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THE SEDALIA DEMOCRAT In Combination With the Sunday Morning Capital Volume Eighty-onc, Number 41 CITY EDITION Democrat Estabhsiied 1863 Scdalia. Missouri. Sunday, p'ebruary 20, 1949 Assoclated Press Leased Wire and Wide World Feature! Death Declared Accidental Jury Reports Cause of Uealh Is Cnileteriiiiiied A jury, at the in-, quest into the cause of the death of Donald Joe Kettle, 14-vear-old St. Louis Globe Democrat newspaper carrier boy, killed early last Wed-; nesday morning, returned a verdict the deceased! came to his death from ac-; cidental means, the cause of which is Mother Wants Another or Son PITTSBUnOH. Feb.

Marion Diclnch is stymied. rackinii her brain for a suitable name for the newly born brother of Norbert, Albert. Robert, Hubert. Wilbert and Gilbert Dietrich. Her husband, international representative for the AFL- teamsters union, is named Albert, and she wants all her sons to similar names.

Every visitor to the Dietrich home IS put to work tiiinking. There isn't much time. The boy will be baptized Sunday, Feb. 27. Mrs.

Dietrich is ready to give up. guess Filbert's the only one she says. CIO Union is Denounced as Communistic Democrats Staging One-night Blizzard Fund-raising Party Thursday Industry Executive Makes to Congress originally set at the Ewdng at that time Neigh- test if.y. investi- depart- The inquest was conducted by Dr. C.

Gordon Stauffacher, coroner, in the Magistrate court room in the court Saturday afternoon. The hearing was largely attended. The jury was composed by Kenneth R. Middleton, foreman, R. R.

Jenkins, Frank Fender. Paul Burke, R. A. Moscby, and C. W.

Stephenson. The inquest was for Friday morning Funeral Home and the jury viewed the body of the boy. The hearing was then continued until Saturday so attorneys and others interested in the hearing could be present. Chief of Police Edgar bors was the first to Chief Neighbors told of conducted by his ment, in an endeavor to ascertain whether a truck, pa.sscnger car or what type of vehicle figured in the fatal accident which took the life of the boy at Third street and Ohio avenue, about 5 in the morning. Many Reports Chief Neighbors brought out in his testimony the police are still investigating leads on the accident, many of which already have terminated into nothing of importance.

J. O. Caldwell, 407 North Prospect avenue, driver for the Atlas Cab told of finding the boy about 5:05 in the morning when taking a to the M-K-T depot. Caldwell stated that he noticed something in the street when at the alley between Third and Fourth streets, but had to drive across the Third street and Ohio intersection before he could identify it as a body, due to the poor lighting on the corner. he the lighting there any worse than any other intersection on Ohio avenue, because half the lights are turned off at Mr.

Caldwell told of going to police headquarters and notifying them of the accident, and returning to await the arrival of the police at the scene. They were there within two minutes after he had returned, he said. He explained the pavement was icy or slippery in spots, there being some ice in the vicinity of the accident. He reported he saw no other vehicle in sight nor any person who might have seen the accident. Police Testify Police Officers William field, Williard J.

Duncan, Tcdj Brown and Charles R. tc.sti- fied as to what they saw at the scene, markings on the jiavcment and where the front wheel of the bicycle was found with reference to the body which was still straddled the frame of his wheel. It was lying about ten feet north of the Third street curb line on Ohio avenue. James Gray. Negro, 311 East Pettis street, employed at the Missouri Pacific shoj)s.

was called to the stand. Gray, it had been reported. said he had seen the accident. Howcxcr, on the stand, answer to questions by Prosecuting Attorney William F. Brown, he denied being anywhere near the scene until "twenty minutes Asked where he was about 5 o'clock Wednesday morning.

Gray replied. was home in bed at 5:00 o'clock, got up at 6:15 aiul caught a bus at Third street and Ohio avenue about twenty- minutes to Brown asked him what he saw Third street and Ohio and he said. only saw blood and marks on the A Mistake am told." Mi-. Brown then said, "that you the accident, and you tnld fcih'w cmplovces at tiic sliops tris. Is that ti uc.

