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Macon Chronicle-Herald rald Printed Daily Except Sundays Holidays Live Within Your Income and You Live Without Worry--and A Lot of Other Things Press International Photo Macon, Missouri, Tuesday, October 13, 1953 Scene Of Greenlease Slaying AP FBI AGENTS (arrow) 'dig along a hedgerow at the edge of a field of wheat stubble as they seek the bullet which killed kidnap victim Bobby Greenlease. This is the spot, about one and one-half miles west of highway U. S. 69 near Overland Park, where the FBI says the boy was murdered. Carl Hall Expected To Plead Guilty KANSAS CITY (P)- Drug addiet Carl Austin Hall, confessed kidnap-slayer of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease came back to Kansas City in irons today, apparently prepared to plead guilty and face a death sentence.

Also heavily manacled, his woman companion, Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady, was transported in I convoy with Hall from jail at St. Louis to cells in Kansas City. She maintained a stoic silence generally, asking only to see her lawyer. One of the deputy marshals who guarded Hall on the trip and who refused to permit use of his name, said the balding ex-convict expressed belief that Mrs.

Heady At Least 16 Persons Tried To Collect Ransom In Greenlease Kidnaping Case TULSA, Okla. (P) At least 16 different persons represented themselves as the kidnapers of little Bobby Greenlease and demanded ransom ranging from $5,000 to $600,000. This was disclosed in an interview last night with Robert L. Ledterman, Tulsa auto dealer and Edward D. Mounce Of Anabel Dies At Physician's Office Edward D.

Mounce, 82, of Anabel, died at 10 a. m. today of a heart attack in the office of a local physician. He had been ill for the past several months. Funeral arrangements are incomplete pending the arrival of relatives from a distance.

The body was taken to the Stephens and Goodding Funeral Home here, and will be taken later to the home at Anabel to lie in state. Mr. Mounce was born March 27. 1871 in Ralls County, Mo. He is survived by his wife of the home and one son, Otto Mounce, of Long Beach, Calif.

Change Of Venue In Downing Suit The $50,000 damage suit filed by Laurence Downing of Atlanta against the Shryack Grocery Company of Kirksville will go to the Shelby County Circuit Court on a change of venue, granted by Judge Harry J. Libby in Circuit Court here yesterday. The motion for change of venue was filed by Clark and Becker, attorneys for the defendant, who claimed the inhabitants of this county are prejudiced against the defendant. Downing is suing for damages for injuries received in an accident involving a truck owned by the grocery company. Parking Meter Is Ripped From Walk Someone walked off with a parking meter last night, but if it was a joke, the Macon police department is lacking in a sense of humor.

The parking meter was noticed missing this morning on Bourke Street in front of the Empire Insurance Bldg. It had been literally pulled up by the roots. Police said that each meter costs about $60, and tampering carries a penalty of a $100 fine. The police have offered a $10 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the vandal. CAR GUARD STOLEN DALLAS, Tex.

(P) -R. V. Spillner left his collie dog, Trix, to guard his parked car against prowlers. When he returned an hour later he told police, his cigarette lighter was gone and SO was Trix. Press Full Leased State CM Wire VOL.

Historical Society Anti-Western Violence Increases In Yugoslovia U.S. Shows No Signs of Withdrawing Decision To Pull Troops From Trieste BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (P)- Anti-Western violence increased today as angry Yugoslavia awaited Western reaction to President Tito's threats and notes designed to halt the transfer of northern Trieste to Italy. Big 3 Ministers To Meet Friday For Discussions Will Confer On Trieste, Korea and Russian Problems In London WASHINGTON (P) Secretary of State Dulles will meet with the British and French foreign ministers in London, Friday, for conferences on Trieste, Korea, Russian relations and other world problems. A joint announcement of arrangements for the conference was made today in Washington, London and Paris. Dulles will leave here tomorrow I night.

Two advisors, Douglas Arthur II, State Department counselor, and Robert Bowie, chief of department, policy planning, will accompany him. Dulles expects to remain in London until Sunday. State Department officials said this was not an emergency session, and there was no one overriding problem which made it necessary now. The official announcement said: "This meeting is in keeping with the practice of the three ministers to consult together at frequent intervals in one of the three capitals." There was a session in Wash-! ington last July, attended by French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and the acting British foreign secretary, Lord Salisbury. The timing of the new meeting was explained by State Department officials in terms of British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's return to his post after a long illness.

