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6 atori Society Oklahoma City 5, Okla. Comp BRITAIN PLANS MAJOR CABINET SHAKEUP FUEL MINISTER'S OUSTED, LONDON STAR DECLARES Emanuel Shinwell, Target of Severe Criticism, Out; Attlee Sees King By GLENN WILLIAMS LONDON, Oct. 7 UP) The London Star reported late today that Prime Minister Attlee had removed Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell, the chairman of the Labor party, from his cabinet in a large scale governmental shakeup. Shinwell will become war minIster, a job which does not carry cabinet rank and puts him under the immediate supervision of the defense minister, the Star said. Attlee saw King George VI this morning, apparently to go through with the formality of receiving the sovereign's assent to changes in the cabinet.

"The transfer of Mr. Shinwell is likely to be regarded as triumph for the moderate elements in the cabinet," said the Star, a liberal newspaper. Shinwell had left' wing support in Labor ranks and from Arthur Horner, Communist general secretary of the mine workers union, who called in a recent speech for Attlee to leave Shinwell in the position of fuel minister. He has been a storm center of the cabinet particularly during recurring crises in Britain's nationalized coal mines. Secrecy was maintained around the long rumored changes in portfolios and no official confirmation of the Star's report could be obtained immediately.

The Conservative Evening News said Shinwell's dismissal from the cabinet was "a near certainty." The Star's political correspondent also suggested that Shinwell's deputy in the fuel ministry, youthful Hugh Gaitskell, might be movedeither into Shinwell's position or some higher job. The Star described Gaitskell as "one of the successes among junior ministers." Attlee, whose leadership has been attacked by both the left and 1 right, drove to Buckingham palace shortly before noon to ask the king's approval--a formality -for changes expected to affect several senior as well as junior ministers. A government informant said the shake up would be announced in Wednesday morning newspapers. Newspapers of different political complexions had said that Attlee wanted to replace Shinwell, who was blamed by political opponents for last winter's fuel crisis. The report brought public (Continued on Page Two) Senator Thomas Against Slicing At Farm Prices WASHINGTON, Oct.

7- (P) Senator Elmer Thomas (D-Okla.) today expressed opposition to any efforts to drive down farm prices without similar decreases for industrial products. "Secretary Anderson recently was quoted as saying he was happy about prices going down," Thomas, ranking Democratic member of the Senate agriculture committee told a reporter. The senator said that when the agriculture committee makes tour soon to discuss a long range farm program with producers, he will question farmers about their views and "I don't think they will agree that their prices should go down and industrial prices stay up." Farm income has, not increased as much as income other classes, he added. Discussing President Truman's food conservation program, Thomas said he is "100 percent behind it." "I think it is all right and I am glad it is voluntary." He asserted. "People will appreciate it that way instead of having it done through force." Non-Traffic Deaths Are Totaled at 36 STILLWATER, Oct.

7 (P) Thirty-six Oklahomans lost their lives in non-traffic accidents in the last 30 days, says De Witt Hunt, Oklahoma A. and M. college safety specialist. Hunt listed the causes today as follows: Drowned 8, falls 8, gunshot 3, electrocuted 3, explosion of dud shells 3 (children), airplane crash 2, burns 2, lightning 2, accidental poisoning 2, strangulation 1, sunstroke 1, train accident 1. THE WEATHER OKLAHOMA Showers in west and central tonight.

Wednesday cloudy, showers, slightly cooler in west. MISSOURI Wednesday partly cloudy, occasional light showers west, slightly cooler northwest and extreme north. KANSAS Wednesday cloudy, showers, cooler west and north. MIAMI DAILY NEWS-RECORD VOL. XLV, No.

85 Fablbbed by Every Miami Evening News-Record (Except Saturday) Pablishing and Cow Sunday Ine. MIAMI, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1947 4. Bireet and First Avenue N. E. PRICE FIVE CENTS Office Publication Americans Given The Green Light On Turkey Legs WASHINGTON, Oct.

