The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 1

MAIN EDITION THE KANSAS CITY STAR PRICE 7 CENTS KANSAS CITY MARCH 6 1961-MONDAY-22 PAGES VOL 81 NO 170 FURY IN LAKE TWISTER Tornado Apparently Slams Into Lake of Ozarks Boatyard Facility Twice Loss Is Estimated at $200000 TO ANDREWS BID Governor Anderson Denies Executive Clemency to Former Student Who Killed His Parents and Sister ONE MOVE LEFT GET LITTLE WARNING TO FLEE Four Persons Are Trapped in Their Home but No One Is Injured 10 to 15 Boats Are Lost or Sunk Chief Executive Says Case Could Be Carried to Federal Court A 30-Dav Stav For Andrews Being Sought A 30-DAY stay of execution of Lowell Lee Andrews will be sought bv one of his defense attorneys Buford Braly Braly said today in Kansas City Kansas that he Lightning Bolt Brings a Call To Quick Halt MISS SHEILA McCABE 21 of 922 North Forty-seventh street terrace Kansas City Kansas suffered burns of the right arm mouth and neck and a punctured eardrum late yesterday when lightning struck her heme as she was talking on the telephone A bolt apparently hit the northeast corner of the house A cable there was burned out although the house was not damaged I can remember is it knocked me on the floor and I said Miss McCabe She was treated at Providence hospital Her father Elwood Mc-cabe said that when he tried to call the telephone company to have the telephone repaired he found that several of his telephones were also out of order Officials at the telephone company said that about 12 phones in that area were reported out of order after the incident All were working today they said EXECUTION DATE NEAR Wyandotte County Youth Is Scheduled to Be Hanged After Midnight Wednesday NAME MESSINA IN ARSON PLOT ATTENDING TO HIS OWN PROBLEMS Kirk Mathison 2 years old digs his tricycle out from under a 7-inch snowfall that hit the Minneapolis-St Paul area last night Meanwhile his dad Don Mathison does the same with the family motor car The snow piled on top of Saturday's four inches made driving hazardous (Wirephoto) Pettis County Officials Accuse Kansas Citian in Se-dalia Case Late News at a Glance FUNDS TO FIGHT CRIME SOUGHT INTO SHERIFF CUSTODY Defendant Surrenders at Office Here Released on $3500 Bond Kennedy Asks 11 Million More for the Justice Department COURT REJECTS APPEAL Lowell Lee Andrews London Elizabeth Taylor dangerously ill with pneumonia has developed anemia and is being given blood transfusions her doctors reported tonight New York Holy Cross a streaking team on a 9-game winning string was selected today to play in the National Invitation (N I T) basketball tournament Washington A Navy task force has been turned back from a good-will voyage and sent back to Congolese waters to be available in case the United Nations LEVER ON DELINQUENCY Of the Total $618000 Is Ear marked to Help Youthful Offenders needs help there the State department said today Newark Judge Richard Hartshorne in federal court today signed an order dismissing with prejudice an 8-year-old civil anti-trust suit against leaders in the soap industry Sao Paulo An Iberia Airlines Super Constellation crashed on landing here today First reports said there were no deaths among the 33 passengers and nine crew members Iberia is a Spanish air line Twelve Arrested in Tallahas see Demonstration Face Fines or Jail NO REASON IS GIVEN It Is the First Such Plea to Reach the Tribunal Action Is Unanimous By John Ratterman (A Member of The Stars Staff) Gravois Mills Mo March 6 Damage was estimated at $200000 early today at the tornado-ravaged scene of one of the largest boatyards on the Lake of the Ozarks The tornado appar-" ently struck with double-barreled fury about 11 last night wrecking buildings boats and docks at the Page Boat Yard The yard is on the Gravois arm of the lake about six miles south of Gravois Mills hit twice I know how but it hit said Charles Page owner No One Hurt No one was injured although Page his wife and 8-year-old daughter Charlene Page and Francis (Mickey) Brennan of 2013 Ralston ave nue Independence were in a 2-story building The Page family quarters on the second floor were damaged heavily Page and Brennan are partners in the Page Boy Marine company at Hickman Mills Five boat storage buildings were wrecked and 10 to 15 boats were ripped out of one of the buildings and or on the lake Page said About 25 boats in a shed were damaged and about 50 boat docks and wells were demolished Three houseboats that were torn loose from their moorings were found on the lake and returned to the yard They were only slightly damaged Page said the majority of the boats at the yard are owned by Kansas Citians and some are cruisers valued as high as $30000 The boats lost wefe among the smaller ones 14 to 15 feet in length estimating my own loss at $100000 and the loss to my customers at Page