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IOWA CITY PRESS-CITIZEN in THIS Local News, Sports, SECTION Want Ads, Comics mART IWT 1114 7 II 1 II 15 1) II 1 IT I 19 II 4 1 J7 a si TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1947 IOWA CITY" IOWA PAGE NINE Skiis for Winter Flying Legion Uses 'Plenty of Says Iowa Commander in Frank Talk at Local Pressure' Pat's Initiation MARTIN IS ON WAYS, MEANS Chosen for House Top Committee by Iowa Delegation WAGNER AGAIN HEADS UNION Election of Of ficers Held Monday Night By Local No. 12 Raymond Wagner, 1172 Hota avenue, was elected to his third successive term as president of Local No12, A. F. of at a meet ing of its membership Monday night in the K.P. hall.

The union is composed of employes of the university. Max Miller was re-elected vice president of the group while James Van 'Scoyoc became treasurer for the fourth time. Also elected were Ray Ipsen to his second term as recording secretary, afld Richard Bowen to a three-year term as trustee. Other board members are Elmer Hay and Emil Wiebcl. Prof.

Walter L. Daykin of the university commerce department discussed "Labor Relations of Local 12 and the University" while Walter Kriofsky, national union representative, spoke on "General Organization Work Among Public Employes." A group of candidates were initiated into the union and refreshments were served at the close of the meeting. 1 Jfc 'J -VX -f if Hi WASHINGTON VP) Rep. Thomas E. Martin (R-Iowa)' was nominated today for the house ways and means com inittee.

He was chosen by the Iowa house delegation and his as signment to the committee will be made by the house committee on committees. Martin has been a member of the military affairs com' mittee. C. WALSH DIES TODAY Pneumonia Is Fatal To Riverside Farmer; 111 for About a Year RIVERSIDE Cornelius William Walsh, 72, farmer in this community for many years, died at 9:15 o'clock this morning at his home west of town. Although Mr.

Walsh was ill with leukemia for about a year, the immediate 'cause of his death was a type of pneumonia. Born August 22, 1874, on a farm west of Riverside, he was the son of Cornelius and Mary Fogarty Walsh. A lifelong resident of this community, he was married October 9, 1900, to Pellagia Birrer, who survives him. The couple lived on a farm west of town, where they reared nine children, five boys and four girls One son, Robert Edward, died In an accident in 1917 at the age of two years. Surviving children are John, Phoenix.

Ariz.LRichard, Haver- town, Martin, Seattle, Leo, Casper, Thomas, at home; Catherine (Mrs. Paul Kne bel), near Riverside; Magdalene (Mrs. Ralph Meade), Mt Pleasant; Mary (Mrs. Joseph Hurt, Iowa City; Theresa (Mrs. Clifford Schmierer), Ellendale, N.D.

Other survivors are a brother, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John M. Walsh, pastor of St Mary's church at Ot-tumwa; two sisters, both nuns at St.

Francis hospital. La Crosse, Sister Mary Jeremiah (the former Margaret Walsh) and Sis ter Mary Beata (the former Ther esa Walsh) and 17 grandchildren. Mr. Walsh was a member of St. Mary's church in Riverside and of the Catholic Order of Foresters.

Funeral services are tentatively scheduled for Friday morn ing at the church. Union Agent Shot, Critically Wounded By Unidentified Man NEW YORK UP) A union business agent, ambushed and shot four times by an unidentified man when he stepped from his car in front of his home, was in a critical condition today at Harbor hospital, The wounded man is Anthony Durante, 41, a business agent for the joint board of the Cloak, Suit, Skirt and Reefer Makers union of the International Ladies Garment Workers union (A.FX.). His wife, Marie, saw the shooting Monday night from the. window of their apartment, police said. Durante, who was shot once in the mouth, twice in the arm and once in the stomach, had- not-been involved in labor trouble and had no known enemies, his wife told R.

W. Cochrane, head of the Iowa City Flying; Service and new fixed base operator at the Iowa City airport since January 1, tries out skiis for winter flying: on his Aeronca trainer. Cochrane has two planes now and will add to these flying: units in the near future, he said. (Press-Citizen Photo.) By PAUL DE CAMP Admitting that the American Legion "has exerted plenty of pressure when it chose to do so," Jesse W. Hal-den of Newton, Iowa commander, told a local audience Monday night that his organization "is high pressure high, wide and, withal, handsome." Halden spoke at the Community building after con ducting, with other state and district Legion officials the initiation of 79 men and two women as new members of Roy L.

