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VOL. 115. NO. 90. RENEWAL OF FAITH Story of the Resurrection Is Related to Congregations at Easter Services.

THRONGS DESPITE CHILL DAY Council of Churches Reports Attendance of at Catholic Events. 'GOD'S PROMISE TO MAN' Meaning of the Day Is Foremost, But Holiday Finery Also Attracts Attention. A cold, raw wind quickened the pace of the Easter parade as thousands visited churches on the chilliest Easter morning in years. The temperature at 11 o'clock was 38 degrees. The weather bureau said it was the lowest reading recorded late an Easter in the last ten years.

Snow on Easter. Snow flurries mixed with rain fell early in the day, making frivolous hats, pastel dresses and lightweight jackets seem a bit out of place. Nevertheless, paraders wore them bravely gay colors of Easter anstuthes counterbalanced the drab appearance of the day. A survey conducted the Kansas City Council of Churches, with 378 churches reporting, showed a total attendance of 213,682. Last year 401 churches reported an' attendance of 194,119.

The figures do not include Catholic churches, which also had good attendance. Also, some Protestant churches did not make reports. people went to Easter services here yesterday than at any previous time in Kansas City history," said Dr. J. Allan Watson, general secretary of the council.

The attendance in Kansas City was in Kansas City, Kansas, in Independence, Northeast Johnson County, 9,815 and North Kansas City and Kansas City, North, 5,307. The attendance by denominations: Assembly of God 4,030 5,057 American Baptist Southern Baptist ...42,957 Baptist, U. S. A. Inc.

12,722 National Baptist, American convention 2,972 Church of Christ 1,297 Congregational 4,638 Disciples of (Christian) .36,396 Episcopal 10,095 Mission Covenant Evangelical 350 Evangelical United Brethren 1,746 Lutheran, Evangelical National council 6,637 and Reformed 2,552 Lutheran, Missouri synod 5,947 Methodist 33,557 A. M. E. Zion 476 African Methodist Episcopal 4,258 Nazarene 2,821 Presbyterian, U. S.

A. 14,573 Presbyterian, U. S. 5,470 Cumberland Presbyterian 210 Reformed Presbyterian 46 United Presbyterian 2,025 Reorganized Latter Day Saint 7,535 Salvation Army 1,417 Church of the Brethren: 775 Unity 3,021 First Church of Friends 55 Free Methodist 65 Wesleyan Methodist 53 As usual, Linwood boulevard with its many churches was the main traffic artery but the crowds seemed to be everywhere. About 8,000 in Arena.

More than 8,000 persons attended a city-wide service which the Community Christian church held in the Arena of the Municipal Auditorium. Earlier the auditorium was the setting for a combination patriotic and religious observance sponsored by the Armed Forces council. Several hundred persons attended the program in the Music Hall. The service was to have been held at the Starlight theater, but the weather necessitated a shift. Some churches which usually.

have one Sunday morning service had several to accommodate overgrown congregations celebrating the most joyous holiday of the Christian year. Dr. Frank Johnson Pippin, pastor of the Community Christion church, gave the sermon at the Arena service. He said the miracle of Easter is in the gifts of God that we can neither earn deserve. "These gifts are the unasked, unearned offerings of God's grace, the greatest miracle of the ages," he said.

"The resurrection is but one of the many manifestations of this grace that showers us with all lasting blessings, great and small. The knowledge that this is always with us should grace keep us playing God and teach us to start trusting Him." The Gifts of God. The minister listed forgiveness, friendship, charity, mercy and forbearances as some of God's gifts. When we understand them, we know that the things we love most will be at the mercy of the things we love least, he said. "Just when we need it most, Easter moves in with sharp and sudden gladness, like the Dr.

Pippin said. "It is like 1 red roses to one who is hungry for beauty, the sea to one who has been in jail, speech to the mute, light to the blind, sound to the deaf, life to the dead. "If God had not given us (Continued on Nineteenth Page.) Shop us for best Wan Television. Jenkins Music 1217 (THE Morning KANSAS CITY STAR) The Ransas City Times, On Inside Pages. Rake MIG's anewRed planes are destroyed or damaged in Easter air battles.

Story on page 2. Pare truce task- Job has been tedious and long, but only nine paragraphs remain. Page 24. He wins a $50,000 farm-V. F.

W. award to flooded-out Kansas veteran. Page 24. Thrift: a mirage -All the hurrah about budget cutting likely to bring few results. Page 10.

