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The Weather Partly cloudy and a little colder tonight and Saturday with occasional light snow flurries. Washington CH. Record-Herald Vol. 27 Washington C. Ohio, Friday, March 6, 1953 14 Pages 5 cents Associated Press Tun Associated Press lessee ad re service for state national and world news Hie Associated Press is entitled exclusively to use aU local news In this newspaper.

News 9701 WHO WILL BE NEXT RED BOSS? TWO IMPORTANT COMMITTEES of the county 4-H Fair Committee and the Awards out virtually a complete plan for the coming year at a joint meeting (above) on the eve of National 4-H Enrollment Week, March 7-15. Members of the committees (front row, left to right) Mrs. Matt McDonald (F); Mrs. Grove Davis (F); Donald Rife (F); Miss Louise Ritter (A); Mrs. H.

E. Walls (F): and Mrs. R. C. Belt, council president, and (back row, left to right) Albert G.

Cobb, associate county agent; Marshall Frock (A): Eldon Marshall (F); Mrs. Bert Fenner (A) and Miss Elda Fenner (A). Members of Awards Committee have (A) after their names and of Fair Committee (F) after theirs. (Record-Herald photo) 4-H Program Is Commended While the observance of the associate county agent, said. 4-H Club Week will create hardly a There are now about 35 clubs ripple on the surface in Fayette with around 400 youthful members County, there will be plenty going in the county now.

Because new on quietly behind the scenes for clubs are being formed all the development of this broad time, it was said it was almost im- youth program here. possible right now to keep tab on Most of the activity will be the exact numbers from day to aimed at the expansion of the jday. Cobb said no goal for either program here through an increase in the number of clubs and members, Albert G. Cobb, the number of clubs or enrollment had been set, but he added that the 14-H leaders hoped to have 55 clubs State Funeral Planned For Dead Red Dictator MOSCOW body of Pre-, House of Trade Unions, mier Joseph Stalin, dead at 73, to- only a few hundred yards from the day awaited a state funeral befit- great Lenin mausoleum in Red ting world communism's second Square where the body of the great leader and one of the most founder of Russian communism lies powerful men in history. embalmed for posterity in a glass The Soviet man of steel, whose coffin.

power and influence reached a third of the people, died in the Kremlin at 9:50 p. rn. (1:50 p. rn. EST) Thursday, four days after a brain hemorrhage left him unconscious and partly paralyzed.

For 29 years he had led the 200 million people of the Soviet Union and called the turn for Communists the world over. Giving no hint of who might sue- ceed him, a joint statement by the Soviet Communist party and the government called for continuation i This afternoon a motor hearse left the St. Spassky gate in the Kremlin. While thousands assem- bled on Red Square to see it, the hearse moved slowly from the Kremlin to the Hall of Columns, coffin. Immense heaps of flowers and wreaths surround it.

Russians began filing past to gaze for the last time at the man who led them to victory over Nazi Germany. Thousands were in line when the doors opened. The processions for those wishing of such Stalin policies as strength- say (goodbye) will ening the armed forces, in- continue day and night until the creased vigilance at home and tighter bonds with Communists throughout the world. THE BODY of world fallen leader will lie in state funeral. A commission headed by Nikita S.

Khruschev now is working on funeral Moscow was cold, windy and unpleasant today, but life went on about as usual. Hundreds still were in the beautiful Hall of Co.umns in fiijng jnto churches to place candles before ikons There were tears Meanderings By Wash Fayette The death of Jefferies, the boilermaker who was one of the greatest heavyweight boxing champions the world has ever for so many years Stalin wielded known, brings to mind his one visit his vast power. It was in Red to Washington C. H. Square that Stalin had been seen As I recall, Jefferies was accom- so many times, reviewing parades in the eyes of some.

Some had grim, set faces. Many crossed themselves repeatedly. THERE WERE small crowds in Red Square walking about it slowly gazing sadly at the buildings of the Kremlin compound, from which panying Jess Willard, the i heavyweight who lost his belt to Jack Dempsey in the memorable of the at Toledo, when Jess was one of the big features of a leading circus which showed here, April 5, 1915. Jeffries was one of box- on May Day and on Nov. 7, anniversary of the revolution in 1917, and on other state occasions.

