The Tipton Daily Tribune from Tipton, Indiana • Page 1

MISSEN Your Vote's IMPORTANT 6. Days Left To Register The Daily Tipton Entered as Second Class VOL. 55-150 TIPTON (IND.) TRIBUNE, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1950 ACCUSED CONTINUE TO DENY RED CO CONNECTIONS ITALIAN POLICE BATTLE STRIKERS STEEL-HELMETED POLICE drive on a sidewalk (top) in Milan, Italy, tole lowing a -battle with members of Italy's Red-dominated Confederation af Labor. A telled striker lies on the sidewalk (right), his hand still clutching the stone that he was about to throw. In Bologna (bottom), police break up a demonstration of more than 1000 workers, herding them against the walls of nearby huildings.

Youth Admits Windfall Breakin; 3 Arrested on Drinking Charge A 16-year-old juvenile breakin over the weekend, cording to Sheriff Jesse Owen. Pure Oil Service station there shock absorbers valued at Mary O. Hamm Dies at Hobbs Last rites are planned at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the First church for Miss Mary O.

Hamm, 87, who died at 11:40 p. m. Saturday at her home Hobbs. Ill since Jan. 7..1943, she moved to Hobbs after being a patient at Mercy hospital, Elwood, for 18 months.

Rites will be conducted by Rev. J. Franklin Arthur, minister of the church, and Rev. James Lackey, pastor of the Hobbs Christian church. Burial will be in.

Harlan cemetery in Hancock county. Friends may 1 call at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Harper, south Hobbs, where the body will lie ar. state.

From 1 until 2 p. Tuesday the body will lie in state at the First Baptist church. Miss Hamm was born July 18, 1862 in Hancock county, the daughter of William Joseph and Sarah (Cook) Hamm. She came to Tipton county as. a small child.

She attended Tipton county schools and was a member of the First Baptist church. Survivors are sister, Mrs. Daily Shook, and a niece, Mrs. Allen Harper. FIRE ABOARD FREIGHTER AT SEA UNDER CONTROL Panama.

R. March 27- (INS)-Fire broke out today aboard the Grace line freighter Santa Rita 200 miles from Panlama. The vessel carries a general cargo, including 4.300 cAses of dynamite. A brief wireless message said that the is "smouldering" in the ship's No. 1 hold.

(In New York, a Grace liner headquarters spokesman said word was received at about 12:30 p. m. (EST), from Capt. K. Simmons stating the.

fire is under control.) Tribune Bishop Brashares to Close Lenten Series Bishop Charles Wesley as speaker in the closing nesday evening at the Kemp will open at 7:30 p.m. Bishop Brashares and his wife have just returned from an air Alight around the world seeing. Methodist churches and missionary activities in Japan, China, Pakistan, Syria, Turkey and Europe, according to Rev. F. E.

Fribley, minister of the church. Brashares was elected bishop of the Methodist church in 1944 assigned to the Des Moines (Ia.) area. Prior to that, he held pastorates and directed the Wesley foundation at the First Methodist church, Ann Arbor, and at Grace church, Dayton, for 12 years. A graduate of Ohio Wesleyan and Boston Bishop Brashares has been delegate to four sessions of the church's general conference and served the church on many boards and commissions. A full vested choir will again sing as it has during the previ.Ous services in the series.

Rosidents of the community, in ad- of March 3, 1879. Brashares, the of Iowa, will appear! services of lenten series Wed-' Methodist church. The service BISHOP BRASHARES BISHOP BRASHARES dition to members of the church, are welcome to attend the service. U.S. Navy Makes 'Hit' With Tipton County Flying Farmers Three of Tipton county's 'Hartman and Joe Funke flying, farmers who for a cruise about 75 miles week.

More than 175 flying at a "roundup" in Pensacolo, On the cruise, Navy fighter, I planes demonstrated landings and take-offs from the Accustomed to flying off of short sod strips on their. own farms most of the flying farmers agreed 'as they 'circled over the Cabot that "its too short to land anything on." They discovered, however, that the Navy could do: it as they watched U. S. Navy Cadets and Midshipmen make their six qualification landings, some them flying the. Navy's fastest propeller driven airplanes.

