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VlTS TURN TABLES TO DRAFT IKE 9 piifumijw FAIRBURY, Apr. 10 (Special) Emery DeWitt, 45, alkia Kansas plasterer, was fatally shot by Fairbury po- lice officers on the main street of Jansen shortly before midnight Saturday night. Fairbury Police Chief Joe Cook said Deputy Sheriff Frank Knocke and Assistant Chief Lewis ttolloway shot DeWitt after he had attempted to crush them between his find the police car and then covered them with his .22 talibre automatic pistol. Fairbury officers had trailed DeWitt to Jansen after lie had threatened his ex-wife, Mrs. Walter Gates and her jroother, Mrs.

Clara Muff who called the officers earlier in the evening asking for protection, Chief Cook said DeWitt had beaten his former wife with his gun. Chief Cook said that in addition to DeWitt's threatening behavious Saturday night, he had several times made violent threats toward both his family and Fairbury policemen. Cook said the officers pidked up DeWitt's trail to Jansen when the latter's former wife received a threatening telephone call from a Fairbury filling station after he had left her home. At Jansen DeWitt parked his car in front of the Frie-sen lumber yard. "He evidently was waiting for us, and had his car in reverse," Chief Cook said.

Officers Knocke and Holloway went to his car to ar rest him; but DeWitt tried to crush them by swiftly backing up his car.1 They opened fire when he covered them with his gun. After DeWitt was hit by the officers bullets he' shot his car 'ahead in an attempt to flee. A half block away, he 'fell from the car which continued on to ram a parked car of Milt Rolf ing, Jansen" resident." Chief Cook said he believed DeWitt was dead when the police reached him. The officers fired four times and DeWitt was hit at least twice. DeWitt still had his gun in his hand as he died.

DeWitt's body was returned to Fairbury and is at Traums Funeral home pending determination of authori ties as to whether an inouest will be held. 11 weed 7 Whs ii ill v- i Mm Mm m. mm mm mm. 1 aml 1 FIRST IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA' CIRCULATION A. B.

C. CERTIFIED wn 1 itiwWMfiliinfiiiiiiii ill -'1 1 iiMrrwniaWM(Wi'B8SVlfiiiiiiilBBM 11 fi'-r Five Cents 24-Hour Beatrice, Nebraska, Sunday Morning, April 11, 1948 CALUNO THEIR ORGANIZATION "Veterans for Elsenhower," thtsa D. ex-GI's are mailing 100,000 Induction notices, patterned after selective service "greetings," to other veterans to mail to Gen. Dvvight D. Eisenhower to urge him to run for th presidency.

The notices Inform the ex-Army chief of staff that couldn't refuse the draft! You can't refuse burs! It's the same deaU From left thegroup Includes Richard I Hawkins, Sgt. Charles JV Waters and Cpl. Sylvester B. Pranger, NIflDin) oafi' IPirSinnisiiP Fiski PfD(od(o Pjse Mew fa PITrSBURGH, April 10. (U.R The stage was set tonight fof a quick end to the four-week pension strike of soft coal miners if John L.

Lewis gives the "word." Last Miiitfe News RUSS INTERFERE WITH V. S. COMMUNICATIONS BERLIN, April 10. u.F Russia moved today to terminate U. S.

and British control over vital communications cables linking Berlin with the western occupation zones, representatives of the Western Allies announced tonight. Russia refused to renew Russian-zone entry -permits for troops who have been supervising maintenance. COMMUNIST AMMUNITION SHIP SUNK ROME, April 10. U.R) Police announced today that a mysterious time bomb sank an alleged Communist munitions ship at Bari, in southern Italy. Police believed the entire shipment of $4,240,000 worth of munition came from Yugoslavia and was intended for Communists.

ARABS SHELL JERUSALEM JERUSALEM, PALESTINE, April 10. (U.R) Jerusalem, governmental and cultural heart of Palestine, was shelled tonight for the first time in its history, as Arab forces fought in the streets of the Holy City's western suburbs. Several shells fell only a half-mile from the Holy Sepulchre, where Christ was buried. RUSS BLACKBALL ITALY FROM UN LAKE SUCCESS, N. April 10.

(U.R) Russia used its 23rd United Nations veto today to kill Italy's membership application. r' No. 307 By B. R. This is April 11 Anniversary ff the birth cf Justice Charles Evans Hughes.

