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FORECAST: Wilmington and vicinity: Fair and a little warmer today and tonight. Tues day, partly cloudy and mild. 30-NO. 125 _ Served By Leased Wires of the ASSOCIATED PRESS and the UNITED PRESS Complete Coverage of State and National News _ESTABLISHED 186T Clark Seeks To Head Off Coal Strike Attorney General Will Ask Supreme Court Today To Speed Findings MINE UNION ilLENT Petition To Cite Necessity Of Putting Mandate Into Effect Immediately WASHINGTON, March 9 — (#>) — The Government, seeking to head an April 1 coal strike and clear the way for negotiations between miners and operators, will ask the Supreme court tomorrow to -ut its findings against John L. Lewis into effect quickly. Counsel for Lewis and his United Mine workers were silent their plans but the Justice de partment. announcing plans tc present its petition for speed, said it would be "in the public interest" [or the high court to hand down its mandate immediately. It added that the "danger” of a walkout exists. Union attorneys held secret con ferences on their strategy yester day but indicated only that their course will be governed by what Attorney General Tom Clark says to the court. They would not even ,ay whether any objection at all will be raised to speeding up the mandate process which normally takes 25 days. Convictions Stand The court, upholding contempt convictions against Lewis and the UMW. specified that he should withdraw, within five days after the mandate comes down, his no tice ending the union’s agree ment with toe government for work in toe federally-seized soft coal mines. Lewis’ own $10,000 contempt fine was left standing but the SiLoOO. 000 fine assessed by toe District court against the UMW was cut to {700,000 on condition that toe con tact termination notice be with drawn. . The additional $2,800,000 fine would go back into effect if the notice should remain in force When he called off the November December walkout alter being con victed of contempt for disregard of a government injunction against tlie strike, Lewis sent his men back to their jobs only until March >1. The Supreme court acted March •. II i*s mandate waited the 25 days, plus the specified five days (Continued On Page Two; Col. 1) familyInsthute OPENS HERE TODAY Duke University Professor To Deliver Opening Speech At NHHS hi'- Hornel! Hart, professor of •ociology at Duke University, will open the annual conference of the Community Family Life Institute tonight at 8 o'clock in the New Hanover High school auditorium. His subject will be “Whither Fam ily Life-Shock Absorber of Social Change." All parents, teachers, ond students of the community Me invited to attend. On Tuesday, from 10 a.m. until " P'm-> the Parents Symposium m.1 be held in the auditorium. *“?■ R. Corbett will preside. Following the opening devo tional by the Rev. Charles A. Uaddry. Dr. Irene Anderson, di rector ot the Child Guidance Clinic here, will speak on “The influence of Early Attitude in the Child's Li"e." Tbs. Hornel] Hart of Durham Mil speak at 11 a.m. on “Meeting ne Needs ot Adolescents." At 11:45 a.m. lunch will be *ened in the high school cafete ria. The afternoon session will open *t 1 p.m. with an address by Dr. Hornell Hart on “Some Basic Fac t01's in Marriage." At 1:45 Mrs. Robert Dannen . m will summarize the sympo iium. family Night will be observed J^inued on page Two, Col. 7) HAMBONE’S meditations By Alley Tom 5AY P(5 HE AH l S A sood .Pitcher o' me ,3uT I MoT/CE H£ AinT SAY H»T5? A GOOP-^OOKIN’ ETCHER o'ME/ Th.* b*11 •»*= lie, ' „Tr,o *.,* * 1 s. Pat. Offlc«i MOSCOW GOVERNMENT LIFTS CENSORSHIP OF FOREIGN NEWS LONDON, March 9. —(U.R)— Moscow dispatches indicated to day that the Russian govern ment had removed its censor ship of foreign dispatches on the Big Four Foreign Minis ters’ conference starting tomor row. State Deparement Press Of ficer Michael J. McDermott announced in Moscow Satur day that the censorship would be lifted Monday. He added that this might, be done today for advance dis patches. This seemed to be the case, A time clock of Moscow mes sages on the conference show ed no lag between the time dis patches were handed in and the time transmission started to London and New York. Also, Moscow today permit ted American radio men -to broadcast from there for the first time since last October. NBC Correspondent Henry Cassidy made the first broad cast today, calling it the first uncensored broadcast evpr made from Moscow. Shortly af terward there was another by Howard K. Smith of CBS. SUPERIOR COURT CONVENES TODAY Judge Clawson Williams Of Sanford To Preside At Term Here A total of 76 individual charges head a two-week mixed term of New Hanover county Superior Court which opens here this morn ing with Judge Clawson Williams of Sanford, presiding. Chief among the 76 cases to be tried are five murder, one at tempted