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4 TAR CITY MAIN EDITION VOL 73 NO 128 PRICE 5 CENTS KANSAS CITY JANUARY 23 1953-FRIDAY-34 PAGES HIS TAX 'SIDELINE' ENDS Bulletin Net Saves Frantic Jumper WOMEN IN HOLDUP SEE WILSON OK TV-UHFTDBEHEHE A 3-YEAR MYSTERY OF DISAPI EARING MAIL IS SOLVED Washington Jan 23 £he FBI Charges Two Assisted I Senators Predict Confirmation of Defense Chief After a 3-Hour Hearing (AP) The army an FCC Grants Station License to Empire Coil Company of New Rochelle in Robbery of the Rosedale State Bank Clerk in Florida Collector's Office nounced today that Gen Admits Taking Thousands of Letters With Payments From Taxpayers eral James A Van Fleet Eighth army commander KYES ALSO TO SELL STOCK SEARCH IS ON FOR FOUR 0 vll i Miami Fla Jan GETS CHANNEL NO 25 Equipment-Making Firm Was Only One Seeking Operation on Ultra Band Men Involved Among Those Also in Korea will be retired March 31 He will be suc Eisenhower Will Be Consulted on Any Dealings With Says Former Executive Quick Rescue for a Pilot Trapped by Crash in Japan Toky am 23 AP An American jet pilot was trapped in his F-84 Thunder jet today when it crash landed in rugged snowbound Northern Japan Only forty minutes later he was in a military hospital being trea'ted for a broken leg Far East air forces said two air-rescue medics parachuted into four feet of snow within five minutes after witnesses gave the alert They administered first aid and a helicopter completed the rescue The injured man's name was withheld Two medics with the aid of Japanese who had made their way through the snow removed the pilot from the jet For three years strange antics in the mail caused sleep Believed to Have Used Sec-i ond Getaway Car ceeded by Lieut Gen less nights for Earnest Over- Maxwell Taylor Witnesses Express Surprise That street Dade County tax Taylor a former resi President Plans Construction Start Within 60 On Air This Summer Feminine Hands Had Part in $50000 Raid Hundreds of taxpayers com-! REGRETS A CLOSED QUIZ Public Hearing: of His Testimony Would Have Been Preferred by Industrialist dent of Kansas City is the present deputy chief of staff for operations and The FBI today filed com plained they had sent in checks money orders and currency which were never received Hun Washington Jan 23 The Federal Communications plaints against two men and two Women in connection with the dreds of outgoing letters never administration of the army He is to leave in a holdup Wednesday of the Rose- commission today authorized a new television station for Kansas City dale State bank in Kansas City reached their destination Lost Sleep Over Mall "The disappearance of mail PEERING out of sixth floor hotel window he had broken: man stares at crowd below few days for Japan The permit was granted to Kansas where four persOns'took nearly $50000 None of the four Empire Coil company Inc New After a briefing at Gen BULLETIN Washington Jan 23 (AP) Charles Wilson was approved for secretary of defense today by a unanimous vote of the Senate armed services committee LETTER WINS PAGE JOB had been driving me nuts for three years" Overstreet said has been arrested eral Mark Clark's Far -The complaints authorized by Rochelle for channel No 25 in the ultra high frequence band (UHF) "I couldn't sleep nights because East command headquar AN INDEPENDENCE JUNIOR HIGH of the yelling of the taxpayers" Eugene Davis United States at torney in Topeka and filed be SCHOOL BOY TO CAPITOL ters Taylor will go to The permit for the new TV The mystery was solved yesterday Postal inspectors arrested Representative Hillelson Whom Korea to visit units at the front before Van Fleet fore Edward Delicti United States commissioner in Kansas City Kansas named James station here is the second granted by the FCC and the first since the freeze was lifted about Charles Lewis 32-year-old Arthur Ehlers Had Written Was Doubtful but Word Comes Through Calloway Fahnestock 21 years comes home probably a year ago WDAF-TV The old and his wife Mrs Billie early next month Star's station has been on the mail clerk in Overstreet's office and aaid he admitted taking "thousands of letters" over a 3-year period Washington Jan 23 Charles Wilson said today that as secretary of defense he will sell his General Motors holdings and consult with Fahnestock 22 both of Kansas City Louis Albert Sturgis 24 By John Cauley (Telegraph Editor of Tha Star) uenerai i ayior was of Clay County and Miss Virginia "May Iser 20 whose ad Washington Jan Arthur Many of the letters contained born in Keytesville Mo and attended high school air since October 1949 Herbert Mayer president of Empire Coil- company said in New Rochelle today the company immediately would begin surveys here in preparation for Dean Ehlers 14-year-old fresh checks and money orders Over-street said but Lewis apparently man student at Independence and Junior colleere in made no effort to cash them junior high school has received President Eisenhower on any matter that "might taking only currency a telegram from Washington starting construction of the sta Kansas City before going to West Point in 1918 The actual money loss he said be the subject of misun wasn't large which said "pleased to report your appointment as a Capitol page has been confirmed" The "They were all small amounts" derstanding" because of he said "I believe the largest URGENCY IN NAMES TOO