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4 72 a m. i zl'm-fticifi: Vol. LXXXVII No. 181 MINNEAPOLIS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1953 Price 5 'PLEASE, MR. PRESIDENT 'Fence fhe Canal to Save the Little Joes' Grid Preview CULLUM ON MARYLAND HENDRICKSON ON ILLINOIS HARTMAN ON MINNESOTA Sleet Snaps Phones to 21 State Towns 2 Die as Dakotas Get Snow in First Blast of Winter House Group Plans to Probe Funds of City Teamsters HARUMPH! NEXT CASE, PLEASE 2 Union Aids, Truck Official Subpenaed CALIF.

Warren Anderson, who lives near the Contra Costa county ranal of the federal rentral val ley project. Friday wrote a let ter to President Eisenhower. In part, it read: "Mr. President: "I want to build a fence for my hoy. Joe.

There's an ur. fenced canal that 'meanders, through our county here in Cal-: ifomia. We live just a few yards from it and it's a danger to our children. ''I can't fence it. nor can any.

of my neighbors, because it be longs to our government. That's why I'm writing to you. "I think if you had known about it. one of your first acts! as President would have been lo have fenced it. Because the; anal.

Mr. President, has taken 33 lives, mostly babies like! your grandson, David, and my boy, Jon. I "Let nve tell you about Joe. He's only 3. Mr.

President, but1 he's all hoy and there's not a week goes by that 'his litiL body doesn't have cuts or, scratches or burns because of I the boy in him. "Joe fixes tilings, too. i tjh "1 State Begins Drive on Teen-Age Drinking By CHARLES K. BKNSOX Mmm-apiilis Tribune- Staff Writer Ho helps mo with broke two windows bought him a ham my car once. So I mrr things that need 'fix (an't toll you everything 'about Joe.

Mr. President, be- cause I haven't the words, but Mf I tell vou what he means to me. maylv you'll build this fence for him that I want so much to build. "Joe means love to me. His little good-by kiss in the morning makes the struggle of earn ing a living so much easier be cause I know that Joe will ac oomplish his dreams, even though I failed in mine.

"He will. Mr. President, be cause he's Joe and his Mommy and Daddy love him. "Please build this fence. Mr.

President." And then Anderson added, almost as an afterthought: "Build it for Joe not my Joe now because he was 'he last boy the canal took from his Mama and Daddy. Not for my Joe, but for some other little Joe -or David -who's all bov and will lie No. 31." As a result: I barges of selling; beer to i minors have been placed; against thiee Brownton ostab-! lishments: Tongen's, Hugo's! and the Cozy Corner. Trial has been set Dec. 18 in Glencoe municipal court.

The proprietor of a fourth tavern. Baldy's. at Hutchinson. pleaded guilty to a similar charge. Gov.

C. Elmer Anderson wrote a letter lo Sheriff OttOi E. Gruenhagen county, telling of him McLeod that if Beneke (iruenhageu Young drinking probed President Keneke Gruenhagen 4 AT Hirrptuitii 51 2-vear-o better Cam a little law before appearing lor uirv duty, ftlerrit Charges that beer drinking among minors, particularly at dance halls, is a problem in up to 20 Minnesota counties were made Friday by officials of McLood count. v. Their statements came after Louis Cass, superintendent of the Stewart consolidated school, moved in on conditions in Me-' Leod county.

Spiegel, New York, started hitting the books. This photograph was taken after Mer-rit received a jury summons, which was sint in his name rather than that of his father EfVnar d. Time Runs Out Docf or Soys President The first full-fledged blast of winter hit ihe Upper Midwest Friday. Freezing rain snapped communications in more than 20 southwestern Minnesota communities and heavy gusts of wind whipped snow in northern Minnesota into near-blizzards. Up to six inches of snow ere dumped on eastern North Da-kola.

In northeast South Dakota a total of eight inches of snow was expected. The deaths of two persons were blamed indirectly on the storms. ALL THE STORMS were expected to subside by early today, being replaced in the main by (older temperatures and snow flurries. The sleet storm early yesterday cut off telephone communications to 21 towns in west central and southwestern Minnesota. An ice coating up to two inches thick snapped 7.000 wires.

