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a THE IOLA REGISTER Safety VOLUME LVII. No. 88. The Wwkly 1H07. The tola Daily KnUblishrd 1H07.

IOLA, EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1951. to The Dajtx Iola Daily Kecort, and Iola Daily lodes. FOUR PAGES Ike Lash On Gloom Prophets By JACK BELL WASHINGTON (JP) President Eisenhower has advised Americans to ignore of gloom" and has promised them "big in the federal government." Addressing a throng of more than 6,500 at a OOP box supper Friday night, Eisenhower sailed Into Democratic predictions of hard times, saying "The United States doesn't need to fall." And he emphasised he wants to conduct the presidency under the Constitution "in the same general form" as it now stands. He spoke only 12 minutes. In that time he took on two sets of like former President Harry S.

Truman, who say the country Is now- in a recession, and those who have been calling for a constlMlienal amendment that would limit the scope of treaties and fhre Congress more control over international agreements. "We don't mm to listen to the prophets of gloom Who say we are going into thlt or that kind of stumble or fait," he declared as the crowd cheered. Then, without mentioning by name Sen. Brloker (R-Ohio), whose constitutlonaj amendment on treaty powers he has opposed, Eisenhower said: "We must make certain that the genius of our Constitution and our government shall not perish, that it shall belong to those who come after us in the same general form that it has been received by us." Bricker, who had preceded Eisenhower to the speakers' platform, touched Off roar of laughter when he alluded to the "family troubles" he skid the Republicans have had, "My Minds, I like Ike," he The crowd howled approval, Bricker said ttMe had been "honest differences' opinion" but that the OOP has "a singleness of purpose." "Let me make one thing, clear," he said. "There is not now nor will there be, any split in the Republican The Republicans heard speaker after speaker lash the Democratic opposition with stronger words than the President Used.

Vice President Nixon said that failure to carry out the President's program would result In swing by the nation to the "tar left." He said that If a- Republican Congress is not ejected November "one of the major reasons (CentbUMd oa No. S) Kiwanis Hears Report of City Planning Survey A progress report on city planning was made to the Kiwanis club last night by Marvin Meade, and Horace Mssetlr members of the surVey tsMh that have been working here past few months. The final witfMB report will not be presented iMtlt around April 1, Kyle said flafMI. But most of the basic survey aWPstatlstical work has been done. Meade outlined the scope of the study, which covers almost every important phase of civic activity.

Mason explained the study of population trends and their significances. Kyle emphasised chiefly the' fact that while his team will provide the facts, conclusions and decisions must be made toy. the people of Iola. It is they, threJsjh their planning commission and Elected eity who will decide what action is to be taken as a result of the facts which haw hern A special addition to the program last hicht was a surprise tribute to C. L.

Hoyt, a charter member and former of -the clubs- patterned after the T7 program. "This Is Your Life," which Hoyt attended as a personal guest seme weeks ago. Hoyt's "life" was presented by E. K. TUIotson In the form of a specially prepared both humorus anecdotes and a serious review of Hoyt's achievements to his city and to the Kiwanis Club.

After reading It aloud, Tilldtson passed it around for signatures of all the members of the club so that it could be kept for a permanent souvenir of the occasion. Vicious Vandals Wreck Farrii Homes A series of acts of vandalism In Allen County farm homes In recent weeks was reported, this morning by B. K. Lorance. 'undersheriff.

Apparently the vandals hava no objective other than to damage property, Lorance Unoccupied farm houses have been entered, the window panes broken, doors smashed, built-in cupboards torn from the walls and the furniture, it any. ruined. The houses most. recently Despoiled are those owned by Huston Butcher end. Heater Tlot southeast of Iola.

