The Herald-Palladium from Benton Harbor, Michigan • 1

WEATHER FORECAST Fair, continued warm tonight, Friday. TEMPERATURE Headings from Wed. noon to Than, noon; Michigan's Biggest Buy 12 a. 83 2 p. 88 P.m.

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m. 64 62 FINAL EDITION; BENTON HARBOR, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1952 24 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS 12 a. Forimer Noo 2 Tax Chief Is Indicted juwo) 0) nn UWL L-UZ1U Claim He Evaded Isn't Out Cleanup Promised By Crow r-v Pv toss shows Benton Harbor Fire Chief Ray Hall (seated) in as he fences with Niles Atty. George Keller (standing) in service board hearing at city hall. Keller represented T.

Miller (right, below) who was fired Aug 5 by Fireman Raymond Anderson fired by Hall yesterday as hassle indirectly stemming from Monday's still undecided Bemused newsman eyeing Hall is WHFB's Ed Backus. (News-Palladium photos by Charles Zindler) illiillp Acts Following New Firing By Chief Ray Hall City Manager H. H. (PaO TJrow announced this morning that ho will conduct a personal investiga-. tidn of Benton Harbor's fire depart-'- ment to- root out causes of.

low morale and dissension among ths- ranks. Ws announcement came less than 24 hours after Fire Chief Ray Hall dismissed the second fireman in little over a month on charge Involving disrespect fnl conduct toward the chief. Fired by Chief Hall at 2 p. m. yesterday was Second Class Fireman Raymond Anderson, 29-year-old father of two chil- dren with 14 months service in the department.

Whether bis discbarge will stick; is one of tn things the city man I ll'lll ruip 1 TT- mm 1 iMiMiiiiiiiinin -Iff '') tW-sSfE I rxr" iv i iA 1 if I if Advance Draw Up Lease For Youth Site At B. Springs BERRIEN SPRINGS, Sept. 11 Tentative approval of a 99-year lease on a parcel of land on the Berrien County Youth fair grounds as the site for the proposed Youth Memorial building has been given by the board of directors of both the fair association and the Berrien County Farm Bureau. Final Approval is subject to vote of the member- -snips 01 dowv organizations. Final details of 'the lease.

which covers a 122 by 160 build- ing site and a 300 -car parking at the front of the grounds, were approved last sight at a meeting of the fair association directors here. Raymond DeWitt, county Farm Bureau president, has Indicated that with approval of the lease by mem berships of both organizations, work on erection of the building probata ly will start next spring. the building, planned a a 75 by 120 foot structure, will Include an auditorium that will be made available as a center for social, edu cational and recretional events of all groups that will wish to use it During the fair period each year, the building will be put a too lull disposal of the fair association for use as a fair- building, under terms of the lease. It is planned 'to locate the Farm Bureau's permanent of' flee in office quarters in the build ing. The memorial building is a project of the Junior Farm Bureau or ganization, The proposed lease will be submitted to a vote of the fair association members at their annual meeting to be held Sat-' tu-day, Sept.

27, at the Arden EUB ctiurch. Plans, for the an-anal meetingr were made at their fair board meeting last night. Another action was taken by the lair directors was to approve sub mission to a vote of the membership a proposal to give a deed in trust to the fair property and assets to Berrien county. IN BRIEF, a deed in trust to the county would mean that should the. fair association ever go out of existence the property then would -automatically go to the entire county, cruder present charter provisions of the association, should the association ever dissolve the property would go to the 4-H and Boy Scout organizations of the county.

Fair Board President John Pfeil said that because so many organisations and individuals have assisted In development of the fair it would be more eqnit-. able that the property and as-1 sets should revert to the county as a whole if the fair association over goes out of existence. The terms of six members of the board of directors will expire at the annual meeting. Those whose terms expire are Pfiel, J. Frank Schaefer, Berrien Springs; W.

E. March, Benton Harbor; Lester Arend, Berrien Springs; Milton Taylor, Sodus, and Charles Stocker, Sodus. Plans For Memorial ager intends to determine in his investigation. Crow said. ANDERSON'S FIRING came in the wake of a Monday civil service board hearing granted to First Class Fireman Louis T.

