The Tribune from Seymour, Indiana • Page 1

I A NEWSPAPER FOR SEYMOUR DAILY TRIBUNE Fair and cooler. tonight and THE WEATHER: THE WHOLE FAMILY Sunday, VOLUME LXVIL. NO. 253 SEYMOUR -INDIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1949 plan pour- a cement floor and begin work. on the interior of a new home Sunday for Brownstown Post No.

7755, Veterans of Foreign Wars. of the post met this week to discuss completion of which still lacks the floor and several other finishing touches. 43 Pupils Make Jr. High Rolls 23 in Seventh Grade, 20 in Eighth Win Honor List Places VFW Volunteers to Complete New Home Forty-three pupils in Shields Junior High School won places on the honor rolls there for the initial six- period of the current school year, C. H.

Englehardt, principal, announced today. Honors were rather evenly divided between grades seven and eight, with the seventh grade having a slight edge with 23 on the honor rolls, as compared with the eighth grade's 20. Nine pupils, four from the seventh grade and five from the eighth grade, made the high honor roll, with a total of 34 pupils earning regular honor roll places. Ninteen seventh-graders and 15 eighth-graders won places on the regular honor roll, On the high honor roll from the seventh grade were Nancy Bevers, Carolyn Miller, Jerry Parr and Dolores Stine, while on the high honor roll, from the eighth grade were Janet Cordes, Monaei Englehardt, Paul Rigsbee, Carolyn Schneck and 'Paut Weasner. Making the regular honor roll rom the seventh grade were Patty Aiken, Nancy Barnett, Anna Marie Byrer, Betty Jo Borcherding, Nancy Beldon, Barbara Campbell; Judy Cline, Yvonne Curry, Donna Foreman, Helen Franke, Charles Linke, Jane Montgomery, Jane Nichalson, Bill Prime, Marjorie Roeder, Ann Lynn Smith, Jerrine.

Stevens, Don Curtis Schmidt, and Judith Hennessy. h- graders on the regular honor roll were Nancy Browning, Marvin Cox, Loren Donica, John Embutt, Sharon Hackney, Madeline Miller, Joan Patrick, Dan Patrick, Beverly Knott, Jerry Johnson, Louis Osterman, Ronald Phillips, Eddie Lyskowinski, Sandra Smedley, and Barbara Wright. Alfred Sierp, 54, Expires at Residence Alfred Sierp, 54, a life-long resi- dent of Seymour, died this morning at his home, 809-South Walnut street. had been ill for the past five weeks.Mr. Sierp was born November: 8.

1894, in Jackson county, the son of the late Herman and Emma Mellencamp-Sierp. He -was martried June 19; 1921, in Seymour tor Angeline Siefker, who survives. Mr. Sierp was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church and was a veteran of World War I. He was a salesman by occupation and was a member of Seymour Post No.

89, American Legion. A wide circle of friends throughout Seymour and vicinity mourns his passing. Besides the widow, he is survived by one daughter, Miss Paula June Sierp, of Seymour, a student in college at Terre Haute; one brother, Louis Sierp, of Chicago and a sister, Mrs. Carl Pottschmidt, of Brownstown. Two brothers, Martin Sierp and Edward Sierp, and a sister, Clara Sierp, preceded him in death.

Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the residence and at 2 o'- clock from the Immanuel Lutheran Church with the Rev. V. A. Mack, pastor, in charge. Burial in the Lutheran Cemetery.

Seymour Post No. 89, American Legion, will conduct military rites. Friends may call at the home, 809 South Walnut street, after 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Local Dairy Executive Returns from Europe J. Ralph Thompson, local dairy executive, and Purdue University trustee, and 30 other Indiana businessmen are scheduled to land at Weir Cook Municipal Airport 1 in Indianapolis today after a good will tour of Europe.

The Hoosiers, members of the Indianapolis and state Chambers of Commerce, said the overseas trip convinced them that Marshall Plan aid will be necessary after its 1952 deadline, according to an Associated Press report. They surveyed business prospects for exports and imports in 10 European countries. Mr. Thompson and several others of the good will trade tourists will relate their experiences Monthe day at a Claypool homecoming Hotel Riley luncheon in Room, Indianapolis. Mrs.

