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THE TERRE HAUTE TRIBUNE VOL. 86. TERRE HAUTE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1948 FINAL CENTS. U.S.-RUSS CONSULAR TIES CUT HICKAM FIELD CRASHKILLS16 B-29 Explodes In Emergency Landing En Route To Okinawa. Horse-Pulling Contest At County Fair Queens In Domestic Science HONOLULU, Aug.

25 of 20 crew nembers on an Okinawa- Tound B-29 were killed last light when the big plane lost in engine and crashed in tames at Hickam Field, it was innounced today. Four men were rescued 'rorn the flaming wreckage ind taken to the nearby Tripler Hospital. The crew included 16 enlisted men and four officers. Witnesses said the Superfortress exploded while sliding along a ground skid, scattering wreckage for a quarter of a mile and smashing two power substations. The plane was one of a group making a mass flight to Okinawa.

Its starting point was believed te have been Spokane. Wash. Names of the dead will be released later today. Worst Hawaiian Crash. The crash, worst in Hawaii aviation history, occurred within eight minutes after the plane took off for Kwajalein with a gasoline load of 7,000 gallons.

Eyewitnesses said flames shot up 500 feet when the plane exploded and burned. Air force personnel were unable to explain how four of the crew survived the crash. They said all were able to talk and two of the survivors were even found walking after the crash. It was believed these two either Jumped from the escape doors a split second before the crash or No Significant were thrown clear of the flames. The only piece of the huge plane Change In Weather left intact was the towering tail section.

BREAK RESULT OF LOMAKIN EXPULSION FR0MNEWY0RK Vigo Oldest Citizen RUSSIA ASSAILS Dies; Was Over 102 Years Old TEACHER CASE General view of the Tribune-Star horse-pulling contest at the igo County Fair. Rossville, Ind. winning team is owned Rossie Burch HEAT WITHERS MOST OF U.S. Due For 43 Hours. NEWTON, N.

Aug Six U.S. Air Force enlisted men, en route to religious conference, and three crew members of a C-47 transport were killed yesterday after the big plane swooped out of a cloud bank and collided with a B-25 The disabled C-47 plummeted to the ground near this northwest New Jersey community, crashed and burned. The B-25, a wing-tip sheared and its three-man crew unaware of the disaster, returned safely to its Stewart Field, N. airbase Crewmen of the B-25 said they had been cruising at an altitude of about 7.000 feet when the transport zoomed out of a cloud. They reported a too severe Goes Into Tailspin.

Eyewitnesses said the C-47. in apparent trouble, flew over the farmland area at about 400 to 500 feet before going into a tailspin and crashing in a of The plane was on its way from Bolling Field, Washington, D. to Danbury. Conn. Air Force officials described the six enlisted men as lay leaders of religious thought in their respective units.

They were going to a religious meeting at West Redding. Conn. Bolling Field identified four of the six as Pfc Fred Anderson. 18,1 of Duluth, Minn, whose sister is CHICAGO. Aug.

Forecasters today predicted that the late summer heat wave will scorch most of the nation at least two more days. Hot winfis from the southwest pushed the mercury over the 100 There's No Escape For Hoosiers Today INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 25 mercury crept upward under a sizzling hot Hoosier sun today toward near-record highs as a late-August heat wave w'ent into its fourth day. And the weatherman said little relief was in sight before Friday.

Paul Miller, chief meteorologist at the Indianapolis weather bureau, expected temperatures to zoom to near 98 today to break an all-time record of 96 set in 1872 and tied in 1936. degree mark in some Great Lakes areas today and high humidity added to the discomfort. U. S. Weather Bureau forecasters here said there would be no significant cooling for at least 48 Anderson of Turtle Lake, hours.

A mass of cool air is ex- Ford, 24, De pected to move from Canada intol Bluff, whose sister is Minnesota and Wisconsin Friday! Vio Treadway of the same ad- or Saturday. But the weather men dress; Sgt. Forrest M. Grate, 20. said it was too early to say how! of Council Bluffs, and Pfc.

Bernard soon the rest of the nation would E. Mahoney. 18, of Binghamton, get relief whose mother is Mrs. Elizabeth Mahoney of Binghamton. KAWAKITA TREASON CASE GOES TO JURY The hottest spot in the country yesterday was Blythe, with, 109 degrees.

High midwestem' temperatures were Marquette, 101; La Crosse, 104, and Milwaukee. 100, the highest in eight years. Chicago reported a high of 98; LOG ANGELES. Aug. Minneapolis.

