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Go To Church Somewhere Sunday 4. Founded 1855 WEATHER RAIN ENDING EARLY SUNDAY MORNING: HIGH SUNDAY NEAR 15 ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AUDRAIN COUNTY MEXICO, MISSOURI, SATURDAY AFTERNOON APRIL 12, 1952. VOL. 62 Easter Sunrise Services To Be At MHS Stadium Rains Force Move For Early Morning Community Service Because of the heavy rains of Friday night and Saturday, the Community Sunrise Easter Services will be held at the high school stadium, instead of the Band Bowl in the Recreation Area, Harold Squires, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Committee, which is sponsoring Hie services, announced today. "There are stands at the stadium and the parking area is nearby, so the committee decided it advisable to change the location in order to protect the public," Squires said.

"If the rain continues and the stadium is wet, the services will tie held in the high school auditorium." The services will begin at 6 clock Easter morning. Special Easter music will be provided by the Mexico Civic Chorus Dean Seth W. Slaughter of the Bible College of the University of Missouri, will deliver the Easter Sermon. The Rev, Philip Byron Carlisle, pastor of the Christian Church, will preside. Other sunrise and special Easter services are planned in this area.

Members of the Mexico Civic chorus who are to take part in the Sunrise Easter service in the morning are asked to meet with their robes on at 5:45 o'clock. PARIS Following a service at 7:30 a. m. at the Methodist church, an Easter Breakfast will be served on Sunday according to annual custo m.A goal of 150 attendants been set, for the Sunday school on Easter, and at a morning service attendance at 11 o'clock, of 300 is expected at the church. B.

M. Marlow Dies Saturday Private Funeral Services Will Be Held Monday J3. M. Marlow, 70, wellknown resident of Mexico, died at his home in this city at 10 a. Saturday.

He had been ill for several weeks. Mr. Marlow was born August 24, 1881 in Americus, and was the son of T. M. and Rose Darnes Mar- Jow.

He was married to Miss Gertrude Smith, of St. Louis. He is survived by his-wife, and daughter, Mrs. J. Cleary Potts, of Spokane, and two grandchildren, Jacklynn and Cleary Potts Jr.

Also surviving Mr. Marlow are his two sisters, Mrs. Blanche Bush and Mrs. John Quick, both of New Florence. Funeral services on Monday afternoon will be private services, at the Arnold Funeral home.

Burial arrangements are not announced. Mr. Marlow and family moved to Mexico from St. Louis and in 1923 went into the drug business of Marlow Cox. Later he traveled as a salesman for a large drug concern.

He was a member of the Masonic lodge and of the Methodist church. Dr. David K. Pegues will conduct the funeral services. ike" The Candidate See Editorial Todav On Paqe 2 Wearing a smile and civilian clothes, this is the way Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower appeared as lie took over as president of Columbia University in 1948. The general's resignation as supreme Allied commander, announced by the White House, will become effective June 1. allowing him 30 days to campaign before the Republican national convention in Chicago July 7. Gen.

Eisenhower declared today at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers in Europe, lie has no definite plans to campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. If he should win it, however, he told a news conference, he will resign his commission as a live-star general so he would "be free to act and speak as any other citizen, without any of the limitations imposed by the traditions of the military establishment." He also intends to be back in his town of Abilene, by June 4, 33 days before the Republican national convention in Chicago. The White House yesterday announced his retirement from his North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) command as of June 1. Until then, Eisenhower told reporters: "I am not going to discuss any kind of political question, so I can devote myself to this job." Eisenhower's resignation as supreme allied commander in Europe effective June 1, was announced yesterday. Malicious Mischief On Auto Is Charged Against Laddonian Donald Rogers of Laddonia is charged on two counts of malicious mischief, in an information filed against him in the Audrain County circuit court.

The information charges that Rogers, on March 31, damaged a 1947 Dodge coupe owned by William Silvey of Laddonia, by 'smearing excrement over the windshield" and "filling the gas tank with gravel, mud, and rocks." It also charges, in a second count, that on April 1, he removed all but one tap or nut from the left rear wheel of the Silvey car. Fire Destroys Green. Hills Club Near KC, Boy Dies In Blaze KANSAS CITY, April 12 ffl A 12-year-old boy lost his life today in a fire that destroyed the Green Hills club in Platte County near Parkville. The young victim, who had been helping his father clean the two-story colonial style structure, was Colby B. Laswell.

