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Man A rrested In Rape Slaying

FAMILY OUT FOR WATERY WALK—Wearing bathing suits, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Bechtold carrytheir two children, Steven and Marcia, through a flooded street in West Alton, Mo., July 18. At rightis Miss Pauline Wunderlick. The Alton bridge which spans 'the Mississippi river is in background.Picture was taken from the rear of a Coast Guard communications truck which already was

loaded with flood refugees.

Mississippi Flood Nearsest Mark In 107 Years

Champaign, 111. — (AP) — A34-year-old married man washeld by police today and a Cham-paign County official said he wasto be charged with murder in therape-slaying of Janet Clark, 17,a high, school senior.

Assistant State's AttorneyFrank Middleton said the murdercharge would be filed later to-day against Pete Parmer, afriend of the Clark family.

Middleton's announcement fol-lowed, four hours of questioningby police and two lie detectortests for Parmer at the IllinoisState Bureau of Criminal Identi-fication and Investigation inSpringfield.

Middleton said the lie tests dis-

closed that "Parmer was lyingin his story maintaining inno-cence." He refused to discuss de-tails of the tests.

"We got plenty of evidence,"Middleton told reporters inSpringfield. "A charge of murderwill be placed against Parmer."

Parmer was questioned by po-lice for several hours yesterdayafter his wristwatch, with abroken strap, was found near thebrutally beaten, stabbed andnude body of the pretty highschool senior.

He denied killing the girl, butadmitted, police said that he hadbeen to the Clark home yesterdaymorning. He also admitted hav-ing been to the Clark home

St. Louis — (AP) — Fed by thedevastating flood, crest of theMissouri River, the Mississipi is

I expected to climb late tonight toits highest level at St. Louis in

1107 years.The predicted crest of 40%

Ifeet at midnight tonight wouldI be just .9 of & foot under the all-

— A carnivalUrorker bflien. on the tongue by arattlesnake feopes to die, his phy-

George Morgan, 30, of Camden,1C.J., is in critical condition.

Dr. Arthur Leistyna reported|*esterday that Morgan wrote twohoies saying he did not care tohave his life saved. Dr. Leistynaaid not disclose the texts of theStotes.

Morgan pet the head of a 30-*ch. diam<jnd.-back rattler in hisjou'th Thursday night, policeiid. The snake bit his tongue.Morgan's fellow workers in theT. B. Sutton Snake Show report-

that fee had been broodingMs brother's death in. Korea,

slice saM.Morgan has been given blood

ransfusio-ns, and treated withlti-snakebite serum rushed here

plane and by state troopers,le venom paralyzed his vocallords and lungs and an emer-

gency operation was performedrestore his breathing.

While working with the show,unit of the O. C. Buck Shows,

Morgan described for customers^ types and characteristics ofsnakes, Police Chief Clifton Sitts5aid.

The show's owner had ordered[organ not to handle the dia-lond-back, Sitts said.

Sacramento, Calif. — (AP) —Dolice officers armed with tear

and fire hoses last night sub-lued a suburban riot that beganis a peaceful Air Force dancingtnd swimming party.

Sheriff's Deputies Roy Turn-and Lcamie Eastmade said the

•iot was sparked by some 60 or0 civMa-n ycm?th& who tried torash the party, sponsored by anLir Force tmit iarom nearby Mc-Mlan Field.

One aMnman and one civilianrere injured critically in theurild aaelee. An undeterminedLumber of others, both militarynd civllia-n, suffered lesser ki-uriea.Almost 200 policemen, sum-

aoned by a frantic riot call,/•armed to the commercial rec-

|eatkm, area in suburban Elvertahelp quell the angry rioters.

Tables were overturned, cloth-lg ripped and the dance floor

up before the fighting wastopped by tear gas bombs and|igh pressure streams of waterroaa fire hoses,

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time record set June 27, 1344.The Missouri was swollen to a

width of five miles in manyplaces. It smashed one dike aft-er another as the crest movedacross the state from KansasCity, in the hardest hit area, tothe point where It is emptyingits grimy burden into the Missis-sippi 15 miles, north of here.

Most of St. Louds is on highground out of reach of the flood,but precautions were taken

May Racini

Test In CourtNaples—(AP)—A test of the

state ban against Sunday stockcar racing may find its way tothe courts next week.

The attorney for a local stockcar promoter says he will startthe action in State SupremeCourt in Ontario County "prob-ably during the coming week."

Albert Hollis of Hornell tolda newsman last night he hadbeen holding back on the move totest the constitutionality of theblue laws pending the outcomeof a motion that a charge againstDon Cleveland be dropped.

