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Show s O Thursday, December 8, 1949 DAILY HERALD Father Who Slays 3 Children Believed Psychosis Victim . ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 8 OJ.P. Psychiatrists said today that xpert treatment might have saved John S. Conner, $7,000-a-- year "failure," from the mental clomp that prompted him to hoot his three children to death yesterday. They said the 39-year-old "pell" killer's medical discharge from the army, only a short time after his graduation from West Point, may have been the basis for Conner's gnawing fear that Ills children might inherit his 2mental illness." s Conner, after a night under lose watch in the Alexandria jail, faced arraignment today on triple charge of murder. . V Early yesterday morning, Conner Con-ner shot down and killed in order feis three children Stephanie, 11, lonly recently recovered from polio; Michael, 8, and Cecelia, 5. Their screams, "don't do it Jiaddy," died in their throats. i Insanity Flea - Police superintendent Edgar 'Sims said he supposed Conner's eventual defense will be a plea ief insanity. . "But I wouldn't say he was crazy," said Sims. One of the army's top-ranking wartime psychiatrists, now in private practice, said Conner's case appeared to be on of "profound "pro-found depression." Th'.s is a fairly common type of psychosis which in extreme cases can lead its victims to violence even against those they love. He said that with proper psy chiatric guidance, such sufferers usually can be restored to good mental health. Had Conner visited vis-ited a psychiatrist recently, he said, the ailment might have been headed off in time to avert the tragedy. "The way I got it," said Sims, "he had come to the conclusion that there was insanity in his family. "He said he decided to kill not only his children but his wife and hinulf. He made a good start. "He didn't cry and he didn't say he was sorry." Shot In Kltchea The slaughter of the children took place in the kitchen, where Vineyard News By MRS. GEORGE F. WELLS Sunday school officers and teachers will meet at the home of Supt. Antone Bunker Friday evening for their faculty meeting. The program is In observance of the 100th anniversary of the organization or-ganization of the Sunday school. A social will follow, and at this event Christmas gifts will be exchanged. ex-changed. Mrs. Ellen Humphreys, 92-year-old grandmother of Mrs. Joseph Jo-seph H. Clegg, is visiUng here. Also visiting at the Clegg home have been Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Gibson of Helper and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Humphreys of Eph-raim. Eph-raim. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan Rasband of Heber City and their grand daughter, Jane Dixon of Spanish Fork- were Vineyard visitors this week. Wor Against Communism: 10 Ex-Commies Big U. S. Ally In Battle of Words With Reds i yzn i ! V f , j vW " - 3 SECOND LADY SHOPS Mrs. Alben W. Barkley, on combination combina-tion honeymoon trip and Christmas shopping visit to New York City. Is waited on by shoe talesman Stanley Grau. Seated next to the wife of the vice president Is Mrs. Thomas A. Morgan, a friend. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Pace and i line without By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent' The 30-year war against Com munism In the United States has been, in last analysis, a talking war. Words are the revolutionary's revolution-ary's weapon of biggest calibre. Counter-propaganda is the fortress. The Communists have used words more aggressively, more sensationally and with a louder bane than the antis. The direct i assault has hardly been effective. Rut rpnl riamace has been done by the "echo press" subsidized organs of front groups ana weu-meaning weu-meaning but innocent liberal j publications, which pick up ine recognizing u. children Russell, Mary, Dora Lou and Charles and Mr. Paces father, fa-ther, Charles Pace, residents of Payson, have returned from a trip to Evanston, Wyo. The Daily Worker, Sunday Worker and the party's deep-disn intellectual monthly formerly "The Communist" and now called "Political Affairs" have been II .4 AK. iv I '' .stow. 7 Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Stone enter- able to garner circulations in the Uined at a family get together honoring Mrs. Stone's mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Russon of Lehi on her wedding anniversary Refreshments were served to Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Russon, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Russon and Jesse Russon Rus-son of Salt Lake City; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hoggard and family of American Fork; Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Russon and Mr. and Mrs. Rulon Russon and families ox Lehi. