The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 1

THE HEATHER LlffCOLNt ond worwor toniqkl, lowoal noor If toniqhtj tundof portiy cloudy, wortnor. noor If, NEBRASXAt fair ond wormor lentoM ond Sunday htohoet lemperotutee Sunday In middie fOi hi eoat; fOt tn weaU II YEAR THE LINCOLN STAR Fire Telephone Poliee IIOiTIE EDITION B.a A 1 II A 1, I A 2 2, I Contracts Convert LAAF Hospital Housing 253 U. N. Vets Families Jtax Swun Uead Hoih Aud Frojpofs Conrracle providing for remcxielinq ot tne hospital buildinga rjt Lincoln army air field to provide for housing of 2S3 families of veterans who are students at the university were approved by the University of Nebraska board of regents board approved Max M. A A.

Swan, Pirmpf manasior of the Approve UN Attainment Fund Setup liilliorite lid To II oiidiiiff fit lllilellrs. School lluyiiiif Talent' A Achievement Fund" designed to aid students at the university who possess both attainment and interest in athletics," established within the University of Nebraska Foundation, was approved Saturday morning by the board of regents. The fund, created by a group of donors from all over the state, will create a number of $200 scholarships for students worthy of financial assi.stance. In cases of sptH'ial need, an additlmial $100 may be granted. Only male students at the university who are federal housing project at Alliance, as manager of the housing i project at a salary of $4,000 per year.

Swan, it was explained will also manage the city nousing project in the barracks area at jeaq piM Xtp aqi pus aqj a share of his salary based upon the proportion of housing units in the city project to the number fiperated by the university Sign Contracts at Once, Presidenf R. W. Devoe said he will riign the contract.s once, and L. F. Seaton, operating superintendent of the university, will go into Chicago Monday to deliver them to the federal public housing authority, which will then issue an order to Construction Lincoln, to proceed with the remodeling of toe buildings.

The FPHA will bear the entire cast of the buildings. Earl Cline, attorney for the board, told of changes in the contract which he has been able to secure to the advantage. One of these, he was a clarification of the clause providing that the university pay ground rental of $15 per unit. Change Made Necessary. The contract as originally: graduates of high by the FPHA, Cline cx -1 schools arc eligible for the schol- plained, provided for rent, arships bot the contract BasI, I bT'" "nl, the' change was made neces.sary.

The scholarships will be award- Another change secured by: ed on the same basis as Rhodes Cline was that the transformers 1 I Conferees Drive Toward Final Agreement On OP A Provision Erasing Meat-Dairy Price Controls Awaits Action SWITCHES HUSBANDS Song Irene Manning listens from a witness chair while a Los Angeles ludge decides the legality oi a Mexican divorce irom her next-to-iast husband. The court ruled she's still the wiie oi Harold Manheim, whom she thought she divorced tn Mexico in 1944, and annuied her marriage to her present husband, magasine Publisher Keith King. Miss Manning instituted the suit to clear up her marital status. (AP Wlrephoto Saturday.) Griswold's Cost Shown As $28,826 III Primary Campaiyns inhart Total scholarship.s. Qualifications be- lo the government vidcd in the original contract.

Bus Service. In discussion of the rousing Seaton declared. The board adopted a resolution authorizing Devoe or Vice-president Hascall to sign any and all papers any kind or character" neces.sarv to complete the housing project. Besides the 253 family units, the university will obtain from the government a dormitory which will house 250 single men. 5 To Share In Behrens Reward Money Two Three Othern Dir SHOO sides scholastic attainment and which provide electricity to the interest in athletics are literary hospital area are to be left there, attainment; qualities of manhood, i This was not speeifically truthfulness, vigor, courage, devotion to duty, unselfi.shness and fellowship; moral force of character and leadership instincts and -j ability; and physical vigor as 'be univer- shown by interest physical has secured (ive buses to' jgpQflji bring students into the university and return them to the According to C.

