The Wichita Beacon from Wichita, Kansas • 1

VOLUME 21 RlCE In the City 3c Outside the City 5c! -f WICHITA KANSAS FRIDAY UGUST NUMBER X07 S' ifron 'Merry-Go-Round' By DREW PEARSQN -'s PLANES LAUD AT AIRFIELD NEAP CAPITAL POLICE INVESTIGATE FIERY DEATH OF WICHITAN Dutch Accept US 'Offer' of Mediation AMY SEIZES arms plants IHGEMAHV I-- 7000-mlle Journey Marks Fortieth Anniversary of Army Air ForceV: Washington Aug i CUR)- Seven gleaming army Superfortresses winging 7000 miles from Tokyo landed at nearby Andrews field today in a record-breaking flight climaxing the air forces 40th anniver? sary celebration 1 The sky giants swept over -the Washington monument ini the na- capital 34 hours after off from Tokyo at 2 a EDT Thursday Actual flying tixhe was 30 hours and -5 xninutes' The flight also represented A new achievement in radio trails-' hutting and receiving For the flrkt Liquor Figures In Tragedy Vhen House Burns in North End Here 7 The death of Adams' 2445 Wellington Place from 6ums and suffocation when his four-room home burned Thursday Afternoon may have been the climax of a liquor party according to police -Detective Capt Price said Friday morning' the Investigation into Adams' death would be dropped and the case closed Mrs Adams at St FYancis hospital told Detective Carl Spriggs that she and her husband had been having for about six According' to jBpxlggs she said -they -had been arguing all dav Thursday I Drinkjng is Admitted Spriggs also reported Mrs Adams 'had admitted that both she and Adams had been drinking several XAKE 8V6CE8S Apg 1 Te Netherlands told the United Nations- security1 council today that it'f'gladly the United States -offer to mediate the Indonesian Ig hUng pending consultations on1 best" the offer can be carried out (Later In' Washington state de-t payment spokesman Michael j-McDerfnott denied that the United 'States has offered to mediate the Iqddnesian dispute and -said 'this country had only' offered its to the Netherlands government He deeiined to define offices' but said he would toy to get such a definition He admitted that eventually could include mediation but emphasized that it did not at this tixne mean mediation) Russia protested however that toe: security council must find the Netherlands guilty of breach' of in Indonesia and the United States proposed issuing a cease firing order before 'Shelving the case SENATE Bbx Now that the senate hai heard the laifc rap of the (level and (one home it Is appropriate' to let the voters who JU 1 know something about how" new senators stacked up in the arena of Washington This session saw the largi est crop of new drew piakboh hTyears including seven who vi aly served as governors They were men of broad of whom uch could be expected- Out of the entire cVopr however only four' achieved an A-l rating! Ives of New York and Flanders jot Vermont Republicans with Sparkman of Alabama and McGrath of Rhode Island Democrats All were a credit to their states and Justified the confidence of the voters On the other hand four freshman senators rate in the dunce-cap clam: of Maryland Democrat withr McCarthy of WJs-'consih Bricker of Qhlo and Jenner of Indiana Republicans In some rmpecta Bricker McCarthy and Jenner were Xio worse than two or three of their freshman colleagues except for one their constant babble of braggadocio brought them more public attention Here Is the box-score of hew senators in the: 80th Congress: ZXLES ECTON Montana Repub- Hearty amiable- country- bred agrees that you can Uke the b6y out of 'the fihn but that you cant take pie farm out of the boy shy and timid about Washington Ecton hever pretended to be anything 'buta party hick-r-which class rating ARTHUR WATKINS Utah Re- publlcanWss little-known YV sm all-town lawyer never taken seri-ously until the Republican V- P0LI8E AUTO PLUtJGES IWTO cnoi'JD Gun Post Charged Earlier HampshlreBarrackj Explosives juried JERUSALEM Aue (UPJ! Violence flared anew today at the funeral of five slain Jews in riot-torn Tel Aviv and in Jerusalem where Jew was kiHecl in a bombing attack on a gun post: guard ingthe Hampshire battalion a r-racks A police armored car plunged straight' into a funeral procession for five Jews killed in wild rioting at Tel -viv last night A number- of Jews -were