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STATE SOCIETY COLORADO STATE MUSEUM' -DENVER COLORADO FORT COLLINS COLORADOAN A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME' Information and Enjoyment for Every Member cf the Family THE WEATHER throtifli Tnoadarf Warner tonifht Muthfitt Tnesdif Cramllr fair tonight artly cloody Toecday fw anew flurries aorthwestern monntaru warmer east of divide Umght-indy aoutb H- 4 Continuing Fort Collins Express-Courier ESTABLISHED 18T1 FORT COLLINS COLORADO MONDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 10 1952 10 PAGES 5 CENTS mm 4 Perish When Train Car Hit aniac Kills Sisenhower Picks Two for Capital Talks it AUGUSTA Ga President-elect Dwight choice of Sen Henry Cabot Lodge and Detroit banker Joseph Dodge for key pre-inauguration assignments appeared today to assure them major posts in the new Republican administration General Eisenhower Sunday made the Massachusetts GOP senator his liaison man to work with the expiring Truman administration in all federal agencies except one To the budget bureau as his personal representative and the general appointed Mr Dojige a Local Boys Get Chance At Academy Four Fort Collins boys have been designated to take examinations for entrance to US Military and Naval academies an announcement from the Washington office of Rep William Hill said today Allen Johnson star halfback on the 1951 Fort Collins High school football team was designated as principal candi- date -for the West Point academy He is the son of Mr and Mrs Kenneth A Johnson of 1010 West Mulberry street and was graduated from the High school last June He is attending Colorado university this fall Reid is Alternate His alternates' for the West Point academy are Stanley Dale Cass of Brlggsdale David Edward Jones- of Lakewood and Loren Douglas' Reid of Fort Collins Mr Reid tbe son of Col and Mrs Gerald Reid of Fort Col-liqs also was a member of the 1951 Lambkin team and is now attending Colorado A college He also holds a designate as first alternate on Sen Ed list -of West Point candidates His father Colonel Reid now retired from the Army is a 1924 graduate of West Point Top Naval List John Arthur White of Loveland and Lloyd Spafford of Brush are the two principal designees for the Annapolis Naval academy on Mr list Second alternates are Gerajd John Smith son of Mr and Mrs John Smith of Fort Collins and Jerome Weitzel son of Mr and Mrs Jake Weitzel and a recent graduate of Timnath High- school Mr Weitzel also is attending college Mr White is the son of Mrs Dorothy White of Loveland secretary to Don Moon secretary of tjie Loveland Chamber of Commerce He was graduated last June from Loveland High school and is attending college this fall Paul Lebsock Jr of Atwood is second alternate on both of Mr lists of candidates for the Naval academy appointments from the Second Congressional district The candidates will take the entrance examinations early next year Chinese Attack OnilillSioppeii Attempt to Seize Peak Climaxes II Hours of Hand-to-Hand Battle SEOUL Chinese Communist troops crashed through barbed wire defenses and fought allied defenders in savage hand to hand combat on Porkchop hill on the western front early today AP Correspondent William Barnard said the Reds numbering about 350 were beaten off with many casualties after a 90-minute Communist artillery barrage 1 Red attempts to storm the western hill top about seven miles southwest of Chorwon came after 11 hours of savage close range fighting on the eastern front Some 1300 North Koreans were driven off two stra tegic hills by counter-attacking allied defenders The Reds attacked in waves Sunday night behind a curtain of 4000 rounds of artillery and mortar fire They captured the crest of Anchor hill and smash ed to the top of another hill to the south The UN troops counterattack ed almost immediately They stormed back to the top of the second hill in just 45 minutes Vaa Fleet Leaving The Reds fought with bitter determination from the top of Anchor but the allies were not to be denied They reached the top and closed with the Reds finally securing the crest after Allied warplanes swooped low and pounded the Reds with and searing jellied gasoline Elsewhere little action was reported along hit 155-mile ground front AP 1 Correspondent Robert Tucker reported today that Gen James A Var Fleet will leave as Eighth army commander within 60 days Mr Tuckman said it had been learned on good authority that General Van next assignment probably hihged on conversations with President elect Eisenhower when he visits Korea Hit Comm mirations Only light contacts were reported on blood-soaked Sniper ridge and Triangle hill bitterly contested peaks qn the