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INFIELD DAI1 The TTCS fv TTN PrTT TTT Entered at Second-CUti Matter at The Post Office, titeenfleia. Indian, World-Wide Hewt CoTerag By INTERNATIONAL NEWS SEBVICB saa SINGLE COPT rOCK CENTS By Carrier 20c per Week; By Mall In Indiana W-5 pet Tear VOLUME XLIV NUMBER 221 GREENFIELD. INDIANA, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1952. WEATHER Clearing, colder tonight. Partly cloudy, warmer Saturday.

Refused Custody 'Freedcni Comrade The Parly Sent Us' George J. Cramer Dies At Hospital George J. Cramer, age 53 A is password in i ne invasion ui nomes Eisenhower Ends Tour Of Korea Friday Night; Predicts 'Honorable Peace' ui inree i-ien Marion County Keeps Burglars of Fortville Marion County and Indiana polis law enforcement officials Butler University President To Speak At Rabbit Supper Hancock Post No. 119 has secured Dr. M.

O. Ross, president of Butler University for speaker at its annual rabbit supper on Tuesday, Dec. 9th. The members of the Kiwanis Club and the Lions Club are to be guests of the Legionnaires for the evening. Dr.

Ross received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Kentucky Wesleyan College in 1917, and from the University of Chicago he holds a Master of Arts degree, and a Doctor's degree in philosophy. For several years President-elect Rejects Long Rehearsed Parade Through Seoul Streets decided Thursday to retain three youths apprehended Wed Of Truman Dies Least Known Occupant Of The White House WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 i'INS Mrs. David Wallace, President Truman's mother-in-law, died nt the White House at 12:35 p. m.

(EST i today. Mrs. Wallace has been the least -known occupant of the While House for almost eight years and that was the way she wanted it. Gates Wallace, a widow since 1903, always held to the Victorian idea that the cardinal virtue of a lady was to be unmentioned publicly except twice in her lifetime at her nesday morning following an at Methodists Plan Clothing Drive SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Saturday years, passed away Thursday evening in the Hancock Memorial Hospital, following a brief illness.

Surviving is the widow, Myrtle Cramer, two sons, Russell of Greenfield RFD 5, and Leonard of Indianapolis, three grand children, a sister, Stella Bugg, of Indianapolis, a brother, Willie, of Fortville, RFD 2, nieces, Leota and Alberta Cramer. He was a member of the First Christian church, of Fortville, F. A. M. No.

207, Fortville, and the Eagles Lodge at Anderson. He was an employe of the Indianapolis Street Railways tempted second time robbery of the Straugh grocery and gasoline service station at Fortville Damage Suit Ends Wednesday The civil suit for damages from a Feb. 6, 1952, traffic crash at Oxford and Meridith streets in Indianapolis between a county resident, Charles Lantz, and an Indianapolis man, Wayne Keller, was completed before a Hancock County jury Wednesday afternoon. The jury found against Keller in his claim for $800 damages from Lantz and against Lantz INS. President-Elect Eisenhow By JOHN II.

MARTIN INS Foreign Director Remember the former Nazi wardens planted in each block as informers and spies? The Communists behind the iron curtain have improved this system with their network cf "public educators." An exclusive, detailed account of how the system operates has been brought out of Hungary by a woman refugee. She should know, because she was a "pub-l'c educator" herself before she became disillusioned and fled to the west. Russian satellite leaders through use of the system have broken down the last refuge of privacy, the home. Red newspapers and radios may go unheeded but nobody dares refuse to listen to th educa er ended a history-makine tour (previously reported as a cloth Bradley Church to Act of Korea Friday night with a ing store). The youths, Frank Goldwin, Edward Garrison, and As Collection Agency prediction that the United Na tions iorces win defeat the Corn- Frank Oden, all in teir early Members of Bradley Meth- munists but with a warning of twenties, were arrested by In the difficulties entailed in odist church are asked to nnri mnhi PlanninS a "positive" victory.