A Harriman Hope- Willingness to get in presidential voiced Mutual Security director. Page 14. Not a candidate--MacArthur issues statement that he is not running for any political office. Danger in LapseSecularism is condemned by Jesuit educators. Page 3.

Into Safe of robbers' loot at W. T. Grant store made by police. Page 3. GI WINS HUTTON PAJAMAS.

And Not Only That, Corporal Wearing Them. With U. S. 27th Infantry Regiment, Korea, April 13. (AP) A happy soldier from Virginia perfumed is wearing Betty Hutton's flannel pajamas.

He is Cpl. Edward L. Hardy of Portsmouth, Va. No he borrow or steal the comedienne's nightwear. He won them.

When Miss Hutton visited the 25th division several weeks ago, she offered the pajamas, her sleeping bag, and an autographed picture of herself as prizes for a Red Cross fund drive. Hardy won the pajamas- -first prize -by contributing $51 to the fund. A 15-SECOND TRUCE PARLEY. Supervision Issue Is Put Over to Another Session. Munsan, Korea, April 14 (Monday).

(AP)-Allied and Communist negotiators on truce supervision met for only fifteen seconds today and then adjourned until 11 o'clock tomorrow morn(8 p. m. Monday Kansas City time). General Hsieh Fang of China opened the session by asking: "Has your side anything to say?" "No," said Maj. Gen.

William K. Harrison, the Allies' top subdelegate. "Since your side has nothing to say, I suggest we recess until the usual time tomorrow," said Hsieh. "We agree," said Harrison. CLASSES TO START AGAIN.

Reopening of Schools, Following Vacation, Is Varied. Public schools in Kansas City, Independence and North Kansas City will resume classes tomorrow morning following the Easter vacation. Schools in Kansas City, Kansas, and most districts of Wyandotte County reopen this morning. An exception is in Turner, where the schools will reopen tomorrow. Sessions at the University of Kansas City will reopen today.

Catholic elementary and high schools in Kansas City will be closed until next Monday, because teachers will be attending a National Catholic Educational association convention here. A WHITE ROSE and black worn by Miss Elizabeth Miss Marshall, who is a Kansas, Lawrence, was attending as a visitor. CITY, APRIL 14, CO-AHEAD TO TV Freeze on New Stations Is Lifted by FCC, Creating a Much Bigger Field. FIVE NEW OUTLETS HERE Two More VHF Stations and Three UHF to Be Available -One for Education. HEARINGS ARE PLANNED None Will Be Held Until July, and Processing Is Expected to Be Slow.

The government yesterday lifted a freeze on new television stations. In assigning channels over the nation, the Federal Communications commission allotted six to Kansas City, including channel 4 already (in use by WDAF-TV. It doubtless will be many months before any new TV stations are in operation. Hearings on permits, the FCC said, will not begin until July. addition to No.

4, two other very-high-frequency (VHF) channels were assigned to Kansas City-channels No. 5 and No. 9. The three other channels are in the ultra high frequency (UHF) range which the FCC is opening for general use for the first time. One of the channels, No.

19, is for educational programs. The other two, Nos. 25 and 65, will be for commercial stations. existing television stations were ordered to shift to different continue channels, to but use channel WDAF- No. 4.

One Channel Added. The allocation added one channel to the number previously assigned to Kansas City. Five companies already have made applications with the for, permits to operate stations here. They are WHB, KCMO and the New England BroadNo. 5 and company KMBC and KCKN for casting for channel channel No.

9. There have been applications for UHF stations. 'There is no limit on the number of applications the FCC will receive. Spokesmen for the four radio stations said last night they befrom several months to vedyear and a half would be required for processing applications and that they expected there would be no new stations here for more than a year. It was pointed out that there is more than one applicant for both the new VHF channels and that FCC has indicated it will start processing first applications from areas where there now is no television or where there is only one applicant for a channel.

In the case of several applicants for a channel, the FCC will schedule a hearing. Already Have Equipment. Two' of the stations, KCMO and KMBC, have purchased telecasting equipment for a station and have it in storage now, officials said. George J. Higgins, vice-president and managing director of (Continued on Second Page.) BA.

A 5500! Direct line to Star Want Ad Dept. So Easy! So Fast! Just Dial BA. Young dot veil trimmed the hat Marshall in the Easter parade. sophomore at the University of St. Paul's Episcopal church THE -WARMER.

Kansas WE City and Vicinity: Fair and warmer today; in 50s. Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight and tomorrow with rain likely by tomorrow night. Low tonight near 40; high tomorrow in 60s. map and detalled observations on page The temperature readings yesterday: 12 midnight 351 p. 40 a.

