Herald Press, The (Newspaper) - March 8, 1954, Saint Joseph, Michigan Phones ROOM YU BUSINESS OFFICE YU THE REACHES THE HOMES IN BERRIEN COUNTY TWELVE PAGES FINAL EDITION Full Leased Wire Report of Associated Press ST JOSEPH MICH MONDAY MARCH 8 1954 Consolidated Sept 9 1916 Member of Circulation fair and mild tonight High in the past 24 hoars was 44 at noon Sunday Low was 33 at mid- night Sunday PRICE FIVE CENTS STRIKE HAY TIE NILES RAIL YARDS Regional Basketball Drawings Listed o o Fresh Conflict Brewing Between Egypt Leaders Call Emergency Council CAIRO Egypt March 8 Leaders of Egypt's military regime met in emergency session in army headquarters today amid reports a fresh conflict was brewing between President Maj Gen Mohammed Naguib and his fellow officers on the ruling revolutionary council At the same time civilian cabinet ministers were reported conferring in the parliament building i Naguib wants too de- Sears Roebuck and Company assumed the firm would not one member of the council have completed the purchase of I bought the property if it did not who declined use of his name seven acres of West Main st intend to build i The council and cabinet were perty in Benton Harbor that it isj sears officials said at the scheduled to hold a joint considering as the sue for a Sears the were bought they would ence tonight to thresh out powers retail merchandising center make surveys to determine if the to be exercised by the council Atty Robert P Small 1 were Announcement Sears Purchases Big Site For New Shopping Center and the Ing the big chain retail outlet day confirmed that options ed last September on four pieces of land have been exercised t Location of Property Deal is on the south side of The total price paid Has believed Maln sl near the st Joseph river in the neighborhood of it ls vacant except for one small though Atty Small declined to dis- old building it includes 225 feet that purchase been completed i ent assembly to be elected m July was taken to mean the surveys proved the site satisfactory of frontage on Main st due east of cuss details of the deal There was no information Motor Coach lines able here today when Sears plans new building The remainder to start construction on the new spreads east behind several Main st shopping center that will replace I business places to the new Erie st its present store on West Mam in and south across Wall st mto a downtown Benton Harbor i marshy undeveloped area In fact there was no official word The site lies south and west Of that Sears has definitely made up LEGISLATURE these familiar buildings on the south side of West City Locker plan and Twin City News Agency Owners of the four pieces of perty involved are City of Benton ANDERSON MAY Navy Secretary High In Speculation For No 2 Defense Post Bv C FAY WASHINGTON March 8 The name of Secretary of the Navy Robert Anderson rode high today in Harbor heirs of the late C W speculation on the administration's Beistle Chevrolet dealer of a successor Roger B OPENING FOES ARE NAMED FOR FIVES Berrien Springs Buchanan Stevensville Galien Start Wednesday Pairings for the regional ball tournaments this week were announced today Class D Stevensville drew Gobies as its first opponent in the class D re- They will play at 8 p m Wednesday in Berrien Springs Galien which upset Baroda high school m Friday night's district will play Benton Harbor St John's at Berrien Springs on day night Class C In the class C regionals at burg Berrien Springs will meet Wayland at Wednesday night with Kalamazoo St Augustine ing Nashville at 9 p m Thursday night at Vicksburg Wa- plays Jonesville at and Decatur meets Homer at 9 o'clock In Class C semi-final games day the Berrien winner opposes the victor and the St ville winner will play the winner Major Decisions Not Made Appropriation Bills Not On Floor Yet Coach Benton Harbor's piece two and one-half acres property involves two pieces totalling three and one-half acres the LANSING March 8 legislature starts the last month of its 3954 session tonight with most of the major decisions to be made Such issues as legalized bingo the budget unemployment com- and controls over ists still remain unsettled The senate returns from a end recess at 7 p m to intoi a docket of some 40 bills The house reconvenes at 8 p m with aj calendar of 70 measures facing it j There are no appropriation bills on the floor of either chamber yet job j is about The White house and announced over the week-end Kyes the deputy secretaryship tie property is about one and one- where he has served with Secretary half acre while Lovell's is a Defense Wilson since the outset angular plot much smaller than the of tne Eisenhower administration Kves interviewed at his Class B In the class B regional mazoo college Buchanan drew East Giand Rapids for Wednesday night Other class 3 games at zoo Holland Christian vs age Tuesday night Fremont vs Holland winner Thursday vs East Grand Rapids winner Friday others PLAN BID TO near Detroit emphasized that his Class A The Class A regional tournament resignation has absolutely nothing i starts tomorrow at Western to do with the recent clash between gan college in Kalamazoo with Secretary of the Army Robert T Benton Harbor high meeting Grand Stevens and Sen McCarthy R-i Rapids Union at 7 o'clock Wisi Pentagon sources indicated the decision on a new deputy secretary already was made and that an- PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SET