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i in i Li Z'3 ABO NTT PAID CXECTLATION 4,151 Delivery evening (Except Sunday) in ehliere, Caproa, Camp Epworth, Garden Prairie, Tq lar Grove, Xlarenjo, Che ttj VOL 53 NO. 171 SIX PAGES BELVIDERE. ILLINOIS MONDAY. JULY 21. 1952 rl -rl -i L2) (OJ --HILDAS lo) CalimrMd: Delegations, Civil Rights Split Delayed Tehachabi Leveled lied I2C 1 1 1 Fire Sve Falls Two Stories, Lands Oti Pillow SMOKE AND FLAMES OBSCURE Norwegian freighter Black Gull 70 miles ft the clast of Rhode Island after he ship was abandoned by crew and passengers.

Forty-five persons were rescued. Four were missing after flames engulfed the 5.0QP ton vessel which was bound from Bremen to New York City. (NEA Telephoto). oxers Local Soapb Place At Woe Mrs. Hyde Dies; Wile Of Head Belvidere soapbox, derby enthusiasts won third and mirth nlAPPa in triAannnal official soanhox derbvheld Of Boone Board Saturday afternoon at Woodstock, which was' won by 11- -v A-ar if ivtrtiioi B.

Hyde, 70. of Garden year-old mer rerKins, 01 marengo, son 01 mr, ana jyirs. L. Perkins. DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES wipe their brows after appearing for interview under hot television lights in Chicago.

Left to right are: Averell Harriman, Vice-President Barkley and Estes' Kef auver. In the rear is Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota who also appeared on the show. (NEA Telephoto). Last Back Oi designees' On City Jobs The last three of a group men who turned in resignations two weeks ago returned to duty Monday morning, -a council 13 oue 10 act on ine appTopnaiion orainance wmcn originally resulted the Trairie, wife of Elmer Hyde, chairman of the Boone county board of supervisors, died at 5 :30 p.m. Saturday in her home following a lingering illness.

Death was attributed to heart complications. Born Aug. 1881 in McHcnry county, she was the daughter Of Elisha Scoville rnnd Mathilda Be-mer Merriman. She was educated In Garden Prairie schools and De-Kalb Teacher! college. HER MARRIAGE was to Elmer Hyde on Feb.

27, "1905 at Roscoe. She was a member of the Garden Prairie Methodist church, the' Wo-mens Society of Christian Service of the church and the Prairie l.J Surviving are me husband; two JBelvlderoi.aBd Gene of Bonus" township; a daughter, Lucille Hydo Krobbe, at home; five grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. She was preceded In dtfath by her parents, six" sisters and a granddaughter, Marlene Krobbe. FUNERAL SERVICES will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Wit-beck-Wheeler-Sabien funeral home.

Rev, Albin Tavener of South Elgin, assisted by Rev. Donald Bate of Gardenn Pralfrie. will officiate and burial will will be in the Gar-den Prairie cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home. Condition 0i; Tractor Reported Good taVerne Bye, 14-year-old son of Mr, and Mrs.

Leslie Bye, rural Garden Prairie, is recovering in St. Joseph's hospital from painful injuries suffered Saturday afternoon when his tractor overturned as he attempted to make a U-turn on a gravel road, about oner mile Bouth of Garden Prairie. HIS CONDITION Was regarded as "good" Monday by hospital attaches. He suffered a fracture of he right leg and first, second and third degree burn to his legs. Authorities said the burns were caused 1 he hot exhaust pipe as the youth lay pinned by his right leg beneath the overturned tractor.

A wrecker was brought to the scene lo lift the tractor off theyoath. CDS Big Oil Field ANGELES-A violent Dre- dawn earthquake in the sparsely-settled mountains north of here, lulled at least 12 persons Monday and left a mounting toll of damage and injuries. AS THE FIRST reports of eye witnesses filtered out of the little town of they painted a picture of a shattered business dis trict, brick-littered streets and a wrecked hotel, Doctors and nurses were flown in when ambulances met A slide-blocked roads. They included not only civilians, mobilized by the Red Cross, but rescue crews from Edwards air force base and the navy's rocket testing base at China AMATEUR RADIO operators heard by radio station KTRB in Mo desto reported the earth rocked debris tumblinng into Main street in thunderous crashes. Children and their parents rushed into the streets and crouched, stunned by the giant shaking.

