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The Star Press from Muncie, Indiana • Page 4

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The Star Pressi
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Muncie, Indiana
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4 MUNCH STAR. TUESDAY. AUGUST 29. 1950 Auto Accidents Occur in Profusion 9 Ricliniond Plant Closed bv Strike of 1,000 Workers Pay Tribute to Memory of Lincoln Lesli One Hurt, Damage of More Than $1,500 Alba Shockley, 74, x-GIas worker. Dies Alba Shockley, 7-4, S-0 South Elm street, a retired glassworker died at the Ball Hospital last night.

He had been in failing health Michael and Patrick Shockney, all at home, and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. David Smith of Detroit and Mrs. Elizabeth. Creek of Muncie.

The body was removed to the Parson mortuary where funeral arrangements will be completed. One fiame, One person was injured and dam- to the Vest machine at $150 and Richmond, Aug. 23 to ville, crashed into the rear of the car driven bv Cailas Williams of I age or more than 51,500 resulted ine a.roua ir.acr.me at Nearly 1,000 maintenance and pro Member of the Muncie Bar As-'in a series of automobile accidents Car Hit by Truck SR. 5. Muncie.

The Oxley ma- Delmar Creek Die After Brief Illness Delmar Junior Creek, of 215 Be'iaire avenue, died at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon after a short illness. Surviving are the father, Delmar Creek, the stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Marion I. Shockney.

four sisters. Mrs. Kettle of Detroit, and Barbara Jean. Doris and Carmen Shockney. all at home; six brothers, David Creek of Muncie, Arthur, Marion, Jerry Lee, fociatioh met in the Circuit Court; in the city and county vesterdav.

vine sheriffs department also in- rho was in turn struck in the duction workers at the local International Harvester plant stayed away from their jobs today in a room at 10:30 o'clock yesterday virtually all of the accidents oc-- ir.e acciaer.i at i oc.ock fc iven by Sockey EUYIN8 HABIT OF MILUONS mornu nS to honor the memory of curred after streets and highways ftATwnri nn 'JoIm of R. R. 2. Muncie. Total system-wide strike ag3inst the com- driven by damage was estimated at $3Sl.

ipanv Lincoln Lesh, Muncie attorney: had been made slippery by rain, Deputies said i Mrs. Irene Baker of 6l6'i South' Mary Ethel Bee of 1815 South Lib-i rciice were nuumieu i.i Pickets were stationed at the fniiK icjj, uiu 00 i- tirday morning. Resolution that Walnut street received eet had stopped in i the road -the car or they opened but only by a committee treatment at Bail Hospital at 7 several years. Mr. Shockley had worked in' Cincinnati and Chicago He had been a member of the Moose Lodge at Marion.

i Surviving are the widow, Margaret: one daughter Mrs. Gladys i Arnold, Chicago Heights: one sister, Mrs. Anna Banner, Middletown, O. three brothers Loren Shockley, Muncie; Fred Shockley, Rochester, N. and Willard Shockley, Canada.

The body was taken to the Meeks I mortuary. had been drafted composed of fcverett Warner, Fauiiv cjock lasi mgm ior injuries rt tj vmnrit Hva' i prartv and frank W'Hnn wived when the car driven bv street- failed to stop in time --ladon street ana memorial cne psant. which employs about h. brany ana irariK n. w.iion.jWw wnen me car anven avoi(J erasbinz into th rear of at 5:12 clock yesterday were read, accepted and ordered 'husband.

John, went out of control fha Hriv. r.ariinri PiHn. r- n7 rrw- copied in the court's order books. 'our miles north of Muncie on' fV( John B. Eeasley present of the United States highly 23 and h'of R.

R. 2, Muncie, skidded into Electrical Workers Union Underlie Sullivan car and also hit the pendent) staged a two-day walk- tu-swiaiion, presiGea ai me Driei tumcu. waa ursicu Cars driven by James Morris, parked car ot toward 0ut last week over dissatisfaction ceremonies. Eulogies were given! having no operator's license. by John T.

Walterhouse. Mr. -1! Ddbert Knight; 323 oood av euV it J35. The workers retumedT hoween er, Sidney E. McClellan.

