THE LEAVENWORTH TIMES Ninety-Sixth Year. No. 229 LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1952. -TEN PAGES (4 O'CLOCK HOME -PRICE 5c Outlook For Peace' Is Better: President Truman Sees Improvement in Year; To Report to People WASHINGTON (AP) President Truman said Wed-! nesday the outlook for world peace is better now than it' was a year ago. Truman explained, at his; last news conference of the; year, that he was referring the outlook for the cold wari in all parts of the world.
He said no new plan for ing the end of the Korean War has been submitted to him. But he added that obviously he could! not talk about such a existed, unless it was something one to be put into operation imme-1 diately. Truman announced he will ap-' pear on radio and television Jan. 15 from 9:30 to 10:00 p. m.
CST, to report to the people on the state of the nation. This address, he said, will contain some material in addition to what he will give congress in his formal State-of-the-Union Message early next week. He will not appear before Congress in person. Truman avoided comment on two controversial issues Gen.Ito Douglas MacArthur's latest blast at him and the status of Diplomat! John. Carter Vincent.
He had only a soft voiced no comment when asked about Mac-. Arthur's suggestion last week that the President. was using the at "bloody drama" of Korea "as means of self-glorification." On other matters Truman supplied these comments: 1. Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain undoubtedly will talk with him about such things as shoes and ships, and sealing waxa line lifted from "Alice in Won-. derland" to denote a variety.
of subjects--when Churchill pays a courtesy. call at the White House and has dinner with the President, following his talks with President-: elect Eisenhower next week. 2. If Sen. Taft has his way, the country undoubtedly will get back on a track it abandoned with the beginning of the New Deal.
said in New York Tuesday, after, a me: with Eisenhower, that he expected a "progressive" Repubican legislature program which "will put the country back on the road we abandoned 20 years 3. The Senate, said ex-Sen. Truman, ought to find some way to end filibusters. He declined specific comment, however on plans by a group of Northern Democrats and some Republicans to start a fight against the filibuster when the Senate meets to organize next Saturday. McCarthy Asks for Medals, Navy Says WASHINGTON (P) The navy, said Wednesday that Sen.
McCarthy (R-Wis) asked-in reply. to al notice of eligibility-for the six! World War I decorations he was awared Monday. It said he was entirely within his rights, The Wisconsin senator served asl a combat intelligence officer to a marine scout bomber squadron in the Pacific during the War. Earlier this week he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal and four gold stars in lieu of additional air medals. A navy spokesman quoted Under-! secretary Francis Whitehair as saying that McCarthy requested the decorations under a directive issued by the navy in 1944.
The awards to McCarthy were based on 30 missions into territory. The navy spokesman said that as an air intelligence officer, McCarthy probably rode with a number of navy pilots on those missions. Two Are Apprehended For: Liquor Tax Violation Here Two motorists arrested night by state Alcohol Beverage Control agents, today in city court were fined $5 each on pleas of guilty to violation of the state liquor tax Jaw. In addition each was assessed $7.70 court costs by Judge Watter I. Biddle.
The agents followed them cars from liquor stores across river where they purchased small quantities of liquor. They were! identified as John Glynn and Lipanot, both of Leavenworth. Biddle ordered the liquor confiscated in accordance with the law. Farmer's Share of Food Costs To Lowest Point Since the War WASHINGTON (P--The farmers' share of consumer spending for food has dropped to the lowest point since the war, the Department reported Wednesday. Tuesday, the COP Can't Find Out What Jobs Are Open WASHINGTON UP- Some Republican congressmen complained bitterly Wednesday they have been unable to get a complete, authentic list of government.
jobs available for deserving Republicans. After 20 years of Democratic presidents and administrations, these Republicans say they are having a tough time even learning what jobs are open to political patronage. Kansas GOP Leaders Agree On Job System showdown on the handling of fed-15 eral job applications from Kansas. Participants In a closed door meeting Tuesday said a plan by I. Moyer, GOP state chairman, handle patronage through the state central committee was not formally presented or considered.
