Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1952 — Page 2

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Junior Miss Indiana Pageant At Bluffton Sth Annual Pageant During Street Fair The fifth annual Junior Miss Indiana pageant for the selection of the "most beautiful and talented teen-aged” girl in the state will be held at Bluffton. September 25 and 26. The state-wide contest for the naming of Indiana's junior queen will be climaxed during the <2nd annual Bluffton free street fair. The 1952 queen will succeed Miss Janice Burtner, of Muncie, who was J crowned last fall. In order to qualify for the teenage beauty and talent congest, it 18 necessary to be a resident of Indiana, single (never having been married) and not less than 16 or more .than 20 years of age. Arrangements for the staging of the beauty , pageant afe in charge of the beauty contest committee of the street 1 fair association, with CHep . O’Laverty, of Bluffton, as chairman. Entry forms are avail* able from O'Laverty or the street fhir association. „ The cohteistau.i . selected as\ Junior Miss Indiana, will receive a cash award of SIOO as top reward, and in addition, to the Junior Miss Indiana title and crown, wilt wear the crown also as Indiana (omato queen. The contestant finishing

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second will receive $56 and the third place will carry a $25 award. There will be awards in addition to the top ,three mentioned. u Indiana Day At Maaseheart Sept. 21 * Indiana day will be observed at Mooseheart Sunday, JSept. 21. A special bus is planned to leave Decatur at 4:30' o.m. if 36 passengers are obtained. In event a full busload is not obtained here, buses will be stationed at the Moose home in Fort Wayne, leaving at 5 a.m. Round trip fare will be $6. 5 - ■ -T-r-- r - - ■ Churchill Plans Ta Visit U. S. In Spring LONDON, UP — Prime Minister Winston Churchill plans another visit to the United States and hopes to meet the new American president next spring, the London Herald said today. The British Labor party newspaper said Churchill would wait until after the November elections before making a formal approach to American officials on the visit. • ; ‘ a. . i A substance knojvn to scientists CVP (citrus flavonoid compound). derived from the pulp and rinds of lemons and oranges, is Cited by Dr. Boris Sokoloff, prominent bio-chemist of the U.S. Vitamin Corporation, as a new' hope in aiding X-ray treatment of cancer.

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Youth Held After \ Taking Narcotics , INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Federal narcotics agents held Ethridge Knight, 31, Indianapolis, todtfy after a secret service agent saw him taking a shot of narcotics. Knight told the agent it was a "hay fever shot” but slugged the agent when asked to accompany him for questioning. Three marines in a federal building recruiting office saw the slugging in the hallway outside and gave chase. Agents said needles and narcotics were in Knight's Approve Remodeling At State Institutions INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Indiana's state budget committee inspected six state institutions today after a business session in which approval was given to $344,350 worth of remodeling and construction jobs at state institutions. Lystle J. Freehafer, budget director, said the major projects were Muscatatuck School, $25,006, water supply dam; Boya’ School, $60,000, repairs; Girls’ School, $56',500, hospital repairs: Soldiers and Sailors Home. $431000. remodeling administration building; Central State Hospital, $19,150, housing for employes; Epileptic Village, $46,i 000; steam and water lines; Madi- : son State H O3 P itß b $24,000, occupational therapy building repairs; penal farm, $9,500, corn crib, and 'Southern Indiana Tuberculosis ' Hospital. SIO,OOO, air conditioning.

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Half Million Dollar Fire At Indianapolis Railroad's Repair Shops Are Damaged INDIANAPOLIS. UP — Authorities searched today in the rulps of the New York Central railroad repair shops for the cause ot the biggest ftres here in years).” Flames swept the huge building, a block wide and more than two blocks long, for two hours Monday night before firemen brought it under control. Two firemen suffered minor burns and were treated at the scene. Damage > ! was estimated unofficially at $360,000 to $500,000. -Company spokesmen said a car shed big enough to hold 40 freight cars, a mill room, lumber shed, blacksmith shop and six service Shops burned. ! ’ • The roof of the [istory-anrt-a-half structure collapsed, spouting flames which were throughout the city. * ' I Inside the repair shops was a tank car filled with 5.500 gallons oi fuel oil, but it did not explode. Moose Come Back PRINCE ALBERT. Aa.sk. (Cl’» —The biggest and most popular of Canada's big game anijnals, moose, are coming' back into Saskatchewan after a long absence because of over-hunting. Now they are protected. |

