FINAL EDITION L FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS continued quite Monday Bo OKLAHOMA Monday change Sunday Sit 90 and ARKANS anii warm Sunday and Monday VOL LVI NO 229 Publication Office 11 Gait Monday JOPLIN MISSOURI SUNDAY MORNING MAY 4 FIFTY-SIX PAGES 53 PRICE Ac COURT BANS STEEL WAGE HIKE DEMOCRATS HOLD COUNTY PRECINCT MEETINGS FRIDAY No Fights Over Indorsement of Any Candidate for dent tion Saturday LARGE TURNOUTS AT SESSIONS EXPECTED Chairman Patten Has Heard of No County Candidate for Delegate to the tional Convention The rank and file of Jasper county Democrats will have at precinct mass meetings and a county convention this week to voice their wishes with regard to the party nominee for dent but it appeared yesterday they will not scrap over ment of any candidate In all 82 precincts throughout the county the Democrats will meet et 8 o'clock next Friday night to select delegates to a county con- vention called by County Chairman Max Patten for 2 o'clock next afternoon at the courthouse in Carthage The precinct delegates will be chosen on the basis of one for every 100 or major fraction thereof cast for President Truman in To Name Delegates At the county convention they w ill choose delegates to state and district conventions to be held May in Jefferson City Unlike the Republicans the Democrats will hold no congressional district con- vention in the Seventh district ahead of the state convention In- stead two district delegates to the national Democratic convention in Chicago July 21 will be chosen at a congressional district caucus in Jefferson City apart from the state convention on May 26 While they expect a larger than usual turnout of the rank and file at the precinct level this yar be- cause of extraordinary interest in the 1952 presidential election per county Democratic leaders freely predict that delegates to county congressional district and state conventions will go wholly uninstructed for any candidate As a matter of fact they expect to find absolutely nothing to fight about at the county convention at Carthage next Saturday There aren't even any red-hot candidates lor district delegates to the tional convention Chairman Patten said yesterday be hasn't heard of anyone from county anxious to go to the Chicago convention Presumably there will be some either at Carthage or at the congressional caucus in City but Jasper county plans no contest Eyes to Washington For party horp have been listening for some word Jrom Washington as to the choice for the presidency succeed President Truman but none has come The only sentiment expressed here in behalf of any one candidate for Senator Robert S Korr of Oklahoma and that is largely bo- cause the senator has visited and in times and is well liked in party circles Of course if President Truman had decided to run again party loaders here would born tually 100 per cent behind him But since his withdrawal party ers think it will be a wide-open i ace in Chicago Jasper county Democrats do ex- to make a strong bid for ty offices this year They have a lull ticket except for circuit judge und hope to get out a substantial vot in the August primary Th re already is strong Jasper county sentiment for former ernor Phil M Donnelly for the ly nomination for governor ment seems divided between Stuart Symington and J C Huck Taylor for the nomination for U S ator Patten Not to Run Chairmen Patten has said he will not be a candidate for re-election I blowing the August primary so that there may be a contest for that office at that time However lhat is speculative inasmuch as an entirely new county Democratic committee could be elected in the August primary Thus far there has been no cation of party factionalism in the county this year and harmony is to prevail at Carthage next Saturday Following is the complete list of meeting places for the mass meetings next Friday night its announced yesterday by man Patten following conferences Major Parties to Name More Delegates This Week Ohio Florida Maryland and Alabama to Hold Primaries While Conventions Will Be Held in New York Illinois Nevada Michigan and Taft Victory in State Will Put Him Ahead of By the Associated A busy political week ahead finds every segment of the north south east and ing primaries or party meetings important to the national conventions two months away Presidential primaries are uled in Florida Ohio Maryland and New Mexico holding a state primary tions are in New York Illinois Nevada Michigan and Utah These are the 56 Republican gates 54 Democratic delegates to July national conventions ator Robert A Taft G O P candidate from Ohio winds up his state-wide with talks at a Lithuanian rally and at a high school He nas a full slate of delegates and an expected victory will put him ahead of General Dwight D lower again in delegate votes ing the past week Eisenhower had ahead for the first time Battle emphasis here was on Democrats with Senator ard Russell of Georgia and ator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee