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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1954.

UNITED PRESS SEPViO

NO. 149

PSC RETREATS ON PHONE TAX REFUND ORDER MANY TELEPHONE COMPANIES PROTESTED ORIGINAL DIRECTI YE INDIANAPOLIS. April 9.— (UP» Indiana’s Public Service Commission retreated today from a $250,000 telephone tax refund directive which got it into hot water. The commission originally ordered all telephone companies in the state to give subscribers tax adjustments because of the new federal excise tax law. Dozens of telephone companies immediately protested that this conflicted with federal law. PSC took another look and hastily withdrew the directive. A PSC representative confe--red with Internal Revenue officials today for an interpretation of the law. The commission at first said subscribers paid excessive taxes for service after April 1, effective date of the new federal law, because most companies bill in advance. PSC figured the state's 350 phone utilities owed $250,000 in refunds. But within three hours after newsmen circulated the news, PSC's switchboard was flooded with protests. The callers like William Beck, secretary of the Indiana Telephone Assn., representing the independent utilities —said: "We definitely believe the directive conflicts with federal law. We don't think any company should comply until this is settled.” At Lafayette, a spokesman for General Telephone Co., the state's second largest phone firm, said it appeared PSC was trying to "qualify” federal law. Indiana Bell Telephone Co. gave newsmen copies of portions of the federal law. A spokesman said it means tax reductions "shall not apply” to bills mailed before April 1. even though the bills are for service in advance. It further provides, he added, that on service such as toll calls where snbicribers are billed after service, the tax cut does apply, retroactive for two months. T* lephone spokesman said the law provides that: The 15 per cent tax rate on service will drop to 10 per cent only on bill* mailed after April 1 The 15 and 25 per cent rates on toll calls uull drop to 10 per cent on all bills mailed after April 1. although the calls were made before April 1. The commission, which '‘directed” refunds no matter how "ins.gnificant,” was ''calling attention to the fact some refunds might be due,” said PSC Chairman Warren Buchanan. "If there’s any due,” he said, "it ought to be paid.” Coeds To Model Spring Clothes Members of the Home Economics Club will present their annual show of spring fashions at the Union Building Tuesday, April 13, at 7:30 p. m. The theme of this year’s program. Sugar ’n Spice, will be carried out in the decorations throughout the ballroom. Music will be by the Sigma Chi-Beta Combo with nat ration by Susie Ewert. About thirty-five home economics students will take part in the show modeling clothes made in classes. Spring and summer sport clothes, daytime and afternoon dresses and evening clothes will be featured in many varieties of fabric and colors. A display of the newest synthetic fabI < on 11 ft tied t*a£e Two!

A 3c David C. Vote A/3c David C. Vote, son of Mrs. Elaine Vote of this city, is now in training with the 3419th. Student Squ. at Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado.

Steve M. Deer Goes To Pacific

Pvt. Steve M. Deer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Deer of Greencastle, who has been taking his military tiaining at Fort Lee, Va., has completed the course, being judged the honor gradua f e of the Quartermaster Records Specialist School of this class. He has left Ft. Lee by plane for Seattle, Washington for his assignment overseas. He will go to Japan and thence to Korea with a {tossibility that he might be assigned to some other south Pacific spot.

Four Tornadoes Have Hit State

INDIANAPOLIS, April 9.— (UP)—Indiana's 1953 tornado frequency of four twisters may already have been matched this year, weather experts said today. Toinadoes occurred March 19 at Connersville and March 28 at Anderson.. Chief Meteorologist W. A Bertrand of the Indianapolis Weather Bureau, is studying reports of two storms April 6 near Wheatland and Ferdinand to determine if they were small twisters. Last year, toinadoes were recorded on three days—all during March and April in areas including New Goshen. Bridgeton, Decalur and Fort Wayne. The 1953 casualty toll in Indiana was two killed, 12 injured. All these casualties odturred m -the April 9 storm which cut a swath from Attica to Albany. Weathermen find it hard to classify a tornado as such without inspecting the scene before the debris is cleared up. Location of deposits of wreckage, evidence of damage by’ pressure rather than wind, and corroborated stones from witnesses of sighting funnel clouds are important in determining whether it was a big wind or a tornado. Thus far this year, five days have been marked by "tornado alerts” from the w’eather bureau. No substantiated reports of tornadoes developing on any of those days were received, although unofficially the storms three days ago in Knox and Dubois counties bore resemblance to twisters.

20 Years Ajjo HERE AND THERK

Mrs. Rodman Fox and daughter. Maryan, of Easton, Pa., were visiting Mrs. John Cannon. A total of 12.200 persons registered as voters according to Miss Gertrude Oakley, deputycounty registration clerk. Piercy Allee returned home following an operation in Chicago.

