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THE SEDALIA DEMOCRAT Volume Eighty-nine, Number 78 Sedalia, Missouri, Tuesday, April 2, 1957 Twelve Seven Cents Publicity Plan Reports Vary Beck Is Silent On Whether He Got Fund He Requested WASHINGTON If Dave Beck, beleaguered Union president, got the million-dollar publicity fund he wanted to tell his own story in the money scandals, he advertising the fact today. There were conflicting reports that the Teamsters Executive Board, meeting secretly here yesterday, had given Beck an okay and had turned down his proposal to spend union money to tell Beck maintains Car Overturns But Driver Only Bruised Car Catches Fire After Short Circuit From Battery Cable Daniel Neff, 17, of 1215 South Ohio, was painfully but not seriously hurt about 12:15 p.m. Tuesday when his car overturned on the Abell Road In front of the Harvey Fisher farm on Route 2. Neff was going south on the black top road and was going around a curve heading west when the car left the right shoulder, went out of control, spun around, rolled over and came to stop in a ditch. Neff was tossed around in the car and, when it stopped, crawled out.

The car caught fire and he removed some laundry and clothing from it. The battery cable had been pulled against the body and caused a short which the fire. Slight damage resulted from the flames. The Pettis County fire truck answered the alarm and, with the help of passing motorists, turned the car back on its wheels. Neff was taken to Bothwell Hospital by a passing motorist, where Dr.

Stanley Fisher attended him for abrasions and bruises. X-rays were taken to determine if there had been any fractures. He was latw dismissed from the hospital to go to his home. The youth told Trooper Robert Stockdell he was enroute to the home of his aunt, Mrs, Ruth Montgomery, south of Smithton to take the clothes. Jefferson City Has Unusually High Vote JEFFERSON CITY iJV-Precinct election judges in this capital city reported balloting by mid-morning today on the proposed legislative pay raise.

With no Republican opposition to the Democratic slate of city and school board officials to stir voter interest, election workers said the lighter than the usual general be termed a good turnout for the first few hours. Most of them reported it was running above the vote on the $7.5 million bond issue special election in January, 1956, The weather also was a factor here, with raw winds and a heavy overcast threatening rain at any moment. innocent of Senate Rackets Committee charges he misappropriated at least $320,000 union funds. He invoked the Fifth Amendment before the committee in refusing to answer questions, but has told reporters that while he the money he paid it all back. One source said what actually happened at board meeting was that Beck was turned down on his plan for a one-million- dollar publicity program in his behalf.

Only Beck and his chief administrative assistant, Vice President Einar Mohn, were reported to have voted affirmatively on the 13-man board. But this same source said the board did authorize an he said it was some $1.50,000 or a one-year advertising program, not publicity, for the Teamsters Union itself. This was described as strictly to telling the not office quoted him as saying this morning: have no to issue at this BODIES TO bodies of two International Cooperation Administratoin officials, Kevin Carroll of Issaquah, and Brewster A. Wilson of Portland, are carried in coffins from a U. S.

Navy plane at Tehran, Iran. The pair was slain by Iranian bandits Hi an ambush near Iranshaar. The body of wife, Anita, 35, was found with knife and bullet wounds only 10 miles from the ambush site. (NEA Radio-Telephoto) Dinner On Thursday Evening Reports Iranian Prime Minister Has Left Office TEHRAN Iff) Official sources said Prime Minister Hussein Ala resigned today in a Cabinet shuffle resulting from the murder of three Americans by Iranian bandits. The sources said Ala, is 74, will be replaced by Dr.

Manouch- ehr Eghbal, energetic-49-year-old court minister to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. Informants said the change would give the government a stronger hand in dealing with banditry and tribal defiance. Announcement of resignation is expected tomorrow, after a final meeting with his Cabinet, or possibly Thursday. He will replace his successor as court minister. The government meanwhile stepped up its search for Dadshah, the desert outlaw blamed for the ambush killing in southeast Iran of U.S.

