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Carroll Daily Times Herald Vol. 292 Carroll, Iowa, Tuesday, December Pages by carrier Boy, to Van, Each for 80 fVt Carl Hess Heads Building Committee- Plan Construction of New SS. Peter Paul School Speeding Auto McGrath Defends Caudles Plane Deal as 'Proper Carries Three Teens to Death Bought 18 Cans Beer, Car Going 85, Says Lone' Survivor FLAINFIKLD, I A. (JP) A speeding car carrying four teenagers crashed through the rail of a bridge into 18 feet of water late last night, killing three of the young people. The dead were identified by Bremer County Coroner Harry Cleveland as: Wllma Bumgartcmer, 16, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. William Bumgartemer of Flainfleld. Her sinter, Berdlrie, 15. Larry Cad am, 1.8, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Francis Cadam of Clarksvllle. Gerald Rutter, 17, son of Mr, and Mrs. George Rutter, also of Clarksville, was thrown clear of the car Into the icy water. He told authorities he broke through the Ice and had to smash the ice above his head with his hands before he could get out. His only Injury was a cut hand.

State Highway Patrol Lt. James Machholz said Rutter told him the young people had been to Horton, northeast of Waverly, and were returning to Platnfleld at the time of the accident. He quoted Rutter as saying Cadam was driving and had remarked just before the crash that the 1889 model car was "going 80 miles an hour." Machholz said Rutter also reported that he had purchased six cans ot beer and Cadam IZ, cans at a Hortdn tavern. Bremer County Sheriff Harlcy Ehlert said he would Investigate the alleged -selling of beer to minors. The accident occurred a mile east of Plainfield on gravel Highway 188, where It crosses a backwater of the Cedar river.

Plainfield is located about 35 miles northwest of Waterloo. The road was widened recently, authorities said, but the bridge, a narrow wooden structure, had not yet been replaced with a wider one. Machholz quoted Rutter as saying Cadam was driving and that Berdine was in the front seat with him. Rutter and Wilma were in the back seat. The patrol lieutenant said something apparently caused Cadam to lose control of the car.

It careened across the road and crashed through the bridge rail on the south side. The Weather CARROLL FORECAST Cloudy and colder this afternoon and tonight, with light snow flurries. Northwesterly winds 25 mph partly cloudy with snow flurries, not quite so cold Wednesday. Low tonight near 15. High Wednesday 28.

IOWA FORECAST Cloudy and colder today. High temperatures in the 20's. Northwesterly winds 20-80 mph this afternoon with light snow southeast and snow flurries elsewhere. Cloudy anl cold tonight and Wednesday. Light snow north portion tonight and snow flurries most of the state Wednesday.

Low tonight 15 east and extreme northwest to 20 elsewhere. High Wednesday 25 northwest, 30-35 southeast. Further Outlooks Thursday partly cloudy and colder. IOWA 5-DAY OUTLOOK Temperatures will average about three degrees below normal. Normal high 32, normal low 15.

Colder Thursday and Friday with brief warming Saturday. Colder again Sunday. Precipitation will average one-tenth of an inch or less as snow or snow flurries Saturday and Sunday. The Weather In Carroll Yesterday's high 40 At 7 a. m.

today 23 At 10:30 a. ny today 24 Precipitation (24 hours prior to 7 a. Trace snow Weather A Year Ago Skies were cloudy a year ago today. ranged from B6fco3C Henry Pflttter Pf iester to Fill Vacancy On Park Board Henry Pfiester was elected by unanimous ballot of the city council last night to fill the vacancy created by the death of John P. Minchen.

Mr. Minchen was elected in 1950 to a six-year term. In other action last night, the council transferred $2,243.23 from the emergency fund to the consolidated fund. Several members of the council, the park commissioners and the Carroll county board of supervisors will meet Friday to discuss cleaning out of Drain No. 77 between Grant road and Graham park property.

E. E. Osborne Heads Copestone E. B. Osborne was named high priest of Copestone chapter No.

78, R.A.M., for the ensuing year at the annual election of officers in the Masonic temple last night. Also elected were: Russell A. Mason of Lake City, king; Verdis Hansen, scribe; C. A. Mason of Westside, principal sojourner; John Oeser of Westside, captain of the host; H.