battling it out in the state's first Democratic presidential ence primary in 20 years While Russell was the favorite in the Tuesday primary Kefauver's lomey campaign was believed to be an effective getling technique and some be- he had a chance to upset Russell A record vote is expected The primary is a larity will be ed in later Tuesday cratic primary selects 26 delegates with 22 votes at the national con- vention presidential preference primary with national delegates to be selected at a later Siate convention Governor dore R McKeldin returned from Europe yesterday said in New York he hoped Maryland would avoid a fight in its Monday balloting He he liked both men McKeldin said that he as a favorite son date would have the Maryland votes the first convention lui but that from then on the Maryland delegation itself will de- what direction we are to take He denied that he had in- Eisenhower during a Paris interview Illinois Democrats to Meet The Illinois Democratic tion meeting Thursday to select 10 is expected to stay clear Of taking any formal stand on candidates Associates of the state's Governor Adlai E venson said he has vetoed a move to put the convention on record as favoring him for the tion In New York the state lican committee selects six COURT IS ASKED TO DAR ELECTION ON RESTRICTING Missouri Farmers tion Files Suit Attacking G O P Petitions ing for Referendum SOME OF SIGNATURES DECLARED ILLEGAL Allegation Made That Part of Names Were Solicited Be- fore Recently Signed BUI Become a Law Continued on page DOWN FIVE MIOS VICTORIES RIA GIVE UNITED STATES TWO NEW JET ACES AIR FORCE FREES FLIER LT VERNE GOODWIN RE- LEASED AT BRIGGS BASE BULLETIN Seoul Korea May Sunday American pilots reported they shot down two Communist fighter planes today near the Yalu river boundary to northwest rea The U S Eighth army said it inflicted ties on the Reds in April for the highest toll since ary Seoul Korea May Sabre jet pilots shot down five Communist MIGs yesterday in sunset battles near Manchuria that gave the I S two new jot aces the Fifth air force said today The air force raised the toll by one MIG after examination of gun camera film It said the battles produced America's fourteenth well as thirteenth jet ace The film showed Major Donald F Adams Mount Clemens Mich the newest are shot down two MIGs instead of one This his score to shot down and crippled The Fifth air force said the Paso Tex May tenant Verne Goodwin re- leased tonight from Biggs air force base where he had been confined to quarters since his court-martial for refusing to fly The most publicized of 14 air force stay down fliers went to his El Paso home immediately after being freed under tions other than honorable He said he was very glad to have the whole mess behind me Goodwin said he had no plans for the future other than to return to Jt would be his home at Las Cruces N M Discharge Monday Officials at Biggs said Goodwin's discharge will be issued Monday Today's unusual Washington an- that the former body Mass discharge be for the good of the ice was similar to one from last night There was no comment whether Jefferson City May 3 tft Officers of the Missouri Farmers Association filed suit today ing the Republican petitions to reler to the people the redistricting law The suit in the form of an in- junction filed in the Cole county circuit court asked that Secretary of State Walter H Toberman be barred from putting the on the ballot next ber The suit alleges that some of the names were solicited in the petitions before the creating the new districts became a law The Missouri Farmers ation is the largest organization of farmers in Missouri After Toberman accepted the Republican petitions as sufficient last week candidates for congress on a state-wide basis poured in By Tuesday midnight the filing deadline there were 4 licans and 49 Democrats toeing the congressional mark Eleven Seats to Fill There are only H congressional seats for them to fight over A large number of the candidates come from the big city areas of Kansas City and St Louis The M F A officers President F V Heinkel R J Rosier J M Silvey and H E Klinefelter said they filed the suit because without districts Missourians would lose direct representation in congress Meanwhile an attorney and a handwriting expert pored over the the secretary of office The attorney Scott Wright from the Columbia law firm of Clark and Becker said they in- tended to keep at it over the end to see if there weren't enough cases of fraud to throw the tions out That would be a different suit but designed to reach the same races by dis- this year William H Becker of Columbia as attorney for unidentified clients Becker said he would not take on such a suit unless he got both lican and Democrat clients to make it bipartisan He said he would make his clients names known if and when a court test is agreed upon Became Law March 5 The M F A suit alleged the redistricting did not become 7 WOMEN OFFICIALS UP Stella's Petticoat Government to Seek Indorsement