Point Four official Kevin Carroll; his wife; and Brewster Wilson, a development specialist for the Near East Foundation. Arms and ammunition were distributed among tribesmen enlisted to aid in the hunt being carried on by more than 1,000 police and troops. Senator Says No Evidence On Union Men WASHINGTON McClellan (D-Ark) said today his rackets investigators have found to indicate any by Walter Reuther and three other labor union officials in dealing with Nathan Shefferman. McClellan heads the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee, which has received evidence that Teamsters Union President Dave Beck used $85,000 of union funds to buy rich clothing and other items at a discount through Shefferman, a Chicago specialist on labor-management relations. In his testimony, Shefferman had named Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, and sev eral other labor leaders as among the several hundred business and labor executives for whom he said he had made discount purchases.

McClellan said he was releasing the report only to be fair to them because the four names had been by into the public hearings. Beck meantime returned quietly to Washington and presided yesterday over a daylong secret meeting of the Teamsters executive board. There was no immediate official announcement of the purpose or of the action taken. The Washington Post and Times Herald reported today the board had rejected plan to set up a million-dollar publicity fund. Fog, Rainy Weather Prevails In State For Election Day KANSAS CITY Fog and some uninviting on an election in Missouri today.

Showers and thunderstorms formed the outlook for this 'afternoon and tonight in the northwest, southwest and west portions. The Weather Bureau said the precipitation would spread over all of the state except the extreme southeast tomorrow. At a.m. 11 stations in all parts of Missouri reported fog. Light rain fell in most parts of the state in the 24 hours ended at 6:30 a.m.

today. West Plains got .36 of an inch, Kirksville .12, St. Louis .07 and St. Joseph .06. The bureau said it will be colder over the state tonight, with lows of 32-40 in the north and 40-45 in south.

Teachers Will Celebrate Birthday of National Group On Ttiunsday, April 4, the Sedalia off the celebration in Sedalia and Community Teachers Association i will be followed by other events, will celebrate the 100th birthday of television programs, radio cast, the National Education Association and other features climaxed by a by cutting the birthday cake at aibu.s trip to the national convention special dinner to be held in the'; by the Sedalia teachers. Smith-Cotton Commemorating one hundred years of growth in National education will be a of a celebration with featured dinners and banquets all over the United States, Attending the birthday party at Smith-Cotton w'ill be not only members of the Sedalia Community Teachers Association, but also leaders of civic and social groups in this area as well as representatives from educational groups outside Navy Bomber Explodes; Kills 11 Men CHINCOTEAGUE, Va. UR Navy Neptune bomber in a great ball of shortly Sedalia and members of the Future takeoff today and carried its Teachers of America. crewmen to death in a flaming Featured speaker for the event crash on Virginia Eastern Shore, will be Dr. M.

Graham Clark of The twin-englne long-range air- the School of the Ozarks. craft ran into trouble a minute City Council Ratifies Acts On Water Co. Sedalia Is Now Sole Owner of Utility; Repeals Ordinaiiees By D. Kelly Scrutoii The City Council Monday night ratified the acts of the mayor and city clerk in their part in the exchange of the Sedalia water bonds for the purchase of the Sedalia Water which took place Mon day morning. The City of Sedalia is now the sole owner of the water company properties, effective as of Monday when the transactions were completed.

There were 106 obsolete ordi nances stricken from the city rec ords with the passage of an ordi nance repealing them. A change in the boundary line of the First Precinct of the First Ward was passed. The First Pre- British Union Heads Order Strikers Baek es The basic reason for celebrating 100 years of the NE.A is to focus the attention on the decisive role of education in a changing world; to stimulate action; to provide adequate education for the increased need of children; and to stress the teaching process in its service to of all ages. By focusing the attention on the first 100 years of this great organization, educational groups hope to be able to move forward to provide better education in the next 100 years. The cause for this great birthday celebration is to help education people move freedom forward and this is emphaized by the fact that the NEA convention will be held this year in Philadelphia, which was the starting place liberty.

The birthday part officially kicks FLASHES Snowstorm Kills Two DENVER blinding spring snowstorm approaching disaster proportions swept across the Rockies today paralyzing second largest city, causing two deaths and disrupting transportation. Denies Commitment WASHINGTON of State Dulles denied today that the United States ever made a flat commitment to defend the Nationalist Chinese Islands of Quemoy and Matsu. after it left the strip at the Chincoteague Naval Air Station. There was a sputtering noise, a witness reported, when the plane was only a couple of hundred feet in the air then a window-rattling blast and the plunge to earth in a big plume of smoke. It slammed into a plowed field on the farm of Dennis Hurley, two miles south of the air station near the Maryland line.

