1 Indiana State Library Indianapolis, Indiana Vol. 51 No. 284 Established 1840 Rushville, Indiana, Monday, February 14, 1955. Eight Pages Five Cents Policy-Wrecking Group Flourishes In Govt, Senator Jenner Asserts 4 n-r S- I--it-' 'A -V i p'H fi4 ,5 i Fires Cause Six Deaths In State (By The Associated Press) A rash of fires caused six deaths in Indianas sub-zero week-end. Four of the six perished in one blaze.
Mrs. Wilma G. Childers, 24, and her three small daughters died Saturday night as their home near Princeton burned. The little girls were Ruth Ann, Charlotte Mae, 2, and Suetta, 1. State trooper Don Smiley said the husband and father, Joseph Childers, 30, tossed kerosene on a coal fire in an effort to heat the house quickly and that an explosion resulted.
Smiley said the explosion did not occur until after Childers had left the house to get an inner tube to burn out a dirty flue. He suffered bums on the hands trying to rescue the victims. Two older children escaped unhurt. A kerosene explosion in Indianapolis Saturday caused bums which proved fatal to Mrs. Marie Cook, 27.
Mrs. Jesse L. Waugh, 76, died Sunday after her clothing caught fire as she was burning trash in a kitchen stove in her farm home four miles northeast of- Columbia City. Her husband, C. L.
Waugh, found his wifes body when he returned from the barnyard with a pail of water. Waugh extinguished the small fire which had started in the kitchen. Five persons fled unharmed from the flames which destroyed the Crossroads Restaurant and service station at the intersection of U. S. 33 and U.
S. 6 south of Ligonier Sunday. Fire chief Hal Gehring estimated damage at $75,000. Gehring said the blaze apparently was started by a furnace explosion. Firemen stood by virtually helpless because water in their hoses froze in the sub-zero weather.
They were further hampered by exploding oil and alcohol drums. One fireman, Keith Heidt, was knocked unconscious by the first drunT' explosion. He was not injured seriously. Don Elkelburger of Goshen operated the place. The rebuilt Pentacostal Tabernacle on Muncies south side burned Sunday with loss estimated by the Rev.
C. L. Crum at $35,000. The fire was believed started by a coal stoker explosion. The church also burned down Jan.
3, 1952. Toll Road Propaganda Charge Hurled i State Being Flooded With Propaganda On Toll Roads, Democrat Senator Says In Speech. INDIANAPOLIS CD The State Senate today heard a Democratic charge that Indiana has been flooded with propaganda for a network of toll roads from Gov. Craigs office. Sen.
Warren W. Martin Jr. (D-Clarksville), minority leader, said in a floor' speech the propaganda was marked as not being printed at public expense even though it came from Craigs office. What group is using the governors office for its mailing list? Martin asked. Is this propaganda being paid for by the toll road gang or by eastern financiers? Martin repeated a statement he made a week ago that the Toll Road Commission might become a super government in Indiana, and he compared it to the Jockey Club, which he said controlled Kentucky politics for a half century.
This is not a question of politics, but of the survival of demo-racy in Indiana, Martin told the Senate. Martins speech followed one by Sen. Eugene Bainbridge (D-Mun-ster) in which Bainbridge charged the labor committees of both houses have failed to act on vital bills effecting labor. He said the assembly was giving too much time to a preview of the next Republican convention as to who would be the candidate for governor. Sen.
Roy Conrad, chairman of the Labor Committee, pointed out that one of the bills the Senate voted on this morning came from the labor committee. He said Bainbridge apparently did not know what he was voting on and that the speech was not worthy of. an. answer. The bill dealt with assignment of wages to wage brokers.
Before the oratorical exchange, the Senate passed and sent to the House bills lengthening from 24 hours to five days the time in which a traffic accident involving $50 or more damage must be reported and bringing out-of-state insurance firms under the jurisdiction of Indiana courts for the handling of claims. Also passed and sent to the House were bills permitting the city of Evansville to establish sanitary sewer districts with taxing and bonding powers and giving the Evansville Re-development Commission authority to issue bonds and accept federal grants for slum clearance projects. Frills In Schooling Now Under Attack One of my esteemed friends in northern Indiana, who edits a newspaper, wants The Hoosier Day to attack spending of money by Purdue University on frills in education. He enclosed a column advertisem*nt from a Fort Wayne paper, announcing the Purdue Center spring courses for adults. Some of these courses he considered frills, while at the same time Purdue and other tax supported state schools, ask more money.