Today's motto: "Life, however thort, is Elways made shorter by waste of time." Samuel Johnson. Our roving reporter dropped in Saturday to give a few last minute bulletins on the preferential primary which will be Tuesday. He reported no slackening in the Stassen ground swell. Vandenberg supporters are beginning to switch to the Minnesotan. Vanden-terg's refusal to try for the residency; his disinterest in the Nebraska primary; Stassen's similarity of political attitude, fmd the cordial relations between the two; The die-hard Vandenbergers are saying, "So T'hat.

we can do Vandenberg more good by going for Stassen, clo him more good in the contention and afterwards. "Stas-ten is the kind of a man Vandenberg can live with." The Minneapolis Star and tune bought space in the New Yorker and ran an ad about itself. It had Cedric Adams, its columnist, write the ad. Our part was to read and we did. Reading the ads, we find, brings up all sorts of treasures.

If you don't read them all you don't know what you're missing. The Star Tribune sd. carried this story the best of the year. "A housewife answered the doorbell to find a little girl of 5. and her younger brother, relatively new to walking, both standing on the step.

The little irl was all dolled up in an old formal of her mother's and a frown up hat. Her little brother was wearing one of his father's hats that wobbled on his hrr.d and an older brother's coat that hung almost to the walk. 'I am Mrs- Smith." said the little pirl in a very formal tone, "and -this is my husband, Mr. Smith. We've come to call." 'The woman who answered the call decided to play along with the youngsters and their et so she invited 'Mr.

and Mrs. Ernith' in for tea. The kids walked in and sat down and the hostess went immediately to the kitchen for some cookies and rulk. When she returned the callers were already headed for the front door. "Must you go to soon?" asked the hostess.

hoped you could stay for "The little girl tossed back an artificial smile. can't, thank ycu." she said pleasantly. 'Mr. Smith just wet his Deadline For Tax Filing Hoi Far OH Only 10 more days remain for Mr. Joe Public to wrestle with his 1948 personal property tax return, the first year he's had to make out one undei the new county-assessor law.

County Clerk-Assessor Ray Johnson warned taxpayers last night that the days were lew lor them to. get the tax return made out and filed before that deadline of April 20. The penalty, in case the ums are not filed by date is the addition of 50 per-tent of the assessment. Vol. 6 fWS) Few Contests On Ballot In Gage County Voters Will Pass On Proposed Tax Levy For Surfacing RFD Roads Gage county voters will take part Tuesday in a historic election the first time in history that they have had a chance to vote their preference among just about everybody who conceivably might get nominated this summer for the presidency by the two major parties.

It will be an election which will iind the eyes of the entire nation focused on this state. The preliminary campaigning up to. this presidential primary has caught the county in a whirl of big-name politicking such as it has never experienced, with two of the nation's foremost political leaders Senator Robert' A. Taft and Harold Stassen, appearing here in evening addresses. But there will be other things to be voted on besides the presidential primary.

All voters will receive at least three separate ballots. In ten townships, they will get four ballots and in one township Adams they will get five. This will be the list of ballots: ..1. PARTY TICKETS The voter will receive either a Republican or Democratic ballot, according to how he is registered if in Beatrice or how he requests if in the country. On these tickets will be: 1.

For President: Republican candidates are Thomas E. Dewey, Douglas Mac Arthur, Joseph W. Martin, Harold E. Stassen, Robert A. Taft, Arthur H.

Vandenberg, Earl Warren, and a blank to write in any other name desired. The Democrats have only one candidate, President Harry S. Truman. 2. Delegates to the national conventions.

3. United States Senator Kenneth S. Wherry and Joseph B. Bovey on the Republican ticket, and Terry Carpenter, George W. Olsen and Albin T.

Anderson on the Democratic. 4. State offices, headed b-y-the governor race which finds Frank Sorrell the Democratic candidate unopposed, while live seek the Republican nomination with incumbent Governor Val Peterson included. 5. Congress The Republicans present a choice between incumbent Carl T.

Curtis, Min-den, and Rev. Frank Morten-sen, Beatrice. The Democratic candidate, Frank Morrison, is unopposed. 6. County ticket Three districts will nominate supervisors, with no Democratic aspirants anywhere.

The Republi- 1 cans are: district 2 incumbent i (Please turn to the' Sport Page) Thousands of the United Mine Workers will meet Sunday for the regular semi-monthly sessions of the local unions. One local offical said, "if we get a telegram with word of settlement, we'll go back." The miners were gleeful over the news from Wash' tngton that UMW President Leicis and the coal operators had agreed on the appointment of Sen. Styles Bridges as the third "impartial" trustee of the welfare fund in a move that may re-open the mines ivithin 48 hours. The impact df coal tleup on related industries grew increasingly intense. In addition tg 400000 striking miners, more than 200,000 other workers had been idle by the walkout.