The Navy said the propeller driven aircraft had taken off for Cherry Point, N.C. The 11 occupants had no opportunity to jump at such a low altitude, All apparently were buried in the burning fuselage in the 10- foot hole it made in the sandy soil. Earl W. Darby, who runs a general store in the small community of Atlantic, was one of the first on the scene. He described the main explosion as great ball of Darby said he saw the plane shortly aftef the takeoff.

It was headed south and appeared to be not over 200 or 300 feet in the air when it turned back toward the base. He said there was a as the plane flew back over Atlantic and suddenly it exploded. The blast jarred buildings in the town. Darby said when he arrived at the crash site he cautioned Hurley and a couple of others just arriving not to go near the plane because it might explode again. He said there was another small explosion in one of the wings.

The storekeeper said he saw no other signs of bodies and figured most of them were in the main fu.selage. The wreckage burned three hours. lows: Starting at the center of Moniteau on the north line of the Missouri Pacific right of a thence west to a point 300 feet east of Grand Avenue, thence north along a line 300 east of Grand Avenue to the city limits, east along the city limits to a center point on North Osage, thence south to Clay Street, thence west to the center line of Moniteau, thence Call for Work Resumption This Thursday Step Taken Pending Oiiteonie of Incpiiry Into Pay Demands LONDON Union boss- today called off costly strikes in shipbuild ing yards and factories pending the outcome of a government inquiry into their pay demands. The strikers Vt million in the "factories and 200,000 in the ordered to go go back to work on Thursday. The Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions made up of 40 unions which has been running the strikes decided to call them off after a recommendation by its executive.

The decision was taken as the walkouts threatened to cripple automobile production and factories producing 40 per cent of the exports. The three-man court of inquiry begins its work tomorrow. The unions have demanded a 10 per cent wage increase. Last week they offered to call off the strikes for an interim increase of 5 per cent if the rest of their demand was left to a commission of inquiry. The government asked them to go back to work while the investigation is in progress.

Factory owners have offered a 3 per cent increase. Shipbuilding employers are ready to give a per cent increase, but want an agreement to freeze for a year. The shipyard strike, starting 17 days ago, has halted work by 200,000 men on 300 vessels. Factory workers began a walkout 10 days ago that pulled IVi million men off their jobs in COMMISSION TO NAVY S. Gates, left, receives his commission from President Eisenhower after taking his oath as Secretary of Navy In a White House ceremony.

Gates replaces Charles S. Thomas, who resglned. (NEA Telephoto) Blair Approval Vote On First Pay Increase For Legislators in 16 Years south down the center of 1 vital dollar-export industries and Miss Flissler Has Skill, Feeling Three-Starred Musical Treat Finishes Orchestrais Season A three-starred musical treat was pleasing, though unusual. Being a satire on jazz for what Miss Flissler called a musi- presented on Tuesday night by the Sedalia Symphony Orchestra Joyce Flissler, violinist, the Sedalia Choral Club, and the orchestra itself in top form. Miss Flissler, a comely brunette gowned in orchid nylon chiffon, played with feeling and perfection of technique, and her opening number, Sonata in G.

Major, in three movements, could hardly have been improved upon. Her accompanist, Richard Gumming, possessed extraordinary talent as well, in introducing poda Suite (5 Studies in Jitterop- Miss Flissler called attention to the composer, Robert Russell Bennett, Kansas City-born arranger and sometime composer who is most famous for his work in arranging Rodgers and Hammerstein musical comedy an interesting suite and most of it was technically most difficult. These difficulties she mastered easily, and the two sections titled and Harold Close Their and Dawn were especially lovely and lyrical. It might be said that the artist was at her best in her closing number, by Sar- asate, a group of gypsy airs not only blended by a master but played by a mistress of the violin in a haunting and singing manner. The orchestra, always at its bo.st in a true symphonic arrangement, opened with Handel's Selections from Fair closed the first half of the program, and the orchestrations by Bennett were of a kind to fit graciously the symphony setting.