criminal assault, one criminal assault, one manslaugh ter, an ex-policeman charged with breaking and entering, and the passing of sentence on a second former policeman charged with breaking and entering. The grand jury is expected to act on all of the cases, with the exception of the case of H. G. Gurley, who plead guilty to the charges at the February term of court, and had his case continued until this term. Other cases on the calendar in clude forgery, embezzlement, as - sault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, and several minor charges. Chief of the murder cases will be that against Guy Ganey, charg ed with the slaying of Julius Hen derson over his daughter. This one case may take three days, court house observers believe. The store breaking and larceny cases will be headed by that of Roy Grissett, who is charged with breaking and entering the Anchor Hardware store, and the Apple white Beauty and Barber Supply Co. The full calendar and charges follow: Monday, March 10—A. E. Bergman, bad check; Walter I. Dodd, driving drunk; Robert Gar ner, driving drunk; Eugene John son. hit and run; Troy fin-own, em bezzlement; Louis B. Harper, for gery. T. L. Walker, three charges of giving bad checks; .Earl Fisher, store breaking, larceny and re ceiving; Joe Bellamy, two charges of assault with a deadly weapon; Clifton H. Britt, driving drunk; Herbert B. Shaw ■and William L. 1 Shaw, false claim; E. J. Schadt, driving drunk; Clifton Henry Eritt, drunk; Randolph White. ' murder; J. B. Brown, murder; 1 Burney Smith, manslaughter; Roy Grissett, store - breaking , larceny and receiving; Preston LeRoy Canady and Gurney Canady, (Continued on Page Two, Col. 6) SERGEANT WILL GET CHANCE AT LAST TO BOSS ONE LIEUTENANT SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 - (A*)— A veteran of Bataan who turned up alive in a Japanese pris on camp, then came home to find his wife married to another man will wed an Army nurse Thurs day. The veteran, Sgt. Kenneth Mic haels, was legally declared dead after the Bataan campaign and his wife, notified in Oklahoma City, later re wed. Michaels, found at war’s end in a Japanese prison camp on Kyu shu Island, learned of this on his return and decided to step aside. His wife obtained a divorce. Two weeks ago in San Francis co’s Letterman General hospital, Michaels met Lt. Margaret Har mon who just had returned from Korea. They became engaged. Looking to the Thursday wed ding ceremony, the Sergeaht said, a bit on the side of reckless opti mism: “At least I’m going to get ' a chance to boss around a Lieuten ant.’’ Today And Tomorrow By WALTER L1PPMANN Only a few days after the British government put us on notice about its withdrawal from Greece, the So viet government slammed the door against the American proposals on atomic energy. These two most important events are related in that the British decision increases incalculably our responsibilities and commitments vis-a-vis Rus sia whereas Mr. Gromyko’s stand must express his government's es timate of the military value of the atomic bomb and its policy for dealing with our present monopoly of that weapon. As our liabilities have risen sharp Bladen County Guests At Star-News Broadcast Seen above are the guests and featured artists during yesterday’s radio salute to Bladen county Left to right, standing, they are Louis Vaught, soloist, Elizabethtown; Mrs. D. V. Dunham, pianist Elizabethtown; Norman McCullock, Elizabethtown; John Hemingway, county service officer* and Milton L. Fisher, chairman of Bladen County Commissioners. Seated at right is James H. Clark chairman of the North Carolina Medical Care Commission; and at left is Ben McDonald, Star-News Round-the-Town reporter, who wrote and directed the program.—f Photo by Carolina Camera). “ I . . TAFT WOULD CUT BUDGET 5 BILLION Senator Also Proposes Huge Sum To Slash In come Taxes WASHINGTON. March 9—(/P)— Senator Taft (R-Ohio) proposed to day that the House and Senate agree on a $5,000,000,000 budget slash and use $3,500,000,000 to re duce income taxes 20 percent. On the same radio program, Beardsley Ruml, chairman of the New York Federal Reserve bank, suggested an $8,000,000,000 tax cut. Ruml was one of the authors of the present "pay-as-you-go” tax system. i The House Ways and Means committee will take up Thursday the bill for a 20 percent “across the board” slash in individual in come levies. Taft voiced the opinion that the $11,200,000,000 President Truman requested for the Army and Navy in his $37,500,000,000 budget for the year starting July 1 could be reduced without impairing the armed forces. "I believe any department of the government can be cut 10 per cent and run just as efficient ly,” he said. Dangerously High Turning to taxes, he declared: "Taxes are dangerously high. The burden is greater than the people of the country can stand. If we don’t lower taxes, workers