Petrus Peter- These were obtained because of who served a.s spokesman of the uncertainty of getting the committee presenting the Lincoln City Lines to operate plan to the board of regents, the bus line to the base, he said, scholarships -ire not designed to' would be a fine thing if we put the university into com- can gel the City Lines to run petitive field of buying football; busses out there, but inde- i I pendent of them if they Violates No Rules. feel there are some ath- iciic students who do deserve aid in attending school. Athletes should have some aid trankly and openly. This thing of handling it under the table is bad for all concerned. We think We have arranged it so that help -an be given frankly and openly as program.

We are certain it rioe.s not violate Big Six rules or the rules of the North Central Association of Colleges. scholarship.s will be al -1 located by a committee of five; members, three university facul-, ty members and two representa-' tives of the donors. The two donor lYpresentativcs are Guy Cham-; iH'rs and F. DuTeau, both of Lincoln. The board of regents authorized president R.

Devoe; and Chancellor C. S. Boucher to' designate the three faculty bers. I No Coaches Eligible. No persons connected with the athletic department at the uni-; versity will be eligible to on the committee.

Perry Branch, director of the Foundation, said: "The Cornhusker Achievement Fund is not an effort on the part of the donors to this fund to enter the University of Nebraska into competition with other schools which hire football players The scholarships established with the foundation are intended to help a student meet the increased cost of tuition at the University which becomes effective thi.s fall. The in most cases will just meet the costs of books and tuition. The fund is an honest, open method to help outstanding students interested in athletics to get an Qualiiies Ivcadership, big percentage of scholar- awards are based purely on achievement in high school or the undergraduate years of college. This is fitting and proper. But there is also another area of demonstrated capacity fCoaflnusd on Six) In his unsuccessful attempt to wrest the republican nomination to the U.

S. senate from incumbent Hugh Butler. Gov. Dwight Griswold spent $28,826, according to his expense filed in the Lancaster County office. The greatest share of the expense went into newspaper and other types of advertising and printing, including over $5,700 ia radio time, the three-page typewritten statement of primary expenses revealed.

The governor filed with the secretary of slate on June 12, a statement listing total contributions to his campaign at $9,132. Included in the donations were contributions of $1,000 each irom W. H. Vanderbilt, former governor of Rhode Island, and Anna C. Vanderbilt, address not given.

Wlshart Spends $6.880. Joseph Wisliart, who came in third in the race for the republi- gubernatorial nomination, expended $6,800 on his campaign which included $1,466 for postage, $1,680 for printing, $1,650 for stenographic help and $500 to his fConfinued on Six) NOTICE SERVED ON RUSS PARIS iINC The United StatCa, Britain and France were authoritatively reported Saturday night to have served notice on that the Big Four foreign ministers conference must result in agreement quickly. Othcrwi.se, the foreign minis- ers must have the courage to admit their failure. The momentous showdown was reported to have been staged at the most dramatic session of the Big Four mini.ster.s since their conference in Paris began. Molotov llold.s Back.

U. S. Secretary of State Byrnes is said to have proposed that the conferees throw their agreements and disagreements into a 21-nation peace conference to begin July 15. Russian Foreign Minister Molotov was described as unwilling to agree to this at the present. He opposed a similar suggestion when Byrnes recommended it at the last Paris meeting of the foreign ministers; at that time, the American statesmen suggested a full scale peace parley for June 15.

Byrnes was said to have bwn supported by British Secretary Bevin and French President-Premier Bidoult, who retains the foreign portfolio, in service notice on Molotov that it must be agreement- or-else. I.id Clamped Down. The report of Preiich move came while a lid remained clamped on of the foreign lers negotiations dealing with the blesoine Trieste and Veneeuela Oiulia problems The news blackout was report- edtr to perwOt Ihwater dom of expre.ision of conflicting opinions among the statesmen. Alter the afternoon sessions, which was marked by warm exchanges, one delegate declared are down. The stakes are on the table.

bluff has been called Principal protagonisis In the diplomatic drama at Luxembourg palace were Byrnes and Bevms, with Bidault lending more quiet but nevertheless staunch- support. Bvrnes reportedly warned that if the present painful progre.ss continues, the conferees still will be talking at the end ot 1947. AN AMENDED WAR POWERS EXTENSION APPROVED BY SENATE Specif ten tuthority To Set Price CeiUayn WAoHIN'iU -N conferees on the OPA bill Saturday announced agreement on all but four WELL NOW. LET Lincoln housswiis and hsr young son say hopolully. psering bshind this typical countsr as ihsy attsmpt to brsak thsir moatloss dlst.

