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THE TRUTH IN ITS ENTIRETY THE LUDINGTON DAILY NEWS An Independent Newspaper Serving Mason County and Surrounding Area WEATHER: Fair tonight. Sunday partly cloudy. Showers. VOLUME NO. 62, NO.

265 What's Doing in The World, US and State By The Associated Press BALTIMORE firey object that streaked through the night sky with a "great greenish-white light" stirred "flying saucer" tallj among residents of four states from Maryland to Tennessee last night. Weather Bureau observers here saw the object but made no official report of it. One observer, who wished to remain anonymous, said it probably was a meteor. The streak of fire first was reported over Baltimore shortly after dusk, about 8 p.m. EDT.

In quick succession came reports from the west from Frederick, Hagerstown and Cumberland, and Charleston, Wheeling and Parkersburg, W.Va. Washington viewers flooded the Weather Bureau, Naval Observatory and even the Pentagon there with calls. No blips showed on Washington area radar screens to record the object's passing. Persons throughout Virginia saw what they variously described as "a big star," "a flying saucer" and something "like a flaming jet LUDINGTON, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1952 PRICE FIVE CENTS plane." They said it ranged in color from pale yellow to greenish and reddish and was noiseless. It moved from east to west.

DETROIT (ff) Appointment oi Floyd Stevenson of Grand Rapids as assistant chairman of the Democratic State Central Commit tee was announced here today by Chairman Neil Staebler of Ann Arbor. Stevens, who is chairman of the Michigan Athletic Board of Con trol, will work particularly in Mason, Muskegon, Oceana, Ottawa, Lake, Kent, Newaygo, Osceola, B-29Superforfs Hammer Suiho Power Plant High-Voltage Political Names Spliced for Drive GREET AIRBORNE Pfc. Frank R. Yokum, 20, of Allentown, receives a royal welcome on his arrival at Travis Air'Force Base, where he became the casualty to be flown home from Korea by the Military Air Transport Service. He was wounded by shell fragments in the right leg in action at "Tombstone Hill." Greeting him are actress Frances Langford and her husband, actor Jon Hall.

(International Soundphoto) Montcalm and Ionia Mecosta, counties. SAGINAW, A middle- aged railroad worker shot and killed his stepdaughter at breakfast today, wounded his fleeing wife, and then calmly gave himself up to police. Police said the stepfather and trip, girl, neighborhood beauty, had argued over the parents charge that she refused to pay board although she had a good job. The shootings occurred shortly after 6 a.m. at the home of Joseph C.

Goff, 63- year-old boilermaker for the Chesapeake Ohio railroad. Detective Lt. William Mueller and Detective Sgt. Theodore Moulton said that Goff admitted in a signed statement that he shot and killed Arline Pries, 21, his stepdaughter, in the kitchen. Goff also admitted then firing his shotgun twice at his wife, Esther, 55, as she fled to a neighbor's home, the detectives said.

FORT SMITH, Maurice Hummel accused in the slaying of Hazel Park father and son, was held here today on a $20,000 bond. Hummel, an escaped Michigan convict, was arrested at Ozark, Thursday. U. S. Commissioner Walter Gut- enshon, who set Hummel's bond, said a hearing on his case will be continued here Monday.

Hummel is wanted for the Aug. 19 slaying of 60- year-old Vidos Vinokurow and his 31-year old son Joseph. The Vinokurows were slain in what police termed an abortive hold up attempt on the bar operated by the son. Gutensohn said it was not known whether Hummel would fight extradition to Michigan. Accused of the fatal shooting of the Vinkurows along with Hummell is Michael Gisondi, 23.

Gisondi was arrested last week in San Diego, Calif. Michigan authorities have gone to San Diego to return Gisondi 23, to Hazel Park. Host at Unique Vacation to 25 TRAVERSE CITY, Mich a mother died 40 years ago before one of her 10 children could give her "a real vacation," 25 mothers of big families are enjoying a sumptuous four-day vacation today. Dr. Earl Baker, a retired doctor of philosophy who turned resort operator, is playing host to them.

