The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • 1

I VOL. 126. NO. 32. KANSAS CITY, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 196328 PAGES.

PRICE 7 CENTS. Sun Leads Way to Zoo. (THE Morning KANSAS CITY STAR) Fflfl IMPORT DEMAND Bartle Is Told No Airport Funds Will Be Recommended Pending Timetable on Move to Mid-Continent. Conservative Party Leadership of the Canadian Government Is Overturned by a No-Confidence Ballot in House of Commons. FTC MAY PROBE GAS WARS HERE Rep.

James Roosevelt Tells of Plans by Federal THE WEATHER FAIR. Mostly fair today and tomorrow is the weather bureaus forecast for the Kansas City area. A little cooler today and tonight and a little warmer tomorrow. High today near 60, low tonight lower 30s. High tomorrow in the 60s.

State forecasts, map and world temperatures on page 25. The temperatures yesterday: On Inside Pages. Commerce Towers Pact Is Awarded General contract for $8,719,768 goes to Beck Construction company, Dallas. Page 3. Kill REA Extension Bill Missouri House utilities committee votes 16 to 11 against measure that would enable utility to serve city areas.

6. Big Plan for Phantom Air Force intends to purchase more than 1,000 supersonic fighter planes originally built for the Navy. 12. Women's news 9 Sports 10, 11, 13 Markets 14, IS, 16 Deaths 19 Comics, features 25 Editorials 26 Nows commentators 27 V) ACTION COULD FOLLOW Californian Speaks Before Missouri Oil Jobbers Association. BASKING SEA LIONS AND HONKING GEESE plus warm and sunny weather were attractions yesterday at the Swope park zoo.

At left Mr. and Mrs. Larry James, 3704 East Forty-seventh street terrace, look at the sea lions. At right, Mr. and Mrs.

James Bennett, 5515 College avenue, look at the birds with their 14-month-old son, Mark. JL Only a hint of a breeze blew out of the south and a slight blue haze could be seen as the sun set. It was a day in which coats were shed, convertible tops taken down and windows opened to catch the warmth. It was hard to believe the FEARS S. TRADE PUSH American Penetration Suggested as Reason for Excluding Britain When De Gaulle Drops Hints at Reception.

a money-ieed Reds Warn De Gaulle on German Aid. WHY NOT NOW? Agency Position Is That Transfer to I. Must Be Made Eventually. ACCIDEHT NOT A FACTOR Crash of Airliner That Took 8 Lives Has No Bearing, Official Says. By William R.

Graves. (A Member of The Star's Staff.) Mayor H. Roe Bartle was advised yesterday that the Federal Aviation agency would recommend no more federal funds for either Kansas City airport until the city decided when to move airline operations to Mid-Continent Interna tional. The mayor was informed in a letter from the FAA that the agency favors moving airline operations to Mid-Continent. The federal position was' the latest development in a controversy that has endured since November on whether the city should plan to continue use of the Municipal Air Terminal or move as soon as possible to Mid-Continent.

On January 14, the city council approved $2,883,000 contract to build new terminal building at Municipal. Mayor Is Surprised. Mayor Bartle expressed sur prise yesterday that he and the council had not previously been informed of the federal position by Norman White, city aviation director, or J. M. Beardslee, assistant administrator for the FAA here.

A letter from Beardslee was received by Bartle yesterday stating that, the councils deliberations may be influenced by the FAAs intent to withhold any allocation of federal funds for improvements at Municipal airport, pending agreement on a time schedule for interim uSe of Municipal and the transfer of major activities to Mid-Continent. Beardslee emphasized that the FAA position relates in no way to the airplane crash at Municipal January 29 in which eight persons died. He pointed out the federal government has invested 3 million dollars in the development of Mid-Continent. When asked to reiterate the federal governments position on the airport move last night, Beardslee said, We feel that ultimately the airport is going to be Mid-Continent, so our feeling is that if thats where it is going to be why not go up there now. Notified White Dee.

12. Bartle said that enclosed in Beardslees letter was a letter he wrote to White on December 12, a month before the council approved the $2,883,000 contract, stating the FAAs position. Bartle said he had not learned of the FAAs thoughts on the matter until yesterday. Beardslees letter of December 12 stated. This letter will serve as a notice to you WTiite that you should not proceed with construction plans contemplating the allocation of federal funds until you have reevaluated the current needs and necessities of Municipal and have furnished this agency the official position of the city thereon, including the time schedule of the interim use of Municipal airport and the transfer of major activities to Mid-Continent.

