J- 1 4 4 High 8 colD 60 1 FORECAST MIL The eastern hall of the snow flurries extending from The western half of the country ern and central Rockies. warming trend along the Atlantio CONFERENCE A IS CANCELLED SEATTLE UP--The University, of Washington announced Wednesday it has been cancel an important scientific conference April 7-8 because of its ban against Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, The university said seven of eight Eastern scientists who were to have led the conference signed 8 round letter refusing to apbecause of the Oppenheimer ban. Dr.
Henry Schmitz, university president, recently barred Oppenheimer's appearance AS A guest lecturer in the spring because of what he termed the atomic physicist's "governmental relationship." Oppenheimer was denied access last year to atomic secrets on security grounds. The conference, listed as "Symposium on the Molecular Basis of Enzyme Action," had been expected to draw more than 200 scientists from all parts of the country, said Dr. university Hans Neurath, Medical head of the School's Department of Biochemistry. The men who signed the refusal letter are Robert A. Alberty, Associate professor of line chemistry, University of Wisconsin: Korad Bloch, professor of biochemistry, Harvard University: David Green, professor of enzyme chemistry.
University of Wisconsin; thur Kornberg, professor of microbiology, Washinglon University of St. Louis; Henry A. Lardy, professor of biochemistry, University of Wisconsin; Willam H. Steain, a member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, and Bert L. Vallee, associated with the Biophysics Research Laboratory at Harvard.
Hanes, a professor of biochemistry The eighth scientist, Charles S. at the University of Toronto, did not sign the letter but indicated to the university he had similar reasons for not participating in the conference. The letter expressed the view that refusal to hire Oppenheimer had "clearly placed the University of Washington outside the community of scholars." Dr. Schmitz commented that the university's action had been misunderstood. He said no question of academic freedom is involved.
SOMERSET JUNIOR CLASS TO PRESENT PLAY FRIDAY The Somerset High School Junior Class will present oldtime "melerdramer" at the school gymnasium Friday at 7:30 p.m. The production is entitled "Deadwond A three-act play. The "spectacular dime novel drama" is complete with hero, heroine, villain, all of the rest of the usual epic production characters. It will be directed by Glenn Whaley. Deadwood Dick is portrayed by Larry Garrison and the "tender prairie flower" will be played by Janet Hood.
Larry Gentry is the villain. PERESS 1 4 Concert Series Highlighted By Spanish Dance Recital By ERCELLE LINDSAY Every now and then a touch of: forcigh 1 lands and. Old World Navor comes to licu of a trip abroad, and such WAS the dance recital last night presented by Sinda Iberia and her Spanish Ensemble at the Clayton Brownlee auditorium for the Community Concert Association. One need not trouble his Imag. ST; LOUIS PAPER SOLD TO GROUP I' Marion, Indiana, Leader-Tribune March 24, 1955 1 ST.
'LOUIS (-Stock control of the 103-year-old St. Louis GlobeDemocrat was sold Wednesday to Samuel I. Newhouse, owner of a newspapers. The price was announced at more than six million dollars. E.
Lansing Ray, 70, publisher and editor, announced the sale of he would newspaperis present the morning He said capacity. He also is chairman of board. Ray said Newhouse pledged himself to continue the present policies of the newspaper and to keep the present staff Intact. The newspaper has more than 1,000 employes, including 100 in the editorial department." Newspapers owned by Newhouse Include the Newark, StarLedger, the Jersey Journal of Jersey City, N.J., the Portland Oregonian, Long Island, N.Y., StarJournal, Staten Island Advance, Syracuse, N.Y.. Herald-Journal, Syracuse Post-Standard, Harrisburg, News and the Harrisburg Patriot.
Newhouse also has controlling interest in radio and television station. at Syracuse and A radio station Portland. The 'other major newspaper here la the Ray's family afternoon has owned Post-Dispatch. and controlled the Globe-Democrat for three, generations. His only son, died in 1946.
