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iVor OWes Newspaper Established 1873 VOLUME 78 NUMBER 80 BISMARCK, N. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4. 1951 PRICE FIVE CENTS J.JLJO rui Browsing (( A i la tnaui.L.,li,UJIi Hanging Troop BUI r-i-r-- fir -y pi in ii it mijijjtujii i If'' urn Basement Burial Rumored for Missing Man XI 'fTTrrf i kill May Dig A report that the body of a man believed missing for the past 13 years is burled in a fllied-ln basement in Bismarck's Park Hill addition was under Investigation here Wednesday. The man is Bill Worliu. Identified as a laborer who reportedly disappeared In 1038 or 1939 and has not been heard from since.

A former neighbor of the missing man, H. J. Gelgle, appeared before Atty. Gen. Elmo T.

Christianson Wednesday to urge investigation of the disappearance. He urged that the basement be dug Into. Christianson together with a Bismarck police detective took a Li i 4 i) Sale of Liquor fo Minors Probed AS HIS NEIGHBORS watch, John Hair of Lincoln Park, N. hangs clothes out to dry despite flooded backyard. More than 1,000 homes in the Passaic Valley area were evacuated after two days of steady downpour.

In boat at ripht are (1. to Robert Gottrell. Paul Williams, and Ralph Cottrell. (AP Wirrphoto). Missouri Holding; Kniie, Mercury Up Passagi Of Measure mminent WASHINGTON (AD Only some minor amend ments and more oratory remained Wednesday as obstacles to senate approval of a finely-drawn compromise on the "Great Debate" issue of sending more American ground troops to Europe.

Approval seemed assured as the senate gathered to put a final okay on a resolution endorsing the assignment of four U. S. divisions to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower North Atlantic tieaty army.

Two In Europe on occupation duty have already been assigned to that force. The Truman administration, which had lost one major test earlier, won a second late Tuesday when the senate refused 56 to 31 to convert its resolution Into a bill which would have the force of law. Firmly Intrenched in the resolution, however, was a provision putting the senate on record as saying that no more than four divisions should be sent, in peacetime "without further congressional approval." This advisory opinion and that is all it is countered President Truman's contention that he has full authority to deploy troops. He said congress would be consulted, out of politeness. Tills section, written in over administration protests, brought comment from Chairman Russell (D-(Continued on Page 3) College Man Draft Exemption Defined I WASHINGTON Draft! headquarters announced Wednesday that freshmen In the upper half, sophomores in the upper two thirds and juniors in the upper three fourths of their classes will be deferred during their next undergraduate years.

Can Rank Lower WASHINGTON IA') Draft headquarters tld the nation's college students Wednesday they can rank progressively lower In their classes as they near graduation and still remain out of unilorm. These collegians may also rate a deferment bv scoring 70 on the forthcoming aptitude tests. selective service said. Seniors planning graduate work will be deferred for a year if they either rank in the top of their class or score 75 on the tesl. Selective service emphasized that students are not reuuired to meet qualifications.

They get a de-' ferment either by ranking in the top iverccinage of the class or by getting a high enough test score. The test, designed to measure ability to learn and not knowledge, will be given only to those already In college on May 26, June 16 and June 30. Selective service said a score of 70 on the aptitude test is equivalent to 120 on the army general classification test lAGCTl. A score of "5 is equivalent to 1.10 on the AG( T. College clashes ranking will be made only on the basis of the male students.

Selective service said beyond that each cnllege will determine whether a whole male class wili he taken into consideration or whether each field of study will be ranked separately. I i I I I 1 3 Injured In Car Wreck Near Minol Minot (AP) Three persons are dead and two others in critical condition as the result of a two car crash Tuesday nijrht seven miles south of Jlinot on US hiprhway 83. Dead are Henry Jorde, 39, a farmer north of and his wife. Helen, 31, and her brother, Morrl Westgard, 25, driver of one car. In critical condition In Mlnot hospitals are Westward's wife Josie, 23.

and Tollef KJolhaug, 21, Fosston, who was alone In the other car. The Westgard's six-month-old son, Roger, was not Injured In the mishap. Mr. and Mis. Jorde were killed in the collision and Westgard died shortly before 8 o'clock Wednesday morning in the hospital.

