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UP) MEANS ASSOCIATED PRESS
El Reno, Oklahoma, Monday, November 9, 1953
(U.PJ MEANS UNITED PRESS
Vol. 62, No. 216
Kidnaped Baby Found
At Hugo Farm Home;
FBI Holds Woman, 17
Part of Missing Ransom
Money Found in Michigan
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N0.uPAJ?.IJI?iG’ ^EASE-There were no parking jams on the west side of Rock Island avenue today for two blocks
as the Oklahoma Natural Gas company continued its repair of gas main unions. Construction equipment of the com-
pany continued its noisy move up Rock Island while workmen burrowed their way through some half-dozen layers of
asphalt, brick, concrete and shale to reach the gas line joints and reseal them against possible dangerous leakage
The gas company plans to re-work the lines on Rock Island, Bickford and Choctaw avenues between Wade and
Chiang Assured Attorney General Prepares To Neutral Leader
Of U.S. Support Talks With Reds
xrs n—e— Brownell was reported today to be preparing a further ,,
statement on the case of Harry Dexter White, the late Enemy Defies Rules
Nixon Confers With
Nationalist Leader
TAIPEH, Formosa. Nov. 9.—,uP)—
Vice President Richard M Nixon
told Chinese nationalist legislators
today they represent “the only
covernment which the people and
treasury official he charges was promoted by President I
Truman after the FBI advised the White House'that White
was a Russian spy. 1
On POW Interviews
______ril. PANMUNJOM. Nov. 9—UP)—The
Justice department aides said they anticipated that Indl?n chlef oi the Korean re-
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PETOSKEY, Mich.. Nov. 9 —(Ah
—Police Chief Philo Wakeford oi
Petoskey said today FBI agents
have found in Petoskey a $20 bill
from the missing $308,000 in
Oreenlease ransom money. He also
said he understood the FBI had
found in Detroit a $10 bill from
the missing money.
There was no immediate com-
ment from the FBI, but its agents
were reported swarming through
northern Michigan after the re-
ported receipt of a $20 bill, identi-
fied as part of the $600,000 ran-
som. by Mrs. Henry J. Krauser, a
boarding house operator.
All the ransom money was in
$10 and $20 bills. It was paid by
Robert C. Greenlease, millionaire
Kansas City. Mo., automobile deal-
er, Oct. 4. He hoped It would re-
turn his kidnaped son. Bobby. But
the boy already was dead.
The ransom was paid to Carl
Austin Hall and Mrs. Bonnie
Brown Heady. They have pleaded
guilty to kidnaping and killing
Bobby and are awaiting trial
Nov. 16 in Kansas City.
Police who arrested them In St.
Louis Oct. 8 recovered nearly half
of the ransom from Hall. But he
and Mrs. Heady said they did not
know where the rest of the money
was.
Mrs. Krauser. who was unavail
able today, was reported to have
identified the $20 bill from a list of
serial numbers distributed by the
FBI to operators of hotels, mo-
tels, rooming houses and mer-
chants.
The Detroit Times and the De-
troit News said Mrs. Krauser got
the money from a rural mall truck
driver In Manton, Mich., who had
received it without knowing its
background. Manton is 75 miles
from Petoskey.
One report was that the missing
money came into Michigan
through Chicago's underworld and
was sold by professional "fences"
for 30 to 50 cents on the dollar.
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government of the United states against holding a news conference.
Lodge Charges Russians With
Subversion by Force, Violence
recognize as being truly representa-
tive of the Chinese people.”
He told members of the control
Yuan, legislative Yuan and national
assembly In a Joint session that the
"reason for this is simple—you were
chosen by the people to represent
them while the government which
now holds the (China) mainland
was imposed on the people by
force."
Nixon received one of the biggest
ovations in his visit here when i
thousands jammed downtown inter-
sections after the speech and block- '
ed his car. He stepped out to shake I
a few hands and was almost swept
off his feet. Police and _____w
guards had to clear a path back to
the car through cheering crowds.
To Meet Again
Nixon conferred behind closed
doors with President Chiang Kai-
Shek for two hours. He said he
would confer with Chiang again in
the evening.
The vice-president began the day
by presenting a check for $500 for
veteran's relief on behalf of Ameri-
can veterans of China, Burma and
India during the last war.
Nixon did not disclose details of
the conversation he had with
Chiang. It was believed, however,
the talk concerned the possibility
of more United 8tates military aid
to the nationalists. Nixon said he
found Chiang "intelligent, friendly
and very realistic."
