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CLOUDY AND COOLER Leading Home Newspaper for 84 Years Volume LXXXV Prict Fivd Centf WICHITA KANSAS FRIDAY MORNING JANUARY 4 1957 Twenty-six Paces Number 4 Defense Official Linked with Army Contract Wife Is Director Of Firm Supplying Military Service WASHINGTON Jan 3 A firm headed by the wife of Assistant Defense Secretary Robert Tripp Ross last November received a $834150 contract from the Army to make men's pants the Defense Department disclosed tonight Ross who is in charge of legis-lative and public affairs in the Defense Department was not available personally for immediate comment on the disclosure No Longer Connected A defense Department spokesman however quoted Ross' as saying that he had not had anything to do with the company for several years The defense spokesman' said that a check of Army procurement records showed that a $834150 contract was awarded on Nov 13 to the firm of Wynn Enterprises Inc a clothing firm of New York City and Knoxville Tcnn President of the firm is -Mrs Claire Wynn Ross wife of the defense official The contract was for producing 249000 pairs of lightweight wind-resistant cotton trousers for men Legal Opinion Delayed WASHINGTON Jan 3 iD The Defense Department was President Eisenhower will appear unable to give an immediate legal before Congress in person at 12:30 opinion on whether the military died Thursday when their one was in the house at Four Californians house in Phoenix Ariz Xo i 1 Unoccupied Home Rainstorm Persons Killed Marine Chief 1 Called to Task On Atom Policy Possible Violation Of Security Involves Mediterranean Force WASHINGTON Jan 3 Marine Commandant Gen Ran- I doplh McC Pate was summoned by Acting Defense Secretary Reuben Robertson Jr today! to explain a published report quoting Pate as saying US Ma-i rines in the Mediterranean have atomic weapons Herschel Schooley Defense i Department director of public information suggested that atomic secrecy regulations may have been violated if Pate was quoted correctly Hie story published in Scrip ps-Howard newspapers today vas based on an interview with Fate by staff writer Jim Lucas 'Tie White House the Pentagon rnd Pate himself refused to conf rm or deny the story Blew Pate looking flustered as he left office after the conference admitted that he had informal with Lucas to give on the preparedness of the Marinei 'may have run out of gas prior to He told reporters: whole! its fatal plunge thing has blown up in my face) These aboard the plane were I am just as embarrassed as I i identified as Mr and Mrs Ray-can jmond Roberts of Costa Mesa Calif and Mr and Mrs- Urban Asked to confirm the story the FOUR DEAD IN PLANE light plane crashed into a the time (AP Photofax) Plane Hits In Phoenix During At Least Four (EST) Saturday to present his plea for special authority to procurements activities of a firm headed by Ross' wife violated the prevent Communist aggression in i conflict-of-interest law governing the Middle East I the outside financial interests of What he wants-and what he government officials One avo-appears likely to get is approval I ciate however expressed doubt of a resolution' authorizing him toh1 tbe law had been violated use American militarv forces if he s'nce rom now has no connection should deem it necessary with or financial interest in the Quick Action Asked An officia Defense Department The administration has been biography of Ross a former Re-pushing lor quick action on the publican congressman from request for- standby authority The Queens County Y- shows that sense of urgency was underlined Ross was formerly vice president by the White House request for a gaif director ard public rrla-joint session at which the Presi-! tions- director of Wynn Enter-dent could present his arguments prises Both Senate and House leaders The Defense Department were agreeable spokesman said Ross terminated Eisenhower and Secretary of his connections with the firm in State Dulles already have talked February 1952 when he was elec-with groups of senators and rep- ted in a special election to fill resentatives Dulles for example has described the situation in the Middle East as highly dangerous and said that Russia well to expand its influence there Russia has accused the United! States of wanting to a power over the area in the wake! of the Israeii-Arab troubles and the British French