The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 1

rHE LINf Ol leat ta aarily elaadr aaan. tanigtit eaaier ihan aear taalgM; 51 Fartly eiaatfy Thara- raM a est and aartk laniglit law fa III ta 3t in neat Tbaraday; hlfll af mr Ir ia ta In THE LINCOLN STAR Polire 2-68fi Fire 2-2222 Il 031 EDITION IIF MI 2 7. Judge Says Miners Made COURT ORDERENDED 3 Members Of Gang' Sentenced Tiro To Ten 1 eor Terms fn iAneoln Ifohberles Brophy Csiiill Sentences ranging from two years in the men reformatory to 10 years in the state penitentiary were meted out Wednesday by District Judge J. H. Broady to three of the four youths implicated in a series oi i thefts and armed robberies in and around Jerry Simmons, 1523 street, received a sentence of 10 years in ths psnitenUary and Kenneth Lebsock, West Lincoln, a five I year term after the pair pleaded guilty to robbery charges.

Nineteen-year-old Eugene Beaman, 1201 Belmont, drew a two to four year term in the reformatory following his guilty plea to a burglary charge. Brophy Pleads Not Guilty. The fourth member of the! tactics. He succeeds Lt. Col.

Merle Senn, T-; who has been acting professor of military science and tactics. Lt. Paul PT Council Asks Action On Schools alh'd Fop Ho3 0 I Opon ('lahsow ST. St. Paul Council of Parents ana Teachers today called for gency city council action to reopen 77 grade and high schools which have been been striKc- bound since Monday and picketed by their 1,000 teachers, seeking nigber salaries.

The PT ohtry into the picture came as Gov. Edward J. Thye summoned the Minnesota legi-lative delegation from Ramsey county, which includes 5t. Paul, to meet with the eight- member strike negotiating committee today. The committee end; ed two days of deliberation last night without reaching an accent.

New head of the Lmversity of the teachers were ordered Nebraska military department is back onto their picket lines to- Col. How ard J. John, who has been assigned by the army as I Comments, professor of military science and Calling of the legislators inds- cated negotiations would Camera ina 11 i Ik Rappofl 3 Cane COL H. I. JOHN Col.

II. J. John Military Head h.nge on pos.sible state to relieve the civic financial situation arising from the charter provi- pleaded not guilty Municipal 0 Senn remains as executive although no committee mem- court to three complaints charg- Qincer ing him with two counts of rob- comes here from and one of burglary. Pre- Campbell. where he was set by Judge has been artillery executive of- Edward C.

Fisher for Friday of the Third division. He morning and bond was set at executive officer of the on each complaint. Lebsock, 18, who was married on November 5, and Simmons, 21, were charged with the armed hold-up of taxi driver William Chapman on Oct. 16 near Sixty- jfcer would comment. The Minnesota legislature convenes Jan.

7. In Minneapolis, cla.sses were being held as usual w'hile teachers there continued to ponder a settlement offer. I The settlement offer proposes' central European and Rhineland $4.800 top salary as; campaigns of World II, and present $3,000. In St. 1 blast that leveled was transferred to the Third di- strikers are asking for brick building of tr enth division artillery through the i "3 I WASHINGTON i McFarland, young lanca photo- I graphar.

atlamptad lo snap a closa- up pictura of John Lawia today i and aufiarad a aktrnad knuckia I Irom cans. Scoraa tha incldant. which cama at Lawia atartad to driaa away Irom Dlitrict court during i a lunchaon racaaa. Lawia was in hit sadan whan McFarland stuck his camara through tha window to snap a cloaaup. McFarland told a raportar altar- i ward that Lawia swung hia cana I vigorously, knockad tha flashlight bulb out ol its rallactor and skinnad tha photographar's lingar.

Thara I was slight traca ol blood. McFarland said 'Tm nol going lo I do anything about it now," Ha did not gat his picturs. 1 Dead And Many Hurt In A Blast person was killed and 38 persons were injured. four seriously, today by a warehouse explosion that shattered windows of a pa.ssing streetcar and show'ered the car with debris. The dead man was Walter Ohman, 74, a metiil polisher.