Others which have been sbnilarly vandalised are In the north jffld weft woodson count? farm house has been entered. Lorance says that nothing has been stolen as far as toe officers know. HOPE TO GET Hlnea, Oeflh and'' Ralph Oordon, (right), are shown with a machine they "hope will bring rain to the Springfield, area. The machine is supposed to send vapors toward the clouds, and cause the clouds to drop their moisture In the form of rain. On the paper In the foreground are small silver iodide crystals which are fed into the machine on the same principle as a furnace stoker.

The heat below Is furnished by an electrical connection, and a blower throws the fumes upward. The machine shown is beside a Bolivar, filling station. Nine of them are being Installed in the Wirephoto.) Eight Die In Flames SPRINGFIELD, Mo. Wl Fire raced through a four-room frame house here early Saturday, killing seven children and the mother of four of the youngsters. Neighbors told of watching helplessly while the panic stricken children ran Uirough the home, seeking, to escape the flames.

The dead were identified as: Mrs. Eevelyn LlUard, 30; her four children, Linda, Kay, Barbara, 2. and Johnny five months: and Oary Letterman. Linda Lee Letterman, 10, and Sandra Kay Letterman, 11. The Letterman children had been staying at the Lillard home while their mother, Mrs.

Dorothy Letterman, was at a Springfield hospital with another son who is ill with a brain tumor. She is divorced from the children's father. John Lillard, 28. the father of the Lillard children, escaped from the blazing home but suffered severe burns. He told police his wife awakened him and told him the house was on fire but he said he did not know how ho managed to escape from the flaming structure.

He was in serious condition at a hospital." Origin of the tire was not determined. Neighbors said they saw the children running from one room to another in tenor. Floyd Jones, 29, said he kicked out a window and reached two of the children but they jerked away from him and were lost as flames engulfed the home. Carl Gustafson. the first policeman to arrive on the scene, said he believed an oil circulating heater in the living room might have been responsible for the fire.

He said five of the bodies were found in one of the two bedrooms of the home. The body of the Lillard baby was found in the living room. One body was in the other bedroom of the house and another was in the kitchen. Rites aHJronson For Fire yietim BRONSOtf Miss Mildred Broughton, who was fatally burned' yesterday morning, will be held at 2:30 p. m.

Monday in the Holiness Church at Bronson. The Rev. Charles Welch of Iola will officiate. Burial will be at the Bronson Cemetery. Miss Broughton has lived all of her life in Bronson and for the past several years has cared for her father, George -Broughton, who Is blind.

Yesterday as she was preparing breakfast her dress caught on fire. Her father tried to aid her by pulling off her clothing but she died a few hours later In a Ft. Scott In addition to her father, she is survived by. a sister, Mrs. Lola Strackbclm, Leaker, and three brothers, Lloyd of Bronson, Fred of Kansas City and Pascal Broughton of Iola.

Mrs. Seth Sellers Dies at Home Here Mrs. Seth Sellers, who has been in ill health for. several months, died this morning at her home, 314 W. Spruce Street.

She was 74 years old. Mrs. Sellers was born at Fairplay, and has made her home in Iola for the past 21 years. She leaves her husband; a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Talley, San Jose, and a Jos- Services will be conducted by the Rev.

Leon Nelson at 2 p. m. Monday in the Sleeper Chapel. Burial will be at Yates Center. Warm Ike Praise For Boy Scouts WASHINGTON Elsenhower praised the Boy Scouts of America today for contributing to the "moral strength of our nation" during its 44- year history.

Elsenhower sent "warmest greetings" to the 3,300,000 Scouts and Scout leaders and to the 21 million others who have belonged since the organization was founded in 1010. The President's message was made public on the eve of Boy Scout Week; which opens tomorrow. Willing to GiveUp Pension Rights WASHINGTON Albert C. Beeson told senators Friday he would give up pension rights from his former employer if that "will make the Democrats happier" and still their questioning of his nomination to the National Labor Relations Board. Paul L.