Thompson accompanied her husband on the trip. PRICE FIVE CENTS Win Places On First Honor Lists of Year 17 Shields High School Students Achieve High Honor. Roll, 67 Regular Eighty-four Shields High School students won places on the reguar and high honor rolls of the school for the first six weeks' period of the 1949-50 school year, list issued today by De Witte Ogan, high school principal, revealed. The total of 84 students, 17 of whom made the high honor roll and 67 of whom earned places on the regular honor roll, represents approximately per cent of the student body of the school, with 618 enrolled there. Fewer than three per cent of the students made the high honor roll, with one freshman, six sophomores, three juniors and seven seniors achieving this honor.

Twenty-one freshmen, seven sophomores, 19 juniors and 20 seniors made the regular honor roll, with the record of the sophomores unusual in that nearly as many sophomores made the high honor roll as. made the regular honor roll. In other classes the number on the high honor roll represented a sharp decrease from the number on the regular honor roll. Seniors Record Excellent Seniors made an excellent showing on the honor rolls this period, as the class is comparatively small, numbering only about 105. A total of 27 seniors earned places on the honor rolls, five more than the freshmen, who number well over 200.

It remained for the Senior boys to vindicate their sex in the matter of grades, for two Senior boys, Walter Able and James Johnson, were the only boys on the high honor roll, as compared with 15 girls. The boys fared slightly better on the regular honor roll, however, as 19 boys made the regular honor roll, as compared with 48 girls. Jacquelin Crum was the lone freshman on the high honor roll, while Carlene Biggs, Janice Behr, Shirley Goins, Barbara Fill, Joyce Ann Taylor and Barbara Taulman were the sophomores winning this honor. Rachel Browning, Suzanne Peters and Judy Sargeant were the juniors on the high honor roll, and Luceil Brackemyre, James Johnson, Norma -Patrick, -Miriam Hoeferkamp, Nelda Deputy, Patty Otte- and Walter- Able: were the Seniors on the high honor roll. Listed by Classes By classes, freshmen on the reg.

ular honor" roll were Paul Boxman, Sonya Wand da Brooks, Jacqueline Amos, Jane Turn to page 5, column Rain Steals Show From Meek Storm A threatened Canadian storm proved to be mostly bluster as it hit Seymour on its way eastward early this morning. Temperatures were crisp but well above freezing. More notable as weather news was 1.37 inches of rainfall the heaviest recorded since early March of this year by Mrs. Ruth Everhart, official weather observer here. White River rose 2.7 feet in a 24-hour period ending at 7 o'clock this morning.

Mrs. Everhart reported a low 50 degrees and a high 70 degrees for the same time period. Winds reached a velocity of 25 to 30 miles an hour. Friday night and this morning, according to an Associated Press dispatch. In the wake of the dying storm--in the northern Rockies and plains states temperatures were slowly rising after sub-freezing temperatures.

A white blanket of snow, as deep as 15- inches at Billings, remained as a memento of the cold wave, however. Specialist Addresses Local Medical Group Dr. Russell Sage, eye, ear, nose and throat specialist of Indianapolis, addressed the medical and surgical staff of Schneck Memordal Hospital at a regular monthly. meeting in the hospital Friday night. Dr.

Sage, who is well-known to the local medical society, illustrated his speech with colored slides showing widely varied clinical conditions of the mouth. He stated the 66 slides shown represented one-third of his collection of pictures he has collected during years of practice. The illustrated lecture was one he has given from coast to coast. Todd Provides Total Bond in Sum of $8.000 Man Facing Two Auto Banditry Counts Gets Release-First Jury Verdict "Not Guilty" Ralph D. Todd, of Indianapolis, who faces two charges of automobile banditry in Jackson Circuit Court at Brownstown, was released from the Jackson county jail at Brownstown.

