Billings Gazette (Newspaper) - August 21, 1952, Billings, Montana Ill UNITED PRESS BILLINGS MONTANA THURSDAY MORNING AUGUST 21 1952 ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS Stalin Receives Premier Officials Of Red China Molotov Vishinsky Are Also Present At Moscow Fete London Aug Minister Joseph Stalin of Russia Wednesday night received Chinese Communist Premier Chou and several other members of the Chinese delegation now visiting Moscow the Moscow radio an- Wednesday night Deputy Soviet Prime Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and Foreign Minister Andrei Y Vishinsky also were present at the reception the broadcast said along with red vice premier Moscow radio said Chinese Vice Premier Chen Yung attended the reception along with Chinese tary and economic chiefs who came to Moscow with the Chou mission Stalin received the head of the Chinese also serves as red China's foreign minister several hours after it was an- that Russia has scheduled a meeting of the all-union congress of Soviet communism for October 5 to consider a new constitution abolishing the now all-powerful politburo Communist leaders were ed to shake up their hierarchy during the October meeting and possibly decide whether it is time for Stalin to step down The summons of the all-union congress of Soviet communism was interpreted authoritatively as heralding basic decisions on sian policy at home and on the future of the cold war The meeting will revamp sia's party machinery It will lay down future economic policy And it will determine the basis for Soviet relations with the rest of the world The election of Deputy Premier George as the main speaker lent weight to belief that his stock had risen considerably as potential successor to Stalin Allied Bombers Hit Red Supplies Seoul Korea Aug Thirty-eight United States blasted 400 acres of supply stock piles industrial plants and troop billets into a blazing inferno during a four-hour raid Wednesday night and early day on the red Korean capital of Pyongyang Allied Sabre jets earlier shot down three type Mig jets and damaged two in battles over North Korea the Fifth air force said It revised ward a preliminary count of one Mig damaged Communist night fighters mad a futile attempt to stop the raid on Pyongyang mounted only 24 hours after civilians had been warned by leaflets to away from the military tar gets I The far east air forces in Tokyo I said all the returned to their Okinawa base The raid was the first on the red capital since August 9 Pilots reported secondary ex plosions from fuel dumps and mu stock piles The raid followed a Continued on Page 7 Column 4 The Weather Thursday and Friday ept possible evening thunderstorms ir the vicinity Continued warm High day 90 Low Thursday night 60 High day 92 EAST OF Thursday and Friday except for widely scattered after- noon or evening thunderstorms warmer High temperatures to fln fair Thursday and Thursday night with a few isolated south portion Thursday after- n Thu loudy loon Friday partly cloudy with mostly In the south po Little change In temperature 80 to 90 WEATHER DATA From States weather bureau for 24 hours ending at Maximum Minimum sc far tniK month for same period of August a total since January 1 8.67 year ago 8.53 total for same period of August year ago total sin total for same period normal for August 79 normal for lui I to September 1 9.57 MONTANA AND OUT-OF-STATE DATA Max Mln Glasgow Great Falls Havre Helena 78 ei 49 Kansas City 95 71 Minneapolis is 61 New Orleans 93 New York 79 61 48 Salt Lake 92 fif HI Spokane 80 4f vre 04 22 Livingston 85 4 Miles City 86 fl Vital Statistics BIRTHS Boy Mrs John 308 North ond street Girl Mrs William Rush route 2 Mrs C 108 North street Mrs Conrad B 323 Broadwater Avenue Boy Girl Mrs Harry Swanson North street MARRIAGE Matt J 24 and 3 18 both of Billings T B 01 Casper Wyn wid Keenan B2 Wyo DIVORCE Ernest H from Lorraine L Heyd DIVORCES HUNTED Blanche Richard Aihley from Mrs Oswald Lord of apolis is shown at headquarters of Citizens for in New York The tall haired woman is an amateur in politics but Accepted the chairmanship of the tion because of a wartime quaintance with General Dwight D Eisenhower and because she likes to be helpful Fear 30 Yanks Drown in Korea Seoul Aug American soldiers were swept from a sandbar Monday by a flash flood caused while a typhoon lashed South Korea The Eighth army disclosed Thursday that four bodies had been recovered Details of the tragedy were sketchy The Eighth army said search parties had recovered the bodies from an unidentified river The other 26 soldiers still were missing The 30 men were members of a platoon which was on the bar when the flash flood bore down on them The typhoon swept across Okinawa Korea and Japan befon heading into the north Pacific The army said the 30 soldiers all members of one platoon were returning from a field exercise The young platoon commander lost his life while trying to savi his men All names were withheld Two boats were dragging thi river in an effort