Emporia Gazette, The (Newspaper) - June 10, 1947, Emporia, Kansas tonight Wed cooler cooler eastern fourth Wed high IS west to 80 cut THE EMPORIA GAZETTE EIGHT PAGES EMPORIA KANSAS TUESDAY EVENING JUNE 10 1947 VOLUME LVH NUMBER 265 Peak of Floods On Mississippi May Have Been Reached Over Persons Homeless in Illinois Eastern Missouri Hannibal June 10 W pouring into the Mississippi river which already have made more than homeless and have inundated nearly acres of farm land in eastern Mis souri westcentral Illi appeared today to have reached a high point end U S Engineers ex pressed belief that only further rains would aggravate the situation but they that several riv er towns In Illinois still serious flood conditions despite the promise of receding waters U S Army engineers and the Coast Guard had every available on the Job in the flood area and the American Red Cross had 50 staff workers and about 600 volunteers aiding the homeless was eight to 10 feet deep In of Alexandria Mo hear the Iowa the result of a levee break residents have been evacuated South Isolated Jn Hannibal a city th water 3 covered nine blocks of th towns main street Pour thousand residents Of South Hannibal were partially Isolated No buses were and at least a dozen stores fere Hooded Canton Moi miles up stream the river had reached a stage of feet an high Although half of the town Is un der water and a third of the residents are homeless relief work was reported well hand No trains or buses are operating out of the town and one highway is s A river land district levee two rolles north of Louisiana broke Monday flooding acres Sixty families In Louisiana were ated v v Rail Yards Flooded At where the Mis reached stage of feet on the waterfront were flooded but the situated on a bluff was not endangered Several persons were forced to evacuate homes in south traffic between St Louis and halted In central additional thousands of acres of crop land were Inundated as flood waters of the Grand arid rivers joined the Missouri river One levee broke above Monday flooding acres of bottom land and others were expected to fall Mis patrol closed U S Highway at Good Evening It hasnt rained since Saturday and some weather observers have started worrying about June drouth Maximum Minimum year year K 85 degrees Dry and Sunshiny Weather In Prospect For Kansas Farmers Topeka June 10 dry sunshiny weather In Kansas today cheered farmers and gave swollen Kansas streams further chance to return to normal Only rivers still reported flood ing were the Solomon the Murals des Cygnes The Solomon was out of Its banks at but little flooding was anticipated downstream by A D Robb federal meteorologist at To peka The Marals des Cygnes was back In its banks above and was receding there It was over flowing moderately from RIVER AT THE East Center street In Mo have sandbags protecting the doorways as flood waters from the river rise higher In the street Store buildings and telephone make weird reflections in the water AF mel to the Missouri line The warm dry weather Robb State Prepares for A Possible Disaster Adjutant Genera Is Named to Head U S Services Kansas Topeka June 10 Kansas disaster survey conference called by Gov Prank Carlson today design ated Milton R McLean state ad jutant general as head of govern mental services that might be re quired by the occurence of any disaster in Kansas Representatives ot the state board of health highway depart ment welfare board highway pat rol commissioned of Insurances of fice farmers union grange farm bureau the American Red Cross and the United States Army and Navy attended the meeting held in the governors office Names Red Cross In addition to placing McLean in charge of governmental services group designated the Red Cross as rU handle relief problems It was decided to take an In of materiel that could he furnished attending the meeting Mayors of other t of localities will be ask of contacted fb their efforts with the Red Cross state arid agencies disaster Eisler Convicted of Contempt of Congress Washington June 10 hart Eisler alleged No 1 Com leader In this country was convicted today of contempt of congress The federal court Jury only 20 minutes before re turning the verdict which car ries a penalty of a fine arid four months to a year Imprisonment Judge Alex ander Holtzoff set June 2 for Sentencing Eisler was Indicted on contempt charges for allegedly refusing to be sworn In for testimony before the house committee on un American activities He contended the committee refused to let him prepared statement before administering fe oath Park at Damaged by Fire Kansas City June 10 spec swept through the rol ler coaster and six other structures lit Fairyland park on Kansas Citys early today causing dam see estimated by park No reported In jured broke out In the mens locker of the swimming pool Jacent to the roller coaster was overed by Lloyd Lefevers night Jury Ponders Fate Of St Joseph Youth St Joseph June 10 circuit court jury resumed delibera tions today on ths old Stuart B Allen ministers son charged with the sexton of his fathers church The case went to the 11 men and one woman Monday night After two hours 20 minutes of deliberation the jury was ex for the night Young Allen the adopted son of Rev James S Allen Is charged with first degree murder In the Bulgarian Military Mission In Belgrade Scope of Conferences In Balkans Broaden Hungarian Coup By Uit Press