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The Weather Cloudy with rain tonight probably beginning this afternoon, Satur day rain changing to snow and turning colder. ashington CH. ecord -H erald Vol. 293 Washington C. Ohio, Friday, January 15, 1954 IO Pages 5 cents Associated Press Full Associated (eased wire service for state, national and world news.

The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to use all local news in this newspaper. TELEPHONF.S—Bualneaa office-MW. News Car Overturned in CCC Highway Iii ALJ A Al Hit by Truck-One Man in Hospital WIIWisN MIKE MECURIO, COLUMBUS, WAS HOSPIT picture) overturned on the CCC Highway at the ton C. H. at 4:45 A.

M. Mecurio had crawled from his overturned car er photo) owned by the Helms New York Pittsbu overturned car and went into the roadside ditch, tom picture att the west approach of the bridge, was not injured. Both vehicles were damaged extensively. It an accident on the CCC Highway west of Wash) Mecurio sustained a severe cut on his head an fracture of his leg. He was taken to Memorial Hospital in the Ger reported as fair.

Sheriff Orland Hays investigated the accident. ALIZED early Friday morning when his car (top Rattlesnake Bridge, seven miles west of Washing- just before a west-bound semi-trailer truck (low- rg Express of Cincinnati, collided with the It tore out several rods of metal guard rail (bot- Alford Grubbs, Cincinnati, driver of the truck, as the second Helms Company truck to figure In ngton C. H. this week. injuries to his arm and leg With possible stner ambulance.

His condition Friday noon was (Record-Herald photos) Trade with Russia Is Urged WASHINGTON UPI Pressures are mounting on the Eisenhower administration to lower some barriers to permit more trade between the United States and Russia and its satellites. The issue may come into focus upon an application by Minnesota businessman Dwayne Andreas for permission to export 20,000 tons of butter and 3,000 tons of cottonseed oil to Russia. These are not strategic materials and Meanderings By Wash Fayette been a long time, but to Reuben E. Cupp of Waterloo, the memories of his days as an athlete when track and field sports were the big sport in high school, are still vivid. He had not thought much of those days when he was a student in Williamsport High School until he read a little piece in this column about the picture of the 1902 WHS track team on a lapel button.

Then he started rummaging through his keepsakes. Finally he came up with two small rather ornate gold there is no policy barrier against them except a general policy under which the government reserves the right to bar any exports to Russia. Officials said today the Andreas application is now before committee made up of representatives of the State Agriculture and Commerce departments. It deals with broad issues of economic security embracing the particular problem of East-West trade. There are several forces pressing strongly for official sanction of greater trade with Soviet satellite countries.

They are: I. The development of a a supply of goods running consistently Youth Is Shot At Filling Station CLEVELAND filling station operator early today shot and critically wounded an 18-year-old youth who he said was breaking into his station. Donald W. Myers, 24, af Willoughby, told police he was sleeping in the rear of the station when one in the shape of a shield for he heard the sound of breaking first place in the pole vault event in a meet held in Washington C. H.

in 1902 and a round solver one he was awarded for second place in a meet at Hillsboro in 1903. glass. He grabbed a pistol and fired five times at a youth he saw smashing glass out of a rear window. A youth identified by police as He recalled that he cleared the L. Bennett, 18, was arrested bar at 9 feet to win the meet here a short time later after when he was a freshman and that J16.

tavern and his pole broke under him at 9 feet bartender he believed he had been shot. in the Hillsboro meet. He was not sure of all the schools I represented in the meets but said MdtllGr IS Hired he was certain that among them were Williamsport, which he rep- LAWRENCE, Kan. Chuck resented, Washington C. Chil- Mather, high school coach at Mas- licothe and Hillsboro.

