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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-01-23
DUNM0RE news

"A UAAoo4 SAio"CA Wdo SAtcIl H.
honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Rueber
Worth at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Hibnes with Mrs
Hibnes, Mrs. Chef Kaiser anc
Mrs. Jake Bromgard as host
esses. The evening was spent
playing games and refresh
mentS were served
John and Henry Pope went
to Gardiner on a hunting trir
Sunday and returned on Tues
day evening.
Mrs. Della Pope has returned
from Bozeman, where she at
tended the funeral of her broth
er-in-laW.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. L. Dahl were
Hardin visitors on Saturday.
Kathryn Weibert has been
spending this week with her sis
ter, Mrs. John Pope.
Mrs. Chef Kaiser and Mrs.
Jake Bromgard called on Mrs.
John Hibnes last Thursday.
The Dunmore Home Demon
stration club held its regular
meeting at the home of Mrs.
DIN Willis There were five
members present with Mrs.
Henry Pope and Miss Hume
as guests. Miss Hume gave an
interesting talk on communica-
Bile diseases and. immunization.
Refreshments were served by
the hostess at the close of the
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. P. Carpenter
and son, Marvin, were Hardin
visitors on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Pope and
Mrs. Della Pope called at the
Henry Pope home on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A G.. Bird
spent Tuesday evening at the
R. w. Bird home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Smith were
Billings visitors Saturday eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hibnes
and Bill Hibnes were Billings
visitors on Monday.
KAHN and Johnny Hibnes
were guests at the R. w. Bird
nome one day this week.
LAST WEEKS ITEMS)
Mr.. and Mrs Chef Kaiser en-
tertained the following guests
at dinner last Sunday: Mr. and
Mrs. Rueben Worth, Vern Kali
ser, Anne Mehling, Darrell
Head, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Heitzman and Mr.. and Mrs,
Walter Heitzman.
MIR. and Mrs. Victor Evans of
Story, Wyo., and Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Taylor spent the week.
end in Sheridan. Mrs Evans is
a sister of Louis Taylor.
Mrs. Della Pope was called
to Bozeman on Thursday due
to tne serious illness of her
brother-in-law.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. P. Carpenter
and son, Marvin, were Hardin
visitors on Saturday.
MI. and Mrs. Jack Bromgard
returned from their holiday
trip to the west coast where
they visited Mr.. Bromgard's
mother.
Mr. and Mrs Chef Kaiser
were guests at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Jack Bromgard Fri
DAY evening at a small partv
held in honor of Mrs. Rueben
Worth on her birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. L. Dahl were
Hardin shoppers on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Pope and
Lawrence were callers at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Pope last Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. Rueben Worth
made a business trip to Sheri-
dan one day last week.
Mrs. Finley Mocabee accom-
panied Mr.. and Mrs. Art Davis
to Billings on Thursday.
June Swaby is visiting at the
home of his mother, Mrs. Mazda
Swaby.
MI. and Mrs. Murl Peterson
and sons of Fishtail, Mont, are
visiting at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Schubert.
Francis Swaby was a Billings
visitor on Monday
Leo Wagner and Arthur and
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-01-23
From where l sit .M Joe Marsh
Willie Goes
to School at %
LissrdHRsA

ever now. They're Industrious and
well behaved-their favorite bev-
erage is milk, or a temperate glass
of beer. For them the "three RS"
seem to mean: Responsibility, Re-
sourcefulness, Restraint.
From where I sit, cynical folks
who thought veterans wouldn't
want to return to school-wouldn't
stick to steady habits of work and
moderation -have their answer
in undergraduates" like Willie.
& M~A<
1917, United States Brewers Foundation
Evening star., 1947-07-09

A 30-year-old mother was fatally
burned and her two young sons
seriously injured in a gas stove ex-
plosion which set fire to their home
e716 Conway avenue, Takoma
Park. Md
Mrs. Charlotte Backus died at
Washington Sanitarium this after
noon. about four hours after the
blast, which police said was set of
when she lit a cigarette.
James H. Burgess, one of the in
vestigating Prince Georges County
policemen, said paper napkins were
stuffed around the kitchen door and
the door leading into the living room.
A note addressed to Mrs. Backus'
husband was found in the kitchen.
Mr.. Burgess quoted the mother as
telling police she was despondent
because of an illness.
The husband, Gordon T, Backus,
80, a radio repairman, was not at
home at the time.
Police said Mrs. Backus had been
wearing chenille robe which was
burned off her and that she had
severe burns over her entire body.
Evening star., 1947-07-09
BY The Associated Press