Some of the classes listed in the adult education classes are Contract Bridge Instruction and Amateur Photography. Kid Symphony Got Ax In Indianapolis At the same time, H. L. Shibler, general superintendent of education in the Indianapolis public schools, was put under ordeal by a couple of literal minded School Board members. The School Board dissenters followed a line of reasoning often heard from Chamber of Commerce officials that schools should not only economize but stick, to the traditional Reading, Riting and Rithmetic.
The school fathers put the ax to a childrens little symphony orchestra, in the Indiana State Capital, in this supposedly enlightened year of 0955 A. D. At the same time, head of an organiaztion protecting interests of school teachers has suggested that this column expose how the exchange of visits by business to schools, and schools to business was detracting from the fundamentals in schooling. Such visitations take children away from studying reading, writing and arithmetic. We Live Now In New Age Of Education Wishing to disagree, without being disagreeable, this columnist cannot go along with thinking to condemn the adult courses offered by Purdue Center, such as photography; the hatcheting out of existence the kids symphony orchestra by hard-headed businessmen on the school board nor the idea that it is bad for business and schools to exchange visitation.
We are out of the horse and buggy days in education, although it may be harder for some of us who are older to realize this to be true. This is a changing world. We have more leisure time. The senior population has increased fantastically in numbers. Juvenile crime is a national disgrace because of its increase.
Our mental hospitals are filled to overflowing, in this mad life we live. Continued on Page Eight Rites Held For Man Related Here Funeral services were held Monday in Spokane, Washington, for Daniel Worth Butner, a mining engineer, who vas associated there with the United States Department of the Interior. Mr. Butner, a brother of Mrs. Bert Rigsbee of near Arlington, had formerly been stationed in Cuba, Mexico, the Belgian Congo and Philipine Islands.
Interment was made in the National Cemetery at Portland, Oregon. 2 Rushville Women Hurt In One Crash Icy Streets Over Week-End Continue To Provide Hazardous Driving Mishap At 10th And Spencer. Two traffic accidents, in one of which two women were injured, were investigated by Rushville police over the week-end as ice-packed streets and highways made driving the worst of the winter. 1 After major highways had come generally clear by Sunday, snow again started falling in Rushville last night to provide another slick coating. The snow continued through the night and totaled 1 inch at the local weather station.
Two Rushville women were injured when a car skidded and struck a cement abutment at Spencer and Tenth about 1 a.m. Sunday. Mrs. Evelyn Hankins, 50, 419 West Third, and Mrs. Hettie May Woods, 25, 424 West First, were treated at Rush Memorial Hospital and then released.
Mrs. Hankins suffered cuts about the head and face while Mrs. Woods was treated for injuries to her right leg. Mrs. Woods was driving the car owned by Mrs.
Hankins husband, Robert Hankins, who also was an occupant but who escaped uninjured, as did two girls in the car. Police said Mrs. Woods was driving south on Spencer and the car skidded as she tried to turn left onto West Tenth. The sliding car struck and straddled a cement abutment. Damage to front end of the car was estimated at $700.
Mr. and Mrs. Hankins are the parents of Police Sgt. Robert Hankins. No one was injured in a three-car crackup on West Third, just west of Arthur, about 4 p.m.
Sunday. AU vehicles involved were going east. Police said an auto driven by Dorothy Wicker, 41, Laurel, R.R. 1, had stopped behind a car which Continued on Page Three Mercury On Upgrade After One-Inch Snow Snow which piled up to a one-inch depth here during the night was beginning to melt this afternoon as temperatures rose to the highest level in four days, ending the severe cold wave. The weather station reported a 1 p.m.
reading of 36, and it will be in the 40s Tuesday, according to the forecast. The mercury stayed in the 20s last night, and it was 30 at 8 oclock this morning. Most highways were in good condition after being spotty from snow drifting during the night. WEST END PLANT BLAZE Seven Rushville firemen are on aerial ladder of new fire truck in scene above as they battled flames which broke out in a ventilating shaft atop big building of V. W.
Norris Son Fertilizer Company along New York Central tracks, south of First Street, Monday morning. Chemical fumes were set afire by overheated motor in shaft but damage, mostly from water, was slight. Firemen, summoned at 10 a. fought blaze 45 minutes before getting it out. (Rushville Republican Photo) Committee Favors Passage Of Home Rule Amendment Secret Group, Termed Not Wholly Communistic, Operates In Highest Echelons Of Government, TWISTS OBJECTIVES TO FAVOR REDS DALLAS UP) Sen.
