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STATS UlSTOaiCAL SOCIETY LINCOLN HSBR Rail Traffic TWO SECTIONS The Tele AMLY i GEAM VOICE OF A FRIENDLY CITY" it COLUMBUS, THE EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY DECEMBER 29, 1949 SIXTY-SEVENTH YEAR Hungarian Government Takes Over Many Firms BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 29 KUJ The Communist government today ordered nationalization of aJl industrial firms employing more than 10 persons, including almost all American and other foreign companies in the country. Hundreds of factories wnd firms will be I 1 Jl I lllilll- SvaafSi '-sssfjssiij 4 A (-SPO- i-isS-: f-f fi-'S ffSS pssiMr Mi I-BsSss-iSSSSS "TC S'f SJ sjf i Barkley Helpful To Cab Driver NORFOLK, Dec. 29. (O?) Cab Driver Oscar Osmund admitted today that'he wasn't very tactful when he asked Vice-President Alben Barkley to hold up the hood of his cab while he checked the car's oil supply.

i The 26-year-old cabbie said he was checking the oil in his taxi at Little Creek, when a dignified man and a woman drove up in a black convertible and asked the way to Norfolk. Osmund, peering at the oil stick, said, "wait a minute." The man came closer. Osmund said he pressed him into service to I hold the hood while he got a closer me on stick. The gray-haired man agreeably helped out. Osmund walked back to the convertible with him, offering to drive ahead to show the way.

Then the woman in the car said, "the FBI will meet us at the dock. Hink Th.n luiu nun me uigmneu gentleman was vice-president of the United RtatoQ "I got pretty nervous then," Os- mund said. "They must think I'm a terrible driver." Mrs. Barkley thanked him for guiding them, he said, and tipped him $5. Lindsay Man Is Killed By Tractor Severin Wemhoff Victim Wednesday On Farm Severin Wemhoff, 39, Lindsay, was accidentally killed in a tractor mishan Wednes.lav on a farm two 1 Byron Reed, deputy county at i i May Be Cut Very Shortly Lack of Coal Will Cause Curtailment Of Operations WASHINGTON, Dec.

29. U.P Passenger traffic on coal-burnine railroads "very probably" will be cut by the government after the New Year to conserve dwindling coal supplies. Col. J. Monroe John- son said today.

Johnson is chairman of the in- terstate commerce commission which i3 planning the action. He said the commission probably will make up its mind tomorrow what economy measure to take. No Alternative But he said that if the coal min ers continue their three-day work srs continue weir uiree-u 7 week, the government would nave no alternative but to order the coal-burning railroads to curtail their operations. There was little indication that John L. Lewis, United Mine workers president, would order the miners to resume a five-day workweek this week or next.

The Southern Coal Producers Association yesterday asked the National Labor Relations board general counsel to get a federal court order to force the miners back to five days' work a week and get Lewis to "bargain in good faith." Even if the board decides to do so, action is not likely for a week. "Complete Accord" The other big segment of the soft coal industry, the northern and western operators, announced it was in "complete accord" with the southerners' action. The northern and western group also is preparing unfair labor practices' charges against Lewis and will have a statement today it. ill' FLYING SHARK A front view of the latest model of the North American "Sabre" jet fighter, the-YF-86D, looks like the mouth of a voracious shark. It has completed its first test flight at Muroc, i Calif.

Designed to climb rapidly to extreme altitudes, the Jet has one huge intake duct up front, giving it the shark-like look. wnai economies me northeast of Lindsay. torney and coroner, said that "These reduced earnings make Wemhoff, who resided a half-mile continued expansion of plant and east of Lindsay, had gone over to equipment somewhat less attract-the other farm that day to get his jve tractor. He left in the morning "Essentially Sound" and the body was found about 5:30 But on the whole he said) "our p. m.

by D. Holloran who saw economy is essentially sound." his car parked in a field near the A survey conducted by the Corn-tractor, 'merce and Industry Association of Reed said that Wemhoff had an- rentlv Dut the tractor in gear VSe hen threw 0 the flywheel starter on the side of the tractor, standing before one of the large wheels. The tractor started in motion and passed over sales curing me nrsi six momns his body i w111 be 33 or better than From 'Wemhoff torn clothing, 1 In the same period this year. Most Reed said that he might have been of them expected the trend to con-caught and unable to avoid the tmue throughout 1950. Judo Lessons Come in Handy DETROIT, Dec.

