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The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • 2

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THE KANSAS CITY TIMES MONDAY NOVEMBER 29 1954 STROLLS OUT OF PRISON Snow-Rain Belt Extends Across Part of Nation BOLD SEA RESCDE REJECT BED CULL Free Delivery 0 or Charge Seven Taken From Tanker Split in Severe British Storm European Security Conference Proposal Turned Down by Western Nations Kusy on the hazardous flight I took up the story: the high winds and shifting sands it was tricky all right We stayed there about ninety minutes- making several trips to a frigate to bring supplies to the frogmen who went aboard the POISON TO FOUR AIR MISSION BY A KANSAN NOTES TO SOVIETTODAY (By the Aociated Press) Much of the nation had either snow or rain and above seasonal temperatures yesterday Light snow flurries extended from Montana eastward through the Colorado mountains the Dakotas the Great Lakes area and northern New England The snow cover at International Falls Minn had reached 6-inches and Caribou Me had four inches on the ground Rains were general In the lower Mississippi valley the Carolinas Tennessee and the northern areas of Alabama and Georgia Hardening Attitude Toward Negotiating With the Russians Indicated Capt Willis Kusy of Jennings Flies Helicopter in Search for Other Survivors to the honor dormitory located outside the main walls of the prison but still surrounded by another set of high gray stone walls Just prior to his walkaway he had bpen visited by a woman named Nancy Mack who gave a Columbus address Alvis said The two walked out together through a small gate watched over by two guards Apparently McDermott was not challenged by the guards who said they last saw McDermott and the woman climb into a motor car parked on the lot in front of the prison wail along Spring street Warden Alvis was investigating tonight to find out why Me Dermott was permitted to leave the institution premises without question JESTING OFFER TO WINNIE Bernard Baruch and James Byrnes Would Aid Please telephone your order before 10 a for delivery today Supreme Quality in Breads Many Varieties Every Day! Our Cracked Wheat Bread stands alone in goodness and taste appeal health-baked with crispy tasty crusts 25c Ex More Rain and Wind Is peeted to Hit Isles Today AS 0 GIVER (Continued from First Page1 and died the following day May 18 1953 Son Became Suspicious A son whom Siege identified as Wendell Morton suspected the death was not natural and took his suspicions to authorities but investigation turned up no evidence at the time Unofficially police here have learned that on exhumation last week arsenic was found in body Investigations meantime are going ahead in the deaths of seven other kinfolk of Mrs Doss including two other husbands She admitted yesterday that she poisoned her fifth and last husband the late Samuel Doss 58 of Tulsa because he got on her nerves At first she told Stege she had Butter-crusted Homemade Bread 100 Wholewheat Regular Wholewheat Potato Bread Rye Bread crusty French Bread large turban shaped Pumpernickel Sesame Seed Raism and Poppyseed baked fresh daily Salt Rising Brea baked Tuesday and Thursday Salt Free Bread Gluten Bread Few-Cal Bread Cheese Rye Bread baked several times each week Cinnamon Bread Nut Bread Pullman and Cream Sandwich Bread baked to your order By John Hightower Washington Nov 28 (API The western powers have dis patched a new rebuff to call for a conference on European security which they con sider an effort to stall West German rearmament Diplomatic experts said that notes rejecting the latest Russian bid for a meeting would he delivered in Moscow tomorrow The Soviets had proposed In a note November 13 that twenty five or more nations meet in Moscow November 29 to draft an all-European security treaty which would displace the recent Paris agreements fat an expand ed European union including a rearmed West Germany The evidence indicates that attitudes toward nego are govern feel ESCAPE BY SLAYER OF CRUSADING EDITOR REPORTED IN OHIO Patrick Eugene McDermott 55 Convicted in 1926 Murder Walks With Woman Visitor Through Guarded Gate Columbus Nov 28 (AP) Patrick Eugene McDermott 55 who shot and killed a vice-crusading Cantgn pditor in 1926 walked away fmm an honor dormitory at Ohio penitentiary