The Logan Daily News from Logan, Ohio • Page 1

THE WEATHER Partly cloudy and hot. high 92-96 today with scattered thundershowers this afternoon, tonight and Sunday. Low tonight 70-75, not as hot Sunday. he ogan aily ews One Hundred and Twenty-Second Year, No. 172 Solons Propose Sending Soviet Needed Food Suggestion Is Hinged On Idea That Reds Continue 'Friendly' WASHINGTON Russell (D-Ga) and Young (R-ND) said today that if Russia moves to low er the Iron Curtain, as proposal by President Eisenhower, the United States should consider ship- ping the Soviets needed food.

Eisenhower called at the Ge- neva conference yesterday for a lowering of the East West rien against exchange of mation. travel and trade. Ills proposal was endorsed by i ish Prime Minister Eden but there was no immediate official Russian reply. Russell, who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he would continue to oppose shipment of strategic materials to Russia. but added: could send them cotton goods, for instance, and butter and other food products.

It has always been my belief that trade will do a great deal toward promoting international good Young said that the Russian attitude continues as it is and i there is a change for the better in international relations, there is no reason in the world why we should not exchange nonstrategic als with HOWEVER, Sen Capehart (R Ind) said he thinks such trade should come only after the Soviets agree to withdraw from the satellite countries and "not try to spread communism throughout the world." Sen Wiley (R-Wis) said he thinks that if there is a free ex change of ideas between East and West the results "might lead to peace in our Sen. Fulbright (D-Ark) said he thinks the of the Geneva conference is important. Sen. Humphrey (D-Minn) said he approves of the way Eisenhower has been using the conference for a board or forum." and added, should be done at every Russell and Chairman Anderson (l) NM) of the Senate llouse Atomic Energy Committee meanwhile expressed confidence Congress would approve any new legislation that might be needed if Russia agrees to Pres- ideot proposal for a mutual exchange of military blueprints and aerial photography rights. Three key GOP loaders, Sens Knowland (R Calif).

Bridges NH) and MiUikin (R-Colo) withheld any comment on the plan despite reported urgings by admin istration officials. There were indi cations they consider the idea impractical and were angry because they had not been consulted in advance. FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE NEWS SERVICE Logan, Ohio, Saturday, July 23, 1955 EVERYBODY'S MARKET PLACE Read the Daily News Classified Ads Price Five Cents Break In Heat Wave Forecast For Sunday Big 4 In Agreement; Cooler Air Due Final Parley Tonight From Great Lakes Cordell Hull Park 0, Roses Dies At Age 83 Concert Slated He Served As Secretary For LHS Band Of State 111 Years FINALISTS in the contest which was won bv iss Hillevi Rombin of Sweden (second from the left, top row) are shown after eliminations in Long Beach, Calif. Front, from left: Isabel Sarli, Argentina; Nicole de Meyer, Belgium; Emilia Barreto Correa Lima, Brazil; Cuthy Higgles. Canada; Maureen Hingcrt, Ceylon.

Second row: Maribel Arrieta, El Salvador; Margaret Rowe, England; Margit Nunke, Germany; Maria de Rosario Molina, Guatemala; Pastera Pagan Valenzuela, Honduras. Top row: Keiko Tukahashi, Japan; Solveig Borstad, Norway; Hillevi Kombin, Sweden; Carlenc King Johnson, U. Susan Duijm, Venezuela. Swedish Blonde Selected As Most Beautiful Woman LONG BEACH. Calif Of Miss Sweden today is Miss Universe, the most beautiful woman The judges, true to form, picked a short haired blonde, but there was little else they could do blonde, blue-eyed, 21-year- old Hillevi Rombin was just that beautiful.

pert gymnast Her father is an Upsala storekeeper. She also revealed that she will send a cable to First Lieutenant Nils Banker, a flying officer in the Swedish Royal Air Force. are engaged and very much in love," she explained. Asked what she thought of her chances in the movies, Miss Sweden said. think ever be a movie star, but 1 will take my contract as a dramatic But the race was a close one Miss El Salvador, blonde Maribel Arrieta, was only a few points behind.

The other runnersup were, in order. Ceylon, Germany. Japan. For Miss Sweden, one of the PfACC biggest girls in the contest at 130 I I jj pounds, the title means a host of prizes, most important of which is a $250 a-week contract at Universal-International Studios. "This is one girl that 1 think we can really do something with, a top U-I official said The record of Miss Universe win jTheir Probe Of Talbott Student Held In California Death Probe ners in the movies has been rather dismal in the past.

