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THE TERSE HAUTE STAB, THURSDAY, JASTJAEY 26, 1950 Sullivan Judge Continued From Page I and the judge said that wasn't necessary. Then the judge, in the presence of the court clerk and others, signed Clark's name to the application and ordered the clerk, who refused, to notarize it. I have no-idea why he did it," the prosecutor added. PROSECUTOR Purcell said the judge's actions have been under investigation for several months. Concerning the embezzlement charge, the prosecutor said that this sum was fixed by the grand jury and that evidence may show there is a larger sum involved.

Judge Harris, a 58-year-old Democrat, was elected to a six-year term on the circuit bench after a bitter campaign in the Fall of 1948. The campaign was marked by a slander suit by Harris against his opponent, Amorine Wilson, based on charges the Republican had called Harris a Communist. Wilson had filed suit contesting the election because Harris spent seven months in 1932 in the penitentiary at Chillicothe, Ohio, after being convicted of a charge of forging veterans' names to government checks. In 1941 President Roosevelt pardoned him and restored to Harris the right to hold public office. Both dropped.

suits later were in the courtroom, where he was appearing as an attorney. Early last Winter Harris sought to dismiss Ray Newkirk, Tleasant- ville, member of the Sullivan County Welfare Board, on grounds of misconduct in office and nonattendance at meetings. He had appointed Newkirk to the board in June of the same year. JUDGE HARRIS denied Newkirk's request for a special judge in the dismissal action and the welfare board member appealed the case to the State Supreme Court. The State Court appointed Judge Edwin B.

Long of Greene County as special judge and a hearing on this case had been scheduled for this Friday morning. The Sullivan County jurist was at liberty tonight and no action was expected in the indictment until a special judge has been named by the State Supreme Court. The Sullivan Bar Association is expected to recommend this special judge. Harris immediately disqualified himself as judge in the case this morning after the indictment in his own court. Coal Shortage Continued From Page 1 of a national emergency in the coal deadlock.

Boyd's appearance before the Senate labor committee was in connection with its hearings a Republican-backed resolution HARRIS, a belligerent defender of civil liberties, first came into na-! force Lewjs to put his men on aj 'HOT TIME IN THE OLD of Steinmetz High School in Chicago refused to let John L. Lewis and his striking mine workers put a damper on their midyear prom. Night dances at school were" banned because of the coal strike, but the students each lugged 10 pounds of coal from home to build up a stockpile for the big dance. CITY DEATHS tional prominence when he ac ii-p rod ucUon schedeule. cepted.

along with singer Paul! The Mine Bureau director de- Jlobeson, the co-chairmanship of: cjjned to say ther he thinks! FBA NKLI.V -SINGER'JOHNSON the committee to defend 11 Com-j lhe coa crisjs could be averled by munists York- later convicted in New Previously the jurist had spent time in jail, at least twice for being in contempt of the Sullivan Circuit Court, over which he now presides. The presiding judge, Judge Martin L. Pigg. charged Harris was drunk LOANS ON ALMOST ANX KIND OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. SECURITY LOAN-CO.

17 S. 4th St C-4304. Since 1886 we have served the families of this community. adoption of the would not be binding on the President, but merely signify the Senate's interpretation of national sentiment. Held for Attempting To Break Into Diner Alertness of a nearby night watchman was credited early this morning 6y police for the arrest of a 29-year-old man who officers say confessed he made an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Riley Diner, Fourth and Mulberry streets.

Police said the watchman notified them that he saw a man break front door glass at the diner. Police Lieutenant Frank Stroot and Officers Head and Pierce, who were sent to the scene, reported they found Peter Mathis Shell, 29 years old. Unit 7-B. Voorhees Housing, sitting in an adjoining doorway. Questioned at police headquarters Shell is reported to have told Police Captain Joseph Wheeler that he smashed the glass and then jimmied the back door.

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69 years old died Tuesday at his home. 1633 North First Street. He was found dead yesterday. Coroner Denzil Ferguson said he evidently had been dead since Tuesday morning. A verdict of death due to coronery occlusion-was returned by the coroner.

