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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1952.

UNITED PRESS SERVICE

NO. 223

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ITHURREAT PASSED AWAY ON TUESDAY

III known local man [w as court bailiff FOR 12 YEARS

[rthui P*eat, 74, well known encastle resident and Putcircuit court bailiff, passed ►y Tuesday evening at the ram county hospital where liad been a patient since last lay. Mr. Rcat was admitted |he hospital following an atnear his home on South |ana street. His condition steadily worse with death

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Reat was widely known Putnam county, being a ler county treasurer and alformer state oil inspector, s deceased attended DePauw University and was a member of tit* Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Htiwas a member of the Metho-

dist church.

lie became court bailiff in 1940 while Marshall Abrams was Judge of the Putnam circuit court and and served as bailiff under Judge John H Alle since Mr. Reat was an active worker in ! the Republican party circles for many years and served reral terms as county GOP rman. He was bom and rear •d in the Mt Meridian commun-

ity

He was born November 22, 1877, in Marion township, the ■on of James Cephts and Mary

Wells Reat

He was a graduate of Greeneaatle high school. ,,'Mr Reat is survived by ■*er, Mrs. Ollle Vaughn,

Meridian: two nieces, Mrs. Rita (Itbner, Greencastle, Mrs Robert JHlen, Indianapolis, and other

relatives

ALast rites will be held Thursdey afternoon at 2 o'clock, DST, fjfom the Rector Funeral Home with Rev. Elmer Harvey In eha’-ge Burial will be in Forest Bill cemetery. ^Friend* may call at Rector's.

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SUMMER STUDENTS According to the office of the registrar, approximately 1100 students have enrolled for the first summer term at Indiana State Teachers College. Among those attending the first summer term classes are Wayne Ader, Bainbridge; Oscar Boswell, Jr., Roachdale; Dorothy Louise Chapman;, Virginia Foster; Lucille Gardner, Russellville; Verna Garl; Loyd Hurst; Mary Jane John. Reelsville; Helen Jones; Lola M. Long, Reelsville; Dorothy Miller, Reelsville; Connie Dunn Roderick; Gladys Silvey, and Carolyn Thompson.

Mechanic Dies At Reelsville

Clifford Matthews, 48, a mechanic at the state highway garage in this city died suddenly at his home in Reelsville Wednesday morning. His death was due to a heart attack. He is survived the widow, Mary; a son, Pfc. Lyle Matthews, Fort Campbell, Ky.; four daughters, Mrs. Marlene Hutcheson, of Reelsville, Jean, Adrenne and Carol, at home; a sister, Minnie Boyd, Brazil Route 5; a brother, Thomas of Reelsville, and h-s father, James Matthews, Reelsville. The body was taken to the Miller * Son Funeral Home in Brazil, where arrangements will be announced later pending word from their son

C. B. Edmonson Gets A Promotion

[ Charles B Edmonson of Clayton and formerly of Green♦astle has been advanced to associate director of vocational ♦grlculture education in the State Department of Education He will have charge of all Veterans training Mr. Edmonson succeeds C. JW A. Williams who has been ramed assistant to Harold V. Taylor, state director of voca•lional agriculture. | Mr. Edmonson is a former Greencastle high school basketball coach and teacher. He is a ■ veteran of both world wars and } is a member of Gen. Jesse M. Lee Post. 1550 Veterans of Foreign Wars.

FARM BUREAU MEETING

The Floyd Township Farm Bureau meeting will be held Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock. CST, July 1 at Center school 1 house. • Mrs. Katharine Benner will give an interesting and timely discussion on Rural and Public Health and Sanitation. Please plan to come as your attendance is badly needed. Refreshments will be served

Radio Operator To Stand Trial London. July 2, —(UP)—William M. Marshall, a $20-a-week foreign office radio operator, pleaded innocent in Old Bailey today to five charges of giving secret British information to a Russian diplomat in London The 24-year-old Marshall was ordered to stand trial next Wednesday under the Official Secrets act, Britain's anti-espion-age law . He was arrested on charges of giving information about Britain's diplomatic radio services on five separate occasions to Pavel Kuznetsov, second secretary in the Soviet embassy in London. MashaU's Job at the foreign office was to transmit messages both open and in code to British diplomatic missions aboard. He formerly had worked as a cle|k for a year in the British embassy in Moscow’. Water Hearing To Be July 23 The Indiana Public Service Commission has fixed Wednesday, July 23 at nine o'clock as the time r.nd date of the hearing of the Greencastle Water Department for the new rate rescheduling proposed some weeks ago. The hearing will be held in the State House at Indianapolis.

