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tm EDITION PRICE 7 CENTS VOL. 85. NO. 1 TtWniHl CaS HA Ml Par Ctawtnaa A CaM BA KANSAS CITY, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 19432 PAGES Burn Victim Is Going Home tins Her Smiles Hide Memory of Pain Man, 37, Ordered From Tavern After Pulling Pin on Device, Takes Lives of Patrolmen, Bystander and Himself in Trenton, N. J.

AFTER SUFFERING BURNS TO 79 TO 80 per cent of her body eight months ago, 4-year-old Betty Shahan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Shahan. prepared to leave Childrens Mercy hospital today for the first time since her accident. Here she is in the arms of Mrs.

Ruby Bruce, head nurse in her ward (Kansas City Star photograph by John Vawter). TO HEAD STATE LIQUOR AGENCY G. T. Moran, St. Louis Lawyer, to Succeed Hollis Ketchum INITIAL STEPBYHEARMES Appointment is First Selection for a Major State Post By Henry Clay Gold (The Star's Jefferson City Correspondent) Jefferson City Warren E.

Hearnes, governor-elect of Missouri, today selected Glennon T. Moran, a St. Louis Lawyer, to become state supervisor of liquor control in the Hearnes administration which takes office January 11. Moran will replace Hollis Ketchum who stepped into the heated primary election campaign between Hearnes and Lt. Gov.

Hilary A. Bush. Voiced a Charge Ketchum alleged that supporters of Hearnes suggested that liquor agents ease up in enforcing laws against certain tavern operators. The appointment of Moran to replace Ketchum is the first move Hearnes has taken in filing the top posts in state government for the next four years. Moran, 45 years old, is a brigadier general who now commands the 131st jet fighter wing of the Missouri National Guard at St.

Louis. While with the Eighth Air Force in World War II as a figher pilot, he was a triple ace credited with destroying seventeen and one-half German planes in aerial combat. He flew the first U. S. jet fighter in 1945.

Among his battle decorations were the silver star, distinguished flying cross with silver oak leaf cluster, which is the equivalent of six distinguished flying cross decorations, and the air medal with three oak leaf clusters. Recalled to Duty He was recalled from law practice to serve as chief of the fighter branch of the 15th Air Force during the Korean war. He was recalled to serve again during the Berlin crisis' of 1961 to command the jet wing which he now heads. Moran now serves as a member of the tactical air commands air reserve policy committee. The appointee, a Catholic, will leave a law practice shared with Godfrey P.

Padberg and William J. Raack. He did his pre-law studies at St. Louis university and received his law degree from Washington university in St. Louis.

Hearnes called Moran a close personal friend who was active in the Hearnes for governor committee in St. Louis County. Moran, Hearnes said, was not recommened for the liquor control job by any political leaders but could have had political endorsements. Lost in Primary Moran was a candidate for Congress in the second congressional district in 1962 but was defeated in the Democratic primary. He filed for office while still on active duty at the time of the Berlin crisis and was not released until one week after the election.

Moran, a native of St. Louis, is married and has six children. He lives in an unincorporated suburban area of St. Louis Coun-ty- The liquor supervisor is paid $12,500 a year. He presides over hearings on alleged liquor violations and directs a state-wide network of agents who are (Continued on Page 2.i The Weather Cloudy Cloudy with intermittent drizzle or light rain tonight and tomorrow with little change in temperature is the weather bureaus forecast for Kansas City and communities within a 50-mile radios.

The low tonight will be around 49 degrees and the high tomorrow will he in the 40s. A MERCY PLEA BY KEMYATTA Congo Rebels Are Aske to Spare American Missionary WIDER DEATH PEHALTY Dr. Carlson's Wife Says His Aim Was to Ease Suffering Leopoldville, the Congo (AP) Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya appealed today to the Con golese rebels in Stanleyville to spare the life of an American missionary, Paul Carlson, threatened with execution. The message was directed to Christophe Gbenye, Congolese rebel leader, apparently at the request of Secretary Rusk, who had appealed to Kenyatta to in tercede as chairman of the African committee trying to end civil conflict in the Congo. Silence on Fate The medical missionary from Rolling Hills, was scheduled to die at noon yesterday on a charge of military spying, a Stanleyville broadcast said.