McMahan Cited For Book Fair Success Allan McMahan, Fort Wayne bookseller and president of the American Booksellers Association, is singled out in the September issue of Country Gentleman as the | man who made the greiatest coni tribution to the success of a book fair held recently in Huntertown tinder the auspices of the Eel Riv-er-Perry parent-teacher associai tim. \ l ’ Under the title “Has Your School Had a Book Fair?”, the magazine tells how the Huntertown fair was organized and executed, citing the success of the Allen as incentive for similar orgrtfizations throughout thd count’y. Director Os School Lunch Program Quits i INDIANAPOLIS, UP —Mrs. Ada Arnold, Logansport, said today she . resigned as director of Indiana’s school lunch program because “spineone else was calling the turns." "Due to the work of undermining forces, it is impossible to administer the school lunch program asit should be,” she said. Mrs. I Arnold was appointed six months I agp by superintendent of public instruction Wilbur Young. Miss Mary Sellers also resigned. She was bookkeeper 1 for the program which provides low - cost lunches to about 20b,00p Hoosier school children.

County Chohis Back From Canadian Trip Spend Three Days On Canadian Visit Thirty tired but happy ladies of the Adams county home demonst ration chorus arrived home Sunday afteraooa after spending three days, one in Niagara Falls and two in Toronto, Canada. They were members of the 2,500 volpe chorus of Indiana women which sang at. the Toronto coliseum Friday and Saturday nights as part of the annual Canadian | national exposition 'program. The Adams couty ladies, with I half a dozen guests, joined others . from northern Indiana and filled three coaches of a Nickel Plate train which took them to Buffalo, IN. Y. They left Fort Wayne Thursday morning at ‘ 8 o’clock arrived at Buffalo at "boon. ; From Buffalo they took buses to Niagara. Falls, stopping at the hotels Imperial and Clifton. After registering at the hotels, they were taken on a tour of Niagara add the falls. After dinner, there was no set program and most .of the Adamg county entourage viewed Niagara Falls, lighted at night with colored lights from the Canadian side. The group left Friday morning for Toronto by bus. The entire chorus rehearsed Friday afternoon for their Friday and Saturday night programs. \They were welcomed to Canada by the governor general, Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey, the mayor of Toronto, prime minister Laurient, the president and vice-president i of the .exposition, Dr. Lester R. Bell, director of the famous Cabadian Bell singers; and the U. S. envoy to.A Canada,' Stanley. E. Woodward- t The Indiana choir was directed by Dr. Albert Stewart of Purdufe University. They sang "The Unj guarded Border" by John McGee, which stressed' strongly the friendly feeling existing between the. United States and Canada. | Meals for the entire group were served at the famous Murray' restaurant of Toronto and the Hoosiers were housed in the various motels of the city. During tours of Toronto, the Adams county group visited the well-known 3 Church street, which takes its name from the many | churches on the street; saw Casa Nova, famous Canadian castle built by a millionaire named Pellette and containing 87 rooms !for| the family of thrtee. The \city of Toronto has 365 churches. On this tour they were told that no liquor advertisements were pub-1 llshed in Canadian magazines or newspapers. - The women, also watched the warriors’ parade -(similar to our 1 war veterans parade) which pass-. ed through the Princess Gate.; The parade was led by 120 Royal Canadian mounted police pud was followed, by veterans of the various wars. The United States was represented by several groups of . The visitors saw more than 100 different bag-pipe bands and much color in . the various uniforms which were worn. It was estimated that more than 274,000 \ persons attended the exposition Saturday. The Royal Canadian air force band, among its several numbers, played “The Stars and Stripes | Forever" in honor of the Hoosier visitors. On Saturday afternoon the women visited the exposition and ! then sang again Saturday night to a packed coliseum crowd of 12,000* people. Thte group left Toronto Saturday night at about midnight for Buffalo and then left Sunday morning from the New York city for Fort Wayne, 1 arriving home Sunday afternoon. { One thing that impressed the ladies was the fact that the exposition which runs 14 days does not show on Sundays. It opened on August 22 and will close on September 6, and no liquor was sold on the grounds. The chorus members from Adams county who made the trip included: Mesdames Noble. Reynolds. Alva Lawson, Bert Naley. Robert Garard, Clarence Smitley, Walter Lister. Harve Kpos. Niland Ochsenrider, William Johnson, William Noll, Paul Rich, Roy Price, Leland Ray, Wilbur Stanley, Eliza Hahhert, Erwin Stucky, William • Neadstein,, Carl Kuhn, Harrison Miller, Hiram Wittwer, Gilbert Stucky, Noah Habegger, Martin Sprunger, James Fenstermaker, Frances Bierie, Chester Armstrong. < The guests included: Mesdames Norman Kruse, Harve ishroll, Agnes Backhays. Charles Christenter, and Robert Garard and Robert Smitley, and the Misses Evelyn Gerke and Gloria Koeneman. Prisoner# To Work BELLEVUE. O (UP)—lnmates qt the city jail won’t be able to *<sit out" their Une.s and sentences under a new plan. Kenneth Polta safety director said prisoners would be used to cut and pull weeds at the city reserviors. ■

