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March of Dimes Extended To Feb. 10 THE DAILY Published Continuously Since 1915 THE DAILY REGISTER, HARRISBURG, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 9. 1952 NEW SERIES, VOLUME 37, NO. 189 Col.

John Grable of Eldorado, is Killed in B-29 DAR Awards Good Citizenship Medals to Eight Girls Barbara Henley Harrisburg Iva Jean Joyner Equality Sue Noonan Carrier Mills Martha Smith Galatia Sarah Gibson Rosiclarc Hallie Richey Crab Orchard Dell Hamilton McLcansboro Joan Wardrop Golconda About Town And Country By TTMOTBEU8 T. D. A. R. Good Citizenship award.

A gold pin and a certificate BACK AT THE CHORES: Presented to Barbara by R. teacn ancient, medieval and mod-' L. Foster, high school principal, ern.history in the schools and the! Friday morning at an assembly kiddies have, to take some of it; so, program, why not have a little modern his- Each year the Michael Hillegas Miss Barbara Henley is Winner HTHS; Seven Other Girls in Area Honored Miss Barbara Henley, a senior. H. T.

H. S. National Honor society, at Harrisburg Township high and secretary of the student coun- school. is winner this year of the. cil.

She has been on the honor roll each year and a home room officer each year. She is also on the Hi- Tri -Council. An accomplished musician, Barbara has won first place in both state Elizabeth Pays Private Homage To Her Father Pa 0 CCa1S chapt el of Daughters of American accomp anist and with ensembles. "i'-'Sj Sc tcmb er Wai. Revolution give Good Citizenship she nlavcd bass clarinet and should be modern enough for any- awards to a scnior from T.

H. S. Ml ffi TM body, an-d here we go on the chronology" for that month September was the month of schools starting and did you know hit a new high for the year--103 degrees? Yep. was the month of the telephone strike and there was entire- and from seven other high schools in the area. The senior class of each school nominates the candidates, then i elects thrcc girls from those nominated.

Teachers choose one girl from the three elected by her classmates. Names of winners from high ITtoo much walking for oP Tim- scn "the stetc rao. our share of tragic accidents in September. Charles W. Brooks.

61. Harrisburg. was elcc- i trocuted following a collision on Route 1 in White county. Mrs. Bryanl Sadler was fatally injured in a crash on Route 13'west-of Harrisburg.

Eugene Springs. 36. and Ben E. Ubbcnga. 22.

both of Galatia. were killed in a collision submitted to the state DXA. R. chairman. A drawing will be held at a luncheon in March at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, and lucky girl will be awarded war bond.

bassoon in the band for two years, xvas in the orchestra when a sophomore, and is in the chorus this year. Miss Iva Jean Joyner. of Equality, has been named winner of the award from the Senior class of Equality Township high school. Iva Jean, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

George Joyner, is a mem- Charles M. Sisk, Brother 5f Mrs. Arthur Land, Dies at Rapid City, S. D. Mrs.

Arthur Land. 129 Wool-! Wl I ASfl At cott street, has received uord of I i LvUU VI he death of her brother. Charles' Sisk, at Rapid City, Dakota. I Jr. Sisk died Thursdav muining i The son of the late S.

and i Mary Sisk, he snr-nt his bo. hood Harrisburg. leaving her" ui mew or South Dakota. He has been an invalid for several years Mrs. Land will be unable to go South Dakota for the fimeial as she has recently undergone surs- ery at St.

Mary's hospital, Evans- vifle. Mr. Sisk is survived Ins wife, five children, and eight giandchild- ren. Crashes Bombs in Japan Had Miraculously Escaped Death in 1949 In Atlantic Crash PTA Founders' A member of the State Board of Illinois Congress of Parents antf Teachers will and the Har. risburg City Schools band will give a concert at a P.

T. A. Founders' Day program Monday night The program will be held at 7:30 p. m. in the Junior high school auditorium.

February is the birthday month National Congress Par- 1 enls and Teachers, which is SSj'ously, escaped death when the First Primary Goes for Ike WEST HARTFORD. Conn. OJP --Political backers of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower point with pride to the overwhelming victory he scored lierc Friday in the nation's first primary election in 1952.

The primary, open only to the 13,000 registered Republicans here saw Eisenhower polling 3.109 votes to 1,183 for Sen. Robert A. Taft his closest opponent. "The result of the West Hartford primary is indication that Republicans in Connecticut want Dwight Eisenhower for president," State GOP Chairman Clarence F. Baldwin announced triumphantly after the votes were counted.

Other results: Harold E. Stassen. 76; Gen. Col. John Grable Jr.

