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L. Co, 537 it. TO' InO-. By Frank A. Roast Politicos.

Gridiron Banquet. Dog Is Herp. Helped Pioneers. THE GREAT AND NEAR great who frequent the Press Club in the Hoosier state capital have been a prolific source of inspiration for this column. It is only reasonable that there be published here a plug for the club's gridiron banquet, the evening of May 15.

Some 1,200 newsmen and.their friends, eluding the big-wigs of Hoosier politics, will attend the gridiron banquet, coming from all over the state and other states. Maurice C. Groendyke, vice- president of the Press Club, pointed out that Hoosiers take their politics seriously. It is all the more remarkable, because of this, that the warring political foes will call time out in the heat of a hot campaign to dine together and submit to merciless "roasting." In some countries political foes shoot at one another with real bullets and a gridiron banquet would be revolutionary in any country behind the Iron Curtain. WILLIAM J.

(CURLY) ASH, whose paper, The Indianapolis Commercial, features regularly The Hoosier Day, is president of the Press Club. Eugene J. Cadou, manager of Indiana's International News Service Bureau, is gridiron banquet chairman and C. Walter McCarty, columnist for the Indianapolis News, is the toastmaster of the celebrities. A glimpse of three major, gridiron banquet skits will indicate the "give and take" enjoyed by newsmen and friends of the Fourth Estate, at the coming affair.

Skit No. 1, with reporters as actors, pictures Gov. Henry F. Schricker "training" an apprentice, Lieut. Gov.

John A. Watkins, in how to wear a "white hat" and run a smooth GREENSBURG DAILY NEWS VOLUMFTIX VOLUME LIX No. 112. campaign for governor. Principals involved in the skits will all be present.

A SECOND SKIT will-feature Cale J. Holder, G. O. P. state chairman and other prominent Republicans, in the Eisenhower- Taft tussle for delegates votes.

A third skit is entitled "McHail, McHail, the Gang's All Here," featuring the 68 to 1 parlay reported in the Indianapolis Star, with McHale, McKinney and others as characters. U. S. Senator Robert S. Kerr, Oklahoma Democrat and U.

S. Senator W. E. Jenner, Republican, will deliver five-minute keynote addresses. Train Strikes Loaded School Bus; 20 Hurt Georgia Children, Teacher Headed For Gala Outing iRy Sen-ice) East Point, May least 20 high schol girls were injured today when a school bus, headed for a gala outing, was struck by a train at a crossing in East Point, a suburb of Atlanta.

Thirty-one girls, their teacher and the driver were aboard the Roswell, bus when was struck broadside by an lanta and West Point Railroad streamliner. One bystander said he heard the girls "scream to the driver" as the bus moved onto the tracks. The bus was following another bus from Roswell, loaded with boy students headed for the outing. The first bus got across the tracks safely. All aboard the second vehicle were rushed to hospitals in near- iby Atlanta.

Pat Jeanes, a service station operator near the scene who helped place the victims into ambulances, said: "All the girls were cut up. It was pretty rough. Some were sprawled on the street with their eyes closed when I ran up." FIRST CIBCULAT10N HMr THE CONF DENCK Qp GREENSBURG, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1952. 10 PAGES TODAY NEWS SERV.CE PRICE FIVE CENTS. Red POWs Seize U.

S. General on Kojc Island where Communist prisoners are Dodd (inset left) hostage, and ignoring demands for WERE IT LEFT TO me to name the great American news story of 1952, to date, it would be the exploit of Roger Kerr, 14- year-old freckled-faced Hoosier boy, who was trapped in a hol- breech tree, and rescued through the heroism of his dogs. Young Kerr, climbing to catch young coons, fell 40 feet inside a hoilow breech tree. Cold and hungry, his three dogs stayed on the scene, writing a new epic in devotion of dog to his master. And one of the dogs, Nipper, of nondescript ancestry, went for help that saved Kerr's life.

It is doubtful whether we have acknowledged properly the enormous role that dogs have played in the settlement of Indiana, and the U. S. in pioneer days. MY FOREBEARS CAME from Massachusetts to Virginia, hence to Kentucky, and then Indiana. On the house boat trip, they kept dogs as sentinels to warn of Indians.

In the wilderness, where they built cabins, a dog was kept inside the cabin at night and another outside. When hostile Indians came the dog outside would bark, arousing the one inside, and in turn my people. We, who have grown up in the country, know that for a "Abound dog to get trapped in a hole chasing a possum, causes as much furore as did the fatal episode in which Floyd Collins was trapped in a cave. There are Hoosier boys alive today only because the dog corps sniffed out Japs who hid like copperhead snakes in the jungles in World War II. The canine corps of our armed forces in Korea, likewise, is saving lives of GIs.