7-UP -Americans won't be asked to forego turkey on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's although these holidays fall on eggless and poultryless Thursdays under the food conservation program. President Truman's food yesterday modified the program to exclude the three holidays. It asked, however, that the nation give up those foods on the Mondays before the holidays. LIGHT RAINS IN PART OF STATE Western Oklahoma Benefits From Scattered Showers; More on Way? (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Rain fell in western Oklahoma today and the forecast indicated more would fall on Oklahoma soil parched by drouth. The rain was light and scattered.

Lawton reported .23 of an inch, Chickasha had .18 of an inch, El Reno .16, Elk City. 11, Waurika .05, Altus .04, Guthrie .03, Frederick .02 and Oklahoma City. 09. Gage and Pauls Valley had a trace. In several cities rain continued after the 7 a.

m. report to the Oklahoma City weather bureau. The deadline for planting wheat as pasture for livestock generally is Oct. 15 in Oklahoma. Many farmers have held off planting because of the dry soil.

State temperatures were not as high Monday as on Sunday. Waurika's 95 was the maximum. Arrests in Kansas May Have Smashed Burglary Combine TOPEKA, Kas, Oct. 7- Attorney General Edward F. Arn announced today that 10 persons, variously charged with robbery, burglary, larceny, forgery, and receiving 1 stolen property, had been arrested 1 late last night in the vicinity of Coffeyville by state and county officers in that area.

Arn said he believed the rests had broken a robbery and burglary ring that had been operating in southeastern Kansas during the past nine months. The attorney general also said he believed Coffeyville, home of seven of those arrested, was the headquarters of the robbery gang. Paul Beard, Coffeyville, arrested at Eureka, last night, and charged in Greenwood county with burglary, grand larceny and receiving stolen property, was described by Arn as being the leader of the Arn said the arrest of group. Beard, who, he said, was an exconvict, climaxed a threeinvestigation by officers of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. Others arrested by FBI agents in cooperation with Greenwood and Montgomery county officers were identified by Arn as: Ralph Jarrett, ex-convict of Sallisaw, charged in Montgomery county with robbery, War Dog Gridder Seized by Mumps The Miami War Dogs were dealt "jawing" blow this morning when Richard Hudson, regular starting fullback, was sent home from school with a "light" case of the mumps.

Hudson, a junior, was scheduled to have started in Friday night's game with the Columbus, eleven at Columbus. He participated with the team in Monday's practice at College field. Coach George McCoy said today that the team would continue the daily practices, although most of the members of the team have been exposed to the mumps by Hudson. Hudson probably will be back in uniform sometime next week. TURNER IN HARRISBURG Gov.

Roy J. Turner of Oklahoma, here to inspect Pennsylvania's turnpike, planned a meeting today with Gov. James H. Duff to discuss details of the highways construction. The Oklahoma governor said last night, shortly after his arrival here," I was very much impressed with the turnpike and am more anxious than ever to get work started on one that we plan in Oklahoma." He was accompanied by members of the newly created Oklahoma Turnpike authority.

HARRISBURG, Oct. 7- (P) Two Bottles for Two-Headed Calf Steve Lute simultaneously feed the two heads of a 6-day-old Hereford heifer born on Farmer and Mrs. their farm near Blackwell, Okla. The calf has two distinct heads, four eyes (the veterinarian center are two glazed), only two ears and has one larnyx which is attached to its right face. A (NEA gives a Telephoto) good her chance to live and says she is normal in all other ways.

Beef and Pork Saving Plan Gets Little Attention Here President Truman's tarians of the nation's cess in some sections of saving plan had littleThe voluntary rationing tors, which is intended poultryless Thursdays plan to make once-a-week vegepopulace may have met with suethe nation, but in Miami the meat-if any- effect. sought by federal administrato create meatless Tuesdays and and thereby hike the food supply Little Girl May Play on Stardy Legs in Future SPRINGFIELD, Oct. 7 Bright-eyed and courageous little Patty Becker, who has hopped on one leg' through most of her seven years of life, was ready and anxious today for an operation that will make her like her chums except for an artificial leg. Shriners hospital surgeons plan to amputate the smiling child's right leg withered since birth possibly late this week, and then fit Patty to an artificial limb. Her left leg is normal.

