Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 12 January 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 9.

WOMAN ADMITS SETTING HOSPITAL FIRE

Maddened Man Murders Five, Takes Own Life Hammond Man Kills Five, Sets Fire To ■Home, Kills Self HaMwiM. ted. Jaa. It—(VP) Felix Sama*. 27, apparently mad dened by aa Impending divorcv. ohos or atabbed to tenth Ma otfr. two children and another cunple lo day Then hr aM lira to hi* home and killed hlm*elf Firemen and police found the vlctlaia of (he wholeaale murder and auia-lde in the hlootHpattered barniM home A 22 . allher pl.lol and a knife lay bySatua* ride A telephone book waa open Ttr~rtrrliellng* of funeral home. The dead, la addition to Kama, were hl* wife, Katherine, 24 from whom he had been extranged atme before Chrialata* their children Felix. Jr 4. and Fhyllftll month*. and Richard Norman 24 and hi* wife. Nblrley. H. who had been living with Mr* Anina* The bodiea. aome acorched were found when firemen answered aa alarm, at 6:52 am for afire tn the home, a .mail banaakiw he aled on ' the cily'a aoatheaat aide Dtechargj ed 11 caliber «hell« were found * after rhe fire, which <pu.ed minor dama«e. waa bronchi under control i Authorltlea eaid that Kama*, a machlniat waaAelleved to hair m teryd the tiowU last night while hl* wife area away He had been living elsewhere •Ince their e» trangement and she had filed >ult f» r divorce Police ( apt Andrew Pellar said Samas apparently went ber-relV after brooding about the divorce and disagreeing with Kia wife over custody of the children "Neighbors described Sama* an an embittered train who had threat • ned them when they opoke up for ht* wife during their quarrel. I*> I |ar said lieconvtructlng the tragedy. Pel lar said Ke believed Sama* first killed the children and the Nor mans, who were newlyweds and home from a lunchroom sue op**rab. The Ikmllc** of Samss hh wife i»nd the < hiidrt h were found hi one of the bungalow's two bedrooms | The bodies - of the mans. who Wi if married Christmas day weie frnmd In the other b»*drv<»m The children both shot through th* heart, were found iff their beds Their discarded Christmas tree and a toy born lay 4n she yard outside the window, trampled by the scores of firemen an<T investigators who gathered at the acene Wabash Man Killed In Auto-Truck Crash Elkhart. Ind. Jan 12 lITI Harley M Purdy. t’.3 Wabash; | was ki>M last night when his 1 automobile collided with a truck driven by Joseph C. Rose. IT.' White Pigeon. Mich , at the north edge <d Elkhart. a— ' 1 G.E. Farley May Be Resumed On Friday New York. Jan 12 A series ot Informal conferences scheduled tie ’ween representatives of the national labor relations board. Gener al Electric company. United Elec trlcal Workers and International Union of Electrical. Radio Machin? Workers (CIO), were suspended after a short meeting because of the Inability of representatives Ito at tend. .Efforts are lining madqto arrange for the conferences t<Kresume on Friday, if agreeable to\ll parties. I Annuol Report Made ' By County Recorder la the annual report released today by Miss Rose Nesswald. county recorder, her office, noted 4.303 transactions for 1949. an increase of 230 over 1943 *. 4.07 X breakdown of the figures reveals there were 499 deeds recorded. 3M mortgages. 40 mechanic's liens. 1.346 chattel mortgages. 211 releases. 10 assignments. 3 powers of attorney. 11 articles of IncorporaHon, 3 plats. I_2ll marginal releases and 274 miscellaneous Items recorded

