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The Courier from Waterloo, Iowa • 2

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Two FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1952. WATERLOO DAILY COURIER, WATERLOO, IOWA. podrome performances, with the exception of Tuesday night, are 3 p. m. and 7 p.

according to Estel. Tuesday's night show will begin at 6:45 with the new Bible observance, sponsored by the Waterloo Association of Churches. The biggest single day attendance of last year's exposition was recorded the second day and officers predict a repeat this year Sunday when judging in various departments, concerts by quoketa and Springville student bands and the Hippodrome show will be highlights. 48 States Entered. When the eight-day show opens, Saturday it will be the fourth consecutive year that all 48 states are represented in the over-all exposition.

Thirty -two states have dairy cattle, 30 are in the ate judging contest, 38. in Future Farmers of America, 29 in National 4-H judging, 19 have com mercial exhibits, eight are represented by poultry and waterfowl, seven by National Dairy Herd Improvement Association judging entries, and four by Belgian horses. While the official opening of the Congress is scheduled for Saturday, activity for 4-H boys and girls got under way Friday with the state dairy cattle judging contest, climaxed by a banquet this evening sponsored by Mid-Continent Petroleum in the Tavern on the Green. Announcements of high scorers in all breeds and the state champion team are the scheduled highlights. The winning team will represent Iowa in the national 4-H contest Monday.

The state 4-H demonstration contest be Monday and the winner will participate in the national demonstration program Tuesday. Judging in the Belgian horse show gets underway on Sunday with selection of the top animals in the six dairy breed shows beginning Tuesday. The national breed judging show schedule is: Guernseys and Jerseys, Tuesday and Wednesday; Ayrshires, Wednesday and Thursday; Brown Swiss, Thursday and Friday, and Milking Shorthorns, Friday and Saturday. Ban on OPS News Releases Under Probe WASHINGTON (AP) Office of Price Stabilization (OPS) officials Friday were looking into an order barring an OPS division's employ. es from giving newsmen information not cleared by higher-ups.

The directive was distributed Thursday-precisely one year after President Truman ordered withdrawal of a general order to keep' certain information from newsmen. The 1951 order--prohibiting OPS employes throughout the country from making public any information that "might cause embarrassment to OPS" -stirred a storm of protest in the Senate and elsewhere. Truman cancelled it, saying it "might be misconstrued." Deals With Prices. Thursday's directive, in the form of an interoffice memorandum, went to workers OPS division which deals with prices of rubber, chemicals, drugs and fuels. It said all proposed action on price regulations "must be considered confidential" until formally released by OPS to the press.

The OPS Office of Public Information, which prepares such releases, said the order was issued without its prior knowledge or approval. W. W. McClanahan acting director of the Public Information Office, said OPS officials will consider what action will be taken on the memorandum. In a statement, McClanahan said: No Change in Policy.

"There has been no change in policy, which has been to encourage the complete public dissemination of news or agency action." E. E. Fogle, who issued the order to the division which he heads, was not reached for comment. His memorandum said he had noted that information given out about his division was "not only premature but, in some instances, incorrect." Plan Pacific Defense Setup HONOLULU, T. H.

United States, Australia The New Zealand have set up a military liaison council to consult quickly in the case of armed aggression in the Pacific, it was announced Friday. A communique following a three- closed meeting which ended Friday said military advisers of the three nations will meet in the future "as the occasion demand." Normally such meetings would be rotated between Pearl Harbor, Wellington and Melbourne. The communique was issued at Adm. Arthur W. Radford's: Pearl Harbor headquarters.

A Washington military source earlier had said a secondary defense line for. Australia and New Zealand would be laid down at the meeting. DEATHS FRANCIS JOY FISK, page 1. JAMES PARAS. James, Paras, 67, former resident and business man in Water.

loo, died Thursday in Waukegan, of carcinoma, according to word received by relatives in Waterloo. He was born in Greece and lived in Waterloo until three years ago when he moved to He was in the restaurant and confectionary business here. Burial will be in Waukegan Saturday. ARTHUR W. SIPES.

Funeral services for Arthur W. Sipes, 73, former councilman and labor leader who died Wednesday, will be Saturday at 2 p. m. at the First Presbyterian church. Dr.

H. E. Dierenfiald, pastor, will officiate and interment will be in Memorial Park cemetery. Waterloo Lodge No. 105, AF AM will open at the temple at 1:30 p.

m. Saturday and will conduct graveside services. The body will be taken from Kearns Garden chapel to the church at noon Saturday. Pallbearers will include Smith, Rev. Charles E.