C. Hoft of Wall Lake, royal arch captain; Dr. T. H. Van Camp of Breda, master of the third veil; W.

V. Geake of Wall Lake, master of the second veil; Paul Van Pelt, master of the first veil; E. E. Lyon, sentinel; T. B.

Wills, treasurer, and R. M. Kuebler, secretary. A potluck dinner for members and their families in the temple dining room preceded the meeting. 2 Mothers, Seven Children Die in Fire SUMMERVILLE, S.

C. Two mothers and their seven children burned to death early today as fire destroyed their rural four-room bungalow. An elderly couple, said to be grandparents of the children, suffered burns. They were taken to Summervllle hospital. RETURN FROM RITES Mrs.

John Bruggeman and Mr. and Mrs. Leland Bruggeman of Carroll and Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Subbert of Glidden have returned from Auburn, where they attended funeral services for Mrs.

Henry Lampe. Mrs, Lampe, sister- in-law of Mrs. Bruggeman, was an aunt of Leland Bruggeman and Mrs. Subbert. But He Doesn't Condone Some Other Activities Attorney-General Called Before Tax ers to Testify WASHINGTON, D.

C. Attorney-General J. Howard McGrath testified today that President Truman fired T. Lamar Caudle on his own motion and without giving McGrath a "bill of particulars." McGrath added: "As far as I ever knew or could find out, LaMar Caudle was honest." WASHINGTON, D. C.

ijp) Attorney-General J. Howard McGrath today defended the propriety of a $5,000 commission received by T. Lamar Caudle on an airplane sale but conceded it was a "unique case." As for some of the other activities of his ousted former assistant attorney-general, McGrath said: "I hold no brief for any indiscretions of which Mr. Caudle may have been guilty, nor do I presume to pass judgment on him." The cabinet official was called before a house ways and means sub committee investigating tax scandals and the administration of the justice department tax division, formerly beaded by Caudle. McGrath said he had not the "slightest doubt" of the propriety of Caudle's having accepted the $5,000 paid Mm as commission sale of a $80,000 airplane to Larry Knohl, associate of the two New then under indictment on charges of tax fraud.

Rep. Kean, (R-NJ) asked if payment of such a large amount to a government official in a private transaction was "not unusual." "It never happened before," McGrath replied. "It was a unique case?" asked Kean. "Yes," McGrath responded. The $5,000 payment was approved by McGrath when Caudle asked him last tember If It was all right to accept it.

Caudle testified that McGrath said it would be OK to take the money since Caudle had a large family. It was handed to Caudle by A. W. A. Stonnell, owner of a plane sold to Knohl.

At that time, Knohl was helping prepare the defense of Samuel Aaron and Jacob Freidus, New York business men who were convicted in October of evading income taxes. Tone Apologizes to Columnist, Is Fined BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. Tone today pleaded guilty to a charge of battery upon Columnist Florabel Muir she said he spat on publicly apologized before a courtroom containing about 70 persons. He was then given a suspended 45- day jail sentence, placed on probation for one year and fined $400. ASKS FOR PAPERS DBS MOINES, LA- Rep.

J. E. Hansen (D-Dedham) asked for nomination papers for re-election to a fourth term. Ask Student Council Action On Racial Incident at Iowa U. IOWA CITY, IA.

(a of nine state University of Iowa campus groups have voted to seek Student council action because the campus newspaper and' radio station were slow in publicizing an alleged incident of racial discrimination by a sorority. However, the campus chapter of United World Federalists said it would not join in the move if the Young Progressives took part. The incident arose when Phi Gamma Nu, professional sorority ot the Commerce college, voted not to "rush" a Negro girl, Owen Moore, of Manly. The president of the sorority, Mrs. Grace Marken, Manley, then resigned in protest and another girl, Pat Vannice, 20, of West Liberty, declined an invitation to join the group.

Miss Vannice wrote a letter to the Daily Iowan, the student newspaper, discussing the situation. She said the lowftit and Radio Station WSUI declined to give her letter immediate publicity, James MacNair of Newton, editor of the Iowan, has said he did not want to print the story, until the paper had verified the facta. The letter was published last Thursday. Organizations at yesterday's meeting yesterday were the Young Republicans, Young Democrats, Young Progressives, United World Federalists, Student council, YMCA Gfogroittee on Racial Equality, YMCA Committee on Peace, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Coordinating Committee on Aaplicattoas. At Odds On P0W Trade SEOUL, KOREA DEC.