disclosed today that a Bulgarian military mission was In broadening scope of Balkan which have de since the Communists seized power iri Czechoslovak military also was to arrive hi Premier Marshal Titos capital already host to a Romanian dele gation headed fay Communist Pre mier Petru Groza The Bulgarians Yugoslav infor mation authorities said actually arrived Saturday The delay in the announcement was not explained The Czechoslovak mission bly was to make a tour of Yugoslavia waved aside suggestions in a news conference Monday night that a Balkan federation such as has been suggested by Tito was in the Says Cooperation on Way But he sa Drive On Tax Evaders Nets Extra Revenue Treasury Campaign Brings In 180 Million Hike Figures Washington June 10 The drive against tax evad ers is now bringing In a month extra revenue and said today they hoped to boost that to more than Thousands of suspected Income tax evasion cases are under inves Many date back to war time and clamps are still being ap plied to numbers of persons sus of black marketing activ Given Thorough Check But farmers doctors dentists waiters and others who get much of their Income In the form of cash therefore can hide eas ily its true also are get ting a going over In checking on such groups said the customary procedure Is to take an area where members of the particular business or pro are relatively numerous and where there has been some Indi cation of tax evasion For over extra In taxes was collected in Kansas alone by of farmers tax returns arid on heir actual of said was nearly ideal for all farm crops and permitted farmers to get at long delayed field work and speeded haying operations The forecast however was for partly cloudy and cooler weather with a possibility of a few scat Record U S Wheat Crop Indicated A Bushel Forecast Is Surplus Available for Export Washington June 10 The Agriculture department reported today that the indi production of all wheat this year is bu shels the largest of record This forecast with indicated a month ago with last years record crop of and with a average of A crop of the size Indicated would enable the United States to con shipments to shortage areas for another 2 months forecast Included tered showers In the northeast part I bushels of winter wheat and of the state tonight Wednesday Is expected to be generally fair with cooler temperatures In the east Lows tonight will range from be tween 45 and 50 In the northwest to between 60 and 65 In the south east Wednesdays are expected to be between 15 and 80 Highs over the state Monday were near SO with Dodge City claiming the highest reported 94 degrees had a low Monday night of 45 degrees but minimums on the east and south were near 70 Only three Kansas points report ed any precipitation for the period ending at 6 oclock this morning Horton had 10 of an Inch Hanover 01 and a trace President Begins Good Will Visit to Canada Officially Greeted By Representatives At Border Stop Ottawa June 10 dent Truman arrived at p EOT today to begin a goodwill visit to thla capital the first such state visit by a United States dent in the history of the two neighbors L S St Laurent secretary of state for external affairs end other notables extended an official wel come as the United States chief executive arrived at Rouses Point N at a aboard an special train St Laurent was accompanied by Flay Atherton United States ambassador W H Measures chief of Protocol for Canada and three place who resigned to the President Com Norman Armour above was nom by Truman to be assistant Secretary of Stale to re AF Two to Europe This Summer For Scout Jamboree Bob Howard an Emporia senior scout and Everett Grimes veteran scoutmaster of Troop 152 of the First Methodist church will see Europe this summer as ni embers of the United States delegation of 020 Boy Scouts and leaders at the International Boy cout Jamboree at They will go as members f the Region a troop being made p of outstanding men and In tout work this 128 last fall Few Willful Violations Wichita June 10 field audit which brought In some In unpaid federal Income taxes last fall from farmers In Kansas mostly brought to light watchman Besides the roller coaster one third of which was destroyed the womens and mens locker rooms a cafeteria a game hall a shooting gallery and a home for park em ployes burned Harry Duncan park manager es the damage at to the locker rooms and swimming filtering was to the cafeteria to the roller coaster and to the shooting gallery and but few willful vi Prank E McMullan as collector of Internal revenue said today What the survey revealed largely was the of farmers with federal Income tax rules and forms McMullan added Theyve had several good crop years now but many had just come through the dust bowl years when ay taxes were tax ust made nd some Probably their own game hall Cause of the fire was not de termined Immediately Shotgun Blast Kills Hiawatha Hiawatha June 10 blasts fired through an onen win dow after midnight killed Harold Simmons 45 and seri wounded her hus band shortly after they had retired at their roadside Inn five miles of Hiawatha Sheriff Roy S Shofield said Sim ons was able despite a shattered left arm to drive into town to no authorities but could give no reason for the The sheriff said him the shots were fired a short time after the couple had gone to bed their living Quarters at the rear wf the tan a former country school house