The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • 1

(THE Morning KANSAS CITY STAR) £l)c liaiUuUi (Titvr VOL 117 NO 94 KANSAS CITY APRIL 20 TUESDAY-38 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS KMBC-WHB SHIFT GIVES UP RUSSIA END BRICK TIE-UP A SAFER II ERA SEEN to Cook Paint Varnish Company Buys KMBC and Sells WHB to Omaha Group Political Asylum Is Asked by Wife of Soviet Embassy Secretary in Australia 77 Union Men Are to Return Work This Morning at Builders Projects Australians Worried About Russian Retaliation Canberra Australia April 20 (Tuesday)(AP) The Australian cabinet in an emergency meeting today was reported discussing the safety of Australia's small embassy staff in Moscow A high source said the government is gravely concerned lest the Russians take punitive action against Australian envoys and their families Russians More Afraid of Us Than We Are of Them Defense Secretary Says Presenting View7 That Nation Is Relatively Secure THE OCCA-SIONAL SHOWERS Kansas City and Vicinity: Considerable cloudiness little temperature change an docca-sional showers or thundershowers through tomorrow with best chance for substantial precipitation tonight and tomorrow High today 65 to 70 low tonight near 50 (Weather map and detailed obsenatiom on 13J The temperature readings yesterday: 1 3 P- m-- 4 DRAMATIC MELEE AT PLANE ON WITH THE OLD CONTRACT SALE PRICE IS NOT TOLD Paint Company 'Will Operate KMBC Radio and Television From Present Studios Ready to Receive Science Exhibits The Kansas City Museum will be open from 9 in the morning until 9 o'clock at night today and tomorrow to receive exhibits for the Greater Kansas City Science Fair which will open Saturday The museum is at 3218 Gladstone boulevard Pupils must take registration cards with the exhibits Primary and intermediate exhibits will be set up in the main building junior and senior exhibits in the annex Exhibitors should take their own tools The museum will be closed all day Thursday and Friday while judges rate the exhibits and scores are recorded SAFE-CRACKERS ROB CHURCH of GROWS IN MIGHT Mrs Petrov Is Dragged Aboard at Sydney but Police Rescue Her in Darwin In the Meantime the Issue 4-Foot Scaffolds Will Be investigated About 82000 in Easter Offerings Stolen From Rectory 661 9 67110 681II Is WILL JOIN HERHUSBAND SCHOOL HOLIDAY IS OYER Children Will Return to Class After 4-Day Vacation SUBJECT TO 0 BY FCC Wilson Asserts America Strong Enough to Deter Aggression OFF THE JOB 19 DAYS Watsonville Calif April 19 (AP) Robbers cracked the rectory safe at St Patrick's Catholic church early today and took an estimated $2000 in Easter collections Nebraska Firm Will Operate WHB TV Channel 9 to KMBC Alone Documents He Turned Over to Aussie Government Still Are Being Evaluated Old Scale of $362 an Hour Will Be Paid to the Men for the Next Year MORE TROOPS MAY RETURN Classes will be resumed today in public schools and some parochial schools after a 4-dav Easter holiday Other parochial schools reopened yesterday of OUGHT TO KNOW HEMEFORTH Indianapolis Boy 4 Has an Unhappy Easter Pursuit Congressional Group Told Plans to Bring Back Some From Far East SHOPS FOR NORTH A MAYOR'S SALARY $10000 Independence Council Raises It From 85400 by Ordinance Recent Testimony Also Discloses New Weapons Being Added to Armed Forces Unofficial A vear ago yesterday high 47 low 30 Precipitation in 12 hours ending 6:30 nr none Highest wind velocity yesterdav 2 miles River stage 7 yesterdav 61 feet stationary since 7 a yesterdav Relative humidity 12:30 41 per cent 6:30 60 per cent Barometer reading 6 30 2997 inches 12:30 3001 failing THE ALMANAC Sun rises 5:35 a Sun sets 7:00 M'n rises 9:48 mfMoon sets 6:32 a Moon phase Last quarter April 25 Morning stars Mars Saturn Mercury Evening Venus Jupiter Uranus eptune Partly cloudy today with scattered showers or thunderstorms developing west and central spreading over state tonight Not much temperature change highs in 60s northwest 75 to 80 extreme south east Tomorrow considerable cloudiness with occasional showers and scattered thunderstorms Partly cloudy south considerable cloudiness north today with occasional show ers extreme north Cooler central highs near 60 extreme north to 80 south border Tomorrow considerable cloudiness with sea tered showers and thunderstorms mostly west and north A U'i-Million-Dollar Center Would Be Built by the Green Meadows Corporation The settlement of a 19-day dispute between bricklayer unions and the Builders