29. U.E) When a masher tried to attack Lorraine Rickey, 23, she remembered the judo lessons her brother had taught her. "He bounced like a rubber ball on the sidewalk," she told police. Miss Rickey said the man tried to choke her as she got into her car last night. "I just did what I always did in practice," she said.

"It certainly worked, too. He ran away as fast as he could." Miss Rickey's brother, Edward, 28, was a iudo instructor in the paratroops, Loshbaugh Is Ike President Carroll Loshbaugh was elected president of the Columbus Izaak Walton chapter at a meeting held last night at the cabin. Loshbaugh, who served the past year as vice-president, succeeds Statue Falls From Pedestal OLDSBURG, Dec. 29. KU.E) The local Temperance Society erected a statue here to remind passersby to stay away from the 'demon rum" and remain upright.

Yesterday the statue fell from its pedestal, breaking the leg of a passerby. Lucky Break In Weather 32 1 m. 56 high yesterday 13 low this morning 25 high year ago 14 low year ago By UNITED PRESS Nebraska got another lucky break from old man winter, the weather bureau said today. The cold wave which yesterday appeared to be headed for Nebraska veered off east. The Cornhus- ker state will feel a few chilly ef fects of the wave, but that's about all.

The bureau said it will be gen erally fair tonight and Friday and nob so cold tonight. Warmer weather will be the Friday fare. Not only will the cold wave miss the state, but Nebraska can look for balmy temperatures, the tou reau said. Observers forecast the mercury would go as high as 55 or 60 in the west tomorrow, and 50 or 55 in the east. Meanwhile, the cold wave whirled its way through the Da-kotas.

Nebraska temperature ranges: Burwell 54-10, Chadron 48-0, Grand Island 53-15, Hayes Center 60-17, Lincoln 46-19, Norfolk 45-12, North Platte 59-16, Omaha 50-18, Valentine 46-10. Nebraska forecast: Generally fair tonight and Friday, not so cold tonight; warmer Friday; low tonight 20-25; high Friday 50-55 east, 55-60 west. Army Trucks To "Stick Around" LINCOLN, Dec. 29 (IP) A double line of big army trucks owned by the National Guard is parked outside the Lincoln post office, and the Guard will have none of them for the present, at least. The vehicles were lent the post office to help deliver Christmas mail.

When the rush was over Tuesday, carrier foreman George Lk kiss notitied the Guard the trucks no longer were needed and could be picked up any time. Not without four days notice. the Guard replied. So depending on whether Tuesday is counted as one of the four, the trucks will continue to occupy a block of parking space in the crowded downtown section until tomorrow or Saturday. Friendship Train Dedication Friday LINCOLN, Dec.

29 IP) The 1949 Nebraska Friendship Train dedi cation will be held tomorrow at the state capitol with a miniature train representing the state's con tribution to world relief through the CROP drive. Speakers' will include Gov. Val Peterson, Chancellor R. G. Gustav- son, CROP chairman; Clifford Dah- lin, Chicago national CROP cabi net member; Right Rev.

Msgr. Jo seph Przudzik, Davey, and Revs. Arthur Taylor, Lincoln, and Theo dore Johnson, Fremont, vice-chairman representing church groups on the state CROP committee. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, 330 Traffic Deaths Seen That's Prediction For This Weekend CHICAGO, Dec. 29 IP New-Year's weekend traffic accidents will take 330 lives, the National Safety Council producted today.

