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erHRCHIVE Dixon Evening Telegraph Serving the Heait of Rock River Valley for More Than a Century Number 306 103rd YEAR DIXON, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1954 PRICE SIX CENTS Area Digs Out of 9-Inch Snow NOTES FROM A CITY EDITOR'S Dixon's city council could well adopt a New Year's resolution banning the existing pin-ball machines. This administration's fine and commendable record on "no gambling" thus would be upheld. The pinballs, made legal by the state legislature in its last session, are actually a racket as devastating as the slots. A slight technical difference makes them "legal" in the eyes of the legis- The State Supreme Court ruled recently that pinballs could be banned by municipal governments.

It ruled that in the case of the city of Chicago where pinballs were seized in a raid. Actually, slots and pinball machines, such as exist in Dixon, are not gambling devices. The word gambling connotes that the bettor THE GROSS SPRINGFIELD, 111. The Sangamon County grand jury estimates that the 250 pinball machines in the county gross "at least $350,000 a year." The figures were mentioned In a report Wednesday concluding an investigation into pinball operations. More than 200 witnesses were summoned, but many refused to testify that cash prizes are, paid by the operators to players who make "certain scores," the report said.

The grand jury returned no indictments. ha3 an even shake in the wager that he is making. Gambling, in its true sense, requires skill and moreover, it involves odds that are known and available. In the case of Dixon's pinballs, the odds are rigged in favor of the syndicate or owner of the machine. Thus they are not even worthy of the title "gambling devices." If one cares to so he can make a pretty fair-sized plea for gam bling.

A stock answer in support of gambling is that "life is a ble." But even that regard, one certainly has a reasonable amount of control over his own destiny. But not with the slots and the pinballs. They're stacked against vou solidly. Moreover, they're not good So, without further ado, the city council should quietly tell the pinball owners to pack up their machines and take them elsewhere. The city commissioners, we are sure, will thus continue to merit the confidence of the electorate.

This community has learned that it can live better without so-called gambling rackets. Whether the state legislature has seen fit to legalize the pinballs should be of no concern to our local government officials. The Su preme Court has ruled that city governments can take 'em or leave Our city and county governmental agencies have gained a good record in handling rackets of this nature. To ban the pinball devices would be consistent with that record. C.

J. C. Navy Expects Jet Sub Test March 1 WASHINGTON The Navy -aid today it now expects to have the atomic submarine Nautilus ready for trial runs about March 1. Testing of the world's first nu clear engine submersible, which was launched in January, original ly was scheduled fcr October but an error in installation of steam piping scrapped that plan. A Navy spokesman said today that all of the piping work has oeen corrected and final work or fitting out is now under Initial tests of the giant undersea boat wiU be surface runs.

French Finally Okay West German Army The Snow Came Goes THE SIGHT OF FALLING SNOW is the sign for the city department snow removal crew to swing into action, clearing the streets to reduce the hazards of motoring. The crew went to work shortly after the start of the nine-inch fall that caused motorists many moments during ttie height of tne storm, ihe crew worked through the night and now report all roads open. Dr. Sam Back In Courtroom Judge Hears Arguments For New Murder Trial CLEVELAND Judge Edward Blythin today took under advise ment a motion for a new trial by Dr. Samuel Sheppard, convicted of second degree murder last week in the July 4 bludgeoning of his pregnant wife, Marilyn.

The motion cited 41 errors which defense attorneys said were made during the trial of the handsome, Bay Village osteopath. Another part of the same motion was filed today, a week after the original petition. In the new request, Sheppard's attorneys said they have "newly discovered evidence now known and not available to the defendant at the time of his trial." Another Jan. 8 Judge Blythin said he would hold a separate hearing Jan. 8 on that part of the motion.

The attorneys did not specify what new evidence was discovered. Sheppard has been sentenced to life in prison. Unless the jury verdict is upset, it will be 10 years before he is eligible for parole. Sheppard appeared sleepy but confident as he was led into the courtroom, handcuffed to a deputy sheriff. For the hearing today, Sheppard's attorneys subpoenaed five witnesses.

