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The Kokomo Tribune from Kokomo, Indiana • Page 47

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ipton Clerk Lucky flour To File Tipton, March pen rtalph E. Watson awaited! boor of this then! ofenature to bis anal of candidacy for conn- clerk. Watson, who ffled for the a primary to succeed him- ia office, nine hie! lacky" Bomber and waited until i o'clock oo the Sth of March to file.) Ffeeak O. Keel filed: for Republi- for Auditor; H. E.

Castor, who did want the office another tern. £eol end Watson filled the G. O. P. jlate for major county Owen has filed to succeed faaimself ae aheriff; Lew Richards 'i oueceed himself as surveyor; Jj Olarence Holer for another term as Iffjounty surveyor.

Troy N. Hutto, by Howard Whitecotton Kast election by a vote recount, is a Republican candidate for term as prosecuting at- Your Favorite Radio Programs Three Soldiers 'Just Walk Out 1 Of Miami Jail If 1 fm'- in Peace end Wmr in Peace ud War Kr. Keene Kecne 8 9 Crime Fbofaerapher Crima Photographer Playbooc Plwbowe Aboer Abner 10 Oreh. in Morte to Xoaie 11 It- dob 1UO Gob 12 Bica Off WIOU UM Tba Time. Koate Plaea.

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i Born in Miami county on October 5. 1872, the deceased was a daugh- iter of Joshua and Mary (Mulford) Lewis. She and the surviving husband were married in 1888. She was a member of the First Christian of Peru. Peru, March Area Fined as Drunken Driver from the Miami county jail was Jacob Wolfe, 24, of Marion, was vealed Wednesday, after military; fined $100 and costs when found police came to Peru to claim cus-i guilty in Peru city court Wednes- tody of four youths who were being i day of driving an automobile while held as absent without leave from i intoxicated.

His driver's license the Army. They found only one suspended for 80 days. Wolfe the boys in jail. The other three, jwas arrested on East Main street said Sheriff George Burke, had by State Patrolman Elton Bodey. walked out, apparently some time! John Mylet, 48, was fineJ one Monday night.

dollar and costs in the same court Those listed as escaoees he pleaded guilty to a charge Robert L. Buehner, 18, and Freder-j 0 leaving the scene of an accident, ick H. Hilts, 19, both of Kokomo, i Authorities said Mylet's car struck and Charles W. Young, 18, of La-i and damaged a gasoline pump at fayette. The other military Lyman Lewis service station er, Kenneth Butler, 17, of Culver, to Amboy on February 19, and that was said to have had the same op- Mylet fled from the scene without iportunity to escape but declined the accident Stake advantage of it.

The sheriff said a workman who Admits Peru Forgeries 2 Rhythm Rhythm Party Party 3 1 Garry Shaw Garry Shaw Garry Show Garry Koore Show 4 Bandstand Bandstand Legion Auxiliary 'n' Marge So far, there are no Democratic mndidates on record for major ounty offices in the May 2 pri- f-nary. Howard Whitecotton, in- Democrat'prosecuting at- ftorney, said he probably will file -ijjut was not yet ready to announce candidacy if be decided to run in the" little mimimimill mlmml gossip talked here as OfMftn IMfiWk cntial material for the major 1 i i It in likely that none of the ma- 1 .1 nn 1 Republican candidates for Aid OJ UtHeTS IS 1 1161116 rounty offices will have contests in i he primary unless an unexpected neurgency arises. had been working in the basement apparently had left the 'basement! door unlocked. The prisoners, who had the freedom of the corridors, simply walked down the basement stairs and crawled out an unbarred basement window, it was believed. Last August, two prisoners being held on felony charges, sawed bars from a window on the second floor and escaped.

They were James L. Holtzapple, 24, and Alden Van Ness, Mrs. Kennth Dewitt, 18, of Delphi, who was tried on a fraudulent check charge in Tippecanoe circuit court at Lafayette Wednesday morning, signed a confession which included three worthless checks which she cashed here, local authorities said. One of the checks, for $34.45, was cashed at Temple's women's apparel shop, one for $32,20 at the J. C.

Penney company store, and one for an unannounced sum at Senger's department store, ac- 21, both of whom later were recaptured, Holtzapple in Colorado; cording to. the announcement, and Van Ness in Illinois. Other checks were cashed by the young woman at Frankfort and Charles R. Ecton Dies Lafayette, and she made an at- Charles R. Ecton, 69, 111 West tempt to cash one at Kokomo, local Fifth street, former insurance Police said.