Miller who eon-tested his ouster by Hall last Aug. 5. No decision, on the bearing is expected before 30 days, but it aired sensational charges of dangerously low, morale, favoritism and dissen sion. Sworn, testimony given by the chief was, in direct conflict with that of several of the 11 other firemen called to testify. 1 The hearing was indirectly the cause of yesterday's firing.

Assistant Chief Maurice Shepherdson had addressed the shift on duty and informed them there would be a general tightening up of disciplined 100 Jobs At Whirlpool Switch To Ohio Creates Openings The switchover of Whirlpool's washer and ironer production from the St. Joseph plant to the new plant at Clyde, Ohio, has been accomplished all employes' affected re-assigned and the company now has openings for an additional 100 employes here. Robert C. Upton, vice-president in charge of industrial and public relations, explained that the additional help would be needed to meet a current increase In auto matic dryer production. "THE MOVEMENT of the wring er washer and Ironer production was completed only last week," said Upton this morning, and we have called back all our old employes and our doors are now open for new employes." "In the great majority of cases the transfer of production was accomplished without loss of pay for "our said Upton, "the total of those temporarily, displaced never ejeeed- ed 120 out of an- employment of more than 3,000," Increased daily automatic washer production, the aim of the move to Clyde, will now exceed the total daily production of all units during the first quarter of the year and next week's dryer production is ex pected to be nearly double the daily schedule prevailing at the first of the year, according to Upton.

Lake Temperature Temperture of the lake' today was 72. Apt. size G. E. apt size Kenmore range.

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-Ad. McCarthy Triumph The Fire For Ike it was now iar to go in sup- porting McCarthy's re-election bid. The' GOP presidential nominee has been lukewarm toward McCarthy, whose foes have accused him of "Mnearingfl innocent persons in his efforts to uncover Communists in the government. McCarthy's supporters, say his Communis ta-in-government charges are acts of patriotism. "No comment," was all Eisenhower would say when reporters asked him at Idlewild airport yesterday whether he would back the controversial senator.

EISENHOWER WAS RETURNING from a Midwest swing that he said convinced him the voters want a change from the' Democratic administration in Washington. 'He declared in Indianapolis he would ask the voters to support the Republican ticket from top to bottom in the interest of party responsibility "in every state I visit." The general will leave Sunday on another Midwest campaign tour. The itinerary does not include Wisconsin. lie said at Denver on Aug. .22 that if McCarthy was renominated he would support him for re-election "as a member of the Republican organization." Bat he (old newsmen fie would hot give blanket endorsement to anyone "who does anything I believe to be un-American in methods or In Indianapolis on his latest tour, he gave support to ah-jther senator to whom he.

had been' cool. That was Sent. William $. Jenner of Indiana. Like McCarthy, Jenner has bitterly attacked Gen.

George C. Mar shall, Eisenhower's wartime chief and mentor. Last day to pay City of Benton Harbor taxes without penalty, Monday, Sept. 15th. Adv.

Big photo angry mood Monday civil Fireman Louis Left below is result of hearing. Own Levy Daniel A. Bolich Fates Possible 25 Year Term WASHINGTON, Sept. 11-(AP) -Daniel A. Bolich, for merly the government No.

2 tax collector, was indicted today on charges of evading his; own income taxes. The Justice department an- hounced the by a grand JuryraL Brooklyn. Attorney General McGranery said. 4 uie grauu jury naa reiurnea a live. count indictment against Bolich, covering tne years 1948-50 inclusive, Bolich-' was the second-ranklng official of the Internal Revenue' Bureau before he retired.

Coneres sional investigators have also been looking into his activities. Bolich, if convicted on all five counts, could face a maximum penalty of 25 yean in prison and a fine of $50,000, or both. Bolich stepped out as assistant revenue commissioner in the midst of a House subcommittee's invest! gation of tax scandals. Bolich figured Importantly in the investigation. The testimony brought out.

among ower xnmgsr uiai uoucn once lived fo 18 months in a hotel room paid for by Henry Grunewald, Washington mystery man. Grunewald, who refused to answer questions, of House investigators, twice appeared before the grand jury in Brooklyn which returned the indictment. V- BOLICH, 52, WAS BROUGHT be fore the committee himself but fused to answer Among' the questions he wouldn't answered were how he could buy $30 shirts and spend twice as much as his government salary. 1 Revenue Commissioner John Dunlap announced Bolich's resig nation, without comment, last Nov. 19.