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

61 Life Insurance Pay Starts Monday _ Initial Checks To Be Received Monday Washington. Jan. _ .13, —I VPI — The mailman will deliver V. 8 government million veteran* Monday mormrst. ITS the beginning of the grand payoff on <H lite insurance In atl. some |2.*mi.<Hro.mM) in dividends will be paid out to id.iuui.ivo veterans policy holders Mass writing of the dividend cheeks starts today By nest week the l>. S treasury electronic checkwriting machines will he grind Ing them uni at the fate ot JtHi.Wti a day Veterans administrator Carl It Gray. Jr. secretary of treasury John W Snyder and postmaster general jease M Donaldson were Xscbeduleg to celebrate the start ot the tremendous assembly line ope tat loti al 9 3" a m (’ST The veteran* administration plan* to distribute the cheeks by a "Much" mailing system Between now and Monday an estimated s<M>,ihhi check* wilt He rnaltedodt to local powfoftlces They will be held up there tor mass deliveries on Monday The check* range from 4(» cent* to l.i’S depending on the age of I the recipient ami the size ot hl* , policy The maximum will go to I the man whu was teas than 4t> when he took out the Insurance, ami car j fted •mm* .for the full 'period from <>4l I, IM* to J«i» 1 IM* Th* government intend* to settle •OWN* old debt* while It pay* out tbe triuurafit'e dh Ideiid* Ik-btM to the government by veteran* for •urh thing* a* overpaymenta on vubfti*lrnr«* allowance*, will be de dacteql from the dividend* before a rhH'k la mailed , ICaeh chrrk will carry the vlrnature of Paul l» Baiiuinic. f»7 year old native of Mt Veymm O A« : chtef dl*hur*lflK officer <4 the-U -fir treasury? he ha* become the i world* greatest <he«k writer” ■ On the back of every check wTli be the "Ugßeation. —;l4nxiesL-it. wlaelx*> ings bond* ” State Road 116 Ta Be Paved By State The Indiana state highway com j mission has agreed to pave atate road li.C from (»ene\a to the Ohio Mate line. Samih.l U Hadden, com mission rhairniMb. has annoum ed A delegation from Adama county vUited the crtmmiMiltHf requested improvement in the MreL h of higlo way, which is now gravel Elderly Minister Is Killed By Auto "LaGrange. Ind. Jan 12 tl'Pi [ State police said today that Jar ob S. Zlgler. 7' Ho*»'. was killed when he waa struck by an autbfno bile as he walked along Ind 3 Konlhiof Brighton yesterday. State/police Raid that Zigler a apparently auui fused and walked into the lane of traffic I. .- .■ Decatur In Bid For Air Force Academy One Os 195 Cities Bidding For Site rtecutur ls one dr hlhe lmH*ha cities which have buen namrsi as. a possible site for a proposed United States air force academy, accorting to nvws dispatches from Washing ton Bids from 1.95 cities in "■ states have been received. The Decatur bid. which wa* made several months ago. was called t®he attention of Senator Homer E. vkpehart of Indiana by Glenn Hill, president of the Decatur Cliamber of Commerce Mr. Hill has also held a numt>er of tong.di*ta»fie telephone conferences with Sen, Capehart and others concerning the proposal Following preliminary surveys, 10 sites will lie recommended and the final selection will lie made front these 10 cities, the dispatch said A special air force selection board will have lite final decision. Hili hat been.informed Othjjg Indiana cities mentioned are Cotumhue. Evansville. *<Peru Richmond. Seymour. South Ttemi. Terre Haute and Vincennes.