Details of the accident are hazy, says highway patrolman John Heme who has been unable to question any of the victims due to their conditions. Westgard was in charge of the Farmers Union Oil Co. at Plaza. Ask Verdict Change In Federal Court Over Eslinger Land Government attorneys made a move in Federal district court here Wednesday to get the verdlcl changed In a land condemnation suit which was recently concluded. They filed a motion asking Judge J.

Vogel to either reduco the amount of money the Jury awarded or to grant a new trial. The Jury had awarded Daniel Eslinger of Coleharbor for 90 acres of land the government took for the Garrison dam reservoir. The government attorney are asking that the amount be reduced to $25,000. Government witnesses set the value at about during the Jury trial Judge Vogel gave the government 30 days In which to file a brief after which Eslinger will have another 30 days In which to (lie an answer. In other proceedings Wednesday, the plaintiff's attorney In a habeas eorpu.i case asked that the action be dismissed.

In this case Joseph Mazakahomni was seeking release from the penitentiary where he Is serving a life sentence for the murder of a 14-year-old Ft. Totten Indian girl. His attorney, Alvin Strutz, said (Continued on Page 3) No Action Taken On Steele School District Petition STEELE IIP The Steele school board has taken no official action yet on a new petition n.sking that an election be called to decide on a proposal to set up a new school district. Steele schools have been plagued by trouble in the last several months, resulting in the firing of the superintendent and strikes by the teachers and students. Tne latest petition contains 236 signatures, asking that an election be called.

The election would decide whether a special school district with a five-member school board should be set up. Currently, the Steele schools are in a common school district with a three-member board. Tne school board previously rejected two other petitions. The first one had insufficient signatures. Some claimed the second one had enough signers but some later petitioned to have their names withdrawn.

A source close to the board Wednesday said he believed the school board would call an election on the basis of the new petition. Broken Leg His story went on: He half-walked, half-dragged the seven miles from the backwoods farm to a paved road, where a motorist picked him up and took him to within one mile of Wayne. He made it the rest of the way into town on his big army combat shoes. He found a doctor, And Mrs. Charles W.Ferguson, wife of the circuit judge, heard of him and made arrangements for his admission in an orthopedic hospital here.

Jimmy was happy about, the whole tb'ng even about. th fight over the "chawing Out Wash i Ice on Ajyple Creek is holding fairly firm along Its whole length, although water is running on the ice and there is dancer of a flood if the ice Jams, Burleigh County Sheriff Jake Harms rejorted after an aerial survey of the creek with civil air patrol pilot Lt. Ray Heinemcytr Tue-iay. The geological survey said Wednesday noon that water was flowing above Ice which is fastened to the bed no flooding has occurred. "There is always danger of a flood but unless the Ice jams after the breakup, no bad flood is anticipated," Harms said.

Though portions of state highways 49 and 25 are still underwater from the Knife river at Beulah the river was not affecting residential areas tlus morning. The Knife crested at Boulah last Friday noon. It dropped, then went up Monday night and early Tuesday. The corps of engineers which has a field party on the scene reported the river began dropping again Tuesday afternoon and continued to fall Blowly Wed-! nesday. Tuesday afternoon, the river was nearly three feet below the crest of last Friday.

This morning lt was about four feel lower. There will be considerable runoff yet but engi-I neers doubt the river will again hit lust, week's high. At Hazen, the Knife was below bankful stage this morning, though it was expected to cause some minor flooding when the full effects of Tuesday and Wednesday's runoff are received. The river rose one foot there overnight. (Continued on Page 31 Bismarck Girl Injured In Auto Collision Injured in an automobile accident at the intersection of Ninth street and Avenue Tuesday noon was Miss Beverly Armitage, 23, 1010 Fourteenth St.

