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Haute and Valley Churches Special Father's Day Services Many churches of Terre Haute; the Wabash Valley will commemorate Father's Day Sunday with appropriate services. These services will include special programs by the children, and other church and departmenther's Day messages by the pastors. A special service will be held at 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening at the Eighth Avenue Baptist Church. The program will be under the direction of Robert Blair, who will give the welcome, and Hilbert Cook. Those participating the program include Donald Ketcham.

Bobby Weaver, Larry Hamilton, Eddie Johnson, Victor Pittman, Danny Mickey, Randel Cooprider, Jackie Sutton, Norman Cooprider, Marvin Talbee, Harry Hough, BobtSory and Gene Dabelow. The pastor, the Rev. Esmond Elliott, will give the message, THE SECOND CHRISTIAN Church will observe Father's Day with a program which will begin with the Bible School at 9:30 o'clock. Recognition will be given oldest and youngest fathers attending. There will be readings.

special music and a message by the pastor, Rev. R. C. Mowery. the evening service the pastor will use as his subject, Samaritan." "The Parable of the Good to the An invitation has been extended public to attend the services.

Special services at the First Evangelical United Brethren Church will open with the Prayer 8:30 o'clock. The pastor, Chapel: K. K. Merryman will use as his subject, "A Loving Father and an Obedient Son." At 10:30 o'clock his subject will be. "Abraham: A Faithful Father." and his evening subject will be, "Joseph: A Faithful Son." THE WOMEN of the congregation will teach all Sunday School classes.

The program is in charge of a committee composed of Alex P. King, Mrs. Edwin Smith, Mrs. Herschel Bouillez, Mrs. Carrithers, Miss Alberta Amberger and Miss Joan Rhoades.

The West Terre Haute Methodist Church will observe the special day with a program at 9:45 o'clock Sunday morning. The choir will present musical program and the oldest and youngest father will presented with a gift. The pastor, the Rev. A. G.

Simmons, has issued a call for a meeting of the official board for 7:30 o'clock Saturday evening. A Father's Day program will be OAKLEY'S Terre Haute's Most Popular Priced ICE CREAM VANILLA BRICK 2 QUARTS BUY ONE QUART 39c GET 2ND QUART FOR ONLY 10c OAKLEY'S PLENTY OF PHONE SPACE PARKING Drug Store C-5141 1701-17H SOUTH SEVENTH STREET presented at the Riley Methodist Church at Riley at 9 o'clock Sunday morning by the Home Builders Class. Mrs. John Kruse will be chairman. Charles Lawson of Terre Haute will give a tribute to fathers.

Musical numbers will be given by the church choir and by a trio of daughters of members of the choir. The closing number will be a solo, "The Lord's Prayer." by Mrs. Vern Gummere of Terre Haute. D. P.

Bill Continued From Page 1 referred to one of the im-! portant changes in the new makes Jan. 1. 1949, rather than Dec. 22. 1945, the cut-off date by which refugees from Eastern Europe must have entered Germany, Austria or Italy in order to eligible for admission to the United States under the D.

P. program. Another significant change eliminates a provision of the original law that 30 per cent of the D. must be farmers and that 40 per cent be the Baltic states. Mr.

Truman and many legislators had attacked both of those provisions of the old law as discriminating against Catholic and Jews. The charge, in turn. was heatedly denied by lawmakers who supported the restrictions. THE PRESIDENT said the new law was fair and generous and added that he was especially pleased through the because it combined efforts of had been written both political parties. The new law contains security restrictions designed to prevent the entry of subversives and other undesirables.

The Displaced Persons Commission will investigate the character, history and eligibility of all persons seeking admission, and everyone admitted must take an that he has never been a member of the Communist Party or any organization hostile to the American form of The government. entrants must make a statement also, they will sworn, by the terms of employment in the jobs they are to receive here. And to get in, they must have assurance from American sponsors that work awaits them. Of the 341,000 totals of D. eligible for admission, 301,500 are now under the care of the persons International Refugee Organization (I.

R. a United Nations agency. J. Donald Kingsley, director general of the I. R.

called the new D. P. law "a bridge to life for many thousands of men, women and chil- dren." An entire mountain range, the Chisos, is enclosed by Big Bend National Park in Texas. A Sahara Desert daytime temperature of 100 degrees may drop below freezing at night. Chevrolet trucks give you more powerful performance, thriftier operation 3 HAUTE STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1950.

development, Alamos program, Britain's A-bomb had official project access las a member of delegation to the U. S. Gold reportedly was taken into custody: on basis of leads supplied by Fuchs. Almost simultaneously with the announcement of Greenglass' arrest here FBI agents in Pasadena. seized Dr.

