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a 0 0 00 0 0 a a a a a SIX INDIANA EVENING GAZETTE, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1955. 423 Victims Of Traffic Accidents (Continued From Page One) other persons are injured for every traffic death. Also, for every three persons killed, a fourth dies later, of Injuries. This year's holiday toll also topped that of a nonhollday weekend tabulated last month for comparative purposes. An Associated Press survey of deaths during the Aug.

19-22 weekend showed 385 traffic deaths, 67 drownings and 85 violent deaths for miscellaneous: causes. Some safely experts contend the high holiday tolls in recent years can be attributed in part to an inadequate road network to handle the large number of automobiles in operation. The National Safety Council exlimated 60 million motorists were on the highways yesterday afternoon and last night in 25 million vehicles. The deaths by states, traffic, drownings and miscellaneous: Alabama 5 0 Arizona 5 2 Arkansas 4 2 California 44 16 15 Colorado 12 0 Connecticut 3 0 Delaware 3 0 Florida 9 3 Georgia 4 1 Idaho 3 0 Illinois 21 5 Indiana 14 1 Iowa 8 2 Kansas 3 0 Kentucky 13 2 Louisiana 5 1 Minnesota 4 0 Mississippi 8 2 Missouri 12 1 Montana 0 0 1: Nebraska 3 0 Nevada 40 New Jersey 6 0 New York 18 3 New Hampshire 20 New Mexico; 101; North Carolina 15 0 North Dakota 0 0 Ohio 29 3 Oklahoma 3 0 Oregon 74 Pennsylvania 20 4 Rhode Island 1 0 South Carolina 8 2 South Dakota 3 0 Tennessee 6 0 Texas 38 9 Utah 3 0 Vermont 0 01 Virginia 16 1 Washington 4 5 West Virginia 4 2 Wisconsin 18 0 Wyoming 5 0 District of Columbia 0 1 0. Warn Demos Who Attack Eisenhower (Continued From Page One) cent trip to Europe is that our allies feel our policies are sound, that we are working for peace in a practical way," he said in an interview.

"The world has seen, under United States policies of the last three years, a distinct contribution to peace and the prospects of future peace. If Stevenson or any other Democrat wants to attack those policies, he will find himself on unsound ground." Stevenson said Eisenhower's 1953 talk of "unleashing" Chinese Nationalists on Formosa for a possible attack on the Red China mainland "shook our alliances and Invited war in the Formosa Strait He said this "predicament which still plagues the Eisenhower administration--and us" was brought about by Eisennower's desire to please Sen. Know land of California, the Senate Republican leader, and! Sen. Bridges of New Hampshire, irman of the Senate GOP Policy Committee. Stevenson's criticism of Eisen-1 hower's record on agriculture was in a letter to Henry Snow, at whose Kasson, farm both Stevenson and Eisenhower made campaign speeches in 4052.

"Since that day three ago," Stevenson said, "the farm situation has steadily worsened under an administration that embraces flexible price supports while maintaining distressing rigidity of mind." He declared that while "the rent farm distress is dangerous to our whole economy," the GOP administration's "as fertile of moralistic slogans for farmers as it is barren of practical ideas for a soluLion of the Butler also messaged Snow, cusing Eisenhower of having falsely promised the farmers government price supports at 90 per centi of parity--the legally determined fair price standard. Give Reason For Reunion HOLLYWOOD (A Mrs. Una Schmidt says she and her husband Airman Daniel Schmidt were reunited because ot their son Danny decided that the baby need ed not only his muther and his. father but both of us." she said yesterday an appearance on Art Linkletter's CBS House Party television show. right," Schmidt agreed.

Schmidt, released after years as a Chinese Communist prisoner, came tome to find Una had married another man, Alford Fine. California logger, in the belief, she gait, that Schmidt was dead. But she left Fine and resumed her married life w.th Schmidt and their son. The family planned to return to! Portland, today. Schmidt said he hopes to enroll at the University of Montane at Missoula for courses in wild lite technology.

