Holdrege Daily Citizen from Holdrege, Nebraska • 1

Plane Crashes on Takeoff 2 Dead' Berts Escape Tale Persists t7asfs in Southern Spain The sugar beet harvest in the Tri -County area is rolling merrily along and farmers are finding twofold good news' in the harvest fields 1 First yields are far better than expected in this dry year Second there is- a cheering note from the -amount of beet top silage that can be put up to cut livestock feeding coats Ag Group Views to Congress SAN DIEGO Calif UR) A man whom at least five witnesses have identified as Lavrenti Beria ed head of the Russian secret purged police -in southern ing arrested by Spanish police for refusing to give information to a man claiming to be a representative of the United States But during the past month Fuson said have established the following facts: Identify Photographs 1 The man called Beria was waiting at the place where I and the intermediary were to 'rendezvous shortly after my prrival in Spain 1 carried identification Legislation Is Probable Despite Bensoxi Criticism NEW YORK UR A commercial airliner caught fire while taking off for Puerto Rico today and torched through swirling fog into marshy ground near the runway at International Airport Two passengers died One 'wrapped in flames staggeerd from the burning fuselage and collapsed under the tail assembly where his body burned to a crisp The" other a Puerto Rican doctor was severely burned and died shortly after entering a hospital Fifteen of the 27 persons aboard the Eastern Airlines Constellation were treated in hospitals burns Five of them were critical condition srs from Sen McCarthy He was accompanied by two EXCELLENT BEET CROP Milton Carbon who terms eifht miw north and three west of Holdrege holds two big sacs beets ss he jmftcs a delivery to the Loomis station of the Great Western Sugar Company (Citizen Photo) Spain' the San Diego Union said today in a copyrighted story Gene Fuson a reporter for the newspaper -wrote from Madrid that for more than a month he has been working undercover with Spanish secret police and an intermediary for the man who claims to be Beria He said the presence in Spain been established beyond a reasonable Report to McCarthy- High Spanish police officials who Fuson said permitted him to disclose the story are preparing a documented report on the case for Sen Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis) I have been asked to deliver it to the correspondent wrote A scheduled meeting the mystery man was frustrated according to the story when Fabio Gallo the intermediary who was to accompany Fuson to the meet- BEAMING BONI PrettyBoni Buehler the plucky airline hostess who lost her left' arm snd left leg in a meterboating accident was all smiles as she was met at the International Airport in-Los Angeles Calif by actor Geary Steffan The ator who was driving the boat at the time of the accident has been named as a defendant In Mlsa 500000 suit against the owner Hotel-man Conrad Hilton (NBA Telephoto) GOP Finds Big Spending Hard to Curb other men One was a Spaniard and the other was described as 'a foreigner 3 Four persons in addition to the intermediary positively have identified photographs of the real Beria as the man they saw at the rendezvous on the beach between Malaga and Three of the witnesses were identified as the owners of coastal farm where the meeting was to have taken place They said they saw the three strangers strolling along the beach Fuson -said Further in Red Despite Try Ot Applying Breaks INDIANAPOLIS Ind (UR) The House Agriculture Committee appeared almost certain today to recommend to Congress next year that it continue rigid high price sup-: ports for the six basic crops' beyond the 1954 election The legislation may bo with President Eisenhow- blessings even though Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson has criticized the present program on grounds that it does not provide a long-range solution to the farm problem The committee' nearing the close of a 1200-mile tour to sound out fanners in the politically-impor-tant Midwest planned to sample views of Indiana farmers at a public hearing today Pgll Gives Tip-Off It was scheduled- late today ta fly to Columbus Ohio where a final midwestern hearing is scheduled for liesday A poll conducted by newsmen among almost all of the members who participated in the Midwest tour gave the tip-off on probable legislative action next yea All 16 of the committee members asked to make a forecast said they believed a majority of the 30-man committee would vote to Walkout Threatens PW Talks Pretty Boni Buehler Minus Arm and Leg 'Takes Up Where She Left Off' By Lyle Wilson Untied Press Staff Corespondent WASHINGTON UR The books showed today the new Republican administration has slightly topped former Presi-dent