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Jameson and children visited with relatives in Salt Lake City recently. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Harding will leave Saturday for Chicago where Mr. Harding will attend the Future Farmers convention. He is representing Utah at the event and will speak in the national oratorical contest, being sponsor ed by the Farm Bureau Federation Federa-tion of America. Conner and the youngsters had prepared their own breakfast. Mrs. Conner, who ha: been mildly mild-ly ill, was in bed. She told police that when she ran to the kitchen her husband, surveying the carnage, asked if she wanted to die, too. She pleaded that he had done enough, that she wanted to live. She ran from the house and fell moaning into a neighbor's door. Conner said he abandoned his suicide plan then, and "decided to let the law execute me," Sims reported. When asked if he "lost his nerve" when it came ume to Kill himself, Canner replied: Yes, I guess so." There's BUT! Time Still FOR YOUR Xf lAS SUIT OR TOPCOAT! ORDERS TAKEN UNTIL DEC. 13, 1949 Tailored-to-Order IT i it , Or A Suit and Topcoat Doth For 9rl I D) (o lo ( Both For . Other Groups 54.50 Both For . 64.50 Gabardine Sport Shirts AT ONLY 395 Gabardine Slacks 9.50 Shop Fridays Till 9:00 p.m. 144 W. Center Provo low thousands. They never have made any money and have had to be subsidized by Moscow ori by American angels. A goodly nercentaee of their readership is anti-Communist; study the line, these subscribers know, and you will be better able to refute it.. The infiltration into Hollywood ( is well known because of the, pending Supreme Court test case against two of the 10 writers charsred with contempt of con-4 gress. In the war years there was some penetration of radio, but shortly after V-J Day both NBC and ABC took seven-league steps to get rid of the leftists on their writing -staffs. In ihe pamphlet and leaflet field, no one knows how much stuff the party and its fronts have; been able to produce. An attempt to collate this literature is going forward at the University of Michigan, whose Labadie collection collec-tion of radical literature is heavy with Communist tracts. On the anti-Communist side, the counter-barrage has been for- JAN VALTIN Story from the night. i " C 0 Of VhoIesale Price Index Povn 3c NEW YORK, Dec 8 U. The current price of tea Is at a level fully equal to that prior to de valuation of the pound sterling. Dun & Bradstreet said today as it revised last week's food index up ward by ten cents. The firm a week ago calculated its wholesale food index at $5.69, a decline of five cents from the previous week. That drop had Deen ascriDea almost wholly to a break in tea prices which Dun St Bradstreet today said had been only temporary and fully recov ered. With last week's index placed at $5.79 in the revision, the figure for the current week of $5.76 is down three cents with such wholesale commodities as coffee, cocoa, eggs, hogs, lambs, and potatoes po-tatoes lower. Other foods to show declines were corn. oats, barley. hams, lard, sugar and molasses, making 13 in all to work lower. Eight of the commodities in the index advanced and 10 held unchanged. un-changed. The index is made up by adding the pound price at wholesale of each one of 31 foods. Advances this week were in Hour, wheat, rye, bellies, cotton-seed cotton-seed oil, beans, steers and butter. 5a I em By MARGRETTE TAYLOR Relief society Tuesday will be an all-day work meeting. Lunch will be served at noon. There will be a Christmas sale in connection con-nection with the meeting. People have been urged to give for the sale and also to attend the events where the items are sold. DUP will hold their annual Christmas party In the church Friday afternoon Instead of the previously announced Thursday date. Mayor Ray Davis celebrated his birthday here Monday at a dinner party given by Mr! and Mrs. Ernest Davis. The table was centered with a beautiful cake. Covers Were laid for the honoree and Mrs. Ray Davis; Mr. and Mrs. H. Elmer Sabin, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Davis, Mr.. and Mrs. Carlos Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Valgardsen of Provo, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Davis, Price; Mr. and Mrs. Leland Davis, Prpvo; Mr. and Mrs. Lester Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Davis, of Sprlns- ville; Leora Sabin, Kent Davis, Harry Davis, Aleen Davis and the host and hostess. Commodities unchanged were beef, cheese, tea, peas, peanuts. rice, currants, raisins, prunes, and milk. Guerrillas Close In On Kunming HONG KONG, Dec. 