Dixon Evening Telegraph from Dixon, Illinois • Page 1

The first time I saw Jack he frightened me. It wasn't because of his looks. just his size. Jack was, and is, a hulking six foot seven and at that time (he's heavier jow) weighed in at 270 plus-And at that first meeting, I was a tottering -three-footer who tipped the scales at some zuu pounds less even when very wee. I had been accustomed to people of 'normal' (5-10, 180 pound) size and this gentleman was a little Dit too much of a man for me.

Since that time I've picked up' about 20 years and another 100 so, although I'm still cautious, we now meet on a big-man-to-little-man basis. TODAY HE HEADS an advertising agency in Columbux, for owners and breeders of purebred dairy cattle. He among others, accounts for the owners of Schlitz breweries, and several high-bracket officials in general Electric. at 50, he has probably tempered bit from those more youthful days, but he still seems to me one of most colorful characters I've ever heard about. Let me tell you a few of the stories as they were told to me: DURING THE 'bank holiday' of the depression 20s Jack and his telephone company got in a Squabble over a telephone bill.

Jack, who had all his money tied up in the closed banks, offered to pay in check but the company insisted on cash. To that, Jack told them he didn't want their telephone and to send a man "to take this thing out or I'll rip It out." The man, either like I was or else just a bit lazy, didn't; arrive for a month. When did he found the Nisbet phone sitting in the front yard wlresi cord and all. One year later, on the request of the friend and after the phone company had offered a year's service free, Jack accepted phone. NOW DON'T get the idea that he's always trying to throw his weight around (which would be a toss) because he isn t.

It you met hlra, he'd remind you of a character in one of those piston ring tough, but oh bo gentle. Kids always call him "Uncle Jack." He likes picnics better than almost any other kind of recreation and can easily set sentimental over a snow covered countryside or a four-ycar-old's tricycle problems. ONE TIME professor at both Kansas and the University of Wisconsin, he is a polished public speaker. Nothing bothers him. Testimony of this comes from one time when, while gesturing, he slashed his hand on a display chart he was using.

The blood began to spurt over most of the speaker's stand. Jack, without missing a word hesitating a second, pulled out his handkerchief, wrapped It around the hand and continued wlille the audience sat and watched the bandage grow red. Not until he'd finished did he take time for treatment. ANOTHER TIME, in one of his more famous stunts, he gave a demonstration of how to throw a toll a group of interested, but Ather amazed patrons of the Hotel in usiiKosn, wis. Roping off a ring around a bull on the hotel's first floor, Jack proceeded to down the animnl.

The whole thing was done quickly, calmly and with the permission of the hotel manager. BUT PERHAPS the most typv cal story was of how he went Jjounng the local pubs in his home 'Awn in Wisconsin one evening with a friend of his. The friend drank and Jack didn't. When the bartender would take the orders the friend would say "Gin" and Jack, always a dairy man, would say "Milk." To bartender's "You Jokin' Bud?" Jack would arise from his stool, lecture on the evils of drink-and. In mock Indignation, send him next door to the rcstau-Cfrant for a glass of preferred Bartenders, big as they may be, never complained that I know of.

T. M. R. Postpone Adams Zoning Hearing The public hearing on the petition by Morris E. Adams to rezone lot on Monroe av.

will be held at 7 p.m. March 11. The hearing originally was scheduled for Tuesday night. Marry aiepnan, a memocr ot me board appointed by Mayor William V. Slothowcr to conduct the hearing, is not in Dixon nt this time.

Adams wants the lot rezoncd from FWSPAPFR Support the Red Cross --It's Your Closest Link to the Battlefield Dixon Evening Telegraph Serving the Heart of the Rock Rivez Valley for More Than a Century ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR Number 53 Dial 2-1111 Tragedy on the Riviera 37 DEAD fy" large military and economic aid from the United States. Connally made the statement to after Secretary of State Acheson had conferred for nearly two hours at a closed meeting with the senate foreicrn relations committee, connally is chairman of the group. Directly Related In reply to a question, Connally saia nis remarxs were directly OFFER PAKIS. Antoinc Pinay. 60-ycar-old Conservative said today he would see if he could form a new cabinet to get France out of its political and financial jam.

Pinay announced his decision to newsmen artcr a half-hour's talk with President Vincent Aurlol. related to the current French govornmeni crisis. jfremier Faures government icii mai wnen ne asked a 15 per cent tax increase to the trench share of the defense nlam made by the North Atlantic Ticaty Organization (NATO). Connally refused to discuss what Acncson told the committee, but Senator Sparkman (D-Ala) said the cabinet officer is "certain-he has no misgivings at that France will find a way to finance the program." France's share of U.S. aid for the year ending June 30 was set at 60C million dollars.