Jenner (R-Ind) said today unless the United States learn a quick lesson on the realities of politics, President Eisenhowers policy for Formosan defense is threatened with sabotage. It is his belief, the senator added, that erosion already is at work and that the Presidents wishes on Formosa may be flouted and his objectives twisted to' favor the Communist world. Jenner blamed what he called a policy-wf*cking group of collectivists within the U.S. government and said it flourished under the Eisenhower administration as well as under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. Cease-fire in Formosa, he charged, would free huge Red armies for a new attack on Indochina, and once the United Nations entered the picture, he said, liquidation of Chiang Kai-Shek would result.
The 46-year-old Indianan spoke at a meeting sponsored by the. Dallas Public Affairs Club and the Committee of 100, a group formed to support Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) during the the McCarthy censure controversy. Jenner was chairman )f the Senate Internal Security Committee. He said the U.
S. government was a two-headed monster, its foreign policy aimed at freedom but repeatedly under Democratic and Republican administrations twisted to favor the Reds. Jenner said a secret group which he did not identify has made this country appear futile and ineffectual. This conflict between two heads of our government will not end until one or the other is wholly defeated, uprooted and destroyed, he added. Jenner said the secret group, which he termed not wholly Communistic, operates in the highest echelons of government.
He named them as (1) the State Department, (2) the White House secretariat, (3) in the super-cabinet agencies of national defense, (4) in the Foreign Operations Administration, and (5) in the Civil Intelligence Administration. Sen. Jenner said earlier Ill be happy to stop sending material to a Syracuse, N. newspaper. Jenner was asked to comment on a statement by the Syracuse Post-Standard Friday night.
The paper said it was notifying Jenner it did not want what it termed his political handouts and asked he stop sending material through senatorial frank at public expense. Publisher Richard H. Amberg of the independent Republican daily said he referred to what he termed a regular flow of mimeograph-x ed copies of speeches and state- ments Jenner has delivered to various places far removed from the newspapers circulation area. Jenner said: Ill be happy to stop sending it to them. That is my only comment.
'Fun After Party Ends In Death NEW YORK UP) Things are not always what they seem. The boy is dead. But the circ*mstances could be seen in different perspectives. Here is how off-duty rookie Policeman Robert Surrey said he saw the picture: He had been out with his girl friend, and Was taking her home along a Brooklyn street Sunday at 2 a.m. when he heard a loud crash and a womans terrified screms.
Fouryouths fled down the sidewalk. Surrey yelled at them to stop. They raced on. He fired three warning shots in the air. Then aimed at their legs.
One youth, John Sterling, 15, dropped, shot in the abdomen. He died in a hospital. Later, after the other three youths were caught, their view of the case emerged: The four Brooklyn boys had been to a party given for a girl in their neighborhood. They drank some beer. On the way home, they sang happily in loud voices.
They decided it could be fun to make more racket by tipping over some ash cans. One of them crashed against the window of Mrs. Grace Burns basem*nt apartment. She began screaming in fright. Scared by her outcries, the boyjs ran.
Surreys shouts scared them even more. Today, the dead boys mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Schwartz, called the shooting un-Continued on Page Three Charles Kennedy Services Tuesday Charles O. Kennedy, 74, died at 7 p.m.
Saturday his home two miles southwest of Arlington. He had been in ill health for four years and in a serious condition the last two weeks. Mr. Kennedy was born March 22, 1880, in Shelby County, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth A. Trib-bey Kennedy.
On November 1, 1908, he was married to Bonnie Whitlock, who survives. Although a Shelby County native, he bad spent most of his life in Rush County and had resided at his present' home the last 10 years. Mr. Kennedy was a member of the Arlington Christian Church. In addition to the widow, he is survived by two sisters, Mrs.
Carl Beckner and Mrs. Albert Beck-ner, both of west of Rushville, and three brothers, Sammie Kennedy of Milroy, Earl Kennedy of Morristown and Orbie Kennedy who lived with him. Also surviving is Mrs. Ora Addison of Posey Township who made her home with Mr. and Mrs.
Kennedy for 18 years. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Wyatt-Moore Memorial with the Rev. R. C.
Buck in charge. Interment will be in East Hill Cemetery, Arlington. Friends may call at the memorial any time. 4 TV? "a Tf-r i i-A I a tffi fifa firemen came so late. A short while later a House resolution was offered to allay the fears of firemen and policemen.
The resolution states that it is the intent and belief of the Legislature that the home rule amendment will not affect the pensions of policemen and firemen or any other municipal employe. The resolution, offered by Reps. Charles T. Rachels (D-kt. Vernon) and Birch E.