Week's Program An account of a week's events lends an idea of the activities of Tipton county farmers on their trip. Monday--The. flying farmers were divided into groups and taken on a tour of the USS Cory, in Pensacola A demonstration and show was put on by the famous "Blue Angels" jet fighter team. The team consists. of five active pilots, with one extra pilot in reserve, and is the only team of its in the country.

In the evening a fish fry was held at Barrancas beach and the flying "red farmers got their fill of snapper" fish, popular in Florida. On Tour Tuesday--They were conducted on tours of the various airplane hangars, repair shops, control tower, docks and other buildings at the "Mainside Base" where they are staying. On Wednesday taken and aboard Thursday they were Cabot. time Evenings and spare was usually spent at movies, boxing matches, baseball games I and various other sports, or in many cases just walking around sightseeing and taking pictures. At 6:30 o'clock Friday morning, the flying farmers were given a box lunch to be taken (Continued on Page 8) Rotary to Meet At Stokely Plant The Tipton.

Rotary club will meet at. Stokely's plant Tuesday. Jat p. m. instead of Tom's cafeteria," the customary meeting place.

Members will continue to work on "Swap-It." Pickup crews will call upon persons living north of Jefferson street. All Rotarians are urged to attend, and persons who signed up to contribute to are requested to have these items ready for the pickup tomorrow. evening. Weather Forecast Windy and colder with occasional rain tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 45.

High Tuesday 50. Matter Oct. 4, 1895, at Postoffice at Tipton, Under the Act Primary Field Bulges Primary candidates swamped the county clerk's office over the week-end, with the filing date deadline less than a week away. Saturday, April 1, will, be last day for filing declarations of candidacy for the primary election. Among those filing were Katherine Beach, 463 Green street, Democrat, for.

the office of Clerk of the Tipton County Circuit court and Max Suite; 234 West Jefferson street, Democrat, for jont-representative of Tipton and Howard counties. Other Democrats to file were E. H. Walser, 407 South East street, for assessor of Cicero, township; McAdoo W. Clouser, route and Marguerite Shuck, route 1, Kempton for delegates' to the state convention; Howard De Witt, route 2 Sharpsville for Liberty township 'advisory board and Clarence DeWitt, route 1 Sharpsville for Liberty township advisory board: Several candidates were also filed for: Impulses Told In lowa Trial Bednasek Consulted Doctor Before Slaying Iowa City, March 27-(INS)1A University of Iowa psychologist testified today that Robert Bednasek told him about im'pulses "to take his own life and to assault murderously" a girl he was going with.

The witness, Dr. Eugene. J. Shoben, took the stand at Bednasek's trial for murder, in the death of his 20-year-old coed sweetheart, Margaret Anne (Gee Gee) Jackson. Dr.

Shoben told the jury eight men and four women in the Johnson county courtroom at Iowa City that Bednasek told him of the impulses during a consultation last October 25, nearly two months before Miss Jackson died. Miss Jackson was found dead (last December 11 in a borrowed room at the "Empty Arms" lodging house for men students of the university. The state charges she was strangled by Dednasek. The defense contends her death was accidental. Dr.

Shoben is assistant sor of psychology at the university and director of the psychology department counselling ice. He said Bednasek did not the name of the young woman during their tion. Testifying as a prosecution witness, Dr. Shoben said: "Bednasek told me he had had recent impulses to throw himself under the wheels of a truck." Mrs. W.

B. Wasson Dies in Delphi Mrs. Clelia Wasson, daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. M.

V. B. Tipton, Newcomer, died pioneer her residents of at home Delphi Saturday. Funeral services were conducted this afternoon at 2 p.m. from the Harris.

funeral home, Survivors are the husband, William B. Wasson; a sister, Mrs. James Shirt, Syracuse, N. and two sons and a daughter. precinct committeemen throughout the county.

Republicans to file included C. A. Campbell, route 3, for county commissioner; Eugene R. Campbell, route 3, for county councilman at large; Archie Lindley, route 3, for trustee of Prairie township and Jesse W. Couch, route 1, Windfall, for trustee of Wildcat township.

