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VOLUME SIXTY-FIVE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1957.

UNITED PRESS SERVICE

NO. 284

A. A. HARGRAVE PASSES AWAY AT ROCKVILLE

TRUCK KILLS HORSE

NATION’S OLDEST

PAPER PUBLISHER WAS

101 LAST MONTH

State police at the Putnarmville Post reported that a truck struck and killed a horse on U. S. 40 at Shady Lane at 2:30 Friday morning. Police said there were two other horses loose on the dual NEWS- lane highway at the time.

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A. A. Hargrave, dean of Indiana s newspaper publishers and perhaps the nation's, died today in his home in Rockville a month after he observed his 101st birth day anniversary. Hargrave was publisher of the Rockville Republican, a weekly newspaper wnicn he had owned nearly 70 years. On Aug. 15, Hargrave began his 102nd year of life. Up to that time, he never missed writing a weekly column called “Club Man's Talk”, although in recent years due to impaired sight he dictated the column to relatives because he could use a typewriter no longer. Services will be held Saturday afternoon in the Rockville Presbyterian Church. Survivors incude a son, William B., who manages the newspaper, and a daughter, Mrs. Ethel Henderson, who shared Hargrave’s home and helped care for him in his declining years. Hargrave began his newspaper career as a printer’s apprentice at the age of 16. He finished college later, worked on newspapers in Kansas and Terre Haute four years and operated a printing shop at a mission station in Persia four years. Then he returned to Rockville in 1888, and bought the Repubican. At the age of 98, Hargrave was honored by Indiana University with an honorary doctor of laws degree. Hargrave visited his office almost daily until the last few years. His last visit outside his home was on his 100th birthday when he met with relatives at a Rockville dining room for a luncheon celebration. Since then he remained at home, his strength failing gradually, until his final illness about two weeks ago.

TO STAY IN CABINET

WASHINGTON UP — Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson said today President Eisenhower has asked him to remain in the Cabinet indefinitely “and I have consented.” DETROIT MAYOR DIES DETROIT UP—Albert E. Cobo, 63, mayor of Detroit the last eight years, died Thursday night after a heart attack.

NAMED ON BOARD INDIANAPOLIS (UP)— Governor Handley today appointed Mne*. Dora Roche, IndiaJiapolis, to the Board for State Teachers Colleges. She succeeds Mrs. Mildred Ahlgren, Whiting, who resigned.

Flu Epidemic Is "Under Control’

ANDERSON, Ind., UP — State health officials today continued mass inoculation of students at Anderson College to break an epidemic of flu which struck the campus this week. They said there was no reason to “get panicky.” Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. A. C. Offutt said 22 of the original 65 students felled by the disease Monday and Tuesday have returned to classes. The addition of 11 new cases Thursday pushed the list to “more than 90.” Offutt said all the cases at the college still are "clinically classified as Asian flu, although we have not received laboratory confirmation.” “We’re continuing to point out that this is ,a short term illness,” he said, “and there is no reason to get panicky over the outbreak.” Offutt said the situation at Anderson is “under control,” but added, “this does not mean there won’t be more cases.” “This is not the serious illness that the 1918 influenza was,” Offutt skid, "but we are encouraging people to see their doctors and take advantage of the vaccine when it becomes generally available to the public.”

EXCHANGE OF NEWSMEN STILL A LIVE ISSUE U. 8. KEEPS DOOR OPEN ON SUBJECT’ WITH RED CHINA WASHINGTON UP —Prospects appeared brighter today for Red Chinese and American newsmen to visit each other’s countries despite U. S. rejection of Red China’s proposal for a reciprocal exchange of correspond-

ents.

Communist China proposed , Thursday at Geneva, Switzer- j land, that the United States and I Red China agree to swap news- i men “on an equal and reciprocal basis.” The State Department immediately turned thumbs | down on the proposal. U. S. officials said however the United States was merely spiking any idea of a man-for man swap that might imply recognition of the Peiping regime. Any such agreement likely would bring the wrath of pro-National-ist China congressmen down on the State Department. Authorities said Red Chinese newsmen who apply for admittance to the United States stand a good chance of being approved if a check proves them to be bona fide reporters and not spies. The United States already has given 26 American news firms authority to send representatives to Red China although this country maintains a general ban on American travel to the Chinese mainland. None of the newsmen has received permission from Red China to enter the country.

