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* * * Bugsy Seigel's Elliott Says Bailie Ends Girl Leaves His Father Stormily as Paris for U.S. Made Mislake Charges Fly Hughes States Senate Virginia Hill Sobs and WASHINGTON (A»-Elliott Agent said, 'We're Says She'd Just as Roosevelt says his father, the late President Roosevelt, aoted "in dtr­ Out to Get EllioH-' Soon Jump off Plane ect opposition" to the interests of photo reconnaissance in permitting WASHINGTON (JP) - The PARIS (JP)-Virginia Hill, weep­ Hughes-Brewster battle came to ing forlornly and sobbing that "I'd the Hughes Aircraft company to a s1ormy, inconclusive close last just as soon jump off the air­ continue building a car,o plane plane," left Paris by air yesterday during the war. night after Howard Hughes flun, lor the United States where Amer­ Roosevelt made his statement In out fresh accusations of "lies" and ican police have indicated the un­ a talk recorded Wednesday for "ulterior motives" in a senate in­ derworld might pu t the pretty Cal­ vestiga tion of his war contracts. Ifornia party girl's life in jeopardy. broadcast over WINX last night. Ending a hectic two-month stay Asked If the White House had Senator Brewster (R-Me), in Paris and swank Mediterranean exerted influence in the award of chairman of the senate war in­ resorts, during which the late Ben­ SOIPe $40,000,000 worth of airplane vestigating committee, stood on jamin (Bugsy) Siegel was shot to contracts to Howaro Hughes, mu - his denial that he had offered to death in her California home June tl-milLionaire Hollywood movie call off the inquiry if Hugbes 20, the raven-haired Miss HHI took I producer and plane iluilder, Roo­ off for New York from Orly field sevelt said: would agree to merge his Trans at 4:30 p. m., (CST). The plane's "Not only did the White House World airline with Pan American first scheduled stop in the United not influence the awards, but tes­ I airwIlY~. Stales was Boston. timony will prove that President And by agl'eemnt of the two Bitler" frequently incoherent Roosevelt's action in arguing that antagonists, the committee closed and verging on hysteria as she after .13,000,000 had been spent that phase 01 Its Inquiry atter tWD talked with a reporter just before on the (Hughes) cargo plane they tense days-the sworn charge and boarding the plane, Miss Hill said ought to keep the contract in lorce its sworn denial standing on the she would set things righ t with the until they got the benefit of aU record. press when she arrived in tile Uni­ THE FELLOW whose 1947 Chevrolet go~ its (011 ba.shed In here the other day can sy mpathize with the work to date-so that he Howard Hughes ted States. George A. Va n Keuren, East Greenbush, N.Y., who jumped from hi.8 parked car at Albany a fractloll aUowed them to spend $5,000,000 He Made the Charges "I don't hove the strength to Since Siegel, gambl",·, man­ of a second before a tractor-traUer, carryLnK a. 12-tol1 load, toppled on It. CAP WlREPIIOTO) mor&-that was in direct opposi­ go on," said Hughes, complaining abolll-Honywood and Nevada ------tion to our interests in the recon­ he got only two hours' sleep night club operator, was slain, naissance program. Wednesday night. "I feel that Sen­ Eaker Says We'll ator Brewster Is not teJling the Miss Hill has been hlentioned fre­ "We felt the cargo plane shOUld 92 High Here;­ truth. I think that if I had the Quently in the American press. be shelved and all facilities that As E. S. (ooper'ldentifies Self As Boy ScouJs Land, opportunity to cross examine him, she arrived at the airfield Hughes h&.d should be turned over and walked to the customs office, lose Third War I could prove it." to reconnaissance." Senator Pepper (D-Fla) finally she was approached by the repor­ in Hand LOS ANGELES (JP)-The United Situation Roosevelt said the senate war No Rain Due turned to Hughes and asked: ter. Flopping her three silver tox investigating committee "will States, if it pursues its present furs about her shoulders, she pout­ Assaul' Victim; Push Probe "Senator Brewster says he is MOISSON, France (JP)- The have a good deal of fun and do course, will be involved in a third By The AsBoclated Pretl ed, "Why don't you leave me willing to let this issue stand on County Attorney Jack C. Cor admission to