Ossetia Classifiade Bring Results SON'S FLOWER To touch the top of this sunflower, George Rice, 6, has to climb through a second floor window of his home in Cleveland, George brought the sunflower from srhool last spring when it was two inches tall. Today it reaches 14 feet-and George's parents hope he'll take the flower back to school, Army Holding 3 Prisoners Freed By Reds BERLIN UP--A civilian handed over to U. S. control by the Russians after seven years in Soviet labor camps was questioned closely today to determine his claim to American citizenship. U.

S. officials said that Frederick Charles Hopkins told "so many different stories" that his actual citizenship could be open to question. The man reportedly said yesterday after the Russians released him that he was from New York City. Hopkins is in the custody of intelligence agents. He is in good health in spite of his long years; in camp, doctors said.

He was handed over by the Soviets yesterday along with Pvt. Wilfred C. Cumish, 39, of Amesbury, and Cpl. Murray Fields, 36, of Bayside, N. Y.

Both soldiers had been missing ince 1948 and may be tried as deserters. They were under guard today in the Army hospital untill medical examinations are completed. The three said they knew nothing about a report another American by the name of Grishman was: in Soviet hands and was about tu be released. The report came from Austrian repatriates in Vienna last! week. Officials said that Hopkins ap-: parently had some reason for clouding his past and they had not yet discovered what it was.

One! authority said the man "acts and talks like an American." Army spokesmen said it was presumed all three had been held in various slave labor camps for! the past seven years. The three were turned over toi a U.S. State Department official, A. E. Dubois, at the Soviet consulate in East Berlin.

The Russians had said earlier they would', be released at Karlchorst and U.S. liaison team had gone there, to get them. Dubois, who had gone to the con-. sulate to pick Up. visa, was! stopped by Soviet official, who! said: "By the way, will you sign this receipt for these three Americans?" Dubois signed and took the three to the U.S.

provost marshal's of-, lice in West Berlin. They arrested immediately and sent to an Army hospital for examination. Cumish and Fields said they needed medical attention. Hopkins he was in good health. All three are scheduled to be screened by Army's interrogators, after several days medical treatment.

I The Army indicated that both soldiers might be subject to courtmartial for desertion. In view of Cumish military intelligence work, officials were anxious to! learn what he might have told the Russians during his captivity. Authorities also planned to ques tion the three about other missing Americans, especially soldiers who have disappeared from Berlin in reeent years. Mrs. Baileg said her brother served in the Army in the early 1940s and received a disability discharge about 1943, During the latter part of World War li, she said, worked in shipyards, defense plants and the Merchant Marme.

He left his ship in a Gernan port 1947 and rejoined the Army in Germany, she added Members of the family said the statement of the released prisoners was the first information they had recelved about Fields since he disappeared in 1948. Mrs. Burton Martin, a sister of: Comish in Rowley, said their usually spells its name Konis. She said they had thought her brother dead until she received, postcard from him last June from Russian camp. Gladys Is Big Threat To Tampico (Continued From Page One) hurricane velocity.

Then it turned sharply south-southwest and passed; almost directly over Tampico, Mexico. Halt of Tampico was plunged into darkness by power failures. Wind damage in the city WAS heavy and families fled the lowlying areas flooded by the Panuco River. To the north, storm warnings were still up in the BrownsvillePort Isabel area in extreme south Texas. High tides occurred and huge waves pounded the beaches from Galveston, southward.

Possible flash rises on streams in northeastern Mexico were forecast as the squalls continued to drench some areas. The Rio Grande Valley from Brownsville to Del Rio, was still jittery about the possibility of floods. Last year Hurricane Alice sent squalls the valley and touched off one worst floods up, in valley history. Hundreds of lives were lost. Gladys--until she turned southacted very much like Alice had.