12 UP) jet pilots probably destroyed two Russian-made MIG-15's and damaged two others in two flashing air battles over northwest Korea Tuesday, the Fifth Air force Bald. MUNSAN, KOREA, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12 ni I truce negotiators Tuesday withdrew a tentative offer to allow Allied rotation of troops In Korea and pressed for a flat release of all war prisoners after an armistice is signed. MUNSAN, KOREA (JP) Truce negotiators discussed exchange of war prisoners today for the first time and immediately tangled on how to do it. The communists proposed all prisoners be released by both sides when an Armistice is reached.

The United Nations insisted on a "fair and equitable" exchange, which was interpreted as a man- for-man swap. The prisoner question was taken up by a two-man subcommittee (one from each side) a few minutes after the communists capitulated to Allied insistence that the subject be tackled now. Simultaneously, the Red negotiators intimated they would agree to continued rotation of troops and to two other Allied demands if the United Nations command would agree to neutral behind-the-lines inspection during a Korean armistice. Later the tentative offer was withdrawn without the Allies saying how they felt about it. The Red concessions rekindled hopes of a possible truce by Christmas.

The RedB complained that a U. plane bombed and strafed the security area surrounding their Kaesong headquarters. But it appeared the incident would be smoothed over. Neither side seemed desirous of making it a major Incident. School Board Discusses Need to Expand Building Enlargement of public school facilities here was discussed again last night by the Carroll board of education but no action was taken.

Indications point to a need for increasing the size of the elemen tary school, Supt. R. A. Naffziger said. While the average number of five-year-olds in the city up to last year did not run over 100, last year 111 were enrolled and next year an enrollment of 161 is indicated on the basis of a preliminary survey, he added.

According to school census, the superintendent continued, the increase in this age group starting to school will go up to 180 in the next five or six years. Two members of the President Lambert Thelen and Leo Fitzpatrick were absent last night. The board approved a number of school bills and discussed various school problems before adjourning. Woolstock Man Fined $600, Costs James Crosby of Woolstock, today was fined $600 and costs on a second offense drunken driving charge. His driver's license also was revoked.

Judge Bruce M. Snell, Ida Grove, handed down the judgment after a district court jury had brought in a guilty verdict earlier in the court term. New Brick Duplex Nearing Completion A new duplex, owned jointly by Ben Schroer and Joe Schrad, on Bast Bluff street is nearing completion. Mr. and Mrs.

Schrad have moved Into the west end of the property from their farm near Maple River. Mr. Mrs. Schroer, who live on Route 3, Carroll, plan to move into the east part about the first of the year. Mr.

Schrad and Mrs. Schroer are brother atettt. Foes in Bid to Topple Regime Of Mossadegh Won't Quit in Oil Row; Iranian Mob Batters At Parliament Gates By Philip Clarke TEHRAN, IRAN deputies made a bold bid today to topple the government Premier Mohammed Mossadegh as a nationalist mob battered on the parliament (majlis) gates, shouting for the blood of the aged premier's opponents. But the frail premier, in a two- and-a-half-hour speech defending his regime, said he would stay in office unless and until the majlis voted him out. The session ended after his speech.

Inside the packed building several persons were injured as supporters and opponents of the government fought briefly with fists and feet, delaying the parliament session. When the majlis chamber finally was cleared of press and public and the session opened, opposition deputies at once leaped to verbally attack the premier, whose oil nationalization program ejected the British-owned Anglo- Iranian oil company and ended Iran's chief revenues from oil production. Yelling at the top of their lungs, the opposition accused Mossadegh of leading Iran into terror and ruin and demanded' that he Te- sign. The crowd outside, realizing that the eight-month-old government was at stake, raced for radio loudspeakers to hear the broadcast of the session. Some 500 army troops, armed with rifles and bayonets, were parked outside the building in trucks.

Opposition deputies didn't heed the clamor outside. As Mossadegh walked unsteadily to the rostrum, his opponents In the chamber jeered, booed and banged on their desks in angry uproar. Mossadegh threatened to go outside to deliver his address, but finally yielded the floor to opponents, telling them to talk first. The premier had been slated to deliver an ultimatum to the west to start buying Iranian oil within 10 days. If the west did not, presumably the oil would be offered to the Soviet bloc.

