The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 1

THE KANSAS CITY STAR MAIN EDITION VOL 79 NO 127 KANSAS CITY JANUARY 22 THURSDAY-26 PAGES PRICE 7 CENTS THE NOT SO COLD SURRENDERS TO FACE BANK QUIZ NEW BUILDING FOR GAS FIRM DOCKING BARBS OVER A CAUCUS Panhandle Eastern Will Occupy 5-Story Structure ar 35th and Broadway 0 Legislators "Finally" Adopt Democrats' Program He Says On Inside Pages Ike Asks Party Effort 0 must work unceasingly Page 2 Storm Misery Is Wide Missing Since June 30 Hoyt is plunging in the Kas Man Gives Up at 7 flood ed areas Page 2 Holton Maxwell Blake Dies Re tired diplomat had a long Page 3 Other Deaths are on Page 8 To Drop License Suit Johnson assessor will not seek ruling Page 4 TO HELP HIS BROTHER Jeff Williams Asserts Orion Knew Nothing of $157000 Shortage 12 midnight 6 7 a 1 a 5 8 a 2 a 5 9 a 3 a 4 10 a 4 a 3 11 a Sam 3 12 noor 5:30 a 2 1 6am 3 2 Partly cloudy here tonight and tomorrow Not so cold tonight low to 15 High tomorrow near 30 Relative humidity 6 a 59 oer cent 1 53 per cent Barometer reading to a 3024 inches rising 1 3024 inches River stage today 16 feet rise of 3 of a foot Precipitation in 24 hours ending 6 a 04 AT COST OF 2 MILLION Vogue Theater Shops and Apartments on the Site Will Be Razed AH EDITOR IS TARGET Colvin of Manhattan Mercury Named as Possible Hatch Act Violator Panhandle Eastern LEAP SAVES HIS LIFE Pipe Line company to- day announced plans to JUMPS BEFORE occupy a 2-million-dol Vehicle Skids on Packed Snow Into Path of Freight Train By Ray Morgan (A Member el The Start Staff) Topeka Jan 22-1-Gov George Docking congratulated the Republican party this morning for having the Democratic for Kansas at its caucus of legislators yesterday Republican senators and representatives yesterday adopted a new program similar in many points to one already recommended by the governor in a message to the Legislature Made lar 5-story office building on the west side of Broadway between Thirty-fourth street terrace and Thirty-fifth street The 100000 square feet of office space will be operating headquarters for the large natural gas firm whose system extend from the Texas Panhandle to the Great Lakes and Canada It will house 400 employees here who now occupy nine floors of office space in the Midland building at Baltimore avenue 1221 Ernest Cruwell was south bound in his wrecker truck on Woodson road in Raytown on the way to pull a car out of a ditch about 8: 15 o'clock this morning He was almost to the Rock Island crossing when he spotted the freight train It was nearly upon the intersection Skids on Snow Holton Kas Jan 22 Jeff Williams cashier of the defunct lloy4 Kas State bank Angelcs Jan 22(AP( walked into the office of Zsa Zsa Gabor finally has set the county sheriff today the approximate date for her and gave himself up magc Hal 8 Ha7es-uf wealthy contractor Williams missmg smce June We will be marned in 30 has been charged with em- about three she said bezzlement in a $157000 last night as they arrived by shortage plane from Albuquerque Brother Accused where she had accompanied Hayes on a business trip When I heard what they She and Hayes denied tbeir were doing to my brother marriage plans had been held Orion I knew I had to come up by a dispute over whose in because I knew he knew house they live in after nothing of the Wil- the wedding Each has a beau-liams said tiful home Orion Williams president re going to build a new of the defunct bank is charged Zsa Zsa said with falsifying a statement to the state banking department PLANE CRASH KILLS and accepting deposits knowing the bank was insolvent Williams refused to say where he has been since he Alexandria La Jan 22 disappeared The sheriff Vic- APi A 4-engine Air Force Obley said Jeff 59 appeared refueling plane crashed and to be in good spirits burned today shortly after He had been the object of takeoff on routine training a widespread search since his mission England Air Force disappearance Holton is 16 base confirmed all six crew miles north of Hoyt in north- members were killed east Kansas Oblev said Williams walked Desperately the 23-year-old driver hit the brakes Although am extremely happy that i the truck had tire chains the The Republicans have seen fit and skidded on t0 adopt our Democratic the governor said slid 30 feet to- took them a long time to get On Lease Basis the packed snow The building of white wheels locked The truck speckled brick with a 10-foot ward tbe eastbound engine around to it but they finally green marble -7 it which made it PERHAPS HUMILIATING FOR A BIG AQUATIC BIRD TO BE RESCUED FROM A FLOOD In any event this big crane is struggling futilely against the firm grasp of the zoo worker shown carrying him to safety at the Cleveland zoo Water which backed up in Big Creek can be seen rushing into the zoo building at the bottom of the picture Last night 165 reptiles housed in the basement perished The