are going to insist on higher wages and they will get higher wages. Lower taxes will lessen wage increase demands.” Ruml suggested not only a 20 percent reduction in individual in come taxes, but also a big slash in corporation income levies and elimination of most excise taxes on goods and services. Taft suggested the $5,000,000,000 budget slash as a possible middle ground between the house, which has voted a $6,000,000,000 cut, and (Continued on Page Two, Col. 4) nine People die VIOLENT DEATHS Highways Claim Two Lives, Two Others Kill ed In Plane Crash BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Violence accounted for at least nine deaths in North Carolina dur ing the weekend. Highway accidents claimed four lives, an airplane crash two others and three others resulted from self inflicted wounds. Dianne Locklear, a small Indian child, died Sunday morning in a Laurinburg hospital of injuries sustained when she was struck by a car driven by her grandfather, Albert Locklear. Paul J. Bare, 23, was killed al most instantly when struck by a car Saturday night near Kannapo lis. Eward R. Willcox, 54, a Nor folk, Va., attorney was found dead Sunday near the Pine Bluff sana tarium where he had been a pa tient. He had been missing since Friday. Sheriff B. J. McDonald said Willcox killed himself by cut ! Continued on Page Two, Col. 5) ly owing to the decline of the British power, the Soviet gov ernment has taken a position which discounts, almost unreservedly, the present value of the atomic bomb — regarded by so many of us as the decisive weapon in the balance of power. * '* # The essence of Mr. Gromyko's argument is the demand for the immediate disarmament of the United States in atomic weapons. It must have been obvious to Mr. Gromyko that the United States (Continued On Page Two; Col. 5) Star-Newsreel Salutes Bladen County Sunday The Weather FORECAST: South and North Carolina—Fair and a little warmer Monday and Monday night. Tuesday, partly cloudy and mild. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday. TEMPERATURES 1:30 a. m. 32; 7:30 a. m. 29; 1:30 p. m. 47; 7:30 p. m. 42; Maximum 32; Mini mum 28; Mean 40: Normal 52. HUMIDITY 1:30 a. m. 84; 7*i30 a. m. 94: 1:30 p. m. 42; 7:30 p. m. 70. PRECIPITATION Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. 0 inches. Total since the first of the month 2.16 inches. (From the Tide Tables published by TIDES FOR TODAY U. S. Coast Geodetic Survey). HIGH LOW Wilmington_ 12:02 a. m. 7:04 a. m. 12:25 p. ni. 7*57 p. zn. Masonboro Inlet 10:06 a. m. 3:59 a. m. 10:35 p. in. 4:11 p. m. Sunrise 6:29; Sunset 6:15; Moonrise 10:05p; Moonset 8:39a. River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a. m. 0 feet. BRITISH ARREST 15 U. S. SEAMEN Crew Of Jewish Illegal Im migrant Ship Ben Hecht Held In Jerusalem JERUSALEM, Palestine, March 9. —(U.R)— Fifteen crewmen of the American-financed Jewish illegal immigrant ship Ben Hecht were ar rested today for attempting to run the British blockade with 600 refugees and ordered held for trial, probably Monday. (In New York, the American league for a free Palestine, owners of the vessel, said that all 25 crew members of the Ben Hecht except engineers were American citizens. It was not known if the crew was changed after the vessel left New York last December 27.) The ship renamed the Ben Hecht, was intercepted and seized by Brit ish warships off the Palestine coast yesterday and brought to Haifa to day, where the 600 refugees were transferred peacefully to the de portation vessels Empire Rest and Empire Shelter. They were ship ped to Cyprus where they are ex pected to arrive tonight. The Ben Hecht was once a yacht. Cuba acquired it and sold it to the American Navy which used it dur ing the war as the coast patrol ship Cythera. It was later sold to a British company and renamed the Abril. Carry Certificates All 600 passengers of the Ben Hecht carried certificates issued (Continued On Page Two; Col. 7) “Mother Of Counties” Lauded During Fifth In Series Of Broadcasts ___ Bladen, North Carolina’s “Moth er of Counties,” was honored by the Star and the News over radio station WMFD yesterday on the Sunday Star-Newsreel in the fifth of a series of salutes to the coun ties in southeastern North Caro lina served by the two news papers. The weekly Star-News radio pro gram written and directed by Ben McDonald, Star-News round-the town-reporter, — currently featur the past, present and future po tentialities of the counties that make up greater Southeastern North‘Carolina, will highlight On slow county next Sunday. Paying tribute to the outstand ing historical record made by the citizens of Bladen county and its high agricultural position, the Star-Newsreel also pointed out, that Bladen county is developing its industrial possibilities in an ever steady growth. In Bladen county there are 25 lumber and timber product mills and three large textile product mills. The largest textile mill is located at Bladenboro. Two pea nut mills are also located in the county, at Elizabethtown and Dup lin. Clarkton is planning more new tobacco warehouses and additional (Continued On Page Two; Col. 4) ! 