ANGRY BLOODBATH WORDS

MYSTERY HOLE CAUSES PANIC IN ENGLAND

SEEKS DIVORCE, ALIMONY

Lodge hurls a warning to the Kremlin to stop tramping on Hungary or face new uprisings by “bitter and hostile” satellite peoples;

Sobolev charges the U. S. Is “raising a hullabaloo about Hungary” to “divert attention from aggressive aets of th® United States ...”

THESE SPEECHES by Henry Cabot Lodge of the U. S. and Arkady Sobolev of the U.S.S.R. highlighted the UN as the U. S. pressed moves to saddle Russia officially with responsibility for the Hungarian bloodbath. The Hungarian Communist delegate also took the rostrum to charge the revolt was “prepared, launched and maintained by western imperialists." (International SoundphotosJ

Gary Woman Is Killed In Crash

MOROCCO, Ind. UP — Mrs. Billie Upshaw, 50. Gary, was killed 1 Irursday night and six persons were injured in a head-on crash two miles north of here on U. S. 41. Injured were Mrs. Upshaw’s husband. Nathan. 50. Brenda Upshaw. 2. Lila McArthur. 39. Eat* Chicago. Alice Jordan. 57. Gftry, all riding in the Upshaw car. and Keith L. Coffman. 27. and Lebron Wootan. 22, both of Lafayette. Wootan was listed as ‘ serious’’ in Jasper County Hospital al Rensselaer. State police said Upshaw attempted to pass a line of trucks. The death car rammed Coffman's car head-on.

Nashville Calm After Injunction NASHVILLE, Tenn. UP—Federal intervention appeared today to have broken down resistance to racial mixing in the first grade of Nashville's schools. Police reported the city “quieter than it has been all summer.” With racist organizer John Kasper in jail, and with his followers under the restraint of a federal injunction signed by District Judge William E. Miller Thursday, all anti-segregation activity came to a halt. School officials made the optimistic announcement that school attendance increased slightly and was expected to continue moving toward normal today.

Mercury Drops Due To Cool Air

By United UreJMi Fast fading summerly weather gave way to another wave of cool air in the nation’s central section today, sending temperatures tumbling southward to the central Plains, the mid-Missis-sippi Valley and the Ohio Valley. The biggest temperature change occurred in eastern Montana, the Dakotas and Minnesota where early morning readings plunged 10 to 15 degrees below those of Thursday morning. Warm, humid weather persisted to the south and east of the Canadian air mass from Texas along the Gulf states, the lower Mississippi Valley and lower Ohio Valley to the Atlantic Seaboard. Mostly fair weather is expected today west of the Rockies and in the northern Plains. Scattered showers are predicted along the southern edge of the cool air in the central Plains, che mid-Mississippi Valley and lower Ohio Valley. Showers also are seen for the Gulf states, the south and mid-Atlantic states end New England.

Slick Pavement Causes Mishaps Slick pavement resulted in two traffic mishaps at the intersection of Washington and Bloomington streets Thursday, city police report. At <1:10 p. m., a Chevrolet truck driven by Lee M. Riggs, Route 5. Evansville, slid into the side of a 1955 Chevrolet driven by Mrs. Ralph Bee. Damage to the Bee car was estimated at $70. Police said Riggs was starting to turn off Bloomington into Washington street and Mrs. Bee was turning off Washington into Bloomington at the time of the

accident.

Earlier Thursday, an oil tank truck skidded at the corner, went over the curb, tearing up the walk, grass plot and two small trees in the yard of Mrs. Goldsberry, 415 East Washington. Her damage was estimate at $200. Police said the truck was owned by Shumaker Bros, of Indianapolis.

ORDER SEGREGATION JOHANESBURG. South Africa (UPl- The City Council today ordered the end of experimental integration on selected street car routes and the return to total segregation on city transportation.

A total of 415 freshmen enrolled in DePauw University. Jesse Ford, of near Roachdale. was treated in a Crawforrisville hospital for a fr actured leg suffered when he was thrown from a wagon when a team of horwes became frightened. Joel Denman was here from Chicago. Mrs Ferd Lucas. Mrs. Benton Curtis. Mrs. Park Dunbar and Mrs J. H Pitchford attended a council meeting of the Fifth District Federation of Cli#>s at Rockville.