! ONE CHARGE DROPPED INDIANAPOLIS. April 9.— (UP)—The State Board of Accounts said today it would withdraw one of t\Vo charges against Donald Abram. Solsberry, accused of authorizing illegal purchases while Beech Creek township trustee in 1951-52. Thomas M. Hindman, deputy examiner, said the action was taken on advice of the AttorneyGeneral’s office which decided there was insufficient evidence. Abram was accused under a law prohibiting public officers fron* authorizing purchases from firms in which they have a financial interest. Hindman said the action to be dropped involved $1,131 worth of goods purchased from a store owned by his brother. Wayne. A charge of irregular poor relief payments totalling $1,009. most of it paid to a Hendricksville grocery in favor of his father. Henry, will not be dropped. Hindman said.

ROCKPORT MU BREAK LEADS TO 3-STATE ALERT

ONE OF TWO SPENCER COUNTY ESCAPEES RATED AS DANGEROUS

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ROCKPORT, Ind., April 9.— (UP)—Police in three states were alerted today to be on the lookout for two Spencer county jail escapees, one of whom attacked a state patrolman ami was described as “dangerous.” Authorities in Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois were alerted for Wendell Junior Hall, 23, a parolee from the Indiana Reformatory, and Junior Edward Harrison, an AWOL army private. Sheriff Albert Scheesseele said he discovered the men were missing Thursday. He said they sawed a bar from their second story cell window, ripped open a screen and jumped 15 feet to the ground. The sheriff said he believed an accomplice may have thrown hack saw blades to them through a jail window. Hall was accused of assault and battery with intent to kill following a fight with Trooper Alva G. Gibson on March 13 near Hatfield. Gibson said he stopped a jeep containing Hall and Donald Williams, 18, Evansville, on suspicion of drunken driving. After some difficulty, Gibson said he tried to handcuff the two and they “jumped” him. Hall grabbed the trooper’s gun and fired three shots, but missed and Gibson suffered only minor injuries from the scuffle. The suspects fled and Williams was arrested at Evansville the same night while Hall was captured near Evansville early thnext morning. Harrison, who escaped once be-

The wind was from the east this morning and many recalled the old sayung “When the wind's from the east, tis good for neither man nor beast” In addition to the illeast wind, there w-as a heavy coating of ver£ white frost on everything. The mercury stood a little below the 40 mark.

GETS FINE; 30 DAYS Robert McGaughey, 43, Roachdale Route 1. appeared before Judge John M. Allee in the Put nam circuit court Thursday on a charge of resisting an officer. The defendant was fined $25 and costs and sentenced to serfve 60 days on the Indiana state farm. Thirty days of the term, however, was suspended by the court.

Rev. Saunders Is Heard By Kiwanis The Rev. Allan Harlan, vicar of St. Andrew's Episcopal church was inducted into the Greencastle Kiwanis Club during the weekly luncheon meeting at the Student Memorial Union on Thursday. Dr. Fi ank Travis had charge of the induction of Mr. Harlan into the civic group. An inspiring Easter message was delivered by the Rev. Ralph Saunders following his introduction by Dr. Hiram Jome, program chairman. Rev. Saunders, choosing as his subject," Christian Religion and Faith” spoke impressively on the meaning of Ihe Lenten season and Easter. Guests of the Kiwanians were H. F. Foley of the People’s Gas and Light Co. of Chicago, Bert Ferrara of the Crescent Paper C •. and a resident of Clinton. Ind. James Ruby, basketball coach of the Zionsville, Ind. high school and R. R. Neal, former DePauw athletic director and honorary member of Kiwanis.

ROOF FIRE FRIDAY' City firemen were called to 438 Anderson street at 9:45 a. m. Friday to extinguish an apartment house roof fire. Sparks from a chimney cased the alarm, Fire Chief William Lawrence said. He reported that damage was small. The apartment house is owned by Floyd C. Yeager.

MASONIC NOTICE Called meeting of Temple Lodge. No. 47, F. & A. M. this evening at 7:30 for work in the M. M. Degree. William Wright W. M.