Lieut. Lansing Ray offers for There were numerous the Globe-Democrat, at least one at a higher figure, Ray said. The Globe Democrat, with A week-day circulation of nearly 300,000 and a Sunday circulation of 360,000, will remain under the same management. However, James C. Burkham, who has been president, will become vice president and assistant editor; C.
Arthur Weis, a vice president and treasurer, becomes president. He also will continue as treasurer. Ray, gave his health, his advancing years and the death of his son as the reason for selling the He added that he wanted to choose his successor. He said he had known Newhouse for years. 4-H Club JOLLY WORKERS FAIRMOUNT Program books for the year were distributed to members of the Jolly Workers 4-H Club during a meeting at Fairmount High School Monday.
Preparation af fruit salad was demonstrated by girls la the Food Preparation I Class. The class served the fruit salad as refreshments to the group. Those present were Patsy Judy Bannister, Becky Bannister, Linda Brandenburg, Kathy Bussard, Bonnie Cox, Ann Draper, Linda Garner, Susan Hackney, Mary Hammitt, Alice Harshman, Vickd Bonnie Lawson, Brenda Lawson, Shirley Pettiford, Lucy Poe, Betty Reismiller, Judy Saunders, Brenda Scott and Jo Ann Sloderbeck, 'Lee; Ann Titus, Delean Thomas, Mary Lou Thompson, Ellen. Underwood, Linda Wade, Phyllis Winslow, Lols Wilson, Sandra HipLinda Davis, Rosemary Cruea, Mary Lou Thomas, junior leader; Virginia, Salisbury, junior leader; Margaret Thomas, adult leader, and Mrs. Leona adult leader, BRAINWASHING (Continued from Page mansion.
There the group can see Soviet movies, listen to phonograph records, play pool, volleyball, or read endless propaganda volumes. School classes are conducted in the club. Communist propaganda 1s' pumped into such subjects as geography, mathematics, social sciences and German. Attendance is compulsory. The students are pald 80 East marks (about $5) a week, which is considered by Allied officials hardly enough to cover bare living costs.
Westerners who arrive with German girls arc encouraged to marry thus increasing their ties with the Soviet zone. Previous marriages -are ignored, since the defector is "building a new life." Married couples are provided with either two rooms or an apartment. Wives are urged to work. Defectors who respond well are featured as lecturers and exhibited at Communist gatherings. When their propaganda gloss has dulled, they slip into the grey limbo of workaday life in Bautzen.
Allied officials say the Russians get several benefits from the use of the Westerners: They. show non-Communists in East Germany that the West "is driving above-average citizens to seek haven in the East." They squeeze them of all Information possible. They "prove" conditions in the West are bad. WRONG PLACE NEW HAVEN, (UP) Harry Bethke was not happy to have a lost wallet returned promptly. It was given back by police who said they found it, complete with identification papers, at the scene of burglary.
Bethke was arrested. More careless drivers should realize that bars on jail windows aren't there to keep them out. ination to fathom the intricacies of the tatooing heels or rhythm cadences of Iberia, but only respond to the excitements of the castanets and energetic pirouetting body clothed in authentic and brilliant costumes. In hind Gypsy or Flamenco numbers, peasant interpretations, Miss Iberia was bold, dashing, and altogether a spirit of Spain. Jose Maresco and Vincente Carrera danced duets and joined Iberla in trios.
They were especially effective in their duet from "'La Vide Breve" by de Falla. It is interesting to note that the dancing which accompanies the great modern Spanish composer Manuri de Falla remains the classic Spanish. The formal movements At times A little incongruous to the modern music. The basic characteristic rhythm is the adhesive component. We were privileged to hear a great guitarist Rolando Valdes.
An artist of the' Segovia style, and an he played two intricate solos, encore which sounded for all the world like an Irish tune! After his last solo he. accompanied the dancers, which scemed more like Spain, but had not the concert hall qualities of the We could not pass Iberia without speaking of her deep and supplicating portrayal of the Spanish Civil War. The contrast In this subtle dance and flashing stilettos of the Jotas revealed a superb artist. There were two unannounced changes in the printed program, planist, of gave de us Falla, more "Ritual Instead Fire of when the "Viva Navarra." The other WAS interpolation of an extra dance, "Danse de Meunier" by de Falla, from the suite "El Amor danced by the two men. This was not a bravura number and was done with great finesse.
