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(THE Morning KANSAS CITY STAR) £l)c llnusas (Tltu Times VOL 123 NO 101 KANSAS CITY APRIL 30 1960-SATURD AY-40 PAGES PRICE 7 CENTS THE SHOWERS Plans Wedding Despite Shooting TAKES HUGE JET OFF A RUNWAY GOST OF LEEDS STRIKE MOUNTS NEW CONCEPTS IN SPACE Pioneer Relaying Information on Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Rays Casts Doubts on Old Theories Showers here this morning becoming partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and tomorrow Cooler today and tonight High today near 58 Low tonight near 45 High tomorrow in the lower 60s (Weather map and detailed observation on Page 81 The temperature readings yesterday 1 66i 8 56 2 66 9 55 3 67110 52 4 65111 51 5 61112 midnight 49 7 58' 1 a 48 1 A 2 47 Pilot Runs Plane Into Mud to Avoid Striking a Barrier Community Loses 2 Million Dollars in Wages and Business Duchess of Kent Is in Need of Funds HITS RELATED INDUSTRY A CHARGED RING Band of Electricity of 35000 Miles Out Has Intensity of 5 Million Amps FAILED TO SLOW DOWN None of the 109 Passengers or Crew Members Is Injured a Representative Says Negotiations Have Been Arranged Today London April 29 (AP) The Duchess of Kent one of the less affluent of the Royal family will sell many auction rooms June 20 hop- MAGNETIC STORM CLUE ing to raise $100000 The Unofficial Kansas Cloudy to partly cloudy today with occasional rain east this morning Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow Cooler east and south central today and in the east tonight Warmer northwest today and over the state tonight Highs today 45 to 55 Missouri Scattered showers and thunderstorms today diminishing west today Cooler west and north Showers and thunderstorms southeast and partly cloudy west and north tonight and tomorrow Cooler over the state tonight Highs today in the 50s northwest to the mid-60s Idea TFiey Are Due to Current Near Atmosphere May Be Scrapped government gave the duchess Queen aunt no pension after her husband was killed on a World War Ii RAF mission but she gets $70000 a year from a fund INVASION FORCE INTO PARAGUAY Band of 500 Men Crosses the Parana River From Argentina to Start Uprising By Steve Underwood (A Member of The Star's Staff very much in love with her and I care who knows it £oing ahead with our marriage and going to stop So spoke Arthur Garney a balding 65-year-old plumbing executive whose plans for a Las Vegas Nev marriage yesterday to pretty 18-year-old Mrs Sue Doyle were interrupted Thursday night in his bride-to-be Eighty-sixth ALSO IN FROM BRAZIL Exiles in Buenos Aires Say Attack Is on a Bigger Scale Than Before I960 New York Times News Service Washington April 29 Pioneer has shaken inn- nn the foundations of HUNT FOR FLIER -ient fc "onfcepts at ave a ON SEA ISLANDS ceTnrymomig sroP (young West coast scientists eoast Guard Planes Opera! ng walked the epartment Out of Hawaii Trying to Find Gluckmann of Commerce with the mag- netic records obtained from the space probe when it was about 3 million miles from the earth FAA Says Texan Picks Up They compared them with records made in Hawaii and Virginia over the last seven weeks and found to their amazement the stormy variations were similar Thus the classic concept that magnetic storms are due to electric currents in or near the atmosphere seems to have been placed in doubt Huge Magnetic Field Among other revolutionary Honolulu April 29 (AP) A report from an amateur radio operator in Texas sent Coast Guard planes searching tropic islands today for Peter Gluckmann unaccounted for on an attempted nonstop flight from Tokyo to New York The amateur said a voice A strike at the Leeds Fisher Body plant and the resulting interruption of the passenger car assembly lines at the adjacent Chevrolet plant have resulted in a loss to Kansas City of more than 2 million dollars A General Motors representative said last night the loss was in wages to employees and in business to area supplier firms Not All Inclusive The total does not include the loss to retail dealers because of a lack of Chevrolet passenger cars and Corvairs In addition an official of the Jack Cooper Transport company which hauls Chevro-lets to dealers in 11 Mid-West states said 375 employees had been furloughed The Jack Cooper official said furloughed employees have lost over $350000 in wages a figure not included in the 2-million-dollar estimate by General Motors The walkout by 2000 employees represented by United Auto Workers local 93 began March 29 and had been in effect one full calendar month yesterday 2000 production workers on strike from Fisher Body have missed payroll checks totaling more than 1 million dollars during the month and the 1000 Chevrolet employees idled by the strike-missed an estimated $500000 in the representative said Loss to Suppliers to some 400 Kansas City area supplier firms for goods and services needed in normal operation of the Fisher Body and Chevrolet passenger car assembly lines Would have amounted to more than $500000 during the The official said a negotiating session to seek an end to the dispute would be held at 10 this morning but that the four chief Only John Dalton Has Been home by a bullet