BROWNELL WILL REPORT TO U. S. ON RED FIGHT ATTORNEY GENERAL EX PECTED TO ASK ADDITIONAL CRACKDOWN ST

LaPorte Mayor Sued By Sheriff LAPORTE, Ind., April 9. (UP)—A $25,000 damage suit was on file today against Mayor Tom Boyd and three police officials charged with maliciously slandering Sheriff Norman Reeg. The sheriff's LaPorte Circuit Court suit charged the four with forming an “unholy alliance” to “cast dark shadows and malicious falsehoods” on Reeg’s arrest of an alleged filling station bandit March 16. Other defendants in the suit were Police Chief Erwin Storey, Detective Leo Kramer and State Trooper Darwin Harris. Boyd had accused Reeg of staging the holdup to publiciiN his campaign for re-election. Three men were arrested after a noisy gun battle in the robbery, but only one, Joe Krest, 40, Michigan City, was held. Boyd had the two released men re-arrested, and said they told him Reeg paid them to take pari in the holdup. The sheriff claimed the two were informers and had agreed to help him captuie Krest. Krest recently pleaded not guilty to the robbery charge.

BRASS WAS PRESENTED TO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEETING

At the speakers table at the Chamber of Com merce Dinner Wednesday evening, these folks were introduced. They include Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ballard. Rev. and Mi’s. Ralph Saunders, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. A’-n .’Id, Mr. Arnold being presi lent of the Chamber of Commerce; Dr. and Mrs. Russell J. Humbert. Mr .and Mrs. L. H. Dirks and Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd Moss.

WASHINGTON, April 9 — (UP)—Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., goes before the nation tonight to make a first-hand report on the Eisenhower administrations fight against Communism in the United States. Justice Department sources said Brownell is expected to call for new measures to beef up the crack down on domestic Reds by the Justice Department and the FBI. He is also expected to review what has been done to curb Communist activities since the Republicans came to power last

year.

Brownell's speech at 9 p. m EST is billed as a follow-up to President Eisenhower’s report to the nation last Monday night. It will be beamed to the nation by radio and television. Justice Department officials said that the speech will be completely non-partisan. They warned against any speculation that Brownell would release any sensational revelations such as his last November charge that former President Truman promoted former Assistant Treasury Secretary Harry Dexter White despite FBI reports he was a Russian spy. Instead, they said, Brownell will describe how the Communist Party is now operating— as an open party, underground and through Communist fronts —and how the administration is proceeding against it. He is expected to discuss a ruling by the Subversive Activities Contiol Board last April that the Communist Party is a Moscowdirected organization that should register with the department under the McCarran Communist Control Act. Justice sources said Brownell also will discuss other phases of the Department’s anti-Commun-ist drive such as the prosecutions, begun by the Truman administration, of top Communists under the Smith Act.

EXTRA! RICHMOND, Va., April 9 — (UP)—Selective Service Direc tor Lewis B. Hershey says the draft will be stepped up despite the H-bomb and he also doubts “ultra-mechanization" wil reduce manpower needs.

WASHINGTON, April 9. (UP) —GI Joe is going to get a dasning "new look” uniform—but not until he wears out his present olive drab pants. It will be the fall of 1955 at the earliest before the lowly pri vate can be a “man of distinction” in his new gray-green uni-

form.

Hospital Notes Dismissed Thursday: Sibyl Allen, Reelsville; Mrs. Richard Stewart and daughter, R. 3; Mrs. David Thomas and daughter, Mrs. Mary Shonkwiler and son, Greencastle. Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd Green, Greencastle are the parents of a son. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Rossok, R. 1, are the parents of a son.

FILES FOR DIVORCE

Mrs. Bessie H. Green has filed for a divorce in circuit court from Hal E. Green. They were married May 2, 1953, and separated in February, 1954. Frank G. Stoessel is the plaintiff’s attorney.

MORE THAN 200 ATTEND FELLOWSHIP DINNER OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

WASHINGTON, April 9.— (INS)—The House Apropriations Committee accused the Agriculture Department of stinginess in its budget requests today and recommended the United States spend almost five per cent more on its farm programs than the administration asked. It sent to the House a one billion, 19 million dollar Agriculture Department spending bill for the 1955 fiscal year beginning July 1. This is about 45 million dollars more than had been requested.

SELMA. Ala., April 9.—(INS) —An Air Force trainer crashed and was completely demolished near Selma today but the fate of its occupant or occupants was not determined immediately.

MOOSE JAW, Sask.. April 9. —(INS)—The mayor of Moose Jaw said today that an air tragedy which claimed 37 lives yesterday could have been averted if his protests about training flights over the town had been heeded.

CHICAGO, April 9.—(UP)— A stubborn kidney disorder kept Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson in a hospital bed today, but it was thought he would be discharged in time to appear at a $10Q-a-plate party dinner April 20.

44 KNOWN DEAD AS RESULT OF AIR DISASTERS

21 OTHER PERSONS MISSING IN FOUR AVIATION ACCIDENTS

This picture gives some idea of the Chamber of Commerce fellowship dinner meeting held in the ballroom of the Union building Wednesday evening. There were about 25 tables and eigiht people w ere seated at each table. They filled the entire floor of the spacious ballroom.