White said last night he had spent the afternoon discussing the matter with Beardslee and (Continued on Page, 5.) TALLY 142-111 Opposition Groups Virtually Unanimous for tho Oustor. FORECAST INTERIM ROLE Prim Minister May Bo Asked to Serve Until a General Election. Ottawa (AP) Prime Minister John Diefen-bakers Conservative government toppled last night on a vote of no-confidence assailing his indecision over accepting U. S. nuclear warheads.

The vote was 142 to 111. Diefenbaker immediately set in motion the machinery for dissolving Parliament and calling new elections, probably April 18. Announcement on both is expected after he confers today with Georges P. Vanier. Last-Ditch Effort Fails.

A last-minute attack by Diefenbaker on so-called U. S. in-trustions in Canadian affairs failed to save his minority government. The opposition Liberal, Social Credit and New Democratic parties combined forces in the House of Commons and voted the government down. Diefenbakers government has failed to retain its parliamentary majority in elections last June, but had managed to govern with the quiet support of the right-wing Social Credit party, whose 30 seats held the balance.

But in the end it was a Social Credit motion that defeated Diefenbaker. It charged that the government had failed to give a clear statement of defense policy and had failed to live up to its budgetary responsibilities. Pressed by Cabinet. The political issue of Diefenbaker, the 67-year-old former country lawyer, was left in doubt. Even before the vote, informed sources reported that some of Diefenbakers cabinet ministers were pressing for his resignation in an effort to stave off the governments fall.

However, Gov. Gen. George Vanier undoubtedly will ask Diefenbaker to remain at the head of an interim government until elections are held. Key issue in the Diefenbaker governments downfall was the delay in execution of Canadas 1950 commitments to arm with U. S.

nuclear weapons as part of the defense of North America. The issue was brought to a crisis by a U. S. State department statement last week criticizing the delay. Diefenbaker charged that the statement was an unwarranted intrusion in Canadian affairs.

The opposition agreed, but the Liberal party especially also agreed with the U. S. government that Canada should accept the nuclear warheads without delay. Canada has invested 700 million dollars in missiles, planes and artillery with nuclear capability. Lester B.

Pearson, Liberal leader, charged that they were wasted without the warheads. But Diefenbaker insisted on farther delay, citing changing defensive arrangements and what he called the threat to Canadas sovereignty posed by U. S. control of the warheads. The dispute split Diefenbakers own cabinet.

Douglas Harkness, defense minister, quit Monday and declared Canada During the debate on the no-should have accepted the nu- Unofficial. FELT SAFE WITH FORMER MATE Friend Was Reassured by Mrs. Audrey English Before She Was Shot. PISTOL IS BORROWED Edwin Dale English Gives Police Background of the Car Park Shooting. Its all right honey, he wont bother me.

With those words, Mrs. Audrey English sought to reassure her fiance yesterday that her former husband, Edwin Dale English, would not harm her. Moments later, while seated in a car at the Commerce Auto Park, 10 East Tenth street, English killed his former wife, shooting her twice in the head with a frontier model Colts pistol. Police said English fired the shots as the fiance tried to enter the locked car. In a statement English told police he had gone to the bank to talk to Mrs.

English about signing over title of a 1947 Chevrolet to him, and her fiance, Richard Peil, 26, of 8621 Wornall road, objected. English said he was walking to. the car with the victim when they met Peil on the stairway. He objected to Audrey leaving with me, English said. She got mad at him.

She told him to let her out and he got out of the way. English said he and his former wife were seated in the car and he had handed her a pen to sign the title. I started the car and the next thing I knew Dick was standing at the door, trying to get the door open, English said in his statement. Audrey tried to get out of the car, but I held onto her with both my hands. I told her I had a gun and I would shoot him (Peil).

Mrs. English told Peil to get away from the car because her MAN, 21, SHOT IN A HALLWAY Robert Whitworth, Is Injured Outside Friend's Apartment. BREAK-IN IS REPORTED Phillip Suddarth Tells Police Victim Had Broken Open Door. I PICTURE ON PAGE 1.1 A 21-year-old man was shot last night in the hallway outside a friends apartment at 515 West Thirty-eighth street. The victim, Robert Whitworth, 3601 Wyandotte street, a civilian employee at the Olathe Naval Air station, was shot in the abdomen at close range with a shotgun.