the ~:u ddle cot­ boy scouts have landed and the much good for the people of the world war, Lt. Gen. Ira Eaker, Teperatures soared Into the mid­ alone ?" While's investigation of the beat- feeshop in the Jefferson holel. situation is out or en-Tyone else's deputy commander of the army the record as it l'Iow is. Is that United States jf they will lOOk In- dle 90's in Iowa yesterday under agreeable to you 1" ing...o -BJ~ ~n here lB.'il He said his two a ~ hands. all' 10rc;cJ! Bald y!:Sterday. adding: 10 some Of JIle H"MW' lAd con­ it , vas, and Sena­ e," Miss Rill !iaid be- May 6 began yesterday as the loud and coarse remarks about The villages of Molsson and tract negotiations and contracts "And we won't be on the win­ cloudless skies. m:rgrre snra lw~~\\ sobs. '''I'm \\0\ gOi))g \0 victim identitied himself but said Jews and that when one of the Rosny, ancient and peaceful com­ ning side." It was 96 at Sioux Clly for the tor Ferguson (R-Mlch), chairman that were let. As I -poInted out of the subcommittee, announced: talk to anyone until I see my law- he would "stand by my con- men "caught my eye" the fight munities 40 miles west of Paris, in my report, they were complete­ ' He said he had "defended 13 highest mark reported to the Des yer." science" and would not bring started. certainly never have seen any­ air lorce budgets before congress," Moines weather bureau. Other "The ch air will now rule that ly valueless to the process' of the this matter is now closed." Then, as an afterthought, she charges again st his assailants. He was severely cut and bruls- thing like it. war,U and recalled that the national high readings included 95 at At­ added , "I can take care of myself. E.S. Cooper, 130 E. Jefferson, ed, he said, and went to a dllctor Boy scouL monitors ore direct­ legislature in 1939 reduced "an al­ lantic; 94 at Ottumwa; 93 at Des He added the committee will I've been doing it for 30 years and issued a statement saying that friend at University hospital for ing tl'atric for miles around the Brewster Charge, ready meager 150 plane appropri­ Moines; 92 at Iowa City, and 90 at turn tomorrow morning to the in­ I can keep on. "after talking things over with trP'8~ment. spectal encampment in 1,500- Burlington and Mason City. vestigation of Hughes' $18,000,000 a Jl ation" to one calling for only 52 . Miss Hm, reputed by Americans my conscience, I believe that Cooper said there were "plenty acre wooded sile. Train toads oi "Smear Attempt "Last year those same old men Reports of two additional deaths cargo plane contract, and then go ,,. \0 be wealthy and who has had the erring youth should be reached of bystanders and witnesses scouts lrom all over the world were 'still there in congress-men as a result of the current hot spell into the $22,000,000 photo recon­ naissance plane contract. swankiest accomodations during thl'ough methods of education and around but only r,ne attempted to are being dlsgorgea at 1I special WASHINGTON (A» Sen. who would have been eliminated brought the tolal to five. Ira V. One of Hughes' parting shots her two mo nths' stay in Paris and rellgion rather than th rough legal do anything." scout railway station. Brewster (R-Me) declared in a in any other nation because of Watson, 70, was found dead in his was the accusation of "ulterior on the French Riviera, wept soCtiy punishment.'? White conferred with Cooper The arrivai of 1,1 18 Americans network broadca$t (ABC) last their appallingly bad judgment." room at Council Bluffs, a victim motives" in the inquiry. He at limes as she sat alone in the ter- Cooper, who refused to coop- and Dean C. ' Woody Thompson, brought to 18,9 19 the number 01 nigh t that he was the object ot a General Eaker, who will soon of "heat apoplexy," and Raymond quoted a senate agent as haVing minal waiting room. erate in the investigation, said, director of the university otflce boy scouts from 17 countries who "nationwide smear campaign" by retire, declared that within 30 C. Johnson, 34, of Cedar Rapids, said, "We're out to get EUiott "I don't know anything about "l orn a New Englander. I talk of student affairs, for over two have buill n tent city in three publicist Carl Byolr-a campaign days after the start of World War died of a heat stroke as he was be­ Roosevell." all these stories ihey have been things over with my conscience. hours yesterday in an attempt to days, and It appears the total Brewster asserted was designed IH, the regular first line defenders ing taken by ambulance to a hos­ The agent he mentioned, Fra­ writing about me," she said. - "One simply does not know the learn details of the incident from "to coerce me into dropping the attendance will exceed the 25,079 wJll be gone and only adequate pital. cis Flanagan, investigator for the "1 don 't care to li ve in a world nature of a New Englander if he Cooper. expected. Howard HUlihes investigatlon.'