association over terms of a contract to replace one which expired LOOKS TO AN EARLY START knight 'by5' represent tives of the two groups Frank Smith and Jess Mil- Work at Vivion and North Oak Indianapolis April 19 (AP) Bobby Crawford 4 hot in pursuit of an "Easter cornered it in a neighbor's yard Sunday only to be bitten on the left leg Six policemen found it was no rabbit at all but a raccoon Bobby was given a rabies shot The raccoon was lodged in the dog pound ould Begin With Approv al Head of the Firm Says ler representatives of the bricklayers said their members would return to work this Commission Approves the'ing on all Builders associntioil Curry Stores Plan and a Storage Area projects Two Hours of Negotiation Announcement of the settlement was made by Hutson secretary-manager of the shopping center in Kan- Builders association and the The mayor of Independence will receive a $10000-a-year salary beginning May 1 the Independence city council decreed by ordinance last night The present salary is $5400 Renick Jones a second-ward councilman and chairman of the finance committee said that the position has changed from a part-time to full-time office in the last few years The population recently was estimated at 46000 The Republican city committee also had recommended an increase The salary is paid equally from the light department fund and the general revenue fund The twelve councilmen receive $16 for each meeting they attend Mayor Robert Weatherford and the councilmen elected April 6 will be inaugurated Monday night The Kansas City mayor's salary' is $7500 When the next term starts next spring it will be increased to $15000 (OTHKR MOWS Of THE IMLPED-EXCE COl II ON P4GF 10 1 CAUGHT DEER GETS AWAY Judge John Cook Overrules Motion for Acquittal at Close of State's Case The Cook Paint and Varnish company last night purchased KMBC and KMBC-TV and sold its wholly owned subsidi ary the WHB Broadcasting company to an Omaha concern Agreements were signed in which Cook Paint Varnish purchased all the common stock of the Midland Broadcasting com-panv which also includes KFRM and sold its WHB radio properties to the Mid-Continent Broadcasting company of Omaha Prices Not Given The purchase prices were not disclosed Both agreements are subject to approval by the Federal Communications commission in Washington Upon approval of the transfers of properties Cook Paint Varnish will operate KMBC KMBC-TV (channel 9) and KFRM in the present facilities of the three stations at 222 West Eleventh sreet The Mid-Continent company will operate WHB radio using Its present station and facilities in the Scarritt building Under the sale agreement WHB no longer will share channel 9 WHB-TV will cease operations Robert Caldwell chairman of the board of Cook Paint Varnish said the agreements provided that approval applica tions would be filed with the FCC within ten days Wait on FCC Action Caldwell said it customarily required about twenty-five to By Elton Fay Washington April 19 (AP) Charles Wilson secretary of defense believes the United States while vulnerable is relatively secure from atomic attack and that Russians have been much more afraid of us than we are of are militarily strong enough to deter aggression and the Russians are not going to start a war by dropping a bomb on us when they know there is going to be immediate and massive Wilson said we know we can greatly improve our warning system and our ability to stop Hope to Return Troops The defense chief also disclosed plans to bring home more troops from the Far East He said that to build up LT military might still further the Defense department proposes to spend 8700 million dollars during the next fiscal year starting Inly 1 on the continental defense system radar warning sas City North is planned by the Green Meadows corporation Ernest Stultz head of the firm announced two union representatives The announcement came after a 2-hour negotiating session Members of the Builders association agreed to continue the old contract one year A S36216-an-hour-wage scale will remain in effect The 4-foot scaffold issue will BALK ON SOME QUERIES It Is Indicated That the Complainant Chevlin Has Been Before Grand Jury SHRINK DIEN BIEN PHU French Consolidate Defenses After Yietminh Gains By Larry Allen Hanoi Indo-China April 19 The embattled French fortress of Dien Bien Phu shrunk into a heart-shaped network of defense tonight as the French fought to stem onslaughts by fresh waves of the Red-led Vietminh The