THURSDAY 000 Michigan Central Workers Vote To Walk Out ZOO OFFERS LION CUBS AS to dispose of these three lion cubs the Michigan City Ind zoo has offered to give a cub worth free with each purchase of two white or blue peacocks at each The mother of the year-old cubs is expecting another litter in April Each cub requires a pound of canned horse meat four pounds of biscuits one-half pound of burger griddled fat and a gallon of milk a day They are shown eating International Mayor Tiscornia Out Of In an game tomorrow mazoo Central is matched against Grand Rapids South in a clash of I two favorites Skip House Hit In Senate The senate expects to vote night on a WASHINGTON March 8 remain for only a year morrow lican unemployment compensation which would raise the of idle workers with families a week The house will be considering a a year increase in legislators pay The senate judiciary committee delayed action on a tional amendment to legalize ty bingo arguing that it must push bills past their weekly first But the chamber was torn between the desire to let the issue go to a popular vote and a belief the organized backers of the plan should put the measure on the ballot bv the petition route Old battle lines will be shattered in the senate tonight if a vote is reached on a new lobbyist control This one is backed by senators who helped defeat a previous Messenger bovs were still hauling in telegrams for and against the McCune in the house to forbid televising beer and wine ments which glamorize drinking Theie were persistent reports the will be in the face of a bitter controversy its mind to build the center But in the absence of comment it was of his could i Benton Harbor carries an Plane Tn be expected shortly perhaps by record into the tournament and nans 10 Union lts season with a mark Coach Don Farnum has brought his Benton Harbor team up to 15 members with the addition of Jack Ross Dave Holt Kermit Sliter Leroy Goff and Ed Harper from the junior varsity All regional finals will be played Saturday night Kyes and his former General tors Corp colleague Wilson both said the deputy secretary took the job with the understanding he The House Speaker Martin here is that Kyes will said today the administration will return to some official position with not oppose house passage of a where he gave up an annual to cut excise taxes nearly a billion j income of more than a quarter dollars but will seek to ease the dollars to take the job in Washington However he said he was not sure he would return Mayor Waldo V Tiscornia was released from Memorial hospital Saturday afternoon after being a patient there for nearly a month and checked in at the suite of rooms maintains at the Whitcomb hotel The mayor was hospitalized Feb 10 on order of his physician to take a complete rest from business rind all other affairs He plans to fly tomorrow to his winter home in Tuscon Ariz to complete his prescribed rest Mayor Tiscornia declared he was much improved and that after a few weeks in the snn would be ready to resume his public and private affairs He added however that he doubted whether he would be able to return to St Joseph In time to take part in the closing days of his campaign TISCORNIA reelection My doctor is still putting his foot down on he stated Tiscornia and Tom Sparks are for reelection to the city commission against Rollin Winslow and John Platts In the mayor's absence their campaign is being spearheaded by a group of friends organized under the name of the Committee of 54 The mayor conferred briefly yesterday with some of the committeemen Ask Circuit Court To Re- verse Civil Service Board in the senate He told newsmen after the ly conference of Republican con- the automobile business gressional leaders at the White though he to flt house that President Industry some place feels the proposed cut goes a little too far The speaker said the present plan is to call the up for debate m the Chouse on Wednesday measure in addition to cut many excise taxes would continue beyond April 1 the present excise i or sales levies on a number of it- including liquor tobacco oline and automobiles On other items the ex- cise rate above 10 per cent would be cut back to that level At his news conference last week Eisenhower indicated he might e to accent some reduction in LABOR OFFICE Mitchell Asks Million Boost To Take Care Of Jobless S Japan Sign Mutual Defense Pact Prober Named To Sift Evidence On For Charges SAN ANTONIO Tex March 8 A Clyde D Hill judge cate at Fort Buss Tex made a preliminary visit here yesterday in his probe to decide whether Army Cpl Claude Batchelor should be courtmartialed Batchelor 23 of Kermit Tex is the former prisoner of war who first t refused to leave Communist I i captors in North Korea then WASHINGTON March 8 ed his mind and returned to the Secretary of Labor Mitchell UN side last New eve asked congress to boost his The Fourth army Saturday named against them this time The pi ment s budget 40 million dollars in Hill to conduct trie investigation to i ident said it sometimes is necessary the next fiscal vear mostly to take determine whether Batchelor must I to swallow some oil alone with rare of increased unemployment j a COUrt martial on charges of TOKYO March 8 The mutual defense assistance and the United States today signed a series of a mutual defense pact to give the agreements will pour 100 million