Since then the Stanleyville radio has been silent. I appeal to you to save the life of this man on humanitarian grounds, Kenyatta said in a message to Gbenye. Kenyatta, once pnt in jail by the British as leader of the antiwhite Man Man terrorists in Kenya, noted he had appealed Sunday for humane treatment for all civilians held in Stanleyville. In Bangui, Central African republic, Mrs. Carlson declared her husband, 36, never had been a spy and I am ready to testify categorically before anybody to this effect.

The U. S. State department also has denied Carlson was a spy. His Major Aim He wanted above all to ease the miserable condition of the Congolese, Mrs. Carlson said.

He never worked for American government services. Besides I don't see what he could have done as a spy in the little missionary village of Oussolo where he lived. She said she last saw her husband September 6, after he brought her and their two young children to the neighboring Central African republic town of Kemba. He could have stayed at Kemba, she said, but he preferred to return to Ouassolo where his patients needed him. The United States has warned the rebels they will be held to account if Carlson is harmed and Rusk said if the missionary is excuted it would be an outrageous violation of international al law and of accepted standards of humanitarian conduct.

CRIPPLED SHIP TO PORT U. S. Destroyer Tows Cedar Hill Into Matthew Town Matthew Town, Great Inagua, Bahamas (AP) A British freighter, crippled by fire in its cargo hold, was towed into this Bahamian port early today by a U. S. Navy destroyer.

The Cedar Hill was 500 miles southeast of Miami and 100 miles north of Eastern Cuba last night when fire broke out in hold No. 3. The 441-foot former Liberty ship was bound for Havana. It left Antwerp October 22. The Coast Guard said that the fire apparently was contained in one hold and that crewmen doused the blaze with compressed steam.

DANISH REPLY TO SPAIN Copenhagen (AP) Denmark has told Spain it allows full freedom of expression and will not prosecute demonstrators v.ho burned Gen. Francisco Franco in effigy last month in front of the Spanish embassy. AWAITING TRIAL Drinking Patron Was Out on Bail in Shooting of Policeman Trenton, N. J. (AP) Three persons were killed and one was injured early today when a grenade exploded outside a locked tavern door.

The grenade went off moments after John Christie, 37, a Negro, was spotted with the weapon in one hand and the grenades safety pin in the other. Christie was ordered out of the bar. About two dozen customers were inside. Met By Explosion Police were told there was a man with a bomb outside the tavern. As two policemen arrived, the grenade went off.

Christies legs were blown off by the explosion. He was killed. John J. Clowar, patrolman, 29-year-old father of three, was hit by the full blast of the grenade and fell to the sidewalk. He died later.

A bystander, Howard E. Leysath, 23, also a Negro, was killed he stood in the door way waiting to pick up a friend in the tavern. A second policeman, Roland Czap, 27, was struck by metal fragments in the arm and leg but got to the police car and radioed for help. He was treated at a hospital and released. Both officers were white.

The front of the tavern was shattered by the blast. Police said Christie had entered the tavern, in an industrial predominantly Negro section of this capital city, about 1 a. m. Difficulty With Pin He produced the grenade, pulled the safety pin and was ordered from the building. Witnesses said Christie had been drinking and seemed to have trouble trying to put the pin back into the grenade to make it safe.

Police said he was on bail awaiting trial in the shooting of a special police officer in August near another tavern. DIRKSEN IN PAIN Senator Quite Miserable From Vertebra Fracture Debary, (AP) Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-I1L), still wore a brace today as a result of a freak vertebra fracture and was reported quite miserable. Dirksen came to his winter home after receiving hospital treatment at Washington for the fracture, which his nurse said was caused by a twist or a misstep. But the senator is up and down a little bit, she said, and should be on his feet in a week or so.