In Mexico City, some four square miles of working class districts were under water. Some 3,000 persons were still stranded in the area after about 2,000 were rescued from rooftops. Two children drowned and five more were missing. Union Loans Needed Cash To Employer CINCINNATI IP -More than 500. employes of the Hamilton Tailoring Co.

are lending $100,000 to their employer. Members of the CIO Amalgamated Clothing Workers voted the funds after the company became short of cash after recent acquisitions, a company official said. The money was turned over to the tailoring concern by Jack Kroll, chairman of the Cincinnati Amalgamated Clothing Workers Board, who is better known nationally as director of the CIO Political Action Committee. Starting tomorrow, employes will have 10 per cent of their pay checks deducted as their share of the loan, The company will pay approximately $10,000 a month to the union until the debt is erased. The employes will receive debenture bonds, paying per cent interest, to cover their payroll deduction loans.

A company official said the union afforded a more attractive proposition than could have been obtained from a bank. Hamilton Tailoring does a sevenmillion-dollar yearly business and claims to be the largest made-tomeasure clothing organization in, the world. "I'm reluctant to talk about the loan because it may embarrass the company," Kroll said. "'We've done this a goodly number of times here in Cincinnati and elsewhere." Asked why the union would make a loan to management, Kroll answered: "Our members work in the place. It's their jobs.

The union functions to protect people's jobs. We feel we're 21 part of the industry." Alvin Heimann, vice president and secretary of the company, thanked the union members for their demonstration of loyalty to the firm. WHAT'S maze of copper tubing surprised Ohio State Fair visitors by turning out to be a The decorative centefountain." the Agriculture Building at Columbus was described by one official as looking like "something put up by drunken pipefitter." Mushrooms May Prevent Some Cancer By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE AP Science Reporter EAST LANSING, Mich. UP -An old folklore story says that eating certain kinds of mushrooms may help prevent cancer.

Today a scientist who became curious about it said that extracts. from some mushrooms do indeed show ability to retard or stop the growth of some cancers transplanted into mice. These extracts are not yet pure enough for human tests, to disprove or prove the old story. They may provide a new clue for cancer control. Dr.

E. and Stev-1 The research, was described by ens of Michigan State University at the opening of the annual meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Dr. Lucas became interested in the claim in some central European countries that people eating a certain species of mushroom, named Boletus Edulis, had very little cancer. He tested an extract from it and found it could retard growth of some types of experimental cancer in mice.

Since then, five years ago, 80 different species of mushrooms have been studied. Extracts from 10 have been found to contain some principle able to slow tumor growth in mice, Dr. Lucas said. This work has been done in collaboration with the Division of Experimental Chemo-Therapy of the Sloan-Kettering Institute of New York. Dr.

Lucas said he has not been able to obtain medical reports substantiating the claim of less cancer among people eating the Boletus edulis in Czechoslovakia, Germany and Austria. Similar folklore about mushrooms is reported in some areas of Pennsylvania where mushrooms! are grown, he added. Dr. Lucas said American species of Boletus Edulis were not found to have any anticancer effect in animal tests. But similar chemicals were extracted from other species of mushrooms growing in this country.

The best that any extract has done is to retard growth of tumors in animals, not to make them shrink or disappear. Pressure Building Up For Ike To Run Again (Continued From Page One) he (the individual) grows. But when you make a frontal it you lose you are through. And that IS what happened on this issue." McCarthy. at Appleton, last night replied: don't believe it is a choice between destroying Ike by a al assault and rubber stamping approving every mistake the administration Snakes.

feel that regardless of what success is had on what Nixon, ralled a frontal assault, senator has a duty to expose competence and wrongdoing in government regardless of which party is at fault -and that 1 intend to continue doing. As for Eisenhower cunning again, the President himself told Washington news conference early in August that the stale of las health next year would be a major factor in making up his mind. So, newsmen asked the vice pres-1 ident yesterday: How is Eisenhower's health? have never seen the President' look better," Nixon replied. "I feel; that he 1S in tip-top shape physi. cally and mentally in his attitude.

toward his job." And the job, Nixon added. "has become for the President, "the longer he 19 10 it." Hg Six Women, Three Men Get Choice (Continued From Page One) can Syndicate, born in Washington, D. in 1891. Mrs. Juanita Byrd Huang.