Davies, president of the Food Machinery Chemical Corp. San Jose, had just testified to the Senate Labor Committee that Beeson had been given a one- year leave- of absence to take the NLRB post. Beeson has been vice president of the firm, in charge of labor relations, for the last seven years. While on.leave of absence. Davies said, Beeson retains full rights to the pension fund accumulated to his account during his seven years.

Questions have been raised by some senators as to whether Beeson's leave of absence status and his retention or full pension rights creates a "conflict of interest" that could make him unfit for the Job on the NLRB, to which he was named Jan. 7 by President Eisenhower. Beeson said ho and his wife had "talked it over and are willing to make the sacrifice" if it would "make At stake was $4,400, representing contributions by his former company' to his pension fund. An outright resignation, the committee was told Friday, would cut Beeson's right ever to claim a stake in that amount. Beeson said he is willing as of the day he is confirmed to the TJLRB.

Beeson Nomination Appears Certain WASHINGTON Senate approval by a comfortable margin was predicted today for Albert C. Beeson's nomination to the National Labor Relations Board. A floor fight appeared certain when the nomination reaches a vote, probably week after. next. But Republicans said they are confident they have more than enough votes -to-confirm Beeson One Democrat, who asked that his name be withheld, said he would be surprised If the opposition can muster more than 25 votes.

The Weather KANSAS -H- Partly cloudy Saturday afternoon: mostly fair Saturday night and Sunday: colder Saturday night; warmer Sunday; low Saturday night in 20s; high Sunday generally in 50s. High yesterday 60 Low last night 32 High a year ago today 55 Low a year ago today 26 Normal for today 34 i 24 Hours ending 8 a. m. 0 This month to date 0 Normal for this month 1.56 Total this year to date 36 Deficiency since Jan. 1 1.48 Truman Sees No 'Miracles' NEW YORK Former? President Truman said las! nightthat "the recession that started on thg farms last spring has already spread the city a depression would do likewise." Me scoffed at the "miracles" he sard were promised by the Republican Party.

In a speech before the Americans for Democratic Action, Truman said, "I don't think- there is any necessity fan a depression." "One thing is clear by now after a year of the Eisenhower administration," Truman said, "and that is the Republican Party is not made up of miracle workers. I have been watching and waiting for those miracles to happen that we were promised back In 1952. But there is something wrong somewhere. There seems to be a slight delay in the miracle business." Truman ripped Into the present administration's Income tax cut, terming It "a rich man's tax relief measure If I ever heard of one." "It seems to me strange that the President's economic; report says that there is no recession," Truman, continued, but that we are not prosperous enough or sure enough of the future to increase the minimum wage." fhe income level of the farmer and working man are beginning to decline, he said, "compared to the share of the businessman and the corporations and the landlords. Our national wealth is being distributed in from the poor to the rich." The former president called the OOP search for Communists in government "one of the biggest hoaxes ever attempted in American' history." "When the Republicans took over the government on Jan.

20, 1953," he said, "if there were any Communists In the government service they were very, very few indeed." Truman accused Republican campaigners in 1992 of lying, ajwqt the Communist menace. And when they took office, he satd, they "lacked the courage" to admit it. Truman' criticised the OOP administration for "almost callous indifference" to farm problems. "The farmer, we Are now told," Truman said, "was not promised 100 per cent of parity through support was promised only 100 per cent if he can get it in the market place, which is exactly the same as no promise at all." Car Crash Kills Arcadia Woman PITTSBURG un Mrs. Dawn Dunton Steele, 49, of Arcadia, president of the Crawford County Women's Republican Club, died In a hospital here Saturday of Injuries suffered in a car accident near Arcadia shortly after midnight.

Sheriff Verne Stevens said Mrs. Steel's car hit.a bridge abutment after a tire apparently had blown out. Survivors include her parents, Mr, and Mrs. L. H.

