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MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1955 BLYTHEVILLE (ARK.) COURIER NEWS PAGE FIVE Few Return on the Long Road Back from Soviet Purgeland Commodity And Stock MarketsNew York Cotton (12:38 qualations) Mar 3171 3175 3470 3470 Muy 3-108 3505 3497 3502 July 3516 3520 3515 3519 Out 3514 3528 3524 3514! New Orleans Cotton Mar 3473 3478 3472 3476 May 3502 3507 3502 3505 July 3513 3521 3518 1524 Chicago Soybeans Jan 2073, 2883, Mich 2831: 283 28434 May 2831 28415 204! i July 270 280 Chicago Corn Meh 15548 156 1553 1553; May 15B Chicago Wheat Mali 233 2.33% 4 23258 2323 May 220 22074 220 New York Stocks AT and 175 Amor Tovseco 66 1-4 Anaconda Copper 32 Eoh Steel 111 Caryaler 74 3-48 Coca-Cola 1:1 1-2 Gen Firetrie 7-8 Gen Motor: 105 Montgomery Ward B1 7-8' Central 33 1-2 Int Harvester 38 Republic Steel 84 5-8 Radio 39 1-4: Socony Vacuum 53 7-8 14 1-3! Standard of 112 1-8 Texas Cory 86 1-4, Sears 71 3-4 07 Steel 74 12: Son Pac 56 1-2 Livestock NATIONAL STOCKYARDS. TI. 4-103DA -12086 13.500: lower; choice 150-210 1b 18 00-50. mostly 18.25 up: top 18.50 mostly for untform 160-200 10: 310-240 1b 17.25-| 13.25, ID 18.50: 240-270 lb 16.25-1 17.50. 270-300 Tia 16.00-50: sows 400: Ih down 13.25 15: heavier SOWS 13.50-15.00: hours 10.50-13.00.

Carie 6.703; calves 1.200: abou: steady. steers unquoted: canners and largely 8.00-10.50: few commercial to 12.00: buils stendy-. utility and 12.50-1:.00: canner and cutter bulls 9.00-12.00: vealers 2.00 lower: 200d and choice 22.00-30.00:. few prime: to 32.00: commercial and low good 16.00- 21.00. SLAYING (Continued from 1) track: Joaquin Borrell: and Antonio Anguiznin.

Remon, who had stayed on all the track after the races, was talkIns with his party in a special enclosure when the shots rang out. At first they were thought to be firecrackers. 'Then a second volley shattered glasses 011 a Intic and Remon went down. One of Remon's bodyguard's. Tomas Wilson.

"said the fire seemed to be coming from beneath Tho darkened grandstand. He said Rumon and his party. gathered under the fluorescent lights of the clubhouse, made perfect targets. Wilson said as soon as the firins began. he heuan pumping machine-ann bullets in the direction the shots apprared to br: coming 1'0111.

When the fire let up. he rushed toward the grandstand. Remon's widow Cortlia wAs in Mint (o attend the inauguration of Florida's Gov. Leroy Collins Tallaharsee tomorrow. She immedately took a plane back to 1212.

Controller General Roberto fle-: artematic, now visiting in said Remon had heard sis of plan: to assassinate ham -but he was nol the kind of bio 10 run from Remon, a professional soldier, 1.3 Ned tame and followers as Panama's police chief. in the be: became kitown 28 the country's Eager tor order in hi scountry's mercurial politics. he was reluctant to neceme president. Finally, 11 May 1952. after four years which saw men in office, he Alerted to the top post.