He had been in the tax col lection service since 1922. He said be was leaving for reasons of health. The Brooklyn in diet mnt charges that Bolich during the years 1946-50 reported taxable income of $54,771 and paid taxes totalling $6,883. The five counts charge that he should' have reported $83,314 in taxable income and that the tax on this would have totalled 114,328, leaving unpaid taxes of $7,444. Adm.

Jonas Ingram -Dies SAN DIEGO. Sept. ll-(AP) -Retired Adm. Jonas Howard In gram, commander of Allied forces In the South Atlantic during most of World War died last night at the age, of 65. The admiral'" suffered a heart 1 J-; attack last month while serving asj? superintendent off summer schools bi Culver Military! Academy, A Ind.

He sufferedS a second attack! Tuesday night, Adm: Medal of Honori a- wrtnnm- 1lT untie tt'OjM at Vera Crua. in 1914. also had a distinguished car eef in athletics. He played football at Annopolis and became head football coach at the Naval Academy in 1914 and held that job three years. He retired from the Navy In 1947 after 44 years' service.

Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Jean Ingram; a son, William of Los Angeles, and a daughter, Mrs. Mary B. Hays, Quantlco, va. "Wanted Juice apples.

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Maocabee- ball over Rowley's Shoe store. Adv. Problem NEW YORK, Sept. ll-(AP)-The landslide renomination victory of Sen. Joseph R.

McCarthy Wisconsin Republican, posed a question today for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Presidential campaign strategists. SUES FOR DIVORCE Mrs. Edith Ann Manbevers, 14 years old, is suing her husband, Erwin Manbevers, 21, for divorce on grounds of non-support, extreme cruelty and1 desertion.

She states in her- divorce petition that she married Manbevers when the, was 12. Shown with her is her 14-month-old son In their home. The suit was filed by her father, George Cutler, because she is a minor. Grape Juice Firm Mails Crop Checks Payment Cavers 1951 For Welch Growers LAWTON, Sept. 11 Checks amounting to $20 per ton on 1951 grapes were in the mail today for southwestern Michigan grape growers who delivered grapes to the Welch Grape Juice Co.

last season. Charles McLellan, Michigan manager for he firm, said the payment brings the total paid to Welch growers for their 1951 Concord grapes to 190 per ton. While a letter accompanying the checks did not state, McLellan said he believed the payment is the final one on the 1951 crop. SIMILAR PAYMENTS were go ing out to Welch growers in five other states and Canada, In his letter to the growers in Michigan, McLellan pointed out that under an agreement of the National Orape Co-operative with the Welch firm, the 10 percent of net sales which was formerly retained by Welch as its profit will be turned over to the co-operative in the form of allocation certificates. Growers who sign up to participate in the co-opertive's agreement to purchase the Welch company win receive allocation' certificates amounting to not less than $35 per ton on their 1951 tonnage, the letter stated.

The certificates will represent a payment on they' National Grape Co-operative's purchase of the Welch plants and business. McLellan stated the total of the alloca tion! certificates from the 1951 crop win do approximately two million dollars, giving the co-operative that much of an initial payment toward buying the firm. The "purchase" price contained in the agreement is for $15,000,000. pieaiea were unable to save she budding or any of the contents. The house, a large two-itory frame building, was owned by the Federal Savings bank of Kalamasoo and rented by the Whites.

The total loss has not as yet been estimated. An appeal is being made by the Van Buren county Red Cross for clothing for the children as all personal belongings as well as furnishings went up in flames with the house. Wool M-139. pressor. Acme Cleaners, Adv.

Declares Tax Unit 'Clean i DETROIT, Sept. ll-(AP) "We now are as clean as a whistle, and we Intend to stay that way," says the commissioner of the U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue. Commissioner John B.

Dunlap made the statement yesterday in a speech to the National Federation of Federal Employes in convention here. He said he made it on the basis of examinations made under the bureau's reorganization program. Her Courage Is Rewarded N. B. Housewife Saved By Talk BUFFALO, Sept.