Luce, Dr. Sidney Dewey Butterfield, Verne Parker, W. Z. Van Eman and Clair Parker. Two Tell of Helping in Adlai's Fund CHICAGO (AP)- A state Court Justice Thursday receivling a $500 Christmas check from Gov.

Adlai E. Stevenson while serving in a non-salaried state committee post before Stevenson appointed him to fill a vacancy in the court. At the same time, a Chicago insurance, three" executive of the said that governor's close personal friends contributed between $500 and $1,000 to a special fund through him because they wished to "remain impersonal." Stevenson, Democratic candidate for President, has said he used special salary supplementary fund to attract competent men from private occupations to lower-paying state jobs. He said Wednesday it would be a "breach of faith on my part" to name officials who received gifts from this fund. Received $500 Check.

Justice Walter V. Schaefer of the Illinois Supreme Court said he received a $500 check from Stevenson while serving as chairman of the, State Little Hoover Committee in 1950. knew it was going to be tough when I took the job," he said. "I took quite a financial licking. We had to sell every defense bond we owned." Schaefer said he also received $700 from the Stevenson-for-Governor Committee for pre-inauguration work he did after the governor's election in November, 1948, but that he did not cash the check.

Schaefer was a law professor at Northwestern University until Gov. Stevenson appointed him to the bench in March, 1951. Three months later Schaefer was elect( ed to a full nine year term on the court. The Chicago insurance executive was Hermon Dunlop Smith, now heading the Volunteers for Stevenson, a national fund raising group for Stevenson's presidential campaign. Tax Receipts at Courthouse Hit $1 Million Total Second-half tax payments received Thursday in the office of Black Hawk County Treasurer Floyd Davis soared to near the $1 million mark as residents from all parts of the county went into action to avoid delinquent penalties which start Oct.

1. A remittance of $297,848.54 came from the John Deere Waterloo Tractor Works while sums of $45,377.32 and $492.765.70 were received on soldiers bonus and homestead credit accounts. As a result of the spirited sponse to pay up before octe; and avoid the extra penalty, Davis said chances are good that the delinquent list will be substantially shorter than he expected a week ago. Two Kegs of Beer Stolen Off Truck Two kegs of beer were reported missing Friday from a Keiper Distributing Co. truck on which the rear door lock had been broken.

The truck, parked at the company office at 614 Transit contained 210 kegs. Police learned later Friday that one Waterloo tavern owner was approached by a man who offered to sell two kegs of beer for $4. They regular'y sell for $22.50 apiece. NEW CASUALTY LIST. WASHINGTON (P) The Defense Department Friday identified 70 battle casualties in Korea new list that reported four killed, 64 wounded, one missing and one injured.

Watch Border for $356,000 in Stolen Gold fanned out along the U. TORONTO (UP) Police border Friday in an effort to stop $356,000 worth of stolen gold bullion from being smuggled into the United States. State police in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and all of New England were alerted to be on the lookout for unidentified planes which may be carrying the bullion. Police officials said the gold, which weighs almost half a ton would be worth $700,000 on the U. S.

black market and as much as $1,000,000 in Europe or the Orient. The largest gold theft in Canada's history was revealed Thursday. Thirty-six hours after the theft, the police still didn't know how or when the gold disappeared. Dumped at Loading Shed. Police said gold had been shipped from the Noranda Mines in northern Ontario for refining here, and then was to go through Montreal by plane to England and Europe.

First word of the theft came when a Montreal Trans-Canada Airlines employe discovered only four instead of 10 boxes in a shipment for flight to Montreal. Police said that apparently Brink's Express truck dumped the gold at the loading shed at Malton Airport sometime before 5 p. m. Wednesday. The gold was left unguarded and when the TCA employe loading cargo on the plane returned there were only four The airline apparently didn't report the missing cargo until 10 p.

m. when it landed in Montreal, giving the bandits a six hour lead on the police. Jets Get Four More Red Planes SEOUL, Korea (P-U. Sabre jets Friday shot down a four Communist MIG jets in the first air battles in four days, the U. S.

Fifth Air Force said. The dogfights boosted the September, toll of Russian-built jets to a record 56 destroyed. The monthly mark 44 was set last April. The Air Force said the Sabres also damaged four MIGs in battles with 16 Red fighters east of Sinuiju, south of the Yalu River. One damage claim was not confirmed.

