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a a REG SEE Freeman Apple, Historic Farm's Owner, Succumbs Freeman Apple, owner of a farm known as a landmark in Oaklandon, Lawrence Township, died yesterday in Methodist Hospital. Mr. Apple, 53 years old, was owner of a a a a a a a a a farm on R.R. 2, part of a 300-acre tract settled by his grandfather, Christopher Apple, more than 120 years OAKLANDON High School was built on the land in 1889 and continued to be a high school until 1941 when it was changed to a grammar school because of the farschools consolidation Hand" is owned by three brothers. The farm also is the site of one Capt.

Bell's Rites To Be Wednesday The body of Capt. Donald W. Bell, Indianapolis, killed while piloting a P-47 fighter plane on a train-strating mission near Milan, Italy, Sept. 15, 1944, will be buried with full military honors in Crown Hill Cemetery following, in services Moore at 1:30 Mortuaries p.m. North East Chapel.

Capt. Bell, a member the 12th Air Force, 57th Fighter Group, 66th Fighter Squadron, based on the island of Corsica, was on his 56th mission when he was killed" by anti-aircraft tire. He had participated in softfor the invasion of Southern France and had received A citation destroying a in Germany. Before going overseas, he was an observation officer at the Richmond (Va.) Air Base. Before that he served as a flight instructor at bases in Texas and Kansas.

He received his comission at Victoria Field, Texas. A LIFETIME resident of Indianapolis, Capt. Bell was 25 years old when killed. He enlisted in the Army Oct. 1, 1941.

He attended School 51, Arsenal Technical High School and Indiana University. An ROTC student at I.U., he won honors as the second best shot on the Indiana University rifle team. He a member of the choir at Centenary Christian Chute and past president of the Technical High School Glee Club. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.

A. J. Bell. live at 3609 Forest Manor. Other survivors are the widow.

Mrs. Vida Seaman Bell: a son, Donald Bell Taylorville, a brother, Albert J. Bell and sister. Mrs. Marjorie 'Bell Cutha bert, both of Indianapolis.

Rites Are Set For A. R. Minton Funeral services for August R. Minton, 63 years old, 808 Fletcher Avenue, who died Thursday, will be at 10:00 a.m. Monday in Robert W.

Stirlin Funeral Home. He will be buried in Washington Park Cemetery. Mr. Minton, a resident of Indiana polis 36 years, born in Georgetown, O. He was a maintenance man for the Fletcher Trust Company 35 years and A member of Evergreen Masonic Lodge 715.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ethel Minton, Indianapolis: a step-daughter, Haussman, Indianapolis; two step-sons, Jerome H. and Martin S. Minton, Indianapolis; four sisters, Mrs. Emma Davis, Lexington, Mrs.

Esther Strobel, Mrs. Minnie Conrad and la Campbell, Covington, Ky. John Hacker Funeral services for John Hacker, 61 years old. 935 North Beville Avenue, who died Thursday in his home, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Royster and Askin Funeral Home.

Burial will follow in Washington Park Cemetery. Mr. Hacker, a salesman of the West Baking Company 22 years, was a native of Indianapolis. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Myrle Stanley: two sisters.

Mrs. Lydia Morgan and Mrs. Clara Reynolds; five brothers. Charles, Edward, Frank, Walter and George Hacker, and two grandchildren, John and Shirley Berry, all of Indianapolis. Mrs.

Frank S. Fields Funeral services will be held for Mrs. Frank S. Fields, 60 years 519 North grant. Avenue, at 2 p.m.

tomorrow at Winter Avenue Church of the Nazarene. Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Fields, a native of Indianapolis, died Friday, at her home. She was a member of Winter Avenue Church of the Nazarene.

Survivors are the husband, Frank S. Fields; a daughter, Mrs. Truth Arthur; two sisters, Mrs. Muriel SChmoe and Mrs. Ruth Hiles; three brothers, Walter, Clarence and Paul Matlock.

and two Grandchildren, all Cot Indianap THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1948 Last Rites Today In Frankfort For Charles Kemp Frankfort, Dec. 4 funeral services for Charles Kemp, packing plant operator who died Friday night in Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, will be p.m. tomorrow Funeral conducteddain? Home. Entombment will be in Greenlawn Cemetery mausoleum. Mr.