· reserves can America then. There was no prospect of a senate war investigating commit­ where people go around saying a ll thinks a . whole community can White said he drew only re­ Uniforms were disappearing in Brewster made the aUegations "World War III will consist of soaking rain to relieve critically during an interview on ABC's tee, flung back a denial. the mean things they can about I prevail upon him to do that which peated refusals trom Cooper to an eve r-i ncr e aS lllg series of a short, sharp, paralyzing bom­ dry farming areas. This also happened in a day someone else," she added. he thinks is uncalled (or and vin- either name his attackers or sup- swaps. The kilts of the Scottish "lieadline edition" broadcast. bardment, foUowed by an immed­ H.C.S. Thorn of the Des Moines Byoir, Hughes' public relaUons that produced threats to clear the Then, obviously distraught, she dictive. I will stand by my con- ply information which might lead scouts and the turbans of the iate atrborne invasion," he de­ weather bureau said that chances hearing room , a protest from counselor, was not immediately a faged, "I'd just as soon jump off science." Ito their apprehension. Indians were getting especially clared. "Fewer than 300,000 men of sufficient amounts of rain dur­ youthful spectator, and hints ot the airplane." Cooper said he was aHacked by The investigation will continue acquisitive examination by the available for comment in New could descend under silk and take ing the next two weeks "are not contempt action against Hughes She was not listed on the flight two men while standing in line (See Al)sauLt Victim, page 6) swappers.• York where his office is located. this country." good." that never blossomed: manifest as "Miss llill," nor was 1. The man who makes and flies she llsted under the name of any planes and produces tools and. of her former husbaRds- Gl'iffith, • movies said he had been called a Gonzales or Rogers. • • "playboy" and "eccentric" but " don't know what name I'm never a liar. He stacked his rep­ Irave~ng under," she said. utation as a "trick shot artist." • 2. Hughes challenged Brewster' :I·n I5 to repeat under oath that a TWA 7·Toed George Returns rison er' r Magyar.'P Safe Po hostess had con1ided she was Home for His 'Funerals' afraid to be on a 'plane alone with Hughes. Brewster didn't immed.i4 ITHACA, N.Y. (JP)- Either cats ately. with seven toes are very common Frcllice Hungarians·Oppose Present 3. 'Brewster vigorously disclaim4 around here or George has used Truman Blasts Odom Sets Sights on ed any "Improprieties." He said up , three of his nine lives. he never tried to accelerate or Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Haxton of and fresh fruit to nibble on. ~egime retard the Hughes inqulrt- and nearby Danby though t they lost GOP Economy B·U·L·L·E~T-I-N . Two postponements preceded •• American Charges never lobbied with Hughes for a their pet three months ago when yesterday's takeoff. The flight PARIS (IP)- Stephan Thuransky, 54-year-old naturalized Ameri~ overseas airline. He called a seven-toed cat, identified as WASHINGTON (JP) - President GANDER, Newfoundland (JP)­ was originally scheduled to start can citizen who fought off his political jailers in Budapest with the it "ridiculous" for Hughes to ac­ A terse messar_"n),11lI' at 19,000 cuse him ot "cracking the whip" George, wa s fou~ dead on a Truman yesterdaY ,challenged the Sunday 'but was prevented by aid of his wife and sped to safety in an American legation automobile, highway. But George showed up leet, every thin .. ok"-waa receiv­ with one hand and trying to economy claims of ,the Republi mechanical difficulties. Monday, said yesterday that 90 percent of the Hungarians are opposed to the next morni n g. i ed early today from WUlIam P. present communist dominated regime. wangle an airline merger with can congress and announced "a A lew weeks Jater a son of the Odom, speedln.. over the Nol1h he passed Halifax, Nova Scotia, "I am glad to get out of that hell-hole," Thuransky declared in the other. Haxtons positively identified a detailed and exhaustive study" of Atlantic III his twtn-eDl'ined but was torcect back by mechan­ an interview. 