13 PASSENGERS KILLED IN CRASH British Military Plane Falls; On Island Of Ischia; Bodies Recovered NAPLES, Monday, March 10— UP)—A four-engined British mili tary plane en route from Cairo to Rome crashed on the Island of Ischia last night, killing 13 pas sengers. Ten bodigs were re ported recovered. (In London, the Air Ministry said 13 per sons were killed and three injured when an RAF plane crashed on the Isle of Ischia last night. (A naval officer and two private soldiers were among the pas sengers, the ministry reported, adding, “five other passengers would appear to be British civil ians. Another was an Italian and there was a child about two years old.”) Ischia is about 16 miles off the Italian coast Southwest of Naples. Along The Cape Fear STORMY HISTORY — All was not smooth sailing for the first school in Southport founded about 1850 with Mr. Jeremiah Murphy as the moving spirit. You might recall in Saturday’s column how we told of the en thusiasm that greeted Mr. Mur phy’s proposal to establish a school in the neighboring city of Southport, which at that time was known as Smithville. The wealthy planters of the Cape Fear area donated funds for the establishment of the school. And with the substantial aid of the St. John’s Lodge No. 110 of Free Ma sons, the school building was erect ed on Franklin Square. * * * YANKEES ARRIVE — During the War Between the States, the Southport school building receiv ed very rough treatment as it was soon taken over by the Confeder ates and used as a store house for commissary supplies for the army. At the end of the war, the build ing was found to be in a wrecked and delapidated condition. And to make matters worse, the Ma sonic Lodge which had so be friended the school in its infancy had gone out of existence, Dr. Walter Gilham Curtis, state quar antine surgeon for the Port of Wil mington for 30 years, reported. But the Yankees added more destruction to the once proud school building. * * * RECORDS DESTROYED — The Yankee Navy under a Captain Cushing broke into the lodge, which was located in the school building, and stole the jewels while doing their mischief in Southport. A systematic destruction of all important records of the county also occupied the Federal Navy’s time during its occupancy of the city. The building remained in a sorry state of repair until the political crisis of reconstruction was ended and once again a reasonable amoupt of security for both private and public property was restored. * * * COME TO AID — Once again the Masons came to the aid of the Southpoit school just as they had in its beginning when they con tributed $600 with the condition that the school property would be put under their charge for Lodge ^(Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) Marshall Hopeful On Eve Of Big Four Peace Meet; Middle East Light Urged TRUMAN TO URGE HELP FOR GREECE Leaders In Congress To Meet At White House Parley < WASHINGTON, March 9—(£>)— Leaders of Congress go to the White House tomorrow seeking a full explanation from President Truman of affairs in the whole Middle East as well as Greece. Mr. Truman invited them to hear what he wants to do about placing American support in Greece as Britain reduces hers. He worked today with members of the White House staff prepar ing the presentation. After the meeting he probably will announce how he plans to submit the mat ter formally to Congress and the nation. Advance comment of Congress men made it clear they want a complete statement of what the proposals involve for this country In two ways: (1.) Relations with Russia; (2.) Possible extension of active American support to Tur key and elsewhere in the Medit terranean. Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, is to report to the full Republican Senate mem bership at a meeting tomorrow night. He said he has not known enough about developments to re port earlier despite an initial White House briefing 10 days ago. Taft Concerned Senator Taft (R-Ohio),‘ another Senate leader invited to the White House tomorrow, noted that the Presidential budget lists $3,500,000, 000 for foreign relief and declared in a radio talk that “this is about all we can physically give.” He added that the problem is how to distribute this amount where it is needed, and expressed concern at events in Greece. Senator Wherry of Nebraska, the Republican whip, urged that Mr. Truman lay down a “consistent foreign policy that the Republi cans can support.” Wherry, who is not among those to confer at tlje White House, told a reporter any* decision for direct or indirect intervention in Greece will fix a policy that may have