Schofield said Mrs Simmons was killed Instantly and that Simmons was taken to a Horton hospital Simmons left arm was broken in two places by the shotgun pellets Schofield said Simmons could ad vance no motive for the shooting and said he had no Idea as to the Identity of the assailant Typewriters For Rent End of school term finds us with a few first class rental typewriters per month Eckdall Fans for store office or home Vornado Is the modem air circulator Ask for free trial in your home or business Winter Furniture company 509 v A few good to leath of John A Frank sexton of he Christ Episcopal church Franks and mutilated body was ound hi the church undercroft 2 In closing arguments Monday he defense pictured the youth as i poor mentally defective boy ind the prosecution a cold blooded UK saiu cultural ana economic cooperation between his country and Yugoslavia eventually would lead to complete political cooperation With the Bulgarian mission was Lt Gen who a Yugoslav announcement said was in Belgrade for the Soviet The announcement gave no Indication of the purpose of the visit parliament was summoned Into session as rumors persisted that antiCommunist members would denounce Communist pressure Dispatches from Budapest suggested that the new Communistdominated government was widening its purge against dissident elements The Communist newspaper Szabadsag said the resistance certificates of nearly 200 persons including Josef Cardinal Mindszenty Roman Catholic primate of Hungary would be reviewed The certificates Indicate the holders opposed the Germans during the war Try Intellectuals The Hungarian announced that 43 including doctors lawyers and instructors would go on trial this month on charges of conspiring to overthrow the Hungarian These provided the lever with which Nagy was ousted In Moscow the Communist party newspaper Pravda said that certain Americans were seizing upon the Hungarian situation as 3 means of blowing up the United Nations Senators Vandenberg and were had no t he explained We found a few th vaders but most of the in their returns ad failed to file return ome of the evasion wa most of it Checked Farmers returns first d for selfevident err hen field men took th he farmers records when they wer also checking bank b expenditures for farm 1 of n vestments In bonds ai In the last two years he 19421945 period ha checked for other cla layers as well as fi Julian said In April and May th continued with 1946 r to the check list but n men out of the farm t ago in order not to ir he added Resurfacing Under Way Resurfacing of nine Hocks of Market street northward from Third avenue started at the Santa Fe tracks today The coat of surfacing material Is being mixed at the Kaw Paving plant on Santa Fe property along West South and Is being trucked to Maiset street The surfacing material mixture of chat crushed rock fine sand and VA Will Cut 6 100 From its Payroll Washington June 10 The Veterans administration today ordered approximately employes cut off the payrolls to meet a employment celling set by President Truman The reduction wil be carried out by August 1 the agency said adding that all those affected will be given dismissal notices VA said the overall reduction would mean cuts In 11 branches although very Increases will be made in two branch areas because of the work loads The branches were not Tax State Is 16 Mill June 10 A paid the federal gove in May of of Lynn R Broderick Internal revenue The records showed in federal insurance t and a reduction In ployment taje paid only by employer more persons Collections for th months this year i compart for the same ago the Kansas Inte officials said Firemen Work Three Emporio Dog Stuck Three Emporia firemen spent three hours Monday night on a rescue mission to retrieve a part Scottie and part terrier dog which got stuck to a drainage pipe at the northeast corner of Wilson park The dog named owned by Mr Mrs R A 923 State went along on a atthe park The little dog had a big time prowling around in the grass and Hours to Rescue in a Drain Pipe and Fred Fleeker answered the cal at oclock and worked until after midnight before the flog was released The firemen dug a deep hole by the drain pipe and tried various schemes to get the dog out rod was bent to form a hook and was tied to the end of a long fishing pole Finally the hook caught in the dogs collar He was pulled part way oat and ran the rest of the way then IN GENO Genoa Italy June 1 police aided by Br arrested 12 persons t and slum areas here search for In the which several proa received letter bomb last week DRIVER Kl AT FALt DA Fall River 1 Ellison 19 a ton farmers Mc a week Increas IB first five amounted to legion 8 Their acceptance or the troop ib on the basis of their and service in Scouting Howard an Eagle haS been n Scouting for four years and Is senior patrol leader for troop 153 of he First Presbyterian church Mr Grimes has been In Scouting 20 15 years of which as master for Troop of the First Methodist church He is widely throughout the Jayhawk Council The two will go to St outs July 8 for a training period of six days then proceed to Wash bushels of spring wheat A month ago winter wheat pro duction was forecast at bushels the largest of record for this type Last years whiter wheat crop was bushels com pared with the average of The spring wheat crop was fore cast at about bushels K month ago Production last year was compared with