Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - November 16, 1947, Waterloo, Iowa Section I to 12 ESTABLISHED 1854 FIRST WITH THE NOVEMBER 16, 1947 TEN CENTS Washburn Posse Seizes mm Buchanan Official One in Car Theft A By BOB McHUGH Courier Staff Writer la. Two caped fugitives from one wounded just below the left were captured by an impromptu posse of Jittle more than a dozen citizens of this quiet village yesterday afternoon and turned over to Waterloo who were on hand minutes after the The captured men are Charles R. 25, of and Richard Dean 16, of 111. It was Gilbert who was The arrests climaxed a series of escapades which saw the pair twice make desperate breaks from cap- Waterloo detectives late day afternoon obtained detailed confessions from both The statements made by the two men coincided and for the most Buchanan ty Sheriff Emery Hart's version of a gun fight at Independence when the men fled from his Arrested at Sheriff Hart arrested the two men Friday at 6 p. m. when they stopped at an Independence age for repairs to an automobile listed m the sheriff's office as a stolen took them to the office and started to search Hart I started to take a pair of dirty coveralls off of he passed a gun to man who promptly covered me. I backed into the closet to get my gun and they ran out of the of- Hunted Men Pose with Captors fired at them once while they were in the and they got into the I fired three shots at them in the elevator before they closed the and later found considerable blood on the Grabbed In confession he stated that he drew the gun bu that Gilbert grabbed it and it at him and He further declared that when Gilbert started to escape he broke loose from Hart and followed the er Hart sent out an alarm for the and Friday night Waterloo police recovered a car With an Illinois license on highway 297 about a mile and a half east of There were bloodstains on the front seat of the car and the rear end was punctured with a jagged bullet hole Glissman Had 111., police told the chanan county sheriff Glissman had a two-year prison record in He was released from prison 1o enter the armed ing to the sheriff's It was also reported that man is at present free on a bond for a crime in An alarm was sounded Friday night and yesterday until noon over a Waterloo radio warning citizens to be on the alert for the About a. m. yesterday two Washburn Jackie 13, and Franklin 11, were coasting with Sleds by the Rock Island road tracks below town when they were approached by the hunted mm m Raid Made by Surete Police and Troops With Four The surete France's backed by troops using at least four raided a Russian repatriation camp Paris and seized two boxes of it was announced Unofficial reports said the boxes contained 17 heavy chine From the huge military force drawn up against the it was apparent the French G-men ex- to find much more than the raid actually disclosed and were prepared to shoot their way in if The raid was made late Friday by three full battalions of meted security guards and 150 in- i of the surete foreign squad directed by the surete commander Jittery Over The size of the force massed against the which the sian embassy insisted contained only 58 indicated the French government was jittery over violence French by The taken wanted men over to Waterloo poUce Jack Richard Dean Cafi R. the other Another in dd near town WM Red Strike in Riot of Cerignola Italy A Communist called general transportation strike in Rome ended three hours after it started yesterday but cal violence that has wept 27 Italian cities erupted in he southern town of Cerignola a rioting mob of leftists in jured five policemen in a stree brawl Police reinforcements and four armored cars were rushed to 34 miles south of after a leftist mob fought with police in an attack on quarters of Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Catholic Christian Democrat The deputy police commissioner was seriously hurt and three bimen and one plainclothesman were The Rome Momento Sera said it had received reports to Build U. S. Defense Fleet D. A presidential committee last night that the government provide hundreds of millions of dollars to help build a merchant fleet in the interests o national defense Iowa Center of Sleet and Snow Storm It called for construction of 46 passenger vessels over the next four a cost of a for inception of an additional program to build oil tankers and dry cargo The report was released by Presi t Truman without comment on S Ut an of FOREIGN ROUNDUP asked how far they were from and wanted to know all about the boys Reported to Both youngsters hurried home and reported the encounter with the strangers to their parents Emil Washburn saw the two in the depot shortly before noon and notified the 63- year-old deputy George Major had learned uhe boys made and said he had heard radio broadcasts describing the Hemmer approached the two men the depot and demanded fi He was Hawkeyes Stun 73-7 Iowa's who m the Sloppy weather plagued half the nation hail or rain fell on most of the middle Government weather ers said the storm was moving ward New York and the New England In near the center of the bad a heavy snowfall made highways hazardous anc knocked out telephone cations between Ames and Des The snowfall ranged up to seven inches in some sections of the it was raining in southern Missouri Indiana and and southeastward to the Carolines and In the freezing sleet from Philadelphia and Baltimore eastward through he Pennsylvania North central Illinois was hit by a heavy snow and sleet storm which knocked down about 100 in Marseille and other ports as well as in In troops with au rifles raided several Com- union centers and arrested 82 of whom six were held for trial on charges of leading the riots and strikes which have paralyzed the port for the past four Reports from Marseille said that men and other strikers still were staying away from their jobs and that tons of food were rotting in the port. The strikes have spread to Sete and these reports describing the raid on the Russian camp said the leader of the French forces informed the camp commander that his troops were prepared by if any resistance was Tank Guns These accounts said the before the E- Meyers tried to ob and from Hughes whUe Meyers was a Courier 1 direct to Hughes Wants Retraction of Implied Fraud in Contract D. Hughes demanded yesterday that Senator Ferguson withdraw what Hughes called an that there was fraud and corruption in the millionaire wartime con- Instead came these 1. Disclosure by Hughes that the two security guards were deployed around the covering the in- mates with