said have only about $20000 worth of With Little Warning He said his insurance did not apply to his losses but added that boat owners usually have their owm insurance The only warning of the ap proach of the tornado was an unusually high wind accompanied by lightning and thun der Page said were scared to tell the he said grabbed my daughter and ran down- stairs and threw myself over her Brennan came down stairs too but my wife make it She had been in another room and I guess she was looking for our The first blow by the tornado tore the roof off the house and showered the interior with glass wife was trapped up- (Continued on Page 2) Ralph Messina former restaurant owner surrendered today on a Pettis County Missouri warrant charging him with the attempted arson of a 3-story office building in downtown Sedalia Mo Messina w'as named in the warrant as the mystery man Abe Rosen who rented quarters in the building Fifteen containers of gasoline with fuse fastened to one of them were found before they could turn the old structure into an inferno Surrenders to Sheriff Messina understood that he was being sought and went to the Jackson County office where he surrendered He was taken to the county jail fingerprinted and then taken to the Magistrate court of Stuart Blackburn Magistrate Gnefkow presided in the absence Blackburn and entered a technical plea of not guilty for Messina A bond for $3500 was made returnable next Monday in Sedalia Nick DePasco a professional bondsman posted the bond and Messina left the courthouse Messina lives at 401 East Seventy-third street Says Innocent totally innocent Messina said today know what all Messina said he was eager to go with his attorney to Sedalia to face witnesses who have identified him to prove ho is not Abe Rosen and would be glad to appear before anybody Messina has never been convicted of a felony but his police record shows more than 15 arrests He was charged twice in arson cases Other charges include robbery gambling illegal liquor sales and narcotics violation During more than eight (Continued on Page 2) CRASH INJURES PUPILS Group Was Traveling to New York Exhibition New York March 6 LAP) A chartered bus carrying 39 New Jersey school children to the flower show here collided with a city transit bus today Thirteen children and three adults were injured but none On Inside Pages Nine Die in Crash of KB-50 2 Gives Up in Congo Port 2 Gordon Siddens an Attorney General Aide 3 Judge Dismisses Seven Counts in Milk Case 3 Tornadoes Kill Four Heavy Snow to North 5 was trying to contact Gov John Anderson by telephone going to ask him for a 30-day stay of execution so that Andrews can make arrangements for any possible court Braly said Braly that he felt he had completed his duty in the case Harry Hayward the other defense attorney said: far as I'm concerned it's closed It could be taken to federal court if some constitutional question were involved but I do not think there Robert Foster Wyandotte County attorney said that he would stand on his statement made at the executive clemency hearing last week that he saw no error in the trial and thinks the verdict of the jury should be carried out Mrs Andrews 5640 Wolcott drive Wyandotte County an aunt of Andrews said the family contemplated no further legal action By Alvin McCoy (The Star's Kansas Correspondent) Topeka March 6 Gov John Anderson to day denied the application for executive clemency by Lowell Lee Andrews 20 former University of Kansas student who killed his parents and sister November 29 1958 The Kansas Supreme court has ordered execution by hanging at the State penitentiary in Lansing between midnight and 2 Thursday morning A hearing was held before the governor in his office Friday Attorneys and relatives appeared to urge the governor to commute the sentence to life imprisonment Sentence Is Sustained In a brief statement today the governor said he could find no reason why the judgment of the court should not be carried out He immediately notified Col Guy Rexroad director of penal institutions that the application had been denied and that the warden of the penitentiary should be notified immediately The governor also said he would notify Harry Hayward of Kansas City Kansas the Wyandotte County attorney by telephone promptly Governor Anderson a lawyer said that this action means that Andrews has exhausted his remedies in the state courts He added that there is always a possibility that the matter could be taken to a federal court Attorneys who requested that the governor give a life sentence rather than death asserted that Andrews is mentally sick and that while the court found no error either in the legal proceedings or the medical testimony the state policy should be to grant life so that psychiatrists could study such offenders After Reading Transcript The governor