A marvelous job is being done by our "seeing eye" dogs ing the blind right here in Indiana. In view of the Godlike fidelity and faithfulness of dog to man, it is hard to understand why so many dog owners neg- lect their dogs and are so cruel 1o them. Death Claims Mrs. Tucker Former Resident of Clarksburg Was 53 Mrs. Alma Rose Tucker, 53, wife of Otis Tucker and a former resident of Clarksburg, died at 7 a.

m. Thursday at Orlando, according to a message received here. The body is being returned to Indiana, for funeral rites and jurial. The funeral service will be leld at 2 p. m.

Monday at the Wyatt Memorial mortuary at Rushville with the Rev. Wayne Thomas, pastor of the Clarksburg Christian church officiating. Burial will be made in the Clarksburg cemetery. Friends may call at the Rushville mortuary after the noon hour on Sunday. Born at Cincinnati and reared at Clarksburg, she was the daughter of John and Sophia Lampe Miller.

In 1919 she was united in marriage to Otis Tucker, a former resident of Laurel. The couple left Clarksburg about 20 years ago, residing at Buffalo, N. for eight years before locating at Orlando, four years ago. Besides the husband, Otis Tucker, she is survived by a daughter, Gladys, of Orlando, a brother, Raymond F. Miller, of Clarksburg; a half- brother, Robert Linville, of Clarksburg; and a half-sister, Mrs.

Dan O'Sullivan, of Greensburg. FOOD PRICES UP (By International News Service) Washington, May government reported today another slight rise in retail food prices and said wholesale prices have increased fractionally for the first time in six weeks. Illness Fatal To Woman, 63 Rites at St. Paul For Mrs. Fagel Funeral rites for Mrs.

Katie B. Fagel, well known in the St. Paul community, will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Carmony funeral home at St.

Paul. The Rev. J. W. Dickmann, of Shelbyville, will officiate.

Burial will be made in Paul Hill cemetery. The body is at the St. Paul funeral home where friends may call. Mrs. Fagel died at 8 a.

m. Thursday at the Robert Long hospital at Indianapolis. In failing health for some time, she had been seriously ill since October, 1951. The daughter of Oliver and Lena Hock Bruner, she was born on April 11, 1889, and on Jan. 9 1907, she was married to Frank Fagel, who preceded her in death in 19.50.

For a number of years she had resided one and one-half miles east of Waldron. She was i a lifelong resident of Shelby I county. I Ten children were born to the union, of which seven sons survive. They are Loren Thomas Inspect Galley Citizens of the community have been invited to inspect The Galley, new Greensburg youth center, Friday and Saturday evenings. Conflicting activities prevented many from visiting the center after it was formally opened Tuesday evening.

Pictures of'The Galley and stories of its regulations and activities appear today on page nine. Challenge of Today Is Told Sandusky Graduates Hear College Head and Lloyd, both of near Shelbyville; Meredith, of Middletown, and Robert, Chester, Bernie and Roscoe, of the St. Paul communi- SANDUSKY GRADUATES Delores Marie Hoeing Dorine Alma Hoeing Nettie Ann Giddings Mary Faye Spillman Martha Jean Coy Robert Kenneth Hall Charles Edward Lee Gene Edwin Linville Jack Eugene Brewsaugh David Elonso Merritt Dale Henry Schwering Thomas Andrew Idlevvine Rites Set for Albert Starks Prominent Osgood Businessman Was 81 Albert Starks, 81, of Osgood, a former resident of New Point, died Thursday at the Margaret Mary hospital at Batesville. He had been a patient at the hospital for two weeks following a stroke. Born on Oct.

6, 1870, three miles north of New Point, Bert Starks, as he was known, was the son of James and Susan Starks. Later he moved to New Point and about 45 years ago located at Osgood. He had been a member of the New Point Masonic lodge for 48 years. Mr. Starks was widely known in Decatur county.

in business circles at Osgood, he had engaged in the lumber business there for many years and later was in the hardware business. As a member of the Ripley county fair board for many years, he had devoted much time in the interest of the annual fair at Osgood. The survivors are: The widow, Mrs. Carrie (Doll) Starks, of Osgood; a son. Dr.

