The Muscatine Journal from Muscatine, Iowa • 1

'j i 1 7 I i I I 1 i JJL JLL -LL JLf THG VJGATHGR'm' LOCAL Cloudy and warmer tonight. Taesday cloudy and turning colder with now north and win oar snow Iligrl today 27. Low towght J3. High Tuesday 34. IOWA Cloudy and warmer.

Slightly colder Tuesday. River I stag 5.T fet; bo change. JOURNA AND K2W3-TRJ8UN3 ESTABLISHED 1840 MQ.43 MUSCATINE, KDWA MONDAY, FEBRUARY S7, 19,50 TWELVE PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS ft Muscatine tea a TO) onus I I I is If IV Iowa Two Rpfo laying mnnat Die Fiipils eport Davenport Prisoner Is Killed if i. I i pS 1 1 Yy 6 6 to' I V1 ijnobile was reduced to a pile of bartered rmtal after being pushed along the railroad tracks for a block. (Journal Photo) i i I 1 1 i i 7 1 1 DEATH CAR The batttred wreckog of 1h automobile; ini which I Walter William Cuttcnf elder met death at a Durant railroad croiiitig Sunday i shown here.

The auto- Durant High School Senior Killed as Train! Rams Gar Duiant Waltcf William Guttenfelder, Jr 17 year old Durant hich school' senior, '-was instantly' killed in, a grade Anamosa, la. (AP) De-tails of a knife-slaying in the Anamosa Men's reformatory were disclosed today by War-jden Foss Davis. The victim was Baldimero Morales, 18, of Davenport. Four other prisoners are being held in solitary confinement as euspects. A knife with a 5-inch blade was plunged into Morales' stomach as he walked across the prison recreation yard Sunday afternoon.

There were approximately 600 other inmates in the yard at tne fWme. If sny of them knew the identity of the aggressor, they were keeping mum according to the unwritten code of such men. Several Held Grudges Warden Davis described Mor-. si es as "'a trouble-maker." He ifaid several inmates, were known to have a grudge against him. -'rr Morales was serving a 10-year i term on a charge of breaking and A entering.

He was committed from Davenport in "1947 along with Othree other youths of Mexican descent. Prison records listed Morales' nearest relative as Mrs. Suled Morales of Davenport. Davis said it was the first time orje inmate had killed another in the 10 years he had been in charge of the institution. Died At 6:30 Davis said: the stabbing occurred about 3:50 p.

m. Sunday and that Morales died on an operating t3 table in the reformatory hospital about 6:30 m. A reformatory surgeon was placing clamps on a severed artery to stem the flow df blood when Morales died. Iowa board of control member Robert C. Lappen was en route to Anamosa this morning to aid in 4he investigation.

At Davis' request, a state bureau of investigation agent also was being sent. Warden Davis gave this account of the stabbing: 0 Morales and two -companions were walking across- the 13-acre recreation yard which lies within a u-shaped area bordered by the institution's, buildings. Thrusts Knife As the trio passed another group of prisoners one of them thrust the knife into! the right side of his stomach. i A-large number of inmates quickly clustered around and a guard, Sammy Edwards, came up just as Morales was pulling" the knife out. t.

"Take me to the deputy's office," Morales said. Morales was taken instead to the prison hospitalwhere he died. Morales 0rked in the number vplate factosy HOUNDS JOIN HUNT Thee dogs, colled "cat hounds" by their Frank Dixon (left), Oklahoma City, tind Glen Reed, Chandler, because they are used I In-tracking down bobcats, were pressed into service Sunday in the widespread hunt for a leopard which escaped from an OHihomo City to. (AP Utiiqn Pleads Innocent in Court to Contempt Charges Washington AP) John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers today pleaded innocent to contempt charges resulting from the failure of miners to return to work under cour.t order.

1 1 i The union waived its right to argue its case before a jury, and decided to let Judge Richmond B. Keech rule on Trained Dogs Now in Hunt For Leopard Oklahoma Citv fPi Seven dogs trained in mountain lion hunting I took the trail today in effort to find Oklahoma City's missing leopard. They were in charge of Byron Donton, a member of the Colorado same and fish department; and William Kent, Co lorado state trapper. The men and dogs were flown to Oklahoma City in an airplane chartered by The Denver Post. Today's search began, as it did Saturday after the leopard escap ed, at the zoo, Two guards reported the ani mal just a few weeks out of an India jungle reentered the zoo grounds about1 1 a.

m. But search of the grounds, failed to disclose him. At daybreak zoo Director Julian Frazicr and others searched th pit from which the wild animal fled. Put he was there, cither. i.

