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4 No. 257 24-Hour United Press News Wire Beatrice, Nebraska, Saturday Morning, February 2, 1 1946 21 -Hour United Press News Wire Five Cent mm mvM WOE TO THE FIRE HYDRANT PARKER DRAMATIC COURTROOM SCENE i 1 introduce Labor Fact No Letup on Price Controls i x. i J- i -r. -it- VI if I 4 A DRAMATIC MOMENT in the Los Angeles courtroom at the inquest into the poison death of Everett McElhinney, 28-year-old returned soldier, Is shown above as the victim's wife, Mrs. Virginia McElhinney, foreground, and her mother, Mrs.

Stella Briscoe, lie prone on the floor. Both women fainted for the second time during the inquest, when the coroner's jury recommended Mrs. McElhinney be held for murder for putting arsenic in her husband's coffee. The widow told the jury that she fed her husband ant paste in his coffee "so I could nurse him and convince him that I loved him." But her husband died. (International Soundphoto) FIREMAN DICK FARMER of Los Angeles turns on the water after he finished a unique hydrant hookup to extinguish an apartment house blaze.

Finding a sedan parked before the fire plug, Farmer smashed Its windows with an axe and ran the hose through both. The motorist had another word for it than "unique" when he was served a traffic ticket in addition to the damage to his vehicle. (International) Girl Poisoned by Pastor Father Knew Too Believe All Perished in UAL Airplane Smashup (By? Farm Strike Leader Quits State Drive EDGAR, Feb. 1. (U.R) V.

Hubert Johnson, spokesman for a group of Clay county farmers who proposed a strike against strikes today temporarily discontinued his local organization efforts. Johnson, a small farm owner, said a proposed meeting ut Sutton today "probably would not be held," and that he was not planning to leave his farm. He added that a meeting at Edgar scheduled for Feb. 4 had been postponed until Feb. 9.

The 48-year-old Johnson, who proposed to neighboring fanners that they withhold farm products from the market until industrial disputes are settled, said the Farmers Union Cooperative at Fairfield endorsed the proposal yesterday. He added that only "a few" farmers attended the meeting. The spokesman said his followers would attempt to get other states Interested in the strike against strikes. Johnson said, however, he did not intend to participate outside his own county. Johnson said that James G.

Patton, Denver, president of the National Farmers Union, had not received any reports from his organization or the Fairfield branch of the union. Patten was reported as saying at Denver that farmers have not adopted an anti-strike attitude. Halts Gifts of IMRA Clothing Mrs. A. P.

Elliott, director of the packing center of the UN- clothing collection, last night asked that active collec tion be ended so that packing can be completed in time -for scheduled shipment of the Gage county car. Outcounty supplies accumulating for at the court house packing center, of course, will be received, but collection boxes in Beatrice will be closed today. The past week has been heavy on clothing and shoe receipts, Mrs. Elliott said. She estimated that this year's collection will equal that of last year In quantity and will exceed it fn quality.

Drive Chairman Mrs. Bruce Innls said the drive was an unqualified success. She thanks both the workers and the contributors. Willard Valdo Quifs Cass Agent's Post Willard Waldo, Weeping Water, has tendered his resignation as Cass county agricultural agent to take over his farm south of DeWitt.v Waldo, son of Mr. and Mrs.

H. O. Waldo of DeWitt, went to Cass county from Franklin county In 1940 to replace J. Quackenbush, who resigned to become farm! manager for the Scully lands at! Beatrice. I Official Statement as Truman, OPA Chief in Meat, Steel Huddle WASHINGTON, Feb.

1. (U.R) President Truman tonight scheduled a conference for tomorrow with Price Administrator Chester Bowles on price control in relation to the steel and meat packer strikes while Reconversion Director John W. Snyder was revealing that th administration intended keeping firm control of prices. Informed quarters believed that an effort will be made at tomorrow's conference to re solve the question of higher steel and meat prices. Mr.

Truman asked his steel fact finding board to prepare a written report on the Industry's costs, wages, hours, and earnings. The board will make no recommendation for settlement of the strike. Replying to a telegram from Henry Ford II who urged abandonment of price control, Snyder said that obstacles to production can be removed even if price control Is maintained. Ford had charged that price control was blocking production. "I agree that the tdtlmate answer to our Inflationary pressures Is production," Snyder said.

"I cannot agree, however, that we can abandon price controls in the meantime. The dislocations and hardships that would result from such action would adversely affect our industrial development for years to come." Snyder said he realized that current low volue of operations and expenses of getting Into production may raise manufacturers' costs temporarily higher than price ceilings. He pointed out, however, that Ford will be entitled to an adjustment In ceiling prices If they prove Inadeauate under the Office of Price Administration pricing formula. Former Employes Ask Pay Rulinq Change In appeals from an unemployment compensation ruling which denied them payments after they were laid off by the Beatrice Steel Tank company Anne Peterson Scholle and Eileen F. Hart yesterday started action In district court for a reversal.

