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r- 4 Kf HFM Sob Jeep Suspense Bing Crosby Don Boots Country- Style News and Sports Wichita Weather I Cloudjr through Wednesday with ecea-slonal light rain or snow tonight or Wednesday morning Little change In temperature' High today middle 30s Low tonight upper 20s High Wednesday middle 30s Read in More Wichita Homes Than Any Other Evening Newspaper VOLUME 30 PRICE 5c WICHITA KANSAS TUESDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 14 1956 TWENTY PAGES NUMBER 38 i More or Less Findl' Report Scheduled By 3: Specialists i -I Dies in Topeka Long Time Resident Held Many Positions In Affairs of City Col Bruce Griffith 88 1610 Parker former postmaster of Wichita for more than 20 years a member of the board of education and in the insurance business here for many years died Monday night in Winters UJS hospital at Topeka He was chaplain of Thomas Hopkins post No 4 American Legion for more than 30 years a thirty-third degree Mason and for 30 years was connected with the Kansas National Guard and later the Organized Reserves Col Griffith was born In Pavia Pa Oct 28 1867 and was educated for the ministry in Franklin 8c Marshall College at Lancaster Pa While at he was a quarterback of the football team Shot by Patrolman Robert Campbell (at right) was George Allison Ill an ex-convict from a Missouri prisoh who attempted to flee the scene of a burglary at 365 21st Allison hit in the arm was knocked eight feet and rolled twice by the force of the bullet that hit him St Valentine's Burglary Suspect SAoif by Officer WASHINGTON Feb 14 1 President Eisenhower will hear from his doctors today on how well- he has' recovered from his Sept: 24 heart attack The doctors findings to be given to Mr Eisenhower late this afternoon will play an im-1 portant though not necessarily decisive part in the decision on whether to seek a second-term Dr Paul Dudley White the Boston heart specialist was fly-X ing to Washington for today's con-t sultations White and three other physi- dans planned to present Mr: Eisenhower a or less final evaluation of all the medical aminatlons he has undergone since the heart attack but with special emphasis on tests he had last Saturday i After talking with the Presi- dent they were scheduled to hold a press conference in the same room where Mr Eisenhower regularly meets -with reporters No time was set for the conference but the best available estimate was sometime between 3 and 4 pjn (EST) Georgia Trip Planned Consulting with White were MaJ Gen Howard Snyder the personal physician Col Thomas Mattingly the heart specialist from Washington's Walter Reed Hospital and Col Byron Pollock chief of 'cardiology at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Denver where Mr Eisenhower was treated after he was first stricken With the physicians' report in mind the President' will fly tomorrow morning to Thomasville Ga for a week or more of relaxation quails hunting and 'some work at the plantation of Treasury Secretary George Humphrey White has emphasized that once the degree of Mr re- Russia to Keep Weapons Pace Red Chief Says Communist Party Congress Opened By Khrushchev By HENRY SHAPIRO MOSCOW Feb 14 Communist Party Chieftain Nikita Khrushchev declared in a major policy speech today that the Soviet Union will keep pace with the capitalist powers in arms production The USSR will not permit itself to be outdistanced by arms production of the capitalist powers Khrushchev told the opening session of the 20th Communist Party Congress -The congress is the first since Josef death in 1953 Khrushchev said that everything necessary will be done by the Soviet government to reinforce its military establishment Backs Coexistence Khrushchev reaffirmed the Soviet espousal of peaceful coexist-ance with the capitalist powers He said it is possible to improve relations between Russia and the United States Britain and France He said cultural and technical exchanges could help in the improvement of such relations Khrushchev jabbed anew at countries which have entered Western alliances "All the countries which do not belong to aggressive alliances can live in peace and perfect friendship with the he said Secret Meeting hour-long speech comprising his report to the Com-m units party of which he is the first secretary was delivered behind closed Kremlin doors Correspondents from non-Com-munlst countries were barred from the sessions But while Khrushchev was speaking authoritative reports received from inside the Kremlin disclosed some of the keypoints of his address His domestic report laid emphasis on a seven-hour day and five-day week for the Soviet worker at the end of the new five-year plan Premier Nikolai Bulganin missing from public functions for more than a month sat by Khrushchev's side when the Congress convened Contest Planned Pageant Scheduled In Pratt June 7-8 PRATT Feb 14 fPV-The Miss Conducted by Civil Service Commission Chief Reverses Denial Issued Last Year Bv PAUL SOUT11WICK WASHINGTON Feb: 14 The Civil Service Commission has conceded that it sometimes makes loyalty-security investigations of Congressmen and keeps the information in a "permanent- cpnff-dential file But generally few people are questioned except close friends