His father, Them C. Laswell, co-operator of the club, a tavern, said the boy went to sleep while he went to a restaurant to get a sandwich. Less than an hour later he returned to find the building in flames. Green Hills once was a notorious gambling spot. Free 1952 Official Mo.

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First come first scrvcil, Mrs. Blakey, At Home Friday Mrs. Clarence B. Blakey, 80, a resident of Mexico for nearly 50 years, died at her home at 621 S. Olive Friday evening at 9:30 o'clock.

She had not been well for several years, and in very poor health for the past four weeks. Death was caused by a heart condition and stroke. The body will remain at the Precht funeral home until services there Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The Rev. Philip Byron Carlisle, pastor of the First Christian church, will conduct the services.

Daughter of Rebecca and Edward Nelson, Mrs. Blakey, the former Miss Ida Nelson, was born in Indiana on November 12, 1871. When a child, she moved with her parents to Armstrong where she resided until she was married to Mr. Blakey of Madison 53 years ago on December 12. Mr.

Blakey, a retired railroad man and painter, and his bride moved to Fayette, and in 1905, they moved to Mexico where they have since resided. Mrs. Blakey was a member of the First Christian church. Three children, Robert Blakey of Kansas City, Mrs. Edward (Helen) Coldwell of Mexico and Master Sgt.

Joseph B. Blakey, who is stationed at Tucson, and is expected to arrive here Sunday evening, survive with one sister, Mrs. Betty Hackley of Boonville, who is also expected for the services. Mrs. Meyer (Jean) Zavodnick of St.

Louis and Jane Coldwell of Mexico, only granddaughters, also survive with a number of nieces and nephews, including Clifford James of this citv. Ogden Sues For $2,382 Held By Sheriff Vance Defendant In Gambling Case Files Replevin Petition A replevin suit for 52,382 was filed Saturday morning in the Audrain County Circuit Court by C. P. Ogden, seeking the covery of cash and checks previously identified by officers as having figured in a gambling raid at Vandalia April 4. Ogden's suit is directed at Sheriff H.

Ross Vance, and asks the recovery of possession of a billfold, two $100 bills, five $50 bills, 25 $20 bills, 41 $10 bills, six $5 bills, 17 $1 bills, and four checks. Ogden's petition says that at the time of his commitment to jail the sheriff removed the billfold and contents from his person. Ogden says he made demand upon the sheriff the following day, when he was released on bond pending hearing on a charge of operating a gambling game, but was refused. He says the checks were for $200 by Donald Watts, $75 by Ernest Ocheltree, S400 by Nathaniel Reading, and $300 by Edwin G. Harris, and that all four were payable to him.

The Watts check was undated, Ogden said, the others dated 1951. Ogden and Paul Thomas Lovelace were charged with operating a gambling game after the state. highway patrol raid the night of April 4, and six other men were charged with gambling. They were Chester W. Cresman, Ernest Ocheltree, Stephen E.

Bland. Orville E. Dowell, George W. Winders, and Earnest A. Wooton.

Ogden is represented by William W. Van Matre Jr. Battlefront Soldiers Will Kneel at Dawn Crude Chapels For Easter Services Of Fighting Men Bv George A. McArthur SEOUL, Korea, April 12 Christian soldiers along Korea's twisted battlefront will kneel iir the early morning haze at sunrise tomorrow to welcome Easier with the prayers of fighting men for peace. Sunday is not Easter for every man in the many-nationcd U.

N. Army. But the hope for peace is shared by all. Easter services will be held in crude chapels almost on the battlelinc, in Seoul's war-scarred churches, in Quonset huts, at airfields and often in the open fields where a chaplain could convert the hood of his jeep to an altar. At the command post of a U.

N. division the men will hear a church bell removed from a demolished church and installed for Easter in the division's cdude- constructed chapel. Some United Nations troops will spend the day without any special observance. The Thailand battlion is all Buddhist. The Turkish Brigade is Moslem except for five members who will attend Christian services at near by units.

Armistice Negotiation One-Minute Session MUNSAN, Korea, April 12 tfl United Nations and Communist truce negotiators went through the merest flicker of the motions today, each waiting for the other to suggest a compromise. They've got to give," said Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison, United Nations sub-delegate.

Communists showed no signs of yielding. At each of the seven brief sessions this week they suggested a recess unless the U. N. command had something to propose. Today's meeting took only one minute, the shortest this week.

Total time for the seven sessions is 33 minutes. They would have taken less time if the generals didn't have to wait for translations. The problems neither side is making a move to solve are (1) lied insistence that Soviet Russia help police a Korean truce and (2) U. N. command insistence tlic Communists cannot rebuild military airfields in North Korea.