Filing separate appeals they asserted they were regularly employed on defense work at the Beatrice factory until shortly after V-J day. They have not been returned to work since then although they said they are willing and available. They were prevented from receiving unemployment allow-ancs by the ruling. SAVE FAT for exchange of Nylon hose. Watch for announcement, adv.

Finding Bi Voorhis Measure Built on Ideas Advocated By Truman BY JAMES F. DONOVAN WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. U.R) Rep. Jerry Voorhis, D-, today introduced a new labor bill intended as a substitute for the sweeping strike-control measure offered by Rep.

Francis Case S. which Voorhis denounced as a "shot-gun approach" to the labor crisis. His bill is a new version of the fact-finding legislation proposed by President Truman. Unlike Case's measure, it would impose no penalties against unions. It however, for a 30-day pre-strike cooling-cff period, as do the Case and Truman bills.

The Case which the House permitted to be offered Thursday by a 258 to 114 vote, would make unions liable in the courts for violations of then-contracts. It also would ban violence by strike pickets, and forbid labor boycotts and foremen's unions. Both the Voorhis and Case measures are Intended as substitute for the House labor committee's watered-down version of Mr. Truman's original factfinding bill. Voorhis told the House during debate that he believed the sub-etition of the Case bill was a "shct-gun approach" but he added that labor was wrong In Insisting on no legislation "whatsoever.

'There are times when the federal government must step in," he said. "But congress should not, in a moment of passion, lead us back to days when Industry could pillory labor." He emphasized that his bill also would permit establishment of nationwide adjustment boards to help settle disputes Involving the interpretation of union contracts. The Case bill, backed by a etrong coalition of Republicans end southern Democrats, drew support from Rep. Bartel J. Jonkman, Mich.

He termed It "the only remedy which I can find for the present labor End Industrial crisis." "The people are beginning to look more and more to the congress "with the realization that the administration Is betraying them Into chaos and confusion" he said. Rep. Noah Mason, charged that "Communist leaders In the CIO have deliberated launched a campaign to destroy the standing of legit-Please turn to page 8 Januarv Vealher Was Milder Than December This area's January weather failed to measure ud to December for severity. "While it produced three days when the low was less than 10 above it failed to make zero. Coldest day was the twenty-sixth when the mercury dropped to 2 above.

Warmest recorded temperature was 50 degrees on the fifth and nineteenth. It was a reasonably good month for winter rrops. There-were no dams'V(T freezes. Moisture was three-quarters of an inch. Differed Willi Vet Commander Over Hospital Other Veterans Units Line Up Against American Legion WASHINGTON.

Feb. 1OJ.R) Gen. Omar N. Bradley today countered an American Legion demand for his removal as veterans administrator by recalling that he recently ruled against a hospital recommendation by National Commandei John Stelle. He said that only two dayt ago he and Stelle, former Illinois had a disagree ment over the location of a veterans hospital In Decatur, HI.

Bradley also told a press conference he suspected that th Legion's demand for his oustei and for a congressional investigation of the VA represented Stelle's views rather than th Legion's. All other major veterans organizations rallied to Bradley'i defense. Statements supportin Bradley came from the Disabled American Veterans, ichich said it believed in "giving Gen. Bradley a chance" and from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Veterans of World War II and the Military Order of the Purple Heart. The AM Vets charged that tht Legion's attack was a direct attempt to "retain control" of the the Veterans administration.

In the House, Chairman John E. Rankin, of the Veterans committee, said the Leg-Ion's charges, as voiced by Stelle, were unjustified. The CIO Veterans committee commended Bradley's achievements as VA chief. It said that "he has stepped on many toes, including some of Influential and important people, but do not believe that the vested interests of these few Individuals or of a single organization should be a bar to the greater welfare of veterans as a whole." Stelle said later In New York that he will not insist on Bradley's removal If the general can show he needs congressional cv other outside aid to cut red tape. This fight is greater than Bradley or anyone else," Stelle told a press conference there.

"But we're trying to represent Please turn to page 8 George Patterson Is Dead Steele City Special to The STEELE CITY, Feb. 1 Georga Patterson, former Jefferson county commissioner, died today at his home here following a stroke. He had operated the Farmers elevator 15 years. Surviving are a brother, Al, Nampa, and five sisters, Mrs. Rena Mown', Hollenberg, Mrs.

William Claypool, Chico, Mrs. Frank Hor-lon, Livingston, Mrs. Agnes Sheets, Alhambra, Mrs. Isobel Bixbee, Geneva, Funeral arrangements are pending. specialists will be reduced to 6 on April 1.