of the Congressman These disclosures camettf' reply to a House Government Opera- tions Subcommittee which wanted to find out whether the commission was investigating Congressmen and for what Denial Blade Earlier Hie Civil Service Conftnisslon last year in reply to a routine questionnaire from the subcommittee stated: commission does not maintain security flies on members of The United Press revealed however that the commission had made security investigations of several members of Congress including Sens Charles Potter R-Mich) Irving Ives (RjNYt and James Murray D-Mont The three senators were checked as required by law because 'they' were members of the International Labor Organization which mefs-each year in Geneva The subcommittee headed by Rep John Moss D-Calif demanded an explanation Civil Service Chairman Philip Young has replied that security investigations have been made of eight with' their consent He refused to nametherti Checked on Request Seven present members of Con-gress were checked on request of the State and Labor Departments Young reported presumably as required by law for members of certain international organizations The eighth check Young said was requested by the 'Atomic Energy Commission letter to Moss did not make clear however whether the man still is a member of Congress Former Rep Robert Condon (D-Calif) while a Congressman in 1953 was barred as- a security risk from witnessing atomic tests to which all 'Congressmen had been invited But Condon said he had no knowledge that he was aatX i was ma(e by the FBI Top-level Probers Young told Moss that to injure against investigations of Congressmen are handled byr peonle of our staff hirre and in regional offices legal necessity for the investigation js explained to VALENTINES Far too young for dating one-year-old Johnny Funk of Kentland Ind has a valentine his1 pet boxer Suzie Here they are shown at home as Slizie keeps a sharp lookout for rivals (UP Telephoto) covery is established the decision on his political 1 future will be I strictly up to the President and that the doctors will not advise him on that point Freshman Last Seen Friday Anxiety Mounts for Youth Missing in Initiation Stunt CAMBRIDGE MASS Feb 14 (UP) Anxiety mounted today for the safety of a college freshman who disappeared four days ago during a fraternity initiation Wounded and taken to St Francis Hospital was George Allison III 25 who was released less than a year ago from a Missouri prison where he had served a 14-month burglary term Allison was shot by Patrolman Robert Campbell as the alleged burglar attempted to flee in the 2100 block of North Topeka He was hit in the right forearm and knocked eight feet he rolled twice from the impact of the 357 magnum slug Campbell and Morning Eagle Police -Reporter John Cummins 21 who was riding with the patrolman spotted a burglar -in the Cafe 365 21st at 4:15 am After a spotlight was pointed into tlie cafe according to Campbell the burglar walked to the front of the restaurant and kneeled behind the lunch counter leaving only the top of his head visible One Ballet Fired The patrolman leaving Cummins behind to keep the spotlight on the man inside walked toward the rear entrance of the cafe and was nearly there when the burglar burst out the back door running south According to Campbell's report of the incident he chased the burglar as he ran south and then turned east to Topeka After shouting three times for the footpad to halt said Campbell he drew- his revolver and fired one shot Cummins maintained a watcl over the wounded Allison while Campbell called for assistance and ah ambulance Allison was taken to St Francis Hospital within a few minutes after being shot He remained in the hospital Tuesday morning under police guard Attendants said the magnum slug entered his lower right arm but that apparently no bones were broken Allison when questioned later at the hospital and asked by Campbell why he had run said don't know you should have killed Tools for Raid Stolen The wounded man told officers he was a baker by trade and had been in Wichita several times since his release last March from prison in St Joseph Mo He had been here three weeks this time he said Tools for committing the burglary he related came from a car parked near the stockyards which he had prowled earlier in the night The tools were used to remove a window screen and window from the cafe A quantity of change was found in Allison's pockets However William Riggan 2850 Amldon owner of the establishment told police he didn't believe there had been any money in the restaurant For that reason detectives Tuesday were endeavoring to find out if Allison had committed some other burglary before he was apprehended Since coming to Wichita three weeks ago Allison told police he had been staying with his parents at 2234 Market A Wichitan who selected Valen fine Day morning for an alleged burglary attempt was shot i iii the right arm by a police officer as he attempted to flee the crime scene: Britain Blasts Russian Statement On Mideast 'False' LONDON Feb 14 Britair formally accused the Soviet Unior today of increasing tension by meddling in the Middle East I The Soviet statement yesterday calling -the recent Eden-Elsen-j hower statement a threat