Industrial sources predicted larger cuts would be necessary next week, if the walkout continued. Over 55,000 steel w-orkers have been furloughed and steel executives were tQimap" new cuts in production. The nation's railroads, directed to make a second 25 per cent cut in operations, ordered layoffs for more than 100,000 employes. Automotive production dropped 2,000 units this week. Ward's Reports, authoritative statistical agency, estimated that the coal-steel tie up will cost the auto industry 215,000 cars and trucks, even If the coal walkout ended Monday.

A continued strike probably would hit power production next week- At a sudden, dramatic meeting In Washington called, by House Speaker Joseph W. Martin Lewis and the soft coal operators reached in 13 minutes an agreement expected to end the crippling coal strike early next week. Face-to-face in Martin's high-ceilinged capitol office. Lewis and Ezra Van Horn, representing the operators, quickly agreed to the appointment of Sen. Bridges, N.

as the third "impartial" trustee of the mine workers welfare fund. It -was the long deadlock over payment of miners' pensions from this fund that caused the 27-day strike of 400,000 soft coal miners. The first "impartial" trustee quit because he could not reconcile the pension differences of Lewis and Van-Horn. Lewis, as chairman, called a meeting of the three trustees for 9 He said it is reasonable to assume that, on agreement on the pension controversy will he reached within 48 hours and that the miners then go back to work. That would leave pretty' much up in the air the government's program of court action against Lewis in an effort to end the walkout.

The mine workers' chief is due to face his old foe, Federal Judge T. Alan Golds-borough, in federal court Monday. Pending are a government motion seeking a Taft-Hartley United Press News Wire start through the legislative mill Urriphenour said last night. It will take one more day, Umphenour reported, to complete the work on the long dike beginning at Bluffs street and extending southeast to Court street. The dike was hurriedly raised during the March flood battla, but only in rough fashion.

Now, the flood control association has used Its funds to develop the dike into a stronger, more permanent structure. Five trucks, a bulldozer and a drag-line worked ai; day yesterday to do the job. Only another half-day of trucking is needed, although the bulldoze will nave to work a full day. Dirt for the dike has been procured from the bend just north of the Court street bridge, cutting a channel there in such a fashion that any tuture high water will scour, out and make an easier bend for the water to negotiate, thus permitting it to get through faster and relieving any flood threat that much. Meantime, the city has completed its part of the flood aftermath by hauling Jn black dirt to restore private property which was torn up to build the emergency dike March.

Umphenour said the recent drive, for special funds for the association treasury had been sufficient to stand the cost of the now being finished and no more- contributions would be needed just now. 'school board primary revealed I i 1 several wide changes. However, any change in the canvass would not mean much to Steinmeyer now. Thursday afternoon, he handed in to City Clerk. A G.

Kleman a formal statement declining the election. In a published statement, he said he had acted thus because he had been aiming at the mayoralty, which generally is tendered by the city council to the leading vote-getter. Any oher post on the council, he said, would not permit him to do the things he had hoped to do if elected. All of which brought the observation from John Erton, on of the two successful candidates remaining: "If he had only come around and had frank talk with us (he and Manning) and proved he wa willing to cooperate in any of merit, we would have elected him mayoi Stassen And Devey Ranked Two-Highest All Top Republican Aspirants On State Free-For-All Ballot BY UNITED PRESS Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey of New York spoke to rural Nebraska audiences Saturday oi revolution and Communist techniques as he wound up a three-day vote-getting tour of the state before its 'Tuesday presidential primary. Dewey spoke at North Platte Scottsbluff and Alliance. The New York governor cited the Bogota revolution as "the technique used by Communists to gain control of free countries throughout the world." The New York chief executive made no claims as to the results of Tuesday's free-for-all primary. He did say, however, that he was encouraged. While every potential GOP candidate Dewey Harold E.

Stassen, Gov. Eari.iKa.rren of California, Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur, Sen.

Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, and House Speaker Joe Martin is entered in the contest, Dewey's campaign managers feel that "Stassen is the man to beat." The former Minnesota governor, who won a sweeping victory in the Wisconsin primary last Tuesday, has been cam-naisnine off and on in Ne braska for several weeks. He ended his latest tour Friday night but twill return for a final appeal to the voters Monday night. Dewey has been in the state three days. Originally Dewey had planned only a two-day trip but his political advisers convinced him that another 24 hours could mean the difference between victory and defeat. He decided to make the try.

At Charleston, W. Stassen invited other Republican presidential aspirants to make West Virginia another political proving ground on May 11. Stassen "filed his name with the secretary of state's office for the Republican preferential primaries and said "it is my hope that the other Republican candidates will do likewise." Stassen stopped over for one hour in Charleston to file his certificate enroute from Nebraska to Washington. European Will Filed Fairbury FAIRBURY, Anril 10 (UP) In the early 1900's; Mrs. Paul Hafner frith her husband moved to Germany to live.