Want $7.9 Billion Acheson and President Truman are asking congress for an appropriation of $7,900,000 in foreign aid. The president goes on the radio Thursday night to appeal for public support. There have been demands for a cut In foreign aid spendinsr and Sen, Ferguson (R-Mich), an appropriations committee member, told a reporter he thinks it "un fair to ask the American taxpayers to assume the lion's share the international defense costs." Sen. Douglas (D-Ill), one of the senate's chief economy advocates, said in a separate interview he favors a cut of billion dollars in the president's proposed budget outlay of 10 billions for all forms of foreign aid. cancer conierence was told today.

some nave no signs of cancer two years later. But it's too soon to can any of them cured. Revolving Chair The merrv-eo-round is a involv ing- chair. The patient sits in it while a powerful two million volt X-Ray beam is aimed at his hidden cancer. As the patient soins xuwiv, mi: ueam concentrates on the cancer.

The sDinninf menno less damaging X-Ray on his skin and healthy tissues, and thus a nigger aose nittlng the cancer. The merry-go-round method was developed by Dr. John G. Trump and associates of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in research supported by the American Cancer Society. Patients are chosen and treatment guided by Dr.

Hugh F. Hare, radiologist of the Lahey clinic in Boston. Details of results in the firs't 27 residential to commercial use so months with the merry-go-round that he can operate a gaiage and beam were car market. ing of the National Cancer con. fcrence, bringing together more than 1,000 U.

S. and foreign scientists and physicians to report latest advances in the campaign against cancer. So far, 286 patients have been treated. The great majority had advanced cancer that couldn't be cut out or treated with usual X-Ray methods. 157 Cancer Free Today, 157 have no signs of cancer, and some have been clear for one to two years.

But cancer isnt considered cured until at least five years have passed with no recurrence. Forty-seven have died, some of other diseases; 19 have cancers that spread, 12 have persistent cancers and In five the cancers returned. Another 1 46 arc still under treatment or finished it too recently to be called free of the disease. DIXON, ILLINOIS, MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1952 IN Chairman of Board Says, "Well. Bone'' to 25-Year Employes CONGRATULATIONS FOR SERVICE ever a 25 year period are extended by W.

H. Parkin, chairman of the board of the National Standard to Belar Gibson in the photo above. Parkin is at the extreme right. The 24 persons pictured above received watches as service awards for their quarter-century with Reynolds Wire Dixon. Left to right in the first row are William H.

Darfler, Hazel F. Munscllc, Fannie L. Blackburn. Virgil L. Pittman.

Samuel B. Brooks, Fred C. McCardlc, Emory W. Johnson. Gibson and Parkin.

Left to right in the second row are Arthur F- Vick, Troy P. James A. Wombell, Edward Hamburg, Fred J. Bott, Arthur Pettcnger, John R. Sieling, and Pearl F.

to right in the last row are W. Ferroll McCollum, Earl F. Winebrenner, Theodore A. Gaul, Charlea-Ji. L.

Cole, Joseph R. Green. Carl C. Sitter and Russell J. Jones.

Not shown lyit receiving a watch is George C. $66 Million Steel Works For Clinton CLINTON, Construction of a new, privately financed 66 million dollar steel mill in Clinton county is to begin sometime this week, according to an announce' ment by C. A Depue, president of the North American Steel Co. The plant, first steel mill to be erected in Iowa, will cover a 381- acre tract owned by the company. The land was recently purchased from the federal government.

Building equipment, to be trans ported in more than 30 freight cars from Pittsburgh, is expected to arrive sometime this week. The mill is to be built with private funds without government financing. The firm, founded by Depue, hopes to develop a steel center in the Midwest with the Mississippi river as the main car- of both coal and iron ore. It will also use scrap non from the Midwest, usually shipped to mills in the East. According to present plans the mill will be basically an iron and coke plant at first, but will eventu-.

ally expand into a fully integrated steel plant. Promise in Cancer Treatment An X-ray merry-jro-round has knocked out I cancers in dozens of apparently hopeless cancer patients, the second nacrriinan. ne is in ure nospiuu. Honor Reynolds Wire Workers At Service Banquet on Saturday Wrist watches were presented to 24 employes of the Reynolds Wire division of the National Standard Co. at the second annua! 25-year club banquet Saturday night at the Masonic temple.