Japanese both guns and giam and dollars of American aid into Japan's A circuit court appeal was filet today by two former Benton Harbo police officers who were fired las summer for allegedly stealing tw cases of strawberries from the cit fruit market The men Harold Stowell and Ur ban Craft seek to have the cour reverse a decision by the Bentor Harbor city civil service which last December upheld th discharge of the Filed by their attorney Charle W Gore Benton Harbor the ap peal is in the nature of a writ o certiorari which calls for a review of action taken in the case Stowell and Craft contend the were wrongfully discharged accord ing to Michigan statutes They as sert that no charges in writing wer presented to them Moreover th former officers claim that they wer discharged and not suspended o charges unfounded in fact and evi dence presented against them wa based on hearsay They also asser that no evidence offered i prove that the strawberry occurred If the court feels the commissio The possibility of complete on of freight and passenger trans- on the Michigan Central division of the New YorS entral lines at a m ay loomed today The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen in an announcement made in Detroit this morning said 000 of its members will go on gainst the Michigan Central in Illinois and Indiana Other sources said the affect about Michigan entral employes throughout tate So far as could be learned he strike would noi affect the York Yori via South Bend Elkhart Toledo and Cleveland W E B Chase brotherhood vice- president said in Detroit the ivill stop all Michigan Central op- The strike could affect 000 Michigan Central employes in Illinois and Indiana in addition tfl in Michigan Chase said the strike was in test over a docket of cases would mean or M union members The brotherhood represents men switchmen and yard foremen and workers Most of Michigan conductors are members Chase said the union has been continuously with gan Central since Oct 16 The strike if it takes place have serious transportation in the twin cities and Niles The Michigan Central operate from its mainline connections ai Niles to St Joseph and Benton Harbor via the old Big Four route The railroad maintains daily freight service with Niles connections foi transcontinental shipments Local heavy industries are large users oi the Michigan Central Niles is a major division point on the Michigan Central between cago and Detroit There tne road has huge freight classification yards entailing 24-hour switching operations which will stop if strike goes through Niles is where engine crews on the Detroit run are changed including engineers firemen and brakemen such name trains as the Wolverine Twilight Limited and Detroiter Michigan Central officials at Niles terminal said it was hoped the stake would be averted but de- clared the prospects were not good A walkout would idle several dred men at the Niles terminal It would also halt service between Niles and the twin cities idling local road and switching crews It looks like the brotherhood hai chosen the Michigan Central as the guinea pig in a showdown pending wage and working dis- hasten the day when American diers can from the island economy in the next three months and probably amount to much more erred the matter will be returned tes one Niles railroad to the en il service commissioners for dal He m the long run The writ follows a decision last December by the service that he expects the strike to go on as a test of the union's strength empire Highway Restrictions IS POSTPONED even though he has spoken out Democratic To Make Wednesday TT o A v j T i AII mission to uphold the firing bv U S Ambassador John Allison h ch f said the agrement takes us one Thg fm were announced byj rtf step nearer tne time when the Un- I States can withdraw its forces of the from Japan evidence was presented at LANSING March 8 AP Signs For Japan sessions of the commission Chief i at 6 a m Tuesday truck I Japanese Foreign story barked bv a of restrictions will be imposed huo Okazaki signed for his contended the two police of- on all blacktop and surfaced i merit drove a police wagon to a state m the lower The agreement will boost Japan's i market stall and stole two cases of insula the state highway j defense force from to straw ben Stowell and Craft de- ment said Truck speeds be 000 men and hold u along the thefts and appealed to the limited on the routes to 35 miles military lines The United service commission The will supply ships and planes mission however a verdict Enterprise Cleaners WA The United States also will start j against the patrolmen i Adv the movement of 500000 tons the sugar coating Offers Of Aid Pouring In To Boy With Rare Illness I outside work and that the company i compensation Mitchell told a senate subcommittee he is mil the assumption that theie will I continue to be a hieh level i omy in the next thai there be come 1 in I The labor asked for 8340635.000 in the fiscal jear be- next July 1 compared in the present fiscal the Nearly all of the requested in- crease was for the purpose of would provide him with all overtime work he desired Butchie who is unable to plav lne grants to states for employment with other children because of his service and unemployment condition was fascinated by a bowl i sation i n c 1 u d ine unemployment of goldfish and snails given to to veterans by a St Joseph person