He died of internal injuries several hours after the explosion. Fire followed the mysterious the one-story the Boxer To- A CONTEMPT RULING HINTED Itlorney iontendu Order Violated drf: Uttldxhorouyh Replien Hetstraininfi Ordern Uiixl Re Obeyed L. Lewis -greed in midst of his contempt trial today to accept service on a 10-day extension of the court order restraining him ircm continuing the soft coal walkout. The order was issued to trieei a 3 p. expiration hour on the original court directive.

LEWIS ARRIVES FOR TRIAL-His iaaturas grim in tha glora of floodlight and Hath bulba, John Lawia his cana as ha walks briskly Irom his car into Fadaral District court at Washington lor tha opantng oi his trial on contampt chargaa. (AP WUaphoto Wadnaadcry.) 86, SAID 1 BY SCALDLAG EZMENTAL INMATE HELD vision while in Europe. He was annual salary on occupation duty the current sixth and Burlington street. Their brought the Third dJvi-, yearly schedule efforts netted them $15, according to complaint. Explain Cab Ilold-Cp.

told the court that Brophy and two other youths, not as yet custody, Bill Michon and Bob Evans, were also on the deal." Simmons explained that they had called for the cab and when it arrived, proceeded to hold up the driver at the point of a gun. Both Lebsock and Simmons admitted having participated on several other occasions in the operations over the past two months. Capt. Eugene Masters of the Lincoln police department related to Judge Broady that Lebsock had participated in six different crimes, but that following marriage he had away from the gang Simmons was ir- volved in most of the 17 burglaries, three holdups and two car strippings which the arrest of the four youths and their feminine a complice cleared up. Masters told the court.

When asked by the court what tney had to say before sentence was passed. Simmons quickly ex- fCoBtlnuad on Page Two) Sion cadre back to the United! He was graduated in 1924 from Fair Weather the U. S. military academy at West Point, he won a major letter in lacrosse and was a member of the wrestling squad for two years. Predicted For Col, John was an instructor at the field artillery school, Fort Sill, I tlfltlKK P'M)! tl O' Okla.

in 1943 and 1944. He pre-i I bWi 1 viously had served from 1926 to 1929 in Hawaii, and as instructor There was rain, snow and in drawing at Point from freezing and below zero tempera- 1931 to 1936. tures on weather map, but ffoNUiffll He holds the European theater fair and plenty of sun- medal with two campaign stars, shine for most of the nation was Hilled ttu Traitt the bronze star, the American de- forecast for Thanksgiving day. fense medal, the American theater A mass of cold air from bacco house at 2456 North Ashland avenue, on the north side, and I rocked the surrounding Most of the injured, taken to Alexian Brothers hospital, were reported to have been passengers on the streetcar. Michael J.

Cody, deputy fire marshal, said the explosion appar- ently was caused by accumulated I gas and estimated damage to the building and surrounding struc- tures at $50,000. William E. Barney, ow'ner of the company, said the stock loss would exceed $70,000. WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) Neal H.

Keough, 33-year-old former inmate of a mental institution, was under a heavy guard today charged with murder in the death of his aged aunt died of burns inflicted when a bucket of scalding water was poured over her. Police Inspector James C. Riley said Keough lirst told police he fxjured the boiling water over Mrs. Georgianna Senn, 86-year- old paralytic, put her out of her Riley said Keough later told No Difficulties Enforcing Slot Machine Ban WASHINGTON. (AP) Federal Judge T.

Alan Goldsborough today ordered a 10-day extension of T.is order of Nov, 18 which was designed to avert a soft coal walkout. The extension ordered at the request of Assistant Attorney General John F. Sonnett, who I broke into John L. contempt hearing just 20 minutes be- lore the order was due to ex- i pire at 3 p. m.

(F.ST). Stinnett interrupted a length argument by Joseph Padway, AF general counsel, who was seeking dismissal of the contempt action against the United Mine Workers and their president. Lewis Smiles. counsel promptly announced that the UMW chief, who ii challenging the court's right to issue the original order, would not accept service of the extender. Lewis, seated behind his lawyers in the crowded courtroxim, sjruled lor almost the first time since the hearing opened this morning, but said nothing.