Hunks of meat treated with a drug have been hung on the fence where the swards reported aeeinr the animal, i I Marine reservists joined in the hunt. A national guard airplane' flew overhead. 1 Frazicr, who has had only two hours sleep since Friday night, warne-d -the cat hadn't eaten, since Saturday and said his hunger will make him even more dangerous "Besides that his nature leads him to kill for pleasure," Frazicr added. I The only tangible clue to the animal's presence in the zoo early today are the jhairs caught under the rough edge of the fence where he was reported seen by two guards, D. Douglass and W.

Cooke, iust before 1 m. (CST) The place where the hairs- were found on the fence is 50 feet from where the leopard's mate is caged in the 1 Examining, the hairs Frazicr nodded confirmation: "There's no doubt about it, these are leopard' hairs, and our cat snraked in here today." But as to the whereabouts- of the 200 pounds i of jungle fury Frazicr couldn say. It escaped unseen from this same enclosure Saturday after springing 18 feet from its pit in the zoo. Afternoon visitors scattered in panic before the calm animal's ad vance, but he slinked into the heavy underbrush. Since then he has hundreds of hunters through two days of weary tramping the; countryside 15" miles to tho north and The leopard, captured in India less than 60 days ago, is described as particularly vicious.

From Thousand Oaks, where the animal was quartered for four days after its arrival in this country, came a warning of a dangerous battle if it is captured. Louis Gbebel, one of the owners of the world jungle compound there, said it of the most savage animals," he had ever handled. i "He's a full-grown jungle animal and as green to civilization as they come," he said. 1 GOP Is Planning 3-Way 'Red Issue' Attack On Truman Washington (JP) Republicans are; planning to use the communist for a three-way attack on the Truman administration in the congressional campaign," Under plans discussed by party strategists, GOP speakers will have a lot to say about: (1) President Truman's "red herring" statements, (2) his refusal to1 let a senate committee look! at secret state department loyalty filost' and (3) Secretary of State Acheson's comment that ho will not turn his back on Alger Hiss. Senator Ferguson (R-Mich); told a reporter he thinks' these add up to "something the American people ought to know about." f'lf they don't constitute an then I never saw one," the Michigan senator said.

Republican orators jumped on Mr. Truman's "red herring" statements in the 1948 presidential campaign without much success. During that compaign Mr. Truman said the communists-in-gov-ernment investigation 1 conducted by the house committee on un-American activities was just a "red herring" to keep the people's minds off cnore important things. Three Hurt Srinnell, (AP)- A bew and sister were killed to- ddy in the' crash i their schpol bus and a speeding streamliner" train.

I iJSvo other pupils were in- jutd. along with the bus! driv- em t-If- rhjthe victims were-'iJerry rj his sister, Shelva lvThey were children of Mr. am Mrs. Hay ofj Kel- log-i The boy was killed out- riht; the girl died in a hospi-talV i.i school books, 'lunch parentages and bits of i apparel wpe; scattered along the right-of- way as the eastboundRock Island -r RoKfit swept the bus along the trafcks and demolished It The accident occurred at 8:10 I m.yust south of highway 6 at-a poiiit four miles wu4 Grinnell. 4' I Only 4 Pupi'j ward The bus had jus-4' rmiri an tkA i i the first of.

an inte 4 to 'board it. XJV-r One of thei injurett pupils was taieA to a Grinncll hospital by a motorist and the other two: and the driver were brought on by the train which stopped as quickly' as possible. The accident occurred in the community known as Turner's crossing just as the bus turned oft'-hiahway 6 down the incline! which leads, across, the tracks. Visibility at the spot is poor due to a. bluff.

Another pupil, Shirlcc Taylor, two compound: trac- tuf'es of the leg and decpjlaccr- Ucnny Gilnncll college studciu niib was Uie bus, stdlcft back or X-r ys iv been ia.en. --i ii sM St. Francis hospital i here, the fourth pupil, Joyce Wiehdorf, .14, was- taken, was 1 girted she was semi-conscious, 3ltLL uvril A-i ayo wut XU)f extent her injuries was nc' announced. 1 fht Hay children lived at Kcl- with their parents, Mr. i Airs.