The council said the death toll on the highways will be that high unless a blizzard "sews the country up tight." Ned H. Dearborn, council president, urged Americans to "depend on themselves and not on the weatherman," by observing four precautions: "1. Leave the car in the garage and use public transportation, especially if you intend to do any drinking. "2. Go on the theory that the other fellow, driver or pedestrian, may be woozy and allow for it.

3. Don't ride with a drinking driver. "4. Double your caution if the weather is bad." The council's estimate covers persons who die later, undoubtedly would be higher. The predicted total was less than the final United Press tabu lation for the long Christmas weekend, in which 420 died in traffic accidents and a total of 611 died accidentally from various causes.

Dr. Harger Will Operate Hospital At St. Edward ST. EDWARD, Dec. 29.

(Special) Dr. John Harger, graduate of St. Edward high school, University of Chicago and Rush Medical college, will arrive in the near future to operate the local hospital. He will also be head surgeon in the new County hospital in Albion which will be opened the first of ebruary. Dr.

Harger interned at Cook County hospital in Chicago and has been on the surgical staff there for the past 20 years. He taught surgery at the University of Illinois at Urbane for 18 years and at the Chicago University Medical school for 15 years. Fuel Tanks Of Train Ripped MORRISON, 111., Dec. 29 IPV A drawbar dropped by another train ripped open the diesel fuel tanks of the Los Angeles Limited and stalled the Chicago-to-Los Angeles train here for three hours, a North Western railroad spokesman said today. The heavy bar ripped through two 400-gallon fuel tanks but did not derail any cars of the 15-coach train.

The spokesman said no one was injured in the mishap yesterday. All fuel was lost, and trainmen said some of the train's wheels were flattened as the train was braked to a quick stop on the oil-smeared tracks. A steam locomotive pulled the train on to Omaha, after a three-hour delay. Lit: U1C tuai-UUi inii, i au uauo take apparently has not been decided definitely. It might revive its order for such roads having less than 25 days' supply of coal to cut passenger traffic by 25 per cent.

This order was issued during the coal strike, but revoked when the miners returned to work last month. Meanwhile. Sen. Wayne L. Morse, urged President Truman to appoint I fact-finding i i nA-4-lnnn4- uoaru iu recuiiimniu nciurmcui the coal contract dispute.

Say "Retired" U. S. Officers At Formosa HONG KONG, Dec. 29 (IPi Chinese reports quoting National- ist officials in Formosa said today that 32 "retired" American offic- ers have arrived at Taipeh the capital, to help plan the defense of the island. The reports did not specify whe- ther the Americans were Army or Navy officers or both.

Recent re- ports said both the U. S. Army and Navy have been engaged in making a survey of Formosa's military and economic resources An American civilian employ by the Chinese government wno returned to Hong Kong from For- 1 a YCT 1 mosa yesterday said that a large 1 number of tanks and other mili- 1 tary equipment has arrived in the island recently Another report said the Nation- alist government has. started -oftio- 5 nnn mon in thr- 2(1-21 age group for the new Formosan 0 army. Union Pacific Official Praises Diesel Engines i The Weather Generally Fair NUMBER 304 taken over by the government under the sweeping decree.

To Be Seized Among the companies whose Hungarian operations will be seized are the Standard Oil Company, some of whose executives in Hungary have been jailed or expelled for alleged sabotage, and the International Telephone and Telegraph Company, three of whose officers are in jail charged with espionage. (The properties of a number of foreign firms, including Standard Oil and Shell Oil, were seized by the Hungarian government a year ago, but were not nationalized at the time. (New York financial quarters said Maort, Standard Oil's' subsidiary in Hungary, actually is owned by the European Gas and Electric Company, which in turn is owned 81.68 per cent by Standard Oil of New Jersey and the rest by European stockholders. Maort's Hungarian properties were valued at $83,000,000.) "Nationalization of undertakings still in the hands of foreign capitalists is absolutely necessary to develop our nationalized socialist industry," Minister of State Erno Gero said in a speech last night. Already Jailed He promised compensation to former owners and said they would be given employment in their professions and according to their abilities.