Mitchell told the subcommittee Many offers to aid the stricken that his proposals anticipate in- family have been received i creases in only four of the By TERRY MOSKAL Little Young year-old blond-haired blue-eyed Benton township boy with the tery disease of the glands continues his fight for life The boy it was learned today was near death last Friday but the lad's fighting spirit pulled him through another fateful night and fooled the medical men once more at least for the time being Meanwhile phone calls keep ing in from all the surrounding areas nearly 200 of them to the small tranquil home in Benton township to the delight of the small lad who is happy to hear that one is thinking about him The 1900 club at Whirlpool has started a collection to aid the stricken youngster and his family while company officials of the Para- mount Die Casting Co St Joseph that his father Loren would DO longer have to gee BENTON BOY II noon at Holly's N E W fi C E It was suggested by some St ment's 11 divisions seph residents that an Operation 1 Unemployment compensation Butchie be undertaken similar to i and grants to m- Operation Tornado in Flint summer to finish the Youngs new 2 Employes compensation home so Butchie could spend the peals additional remainder of his days in the com- 3 Physically handicap program fort of his new home I was simply amazed to find out how many persons were concerned about our Mrs Young sobbed father has started a new home just a few doors from their present home at 1320 Chicken pie spec Tues and Wed added 4 Migratory labor mostly for the recruitment of farm workers from Mexico in line with a sent to the White house last week suiplus wheat and 100.000 tons of The Berrien Democratic barley to Japan And Japan will misconduct and aiding the has scheduled a meeting sell the grain domestically and in for Wednesday afternoon to discuss turn use the money for guns and further the of munitions Mayor F Joseph Flaugh to the The was out state a- qualified for m eight months of negotiation nomination to state office which at times brought he liberal The committee met Saturday to government of Prime Minister discuss seru Yoshida intense CHRIST AND GRATITUDE Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory 1 Corinthians When healed the Gadarene Cast out his demons made him clean He asked that Jesus let him go Along with Him so he could show His thanks that Christ had made him well The Master said Go home and tell Your friends what God has for And that is what He'd have us do Do you and I with friends discuss The things that God has done for JULIEN C HYER Galien Girl To Get One Last Chance For Life GALIEN March 3 Little Marv son home is located m Galien and also that of man in tion criticism Despite socialist op- Grace will set that MX miles from Three the who was not identified position the government chance in her battle for life and six from Galien but came to no conclusions it April 1 Thr 4 child is the The was first taken to reported The reco m m e n d at i o n bv the i Troops for Homeland Allison emphasized that the pact Thompson of Mi and Mrs South Bend doctor Then she un- derwent an operation on her right county committee is important be- does not Japan to send She to be taken today to the Its at hospital Kalamazoo cause it is the stick bv ts young men abroad He clinic m Minn After that she was given help bv the which persons m other of State who sain for examination in the hope that Children's Aid society at Grand evaluate office recently the agreement would be be done to Rapids Next she was taken to Uni- Miss Angela Benton Of a nature laic and incurable hospital Ann Arbor and bor attorney aim -i of the exclusively fiom which the child is examined at the t th hospital in Chicago But the verdict no the Japanese homeland Hei been told that i was the same in each the Grace's ailment is found be done for her saw committee sairi that action taken at Saturday's meeting but that the meeting meeting was -ent specify that Japan s list of 18 Emitted by send wherever State Chairman Neil Staebler list included Gov G Mennen about a year and half u against communism provides foi sne unable to Use her legs from generous persons who Mayor a JeePs an planes ana d has spread to about Mary Grace's plight in from the Republican party needs It also Snp aiso complains of her a recent story in The noj about one case in 200.000 However However the Thompsons refuse to the Thompsons say they have never i cue up hope that the life of their little daughter may be saved The trip to the Mayo clinic has been made possible by contributions re- fn earned the name of the disease Japan to ff under consideration for nomination vides for a military ad back and head hurting her father and from friends and neighbors to state auditor in 1952 group to serve vmh the anfi must De Among the friends who are lost out defense force two hours to help Mary Grace are the Thompsons neighbors Mr and Mrs Vein Tackett The Thompsons may be reached by telephoning the Tackett residence through the lien exchange The county committee Material given to the Japanese j Marv Grace is the next to the ed of Chairman Murle E Gorton cannot be resold to other nations youngest in a family of seven Martin Lane Benton township and Miss Clara Radde Su Joseph 11610 Lake View ave ien who live in the old Beaver Dam Cleaners Phone YU house which has been con- verted into a residence The