I' The Anal concert of this year's serles will be played by the renowned prodigy Michaci Rabin on April 15. TAKE-HOME PAY HITS NEW HIGH WASHINGTON (UP) The average weekly take-home pay of factory workers rose to a record high last month while their living costs held steady, the government The reported WednesdaYabor Statistics said the average take-home pay for a with three dependents was $69.17 a week in February. The figure was $61.91 for a worker with no dependents. Both were 79 cents higher than a month earlier and 55 higher than in December, Living costs were unchanged for the third straight month. The increase in take-home pay put the average buying power of factory workers above the previous December record and per cent higher than a year ago.
Acting Commissioner Aryness Joy Wickens of the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicted no substantial change in living costs for March. She said there is "nothing in the wholesale price indices to indicate any 'marked change" in retail prices. GEN. M'ARTHUR (Continued from Page One) Washington the invasion of Japan and the final defeat of the Nipponese would cost perhaps one million casualties. These reports were cited by backers el of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt as sufficient and good reason to make concessions to the Russians at Yalta. MacArthur said the Soviet Union should have entered the war against Japan right after Dec. 7, 1941. Germans At that had time, he halted said, on the European Eastern front and offensive the Russians' great counter warHad the Soviet then brought combat pressure on Japan in the Far East, Japan would have been unable to conduct operations on two fronts," the general said. ENOUGH TRAVEL HARMONY, Minn.
(UP) Granville Bates, postoffice employee here for 37 years, traveled 458,000 miles without a single accident as 8 rural mail carrier. Bates used four horses and seven cars during that time. Now he is retiring. UNCOATED CANDY, With warm weather on its way, it's time for pictures of pretty rirls in bathing sults. This one's called Candy Cole, and she's playing beach ball at sunny Miami Beach, Fla.
THE LUREAU 23 1955. in of a score or more possible this country and even on occanic islands. Preliminary w'or including carving of a 10 per cent grade road up the cliff, began last fall under an over-all contract let to man Engineering Los Angeles. The Las Vegas, firm of Lembke, Clough and King has the major contract for preparation of the sled track itself and its work, which began carly in the year, must be finished by, about June 1. So far, scrub cedar atop the mesa has been cleared on the track site and in areas to be occupied by supply, firing structures revetment, and from the which the experiments will be controlled by crews protected from rocket blasts by thick" walls.
Instrument mounts now used by surveyors but later to hold cameras -have been carefully installed at 28 locations edge of the clearing. The track, six feet, eight inches, wide when finished, will be middle. The mesa is generally level, but considerable work still must be done to fill in a few gullies and blast off some rocky projections to make the site perfect: Already completed is threeinch pipeline carrying water from a pumping station on the. Virgin River, below the mesa, up the rim rock to the sled site. Water is vital for all, operations, particularly that of filling a trough that serves as a brake for the spceding sled.
Most of the construction workers now live in Hurricane, three miles airline to the southwest; LaVerkin, just north of Hurricane; or Virgin, few miles southeast. A few reside in St. George, Utah, 20 miles to the southwest. I PROFESSIONAL TOUCH -ROCKVILLE, Conn. (UP) Farmer Myron Green, charged with kindling a fire without a permit, decided to be his own lawyer.
He was sentenced to jail for 15 days. Green hired a lawyer. The attorney won the farmer a sus- WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST will have fair weather today except for an area of snow and York Pennsylvania westward to Wisconsin and Illinois. country also will will turn quite cold over most of the country except for a enjoy fair weather except for snow flurries In the coast from Maine to Florida. (AP Wirephoto Map.) Temperatures Operation Smart Involves HURRICANE, Utah (UP) Al The Pioneer Mesa development Utah Rocket Sled Track trench in A 300- will have one tracks major were difference.
equipped foot-wide, muddy three miles north- 50 that the sleds, after travelling at clearing atop The older Pioneer Mesa, marks the 1o- high speed, stopped at the end. cast of Hurricane, unique project in In Utah, the sled will stop but cation of history. its cargo instruments or By American mid-summer, military the trench will mies, with human passengers exhave been of A transformed rocket sled track space, in A duplication of the efinto the cluded will be shot on off into underpinning will be used by the armed fect of ejecting a' pilot's co*ckpit that in testing ways that crews from a jet fighter or bomber. services escape from super- The south end of the mesa, could use to where the track will end, is A sonic aircraft multi-million in emergencies. dollar project sandstone cliff.
