The Maryville Daily Forum from Maryville, Missouri • Page 1

EE VOL. 37 No. 197 Says Landlord Must Show Need 4 For Rent Boost MARYVILLE, MISSOURI. THURSDAY EVENING, JAN. 30, 1947 1 Tfc K4ar Sawn JPSPl IPI i 'Wi Proposes Offset To Portal Refund President Talks Tonight WASHINGTON JP President Weather Cauldron Produces Stew of Snow and Tornadoes Truman will make a' radio address mm to the nation at 11:45 o'clock (EST) (10:45 A.

M. CST) tonight in behalf of the "March of Dimes" cam- Asked by Unions The address, to run about four DETROIT (P) The United States government. Intervening In Three Killed by Storm on minutes, is part of the annual fund-raising drive of the National Founaa- Senate inquiry into rents Tornado Slashes Through Ozarks, Taking Six Lives Freak Weather Result of Cold Moving to South By The Associated Press The bubbling weather cauldron produced a stew of snow, sleet, rain and two tornadoes today. A tornado struck just outside Montgomery. today, Injuring at least 12 persons and leveling a score of houses and barns.

Two of the victims, both negroes, were in serious condition, but there were no reports of deaths. Near Storm Scene Roaring in from the southwest, the storm dipped into a rural community only a short distance from where a tornado struck on Feb. 12, 1945, killing 26 persons. A tornado swept through north-central Arkansas and southern Missouri, killing at least five persons, injuring 14 and destroying several homes and other buildings. Besides the tornadoes, the stew-held dashes of snow, sleet, freezing rain, thunder, lightning and hail, plus high winds and the expectation of colder temperatures.

Cold Moves In The weather bureau at Chicago said the freak weather was the result of -elder weather moving in on extremely mild conditions that had prevailed over the affected seeing from eastern Nebraska to western Ohio and south into Arkansas and Alabama. "Widely differing temperatures coming together appeal' to be the prerequisites for establishing a tornado," a forecaster said. He said the same conditions accounted for thunder and lightning displays experienced in the midwest and for the other temperamental behavior of the elements. Utilities Disrupted The effects of the storms throughout the middle west were wide SAYS HE KILLED 'BLACK DAHLIA' Daniel S. Voorhees, 33.

war veteran bus boy, who phoned Las Angeles police and announced, "I killed, the 'Black Dahlia'." is shown with Los Angeles homicide officers. Voorhees refused to give additional details of his alleged killing of Elizabeth Short, 22-year-old beauty whose nude body was found mutilated on Jan. 15. NEA Telephoto. Northwest Missouri Roads Covered With Ice Sheet assertion that "rests squarely upon the landlord" to prove any need for higher rent ceilings.

Tobey is chairman of the Senate Banking committee making the investigation. There was no immediate explanation of yesterday's mixup Jivin which an OPA order proposing to boost ceilings 10 per cent was quashed by the White Houe before It could be issued. Wants to Play Fair The committee originally was scheduled to hear government witnesses today but Tobey said none would be present. "We believe the average Ameiican wants to play fa'rly," Tobey said in "If the landlord is being discrim-. mated against, if he is not getting a fair return on his investment, the American people will want to do something about ii, but the American people want to be shown.

Up to Landlord "The burden of proving that rent control should be abolished vised is placed squately upon the landlord. One high official meanwhile plained yesterday's snarl over the proposed rent order was simply government agency "mixup." tjf President Truman scotched thi order the minute it "came to tin attention of the White House," official told a reporter, adding: No Increase Now "It seems to be quite definlti there will be no across-the-board Increase at. this time." The official, who would not per mit use of his name, said the order went from MaJ. Gen. Philip Fleming's office of temporary i trols to OPA during Fleming's sence from the city.