corresponding spending record in the first three and one-half months of the current fiscal year The Republicans have collected a bit less Jn taxes than Mr Truman exacted And they are further ip the red for the 1954 fiscal year so far than was Mr Truman in the corresponding period of fiscal 1953 Debt Rising The national debt still is rising and standf today only $2000000-000 below the statutory limit Polish Czech Action Postpones 'Explanations' HOLLYWOOD Calif (UPJ Pretty" Boni Buehler minus her left arm and left leg which she lost in a speedboat accident two months ago today began weeks of just before she begins to learn how to use artificial limbs Miss Buehler 23 arrived at In- Lowell Giauque fieldjnan for the Great Western Sugar Company aid today that the second reason has struck farmers in a nfanner different thafl in other years Beet Silage Saves With present -high prices for grain concentrates farmers and livestock feeders are turning to beet top silage which furnishes both bulk and a concentrated energy value' Anything that saves mopey in the cattle feeding business is big news these days Beets yielding a 15-ton average will produce about sever! and one- half tong of ensilage Mr Giauque explained That is shotam from numerous experiments made by his company Beet by-products offer relief in another way to lives tockmen One of these by-products dried beet pulp a bulky carbohydrate concentrate produced by dehydrating fresh beet pulp has proved equally valuable when fed in the right rations to beef cattle dairy cattle and sheeep Livstock Industry Aided The fiber content of this dried pulp Which consists entirely of the vegetable fiber of the sugar beet is as highly digestible as nitrogen free extract in grain Dried beet pulp is available in dried molasses beet pulp or molasses pulp pellets Low-cost beet by-products Mr Giauque pointed out are one of the principal factors in the devel opment of the western livestock feeding industry Tri-County growers in getting the beet tops ready for wind-row them let theitops cure and then use a -field cutter to chop them for ensilage The Chopped tops can' be' placed into a pit or trench silo Some ensilage is being piled on the ground 25 Per Cent Complete The Great Western fieldman said that the harvest is about 25 per cent complete in the Tri-County area are finding the yields much better than forecast he said It looks like a better than 14-ton per acre average in the Tri-County growing area For comparison purposes' Mrs Giauque gave the figures for the previous three harvests The average in 1950 -was 1525 tons down to 12 tons in 1951 and back up to 1400 tons last year So the predictions look to a better-than-average year final Payment Coming Final payment for the' 1952 beet crop will be mailed to fanners in the Great 18 factory districts October 23 The final payment in tjiis area will -average $100 per ton of beets This will bring the total company payment Continued on page six) PANMUN JOM Korea KUR) Communist delegates stalked angrily out of a Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission meet ternational Airport Friday exactly two months after she fell from hctelman Conrad speedboat at Lake Arrowhead and was caught in its propeller She was' resched by Geary Steffan divorced husband of actress Jane Powell Miss Buehler a former Western Airline stewardess who had movie hopes flew from' her Nebraska home with a stopover at Las Vegas where the Sands Hotel presented her with a check for $1000 Buehler skid die expected to receive an artificial arm about Nov 1 and would be trained in its use at the University of California at Los Angeles At about Christ- GOOD LIVESTOCK On the tractor pally a field cutter Is Walter Stark who farms two miles north of Loomis making bis step toward setting some cheaper livestock feed by letting his beet tops cure in the field and then putting them up In ensilage Citizen Photo) Student Riot ing today threatening to postpone indefinitely their by Tear Gas spending big-deficit budget from Mr Truman last January They are having trouble with their snending brakes and more with JSIHOL-TV Signs with Dumont Net mas she said she will receive' an the overall effort to balance toe 1 A jslk aIaa in also corn cotton tobacco peanuts and rice The present law fixes price guarantees at 90 per cent of parity Door Loii- Open President Eisenhower left the door open for a possible administration recommendation for a temporary extension of the high supports in his farm speech at Kansas City Mo last Thursday Some AMES Iowa UR) About 4000 shouting students rioted about four hours out of control despite Solice tear gas bombs at Iowa tate College early today in a fight for a day off to celebrate a Ilgnt Ior a aay 0lI to celebra budget a project which involves taxes 'o The foregoing facts are basic