Funeral Tomorrow For John Nelson, Retired REA Man Funeral services for John W. Nelson, 65, of Bourke Street Road, who died at 2:30 p. m. yesterday at the Samaritan Hospital here, will be held at 2 p. m.

tomorrow at the Skinner Home for Funerals. Services will be conducted by the Rev. Harry L. Rigsby and burial will be in Bloomington Cemetery. Mr.

Nelson had been empoyed by the R. E. A. until his retirement in July, is survived by his wife; two sons, Ephriam, of Keokuk, and Johnny, of Palo Alto, one daughter, Mrs. Esther Ewing, of Keokuk: three step-children, Clifford Turner, of Riverton, N.

Mrs. Audrey Healey and Mrs. Esther Blacklock, both of Macon. He also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Jones, of Anabel, and Mrs.

Mary Llewllyn, of Macon; one brother, Clarence Nelson, of Macon; four grandchildren and three great grandchildren. The body will lie in state at the Home for Funerals until the hour of services. With Washington showing no signs of backing down from the -American decision to pull out of Zone A of the strategic territory, the mood of the tense Yugoslavs again grew ugly. Demonstrators beat up an American student and a Yugoslav who dropped into the Belgrade office of the U. S.

Information Service. Huge slogans spelling "Entrance of Traitors" were scrawled on sidewalks outside the USIS office and the British reading room in the main part of the city. A reinforced ring of Yugoslav militia men surrounded both buildings as mass street demonstrations continued. New protests also were planned for tonight. A British spokesman said 1,000 to 1,500 "thugs" twice invaded the reading room and seized copies of the British news bulletin, tearing them up and using them to make bonfires in the streets.

The renewal of violence follow(ed a night of comparative calm although the American Embassy reported that Yugoslav woman employe of its information service had been beaten on her way home last night. As a result, the Embassy withdrew the large staff of natives I employed by the USIS from duties involving direct contact with the public. Demonstrators yesterday ged the USIS director in Belgrade and broke his nose. On contrast to the angry demonstrations in Yugoslavia, Trieste itself continued calm. The Rev.

Rigsby Re-Elected Head Of Ministerial Alliance The Rev. Harry L. Rigsby was re-elected president of the Macon Ministerial Alliance, along with the entire slate of officers at a luncheon and business meeting of the group yesterday at Percy's Cafe. Other officers re-elected are the Rev. Joseph Knierim, secretary, and the Rev.

W. R. Watkins, treasurer. The session was attended by the Revs. Rigsby, David C.

Clark, A. F. Moncrief, Watkins and Knierim. Plans were made to hold a union Reformation Day Service, a national observance, at 8 p. m.

Sunday, Nov. 1, at the Methodist Church, for which an outstanding speaker will be, secured. Plans were also formulated for the annual Thanksgiving Service, a union protestant service of the city, to be held on Wednesday, Nov. 25, at the Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. Aubrey F.

Moncrief, pastor of the First Baptist Church, delivering the Thanksgiving sermon. It was decided to observe the national "Religion in American Life" week. Nov. 16-20, with services tentatively planned for each evening by members of the Ministerial Alliance at a place or places to be announced later. SFC Forest A.

Good Home From Far East SFC Forest A. Good, son of Mr. and Mrs. Forest Good of Excello, who has spent the past 28 months as a paratrooper in Korea and Japan, landed in Seattle, on Friday, his parents learned in a telephone call from him. Sergeant First Class Good, will be home this week on leave, expects to be discharged in NovI ember.

Today's News Briefs From The Associated Press Wire Service UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (P) Phil M. Donnelly reported today -Russia demanded today that the Missouri's Agricultural commissioner is not very optimistic about U. N.

Security Council try again immediate any federal drought to set up an international admin- relief. He said Commissioner L. istration for the free territory of C. Carpenter brought no definite Trieste. Chief Soviet Delegate answer back from Washington as Y.

Vishinsky called on the to the federal government's plans. Andrei Council to jump into the explos- PANMUNJOM (P--The Korive Trieste question "forthwith." ean repatriation commission toWASHINGTON (P -Secretary day asked the U. N. Command and the Communists to start Benson today outlined his plan 1 to the De- Thursday fn their attempts to persuade war prisoners to return reorganize Agriculture partment, declaring it would re- home. The commission request duce the mumber of employees "better came shortly after the UNC anand cut costs yet provide nounced it would families." The complete by service for farm study for midnight tonight a permanent plan has been under center for the Reds to use in inmonths.

terviewing 22,300 North Korean JEFFERSON CITY (P-G V. and Chinese POWs, King Features Central Press NO. 90 Gypsy Woman Enters Plea Of Guilty; Repays $1,295 Preuitt Given 4-Year Term In State Prison Woman Sentenced To 2-Years Today In Shelby Co. Court Judge Harry J. Libby today sentenced Harold (Jack) Preuitt.