General Rains / Swell Rivers, Many Homeless i R‘ ver FewtoAStvwmO*' Rise In Two States Chicago. Jan. 13. -<L’.P>— General rain* swelled rivers today iu !■ the tlood.threat«q>ed Ohio and Mis. vlsslppi valley*, causing hundreds of person* to flee their homes. Other parts id the country were 1 hit by an earthquake, a blluard. a dust storm and cold weather. Rain fell throughout the lower MUsiKstppi valley, and moved northeastward into rain logged Illi 1 nois and Indiana. The Wabash river and It* feeder stream* in the two stales rose again: driving lowland residents to 1 higher ground for the second time 1 In a week Forecasters said the 1 rain would continue tomorrow. The Wabash shoved increasing r pressure against a weakening levee at Russellville, lit. a few miles 1 above Vincennes. Ind. and state police said there was little hope 1 of saving it. Fitly workers plugged seephole* with sandbags. A break in the levee would send 1 the Wabash* muddy waters over 1 much of Russellville, a village ot 150 fatuities, and tlt.iuut acres of 1 surrounding farmland But -stale police said fiersoli* In danger had bi-eii moved out 1 Al East Carmi. 11l on th* Little Wabash: most of the town* Isp 1 famine* fled rising water* tor the safety of rabroad boscars 1 Hain In northeasteru Arkansas and smiliieasterii Missouri increaiv- ’ ed the danger of a break in levees along the Kt. Fraacis river. A rumbling earthquake jarred southern Cailtoraia yesterday 1 frightening ’ housewives, offi.ee .worker* and theater givers' 'But' ' i *ei*moloTT*fs said It was light, and a fallen cake was the only casualty A blitaard tapered off in the Ruckles after sweeping aero** the Intel mountain plateau states, pit ,i Ing-up drifts eight feet deep in JjrotUiern Utah and closing most State n.a.l- Eiiko Kev7. reported " 'SptßWerrfllW-’Wtt. wwd M-.-WAS- WOW-1 trig-today tn Wynming Idaho and norihei ti Ctdorado DiiM storms swirled across the] Nebraska panhandle caused by al lon* <lty. spill ‘ Marijuana Den Is Raided In Chicago Marijuana Gill-Girl Apartment Raided i Chicago.-Jan 12 (VFT Extensive customer lists, selfed in a. raid in a luxurious inarljuanrand <all girl "den." were studied by’ -pollie today in the belief that they mar rrmtsin the Hsmes of iiromlnent Chicagoans The raid, staged last night by federal natcotics'mrents aniT local officers, nett ml a blonde, a brunet and a rulhead in addition to a caYefully compiled card index of customers containing 200 names, three pink covered address hooks, plus a bros n covered book. The Monde was Mrs. Patricia Owisn whose husband Orville, a night club owner, also was arrestod and held to the federal grand jury op I2.s<h> bond The redhead u*as Mrs. Virginia Bobb. 36. and the, brunet was Mrs. Jacqueline Smea-1 23 .:7 The Owens allegedly owned •» plush flvermtm apartment located ■n swank Sheridan road in th* north side area. The raid was staged as part of ■ drive begun three weeks ago. Id round up a widespread ring that allegedly ha* peddled drtigs to high school and co 11 et e student* throughout the midwest. The drive ha* snared 4o prisoners so far, .Officers and federal agents were elated over their seizure uMbe al leged customer lists. They pointed out that stml'ar tiles, gralibed In a raid on Madame Brenda Alien's fancy cal! house at Hollywood, led tx>« Angeles Invest: gatofs Into a sweeping Inveatiga tton of vice in their Ity. The officers said the card file* and different color* of the books may have tieen used to differentiate between narcotic* and prostitution ■-Mtomtrt, . ±±___ They charged that tnmkte* of the (Tara T* raae aeveaj

ONLY DAILY NUWUFAFtR IM ADAM* COUNTY

itaatvr, IndiaiM* Thursday, January 12, 1950

Defense Heads Review Budget ■L; kA AS4 I *- W ' mB 7 ■ t \ -#6 .- ADISCUSSING the |l3.'M6;oo<i.ooo earmarked for national defense in . the 1951 budget, secretaries of the three military departments con-fer-with Defense Secretary Ixiuis Johnson at the Pentagon in Washington. From left (seated> Army Secretary Gordon Gray and Louis Johnson; standing. Air Force Secretary W Stuart Symington and Navy Secretary Francis Matthews The national defense allotment. I |4<H) million above current expenditure*. Is largest Item tn the new *42 hilllon-plus national budget. ■ .. —— — ■'■■■■

I Outline Program Os Firm Practices Dates Are Set Far Township Meetings i■ ■ ■ In * recent meeting ot the pro . , dustbin and marketing adminiatra tlnti ot Adams ednnty. held in the I I P*A offices here and attended by I , the county and townshfp commit > teemen a* well as Carl K Kohr. -field - represetrtwtlve id the state I office* of the PM A the approval of a program of practices for the coming year, and a meet- . j Ing* were completed. Practice* approved for the ag , rlcjiltural conservation program for Adam* county Included construeI tlon ot terrace* diversion terrace*. .•.y-*od.(.w.wir**»--- r-CRWI-t rated row crops, contouring drilled crops, field Strip trapping, tree planting, establishing new pa* ,!tures other* sera Hie reset ding (if noneruii open pasture*, weed era dicatlori. tile drainage, fertilizeron legunits or soats seeded to legumes | ' Atl practices had a prescribed; i rate, with a maximum amount any one farmer could undertake or he paid. In some instances the payments for number ot cubic yard* Improved and a scheduled payment. for It : in other*, so much an acre I has been fixed for carrying out the ■ program’s practice* The schedule for meeting* of each township wa* announced by Mr* Mary Howard secretary of the PMA office Jan 11-12. Root township. In the county offlcea; Jan 16-17. for Hartford township. In the Hartford high schixtl. and ( for Washington-township, in the! county offices; Jan 19-20. French: township, in the Election school.' and Jefferson, in the Jefferson high! school; Jan 352'4. St Mary *. In I the Pleasant Mills high school. | Preble township, in the Preble school; 25-26; Blue Creek township. In the Kimsey school. Jan. 2627. Kirkland. In the Kirkland high school. Wabash. In the Geneva high school: Feb; 1-2. Vntoa. i» the , Emanuel Lutheran school Date* have not as yet been announced for meetings for Monroe township Farmers will be asked to sign up tor the 1»S«> ACP program and designate at that time which of the approved practices they will under fake It they do not sign up. It w*» noted, they will be ineligible for payments even though they might adhere to the requirements of tha practices. All are urged, therefore,, to sign up before March 1 Acquittal Verdict Sought For Tucker Chicago. Jan. 12. — (fPI -;Ar- ‘ gument* for directed verdict* of a< qulttal will be resumed tomorrow. In the trial of wouM-he auto buH<! er Preaton Tucker and seven as*«> elates on charges of mail fraud and . conspiracy. The 11-weak-trtal wa* In recess today after defense attorney Flm 4 Thompson asked immediate free-dom-for Floyd D Cerf, under»tits, . for the agio, of Tucker Corp

