Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 1

sional rain tor snow. Low tonight 28-33. High DAILY JOURNAL GAZETTE Newspapers Than From All Other CENTRAL ILLINOIS' Slowly rising tempera- More People Get More News From Tuesday cloudy and warmer with occaTuesday 38-43. Sources Combined. Seventy- Ninth Year.

No. 35 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation ILLINOIS; MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1953 Member Associated Press All- Phones 5656 Price 5 Cents Mobs Stone Homes Of Yanks In Iran TEHRAN, Iran UP)-Mobs shouting anti-American slogans stoned U. S. cars and homes today as riots continued in Iran's capital. Premier Mohammed Mossadegh's supporters appeared to be gaining the upper hand in the demonstrations which have alternately assailed and defended the Nationalist leader.

Crowds hurled rocks at American homes on Roosevelt Avenue, at U. S. Embassy's Administrative Counselor Laurence C. Frank, and at cars driven by Embassy Attache Warren Silver and by a secretary, Betty White. None was hurt.

One Iranian student was stabbed to death in a fight between Mossadegh supporters and members of the outlawed Communist Tudeh party trying to join a demonstration backing the premier. The enraged mob carried the body of the student--a Mossadegh follower-to Parliament Square and paraded' it above the 'swelled to an estimated 8,000 persons. The crowd finally became NO threatening that police dispersed it by shooting into the air and firing tear gas bursts. At the anti-American outbreak. Point Four and consular offices in the city were closed and embassy personnel were ordered to keep off.

the streets. Mossadegh, meanwhile, moved to re-establish his hold on the government's reins after the mob attack on his home Saturday which sent him dashing in -pajamas for the traditional 'sanctuary of the Parliament building. The government army officers-65 retired and five on the. active list--and accused them of inciting the demonstrators against the government. Mossadegh also fired his army chief of staff, Gen.

Mahmud Ba-' harmast, accusing him of not acting promptly to check the anti-government rioters. These continued today--an antiMossadegh raided the headquarters of the pro-Mossadegh Iran party and smashed furniture and windows but generally today's demonstrations were in support of the Premier Eleven Chute From Plane In Blizzard INDIANAPOLIS service men parachuted from 3,000 feet in a blizzard over Central Indiana Sunday night and landed safely while their stricken C-46 cargo plane crashed on a farm. Winds accompanying the blinding snow storm scattered the air force crew of three and their eight hitchhiking passengers over an eight mite area. Only one man was injured seriously in the bitter darkness. Second Lt.

J. H. Yetto was taken to Veterans Administration Hospital here for surgery, The hospital and officials at Atterbury Air Base, withheld further, information about him. Capt. R.

L. Conley, of Bedford, 35-year-old pilot of the plane enroute from- Lowry Air Base, to Atterbury, said one engine failed and he ordered the men to bail out. Election Law Changes Set For Hearing SPRINGFIELD. (P) Separate bills to consolidate the primary ballot and shift the April primary election to June are slated for committee hearings Tuesday as the Illinois Legislature enters the third month of its session. The change in the primary date, advocated.

by William G. Stratton, comes up for an fairing before the House Elections Committee. Stratton has said that moving the primary closer to the November election would mean shorter political campaigns and bring out larger vote vote because of better weather. The bill to do away with the necessity of a voter declaring party affiliation in a primary is set for arguments by the Senate Elections Committee. The measure is sponsored by Senator Arthur E.

Larson, Chicago Republican. Committee hearings on the election bills and other legislation will occupy most attention of the lawmakers this week. (Political Advertisement) Dr. C. H.

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24c. 3-2 Deep Snow Blankets Mattoon The worst snow storm of winter plastered Mattoon Sunday afternoon and evening leaving snow to a depth of seven to 10 inches. Although there was some melting today there was still a thick snow blanket above pictures were taken by H. L. Patterson for the where above picture was taken in Lumpkin Heights looking east on Wabash Ave.

The other was taken of the sunken fountain in Lytle Park. The pictures were taken about 10:30 a. m. Ag Secretary Benson Plans Some Department Cleanups Believes Reds Will Tire of Korean War SEOUL (P)- Lt. Gen.

Maxwell D. Taylor expressed belief today the Communists will "sooner or later" tire of the Korean War and that the Allies "will win no matter how long it takes." He declared that a major offensive by Chinese Nationalists against the Red China mainland would ease the pressure on his Eighth Army forces in Korea. However, Nationalist authorities. on Formosa have said such an offensive could not be launched without U. S.

or Allied naval and air support. Taylor, in his first. interview since taking command of the Eighth Army weeks ago, said he is confident his forces could withstand any Communist offensive in Korea. He added that his troops are in the strongest entrenched positions of any army since World. War 1.