from the revolver of an unidentified assailant Insists on Wedding Garney owner of the Garney Plumbing and Heating company 7503 Washington street said yesterday at the Menorah hospital that he plans to fly to Las Vegas with his young sweetheart soon as the doctor lets me out of That probably will be in five to eight days he added The husky patient said that after a honeymoon in Las Vegas he and his will return to Kansas City and set up housekeeping in his Ward Parkway Estates home at 1205 West street get a he said am going to have to be more cautious in the Garney was listed in fair condition from the 22-caliber bullet wound The bullet entered near the left temple coursed upward under the skin and emerged at the left rear of the head Scare Easy Anybody who is trying to scare me better think Garney said back up and I look Recounting the shooting Garney said: was a little after 5 We (he Mrs Doyle and her 14-month-old son) were just finishing dinner and I was getting ready to call a cab to take us to the airport man forced his way into the kitchen and was holding a revolver I looked for (Continued on Second Page) Pinpointing Politics BATTLE LOOMS FOR PRIMARIES she heard from an island 150 discoveries by this explorer of miles from Honolulu might interplanetary space is a gi-have been that of the flying gantic magnetic field whose AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS Mrs Sue Doyle 18 carefully read a statement yesterday concerning the shooting of Arthur Garney 65 by an unidentified assailant Garney and Mrs Doyle had made plans to be married Asuncion Paraguay April 29 (AP) Armed invaders seeking to overthrow President Gen Alfredo Stroessner landed in Southeastern Paraguay today the Interior ministry announced The invaders apparently are Paraguayan political exiles A communique said one landing force reported to number about 500 men was turned back when it attacked the town of Puerto Carlos Antonio Lopez on the Parana river but another column of about 50 men was reported here to have captuied the smaller town of Colonia Otano 10 miles away On a Larger Scale Colonia Otano was defended by only five policemen The interior ministry said these invaders came from Argentina (Paraguayan sources in Argentina said several columns also launched invasions-from Brazil Military sources in Buenos Aires said the rebellion appeared to be on a bigger scale than that last December 12 when a rebel force of about 1000 was quickly defeated) The interior ministry said the attack on Puerto Carlos Antonio Lopez was defeated by the local garrison It added that the inaders suffered casualties but gave no figures Earlier reports said government planes bombed the rebels who were described as being armed with Argentine weapns A Calm Elsewhere The scene of the invasion is on the upper Parana river that (Continued on Second Page) Lana Daughter Flees Home for Girls jYLMAR CALIF April 29 (AP) Cheryl Crane John Stompanato at her Beverly Hills home Endorsed by County Democratic Groups San Francisco watchmaker The Coast Guard ordered its planes aloft immediately They swept all shore lines within a radius of 150 miles Flare Being Checked One plane was sent to check on a green flare sighted on the water 135 miles northeast of Honolulu by a Navy patrol plane at 1:48 a No check had been made immediately because distress flares are red not green The Coast Guard also sent a carrier pigeon to the little privately owned island of Niihau asking residents to search the beaches The ham radio report was received after the Coast Guard said the 34-year-old bachelor was down at Plane Not Identified The Federal Aviation agency here said Sifferlieu of Bandera Tex picked up weak radio signal of 16 meters from Gluckmann saying he was down on a beach 150 miles from In Bandera Mrs Sifferlieu said the fading broadcast did not identify the plane as and she had no way of knowing whether it was he sponsors in Seattle estimated his gasoline supply would last until 10 tonight The Watchmaker was flying axis bears no relation to that of the sun It has also found a current of electricity girdling the earth at a distance of about 33500 miles from the equator The intensity is estimated at 5 million amperes It has detected what appear to be electrons of cosmic ray energies shot out by many solar flares Their presence according to Dr John A Simp son of the University of Chicago seems to question the concept of cosmic ray acceleration proposed some years ago by Enrico Fermi Three-cornered observations from Pioneer from the earth satellite Explorer VII and from the earth itself have eliminated the possibility that the high-energy particles in the outer Van Allen belt are emitted as such by the sun Geiger Count Drops When a magnetic storm struck the earth on March 31 following a solar flare the previous day a Geiger counter on Explorer VII had been recording 200 counts a second while in the fringe of the outer belt Instead of growing the count plunged to as low as 10 a second Then in the next week it gradually rose to the very high level of 10000 counts in 1958 She was made a ward of the court and assigned to the physical custody of her maternal grandmother Earlier this year