Army Nurse Corps officers will be released if they have 25 points, 18 months of service or are 30. This represents a six months cut in length of service requirements. Meanwhile, the War Department revealed that Army All Forces personnel has been reduced from a peak of to 900,000. Air Forces personnel will be cut to 400.C0O bj June 30. The Navy disclosed that 11 can meet its peacetime goal of 500,000 enlisted men by next Sept.

1 without aid of the draft. A Navy official said voluntary enlistments are running ahead of schedule J' 55 i -'t Orchard Hunt Five coyotes were killed Friday in a hunt at Crab Orchard, the first of eight roundups over the week-end. The pelts brought $7, which was donated to the Johnson county polio fund. Previous hunts within a radius of 35 miles of Beatrice accounted for 174 coyotes. Hunts will be held today in Filley township (hunters meeting at Filley at 9:30) and west of Sterling where lines will move at 10 a.

m. Gunners have a choice of five hunts Sunday afternoon: Logan township (2 p. Plymouth-Swan ton Clear Creek precinct, Pawnee county Balderson township, and Hanover, Kan. The Balderson hunters will meet at one p. m.

at the school four miles east of Oketo where trucks will be waiting to take men to the lines. Hanover hunters assemble at one o'clock at the Hanover city park to transportation to the lines. North line is Hanover-Bremen road; west, highway 15E; south, highway 36; east, Bremen road. Four hunts are scheduled the following Sunday, Feb. 10, in Elm township (south of Ellis), Pawnee City, Pickrell and Lewiston-Crab Orchard.

Profit Effi iciency County Hatchery poultry day program. Earlier In the week north Gage poultrymen heard Joe Claybaugh, extension poultry-man of the University of Nebraska, advise more emphasis on broiler production in this area. He said greater production efficiency would come through selective breeding of strains that will feather earlier and be marketable at an earlier age. He spoke to a gathering sponsored by the Burnham Hatchery at Adams. Claybaugh told of the progress made by hatcherymen during recent years in developing high producing egg layers.

He thinks emphasis should now be placed on a program to breed better meat producers. Work at the college has produced a White Plymouth Rock family in which half the cockrels averaged two pounds or more at 8 weeks of age. Jack Quackenbush, farm manager of Scully farms, said as more grass is planted and raised in this area more ways of marketing must be found. He advised poultry raisers attending the Beatrice meeting to use more grass range in their poultry program. Two Coyotes Die in Crab v.

gation into the tangled family life of the minister brought forth belief by witnesses that Dorothy Ann was poisoned "because she knew too much about her mother's death." Van Til quoted the wife of an elder of Siple's church as saying she had been told by "two reputable pastors" that the girl accused her father "point blank" of murdering her mother, Mrs. Bertie Siple, in 1929. Mrs. Siple died In Dixon, I1L, where her husband was minister at the time. Dr.

J. M. Lund, a Dixon physician, said she died Dec. 23, 1929, of chronic nephritis after a two-hour illness, with uremia a contributing factor In her death The state sanity commission named three psychiatrists to examine Siple, as required under state laws for persons charged with murder. The mental tests were ordered yesterday aftr Siple pleaded quilty to the charge.

Siple was adjudged sane by three different physicians earlier this month before being arraigned on charges of attempting to kill Lyle Doan by beating him over the head with a lead pipe after disputes over church affairs. Doan later charged that he had been given poisoned candy by the pastor at previous times. Substantiation of. this led to exhumation of the body of the daughter, the finding of poison traces and Siples confession that he killed her. Statements of townspeople, members of Siple's congregat-tlon and schoolmates of Dorothy Ann disputed the pastor's contention that she was mentally unbalanced.

Draft Board Medals Ready LINCOLN, Feb. 1. (U.R) Recognition medals will be presented to selective service board members from 20 Nebraska counties in ceremonies here Feb. 7 and at Omaha Feb. 15, Brig.

Gen. Guy N. Hennlng-er, state adjutant, announced today. Henninger will present the awards, authorized by congress, to all board members who have served at least two years. At the Omaha meeting, members of the 10 local Douglas county boards, as well as from panels in Washington, Saunders, Sarpy, Cass, Dodge and Burt counties will be honored Recipients at the Lincoln presentation are from Butler, Filli-more, Gage, Jefferson, Lancaster, Johnson, Otoe, Richardson, Pawnee, Johnson, Thayer, Saline and Seward counties.

DIES IN KANSAS Mrs. Martin Broschinski, 65, ill for more than a year, died Thursday at Goodland, according to word received here bv Mr. and Mrs. John Brochln- -4 ELK MOUNTAIN, Feb. 1 (U.R The report of a United air lines test pilot tonight shattered all hope that any of the 21 persons aboard a transcontinental airliner escaped death when the plane crashed on snow-swept Elk Mountain, near here.