1 MeDill executive tary of the state committee, said no formal proposals were made and no votes were taken on any subject. TOPEKA -Republican leaders in President Eisenhower's home. state have sidestepped Harry Darby, national committeeman, and Mrs. C. Y.
Semple, national. committeewoman, like-1 wise there was no formal action by the meeting. However, in a written statement following, the meeting, Boyd said' present were in general agreement that patronage matters! should be handled from the grass roots up, starting with the pre-: cinct and county organizations ini the time-honored way." "There's no change whatever in what it always has been in the, past," Boyd told reporters. The mecting was called by Moyer the announced purpose of considering a proposal to handle federal job recommendations through'old, party's state central tec. The proposal had threatened a party row.
Opposition to it came from feral sources. Some members of the state expressed belief Moyer was attempting to exercise 'a veto power over federal patronage. This the state chairman vehemently nied. CALLED FOR Dean Acheson today appears to give his explanation of (D-Ky) termed "startling" tempts to keep subversives (Wirephoto) KANSAS FORECAST Partly cloudy east, mostly cloudy west tonight; warmer east and north central; Thursday increasing cloudiness with light snow beginning extreme west in afternoon or evening and spreading eastward Thursday night over state. Low tonight 15-25; high Thursday 30s northwest to 40s southeast.
-The Weather- TEMPERATURES -Today: Early maximum 26 at 5 a. p. 23 m. Yesterday: Minimum Maximum 17 35 at -N a. m.
A year ago: 38; 32. RIVER STAGE 3.8 feet, a fall since yesterday of .1 of a foot and feet below flood stage. PRECIPITATION. m. From today: 1 p.
trace. m. RELATIVE HUMIDITY 38 per cent at 1 p. m. today.
SUNRISE 1:37 and sunset, 5:05. (Temperature readings from the Service.) Beer Licenses AreGranted by Commission Thirty-five beer licenses were approved last night by the City Commission but two were put aside. An application by Virginia Kochanowski for 422 Cherokee was held awaiting action on an appeal from a conviction in police court. This follows a policy established by the commission during the past year of not giving new licenses while an appeal is pending. The other application held was by Robert Swann for 403 Cherokee.
The application was referred to the chief of police for approval or disapproval. Charles Sampson, bartender employed at the tavern, is being held on an open charge in connection with! the death of Gerard Duffin lowing an incident outside the tavern Saturday night. Police Chiet A. C. Mistler said: today he had asked the board to delay action on the Swann applcation until investigation is completed in the Duffin death.
A request from the 174th Military Police National Guard unit that Ninth Avenue be opened on the west side and south of FrankTin school was accepted by the city. W. P. Kimbley asked the city's cooperation in matter. He also asked that Garland on the east side of the school be resur-itie.
faced. The comm'-sioners providing standby sourses of fuel for public buildings in the event a break in gas lines such as recently- left St. Joseph without gas for heating and cooling. Passed were ordinances allowling claims totaling $6,231.85, levyling a tax of $2.215 per $100 valuation. and fixing salaries for city Ohio employes.
from An ordinance vacating Second venue to was rood for the first time. In addition to the beer licenses approved, 12 taxi owner's and 15 taxi driver's licenses were approved. Given beer licenses were: Betty Harris, 701 Cheyenne; Evelyn L. Burns, 1001 Grand Avenue; Edward Aaron, 324 Cherlokee: Edward E. Ruga, 115 South Third; Dorothy B.
Swarm, Twentieth and Choctaw; John C. Mey407-409 Shawnee, for American Legion Post No. 23; Gerald Brooks, 115 North Third; Henry Bryan, 406 South Fifth; Warren Madison, 1704 Dakota; Leo Baragary, 527 Cherokee; Mrs. George VanEerde, 1501 Metropolitan; Joseph S. Ziellnski, 414 Shawnee: Claude Silvius, 310 DelSce BEER LICENSES Page 2." Naturally Texan Wins Prize In Annuai Liars' Club Contest Prime Minister BURLINGTON, Wis.