here this afternoon in the company of a woman who had been visiting him It was McDermott's second escape from the Spring street institution since he was sentenced January 12 1927 For Mellett Slaying McDermott was sentenced tn the penitentiary for the murder of Don Mellett editor of the Canton Daily News on the night of July 16 1926 After a widespread hunt he was turned over by his brothers to authorities in Nantv Glo Pa and was convicted of first-degree murder with a recommendation for mercy on Christmas eve 1926 McDermott was found guilty of first degree murder with a recommendation of mercy which in Ohio means a life sentence Melleit was shot down as he put his motor ear in a garage at his home At the trial it was developed that McDermott had Hern Imported to Canton in up an by a man from Massillon The assassination of Mellett was the dramatic climax of an editorial campaign the editor had waged for weeks charging that the underworld characters were in leagup with certain po-lice officers for the promotion and protection of vice Outside Main Hall Warden Ralph Alvis said McDermott had been assigned Raisin Drop Cookies do 49c From oven to counter go wholesome tasting Spice Loaf Cake 49c A perfect blending of fragrant fresh apices By Eddy Gilmore London Nov 28 (API Lifeguards battling mountainous seas in Britain's worst storm in years rescued seven sailors trapped on the fore section of the 20125-ton Liberian tanker World Concord today She split off the Welsh coast yesterday But hope was abandoned for seven crewmen of the Goodwin lightship stranded on the Goodwin sands often called the English channel's graveyard of ships Daring frogmen equipped with oxy-acetylene torches and other cutting equipment vainly searched the wreck from end to end have been in ail compartments as far as we could one frogman said there is definitely nobody May Have Escaped No bodies were found Another search mav be tried tomorrow Columbia Nov 28 (AP) Sir Winston Churchill British prime minister who got into a political row last week after disclosing his willingness to use German troops against Russia in 1945 received a jocular offer of support from two old friends here Bernard Baruch and Gov James Byrnes Baruch visiting Byrnes former secretary of state cabled Churchill you in another fight Jimmy Byrnes and I want to know if that is a private fight or ran we get into it on your side Affectionate regards A skunk produces about a ihird of ati ounce of the odorous chemical it uses for defense in a week College Inn Chicken a la King Lots of tender chicken and mushrooms in a rich cream sauce Heat 3 tins 200 and serve on buttered toast or toasted English Muffins ITin 69ci put only one teaspoonful of a Hating with the Hussion liquid poison she had put chased ai a Tulsa grocery in Doss oo fee official (hardening The western Imcnls apparently no longer i under such pressure a the She told Stege latet their was Hid to Join negotiations don Know more I poured 1 i 'omnH to prove thru goon hlih how much in a kettle of prunes I was stewing for him she fold: fM MM UWIXG SWIM Stege just took off the cat' and poured He just loved sweet' Hepotl He Is Missing Scoffed like prunes He would eat a but it was thought the men from whoie box at a sitting NOTICE Frankfurters lb 79c Bv as tempting at the dinner table as 'round the campfire Pimiento Cheese 2 lb 39c A creamy spread bv Wolferman's Pressed Corned Beef Jg 119 One of our niceet cold meat Babo Cleanser 2 tins 29c Paper Napkins 2 pkgs 29c Lamb Patties 3 for 39c Delicate milk-fed Lamb freshly chopped plump patties encircled with Bacon Crisp Carrots pkg 19c Long: golden: California Large Grapefruit 2 for 39c Florida Black Diamonds Wax Paper roll 39c Hammersley heaw duty the lightship may have abandoned their ship before it was torn from its moorings and washed up on the sands A air force helicopter plucked one crewman from the lightship In Hospital 23 las In August apparentl attei the prune incident Doss became violently ill and spent twetm three days in a hospital where he was treated lor a heart In (Continued from flral Pnga 1 far as 1 know none of those people gave 5 rents to mv campaign The list of con trlbutlons ami expenditures will be filed December 2 with the Shawnee County Marvin A Harder Demo ora! in state chairman who is In Washington Issued a statement today