"They got it wrong. 1 said I blood, I didn't see the accident. They was Lester Greer. 1712 South mon- iteau avenue, drixer for Tullis- Hail Dairy, who was questlor.td Wedne.sday night by the ptdicc in connection ith the accident, called to the stand. Mr.

Greer Get Together On Strike in Philadelphia For 4th Round Wage Boost of Eight Cents an Hour PHILADELPHIA, Feb. and company officials agreed tonight to settle nme-day transit strike for a fourth round wage boost of eight cents an hour. The Philadelphia Transportation 11,000 striking trolley, bus and subway operators will be asked to ratify the agreement at a mass meeting later tonight. The CIO transport workers union walked off their jobs at midnight Feb. 10.

Announcement of the agreement was made by Mayor Bernard Samuel at 9:45 p. seven hours after a marathon conference between company and union negotiators began at his city hall offices. Victory For Union Michael J. Quill, international president of the striking CIO union, told newsmen the agreement is great victory for our agreement is to our Quill said, we will recommend its acceptance to the The local union's executive board went into immediate session in the reception room to vote on the terms. Some executive committee men were gesticulating wildly and shouting: were sold and take A tall, elderly grey-haired woman grabbed PTC President Charles E.

Ebert by the shoulder when he attempted to shake hands with her and she shook him a bit. I hear the exclaimed. not sure I like this agreement at Resume Services Sunday Mayor Samuel said the board of directors was polled by telephone on the eight-cent offer and approved the terms. am Samuel declared, normal bus, trolley and subway services will be resumed The CIO union demanded a 25- cent-an-hour increase when the strikers walked out last week. The company offered two cents.

The differential had narrowed to SIX cents before session. Earlier in the day a commuter went into court and demanded the government force settlement of the strike which has idled 11,000 workers and halted all bus, subway and trolley operations in the nation's third city. WASHINGTON, Feb. A mining industry e.xccutive day Congress to help 3 re- vent Communism tiorn infiltrating into our labor unions." The appeal cair.e trom Howard I. Young of St.

Louis, president of the American Mining Congre.ss, who said he spoke from But Senator Pepper said American workers need the government to come in and help them get nd of Young told the Senate Labor committee considering a law to replace the Tuft-Hartley Labor Act, that his viewpoint only common sense in vicvx of the fact that this country spending of abroad to keep Communism behind the iron curtain. Young made his plea in denouncing what he termed the CIO Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Urge Repeal of Law After Young testified Nathan P. Feinsinger, a member of the old War Labor Board, told the committee: no case that I know of has the Act served to improve relations between the parties gathered around the bargaining Feinsinger, a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin, urged that the T-H measure be repealed. He called for re-enactment of the Wagner Act with certain additions.

The committee is studying a Truman administration bill which would do those things, although the Wagner Act additions it contemplates are not quite the same as Feinsinger advocated. Other Developments session produced these other developments: 1. George B. Christensen, Chicago labor relations attorney for industry clients, called the administration bill genuine slave labor He said that on the other hand those who term the Taft-Hartley Act a slave labor law' never been able to point out wdiat section or paragraph enslaved 2. Donald Kirkpatrick, general counsel of the American Farm Bureau Federation, urged that the administration bill be amended to include the T-H section which gives the government the right to seek injunctions against strikes w'hich imperil the national health or safety.

He also asked for stronger provisions dealing with jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. Favors Employers Deciding 3. Harry P. Jeffrey, secretary of the League for Education and Association, endorsed the T-H law provision letting ern- ployers decide whether to bargain collectively with foremen. Besides heading the mining congress.

Young is president of the American Zinc, lead and Smelting Co. WASHINGTON. Feb. Democrats announced today they will stage their biggest one-night fund-raising dinner in party history next Thursday. Wilson W.

Wyatt. national cliairman of the Jefferson-Jackson Day drive, said more than 3,000 reservations have been made for the twin affair here at two down: town hotels wiiich President Truman will address. Since tickets go to those donating $100 to the party's campaign chest, this means more than $300,000 will be raised at the Washington dinners alone, to say nothing of banquets in more than 20 other cities. Two Addrc.s.ses President Truman will dine at the Mayflower Hotel and make a brief informal talk, then go to the Slatler Hotel for a formal address i at 10:30 p. m.