Southern Baptist missionary married to a Chinese citizen, born Mount Olive, in 1904. Robert Howard Parker, a retired businessman born in in 1873. Howard Lischke Ricks, manager of Bills Motors Branch Shanghai, born in Boscobel, in 1889. Mrs. Howard Lischke Ricks, his wife, born in Shanghai in 1894.

Miss Eva Stella Dugay, known: AS Sister Theresa, a nun in the Carmelite Convent in Shanghai, born in New York City in 1893. Mrs. Nadesha M. Romanoff, white Russian living in Harbin who; became a naturalized American citizen in 1937, place and date of birth' not known. Miss Irene N.

Romanoft, her daughter, born in 1940. Wang said that Bishop Edward Walsh, head of the Roman Catholic, Bureau in Shanghai, and Mrs. Peter Huizer, married to the Dutch manager of the Shanghai branch of the Bank of America, were free to leave China whenever they applied for exit visas. Bishop Walsh is a brother of Judge William C. Walsh of berland, a former Maryland, attornet general.

Charles Sydney Miner, Shanghai representative of several American companies, including American Asiatic underwriters, the tan Land Co. and C. V. Starr Enterprises, was free to leave after the two or three months he to "complete the settlement of his affairs," Wang said. Monkey Tests Reveal New Polio Serum TOWA CITY, Iowa IP-Experiments with monkeys show the Helenine apparently has remarkable effects in preventing caused by the Mahoney strain Type I virus, a Michigan scientist reported here today.

A review of research Helenine, an antiviral substance. derived penicillium was given before the American, Society for Pharmacology and perimental Therapeutics by Kenneth W. Cochran, epidemiologist at the University of Michigan. More than 400 of the specialists' who test new drugs before are placed in public use were present to open a three-day meeting. Reports on the antituberculosis drug isoniazid and on the body's amazing adrenalin and alin hormones also were given.

Dr. Cochran said Helenine vented polio in all but 18 per of a group of monkeys inoculated with Mahoney Type I virus. contrast, 100 per cent of a group of monkeys inoculated but given Helenine contracted polio. He said that while Helenine significant value in preventing polio it had no important effects! when used to treat monkeys after the polio had started. He emphasized Helenine is not yet suitable for human use.

Dr. Harry L. Williams of Emory University's medical faculty, said experiments indicate the widely-: used antituberculosis drug zid removes vitamin BG from body. This apparently explains nerve paralysis and convulsions some tuberculosis patients receiving isoniazid. Vitamin B6 is essential to functioning of the human brain.

Dr. William said studies with animals show isoniazid combines with B6, causing rises as much 20-fold in the amount of B6 passed in the side urine. Use of B6 to act effects of isoniazid, ever, requires careful study to whether B6 might diminish isoniazid's healing action, he said. Two reports were given coverting somewhat related studies adrenalin and the related cornpound noradrenalin in the bloudstream. These hormones, chiefly associated with human stress situations such as fear and anger, help fit the body to meet emergen-' by stepping up the heart beat: and blood pressure.

Dr. James A. Richardson, pharmacologist at the Medical College, of South Carolina, reported a fivemember research team has discovered that: 1. During anesthesia with ether, chloroform or vienthene, the hornones increased Trout four to six times. This had the significant etfeet of counteracting tie action the anesthesia which tends weaken the heart beat and reduce bloud pressure.