central front Td the west of the Kumhwa hills an allied raiding party was encircled by 80 Chinese Sunday night The UN troops fought their way out of the trap with hand grenades and chattering machine fcuns They said 34 of the Chinese were killed or wounded US B-26 Invader bombers attacked Communist road and rail lines during the night- B-29 Su perforts roared deep into Nortn Korea in attacks on Red supply dumps By Associated Press Ten persons died violent deaths 4n Colorado over the week-end Gunfire claimed the lives of four and six others died in traffic four in a tragic auto-train collision at Evans south of Greeley The traffic deaths boosted the fatality count for the year to 320 Four members of a Platteville family were killed Sunday when their car was struck by a Union Pacific passenger train at a cross-ing on the northern edge of Evans The dead were: Ray A Kath 32 his wife Betty May also 32 and two of the couple's three children Charles Ray II and Ernest Richard 3 A third child Susan 5 Is reported in fair condition at Weld county hospital at Greeley Two other persons one a Denver pedestrian died In separate accidents A 28-year-old farmer hunted by authorities for the slaying of a sheriff and his deputy late Saturday took his own life with a blast from a high powered rifle as officers surrounded him on highway 36 west of Lindon Sunday Frank Poll 17-year-old Pueblo Central high school senior died Sunday from a gunshot wound suffered in a hunting accident near Pinon Colo about 12 miles north of Pueblo Stalled on Track At Evans Weld County Coroner Ross Adamson said the Kath auto stalled on the railroad track The train a local en route from Cheyenne to Denver smashed into the vehicle carrying it 150 feet down the tracks £he Denver pedestrian Willie McMillan 56 died In a hit-run accident involving a dump truck- at a Denver intersection Police are searching for the driver of the truck which was found abandoned A Grand Lake resident William Holt 25 was killed Saturday when the car in which he was riding went out of control during a snowstorm on U-S 34 about tix miles south of Grand Lake Called by Father Washington County Sheriff Wesley McDonald 45 and hjs deputy Jim Jackson 26 of Otis were slain at a farm eight miles northwest of Lindon They had gone to the farm home of Oscar Hass after Mr Hass had called authorities from the home of a neighbor and told them his son Clarence was mentally unbalanced and asked officers to take him into custody The two officers died in a burst of gunfire after driving into the backyard of the Hass farm The slayer then set fire to the house a half-dozen barns and outbuildings and two hay stacks Hunting Accident A search was launched immediately for the younger Hass He was spotted and surrounded by State Highway patrol cars just off highway 36 about 23 miles west of Lindon As officers called to him to surrender he placed the muzzle of the rifle in his mouth and pulled the trigger The Pueblo youth was fatally injured While hunting rabbits Under-sheriff William Loyd said he and three companions were walking back to their car when Frank Jacklovich also 17 slipped and fell his 410-gauge shotgun discharging The blast struck young Poll in the right thigh Slayer Kills Self in Sight Of Pursuers LINDON (JP) Sought for the slaying of a sheriff and his deputy a 28-year-old farm hand ended his life with a blast from a high powered rifle Sunday when authorities cornered him on a much-travelled highway west of here Caught in the glare of state Highway Patrol car spotlights Clarence Hass placed the muzzle of a 30-30 caliber rifle in his mouth and pulled the trigger He died Instantly 1 His death ended an all-night search which began when the bullet punctured bodies of Washington County Sheriff Wesley A McDonald 45 and his deputy Jim Jackson 26 of Otis were found beside their car tn the backyard of the Hass farm home eight miles northwest of Lindon Mr and Mrs Robert Rudolph whose home is southeast of Fort Collins were called to Akkron Sunday by-news of the slaying of Mrs father Sheriff Wesley A McDonald Mrs Rudolph Is the former Miss Dorothy McDonald daughter of Sheriff McDonald and Mrs Collins of Loveland Mr and Mrs Rudolph were married here In 1948 Both attended Colorado college nad Mr Rudolph is an A graduate Jr 4 FRED CUMMINGS i Heart Attack Fatal Today ToCummings Fred Cummings 88 former Congressman and 46-year resident of Fort Collins died suddenly about 11:30 am today at the Page convalescent home at 211 Canyon avenue Death followed a sudden heart attack Relatives said he had recovered from a recent operation1 in a Denver hospital Mr Cummings a Democrat was elected to Congress in 1932 the year in which Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover- for