Cubs Play At Linton Tonight

Greencastle's Tiger Cutes travel to Linton this evening for a high school football game at 7:30. The local squad, with a <1-1-1 record, face tough opposition in the Linton Miners who defeated the Cubs. 19 to 13, last season. With the exception of Tackle Bill Kehrer, the Purple and Gary players were in pretty good shape from the injury standpoint. To date, the Greencastle eleven j has lost to Clinton; beaten * Bloomington, and tied with the Plainfield Quakers. FIRE RAZES CABIN MARTINSVILLE. Ind. <UP) — Fire destroyed a ’’booby-trapped’’ cabin at Patton Lake near here early Thursday despite effort** of a volunteer fire department to save the structure. The cabin, owned by Edward I. Evans. 40. Indianapolis, was the scene of a shooting last week. Sandra Locke. 11. Indianapolis, was wounded Labor Day when shot by a rifle rigged to an inside door to prevent burglaries. Evann. a fireman, said at the time that police had approved the trap.

Tropical Storm Is Heading North MIAMI (UP)—Carrie headed toward the North Atlantic g avey a r d of hurricanes today with little chance of breathing her 110-mile-an-hour winds on land. The week-old tropical tempest roughly w r as paralleling the U. S. coastline, some 1.800 miles at sea. Weather forecasts write it off as a threat to the mainland, but warned ships to exercise caution in its path. Reports early today put the hurricane’s center about 1,800 miles due east of Miami. It was heading northward at about 10 miles per hour.

Church Receives Old Farm Beil

WASHINGTON UP — The Summerfield Methodist Church has managed to get along without a church bell for nearly 100 years. But, with the church centennial approaching, congregation mcmbcis decided it was high time they obtained a bell. They issued an appeal, hoping that some church now using chimes would donate a bell. They got a bell, all right, but not from a church. It was a farm bell, used 70 years ago to summon farm hands to supper. The bell will be presented formally to the church on Sunday at the centennial service.

Funeral Sunday For Mrs. Cooper Mrs. Alma Evelyn Cooper, 76, w^ell known resident of Russellville passed away Thursday at 12:30 p. m. at the Culver Hospital in Crawfordsville. She had been in failing health for the past few years. Mrs. Cooper was born October 12, 1880, in Fountain County, Indiana, the daughter of George and Alice Hanna Hyatt. She was married to Frank Cooper, March 29, 1902. He preceded her in death, March 29, 1954. She was a member of the Federated Church of Russellville. Survivors are; three sons, Eston, Roachdale; Harold, Pontiac, Michigan; and Donald of Russellville; one sister, Mrs. Bertha Hall, Veedersburg; one brother, John Hyatt, Hillsboro; live grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Last rites will be held Sunday at 1:30 p. m. from the Russellville Federated church. Rev. Glenn Berg will be in charge. Interment will be in the Masonic cemetery in Waynetown. The body will lie in state at the church from 12:30 to 1:30 p. m. Friends may call at the Frank Cooper residence in Rus sellville.

GARY MAN KILLED GARY (UP) -Carl A. Nelson. 59. Gary, was hit and killed by an automobile at a U. S. 6 intersection in Lake County early today. The car was driven by Byron Boyd. 39, Gary. State police said preliminary charges of reckless and drunk driving and speeding have been filed against Boyd.

SINGER IS DEAD NEW YORK UP - Madame Margaret Eichenwald. 94. a noted lyric-coloratura soprano in Moscow before World War I and ! a singing teacher in New York for more than 25 years, died i Wednesday.

Pair is Charged With Safe Jobs

ROCKVILLE. Ind. UP —Two Crawfordsville men today faced second-degree burglary charges in connection with 42 safe robberies in 18 Indiana communities to which they allegedly confessed. Held in Parke County Jail were Robert E. Weillheit, 22. and Donald E. Utterback. 23. They were arrested Thursday when State Police Trooper George Kern spotted them in a car paikcd in front of a truck stop on U. S. 41 south of here. Kem said the two readily admitt d the In liana thefts as well as two each in Arkansas and Tennessee when questioned. The Indiana burglaries, all since July 1. took place at Medaryville, Fiancesville. San Pierre, Ro kville. Brownsburg. Clayton. Shelburn. Floia. Spencer. M ilberry, Rossvilie, Hillsb >ro. Brookst m. Clark.-. Hills. Thorntown. Attica and Williamsport.

DST Is Favored At South Bend

50 HOMES ARE SWALLOWED UP BY CREVICE AT FARNSWORTH FARNSWORTH. England UP —A crazily growing hole in the ground sw'allowed up homes and j property in this little manufacturing community today and sent its 10,000 inhabitants into near

1 panic.