She was remarried after her first husband, William O. Ham-bel, prominent Fairbury attor ney, had been killed in a train wreck in 1894. Just prior to World War I the Hafners moved to Italy, where she died in 1918. Her husband died in Sicily two years ago. Mrs.

Hafners will has been filed for probate in, the Jefferson county court here. It leaves $10,195 to the University of Nebraska to provide scholar-snips for law students, me-moralizing her first husband. Eagles Of Disfricf Convene Here Today The town will be full of Eagies today when the Beatrice Aerie will oe host at a district meeting. Between 600 and 700 Eagles are expected to attend from Omaha, Lincoln, Nebraska City, Columbus, Plattsmouth, Fremont and Council Bluffs. Meetings and class initiations will be held this afternoon at the lodg hall.

An early evening banquet, followed by ft floor ehow' -will be held in the Horse Show Will Open County Fair The "Plum Creekers," horse show of Lexington, will open the Gage County Fair here the evening of Sept. 20, according to Jack Quackenbush, secretary of the fair association. Dates for the three-day annual attraction will be Sept. 20-22, inclusive, it wras revealed after a fair board meeting yesterday. Gilbert Switzer, superintendent of horses, said the Plum Creekers, which performed at the state fair last year, will bring 49 horses.

Costumed riders will perform various colorful drills and- feats of horsemanship. Switzer -stated more than 40 horses and riders from the Lincoln Saddle club are also expected to participate. Other, attractions at the fair will include Lynch's Death Dodgers w7hich proved popular last year, and motorcycle and auto races. JayCee Fund Half of Goal The Beatrice Junior Chamber of Commerce is tentatively planning a house to house canvass to obtain the balance of the $3,500 fund needed to furnish auxiliary light plants for the two local hospitals. Collections to date are slightly more than half the amount necessary to purchase two standby power units capable of furnishing electricity to the hospitals in case of a IHDwer failure.

Latest contributors are: Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Crittenden, $10; F.

C. Hancock. $2, Veronica Sundav school class $5, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Linsenmeyer $2, Mr.

and Mrs. Vernon Rahe $3, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Whitney $2, Glass Motors $50. J.

C. Penney company $25, F. W. Ahlquist 2 Paddock Hotel $25. Beatrice Local To.

1146, International Ass'n of Machinists. $25, Beatrice Aerie No. 531 Foe $25, I. O. O.

F. $5, Anonymous $5, 3. P. O. E.

$25, Sprague Electric-Service $25. Penner and Penned $15, Eeta Sigma Phi $25., GREEKS SMASH MUTINY ATHENS, Greece, April 10. --(UP) The Navy ministry announced today that 116 persons have' been arrested in connection with an alleged Communist plot for a mutiny in- the navy, including plans to blow up ships. Recount Of Ballots May Two canvassing boards will meet at the city council room next Monday morning to go over the results of last Tuesday's city election, and it's certain that local voters will be interested in the results. For a couple of reasons: 1.

Passage or failure of the three-mill special school building levy will probably hinge on lesults of the canvass. -2. Voters will be interested in seeing what the final, official tabulation does to the standing of George Steinmeyer, the reluctant Two things will enter Into the final tabulation: First, the possibility of some error in recording the vote totals in the unofficial count the night of election: and second, the results of the 23 mail votes which will be opened and counted fit the canvass session. The meetinjr will begin at 10 a. with th chool board officiating at the canvajjr ot IFS(D)dl This is expected to be an eventful week for the youthful Beatrice Flood Control association with these things scheduled to happen: 1.

Finishing touches will be put barring rain, on the ne.v higher dike which has been built as the result of the threat presented by the major flood La mid-March. 2. The association's president, Ray Umphenour, and Vice President Wyman Kenagy, will fly to Washington for a Wednesday hearing on a bill to extend $440,000 worth of federal aid to perfect the city's flood defenses. The two officers will fly from Lincoln at 6:45 a. m.

Tuesday, arriving in the capital the same day. On the lollowing day, they will appear before the House of Representatives flood control committee along with Representative Carl Curtis, who submitted the bill last week. i. The bill has been lifted from the plan drawn up recently by Brig General Lewis A. Pick, head of the divisional army engineers, and calls for erection of a qiant dike south to the bend below Court street, elimination of.

the Court street -dam and lengthening the bridge along with other river front corrections. The Pick plan is slowly moving. ur through regular channels, but Rep. Curtis' action in bringing up the Beartice bill gave it at least a year's head Injunction to halt the strike fc 80 days, a motion by Lewis to "tiuash the existing temporary restraining order directing him to call off the strike, and a government motion to try Lewis for contempt. But-Martin, a key Republican In congress and mentioned a3 a possible compromise choice for the GOP preisdential nom inatlon.

neatly took the play away frpm the administration, by getting Lewis and Van Horn together. A. S. Gormerly Dies California Hospital A. S.