Her blond pig-tails bobbing jauntily, pretty Patty hopped up the front steps of the hospital yesterday, and amazed seasoned nurses by carrying her own baggage containing a few playthings she might require during a period of observation. Her mother, Mrs. Alva Becker of Schnectady, N. wife of a General Electric company machinist, explained Patty never used a crutch or cane and does almost as well as other children in getting around in spite of her deformity. The tot was placed, unafraid, in a nice white ward room last night with other children and informed them she was "all ready for the operation." To hospital attaches she said there is only one thing she wants when she goes to the operating room, and that is to "bring my doll with me "then I won't be afraid." Hanns Eisler and Wife Out on Bail LOS ANGELES, Oct.

7 -(P)- Composer Hanns Eisler and his wife were at liberty on bond today after surrendering to immigration service officials on warrants calling for deportation proceedings. Bail of $1,000 for Eisler, 54, and $500 for his pert wife, Louise, was deposited for their release pending a hearing. The date will be set later, said W. A. Carmichael, district immigration service head.

Warrants issued in Washington allege that the Eislers obtained visas to enter this country by misrepresentation and that Eisler swore he was not a member of the Communist party. At a recent House un-American affairs committee hearing, the musician acknowledged he once had been a party member in Germany. BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Oct. 7-4P- The National Labor Relations board ruled today 4 to 1 that top AFL and CIO officers are not required by the Taft-Hartley law to sign non Communist affidavits. GRAIN MARKETS HEED TRUMAN: HIKE MARGINS Major Trading Centers Double Payment on Future Deals; Cafes Slash Menus WASHINGTON, Oct.

7-UP-A hike in margins on the nation's big grain exchanges on the insistence of the government today ushered in the first of President Truman's "meatless Tuesdays" to save food for Europe, 5 The markets at. Chicago, Kansas City and Minneapolis doubled the cash down payment on deals for future delivery, as demanded by the President to curb what he called "gamblers in grain." As the President's "waste less" food program, moved out of the planning stage and into operation there, were these developments: 1. The National Restaurant association pledged its members to serve no meat on Tuesdays and no poultry on Thursdays. 2. Representatives of the distilling industry gathered for a meeting here tomorrow to discuss the President's request for a 60-day shutdown.

3. The Agriculture department, seeking to head off "meat famine" a year from now, talked of asking farmers to plan for maximum hog production and gamble that big crops next season will relieve the feed grain shortage. 4. The United Nations food and agriculture organization predicted that more people will die of hunger next year than were killed in Is any year of the war, and that present shortages will continue beyond the 1948 harvests. 5.

The Agriculture department disclosed it stepped up wheat pur-1 advisory chases for export to 23,963,674 bushels last week compared with bushels the week before. The big grain market's, which have contended all along that grain exports and not speculation caused high prices, fixed their new margins at 33 percent. Drive Started to Stall Meat Famine WASHINGTON, Oct. 7- (P) The Agriculture department is working on ways to keep the present grain emergency from creating a "meat famine" late next year and in 1949. The plan as tentatively drawn calls upon farmers to produce large numbers of pigs next year on the gamble that bounteous crops will (Continued on Page Two) Zinc, Lead Output Off in '46 from Figures for '45 WASHINGTON, Oct.

7- (P) Lead, zinc, copper and silver mining in the central states all fell off last year from 1945, the bureau of mines reported today. The central states, as defined by the bureau, include Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. The total 1946 value of mineral products in the eight $83,368,416 -was sligtly greater than the 1945 value of $81,643,729, bureau said. This was due to generally higher prices, as production decreases ranged from one percent for zine, to 18 percent for lead and 30 for copper. Silver was down from 800 ounces to 71,700.

