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VOLUME SIXTY-THREE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1955.

UNITED PRESS SERVICE

NO. 225

TWO LOCAL MEN HELD IN THEFT AT STILESVILLE

MORRIS STAKK AND DON LESLIK IN CUSTODY AT DANVILLE

Morris Starr, ape ’’A, Greencastle, was lodged in the Hendricks county jail at Danville Tuesday morning for investigation in connection with robbery at the Cooper IGA market in Stilesvillc, Saturday night. Police said charges will be filed against the man when more details of the burglary are learned. He was arrested at his home in Greencastle by Sheriff Leon Bayliss, who reported that a search of Starr’s home revealed many articles believed to have been stolen from the Stilesville store. Wednesday afternoon, the sheriff arrested Don Leslie, age about .'50, also of Greencastle, for questioning in connection with the burglary. Sheriff Bayliss said that most of the articles taken at Stilesville have now been recovered, part of them from Starr’s home and part from under a vacant house at Greencastle. The Cooper market was entered sometime Saturday night by thieves who broke and cut the glass from a rear window and removed a metal window guard. Loot taken from the place is estimated at more than $;500. The list of stolen articles given the sheriff by the owner following discovery of the burglary Sunday morning, included almost $200 worth of cigarettes in cartons, more than 20 pounds of cheese of various kinds, about 30 pounds of luncheon meats in loaves more than 25 pounds of baked and boiled hams, almost 50 pounds of other meats, including beef, pork and sausage, 6 cans of shortening, eggs, bread and other groceries. Sheriff Bayliss said that meat, cigarettes and other articles found in Starr’s home have been identified by the store owner as having been taken in the robbery. State police detectives questioned Starr yesterday in connection with the Stilesville robbery and other burglaries committed in the area.—Danville Gazette.

AUDITOR BREAKS ARM CRAWFORDSVILLE, July 7. Mrs. Gladys Edwards. Montgomery County auditor, suffered a double fracture of the right arm yesterday in a fall at the home of a brother, Ollie Edwa>ds, east of Crawfordsville. She was recuperating from major surgery when the accident occurred.

Only last May 28th, Sheriff Joe Rollings went to Lovingston, New Mexico, to return Starr to this city on a non-support warrant issued in the Putnam circuit court.

Released Airman Visits In City

Lieutenant Lyle Cameron of Lincoln, Nebr., visited here yesterday and last night with Dr. and Mrs. Clinton B. Gass of DePauw University. Lt. Cameron was one of four airmen released late in May by the Red Chinese, after being held more than two years as spies. They were shot down over Korea during the Korean war and were released only this year. Lt. Cameron was a student of Dr. Gass in Lincoln Wesleyan University in lancoln. before Dr. Gass came to DePauw. He was renewing acquaintances with a former teacher while on route to Washington, D. C.. to report to the War Department.

BOV. 7. DROWNS MONTICELLO. Ind., July 7— (UP)—Seven-year-old Joel Bclstra, Lowell, was drowned Wednesday at the Buffalo Island swimming resort a’ong Tippecanoe river. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Belstra.

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HERE AND THERE

Gtcndon Rightsoll announced his candidacy for Sixth District Congressional Representative, subject to the 1936 Democratic primary'. Dale Covert entered the Putnam county hospital for X-rays and observation. The S. C. C. Club met with Miss Augusta GlidwelL

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PEACHES 25c EACH VINCENNES, Ind., July 7.— Scarce southern Indiana peaches were selling for 25 cents each at one market in Vincennes yesterday. The Dixie Orchard Company, one of Knox county’s biggest peach growers, yesterday found a few bushels which had survived the spring’s killing cold weather. They were brought to market and lasted only a few hours.

GUARDSMEN TO MOVE TO CAMP THIS WEEK-END

DISCUSS GRIEVANCE

SUMMER TRAINING PROGRAM STARTS MONDAY AT GRAYLING, MICH.

