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Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 8

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E5KSB3 Thursday Evening November 4 1954 YETTE IND THE JOURNAL AND COURIER LA 8 Texan Knowland DEATHS of a definite coir Ike Sends Collins On Indo Mission a Water Service Is American league SHOP RI NITE Doya Knutson of Oklee Edith Green of Portland direction winner in Michi $J25 22K GOLD TRIM HEAVY CRYSTAL 10" HANDLED TRAY oz PITCHER of 7 oz SUGAR BOWL Circuit Court of Ap 1 CORDUROYS new the s'wear Man Tailored A SLACKW I I I UNERAL NOTICES BUY 1 RECORD or ALBUM GET ANOTHER (dX OPEN UNTIL 8:30 RIDAY NITE MRS ISA COLE MAHARA MUSIC CENTER 1 PIpne 2 6203 525 Main St We Give Green Stamps 425 Main Street MWl HOCKMEYER in history was South Carolina by emer hospi of at needed to end the the in Philadel 1 49th and deciding vote in organ izing the chamber said that the cam? voters Hoosier GI Killed BAD KREUZNACH Germany (AP) Two US soldiers who died inside an Army tank of carbon mo noxide poisoning were identified Wednesday as Pfc Victor Birkle of Indianapolis and Pvt Waldemar Stock of Philadelphia The Army said the two soldiers died last week in a tank that had been participating in field exer cises The two men decided to sleep in the tank but left the auxil iary engine running $9000 Paid for Bull COLUMBUS (INS) The cost Columbus Wednesday with $9000 Wing paid for the grand cham pion bull of the National Polled Hereford show The Hereford farm of Worthington Ind bought the bull HHR Mischief Duke Ola Actor Loses Damages LOS ANGELES A award of $88780 damages to actor Michael Jeffers has been set aside by Superior Judge Allen Ash burn Jeffers sued the Screen Extras Guild for libel alleging its news letter incorrectly linked him with an organization the guild said was Communist influenced Judge Ashburn held Wednesday that Jeffers was damaged by the 1950 newsletter but the award was exorbitant court Wednesday af sentences given the poli com next of recess emer late Bv JOHN HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (AP) Gen Lawton Collins was speeding to ward Indo China Thursday on a mission for President Eisenhower aimed at finding out how to help divided Viet Nam from falling completely to the Communists Collins former Army chief of staff will have the personal rank of ambassador as a special rep resentative of the President A White House announcement Wednesday night said his mission is diplomatic not military Eisenhower has several hundred millions of dollars available for spending to prop up South Viet Nam against communism if Col lins can come up with a program which will persuade the govern ment and Congress of a reasonable chance of success The White House statement said the country had been ravished by eight years of war divided between free and Communist zones as a result of the Indo China peace set tlement last summer and confronted forces threatening its independence and Sen Mike Mansfield (D Mont) reported last month after a personal tour of Indo China that he found for preventing the Reds from taking over because of bitter political rivalry and what he termed lack of strong government in Viet Nam (D Ga) Rep James Demos To Ask Continued from Page 1 group of wealthy Philadelphians Roy actually joined in an an nouncement that the Macks had sold control of the club to the local group However the Ameri can league last Thursday turned down the Philadelphians bid Johnson who steadfastly main tained that he had bought the club in Chicago and that the Macks had no out returned to Philadelphia to try to conclude the deal he thought he had made weeks earlier NO OICIAL NOTICE Johnson met with Connie and Earle in apartment Thursday along with several of the lawyers and finally got the signatures 54 year stay of phia At Chicago headquarters said they had not been notified officially of the sale to Johnson Chiang Plot Told LOS ANGELES (AP) Chiang Kai pastor has disclosed what he calls an attempt to as sassinate the generalissimo in a ormosan church three years ago Dr Wei Ping Chen 78 year 1 Methodist minister and pastor of a chapel on Chiang Kai es tate talked to reporters at a news conference Wednesday Dr Chen came here from or mosa for a two monlh tour of the United States with a traveling evangelist MRS DeWITT COLE SR Mrs Isa Cole 61 of Lafayette 2 died at 11:25 pm Wednesday in St Elizabeth hospital following a long illness She had been hos pitalized three days Born at St Joseph Ill she was married in 1918 to DeWitt Cole She lived in this community 15 years and was a member of Mt Zion Methodist church Surviving besides her husband are three sons DeWitt Cole Jr of Camden Thomas and Warren both of Lafayette and four daughters Mrs Elmer Biggs Mrs Walter Wulff and Mrs Joseph ilczer all of Lafayette and Mrs William Sumers Lansing Ill MRS JAMES JAMISON Word has been received here of the death of Mrs Helen Louise (Emerson) Jamison Wednesday afternoon in her home at Los Gatos Calif after a short illness