AL the end of his tust year in olfice, he was credited with havdone much to straighten out his we country's tangled finances. He through a bill outlawing the pets mommanist party and did much to stump oul graft which had been ramjet. PRUNDEY MURR 05C8014. The House of Perfect Sound Projection LAST TIMES TONIGHT Desiree HARLON BRANDO' JEAN SIMMONS MERLO OBERON NUCHAEL, RENNIE fats CINEMASCOPE Dr tear DA PA Kentuckian Being Held For Forgery CARUTHERSVILLE- Willle Paul Burks, 34-year-old resident of Paducah. Is being held in the Pemiscot County Jail here pending preliminary hearing in Magistrate Court Thursday monring on a of Burrs passing worthless checks.

is passing two worthless checks at Wardell, passing two more in New Madrid and stealing an automobile in Dyersburg Nov. 26. Authorities at the Sheriff's Office staved yesterday that he has contessed to all these charges and will be prosecuted on two worthless check charges eta Pemiscot. County. After a New Madrid service station attendant accepted a $10 check from Burks about 8 p.

m. Thursday and. Burks had left, the attendan! contacted the State Highway Parol and told them that he was suspicious. The check was signed "Willie P. Burks' and was drawn on the Bank of New Madrid.

Burks had attempted to pass $10 check on that bank previously and the patrol W25 aware that Burks had no account at the bank. The attendant staled that Burks went south: on Highway 6). Patrol Headquarters at Poplar Bluff radioed the Pemiscot County Sheriff's Office. Chief Deputy Sheriff Clyde Orron and Trooper Jeff Hickman of the Hiehway Patrol left CurulhersviNe In the same spotted a car titties the description of the stolen 1953 Chevrolet coach traveling south. i Not wanting to overlook.

the sibility that it may have not pos-1 the car Burks WaS driving, continued north and radioed Hayti City Police who in turn set road block: at the intersection at Kavi. 'The Hayti Police apprehended Darks there. In his confession at the Sherit's Office here that night, he stated that all four checks were for $10 and two of were Portagerille drawn of while the Farmers the other were drawn on the Bank of New Madrid. have an account at either bank and Authorities stated he dnes not All checks were signed with his name. Burks confessed to stealing automobile from within one-haif block of police headquarters in ersburs on Nov.

26. He was driving the same car when captured. He sand that since that time he had been staying at various towns in Northeast Arkansas and Southeast Missourl. Negro Deaths Hattie Childs Services for Hattie Childs, who died Wednesday at her home here, be conducted Wednesday 11:30 al Frenchman's Bayou First B. T.

Church. She leaves her husband. Dave Childs: one sitser. Cora Horton, one daughter and eight sons. ASKS BODY INSURANCE Tempest Storm, busty redheaded burlseque dancer, poses among money bags representing a million dollars she figures her body is worth.

She showed newsmen her application to Lloyds London for a million dollar body insurance policy. Four years ago she was a pudgy cocktail ress in Los Angeles, with an amibtion to be a chorus girl. She made it and aided by diet and exercise her mensurements to: waistline reduced, 24. She still has a 41-inch bust. (AP Wirephotu) First Hurricane i Of Year Blows In, But Mildly MIAMI, Fla.

(P) A tropical storm born with the new year, diminished in Intensity today but continued to move west-southwest through the Caribbean below Puerto Rico at about 10 m.p.h. A wintertime rarity, the storm was described as "very small" by the San Juan, P.R., Weather Bureau. Winds are estimated al 50 to) 35 m.p.h. near the center. 'The storm is centered miles south-southwes: at St.

Croix. i Virgin Islands. It is approximately 1,300 miles south of Florida. All storm warnings in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands navel been ordered lowered. The storm, described yesterday jas a baby hurricane with winds near the center estimated at 65 to 75 m.p.h., was named Alice because it was the firs; hurricane of 1955.

Bank Statements Asked WASHINGTON (P) The of the currency today issued A call for a statement of the condition of all National Banks at the close of business Dec. 31, 1954. Fruit of the Smyrna fig does not grow from flower. but tains the flowers inside the walls of the fruit. The flowers must be pollinated by the lig wasp, a parasitic insect.