far-reaching effects. He contend (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) ASSEMBLY FACES HEAVY CALENDARS Medical Care, Teacher Sal aries, Liquor Issue, La bor Laws On Agenda -- RALEIGH, March — (J¥) — North Carolina legislators will re turn here tomorrow to tackle sev eral major issues that remain to be settled before adjournment, which is expected the first of April. These issues include the medi cal care program, including ex j paosion of the University of North ! Carolina Medical school into a I tour-year institution; teachers’ sal aries; the liquor issue; a highway safety program; and labor legis lation. The joint appropriations com mittee last week wound up work and voted a favorable report to the regular appropriations bill, and Tuesday it will begin study of the permanent improvements appropriations measure. A bill prepared by the Advisory Budget commission recommends $44,501,337 for a permanent im provements program at the state’s various educational, mental and charitable institutions. One of the first items to be considered in the bill is the proposed $3,790,000 ex pansion of the university medical school. Commissioi; Sponsored The expanded medical school has been recommended by the Medical Care commission as a part of its program calling for the construction of hospitals and health centers throughout the state. Debate on the question of in creased pay for nearly 24,000 pub lic school teachers is expected to come when the biennial appropri ations measure is considered in the House and Senate. The appro priations committee last Thursday added $6,155,000 to make a total of $102,418,430 available to pay teachers during the next bienni ium bringing the total appropria (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) I Dies At 88 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt who led fight for women’s suffrage to victory in 1920, and noted crusader for world peace, died early yesterday at her home In New Rochelle, N. Y., of a heart attack. SUFFRAGIST DIES OF HEART ATTACK Mrs. Chapman Catt Had Championed Women’s Rights For 60 Years , NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y„ March 9—W—Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 88, pioneer suffragist and a cru sader for world peace, died today of a heart attack at her home here. Miss Aida Wilson, companion to the aged champion of women’s rights for the past 19 years, was with her at the time. A life-long champion of her sex, and of international amity since the 1920's, Mrs. Catt retained her interest in both fields until her death. Miss Mary Gray Peck, biograph er of the suffragist, said that only yesterday Mrs. Catt wias engaged in preparing a collection of photo graph of the women’s rights move ment which she planned to give the Susan B. Anthony Memorial at Rochester, N. Y. In recent years women leaders from all over the world made pil grimages to the New Rochelle home where Mrs. Catt had lived since 1928. With the coming of the United Nations to this country, virtually all of the U. N. women attaches came to see her. Last Jan. 9, on her last birth day, Mrs. Catt was honored at a dinner of the American Associa tion for the United Nations, of which she was honorary vice presi dent. Mrs. Catt was a board mem ber when it was founded in 1923 under the old name of the League of Nations Association. At the dinner she expressed the wish that the “United Nations would make a perfect success.” She called for international dis armament. saying: “The on>_ cause of war these days, and the cause of most of the wars that have taken place for hundreds of years, is the rival ry and competition of armies.” • In 1919 she founded tihe Nation al League of Women voters to (Continued on Page Two, Col. 6) PAUL MANTZ FLIES SINGLE-ENGINE SHIP TO EAST-WEST MARK BURBANK. Calif., March 9. — OF)— Paul Mantz landed his P-51 fighter plane here at 6:11:47 p. m. (EST) today, just seven hours, 47 minutes and 19 seconds out of New York, and said as he alighted, "That sets an East-West mark for single-engine craft to shoot at.” He said the record for East West flight for any propeller driv en aircraft was just 12 minutes short of his mark today. The rec ord, he said, was set by an Army B-29. Mantz said his flight today wasn't really an assault on the B-29’s mark, "or I’d have picked better weather.” He declared he encount ered headwinds of from 30 to 100 miles an hour, and was on instru ments for more than an hour. He climbed to 30,000 feet at one point to escape the clouds, he added. Congregation Says Prayer For Pastor Facing Trial MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 9— (U.R)—The congregation offered a prayer today for the Rev. John Lewis, 72, who goes to court to morrow to face a charge that he tried to burn down the church. Meeting in the basement of the fashionable Calvary Presbyterian church, members of the congrega