Chillicothe Gazette from Chillicothe, Ohio • 1

A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Information and Enjoyment For Every Member ct THE FAMILY GAZETTE 1950 Chillicothe Gttette Marks 130 Tear of Contlnnotis rrfTt In Sendee To the Community Oldest Newapaper in the United Sutea West of the Allcghcnle Established lfiOO Hire Yeart Older Than tho Stat Ohio. 1 PAGES CENTS VOL. 150, NO. 81 CHILL1COTHE, OHIO, WKPSKSIUY F.VF.XIXfl. At'lllL JV, 1050 "p3 L71 COTHE til q) era SUM SAW'S Bridges 9 Others Sentenced 2-25 Years Cigaret Ads Ordered TonedDown I -M 7 Kentyckian Linked in Burglaries Some Loot From One of Three Local Robberies Regained in Catlettsburg Three housebreakings in Chillicothe last November have been linked to a 39-year- -TV IVSS its mat 1 i P5 Taking note of Easier Week, members of Chillicothe Klwania club incited to their luncheon Tuesday noon na many Sunday school teachers as they could locate In the city and county with 35 years or more experience.

Responding to in-vitation were: Seated, left to right, Mrs. Daisy Amole, Bainbridge; Mrs. Joseph A. Deschler, city; David Schneider and Mrs. David Schneider, city; Miss Carolyn Herrnstein, city; Mrs.

William Rieder, city; standing, Miss Kathryn Seymour, Bainbridge; Mrs. Mae McCoy, Bainbridge; Mrs. Carl Bochard, city; Mrs. Charles Ilixon, city; Mrs. Clyde McC.ee, city; Mrs.

George Litter, city; John A. Smith, city. Several receiving invitations were unable to attend. (Gazette photo by Tom Bresnahan). Steering Group Named For Youth Study Here May 15 was noted as the dead line for a state report on a survey of local needs at the Tuesday night meeting of the Ross County Com Marine Unit Chartering Set Saturday John Lloyd Manson detachment of the Marine Corps League, formed here last month, will re ceive its charter from the depart mittee on Children and Youth Conference.

With 19 of the 29 committee- appointed and authorized to ap- point subcommittees to survey local needs for children and ment of Ohio iw7lmett present in the Phillips law Saturday eve- office. steering committee was I 1 for the Mid-Century White louse Two Survive Auto Crash 'By Miracle' One auto struck another broad side in Frcnchtown early Wednes day afternoon, and the state patrol reported both drivers esraped serious hurts "by a miracle." Most painfully hurt was Mrs. Nina Ackley, 25, of 314 Western avenue, whose car was hit broadside and rolled over in Rt. 35, about a quarter mile south of the Rt. 104 junction.

At Chillicothe hospital her in juries were described as head lacerations, cuts on the back of the left hand, bruised right foot and shock. The other driver, Lawrence Baio, 26, of 242 West Water street, a VA hospital employe, suffered a bruised right foot The foot was being X-rayed at press time. The collision, State Patrolman John Brooks reported, was of terrific force. It occurred about 12:20 p. m.

as Mrs. Ackley was essaying a turn. She had started to make the turn after a stop to leave her son at the home of his grandmother. Mr. Baio was headed north, driving at about 45 miles an hour, he told the patrolman, and was en route to work at the hospital.

The front end of Mr. Baio's coupe was caved in as was tne left side of Mrs. Ack ley's car. The crash was heard at Over man's Wrecker service a quarter mile away, and a wrecker was on the scene in a matter of minutes. 7 WASHINGTON, April 5 (AT) The government today ordered crack-down on whnt ia called "false and mis- cAding advertising;" ly some mnjor cigaret makers.

The Federal Trade rnmmmion directed two of the Ur8t com panies to halt certain cluim that one brand of cigsrets is superior to another. The so-called "cease and desist" orders were against R. J. rteynottls Tobacco makers of Camels cigsrets, and the P. Lortl-lnrd producers of Old Gold.