United Nations infantrymen repulsed Red probing attacks all along the 155-mile Korean battle front last night and early today as the ground war flared anew after a two-day lull. Bad weather grounded U. N. warplancs, but Naval units Friday night continued a steady hammering of Communist positions on both coasts of North Korea. The Fifth Air Force weekly summary, released today, listed 10 Allied planes lost over Communist territory none of them to Red fighters.

Four Communist MIGs were destroyed, two probably downed and seven damaged in that time. Jane Froman Barred From Seeing Husband San Juan Police Refuse to Admit Singer to Hospital SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico, April 12 San Juan police refused today to let singer Froman sec her pilot husband, Oapt. John C. one of 17 persons who survived the se.i crash of a Pan American Airways plane crash in which 5:2 nersons arc believed to have perished.

The singer, who flew here from New York especially be with her husband, was informed that Capt. Burn, now recovering in Presbyterian hospital, is being held incommtmicado on orders of district attorney Zoilo Dtieno Colon. She tried twice to gain admission to his room but was turned back each time. Up set, she returned to her hotel room. Glen Lawrence, manager of Pan American's San Juan office, the situation and said he did not know the reason.

Best opinion was that the district attorney wants to question Burn before anyone eise does so. Meanwhile, the searr'n continued for 39 of the plane's Easter Holiday passengers still missing in the shark-infested Caribbean SSA Day Tuesday Richard Arnett, field representative of the Jefferson City office of the Social Security Administration, will be in Mexico on Tuesday. He may be contacted after a. m. at tho courthouse (West Entrance).

St. Louis Newspaper Is $18.20 A Year The St. Louis Globe Democrat announced Saturday that this new subscription rate for their daily paper will be 533.20 a year. This does not include their Sunday paper which will continue at loc a copy. The Globe's new rates are 35 cents a week or $18.20 a year; or $1.50 a month equaling $18.00 a year.

This does not "include the Sunday paper. I The single copy price is increased for the daily paper from 5 cents 1o 10 cents a copy. These new rates become effective April 14. The St. Louis Post Dispatch is expected to raise its rates accordingly within the next ten days, local distributors said.

More Trouble Threatens Today In Nation's Big Labor Disputes Rescued From Flood Trap Coast Guard helicopter crewmen rescue Paul Maugheiner, 39, who was trapped by flood waters at a ranch home northwest of Pierre, S. D. Although suffering from a broken leg, Maiigheinor chopped a hole in the roof and crawled out to wait for help (left photo). In the photo at the right, the injured man, indicated by the arrow, dandles in mid-air us the helicopter lifts him off the (NEA Telephoto). State of Emergency At St.

Joe As River Threatens Levees Mayor Calls for Volunteer Workers; Elwood, Residents Across River Prepare to Evacuate Before Flood ST. JOSEPH, April 12, (AP) A state of emergency has been declared here as the Missouri River continues to rise, threatening levees. Mayor Stanley I. Dale last night assumed direction of all relief. C'apt.

John C. Burns, pilot of the Pan American Airways plane which ditched into the Atlantic off San Juan, is shown with his wife, Jane Froman, whom he rescued in a wartime crash off Portugal. (NEA Telepholo). Bridgford Heads Barber Shop Singers Richard B. Bridgford was elected Thursday night as president of tho Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartette Singing in America for the coming year here.

He succeeds J. J. Spurrier as president of the barbershoppers. Marquess Wallace was named vice-president, Tom Kennedy secretary, and Paul Branstetter was re-elected treasurer. Dr.

R. W. Van Wyngarden was elected international delegate and board members named were Spurrier, Howard Peck, Wells Van Wyngarden, Everett Jennings, Jim Grainge, and Alex Bollinger. Dr. Van Wyngarden was elected last weekend at St.

Louis as vice-president of the central states district of the SPEBSQSA in charge of inter-chapter relations and extension. The honor for the local club was announced at Thursday's meeting, which also continued plans for the annual Parade of Quartets show to be given April 20. although the coastt guard said there was "practically ho hope'' they still were alive. Thirteen bodies were picked up near the scene of the crash, three miles outside San Juan harbor, putting the toll of presumed dead at 52. According to eyewitnesses.

Burn was something of a iicro in the crash. He helped launch four life rafts before the forward section of the big four-engine plane sank, antl urged everyone to put on life preservers. A few minutes later. Burn was seen in the water, holding a baby in one arm and an elderly woman in the other, and swimming grimly toward one of the rafts. A rescuing coast guard seaplane pulled all three aboard hut the woman and the child died within a few minutes.