Also, Roy Watson, route advisory board Jefferson town-! ship; Ralph Drake, route 1, Kempton; Ralph E. Day, route 3. and Arthur E. Campbell, route 2, Sharpsville, all for advisory board of Prairie township. Mark M.

'Patterson; Windfall; Frank Butner, Windfall and Arthur P. Barr, route 2 Windfall, all for advisory board of Wildcat township. Sidney B. Legg, route Windfall, filed for county councilman of the 1st district, in addition to several filing for precinct commit: teemen. Seven in Dust Storms Winds Sweep to Canada After Whipping Midwest i.

By International News Service The nation's worst dust storm since the early thirties swirled over the midwest between the Rocky Mountains and the Great today' leaving a twisted trail of death and destruction in its wake. Latest count put the number of dead at seven. All occurred on the highways. as visibility was cut to almost zero by thick, choking clouds of dust. I Three died in auto accidents in Kansas and Nebraska, another died in Colorado and three persons lost their lives in Texas, two near Lubbock and one near Amarillo.

Virtually all of the area east of the Rocky Mountains to the Great Lakes and north from the gulf coast to Canada was affected by the storm. Damage Unestimated Winds up to 80 miles an hour were reported in the Lake Superior area. In most other areas winds varied from 35 to 45 miles an "hour. The weather bureau at Chicago forecast that the storm, which originated yesterday in the southwest, would take a northeasterly course and roll over the Great Lakes into southern Canada before dying out. No estimate of the amount of damage could be made today.

Weather bureau officials said the storm was as severe as any of the early thirties. but would not last as long. In the early thirties the winds that caused the nation's dust bowl in the lower middle west blew for days without ceasing. Richard Crowell Pledges To Purdue Fraternity Lafayette, March $7- Richard Crowell, 224 Mill street, Tipton, has. been pledged to the Purdue university of Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fraternity.

Crowell is. a freshman in the school of engineering at Purdue. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rodger Circus Probe Pends After Old Elephant Tramples Little Boy Sarasota, March 27-, (INS)-State's Attorney Mac Smiley will rule today' whether possible criminal; negligence permitted a circus' elephant to snake her trunk' around a boy patron, pull him! past a guard chain and trample him to death.

Five-year-old Edward Roger Schooley was feeding peanuts to -the old elephant yesterday at the final winter quarters performance of the Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus when the tragedy occurred. The elephant, Dolly, regarded Hourly Temperatures 7 a.m. 54 2 p. m. 54 Dearing's Will Takes Trial Spot Princeton, March 27- (INS) -The will of Winter of Huntingburg, alleged arsenic poison victim, was of chief concern in the murder' trial of Mrs.

Clarice of Evansville, today. Mrs. Spur-: lock, daughter of Dearing, is charged with the murder of her father. She was the sole bencficiary of his will which was executed while he was a patient the Deaconess hospital in Evansville. Two state witnesses did little to help in convicting the defendant today.

Dolph Vandeveer, Evansville. automobile dealer, testified that Dearing apparently was of sound mind when he made the will and that there was no evidence of force or threats. Vandeveer and Dr. A. W.

Rossow were witnesses of the last testament. Another witness, Mrs. Frieda Dearing, wife of Bernard son of the victim, testified that she did not understand why there was no provision for her husband in the will. because relations of father and son were friendly. However, Mrs.

Dearing admitted she and her husband were serrated and she was filing a divorce suit against him. The couple has three young children. Dearing served a state prison sentence for forging his father's name to a check. The charges were pressed by Mrs. Spurlock.

March 27 -(INS)-A 21-year-old guitar player from Berry's Lick; today faces murder charges in the slaying of a friend, allegedly, when he intervened in a domestic squabble. Curvie Estel Pierson, 21, arrested yesterday afternoon and readily admitted he fired three times at Aaron Thomason, 35, when he threatened his wife, Mrs. Rose Thomason, 32, in the tiny tourist park cabin where all three were living. Pierson denied that love of Mrs. Thomason prompted the slaying.