A large water tank crashed, fiood-Sfi''4ha Another amateur quoted Carl Thurber of the Kern' county sheriff's aero detail, who flew in Red Cross workers, as reporting two- thirds of the city's1 buildings col- apsed. with one house caved in and a family probably trapped. Inn Sacramento, the state cap- itol, state civil defense headquar ters ordered medical equipment mobilized to fly Into the area. TEHATCHAPI, with a popula tion of about 3,000 Is between Bak er sfield and Mojave. It is a little mountain town 4,000 feet high, many of whose residents work at the big Monolith Portland Cement Co.

plant nearby. It also is the site of the State Women's Prison, which was re ported so hard hit that most of its cluster of two-story buildings are unusable. A call went out for tents in which to house all of Califor nia's women convicted of felonies VtKK IN THE- PALOMA Oil fields, about' seven miles south west of Bakersfield, swept storage tanks within moments after the quake At California Institute or Tech nology, seismologists gave the first clue to the center of the quake, felt-over mostr of a jrast area with a rolling motion. CALTECI1 RATED its intensi ty at 7 on a scale of eight, com pared with 64 for the Long Beach quake which killed scores near here in 1933. The San Francisco quake of 1906, one of the worst on record, rated 8 on that scale Millions of Californians were awakened by the first shock," felt here at 5:52 a.nv central stan dard time.

Its intensity here, 120 miles away from the center, could be gauged by the fact that dawn's light disclosed cracks in buildings and showered plaster. The rolling motion, in contrast to the wrenching jar which ac companies some quakes, was credited with minor damage in the heavily f- populated metropolitan Los Angele area. LOS ANGELES hotel lobbies were crowded by residents In their night clothes. Lights sprang ip in houses up and down every block. Dogs howled in fear and at Redondo Beach, Mrs.

Eleanor Howell said she was awakened by dog. running outside the house with a walling cry. only a moment before the quake hit. Residents of the San Fernando Valley, home of many movie stars, reported tha quake sloshed water out of their swimming pools Broken dishes general cracked windows were common In a band from here to a point north of Fresno, and extending to San ta Barbara on the coastr" r-. The southern section of the San JraqritnTalleyTtUch'Cltlerai'Bak ersfield, Tulare and Visalia, all After Tremor THE COUNCIL will meet at 7:30 p.m.

Monday, to reconsider the ap propriation ordinance, which It rejected at the last council session two weeks ago. With the return of Clayton Kies- ter, George Dykes and Elmer' Myers, all names have been scratched off the list of resigned police men and, firemen which was pre sented to Mayor Lester Cunningham two weeks ago. Herman Hyland, an extra policeman who told Mayor Cunningham he -too was walking out when, the, others presented resignations two weeks ago, also has returned to duty, it was revealed. 4 TWO ATTEMPTS by members of the fire and police commission to call meetings to act on the resignations of the three remaining men who rctqrned Monday morning have Steeri thwarted by Ray Cornish; chairman of the fire and police commission. Cornish refused to call a meeting lait Friday at the request of Clifford (Al) Larson, commission Gov.

Stevenson, Douclas Address Opening Session CONVENTION Chicaffo. AP The Democratic National convention slammed a 24-hour ar mistice on its old Nortth-South family battle Monday as it met to choose, its standard bearer in this iau presiaenuat election. For the first time in years, the' Democratic convention Was wlda open there wasn't a candidate within shouting distance of the par ty ticKet-Ieading nomination. A SECTIONAL split over civil rights and the seatinff of Texaa and Mississippi delegations tliat want to be free to take a walk threatened to overshadow momentarily the Jockey incs of a Hock cf presidential candidates. But it was nut nn lr until Tiiocrlnw A program Juggling change by, the Democratic National was what delayed any showdown on this issue until SAM BRIGimiAN, committee publicity director, insisted that a- aopuon or temporary convention rules had been listed for Monday's- session only through a clerical error.