He recalled sillon, Ohio, the last six seasons, most of the boys on the WHS team today was given a three-year con- whose pictures were on the lapel tfaet as head Coach at the Univer- button among Earl keep sity of Kansas. The salary was not sakes. Hi seiner! XECUTED Korean Peace Talks Stalled Dead Center Neither Side Ready To Budge Inch On Separate Stands PANMUNJOM (Al Efforts to revive the stalled preliminary Korean peace talks remained at dead center today and both the Allies and Communists insisted they would never modify conditions for returning to the conference. Liaison secretaries adjourned for the weekend after a session described by Edwin Martin, State Department China specialist, as hours of each side advocating its The United States asked to meet tomorrow, but the Reds asked a recess until Monday. Martin insisted that certain Red remarks be stricken from the record before the preliminary talks can resume.

The Communists retorted that they would discuss only a date for reopening negotiations broken off Dec. 12. They also rejected again request that the secretaries confer in secret. Special U. S.

envoy Arthur Dean walked out of the conference hut last month. He flew back to Washington, saying he would not return until the Communists retracted their charge of perfidy. THE REDS HAD accused the United States of conniving with South Korea in the release last June of 27,000 anti Communist POWS. Dean told newsmen in New York yesterday, do not know how soon I will return to Korea. However, if we get word that the Communists have retracted their charges of perfidy against us, then I will North Korean Liaison Secretary Ju Man Sun, spokesman for the Communists in Panmunjom, proposed for the second day that preliminary talks resume Saturday.

He said that if the U. N. did not agree, it should name another date. Red newsmen distributed texts of his statement, in which he said: of our side have made it unmistakably clear what liaison secretaries of the two sides should discuss and decide upon is the date for resumption of above the demand. 2.

The accumulation of vast stores of surplus agricultural commodities in the United States. 3. A slow move toward general easing of international tensions. The more the Soviets make friendly gestures, the more tracers tend to look for business. But on the other side is a set of arguments which remains powerful and which has many adherents, especially in the State Department and probably in the Defense Department as well.

They include: 1. A major policy of the administration has been to exploit differences between the rulers and the ruled in Red countries. 2. Agricultural surpluses for foreign sale are often in effect subsidized by the government. The government would have difficulty justifying the subsidized export of any foodstuffs to Russia.

3. A basic rule of U. S. foreign economic policy is not to export surpluses in such a way as to interfere with normal trade patterns of friendly countries. 4.

Despite the relaxation of cold war tensions, there has been no real evidence of any change in Soviet policy or purposes. New Central Ohio Milk Group Set Up COLUMBUS UPI Incorporation papers have been filed with the secretary of state for formation of a new central Ohio milk cooperative to be known as the Mid-Ohio Assn. The move was considered a break with the directorship of the Central Ohio Cooperative Milk Assn. which has acted as agent for milk producers in 14 central Ohio counties. The old organization serves as agent for member producers in bargaining with the federal government agency which sets milk prices.

Harold Montgomery Johnstown was listed as president of the new Mid-Ohio association. The older group members are within an area roughly bounded by Mount Vernon on the north, Utica on the east, Mechanicsburg on the west and Mount Sterling and Lancaster on the south. J. R. Bridensteine, secretary of the old group, said he was not aware of the new organization.

He added the impending fight between the two groups will have nothing to do with prices since prices are fixed by federal order following hearings. Democrat's Plan May Save Ike In Bricker Squabble WASHINGTON Democratic resolution circulated among most senators may become the rallying point of the Eisenhower attack on the proposed Bricker amendment to limit the treaty powers. The suggested resolution was sent around to all but about IO of the 96 senators last Saturday by Sen. Kefauver (D-Tenn). Unlike the proposal by Sen.

Bricker (R-Ohio) and an tration-backed substitute by Senate Republican Leader Knowland of California, the resolution would not amend the Constitution. It would simply put the Senate on record as affirming certain attitudes toward treaties and their domestic effect. It would also require a recorded rollcall vote when the Senate rafities treaties. Bricker argues that an amendment to the Constitution is needed Tarn to Page Two) Restaurant Here Burglarized Nearly $700 In Cash Taken During Night Burglars obtained nearly $700 in cash from tho Chooman Restaurant at 119 North Fayette Street some time early Friday morning. Nick Vanvillis, employe of the restaurant, discovered the robbery when he opened the restaurant at 5:35 A.