Survey Shows Irish World's Top Eaters UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (P) A new United Nations report says the Irish those that live In the republic of Ireland, that is are the world's heaviest The U. N. Statistical yearbook for 1952, published today, said that each Irishman averaged 3,500 calories a day in 1951.

India had the -lowest per capita intake 1,570 calories, with Burma next lowest at 1,990. The United States was in seventh place among the better-fed countries. Countries whose inhabitants averaged over 3,000 calories daily were: New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Canada, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, United States, Argentina, Norway, Denmark, Britain, and The Netherlands 3,090, (Political Advertisement) No! Don't stay home tomorrow, go. to the polls and vote for Paul B. Smith for Police Magistrate.

Your vote and support greatly appreciated. 3-2 (Political Advertisement) For Commissioner And good government, vote for Jay (Junior) Hahn. 3-2 Worst Snow Storm of Winter Blasts City As Spring Nears Weather May Clip Election Turnout Prospects of a. huge turnout for Tuesday's primary election suffered a setback today' because of the weather, but candidates were still hopeful of a big vote because of mounting interest in the races for mayor and police magistrate. But the weather gave no Indication of co-operating.

Forecasts said rain or snow could expected Tuesday. The absentee vote was running high. Clerk James L. Warren snid that 21 absentee ballots. were cast Saturday afternoon to hike the total to 164, of which 17 are yet to be returned.

The unreturned absentee ballots were. chiefly those of men in the armed forces. The race for mayor apparently is the hottest with nine candidates swinging down the home stretch 1 for the two nominations. Four are battling for the two places as magistrate." The skirmish for commissioners is not quite so warm, where eight of the nine candidates will be nominated. Polls will be open from 6 a.

m. to 5 m. Tuesday. Following is a list of polling places: Ward 1-H. B.

Ewing service station, 1301 Broadway. Ward. 2-City of Mattoon Water Department, 12th St. and Marshall Ave. 3-Orville F.

Schoch law office, 1517 Wabash Ave. Ward 4-Tinch's grocery, 2321 Marshall Ave. Ward 5-Stark-Faught Printing 2105 Western Ave. Ward 6- City Hall Building, 19th St. and Prairie Ave.

Ward 7-City of Mattoon Street Department, 12th St. and New York Central railroad. Find Red Papers In Home of Ex-U. S. Employe TEL' AVIV, Israel UP) Police searching the home of former driver for the American Embassy reportedly turned up a.

Czech Communist party membership card and a number of incriminating papers. Reliable informants said Sunday search was made after the driver, Yoseph Kapetsky, 32, fell three stories to his death at a his apartment house. He was under, police' investigation at time, Earlier, he had been fired as a suspected spy by the American Embassy. Kapetsky, a reserve officer in the Czech Army, reportedly had among his papers lists of Jews from Czechoslovakia who now live in Israel: He also had notes on Israeli left-wing labor leader Morderchai Oren, who was arrested more than a year ago on a trip, to' Prague. Oren later appeared as a witness against former Ozech Communist boss Rudolf Siansky and other -top former officials in the recent mass purge trial in Czechoslovakia, Find Shoes Safe Place for Cash OKLAHOMA CITY (P) Where would you hide your cash if a gunman you the unexpected opportunity before he robbed you? Two Oklahoma City found their shoes were as safe as Ft.

Knox: The robbery victims, Melvil A. Westmoreland, 25, Otis: A. C. Carey; 21, and their 18-year-old dates, Pat Phillips and Gale Nelson, told -police two gunmen opened the door of their parked car, forced them into the back seat, and drove to a lonely country road before robbing them. During the interlude they stuffed some $102 in their shoes.

The gunmen searched them, found only $4, and fled. Downed Plane Given Away BEAUMONT, Tex. (P) Those gray skies kept coming closer and closer to earth. And a littre cabin airplane kept flying lower and lower, until finally it plopped right in the middle of trice field near Mont BelVieu Sunday. Mr.

and Mrs. James Chesser, flying from Corpus Christi, to their Atlanta, home weren't hurt but they were disgusted. They told Wendell Irish, 18, who came to lead them out of the rice field to take the plane and keep it. They boarded a bus to continue their trip. (Political Advertisement) Attention Voters Phone 5731 for transportation to polls Tuesday.