The value of production of the various minerals by states as given by the bureau included: Arkansas-Lead $436; zine 730; total $21,176. Kansas Lead zinc total $13,044,542. Missouri- -Silver copper lead zinc total $36,409,256. Oklahoma--Lead zine total $19,956,634. The bureau said that most of the copper, lead and zinc mines operated under the premium, price plan throughout 1946.

During the year, premiums represented 54 percent of the total price paid for zinc concentrates, 25 percent for lead concentrates and 32 percent for the mine output of copper. Baby Girl Drowns In a Water Can NINNEKAH, Oct. 7- -(P) -A baby girl drowned in a fivegallon water can yesterday. The child was Linda Lou Duncan, one-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Harmon Duncan. Linda wandered out on the back porch and tumbled into the can, which was partly filled with water. Robot Plane Returning to Base in U. S. LYNEHAM, Oct.

7-UPGuided only by the "mechanical brain" which piloted it to a safe landing in England two weeks ago, Skymaster plane of the U. S. Army airforce droned its way westward across the Atlantic today on the return leg of a historymaking flight. The robot plane, which took off from the Royal airforce field here at 6:05 a. gmt (1:05 a.

m. est), was expected to arrive at Stephenville, Newfoundland, at about 4 or 5 p. m. eastern standard time if the' weather remains good. Aboard the craft were Col.

James M. Gillespie and a crew of 10, but he declared that-unless something went no hutman hands would touch the -controls until the automatic pilot brings the ship in for al landing at Stephenville. Enroute to Newfoundland, the big Skymaster is expected to make contact with a U. S. "marker" ship stationed in mid-Atlantic to give it a position check.

The experimental plane, loaded with 3,500 gallons of gasoline, made a perfect takeoff for the (Continued on Page Two). COUNTY STEER WINS IN SHOW Robert Brown's AberdeenAngus Entry Judged Grand Champion at Joplin JOPLIN, Oct. 7-(Special) -An Aberdeen-Angus steer, entered in the 13th annual Joplin Junior Beef show by Robert Elliott Brown, a 4-H club youth from Miami Route 2, was judged grand champion of the district event this morning. The winning animal, topping a field of 130 4-H and FFA calves, BULLETIN JOPLIN, Oct. 7-(Special) -Robert Elliott Brown's grand champion Aberdeen- steer went for 65 cents per pound here this afternoon, enriching the Miami farm youth by an estimated $580.

Top bidder was a representative of district Safeway stores. The reserve champion animal, owned by a McCune, 4-H club youth, brought 48 cents per pound at the auction. was Brown's first entry in petition here. His steer had previously won first place in the Angus division last month at the Ottawa County Free fair. Ottawa county farm youths also had the best group of five steers in 4-H club competition here.

This group of ranking animals and their owners were Brown's grand champion, and the second-place Angus, owned by F. A. Dry; third-place Angus, owned by Reva Ann MeFerron; second-place Sally Lou McFerron; and fifth-1 place Angus, Kenneth Boyd. Gaston Franks, Ottawa county farm agent, said all 17 entries made by his charges placed well up in the final judging, which was conducted by Dr. D.

Weber, head of the Kansas State college animal husbandry department. In the Angus division, the Oklahoma youths claimed six of the 10 top awards, and rated high in two other divisions. Besides the grand champion and four other winners in the group of five, an incomplete prize list shows: H. K. Matthews, eighth Angus; Tommy Brown, ninth Angus; Frances Boyd, fifth Hereford; (Continued on Page Two) Newspapers Asked To Remind Nation Of Food Program WASHINGTON, Oct.