was $20 But all those people his former connection sender was Jeffrey Hillelson Decatur Police Are Inclined to and many were poor had to pay! with the automobile firm again tion A Tentative Site "We are trying to determine the best possible site although one tentatively has been selected" he said Mayer said the company hoped to start construction of the building and tower within thirty to sixty days Plans are to get on the air sometime this summer he said "probably in Believe Women in Wreck Decatur 23 (AP)- Wilson left the Senate armed dress was not disclosed Seek a Car Too Earlier reports of the holdup asserted that four young men wearing tan corduroy hunting caps had accomplished the robbery The complaints filed today against Mrs Fahnestock and Miss Iser were the first indications that women had a part in the theft The FBI also is seeking a 1949 model yellow Buick convertible with a black top owned by Sturgis The license is a Missouri tag' No M-61-731 It is believed this car was used by the bandits after they abandoned a 1948 model red Buick used after leaving the bank and driving to a point one and one-half miles away in Kansas City Kansas Get 1650 Complaints "We've been averaging 150 Police sped to a street inter services committee after being ROYAL RC0M complaints a year from people questioned by members for near section yesterday in response to a report of a collision be who said they had sent us ly three hours and gave re money orders and 400 a year COCKTAIL tOU 5 porters a statement he said he tween two motor cars No one was injured The drivers both women told police they were from persons who said they had July mailed checks' made to the senators a hurry Lewis refused to say what he if i Expect Confirmation They identified themselves as had done with the letters Over- Ellen Rush 37 and Leona Quick Early approval of Wilson's 30 nomination for the Defense post street said but they were found in the basement of the courthouse in a room where tax records are kept i "We have been trying to arrange for equipment and the tower and do not expect much difficulty" Mayer said "The steel situation could be a hitch however" Empire Coil company was granted the first UHF permit issued following lifting last April of the 3Vi year freeze on TV was forecast by some senators TO PUNISH PRISON RIOTERS The complaints charging vio as a result of Wilson's reversal we hit the jackpot down Pennsylvania Governor Orders of his previous refusal to dis Action Against leaders pose of more than million there We were hours pulling letters out from behind boxes and tax books on the shelves" dollars' worth of General Motors Bellefonte Pa Jan 23 (AP) stock Postal inspectors said Lewis Wilson said that Roger took outgoing as well as incoming mail More than 2000 oc Gov John Fine sent state officials into action today "to punish the culprits" of the Rock-view prison riot stations It was for KPTV Portland Ore The company purchased the equipment of an A experimental station flew it to Portland and was on the air September 18 three Kyes designated as his chief deputy also would dispose of his cupational licenses mailed out ARMS OUTSTRETCHED he starts plunge after slipping from window ledge The 325 rebel convicts sur of the office in recent months rendered unconditionally last holdings The text of Wilson's state were found in the basement cache weeks after construction was night after a 72-hour uprising at the Central Pennsylvania ment: Lewis was charged with open started It was the first commercial UHF station in the "Mr Chairman and members ing and detaining mail He prison iney released un harmed six guards who hadjwas to be arraigned today before of the committee: He's Thrilled at Being Named Pace Boy nr the Hotrss or Representatives Arthur Ehlers (Kansas City Star photograph) a SV commissioner been held captive since Monday "I appreciate this opportunity night Postal inspectors solved the of again appearing before you world Plan Office Soon "Mayer said the company expected to open an office in Kansas City in about a month The company manufactures radio As an inquiry got under way with reference to my designa the governor told a newsman by mystery by counting the letters for the collector's office before Lewis went to the postoffice to lation of the federal bank robbery statute issued following investigation work conducted by the FBI in close cooperation with the Kansas City and Kansas City Kansas police departments and other law enforcement agencies A Robey special agent in charge of the FBI here said Say Hair Is Concealed Robey asserted that bank employees and customers had identified the bandits as men -but that later investigation revealed that two women were involved The wpmen apparently concealed their identity by wearing their hair" on top of their heads and hiding it beneath the hunting caps Robey said The four bandits rounded up sixteen employees and customers in the bank and forced them ta remain in a vault while they took the cash from tellers' cages The- FBI said the four persons were armed at the time of the holdup and should be considered dangerous Fahnestock was described as 5 feet 8 inches tall 140 pounds blue eyes and red tion as secretary of defense also of Independence fourth dis telephone from Hamsburg: "In these days when the trict representative in Congress Of course we re going to pick them up as usual whole