Chopek post No. 17. His speech was a preview of a radio address, "The Influence of the American Legion in Politics," which he will deliver to an Iowa- wide audience Thursday morning. The state commander declared that much of the accusation of Legion lobbying and most of the denial "has been arrant nonsense." Legion forces "have done plenty of high-class lobbying in the halls of congress, of state legislatures, of city councils," he said. "Honest Lobbying" "Honest lobbying is nothing more than the process of keeping track of the work of a legislative Doay and urging upon the members of that body the procedures you deem to be wise and just.

"In plain fact the American Legion has lobbied all over the national congress, and because most of its causes were in the public interest and had public support, it has won more often than It has lost." 2 S.U.I. MEN AREHONORED -Bodine, Loehwing Are Elected to Office By Scientific Group Prof. Joseph H. Bodine, head of the zoology department of the university, recently was elected president of the American Society of Zoologists at the annual conference in Boston of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Prof.

Walter F. Loehwing, head of the department of botony, was elected vice-president and chair man of section (plant science) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a former president of the American Society of Plant Physiologists and is now editor of the Journal of Plant Physiology. Prof. G.

W. Martin, of the botony department is secretary of sec tion G. Archie E. Mathis Buried at Vienna VIENNA, 111. (if) Archie E.

Mathis, 43, a physical education instructor at University of Illinois, was buried Sunday in the Vienna Fraternal cemetery. Mathis died Friday on his Johnson county farm of a bullet wound in the head Which Coroner E. A. Veach said was self-inflicted. During the war Mathis served In the navy physical fitness program at the Iowa pre-flight school.

Surviving are his widow and a daughter. Russian Thousands Celebrate Christmas MOSCOW UF) Thousands of Orthodox Christians throughout the Soviet Union celebrated the traditional Russian Christmas to day, following an eve of prayer during which crowds of the faitn ful thronged the Cathedral of the Resurrection while Alexel, patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, led devotional services. fessed the murders then I know it would have been a lot tougher on me, so I just went along and did what they wanted me to and confessed." The youth said he was writing his autobiography and would use any income to "hire a New York detective agency to investigate those murders." He added hedidn't blame" his family for changing their name Monday to Hill, saying it was "the best thing." Dr. Groves B. Smith, prison psy chiatrist, said of Heirens: "He has been getting along much better than we ever expected.

He has expressed an interest In his own advancement to better Jobs available within the psychiatric division a marked contrast to his attitude on his arrival. "He has not taken any interest in reading except to show a keen interest in the news stories about himself. He has responded to counseling by deputy wardens against associating with individuals in the psychiatric division whose influence Is Legion lobby has carried forward. It has nlekkd power, built and kept prestige and kept 'out of "Always non-partisan, placing principles ahead of personalities, it is more powerful politically than any scheme of partisanship can possibly be This principle of non-partisanship, incorporated in the Legion constitution, "much to the dislike of many young hotheads who wanted to 'get into has prevented the Legion from bursting itself apart on the rocks of partisanship and frittering away its strength in contests of personal! ties," Halden continued. "Parties have come and gone.

Individuals have won political ad vancement or missed it. Devotion to principle, avoidance of party ties, have paid off for the Legion through the years. "As a potent influence In the political and socio-economic life of our country, the American Legion has been up and down the road and has definitely Influenced and secured legislation which It believed to be for the best interests of our veteran-civilian population and the national welfare. "The record of the American Legion for more than two decades has given proof that as a great non-political organization, it is a first-rate wielder of political power." Summing up the story of legislative pressure by the big veterans' organization, the Newton Legionnaire commented: Washington Bureau "We have our bureau In Washington to keep track of matters in congress. We keep our 16,000 posts and three and one-half million members advised of what congress is doing about the policies approved- by-national conventions of the Legion.

"Members and the posts advise the members of house and senate about their views on pending bills. Our representa-tlves in Washington do the lobbying. Legion members In every Middlesex village and farm from coast to coast apply the pressure." Earlier In the meeting, Halden disclosed that American Legion membership In Iowa has almost reached the 81,000 mark. Since 1920 the spokesman for the Legion in Washington has been the legendary Col. John Thomas Taylor, now back at the capital after overseas duty In World War II, Halden remarked.

"The state committees, the committees In 18,000 posts, are unseen by the news writers on Capitol Hill. They see Taylor. "Voice of a Power" "His name has acquired potency. His presence carries awe. He is the voice of a power in the land.