Hoyt Starks, OK Force to Free General Held by POWs Rationing of Ammunition in Korea Bared Army Secretary Says Troops Were Never "In Jeopardy" (By International News Service) Washington, May 9. Army Secretary Pace told senate investigators today that Allied forces in Korea now have adequate ammunition, but said past shortages have caused some rationing at the front. Pace said the lull in the Korean fighting in the last six months has permitted the buildup of ammunition reserves, but warned there is no "assurance" new shortages will not develop if congress cuts the military budget too sharply. The Army secretary gave the appraisal in a letter to Chairman Johnson (D) of the senate preparedness committee. Johnson asked the information because of reports of the rationing of ammunition in Korea.

Pace said the Army had large socks of World War II ammunition when the Korean fighting began, but that very little new ammunition was being produced. Pace declared that, despite some front line rationing, UN troops were never "in jeopardy" because of lack of ammunition. First or Second (By International News Service) New York, May 9 Sen. Robert Taft, (R) Ohio, said today he's "not quite certain" that he'll be nominated on the first ballot at the GOP July convention. But he added: "It will be either on the first or the second." Taft visited his newly opened national headquarters in New York and made his prediction in re-affirming that he expects to get 17 out of New York's 96 Republican convention delegates 24 Graduate At Sandcreek Purdue Professor Delivers Address ty.

Also Mrs. Roy brother, Arthur Bruner, Clearwater, and five grandchildren. A great challenge in a world of Jefferson City, a sister, 'f: er of many changes and contradic- Mrs Nora Rutherford, of New mer 0 tions faces the high school grad- Point; a Mrs. Florence Kilvert, of New Point; a Woman Dies At Westport Rites Sunday for Mrs. Hockersmith SANDCREEK GRADUATES Fred Badgley Norman Black Phyllis Carder Phyllis Cole Jerry Cruser Joan Davis Robert Day Joyce Ferguson Roberta Franklin Harold Gardner Marian McCullough Catherine Mineer Phyllis Nugent Jean Porter Robert Ryle Pauline Ryle Norbert Schwering Franklin Smith Anne Taylor Pauline Trout Paul Tucker Lois Vanderbur Catherine Weldy Dennis Wilkinson Westport's Baptist church was filled to its capacity Thursday i evening when 24 seniors of Reds Holding Hostage on Koje Island VanFleet Believes Dodd Will Be Released Unharmed By Stanford Zolberg (INS Staff Correspondent) Pusan, May Allied officers at Koje Island prison camp, backed by authorization to use force if necessary, worked feverishly today toward the liberation of U.

S. Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd, held hostage by 6,000 Red war prisoners.

Eighth Army Commander Gen. James A. VanFleet visited the island prison camp where Gen. Dodd has been held prisoner for more than two days and expressed the belief that the 52- i year-old general will ultimately bo released "without harm." VanFleet, issuing a statement to newsmen at Seoul after his visit, said the United Nations i could not accept the "bulk" of the Communist prisoner of war demands for the release of the I hostage and asserted that "the use of force" to obtain his release "will be employed if neccs- 'sary." VanFleet referred to Dodd as "an erstwhile" commander of the Koje prison camp and informed the Communists that "Dodd no longer was the camp commander but was speaking strictly as an individual UN soldier." Brig. Gen.

Charles F. Colson has been appointed commandant of the prison camp but it has not been announced whether or not Dodd will return to the position when he is released. VanFleet said there were more than 6,000 prisoners in the com- Lewis Will Is Filed in Court Will of the late Flora Lewis, passed away at her home in were graduated Sandcreek township high school OUnd whc rc Dodd was seized -ClfiCO i j. i Lta icn. uates of 1952, stated Dr.

John half-brother, Ed Starks, of, Westport at 10:10 p. m. Thurs-j Fourteen girls, donned white R. Emens, president of Ball Greensburg: one grandson and I day. leaps and gowns, and 10 State Teachers College, in his numerous nieces and nephews.

For the past 30 years oys in blue caps and gowns to commencement address to the 12 Two brothers. Frank and John seniors of Sandusky high school Starks, and five sisters, Mrs. Wednesday in a bizarre move. He said there are 80,000 POWs in all on Koje and a UN spokesman said that "most" of them Thursday night. Hockersmith had not enjoyed receive plaudits and awards confirmed Communists, normal health.