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20 Years Ago HERE AND THERE

The Democrats at their national convention in Chicago nomin-

| aled Franklin Delano Roosevelt for president and John Nance

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Garner for vice president.

Mra. C. C. Tucker and daughter. Martha, were visiting rela-

tives in Boston, Mass.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Deer and son, Steve, were vacationing In

Hammond. — —

Mrs. Wilbur Donner was the guest of relatives in London, O. Mrs. Charles T. Moore was

here from St. Ixwiis, Mo.

Moose To Hold Picnic Friday Members of the local Moose Lodge and their families will hold their annual Fourth of July picnic at the Earl Evens farm

on Friday.

A big basket dinner will feature the noon hour. The committee in charge of the affair has arranged numerous contests for young and old and prizes will be awarded the winners. The picnic outing is an all day event and a large percentage of the membership is expected to

participate.

FATAL ACCIDENT

LEBANON, Ind., July 2 — (UP)—Mrs. Emma Gaskins, 67, Bethel, O., was in critical condition today of injuries suffered when she drove her auto into the rear of a truck, killing her

husband.

Wiliam Gaskins. 74, was killed 'n the crash near here yesterday Stale police said the truck I stopped for a traffic light. I

HOOSIER GOP DELEGATION SCRAP LOOMS

SPLIT DEVELOPS REGARDING BACKING FOR TAFT AND IKE INDIANAPOLIS, July 2 — (INS)—Hoosier Taft and Ike leaders today continued to make contradictory claims of strength as delegates began heading for the Republican National Convention in Chicago. All 32 members of the factionfraught Indiana delegation will be in the Windy City by Sunday to do battle behind the political banners of Sen. Robert A. Taft or Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower. Although only two delegates have announced their allegiance to Ike, George Diener, chairman of the Indiana Citizens for Eisenhower Committee, today predict-

ed:

We expect about six switchover votes on the second ballot, and there is a chance of two on the first ballot in addition, of course, to Pulliam and Hutche-

son.”

He referred to Publisher Eugene Pulliam and William Hutcheson, president emeritus of the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, who have said they will vote for Eisenhower. Taft headquarters in Indianapolis, however, countered by saying all 32 delegates are “honor bound" to support the candidacy of the Ohio senator. A spokesman said; ‘‘We have no fear of delegates switching over. After all there are honorable people and they are pledged to stay with Taft until he releases them." The dispute that has been sizzling for months reached a point much hotter than Indiana’s heatwave temperatures yesterday when it was learned Pulliam has threatened State Chairman Cale J. Holder with a law suit if Holder trieq ta enforce a unitvote state convention ruling that would cast all 32 ballots for Taft. Pulliam said he would seek a Federal court injunction against Holder, who also is chairman of the Hoosier delegation, if there is an attempt to make he and Hutcheson vote for Taft. Pulliam and Hutcheson were named delegates in 11th District caucus. Among the Indiana delegates already in Chicago are Ewing Emison, Vincennes, a member of the important Credentials Committee which will vote on the seating of contested delegates; Robert L. Oare, South Bend, Resolutions Committee; State Vice-Chairman Mrs. Mabel Fraser, Delphi, Resolutions Committee; Gerald Powell, Peru, Permanent Organization Committee; and Ivan H Morgan, Austin, Rules and Order of Business Committee. National Committeeman Ralph Gates and National Committeewoman Cecil Harden also are at the scene of the convention this

week.

United States Senators Homer E Capehart and W’illiam E. Jenner, both of whom are delegates, and members of the Indiana Congressional delegation will not arrive until Sunday because of their legislative duties

in Washington.

Holder will be on hand later this week to attend a meeting of the Midwest and Rocky Mountain Republican State Chairmen’s Association of which he is secretary. Don Irwin, Frankfort. former state chairman, who is in charge of ticketa and housing for the Hoosier group; Michael Hanrahan, Indianapolis, chief doorkeeper, and Herbert Beitel, Gary, chief usher, also are in

Chicago now.

Lisle Wallace, of Sheridan, manager of the Indiana campaign, and Robert Grant, South Bend, Hoosier Ike manager, both are expected to arrive in Chicago over the weekend. The Harrison Hotel—named for William H. Harrison, a Hoosier who became president—will be the headquarters for the Indiana delegation. Only Pulliam Hut"heson and one or two other Indianians are expected to stay

In other hotels.