Of 2 Network Broadcasts Weber Friday Funerjal services for Mrs. Louisa Weber, 84, whose hip injury from fall March 2 was fatal yesterday Atftcrnoon. are to be held at CBS network are on tap for i Usatberman-Morris funeral home tbjg weekend. The first, "One Great flour of Sharing," is a musical and iiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii By CHABLENE MABQUISS TWO SPECIAL BBOADCASTS fit 2 o'clock Friday afternoon with f-he Rev. Dart Swisher in charge.

Burial will be in Fair-view cemetery. Friends are invited to call at the 5 funeral home. Born at Atlanta on July 16, 1865, Weber was the daughter of dramatic program presenting the united relief appeal of the Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches, through Church World Service. The program will feature the relief ac- Mr. and Mrs.

George Loscy. She Itivities of the Protestant church all lived at Atlanta and attended Ham-(over the world, contrasting life ilton county schools until her mar-1 abroad with the plenty of this coun- Jriage to Henry Weber on October try. An appeal will be made to 1881. She was a member of secure funds for the resettlement of the Prilgrim Holiness church. Surviving with the husband arc jTour daughters.

Mrs. George Fouch, Mrs. Maude Mackey, Mrs. Bert McNew, all of Tipton. and Mrs.

E. C. Ipeerliate of Mobile, a son, Weber of Tipton, and a Brother, Mort Losey, also of Tipton. sister, Mrs. Addle McCullough, I lives at Indianapolis.

There arc 11 grandchildren. 23 children and three arandchildren. great-grand- great-great- Damage Case Venued Damages of $25,000 are sought om G. Eugene Newton by Melvin Cecil in 41 damage action venued here today from Hamilton county circuit court The plaintiff alleges In the complaint that he was permanently injured through the negligence of the defendant in an automobile accident at Noblesville on April 1M7. Participating in the discussion will be Mrs.

Ershel G. Pence, chairman of radio committee, Paul Caton. commander of Legion Post No. 6 and veteran of World War Raymond Zirkle, junior past commander of Post No. 6 and veteran of World War and Mrs.

H. A. Millbern, auxiliary president The program will be broadcast at 4:80 p. nu SEMI-FINAL BASKETBALL play at Muncic Saturday will be broadcast by WIOU with Don Gripe doing the play-by-play. Sheridan and New Castle will meet at 1 p.

displaced persons, support of Chris- and Marion and Auburn at 2:15 agent, died at his home Wednesday The Lafayette court took the case tianity in Asia and Europe and continuation of the total relief program p. m. with WIOU coming on the air at 1 p. m. with the games.

The through the voluntary church bod-1 winners will meet Saturday night ies. The show will be aired at 5:30 ith WIOU airing the games, be- TRY A HHBUNE WANT AD! PAINFUL MEtE IS DPI IfCLIIbr Cat relief fnat pain. Itch si by from temomi TbentoB A MUMP diwc asw svsimsat fessm MMT Bactal OntmMt to aaftss akrmk awtiltac. trim. Get a Minor Ointment Bectai today.

Follow mnettow en the tabeL For p. m. Saturday, SECOND of the two broadcasts will be in behalf of the Easter seal campaign of the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults. Garry Moore will be emcee: Bing Crosby will present a special Easter seal message; Jane Wyman will do a dramatic sketch and Jo Stafford and Dick Haymes will p. m.

WIOU-CBS). BOBEBT TAM of Burnettsville, tenor soloist with Purdue University's Varsity Glee club which will appear in a program here March 26, will sing on the Morris B. Sachs amateur hour on Sunday (12:30 p. WENR-ABC). Sunday's amateur hour will be an all-Irish program and Tarn will sing "A Little Bit of Heaven." Kokomoans who heard the Purdue Concert choir in their recent appearance before members and guests of the Schoolmasters club will remember Tarn also.

ON FRIDAY another in the, local! American Legion auxiliary's -programs on national security will be presented over Radio Station WIOU. Opinions of veterans of this community on the topic, "What Safeguards Does America Need to Keep Her Secure from Foreign Attack?" will be given. ginning at 8 p. m. THIRD in a broadcasts by will be aired morning.

He had been ill four years. under Advisement, it was learned. Funeral services will be conducted in the Allen funeral home, 68 East Third street, at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, with the Rev. E. E.