"Foreign imperialists used the owners and leaders of foreign undertakings to build up a spy ring and for sabotage moves," Gero said. This happened, he said, at Maort, Standard Oil's Hungarian firm, and1 the Standard electric works, an I. T. T. Hungarian subsidiary.

The decree specifically exempted artisans and shopkeepers. Three International Telephone and Telegraph Company executives already have been jailed for alleged espionage, and a government announcement last weekend said thev had signed confessions. They are Robert Vogeler of Jackson Heights, N. assistant vice-president, Edgar Sanders, a Briton, who is Budapest representative of I. T.

and Imre Geiger, a Hungarian managing director of the Standard electric works. Vogeler's arrest almost six weeks ago and his incommunicado detention led the U. S. state department, ta bar Americans from traveling in Hungary. Betty Lou Is Resting Quietly MEMPHIS, Dec.

29 (IP) Betty Lou Marbury rested quietly in Baptist hospital here today, her simple faith in prayer unshaken despite the loss of her right hand. Although thousands had prayed that the 10-year-old girl's hand might be saved, doctors were forced to amputate it yesterday. They hoped the operation would prevent the spread of a malignancy which infected one finger. The operation appeared to be successful. A late hospital bulletin last night said that Betty Lou's condition was "very satisfactory." Will Start New Bible Marathon COVINGTON, Dec.

29 HP) Church-goers in this community will observe New Year's Day by reading the scriptures in the second Bible marathon. Starting at midnight New Year's Eve, ministers and laymen of all faiths will take 10-minute turns reading from the New Testament and the Psalms. They expect to complete the Marathon reading in 24 hours. Two year ago, Covington church-goers read all 1,189 chapters of the Bible in 72 hours and 20 minutes. Jacobson Says He said relays of police questioned him around the clock about persons he did not know, including Robert A.

Vogeler, American manager of the International Telephone and Telegraph Co. in eastern Europe. Vogeler still is being held incommunicado by the Hungarians on spy charges for which he has been jailed almost six weeks. Jacobson said he was told to sit erect in a chair with his arms dangling at his sides during questioning. Often he started to slump in the chair, he said, but was warned that he might be taken to the cellar if he did not sit upright.

Jacobson said one police official told him that "all the intelligence which is going on in Hungary has been to aid-America in an offensive war against the peoples republic." Jacobson was seized by Hungar ian "security police" on Dec. 15 while enroute from Vienna to Budapest following a vacation in the United States. Connally Calls For Relations With Spain Also After Big Cut In Foreign Spending WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. UJ) Chairman Tom Connally of the senate foreign relations commit tee today called for immediate re sumption of full diplomatic rela tions with Spain and a big cut in foreign spending.

The 72-year-old Texas democrat told newsmen that the United States should return its ambassa dor to Madrid without waiting for the United Nations to call off its diplomatic boycott of the Franco regime. And he said that for strategic reasons Spain should be brought into the North Aatlantic defense pact, if our other 11 pact partners agree. May Trim Billion Connally also said perhaps 51,000,000,000 might be trimmed from the Marshall plan for European recovery in 1950 and that the foreign arms aid program slightly more than $1,000,000,000 this year also could be cut. He added that there is a "strong belief" that the arms-for-Europe program will "lessen the pressure" on this country to maintain its present high rate of military spending. Connally also pleaded for continuation of the bipartisan policy in foreign affairs, backing up the stand taken last week by Sen.