But State Supreme Court Jus-tice Frederick T. Henry, holdingcourt in Bath yesterday, reserveddecision bn Hollis' motion thatthe charge of operating Sundaystock car races placed againstCleveland June 24 be set aside.

So Hollis decided to go aheadwith the test case regardless ofHenry's decision on the motion,he said.

The charge was placed againstCleveland after state policeclosed his track and arrestedhim. He pleaded innocent beforeNaples Police Justice StanleyKeith and demanded a jurytrial.

Hollis said he would base hisSupreme Cort action againstthe blue laws mainly on the con-tention that the state legislaturedoes not have the power to legal-ize the holding of some sportsevents on Sundays while banningothers.

He said the legislature had de-clared Sunday events in base-ball, basketball, football, hockey,bowling and swimming to be le-gal. "

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against a water-shortage andcontamination of the supply fromsewer seepage.

As the Missouri crest passedinto the Mississippi, Maj. Gen.Lewis A. Pick, chief of the- ArmyEngineers, reported the billiondollar flood had cost 41 lives inKansas and Missouri.

Reporting to a Senate sub-committee in Washington afteran on-the-spot survey, Pick gavethe following breakdown cover-ing the two state area for theperiod up to last Tuesday.

Two million acres flooded, 1,-074,000 in Kansas and 926,000 inMissouri; 518,000 persons dis-placed, . 368,500 in. Kansas^ and150,000 in Missouri, 17 bridges riswept away in Kansas.

The Missouri smashed nearlyall the flood barriers near itsmouth, spilling the flood overthousands of additional acres inthe area where nearly 60,000acres already were flooded.

Although the long battle tokeep the waters out of the townof West Alton had been lost, mostof the 300 residents stubbornlystuck to their homes.

The water had pushed its wayinto at least half the homes andwas running three-feet deep onsome of the streets. But the townpeople in the village near theMissouri's mouth merely movedto second floors.

Twenty-seven miles- upstream,power company trouble crewstoiled through the night in an ef-fort to save the only source ofelectricity for St. Charles, Mo., acity of 15,000. One pole support-ing a 33,000-volt line was washedout* yesterday. Workers on abarge cut off the pole to relievethe strain on the wires.

Two more poles began to settleas the fight to save the power linecontinued.

With the worst yet to come onthe Mississippi, airmen at nearbyScott Air Force Base, 111., werealerted for possible flood duty.All military personnel at the bigbase except married men and of-ficers whose families live in theimmediate area were restrictedto the base.

Army engineers still were con-fident that nearly all of the maj-or dikes, on the Mississippi down-stream from St| Louis wouldhold. Scores of workers toiledfeverishly at weaker points.

Two levees protecting 3,000acres on the Illinois side justabove St. Louis were pronouncedin critical condition. Some con-cern was felt for another barrierin Perry County, Mo., .holdingback flood waters from 15,000acres 60 miles south of here.

Britain Stops MoscowFlight Of 2 Officials

London—(AP)—Britain today abruptly cancelled the passport ofa British atomic scientist who had planned a flight to Moscow and aforeign office official.

The clamdown came in a new re-screening by British security of-ficials following the mysterious disappearance of two British diplo-mats two months ago. Donald MacLean, head of the American de-partment of the foreign office and. Guy Burgess, former second sec-retary of the British embassy in Washington, disappeared afterboarding a boat for France, May 25. They are feared to have fledbehind the Iron Curtain with valuable secrets.

Neither of the two whose pass-ports were cancelled today were

Reeds Hold TripleBirthday Party

Huntington, W. Va. — (AP)—There'll be 31 candles on a 3-in-lbirthday cake today.

Thirteen of them will be forAllison, 10 for David and eightfor Dick, the sons of Mr. andMrs. Walter A. Reed. The threew e r e a l l b o r n o n J u l y 21 . . . a tthe same hospital . . . and deliv-ered by the same doctor.

The Reeds have a fourth son,Tommy, 4, born Oct. 14. He ac-cepts the unusual birthdayphilosophically. He can eat cakeat at least two birthday partieseach year.

Munsan, Korea — (AP) — Kor-ean cease-fire talks at Kaesongtoday were recessed until July 25at the request of Communist ne-gotiators.

The Reds said they wanted therecess "to enable both sides tostudy the proposals thus far pre-sented."

United Nations headquarters inTokyo said in a statement theU.N. command agreed to thetemporary halt in the talks "al-though it sees no need for such arecess in view of the agreementreached thus far on points it con-siders necessary for an agenda."

A question not immediately an-swered was: did that mean thatnot many points had been agreedupon?