dianapolis police after a State Police broadcast of a car license number seen near the station. Dr. Ross served as Professor of old but warm at VarlHsm rnllpa? I victual vxw D- tlUUUUg uj me U1U1LU, ouuuuj, -hiph tnnrpH hottlo in during- the first Two of the youth were re uereniDer i. ana sunaav. ue- -itviK WnrlH War Hp spt-vpH u.ith thp cxicinjr ported as on parole from Indiana TT cemoer l.

csucn arucies as guns, tiennower iook on irom iqjo vo QccnmaH tVi rirscirinnv coats, trousers, warm dresses, CUU1 1U1 Journey for 22 years. In 1944 he was employed as a guard at the Indiana Reformatory, at Pendleton. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p. m. at the Fortville Christian church.

Inter prisons. According to a report by Indianapolis police the three admitted several robberies in in his cross claim for $450 damages frcm Keller. Members of the jury were: Cleve Apple, Ernest Cranfill, L.fD..o MtarBna to the United States after telling Ul DUUCr (JlllVClSltV, Ilia UUl- oivcaicio, ouui-o, uitiaiiuv, sHp ntivHiPR inrh.d t.h writ- ter can. eloves. mittens.

un. newsmen his trip would lead to a better understanding" oi llltt Korean situation. ing of books and articles deal- derwear or any article of warm ing with banking and finance, clothing, is needed in this drive. tors." The name of the former "public educator" is withheld for protective purposes, but her reliability is vouched for by the staff of the national committee for a free Europe, the publicly- Glenn Holiday, Harry Andis, Walter Delph, George Garst, Herbert Cox, Lawrence Kirkhoff, George Printz, Melvin Johnson, Anna Bridges and Charles Fos He cautioned, however, that ment in Gravel Lawn cemetery. Friends may call at the Mccarty Funeral Home any time The subiect for the evening's The clothing will be used to birth and at her death.

She also believed in exclusive devotion to home and family traits which her daughter, Hess Wallace Truman, carried to the highest degree even in the White House. Mrs. WaUace was born in Port Byron, 111., on Aug. 4, 1362. Her father was George Porterfield Gates, her mother Elizabeth Emily Gates whose family came from Rounds.

England. Her parents met in Moline, were married and in 18C3 moved to Independence where George Gates became a pros "we have no panaceas, no trick oib- Kir ry M-ill Ko TTrr spnH hpln tn Knrpfins who have wqvq nt cott inrr inw after 7 p. m. Friday. nomic Foundations.

lost all their possessions, and ter. Supper will be served at 6:30 also an equal amount will be Marion county and Indianapolis and are to be prosecuted there. State Police Detective Robert Dillon, Sheriff Armin Kleiman and State Trooper C. E. Mohr traveled to Indianapolis Thursday to return the three to this county but were refused custody.

Enroute to Indianapolis the officers spotted two youths working on the windshield wipers of a 1946 Ford that had driven away from a filling station at Dublin without paying I A J-i 1 1 Lantz was represented in the Ariol KSlicr rT- VnWo thrnimh Rnntn's HpItws Thnsp a ar OI lnli Kina 11 ls lo action by Attorney M. E. Watson, of Greenfield. I I vir nut onv nhn trxr nnci i Tll i V.rmnin ortSMac fnr Cnntl'd ivt f'nanced organization whose ant i -Communist broadcasting arm is radio free Europe. Here is her story in part: At this moment the "people's educators" or "agitation trustees," as they also are called, are probably entering homes r.is.uuiy living and definite victory without; of the Legion kitchen commit Helpers may include toys, and canned food.

A box for cash possibly running the grave risk tee. Planning Board Hears Petitions Permit Asked to Build Motel on 67 of enlarging the war. contributions to Greenfiela "There are many limitations needy will be placed in the for gasoline. The youths, ages in a war of this kind. But this much is certain.