Prsparsd msats bavs bssn tbs only answsr for soms days as tbs msat shortags, wholssals and rstail dsalArs assort, grows worss than at any tims during tbs war. I AL lltHayed To Aiiji. I Resumption of daily flight schedules out of Lincoln to both east and west coasts by United Air Lines will be delayed until rtugust 1, according to a telegram received by The Star from Chicago office Saturday, vice-president in charge of western operations, R. Pfennig, announced in a statement released Friday that the schedules would be resumed July statement said schedules will be drawn so as to make possible for IJnconites to take here for arrival on the west In the morning and in the evening, and in Washington, New York and intermediate eastern cities either before breakfast or late in the evviUMg. A last chapter in the Jim Behrens i.Bse was written at poi lice headquarters Saturday morn' ing when Police Chief Joseph I Carroll issued' a statement concerning the payment of the $600 reward offered for apprehending and conviction of the man responsible for Delbert death in a hit-run accident March 1.

After discussing the case in detail with representatives of the and organizations offering rewards. Chief Carroll announced that in addition to the $300 paid the two Oklahoma City detectives who apprehended Behrens June 10, five other persons would share in the remaining $300. Behrens was sentenced to three year.s in the state penitentiary after he pleaded guilty to a charge of man.slaughter when arraigned in District court June 14. Five Share $300. It was decided that Jim M.

Bowmaster, 2743 North Forty- sixth street, and Wendell R. 2936 North Thirty-eighth street, should share in the reward for their co-operation in reporting their cilscovery of the body and the testimony given at the inquest. police department greatly appreciates the fact that these two boys felt their responsibili- tie.s a citizens and gave us their fullest co-operation and Chief Carroll stated. their help and that of other individuals, the police department would have been severely handicapped in its work on the names of three other persons who aided in the case will not be divulged, Carroll said, it promised when the rew'ards were offered that informants would remain anonymous If they so desired Donors Thanked. extend the thanks of the police department to the Individuals and organizations offering the rewards, as they played a I (CoaUnumd oa Page Six) Pair Escape Jail G.I.

GRAND federal prisoners escaped from the Hall county jail sometime between 9 Friday night and Saturday morning. The break was discovered about 7:45 a. m. The two were Robert Eugene Peel and John Lloyd Cavanaugh who were being held in the jail awaiting trial during the next session of U. S.

fede al court. The pair escaped digging through the wall with a piece of metal taken from a light fixture. Both men were in th same cell. Identifying; Scars. Sheriff Herbert Hann described the escapees as Rober' Eugene New $486,236 U.

N. 8uilding Contract Let OInon Const ruction Did In Accepted The University of Nebraska board of regents Saturday approved letting contracts totaling $486,236 to Olson Construction Co. of Lincoln for construction of a new classroom building on the city campus of the university. The building, completely finished with landscaping and utility connections, will cost about $540,236, Ellery Davis, architect, said. Set Work Date.

Work on the class room building will start within five days aftey notification goes out that the contracts have been approved, Davis said. The notification was Iv- havG 'gone out Saturday afternoon. I.i 04 Moat MarkotN llavo Praotieally past week has been the i worst in the hi.story of the meat 1 much harder to get it, and had industry in Lincoln," a local to much more time trying wholesale meat dealer told The to buy it. Star Saturday, in referring to the They felt that the large pack- present supply of meat in the waiting tor the OPA city. Terming the situation critical he added that, big packer in Chicago kill a beef this week.