Col John Grable Jr. of Eldorado, with 17 other airmen miracu- years old this season. February, too. is the only month that P. T.

A. units from all the Harrisburg shcools unite in presenting a program. Sneaker from Moline speaker. B-29 Superfortress he was piloting i crashed into the Atlantic ocean during a storm on Nov. 17, 1949, was killed with 12 other crew members Thursday when his B-29 plane, loaded with bombs, crashed near the small village of Terataki, H.

Reeves) of Moline, is budget and finance chairman of the state Program Invocation, Rev. George B. Leathers. Concert, Harrisburg City Schools band. Pledge of Allegiance to Flag, Bov and Girl Scouts.

Address, Mrs D. H. Reeves. Word was received in Eldorado at noon yesterday of his death. He is of John Grable Sr.

His mother died Sept. 23, last year and he leaves his wife, Helenc, two small daughters and a brother. Major Carl Grable, in California. His family resides at Travis Air Force Base and his brother, also in the Air Force, is stationed at Victorville. Vocal 'Music Horace Mann A United Press dispatch from school bv Somers.

Tokyo yesterday said all 13 crew Award "of Banner, by Mrs. Shan- non Taylor. SANDRINGHAM, --Queen Elizabeth may be her last private to her father. King George Saturday and gave him back to a grieving nation. Even as villagers and royal ten-, board of Illinois Congress of Par- of two members were killed and five Japanese were missing when the plane crashed and exploded near Teralaki.

destroying 12 to 15 hous- The Superfortress crashed and 4 TMi arid burned on a hillside five minutes cntary school T. A. ana, president of the Moline nign a owslorm Part of hc 5 fhe ISTM bomb More "burning a an area of 100 to 150 yards St. Mary Magdalene Church. abeth slipped inside i member of state board she i was a district director.

,1 and stood addition to P. T. A. work, silently witn bowed head beside' cc vcs is uce-prcsident of a her fathers plain wooden coffin. c'hcst Board, finance The 25-year-old queen, dressed int a i rman of the MoJmc Girl Scout black obviously emotionally ol nC is actiic in church work, and physically tired, a few minutes CO CC rt be given by the later walked slowly back through ji a Cit Schools band and the vcw trees to Sandnncham horus from Horace Mann her of the band.

Future Homemak-j House to take up pressing affairs lno i under the direction of Miss ers of America, and G. A. A. She of slate. also belongs to the camera club.

Then the plain people of Sand- At close of the program --i i fax lor. "president Gertrude Somers. will sing. nd the dramatics club, and is on the staff ringham who knew the kine as shannon Ta a S100 of the annual and school new-spa- squire and "guVnor" began filmu hc Harrisburg Col. Grable.

33 years old, was a graduate of the University of Illinois and entered service in February. 1941. Following World War II he remained in the service and had been there since. On Nov. 17.

1949. Grable, then a lieutenant colonel, was piloting a B-29 Superfortress carrying 20 airmen on a 4.100-miIcs non-stop flight from California to Bermuda, in the Atlantic, and nearing the failed in per. Miss Sue Noonan. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

John L. Noonan. Carrier Mills, is winner from Carrier jj.e Harrisburg T. A. City Coun-, ipasl the royal bier.

The king's Cll present an attendance jbody. dressed in his favorite uni- to the school having the form of an admiral of the Fleet. pcrsoas present. lay in a simple oak coffin on Ires- program has been planned Barbara is the daughter of Mrs. Hailcen 205 North Webster street, fifth grade teacher at Horace Mann school.

The Good Citizenship award win-i she is an honor student, a mem-j A "metal" plate was inscribed. Counciroffi- is 0HitOr Of tllC nf cohnol nmvsnnnor ctnff 11 i i Xfrc Inmos rier Mills, is winner from Carrier ties before the rails of the gleam- tho president of each P. T. A. (Mills Community high school.

ing silver altar. the school principals. Association stories then told how Grablc flew around and around, dropping through the clouds, in an attempt to find the island, and when his gasoline supply was exhausted he brought the plane down in 20-foot waves. The tail of the plane broke off ncr is editor of Keystone, theisen- bcr of.the school newspaper Frcdcrick Arthur'George cf 3rc vice-president. Mrs.