News writers say that Taylor 'cracks the whip and congress jumps through the "Taylor enjoys the show ana never falls to act his part. None know better than he that the Legion power lies in the hinterland among the people and not In the Washington office. "But if the correspondents of the nation's press want him to strut his stuff he will not disappoint them. He will march down Pennr sylvania avenue to the marble halls of congress, stalk into committee rooms and present the Legion' case for this measure or that. "If reporters buttonhole him as he leaves a closed committee session, asking if a pending bill will pass, he win answer mem witn due gravity, The American Legion favors it.

It Is inevitable legislation." 1st Legion Lobby First real Legion pressure group to make itself felt In Washington, Halden pointed out, was the lobby of 1920 which was Instrumental in upping the monthly payment of the totally disabled wona war i veteran from $30 to $80. Though congress was deeply pre-occupled with the Versailles treaty and other weighty postwar matters which might nave indefinitely postponed passage of the bill, "the Legion lobby carvea tne first notch in its run. The war disabled were on a living compen sation basis." This lobby, so. well launched, has moved en through the years to many victories," Halden declared. "It has done battle for bills te strengthen the national defense laws about Immigration and naturalization of aliens laws against un-American activities laws about education, welfare of children, employment, national holidays and patriotic observances and, above all, laws for the benefit of disabled veterans." In enforcing its national consti tution and prohibition of partisan ship, the Legion in 1933 revoked tne charter ot one or lis siaie bodies, the department of New Mexico, Halden said.

The national Legion organiza tion acted in the face of threats that such a step would end the existence of the Legion in that state forever. After a two-year suspension. New Mexico was restored to good standing, which it has retained since that time. "The public standing of the Legion In New Mexico was improved by the firm action of the national etCiciala," Haldea aucrted. BLEND WHISKY 0FFRATI0NING Straight Whisky, Scotch to Remain Under Controls DES MOINES UP) The Iowa liquor control commission an nounced today that rationing of blended whiskies would come to an end when state stores open at 10 a.

m. next Monday morning. i Whiskey rationing has been In effect In Iowa since January, 1943. Straight whiskies and imported Scotch and Jsonded whiskies will remain under ration at a rate of one quart or fifth a month when available. The commission's decision, reach- ed at a meeting this morning, was announced by Chairman Dick R.

Lane. Lane explained the action could be taken because the supply of blended whiskies has been much improved. He said he did not know how long It would be necessary to keep straight and bonded whiskies and Imported Scotch under controls but added they probably would be In Short supply "for a long time to come." Rationing of liquor was Imposed In Iowa after the commission's supply was virtually cleaned out in December of 1942 following enact' ment of new federal liquor taxes. During the four-year period the ration limit on distilled spirits has ranged from as much as four fifths a month at the outset to as little as one fifth a month. The ration limit for this month had previously been Bet at two fifths of whiskey.

Funeral Service for Dewey Smith Tomorrow Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Oathout funeral chapel for Dewey M. Smith, 48, who died Sunday. Mr. Smith lived at 717 South Capitol street The Rev.

Norman Hobbs will officiate and burial will be in the Coralville cemetery. Cars Collide at Intersection Here Colliding at the corner of Burlington and Capitol streets at 1 p.m. Monday were cars driven by Mrs. Owen T. Edwards, 815 River street, and Verne Miller, 1128 Hot-avenue.

Mrs. Edwards reported $30 damage to her car. Weather Almanac Mrs, Ann Huffman Gets Suspended Sentence on False Check Charge Mrs. Ann Huffman, Church street, received a suspended sentence for uttering fal3e check from Justice of the Peace J. M.

Kadlec in Justice court today. The SO-day Jail sentence was uspended providing Mrs. Huffman makes good on three checks she had written without funds to cover them. She pleaded guilty to the harge. The check on which information was filed aeainst her was for S12.60.

Emll O. Trott was Mrs, Huffman's attorney. Good News: Spell Of Moderate Weather Forecast for Iowa The weatherman had good news for Iowans today, A spell of mod erate weather was forecast The mean temperature over the JESSE W. HALDEN Introducing his remarks, Halden asserted that "from the outset the American Legion has kept out of politics. "As a result it rapidly acquired great political power.

It supports no party, endorses no candidate for office. "All parties and officeholders have sought its approval. By adhering to principles and avoiding parusansmp, it nas Decome so powerful that books have been written about it as a 'political pressure group and about Its national legislative committee as the Legion 'Steeped In Mystery" "Advertised by its opponents, its influence upon the congress has be come a tradition, steeped in mys tery and magic, a thing to conjure with." "Pernicious or laudable, the 35 Persons Pay Parking Fines In Police Court While some persons were pay. Ing parking fines for tickets of this week, others were cleaning out their desks of 1946 parking tickets. Persons who have paid fines during the past 24 hours total 35.