to peace in the Middle East "has given an entirely false picture of the Wash-' lngton a Foreign Office spokesman said i The Moscow statement yester-j day accused President Eisenhower and Prime- Minister Sir Anthony Eden of creating "a threat to in the Middle East It said the situation developing in that region clearly connected with the secuHty of the Soviet Union It -also said the Kremlin would consider the sending of British and American troops to the Mid-i east a threat to peace and an object of "legitimate concern i lt charged that such a move would be a of the United Nations charter It also said' this would be an infringement of the sovereignty of the Middleastem nations The Foreign Office in its state-: ment today said the purpose of the Washington decisions had been "to show the countries con- cemed that if they become the) yictim of an attack there will be friends within reach and ready) to act in their "The Soviet statement gives an1 entirely false picture of the Washington the British statement said 1 Russia Believed Poised For Middle East War WASHINGTON Feb 14 Chairman -Walter George of: the Senate Foreign Relations Committee warned today that "if we become involved in war in: the Middle East Russia is step- ping i The veteran Georgian said "that would be the excuse she has: been looking For that reason George told newsmen "I do not believe I it would be wise to make any ship-: ment of arms into that area at: this time in the hope that by) peaceful means we could bring about an without open conflict i Israel has been appealing to the United States since November to sell it arms to counter Communist shipments of weapons to Egypt But the State Department so far has taken no action on the request 'Helpless' Demos Hit Thomas Clark 18 son of home invasions have taken I tflace Bell Telephone Co executive Al- Fraternity President Paul Luck-fred Clark of Harvey 21 Juarez Mexico said there vanished after he was left in an was no possibility a Clark Isolated wooded section near i feared he had been rejected by Lincoln Friday Members of Delta the fraternity I Kappa Epsilon Fraternity said he I At the home In Harvey had been in good when! 111 his parents asked that MIT they last saw him officials no expense in lo- The youth a student at Massa- eating their chusetts Institute of Technology) Clark was dropped off at a spot tfas instructed to return to the about 12 miles from Cambridge school by 8 pm Nine other! by upper classman Jack Ueller of pledges returned without diff i-j Pottsville Pa He was wearing a culty school authorities said Last night a Waltham couple sees Mr: and Mrs Harold Sheehan little or no money told police that a youth answering description appeared at their home early Friday and asked for a ride The couple said the youth refused to identify himself or tell them where he was going Mrs when mem wncre ne was sum gheehan said it was raining lumberjack shn and Fellow students said he had COL GRIFFITH One of the highlights was the defeat of Princeton While on vacation from college he spent a coupld of summers as a reporter on the New York Tribune There he helped establish camps in upper New York state tor children a practice still followed by the paper He covered the tragic Johnstown Pa flood where scores were swept to their deaths He still had the photographic plates of the flood at the time of his death Col Griffith arrived in Wichita in the early 1890s as missionary pastor to the Reformed Church: He served as pastor to this church for many years before entering (Continued on Page 12) Hall Wins First Delegate Test Shaw Group Beaten lnShawnee County TOPEKA Feb 14 Kansas Gov Fred Hall last night won control of the Shawnee County delegation to the Republican First District and state convention in the first major test of delegate strength against a group led by State Rep Warren Shaw of Topeka supporters defeated uairs supporters defeated an opposition slate of delegates 111-98 on roll call vote during a three and one-half hour session three and one-half hour session The 70-member delegation was bound to the unit rule Shaw is a candidate for governor against Hall in the Republican race The delegation endorsed Probate Judge Glenn Cogswell of Topeka as a delegate from the First Congressional District to the national convention The delegation also endorsed Art Fletcher of Topeka as state delegate-at-large Fletcher state Negro vice chairman of the Republican Central Committee was one of Hall's campaign managers in 1954 Rancher Shoots Self After Paying Cost of Fune! MISSOULA MONT- Feb 14 Eugene Toll 85-year-old rancher went into a' mortuary and paid for his funeral Then said Coroner Ralph Simmons he went outside and shot himself to death A passer-by fonnd the body lying in the mortuary driveway -r- Kansas Beauty Pageant will be he2J to Pratt June 7-8 Junior Chamber of Com- the boy came to their door couidn't tell whether he WAS person Young said 1 Pi i- (J 5) merce sponsor of the event said the talent competition will be held the first night with the poise and beauty divisions the second night The winner here will represent Kansas in toe Miss America Pageant at Atlantic City NJ Gail White of Arkansas City winner of the Miss Kansas title last year recently won a Hollywood