James! on thc bouncc across thc ior yearbook, is president of a editor of thc year book. Windsor: born 1895: died 1952." ron sman: secretary. Mrs. Leo wavcs and with the tail went thc i i 1 1 MHI; i i i church were i tears Some a from the Senior class at Galaba th ki shootinc rom a prc hiS th trlCt iomics major. Manha is a member i can Wcflncsfl3 I of Future Homcmakcrs of Amcr-l These hundred i 1 i 4 1 and treasurer.

i raft of Scout bun-i id vcVa" Mrs. Taylor "smaller" rubber rafts y' two" troops and vcnturc "wTthTn' ransc' a prudent, is also director of Dis- wcrc available and thc 20 aboard Cu sco packs, dressed in uni-. 2nti aircra jt Runs it, I I A j4 A Unit presidents arc: Me- into th AH but two were wournc.s Trafton Horace; a bi to rcac the rafts. Richard Cochran: Logan, After three days on thc rafts i Xf rc J.r^: atzMarissa. Four teen-agers.

Jackie 14. Eldorado. John- 16. and his sister. Pat- syuJ.4; of Wasson.

and Robert Dale -3- Karnes. 13, of Galatia were killed UlSCUSS I WO auto-train crash at Wasson. SJQaa James W. Hall. 55.

Eldorado. nnr was, killed in Wasson mine. jixuuu ilAlso. George Brockschmidt 25. Af- zr 4.v fminH cipsH in I i "I'linij LIUVW S-ith GalaUa.

Chn-an and Dorris Hei hts. the. men "prayed and Jbought" f0 dCnl clubwas future. MLss Sarah Gibson has bwn in Westminster Hall fWtpcd in thc counij. Kalph Brown of Harrusburg! or th Good Citizenship! London ncxl week.

Marchiando. Progressive' Presently is gcttinj: an estimate award at Rosiclarc Community Thc coffin will lie in thc churcn MfS. O. IVI. UenlTI 55BC Workers off icial.

fought the, of costs a which calk, Her dassnalcs call-; until Mondav. when it b- of Dennx mmc. dcclar- tar ur- of hcr a hich tjTC i udc nl and an moved to London, could be opened North Mam streets, thc citizen She is thcdaush.l -Suction. "present blacktop roads in Carrier of Mr 3nd 3k rs Gibson The Prikc of Vornnn America' Ml1Is 3 completely resurfacing' of George VI. and tbc DOQV VGmOn sale at 3 1D fa 5Ji' Miss Hallic Rithcy was selected: SV 1 i.

-l 1 E.Jcnor Marcuis Methodist Church Charge Reds Use Prisoners As 'Hostages' Allies Agree to High-level Conference With Reservation PANMUNJOM, Korea U.R--The South Korean government denounced United Nations truce negotiators Saturday for yielding to the Communists like defeated command "The Korean government views with great concern the continuing concessions which the U.N. delegates are currently making at the Panmunjom cease-fire talks," the government statement said. It said the Reds were using 3,000 U.S. war prisoners as "hostages in order to demand" even further concessions. "Neither the people nor the government of the Republic of Korea can tolerate these insulting humiliations," the Korean statement said.

Accept High Level Conference The bitter statement was issued at Pusan, temporary capital of South Korea, as U. N. truce negotiators at Panmunjom accepted with reservations a Communist proposal for a high-level peace conference within 90 days of the of a Korean armistice. Under the U. N.

counter-proposal, the coherence would be limited to a discussion of the withdrawal of non-Korean forces from. Korea, a peaceful settlement of the Ko- ican situation and other Korean questions. The Reds had wanted to extend the talks to include a general Far Eastern settlement. huge political rally this year drewi vice Adm. C.

Turner Joy, head a capacity crowd of nearly 20,0001 lc delegation, also insist- persons to Madison Square Garden' al 0 South Korean govern- to boom Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- mcnt be represented in the talks, hower for the Republican presiden- Thc communist proposal had men- tial nomination. tioncd only the North Korean and Noisy, placard waving delcga- Chinese Communist governments Douglas MacArthur, 39;" Earl War ren, 36; Gov. Thomas E.

Dewcy, Henry Cabot Lodge 8: Sen. Everett Dirkscn, 1, and Bernard Baruch, 1. candidate. Baruch was a write-in The voting was unofficial and will not bind the town's four delegates to the state convention who, in turn, pick delegates to the national convention. ike Rally in New York Draws Capacity Crowd NEW YORK, ttE) The first million' TV viwers in six states.

The rally, which began shortly before midnight Friday, lasted more than two hours. Stars from stage, screen, radio and television performed, indicating that rally followers and TV viewer are in for some high class entertainment between now a voting time in November. the U. N. Agree on Exchange Point North Korean Lt.

Gen. Nam promised to reply to the U. N. counter-proposal at another meeting of the full truce delegations at 10 a. m.

Sunday. Saturday's session lasted only 10 minutes. Staff officers meeting after the main negotiating session tentative- I 1 1 I 1 L. TV.vie nn-i ly agreed on portions of three Delegations from Texas Okla- in for ex homa, Alabama, Virginia, Louist ana. New Jersey.