Formosa Is Example
The vice-president told nationalist
legislators they have the responsi-
bility for making Formosa an ex-
ample to the Chinese on the Red-
controlled mainland of "what the
people and a representative govern-
ment can do."
He said he was confident that
the great majority of the "common
people on the mainland share the
friendship for the United States
that W'e have found here and in
other free nations.”
Nixon flies Tuesday to visit air
and ground military training at
Hsunehu, central Formosa.
Truman, wno blasted at the charge as
; Brownell first
Baseball Still
Sport in Eyes
Of High Court
WASHTNOTON. Nov. 9-<*->—
The supreme court today ruled
professional baseball is still only
a sport and hence is not subject
to federal anti-trust laws.
The court's decision was given
on three appeals attacking the
military j much-discussed player "reserve
“ clause" keystone of organized
baseball.
The appeals had asked the
court to overturn a 1922 unani-
mous decision delivered by Justice
Holmes that baseball is a sport,
not a business
The decision was announced in
a per curiam opinion—that is,
one not signed by any member
of the court.
It said the tribunal was up-
holding the Holmes' decision of
1922 ‘"so far as that decision
determines that congress had no
intention of including the busi-
ness of baseball within the scope
of the federal anti-trust laws.’
Coast Storm
Victims Begin
Repair Work
politics when
-------7. hurled it last
Friday, declined to say any-
thing more about it.
Meanwhile, in New York today
I Truman said he didn't think “any-
boy ever took advantage of me" to
j foist a disloyal individual on his
! administration.
Speaks in New York
"If they did," Mr. Truman said.
"I didn’t know it. ’
I The former president arrived in
j New York to fulfill speaking en-
gagements and receive several
1 awards at the height of a new
j political controversy. Attorney Gen-
I ml Herbert Brownell. Jr., touched
| off the angry controversy by charg-
! lr>8 that Mr. Truman elevated the
late Harry Dexter White to a high
government post despite reports
that he was working for the Com-
munists.
Refuses Comment
In an interview with a United
Press reporter who boarded his
train at Newark, N. J., Mr. Truman
refused to comment further on
Brownell's charges, which he first
characterized last week as political.
Asked to comment on the Na-
tional Democratic chairman,
Stephen A. Mitchell’s suggestion
that Brownell had implied Mr. Tru-
man was either taken advantage of
or wws himself furthering com-
munism, Mr. Truman said:
"I don’t think anybody ever took
advantage of me. If they did, I
didn't know It.”
that may determine the future of
the straggling Communist program
to woo back thousands of its former
soldiers.
The trip by Lieutenant General
K. S. Thimayya came after the
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y„ Nov. 9 -(UP)— United
States Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. charged Soviet
Russia today with “subversion of peaceful governments by
force, and violence,” germ warfare propaganda and “pro-
moting” warfare in Korea and Indochina.
In answer to Soviet charges at the opening session of
"■ came alter the ■*** (•« owvicv uiaigt-.s at me opening session 01
Communists defied a set of ground The general assembly’s annual debate on disarmament last
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rules for the interviews which he
laid down Friday night.
Thimayya conferred for almost
four hours with the Communists,
then returned to his headquarters
in the neutral zone.
Statement Delayed
The Indian command said Thim-
ayya would not release any in-
formation on the meeting until he
meets with the full repatriation
commission tomorrow.
A spokesman also announced
formally that there would be no
prisoner explanations tomorrow.
The 90-day interview __________
reached its halfway point Monday
with only about
Legal Ruling
Is Sought On
Tollroad Vote
OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 9.—
—Attorney General Mac Q. Wil-
liamson asked the state supreme
court today for a legal ruling which
would open the way for an election
w°grjam l next January on tollroads.
Williamson asked the court to
10 percent of the i . . ,
22.400-Chinese and North Koreans order tlle Oklahoma Free Roads as
a direct result of Com-
they
interviewed
munist delaying tactics.
Thimayya told the Reds to call
500 prisoners tone
day and forget about those,
are unable to get to each day.
Voice New Demand
However, the Communists this
morning again demanded the re-
maining two thirds of a Chinese
compound which was one third in-
terviewed Thursday on the last day
of explanations.
Meanwhile, allied and Red staff
advisers met secretly for the second
sociation to file a ballot title for
the upcoming election quickly. Then
he asked that if the title is not filed
his own authority to file one be up-
| held and association officials be
restrained from interfering.
The court will hear arguments on
assuming jurisdiction tomorrow'.
Governor Johnston Murray, a
tollroad advocate, wants to call a
special election Jan. 26.