injured Thdenraged crowd tried to seize the occupants of the car who were reported by witnesses to be Britten police The driver sped off while other police ofi the scene fired shots Into the air until the car wag out of reach A little before the Tel Aviv flare-up four Jews charged a gun post at the Hampshire barracks in Jerusalem hurling explosives over the barbed wire barricades They fired a burst from a nelgh-joring garden to distract attention British guards answered with gun-ire which riddled one of the stackers? A second Jew was cap- tured '-Tr a luivef tigapon Ordered Bafller today Palestine High Sommtesloner Sir Alan Cimningham lad ordered a thorough investiga-ion ofYsntl-Jewish rioting which dlled five persons in the all -Jewish city" of Tel Aviv Eight rmored cars raced through Tel Aviv spraying bullets into cafe theaters and stores Both police and army off idals deniei-ihat According the criminal inves- report Adams' was said' tinum radio with Anr drews field I strategic headquarters even when 7000 miles distanti-H Eight planes tookjoff from-Tokyo in the mass flight "But at the one stop made at Anchorage Alaska one of the ships dropped out be cause of engine trouble It resumed he flight alone at 2:11 am Bny -today seven hours after the' flight1' of seyen left For the most part of the flight" he ships encountered -good weather -rith brisk tail winds But over Western Canada they -ran into -a severe electrical storm knd one ship was struck by lightning 'It was not damaged 'T The flight was Jthe longest and fastest massed flight the AAJ ras lifted -into a ie learned her their home at ifternoon (Eagle DOROTHY FAY ADAMS Is shown-above as she Cochran ambulance following- her collapse when husband -D JD Adams was burned to death whe 2545 Wellington Place was rased by fire Thursday Staff Photo! INDONESIANS SET FIRES AS THEY RETREAT Two Towns Puf to- Torcn Slowing Drive of Dutch Toward Jogjakarta Berlin Factories Found Producing (or eigri Power BERLIN Augr (UR) army officials inspecting two plants ip the American sector discovered material being manufactured for a foreign- power without sanction by the office of the jmilitary government it was announced tonight Officials did! not name the foreign power fox) which the weapons were being made The plants were closed and placed under protective custody American agents took five men into custody The officials found stockpiles hidden to avoid inspection They included partially icompleted gyro-scsopic motors for i aircraft submarines and tanks wing body-parts of link trainers instruments for use in observing the trajectories Of missiles such as the V-weapons submarine periscopes apd other precision -instruments The announcement said officials of the economics and armed forces division and signal corps made the (ggcoverid during a tour of -iuspecr lion of two plants of the Askania works in the Priedohau and Marien-dorf districts of the UJS sector The counter-intelligence corps and criminal investigation division posted agents around the plafits while other troops searched them CLEARINGS HIT HIGHEST MARK V' i Wichita Banks Do Enormous Check Business The' Wichita Clearing House association office reports that the check clearing figures of the Wichita banka for the month of July 1947 are the highest of any one xponth ever recorded This record $6137284035 is over nine million dollars more than the total of July 1946 which' was $52350-97235: The clearings lor the first seVen months of 1947 were $316-54529443 compared with $262397-277J29 for the like period in 1946 January of 1947 was the closest month to approach this record breaking July Male' secretary manager jef the Wichita Clearing House association' stated he contributed to have carried into' the house Mrs Adams him what he was going to do with it 1 Spriggs said Adame told her he was going to it over her and set fire to Mrs Adams told Spriggs Then she said to the investigator he was apparently subdued and went on into' the bedroom and laid down Police investigators said there was no odbr of gasoline fumes in the charred ruins of the house Tells About Fire Mrs Adams was awakened by a dog barking' she told Spriggs and she went to the kitchen to find a stew burning oxf (the stove A' sec and time the dog awpke her