Mr. Wjl- said the Baker car was 8mg outh sllghUy damaged at 8:30 Cars driven by Deloris M.i Friday afternoon. l-al son, M. nutUS Ayres and r.ODe:" i'ie thpv 51d rt rharlos JtrPOt; Th MarwctPr rnwnv wifh. The car was bad- Carl White.

and overturned. A 1 swined on South Walnut street, and James W. Crouch of 2018 drew from the agreement after iiionDScuiise MAYBE YOU FOUND IT! broke out at its various vi inear Twenty-eighth street, outside Preston avenue were slightly dam-strikes bkid Into Parked Car itRe cJty limits. Deputy Sheriff aged at 3:45 o'clock yesterday af- plants. The Richmond plant em- Slick streets were blamed for the Knight estimated total damagei ternoon in a collision at Powers ployes then announced they would report for work today, Crrvices at Church Many of the attorneys were in attendance at funeral services conducted at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the First Presbyterian Church.

The Rev. Frank Fortune of Sumter. S. C. officiated and 'and Elliott streets.

accident at 6:30 o'clock last night; at 560. streets also were blamed' Wet nue. Police said the car driven th three-car accident at Vandals-Thieves If 'jrv' I Three other Harvester plants in Indiana previously have been closed a strike of ClO-United Auto Workers. They are at Fort Wayne. Evansviile and Indianapolis.

by Robert L. Jones of Muncie, yesterday afternoon at Visit Cammack Garage burial was In Beech Crove Ceme- skidded into the parked car of Har-i Madison and Second streets. The Bar Association resolu tery old E. Cox of 419 West Sixth! uc saia lne car onven oy After forcing entrance to the Mary Lou Hoffr. KFn No.

1 Yorktown Took Home a Kadio. Charl-s Ktnradf. S. Ehrisht St. 3Iuncie Took Homo at Iiadio.

Itr Young, Tarker, Ind, Ted Oruch, 101 4 S. Franklin, Winchester Keep tharp lookout. Rrinc It in, nnj Ne jou'H tako homw radio or lounse chair. tions follow; street. Damage to the Cox car was Ralph P.

Oxley of R. R. 1. Losant- estimated at $50, with slight dam Rowe and Son garage at Cammack, Sunday night, thieves took about 515 from the cash register, then Car Stolen From Ohioan Delbert Sebering of Coldwater, age to the Jones machine i Am en detl Complaint F. HtlfstPfrpr nf tnntrri ransacked the place and among reported to city police last night Nichols street, was driving on Me-in Suit Oil Realty TJlr: IfeAwef of An emended complaint was filed car had been stolen from block on South Walnut other things, stunea tomatoes into, that his the nozzles of the gasoline pump'the 600 A man may inherit power, not greatness.

Men are not born great, they are born babies Anon. Deputy Sheriff William Jef- street. cnj i.iet-L, wneu uie nailer y. men i hrxe his car was nulling hrnk I and1 yesterday in Circuit Court in the 2 frev investigated. He said en crashed into the parked car of Or trance was gained by breaking out matter of the suit of the State of Indiana against John J.

Dodd, as a window. ALL 10 DISCOUNT CERTIFICATES GOOD ONLY UNTIL AUGUST 31st BRING YOURS IN TODAY "Uneoln Lh born on frm In Wells County. Ind on Novembrr 8. 1871. Th hotn of hl father ntJ mother.

Joseph nf Mary Len. ws located on the Wabaah Klver, ner the town ol Markle. Mr. Lh ttn1ert the public school Vlrkie nd fterrd Vsiprto Onlver-itv. where he re-eeived hl ichoiattlc nd lw dejrees In 1895, "Soon mfter hi graduation from achool.

Mr Leh wa admitted to practice at the iJeUwar County Bar. At first ht practiced alone, having pace in the office of Wiiiiam Lyons, a real estate dealer. Per-hit 11 ii there that he acquired his kern Interest In real estate and real etate law. Throughout his professional life ha vii known as an authority on this branch of the law and was always In-terted In the ownership and manage-nieni of real estate, both for himself and 1)t hi clients. He also specialized in probate law.

'Al'er the irat few Tears of his Mr. Lesh formed a partnership with William W. Mann, which association continued until the death o( Mr. Mann. "In June, 190S.

Mr. Lesh married Eino-ene Tafc. the daughter of John B. Taft. M.