They have accommodations that vould normally cost $20 a day. Saying, "Just call me a pai'riat' or say I'm between 60 and 70," Dr. Baker recalled today that he promised his ailing mother 40 years ago that if he couldn't give her "a real vacation," he'd see that when he could afford it, other mothers of big families got vacations. Twelve years ago Dr. Baker quit teaching at Lawrence College in Appleton, and bought a resort spot on Grand Traverse Bay, off lake Michigan.

Now the spot is covered with cabins. He calls it "Baker's Acres." A year ago he and his wife Charlotte decided it was time to pay off. He could afford it. They put out word they were looking for mothers with four or more children, and that widows with big families would get preference over mothers with All chosen must agree to leave all children at home. Hubby, if any, can't cpme either.

From letters, Dr. Baker picked 25. "There's never been anything ike it," he mused today through misty eyes. "Just to see some of hose mothers of 12 or 13 or 14 it down to a great big steak, which they can't possibly afford vith families that size. Believe Student Assault Victim KALAMAZOO, announced today they were convinced college freshman Arnold Klump was the victim of an assault and a search was mobilized for the weapon.

All students at Kalamazoo college were asked to scour the cam- SEOUL, Korean (ffi U.S. B29 Superfortresses last night and early today hammered the Communists' partly repaired Suiho -power in the first of two Allied air blows at the doorstep of Manchuria and Russian Siberia. At dawn, planes from the U.S. Navy carriers Bon Homme Richard and Princeton struck a troop concentration center at Hoeryong, miles from Manchuria and 41 miles west of Siberia. More than 35 Superforts from Okinawa and Japan droned through Red flak for more than 2Vi hours over Suiho, 3,000 feet south of Communist Manchuria.

It was the northernmost penetration of the Korean War by the giant bombers. They hurled 350 tons of explosives on installations undergoing repair from the massive Allied fighter bomber raid in June on Suiho. Suiho's generators once supplied power to all North Korea and to many Chinese Communist industries in Manchuria. Reconnaissance reports of moved transformers and new transmission lines, the Air Force said, indicated "the onetime fourth power plant of the world was again ripening as a target." One of the three B29 wings carried armor-piercing bombs intended to knock out Suiho's heavy machinery for keeps. The B29 raid was even heavier than the June raid, an Air Force spokesman said.

The Navy said eight barracks buildings were destroyed and 22 damaged at Hoeryong, where reconnaissance pilots earlier this week had spotted baggage of incoming troops. The U.S. Fifth Air Force said pus in "blunt an attempt instrument" to find the with which Klump was believed beaten over the head. Mystery had shrouded the case since Klump, suffering severe liead wounds, was found unconscious in his dormitory room Thursday morning. Klump, 19, a student from Blissfield has been unconscious since the suspected beating.

At Bronson Hospital the youth underwent a nine-hour brain operation Thursday. At the hospital today his condition was reported "No worse." It is listed as critical. His left side is paralyzed. Chief of Police Howard Hoyt and Chief of Detective Riley Stewart said they were positive that Klump had been attacked. There was still no clue to a motive.

Police theorized "a maniac" might have been responsible. Chief Hoyt said he was sure from the evidence that Klump had been set upon in his room, perhaps as he slept. Two Plead Guilty in Court Session Charged with breaking into a motor vehicle, Kenneth Carmichael and Ronald McKinven pleaded guilty when arraigned before Circuit Judge Max E. Neal at a special session of Mason county circuit court, held in Manistee county courthouse Friday morning. The judge will dispose of their eases after receiving their pre-sen- fence reports from the probation officer.