Miss Armitage was a passenger In a taxi driven by Walter Reinhart. 418 Second St. Reinhart was going west on Avenue D. when he collided with a car driven by Gilbert Olson, 825. Twelfth who was going south on Ninth Street.

Miss Armitage was taken to the St. Alexius hospital. She suffered a mild concussion and minor lacerations of the lace, according to her sister-ln-law, Mrs. Edwin Armitage. It was believed that she would be released from the hospital some time Wednesday.

Tobaccy' 7 Miles on on a pair of crutches, cruae.y molded from some soy bean pules and a sawed -off broom handle. He hurt let. he s.tid, when he fell off a horse on ha uncle's farm. And it kepi hurting so much he he had to get to a drytor. The biack-haired youngster hasn't ne to school mere than 10 in he said.

And he c.ti't re.d or wri'e. He said hw was ia pr.son fir w.re from a real mitie. and his So he been r'ayit wi'h Around jfith ALLAN EASTMAN ne question for Is u'r favorite movie actor?" The answers Kenneth Kolstad. Ml Stewart." Lowreive Miller. Bv MlHand" Mrs Brunell Johnson, Cooper." Beverly Burkett, Helnrlch.

703 Front Johnson." HATS vou hat saver? Do you have attic or storage closet packed 'uh hat of bygone days? If eo, Rinse 1 Hfid. superintendent of the Vre historical society, would like a have them. Not only hats you or rcur g'-andmother wore, but also worn by the male members of vou: family are wanted Top hats. Scrby haw, felt hats, beribbemed EisttT hats, sunbonnets, any kind hat win do providing ui i-' is In such shape that It would bi suitable for display at the historical society's museum. And when ou send vnur hat, give a little his-Vv of the headgear, the date It was purchased or first worn.

Strange as (t may seem, among all the hundreds upon hundreds of Items In 'he museum. Reld has but one hat on 'dtmla-wa 10 gallon westerner. AUo wanted by Reid is an army uniform of Civil War days. This would be added to the collection of -jniforms now on display. WELCOME A friend of mine reports the Welcome Wagon lady arrived at his home the other day to present a ba-ket of gifts and the customary greetings to newcomers In our town, from Bismarck merchants who sub-scnoe lor thi service.

It was a very nice gesture, my friend said, and cu.v appreciated, out just a uiuc He came to Bismarck to i- hie home last September, and ma thnn an hour before the gift basket arrived, had loaded his furniture for shipment to another own where he will make his home. BRIEF There was but brief mention In the public press last week of a victorious day for the forgotten man, the taxpayer. It happened in Washington. D. C.

when the senate in recognition of the no-business rule agreement with the House during the Faster recess, met and adjourned In 10 seconds flat. It was one or the shortest sessions in recent history. The box score: No hits. No runs. No errors.

And no new taxes, at least for that dav. TAX And another tax Item. Extra taxation, equal to one franc (about one-fmrth of one cenO for every Frenchman, will pay for President A'lriol's 16-day state visit to the United States. The President drafted a decree to this effect before sailing Mar. and it was approved by the national assembly and upper house.

The trip is expected to cost francs ($107,0001. plus i 4.330,000 francs i $12,000) for 1 oil isting and televising the HOLIDAY This being that time of year when we are keeping a watchful eye on 'lie Missouri and tributaries, ling if the rivers and creeks flood the lowlands, here is a story out of Kola Bahru. Malaya, that tells how the spring flood is on-d there. Citizens of tills i i city of Malaya welcome ne flood, especially the girls, for I' is me one time in the year when 'iev may go out uncbaperoned. Wearing their best jewels and i est Minimis, they wade out into i muddy waist deep to and play.