There was a hurried sotto- voice consultation between the a minimum contribution of judge and counsel for both sides, is required for membership. Sonnett then said Lewis l.ist be served with the order when The central committee treasurer he left the iourt building. disclosed that the Nebraska Demos Spent $40,692 In Campaign S.e.HIo Ha I a nee Voir In TreaMury FAIRBURY, Neb. (AP) Nebraska democrats spent $40,692.33 in the political campaign just completed, Hugh B. Riley, stale democratic central committee treasurer, reported today, Riley said that as far as the state central committee knows it has no out.standing debts.

Total contributions during the campaign were $43,757.28. mainly from the newiv formed 1,000 club in which $25 Venner Reports Hint Of DecUioa. The original order Ini.tructed Lewis to his Nov. 15 notice tenninating the contract with the government. Judge Goldsborough said today John Lewis and his mine are guilty of contempt Police enforcement of the city council anti-slot machine decree is encountering no difficulty, Cobe workers Venner, director of public welfare court if it is proved legally Wednesday.

All establishments which werej those words, Gold.sborough known to operate slot machines indicated that his decision in the were notified of the ban late contempt case against and hi, miners would nol be infla- democratic party now has a balance of $5,815.26, of which $3.064.75 accrued during the campaign just and $2.750.31 was left over from previous years. Outright to candidates included; John Mekota, "enatona! candidate, F'rank Soirell. gubernatorial candidate, $1.200.50. William Meier. Fir.st congressional candidate, Dr.

ranx Jclen, Second district congressional candidate. Hans Jensen. Third district congressional candidate, $500; Stanley D. Long, Fourth dis- Vcandidate, medal, and the occupation medal Canada spread through the north- for World war 11 and the medal ern plains states and upper Missis-: for pre-Pearl Harbor service. He sippi valley today and is married and has a son, Robert, tures dropped to zero in age eight.

Your Star Editorials Padlo PTOfrani.s Sports 4 7 8 10 northern Minnesota. Four to eight inches of new snow had fal- i len in South Dakota and spread rapidly eastward across Minnesota i and northern Iowa into killed today when a Texas Sc Pacific freight train derailed and burned near here before dawn. A fifth was badly injured. No tram personnel hurt. 3IarkeU .....................................11 Want .......................12, 13 Four Thanksgiving Union Services To Be Held In City JoNoph W.

Staton. 71. Bios Homo Joseph W. Staton. 74.

Lincoln I resident for 27 years, died Tues- dinner, day night at his home, 457 Nortn Trumans Plan To Spend ifuiet Thanksylriny Oay Presi- i dent Truman will spend a quiet i Thanksgiving day tomorrow. He onH a i he then went into the kitchen and I boiled a bucket of water and returned to his aunt. was I screaming but I let her have the whole Riley quoted Keough as saying. She waa old and sick fluley aald Keough told him. figured that if 1 fmiched her off.

then would be out of her mlaery. she got tough about the coffee. I decided that It waa tune to put her out of thia I Neighbors heard Mrs. Senna after the waler-pourlng epiaode resterdav The sound truck used by the democrats on their caravan tour cost $1,060. him in a statement that he had Tuesday or were being notified I brought his aunt a cup of coffee Wednesday and the checks made enccd by the claim that trict congressional land that she complained about; Tuesday located no machines, Po-' stop-strike order violated the-; $506.67.

i the coffee. lice Chief Carroll stated, indicat- i Norris-La Guardia anti-injunc- Dies In Hospital. ing that machines had already tion act. Riley quoted Keough as saying oeen removed. Regardless of whether or not Venner stated that only six the Norris-La Guardia act applies establishments in Lincoln were the soft coal Goldsborough listed by police as having had a said, no one can disobey a total of 61 slot machines.

The re- straining order, maining 10 places listed by the a i. bureau of internal revenue as we wouia nave Anarchy, having paid the federal tax on that could be done we would slot machines from Lincoln are have the judge corn- located outside the city limits. mented. police department has LOS AAGELES AEU SMEA BACK OA JOB checks will be made at least once a Twenty-fifth street. A salesman at one time, Mr.