The U. S. Eighth Army said Communist troops probed Allied outposts north and northeast of the Punchbowl on the Eastern fronts Thursday night and early Friday. Six times the Reds fell back under U.N. mortar fire.

Red Accusation. PANMUNJOM, Korea (P) Peiping Radio accused the United Nations Friday of planting Chinese Nationalists in prisoner of war camps to induce Red prisoners to write blood petitions against forced repatriation. The U. N. Prisoner of War Command announced, meanwhile, that nine prisoners were injured Thursday when U.

N. infantrymen moved into an enclosure on Cheju Island to remove three prisoners who shoved a guard into a barbed wire fence. The Peiping broadcast insisted Chinese prisoners demonstrated in protest at the U. N. efforts to "detain" them.

Truce negotiations resume Sunday after another weekly recess, the eighth in as many weeks. FOREIGN Continued from the jaws of an 8-foot crocodile by gouging out the reptile's eyes, press reports said Friday. Dispatches from the Port of Cairns on the tropical Cape York Peninsula of northeast Australia said the mother, 20, was paddling a canoe Archer River with her 10-month-old baby when the crocodile dragged her into the river. Hearing screams, her aborigine father-in-law plunged into the water, wrapped one arm around the monster and clawed its eyes out with his fingers. The family scrambled ashore.

The young mother, flown to Brisbane, was under hospital care Friday for four deep wounds in her back and two in her chest. The father-in-law and the baby were not injured, reports indicated. Austria VIENNA (P)-The Soviet Union's Balkan Communist satellite regimes are clamping down again on the small and independent farmer now that the 1952 harvest is in the barns. The Communist drive against independent farmers was suspended last spring when farmers rebelled against forced collectivization and endangered vital spring planting. Communist newspapers of the East European countries made it clear the drive is on again and under full steam.

They report that small and middle-sized farm owners are "voluntarily" joining collectives. Those who resist are jailed for "sabotaging" their harvest or are given confiscatory crop quotas. France PARIS (P) Prince Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth slept late Friday morning after their first night under the same roof in more than a year. The Prince arrived at his plush villa in the fashionable Neuilly suburb of Paris late Thursday night after racing 575 miles in 12 hours from his romantic Riviera home near Cannes. The auburn-haired actress has been staying at the Neuilly villa since her arrival from the United States two days ago.

lalipues (P)-Six Italian children were killed Friday by World War II missiles they dug up. As many as 1,400 Italian children a year have died in this manner since the war. England LONDON (P- A ski-equipped Dakota plane has plucked nine British airmen from a blizzardswept Greenland ice cap where their plane crashed 10 days ago, the Air Ministry said Friday. The daring rescue performed Thursday night on the treacherous cap ended an ordeal in sub-zero for the stranded airmen. Three other occupants of the crashed plane, including an injured American Air Force Arctic expert, were rescued earlier this week.

THIEVES TAKE $18,000 IN GEMS IN BEDROOM NEW YORK (P- Thieves took $18,000 worth of jewelry Wednesday from a bedroom in the 17- room Park Avenue apartment of prewar debutante Brenda Frazier Kelly, police reported Friday. UNION VOTES STRIKE. DAVENPORT, Ia. (P)-The Independent Electrical Workers union voted 102 to 99 Thursday to go on strike at the Davenport and Moline, plants of the Eagle Signal Corp. The plants employ about 450 persons.

The contract expired last July 1. BEER FREE DELIVERY JUST DIAL 9107 BLATZ SCHLITZ MILLER'S BUDWEISER $415 BLUE RIBBON Case 24 Bottles CITY $335 GRAIN CLUB BELT $350 er POTOSI STAG $330 HAMM'S $3.85 FALSTAFF $3.40 COUNTRY CLUB $3.45 BURGEMEISTER $3.20 EMBASSY CLUB $2.95 DUBUQUE STAR $3.10 JACKMAN'S 615 Lafayette Phone 9107 Sparkman Says Graft in Both Parties DES MOINES (P- Corruption is not a strictly partisan thing, says Sen. John J. Sparkman, the Democratic vice presidential nominee. "Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have a monopoly on corruption," Sparkman told 400 persons at the Des Moines Dinner Club Thursday night.