KTC said it also is considering similar action against the American Tobacco Co. and its Lucky Stuike cigaret as well as Philip Morris, and the rtgarets which bear that company's name. "All cigaret contain varying amounts of nicotine and throat irritants," the commission said in announcing Us action, "and there is no reliable basis in fact for advertising claims that one brnd is superior to another in these respects." Dates to 1943 FTC's action against the cigaret makers was the outgrowth of proceedings started in August, 1042 Its order that Camels and Old Golds halt what FTC found to be "false and misleading advertising' represents a final decision on the part of the commission. The com panics may appeal to the court, however. Aside from the contemplated action nsuinst Lucky and Philip Morris cignrets, the commission said in its statement that it is studying the advertising practices of Pall Mall cigarets, made by American Cigaret and Cigar Co.

of Durham, N. C. FTC trial examiners already have recommended bsuing the cease and desist" orders against Lucky Strike and Philip Morris. FTC said its action on Camels and Old Gold was based primarily on a Iimitng that those cigirets cannot truthfully claim a lower nicotine content because the to-baccoes used by the manufacturers of all the leading cigaret brands contain nicotine in sub stantially the same quantities and variations. TesU Cited The agency asserted that this was proved by a series of tests made by the Food and Drug ad ministration at the request Of the trade commission.

The results of these tests," FTC stated that the nicotine content of both the tobacco in and the smoke from the individ ual cigareta involved in the tests varied greatly, both in actuat weight and in percentage by weight of the cigarets, not only as among the six different brands but also as among the individual cigarets of the same brand." Customs Officer Unreels Troubles BRISTOL, England, April 5 Well, the customs inspector ex plained, narcotics, tobacco or nylon hose could have been hidden in that roll of newsprint. He had just had the roll un reeled and found nothing but paper five miles of it youth. Later, the county committee is expected to tackle the problem Jof what can be done to meet the 'local needs. To Fight Conviction Perjury Verdict to Be Appealed to Top Court By CIO Longshore Union SAX FRANCISCO, April 5 (AD Harry Bridges' CIO ongshorf1 union laid plans to-lay to carry to the supreme court, if npcr.nnry, the fight against their leader' conviction on a charge that ho lied to conceal he was a com munist. Bitterly assailing yesterday's verdict of a fciifrnl court jury, the union's office: mapped a strategy that would counter possible moves to cancel lu Ktgp' citizenship and have him deported to Australia.

But F. Joseph Donohue. the special prosecutor for the govern ment in the stormy 81-day trial, said he felt certain the higher courts would find no basis for a reversal. To Hear Sentence Monday Donohue expressed belief that Bridgf' conviction of committing perjury at his 1945 naturalization hearing would result in automatic cancellation of his citizenship, followed by deportation action Bridges, 48, and two union aides convicted with him of also conspiring to commit perjury will be sentenced Monday. Seven year terms and $15,000 fines are possible.

From Sydney, Australia, whence Bridges shipped out 1920 for a tumultuous career as a labor leader in the United States, came word by immigration officials that he probably would be allowed to return if ordered deported. Other govern ment officials took the opposite view but said no decision would be made until an application rc quired it The San Francisco regional of fice of the National Labor Relations board studied another aspect, of the conviction: Whether it had any effect on the recent signing of non-communist affidavits by Bridges and other officers of his International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen'a union. Delayed Signing Oaths Those officers had held out for a long time against signing such affidavits. When thry did so, they freely acknowledged the primary purpose was to bo in legal position to resist any possible union raiding by the American Federation of Labor. Signing the affidavits was required in order for a union to hav legal status before the NLRB.

Bridges' union presently is under threat of expulsion from the national CIO on charges of con sistently pursuing left wing policies against the wishes of Presi dent Philip Murray and his national officers. Murray declined comment last night at Washington on what effect, if any, the conviction would have on that The reaction of Bridges and his union colleagues to me convic tion was cynical. Calls It "I rameup" "An immigration frameup," snapped the lean, hawk-noised man who has spared several paralyzing west coast strikes since he became an active leader in 1933. Bridges always has been bitter against the immigration depart ment which he blamed for the moves behind two unsuccessful efforts to have him deported as an alleged communist His union issued a statement last night, calling it a 'fantastic ury verdict after a trial in an atmosphere of "H-bomb hysteria." The immigration service open ly and unashamedly admitted that it sought to remove the in fluence of the three (the other two were Henry Schmidt and J. R.