to recover more Forty-ninth division staff officers said the men splashed into the shallow stream at p.m Mon day A three-quarter ton truck car ammunition and eight sol diers churned into the water the platoon The men on the truck said the stream was at normal depth when hey started to cross But when the Continued on Page 7 Column 2 R R Rose Wins Wyoming Poll Cheyenne Wyo Aug Robert R Rose of Casper who said he built his political career an eye on a seat in congress had the Democratic tion for United States from Wyoming Rose who took leave of absence from his job as assistant secretary of the interior in Washington to make the race defeated four other candidates seeking the party's con- gressional nomination in the only major contest in Tuesday's mary election I have fashioned my career in public life with care Rose said on election eve so that I now come to the people of my state well prepared lor the heavy duties and responsibilities that come with being Wyoming's lone tive in congress His career has included a term in Wyoming's house of tives a term as mayor of the state's second largest and now assistant secretary of the in- The unofficial Associated Press returns in the Wyoming mary election as of p.m precincts of 678 for United Continued on Page 5 Column 6 Women Prisoners Scream Protests Chicago Aug five women prisoners at the ty jail beat their tin cups against bars and screamed their Wednesday when Warden Philip Scanlan denied them ing privileges Scanlan said two tablespoons were missing from cell block B and ordered all privileges revoked until they are found He said the spoons could be fashioned into knives daggers keys or weapons Wednesday was visiting day and many women were due to visit with husbands or sweethearts They can scream all they want Scanlan aid All I want art my two Swedish Charges Declared False By White House Deny Yarns That Margaret's Guards Bullying Citizens Washington 20 The White House said Wednesday it just isn't true that Margaret man's secret service bodyguards reportedly bulging with armpit artillery bullied and shoved dish citizens around on her rent trip abroad Indignation at the White House the state department and in secret service circles over the charges aired by Swedish newspapers matched the ill feeling attributed to the Swedes over the activities of the president's daughter's official escorts Intimates who know of the sity of President Truman's tion for his only daughter ed he must be particularly in- censed over the sarcastic comment by Sweden's largest newspaper Aftonbladet which Miss Truman is not in danger of her life in Stockholm we understand that she is not going to sing here Casting politics aside for the ment Republican Senator Wallace F Bennett of Utah carne to Miss Truman's defense with a tion that the hubbub was all stirred up by communists to win ganda headlines Some other Republicans un- teash critical barbs however ator Hickenlooper Republican Iowa expressed curiosity as to why Miss Truman should be eling with bodyguards at ment expense on a private trip abroad Presidential Secretary Joseph Short had a quick explanation The secret service he said is re- quired by law to protect the dent of the United States the Continued on Page 7 Column 3 Stevenson Hits At Corruption Minocqua Wis Aug Governor Adlai E Stevenson saic Wednesday that misconduct in gov is messy and must be eradicated wherever it is found The Democratic presidential nom inee said the best way to deal with corruption is to appoint qualified persons for government jobs in the first place and then deal ruth lessly with it whenever you fine Stevenson discussed the corrup tion issue at a news conference held around picnic tables on a carpet of needles from the tall pines which surround the home oi his friend Dr Clark W Finnerud The Illinois governor is ing a three-day holiday at home here He expected tc fulfill the tradition of presidential nominees by going fishing afternoon He was asked about his ence in a letter to editorial page Tom Humphrey of the Portland Ore Journal about cleaning up the mess in ington Stevenson replied that he under- stood Humphrey had issued a statement saying the phrase was contained in Humphrey's letter to which Stevenson had replied The governor said that his letter Continued on Page 7 Column 6 Casualty Weeps A wounded marine holds his forhead and weeps as an aid man reads his blood stained casualty report at a rear area aid station The marine was wounded while waging a holding battle on Bunker Hill Telephoto Girl Found Slain Palm Springs Cal Aug pretty Catherine Knodel 16 missing from her ands Cal home overnight was discovered slain Wednesday on the desert near this winter The girl's body covered only by a red blouse was found in the middle of a road connecting this resort with Thousand Palms A few hours after the some discovery the victim was by her father Erwin Knodel The father had filed a missing persons report on his daughter a tew moments before word that a girl had been found dead was re- in Redlands