2. Injections of drugs such nicotine and ether cause substan-, tiai gains in the amonots of and noradrenalin an the viood Man Drowned Man Drowned CONNEAUT, Ohio, LP--A 15-foot metal boat capsized in Lake Erie off the Conneaut Docks yesterday, drowning George Meikle, D. 1 Vienna, Ohio. Four persons were rescued by 36 the crew of a fishing tug. They are Meikle's wife, Sue, 39; Robert Jarman, 38, his 4-year old daugh- E.

ter, Jeeneene, and Mary Alice Lavine, 19 all of Vienna. OBIT OBITUARIES RIES MRS. LAOTTA McHENRY STEWART, of 132 S. 7th Indiana, Pa. passed away Monday, Sept.

5, 1955 at 8:55 a.m. at her late home tollowing an Illness of several works. Born Aug. 27, 1866 in Frostburg, Jefferson a daughter of the late George W. and Rebecca Ann Keck McHenry, she spent most all of her life in Indiana with the exception of several years at State College, was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Indiana and a Deacon of Church for many years.

For the past 16 years she had been Lo-! cal Registrar of Bureau of Vitalinoon Statistics, in Indiana. Widow of Wilson L. Stewart, AtItorney-at-law. she is survived by a sister, Mrs. Robert M.

McKee of Akron, Ohio, two nieces and two nephews. Friends will be received Tuesday between the hours of 7 and 9 p.m. at Robinson's, 36 N. 7th Indiana, Pa. where services will be conducted Sept.

7 at 1:30 p.m, (DST). The Rev. Frank A. Lawrence will officiate. Interment in Greenwood cemetery, Indiana, Pa.

In lieu of flowers, it is requested that contributions be made to the Muscular Distrophy Fund or the. Cancer Fund. old son of Geo, and Esther Lindke Beck of Saltsburg, R. 1, passed away suddenly Sunday, 4th, 1955, in the Indiana Memorial Hospital. Born March (10, 1954 in Pittsburgh, he is survived by his parents; 2 brothers, Kenneth U.

S. Marines, Camp Lejeune, N. Carolina, David homie: tavo sisters. Mrs. Robert Coddington, Swansboro, N.

and Betty Mae, at home, Friends were received at Robinson Funeral Home, Saltsburg, where services were conducted this afternoon, Tuesday, Sept. 6th, at 2:00 p. by the Rev. Costanzo. Interment Nowrytown Cemetery.

DANIEL BLAIR BECK, 15, month, MISS MARY BRAUGHLER 160 East Philadelphia Indiana, passed away Monday, Sept. 5. 1955, at 11:00 a. m. at her late home.

Born Dee. 30, 1872 in Indiana, duughter of the late Adam Clark and Sarah Donahey Braughler, she was born and lived all of ber life, in the same house where she passed away, Miss Braughler was member the First Presbyterian Church Indiana; a member of the Pounds Bible Class; a charter member and past District Deputy Rebekah Lodge No. 292, well as Secretary of the same lodge for 32 years; and a of S. U. V.

Aux. No. 177. Surviving are two sisters: Mrs. Ray (Sara) Hosack, Indiana; Jessie Braughler, Indiana; two, nieces, Mrs.

Donald (Kathryn) M. Hill, LaMesa, Mrs. C. L. (Helen) Baxter, Elmira, N.

Y. Friends will be received afteri 2:30 p. m. Tuesday at Robinson's, 36 N. 7th Indiana, where services will be conducted Wednesday, Sept.

7th at 3:00 p. m. The Rev. R. W.

Faus will officiate. Interment Oakland Cemetery, ana. DAVID FRANKLIN BUTER- BAUGH, 87, of Cherry Tree RD 1, died in his home in Montgomery Township, September 5, at 4:30 p.m. Son of Jonathan and Lucinda Shankle Buterbaugh, he was born in Green Township, July 17, 1868. He is survived by his wife, Anna Freeman Buterbaugh; five sons and one daughter: Grant Buterbaugh, Commodore RD; Lynn Buterbaugh, Marion Center; Earl Buterbaugh, Arcadia; David Buterbaugh, Commodore RD; Mrs.