and she found the house full of smoke Spriggs said At this time Mrs Adams told police she tried to wake her husband but was unable lo aropse him Mrs Adams tld Patrphxian Bud Wallace at the hospital that when she questioned Adams about' the gallon' tin of 1 gasoline he 'told her he was going ito give it to a man he identified Only as so he could uto his 'truck address' tote-given to 'police only as Mrs Adkms cautioned her husband about gasoline Are according to Wallace and he replied that there was any fire he'd take -care of it Pay the i Aug 1' WILDWOOD SAYS ELLIOTT PRESSED ARMY TO AID HUGHES Urged Award of Contract f-inSplULof Order from Air Chief Arnold (UP) Charles Merits 52 was fined' $200 after pleading guilty tb drunken driving chbrgbs yesterday Morits Is clerk ft the Philadelphia traffic court "ii 1 BATAVIA Aug Indonesian forcea put the torch to two central Java towns today to slow a Dutch drive on the Indonesian capital of Jogjakarta A Netherlands communique said great flames were into the sky over the southern port of TJi-latjap-and- thwinlsnd-tpvmmf Poer-wakerto' rv' CV 7 "A motorized Column bypassed the two towns as it cut Java half and turned toward Jogjakarta 75 miles away Tjilatjap was potential supply baie for the Dutch forces but' Indonesians were reported to have smashed oil storage tanks and set them ablaze The Dutch also feared port installations were damaged Other Indonesian scorched earth activities were repotted at Kali-woengo east of Semarang where sugar mill was destroyed and at Slaritar on' east 1 coast where Thitch occupying an airfield found the radio partially destroyed The once-abandoned attempts to capture Jogjakarta apparently were revived In the hope of smashing Indonesian resistance before the United Nations security council act on the Dutch-Indonesian fight Racing along the rate of 25 miles a day the Dutch which- started from legal column on the their men or vehicles were-involved Disturbances spread later to Jerusalem but ho casualties resulted The investigation which Cunning-ism ordered was due to be completed within two days It was ex-)ected to result in a number of British pohee being accused of the shooting They were touched off by discovery of the booby-trapped bodies of two British sergeants whom the Jewish underground killed In retaliation for to British' execution of three Jews The ytctims'were scheduled to be buried later toda PRESIDENT SIGHS SCHOOL AID BILL Increased Enrollment Due tor War Activity Cited SAILOR FACING TRIAL HANGS SELF HI JAIL Was Accused of -Shooting: 9 Others iq 1946 WASHINGTON Aug A 21-year-old sailor who killed nine other servicemen in China last yeax hanged himself today from the bars of a cell in which he was being held pending court martial The sailor was William Vincent Smith Asheville He was be ing held in solitary confinement in the cell block' at the rlaval receiving station in Anacostla He ripped ticking from his mattress naval authorities said and fashioned from it a noose with which to hang himself Two sailor guards found his body which was removed to the Bethesda Md naval hospital or autopsy The navy ordered investigation by a special board 'of inquiry Smith went on a'crazy shooting spree at 3 o'clock in the' morning aboard the LST 172 in the Yangtze river- on April 23 1946 He was on watch duty at the time The landing ship was part of the Seventh fleet landslide Suddenly- swept him into the senate: He is fraxik honest garrulous in private but on the senate floor sits meekly at his desk behaving like a good hut very timid Republican A class senator i GEORGE MALONE Nevada A former consulting eh-: gineer works hard does more listeh- tog than talking Class Orating WILLIAM UMSTEAD North Carolina An expert on 7 procedure and' a conscientious conservative A class C-mlnuS senator WILLIAM JENNER Indiana A man of Convictions these of the senior senator from Iri- dlana Homer Capehatt whoinJen-ner--follows religiously Never did he deviate from -Capehartf I Never did he Indicate that he hid a mind of his own Class ratings RAYMOND BALDWIN Connecticut A Jaiarf of intense 'personal drive rates next to Ives and Handers among the abler of 00 freshmen Class JOSEPH McCARTHy Wisconsin Came to the senate with jnore publicity biiifd-up than any colleague