Wyatt said the Statlcr speech! will be broadcast and telecast to one of the biggest radio-television audiences for a political event. Four national radio networks will carry it. as w'ell as continental- i and ABC, NBC and Dumont television. In addition, life-size screen television receivers will be installed by the Radio Corporation of America at the so that an overflow audience can see and hear the President as he speaks. Toughest ill History of RR Casey Jones Story Will Have to Take Second Place Corninoli 01(1 Dviiaiiiite' Kansas Citiaii Lions Speaker Radio Had Nervous Breakdown GIBRALTAR.

Feb. The American freighter William Phips reached Gibraltar tonight and disembarked a radio operator w'ho w'as suffering from a nervous breakdown. Earlier a series of mystifying radio messages had been received from the freighter, westbound in the Atlantic en route from Naples to Galveston, Tex. One of these picked up by short wave listeners at several points, said: trying to kill A U. S.

destroyer was sent hur- ridely from Gibraltar to investigate the messages. Former SAAF Men Meet Here Accidentally Robert K. Reisfe. who during the w'ar w'as Sgt. Reiste, editor of the Troop Courier of the Scdalia Army Air Field, w'ho has been living in Spearfish, the Black Hills, of South Dakota, stopped in Sedalia Saturday on his way to Dallas, Tex.

Traveling with him, by car, were his wife and year old son. Reiste stopped at the Democrat office to visit with friends. The Troop Courier was printed in this office and much of his time w'as spent with the newspaper force. Reminiscing he rcmauked, wonder wiiat happened to was Lieut. W.

L. Thomas, public relations officer at the base and then commanding officer. Reiste left to go down street for a few' minutes, scarcely had he gone until walks in the Democrat office, grinning from ear to ear, but Lieut. Thomas, on his w'ay from Pennsylvania to Waco, Teaxs. Happy Reunion stayed until Reiste returned, and the accidental reunion was an unusual one.

Both men had happy memories of the time they spent in Sedalia, and both went out of their way to stop over here wiien the occasion presented itself. Lieut. Thomas has been in Valley Forge hospital, Phoenixville, for three months. His ticket directed him home by way of St. Louis, but when he realized he was so near to Sedalia he left the train and came to this city to renew acquaintances.

He reentered the Air Force about a year ago and is wdth the Texas Flying division of the Training Command, Randolph, Texas. Vcws Briefs SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. i purported confession by one of 15 Protestant leaders accu.sed of treason, published here today, describes the group as spies for Britain and the United States. Tw'o Sofia newspapers quoted Vassil Ziapkov, one of the defendants, as testifying in a preliminary investigation: betrayed our motherland, we revealed her secrets before The newspapers said kov identified himself as holding a important and position in the high United Evangelical church council of Bulgaria. the and w'ho WASHINGTON, Feb.

Council of Economic Advisers is divided, both on the need for strong anti-inflation controls and on w'hether the Council take a public stand on legislation. John D. Clark, one of the three members, told the congressional joint economic committee this week that action against price increases is Vice Chairman Leon Keyserling also supported price-wage controls. But Chairman Edwin G. Nourse.

is known to have opposed drastic new control powers w'hen President Truman's anti-inflation program W'as being drawm in December, did not appear on capitol hill for testimony. White House officials said privately today that Nourse has not changed his views. He so indicated yesterday when, after seeing Mr. Truman, he told reporters that the continued price decline is a that there are strong supporting factors: and that it now' is important to avoid a state of business Henry C. Schulte, director of sales and public relations, for the Market Research Consumers Survey of Kansas City, will speak to the Sedalia Lions Club at its noon session Wednesday.

The Market Research Consumers Survey conducts surveys to gather information on any and all subjects which help both the consumer and supplier for combined economic betterment. Mr. Schulte served as director TULSA, Feb. public relations of the Second The attempted dynamiting of a Force during a period of the department store He w'as director Sales for caiiytoday to tiavc been Commercial Controls Corporation a "lunc-woli Police Chief director of all industiial ana .1. W.

Holinsworth said. public relations there. He is .,8 M. years of age, married, has no car ollicers arrested is a leader of a man iden itied as Marvin Cox, school days, y. as he placed a crudely-made schulte was a delegate to the bomb on the street side of a Conference and has Froug department store show organized Youth Centers throughout the country.