Five persons paid multiple fines William Bartley, three, Don Wil son, Ken Denzen, William Frey and Mrs. S. Yetter, all two. Paying $1 fines were: A. A Misel, William Silvers, M.

H. Mil ler, Charles Dinsmore, Marie Ham mer, S. Van Bibber, H. Metzger, H. Fedlick, K.

Ruppert, J. Ruzek, P. Beymer, Charles Brogla. Charles Peterson, Lee Narle, A E. White, Bruce Knowles, L.

Dor an, L. C. Fitzpatrick, W. E. Evans, F.

C. Kaefring, Frank Meade, George Turner, Fred Dever, Harry Flodin, Carl McLachlin, W. Robe son, Kenneth Wessels, E. Cherspar, Frank Stebral and Ed Rate. 9-Hour Flight Fails To Reveal Any Trace Of Antarctic Flyers ABOARD THE U.

S. S. MT. OLYMPUS UP) A seaplane scout ed for nine hours along the coast of bleak Ellsworth Land Monday without finding trace of nine flyers missing from the navy's Antarctic expedition. The crew of the search plane, a Martin Mariner sent out by the seaplane tender Pine Island, reported an area off the tip of Capt Dart was cov ered in the flight It was the second futile search for the missing flyers, who failed to return from a flight December 30 over the Franklin D.

Roosevelt sea. Another seaplane from the tender Pine Island went out Sun day to hunt for them but was forced by the weather to turn back after two hours. New Orleans Medical Sources Say Bilbo's Operation Is 'Minor' JACKSON, Miss. Senator Bilbo awaiting a call to a New Orleans hospital, where he is to-undergo a mouth operation, says he will fight hell freezes over" for the seat denied him in the United States senate. Bilbo arrived here from Washington Monday.

He told a group in a hotel lobby that he planned to return to Washington if he lived and "whip 'em." He added: mouth la giving me hell. That's why we called off the fight." Medical sources In New Orleans, reqnmtlng anonymity, described Bilbo's forthcoming operation as "actually minor pro. cedure," a "windnp" of surgery performed last August when a malignant growth was removed from the senator's mouth. His condition was described as "not a recurrence of cancer" aad a prominent New Orleans surgeon said It was "questionable if Bilbo ever had cancer." Dr. Fred Iluston To Address Lions Dr.

Fred Huston is announced as the speaker for the Wednesday noon Lions club luncheon program. Doctor Huston will discuss "Men- Hospitals next five days will average eight I Ae-mn above the state normal lot i 92 Are-ree. the forecast said. No precipitation of consequence la In-I Ucated. The warming trend which began i Bunday continued Monday, wifth I Kort Dodge and Sioux City reporting highs of 37.

Monday night's Moose Lodge Will Initiate 62 Tomorrow JUDGE RALPH D. MOORE Iowa City Moose lodge tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock will initiate a class of 62 candidates in honor of Judge Ralph D. Moore of Des Moines, new state ritual chairman of the Iowa Moose association. Judge Moore will be present at the Initiatory ceremonies at the Moose lodge rooms to personally accept the class in his honor and to address the members of the Iowa City lodge. The initiation will be In charge of the Iowa City lodge degree staff, drill team and quartet.

Herbert H. Hoar Dies in San Diego; Was SUI Graduate I Mrs. W. I. Spence, 621 Park Road, has received word of the death of her brother, Herbert H.

Hoar of San Diego. Mr. Hoar was a liberal arts and law college graduate at the Uni versity of Iowa. Funeral services will be held at Stillwater, Minn. Para Farms Becomes Incorporated Here Three Iowa Gtiani and their wives have formed a corporation, Pam Farms Incorporated.

They are Dr. N. O. Alcock, Dr. Dean M.

Lierle and W. W. Merrtr, who are also the officers of the corporation. The general nature of the business to be transacted by the corporation Is to buy, own hold, manage, operate; Improve, develop, rent, lease, sell or exchange farm properties or other real estate. The amount of eapitoi stock authorized totals 110,000.

Student Federalists Win Recognition from University of Iowa Campus recognition has been accorded to the local chapter of Student Federalists, a world government organization, by University of Jowa authorities, it was announced today by the group's officers. Student Federalists have been meeting here since October, 1946, according to Virginia May Ander son, temporary co-chairman, who is a freshman from Harcourt. Appointed as faculty advisor for the group is Prof. Jacob Van der Zee of the political science de partment. The other temporary co-chair man is David M.