John iiay. ihe-lather is employed at the Maytag plant in ii Hie Taylor girrls the daughter Leland Taylor' of Turner ani ithe Widendorf girl -df the daughter of Otto Weidendorf of KfcHosg. Carried 50 reef bus was carried atjput 53 ialong the tracks before it rctticd off to one side in, a heap of twisted metal. The door of the bus w.s -found in an adjoining pas- llailroad of itials dccliilcd to estimate the Rocket's speed ibut it norjnally would be moie than 50 milesi all hour at, that 1 Hmcrcency (transportation ito the hospital awaited injured; wjipn" thfe 'train pulled into the "GrinnefK' statidhi 1 i The i bus was owned by the independent schoal dls trlH-1 Iowa Vet Held After Shooting Incident at C.R. i jl Rapids (JP) A war yct-ctkn being 'held in jail i today 1 after! a woman complained he iifeij! several shots into the, house wljere she and another jwonaan lived; ms.

Nellie. Mcbkncss, (43, a wSiftow, said that bcfoite the slWioting incident Donald Curran, telephoned-her and said: going to kill myself and -else." 'j bounty William Crissman wir'-to file charges against Cur-r; probably today. Currah was fAerly a patient at Schick Vet- eruis hospital at Clinton. jCaJrran told; police Mrs. Mesk-f had formerly been his fi However, Mrs.

Meskness stiff- she knew Curran only slightly; sjnd never had been his fiancee. 'said Currah appeared at the house where she and Mrs. Loyise Gearhart livn and fired several shots from his- revolver the ground. 1 Meskness said she! called pOiice and a neighbor, and jthen tu'rhed out all the lights: and Mrs. Meskness crouched on the living room floor in 'ihe dark.

"Curran fired three shots through the windows, into the house, i Mrs. Meskness said. He surrendered quietly wheni police patrolmen came to arrest him. IOWAX IS FINED Creston (JP) Richard I J. Jen- i28, of Murray, was fined and costs here Saturday on a charge of illegal possession of six pheasants.

1 Weekend Mishaps (ill Family Of. 4, Six Other lovans By The Associated Tn Iowans died over ihe weekend' 'as a result of traffic Bccir dcnti. The victims included a family of four Which was wiped out in a car-train collision The dead: Richard Gregory Neil. 21, Glad-brook farm worker; his wife Faye, 20. and their twO infant daughters were killed in a car-train crash Sunday.

Glen If. 39, Red jOak, state safes tax- commission ex aminer, was killed curly Monday when the scar in which was riding went off road. Royal Nash, :42, Nevada, 1 was crushed to death about midnight Sundav when his car left the road.1 Waller William Guttrnfelder, 17, Durant school ketball player, killed parly Sunday 1 a grade-crossing ac-cidenjt. Mrs. Elva 38.

Waterloo died Sunday of injuries suffered Saturday night i in a car-pedes trian! collision while she I was walking across a bridge in down town! Waterloo. 1 Joseph Beadle, 64, of Cedar Rapids, died in a Cedar Rapids hospital Sunday of injuries; suf fered in a three-car collision. George French, 64, Floris, died Saturday-j after noon of injur ics resulting jfrom a tar-truck crash. I i The Neils' iafid their babies, Judith Ann. 5 months, and Kathy two months, were killed when their car skidded into I the path of a Chioagoi and Great Western freight at Glad brook.

Neil was a The said apparently saw. the train and tried to stop but skidded on the icy highway. The car in which' Hanson' was killed ran off highway 48 near Essex about 12:40 a. m. Monday.

Three other persons in (he car wcrej hospitalized at a Shenandoah hospital with injuries. They were: Don Guttschcnritter, 26, driver, head cuts, chest injuries, probable internal injuries: Margie Rydberg, C2-. broken' collarbone and compound fracture of left leg: Jones, 28, cuts, bruises and shock. The accident which killed Royal Nash. 42, of Nevada, occurred whert his car left a gravel road near Ames.

At1 Waterloo, police said two other pedestrians were hurt i seriously in the accident which brought death to Mrs. Reece as the three returned home from church. They were her daughter. Barbara 17, and Dlive Smith. 25.

Lawrence Takin. 19, Waterloo, driver-of the car' which police said struck the women, reported he lost control on icy pavement! Takiri was charged i with reckless driving but following Reece's depth County Atty. Blair Wood said he planned to investigate further. TOWAN REACHES 100 Sibley M. D.