Eighty per cent of the cattle are going into the black He expected a break in the situation very shortly, certainly first of the month. Local grocers and retail meat de.ilers stated Saturday that they felt this past week to have been the yet. One grocer said that he had been able to obtain about as much meat this week as he had been getting, but that he had to question to be settled. and are expecting improvement by the first of the month. Housewives, too, stated they have felt the shortage much more acutely the past week.

One declared: situation is much worse than it was a few weeks ago. There is far less meat now. This week had to be at the store before 9 a. m. in order to get meat at all." Gun Cache 17 Aro Injiirofl Is Located weighing 168 pounds.

He has hazel eyes, ruddy complexion and brown hair with a diagonal scar across the middle oi his forehead and a tw'O inch lateral scar above the right elbow. John Lloyd is also 22 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing 154 pounds and has a very hoarse voice. He has gray eyes, black hair and a ruddy complexion with a one inch scar on the right eyebrow and a small on the right side of his upper lip. All the materials for the building except doors have been obtained, Davis said. He suggested the university proceed with construction of the building and use it if necessary w'ithout interior doors until these can be obtained.

Feature of Building. A feature of the building will be aluminum window casings, which Davis said will cost more than wooden sashes originally, but will be more enduring. am afraid of wooden windows now, Both were dressed in pants because the wood is green," Davis aluminum windows Shenf all over the nave' been notified to be on the look- Phanri-'llnr Rntirhpr out for the prisoners. THE HEATHER UNCOBN; snd warmer tonight: lowest near 69 tonight; Sunday partly cloudy, warmer, highest near 96. NEBRASKA: Fair and warmer tonight and Sunday; highest Sunday In middle In east; upper 90s in west, KANSAS: Fair and warmer tonight and Sunday; highest Sunday tn middle 90s in east and upper 90s In west.

(Lincoln 3 30 m. 3 30 ..............73 3:30 P- 3 SO 4 30 P- 4 30 m. .68 30 p. .............87 5:30 6 30 .............87 6 30 7:30 .............14 7:30 .71 a 30 ...........79 8 30 .73 9 30 .............779:30 .80 10 30 p. 10:30 11:30 ............73 11:30 .87 13:30 s.

m. Sal, .7313 30 p. in .89 1 30s. ra ...........71 1:30 p. .90 3 30 p.

.90 Highest temperature a year today. 71 lowest, 44 Sun rises. 04 a. 7 44 Moon 13.39 a. in 10,19 a.

m. Total raintall for June. 3 60 inches. Normal for June. 4 33 inches.

Chancellor Boucher, congratulating Davis on his work, said, had ho idea a month ago it would be possible to let these bids this soon." The bids. Davis told the board, include Venetian blinds throughout, and a great deal of built-in equipment. The board also approved the bid of the Montgomery Elevator of $19,089 for installation of an elevator and an electric dumbwaiter in the Love Memorial library building. A resolution to for bids on the proposed chemlcsl engineering building, to be opened July II, wm slso psssed by the board. A proposal to build 14 tennis courts on the memorial mall in front of the coliseum, at an estimated cost of 940,000.

was voted by the board. Chancallor Boucher explained that the armory, now under construction, hits taken some tennis courts out of use. and the new classroom building will halt use of more courts. Is no time to wipe out courts. We need more of them, not kss," he said.

As Bun Juiiips Eiiibankiiiont persons were injured and four of them hospitalized Saturday when a Pittsburgh-bound bus carrying 35 persons careened from the road near suburban Hays and plunged over a 20-foot embankment to the Pittsburgh Lake Erie Railroad tracks. The Bamford Brothers vehicle crashed on its side in the railroad right-of-way. Emitt Flavin, 28, of Pittsburgh, driver of the bus, said the accident occurred when a tie-rod broke on the steering wheel. Properties At I7tli. Van Dorn The property near the southeast corner of Seventeenth and Van Dorn streets, housing a food shop and drug has been purchased by Charles Harry and Sam Simon from the Sweeney Construction company and Zella and Hyman Rosenberg, according to conveyances filed Saturday with G.