in the fiscal policy decisions now being sought by the administration and to be depated when Congress returns patrolmen officers Microwave CBS Cable Connection Set for March 15 up Czechoslavak and mub-lmsi-bers staged their 'Russihnaftyted walkout after the commission turned down Reds demands for the immediate interviewing of I-000 anti-Communist North Koreans who do not want to go home A spokesman for the commission said interviews scheduled to- day with 1000 and will- anU-unist Chinese victory prisoners had been postponed be-cause of the Reds insistence on seeing North Koreans 8000 Won't Budge The 8000-strong North Koreans refused to budge from their tents in the compounds and the NNRC had sought to keep the interviews going with the Chinese On the demand the NNRC conferred with leaders of the North Koreans and then rented back to the Reds that ad not been possible to persuade the prisoners to come to the ex-( Continued on page slX) About 50 police highway and quieted them shortly before 3 and nearly all students went to class today Jubilant over Iowa upset of Missouri marphed on the home of President James Hilton a transcontinental highway two hours and raided a dormitory No Injuries Officers broke up the with tear gas and' artificial leg She will have a job in the Western Airline office going to take up where I toft off I Miss Buehler said She explained that naming Stef-fan a defendant in a $500000 damage suit against Hilton as owner of the boat was purely a legal technicality In nearly eight years of office farm lawmakers thought it signifi- Police Cruiser Car Involved in Street Intersection Crash Even police cruisers can figure in traffic The Holdrege police department proved that Saturday evening when an intersection accident gt Sixth and Garfield involved a cruiser driven bv Officer Roy Hammond and another -vehicle driven by Elton I Wiltsey ofi Holdrege The cruiser was soutaoound on Garfield and the Wilteey car was eastbound on Sixth avenue The vehicles collided at the southwest corner of the intersection the investigation report showed Extensive damage to the front of the Wiltsey car was reported and the fender and the right front door of the cruiser were smashed Mr Truman broke all records for taxing and spending The tax and spending record in the current fiscal year underlines the hard facts that Republican economy effprts so far have accomplished no more than to just about hold the line on both fronts Mrs Davidson Rites Wednesday am back 13-to-6 students college blocked about demonstration clubs and held one student for investigation Several students said they were hit by dubs but no one was injured About 400 students started the demonstration' when they march- WEATHER cant that toe President specifically mentioned extension of the present program with cr without minor changes along with revisions as possibilities Benson has criticized rigid high supports on grounds they price farm products out of markets create surpluses and bring on production controls The committee has found there are a number of farmers who agree with Benson But their voices generally have been drowned out in clamor for high supports from those who appear numerically strong enough 'to hold toe balance of political power in the Midwest Court Term Jury Session Is Canceled Expect 900 Teachers at Convention I i ed on toe home about Sunday to demand 10:30 I Duane Watts station man ager for KHOL-TV announced today that contracts for affiliation with the Dumont television network were signed in New York today When the station goes on the air approximately Nov 13 with regular programming it will do so with network film programs' from both CBS and Dumont Mr Watts said Interconnection with microwave and cable was confirmed by the Columbia Broadcasting System in New York with the installation scheduled to be completed by March 15 1954 Construction of the transmitter anci studio building 16 miles east of Holdrege on Highway 44 ii hearing completion The General Electric TT-6E 5KW television transmitter is scheduled for shipment next week Mr Watts said Erection of the 500-foot stainless GST tower is underway According to RETMA in Washington there are 5212 television sets in the 35-county coverage area of station KHOL-TV as og Aug 31 With the granting of the local television permit for Channel 13 sales have increased tremendously with the indication that 20000 sets may be in operation by the time KHOL-TV goes on the air The station expects to telecast test patterns approximately Nov 1 tr Nebraskan Dies Colorado Mishap Mrs A Davidson 76 a former Holdrege resident died Saturday afternoon at the home of her daughter Mrs Horace Porter at Tulsa Okla She was the wife of the late Dr A Davidson one of early residents Dr Davidson a dentist died in February 1947 In Holdrege -toe