Or did it mean that negotia-tions had been progressing sosmoothly and agreeably that theUnited Nations delegates saw noreason for any backward looks?

At Eighth army headquarters,Associated Press CorrespondentNate Polowetzky said there wasspeculation that Communistsneeded time to receive furtherinstructions to deal with the U.N.delegation's adamant s t a n dagainst withdrawal of foreigntroops from Korea.

Today, for the first time, theUnited Nations command dis-closed officially that the "basic"issue between the two1 delegationswas the Communist demand forwithdrawal of all foreign troopsas a condition to a cease-fire.

identified immediately. A For-eign Office spokesman said thescientist was "a lecturer at a uni-versity." He added that the scien-tist proposed visiting Moscow aspart of a "good will" group.

Other sources identified thescientist as Dr. E. H. S. Burhop ofUniversity College, London, whohas advocated an approach toRussia in an attempt to reach alimited agreement on atomiccontrol before the West steps upits race for the hydrogen bomb.He is secretary of the British As-sociation of Scientific Workersand worked on the atomic energyproject in the United States dur-ing World War 2.

Burhop, one of 20 passengerson a scheduled "good will" flightto Moscow sponsored by the Brit-ish Soviet Friendship Society andthe British Society of CulturalRelations, cancelled his ticketshortly before the airliner left.

A reporter who phoned Burhopat his home was cut off with thestatement: "Before you say any-thing, I have no comment." La-ter Burhop told newsmen henever had access to documents ofa secret or restricted nature andhas had no connection with atom-ic energy projects for six years.

Burhop, a 40-year-old Austral-ian, signed the Communist- spon-sored "peace petition" last. Octo-ber. At a British-Soviet Societysession two years ago he duckedthe question "Are you a Com-munist?" with the declaration:

"A man's politics—like his re-ligion—are a private matter."

An informant said the ForeignOffice official had been suspend-ed from duty.

Thursday night, visiting withMiss Clark's father, Paul. He saidhe left the watch at the Clarkhome Thursday night. .

Police said Parmer told themhe wenit to the Clark home yes-terday morning looking forClark. He told police he talked toJanet through the door and •wentaway without entering the houseafter she told him her father hadgone to work. Clark's wife isdead.

Parmier, who works for an in-sulating firm, lives about sixblocks from the Clark home. Po-lice said, his wife is out of townon a vacation trip. The Parmers

House PassesStripped-DownControls Bill

By Barney LivingstoneWashington — (AP) — A strip-

ped-down economic controls bill,minus most of the added featuresPresident Truman wanted, waspassed by the House early today.

The measure, extending wage,price and other controls for oneyear, now goes to the Senate-House conference committee toiron out differences between itand an eight-months extensionvoted by the Senate. On thewhole, the two differed but littleon several major points; none ona few.

As the House bill finallyemerged, it was a patchwork ofamendments • which appeared tosatisfy neither Democrats norRepublicans entirely.

Economic Stabilizer EricJohnston said the bill did notgive consumers "the break theydeserved."

But Administration Houseleaders conceded it might havebeen worse.

In the gruelling 14-hour wind-up session ending early thismorning, they were able tosnatch at least partial victory outof a fight studded with defeatsover the past two weeks.

They knocked out an amend-ment freezing price and wagecceilings for 120 days at July 7levels.

They succeeded in reversing apreviously-adopted requirementthat price ceilings on farm andmanufactured goods must reflectcosts, plus a "reasonable profit."

Administration forces alsomanaged to reverse an earlierHouse action which assured meatpackers and processors a profiton every animal processed.

have no children.Clark said his daughter was

asleep in an upstairs bedroomwhen he left for work about 8a.m. Police estimated the dark-haired school girl was slain about9 a.m. A neighbor found herabout 9:30 a.m. with about 45stab wounds in her body and anecktie knotted around herthroat.

Police said the Clark .livingroom showed evidence of a strug-gle. Two tables were overturned,the rug was rumpled, a lampbroken and a large glass ash trayshattered. However, there was noevidence of violence in the fa-ther's downstairs bedroom wherethe girl's body lay.

I Police said most of the stab' wounds were in the girl's chest[ and they apparently had been' made by a leather awl, similar to; an ice pick which was found inthe bedroom.

I Dr. Max Appel, Burnham CityHospital pathologist, said that hu-man blood was found on Par-mer's trousers and on a handker-chief in his pocket. 'The amountof blood, he said, was too smallfor an analysis as to type.

Petain ReportedSeriously 111

Paris •— (AP) — The condi-tion of Henri Philippe Petain, 95-year-old chief of France duringthe Nazi occupation, was report-ed steadily worsening today.