Knodel and Redlands Police Chief W E Slaughter raced to a mortuary iere and the father tearfully identified the girl as his daughter Deputy sheriffs said the physical indicated the girl had been murdered elsewhere on the desert and then her body was dumped out on the lonely side road Knodel said his daughter had re home alone Tuesday night while the rest of the family went o a swimming meet When they they found a note saying Mom I'm going out I'll be hack oon The father said Catherine WRS only in shorts and a blouse when he last saw her and was barefooted The body was found without shoes leading authorities o conjecture that the girl either forcibly taken from her home or iu vicinity or else she wai in tbt company of Platform Convention Of Montana Democrats To Open in City Today State and congressional dates elective and appointive of- delegates and leaders of the Democratic party from throughout Montana were as sembling Wednesday night in Bil lings as final preparations were completed for opening the party's state platform convention in the Lyric theater Thursday More than 200 leading crats of the state were expected to register for the Billings session Registration was open from 3 to 9 p.m Wednesday and was to be continued from 8 to 10 day Convention leaders said they were advised by the national committee in Washington that Mrs India Edwards tional vice chairman and director of the women's division will come to Billings to deliver the main ad- dress at the convention banquet Thursday night Reich Socialist Leader Succumbs Bonn Germany Aug Kurt Schumacher leader of the powerful socialist party of West Germany died here day He was 57 The crippled survivor of nazi concentration camps died of acute circulatory the socialist party headquarters announced The one-armed one-legged leader had been ailing for months Schumacher was a fighter all his life His enemies were the nazis the communists and chronic Schumacher lost an arm in World war I as a lieutenant of the kaiser's army A leg was amputated in 1947 after he was stricken with thrombosis during a visit to Britain His stomach was weakened by the poor ood and brutalities of nazi con- centration camps Right from the days of Hitler's Continued on Page 5 Column 2 Mrs Edwards who was for vice president at the Chicago convention is scheduled to address the banquet gathering opening at 7 p.m Thursday in the Northern hotel ballroom as the concluding feature of the state convention program The convention will be called to Continued on Page 5 Column 5 to lake Middle Course Boise Idaho Aug Dwight D Eisenhower said the Democratic tion is seeking with new names and new faces to lead the nation along a false path to the left and charted his cwn course in race for the presidency squarely down the middle way The Republican candidate in he first avowedly political speech since his nomination rejected the extremes of both left and the right and that the middle way is the only sure way to the future for free men Speaking from the steps of the Idaho state capitol after a con- ference with the Republican of 10 western states lower mentioned no names in his double-barreled attack on the democrats of he present and Democrats who propose to take over But it was clear that his pal targets were President Truman and Governor Adlai E Stevenson of Illinois Democratic candidate or the presidency Eisenhower said the only answer he present administration has In the problems of the day are er centralization of power seizure of private property regimentation of the farmers socialized medicine and the forcing of workers to work for the government These answers of the present administration which with new names and faces Continued on Page 7 Column 2 Young Auto Driving Champs Arrive for National Washington Aug 20 A group of youngsters are in town to prove what every kid has known all That they're er drivers than their fathers ever were Thirty-four state champions plus n entry from Canada are here or the first national It's sponsored by the national chamber of commerce and he Liberty Mutual Life Insurance The The only way to cut down he terrific toll in traffic is through education and he place to start teaching is with he youngsters Parents who disapprove ot their driving should take a ook at the test these kids will go before a champion is Friday night A few Park within six inches of the curb in a space 21 feet long out striking the curb Drive forward and backward through a zigzag course is at no point more than nine feet wide Stop on a narrow line ing both forward and backward Come tn a smooth stop from 20 miles per hour nn a line exactly 40 feet the braking point Max Tyler of the said there's no question but that the youngsters can drive better than their elders Five members of the and five youngsters took a driving course in Tulsa where our tional headquarters Tyler told me The kids then heat the in direction Athletic Park Pool To Close for Season Major Leak Discovered Athletic park swimming pool will be closed for the remainder of the