creek traverses the zoo site Heavy rains have caused widespread floods in Ohio HIGH WILL BE NEAR 30 A IS PAINFUL IWOUNDED POLICE RESERVIST RESTS IN HOSPITAL was pulling 75 heavily terrazzo at ground level will loaded freight cars At his press conference be started about June 1 and Cruwell struggled to get out Governor Docking saM he eon- bu December of the overhead cab He got sidered it significant that one 1960 It will be built by the the door open and jurnped Al- thing missing from the pro- Kansas City Life Insurance most simuitaneously the truck gram adopted by the Republi-company owner of the prop- and engine coUidedJ can legislators was a pledge ph 01ftia ease t0 As Cruwell was jumping for a combination of the sales an lanaie away from the direction of and general tax funds eJazAe or Pr0'ec the train the impact swung! combination a year will be the Vogue theater not the wrecker around age would have given the now operating and another The driver was struck and in- state more than $4850000 ui mg containing a grocery jured by part 0f tbe wreckage more to work with during the drug store flower shop and His rjgbt boot was torn off as 12-month he said apartments he hurtled to the top of an is a high price for the the 200 bv 100-foot struc- embankment and rolled into a people of Kansas to pay in ture iU be bounded on the dncb by tbe tracks order to allow Sen Paul south by the Kansas City Life cab Is Crushed Wunsch to retain his political block and on the north by a iaHprchin building under construction he ca were Cruwell had for Interstate Securities com- been nding was crushed as Incident in Manhattan pany The Broadway apart- tbe train dragged it 65 feet The governor also called at-ments immediately south of doo the tracks scattering tention to two incidents at Thirty-fifth are now heing parts for another 100 yards Kansas State college and the into his office about 10:30 a and said: I hear been looking for Russell Beckman Is Only Auxiliary Officer Shot in 17 Years Obley immediately served a warrant charging Williams ane was ln trouble and he with embezzlement of at least was returning to the field $10000 from the bank Obley said he with Williams but did not question him formally while awaiting the arrival of Kansas Bureau Washington Jan 22 (AP) Downtown Streets Nearly Clear Streets in the downtown district of Kansas City were clear and drying this afternoon after the combination effect of motor vehicle traffic and concentrated effort by snow-removal crews North-south streets more heavily-traveled by trucks and cars than east-west streets were virtually back to normal Some slush remained on the numbered (east-west) streets but not enough to affect the move-! ment of traffic the weather bureau that this Sidewalks and crosswalks surge will slide off to the east also were nearing normal Thus warmer air will prevail but overshoes still were in this immediate area though useful because of spotted the snow coverage will keep patches of slush temperatures from rising dis- much) if any above 30 de- a SCHOOL IS LOOTED jrees Argentina Frondizi replied clouds wm Form that economic matters were! Skies will be only partly mentioned only in very razed for landscaping A Paiking Area President Arturo Frondizi of Argentina today conferred with President Eisenhower Frondizi who arrived here Tuesday said most of his 20-minute visit at the White House was devoted to a discussion of relations between our two countries and Apparently because the col-University of Kansas one of lision broke the brake line which he said may place on the engine the train trav- A Colvin managing editor of Parking will be provided for eied about half a mile beforejthe Manhattan Mercury in more than 200 cars engineer Leeman Fergu- violation of the Hatch act Earl Clark jr ls the son of Eldon Mo was able Governor Docking said his architect and the Collins Con-j0 stop jL investigations had indicated struction company the con- tractor milesliam Albert Colvin who of Investigation agents Closed in July The Hoyt bank was closed by the state banking department July 5 after Williams disappeared Williams accompanied his attorneys Elwin Pomeros and Fred Karmen both of To- By Ed Shook (A Member of The Staff) In a bed on the fifth floor at Menorah hospital is a man who has broken a 17-year record but he very proud of his accomplishment The man is Russell Beckman a husky 33-year-old radio and television technician The record? He is the first member of the police reserve corps to have been shot in the line of duty His First Trouble has even taken a poke at me said the affable Beckman who has been riding police cars since train was going 32 to 35 Among the construction peka waived his arraignment their importance in interamer before Judge I Winters Funk ican affairs Bond was fixed at S15000 He was informed that it Asked whether they cussed any new credits in October 1956 Burglars last night