Friday when he posted bond in the total sum of Todd had been in the county jail for about three weeks since he was arrested on one of the charges when he left the Indiana state prison at Michigan City from which his release had been ordered by a federal judge while he was serving a sentence on one charge of automobile banditry. Bond was set at $5,000 on one of the charges and at $3,000 on the other charge. The bond was provided by an Indianapolis surety company. Judge Q. Austin East, of Monroe Circuit Court, is special judge in one of the automobile banditry cases pending against Todd and Judge Fred A.

Matthews, of the Scott-Jennings judicial circuit, is special judge in the other case. The special judges were selected after Judge George H. Gossman, who had served in the previous trial when Todd was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to concurrent terms of 10 years and two to 14 years on automobile banditry and issuing a fraudulent check, disqualified himself. Jury Out 25 Minutes After deliberating less than 25 minutes in the first jury trial of the October term of court at Brownstown Friday, the regular jury panel of 12 men returned a verdict of not guilty in the trial of Ervin Kaufman, Hamilton Turn to page 5, column 5 Autos Damaged in Two Accidents Here Four automobiles, including taxicabs, were damaged in two accidents occurring on Seymour streets late Friday. As a 1949 model sedan was being driven south on Chestnut street by Mrs.

Florence Timperman, South Chestnut street, late Friday afternoon, it was in collision with- 1947 model coach taxicab belonging to AI Simmons which WAs being driven west on St. Louis avenue by Raymond Allman, 306 East Second street. Early Friday night, total damage of about $35 was caused to two automobiles at the intersection of Second and Ewing streets. As 1946 -model -taxicab owned by Al Simmons, driven by Lester Raymond Moore, of Scottsburg, was. making a according to the police report, it was in collision with a 1941 model sedan driven south on Ewing street by Rena Tidd, South Park street.

City police investigated both accidents. Rites for Ex-Scipio War Veteran Sunday Funeral services for Sgt. Arthur V. Keller, 27, a graduate of the Scipio High School and a nephew of Mrs. James Harmon of Elizabethtown, will be conducted at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Lytle -Funeral Home at Madison.

Burial in Springdale Cemetery at Madison. He was reported missing in action over Nagoya, third largest city in Japan, on May 14, 1945. He was a turret gunner on B-29 and was the first Bartholomew county airman to be reported missing in action in the bombing of Japan. He, was declared killed in action after having been on the missing list for a year. The parents, Verbin Keller, of Indianapolis and his mother who lives in Madison and a daughter, Karen Keller, of Illinois, survive.

Weather Records Here official and IS ALWAYS weather record NE OTHER PELION the for Seymour 1 for day. m. temperature reading is from downtown mometer, unofficial. er reading from the Ruth EverMrs. hart, weather, here, and Temperatures Official maximum Friday 70 Official minimum 50 Reading at 10 a.

m. 52 Precipitation 1.37 River stage 4.9 feet Girls Ensemble Will Give Rotary Program Shields School girls ensemble dinner meeting of the Seymour -Rotary Club -Monday o'clock at the Elks Club. Phil Cordes is chairman of Monday night's program. The girls' ensemble in under the direction of David Davenport, high school vocal music instructor. No Heads to Roll, Lawmakers Warn House Members Rap Pentagon Purge Talk In Unification Row Washington, Oct.

22 (P) Talks that military purges may be in the wind as a result of bitter armed forces disagreement over unification brought sharp words of caution today from two House members. Reps. Short (R-Mo) and Sasscer (D- Md) spoke up in the wake of spreading reports that some heads may roll in the Pentagon as an aftermoth of the congressional hearings which wound up Friday. Those reports received impetus from Secretary of Defense Johnson's statement to the House Armed Services Committee Friday. He said that it was failure to support unification which resulted in ther esignation of former Secretary of the Navy John L.

Sullivan statement Sullivan promptly denied. Short, expressing concern over the rumors, said he intends to see to it that Johnson sticks to personal assurances that there will be no reprisals over airing of navy grievances. In their appearances on the stand, the Navy officers indicated that their main quarrel is with the way the unification law is being carried out, rather than with the law itself. Expected Developments From the testimony and the House group's reaction to it, several things seem sure: 1. Johnson intends to keep a hard hand on the throttle at the Pentagon, and force through whatever economies he can.