STARTING MONDAY, the new Miss Universe will start work in "The Benny Goodman Story" at U-I. When told of this, she said: "I think wonderful, because always collected his Hillevi is a college graduate and hails from the town of Upsala. I about a drive from Stockholm It is greatest university town and Miss Universe is a representative citizen She speaks five languages. One of the judges disclosed it was her reserved bearing, plus her intelligence, that helped swing the title to her. WASHINGTON Senators 1 met behind closed doors today to decide how far to carry their in vestigation of Secretary of the Air Force outside business interests.

Among items for discussion was Talbott's offer to quit as a special partner in Paul Mulligan and Co. of New York if the senators think such action would help the Air Force. Talbott tyas insisted, however, that his interest does not I conflict with his Air Force duties. The New York Times reported two other closed door meetings dealing with Talbott have already been held at the White House by President Eisenhower's principal political advisers. The Times said it is up to the WASHINGTON UB-Cordell Hull, former Secretary of State whom many hailed as "the father of the United died today.

He was 83 last Oct. 2. Death came at 8 a. m. EST at the U.S.

Naval Hospital in nearby Bethesda. where the elderly statesman had been taken last March 26 after suffering a stroke in his hotel apartment. He had another stroke yesterday. Until his stroke in March, and aside from periods of critical ill- i ness in recent years, Hull had steadily maintained an interest in national affairs. As the original sponsor of the reciprocal trade program, going back to his days in the Senate.

Hull had been especially interested in U. S. trade policy and had closely followed the ups and downs in Congress of pending legislation to carry on the trade program. Hull, as Secretary of State in three administrations of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, held the post longer than any oth- er man in the nation's from March, 1933 to November, i 1944.

ILLNESS FORCED his retirement in the grim days of World War II. which he had labored to avert, then labored to use as a springboard for establishing an enduring world peace. He waa awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1945 in tribute to his efforts to develop a world wide, effective plan to banish war from the These efforts led to creation bf the United Nations. Born in a log cabin in Tennessee. Hull's whole adult life was spent in public service.

He was in Congress for 24 years (22 in the House and two in the Senate) before he became Secretary of State Prior to his election to Congress he was a state legislator and later a judge in Tennessee. As a member of Congress, Hull specialized in tariff and economic interest reflected in his efforts as secretary of state to promote world trade. Armand llouk, city director of instrumental music, announced today that the Logan High School band has accepted an invitation to present a concert at the Columbus Park of Roses on Sunday, Aug. 14. at 7 p.m.

Last August the LHS band received high praise for the concert it presented at Park of Roses. Mr. Hi uk said the first week of band rehearsals and instructions has been completed. The program will last through the summer months, and except for a class for grade school pupils who have not completed their first instruction book, instruction is given three days weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The schedule for those three days follows: Junior band, 9 a.m.

to 10 a.m.; senior band, 10 a.m. to noon; grade school band. 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Grade school youngsters who have not completed the first instruction book meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Ail classes are held in the Logan High School band room. GENEVA The Big Four leaders have agreed on all points before them and will wind up their meeting tonight. This was announced this evening, on behalf of all four summit leaders by James C.

Hagerty, a member of the U. delegation. The announcement came after a day of efforts to break a stubborn deadlock so the conference could wind up on schedule. The four leaders came out of their afternoon session at 5 p. m.

Hagerty, who is President press secretary, announc- 50 minutes, ed the agreement and said the leaders would meet at 6:30 p. m. to close the six-day conference formally. There was no immediate word as to the nature of their agreements. unification security disagreement They referred the issue back to their chiefs at this morning's meeting.

Although there was no official word that Eisenhower and Zhukov discussed the military proposal, observers noted that this subject fell within the jurisdiction of the Soviet defense minister and that it was he who requested the meeting. Up until this morning, the Russians had given no reply to Eisenhower. The two leaders talked for Informed sources said the West was proposing that the German and security questions be taken up together as interrelated subjects, at the foreign meeting set for October. State Patrol Probing Lima Guard's Death For those who like statistics, her vital measurements are 36 inches in the bust and hips, and 23 in the waist. She is an athletic type and ex BERKELEY.