New Hampshire. Pennsylvania. Connecticut and New York filled the Garden to scream praises of "Ike." more paragraphs in a plan for exchanging war prisoners. These dealt with the designation of Panmunjom as the initial exchange point, the establishment of joint committees to supervise the I I I ouj-v-k Televiewers received changCt and crcat ion of joint new in political campaigning wncn. Cross vis i i ng cams to assist in addition to thc usual political thc transfcr speeches, they saw and heard lopj other staff officers reported "no stars of thc entertainment world.

roj rcss in tf 0 rts to work Among them were Irving Berlin. Clark Gable, Ethel Merman, Henry Fonda. Leora Dana. Fayc Emer son. Skitch Henderson, Jams Paige, Jackie Cooper.

Frances Langford. Jinx Falkcnbcrg, Fred Waring and his Pcnnsylvanians. and ensembles from "South Pacific," "The King and "Top, Banana" and Two on' Aisle." all lop Broadway musicals. Marv Martin sang "I'm in Love with Wonderful Guy" to the Garden crowd bv trans-Atlantic telephone while Richard Rodgcrs. he composer, accompanied her on the piano at the Garden.

The "Serenade" was carried by short-wave radio to Eisenhowers North Atlantic Treaty organization headquarters in Paris. Boy Scouts, Cubs To Attend Church out an agreement on supervision, of the truce. ALLIES LOSE 10 PLANES IN SEVEN DAYS 8TH ARMY Korea, UE) United Nations airmen, seeking re- vcnce for thc loss of 10 planes during the past seven days, probably destroyed one Communist MIG-15 jet "fighter and damaged three more in air battles Saturday. The damage claims were the first in thrcc days of intermittent air fighting. The "probable" was the first claimed by thc U.

N. since Jan. 25. Only a few hours earlier, the U. N.

command announced that it lost 10 pbnes during the past week without destroying a single Communist plane. However, only one was lost in combat Seven others were downed by Russian' built, radar-controlled anti-aircraft i cuns. and thc remaining two were victims of mechanical failure. inflated life jackets and jumped orm will attend church scniccs i rcicasct Dies in Texas; Bring a hospital. uhilc searching planes flew overhead in thc clouds, thc 13 were rescued by a Canadian destroyer land taken to Bermuda, where all released after several days tomorrow morning in a group Cub Pack 23 and Seoul Troop Munson 23.

sponsored by the Presbytery Qf Heights, church will attend services with I 3 idull leaders at the Presbyterian War I Vet, DlGS church. Francis Jahn. scoutmaslrr announced. Jess F. Stvnson.

of Dorris Cub Pack 79. Scout Troop .9 i a veteran of World War and Explorer Post 79. sponsored nnd 0 vncr of stunson grocery. bv First Methodist church. North Cherry, died at 8:10 attend the Methodist ac- no mina at the Vctcr- cordmr.

to Scoutmaster Hcrnjan, hospital in Marion. 79 is 5o a NatJonal arrrt Sar2. he was son of the National Guard called and Eldorado. daughter of Crovs for the armal of 5 "Sasrs a for the Rrv L. Cummins, Walliam Hull appointed force.

or a four lane highway uith curb from the vjl- acc motor fael lax to be Mrs 'paid oier a period of four years. The Mrcct jroprovcment proeram rs. Di. ivashjncton and North Mam rficttj. wtmld al-o be paid for out MINES Sahara wcrj-lh ing works Peabody everything works.

Wawon r.lue Bird cicrylbjns works Sls.mp Ailcn sdlc. works. rXenna Corp 'body. Bankston Bridge Open to All Traffic The bn-Jrc on on Mrs Oehm is beinj; jj a Burial be in Mt Morish church cemetery body is at the residence at 505 0 Church street js rcqucstmc that no flow- 1 a former rodent of Mercury Drops 36 Degrees Weather rcprc.vcntativc C- Mrs uth Williams Stunson; a son. C.

Stunson. Harrisfcarg: a grandson: one sister, Mrs. and I I I Saturday mi dav. Ixu' Saturdav south Hash Sunday 50-58 south. and Equality Man 3W7 Arrested on Rt.

13 Lotal Temperature Friday Salarday Jcl 6 p. Sar- draped 30 deuces at 6 a. m. 43 6 a. m.

9 32 noon Claude E. Hopper. 56. Equality, was charged with drixing while inioxicaled yesterday aftciTioon by SUstc Pohcemcn Adolpb Sweat and 31 Hoy A. IxSnc.

who picked him up 37 0:1" Route 33 two miles west of Uarnit-ur; at 3-30 p. m..

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