"Republicans talk of corruption," he said. "They say that the voter is tired of corruption in office, and they are right." The senator said the voters will review the record of the great investigations made by the Democrats in Congress. Have Taken Leading Role. "The fact that Democrats have taken a leading role in these exposures is proof positive," he said, "that the Democratic Party today has the vitality and honesty that are necessary requisites to the party which has the responsibility of government. "The worst example of corruption we have ever known came during the 12 years of Republican rule in the 1920s," Sparkman said.

"Did they show their keenness to get rid of corruption then?" he asked. "The American voter," he said "is not satisfied with the halfhearted, backward-looking (phy of Republicanism. "An overwhelming majority of voters is going to vote Democratic precisely because there is need for a change to keep up with condi. tions changing faster than at anytime in our history." Two Sailors Punished for Boxer Blast ALAMEDA, Calif. (P)- Two sailors have beer given a "captain's mast" and punished for inadvertently touching off the fire.

and explosion that killed nine crewmen aboard the carrier USS Boxer in Korean waters. The Boxer's skipper, Capt. Marshall B. Gurney, Portland, made the disclosure Thursday after the huge aircraft carrier arrived from the Far East for repairs. Gurney declined to reveal the sailors' names because he said the investigation showed the accident was due to "human error" rather than negligence.

Action Not Specified. The captain did not disclose the action taken against them but said they "received appropriate punishment." A captain's mast is a preliminary judgment by a Naval officer of a violation of military justice. If the captain finds the offense is not grave enough to warrant a court martial he can mete out mild punishment. The Boxer, which launched the first guided missiles against the enemy, in Korea last Sept. 1, showed only a few scars from the tragic explosion which ripped its hangar deck Aug.

6. takes him through North Carolina and Virginia, with a major speech Friday night at Richmond. Eisenhower's administration's attack on the defense True man policies was delivered against the background of one of the greatest ovations Baltimore has given a presidential candidate in many years. After he spoke, Eisenhower's exit was something a mob scene. Excited crowds pressed around his car, cheered him on his way and even demanded his reappearance after he had climbed aboard this campaign train.

Ike and Mamie, as the nominee himself names them, came out to say good night. They joined school children in singing "America." lowan Will Aid Farmers in Europe IKE Continued WASHINGTON (P- The government has called on Elmer G. Carlson, former world's champion corn husker, to show European farmers how to speed up their harvesting methods. The Mutual Security Agency (MSA) sent him abroad to demonstrate his husking technique. The agency hopes he can elimihas nate one harvesting from bottleneck that developed large yeilds of corn.

Carlson, now president and general manager of the Carlson Hybrid Corn Audubon, set his world's corn-husking record by averaging 72 ears a minute in 1935. The mark stood for four years. To Visit Several Nations. MSA said he will travel through several European nations putting on demonstrations and sponsoring corn-husking contests along the lines of those held at U. S.

county fairs. The agency said it believes his "dramatizing speedy, efficient methods of harvesting will encourage increased production of highyield hybrid European farmers have recently expanded their use of hybrid corn and as a result have been getting higher yields per acre. But since European farms are generally too small for Americanstyle mechanized corn picking, the farmers must resort to hand picking. CPL. SCHLIE RETURNS.

Among soldiers returning from the Far East and arriving in San Francisco this week aboard the Gen. W. M. Plack were Cpl. Lester W.

Schlie, 2113 Mulberry and three other Northeast low. ans. Others arriving in the U. S. were Cpl.

Marvin E. Bethke, Osage; Sgt. Raymond M. Richtsmeuer, Iowa Falls, and Pvt. Donald M.

Schultz, Rockford. Why Buy? Try HUSH-A-BYE DIAPER SERVICE PHONE 2-4557 Courteous, Considerate Service at All Times Locke Funeral Home "Where Your Wishes Govern" 525 E. 3rd Opposite Walnut Court Apts. AMBULANCE SERVICE PHONE 3-6158 Proudly Presents $1295 AVALON by Carmelletes Add Sparkle to Your Feet JOSEF'S home of Carmelletes from $10.95 THE DAILY RECORD IN BRIEF The Weather. Fire Alarms WATERLOO: Fair through Saturday: little cooler Friday afternoon: little change in temperature Friday; warmer Saturday, Sunrise Saturday, 6:03.

sunset, sunSunday, IOWA: Friday Fair and litle little cooler in northeast afternoon; change temperature elsewhere; mostly fair Friday night and Saturday; somewhat cooler northeast Friday night; fair a and continued warm Sunday, WATERLOO TEMPERATURES Maximum Thursday (official, airport) Thursday (official, airport) Friday, 8 a. m. (official, airport) Friday, 0 a. m. (downtown) Friday, 11 a.

m. (downtown) Friday, 1 p. m. (downtown) Friday, 3 p. m.