D. of Greenville, ti. C. Dr. Taft had DR.

R. E. CARD Optometrist 103 Western Ceserve Bldg. ville M. Huxhold of Mich.

Police said the trailer broke loose when the car started over the railroad tracks. Damage to the Huxhold car was estimated at S150. 'Three cars w-ere damaged at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon four miles north of Muncie on United States highway 35. Deputy Sheriffs William Jeffrey and Del-bert Knight said Joseph Melvin Stroud of R. R.

2, Muncie, was waiting- to make a turn off the highway and Robert Lee Hamann of Chesterton was behind him. The Trial of Charles Baker Set for October 17 The trial of Charles Baker, 213 East First street, charged with Illegal possession of alcoholic beverages July 2, the charge being filed by Eloise Liston, Muncie, R. R. 2, was set yesterday for October 17 in City Court. executor of the will of the late Emma 11.

Postal. The suit seeks to appropriate real estate situated in South Madison street, necessary for the proposed widening of that thoroughfare between Charles and Giloert streets, and has been pending since in June, 1317. Return on the amended complaint was set yesterday for September 18. The state highway commission has plans for widening Madison street in that section traversed by the Nickel Plate Railroad tracks, the contract for widening and repavement to be let yet this year. Promise of removal of the tracks later has been given the city by the Nickel Plate and C.

and O. Raidroad officials. STEEL CARD FILES 3x5, 4x6, 5x8 "Mis 1 been a m'dlcal officer In the Civil War car driven and also ownsd and operated a plantation 1 soct nf by James Wellington R. 2, Elwood, crashed into the Hamann machine which in Faces Theft Charge James Warren, of 810 South Mulberry street, was arrested at 5:23 o'clock yesterday afternoon on a warrant charging petit larceny. He was taken to jail.

5.it-;fjQLy turn crashed into the rear of the Ttcy're llzzlp. Ttcrs Rcndscssl'Tbru llzm Stroud machine. Damage to the Hamann car estimated at $175, a union were born the two aons, William Taft Lesh. who la now special counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission at Washington. and Charles Lesh, who for the past several years has been associated with his lather In tin practice of aw tn Muncie.

"Mr. Lesh always maintained an active Interest in elvio and political affairs. In his earlier year ht was an officer of the Red Men's Lode. At the tima of his death ha was a member of two of the Mnnlo ldse, Muncie Lodge No. 4.

ft A. and Muncie Chapter No. 30, At A. M. "He was possessed of keen business and economic Judgment, and his opinions were frequently sought by business men.

In all his dealings he was guided by a fine cne ot right and wrong, so that an outstanding eiement of his life and character was his sterling honesty. The affair of hi clients were entrusted to his rare with absolute; assurance of his Integrity. Lincoln Lesh wa a loyal cltlrn. always true to the principles laid down In the basic law of the nation. He believed in the American Way of Life' with great aincrrity.

"He also believed In Ood. Early In Ufa he Joined the Lutheran Church, and as a hoy and young man attended tha little church of that faith located just across the river from the farm In Well County where he wa born. In later years ha amended tha Presbyterian Church in this citv. "Lawyers will miss him In tha court. In conference and In our bar meetings snd sorisl occasion.

All who knew him will mis him as a friend, and those of his immediate family will misa him as a kind, loving, provident father end grand-fs'her. He enioyed doing things for others, and making other people haprtv. "As we contemplate the hf of such a man as Lincoln Leh we e'e constrained to look up and In humble hltf repeu the words written by the poet Tnnvon. Thou wilt not leave us In tha dust. Thou msdest mn; ha knows not hv.

He think he wa not made to die; And Thou hast made him; Thou art Ahm HOOll. oN-jaJ hfth. a i I a .11 wash aoarls i gMrs em fTS-r liyyQ 54.95 aOOEt t-C. vWsss1lt44l SVtTssasrf (hfr lor9 cot "To the memory of Lincoln Lesh we, as lawvers. rjs this tribute of respect: He $15.95 upheld the best tradtion of our profession: ha wa gentle, modest and unassuming, and the Bar, hia family and this community are all better for his having lived.

estend our sympathy to tha mem- fcra rtf ht familv. n. tt RnH'd that a copy of this lorg $9.95 ha snread unon the Order Book in. n.ir Circuit Court and of the nrtaware Superior Court, that a ropy be furnished to the family, and a copy to each of the Muncie newspapers. Charged With Theft riari.n Warren.