*ULL K T I N Springfield. HL, Jan. 12— (UP) —Mrs. Ann Loulsa Lewta, •1-year-oM mother of John L. Lewis, the united mine workers head, died at ths home of her daughter here today. Employes Fired On ComMumsl Charge Corporation May Be Sitting New Pattern Jan 12—<UP> — The I Stewart-Warner Corp dianiUaesd ; five worker* for refusing to sign noD-rmninunhit afftthni’- toda> hi a . move that roiild have far reaching ronaequenre* If approv ( ed by the <*oiirt* j nve; an uTiop steward* Tor ttre independent unifeiLeh cirica! work < r*. they refused to deny that they now are* member* of the irtmmunlM party. - Stewart Warnt r hud demanded that they *lun-affidavits prepared by the firm ’ l«abor depart men! officials in 1 Wastoihgton “no previous ca«e“? in which a private firm had demanded Mich oaths The Electrical workers union, recently ejeefed. from the CIO for al* ; legedly following the communist - line, annount ed that it would bat tie to save the stewards’ jobs The only, similar case was that of the “hostile U»“ Hollywood niovie workers who were disebarg ed by studios for refusing to tell a re»u* ion al' iffvesi igut ing /'otn mlttee whether they were or bad" been communists. 1 tMltejute itLlke. l'E..lQcaL.lls4.in: : (Heated that they would tile unfair | labor: practice charge* with th* na Donal labor relation* board unlcs* ; Stewart,Warner .revrr«<t9 it* deI clsion and return* the five to their ! j ,,b * | If carried to the court*, the case could constitute the first test of whether employers hsvc the right '“. .require employes Ip say whether or it they aye? communist* W W. Miller director of indu* trial relation*. «ald the firm "con sider* the case' dosed " Tire Wkirker* ' discharged were Stanley Grabbe. Kdward Gish, An drew, Smelke. France* Miheltch and Adrian Goret. —— -= They said they qrere willing to sign "uninvolved loyalty statements or so-called non-communi«t affidavits." despite “personal oh jections to thought control de j vices." But they charged that company I officials "sre not concerned with? oaths" i ■TtaT waat the un American | right to make employes to? to a | l>olitical and non-union line both on and off the job." the five said in a joint statement issued through their union : . r- t f < !■ WEATHER . Cloudy and mIM with -sc \ caalsvtal rain and drizzle tonight and Frtdsy. Law tonight 16*0 north to near 60 extreme High Fetdoy 46-50 north. ,;.,gro near 65 extrewve south