SOUTHHAMPTON, England (P- (P) Churchill sailed world's champion liar of 1952 Wednesday on the liner Mary for talks with President-elect announced Wednesday by the Eisenhower on Korea and lington Liars' Club, and the world problems. ner of the 23rd annual The 78-year-old British leader, Award is--not surprisingly who also is scheduled to call Texan. President Truman later before he After 12 months of takes a two-week holiday' in Ja- mounds of prodigious maica, was accompanied by Mrs. tales, the club selected A-3C Churchill. V.
Cummings of Dallas as The huge liner is due in prize prevaricator for York Jan. 5. tall tale about Japanese FAIR WHEAT CROP It will be New Year's Day, and 9:55 a.m. at Cushing Memorial Shawnee. Leslie is sitting who came from Cross Village, Haskell she came to Leavenworth maiden name, Shawanibin, means also his first birthday.
Leslie was born Jan. 1, 1952, at Hospital. He's the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Flint, on his mother's lap.
Mrs. Flint is an Ottawa Indian to Haskell Indian Institute at Lawrence. From to take nurse training at St. John's Hospital. Her blue sky.
TWO REASONS TO CELEBRATE-Leslie Rollin Flint will have a big day tomorrow. Acheson Sees No Security Danger in UN WASHINGTON (9-Secretary Acheson- said Wednesday tional security is not by U. N. employment of Americahs of questionable loyalty. But a House judiciary subcommittee that the presence people," as he jcalled them, among U.
N. employes does give the S. a black eye." There is no real threat to security, he said, because U. N. workers, do not handle matters with our national defense." The subcommittee is making a general inquiry into operations of the Justice Department.
It got into the question of subversives on the U. N. staff in connection with digging into whether the Justice or State Departments interfered in a New York grand jury's inquiry into subversive activities by U. N. employes.
Acheson had hardly settled into the witness chair before the Con-, gress members were sparring with him over his refusal to disclose the names of State Department employes who have handled investigation reports on U. S. citizens hired by the U. N. The department has refused give this information to the New York grand jury, to a Senate committee, and to the House committee.
Acheson said he consulted President Truman before rejecting the request from the grand jury, and that Truman instructed him to refuse to give up the information. The secretary went on to argue that it would not be good adminlistrative practice to subject subordinate employes to questioning by congressional committees or grand juries. "The subordinates do only what they are told to do," he said. "The responsible officers, however, can be put on the stand to explain their actions." Acheson agreed that U. S.
Lional interests are harmed by the employment of disloyal Americans by the U. N. "They have given the U. S. rep-; utation a bad name and a black eye in the U.
N. and shouldn't have been there," Acheson said. DENY ROSENBERG RETRIAL NGO NEW YORK IP -The U. S. Court; of Appeals Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling denying a retrial for convicted atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell.
First Degree Murder To Be Charge said also that farm prices declined 3 per cent in December, ending the year 12 per cent under the level of a year ago, or at the lowest level in more than two years. Wednesday's report described charges for assembling, process-! ing and distributing farm-produced foods climbing to a record level, while the farmer-producer': share of the food dollar slipped 'to an average of 46 cents. This figure compares with 49 cents a year ago' and 50 cents for the 1951 average. During the' war, the farm share climbed to 54 cents. Most of the increase in costs between the farmer and the con(sumer was attributed to higher wage rates in transportation, proclessing and retailing.
Looking ahead, the department said prices for hogs and possibly for lambs and lower grade cattle may rise this winter, but those for medium and higher grade fed cattle are likely to decline. The report on December prices said meat animal prices were down 26 per cent from the 1952 high and 32 cent down from the record reached in 1951. Hogs were listed as down to 76 per cent of parity. survey recently indicated pig producaltion next spring would be' down per cent. The department said corn prices.
now below government price support levels, are expected to strengthen further as marketings are reduced and increased quan-1 tities are stored under government! price support programs. Exports of U. S. wheat this season are likely to be down a third, the department said, because of supplies in other, parts of the world. Wheat prices also were support levels.