But just how it happened is "still something or a mystery." the offi- Fossible Alternative He explained, however, that an order relaxing rent controls to benefit individual landlord "hardship" cases was being drawn up and that the 10 per cent increase plan ap- (Vparentiy got into the picture as a possible alternative. At the end of the confusing chain of events the situation was this: President Truman still hopes the government can hold the line on rent controls, but is leaving the decision to Congress. Calls Off Announcement Before the White House handed out this annauncement late yesterday, there was a rapid-fire sequence: 1. Senator Fulbrieht a member of the Senate Banking committee, told a reporter he understood OPA was ready to announce the 2. OPA's public relations branch advised newsmen a rent celling order would be forthcoming soon.

3. Something over an hour later CPA off its announcement. 4. Press Secretary Charles G. Ross summoned White House correspondents to his office and told them the President, advised of the reported increase, declared that he had not authorized it.

Outskirts of Montgomery MONTGOMERY. Ala. (JP)- least three persons were reported killed today and 30 others injured. some oi tnem critically, when tornado struck the outskirts of Montgomery, lifted, then hit again at Kent, about 30 miles to northeast. -The dead were at Kent, and state highway patrol said the toll may even higher.

The said it had an unconfirmed report that four had been killed and its information still was incomplete. All the dead were Negroes, said Clinton Mann, an undertaker Tallassee, about six miles from Kent. Mann said they were a year-old child and two adults. Eleven were reported injured in another storm at Bethel, Ala. south of here.

Destroys Forty Homes at Salem SALEM. Ark. (JP A lesson learned from experience 23 years saved many lives last night tornado tore a quarter mile swath through sparsely-settled north Arkansas and south Missouri. Salem was hardest hit. Approximately 40 homes were demolishec and thousands of dollars damage was done.

Salem's population is about 890. Seek Storm Cellars Residents of Salem, which suffered a tornado in 1924.. were, prepared and took shelter in storm cellars or "fraidy holes" when they saw the whirling, twisting cloud The twister ripped out about mile of the Salem residential sectic but missed the business district. In addition to homes torn from their foundations, several others were destroyed by fire as wood-burning stoves were toppled to the floor. More than a score of automobiles were wrecked and two church buildings, one used as a school lunchroom, were flattened.

Trees were uprooted or broken. End of Warm Day The tornado, oominj at the end of an abnormally warm day, struck the southeast corner of Salem shortly before 6 p. m. In a few minutes it tore through the northeast part of the town. Then it rose and followed Arkansas Highway 9 to Barren Hollow where it again dipped to the ground.

The storm went over and around Mammoth Springs, and Thayer. Thayer is 22 miles from Salem. Debris Fills Air The rew who were injured at Salem were taken over almost impassable roads to Batesvillc, 5fi miles away for hospitalization. Those who saw the twisting black cloud first strike said they saw debris filling the air, houses sucked into the funnel and bright fires burning in the midst of the cloud as it lifted stoves from the homes. The tornado, they said, was accompanied by hail stones "as big as Three Children Burn To Death in Home Fire BELLEVUE.

Neb. JP) Three children burned to death today when fire destroyed their three-room home here, one after successfully rescuing a brother and sister. The girl, 15-ycar-old Delores Otto, had carried two children from the blazing structure, returned to remove more of her brothers and sisters and was found dead just inside the front door. Also burned to death were Victor Otto, 4, and Frances Otto, 3. Bodies of both were found in their said they apparently suffocated.

Read Daily Forum Want i the Mt. Clemns Pottery Co. case, urged today that portal pay time spent by labor be balanced against periods of time that employes devote to personal pursuits during working The government's position war outlined a short time after ne uto brieis declaring the out pouring of more than $4,000,000,00 portal pay suits resulted from i clossal gamble to evade the Wage- Hour Act. Consider Personal Time Off John F. Sonnett, Assistant At torney-General, told Federal Judge Frank A.