4. Brewster declared he "abso­ eat, dead on the road, as George. his own. bombshell In an effort to cut the ical trouble. Thuransky, a farm machinery salesman from Columbus, OhiO, lutely" has "no interest of any character" in 'Pan American. He Once again George came home. When 1hat is completed, he de­ round-the-world 8010 m.. ht record His flight plan calls for stops arrived yesterday with his wife, Theresa, 43, ' and their daughters Tuesday, while the Haxtons set In 1933 by the late Wiley P~. at Paris, Cairo, Karachi, Calcutta, Margaret, 25, and Mary, 21, after an airplane flight from Budapest. told of accepting some trips. clared, he will give his own ver­ breakfasts and a football ticket. were cutting grass along the Shanghai, To kyo Anchora,e, "We spent a year in Hungary," highway near their home, they sion of what co ngress did about Near the afternoon windup, Alaska, or Adak in the Aleutians; Thuransky said. "I was supposed ... "Believe me, it will be good found another body ot a seven­ economy-an issue that promises On Second Lap of Edmonton Alberta, Can., and Hughes said Flanagan had made toed cat they thought was George. to figure in next year's presiden­ to sell farm machinery, but I to get home." the "get Elliott" remark to Noah return to Chicago. Hungarian officials have said They buried the cat. ti al campaign. The plane, which had difficulty never sold a single piece. Hun­ Dietrich, vice president ot the Thuransky oraUy "reviled the In the morning, George was The presidenl read a statement Round-World flight with a maximum fuel load of 2,- garians would come to me aU the Hugbes tool company. Hungarian republic." That, he testified, was when "Jiting at the back door. fo his news conference saying that 46G' gallonl on the Sunday take­ time and tell me rwhat they "none of the predictions I have GANDER, Newfoundland (iP)­ off, carri.ed only 1,500 gailons yes­ Flanagan went to the west coast thought of the communists. Merit System Rules Palestine Jews Protest seen" give any proper picture or William P. Odom headed across Bill Odom terday: last March to check records and federal spending in the new fiscal the Atlantic in his twln-engined At the Takeoff Oc;lom, who lives In Roslyn, N. "I tought the communists in Officer Promotions get information for the inquiry. year. Bombshell last night on the sec­ The committee has seen copies Britilh) PQlice Action Y., with hi. wife, Dorothy, and Hungary in 1919, before I went to Mr. Truman also said that, a ond lap of his eftoi"t to cut in halt Bombshell llew 325 miles an hour their chn., Ronnie, 3, and( the United States, and I never WASHINGTON (,IP)- All army of expense vouchers of John JERUSALEM (JP)- All work large part of cutbacks in funds the round-the-world flight record at 19,000 feet. Rochelle, 8, made 38 trans-Atlan­ kept my opinions to myself. otficers will have tQ prove their Meyer, Hughes publicity man, Was stopped, trnffic was halted, made by congress "were in funds set in 1933 by the late Wiley Post. The 27-year-old rotmer British tic flights with the British ferry "I never thought it could hap­ right to be -promoted, rather than listing Elliott Roosevelt's name In and shops were closed for three which wO\.lld have not been spent Taking off from Gander at 6:11 Ferry command officer established command. Later he new the Bur­ pen to me, an American citizen rely on seniority to advance them, connection with some $5,000 in hours yesterday in the Jewish anyway." p.m., CST, after a five hour and a world's non-soLo globe-circling ma hump 102 time. tor the Chin­ -being arrested. You can imagine under a new law signed yesterday entertainment. Roosevelt headed' towns and villages of Palestine, Senator Bridgcs (R-NH), chair­ l8-minute flight from Chicago and record of 78 hours