Hutchinson News Herald (Newspaper) - November 22, 1943, Hutchinson, Kansas Weather Not So Cool THE HUTCHINSON Final City Edition 142 NOVEMBER 1943 SINGLE 5c attles Raffing On Two Islands T m m inds Mother le Stopped To isit Is Dead anticipation of seeing his changed lo sad lil for avl lon on transfer from Osh to Santa the train Magnuson was Iling came into for 30mlnute stop Sunday ntter the cadet took n cab and led to Grace hospital to spend la time with his ra 125 East 110 he knew had been ill aching the hospital he learned mother had died nt The youths arrival here was by the family who Id been attempting to reach him Oshkosh through the Red Cross I Ih news of the mothers L tempting to a leave for mi after he arrived in Hutchin Mary Avis Red Cross was advised by the of the small group of from to telephone uita Ana headquarters BS the ive would have to be granted I Too Slow I The call went through to Santa Via Red Cross in five minutes it the secretary there had to get okay from Ihe commanding I at Santa Ana Time too short and when Ihe train is ready to leave response to the 1II had not come boys in Joup had learned of the tragedy lid dug into their for n of which they trued over lo Dunn lid Elsie USO to I liy flowers for the The in then took mat Irs in his own hands and gave I permission to remain I A few minutes Her the train left the Ana ed Cross telephoned that the had been granted and no Ije was being wired the train at lodge I two Others In Service J Two other sons of Magnu arc in who is the army at Camp and is expected to arrive and Leo in North T eland with a bomber repair Ether survivors arc five daugh Clara Smith of Pretty Helen McClelland lid Lillian Lewis of Castle Brn Graber ol Hal and Dorothy Magnuson of lie home five Carl of Ply Leslie and Victor of nuth Kenneth of and Robert al me two Pearl of Kingman and Keith of Washington state Ind six Kuan of Harry Koon of Koon cf Koon of Fred Loon of Wichita and Jerry Koon Magnuson was born in and the family lo Reno county in Ihc was 81 years Her hus Swan a former of lied eight years His widow Jad been in ill health since last and Victor Magnuson Ickes Would Abandon Big Oil Project Washington IP Petroleum Administrator Harold to day denounced as not in the in terest of the government the Cano oil project in said it had been undertaken by the war de without prior consulta tion with his and asserted it ought to be junked Departing from a prepared statement to the senates Truman svar investigating Ikes told Chairman Truman CD It never would have been un if we had had anything o say about We might as well save the it is estimated it will cost lo complete 1 Its not sound business judg to buy something that Is i worth nothing and will have no lvalue after the in order to benefit the Imperial Oil company and the Canadian j Calling for a reexamination of Ickes said I I dont think that it was in the interest of the If we had been we never would have approved such a con PACKING Is slory of a postman who rides the bus to the 1700 block of Buchanan every morning In cover his postal route from there by HP Is met every at 9 by a mongrel who lives In the regularly follows the Pete an Ills rounds and has learned In lighten the postmans burdens by carrying some of the The iloR belongs o and Floud Roberts who live in AP Store Window Shattered And Rings Stolen He made statement after Truman told him that postwar disposition of the project would rest with a Canadian and an American subject to certain The American government is to pay a barrel for the first Truman said with future withdrawals to be paid for at 50 cents That is the closest any of us have come to the Ickes He said the project wouldnt Ire here and r sons from In iana arc expected to come for Funeral will be at 2 in Union with Thorn Burial will be in peasant View cemetery at Dar Germans To Surrender In Crimea York Mar ln a German officer was captured at Stalingrad fnd is now a radio speaker for yic Free Ger said in a Mos broadcast that the German Irmy had five to seven divisions bottled up in the Cri Lattman called upon the divisional commanders to re the human aspects of J and surrender to avoid senseless he Weather cloudy and not quite so cold In cloudy and continued cold In east portion tonight partly cloudy mid warmer Pretty Indian summer It was slightly Report High temperature Sunday 55 low Monday at Year ago low moisture Airport CAA Communication Station I i MI 3 ail 111 18 HI Ill u 36 J 30 The plate glass of the angling window at William II North Main was every place but where it should have the police found on investi gating at 450 Not but was also Rings ranging were in Ihc Magician W Earl Bolsford was hunting rabbits and wasnt having much so he poked a stick into a large rabbits scampered out but a hear and four cubs waddled Bolsford now is showing friends a 200pound bear which he killed with his have any value six months after the Ickes sentiments were concur red in by Gavin who said are a billion bar rels of oil in the earth waiting to I be coaxed out in his home dis Canol a head he and we ought to pull only was the glass broken 5 GOO worth of merchandise and called fo of the C Its just a bad a head n price from Tlie was reported by a who had I the place and saw shattered The 53 out of a display of were taken from the Some had been removed from their boxes and were thrown back into the Some had blood on them showing that the culprit had been Nothing to the left of the open ing was touched but everything to the as lar as the looter could was All kinds of rings were taken Newport Thieves cooked and ate several lobsters in the California Ma 