(downtown) Maximum year ago Minimum ago 51 Wind direction (official, airport) NNW Wind velocity official, airport) 6 mph CEDAR RIVER STAGE. Friday noon 12.7 feet Normal 12.9 feet (Iowa Public Service Co. gauge.) OUTLOOK. IOWA: Temperatures will average. five to eight degrees above normal for the period.

Normal highs 72, normal lows 48. Warmer on Saturday with minor changes thereafter. Precipitation will average about one-tenth of an inch with chance of showers Sunday and again about Tuesday. Analysis DES MOINES Weather Bureau Analysis: Fair skies prevailed over Iowa Thursday night with temperatures ranging from 36 at Spencer' to 54 at Burlington. through the Great Lakes region Slightly cooler air, that moved Thursday night has caused light northerly winds across Iowa will cause slightly cooler tem.

peratures over the northeast corner of the state Friday where readings will be near 75. Elsewhere over the state there will be little change in temperatures with highs hear 85 in the southwest corner. This fair weather will continue through the weekend. Temperatures Friday night will range near 40 in the north to 50 along the southern borders of the state Warmer weather is expected on Saturday with temperatures in the 80's. Little change is expected a Thursday.

1:51 to 1500 block Grandview, grass fire, no damage. Thursday, 3:43 p. to 900 block Beech, grass fire, no damage. Thursday, 10:01 p. to 500 block Lane, railroad ties burning, no loss.

Friday, 1:19 a. to 1613. Lafayette, cause Thomas Burns, owner and occupant; Friday, unknown, loss considerable. den 4:59 a. to Flower and Gar.

building at Dairy Cattle Congress: reflected light from decorated ball looked like fire. Friday, 9 a. to 916 Wisconsin, Rob. ert Hughes, occupant; overheated water heater, no damage. 82 43 Licensed to Wed.

45 Donald G. Arends, legal age, of Springfield, 501 and Claire H. Hoffman, legal age, of Jetferson. John B. Murphy, 25, of Reinbeck, and Joyce Trapp, 20, of West Fourth.

Cecil K. Akin, 30, and Mary Akin, 28, both of 1125 Franklin. Births Reported. Allen Memorial. BLAKE, Mr.

and Mrs. Rollie, Route boy. St. Francis. SEFERT, Mr.

and Mrs. Roy, 1608 New. ell, boy, BLOCKER, Mr. and Mrs. Delbert, Dy.

sart, boy, Schoits Memorial. RICHARDS, Mr. and Mrs. Donald, 1228 West Mullan, boy, Divorces Granted. NERGE.

Juanita Irene, 32, from Edwin Arthur. 41: Married June 24, 1938; separated recently; plaintiff awarded custody of two minor children; defendant to have right to visit with them from 6 to 9 p.m. every Wednesday and from 6 to p. m. every other Sunday; defendant to pay $15 a week child support; defendant to pay plaintiff's attorney fee and costs of action; each party to have own personal effects: defendant to pay all outstanding support bills, with the exception of one specific obligation; grounds, cruelty, through the weekend as above average temperatures prevail.

There is a chance of scattered very light showers about Sunday but precipitation will be very light. Denies Suit to Stop Truman Campaign WASHINGTON (INS) -A suit to stop President Truman from beginning his "whistle stop" tour Saturday was dismissed in a District of Columbia court Thursday. The move was sought by Andrew J. Easter, 55, a Baltimore, naval architect, who said that Truman's absence from Washington would deprive the country of his services at the White House. Judge Matthew J.

McGuire merely wrote the word "denied" on the petition. He made no further comment. do we keep our money in a savings account at The National Bank of Waterloo? HERE'S WHY IT'S SAFE due to sound management by experienced officers. IT'S PROTECTED by ample cash reserves. IT'S INSURED by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

AND when we want it we can get every cent, right now. That's why we keep our money in The National Bank of Waterloo. Start YOUR SAVINGS ACCOUNT tomorrow at THE: NATIONAL BANK OF WATERLOO -MEMBERFederal. Reserve System Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. ALL ACCOUNTS INSURED TO $10,000.

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