He is survived by a half brother. George W. Smith of Terre Haute. The body was taken to the Thomas Funeral Home where services will be held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. The Rev.

H. C. I Mowery will officiate, and burial will be in Highland Lawn Cemetery. CHARLES L. NORRIS Charles L.

Norris, 49 years old. 26 South Twelfth Street, an employe of the Vendel Grocery Company, died at 6:25 o'clock yesterday morning at St. Anthony's Hospital. He is survived by three sons, Donald and Robert Norris, both of Terre Haute, and Thomas Norris, with the Army in Germany: a brother, Albert Norris of Danville, 111., and a grandchild. The body was talten to the Callahan Funeral Home where services will be held at II o'clock Friday morning, the Rev.

K. Merryman officiating. MRS. JULIA ETTA PUGH Mrs. Julia Etta Pugh, 84 years old.

died at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the residence. 107 Monterey Avenue. She was a member of the Montrose Methodist Church and one of the founders of the Liberty Avenue Methodist Church. Surviving are the husband. Samuel three sons.

Arthur. Russell and H. Raymond Pugh. all of Terre Haute: two daughters. Mrs.

Florence Rapson and Mrs. Mary Gardner, both of Terre Haute, and six grandchildren. The body was taken to the H. P. Martin Funeral Home.

MRS. FLORENCE PIETY Word was received here yesterday by Mrs. F. H. Griffith.

2342 North Seventh Street, of the death of her mother, Mrs. Florence Piety, 103 years old. which occurred at her home in Upland. Cal. Surviving are three other daughters, Mrs.

G. W. Scrogin and Mrs. A. I.

Jordan, both of Upland, and Mrs. F. G. Pickell of New Jersey: a brother. R.

M. Piety of Laguna Beach, 16 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Services will be held this morning at Ontario, Cal. JOHN BUSH Funeral services for John Bush. 60 years old.

who died Monday at Gary, will be held at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the home of his niece, Mrs. Don Javins, 1934 Garfield Avenue. The Rev. C. Mowery will officiate and burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.

The body was taken to the niece's residence yesterday afternoon from the Gillis Memory Chapel. MRS. ALLIE D. LACOY Funeral services for Mrs. Allie D.

Lacoy, who died Tuesday, will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the DeBaun Funeral Home in Prairie Creek, the Rev. Clyde Rodabaugh officiating. Burial will be in West Lawn Cemetery at Prairie Creek, WILLIAM H. SURBER Funeral services for William H. Surber.

years eld. who died Tuesday, will be held at 1:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, the Rev. Thomas Mabley officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery- The body will be taken to the church at 12:30 o'clock Friday afternoon from the Gillis Memory Chapel.

MRS. ALMA LOU DICKERSON Funeral services for Mrs. Alma Lou Dickerson. 84 years old. who died Tuesday, will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the P.

J. Ryan' A- Sons Funeral Home, the Rev. Esmond Elliott officiating. Burial will be in Highland Lawn Cemetery. MRS.

DOROTHY MARGARET YOUNG Funeral services for Mrs. Dorothy Marcaret Young. 41 years old, who died Tuesday, will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the H. P. Martin Funeral Home.

The Rev. K. K. Merryman and the Rev. Clyde Rodabaugh will officiate and burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Park.

MRS. ANNIE BUCK Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Buck. 70 years old. who died Tuesday, held at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon at the Locust Street Evangelical United Brethren Church, the Rev.

James W. Davis officiating. Burial will be in Highland Lawn Cemetery. The body will be taken to the church at 12:30 o'clock this afternoon from the Thomas Funeral Home. FRED 'BRICK' HAYNES -Funeral services for Fred "Brick" Haynes.

55 years old. who died Tuesday, will be held at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Thomas Funeral Home, the Rev. Thomas Stovall officiating. Burial tvill be in Roselawn Memorial Park, with Krietenstein Post. American Legion.