season it was announced Wednesday by city park officials A major leak was discovered in the bottom of the pool when it was drained Wednesday and the pool was closed immediately for major repairs necessary to insure its opening on schedule next spring Don Greenley park superintendent said He said the work will be started It was announced that South park pool will remain open except Thursdays when it is closed for cleaning The park de- plans to keep South pool open until after the Labor day holiday unless storms or un- seasonal weather prevents Platforms Given At Boys State Dillon Aug parties at Boy's state published their platforms Wednesday and both urged reduction of the legal voting age to 18 because as one party said if you are old enough to fight you're old enough to The platforms were published by the Pioneer and Frontier ties shortly before intensive was to begin for slale offices at the annual American Boy's state held on Western Montana college campus In all 333 boys from all over the state are taking part in Boy's stale The Pioneer parly adopted a platform endorsing collective curity presidential preferential primaries in all states abolition of he electoral college and reduction of government spending The Frontier party headlined its Continued on Page 5 Column 1 Mitchell Takes Bourbon Reins Washington Aug 20 The Democrats switched their party chairmanship from a Truman man to a Stevenson man Wednesday and the two pledged a militant campaign would make a November victory inevitable Stephen A Mitchell 49 s Chicago awyer hanclpicked by Governor Adlai E Stevenson of Illinois re- placed President Truman's chairman Frank E ney One of first things on the locket under the new ment Mitchell told a news ence is a series of regional ngs at which party leaders and can get acquainted with Stevenson and himself Plans for the meetings which will start on the west coast early in September and be keyed with Stevenson's campaign itinerary were gone over day with the cratic executive committee This committee also ratified for all practical purposes the change in command of the national com- But the Democratic tional committee itself still must go through the legal routing of proving the Mitchell appointment A meeting for that purpose has been called for August 29 in ington but most of the 1015 com- members are expected vote by proxy The switch in chairmen cut one Continued on Page 5 Column 4 Husband Kills Wife And Wounds Self Seattle Wash Aug A aircraft er was shot seven limns and killed Wednesday by her estranged band who chased her from room to room in an boarding house firing repeatedly with a French pistol Police Officer Charles 0 Vinup said lhal when he arrived at Mrs Olga Gravis was slumped across an overstuffed chair Her 32-year-old husband Sam lay critically wounded on the floor a few feet away the gun close lo his hand Police said he shot himself Both she and Gravis were fully clothed Mrs William Gilroy 24 ager of boarding house said Mrs Gravis had run into her room Eve don't let Sammy kill Mrs Gilroy said Gravis chased Russian Communist Party Will Abolish Stalin's Politburo American Crew Rescued After Ship Is Wrecked Freighter Breaks Two and Sinks Following Collision Deal England Aug The American freighter Wester armer broke in two and san a collision in the Englis channel Wednesday but torts said all the crew were res cued Lifeboats from near-by Dove the through the Gilroy apartment and shot her once or twice by firing over Mrs Gilroy's shoulder and the heads of Mrs two small children who were in bed Then they ran into the hall Mrs Gilroy snid and he fired several more times Mrs Rose Elias another er said she got out of bed and opened her hall door when she heard the screaming and shooting A shot whizzed within inches of my head and dug into the she said ind Ramsgate circled the ship and picked them up as sh sank three hours after the crash Although there was no immedi ite report on the number of men n the crew 13 men were taken aboard the Dover boat and th by the rescuers The British rescue service radii said the Liberty ship split at p.m p.m as mercy ships loaded with and salvage gear raced tn her aid No details were available Before the split the bridge ha icen torn off and the crew wa reported standing ready to abandon he craft which had open after a violent collision will the tanker The ship had been wallowing helplessly in heavy seas with a gaping hoi torn in her side Her engines anc radio were wrecked or put out o The tanker an built last year was not damaged and radioed it did no need help The Western Farmer's owner the Western Navigation corpora tion said in New York that th ship carried a crew of 37 uncle Captain Gunner Utvik 52 a American of Scandinavian origin Glendive Man Is Masonic Head Helena Aug G Hoole retired Glendive news Wednesday was electee master of Montana Masons during concluding sessions of the eighty-eighth annual ion of the grand lodge nf Mon ana Hoole who was grand senior warden this last year succeeds Chandler C Cohagen nf