NOTICE We will be closed for repairs from September 22 through September 27. THE AMERICAN LAUNDRY its pilots shot down 14 Communist MIG jets without losing a single Sabre jet in the week ended Friday. But the MIGs shot down three slower F84 Thunderjets. One F80 Shooting Star was lost to Red ground fire. On the Central Front, South Korean soldiers and U.N.

artillery today shot up three attacks by several hundred Chinese at Allied- helii Capitol Hill. Just to the west, ROK (Republic of Korea) troops ran into firm opposition when they tried to recapture Finger Ridge from the Chinese. The Koreans were reported on the crest at one time during a fierce night battle, but a U.S. Eighth Army staff officer said at daybreak it was impossible to tell who held the crest. In other ground action Friday, the Chinese probed at Bunker Hill for about 10 minutes before with- Says Legislature Refuses Offer -1ACKSON, Mich Iff) Gov.

G. Mennen Williams advised em- ployes of Southern Michigan Prison here last night that he had recommended in 1948 that the state's prison administration be put under a to-partisan commission but that the legislature had refused to follow his' recommendation. The state corrections department now is run by a one-man director, Earnest Brooks, whom Williams said was a sponsor of a bill by which the legislature in 1937 adopted a bi-partisan commission plan for operating prisons. The commission plan later was abandoned, in favor of a one-man administrator. Williams took his stand in a letter written to a meeting of Southern Michigan Prison's more than 300 employes, sponsored by the AFL Michigan State Employes Council.

The governor promised that recommendations of a citizens committee now studying the state's prison problems "will not be for- fotten." Prentice M. Brown, former U. S. Senator, heads the citizens group. Williams also advised the em- ployes that he would support their plea for longevity pay raises and a retirement plan.

He described prison employes as "forgotten men" and declared that "neglect of the staff" was one of the basic causes for the bloody April riot at the big prison. He said experts had found em- ployes were underpaid and overworked and charged was due to "the false economy" of the Republican-controlled legislature. The employes heard pledges of 100 per cent support from fellow unionists at Marquette prison and the Ionia Reformatory. Then they passed resolutions asking: Wages equal to those paid in other states where guards have reasonably equal requirements. Longevity pay increases of at least five per cent for each three years of service.

A retirement plan be set up for those with 25 years service. The provision be made for the disability retirement of those permanently disabled on duty. A civil service investigation be made of recent appointments to determine if they meet rules and regulations. INDIANS WIN THIS ONE FROM the American League pennant, race nearing another climactic finish, Dan Topping (left), president of the New York Yankees, and League president Will Har- riclgc acting for the Cleveland Indians pay close attention as sports writer Charley tosses the coin to decide where a potential playoff game shall be staged. Topping lost the toss, and if need be to settle the American League race, the play-off jamc will be seen in Cleveland.

(International Soundphoto) The People's Business Goliath of State Politics Seems to Have Met David PIPELINE BLOWS UP MIDLAND A 12-inch gas pipeline blew up three miles south of Modland Friday, but no one was injured. The line, owned by the Michigan Gas Company and running from Zilwaukee to Muskegon, was being tested when it let go. There was no fire. drawing to their own positions on the Western Front, near the truce talks site of Panmunjom. Eighth Army headquarters reported the ROK Capitol Division inflicted 3,475 casualties on the Chinese in the week-long fighting around Capitol Hill and Finger Ridge.

It also said U.S. divisions inflicted almost 2,500 Red casualties during the first week of September, but that this figure apparently was incomplete. The Newcomen or fire engine, first made in 1705, was a predeces- erated because of a vacuum created when steam was condensed sor of the steam engine which op- rather than by the force of the steam. Claiming the guards are in "constant peril," the workers also asked why recommendations made by penal experts since the April riot had not been followed through. Cash Register Taken from Cafe A cash register was stolen from Scotty's cafe at 201 South James street between 2 and 6 a.

m. today, Police Chief Fred Nankee told The News. The register, which was locked, contained $30, the police chief said. Bobcats are found in every state of the United States. New SS Spartan Is Modern Carferry for Convenient, Pleasurable Travel By JACK I.