Kemp headed the Kemp Packing Company, which operates plants here and at Kempton and manufactures a nationally known brand of tomato juice. A native of Tipton, Mr. Kemp was graduated from Indiana University and its law school. He practiced law in Tipton until 1917, when he came here to take over the packing plant. Survivors are the widow, Mrs.

Thompson Kemp; a daughter, Miss Janet Kemp, a student at the University of Arizona; a brother, Walter J. Kemp, Kokomo, and three nieces and a nephew. Edward J. Heede Dies, World War I Veteran Funeral services for Edward J. Heede, 61 years old, 336 South Walcott Street, will be held at 3 p.m.

Tuesday in Moore Mortuaries Peace Chapel. Burial will be in the Concordia Cemetery. He died yesterday. Mr. Heede, a native of Indianapolis, had worked as an elevator dispatcher in the Architects Building since 1929.

He was a member of the American Legion Emerson Post 262 and 40 and 8 Voiture 145. During World War I he served overseas in the Navy. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Constance Odewann, and a sister, Mrs. Louise Corwin, Fulton, Mo.

Herbert L. Orr Herbert L. Orr, 55 years old, 1860 North Talbot Avenue, died yesterday morning in his home. Born in Greenfield, Mr. Orr lived in Indianapolis most of his life and was an agent of Prudential Life Insurance Co m- pany 15 years.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Kirby or Burial will be in a hi g- ton Park Cemetery. Survivors are the widow. Mrs. Grace Orr, Indianapolis; two sisters, Mrs.

Walter Abbott and Mrs. Edward Parrish, Indianapolis; a son, Joseph Boyd Anderson, and two grandsons from Anderson. of the first brick buildings in the county. other pioneers building houses of logs, Christopher Apple was making bricks from mud and building a nine-room farmhouse. Bricks for the home, which still stands intact, were walking a yoke of oxen through a mudhole to give the mud a smooth texture.

The mud was then molded into bricks by Mr. Apple and baked in an improvised outdoor oven. Mr. Apple, like his father and three brothers, was born on the farm. had farmed his 97-acre portion of the original tract ever since he was a young man.

He was a member of Farm Bureau and was active in promoting 4-H Club work in Lawrence Township. HE WAS considered a grain expert in the state and for many years was in charge of Purdue Agricultural Center's grain exhibits. Farmers from all over Indiana sought his advice about oats, wheat, corn and soybeans. He was a member of Oaklandon Odd Fellows Lodge 534, IOOF: Oaklandon Encampment 254. Cantons of Indianapolis, and Oak-.

landon Rebekah Lodge 427. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in McCord Funeral Home, Burial will be in IOOF Cemetery there. Survivors are three brothers, Arthur, Edward and Porter Apple, Oaklandon: three sisters. Ada Ellsworth, Pendleton: Mrs.

Harman Young. Indianapolis, and Mrs. Bernie Klepfer, Oaklandon. Allison J. Pliley Allison John Pliley, 79 years old, LaSalle Street.

died yesterday." He lived in Indianapolis 50 years. Mr. Pliley, born in Topeka, was a retired plasterer. He was a member of Local 46 Plasterers' Union (AFL). Funeral services will be at 10 a.

m. tomorrow in Moore Mortuaries Northeast Chapel. Burial will be in Sullivan Park Cemetery. Survivors are two nieces, Mrs. Regina Hutchinson, Indianapol's, and Mrs.

Elva Feller. Quincy, and a nephew, Walter Pliley, Clinton. Mrs. Eunice Russell Mrs. Eunice Russell, 65 years old.

638 Pierson Avenue, died yesterday. Mrs. Russell, born in Ellston, lived in Indianapolis 22 years. She was a member of Phillips Temple Church. Funeral services will be heid at 1:30 p.

m. tomorrow in John A. Patton Funeral Home. Burial will be in Floral Park Cemetery. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs.