Clarence Francis, chairman OF
the board of General Foods
Corp, predicted before a con-
gressional committee today that
average food prices may be
down "as much as IS per cent"
by harvest time in 1948.
Mr.. Francis made no specific
forecast as to what may happen
to prices in the meantime.
But the United States Chamber
of Commerce in another statement
prepared for the Joint Congress
sional Committee on the Economic
Report declared that if the Mar
shall plan for rehabilitation of Eu-
rope goes in effect it is likely to
involve very considerable upward
pressure on many commodities"
Before the committee convened
Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of
wyoming. a member, told a re-
porter that the key to stabiliza-
ton of Americas economy is the
rehabilitation of Europe and Asia.
Mr.. Francis told the committee
he believes corrective" in food
prices is under way and that "the
average prices paid for food by do
Evening star., 1947-07-09
Atom, Disc Stories
Stir MeNoughton's
Amdzement at u. 5.
By the Associoted Press

LAKE SUCCESS, July g.
The reported theft of secret
atomic files caused a stir today
at the end of a closed meeting
of the United Nations Atomic
Energy Commissions Control
Committee.
Delegates and their staffs
gathered in the lounge to read
the heavily headlined New York
Sun account of the thefts.
American sources discounted
the Importance of any losses
that might affect secrecy"
surrounding atomic production.
Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton,
Canadian member of the COM
mission. took a look at the big
headlines. He read through the
story, turned through the rest
of the paper to stories and an
advertisement exploiting the
flying disc theme, and con-
Guided: What a country
Evening star., 1947-07-09
Army Makes Collins
Deputy Chief Of Staff
To Succeed Handy
Latter to Head ,4th Army
Eddy Ordered Here
As information Chief
By the Associofed Press

Gen. Thomas T. Handy, Army
Deputy Chief of Staff, will sue
ceed Gen. Jonathan M. Vain
wright, hero of Corregidor. as
commander of the 4th Army
with headquarters at San An
tonic, Tex, when Gen. Vain
wright retires,
The War Department said today
that Gen. Wainwright will doff his
uniform August 81.
The new deputy chief of staff will
be 1t. Gen. ]. Lawton Collins, war
time commander of the 7th Army
Corps in the European campaign
and currently chief of information
of the War Department.
Succeeding Gen. Collins as infor-
nation chief will be Maj. Gen. Man.
ton S. Eddy, now deputy commander
of the I'd Army at its headquarters
in Baltimore.
Received Medal of Honor.
Gen. Wainwright. "a. whose Army
career dates back to 1906, has said
he will become an executive with a
grocery chain with headquarters in
San Antonio. On his return to the
United States from japanese
prison camp, President Truman dec
grated Gen. Wainwright with the
Congressional Medal of Honor. the
Nations highest award for valor
for his heroic defense of the Philip
pines after Gen. Macarthur was
ordered to Australia to begin prep
aration for the Southwest Pacific
offensive.
Gen. Handy and Gen. Collins
nave been mentioned, among others,
in speculation over successor for
Gen. Eisenhower, Chief of Staff,
who will retire next year to become
president of Columbia University.
Gen Handy, a native of Spring
City, Tenn, is SIS and graduate OF
Virginia Military Institute. Com
missioned in 1915, he saw action in
France in World War 1. He came
to Washington first in 1946 on as
signment with the operations sec
ton of the General Staff. left for
year of duty at Fort Benning, Ca,
and came back in 1941 to the war
plans division here. Gen. Handy
was appointed assistant chief OF
staff for the operations division in
June, 1912, and deputy chief of
staff for the Army in October, 1914.
Gen. Lewis Succeeds Eddy.
Mai. Gen. John T. Lewis, now on
duty in the Office of the Chief of
Staff, will succeed Gen. Eddy as
deputy commander of the End
Army.
Prior to reorganization of the
Army last year, Gen. Eddy, a ma
tive of Chicago, was in charge Of
the Sd Service Command with head
quarters at Baltimore. He saw
action with infantry outfits in North
Africa, Sicily and the invasion Of
France and then was assigned COM
mand of the 18th Corps.
Evening star., 1947-07-09
Tukomu Mother Dies, Two Sons
Burned in Gas Blast She Set Off