through his state head quarters here In which he said he does net know of any oontrl buttons made to the Democrats by high ranking Republicans Harder said he had prior knowledge'' of the affidavit In which Butler demands a accounting of Democratic campaign funds Copy of Report fo ltlm 1 did not administer the Docking for governor Harder said have received from Mr Docking a copy of the treasurer report of that fund There is nothing irregular about it that I can ascertain nor did I find any names of conttibuibrs I recognized to be prominent members of the Republican party strongly resent the inference of anyone who may try to effect a break in the ranks ofj the Demorratie party or try toi use the Democratic party as aj means of promoting the interests of one faction of the Republican party against the interests of another Harder added Butler told the Capital there was a involving the lack of cen-j tral accounting of funds during! the Democratic campaign and a of communication about: the income and expenses between Lawrence and Scrutiny December 2 Butler hinted that some Demo- crats will be on hand in Topeka: Pontiff Appears at a Window to and Lawrencp December 2 to Novemrbp 29 1954 Vol 117 No 2RV Th Kftnm city Tuner tht momlni Kanpas city Star The Kansas City Star fverv morning evening and Sunday subscription rates (thirteen papers a weak) (elivered bv carrier In Kansas City 4V rents a wrek (1 74 a month bv mall pokingr prepaid In Missouri and Kansas 5 cents wees elsewhere In the United Stairs and United Slates possession B6 cents a week in foreign countries (100 a week ICniered as second class matter at the posinffice at Kansas Cltv Mo under th act of March 3 1879 Publication office f720 Orand avenue Free Delivery Six Days a Week yesterday and returned today tojflamation Doss a pighwax Join the futile search for other rnplovee was stricken a second survivors Known dead from the three-day storm reachd ten today Fear was expressed the toll may time October 11 and died following day The attending physician refused to sign the death certi- 47th and van dot A 4000 Armour at Mam WE 4000 Brookside Blvd at 59th HI 4000 1108 Walnut St GR 0626 Nov 28 i API Mat 'hat ticotgl Zhukov So tet war hrt and first deputy defense mlttlsict kidded Western correspondents tonight about stories 1st the West that he was missing He smilingly cornered Richard Kaslsohke of ihe Associated Press at a reception at the Yugoslav embassy and asked you write this tHe apparently was referring to stories out of London last Sunday that Zhukov had not been listed as among those present at many functions he usually attended! know I would never write such a story without trying to interview Kasischke rejoined about an inter-vi ew Standing near by Sa-burov Soviet planning boss commented that interviews were a of I was reported missing" said Zhukov was enjoying a swim down rllmb higher While Britons still rate and the vital organs were were wrestling with the high ont to the Highway Patrol winds and seas meteorologists laboratory at Oklahoma Cit A said a new low pressure area pathologist reported back that was moving in that could tin there was enough arsenic pres-leash more rain and strong orjont slightly over two milli-gale winds over most districts Igrams to kill eighteen men Budget Basement Tkeaface 2 TWftfTH AND GAND DOWNTOWN Cfc ALSO IN NOtTH KANSAS CITY Stege who then began the investigation learned of the Morton marriage through a letter Mrs Doss had written to Morton's daughter by his first wife after the death of Doss that she SHOE CLEARANCE tomorrow The Rosslare lifeboat ended the ordeai for the seven Greek sailors adrift in the bow section of World Concord removing them from the tossing hulk Another lifeboat yesterday res- would visit them on her wav cued thirtv-five other crewmen back to North Carolina from the big tanker stern sec-! Harley Lanntng died of what tion which was full of highly ivvas explosive gas that might blowup if the wreck dashed against believed to have been a heart ailment in 1952 Dr David Plummer Davidson County said the of 'Wi Holiday Dresses in Beautiful Prints coroner body Lan-ning will be exhumed Monday Twice after death he caid he was approached by salvage operation were under relatives and others who believed wav today The tug Turmoil of the death was not natural but no Flying Enterprise