the presidency During his four terms as a representative of the Second Congressional district Mr Cummings led in the battle for approval and appropriation for the Colorado-Big Thompson project now schedu-ed for completion next year Fought for Sngar Act He also took a leading part in the fight for federal payments for sugar beet growers which resulted In the sugar act of 1936 Near the close of his congressional service he was third-ranking member of the House Agriculture committee Beforf entering Congress Mr Cummings had served successively as president of the Mountain States Sugar Beet Growers Marketing association and its Fort Collins local and-of the National Sugar Beet Growers association fn those years he was prominent in struggle for favorable contracts Mr Cummings was born in New Hampshire Sept 18 1864 At the age of one year he was taken by his parents to Clinton Iowa Farmed in Nebraska When he was 12 his family moved by ox wagon to a farm in Jones county Iowa and two years later to Custer county Nebraska There they built the first sod house and barn during early homesteading era In later years the youth hauled wheat 30 miles to market He engaged in stock feeding and farming in Nebraska for many years Before coming to Fort Collins in 1906 he owned one of the largest livestock businesses in northern Nebraska While living in Nebraska Mr Cummings studied for' and was admitted to the bar at the age of 30 Farming and stock feeding became his major interest however and he gave up his law practice after a few years Owned Several Farms After -coming here Mr Cummings owned several farms in Larimer and Weld counties feeding livestock and raising sugar beets He served as a member of the Fort Collins city council before the city charter was adopted in 1913 His four terms in Congress ended in 1941 following his defeat by the present congressman William Hill the Republican candidate in the 1940 election He married the former Miss Nancy Jane Sutton in 1889 in Nebraska Of their five children three survive George Cummings of Washington Ralph Cummings of Fort P2 Col 4 CHURCHILL MAY CONFER IN WASHINGTON LONDON (IP) Prime Minister Winston Churchill served notice today that Britain wants early talks with President-elqpt Dwight Dv new government on many world questions including relations with There i open talk among British ofiicials that Mr Churchill is thinking of making a trip to Wa-h'ngt early in the new year to discuss many outstanding Anglo-American and allied problems PHILLIP MURRAY CIO Chieftain Phil Murray Expires at 66 SAN FRANCISCO (JP) Officials of the CIO shocked by the death Sunday of Philip Murray today discussed possible successors to the presidency of the six-million-member union Most speculation centered on Walter Reuther 45 United Auto Workers president' and Allan Haywood 64 CIO executive vice president Mr Ha wood probably will serve as chairman' of the national convention scheduled to open NdV 17 at Los Angeles However union leaders said Mr unexpected death may postponement of the convention Up to Convention" Others mentioned for the top post were James Carey secretary-treasurer of the CIO and Joseph Curran president of the CIO National Maritime union Officials said 'no interim appointment will be made because a successor will be elected at the convention Mr Murray who rose from an Immigrant Scots mine boy to become one of the most powerful and respected labor leaders died of a heart attack At 66 a veteran of half a een work in cause h6 was stricken In his sleep at San fashionable Mark Hopkins hotel Started in Mine His wife Elizabeth awoke to find him sprawled on the floor beside his bed Twenty minutes later a physician pronounced him deac A priest administered the last rites of the Catholic church Telegrams of condolence poured in from all sections of the country from President Truman and high ranking government officials from William Green of the AFL and John Lewis of the United Mine Workers A thin white-thatched man who never lost a faint Scots burr from his voice Mr Murray likewise never lost the ordor of trade unionism from his heart A mine worker at the age of 10 he spent the night before his death at a meeting of hiS United Steel Workers whose presidency he held concurrently with the presidency of the CIO Backed Stevenson There he spoke with energy of gains promised support to any administration that has in mind constructive measures for the common and defied to take away gains An early backer of Adlal Stevenson for the presidency Mr Murray declined comment last week when Mr Stevenson and the supporting political action went down to defeat at the polls" will indulge myself in the luxury of comment on