screen test 7 Dead 6 Missing In Japan Mine Blast NAGASAKI JAPAN Feb 14 (IP I Seven persons were killed' and six were missing and believed dead in a gas explosion in a coal mine near here today Seven miner were seriously injured By CHARLES MERCER InSlue I flG eagle PELHAM NY Feb 14 (JV-when they stay up too late Editorials Page 4 In practically every orderly house- Disneyland on ABC-TV Classified Pages 12 to 19jhold which contains both a TV 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm Easterxj Radio and TV Guido Pago 1 0 set and young children there are on Wednesday evening raises aj A Senate resolution listed the Society Page 7 i round rules on who looks at the great problem Dr Caldwell con-! major claims as $100000000 in Sports Pagos 8 and 9 set and when jfesses She thinks It an excellent: additional war damage $23800000 frightened or Mrs Sheehan: From Th rrle' said he had a stony expres-j WASHINGTON Feb Region on his lease of 10665 cubic centimeters Sheehan quoted the youth as (doses) of Salk polio vaccine to saying he "tell them any-Kansas was announced today by said 1 Public Health Service as part of Otherwise he said! the check is "I told him that if he would 909000 doses distributed aimongi like any other field tell us who he was or where he states That normally includes was going I would give him a) The vaccine produced by Eli: questioning a former em-ride" Sheehan said finally Lilly Co is allocated for sale ployers a supervisors -and a admitted that he was an MIT to public agencies and commercial check of police credit and FBI student but all he would outlets under the voluntary coil-! records say" trol system the Health Service Mrs Sheehan said she urged stated persons Interviewed are generally limited to prominent persons closely associated with the member of ha 7 Dead in Home Asphyxiation Seen Cause of Tragedy MIDWEST CITY OKLA Feb 14 (UP) A family of seven persons died in their home near -here today apparently of asphyxiation Deputy Sheriff George Long identified the victims as Mr and i Mrs George Smithisler and their five children ages one to nine (The Smithisler family reportedly resided in Wichita until two years ago) Long said the family living north of here was found about 7:40 ajn The deaths apparently occurred several hours earlier Midwest City is an Oklahoma City suburb Long said Mrs Smithisler and two boys -were found ori a bed two other boys on a daybed a girl on a sofa and the father in an easy chair The gas burners in the home were turned on and putting out a strong odor A wash tub on the kitchen stove had boiled dry The family was Identified by Long as Smithisler his wife Barbara and their children Virginia 9 Mike 8 Pat 5 Tommy 3 and Carol 1 Smithisler was a building contractor and operated a salvage umber -business near his home located one-half mile east and one mile south of' the Star School north of Midwest City US Millionaire Marries Teenage Italian Actress ROME Feb 14 (UP) An American millionaire and- the teenage Italian movie starlet he wooed through an interpreter were married yesterday In a church ceremony here Edward William Gaylord 25 Chicago married raven-haired Anna' Maria Materzanini 19 in 6anta -Flrancesca Romans ChurCh where actor Tyrone Power and 'Linda Christian were wed in 1949 Gaylord is the son of the president of Gaylord Products of Chi- cago Evening Eagle Will Present 40 Lenten Guideposts Forty personal- experiences with religion In action will be published in The Evening Eagle during the 40 weekdays of the Lenten period starting Wednes- day These messages of Inspiration and faith will be written by 40 individuals some prominent In various fields others humble people have had a deeply- moving religious experience Comedian Jimmy Durante actress Alary Martin and base- ball player Fepper Martin are among the 40 authors of The Evening Lenten Gulde- posts' Watch for the first of the series on Ash Wednesday Republican Bid For Negro Election Vote Such a matter as bad weather program but its time is unfortu- in gold devaluation refunds knock the ground rules into ajnate First and second grade 349 representing currency confis- Crowd Snarls British Contest American Housewife Wins i International Pancake Race tion in the Caldwell household is Rin Tin Tin which comes on ABC-TV at 7:30 pm Friday The 'fact Friday with no school the (next day takes the curse off it Admittedly tough on' Dr 14-year-old and 9-year- teachers have told her they can tell those among their pupils who watched it the night before the kids just as wide awake the' next morning Exceptions Needed Every ground rule needs an ception of course and the excep- WASHINGTON Feb 14 (UP)' The Republicans have stepped into the Democratic breech over) civil rights and bid for the Negro vote I Vice-President Richard MJ Nixon told a Lincoln Day Dinner last night In New York the Els-' enhower administration has "registered the greatest in' Negro rights since the Emandpa-' tion Proclamation i He said on the other hand the Democrats are a "hybrid party I helpless and in the field of civil rights 1 Nixon's open invitation to Ne- groes to vote Republican in No-! vember followed several weeks of jostling among the Democratic presidential candidates over the Negro rights issue i Adlai