Van Wert Times-Bulletin (Newspaper) - June 5, 1956, Van Wert, Ohio Weather Clear and cool tonight day sunny a little warmer Low tonight Wednesday in north and east low south and west A Vol 12 TIMES BULLETIN Von Wert Ohio Tuesday June 5 1956 5 Cents Press leased wire fof state national aad world Central Press picture service Business office 2644 News office 2645 Observers Wondering If Dictator Stalin Was Murdered UP A fresh wave of debate boiled up today over whether Joseph Stalin died a natural death or was ed The purported details of a secret speech made by Russian Communist party boss Nikita Khrushchev suggested to some ube men wno were closest to Stalin in his last days had strong reason for ing away with him to protect themselves They pointed to the long record of despotic rule ruthless arrests and murder which Khrushchev attributed to Stalin The word speech was delivered at a secret session of the Soviet Communist party at Moscow Feb The State Department published what it called a version of the speech as distributed to Comma- nist leaders outside Bussia There was no word as to how this country got it The general theme of the speech had been learned by the West Previously Stalin's death was announced March 5 1953 It was attributed to a brain hemorrhage There was speculation at the time that he might have been tle evidence to go on and this point of view never prevailed in official quarters here Now the whole subject is up for although Between Us By I Van Wert JUST BETWEEN TJS we heard this morning of a special for tonight which we might mend to others Acting master Dan Pennell reports that the class of 1921 of Van Wert High School will hold a reunion tonight at the Yours and Mine Restaurant Dan says people are coming from as far away as Florida Seems to use the Peony Festival time would be a wonderful time for a lot of high school classes to scheduled reunions ably would help attendance at both the reunion and the Festival As Dan was telling us this piece of news Harry Gunsett told us so that the class of 1936 will be having a reunion Saturday at the Junior Fair building THE FESTIVAL also inspired a visit to our office yesterday of W T Summersett of Middle Point He had found another picture of that big flower festival Van Wert staged about 50 years ago the festival we reviewed with story and pictures in last Peony Festival edition This one showed another of the float entries in parade Mr Summersett was pictured holding the lead bridle of the horse drawing the float THE FESTIVAL is only with a visit to town of another man He is Captain Harold A Wise Nashville Tenn retired from the Air Force The captain returns to his old home town each year to celebrate his birthday with his nephew lord Leslie The birthday is today and it's the for Cap- tain Wise He was born in a cottage on North ington Street near the place where the Ditto Market now stands He recounts that he was once a carrier boy for the Bulletin also worked as the first bellboy in the Marsh Hotel when William Crapes was manager ENLISTING IN the Sixth In- fantry in 1896 he saw service in the Spanish War He retired as an enlisted man in 1917 but was out of fte Army only two months and went back in as cap- tain of the signal corps of the aviation section of the Army ing World War I He has been on active duty about nine times since He has a total service record in the military of 34 years and 8 months But he adds with justifiable pride that I'm just an old soldier but I haven't faded away yet IT WAS AN unhappy business that was responsible for another visitor by phone to the office this morning Mrs Waldo off called up to ask if we ever wrote anything about cemetery flowers being stolen Just be- fore Memorial Day last week a of flowers was stolen from the Boroff grave lot at the ment specialists in Russian fairs say there are arguments in favor of the natural death nation One of these is that Stalin at 73 might well have suffered a stroke Several doctors joined in signing bulletins on the progress nt I 1 AbO Another consideration is that no one can be absolutely certain that Khrushchev was telling the complete truth about events pre- ceding Stalin's death Some ex- perts say he may have ated past suspicions in order to gain the sympathy of his ence Khrushchev charged that in had brought against V M Molotov who recently resigned as Russian foreign minister and er some baseless charges He said this was a few months before Stalin's death If Stalin had not died chev indicated Molotov and Mi- koyan might have suffered an- He said Stalin was pursuing a plot to wipe out the last of the Old Bolsheviks in the highest councils of communism and thus provide a cover for all shameful acts of Stalin He also indicated that the Plot in which a group of doctors was accused of trying to kill off top Russian Reds in the months before Stalin died had alerted the men around the old dictator that a Benson Outlines Soil Bank Rulings Farmer To Get No Pay Except