Some 3(i0 poles were knocked down. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. ordered 500 construction WOrkers into the area which had Pipestone as its center to work around the clock to restore service. A telephone company official said damage is estimated at not counting loss of toll revenues. Toll calls on the Minneapolis boards were "backed up terrifically," he said.

ONE OF THE FIRST 1. potts of the storm came to Minneapolis officials when an amateur radio operator in Des Plaines, 111., reported he had been in short-wave contact with Mrs. Catherine Tetly, wife of a Pipestone dentist. Besides Pipestone, the affected towns included Wilmont, I la wick. Jasper, Edgerton.

Trosky. Lake Wilson. Woodstock, Holland. Ruthton. Tyler.

Lake Benton. Arco, Ivanhoe, Hendricks, ham. Odessa Marietta. Belling-, Battle Lake, Vil- lard and Starbuck. A povver failuie at Lv nd, of a forced closing school.

Also hard-hit by weather was an area which included northern Minnesota, the Red River valley, western Minnesota and the eastern half of the Da-kotas. Dululh, reported freezing rains and wind gusts up to 63 miles an hour. Gusts up to 40 miles an hour in northwestern Minnesota cut visibility and caused some lighi drifting of snow. The rest of Minnesota was eat her Continual on 1'iitc Six Gales, Rain, Snow Kill 13 in Middle East CAIRO. EGYPT t.T) Gales, rain and snow in eastern Mediterranean nations were reported Friday to have caused 13 deaths and left at least 32 persons missing.

At ihe Egyption port of Alexandria 12 persons died in homes collapsed by heavy winds. In Lebanon, a farmer was killed when he was blown onto roc ks. Has NO Heart Disease NEW YORK 'INS) President Eisenhower's sician Friday squelched persistent rumors the heart disease. The doctor said Mr. Eisenhower has largely escaped lavages of time and stiTss." Maj.

Gen. Howard Sn.vder. the doctor, said many Americans have been alarmed by "reports emanating from certain columnists and radio commentators to the effect the President is suffering from cardiovascular disease." PREP CAGE SCORES Hopkins 78. West Thomas ih. II a-hhurn it.

St. Louis I'ark KS. Rnosevett it, DEI. itIS in Sports Peach.) TV Thousands to 'Join' Crowd at Game Today The University of Minnesota's Golden Gophers and the 1'nivorsiiy of Wisconsin's Badgers will close their 1953 football seasons before "live" fans at Memorial stadium and thousands of television viewers. To Wisconsin, the game means a chance to tie Michigan State and Illinois for the Big Ten championship.

The Badgers, however, are not eligible for the Rose Bowl because they represented the Big Ten at Pasadena last year. Illinois must defeat North- -1 i. western toaav 10 snaic m- with Michigan Mate, wnicn nas finished its conference schedule. For Minnesota fans, today will be remembered as the final college football game for Ail-American Paul Giel. Eight 01 her scniois also will be playing for the 1 tst time.

Among the sell-out crowd at Memorial stadium will be 1.0O0 residents of Giel's home town. Winona. Minn. Their activities will include a banquet tonight honoring the Gopher captain's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

E. J. Giel. Game time is 1 :30 p. m.

Telecasts over both WCCO-TV and KSTP-TV will begin at 1 p. m. Starting at 3:30 p. KSTP-TV is scheduled to carry the Southern California-UCLA game. Radio broadcasts of the Minnesota came, including pre views, are scheduled to start at 1 t).

m. over WCCO. WTCN and WLOL. P. M.

KUOM joins in at St. Paul Driver Killed, 2 Hurt in Collision One man was killed and two womn were injured critically in two St. Paul accidents Fri- His sister, Katherine Bon-was taken to Ancker hospital. St. Paul, in critical condition with a chest injury.

DRIVER of the truck was Adrian Seiberlich. 36. 2 Banfil street. St. Paul.

He was not injured. The Bonieiki car caromed off the truck and crashed into a parked car. police said. Near Virginia. Mike Dancula.