A 25th watch will be presented to George C. Merriman who is ill In the hospital. Al Johnson, National Standard Co. president, and W. H.

Parkin, chairman of the board of ditectors, spoke briefly the dinner. Each reminded employes that the company faces a buyers market ana that the company must in- se its sales efforts and work- must concentrate on meeting specifications in the product. Johnson said, "Successful is the com pany which makes the customer's job easier." A total of -78 of the estimated 400 workers of the Reynold's Wire division have completed 25 years service and have received watches during the past two years. The awards have been made year; to anyone having the required service over any period. Formerly the watches were presented to those with 25' years continuous The supper was served by the Whitc'Shrine and the Order of the Eastern Star.

It was estimated that 400 employes attended the banquet program Saturday. Sen. Ole Benson, Of Ottawa, Dies; 30-Year Veteran Ole E. Ben- son, 86, a member of the Illinoi: general assembly for 30 years, died yesterday. A native of Norway, Benson had lived in Ottawa since the age of five.

He started his political 1005. cr as LaSalle county sheriff Between 1912 and 1938, 1 served nine two-year terms as publican state representative from the district. He was senator three terms, from 1938 to 1950. He is survived by a son, Capt. Floyd Benson, now in Korea, and three daughters, Mrs.

Leonard Boyd of Earlville, Mrs. James E. Condgem, of Walworth, and Mrs. Koy Wilholm. STORE, SHOW BANS Religious sculptor Trevor Wyatt Moore prepares to remove his "Shulamite" after statue wss termed unsuitable for display at Chicago department store art exhibit.

Chains, padlocks and comments were placed by the artist on the nude torso, which was modeled by his wife, Marcena, 21. China Issues Decrees to Halt Plague SAN The Communist Peiping radio said to day Gen. Kim II Sung, chairman of the military council and premier of rcorui Korea, had issued a decree placing the country in a virtual state of emergency to combat bu bonic plague. The Red broadcast, heard by the Associated Press, said the decree ordered a national extraordinary anti-epidemic committee, the min-. istry of health, the army medical bureau and other government agencies to "mobilize all forces to wipe out gcrm-carryinir insects.

The Reds persistently accused the United States of causing the plague by dropping germs behind Red lines. The United Nations command has denied the charge as simply a "cover-up" for an epi demic of natural causes. In another Pcipinjrv broadcast, Red Propagandist Wilfred Burchett was quoted as saying "4,000 United Nations prisoners of war will have to take their chance with the rest of Korean village dwellers in the honors of a plague epi- BATTLE HUKS MANILA (AP) Defense headquarters today said Philippine army troops killed 161 Communist Huks, captured 64 and wounded 74 last month. Army losses for the period were put at 19 dead and 32 wounded. 10 PAGES Temperatures May Dive to 10-Below Here Predict Snow for Tonight Followed By Mercury Slump March, which stalked in like a well-mannered lion Saturday came out of hibernation early Sunday with all the force and unpleasantness as sociated with the king of beasts.

Saturday the sun shone although the temperature did not get above freezing. However there were few complaints about the first day of the unpredictable month. Then sometime Sunday morning the lion roared out of his cage and an estimated two inches of snow feU on Dixon and surrounding area. The first many persons knew of the snowfall was when they looked outdoors Sunday morning. Ta mako matters worse, the rampaging lion will be on the prowl for at least two days.

An other two to four inches snow is anticipated tonight, according to an Associated Press weather report. Also the temperature will take a. dive tonight to five or 10 de grees above zero. The nign reaa-ing Tuesday should be about 15 with the low Tuesday night five or 10 BELOW zero. Whiter may not be able to hold out much longer but surely it is putting up a show of strength on the delaying action before a strategic withdrawal.

Lt. Gov. Dixon Found Guilty in Leap Year Court Lt. Gov. Sherwood Dixon, considered a better than average attorney, lost a case Friday and will pay the fine.

Lt. Gov. Dixon was found guilty of some slight to women by the Kangaroo court set up in Ottawa by the Junior Woman's club on Leap Year's day. The activities netted $4,000 Xrom the pockets of bachelors and those causing any kind of slight to me icmaie sex. More than 860 persons appeared before magistrates in court at Ottawa paying fines ranging from to $20.

The average fine was $2.50. Lt. Gov. Dixon received a summons from the court and responded with a telegram saying, "Enter pleading of not guilty. Request that my attorney, Robert Mills, be called to represent me." He received an answer from the court by return telegram saying, "Robert Mills now in national guard.