Calif. UP Burton W. Abbott has been formally charged in the kidnap-slaying of 14-year-old Stephanie Bryan authorities said today there are still many loose ends in this In a brief preliminary hearing Cops Find It Easy yesterday, Municipal Judge Louis I LI Hardie continued the arraign- rtOulCtTI J. ment of the tuberculosis-plagued i accounting student to July 29. Abbott has denied from the out set that he knew anything about the disappearance of the high school girl last April 28.

Now. under instructions from his lawyer, he has stopped talking. He was arrested Wednesday i night after the decomposed body was found near the Abbott family's cabin in Trinity County 200 miles north of Berkeley. Alameda County Prosecuting Atty. J.

Frank Coakley, who filed a murder complaint against Ab bott declared "We have ample evidence that Abbott killed Stephanie Bryan The complaint was signed by father. Coakley said he was not yet pre pared to say how she was killed, 1 know she was killed by a blow to the back of her head by a heavy Instrument, and satisfied that Abbott is the man who killed LIMA M. G. Basilius of the state highway patrol pursued his investigation today into the fatal choking of a Lima State Hos- President to decide whether Tal- pital guard, Glenn Farmer, 62 bott can remain in his post but Prosecutor Anthony J. Bowers said his advisers hope to have a rec no legal steps would be taken in Goats Cavort Atop Gasoline Storage Tanks LOUISVILLE, Ky.

LP Goats cavorting on top of 40 feet-high gasoline storage tanks! what see at an in dustrial tract along the Ot)io River all because Henry Kennedy made a bargain with his boss. Kennedy, Conoco warehouseman for nine years, used to be a i farmer. So, naturally enough, he wanted to buy some goats, but his wife objected. doctor was willing to sell a billy goat, a nanny, and her two freshly-born kids to he explained, adding: struck a bar gain with my boss to keep my goats in their storage enclosures near the river if the goats would keep the weeds Last year the company had to hire a man full time to cut the weeds, Kennedy said. Now, the goats do the job.

The adaptable goats were not abashed by their surroundings, shadowed by the tall tanks Steel fences enclosing the storage areas formed ideal compounds, and soon the circular stairways on the sides of the tanks became runway-- to the top for the daring goats. New Budget OKd CINCINNATI University of Cincinnati will operate on a 89,683,000 budget for the acadgpiic year 1955 56 It exceeds the current budget by $600,000. DALLAS fu-A large number of police and highway patrolmen descended on the muddy Trinity River bottoms yesterday to hunt two men who had robbed Charlie Jones, 78, of $7. One highway car got stuck in the mud. Other of fleers floundered about in the brushy wetness to no avail.

Bloodhounds were called in but, apparently because the posse was getting too big and making too many tracks of its own, follow the scent. Someone suggested it might he better to give Charlie Jones 87 and forget the whole thing. That's what they did. Ohio Businessman OKd For Position WASHINGTON nomination of Reuben Buck Robertson an Ohio businessman, to become deputy secretary of defense waa approved last night by the Senate. President Eisenhower named Robertson to succeed Robert Anderson, ommendation ready for the President wtoen he returns from Geneva The Senate Investigations sub committee's inquiry erupted into a bitter, public row yesterday which its members may thresh out in this closed door session.

One of them, Sen Mundt (R- SD), contended that the subcommittee has "become a factory and a smear with Talbott its victim. He said of the subcommittee secrets dragged Mr. Talbott's name in public, and yet no one has yet made a charge against him." Water Speed Mark Set At 202 Mph. the case until the inquiry is completed. After questioning five inmates held in connection with the killing Thursday, Basilius said yesterday that apparently only three of the five actually participated in the killing, although all were involved in an attempted escape and were present when Farmer was choked to death.

Bowers said James Baus, 17, ad mitted twisting a of cloth" around ttfe guard's neck. The cloth was a piece of towel ing which Basilius said Baus Thomas Womack and Leo Sersieh used in an attempt to gag Farmer The patrolman said questioning disclosed that the other two inmates, Clarence Jones and Carl Starr, stood by while the three made efforts to subdue Farmer preparatory to staging the planned break from a dining room window Basilius said another inmate saw the struggle and called two kitchen employes who intervened. 12-Year-Old Boy On Probation For Molesting Child The heads of the four governments met for almost two hours after President Eisenhower and Soviet Defense Minister Georgi Zhukov had had a private talk, possibly on the proposal for an exchange of military blueprints between the United States and Russia. The conference itself was trying to iron out differences over arrangements for future talks on key problems. The deadlock marred the final hours of the talks and left uncertain both the outeome and the closing time.