98; Omaha. 97; Okla- After 11 weeks of trial, a jury is homa City, 94, and Little expected to begin deliberating to- 91. At New La day the fate of Tomoya Kawakita. Guardia Field the top was 83. Japanese American accused of In contrast, the collest tempera- treason.

ture in the nation was recorded at 1 Final arguments were completed Grangeville. where it was 59 yesterday and the court was to in- Farmers in Iowa and fire-fighterSj struct today the jury of three men in Wisconsin werc for rain, Frank Nelson Bell, Vigo coun- oldest citizen, died at the residence of his soif Curt Bell, 2913 North Fourteenth street, Tuesday evening. He was over 102 years of age. Free-born of slave stock, the aged man had lived in Vigo county since 1847. He is survived by two sons.

Curt Bell, with whom he, lived, and Amos Bell of two daughters, Mrs. Mary Ward of Robbins, 111., and Mrs. Lettie Manuel of Colorado Springs, Colo. He also leaves 38 27 great-grandchildren and four great great grandchildren. The body was removed to the Green Funeral Home.

His parents, Henry Bell, who was said to be two-thirds Indian and the mother a Scotch-Irish woman, came to Terre Haute in i 1847, when he was one year old. They came by covered wagon from near Raleigh, N. C. The father and fished i and settled south of town. There were 10 children altogether and work started young for Frank, the eldest.

When Lincoln was president Frank Bell was a young man. He was just barely under the age required for service in the Civil; War. He labored for a time on the W. H. Perkins farm, part of the ground on which stands the Federal Penitentiary.

------------For many years he was em- ployed on old McFarland farm. Denies Charges of three miles southeast of Prairie ton. Soviet Action Regrettable But Not Serious, Marshall Says. FRANK NELSON BELL. HISS FACES CHAMBERS MAKE BERLIN POLICE PACT "Other Side" To Be Told When Black Market Raid Planned.

Communism Made By Magazine Editor. WASHINGTON, Aug. Red investigators today confronted Alger Hiss with a charge that he turned an old automobile over to the communists in 1936 for use by a party organizer. The Un-American activities committee read the charge into the record and then recessed its hearing for lunch without giving the former State Department official an immediate opportunity to comment on it. The charge was voiced originally bv ex-communist Whittaker Cham By Walter Rundle.

BERLIN, Aug. man police in the east and west sectors of Berlin have reached an informal agreement which is expected to end Russian kidnapings underground By Thomas P. Whitney. MOSCOW, Aug. The Russian government, redacting sharply to the expulsion of the soviet consul general from New York, chopped off all consular ties with the United States today.

I The action entails the closing of Russian consulates in New York and San Francisco, the closing of a United States consulate in Vladivostok and 1 the voiding of an agreement granting the United States the right to open a consulate in Leningrad. It grew out of what has become known as the Kasenkina affair, the case of a Russian school teacher, now in a New York hospital, who has been the subject of an international tug-of-war on the highest diplomatic levels. The U. S. Slate Department, on Aug.

19, asked the Russian ernment to recall Jacob M. Lomakin, the soviet consul general in New York, because of his activities in the Kasenkina case. (Lomakin is scheduled to start home Saturday. The U.S. note informed the Russian government tiiat Mrs.

Kasenkina would not be over to Russian authorities against her will and rejected contentions that she had been kid; naped. In the hospital she has refused to see soviet authorities She scheduled a news conference yesterday, but it was cancelled when she became exhausted bv the preparations. Another attempt mav be made today.) Reject U.S. Contention. The soviet reply, as published by Tass, categorically rejected the bers at a secret committee hear- ing in New York Aug.

7. Chambers, now a Time magazine United States contention that Lo- editor. has accused Hiss of be-; mak and other soviet officials longing to a prewar communist had exceeded their legal rights in Hiss, fofmer the cases of Mrs. Oksana Kasen- and arrests, it was reported today. I high-ranking State Department of- kina and Mikhail I.

Samarin. an- that ficial. has denied the charge. 1 ------------The agreement Provides that Accuser and accused confronted urce each other publicly for the first other by telephone before conduct- yme today. They were warned in ing a black market raid in the bor- bv Chairman J.

Parnell derline district of Potsdamer Platz. Thomas that one 0f them the Times Square oi Berlin, where tainly will be tried for the Russian, American and British I sectors meet. Question Hiss. The agreement was similar to The morning session was de Winners in County Fair Domestic to right: Rita Sue Ring, Prairie Creek, baking sweepstakes; Barbara Fayette township, clothing sweepstakes; Helen Reed, Prairie Creek township, canning sweepstakes, and Virginia Allen, Prairieton, food preparation sweepstakes. LEGION POST BEGINS HOME DRAFT BOARD NAVAL RESERVE MAKES PLANS TRANSFER MADE and nine women, one a Niesi secretary.