Ar thur H. Vandenberg, the GOP's foreign policy leader. He said that bipartisanship should ex tend also to the far east. Connally said he did not think it would be to our best interest to recognize the Chinese commu nist government at present, Whether we should do so later, he said, depends on future events especially "how far the property rights of our citizens are going to be protected." Like Wherry His remarks appeared timed to coincide with the demands of re publican floor leader Kenneth Wherry, and others that the GOP follow an independent course on foreign policy, a move which inevitably would undermine Van- denberg's party position. Meanwhile, it was learned that the state department has urged President Truman to include a strong plug for his foreign aid pro gram in his State of the Union message to congress next week.

jPassenger Train Rams Gas Truck AZUSA, Dec. 29 (IP) The Santa Fe Super Chief, fast passen ger train, hit a gasoline truck at a crossing today, starting a fire in which the truck driver was killed and the engineer and fire man seriously burned. The luxury train was bound for Los Angeles from Chicago. The crash set fire to the truck and the engine, tender and baggage car of the train. None of the passenger cars was affected, no cars were derailed, and no injuries to passengers were reported.

Chief of Police A. L. Kendrick said the truck trailer was loaded with 8000 gallons of gasoline, and the truck wreckage was lodged under the baggage car. The truck driver, burned beyond recognition, was found hanging on the outside right door of the truck cab. Hervey Allen Dies Wednesday MIAMI, Dec.

29. HUP) Hervey Allen, whose novel, Anthony Adverse, was one of the best-selling adventure stories of all time, died after a heart attack here yesterday. He was 60 years old. Funeral arrangements were to be made today. The author died in the bathroom of his home in suburban Coconut Grove about 1 p.

m. He had just arisen, having slept late after working until the early-morning hours on the fourth and final volume of his historical novel, "The Disinherited." Mrs. Allen found his body. A heart specialist was called but he was unable to revive the author. Allen's first work, "Wampum and Old Gold," was published in 1921.

But he was best known for the lengthy "Anthoyn Adverse," which was completed in 1933 and immediately became a best-seller. Allen wove into the lusty adventure story a powerful religious theme and produced in the book a work superior to most other historical novels of the time. His latest book, one of more than a dozen, was "City in Stone," published in 1948. Surviving Allen are his widow, Mrs. Ann Hyde Andrews Allen, two daughters, Marsha Andrews and Mary Ann, and a son, Richard Francis.

BOARD TO MEET LINCOLN, Dec 29 ((UP) The State Normal Board will mt at Omaha Jan. 12-13. Albin Larson. I Prosperous Outlook For Coming Year Private Experts Agree First Half of 1950 To Be Very Good WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (IP) The nation's top government and industry economists todav nredict- f1 -ne coming year.

Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer reported to President Truman that business prospects for the immediate future are good if taken with "well-tempered op- timism." Especially First Half A bevy of private experts agreed. Most said the first half of 1950 will be especially prosperous. The optimistic forecasts, coupled with a growing list of an nouncements of price cuts, bright ened the new year outlook for consumers, Lower prices were announced on a wide range of items, including milk, soap and television sets. Sawyer said that "prospects for our immediate future are good" but that some factors "indicate the wisdom of a tempered optimism. "Many businessmen, although otni nnoratinir at faivlv hitrh levels are suffering a substantially re- "f1" "'O" duced profit margin." he said.

1New rK snowea uuu. many ew York business executive's are look- mo- frtri r-r? og rorTv tf 1 Prill Some 72 per cent of the 336 1 1 "'s cuuita i conference of the American Mar- keting Association were told by Arno H. Johnson, vice president oi cue j. ha mcT should climb higher next year than in 1949. But he warned that the economy to avert a major break hi con- Fails Suicide Attempt, But Rumpus MANKATO, Dec.

29 IP Ray Schaub, unhappy after a quarrel with his wife, tried to commit suicide early today, police said. He failed, but a subsequent ex- plosion in his gas-filled apart- ment 1. Wrecked the three-story brick apartment building. 2. Injured critically landlord J.

