Vidette-Messenger, The (Newspaper) - January 2, 1954, Valparaiso, Indiana Partly somewhat colder low 22 to Sunday partly somewhat high SEEPAGES FOR CHURCH NEWS VoL 153 and January 1954 The Home of Valparaiso University A DAY SPENT AT WOMAN'S PRISON Many columns have been printed about penal institutions that house men and boys but little has been published about the Indiana man's prison Ht This writer spent most of a day with the governor and his division inspecting tht Woman's on in tht Hoosier capital Tht governor gave tht institution not only tht army inspection typt of a but took along with him of purchasing and i IT WAS PAY DAY Thursday for representatives of five who on behalf of their organizations accepted statt welfare and others who j savings bonds from Ray C of C Christmas decoration committee for their prize winning deal with the displays on the courthouse lawn Harvey is handing a bond to Mrs Earl Deal Paul's Catholic C of C Hands Out Savings Bonds To Clubs prison Mrs Ethel P who is superintendent of the Woman's is known throughout the nation for her social work and her prison experience Sht self tronly an independent thinker and well able to hold her own with tht governor or any of tht experts produced OFFENDERS ARE BEST PRISONERS Mrs Kreuger said the prison load remained fairly steady around with from four to eight released per day They come to the Woman's on all ages from a crime has been corn to 75 woman who did a flourishing abortion business in Lake Will New Magnet Next Month ISP Is Expecting To Expand Industrial Uses Commercial production of a new ceramic magnet lighter in weight than Turns Back On Urges Conditions In Compound Be Probed By FRANK JORDAN Press Staff Jan 2 Pfc Claude second American to turn his back on his communist urged the Neutral Nations Repatriation Actions By Russia Will Be Watched Date For Session Was Proposed By Soviet Government o LAIC id w 11 u fi jc II LSI m W UlaH third while looking on from left are Orville Bucher Elmer Ahlberg melai requires no critical j compound By WILLIAM GALBRATTH Press Staff WASHINGTON Jan 2 sion today to investigate conditions in the red prisoner j officials Mrs Maurice Anderson Sigma and Mrs H C Hesse Faculty Women's club and fourth Dismantling of courthouse decorations started last week and is scheduled the In to be concluded this and that of the street lights by weather according to v -t was today by were confident today they begin next month at the Indiana Steel Products E William C of C Staff Governor's 1954 Plans Are Mapped Jan Goals of the state administration Christmas Was Worse Indiana officials prepare for a new year George Craig listed the 1954 program in a statement released New Year's Day He was optimistic about the condition of Indiana's U S Traffic Accidents Kill 155 Over Holidays By UNITED PRESS Traffic accidents claimed an average of four lives an today and safety experts predicted 1.237 persons will Robert F president of the company The world's largest producer of permanent the new called is expected to open new fields for juse of magnets in industry and of said he believed more of j have at last put the Russians the 21 Americans still sticking with the communists would on the spot by accepting the go home if they were assured they would not be harmed by Kremlin proposed Jan 25 their fellow captives or prosecuted in American military date for the Big Four foreign civil courts The blond Texan a brush mustache appeared calm but confused as he gave newsmen a consumer items Smith said his account of what had company's have already en gomison inside the compound v found some applications for permanent magnets Although is composed of materials which are in finances A general fund which The governor thought that 160 totaled 78.6 million dollars at the women gone wrong in over four and one half million population of the state was not too bad Kreuger didn't concur that men were better than men i She told tht governor she was getting some prisoners that didn't belong She was getting men who wore and that sometimes they arrived while still There was a little caucus between governor and Judge June 30 fiscal year should holding the Americans who say they want to stay with the reds Batchelor boasted he had been the leader of the red even though he said he never been a communist He 18 Miles of Built 53 ere oo i -j UCcH d nc J said it is die on the highways before the winter holiday period in the same manner that Although he attended red Sunday metals 1 1 I J The magnitude of the Sutures in prison he had never informed on others A United Press survey showed traffic accidents had an hour had i ministers conference in Ilin i Diplomatic sources istic that the long-sought face meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister M Molotov will take place They said if the Russians now try to back out of the date they suggested the West will be able to proclaim to the world that the professed soviet peace desire i is a phoney i They said if the reds do go to j the Berlin meeting and refuse to i negotiate in good the allies tes ed 155 persons since the New Year's holiday began at 6 p m for the Thursday Fires killed airplane crashes 4 and permanent magnet in com- a a 30 Miles Are Jensen Reports t i can claim that the Kremlin has Eighteen miles of blacktop no desire to ease cold war accidents 23 for a total of The National Safety Council has predicted New Year's traffic build up to at least 82 million dents rt lars during Craig said He said the state no estimated that 345 persons died tween the time the Christmas ed debt saved more than two ended million dollars in operating