The Indiana Taft group will act up headquarters In Rooms

TAFT WOOS PENNSYLVANIA DELEGATES fir

GOV JOHN S. FINE, key man among Pennsylvania GOP delegates (left) greets Senator Robert A. Taft before presenting him to delegates as an "outstanding American.'' Taft, who claims 20 of the state’s 70 convention votes, charges Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower with “attacking Republicans” on the foreign policy issue by setting up an isolationist “straw man.” (International Soundphoto)

O’Neal Issues Plea To Drivers

State Police Supt. Robert A O'Neal today appealed to Fourth of July weekend travelers to “police yourself while on holiday motor trips. State Police, he said, will Join city and county police in intensified traffic patrols, but he added “there simply aren't enough policemen to adequately patrol the thousands of miles of Indana city and rural thoroughfares and observe all offenders ” He recommended that each driver check his own observance of state regulations. Supt. O'Neal also called attention to a state law prohibiting the sale or use of fireworks. He warned pleasure-seekers against the dangers of sunburn and overexertion, and swimming and boating accidents at lake and river resorts. Meanwhile, a State Police provisional report disclosed a statewide traffic death reduction of 13 death in the first six months of the year, as compared with the same period in 1951. The gain, however, was made in the urban areas, where 23 fewdeatha were reported. Rural highway accidents claimed 13 more lives in the period. The Hoosier traffic toll stood at 538 dead at the halfway mark for a net reduction of two per

cent.

The worst month to date was May, when 120 deaths were recorded for a 25 per cent increase over the same month a year ago, and the "safest" month was Apifl. when 75 highway users

died.

Twelve persons were killed In traffic smashups during a fourday July holiday period last year, Supt. O'Neal reported. Travelers this year, he pointed out, will face the same kind of extended weekend and increased driving hazards due to heavy travel.

July 4 Tourney At Local Links

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A pro-am tourney has been arranged at the Greencastle golf course for Friday, July 4th, it

was announced today.

All players are requested to assemble at 8:15 a m., w’hen teams will be made up and the tournament i« scheduled to get

underway at 8:45

The match will be played on a team handicap basis and nil local golfers are urged to turn out and take part in the tourney.

Hospital Notes

Mr. and Mrs. Marion David Western, Clayton are the parents of a son born Tuesday. Released Tuesday: Stella Woodson, Clayton R. R.; Esther Friend R. 2; Evelyn Perkins, Brazil; Norine Blake, Rockville.

John E. Burk Rites Thursday John E. Burk, age 78, well known resident of Clniton Falls passed aw’ay at the Putnam county hospital Tuesday, where he had been a patient for the past two months. Mr Burk had been In falling health for several years. Suvivors are: three sons. James, of Clinton Falls, Raymond of Indianapolis, and Curtis, of Bridgeton, one daughter, Eula Ensor, of Clinton Falls, two sisters, Isabelle Shelton, Russellville, and Amanda Endicott, Crawfordsville Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Clinton Falls church Rev. William McKeehan will be in charge. Burial will be in the Clinton Falls cemetery. Friends may call at the McCurry Funeral Home until time of service. * Seven Delegates Switch To Ike CHICAGO. July 2—(UP) — Seven GOP convention delegates who were reported to have switched their allegiance from Sen Robert A Taft to Gen Dwight Eisenhower touched off a furor in the Republican camp today. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Eisenhower’s campaign chief, said he received a telegram from Eugene Bookhammer, a Delaware delegate, which stated that Bookhammer had changed to Eisenhower. Four Virginia delegates and two from Pennsydvanla also shifted to the general. Lodge

.said.

Lodge said that Mrs. Davis Elkins of West Virginia had switched from Taft to an uncommitted status. John D. M. Hamilton, Taft’s eastern campaign manager, said however,’ that Mrs. Elkias had sent Taft a telegram assuring him of her unqualified support. Hamilton called Lodge's statement a "complete and malicious falsehood” and accused him of a “new low in political chicanery.” He said Bookhammer was nevor counted as a Taft supporter in the first place and the Pennsylvania delegates had announced their Eisenhower allegiance some time ago. At the same time Lodge accused Taft’s campaign manager. David Ingalls, of misrepresenting an Eisenhower proposal ior a change in convention rules on delegate contests. The Eisenhower forces seek a chance to forbid contested delegates from voting in any c<*ntest. At present they are forbidden only from voting in their own.

18TH ANNUAL CELEBRATION AT ROACHDALE

THREE-DAY EVENT OPENS TONIGHT; SPONSORED BY LIONS CLUB The 18th annual Fourth of July celebration, sponsored by the Roachdale Lions Club, opened today In the north Putnam town. The official program gets underway at 8 p. m. with an amateur contest. The finals for this contest are scheduled for 10:30

p. m.