7-4P- Chairman Charles Luckman of the citizens' food committee asked news services last night to distribute the following statement: "To the editors of the nation's newspapers: "The tremendous support our nation's newspapers are already giving to the citizens food committee program is greatly appreciated. Starting tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 7, and every Tuesday following will you feature on your front page 'No meat On every Thursday will you feature 'No eggs or poultry Every measure of support to this voluntary program in whatever way you deem most effective will be welcome." AMERICAN FARM FAMILY PLIGHT CLAIM FLAYED Solon Says Agricultural Setup Lied in Describing Rural Area Conditions RENT ADVISORS MEET IN MIAMI New 10-Man County Board Is Organized Here- -Malone To Be Chairman A new. Ottawa county rent advisory board, selected by Gov, Roy J. Turner and appointed by the tional housing expediter in Washington, held its initial meeting in atiami this morning with Ben Humphreys, director-attorney for this area.

Members of the 10-man board, which is provided under the housing act. passed by the last Congress, are Orien Worley, Wayne Anderson, Dr. E. P. Malone, Harry Abramson, D.

Ogden, Charles C. Chesnut, Henry Garwood, Roy Green, H. A. Berkey and Ellsworth (Bud) Botts. In their meeting this morning in the local rent control office at the Security Bank and Trust Co.

building, the advisory group selected Dr. Malone to serve as chairman and named Chesnut as secretary. The board will meet on the first Tuesday of each month to settle rental submitted to them by Director. Humphreys, who is to remain in direct contact with district tenants and property owners. The rent director, serving Ottawa county and Crawford and Cherokee counties in Kansas, opens his Security building office, Room 205, each Tuesday and Thursday.

During the remainder of the week he is in the Pittsburg, rent control headquarters. Joe Booth Choice Of VFW To Serve On Baseball Club County Commissioner Joe Booth carried the recommendation today of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post to become a sixth member of the board of directors for Miami Baseball Club, Inc. Booth would succeed Emmett Utter, who has served on the board for two seasons. Seating of three new directors will occur on or about Oct. 15, H.

G. E. Beauchamp, president of the corporation, said. Besides Booth, others recommended for two-year terms are R. 0.

(Hoot) Gibson, representative of the Rotary club and currently club vice-president, and Howard N. Keithley, chosen by the Junior Chamber of Commerce to succeed Beauchamp, who earlier announced he would leave office in mid-October, Three other members of the corporation's board, under having their one more year serve present appointment, are Wallace Millner, Lions club; Wess Renegar, Chamber of Commerce, and Dr. J. P. Van Horn, American Legion.

Directors, once finally seated, will organize and this election likely will come in another week or so. Under corporation by-laws, all directors are chosen for twoyear terms, three members being subject to change each year. Their terms are to expire on Oct. 15, thus giving the new board plenty of time each year to plan for the next baseball season. WASHINGTON, Oct.

(P) Rep. Gross (R-Pa.) threw a joint session of the House and Senate agriculture committee into an uproar today as he accused the Agriculture department of "deliberate falsehoods, downright lies" in its description of the plight of the average American farm family, Senator Elmer Thomas (D-Okla) broke in to ask the Agriculture department to explain why in view of the dire living conditions in rural areas, "the department now is trying to break the grain market." Thomas did not insist upon an immediate answer but said he would like to have the department explain. He did not amplify what he meant by the question. Gross bitterly denounced this statement put into the record by assistant agriculture secretary Charles F. Brannan, describing the "typical farm family." "They live in an old house, either in serious disrepair or perhaps unrepairable.

They are without running water, telephones, central heating or a bath tub. If they have electricity, it is still new enough to seem an innovation. The' windows and doors are poorly screened. Flies attend every meal, spring and. summer.

There are mice in the kitchen. and rats around the' barn." The statement was made as part of a department presentation urging Congress to take steps toward improvement of rural living conditions. Gross said "this is an untruthful, malicious indictment of farm families. It is an insult to every farmer. This indicates the farmer is just trash." Red.