About 50 houses on three streets had plunged into the cavity by tnis morning and police said it was growing at the rate of six inches per hour. Residents of other homes in the area were evacuated by police and firemen. The mysterious hole started ns a tiny cave-in in Fylde Street early Thursday. At dawn it suddenly spiead into a gaping hole which sw'allowed up tw'o houses. Within minutes other houses on the block started trembling. Police ran down the street warning inhabitants of the tiny, close-ly-packed dwellings in this Lancashire community. Many ran out into the streets in their pajamas and watched helplessly as their homes and belongings tumbled into the growing hole. By this morning the zig-zag cavity was 30 yards across, 800 yards long and 20 to 30 feet deep. Cause of the bole w r as unkowm. Police said recent heavy rains could have burst a main sew'er running underneath the town. Another theory was that heavy tiaffic on an adjacent highu'ay caused a settling of the ground and somehow undermined the whole area.

Mrs. Myrtle Williams seeks a divorce and $8,000 alimony from Frank Williams in a suit filed in the Putnam circuit court. The plaintiff states they were married Sept. 17, 1955 and separated Sept. 12, 1957. F. N. Hamilton is her attorney.

FAUBUS LEAVES FOB CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT

DRAFT CALL 7,000

ARKANSAS GOVERNOR FLYING TO NEWPORT TO SEE EISENHOWER

WASHINGTON UP — The Army will draft 7,000 men in November, the Pentagon an-

nounced Thursday.

The November draft call is the same as the one for October, and 1.000 less than the number being

called up this month.

SOUTH BEND UP—The South Bend Chamber of Commerce board of directors today adopted a resolution recommending that the city remain on daylight saving time until late October. A 1957 state law requires the switch back to “slow” time the last Sunday in September. A city school board meeting was set for Sept. 23 to decide what the schools would do. The chamber board recommended that business and indusry observe daylight time an extra month in order to conform with nearby out-of-state areas vhich traditionally change time the last Sunday in October.

Six Take Oath As U. N. Members WASHINGTON UP — AFLCIO President George Meany, movie actress Irene Dunne and four other members of the U. S. delegations to the U. N. General Assembly were sw'orn in Thursday. Miss Dunne, an alternate representative, told Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at the overflow ceremony “this is really a great day in my life.” Administration officials said he actress, wdfe of Dr. Francis D. Griffin, w r as chosen because she is regarded as an outstanding American woman with a great interest in international affairs. Besides Meany, those sworn in as representatives were Herman B. Wells, president of Indiana University, and Reps. Walter H Judd R-Minn., and A. S. J. Carnahan D-Mo.

Telephone Strike Set For Monday NEW YORK UP — Company and union negotiators meet today in an effort to avert a nationwide strike of telephone workers scheduled for Monday. Representatives of the Western Electric Co., and the Communications Workers of America were to meet with two federal mediators who until now have b^en standing by dining negotiations About 55.000 CWA members including telephone installers and warehouse workers, are scheduled to walk off their jobs Monday unless their demands are met for higher pav and improved

fringe benefits.

Thursday’s scheduled negotiations meeting was postponed at

Bridgeport Boy Dies Of Injuries INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—Larry Wayne Aynes, 14, Bridgeport, died in Methodist Hospital here ’oday from injuries sustained in a two-car crash in Marion county. The boy w r as riding wdth his uncle. Larkin Davidson. 33. Bridgeport, who also waa hospitalized. The driver of the other •ar. Miss Delores Kidwell, 23 Indianapolis. was listed as “crici^al” in Methodist Hospital. State police said Davidson’s car smashed into the wide of Miss Kidwell’s car at an intersection Thursday. The death ear went 75 feet after the impact. Miss Kidwell’s car skidded sideways 120 feet and knocked down a small tree.

Plowing Contest Starts Tuesday PEEBLES, Ohio (UP)—This rural community of about 1,500 will play host next week to the world’s biggest agricultural extravaganza—the 1957 World Conservation Exposition anu plowing matches. Champion plowmen from the U. S. and 13 foreign countries will compete for the world title during the four-day exposition beginning Tuesday. This is the first time in the matches’ five-year history they have been held in the United

States.

