femimdez. strangled her with a scarf in the defendant's Valley Stream.

N. apartment last Jan. 4 Building Is On Upgrade Continued Increase in Construction Slump in FactoryOutifut Washington (AP) A forecast of further moderate increases in construction work in the near future came from the federal reserve board Wednesday. Because construction is of the main bulwarks of business tlvity and this furnished some backing for a prediction by Secretary of Xiabor Tobln that employment will go up by one million the rest of this yAr. Tobin made the prediction at 'the White House Tuesday.

The reserve board, in a publication, noted contract construction was providing jobs for more than two million workers at mld-yeat. Even while activity declined substantially at the nation's and mines in the spring and early summer, the board report showed, construction was scoring a nibre than seasonal rise from lis low winter levels. That was one factor credited by the commerce department fct cushioning the decline in the total output of goods and services "gross natfonal product" the second quarter of 1949., The reserve board bulletin credited a pickup in private housing recently to a variety of factors, including: 1. "A small decline in interest rates generally," and more the a'vailabUl- ty of federal funds to buy from institutions which felt "loaned up." thus providing them funds for use in new lending, i 2. Availability of new hoiises "at somewhat lower a shift to construction of smaller homes, and improvement in "the quality of design, equipment and workmanship in most areas." PROGRAM The Inia Municipal Band (FINAL CONCERT OF THE SEASON) August 18.

8:00 p. m. Directeti by Dale P. Creitz The Star Spangled Banner The Thunderer. March Washington Post.

March Begin the Beguine Francis Scptt Key John Philip Sousa John Philip Sousa Porter Ralph Erwin David Bennett Leon Simpson Freed By Coroner's Jury I Ki.ss 'Your Hand. Madam Repartee, Solo Piano with Band LARRY McINTOSH. Pianist. (Dedicated to the memory of his father. Rev.

M. G. Mcintosh.) semper Fidelis. John Philip Sousa Midnight in Paris and Magldson My Hero, from "The Chocolate Soldier." Concert -Oscar Straus March Will 'Vou Remember, from "Maytime" Sigmund Romberg MISS RUTH DUDLEY, Soprano. Bobby Sox Suite Harold L.

Walters I Sox on Parade. II Brow.sin' 'Round. Ill Bobby Boogie. The Whistler and His Dog, Arthur Pryor Valencia -Jose Padilla El Capitan. March John PhUlp Sousa -92 -93 -94 -88 -87 8 p.

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m. 7 a. m. 8 a. -77 .75 -73 -73 -71 -71 -69 -70 -75 WALKS AT THREE La Verl Benson, of SlUt Uke ciiyv supports and guides her active three- weeks-old daughter as the tries walking.

The Benson famUy physician said the child can take four or five steps with the mother guiding her. The doctor termed the babys activity as very unusual. (AP Wirephoto.) Finds Weird World Deep Under Sea I Marine Explorer Sees Unrecognizable Fish In Record Plunge in Diving Bell Smuggler's Cove. Calif. (AP) An "unbelievable world." luider the sea and filled i weird and wondrous crealujes.

has got its first glimpse of man. The strange, luminous forms of marine life which inhabit the depttis of the ocean Tuesday jaw a white sphere suddenly lowef itself hito thch' midst. Inside the sphere was a creature they had never seen a man. Armies of spiraling shrimp hurled themselves in a barrage against a window in the sphere through which the man was intently ing. Their attack was in vain.

Tliey only splattered against the wind (jw. The man was Otis Barton, nia- rlne explorer, who in his new diving bell, the Benthoscope. set a new deep sea diving record Tuesday. He descended to 4.500 feet, bettering his own of 3028 feet, achieved in 1934 off Bermuda Wltli naturalist William Beebe. Barton telephoned his obser tlons to an assistant on the barge from which the Benthoscope Was being lowered by cable, Only 17 minutes after he ed down.

Barton said: "There was flashing hght going by." At 2500 feet: "I see a barrage of luminescent, spiraling beating against the window. They seem to splash when they hit. a thin brilliantly lighted fi.sh by. It looks like an eel." After passhig 3028 record: "This is an unbelievable world down here, wl wish Df-. Beebe were down here with me.

He might know what some of these things are. I don't nise them." At he said. "There are so many things going by that it kind of makes me dizzy." At 4J00 feet the lights illuminating t'U area outside his window went out. but Barton dropped on to 4500 feet. Barton returned to the surface without incident, and announced ho would not attempt any further deep dives for some time.