free world is faced with and television equipment punish the culprits Thitf inves Young Ehlers is the son of Mr When he delivered the letters The Empire application was much serious problems it is im tigation is intended to prosecute Overstreet said he turned over and Mrs Paul Simons of 220 perative that the Department of the only one for a UHF station filed for Kansas City the ringleaders South Pendleton street Defense have the united support less than half the number picked up at the postoffice There are four other applica of the people of our country TOWARD NET HELD BY FIREMEN the jumper hurtles Firemen just had spread net and braced themselves for door for police or hotel employees police said-' Firemen were summoned about twenty minutes before the man plunged from the window He clung to the outside portion of the window sill for about one minute before he dropped A crowd of about 200 persons had gathered below Attendants at City hospital said Vail's hands were severely cut apparently when he smashed the windows Police who attempted to question Vail at the hospital said he was incoherent TRUMAN ORDER "VERY KIND" ST Louis Jan 23 (AP) A 50-year-old man hung from a 6th-floor window sill by his fingertips at the Warwick hoteltoday and then while a horrified crowd looked on plunged into a firemen's net below (The picture shows him in mid-air falling Below him firemen are braced holding their net to receive him) Attendants at City hospital reported the man was severely but not critically injured Police identified the man as Elmer Vail of Pontiac 111 He had registered from Gibson City 111 The man first broke out windows in his room and then called for police Later he refused to unlock his hotel room Asked to Be Page tions pending for very high fre To Dispose of Stock JILTING RESULTS IN SUICIDE The youth had written Hillel Major Eisenhower Is Gratef nl for "In order to achieve this ob Inauguration Recall Bor 1 5 Shoots Himself After son asking for the job Being a quency (VHF) stations here KMBC and WHB have applied for VHF channel 9 and KCMO jective I have decided after loosing Girl 13 freshman member of Congress Highland Falls Jan 23 carefully considering the mat and KCKN have applied for Hillelson had doubts about being Mai John Eisenhower ter to dispose of all of the Gen Washington Jan 23 (AP) -Michael Eugene Adkins 15 fa able to place Arthur But yester said today he was "quite per channel 5 WDAF-TV operates on channel 4 The New England eral Motors stock which I now own and any wrhieh I am en day Hillelson received a letter nlexed over his recall irom Television company's applica tally shot himself yesterday after being jilted by his 13-year- from the House Patronage com Korea to attend his father's in titled to receive in the future mittee informing him that he auguration until he learned that tion for channel 5 was dismissed by the FCC earlier this week under rights which accrue to old girl friend His sister Linda 12 found him former President Truman had was entitled to appoint one Capitol employee Immediately The FCC also has made avail ordered him home me on the termination of my employment Mr Kyes has hair his wife as 5 feet 2 inches dying in the family apart "It was very kind of Mr Tru he put in the name of his youth tall 120 pounds blue eyes and ment authorized me to tell you that ful Independence constituent Police said Michael's girl able for Kansas City two more UHF 19 and 65 Channel 19 has been set aside for educational programs No ap man and i appreciate nis thoughtfulness" young Eisen he will do the same thing blond hair Sturgis as 5 feet 9 Inches tall 150 pounds brown hair and eyes and Miss Iser as friend left the apartment about Arthur worked in Republican headquarters in Independence "If during my term of office hower said "It was a complete ten minutes before the shoot I must deal with any matter of plications have been filed so far surprise" during the last campaign ing after telling him all was off business which I may fee 5 feet 6 inches tall 105 pounds blue eves and long blond hair for the two remaining UHF The major will return to Korea The gross salary of a Capitol between them might be the subject of misun Wednesday page is $342273 a year and Davis recommended that bond of $50000 be set on each com derstanding on account of my House officials estimate the previous relationship with Gen PROBE AIR BASE BEATING "take home" pay as $239 a eral Motors corporation I have plaint returnable in Topeka Question a Brother month From that amount Ar SNOW FLURRIES IN TONIGHT Bureau Does Not Expect Heavy been assured of the privilege of discussing the matter fully with Federal Officials Checking an As thur must provide his own travel fare and his living expenses while here He gets no additional sault at Grandview the President of the United George Fahnestock 26 a brother of James Fahnestock was questioned Wednesday afternoon following the hold-up Fall for Area States with reference to any ac allowances Being a page is no soft job Federal officials reported to Thi south sections of Kansas tion that may be taken "I regret exceedingly any in But since he had been released day they are investigating the Citv had a light fall of snow this from the county jail here only True Arthur will come into contact with famous men but he beating a week ago of a carpen terpretation that may have been morninc and