Davidsons made their home at 521 West avenue' Mrs Davidson for several years had made her home with her daughter Funeral service will be held from toe First Methodist Church in Holdrege at two Wednesday afternoon The Nelson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements and burial will be in Prairie Home Cemetery Survivors besides her daughter include two sisters Mrs Davidson of Hastings and Mrs-Oscar Johnson of Ogallaia: one brother Arthur Wedean Winner one grandchild and two great-grandchildren Mother Missing Girl Collapses Need Rooms in Private Homes for Visitors Juriors scheduled to sit on several possible trials during the fall term of Phelps County District court were dismissed from call shortly before noon today by Judge Edmund Niiss The cancelation of the jury session came after the court convened LOCAL FORECAST: Increasing southerly winds this afternoon mostly cloudy with scattered showers or thundershowers tonight cooler extreme west tonight Tuesday mostly cloudy strong nor-- Iherly winds and turning cooler with scattered showers in the east low tonight 45 extreme west to near 60 extreme east high Tuesday 58 west to near 75 aasL 11 am temperature 72 High Saturday 75 Low Saturday 53 High Sunday 78 Low- -Sunday 55 1953 to date 1828 1952 to date 2027 TEMPERATURE RANGES: Lincoln 80-64 Omaha 81-64 Grand Island 81-56 Lexington 80-45r North Platte 83-44" Imperial 81- 44 Sidney 78-41 Scottsbluff 80-42 Chadron 8153 Norfolk 80-52 Burwell 85-50 Valentine 84-51 that Monday classes' be called off Hilton home Raid Girl's Dorm -When they heard Hilton home the students swept into a nearby dormitory paraded shouting through toe halls nearly 45 minutes ana carried out some of the clothing Drainage pipe and cables were used to block roads On Highway 30 at the east comer of the campus some students fried to start a wood fire The'mob sat down in toe road A four-piece band blasted out songs The highway was blocked from about 11:45 until about 1:45 Some semi-trailer a BLAIR Neb UR) Mrs Glen Tihbita of Blair whose 14-yfear old daughter Cecilia has been missing' since Oct 8 collapsed Saturday and is in an Omaha nos- nia TiK I -Clerk of the Court Elmer Brun- rfrnirnf i zel1 was on the phone notifying bits said the strain of nrftrc that wmiiH tint have all this brought on her this morning aiuL it was learned that settlements had been reached in several cases and a seepage suit trial was delayed by postponement ley would not have 10 Tuesday jurors that thi to renort at JULESBURG Colo UR Two men were killed near here Sunday when their car swerved into the wrong traffic lane and crashed headon with an oncoming truck The Colorado State Patrol identified the victims as Rudolph Arapahoe 29 of Scottsbluff Neb and Con wright Joe Muggins 35j of Oklahoma City Okla 7 Cecil Gilbert 48 of Blair Neb-driver of the truck suffered cuts and bruises in the accident He was not hurt seriously morning as provided in the original can The mommg session was 'devoted to setting the docket for 25 He said! his wife had a weak heart It is not known whether the girl met with foul play or if she toft voluntarily with James Dens- The stage was being set today tor Holdrege to entertain the District convention of the Nebraska State Education Association October 29-3p More than 900 public and rural school teachers will come here for the two-day meeting Conventions will be held in other districts in five other Nebraska cities at the same time President of the District group is Mrs Edna Bratten of McCook Red WiUow County superintendent of schools Superintendent Howard Fw Schroeder is chairman cf the committee making the' host arrangements for entertaining the visiting teachers were tied up and turned around w11 to drive around the campus A (JlHallCin JVlllCQ detour was set up over a traveled road in Cbzad Crash mnrr vTholTad working at the fall term The afternoon was 4ja be devoted a farm near toeTibbits home The hospital described Mrs Tib- Weather is unpredictable btf never Citizen want ad results condition as for the time She may have expected to to mo-tions equity cases and possibly one divorce suit Lee Johnston court reporter from Red Cloud is here to record proceedings Fails from Auto No Serious Injury suffered a heart attack the hospital said 0 IDEWALK SLANTS If COZAD Neb UR) Georg-Bzrr' Omaha died Sunday night of injuries suffered earlier when an auto driven by his wife collided with a car driven by John Joseph South Sioux City Neb about one mile east of here on 30 Authorities said Mrs Barr started to pass another auto and crashed into toe oncoming Joseph vehicle Mrs 'Barr was hospitalized Ragan Dedicates New Gym Mr Schroeder today said that of Hddreewfll have to You probably read the story pa Harvard bard apers of how the serenaded its A Bertrand woman Delores Carlson