The heavy charge, w'rapped in a lyir. Schulte has been on speak- gunny sack, contained three sticks jng tours in a number of states and of dynamite taped together and much in demand as an enter-1 soaked in nitroglycerin. The four- taining and educational after-din-; mmute was burning wheniod- speaker. The subject of dtfficers Leroy Covvics and Dougs talk will be: "Research, Produc-! arrested Cox. They haditions.

Sales." liim remove the fuse. Record High Temperature PITTSFIELD, Feb. record high temperature of 59 today produced this winter scene: Shirt-sleeved golfers at the country club and, sev'cral hundred yards away, skiers, also ed sliding down the snowclad slopes. The 59-degree reading was the highest for this date recorded in the Pittsfield weather since it was opened in 1939. WASHINGTON, Butler (R-Neb) urged the general accounting office today to rule out purchase of Canadian wheat by the Economic Recovery Administration.

Butler WM'ote Lindsay Warren, comptroller general, that he thinks Congress made it that when there is any farm surplus at home the ECA should do its buying in this country. If it the Nebraska Senator said the Commodity Credit Corporation may have to over tremendous quantities of American By BASIL C. RAFFETY OMAHA, Feb. Jones, the railroader, had better move over. The winter of 1948-49 is writing a new railroad legend.

The legend will revolve around such incidents as the two stalled locomotives near Neb. It was on December 29 that the locomotives, on snow'plow' duty, got stuck in an 18-foot drift. still there. On January 3 of the Burlington's biggest engines rammed a snowplow' into a 40-foot drift near Ashby, and disappeared. In the next 96 hours they were dug out in what has come to be called the of Ashby People who fought it say it w'ill become a railroad legend fit to rank beside the saga of Smashed Into Drift January 18 a Union Pacific double-header snowplow smacked into a 14-foot drift near Stapleton, Neb.

The plow caromed off the icy face of the drift, buckled back and sheared off the sides of the two locomotives. Eight hours later workers with acetylene torches finished cutting away the tw'isted mass of steel which entombed a trainman killed in the accident. Incidents like these have made the blizzard of the roughest, toughest and longest blizzard in railroad history. Railroads Tied Up Other storms have tied up railroads for a few' days. w'ere all toys compared w'ith this says W.

L. Mueller, w'estern division superintendent for the Chicago and North Western. been railroading 35 years. About a third of the 3,000 miles in district runs through the heart of the Nebraska-South Dakota-Wyoming storm area. One branch of 115 miles hasn't been completely opened since Jan.

2 despite 24-hour a day work by rotary plow's, wedge plows, dynamiters, and men with picks. Every conceivable kind of snow' removal equipment is being used. Three rotary plows and or wedges have been used on this line. Toughest Storm in History Sam Fee, ex-Nebraska cowpuncher w'hose 45 yearz. of railroading have taken him froni trainman to general manager of Burlington lines west, calls it the and storm in the history of the line.

Other veteran railroaders concur. No major railroad will even attempt to count the times their plows derailed. Bulldozers, draglines, flangers, ditchers, highway rotary plow's were that could be or from less affected areas. Then before Nebraska w'as out. Wyoming caught it all over again.

No railroad official w'ill even guess at the cost in hours, dollars. Planes Collide, All Occupants Killed COVENTRY, Feb. British airliner and a Royal Air Force trainer bomber collided at 2,000 feet in a clear sky today, killing all 14 occupants of the two planes. Three Americans were among the six passengers and four crcw'- men on board the transport, a British European twin engined Dakota (DC-3). Both aircraft burst into flames and di'sintegerated in the air.

Fragments covered an area of 200 acres. Flood Waters Cover Acres Of Nebraska Alert Advised on Small Streams in Northwest Missouri thousand Nebraska farm OMAHA, Feb. 19- water covered several acres of southeast land tonight. It W'as the first flooding of what observers expect to be a flood beset season in the state, where the winter has brought an almost unprecixiented cover of snow. CHADRON, Snowbound ranchers who have been caught short of provisions this winter apparently have learned a lesson.