Where He Slashes Production WASHINGTON will get payments under the govern ment's new billion yearly sol program only for what they themselves do to reduce produc iion of surplus crops They will get no payments on reductions caused by nature through drought floods storms insects and the like Agriculture Department officials said today this will be the rule in payments tinder the soi bank plan for 1956 crops The soil bank is designed to re duce production of wheat corn peanuts rice and tobacco by the offer of government dies to farmers for planting fewer acres than are allotted them The farmer may plow under immature crop and get a soi payment but only on the cemetery The thieves didn't touch a similar box placed by her sister on the next grave But last night they visited the tery and that ons was gone too Said Mrs Boroff I'd rather buy the flowers for whoever needs them that badly rather than have them stolen off the graves LAST WEEKEND we received an unsigned letter through the mail in which someone was ing bitter about something And if memory serves us right ft was about the same subject of someone stealing cemetery flowers We filed the letter in the wastebasket because it was unsigned We asked Mrs Boroff about it but she said she didn't write it Evidently there's somebody at work at the cemetery who has no respect for anything We're always ry to know that such people exist ALL THE RAINY weather last week sprouted a crop of wags Roxy Rauch told us that in j ing to town he saw farmers ing fish in the fields And another farmer putting pontoons on his truck And then when Secretary Jack Weaver mailed his weekly Kiwanis Club he wrote that the agriculture com- would have last night's gram and we understand that Chairman Jim Weiker is importing some rice plants and some water buffalo for local use The last laugh was on Jack Be- cause the program was made up of County Agent Larry films of the farming he found in India while he there for two years And darned if there weren't a lot of pictures of rice plants and buffalo Germany Wins Saar Valley French In Accord With Newest Setup LUXEMBOURG Pre- mier Guy Mollet and West man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer greed early today on the lure for transfer of the rich Saar Valley back to Germany Officials said the accord would permit speedy preparation of a the disputed der area a political part of West Germany by Jan 1 The agreement includes ions for l a three-year transition period for termination of the toms and economic union between France and the Saar 2 ued French rights to some coal production in the region and 3 building a canal linking the elle and Rhine rivers France and West Germany have long sought to eliminate the Saar as a major point of friction in their relations The ing industrial sector supplies much of the coal to process the iron from France's great Lorraine mines nearby Maurice Faure French tary of state for foreign affairs could not say when on the treaty will begin WE HAVE he said that the Saar will politically be- come German on Jan l A transitory period of three years will then open progressively to bring about the economic and reattachment of the Saar to Germany Groundwork for returning the industrial valley to West Germany has been laid in a series of recent elections won by pro-German parties The Saar was separated from Germany after World War I and administered by the League of Nations through a commission In 1935 the Saarlanders voted to re- turn to Hitler's Third Riech Since World War H the Saar has been nominally an autonomous state subject to French economic law currency and customs amount of the estimated tion thus eliminated THESE RULINGS greatly row the 1956 from that in- by Secretary of ture Benson at a news conference May 31 At that time his com- ments and a press release by his department were in- as indicating that any immature crop whether it had good or poor prospects would be eligible for full payment if plowed up Benson put a different light on the in a speech last night in Beaver Dam Wis To the end that I am able I intend to see that the nation gets dollar's worth of surplus tion or a dollar's worth of vation for every dollar paid he said We should not also load upon the program responsibility for drought relief flood relief and credit The administration had posed to determine the size of payments for by multiplying the mal yield of the idled acres by a crop unit rate These rates have been set at 90 cents a bushel for corn for wheat 15 cents a pound for ton and a hundred pounds for rice No rates have yet been set for peanuts and tobacco Thus a farmer who plowed up 10 acres of corn having a yield of 50 bushels an acre would get a soil bank payment of 500 times 90 cents or But under a payment method tentatively adopted for this year yield of land would not be based on the normal ure but on an appraisal of the crop outlook at the time the er applied Thus if a field which normally produced 