Stanley, freshman from Muscatine. Temporary sec retary is Annette Stein, while Steve Park is serving as program chair man, Student Federalists favor a world federal government as a successor to the United Nations as presently constituted. Next meeting of the local group will be at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening at the T. M. C.

A. rooms of memorial union. Schedule Special Bar Examination in Iowa City February 5-7 DES MOINES UPi A special state bar examination will be conducted at Iowa City February 5-7, the Iowa supreme court announced to accomodate those war veteran students who will be graduated at the end of the first semester of the current school year. About 20 to 25 persons will take the three-day test. Except for the special examination, the midyear graduates would have to wait until the regular test in June.

Tallcorn Hamfest' Committees to Meet A general committee meeting of the 'Tallcorn Hamf est" group will be held at the WMT little theater in Cedar Rapids Wednesday evening. The meeting will be at 7 and all radio amateurs or other persons interested in the coming hamf est are invited to be present At a recent meeting, T. A. Hun ter, chairman of the group which will sponsor next May's hamf est, named the following Cedar Rapids and Iowa City committeemen: Fi nances, Al Keyes, Doug Morgan, John Murphy, Orris Wise; ways and means, F. Wille, Don Kent; events.

Max Otto, Roy Colander; publicity and advertising. Noble Hale and Lew H. Morse. Hie coming hamfest, or radio amateur show, will probably be held at Hawkeye Downs and will be one of the biggest events of its kind ever to be held In eastern Iowa. It is being Jointly spon sored by licensed radio amateurs fOf Jowa City and Cedar Rapids.

low was 18 above at Iowa City, Ames. Atlantic and several other 1 1 Red Cross Sewing All Day Thursday In Legion Rooms I Cutters and sewers will be need- at the all-day meeting of the Heirens Marks Anniversary Of Degnan Killing Claiming He Was Innocent of Crime Red Cross sewing group Thursday from 9 at to 4:30 p. m. In the legion room In the Community fcuflding.l I Women who have completed sew- 1 tng or knitting at home are asked I to bring finished articles to this meeting. I A co-operative luncheon will be I served at noon.

Name Administrator 1 To Reddick Estate Frank Reddick has been appolnt-I ed by the court to administer the "estate of his wife, Margaret Helen 1 B1 who died December 15. Bond was set at $2,000. William 1 R. Hart is the attorney. By TOM 9IADDOX MENARD, HL UP, William Heirens ass2rted today, on the first anniversary of the kidnap-killing of six-year-old Suzanne Degnan, that he was innocent of that crime and the slayings of two women to which he has confessed.

The 18-year-old former Univer sity of Chicago student, who is serving three life terms in the prison psychiatric division, said in an interview that he confessed the three killings so that the authorities would not be "tougher" on him. "After the treatment I received at the Bridewell (Chicago jail) I would have confessed to anything," he said. (Heirens has at various times in the past confessed the killings or asserted he couldn't remember them. He was sentenced to three life terms after giving detailed confessions to the slayings and more than 100 robberies and pleading guilty to an charges against him). "If I had just confessed to burglaries I would never have been able to live out the sentences they would hars given me and if I had not con i 4 IOWA CITT WEATHER Fair tonljtht and Wednesday with no important change in temperature.

For Iowa: Grnerally fair with no decided change in temperature tonlfbt and Wednesday. Five-day Weather Outlook for Iowa: The mean temperature will average eight degrees above the atate normal of 22 dgre1. Slow rising trend Wednesday and Thursday, little rhang Friday, colder Saturday and Sunday. No precipitation of consequence indicated. Jowa Lily TemprratBrea by the Hoar Meadar'e Jieadtnga 12:30 24 8 30 20 1:30 7:30 IS 2:30 29 30 18 3:30 30 9 30 IS 4:30 27 10 30 19 $:30 23 11:30 18 Taday'a Beading a.

19 7:30 1:30 2S 8:30 25 2:30 28 30 29 3 30 20 10-30 4:30 29 11:30 33 5 30 28 13:30 S3 3D 2 RV ATIOXS By C. C. jli. Frefer at Aatroaaaiy laueraity at iaaa FTTNR1SE today 7 34; tomorrow 7:34. SUNSET today tomorrow 4:52.

TheJnnon wil! be quite close to the planet Satutn late tonight, beirg the cloxeat at about six o'clock tomorrow mrniog. The moon will riee this evening at 27 p.m. and tomorrow evening at 44 1. It Has Been 898 Days Since Iowa City Had a Traffic Death.