bastion's crumbling harriers took on this new contour! after the attacking rebels clipped off the northwest and northeast points of the originally-shaped fortifications and the French constricted their points of defense Five of thp original eight strong points held by the French when the siege began March 13 now are embraced in the FLOATS TO A RICHER ERA Old Postal Savines Certificate Has Doubled in Value Turners Falls Mass April 19 (AP) Someone may collect A short time before the city be submitted to study and arbi-plan commission approved a 5-tration The union demand for center a 4'oot scaffold on building projects had been the principal stumbling block in negotiations million-dollar business Kansas City North proposed While Driver Goes for Help Animal Free Itself Darwin Australia April 20 (Tuesday) (AP) Mrs Vladimir Petrov wife of the Soviet diplomat who switched to the West and handed over a bundle of spy data last week dra matically turned against Soviet authorities today and left the plane on which she was being escorted homeward The tall honey-blonde woman asked political refuge in Australia with her husband after a hectic 8-minute fist battle at Sydney airport where anti -Communist bystanders tried to prevent her being dragged aboard the British A Constellation by three Soviet escorts Does N'ot Want to Leave The bystanders mostly refugees from Russia said she was protesting "I do not want to When the plane reached Darwin last stop in Australia at 5 a a dozen police in addition to security police swarmed aboard Two Russian couriers were overpowered and relieved of the 32 caliber pistols which they were carrying in shoulder holsters despite their resistance During the struggle police put a headlock on one of the Russians The second secretary of the Russian embassy in Canberra YT Kislitsin who was a member of the party escorting Mrs Petrov back to Moscow claimed the police action was a breach of diplomatic immunity and that Petrov had been The embassy official himself was not searched While the men were being searched Mrs Petrov w'as separated from the rest of the Russians and Leydin Northern territory government secretary7 talked with her nearly three-quarters of an hour Prime Minister Helps He had been instructed by Prime Minister Robert Menzies of the federal government after the plane had left Sydney to determine if she wanted to stay in this country She had an hour to make up her mind before the plane left for Zurich Switzerland The A hostess a Miss Bull also talked with her "I think she wants to stay in Australia but she is Miss Bull reported to newsnen at one point during the interview "She is very much in distress about what to At the end of the interview Leydin announced that she would leave the plane and stay in Australia The plane with the two Russian couriers and the second secretary aboard then (Continued on Second Page) fighter Interceptor planes and 21 if postal authorities find anti-aircraft weapons him or her This picture of America's de- A postal savings certificate in by the Charles Curry company and a plat for a 12-million-dollar industrial storage area to be developed by Curry and the Frisco railway east of Van Brunt boulevard from Forty-first street to near Forty-fifth street At Vivion and North Oak Stultz a member of the city plan commission said the Green Meadows project a series of buildings to contain from eighteen to twenty stores would be constructed on eighteen acres at the southwest corner of Vivion road and North Oak street trafficw'ay (U highway 169 Preliminary plans for the 1-story buildings w'hich would have 87400 square feet of floor space and for parking space for 975 cars have been filed with the commission Stultz said to end the dispute which began April 1 About the Scaffolds The announcement of the settlement included this section on the scaffold issue: two parties established a fact-finding board to investigate scaffolding procedures and make a report back to both parties by October 15 1954 That report shall not be binding on either party event the report is not acceptable to either party then the matter will be submitted to arbitration which arbitration report must be rendered by December 15 The two sides said the factfinding board will be four persons Two will be named by contractors and two by bricklayers Hutton and Miller said the issued in Bloomington 111 twenty years ago for $200 was found today floating in the Connecticut river Postmaster Shanahan said its value has more