Logansport Pharos-Tribune from Logansport, Indiana • Page 4

Thursday June 2, 1949 PHABOS.TIHBtJKE-9 PROGRAM 1. AD operative Planning Commission S. An Adeqnate Civic Center. 8. Proper maintenance of street! and 4.

An adequate Sewcrase and Garboje Dlspoial J. Sufficient Parking Facilities. In the Past "If Cutting IB. Good, More Cutting Must Be Better" Boy Scouts Anniversary Crusade Scput leaders from this area are now engaged Boy fc nn campaign to extend Scout program jSrtion of the more than 5,000 boys of ace in Cass and the surrounding five counties the Scouting program tc increased I use- iu in the national organiza-. Strengthen the Arm One Year Ago Jesse E.

Presho of Flora, a veteran of the first World War, died at Memorial hospital. William Steinhilber was elected president of hte local Junior Chamber of Mrs. Ellen Bell, SS. former Galveston librarian, died at the honie of her granddauKhter, Mrs. John Bryan, at Culver.

police made a record total of 124 arrests during the pas; month. Thc Three Rivers Boy Scout council, comprising in leadership. and carry out better programs district level through- should Better is tvpical of the high sights these volunteer have set for themselves. Directing and supple- program efforts from headquarters in thi It is estimated that at the beginning of this year 3 per cenTM packs and troops in thlscounal were Campm a a a pp ea rance a Ten Years Ago Construction in the city during the first five months of 1939 has been 580,000 greater than for the entire 'year of 193S, records in the city clerk-treasurer's office show. Thomas Moore, 82, lifelong resident of Royal Centre, passed away at the Cass county hospital.

Fire causing an estimated $1,000 damage broke out on the roof ol the Sam Warner farm home, eight miles'northeast of the city near Spring Creek church. Miss Clemmie Pherson, 72, succumbed at the residence, five miles north of Royal Centre, this morn- Sarah Chapin, 1S30 Spear street, will celebrate her ninety- ninth birthday anniversary Monday. Bern to Mi', and Mrs. James Graves, 504 Culbertson street, a son, Terrell, Friday. John Sullivan, veteran Peru railroad man, retired on pension, effective Thursday.

Graduates of the St. Vincent de Paul school wore Lucille Arone, Nicholas Arone, Betty Bauer, Mavie Bisacchi, Joan Booher, Maureen Cherry, Pedro D'Andrea, Mar- 'gie Fisher, Katherine Grande, James lannelly, Richard McLochlin Mary Mohlraan, James Monahan, Pasquale-Rozzi. Mildred Trinen, and Frank Vitcllo. Miss Neva Plotner. 02 Seventeenth street, local French-teacher, will leave Friday for an extensive tour of Europe.

and Elsewhere By Walter Winchell The Damon Runyon Fund Story most unlikely sources. Bug- Slegel sent $8,000 shortly be- (Coi'dcnscd from Magazine Digest) Contributions to the Fund have poured In at the rate of about a million dollars a year TM- markable of all, every cent re: ceived is given entirely to the which it is intended. Not a penny is used for salary, overhead postage stamps are needed, thcy are donated by members of the committee. Travel costs come out of the pockets of the people who da the traveling. Even the legal, accounting and secretarial services and expenses are donated.

All of which makes the Damon Runyon Fund-one of the most unique organizations in existence Dan Parker, the noted sports writer, is president. Columnist Leonard Lyons is vice-president, and Walter Winchell, whose radio voice -ind typewriter have helped carry the campaign to the far corners of the world, is treasurer. Without being subjected to any personal pressure, people from all strata and from all parts of Hie fore he was shot to death in still uns Yogas, Nevada, dollars were raised from a benefit unsolved gang killing. In J.8.S Nevada, several thousand baseball game between gambling: house employees and the Police Department. In addition, the gambling casinos of Nevada have set aside two slot, machines for the benefit of the Runyon Fund.

Three wills have named Runyon Fund as beneficiary. One childless couple, both suffering trom cancer, wrote that their doc- u-r had given them six months to live and that they had insti-urted their to draw wills queathing their estates to fund. ho- More uan half of the country's 3S race tracks have designated auuual Damon Runyon Memorial Fiiad with proceeds going to the Fund A goodly sum came from the Frank Sinatra-Dinah Shore recordings of "Tea for Two" and "My Romance" Movie tycoon Samuel Goldwyn paid for master pressings ot an album bv the 'famous bandleaders -now ork-use with his studio Tnis f-H a i wtich inches star aggregation, wtich Louis Ar and One uni Guard Units Resume Drill Heavy Tank will Headquarters companies, National Guard, resume weekly drills next week, it announced Wednesday. Heavy Tank will bo instructed cn.cloJe order drill and military coSrtesy ou June' 6, while Headquarters meets the following day loiv sectional instruction on cora- intelligence, pioneer 'nrid ammunition. Battalion S-S.

meanwhile, was 'joirhiuliitins plans to have those of the two local units, i-u-ho missed last month's 'jivin; program at Camp Atterbury, at Frankfoi tentatively on i IB and 17. JRocruit James "VV. Rurroush has TscHr. transferred to Headquarters rojnpany. first battalion.