Vaughan, register of deeds. The purchase includes the two stores with a 40-foot frontage on Van Dorn street and an additional lot adjoining to the east. Three separate conveyances were filed in the transaction. Zella and Hyman Rosenberg to the Simmons, lot 4, block 2. Axtell Heights addition, bearing $4.95 in revenue stamps for a consideration of about William F.

and Fay Sweeney, and Thomas M. and Lillian T. Sweeney to the Simons, bearing no rt'venue stamps and a con.sideration of but $1.00, lots and of replat lots five and six, block two, Axtell Heights ad- lion; and Sweeney Construction company to the Simons, lots replat lol.s five and six, block two, Axtell Heights addition, bearinq; revenue stamps totaling $27.50 for a consideration of about $25,000. The deeds were made out subject to the rights of the present tenants in possession. Apuuphs Resigns Front IJM Staff REJNHABDT.

HARPER RETIRING The board of regents Saturday accepted the resignation of Arthur F. Jenness, professor of psychology at the University of Nebraska, to accept a position at Williams college. The resignation is effective August 31. Also retiring effective August 31 are James M. Reinhardt, instructor in sociology and psychology.

and Floyd S. Harper, assistant professor of mathematics. Jewish Employes Taken In Custody Sixteen Jewish employes of a chemical plant on the north of the Dead sea were reported under arrest by British troops today following the discovery near the plant last night of a cache of illegal arms, as disorders which have gripped the Holy Land for a week appeared to be subsiding. The manager of the plant, Swerdloff, who earlier had protested that the British search for arms was costing his company $4,000 a day, also was taken into custody. The cache, a British officer said, included 19 pistols, seven sub-machine guns, a mortar, 20 ammunition magazines and several lhou.sand rounds of ammunition.

ex: Rsmaining to bs sstllsd ars Ihosa qusstlons; Ungih oi months, lull ally tilting controls on poullry, dairy products, tobacco and products at o4 this month. ol a board. and duration ol food The conferees will meet again Monday in an effort to clear up the points of difference and send the legislation on to the house, then the senate, for final approval. Expires June 30. The price control law will expire at midnight, June week from extension action is taken before then.

Earlier, senate Majority l.eadcr Barkley had expressed hope that the compromise bill might be whipped into shape Saturday, during the recess of both chambers. Setting aside the secrecy rule which until now has cloaked conferee progress, the committee authorized Barkley to announce agreement on these provisions of the extension bill: 1. Nullification of average price order was issued in an effort to keep low-priced clothing coming into the market. 2. Prohibition against imposition of maximum prices against wholesalers and dealers in version goods" such as automobiles and household appliances, which fail to reflect prewar trade discounts and markups.

Will Pass On Increases. 3. The Taft manufacturers pricing amendment, announced Friday. This calls for ceilings which reflect 1941 prices plus subsequent increases in unit costs throughout the affected industry. The increases would be passed on, dollar for dollar, to the consumer.

4. The senate decontrol policy: That ceilings shall be removed (Continued on Six) Butler's Expenses 22,919 Primary Campaiyn Cost Is Deported U. s. Senator Hugh Butler, who beat out Governor Griswold for the republican nomination to the senate in the recent primary, had campaign expenses totaling $22,919 and contributions amounting to $5,085, according to a statement of expenses filed with the secretary of slate late Friday afternoon. The statement of contributions showed the two largest, for $500 each, came from M.

Mumford, Washington. D. and C. M. King, New York, N.

Y. The only two from Lincoln were £. C. Folsom, $25, and T. B.

Strain, $50. Other contributions included: A. E. Johnson, Omaha, $300; William Hosford. Omaha, $250; William Raab, Omaha, $250; A.