M. He immediately notified the police, who checked it and are conducting en investigation. Officers said indications point to someone who knew the place thoroughly. The restaurant was closed some time after midnight and belief was expressed that the burglary took place soon after that. Entrance was gained by cutting the screen in a screen door, breaking a section of glass from the rear door, reaching in and obtaining a key to a padlock on the back door and opening the door.

The cash register downstairs was rifled of $96. A small amount of change was left in the drawer and obtained $594.59 from the drawer of a desk in the office, police said. In all, about $75 in silver was taken. This includednickels, dimes, quarters and half dollars. The total cash taken was was $690.59, the police said they were informed.

It was the largest robbery in Washington C. II. in a long time. Police are going under the assumption that the thief had been in the place frequently and knew where the key to the back door and money were kept. The boldness of the robbery within a half block of the police indicates that the robbers knew the habits of the police and night watchman and worked when they knew the police were out on patrol and the night watchman had made his rounds a short time before.

DESK ON MEZZANINE OF CHOOMANS Restaurant was ransacked (top picture) by who got away with nearly $700 early Friday morning. Entrance was gained through the back door. A glass panel (marked in bottom picture) was knocked out so the burglar could reach through to a key hanging on the wall. Chris Murton. the manager of the restaurant, to the place the key was hanging a good long reach from the hole in the door.

(Record-Herald Fayette Countian New State Ag. Board Head Blizzard Hits Montana, Is Heading East HELENA, Mont. (J-) Blizzard conditions gripped Montana early today and the first severe winter storm of the leason pushed into Wyoming and spilled over the Continental Divide on the heels of 40- mile winds. The cold wave, spawned in Canada, was expected to cover all of parts of six northern states by tomorrow. The Helena Weather Bureau issued a special advisory that Montana temperatures would dive today and tonight, reaching 30 below in the north and IO below in the South.

Up to 12 inches of snow had fallen in the Flathead Valley in northwestern Montana. The forward edge of the storm numbed Sheridan, and other points near the Montana border, and edged into Idaho and North and South Dakota. It was expected to hit Colorado by tomorrow. Blizzard conditions closed schools in Northwestern Montana. Willard Bitzer, a Fayette County farmer, today is the president of the state board of agriculture.

He was elected by fellow members of the board at their annual organization meeting in Columbus Thursday afternoon. Ile was appointed to the board by Gov. Frank J. Lausche only a year ago, in December of 1952, for a six-year term. Bitzer had gone to Columbus for the state board meeting with the Fayette County delegation to Ohio Fair Managers Association meeting which was being held at the same time.

He has been a sort of ex-officio member of the Fair Board here for many years while lending a hand with the sheep exhibits. It was largely through his activities as president of the Ohio Sheep Improvement Association that Bitzer was selected for a member of the state board of agriculture. His appointment just a little more than a year ago came as somewhat of a surprise, most of all to Bitzer himself. He said after'the announcement was made that he did not know he was being seriously considered for the post. A breeder of registered Bitzer has not only been one of the guiding hands for the Fair sheep shows here, but for the sheep exhibits at the big Ohio State Fair.

Before the state board met Thursday to elect Bitzer president to succeed Frapklin L. rn i of Groveport, agriculture directors had spent the morning hearing reports of state departments and committees of the State Fair Managers Association. Among the first to congratulate him on his election as president of the state board were his fellow Fayette Countians at the Fair Managers meeting. Bitzer, a graduate of Washington C. H.

High School, has been a farmer all his life on the home farm on the CCC Highway about five miles east of Washington C. H. Mrs. Bitzer, a teacher in the Bloomingburg Schools, is active in public affairs, too. One of her biggest interests is the YWCA which the Y-teeu organization for high school girls.