Woman Patient Charged— With Murder; Confesses Setting Fire Killing 41

Skowdowu L«m» c On China Policy Demand Congress Question Military Washington. Jan 12. -lUP) — A showdown on China between President Truman and hi* military high command was in the making today Neither the President nor hi* military advisers wanted it but a solid Republican' bits- led by Sens Arthur II Vandenberg. Mich . and Robert A. Taft. O. appeared assured of sufficient Democratic- aun ]sirt to force the issue. _ — Usually In opposing corners on foreign policy, the GOP’a two big gun* In congress have joined In a demand that congress summon U S. military leaders for an expianalion of their reported objections to President Truman's handsstff For niosa policy. Secretary of state Dean Acheson may atnplify the administration* policy in an off thecuff speech be tore the national press club Mr Truman tnay comment at his 13; pm CSTt news conference. - Vandenberg and Taft believe congress should require dv.ietivc secretary Isnii* Johnson and the chiefs of staff to explain reports that Mr. Truman overruled them In refusing to send military aid to Glina's nationalist fcoverutnent u> defend Furmosa ; The showdown may come soon “uhiTfihan Tom Connally. D, Tex . (2 th*- -rliate toxelgp (elaliolL* committee conceded that the Re publican* might have suffh lent vote* to force a congressional airing ' _ Defense official* Have accepted Mr Tiuman'* decision But mHi larv authiirltle* are known tn feel that Mr. Truman has underesilmai . ed Formosa's strategic importance thl* runination of the tnfii tail*'.* pohirion in th** dispute; The Island lying !<«» miles off I the China . -as! r .ha- ' t( \ • in> (■< nt •i\ .i i b.i-' !■ 'i i>*r» n=iv. I iTufR I w l’n«r J Fighting Reported On Hainan Island Report Communist Landing On Hainan Taipei. .Formosa Jan 12 lUP) A nationalist military Spokesman said today that there; was heavy, guerrilla fighting on Hainan island) hut he-denied that Chinese communist regular troop* have landed there ■— -r- — "TheFe have been no landing* whal*oevvr but there I* fighting between guerrilla* anji naiumal: the spokesman said He artI ded that he couldn't specify the exact areas of the fighting' hut that It wa* going on "tn all direction* The report of a communist land Tng. wa* published in the semi oRi rial paper New Life Daily (Sinsangpao) It said communist regular* from the mainland landed and established a leachhead with the help of guerrilla* j- i The dispatch said there Was S fighting and that so far the nat ionalist wffimander. Gen Tisueh Yueh. ha* made no move to repel ' the communists ,e*The tending wa* said to have been made on the southwest const between the ettte* of Kanem and Kaoiu, 140 mile* southwest of the | expected invasion area around the I Island * capital, Holbow The dispatch said guerrilla for | ceil which have been nctlve tn the mountain* moved down tu_ the beaches and established a head quarter* there to aid the landing forces. Instead of sailing from the Lui* chow penissnia ?a* expected, the dispatch said, -the communist in ' ration fleet left the port of Pakhoi *ome"9<' mile* northwest and sailed directly south to Welchow Island In the Gulf of Tonkin — At Wetcbow the communists. tTwra Ts Fa<e Tw*>

More Heat Pul On Truman In Coal Dispute Industry Warns Os Dwindling Supplies Os Coal In Nation Washington. Jan 12 rr-IISP>~ Republican members of vongreae I today put more heat on President Trjpiwir for a crackdown on John L Lewfa amid induatry warning* that noft coal RUppiie* are down to , emergency falling fast Joseph E. Moody, president of , th*« Mint hern < naf producer*’ a« j RociatHiH.- estimated that by thin J weekend the pat ton * coal Kocka • w|ll. be lew than ton* ' That would be the nmalJeet reserve wince June. 1933, he said Moody reiterated his demand that Mr Truman invoke the TaftHartley law to halt Lewie’ twire-a.-week coal atrike. and Republi j eans in congress pressed for action on a resolution catling for White House intervention Mr Truman may reveal his plans at his new* conferem e this afternoon. Rep Ralph K Church, R . UU i intnuioced the resolution in the house, duplicating the move started yesterday in the senate. At the same time. Rep. Leo E. Allen RX Hl/? urged a joint awt- ’ Ing of house and senate leaders !to “move*’ the president into ac- ■ Upn • He’charged that the president; l*‘has- failed tn--perform his para-! J mount duty ’Tir pm?< t the health, f /the welfare and ot ■ | !he> people, even though in no un-‘ I jxit.ed States has given Mtu.powe-4 to do so/’ i Homes hospitals, ch -u he s s<ht>ols and! factories" are/ bein j <4osed." he told the house ----- Offers To Settle I Pittsburgh Jan I'• I !’• Jtuies a LaukliHit steel cor4K r iY.<iT day offered to. settle its contract dispute with tlie united.mtnC work ers on the baAu* of the steel for ] mala <1 J s L want* its miners taL receive the sane dependable pen j sion Insurance and/sochd lendi’-, as all our other employes,” Admit* I al Hen \l</ee| f J a L president ; said in, an artole in the lom-i pany • monthly publication ~ His c(»mpan>' he said, is ’ wilL : ting to extend to the .miners the. liar* t« r«E» Mu Mrs. Louise Buuck J Dies Ibis Morning j Dies At Home In Preble Township Mr* I.oulsu Buuck 47: wW'ow of Willtent Buuck died jf 9 45 o’clock this morning it her home in Prebl* township following an tllne** of two yeir* • She w»* -horn In Madteun townahlp. .Allen county March 1. 1952 a daughter of Fred and Wilhelmina Bultenieier Scjiroeder but had re aided in JTebte Uiwnabip practically her entire life. She wa*. mar Hod April 25. 1904 to William Buuck. who died March 3. 194*. She wa* a member of the Fried helm Lutheran church Sitrtlving are five daughter*. Mr* Theodore Oatermeyer. Mr* Fred Keunekc and Mr* Paul Fuhr man -all of Preble town*hip. Mr? Herman Roe hr* of Allen county and Mr* Raymond Sshueler of Friona. Texas, two son* Herman .IJunck of Fort Wayne and Alfred ■ Preble township; 15 grandchildren, and two sister* William and Charles Schroeder both of Allen county Two sons preceded her in death. f. ~ The bodjpjra* removed to the) Zwick funeral home Fun-ral ar ) rahCMtente have nor been com | ’ pleted -~c