SIX PLASTtR CASTS of Queen Elizabeth n in profile have been chosen in London from 40 submitted tea coronation medals panel for use on coronation medals next year. The one above is work of Paul Vincze. The medals will be presented to school children and others by local authorities la the empire, ' (International)

Evansville Trucker Is Burned To Death SULLIVAN, Ind. UP — James McDonald, 35. Evansville, was . burned to death in the flaming cab of his wrecked truck Monday night while passing motorists stood by, helpless to. heed his screams for help. McDonald was driving a semitrailer for the National-Furniture Co., Evansville, on U. S. 41 a mile . south of here. The truck hit the end of a bridge' over Busseron ' Creek. The trailer pack knifed and the vehicle burst into flames, wedged in the bridge. No Letup In Fight To Free Bill Oatis Ambassador Briggs Shifted To Korea ; i WASHINGTON, l/P — The state department pledged today there will\be no letup in its fight to free American newsman William N. i Oatis despite the shift of Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs from Czecho- \ Slovakia to Korea, The, surprise transfer, announced by the White House late Monday left the United States and t Czechoslovakia without an ambassador in each other's capital. How- , ever, full diplomatic relations still exist on an embassy level betwreen i this country and the Russian satj ellite. j Briggs has made no headway in his relentless efforts to win the release of Oatis. Associated Press correspondent in Prague who is serving a 10-year prison term on trumped-up spy charges. State department spokesman Michael J. McDeripott emphasized that Briggs' transfer would not . relax "our determination to press for the release of Oatis. 1 "The United States government continues to regard the Oatis case as a major issue in the relations between the United States and Czechoslovakia," McDermott said. Briggs, 52, will replace John J. Muccio, who has been recalled from Korea to replace Francis B. Sayre aa U. S. representative on the United Nations trusteeship council.

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Texas Democrats In Revolt On Oil Scrap Threaten To Bolt Stevenson Ticket AUSTIN, Tex. UP — A full-scale revolt by Texas Democrats against the. Stevenson - Sparkman ticket seemed possible today after Price Daniel, state attorney general and senatorial candidate, jumped into i the tidelands oil dispute. 5 Such a revolt could put Texas in the Republican column in November for the second time in history. The state has 24 electoral college votes. Daniel loosed a blast at Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, the Democratic presidential nominee, for the Illinois governor’s endorsement last Saturday of federal ownership of the oil-rich tidelands. Gov. Allan Shivers, head of the state Democratic party, announced immeidately after his unsatisfactory tidelands conference with Stevenson that “I could not vote for him." Later he asked Texans tp let him know whether he should take any stronger action against the presidential nominee. Shivers also an-nouncecL-that he would make a detailed report to the people on his conference with Stevenson in-, a statewide radio broadcast W’ednesday. Daniel, w’ho said he was just letting the governor know how he felt about, .it, urged a Texas “revolt” against Stevenson and other /tfalional party leaders. He flatly proposed that the Sept. 9 Democratic state convention at Amarillo provide for a double set of electors in the Democratic column in the November general election. Daniel said he would vote for a Democratic set pledged to the Republican nominee, Dwight D. Eisentiower. and not the ticket headed by Stevenson and his running mate, Sen. John J. Sparkman of Alabama. Favors Beer Diet GREAT BEND, Kan. UP—Frank Marque credited his pipe and a bottle cf beer a day for his longevity. At his lOOtfa birthday celebration, Marque a one-time Canadian lumberman, said moderate beer drinking adds years to life.