and 55 ,lo{. min­ ese National airwafS. what is happening all the time to by President Truman. ' a mission that recommended a as a protest against a roundup by man of the senate appropriations an hour's stop-over, Odom said utes in the sa me plane last April Reynold. laid the solo . flight the Hungarians. Ninety percent of The pl'omotion-by-merit law contract tor a Hughes reconnais­ IIritish officials of about 40 Jew­ com mittee, has contended that the his next stop would be Paris. with Milton Reynolds, Chicago was Odom's own idea and that he them are against communism." also covers admirals. The system sance plane, the F-11. Hu,hel J ish leaders in an attempt to halt "people of the country have been Flying alone in the converted pen manufacturel', as passenger requested perrnJJaion to make It Thuransky and his family have already was in effect tor otller later got a contract. terrorism. • saved $6,616,578,029" as u "result bomber, Odom corrected a shOrt and T. Carroll SaUee as flight soon after the roWlll-th~world reservations on the American grades in' the navy. The son of the late President The ..work stoppage, in whidh of the Republican congress." circuit in his automatic ·pilot dUr- engineet·. He hopes , to complete flight lalt April, freighter Marine, Jumper, ' leaving The legislation provides . for denied earlier in tbe week that lOme 600,000 Jews partiCipated, The RepubIlcan majority on the ing the trip here from Chlcago his solo flight in 90 to 94 hours. The young pilot also has ex­ Le Havre Aug. 10 for an unan­ promotion of army officers based he or the White House used pres­ Was marked by a lew minor dis­ hlouse. appropriations d<\mmi'ttee by flushing out a corroded junc- Post's record is 186 hours. . pressed an ambition to fly around nounced American port. Upon the recommendations of sW'e to get the contract for turbances In Tel Aviv, but there has claimed an overall economy tlon box with a fire extinguisher. Odom lett Chicago at 11 :53 a.m., the world the bard way-crossin, '.'1 won't leel. good. until I ,et boards of officers' passin, on their Hughes. And he denied tha& -. no casualtlet. total of $4,484,000,000. Eruto.ute fr0/tl Chicalo, the CST, with 0* some .anc;lwi~1I both pol... _ on that lhip," 'rhuranakt' laid. q,ualUlc:aUona. InvuUiation Paio .4 --t-. (See 5) r_'l'_HE_ D_AI_L_Y_I...,;O....:W,;.,A_N_ •....:FR_ID....:....:A_l'.;., • .:.A....:U...,;G....:U~.T...... :;.;8•...,; 1....:9_47....:....:P....:A.:.G;;;.E;;....;;TW....:....:(J....:-_, ---_._---.------... ------..... _-...... _-.. _--_...... --.. ..._ -_ .... _--_. * • Ro~sie Wins Kelley o'f:ield Featufe oBout Sf.

won a string of ten straight before the canvas in the second round I ISO-pound -around from Joe 800 .Walch last night including II series of of their 136-pound battle. The Budreau. Of bouts while in the service in Cascade lightweight, veteran of ' Charley Sindelar of Iowa City KE4 Tokio. many Golden Glove features, had staged a great comeback in his Lyle Seydel of Iowa City won ISO-pound struggle with Johnny presi!l the semi-windup bout of last a fast lett hand and toyed with Cartano of Des Moines to win a of 18t Eleven Bout night's card when he beat Billy his opponent after a slow tirst split 2-1 decision from the judges. point t Cavanaugh of Des Moines by a round. Gavin won with a unan- The confident Carta no started teres : TKO in :88 seconds of the third Imous decision. fast but tapered off in the final sentee round. It was the first meeting The eighth bout produced the rOllnd, Sindelar taking up the CODVe: Local Card aPpro' of the I L8 pound boxers who have firs~ of the three TKO's for the aggressive action and fi nishing By BUCK TURNBULL defeated most of the competition evening. Ernie Faler of Indian- with the victory. 1'lle Sports Editor in their class throughout the state. ala, fighting Edgar Jones Qf Des The local fans turned out in .tion A sprained thumb ended the Setting a fast and furious pace Moines in a 147-pound bout, sent droves for the first fight card tbe C( feature bout of the Iowa City in tl)e first round, the two belters the fleet Jones to the floor twice since last winler. There were ap­ 11 r boxing card al Kelley Iield last battled to even lerms until the in the second round and won with proximately 800 of the local pas&e