the year average of Most Forecasts Up Other grain crop forecasts In cluded Rye bushels com pared with last year and the average of Barley bushels com pared with last year and the average of Oats bushels com pared with last year and the average of Milk production In May was re ported at pounds com pared with In April this year In May last year and for the 10 year May average Yield Drops Egg production In May was re ported at compared with in April with In May last year nnd for the 10 year May average of winter wheat per acre was indicated at bushels Late News Bulletins Hurtsboro June 10 Mayor Hurt Vann said today he anil three other men rescued an Negro from a mob which liad tied a rope around Ills neck nnd were about to lynch him here this afternoon Report Mongol Troops Aided by Soviet Warplanes Sinkiang Province Invasion Confirmed By Chinese Agency Nanking June 10 official Central News agency today said government military sources con firmed reports that Outer Mon golian troops supported by four Soviet invaded province Thursday The agency said the Mongols modore P L of the Royal Canadian navy Brig S P Clark of the Canadian army snd Air Com modore D M Smith of the Royal Canadian Air force They boarded the train for the trip on to Ottawa The governor general and Lady Alexander end Prime Minister W L King head the wel coming party for President Truman In Ottawa on Platform The President smiling came out on the rear platform of his ar when the train came to n halt 600 yards from the Canadian border at Rouses Point A microphone was held by by a radio man Will you say hello to Canada e naked Speaking Into the microphone the said Im saying hello o Canuda right now Im very very happy Someone called for Mrs Truman Tho President that iha did not plan to come out on the platform but finally ha persuaded her to A Call for Hey Is Margaret there asked a small boy The Presidents daughter smiling too jollied her parents on the plat form Laurent told the President as he D and members of a tour New York as They will sail with the American delegation July 20 The International Jamboree will be 35 miles from Paris six countries are sending delega tions and it Is expected there will 36 approximately Scouts in camp Before coming home the will visit places In Prance Belgium Holland Luxem bourg and possibly England GI Escapees Break Another Road Block Heidelberg Germany June 10 German town of Lud was roused by a sharp burst of gunfire early today as a carload of desperate American soldiers who escaped Sunday from the military Jail broke through a road block established to trap them Stolen from a Colonel Riding In an automobile stolen from a UJS the fugitives roared suddenly out of a and drove headlong at military police manning the roadblock Pour shots were fired at the MFs who were by orders to avoid firing Inside the town limits The number of men in the car was not ascertained but It was be ileved to most of the six prisoners still at large Eight men originally fled from the Mannheim jail shooting It out with guards but Negro and one white captured Monday compared with 18 last year and for the average The yield of rye per acre was in nt bushels compared with last year and for the average No estimates were given for yield of other crops Crop Condition Given The May 1 condition uf crops In cluded All spring wheat 84 per cent of normal compared with 79 a year ago and 81 for the June 1 average Durum what 66 SO nnd 81 other spring wheat 84 78 and 81 oats 80 85 and 81 barley 83 79 and 80 hay all 87 84 and 81 88 85 and 81 nnd early potatoes 78 86 and 75 Stocks of barley on farms June 1 were reported at bush els or per cent of lost years crop Stocks a year ago totaled bushels or per cent of the previous years crop Stocks of rye on farms June 1 were reported at bushels or per cent of last years crop Stocks a year ago were bushels or per cent of the pre vious years crop The Indicated acreage of princi to be harvested the Indi yield per acre and the esti mated production respectively by states included Winter Kansas acres 19 bushels per acre and production bushels had penetrated to a depth of more than 200 miles nnd now were fight ing Chinese defense troops 20 miles of Tinda The official report followed closely R similar report by sources Until today the min of national defense had sup pressed u stream of excited cables to Moca newspapers by their Chinese correspondents In reporting details Central News reported In a dispatch from that bitter fighting was continuing between native troops and ing forces Strafed Chinese Troops The dispatch the agency said reported that accom the Mongolian cavalry and other troops Into strafed Chinese troop concentrations and bombed and strafed civilians and towns in the Invasion path No Chinese government official here immediately confirmed these reports but an official military spokesman referred the Associated boarded Mr Trumans private car I extend you a warm welcome to The President at the photographers shook hands with one of the four Royal Canadian Mounted who drew up In front of lila cur He took and daughter along for a visit In Ottawa where he will address the Canadian parliament nt B m Wednesday Press to the central News Agency The agency 1s a govern ment organ Military sources said It was he s ved that only a small number of native troops and a few trained officers comprise the west garrison The region ios been in a state of continued