The children, Charles, 6, and An
drew. 3, received less serious burns
about the face, arms, hands and legs.
Mr.. Burgess SAID his investigation
! showed that all the jets on the stove
had been turned on and that Mrs.
Burgess lit cigarette which set
off the explosion.
John A. Hahn, civil engineer
who lives at 6703 Conway avenue,
was outside painting a car when
he saw a puff of smoke come out OF
the chimney of the Backus home
When the older children ran out
calling for help he entered the
house and found Mrs. Backus lying
in the doorway between the kitchen
and living room. The door had
been blown off. He attempted to
beat out the burning clothes with
his hands. he said, then attempted
to smother them with slip cover
from the living room couch.
In the kitchen he saw the younger
boy at the sink. He turned him
over to neighbors and then helped
another man use a garden hose to
put the fire out. Other neighbors
moved Mrs. Backus outside.
Evening star., 1947-07-09
Lack Of Fingerprints
On Pistol Strengthens
Plank Murder Theory
Fairfax Police Chief
Says Other Clues Point
To SIoying Of Clerk

| Absence of flngerprints on the
butt of a revolver lying near the
body of Norman LIE Roy Plank
leave little doubt that the man
was murdered. Fairfax County
Police Chief Carl Mcintosh said
today.
Other evidence also backed up his
suspicion that the 29-year-old Small
Claims Court deputy clerk met with
foul play and did not kill himself
in the basement recrea ton room of
his sisters home near Falls Church
Va, where he was found early Mon
day, Chief Mcintosh said.
In Washington, 1t. H. T. Magarity,
Fairfax County detective chief
sought to run down a clue furnished
By new" address found in the
dead mans coat.
Among the unusual aspects of the
case was an automobile missing
from the home of Mrs. Nellie L.
Burrer, Mr.. Plank's sister, since the
body was discovered in the cellar
of the home at 4108 Forest lane,
Chesterbrook Woods.
Salesman Still Sought.
Another missing link was "walkie
talkie salesman" believed to have
come to the Burner home Friday
night after Mr.. Plank had driven
party guests home to Washington.
The stranger was reported in the
home as late as pm. Saturday. At
(See PLANK, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1947-07-09
Permanent Reviewing Unit
Is Designed to Promote
Security, Prevent Injustice
By Gornett D. Horner

A special three-man board will
be set up in the State Depart
ment soon to review the cases
of all employees against whom
any suspicion of disloyalty is
raised, it was learned today.
The board will have authority tc
clear employees if it finds charges
against them unfounded, and tc
recommend dismissal of those
against whom there is sufficient evil
dence to indicate bad security risk
even without definite proof of dis
! loyalty.
Members of the board themselves
it was said, will be cleared by spe-
cial FBI investigation before they
are appointed. Two members are
to be chosen from among high-level
officials IN the department, and one
from the middle level"
Board to Be Permanent.
The new board will be perma-
nent one, reviewing any question
able loyalty cases that might come
up in the future among persons ap-
plying for State Department jobs as
well as any charges raised against
present employees.
Work of the board is calculated
to serve two purposes-to give Sec
retary of State Marshall full
assurance of the loyalty of all
employees kept in the State Depart
ment and to guard against un-
justified firings resulting from any
thing like a witch hunt
Among the first cases to be re-
viewed by the special board are
expected to be number of State
Department employees against whom
disloyalty~ charges have been pressed
by some members of Congress.
Records Are Doublr- Checked.
| Many of these employees. State
Department officials in authority
believe, have been unjustly accused
as the result of personal prejudice
or disgruntlement of former fellow
workers.
Investigators have been double
checking the records of all en-
ployes against whom there is any
derogatory information, including
those whose dismissals have been
demanded on Capitol Hill officials
in authority believe they already
have weeded out most of the work
ers whose summary firing as bad
security risks can be justified.
The department announced on
June q that it had discharged 10
employees under the authority of the
so-called McCarran rider to its 1947
See LOYALTY. page A-6.l
Evening star., 1947-07-09
II Hurt as Bus 0yerturns
On Hill Near Coyington, Va.
BY the Assoeioted Press