Billings former publisher of thp Dawson County Review was to be late Wednesday Other grand officers named were I Edward Patterson of Edgar deputy grand master Earl S well of Great Falls senior grand warden and Charles G Johnson of Plains junior grand warden Ralph N Lodge and Edwin Grafton both of Helena were tn their respective posts as grand secretary grand treasurer Other grand lodge were tn he appointed during lation ceremonies During the morning business session a charter was granted to Bigfork 150 Reports of committees were read and adopted Carl Chester 1 Herman both of Helena were reelected In serve nn the board of trustees for the Masonic home speakers at morning session was Frank S Land nf sas City Mo founder of the order nf DeMolay and chief in the imperial council nf ihq Shrine Installation ceremonies will con- clude communication which attracted more than 500 visitors The sixty-third grand session of flic chapter of the Order nf Eastern Star opens Thursday ning in Civic Center Continued on Page 5 Column 2 Ding Dong Daddy To Face Charge Los Angeles Aug 20 Francis Ding Dong Daddy Van Wic was charged with bigamy in the marriage of his sixteenth wife Wednesday in a warrant issued by Assistant District Attorney Al Lucas Lucas said the warrant was issued at the request of Mrs Martha Van Wie of Long Beach Cal was telegraphed to land police asking that the conductor be ar- rested Van Wic who has had a crowded trolley ot marriages now is in an Oakland burlesque theater describing to the ences hit fabulous marital career Congress Scheduled To Meet October 5 Seek Output Boost Moscow Aug first national congress of the Soviet union's ruling communist party since World war II was called Wednesday for October 5 with a new five-year plan and revamping nf the party the big items on its program It will be the most important gathering in Russia in years The last such congress the party's eighteenth was held in March 1939 Prime Minister Stalin's burn a central committee agency to which world communism long has looked for guidance is to be abolished in one phase ot the party organization Replacing it perhaps with about the same personnel will be a presidium to guide the work of the central committee be- tween sessions Stalin himself may speak Another job for the delegates is issuance of directives for a fifth plan aimed to increase total Soviet industrial production by the end of 1955 by 70 per cent over output The call is out for more iron steel coal and oil electricity shipping cals timber The decree summoning the con- gress was issued by the central committee over the signature of Stalin in his capacity as general secretary The decree provides that there is to he one voting delegate one advisory delegate for each members of the party The party membership is estimated at from six to seven million so more than delegates are expected to he on hand The party secretariat remains undisturbed under the proposed new regulations for the party It is clear that the new pre- will have as much or haps more importance than the a lush command made up of Stalin 10 deputy prime ministers that theoretically has derived its power from the central committee The politburo was organized for political work The presidium is to be organized for guidance of the work of the central committee between sessions The character of the communist party also is restated The old statutes The inion communist party viks is the foremost organized detachment nf the working class of the the highest form of its class organization The party s guided in its work hy the theory of The new statutes The communist parly of the Soviet mion is a voluntary militant union of communists holding the same formed of people of the vorking class the working ry working intelligentsia An immense buildup of the Soviet union's strength s proposed under the new ear plan Pravda and loth published the texts of the by the central committee Some western diplomats dered whether Russia was shifting ler economy toward a war footing observers have been laying I hat when the to call the nineteenth party it would indicate the ians fell themselves in danger of war III The economic nf the con- gress was termed very by western in Vienna they speculated that eco- of the western hy an attempt supremacy over west among the Russians cnn aims In Washington American diplo- Continued on Pago 5 Column 3 Is Paid Oil Gas Leases Poplar Aug aid fnr leases nn cres of Indian land in the inn portion of the Williston basin Tames D Crawford f the Fort Peck Indian agency aid Wednesday Bonus payments brought 23 nf the total while rentals nf 1.25 an acre made up balance Highest bid was the an crc made hy the Murphy any Denver for a tract in county 13 miles north f the Crawford said leases wore creel Tuesday nn acres of land and on 121 acres nf tribal land About 000 acres of the land nnt bid on nf a location error in the will be Thursday the agency will open ids on a tract in elt county which adjoins the lurphy company lease on which iere is oil production