11 A young New Buffalo housewife talk- ed a knife-wielding stranger out of seducing her in her home Wednes day morning. The woman, Mrs. Eileen Borglin, 23, tola state police at the New Buf alo post after the Incident that the man, whom she had seen once before, entered the basement living quarters of the family's home, set back from US-12 at its intersection with M-60 north of New Buffalo, at 8:30 a. m. Her husband had gone to work in she said, and she was alone with their, year-old cWld.

The stranger, Mrs. Borglin said, drew a knife and demanded that she submit to She told police she talked hint out of it, while holding her baby, and gave him S7.50 in cash. He cut the telephone wires in the house before leaving, police said. Mrs. Borglin stated that the same man had called at the house the day before to ask directions.

He appeared, she said, to be about 25 years old, had blond hair and blue eyes, was. clean shaven and wore a white shirt and blue Jeans, Notice! am receiving crabapples for Dwan Canning starting Sept 15th. Call between 5 p. m. and 7 m.

John Culby 7-1793. as a result of accusations made at the hearing. Then Shepherdson told the chief that some of the men felt his remarks were a "reprisal" -for their testimony in the Miller hearing. The chief says he summoned the men to reassure them it was not a reprisal but only a step taken to eliminate future criticism of lax Anderson raised the question of whether the new discipline would apply to all equally or to all but a favored few. A hot argument ensued between the chief and Anderson, ending with' Anderson being told he was fired.

City Manager Crow said this morning the situation has gotten ont of control. And it has forced me to do something that I don't ordinarily do go to the men in the Crow, a veteran, high-ranking Naval Reserve officer, explained it is "normally my policy to work through the heads of the avoid going to the individual employes and talking about department problems. If something has to be done or if something is wrong. I dont take it up with the men. I take it up with their department head." But he observed this morning that the fire department problem had mushroomed to a point where "IH have to sit down and go over the situation with the men personally." He said fcad not yet received a formal complaint from Hall against Anderson.

"I intend to look the chiefs report over; talk with Hall; and then 111 get Anderson's version. First of all, well have to find out if Ander- (See PROBE, page 21) Windell Bruce Un Loning Unit Probate Judge Malcolm Hatfield today announced the appointment of Windell Bruce, Berrien center, to the Berrien township iteming board. Bruce win succeed William Nimtf, who has announced bis inability to serve. Judge Hatfield said. Other members of the Berrien township aoning board are Hugh Kelger, Rolland Laberdy and Albert Rigterink.

The board is now engaged in drafting a soing ordinance for the township. Judge Hatfield stated. Fire At Mattawan Ruins Home Of 10 School Bells Finally Ring 65 Youngsters Report To Bard The 65 youngsters in Benton Harbor's Fair avenne boosing project today were answering the call of the old school bell. Theyfwere reporting at the Bard school and shown to their proper class rooms where they registered. Ben Bard school superintendent, said no count had been taken late this morning.

But as they come to Bard, he added, they are being directed to -their classes. THE STUDENTS IN the Benton Harbor housing unit had a week longer summer vacation than did most youngsters around the city and township when a squabble developed as to where they would attend schooL The project, land was annexed to the city, but a technicality developed and both Benton Harbor and Bard school districts disclaimed the responsibility of idueattortlie child ren. The matter was resolved when the Bard school offered to take the youngsters for the first semester of the current year, and the 3enton Harbor board agreed to take them the second semester and thereafter. 1950 Pontiac Catalina, Excel, con dition. Ph.

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t-AdV. LAWTON, Sept. 11 A Mattawan family of 10 werfe left homeless yesterday, when fire swept through their farm home and destroyed the house and all its contents late Wednesday afternoon. The blaze, at the' Maurice White feome teres siilee northeast of Law-ton towards Mattawan, was started by an explosion the kitchen stove, according to the Mattawan Fire department. The exact cause of the explosion has not been determined.

ONE OF THE WHITE children, David, was alone at the time of the fire, had lit the stove to cook his dinner, he told firemen. Mr. and Mrs. White, who are the parents of 12 children with eight living at home, bad taken the other, seven with them to Kalamazoo. The Mattawan Fire depart- i total, summoned after the tx- i.