In the square outside the building, nationalist orators earlier had whipped the crowd to a frenzy, yelling "death to the opposition deputies." FBI Nabs One of 10'Most Wanted' NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. One of the nation's 10 most wanted as ready to kill "without the slightest provocation rather than be walked Into an FBI net yesterday. When federal agents closed in on him as he entered a downtown office building, 34-year-old Giachino Anthony Baccolla simply said: "I surrender." Baccolla had been sought since June in the slaying of a Detroit witness in a federal theft case. He had been on the most-wanted list since Aug.

20. Rules Mother Can't Tell Jury Dying Girl's Story OTTUMWA, IA. (AP) The court ruled today that Mrs. Robert Lyman may not tell the jury in the Carroll Mclntire manslaughter trial her recollections of the last words her dying daughter spoke. District Judge Helnricb C.

Accident Victim Leaves Hospital Here The condition of Mrs. Gordon Rossow, of Des Moines, an expectant mother injured in a collision near Glidden Saturday, was reported as "good" today at St. Anthony hospital. She was to be dismissed from the hospital today. Mr.

Rossow," who operates a funeral home in Des Moines, was treated for minor cuts, bruises and shock, but not hospitalized. Their son, Mark, 2, was uninjured, The Rossow family was en route to Lake View- to spend the. weekend at the home of Mrs. ROSBOW'S parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Kettering. The Rossow car was in collision with a vehicle driven by Mrs. Dorine Klocke of Glidden. Authorities said the slippery highway wajs the '0MIM nC tdtMfSAi Taylor read an 8-page memorandum opinion in which he ruled that Mrs. Lyman's testimony on her daughter Martha's deathbed statements did not meet the requirements necessary for admission into evidence as a dying declaration.

He said he questioned the girl's ability to rationally make a statement. The 17-year-old Ottumwa high school girl suffered brain injuries when she plunged from Mclntire's car the night of last Sept. 1 while returning home from a roller skating date with the 21-year-old air force private from Fairfield. She died later. The state accuses Mclntire of pushing her out.

He claims she jumped. In the jury's absence, Mrs. Lyman told the court last week that her daughter made clear during moments of consciousness at the hospital that she knew she was going to die. The mother quoted Martha as saying that Mclntire "pushed me out." Judge Taylor explained in his opinion that in the case of a deathbed statement by an injured person who is alternately rational or irrational "the burden is upon the party offering the declaration to show that at the time the declaration was made the (dying person) was sufficiently rational to comprehend not only the solemnity of impending certain death but also the Import of the declarations which it Is claimed she made concerning the circumstances of the The issue of admissibility of the mother's testimony about her daughter's last words arose as a result of a defense objection. Courts normally do not permit a person to testify as to what someone else told them, calling it "hearsay" evidence.

Deathbed statements sometimes can be ad mitted, however, if the court finds they fulfill legal requirements. Judge Taylor said there was no controversy over the fact that "the brain of Martha Lyman was injured substantially by her fall." He said there was no contradiction that "she was unconscious for a great majority of the time between her injuries and her death." The judge cited testimony by two nurses who attended the girl. The nurses said they did not hear Martha say anything at one of the times in question. They also said the girl had a convulsion at 2 a. m.

Sunday. This was shortly before the time Mrs. Lyman testified her daughter told her "Mommle, don't will be happy with God." Judge Taylor said: "The condition of Martha Lyman at that time uncontradicted cannot be. ignored by the court In determining the weight of the'testimony by Mrs. Lyman as' to Martha's statements at that time." Working to Clear Tracks Of Wreckage BOTNA, IA.

Workmen still are clearing the twisted wreckage of the Great Western freight derailment south of here today, 24 hours after 27 cars and a three-unit diesel engine left the tracks in a flaming mass yesterday. Railroad officials in Carroll estimated that the main line track will not be ready for service until Wednesday. Two wreckers were clearing the wreckage off the tracks. Meanwhile, passenger service over the Great Western was being re-routed from Moorland to Council Bluffs via the Illinois Central. Freight trains are being held up until the tracks have been repaired.

A five-man Carroll fire department crew remained on the job until 11:30 p. m. Monday when the tank car loaded with naphtha gas was pulled out of the wreckage. Manning firemen, however, remained at the site of the accident to be ready if needed, Carroll firemen who worked from shortly after 8 a. m.

until 11:30 p. m. at the fire included Chief Joe Daniel, Orlando Eich, Edmund Schroeder, Leo Clark and Dale Sease. The Carroll and Manning fire departments teamed up to play the water supply on the tank car to keep it from exploding. It had overturned in the midst of the ing ruins.

