Holland Evening Sentinel, The (Newspaper) - February 3, 1953, Holland, Michigan The Holland WiiK DAY Sentinel SIMM I 179 FEBRUARY 3, 1953 TEN FIVE CENTS HOPE STUDENT KILLED ACCIDENT Relief Committee For Netherlands Reactivated Here World War II Unit Seeks Cash Calls Are Discouraged Civic leaders swung into action today to aid an estimated persons in the flood devastated Netherlands by reactivating the American Relief for Holland com- Under direction of wartime Municipal Judge Cornelius vander Meulen and Maynard Mohr of the committee will accept cash contributions Money should sent directly to the two men and not to the Checks should be made payable to the American Relief for Holland Money donated here will be for- warded to the Dutch embassy in Washington and cabled to The Hague for immediate Midwest Netherlands Information Service Director Willard C. Wieners hoped that many churches will take up collections this Sunday to add to the Wichers said the need now money to buy food and Plans are presently being formed to collect and ship blankets and cooking He urged residents to gather these and hold them until an an- is made through the Red Cross for their said that information troyi The Hague requested dents not to try and contact tives or friends in the He said that communications are out in many places and other spots are virtually tied in knots by rescue Casualty lists are not yet able but the Netherlands tion Service is in constant touch with the Dutch and New As soon as lists are able they will be The Red Cross said that no casualties have been reported among American troops in Wichers said the local tee will serve as a funnel for aE collections in Western Michigan until other cities are able to set up similar He said that communications have been ed from New Cleveland and other points across the country asking what they can do to In these and many others huge civic rallies are underway to collect much needed Horace Dodge Divorce Settlement Arranged WEST PALM Fla. attorney for Horace E. Dodge the automobile family indicated today that terms of Dodge's divorce arrangement are almost The attorney would not disclose the terms of the but it was learned that under one of its stipulations Mrs. Clara Tinsley Dodge would receive a year after taxes and a home in Ky. Dodge filed for divorce here last charging his wife with extreme He said she is an insanely jealous and often falsely accused him of He said she would sometimes treat him like a Mrs. Dodge had filed a divorce earlier in The couple were married in England in 1945 and separated in 1950. They had no American Wichers Money in the form of checks or money orders should be sent to Cornelius vander City Holland or Maynard Zeeland State 13 Second-String Reds Sentenced To Fined NEW YORK con- second string Communist leaders in the States were fined up to today and to prison terms ranging from one to three Each of the 13, who told the court a jail term would be better than going to could have been sentenced to five years in a federal prison and fined Federal Judge Edward J. Dimock said Monday he would impose the maximum sentence on none of the The stiffest sentences Three years and were on seven Elizabeth Gurley 62-year-old the American Communist Pettis 56, born Negro who was active in the party in California before assuming national Alexander 63, Communist Alexander 67, also a founder of the Communist paper Daily Victor J. 56, member of the party's National Educational Louis 49, Communist trade union and Arnold 48, a native of who was also active in Communist groups in Ohio and in Pa. Sentenced to two years and fined Jacob 71, charter member of the U. S. Communist Betty 46, national director of Albert cis 45, party maritime worker and izer in Maryland the District of William 55, organizer of the committee was originally formed in 1940 to aid the stricken Dutchmen who were forced to open the dikes during World War flooding much of the same land now under Wichers said the response at that time was over- whelming and he felt that Holland and Western Michigan residents would again open their pocketbooks and wallets to Mother With Polio Will See Son for First Tuna BATTLE Mich. A mother who was stricken with polio a month before her son was born was preparing today to see him for the first Mrs. Maxine confined to an iron lung at Percy Jones Army will travel to in a Her son is staying there with his Mrs. W. H. The born Aug. 13, was taken from his mother immediately to prevent any chance of contacting the Dike Snow Add to Disaster In Low Countries Casualty Lists Soar As Relief Agencies Tend to Homeless The Netherlands breaks in dikes and heavy snows heaped additional misery today on the Low Official and unofficial totals placed the number of dead in the century's worst storm at But the disaster united Europe as politics never Small boats in numbers recalling the days of Dunkirk worked slowly through waters to isolated islands and villages still cut off by the flood seeking Under the leadership of United Lt. Gen. Manton S. named assistance com- by Gen. Matthew B. aid poured in from the United Sweden and South Little Holland was mobilized as if for Minister Willem Drees told the is solidarity