Sidney Weinbaum, 52-year-old California Institute of Technology scientist. WEINBAUM. formerly with the institute's jet-propulsion laboratory, was accused of falsely swearing that he had not been a Communist. FBI agents said his arrest was not concerned with any other case. The FBI gave the following background information on Greenglass: He was a member of the Young Communist League in 1938 but the FBI would not say whether he was screened by security experts Lose before he was assigned to Alamos bomb project.

Greenslass, was 5, 1943, inducted and hon- into orably discharged early in 1946. From the Summer of 1944 to the day of his discharge he was asThe FBI declined to say whether signed to Los Alamos. Greenglass ever received any money for the information he is accused of passing Gold. or: whether the atom "bomb secrets ever reached the Russians. Greenglass was born on New York's lower East Side March 3.1 1922.

Like Gold, his father was a native of Russia who came to the U. S. and was naturalized. The elder Greenglass, a machinist like the son. died about a year ago.

Greenglass' 70-year-old mother, Tessie, is still alive. And he has two brothers and a sister. He married the former Ruth Printz about seven years ago. They have two children. a son, Steven.

3. and a daughter, Barbara, born only a month ago. His mother-in-law has been taking care of the children since Mrs. Greenglass was seriously burned in an accident in her home recently. Greenglass made from $75 to $130 a week as a machinist in Brooklyn, counting his overtime.

The FBI said it has no information that Greenglass, personally knew Slack, the technician arrested earlier in Syracuse. Spy Arrest Continued From Page 1 Experts Boost State Wheat Crop Forecast LAFAYETTE, June (API The 1950 indicated Hoosier wheat yield, as of June 1, was 20 bushels an acre, slightly more than the forecast of a month ago. Statisticians at Purdue University and the U. S. Department of Agriculture today predicted a crop of 28,680,000 bushels on 434,000 acres.

Production is only 73 per cent of the 1949 crop since both acreage and expected yield are below last year. Prospective oats production of 50,556,000 bushels is 90 per cent ot last year's crop. Both barley and rye are slightly less promising than a year ago. CITY DEATHS I Daylight Saving Time Unless Otherwise Noted) STEPHEN HOPPER Stephen Hopper, 77 years old. died at 2 o'clock yesterday alternoon at his residence, 2319 North Eleventh Street.

A retired coal miner, he a member of United Mine Workers. Surviving are the widow. Annie: a son. Charles Hopper, and two grandchildren. The body was taken to the Thomas Funeral Home where services will be held at 1:30 o'clock Monday afternoon.

This morning the body will be taken to the residence and at 11 o'clock Monday morning will be returned to the funeral home. SIRS. NELLIE M'GEE JONES Mrs. Nellie McGee Jones. 80 years old, former Terre Haute resident, died terday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs.

H. C. Keithsburg. Ill. Surviving are three sons.

Rell and Dawson Jones. both of Terre Haute. and Frederick Jones of Kansas City: another daughter, Miss Martha Jones of Lafayette: seven grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. The body will be brought to the Isaac Ball Funeral Home at 2 o'clock this afternoon where services will be held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. Burial will be in Highland Lawn Cemetery.

GERALD ALLEN LEWIS Funeral services for Gerald Allen Lewis. infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Lewis. R.

R. 1. West Terre Haute, who died at 10 o'clock yesterday morning at the Vermillion County Hospital, Clinton. will be held at 11 o'clock this morning at the Black Chapel of the Valley, West Terre Haute. Burial will be in New Providence Cemetery.

Surviving. besides the parents. are the grandparents. Mr. and Mrs.

Vern Lewis of Terre Haute, and Mr. and Mrs. William Joy of R. R. 2, Paris, Ill.

CLARENCE A. HULL Clarence A. Hull. 45 sears old. 2703 Park Street, died at 1:20 o'clock this afternoon at Efingham.

en route home from St. Louis. He was a member of the Terre Haute Bible Center. Surviving are the widow. Cecil: three sisters.

Mrs. Gertrude Webb of Oakland. and Mrs. Ella Herman and Mrs. Lillian Church.

both of Terre Haute. and a brother. Leo Hull of Adrian. Mich. The body was taken to Gillis Memory Chapel.

WILLIAM PEYTON Funeral services for Wilham Peyton. 57 years oid. who died Wednesday, will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the Masonic Temple with Humboldt Lodge No. 42 conducting Masonic rites. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery with Fort Harrison Post.

American Le. zion. holding military rites. The body will be taken to the temple at noon today from the Isaac Ball Funeral Home. Funeral services for Mrs.

Clara HalberSIRS. CLARA HALBERSTADI stadt. 82 years old. who died Thursdas. will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the Gillis Memory Chapel, the Rev.