4-H Girls To Meet Friday

Demonstrations on all phases of girls 4-H project work will be given on Friday afternoon at the Greencastle High School building starting at 1:00 p. m. Each 4-H Club is eligible to send one senior and one junior demonstration or demonstration team. The girl winning first place in the county will then give her demonstration at the district contest on July 19. In addition to this winning demonstration, an A placing demonstration on cherry pie making, dairy foods, raw or frozen vegetables, canned vegetables, making or home economics electric will be eligible to compete in the special district contest, also to be held on July 19. The public is invited to attend.

Everett Tharp Funeral Friday

Everett T. Tharp, Fillmore, passed away at his home about noon Wednesday following an extended illness. Mr. Tharp was born April 8, 1897 in Putnam county, the son of James and Fatima Moore Tharp, and had spent most all his life in the Fillmore community where he was well known. He was a member of I. O. O. F. Lodge and was active in all civic affairs of the Fillmore community. He had been an employee of the American Zinc Products Division in this city for many years. He was also a member of the Ml. Meridian Methodist church and the Fillmore Lions Club. He is survived by the wife, Goldie Mae; one daughter, Mrs. Sarah Lee Osborne, Alaska; two sons. Ronald and Noble T. Tharp: four grandchildren and other relatives. Last rites will be held Friday morning at 10:30 from the Methodist church in Fillmore. Rev. Conard Clearwaters will be in charge. Interment will be in Fillmore cemetery. Friends may call at the Rector Funeral Home.

NOTICE OF MEETING The World war ome veterans will meet Friday at 8:00 P. M.

TO SERVE IN EUROPE FORT RILEY, Kan. — Pvt. James F. Cox. 21. son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse C. Cox. Route 1. Reclsville, Ind., is scheduled to be sent to Europe from Fort Riley. Kanin July as part of Operation Gyroscope, the Army’s new unit rotation plan. Private Cox’s unit, the 10th Infantry Division, is the first division to move under the Gyroscope plan. It will replace the 1st Infantry Division which will return to the U. S.

KILLED BY LIGHTNING RICHMOND. Ind. July 7 — (UP)—Jack W. Wiley, 48. Midland, Mich., was killed late Wednesday by a bolt of lightning while playing golf at the Richmond Municipal course during a heavy thunderstorm. Wilev was pushing a golf cart along the ninth hole when he was struck. His son. Jon. 15. was not hurt, but Everett Longfellow. 47 Richmond, the other member of the threesome, was knocked to the ground and shaken up.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 7.— Approximately 9,000 Hoosier National Guardsmen of Indiana’s 38th Infantry Division begin a mass troop movement to Camp Grayling, Michigan early Sunday. Traveling by military motor convoy and chartered buses, the 38th Division troops will be leaving from 60 Indiana cities. There are 128 separate units, all divisional troops, involved in the movement. Advance details of the division have been at Camp Grayling since Tuesday and Wednesday, preparing the 90,000 acre wooded military reservation for the arrival of the main body of men. Units will begin arriving at • Grayling, 400 miles north of Indianapolis, on Sunday, and the entire division will be in camp Monday afternoon for the start of the intensive summer field training program. This year’s summer encampment is the fifth at Grayling, and will have the largest number of men participating in 38th Division history. Training, which begins formally Monday and ends on Saturday, July 23, will stress small unit and individual specialist training, firing with individual and crew-served weapons, and development of leadership in non-commissioned officers and small unit commanders. Governor George N. Craig wall review the division in its annual parade Saturday, July 16, with other elected and appointed state officials and members of the Legislature as guests. The training program opening Monday will involve ah arms and services of the division—infantry, artillery, signal, ordnance, medical, military police, engineer, quartermaster and recon troops—and utilize all Army weapons, from .30 cal. small arms to 155 mm. howitzers used by the division’s field artillery units. Only division troops not present at Grayling will be the 138th Tank Battalion, based in Bedford, and the tank companies of the 151st, 152nd and 293rd Infantry Regiments. They will take part in special armored training at Fort Knox, Ky., between August 7 and August 21. The training program will include a full schedule of religious services, under the direction of Lt. Col. Frederick Westendorf, Ft. Wayne. Off duty hours recreation. including swimming, baseball, boxing and movies, is also scheduled, under supervision of Major Robert Mueller, Indianapolis. Commanding the 38th Division is Maj. Gen. Carl O. DeBard, Gran view, a veteran of 25 years in the National Guard. Also on hand to assist in and supervise training will be a staff from the Indiana Adjutant General's Office, headed by state Adjutant General Maj. Gen. H. A. Doherty, and regular army instruction and inspection teams.