Robertson) from labor," the statement charged, "and unhesi tatingly intimated it was willing to use any means, fair or foul, to achieve this." Betty Hutton Weeps As She Wins Decree SANTA MONICA, April 5 ori Betty Hutton is a free woman today, but she didn't act very happy about divorcing Theo dore Briskin, camera manufactur er. The actress, 23, wept all through yesterday's proceedings, in which she charged mental cruelty. The court awarded her custody of their two children. Another Page Written In Persecution Behind Iron Curtain, Says Rome TRAGUK, Czechoslovakia, April 5 (Ar A Roman Catholic clergyman was cent, enced today by a Prague court to 1 1 imprisonment on charges of high treason and spying for the Vatican. His nine eo-defendsnti, all of them Catholic churchmen, received lighter sentences ranging from two to 21 years.

The official Czechoslovak news agency reported that nine of the clergymen were convicted of either anti-state activity or trea son or both, The other drew a two-year sentence because he knew of the activities of the oth ers and did not report them. Some of the defendants were charged with contacting foreign groups and collecting weapons to be used against the government. VATICAN IN DARK VATICAN CiTV, April The Vatican radio Kitld today 'Ve are not In a position to confirm or deny the reported death of Josef Cardinal Mind-asenty." The radio commented on unconfirmed reports from Geneva that the cardinal had tiled In a Hungarian prison, lie was sentenced to life Imprison ment In Budapest In February, 191B, after being convicted of treason. The life imprisonment was ordered for Dr. Jan Mastilak, 33-year-old Redemptorist monk who was.

director of the Moraviin Theological institute. Sentenced to 25 years were Dr. Frsntisek Silhsm, 45, provincial (director) of the Jesuit order In Czechoslovakia: and Augustm 45, abbot of the monastery at Nova Rise, Bohemia. Newsmen Barred Western newsmen were barred from the trial, biggest mass prosecution of churchmen since th communist led government enacted a law last year setting up state control over all churches. The Czech news agency quoted one prosecutor as charging that the Vatican established an "espionage center" to train priests to spy on the Soviet Union and other communist countries.

The news agency quoted the prosecutor as saying "the clerical order and the monasteries form a devoted army of the Vatican." (The Vatican newspaper L'Os-servatore Romano said the Fragu trial is "writing another characteristic page of anti-Catholic per. secution behind the iron Other sentences: Bohunul Vit Rajovsky, 3B, abbot of the monastery in Zeliv Bohemia 20 years. Dr. Sylvester Braito, 52, Dominican monk and professor of theology at the Olomouc university 15 years. Josef Urban, 59, Franciscan monk 14 years.

Adolf Kaipr, 48, Jesuit monk 12 years. Jan Blesik, 41, Redemptorist monk 10 years. Frantisek Mikulasek, 37, Jesuit monk nine years. Stanislav Bartak, 35, monk at Nova Rise monastery two year3. shout of exultation from some of the spectators.

Student Weeps The handsome defendant leaned his head back momentarily and then embraced defense attorney Clair Hamilton. Both wept and Bednasek then sank back into his chair at the counsel table, rested his head on his arms and sobbed. Bednasek then rose and walked to the jury box, exclaiming: "God bless you all." He then shook hands with each juror. Bednasek then went into the law library where his Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity brothers were waiting. "I am the happiest man in the world." ha said.

45 Escape Big Fire at Portsmouth PORTSMOUTH. April 5 "i Forty-five Union Mission rci dents were led to safety last night as fire damaged a furniture ware house and scrap paper concern ip the same building. Preliminary estimates were that the damage may amount to Firemen maintained an all-night watch on the ruins of the fire which sent one fire-fighter to the hospital. Fireman Overcome Fireman Don O'rlctl whs overcome by smoke and taken to Portsmouth General hospital while helping fight the Maze at the D. Lsbold Co.

and the Samuel Levi Furniture Co, warehouse. Fire Chief Howard Kiebler said the fire was Portumouth's worst since the $250,000 fire that struck the Montgomery Ward store in 1946. All of Portsmouth's fire-fighting equipment, aided by that of New Boston, joined in the two-hour battle. The Union Mission formerly was the Biggs Home, a landmark of Ohio river steamboat traffic days. The buildings are located in the 400 block of Front street, west of Market.