fame was re-! further evidence was found 7 129 1690 TWO FROM A STOCK OF HUNDREDS SL joL in ci loaeri 7 a cl fc Warns WofocL there Going to North Carolina Wayne Owens a Kansas Bureau of Investigation officer ported tonight to have a line aboard the stern section and was towing it to the Mersey river estuarv ninetv miles away Bless Group Vatican City Nov 28 (AP) Pope Pius xil weary from a return of the hiccuping that sapped his strength last February appeared at a window of his apartment today and hlessed Rome's street ear workers Original plans were for the street car men to be received in audience by the 78-vear-old pontiff who returned only yesterday from his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo His doctors however ordered a pe- examine reports of campaign funds filed by the state commit-! tee and the Docking-for-Gover-j nor club December 2 is thej deadline for filing the reports required by law The Daily Capital said it was tod that Mrs Semple soliritedj a campaign contribution forj Docking from Harold Dean Youngman a Baxter Springs contractor The newspaper quoted man as saying he had not given Mrs Semple the contribution but when asked if she asked him Two ships already- have blown who has been in Tulsa left for up in the storm Two crewmen North Carolina tonight with other officials The second husband of Mrs from the Italian Collier Pietro were taken to a hospital today Left- riod of complete restjn an effort to contribute he replied I would rather not would rather not say to restore his stength ROMR DAMAGE IN THE a ny- LOOP Remaining Stock LaYalle Shoes '2 priee after a blast rocked the vesseljDoss Frank Harrelson died in tied up at a dock in Swansea 1945 of symptoms that suggested Wales The crewmen were i den -food poisoning An investigation tified as Giusppe Sottile 17 and! is under way in Jacksonville Luciano Campagnola 23 They Ala where he lived were suffering from burns anrij Two months before his death shock but Sottile w-as released: a granddaughter of Mrs Doss after treatment The Pietro was who was living with them de- loaded with anthracite coal and eloped the same symptoms and gas accumulating in two of the rjpd Harrelson had become holds 'ere believed to have very attached to her Tulsa of- exploded ficials werp told tonight by Er je 3St fccurrec a fevvjnest Harrelson a brother in hundred yards from where thellonBdistance phonP call Magi -crepe rayon print of luminous quality navy black red or blue with white flower print 10 to 20 Wi to 2412 $1095 Black Powder Explosion Shatters 200 Windows i walnut store only today tomorrow only mm? 1 1 mm ALL SALES FINAL ENTIRE STOCKS NOT INCLUDED ON WALNUT SHOE SALON ON THE PLAZA Chicago Nov 28 API A black powder homb shattered 200 windows and caused damage of S10000 in a block area of thp Loop early today No one was injured Police said the bomb was placed near the Peerless Products company punchhoard manufacturers which occupies the first floor of the 9-story Pope building at 633 Plymouth court books closed charges payable in January thing except that she did not get any money from me and that's) the truth" the newspaper quot ed Youngman as saying Ken Anderson of Emporia! the Democratic national committeeman was reported on the way to Louisiana and could not be reached for comment ROMR RIPS A PHONE ROOTH None Injured in Second Such New York Explosion (Service the Vetc York Times New York Nov A homemade time bomb exploded tonight in a telephone booth at the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan while the terminal was thronged with hundreds of week end commuters No one was injured The bomb shattered the phone nmnkrcrt after her Er- rrou esterday knling' Harrelson told the Tulsa of- erl wT Jficials was walking bv the on a mysterynship repoDeTmi0 Hp Pnint have sunk about twenty milesd Jhe fhild grave and told off the Cornish roast at thpi me had been poisoned and height of yesterday's storm 1 npxT Right 100 denier print with self petticoat Navy with red and white figures 7 to 15 FLARE OVER COFFEE PACT World Agreement Study at Brazil Parley Stirs Trouble DRESS SALE! 12 were to 2500 $1095 Mrs Doss denied she had poisoned the child Other Deaths Mysterious The deaths of two sisters in Alabama whom Mrs Doss nursed an unidentified npphew and that of her mother also are being investigated Mrs Doss's