at Polls Monday Stella Mo May seven town officials who were elected April 1 then resigned re- cently after an error in the posting of the election was reported will seek to regain their posts in a special election called for Monday by Magistrate Ted Bethea The petticoat government ran into trouble with its constituents two complainants discovered that the notice of the city election held April 1 was not correctly ried out Under state law ing village elections the council must appoint three election judges who in turn call the election and post notices of election Miss Cleta Card well elected president of the town council Apri 1 explained that the women followed a procedure undei the old Missouri statutes and she and City Clerk Irene McPherson issued the notice and posted it in rown The complaint on the conduct of the election was made by two men both of whom were defeated in last month's election The Stella officials were advised by county officials to resign and call a new election Only the resigned officials had registered as candidates today so Monday's election apparently will merely a formality and an ed expense to the community GAS FOR AIRLINES TRUMAN PROPOSAL CUT 30 PER CENT EFFECTIVE MAY 6 Order Growing Out of Oil Strike May Frove Severe Blow to Commercial Operations TO RAISE IS BLOCKED REDUCTION APPLIES TO PRIVATE PLANES Walkout Heads Into Fifth Day With No Apparent Sign of Quick ment in Prospect Denver May 30 per JOPLIN MUSICIANS SCHOOL ORCHESTRA AND CHOIR TAKE FIRST PLACE AT COLUMBIA move might set a pattern for handling other similar cases now law ln tne sense March A it was signed by Governor Goodwin said today the Forrest Smith But the Republicans gathered signatures on their tion was Me nor dishonorable Air torce spokesmen said that a release on grounds other than senator has visited ann pitted a total of 59 Sabres Jasper county several an undetermined number 4 j honorable usually was used in of Red jets In addition to the bag of fivo MIGs the Sabre pilots re- ported damaging a Captain Robert T Latshaw Jr of Tex was credited with his fifth MIG thus becoming America's thirteenth jet ace Cap- tain Robert J Love of San nardino Calif already an ace got his sixth MIG HOURLY TEMPERATURES Continued weather is in prospect for today the fore- cast calling for generally fair with high temperatures from 86 to 90 The mercury rose to a new high of 89 degrees as o'clock yesterday afternoon The day's low was 62 The mark of 89 was exceeded by only one degree last May A year ago today temperatures ranged 74 and 56 Hourly his district C S Continued on 4 1 2 p m 3 p m 3.30 p m P ft p m p m 10 II Noon 1 K m m m m m 7 p m S p m the case of officers instead of a dishonorable discharge They also said there was a difference in the effect of such discharge In this instance an other than honorable re- lease permitted Goodwin to re- tain his service insurance fits although he was compelled to give up veteran benefits Goodwin's case received more publicity than any of the other 13 two of whose cases have been dismissd and the others are pending Goodwin said lie refused to to England and back last De- cember 17 because his wife Betty 26 was in a difficult He said his wife's health was threatened by worry over his flights at the time The child was born ly in January when Mrs win learned her husband would be I'm very happy that he won his she said today FAST BRITISH JETLINER REACHES SOUTH AFRICA Johannesburg South Africa May 3 tfl The British jetliner Cornet streaked over the middle the world with a pay load for landing in tions long before that All those signatures were illegal for a the M F A suit declared And without them there weren't enough signatures in the required number of congressional districts The law says that for such a referendum at least 5 per cent of those who voted for governor n the last election must sign the petitions in each of at least nine congressional districts The Republicans figured they Funds Be Week To Operate Big Brothers Home HI S VIM p rn today The flight brought Africa less than 24 hours London and ushered in thf jet age of commercial air travel Thr hig ship which hore 36 passengers 30 hags of mail Continued on page Joplin Senior high school's sical students again carried away top honors in annual state musical competition at Columbia ing to information received last night from T Frank Coulter di- rector of the group Coulter telephoning The Joplin Globe from Sedalia Mo on the way home from Columbia said as nearly as he was able to check on ratings of other schools in the an- competition Joplin high school carried the field Springfield by a erable margin Band Second in Concert The larger Joplin groups in the annual festival took the following ratings in ing yesterday at The orchestra won a in concert and phases of the competition and the band won a second in concert and first in The large high school choir also carried away top place in both concert and sight reading divisions In addition to the group tions Joplin Senior high