Robert M. Mclver, UAL test pilot, reported that he sighted the wreckage of the transport, which he described as "completely demolished." Two searching parties were fighting their wayvup the "towering peak when the news was received. Mclver's statement that two men were at the site led to the belief that Joseph and Hicks, brothers who set out shortly before noon with two other men in a "snowmobile," reached the crash scene. It was estimated that the temperature was in the neighborhood of 40 degrees below zero at the spot where the liner crashed. Winds were believed to be whipping over the crags at between 60 and 70 miles per hour.

Coyole Hun! Profits Polio Fund by $23 Louis Schoen, Adams, yesterday turned in $23 for the Gage ccunty infantile paralysis fund as proceeds from a coyote hunt north of Filley on Tuesday. Eleven animals were killed In the successful roundup and the pelts sold. Poultrymen Rests With R. W. Trefz, president of the Beatrice State bank, forecast to poultry men here yesterday that "prices will level off and operating costs will Increase.

The answer for profit is greater efficiency." Trefz addressed poultrymen of this area at the annual Gage the UNO's first secretary- Bevin's extemporaneous, 46- mmute defense of Britain's pol icy in Greece and his criticism of Communist propaganda came after Vishinski said the Soviet Union demanded the withdrawal of British troops from Greece. Vishinski said the Soviet Union told other big powers at last summer's Potsdam conference that the Greek govern ment was threatening the peace and seemed to be threatning war against Albania and Bulgaria. He said British troops support the present government, and a reign of terror has existed against "democratic" elements in Greece. GRAND RAFIDS, Feb. 1 U.R) Police were convinced tonight that a meek-mannered bespectacled pastor poisoned his 17-year-old daughter because she suspected him of killing her mother.

The Rev. F. E. Siple, pastor of the Southlawn Church of God, confessed to what he called the "mercy killing" of his daughter, Dorothy Ann, in 1939. But Police Chief Richard Van Til said that extensive Pauley Denies Ickes Charge WASHINGTON, Feb.

1 (U.R Edwin W. Pauley, California oil magnate and former treasurer of the Democratic national committee, today branded as "not true" testimony by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes that Pauley had told him California oil men would contribute large sums to the party's coffers if a suit for federal title to oil-rich tidelands was dropped Both made their assertions under oath before the Senate naval affairs committee which is studying Pauley's nomination to be under-secretary of the Navy. Pauley said In his capacity as Democratic treasurer he conferred with Ickes at a time when the party had a $300,000 deficit. He said he went to Ickes to get his aid "personally" in helping raise the needed funds.

DEATH AT WYMORE Special to The Times WYMORE, Feb. 1 Thomas Callahan, 75, died last night at a Beatrice hospital. Surviving is a niece, Mary Hiller, at Lew-iston. Herbert L. Block Pulitzer prize for editorial cartooning.

that there he will be closer to the important news and can do a better job of cartooning. Block Is a tall, rather lanky, good-natured young man, with a quiet but forceful personality. At present writing, he is still a bachelor 4 jf i 1 HERBL0CK TO CARTOON FOR TIMES Herbert L. Block who signs his work "Herblock" will start drawing editorial cartoons for The Times on Tuesday. Block is one of the outstand- lng cartoonists in the United States.

In 1942 he won the Pulitzer Prize. This was one of many honors bestowed upon Block for his work. His cartoons are penetrating, and his keen sence of humor gives them spice. At the peak of his career, a Bevin in Heated Answer to Complaint by Russia Army Releases Additional 7,000 DocforSr Dentists LONDON, Feb. 1 (U.PJ Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told the United Nations Security Council today that Moscow propaganda and internati a 1 Communists were a "danger to the peace of the world" and demanded that the council say flatly whether it thought Britain was endangering world peace by keeping troops in Greece.

Bevin spoke after the council heard the Soviet Uunion's complaint presented by Andrei I. Vishinski, that British troops In Greece are threat to peace. As the Security Council listened to impassioned oratory, the assembly elected Norway'3 former foreign minister, Trygue WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. U.R) The Army today announced a reduction In discharge requirements for medical officers that will result In release of an additional 7,000 doctors and dentists within the next five months.

Those with 60 points, 39 months of active duty or who are 45 years old, will be eligible for discharge, effective Immediately. This represents a cut of five points in the score and three months in length of service. The reduced requirements, however, do not apply to about 800 scarce specialists who must have 70 points, 45 months of service or be 45. The score for short time after he received the Pulitzer Prize, Block joined the Army and served for more than two and a half years. Block is now 36 years old.

He was born in Chicago. After he finished high school he attended the Chicago Art Institute, and later free-lanced cartoons for local magazines. He then attended Lake Forrest College for two years, and during his spare time continued cartooning. In 1929 he left college to do an editorial cartoon for the Chicago Daily ftews. Four years later he joined NEA Service in Cleveland, where he remained until he joined the army.

He has now made Washington his headquarters, for he, eels ski. The funeral will be Sunday..