MOX In On W. Blytheville Main St. THEATRE Phone 3-4621 Weekdays Show Starts 7:00 p.m., Sun. 1:00 p.m. LAST TIMES TONIGHT Double Feature WARNER BROS: COMMAND "THE GUY MADISON -aT DAD BUTLLA -ANDLAN1 TE RE VER NOW AS A FLAME and the FLESH PER ANGEL I CARLOS THOMPSON- IN OLE FROM M-6-M IN COLOR TECHNICOLOR! MILER KELOON JAMES ALSO CARTOON TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY Double Feature SAVAGE STARK DRAMA! HOWARD HUGHES DEVILS CANYON starting VIRGINIA MAYO DALE ROBERTSON STEPHEN McNALLY ARTHUR HUNNICUTTIN EDMUND GRANGER Color by TECHNICOLOR HILARIOUS ENTERTAINMENT! CARY DEBORAM WALTER ALSO -KERR- PIOGEON Dream Wife CARTOON Obituary Cavasher Infant Is Buried Here Funeral services tor the four day old daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. William Cavasher were condueted, at 2 o'clock this uflernoon Cobb Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. James E. Pomeroy. Burial was to be in Elmwood Cemetary.

The child, survived by her parents and one brother, William Robert, died Thursday In an Alton, hospital. parents originally from here, have been making their home in Alton. Services Are Conducted For Homer Larrow Infant Funeral services for the Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Eari Larrow were conducted o'clock toduy at Dogwood Cemetary.

The child was the only one 'of the parents, who survive. Cobb Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Faubus Pledges To Get New Industries LITIT.E ROCK (P) Gov. Elect Orval Faubus has pledged his Administration to "bring new Industrial. plants to Arkansas" as "the principal program whereby we can end the loss of population and cure family and governmental economic ills." His New Year's Day statement, prepared by request of the Associated Press, also mentioned effects of three successive years of drought on Income, and said, "the state Arkansas must find new sources of revenue if present services are maintained." The statement continued: "I am confident I will be able ta initiate a program through extension of electric power facilities and a beginning of widespread use of irrigation to make It possible for those who live on the farm to improve their standards of living and Increase Incomes have every confidence In the resourcefulness, and conditions courage as of they our develop and I entertain no grave apprehension as to the future of our people and our state." Extension Course Meets Next session of the Arkansas State College extension course will be at Blytheville Junior High School tomorrow night.

at 7 o'clock. Shah, Queen Try Skiing SUN VALLEY. Idaho (AP) Shah Mohammed Rez, Phalevi and his days queen of have skiing. arrived They're here on a for tour eight; of the Vuited States. ROXI Box Office Opens 6:45 Show Starts 7:00 p.

m. Admission 15c 35c At All Times LAST TIMES TONIGHT Double Feature 45 20th Century Fox presents DANGEROUS CROSSING Jeanne CRAIN -Michael RENNIE ON LES Princess 07 THE Nile on METRO NEWS THURS. Double Feature SAMUEL GOLDWYN Presents Christian Hans TECHNICOLOR Andersen. da dolt -AND- CROSBY LOVES MY MUSIC 4 MAN MI Cartoon "Motor Maniacs" W. Germany Recalls London Official After Wife's Comment By TOM WHITNEY AP Foreign Staff The road back from Purgeland is a long one, but some-! times the travelers return to Moscow Many men once prominent in the Soviet Union are missing today.

The new year prompts speculation on which of them may be heard from in 1955. Sometinies the word comes dramatic fashion. An illustration is the communique Inst month an. nouncing the execution of a former minister of stale security, Victor Abakumov, and five subordinates. Abakumov's name had not been mentioned in the Soviet Union for four years.

Some of the missing Soviet leaders undoubtedly are dead--shot by secret orders or starved in prisons and concentration camps. Others may be alive in prisons. Still others may occupy obscure posts, out of the limelight. Most Famnus The most famous among the missing is Lt. Gen.

Vassily Stulin. son of Joseph Stalin. Vassily used to command air parades the capital when his father wars alive. It's possible he commands some obscure air base in a distant area. It's also possible he is in prison.

Probably he knew much about the network of intrigue that surrounded the Kremlin in Stalin's last days. On this score another name is important, Alexander N. Poskreby. shev. head of Stain's personal secretartet.