than doubled The valuble flotsam will be sent to the postmaster general for tracing The certificate found by a utility company foreman was in the water two or three years postal authorities believed YEW CITY DIRECTORY OUT Ft I Polk A Co Is Distributing the Comprehensive Volume rrUTlRES ON PAGE 71 Judge John Cook overruled a motion yesterday afternoon for a judgment of acquittal in the felonious assault trial of Orville Ring former president of the A teamsters union local No 541 The motion was filed by James Patrick Quinn chief defense counsel at the close of the state's case Quinn alleged that evidence presented by the state failed to prove that a felonious assault occurred in October 1950 in a private office at the Teamsters hall 116 West Lin-wood boulevard Waived Jury Trial Ring was accused in a county grand jury indictment of beating Edward Chevlin a former teamster official Testimony began before Judge Cook after Ring waived a trial by jury Chevlin objection to answering a question at one point in the cross-examination disclosed that he may have appeared before the federal grand jury for questioning in connection with the alleged assault Chevlin who is under indictment on a charge of felonious assault and two counts of carrying concealed weapons refused on three occasions to answer questions in cross-examination on the ground the answers might tend to incriminate him Chevlin said in direct examination that he was knocked to the floor shortly after Ring shoved him into a private office "Struck on the got up and sat back in the Chevlin said "I looked at Orville Ring and said you shouldn't have done He came over and said 'You threaten He hit (Continued on Second Page) Bergland Mich April 19 CAP) David A MacPherson struck a deer with his car He found the deer tightly wedged under the car Unable to budge the deer himself MacPherson went to a farmhouse and returned with help The deer was gone It had slipped away under its own power TWO NEW DIRECTORS OF A Kditor From Michigan and Minnesota Are Elected New York April 19AP) Four directors of the Associated Press were re-elected and two new directors were chosen at the AP's annual meeting tonight Re-elected were: John Knight Chicago Daily News James Cox jr Day-ton (Ohio) Daily News Mark Ethridge Louisville Ky) Courier-Journal and Dolph Simons Lawrence (Kas) Journal-World The new directors are Harold A Fitzgerald Pontiac Mich Press and Bernard Ridder jr Duluth Minn News-Tribune The new members of the board replace Roy A Roberts of The Kansas City Star and Palmer Hoyt of the Denver Post who were ineligible for re-election by7 virtue of having served three consecutive terms final plans will be filed soon wm inted in a few along with a request that the'daV( fenses came to light in recent testimony on the defense budget before a House appropriations subcommittee The censored text was made public tonight In the hearings Wilson and his military chiefs were bombarded with questions from committee members concerned over the adequacy of defenses to ward off attack by Russian bombers carrying hydrogen and nuclear fission bombs Among other things they wanted to know what part of the military money was being assigned to continental defense One-tenth at Home are certain forces such as anti-aircraft battalions ground radar stations interceptor aircraft etc which are essentially defensive in character and have as their primary mission the defense of the continental United he said this narrowly defined basis it is estimated that close to 10 per cent of Department of Defense expenditures for military functions in fiscal year 1955 will be for continental (The proposed total expenditure by the Defense department for the year would be about (Continued on Fourth Page) A new directory of Kansas City has been printed and is being distributed by the Polk and company directory publishing firm The directory lists business places and the names addresses and occupations of residents The two groups said the arbitration report would become binding if that is necessary and it w'ould be incorporated into the contract for this year At Odds on Terminology Contractors maintained that bricklayers were on strike because they refused to work under terms of the old contract The bricklayers however maintained that they w'ere locked off the job because the contractors cut their w'ages to $325 an hour Nearly 800 bricklayers have been off the job since April 1 Picket lines were established April 9 on major construction