Harberts, former, Sibley furniture dealer, celebrated his 100th birthday Sunday. He is living in a nursing home at Ashton near here. V'rephotol. 4- Tells Of Seeing Dr. Sander Apply Empty Syringe Manchester.

N. H. '(JP) A nurse testified today she "saw Dr. Hermann N. Sander apply an empty syringe to a dying cancer patient he is accused of murdering by giving her air injections.

Nurse Elizabeth said the doctor then turned and told hep "air in the veins would act like an rj (An embolus is defined as an abnormal particle circulating in tho blood--such as a bubble of air or a clot of blood.) i Miss Rose said that, as the needle pierced Mrs Abbie Borrows arm she heard a "louder gasp." Ihe nurse previously had testified that three: persons had tried vainly to find the patient's pulse beat a few minutes i before Dr. Sander arrived her bedside. Miss Rose said, however, that Mrs. Borroto -was ftasping. According to the nurse, 'Dr.

Sander asked her to get him a 10 or 20 cubic centimeter sterile syringe that she got a 10 cc syringe; at a medicine closet, also some gauze which isne soanea with alcohol to make1 it an "alcohol sDonce." Miss Rose testified sh returned, to Mrs. Borroto's 1 room where "Dr. Sander was standing on the left hand side of the bed, towards the "foot of the bed." Iowa Telephone Workers Protest Des Moines (JP) Telephone installation men in three Iowa cities who walked out Friday re' turned to work today. r. They had walked out in pro' test against a 60-day postpone ment of a nationwide telephone strike.

Thev are members of the Communications Workers of America (CIO)- About 30 men at Des Moines, 20 at Waterloo and 14 at Sioux, City left their jobs The walk-out was intended to be an expression against another postponement, J. C. Wieland, steward for the Des Moines local, said. The men are employes of the Western Electric Cos Their work is the installation of new tele phone equipment 5 before; 10 a. m.

bunday. 1 i 4 I i fit 3 WALTER GUTTENFELDER Two U. S. Ships Bombed, Strafed Off China Coast Washington lP) Two Amer ican' merchant ships reported were bombed and strafed from the air at the communist-held north. China port of Tsingtaol -The state' department said the master of the Isbrandtsen ship "flying i CljppcrT reported his vessel was attacked while anchored in the harbor.

In-New, York, theiUriited States lines said one of its ships, the Dale," was strafed, and a bomb was dropped close astern. James' F. Knowlton ad-Vised there was one slight injury in the Pioneer Dale's crew of 50, He was directed to return to Japan. Knowlton's message did not indicate the nationality of the plane which attacked the vessel. Labor's Majority Whittled to Seven I I in! i London W1-- Labor's overall majority in the house of commons fell to seven seats with one of The 625 districts still to vote.

Labor's majority in the last parliament was 143. 1 The slender margin made a new general election this year almost a There were hints that) Prime Minister, Attlee and conservative leader Winston Churchill will delay it until fall under a "gentlemen's agreement," The communist Daily Worker used the1 phrase "backdoor The idea would be to get soma pressing jobs done before entering the heat of, another campaign. Delayed returns from three remote districts of Scotland gave the conservatives two more victories and the liberals one today. -The election was held last Thursday. I'.

-j .1 i crossing accident here The car he driving was strUck by art ertstbound. Rock Island l'mf Rocket passenger train and dragged along the track for a distance of 4 block, before it was thofwn clear Jrom the iront of the diesel enginer. Guttenfelder hsuffered a frac tured skull, crjjshed: chest and other injuries, i Guttenfelder. member of Durant .1 high basketball team -wTiich1' won tljie sectional tournament i day nighu was driving J. 'north and apparently the approach of failed to notice the speeding train uAtil too late to stop.

Visibility at the crossrng to the west is i obscu'red Until, a motorist 40 feet from the tracks. he st'ceeti was covered with packed isnpw and was slippery. i Open mvesiipaiion i -C. Wflleyjof Tipton, Cedar (county Gordon Smith, of Clarcncf. Cedaif county, coroner, jand Lysle Iwa high way patrol ortiqer.

opena an investigation into! the mishap. Sun i- -t 1 An ritciucst Is, being arranged The body of Gutterfeldcr was taken the Fnck Funeral home here, pending completion of funeral arrangbments. Services arc not Expected! to until. the arrival pf his fiarcntti. ivho have been at? Roswell'.