A. Mayer, his wife and a Mrs. Coff, all occupants of the building. 3. Sent Mrs.

Coffs husband to a hospital, suffering from shock. 4. Shook the entire business district of this southern Minnesota city and blasted window panes in a one-block radius. Schaub was not in the building when the blast occurred. He had just been carted out, only partially conscious, by police who found him in his gas-filled home.

Police, who were called to the building by the landlord, said Schaub had quarreled with his wife in a downtown liquor store, threatened to commit suicide, forced another motorist off the street while driving home, then unscrewed a cap from a pipe on the gas stove. Mayer was trying to shut off the escaping gas when the explosion occurred. The blast touched off a fire, blew out the front, rear and one side of the building, and collapsed part of the second floor. Mayer, his wife and Mrs. Coff suffered severe burns and shock, and Mrs.

Mayer also suffered a broken ankle, hospital attendants said. Police were searching for Schaub's wife, who was not at home when the explosion occurred. Safe Crackers Busy in County Wednesday Night Safe crackers were busy last night in Platte county, and their nocturnal efforts netted them more than $800. Sheriff Herb Person reported today that his office had received calls to investigate safe burglaries at the John Ditter garage at Monroe, where about $35 was missing, the grain elevator at Monroe, where about $320 was taken, the Farmers Elevator at Platte Center, where about $5O0 was stolen. The elevator at Cornlea was also broken into, but the intruders failed to locate any money there.

Deputy Sheriff Milton Baumgart was conducting investigations today, and a special investigator from the state patrol was scheduled to arrive this afternoon to help. John Ingold. Vern Walker was the period from 6 p.m. Friday un-chosen to replace him as the vice- til midnight Monday. It includes president.

only immediate traffic deaths, and Paul Abegglen, was elected the council emphasized that the secretary-treasurer, defeating H. ultimate toll, including injured moving venicie. a aeiacnaDie "scoop" loader mounted on the front of the tractor, and lowered, dug into the ground and stopped tne tractor, Killing me motor, aner il feet" said tnat tnere was no doubt tnat the death was accident- Wemhoff was married and the 1 I iion r1l Pvnrc tlllClllliai I QYUIS Plan for Control of ATumic Yveauurib WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 KU.E) Chairman Tavid E. Lilienthal of the Atomic Energy Commission has hinted that he favors some cnanges in ine u.

o. pian nor 111- ternauonai control 01 atomic weapons. 1-4 tnccoil nut tha hint vacTAr. day during a conference atomic affairs. Lilienthal said he knows or no better way to obtain adequate safeguards and controls of atomic weapons than those carried in the U.

S. proposal sumbitted to the United Nations in 1946. But, he added, the men who drew up the plan, including him- Leaves Estate To Ann Sheridan SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29 (IP) David Johnson, 67-year-old I OMAHA, Dec. 29 IP Officials self and Secretary of State Dean at Union Pacific railroad head- Acheson, do not regard it as "the quarters here said today its' diesel last word and wisdom." and oil burning road locomotives The U.

S. proposal calls for full "are doing a good job of replacing and free inspection by the UN of coal burning engines in the face all atomic throughout of the current coal shortage." i the world. The statement was made in a' Lilienthal said the fear of company report on the effect of "catastrophic consequences" event-the United Mine workers order lim- i "ay wi" world agreement tting miners to a three-day work on international control. But wV. nght now.

he said, chances for Union Pacific said it had laid LaPcord are extremely "re-aside 38 coal burning locomotives and put diesel and oil burning units V. Clark in a close race. Walker and Jake Glur were chosen to serve three-year terms on the board of directors. The members talked over the possibility of recommending that the Loup River Public Power District set aside Lake Babcock as a game sanctuary, but no action was taken. The matter will be brought up again at a later date.

Bob Benson, state game warden, spoke briefly on the deer hunting season in western Nebraska, and Werner Schupbach told of deer hunting in Wyoming. Refreshments were served following the business session. Escapee Given 2 Additional Years BEATRICE, Dec. 29 HP) Harold Sarsfield, 25, Atlantic, who "took to the tall timber" after his escape from the state reformatory at Lincoln, was on his way back today. Sarsfield escaped Nov.