escaped serious injury about 11: Saturday 'morning -when the door in jthe car in which she was riding came open causing her to fall out Miss Carlson was a- passenger in car 'driven by her brother Ragan formally dedicated toe new gymnasium-auditorium addition to its school plant Thursday evening with a nul program of ceremonies Charles Huston member of the Ragrnv Board of Education Other out-of-town -speakers included Kenneth Clark-architect whose firm drew the plans yiH Max -West representative cf the Fairmont contracting firm: which handled the construction -vyork' at CozSd Community Hospital but was not seriously injure Neat which' was traveling west on Tstate: Highway- 23 a' mil west of Holdrege Jpseph and several passengers in his auto were injured not About170 residents of the community attended toe dedicatory event which' was held in 1 During the business session qf the P-TA at which Mrs Charles The State Safety Patrol along with Sheriff Royal Hanson investigated the mishap in 'which Mi Carlson received abrasions and bruises The investigating trooper said that Mta Carbon leaned against the right door and it swung open spilling her onto the high- way teachers -a lift on housing the convention The Denver Symphony Orchestra 'whigh on the convention program 29 has booked much of and motel space hi private homes will ibe for that same fright and traveling a considerable wil have to have places --r Ruby Mahaffie will handle of the -rooms 'in private homes Residents who Swill rooms available tat the night 29 are asked to phone Mahaffie at 28 will 'come here' from Nebraska counties Dundy Chase --Hayes Red Willow Frontier Gosper 'Phelps Harlan 'Kearney and Webster ancient rival Yale earlyySaturday and almost caused a riot -Sue busloads of bandsmen paid a surprise visit to Yale while enroute to the Columbia-Har-vard game in New York Th Yale campus suddenly" found the air vibrating to the blare of and heads began tb'appear at every window as the music makers paraded by then their were shouts of protest Holdrege had a representative in the affair which shook the Yale men to their toes He is Dick Brown son of Clofheir Brown and a drummer with the Harvard band That sign east of Holdrege on Highway 6 which is supposed to extoll the assets is sadly in need of Vv I repainting- If a bam- without paint isivt a good advertise--ment for the farmer what about a- sigrt' supposed to tell the story in a flash? --v wi Women repeat gossip They just improve itf we? I residents give the during appears October- the hotel Rooms needed teachers distance stay' Mrs the booking have of October Mrs Teachers 14 southwest including Hitchcock Furnas Franklin Complete released this Week Hustonr' president presidedmcm bers -voted to serve a dinAner at the Harlan County Education Association meeting which will be held in Ragan Refreshments were' served at the conclusion of the event with Mrs Glen Lamb Mrs Ward Bfy-an Mrs Howard Swanson Mn Howard McArthur Mrs LaVem Beiriger MrsrHarold Larson and Mrs Gus SaiTon' the committee Alfred Mattson Dies in Frisco A former Holdrege resident Alfred Mattson died a hospita at San Francisco Calif according to word received here today Mr Mattson had been in failing health for several months He had made his home at Turlock Calif Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at Turlock Surviving are three brothers Arthur of Holdregfe Edwin of Wadsa Neb and Harry of San FranCisco Calif He was a brother-in-law of Paul Johnson Of connection with the regular monthly session of toe Ragan 1 Parent-Teachers Association The new addition wa recently completed after voters last January approved a $42500 bond issue for the new unit A connecting passageway between toe present building and the addition leads to a large gymnasium-audL torium with a playing floor and stage With Supt Warren Peterson introducing the speakers the high school band furnished musical numbers Mel Everingham supervisor of elementary and sec- ondarjL education-with the State Department of Public Instruction in Lincoln spoke briefly as 'did -V Ci jf art 'nm Scphts WiQ Hold Hayride Tonight Scout troop 216 will hold a Boy Scoqt party on Monday? night October 19 Myron WoythaTer scoutmaster announced today Scouts and their friends are requested to meet at Bethel Luth-eran'church at 7 CAJUAfVHVAWl Wf A- today's Beloved if our heart condemn us not then have -we confidence THE PRESIDENT MEETS A Homage to the Queen of the American Royal 'Livestock Shew was graciously pu by President Eisenhower as he introduced: to DeLolO FanDfaer 19 of Still- water Okla at theennual showinKanaaa Cftf' Harry fcarby chairman of the' American Royal and former senator from Kansaa stands in background (NBA Telephoto prpgramdetailSr will by Mrs Bratten" later toward GodL--I St John 3:21 mf 1 i- HoldlifC '-7 I.