They were J. Spencer Houk, mayor of Bay Village and a close friend of the Sheppard family; George Dallas, a Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter who was one of the first newsmen to reach the scene of the slaying; and three members of tha jury that convicted Sheppard. Admits Letter One of the jurors, Mrs. Luclla Williams, was asked by Attorney Corrigan whether she had received a letter during the trial. She said she had turned the letter over to a bailiff.

The hearing was recessed briefly while court attaches searched for the letter. Presumably the letter was similar to the crank letters which were received by many of the prospective jurors before the trial' began. Corrigan also asked Mrs. Williams ivhether she ever told a woman friend that "you would fry Sheppard." She emphatically de-rued making any such statement. The other jurors subpoenaed were James C.

Bird, the jury foreman, and Mrs. Louis Feuchter. Pope Improves VATICAN CITY Pope Pius XII continued today to show gradual improvement. The Vatican press office issued no communique but Vatican sources said that he slept and rested well during the night. 'Junk Mail' Deliveries to Be Discontinued in April WASHINGTON day that city and town deliveries after March 31, 1955.

Such deliveries of what the Post Office Department calls "simplified address mail" were established on an experimental basis 15 months ago. The system allowed distribution on selected routes of advertising material addressed simply to "householder," "patron." or "boxholder," without specific street address. The experiment, which had been tried previously by Democratic administration, resulted in numerous protests that the result clogged the postal system. Rep. Murray (D-Tenn), who is sl.ited to become chairman of the House Post Office Committee in die new Congress assembling next week, said recently he had told Summerfield that unless "junk.

mail" deliveries were stopped, his committee would take steps to outlaw it. Sen. Carlson (R-Kan), retiring chairman of the Senate Post Office Committee, only a few days ago issued a public statement calling for discontinuance. The dropping of the simplified addressed mail, which is handled at a third-class rate of l'i cents per piece, applies only to city and village delivery routes. Such mail will still be handled on rural routes and to boxholders at post offices where no city or village delivery service is available.

This type of patron has had the service October, 1934. Assembly Votes Pact 287-260 Communists Shout As Final Vote Is Announced in Paris PARIS The French national assembly tonight reluctantly and narrowly approved West German rearmament. The vote was 287-260. It ratified the treaty establishing a Western European Union as the coalition in which 12 West German divisions will join British, French, Belgian. Dutch, Luxembourg and Italian troops in defense of Europe.

This was the key point of the recent London-Paris accords. Deputies already had approved other portions of the accords. Premier Survives Tonight's vote also kept Premier Pierre Mendes-France in office. He had made adoption of WEU a matter of confidence in his Cabinet. The vote completed action in the Lower House on the various treaties signed here last October.

In effect, it was a vote on the whole network of treaties. Under a "single package" proviso, if WEU had been rejected none of the other accords would have been considered ratified. Tonight's vote reversed an Assembly decision the day before Christmas against WEU. 280-259, when it was not a confidence is- All the reaties now go to the Council of the Republic, or Senate, where debate is tentatively scheduled for February. Can Delay It Under a new constitutional amendment, the Senate can delay final French ratification simply by making slight changes in the ous bills and sending them back to the Assembly.

This could bring final passage close to the mid-may date which Mendes France ha: suggested for a Big Four meeting with Soviet Russia on the Ger- Today in the Assembly the Communists made a last minute attempt to drag out the issue. There was no demonstration anions; deputies vhen the Assembly president read aloud tne result which ended vears agonized de bate and indecision for France and these lawmakers. It was hej.rd in cool silence. Communists Shout When the session recessed, and most deputies filed out. the Com munists remained in their seats for a while, shouting at the depart ing members: "Murderers'.

Assassins! Nazis!" The others ignored them. Deputies were to return later to night to take up two resolutions asking the government to negotiate settlement of the coia war wun Moscow as soon as possible. Body of Dixon GI, Killed in Korea, Arrives The bodv of Pfc. Leo A. Bothe, I.

will arrive at the Chicago Northwestern station at 4:50 a.m. Sunday, an Defense Department telegram reported today. Bothe. son of Mr. and Mrs.

Clar ence Bothe. rural Dixor was killed in a welding accident. Dec. near Seoul, Korea, where he was stationed. The body wi'il be taken immed iately to the family home.

Funeral services will be held at St. James' Church with the Rev. R. H. Hei-denrich.