she was ordered into the home after Miss Turner petitioned for the transfer The actress said Cheryl would get better supervisory care at the home daughter of Lana Turner fled tonight from the El Retiro home for girls police said The home is a minimum security facility surrounded by a tall chain link fence Cheryl and two other teenage girls from the home apparently climbed over or slid under the fence Cheryl 16 fatally stabbed A Trans World Airlines 707 jetliner with 101 passengers and a crew of eight aboard ended up in the mud last night upon landing at the Municipal Air Terminal The pilot said he guided the big ship off the runway delib erately because he feared it might not stop on the rain soaked pavement Beyond the end of the strip are obstructions a shack a fence anc the dike along the Missouri river No One Injured No one was injured The plane was not damaged Passengers said they hardly felt a jolt when the aircraft weighing more than 100 tons went into the mud The piane sliced twin ruts 175 feet long through the soggy turf It came to rest 85 feet to the west of the strip and about 200 feet from the south end of the field It is several hundred more feet from the end of the field to the river runway was Capt Eugene Gerow the pilot said we got down the runway it became appar ent that we were going to the end at least Picked Vantage Point decided to get off and waited for a vantage point to go off where there was as much sod as Capt Gerow said he could not estimate how fast the ship was going when he left the landing strip The jet generally touches down at about 145 miles an hour The plane flight 82 from Los Angeles touched down at 6:23 o'clock It was raining The ceiling was 900 feet and visibility was two miles the weather bureau said The wind was blowhng 12 to 13 miles an hour from the north The plane was on instrument approach through the overcast but the pilot had clear visibility over on the field An Excellent Decision pilot made an excellent Mueller vice-president in charge of A flight operations here said turning to the right off the strip he executed a skillful There was no chance to warn the passengers that the jet was going off the runway Some said they knew what had happened when they saw the mud fly past the windows Mud splattered onto the glass obstructing their view first there was complete silence when the engines Jan Granston a host ess said Lynne Dougherty (another hostess) an nounced over the public address system have just landed in Kansas and all the passengers broke out Praise the Pilot Passengers on the plane were quick to praise the pilot for his action Most of them said that they felt little or no jar as the plane skidded across the soft turf A ramp was wheeled out to the craft and the passengers with rainwear were taken off first Paper runners used to cover the rugs on the planes were brought out along with sandbags and a dry pathway as constructed for the passengers to board a line of taxicabs that formed on the run way The flight terminates here Runway Is Closed After the jet went into the mud the 7000-foot-long main north-south runway was closed and remained closed late last night The 707 which would have returned to Los Angeles as flight 81 was taken out of service and another aircraft and flight number were substituted for the return trip Morris Guralnick president of a San Francisco engineering firm said after the plane came to a stop he immediately Continued on Second Page) 4 today is deadline for Sunday Star Want Ads Place your ads early Dial BA 1-5500 iJasy! Tast A'dv UNITED HAS FULL SLATE Coalition Leaders Expected to Wait Until State Convention to Name Ticket negotiators for the A bargaining unit have not been at the meetings since Wednesday having been attending a union session in Washington feel that every effort should be exerted tc end this staggering economic loss to the employees and the the spokesman said management still is of the opinion that the manpower demands represent featherbedding practices we simply cannot Ask More Workers The union charging the assembly line is undermanned Continued on Twelfth Page) Larsen an Easy Mark for Cleveland COOL AFTER THE RAIN The High Today Will Be in the Mid 50s Don Larsen lost to Cleveland for the ninth straight time in his big league career last night as Woodie Held hit two homers in the 5-4 victory over the in Cleveland The teams play again this afternoon and close the series with a Sunday afternoon double-header The other scores: AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore 2 New York 1 Chicago 4 Detroit 1 Only games scheduled NATIONAL LEAGUE Milwaukee 5 Philadelphia 3 St Louis 16 Chicago 6 Pittsburgh at Cincinnati postponed rain a modified J35 Bonanza Beech-Although Pioneer carries a craft in an effort to break Geiger counter slightly more the 7688-mile distance record sensitive than the one that set by a fellow Californian made this observation it de-Max Conrad in April 1959 on tected no more than little a flight from Casablanca to of this radiation on the- Texas Unseasonably cool air moved into the Kansas City area last night and the temperature dropped to the 40s The weather bureau said the high today would reach the