He was taken to the General hospital, where he underwent surgery. His condition was described as critical. Friend Is Questioned. Police are holding the friend, Phillip N. Suddarth, 20, for questioning.

Suddarth told Capt. Mark Ruckel, night chief of detectives, that he shot Whitworth after Whitworth broke open the door of his apartment. Suddarths wife, Mrs. Rosalie Suddarth, 18, said in a signed statement to police early today that she had been estranged from Suddarth since Sunday night. She said she and Whitworth iad gone to the apartment to get a baby bed for her baby, 14-month-old Phillip Suddarth II.

Victim Was Best Friend. In the statement she described Whitworth as probably the best iriend Phil had. She said she had left Suddarth Sunday night after he beat her. She had suffered repeated beatings from Suddarth. she said, and was afraid of him.

She and Whitworth went to the apartment last night in the belief Suddarth was not home, Mrs. Suddarth told police. She said Whitworth had called the apartment several times and no one answered, Suddarths car was not in sight when they drove up and there were no ights on at the apartment. Climb to Window Fails. She said she knew the apartment door would be locked, so she tried to climb through a window on the second floor.

Bob helped me onto the roof over the back door, she said in the statement, so I could raise one of the windows. I was unable to open it. Bob left there and went around to the front and I was afraid to get down off the roof, so Bob said he would go around and force the door open and help me in through the window. She said she heard Whitworth kick in the door, and then heard an argument between Whitworth Continued on Page 5.) V. numbing cold of last month was gone for a while.

The Swope park zoo resounded with a noise as the ducks quacked, the geese honked and the big cats roared their greeting to the warm weather. Stretched around their pool (Continued on Page 2.) General Says European Sales Sought to Balance Aid to World. Paris (AP) President De Gaulle dropped a heavy hint yesterday that his real reason for shutting the Common Market door on Britain was to bar further American economic expansion into Europe. The Ken-nedy-Macmillan talks in the Bahamas in late December figured in this new disclosure. The hint was reported by members of the National assembly who attended an afternoon reception at the Elysee palace, the French White House.

De Gaulle has been known to use such informal gatherings in the past to reveal inner motivations that are not always clear under his austere bearing. Cites Main Interests. The big affair at present, De Gaulle was quoted by deputies, is the international situation and the European problem. Making nse of England, America is seeking, in fact, to establish a vast liberal exchange deal with the Irish, the Icelanders, et al, De Gaulle was quoted as saying. Americans can no longer sell or they sell for nothing to the Africans, the South Americans, and even the Arabs.

They must try to sell to Europe, who would be able to pay. Of Prime Minister Macmillan, De Gaulle was quoted as saying: At Rambouillet (French official guest chateau), Mr. Macmillan came to tell me that we should unite our two forces, putting everything in common. Several days afterward he went to the Bahamas. Naturally, this changed the tone of my news conference of January 14.

Another deputy quoted this slightly different version: Macmillan told me, You are right to make a striking force. We, too, are trying to make ours. We must associate them in the European framework, independent of On this, he left me to go to the Bahamas. That was just ahead of my news conference and it changed the tone of it. The English always manage to appear respectable.

Thats how they succeed in having a certain influence in the foreign press, and in our country, too, in certain circles. Compared to Hitler, Mr. Macmillan, whom I like very much, had me compared by the English press to Hitler. He knows me well enough to know that this is out of Utt question. I have even been compared to Napoleon.

One deputy suggested, perhaps, mon General, you have rendered a service to Mr. Macmillan in the matter of the interior politics of Great Britain. De Gaulle responded: Ah well, he deserves it. Today's Chuckle. A husband who Is busy as a bee may wake np to find his honey missing.

(O 1963, General Features Corporation.) '7 Rep. James Roosevelt said here yesterday that the Federal Trade commission chairman in Washington told him a few days ago he would instruct the Kansas City FTC office to take another close look at the gasoline price war here. Roosevelt chairman of the House small business committee, said an effort would be made to seek remedial action if any new factors showed up in the FTC investigation of the problem. 280 Sign Peition. The congressman asked the FTC two weeks ago to investigate gasoline price-fixing in this area after he received a petition signed by 280 operators of the Mid-America Gasoline Dealers association.