Dunton; a son. Lou Mack Steele; two grandchildren; a brother, Clare Dunton; and a sister, Mrs. Margaret Weede, all of Arcadia. TO FOR SLAYING OFFI- Merle William Martin, was sentenced by the Supreme Court to be executed at the State Penintcntlary at Lansing. The court directed that the execution be carried out by hanging between the hours of.

1 a. m. and 7 a. m. on March 2.

Martin, 44-year-old ex-conyict, was convicted of first degree mur- 4der in the slaying of Williard Carver, a Johnson County, deputy sheriff, near Zaralv Kansas on June 23. 1952. (AP Photo) Quake Rips Mexico Area MEXICO QTPV -r A strong earthquake wrecked four towns in the tropical, coffee-growing state of Chiapas Friday, killed many persons and spread damage and terror over an area 50 miles in diameter, a dispatch from Tuxtla Gultierrez said Saturday. Mercy planes were reported flying doctors, nurses, medicines and other supplies to the stricken zone, in the rugged jungle country about 100 miles west of the Guatemalan frontier. Communications were disrupted.

The first word lo reach Mexico City came in a delayed telegram from a newspaper correspondent in the state capital. He offered no estimate of the total casualties or damage, but said the towns of Yajalon, Tla, Pctalgtngo and Chl- loh were hard hit by the mid-morning quake and hillsides crumbled. Seismographs in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Pasadena and elsewhere in the United States had recorded a tremor at about 9:24 a. m. to the area of Mexico.

correspondent's account gave mis picture: Yajalon, center of a corn, sugar and fruit belt, suffered most. Markets and other buildings in that town of 2.000 were leveled. FMlcingo, pop. was virtually destroyed, many were killed there and hundreds were injured. Tn Chiton, pop.

600, 24. houses were destroyed and 90 per cent of were damaged seriously. The villagers, fearful that other would follow, fled into the dpan, 1m town of Tila, was "virtually n. ttti were either wrecked or oned in all four towns, in- itlhg that in cases food WW' required among the relief Applies. Ornamental Evergreens Need Irrigation Now MANHATTAN all ornamental evergreen throughout this section of Kansas heed thorough irrigation immediately, W.

T. Pickett, head of the Kansas State College horticulture department said here today. Pickett advises soaking the trees and shrubs two or three days in succession to be sure the water, soaks to the roots. Doubts Air Baa, If War Comes Again By ROBERT EUNSON TOKYO If the Korean armistice is scrapped and fighting breaks put again, Arfterican bomberijitay range far north of River, and hammer Chinese factories in Manchuria possibly with atom bombs. Gen.

O. P. Weyland. Far East Air Forces commander, won't say they will. He did say in interview, however: "It is my understanding that the Yalu River might no longer be the boundary, if the war is resumed In Korea, and we might strike the enemy wherever we could hurt him the most and with whatever would do the most damage." China proper could also come into its share of bombing, it would be assumed.

"The Far East Air Forces would be reinforced," Weyland said. "The Strategic Air Command Is prepared to operate anywhere in the world and could extend its range to this theater." SAC is the outfit which packs the big wallop. Bombers of this command specialize in atom warfare. There are at least five planes in the U. 8.

Air Force which can carry the atom bomb, and bases in Weyland's command can accommodate all of them. The five types are B29, F84, B47, B50 and B36. B29s, B50s and F84s already are based in the Far East. B36s were in the Far East last summer when the United States showed its global air strength and sent 22 of these giants to Japan. The 22 made the trip from the mainland nonstop, landed all over the Far East and conducted many simulated missions with FEAF planes.

"We could get the B47 jet bombers here, too, in 12 hours if we needed them," Weyland said. Whether there is a stockpile of atom bombs in some lead cave in the Far East for those atom car- (Contlnued on Page 2, No. 2). West Reich Trade Blocked by U.S., Says Red Paper MOSCOW Izvestia said Saturday West Oermany could develop more trade with the Soviet bloc if German businessmen would break away from what it called American dictation and overcome "obstacles" raised by the Bonn government. A lengthy article In the government newspaper, pursuing the new Soviet line offering trade to west Europe, declared "wide business circles in West Oermany repeatedly are protesting against American dictates on the question of foreign trade." Harry Peet Dies At LaHarpe Home Harry Peet, a retired farmer, died yesterday, morning at his home in LaHarpe.