Pieard, who has be by the supreme court damages thi Clemens Pottery Co. would seem that the court shDuld give due consideration to periods of time that employes are permitted to devote to personal pursuits during normal working hours. 'Plainly, an employer Is not en titled to deduct trifling personal-pursuits periods during working hours in oomputuing the work week the (Fair Labor Standards) Act, and, by the same token, the employe should not be entitled to the addition of trifling periods of preliminary activity. Serve as Irritant a matter of business reality. such periods should be treated as offsetting each other without the for keeping records inett also argued that the keeping "of records of very short intervals of time would be likely to produce unpleasant working con ditions for employes and serve as an Irritant tending to disrupt Industrial peace." Judge Picard adjourned the hear ing until 2 p.

when the National Association of Manufacturers is scheduled to present Industry's argu- "Gamble on Act" Union attorneys contended in a brief filed with Federal Judge Frank A. Picard that employer liability for, pay had been spelled out time and again since 1839; "Instead of complying with the ct. in accordance with those ad ministrative rulings and judicial decisions," they said, "American cm- rs in wholesale fashion gamb- evading the act, hoping to escape the consequences." Most of the portal pay suits been filed by CIO member unli Attorneys for labor, industry the government were to argue before Judge Picard In a hearing expected to wind up today. Pottery Co. Opens Gates A supreme court decision upholding Judge Picard's findings in case involving the Mt.

Clemens (Mich.) Pottery Company opened the llood gates for the similar litigation which followed on a vast scale. The pottery firm itself has only 1.200 employes. Judge Picard held that the workers are entitled to back pay for nonproductive time necessarily spent or company premises. The supreme court, agreeing, directed him determine how much the pottery ployes should receive. The CIO brief was filed in ncction with Judge Picard's hearing today of views from labor, industry and the government on what the damages ought to be.

Aunt Dies in Kansas City Mrs. Mclvin Neal and Harry, Virgil and Ernest. Hartness went tc Kansas City Tuesday to attend the funeral services of their aunt, Mrs Nettie Duffy. Mr. and Mrs.

Rollo Shoesmith have sold their 194-acre farm southeast of Maryville to Mr. and Mrs. Will Steins. Cox and Yahrmark reported the deal. Blessed Events Mr.

and Mrs. Carl Holdcn of Rock Port are the parents of a son born at 11:15 o'clock last, night at the St. Francis hospital. The baby weigh ed eight pounds and eight ounces. Mr.

and Mrs. James R. Swift of Maryville announce the birth of a son at 2:26 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the St, Francis hospital. The baby weighed seven pounds and ven and three-fourths ounces. Mr.

and Mrs. Ray Sparks of Qult-an are the parents of an eight pound and 15 ounce son, born at 9:40 last night at the Martin Land- father hospital. The baby has been named Gary Arther. Mr. and Mrs.

Robert M. Steph-lson announce the birth of a daughter December 21, 1946. Mr. Stephenson is a former student of S. C.

He is now employed by the Southwestern Telephone In Kansas City, tor infantile Paralysis. In Verbal Fight On Cut in taxes WASHINGTON, (JP) Differ ences over taxes flared into an angry exchange of bitter words and blows in the House cafeteria today between Reps. Knutson (R-Minn.) Engel one point. Engel grabbed Knut- arm but colleagues said no blows were struck, although the verbal punches flew thick and fast. Knutson is the main House cham pion of a 20 per cent cut in individ- al income taxes.

On the House floor yesterday, Enge! declared this would help the poor very little, while giving large benefits to persons with high in- s. He said that if the G.O.P.- dominated Congress make such a might "spell defeat" for the Republican party in 1948. Started to Run When the two met in the House cafeteria for breakfast this morn- witnesses said, Knutson told Engel he was "following the CIO line" in opposing the cut. Engel told newsmen later. laUsh- ing, that "after Harold made that remark, he started to run.

and I wouldn't let him." Engel said he took Knutson by le arm and the Minnesotan jerked I wouldn't have hit him for any thing," Enfel.said. Knutson declined to comment. Discussion Is Hot One of those present was Reo. Hoffman Hoffman told reporters that Knut-n was sitting at a table when Engel came in. They got into a discussion on the merits of Knutson's bill." Hoff man related.

