Vidette-Messenger, The (Newspaper) - March 8, 1954, Valparaiso, Indiana The Weather Fair low 22 to partly cloudy and a little warmer high 45 to 50 Flint Lake 41 Vol 208 Telephones and March 1954 HOME OF VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY United Press Leased Wire Cents YOUNG PEOPLE KILLED THIS MOVEMENT COULD MEAN MUCH TO INDIANA This column can best be started by the approach with the reciting of an incident One of the big food companies in Indiana ordered two carloads of from California last summer Hoosier ers have been hurt before by im- of from the Golden State and from Florida It is the same sort of a situation where Northwest U S A apples are shipped into Indiana in when we have here superior apples that could well take care of all our needs ORDERLY MARKETING OF INDIANA PRODUCE The two carloads of California the Indiana market and did a lot of damage to Hoosier producers It doesn't take a surge of much in the way of foodstuffs to the market and damage the grower Leading groups in in close touch with got together currently to do something about marketing problems and to en- courage increased consumption of home grown commodities f We don't like to speak of sur- but there are times when we have a glut on the Indiana market of a certain crop At this time we are in a potato over- abundance and nothing was done about it in time SETUP NOW FORMED To meet this situation of order- ly marketing and handling of over- abundance of Indiana eral preliminary meetings have been held and the most important food groups in the state got gether in an all-day meeting Out of this has come the Re- tailer with George a vice president of the In- diana Farm chairman The effort is not new nationally Virginia and have such an organiza tion and Illinois and Michigan are planning one Michigan were present The thought is not new For instance when we had an oversupply of beef last all the stores over the country plugged beef in their ad- and displays Use of a survey of retailers jumped by 51 percent in the first nine months of 1953 as compared to a like period in 1952 Among groups cooperating in the committee are the Indiana Chain Store Indiana Retail Grocers and meat Dealers Indiana 7 Are Arrested In Bank Holdup Series FORT March 8 Seven arrests have been made in a series of nine bank holdups in four states confessed by Bernard E who turned to crime when his used car business failed La Clair's admission to of holdups exonerated Lawrence D who was sentenced to 10 years in prison when six persons identified him as the lone bandit who robbed a bank 14 months ago though innocent of the crime of which he was faced the prospect of going back to jail for another holdup police said he staged Howley is an ex-convict with a record dating back to 1940 He on page 3 column Domestic News Briefs BOSTON Former President Harry S Truman came to Boston today to aid the project closest to his library to house the papers and mementos of his seven years in the White House LOS ANGELES James endorsed by the cratic party as its candidate for congress from the began a campaign today to lish a political record he hopes will the smears against The son of late President Franklin Delano won the nomination Sunday at a party caucus attended by 350 delegates and observers INDIANAPOLIS fayette Attorney Roger noted Hoosier will make his fourth appearance as for the Indianapolis Press club's eighth annual Gridiron Show May it was reported today CHICAGO bers of upper echelon of Al mob were technically classified as having paid their debt to society today Paul Louis New Campagna and Charles Gioe will make their final visits to federal probation cers sometime this ending sentences for their part in a two- shakedown of the movie industry in 1944 Crowe Files To Oppose Harry Borg Charles J prominent Morgan township and son of Mr and Mrs Roland RFD today filed his application on the republican et for the candidacy of the office of Porter county auditor in the May 4 primary election Crowe was the second to file for the auditor's post now by C Lee who is completing his two statutory terms in office and cannot seek re-election Filing previously for the post on the republican ticket was Harry of Westchester former county and ly a member of the board of ty commissioners one of Morgan's ing basketball stars prior to his graduation in has had two years college training in the field of accounting and law and also was an investigator and bank examiner for the U S ury department He is also a eran of World War II Others File Other filings today man F justice of the Ar- thur T RFD precinct man sixth Martin J precinct com- first Otto RFD 2 constable Portage and Carl county A petition naming delegates from Center township to the republican state convention to be held at In- June was filed today in the office of Clerk John Ruge Named as delegates Orval R William G James W Chester 0 L C Mark John E Lester Jennie Brownbridge Charles T Marybelle Leetz and Robert L Bibler Filing as republican state con- vention delegate from Morgan