50 bushels was ed at 20 bushels because of ad- verse weather the payment for slowing under each idled acre would be 20 times 90 cents or That would be only for 10 acres new Stalinist purge might be in the making In the view of American the major meaning of the Khrushchev speech is that the Soviet system of government is unstable They say that since Stalin could do the things which Khrushchev attributed to him in sensational detail some other ruthless and ambitious man in the future might also gather power into his own hands and establish a Stalinist dictatorship Khrushchev accused Stalin of direct responsibility for the deaths of thousands of loyal Communists whom he ed as victims of a reign of ror He said Stalin had ed the principle of collective leadership which Lenin bad set up Khrushchev also said Stalin bungled the conduct of the war costing the lives of hundreds of thousands bv bad and bv failure to for the conflict with Six Candidates Listed For Ohio School Chief Phantom Engineer Proves To Be Boy Model Train Fan DETROIT engineer of a phantom train crew that a diesel engine and string of box cars from under the es of railroad yard hands has turned out to be a model train enthusiast He gave himself up last night The boy whom police fied only as a Detroit high school Student and his two firemen spent more than two hours through a maze of complicated switch tracks early Sunday They ed nine extra box cars from three sidings before they brought the stolen diesel back to the West Side yard Leaflets Threaten Death For Briton LONDON A car speeding hrough the streets of ter scattered leaflets ening death to Sir John Harding of Cyprus The leaflets signed by a Cypriot extremist organization and ad- dressed to Harding You are a criminal and you've lot to pay for your crimes A et is waiting for you Police have been told that a Cypriote have slipped into Britain with plans to make an attempt on life They seek to avenge convicted as sts and hanged by the British on the Mediterranean island ROKs Get U S Aid SEOUL Korea's Re- Ministry announced oday the United States has d an additional aid for the year 1956 fiscal In Brinks Robbery Money Recovered In Boston BOSTON routine arrest in Gombos Renamed COLUMBUS J Lausche today announced the re- appointment of Zoltan Gombos as chairman of the state racing commission to serve until June 28 1960 Baltimore has led to what the FBI calls the first sizable recovery of loot from Brink's robbery of six years ago Some was found day by FBI and Boston police behind false paneling in an of- fice in sub basement of a South End rooming house said serial numbers check with those on the Brink's loot The find within IS hours of the arrest of Jordan Perry Jr 31 a Boston stone mason and vict who was taken into custody after passing suspicious money in a Baltimore amusement park Two men were arrested in ton charged with being ies after the fact of the Brink's the largest cash haul in the nation's criminal history They were identified as Edward Bennett 36 of Weymouth and John F Buccelli 41 of The i FBI said Bennett was ar- End office Buccelli whom the FBI said it had shadowed in men indicted as participants in the Brink's robbery was set for Aug 6 The 10 were eight of them January The roundup of money began Sunday night when Perry cashed a ragged and moldy in the amusement park The park ator suspicious called police Authorities looked up Perry and they said found more than mostly in and bills on his person The bills they said had a smell of mold and were brittle and brown with age Perry admitted having more money in his hotel room said and they found hidden under a carpet The Boston raid police ed was made on information plied by Perry Agents armed with axes swarmed into the con- firm office and ripped out the false paneling of a wall ing portraits of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington Behind the panel wrapped in U S Incomes Said Booming Billion Increase During in- come in April rose nearly lion to a record billion the annual rate of Commerce De- said today was the second straight month in which a rise of nearly billion on an annual rate had been recorded The April rate compares with billion for March and billion for February Significant in the April report was a rise of one-half billion lars in total agricultural income from billion in March to billion in April This was the highest annual rate for farm income in any month since last November For the first four months of the year farm income has been running at a rate of billion or slightly below the billion for the en- tire year of 1955 Personal income includes wages and salaries the net income of proprietorships and partnerships farm income dividends and inter- ests net rents and other types of individual income THE DEPARTMENT said wage and salary payments rose by about billion in April over March March also had shown a billion gain over February Two-thirds of the April rise in wages and salaries took