She had been rom admiring the Dessa Moore, Mrs. Sarah Butler, confined to her home for a year all-important diplomas marking The exercises were held in the Mrs. Lottie Davis, Mrs. Dora and had been seriously ill for the completion of 12 Wit school auditorium before a host Grow and Gladys Starks, pre- the past two weeks, of friends and relatives who ceded him in death. Funeral rites will be held at late the five girls and seven a funeral home at Osgood at 2 mae K' to recognize and congratu- nessed by Virginia Ohger and late the five irl Raymond B.

Rolfes, has been ad- grac uating class Saturday. mitted to probate Decatur cir- The girIsBdressed formals Friends may call there at any cuit and the in marcned time, it was announced. Burial rs. Helen Se- will be in the cemetery at Vera double marker be placed at the graves of Mary E. Vandiver, a deceased sister, and her deceased husband, Link Vandiver, in the Milford cemetery; and a single marker at the grave of a deceased sister, Nona Mount, in the South Park cemetery.

music instructor in the sailles. played the pro- piano. Accom-1 panying the graduates onto the stage were: The speaker, Princi- of Meet nai oiiomi di i u. meet pal Orville Pitts; Rev. O.

P. Baugh, pastor of the Sandusky Lillie Brooks, a sister-in-law, nd Acj a ms Methodist churches: as beaueathed S100. i Loren York, superintendent of LATE NEWS (By International News Service) Hike Pensions Washington, May senate today passed and sent to the White House a bill granting five to fifteen per cent cost-of-living increases in veterans pensions and disability allowances. The "raises," which will cost approximately 173 million dollars a year, affect 2,341,500 veterans and another 360,000 dependents of deceased veterans who will get corresponding increases in pension allotments. was bequeathed $100.

Life in Western Europe was depicted in slides shown by Mr. and Mrs. Russell Cushman at the Residue of the estate was be- schools; and Robert Way- May meeting of the Adams bright, Clinton township trustee. the front of the stage and a large (Continued on fagc rive) queathed to an adopted daughter, Anna W. Lewis; with the request that certain items of personal property be given as keepsakes and remembrances.

They were as follows: To Nellie Favor, the smallest rocker, lunch cloth and picture of mother and father in oval frame; to Marion and Barbara Davis, brown bedspread, four Bavaria china plates, a cup and some I Three bands of the Greens- Township Farm Bureau Thurs- The stage was decorated with day night at the school. Ap- green and silver crepe paper, a proximately 60 persons attend- row of potted geraniums across ed. High School Groups Present Concert Here Mr. and Mrs. Cushman, while showing the slides, explained the conditions of the country at the time of their visit in 1950.

Mrs. Cushman. state chairman of the social and educational leaders' department, attended the triennial conference of the A. C. W.

Hits Tax Case Washington, May Williams (R) said today that big-time New York bookie Harry Gross reported total life income of only $25,090 to federal tax collectors up to this year. He condemned the internal revenue bureau for failing to investigate Gross until recently, and declared the case is "another example of how the government has enforced the tax laws as affecting one of America's notorious racketeers." saucers, a gravy boat, a quilt, bookcase and books; to Grace McAuliffe, brown hassock and large square icebox dish; to Lena Reed, a celery dish; to Eva Crosby, black teapot and black clock; and to Ethel Favor, a pink bedspread. It was directed in the will that Anna W. Lewis be appointed ad- ministratrix of the estate. BRIDE FROM STRIKE Los Angeles, May If he doesn't get his wage demands Laurence C.

Steele, 51, got one thing from the Western Union bride. Steele and Feme McLoed, 52, were back walking the picket line in Los Angeles today after an elopement to Las Vegas climaxed their whirlwind romance. Steele said he had never even known his bride's name until they started walking the picket line together. He said he asked her to have a cup of coffee with him and then proposed to her. burg schools, the hieh school in Copenhagen, Denmark, chorus, Twelve Little Maids, two during the tour.

vocal soloists, a twirler and three James Farlow was in charge Bloomington dancers were on of devotions and recited a Moth- the program of the National er Da Piano selections Music Week concert, directed bv werc rendered by Mrs. Robert Ben L. Niles, Greensburg high school music supervisor, at the Brown, and a trio composed of Carolyn, Janet and Rosalie work. To the processional, A native of Jennings county, played by the school's own she was born on Sept. 18, 1880, bandi tne radua es marched to and was the daughter of George their i aces of honor amidst (Continued on Page Eight) and Elizabeth Baker Griner.

Her marriage to George Hockersmith occurred on Aug. 24, 1909, after which the couple resided on a farm in Illinois until 1937. Returning to Indiana, they located in the present Jefferson Proving Ground area. Since mother and her two small chil- Perish in Blaze (By International News Service) May 9 A 1945 the couple has lived in Westport. Mrs.