The leaders went back into session in the hope of concluding the conference before nightfall. Soviet Premier Bulganin and British Prime Minister Eden had a long talk last night, seeking a solution to the dispute over whether German reunification or a European security system would be the primary goal of the foreign conference proposed for this fall. THE RUSSIAN and Western foreign ministers worked late last night but were unable to settle the Wilmington Judge Soys Slayer Insane WILMINGTON if Judge Charles R. Kirk of common pleas court ruled a 37-year-old mother was not accountable for shooting to death two of her four daughters. He held yesterday that Mrs.

Thelman Bentley Watson was innocent "by reason of insanity." The girls. Barbara. 13, and Rita Mae, 9. were shot while they slept last July 29. Only two witnesses appeared at the half-hour trial.

Dr. R. E. Bushong. Superintendent of Lima State Hospital, and Dr.

Foster J. Boyd Jr. Wilmington physician, both testified that she was mentally irresponsible at the time of the shooting. The British delegation was reported to be slightly more hopeful of an agreement after talk with Bulganin. Earlier, the British press spokesman, Sir George Young, said the deadlock threw the October conference in doubt.

Mother OKs Police Killing Of Her Son DAYTON mother of a 19-year-old youth killed by a policeman last night said the officer "was within his Mrs. Vera Connors, 37. mother of Arthur Dawson Roberts 19, witnessed the shooting of her son by Patrolman C. B. Killean after she had called police with the message going to kill She referred to herself and the stepfather, Ronald Connors, 42, at whose home the tragedy occurred.

Mrs. Connors told Detective Lt. R. C. Grundish the boy was visit- ing and asked for a bottle of liquor.

Grundish quoted the mother, as saying she refused and the 1 youth left the and returned with a gun She told police he terrorized and threatened both the Connors and she then called police. They arrived to find Roberts pointing the gun at the stepfather. When the boy reportedly refused to drop the gun when ordered. Killean fired once Roberts was dead on arrival at a hospital. Police said Mrs.

Connors made the following statement in behalf of Killean: officer was within his rights. The boy was in the wrong 1 realize that. The officer told him to put the gun down, and he raised the gun to shoot the officer, and if he had, no telling what would have Rest Of Swelter Belt Likely To Stay Hot By The Associated Press The sun-baked Midwest, after a long spell of hot and humid weather, looked for a little relief today but there was no promise of immediate cooling in other sections of the swelter belt. Cooler and less humid air which extended over Minnesota and the Northern Great region moved slowly southward. Weather forecasters expect the cool front to reach the Ohio River Valley tomorrow morning.

Fair and pleasant weather for most of the Midwest was the outlook for tomorrow. But the hottest weather appeared in prospect for most of the eastern third of the nation as well as most of the south. Temperatures climbed to season highs in many part of the northeast yesterday hitting a sizzling 114 at South Wales, N. Y. a hamlet near Buffalo.

It was 102 in Plainfield, N. 101 in Poughkeepsie, N. and New York City reported readings ranging up to 100 and higher. PHILADELPHIA also baked with a top of 100, equaling the record for July 22, while Washington felt just as hot with a high of 98. Temperatures were 90-plus in most of the country yesterday except in the Northern Plains region, northeast New England and the Pacific coast.

It was 98 early today in Blythe, in the desert region, but in most of the country readings were in the 70s. However, they were in the 50s and 60s in the west coast and in the 60s in a narrow belt from the northern Rockies eastward to the northern Great Lakes region. It was about the same in the central and southern Rockies. ULLSWATER, England UB-Don- ald Campbell broke the water speed record today, setting a mark of 202.82 miles an hour. The 34 year old speed king raced his turbojet Bluebird over the water Lake to break the old record of 178 4 miles an hour set by American Stanley Sayres three LI- CU a 4 mi ah years ago.

Campbell, son of the HC jnOt rClfner late auto and boat speedracer Sir Malcolm Campbell, set the new mark before a small crowd that only got a glimpse of his Bluebird in the spray. A Ward Twp boy, 12, was placed on probation in Juvenile Court this morning by Judge Rhea Bangert Brown, at a hearing on a charge of attempting to molest a nine-year- old girl of the township The youth, who admitted his guilt, was ordered to report weekly to Ralph Blum, Juvenile Court officer. Charges were filed a week ago against the youth. The molesting attempt took place July 14. The girl got away unharmed and fled to her residence Charges were filed by the parents.