Woodbine, and the Rev. Arthur Bashund. officiating. Burial will be in DeWolf cemetery. Bothe died of hemorrhages from neck lacerations suffered when a jras barrel or drum apparently ex ploded while he was welding the bottom of it, an earlier telegram stated.

The bodv is scheduled to leave Oakland, at 7 p.m. today. A Snowy Winter Wonderland Question Kewanee Man in Bureau Co. Dual Slaying Few Clues in Murder Of Aged Buda Couple PRINCETON (Special) A Kewanee man being held for questioning is reported to be the last immediate hope of Bureau county authorities for a quick solution to the double shotgun slaying late Tuesday of an elderly Buda couple. without charge for questioning, As sistant State Atty.

Don Bloagett said today. Albert is a bi other of Tom Cade, the hired farmhand who discovered the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Whipple early Wednesday. Blodgett said that Bureau County Coroner Arthur Meyer is conducting an inquest into the twin killing at 2 p.m.

today at Buda. Meyer is reported to have fixed the time of death of Harry, about TO. and Mrs. Whipple, about 64, as between 7 p.m. and midnight Tuesday.

IEA Claims School Aid Inadequate CHICAGO ffl The Illinois Education Assn. said today the amount of school aid proposed by the Illinois School Problems Commission is "inadequate." The declaration came in the form of a resolution adopted in the final session of its convention today. The commission. Wednesday by a 6 to 4 vote recommended a per pupil increase in aid fiom $173 to S181. The per pupil figure is the amount, termed equalization level, guaranteed by the state in case local tax funds don't reach that amount.

The IEA resolution said the teachers regard the proposal of the commission as "inadequate, inequitable and unrealistic." It said the costs of the state school program has "now been as certained to approximate S230 per- pupil per year. The teachers' association said it therefore "appeals to the public, the governor and the legislators for laws improving the present progiam to insure the full finain ing of satisfactory foundation le-els." UPHOLD VERDICT WASHINGTON t.fl-The Court of Military Appeals today upheld the conviction and life imprisonment of Mrs. Dorothy K. Smith for the knife slaying of her husband, Col. Aubrey D.

Smith, in Japan in 1952. The split vols 2-1. Weapon Not Found The Whipples were killed by a 410 gauge shotgun but the has not been found. Two empty shells were found on floor of the small Whipple home, located at the edge of Buda. Mrs.

Whipple was shot in the left temple as she sat in a living rocking chair. Her husband found lying nearby in a pool of blood, shot through the neck. The couple was fully clothed and ere shot from the front and sine lere was no 6ign of a strugglt leriff George M. Hodge reasoned at the Whipples were acquainted ith their assailant. Blodgett said several people ha- been questioned, including Tom Cade and three of his brothers Blodgett said Albeit Cade was picked up on a "tip" but declined to give additional details.

Although no actual motive has been discovered for the slaying, Harry Whipple was known to cany large sums of money with him. Not Wealthy The Whipples were not consid ered well-to-do by local residents. He operated a scrap iron business in Buda and employed 10 or 15 men regularly. Sheriff Hodge said earlier today that he expected either a definite "break" in the case today or he would have to "start all over again." Hodge said that the state mobile crime laboratory arrived from Springfield Wednesday to lend technical assistance to the local authorities. The Whipples had lived in the Buda area for the past 10 years.

Five sons and two daughters also live nearby. They are: Walter, Merle. Harold. Howard, and Dean Whipple: Mrs. Sadie Thompson and Mrs.

Margaret Burgess. Predicts Scientists Will Learn to Ban Air Pollution By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE AP Science Reporter BERKLEY. Calif. tfV-Science will learn how to banish smogs and air pollution, one of the four horsemen which could doom modern cities, a smog researcher predicted today.

But clean air for cities may cost as much as getting good water or good sewage disposal. The prediction came from B. Hitchcock, president and managing director. Southern California Air Pollution Foundation, Los Angeles. He addressed the first svniposium on air pollution held by the American Assn.

for the Advancement of Science. 3.000 Daily Tn the Los Angeles Basin alone, autos. factories, rubbish burning and other operations pour tons of "potentiallv significant pol lutants" into the air daily, he said. That's exclusive of vast tonnages or carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. Some 2,000 tons come from the public, the rest from industry.