Gormleyf Santa Ana, formerly of Beatrice, died Saturday in a hospital Orange, according tQ word received here by E. Knigge. Mrs. Knigge, daughter of the deceased, with Marlca and Steven, have been in California the. past J.wawceks...

Survivors are the wife: two sons, Garold, who is enroule home from Japan, Floyd K. Gormley, California; three daughters, Mrs. Knigge, Beatrice: Mrs. Wilmetta Gunsalci, Calif 01 nia, and Mrs. Bernadine Stull, Fairbury.

Several grandchildren also survive. Funeral services are pending the arrival of the son from Japan. County Boys fo FA Meeting Beatrice and Barneston high school chapters were well rep resented at the state Future Farmers of America convention at Lincoln. Homer Farrar, Barneston in structor, escorted a group ot 14. They were Paul York, Jim Affholder, Donald Ehmen, Arvid Weyer, Marlin Hitsa, Marl in Stasny, George Reiman, Dean Seidl.

Frederick Ehlers, Rus sel Beran, Delmar Gerdes. De-wane Ehnen. R. A. Drishaus led the Beatrice delegation.

Beatrice boys and the judg ing events in which each participated are: Livestock: Dewane Spilker, Dale Pieper, Don Finch. Dairy products: Ervin Penner, Lemar Barnard, Harold Coleman. Poultry: Loren Daubendick, Dale Schroeder, Kenneth Tegt-meier. Dairy: Spilker, Tegtmeier, Coleman. Spilker and Lihscott were th two official delegates from Be-atrice- 1NFANT DIES The day.

old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elwin Trump, Blu Springs, died yesterday at ft Beatrice hospital. Weather Occasional showers, some cooler; Saturday's high 74, low 45. City.

Farm electrification awards included Anfn Hansen, Sar champion-award; omaiicoino, jvearuey; reu iiu bon; James Reichhnger, Wes Point, white ribbon and farm mechanics award. Max O. Schmidt, Gibbon, wa named state dairy farmer. Red ribbon went to Delfor4 Brandt, Fremont, and a whit ribbon to Dwight Colson, Hum Red ribbons In farm mechan ics went to Herbert Deets Kearney, Robert Grimm, HarrU son; white ribbons to Myro Hunzeker. Humboldt; Jim Riche ert, Columbus, Lavaughn Boldt.

Stanton; Bob Bwitzer, superior Robert Trail, Nebraska City. i 7" School Building Levy Follow Vole Canvass MIDLAND CHORUS TO SING HERE Beatrice, DeWitt Youths Named FFA State Farmers 1 mmwM, lliuii.il!., tj! 8 Ll'lII the vote 011 school board mem- novo 4Via 1 ners and the three-mill 1pv proposal, and the city commissioners presiding at the canvass for council members and the two city proposals. As the school levy now stands, it is three votes shy of passage. The mail vote could put it over. In case the proposal still falls short by a narrow margin, school board members have ex-nressed 4hemselve in favor of a recount to check the validity of ballots and the tabulation of the election boards.

In the city council race, there is only a remote possibility that the 23 votes would make up the 20-vote difference between Bert Manning who won first place in the balloting and Steinmeyer who 'won ec-ond. But any major error In the Ujftlficjal tabulation cf Tuts-dy night could do considerable changing tb canvan on the LINCOLN, April 10. annual Nebraska Future Farmer of America convention closed, today with the naming of Laurance Collins, 17, St. Edward, as the state's "Star Far mer. Sixty outstanding FFA members were named "state armers at ceremonies last night.

The group has saved an average of $1,685 and have invested an average of $2,690 In farming. The state farmers included Earnest Rumbaugh, Auburn; Dean Linscott, Beatrice: Ted Saalf eld and Edward Watke, Columbus; Everett Wllkens, DeWitt; Richard Jfljnscn. Er-win Kriesel and Leland Wittier, Fairbury; Eldon Schafer, Mc-CookJ Norman Blere, Nebraska The oratorio chorus of Midland college, Fremont, ma present Franz Joseph Haydn's epic musical com position, "Creation," at the Beatrice Junior high school next Sunday night, April 18. concerts in this area by the 37-voice chorut are scheduled at and Lanham, Neb..