Here we are north foyer of the church 14 and 15 who live at Dayton, Clothing for both Korea and Pfllizino' that, frpprinm is an in. Planning Board Approves Motel Advertising Sign OK'ed for Highway 40 were arrested and held at the Greenfield mav be broucht to behind the iron curtain to explain why Rudolf Slansky, Vladimir Clementis and nine other Czechs top Communist leaders, have been executed. Also why other former leaders such nivisin TninfT vvp arp nil pri county jail. They were released me UIIUILII U1C iical mu ouii- Operation Plow Project Begins CROP Program to Set perous miller and a local social leader. It was in 1S6G that the Gates family built "the Gates mon-sion" in Independence which in later years became famous as "the Little White House." Iovett Thanks Press, Radio I or Secrecy On Ike Trip Defense Secretary Lovett to-dav expressed "warm thanks" to their parents Thursday even gaged in a common enterprise." The Presiripnt-tn-hp mndp days.

Monday, December 8, and ing. Monaay. uec. id ciommg aes- statement at a Seoul news The Hancock County Planning Board met Thursday night at the county surveyor's office on the first floor of the courthouse beginning at 7 p. m.

The automobile was reported Sa conference shorUy befon; hg De given to inat oiguiuzauon as stolen and is being held in Greenfield for its owner, Ches The Hancock County Planning and his party took off at 8:01 Up Indian Factory On the latter date clothing for as Romanian woman Foreign Minister Ana Pauker were purged. But aside from the purely propaganda offensive, the educators-informers, who work in n. m. Fririav (fi fll a EST) for Petitions for the construction Board met Thursday night at Korea will be shinoed to a cen- ter B. Blair, 25 Van Cleve Dayton, O.

of a motel on U. S. Highway 67 Indiana's "Christian Rural me nomewara voyage. tral collection point. Eisenhower declined to accept at the east edge of Fortville, and for the construction of a motel Overseas Program," which is sponsored by The Indiana Coun the courthouse to hear petitions for the construction of a motel and the construction of an advertising sign board for a any questions from the 125 correspondents at the news confer WLU Scout Seeks advertising sign on U.

S. High pairs, also gauge public opinion and pry into every possible household secret to add to the cil of Churches, is receiving All Net Teams ence. But he told them that way 40 six miles west of Green gifts to be used in setting up a "great benefit" would result second motel. pool of information gathered factory in Allahabad Institute Sounds Of Century field were considered by th? board. from the Korean visit he under Petitioners, John Ward, of the about every individual.

in India for the manufacturing of the "Shabash plow." This took in accordance with his pre Ora Nicholson, a board mem The Communist or Commun- Ward Lumber Fortville, and Miss Brenda Hollis, WT.W's In Action Friday sidential campaign promise to ist-directed operators attend Edward S. Williams of the Sounds of the Century girl, was ber by virtue of his office as county surveyor, stated that to the American press, radio, television and newsreels for withholding the news of President-elect Eisenhower's trip to the far east while he was in Korea. Lovett said: "We wish to express to the American press, radio, television and newsreels the war mthanks of the offici-of the Department of Defense for their assistance in maintaining the necessary security measures to protect Gen. Eisenhower during his visit to Korea. "Their self-restraint and help in observing precautionary plow is a simple tool that the native can use that will enable seek ways and means toward an a visitor to The Reporter office briefing sessions before their Shamrock Motel west of Gem, house-to-house calls and later, were present.

Ward was grant- Hancock county's nine high "honorable peace." him to triple his crop yield this week. permits must be obtained from the planning board for the con Many of the operators are vie- ed approval for the construc This is greatly needed in a school basketball teams will all The General implied he would be in action Friday night. make no detailed report on his The pretty blond, Miss WLW, struction of residences, business land containing roughly one tions of the intricate web of par. tion of a 12-unit motel at the ty machinery the Red regime north side of U. S.