"The discussion got pretty hot. The Fesf o'f us were laughing, but. they weren't." Hoffman said he did not consider that a physical encounter was imminent, and the two parted "with the rest of us laughing the thins off." No Strike Sanction Given To Pressmen on K. C. Star KANSAS CITY, sas City Star mar The Kan- an invitation today from George Kerry, head of the International Pressmen's Union (AFL.

to confer with him at Pressmen's Home, on a strike of a group of contract carriers which forced sus pension of the newspaper two weeks ago. The Star, in a siatemen Berry had "reaffirmed th strike sanction" had been gi- pressmen here and that they had Instructed Uesist in picketing." A group of carri the International Assistants Union. affiliated Pressmen a line around the Star Jan. men and composing root refused to cross it, leaving Kansas w.y. without a daily-paper.

To Lavc for China Mrs. Richard M. Stephenson anc son, Rickie, left Kansas City Sunday for San Francisco, from there they will sail to Chengtu. China to join Capt. Richard M.

Stephenson. He has been stationed at the army air base in Chengtu for tht Mr. Stephenson were both former dents at STC. Mrs. Stephenson is the former Miss Ectty Lindlcy.

Marriage License George Rocos and Kiki Ioannou, both of Maryville. The Weather LOCAL OBSERVATIONS MISSOURI FORECAST Fair west and south, light snow followed by clearing northeast; much colder tonight; lowest 5-10 northwest and extreme north, 15-25 remainder of state; fair sonth. Increasing cloudiness Friday; warmer west and mnrth. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Mo. (JP) A mid-winter tornado tripped through north central Arkansas and into the southern Missouri Ozarks last night killing at least six persons, injuring more than a score and causing heavy property damage.

The victims were brought to a funeral home here and today search was being conducted through the remote sections of several Ozarks counties to determine if others were k'-led or injured. Four in Family Killed The dead include Mr. and Mrs. i Robert Williams, their two children. daughter 11 and a son 7.

They resided on a farm near Montier in Shannon county. Their home was recked and the bodies were found ime distance away. Another son was averely hurt. Mrs. Charles Lawson.

about 50, as killed by falling debris when her home near Thayer collapsed. Her husband, who attempted to save. adly hurt. A daughter -law also were hurt. er.

clearing a path nearly half a mile wide, crossed Highwav Montier. Telephone poles es littered the Highway, vir tually stopping all traffic. Some houses, wrecked by the storm, caught fire and burned. A heavy rain fol- wed the tornado. Mrs.

Grace Richardson, 56, was killed when her two-story home near Steelville, 70 miles southwest of St. Louis, was overturned by the storm and caught fire. Many Persons Hurt Highway patrolmen said many persons were hurt and were given it homes of neighbors. Others taken to hospitals at West Cora Hines of Montier, crawled from her wrecked home af- caught on fire and escaped injury while in Hutton Valley community, a short distance away, Mr. and Mrs.

Ben Roberts and Mr. and Mrs. Leon Robbers and two children suffered injuries when the storm wrecked their home. Farm Buildings Wrecked Patrolmen said a score or mo: of farm buildings were wrecked damaged in an area of about 10 mill north and south from Montier. Telephone lines from east an south were blown down and much of the area served by REA lines was ir darkness after the storm.

Telephone fficials said because of the cxten- Of storm ic restored "for Montier has a population fhile Hutton Valley has 100. Truman Will Get Honorary Degree At Baptist School WASHINGTON The White House said today President Truman will visit Baylor University (Texas) in March to receive an honorary degree which stirred up a controversy when it was first offered in the fall of 1945. Presidential Secretary Charles Ross said Mr. Truman will stop at Waco, site of the Baptist University, on his return flight from Mexicc City where he will visit President Miniel Aleman early in March. said the exact dale for the ceremony at Waco, where the dent is to receive the doctor of laws degree has not been decided on.

Late in 1945 the Baptist General Conference of Texas adopted a resolution urgin? Baylor to withhold the degree because of what the resolution described as Mr. Truman's "reported attitude" toward "Ramblinj? and drinking." The Rev. W. L. -Shuttleworth of Houston, chairman of the Civic Righteousness committee, said from the conference floor "no Baptist school should confer a degree' who "lik poker and drink bourbon.

The President never made any comment, but. Baylor University announced it would confer the degree regardless of the conference action. Dies In Electric Chair MCALESTER, (VPlHar-lan Broyles, 31, maintaining to the last, that he was innocent, died liy after midnight in the state penitentiary electric chair for the slaying of Seminole county Deputy heriff Eric Nicholson. Probate Judge M. J.