1 line then stole 18 Police today issued n warning to the culprits See Experimenters inoculated Ihe lobsters with pneumonia Deaths Delay Subsidy Vote Washington sudden Los Angeles trP Ora Hock was fined for killing a neighbors Your he told the it was worth That rooster would sound off at all hours of the and I day a showdown vote on Ihe ad ministrations and removed from the scene one of the leading figures in the bitter subsidy Shortly after the house arranged to suspend business for 24 hours in respect to Ditter i a powerful figure in his partys killed in a navy plane Steagall fre an but administration stal lined up against the White House subsidy including wedding sets jusi couldnt stand it i a Washington hos and service rings for both men and Later in the clay some of the empty boxes were found in the doorway where the Stone Cloth ing 324 North Main was formerly No evidence was found of how Ihe window was All Ihe loss was covered by in Al opening time on masked men walked into the Kansas In stead of burning a ton of old election ballots as required by an ancient Kansas City Clerk Howard Payne and searched until they found a legal loop So the ballots will be turned in with other waste paper for store and held up the place get ting away with in watches and i No suspects have as yet been I An Unloaded Gun Is Lethal Discharge of an unloaded re volver caused the accidental death of Mary Jane 19yearold daughter of and Witt of the Puritan cafe at 11 The revolver had been in a showcase with a collection of used guns for sale at the Puritan for some All the guns presum ably were Witt His daughter had taken the re volver from Ihe case to show to a customer and afler the customer and his companion had gone to ward the rear of the cafe to be the gun was discharged apparently while Miss Witt was replacing U in the Only other employe in the front part of the cafe nt the time was Sue Lindsey who was busy serv ing the customers and did not see the The bullet entered the girls penetrating the right auricle and the She was rushed to a local hospital by ambulance but died shortly after reaching Cor oner Stewart pronounced Ihe death due to accidental shoot Miss Witt was born in and came to Hutch inson with her parents 12 years The family lives al 110 West Other survivors are two Betty Witt stationed with the WAVES at and Jacquelin of the Knocked flown and mauler by two large 7yearokl Wayne Beatly didnt then or later when his mother administered first But when his shirt was moved and Wayne saw it was ripped to rags he began to And thai was my brandnew he Postman Satisfies A Strong Craving Wesley 220 East had a craving for bananas for breakfast Monday morn Theyre hard to find hut the hankering was so pronounced Edwards went down town and visited grocery No He went home dis While he was away Ihc had He had left a box for Edwards from his May of You guessed House Leader Dies Another Crash Victim Washington Henry IV j chairman of Ihc house banking died unexpectedly was the leader of the battle in the house against the ad ministrations food subsidy pro who was stricken with a heart had as chairman of the banking committee wielded powerful influence in this dispute playing an important role in lin ing up farm stale opposition to His death automatically Spence DKy to the chairmanship of he banking com Spence has taken the position that subsidies should be sus under the present circum stances in view of congress in struction to the president to hold the While Ihe Iwo deaths will delay the house decision in the contro it was not expected to af fect the Even the most i optimistic of President stalwarts on Capitol Hill have con ceded privately that Ihe measure banning subsidies will be passed by a substantial The subsidy vole had been Stone Refuses To Take Part Given By Law Washington Justice Stone said In a letter read to he senate today by Sena tor that he would decline to take part in ap pointing any member lo a pro posed war ballot commission which would administer absentee voting by the armed Under terms of the pending vote the chief could be requested by Ihc president to appoint an associate justice of the supreme court or a circuit court judge to serve as an umpire and cast the deciding vote in case of a deadlock on the pro posed bipartisan told Senator Green coauthor of the measure with Senator Lucas that the chief justices objection to fol lowing this procedure made il necessary lo rewrite the very heart and center of the de signed to permit service person nel to vole in years general Chief Justice Stone said in his letter to lhat he would regard the performance of such a function as outlined in the as incompatible with the ob ligations assumed with Ihe office of chief juslice and as likely to impair my usefulness in It is enough to without more that might be that ac tion taken by the chief justice in connection with the administra tion of the proposed legislation might become subject to review in the court over which he pre sides and that it might have po implications and political consequences which should be wholly disassociated from the duties of the judicial Stone Earlier in Ihe day a Republican caucus left the way open for individual to change the on the but the party members did not commit them selves jointly lo any specific Much of Ihe discussion in Ihe closed meeting involved a sug gestion to eliminate the proposal tor a judge to pass on contested Some members want the commission confined to two mem bers of each major party with a requirement that at least three members agree on any in an element of Demo cratic opposition with a challenge He was born at in