Highway 67 is touring this area in search of Sounds of the Century to b3 Greenfield's Tigers remain at precedented Korean trip until buildings, certain signs, and for sixth of the earth's population ThP nnt. nf nnP ni i five home to play Hagerstown. alter nis January juui maugur the use of ground for specified has spun. Everyone has to be- one-half mile east of Fortville. purposes such as dumps, ceme bushels of corn: three bushels Fortville Demons visit the ie pa iy, long to some organization.

Cost of the project was estimat- broadcast over WT.W. Only she and a WLW recording engineer will know the secret sound. The i which included two of his cabi teries, playing fields, airports "Freedom, comrade the par- ed at $40,000. Williams was of soybeans, or $7.50. Eagles at Charlottesville.

and etc. ty sent us," is the password granted approval for the sign If you will send a plowT, con- Eden's Flyers travel to Jack net appointees, will "study and digest" their on-the-scene find The board claims jurisdiction which opens all doors, spreads to be set up at the Mt. Comfort; tact your pastor, or send it di- on Central ings during their program on Saturday, Dec. 6th, at 8:45 a. m.

"Drop In With Brenda," will feature some facts about Greenfield. over all of Hancock County with fear and puts the occupants Road, six miles west of Green- vect to "The Indiana Council New Palestine's Dragons re the exception of the City of of every home immediately on fieid at the side of U. S. High of Churches" 5199 Board of main at home to play Mt. Com Greenfield.

guard. way 40. Trade Building, Indianapolis 4, fort's Buccaneers. The woman who now is safely Indiana. Indicate that it is for Kennard takes over the Wil- Five members of the planning a refugee in the west was pair kinson gym for their home the "Operation Plow" project.

board were present for the meet- ed with a Communist woman. game with the Wilkinson Bull ins. Thev were, hoard nresi Control Board trip back to New York and Washington. Eisenhower, who conferred with top-ranking commanders and ate lunch with three GIs at the front during his Korean so-iourn, promised that "much will be done" as a result of what he learned on this trip. His incoming administration, he declared, will be "better able Their first call in the effort to dent Everett Hollars Qra Nich dogs.

dun contributions to the "Kor Public Service Approves Maxwells Lions remain ai olson, Elbert Griffith, Paul Murphy and Elmo Chatham. home to play Markleville. ean cause" or the local five year plan was on a 60-year-old widow Met In Fortville Co-op Telephone Deal McCordsville's Pirates travel measures was a necessary part cf the program for providing all possible protection during the President-designate's trip to the war zone in Korea. "We feel that the public should be aware cf the help rendered us in response to our November 20 request for cooperation. The officials of the Department of Defense very much appreciate it." Pentagon Considers Plans For New Korean Offensive Pentagon experts today are studying a plan for a United Nations offensive that would include big amphibious and air assaults to push the Koreon fighting line about 75 miles farther north.

Following the recording of the secret sound, Miss WLW and the engineer will return to the Nation's Station with the tape. Then it will be broadcast to the entire WLW audience and listeners will be asked to idetify it during a telephone call. Those who guess the secret will win a brand new Kaiser, direct from the factory. Miss Hollis told this paper that the search for the secret sound has a two-fold purpose: 1 To entertain WLW listeners, and, so poor that she had to rent one to Boggstown. TWni ANA POT TVr MNii bed in her single-room apart- ar MotherS ropnt tn hp arilp tr no ripr rpr.t.

Greenfield will start Ray wn.t.ii;iu yvxxx Members of the Hancock fi-, Vnrpon rn. PiiWin fSpreir-P CW.1. T3M1 of i lu County Board of Rent Contro .1. met as well as with other m- and try to keep from starving. Met IIOVGITlbCr 20 df held their December meeting on luiuiiumiuu tuuttjf auiuuwicu wara, uicnara narmening at Unncipr Tplpnhnna tixi i leilldtlUIiai laaues.