Born at Lafayette he had lived here until about 15 years ago Sur viving besides her husband James are two brothers Thomas Waldo Emerson Houston Tex and Harry Andrews Emerson Lafayette PATRICK A KEARNEY Patrick A Kearney 68 died un expectedly of a heart attack in his room in the YMCA building at 10:30 a Thursday Employed in Graves bakery he had returned to his room a few minutes earlier but did not complain of feeling ill Born in Lafayette he spent his life here He was employed at Pur due university for 12 years before going to work in the bakery He was a member of St Catholic church and never was married Surviving is a sister Mrs George Klinker Lafayette MRS ELIZABETH SENTZ WOLCOTT Mrs Elizabeth Sentz 74 died at 10:15 am Thurs day in St Elizabeth hospital La fayette She was taken there Tues day Mrs Sentz had been ill for some time and had been at the home of a daughter Mrs Johnson at Monticello CLIORD A CADE VEEDERSBURG Clifford Cade 75 a retired farmer died a heart attack in his home here 5 Wednesday Bom in ountain county he was married to Jennie Miller in 1902 Surviving with the widow is a sister Mrs Bessie Hurst Veeders burg ANDERSON A threat of disastrous fires hung over Ander son 18 stopped pressure nesday A heavy tractor plunged through soft ground near the pumping sta tion and broke a 24 inch main Pressure remained below normal after the emergency repairs ire stations assembled tank wagons for protection against small fires but would have been almost helpless against a major blaze while the fire hydrants were dry Private wells provided gency service to St tai and some homes Election officials took a in vote counting during the gency but went back to work Wednesday afternoon rench Repel Rebels ALGIERS rench troops supported by tanks and warplanes drove 1000 odd terrorist rebels back Thursday into the remote fastnesses of bandit rid den Aures Mountains authorities here reported Armored columns cleaned out the village oum Toubone of two communities seized this week by local guerrillas and desert bandits from nearbyTunisia in what War Secretary Jacques Chevallier called an "open against rench authority Election Viewpoint LONDON (AP) West European editors agreed Thursday that the American election results would bring no startling shifts in foreign policy They assured their readers President personal prestige remained un diminished despite Democratic party gains OHIO SENATOR Rep George Bender gives himself a close shave after squeezing through to win the US sena torship from Thomas A Burke Democrat in Ohio's tightest ma jor political contest in history (AP Wirephoto) Clinic Burglarized The Vyverberg clinic 1001 South street was one of several business places burglarized Tuesday night This break in was reported to po lice Wednesday Only $2 was re ported missing and several drawers had been ransacked Entrance was through an east side window Po lice Thursday were continuing their search for the thieves who entered the Young Hardware store and East Side cleaners 310 312 South Sixteenth street serv ice station Eighth and Columbia streets and the Wilson service sta tion Ninth and Columbia streets Over $530 was taken from the lat ter three places Stork Delayed SAN DIEGO Calif (AP) A woman attorney delayed the stork just long enough here Wednesday to learn of her election to the California Legislature Mrs Wanda Sankary 34 Demo crat defeated Chester Schneider San Diego councilman 28027 to 27521 and when the complete re turns were in went to the hospital to have her baby She is the wife of an attorney hours after an accident city water service but was partly restored Wed Retumin Bodies NICE (UP) A C119 transport left he United States Wednesday with he bodies of 21 Americans killed week ago Sun day in the Alpini crash of a Air orce C47: SENATORS TO POLICE NEWARK (AP) Sen Robert Hendrickson (R J) said Thursday there will be Senate committee action to insure what he called proper evaluation of the close winning margin of Republican Clifford Case in the New Jersey Senate contest Hendrickson in a statement from his Woodbury home said the Senate committee on privileges and elections will be in New Jer sey Saturday to check on Tues election in which Case held a 2317 vote margin MEYNER ASKS RECHECK The statement by the retiring junior senator from New Jersey followed a conference of Demo crats Wednesday night in which Gov Robert Meyner ordered a state wide recheck of the results by Democratic leaders Ballot boxes and voting ma chines were guarded pending the rechecks VICTORY CLAIMED lead over Democrat Charles Howell brought the first victory statement from the GOP camp an announcement by his campaign manager Ken neth Perry that has The undecided race could give the Democrats a three seat mar gin in the Senate Absentee bal lots were counted and tallies re checked until late Wednesday night and Case picked up close to 1500 votes in Mercer and Essex counties The Democrats from Meyner on down refused to concede the elec tion The official canvass of the vote is scheduled