His lawyer, Jacques" Isorni, saidhe and members of Petain's fam-ily were leaving today for theHe De Yieu, off the west coast ofFrance where Petain is hospital-ized.

Windstorm RipsThrough Midwest,Killing Three

Minneapolis—(AP)—A roaring100-mile-an-hour windstorm, ac-companied by torrential rainsand lightning, ripped throughparts of Minnesota and South Da-kota last night.

Three persons were killed.Scoresg were injured. Propertyand crop damage was extensive.Power and telephone lines wereknocked out.

The lashing.storm:Collapsed the roof of a crowd-

ed Super Market food store insuburban Minneapolis, killingtwo persons.

Toppled a brick chimneythrough the roof of a St. Paulhome, fatally injuring a four-months-old baby.

Blacked out wide areas as up-rooted trees ripped out powerand telephone lines.

Swept away a revival tent inMinneapolis, spreading panicamong the 700 worshippers.

Halted or interrupted streetcar service in Minneapolis andSt. Paul. Lifted one streetcarfrom its trucks and turned it up-side down.

Demolished a grain elevator, ahouse and three trailer homes inWatertown, S.D. Flattened ripen-ing grain crops in the area. .

Victims of the storm wereMichael Brinda, 38, of Minneap-olis, clerk in the damaged Super-market, an unidentified womanshopper, about 60, and TerranceMalm, the infant hit in the chim-ney collapse.

The Weather Bureau called thestorm the worst ever to strikethe Minneapolis-St. Paul area.Winds were measured at 100miles an hour at the Wold Cham-berlain Airport Weather Stationin Minneapolis before the windgauge blew away.

Morissette Blames Myers For Gambling ConditionsCanton—Mayor Ralph J. Mor-

issette of Ogdensburg., called asa climax witness at the final dayof the State Crime Commissionhearing in Canton yesterday,claimed he was unable to cleanup gambling in Ogdensburg be-fore Mar. 28 because of the laxityof the police department. underChief of Police Herbert S. Myers.

Morissette was the next to thelast witness to be heard in thethree-day public hearing. He wasfollowed to the witness stand byPolice Chief Leo LeBeau.

In typical Morissette fashion,the mayor kept the commissionand the public waiting for 45minutes after he was announcedas the next witness while he cameover from Ogdensburg.

Upon seating himself in thewitness chair, he asked Commis-sion Chairman Joseph N. Pros-kauer, "Judge, is. this a three-ring circus or are you sincere?"

Judge Proskauer informed himbluntly that it was a serious mat-ter and that he would be expect-ed to properly answer the ques-tions asked him.

"Are you the Mayor of Ogdens-burg?" Commission AttorneyJohn Harlan asked.

"Certainly I am the mayor,"Morissette re-torted.

"Whom did you defeat in the

last election for the position ofmayor," was Harlan's next ques-tion. Morissette refused . to an-swer on the grounds it violatedhis constitutional rights.

This bewildered Harlan, JudgeProskauer and the crowdedcourtroom.

"How can naming your oppon-ent incriminate you?" Morissettewas asked.

"It might incriminate him,"the Mayor mumbled.

But when the question wasasked again he said, "Edward P.Benton."

When asked if he was aware ofthe existence of gambling in hiscity, Morissette, after somejockeying around, admitted thathe was. When asked what he didabout it, he replied he had re-peatedly told Chief Myers thathe wanted it cleaned up. He saidevery time he called the chief,that he had an excuse. WheneverI wanted him he was in the ElksClub or some other place andwas not available, he stated.

The mayor said he had dis-cussed the matter with John B.Stevens, chairman of the policecommittee of the city council,but that this did not have any re-sults. Myers and Stevens were"buddies", he said.

The witness said in the Spring

of 1950 he ordered Leo LeBeau toact as a plainclothesman incleaning up the city. His investi-gation resulted in taverns whichhad been, violating the laws los-ing their licenses, .but some ofthese places later got their li-censes returned, Morissette said.Morissette testified LeBeau waschanged from plainclothes inves-tigator to a position at the deskby Chief Myers.

In replying to Harlan's queryabout "clean-up day" March 29,Morissette said he told Myers "toclean up the rackets in this, cityor I'll clean your skirts." He saidhe gave Myers these instructionsat 10:30 in the morning in thepresence of Citj' Clerk Simon S.Sargent. He later stated the timemight* have been 10:45.

Morissette said just before 12o'clock hie was informed the slotmachines were being moved, butby their owners rather than thepolice department. He said Jiecalled Myers at his home, andthe chief informed him he washaving his lunch and couldn't bedisturbed.