Mon Discovers He Searches For Self Sizzling Debate In Offing I On Size Of Foreign Aid Bill Youth, 15, Claims I RONTON Dr. Harry Nenni of Inonton today was to investigate a 15-year-old story that he shot and killed his father because the older man fired a pistol at the mother. Lawrence County police said a blast from a 12-gauge shotgun kill ASHTABULA Ashtabula has ed Joe Hall, 37, of Btackfork Dep installed 21 meters which give mo- uty sheriffs quoted Hall's son New- Special Meters Set torists 10 hours of parking for a quarter. Police Chief Leo Kane said the meters are for people who work downtown. ton as saying he fired only one shot.

The officers said they found body sprawled on the kitchen floor of his home, LIBERTY. Ind A visitor at nearby Whitewater State Park Lake had been in and out of the lake all afternoon while his wife basked on the beach. Suddenly the wife missed her husband. An alarm spread. Lifeguards began diving.

Other swimmers and park officials formed a human chain in the water as they joined in the search. As the chain inched its way up the beach someone asked for the name of the victim When the full name was repeated, a helper in the middle of the chain looked up with a startled expression and Uhouted, "Why, that ASHINGTON A sizzling Senate-House conference on foreign aid was in prospect today after the Senate restored practically all the House cuts in President Eisenhower's bill. The Senate stayed in session more than 12 hours to pass the i $3,205,841,750 measure yesterday, giving the President one of his important victories of the 1955 session. The final passage vote was 62-22. The senators voted to restore; $567,100,000 of the slashes made by i the House in the bill, granting senhower all but 160,800,000 of the suns he requested for U.

S. friends throughout the world. Defeated in the long debate were six separate attempts to make sharp cuts in the bill. All these votes cut across party lines but, reversing the traditional party sessions The usual practice has been to split the difference between amounts voted by the two branches. But no such simple solution is expected this year.

House mem bers who are handling the bill on that side have been blazing mail about what they consider a double-cross by administration foreign aid officials. These members charge that the officials broke an agreement by rushing to obligate many hundred millions of uncommitted aid funds on the last day of the 1955 fiscal year, June 30. Some of the House managers insist they will not grant a penny of increase beyond what their branch originally voted $2,638,741,750. This compares with request of $3,266,641,750. Showers brought temporary relief to many areas.

Rain was reported during the night over most of the country except the northern and middle Atlantic coast states, parts of the Northern Plains, the Upper Mississippi Valley and along the West coast. Skies were cloudy from the lower Great Lakes region southwestward through Kansas and southern New Mexico, in the Northern Rockies and Northern Plains. Early morning reports: New York 84 and clear; Chicago 74 and partly cloudy; Denver 71 and cloudy; Salt Lake City 78 and cloudy; San Francisco 52 and clear; Los Angeles 61 and cloudy; South Bend, 77 and showers. The county continued to swelter in severe heat today, following a sizzling Friday that saw the temperature reach 97 degrees, second highest temperature recorded here this year. The mercury read 89 degrees at a.m.

today, and was expected to go well into the 90s despite the chance of scattered thundershowers this afternoon. The 97 degree mark reached at 3:30 p.m. yesterday fell short of the 100 recorded for the county on July 4, hut most citizens agreed it was hot enough. The temperature dipped to 65 last night. Showers also were predicted for tonight and Sunday.

Tomorrow is expected to be cooler. City Stretches Self To Benefit Cop AUSTIN. Tex. Officer R. Wallace had his new house in the suburbs about half built when he learned that city employes cannot live outside the city.

new house was more than a mile beyond limits. He asked city council for help. This week the council stretched its annexing arm out one side of Munchaca road more than a mile, circled Wallace's lot, then returned down the other side of Manchaca Road. Now house is "in The Geneva summit meeting roles on foreign aid more Repub- figured two ways in the Senate de- cj(y licans than Democrats backed the bate on the bill, Some senators supporting the ad- ministration position argued UCItlS MCfit President on the key tests. THE CONFERENCE on the bill probably will be held next week.

Sen. Hayden (P-Ariz), floor manager for the bill in his branch said re going to stand pat on exactly what the Senate mg should be done to embarrass the President hile he was at the COLUMBUS The (Milo crucial conference. League of Young Democratic Others opposed the cuts with the Clubs meets here today for a one- argument that the smiles and day conference. The mayors of a friendly words of Russian leaders number of Ohio cities are sched- Foreign aid money hills always! should not lead this country to let uled to discuss the role of youth come at the end of congressional down for a moment. Im politics..