Mr. Eich said that the tank car was leaking in two places and was extremely dangerous for workmen and spectators who crowded around the wreckage. The Carroll firemen used 75 gal Ions of gasoline to pump water onto the fire. Manning firemen and railroad officials brought food for the fire fighters. The three-unit diesel engine had not been removed from the wreckage early today.

Crewmen on the 97-car freight train (northbound No. 82) escaped serious injury, although two were treated for minor injuries. The derai-ment reportedly was caused by a broken rail, apparently caused when the Great Western's passenger train passed by shortly before the freight train FHA MEETS Christmas centerpieces and decorations were the topic of discussion at the noon meeting of the Future Homemakers of America today in the homemaking rooms. The group discussed ideas for centerpieces and several of the club members showed centerpieces they had made for their homes. June Juergens was.

program chairman for the meeting. Intensive Drive For Funds Set in Near Future Grade Building In Use Since 1889, Has Enrollment of 317 A' building committee to plan for early construction of a new grade school for SS. Peter and Paul parish here was formed and organized last night at a meeting in the parish rectory. Cari Hess, Carroll banker, was elected chairman. Other officers are Lambert J.

Thelen, secretary and Joe Meln- ftwrdt, treasurer. Members Hold Daughter for Eddyville Hatchet Slaying of Mother EDDYVILLE, IA. (JP) The hatchet-hacked body of a 54-year- old widow was found at her farm home near here yesterday, and authorities are holding, her daughter in connection with the slaying. Dead is Mrs. Christina Noe, who lived on a farm a mile north of Eddyville with her son, Richard, 18.

Mrs. Noe's daughter, Dorothy, 35, and the girl's uncle, Cecil Noe, of near Eddyville, were arrested as they arrived in Moines by bus last night. They were questioned by Des Moines police and Mahaska County Sheriff Dwight Mateer In Des Moines and then returned to Oskaloosa. Deputy Sheriff Rodney Koeppel of Oskaloosa said Mrs. Noe's body was found by her son when he returned home from work late in the afternoon.

He is employed at the John Morrell packing plant in Ottumwa. ilaying ently occurred before noon. He said Mrs. Noe had been struck several times about the head and face with a hatchet. A bloody hatchet also was found, Koeppel said.

The deputy sheriff said Miss Noe had been a patient at the Mt. Pleasant State Mental Health institute, but was released last February. Since then, he said, she had not lived at home but had worked at various places, including Des Moines. She gave her address as Des Moines when she was arrested. There was blood on Miss Noe's legs when she was arrested.

She told authorities her legs were scratched whenshe ran over barbed wire fences and through a corn field. Des Moines police said they found a poem entitled "Lament to the Living" in Miss Noes She apparently had written it her- je4f, Xhsy Carl Hess William Gehling, WHHani Flojrencaurt, GediteiJi Houlihan, meter, and J. M. Wfederhold. An intensive drive to raise the necessary funds for the proposed! project is planned for the immediate future.

Acting upon instructions. ceived at a general meeting to which all those interested were invited, the existing pastor's board of eonsultors which has studied the problem for several months, added the authorized number of new names to and then immediately as the parish building committee and elected officers. The present parish grado school was erected In. 1889 and this year has an enrollment of 317 children rang-' ing from junior primary through eighth grade. The school Is staffed by 10 Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration whose motherhouse is in LaCrosse, Wis.

Priests of the parish are the Rev. L. Schenkelberg, pastor emeritus; the Rey. Frank M. Greteman, administrator, and the Rev.

Nicholas J. Ruba, assistant, With approximately 2,000 members, SS. Peter Paul is one of the largest parishes in this area. School Faculty Gathers Gifts to Be Given to Needy An exchange of toys and children's books which will later be donated as gifts to the needy for Christmas was featured this afternoon at the combined high school and grade school faculty party. The party, under the direction of Kenneth Mueller, social chairman of the Carroll Teachers' association, was held in the homemaking rooms.

Miss Shirley Kluckhohn, chairman, led group singing of Christmas carols. The high school mixed quartet and girls' sextet sang. The organization to receive the toys and books has not yet been designated. 11 SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS dropped htnfe med $Ut it took kMt jn the shins to remind Allty to tUri shopping. Do ywif need kickingT.