against the elements and we shall Drees told Parliament 627 were known dead in The figures placed the total at 700, not counting 200 reported dead at the village of Stavenisse and 180 others at the village of Oude Deaths from the same storm in Great Britain were placed at 445; in Belgium 20, and A U. S. Air Force spokesman announced 11 American service wives and children were known dead and six were missing and presumed dead in The death record was expected to be boosted today since com- around the perimeter of the area of Southern Holland were established Monday bringing new casualty re- Holland alone may list lead when the final count is An 18-hour snowstorm lolland for Bravery For heroic without fic orders from a superior Peter J. De Haan of Holland as been awarded a lon for bravery by the ng officer of the USS De Haan is credited with saving tie life of an aviator forced down i heavy seas near the Beale on maneuvers off the coast The American Relief for Holland American and George B. 47, Harvard graduate and officer of the New York State Communist Lightest sentence was handed Claudia 37, secretary of the party's National Women's who was given one year and a day in prison and a Miss Jones is a Negro native of the British West Judge Dimock had heard ments of the defendants and their and one-half passing attorneys for one court days before The Weather Cloudy and cold with snow ries Colder low 14. temperatures high 36. The sun sets tonight p.m. and rises tomorrow at Local Reports Reported by the U. S. Weather Bureau instruments ait col- The temperature at 11 day was 26 For the 24 hours 5 p.m. yesterday the instruments ed the 32. 12. tracts J on One 40. 32. on He told the who allegedly took over party leadership from 11 top leaders jailed following a 1949 conviction on similar Survey to Include Vicinity BATTLE CREEK The U.S. census bureau will begin a of retail nesses in Holland and vicinity this according to Mrs. Edna S supervisor of the district office Questionnaires will be sent to a representative cross-section stores whose operators will be ed to sales data each month on a continuing In each month bureau enum will visit an ever-changing group of local businesses in differ ent sections of the area to ge supplementary Sales data collected each month will be included with figures from 229 other arpas to provide information on retail and service The Holland survey will enable the census bureau to check the of the forthcoming 1951 census of business and to include data in the 1953 census for and service establishments which were started or went out of bust ness during that It is also expected to provide a more comprehensive na tional retail sale's thereby improving the bureau's program o monthly retail trade statistics which dates back to 1939. Haan on his and without voluntarily climbed down the side of the ship n a cargo net to help left a injured airplane pilot out f the such action you materially in removing he pilot from the water where he was in immediate danger of isolated small villages in Southeast Holland just outside flood Hundreds of rescue were digging through seven feet of snow aid the towns of and The nation's dike weakened and undermined ay the tides of the North ripped anew day The new breaches in the dikes brought a rash of SOS signals from towns and villages isolated and threatened by new One of the towns threatened most seriously was a city of on Schouwen An amateur radio operator said were missing and probably captain of a vessel which Monday night rescued 400 persons from the Tholen Island village of Stavenisse said the town's mayor told him at least 200 persons died A military launch confirmed this but it was not listed immediately in the official Dutch death set up headquarters at the His staff indicated the size of American and listed two generals and an among 13 staff The Dutch Radio Hilversum said it had received an unofficial mate that listed persons in distress in the Netherlands Many were con- fused and In Britain the sea poured through holes in coastal walls a high causing further damage in Button and A hun for bodies went on along the Brit ish east coast and on Foulness Is land and the little Thames Isle of There were at least 100.00C homeless in Britain Along the east coast villages and cities turned dance public buildings and hospitals into re centers for Ho blankets and medicines were passed out by municipal and Autopsy Set in Case On Body Found in Attic DETROIT An autopsy was scheduled today into death of Mrs Minnie 56 whose body found Monday in the of her daughter's home She had been missing for Police searched the home when her Mrs. Lorraine White reported the disappearance Dec. I but failed to notice the seldom used trap door leading to the attic Mrs. White said she went to th attic to store some suitcases ant found her mother's A prelim inary examination failed to show the cause of Mrs. White said hpr mother ha been depressed since the death o her husband last July One person was killed and five others Injured late Monday after- noon when a car containing four Hope college students collided with light pickup truck at 32nd St. and the Graafschap Rd. two wett of The car hit broadside on the