FORT WAYNE. Ind.. July 7— (UP)—Members of Local 901 of the CIO International Union of Electrical Workers met today to | discuss their grievance against General Electric Co. which led to a w’alkout of 9,500 employes at three plants here. The strike began at the Taylor GE plant Wednesday and spread to tlie Winter anjd Broadway plants in protest to the installation of an “Automatic foreman” at a casting press. The company said the device was installed to show the effioncy of the press and charged the union with breach of con-

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BOYS IN TROUBLE

KOKOMO. Ind., July 7.—(UP) —Charges of disturbing a grave were on file in Howard Circuit Court today against two teenagers who dug up a dead man’s body and removed a vertebra. Bond for Gene L. DeCroes, 18. and William Ronald Brunt, 17,

was set at $2,000 each.

Authorities said the vandalism discovered last week apparently was part of a club initiation, but the boys denied this.

KIKE IN SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES PLAN OF DEMOS

Adlai Assails Administration

TAX BOOST AND EXPANSION OF BENEFITS AIM OF DEMOCRATS

Heed Peron Plea Prelate Urges

BUENOS AIRES. July 7.— (UP)—Santiago Luis Cardinal Concllo, primate of the Roman Catholic Church in Argentina, urged all Catholics today to heed President Juan D. Peron’s plea for peace and harmony. Archbishop ordered that a pastoral be read at all Masses in all Roman Catholic churches Sunday signifying support of Peron’s plea. He urged members of the church to intensify their prayers and sacrifices in accordance with church tradition during times of trial. By ordering the pastoral, the Catholic leader, in effect, called for an end to strained relations between the church and the state. This church-s^te friction has resulted in much violence and arrests since it flared into the open last fall. The plea to which the archbishop referred was made by Peron in a nationwide radio broadcast Tuesday. The president did not mention the church-state controversy in his address. In calling for a political truce, he confined his remarks to his “enemies.” * Copello declared that "peace and harmony among our citizens is our greatest aspiration. “But these noble longings for union and peace can only be realized if the causes which have created discontent and have di-

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CHICAGO, July 7.—(UP) — \dlai E. Stevenson attacked the Eisenhower administration on a new front on Wednesday night, charging that it had done “absolutely nothing” to solve the nation’s public school problem. Stevenson, the Democrats’ 1952 presidential candidate, urged a “drastic” billion-dollar federal assistance program to meet “America’s No. 1 domestic need —schools and teachers.” Stevenson has not yet said whether he intends to make a second bid for the presidency next year, but he has directed severe criticism at various phases of the Eisenhower program in recent speeches. Wednesday night’s address before the 93rd annual meeting of the National Education Association was billed as his last major speech before next fall. The former Illinois governor, suffering from a bad summer cold, accused President Eisenhower of dodging an earlier promise to give “prompt, effective help” to the nation’s schools Instead, Stevenson charged, Mr. Eisenhower has asked Congress to pass “not a law but a miracle.” The President told Congress only last February that the nation needs 7 billion dollars worth of new schools, Stevenson said, but the administration program calls for grants of only 66 million dollars a year for three years. “This is 33 cents a year to meet every $35 admitted, present, crying need,” Stevenson

said.