42, to four years in the State Penitentiary after he pleaded guilty to charges of burglary and larceny. Preuitt received two years on each count, to run consectively. Miss Florence- Louise Soldani. 47, who told the court today that she is Preuitt's wife. was also sentenced this morning to two years in the penitentiary after she pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of narcotics.

She was sentenced under the name of Preuitt. The couple was arrested on Sept. 18 in Macon by the Highway Patrol after they had been sought following a burglary on Aug. 26 of Rhea's Pharmacy in Shelbina. A large amount of narcotics and about $150 cash were taken in the breakin.

Both confessed to being dope addicts and Preuitt admitted the burglary. He led officers to two caches, one near the Salt River at Hunnewell and the other near Warrensburg, where most of the stolen articles were recovered. The original charges of burglary and larceny against the man were dropped after it became evident that she did not take part in the breakin. The charge was then changed to possession of narcotics, Both she and Preuitt have been held in the Macon County jail since their arrest. Rites In Kirksville For Miss Ownbey Funeral services were held this morning in Kirksville for Miss Hallie Ownbey of Kirksville, a cousin of Charles Ownbey of con.

Burial was in the Ownbey Cemetery west of Kirksville. Miss Ownbey, who had been bedfast for the past nine years died in a Kirksville hospital. She is survived by one brother, Ben Ownbey, a former Kirksville resident, who is now ill at the home of his daughter at Poplar Bluffs. She also leaves several nieces and nephews. Masonic District Meet Thursday At Clarence Clarence Lodge, No.

662, A. F. A. will be hosts to the fourteenth Masonic District Meeton Thursday, Oct. 15.

A school of instruction will be held in the afternoon and third degree will be conferred at the evening session. The evening meal will be served at 6:30 by the Order of the Eastern Star. A good attendance is desired. Macon Troops Will Observe National Girl Scout Week From Oct. 25 To 31 Plans for the local observance of Girl Scout Week, which will be celebrated nationally Oct.

25 to 31, were made at a meeting of Girl Scout Troop Leaders and Council members last night at the Episcopal Church, with Mrs. Web Brown, council chairman, ing. The activities for Girl Scout Week in Macon will include the Penny Carnival, which the Scouts have held annually for a number of years, with the proceeds used to finance the annual Outdoor Day, also one of the traditional Girl Scout Week affairs. The Girl Scouts will attend church in a body on National Girl Scout Sunday, Oct. 25, with tentative plans this year, for attendance at St.

James Episcopal Church. The group attends morning worship services at a different local church each vear. The Girl Scouts have also been invited to present a program at the weeky luncheon of the Macon Rotary Club on Wednesday of that week. The dates for the Carnival and Outdoor Day have not yet been I Killed When Jumps Into Path Of Truck KANSAS CITY (P) Donald C. Jobst.

25, Napoleon, was killed early today when he jumped in front of a truck, according to the state highway patrol. The patrol quoted the truck driver, Vernon Schmidt, 19, Brunswick, that Jobst's car was parked along Highway 24 near Buckner, Mo. Schmid told the patrol he first saw Jobst standing in the center of the road, and tried to avoiding hitting him but that Jobst jumped in front of the truck. 4-Time Mayor Of Cleveland Succeeds Taft COLUMBUS. Ohio (P) Democrat Thomas A.

Burke, 54-vearold four-time mayor of Cleveland. today holds the Senate post vacant since the death of Robert A. Taft, July 31. Gov. Frank J.

Lausche, of Ohio, appointed Burke late yesterday. It was a surprise announcement by the Democratic governor. Lausche's selection of his close friend and long-time political ally gave the Democratic party a 48-47 edge in the Senate. The other senator is independent Wayne Morse, of Oregon. Vice President Nixon holds the deciding vote should the Senate deadlock.

Morse was elected as a Republican but later bolted the party in a hassle over policy. The governor indicated Burke would not upset the precarious Republican organizational control of the upper house. Sen. Morse has promised to vote with the Republicans on organizational matters and with the vice president voting with the GOP in case of ties the party seemed assured of maintaining control of committee chairmanships, patronage and other advantages which go with majority dominance, The governor said he did not speak to Burke prior to the appointment. had no commitments to me of any character whatsoever." Lausche said.