CONVICTION, Va, July "a
Greyhound bus overturned on the
Covington Charleston highway,
about one mile west of here, about
3 am. today injuring the driver
and 20 of the vehicles 80 pas
sengers.
The injured passengers removed
by the driver after he broke the
windshield, were admitted to Ale
ghany Hospital where attendants
said none was hurt seriously. The
injuries we're described as cuts,
bruises and fractured shoulder and
the injured were said 10 be suffer-
ing from shock.
State Police Sergt. w E. Lambeth
quoted the driver, Orville Chiffon
Hill, 30, of st. Adams, w. Va, as
saying that as he applied the brake
on the wet, steep Boys Home Hill, a
rear wheel of the bus locked, causing
the vehicle to sway and the driver
to lose control.
The bus climbed a 10-foot en-
bankment, dropped back into the
highway on its righ side and slid
174 feet, Sergt. Lambert said.
Evening star., 1947-07-09

report published in the New York
Sun today that highly secret data
on the atomic bomb is missing from
the Oak Ridge tTennD atomic en-
ergy plant.
The said, however. that the Atomic
Energy Commission had reported ITO
the committee that certain docu-
ments were taken by two Army ser
geants when they were demoblllzed
from the Los Alamos project.
Theft Discovered This Year.
The theft was not discovered until
this year after the Atomic Energy
Commission had taken over from
the Army the operation of the
atomic setup.
Senator Hickenlooper said the
documents were recovered from the
private files of the two former SOL
diers, whom he described as "souve-
mir hunters" with indications that
they were not seen by any outsiders.
The documents we're, as We be-
lieve. completely and fully recov-
cred" Senator Hickenlooper told his
COlledgueS. lner6 was no eII6C-
tive breach of security
I'VE have no information that any
unauthorized persons did see these
documents other than the two Army
sergeants," he said. adding that the
Justice Department is still investi-
eating. He added:
The joint committee, the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation, the
military and naval establishments
are all keenly aware of the tran
scendental Importance of the secur-
ity of the facilities of the Atomic
Energy Commission"
Paper Reported Oak Ridge Theft.
The New York Sun, in a dispatch
from its Washington Bureau, had
reported that highly secret data on
the atomic bomb had been stolen
by Unidentified agents working from
within the Oak Ridge plant.
The Joint Committee has no in
formation on this subject and no
reason to believe that highly classi-
fed. secret documents have been
stolen Senator Hickenlooper said,
in referring to the Sun article.
Senator Hickenlooper said that in
view of the Sun story he thought it
(see ATOMIC, Page A-6.).
Evening star., 1947-07-09
Lute Bulletins
u. N. Revision Urqed

Senator Ferguson, Repub-
lican, of Michigan proposed
today that Congress ask Presi-
dent Truman to seek revision
of the United Nations Charter
in behalf of a permanent
world peace" He introduced a
resolution for himself and
several other Senators which
would call on the President to
try to strengthen the United
Nations
Earlier Story. on Page A-3D
Mrs. Stokes Loses
Mrs. Richard Kreuzburg to-
day halted Mrs. Walter Stokes
bid for a grand slam of wom-
ems golf tournaments in this
section in the Maryland State
Women's Championship tour
ney at Kenwood, defeating
Mrs. Stokes 2 up. Mrs. Kreuz-
burg posted an So medal score
in turning in the major upset
of the tournament, to enter
the semifinal round.
Earlier Story on Page A-15)
Evening star., 1947-07-09
Training Plan Vital,
.Leqion Tells Hearing
BY the Associated Press

The American Legion contended
today that the long-range national
defense program will collapse un-
less universal military training is
enacted into law.
S. Perry Brown, chairman of the
Legion's National Defense Commit
tee, said the training plan is vital II
the United States is going to count
on small, well-trained regular
Army backed by an ample civilian
reserve.
Our reserve component is now a
featherweight lighter in a world of
heavyweights," Mr.. Brown told the
House Armed Services Committee
which is conducting hearings on
President Truman's plea for enact
ment of military training law.
Mr.. Brown said the National
Guard only had 89,176 officers and
men as of July 1 despite gigantic
advertising campaign to promote
participation in this program, while
the organized reserve exists as a
paper organization a skeleton de-
void of muscle and sinew.'
Time is running out" Mr.. Brown
said. "It will take five years to put
universal military training into ef-
feet and accrue the security it would
provide"
Evening star., 1947-07-09
Stefan Protests DC. C.VossoIoge'
As House Opens Budget Debate
Nebraskon Soys Congress Should Concentrate
On Heart and Intellect of Government