The "cap-rock," The code-named "Operation Smart." geologists call it the Shinerump is from the ini- formation, forms a wall some 200 The name the is project derived Supersonic feet straight up and down. tials of Track. Below the cap 'rock, the rock Military Air Research and sluffed-off sand descends 50 The Utah extension rocket of the sled pioneer track Na- sharply that the test capsule need will be an be shot only a few hundred feet vy installation near famed Mojave, project off the end of the mesa to have and the Air Force's where' an vertical descent of 1,500 feet. at Almoorda, N. That is why the, Pioneer Mesa officer 600 miles recently an hour travelled on 8 more sled, was sclected for the development than after studies that included surveys Hospital Notes ADMISSIONS ion; BIRTHS Emil Bosworth, Gas Mrs.
Lucy Jackson, 1515 W. First St. Mrs. James Sprong, E. Third, St.
"Raymond Harris, Matthews. Mrs. Donald Hale, 1723 W. Nelson St. Mrs.
Wilson Dickerson, Upland. Thomas Phillippe, 1620 W. 38th St. Charles York, 200 N. Nebraska St.
DISMISSALS Mrs. Ida McElhaney, 709 Spencer Ave. Mrs. Raymond Byer, 2824 S. Boots St.
Mrs. Paul Dunn, 714 W. Nelson Mrs. Eugene Wicker, Ind. 15.
Carey Bone, 2928 S. Washington St. Edith Escolt, 314 Whites Ave. Mrs. Wilfred Folk, 606 W.
47th St. Mrs. Joseph C. Dobic, 114 E. 14th St.
Mrs. Phillip Howell, Jonesboro, Mrs. Ralph Cook, R. R. 5, Marion.
Carl Owen, 120 W. 20th St. Jerry Brewer, Fairmount. Karen Miller, 2803 S. Landess St.
George Powell, 1309 Spencer Ave. Chester Landgrave, R. R. 4, Mar. Mr.
and Mrs. James Perkins, Sweetser, boy, 2:15 p.m. March 23. Mr. and Mrs.
William Eddy, 1410 W. Nelson boy 5:20 p. m. March 23. Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Tyner, 1508 W. Fifth boy, 7:22 p.m., March 22. Mr. and Herman Turner, 936 S.
Adams girl, 4:48 a.m., March 23. MYSTERY MAN IN MEXICO CITY MEXICO CITY UP--For a public figure, Frank E. McKinney Sr. of Indianapolis, former chairman of the Democratic 1 National Committee, was a man of mystery for a while Wednesday at the swimming meet in the Pan-American games. McKinney wanted to see his son, 16-year-old Frank compete' in the final race of the 100-meter backstroke.
But be didn't want his boy to know he was even in Mexico City, much less at the swimming stadium. An hour before the race, using side entrance, Dr. Harold Heening. manager of the American team and a prominent dentistsportsman of Naperville, Ill. ushered McKinney into the stadium.
Suddenly McKinney spotted his son and several teammates strolling into the place. Diznity and composure were promptly sacrificed A5 the elder McKinney dashed out of sight. up a convenient stairway. Later he crept back inside and -without a pass, incidentalslipped, the reserved press section. "I was afraid my boy might get a little nervous if he knew I was here," said McKinney, who flew unannounced into Mexico City Tuesday night from Indianapolis.
"Sure, it was worth the he exclaimed Sure it was, for all young Frank did was win the gold, medal for first place, tie the Pan-American record upsct two formidable rivals. After repeated hugs from his father, the slender, 148-pound junior confessed he hadn't really expected to win over such men as his teammate, Buddy Baarcke, or Pedro Galvao of Argentina. "About 20 meters from the finish I gave it all I had. I knew it was then or never," he said. "My father? no, I didn't have an idea in world that he would come all the way down here for this.