203rd Tn- lantry iicre. from Headquarters company, third battalion, 151st Infantry at Muucie. V. King and Bert Hess, retired fin-man, began work IVed- 'nelriiiy in their new positions as Varetfiker of equipment and armory 'custodian respectively. Rev.

King to Speak At St. John Cemetery The Rev. Harold J. King, new pastor ot the Calvary Presbyterian church, will speak at the Decoration Sunday services to be conducted at 3 o'clock, DST, Sun- clay afternoon, June 6, at St. John Clinton township.

Twenty Ago Rpcd Groninger. principal ot the F.rvln township high school, Howard county, was elected superintendent of the Cass county schools for four year term, beginni'ig August 1, 1920, He succeeded F. J. Wall, also a Democrat. Trustees announced the salary would be $2,400 per year.

The country home of Mr. ana Urs. Glen Forgey, near Royal Cortre, was demolished by fire wi'h the loss estimated at Several items of furniture from tiie first were saved. Several fraterial held Decoration day services a 1 "lira! including the i knJKhts of Pythians. Odd Fellows, of the World and the Drew Pearson's Merry-Go-Round Forresta! might have eventually re- i covered and lived a long and use- i ful life.

American newspaper men should paste on their wall the head! lines of this minor Pearl Harbor ,11 I 1. have sent in their contribn- Lo lions. Money has come from of-' fldal residences and Sing Sing Prison, from famous generals and notorious gangsters, from statesmen and panhandlers, clergymen i and jockeys, scientists and ball-1 players, show people and choir singers, rich and poor, young and old, Do recorded AS a uJt something which make 'he album a collector's item. A record comr-auy volu.u:cei- ed to n-akc. dls'vbute and sell tin album t-tled "Glints of Jazz" wkn- cut charge.

Tho gross receipts go to the Fund. lifted out of Runyon's writings. Joseph "Socks" Lanza sent $250 from Sing Sing Prison where he was serving a term. Later, when bis friends outside heard that "Socks" was himself suffering from cancer, they got to work raising money in Lanza's old bailiwick, the Fulton Fish-Market. Just pson sflys Mexican publisher writes letter re Forrcstal sulcirtc, boosts need explanation; Acn- the news; In Big Four conference; ew sabotaging Public Housing at Bethesda.

to guide them when- how they wen about making these ever there is pressure to withhold collectlons may be a secret known WASHINGTON What is des cribcd as highway robbery in the price of gasoline has just been made the subject of a sizzling Senate report, hith- erto unpublished. On the basis of this report, Senator Maybank' of Carolina will mall the major oil companies before his banking and currency committee a Acheson thinks they'll give an opportunity to find out whether the Inside fact is that courteous Chairman Sabath could have squelched the rules committee filibuster the public housing bill and Russians want to fish or cut rallroaded the to the House If there is no action next weeK, the benlgn gentleman Acheson will be home around June i used the game strong- 10. i arm tactics that his foes use Talks TVith Vishinsky Secre- I aga inst him. only to the people involved, but one night Leonard Lyons received a mysterious phone call telling him to expect some visitors. Lyons kept the date and came away with several boxes containing of fish, and.

smell use i notwithstanding, went to further cancer research throughout the a -a a m. i tary Acheson has held two offthe; At one closed-door session a i i i i i wt i i i Royal Neighbor lodge of Walton, aglc to explain unreasonable The June session of the Cass price oos ts. Services will be held at th trance oi the cemetery and of soldiers will be decorated immediately after ths ceremony. tra flowers will be needed. The program will open with the group singing of the national an- county commissioners opened and: the group prepared to receive bids lor the construction of seven small bridges in the county.

the ty schools. as head of schools. Senate Investigators found was that the average motorist must pay an extra $40 a year for the same amount of gasoline that he Yet the oil week, only one of the committee's four Republicans New York's Jim Jim put filibustering Gene Cox ot Georgia, the Dixiecrat, in a frenzy. Be- record meetings with Vistinsky--. one short a.nd one long--to talk over the Austrian peace treaty.