ex- penses during 1953 ended the bonus tax fat midnight Dec Sunday and the be- ginning of the New Year period Those two added to the 532 persons killed in traffic crashes administrator of during will continue planning one of the first taxes removed by i the three-day Christmas led the Safety Council to predict an overall holiday toll Despite the steadily mounting New Year's death it lagged any state in the past To Seek More Schools The governor said Indiana seek more schools and teachers as to you could anyone to prison while still drunk 17 Japs Die During Rush At Palace mon use today Greater Coercive Force pound Batchelor took were built and 30 miles resurfaced same path to freedom as Cpl ward the only other rorce In addition to being lighter than and requiring no critical has twice as much coercive force as Alnico and is a Smith said He went to the dispensary and surrendered to an Indian in Porter county during An- ton county highway ment announced sions Agreement The United Britain and France agreed in identical today in revealing the department's delivered ta the Kremlin Friday year-end report to hold the meeting in Berlin Jan 1 4 W A f 1 f 1 Ijt he it is virtually impossible he said the to demagnetize the material available bv anv ordinary means The number of miles in 25 as suggested by the Soviet Although Batchelor talked of j county roads was considerably Union The West originally asked er than in 1952 when the that the talks start next department built only two miles of j but Russia requested a three-week Jan is made from non-critical iron oxide and barium and goes through a any of the remaining 21 who might want to come back to Refuses Reply Lt Gen K S blacktop roads Resurfacing of j postponement 50 miles of county roads was re- j regretting that the soviet in government has not accepted the a new state office building to house far behind the murderous pace set during Christmas At one point 49 of the 85 state and will fight for states rights and during the earlier home rule were killing eight The governor asked Hugh Other news breaking sons an nour O'Brien his state penal head to get late New Year's on the and see whether the Craig promoted State Adj Gen epileptics couldn't be handled Harold A Doherty from brigadier and whether the dope addicts to major general The couldnt go to the federal i tional Guard chief will sign an hospital in Kentucky SEGREGATION NOT EASY IN A SMALL INSTITUTION The governor and O'Brien rode oath in Craig's office Monday Twenty-four persons were pointed by Craig to an advisory council on industrial codes The members include Howard Holland Safety Council President Ned H Dearborn the shock of the heavy Christmas day traffic plus the incessant emphasis on safety by sion and has sobered the New Year drivers into better fic already has screened of Japanese trampled 17 number of in chief of the repatriation persons to death and injured 50 pressing in dies i refused to say others today when they stormed and heat treatment It was de- his Indian troops would into the imperial palace grounds in the research other refusing re- 1 f t -9 to wish the emperor and empress a happy New first new magnetic substance since imore than Hundreds of thousands of the development of Alnico in 1931 since the official end of ex- ese went into the grounds to sign Smith said that initially Indiana last Dec 23 their names in the imperial regis- stoel Products company will said Indian troops ter Tens of thousands were facture for use in television were not screening the anti- ing outside when officials tried to focus and but were only r J Three times the amount ever proposed date of Jan the used before in any one was spent ern note United States government agrees to the date hard idea of of and J L East I NEW YEAR'S DEATH Jan close the main entrance holding devices The Alnico UP on their records on stone and jan 25 now suggested in the Jensen soviet The West also agreed that the French and Russian ed that much of the total was from U S money not high commissioners in Germany by the should work out ar- for the in- ment in 1952 t A p i rj j i Approximate the place for the confer 12 bridges ence The West prefers a building The some of whom had nets currently being produced by j 135 Chinese asked for come to Tokyo from different parts TSP have more than 35.000 repatriation during the checkup of rushed forward to enter tions u- command at the breaking through is best suited for uses in li nad no objection to which application limits magnetic of prisoners I m repaired j formerly used by the Allied Con- and repainted trol authority in the American lice cordons offenders from old timers Mrs Ralph and herschel Kreuger said if wasn't easy to do Fort Wayne in such small prison The governor said his tration will offer She said further that she had cash or time state employes prisoners sent up from 30 days to i for suggestions which will result in those for life the long term prisoners were resigned to their and the model prisoners children and the aged in which the magnet If all motorists drove as safely the j were trampled as the mob pushed mav be subjected to rest of 1954 as they apparently did New Year's the Indiana fic death toll might be reduced 70 percent one traffic fatality was re- through the gate injured Hospitalized Texan said his Japanese tearful letter the company him his mind about ident said In fhe ins the Batchelor said he had refused After order was restored police currents to go home in last summer's d palace found 17 dead The h Big the big Their crime was the passion of perhaps shooting their and would not cur again The governor said he was