It's wonderful." NINE-YEAR-OLD ARRESTED HERE Marion police reported the ate rest of a connection nine-year-old with boy the Wed- rifling of A grocery store, cash regnesday in ister shortly after noon. Detective Capt. William Paulus said the boy was taken custody at the Washington School by Detective Darl Steelman shortly after the theft at Boyd's Grocery on Paulus East said most of the money Sherman St. was reported. was recovered with the exception of some change the boy used to purchase some He said the boy, took register $41.38 when from the the clerk store's was cash in the back room.
The youngster was turned over to Sgt. Ray Miller, city juvenile officer. MOTIVES (Continued from Page One) clear weapons would not be used in a police action which, he said, involves only restoring order. But he said that, in any war, "I know of no reason why a large explosion shouldn't be used as freely as a small explosion." Bricker Amendment--No, Eisenhower said, he hasn't changed his mind about a proposed constitutional amendment by. Sen.
Bricker (R-Ohio) to restrict the treaty making powers. Eisenhower op posed the amendment last year and Senate rejected it Formosa- -The President said no specific new program now is in progress outside the United tions looking toward a cease in the Formosa Strait between the Chinese Reds and Chincse Nationalists. On the Yalta papers, a topic of political bickering among Republicans and Democrats, Eisenhower took a much more restrained tion than some of his GOP followRepublicans. sold have out been China saying and Poland at Yalta and made other undue concessions to the Russians. Democrats have contended that any criticism of Yalta should be directed toward Soviet failure keep agreements.
Eisenhower said that good faith is involved in coalitions. He said' he believes that "all documents should be published" without "attempting to pin or assess blame for success or failure." pension of the sentence after telling the court Green's wife was ill. Esp Are CAMPAIGN WORKERS volunteer workers in the Grant County 4-H Club Park fund campairn are Liberty Township to the start of the drive in their area. The campaign will. close Saturday shown here preparatory community building.
In the front row, left to right, are: John 'night with a fish try at the 4-H Park Austin Tale, and Lawrence Barnes. Baok row, left to richt, Painter, Kenneth Earl Gibson, Harvey, John Gene Comer, Dalley, Albert Freeman, Howell, and Clifford Peters. are: 8 SITTING RULL "Folricchnic Bess Lad," just a lad as bulls go, has animals. learned The to sit, a bull unique displayed his talent at California State Polytechnia accomplishment among dairy young College', 23rd annual Poly Royal, a fair held on the campus in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Marion Area Deaths EARL E.
GREEN Funeral services for Earl E. Green, 57, former mail carrier. will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Allen Temple Church. In charge the rites will be the Rev.
J. E. Reddick, assisted by the wIlllam Perkins. Burial will be in the 100F Cemetery. A resident 2108 S.
Meridian relatives said dir. Green said he stroke had in been 1953. He since died suffering at 12:50 so a.m. yesterday. He had been employed with the U.
S. Postal Service as mail carrier for 21 years. He member of the National tion of Letter, Carriers Allen AME Church. A native of New Orleans, he came to Marion 53 years ago. Surviving are the widow, Maxine two children, Earl.
E. Green, and Mrs. Jacqueline Reed, both of Marion; the mother, Mrs. Grace Green, Marion and six grandchildren. The body WAS taken to 814 S.
Adams St. Friends may call the S. Adams, St. address until time for services. MIRS.
MYRTLE HINTON life resident 'of Summitville, Mrs. Myrtle Hin-1 ton, 69, died Tuesday at 11:15 p.m. at St. John's Hospital, Anderson, after being admitted Tuesday. She had been in ill health for three years.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Morris, she married Leonard Hinton in 1902.