but faster Class E'rating 7 JOHN BRICKER- Oulo Republi- Former governor Jol Ohio big things were of Brlckex but his Ohio colleague Bob Taft' put him well in theshade He worke more for his Ontef banking ftiepq Jqhn Galbreath add the real mtate lobby than1 for- veterans Clasy i EDWARD THYTS Republican Ex-govemo qf his state quiet sincere' unassuming can be 'a strong battler for issues that' Interest him one of the better members of' the new senate crop Class -1 HENRY-DWORSHAK Idaho Re- After an undistinguished career the house Dworshak rode the' OOP-landslide into the sen-) rate A D-minus senator EDWARD MARTIN Penngyl---: vania Former governor of Pennsylvania given to haranguing1 on the senate floor Martin tauty haVe been a good major general but in 'the senite he adds nothing to Plane' Crash Kills One: Officer Injures Second LAWTON OKLA Apg (UP A board of officers today investi- gated the crash of a nn arxny plane yesterday which resulted in' death for 2nd Uetttr-Charles Smith Royal Oak Jdich-fktoL-serious lxijury for axiother officer from Auburn Reported in a serious condition at Fort Sill hospital was 2nd Lieui LpiUsVAyvedutl of AUbunx' Ay- veduti received multiple bum after the fikteon plane -crashed on Fort Sill west artillery range Two Junipers Survive' ay B-25 Crashes i McCHORD FIELD WASH Aug TUP) An army Br25 crashed j-and bufned 11 miles east of Kelso Wash early today and two men survived by parachuting from 10000 feet Fourth army air force offl-dais announced: MARINE TRANSFERS TO JOPLIN OFFICE Staff Sergeant King LeaVes Wichita Recruiting Job Staff Sergt Fredrick A King -who has been working as a marine corps recruiter In the local office -was transferred today to a similar post at the Joplin Mo recruiting office With tjie local office since March'-30 1947 Sergeant King has acted as a traveling recruiter-' covering ractically all Of the towns In the 52 counties assigned to the Wichita office' Assigned to recruiting duty- since March 24 1946 king was non-com- 4-missioned officer in ehae 'of the 1 Salina 'recruiting office lmmedi- prior to coming to Wichita from' May 12 1946 o- During his service in thie- ixiarixie corps since: his enlistment on Au--y grist 24 1939 he saw duty aboard 1 the UBJS Nashville and the UBB 1 Tarawa In thewar he was inaction wfth- the First -marine division at Guadalcanal -and Peleliu Sentry duty at the Brooklyn naval yard service with New York naval air station and shore-patrol duty at SahDlego CaL comprise hla land duties the rise in the checking figure to the higher price of wheat a larger Kansas crop the higher price of cattle and livestock and also the higher cost of living Mr Male stated however the best measurer of the amount of money in circulation is the total of debit figures which will be released August 5 north coast pushed through Ban-joemas and on into Kroja south coast station on the main railroad leading into Jogjakarta 4- NORMAN WIFE DIES NEW YORK Aug 1 (UP) Mrs Norman Thomas wife of the Socialist party leader died here today SERIOUSLY HURT ID CRASH Water Company Aulo Strikes Ditch Two employes of the Wichita Water company suffered serious injuries Friday morning when the ear they were 'driving left the Bentley road three iniles north of 1 Col-Wich and stood bn its front bumper and radiator ln' a drainage ditclf The injured men are John Kholl about 28 a resident engineer who came to Wichita recently tio $axisas City- to assist In the water company's expansion program who suffered a crushing injury to the right chest and Robert A Kreager about 28 bf 4407 Bayley operator of the filter plant who suffered a fractured arm nose and foot: Robert Hess superintendent of the filler plant said Knoll was driver of the car Hess -said the car went out of contipl due to a mechanical failure of the steering mechanism Fortunately there was only about six inches ofwater in the drainage ditch at the time of the accident The Injured men were brought to St Francis hospital by a Culbertson ambulance for treatment CALLER MAKES HEW THREATS TO BRICKER Ohio Senator Escaped Shooting TWo Weeks Ago' AW SHUCKS WE ALL GO WASHINGTON Aug President Truman today signed legislation: continuing federal aid to schools which have increased enroll mentsiue to war activities The bill will