The show sprawled over 2,500 acres will feature the latest water and land conservation practices and 10 million dollars worth of farm and industrial exhibitions. Reigning over the exposition will be Ann Lane, 16, Delta, Ohio, farm girl chosen “Queen of the Furrow*’ from among more than 1,100 Ohio girls who vied for the

honor.

iSpeakers include Adm. Lewis L. Strauss, Atomic Energy Commission chairman, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson, and Ohio Gov. C. William O’Neill. America will be represented in the world matches by Lawrence Goettemoeller, 36, Mercer County, Ohio, and John Daniels, 35, Mulberry Grove, 111., national level land and national contom champions respectively. The) seek to win for America her first world title. Ohio plowing matches will be Tuesday and national matches Wednesday. The U. S. winners will compete in the world matches at Germany next year. World contests will be Thursday and Friday. Each contestant will plow a half acre of stubble land and a similar plot of grassland. Time permitted for each plot is three hours. Judging will be on neatness, straightness and uniformity of furrows, burying of stubble and grass and other points.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UP) — Gov. Orval E. Faubus and two consultants left by plane today for a Saturday conference with President Eisenhower to discus the integration impasse. The gubernatorial party was in a six-place Ajero Commander, manned by a pilot and co-pilot. The conference with the President at the vacation White House is scheduled for 8 a. m. CDT. Saturday. No information was relented as to the route or estimated time of arrival at Newport. The governor said that he was entirely in the hands of the pilot, and added, “as the good Baptists say, God willing, I will be back late Sc ’rday night or Sunday.” p i Lers asked hun if he would have lef^l pc', sees with him at the cor U .nee. He said he would not. “The only time I will need legal advice is in court, not in a conference,’’ Faubus said. He refused a barrage of questions concerning the conference

itself.

White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said it was likely Faubus -nd his pai ty would spe-'* the night in P 1 idence, R. 1. Ihey will be up by helicopter at Theouore Francis Green Airport near Providence Saturday and flown to Newport for the meeting, Hagerty said. Capt. E. P. Aurand, the President’s naval aide, will meet the Arkansas governor. Hagerty said there was an alternative plan to take Faubus to the meeting by automobile if bad weather interfered with the

airlift.

Fa/ubus said he understood he and hi« party would spend the night “in the Newport area.” One of the governor’s aides said Faubiis is not making the trip with the intention of capitulating to federal wishes in the Central Hiph School intoKTation matter. Instead, the aide said. Faubus asked for the person-to-person meeting with Eit*enhower for the purpose of “conferring.’’

Maude E. Thomas

Died On Friday

Mrs. Maude E. Thomas, age 56. wife of James H. Thomas of Poland R. 1, passed away Fnuay morning at the Putnam County Hospital, where she had been a

patient for ten days.

She was the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Paris White.

The Macy Funeral Home in Spencer is in charge of ar-

rangements.

TRUMAN COMMENTS WASHINGTON UP Former President Truman said Thursday that government policy “is to abolish” the military reserve forces and enlisted in a campaig: to “prevent” it. JAZZ FIGURE STRICKEN

About SSOO in cash, two rifles, the union s request so that CWA three pistols and a complete set negotiators could confer with the of burglary tools were found in union’s president, Joseph A the car with the men, police said. Beirne.

WASHINGTON UP Lnui Mitchell, 71, a leading figure ir i the early days of jazz who in troduced jazz to England am Paris, died Thursday of a h'-art

1 ailment.

Man Who Shot Wife Is Caught INDIANAPOLIS UP — Indianapolis police Thursday night captured an Allen County man and said he confessed he shot and wounded seriously his wife during a dispute at their home

earlier in the day.

Leo Knight, 52, a P’ort Wayne factory worker, was returned to Fort Wayne shortly after his airest to face charges in the shoot-

,ng of his wife, Dorothy, 37. She i l a P Sf “ if attendants got sick and .vas in serious condition in Park- j immunization ' f the state police view Memorial Hospital at For’ ; ^rr? •' ibvious. Wayne.

Knight was arrested at a bus station here after police received i request from Fort Wayne auhoritics to be on the alert for uni. He offered no resistance and .eadily admitted he shot his wife

with a shotgun in their home | * OWer; 270-350

north of Fort Wayne, authorities j

said.

Knight’s car was found in Huntington and police learned he had taken a bus here. When arrested, he had a ticket for Amarillo, Texas in his pocket. Police quoted Knight as saying he shot his wife because T had to spend all my time at home taking care of three little bitsy kids. She told me she wasn’t going out with another man. But she was.”

WANTS FLU VACCINE INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Dr.

Bertram Groesbeck, Indiana state health director said today he will ask the State Budget Committee for $2,000 to buy Asian flu vaccine for state policemen and hos-

pital workers.

Groesbeck said 5.000 hospital workers and troopens need the shots because “the whole administration of hospitals would eol-

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Clearing and cooler late this afternoon and tonight. Saturday

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Dismissals: Mrs. Russell Coons and son, Cloverdale; Lois Bombei, Danville; Victor Cue, Pauline Snively, Greencastle.

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