He dicd in 1952. She was A member of the First Baptist Church. The body was taken to the Vinson Funeral Home here. Surviving are one daughter, George Lindsey, Fremont, two sons, Morris, Toledo, Ohio; and Robert, Chicago; one sister, Mrs. Martin Hinton, Summitville; two brothers, Kenneth Morris, Indianapolis, and Clyde Morris, New York City; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
MRS. JOIN PRATHER Prather, mother of Funcral rites for Mrs. Riggs, 155 N. Branson will be held at 1 p. m.
Friday in the Methodist Church in Rocky Hill, Kentucky. Mrs. Riggs has gone to Kentucky to attend the rites. braska legislators are having ble with a bill to permit position of water in some cities. Seems the printer is up the show.
Four times the has reached the clerk's office, a word spelled incorrectly. word: One of the easiest things is pick out the wrong size to Christmas present, SPELLING BEE LINCOLN. Neb. (UP) Ne- RALPIf CARR Last 'rites for Ralph Carr, 60, patient a at the Marion VA Hospital, will be held at 9:30 a.m. today at the Catholic Chapel in the hos.
pital. Officiating will be the Rev. Bartholomy, Catholic chaplain. Burial will be the pital cemetery. A World War I veteran, he died.
at the hospital Monday. He had been a patient there since 1932. Included in the survivors are two brothers, Joe, Syracuse, N. and William, Avon Lake, Ohio, and three sisters, Mrs. P.
J. of ger, Lakewood, Ohio, and Mrs. J. and Mrs. Florence Smith, both Oliphant, Cleveland.
Ohio. The body was taken to. 911 5. Washington St. MRS.
JESSIE SWEZET A former resident of Marion, Mrs. Jessie St. John Swezey, 76, dicd Wednesday in Lafayette. Death followed an illness of nearly a year. Funeral rites' burial will be at Lafayette Friday.
Mrs. Swezey 'and her husband, the late Dr, H. N. Swezcy, lived in Marion until 1911 when they moved' to Lafayette. Surviving are a son, John Ward Swezey, Lafayette, and three grandchildren.
A nephey and niece, Phillip S. Charles and Emilie Charles, Marion, also survive. L.EWIS ROBERT EVERS Lewis Robert Evers. 74. died Tuesday noon at the Grant Home.
A race horse trainer, Mr. was born in Ames, Iowa. 11e resided with the Waye Bembo family, for whom he worked, in Green Township before entering the county home. Funeral rites will be 10 a.m. Friday at the Swayzee funeral home, and burial in the 100F Cemetery.
Friends may call at the fudcral home after 4 p.m. today. ELDIN STRADGIIN 'Graveside rites for Eldin Straughn, former Marion risident, will be held in the IOOF Cometery at 2 p.m. Friday. Dr.
James Guthric, pastor of the ster Presbyterian Church will officiate. The body of Mr. Straughn, New York City accountant, was ed and ashes have been returned here following his death March 14, SCHOOL with bill He added that he plans to bring (Continued from Page One) The up at the 1957 session a bill, which failed to pass at the recent session, to make available 10 million dolto dollars a year for in state in a grants in aid for schoolroom construction. Lon raps. KODAK TE FILM DEVELOPING Using Eastman Kodak Chemicals Velox Paper FREEL MASON LEO HUNECK 1 Wash.
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1. -L 1 (Continued from Page One) counsel to subcommittee Republicans, and George Anastos, a former subcommittee aide, at the special committee's censure hearings last year prompted the ZwickerMcCarthy flareup Wednesday. said "told about him. The gencral added that "I did not" tell Anastos any of A variety of things about Peress that Anastos had attributed to Zwicker in a memorandum written for subcommittee files. McCarthy, referring to Juliana, contended Zwicker had been "rather free in accusing a young man of Zwicker said he had never used that word but did insist that Juliana had told untruths.
The a outburst which raised the question whether McCarthy had fired his former charge at Zwicker came as McCarthy told the general: "There is nothing funny about calling a young man 8 perjurer." "Neither," shot back Zwicker, "is there anything funny about calling a general officer unfit to wear his uniform." "It's not funny," McCarthy continued. "It's serious. It's very true-, What followed was smothered in la hubbub. de A 3 'I)' Mi.