The death of the man who sparked the development of Russia from a near-feudal farmland to a great industrial power exceeded only by the United States was first announe- organized by April 15, the deadline for the formation of new ones this year. A Junior Leadership Conference at the Washington Hotel Saturday is expected to bring around 65 junior leaders here from this i x- county area. This will be one of the highlights and the climax of National 4-H Club Week here. SO HIGHLY is the 4-H club program regarded in Fayette County, nearly two score of business establishments have given it their endorsement publicly through advertisements in the Record Herald today and tomorrow. In them, they compliment the leaders as well as put their stamp of approval on the program.

National 4-H Club Week is of special concern to the American people because it calls attention to the opportunities offered to boys and girls through 4-H club work. Its purpose may go even farther, to reaffirm the conviction that cultivation of the earth is the most important labjr of man and that farm life is a satisfying one. It was in 1914 that the government made a unique investment in rural youth through the 4-H club program. Since then 4-H club work has given millions of youth a chance to improve their lives. How many would be a guess; how much is immeasurable.

This is known: the youth who from a meager start wrests his way toward being a person of substance and influence, grows by working and shouldering responsibility. During this week it is particularly important to point out that the daily job with purpose and value, as provided through the 4-H club program, builds stalwart manhood and womanhood by strengthening the character and developing the abilities of youth everywhere. National 4-H Club Week is not set aside to glorify club work, but rather to make its purpose known, so that the values emphasized may be deepened in its members and widened to include more of them. The 4-H clubs have made a definite contribution to the strength of the nation and proved a richly rewarding investment to those who guide the national welfare. ing partners, with whom he stinted ed by Moscow radio at 4:07 a.

rn. his stuff in a fistic show in the local time (8:07 p. EST circus ring. Willard and his partners, including Jeffries, traveled in a private railroad car while with the circus. During the stay here, the car was parked in the Pennsylvania HR Yards just west of the freight office.

I had occasion to visit the Willard bulletin from the IO Kremlin doc- coach to notify him by letter that tors bad been in constant at- a son had been born to Mr. and tendance on Stalin since his stroke (Thursday), in a broadcast beamed to Soviet provincial newspapers. Two hours later, Moscow star announcer, Yuri Levitan, told the saddened nation that its chief had succumbed. Levitan twice read both the official announcement and the final Mrs. Floyd Tillett and had ly been named Jesse Willard Tillett Sunday.

The radio then played the solemn last movement of Tschai- because Jesse happened to be in I symphony. town at the time. Floyd was a great admirer of the big fighter and quite a boxer in his own right, too. Jeffries, came to the car door, took the letter and went inside. A short time later he reappeared.

he said tersely and closed the door. The official announcement said: has ceased to beat the heart of comrade-in-arms and gen- ius-continuer of the cause of Lenin, the wise leader and teacher of the Communist party and the Soviet people, Joseph Vissaronovich Ohio City Slated For Copter Stop WASHINGTON UTL-Miller Aviation Center of Pittsburgh Thursday asked the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to operate a three- state helicopter service in the Pittsburgh area East Liverpool, would be among the cities on its routes. The service would carry passengers, cargo and mail. 'Dusty' Rhoades Dies In Colorado COLORADO SPRINGS UPI-Arthur W. (Dusty) Rhoades, 60, former musician and entertainer with several national name bands, died here Thursday after an illness of several months.

A native of Miamisburg, he spent his youth in Dayton where he began his singing career in silent motion picture houses. Uncertainty, Fear Gripping. All Europeans Stalin's Death Brings Thoughts New Leaders May Start 'Hot'War LONDON UFI Western Europe reacted with fear and uncertainty to the news today that Russian Premier Joseph Stalin is dead. Except for loyal Communists, there wa no shedding of. tears, but neither was there jubilation.