Out of the wide-ranging field cf candidates there emerged at one man with a convestion-sUiti- gy plan -s- Sm Estcs Kcfauvcr of Tennessee. Winner of most of the Demo-. cratic primaries and self-stylo peoples' choice for the Kefauver appeared ready to shoot the political works' on an effort to win the nomination' by the fourth ballot IF HIS SELF PROPELED band wagon stalls as many in orpos-ing camps were predicting it won! 1 the top runners for No. 1 place oh the ticket seemed to be 74-year- old Vice Presidentt Barkely and re luctant Adlai Stevenson cf Illinois. Stevenson, who repeated last night that "I Just don't want to be nominated for still was a hot prospect for a dr: movement if the convention lOCkS.

ON THIS POINT, the Illinois rv- ernor said: 'You'd have to me the deadlock first." Jacob Arvey, Illinois nations! committeeman, put his views Li these words: "Gov Stevenson couldn'tt turn down the nomination if it were a legitimate draft and if he are? i to the party platform." "Despite a "this hurts me r.lUij than it does you kick In the rant3 from organized labor leaders, Car- kley continued to gather under-current strength. GEORGE HARRISON, AFL vice presiderit, and Jack Kroll, director of the CIO's Political Action committee, said the unions' can't support Barkley because of his Welcoming the delegates to thia convention hall where Gen. Dw iht Eisenhower, was chosen as GOP presidential nominee 13 days ago, Stevenson said it doesn't matter so much, who leads the Democrats this year. '-v jrT vnat counts now is not Just "The enemy, buildup has quantitative while ours has, for most part, been qualitative," "We are confident that we can make' any future enemy cf-fensive the most costly he has undertaken." TOE FAR EAST command, a copyrighted in News and World Rpporf, a news magazine, sai nists since Juno V. VA, swelled their ground strern' i half a million to nearly lion men and their air 1,000 to 2,000 planes.

I tL es, he aJJi-J, ar 1 jets. A seven-year-old Marengo boy discovered Saturday that pillow Isn't exactly nragio carpet, but It did saw him from possible more serious Injury. Leon. Havens, son of Mr. and Mrs.

George Havens, grasped the pillow Just as lie accidentally tumbled through an open window on the second floor of his parents I '-v The pillow succeeded In break ing his fan, but he suffered severe lacerations of the mouth where his teeth cut thrwgh Ills lower lip. A physician took seven stitches Inside his mouth and four outside. Knetzer Tells Startling Story Of Kidnaping' anCAGO AP The Chicago Herald-American said Robert L. Knetzer, former Edwardsville, automobile dealer who disappeared from the Springfield city Jail June 17, had surrendered Monday to a reporter of the THE NEWSPAPER, in a copy righted said Knetzer will be turned over to federal authorities. It did not disclose his whereabouts.

The Herald-American said Knet zer told a startling story of what he said was his escape from four gunmen wb. said took him out of the Springfield jail, on the pre text that one of them was a deputy United States marshal named 'George Hulen." At the time of Knetzer's disap pearance from jail with the aid of the phony marshal, he was serving an Indefinite jail sentence imposed by Federal Judge Charles G. Briggle in connection with the automobile dealer's bankruptcy. The Herald Amcrioan-said Knet zer told the following story of his disappearance from jail: THE MAN WHO took Knetzer from Jail identified himself as "Geo rge Knetzer never had seen him before. Hulen told Knet zer Robert Grant, U.S.

marshal, wanted Knetzer taken to Peoria and that Grant would explain eveiy thing to Knetzer then. Hulen took Knetzer to a Dodge four-door sedan parked at a fill ing station on the corner alongside the jail. Hulen shoved a gun against Knetzer's side and forced him Into the car. There were two other men in the back seat and one in the front seat. One man hit Knetzer In the mouth with a gun and told him lo shut up.

the men drove south on Route 66, and forced him from the car near the Lake Springfield bridge. Hulen said he going to. kill Knetzer. "KNETZER, YOU can't talk a-bout people like (naming two persons) and expect to go on living." Hulen aid. He added 'they" were! paying $5,000 to have Knet zer killed, Knetzer told the men he had 75,000 buried near Worden.

and that if they would let him get it, he would give them $50,000 if they would let him give $25,000 to his wife. He told them money was buried in the basement of a farm house occupied by an old man who was hard of hearing. The men discussed it and agreed to drive Knetzer to Worden. He had them park a few hundred yards down the road from the spot where he said the money was hidden, ONE MAN STARTED walking through a field with Knetzer, When they got out of sight tf the automobile, Knetzer said he him with everything. I had" and the man fell.