sending it Into a The pickup truck spun completely throwing driver to the Claryce 21-year-old college died in Holland than an hour f Florida Jan. 22. According to the citation De Ground Broken for New Tank Plant in Newark Del. Chrysler Corp. officials said today that assembly production of the Army's big heavy tank will get under- way at their Newark plant the near The regarded as America's answer to the Russian 57-ton Stalin HI will mount a 120- millimeter the heaviest ever carried on a high-speed Specifications of the have not been released The company broke ground day for a new addition to the production and testing plant located near the University of Delaware The commendation 27 dated Jan. are hereby commended for your personal A copy of this letter will be placed in your service t is signed by F. H. Price commanding De Haan is the son of Mr. and Gerrit De Haan of 316 West 9th St. He entered the service in July of 1949 and following ng at Great Lakes Naval ng Station served at various al At present he is in rolk to a month cruise of the Caribbean Mies of Missing Children Found m. The of Jean 6, and three-year-old Edward Rosenstiel were found today beneath the ice of the Du Page River near their homes where they disappeared nearly two months Police Sgt. Darwin Matter said had not been able to determine how the children they were inclined to the children drowned while at The children disappeared Dec. touching off a vast search by of volunteers who ered 400 square miles and pumped out millions of gallons of water a 90-feet ed near the The girl's body was the first A lineman working on a transformer pole at the bank of the river something red beneath the ice. Investigation dis- closed the girl's clad in a red coat and parka which she was wearing when she Her body was beneath the ice in three feet of Police began an immediate search and found the body about 35 feet The bodies were taken to funeral parlor for Witness Testifies Politics WASHINGTON head of the Internal Revenue Bureau's alcohol tax division told investigators today that wrong kind of has interfered with the ad- ministration of his Dwight E. Avis made the tion before a House subcommittee investigating tax scandals as it began a public hearing into ations of the Treasury's tax k no question but that the troubles of the division can be attributed tti wrong kind of Aavis you mean that politics has interfered substantially with cient Chairman Robert W. Kean asked Avis think in fairness to the persons I might have to refer to the subcommittee should hear my testimony abou that in executive session Avis went oh to say that his charge of had to do primarily with to division but also involved the handling of It involved he testimony came as a The subcommittee hac called on him to lay the ground work for later disclosures of pos sible in the division by giving the group a technical briefing on the agency's Kean commended Avis for his and added that th subcommittee would hear ex planation of his charge of in executive session after day's public Albion Resident Killed Mich. Clay 43, was and two passengers were Monday night when ca went out of control on a curve am hit a tree 12 miles west of hei e The Mike Pearce and brother were taken to Memorial Hospital in and Wife Murdered in Home Neb. elderly doctor and his wife were shot to leath in their home early today nd a few hours later police at orth arrested a man the doctor's Lincoln County Sheriff O. L. identified the man as Nick or Nick Discoe said identification cards ie carried showed both Laundry marks in his clothing ried the name Dave Dr. Byron W. 76-year-old was slain after he an- swered a knock at the door this The gunman then dered Hall's 70-year-old wife in her 3ed, and fled in HaD's Discoe said Johnson could not a coherent story of his actions Monday night and early this He said the suspect claimed the car was given to him by a stranger in Sioux day and he got and State Safety Patrolmen Dean Casselman and Vernon Rolfs cap- tured They placed him in custody of the pending arrival of Omaha i The patrolmen said he was armed with a caliber automatic pistol and a caliber revolver but offered no Johnson told the sheriff he at- tended Omaha University from 1950 to 1950, and also had been confined in a hospital for a nervous Senators Probe Welfare Payments WASHINGTON much as a year in public welfare payments has been going to Senate in- were told Jerome assistan counsel of the Senate's Investigations esti mated the average at between and and said in some years it ha. ranged on upward Adlerman was the first in the subcommittee's inquiry mti alleged past o the Federal Security Agency which distributes about 000 a year in welfare grants to th States Public welfare payments are financed jointly by federal am state but States the primary responsibility fo on the payments were a number of in stances of fraud m New Yorl Adlerman Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy Wis chairman of the said the FSA inquiry was on of spot being mad into the executive branch of th Disaster sandbag railroad tracks near U try U hold back raging flood In storm that left and U Joan Rozeboom Last Rites Thursday For Accident Victim Funeral