Auto exhausts account for moie than 1,000 tons of this; rubbish burning for 500 tons. Air pollution is not simply a matter of coal smoke or other visible things; instead the vast quantities of invisible gaseous pollutants "constitute the major part of the problem today" Polluted air causes smarting eyes, mental depressions, damage to paints and other trou bles whose indirect costs must total hundreds of million of dollars from the nation annually, Hitchcock said. Damage to crops alone in the Lcs Angeles area is estimated at several millions an nually. Gas Is Factor Incomplete burning of gasolire probably cost each American tao-torist $20 a year in wasted fuel. There is conjecture that spoUed .000 I air may play a role in causing lung cancer.

Among steps to be taken, he said. are studies of the health eifects of air pollutants; the chemical re actions that may be caused by sunshine on polluted air; sensitive new methods to detect tiny but bad concentrations of pollut ants: the possibility of creating artificial clouds to break or dissipate tho stagnating air of inversion layers; improved combustion of gasoline and other fuels; plant testing sometning HKe canaries in a to warn of possiblv dangerous concentrations of pollutants; coordination and centralizing all sir pollution findings Xor Benefit of ali Blizzard Worst in Many Years Highway Crews Work All Night to Clear Roads; Colder Dixon and northwestern Illinois du? out of their worst snowfall in years today. Ihe storm began early Wednesday afternoon, reach ed blizzard proportions by mid-atternoon and continued fitfully until almost midnight. The white blanket left in Dixon measuied a thick nine inches and a full city street department crew was kept busy throughout the night hauling away the snow. Most residents awoke this morning to find their streets neatly plowed and passable.

Ashes and salt were distributed in the most hazardous areas. Need Ski Tows Durinp the height of the blizzard, ski tows would have been welcomed by motorists attempting to negotiate the hilly streets. Galena avenue was blocked by stalled cars at times. Some autos were left at curbs, unable to bm moved until the city's snow removal crews could attack the problem. A cold wave from the Artie region rolled into Dixon on the heels of the storm, sending the mercury dipping to nine degrees during the night, a new low for the winter By noon, the temperature had risen to 22 degrees, but weather forecasters were predicting it would fall to the low teens tonight.

Some snow flurries are in prospect for Friday, but they are not expected to add materially to what is already on the ground. All Roads Clear The state highway department district garage here reported that all roads in this area are clear but warned motorists to drive with extreme caution until the remaining film of snow which plows cannot get at, has had a chance to melt and run off the roads. The Chicago Motor club reported all main traffic arteries open this morning but advised speeds of 2030 miles an hour until snow and ice removal operations have been completed. At least five deaths were attributed to the storm in Illinois. Two Chicago men died of heart at tacks, the result of shoveling snow.

At Rockford, Reed Cheney, 52, was stricken while trying to push his car out of a snowdrift. James Bryan, 14, McCarthy Acres, a Peona suburb, was killed when the car in which he was riding, skidded on ice and overturned near Mapleton. Crushed to Death Lcland Kamp, 43, was crushed when his semi-trailer truck jack-knifed and overturned on U. S. 66 ear Joliet.

The snow caused what police as Rockford's worst traffic in its history during the late afternoon rush hour Wednesday. Air traffic was halted at Rockford and city bus service was halted for about two hours. The storm knocked out a trans former which supplied a score of homes in an eastern suburb of Rockford. Winds up to 30 miles an hour rrpped the roof off a press box in Chicago's Soldier Field, whipped large waves over South Lake Shore Drive, forcing its temporary closure, and flooded park areas adjacent to Lake Michigan. Lightning damage to its 750-foot transmitting antenna near Roselle in DuPage county forced Chicago radio station WGN off the air for three brief periods late Wednesday afternoon.

The coldest weather of the winter season appeared in prospect for most of the midwest areas. It was below zero in parts of Montana and the Dakotas. Stormy and cold weather also was the outlook for many other parts of the nation. Sleet, rain (Continued on Page 6) i Weather- Partly cloudy tonight and Friday. A few snow flurries Friday.

Low tonight low teens. High Friday low 30s. Low Friday night around 15. High Wednesday 29 Low today 9 Noon S3 Precipitation to a.m. O.t (nine inche3 snow).

Sunrise 7:24 a.m. Sunset 4:42 p.m..