Lawshe, pastor of the First Methodist church, officiating. Interment will be in Springdale cemetery at Bunker Hill. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Glen Proctor, of Peru, and a brother, William H. Ecton, of Indianapolis.

A native of Cass county, the deceased had been a resident of Peru for 50 years. He was born at Walton on December 6, 1880, a son of Daniel and Martha (Ketron) Ecton. He was married in 1901 to Mary E. Hoff, who died in 1937. The body was at the funeral home, where it was announced that friends may call after 7 o'clock Thursday night.

series of holiday the same sponsor on Easter Sunday when a special full-hour production of "Dinner At Eight," starring Rosalind Russell, Charles Boyer and, John Garfield, is presented. Thej sponsor launched the "across-the- calendar" shows on Thanksgiving Day and on Christmas Day presented Jack Benny in "The Main Who Came to Dinner." GUESTS: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien and Janet Leigh in "Little Women" (8 p. m. Dick Powell, June Allyson, Gordon MacRae and others at a Girl Scout birthday party (4 p. m.

NBC) Elizabeth Taylor and Walter Huston in "Our Town" (7-30 p. m. Joseph Gotten in "Portrait of Jenny" (8 p. m. Dennis Morgan with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy (7 p.

m. WIOU-CBS). Mrs. Charles A. Saine Dies Mrs.

Mary E. Saine, 77, wife of Charles A. Saine, Peru route-4, died in Dukes Memorial hospital here early Wednesday. She had been ill two years. Funeral services will be conducted in the Drake-Flowers funeral home on West Third street at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, with the Rev.

Lee Jackson, pastor of the 'First Christian church, officiating. Interment will be in Greenlawn cemetery at Mexico'. The body will remain at the funeral home until after the services, and it was announced that friends may call there. ft Survivors include the husband and three children, Melvin Saine, Ft. Wayne; Mrs.

Hugh Marshall, of Peru, and Mrs. Ernest Evans, Peru route 4. Surviving also are a sister, Mrs. Olive Chichester, of Murphy Heads C. of C.

Don Murphy, camera store owner, has been elected president of the Peru Chamber of Commerce, it was announced Wednesday following a meeting of the He succeeds Layman Peters, manufacturer. Other officers elected were: James S. Vaughan, vice president; A. F. Pate, recording secretary.

and Harold Beaty, treasurer. Grotto Hall March 11, Grotto dance, special drawint 1950. Members and friends. 10-1 a. m.

Lou DeHon OreN. Mass Slayer Tries To End Life in Jail New York, "March A mass the death chair if he is pronounced tried to electrocute himself in his jail cell yesterday. The killer, William Jones, a Negro, took off his shirt, used it as a sponge to soak his body with water, put one bare foot in a basin of water, and tried to stick his finger in a light socket. But Jones, who had slain four men and slashed three others in a wild rampage Sunday, lost the bet he made in court. The slayer, released from a hospital for the criminal insane only four days before the butchery of Sunday strollers, told a judge on Tuesday: "1 won't live 24 hours.

I'll bet you on that." A guard spoiled his plans by yanking him away from the water before he could make contact with' the electricity. "Why didn't you let me do it?" Jones screamed. "You could have given me a minute more. You're all against me. I want to eat my last Jones was put in a str'aightjac- ket, and more guards were added.

Winter Pitches State Hard Blow Indianapolis. March 9 Winter pitched another wallop at Indiana today. Temperatures were down in the 'teens early this morning. The weather bureau predicted low temperatures again for Friday morning but expected the mercury to rise during the day. Marion had the lowest tempera- 'ture in the state this 11 degrees.

It was 13 at both South Bend and Fort Wayne, 14 at Indianapolis, 16 at Terre Haute and 21 at Evansville. Friday morning temperatures are expected to range from 10 to 15 degrees in the north to 15 to 20 degrees in the south. Bitter Fighting Taipei, Formosa, March Nationalist warplanes rained bombs incessantly today on the Communist invaders of strategic Weichow island, off the South China coast. Thursday, Mar. 9, 1950 KOKOMO (tnd.) TRIBUNE 17 COLONIAL TODAY thru SATURDAY 4 STRAIGHT FROM HORSES MOUTH FRIDAY SATURDAY OX TODAY "CYNTHIA" "SHOCKmoOP" NTINELS OF THE Wrth SMILIY CONGO BILL TODAY Thru SATURDAY WHOOPEE 2 GREAT HITS PIUS NEWS WALTBt MD.HAN TODAY "Villoge Born Dance" and "Puddin' Head" 2 BIG WESTERNS Full of Fury and Gunfire FRIDAY AND Stage SATURDAY Coach Ambushed! Mystery Girl Kidnapped! Terror Gang Hunted! WOOD Fictions Daring Detective VIOLENCE VS.