W. D. Wardle. 3-2 Infant Killed In Car Crash Near Arcola Special to The -Gazette ARCOLA; Ill. The death of.

a 16-month-old infant was blamed Sunday on the howling snowstorm that struck the area. Sue Patrick was crushed under her father's automobile when it crashed into a ditch just east of the Kaskaskia River on Route 133. The child's mother, Mrs. Karl Patrick, and her six-weeks old brother, Lawrence Eugene, were taken to Jarman Hospital in Tuscola. Their injuries were not believed serious.

The accident occurred about 4 p. m. Sunday, according to Fred Shrader, Arcola, undertaker. Shrader said Patrick lost control of his car in the blinding snowstorm. No other car was involved.

The mother and two children were thrown from the car and were pinned under it. The family, which moved to a farm near Bement recently from Dayton, Ohio, had been visiting in Arcola and were enroute home. An inquest into the baby's death was slated for this morning in the Shrader funeral home. Funeral services will be in the funeral home, but a time had not been' set this morning. Karla Sue was born Nov.

3,, 1951, in The maternal grandmother is Mrs. Edna Stormer of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the paternal grandfather is Harry Patrick of Lawrenceville. Renews Plea For Standby Controls WASHINGTON (P)- Sen. Capehart renewing his plea for standby wage-price-rent controls, said today such power would be "a little economic penicillin" against "economic plague come a war, God Capehart's statement was prepared as the curtain-raiser to hearings, scheduled by the Senate Banking: Committee to last two weeks, on economic controls legislation. Some 60 witnesses are expected.

Before the Senate committee are numerous proposals for extending controls, which expire in the next few months, as well as legislation introduced by Capehart and 11 other committee members to authorize the President to revive controls event of war or economic emergency. Capehart, chairman of mittee, said he was against economic controls in principle but felt standby powers were needed to prevent any "disastrous economic dislocation." Nevertheless, he said in an interview he was not "stiff-necked" about details of his proposal. He expressed willingness to compromise with lawmakers, like Senate Republican Leader Taft of Ohio, who oppose any standby controls power. Eisenhower Asks Support for Red Cross WASHINGTON (P) President Eisenhower has asked the nation to contribute in money and blood to help the Red Cross do its job this year. Eisenhower called the relief organization "one the free insti tutions which has helped make Ahis country great." He said it is serving nearly 3,600,000 service men, including many in Korea.

The Red Cross is seeking 93 millions dollars and five millions pints of blood this year for its program of aid to service men and civilians. (Political Advertisement) Melvin M. Taylor Editorial TIME TO VOTE AGAIN In less than 24 hours the polls will open for the city primary election and give voters the opportunity to select candidates who ultimately will' be named to conduct the business affairs of the city' of Mattoon for the next four years. There have been indications that the vote will be large. But the weather may offset this some.

However, we urge every eligible voter to make the utmost effort to go to the polls and cast his vote for the candidates whom he believes will give the city the best government. Many persons no doubt have decided for which candidates they will vote for mayor, commissioners and' police magistrate. Many people have no doubt made no decision at this time. There is still time for everyone to decide which of the candidates are most likely to best administer the affairs of the city. We urge everyone to resurvey the candidates and make a sound logical appraisal of the candidates and their merits.

Then go vote! Believes Eisenhower Will Seek Cabinet Rank For FSA WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Taft (R- Ohio) said today Eisenhower probably will send Congress a reorganization plan next week asking Cabinet status for the Federal Security Agency. Taft made the statement to newsmen after he and other GOP congressional leaders conferred with at the White House. House Speaker Martin (R- Mass) said the conference also dealt with Hawaiian statehood and legislation to recognize state titles to the oil-rich submerged coastal lands. Mrs.

Oveta Culp Hobby the federal security administrator, joined the congressional leaders at their regular weekly conference with the President. Martin said she sat the discussion dealt in part with the plan to give the Federal Security Agency department status. Mrs. Hobby presumably would head the new department. Also present at today's session were Sen.

Hugh Butler (R-Neb), chairman of the Senate Interior' and Insular Affairs Committee, and Rep. Chauncey Reed a (R-IID), who. heads the House Judiciaty Committee. They were. called in for the discussion of the pending Hawaiian statehood bill and" the legislation dealing with the submerged coastal lands.

The latter will probably will get action first. Red Cross Fund Drive Kickoff Comes Tonight Leaders of Mattoon's Red Cross fund drive marked time today with everything in readiness for the kickoff meeting in Hotel U. S. Grant at p. m.

tonight. Richard G. Jones, chairman of the drive, said he hopes the snowstorm will not affect attendance at the meeting tonight. He also said they need volunteer residential area solicitors: "With -a large number of volunteers, no one will have an extra heavy burden to work out alone," he said. The goal for the drive is $11,400, an increase of some 10 per cent over last year's drive.