Nola Mae Defibaugh, Clairborn, Eugene Buterbaugh, Hamilton, N. 22 grandchildren; 10 greatgrandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Bertha Loring, Homer City; four stepchildren, William G. Freeman, S. Army, Germany; Mary J.

Boring, Cherry Tree, RD Margaret Boring, Indiana RD Benjamin F. Freeman at home. Friends will be received at the Rairigh Funeral Homie, Hilisdale after 7 p.mi. tuday, until the noon hour Wednesday and after 5 p.m. Wednesday until 2 p.m.

Thursday. September 8, the hour of service. The Rev. Alired Armstrong will officiate and burial will follow in East Mahoning cemetery. JOHN HARVEY SMITH of Kenwood, passed away Sunday, Sept.

1955, in the Indiana Memorial Hospital, where he had been a patient for the previous three days. ile died on his birthday. Born Sept. 4, 1865 in Green Indiana County, a son of the late Benjamin and Jaue Hill Sinith, he spent most all his life 112 Green and Cherryhill Townships: was a member of Pine Flats Baptist Church, of Shel he was a lacon for many years. Husband of the late Annie Roberis Smith, he is survived by three sons: Fred State, Penn Run; Cizde J.

S.nit, Palisades, L. Smith, Los Angeles, one daughter Airs. Frank AL) Adams, Clymer, RD; tivel grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren. Friends will be received after 2:30 p. m.

Thursday at Robinson's, N. 7th Indiana, where services will be conducted Saturday, Sept. 10th at 1:30 p. The Rev. Gibson Davis and Rev.

E. J. Moss will officiate. Interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Indiana. MISS FANNY THOMAS of 47 N.

7th Indiana, passed away urday, Sept. 3, 1955 in the Indiana Memorial Hospital, where she had been a patient since Aug. 4th. Born March 18, 1875 in Indiana County, a daughter of the late John and Mary Griffith Thomlas, she resided for many years in Atlantic City and in Indiana for the past several years. She Was memper of the First Presbyterian Church of Indiana and a member of Indiana Chapter D.

A. R. Friends were received at Robinson's. 36 N. 7th Indiana, where services were conducted this after(Tuesday, Sept.

6th), at ip. m. The Rev. Frank A. Lawrence officiated.

Interment in Oakland Cemetery, Indiana. BARBARA K. TREESE, four month, nine days, died at the diana Hospital at 3:35 p.m. Monday, September 5. Daughter of Harry and Clara Belle Coursin Treese.

she was born in Indiana Hospital April 26, 1955. She is survived by her parents; two brothers, Donald and Kenneth; paternal grandparents, Mr. Mrs. Ford Treese, Marion Center, RD, and maternal grandmother, Mrs. Nellie Coursin, Glen Campbell RD.

Friends will be received at Rairigh Funeral Home, Hillsdale, after 7 p.in. and until noon hour Wednesday, Private vices will be held in the Funeral Home at 2 p.m, Wednesday, September 7. the Rev. Clayton Straw officiating. Burial will follow Montgomery cemetery.

MRS. LULU L. COUP, widow John G. Coup of Brush Valley, passed away at her late home, Tuesday, Sept. 6th, 1955 at 3:15 Born April 5, 1873 in Salem, a daughter of the late Rev.

Martin and Lizzie Platt Shannon, spent her early life in and Reynoldsville and in Brush Valley since 18 years of ago, long as her health permitted she attended the Evangelical United Brethren Church in Brush Valley. Survived by three sons: Martin, Vernon of Brush Valley; Willis of Black Lick; John Max, at home; three daughters, Ruth Coup Brush Valley; Mrs. Mary CcCrea, of Allentown, Mrs. Olive Marshall, at home; seven grandchildren, also survive. Two brothers preceded her in death.