Last week Murray directed Wil-
liamson to give the Free Road as-
sociation five days to file the title
and, if it did not, to file his own
Intersection Accident
Causes Heavy Damage
A two-car accident at the inter-
section of Woodson street and Wil-
liams avenue about 2:30 p.m. Sun-
day caused approximately $475 dam-
age, police traffic records show.
A car driven by John Harold Ma-
lone, *0, of 708 West London, re-
ceived about $225 damage in the
crash, while the other car, driven
by Arthur Eugene Meade, 25, of
Calumet route 2, received an esti-
mated $250 damage.
Weather
State Forecast
Fair tonight and Tuesday. Warm-
er Tuesday. Lows tonight from 30
to 35. Highs Tuesday from the 60s
in the west to near 60 in the east.
With "Prestone" Anti-Freeze
You're set, you're safe, you’re sure.
NEW YORK. Nov. 9.—(U.IB-Most
of the 20.000 persons driven from
their homes by a violent two-day
storm that swept the North Atlantic
coast began today the task of re-
pairing the $6,000,000 damage.
The floods, caused by unusually
high tides and lashed by gale-force
winds and 40-foot waves, wrecked
many homes along the coast lines
of Connecticut and New Jersey and
the south shore of Long Island.
Frame houses on the southern
fringe of Long Island were washed
out to sea. The end of Atlantic
City's famous steel pier was ripped
off.
Many families who lived in the
beach houses year round remained
in Red Cross shelters or with re-
latives or friends.
The Friday-Saturday storm was
one of the worst to hit the north
Atlantic coastline in many years.
Red birds To Meet
Anadarko Cagers
The Sacred Heart Redbirds and
B' squad will play their third
basketball games of the season
Tuesday night against two teams
from St. Patricks, Anadarko, in
the El Reno highschool gym.
The Bees will open the twin-
bill, to be followed by the main
event.
Probable starters for the Red-
birds will be John Higdon, center;
Clyde Kappus and Don Elmen-
horst, forwards; Jim Avant and
Bob Walch, guards.
time in efforts to write an agenda j title,
for top-level diplomats who will Instead, tollroad opponents filed
pian a Korean peace conference. an action in Oklahoma county dis-
U. S. Delegate Kenneth Young1 trict court to block Williamson
sa'f th® Reds offered a statement I from taking any action. Murray
wmen he studied during a recess i then asked Williamson to follow up
ut he did not disclose its con- with his supreme court application
tents‘ I for a mandamus order.
Decorators Take Dim View Of
Home Workman's Puny Effort
County Meeting Set
By Farmers Union
Strike Halts Work On
Atomic Energy Plant
OAK RIDOE, Tenn., Nov. 9. — (/PI
—A work stoppage by 6.500 AFL
construction workers halted work
today on a 464 million dollar atomic
energy plant.
Picket lines posted by local 51,
sheet metal workers, caused a shut-
down on the sprawling job, said a
spokesman for Maxon Construction
company contractor.
Members of the Canadian Coun-
ty Farmers Union will meet at 7:30
p. m. Wednesday in the Scott
schoolhouse, northeast of Yukon,
with the Scott Farmers Union local
serving as host.
The school building is located
about three and a half miles east
of the Piedmont Junction on the
Northwest highway, and Is about
a quarter of a mile south of the
highway.
Business at the meeting will in-
clude discussion of support prices
at 90 percent of parity and re-
organization of the U. S. depart-
ment of agriculture.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9—(U.R)—
So you think it would be smart
to do your own decorating around
the house!
Well, don’t do it. That's the
advice of delegates to the con-
vention of the American Institute
of Decorators meeting here.
J. H. Leroy Chambers, of Los
Angeles and Baltimore, put it
this way:
"I’m not trying to sell the
home-owner a bill of goods, but
if he tries to do a Job himself,
it’s cost him more money than
the hire. Worse than that, unless
he has had a little training he'll
mess things up so that when he
calls in a professional it’ll cost a
lot more than it would have to
call the pro In the first place ”
Chambers gave a for-lnstance.
He once had a friend, he
who decided to paint a
room. This character went
and bought about three times as
much paint as the Job required,
and all kinds of expensive
brushes.
said.
spare
out
Then he started to splash. His
kids were underfoot. One of them
knocked over the ladder, with
daddy up on the roost. The phone
rang and when he returned, the
youngest of his brood was busy
giving his version of how a paint
job should be done. His version
wasn’t too good. The father, in
anger, took his most expensive
brush, swished it in the pall, and
flung it at the wall. Then he
called a decorator.
