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THE FIRST official function tor Philippine! President Elpldio Qulrino on arrival in Washington was a tea given by President Truman at Blair House. Here (from left) are the host and principal guests: Philippines Ambassador Joaquin M. Elizalde, Qulrino, U. 8. Ambassador to the Philippines Myron Cowen, Truman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Qulrino is in the United States to plead for aid tn stopping Communism in Asia, where an anti-Communist pact is being formed. (International)

Geneva Lions To Sponsor Opener The Geneva Lions club will sponsor the grand opening of the Limberlost drive in-theater at Geneva. Friday and Saturday nights at 8:30 o'clock. All proceeds from the grand opening will go to community betterment and civic service. The Limberlost is Eastern Indiana's newest drive-in-theater, and has one of the finest screen towers in Indiana It was named Limberlost after the country around Geneva, which was made famous in the books of Gene Stratton Porter. Stokely Reports Increased Profits Indianapolis, Aug. 16. — (UP) — Stokely-V'an Camp. Inc., reported today its sales fell off in the last fiscal year but profits increased by 18.2 percent. Net income Improved to 12.34 per common share as compared with $1.97 the previous year. Sales, nearly touching the $100,000,000 mark, dropped very slightly. Uoard chairman William B. Stokely. Jr., and president Herbert F. Krimendahl said optimistically in a statement accompanying the annual report that "it is our belief there will be no slackening in the demand for quality canned goods." Yellowstone National Park is two nad one-half times as large as Rhode Island.

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Newscaster Badly Beaten By Trio Son Os Crusading Radioman Attacked Houston. Tex. Aug 16. —(UP) — Three men who brutally beat newscaster Burt Mason, son of a slain crusading broadcaster, apparently were “smart aleck hoodlums" intent on molesting his girl companion. police said today. Mason. 22. agreed with police tnat the attack apparently was not connected with the recent killing of his father. William (Bill) Mason, nor with the anti-vice campaign ne has carried on since his father was killed. Mason was discharged yesterday from a Houston hospital where he received treatment for a slight skull fracture, a broken left ankle, > severe cut on his chin, and multiple abrasions. Police escorted him to his home at Alice, Tex., where he has conducted his father's radio crusade via remote control broadcasts over a Corpus Christi station. The three men attacked Mason Saturday night as he and his girl companion were returning to Alice after visiting here As he stopped at a signal lignt, the men pulled alongside in another car, jerked him from his automobile. and beat him with their fists. He fought back, he said, and knocked one man down, then leaped back into his car and drove away. The men overtook him within several blocks, forced him to the curb, and beat him unconscious. A police official said "it looks like he was beaten up by a bunch of smart aleck hoodlums." “You know how some of these punks pull up In a car and say nasty words to women," he said. "The girl doesn't seem to remember auy details about them.” Police said Mason told them he would have "put up a better fight

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if 1 hadn't been drinking." Mason's father was shot to death on the outskirts of Alice last July 29, one day after he charged in a broadcast that deputy sheriff Sam Smith wick operated the Rancho Allegro night club, permitting gamblers and prostitutes to ply their trades there. Smith later was charged with Mason's murder on the basis of a witness's account of the killing. The Rancho Allegro has been closed since Mason's death, but two attempts have been made to destroy the night spot. Unknown nightriders fired several shots into the frame building the night after Mason was killed Th* building was empty at the time. An attempt to set the dub afire failed early Sunday when a night watchman frightened away an intruder. Alice police said there was no apparent reaction in the town as result of young Mason's beating. Ills broadcasts have followed the same pattern as those of his father. Tickets Available To Adult Leaders Adult leaders of the 4 If and fiveacre corn clubs in the six north townships of Adams county may obtain tickets to the international dairy exposition at the Indiana state fairgrounds at Indianapolis, by calling at the First State Bank in this city. There isYto charge for these ticket< which had previously been Made available by the bank to members of the 4-H and corn clubs. A similar arrangement has been made by the First Bank of Berne for members in the six south townships. Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

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Term Couple's Deaths As Murder, Suicide Osgood. Ind., Aug. 16 — (UP) — Police today Investigated the fatal shooting of Alvin McClain, 45. and his wife. Alberta. 40. and said it appeared to be a case of murder and suicide. State troopers reporting the shooting said they were convinced that McClain first shot his wile twice in the chest with a revolver and then turned the gun on himself to end his own life with a single bullet. They said they learned from the couple's son, Howard L., 19. who was at home at the time of the shooting, that the McClains had argued violently a short time before. •• Dayton Man Is Killed As Autos Sideswipe Spencer. Ind. Aug. 16—(UP)— A Dayton. O man was killed early today in a stolen car that sideswiped another vehicle and crashed into a tree near Eel river bridge. 10 miles south of Cloverdale. The dead man was identified as Lester William Denman. 33. Denman was riding with Mark Alexander. 40, Concord, W. Va.. who was injured slightly and taken to Owen county jail. State police said the car was stolen a short time earlier at Spen-

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COUNTY POLIO (Coot. From Page One) legs. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon for Ross Gunder. 27-year-old manager of the Equity Dairy Store in this city, who died Sunday night of polio, the county's fourth death this year. As a precautionary measure, the owners of the Equity store have announced Its closing. The store will be thoroughly fumigated, all stock removed and the store remodeled, the owners announced. — STEEL FACTfront. From Page One) i ring to the "vehicle" phrase. Homer explained that Bethlehem had been “subjected to the | same conditions before" In 1946. ■ when an De cent increase was granted to steel workers, setting the first-round pattern for American industrial wage Increases. The three-man board is hearing arguments of 58 steel companies against the union's 30-cents-an-hour package demand for higher wages, pensions and social insurance. It has until Aug. $0 to make settlement recommendations to President Truman. The president delayed the threatened nationwide steel strike last month until Sept. 14 under a 60-day truce proposal. HOUSE SPEAKER (Cont. From Pag* One) trouble was mostly in the senate,

where regular appropriations for fiscal 1950—which started on July I—were long overdue. Aid to education—Rep Tom steed. D., Okla., called for a boycott of round table talks on federal ala to education, set up by

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JOHN BRONDHIO, 36. Italian engineer, waves from the single-engine Beech-Craft plane in which h« hopes to make first east-west single-engine plane crossing of Atlantic, accompanied by co-pilot. Phots taken before plane was dismantled and flown to London aboard DC-4 Extra fuel tanks and navigation aids have been installed for the hop which will start at Lisbon, Portugal. (I nt er national)

| the house labor committee. He said the only purpose of the talks is to "stall off the legislation." The discussions are set to start Mon day Vacation—Senate leaders were thinking about letting the chamber

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knock off work for a days some time ar<. und u ‘ • I But they said the be any longer than that u* too much work remain, The house will get a tw breather starting Aug »s