Originally he had planned to descenc to 6,000 feet. He twice sent the scope more than a mile deep unmanned in preliminary dives. He made the 4500 foot drop" in 55 minutes and liung there seven minutes. The ocean bottom was still 2.000 feet beneath him. The dive was made off the island of Santa Cruz, about 35 miles south of Santa Barbara.

Calif. Play With Old Grenade Ends in Death for Two Rome (AP) A group of boys went exploring Tuesday in an abandoned ammunition dump outside rome. They found a round, rusty ball aiid had lots of fiin rolling it about until the hand grenade exploded. Marcello Clmini, three, and Natale Cordiali. five, were killed.

Two others were injured. British Firm Defies Gag Sugar Company Refuses To Halt Ad Campaign At Order of Government London (AP) Tate and Lyle. huge British sugar firm the food ministry Wednesday to make it call off an advertising campaign against nationalization of its Industry. Lord Lytle, head of the company, told newsmen the ministry has or-, dered. Tate and Lyle to remove antl-natiouUzation propaganda from its sugar cartons.

He said Tate and Lyle have declined and is challenging the food ministry to enforce its order. The familiar white and blue Tate sugar cartons have been appearing for weeks bearing such slogans as "Tate. Not State" and "Untouched by hands; Hands off Tate and Lyle sprang to the defense of its business soon after Verdict Is Justifiable Homicide Jury Decides Shooting Of Hathaway Saturday Was in Self Defense; Prisoner Is Released Till' of William L. Hatliaway liy I.oon Simpson last Satiu'iltiy was justifiable lioniicido, the coroner's jury decided yesterday afternoon. Siinp.son was released immediately after the verdict was announced by J.

D. Conderman, county attorney. No charges had been filed against Simpson but he had been kept in custody following his voluntary surrender to the police a few minutes after the shooting. In its decision I he jury ruled that Hathaway was killed while Simpson was "defending his home and his person and having rea.son to believe that William L. Hathaway had the design and the present ability to do serious bodily harm to said Floyd Leon Simpson and we further find that said homicide was justifiable." During the inquest which opened at 10 a.

m. yesterday in the dl.strict courtroom several witne.s.ses testified the Labor party announced I that Hathawav had been in June its campaign platform for the next general election. The platform promised nationlization sugar, cement and some kinds of insurance. Many Exhibitors Buy Fair Space vicious fights during the pa.st two or three years and that at least three persons had been injured by him. Simpson said that he had been bitten on the thumb by Hathaway in a brawl la.st spring.

The remaining from that Injury were shown to the jury. Ifesterdav afternoon two witnesses. Jimmy H. Dowell. N.

Miami. land Tony L. Dowell. lola. half broth- Ivan Jones a member of the William L.

Hathaway. tesU- fair board, said today he has made encouraging progress In selling commercial exhibit, space for the Allen County Pair which opens A'ug. 28 In Riverside park. Some sales have been made among all types of exhibitors who will be under Jones's Jurisdiction. Those include implement dealers, car and truck dealers, and planning to set up booths in the Community building.

dealers will show their stock in the open air, as usual. Car space al.so may be in the for the possibility of using part of the armory building, Jones said. The new raised floor In the Community building will prevent ILs use for vehicles. Jones is distributing space also to, food and cold drink concessionaires. He said several locations have been taken but that other good ones remain.

He has been unable to contact many prospective commercial exhibitors, he said today, and any he has not seen are invited to call him. Ahead On Plans For N. Chestnut A resolution providing for the re- paving of North Chestnut from Lincoln street north to Buchanan was passed by the city commission yesterday. A petition requesting the paving of the street and signed by 39 property owners was received by the commissibners on Aug. 9.

The resoluiion specifies that Ihe street will be widened to 32 feet, that new curbs and gutters built and a new- surface laid. The specifications will be determined by the city engineer and will probably be patterned after the suggestions in the original petition. The project will be financed according to the plan adopted foi- the other street paving jobs completed to recent months. The city at pay for the cost at the Int section and for one third of remainder. The property owners, ttn each side of the street, will pay one third of the cost of the paving laid In front of their properties.