Dale May served in the Alabama legislature and Force Is At Grips With Jap Defenders By McMurray Associated Press War Editor American forces invading Makin and Tarawa in Ihe Gilbert Is lands battered dugin Japanese defenses on those central Pacific stepping stones Monday with Ihe support of carriers sky fleets in fighting which Tokyo described as The offensive opened at dawn Saturday and its outcome must br decided swiftly because Ihc islands arc too tiny for large land forces and loo bare lo provide much Resistance on main enemy base in Ihe Gilberts which Japan seized from Britain two years was Opposition nil a seaplane was Admiral Cluster drive complimented the continuing of j tensive of and i Admiral in the southwest On Bougainville in Ihc forces enlarged and consolidated their bridgeheads at Empress Augusta On New the Australians lashed at Ihe Japanese with tanks within a mile of Both prongs to the constitutionality of the whole Windsor Satisfied With He Says Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived In Miami perturbed over reports that the duke is dissatisfied with his office of royal governor of the I dont know how that report could have said the for mer king of as his Am duchess listened aboard the Pullman observation car that brought them from Wash It is very I am quite satisfied and very interested in the The duchess nodded Alice Faye Again To Become Mother Hollywood UP Alice whose withdrawal from the screen two years ago to have her first child gave Betty Grable her big chance in is retiring again to await So is Miss this Both will return to the cameras after next Miss Faye is the wife of orchestra leader Phil Harris Miss ol orchestra leader Harry scheduled for this to be followed with debate on the new tax Jumps To Death From A Trestle Keith son of Fre da of this was killed Sunday when he jumped from a railroad trestle to avoid an on coming Young Cribbs and a Leon were hunting and in returning they started to cross the trestle at the east edge of Both youths jumped off the trestle when they noticed the train but Brinkmeyer was Sound Knell For Weevils New York W Discovery of i special kind of dust which pro grain from weevils and is likely to be of great value in pre serving Ihe vast stores now being accumulated in the United Great Britain and Australia is an in Monthly Science Britains wartime science The new powder protects a thousand times its own weight of It causes the weevils lo die of They perish in a few as against months that they ordinarily would live and The weevils greatest problem says the is con servation of living as it entirely on dry To the weevil has to con serve the water in his Nature has enabled him to do this ly providing a fatty film over his The film is very probably only a few molecules but enough lo seal in his store of Dust breaks this seal and the weevil perishes Labora Admits Springfield Robbery Ted was ar rested early Monday when he stepped off a train at Fort and later returned where he police to the burglary of earlier from a coffee was paroled last March from the date penitentiary after serving four years of a 10 year term for armed robbery of a cafe at Henry had represented the Third Ala bama district for almost 30 The congressman was a widow but three children After two years in the South cast Alabama Agricultural attended the University of Alabama and was graduated in He engaged in private law prac tice for a then was named Dale county After ser vice in the stale legislature he became Third district prosecuting attorney and served in that office lor seven years before being nom for the 64th Congress in He had been elected to 15 consecutive terms in the Mouse Physician George Calver announced that death oc curred at George Washington University hospital about Calver reported that Steagall suffered a heart attack after making a speech on Dies in Plane Crash navy circling helplessly and dropping flares through a heavy crashed and burned near here Sunday night carrying William Diller and to their A few hours earlier an army transport smashed into Locust mountain near 100 miles The plane became a blazing funeral pyre for seven oc whose names were wilh held by the Third service com mand pending notification of the next of Two soldiers found wandering dazedly a half mile Jrom the wreckage were taken to nearby Congressman a resi dent of and chairman of the National Republican con gressional was enroute with Commander from the naval air base to the navy base at Willow 80 miles from where the plane was executive officer at Willow The navy was unable to say why Ditler was aboard the Congressmen frequently travel on military planes when on govern ment Noted for his sharp tongue in house Ditter had repre sented the nth Pennsylvania dis since Survivors are his a daughter and a En sign William Ditter Sonju Henie Takes Spill During Show Indianapolis Sonja blond ice skating amazed spectators here night as she tumbled over a rail into an aisle in one of the num bers of her Hollywood Ice Re vue al Ihe state fairgrounds She suffered f pincers threatened he great base of Rabaul on New the southern end of which pulverized with a record load if 138 Ions of bombs dumped on Japanese on and and in Ihe air Fighting In Russia Forces engaged in the Pacific vore but a tiny fraction of those in violent combat in Rus where the Red army with massed artillery was opposing German assaults against heir Kiev SO miles west of he Ukrainian The Rus sians said the Germans had been since their recapture of but the Nazis claimed o have driven within 40 miles of The Russians called the situation The Russians mounted a new offensive