and a Hughes said he did not even know 2. Withdrawal by Hughes of an earlier statement that 100 of the 40 JAILED IN GAMBLING photo planes had actually been ordered on Sept. 3, 1943, before son TWA House and Senate to Battle Any Rationing or Price D. President Truman may ask tit emergency foreign aid session i of congress tomorrow for j authority to place commodities under price consumer rationing controls other An authoritative source said last night that the president had not yet made up his But a majority of his principal this source favor the he even favor position of such controls But most Republican house and i senate leaders apparently hostile to price and rationing con- and were expected to be none too cordial to the other the president will suggest for mg price Aid Gets The GOP leadership in both promised too priority to the administration's proposed program of emergency Italy and The senate foreign relations com- hoped to get the measure the senate floor by The house foreign affairs expected to complete con- sideration of the by Friday and get it to the floor the fol. lowing The meanwhile the weekend to work on his Monday which he will deliver in It was disclosed that he also plans to send a separate message on the long-range Marshall plan to congress in about 10 Marshall Plan Not The Marshall which may cussion by the special all there is nothing to stoo this during his earlier from talking about it if they want But the it was wants house and senate tees to have plenty of time in DRIVE IN SIOUX CITY were while four tanks drawn up before the gate with guns Newspaper accounts said sian leaders at the camp knowledged ownership of t h e seized arms and said they were needed by the camp The Soviet embassy said the arms could be accounted for by a 1945 agreement with France permitting repatriates to Russian or German arms with them when they returned to A communique by the ministry A r j j biggest drive in re- cent were at liberty day on bond pending Police raided 15 halls and cigar stores and reported finding 22 persons playing Others are accused of havine lottery 1ft IX V of interior said the identity check of all inmates was started after it wai found that four Russians in t camp had not been registered camp The Russians were identified as three from president and wartime air force brigadier had made his recommendations in favor of the Hughes 3. Denial by Lt. Gen. Ira C. retired deputy AAF com- of testimony that Meyers had bought of aviation stock in 1940 in his name for 4 A contention by Neil S. Los Angeles lawyer and wartime Hughes that ers tried to Hughes by requests for both jobs and loans during contract a v away your mops I've just A denial by made to learned from sources higher up in reporters after the hearing ithe field of It Says Here By Bob Hope which to study it before the regular session m Whatever Truman proposes IB the way of ures in his Monday he is bound to get a And if he mentions price control and rationing the battle is likely to get And Republicans are unlikely to approve his anticipated reiteration of opposition to tax cuts for Some told of the control authority said it might be smart tics to the president thing he asks Taft Opposes Then if the administration he had a wartime financial interest in the Aviation Electric which had of wartime aviation sub- denied hc held worth of aviation stock er he reported he had disposed of them in 1943. He said they went his are many dead and in The ministry of interior said i received no further reports be telegraph and telephone were cut and the main highway bad been blocked ef Giuseppe who said in Rome yesterday that the workers would hw into their own Jhe could not stop the nationwide sacked rightist and on page 2, rioted in and called general strike under the direction of Dr die Anderson whose offer to re- sign as University of Iowa grid announced earlier in All out in defeat 13-7, in one of Al Ney's story on page 33. Other features It or Cedar Falls City in Brief Markets 32 Iowa Programs 35, 36 18, 19 Storm warnings were posted on Lake Michigan from and South Winds up to 35 and 40 miles per hour were but the weather bureau said they would diminish tonight Rain which fell on the parched winter wheat belt had In the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. reported that 340 were broken down by the heavy isolating 34 small Damage to telephone facilities estimated at to 000 officials said 200 had been sent out Jo restore I Mrs. and children ranging in seven to 10. Report Move to Aid Europe with Goods Instead of Cash I All of you housewives may now put away your mops I've f- in- the GOP the thls was not I eggS no longer roll off the kitchen table splatter your nylon clad shins will now be The square egg is reported to Sen. Robert A. Taft chief GOP senate spokesman on tic is flatly opposed reimposition of price and be a great y boon to and But I'm afraid it will put an I awful strain om the i Square And Chairman Jesse P. Wolcott arr h u r t i n gi of the house production committee which has tion economic yesterday no chance another A Speaker Joseph W. said last night that he had act idea that price con- trol at the consumer levels be put through the At present foreign those made to Great Britain carry the stipulation that the tn the 22, 23, 24, 25. VJ Des Von Iowa was elected dent of Iowa REA ers club at iu Truman will lay his for for Italy and Austria before the opening session of con- gress along with a gested means of halting the rise cost of at home The authorities who asked not to be quoted by name that the use of U. S Latin American and farmer caught i A 1 Bob Hope his hen and rooster playing The chicken population is ty much annoyed at this introduction of geometry to the One hen square k n an killed herself trying to cut leading senate mer Chairman Walter F. of the finance committee said he would oppose any steps leading this country Into regimented to European Canadian products would be de- signed to reduce the drain on U. S They said the major products involved in the in the order of their are bread coarse fats or hard boiled and cotton and more than we can And a baby chicken hatched out Case of Emergency SQUare Thc Murphy -Id to be imK would apply only to inis square egg craze is bound foods other to hurt my I don't mind most directly affect living mg eggs but when I have to start Tnc President invoke DM that's too authority to them only If But no matter comr or Meanwhile Carroll the Republican national chairman called for cooperation be- tween the White House and the everything or if emergency tint yt The other which it believed the j