The program Thursday will start at 5 p. m. wdth bicycle races and other contests for boys and girls. The Brown County Foxhunters Trick Fiddling and music by several quartets w’iil provide entertainment at 8:15 p. m. The Roachdale High School Band will give a concert at 9:15 and the Brown County Foxhunters will be heard again at 10:30 p. m. Friday’s program starts at 8:15 p. m. writh a concert by the Roachdale band. Jim Shelton’s popular "Pick-A-Pocket” which is featured on Indianapolis radio station WIBC is on tap at 9 p m. A lavish display of fireworks will provide the grand finale fo: the annual three-day event at 10:15 p. m. Big crow’ds are expected each afternoon and evening during the celebration and the Lions had everything in readiness this morning for visitors in Roachdale tonight. Thursday and Fri-

day.

HOT, HOTTER, HOTTEST! The weather in Indiana has been above 90 degrees for the past 22 days and further high temperatures are forecast for the remainder of the week. No relief from 100-degree daytinn temperatures is predicted, but somewhat cooler nights are due. EXTRA CHICAGO, •Inly 8.—(INS)— John Foster Oulles handed the Republican party today a proposed foreign policy plank high ly critical of (he Truman administration. llidles said on his arrival In Chicago for the 195'! pre-conven-tion platform-writing meetings that the draft is the “most important foreign policy plank" drawn up for the GOP since be fore World Mar II Dulles, ad\ iser to the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, will confer with Sen. Milllken of Colorado, chairman of the group and head of the resolutions committee which is preparing the- 1952 GOP platform.

Acheson Due In Rio This Evening RIO DE JANEIRt \ Brazil, July 2.—(UP)—U. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson flew toward Brazil in President Truman's plane Independence today for a good-will visit to this largest country in South America. He is scheduled to land here at 8 p. m. (7 p. tn. EDT) after a brief refueling stop at Recife on Brazil’s South Atlantic "bulge" on a flight from Dakar in French

West Africa.

Brazilian Foreign Minister Joao Neves Da Fontoura will head the official welcoming

party at the airport.

Acheson's nearly week-long visit to Brazil will climax an

INDIANAPOLIS, July 2.— (INS)—No action had been taken today by Publisher Eugene C. Pulliam in his threatened lawsuit against the chairman of the Indiana delegation to the Republican National Convention. In a letter made public yesterday, Pulliam told Cale -I. Holder, who U chairman of the delega tion and also state (iOI* chairman, he would seek a court Injunction if Holder tried to force Pulliam and union leader William Hutcheson to vote for Sen. Robert A. Taft at next week's national convention.

FLOYD WILL REMAIN INTACT AS TWP. UNIT

JUDGE RULES MAJORITY DID NOT SIGN PETITION TO ABOLISH TWP.

SPRINGFIELD, 111., July 2 — (INS)—Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson today confounded political observer* by again sounding like a candidate for governor and nothing more. In a “Report To the People," transcribed for radio and telex' .sion last night. Stevenson noted "the talk about me as a candidate for preside i» •> 1 deeln< ed: "I think I've made it clear that 1 xxaut to stay rigid here in lilt nois—as governor, I hope.”

WASHINGTON July 2 —- (INS)—A Senate c immittee today called Owen Lattimore "a conscious articulate Instr.intent of the Soviet conspiracy” and demanded that the Justice Department ask his indictment for per

jury.

The Internal Security com-

18,000-mile good-will flight that mittee. headed by Sen. M< < ar-

already has taken him to London, Berlin and Vienna. Diplomatic observers believed the secretary decided to come here both to cement already friendly American-Brazilian relations and to reassure Soutn Americans that the United States’ recent preoccupation with Europe and Asia does not mean we have forgotten them. As in Europe ,the Communists tried in vain to stir up demonstrations against Acheson. They plastered xvalls with posters and printed signs saying, “Out with Acheson, ambassador of the pest"— apparently a reference to Communist charges that the U S. is waginb germ warfare in

Korea.

The Communist newspaper Imprensa Popular said Acheson had been burled in effigy in Rio De Janeiro and that an American flag had been burned in Sao

Paulo.