Farm prices as a whole were down to 96 per cent of parity in mid-December, compared with 99 per cent a month earlier, 107 per cent a year earlier and the October, 1946, record of 122 per cent. The farmers' problems were agthey had to pay for materials gravated by continuing high prices services they used. These prices did not change in the past month land were down only 3 per cent from a year ago. Second Child in Family Becomes Polio Patient Leslie Jean Patten, five years: has been admitted to the University of Kansas Medical Cen-1. at Kansas City, Kas.
as a possible polio victim. She is a sister of Samuel Patten. 7. admitted to the K.U. Center Both are and has children bulbar of Lt.
polio. Col. or-'and Mrs. Samuel M. Patten, 450-8 Kearney, Ft.
Leavenworth. The girl was admitted to the U. S. Army Hospital at the post Dec. and was sent to the K.U.
cenIter yesterday. -Secretary of Stale before House investigators what Chairman Frank Chelf evidence of laxity in atoff the United Nations staff. County Attorney To File Against Sampson After Coroner's Inquest Ends. A charge of first degree murder was to have been filed this afternoon against Charles LeRoy Sampson if warranted by evidence presented at the coroner's inquest. Sampson, 28-year-old and former protessional baseball player, was arrested Monday night in connection with the death of Gerard D.
Duffin. Duffin, 38, an employe at Wadsworth, died Sunday of head injuries suffered Saturday night in front of the tavern at 403 Cherokee where Sampson was ployed. County Attorney Colonel H. Boone said this morning he plans to file the murder charge immediately after the hearing, unless unexpected' developments arise. Coroner Charles Larkin had called for the jury to reconvene at 2 p.m.
today. It met Monday night and then recessed until after the funeral this morning. Friends and relatives of the victim crowded the Larkin funeral home for the. service conducted by the Rev. Fr.
Hilary Hill, Catholic chaplain at Wadsworth. Burial, with full military honors, was in the national cemetery, Ft. Leavenworth. Duffin was a veteran of World War I. Honorary pallbearers, all employed at Wadsworth, were Homer Rogers.
Paul Morris, Dr. Richard W. Good, Dr. W. I.
Hinkle. Dr. Manuel Slavin and Dr. James R. Burwell, Active pall.
bearers were soldiers of a milidetail from the post. Sampson was arrested after a couple from Piper, and Melvin Anderson, told of seeing Sampson strike Duffin. The husky bartender appeared not to be concerned over his predicament. Yesterday he refused a press photographer's request for a picture at the city jail until after he obtained a suit and a neck- Business Takes It Easy As New Year Starts Here There will be no mail delivery Thursday except parcel post and special delivery. The Times will not published New Years day.
Most retail stores in Leavenworth will. be. closed in with holiday rules adopted by Leavenworth Chamber of Commerce retail committee, April 14, 1952. Mail will be collected in the downtown district at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
and all outgoing mail will be dispatched as usual, Postmaster Francis McAuliffe said. Courthouse and City Hall offices will be closed for the New Year Rodney. Brodie 'Pretty Well' CHICAGO UP) Rodney Dee Brodie, his brain now covered by a shield of tissue, was doing "pret-lin ty well" Wednesday after plastic surgery, but his separated Siamese twin brother Roger remained very close to death. "Roger is very precarious and doctors still are amazed that he continues to live," a hospital spokesman said. Plastic surgeons wrapped a skin cover over most of Rodney's brain in a two hour and 15 minute operation Tuesday--the first since the head-joined twins were separated in a history making operation two weeks ago.