INDIANAPOLIS, April 9.—(UP)—Indiana's penal institutions adopted a new parole hearing policy today to effect faster

release of prisoners.

Inmates previously were called for a hearing about 30 days before being eligible for parole. That resulted in welfare placement delays, forcing some men to stay imprisoned months after

they couid be freed.

ROME, April 9.—(INS) — Searchers for a missing South African Airways Comet jet airliner were reported today to have recovered six bodies from the sea south of the Italian island of Capri.

CARROLLTON, Ind , April 9. —(UP)—The Hancock County Farm Bureau Co-op grain elevator was destroyed by fire Thursday night with a loss estimated at nearly $100,000. Greenfield, Morristown, New Palestine and Warren Central fire departments helped fight the flames and kept them from spreading to other buildings.

VALENTINE, Neb., April 9.— (UP)—Airplanes took off at dawn today to hunt down a trig-ger-happy gunman who killed a Nebraska highway patrolman and then vanished into the Sandhills cattle country—one of America’s most desolate regions. A dozen light planes took par* in the search for the fugitive, identified as Lloyd Gransinger. 22, of Wewela, S. D. Gransing c r shot and fatally founded patrolman Marvin Hansen late Thursday night, only a few minutes before Hansen’s 29th birthday. A large posse of armed men, equipped ’ with walkie-talkb radios, spread out along the Niobrara River, which cuts its way through rocky canyons and convulsed badland hills. Authorities had first said the country was “too rough for a ground search.”

By I nllrd Preas At least 46 persons w’ere killed Thursday and 21 others were missing and believed dead in four a’viation disasters, two of them involving collisions in the air. A South Africa Comet Jet airliner with 21 persona aboard, three of them Americans, was believed to have crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea 100 mile* south of Naples. A U. S. Navy searchplane found a large oil slick in the area midway between Salerno and the northern shores orf Sicily. The pilot reported there was no trace of survivors. The plane, carrying 14 passengers and seven crewmen, was on the Rome to Cairo leg of a flight from London to Johannesburg. The three Americans aboard were identified tentatively as O. L. Andersen, American Fork, Utah; R. L. Wilkinson, Marblehead, Mass., and F. R. Harbison, no address available. The plane was on loan to South Africa from the British Overseas Airways Corporation which immediately ordered Comet flights suspended throughout the

world.

Thirty-seven persons were killed at Moose Jaw, Sask., Thursday W’hen a training plane rammed a four-engine airliner of Trans-Canada Airlines. The dead included all 35 persons aboard the airliner, the pilot of the training plane and a cleaning woman who was trapped in a house onto which the wreckage fell. All other victims were residents of Canada, Britain or Scotland. Three separate investigations into the disaster began today. An inquest also was scheduled to

start.

At Oxnard, Calif., four Air Force men were killed Thursday night when two F94C Starfire jets collided in the air over Oxnard Air Force Base. One plane was coming in for a landing an.: the second was taking off wh the collision occurred. Five U. S. airmen died nan Nagoya, Japan, Thursday when their KB29 tanker plane caught fire and exploded after refueling a fighter plane in the air. Six other men aboard the plane parachuted to safety. Names of the victims were withheld pending notification of next of kin. The South African Comet was reported down in an area some 200 miles south of Elba, where a Comet crashed in January with a loss of 35 lives. Capt. Ian Bell, pilot of the Trans-Canada Airlines transport, was in touch with the ground by radio when he saw the Canadian Air Force trainer headed for hL big ship over Moose Jaw. “I can't miss him,” Bell shouted into his radio just before the collision. Bell tried to steer his wobbling . hip over a golf course after the collision. But the craft blew up in the air as it reached a row of houses on the edge of the golf course. Some of the flaming wreckage shorwered onto a school building where 400 children were attending class. The crash was the third and worst in TCA’s history and the airlines first fatal accident in seven years.

MARRIAGE LICENSE Bruce Wayne Bartlett, U. S. Navy, Roachdale, and Beverly Jo"D Kinder, at home, East Hartford Conn.

HOG MARKET Hogs 6,000. Barrows and gilt.: under 240 lbs., fully 25c higher; more than 240 lbs., mostly 25c higher; 170-230 lbs., $27.75-$28; top $28.25; 230-270 lbs., $27$27.75; 270-290 lbs., $26 50-$27; under 160 lbs., $26 down: sows J steady to weak; choice 350-625 1 lbs., $23.50-$25.25.

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