JUSTICE HI THELANDoltheSlX-ani! Is fast whtn law and to the wild west! "HIDDEN RAYMOND NATION "DICK TRACY RETURNS" TODAY 'THE CROOKED WAY" BE PRESENT! RETURNING FOR GRAND F-U-N! Reopened for Business FRIDAY, MARCH 10 NORTH ON U. S. 35 RAY'S DRIVE-IN CHICKEN IN A CAR, With French Fries 75c CHOP STEAK BASKET 35e TENDfttOIN BASKET 30c SWOB Steak Scramtbwrger ISc 20c 25c 20e 30c 2Sc Chep Steak 25c Ceney Mcmd ISc Teorted Horn 30c Teosfed Ham Saiad 20c Toasted Cheese ISc C. or CS. 5c 5c Cole Slaw Sliced Tomatoes 15c Cottatfo Cheese ISc Baked Beans ISc rivincn rriM 15c ke Cream Sc lOc Chocolate 15 Cherry is Pirwapple ISc Strawberry 15c Vanilla ISc Lemon SUNDAES Hot Fudge Butterscotch Strawberry MorshmoHow lOc Vanilla lOc Pineapple 11 A.

M. TO 12:30 A. ML 20c 20c Clll SEIVICE OILY Frigid Blast Moves To Eastern Seaboard! (By The Associated Press.) A late winter season storm blew cold air over a wide portion of the eastern half of the nation today. The strong winds which hammered the Midwest for two days diminished but they still carried much force as they moved into the northeastern states. A cold belt extended over the Great Lakes region southward -to the Gulf and eastward to the Atlantic states.

Temperatures also remained chilly over the northern plains and the upper and middle Mississippi and Missouri valleys. Generally normal weather was reported from west of the Rockies to the Pacific coast Some rain fell in the Pacific Northwest. ON TELEVISON WFBM-TV (Ch 6) Thursday, March 9 P.M. 5:25 Program Preview 5:30 News and Notes 6:00 Kukla, Fran and Ollie 6:30 TeleNews 6:45 Roberta Quinlan 7:00 Champions Write 7:30 Escape 8:00 Studio One 8:00 Heritage For Victory 9:20 Red Cross News 9:30 TeleNews 9:40 Program Preview 9:43 Sign-Off 999 AND 199 AT THEIR fVNNIEST! the Rockies With Mirth, Maids and Musicl When these ski-chumps take the jumps on avalanche of roaring laughferl LOU ABBOTT COSMO Subjugation Vatican City, March The bloody phase of the fight against church in Yugoslavia has ended but quiet persecution to subjugate the church continues in full force, the Jesuit publication Civilta Cattolica reports in its current issue. Newcomers' Party The evening group of the Newcomers club met Wednesday night for a potluck supper at the Y.

M. C. A. Eighteen couples attended. Serving on the entertaining committee were Mesdames Phil Davies, O.

K. Warren, Richard Travis and Fiebers. Following the supper, Tom Keyes. showed pictures taken on his trip to Alaska and told of that experience. AMERICAN LEGION PARTY Eftry Friday, 1 I p.

Dttr tptR, 6:30 p. Evtry- TOM A JERRY TENNIS CHUMPS" NEWS My Pal Series 'PAL, DOG DETECTIVE' Use Tribune Want Ads For Results! TODAY -THE BUCK OR SHUT IT CAN COST YOUR LIFE! STARTS FRIDAY FOUR EPIC DAYS! THE "BIG PARADE OF WORLD WAR II A CHALLANGE TO ALL FILMS FOR A DECADE! THE MARINES GREAT HOUR! Swrvi of Hiitoric A. Govwn. M. John Bradley sfomna 1Mn JOHN WAYNE JOHN AGAR ADELE MARA FORREST TUCKER SEE THIS STIRRING EPIC FROM THE BEGINNING AT 1:57 7:03 9:30 "HUE HAWAII" CARTOON "FUTURC SKIPPERS" "FARTHER DOWN EAST" NEWS.

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