Logansport Press (Newspaper) - September 2, 1950, Logansport, Indiana LOGANSPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY Weather GOVERNMENT FORECAST Mostly cloudy today gener ally fair Sunday LOGANSPORT PRESS Only Local Morning Paper Serving Cass Carroll Pulaski Miami Fulton White Counties 450 Days Without A Fatal Traffic Ac in VOL 30 NO 69 NBA LOGANSPORT INDIANA SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21950 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS George E SOKOLSKY These Davs PRINCIPLES OF LIFE Every someone attempts to restate the principles of Americanism the latest being an article in Look prepared by Sigurd S Larmon and Thomas W Lapham of the advertising firm of Young and Rubicam It needs wide circulation particularly among many of our youth who have never been taught that their country is not a geographic accident but the product of a philosophy It seems to me that the Larmon and Lapham statement avoids the central inspirational ideal of our civilization Either the authors do not feel the hard core of American history or they avoided it lest it stimulate controversy Yet it is controversy we need over such a task as theirs So let us quarrel I will take point 1 In this art icle Each person is of importance and value as an individual Ask State For Ruling On Tipton Tp School Difference US TO DOUBLE Russia Talks Peace But Is Aggressor He Avers Sacrifices for War Demanded of Americans Hopes to Keep Chinese Out of Fighting Washington Sept 1 Truman announced tonight plans for doubling American armed strength to nearly 3000000 men Mr Truman warned Russia in a world wide broadcast not to misjudge American increases may be made This is the j backed by heavier war production and all the vast economic of this nation Previously defense officials had set live his own life to speak for himi their sights on 2500000 men in uniform by next June oU self to choose and change his 1 In a report to his countrymen and the world on United leaders States aims and hopes and why we are fighting in Korea the WE MUST ASK WHY each j Kave assurances there will be no general war unless LTn communist imperialism drags in other armies and govern who have been trained in the nai ments The United States the President said does not believe in aggressive or preventive war Such war is the weapon of dictators In Korea Mr Truman said the invasion has reached its peak and United Nations forces hold a firm base He said five Amer ican combat divisions are in ac tural and social sciences say that not the individual but that society is important It is impossible to avoid this issue between Marxism and Chris this quarrel between na tural law and biologic theory In a word unless we accept as Amer have for three centuries ac the concept that the indi vidual man as a creation of God possesses qualities different and distinct from all else in nature it is impossible to say that each Win Awards In Gass Youths Win 45 Placings From Entries at State person is of importance and value as an individual HE IS OF THIS NATURE by the grace of God or he is no different from any other thing expendable removable tran to be suppressed if need be by those who in the struggle for existence possess the power so to decide the Home Economics Division Cass county club youths hauled down a total of 45 plac ings in various exhibits and jud ging contests in early rounds of the annual Indiana State Fair 75000 men They are fighting he said for the proposition that peace shall be the law of the earth Must Sacrifice Here at home the President said more work and sacrifice will be shall have to give up many things we enjoy Next week he plans another fireside chat to the people on the impact of the war on them on what must be done to combat Walton Onward Schools Closed to Await Decision Both Factions Agree to Abide By Order of State Education Head Consolidation Fails Yesterday When the scheduled consolidation of Walton and Onward schools was only partially carried out yesterday on organi day with parents of Onward junior and senior high children refusing to send their youngsters to Walton for en it resulted in a temporary closing of both schools of Tipton township until a final decision can be obtained from Deane Walker state superintendent of Public Instruction and the Indiana Board of Education This was the announcement made last night by Raymond S Julian Cass county superintendent of schools Julian said that the earliest possible moment for an interview with Wal ker will be on Tuesday morning when he will meet with state school head to relate DEDICATE J Harold Mertz of Logansport high school addresses the crowd of over 3000 who turned out to witness dedication of the new Red Devil stadium and the first game of this season last night Behind him are 1 to r Ralph Beabout Plymouth of the who spoke briefly Gerald Hershberger of the stadium corporation who turned the sta dium over to Carl A Zimmerman far right super intendent of city Press PhotoEngraving at Indianapolis it was announced inflation and runaway prices Dodging this issue does not help yesterday by John W Connelly county agent In the Home Economics divi us because whereas the Marxian concept recognizes man as a oio logic thing the concept recognizes man as a crea ture of God and Americans in that ideal of life in the Declaration of Independence thus making it a fundamental princi ple of our existence as a nation So the authors Larmon and home economics division were Lapham say in their point 3 that clothing Norma Meeker second we believe that all men are Henrietta created equal but created by whom That they do not say If there is there must be a God Why do we avoid that word Tonight Mr Truman reviewed American action