mother died in Lexington and expe- Mrs Doss pft the day after the arfa funeral to be married to Mor- and in the area Quitandinha Brazil Nov 28 (API- A proposal by a 15-nation coffee bloc for a special commis-i sion to study the possibilities of -box and wooden arm rest and a world coffee agreement was iscattered bomb fragments along having rough going today at the the narrow upper levelt corridor Great Damage Inland Inland many of rivers flooded the countryside causing great damage blocking scores of roads The pilot of the helicopter which returned to the Goodwin sands today to assist search for survivors of lightship described his riences in that treacherous in one word ton- took off at daybreak Onp of Mrs Doss's husbands that we could get the longest is alive He is Charles Braggs possible time on the sandbank whom Tulsa officials also talked before the tide said Capt (with tonight by long-distance Other Holiday Dresses $598 to $1795 Also in North Kansas City adjoining the booth The bomb was similar to one that exploded two Sunday nights ago in the Radio City music hall injuring four persons Inter-American Economic conference Disagreements flared over the wording The producer nations would like to see a floor under coffee exports 819 were to 4500 815 were to 3500 MAKE IT A MINDLIN MAGIC CHRISTMAS! sheer wools wool jerseys and flannels orlon or rayon and worsted blends rayon flannels and gabardines rayon taffetas and failles dresses for street and daytime afternoon and date-time Willis Kusy 32 of Jennings Kas we touched down on the sands and stood by in the hope there would be survivors from the lightship for us to fly hack to the hospital As the tide came in the sands steadily became softer and the wheels of our helicopter began to settle" telephone He lives in Alabama City Ala He told them that they were married from 1921 to 1929 and had had five children one of whom died in childbirth and two others at about lt Both the latter he said he was told died unexpectedly and Suffered severe gastric upset At the time Say Christmas" TO THE CRIB CROWD downtown suburban on the plaza seleet group downtown only wool jorsayi rtyon taffot failles flannels eluding jumpers for dartime and date-time discontinued styles and one-of-a-kind to 3500 Capt Harold Melch 38 of I lie said he a railroad em Columbus who accompanied ployee and was away from jhome Two daughters are living Tulsa police are investigating1 one other aspect of the case1 There is a nebulous report that! Mrs Doss has had another hus-i band top down: sterling photo frame £500 were sterling goblet for baby 900 ALL SALES FINAL ENTIRE STOCKS NOT INCLUDED mmM WALNUT DRESS SALON ON THE PLAZAm PHONE YOUR set by Royal Doulton (England 1 Mifa VI 9873 1111 Walmat Want Ads Today Just Lift Your Receiver and Dial BA 5500 475 300 00 SEARS ROEBUCK A CO Wi SERVICE THE APPLIANCES WE SELL Far Repairs at a Minimum Sum Call 1500 ClavaEasM Ava II 700 500 Nichols VA 3550 3 pieces 4-pt pitcher egg cup set RETURNED 8 MILLION IN GFMS Maharajah Must Not Sell Them Without Government Approval New Delhi India Nov 28! Reuters) The Indian govern-! ment has returned 8 million dol- pars worth of jewels to the young Maharajah of Baroda on condition that he does not sell them without asking government permission it was learned here tonight The jewels were locked up on government orders in 1948 after rumors that the present maharajah's father had sent some of them abroad before he was deposed in 1951 A police guard! kept watch on the treasure for! six years An Indian government official! opened the seals to the treasury! of the palace at Baroda this week and confirmed that all jewels were there before handing them over to the 24-vear-old 1 maharajah icuna on the pinnacle of casual opulence 35000 SUPERBLY LOOMED BY EINIGER TO MATCH ITS ELEGANT LINES! VICUNA 8 TO 16 eoat shops BUY SLEDS AT PARKVIEW DRUGS NOW 500 Value Jack Frost SledO BQ Buy Now for Xmas Whilt Supply Lasts UitW It's Easy to Place YOUR WANT AD IN THE STAR add-a-pearl necklace: 14K gold chain and cultured pearls others from J875 prices INCLUDE fed tax on applicable items QUICK RESULTS LOW COST accara JEWELERS SINCE 1017 WaiNtrr Kansas Ctrt be STAR WANT ADS ARE WONDER WORKERS DAY IN THE WEEK A Newcomer memorial financed on budget terms mav -Adv I I i.

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