Doctors said he was somewhat "irritable" Wednesday but other-: wise was responding normally. Churchill Sailed Today Ou Liner Queen Mary TOPEKA (P) 'There is a possi- Air bility of a "fair to normal" wheat this crop if adequate moisture is re-: "One ceived in the near future, C. W. turned Lane, agricultural observer for heard the Santa Fe Railroad, said thought Wednesday. But he said two-thirds of theme.
main wheat belt is still in it trouble despite the additional moisture in- recent weeks. lieve Rail Workers Win Round on Pay Boosts WASHINGTON (P A million a quarter rail workers have the first round in their fight for a pay boost based on increased productivity, it was learned Wednesday. The increase, if finally allowed by an impartial referee, could the carriers between 50 and million dollars a year. Informed sources who may be named said Paul N. Guthrie, the referee, wired the unions all the nation's railroads he decided the government does have a policy under wage stabilization rules which allows "annual provement" pay boosts based higher output' per man Guthrie's next step is to decide how much the increase should the almost certain eventuality See PAY BOOSTS, Page 2.
DUST STORMS DUE FT. WORTH -The worst dust and sand storms since the 1930s may occur in West Texas and Oklahoma in 1953. Lands in' that area subject to blowing "have entered the new wind erosion season in the most, perilous condition since the end the blow years of the 1930s," Louis P. Merrill, regional director of the Soil Conservation Service, said" Wednesday. The move, so I just lay there when was they approached my bed.
Bur- "I heard one of them say, 'Do win- you think should eat him here, Ananias or should wee carry 'him a "After a moment's tion, the other replied, 'Let's cat sorting him here. If we carry home tall the big mosquitoes will take him Harry away from us'." the his Elliot Stein of Bristol. mos- won admiration for his fantasy about a lifelong: Democrat who, switched to Eisenhower. He enterCummings, stationed at Johnson ed the voting machine and grabbed Force Base near Tokyo, had the Republican lever. The GOP winning whopper: lever, unaccustomed to the touch night in July I had just of this through-and-through Demoin for the night when I crat, kicked back and broke his the door open.
At first it was one of the other 'Claims that the Russians diswho slept in the room with covered television, the gasoline enWhen I got a better look Igine, aspirin, light bulbs and the was two mosquitoes. They Isthmus of Panama were ruled out nearly six feet tall, and be- grounds they were the work of me, I was too terrified About 3 p.m. yesterday he was removed on his request from the city jail to the county jail because he said he didn't like the beds at the city jail. During a telephone conversation with an uncle in Bermuda, Sampson was overheard to remark that he was in a bit of trouble and was being held in a "small As the case approached the courtroom stage police continued to build up evidence to substantiate the report by the Andersons. Bill Vetter, 2107 South Fifth, saw Sampson strike a man in yesterday afternoon told police he front of the tavern Saturday night.
He also saw a man believed to have been Anderson walk from a truck parked in service station over to where Duffin landed on the pavement. Robert A. Viscosky, 518 Walnut, told police he was walking by the scene as Sampson was talking with Mr. and Mrs. Anderson.
His statement affirmed And. erson's report of part of the conversation he had with Sampson. Garden City Paper Sold to Harrises GARDEN CITY 9-Sale of the Garden City Telegram to a group of Kansas newspapermen was announced Wednesday by its publisher, Gervais F. Reed, The purchase includes Radio Station KIUL in Garden City, subject to approval of the transfer by the 'Federal Communications Commission. The purchasing group includes J.
P. Harris, S. F. Harris, Ottawa, and Stuart Awbrey, Hutchinson. Awbrey, Sunday editor of the Hutchinson News-Herald the last four years, will be editor and publisher of The Telegram.
Besides the Hutchinson NewsHerald and the Ottawa Herald, the Harrises publish the Chanute Tribune, the Salina Journal and the Burlington (Ia.) Hawk-Eye Gazette. The sale is effective Thursday, but the new owners will not assume full control of either the' Telegram, present KIUL owner, or the radio station until the FCC permit, expected in 30 days, is received..