2. Congress will try to get its foot in the door, at least to have some say on allocation of funds to the various services, 3. There may be a greater interchange of personnel among the three services for better understanding of the problems of each. 4. The Navy apparently will not get the super-carrier it was building until Johnson cancelled construction.

5. The Air Force will continue at full steam with its B-36 strategic bomber program. Pythians will Honor Supreme Chancellor Ffed" county" superin-1 tendent of Grant county schools of Marion, Supreme Chan-, cellor of the Knights of Pythias will be honored at Brownstown Lodge on November 3. Several candidates will be inducted into membership. using the Famous Rathbone Bible, Justice Rathbone, founder of the order, used this Bible 86 years ago to obligate the first members.

Joseph W. Van Briggle, Grand Chancellor of Indiana, Indianapolis, preside at the meeting and will be assisted by Mel M. Ewen, Supreme Secretary of Minneapois, Minn. and other Grand Lodge officers. Reuben L.

Robertson, Grand Secretary, states there will be delegates coming from Orleans, Salem, Scottsburg, Seymour, Nashville, Jeffersonville, Madison, Marengo, New Albany, Mitchell, Corydon, French Lick, Bedford, Bloomington, Columbus, North Vernon, Medora, Milltown, Reddington, Letts, Tunnelton and Burney. Three Louisville Women Injured in Accident Three Louisville women are recovering from injuries sustained late Thursday afternoon when automobile in which they were riding south on U. S. Road 31, driven by Mary B. Zubrod, 43, Louisville, overturned just north of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St.

Paul and Pacific Railroad crossing about five miles north of Reddington. Madeline H. Loeffler, 39, sustained a broken left wrist and contusions on the head, Josephine Yarmack, 40, sustained lacera tions on the head and Ellyn Goodrich, 34, sustained a sprained right shoulder and abrasions on the right leg. The driver told Lt. Harry McMillin, of the Seymour state police post, who investigated, that she was passing a truck which pulled out and forced her car from the road, her 1941 model sedan overturning on the left side of the highway.

Russ Protest Indictment of Trade Agents Reprisals Expected After Five Amtorg Officials Arrested: For Non-Registration (NEA Telephoto) Five of the convicted Communist leaders sit in a prison van on the way back to their cells after being sentenced to five years and a $10,000 fine each by Federal Judge Harold R. Medina in New York. Left to right, are: Benjamin Davis, New York City councilman; Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the Communist Party; Gilbert Green, Illinois party chairman; John Williamson, labor secretary; Gus Hall, Cleveland, Ohio state chairman. REMC Building Expansion Begun New Garage, Office Wing to Triple Floor Space, Cost $43,000 Work on the foundation of a $43,000 construction project for the Jackson County Rural Electrification Membership Corporation at Brownstown was well underway today and an REMC official reported that, weather permitting, the construction would be finished in January, 1950. A Louisville contracting firm, Bush and Sons, submitted the lowest bid for building new garage and adding a new office wing to the REMC building.

The new construction will add 3,756 square feet of floor space to the pre-war building occupied by the cooperative, giving it about three times the space it had previously. The 52x63 feet garage and 15 x30 feet office wing will be constructed of the same material as the present building, Remodeling also is being done. A general office, machine and mail room, office supply room and ladies' rest room will be contained in the new wing. The new garage. will be used to house eight trucks and to store line material used to service the REMC'S members, The old garage will be convert ted to a meter room, mens' rest room and line foreman's office, Elks Committees Named for Year Committees to serve Seymour Lodge No.

462, P. O. Elks, for the remainder of this year were announced today by K. D. Ferris, exalted ruler of the lodge.

Members of the Cancer Fund committee are Mr. and Mrs. Don M. Bollinger, Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Brethauer and Mr. and Mrs. Keith Bundy. The dinner-bridge committee is composed of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Beatty, and Mrs. John M. Lewis and Mr. and Mrs. Turn to.

page 5, column Local Church to Be Represented At Convention The Rev. George L. Florence, pastor of the Central Christian Church, and three members of his congregation will be among 10,000 delegates attending a centennial convention of the Disciples of Christ at Cincinnati, Ohio, Tuesday through Sunday. Numerous other members of the Central Christian Church will leave after Sunday School on October 30 to attend a ProtestantFestival of Faith in the Cincinnati Gardens. The Rev.