"That cost that fellow a heap,”
Chambers said. "He had bought
the wrong kind of paint. And of
course the decorator's helper had
his own brushes."
Another decorator, Robert A.
Boone, of Cleveland, said that
wallpaper is making a strong
comeback around the country.
"They’re even going back to
flowers on the wall," he said,
“and don’t be surprised to see
3-D wallpaper before long. It's
in the works, already.”
Friday that the United States
was plotting to launch atomic
aggression against the Com
munist world, Lodge said:
"The statement of the Soviet re
presentative that the United States
efforts to increase its strength are
in conflict with its position on
disarmament is sheer propaganda
Called ’Old Slufr
Lodge accused the Russians
trying to force the Soviet plan for
disarmament on the UN.
He said Russia believes it has the
only good plan for conducting hu-
man affairs "which they must im
•pose on the rest of the world wheth
er it likes it or not."
The Soviet resolution, Lodge said,
was an old concept that the general
assembly had rejected many times
It calls for prohibition of atomic
and hydrogen weapons—"prohibited
by mere declaration instead of
the result of an enforceable system
of international control."
Depends as Attitude
"Tile existence of international
security depends on a change o
mind and attitude on the part o
the rulers of the Soviet Union,
Lodge said.
Lodge said disarmament was im
possible without proper safegards.
"Proper safeguards for conducting
disarmament can only take place
when the iron curtain no longer
exists,” he said, “so that we will
know what they are doing as they
can know what we are doing.”
He said it was the amassing
tremendous Soviet power that
forced the free nations to rearm in
self defense and to continue spend-
ing large amounts for arms.
Traffic Charges Cost
Two Men Total of $86
Fines and court costs amounting
to a total of $86 have been assessed
two drivers in justice of the peace
courts here, courthouse records
showed today.
Fred Rollie McHaney, Woodward,
accused of driving an overweight
truck on U.S. 81, south of Union
City, on Oct. 11. was fined $50 and
$10.50 costs in the court of W. P.
Crites, justice of the peace. Co-
defendant was the Joe H. Cook
Livestock Transport company of
Woodward. Complaint was made by
Trooper Cecil Fishburn.
Earnest Joseph 8tas, Calumet, ac-
cused in a complaint by Trooper
Harry Liles of speeding nine miles
south of Geary on Nov. 1, was fined
$15 and $10.50 costs in the court of
J. H. Craven, Justice of the peace.
Youthful State Woman Tells
FBI Agents She Took Child
From Evansville, III., Home
i LGO, Nov. 9 —(AP)— A 5-months-old baby boy gig-
gled and cooed today while a 17-year-old former carnival
stripteaaer who admitted kidnaping the infant announced
that when he is grown “I’m going to get him back.’’
,, Mrs- Tommie Dene Doughty, arrested about midnight at
the Red River valley farm home of her father, was placed
under $20,000 bond at her arraignment about six hours after
her arrest. She did not enter a plea.
She was charged with kidnaping Richard Lee Stammer
hriday night and taking him from his Evansville, Ind„ home
by bus and hitchhiking to the farm north of Bokchita in
southeast Oklahoma.
Mrs. Doughty was baby sitting with the child when she
said she decided to take him. “In a way I’m glad it’s over,
but I still wish I could have kept him for a few days,” Mrs.
Doughty told an Associated Press reporter.
“He is just the age of the one I lost,” she said in haltins
tones after her arraignment before U.S. Commissioner D A,
Stovall.
“I fell in love with him when I first saw him. He re-
minded me of my child. He didn’t give me any trouble al
all during the trip.
“I had some money when we left Evansville and I bought
what he needed along the--
way. He didn’t cry at all
was just a perfect baby.
She told the commissioner after
the arraignment:
"The mother can have her baby
until he's grown and then I'm going
to get him back.”
Parents Catch Plane
The child's parents, Richard Du-
ane Stammer. 20, a sailor who got
an emergency leave after the child
was taken, and Mrs. Shirley Stam-
mer. 18, are flying to Durant to
claim their baby.
A physician examined the child
and said he was in perfect physical
condition.
Mrs. Doughty is being taken to
the federal jail at Muskogee by U.6.
Deputy Marshal W. A. White.
At Evansville. Mrs. Stammer was
stunned when told that her baby
and abductor had been found.
"We can just be thankful he’s
OK." she said. "I was awfully bitter
against her, but not too bitter
now.”