snow flurries are ter foreman at the Grandview placed on my previous testi likelv in this area tonight but a few minutes before the bank holdup it was discovered that he had a sufficient alibi and he must be at the Capitol page school to continue his regular air force base mony not consistent with what I the area of heavy snowfall is Carroll Clark Davis 28 years have outlined here For that well to the east and soutn oi was not arrested old the victim was released here Georee Fahnestock is free on reason I am grateful to the members of this committee for this afternoon from the Inde The weather bureau reported pendence sanitarium He had bond He has been charged in connection with a holdup Jan the opportunity of making per education at 6:15 o'clock in the morning Classes are over at 10:45 o'clock Classrooms are in the library of Congress The page school has regular high school curricula and is a part of the school system of the District of that Columbia had a full inch of channels The UHF frequency band provided for TV by the FCC following the lifting of the freeze was to give "air space" for some seventy additional TV channels There are only twelve channels in the VHF band The freeze was put on because it was found that allocations in the VHF band were so arranged that stations on the same channel were interfering with one another Instead of going into the channel allocation problem the FCC concerned itself with the color TV situation for more than two years New Spacings Made After the color matter was sidetracked the FCC went back to the allocation problem which resulted in the announcing of revised channel spacings and the new UHF band The large majority of sets in the Kansas City area will not receive the UHF signal without the addition of adapters costing from $10 to $40 The newer sets manufactured since the freeze was lifted are equipped to take a UHF tuning strip or adapter MMlkjl -H" I II been under treatment there fectly clear the full spirit of my snow by noon while Moberly uary 9 at the State Line tavern since last Friday for a fractured concept of the responsibility I had received three inches in tnat nose and cheekbone Both he and his brother have been involved in other robberies period A large storm that moved across Arkansas earlv today David A Thompson assistant have been asked to undertake Confirmation Expected Columbia There are fifty pages here United States attorney said a in the House and twenty in the shifted its course eastward elim- At the bank today employees Chairman Saltonstall (R- complaint has not yet been filed inatinsr earlv prospect for snow and officers were startled to against the assailant However Straight to Work in Kansas city ana XNonnwest Mass) of the committee forecast the vote expected later to learn that two women are be Missouri he said the FBI is continuing an investigation to determine if lieved to- have participated day would be favorable Skies are forecast to be part the raid Clarence A McCabe the federal government has The chairman also told report When school is finished for the day Arthur must report to the floor of the House take a seat in the rear and be ready to answer the call of any member It may ly cloudy over the week end risdiction If it has he said a ers Wilson had agreed to dis assistant cashier said he saw and heard two of the intruders The hizh temperature tomor complaint will be filed pose of his stock by April row should be between 3fr and and that one had a "very modu Davis called at his home ac be to take a bill to the hopper 35 degrees with an outlook of 30 He said Wilson said he would give a "small percentage" of it lated voice" and could have knowledged the fact he was beaten on the project and that go to a member's office and get his glasses or run an errand to been a woman to his children and grandchildren he was taken to the sanitarium and sell the remainder the mercury climbing to around 40 Sunday The low tonight should be between 20 and 25 degrees The low tomorrow the document room When he is with severe injuries He de "Mr Wilson emphasized that Trego executive vice-president said he saw only one of the bandits and he was sure It was a man Lowell Nail Two models are built with UHF a little more experienced Arthur will have to answer the phone clined to name his assailant or he is out of General Motors night probably will be in the middle 20s to furnish further details and perhaps tell an absent mem tuners as standard equipment Since the freeze was ended lock stock and barrel and has He is a member of local No ber what is being discussed on "Hiphwav conditions in Mis cashier asserted he saw and heard three or four bandits and heard two of them speak Nail FIREMEN START AWAY after catching Vail who is seen held in the net He was still-incoherent when treated at the hospital (Wirephotos) the floor 61 of the carpenters union and no intentions of returning" Sal tonstall said the FCC has been granting applications for new stations to those A page must wear a black suit an employee of the Bam Service areas which previouslv did not Before going into the session souri and Kansas were becoming perilous especially so in Southeast Kansas- where sleet and snow have left a slick blanket said each of the robbers was "very young looking" and that white shirt black tie black shoes and hose Most pages live and Equipment company a sub contractor on