Most Europeans took the news grimly, with only a few expressions of hope for a letun in the cold war. The biggest worry expressed everywhere was that the new ruler rulers of Russia might scrap wary old war policies and possibly plunge the world into a conflict. Western diplomats studying the official death announcement found scant clues to who takes over now. But the announcement, signed by the Central Committee of the Communist party, the USSR Council of Ministers and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, three most powerful bodies, made it clear there is no new bid for friendship with the West. THE ANNOUNCEMENT promised a continued buildup of the Soviet army, navy and intelligence services to deal decisive rebuff to any It added pledges of friendship with China and other Communist satellites and with workers of capitalist and colonial countries.

Some Western observers saw signs of a possible crack in Communist unity in Moscow in the call for an all-out against internal and external But many feared any such disunity might heighten the danger of a shooting war. The news two days ago of the Soviet grave illness gave Europeans ample time to ponder its implications, and announcement that the Russian leader was dead came as no great shoek. Many had speculated Stalin already was dead when Moscow first announced his illness and that the was being delayed to give the Russian people a chance to brace themselves. But the final announcement, breaking over Europe in the winter dawn, carried with it cold foreboding. A report from Bonn said West Germany received the news of death with new fear.

Millions of Germans hated him, but they counted on his shrewdness and patience to avoid a hot war in Europe. HIS PASSING deepened the political Split in West Germany over whether to rearm now in the European Defense Community. Two days ago Chancellor Konrad Adenauer warned end would bring unrest throughout the and urged haste in the buildup of Western military strength. Opposition Socialists demand rearmament be sidetracked and the door kept open for unification with Soviet-occupied East Germany. anti communist Premier Alcide Degasperi said, unknown for tomorrow remains He said if it is true influence has kept Russia from unleashing a new war, we must hope his successors will accept this as a wise Government leaders in Scandinavia, mindful perhaps of the nearness of the Russian bear, delivered public statements politely praising Stalin.

Underlying their words was the apparent hope Russia will not start any new trouble. French politicians wondered and worried if a new Soviet leader might bring war nearer. Comment by British newspapers ranged from fears of greater tension to hopes for agreement between Russia and the West with Yugoslavia President Tito sitting in, perhaps, as a mediator. The privately operated Radio Free Europe warned anti-Communists inside the Iron Curtain to keep cool and avoid drastic action despite Stalin's death. Elba Carson New Corn King ELBA CARSON (left) FAYETTE new Corn King, is presented the sweepstakes trophy by Clarence Cooper (center), as the representative of the Fayette County Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, while Webber C.

French, president of the Chamber of Commerce, the co-sponsor of the Corn Show, looks on. The crowning ceremony was the climax of Thursday night's Corn Show Banquet. se Elba A. Carson is the new Corn King of Fayette County. He took over the throne from John U.

Cannon, who ascended to it last year, when he won the sweepstakes for the IO best ears in IO classes, the sweepstakes for 40 ears and the reserve sweepstakes at this 29th Annual Corn, Grain and Egg Show. The judging of the entries that were spread out in the Armory was completed by Paul Smith late Thursday afternoon and the crown was awarded to Carson as the climax of the annual Corn Show Banquet in the American Legion Hall Thursday A huge gold replica of an ear of presented to the new Corn King as the last thing on the program at the banquet by Clarence Cooper, the manager of the Fayette County Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, which provided the trophy, and Webber C. French, president of the Chamber of Commerce, co-sponsor of the show and banquet. Carson, the president of the Fayette County Seed Improvement As- (Rccord Herald photo) 3 Names Top List To Take Stalin's Job One Thing Certain: No Popular Election Will Choose Leader By The Associated Press The big questions before the world today are Who will succeed Russian Premier Joseph Stalin who died Thursday? And how ill he be selected? Part of the answer is: Whoever becomes new number one Communist strong man, he certainly will not be chosen by popular election. A possibility seems to be the Central Committee of the Communist party will choose a new chief and the Council of Ministers (caoinet) will elect a new chairman or prime minister, all in due course.

Stalin held both jobs; maybe they will now go separate ways. The Supreme Soviet, or parliament, probably will not have anything to say about the selections, except in perhaps a formal approval. The party holds the whip hand Such selections may be a long time in coming. There is a possibility of rule by committee, or junta, meantime. Youth Is Killed WAUSEON UP James Leroy Gray, 18, of Napoleon, was killed Thursday night in a truck accident eight miles east of here on Ohio 2.