invasion of Egypt following Egypt's seizure of the Suez Canal The administration's Middle East resolution besides a i standby authority for the President calls for spending 400 million dollars in economic aid WASHINGTON Jan 3 A for motion aimed at changing Lh GOVERNORS Kansas will haye three governors within a 12-day period after Cov Fred Hall center resigned Thursday to take an appointment to the Kansas 'Supreme Court from John McCuish right lieutenant governor elevated to 'goyeVnor by HajlV resignation tenure will be brief however George Docking left will be formally inaugurated governor for the regular term on Jafiyl4 -(UP Telephoto) McCuish Takes Helm of State Capital Speculates About Hall's Future From The Topeka Bureau TOPEKA Jan 3 Gov and Mrs John McCuish will move into the mansion Saturday but stay only until Thursday McCuish will serve as governor only until Jan 14 when at noon George Docking of Lawrence will become the first Democrat governor in 20 years Governor and Mrs Fred Hall had planned to move out early to allow the Dockings to move in ahead of inauguration day Sudden Switch Then came the sudden developments which resulted in Hall resigning Thursday to take ap- pointment by Gov McCuish to the State Supreme Court This upset not only many political applecarts but also the moving arrangements at the mansion This little problem of moving and occupancy was one of the few major developments Thursday afternoon but the big switch in political roles following the resignation of Chief Justice William A Smith was exciting a great deal of speculation Hall was the center of the speculation as he has been during most of his stormy political career in Kansas In a normal course of events Hall will remain on the bench until the 1938 elections when to retain the seat he must contest the election Some of his associates and (Continued on Page 2A) Postal Department May Try to Raise First Class Rates WASHINGTON Jan 3 Hie Post Office which has been trying for years to get Congress to raise postal rates said today it may try to raise the cost of a first class letter to 5 cents this year A spokesman said the jump from 3 cents would be part of a revolutionary plan for substantially improved mail But he said final proposal has yet been and the department is not in position to announce details now miTORt NOTE: The fellewinr dla-patrh tha Capon era ana In the FBI arid It wararalnt TrlmaTha writer Robert Loidrin a ffteran of 3J year a a Fra reporter In Chirac magaalne for newspapermen once aald Loachran I more pnlieemeai and jndfea than the head of the pollen department nritOBERT LOUGHRAN Jan 3 Prohibition! was In its Infancy when Capone came to town to launch reignJof crime and murder seldom Uf I ever equalled in civilized society Jr-As the sinful glnful 208 roared along hulking shadow spread- across an incredible empire built on bootleg booze snd ruled by bullets A loftner bawdy house bouncer he'became one of the most criminals of all history his name synonymous with an era It was in 1920 that Johnny Torrio then overlord of decided he heeded a lieutenant was big money in the recently-outlawed liquor traffic But Torrio' needed a strong right arm to quell competition and keep the speakeasies in line I Torrio a graduate of a band of ymiwr thugs in Brooklyn known the Five Points Gang turned fohis'alma mater for his aide de camp: He picked for the job a 23-yearrsld tough known as Scarface Capone set up shop at gambling joint the Four Deuces way of camouflage he opened -second-hand furniture store next door and distributed neat business cards: Capone Second-hand furniture Army of Thugs Within three years the young from Brooklyn an army pf 700 thugs versed the use pf the sawed-off shot gun and the Profits 'from bootleg beer and liquor poured in Soon' Capone The Forecasts: (dlher Weather Data Page 2B) (MiSnlrM Fereraata by 'the Wichita IV Weather Bareaa) WJCIIITA AREA -n Cloudy iind colder Friday and Friday night- Low Friday morning "near 30 High -Friday In lower 40s LOw Saturday morning in middle 20s KANSAS Scattered light anowl beginning west and north and -occasional light rain with 'possible scattered storms south central and Government Attempts To Appease Citizens VIENNA 'Jan 3 (UP) Radio Budapest indicated tonight that Erno the hated Stalinist who called in Soviet tanks to crush the Hungarian rebellion has been purged from Pres idential Council