school students took 10 awards in ensembles and 13 wards in solos Coulter said the Joplin tion took 33 awards in various ensemble and individual events About 190 Joplin students made cent slash in use of gasoline for ivil aviation purposes effective next Tuesday was ordered late today as the strike of the nation's oil workers headed into its fifth day with no apparent sign of im- mediate settlement in prospect The Petroleum Administration for Defense PAD said the cut which will apply to both airlines and private planes will go into fect at a m Joplin May 6 The order would halt the use of gasoline for all sport or pleasure flights The order if put into effect would be a severe blow to com- airline operations It would probably cause the discontinuance of some short flights and tion of others Some lines were caught with short supplies of on hand when the strike hi last week Showdown in West Possible Meanwhile a possible shutdown of refineries in California producer of oil for Korean operations loomed California refineries have re mained open throughout the walk out which was called by 22 A F of L C I O and ent unions last Wednesday O A Knight chief of the Oi Workers International Union I O with headquarters in Denver warned we will strike certain plants in California if anc when necessary Bargaining out there doesn look too good right Knight said The union head said he has con- and reliable reports tha some of the companies are ping aviation gasoline eastward to supply commercial airlines Maybe we made a mistake in giving them a reprieve It is be- ginning to look like they are more concerned with making a dollar than in going along with our action in exempting California from the strike on account of the Korean Nation's Highest Tribunal Votes Against Increase Agrees to Review Row Over Seizure of Control of Industry Bargaining Talks Held at White House By DONALD SANDERS Washington May supreme court blocked President Truman's plan to give steel ers a pay raise over management's head today and an administration drive to end the great dispute by an agreement failed for the time being The president summoning industry and union leaders to the cabinet room of the White House this morning warned that he would raise wages Monday unless an ment was reached now But the supreme court quickly stepped in issuing an order freezing wages and working conditions until it could hear ments on the great Truman exceeded his powers n seizing the vast industry April 8 to avert a strike With the club thus snatched from its hand the nevertheless continued to press for an agreement between the two contending parties Contract Terms Argued Most of today and for nearly four hours tonight President Philip Murray of the C I O and the top steelmen argued terms in the White House Then shortly before 10 p m Joplin time the weary and gard negotiators broke up their MILLIONS ON TV WHITE HOUSE TOUR TRUMAN SHOWS AUDIENCE PUBLIC ROOMS AND PLAYS THE PIANO he added The union disclosed it had reached a settlement with an ern seaboard Company of which operates gasoline stations in New England 400 Join Strike Some 400 employes of the So- Oil refinery at Kan joined the strike tcv day as did 400 others at few bars of Mozart's ninth sonata Washington May holder Harry Truman took the tion on a television tour of the White House today and banged out a few bars of piano music for good measure With millions watching him on TV screens the president gave a chatty description of the first two floors of the revamped tive mansion as he called it while six cameras followed his progress from room to room On this first televised at-home any president has held one of the announcers asked Truman when he thought the White House reconstructed at a cost of over have to be done over again I think in about a thousand the president replied Program In a program televised by three of the four major works Truman personally showed off all the public rooms which tourists get to see The program also included tures of the first family's own ing quarters In the stately east room Frank Bourgholtzer until tomorrow The whole deadlock appeared un- broken Joseph Short presidential secretary told reporters he could give them no hint of ress Newsmen crowded around C T O President Murray Did he ex- any trouble in the steel Would there be another I don't care to talk about strikes Murray said The White House negotiations took on added significance because it was one of the first mediation sessions which the president self had opened He made a sonal statement to the conferees during the morning Steol Representatives Representing the industry in session were John Stephens vice president of U S Steel Corporation Ben chairman of Jones and lin and President A B Homer of Bethlehem Stool On the union side were Murray Arthur Goldberg attorney for the Steel Workers Union and David J McDonald secretary-treasurer of the union It was the climax to a con- drama that will go man to try out one- of the two mto he history grand pianos The whoi