Yesterday the commission received a protest, signed by 14 property owners, objecting to the original petition. The project will be authorized unless a protest, signed by more than SO peroent of the Chemical That Turns Black Skin solution. The commissioners chose the ffi- solution form presenting the project because the cost to the individual property owner will be less than under the petition plan. Foes Poise Axe For Plan No. 2 Washington (AP) Senator Ives R-NY) Wednesday asked the senate to defeat President u- man's reorganization plan No.

2 for some of tlie same reasons it killed plan No. 1 Tuesday. Plan No. 2 would shift the United States employment service and the related imemployment insurance service from the federal security agency to the labor e- partment. The senate agreed, to vote on It at 3 p.

m. Wednesday. Ives contended tljat Mr. Truman had picked up in the plan only a small part of the recommendations of the Hoover commission for strengthening the labor department. He listed seven other agencies and services which the commission said belonged under the labor department but were not included in Mr.

Truman's proposal. Foes of plan No. 1 which would have created a cabinet department of weilfare used similar arguments in beating it. fled that they had heard Simpson threaten Hathaway wiih bodily they had witnessed fights between the two men. Jimmy Dowell said that he was present when the two engaged In a scuffle at Pittsburg and that Slmp- at that lime: "If there Is another figlil.

things arc going to be different." The last scuffle between the two men occurred night at the honie of Mrs. Mary F.dwards. 307 North Second, where Slmp.son and his mother. Mrs. Cebra Byrd.

rent an apartment. Simpson and Hathaway had spent most of the day together and liad planned to go fishing lhat night. However. Hathaway engaged in an argument with Mrs, Myrtle Ewing who has an apartment in the front part of the home. This led to a dispute betweon H.ithaway iind Mrs.

Byrd and lier son. When Hathaway forced his way into their apartment he was shot by Simpson, living but a few minutes. Yesterday's decision by the cor- orner's jury does not prevent the filing of charges by the county attorney against Simpson or others who might be involved. However. J.

D. Conderman. county attorney, has not indicated that he expects to take further artion. A large number of men and women attended ihe hearing both in the morning and the afternoon and remained in the courtroom until the verdict was announced at 3.45 p. m.

There was no demonstration but Simpson was immediately surrounded by friends and relatives who congratulated him upon the outcome of the hearing. Alliania Protests Raid.s Oil Greeks London (APi Albania protested to the United Nations for the second time within a week that Greek troops are invading her Tirana radio the latest complaint is that Athens killed five civilians when they poured more than 2.000 shells Into four frontier villages Sunday. It said the Oreek troops were beaten (iff by Albanian Says Union Will Sign Affidavits Elmlra. Y. (APi Albert Fitzgerald, national president vif the CIO United Electrical WorU- ers.

said Tuesday night the natioj)- al officers of the union would sign a non-Communist affidavit in ''a couple of months." Fitzgerald is one of the last holdouts among CIO union officials against the oath required by the Taft-Hartley law. He declared that the UE officers would sign "But we won't like it." Fitzgerald, addressing a meeting of local 310, said "The members of the union who tiilnk that White May Mean Much in Race War New York (AP) Walter prominent white-skinned Negro leader, said Tuesday the color line may be ended by a chemical which sometimes turns skin from black to white. White, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, made the prediction in an article in Look magazine. chemical now is dangerous to use. but White wrote "it's almost a certainty that a safe form will be on sale within two to ten years." Negroes then could have white or light skin if they wished, he said, and "the racial, social, and economic consequences would be tremendous." White.

56 years old and estimated to be only l-64th Negro, was married to a white woman on July 6 and they now are on a rotmd- aU problems will be solved by tajc- 1 the-world trip. His bricje is the tag this oath will be badly formerly Poppy Cannon, 42, food tor of Mademoiselle magazine. A New York ikln specialist told the A.s.sociated Press that "nobody can turn white from, using the drug at present. and attempts to I hanue the nlor of Negro skin have not White said the chemical was discovered when some Negro and Mcxic.in workers in a tannery shortly before the war found tliat their hands and arms were turning white. The writer said the whiteiUng was traced to the chemical Mono- benzyl ether 'of hydroqulnone, which had been u.sed to treat their rubber gloves.

The article a a i that white co-workers wearing the gloves reported that their arms would not tan 'from the stm. The chemical as now known. White said, may cause pain, anemia, convulsions or even death. He said its effect on the slcin is only temporary, changing the color for six months to a year..