Bayh Jr. (D-West Terre Haute), was sent to Feltons committee for study. The Senate passed the home rule amendment Jan. 27 by a 38-10 vote. Feltons committee also brought out a Senate bill to require county and township officers to file financial statements.
The committee added an amendment to make the statements include expense deductions which would be allowable for federal income tax purposes. The House voted to concur in Continued on Page Three Milroy, Carthage Win In County Egg, Poultry Judging The Milroy High School team placed first in the Rush County Poultry and Egg Judging contest held Saturday at the Milroy school building. Members of the winning team are Robert Leising, Allen Hood, Dave Fry and Ralph Gahimer. The Milroy team, coached by Clyde Bond, agriculture teacher, scored 1,832 out of a possible 2,550 points. Carlhfge High Schools team, composed of Robert Stanley, Pat Watkins, Marshall Tompkins and Larry Collins, placed second in the contest.
Lee Patton is the Carthage agriculture instructor. Robert Leising of Milroy had the highest individual score with 633 out of a possible 850 points. Milroy and Carthage teams will compete in the district contest Wednesday, March 16, at -Indianapolis. Other schools participating in the county event were Arlington and Rushville with Paul Potts and Harold Clifton as the respective instructors. Two classes were judged in production, two in- market, one in exterior eggs, one in interior eggs, a' cull or keep class, and a quiz.
Barney Turk of Rushville was judge of the county contest. Assisting in the arrangements were C. L. Spuller, county extension agent, and Hugh Morris, assistant agent. Junior High Parents To Meet Wednesday The Junior High Parent-Teachers Council meeting will be held at the Annex Auditorium Wednesday night at 7:30 when a musical program will be presented.
Mary Barr Montgomery will be the master of ceremonies. The Junior High Chorus will give several numbers and instrumental contest selections will be given by both junior and senior high musicians. The program committee is composed of Mr. and Mrs. Barr Montgomery and Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Meredith. Parents of both junior and senior high children are invited. Things Going On In Rushville Tonight INDIANAPOLIS UP) The House Judiciary Committee today recommended passage of the controversial constitutional amendment to give home rule to Indiana cities. Since the proposal has already been passed by the Senate and by the 1953 Legislature, only final approval by the House is needed to send the question to the voters in the 1956 election.
Chairman Oren E. Felton (R-Fairmount) told the. House the committee vote was not unanimous. He told reporters later he was disturbed that a new flood of telegrams from city police and Auto Accident Basis For Suit A suit for damages has been filed in Rush Circuit Court and Judge William F. Marshall has overruled a motion for a new trial in a divorce case.
The damage suit is the result of a traffic accident May 28, 1954, on U.S. 52, 2Vb miles southeast of New Salem. Plaintiff is Chester Brett 1 and the defendant is David A. Sommers. Brett seeks $750, alleging his car was struck from behind by Sommers due to the latters negligence.
Judge Marshall overruled a new trial motion by Mrs. Pearl Brogan of Greensburg. The judge granted a divorce to Dennis Brogan in a trial held in the local court last November. Partly cloudy 1 tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 22.
High Tuesday 42. v'VCS I 1 r't 'jt LOCAL TEMPERATURES 8 a. m. today 30 lp.m. today 36 Sunday, February 13 1955 54 53 Av.
Highest 30 39 48 Lowest 10 26 26 23 Precipitation t.07 0 0 .32 Average 1949-54. tSnow one inch. Saturday Temperatures High 14; Low 0. Precipitation, none. (Data by U.
S. Weatherstation) William Meyer, Mortician, Dies William H. Meyer, 67, local mortician, died at 9:15 a.m. Sunday at Rush Memorial Hospital. Mr.
Meyer, whose home was at 906V North Willow, had been in failing health the last three years and his condition had been serious the last two weeks. He had been employed as mortician at Moster and Sons Mortuary for several years. At one time he was manager of a funeral home in New Harmony for two years. A Rush County native, he was bom December 22, 1887, a son of George H. and Martha A.
Peak Meyer. Mr. Meyer has spent most of his life in Rush County. He was a member of the Main Street Christian Church and a member of the Rushville Lions Club on which he also served on the board of directors. Survivors include the widow, Mrs.
Ruth Ann Chadwick Meyer; one son, Walter J. Meyer, of Indianapolis; one daughter, Mrs. James Connerly, of New Castle; one brother, Edwin G. Meyer, of Rush County, and five grandchildren. One brother, Charles, died April 26, 1952.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Moster and Sons Mortuary with the Rev. Frank Helme in charge. Interment will be in East Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the mortuary any Broken Axle Blamed For Train Mishap WAUKEGAN, 111.