The truck driver, Harold Mayers, 18, of Napoleon, was injured. High Court Aid Sought In Tax Question COLUMBUS, O. Delaware County prosecutor today asked the Ohio Supreme Court to make the Scioto-Sandusky Conservancy District answer some questions about its right to levy taxes. Clyde Lewis of Delaware, long an active foe of the district, wants the district to tell why it has the right to levy a preliminary tax on Delaware County property Lewis argued the tax purpose the same as the purpose provided by law. conservancy Lewis said, attempting to relieve some parts of the district from paying the tax while requiring others to pay it.

the district was established in 1934 and had the right to leavy one tax, which it did levy in 1946, we claim they do not have the right to tax Lewis also said the district tax is violation of an article of the Ohio Constitution which stipulates that property may not be tax beyond the 10-mll limitation without a vote of the sociation, the other sponsor of the show and banquet, accepted the award and the honor and prestige that it symbolized, with a few modest words of appreciation. THE SWEEPSTAKES Winn ing corn, which was entered by Elba Carson Sons, also brought another smaller trophy to the Carson collection. It was for the 40-e a title. Reserve sweepstakes tor the 40 ears went to Robert I. Case and the single ear sweepstakes was taken by Ray This is the third time Carson has held the Corn King throne The Corn Show opened Wednesday and will close Friday evening.

There were 38 different exhibitors this year and that was about the normal number. Attendance at the show has not been all that the sponsors hoped for, but it has been about like that of past years. Albert Cobb, the associate county agent, pointed out, however, that there never has been a big crowd there at any one time, there has been a steady line of spectators going in and out among the Cobb said would have been interesting if there had been a registration or a count at the door. think you would find more people see the exhibits than you THE CORN SHOW banquet, at which Corn King was officially, if Chillicothe Pen Problem 'Licked' WASHINGTON (JV-The Federal Bureau of Prisons reported today it has licked the food problem at the Chillicothe. 0., reformatory.

Dissatisfaction with food was one of the causes of a riot last fall among youthful offenders locked up at the federal reformatory S. T. Sale, supervisor of food services for the Federal Prisons Bureau, said food no longer is a problem at Chillicothe. He said both the menus and the preparation of food have been gradually all the Sale said prison officials actually have improved the meals while saving money on food. Jeffersonville Fire Escaped by Family A family of four barely escaped injury today when fire broke out at their residence at 2:35 A.

M. and wiped out the interior of their six- room one-floor home on State Street in Jeffersonville. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dunn and their two daughters, Artie Lee, 16, and Mary Frances, ll, were left homeless today when the fire destroyed just about everything they had.

However, a little furniture and about half of their clothing was saved from the blazing house which firemen said was probably started by inadequate wiring. The fire was discovered by both Mr. and Mrs. Dunn when they were awakened by the flames and the smell of smoke. They immediately woke their children just before the walls of the house began to cave in, neighbors said.

Dunn rushed to his neighbor, Wayne Houseman, and called the Jeffersonville Fire Department. The blaze had a head start when the fire department arrived but with the help of volunteers, it was brought under control within a short time. All that was left of the charred house was the frame. The inside was left in one big room. Dunn is a carpenter in Jeffersonville and also carries the mail on Saturday in Jeffersonville.

Mrs. Dunn works at Wright Field, Dayton. Just where the Dunn's will live is not certain, but the neighbors have all opened up their homes to them until they can get straightened around. informally, crowned brought together 130 businessmen of the city and businessmen of the farm on a common ground. It gave each a chance to acquaint the other with his problems, but just friendly and informal chatting overshadowed most of the serious talk.

Earl W. McMillin of Cleveland, the editor of the Ohio Farmer, was the principal speaker of the evening. He devoted most of his time to telling of his experience, and of his Impressions, during a trip of American farm magazine editors through half a dozen countries in Europe. He illustrated his talk with colored slides of scenes he had taken while there. The economy in Europe is getting back to normal, he said and added that in many places production was already ahead of that the Second World War.