Marian Jones, Indianapolis: two sons, Carl Russell, McKeesport, Walter Russell, Ford City, seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. CONTRACT BRIDGE A combination team of four and pair game was held Sunday by the Lincoln Bridge Club in the Hotel Lincoln with tops i in team event going to Ralph Ittenbach, Dr. Lyman Pearson and Mr. and Mrs. V.

R. Rupp. Mrs. John R. Kelley, Mrs.

Merritt L. Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. George P. Ryan were second.

Third position was taken by Mrs. Ralph E. Duncan, Mrs. Reba Buck, Larry Welch and Jerry Jacobs. Honors in the pair standing went to Ittenbach and Dr.

Pearson, north-south, and Welch and Jacobs, east-west. Mrs. Kelley and Mrs. Thompson were second, north-south, with Dr. George and Harry Singleton, Goldman, and Mrs.

V. P. Rupp were second in the east-west seats, and Mr. and Mrs. Ryan, third.

MALLORY PLAYERS Tops at the Monday night play of the Mallory Duplicate Bridge Club were taken by Mrs. H. Griffin and Paul Hamilton, northsouth, and Clarence Huetten and L. E. McFarren, east -west.

Ray Graham and D. R. Elmore were second. north-south, and Mrs. Paul Crosier and Mrs.

Kenneth Schafer, second, east-west. MASTER POINTER Members of the Women's Contract Club of Indianapolis staged a master point play Thursday in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Top scores in. section A went to Mrs. William Eckart and Mrs.

A. G. Hendricks, north-south, and Mrs. F. C.

Lewis and Mrs. R. F. Banister, east-west. Second spots were taken by Mrs.

Kathleen Abbett and MI's. Carl J. Rusie, north-south, and Mrs. Kitty Warner and Mrs. W.

T. Rose, eastwest. Mrs. Roger L. Deputy and Morris were third, north south, and Mrs.

A. E. Witt and Mrs. S. R.

Richardson, third, ea Top scores in section went to Mrs. F. W. Gilchrist and Mrs. Randall R.

Bass, north-south, and J. E. Morris, Mrs. A. Mrs.

R. C. Goodwine, and Mrs. R. Coffin and Mrs.

V. R. Rupp were second, north-south, and Mrs. Keith L. Johns and Mrs.

C. C. Mathews, second in the opposite seats. Thirds went to Mrs. Joseph A.

Brower and Mrs. K. L. Nielson, north-south, and Mrs. A.

C. McKinsey and Mrs. L. Becknell, east-west. The annual Christmas party for members will be held Thursday morning, Dec, 16.

Reservations are made with Mrs. L. J. Blackmore or Mrs. Arthur R.

Pratt. ST. JOAN OF ARC Mr. and Mrs. Leo J.

Gootee were tops, North-South, and Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Nielsen, East in group at the Wednesday night: play of the St.

Joan of Are Bridge Club in the school "hall. Tops in section A went to M. L. Thompson and, Mrs. Arch Falender, North-Sout and Mrs.

Paul A. Givens an Mrs. Indiana Deaths Robert B. Cummings, Retired Fireman, Dies Kokomo, Dec. 4 Robert B.

Cummings, 80 years old, a member of the Kokomo fire department 28 years, died in his home here today. Cummings, suffered a stroke two weeks ago and had been confined to his bed since. He was at one superintend of the Gamewell division of time, Mrs. Wesley Campbell Funeral services for Mrs. Cora Stull Campbell, 81 years old, R.R.

4, Nashville, will be held 2 p.m. tomorrow in Nashville ate Methodist Church. Burial will be in Nashville Cemetery. Life-long resident of Brown County, Mrs. Campbell died FriBartholomew County Hospital.