services will be held In Thursday afternoon Claryce 21-year-old Hope college senior who was fatally injured in a crash near Holland late Monday after- Private rites will be held at p.m. from the Throop funeral home and public services will be held at 2 p.m. in Reformed church of which her father is Dr. Eugene of Western Theological seminary will Burial will be in Pilgrim Home cemetery in Pall bearers will be members of the senior at Hope The family has requested that no flowers be but donations will be accepted for a memorial for Hope Herman F. Laug of Coopersville has been designated to receive Miss Rozeboom is survived by her the Rev. and Mrs. Gerrit two Mrs. Edwin Mulder of Holland and Mary a at Hope a 13-year-old James at and a Mrs. Lucy Plette of la. Miss Rozeboom was an tary education major at Hope col- a member of Delta Phi and active in musical Last summer she was pianist for vesper services at Castle 5 Others Injured As Pickup Crash at Crossing Tragedy Occurs at Graafschap Rd. and 32nd St. Intersection A Hope college senior was and five persons were ed in a crash of a car and pickup truck at p.m. Monday at the intersection of 32nd St. and the Graafschap Rd. two miles west of Claryce Joan 21- daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. G. J. Rozeboom of Coopi dded of a skull fracture and head injuries at uj Holland less than an hour after the I Miss Rozeboom was a passenger in a car driven by John Robert 21, of 3401 Eight Mile Grand which collided with a pickup truck driven by Gerrit 70, route 1. Scholf ten was driving west on 32nd taking a group of Hope studenti to the home of Robert Cavanaugh of the Hope college music faculty for a Hamburg Bonge wai driving his truck on the Graafschap Rd. headed for home near Bonge was in fair condition tap day in Holland hospital where he was under treatment for lacerations of the lip and tions to the back of the He had not recovered ness up to noon Riding with him was his 28, who received a knee but WM not admitted to driver of was under treatment in Holland pital tor severe shock and other He not .be questioned Also riding in the SchoMen were Arlene 21, of 111., Marjorie 21, of 753 Miss Ritsema suffered shock and a bruised She transferred this morning to the college Miss Dykema a ankle and laceration of the She remained in conditions were ed as The which records first for Ottawa county for 1953, investigated by Forry and Lucas of sheriffs Henry Bouwman the sheriffs Prosecutor Wendell A. Miles arid Coroner Gilbert Vande intersection occurs at a rather sharp dip in the road for a stop for east-west Coroner Vande Water said Henry Vandenberg of 882 West 32nd who was traveling west on 32nd St. was one of first on the Vandenberg said he wae flagged down by Judge Continues Dearborn Probe DETROIT Judge Miles N. Culehan moved ahead with his one man grand jury investigation of Dearborn city government today while Mayor Orville Hubbard protested that it violates American ciples of fair who will be one of opponents in the April election for the Wayne circuit demanded that the grand jury either be assigned to an outside judge or postponed until after the He made his demand in a letter to Judge Joseph A. presiding over the Michigan circuit who in turn sent it to Judge Ira W. presiding over the Wayne circuit is scandalously Hubbard one circuit judge candidate to conduct a grand jury in the middle of his own re- election campaign against an nent who is the principal target of his Hubbard said Culehan had sely and him in allegedly leging he has a gun permit and never practiced Hubbard said he has no gun permit and not only practiced law when Culehan political conventions and bounced out sition but was an sistant state attorney general for two who was standing east of the seeking Van route 6, driving south on Graafschap Rd. was about 300 feet north ot the intersection whan the crash He he did not see the Scholten car stop for the stop Officers said the light truck hit the car broadside on sending it into a tree on the southwest The truck spun completely Hitting the tree kept the car from going down a steep The car was demolished and truck was damaged to the extent of about officers Miss riding in back seat of the Scholten car with Miss was trapped in the wreckage for a She was freed when Deputy Forry unlaced her A deep settled on Hope campus after news of the accident became Students had just completed semester exams and were ready for the new this At chapel Dean John Hollenbach lated facts of the accident and Rev. Henry college conducted A special chapei exercise will be held Gloom on the campus today was similar to the start of the ter last September when two Hope students were killed and three others injured in a iruck crash new Wholesale Prices Off WASHINGTON sale prices fell 0.2 of 1 per cent during tho week Jan. 27. duo mainly to declines meat and other farm products and cessed December Slaughter Totals LANSING packers slaughtered during an increase 39 per cent over the same month a year Federal State Cooperative Reporting Service an- December reports also indicated hogs were art increase of I per an increase of IS per and sheep and art increase of 30 per cent. TONIGHT Furniture