by Federal laws. but denied elected
representative of the : own in the
law-making body.
House consideration of the supply
bill was begun short " after 1890
pm, with an hour and half al
lowed for general debate.
Chairman Horan of the Appropri-
ations Subcommittee in charge ~'of
the bill which was reported out yes
terday led off with general out
line of the measure and the rea-
sons for it's provisions.
Mr.. Stefan told his colleagues
Congress should maintain its final
control over the D 'trict govern
ment, but contended it should stop
thinking so much aLout the "seat
of the government" that is the
National Capital anc, concentrate
upon the heart and intellect of the
Government"
Mr.. Stefan said it was to be ad-
mitted Congress had permitted the
growth of the municipal structure
here to be somewhat ragged" but
he praised the present commission
form of city government and the
individuals operating it.
Referring to suggestions for re-
(Ceo PTTDCET Dapo AL
Evening star., 1947-07-09
General Foods Head Predicts
1919 Cut in Prices Next Year
Marshall Plan Likely to Force Costs Up,
U. S. Chamber Declares in. Statement

mestic consumers may be as much
as IS per cent lower by the time
the harvests of 1948 are gathered.
He added:
by this I don't mean to imply
anything like a wide-open break
in prices. Such a break would prob
ably occur only in depression
and we don't foresee anything as
drastic as that"
In citing reasons for his prediction
that food prices will slide Mr.. Fran
els said that food lately has been
getting more than its usual share
of the consumer dollar"
1--WE regard that as warning sig
nal" he declared. ITO us it means
that food is in for stiff competition
from new automobiles. appliances
and housing. In fact, the competi-
ton has begun, and higher rents
may have some further effect
Dealing with the role of food
professors in the food price picture
Mr.. Francis said the factors which
dictate what the housewife pays
F~'are largely outside the control OF
the professor"
He added that during the Il
(See ECONOMIC, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1947-07-09
New York Woman
StrangIed With Sheet
BY the Associated Press

NEW. YORK, July 9.-The nude
body of tall, blond woman whose
identity was not Immediately
learned was found today in a West
Fifty seventh street apartment
police said, with bed sheet knotted
about the throat and a blood
stained towel in the mouth.
A maid who discovered the body
told police the woman was known
to her as Bessie K. True. Luggage
bearing the initials "B. K. T." was
found in the apartment.
Police said the woman also was
known as Sheila Mannering to other
residents of the apartment house
and had used at least one other
name.
1t. Dominick Papa quoted Mrs.
Harry Bluestein, neighbor of the
dead woman. as identifying her as
Bessie Love, silent film star, but
Inspector Edward j. Mullin said
she might have passed herself off
as Bessie Love. The maid Uaura
Rayfeld) says she was the former
movie actress Betty K True and
we believe she was Betty True"
In Los Angeles, william B.
Hawks, former husband of Miss
Love. said the former film star
now lives in London, England)
Homicide investigators said they
found a cigar butt in a smoking
stand within the apartment.
Tae maid, who worked on a part
time basis, said she entered the
apartment at 9 am, saw light in
the bathroom found a radio play
ing, and then discovered the body,
sprawled on the bedroom floor.
The body was face up between
twin beds. Her features had been
beaten and an ambulance doctor
who examined the body said she
Evening star., 1947-07-09

man who attacked him was a slender
colored man, about feet inches
tall, wearing blue suit and straw
hat.
The man was carrying several
paper bags Pvt. Sartain said, and
acted suspiciously When he stopped
the man for questioning he was
Immediately attacked, the police
man said.
Police found meat cleaver later
on the ground two blocks from the
scene at Ninth street and Piney
Branch road NV. They also dis
covered later that the restaurant
had been robbed of $50 in cash
and a cleaver.
Police also found small paper
bag containing $25 in small change
a few yards from the spot where
Pvt. Sartain was found.
Pvt. Sartain has been member
of the police force less than two
wears and has an excellent record.
He is married and lives at his Silver
Spring home, with his wife and
mother and 3-year-old daughter,
Sheila Marie.
His brother, James Sartain, Is q
detective sergeant on duty at head
ma arters