The Chadron Record reported today an unidentified rancher, finally able to get to town, bought nearly $600 worth of supplies, including more than $200 of fresh, cured and canned meat. The purchases included 40 loaves of bread, 24 bottles of catsup. 48 pounds of coffee, and 30 cartons of cigaretts. The rancher was quoted as saying the bread would freeze and thus stay fresh. Aviation Forum in Kansas City in April KANSAS CITY, Feb.

Regulations for aerial spraying and dusting of crops will be studied at a national agricultural aviation forum here April 21-22. The new industry has become a big business, mainly 'oy killing weeds in wheat fields. Five mil- ilion pounds of chemicals were by airplanes last year. Couple Met on rain. In Love and Marry at Fell Once equipment damage or revenue lost.

It will be months before the bill is totaled. Up there w'here the two locomotives lay buried, the Burlington has spent about $44,000 on a 45-mile stretch of line. But the engines still are buried. The crews arc still at work. area.

A Going to GMC For More Benefits James Ramsey, Falls City, newsman, said unofficial estimates placed the amount of land under water at 15,000 acres, or some 23 square miles. The water had spilled from the Nemaha river, Muddy creek and Pany creek. Freezing Temperatures Help K. B. Wilson, who takes river readings for the government, said the Nemaha w'as holding to a 26 foot level, nearly five feet above flood stage.

Freezing temper- ature.s, which slowed run-off water, reduced the threat of a further rise. Weather bureau sources said the Missouri river itself was lapping at levees from Rulo, to St. Joseph, and is to spill its banks in the continued alert w'as advised on small streams in northw'est Missouri, southeast Iowa, northeast Kansas and southeast Nebraska. Army Withdrawals The development came as operation snowbound, the Fifth four-state snow' removal effort, further reduced its operating area. Maj.

Gen. Lewis A. Pick said today withdrawal from two counties in Nebraska and three in South Dakota had been authorized. He recommended withdrawal from an additional five Nebraska counties and parts of two others. That would leave only northeast still in the disaster area.

In its three weeks of work, snowbound has opened 7,137 miles of road, giving 123,834 pcr.sons acces.s to cleared travel way.s and giving 3.142.594 farm animals access to feed, the general said. Molinsw orti- bit diUicull scnbC'J the truck driver iuicrior." No 1 said Cox "was to talk and dc- Kansas City-Dallas a "psychopathic charges have been cxi)lained test untardv VC" but reo v'ol I Lt I iC I F. Wouc tiled pending further inv'estigation. Thought He Was Drunk Covvle.s and Hensen said they thought file man was drunk. When asked what was in the sack, he id tiHun "just common old dyna- ib.e oiiicers disclosed.

Cox kUf" r.e placed the ti vv.nritnv "to do a (el- iru C. 't-utng I 'rlCU and avenue at lated how something and atte Co llM av turned Third he ihi turn di'iv stiycy U) tlutugin 1 I II 5 (4 i He re- ic truck near.y Ma-'n stt ect. over in in (U 'u in in-. (Pic tuin to Page 4, niii 4) ech I Kc u.c ret ad c.ctk;' occurred wiicn icc- union as collective' was reiused by 'he management. Wo(3 Pendc! grass, agent of the uni it.

aemed his group had any' par't in the bombing attempt. with the manage-, better the ciu than at any other rcnocigiass saia. na- Credit To Another CHICAGO. Feb. Republican women who all- out for Mrs.

Truman's "Ozark pudding" learned today that she i has passed on the credit for the recipe to another woman. Albert Pick. a hotel chain president served the pudding two weeks ago at a luncheon oi 33 suburban Evanston club and career women. Evans-on by mnic than 20.0hO votes in live November the luncheon gucs's voted unanimously in iavm- of the dcsscrt. Their prompted to place the pudding as a standard item on his hotel's menus.

He wired Mrs. Truman to that effect. Pick said today that Mrs. Truman wrote to tnank him but added. "real credit should go to bcii; Kcr- of Fuhon.

wh gave the recipe to OMAHA. Feb. 19 honeymooning newlyweds, who met aboard a cross-country train and couldn't w'ait to finish the trip to get married, will leave tomorrow for Chicago and Flint, to surprise the bride's parents. IMarine Corporal Floyd H. Sim- onis.

a native of Milwaukee. Mary Ella Taunt, 19. on a train headed cast from San i ran- cisco. and fell in love. They stopped off in Omaha to be married, but said their in neighboring Council Bluffs, after learning that Miss Taunt; would not need parental consent to be married in Iowa.