continue the emergency! aid until June 30 1948 and authorizes expenditure of not more than $5000000 during that period by the federal works administrator: The President also signed' legislation: 7 Authorizing the federal home loan banks to accept mortgages having maturities- of not more than 21 years as collateral for advances Permitting members slid former members of the armed forces to accept medals and decorations offeree thfcm by co-belligerent nations of World war II neutral nations or other American republics Authorizing the- agriculture department to set minimum standards of and maturity and in spectloh requirements from farm products Milk and milk products are specifically exempted rain the act- Permitting rolls of newsprint 15 Inches wide to( be Imported dutyfree Newsprint' rolls down to nine Inches may be imported withou duty payment untiijuly 1 1948 WASHINGTON Aug (UP) Senate investigators tokt today that Elliott Roosevelt when he was an air forces colonel urged the army to buy photo-reconnaissance planes from Howard Hughes after Gen Arnold air fqrce commander had ordered further on the plane Majt -Gen Oliver Echols retired former iair force assistant chief of' staff told a defense in-v es tig a tin subcommittee that Arnold ordered no further AAF action on experimental photo-reconnaissance planes on August 21 1943 t- Subcommittee Chairman Homer Ferguson Mich- said Roosevelt would attend the hearings on Monday and might be questioned thexi Plane 'Suitable But short while later young Roosevelt son of the late President reported after a tour of plane manufacturing plants that the Hughes plane was most suitable and should be flushed The committee investigating a $22000000 contract for F-ll photographic planes awarded Hughes as well as an $18000000 award to Hughes and Henry Kaiser for a giant plywdod flying boat Elliott name- was brought into the public hearings for the first time as these other developments occurred: 1 Hughes in Hollywood said he would ask the justice department to determine whether Sen Owen Brewster Me chairman of the full investigating committee has any cdnnectioxte with Pan American Airways Hughes has charged that Brewster offered 'to cali off the ln-'Vestigaiion if Hughes would merge his Trans-World Airways with Pan American The millionaire plane-maker also defied subcomxxilttee efforts to put him on the witness stand before Wednesday 2 John Meyer a publicity nan and party thrower for Hughes appeared in the hearing room but was given leave to go a hotel for some sleep Meyer wtio has told the subcommittee- in previous secret session that he entertained young Roosevelt and Secretary -of Interior A Krug at -costly parties £aid for by Hughes flew here from Paris via New York He said he was tired Meyer to Testify Ferguson said Meyer would testify this afternoon Echols read to the cbxnmlttee- a memorandum he had written July 12 1943 It said estimate of 485-mile-an-hour top speed and of other performance characteristics appeared and to some The air forces he said adopted a toward the plane because of its wooden construction and the two years spent In building a pilot model Shortly before the Roosevelt visit Echols revealed Arnold ordered that the army stop diverting maJ teriate lor the plane and the air forces older ed progress reports discontinued -v thi prestige of the second most powerful State JOHN Jt WILLIAMS Delaware a gralxf- dealer and turkey raiser Villlams Is out of place in the senate Clas rating HERBERT Mary-V -lapd A former governor experience should have 1 grated him amOngthe top senate freshmen Instead his groveling before the- Republicans who are probing his election has lost him the respect of both Republicans uad Democrats He is' going- no place unless it is bade to Maryland A Class E-mlnus senator JAMES KEM Missouri Repub-' An unimpressive plodding party-liner Class 7 SFESSARD HOLLAND Florida A slow starter who State Weather Saturday SUghtlyMranner north- al and extreme- north tonight an In northeast quarter Saturday Highest temperatnrtlk: 100-105 Fair' and continued hot tonight And Saturday High temperatnres j00-105rr ttt COLUMBUS Associates of Sexi John Bricker who' escaped assassination in Washington nearly two weeks ago revealed today that thxto phone calls were