J. Russell Butler officiating. Burial will be in Grandview Cemetery. RALPH ROOKSBERRY Funeral services for Ralph Rooksberry, 49 years old. who died Tuesday, will be held at 10 o'clock this morning at the Nazarene Church.

Nineteenth Street and Eighth Avenue. Burial will be in Rosalawn Memorial Park. JACK BITTS Funeral services for Jack Bitts. 13 Fears old. who drowned Thursday.

will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the P. J. Ryan Sons Funeral Home. the Rev. O.

C. Bickel officiating. Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Park. DISTINCTIVE YET INEXPENSIVE P. J.

Ryan Sons Funeral Home 6TH AND POPLAR STREETS PHONE CRAWFORD 5001 Continued From Page 1 practiced in the steel industry, for example, "basing points" were set. up in various sections of the try. Then. when a customer bought steel he was charged the price, at the basing point nearest to him. plus freight from the basing point.

no matter where the steel actually came from. Critics charged that this system was sometimes used by businesses to get together and fix prices. illegally. The present bill grew out of various court decisions. particularly one knocking out the basing point system of the cement industry.

After this decision the steel industry abandoned its basing pointe system. President said that some had 'regarded these decisions toi mean that "businessmen could not absorb freight costs or quote delivered prices' in distant markets in order to meet the prices offered by competitors. They drafted this bill in order to clarify that Mr. Truman said that in the light of on ficting interpretations, "many years of complex litigation would be required." he wrote, "the bill contains provisions which might interpreted after protracted litigation to impair the effectiveness of the anti-trust laws." Slots Veto Continued From Page 1' during the raid, and was taken into the dining room. Rudy Body.

18. assistant golf professional, and Earl Butow. a porter, also were forced into the had arrived early golf lesroom. Two teen girls, who son, were directed to join the employes. MEMBERS of the raiding party assured the group they had "nothing to fear," but told them to remain in the dining room indefnitely.

The men carried the slot machines from a nearby corridor to the waiting automobiles, all of which bore Illinois license An unidentified hitchhiker called the La Porte County sheriff's office and told of seeing four automobiles traveling at high speed on a road leading to Chicago. Description of the cars tallied with that given by club employes. Close Bible School BRAZIL, June pupils of the daily Vacation School at Union E. Church, south of Brazil, will conclude their two weeks with a program at the church at 8 o'clock Sunday evening. Fourteen workers and teachers have conducted the classes.

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H. FRODERMAN, RILEY, IND. C-9541 liams is said to have confessed to Detectives Clint Seward and James, Porter that he had entered two offices at 52312 Wabash Avenue Sunday morning. He is alleged to have admitted entering the offices of Beecher and Beecher. attorneys, and the office of Miss Fairy Umstot.

real estate dealer by breaking the door glasses witbi a hammer. Although both offices are reported been ransacked and an uhsuccessful attempt to open a safe in one of them, nothing was taken in the burglaries. Tools. which Williams later told officers! were his, were found in the office. The body of Williams was taken to the Bell Bracken Funeral; Home.

He is survived by a daughter, Marcella Williams, and three brothers, Roy Williams, St. Lows, and Winston and Hece Williams, both of Terre Haute. Marshall Plan Hanged in Jail Continued From Page 1 Continued From Page 1 economic war is a very present; concern. There are those who will argue that a firm demonstration of unity and intent, with barely sufficent arms to back it up, is enough deterrent for a Russia which still counts more upon economic and political unrest than it does upon actual war for its program of universal conquest. And they argue further that too much military preparedness might goad Russia into a "preventive" war of its own.

just as Russia's apparent militarization beyond defense needs causes the West to fear aggression. But there are few left who will argue that economic failure will not vitiate with West's entire fense program. BUREAU PROMISES COOLER WEATHER INDIANAPOLIS, June -The temperature climbed to 90 degrees here today for the first time this year. eclipsing a pre-! vious high mark of 89 set yesterday. Weather men said cooler er was on its way, however.

Tie mercury was expected to drop into the 60s tonight and the cool period will continue through tomorrow and they said. More scattered thundershowers were forecast for tonight. showers drenched most of the state last night and early today and high winds downed power lines and tree limbs. The Weather Bureau said, in its semi-weekly five-day outlook, it would be warmer Monday and Tuesday and more showers would occur late Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. For injuries allegedly received May 15 when she was struck by a bicycle ridden by John Poole, 15 years old, 5-year-old Sandra Brandon yesterday was awarded a judgment of $157.36 in Superior Court by Judge Clay Phillips.

The suit was brought by the girl's father. Homer R. Brandon. against the lad and his father. Virgil Poole.

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