GREEN LANSING, Mich, Goliath of Michigan politics, Gov. Williams, has met his David. And who should David be? None other than mild, pedagogical little Lee Thurston, state superintendent of public instruction, who prides himself on being a political amateur. Heaven help us if he. ever got good at it.

Thurston took the mighty Williams over the humps this week as none have ever clone before over the question of getting state schools approved for Korean Veterans to enroll under the GI bill of rights. The situation developed like this: Thurston and his predecessor had the job of approving the school under the World War II GI program. Williams set up a committee three years ago to take over the job but left Thurston, a Republican, as chairman. When the Korean Veteran program was approved by Congress this last August, Williams revamped the committee and dropped Thurston from the chairmanship. This was a cutting blow to Thurston.

He knew he was the only state official with the background, experience and staff to handle the problem. The change was made in mid- August. Veterans could start applying for schooling Aug. 20, When the first week of September rolled around; the committee held a couple of meetings, and did nothing. Thurston then let out a cry of anguish.

The delay he said was going to cost many veterans a prompt start of their schooling. The resultant newspaper publicity started the committee going full blast. But Thurston, having hit Williams over the head with a club in an election year, then unsheathed his daintiest stiletto. Who, he asked the Governor innocently, is now going to do all the leg work and paper work in this big program? I lie explained helpfully that when he was chairman his staff had done most of the work on a volunteer basis, but he said since he was no longer chairman he supposed that wouldn't be the right step. Weaving and pricking like a skilled matador, Thurston demonstrated that Williams didn't want him as chairman of the committee, but wanted him to do all the work.

In the end, that is just what happened. Thurston virtually took charge of last Monday's meeting, pushed through a long list of resolutions cleaning up the bulk of the approvals, presented a budget and got the wheels moving. He sat in the corner and puffed his pipe and looked bored and, when the committee bogged down, pulled from his pocket another resolution and showed it where to go next. The Governor's aids, caught completely flatfooted by a Republican for the first time in months, cried that Thurston had "mouse- trapped" them. "They shouldn't be so suspic- ous," Thurston dra I d.

"I wouldn't, know how to mousetrap anybody if 1 wanted to." There's a new air of respect in executive office these days for mild-mannered ex-school teacher who "never plays politics." By The Associated Press High-voltage names in American Taft and Dewej spliced into the presidential campaign today, a day of comparative inactivity for the two major contenders. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, the publican presidential nominee, wa.v at his home in New York. After a closed-door appearance Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon meeting, he planned to draft speeches for his Midwestern whistle stop tour which starts tomorrow. Gov.

Acllai Stevenson. Democratic presidential nominee, headed for Springfield. 111., after winding up an eight-day, nine-state Western swing at Albuquerque, N. yesterday. Thus, (he political spotlight wa-s free to focus elsewhere.

It did, and here's how: 1. President Truman. The Democratic National Committee gave its stamp of it would foot the an mile, 15-day "givc-'em-hell" junket by the President into 24 states. 2. Sen.

Robert A. Taft. He got behind man who defeated him in their dramatic duel for the GOP presidential said he was ready to campaign for a Republican victor-y in the November election. 3. Gov.

Thomas E. Dewey. A New York congressman, Rep. Leonard W. Hall, called for a more active campaign role for Dewey, who retired to the wings after helping Eisenhower win the GOP nomination.

The White House was the source of yesterday's announcement that Truman will make a trans-conti- nental stumping tour. The dates arc Sept. 27 through Oct. 12. Taft and Eisenhower got together over breakfast in New York By AGNES E.

MacLAREN As modern as the day after tomorrow is the SS Spartan. This new carferry, with her sister ship the SS Badger, is being constructed at Christy Corp. shipyards at Sturgeon Bay, Wis. Finishing Touches to Spartan The finishing touches are being put to the Spartan, which is expected to make her trial run within next few weeks, followed short- by her maiden trip across Lake outs are the same; their color 1 schemes will be the same; and the use to which they will be put is the operate on Lake Michigan, carrying freight, automobiles and passengers between Ludington and Wisconsin ports efficiently and speedily. Their length overall is 410 feet six inches, with length between perpendiculars 382 feet six inches and beam 59 feet six inches.