Stevenson in Ore- gon where he Is stumping for the Democratic presidential nomina-j tion said he was surprised he was criticized by some Negroes for his civil rights stand 1 have never suggested that our Negro citizens should not claim their rights or should claim them he said However he said claiming of rights "does not necessarily secure them that is our problem? Stevenson was headed for Seattle after barely escaping injury when a Sno-cat he was riding in overturned Stevenson's political Sen Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn) reopened a four-day campaign tour at toe opposite comer of toe nation in Florida Kefauver planned to test hir strong anti-segregation stand for toe first time in toe Deep South And while Nixon attacked the Democrats in New York Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler attacked him at Washington Butler said GOP National Chairman Leonard Hall was "splitting by contending Nixon never called former President Truman and toe Democrats traitorous during toe 1954 campaign Butler said Nixon implied toe Democrats were traitors when he charged them with covering up a Communist conspiracy for political reasons "If this is not calling Mr Truman a traitor what Butler demanded Hall offered to give $1000 to charity if anyone could show its Mr Truman charged that Nixon had said Mr Truman and toe Democratic Party were guilty of Treason Butler said Hall Is trying! to up the Vice so that he "unveil an immaculate Nixon at toe Republican convention next Markets Page 20 Comics Pago 6 Amusements Pago 12 authority on pancake racing ruled the event could not be rerun The women of Liberal Kan run a similar race far the international trophy a silver skillet Olney has held Shrove Tuesday pancake races ever since 1445 Liberal joined in seven years ago and the score until today stood at three wins each Each town sends its fleetest women over a 415-yard course Each runner carries a pancake in a skillet and has to flip it three times on the way Miss Sparrow's time was slow by pancake racing standards but the course was icy The ouled-up British start sent form haywire Favorites such as last year's winner Mrs Doris Millward and 29-year-old Mrs Ruby Winning were left far down toe field cated by the Japanese government from local banks during the-war $128000000 in coconut oil excise taxes and $493274000 infarmy (claims CA 14 otOlG GOtuOt KANSAS Increasing cloudiness and turning colder today with scattered light snow developing northwest Considerably colder north Cloudy tonight and Wednesday with -light snow northwest and light rain or drizzle extreme south tonight Colder east and south High today near 30 extreme northwest to 50s southeast Low tonight 15-20 northeast to 20s southwest A II A Increasing cloudiness and mild today except turning colder Panhandle Cloudy with occasional- light' rain central and west and scat-tered showers or thundershowers east tonight Snow Pen-handle with showers and-scattered thundershowers elsewhere Wednesday High today '45 Panhandle to 65-70 southeast Low tonight 20 Panhandle to 40 southeast old to maintain 6-year-old viewing habits But as every parent knows it has to be a-gportlng proposition that if one child can view the set so can another That children justice Dr Caldwell knows of no visidn program that is toe kids To toe contrary thinks the programs have a jhigh level of entertainment value In her personal recommendations she is not concerned with morals: concerned with health I think she has a point that is as applicable to us oldsters as to the younger set As long as viewing affect your physical and mental health just help yourself cocked hat of course Then in many a home a question of who has the stronger will Sunday afternoon in the East is a tough one for example From noon on its a hassel to see who wins parent or child The thfee major networks have quite a few programs which children enjoy and quite a few which their par- ents favor Unfortunately most of these fall at the same time on different channels the Boss? At such times are raised fun da- mental questions in many a parental mind: What is justice? What is discipline? Is this good or bad for Junior? boss around here anyway? consult toe personal opinion of a pediatrician Dr Eliza Caldwell who herself has four children aged 14 9 6 and 3 The basic ground rule in the Caldwell household and that she recommends for her young patients that there is no viewing after 7 m- "If toe children watch until 15 minutes before says Dr Caldwell "toeyTe all keyed up and they get to sleep for an hour First and second graders usually need close to 12 hours By Tka Wlro Scrrfcm An American housewife Mrs Adlna Jordon ran a 415-yard course in 1:146 at Liberal Kan today to give her country victory and a 4-3 lead in the International Pancake Race against the women of Olney England In Olney England Cicely Sparrow an 18-year-old bank clerk with flying feet won toe intoe British leg of toe Great International Pancake Race today in 1 minute 191 seconds and set off one of toe hottest controversies in flapjack ancient history Crowds surging round the Old Bull Inn snarled up the start and several fancied runners never got away But toe Rev Collins vicar of toe parish church and top a-' J- I 1 S' TT.