and hopes for peace since the last war and set sion thirteen Cass county girls forth an program of won awards two won placings in American aims and hopes at the forestry nine in dairy cattle moment He accompanied this with one in poultry and egg judging j an almost savage indictment of and twenty in sheep beef and Russia swine exhibits I The Soviet Union has repeat Those winning places in the division blue ribbon Henrietta Thompson third division red rib bon Patricia Stephenson fourth division white ribbon and Phyllis Nelson fifth division blue ribbon Marv Margaret Heckard and Cla MAXY TODAY believe that all j ra Alice Shoup fifth division blue that exists is the product of I ribbons Marlene Sailors Patri chance that in the fierce struggle for life that has marked the mil cia Mayhill and Betty Berry fifth division red ribbons Food lions of years of the living in the j preservation Treva Maye Pullen universe atoms molecules and all i third division white ribbon and else that they describe in precise Lulu Belle Hardy fourth divi terms joined together in millions sion red ribbon of combinations and permutations j In the forestry class John Ro and produce what exists including berson took a blue ribbon while man But if life is a chance then no Creator was necessary and there Phillip Geiger was sixth Harrison Team 9th Harrison townships judging edly violated its pledges of in cooperation It has destroyed the independence of its neighbors It has sought to disrupt those countries it could not dominate It has built up tremendous armed forces far beyond the needs of its own defense Communist imperialism preaches peace but practices ag Yet the chief executive held the door open for Russia to join in establishing peace in a troubled world We invite all the nations of the world without exception he said to join us in this great work Wants China Out In stating his eight aims the fore there can be no divine law i he China away from in rals no ethics no free will I end event m the Korean conflict no moral no freedom of the constant and unending struggle for T The dairy class exhibit saw survival Julia Naftzger win fourth on an Alexander Hamilton answered that when he said THE SACRED RIGHTS of man kind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments of musty records They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of div itself and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power The American ideal is that Ayrshire senior and ninth with an Ayrshire senior yearling George Naftzger won tenth in senior Ayrshire calf and Twelfth with a Senior Ayrshire yearling Margaret Hamon was first in Ayrshire senior yearlings fifth in Junior and fourth in The points 1 We believe in the United Na tions 2 We believe Koreans have a right to be free 3 We dont want the Korean fighting to expand into general war 4 We particularly hope the Chinese people wont be misled into fighting the United Nations Ayrshire cow Sally and the American people who still Hickey was tenth in Brown Swiss senior calf class and Dick Bridge freedom comes from God that we j vas 19th in Holstein senior year are free men and women each as an individual not because a con ling In the sheep class Ann Zimmer was first in Corriedale lambs or an act of Congress made us so but that God so willed i in single ewe lamb and it and stipulated natural law as the of freedom The authors do say that in showmanship The beef cattle exhibit result from I eri m Bob Burley getting a sixth are their friends Only Commun ist imperialism which already has started dismembering China could gain from Chinas involvement 5 We want none of Asia For mosa included for ourselves 6 We believe in freedom all far eastern nations 7 We do not believe in agres sive or preventive war peace and we shll fifth in lightweight and heavy Lineup of Labor Parade on Monday Set by Committee Day a Holiday Here Public Invited to Celebration Renner Rites Today Dad Reported Fair After Heart Attack i Final services for Douglas Hen ner 18 of 1216 Spear street i kilted in an auto crash Thursday I will be this afternoon at two oclock at the ton chapel The Reverend Ken neth Ball will officiate and burial will be in the Albright chapel cemetery near Kokomo The youths father T A Hen The long Labor Bay weekend ner is reported fair at St begins today for most industrial j Josephs hospital He was admit workers of the city Stores will ted there with a heart attack stay open for Three New Cars in Road 24 Crash open for regular evening hours today before closing up un til Tuesday Public buildings will join commercial houses and fac after word of his sons death Thomas Stout IS 206 Fifth street also injured in the acci dent is still serious but slightly tones m the holiday improved and partially conscious Monday Holiday traffic through Logans port had already started yester day and congestion was greater than on some Saturdays For those who remain in the city over the holiday there will be some unusual recreation pro vided The Trades and Labor As sembly of the A F of L invites the public to join in their day long celebration Monday For the there will be a stock car race at the Cass fairgrounds qualifications starting at noon and the first race at 2 p m Labors celebration will start at 11 oclock with a gala parade Line of march will be from Tenth street west in High to Third south on Third to Broadway and east in Broadway to Eighth street Final preparations were made last night and the following or der announced Section escort fire department Wabash V F W at Memorial hospital Public inquest into the tragedy will be Tuesday morning at nine oclock at the courthouse in charge of Dr M B Stewart coroner North Koreans Open New Drive Jump Off on Southern