C. Scott, Omaha, $250. 38 Contributions. There were total of 38 contributions, 28 of which came from Omaha. Largest single item of expenditure was for $5,257 which went on Six) Evangelicals Okay Proposed Church Merger With tnited Drethren Crash Injuries Frove Fatal To Superior Woman SIOUX CITY.

Vera Dudley, 70. Sv.perior, died Saturday in a hospital here of injuries suffered Tuesday night in an automobile collision near Berosford, S. D. The woman was one of four persons brought to a hospital here after a collision of cans during a rainstorm two miles south of Beresford on Highway 77. She deieptes.

suffered brain roncussion and The Rev. F. C. tbhnger, con- a hip KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) By unanimous vote, the 68th annual Nebraska conference of the Evangelical church here decided Friday to unite with the United Brethren church conference.

The Nebraska conference is the last such organization to vote for the merger in either conference, Bishop C. Stauffacher of Kansas City. oin -d out to the The condition of three other ference statistician, reported the Nebraska conference has a total 'persons injured in the collision I of 6,917 members, while Sunday continued to show improvement school memberships number 6,461. Saturdav. They are RusselL Average donation per member Greenlee, manager of the Bus ho- the past year was $29.61, the Rev.

tel here and described as the; Ebhnger reported, or a total for driver of one of the cars; Mrs. jail pu.pase.s of $208.752. Dorothy Greenlee, the daughter i Mrs. U'lcheP of Mrs. Dudley, and Mrs.

Grace! Mrs. John Wichelt, Lincoln, Reiser of Madison, S. pas.sen- representing the state gers in the car. missionary society, submitted the Mrs. Dudley had operated ho-1 annual report for that organiza- tcls in various parts of the coun-; try and for the last three years; The Rev.

ri. R. Knosp, pastor had operated the hotel in'of the St. Francis, church, Superior. served as chairman of the memor- S'urviving besides the daughter service for deceased pastors, are two grandchildren.

Funeral The service wag conducted in services will be held here at 3:30 memory of the Rev, A. G. Kerstan, the Rev. G. Stimson, Kimball; Mrs.

Floren Barrett and Mrs. Gasha Hemkin, both of and Anna M. DeVel, Grand Island. Rev. Riggs Attends.

The Rev. Paul Riggs, Hastings, was introduced as the fraternal delegate from the United Brethren conference to the Evangelical conference. He spoke briefly. The Rev. T.

H. Kampman, Grand Island, responded. Licenses to preach were granted to Doyle Hays, Eustis; Carrol Ziettlow, De Witt; Crowner, Blue Spring, and Don Miller. Rosedale. The conference ends Sunday.

p. m. Monday. Burial KhoN For ilMiii llc'ld Sal unlay Graveside were held Saturday morning in a cemetery for Mrs. Ann sister of Mrs.

John T. Dorgan of Lincoln. Rev, Harold C. Gosnell officiated. Mrs.

Wilson died June 16 at her home in Richland, S. C. She was 60 years of age. Surviving besides Mrs. Dorgan are a daughter, Mr.s.

Richard Merritt of Minneapolis. and two grandchildren. Mrs Wilson was the widow of Amasa Cobb Wilson. IRISH a out of his box at La Guardia fisid in York altar his arrival from aboard Scandinavia ol Overseas Airlines. Purchased In Limerick, by Normak McQuiiten of lamaica.

Long island, the dog is gilt for McQuillen's doughter. (AP Wlrephoto Saturday.) PermilN iNNuod To Build 10 lYow HonioN Building permits for the construction of ten new residences have been issued to C. A. Linch. The permits are for $7,500 per house.

All ten buildings are to be constructed in the 1200 blocks on South Forty-eighth and South Forty-ninth streets. CeriNuold, Jr. EndN Dwight Griswold, with 18 months of service behind him, returned to Lincoln from Chicago Saturday with his father, Governor Griswold, following his separation from the navy. The son saw service in the Pacific on Tinian and Guam. Governor Griswold delivered an address in Chicago Thursday before the national congress oi Alpha Tau Omega.