Gasoline wars have been investigated here two or three times in the last two years. However, the probes did not develop any newcharges, other than those studied in other areas of the country, according to the FTC. Roosevelt spoke yesterday at the annual convention and trade exhibit of the Missouri Oil Jobbers association and later held a press conference. The meeting was at the Hotel Muehlebach. He said at the press con-fence that gasoline price wars were prevalent in other major cities, but they seemed to recur here more often than in most areas.

Big Losses Cited. Roosevelt has informed the FTC Washington office that gas wars in Kansas City over the last five years have inflicted huge losses on service station operators and driven many of them out of business. Speaking before more than 600 members of the jobbers group, Roosevelt said the independent oil industry was in a weaker position today than it was 10 years ago, partly because of practices by major companies tending to wipe out competition. He said that if abuses in the industry were not corrected, it was likely that legislation would be introduced in Congress to correct the situation. For Ban on Prartice.

On the subject of gasoline price wars, Roosevelt said there must be new attempts to eliminate the practice of dealer aid. Service station operators and jobbers should look to each other as allies, he said. In turn, he said, that alliance logically points in one direction, toward one remedy divorcement. Companies engaged in the manufacture of petroleum products, and their subsidiaries, should be barred from operating or owning retail outlets for these products. It is also felt by many observers, he added, that they should also be barred from the sale and distribution of tires, batteries, and accessories.

At a press conference following the luncheon, Roosevelt said the desirable thing was for the industry to eliminate abuses without the need for government action. Asked whether he thought divorcement was imminent, Roosevelt said it would come only if the jobbers and dealers became sufficiently convinced it was the only solution. Its in the hands of the major oil companies, he said, adding that if things continue to grow worse, if dealer turn-over continues at a high rate, something is going to happen. Two Factors Blamed. Cross-hauling and misuse of large storage capacities practices of some oil jobbers were condemned yesterday afternoon as contributing to gas price wars.

The president of the National Oil Jobbers council, J. H. Williams, of Tampa, 'in his first speech as national president to a member assocla tion, the Missouri Oil Jobbers association's convention, outlined the councils position on the issue. The Missouri association adopted a resolution supporting the National councils stand, (Continued on Page 2.) By James J. Fisher.

(A Member of The Star's Staff.) SUNNY blue sky and warm Pacific air joined yesterday as the temperature rose to a record-equalling 67 degrees at 3 oclock. It was a day just to stand outside and feel the warmth. Is Your Car in Good Shape? (An Editorial.) Mechanical failures probably cause more motor car accidents than the statistics show. Sometimes no one in the car is left alive to say that the brakes didnt work. that a headlight was out or that the steering mechanism failed.

Tires, brakes, steering and lights should be checked regularly. A defective turn signal can mean trouble. So can an ineffective defroster or worn-out wiper blades. Proper maintenance is a matter of common sense and sometimes a matter of life or death. BACK AS A LAWYER.

Contestant in Rigged TV Show Is Reinstated. New York (AP) Mrs. Vivienne W. Nearing, 36, one of a number of contestants who-took part in rigged television quiz shows six years ago, yesterday won reinstatement as a lawyer. ADMITS FUND GUILT.

Embezzlement Conspiracy in Bakers Union Told. Washington (AP) Frank H. Mykalo of Scranton, former vice-president of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers of America, has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to embezzle $35,000 of union funds. Sports Show at Big Hall Draws Crowd of 7,838. All the gear needed by sportsmen and travelers is shown at the Boat, Sports and Travel show in the Municipal Auditorium.

Yesterday and last night 7,838 persons attended the show, which will continue through Sunday. MeUody, McGilley, Eylar Funeral, Ltnw'd-Maln, Linwd-Woodld. Adv. lected for the research grants, Smull said. Each will receive base pay of $2,400 a year, plus additional allowances for dependents, over a 3-year period.

The number will range from four to 10 for each school. The university and the student will select the field, provided it is in space-related science. All students will work on their theses on a full-time basis, Smull said. The grants will enable them to get their doctoral degrees in a shorter time. We hope a number will elect to stay at their institutions.

The 11 schools in this area are among 83 chosen to train space scientists. The program was started, Smull said, because of the great shortage of highly trained technologists. Grants and research projects from the NASA total, about (O 1963, New York Times News Service.) Moscow The Soviet Union warned President De Gaulle yesterday that he had posed a threat to world peace by concluding a treaty of cooperation with West Germany. Moscow was understood to have raised the possibility that France might assist West Germany to obtain nuclear weapons under the defense provisions of the treaty signed January 22. The Soviet views were stated in strongly worded notes of protest addressed to France and West Germany.