TWO DROWNED LAWRENCJ5VILLE Ind. July 2—(UP)—Trying to beat the heat wave was fatal yesterday for John Hafenbrltle and Donald Bovard, both 20. They drowned in the swimming pool of a recreation park near here. ( RASH KILLS TWO

ran( D.-Nev.) also rcoominenil-t-d that testimony’ given by diplomat John P. Davie*. Jr., be laid before a grand jury. A juvtce department spokesman said that the department will gite " prompt consideration" to the committee's request when

it is received.

CHICAGO. July 2_(|\S)— The GOP national committ' voted 62 to 39 today to s it a 1' man delegation form Georgi i supporting Sen. ’/aft for the !!• publican presidential nomination The decision was a sharp setback for a rival slate of 17 on which 13 delegates backed Gen. Esenhower for the GOP prize two were for Taft, one for Gov Warren of California, and one

uncommitted.

However, a leading Ike backsaid privately that the rejected delegates will carry theli fight to the convention floor where he claimed the x erdic 1 will bolster charges against u Taft steamroller.

The residents of Floyd township who opposed breaking up the unit and annexing the north half to Monroe township and the south half to Marion township, won their easr> in the Owen Circuit court at Spencer Wednesday morning when Judge Fiank Martin in a special findings of fact and conclusion of law, held that the evidence offered did not disclose a majority favored the breaking up of tha taxing unit. The case was filed here more than a year ago and later venued to the Owen Circuit court As a result of the finding of the court that a majority of tax payers did not fav’or the township joining the adjacent townships, Floyd township as a unit, will remain intact for years to

come.

The court found that the exact number of freeholders was not dsclosed, but that evidence submitted showed a total of 412 freeholders proven and that not more than 202 freeholders signed the petition to abolish the township. The court then held that the signers did not constitute a majority of the freeholders of Floyd township and that the law was with the objectors, whereupon judgement was rendered against the petitioners. This brings to a conclusion the litigation that was itart l before tne County Board of Commissioner.- over a year ago in Putnam County which Board at that time made an order abolishing the township temt hat exist- ’ in the community of Floyd township on account of the ciosenes.; of the vote cf freerlotitoi' Fi-At irritih Trustee or Floyd township said after the finding of the Court "All the good people of Floyd township have been entitled to their opin- [ on regarding this matter and j I know they have all been In..' 1 believe people should ilways have a right to express I ’.heir views on matters of pub- | lie interest and concern I thank | the petitioners for the interest ; they have taken and the cbi jectors for their interest and help. The case is now over. I will continue working with all ’ fo rthe best inerest of Floyd I township." 0. R, Ader Dies Near Groveland

Osie R. Ader, age passed away at his

MASONIC NOTICE Stated meeting of Bainbridge Lodge No. 75 F. & A. M. Thursday, July 3, 1952

FORT WAYNE, Ind., July 2 (UP)—Police pressed their investigation today into a twocar crash which killed two persons after finding 17 empty beer bottles in one of the cars David Parisot, 17, Fort Wayne, became the second fatality of the wreck Monday. William Perry, 51, Avilla, was killed in stantly. Authorities said the found the beer bottles in th car driven by Jack E. Angel, 17 Fort Wayne, in whose car Parisot waj a passenger.

Today s Market Hogs 400. Active light and medium heavier weights stron;.; to 25 cents higher. Sows 2i rents higher. 130-240 lbs 21.75 to 22.25. Top 22 50. 240-270 lbs 1100 to 2225 270-300 lixs 20.00 to 21.5.0 120-160 lbs. 17 00 to 18.50. Sows choice" 17.00 to 18.85. Cattle 450. Calves 300. Steer. ■<nd heifers active Load choice heifers 32.50. Prime hold at 34. Part load high choice and prim, steers held above 34. Good and choice native yearlings 29.00 to 32.50. Cows steady. Utility and commercial 18.50 to 22.50. Fanners and cutters 13.50 to 13.50.

Vealer Top 31.

Sheep 100. Choice spring lambs

steady 27 down

72 years, home one

mile south of Groveland Wednesday m -ruing about 8 o'clock. Mr Ader had been tn failing health for several years but seriously ' ill the past four days He was the son of the late Harvey and Hanna Owen Adar. He had spent all his life in Groveland community, except riixteen years he lived in Tndian-

\ apolis.

He is survived by the widow. Jessie; one son, Raymond of Groveland: one sister, Mrs. Alma Masten of Detroit Mich. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:30 p. ir.. from the Presbyterian church ;r. Grcveland. Burial will be in Now ! Maysville cemetery. The tedy j will lie in state at the church one • hour before the service, n Friends may call at the Powell Funeral Home in Coatesville after noon Thursday.

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