unrest since outer Mongolia was granted independence Military observers said that be cause of the great distances in and the of readily available forces It was unlikely the government would dispatch ate defense forces to Oklahoma and British agents suspects in from Italy and apparently chased a rabbit or over what all the fuss was about small took Beanie home where he ate a big midnight supper While the rescue work was drainage pipe The dog could back out and yelped for an hour or so before in progress Mrs Shillcutt returned home prepared coffee and sand Landrith for the Sen 10 ier Marine when hts truck overturned at the Fall River dam Ellison was employed as a truck driver at the government dam pro ject He was a son of Mrs Jess Chetopa Funeral services House Group Would End Sugar Rationing Washington June 10 banking committee approved oday a to end ra for home consumption Chairman said that the decision Uy an over whelming vote although not unan The was introduced by Repre Gamble It would have no effect upon price control of sugar nor would It directly affect rationing of sugar for industrial use Under the present law rationing of sugar would expire October 31 However the existing statute auth the Secretary of Agriculture to continue inventory control of sugar until March SI he deems It necessary Wolcott said he has assur ance of House action on the within the next two or three FACES LIFE FOR SALESMAN Olathe June 10 E Arnold 21 faced a life term In the Kansas penitentiary today for the slaying of Lloyd L Sutton Olathe salesman In June Convicted of first murder last month the youth was sen Monday by District Judge John L who over ruled a motion by Arnolds at for a new trial trial in tht same casn Is Frank L Baker also 21 of Mat toon his trial has been set for June 17 Services Held This Afternoon June 10 W Funeral services were to be held this after noon tit Topeka for George L Mc Clenny Kansas superintendent of public Instruction from 1930 to 1915 whose death came Saturday nt Winter hospital at a of several months ls survived by his wife three sisters and thne brothers He was n of Baker uni versity at Baldwin and of Campbell college nt Holton and was R veteran of the war Pennsylvania Coal Mine Stoppages Called Unauthorized June 10 Work stoppages among soft miners protesting labor legislation before congress spread to 22 mines employing men today as officials pon dered their strategy In the Idleness they termed The stoppages were scattered through the three counties that comprise the heart of nn rich southwestern Pennsylvania bi and Washington Two mines voted to resume work being Idle over the weekend They were the Gates mine of H C Coke company employ ing 400 and the Kyle mine of the same company employing 600 They account for a combined dally pro duction of tons Among the closed mines was the worlds largest tho famed mine of the company which employs miners nnd has normal dully production of tons Some of tho other larger pits affected range from tons to tons In output Without exception all of ths larger mines arc captive those mines whose production goes to steel plants and never sees the open market Mr McClenny was an uncle of Dan C McClenny 127 Exchange Innerspring mattress Winter Furniture Co Fred J Scott will be at Wednesday 1 k 4 protection 10 X Southern California Experiences a Real Traffic Jam Hal Boyle Los Angles Is a traf fic Jam in on the map as southern California The quickest way to bring tenor Into the face of a is to say My this Is a country I think 111 settle down He will give you a look of pained and utter dismay Por he haa all the neighbors he wants than he wants He woold like to censor Horace advice go west young He doesnt want to hear anybody say Cali fornia here I cornel He has come to the conclusion California has oversold the rest of America on the virtues of the balmy life here That Ufe U get ling less heavenly everyday thousand arrive to set up housekeeping The whole country seems to want to move one resident Theyve crowded everything out but the climate lot of people think they can come out here and live free In an orange grove If they dont find work Bat those days arc gone If they try that now find themselves full of buckshot You cant pick oranges for nothing any Chambers of commerce and local booster societies may take pride In great postwar growth Former Nebraska Governor Confirmed As Greek Aid Chief Washington June 10 Senate today confirmed President Trumans nomination of Diríght B former Nebraska gover nor as chief of the Greek aid pro gram It ako confirmed without oppo sition these other nominations Norman Armour of New Jersey career diplomat to be MC of state succeeding Braden ONeal former Kentucky congressman to succeed Paul V as American ambassador to the Philippines Monnett B Davis American con sul general In Shanghai to representative to tbe eco nomic council on Asia and the Far East meeting In Shanghai IS Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee rushed the through the saying that they required atten But the average by Increasing housing shortages and prices would like to put a fence around the state with keep out to discourage tive This is particularly strung arrivals soon as hey a job and a place to park the baby bugsy they Join on Vornado Fans three for cr homi modern air circulator Ask for trial In your home or Win er Furniture company adv A tew good rental machines a stock Boo aaee