And for the first time since 1947 Acheson believes an agreement can be reached to get Russian troops out of Austria. Vishinsky has shown a surprisingly mild attitude in these talks, and Acheson has indicated the United States may with the Republicans, immediately consent to let the Russians have $150,000,000 in Austrian reparations in return for an Austrian peace treaty. in the Bronx, a of sev- '1 showed This en-to-ten-year-old children decided 1-1 i i a to help the Fund by putting on a cellar show and charging two IP JJlXieCl ELL, 111 J.I cimj cause Sabath had the votes to vote cents admission. The neighborhood the housing out over his head adults heard about it and i with three Republicans absent, Cox, who almost always votes the youngsters iTnTiipdiatelv nonnipa tn the A power- them Following Gibson Address." the invocation, years, was chosen of the Fulton cohn- He formerly served the Miami- county or t.ey are losing sprung up in -----One of the largest crowds ever profits. inuu-, i range composed of Juanita Terry, Phy Us Jamison, and Helen Soncarty, will An address by Rev.

King will.be followed by anohter selection by the vocal trio. The graves ot soldiers will be decorated and a prayer of dismissal will conclude the program. IA PORTE MAX to attend a at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Han 26 Seybold street, to hear final' rites for Marion Han, wno drowned in theWabashj-lvor.

Fifty Years Ago W. Ullery, pioneer kJLll.0. Regarding this; Senate investigators state in their-so-far-confidential report: Zooming Profits The oil company profits for 194S were so high as to exert a disproportionate influence on the general level of profits. i has the communists worried. At least three well-organized Guerrilla bands have been attacking communist officials and police in the vicinity of Bratislava, After each began demanding that the committee postpone action until "all the members are hare to express themselves." Sabath, however, stopped him, "I could take advantage of these gentlemen who arc absent and call for a vote, but I don't intend to.

uted pennies. When it was over delivered 9,000 to the Ruuyon Fund Rich kids in Warrentown, Virginia, also did their bit- They trotted out their ponies and let Uie other children ride them for a five-cent contribution. The coin-vending machine In- donated over $250,000 Slogan contests conducted over the radio raised over $300,000. )'n addition to this there are movie and circus premieres, special nights at night clubs, major arid minor league baseball games, prize fights, dances, television and other benefits to swell the Fund's coffers. Large as the receipts have bean to date, they are but a fraction of the actual need.

All the money received is directed into cancer research as quickly as possible. Grants to specific projects are made after consultation with the American Cancer Society. No strings are attached to any of these grants. On New York's Bowery, the panhandlers decided to turn over a ttie soldiers have deserted Thus thfe standard and poor's corporation reported that to 0 in uerl -iiias. 54S industrial companies, profits Mn for 194S were 23.2 per cent above resident or Logansport, died at his 1947 Hmveve r.

it oil companies home. 91G Market street, after a brief illness. The ten-year-old son ot M-s Fred Eoerger narrowly escaped drowning when he fell into the and William Day, who paid a $5 fine ver 1)ear the Uhl dam in City court for disorderly con- Tuesday, is a resident of Laduct Porte. Patrolman Nading llls property on the West Side for a valuable farm in Carroll county. Charles Cook, a newspaper man of Indianapolis, rented the Isaac Brumgardncr building in Walton eliminated from the sample, i 194S profits were only 16 per cent above 19-47.

In other words, so great was the oil' industry's increase in 194S profits that for a large sample of all industrial corporations, the 1948 profits increase i attack they retreat into the hills "However, I expect the same and can't be located. Five thous- treatment myself in the wture, Mid army troops have been signed lie added, looking squarely at the to track down the Guerrillas, but i gentleman from Georgia. this hasn't worked out because Note Last smraer, when (acell a tough re-election primary, he wrote a newspaper in his district indicating that he favored the housing bill, though later he I don't believe in doing business day take to he Damon Runyon that way, I try to be considerate Flln( The alms were collected, put my colleague's who are against me ijlto a canvas bag bearing the la- as well as those who are with me Robert McKinney, owner and publisher of the Santa Fe New Mexican, writes as follows: "Dear Mr. Pearson: Bank," and by a Bowery One grant that answered an emergency need was made to famed Jackson Memorial Laboratory at Bar Harbor, Maine. In October, 1947, a forest fire leveled virtually all of Bar Harbor destroyed the Jackson Laboratory vhose" mouse-breeding plant was the main source of the pure-bred mice -so necessary to cancer research.