Draft will be 18 feet six inches and nor- Michigan to her home port of mal shaft 7,000 horsepower. From Ludington. Launched and christened Saturday, Sept. 6, at the same ceremonies at which the Spartan was given her name, the Badger has several months of work to be done on her before she is ready for service. The measurements of both the new ships are the same; their lay- NOTICE My office will be closed from September 15 through September 27.

DR. CLINTON W1THEY Chiropodist the top of the spar to the bottom of the keel the height is 85 feet eight inches. Clearance between main deck and the cabin deck is 19 feet five inches. Number of rivets used in construction of the Spartan is 165,000 and 55 miles of wire and cable have been used. Four thousand gallons of paint in 15 colors have CLOSED FOR VACATION Sept.

14 to 22 Grotemat's Wife Saving Station been used. Largest rivet has a diameter of one and one eighth inch and a length of five inches. There are 330 electric motors and generators, the smallest motor )eing one sixty fourth horsepower and the largest 60 horsepower. Each of the two wheels (propel- ors) weighs 13,800 pounds. Diameter of the wheels is 13 feet, 10 nches.

Both the Spartan and the Badger will carry 32 freight cars, the same number as carried by the present flagship of the fleet, the City of Midland 41. They also have room for approximately 25 cars, or, if only automobiles are carried, a total of 150. built for Convenience The ships are built, like everything in this streamlined age, for convenience and comfort of both the crew and the passengers with the result that they are spacious, functional and serviceable. Single-funneled, the appearance of the Spartan, and of the Badger, when she is completed, is similar to that of the City of Midland 41, except that the glass-encased pilot house extends across the entire width of the ship so that there is a vision of the entire deck at one time. The pilot house is equipped with wheel stand, radar, radio, chad- burn, gyro-compass, magnetic compass, ship's telephone, ship-to shore telephone, ship's clock, and ther equipment necessary for nav- gation.

A small connecting room the chart room, equipped with he chart table and drawers in which the charts will be kept. The winches are operated by remote control. Air conditioning and heating units on the Spartan and Badger are new features with he carferries. Although both ships are fireproofed throughout, there is a fire alarm and a sprinkler system. Quarters for both officers and crew are commodious and convenient.

Beside the bed in the master's is a compass by which he can immediately if he is needed in pilot house, and directly above compass there is a telephone. He also has a spacious office and a private bath. Officers Have Private Rooms The chief engineer, also has his own office, bedroom and bath. The mates, assistant engineers and steward have private rooms, each with their own baths, lockers and desks. Each room for the men has two bunks in it.

Nearby are the washrooms, bathrooms, toilets, laundry, linen rooms, storerooms, with spare locker rooms. Inside of the stack is the exhaust fan for each of the ship's four boilers, with each system separate from one another. The galleys are fully equipped Lists 35 Percent More Capacity STURGEON BAY, Wis. In an interview at Sturgeon Bay, Walter J. Tuohy, president of Chesapeake Ohio Railway said the $15,000,000 expansion program of the road, in building of two new carferries at Christy Corp.

shipyards here and lengthening and re- powering of two older boats at Manitowoc, will give the road 35 percent more carferry capacity on Lake Michigan inside of another year. When the SS Spartan, which is nearly completed, and the SS Badger, which was launched Sept. 6, are placed in service, the will have a fleet of eight carferries on Lake Michigan plying between Ludington on the east shore and Manitowoc, Kewaunee and Milwaukee on the west shore. "Business in the midwest has so expanded that our tonnage between Wisconsin ports and Ludington has about doubled in the past 20 years," Mr. Tuohy said.