for Monday and can didates have until Nov 13 to seek a recount Sentences Affirmed CHICAGO (AP) Three men sentenced in ederal District court at Indianapolis have lost appeals to the peals The higher firmed the three men The appeals were filed by David Bocock convicted of counterfeiting and George Col quette and Clarence Manns con victed of an attempted burglary of the Indiana Loan association office of Noblesville last Dec 3 Each was sentenced to eight years in prison Overhaul Seen Continued from Page 1 GOP's Cordon Continued from Page 1 ABRIC SHOP 517 Hr 5L MONROE La (AP) Ten year old Joe Cooper whose love for his dog touched off a nation wide educational fund drive was sched uled to enroll in a grammar school here Thursday instead of an ex clusive school The drive sponsored by former Gov James Noe was started when the boy was released from the Louisiana Training institute last riday He was committed to the reformatory Oct 6 less than five hours after he pointed a loaded snotgun at the principal of a West Monroe school and a truant offi cer in an effort to get the release of his unvaccinated dog Tippie which had followed him to school family went to the office of Noe a television and radio sta tion owner Wednesday for what was expected to be a final meeting before the boy went to the Webb School for Boys at Bell Buckle Tenn However Noe said the fam ily decided to keep Joe in Monroe Noe quoted Mrs Ray oy half sister who was given custody of Joe last riday as saying the family wanted him to remain at home so the family could have personal supervision over him The former governor also an nounced discontinuance of the edu cational fund and said donors would be asked whether they wanted their contributions returned or given to Mrs oy for the boy Noe said Joe wanted to apolo gize to the principal of the Ran som school Mrs Tina Clark and the truant officer Maurice Griggs Joe who will continue his educa tion in the sixth grade of Central grammar school nodded agreement 1952 standard bearer stumped vig orously throughout the country in a drive to put Democrats back in control of Congress and carried th brunt of the fight on the na tional level In another sense however the Democratic upsurge could make it harder for Stevenson Democratic hopefuls may now figure the par chances for a Presidential vic tory in 1956 are bright and that could touch off a free for all scramble for the nomination EW Among "new thrust into the national spotlight were 36 year old George Leader who won the governorship of Pennsylvania by 250000 votes to end 16 years of Republican rule and newly elected Democratic Sen Pat trick McNamara Leader a lanky bespectacled turkey farmer was virtually a po litical unknown six months ago As governor of a pivotal political state he should be a man to watch during the next two years McNamara a Detroit business man and minor AL official also shot up from virtual obscurity to unseat Republican Sen Homer erguson a key adviser to the Elsenhower administration and chairman of the Senate GOP Policy committee WILLIAMS PRESTIGE UP Meanwhile 43 year old Gov Mennen (Soapy) Wil liams heir to soap millions gained in prestige by winning a landslide victory for re election A Demo crat Williams won a fourth term in the mansion the first four time history Another first chalked up in Strom Thurmond 48 who was elected senator over the offi cial Democratic party candidate in a write in campaign He was the 1948 presidential candidate of the Rights party In New York Averell Harriman 62 broke a 12 year Republican reign by defeating GOP Sen Ir ving Ives in a tight race for gov ernor OTHERS MENTIONED Harriman scion of a wealthy railroad family and former high Washington official said on elec tion night he would support Steven son for the 1956 nomination He bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952 but threw his strength to Stevenson after two ballots at the national convention Other Democratic winners men tioned as possible presidential en tries included Sen Lyndon John son 46 of Texas Sen Estes Ke fauver 51 of Tennnessee Sen Richard Russell 57 of Georgia and Gov rank Lausche 58 of Ohio he of the wanted him and other Republicans to continue in charge of Red hunting jeommittees Club's Sale Continued from Page 1 taxes and renewal of the flexible price support farm program Democrats with a 232 to 203 House majority will be obliged to takb the responsibility for what the House does on these issues DEMO TAX VIEWS On taxes Rayburn said the Dem ocrats will consider renewing their proposal to boostpersonal income tax exemptions which President Eisenhower successfully blocked this summer A move may also develop among some Democrats try to repeaj the Republican sponsored plan giv ing tax relief to persons who re ceive income from dividends Rayburn said the give away of the Republican administration jvill bear looking into particularly the Dixon Yates private power contract in the Ten nessee valley area boys have got some pretty good toeholds to work Ray burn said MAY