Survivors include the husband, Wesley Campbell; three daughters, Mrs. Esther Kritzer, Nashville: Mrs. Geneva Carter and Miss Ima Campbell, Indianapolis, and a grandson, Merrill Williams, Columbus. Part Plan Retirement I Plan for Retirement Empl for Plans Employees Benefit for Oil Oil Company Standard Standard STANDAR Plan Employees Group Insurance Surgical Operation STANDARD 1. THESE BOOKLETS DESCRIBE to our employee benefit programs in any and disability benefits, group life and surgical operation insurance, members of his immediate family as the fire department.

He retired Jan. 1, 1940. Only survivor is his widow, Mrs. Amanda Cummings. Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning in Zion Tabernacle here.

Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Other Indiana Deaths Anderson James V. Rozelle, 86: Mrs. Gertrude Dilk, 78. Arlington-Mrs.

Ollie R. Hinton, 72. Brownstown-Arthur C. Greger, 71. Evansville- William S.

ClayLaGrange-William B. Burkey, 58; Mrs. Eliza L. Coplin, 92. 84, Lebanon- Mrs.

Estella Stubbs, Linton- -Parker Thompson, 61. Monon-Willard H. Hulen, 44. Reynolds George B. Faker, 77.

Residents of South Side can place Their Star Want Ads at The Star's South Side Office, 1042 Virginia Military Rites For Pic. Vaughn services Pfc. Rob.Military Vaughn, killed in action near Florence, Italy, Sept. 22, 1944, will be conducted by Wayne American Legion Post 64 after the funeral at 9 a.m. Thursday at St.

Anthony's Church. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. At the time of his death Pfc. Vaughn was attached to the 339th Infantry, headquarters company. He entered the Army a few months before he would have graduated from Washington High School in 1943.

He received his basic training at Little Rock, and proceeded from there to Italy. For five years he assisted his brother, Tommy Vaughn, a professional golfer at Pleasant Run Golf Course. He was a member of St. Anthony's Church. Survivors include his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. John Vaughn 361 North Holmes Avenue, four brothers, Tommy, Victor and James E. Vaughn, Indianapolis, and John Vaughn New York City, and four sisters, Mrs. Mary Stelzel, Walla Walla, Mrs. A Anna Roberts, Catherine Vaughn and Miss Eleen B.

Jacobson Vaughn, Indianapolis. Dies; Retired Injuries Received Nov. 5 Prove Fatal Funeral services for James A. Williams, 67 years old, 2135 Wendell Street, will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow in People's Funeral Home.

Burial will be in Floral Park Cemetery. Mr. Williams died Thursday in General Hospital of injuries he suffered Nov. 5, when struck by an automobile on Northwestern Avenue, near 21st Street. Born at Riley Station, he came ot Indianapolis in 1909 and was employed 16 years by Polar Ice and Fuel Company.

Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Mary Estell Williams, Indianapolis; a son, Theophilus Williams, Kentucky, and a sister, Mrs. Ella Nyles, Cleveland. Doing Nicely, Hospital Report On 'Aunt Mary' Clinton, Dec. 4 (Spl.) Ernie Pyle's "Aunt Mary" Bales was reported "doing very nicely" by attendants in Vermillion County Hospital here tonight.

The 82-year-old aunt of the late Hoosier war correspondent suffered a broken hip yesterday in a fall in her chicken yard near Dana. leg hurt? does a away from your You broken How much pain have an accident won't broke. but tells you that what job, not feel the you comfortable, The grin leg is gone. But purse? If may won't be bankrupt. in the in the and you about the pain Standard Oil work for you and Disability Sickness Benefits Plan Plans for poloyees Benefit for Company Stand Standard Employees Policy Concerning Vacations for Employees Standard Oil the Company employees one of the finest, broadest industry.

The program includes sickness insurance. It includes group hospital covering not only the employee but the well. REST RECORD 889 BAYS DAYS SINCE LAST ACCIDENT 183 ACCIDENT YEA OFF TIME ACCIDENTS 83 INS YEAR 3. OUR ACCIDENT RATE is far below average. These men and their more than 46,000 fellow employees are actually many times safer at work than they are at home! In their work, too, they have another kind of security- their jobs are backed by an investment of $25,000 per employee in tools and equipment.