Hull, ex-of-ficio magistrate, left today for Jef ferson City where he will attend a meeting of Missouri magistrates Friday. spread. Electric power and light and communications services were disrupted in many areas, transpor- i the highways. In Lhe air lad, was delayed and there serous accidents to pedes trians and motorists. Temperatures dropped to below ro in northern Minnesota, North Dakota and a sub-zero reading of 17 at Cutbank, was the coldest spot on the weather map.

Throughout the snow and rain belt, temperatures generally were in the 20's. Centers in Illinois Today the storm was centered in est central Illinois, moving north eastward. Heavy snow was falling the north and west of the storm nter. The heaviest fall reported as in central lower Michigan, uthern Wisconsin, extreme north-n Illinois and on into Iowa and uthern Minnesota. Milwaukee reported 14 inches of inwfall in the last 24 hours, with drifts about six feet high and snarled.

Mason City, had 3 inches, and Dubuque, la. reported Thunderstorms and lightning were reported in parts of Illinois. Iowa, and Indiana. Federal fore casters said the thunder-lightning January resulted fiom the col-in between warm and cold layers air on a line extending from tral Missouri across southern nois and Indiana into soutJi-itcrn Pennsylvania. Daughter Strangles to Death Carol Ann Bird, one year old.

strangled to death Jan. 27 in a home Kansas City where her mother. Mrs. Harojd Bird, was visiting. The lormcrly attended the Mary ville Teachers College where he played baskeball.

The child strang- her sleeping bag. iby Supplies. 8c Drug. Heavy Ice Load Pulls Wires Down Twelve telephone poles were out yesterday and this morning because of the heavy Ice and sleet which visited this area, according to William McMahon. Nodaway Telephone Co.

wire chief. A few of the poles were down in Maryville but most of them cracked under the icy strain south and west of Maryville. At 1 o'clock this afternoon telephone lines were out. between Maryville and Burlington Junction. Clcarmont.

Graham, Barnard, Ar-koe and Guilford. The Nodaway Telephone Company's long distance operators struggled along with only one wire to St. Joseph nnd none to Kansas City from 10 o'clock yesterday morning to this morning. The two Kansas City wires and three of the four St. Joseph wires were out of order between here and St.

Joseph, it was reported. At 1 o'clock this afternoon one of the Kansas City wires and three of the SI. Joseph wires were functioning. The local telephone company has 10 trouble-shooters and linemen repairing wire damage in this area but it will be three or four days before the work is completed, even new trouble is reported, ac cording to McMahan. Erection of new poles will not be completed less than a week.

Prompt, efficic rlauphlc-r. Margaret Lot Engelmann. It was introduced at 1 the Maryville flower show in the! spring of 1945. It will be christened i unusually long stems. This feature marks the blossoms, ideal for floral arrangements and for table bouquets! or sprays.

The plant is a dwarf with dark green foilage, which makes a vivid contrast with the blossom. I It blooms constantly through nil of blossoms. Other geranlur hybridized are the "Missouri' the "Fantasia," which have a m- sheen and arc rose in color. He be gan his work with geraniums when he was a boy and worked as his father's assistant. Crossing a composite flower re quires technical skill and patience undreamed of by the casual buyer oi flowers.

Mr. Engelmann usually started the day at 5 a. m. and somc- 5 worked until midnight. He crossed and grew thousands of seedlings before he could produce a new plant worthy of introduction.

He tested his Missouri geranium seven before he was satisfied with superiority. At the time of Mr. Engclmann's death three packages of seed cros- of geraniums were found that will be planted and developed. Mrs. Engelmann and daughter.

Margaret, plan to continue the business. Miss Engelmann is the fourth generation of the family to work with flowers, ed oacis covered with packed snow and ice as the result of a light snow blanket preceded by freezing rain. Icy conditions also were reported in sections of north central Missouri. Weather bureau reports here showed falls of an Inch of snow at Tarkio and St. Joseph, with a trace at Kansas City and Chillicothe.