received at BrickeriS Columbus home last xiighr in which the caller threatened' get Authorities said they believed the caller was a demented person GENERAL MOTORS HIKES CAR PRICES Fivtp Pqssenger Modefa and Chevrolet Trucks Up pETROIT AugJ Geh krai Motors corporation today announced a two to six per cent increase: in the list prices on Cadillac lilc) BulckOldsmobile 7 Claim Anti- j-j Experiments ShowPromise NEW YORK Aug This has been done before but Dr D0NT PAY any attention to these folks bn the rubber raft They are Just rubbing It in The sun is 'booming down Uke (hit was the Mojave desert and what dbes this groiip- care? Not one whit my friend not one whij Whoare these cool ones -desporting themselves at Sandy Beach? Left to right: Gaddis Chuck Bowers Peg Kerley (Eagle Staff Photo) Maryon Bowers Dwane Barker Edith began to sparklp toward the end tf the session A senator WILLIS ROBERTSON Virginia His presence ip 'the senate 1 merely means that-? Sen Harry Byrd now has5 two voes Instead pf one And much of the time those votes are cast on the Rejnibli- can side i (RttoMfA br aU arudlcnU Hte1 PAROLED i WASHINGTON The justice department announced ''today that William Hale 72-year-old prisoner serving a life term for coxjspiracy in the -Osage Indian mu murders more thgn a Quarter of a century ago was paroled on 'July 30 Hale of Oklahoma City who was described by prison of-ficlals as a had -'served 28 yk- Chevrolet jiassenge: rolet trucks EL Wilson GM president said the impatay an-nounci the price I increases being made to cover butr iart the lr creased labor and materia incurred since GMs' last general hike last November The QJjC truck and coaichi division eviously announced' price In-creasei on new models ranging from $17 7tSo $162 Wilson Said upward nents would be made onG on-automotive products- hut there-would be no change in auto service parts last general pride hike was $100 par car to all its lines1 Medical science has taken another step toward development of safe vaccine that somq day may protect humans froxh ixifantlle paralysig Dr Hupert Loring and hig as sociates it' Stanford university reported today that they had successfully vaccinated cotton rats against the disease In making their vaccine the Stanford scientists accomplished the trick of making' th virus harmless without taking away Its power to) create those tiny orgapizxxis that-chkse and destroy germs They soaked the virus in foxmaklehyde for 12 days Loring hai been able to prepare the virus in concentrated that is purify the virus getting rid of the foreign substances This him to to make a more powerful vaccine In his most significant inti Lorixxg'first injected 24 of thb co ton rats with the vaccine Then he -Injected directly into their brains deadly) doses of the' concentrated virus Onlyone pf the -rats learner--' dovni with paralyste but lt recov-ered: Jhe- ethers )no'jJgn of the disease In another groupnot vaccinated all the rats came down with- -the disease' i 7 Victor Phillips federal meteor-oldfcist' looked at Jthe weather map Friday xnbrning andsaid: a firm grip on' yourselves folks it looks like at least a By looking -way off In the northern Pacific ocean Phillips could ee cold air xhass He said pretty -weak and it will be Just like the rest of! then lt wont make iL( iking fqi ryllef- Phillips Still loo! I lef a little ridge of cool air but it doesn't amount to a-hlll bfi beans Asked if the hurricane' in the gulf would toss enough motet air into Wichita to cause rain Phillips shook his head Freeses in Michigan He then looked to where the map indicated Cadillac Mich had a low of 32 degxses 1 Friday morning and quickly looked away A lot of good that freezing mark will do Wlch itans Absolutely unable to see anything that faixitly pointed to relief Phillips offered a humidity of 20 pej cent as the consolation prize That is mighty low humidity but 105 105 and anyway out at Las Vegas and Phoenix where it is from 110 to 114 the huxhidity reads 8 to 10 per cent Thej weatherman repeated his advice to a firm grip" bn ourselves and hung up FOLIO SCARES BRITAIN LONDON Aug Continental holidays for 6 XXX) British children were cancelled' today because of the spread of infantile paralysis in Britain gazed at the mount tains He bund i J' S-i i 4.