This investment, provided by Standard Oil's 97,000 owners, makes production possible, gives employees the means to earn high wages. 2. LIKE THIS COUPLE, nearly 2,000 retired employees already receive benefits under Standard's retirement plans, another feature of the employee benefit program of this company and its subsidiary companies. Participation is vol- untary, but the advantages of the retirement plans are so great that over of our eligible employees have joined. STANDARD 4.

EMPLOYEES AVERAGE $4,000. Yes, average over $4,000, for each of our and women have responded by setting output of products in urgent demand 1948 new records have been set to fuel oil and other petroleum products A Standard Oil Company STANDARD (INDIANA) STANDARD SERVICE Merchant Funeral services for Barnett Jacobson, 72 years old, retired Indianapolis merchant who died yesterday, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Aaron-Ruben Funeral Home. Burial will be in Beth El Cemetery. Mr.

Jacobson, who owned and operated Jacobson's Department Store at 1843 Shelby Street 28 years, died in his home, 4603 Park Avenue, after a long illness. Born in Russia, he came to America as young man and lived in Indianapolis 51 years. He retired in 1928. He was a member of Beth -El Temple, the Zionist Organization and B'nai B'rith. Survivors are a son, Joe Jacobson, Indianapolis, and two daughters, Mrs.

Lena Cohen, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Julian Cadden, South Bend; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. You but J. E. Morris, East-West.

Mrs. V. R. Rupp and Ralph Ittenbach were second. North-South, in section and Mr.

and Mrs. A. J. Lauth, second, East-West. Runners-up in section were Mrs.

Waring Lynch and Mrs. Carl Bruce, North-South, and Mrs. Arthur R. Pratt and Mrs. Lydia Wickoff, East-West.

WOOD PLAYS IN NATIONAL Edson T. Wood will compete in the national open pair play ot the winter national contract bridge championships which opened vesterday in Miami, Fla. His partner will be Levintritt of New York tournament will Peter, cover 9 days of play. MAROTT MASTER POINT F. R.

Buck and Edson T. Wood took tops, North-South, and Lohn Lynn and Jack O'Keefe, EastWest, at the master point play night in the Marott Tuesday, Miss Mary Crawford and Lawrence J. Welch were second, North-South, and Roger L. Deputy and Robert Scherner, third. In the opposite seats, Mrs.

S. R. Richardson and Mrs. William Epstein were second, and Mrs. Alex Metzger and Miss Gertrude Brown, third.

INDIANA UNION The Hickory Hall foursome took the Thursday night play of Indiana Union Contract Bridge League in the Union Hall on the campus. Members of the winning team were J. Groselle, Paul Cooper, T. Simpkins and John Walpe. There was a tie for the runner-up position and was among the Opus Four, made up of John Pardee, M.

Unger, P. G. Speros and A. C. Oberhausen, and the Four Life Masters, composed of Gilman, Sam Sirois, Rene Pattee and Herbert Adler.

The league will play again Thursday night. LINCOLN CONTRACT BRIDGE CLUB Dr. Fred Gifford and Jeff Everhart took top honors for North and South when the Lincoln Bridge Club played Friday night. In second place were Mrs. Reba Buck and Jerry Jacobs.

Third placers were Mesdames Ralph Duncan and Joseph Brower. First placers for East and West were Mesdames William Epstein and William Rose. In second place were Lawrence J. Welch and S. A.

Robinson. Mesdames J. L. Becknell and J. E.

Morris placed third. NEWCOMERS' MIXED DUPLICATE CLUB Mr. and Mrs. P. M.

Cassidy were winners for North and South when the Newcomers' Bridge group played Friday night in the Y.W.C.A, In second place were Mesdames E. W. Barnard and Irene McCormack. Top placers for East and West were Mrs. Marge Vicars and Miss Adaline Walker.

Mr. Mrs. Robert Tappan placed second. The ladies' group will meet Monday afternoon. STANDARD one year's employees.

records, by you help bring you want. wages and benefits now These skilled, efficient men both in 1946 and 1947, for and the nation. Again in you more of the gasoline,.