FIRED OH BY SYRIANS Tel Aviv Says Israeli Workers Were Target Tel Aviv, Israel (AP) Shots were fired across the Israeli-Syrian border today from a Syrian position, an official Tel Aviv statement claimed. The shots reportedly were firec at a group of Israeli workers near Ashorah settlement in the upper Jordan river valley. No casualties were reported. Israeli sources maintained that three machine gun bursts came from a Syrian position, in the same area yesterday, aimed at an Israeli motorized patrol and the Dan settlement which was damaged in shelling during I last weeks border flareup. 'Unofficial.

Relative humidity 0 a SO par cent; 1 p. 79 par cent. Barometer reading, 4 a. 30.21 inches; steady. 1 p.

30.14 Inches. Precipitation in 24 hours ending 4 a. m. .11 ef an Inch. River stage today, 0.9 feet, rise ef .9 ef feet.

Lake ef the Ozarks, 4 a. mv 5.9 feet below full reservoir. Sniper Causes A Furor on Expressway Central Islip, N. Y. (AP) Pasqaale la Face was driving his station wagon in rush hoar traffic along the Long Island expressway when the ballet strnck.

I didnt know what it was, he said. Bat all of a sadden I was showered with glass from the right door window. I looked around and saw the bullet hole. La Face, 42, pulled off the highway and stopped behind an empty school bus and small truck that also had been hit. My first reaction was anger, he said.

Then when I was sitting and waiting for the police I became frightened. It was something Ill never forget. A sniper, firing from woodlands, hit six vehicles late yesterday and wounded two other persons, neither seriously- Police questioned several persons, but made no arrest. FOUR INDICTED IN DRUGS CASE The Krebiozen Foundation Also Named by Grand Jury 49 COUIITS INCLUDED Conspiracy, Mail Fraud, Mislabeling and False Claims Charged Chicago (AP) Promoters of Krebiozen, including Dr. Andrew C.

Ivy, internationally known physiologist, were indicted today for conspiracy, mail fraud, mislabeling and making false statements to the government about the product they claim is a cancer treatment. The indictment, returned by a federal grand jury, also named as defendants the Krebiozen Research foundation, Promak laboratories, where the drug was packaged, and Dr. Stevan Duro-vic, 59, discoverer of the drug; his brother, Marko Durovic, 64, a lawyer, and Dr. William E. P.

Phillips, 52, all of Chicago. Bench Warrants Out The indictment supersedes an earlier one which named only the Durovic brothers as individuals. Bench warrants were issued for the arrest of those named. The Durovic brothers are free on their own recognizance after their bonds were set at $500,000 each on the original indictment. The new bond was set ait for all defendants, except the Durovics.

Their original bond stands. Dr. Ivy, a leading proponent of the drug, is research professor of biochemistry at Roosevelt university and a former vice-president of the University of Illinois. The 71-year-old Ivy was named in 44 of the 49 counts. The maximum penalties on the individual counts range from 3 to 5 years imprisonment and fines of from $1,000 to $10,000.

A Research Associate Dr. Phillips was listed in the indictment as an associate of the Krebiozen research foundation. The indictment charges the defendants reported one Kre- (Continued on Page 2.) Phone Sunday Want Ads in before 12 noon Saturday. BA. 1-5500.

Adv. Next stop was the national zoo where Snow Star, a polar bear, proved equivocal. Its true she has a remarkably thin coat for a polar bear, bat her keeper, Albert C. Smith, had a theory abont that: I think she keeps robbing her hair off by scraping against the sides of her pool. Elsewhere in the animal By Harry Jones, Jr.