Staton had been a railroad agent for thirty years, retiring two years ago. He was member of Vine Congregational church, L-i I- 1 1 He is survived by his wife, Thank.sgiving services Thursday morning, while a host of others have Graca ona son uf Os- planned individual services Wednesday evening and Thursday. three dauchters Churches in northeast Lincoln, including First Methodist, Have-! lock Christian. Havelock Methodist. Bethany Christian and Fourth Four groups of Lincoln churches have arranged to conduct union Presbyterian, will join in union services at the Bethany church at 10 o'clock Thursday morning.

Rev. O'Linn McGuire of Fourth church will deliver the sermon. Grace Methodist church will be host to another union service, also at 10 in which Second Bapist, Vine Congregational and Second Fk-esbyterian will participate. The sermon, F'or will be by Rev. Ronald W.

Dickson of Vine church. South Lincoln churches, tight in all. have united their efforts in a joint service to begin at 10:30 a. m. Thursday at First Presbyterian church.

The Thanksgiving message Our will be by Dr. Howard P. Buxton of Trinity Methodist and the offering will go to the City Sion, as has been the custom in past years. Churches participating in this service are Trinity Methodist, First Fhresbyterian, Calvary Evangelical, Tabernacle Christian, South Street Temple. Presbyterian.

First- Plymouth Congregational and First Christian. union service will be First Evangelical United Brethren church. 1333 North Thirty-third street, with Epworth and Warren Methodist joining in the se' -e Rev, L. Van Metre New York Cxtv, and Mrs. Edward two Methodist junior choirs will Doll, Lincoln; two brothers.

John Archer Staton. Pemberton, W. The Catholic churches of the Louis R. Staton, also from W. IConHnuad on Page Two) one sister.

Mrs. J. B. Warn, I Walsenburg, and nine grandchildren. Governor Out Huntinyt For ing Bird Governor Dwight Griswold, like the Pilgrim fathers put his scattergun over his shoulder.

Wednesday, and fared forth to bring down his Thanksgiving bird. Instead of turkey, the governor had hopes of a bag of ducks or geese. is a double holiday for said the governor before departing for the duck blinds. know, my birthday comes the day before Thanksgiving this year and I feel I am entitled to a 8 Slot Machines Seized. OM.AHA—(AP) Police last night seized eight slot machines in been instructed to make periodic the restraining order, then thev checks of all places, may be cuiltv of contemot of court and ruahad to her aid bin sht died ihree susoected of maintaininc slot ma- i 4 court, hours later at a hoapitai.

i suspecieo OI mainiaming ma vvr.ether the Norns La Guardia 'act applies or docs nol apply GL ABD BAIL; ALAA KILLED 13 OTHERS INJURED YORK, man was killed and 13 other persons injured, two critically in the crash of a bus early today against a guard rail on the Codorus creek bridge three miles west of here. The Adams Transit Co. reported Charles Gantz, driver of the bus, raid he was attempting to pass an automobile on the west ap- I roach of the bridge. The bus careened against a guard rail, ripping off eight posts which tore off one side of the bus. Gantz was treated for cuts.

LOS If the defendants disregarded Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, strikebound since Sept. 4, prepared today to resume puD- lication Monday following signing of an agreement between That, in this opinion, is management and the Los Newspaper Guild. A joint management-guild statement said the agreement was the Lewis, who sat stony-faced With his attorneys, and the UMW so far have made no attempt to dn principle two shiiw that they tried to obey the but that the guild was unable a raid on the Korn Klub in down- restraining order of Nov acceptance because town Gmaha, but made no arrests, i hieh incimrtpH thu ITMW of controversies then existing oe- Capt Jack King, head of ihe and the AFL police department morals squad, government that their work-i Pointing Trades Unions xnd CIO said a warrant would be asked for agreement was ending Nov. 20 Shortly after his sharp interjection, Goldsborough reces.sed court at 11:30 a. m.