the bedlam of the last three months at the national convention in Los Angeles" he tola steel workers Saturday night Made Own Way His rise was the familiar story but the rare fact of the immigrant lad who made good He saved his money for a correspondence course worked' all day and studied most of the night in his self-education punched his way into labor prominence when he pummeled a company weighmaster for a dishonest weight The punch got him fired Jmt his fellow workers walked out with him and made him alo-cal officer of the United Mine Workers union It was the last time he ued his fi'ts to win a point Thereafter he relied on a native canniness and a rare gift for tion headquarters plan to get to work this week Senator Lodge said he will start his liaison assignment Friday working out of his Washington Senate office Mr Dodge reports to the budget bureau Wednesday Both told newsmen they hope to have preliminary reports ready for General Eisenhower when he confers at the White House next week vith President Truman Senator Lodge defeated last Tuesday in his bid for a new Senate term is regarded as a likely choice' for a cabinet post He has been mentioned for secretary of Defense or secretary of State and the interim assignment the general gave him underscored the likelihood of a major post later Millikin in Group Eisenhower associates said there are strong indications that Mr Dodge will be made director of the budget that the job will take on more Importance from a policy-making standpoint than under the Democrats A significant feature of conference here was the presence of Sen Eugene Millikin of Colorado who supported Sen Robert A Taft of Ohio for the GOP presidential nomination Senator Millikin was on hand in two' official capacities as chairman of the conference of all Republican senators and as incoming chairman of the tax writing Senate finance committee Was Taft Backer But perhaps even more important was his background of having backed Senator Taft in the pre-convention days His attendance recalled £hat Senator Taft after meeting with General Eisenhower in New York last August indicated he had received assurances from the general that Taft supporters would be consulted when It came time for appointments in a new administration There had been talk that Senator Millikin might get the budget bureau liaison assignment But indications after the conference were that General Eisenhower made up his mind about Mr Dodge several days ago and that Senator Millikin was aware of it in advance Others on Hand The Colorado senator has been mentioned as a possible choice for secretary of the Treasury but he said here over the weekend he want the job Others who met with General Eisenhower were retired Gen Lucius Clay former military governor of Germany and now chairman of the board qf Continental Can corporation Herbert Brownell Jr who managed New 'York Gov jhomas presidential campaign in 1948 and who played a major behind-the-scenes role in the Eisenhower campaign: Clifford Roberts New York investment banker who has been playing golf with the general James Hagerty General press secretary and Thomas Stephens his appointment secretary Safecrackers Rob Store at Lafayette BOULDER Safecrackers got $750 cash and an estimated $1000 in merchandise from the Hub Clothing store at Lafayette Sheriff Teegarden reported A combination dial on a smSH floor safe had been punched The loss was estimated by proprietor Alderson- An unsuccessful attempt was also made over the veek-erjd to batter open a safe in "the office at the Casey Junior flvgh school About $750 as taken from a desk drawer Republican with a long record of fiscal and other service in the outgoing Democratic regime The two chosen after they and other GOP leaders conferred with the President-elect at his vaca- Soviet Asia Korea Board Include Reds UNITED NATIONS (IP) Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky called today for creation of a UN commission on which -Russia the and Commuist China would be included to settle the Korean war Other countries Mr Vishinsky suggested for the commission were Britain France lijdia Bur-ma Switzerland Czechoslovakia North Korea and South Korea In a two hour and 32 minute speech to the 60-member political committee Mr Vishinsky turned down all compromise proposals for settling the prisoner-of-war deadlock at Panmun-jom and warned that adoption of resolution backing up the UN negotiators would wreck the talks and lead to protraction of the war 'Eden Schuman Present Mr Vishinsky told the 60-nation political committee that the knew in advance that Ihese terms would be rejected by the Chinese and North Korean commands Secretary of State Dean Acheson