The Budapest broadcast listed Geroe former head of the Hungarian Communist party as one of three political figures who will longer be of the Council Hungary's top executive body Stalinist Go Others ousted were Stalinist Ersebetfr Andies and Istvan Ko-vacs secretary general of the Budapest Communist party organization and also Stalinist The purge apparently was designed as a' preliminary step in the expected tnOvq to make the leadership of Hungary more palatable to the people Radio Budapest in disclosing the ousters quoted an article published in the new government-controlled afternoon newspaper At the same time reliable sources in Budapest reported there were signs that Hungarian revolutionary fighters still are engaged in scattered skirmishes with Soviet and Communist government troops in outlying mountain areas The sources said bullet-riddled! automobiles and trucks are arriving in Budapest for repair from the Miskolc region where rebels still' are reported holding out The sources said sporadic Marine general said "I confirm deny or discuss anything at Reporters pointed out that this position would have the effect of leaving unchallenged the statement that atomic artillery shells are with the Marines in the Mediterranean To that and all other questions Pate replied: The stQcyjcqusqd cir-immediate flurry within the Defense Department and White House Shortly after the story came to the attention of defense officials Pate was summoned to office The story quoted Pate as saying Marines of the US 6th Fleet have a atomic He explained that this meant they have atomic warheads for heir artillery Not Authorized White House Press Seen tary James Hagerty said tiave no comment on this story other than to say that the President has given no authority for the use of atomic or any other weapons in the Middle East "Any American forces in the Mediterranean are there von routine regional assignment and without reference to any specific nation in the Schooley suggested tnat the atomic energy laws may have been violated Under the law he said say s(bout atomic weapon locations Asked whether state constituted a violation of the Schooley would only say that the law is on thi release of atomic information The location of atomic weal is one of the military's closely held secrets Navy off have stated that their ships in the Mediterranean have an atomic capability But they have left un- qertain whether the atomic weap- ons are aboard the ships Hartman of Anaheim Calif The son was unaccounted for and California authorities believed he may have been aboard the craft However investigators could confirm finding of but four victims Their bodies were badly mangled making identification almost impossible A police lieutenant said bodies are so badly dismembered It difficult to tell how many were aboard the saw the plane flying at about 500 said the Rev Paul Regan it went into a sudden dive and rammed into the house at high speed There was no The accident occurred in a residential section of the eastern part of Phoenix I Airman First 1957 Death On Highway TOPEKA Jan 3 The first highway traffic fatality of 1957 was reported in Kansas today but the state's drivers appeared to be off to a good start after posting the bloodiest toll of all time last year A man identified as Robert Barney Salina was injured fatally in an accident on 40 about five miles west of Abilene today At this time in 1956 there had been 12 traffic fatalities and the 1955 toll was 13 on the same date The 1956 death figure climbed to 680 with the death yesterday of Gary Gillispie 22 Grainfield Kan the State Accident Records jsection said Gillispie was injured in an accident early Dec 30 at the junction of State Highway I i j- £1 a powerful -underworld -There' as Al "By a -Neapolitan in thunder-- southeast Friday Snow continuing 'southwest and northeast and occasional showers southeast Friday-' night1 snow 'ending northwest Friday evening over i state "early Saturday: decreasing cloudiness Saturday colder Fttday "warmer wes Saturday High Friday 30 northwest ito 40s southeast OKLAHOMA Considerable eloudinesa through Saturday A little colder west portions Fri- day Warmer west portion Saturday Occasional light rain Friday ending east portions Friday night Occasional light rain extreme west portion Saturday High Friday 45 northwest to 60 southeast Prospects Not Good the Middle East countries during