Roeven (R-Ia.) said the statement is "an unwarranted indictment of the American farmer. If I made such a statement I would be driven out of my district." Rep. Page (D-Tex.) argued with Gross, saying it is true that more than one half of rural people in some areas of the country live "in tumble-down shacks." He said the farmers of Gross' district, in Lancaster county, are not average farmers, that they have "accumulated wealth for generations." "It seems to me," Page shouted, "if conditions on the farm are as good as the Pennsylvania gentleman describes them, we now have the millenium and we might as well adjourn these hearings now." to Europe, wasn't noticeable in city restaurants where Miamians ate their ham-and-egg breakfasts this morning, according to reports of several cafe managers. Eyeing their competitors in the food-serving business, most Main street restaurateurs maintained a "wait and see" attitude, while adding a few more vegetarian plates and selections to their menus for the noon and evening trade. Not one queried, however, was ready to bear the wrath of his customers by reducing the supply of choice meat cuts on lunches and dinners.

In city meat markets, where the housewives do their shopping for the dinner table, some of the butchers noted a minor decrease in sales this morning. Whether this slight drop in business was due to the presidential edict or was just a normal Tuesday slump after Monday's dollar day rush remained to be seen in later weeks. For the time, beef-eaters were, still in power at local dinner ta- Mrs. Laura Leiss, Lifetime Resident Of County, Is Dead Funeral services for Mrs. Laura J.

Leiss, 70 years old, one of Ottawa county's oldest pioneers, who died at her home, three and a half miles northwest of Wyandotte, Monday morning, will be conducted at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Ottawa Baptist church. The Rev. Glenn Kauffman will officiate.

Burial will be in G. A. R. cemetery at Miami under direction of the Mitchelson Funeral home of Commerce. Born near Wyandotte in 1877, Mrs.

Leiss lived in that community her entire life. Survivors include a son, Alden Leiss; two daughters, Mrs. Flora Eick and Velma Leiss, all of the home; two step-daughters, Mrs. Lulu Crawshaw and Mrs. Nellie Branick, both of Fredonia, four sisters, Mrs.

Anna. Alexander of Webb City, Mrs. Lucy Hensley of Colorado Springs, Mrs. Ethel Crosby of Laramie, and Mrs. Lizzie Thompson of Leon, 14 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.

Short and Sweet, But It's Winner NEW YORK, Oct. 7 (P- -Winner of the ninth prize. of $5 in an essay contest sponsored by the East Side Chamber of Commerce on the subject "How and Why Came to the Bowery," was the author of the following: "I came to see the sights. Now I am one of them." TO MEET AT ALVA ALVA, Oct. 7- (P) The board of regents for state colleges and presidents of the six state colleges will meet at Northwestern State college Oct.

27. Parents Advised To Destroy 'Old St. Nick' Legend TOPEKA, Oct. 7-(P)-A psychiatrist, suggesting that parents stress honesty, today condemned the practice of teaching children there is a Santa Claus. You can get just a as much fun out of Santa by telling the truth, said Dr.

Brock Chisholm. Besides, telling your child the St. Nicholas legend and other myths. are truths might handicap his thinking abilities. Dr.

Chisholm explained it this way: "If the children think about it, they know there is no Santa Claus and that their parents are liars-so they don't think. It's too unpleasant. Let the child know Santa is just a pleasant myth, Chisholm advised, and then go ahead and play the game of Santa Claus "and you and the children will get just as much fun out of it." Dr. Chisholm, executive secretary. of the interim commission of the world health organization, spoke last night at a dinner held in connection with the annual meeting of the Menninger foundation, a psychiatric institution.

Mercury Registers 87 in City Today Miami's autumnal heat wave remained in force today, but city residents were spared from 90-degree weather after two consecutive days of extreme temperatures. D. W. Pence, city weather observer, said the mercury halted at 87 in mid-afternoon, following a rise from 65 this morning. Official mark for Monday was 90.

BAND FESTIVAL KINGFISHER, Okla, Oct. 1 (P) A band festival and carnival will be held here Oct. 25 with high school bands from neighboring towns expected to participate..