He said that the two older car- ferries, Nos. 21 and 22, will be lengthened 40 feet in Manitowoc and the speed increased from 14 to 18 miles an hour with new engines and boilers. Cost of this contract will run close to $5,000,000. Work is now underway on the No. 22 at the yards of Manitowoc Shipbuilding Inc.

at Manitowoc. Three Killed in Plane Crash JACKSON men were killed today in the crash of privately owned single engine plane near a farmhouse five miles northwest of here. State Police identified the dead as: Calvin Topps, 28, of Hudson, Mich; Glendale Bowers (no age available) of Waldron, and Robert B. Morgan, 39, of Fayette, the pilot. State Police sa4d the at' the four-place Stinson craft ocowr- red in a low ground fog.

The plane came down over a cornfield and caught fire upon hitting the ground between a and a barn. THREE KILLED Glendale Bowers of Waldron, and Calvin Topps, 28, and Robert B. Morgan, 39, of Fa-yette, 0. Morgan was the pilot. State Police said the crash of Presumably the three men had set out on a fishing trip for the weekend.

Friends said that Topps a-nd Morgan, co-owners of the plane, yesterday. Afterward, Taft told reporters for "differences of degree" on foreign policy and Eisenhower saw eye to eye on the issues. Taft's statement and willingness to campaign were generally interpreted as a boon to Eisenhower's pleas for party unity. They were seen, too, as an impetus to bring out the vote of any Taft followers who might still be sulking over the outcome of the nomination race. Dewey, the GOP presidential nominee in M44 and 1948, was a big gun in Eisenhower's victory at the Chicago convention last July.

He moved into the background afterward, amid charges he was dominating Eisenhower's campaign. His assigned task wa-s to win New York. But Rep. Hall told a reporter: "If the governor will consent to a more active part in the campaign, I am sure that his help will be welcomed." This brought a noticeably cool reaction at Eisenhower headquarters. Sen.

Frank Carlson of Kansas and Ralph Cake, Oregon national committeeman, said they had heard no report that Dewey would expand his role. Gov. Stevenson, ending his first campaign drive at Albuquerque yesterday, took advantage of the Taft-Eisenhower breakfast huddle to poke fun at his opposition. "It looks as though Sen. Ta-ft lost the nomin-abion but won the nominee," he quipped and added: "The elephants put their two heads together for a peace must have eaten crow." Stevenson also hit hard at what he called "salesmen of confusion." He said such men toy to fooni anxiety, hysteria and The governor said American turn to Pane 8, Column 3ft GENEROUS TO OF ALMA (ffi anonymous donor who helped Alma's Ghamber of Commerce pay a full-time over the last is witting to help not at the same rate.

Be -paid $900 a month. Now he's offepkig $400 on the grounds the chamber stoewtd make up the difference. The Weather (U. S. Weatrer Bureau Forecast) Lower Michigan: Fair tonight.

had been in the habit of flying to Sunday partly cloudy. Showers in fishing spots in Michigan for their weekends. Bowers was reported to have been invited on the trip this time. The crash occurred at 6:20 a.m. on the farm of Jay Cully on Henry road off M-50 in Tompkins township.

The pilot apparently attempted to make an emergency landing in the cornfield, State Police said. northwest by afternoon or evening. Continued warm. Highest temperature lowest, 62. Highest temperature one year today, 76; lowest, 5fi.

Highest temperature this date 1872, 97 in 1874; lowest, 41 in The sun sets today at 6:46 p. m. urn rises Sunday at 6:11 a. m. The moon sets today at p.

m. ami rises Sunday at 1:25 a. m. Temperature at the U.S. observation station for 24 hours ending at 12 noon: Maximum 9-1, minimum 66.

NOTICE! BEGINNING MONDAY, SEPTEMBER IS there will be no bus service evenings, except Fridays, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. There will be service Wednesdays from 6:30 a.m. to BO afternoon service on Wednesdays. Service on Fridays (torn a.m.

to 9:30 p.m. Thie getadgk; nwtM notice. LUDINGTON MOTOR COACH LINES.