Wednesday evening in Fortville mere is no eiecinc ngm; sne till cannot pay the bill. Her miser- IllC JlHNCy I0VI1 Hail Co-Operative of 13 northwest-- ard Darling at guard, according OTi frnm tb at the offices of the Fortville Lumber Co. Duane Adams, of able income is from doing some washing, ironing and cooking. The 10th District meeting of that company, is a member ern Indiana telephone ex- to a noon report from Coach South Korean government to changes. Wayne Irwin.

participate in a long-rehearsed Chairman Hugh Abbett We pick Haggerstown, Jack- de through tne battered but Instead of getting aid or Mothers of World War II was the board. The Rent Body holds regular meetings once a month, i wuitiau in Town Rall aiiu rov meiiiuci neuueu xcxx- son VCmrai, ixew iraiesuiie, wii-nis wrote the majority opinion kinson, Markleville and Mc- a stern lecture iiuiii me uuiu- The experts say that, by on Thursday, November 20, with munist "public educator," on giving the Co-Op permission to Cordsville as winning teams of shortening the front and im how she must join a communal "2 members from 11 units pre- gaily festooned streets of Seoul. But he extolled the bravery of the South Koreans and promised continued aid to the Republic of Korea in its struggle against the Communist aggressors. purchase the utilities from the the evening proving communications, the organization and do educational sent, including the Greenfield 2 To point up the outstanding fall and winter programs to be heard over the Cincinnati station. In all, eight new Kaisers will be awarded listeners for identifying the sounds on the air.

However, there will be a ninth prize, a hard top Kaiser Dragon, the most beautiful car of the estate of the late John Det work "you could educate your- group. chon. on the first Wednesday. It was decided to hold the meeting in Fortville for the convenience of the numerous occupants of rental property and landlords in that section of the county and a portion of the meetings in the future will be held there. Heretofore, all ses self and have books." A The lone Republican Commis- OHerbein Church Holds KitUo.

xxxi cord nsr to ritual at 10:30 a. m. sioner, Wallace Weatherholt, Clmnor anJ (ltarnn wrote a strongly-worded dis- jUppei anQ UUciinQ my eyes arent strong enougn cocc CIRCUIT COURT HEWS sent challenging the legal, tech to ieu aiij, muie. uuii un- reports were giyen The roU caU derstand politics." nf nfWrs units century, with prize winning new styling new breath-taking sions have been held in Green- nical and financial structure of The Mohawk and Otterbein the Co-Op. Evangelical United Brethren Martha J.

Reedy, of Fortville ine communist puoiic eauca- iven with Sulnhur Snrines filed. luxury and the safest front seat in the world. In this grand and Ingalls, has filed divorce Legal actions to set aside the churches of this community held Among those in attendance tor-informer breezily tells the unts hayirg the most present. woman that membership forms Tney WQn tne attendance prize will be sent her. "And by the whl.

hv tll41 hnstpss proceedings against Jesse C. order are expected to be filed a Thanksgiving supper at the in at least one of the 13 coun- Otterbein church last Friday were: Chas Russell, Charles Jackson, Carl Bennett and Mrs. Violet Brown, all of Greenfield; prize contest, listeners are invited to submit a 25-word state ment on: Reedy. She asks alimony of $5,000 and the restoration of her ties in which exchanges are lo evening, Nov. 28, for their pas- time you get old," she says, "you unit can be certain that you'll be as- sured of a quiet and happy oid cvetred dish luncheon was former name, Martha J.

Trees. cated Newton. White. Benton, tor and his family. After the "The Sound of the Century 1 A A 1 A The action states the couple Carroll.

Howard. Warren. TiDDe- magmiicent meai iney retirea to which has meant the most to offensive eventually would make it easier to realize President-elect Eisenhower's ultimate goal of turning over Korea's defense to South Koreans. They add that one of the main purposes of Eisenhower's trip to Korea undoubtedly was to determine whether such a limited offensive would be worth the cost. The purpose would be to get out of mountainous country and shift the fighting to Korea's comparatively flat "narrow neck," from Wonson on the east coast to the nearest water point below Pyongyang on the west.