Within 24 hours the Runyon Fund rushed $50,000 to rebuild it A special grant of over $500,000 was made to the American Cancer Society for distribution to Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and Negro cancer research institutions. Annually $40,000 is given to Memorial Hospital in New York City to provide Damon Runyon beds for cancer victims, and for applying the latest techniques 'u research. The most recent Mission convert who had once been will a member of the notorious Monk Eastman gang. A soldier stationed in the Canal Zone Bent ten money orders of $100 each in the hope that they i Ll i i i vote. Today, safely re- would be of some help in curbing "Dear Mr.

Pearson: opposition. "The shocking death by suicide U11 of Mr, James Forrestal, late secretary of defense, will grieve all who ever knew and served with him. ducked the elected, ha is showing his true colors and Is actively leading the wife was about 50 per cent greater as a had the privilege of a tour of result of including the oil com- duty, in a minor capacity, on Mr. panies," From 194C to 104S, oil profits Shot up mere than times, the dl i i RflUL i UH-M and purchased the inveBtigators report The oil ment to publish the first ISSUB UL aa yt this on the gn the Walton Weekly Review. companies justified this on the grounds Carl Smith resigned his position Adams Express messenger and mrchased a dairy farm south ot the city.

that they were expanding to meet the unprecedented demand for petroleum products. Now the expansions lias stopped, as evidenced by Forrestal's staff, and came to respect him as an American of consummate ability end patriotism. "His suicide, however, means more than a personal loss to his friends. It must be taken to the nation's heart as glaring proof of the need for fearless news report- Margaret O'Brien's Mother Calls Off Her Three-Month Marriage HOLLYWOOD, June 2--(UP)--i Mrs. Gladys Sylvlo said today that her daughter, film star Margaret nothing to do with her decision to end her three- month marriage to bandleader Don SyMo.

She announced yesterday that the disease that had killed His Another soldier, probably 1 the most renowned general in the sent a contribution and asked that it be, kept anonymous. "Don't look at the amount," he wrote, "but it's the most I can afford on a humble soldier's pay." Contributions have come from 40 year for Damon Runyon Clinical Research Fellowships to be awarded annually. These awards will permit outstanding investigators to study at the nation's top cancer research institutions and hospitals. The Memorial Fund's first grant was made in April, 1947, just four months after Damon Runyon's asli- es floated over Manhattan. This went to the American Cancer Society Of New York City and amounted to $250,000.

By January, 1949, 36 grants, totaling nearly had been made to 34 in, stitutions in 20 different' states. ing In the nation's capital, ghe 1vould geek an annulment The 12-year-old star was a tear- 91 OIlS Itcl" cutbacks in production and i yOU dispatch came out some weeks Gates and G. V. "Conn compan i turn ago describing the advanced state guest at their wedding last purchased two lots south of the eg even Wgh of deterlorat ion of Mr. Forrestal February in Pa i Beach, af- Pan Handle depot in Royal Centre these inflated profits mental health, it came as more of ter objectlng bitterly before the of A J.

Conn and prepared to establish a lumber yard there. OL son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Wi'liam Benson, of Royal Centre. Commencement exercises were held for the Class of '99 at the Do- Ian opera house with D.

C. Arr, principal, presenting the di- thur plomas. are settling back to earth again. Senator Maybank will call the big oil companies before tig committee around June IB. Capitol 'ews Cnpsnleg Paris Conference--- Secretary of State Dean Acheson has cabled the state department that next week a surprise to rna than did the subsequent news that Mr.

Forrestal had taken his life. I happened to be In Washington at the time you broke the etory, and heard among his friends and many government officials the almost unanimous opinion that the Forrestal story was the last straw that Drew Big ence ring up I sessions Two Local Girls Win College Honors i guijatUJJO Jitt.it r- Two Logansport girls have been Howoveri ne: ee several sec- "Had the officials medical center been as alert and diligent about their business- PHAROS-TRIBUNE COMPANY HM9. King Fnluns Syndkilc. Inc. How silly can they get?" chosen to take responsible posi- take place and you about yours, tionsi in student activities at Mount Mary college at Milwaukee during the school year 1949-50.

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"It just hasn't worked out," Mrs. SyMo said. "You might say Don and I have been separated ever since the wedding. "Margaret Is very happy about my decision." The wide-eyed young actress cried when plans for the wedding were first announced last winter. She and her mother were vacationing in Palm Beach.

Shortly after the marriage the mother took Margaret to Europe on a two-month vacation trip to appease her, leaving the bridegroom behind. Margaret was asked whether she was happy on the trip. "Yes, because I was alone with mother," she said. Mrs. Sylvio said the star refused to call her stepfather daddy, pop or Don.

It was always "he" or "Mr. Sylvlo." Sylvio is a Palm Beach and Hollywood bandleader. He knew mother, a former dancer, for five years before they -were married. "Isn't it beautiful full moon? I don't have to uie my brigou!".