'conducting -military rite5. MRS. SADIE MOODY Funeral services for Mrs. Sadie Moody. 52 year? old.

who died Tuesday, will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the J. N. Hickman Son Funeral Home. Burial will be in Center Ridge Cemetery at Sullivan. MRS.

KATHRYN BOLA.VD HUNTER Funeral services for Mrs. Kathryn Boland Hunter, 76 years old. who died Monday, will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the Caliahan Funeral Home. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. JOE 'SUE' BRYSON Joe "Sue" Bryson.

50 years old. died at 2:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his home. 214 South First Street. He by a sister, Mrs. Tina Bryson of Chicago, and two aunts.

The body was taken to the Green Funeral MRS. VIRGINIA SNOW Mrs. Virginia Snow, 82 years old, died at 10:30 o'clock last night at her residence, 111 Locust Street. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Waggoner of Texas: three sons.

Everett. WU- liam and John Snow. aU of Terre Haute; a sister, Mrs. Doshia Bowers of Bloomington, 21 grandchildren. 26 great- grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild The body was taken to the Bedino-Black Chapel of the Valley in West Terre Haute.

MacArthur Reaches 70; Praised by Japanese TOKYO. Jan. General Douglas MacArthur celebrated his seventieth birthday today. The celebration was a quiet one, marked by no ostentation or huge military ceremony. He reviewed an honor guard of 150 enlisted men at the American Embassy and then spent the morning receiving callers at his headquarters.

The Japanese press lauded the occupation commander simple, "almost austere life" and said it could not help but contrast his tion. Clifford JAYCEE AND LEGION LEADERS DISAGREE ON-HOOVER REPORT INDIANAPOLIS; Jan. of two of the nation's biggest membership organizations exchanged some hot words at long distance today over the Hoover report on the Veterans Administra- D. Cooper, national president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, made a speech here in favor of the Hoover Commission's recommendations concerning veterans' affairs. In it he criticized the American Legion, whose commander, George N.

Craig, told President Truman in Washington today the Hoover plan would result in only chaos and waste. "We realize that selfish interest groups fight for continuation of a cut of the government pie," Cooper declared. Defending the Hoover reorganization proposal. Cooper said "There is nothing at all to hurt the veterans of this country. Eighty-five per cent of the Jaycees are veterans." He said a petition with 2,500.000 names on it favoring the reorganization will be sent to Washington in March.

Craig, replying in a handout to statements Cooper has been making in speeches, the Junior Chamber's stand "illustrates the ignorance and bias which both the American Legion and the people of America have to fight to prevent dismemberment of the Veterans Administration." Complimenting the Chamber as a group of 180,000 thinking young men. the Craig statement continues: "They are thinkers even if they may be led by an unthinking president." Jaycees Continued From Page 1 Terre Haute also were in attendance. Rabbi Leonard J. Mervis gave the invocation. Shirley Armstrong, organist and Barbara Faust, vocalist, with Carol Barnett as her accompanist, provided the dinner music.

The invocation was given by the Rev. Father Herbert F. National Jaycees President Cooper whose permanent home is in Alhambra, and whose temporary home is Tulsa, national office for the organizaticrn, spoke on the subject, "America Is Now a Finished Product." He spoke of the Junior Chamber of "Commerce as a laboratory where men between the ages of 18 and 35 are trained for leadership. He said that the American people are vitally interested in what young men of this age are thinking of today because they will fashion the world of tomor- HE THEN assured his listeners that the young men in the Junior Chamber of Commerce are not "swallowing the fuzzy economic and social ideologies being them but instead are believing in the things which are the mainsprings of America." He declared that the Jaycees are humanitarians and that they, are in favor of the great humanitarian movement of the American rehabilitation of the European countries and added that they are also vitally interested in the stability of economic conditions of Amer- ished pie and who wanted to take a cut of it back home." "The economic tax dollar has not been utilized to its purchasing power," he said. "Most young men cannot even visualize a $42,000,000,000 budget The people of this generation should start paying the $5,000,000.000 national debt for which they are responsible and not leave it to future generations." PRESIDENT COOPER said "Man always has gotten along when he has been given freedom to solve his own economic problems." He pointed out as problems of the government that the Jaycees recognize that of obtaining a better education for youth from 6 to 21 and that of caruig for its old.