WITHHOLD UNDS He indicated that the Democrats might use the device of holding back on funds when they disap proved of some GOP sponsored project that they otherwise have no control over This might be the case in Dixon Yates controversy 1956 Ike Adlai Continued from Page 1 WHILE THEY LAST CREAM and SUGAR SET un American activities commitee announced Wednesday that he fa vors abolishing that group entirely and transferring its Communist in vestigating functions to the House judiciary committee they should have been all Walter said he thought that the change would curb of pow by the un American activities committee which has been one of the most controversial commit tees in the House SUCCESSOR UNCERTAIN There yas no firm word on who would succeed Sen William Jen ner (R Ind) as chairman of the Senate internal security subcommit tee Sen Pat McCarran (D Nev) who held the chairmanship the last time the Democrats controlled the Senate died before the election Sen Harley Kilgore of West Virginia a member of the Demo cratic liberal wings will succeed Sen William Langer (R D) as chairman of the judiciary committee parent group to the internal security subcommittee Kil gore is believed to be sympathetic to plan for setting up a joint Senate House watchdog committee to handle Communist in quiries NO COMMENT McCarthy had no immediate post elecBon comment on the loss of his committee chairmanship which will deprive him of consider able power in the selection of staff members and the direction of investigations Before the election one of the big issues was whether Oat of this world colon in cord lack rocketinc to aucceM because they're man tailored in etylea that bon want because guaranteed washable because they last longer Get them 'today at Pinks Blacks Btiby Blue Pink and Black Splashes Red Rust Kelly Green Purple Doodler Red Women Engineering Outlook Is Bright CHICAGO (UP) Women have the of a to make inroads in such a as the engineering profession according to Mrs Lois McDowell assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology Industry she said urgently needs engineers women as well as men The need has been esti mated at more than 30000 a year and "there is little hope that this figure will be Along with the serious shortage of engineers she added there is a growing emphasis on and less physical labor and tainly the well trained woman has no handicap in this respect" YUILL'S Sh )ll Service 15th and Ball Sts Complete Cad Lubrication Phone2 4777 To Change Titles WASHINGTON The Dem ocratic Senate victory will thrust a youthful Texan Sen Lyndon Johnson into the role of majority floor leader of the upper chamber Barring a reversal which could result from recounts in close con tests Johnson will take over when the 84th Congress assembles Jan 5 as the quarterback of the Senate program Democratic control also will put 14 Democrats in charge of stand ing Senate committees Inasmuch as President Eisenhow er remains in the White House Senate Republican leader William Knowland majority floor leader for the past year will still be the principal spokes man on the Senate floor as mi nority leader Johnson 46 was elected Tues day to his second six year Senate term after 12 years of service is the House He was chosen Demo cratic floor leader two years ago after two years as party whip Teamed with Johnson in the party leadership is Sen Earle Clements of Kentucky Democratic whip and assistant fiber leader with the border knack for working with both the Northern and Southern wings of the party Sen Walter George of Georgia dean of the Senate is expected to be the Democratic can didate for Senate president pro tempore who presides in the ab sence of the vice president Johnson is expected to call the nine man Senate Democratic cy committee and prospective mittee chairmen into session week to discuss development legislative program dntr aferinc UNERALHOME 103 54 STtfl21b33 2b754 This offer valid only RIDAY NIGHT and ALL DAY SATURDAY and implies to all RECORDS in our RECORD 'DEPARTMENT 4 A 5 A LETOVER AND GLAD This Jack Lantern saved from Hallowee'jf in Milwau kee grins like a joyous old man the effect an early snow gives Danny Dierba'ck to be wondering why the grin instead of shivers in such weather (International Sound) hoto) STUART'S VII TMVZJ ILT i I) PRICE for only ARMAN Joseph riends may call after 4 Thursday at Murphy fu neral home Rosary there at 7 riday uneral at 9 a tn Saturday In SV Mary cathedral Msgr Emil A Schweler officiating Burial In St Mary cemetery CODE Mrs DeWitt riends may call after riday at Soller Bakcr funeral home Services there at 2 Saturday Rev John Hoadley officiat ing Burial In Dayton cemetery Also surviving are 22 grandchildren two nieces two nephews KEARNEY Patrick A uneral ar rangements Incomplete or informa tion call Zahn Schneider funeral home 2 5378 LOWER MART 14th and Tippecanoe Dial 3739 Acrou from St Elizabeth ATTENTION" Record byers! Take advantage of this SENSATIONAL OER! Sizes SilM 3 12 Hup 12 14 McKinneys 170(5 17th PH 2 7408 VWVVV4 NEW