"except that I anticlipate he will take no action to change in any manner the present organization of the Senate, and that, in the fulfillment of his duties he will constantly keep in mnd the interests and welfare of the general public." Sen. John W. Bricker, Ohio Republican, said he would have nothing 10 say on the appointment. Burke accepted the appointment humbly. He observed it is not easy to follow "a great senator, one of the greatest." Crawford Renamed Farm Bureau Head H.

G. Crawford. of Atlanta, president of the Macon County Farm Bureau Association. and all other officers and retiring director's were re-elected by acclamation at the first annual meeting of the organization held last night at the R.E.A. Building here.

Emmett Slusher, of Lexington, president of the Missouri Farm Bureau Federation, spoke on the development, growth and purposes of the Farm Bureau. Roy Davenport, organization field repector for the Missouri Federation, also addressed the group. During the business session resolutions regarding Farm Bureau policies were adopted, to be presented by the County Association at the state meeting to be held Nov. 5. 6 and 7 in Jetferson City.

Entertainment for the evening included music by the Excello Ramblers and refreshments were served at the conclusion of the meeting. MOBILE EYE CLINIC HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A mobile eye clinic is making its way along Pennsylvania highways. And if the examination determines serious trouble any necessary follow-up will be arranged by the agencies cooperating in the mobile project. One of the sponsoring agencies is the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind.

Judge Assesses Fine and Costs Pat McNamara Signs Receipt For Return Of Money; Case Closed business associate of the 6-year-old murdered child's father, Robert C. Greenlease of Kansas City. Still grieving over the tragedy and exhausted from 10 days of fruitless virgil, Ledterman told the story after returning home for the first time since Sept. 28. That the day his multimillionaire partner and friend issued a plea for help when Bobby was kidnaped from school.

It was a heartbreaking virgil, he said 10 days and nights of frustration, virtually without sleep. Ledterman said he arrived in Kansas City at 6 p. m. the day of the crime. Thirty minutes later he said the family received a special delivery letter from Carl Austin Hall, who with Mrs.

Bonnie Brown Heady confessed the kidnaping, demanding $600,000 ransom. It stipulated that $400.000 was to be in $20 bills and $200,000 in $10 bills, the money to be obtained in equal portions from all 12 federal reserve banks. "Fifteen other parties called demanding ransom from $5,000 to Ledterman said. "Had Mr. Greenlease complied with all of the demands, he would have paid 1 1-2 millions dollars in ransom.

But we knew which of the callers was the right As it was, the $600,000 was the largest ransom ever paid. United Nations Is Program Theme Of P.T.A. Meeting Mrs. Paul D. Hess, P.T.A.

program chairman for the year, presented a program on the United Nations the regular meeting of the Macon Parent Teacher Ason sociation held last night at the new Macon Elementary School Building. The meeting, which was preceded by a potluck supper in the school cafeteria, was opened with a United Nations devotional service by Mrs. Aubrey F. Moncrief. followed by a history of the U.

N. presented by Miss Betty Davolt, a Macon High School speech student. A film. "Americans was shown at the conclusion of the program. During the business session, presided over by Mrs.

James Davis, president of P.T.A., the budget for the 1953-54 year was presented by Mrs. C. L. Gipson, budget and finance chairman, and accepted by the organization. The room prize, given at each meeting to the room having the largest percentage of parents present was awarded to Miss Mildred Jackson's room.

Attention was called to the exceptionally good attendance at last night's session. The next regular meeting of the Parent Teacher Association will be held on Monday, Nov. 9, beginning at 7:30 J. Lynwood Cutler, professor of creative writing at the University of Missourt, Columbia, will be the guest speaker, I had disposed of the missing of the record $600.000 ransom paid by multi-millionaire Robert C. Greenlease to the abductors of his 6-year-old son.

The officer said Hall expressed a desire to plead guilty to the federal kidnap charge filed against him and seemed to be resigned to the possibility that he would be sentenced to death under the Lindberg law. At St. Louis, U. S. Attorney Harry Richards pointed out, however, that even in the event Hall were to plead a jury would have to make a recommendation of the sentence.

Therefore, such a plea would not automatically protect Hall against a possible death sentence. Regarding the missing ransom money for which officers have been searching in many places, the deputy said Hall reiterated earlier statements that he did not know where it was. But he said, the deputy related. he believes Mrs. Heady probably disposed of it when she was drinking heavily and has forgotten where she put it.

Hall was brought here in a car driven by Deputy Marshal Les Davison. He rode in the back seat, flanked by Roy Kirkan, another deputy and Sgt. Tom Fuller of the St. Louis police department. Mrs.