This would shorten the battle lines by about 30 miles and would make it possible to del-ive supplies by sea almost directly to the front through Won-san's excellent harbor. Kansas Senator Calls For $10 Billion Cut In Budget Sen. Schoeppel (R) age by the government." canoe. Fountain, Montgomery, sanctuary lor a short ser- Charles Mitchell, Berry McKay and Mr. Adams, of Fortville and Robert Elliott, the Liaison Officer from State headquarters, of Indianapolis.

me married on Dec. 23, 1951, and separated on Nov. 26, 1952. A "ri.st.riM-. noitnt.ion trustee" eutei uuueu wim Vermillion, Parke, Hendricks ynce- The Sounds of the Century A beautifully decorated box conducts the briefing session, of gramDof whistling by Mrs.

which the following is an ex- and Putnam. girl, who now lives in Cincinnati, is sworn not to reveal the secret emple: was made to receive the love -offering, which amounted to one hundred sixty seven dollars. sound. Only she and the engi Comrade Toempe in Budapest I Pinnae A rloArma XT olliim rf RETURN FROM MICHIGAN DEER HUNT told how he knocked on a door I 'i it neer will know the sound until broadcast time. Then the an Pannonia Street and lmmed- lately encountered resistance." nouncer handling the phone calls will be brought in on the ASKS FOR CHANGE OF NAME secret.

The former army officer who i v. i ij av, Shirley unit. The auditing com- hved there had to be asked en- ii i mittee is, Mrs. Martha Nichol ergetically" to let him in. Once Miss Hollis recently joined the An action, in the Hancock Circuit Court, asking a change Tweedy vs.

Tweedy Noble G. Tweedy, 144 Hendrix street, has filed suit for divorce from Leoma G. Tweedy through his attorney Richard T. Line-back. The actions states that the couple married on October 22, 1931, and separated on November 28, 1952.

Miller vs. Miller Willa Dean Miller, 5y2 West Main street, has filed suit for divorce in Hancock Circuit court from Raymond Miller. She is represented in the suit by Attorney Thomas McKean. She asks that the court grant her custody of the children, ages 3, iy2 and 5 months. staff of the Nation's Station in.

Comrade Toempe discovered in name for a county resident, after a long stay in New York i- connersviue unit 41. to my horror that the former LAST INSTALLMENT Lee V. Tillis, Richmond, colored minister, was fined $1 and costs in Center Township Justice of the Peace Court recently. He made the last of three installments on the fine, paying $1.25 to the court Thursday night. He had previously paid $5 and sent an additional $6 by Western Union.

Tillis was arrested last Sept. 17, by State Police Trooper C. E. Mohr and charged with exceeding 30 mile per hour limit at Philadelphia. was filed last week.

where she sang at some of the called on Congress today to trim officer, who had no job whatso- Ane "tn uistncc Loren Munden, of Carthage; Gale Berry and Paul Gosset, of near Greenfield, and Max Lewis of Charlottesville, returned Saturday night from a 10 days' deer hunting trip at Atlanta and Cummins, about 100 miles from the Straits. They reported four deer killed and several sighted. Weather was cold with some snow, but encountered deeper snow as they neared Ft. Wayne enroute home. James Elliott Watson, by his I leading night clubs in Gotham.

ever, nevertheless ate bacon." Mrs- Vienna Young 01 conners- President Truman's budget $10 billion and let the excess profits attorney Richard T. Lineback, During the next two months The Comrade told the group Vllie closed tne meeting witn however, she'll have little time tax law die. requests the court that his name be changed to that "it was shocking that an Mother's Creed, prayer, retiring officer who definitely approved of tne colors, and the singing of to vocalize as she'll be on tour Schceppel, a Senate Small James Elliott Bolander. Rec of the WLW- four-state area of the remilitarization of Ger- God Bless Business committee member, ords on file with the court gave The next meeting will be at seeking out the Sounds of the I. no reason for the request.

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