Twenty-five former prisoners at the Oeyama camp in Japan testified to 13 alleged acts of brutality which the United States government charges were treasonable. Minimum sentence is five imprisonment for treason, but the death penalty may be imposed. but the forecasters saw none in Members of Ft. Harrison sight. Need Rain.

posf Break Ground For Crop experts in Iowa said some corn had been damaged $150,000 Structure, by the lack of moisture, and that a soaking rain was -----------needed to prevent further damage. At Black River Falls, for- Members In Session Today To Complete Plans For Registration. Electronic and Radar Plants and $400,000 In Equipment Shifted. Continued On Page 1 Column 5. Final Parade Of The Champions Will Close Couhty Fair Tonight Ground breaking ceremonies for new $150,000 post home in the Members of the Vigo Draft Boards, A.

N. County 400block on South Fifth street The annual Vigo County Fair will close this evening at Memo- Vernon rial Stadium with the final parade of champion livestock and farm equipment, the special outdoor acts and the annual 4-H girls dress revue. The evening program will get under way at 7 p. m. with the Levin, chair-1 A crew of Cleave and ors was busy Wednesday installing Clarence Frisz were in session complete shops from navy fighting were conducted by Fort Harrison Wednesday afternoon in the office ships in the new Naval Reserve Post 40 of the American Legion of County Clerk J.

Howard Training Center along Fruitridge Tuesday evening. to consider various avenue in Deming park. Retiring Commander Louis Natt- questions that have come up and Offices of the 200 -man organized kemper turned the first spade of further the final preparations for unit here were moved from the earth. He was followed by RoLert the registration of young men Y.M.C.A. Tuesday.

Beginning next Lang, who later in the evening was from the ages of 18 to 25. Monday, drill sessions and classes installed as commander for 1949. Called before the members of formerly conducted in the Ronald Lammers. chairman of the board were Mrs. Juanita Hoff- gymnasium will be held in the new 7- hrin 1(t nun the building commit-; ner and Mrs.

Addie Allen, who structure. vl nP t-KQ vn nnrpi at the ground-break-i have been nomina -d as clerks for! Lt. Cmdr. Ray Asbury, 9th Naval 5 in? He told the gathering of near-j registration headquarters which District officer in charge of reserve units of the Terre Haute informal American proposals made to the Russians yesterday that police of all three sectors co-operate in black market raids in teeming Potsdamer Platz so that wanted operators could not flee into a nearby zone. The plan was expected to put a halt into societ forays into the British and American sectors and The morning session was voted to committee questioning of Hiss about his past relations with Chambers, whom he said he knew in 1934 and 1935 as a free lance writer who called himself Chambers said he last saw Hiss in 1938; Hiss said it was in 1935.

Much of the questioning centered on a 1929 model A Ford to silence Russian charges that! which Hiss said, to the best of his the western sectors were protecting marketeers and gangster It was hoped the plan would bring peace to Berlin before the city assembly meets tomorrow to consider a number of explosive issues. Says Decisions Void. Maj, Gen. Alexander Kotikov, Russian commander in Berlin, opened the Russian attack on session by declaring that a number of the recent decisons were null and void because they violated soviet orders. Kotikov asserted in a letter to the council that among these decisions were council orders allegedly permitting the introduction of two currencies in Berlin.

Others, Kotikov said, were division of the police force between east, and west and establishment of offices for the exchange of eastern and western marks. One communist report said soviet members of the council intend to introduce a proposal to place all Berlin police under the ousted city police chief, Communist Paul Markgraf, who now Commands only the soviet sector police. Kotikov meanwhile ordered tighter control on newspaper distribution in the Soviet Occupation Zone. He informed the Berlin post Continued On 2, Column 1. 3 BOYS FOUND TIED TO BED INDIANAPOLIS, Aug.

small boys who were found yesterday tied by their necks to a bed were in Marion County Guardian Home today. Their 22-year-old mother was in jail on a vagrancy charge. Police Sgt. Fred Stevens said recollection, he gave to Chambers, the boys, John Hauk. 6 and his Under committee hammering he brothers, James, 4, and Sammy, 2.

said he could not remember de- were found yesterday by a visiting tails of the incident or how he welfare nurse, disposed of the car. Sergeant Stevens said the The charge about the dis- mother, Mrs. Virginia Hauk, 22. posal to the communists was read and Nathaniel Green. 42.

were ar- 1 rested on vagancy charges when Continued On Page 2, Column 4. Ljjey returned to the home late yesterday. Greens mother, Mrs. Arvenie Green. 68 owns the home in which Mrs.