James C. Ellsworth, agent in
charge of the FBI in Oklahoma,
said Mrs. Doughty lost a child at
birth in June 1953. in Chicago. He
said she told agents she gave birth
to a child at Dallas in 1951 but two
weeks later her husband took it
away and she never has seen it
since. The FBI identified the fath-
er of that baby as Lamar Mitchell.
Husband in Texas
At Gainsville, Tex., across the
Red river from Durant, B. R.
Doughty said he was seeking an an-
nulment of their marriage.
He said she had been married
previously and he had lived with
her only three weeks.
Doughty, a taxi driver, told
Gainsevllle Police Chief Louis Theo-
bald his wife is "sort of crazy" about
babies and once tried to claim an-
other woman's infant as her own in
Dallas.
Mrs. Doughty was neatly dressed
in a grey print dress and bright
red coat at her arraignment. At
first she was reticent but later con-
sented to talk to an Associated
Press newsman.
Ellsworth said she told her par-
ents when she arrived at their house
last night that the baby was hers.
FBI records show Mrs. Doughty
has been arrested at Amarillo. Tex-
arkana. Fort Worth, Texas and
Wichita Kan., and Ardmore. Okla.
Her arrest at Amarillo, the FBI said,
was for indecent exposure while ap-
pearing in a carnival girlie show.
Her trail after taking the baby
was closely followed by officers
through four states.
Patrol Anxious
To Quit Armory
Gilmer Says Lack Of
Quarters Bars Move
OKLAHOMA CITY. Nov. 9 —(UJ
— Safety Commissioner Dixie Oil
mer, replying to criticism by a 45tl
division group, said today the high
way patrol is anxious to move ou
of the national guard armory 1
took over for its headquarters dur
lng World War II but has no placi
to go.
The Oklahoma chapter of the 45tl
yesterday charged the state publii
safety department Is not living uj
to its promise to turn the armor]
(on northeast 23rd street) back t<
the division.
"We have no argument with the
men of the 45th division," Oilmei
said. "We are as anxious to get oul
as they are to have us out . . . un-
fortunately we have no place to gc
at this time."
No Building Money
The Oklahomans in the national
guard division, meeting in the
Thunderbird convention here, pass-
ed a resolution asking for their ar-
mory. They said the legislature au-
thorized an increase in driver li-
cense fees to build a new head-
quarters for the patrol.
However, Gilmer replied that the
legislature has made no appropria-
tion for a building and that the
driver license fees are not earmark-
ed for the patrol's use. He said they
have not brought in enough revenue
for a building even if they had been
earmarked.
Funds Shifted
"Driver license money is collected
by the tax commission and is placed
with other state funds, Gilmer said
"We have no more control over this
money than do the gentlemen of the
45th. Our only source of revenue is
the money appropriated for us bj
the legislature.”
"I certainly do not intend to crit-
icize the legislature for its appor-
tionment of state funds,” Gilme
continued. "As a matter of fact th
legislature did see fit to appropriat
money for a salary raise for the pa
trol, and we are very grateful.”
LIBRARY TO CLOSE
The Carnegie library will be clos-
ed all day Wednesday, Nov. 11. in
observance of Armistice Day, it has
been announced by Mrs. Richard
Horton, librarian.
Estimate of Cotton
Crop Is Increased
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. — (JP>—
The agriculture department in a
semi-finul report of the year, today
estimated this year's cotton crop at
16.093.000 bales of 500 pounds gross
weight.
This is 497,000 bales more than
last month's forecast of 15,596,000
bales and 957,000 bales above last
year's crop of 15,136.000 bales. It
compares also with 12,215,000 bales
for the 10-year average.
The department estimated Okla-
homa’s cotton production at 214
pounds per acre or 440.000 bales.
(Jompared with a month ago. Okla-
homa's prospective production is up
40.000 bales.
Saudi Arabia
King Is Dead
BAHREIN, Persian Oulf, Nov.
—UP)— Word reached this Islam
that King Ibn Caud of Saudi Ar
abia, the world's richest and mot
powerful absolute monarch, died to
day.
The crippled, one-eyed king wa
stricken with angina pectoris oi
Oct. 9. but on Oct. 27, a messag
reached the outside world that h
had passed the crisis.
The king, a 6 foot 4 giant of :
man in his prime, had been crip
pled in recent years by arthritif
He would have been 73 this mont!
or next. His exact birth date wa
not recorded.
TYPE CASTING
PROVIDENCE. R. I., —<U.O— Tt
head of the Narragansett Marti
Laboratory is Dr. Charles J. Fish.
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