Friends will be received after 7:30 p. m. today (Tuesday) at Robinson's, 36 N. 7th Indiana, where services will be Thursday, Sept. 8th at 2:00 p.

m. The Rev. Ernest R. McClain will officiate. Interment in United Pres byterian Cemetery, Brush Valley.

RONALD ROY WALTIMIRE Clymer RD 2 died Moday mornin Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh, where he had been a patient for three days. Born June 24, 1938, in Penn Run, the deceased would have been a senior in Pine Township High School this year. He was a member of the Laurel Swamp Ronald is survived by er, Roy S. Waltimire, two sisters and three brothers, Marilyn Sue, Carol Joyce, Charles, Thomas and Lynn, all of Elmira, N.Y.; his paternal grandfather, Charles Waltimire of Clymer RD; is grandmother, Mrs. Hester Sanders of Heilwood; 11 aunts and one uncle.

Friends will be received at the Sutila Funeral Tome, 888 Wayne Avenue after 7 this evening. Services will be held in the Chapel Thursday afternoon, September 8, at 2 p.m. The Rev. John J. Coon will officiate, Burial will be in Manor cemetery, Penn Run.

CATHERINE McG AUGHEY KRUGMAN passed away Monday evening at six o'clock in the Elyria Hospital. She is survived by her husband, Harry Krugman; two children, Mrs. Carl Schwan and Buterbaugh, both of Elyria; two. brothers, C. V.

and Telford McGaughey, Indiana. Services will be conducted Thursday, September 8, from the Cis-: cero Funeral Home, Elyria, ALBERT L. STEFFY, who lived; in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Grace Burt, 1352 E. 20th street, Erie, died September 4, in the Hamot Hospital, after an extended illness.

Born in Ambrose, Indiana ty, December 25, 1871, Mr. Stetty had been in the transfer business in DuBois for 50 years. He is survived by his wite, Nora Neal Steffy; a daughter. Mrs. ace Burt; five grandchildren; three great gran' children; a ter, Mrs.

James Fulmer, Center; a brother, Norman StefMarion Center. Mr. Steffy was a member of First Methodist Church, DuBois; member of Odd Fellows of Du-! Bois; Kiwanis of Du.Bois and ter member of DuBois Volunteer; Hose Company. Services will De held at Russel C. Schmidt Funeral Home, 2926 Pine Avenue, Erie, September 7, at 8 The Rev.

Ralph H. Eckert of the Wayne Street Methodist Church will officiate. Services will be held Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in the Presbyteran Church. Marion Center, the Rev.

Guy Gray officiating. Burial will be in Marion Center cemetery. Pall hearers: Richard Fulmer, Bernard Fulmer, Arthur Kesslar, Earl steffy, Edward Gritfith and Neal Griffith. Two sons, Sloan and Harold preceded their father in death. HAROLD REED LETLE, promiSat-nent businessman of Somerset, passed away suiderly September 4.

He was A son of vesse Rel Lytle of Latrobe, formerly of Indiana, and the Inte Hadessa For. sythe Lytle. Mr. I vtle is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Eiseman Lytle; one daughter, Jacqueline Lytle; two br.tners, John Forsythe Lytie, Ben Avon and Donald Dean Lytle, New York City. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, September 7, 2:30 u.m.

at the Miller Mortuary Somerset. PAUL BENI, 32, of Dunbar, R. D. 1 (Laurel Hill), died Saturday afternoon at the Veterans Hospital, Leech Farm road in Pittsburgh. He was born April 4, 1923, at lin in Indiana county, the son of the late Hugo and Angelina Beni.

He is survive? by his widow, Mrs. Betty Grubbs Beni; two daughters, Paula Jane and Vicky Lynne at home; five sisters, Mrs. Joseph (Mary) Juliane and Mrs. Mike (Rita) Massari. of Slickville, Mrs.