Hockersmith was a member of the New Bethel Unit- dren died today in a fire that 1 swept their Evansville home. The victims were Mrs. Boned Brethern church near nie Wendells; Ray Wendells, Pierceville. She took Howard two, and Dolly Elizabeth Wen- Griner into her home when he dells, four. was five years of age and reared The father.

Ray Wendells, an him. appliance salesman, who was The survivors are: The hus-, asleep in the home when the fire band, George Hockersmith, of i broke out. was not injured. Westport: the foster son. How- i Police reported Mrs.

Wendells ard Griner. a teacher in the New Castle school system; a sister, Mrs. Edward (Alta) Ackerman, of Elwood: and a brother. Clifford Griner. of Kingston.

111. died of suffocation, and it is believed suffocation also caused the children's deaths. Fire Chief Charles Sensmeier said he believes the fire mav Latest word from the prison camp, which is located on an island 26 miles southwest of Pu- san, was that the general's status was unchanged. The hostage was reported unharmed and in good health. He was communicating by telephone with other officials at the prison camp and was receiving cooked American meals passed through the compound's gates.

Meanwhile, Generals Matthew B. Ridgway and Mark W. Clark, the outgoing and incoming United Nations supreme commanders, landed back at Tokyo's Haneda airport Friday afternoon after a flying visit to Korea. They returned without any new information regarding the efforts to bring about Dodd's release. Ridgway asked reporters at the airport: "Have you had anything new on Dodd?" Gen.

James A. Van Fleet, Eighth Army commander who accompanied Ridgway and Clark to Pusan, later flew to Kojc Is- fContlnued on Page SI3O Funeral rites will be'held at i have been caused by a cigarette 2:30 p. m. Sunday at the Hostetler funeral home in Westport. Burial will be made in the Westport cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Friday. being dropped on a davenport earlier in the evening during a party. State Fire Marshal Alex Houghland was being called to investigate the fire, and the Wendells house was boarded up.

community gymnasium' Thurs- Wnite sang a song in keeping day evening. A fairly god crowd attended the concert, varied in the types of music it presented. A special attraction was the appearance of Joyce and Nick Michalares. Wmte Bloomington dancing instructors, and one of their young pupils. Darby Ann Earles.

six. who did tap routines. Featured on the program were a baritone trio, in which Dick Doles, David Konzelman and Jim Jones played; Twelve Little with the Mother's Day theme. Ralph Ponsler. county Farm Bureau chairman, spoke on the "cost of high living." The safety lesson was given by Mrs.

Rollin Maids, a high school vocal group: Mary Sue Weisner, twirlcr: Rita Navarra and Curtis O'Brien, vocalists. Accompanists xvere Warns Oil Strike to Make All Hoosiers Pedestrians Weather Today at 5 a. 51 Today at 11 a. 64 Rainfall -18 Maximum Thursday 73 Minimum Thursday 51 Divorce Complaint Is Filed in Court Charging cruel and inhuman treatment a complaint for divorce and custody of child has been filed in Decatur circuit court by Elma Wamsley against Don Wamsley. According to the I probably is in better shape than 'Bv InternptionM Nevs Sprvicp) Indianapolis, May state official warned today that "we will all be on the ground and on our feet" within a few days unless remaining gasoline supplies are used "discreetly and cautiously." Col.

Clarence F. Cornish, director of the Indiana aeronautics commission, said today that the aviation fuel supply in Indiana complaint the couple was mar- Emily Sue York, Catherine i ried Sept. 30, 1948, and separated Moore and Jane Stout, 'May 7, 1952. that for ground transportation, should be obvious to anyone that if the strike situation doesn't improve, we'll all be grounded and afoot." Col. Cornish said he had received reports of one northern Indiana airport which was not selling gasoline to anybody, and of some which were selling only to regular customers, but did not personally know of any privations suffered by flyers because of the cut in aviation fuel.

Meanwhile, prices of gasoline increased over the state as the supply, dwindled. In Indianapo- (Contimicd on Taje I'lm-e; LATE WEATHER Cloudy with occasional rain tonight. Scattered thundershowers in south and central portion. Saturday mostly cloudy with occasional rain ending in forenoon. Little change in temperature.

Low tonight 45-50 north to 5258 south. High Saturday 54-58 north to 58-64 south. Happenings Pocahontas. Encampment (I. O.

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