Hauk and hgr children were living. Stevens said the boys were clad only in dirty shorts and their bodies were covered with sores and bites. He said Mrs. Green told him they were tied time last week because they disobeyed and got into Stevens quoted Mrs. Hauk as saying.

asked the welfare time and again to find foster homes for the I He said she told him she earned $18 a week as a bus girl in a down- restaurant, working from 8:30 p. m. until 6 a. and received $63 a month from a welfare agency. She is divorced from the father.

Justice Rutledge Fined In Court DENVER. Aug. 25 (JPy Supreme Court Justice Wiley B. Rutledge was fined $10 and costs today for taking the right-of-way in an automobile collision here July 27. The justice pleaded innocent through his attorney, Lowell White, of Denver.

Rutledge, who vacationed here in July, has returned to the east. Careless driving charges were dismissed against the justice and the driver of the other car involved in the collision. Continued On Page 2, Column 1. Hayne, Beal of Bon Tort Food made the purchase. rangedf planning culmination of years of The headquarters will be opened lation of machinery and equipment Shoppe ly 300 Legionnaires and members! win be located in the Arcade of the auxiliary that the ceremony building, at 116 South Sixth street.

area, said Wednesday that instal- Country School" program featur- pital. Elks Club and other institu pound with the average weight of Following the ceremony a buffet the calves being close to 1.000 supper was served in the present pounds. The Chamber of Com- post home, 417 South Fifth street, merce. various ubs, nion Hos-j Commanders Attend. THE WEATHER By S.

Weather Informed Soviet Source Holds Out Hope Of German Agreement By DeWitt Mackenzie, AP Foreign Affairs Analyst. FAIR. ing first place winners in the 4-H show. The parade is at 8 p. with the free grandstand acts at 8:30 and the dress revue at 9 p.

m. Fifty-four beef calves exhibited by 4-H Club members at the Fair sold at auction last night, top honors being won by the grand toward the last of this week. is expected to take all summer. The matter of obtaining assist- Among the apparatus being ance for the registration activities moved to the center are a large when they get under way, Aug. 30, motor generator for emergency was considered.

A. N. Levin a complete machine shop finnc iirra amI Those present for the celebration nounced that school teachers had boilermaking and radio re' the included John Cartwright and Jack volunteered to act as registration ceiving and sending sets. McIntyre, newly-elected southern clerks for the week extending Men of the outfit will be vice commanders of the department from Aug. 30 to Sept.

4. With schooled in use and maintenance of Indiana, and Wiley Dorsett, schools opening Sept. 7, the teach- 0f the equipment. Sixth District commander. ers will be unable to serve past Lt.

Weldin Talley is command- After officers of the post took this period. ing officer of the unit. Organized their turn at the shovel, some 30 For the other two registration Surface Division 9-51. An elec-! 4 a m. 9 a.

River stage- 87 Nooa p. falling. with the parking houses acting as buyers. Other Purchases. Reserve champion calf owned Charles Moore was purchased LOCAL CONDITIONS.

Highest temperature lewest temperature last night, SS; precipitation, nene iy the Home Packing Company for FORECAST. TF.RRE AND Fair and continued Thursday. INDIANA AND and continued hot tonight and Thursday. However, if our analysis going to run away with us we first Imust recall the fundamental basis The latest conterence Delwee 1 of the quarrel between Soviet Rus; Premier Stalin and the western sia and thc western world. That is ambassadors is said in diplomatic the declared determination of Mos- iquarters to encourage hope for an cow to carry out world revolution L.

4 1 for the destruction of cast-west settlement of the battle g0Vernments an(j for the establish- of Berlin. ment of communism in all coun- If 'we took this as a basis for tries, speculation, we would be entitled must start from that prem- to believe that a settlement of the jse yje must recognize that German imbroglio might be cow want peace, for the vicinity achieved. Indeed, a well informed reason that it would stymie bol- source in Moscow suggests as aim of communizing the much. And with such a start we worid. The Reds might mak 9 warm tonight and champioR beef calf which sold for Page 2, Calm 2.

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thermometer, 6 could keep on pyramiding until all the differences were ironed ou and we had world peace. truces from self interest, but Continued On Page 14. Column.