Knetzer "got out of there fast." He cut through fields, for two or three miles and hid in a baM airnlghranraTTThrnexraay: Then he hitched a ride 'out of that part of the country." of city firemen and police few hours' before the city secretary, and thwarted another effort made by commission member Fay Newell Saturday evening. Cornish reportedly contended on both occasions that he didn't want to call a meeting until after Monday night's council meeting. A MEETING of the commission has been scheduled for- Tuesday evening when at least one appli cant will take his examination for the police department. Majority of men on both departments walked off their Jobs two weeks agtr-afjer 'sighing: a 'letter of resignation when council failed to approve; their $40 per month Wage increase demands, but left the door open for possible additional wage increases above the $15 provided in the appropriation ordinance by rejecting the entire ordinance. 1 A THE QUESTION of the amount of raises to be given, firemen and policemen will come up again Monday night when the council is scheduled to reconsider the appro priation ordinance.

i J' government struck back with DIES IN AUTO, BUS CRASH AURORA AP Mrs. Ann Knickrehm, 63, of St. Charka, YOUNG PERKINS, winner of the class championship, defeated Mike Barrett of Woodstock, winner of Gass A competition, to become the derby champion and win the right to enter the national soapbox derby races at Akron," 0., later this summer. Pekins In the best time of the day with :25.5T over the Woodstock course. ROBERT GUISTI of Belvidere was the second place winner in Gass A competition and was award ed third place, while Jan Smith of Belvidere was second place win ner in Gass and was awarded fourth place.

Forty-eight' entries, 12 from Belvidere, participated in the annual Woodstock event John John son pf Belvidere 'won a prize for the best upholstery on his soapbox racer. i MIKE BARRETT, the second place winner, is a brother of JLn Barrett, who won the Woodstock derby last year and participated at Akron. Dick Deneen of Marengo was the Woodstock winner in 1950. jVf The derby was launched with a parade to Derby Hill. All contestants were served lunch by the Woodstock Moose club and the eve ning meal was provided by the Townsend garage or woodstocK.

The Woodstock American Legion also served refreshments. Hot Weather To Continue By The Associated Press Another hot day was in store for. most of the nation Monday. Little precipitation was expected, with widely scattered thundershow-ers bringing only temporary relief. High temperatures Sunday were in the 80 and 90 degree range over most of the Only the northern tier of states along the Canadian border experienced near or slightly below normal temperatures.

The weather bureau reported these high temperatures; Las Vc-zas. and Needles, CaU each 107; and Garden City, 104. THE CONVENTION city of Chic ago had a high of 95. CRASHES KILL 11 CHICAGO AP At least 11 persons died in traffic accidents In Illinois during the weekend. Olympics London.

It also paved the way for an American sweep' as Darrow Hooper of Texas took second and Jim Fuchs of New York third. MEANWHILE, American i hopes suffered some severe Jolts through the two reversals in the 100 meters and the failure of two of three American semi-finalists to qualify for the final of the 400 meter hurdles. The favorite, Charlie Moore of Cornell, who smashed the Olympics record with a 50.8 performance, won his semi-final in a breeze. Victims of the Judges decisions were Dean Smith of Texas and Lindy Remigino of Manhattan, Although it appeared to spectators the second heat by two feet, officials named Herb McKenley of Jamaica as the 5 A Gun Wound Is Fatal To. Marengo Man Herman W.

"Honey" Meyers. 58. 608 West Washington street, Marengo, was found dead Sunday at p.m. at the rear xA his garage with a .22 caliber rifle by his side. bullet had penetrated his tight temple." An inauest was to be conducted at 7 by tht WeHenryfctmty coroner, Harry Ehorn bf Rich mond.