N. the "past three weeks visiting Another son. They were reporteq en rpuic home after being -notaned of'-the accident. Is I 'IT The engine df the Rocket train was reported to have suffered only minor damage, from the collision, ard continued mi its Tun eastward after 'a short delay. Piece, of jhe 1941 Ford which Gu.ttenfcjder was i driving were strewn alng the track for.

the entire blo(jk it ivas i puwhed along -ahcajd the engine. The car. which wafs demolished, was later' towed to the, hp'me of a relative. VI I 'IV i1 1 1 1 1 Born Sept. 23, 1932, in, Daven-porti Walter Guttenfelder.

moved with his parents to Dtirarjt when he was four years In addition to playing on" the high school basketball -team, the youth bad also been a member of the baseball 'teAvri andi also' had, played with the American Legion junior baseball team, serving; as infield-er "and pitcher. was a Boy Scout, and attended tbe Durant union Sunday school.) 1 In addition to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Guttenfelder, Sr.r of Durant, he is survived by two brothers, 1st Lt.

Raymond I. Qut-tenfelderf who is in the air force at Roswell, Don, pf Durant; and two sisters, Mrs. 1 Hcrshel Fitzer of Durant and I Shirley Ann, at home. He preceded in death by a sister1. I ij I 1 60,000 Daniase In Inlepencleiice Fire Independence' (P)' Dafpage estimated at nearly $60,000 was caused by a at the Woodward store here Sunday.

Firemen fought the: blaze for more than hours before bringing it under control. Most of the stock in the store was Upstairs, apartments were damaged by smoke, but no one was reported injured, the evidence as well as the law. The big question isr whether the union is responsible i for the refusal of the coal miners to go back to work. -fi i Keech issued an order 11 for a return to work, bit the miners have ignored it. The union's attorneys' have contended that the miners.

are acting individually that the union itself has nothing to dd with the present strike. Once the union's was formally entered, the1-government began attempting to show that the union is responsible tor keeping the mines-idle tdj the point of a national coal The i government had done' little more than enter documents in the lease when it i asked for a recess 'until 1:45 p.1 m. (EST). Government attorneys explained that they wanted tQleall as witnesses some of the men then engaged in renewed' contract negotiations, i i i. "We don't want to pull "them away from the bargaining negotiations," Joseph M.

Friedrhan, special, assistant attorney general, said. I'M -i A session of talks between the operators and union representatives had begun at 10 a. m. (CST). Welly K.

Hopkins, general counsel for! Lewis' union, said he was waiving a trial by jury for "reasons which need not be entered in the record in detail. Hopkins then moved that Judge Keech dismiss the proceeding. The judge immediately denied that motion and Hopkins entered the plea of innocent. The courtroom was1 crowded, mainly' with lawyers, newspapermen and close associates of the union or operators. A long queue lined up outside the courtroom door.

Talks Recessed In Coal Dispute Washington coal contract negotiations today were recessed indefinitely the government kept both parties subject ton call for further talks on one hour's notice. I 1 Presidential fact-finder David L. Cole said both sides felt "it would be a good idea to go back and consult with their- associates." whether the- development could be construed as en- couraging since it indicated that something was i on the; table for consultation. Cole replied: "I don't know whether you can call it progress not." Asked whether the recess was a break-up," he replied 'Oh, no no." Bednasek Pleads Innocent; Trial Set for March 14 Iowa City (JP) A plea innocent "was entered today of by Robert Bednasek "when he was arraigned on a formal information charging him with murder in the strangulation death Margaret Anne '(Gee-Gee) Jackson," University of Iowa coed. District Judge James P.

Gaffncy set 10 a. m. March 14 for the opening of the 24-year-old senator student's trial. sThc pretty psychology student was found dead last Dec. 11 in the Empty Anns," a campus men's rooming house where Bednasek lived.

i The judge made Bednasck's plea subject to defense rights to file for a supplementary bill of particulars tp the charges against him. Passenger Depot Robbed Of $126. j'olice toqiay were investigating a break-in at the Rock Island passenger depot Sunday in which $izb was Teportea taKen. Tbe break-in, reported to police at lip. m.

Sunday, was discover- ed when the night clerk came to reopen the station- which had beep closed betweeri trains. According tor Police Chief Har-told Wickeyy-entrance to the depot was made; through a window. Parochial Schools Closing At Keokuk Keokuk JPh- The coal short age is going to give-Catholic paro chial school pupils here a vaca tion. It was announced Sunday that three parochial schools would be closed for at least a week on ac- of tne coal situation..