tion bowed their heads as a sub stitute pastor, the Rev. Luther P. Powell, offered the prayer. “May God assist the pastor of this church and help him over come his troubles and be with him jespecially in the next few days,” i Powell laid. I Lewis, prominent lecturer and writer on religious subjects, was not present. He has been given a leave of absence since his ar rest Feb. 21 on an arson charge. His wife, however, attended the services, which were held in the church basement because of the damage caused by flames which swept the Gothic building Jan. 26. Lewis will go to court for a preliminary hearing on the arson charge, / which was filed on the complaint of Deputy State Fire Marshal William Rossiter. Rossiter said his investigation ; disclosed that gasoline-soaked rags had been stuffed beneath the ' church organ and ignited. SECRETARY CITES PROBLEMS AHEAD U. S. Delegation Gets Cool Reception At Mos cow Airport MOSCOW, March 9—(U.R)—Secra tary of State George C. Marshall, arriving for tomorrow’s Big Four conference on the German and Austrian treaties, predicted today an Allied agreement that will “greatly advance the cause at peace in which we are all so much interested.’’ Last of the chief delegates to arrive, Marshall landed on the sun bathed Moscow airport in his shiny C-54 transport plane from Berlin at 3:30 P.M. (7:20 A. M., EST). As in the case of French Foreign Minister George Bidault and Brit ish Foreign Secretary Ernest Bev in, who preceded him, the Rus sians did not stage the usual wel coming ceremony with an honor guard and a band. And Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky substituted for Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov as official greeter. Dulles Attacked Marshell’s arrival coincided with a new attack in the authoriativo Russian weekly New Times on John Foster Dules, Republican foreign affairs expert. It called him “a representative of Ameri can monopolistic circles.’’ As he stepped from his plane Marshall said: “The mission on which I have come is known the world over a* one of enormous importance and consequence for all mankind. “There have been many diffi culties, such as there are bound to be in negotiations designed to accomplish real peace. “Undoubtedly there will be dif ficulties, great difficulties, hera. But they will be met sucessful ly and I am confident that by peaceful methods of negotiation we will reach an agreement which will advance the cause of peace in which we are all very nuch in terested.” With Marshall were Dulles, Rob ert Murphy, his deputy for Ger many, Ben Cohen, State Depart ment counsler, Charles E. Bohlen, Russian expert and interpreter and other key delegates. Marshall drove to Spasso House, the American Embassy, with «m I Continued on Page Two, Col. 1) YOUTH KILLS DAD TO SAVE MOTHER Indiana Farmer Slain As He Pursued Wife With Loaded Shotgun LOGANSPORT, Ind., March » —(JP)—State Trooper Bernard D. Leavitt reported that 13-year-old Donald Gene Sisson shot and kill ed his father John R. Sisson, 52, today at the Sisson farm home 10 miles north of Logansport as the father pursued the boy’s moth er with a shotgun. Trooper Leavitt and Eugene Burkett, Cass county deputy sheriff, said the boy was not held and that there probably will be no charges against him. The officers said Sisson was com mitted to the Logansport Slate hospital for insane last Nov. 15 but was paroled to his wife two months ago. They said the family told them Sisson had been drink ing since last Thursday and be came frenzied today. The officers gave this account of the shooting as obtained from Mrs. Sisson and three children: “First Shot” Sisson argued with his wife against . entertaining another son, Raymond, at dinner today and handed a 16-gauge shotgun to her with the remark, “before night one of us will be dead and I’m going to give you the first shot.” Mrs. Sisson sat the gun in a comer. Sisson pushed the smallest children, Glenn Larry, 11, and Jack Richard, 5, through the door (Continued on Page Two, Col. 8) And So To Bed It is not unusual when twins are born. It is often expected when there is a history of twins In a family. / But when three sets of twins are born to one family, that is news, said Dr. James B. Lounsbury who was called from his golf game yesterday to deliver Identical twin girls to Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Taylor, 315 North Sixth street. Taylor, a local electrician, “pretty near passed out” when informed that his wife had just presented him with not one— but two— baby girls. This is the third set of twins to be born to the Taylors with in five years. They have two year-old identical twin boys. The third set died shortly after birth. Dr. Lounsbury, said that the latest additions, as yet un named, are "doing fine”—one weighs 7 lbs. 3 ozs., the other 5 lbs., 14 ozs.
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