Many of the pictures showed the scars of that war, but most of them had been covered up by the recovery. He said the United States aid $13-billion not only helped get war-battered Europe on its feet, but he also viewed it as a deterrent to the spread of Communism. ALTHOUGH FOOD production has increased, he pointed out that the population had increased even more and that this was one of the big problems faced by those countries seeking self-sufficiency. There is neither enough food nor enough employment, he said. Mechanized farming, he declared, is not the answer to those European countries because the fields are small and many of the farms are no larger than 25 acres.

Diseases of livestock were described as another agri cultural handicaps. All of these points were emphasized by actual photographs. Willard Wilson was the toastmaster of the evening. He kept things going before the dinner with the aid of the a group of hill-billy musicians. Carol Jenkins and Martha McAllister sang typical hill-billy songs with their accompaniment and each time were given a round of applause.

Wilson said the first corn show here was held in the old Music Hall, on the east side of South Main Street on the second floor. Ammie Hairier, he said, was the instigator. His purpose, he explained, as to show the benefits of fertilizing corn because at that time he was connected with the M. Hamm Fertilizer Co. Moving spirits for that show, Wilson said, were Ammie, Oris and Dave Haigler, Oat Smalley and Ed Dice and Fred Mark, who had the Diee-Mark Hardware Store on the first floor of the Music Hall building.

No prizes were awarded, but Wilson expressed the belief that the show was instrumental in altering corn planters to handle fertilizer. ANOTHER CORN show, he said, was held in the Bromley Tabernacle on Market Street in 1917, but he addled he knew little of its history. The next one, he recalled, was hlld at the Wilson Hardware Store in 1923, with George Sunkle and (Please Turn to Page Two) THREE NAMES stand out when students of present-day Russia discuss Stalin's successor. They are: Malenkov, Molotov and Beria. There is good reason to believe the next ruler of Soviet Russia may hate, distrust and misunderstand the Western world even more than Stalin did.

Especially if the new Russian boss is Georgi Maximilianovich Malenkov, the chubby, soft-faced, beetle-browed man who is regarded as one of the likeliest to succeed to power in the Kremlin Unlike Stalin, who was the great molder of the Soviet dictatorship which Lenin created, enkov is one of Us products. Stalin made the die. Malenkov was shaped by it. years bridged well into the pre-Communist world. But enkov, who is only 51, has known nothing else since adolescence.

Malenkov hates the Western world. They also received impressions of a sinister personal quality. IF MALENKOV has any original thinking in him, the world has never been made aware of it. He has been an effective, stolid, well- grooved Communist tactician. But as far as any one knows, he has never contributed anything new or original to Communist theory.

Of the three top contenders for Stalin job, Vyacheslav vich Molotov has been most exposed to the viruses of the Western world. There reason to suppose he caught anything. But in the nervously antiseptic Kremlin, where mere exposure to a foreign bug is frequently regarded as a bite, this fact may ba held against Molotov. As a diplomat performing among foreign ministers or United Nations officials in London, Moscow, Paris, San Francisco, or New Molotov was never known to change his mind merely because of opposition argument. True, he changed his tack many times but only as big pilot in Moscow swung over the helm.

At one Paris conference, Sen. Tom Connslly found Molotov so stubborn he asked if the Russian could say in any language, including Russian. reply is unrecorded. Lenin once described him as best filing clerk I have ever Molotov looks the part. Some experts are inclined to count Molotov out of the running for job because he has no personal machine behind him and because his wife, Paulina, is Jewish and even has relatives in this country.

Lavrenty Pavlovitch Beria, one of three leading candidates to succeed Joseph Stalin as dictator of Soviet Russia, is the foremost policeman in the foremost police state. Whether he would like to ixtend his beat over the entire world is not known, but this fact is clear: Beria is fanatically dedicated to the dominance of the Soviet Union. He rubs out all resistance to his goals. Beria, at the age of 53, is a deputy premier. He is in charge of all police and the fifth column everywhere.

He has a decisive role in Soviet foreign policy. He heads atomic energy program..