Flood time is holi-tiav time in the city. Offices and noo.s are closed and the streets of i are filled with persons determined, to join in the fun. SWEEPER is a nrettv eoorf bet that the person to start spring house c'etiuivi here is a man Eddie H'K'th, citv engineer. Today, Booth the city's in street ts to go into action and clean streets in the downtown di When the job is completed, s-ieeper will move out into the areas, Booth is certain of one thing. The iJr'Mor will pick up at least 20 loads of sand sprinkled at i-'v cross walks and intersections winter.

ACT It is onlv fair t.n iive advance to the cid people of New "M.em and ni'igiiboring thet if they plan to attend the 8aleir. Lion's club annual Hav- puny ma dance tonight at New silm, thev ate in for a load of WliVraUPSSPCML. This, when jsol.ttei, aiwrdinc to the Bis-'' Hi-Hemld, is Bismarck School Volunteer Firemen's i'i Under Pvivilcied S'urienw Si ii ty of Prevent. on of icily to Miuc lvr. It is ru-f 'f'd that when tne lluniarrk inVit ition to send to the show, they p.ckod tne 'u as toe only to be hr.irj siwip the m.i.-.'r- of of I'-ie New 3 ted on or near Bo en just south of Kiwanla park.

Police Chief Don Schoeiuman said Wednesday that there were rumors of "foul play" at the time of WorllU' disappearance but that Investigations at that time disclosed nothing. Some dlggbig was done then in the basement where the "body" was said to have been buried. Worlltz was married and had children, now grown, but no members of the family now live In Bismarck. Friends here said they have not heard of or from Bill WorllU since he disappeared, reportedly without the knowledge of his immediate family. Reveal Big Money Payments in Deal On Surplus Trucks WASHINGTON An account of big-money payments in the highly profitable purchase and resale of surplus army trucks was outlined to a house Investigating committee Wednesday by a Chicago dealer.

Morris Green, of Green Brothers Truck Sales told an executive expenditures subcommittee he paid fees and commissions totaling on the resale of 1,000 surplus army trucks purchased in the Philippines. The committee is looking Into the disposal of army surplus overseas. Green said an additional was paid to his brother, Seymour Green of Angeles, as a share of profits Indicated to be $425,000 after all expenses. -v, ''Seymour's commission was 20 per cent of the profits on the deal-it amounted to about Green said. Green said he, another brother.

Julius, and Edward Udelson, a Cleveland truck dealer, organized Green Brothers Enterprises, In 1947, to acquire the 1000 trucks. The corporation paid $200 to $250 per truck. After reconditioning costing $700 to $300 per truck, and shipping charges, the trucks were resold in the United States. A total of 348 of the Philippines surplus trucks were sold to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) for use at the Han-ford, plant Green testified. The AEC paid mr six by six White trucks, and $3,400 for Diamond dump trucks.

Truck-Car Accident Injures 2 Near VC VALLEY CITY Two Jamestown people were Injured when a car and a transport truck side-swiped each other seven miles west of here Tuesday night. Injured and taken to a Jamestown hopital were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Tuel who were driving west. They were accompanied by Harry Span-ton, also of Jamestown.

Driver of the eastbound Dakota Transfer truck was Carl Reinke of Mlnot. 'Influence' Probe Being Made of CAB WASHINGTON 'F' A staff Investigator for the senate small business committee said Wednesday an Inquiry is being made into charges of ''influence and favoritism" iu-volvine some oast and present members of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB. Lawrence Henderson, the investigator, told a reporter the charges are "pretty sensational" and three men have been assigned to find out whether there Is any merit to 35-Ounce Grand Forks Baby Dies in Hospital GRAND ''The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. David I Dahlberg of Grand Forks, whose weight was two pounds thi.e ounces i at birth Tuesday morning, died Tuesday night in a Grand Forks hospital.

The baby was placed in an Incubator after birth. Truman Said Seeking Symington for RFC Job NEW YORK- Rtenrts spread Wednesday that President Trtmnn has asked W. Stuart chairman of the national rcnintv resources board, to tae over as a single administrator of the liccou- strurtion Finance Corporation statement from Gelgle In which the latter recounted rumors and reports as well as known circumstances of WorliU' alleged disappearance. The attorney general said he would call upon States Atty. George S.