62. was for a4rr im-fc aSajdhesO laasndry. nasra try. waj a-suusu or bK. Ail models Ixnae gene-owc.

17" 24 work awr-face. wkh ample atx-lf room for bulky fp-anow. Heiefatac Morfet S-ASOT; IiSodeUS-Cnd mally charged yesterday with i crand larceny in an affidavit filed! by Prosecutor Guy M. Ogle in Or- nut Court. He is charged with the theft of 22 chickens from Velma Rayburn.

west of Albany, last Saturday morning. Sheriff W. Pete, Anthonv arrested Warren when he was called to the Kaypurn farm. Victory in Korea is everybody's job! It calls for brave men, plenty of arms and supplies in the field and a Successful fight against inflation by every one of us at home. Qin saaiiaNrj sVEJToaagjrvcaji to-, 1 rsstirn.tfl'OBi.xai y.jjauuawav POLLEN COUNT Or- SS OUT Of ICO DCCTCSS TODAY PRESCRIBE ANTIHISTAMINES FC KAY fIVCI Ct 174 cable J.

Aug. 28 And the itcnt sntihimrain formula choea bf thouiiodi of pbricia jj U8CEL 4 in TWO coetnieflt forms: 1 Famous Anahisl $14.95 KJ v--i Li Li Vx ifjci Jri) on 1 25 m. aotihiita- mine. Succeufulif oi4 million of American (ixniiic list winter chevk col tytn proms ctrcc-rivcly. oow for prompt, dramatic relief (rom symptoms cf Hay Ferer.

often known "catarrhal cood-tirtn" Mr Snoer-Econ- omT bottle ot 100 taikrts tJU cmy 24 ubtti' Also available aa fcortlw of 40 or 1 5 tablets. 2 New Aoihist Atomizer; for quick relief of toew, mklWrs. sniSed-up no, the mm common Hit Fever tym proms. UnUae rdinarr inhalers ani nose drop. ANAHIST new CopaMM Froduct rjuicklr hetp therolien.ifrirteJ membranes to resume i more normal coodittoa by blockmjj rhe IVrr't 'tt nn 'thsrt eT yi d3sry frh dy Wv-.

Baclrrrt fxipnM te any hri ght to foHow ynur hark. Sea ia hrrt. 25'. fnr mt nk or ironing iwn. UplioJirterfd in fwpyfcft $10.95 can do for ourselves or do without of living with tha Government Budget far out of balance.

3. Beyond this, we must recognize that saving is more important than ever. Greater saving is vital in many wajs: It makes funds available for new tools and factories for the increased production America must have. It takes "extra money" out of circulation, keeps inflation from weakening the nation's buying power, protect the value of your present personal savings. let's elweys remember: There are two essentials to winning a war.

One is victory in tha field. The other is making but our economy is not being bled to death. The life insurance companies bring you this message because cf its importance to c.l Americans. Institute of Life Insurance MADISON AVE XL'S, NEW YORK 22, K. Y.

With men dying In halils, It's timo fa got oue-h with ourselves! Vo must pay fer t'10 clcfcnso ef freedom end wo must sfay strong at home cs well This two-front job 'makes it more important now than ever to protect the dollar's buying poucr fight the forces cf inflation, the enemy's Sixth Column and to make sure cur soldier get avrthing they need. To do It tails for tough minds, tough decisions end tight belts t. We're up a joins the fact that piling arms production on top of civilian production calls for billions of added dollars. For this we need a sound economy, and we can't cave a sound economy without a strong dollar. 2.

We must decide to do away with this that are luxuries in the light of today's needs The luxury of taking it easy of spending freely of letting Government do for U3 what ws ter. Swr thrra lr-it'i a rfuj mm to fcchWo rTir.f laiW. Olssmis-n ctwrc wnvmtk lca. rjpinHl trwm- ft ht and Mat in Vie trmm cnoa cie cunrrune- like subttfKt ia the oof i I or ajuit aaa cnuarca tor dult aa triii rected. A uk- dir -in SpecitllT JeJ yl "Kiueere-boctle- si mist jro Butt souecs toe a rxecuiixea mu 3 BIG Srorss ANAH1ST.

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