What high school student is reciting "The Cremation of Sam in the state driver's do you know the recent achievements of Snell, Sally Carter, Irvin Hoffman, Groves, Leroy Kerstinjr, Eldon Brown? find these and lots of other news in today's Bulldogs' Growl. The high school newspaper appears each two weeks in the Ledger. On Page 7 today. $3100 Top At St. Louis Horse Sale A top price of S3100 was pair! at the opening night of the annual spring sale of the Missouri Saddle Horse Sale Co.

in St. Louis, managed by W. J. (Bill) Cunningham of Mexico. The price was paid by Alvin Ru.xcr of Jasper, to Fair Acres Fi rm of Corsicana, for Parading Promise, a junior fine harness horse.

The sale continued Saturday at the St. Louis stables, with 240 horses from 24 states having been consigned. Second highest price was $2000 for Belinda's Peavine Genius, a five-gaited show marc, sold by Fancy Farms and Stables of Lee's' Summit, to Walter Burke of Gray's Lake, 111. Third highest was $1350 for Thunderhead's Echo. 2-year-old chestnut gelding, sold by Glen F.

Fultz of Rantoul. Harry Sucher of Birmingham, Mich. Blue Rain, harness show pony, sold by Garastonna farms of Kansas City to Mrs. E. C.

Nagles of Wheaton, 111., brought $1,000. About the Same W. B. Sappington. who has been a patient in the Audrain Hospital for more than two weeks, remains nbout the snme.

The city itself is not threatened by the flood, said Dale, but considerable adjacent populous areas are endangered. Dale called on 1,000 volunteers to work on the levees today. Across the river, the 1.200 population of Elwood, was preparing to evaculate. Captain. Captain Clarence Biako of" tho National Guard has offered the assistance of trucks and men to move the people to Wathena Kas.

Ministers of the three churches in Elwood called for a dav of prayer Monday to save Eiwooil from the flood. Mayor Dale advised the 300 to the bureau said in the second tornado bulletin it issued today. Today's first one reported the possibility of a few scattered tornarloes hitting the southeastern half of Arkansas, western third of Tennessee, northern Mississippi and extreme northern Louisiana. The Red Cross estimated more than families ha-1 been affected by floods thus far in the Dakotas and Minnesota. An additional familes were listed floorl sufferers in Sioux City and other areas farther downstream.

A warm front moving northward along the lower Miss- 100 persons Jiving'in a housin- river valley. North of this project at Rosecrane Municipal airport and nearby farming area to evaculate by Wednesday. He said forcible evaculation initrht front, rain fell in parts of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois. Some rain and showers were uKiuuii nil ni ----be necessary if the residents do )rc as for Caster Sunday for not leave their homes voluntarily. The mayor said he was informed by Army engineers that the widely separated sections of the nation today.

Flood waters spread fresh damage along the Missouri river. Hundreds already were homeless. Thousands o'f acres of rich farm land were awash. Estimates of losses ran into the millions. The weather bureau in Washington said today the danger of tornadoes in Arkansas will decrease this afternoon.

It said there remained the possibility of a few scattered ones "in extreme eastern Louisiana. Mississippi and the western third of Tennessee." These may begin about noon and continue until early evening. rain in the floorl situation is critical in the I th Mifsjfsi St. Joseph area, with extensive flooding expected in low areas along the river. The river was 1S.7 feet or 1.7 above flood stage.

A crest between 23.5 and 21.5 feet is expected by the latter part of next week. Employes of the county highway department, prisoners from the county jail and volunteers were working to build the levees two or three feet higher with sandbags. By The Associated Press Water and wind menaced twi Jhe vast area cast of the Mississippi river. Fair and milrl weather was predicted for the area west of ipi. except for some Pacific Northwest.

Asks $15,000 Damages For Brother'sDeath Suit for SI.1.000 damages arising from the death of Ed Cassady, former Audrain County do- puty sheriff and wellknown eastern Audrain resident, has been filed in circuit court here. The petition, filed by John Bill Cassady, a brother, as administrator of the estate, names as defendant Carroll Lawson, out- of-state Cassaday was riding in a trucK when he was fatally injured in a collision with a car driven Lawson, on Highway 54 near Route PP between Laddonia and The plaintiff is reoresentc 1 by Wilbur C. Schwartz of St. Louis. Earl Porter, who under went a major operation at Barnes Hospital in St.