351 3 D. p. 3 a. 36 40 35, 30 351 40 35 p. 40 35 p.

10 38 12 nOOn 39 a. A year ago yesterday, high 59, low 37. Precipitation in 12 hours ending 6:30 p. .02. Highest wind velocity yesterday, 20 ml.

River stage 7 m. yesterday, 19.14 feet; rise of foot since 7 a. m. yesterday. Relative humidity, 12:30 p.

78 per cent: 6:30 p. 68 per cent. Barometer reading. 6:30 p. 29.92 inches; 12:30 a.

29.93 inches, steady. THE ALMANAC. S'n rises a. Sun sets 6:54 p. M'n r'es 11:10 p.

8:13 m. Moon phase -Last quarter April Morning stars- Mercury, Venus, Mars. Evening stars--Jupiter, Saturn. Kansas--Fair and warmer today. Fair east, increasing cloudiness west tonight, followed occasional showers extreme west late tonight and spreading over most of state by tomorrow night.

Warmer east tomorrow. Highs today 50s. Missouri- -Mostly cloudy northeast and extreme east, elsewhere gradual clearing today, warmer; highs today in 40s northeast 50 to 55 southwest and extreme west. Fair tonight, increasing cloudiness and warmer tomorrow. CONNALLY IS OUT Veteran Senator Does Not Desire to Be a Candidate in Texas Primary, WILL NOT FILE FOR PLACE Reasons "of Purely Personal" Character Are Mentioned in Statement.

Announcement Made After Visit Home--Attorney General Seeks Post. Washington, April 13. (AP) Tom Connally, Democratic senator from Texas, announced tonight that he "does not desire to be a candidate" for the Senate again. The 74-year-old Texan, head of the foreign relations committee, has served thirty-five years in Congress, twelve years as a representative, and as a senator. Statement to Texas.

In a statement distributed by his aides, and addressed "to the people of Texas," Connally said that "after long and careful consideration over the months, I have concluded that I do not desire to be a candidate in the primaries in Texas for renomi; nation to the United States Senate." "I have never made a formal announcement of such a candidacy," he said. "I have never filed any application to have my name placed on the ticket. For these and other reasons of ly personal character I have not and will not file an application for my name to be placed upon the ticket. "During my service I have come to know the stress, the crushing burden and the heavy responsibilities of service the Senate. I will not engage in a bitter, arduous and taxing campaign in order to continue to carry this burden." Price Daniels, attorney general of Texas, has already announced that he is going to try (Continued on Second Page.) Women in Attractive THREE GIRLS in springlike Miss Janice Blickhan, 15, of Janet Spaulding, 14, and Miss both of 6318 Morningside drive.

way of St. Peter's Catholic church. BLAST OF ANESTHETIC FATAL. I Brooklyn Woman Killed After Birth of Child. New York, April 13.

(AP)-An anesthetic explosion killed a young Brooklyn mother, Mrs. Raffelinia Manfia, the operating table yesterday after she had given birth to her third daughter. The child, delivered by Caesarean section, just had been taken from the operating room and was unharmed. An attending doctor who was unidentified was knocked unconscious by the explosion, apparently set off spark of static electricity acting on the highly volatile anesthetic, cyclopropane. SKY IS TO CLEAR TODAY.

High Reading in the Lower 50s Is Expected. ended City vicinThe is believed precipitations ity, Leon Schirn. forecaster, said. The sky will be partly cloudy this morning, clearing this afternoon, and the mercury will rise into the lower 50s. Tonight will be fair with a low near 40, and the high tomorrow will be in the 60s, with clouds expected to increase.

The .4 of an inch of moisture received here Saturday night and yesterday was the amount in the 2-state district. souri received only light Other points in Kansas and Mis: amounts. The temperature range here yesterday was 35 to 42 and the mean of The 39 range was a 15 year degrees ago below yesterday normal. was 37 to 59. The all-time low for any April 13 is 22 in 1950 and the alltime high is 88 in 1936.

Temperature extremes: Kansas, 27 at Goodland and 55 at Garden City; Missouri, 33 and 57, both at Kirksville. EASTER RULES THEIR LIVES. Biggest Event for Couple Is the Arrival of Triplets. (Service of the New York News.) New York, April and Barbara Ellen Siebert, who were engaged in Easter week, 1936, and married on Easter Sunday, 1938, had an Easter sur. that topped anything that bunny could dream up: Triplets.