Heady, accompanied by two matrons, U. S. Marshal Omar Schnatmeier and one of the marshal's office aides, traveled in a separate car. Officers placed them in 11th floor detention cells in the county courthouse jail. Officers who made the trip here with them said Hall still insisted he doesn't know what happened to the missing $300,000 of the $600,000 ransom paid.

They quoted him as saying he hoped the Greenlease family "gets back all the 700 FURNISHES WAR BONNETS DALLAS (P) Eagles are getting scarce in these parts or Indians aren't the eagle-eyeing marksmen they used to be. So says Dallas 200 man Laurence Curtis. Ten Indians from Anadarko, Oklahoma, reservation visited the 700 to gather cast-off tail feathers from the floors of the eagle cages. They use them to make war bonnets. Fred Bollow, attorney for Mrs.

Mary Thompson, 68-year-old Gypsy fortune teller charged with fleecelderly Pat McNamara of $1295, appeared in Circuit Court yesterday and in a surprising turn of events announced that she was pleading guilty to the charge and would repay the stolen money. The charge was reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor. and Judge Harry J. Libby assessed a $50 fine. Bollow then plunked down enough $100 bills to cover the fine, the stolen money, and court costs.

He then obtained a signed receipt from McNamara that he had received his money. Bollow, the latest in a string of attorneys which Mrs. Thompson has retained, said that he did not know what prompted the woman to enter a guilty plea. He said in fact, that he had never met her, only corresponded with her. Yesterday's action brought to a swift close the two-month old case which seemed headed for a lengthy court trial.

McNamara. an invalid who lives with his aged sister on a farm four miles east of Macon, was robbed on the evening of July 27 when a man and woman, whom he described as Gypsies, entered his home on the pretext of being his friends, saying that they were going to buy him a wooden leg. The man lured his sister to the back of the house while the woman lifted his wallet and removed $1295 while claiming to be "blessing" his amputated leg. The couple then made its get-away in a black Cadillac sedan. On Aug.

8, Mrs. Thompson was arrested at a trailer camp near Moberly, after McNamara identifled her as the one who took his money. There followed a dramatic preliminary hearing in Magistrate Court here, during which a number of prominent Shelbina merchants testified that they had seen Mrs. Thompson in Shelbina on the evening of July 27 at about the time the robbery was supposed to have taken place. Judge George N.

Davis ruled. however. that McNamara's identification was sufficient evidence to bind her to Circuit Court on a charge of larceny from the person. From that time on Mrs. Thompson repeatedly showed reluctance to 'stand trial.

She twice failed to appear for arraignment in Circuit Court, and finally Judge Libby gave notice that 1 if she did not show up for trial on Oct. 20 her $3500 bond would be forfeited. During this time she also had attorney troubles, hiring four and dropping three. All her attorneys tried to persuade her to return and stand trial, but each time Mrs. Thompson claimed she was too ill to travel.

Hill Slaton Case Set For Oct. 20 set, pending the completion of final arrangements, but will be announced in the near future. Troop leaders were also reminded last night of the annual Macon High School Homecoming Parade, which will take place on Friday, Oct. 23. The Brownies and Girl Scouts have been invited to participate and the Council and Leaders are urging all troop members to take part, in uniform if possible.

The possibility of obtaining a Girl Scout film for showing at a local theatre during Girl Scout Week was also discussed and a committee appointed to attend to arrangements. Mrs. Katherine Robnett, Training Chairman, and Mrs. Frederick Wierichs, Program Chairman, outlined tentative plans for a leader training program being set up in Macon for Troop Leaders and other adult scouters. The first of the training sessions will be held on Monday evening, Nov.

16, at the Episcopal Church. It was decided to invite leaders from neighboring towns to attend if they care to do so. The trial of William Thompson Moyer, 21, and Mrs. Marie Ellen Henderson, 18, charged with the armed holdup of the Hill Slaton farm east of Atlanta, was set by Judge Harry J. Libby yesterday for Oct.

20. No date has been set for the trial of Mrs. Dorothy Ann Moyer, 16, also charged in the robbery. Mrs. Moyer was granted severance recently to stand trial separately from the other two.

The trio has been in jail here since Aug. 3, when they were picked up following the robbery in which $110 was taken. All have entered pleas of not guilty. R. Wilson Barrow has been appointed by the court to represent the defendants.

The Weather MISSOURI Fair and mild tonight and Wednesday; low tonight 40 northeast; 50 southwest: high Wednesday generally near 80. High Here Yesterday 70 Low Here Yesterday 40 7 m. Today 42.