entered But Monday night was a different story Beckman was wounded in the chest by a would-be holdup Mohawk grade school Sixty-seventh street and Lamar Johnson County and avenue took about $45 according to man when he attempted to John Kenyan Mission town- question the mand and a corn-ship police chief panion in a dark driveway be- The money a collection hind 3449 Indiana avenue A made for the March of Dimes 32-caliber bullet pierced the was taken from a file cabinet! edge of his right lung but in the office of Esther Lau- did not lodge in his body guille principal of the school Barring complications the Entrance to the building lung will heal and Beckman was gained by prying open a who lives at 1129 White ave-door to the lounge nue will be released from A locked door to the prin- the hospital next week doc-cipal's office also broken tors said gen- eral terms cloudy through tomorrow An overnight low of nine PLAN 18TH STREET FETE degrees below zero was re- ji ported from Olathe while Chamber of Commerce to there were readings in the Sponsor Program Feb 17 Leawood area as low as six below zero No rush hour traffic tieups were reported to police today because of snow Main thoroughfares had been cleared enough that driving conditions were greatly improved over the last two days One Light Is Faulty nounced yesterday The only traffic jam rec- A reception and dinner in orded by police occurred be-! PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPE LINE COMPANY will occupy this 5-story office building on Broadway north of Thirty-fifth street as a new operating headquarters at a cost of 2 million dollars The structure will be of white speckled brick with a 10-foot band of dark green marble terrazzo at ground level open Although rays have failed honor of the guests will be cause of defective signal lights HELD OV THFFT CHARGE t0 other wounds Beck- features of the building will an hour at the time of the sponsored bv the chamber al 71 and Bannister road on theft chargx man believes he was shot be a sun control arrangement collision that night at the Town HouseCars in both lanes were backed Uuth Accused of Taking S3o twice As evidence of that fact 0n the east and west windows Cruwell who is a partner From Cafe ihe held up two sweaters one consisting of 8-inch extruded in the Larson Motor Wrecker gray and one white Ben Craig jr assistant cham-lup during the peak morning said until and aluminum tubing service 12100 East 40 Jeff Williams A warrant charging Lester Lee Fanning 17 357 North Pointed t0 tiny holes in flush with the edge of the independence was taken to her manager period repairs were made Area highways and roads could not be a personal bond and after consultation with his attorneys he went back to the nQr pauj wunscli presi- lhe Shenff a a dent pro tern of the Senate Williams appeared well fed Tentative acceptances have Jess each garment by He feels he owes his life to Tenth street Kansas City Kansas with petty larceny was issued yesterday by the Wyan- listed on the payroll of KansM State college at a S200-a-month salary as a news bureau Instructor He said Colvin had been on the payroll since September 1958 this is a land grant coll ge I am wondering if he is not in violation of the Hatch act with some of the partisan editorials he has the governor said Colvin could not be reached immediately for comment Governor Docking said he had also learned that Grant Hulse Wagner whom he iden- still covered with snow and ice in places were open for building and angled to exclude the Independence hospital sunlight X-rays revealed he had suf- The building also will have fered a double fracture of the a high velocity gas absorption upper right leg but there was heating and air-conditioning no evidence of internal in-system The combination heat- juries He also received severe ing and air conditioning dif- facial lacerations His condi-fusion system using fluores- tion was listed as fair cent light fixtures as the m- Marion Beeler Raytown po-tegral unit will be the first of lice chief said the fact that and Rep Taylor speaker the House according to leaned on the arm of ore of En swortb Green jr chamber urban and city residential dis-his attorneys as he entered the normal traffic Some secondary roads and streets in sub- still presented driving dotte County office jthe sweaters which he put on He is accused of stealing under his tan police shirt as $35 Monday night from a cafe protection against the 27-demanager jtricts at 1302 Minnesota avenue weather The 19-million-dollar traf-j difficulties where he formerly was em- guess one of the bullets fieway was opened December Another full day and night ployed Fanning was arrested yvas stopped by all the cloth-31 in a brief ribbon-cutting oi snow removal was ordered early Tuesday by St Joseph he explained '1 was the truck cab was crushed in- (Continued on Second Page) Mo police ceremonv dicated that