(A Member of The Star's Staff) OUR-YEAR-OLD Betty Shahans smile comes easily and is infectious, not just because she is finally going home today, but because she is that kind of an enchanting little girl and somehow has remained so despite an agonizing ordeal. Last March 11, Betty and her 5-year-old brother, Roy, were playing in the basement of their home at 5907 High Grove road, Grandview. They spilled gasoline on the floor and it was ignited by the flame either of the water heater or the furnace. Their mother said they were just like torches, said one of the physicians at Childrens Mercy hospital today. Her burns covered from 70 to 80 per cent of her body.

His covered about 40 per cent. They were rushed to Baptist Memorial hospital in critical condition. Forty-eight hours later they were transferred to Childrens Mercy, their conditions still critical. Today, Roy has been out of the hospital for four months and Betty was looking forward to going home late this afternoon, in time for Thanksgiving, her fifth birthday December 15, and Christmas. Behind her is a remarkable record of recovery, which has involved the transfusion of 23 pints of blood into her tiny body and 24 trips to surgery.

Her burns extended from the middle of her chest and back to her feet. Her legs were entirely covered by severe burns. Physicians at the hospital say that grafts of her own and her (Continued on Page 2.) FIND WEAPONS IN ZIMMER CAR Police Say Shotgun and Hatchet Recovered in Topeka SEARCH FOR GIRL OFF Arrested Man Refuses to Talk About Kidnaping Charge By Robert H. Clark (Th Star' Topkea Correworrtent) Topeka A shotgun and a hatchet were among articles recovered from a 1955 model motor car owned by man arrested in the Sat urday disappearance of Gladys Johnson, 7-year-old Topeka girl, police revealed today. Police today were making a detailed check of the interior of the car, owned by William Frederick Zimmer, 45 years old, Kansas City, Kansas, a switch engine engineer, who was arrested Sunday night at Marysville, on a kidnaping warrant.

Appearance of Blood Smears that had the appearance of blood were found both inside and in the trunk of the white-over-salmon colored 2-door sedan driven by Zimmer. He was arrested at the home of a relative in Marysville after his car had been traced through its license number as being the one seen where the child was taken from a North Topeka street. Laboratory technicians said the examination 'of the stains Should be completed late today. Meanwhile, Zimmer, held in jail here, has refused to admit any knowledge of the girls disappearance. His preliminary hearing in the Court of Topeka was set 9 oclock Thursday morning, and he is being held without bond.

Zimmer has admitted spending Friday night In Topeka. He (Continued on Page 2.) day they were married, Lyndon, 26, and Claudia Alta (Lady Bird) Taylor, 21. Johnson then was secretary to Rep. Richard Kleberg Only last week, entertaining the president-elect Mexico, Johnson recalled he and his wife had honeymooned in Mexico at Xochimilco, famed for its floating gardens. Together, the Johnson have been partners in politics climbing the long way to the White House.

Recently, Mrs. Johnson said she thought her husband was a remarkable man when she married him. I still think hes remarkable and I know a lot more about him, she added with a smile. Tonight, the Johnsons hope to celebrate the occasion in privacy for a change with the daughters, Lynda, 20, and Luci, 17. The 30th year of marriage is traditionally known as the pearl anniversary.

But the White House wasnt saying anything about what gifts might be exchanged between the President and his wife. Canaday Tax Evasion Trial Is Under Way Opening statements were to begin this afternoon before Judge Floyd R. Gibson of U. S. District court In the Income tax evasion trial of Lt.

Col. William M. Canaday, suspended police officer. A jury of 11 men and a woman was selected before the luncheon recess from' a panel of 37. Calvin K.

Hamilton, assistant U. S. attorney, indicated his opening statement would require about 45 minutes. Also representing the government are Russell Millin, U. S.

attorney, and Everett Trost, Internal Revenue service agent. Representing Canaday are Kenneth K. Simon and Kenneth Cohen. The police officer was indicted March 12 by a federal grand jury and charged with evading $4,933 in taxes from 1957 through 1960. Questioning of prospective jurors by Judge Gibson revealed that several other police officers would appear as witnesses.