and Washington townships was Charles J RFD Valparaiso Deadline for primary for county and township offices is March Ruge warned today may be released from federal tody only to go behind bars again in a New restaurant robbery Howley had denied the Berlin bank holdup all along claim- ing he was home listening to the radio at the time He has a wife and two young sons The FBI said today La Clair has not added any holdups to the list in his statements since when he told of getting about in bank robberies in Massachusetts and Con- Sister Is Released Mrs Shirley a sister of La was released by Fort Wayne police after she de- nied any connection with the ups She was held for questioning for hours Friday night and day The seventh arrest was that of Mrs Helene La Clair East mother of one of five men held in the robberies cial Agent Leonard Blaylock of the FBL said Mrs Martin was arrested at Hartford on a charge of receiving part of the loot from a robbery in which her John is accused of participation Also held were Donald Arthur La a brother of Sylvester and George Fort Wayne Admits Harnlet Holdup Other holdups La Clair admitted were at Conn Forest and and Bourbon and Ind The same bank at Evansville was held up twice The FBI said La Clair staged of the holdups alone accomplices waited in getaway cars but implicated Martin in the Springfield robbery Only of the loot was re- most of it in an old try house La Clair had remodeled and refurnished near Fort Knox Driver Dies Week After Crash March Robert died of Fair Skies Return Here March skies and warmer tures were back in Indiana today after a sunny Sunday which saw cerebral hemorrhage a week the mercury rise to 60 after he drove home from an auto That was the Sunday high for accident apparently not seriously the state's warm hurt was 53 at Indianapolis and Terre State police said on Feb 27 his 46 at Lafayette and Fort auto slid on icy Ind 17 five miles and 40 at South Bend south of Plymouth into a bank After being helped out of the Low temperatures early this morning ranged from South Bend's 24 to Terre 37 Tyler drove but The weather bureau said was taken to Starke County mild weather will continue today hospital the next day with and Tuesday with today's highs head and neck injuries He from 38 to 52 lows Saturday Iwere expected to be from 22 to 34 GOP Seeks Air Time For Adlai Reply March Republican National man Leonard W Hall today asked for free radio and tele- vision time for a of the GOP to answer Adlai E Stevenson's charge that President hower has embraced Hall's move apparently would head off an earlier demand by Sen Joseph R McCarthy that networks give him air time to reply to the speech which son 1952 democratic presidential made irom Miami night Hall said Stevenson the Eisenhower administration and its leadership in terms which de- mand immediate and official reply by the republican In telegrams to the National Broadcasting Co and the Columbia Broadcasting which carried Stevenson's Hall sized that is not a matter for personal rebuttal for any ual We will designate our man who will speak for the No Hint Is Given Hall gave no immediate tion who the might be He did not tion McCarthy by name In view of the strained relations which have developed between Carthy and the administration re- cently over his charge that the army is it appeared highly unlikely that Hall would designate McCarthy to speak for the GOP The Federal Communications law requires a network to grant equal air on for one tical party to answer an attack by the other But the law apparently would not require the networks to give free time both to a designated GOP spokesman and to McCarthy personally Stevenson directly assailed Mr Eisenhower on the issue of implying that the President was appeasing McCarthy against his own beliefs and ciples in strategy designed to win the 1954 congressional elections for the republican party The speech was cut to fit cratic National Committee man Stephen A Mitchell's strategy of an all-out democratic attack on the President As the southern rally was gathering in Miami Mitchell is now time to make dent Eisenhower our target Stevenson said McCarthy had made and deceit a national that Mr it for political purposes Although McCarthy as often and caustically Stevenson's basic target was Mr Eisenhower on grounds that he was responsible for the republican and all in it New Painting To Hang At V H S AFTERNOON SUNLIGHT is the title of this painting which is soon to grace the walls of Valparaiso High school Admiring the creation above are Supt G Warren Phillips and Board Member Orval Burns The painting currently is displayed in the 11 th annual Northern Indiana Art salon in Hammond This oil by M R Nichols was given to VHS since the city has five or more active art patrons Staff Martin Senate Leaders Asked To Tone Down Tax Relief By UNITED PRESS President Eisenhower today assigned to senate lican leaders the tough political task of toning down a one- billion-dollar excise tax relief the house is preparing to pass The is due for a house vote