Born Oct. 9. 1893 in Elk Grove, he was the son of Mary; and Her-man Meyers and was employed by the state highway commission and the Northwest Construction com pany. He was a veteran of World War 1. SURVIVORS INCLUDE his mother; three sisters, Mrs.

Mary Beck- linger, Marengo, Mrs. Kenneth Peek, Elgin, and Gerald Thomas Hinckley, and a brother, Harry, of Marengo. There are sev eral nieces and nephews. Hp was preceded in death by his father, one brother and one sister. Funneral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.mJ at the Cooper funeral home, Marengo, with the VFW conducting military rites.

Burial wiU bejnthc Marengo city cemetery. ThoWcathon- LOCAL READINGS Today's high 90, low 74. Year ago high 70, low 66. NORTHERN ILLINOIS Part ly cloudy, hot and humid Monday night and Tuesday. A few scattered afternoon thundershowers likely Tuesday.

Low Monday night 76. High Tuesday 95. Low Tuesday night .74. Southwesterly winds 10-20 moh. Outlook for Wednesday: partly cloudy, Warm and humid with" afternoon likely.

Shot Put winner. THEN 20 MINUTES after Smith had been announced as his heat Judges looked at fin ish photos and decided that Eman uel Bailey of Great Britain had beaten him. Both Smith and Remigino qual ified for the final The shot put record was the fifth Olympics mark to fall in two days of competition. Records also were bjr the high jump, the lO.OOO-'meter run and the women's discus throw. IN middleweight Don Hodge of Perry, was pinned by David Gmakurdze of Russia in "the first hand-to-hand Olympio-xlash-between the--two nationns.

He was not eliminated, however, TEHRAN, Iran AP Iran's capital was racked by near-revolutionary violence Monday. as communist- strengthened Nationalist mobs rioted against new Pre mier Ahmed Qavam and the bullets, tear gas and bayonets. U.S. Runners Reversed w8j killed Saturday In an auto-bus are for; he declared in a pre-collision In Aurora. 1 (Continued On Psx Tlsre) Qualitative Buildup 01 Uil Could AT LEAST THREE "persons and perhaps more were killed when government forces fired into a crowd of 2.000 trying to storm the parliament building.

Countless numbers of demonstrators were injured or arrested. charged into surging crowds with fixed bayonets, leaving bloody injured behind, v. "DEATH TO QAVAM." the mobs shouted wildly; venting their fury at the new premier's declaration that a settlement 'of Iran's long and crippling oil dispute with Britain would be a chief aim of his Monday's demonstrators were supporters of the former premier', Nationalist leader Mohammed Mossadegh, but many members of the outlawed communist' Tudeh party swelled the crowds. TOUNO CYCLIST KILLED 1 Maddox, 11. of Moline.

was killed Saturday wlen his bicycle and an auto collided south of Moline. Yank Wins HELSINKI AP Parry O'Brien, the big cocky Bhot putter from Southern California, broke the Olympics record the first time he heaved the. 16-pound sphere in the finals today. It also brought him the gold medal. AND THE OLYMPICS Judges threatened a record when they took first place away from two Amcr- can sprinters in the semi-final heats of.

the dash, prie fefter a 20-minute delay. i O'Brien, who led the shot put qualifiers Monday "mornlngi unleashed a tremendous -toss" of 57 feet 1.43 inches on his first try in the finals Monday afternoon. 1. 'H That smashed to bits the, Olym-t pics record 1056 Jeet. inches set by "anotheF American, Wilbur Thompson, in the 1948 games at WASHINGTON AP Gea.

Mark W. Clark says the Reds have doubled their air-groond strength in Korea during the truce talks but could not sustain a major offensive for more than two or three 1 United Nations commander reasoned: 1. THE COniUXISTS have plenty of supplies but are Incapable of moving' them in he face of UJJ. air attacks. 'i -y 4 J.

HIE AIXIES Um without increasing theif numerical sfength bceo trained intensively and improved their defenses from front to rear to meet any eventuality. Continued On Page Three).