projects Several thousand other workers refused to cross the lines The dispute was the first in the construction industry here since an 11-week strike last summer in which the teamsters union was the driving force HIM OF CARTHY VICTORY Comic Dictionary Fool: One who gives advicp to a wise man and thinks him fool for not taking it m- will WE Cross-Examination High! in Qui May Have Been Won thirty days for the commission to act He estimated it would be about forty-five days before the final transfer of properties could be made assuming FCC approval is granted Lathrop Backstrom president of Cook and Arthur Church president of Midland said that until the FCC acts each of the properties will con tinue to be operated as they are now The Mid-Continent company is headed by Robert Storz president and his son Todd Storz vice-president and gen eral manager Both live in Omaha and will continue to make their homes there Mid-Continent also operates radio stations in Omaha KOWH and in New' Orleans WTIX Neither is affiliated with a national network Its new property WHB is associated with the Mutual Broadcasting system Surprise in WHB Sale While there had been rumors for some time that the Midland company' might be sold to Cook the announcement of the sale of the WHB Broadcasting company to the Omaha interests was a surprise But FCC regulations provide that not more than one radio station or one television station may be owned or operated by the same party in one city It was necessary therefore for the Cook Paint Varnish company either to dispose of its radio properties operated under the WHB call letters or dispose of facilities now operated by Midland The preliminary' arrangements were conducted primarily by Caldwell a lawyer who represents the WHB Broadcasting company in legal matters and the Washington counsel of both Cook Paint Varnish and the Mid-Continent company7 The Washington firm representatives here were Paul A O'Bryan and Francis McDonough The agreements for both transactions were signed about 7 o'clock last night in Caldwell's office in the Federal Reserve building Under Call Letters Under terms of the WHB agreement the equipment contracts for sale of radio time and radio accounts receivable of the station will be turned over to Mid-Continent It is expected the property will continue to operate under the WHB call letters The complications of sharing one television channel was reported to be a prime factor behind the sale of the Midland properties to Cook Since last August 3 KMBC-TV and WHB-TV have been sharing channel 9 with programming shifting from one station to the other In connection with this situation Backstrom and Church said in a joint statement: "We have learned that sharedtime operation of a television channel can be successfully accomplished but w'e have learned also that the difficulties of such shared time can be eliminated bv one ownership "We feel that the best tele- Continued on Fifth Page) Investigate Newcomer's prearranged funeral plan No obligation Adv case be set for an early hearing The site was included in a master plan of the city for development as a business area Stultz said construction would be started as soon as the city plan commission and the city council approve the plans Moseley Co has been working on the project with the Green Meadows corporation w'hich owns the land A part of the construction would be completed this year and the second and third sections in 1956 and 1958 On Fifty-five Acres The Curry shopping center will be on fifty-five acres north of Vivion and east of Antioch road Approval for it and the plat for the industrial storage development was given after hearings by the commission At the beginning of deliberations on the Curry project Stultz said he was in favor cf it but did not believe he should vote in view of his interest in his own project However other members told him that he should vote on the matter as long as his own property w'as not involved Philip Geissal chief planning engineer said he believed the Curry plan was too ambitious and suggested that the technical staff be given time to study the proposal further with a of reducing the plan The commissioner members including Stultz took the position that the matter of business competition would determine the size They pointed out that if the Curry company should fail to carry out any of five stages of construction planned in the next twenty-one years the city council could rezone the undeveloped part of the fifty-five acres