G. 0. P. CHIEF TO VISIT. National Chairman Will Be Haro Tuesday.

By Joe Lastelic. (Of The Star's Washington Bureau.) Washington Rep. William E. Miller, Republican national chairman, plans to meet with party leaders from Western Missouri Tuesday morning in Kansas City. It is understood here that Willaim O.

Buffe, chairman of the Jackson County Republican committee, is arranging the meeting. Miller will stop in Kansas City about two hours on his way from Independence, where he will talk Monday night at a Lincoln day rally. After the Kansas City session. Miller plans to fly to Cincinnati. On his way to Independence, Miller will stop in Kansas City for about 45 minutes Monday and change airplanes at the Municipal Air Terminal.

DOUBT ON RED SPLIT. Reports That China and Soviet May Be Foes Discounted. San Diego, Calif. (AP) The commander of the U. S.

Pacific fleet said yesterday that Americans should not accept reports that Red China and Russia may become enemies. Admiral John H. Sides said that a coolness had undoubtedly developed between the two Communist countries, but he declared that their goal of world conquest remained the same. 92 Students at 11 $5,250,000 in the 6-state area, Smull said. About half, however, is at the State University of Iowa, which has had a long lead on the other schools.

Dr. James Van Allen, a professor there, discovered an intensive radiation belt circling the earth. Dr. Smull visited at Midwest yesterday to hear reports on progress in the various schools. Midwest has just completed a similar study for the NASA at 16 universities in the Southeast Conference area.

The project was directed by Dr. Max Thornton, vice-president and technical director of the instititute, who died a week ago Tuesday. Accompanying Dr. Smull were Dr. John T.

Holloway, chief of university programs. Dr. Frank Hansing, Donald B. Holmes and Jack Craig, all of the NASA. U.

S. Moves to Aid Area Science. NASA Gives IV 72 Million Dollars to Help Space-Related Work by Universities Including M. U. and K.

U. (Continued on Page 2.) (Continued on Page 5.) Half Past the Week Rosebuds Are Gathered Before Month of May By Bill Vaughan. (Editor of Starbeams.) BOY, what I hate is lack of confidence. People say, One swallow doth not a summer make. They think that when there has been a warm day or two you should not drain the car radiator, take down the storm sashes and put the dyed coney in storage.

There has been entirely more than enough of this timidity. People like this are the ones who when a girl kisses them they say, It is all very well for this girl to kiss me today, but tomorrow may be otherwise. A- "jc tAt THEY ARE THE ONES who when their children are good and obedient and do their lessons why they worry about how bad these same children are going to be tomorrow. When, after weeks of zero or lower temperatures, their motor car engine turns over, they dont sit back and take a sensuous pleasure in the roar and burping cough of the mighty eight cylinders or tell themselves what a wonderful thing it is to have a car that starts right off. No, they say loudly in the direction of the cigar lighter, Its about time you started, you dumb engine.

I figure that when it says sufficient unto the day the evil thereof, there is also a suggestion that if February gives us a sufficiently good day lets take it and hug it and pat it and roll it up and smoke it as a cigar. You know what ruins a good, bright February day for (Continued on Page 2.) versity of Missouri in Columbia and Rolla, St. Louis university, Washington university, the University of Kansas and Kansas State university. The others are the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State university. University of Arkansas, State University of Iowa and Iowa State university.

Under an experimental contract about one and one-half years ago, the Midwest Research Institute undertook to encourage industrial applications of space technology, as well as interest universities in a 6-state area in space studies. Smull said that in addition to the student grants, the NASA now is financing 31 specific studies at 16 universities in this region. They range from cosmic ray studies to the life The students are being se By Alvin S. McCoy. (Th Star's Scienca Editor.) THE United States has allocated $1,500,000 to help 92 students study science at 11 area universities.

The grants are to aid pre-doc-toral work in space-related study, starting in September. The program was outlined yesterday by Dr. T. K. L.

Smull, director of the office of grants and research contracts of the National Aeronautics and Space administration, which is putting up the money. Large sections of the Middle West, including Kansas City, have been bypassed so in the booming space age. The NASA is trying to disperse research money broadly throughout the country. The schools include the Uni i.