In Nebraska a bride must be 21 or have parental consent. In Iowa the age limit is 18. Ai his hotel here. Cpi. Simonis said he and his bride vvere having a "brief honeymoon and would leave for Chicago early tomorrow.

Prom thci'c. they pian to go on to P'lint. iic saici- Mrt Wednesday. Wed Friday die tins, the couple related. Moo.day boti' boardcj a San On nesday Cpl.

Simonis crossed the aisle to get acquainted. Tiiursdav night the couple got off the train at Omaha. Yesterday they were married. "It's Wi ndc'-ful." tonay 24 hours as and vviic. i Bashiulncss was respmidbie ac- the the two-day delay getting quainted aboard the train, bridegroom said.

was bashful at he said, "but I knew' from the start I was going to trap her Seaman Helped Along Joe Burns. 45-year-old mer- hant seaman from Brooklyn, N. kept offering encouragement, he said. Two hours alter the aisle wasi crossed, the situation was well in hand. "I'd already made up my mind to say if he asked me to marry him." said Mrs.

Simonis. he asked "We did most of the talking with our Simonis explained. he told me he loved me and asked me to marry him when we got to Chicago." the bride continued. told him I couldn't wait till Chicago." Cpl. Simonis said he is due to report back soon to Mottctt Pbeld, San Jose.

but doesn't plan 'o in the Marine Corps. said. a mar- r-um." Iiv the TdUnb an the was a and a ple'c surprise." "What's done is he "We're just hoping that he's a good guy. We think a lot of our Taunt said his dauuhier haa gone months ago to San aii- lived her DETROIT, Feb. Walter Reuther let it be known today that his CIO United Auto Workers intends to hit up General Motors Corp.

this year for pension and medical care plans despite a two- year contract that runs to 1950. He made the statement at a press conference following a UAW "conference on economic lives." The 230 delegates conference, representing an csti-i mated 950.000 of the mil-, lion members, approved thej UAW's 1949 demands accenting, the non-wage issues. GM officials had no comment on the UAW ment. Chairmen for RC Campaign City Hall Closes Tuesday The City Hall will be closed all day Tuesday, birthday, which is observed as a holiday. J.

C. said com- said. iC and crc at Maoon. Bothwell Hospital Notes Admitted for medical Everett W. Oswald.

127 South; Park avenue. Mrs. Edwin Wchr-; man. Ionia, and W. C.

Berry, 812 West P'ourth street. Admitted for surgery: Mrs. Pauline Vaughn, 420 North En-j gineer avenue, Mrs. William Bur-j ford, 629 East Sixteenth street and i Robert Hiltenburg, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Clarence Piiltenburg. Route 2, Otterville. Dismissed: Loraine Yliley. 2109 South Washington and Miss Edna Vaughn. 1416 South Kentucky avenue.

Admitted for medical treaimcnY Barbai'a Lnu Raines. Nelson: Mrs. August Smithton and Fred Schvvermer. 1113 Broadway. Admitted fur surgery; Larry Gene Shepherd.

1510 East Broadway. Dismissed: Mrs. Nat'nan Bishop and son. Lincoln: E. C.

Woirhaye, Warsaw: Mrs. John Carroll and son. 1815 South Barrett avenue: YIrs Jurm Bruehl, Smithton: Leda Lou PF-ci. ns. Smithton: Wa Ralph Walker.

I 1217 West Fourth street. A noon luncheon meeting was held at the Bothwell hotel Friday, P'ebruary 18. At which time John Ryan and Oscar DeWolt. co-chair- objec-i County Red Cross cam- to announced the following township chairmen who will head up the campaign driv'c in their respective townships: Earl Clevenger. McKinley Thomas, George Landis.

Leo Coffey, Mrs. John M. Anderson. Wallace Smiley, Leo announce-' Stevens, William Lamm, Elmer Kerfoot. Others in attendance were as fol- lows: Ray Lippard, Harry Naugle, jJoe Rosenthal, G.