Rhapsody No. 1," a toe-tapping gypsy tune which complimented choice of the Sarasate number, had an ingeniously contrived set of climaxes, well brought out by Conductor Abe Rosenthal and the orchestra. Delicate solo passages in the beginning were well played by Richard Esser, clarinetist, and Carolyn Crouch, flutist. The program closed with a rousing number combining the talents of the Sedalia Choral Club, whose regular director is Rosenthal, and the Symphony Orchestra. which is also conducted by him.

Directing the two groups, the director-conductor brought out nu- ar.ces and climactic responses which resulted in music that wiil be long and pleasurably by the audience. Comments overheard indicated that it is hoped this experiment will be repeated. The concert, la.st of the sym-' phony season, was presented ati Smith-Cotton auditorium. to the point of beginning. This ordinance also changes the Third Precinct of the First Ward to include a portion of the oW First Precinct.

Added to the Third Precinct is that area west from the point 300 feet east of Grand Avenue along the north line of the Missouri Pacific right-of-way to Limit, and north to the City Limits along both Limit and area 300 feet east of Grand. (Those people living in the new part of the Third Precinct will now vote at Convention Hall with the rest of the precinct residents, and those still in the First Ward will vote at the Nursing Home formerly Hospital No. 2), 711 North Missouri. Passage of the new boundary line cannot take effect until after the decilMi today, due to Uie necessary changes which will have to be made in the registration books. Other ordinances which were passed includedr-vacating an alley between Carr and Barrett, Fifth to Broadway; creating Sewer District No.

136; providing for curb and guttering on West Fifth, Warren to Limit: letting the contract for Sewer District No. 134; specifying the voting places and naming of judges for city election, April 2. Under committee reports, Councilman R. N. Snavely reported the fire department in need of 800 pounds of foam powder and new salvage covers, an expenditure of $400, which was given approval of the Council.

Councilman Dr. Ira White asked (Please turn to page 4, column 1) INSIDE An Army CXilonel faces a court martial for giving a statement to several newsmen regarding the missile program. Some see him as another Billy Mitchell. Read about him on Page 2. Satisfied? Wonder if the weatherman enjoyed his gloomy handiwork as he trudged to the polls today.

Mostly cloudy and colder tonight and Wednesday; showers and thunderstorms late tonight and Wednesday; low tonight in lower 40s; high Wednesday in upper 40s. The temperature at 7 a.m. was 47 48 at 9 a.m., 46 at 1 p.m., and 45 at 2 p.m. Low Monday night 47. was due to spread to another million men by this weekend.

Police Comb Underworld For Slayer CHICAGO Police combed the lairs of the underworld today for a clue to the slayers of former banker Leon Marcus. High on the list of those sought for questioning is Sam (Mooney) Giancana, crime syndicate figure to whom Marcus known to have loaned $150,000. A note found on the body of Marcus attested to this, Marcus, 61, who was under indictment as an aftermath Of the 2 2 Hodge state fund shot to death Sunday night and his body tossed into a vacant lot on the South Side. On his body police found more than $300,000 in cash and checks and a copy of a receipt for $100,000 paid by Giancana. Cash in the dead pockets totaled more than $1,600.

investigators were more inclined to the belief that solution of the killing would be found in ST. LOUIS voters decide today whether they will give their state legislators a big increase in salaries and travel expenses. It would be the first such hike in 16 years. Gov. James T.

Blair predicted the pay increase, in the form of a change in the state constitution, will win the required simple majority. He has campaigned for it. The proposed constitutional amendment, submitted to a vote on a joint resolution by the House organized support. There has been little organized opposition. The proposed amendment would increase salaries of state legislators from $125 to $300 a month the year around.

It also would give the legislators allowances for one round trip a week from their homes to Jefferson City during legislative sessions instead of just once a session. If appoved, the increased salaries and travel allowances will become effective in 30 days, on May 2. The proposal was endorsed by many state labor, civic and a means of attracting better qulified candidates. Many individuals, including some members of the Legislature, have indicated they oppose it. And there has been some indication of unorganized opposition in rural counties.