She has been a member of the board for many years and has served i as its chairman. Besides his farming, which includes several Gelds of registered livestock breeding, Bitzer has taught agriculture to classes of war veterans: he is now assistant to Robert Glass, the Soil Conservation Service representative in Turn to Page Two I 4 Youngsters Die In Home Blaze MIAMI, Fla. Four small Negro children died last night when fire turned a frame house into what witnesses described as a Desperate rescue attempts by neighbors and a passing salesman were futile. The children were listed as Rochel, 4 months; Elizabeth Ann, 2: Linda, and Minerva, 4, the daughters of Mrs. Alma Johnson.

Cause of the blaze was not determined immediately. Peace Justice Edwin Lee Mason said the I fire broke out shortly after the i mother went to a store for gro- I ceries. Jail Not Needed COPAN, Okla. peaceful Washington County village of 500 is tearing down its jail. There been a prisoner in it for IO years.

Governor Says He's Unable lo Aid Dovie Dean 'I Wanted To Help Her 4 Lausche Says, But All Law Pointed Otherwise COLUMBUS Dovie Dean, 55- year-old grandmother, tonight will become the second woman in history to die in the electric chair. Gov. Frank J. Lausche, who has been studying the case of the woman who was convicted of the death poisoning of her farmer- husband for several weeks, said this afternoon he could not intervene. The governor was Mrs.

last hope to escape execution. She had exhausted all other avenues of appeal through the courts. The governor said: have read and re-read the pertinent parts of the testimony of the case of Mrs. Dean. wanted to help her.

major part of the last three nights and two days have been spent in studying her case. have been held by me with my associates. MORNING I spoke on the telephone with Judge Harry Britton of the common pleas court of Clermont County. jury, the trial judge, the three appellate judges and the seven judges of the Supreme Court all have affirmed the degree of her guilt. based upon the study which I made and in spite of my desire to be of help to her, I cannot justifiably Mrs.

Dean has exhausted every court appeal available to her to upset her conviction on a charge of poisoning her husband, Hawkins, 68, at their Clermont County farm home. Testimony at the trial showed that the woman put rat poison in her milk. The prosecution contended the woman killed her husband of three months in order to collect a large insurance policy. The marriage was the second for both the accused murderess and her victim. Both had grown children from previous marriages.

Mrs. Dean is scheduled to ba moved to the penitentiary from the Marysville Reformatory shortly before the hour of her execution-sometime after 7:30 p. rn. will leave here with us telling her we hope for the said Mrs. Marguerite Reilly, reformatory superintendent.

SHE WILL be transported to Columbus by automobile on a time schedule so arranged that she will arrive at the penitentiary only minutes before the execution time. Mrs. Dean's radio was taken from her this morning. While she will not be told here of the decision, Dovie probably will be able to figure out for herself that her clemency plea is denied when she leaves Marysville for the trip to Columbus. For a last meal tonight, she will be served roast chicken, asparagus, green salad, coconut custard pie.

angel food cake, and of coffee with Mrs. Reilly said. The superintendent said Mrs. Dean made no particular requests but the menu was planned from food reformatory officials know the woman prefers. Apparently calm, Mrs.

Dean spent yesterday trying on the new print dress in which she will die, giving away her possessions and her parakeet to Velma West, Cleveland murderess serving a life sentence at the reformatory for women where Mrs. Dean has been kept since her conviction. She went to bed early, shortly after dinner last night. Mrs. Dean will be the second woman to die in electric chair.

Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn, Cincinnati poison slayer, executed in 1938, was the first. Burke Says Ike Needs Dem Help CLEVELAND new senator, who says he likes President program, predicts the administration will hava trouble getting it approved without support from Democrats. Thomas A. Burke, sworn in last week to succeed the late Robert A.

Taft, said that after the President outlined his program in a State of the Union speech, of the criticism came from the own of the Burke continued, him a blankety-blank New.