He knew some of the darkest scerels of the Soviet dietntor. W. Burners have speculated that Poskrebysher's hand may have pulled the strings of the notorious gunshed "Doctors' Plot." Elis story must be a fascinating study in intrigue and the fate of the great in Russia. Shortly after the arrest of renty Beria. in June 1953, Col.

Gen. P. A. Artemicy disap cared. former of the Moscow military Missing commander, along with him are the former commandant of the Lt.

Gen. N. K. Spiridonov, and the former commandant of Moscow, Lt. Gen.

K. I R. Spiridenov. Parly Boss, Missing Among missing politicians is M. Andrianov, former party in Leningrad.

missing since No-; vember 1953, when he was hooted from his job by the present party Dosa Nikita Khrushchev. There arc also G. A. Arutinov. former party boss of Armenia, and the former premier of Azerbaijan.

Mir Bagirov. both believed to be friends of Beria. The Premier of Buria's m- tive Georgia, Valerian Bakradze. 15 another man never accounted for. Here are just few others missIng: A.

A. Kuznetsov. protege of An-: drei Zhadanov. onetime Politburo member who died in 1950. Stepan Mamulov, onellme depu-, ty minister of Internal alfatrs.

Nikolai Voznesensky, member of the Politburo, chief of the State Planning Commission, purged In 1949. SECURITY (Continued from Page 1) spectively, In the two earlier reports. The comparable figures because. were not unlike strictly previous reports. the issued today did not include fizures for the super-scoret Central Intelligence Agency.

"It has not been deemed in the public interest to release statistics for Central Intelligence Agen4," the report said, "and figures pertaining to that agency are not included in his report." Two Cars Damaged Curs driven by Carl Spears, 2225 Kenwood Drive, and James Carter, 1709 West Walnut, were damaged 111 a minor traffic accident. at the intersection of Ninth and Main Streets, this morning. The Spears vehicle suffered damage to the right rear fender and light and the vehicle driven bi Carter suffered front end damage. 'There were no personal injuries. according, to police reports.

Holiday Death Toll Exceeds Prediction By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The toll of motor vehicle accidents exceeded the National Safety Council's estimate of 240, and it prompted Ned H. Dearborn, council president, to ask: more do we need to bring us to our senses?" Traffic accidents between 6 p.m. local time Friday and last midnight cost 282 lives. During the period 27 died in tires and 36 In a variety of accidents for a total of 345 violent denths. The over-all total for the 1948-49 Now Year weekend was 309.

Dearborn culled the slaughter a I "national disaster." "Hurricane Hazel, which swept, up the East Coast last fall, was al piker compared to the tidal wave 1 of carelessness, selfishness and cold indifference that is piling up holiday death toll on our highilized ways which should shame any vivnation." he suid, Hurricane Hazel caused 18 deaths. In 8 comparable week end in December, an ated Press survey showed there were 225 deaths in traffic accidents, 30 in fires, 67 in miscellanebus accidents. On Driving Day, observed by the nation Wednesday, Dec. there were 51 traffic deaths. Canadian Toll: 33 TORONTO.

Ont. (A) At least 33 Canadians fet violent death during the New Year's holiday weekend. Nine persons were killed in Canada year ago, but the holiday. falling on 3 weekend, was (shorter. CONGRESS Continued from Page 1 worked out by a committee headby Gen.

Lucius D. Clay, He is expected to recommend federal spending of about 26 billion tioliars for improvement of the federal highway system, with the states chipping in about an lent amount. Other special messages, announced previously, will deal with 01) recaprocal trade. (21 pay raises for federnl civilian workers and 13) pay raises and new reserve prograin for the arined forces. The annual budget will be sent to Capital Hilt Jan.

17 and the economic message three days later. A dozen or more "big" bills are likely to provide the legislative fireworks. These will deal with agriculture, lahor, taxes, reciprocal trade, military manpower, foreign aid. housing. appropriations, pay raises for federal employes and members of Congress, and postal rates, among other things.