'UJD . Communist guerrillas are closing 4 in on Kunming, capital of the last province of China still in Nationalist Na-tionalist hands, refugees reported on their arrival here, Wednesday. Arriving from Kunming were , nine planeloads of refugees, In. eluding employes of Claire L. t! Chennault's civil air . transport line. The refugees said the countryside country-side of Yunnan7 province around Kunming is swarming with Communist Com-munist guerrillas, waiting only until regular Communist troops L marching from Kwelchow prov- ince to the ' northeast' reach the Yunnan border. Once the regulars reach the border the guerrillas plan to seize Kunming and its airfield, the refugees said. . COVERS LOTS OF GROUND MIAMI (U.R) Sand and tun hold no terrors for owners of new piece of millinery here. Latest thing is a beach hat as : wide as four feet which can "also" be used to babies in the sand. bed down LOUIS F. BUDENZ Story disillusionment. midable. In the first decade of the i da job daU 30-vear war. what U.S. writers " , . produced was not impressive. It was a time of hysteria and much of the stuff was of the scare variety, so exaggerated and wild-eyed wild-eyed that its impact was virtually virtu-ally nil. ' It was 10 long years before a few of the bolder spirits learned that you cannot fight a lie with another lie, and that cold fact. dispassionately uttered, is the most devastating of answers. This most effective medium has been in straight news stories. Pick up almost any newspaper and it will tell you something about Com munist activity in one or more of many fields religion, schools, labor relations, social relations. foreign relations. The importance of this running news story has been well real izea Dy editors, wno in some cases have assigned excellent re coincided with the discovery, I porters to do nothing but watch among many writing men, xna the new Communist philosophy was as phony as Moscow's claim to inventive firsts, wnen it oe-came oe-came clear that the Soviet was tne ironts. outstanding among these reporters is Frederick Woltman, of the New York World-Telegram, who holds a Pulitzer Prize and Is regarded as only interested in the proletariat cne of tne best-informed men on as a sunace tning, ana naa the Communist movement any major aim f tne expnon oi where in America. Lyle Wilson own imperialism, there was a of United Press has done a mag-rush mag-rush into print. 'nificent job of exposing Com- The most trenchant pens were munist political skulduggery in the hands of ex-Commies. The result was several five - foot shelves of excellent "true con fessions. ranging from Jan Val- tin's "Out of the Night" to Louis F. Budenzs volume of disillusionment, disillu-sionment, "This Is My Story." Others who have pounded potent po-tent typewriters against Communism Com-munism include Eugene Lyons, John Dewey, John Dos Max Eastman, Sidney James Rorty, James T. Farrell, William Henry Chamberlain, Charles Rumford Walker, Lilliam T. Symes, Evelyn Scott, Suzanne LaFollette, Isaac Don Levine, Ferdinand Lundberg, Harry Gideonse, Ludwig Lore, Benjamin Gitlow, Morrie Ryskind, Edmund Wilson, Benjamin Stolbcrg, Gen. Walter Krivitsky. Victor Krav Another highly noteworthy reporter re-porter is Benjamin Stolberg, who now works closely with the anti-Communist anti-Communist writers. Stolberg prepared pre-pared a series "Inside the CIO" for the Scripps-Howard newspapers news-papers in 1938. The material was later published in book form. At the time the Commies had virtually vir-tually tkn nvfr th (7TO StAl. Passos,, berg's series, while it was bit- terly assailed by liberals, fellow travelers and the labor press, had a striking effect in the crystallization crystal-lization of public opinion. Today, the CIO News, now edited by Allan Swim, does a nicely balanced job of crusading against Communists in the CIO ranks, whereas only a few years ago it often traveled along with chenko, Joseph Zach, Jay stone and many others. It should be made clear that only a few of these Lovestone, Gitlow, Lore, Budenz and Zack were ever actual party . members. ove'some of the most radical. i Tnmorrsw; Arhlvrmnti vs. blunders in the House Un-American Affairs Committee. WE GUARANTEE A GOOD PICTURE IN UTAH COUNTY TURN A KNOB IN YOUR OWN HOME AND SEETHE WORLD $329 95 TELEVISION SETS FROM $219.95 TO $475.00 SEE THE BASKETBALL GAMES! Picture Show Money Will Buy It As Low As 50c Per Day! 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