still against shooting husbands Mrs Kreuger said she was and believed that many of the men would not be there if society spent more time helping them There are 35 counties in the state that have no probation though the law mandates it AROUND THE CLOCK PRISON SCHEDULES When a woman she is put in isolation and gets a complete physical and injured were rushed to hospitals The governor ordered that the time for such examinations be stepped up to 48 hours and asked O'Brien to get in touch with the State Board of Health to get it done economy measures The State Employment Security division reported about ans drew in the ment compensation program for veterans up to Oct 31 The division also reported ing and agricultural job placements during the first 11 months of 1953 f j U M V A L O U 1 ported for Jan 1 It was the resu t where some were jd t of a collision in Indiana s The Indiana Steel Products A Jensen during the year at a cost of from the eral tax fund Jensen said that the new wash control program started in 1953 had a good but added that the department sometimes meets with much opposition to the project Equipment In Good Shape County highway equipment is in good Jensen said A new crawler type shovel and one new oner exchange at be- truck were purchased in 1953 second most populous county critical condition has constructed a new cause he Canted to become a tion to its in for against John George Some persons crowded the production of T Lives of Two Girls Saved killed in the accident at Griffith in ke county His car was hit by another at the intersection of a street and U S 6 The other car sped off without stopping While Bein appeared to be the first victim of Mrs Stella Terre may have been the last victim of 1953 Mrs Gayer died Friday in a Terre Haute hospital of injuries suffered the day before when struck by a car which careened on to the sidewalk after a collision into the palace grounds during the new has been installed He also said the communists had six-hour open house period The included five eight women and four children The scene was one of stark zone of Berlin American officials saw little that these technical on page 2 column in the building The new production facilities wil be under the supervision of John H vice tragedy mixed with the of The arrival is then assigned to a cottage where she will live with other and assigned to a work station It may be the on page column Jan 2 j high school football player was credited today with saving two year-old girls from drowning Sue daughter of Mayor Robert E and Martha ett were walking across Lake Decatur Friday when the ice gave way and they plunged into the water Richard an end on j Mayor John E the Decatur grid was passing by and heard cries for help ell ran to the lake snore and found Harvey Gets Park Post Appointment of Ray Harvey to a four-year Valparaiso Park board term was announced today by a board about four feet long Powell edged out on the ice to a spot near the girls Lying fiat on the he extended the board to the girls and they climbed out onto thicker ice and safety In Union Township Sunny Lawn Is Portrayed in Ninth Aerial Farm Photo who has been Active in Chamber of Commerce re- places Robert Anderson on the board Anderson has served as president the past year A new president will be selected at the January board meeting Other board members are Carl beginning his fourth J C his third and Thomas R his second year Bits of bright-colored kimono Charles A vice sleeves and lacquered wooden clogs in charSe of engineering and were scattered among the dead and research the groaning survivors The injured were rushed by ambulance to where some of them were reported in critical condition One of the survivors described the were shouting don't A child in front of me fell down and I pushed back with all my might to keep people from trampling on him But I stumbled and fell down myself What followed after that I don't Union township farm of Isaac was fied today as the ninth in the series of Porter county farm aerial photos appearing in The weekly in claiming the picture of the told of the origin of the name At the time of the settling of the farm in there were no trees of any kind on the 153 acres was all den thus the farm was named The farm was originally com- posed of 40 acres from the James Shinabarger estate 40 acres from the Schaller and 72 acres from Steven his father Although settled in was not plowed until 1919 When Hodsden took there were no buildings on the 153 acres He built all the ing two silos anc a large barn which were not pictured Hodsden tells of how a wind storm in 1951 blew over the machine shed About 10 years cinch bugs attacked the farm for three years and were finally cleaned out Angus beef raising and ing are the specialties at the farm favorite crops are corn and wheat Hodsden married Gast in 1909 Their has One New Years Day Baby Here Porter county's only New Years Day baby was ushered into the world at Porter Memorial hospital Friday at p m Longtime Resident Of Hebron Dies At Crown Point Jan Lizzie M a longtime resident of died Thursday at the Hilltop Rest Crown after an extended illness She had established residence at DeMotte shortly before her death The decedent was born Oct 1869 at the daughter of John and Mary ford She was united in marriage May 1890 in Jasper county to Henry Edward who pre- ceded her in death in 1908 She was a member of the Denied By Judge Murray CROWN Four civic groups were dealt a legal blow in their efforts to in- Lake county prosecutor Metro Holovachka when their ition was denied The four groups had asked for a probe of bond ings while serving as