He was 79 years old. Mr. Peet was born in Cedar County, and farmed near there as a young man. He moved to Harpe in 1910 and has operated farms in Allen County since then. He is survived by his wife and by a sister, Mrs.

Laura Tayler, Wichita. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Lee Dickey at 2 p. nt Sunday In the Waugh Funeral Home. Burial will be at the LaHarpe cemetery.

TOTS in the United them' to Yugoslavia. The bars, Goran, at left, and Srdjan, 4, were awarded to Djurovlc, who Intimated the Tito government was trying to get his wife, Zivka, and the youngsters to return to Yugoslavia to force his own return. Djurovlc, former local manager of a Yugoslav export-Import agency, fears reprisals 1 it he returns to his native Wirephoto.) HOMEWARD BOUND John Hvasta, 26-year-old naturalized American, waves as he boarded a plane at Munich, Oermany, en- route to the United State. The U. S.

Navy veteran was arrested by Red. authorities, in Czechoslovakia in 1948, and was sentenced to prison for alleged espionage. He escaped from Jail In 1953. and eluded police for 21 months before taking refuge in the American Embassy in Prague. Joyful Day For Hvasta HILLSIDE, N.

J. Of) John Hvasta, tight-lipped and emotional, came home to the arms of his family Saturday after five years as a prisoner and fugitive in Communist Ctechoslovakla. His family and Hillside dignitaries met the Czech-born American at Idlewild Airport, then whisked him back to New Jersey for a family breakfast. But first John went to his modest two-family home here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Michael Hvasta, and his brother, Stephen, to change clothes. The 26-year-old Navy veteran embraced his mother at the airport and cried God, thank God, thank God." He ducked a formal press conference at the airport and called tensely to his brother, "let's go home. Let's get away." Mrs. Michael Hvasta, the mother, tearfully hugged and kissed her while other members of his family and officials from his home town crowded around to welcome the young man. Hvasta appeared pale: Tb reporters, he said: "I'm glad to be home.

Anybody that's been in the situation I have been in really knows what it feels like to be home." But he declined to give any details of his imprisonment on espionage charges while studying in Czechoslovakia and his subsequent escape, his game of hide and seek with the police and his refuge in the American Embassy. He said he had been "scribbling" his story. whUe at the embassy and that he Intended to publish it. "I intend to reveal everything I have done," he said. Hvasta said, however, an account of his escape experiences will "come soon from the embassy." Reporters asked him if he had been in touch with his Czech wife, Oabrlella Ban ova Hvasta, who has been reported missing.

"No," his eyes filling with tears. Stephen Hvasta, 23, his brother, Interceded at this point and asked reporters to refrain from any more questions. Owner Picks Up Stolen CarHere A station wagon which was found abandoned at the corner of Chestnut and Madison streets early Wednesday morning was' claimed yesterday afternoon, by Major, p. C. Aaserude, head of the Salvation Army post in Sedalia, Mo.

Maj. Aaserude said the vehicle had been stolen. He gave local police the name of a man suspected of taking the 1949 model car. Reds Set To Quell Any Riots BERLIN Jittery Red Gestapo agents moved Into major industrial plants in the Russian zone today with orders to grab any German who demands free and clap him into jaiL Chief Ernst Wollweber issued the decree to his secret police to smash a wave of unrest that started as soon as Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov stalled the Big Four parley on German unification. Fearful of another June 17, the East German Communist regime girded Its forces to avoid the embarrassment of an outbreak at this critical time.