End of War Front the situation as it exists in Tipton township Yesterday afternoon Julian call ed in principals William Helms of Onward Dally Hunter ol Walton and Tipton township Trustee Vir gil Turner along with township attorney Donald D ONeill for a conference Up To State Now Julian said it was decided at that meeting to abide by the de of the state board of ed and that meanwhile both schools of Tipton township are to remain closed until the state reach a decision When schools opened yesterday 220 elementary pupils from botn Onward and Walton communities All Lady Drivers Involved reported at the Onward school In Mishap Tokyo Saturday Sept 2 Korean Communists and I tanks struck at dawn today against American lines west of Masan on the second day of a offensive against a segment of the United Nations defense This blow was against the U S color guard C L U float Division at the southern end cial cars j of the battle perimeter 35 miles Section and west of the Heds big objective ters float cars and marchers the lifeline port of Pusan The Hoyal Center band state hospital i Reds were reported under orders employes Kokomo C L U I to take Masan 27 air miles west Section Machinists 450 of Pusan in three days float Machinists 1514 cars and j Farther north Red reinforce 3231 ments streamed the Nak 669 tong river to build up a threat ening wedge in the U S Sec Section Rubber Workers ond Divisions position defending 24043 float cars and marchers i Yongsan That town is within Electricians float cars and 11 miles of another Red goal ers Wabash C L U highway Three new cars each driven by a woman were involved in colli sion west of the city where high ways 24 and 35 join at oclock yesterday Mary E McMillen 33 Indian apolis driver of the first vehicle in the rearon wreck pleaded guilty in JP court to failure to give a turn signel She was fined and costs of The McMillen car was un scratched Headed west in 24 she missed the first turn north into 35 and stopped suddenly to make the second turn Stopping suddenly behind her was a carload of four women from Elwood Althea M Morris 37 driving But the next car in the line driven by Mary F Minch 20 Continental O could not stop The car driven by Miss Minch had damage to the front end while Mrs Morris auto had damage to the rear The car driven by Miss Minch belongs to the father of Pat Wessels 19 route 5 Fort Wayne The three young ladies in the auto were on their way to Lafayette and were on highway 24 because they had missed the turn at Cicott street Miss Wessels hit her head on the windshield and was taken to Me hospital to be treated for shock and head injuries Trooper Robert Kelley investi gated building and were enrolled All pupils in the township but four in the second grade and four in the third grade were accounted for by their teachers superintendent Julian stated Practically all of the pupils of the upper six grades of the On ward community reported at the Onward school There were 12 seventh graders 13 eighth graders 18 freshmen ten 13 juniors and nine seniors who should have gone to the Walton building where the high school teaching staff was provided but who reported at the Onward ing along with the elementary pupils Setup Different The elementary teachers took the names of these pupils but could not enroll them in their high school classes since the high school program and teaching staff was et up to operate in the Wal ton building The school buses made their regular routes but most of the Onward children were brought to the school in cars As a result of the action by the Onward people refusing to send petition from the patrons or approval of the advisory board That ruling has not been appealed to a higher court The Onward community people held a meeting in the Onward school gym Thursday night attend ed by all of the parents except one when a vote was taken not to send their children to Walton Olin S Mays member of the Tip ton township advisory board from Onward presided at the meeting Attorney J T Hillis who repre sents the Onward group also at tended the session While the school controversy in Tipton township continue It ii pointed out that the budget for next year has not yet been passed by the township ad board because of the dis pute Olin Mays and Carl Shaff two of the three members of advisory board passed a resolu tion calling for the addition of to the budget to hire addi tional teachers but further action was withheld pending the outcome of the consolidation case The budget had been submitted to the advisory board by the trustee on the basis of the con solidation whereby only one hich school and one grade school would be operated in the township Since the decision is now being placed in the hands of Deane Walker state superintendent of public instruction school patroni of both will be anx iously awaiting his decision Trustee Virgil Turner said Walk er had promised to back him up in the consolidation of the Walton and Onward schools but four On ward residents who conferred with Walker when he was Wednesday for the Columbia school dedication declared that Walker indicated he would sup WOMAN KILLED Greencastle Ind Sept 1 Mrs Belle B Boyer 65 of Terre j Haute was killed today in an collision at US 40 and Ind 75 port them in the controversy Settlement Made in Rail Dispute May Be Basis for Train men Talks marchers Letter Carriers Postal Clerks 3221 Culinary and Bartenders 780 float even though life liberty and other unalienable rights are granted to man by his Creator they require some protection by man himself classes Tenth in lightweight Hereford steer fifth and sixth in medium weight Hereford steer Showmanship Awards In the honor n BlT IT IS NOT THAT man re quires some protection by man but rather