He was quoted as commenting: "I think she's in Qlove with me, though, but she's too old for me." Mrs. Thomason, who is held as a material witness, declared that Pierson had to her and asked her to run away with him. Indianapolis, March 27 -(INS) Indiana Republican leaders today mulled over pos'sible campaign issues served up (Continued on Page 8: Pneumonia Fatal To Mrs. Goodnight Kempton, March 27. Last rites are, planned at 2 p.

m. Tuesday at the Methodist church for Mrs. Anna Frances Goodknight. 69, who died at 4:30 p. m.

Saturday at her home with pneumonia. She had been a resident of the community many years. Rev. Eugene DeSpain, ter of the church, will be in charge 'of rites and burial will he in the Kemplon cemetery. The body is lying in state at the Goodnight residence and will be taken to the church one hour before services.

Ralph McMulIan Funeral home is in charge of arrangements. Born in Tipton April 14, 1870, Mrs. Goodknight was the daughter of William H. and Mary (Layton) Eaton. Sine married John H.

Goodknight in 1888. He died in August, 1947. Mrs. Goodnight was a member of the Methodist church, Woman's Society of Christian Service and a charter member of the Kempton Woman's Study club and the American Legion auxiliary. Survivors 'are three sons, Irvin, of Tipton, Carl, of Anderson, and Herbert, Sheridan; two daughters, Mrs.

Virgil Boyer. south of Kempton, and Mrs. Shirley Ricketts, of Sheridan; one half-brother, Orvil Eaton. near Kempton; eight grand-: children and three great-grand-'J. children: Woman Tells of Threats POLIZIA 7.073 Another high-ranking state department.

official has denied Senator McCarthy's charges that she has never been a Communist or a worker for Communist front organizations. At the same time. Mrs. Brunauer, who is a state department liaison official to the United Nations, said that she and her family have received threats of death since McCarthy tagged her as "Case.47". on his list of alleged state department Reds.

She admitted that her husband, Stephen Brunauer, a civilian scientist employed by the navy department, at one time had what she described as "Communist connections." But Mrs. Brunauer added that in 1932 he Iwas denounced by the Communfists as a deserter. Meanwhile. Senator McCarthy himself came under new fire. Senator Tydings, chairman of.

the subcommittee probing McCarthy's charges, declared that three weeks. of hearings have failed to bring to light "any def. inite information" to support the contention that the state department swarms with Reds. And former Secretary of State I Henry Stimson lashed at the attack upon state department as the "noisy antics of a few." Dr. Brunauer's testimony was heard in advance of an expected showdown on Sen.

McCarthy's charge that Owen Lattimore is. in his words, the "top Soviet espionage agent in the United States." Lattimore is reported en route from Afghanistan to personally deny the' McCarthy charges. Mrs. Lattimore and the 19-year-old son also called the charges false. Rube western Cabot last met "Flying Farmers," Ora Decker, were among some 150 midwere taken aboard the out into the Gulf of Mexico farmers from Indiana have Fla.

Stroke Fatal To J. H. Weber confessed to Windfall's latest and charges were. dropped, acThe youth broke into the Friday evening and had taken about $20. The loot was: returned and charges were not pressed against the youth.

Other arrests over the weekend involved a drunken driving charge and two cases of intoxication, Howard Schaffer, 25, route 1, was arrested Saturday night on road 19 south of Tipton by the sheriff's office on a charge drunken driving. Schaffer awaited arraignment in Tipton county circuit court today. Shirley Apple, 54, Arcadia was arrested for public intoxication land fined $5 and costs by Justice of the Peace, Homer Henley. Also fined in Justice of the Peace court after pleading guilty Ito a public intoxication charge was Elmer W. Hook, 39, Curtisville, who was arrested by city police Saturday night.

More Damp, Windy Weather Forecast Indianapolis, March 27 -(INS)-More damp and windy weather was in prospect for Indiana today and tomorrow. Soaking thundershowers and swirling winds buffeted the state yesterday. At West Baden this morning two inches of rain was tabulated for the: past 24 hours. Several other cities and towns reported rainfalls above one inch. However, the spring-like warmth which brought Hoosiers out of doors work or play, or just drive along the highways yesterday will be lacking tomorrow.