30. a Chicago deer hunter, was fatally injured when his car skidded on a snow glazed high a and slammed into a power pole. Three other men in the car were injured. John Capparelli. 2S.

Chicago, and Andrew Tom-asich. 27, Virginia, were in poor condition at the Virginia hospital. James Ingratia. 3s. Chicago, was treated and released.

Mrs. Clara Bausoher. S3. T1S Charles avenue. St.

Paul, was in front of Assumption Catholic church. Ninth and Auditorium streets, when she was struck. Mrs. Rauscher. who had left home to go lo confession and devotions, was taken to Ancker hospital in critical condition with bead injuries.

THE CAR'S driver. Mel le Hanzlid. 32. 300 Pavton avenue. St.

Paul, was charged with drunken driving and jailed. Roniecki wa the 2Mh St. r.aul traffic fatality this year. There were 17 fatalities in St. Paul at the same lime a year ago.

The two new deaths raised the irC)3 Minnesoia traffic toll to 573, 101 more than a car ajo. By I.AKK MOLEENHOIT Minnmpoln 'tril'iinc Slaff Corrc-hpcindrnt WASHINGTON The handling of the pension and vvel-f a i by Minneapolis teamster officials and an intricate maze of "loans" involving trucking firms are scheduled for investigation by a congressional committee next week. Subpenas issued for two union officials and one trucking firm operator Friday opened the way for the inquiry into some phases of charges of "racketeering" in the AFL Teamsters union in Minnesota. THE CHAIRMAN of the house labor investigating subcommittee, Rep. Smith Kan.

issued subpenas for Eugene Williams, i e-a 1 i labor leader; Gerald P. Connelly, a labor organizer 'hicago who lues been active1 in Minnesota, and James McNelis, operator of Red truck line. Smith 'Connelly, James Azzone, Minneapolis, and "seven friends" were granted a charter in September lo organize local KM of the Building Service Employes, AFL. in Minneapolis. The "mystery union" was de-Sc fibed by Azzone as out "to organize everything that isn't organized except truck was active in landscape, bar- i el-making, food-packaging and retail dress shop fields.

clt competed with the AFL Retail Clerks union to organize Nicollet avenue retail employes. Offices were in the Teamsters building, where it shared space with Teamsters union t38, which represents truck drivers in a number of small industries, i IT AS I. A the house labor investigating subcommittee also plans to question several of what it lermed "friendly witnesses" on the Minneapolis labor picture. The subcommittee has been investigating the handling of pension and labor funds in Detroit, and Chicago, and the questioning of Williams is Teamsters Continued on Ftiye Scien r-gUmannc His Zodiac Is in a Bad Way Now Saturday, Xoe. II, ftufciite a tunitrt 4 39 m.

Our northeast agents voting modern-minded couple keep their 3. ear-old son in line with a card on the wall. The card lists all of childhood's tragedies "Told mother when 1 had to go to bathroom." "Stayed dry all night," "Said prayers," "Ate all my food," "Did not sass all day," etc. and each day the boy is allowed to paste a gold star 1 side each of his objectives it he keeps faith. It went beautifully up until yesterday when he got hold of the box of gold stars some way and pasted up his credit card through Christmas.

Henry M. Atwood, president of Atwood Coffee is 36 today. Cloudy, windy and colder in the Twin Cities today with some snow flurries. High will I be 35 and low tonight. 25.

Five-day forecast: Tempera- tuies will average near normal normal maximum 35. normal 21'. Colder today with little change thereafter, i Precipitation ill av erage about .25 of an inch, occurring as snow flurries today and Sunday or Monday. Todav sary of pact. is the 333rd anniver-the Mayflower Com- similar conditions continue, he 'day.

will "invoke penalties provided: Frank Roniecki. G5. 711 Van by law for officials who neglect Ruren avenue. St. Paul, was or refuse to carry out the duties killed hen his car and a truck for hich they have been elec-, collided at about 1:45 p.m.

at ted." Grotto street and Lafond av e- Superintendent ('ass said yes-1 nue. terday he enlisted the aid of; iVET STREETS BR ISO teen-agers, with parents' con-sERIES OF CAR MISHAPS sent, to make purchases of pa()P 9 Experts Link Young Crime to Sparing Rod WASHINGTON (U.P Two Harvard criminologists said Fri-riav many juvenile delinquents fail to learn "the rules of the pame" of living because their parents spare the rod and spoil the child. Doctors Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck of the Harvard law-school agreed children have to be taught the rules in the home or they won't learn them anywhere else. The Gl necks gave a senate: sub-committee investigating the. delinquency problem report on Their 10-year study of 1,000 half delinquents and half not.