mid-50s The bureau also said that light showers would continue until early in the forenoon Then clearing and cooler temperatures are in the forecast for tonight The low tonight is expected to be in the upper 30s A slight warming trend is expected tomorrow with the high near 60 Rain and light snow was falling at Hutchinson Kas early today NEW CAPITAL PLEA FAILS Washington April 29 (AP) The Civil Aeronautics board today denied for a second time a request by Capital Airlines for an immediate mail subsidy totaling almost 13 million dollars way to the earth The answer seems to be that particles carried from the sun by the cloud have comparatively low energies and hence were not detected Their impact on the earth's magnetic field dumped the particles of the outer belt causing auroral displays on the earth New particles from the cloud entered the belt but only afterwards were they accelerated to the high level observed by Explorer VII The Pioneer results to Continued on Second Page SIGN PACT WITH NEPAL A 10-Year Period Covered in in Red China Treaty Katmandu Nepal April 29 (AP) Communist China has pledged to respect the territorial integrity of Nepal under a 10-year treaty of peace and friendship made public today The treaty was signed last night by Premier Koirala and Premier Chou En-lai of Red China who left for home today By Don Jones (A Member ol The Star's Staff) A complete slate of state level candidates headed by John Dalton attorney general now seeking the Demo-cractic nomination for governor was endorsed yesterday by the executive committee of the United Democratic association The announcement by the Kemp-Sermon forces indicates that the Jackson County primary election war with the city Democratic coalition now will extend to several statewide races Both sides in the county primary alignments have announced support for Dalton Each Has Favorite The two groups already are at issue over the contest for the nomination for lieutenant governor The endorsements included that of Edward Long of Clarksville the incumbent The coalition has endorsed Charles Shafer city councilman In addition to the endorsements of Dalton and Long the announcement by William Kemp former mayor and Mayor William Sermon of Independence leaders in the association included endorsements for state Sen George Spencer Columbia for attorney general James Kirkpatrick Windsor for secretary of state and Milton Carpenter Jefferson City for state treas urer The second statewide contest in which Jackson County factions will buck heads likely will be for the attorney general nomination It is reported that the city coalitionists lean favorably toward Thomas Eagleton St Louis Wait for Convention Coalition leaders are ex pected to complete their state ticket within the next few days although it is reported some are inclined to wait until (Continued on Second Page) Red Observers See Polaris Test While Submarine Is Carrying Out Dummy Firing Off Long Island Russian Trawler Is Less Than Mile Away (Details on Sports Pages) Other News On Inside Pages Issues Aside in West Virginia Personalities attacked in Kennedy-Humph-reyrace Jack Williams The national political correspondent notes Page 2 Federal Department Wants to Halt Pollution of Kaw Health official says pressure against Kansas City is aimed at dumping raw sewage 3 FAA Needs Road to New Airport Tower and landing system waits on city aviation department 6 Three Die in B-47 Crash Forbes air base plane plunges into pasture near Topeka 7 Protest on East Reich State department condemns seizure of farm lands by Communists writes John Cauley The foreign affairs correspondent 7 All Saturn Engines Go On Fired only a few seconds the eight produce thrust of 1300000 pounds 26 Sports 23 24 25 Deaths 10 Markets 18 19 Editorials 38 I PICTURES ON PAGE 12 Norfolk is the home base for most of the Atlantic fleet Since the testing site off Long Island is in international waters the Soviet craft had every legal right to be there The George Washington the first of the fleet ballistic missile submarines was test firing dummy slugs These slugs are ejected from the (Continued on Second Page) A Newcomer's Memorial may The trawler was identified by the Navy as the Vega The picture indicated the Russian ship is about 225 feet long and that it carries radar Presumably the Vega like most big trawlers is also equipped with sonar the underwater sound detection apparatus useful for spotting fish or submarines The Vega after leaving the test scene 60 miles south of Long Island later was observed off Norfolk Vo ASHINGTON April 29 (AP) A Russian trawler watched the new Navy Polaris submarine George Washington conducting tests only 60 miles off Long Island the Navy disclosed today It obtained a photograph of the Soviet ship taken Tuesday as the trawler cruised within a mile of where the submarine was testing out its missile launching equipment 1 A WIDE-EYED PASSENGER is handed by Jan Granston hostess to Earl Vancil firefighter from the No 1 pumper company The boy was one of three children on the plane on the way from Honolulu to Wichita The child was not identified (Another picture on Page 6) 3 A.

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