The 'thermometers probably will not get over' 56 in Indiana, with a low tonight of 38 to 50. Yesterday temperatures ranging uD to 77 at Evansville. were reported. Terre Haute: had a maximum of 74, while .75 was recorded at Indianapolis, Far East observers 'say' Communist China would threaten Britain's longtime hold on Hong Kong. Funeral services for John Henry Weber, 91, who died.

at! his home at 538 Oak street at 9:30 a. m. Sunday, are planned at 10 a. m. Tuesday at Leatherman-Morris Funeral home.

Rev. Darl V. Swisher, minister of the Church of the Nazaial will be in Fairview cemezene, be in charge and tery. The body is lying in state at the funeral home. Weber, who had been ill five! years, suffered a stroke of paralysis Friday.

He was born 3, .1858 in Batesville, the son of George and Katharine Weber. On Oct. 18, -1881, he married Miss Louisa Losey in Tipton. She died last March A contractor, brickmason and plasterer, Weber was educated in Batesville. He was a member of the Church of the Nazarene.

Six brothers and sisters are deceased. They are Mrs. Katie Shellburn, Lewis and Jake ber, all of Batesville, and Misses Elizabeth and Margare: Weber and Mrs. Dora Miller, all of Cincinnati. Surviving are five' children, Mrs.

George Fouch, Mrs. Bert: (Continued on Page 8). Brother of Tipton Minister Succumbs Funeral services are planned I Tuesday afternoon in Dallas, for J. Foster Morris, brother of Rev. Robert W.

Morris, minister of the West Street Christian church. A teacher, Morris died at 2 a. m. Sunday with a heart attack at his home. He was 44.

Death was unexpected since Morris had not been ill. He was a teacher of Spanish and in one of the large Dallas high schools where he had been an instructor for 20 years. A graduate of Indiana university, he completed a fouryear A. B. course there in two and one-half years and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honorary.

fraternity. Services are planned at the Starkman-Brand funeral home in Dallas. Surviving with the widow are a daughter, a son, the parents, Rev. and Mrs. W.

I B. Morris, of Vincennes, and lone Rev. Morris. President Truman will hold a (Continued on Page 8) Deadline Nears For Unregistered Voters in County Tipton county voters were reminded today that the deadline for registering for the primary election is only one week away. 3 is the last day for registering.

Persons required to register in order to be. eligible to vote in the primary election are persons who have moved here from another county or persons who' have reached 21 years of age or who will have reached their 21st birthday before Nov. 2 of this year. Residents of a precinct are not required to register again, i so long as they still reside in the same precinct. they have moved from one precinct to another they register their transfer.

The county clerk's office in the courthouse will. be open from 8. a. m. until 4 p.

m. during the week and from 8 a. m. until noon on Saturday for registrants. Life-Long Arcadio Resident Succumbs as docile, seized the 55-pound boy before the horrified his parents and his brother, David, 6.

His father, Elmer Schooley is on the faculty of Highlands University of Las Vegas, N. M. Smiley ordered the elephant placed under observation after Edward was pronounced dead on arrival at Sarasota Municipal hospital with a crushed skull. Observers agreed that Dolly, veteran 1.20 years service with the circus, acted so swiftly that attendants, who; were only 10 to 15 feet away, (Continued on Page 8) Arcadia. March 27-Mrs.

Anna Knause. 83, life-long resident of this community, died at the Hamilton County hospital Sunday afternoon after an illness of about two weeks. Funeral services have been set for 10 a. m. Wednesday at the Shaffer Funeral home here with burial in the Arcadia cemetery.

Rev. Frank Davis will be in charge of rites. Mrs. Knause was born Sept. 22, 1866, near Arcadia', the daughter of William and Carolyn Kiser.

She was married to John Knause, who died March 3, 1946. Surviving is a daughter Mrs. Carrie Gooley of Arcadia, with whom the deceased made her home, and two sons, Charles and Wilber Knause, both of Los Angeles, Calif..