One reason for the Increase is the Red Cross organization's leadership in the gamma globulin blood program. The blood product has been successfully used for temporary paralysis immunity from polio. Borders Opened For Canadian Meat Imports WASHINGTON (P)- Secretary of Agriculture Benson today signed an order opening U. S. borders to imports of.

Canadian cattle, sheep and other de domestic animals and their products, effective immediately. Ithports had been barred a year because of an outbreak of the dread foot and mouth disease in the Province of Saskatchewan, Benson said the disease no longer exists in Canada. Officials said the action means that import conditions and regulations in effect before Feb. 25, 1952, when the embargo was put into effect, go back into operation. The ban had applied to animals as well as to chilled or frozen beef, veal, mutton, lamb or pork, and straw, hay and other materials might possibly bring the infection into this country.

(Political Advertisement) Mattoon Voters Nominate Vern Branson for PoFor Commissioner. Qualified to lice Magistrate, Primary, March 3. serve you capably. 3-2 3-2 Winter, lying. dormant for weeks, awakened Sunday to unleash its full fury with a fierce, driving snow storm that piled up seven to 10 inches of snow in the Mattoon and across the middlewest.

It was the worst storm of the year for the Mattoon area, coming only 20 days before the beginning of spring. One fatal highway accident was blamed on the storm and scores of minor auto mishaps were reported. Highway transportation Sunday night and early today was slowed to a walk but all area roads were reported open this afternoon, though snow packed and slippery. Don't Forget to Feed the Birds. A (J -G Staff Photo) WASHINGTON (P)- Secretary of Agriculture Benson plans a housecleaning of some department "personnel he believes are actively opposing his farm program.

Benson says attacks on him and his farm programs have come from both ins his Agriculture Department and that these attacks were aimed at misrepresenting his farm views and confusing the farmers in this period of price declines. In an interview with Don Whitehead, Associated Press reporter, Benson said over the weekend: "I'm a strong believer in price supports and always have been. It would "be my recommendation certainly to include price supports as part of the new program." But, he said, he feels high, rigid price supports encourage inefficiency and wasteful surpluses. The secretary disclosed that he plans a fighting campaign across the nation to win support of his program which he said- will include price supports as a sort of mini-. mum wage guarantee for farmers.

The secretary indicated he is in favor of flexible price supports rather than props fixed at 90 per cent of parity as required in the -present law for basic agricultural. commodities. Dora Berry of Humboldt Dies Special to The Journal -Gazette HUMBOLDT, Dora Emma Berry of Humboldt died at 9 a. m. Sunday in Jarman Hospital, Tuscola, at the age of 77.

Mrs. Berry, who had been a resident of the Gambel nursing home in Arcola the past three years, entered the hospital last Thursday after suffering a stroke. Funeral services will be at 2 p. m. Tuesday in the Humboldt Methodist church.

Rev. LeRoy Bula will officiate and burial will be in the 'Odd Fellows' cemetery, west of here. Mrs. Berry was born in Humboldt, Oct. 20, 1875, a.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Elkins. She was a member of the Methodist church here. Surviving relatives include daughter, Mrs.

Lewis Orndoff, west of Humboldt, four grandchildren and six great grandchildren, The body is in the Shrader funeral home in Arcola. (Political Advertisement) Voters For ride to vote Tuesday's primary. Call 5649 or 5640. ROY ADRIAN FOR COMMISSIONER Voters Anyone wanting transportation the polls to vote Tuesday, March call 6327. G.

W. Smith, mayor. 3-2 Allies Repulse Red Drive on Main Line I By STAN CARTER SEOUL (P)-Allied infantrymenbattling at times inside their own bunkers- Sunday night smashed a 750-man Chinese Communist assault Ni against the main U. N. line on the western Korean front.

The U. S. Eighth Army reported the Reds were routed in a hour close quarter fight. American, French and Thai infantrymen joined in the battle and were supported by British Commonwealth artillery. The Chinese penetrated United Nations defenses at one point on a front near Little' Gibraltar Hill west of Yonchon and partly overran an American- platoon, but the Americans stood their ground and kicked the Reds out.

It was the heaylest, Communist attack in more than a month. A spokesman for an Allied division said the Red Western Front assault for an hour had "all the aspects and indications of a pretty big Communist push." William Mettler Dies At 71 William Arthur Mettler, 71, retired. New York Central stationary engineer, died of a heart ailment in Memorial Hospital Saturday at 3:15 p. m. Mr.