Gary city claiming he acted il- legally in approving contracts in on column Blame Arsonist For Blaze That Routs 80 People Jan 2 Fire routed 80 occupants of a four-story apartment building early today Police blamed an arsonist for the blaze An expectant Mrs Frances suffered a spinal injury when she leaped into a net from her third floor ment Thomas J dropped his two aged 2 and into a net after flames trapped them in their ment Jensen that one big snowstorm could change the equipment situation He ed that the county has only one snowplow for every 60 miles of county so that the crews can not be every place within a few hours after a snow storm hits He urged the public to be patient when the next snow storm occurs we know the roads will never be but we hace done the best we know how with the money Jensen said He also pointed out that funds from the gas tax can only be used for the maintenance of roads that new roads cannot be built from these funds Bids on supplies and a new crane for the county highway department in 1954 will be considered Monday and Tuesday by the county com- meeting in the room on the second floor of the courthouse beginning at 10 a m Several appointments for 1954 are also expected to be made by the board at these meetings which he had a personal interest wife Board of Works Winds J-m M m J Weighing nine pounds and 15 ern Star organization of the baby girl was named Cynthia Rose by the proud Mr and Mrs George RFD Chesterton The bouncing New Years Day baby was the ninth child born to the eight of whom are living The father is an ance company representative in the area WIFE IS HELD TERRE HAUTE liam Julian was shot and killed four children and lives in Friday and authorities held i his May Snyder and the DeMotte Methodist church Surviving are two Mrs Flossie M Crown and Mrs Rosie Col- lege Tex Funeral services will be hold Sunday at 2 p m at the DeMotte Methodist church with the Rev Barton Fletcher officiating Burial will be in the Hebron cemetery The Hebron Eastern Star will conduct a memorial service at the Todd Funeral night at 8 o'clock Friends may call at the funeral home from night until time of services Circuit Judge William J Mur ray turned down their which Holovachka had termed The petitioners were the Gary Crime the Gary men's Citizens the Hammond chapter of the Lake County Property Owners and Rural Freedom a group of rural taxpayers lowed her children into the net and Spight escaped by ladder All four were treated for smoke Board of Public Works voted halation Police said the blaze in the apartment buildings was touched off in garbage containers on the second and third floors The blaze broke through the roof and destroyed most of the floor Up Its 1953 Business when it wound up its 1953 to readvertise for bids on a police cycle The board was to have opened proposals Thursday but none were received Approval of year end claims was the only other business Holiday Area Quiet No Major Wrecks Reported Porter County New Year's observance in and Porter county was free of traffic deaths and major county and state police reported today No traffic accident patients have been admitted to Porter Memorial hospital since early this week Two minor New Year's Eve col- reported to city curred at and m day City officers received only two reports of disturbances They ed a report at 7 p m Thursday that youths were throwing filled balloons at homes in the 600 block of Academy but found no persons in the area At 11 p m officers escorted to his home an elderly man whom they found on a front porch in the 300 block of Wayne A taxi taken at a m from in front of Yellow Cab com- 120 waa found abandoned later near Garfield and Linwood Drugging Is Claimed Check Story of Private Released By Reds Jan U S Cox's story They said the in- army officers said today that Pvt Homer Cox will be free in about 10 days to claim the hand of the red-haired Austrian girl who agreed to marry him when they both were prisoners in Russia The GI from homa who was released by Russians Tuesday after more than four years of is be- ing held here while the army in- his story that he was drugged and shanghaied from West Berlin by communist agents Army officers said there to be no reason to doubt is and predicted that he will be released in 10 days or so Inge was released a few months before he was and has since been recuperating from the effects of Russian prison life He sent her a New Year's saying love you very much hope to see you In Vienna's British lein Brenner said the telegram was most wonderful New Year's present in the Fraulein who says she was kidnaped from west Vienna Abandoned Truck Gary police notified officers at p that a Vale City Packing company truck was found abandoned in Whereabouts of the Robert was not learned Unknown persons have been stealing coal from Beach Coal com- 800 on three this James Beach told Thursday No persons were jailed Thursday noon and today City police made one traffic arrest by soviet agents in much the James RFD same way and about the same time that Cox was snatched in West first met him at a prison camp near Rybinsk in Russia's Ural Cox and other prisoner friends of Fraulein Brenner made a of to celebrate her birthday Sept 21 and gave made presents A few days Cox asked her to marry him accepted his proposal at she said my only wish is to see him and fo married as soom as a was fined and costs Ipl speeding by Justice Bryce after his arrest Friday evening by Capt John anu William Bacia Drivers and damages noted officers in the two Friday accidents of 508 and an second vehicle at Indiana and Wait parked car of 553 Leroy headlight at lit way i I