The 'orecast called for much colder-weather tonight with low readings of from 5 to 10 in the northwest and extreme north and 15 to 25 over the the Heavy damage to telephone electric lines north of Trenton reported to have resulted from the Rural electrification lines in area were reported hard hit. weight of the ice on wires pulled REA poles from the ground on a five mile section of line near Ra-vannri in Mercer county. Repair crews said the ice reached a thickness of three inches on the Iced Power Lines Cause Trouble to Electric Co. Electric power in Maryville and vicinity was erratic today but only one Maryville E.L. P.

Co. line was out of commission at 2 o'clock, according to Jerry Gllc. company Thr i foe Elmo i north of Elim pected that service would be re- imed shortly. The occasional blinking of lights as caused by tin- stiff wind blow ing and bouncinnr the ice-laden wires, Gile explained. Electricity service to King City was interrupted for approximately two hours yesterday around noon when the 33.000-volt power line feeding that, locality was out of order, to the wind and ice.

Maryvillians east of Main and south of Market streets were without electricity for nearly an hour beginning at. 8 o'clock yesterday morning when the 2.300 volt line feeding that district went on the Gile stated that many miscellaneous electrical disorders due to iee and wind had been reported but that they were mostly of a minor The assembly at S. T. will be held at 9 o'clock Friday morning, instead of 10 a. as has been previously announced.

The speaker will be Dr. Shou-Chang Pu, a correspondent for "Wen Hue Pao." the only progressive -and leading newspaper in Shanghai, China. Penalty on Taxes Tomorrow is the last day to pay county, school and township taxes before a 2 per cent penalty on unpaid taxes goes into effect February 1. The penalty on unpaid taxes will be increased 1 per cent the first of each month thereafter until November 1 when it will remain 10 per cent, Alfred Engelmann Began His Career As Florist at Age of 8 at Nashville Alfred Engelmnnn, Maryvillc's florist who died Jan. 22, began his career as a florist and plant Panther Scare Adds Zest to Life In Neighborhood Near Parkville hybridizer at the age of 8 years Nashville.

Term. On Saturdays he would take the Nashville city market place revitalized plants that his father. Frederick Enrelmann, a floral artist, had discarded from his greenhouse. When he was a child he would run away from home a couple of days at a time to the Cumberland river. When he returned he would have pothered several species of plants and flowers.

The "Dorothy Chaves," a carnation which is a cross between two well know varitlcs, was christened at the St. Joseph flower show in November, 1925. It was named for Mrs. W. F.

Chaves of Maryville, daughter of Mrs. W. C. Pierce and the late Mr. Pierce, friends of Mr.

Engelmann of long standing. At the christening ceremony Mrs. Chaves carried a large arm bouquet of the silver pink carnations. During the ceremony "Hearts and Flowers" was softly played on the organ, and a pitcher of perfume was poured or the blossoms. The development of this flower took several years of experimentation.

A feature of the Dorothy Chaves carnation Is that It is a year-round variety. Mr. Engelmann also developed chrysanthemums and geraniums, devoting much time and work parti- cularly to geraniums. The iwar-Baret Louisa," a brilliant crimson geranium, was named for tils red- PARKVILLE -(JP) A "panther" scare Is adding zest to life these winter days in the rugged Rocky Point neighborhood four miles north of here. A dead cow, screams In the night and tracks of a large beast as cited as evidence that a panther or mountain lion is on the prowl.

Three 'residents of the area reported they had seen the animal. One of them. Earl Mallott, said he met the animal face to face, but didn't tarry long since he was unarmed. He described the "what-is-it" as being about three feet high and weighing about 200 pounds. Another who said he saw the animal was Jewell Witt.

He reported that the beast had killed one of his cows, a 700-pound animal, by slashing its throat. Harry Harrington, local big game hunter, was called upon yesterday to examine the tracks. His opinion was that they were those of a panther. He said the tracks indicated the animal had claw about an inch and a half long. After his report resKteaw began oiling up their shootln' Irons for a big hunt next Sunday.

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