Mettler, 2009 DeWitt, had been receiving treatment in the hospital since Wednesday and had been ill about six months. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p. m. in the Mitchell funeral home, Dr. Horace Batchelor officiating.

Burial will be in Dodge Grove cemetery. Mr. Mettler was born in -Bible Grove Dec. 16, 1881, a son of Mr. and Mrs.

William Mettler. He married Maggie Beulah Warrem in ville -Aug. 17, 1901. They moved to Mattoon 55 years ago. He started working for the NYC here in Mattoon in 1911.

He retired in 1946. Besides his wife, Mr. Mettler is survived by two sons, William J. Mattoon, and Arthur Clinton; three daughters, Mrs. William Lucier and Mrs.

Alfred Walker, Mattoon, and Mrs. Harold Helwig, North Haven, Conn. He is also survived by eight grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; a brother, Charles, Mattoon; and a sister, Mrs. Ethel Boyle, Mattoon. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Electrical Workers Union.

Campaigns For $1 a Year Job. Special to The Journal -Gazette MT. VERNON, Ill. O. R.

Buford, who led a successful battle in Mt. Vernon for the city manager form of government, is compaigning for election as mayor in the city pri-. mary Tuesday. Chief item and proudly proclaimed in his campaign is the statement "My salary will be $1 per year." Thanks To all who voted for me and supported. me in my nomination for constable.

3-2 CARL CORDES Basketball Illinois vs. Mich. State on WLBHFM 7:55 tonight. COURTESY TOM PURVIS, Inc. 3-2 Community Unit Two's 17 school buses went this morning, but most of them failed to reach all out, their riders.

Only one bus failed to pick up any students. It became stuck in deep drifts east of Matt toon, according to Howard E. Greer, assistant superintendent. "group of Mattoon women bowlers arrived safely in Mattoon at 9 a. m.

today after their chartered bus was stalled in a snowdrift near Pana, four and a half hours Sunday night. They were returning here from Quincy. The fatal highway accident blamed on the snow storm occurred near Chesterville Sunday afternoon. A 16- month-old girl, Karla Sue Patrick of near Bement, was killed instantly when she was crushed under her father's car. The machine went off the road and its occupants were thrown out.

Two other accidents were reported in the area. A car turned over Sunday afternoon near Dead Man's Curve, northeast of Mattoon. No one was seriously hurt. At Charleston. struck a car that stalled on the tracks.

Everett Walker, Mattoon street superintendent, reported that the city's three snow plows had peen working since 5 a. m. Street crews were also called out Sunday evening. In addition to the three snow plows, Walker said two horse-drawn sidewalk plows were in operation and the city's power grader was being used as an' auxiliary snow plow. Henry Bartholonew, township highway commissioner, reported that the township's two plows had been working since Sunday night.

Because the snow was wet and heavy, plowing operations were more difficult than usual, Bartholomew said. The most used phrase in conversations today was "March sure did come in like a lion." The Associated Press reported the brunt of the storm struck an area from Springfield to Vandalia. Both towns reported falls of eight inches. Between these points, Litchfield had depths of 10 inches. The northern boundary of the storm stretched from Rantoul to Bloomington to Peoria, where up to three inches fell.

In the northern one-third of the state, there were only scattered furries. The blizzard almost spanned the continent, "from eastern Montana and northern Nevada through the Plains, Mississippi and Ohio valleys. Wind velocity ranged up to 40 miles an hour. of' the 30 women bowlers who went to Quincy aboard the chartered bus Saturday, only 17 braved the snow storm for the return trip. The other 13 chose to go to St.

Louis, on a train, then catch another train back to Mattoon. Mrs. Mike McCall, one of the passengers on the bus, reported the bus left Quincy at 9 p. m. Sunday and arrived here at 9 a.

m. today. "The roads were terrible." sho reported. "About 40 cars were stalled in one mile near where our bus got stuck eight miles north of Pana." Mrs. McCall reported the women spent the night "singing and carrying on." Hotels and motels here reported increased business from motorists who decided against continued vel Sunday night.

Would Unload Surplus Butter NEW YORK UP) A New York butter dealer says the government should unload surplus butter now in storehouses by starting "butter bargain giving away a pound for every pound sold. Fred Q. Lowenfels, president of the Hotel. Bar Butter Company, telegraphed Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson Sunday that the scheme would help the government clear the warhouses and also would put butter back on many consumer tables." Lowentels said. the government has more than 80 million pounds surplus butter.

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