Senate's rules and placing re- straint on filibusters was intro- Continued on Page 2A) dud today by Srn Anderson iD-NMi The Senate agreed to a showdown vote on the Issue at pm tomorrow Two developments accompanied Anderson's move to clear the way for -a civil rights program legislation which filibustering Southern sen's tors have talked to death in the past Senate Democratic Leader Johnson of Texas promptly offered a motion to table Anderson's pro-- posal A similar parliamentary HAMMOND LA Jan 3 UPJ maneuver four years aco suc-A shoe store manager today ceedpd in lcilline 1953 marched a knife-weldne Penn-att chnt the Th sylvama bandit to jail at the point at hat lm 0-21 of a cap pistol Senate Republican Leader Store Manager Ciro Tantillo of Knowland of California came out Hammond said he entered his aRllirwt th proposed method of shoe store which was tended by ohaninR lhp rul although not his wife to find a young man de- nPCPSSarilv aMIn5t putting a mandmg money and threatening checkrein on filibusters his wife with a knife Tantillo told his wife to turn Continuity Issue the money over to the man later Anderson's motion which he of-identified as Reginald Ayo 25 of fered on behalf of a coalition cf 'Philadelphia Northern and Western senators As Ayo left the store Tantillo was that the Senate take up for spotted his son's top cap pistol in consideration the question of the store He said he grabbed the adopting new rules The group's toy hit Ayo and ordered him to contention is that the Senate put up his hands rules do not necessarily continue The man was marched two from one Congress to another blocks through downtown Ham- but may be changed at thebe-mond to the police station Police ginning of each new Congress b7 i said Ayo was wanted for jumping simple majority vote bond from Kingston NY I But Knowland said: Mrs Ayo who was attending a "I believe not only that the movie in Hammond while he was Senate is a continuous body but in the store is also being held (that it has continuing rules Any other decision would lead to a erv chaotic condition in the ATLANTA Jan 3 Fire Thp GOP leader said a filibuster broke out in the furnace room of can be broken under the Senate's the Holland Furnace Co office present rules you are deter-here late today but was quickly mined to do The present rules extinguished by firemen Branch require the votes of 64 senators manager Kaiser emphasized two-thirds of the entire member-that the faulty furnace was not 'ship to shut off debate and force ione of his products an issue to a vote and US 40 near Grainfield DEMOCRATIC Freshman Sen Frank Lausche saved the scant Democratic majority Thursday in voting with his party on organization of the Senate But Lausche five times governor of Ohio keeps Democratic leaders worried with his sometimes Republican inclinations (AP Photo-fax) iW A yj Of wr On Edge WASHINGTON Jan 3 iUP) Freshman Sen Frank Lausche a question mark Democrat from Ohio came to the aid of his party today when the chips were down for control of the Senate The bushy-haired former governor who had said he might Vote with the Republicans under certain conditions kept his colleagues in suspense until the first organizational test Then he sided with the Democrats assuring them of command It was Lausche's first vote as a legislator and he may never (Continued on Page 2A) fighting is continuing in the regions of Miskolc Pecs and Lake Balaton where the Russian army maintains its Hungarian high command Budapest itself was reported outwardly quiet following flash demonstrations by shoppers largely' women against the $trong-arm: methods of Communist police and militia But tension which eased during the holidays appeared to be rising again Rebellious Hungarian factory managements were reported to be refusing to obey orders from Premier Janos Kadar's government to fire workers idled by the coal shortage Vice President Richard Nixon saying they wanted to enter to present the strongest possible the claim to statehood Ralph Rivers sent a similar letter to Speaker Sam Rayburn D-Tex) and waited at the House entrance The three -men -were last fall to come here to present Alaska's case for statehood' The procedure first was used successfully by Tennessee in 1796 Ft Riley Soldier Killed in 'Accident FT RILEY Jan 3 Ft Riley soldier was killed and another critically injured in a one-car accident today oil an access road to