and added. "Because of those problems we believe that the people between 21 and 60 must be left free to produce, for some one has to produce to keep a nation alive." "The Jaycees want a dynamic economy in America," he said. "The Jaycees want to solve their own economic problems. It is important to retain the freedom to fail as well as succeed in America because the success of some is built on the ashes of those who have failed." India Will Proclaim New Constitution NEW DELHI, India, Jan. The dream of a whole gen- In presenting Blumberg for the it award.

Batman said Blumberg is assistant manager of the M. Blumberg Company, past president and chairman of many important' committees of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, director of the Y. M. C. the Family Welfare, co- Weather Continued From Pace 1 England and parts of Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, piling up a layer up to three inches thick.

The Iowa sleet and forced some rural schools to close and a county basketball tournament was postponed. A snowstorm that almost paralyzed North Dakota brought welcome moisture in some places. One end of the storm swerved unexpectedly into southeastern Colorado, dumping four inches of snow at Lamar in the worst part of tha dust bowl area. Up to seven inches fell in parts of Nebraska. Plows opened 2.200 miles of snow-locked highways in North Dakota Wednesday.

Twenty-four hours earlier, at the height of a bad blizzard, only six of the state's 7.000 inites of highway were open. Hard-packed drifts hampered the road clearing. An eight- ton V-type plow was unable to break through to Ashley in the south-central part of the state. The cold air mass had been expected to spread swiftly through much of the Midwest, but warm. moist breezes from the gulf held Reduce Liability Rate INDIANAPOLIS.

Jan. 25 per cent reduction in public liability insurance rates for building owners and landlords was an. 4 4. anil Idmuuiua wets all- chairman of the Community Chest nounced tod bv the state campaign and president of ance Departmen B'rith IN THANKING the Jaycees for the award Blumberg said, "There is ica. He said that "they will not no award I would rather receive) sell out their freedom in business than this.

I hold it as an incentive for some kind of an economic se- to future service rather than an curity." award for what has been done." He The speaker struck at the pres- EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FITTED Contact Lenses. Glasses Repaired While Ion Walt Gold-Standt Optometrists Blumberg. who was present, saying administration for its heavy he had set an example for him to difficult for any person to start a Charles Kennedy, president of the business in this country." He also club, presented Batman as loast- struck at the pressure groups that are "trying to cut down good states- whistle to Walter Maehling, one of men on account of their objections eration of Indians comes true to- the honorary coaches for the Sixth to the great economic power placed Annual Baseball Tournament of Jaycees for helping call the last game of the tournament. Mayor Ralph Tucker a former in the government." British (Jominion formally trans- HE SAID in part, "We are backing democratic republic." up the Hoover commission report Jaycee, spoke of his pride in the Simple ceremonies will mark the in its entirety, because it is right. work of the organization, particu- inauguration of the new repub- The commission was nonpartisan.

lican constitution and the replace- It had the best minds of the coun- ment of the governor general by observance with the "extravagant spoke briefly, praising the Terre It was not supported by those newly elected President Rajendra homage" paid to Soviet Premier Haute Jaycee program. who looked upon America as a fin- "DEDICATED TO THE MILLIONS WHO SMOKE THE CIGARETTE THAT SATISFIES This great, new factory uses everything science has discovered and human skill devised to make GhesterfitW the, best cigarette money can buy. I The MILDfiR Cigarette Officially Opens the WORLD'S NEWEST MOST MODERN CIGARETTE FACTORY and RESEARCH LABORATORIES Tune in Jbur jRadio and Listen to the Celebration Co-starring (Tennessee Plowboy) EDDY ARNOLD THE FONTANE SISTERS MITCHELL AYRES and his SUPPER CLUB ORCHESTRA ievinsoa's sportswear Flooi Ij Flowers-by-wire bring you together ogoin tenderly..