2, stole a Western Sign Company truck in Lincoln and drove it to the Homestead national monument the next day, where the truck ran out of gas. Sarsfield hid in the nearby timber all day. That night he stole another car from Frank Thimm, near here, and drove to Oxford, where he was arrested Nov. 5. Judge Clyde Ellis added two years to his reformatory term for auto heft.

Sarsfield originally was sentenced from Lincoln county on May 17 for a three-to-four year term for burglary. Deny King to Wed 16-Year-Old Girl CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 29. (U.E) Kerim Tabet Paha, press adviser to King Farouk, said today that all stories published about the possible remarriage of the king to a 16-year-old daughter of an Egyptian civil servant were "completely without foundation." "Any talk about his majesty I getting engaged is entirely premature," the press adviser told the United Press. (There have been reports ever in tneir place at consiueraoie less expense." The railroad said the only pinch it has felt has been the limited curtailment of branch line service.

Union Pacific pets some of its coal from Company-owned mines in the Rock Springs, dis "I Never Was So Scared In trict. "Miners there." a srokes-; longshoreman, left his entire es-man raid." are losing approximate- tate to his favorite movie star, ly $60,000 a week in wages because Ann Sheridan. of the limited work week and in-1 In a beautifully-penned will ability to produce sufficient coal 1 written in 1947, Johnson said he giving to "my beloved Ann My Life," VIENNA, Austria, Dec. 29 (IP) i American reiiei omciai Israel ja- cobson charged today that Hun garian communist political police starved him and grilled him 20 hours a day while they held him for 12 days on spy charges. Jacobson, 37, who was released and expelled by the Hungarians and then spent several hours in Soviet custody before being finally freed yesterday, said his clothes were ripped to shreds and searched by the Hungarians.

Bright Light In Eyes He said they shined a bright light in his eyes constantly, so that he never knew whether it was day or night. Jacobson, Budapest director for the American joint distribution committee, a Jewish welfare or ganization, was still pale and nervous from his ordeal. "I never was so scared in my life," he said. Jacobson, of Rochester. N.

paid the Hungarians tried to draw to sunplv requirements of the ion Pacific." Asks Adequate Speed Limits CHICAGO. Dec. 29 IP A traffic expert today urged the nation to emerge from "Model days" and raise speed limits on streets and highways. Professor C. C.

Wiley of the University of Illinois College of Engineering said most speed limits are too low and belong to a past era. "Adequate speed limits, high enough to cover normal traffic operations, would expedite traffic." Wiley said. He said traffic engineers have long observed that traffic "tends to run at speeds which the motorists themselves consider to be reasonable and safe, irrespective of signs." I Sheridan, picture star (and no one else), Hollywood, Warner the contents in my safebox Cash in the safebox amounted to $2,195. In Johnson's room, authorities found hundreds of pictures of the one-time "oomph girl." Johnson died last Friday. Alaska Gripped By Cold Spell ANCHORAGE, Alaska.

Dec. 29 IP Alaska was in the grip of ai cold spell today with temperatures ranging to 50 below zero. The mercury dropped to 23 below zero in Anchorage Tuesday night with an unofficial reading of 3o below reported in the sub urbs of the city. Fairbanks re- ported 40 below, while Northway saw 50 below. since the king's divorce more than BANK CALL a year ago that he would remarry LINCOLN, Dec.

29 tP) State soon.) Banking Director J. F. McClain All stories which have been pub- today issued the final call of 1949 lished on the subject are complete- i for report on the condition of Ne-ly without foundation," the United i braska's 283 state banks, as of to-Press adviser said. day. UUIIU ocvitKUi, aiu iNOjirom mm an aamission tnat ne agenda yet has been written for was a member of an American es- the meetitng, he said.

pionage ring in Hungary..