Judge Gibson asked if members of the panel were biased against gambling, explaining there would be some evidence involving gambling. REUTHER GOES HOME U. A. W. President Cuts Short Stay in Germany Frankfurt, Germany (AP) Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, cut short his stay at the world auto workers congress in Frankfurt and returned unexpectedly to the U.

S. today. Reuthers departure reportedly was prompted by new developments, and especially strikes, in the American automobile industry. However, U. A.

W. spokesmen in Detroit said Reuther is returning to receive an equal opportunities award from the National Urban league in New York tonight. U. TREATY Ratification Papers Exchanged on Extradition Agroomont Washington (AP) The United States and Brazil formally exchanged papers today ratifying an extradition treaty which they signed January 13, 1961. When the treaty goes into effect December 17, it will complete extradition arrangements between the United States and every nation in the Western hemisphere.

Secretary Rusk and Ambassador Juracy Magalhaes exchanged the papers in a brief ceremony at the State department. The treaty lists 33 common crimes generally subject to extradition. FACE GEM CHARGES Two to Answer New York Indictment on Big Jewel Theft Miami, Fla. (AP) Th attorney for Allen Kuhn and Jack Murphy said today they would fly to New York to surrender on an indictment believed to name burglars who stole the Star of India sapphire and other priceless gems from the Museum of Natural History. Harvey St.

Jean, attorney for the two Miami water show performers, said he believed a sealed indictment handed down last week by a New York grand jury named his two clients. We will plead innocent, of course, he said. in their bones theres tough weather ahead. OConnor laughed and fell in with the gag. My kids have a Persian-type cat, he said, and Im keeping my eye on her.

Right now shes got a thick, beautiful coat. Trouble is that the coat might be described as due to the cats excellent health. While handing out praise after the football game on a rain-soaked field, let's not for-g the bandsman, slow ly sinking oat of sight beneath his tuba. PAGE MARKERS. Deaths Society 11 Womens News 12-13 Financial News 14-15 Sylvia Porter 14 Sports 16-18 Whats the Doctor Say? 29 Comlcs-Fea tares 29 Gown on Bridge 29 Editorial Pages 30-31 Movies TV 31 SEEK 19 IN MINE Sasolburg, South Africa (AP) Rescue teams today located the bodies of four African coal miners trapped by a fire 450 feet below ground.

The teams continued to search for 19 others. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS ON INSIDE PAGES Britain Orders Bon on Solos of Armaments to South Africa. 2. Prince Sihanouk Agrees to Talks Aimed at Settling U. Differences.

5. Weighted Vote Plan of New Jersey Senate Is Revolutionary. 10. Sylvia Porter Points Out How to Shift Income to Cut Taxes. 14.

Stock Market Surges to Now Record Highs With Hugo Demand for Du Pont Shares. 14. Hindrances to East-West Trodo Expansion Are Discussed by J. A. Livingston in Another Article on "The Powerful Pull of the Dollar.

15. Peter Snell Runs the Mile in 3:54.1, Lowering World Record Again. 16. Ozarkian Liked the Sound of His Distinctive Words. 30.

Support Mounts to Try Again on Bonds. Lead Editorial. 30. 4 Look at Winter Proves Confusing US WEATHER BUREAU 10UG-RANGE FORECASTS It Was 30 Years Ago Today That Lyndon Took a Bride IRS NOTE TO HARGIS Evangelist Says Tax-Exempt Status Threatened Tulsa (AP) Billy James Hargis, evangelist, says he has been notified the Internal Revenue Service plans to revoke the tax-exempt status of his Christian Echoes National Ministry, Inc. Hargis said he 'will fight the action.