place in manufacturing industries a er proportion of increase than in the previous month The ment said higher hourly earnings was the main factor in this ad- vance but noted there was also increased factory employment Wage and salary income in ril was at an annual rate of billion compared with billion or March For the full year 1955 the annual rate for wages and aries was billion Weatherman Smiling At Festival Forecast Confesses CINCINNATI Police plan to file charges today against an ex- convict who has admitted killing an ejderly woman in a holdup Investigators said Robert tory 22 admitted last night he broke into the woman's apartment in downtown Cincinnati Sunday and killed her with a chen knife after she recognized him The body of the victim Mrs Leona McCrocklin 66 who worked part time as a cleaning woman was found yesterday The weatherman still had a happy smile today for Van ers looking forward to row's Peony Festival Day A telephone call this noon to Jess Halsey meteorologist at the Fort Wayne Weather Bureau brought that tomorrow ought to be just about an ideal day for the Festival Halsey said it would be sunny with a high temperature ex- at around 85 degrees There is a possibility of widely scattered thundershowers after dark tomorrow night but Halsey said that there was less than a 10 per cent chance that Van Wert would get one In fact the thundershowers will be so widely scattered that he wouldn't even predict partly cloudy weather for the evening If a thundershower comes he said it will be a quick one which builds up out of a clear sky Thus the a wide contrast from last val Day when it plenty cool in the afternoon along with a drizzle that dampened the tail end of the afternoon parade By evening last year the drizzle cleared up and it was warmer than in the afternoon In of the Festival Day the courthouse closed at 11 a m for the rest the day Downtown stores will be open until p m and employes will have a half-hour to get a bite to eat and find seats for the afternoon parade scheduled for 2 o'clock As the tail end of the parade passes the stores will reopen and stay open until the start of the evening parade at The merchants aren't ing much business tomorrow but they said they discovered last year that many former residents returning to the city for the day want to drop into the stores to renew acquaintances National Seal Company Inc which has been operating its plant on a four-day week for three weeks stop tion tomorrow instead of Friday this week so employes may at- tend Peony Festival events Next week the company will resume a five-day week but with 60 fewer employes This number will be laid off temporarily Like many other plants which depend partly upon automobile production our volume has been reduced this B W Knauss general manager ex- plains When we can resume former schedules hinges largely upon the general automobile situation stored in an old refrigerator they found Raiders said the money was moldy and rotting and gave appearance of having been buried The newspaper wrapping MEANWHILE trial date for 10 I was dated Dec 11 1955 nett's company was picked up a few blocks away Homes Lost In Indian Floods CALCUTTA winds and floods have destroyed more than homes and inundated thousands of acres in eastern A half people were with more than less One report said dents of Agartala were marooned by flood waters of the South Dakota Set For Its Primary PIERRE S D sues were all but settled before South Dakotans started voting President Eisenhower was sured of winning 14 Republican convention votes and Sen fauver had the eight Democratic Neither slate has any opposition Voters are prohibited from crossing party lines and are banned Merton B Tice municipal judge and former national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars is opposing Ken Holum farmer and former state legislator for the right to meet Sen Case in the general election Case as well as Gov Joe Foss and his Democratic opponent State Sen Ralph Herseth has no primary opposition and their names will not appear on the mary ballots A FIT FOR A QUEEN When Janis Beatty receives her crown as Queen Jubilee XII tomorrow night she be attired in a truly regal velvet robe with white velvet trim This picture was taken at the John Earl Inc store as Miss Beatty took time for the necessary fitting of the robe recently Staff Photo Gas Tank Leaks Could Caused Steak House Fire hose they spied smoke coming from the Steak House One man radioed for the fire trucks while others pulled a hose line into the basement of the Steak House There they spied flames rising from the dirt floor of the ment and they turned fog onto the fire But the flames erupted from the dirt floor behind them so they left the basement After that they chopped a hole into the west wall of the basement and began fogging through that It was then that an explosion shook the basement and Fireman Robert Shupe was badly burned By this time the fire trucks were thA hut