turning it back to residence use are not going to invest their money in buildings if they are not reasonably sure of William Cozad chairman of the commission said Charles Curry said the plan was the result of studies of several years and that considerable aid had been obtained from members of the commission technical staff Kansas City North faces one of the greatest population growths and developments in the history of the city he declared The shopping center w'ould include parking space for more than 3000 cars regard as a compliment a criticism from a member of your staff that our plan is too Curry added accomplishments are not made by planning in a small Arthur King of the Curry (Continued on Second Page) Washington April 19 Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) apparently came close to victory today in his fight for the privilege of cross-examining witnesses at public hearings into his clash with top army officials The question w'as threshed out at a 4-hour closed meeting among McCarthy and four other members of the Senate investigations subcommittee And while the outcome was not announced there were these indications McCarthy was getting at least part of what he wanted: Senator Mundt acting chairman said now appears very the televised hearings will get under way as scheduled Thursday morning The cross-examination dispute had threatened to delay them McCarthy himself said he changed his position that both he and his army antagonists should be allowed to cross-examine Asked specifically if he intended to claim "any of the privileges of he replied: "I resigned yet from the "5 On Inside Pages Quick Probe Exit Senators investigating FHA apparently accept refusal of a Missourian to testify Story on Page 2 for Ragland Missouri Senate committee confirms the reappointment of the director of the division of mental diseases Page 2 on School Split Englewood district is not to be divided committee decides Page 3 Blaze at a Bad Time The Eugene Selders home had just been redecorated Page 3 Fires Pro-Reds Defense department has informed Congress of the discharge of 118 risks Page 4 Atom for President Eisenhower plans a gathering of the world's leading scientists this year Page 12 Lull Troops Din has no plans to send men to Indo-China the Senate is told Page 15 Hits Loans Anew Compulsory insurance is target of injunction suits brought by Fatzer Page 16 Wage Tax Jolted The Missouri House rejects the Senate version of the St Louis measure after heated clashes Page 19 Gift for Craft Blues help manager celebrate birthday anniversary by pinning 5-to-l defeat on Louisville Page 22 Doctor to Stay in Senator removes objection on case of A MoruzI Page 24 Big Asian If southeastern lands fall to Communists the defense line in the Pacific might crumble Senator Bridges asserts Page 29 Cheer by Banks Statements in response to call show marked business stability in Greater Kansas City Page 29 PH rt mu SCATTERED SHOWERS IN AREA -is- Forecast Is for Clouds and a High Today in the Upper 60s mm MppHgp mm wm 4 Occasional scattered thundershowers will be in this area today and tomorrow and Henry Hurst forecaster said that the chances are that some rain will fall in the city The sky will be mostly cloudy both days The forecast is for a high reading in the upper 60s both days with a low tonight near 50 degrees The temperature range here Yesterday was 55 to 68 and the mean of 62 was five degrees above normal The range a year ago yesterday was 30 to 47 The all-time low for any April 19 is 30 in 1953 and the all-time high is 83 in 1946 CRANE OPERATOR IS TRAPPED TWENTY MINUTES Leg fractures and other injuries were suffered yesterday by Lester Bridges 38 of 8245 Woodland avenue when the crane he was operating tipped over Bridges a hoisting engineer was trapped in the place indicated by the arrow after he tried to leap from the crane cab The machine tipped over as a section of an old sidewalk and foundation gave way at the northeast corner of the construction site at the Municipal Auditorium underground parking garage It took workmen operating two other cranes about twenty minutes to lift the overturned machine and free Bridges Bridges was taken to St hospital His condition was reported as good last night The boom of the crane was partly buckled in the (Kansas City Star photograph Moving vans going to NY Chgo: La Tex Dvr: Mpls Calif: Canada Want rtn Ids Allied Agts ABC VI 0123 -Ad Television the best makes at Jenkins Music Co 1217 Walnut Adv I.