It was clear the Russians were leaving this policing job to their zonal underlings. Rumors spread thick and fast that the Soviet Army, which shattered last June's workers' uprising, had moved as a precautionary measure. Thorough checking by Western agencies in position to make such checks-indicated the rumors were false. It was learned that several Red army housekeeping units have been shifted around on the Berlin perimeter in the past particularly in the Potsdam and Be- belsberg areas. This was described by Western Informants as a purely routine maneuver' which did not bring one Red army soldier closer to East Berlin than he was a week before.

There were no tanks involved. The impression was given that the Russians trust the 290,000 Bast German Communist regular police militarized police, and security agents to handle any ruckus for the moment. The Wollweber order came after disturbances were reported In factories at Oera, Dresden, Chemnits, the Leuna, Chemical Works at Merseburg and the coal mines at Oelsnitz. Friday, German informants said, a Communist rally at Leuna was shouted down by workers who stamped, whistled and shouted: wahlen" (free elections). Thereupon, the ruling Socialist Unity (Communist) Party distributed a memorandum to all its agitation groups, which contained two directives: 1.

Continue with the factory rallies to" line up sTgnaTures for German unification on Molotov's plan, which would entrench Communism 2. As soon as any worker shouts for free elections, he is to be arrested immediately or reported for prosecution as a "saboteur, warmonger and enemy of the state." Cooler Tonight, Warmer Sunday TOPEKA Sunday morning temperatures are due to be a bit snappy in Kansas but the weather bureau said it will be mild and sunny over the state again by afternoon. The mercury will drop into the 20s throughout the state, then climb, back into the 50s, the forecasters said. A few showers fell in the western part of the state Saturday morning but clouds began breaking up by mld-mornlng and no measurable amounts of reported. Emporia had a reading of 67 Friday for the highest temperature recorded in the state: while the lowest, was 28 at Wamego and Emporia.

Sorghum Is Second Crop in Kansas TOPEKA (fft Sorghum grain, with a total farm value of $80,038,000, was second only to wheat as the most valuable crop grown in Kansas during 1953, the federal and state Departments of Agriculture repprt. The sOfgmm "pYb totaled 80,640,000 bushelS'Comr pared to the 10-year average" of 28,652,000, the agencies said. Stevens County ranked first with a crop of 1.330,000 bushels. 'Good Idea' Boosts $2S-ar Week Man Into $20 Million a Year Business By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK The charm of old things never disappears. Many children growing up in the television era now are discovering and enjoying an antique, old-fashioned form of homo entertainment their parents have appreciated for some years.

It is called radio. "The kids are going back to radio," said Johnny Sinn. "There are some programs they like better on radio because they can imagine the scenes better than if they are shown on a screen." One of his own children for example, prefers hearing the horse opera, "Cisco Kid," on radio to watching it on television. This Intrigues Johnny beyond the normal Interest of a parent In what takes his fancy. The "Cisco Kid" happens to.

be one of many famous characters-who walk, talk or gallop for Johnny on either radio, television or both. of, tartte, aa, aM, sees a prosperous future for each, although he predicts radio will become the more localised medium. You probably never heard of John L. Sinn. But be baa thought of you, wherever you are.

He has studied you for many years harder, than he ever studied his primer' in school. He wants to know how to make you, laugh and afterward to go out and buy things. At 38 he one of the bigger figures in the world of entertainment, and one of the least known to the public. But you'll hear more of him. He might look like the guy who lives next door to you, if you are lucky enough to have a pleasant neighbor with a recwding hairline, dark eyes, a wide tat determined mind, and a sensitive willingness bear you brag before he says what he knows to fee so.

Johnny travels about IfaXOOO miles a year between Mew 1 "erti, Timbuktu ami Hollywood! He wad his partner, Fred W. SBlv, prodoee the moment-2J weakly radio and 12 telovtslOT showYfThef have 500 employes, their own Hollywood was estimated by "Vai mniion dollars anmtalbjr, modest figure today i programs are on at least at an raga 1) ev-.