Judge Proskauer asked Moris-sette why he called the radio sta-tion to give them the informationin time for the noon broadcast.You knew it would take time forthe police to raid all those places,

he told Morissette."Did you think this -was. a good

way to clean up the city?" Mor-issette was asked.

The Mayor replied the ma-chines could have been cleanedup in that time, and placed theblame on Chief Myers. He said hereceived a telephone call a fewminutes before noon that the ma-chines had been moving at 11:3GL

"Did you ever charge Myerswith accepting graft?" Harlanasked.

"No, hut the taxpayers charge.Myers with being responsible forthe leak," the mayor stated.

Judge Proskauer asked Moris-sette who charged Myers withaccepting graft, and the mayorreplied "everybody." Morissettesaid he asked "Brocky" Livings-ton if he had ever given graft toChief Myers, and that Livingstonsaid he had not.

"Do you know where the ma-chines are now?" the chief coun-sel for the crime commissionasked.

"No, I am not a detective. Thatis what I have a police depart-ment for," Morissette answered.

Morissette was asked if he hadever discussed the efficiency ofthe police department with City,Judge John H. Wells. He repliedthat he had not.

King's Death MayToss Middle EastInto Confusion

Jerusalem — (AP) — The shot*that killed Jordon's King Abdul-lah echoed throughout the tens©and turbulent Middle East today.

Although it still was too ear*Iy to say definitely what th«results of his death would be,veteran observers feared itheralded serious troubles fatthis portion of the globe,

A dynastic struggle for succes-sion to Abdullah's throne and a.renewal of the Palestine warwere seen as possibilities. Thedrama will be played out beforethe eyes of Soviet Russia watch-ing the Middle East cauldronfrom its strategic spot to thenorth.

The tiny, 69-year-old Abdullah-was shot by an Arab yesterday^noon as he entered the Mosque ofOmar in the Arab-held old cityhere to pray at the tomb of hisfather. The mosque marks thespot from which the Prophet Mo-hammed is said to have ascendedto heaven on his white horse. Ab-dullah • claimed direct descentfrom the prophet.

An official announcement iden*tified the assassin, who was shotdown imediately by -fee king'sbodyguards, as a 21-year-old Je -rusalem Moslem tailor RsrnediMustapha Shukry Ashsho. Th©Arab News Agency said he was amember of the sabotage squad ofan underground terrorist groupcalled the ''Sacred Struggle Or-ganization."

Abdullah, staunch friend ofBritain, was counted on ]>y theWest to maintain some sem-blance of order in the MiddleEast. Britain and the UnitedStates also hoped, through him,to obtain final peace in theArab-Jewish quarrel over Pal -estine. The effect his death willhave on these aims is being-studied.The murdered king's personal!-*

ty was the force that made Jor«dan a strong power among Arabcountries, even though his smallcountry was so poor it depended!on British subsidies to keep go-ing.

His desert Arab Legion stood a*the West's firmest friendly mili-tary unit in the entire Arabworld.

The British-run legion sppar--ently had the situation in Trans-Jordan under control for thepresent.

A tug of war between Britishand anti-British influences ap-pears imminent, however, ove*succession to the crown.

Crown Prince Tallal, 40, Abdul-lah's eldest son, is in Switzerland;where he went to vacation after anervous breakdown. Arab sourcesdescribe the crown prince asstrongly anti-British. He has beenreplaced temporarily in the lineof succession because of his ail-ment.

Prince Naif, Abdullah's second-son, was named regent of thekingdom which gained its inde-pendence in 1946 after beingmandated to Britain since theend of World War I. Naif is de-scribed by Arab sources a§strongly pro-British.

Another possible claimant isIraq's boy king- Feisal, head ofthe elder branch of the Hashe-mite family to which Abdullahbelonged. British and Americanoil interests are at present ne-gotiating: a new contract withthat country.

50 Billion In ftA

Taxes CollectedWashington — (AP) — FederaT

tax collections totaled a recordsmashing $505386S682,288.60 infiscal 1951, which ended June 30,the Internal Revenue bureau an-nounced today.

That was a solid 15 percentgain over the previous recordhigh of $43,800,387,575.90; inwartime fiscal 1945; 32 percentabove the $38,957,131,768 col-lected in fiscal 1950.

And it was 19 times more thanthe government collected only 17years ago, in 1934— $2,640,603^828.

Individual income tax collec-tions reached an unprecedented$26,302,461,955.91 in 1951, running25 percent above the previousrecord of $20,997,780,699 set in1948.

Biggest contributor among th*states and territoriesYork- ^ • •