The president had obviously once hoped to be a professional counting on his virtual pianist needed no coaxing He sat j about a wage raise to down to one piano and played n quick end TO the dispute Third street area at lord 111 the trip in five chartered The agreement with the Boston leaving the city Friday morning was on the basis of and returning here early this Nearly students from schools over the state participated in the two-day event Joplin students participated in wage in- creases ranging from 15 to cents an hour depending on job ration Knight said the union was not too satisfied with the ment and stressed that it does not their division of the festival represent a pattern or a major with several other class A in ho schools from over the state in the j t t or schools performed for judging plant arp OI a that locked congress and Friday Accompanying the students to Columbia were Mr and T Frank Coulter and Mr and Mrs Oliver Sovereign ending with a sweep of his across the keyboard Then he had plunked out a few bars on from his harni other while standing up Obviously the president was joying himself as by remote court a mile away from the trol he showed the around his temporary abode HP told some of the standard as the one about First Lady Abigail Adams out her washing in Hie loom nnd the one about Polly Madison by n few calm dry words justices in their Here in brief aie the of this momentous 1 Truman called leaders ot the of cents hourly and 6 of President James Madison differentials for me a portrait of Washington j j and graveyard shift work re- Present wage scales range from to hourly and differentials are -5 and 6 cents The strike has idled upward of workers and posed a threat to approximately one-third of the country's average output of three t- million barrels of gasoline a day of 1 union to the it S a MI for on for 2 m It District residents this week will turn out in large numbers to ob- serve Big Brothers Week in towns and cities in four counties in- tended to bring in funds totaling least for the operation of the Big Brothers home here for the next year Mayors of towns and cities the district are claiming this week to be Big Pi others Week in conjunction with the dates of the fund-raising of the organization May 4 to May 10 Proclamation Issued Joplin's mayor H Chris issued the following proclamation to launch Big Brothers week in this city Whereas the week of May 4 to May 10 1952 has been designated as Big Brothers and Whereas slogan of the week is Celebrate and Whereas are a we for crewmen from children Jn the fullest cense in being blessed with the three years of magnificent of Big Brothers Inc in their home approach RIFLE BULLET BOUNCES averaged 390 miles in that night vicinity Is when the British bm ned the House U TO END gentlemen a settlement he would the ry on morning or oon as we can get aft it I i hi in A government estimate last week said the reserve supply was for 45 days at normal con- sumption children's needs Now therefore I H Chris Oilman mayor of the city of lin hereby proclaim the week of May 4 to May 10 1952 as Big Brothers Week call upon the citizens of this com- munity to join with each other and Celebrate our own great good fortune in having this to provide for the boy and girl needing help Highlights of the week will in- ilt Kroni of OFF WATER KILLS Independence Mo May 3 P A 22 caliber rifle bullet from the surface of stream and killed Jack Plum 13 south of here today Highway Patrolman Ross gore said Theodore Weddle 14 related that he was firing into the stream and saw a shot bounce off the water in the direction of the hoy on the opposite elude a Big Brothers Night at jbank said he saw the boy Miners park Friday when Joplin Miners ball club will The victim son of Mr and Mrs as their guests several children James O Vincent had been who are regularly housed et the ing with his family along Little Big Brothers home Blue river The accident occurred To launch week's activities they were walking to their in Joplin and other to Cleaning done afe the fray 4300 410 throughout the today will mention the Big Continued OP I I V I 111 d Truman s supreme court hear the administration mil the mat it quickly Frankfurt Germany P Me whether The I S army announced of the industry day it is knocking off sonic 3 p worth of its frilN ni the I lie domt with two of the judges decided to i-e It would ln v VJ would on- free and other The bowed to a st ite demand that n ut oil of the several thousand free servants Then came the massive whose wages came from West to plans man government funds as occupa- of tion costs the di- The announcement the 1j mills was lease of servants would begin un- a f to 0 vote of the Im- mediately and would be ended no action to change June 30 It did not go into detail orm or employ Nothing was said about special the consent of trains also d and coolly by the state no that which take troops to centers It indicated matter still being negotiated abide Now faster Keystone Phone the order Ho had dictatorial was f