The median age of the youths was IU2. The survey showed tnai 330 of the 500 delinquent boys' had mothers whose discipline was anything but "firm and kindly." Only 21 were given the proper discipline and still went wrong for other reasons. The Gluecks found that GO per cent of the delinquents'! mothers "just let Johnny run around;" 33 per cent were "erratic" in their discipline and most of the rest ere "over- strict my. Wh8t had UUn been a harmless cap pistol has been converted by young hoodlums into a deadly weapon firing real bullets. Kenneth Marshall of the New York city youth board told a senate subcommittee probing juvenile delinquency.

Marshall, who grew up in the New York slums, said at Washington this kind of pun. held together with tape and hose damps, is used in bloody battles between teen-age gangs. i I for 'Worker' Without Job NEW YORK Ha rry Simon's gallant masquerade was over Friday. A suicide note was found by his wife, Alice, after a year in which he kept up a false front as a successful advertising man -although he had no job. No trace of him.

however, has been found. Simon's wife was reported in a state of shock, as their 3-year-old son, Eric, plagued her with the continual demand: "Wheiv's daddy0 When's my daddy coming home0" Police said the 31 year-old Simon was laid off by an advertising firm a year ago. He never let on to his wife. Instead, each da; he forced a cheerful smile to his face and Ml ihe house at his rerular time as though -joint! to work. Simon brought home his weekly pay getting it from his $2,900 savings account.

Wednesday he didn't come home. Thursday he phoned his wife and told her to look in the pocket of a jacket at home. There she found a note which revealed ihe whole story and ended with Simon's decision to kill himself. Ironically, the job which eluded him so long now was available. Two businessmen vied to hiie him at S100 a week, when thev learn-ed the siorv.

Rut nobody knows whether the gallant masquerader still is aliv e. window. He said can't walk. I can't walk' before he fell. "I HIM outside He fell off the porch into the mud.

II was mining hard." Mrs. Norman then went back into the house and pulled her dauguler. Robcila. to the front poiih. "A soon as she hit the ait-she seemed all light." Mrs.

Norman said, "although she complained of being suk to her stomn Barhaia also was rained to fresh air by her mother, who then called her doc-tor. "TO MAKE THINGS worse, the doitor went to the wrong address." she said. "We teeent-lv nun ect and I forgot to tell him the new ad-lie-s." Mis Norman sa-l she "da! everything' to keep K.uhaia awake. "Finally, she came aioun-1 and siaite-l to whimper. Then I knew she was going to be ail iirht she said.

Investigators said caibon monoxide filled the houe when heavy winds forced fumes from a gas furnarf back down the chimney and into the house. personal phy-President has 'the With a grin, ihe physician described annual heart and healih checkups on the President since 1915 and commented: "IF HE DOES have heart disease. I am too dumb to recognize the idence. 'T have consulted with many heart and vascular disease ex perts in i connection. Ihe President's cardiovascular system has horoughly examined by specialists in the army, navy and civilian life at annual i r-vals.

"In all of lr. Snyder these examinations, the findings indicate the President shows less evidence of the ravages of time and stress than is anticipated in a man of his age." A I 1) he has watched Mr. Eisenhower closely lor signs of wear and tear and said he is aware that some forms of heart disease "may suddenly strike 'out of the blue' and terminate the careers of men shouldering great respon sibilities." He added firmly: I "Honest answers were made: in September 1052 regarding the! 'health of candidate Eisenhower. There has been no significant change since that report was published." $18,000 Bank Loot Found in Wisconsin OWEN WIS CP' Federal biiicau of investigation agents Flidav recovered all but of ihe taken from the Curliss State hank by two young gunmen Tuesday. Robeit I Murphy, special agent in charge of the Milwaukee.