Clashes between the While House and Congress may come over raises. farm price supports uncl tirses. Vital Suez Canal Remains Blocked ISMAILIA, Egypt burned the oil tanker World Peace 1cose from the wreckage of the El Fordan Bridge carly today. They estimated navigation through the vital -west waterway could not be resumed before sometime tomorrOw. More than 130 ships jammed the anchorages at Port Said and Suez, waiting for through traffic to resame.

Tugs pulled the World Peace free after engineers. with acetylene torches, cut awny portions of the bridge span into which the tanker veered Friday 50 males south of Port Said. The ensincers planned to ent the der of the big steel bridgework into small pieces to clear the waterway. GEM "Osceola's THEATRE Finest" NOW SHOWING Mon. Tues.

Wed. Thurs. Fri. -AT REGULAR PRICESIRVING BERLINS White Christmas ALL VISTA VISION TECHNICOLOR. 12 SONGS! ng BING DANNY ROSEMARY KAYE CLOONEY ELLEN DIAM MAGGER RING AC DO MICHEL CURIE NOPMAN KRASNA, NORMAN PANAMA DAS MELVIN FRUNC- A PARENCUNE PICTURE BONN, Germany 17-West Getmany recalled her top from London today because his wife had described Britain at an official Christmas purty 38 "an enemy foreign country." The Bonn government expressed regret for this expression, which It termed unacceptable.

The diplomat. Charge d'Affaires Oskar Schlitter, and his wife Daisy, former German benuty, queen and actress, returned Bonn. They were recalled to answer questions about British and German newspaper reports of Mrs. Schlitter's remarks the party given by the West German Mission In London. Soon afterward, an official nouncement acknowledged the envoy's wife had used the expression.

The announcement said Schlitter. who served in Nazi Germany's diplomatic missions in Washington and London before World War I. had been "sent on pending decision on the affair. London, the British' Foreign Office brushed incident off as "a purely internal German affair." London newspapers, splashing COEXISTENCE Continued from Page 1 Agency, operating the Voice of America, and the private Committee for Free Europe (Radio Fre Europe). It also recommended Congress, U.S.

create a overseas joint information programs. It suggested that the President convene 201 international conference of all non-Communist nation3 to solidify them, to sever all diplomntic recognition of Moscowcontrolled governments and to terminate all commercial and trade with Communist pics. The United States, it said. should seek to have the United Nations brand Russia as 271 aggressor against "all nations enslaved by communism." Consolidation Basically, the committee sald, the objective of Communist aggression is to destroy civilization, to abolish the family as the basic unit of civilization, and to create a SUperstate sustained by terrorism, barbarity, slave labor and the destruction of religion and culture. The committee said the Communis: conspiracy is now engaged in process of consolidating its empire and preparing for the final showdown with the still free nations." When the Communist leaders decide that the time is appropriate.

the committee said, no pretext will be "too insignificant" to serve as an excuse for armed aggression. The committee rejected the theory that would result if the United Stales took "positive and overt action against the Commumist conspiracy." tho story, quoted Schlitter's wife us telling the party for employees al the German Mission 'My husband and I find again and again what treacherous ground London can be, and realize again and again that we live among Mrs. Schliller denied intending to express anti-British sentiments, 17-Year-Old Boy Held in Strangling Death of Sister BUCYRUS, Ohio (P) A 17-year old boy was held for questioning here today in the strangling death of his sister-younger by one year whose nude body was found in thicket north of Gallon Saturday. Crawford County Prosecutor John D. Sears says he is holding Frederick Spears, of Galiun, in county The body of the youth's sister Patricia, 16, was found in about 125 feet from a road by two teen- -age hunters.

Dr. R. P. Mansfield, county cotoner, said an autopsy showed the blue-eyed young high school sophomore was strangled both manually and probably with a cord shortly after she was reported missing Friday. He said she had not been sexually attacked.

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