thrust against inside the Dnieper to divert German Moscow The motion picture star was skating backwards when she turned a somersault over the rail The big crowd was silent as Miss Henie sat for a moment with her lory tests of dust on thin in her cial films substantiates this ex helped her lo her feet and sht The new powder was developed by Professor Kitchener and Alex ander at Imperial Daily Service To Sweden After Wai Los Angeles trans Atlantic plane service between Stockholm and the United say two executives of Swedish Air is anticipated after the The President and Chief Engineer are here on a shopping We can use as many planes an we can climbed back over the rail and re her act as the crowd gave her an Crash Victims Are Recovered In Ocean bod ies of lour seamen were brough today as coast guard cut ters searched the fogbound Atlantic off Cape foi more victims or survivors of a collision of two tankers 58 miles off the coast early The fourth naval district suit an undetermined number of met were with most but 43 survivors ahead nave been landed Must Collect Points From Citys Needy The Hutchinson Elks Club and the Salvation Army sre going plans for Riving baskets o the said resistance col of and other Soviet columns were gaining southwest of and in the area ot White Berlin reported a new Russian landing in the south if Gains In Italy Slogging through heavy rains in central the British Eighth army captured and San Pietro three and a half miles short of the highway junction of Castel di Large Canadian forces arrived to well the Allied Week end advances in the center have shortened the battle line by 20 Allied planes attacked Albania md north of The Yugoslav Partisans said they drove the Germans from Iwo vil ages in Bosnia and smashed a force driving in British destroyers intercepted a convoy in he Adriatic and sank one or two Lebanon Crisis Passes The crisis in Lebanon cased as the French reinstated the jailed president of Ihe Arab released Ihe premier and two other recalled Delegate Gen eral whose actions precipitated the strike and prom ised to negotiate the question of the A fourth great bailie for Chang sha appeared to be shaping up in central China where Iwo strong Japanese spearheads thrust with n 10 miles Support ing Ihe fliers starting many The Russian War and Ihe Working charged that extremist elements in Japan had supported Germany against Operation Pacific offensive against the Gilberts was mounted by veterans of Ihe Solo mon jungles and untried army probably from They went ashore after a week aerial bombardment and alli or Ihe magnificent Pacific fleet ahead with Thanksgiving The ability of the Elks club and tlie Army to give foods is somewhat limited by the points but this is offset by the act lew families in will need help this Major Norman of the Army reported barrels were being placed in all schools Monday morning for the collection of foods brought by It is doubtful much canned goods will be and such as there will have had points already The Army will distribute only the food collected in the Mostly Pointless Howard who is in charge of the Elks Club indicated only 30 to 50 baskets will be needed this Each basket will contain a apples and goods for which no points are The Reno County War Price and Rationing board has been au by the Wichita district of lice to advance points to any organizations planning to fix Christmas bas Thanksgiving or for the Must Collect Points Since the directive said ad vance it is expected giving away containing goods which require points will be expected to collect them from persons benefited and return them to the al though this point was not made Little Rock congre gation of tin Kast Side Missionary Baptist church unanimously had paved their way with a heavy voted lo defy the Office of Price Administration regulations re quiring charitable organizations In collect points for rationed foods given needy the James The OPAs district office here announced lhat charitable agen cies must register as retailers and collect points for rationed food they sent the message to Roosevelt This congregation look up a regular Thanksgiving offering of food stuffs for tlie Baptist or at and also an offering for a needy widow of a World war veteran and her four small We further intend lo needy people from tune l turnas the occasion and we arc nut Suing tin UPA regu New Trimming Of Payroll Demanded Washington Despite trimming of the federal civilian rolls by during July anil the a of runways barracks burned and oil dumps set afire in Ihc pre liminary slages nl Army and navy planes bombed the ob in waves and struck di blows al the Marshall Islands to the north and at 400 miles west of The planes flew so low tile pilots could see dozens of abandoned vehicles and a number uf landing barges adrift or defense dozen by the were thinned to shells and The Gilberts pin miles southwest of Pearl and lie just north of the equator and west of the In Date They are miles east of the great Jap anese naval base of Truk In the mandated Caroline and their total area is only half lhal of New York city The by Sen ator Hyrd UVa sairi the cuts already were attributable to its of finti personnel practices but it noted that from lo there had a net increase of report that could ho saved by overhaul ing the present antiquated per reporting Hurt Topeka justice of the is in broken suffered in u tall at his home Saturday Attendants said he rested former chief Kansas supreme Christs hospital with a Intercepted Letters DONALD M WAR PRODUCTION BOARD Dean Don As a sporting and to protect Hie loctt how about a bounty of three or four shotgun or every coyote