Cruwell tified as the son-in-law of Sen 44 Dies Over a $50 Debt pretty Beckman said he joined the 120-man reserve corps because he felt it was his duty to be prepared to contribute to the civil defense effort should the need arise As a reserve recruit he its kind here A separate air conditioning system will service areas which are in 24-hour use Plan for Future The building will be expandable for future additions and will have movable metal parti August Lauterbach Republican chairman of the Senate ways and means commit- was on the payroll of university at $350 a as a research assistant is interesting to note this same individual was the payroll of the university last year as manager of married student dormito-he said doubtedly saved his by jumping EGAN IS COMFORTABLE Alaska Governor Shows Some Further Improvement Seattle Jan 22 (AP) William A Egan Alaska's Democratic governor who has been hospitalized since his inauguration was reported resting nes tee Kansas month that on the underwent a 4-month training tions and light-air conditioning course in first aid and fire- fixtures for maximum flex-arms before donning a regu- ibility permitting the addition lar police uniform for patrol or removal of offices without work structural changes Three ele- (According to Capt Lewis vators will be installed Wyatt head ot tbe reserve Ebasco Services Inc New York engineering firm will be force a total of 337470 hours courtroom No preliminary hearing date has been set Karmen has been Mrs Williams's attorney in all litigation arising from her disappearance Pome roy is new in the case He Says Little Delbert Braum editor of the Jackson County Clipper here said Williams told him he came back when he heard about his brother Orion being sued for the bank shortage said his brother Orion knew nothing about the shortage and that he want to say anything more until talked with his Braum reported Orion Williams was arrested October 2 on a charge of filing a false financial statement on the condition of the bank He later was named in nine new charges in an amended complaint filed in district court here by John state banking commissioner Four charges allege Orion Williams filed four false statements on the bank's condition of a 2-year period The other (Continued on Second Page) Newcomer's prearranged Funeral Plan save you money! Adv comfortably today Egan given only a 50-50 NO PLOW AVAILABLE consultant or space utilization chance to recover when he was city Dispatcher Cuts One Snow A cafeteria on the ground operated on for a bowel ob-since 1953 when a state lauloor will seat 400 persons struction and paralysis of tile was passed giving them full On the roof will be a micro- abdomen showed some lm-police powers while on duty wave tower as part of Pan- provement yesterday Before that the group was handle Eastern's extensive noon of police work has been ex pended by reserve officers moval crews worked through FERNANDO Calif Jan 22 (AP) a 1 (Alfalfa) Switzer 32 years old a freckle-faced wide-eyed movie star as a boy was shot to death last night Police said the shooting occurred during an argument with another man over money Switzer was a favorite of moviegoers a generation ago when he appeared in and lar comedies He became known again with re-issue of the films to television under the title Little But in recent years his movie parts had been minor and he worked as a bartender and hunting guide when not acting He realized Continued on Second Page) communications system a i Lw hori night sending out plows The company with execu Dr Joel Baer head gnd trucks and bandijng hun- tive offices in New York has of the surgical team which dredg Qf tdephone calls Then had its operating headquarters performed the operation said hig wifg called up t0 report here since it was established GROTEWOHL IN PEIPING car is stuck in the in 1929 Before moving to the1 London Jan 22APi Otto driveway known as an auxiliary police unit and carried weapons only occasionally No Pay for Duty Like his fellow reserve officers Beckman receives no pay and because of the nature of his regular occupation he rides only once a week I (Continued on Second Page Sands Florai Co 1006 Grand Ave Phone VI 2-1793 Adv Midland building in 1940 offices were in the Fairfax and Dwight buildings Supplier to Utilities Carl Switzer is seen at left as of comedies mae years ago and at right in a recent photograph (Wirephotosj German bother me now" today by Wadelich said have to special plane in Peiping The get it out Communist Chinese radio said Dlal BA pU your One of the largest Premier Chou en-Lai headed star want Ad sav cent a un each day bv placing the ada for 3 (Continued on second Page) OlllCial greeting party or more consecutive daya Adv Mellodx-McGlUey-Eylar Funeral Llnw'd-Mam Linw'd-Woodl'd-Adv pay no more Put Broadway Motors 34th-B Save parking worries ride with safety Yellow Cab GR 1-5000-Adv ret more wy-Adv.