Register of Burleigh county and the state bureau of criminal Identification for help In "running down the Gelgle told The Tribune that Bill WorliU and two brothers, Ed or Fred and Oottlleb, also lived In the same Park Hill area at the time of Bill WorllU' unannounced departure. His home and those of the WorliU brothers all were loca- ing an investigation have been received. He said his office Is awaiting further Information from the office of Morton County State's Attorney C. J. Schauss.

Bismarck police said Wednesday they have an affidavit from four Bismarck minors to the effect that they obtained beer at a roadhouse In the area before they were in volved In a hit-run accident after midnight Friday. Nick Martin, 39, 609 Seventeenth was knocked down by an automobile driven by one of the teenagers. Martin suffered broken ribs and a broken collar bone but Is reported to be In good condition In the St. Alexius hospital. Police said the driver of the auto mobile wnicn injured Martin was a 16- year-old youth and that riding with him were a 15-year-old girl, a 17- year-old boy and a 15-yar-old boy.

They had returned -a second girl companion to their home shortly before the mishap. After Martin was knocked to the ground, police said, the youths stopped and talked with him but ignored his pleas to take htm to a hospital. Police said Martin crawled to the home of a sister, who then took him to the hospital. The youths told police that the actual owner of the automobile they were driving at the time of the accident is another 17-year-old boy, who was not in the car at the time, although the automobile Is registered in an older brother's name. They said the lights on the automobile went out after they had returned to Bismarck and taken one of their girl companions home.

Steele Ciiy Council Lels Paving Coniraci Special to The Tribune STEELE Residents of this community were "overwhelmingly In favor" of paving several of Steele's streets, at a soecial nubile conn. Cil meeting Tuesday night, aocord- Ing to an official attending the meeting. The council voted to award the W. H. Noel Co.

of Jamestown the contract for asphalt concrete street paving. That company had submit- ted a low bid of $108.49.63 for con crete paving Mar. 22. The Butler Construction Co. of Grand Forks submitted a low bid of $102,106.80 for road mix paring Mar.

22. These companies were low when the bids were opened March 22. The Jamestown company bid and the Grand Forks company bid $102,106.60. About 16 blocks in Steele will be paved with concrete. American Oil Company To Up Iraq Royalties BAGHDAD, IRAQ The partly American-owned Iraq Petroleum Co.

is reported to have agreed to increase Iraq's oil royalties to rates about equal to those paid near-b' Arab nations by foreign Interests. This could be as much as 50 per cent of profits. A government communique Tuesday night announced the agreement. It followed by a day a declaration by Iraq's premier that foreign-controlled oil companies might lose their concessions if they refused to pay higher royalties. 'Voice' Fund Request Slashed 90 Per Ceni WASHINGTON AP' A house appropriations subcommittee has cut more than 90 per cent off of President Truman's request for to strengthen and expand the "Voice of America." The six-man appropriations sub- committee approver to complete construction of Voice fa cilities already okayed by congress.

Alleged sale of liquor to minors by one or more night spots between Bismarck and Mandan Is being Investigated by the attorney general's office. Atty. Gen. Elmo T. Christianson said no formal complaints of such sales had been made to his office but that informal reports warrant- Top Eagle f- M.

E. HETHERIN'GTON Hetheringfon Made Local Eagles Head Malcolm E. Hetherlngton was elected president of the local Eagles Aerie Tuesday evening. He succeeds William Melech. Another highlight of the meeting was the presentation of a check for $700 by the Bismarck aerie to Father Elwood Cassedy for the Home on the Range for Boys which he is building near Sentinel Butte, N.

D. Other officers elected included J. Anderson, vice president; Leo DoRochford. secretary: Wende-! lin P. Braun, chaplain; Benjamin J.