told newsmen that he had finished reading the entire record in the case over the weekend and that he had arrived at his decision this morning He said he had had considerable correspondence in the matter The governor said he had found justifiable reason from the application and the presentation thereof for overturning the verdict rendered by the jury which was approved by the supreme court on and that judgment of the court should be carried During his campaign against former Gov George Docking Anderson asserted that he w'ould not seek to overrule the verdict of the juries and the courts The issue of capital punishment appeared in the campaign to some extent Docking made it known that he was opposed in principle to capital punishment and commuted one death sentence to life imprisonment Three other persons have been (Continued on Page 2) Washington March 6 (AP) The Supreme court today unanimously refused to act on an appeal by 12 persons arrested during two demonstrations at a white lunch counter in Tallahassee Fla It was the first time the high tribunal had been asked to rule on a case growing out of a wave of sit-in demonstra tions in the South The court gave no reason for its refusal to act on the appeal It merely listed the case among a group of appeals in which it denied hearings The 12 persons who ap pealed had sat at a counter in an Woolworth company store in Tallahassee Eight of those who appealed are Negroes The others are white persons Each was sentenced in Tallahassee municipal court to pay S300 fine or serve 90 days in jail The demonstrations occurred February 20 and March 12 1960 53-year-old a of of Washington March 6 (AP) President Ken nedy today asked Congress to give the Justice department $1158000 more to step up its drive against organized crime and racketeering: and to intensify the fight on juvenile delinquency The money was requested for use during the fiscal year starting next July 1 The White House said that $540000 of the total request was to permit the Justice criminal division to engage more attorneys for the drive against crime and racketeering This would be in addition to the $15120000 originally requested for general legal activities of the Justice department Kennedy requested an increase of $618000 for the bureau of prisons to expand the fight on juvenile delinquency The original request for that general activities was 46 million dollars prime objective of this the White House said be to help juvenile and youthful offenders about to be released from federal institutions return to normal community life ill be placed on vocational training counseling and job placement Juvenile and youthful offenders in federal institutions now number 5000 and the number is in creasing annually A great step forward in combating juvenile delinquency can be achieved through successful redirection and re-education of this most vulnerable The quickest way to find it or sell it is through a Star want ad Dial Ba 1-5500- Adv JAP LEADER TO VISIT In June Prime Minister Will Confer With Kennedy Tokyo March 7 (Tuesday) (AP) Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda will visit Washington from June 20 to 22 to confer with President Kennedy and other government leaders One of the main topics the Japanese leader wants to take up with the President is Communist China Ikeda wants to sound out the American attitude on recognition of Red China and influence in Asia MORE RAIN IS FORECAST High Reading Tomorrow Will Be in the 40s FORD LAYS OFF 1300 Passenger Car Line Workers Here Are Furloughed A layoff of 1300 hourly workers on the passenger car line at the Ford Claycomo assembly plant began today A spokesman said the production stoppage would continue through the week No decision has been made on when the employees will be called back he said Work on the truck line is continuing B-O-P to Close Later General Motor officials said today that the Buick-Oldsmo-bile-Pontiac plant in the Fairfax district would be closed down for a week beginning next Monday About 1700 production employees will be affected PETER LAWFORD RESTS Palm Springs Calif March 6(AP) Peter a brother-in-law of President Kennedy is recuperating in a hospital from a severe nose bleed BISHOP IS STERN NEEDLE ILLEGAL So Tribunal Voids Convictions of Three Gamblers Anti-lntegrationists Receive Warning at Charleston Charleston March 6 Plans by Catholic parents for a meeting tonight to discuss opposition to integration of parochial schools have brought a warning from Bishop Paul Hallinan Bishop Hallinan said few Catholics who persist in acting against the teachings cannot expect that their membership in the church will indefinitely remain Washington March 6(AP) The Supreme court today threw out the gambling convictions of three men because police obtained evidence by driving a into the wall of a