the job have TV and where there was with the senators this morning FOUR ROB BANK IN ALABAMA CABINET MEETS TWO HOURS no contest over the channels in private homes near the Accounts indicated Davis was Wilson said he would have pre on roads That condition ex UHF applications also have been the women could have concealed their hair in the hunting caps which were worn with earflaps Capitol hauling a wooden construction 'Large Sum" Taken by Unmasked Men in Birmingham tends from the Oklahoma and ferred to give his testimony at a Ordinarily a page working form from one part of a job to granted where there was no contest regardless of whether the Missouri lines on the south and oast Yates Center on the west Topics Will Not Be Revealed Vice-President Reports Washington Jan 23 President Eisenhower and his day is finished at 3 o'clock in down Mrs Josette Ford a bank era another when he was assaulted public hearing1 Senator Taft of Ohio Repub community previously had a TV the afternoon but if the session and Louisburg on the norm station CASE AGAINST NEWSMAN OUT drags on he must stay If the ploy ee who drew a sketch of one of the bandits said today she lican leader said he would try for final Senate action on Wilson House is not in session he does cabinet held their first formal Judge Dismisses Indictment Over THE WEATHER CLOUDY errands or helps members with meeting a 2-hour and 10- next Monday If the committee doesn't re their office chores Posing: as Government Official Washington Jan 23 (AP) A minute session from which the 12 midnight 30 1 a 29 2 a 29 1 a 29 Age I jmit of 14 port the nomination to the Senate today he added he will ask the a Tti 29 9 a 29 10 a 30 11 a 30 -32 1 33 Officially pages are on the 4 a 29 district judge today threw out an indictment accusing Ray Senate to meet tomorrow to re 5 a 30 Birmingham Ala Jan 23 Four armed unmasked men robbed a westside branch bank today A customer was struck on the head and injured An official of the First National bank's west end branch said the men took "everything but the silver" He added that it was "a large sum" but the total was not known immediately The four men walked into the bank about 10 o'clock brand 291 2 33 Some Will Take Long Next in order will be areas which do not have television but which have applications in excess of the number of station applications Then will come areas such as Kansas City which have TV but where there are more applicants than available channels These probably will require lengthy hearings The latest compilation shows pay roll until July 31 of each year but if the House stays in ceive it Under the rules the new "administration's high command departedt under orders not to talk Vice-President Nixon told reporters it is the understanding Brennan Chicago Sun-Times re 30 6 a 7 a ra nomination has to lay over a day porter of posing as a govern session after that date a resolu tion must be adopted to continue Kansas City and Vicinity: before action can be taken Meanwhile Eisenhower's nom ment official to get secret Senate committee testimony them on the job that there will be no mention Judge Charles McLaughlin A page must be at least 14 even of general subject matters inees for three top-rank jobs in the Commerce department won quick and unanimous approval dismissed the indictment after years old to "get on the rolls but had a good look at only one of the robbers and drew the sketch of that individual Sure of One She Saw "I'm sure he was a man" she said "His features were too rugged to be a woman" She expressed surprise that women had participated in the robbery Another holdup in Kansas City today in which four men wore hunting caps was being investigated by the police In that robbery a service station operator lost $3530 The FBI said it could not comment at this time whether there was any connection between the bank and the iervice station robberies Storage and moving Local long distance Allied Agts ABC VI Ad about what happens iii cabinet government attorneys said it there is no limit on how long he was highly questionable a con can stay if he likes Several meetings from the Senate commerce com mittee viction could be obtained without ishing pistols They crisply pages attend college at night The nominees who will serve that 127 video stations are in operation in seventy-nine cities Nineteen new stations have gone on the air since the lifting of the freeze in fourteen areas previously without TV Six of the new here Two are married and have using Brennan's own testimony Snow flurries likely tonight Partly" cloudy tomorrow with little change in temperature Low tonight 20 to 25 High tomorrow 30 to 35 Relative humidity 6:30 a ST per cent 1:30 76 per cent Barometer reading 6:30 a 2993 inches rising 1:30 2906 inches falling River stage today 2T feet rise ef 7 of a foot Lake of the Ozark 6:30 a 51 feet below full reservoir Precipitation in 24 hours ending 6:30 a trace children Brennan is accused of posing as office manager of the Senate under Secretary Sinclair Weeks are: Walter Williams Seattle banker to be undersecretary of ordered everyone to raise their hands herded the thirteen bank employees and several customers to the rear and forced the men to lie on the floor If Arthur stays on and is grad uated from the Capitol page Today's Chuckle If taxes continue the upward climb a 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