Mr. Florence will leave Monday to attend the international convention. Mrs. HarBobb, a member of the board of the state women's missionary society, will leave Tuesday. The other two members planning to attend the meeting, Mrs.

Merle Davis and Mrs. Omer Morgan, will leave Thursday. The Rev. Mr. Florence is an official delegate.

Delegates at the centennial convention will celebrate 100 years of organized missionary work and convention life. A Committee on Recommendations, composed. of Turn to page 5, column 5 Lutheran Rally Service Planned Rally Service to commemo. rate the Reformation will be held on October 30 in Shields High School, it was announced today. The rally is sponsored by the 17 member congregations of the Lutheran Mission Federation of Jackson and Bartholomew counties.

The Rev. Russell C. Prohl of Redeemer Church, Seymour, is chairman of the federation. The committee appointed to make arrangements is headed by the Rev. T.

J. Destinon, Dudleytown. The other committee members are the Rev, V. A. Mack of Immanuel Church, Seymour and the Rev.

Marvin Fritz, of Austin. The guest speaker for the rally service will be the Rev. Dr. Paul F. Miller of Ft.

Wayne. Memorial to Seymour Native Famous In Geological Circles Is Published The memory of a native of Seymour, who left here to become widely known in geological circles, is honored with- an eight-page memorial and bibliography in the Proceedings Volume of The Geological Society of America for 1948, which was published this summer. He is H. Foster Bain, who died March 9, 1948, in Manila, Philippine Islands. A copy of the Proceedings containing his full page photograph, a four-page mem- mortal tracing his career and a three-page bibliography has been donated to the Seymour Public Library by his cousin, Mrs.

Lee R. Bailey, of Mason City, Iowa, it has been announced by Miss Katherine Frazee, city librarian. Mrs. Bailey is herself a former resident of Seymour. The late Mr.

Bain, who often visited here until shortly before his death, was a nephew of the late Mrs. Allen Swope. He was born in Seymour November 2, 1871, the son of William Mandeville and Zoradie Foster Bain, and was known as Hal. His father, Washington, Oct. 22-- (P) dictment of Russia's tamed Amtorg Trading Corporation and its top officers as unregistered foreign agents appears certain to set off new tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury here and announced by Attorney General MeGrath late Friday. It charged the corporation and six officers with failure to register as agents of a foreign power in accordance with American law. The maximum penalty is a $10,000 fine and five years imprisonment. Washington officials promptly began speculating on Soviet ireprisals. The Russian Embassy was reported to have lodged a formal protest with the State Department and a Moscow propaganda blast denouncing the indictment was expected almost immediately.

Shortly after McGrath made his announcement, five of. the Russians were arrested in New York and taken before a U. S. commiesioner, who held them under $15,000 bail each pending a hearing Wednesday on removal to Washington. Sixth in Russia The sixth Amtorg official vice-president of the companyin Russia.

Those taken into custody were the firm's president, the vice-president, the treasurer, the secretary and former assistant treasurer now doing other work. Attorney Isadore Needleman, appearing for the Russians, told the commissioner "there is no question" the men will be on hand Turn to page 5, column 5 Convicted Reds Launch Appeals Judge's Refusal to Set Bail Assailed By Fellow Travelers New York, Oct. 22- (P) -For trifling $5 apiece, America's, 11 convicted Communist Friday night bought back a slim chance for freedom. They were sentenced to prison Friday by Federal Judge Harold R. Medina.

Their terms range from five years for 10 of the men, to three years for the 11th. All were fined $10,000 each. They spent more than $500,000 fighting conviction during their nine months trial for. to advocate overthrow of the U. S.

government. They lost. Then they launched an appeal, asking for the same government they so loudly criticized all the legal rights of review that the U. S. offers any condemned man.