Born the day before Easter in the space of four minutes at Flushing hospital, the babies were, in the order of appearance, Rudolph, 5 pounds 5 ounces; Barbara, four pounds 13 ounces, and Ronald, five pounds 7 ounces. All are doing fine. The Sieberts have two other children, Eric, 5, and Randolph, 3. Siebert, 34, is a company employee. CURB A CHOMPING CHIMP.

Trainers Psychology Ends Spree of Escaped Ape. Los Angeles, April 13. (AP)Dick' 100-pound escaped from chimpanzee his cage named at Griffith park zoo today and in a 3-hour romp: Bit a policeman's finger. Stole a woman golfer's putter. Floored three men with roundhouse rights.

Slapped dents in two motor cars. Climbed several trees. Was punched in the face by an unidentified man. The 9-year-old beast finally succumbed to psychology. His trainer got his car and drove up to Dick.

He opened the door invitingly. Dick hopped in and sat quietly in the ride back to his cage. Part of Dick's old act, you see, was driving in a tiny car of his own. Comic Dictionary. Luck: The only explanation there is for the success of those you dislike.

(Copyright, 1952, by Evan Esar.) Storage and moving. Local, distance. Allied VI. Costumes for Easter finery are (left to right) 6148 Cherry street, and Miss Judy Spaulding, 16, They are shown in a door- FURY OF FLOOD HEIGHTENS Crest of Still-Climbing Missouri Will Reach Sioux City Area Early Today- -List of Homeless Skyrockets. FEAR NEW PEAKS More Than 600 Blocks in the City Inundated as Waters Rise Two Feet.

OMAHA BRACES FOR WORST Thousands Work Furiously to Add Two Feet to Inadequate Dikes. For 100 Miles There Is Only 'Ghost' Valley--Picture Darkens 1 D. Omaha, April -The merciless Missouri river whiplashed the Sioux City, area with steadily mounting fury today and put downstream levees protecting the heavily populated Omaha Council Bluffs, area to a crucial test. If anything, the river was climbing higher, and rolling its flood crest faster, than previously expected. Predict Higher Crest.

At Sioux City, a revised timetable called for cresting early tomorrow instead of tomorrow night. And instead of humping at 24.5 feet, the peak could go even a foot higher, forecasters said. The reading late today was an unprecedented 23.6 feet, up about two feet since yesterday. At Omaha, the river stage surged past the 24.6 foot mark which had stood since 1881 as the record high. Forecasters stood, on their prediction of a 30-foot crest but scheduled its Omaha arrival for Wednesday, instead of Thursday.

Levees and flood walls protecting Omaha and Council Bluffs were built to withstand a 26.6 foot crest although freeboard (safety margin) three feet to the actual height. A feverish attempt to another two feet of height is in progress. Omaha's reading late, was 25.18 feet, about over the mark -four houre ear- lier. Most Have Fled. All up and down the river, especially along the 100-mile stretch between Sioux City Omaha, the valley was a of "ghost" farms and "ghost" towns, occupied only dirty, laden determined water and to a ride few it hardy out.

souls South Sioux City, capitulated completely. Only a handful of the city's 6,000 residents remained as the Missouri dealt flood devastation unparalleled in modern history. The muddy Missouri's depredations were part of a midWest flood picture in which at least seven states figured. The Red Cross, admittedly shy of late figures, held to its tally of 19,349 flood-displaced in the 7-state area including the Dakotas, Minne- Services. TWINS, Cheryl Gooch and Easter costumes.

The girls, E. S. Gooch, 1707 Concord the Linwood Boulevard Methodist photographs; another picture New Orleans Speeds Men and Sandbags to Omaha. Orleans, April 13. (AP) million sandbags twenty-one men from the New district, corps gineers, today for Omaha, to assist in flood fighting.

The sandbags were sent by rail, motor freight lines a and government truck. They will begin arriving Monday morning. The men left by plane. A second group of seventeen will leave Monday by plane. sota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas.

re This probably resents more than 60,000 per. in suburbs outside the city. Farms Go Under. In North Dakota, the Red River of the North approached its highest flood stage in nine years and second highest in history. Threatens Four Cities.

At least 920 persons had been in Fargo, N. and Moorhead, in addition to 107 patients removed from the flooded St. John's hospital in Fargo. Wahpeton and Grand Forks, N. were other affected cities.

At South St. Paul, an embargo on livestock receipts was slapped on the huge stockyards as the Mississippi river reached record highs. Dikes protecting imperiled St. Paul areas continued to hold but the river climbed to seven feet over flood stage and was due to rise another two feet by Friday or Saturday. The critical Missouri river area extended along 1,000 miles from South Dakota into Kansas and Missouri.