LINE Pottery and Glass Visit Tippecanoe Co lorists display at Purdue Horticul tural show Nov 5 6 7 Record 17 Women In New Congress WASHINGTON (AP) There will be a record number of women in the new Congress One woman senator and 11 rep resentatives ran for re election and won In addition four new women members all Democrats were elected A 17th woman Mrs Joseph ar rington a Republican was elected to nonvoting seat in the House The previous record of 14 wom en was set in the present Congress Mrs George Abel Republican won a two month term in the pres ent Senate to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Dwight Gris wold She was not a candidate for a seat in the new Congress but if certified in time will sit in the session convening next Monday to consider censure of Sen Joseph McCarthy (R Wis) She suc ceeds another woman Republican Mrs Eve Bowring who had been appointed but did not seek elec tion The lineup of those elected in cludes Sen Margaret Chase Smith (R Me) re elected in September and six Republicans including Mrs Cecil Harden of Sixth district and nine Democrats in the House in addition to Mrs arrington All the new members are Democrats The newcomers: Mrs Iris Blitch of Homerville Ga Mrs Martha Griffiths of De troit Mrs Minn Mrs Ore Pal To Stay In Public School Martin May Step Aside for Halleck WASHINGTON (INS) role to be played by GOP leader Joe Martin (R Mass) in the next session of Congress was a matter of speculation Thursday as the Democrats prepared to take over 232 203 control of the new House when it convenes in January The veteran New England Re publican who must step down as speaker of the: House for the seer ond time since 1946 has indicated he will take a back seat elder statesman assignment and allow Rep Charles A Halleck (R Ind) to continue as GOP floor leader Halleck has proved himself a hard punching floor leader during the first two years of the Eisen hower administration and is warm iy regarded by the President When the Republicans lost control of the House in 1948 he relin quished the minority leadership to become Republican whip There is no question about the Democratic leadership lineup Rep Sam Rayburn (D Tex) will return to the speakership an office he has held longer than any other man in congressional history Rep John McCormack (D Mass) will become majority leader While McCormack has always al lied himself with Roosevelt Tru man programs most of the House committee chairmanships will fall to southerners servative tinee Chairman of the powerful rules committee will be Rep Howard Smith (D Va) Rep Jere Cooper (D Tenn) becomes chairman of the tax writing ways and means committee Other veteran southerners who take over control of committees are Rep Carl Vinsen armed services: Richards (D C) foreign af fairs Rep Brent Spence (D Ky) banking and currency and Rep Clarence Cannon (D Mo) ap propriations Check In Illinois Election CHICAGO (UP) Sen Pul IL Douglas spearhead Democratic election surge in 1 (inois Wednes day as federal ofjf ials begfin in vestigations of possible frauds Douglas won rrj electlon to a second term with a comfortable margin 6f more than 200 000 votes over Republican Joseph Meek a political novice who made his first race for public office At the same time? the Democrats gained 3 House seats Ain Congress whittling GOP of the Illi nois delegations It the narrow margin of 13 12 The three Republi can incumbents who lost were 4red Busbey and Edgar A Jonas Chicago and (Runt) Bistf Jp of the 25th district downstate The Democratic 5 newcomers to Congress are Murray and Charles A Bq de of Chicago and Kenneth Grry in the 25th An angered: Dou'3 accused Re publicanfc of engineering a of votes counties normally countedin the GOP column He asked the to investigate possible at in the counes The BI said it was investigating to dejfermine whether it should enter th matter In response to Douglas com plaint Dist Atty Robert Tie ken said he wSs investigating charges that votep were taken home by election officials in an other county to tie returned later for canvassing Tieken also planned to go before a federal grand Thursday to present evidence cf alleged voting irregularities in 14 Chicago pre cincts which are heavily Demo cratic Tieken said he' fad witnesses to the irregularities He subpenaed election records the precincts just before the pcils closed Tues day and said officials promised to deliver them in week or after the official Canvass AcquittecUof Bribe WAUKEGAN 11? for mer Illinois statet ipfficial charged with 'accepting a jfbribe to permit the sale of hots i meat won a directed verdict acquittal Charles foffner super intendent of the Jvision of oods and Dairies wasWjiarged with ac cepting a $500 from Joseph Siciliano Lake Zurich packing house operator ho has been con victed of to ope assistant 4 rV 1 fl yaM JI '5 Being jH I I I I I LJA5 I I Im IfcUysk 1 ires I AwwiRPf I fg gWW 1 1 II up i I jMIOBI 1 1 a I fl 7 A A 5 boy A AioA A STUART'S VII TMVZJ ILT1.

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