Sitter, conductor; Jacob Paul, in-1 side guard, Harold M. Rogstad, out-I side guard, Dr. M. J. Hydeman, physician, and Leonard Pfllger, trustee.

Delegates to the bi-state convention to be hold here June 15-17 Include Pfliger, Hetherlngton, Braun. Anderson, Herbert Christman. Le-I Roy O. Hull, X. P.

Heidt, R. J. Klan-' sev" B. J. KunU and Grant C.

Marsh, The $700 check for the Home on the Range was given to Father Cus-' sedy by Walter Kocnn, past worthy president of the Bismarck aerie and chairman of the Bi-state Eegles committee for the project. It included funds raised at a basket social and dance and also ln-i i Continued on Page 3i Wednesday Wells county sheriff Morris Larson to call in Minneapolis FBI officers to help return his daughter. Sheriff I arson said Lainmle and the girl had stayed in an Eilendale, N. hotel Saturday night and had rcc as man and wife. They later were seen at Eureka.

The girl and Laminie hi -appeared from kes'on las! Piday night. When tne uirl failed to come home nf'or a scheduled apnearance at a chess pl.iv. her calird ie.s. He s'-vore out a kidnaping ccniphun' who had her a working in the area. Beautiful spring weather, with temperatures reaching into the 60s, is on the weatherman's agenda for Wednesday and Thursday.

The Missouri river is stationary at a stage of 16.4 feet, about three feet below flood stage, and the-e Is Ut-tie Indication that the ice will break very soon. Employment Experts Gather in Bismarck Managers of local employment offices from throughout the state gathered in Bismarck Wednesday for a two-day managers' conference. About 25 managers discussed the labor market situation in North Dakota at the firsi se.vlon in room 403 of the Grand Pacllic hotel Wednesday morning. Others scheduled to Wednesday were Brig. Gen.

H. L. Edwards, North Dakota adjutant genera', who will discuss selective service at 2 and George Kester, Grand Forks, who is scheduled to speak on vocational rehabilitation at 2 p.m. H. D.

Huxley. Minneapolis employment service, regional director for North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Montana will talk at 9 a.m. Thursday on tiie defense manpower program. Robert L. Bennett.

Aberdeen, placement officer with the Indian bureau there, will speak on Indian placement at 2 p.m. Thursday. First Wheat Seeding Reported in GF County GRAND FORKS First spring seeding in Grand Forks county and this section or the state was reported Wednesday afternoon by C. R. Dickson, Gilby farmer.

Twenty acres of Mida wheat wao planted by drill on a .00 acre field four miles east of Gilby. The land had been duckfooted Tuesday, according to Dickson who said terrain was dry and easy to work. The seed was treated, mixed with fertilizer and was from grain procured at Beach. Another 20 acres on the same 50 acre field will be stede-I with Mida in Mid-May and separate planting will serve as test plots determine the susceptihle-ness of Mida seeded early and late to rust and smut. Firhis for'Chawin Boy Hikes W.

VA. A' J.niniv Sloan, a thin-faced youth of 13. was eetting a out of hi from aiding his "chaw in tobaccy" his He couion ur ricr-'and why she couidn ur.de: and he'd been cnewmg since Yfi he wa.s six. the lad was in Rood we.ine.sdav. even though tne broken leg he had suffered with three and a half weeks wa.s st he rn vir? him ir hohbled and hitchhiked 15 miles -o ream a doctor he souidn'! stand tiie pa a nv ptd iv'o 'he of Wayne earlier wees I I I I I I Believed In Nebraska Missing Sykeston Girl Wires to Stop Chase FESriENDEN The 14-year-old daughter of a Sykeston, N.

man missing Mnce Friday nmht and alU-cedly kidnaped was be- licvcd located at Mcrriman Wednesday. Tiie girl's father, had received a telegram his uauith'er's name said he askinc ai cha-e foi to o. Milbe Liitnii' k'dna' i- S. D. tier fl r.

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