FBI office, said ihe money was found in an abandoned faimhouse between here and Curtiss. The money was in bank wrappers and still in the money bag in which it was ai ieel aw ay. TURN THE PAGES TO: PEOPLE IN THE 2 Editorials 4 Women 5 COMICS Pages 6. 7 Mr. Fixit Grim 9 Market News -1 4 Teach THEATERS WISCRf.LL on Bnck rgt Police Chip In i to Buy Own Siren i The Minneapolis police de- partment is broke.

The department is so broke nine patrolmen dug into iheir jeans to buy a new siren for their squad car. Deputy Inspector Elmer Hart said the nine were oil aid the present, orn-out Mien didn't provide adequate warning to motorists. Ralher than run 1he risk of a collision while on emergen! calls, the nine men put up cents each $1.95 and bought a new siren. Girl Who Saysf I'm Evelyn Hartley Found in City i A girl who laimed to be Eve-1 ln Hartley, the missing 1" year-old La Crosse, baby sitter, was held lor questioning early, today at Minnehaha precinct station. Precinct police described the) gill as "hysterical." Detectives were clispatc lien irom downtown headquarters to interview the gi-l.

Pending the outcome of the questioning, I here could be no confirmation of her i identiiv. Evelvn disappeared from a La Ciosse. Wis. home where she was li.ibv-siuing the night of )- i. 24 Bloodstains at the scene led investigators to le-lieve she had been atlai ked and abducted by a sex maniac.

Doling Hie 2 days since her dis.tppeai a there has been a nationwide search (or the jill or hei body. The gill disappeared while bahv sillii.L' at the home uf Viu'g" R. Ra-mussen. a professor of phvMcal sc ience at I-a i'im- Slate college. Evelyn's faih.i.

Di K.chard T. Hatlley. iv a pi of biologv al the college. Students of La Ciosse On-ti al high school, where Evelyn was a sophomore; national guardsmen, townspeople and law rnffin-ement officers --as many as a ihousand at a lime had seaiched the area around, 'the Rasmuscn home for rlues to the girl's Child's Cries Awaken Mother Who Saves 3 From Fumes 1 u' lishments in the county cause he felt an unjustified blame for delinquency was being placed upon school officials. He said a number of girls Drinking Continued on Page Seven Freezer Saves Frozen Assets, Cod Cash Goes to tlf Tribunt EAU CLAIRE.

WIS. A thief got away with $3-18 in cold cash here Thursday night, but over-' looked an additional $2,500 in dozen assets. The money disappeaied from its hiding place in the freezer at the Veterans of Foreign Wats clubhouse on Riverside driv e. A bag containing Jl.r.00 in cash and S900 in cashed payroll checks was untouched, according to Howard Klavetter, club manager. Markets Plucked by Turkey Offer SACRAMENTO.

CALIF. f.Ri-A local grocery store chain which offered to exchange turkeys for abandoned icebox doors halted the protect Friday aftet 1.000 turkeys were given away. The chain originally offered 1.0(Hi turkevs to prevent oung strrs from dying in iceboxes. The stores' spokesman said one junk dealer was selling icebox doors for a fraction of the rost of 11 turkey in Iront of ore ol the itores. Sprrial In thr Mtnnniwtli Trihun FAIRMONT.

MINN. A 27-1 year-old mother rescued her husband and two daughters from possible death Friday after carbon monoxide fumes filled their home while they slept. Mrs. Alie N'oiman commented after the early morning ordeal: "Thank God I heard the baby rv ing." Mrs. Norman said she awoke about 1:30 a.m.

to the cries of her daughter. Barbara. 3. "I WENT TO SEE what was wrong." she said. "My head felt heavy and dizzy.

I got a glass of water to give Harbaia a drink. 'When I touched her. she stiffened out. I couldn't get her eves oicn and I carried her into the bathroom to try to revive her. Mrs.

Not man s.r,d she screamed for her husband, Richaid. 21. an advertising salesman for the Fail moot Sentinel. "Dick cot out of bed, walked into the living room, collapsed iand fell backwtrd against a.