L. Haggard, I P. Nicholson, Chester Wolfe, I W. Wiley, Roy Taylor, C. Eula R.

Spencer and A. A. Studebakcr. Ray Lippard. campaign chairman, gave a short talk on the work of the Red Cross and the i urgent need for full cooperation of the citizens of Pettis county in this year's campaign.

Excellent Progress Being Made Tonard General Acceptance of Atlantic Security Treaty by Group WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 drafting of an Atlantic Security Treaty Western Europe of real American was made the goal of negotiators today. In an atmosphere of optimism, they met with Secretary of State Acheson and scheduled a series conferences designed to produce the finished document. A changed outlook among treaty supporters appeared to stem from yesterday's lengthy closed door session between Acheson and the senate foreign relations committee. It was that Acheson made clear to the ambassadors in his opinion excellent progress had been made in the committee session toward general acceptance of a treaty draft which should give the Europeans a far greater sen.se of security and confidence of American backing.

Progress Satisfactory There were indications at the capitol that at least some of the leading numbers of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee such as Senator Vandenberg also felt that satisfactory progress was being made on the treaty terms. It seemed increasingly likely, although so far it is by no means certain, that the draft finally agreed upon will make some reference to the possibility gi American any nation which might attack any member of the security system. That is the kind of reassurance which the Europeans would like, barring any eutomatie American commitment to go to war which officials say would be unconstitutional. Negotiations are under way among the U. Canada, Britain- France, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg.

Reviewed Situation As the group of ambassador left Acheaon's office. Sir Oliver Franks, the British envoy told reporters, had an informal meeting with the secretary and reveiwed the position and laid down a program of meetings of a more formal character, of which the first will take place in the middle of next Franks would not elaborate on this terse statement. Other informants suggested that the way the treaty draft will be worked out, beginning with session, probably will be in the following manner: Acheson got from the Senate Foreign Relations leaders a fairly clear idea of the kind of treaty which the Senate may be reasonably expected to approw by the two-thirds vote required. In his talk with the ambassadors today he informally communicated his ideas of what may be accomplished and they debated how best to go about it. Next week he W'ill meet in a formal drafting se.ssion with the envoys jnd their staffs of advisers.

Subsequently he w'ill hold another meeting with the committee and then a second meeting with the ambassadors. Officials hope that about that time the treaty draft will be completed and have so much acceptance among the foreign representatives, the senate and the State Department that it can be made At the moment, there is a much creatcr feeling of optimism about the treaty among its proponent.s and supporters. They feel that as a result of yesterday's Acheson- Senate meeting, prospects for a strong and effective Europcan- Amcrican security have been greatly brightened. Elks To Have Service At Burns Grave The Sedalia L.odge of Elks. No.

125, will have its service at the grave for Burns McGiniey, afUir the church service Monday morning. Members will at the Home at 8:45 o'clock, to at- the funeral service. A'hr will be at Sacred Heart chuich. in a body. Burning Trash Causes Fire Department Run Burning trash caused a run by the fire companies, Saturday afternoon at 12:09 o'clock at the residence of George Burnett, 401 East Walnut street.

One pump bucket used to extinguish the blaze uhich caused no damage. To Attend Funeral The Elks' Auxiliary auI in a body, Monday at 8:00 o'clock at the Sacred Hca church to attend funeral services of Michael Burns McGiniey who I died, Friday afternoon. DL Wcth Woodland Hospital Notes incai'-ai Ircatmeut Mi-. 411 South Ba avenue. Dismissed; Robert L.

Gandei, 216 West Broadway and Mrs. Dwight Akin, and son. of Fortuna. Marriage Licenses Issued Glenn W. Shepherd and Nettie Harding, both of Warrensburg.

John L. Horttor and both of Sedalia. Vernon E. Harms. Phylli- McCall, both of Sedalia.

icr anci vvlver Sunday with some scattereu light snow or frcez 111-4 drizzle north: Monday cloiidv at colder southeast: highs Sunday north tn 35 and 45 Thought For Today God is everywhere present by His pov.er. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes I the earth with His foot: He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; i He makes the powers of hell sliake vv ith His terrors, and bm ii the devils with Hii I Taylor..