Power service was disrupted in that section of the city and a tavern and gasoline station suspended business. The Milner Hotel at Second and Market streets was without lights and elevator ser vice. Firemen poured streams of water into the Labold buildings from atop the Biggs House, the Hulbert hotel on Second street and the Holsum Baking Co. garage across the alley west of the Labold buildings. The first alarm was recorded after 7 p.

and second and third alarms a short time later. Chief fPIease Turn to Pag 2, Col I) 1 re old Catlettsburg, man, who was arrested in his home town shortly after the burglaries here and later staged a daring jail break in Hunting ton, W. Va. Police Chief A. R.

Poole said Ohio, Kentucky and West Vir ginia authorities are searching for Ed Cravens, who admitted countless thefts in southern Ohio and then escaped from the Huntington jail with an 18-year-old murderer. Gun Slipped to Prisoner Two men, posing as postal in' spectors, visited Cravens in his cell on Jan. 2 and slipped him a gun, which he used later to force the jailer to hand over the keys to the cell. The young slayer, Bernie Martin of Wayne, W. was caught in Ironton several days later but Cravens is still at large.

Chief Poole said he learned recently that Catlettsburg police were holding several unclaimed articles from Cravens's loot. At his home officers found a cache of valuable gems, guns, binoculars, coins and gold and silver jewelry, Detective Sgt. Clark Graves went to Catlettsburg on Monday and returned with a toy cash reg ister and a suitcase, identified as part of the articles taken from the home of Mrs. Sam Segal, 18 West Fifth street, last Nov. 21.

Two other homes were looted the same evening, the Albert Fromm Jr. residence, 87 West Fifth street, where a camera and light meter were stolen, and the Edward Barrett residence, 165 Belleview avenue, where several pieces of costume jewelry were taken. Cravens previously had served a prison sentence for housebreaking. Chief Poole said a detainer warrant will be filed against him if he is captured. Three Places Of Business Burglarized Three business places were burglarized in Chillicothe sometime Tuesday night, but police said nothing has been reported missing from any of them.

A window was smashed at Miller's garage, 126 East Main street, and doors were forced open at the Oil Battery service station, Second and Mulberry streets, and Gordon's restaurant, West Water street. Police Chief A. R. Poole said money still was in cash registers at Miller's and the Oil Battery. Proprietors were checking Wednesday morning to determine whether anything else had been taken.

Dead Man's Aorta Is Transplanted DETROIT, April 5 Henry Ford hospital today reported the use of a dead person's aorta (heart artery) to save a man's life. The aorta is the great artery of the heart. The operation involved transplantation. Whether the operation here was without precedent was not clear. However, recently developed techniques were said to have been used.

The patient is a 57-year-old man. It was found that he was suffering from a disease of the walls of the aorta. The aorta was greatly distend ed and threatening to burst, which would have meant death. ATTENTION BROTHER ELKS Funeral service for Brother Dr. Brown, 7:00 tonight Meet at Elks club.

adv. The Weather Considerable cloudiness, colder tonight. Lowest 25 to 30. Thursday fair, somewhat milder in the afternoon. Tuesday Wednesday 7:30 a.

pi. 38; rrecipitation .37 in. iver sUEe 1U3 It. ning. The detachment, headed by Leonard Woods, commandant, is named for Pfc.

Lloyd Manson, who was a member of the Fourth Marine division. He was attached to Co. 1st Bat I I talion, 24th Rcgi J. L. Manson ment and was killed June 16, 1944, during the invasion of Sai-pan.

He was one of four sons of Mrs. Gladys Manson, North High street, and the late Merrill Man-son, who served their country during World War II. Theater to Be Scene Presentation of the charter will be made on the stage of the Sherman theater, where the detachment is sponsoring a srfcwing of "Sands of Iwo Jima," Friday through Tuesday. All veteran Marines of Chilli cothe and Ross county who served in either of the last two wars have been invited to participate in the "landing." Russell Flynn, Cincinnati, ad jutant paymaster of the Montezuma detachment of the Marine Corps League, Department of Ohio, will present the charter. Mrs.

Flynn will accompany him here to interest wives of Marines in forming an auxiliary. Follow ing the presentation, members and those interested in joining the detachment, together with their wives, will meet at the Armory. New officers of the detachment are Leonard Woods, commandant; Clarence J. Rebman vice commandant; Howard Stout, adjutant paymaster; Dale Stout, judge advocate; James Bell, chap. lain; and William Hummel, serg eant at arms.