Marshall Field off US 40 Identity of the deceased was withheld pending notification of the next of kin The injured man Specialist Third Class Charles Holmquist 34 suffered a brain injury His home is listed as Cedar Rapids Iowa French Ban Books PARIS Jan 3 The French government has cracked down on the sale of 25 books it considers as giving Paris unwanted noto- rietv Banned were books by Flank Harris and John Clelanf 1 Eagle Highlights Mrs Bess Truman Fractures Ankle In Fall at Home INDEPENDENCE MO Jin 3 (UP Mrs Bess Truman of former President Harry day it was disclosed today Mrs Truman fell on a sta the second floor of the hon was believed at first was a bad sprain Howeveil rays showed a fracture and the ankle was placed in a cast The family physician told relatives it was a Mrs Truman he said wi on It the injury X- be hospitalized for a few Mrs Truman was not taken to the hospital until noon today She fell yesterday afternoon Meanwhile Mr Truman flew to Washington for a meeting of Democratic leaders British Protest Marqaret's Rank In Best-dressed LONDON Jan 3 London newspapers asked indignantly to- day why Princess Margaret dropped from second to ninth place in the annual list of the best-dressed women who do these people think they asked the "Daily about the New York Dress Institute which made up the list pick the the newspaper said printing a picture cf her in full evening dress with tiara and sash of the Order of tha Garter wife Sl Truman fractured her left inkle in a fall at the home here vaster- 5000 Kilowatts First Output Plant Yield Power Wire News Page' Atom Leak Starts Row 1 Plane Crash Kilts Four 1 CHICAGO Jan 3 (UP The 1 announcement culminated exten- and Ls piped directly to a turbine Civilian Atom Plant 1 Argonne National Laboratory an-jsive tests which began in 1954 un-j The need for intermediate heat-Local News nounced tonight that an expert- der the civilian power re- exchangers required in other typ Cooler Forecast 5A mental water had actor program reactors is eliminated Fewer Couples Wed I BA achieved a peak- production of Electricity has been produced Construction on the reactor was School Board to Meet 3 A 5000 kilowatts of electricity gen- by nuclear reactors before a in November and on erated through atomic power spokesman said But the Argonne: Dec scientists working with tho Shocks Host Houston 6B The achievement took place achievement marked the first reactor achieved a point of "criti- Meek Ponders SMU Bid 6Bjlast Saturday at the laboratory's time it has been generated in a which showed that power East Entertains Winfield 7B experimental plant at nearby reactor specifically designed for could be generated Boyer Podres Virdon Sign 7Bmont- 111' and marked a major oroduction of power to light On Dec 23 some power was ac- Sports News Atomic Designed to For Homes and Industry Proves Success Alaska's 'Standby7 Solons Halted at Congress' Doors Also Featured Amusements 4 A Classified Ads 2C-10C generated the spokesman said and on Dec 23 the reactor generated power at its full design rating of 5000 kilowatts WASHINGTON Jan 3 (UP) senators and congressmen were left standing at the doors of Congress today There 'was no indication when they would get in to present the plea for statehood Ernest Gruening and A Egan did not try to crash "the Senate Chamber because J5ergeant-st-arms Joseph A Duke hiid ruled in advance against them- Instead they sent in a letter to REPORTED The London Daily Express Thursday said Gen Sir Charles Keightley commander of the' British-French Invasion of Egypt is being by the British government lie is 55 whereas normal retirement age for a general is (AP Photofax) homes and run industrial chines The laboratory will put the re- actor to work generating part of its own electrical power require ments the spokesman said Hie boiling water unique feature is that live steam is generated in its uranium core step in the production of electri- city for everyday use through nu- clear power Tests Begun in 1954 The laboratory operated by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC said the electricity was produced in one of five boiling water reactors at Lemont The Eagle Serial 18 Editorials 6A Markets 2B Oil News SB Radio-TV Schedules -A Society ---5B The laboratory said its next step will be to use the reactor to study its possibilities for large- scale application to the nation's power needs.