British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and French Foreign Minister Robert Schu-man sat nearby as the top diplomatic spokesman declared that the resolution they backed as a way to peace would only further the war XI Sponsors The resolution sponsored by the Big Three and 18 other countries notes with approval the unified command's refusal to send back Communist war prisoners who say they do not want to go It also issues an appeal to the Chinese Communists and North Koreans to agree to these terms Mr Vishinsky charged that the was not interested in ending the war but wanted to keep it going and expand it In order to gain control of the world and increase the profits of can Schnmnii This Afternoon I The Soviet foreign minister said the resolution confirmed that Washington did not want peace through negotiations but was Interested only In a decision victory at all Mr Schuman and Mr Eden arrived here during the week-end having delayed their coming until after the conclusion of the American elections The assembly has been holding up completion of its member general statements of policy the first item of business until their arrival Mr Schuman was to- make France's declaration this afternoon Mr Eden ison the for Tuesday Weather OffiUU toroeMt tmrrtur from OOllOf ItttJOl Of I) I Mi downtown temperotnro rood- from Coloradoan Fort Collins: Fair today tonight and Tuesday warmer today and tonight The expected high temperature today and Tuesday is 60 degrees low tonight 25 to 30 The maximum temperature Sunday was 38 degrees and the minimum early today 13 degrees gThe1 reading downtown at 2 pn today was 48 degrees Sunrise Tuesday 638 ajnn sunset 4 50 pm Most of Colorado Gets Snow Coyer i DENVER Most of Colorado wore white drapery under a bright sun today after the first major snowstorm of the autumn Snow which began falling Saturday and continued into Sunday virtually blanketed the state The deepest fall reported was a six-inch layer at Lamar heart of southeastern dry land farm area As usual Fraser situated on a windswept plateau west of Berthoud pass was the coldest Colorado spot on weather bureau records during the night with 10 below zero Craig and Leadville were next with readings of five above Fair -weatfier through Tuesday was predicted for the state Club Smashed by Police Rancher Missing BRIGHTON Colo (AV-Search was begun today for Gerald Bow-ker rancher and deputy game warden reported missing since Saturday Sheriff Homer Mayberry said he was told Mr Bowker failed to return home Saturday night His ranch is 11 miles south of Brighton Membership cards printed in German' had a picture of Adolf Hitler on one side and the words am a member of the Nazi on the reverse side Since all members are juveniles police did not Telease their names About 4000 rounds of 22 caliber ammunition shotgun shells and a number of -knives were seized in an abandoned burned building where the met in Metairie which adjoins New Orleans juvenile bureau detectives said Much damage to railroad cars passing through New Orleans has been traced to the To join the club a prospective had to jump on and off a moving freight train smash streetlights and hit a Negro in the head with a brick NEW ORLEANS yP) Smashing of a juvenile Storm-troopers was announced here today and the defiant head of the organization told police have information that Hitler is still alive in Argentina and I am going Police said they believed the group was organized by adults The Federal Bureau of Investigation was called into the -case because of the character of the Lopez special agent In charge of the New Orleans FBI office said the FBI checked into the case solely to see if any federal laws had been violated He said that so far there did not appear to-be any federal violation The club had nine officers police said and used the Nazi swatika as ltsgmbleHi It's Over the Top This Week In sight although not in hand are sufficient Rinds to carry us into the last $1000 of our budget of $25000 for the Community Chest We want to finish the campaign by Saturday but you would not want us to quit short of our goal The needs are the same as when we started the campaign The call is the same from the young men and women in the armed services the Salvation Army the Catholic Welfare bureau and the Spanish Activities have the same responsibilities and all the good services of the Camp Fire Girls the Girl Scouts the Boy Scouts and the Recreation commission speak loudly for this last S10C0 A contribution from you who have not given and additional contributions from you who can and- will give more will do the trick Take or mail your contributions to Community Chest campaign office Room 208 State building telephone COEN campaign manager.