that he must live with in the confines of natural law for thus can he be protected We have surely lost our way township m heavyweight short and anyone who seeks to lead us On Page 2 back to the white paved road of truth that served us from James town and Plymouth to this genera tion is constructive in our days Winamac Truck Child 3 Fatally Hurt Indianapolis Sept 1 Billy Flonnory a Indian apolis child died in General hos pital morning several hours SrC i l TT m of drum corps Section Local 668 f oat cars and marchers A F L j Musicians band Carpenters float Continued on Page Nine i Schools Make Opening Plans i 2 Teacher Changes Two hundred Navy and Marine carrier based planes swarmed over the Second and Divi sions pouring down a deadly fire that added to Communist casualties already totaling be Birds Fly At Once Causing Wire Short 6000 wounded since the drive i opened early Friday Yesterday Air Force pilots re Strike of GE Plant Workers Is Announced Xew York Sept 1 CIO International Union of Elec Workers today called a strike against the General Miami Township Farm 33 of Winamac The boy who lived at 319 N West street was struck at Tippe canoe and West streets Police said Blue reported that of 200 Acres Sold child dashed across the street i suddenly and he was unable to Sale of a 200 acre farm in Miami j avoid hitting him township was recorded yesterday i with county recorder Mrs Ada j STEAL WAX HANDS Arnold by Thurman and Elma I Rose smith to Floyd T Ken worthy j Toronto Sept 1 IB Thieves of Howard county stole two wax hands from dum Consideration of the sale was mies in the Crime Does Not not announced but revenue stamps Pay show on the Canadian na Parochial schools of the city j and damaging nine others Ground j have announced opening dates and reports listed seven other tanks j faculty changes destroyed St Bridgets and St Josephs j Catholic schools will open Wed September 6th Registra tion at St Josephs was held Fri day St Vincents school will open Monday September 11 Changes of teachers are listed at St Bridgets where Sister Per will be in charge of the i seventh and eighth grades and at War Power Given to President Electric Company beginning Tues affixed to the deed indicated the tional exhibition last aay price was night St Josephs where Sister Made leine will replace Sister Hilde brand in teaching the second and third grades There are no changes St Vincents Washington Sept 1 gress today approved a hand ing to President Truman sweep ing powers to force wages j prices hoarders line to wither inflation and win the war Upon the Presidents signature the authority will be his to use almost as he sees fit There was an interruption of electric service on a Logansport rural line yesterday afternoon 1 Thanks to an alert house wife the cause and location of it were immediately known 2 Thanks to alert linemen re pairs were quickly made Service was restored in 30 minutes Birds caused it That is the word of Mrs Keith Hook who lives on trr Indian Creek road northwest of Logans port She was looking when about 150 cowbirds which had put their weight on one of the 7200 volt wires decided to fly at the same time as cowbirds do The weight suddenly removed the wire sprang up and struck another The short burned one of the hot wires in two and it fell across the road When the current went off a students of the upper six grades i to Walton the closing j of the Tipton township schools j until the case is taken by the j county school superintendent to i the State Board of Education for the official ing j In Court Previously j The school consolidation had j been aired in Cass circuit court several weeks ago when Special Judge Forrest Jump of Howard Washington Sept 1 T The county returned a ruling that the House tonight announced township trustee acted within his of a ong wage dispute own legal rights by virtue of his I between the AFL office to reorganize his schools j union and ten western railroads within the township without a The agreement calls for a cent hourly wage increase I It is expected to have an ence on a parallel controversy between the nations railroads and the Trainmen and Conductors unions j The latter dispute resulted in I strike call and seizure last Sunday of the railroads by the government to prevent tying up the lines i The Trainmen and Conductors plant and a line truck was sent to the scene Mrs Hook when she got the line called the light office at the city building Clarence Quillen line foreman took the call He then called the plant to send a are asking for 48 hours pay for a week for yard workers and wage adjustments for those in train service found one had just left 4 150 Employed Here the men not knowing where or NQW Jg Than State Had Expected nng what was the Quillen took off and caught the truck as Willard Heishman was about to examine the first trans former to see if a fuse had gone out They went on to the scene of the break and in 30 minutes had service restored The break was at current was flowing again at About 150 customers are on this rural circuit which is of the higher 7200 voltage The quick and accurate report by Mrs Hook saved at least another maybe more of running the line by the crew and bypassed tests which might have jeopardized couple of patrons called the light linemen as well as taking time According to the Indiana State Employment Service current em ployment of 4150 in Logansport exceeds forecasts made two ago A further substantial in crease is predicted for the next four months Female employment is down slightly but a 17 per cent gain ii predicted by midNovember Un employment insurance claims have dropped to the lowest point in many months The local trend reflects the up ward swing in employment i throughout the state