Charter members also include: Murray Targee, Joseph Schneider, Orville Woods, Al H. Mahrt, Harley Wright, Roger Ball, Charles Gregg, Paul McKinney and Charles (Zev) Ginthcr. Tickets for the showing of the "Sands of Iwo Jima" may be procured from the charter members, who are also arranging a display of war souvenirs in the theater lobby. Meetings of the new detach' ment will be held the third Wednesday of each month in the armory. Athens Reports Hocking Near Flood Stage ATHENS, April 5 UPlThe Hocking river at Athens rose to within a few inches of flood stage this morning after two days of steady rain.

Flood stage at Athens is 17 feet. The river reached 16.4 feet this morning, and was rising at the rate of three inches an hour, GAS TAX HIKE LOSES KANSAS CITY. April 5 Missouri voters turned down plan to increase the state gasoline tax from twn tfi fmir renf vpt terday. jj sj Dr. Wolfe Named Because of illness in her family, Mrs.

William Allyn, who organized the county effort, resigned as chairman and Dr. Ranald Wolfe was elected permanent chairman. In his place as vice chairman, Dr. Nicholas Holmes was elected. A report from Mrs.

Joseph Van- meter, who attended a meeting at Columbus last week end, was read by Secretary C. X. Heinlen. It fixed the May 15 dead line for the report to the state. A state report will be submitted to the White House in December.

Steering Group Named The steering committee will be composed of Dr. Holmes, chair man, Mrs. John Traquair, Dan McClain, John L. Yaple, Mr. Heinlen and Dr.

Wolfe, serving ex-officio. A report of the committee on scope of the inquiry was adopted. It suggested separate committees on health, education, relig ious training, youth and the law, community co-ordination and planning, family welfare serv icesrecreation and character building and publicity. The com' mittee also made suggestions as to the scope of each of these in quiries. The committee presenting this report was composed of Mr.

Ya ple, Mrs. William Maull, Mrs, Holmes Iden and Mr. McClain. Mrs. Allyn said that it is rec ommended that youth participate in all of the surveys.

The steering committee will set the date for the next meeting after its sub-committees are formed. Present at the meeting were: Mrs. Allyn, Mrs. Traquair, Mrs, L. E.

Hoyt, Mrs. Iden, Mar jorie Mclntyre, Mrs. Willard Pe' terson, Mrs. Maull, Dr. and Mrs.

C. V. Sigler, the Rev. N. Bangham, Mr.

McClain, Judge Kenneth T. Stevens, Mr. Yaple, Judge Howard Goldsberry, Charles Z. Erdmann, M. M.

Ber ry, Charles Preyer, Mr. Heinlen and Howard C. Oyer. state Dept. OK'd By Loyalty Board WASHINGTON, April 5 UP) Conrad E.

Snow, chairman of the state department's loyalty board, said today the board knows of no communists in the department Snow made the statement to a Senate foreign relations subcommittee investigating charges by Sen. McCarthy. (R-Wis.) that the department is a haven for communists and their friends. "If there are any communists in thestcte department the loy alty security board Is uninformed of their existence." Snow de clared. Student Freed in Death Of Coed at U.

of Iowa IOWA CITY, April iUTi Robert E. Bednasek was found innocent today of the charge that he strangled pretty Margaret Anne (Gee-Gee) Jackson in a University of Iowa off-campus rooming house the early morning of last Dec. 11 This meant the jury accepted the defense story that the pretty coed's death was "a tragic acci dent." The state had asked conviction for first degree murder and the death penalty. The four women and eight men who decided against the state's theory that the beautiful blonde's death was "cold, calculated murder" motivated by jealousy had taken the case approximately 23 hours earlier. The courtroom, though only half-filled, was taut with emotion as the verdict was passed to District Judge James P.

Gaffney who read it after first admonishing against any demonstration, When the verdict of innocent wu read, however, there wu a HAPPY TO CO-OPEEATE with the census taker is Mrs. Robert T. Deuval of 634 Oneida road, named on the list of enumerator Mrs. John Carson, 535 Cedar street Mrs. Deuval, seated supplies necessary information for Mrs.

Carson's records as young Ann Deuval looks on with interest (Gazette photo by Tom Eresnahan)..