In contrast, Stevenson cited

Ity I nilftl I'rt-NN A Democratic plan to hike Social Security taxes and to expand benefits confronted the administration today with a new challenge in Congress. The Democratic plan, effective Jan. 1, would boost from two to 2.5 per cent the Social Security tax paid by both workers and employers on the first $4,200 in annual wages. The tax on self-employed persons would rise from three to 3.75 per cent. The plan would add 1,100,000 persons to the 7 million already receiving monthly Social Security checks and would bring another 220,000 persons, mostly lawyers and dentists, into the Social Security program for the

first time.

The Democratic proposal won its first congressional test Wednesday night when it was approved by the House Ways ji Means Committee. President Eisenhower had not asked Congress for the proposed expanded

benefits.

The Democratic plan would lower from 65 to 62 the benefit age for widows, working women who retire and wives of covered workers who are now 65 and who retire. It also would allow permanently and totally disabled workers to draw benefits at 50 and allow mentally and physically handicapped children of deceased workers to draw survivor benefits beyond the present cutoff age of 18. Supporters predicted House approval of the Democratic plan but conceded the Senate, in the rush for adjournment, may not

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. July 7 —(UP)—A sister team from California today won the ninth annual “Powderpuff Derby.” Mrs. Frances S. Bern of Las Angeles, a flying instructor, and her sister, Edna Bower of Long Beach, won the $800 first prize money for the best time in the 2,800-mile handicap race from Long Beach to Barnes-Westfield Airport here. The winning plane was a Cessna 180. The handicap is figured on !!par speed”, or the air speed st 75 per cent of maximum horse

power.

GUARDS WANT I SHAKEDOWN Of' PRISON CELLS

WARDEN AGREES TO MEETING AS RESULT OF PRISON OUTBREAK

ROME, July 7—(UP)—Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India today flew to Italy for a twoday visit which will include talks with Italian government officials and an audience with Pope Pius XII. Greeting Nehru at Rome’s Ciampina Airport was the first official assignment for Premier Antonio Segni, who took office only Wednesday.

NEW YORK. July 7—(UP) — fishing boat with 21 persons aboard was reported afire and sinking in the Atlantic today, but searchers hunted for it with growing suspicion that the tale of sea terror may have been a radio-phoned hoax.

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FATAL SEIZURE

NEWBURGH, Ind. July 7 — (UP)—Carl Koch, 71, Newburgh, suffered a fatal heart attack while driving a truck here Wednesday. The vehicle crashed into a tree at the intersection of U. S. 66 and a city street.

WASHINGTON. July 7—(UP) Son. J. William Fulbright D., Ark., said today he expects “little or no opposition” to quick Senate approval of the compromise $3,285,800,000 foreign aid bill. The compromise measure, worker out Wednesday by House-Senate conferees, authorizes another year of economic, military and technical assistance to bolster free nations against the spread of communism.

WALLA WALLA CONS CONFER WITH AUTHORITIES mm

MIAMI, Fla. July 7—(UP) — A cement-loaded freighter with j 35 men aboard went down in heavy seas late Wednesday ofi the coast of Haiti, the Coast Guard said it learned today. Officials reported that “some or al!” of the crew of the Lake Traverse had scrambled into two life boats. The survivors were trying to reach Puerto Paix,

Haiti.

SPEED, Ind. July 7—(UP) Melody Louise Doughty, 4, Speed, died Wednesday from a mysteri ions disease which doctors believe oecreases the size of the brain. Doctors fear Melody’s sister, (ContiniH-il on I'siki- .Seven)

WALLA WALLA, Wash., July 7.—(UP) — Warden Lawrence Delmore, Jr., of the riot-torn Washington State Prison agreed to meet today with guards seeking a shakedown of cell blocks they claim .still bristle with “dozens of concealed knives.” “We will refuse to go into the cell blocks unless the shakedown is made,” said a sjx>ke.snian who sa J he represented three‘ourths of the day shift. Delmore set the meeting with the guards at 9 a. m. EDT. A 26-hour riot at the institution ended Wednesday when a nine-point treaty signed by state institutional officers freed nine hostages and ended the rebellion. The spokesman for the guards said only a few of the knives and razors carried by the rioting prisoners were turned in when they filed back to their cells. “Not one-third of the weapons t iken in the kitchen are being surrendered,” he said. “We aro not going back in there (the cell blocks) when we know dozens of knives may be cached in the

cells.”