Christian Echoes is the parent organization of Hargiss better-known Christian Crusade. Hargis said Clyde L. Bicker-staff, district director of the Internal Revenue Service, wrote him that the service planned to revoke the tax-exempt status on grounds the organization is not exclusively for religious, educational or charitable purposes. A TYPHOON BLOW Thousands Homeless in Pacific Island Trust Area. Washington (AP) Typhoon Louise hit the Pacific islands Trust territory yesterday with winds of 125 miles an hour, leaving thousands homeless, the Interior department reported to-day.

Territorial headquarters said no deaths had been reported. The island of An guar, with a population of about 4,300, reported 90 per cent of its homes were destroyed. TOO BLUNT IN PRINT Citizen Doesnt Want to Advertise Slowness Denver (AP) A citizen complained by telephone yesterday about the time it was taking to improve the Valley highway. Specifically, he said, he wanted to protest a sign reading: Slow men working. MaUody MeOUl'ey Eylar ramral Homes.

WootUM UnwM. Antioch Chapel and Stain linwd Adv. ASHINGTON (AP) A close study of many factors, including the jet stream, a polar bears fur, the stockpiling activities of squirrels, and the laws of chance, points today to an inescapable conclusion: The coming winter may be abnormally mUd, bat prepare for the worst. The U. S.

Weather bureau flatly refuses to say what the winter will bring. Weather science is not yet that good, it says. The most it will hazard is a 30-day outlook, issued twice a month. Now if the bureau could know now what the jet stream will be doing next January it might become bolder. James F.

OConnor, bureau meteorologist, made a valiant effort to explain the jet stream in words understandable to an amateur. It is the core or nucleus of a broad band of westerly winds which sweep across the Pacific and the United States, west to east. They fly high, at an altitude ranging from 10,000 to maybe 40,000 feet. Trouble Is yon cannot count on them to fly straight. If they snake northward in the winter, aver the Yukon, for example, much of the United States can look for earmnff weather.

If they meander southward, the storms imbedded in them, or world, some confusion has reigned. Squirrels hereabout have been seen chasing their tails as though it were springtime; they dont seem to be stashing away many acorns. In Illinois, blackbirds and bronze grackles were observed on a wrong-way flight, eastward instead of south. But whooping cranes, though diminishing in numbers, evidently are keeping their heads about them. Flying from Canada, they have reached their wintering grounds in Texas.

And 15 calves inspected on a farm near Emmitsburg, have grown especially warm coats. One thmg scientists are generally adament about. The explosion of an atomic device by the Red Chinese did not produce our long, golden Indian summer weather this year. Man-made blasts, even nuclear ones, are puny compared to natures stmgth. The Hagerstown, Town and Country Almanack predicts that there will be snow on inauguration day, January 20.

The Almanack makes no general forecast about the severity of the winter, bnt it does provide its readers with a do-it-yourself forecasting formula: If a greater number of spiders has sneaked into yonr basement, expect a high fuel bill. fl Washington (AP) I hope this marriage lasts, the minister said 30 years ago when the bridegroom, Lyndon Baines Johnson, was in such a hurry he forgot to buy a ring. They probably will laugh about it again tonight at a family dinner party in the White House celebrating the wedding anniversary. But, Lady Bird Johnson still keeps as a memento the Sears Roebuck ring hastily purchased because young Johnson goofed on the day of their wedding in old St. Marks Episcopal church in San Antonio November 17, 1934.

The Rev. Arthur K. Mc-Kinstry officiated. Their 30-year marriage milestone comes exactly two weeks after the election in which Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson were assured another 4-year lease on the White House. They got the election returns in the Driskill hotel in Austin, a spot of fond memories.

For, it was there Lyndon and Lady Bird had their first date breakfast in the hotels first floor coffee shop. It was all a far cry from the swept along by them, they may pkk up a lot of water vapor over the Golf of Mexico. This could mean umbrella weather later for many Americans. Well, if the weather bureau cant look very far into the future, maybe I better consult some animals, a newsman said. If they are growing heavy coats, maybe it means they feel 4 1.

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