(CST), and cleared the room. The whole operators of the club's machines. PoUca Commustoner Harry Knudsen hat ruled that all slot mutt be removed Irom Omaha ettabliahments by Jan. 1 In the meantime Captain King taid. clubs will not be permitted to add or transfer machines lo expand their The morals squad chief said ha had learned a month ago that the Korn Klub News Vendor Union.

with the prinHug trades was reached several ago ana with the news vendors last night Returned. All guild members were planned to move to win dismissal of the knd had warned transfer of the slot machines would not be tolerated King said the club changed locations despite the warning The Korn Klub a state charter a non-profit organliation. EVEN aran chanca of sunriwal was giwap this ona pound. 4 cuoca pramaturaly-bofa bcby who wen etbandonod ood lalt owartught ia parked car oul- a Miami. Fla.

hospital. (AP Nation Reels Under Quarter Million Workers partly dimmed-out nation today reeled under the growing impact of its second major coal stoppage within a year as unemployment in related industries hit 80,000 and there were indications 200,000 to 250,000 workers would be idle by next week. All phases of life felt the effects of the soft coal walkout. Schools ffom faraway Denver to Philadelphia closed heatiess buildings; 80.000 steel, railroad and river workers thrown out of work; 60,000 citizens in Provo, Utah, pleaded for coal to warm their houses; and 21 states observed "brownouts more drastic than those imposed in wartime. There were predictions of worse things to come if the nation 400,000 bituminous miners continue their sevtn-day walkout.

Irving S. Olds, chairman of the board of S. Steel the leading steel producer, last night said coal stocks in company plants are almost non-existent and operations, materially reduced, will soon come to a virtual In Atlanrta, the manager of the chamber of commerce predicted 40,000 persons will be out cf work within a week if the coal walkout continues. The Tri-State Industrial association predicted 100,000 In steel fabricating plants in Virginia and Ohio be (die within a week. In a month, the a.ssociation said, all 200.00<i would be out of work.

Coal Strike Impact Face Idleness By Next Week contemot action agreement stipulated they coniempi acuon. positions without pteju- Judge Draws A Laugh. dice on the pert of either of the Prior to the recess, Joseph Pad- 1 -ay, general counsel of the AF'L, The contract runs fur two years appearing in a demonstration of and is retroactive, except for AuFL solidarity behind Lewis, dis- wages, to Sept. 4. (Cootinuod on Page Two) 1,500 Norfolk Sc Western railroad employes, and 1.576 Virginia Railway workers.

The Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. laid off 3,500 as 68 of its 129 oiyen hearths were shut down. Additional men of the some 75.000 employes are due to be furloughed within the next few days as various projects are completed. In addition, the Youngstown, Sheet Sc Tube Co. expected to lay off another 10,000 workers tomorrow and 3,600 steel workers at Birmingnam, be affected by the end of the week.

Utah, where the temperature yesterday a chilly 33. was hardest hit by the coal stoppage. At Provo, the coanty commissioners and cham.ber of commerce appealed to John L. Lewis and the United 51ine Workers to provide coal for the Ironton coking ovens which provide heat for the 60.000 citizens. health and even the lives of some people will be jeopardized if heat in the homes is shut off as scheduled this the appeal said.

Utah county schools, including the Brigham Young university, and commercial users had their heat supply cut off a week ago. Heat in the state capitol building at Lake City was shut off by order of Acting Gov. E. E. Monson while the state fuel conservation committee considered asking all Utah schools to close and having their coal stocks distributed to homes.

In neighboring Colorado, where many schools and colleges have already doors to frigid classrooms, the state coal consultant, T'' Allen, mapped plarrs reoocn any small, 1 4 t-. New wage scales give editorial workers with five experience a raise from $70 to $80 a week and other employes comparable increases amounting to approximately 14 per cent. Additionally, the contract 'ifies three week.s vacation after five years of service, added holi- ciavs, guild dues check-off, m- trcased mileage rates for employes using their own cars on company business and increased pay dif- itrcntial tpr night wark. THE NEBRASKA Psrtly cloudy tonight snd Thur -c'-i; not told in weat and north tonight; low oi 21 in aaat to 33 warmer Thurtdajr; high of 55 or 90 Ui 60 to 65 In weit. KANSAS fair ton and Thuradsy; allghtlv colder In tonight; low ol 33 to 35; warmer Thurs- da.tr Ban- niag.

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