He said the convict-written “treaty” signed by prison offi- • ials “made more concessions to the prisoners than it did for us.’’ Guards were willing to help the National Guard or State Patrol make' a systematic search for hidden weapons the spokesman said “but we want all prisoners out in the yard when the inspection is made.” There was speculation that if the meeting did not produce results satisfactory to the guards, the National Guard and State Patrol would he callet' in. Gov. Arthur B. Langlie would have to issue such an order, however.

GRAVESIDE SERVICES HELD FOR BABY BOY

Fight Seen On Reserve Plan

•Graveside services for Michael Lynn Appleby, infant son of Howard and Helen Appleby were held Wednesday afternoon at the Cloverd.de cemetery. Rev. C. O. Barr was in charge of the service The baby was born Tuesday at the Putnam county hospital. The paternal grandparents of the infant are: Mr. and Mrs. Howard Appleby, Cloverdalc and the maternal grandparents are, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Snapp, Bainbridgo.

Report Is Made On Girls' State

Convict Richard Davis Armstrong (right) talks with Dr. Thomas Harris, state institution director. Said Harris, “This has been caused by a nucleus who have to be gotten out . .

Inside prison walls, Walla Walla’s superintendent of industry, Bill Shiffman (left), talks with convict James Walker Singletary, one of the revoll negotiators. Man in middle is unidentified.

The new officers of the Greeneastle Rotary Club presided for the first time in their official capacities at the luncheon meeting at the Student Memorial Union on Wednesday. Lois J. Arnold introduced his daughter, one of the local contingent of high school girls attending Girls State at Indiana University last week Miss Arnold gave an excellent and comprehensive report cf the activities at this annual event sponsored by the Indiana American Legion Auxiliary with the thought in mind of acquainting high school girls with the functions of state and county governments. Miss Arnold’s report followed the daily schedule of what transpired, and her comments on what Girls State had meant to her were well given.

WASHINGTON, July 7. (UP) —Sen. Richard B. Russell sharply questioned today the “propriety or the equity” of the administration’s plan to impose a compulsory reserve obligation

on veterans.

Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, thus took issue with one of Lh< main props of the administr ition’s military reserve program. The Georgia Democrat raised his challenge to the administration's plan as the committee opened hearings in an attempt to push some reserve plan

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BANKER XPI’OINTED

Prison at Walla Walla, Wash., where the revolt broke out.

“THERE IS no hope here . . . nothing but men without hope," was the cry of one revolting convict in Walla Walla, Wash., prison as the maximum security convicts held out for better conditions in negotiating with authorities. In a formal statement the convicts said they had taken “all steps to prevent violence.’* They held seven hostages, (International b</undptM)to3/ d

through the Senate before gressional adjournment. The committee scheduled only three days of hacring.s, with the goal of reporting out a reserve bill for Senate action in 10 day . Lead-off witnesses on the fir ^ lay of hearings were represen- j tatives of educational, seientifi ■, technical and labor groups. TKadministration is scheduled to present its case for the reserve

nlan Monday.

Russell’s opening statement '.vas an indication that the administration’s plan, already a: - proved ,n modified form by the House, may be in for substant•al overhauling in the Senate

committee.

Und r the administration's nlan to strengthen the reserves, •ervicemen would have a coru•ulsory reserve training obligaion following active duty. Under h’. House-approved version, it voul'i be a total of five years ot •ctive ami reserve duty. To build i.p a corps of reservsts without previous active (C'uutiotieU on I'uae Into)

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INDIANAPOLIS, July 7. (UP)—The appointment of Lifayette banker E. Joseph Ban- ‘ ' ft to t; . Shite Board of Public and Terminals was anbv Governor Craig’s of-

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