house The high court held unanimously that this amounted to unauthorized physical pene- (Continued on Page 2) Occasional rain is expected tomorrow with little change in the temperature tonight and tomorrow the weather bureau reported today The high tomorrow is expected to be in the 40s the low' tonight in the 30s There will be considerable cloudiness through tomorrow A trace of rain was recorded after midnight at the Municipal Air Terminal after a rainfall of 9 of an inch last night The Kansas City rain table: Rain last night 90 Rain this month 90 Excess 63 Precipitation this year 339 Excess 53 Precipitation last year to date 449 Excess 163 A 45-minute power failure in Lee's Summit last night originally attributed to a bolt of lightning was caused by a cat a spokesman for the Missouri Public Service company said today It was believed at first a substation in Summit was struck by lightning But today employees found a large male cat had come in contact with two high-voltage wires about 20 feet above the ground The cat was killed The quickest way to find it or sell it is through a Star want ad Dial Ba 1-5500- Adv Jaywalking Is Still Illegal --and Dangerous THE RAIN TOMORROW WALK HERE-FACING TRAFFIC Considerable cloudiness is forecast for Kansas City and its surrounding area tonight and tomorrow with occasional rain tomorrow The low temperature reading will be in the 30s tonight followed by a high in the 40s tomorrow SIDEWALK JAYWALKING still is illegal downtown as it is anywhere else in the city and you can be given a traffic ticket for it Sgt Frank Kohler head of the police safety education unit is disturbed to discover that many people believe the city council last November 23 repealed the ordinance against downtown jaywalking Kohler and the other members of his unit spoke before 114000 persons last year at school civic industry and business meetings so he knows what people are thinking about in the traffic safety field What the council did following complaints of discrimination by merchants was to repeal ordinance 54480 which made it an automatic offense to cross a street other than in a crosswalk in the central traffic district This is the area from Sixth street to Truman road Oak street to Wyandotte street But still very much in force is ordinance 58510 which provides that every pedestrian crossing a street other than in a crosswalk shall yield the right of way to all vehicles THIS means that a pedestrian crossing in midblock whether downtown or anywhere else is in violation if he causes a motorist to slow down swerve or stop to avoid striking him Kohler said And crossing in midblock advisable anywhere he added The pedestrian traffic record in fact has improved considerably along with the over-all traffic pattern from the deplorable toll of 1960 when 32 pedestrians were killed So far this year there have been only two deaths as against 10 at this time in 1960 Injuries have numbered 39 as against 81 a year ago Last year's tragic mark prompted an intensified police (Continued on Page 2) pedestrian A WALK HERE IJl -WW trend seems to be toward bigger bugs and following suit the Volkswagen manufacturers are going to build a larger model PAGE MARKERS Society 6 News a 6 Sports 7- 8 11 Financial News 12-13 Bill Moore 19 Comies-Features 19 Goren on Bridge 19 Editorial Page 20 Movies 13 TV 21 The quickest way to find it or sell it is through a Star want ad Rial Ba 1-5500- Adv 1 a 2 a 3 a 4 a 5 a 6 a 36 7 a 36 8 a 36 11 SHOULDER CITY ORDINANCES involving pedestrians are diagrammed in these sketches Section 58470 prohibits a pedestrian even in a crosswalk or other place of safety from leaving the curb so suddenly that an approaching motorist cannot stop Remember that at 20 miles an hour it takes 43 feet to stop on a dry surface and at 40 miles an hour 172 feet SECTION 58470 further provides that a motorist making a turn must yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk who is on the half of the roadway Such turning movements at intersections resulted in two deaths and 72 injuries last year with failure to yield right of way on the part of either the driver or walker responsible in nearly every ease STILL IN EFFECT is the basic jaywalking ordinance 58510 providing that a pedestrian crossing a street other than in a crosswalk is in violation if a car must slow down swerve or stop in order to avoid striking him USE SIDEWALKS wherever available Section 58530 orders and on those streets where there are none a pedestrian walking along the roadway should stay on the shoulder on the left side of the street facing traffic Relative humidity 6 a 77 per cent 1 57 per cent Barometer reading 6 a 2969 inches rising 1 2991 inches rising River stage today 56 feet rise of 5 of a foot Lake of the Ozarks 6 a 4 feet below full reservoir Precipitation in 24 hours ending 6 a 90.