Wednesday and is virtually assured of passage there It would cut federal excise taxes on admission telephone jewelry and other to a flat 10 percent They now range from 15 to 25 percent Ludington's Farm Shown In Air Series Mr and Mrs Lester RFD two of Porter township's most rabid basketball have claimed picture No 18 in the series of aerial farm photos I being run by The Speaker Joseph W said Mr Eisenhower told GOP congressional leaders at a White House legislative conference that he feels the house goes little too and he wants the revenue loss trimmed Apparently convinced there was no hope of heading off such a i popular measure in the NEW March 8 all are up for rc Terrorists Actions Are Being Probed The government cracked down day on Puerto Rican terrorists election this Mr Eisenhower asked senate leaders to work for Federal grand juries went into i modification of the when it action in New York and reaches that chamber Numerous subpenas were served I Informed sources said Secretary m both cities The grand jurors Iof Treasury George M Humphrey i were probing into and terrorism by members of the i Puerto Rican nationalist party I Federal officials in Washington I have made no denial of reports I that last week's armed attack on ithe United States Congress was I part of a broader plot to key executive and legislative leaders has suggested to senate GOP ers that the excise taxes on be cut to 15 percent instead of 10 percent Thai would reduce the revenue loss by about half Sees Jobless Rise Other developments Secretary of bor James P Mitchell told a Wood Files Again For It's 3-Way Race The race for prosecutor in the forthcoming Porter county lican primary today became a it was learned from Indianapolis sources According to the United Clarence Chesterton elected to toss his hat into the ring again when he filed with the office of the of state Wood will be opposed by Bryce young attorney who is now serving as Center justice of the and Valparaiso Atty Frederick Crumpacker I ate Appropriations subcommittee T T i that the 1955 fiscal year beginning In Puerto Rico police arrested three top nationalist party of completing the of the vear IJn high command They also during the current arrested six top communists and f h e were making an search than milUn summer for lour others about 3 068000 report In an assistant U S at- Mitchell apparently meant that torney said a grand jury had next will be higher ed an inquiry into nationalist party than tnis and was activities He said the decision I not necessarily predicting a boost to launch the federal jury over the present gations was made at a weekend The house moved conference in Washington expected passage of an ad- Deputy marshals served 20 sub- j to increase early today in Chicago contributions for highway persons allegedly connected with building from 555 million dollars the party Asst U S Irwin to 875 million dollars a year Cohen said those subpcnacd in- Speaker Martin fore- i eluded men rounded up by police cast house approval Tuesday of an week shortly after fanatical administration authorizing Puerto Rican nationalists had eral aid to states and cities for ed fire on the house of construction of non-profit hospitals tives in wounding five homes congressmen Statehood Republican Leader In New FBI William F predicted the ing swiftly among the city's would complete action this Puerto issued subpenas for week on legislation to make appearance before a federal grand Hawaii the 40th state He was jury later in the doy j hopeful the chamber would defeat Thomas U S marshal a democratic move to admit for the southern district of New ka to the union as part of the said his deputies worked ger a Porter township bus has a who is cheerleader for Boone Grove's team a who j formerly played for Boone Grove The Porter school bus Ludington drives was visible in the picture printed last Wednesday The have lived on the located a half mile north and a mile west of Boone since the year they were ried The late Otto Edinger was the previous owner The farm has been used by Ludington for general farming He raises soy beans and hay Until he op- a dairy on the farm On Road The road running past the ington farm connects Boone Grove and Porter Crossroads The road was dirt until when it was and since 1951 has been blacktop Years before the took over the a house on the farm was destroyed by fire the Erie railroad was line cut five acres from the farm The now is stationed at Dow where he is staff sergeant in administration work who last summer married the former attended Purdue after Boone Grove High school I At where his wife is living with Sgt Ludington is coaching a basketball team at the I field team has won 21 of 28 and he also leads a dance orchestra Triple Ri Will Be Held Wednesday Portage Students Among Victims of Crash March Triple services will be held Wednesday for two Porter county high school students and a county girl employed in South Bend who were killed Saturday in a tage township crash An injured companion of the victims was reported out of