Taking note of such reports, Gov. Blair said he is convinced St. Louis voters, who also were voting in a city election for mayor and other offices, will give it a margin or enough to put it over. One objection cittxi by individual opponents is their claim that the legislators should not be given a pay increase during their term in office. Proponents, on the other hand, have cited increastKl living costs since the present pay scale was established in 1941.

Blair has called present legislative salaries Approval of the amendment House members from $286,500 to $687,600 a year. The cost increase for the travel allowances from the present $2,674 for the one-a-session mileage is more difficult to figure. It probably would go to more than $50,000 for a regular session. Gov. Blair has said he is convinced the cost could be absorbed without any immediate tax increase.

devious financial dealings, which they said includcKl backing increase the cost of salaries biers and hoodlums. the 34 senators and 157 Other Officers Named Maurice Hogan Is Elected County Red Cross Chairman Legislators Watch Vote On Pay Raise JEFFERSON CITY was as ia the Missouri House today, but had their weather eye cocked on how the vote goes on their proposed pay increase. Outcome of the pay raise issue, constitutional amendment No. 1, is expected to influence future action of House and Senate members. More than 100 pay raise bills for state and county employes are now pending.

Most house members cast absentee ballots on the proposal. Yesterday the House started its fourth month by advancing a $29 million-plus appropriation bill for operating the Department of Cor- ections and the Division of Mental Diseases, All went smoothly until minority Republicans took a swipe at B. E. (Squire) administration of the Mental Diseases Division, But party ranks closed and Democrats defeated an amendment that would have cut back request for a trebled budget. Republicans kicked again at the reductnl appropriation for parole purposes.

They said it cost less to control a parolee ($295) than to keep him in prison ($1,500 a year), and that emphasis should be on paroling more men. But Democrats said a more realistic budget could be proposed in the future, when funds are expected to be available for a modernized correctional program. Also advanced was a bill to give and power to the State Highway Patrol. Sheriffs and other officers already have the power. The temperature one year ago today, high 78, low 65; two years ago, high 75, low 47; and three years ago, high 73.

low 42. Stage at the Lake of the Ozarks 52.8 faU .2. Maurice F. Hogan, postmaster, was elected chairman of the Pettis County Chapter, American Red Cross, at a meeting Tuesday morning held at the Red Cross office. Hogan succeeds John C.

Ryan, who has served as chairman for the past two years and now goes off of the board. Other officers elected were: Vice chairman, Mrs. Harold Dean; secretary, Mrs. W. H.

Weller and treasurer, N. U. Renshaw'. New members on the board whose terms will expire in 1960 are Mrs. Harold Dean, Mrs.

Olen Monsees, Cloyd Leftwich, Longwood; J. H. Brunkhorst. Leon Archies, Mrs. Herbert Seifert.

Mrs. Walter May, Houstonia; Carl Oswald, Philip McLaughlin and Alexander Fabry. Members on the board are the Rev. Thomas W. Croxton.

Everett Stevenson, William E. Hurlbul, Mrs. H. A. Hite.

Green Ridge; Maurice Hogan, George Yeaman, Miss Nettie Lamm, Mrs. Parker. LaMonte: Emmett Sullivan and W. P. Nicholson, Hughesville, whose terms expire in 1958, and Mrs, Edward E.

Brumet, Mrs. John Lamy, Don Richardson, C. L. Carter, Cecil Smith, Smithon; Mrs. M.

Stafford, W. H. Weller, James Denny, Lloyd Knox and U. Renshaw. Maurice F.

Hogan Dulles Expects Answer Soon On Suez Canal W.ASHINGTON of State Dulles said today he should know in the next 24 to 48 hours whether there is any serious prospect for a satisfactory settlement with Egypt on the operation of he Suez Canal. Dulles old a news conference he thinks the nations which use the canal should have a much greater voice in its operation than is provided in proposals made by Egypt last week. He also is seeking in counter proposals to Cairo to get Egypt committed firmly on any Suez Canal plan it may agree to. The S. reply to pro- poi.als went to Cairo Sunday.

Dulles made clear that a.s of day he does not know whether the Egyptians wiil accept any of the changes he suggested or whether there is any chance of successful negotiations with Egypt..