GD Railroad officials blamed a broken axle on a passenger car for the derailment Sunday of the Milwaukee Roads Pioneer Limited in which five passengers were hurt slightly. The Chicago-to-Minneapolis train was traveling 85 miles an hour when eight of the 12 cars left the rails five miles northwest of Waukegan. A dining car fire was quickly extinguished. The 200 passengers, including the injured, resumed the trip in the four cars left. Republicans Observe Lincoln Day With Meetings Throughout Indiana Parked Truck Rolls Into Highway Hit By Another Vehicle A truck was damaged in an unusual accident on'Ind.
3 near the Sexton road north of here about 10 oclock Friday night. Frank Folk, 52, Cromwell, R.R. 1, was driving north when his truck hit a tractor-trailer which was sticking out into the highway. State Trooper Walter Love, the investigating officer, said the larger truck had been parked at a nearby restaurant by Forrest L. Butcher, 31 Union City.
In some manner, the parked truck started to move while the driver was inside. Trooper Love said it rolled several feet across the highway and stopped in the ditch on the other side with part of the vehicle remaining on the road. Blinded by lights of oncoming traffic. Folk was unable to see the parked truck and he crashed into it. Trooper Love estimated between' $800 and $900 damage to Folks truck and only slight damage to the other.
Butcher was arrested on a charge of improper parking and he was fined $1 and costs in Justice of Peace Court. Japans First Piano Found In Storeroom TOKYO 0P A piano, believed to be the first ever brought to Japan, has been found in a storeroom where it as placed more than 100 years ago, Kyodo news service reported today. The agency said an inscription indicated it was imported about 1828, apparently from Holland. Former Speaker Dies In Florida MIAMI BEACH, Fla. UP)-Oscar A.
Ahlgren, 63, fromer speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives, died here Sunday of a heart attack while vacationing. A Whiting, lawyer Ahlgren retired from politics in 1942 after serving four terms in the Indiana House. His wife, Mrs. Mildred Carlson Ahlgren, immediate past president of the General Federation of Womens Clubs, was with him. Ahlgren body was sent to Whiting, where private funeral services will be held Juesday.
A public memorial service will be held Tuesday evening. Rep. Joseph E. Klen (D-Ham-mond) arose in the Indiana House of Representatives at Indianapolis today to deliver a eulogy of Ahlgren but broke down in tears soon after he started. House members then stood silent for a minute in tribute to the former speaker.
(By The Associated Press) Indianas Senators, Homer E. Capehart and William E. Jenner, and five Hoosier Congressmen filled speaking engagements in the midwest Saturday as Republicans observed Lincoln Day. Sen. Jenner addressed a Fulton County Republican Committee in Kewanna- while Sen.
Capehart spoke at a dinner in Louisville. House members who spoke in Indiana were Rep. Charles A. Hal-leck, at Valparaiso; Rep. Charles B.
Brownson, at Tipton; Rep. Earl Wilson, at Batesville; Rep. John V. Beamer, at North Manchester, and Rep. William G.
Bray, at Sullivan. Jenner said the Republican party has a mandate from the American people to rebuild America according to the grand design worked out by our founding fathers. He added, however) that In our day, little men have tried to improve on that grand design and have made it easy for the Communists to work at its destruction. Sen. Capehart told his Louisville audience Lincolns life remains a perpetual pattern for every citizen of the United States because he was truly devoted to the preservation at any cost of the American sys-em of government, which I consider to be the nations greatest asset.
Capehart also described the recently passed Formosa defense resolution as a bold stroke for peace by Congress. About 700 persons attended the rally. Another Hoosier member of Congress, Rep. Cecil was principal speaker at a Lincoln Day rally in Miami, which was marked by dissention over the presence of Negroes at the event. Twenty-four Negroes, all members of the Dade County Republi-Continued on Page Three Lincoln Day Banquet, Elks Club.
Adult Education Classes, Memorial Gym and the High School. High School Study Club and Inquiry Class, St. Marys School. Special Entertainment, K. of C.
Home. I. S. P. N.
A. Club, Mrs. Marjorie Pearsey. Psi Iota Xi Sorority, Mrs. R.
V. Barnett, Sr. Spiritual Life Mission, First Baptist Church. Past Chiefs Club, Mrs. Julia Waggoner, 249 Vfc North Main.
Past Noble Grand Club, Mrs. Vera Clifton, 328 West Ninth St. American Legion. Red Men Lodge. Knights of Pythias Lodge.
Boy Scout Troops. Rushville Council, Masonic Temple. Princess i.