danger today in Gary cy hospital The dead Marlene Kay RFD a freshman at erty Township High school Gerald Arlen of 12066 E a more at Portage High school Barbara La June Gerald's and a 1952 Portage High school graduate who was em- ployed as a receptionist by a South Bend doctor In condition today in Mercy hospital is Miss Jeanne a South Bend roommate of Miss whose parents live at RFD Chesterton She was believed to have been driving the sedan which with the westbound New York Central No state police said No Electric Signals The crash occurred at a at the Domby road crossing in Portage a half mile south of US 20 and a half mile east of the line The crossing was protected only by police said Coroner Elmer Johnson said the northbound which was de- was almost across the tracks when the train struck the car on the rear the hicle coming to a halt after the I crash about 25 feet from the crossing Miss Etchason suffered a broken neck and Gerald a skull fracture Both died at the scene Miss Whitlock died four and a half hours after the crash in Mercy j hospital Miss Christiansen suffered a broken arm and head injuries All four of the young people were Jehovah's Witnesses Miss Whitlock was a receptionist in the South Bend office of Dr Maurice R an optometrist The two young women were visiting their homes during the weekend Inquest Date Not Coroner Johnson said the senger train stopped after the crash No statements have been taken as yet from train crew members Date of the inquest has not been set Worst In 3 Years The was the worst involving Porter county persons since Jan 1951 when five members of the Fred Rice Pine were killed near Dunes State park in a crash Flynn-Johnson Funeral home an- that triple services will be held at 2 p Wednesday Chesterton High School To Get New Painting JOSEPH art teacher and four Joanne Sally Margo Miller and Sally are viewing a painting called Brown County at the Northern Indiana Art salon in Hammond This work of art by Edward J was selected by CHS as its painting gift from the patrons association J Staff with the FBI WILL HAYS DIES March H who held a stop watch on Valentino's kisses and a rein on movie died Sunday in the Hoosier town where he was born The former movie was 74 IT COULD March 8 bulls slid out of a truck in downtown anapolis today and trotted off in all directions All were captured after two the last nearly two miles from point of escape The bulls got loose at the intersection of three streets southwest of Monument cle One of them tried to leap over an auto parked in an ley to block its flight and dented the fender with a hoof same measure Handley Confers With 2 Senators I March Two republican state senators and Lt Gov Harold W Handley I met today to make plans for j ings on highways and education Meeting with Handley were Sens Hoyt Moore and Robert both of Indianapolis senators head highway and education committees The hearings will be called to help formulate a program for sub- i mission to the legislature Press Power Pays Off Michigan City Zoo Sells 3 Lion 2 Peacocks MICHIGAN March 8 that the bear market in lion cubs has turned the Michigan City zoo is ready to do a little buying itself The zoo could use a female baboon to mate with its Chop-Chop The zoo is certainly convinced of the power of the press For several weeks it had tried to get rid of three surplus lion cubs and an overloaded inventory of cocks through normal zoological channels The explained Harry zoo board just eat too much and Michigan City could only afford to keep a full-grown male and female The zoo had no luck until press associations and newspapers picked up the zoo's offer to sell two cocks for throw a cub in free Frey said the zoo received more than 125 replies from coast to coast sold all three lion the peacocks and guanaco to he said One pair of peacocks and a lion went to William Van Hook of and the rest of the lot was sold to Chase Animal farm in Mass the zoo's female is expecting a new litter soon but it doesn't worry zoo officials anymore They've got takers for all the cubs she can on page column On World News Fronts TOKYO The United States and Japan signed today a mutual defense assistance pact that will rearm Japan in the camp of the free world In winning strategic and potentially powerful Japan to the side of the the United States scored a major tory in its drive against the bitions of Asiatic communism NEW YORK Parents who purchased babies for from a well-organized black market in were called to testify before a Canadian commission here today VATICAN CITY Pope Pius XII was able to eat a small quantity of solid food again bolstering hopes he may be on the road to complete ery by the middle of the month Venezuela Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today warned Latin can nations and Guatemala in particular against letting the of communist turn freedom into slavery in the Western Hemisphere Indochina Communist commandos infiltrated a network of sentries and and damaged of U built planes at an airfield manned by 40 American Freach authorities