The water, barreling downstream with the force of a thousand locomotives, was the spring thaw runoff from ususually heavy winter snows in I An blocks Montana in and estimated Sioux the 600 Dakotas. City for square its suburbs were under water today, and every hour saw the creeping destruction take over more. Iowa's second largest city, Sioux City has 84,000 residents al. though some the flood hit were Downstream from Sioux City, along its Iowa-Nebraska reaches, the Missouri spread its grasping tentacles as wide as ten miles and more, devouring of farms. Gov.

Peterson of Nebraska early today invoked the provisions of the state's civil act. It had the effect putting civil defense leaders in charge of the floodfighting effort and freeing them of liability for their decisions. Gov. William S. Beardsley of Iowa asked President Truman to designate the flood ravaged western counties of the state disaster area.

At Omaha and Council Bluffs, with a metropolitan area population of 366,000, evacuation of threatened areas neared completion. Levees and floodwalls, designed to protect a crest of 26.6 feet as against the (Continued on Fourteenth Page.) Newcomer memorial may be on budget Carolyn Gooch, 7, had similar daughters of Mr. and Mrs. court, attended Sunday school at -(Kansas City Star on page 18). BRACE FOR FLOOD The Missouri Rises Swiftly.

Threatening Towns in- Vicini ity of St. Joseph, MANY FLEE THEIR HOMES Army Engineers and Civilians Aid in Evacuation-Rosecrans Field to Be Inundated. 28-Foot Crest Is Expected Here Monday, But Dikes Will Contain It, Officials Say. Small towns and suburban areas near St. Joseph braced for flooding last night as the rising Missouri river collapsed or ran over agricultural levees and inundated thousands of acres of farm lands in Northeastern Kansas and Northwestern Missouri.

The army engineers said the river was moving up faster than was expected in the St. Joseph area, and revised the date for the crest to strike there. It will reach there Saturday stead of next Sunday. Orderly evacuations were der way at Elwood, a town of 1,200 across the river from St. Joseph; at Craig, in Holt County north of St.

Joseph, of and at Sugar Lake in the vicinity Atchison, with all dents expected to be moved out by today. Move Off Rosecrans Field. Evacuation of Rosecrans field, the St. Joseph municipal airport and the site of homes of some forty families, was completed by volunteer workers using trucks by 7 o'clock last night. Col.

E. E. Browning, chief of the corps of engineers in the St. Joseph area, said rain turned earth in the vicinity of levees at St. to mud, and made it impossible to strengthen the dikes.

The Missouri had reached 19.14 feet here at 6 o'clock last night at the Hannibal bridge, a rise of nearly a foot from the 18.2 feet registered at 7 o'clock in the morning. A spokesman for the corps of engineers said crews worked yesterday to throw up an and barricade at the mouth of the Jersey creek box sewer in Fairfax district. He said the barricade was an extra precautionary measure, since the situation which caused water to back through the aling behind the levees in floods year had been virtually eliminated. Close Watch on Levees. Patrols were being tained on levees in this area.

Rescue parties and launches were being held in readiness for use at St. Joseph if the tion warrants. The engineers reaffirmed previous statements that there was no danger to Kansas City from the predicted crest. At St. Joseph, Colonel ing said 14,000 acres of farm land was flooded yesterday along the river in Kansas and Missouri.

Browning said the number of homes in the area was small but that all the residents had been evacuated, along with livestock and farm machinery. The ling occurred when farm levees either collapsed or were topped. Truck crews worked out the afternoon hauling lies and their belongings from Rosecrans field. Equipment of the United States tion there was moved out and private, commercial and Civil Air patrol planes were flown to other locations. Hope to Save Building.

Sandbags were placed around a new field administration build. ling, which is three quarters pleted, in the hope walls would not collapse. Doors of hangars and other buildings were left open to relieve sure from waters which are expected to be three feet deep on the field today. The civilian disaster relief committee of the civilian detense organization in St. Joseph appealed for space for storing furniture and other equipment being evacuated from threatened areas.

About employees of the corps of five gineers and some 750. civilians were. being used in evacuation and sandbagging activities. Browning said none of seph proper will be touched. Some sections of the stockyards along the river will be flooded, he said, but no water is ed in low-lying packing plants.

Families were being evacuated from the Kirschner residential (Continued on Second Page.) Every day more people are buying Goldman investment.