Louis Friday, is reported to be recovering satis- factorilv. Long-Haired Reds Believed To Be Suicide Volunteers By GEORGE S1VEEUS OX THE EASTERN FRONT. Korea. April 12. i.T) American soldiers are running into longhaired Communist shock troops, apparently recruited for special missions and guerrilla actions.

The long haired Reds have appeared along the eastern front in several recent actions. The long locks seem to be a mark of distinction. Koreans traditionally consider long hair such a sign. Officers in the North Korean army retained their hair while enlisted men have shaved heads. Allied officers think the new "Long-hairs" are special volun- teers comparable to suidical Japanese Kamikazi pilots of World War II.

They usually are encountered in groups of -1. But one advance Allied unit believes it was attacked by 100 of the fanatical long-hairs recently. The Reds have made an obvious effort to recover the bodies killed in skirmishes but three long-hair bodies have been taken by Allied units. They showed that the long-hairs were far above the usual standards of front line soldiers. Their clothes appeared freshly cleaned.

Their hands were clean and uncallousecl far different from the hands of front soldiers who live roughly. The infantrymen who have met the long-hairs in battle are not worried. "Their long hair may mean a lot to them." one soldier said, "hut my helmet protects me more." Peace Talks Bring Little Steel Progress Telephone Strike May Be Expanded Ugainst A. T. T.

By The Associated Press Further trouble threatened in the nation's major labor disputes today as peace talks brought little progress. A full-scale strike by telephone workers was up far discussion by top officials of the CIO communications workers union at a meeting in Washington. (Telephone service in Mexico Saturday was still hampered by the absence from work of operators. Supervisory em- ployes continued to man the switchboard to handle as many calls as possible. The available personnel were on "13 or even 14 and 13-hour" shifts, they reported.

No statement has been issued by the local CIO-CWA union croup as to the cause for their leaving their jobs at 8:00 a. m. Friday, but service in many cities has been hampered by the refusal of telephone company employes to cross picket lines of striking Western Electric workers). The government-sponsored negotiations in the steel wage dispute have been getting nowhere anrl were in recess over the Easter weekend. The policy committee of the CIO United Steelworkers union hinted of a possible strike, although the government's seizure of the steel industry last Tuesday averted a.

walkout of some 65,000 CJO steel workers. The union's executive board said that "the patience of tin; steel workers is not inexhaustible." It added that the "time is overdue for a settlement based on the (wage stabilization board's) recommendations." However, the compulsory union membership issue appeared the main stumbling block of an agreement between the industry and the government and between the government and CIO President Philip Murray. The government appeared unwilling to grant the union shop- which would require all steelworkers to belong to Murray's steclworkers union reportedly was ready to grant the WSB's wage recommendations. Some steel companies reportedly were willing to Rive Murray a modified form of the union shop but others were against it. The possibility of expanding the telephone strike was designed to force the American Telephone and Telegraph Co.

to ae- ccpt terms with 59.000 strikers. These include Bell phone workers in Ohio, New Jersey and Northern California and 000 Western Electric workers in -13 slates. Tho strikes, which started Monday, have cut some service as about 200,000 non-striking workers have refused to cross picket lines set up around Bell Telephone exchanges. The union settled its strike of IS.000 members against Michigan Bell for a 12.7 cents hourly pay increase but plans were made to keep picket lines in Michigan. The union had sought a hike of 23 cents an hour.

The settlement, a union official said, would be used as a general pattern in the other disputes. However, some union officials said the Michigan settlement wau "too low." In the 10-day olrl strike by AFL commercial telegraphers union against Western Union, the company reported service had been, restored in 550 cities anrl towns. However, the union, which claimed 31,000 workers struck on April 3, disputed the claim. Three Corporals Back In States From Korea Three corporals from this area are among tho army rotation troops who arrived Friday ac San Francisco, aboard the navy transport Set. Howard Woodforci, from the far east.

Cpl. James J. Bamrick of Centralia, Cpl. frvin L. Foster of New Florence, and Cpl.

S. Foster of Troy were among the 40 Missourians in the 139-1 soldiers aboard, returning from. Korea. Patrick Carl Estes Cpl. and Mrs.

O. C. Fvstos oC Mexico are the parents of a son born at the Audrain Hospital Saturday morning at 7:27 o'clock The baby weighed seven pounds and has been named Patrick Carl. Before her marriage, Mrs. Estes was Miss Helen Snyder, daughter of Mr.

and Snyder of 808 N. Clark St. Corporal Estes is stationed in Tokyo, Japan..