Arthur (Edith) Braeseker, Mrs. Ben (Louise) Braeseker and Joseph (Helen) Vitkay of Lincoln Park, and a brother, Geno of Iselin. The cortege met at 8:30 o'clock this morning at the Burhans funeral home it Dunbar with quiem high mass at 9 o'clock St. Aloysius R. C.

Church with Rev. Patrick A. Kiernan as celebrant. Interment followed in Sylvan Heights cemetery. Military honors at the grave were conducted by Hughes Post No.

146, American Legion of Dunbar. Indiana Publisher Dies Sunday (Continued From Page One) attended Indiana Normal School as a music student. In his early twenties Mr. Biamonte started his newspaper, "'The which at first was all Italian but it later was published for the most part in English with only one page in Italian. His newspaper work in alding his fellow countrymen in both Amer.

ica and peopie of cther nations in understanding the ideals and philosophies of his native Italy resulted in many honors for Mr. Biamonte. He was named Knight Comman. der of the Concordia's Knights, a fraternal organization founded in Spain in 1246 and later inaugurated into Italy in 1867 by the Pope. The newspaperman's talent for writing both English and Italian was nurtured by his many trips to Europe where he visited many countries in addition to Italy.

He was the youngest of seven, all now deceased. He is survived by his wife, Grace Houston Biamonte, a former art instructor at Indiana State Teachers College; his nephew, Francesco Biamonte of New Kensington; his niece, Mother Superlor of the Convent of the Good Shepherd in Rome, another nephew, Guiseppi Biamonte, retired captain uf the Italian Army; three other nieces in Italy; one niece living in Vancouver, Canada; three grand nephews and four grandnieces. Mr. Biamonte was well known and will long be remembered by his many friends as a gentleman who truly represented the finest in Old World culture. He was noted for his consistent friendliness, sympathetic understanding and his willingness to give his time to those who had need of his counsel.

Friends may pay their respects at the Hill Funeral Home this afternoon and evening. Funeral services will be held at St. Bernard's Cetholic Church Wednesday ing at 10:00 a.m. California Forest Fire Being Fought the President has it so well organ-. ized that he 110 can turn over secondary problems to aides and concentrate personally "on the great and important issues." He stressed that he had no inside information about Eisenhow.

er's 1056 plans, but he said the impression is general in the Republican party that the President will run again, On related political matters, Nixon said: 1. The Democratic presidential nomination contest, at this point "looks like a horse race" between Adlai Stevenson, the party's standard bearer in 1954: Gov. Averell Harriman of New York; and Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee Kefauver, said Nixon, has been "consistently underestimated" by the professional pobucinis. He predicted that It his state of California, Kefauver cond wan next year's presatential pre.

mary "easily- hands down" over Stevenson and Harrunal. 2. The "most difficult" issue for. the Republicans in 1956 will be detense of the administration's farm program because farm prices have been falling. But Nixon voiced confidence they will stabilize soon.

3. The Democratic presidential nominee will have no but to run on the record of former President Truman, or split the I SAN FRANCISCO Destructive waves of flames threatened two priceless redwood groves today as raging forest fires blazed out of control in northern and cenCalifornia. More than 1,500 fire fighters battled flames whipping through the Sequoia National Forest in the Sierra Nevada east of Fresno. More than 7,000 acres were already blackened. Damage was estimated at more than $650,000.

The crackling flames reached within a mile of the famed General Grant redwood, the world's largest tree and possibly the oldest living thing on earth. Its age has been calculated at more than years. In the northern section of the state, between 17,000 and 18,000 acres were aflame in Humboldt County. Fire fighters fought to save 'Rockefeller Grove, one of the few remaining stands of virgin redwood. A brush and forest fire was finally brought under control in Lake County, about 100 miles north of San Francisco, after more than 200 persons were forced to evacu.

ate their homes in the Whispering Pines resort area. The Fresno County communities of Hume Lake and Grant Grove were evacuated from the path of the Sequoia National Forest tire..