Their formal motions for appeal appear headed for the U. S. Supreme Court. But it may be months conceivably years before the high court gets the case. Normally the U.

S. Circuit Court of Appeals reviews the case first. As each motion for appeal was filed Friday night, a $5 fee was: paid in accordance with the law. Their last ditch fight for treedom. began.

Jess than. an hour at ter Federal Judge Harold R. -Medina looked down on them from his high bench and gave them the maximum punishment for their crime. Medina spared only one. He was Robert G.

Thompson, who got off with three years instead of five. The 34-year-old New York state Communist chairman Turn to page 5, column 5 Ex-Local Man, Church To Dedicate Parsonage The congregation of the Church of the Nazarene of Huntingburg, of which the Rev. Carl Amos, formerly of Seymour and son of Mr. and Mrs. William M.

Amos, this. city, is pastor, will dedicate its new parsonage at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Leo C. -Davis, of the southwest district, will officiate. at the cation and the Bethel Gospel Singers will give a program of music.

The Rev. Mr. Amos and the men of congregation did most of the labor themselves on the parsonage, 10-room modern house two bathrooms and a full basement. It is now occupied by the pastor and his family. Sunday also will be Rally Day at the Huntingburg church, when more than 200 persons are expected to be present.

Russ Orbit "Wolves" To Become Vocalists Prague, Oct. 22- (P) Czechoslovakia's youth today was urged to wage war against jitterbug dancing because it allegedly led to a life of shiftlessness and crime, Ping. pong, billiards and menting on the pretty legs of girls also came in for acid comment. as symbols of "so-called Western culture" and unworthy of the youth of a "people's democracy." It. was suggested that jitterbugging should be replaced by the Bulgarian reel and talking about girls legs by singing a national song.

ICC. Orders Train Service Cut To Conserve Coal Washington, Oct. 22- (P) The government grimly pushed its efforts today to break a deadlock in the nationwide steel strike as an equally bleak coal situation brought slash in coal-burning passenger train service. President Truman's advisers said he is counting on a steel settlement to spark an agreement which might lead in turn to' the end of the month-old coat- walk out. As coal stocks above ground dwindled.

the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered a 25 per cent" cut In" passenger trains pulled by coal-burning locomotives, effective next. Tuesday. The order applied to liner with less than 25-day supply of coal on hand. The Association of American Railroads estimates that on October 1 one-third of the Turn to page 5, column Service Officers School Ends Today Allan H. Nierman, Jackson county veterans service officer, reported today he had attended several sessions of the fifth annual Indiana Department of Veterans Affairs service officers school in Indianapolis this week but said he had been unable to stay for the entire six days of school.

The six-day meeting ending today, was conducted in the House of Representatives Chambers in the statehouse for all city and county service officers and representatives of the major organizations and the Red Cross. Fifty-five of the state and par tion's top leaders in veterans serTurn to page 5, column 4. partner in two stores and a bank in Seymour, and active in the Presbyterian Church, died when his son was. only two years old. His widow succeeded in sending her children through Moore's Hill College' and encouraged her son to go on for his Ph.

D. which he received at the University of Chicago in 1897 after also studying at John Hopkins University. He began his professional career as an assistant on the Iowa Geological Survey and between 1895 and 1900 he was assistant state geologist and was in charge of the survey office in the capitol building at Des Moines. He became proficient in writing, editing and printing geological papers and gave lectures at the University of Iowa. He engaged in Colorado Mining, lectured at the University of and wrote many outstanding reports.

In 1905, he was appointed director of the Illinois State Geological Survey and organized and, directed staff to investigate all phases of geology Turn to page 6, column 7 Red Cross Mails Blood Type Cards Seventy-three cards listing type of: blood were mailed today to persons donating blood during the October 10 visit of the American Red Cross bloodmobile unit from Louisville, Mrs. Dora Reynolds, executive secretary. of the Jackson County Chapter, revealed, as chapter officials began preparing for the next bloodmobile unit visit here on November 28. Especially gratifying in the October 10 visit was the fact that three new donors possessing the very rare AB negative type blood were typed during the visit, bringing the total of persons known to have this type blood Turn to page 5, column.