Defendant guilty by failure to put in appearance." The fine is forthcoming from Dixon. High Court Upholds New York Anti-Commie Teachers' Law The Supreme court today upheld by a to 3 vote New York's antl-Communlst teachers law. The act widely known as the Feinberg law is designed to bar subversive persons from working in the states scnooi system. It was attacked by eight New York taxpayers who insisted the statue violated freedom of speech and assembly. Vote 6-3 Justice Minton delivered the ma jority decision.

Justice Douglas, Black and Frankfurter wrote dissenting opinions. That meant the majority was composed of Chief Justice Vinson and Justices Reed, Jackson, Burton and Clark as well i Minton. The Feinberg law was enacted in 1919 to help enforce a state civil service law passed 10 years, earlier. The civil service law saysj persons who advocate violent over-1 throw of government may not be appointed to, or stay on, state jobs. Must List Subversives The Feinberg law requires the state board of the ad- ministraive body heads the New York educational system list subversive organizations.

The law makes membership in such listed organizations clear evidence of disqualifications for any job in tne scnooi system. The law's preamble refers to the Communist party as an advocate of violent overthrow of government. The board of regents has not compiled a subversive list and no teacher has been fired under the Feinberg law. PRICE FIVE CENTS PLANE CRASH Warn France to Assume Share of Defense Sen. Connally Claims French Must Do Utmost Hints U.S.

Aid Will Be Trimmed If Not Justified AP) Senator Connally (D-Tex) said today that "if France does not do her utmost to defend herself, she cannot iusti. French Craft Plunges Near Resort Town Woman Survivor Taken From Wreck Of Big Airliner NICE, France (AP) An Air France airliner crashed in an olive grove near this Riviera fun spot today, killing 37 persons, including an American ballet dancer and French actresses. A woman taken alive from the wreckage was reported in critical condition. The four-engine plane had just taken off from Nice airport. Instead of heading out as usual over the Mediterranean on tho flight to Paris, the plane turned back, lt lost altitude, then smashed into bits in the olive grove, just missing a croup of houses where 20 families live.

Intakes Clogged Airport employes said pieces of a gulls wings and feathers had been found in the sir intakes of plane's engines, and this might have caused the crash. The two left engines had apparently failed. Joan Katzman, 21, who danced under the name of Harriet Toby with the Marquis de Cuevas company, was the dead American. She appeared last night at Cannes in the ballet La Mucrte, Spanish for death. Her home was in New York city.

Lise Topart, 24; and' Michele Vcrly, 41, were the French actresses who died. Eleven other victims had British addresses. Other listed their addresses In France or Italy. The pilot, Theau Far-rugia, 29, a veteran of 4,500 hours, flying time, and his wife, were killed. One Tnke Alive Mrs.

Margarite Delpy of Paris as taken alive from the wreck age. She is in critical condition at a hospital, authorities said. Bodies of the victma were badly burned. The plane was a Languedoc, used in European and North African services. It crashed at 9:05 a.m.

(2:05 a.m. CST). Resists Arrest in Ml. Morris, Gets 10 Days in Jail Gilbert Anderson. 58, of Leaf River, was sentenced to 10 days in the Ogle county jail here today and placed on probation for resisting arrest and battling with a mi.

Morris ponce oinccr cany Sunday morning. Anderson is employed by a grain elevator in Ml. Morris. Anderson was picked up about 12:30 a.m. by Mt.

Morns police officer Hap Palmer. Palmer said, he was intending to arrest Anderson for being drunk and disorderly and when Anderson resisted, he took him to the, county jail. Anderson was sentenced In Ogle county court by Judge Helen Rut-kowski. NEW COMMANDER YOKOSUKA, JAPAN Vice Adm. Robert P.

Briscoe today took command of the U.S. Seventh fleet, succeeding Vice Adm. Harold M. Martin. Weather Snow tonight with additional two to four inches likely; turning much colder tonight.

Tuesday partly cloudy and colder, with occasional snow flurries. Low tonight five to 10 above, high Tuesday near 15. Low Tuesday night five to 10 below zero. Northeast to north winds increasing 20 to 30 miles an hour, with drifting tonight. Temperature Wind Noon (Sun.) 29 SE 4 p.m 27 8 p.m 2(1 NE Midnight 27 NE 4 27 NE a.

in 80 NE Noon (Mon.) 32 NE Rock river stage, .5 feet below normal. River flow, 5,765 cubic feet a second. Sunrise 6:11 a.m., sunset 5:38.