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Young Woman Held On Murder Charge After Confession To Fire In lowa Davenport. Is*, Jan. 12 H’Pj A young womsn patient wss etiarg ed with first deg rev murder today after admitting that she sef the fire which destroyed the mental ward at Mercy Hospital last Saturday and kiHed 4! women County attorney Clark Filseth filed the charge against Mrs 151ii4ira Epperiy. 2-’, Ro< k Island. 11 Mrs Epperiy. a petite, aitrat - ~. tire brunette who had suffered a nervous breakdown, admitted to hei husband lasr night that flfee Wt fire to curtains- in her room wi cigarette lighter he had given her for Christinas , The husband. John promptly ! notified the office x>f state syattor- : ney Bernard Moran at Moline. Hi . j and. Moran sent two sheriff a depu* ■ lie# tcpAba couple * home al Rock i Island. He said the deputies quesi(oh.e«i the woman for four hour* nigh|, and that sb? repeated Hie story in detail. She ««» brought to Moran s office at Mo’lne uaiay/ to he turned over tit low a Sttttior* ' Ip a mixup. however, she and her hust»ahd had been reported mi#«xng trom their home and a warrant had been isaued here for her arrest Moran Mid a I>avenp<irt p#y«4Ha- - trist who asked to remain tified totd..him that.the wQmufl sered i iau.-t ft .phobia,—or f**ar ——— confined spaces She was allowed to stay in t a , ward during the day. the ,psy« htaI trial said, hut was’ forked Ln a ; room -ax -uighX- The P* > hialr i*: .. . ; told Moran that rhe - woman ■ due to been .released from, [the- hospital last Saturday morn* j Moran wild ” < psyi-hiaCri*» told him, he had touted the woma? as a private pati« t. and had fn mended, th* **»«* enter Men.; ho--, pita! here i- a > *d u ji ’ai \ ' j>.i* She had .been in the hospital .more than a month. Sin- Was at+**? esea ping from—xhe _ Homing x_ I building early Saturday by climb ’ ing through a transom, .cutting bwr I.wrists in her escape. i- Mrs Epj-eily fofo ’he -.hR-ti:: - j’depuH-'S last night that she htufos down and admifteit setting the»f»re | hr- ! » i ‘ lOUblnlL. sleep sim ♦ her return I born*.Organizations Must File Tax Exemption A reminder »»* t*stl(*|. tewtey by I Thurman tire a. couhij auditor. I that all « hurrhe> anil fraternal orikaMtttTms are required to file 4 tai exemption foffo on., their real jestate and personal- property., The fonuf he skid, mart be filed in a< i-ordance with a state law and before Mari h I. Xhe forma are to Jh* ffled by -a member of the board of trustee--— td the various organizations or s churches in the auditors office Then- is no charge in filing this form “If the form# are not eij, eeuted - Drew said the t*rganfzatfons are subject to pay taxes* ' St. Mary's River Reported Receding Th* St Mary * river, acewdteg to weatherman Hi' Meyer * reading* ha* receded from the aea*un * high of Wednoeday morning, at 19 today The L reading w*« tak.-vi at S a m today — Raft for today and-tonight t* -predicted"" by YjK* urate weather bureau, according to a United ,Pr*«» dtepatch and will prol>abtv again flbod many of th- <*»unty • n»a4» Except for a few mile* in the eouthern part of the count) mu*’ of the road* have treeti vteaZ rd of water and are paeoable However, any .anaiderable rain would agate inundate the mad* ■w... «r--I and further delay tratfir eepevUlI ly in *ihe -southern' pari, (official*