thA was approved day for Miami University in Ohio sent flames soaring through the Miami Gets Loan WASHINGTON million Though he didn't say flatly that was the cause Fire Chief Robert Cryer today said leaking gasoline storage tanks at the Morris Oil Company service station at Mam and Shannon Streets could have been responsible for the April 30 fire at the Bar 30 Steak House The fire caused a loss of Cryer said in his official report The loss was partially covered by insurance The flames broke out at the Steak House at about 2.55 p m April 30 ni a of prepared to wash down gasoline which had spilled during a filling operation at the service tion state marshal's staff and William Cheesman fire prevention bureau For State Post Present Superintendent Named None Asking For Position COLUMBUS men in- five high school are being considered for the post as state superintendent of public in- struction The sixth is R M Eyman who is acting as superintendent pending selection of a nent superintendent by the state board of education None of tie six has asked for the job said Charlton Myers of Marion chairman of the nel committee of the board From the beginning the board has felt this position should seek the man and our entire procedure has followed that said ers None of the men invited to meet with us has applied for the position We have sought them out Myers said the six have been asked to a meeting of the nel committee prior to the June board meeting next Monday night V IN ADDITION to Eyman those invited to the committee meeting E L Bowsher superintendent of Toledo schools Harold E superintendent of Canton Orville E Hill superintendent of Cleveland Heights schools E E Holt superintendent of Springfield schools and Paul A Miller super- intendent of Syracuse N Y schools and formerly of Ohio Myers noted Of course the board members will be free to consider other individuals The personnel committee has considered approximately 100 gestions for appointment and in- have been held with more than a score of outstanding men Myers said adding that the com- travelled extensively in Ohio and other states THE MAN THE board finally selects will doubt be one who is familiar with Ohio schools he said He expressed hope the selection could be made at the June or July of the board Eyman 60 headed the old state department of education on pointment by Gov Frank J sehe prior to establishment of the board of education The board set up under a constitutional amendment approved by Ohio ers last November After taking office last January the board voted to rehire Eyman and his whole staff but indicated field From their investigation came j official report at the time there probably would thick document full of statistical j be subsequent personnel changes appointment findings and statements of persons involved Cryer said that tests of the ice tanks showed line was leaking away fairly idly One tank was apparently losing close to four gallons a day Prior to his appointment as head of the state department of education in 1954 Eyman was assistant superintendent of lic instruction a job he held nine years Before 1945 he has i ent of Fairfield County schools for and this was done May Cryer said he had borrowed the state fire marshal's equipment for As the firemen unlimbered their I f to test other service 1 uon tanks in the city in an effort to locate any other possible of trouble His report adds that the Steak House fire could have been caused 1 The constant building up of gasoline in the ground and being brought near the surface of the ground due to rain for six days previous to the fire 2 Due to spillage and ity of the station and tanks fumes could have penetrated the walls of to finance housing for married dents The project includes four apartment buildings each ing eight and 19 apartments structure completely destroying it After the fire Cryer began a for- mal investigation assisted by Charles Scott state fire marshal Don Myers inspector from the The leaking tanks w ere ordered j 17 years starting in 1928 He holds two degrees from Ohio State Bowsher 65 a former state of public instruction is the oldest of group being considered He ed Ohio University and Ohio ern and has degrees from ance College University of gan Ohio State Ashland College and Bowling Green State sity He was superintendent of Waverly schools of seon schools and Ashland schools MILLER AT 42 is youngest of the six He holds degrees from Wilmington College Miami Uni- versity and Ohio State University After teaching in Butler County schools he became executive head of Morgan Twp schools from 1940 untO 1942 He held similar posts at Seven Mile Butler County 45 and Wintersville Jefferson ant superintendent of Canton city schools and ent of Warren schools Sibling 51 was of the building and reached the furnace ment could have in the II Mi RANGOON Nu Burma's prime minister for eight years re- signed today to devote all his time Anti-Fascist Freedom League Please Turn to Two
