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1 this NUMBERS News Room 170 Subscription, Class Ads, and Display Ads, 205 VOL. XXXX, NO. 210 Best Comics of and Newspaper Pictorial Features Service COSHOCTON. OHIO THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1949 Full Leased Associated Wire Press Report of FIVE CENTS VETERANS' PENSION BILL SHELVED; VOTE 208-207 Lewis Orders Miners to Return to Work Monday PITTSBURGH-(P)-John his 463,000 idle coal miners Churchill Guest At White House NEW YORK -Winston Churchill, in this country for an 11-day visit, will call on President Truman in Washington today. He and Mrs.

Churchill will be guests of the Trumans at a formal dinner. The 74-year-old wartime prime minister of Great Britain arrived here yesterday on the liner Queen Elizabeth. JUST NOSING AROUND -by THE TRIBUNE STAFF Mr. and Mrs. John F.

Powell, Fresno Route 1, are believed to be the oldest couple living in Coshocton county. Mr. Powell was 93 on March 13 and his wife, the former Rebecca Williams of Coshocton, will be 91 tomorrow. Mr. Powell has spent all of his life on the farm where he was born.

Mrs. Powell was born in Coshocton when her father was county recorder. The Powells have one son, J. Frank Powell of the home; three daughters, Miss Florence Powell, teacher in the Middletown schools; Mrs. Dan Leatherman (Mary), Columbus, Mrs.

Helen Emerson, Fresno; 13 grandchildren and 15 -grandchildren. One daughter, Anna, is deceased. Newlyweds Held In Murder Probe -(P)-A teenaged couple, wed six days today were central figures in a Wisconsin slaying mystery. They are Mr. and Mrs.

Milton Babich, taken into custody here last night. The hunt started when the body of Patricia Birmingham, 16-year-old sister of bride, was recovered Sunday from the Milwaukee river near her West Allis, home. Milwaukee officers said they want the Babichs for questioning. The newlyweds denied any knowledge of how Patricia went to her death. They told police they had heard Patricia's body was found, but they kept silent because of fear their parents would annul their marriage.

William Heister, 68, Retired Clow Worker, Dies Near NCTown William Heister, 68, was found dead Wednesday at 2 p. m. at his home on Newcomerstown Route 1 by a neighbor, Edward Miller, who noticed that no smoke was coming from the house. Mr. Heister lived alone and had been ill for some time.

He was born April 30, 1880, in Wolf, a son of William and Eliza Kitzmiller Heister, He was member of St. Paul's Lutheran church and was a retired Clow Co. employe. The survivors are one brother, Fred Heister of Wolfe; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Ripley and Mrs.

Adella Riley, both of Canton. One brother and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at the Bonnell funeral home with Rev.

Charles S. Foust officiating. Burial will be in the Bethel cemetery, Friends will be received this evening at the funeral home. Blizzard Hits Idaho ALBION, -A blizzard as bad as any during the winter isolated southern Idaho town today, Drifts three to four feet deep blocked the road from Albion to Decla. Give Now! Winnie Arrives for Speech Winston Churchill gives his famous "V-for-victory" sign on arrival in New York aboard the Queen Elizabeth.

With him is Mrs. Churchill. The wartime prime minister of Great Britain is in this country to make a speech at Cambridge, on March 31. He was met at the dock by several hundred pickets protesting the Atlantic Pact. Churchill's speech at Fulton, three years ago foreshadowed the pact, and he hinted that his forthcoming speech might be just as important.

Soviet Artists En Route to U.S. Soviet composer Dmitri Fadeyev, left, secretary general are pictured chatting with a Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, en among the Russian intellectuals peace" conference in New York Council of Arts. Sciences Shostakovich, right, and Alexander of the Union of Soviet Writers, stewardess before take-off from route to New York. They are granted visas to attend a "world sponsored by the leftist National and Professions. Law Designed to Ease Parking Problem Revised COLUMBUS, O.

(AP) The state legislature, correcting a flaw of two years ago, took steps today to make it easier for cities to do something about the parking problem. Two years ago the legislature passed an act permitting cities to Cerebral Thrombosis Fatal to Widow, 88, At NCTown Rest Home Mrs. Ida Shoemaker Baxter, 88, died at 7:10 p. m. Wednesday at the Hill Top rest home in Newcomerstown of a cerebral thrombosis.

She had been a resident of the home for several years. She was born May 10, 1860, in Tuscarawas county, a daughter of George and Margaret Shoemaker. Her husband, Frank Baxter, died in 1932. Mrs. Baxter is survived by one son, Harry Baxter, Newcomerstown; one sister, Mrs.

Violet Burr, Indianapolis; two grandchildren and three Two sons are deceased. great-grandchildren. The services will be held day at 1 p. m. at the Bonnell funeral home with Rev.

Charles S. Foust in charge. Burial will be in the State st cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p. m.

Heart Ailment Fatal Wednesday Evening To Route 4 Resident Paul Koonts, 58, died at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday at his home on Coshocton Route after a two months' illness of heart disease. He was born Nov. 14, 1890, in Conesville, a son of Charles and Mary Hidgway Koonts.

He was never married. Survivors are three sisters, Mrs. Kenneth Huck. Zanesville, Mrs. Curtis Hanekrat, Cosbocton Route 5, Mrs.

Dewey Beckley, Akron, Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. Friday at the Dawson funeral home in Coshocton with Rev. Melvin Mitchell officiating. Burial will be in South Lawn cemetery.

Friends will be received at the Dawson funeral home after 7 p. m. Thursday, House Passes FEPC Bill After Lengthy Debate Hot Labor Issue Goes to Senate; Interest Wide COLUMBUS, O. (AP) The loftiest oratorical wave in the general assembly this session swept an Ohio FEPC bill to passage in the house Wednesday. The vote was 70 to 61.

It followed nearly four hours of intense debate. Spectators filled galleries to the end. Several kept score during the six roll call votes on changes proposed from the floor. The ban on lobbyists in the rear of the house chamber was lifted so they could have standing room. Senators after their session crossed the state house to listen in.

They will be the next to work over the controversial administrationsought bill. Committee hearings probably will start in two or three weeks, a member said. Eight Republicans joined 62 Democrats to pass the measure in the house. Seven Democrats voted with 54 Republicans against it. Three Republicans didn't vote.

The proposal makes it an unfair labor practice for employers of more than 12 people to discriminate because of race or religion in hiring and firing workers. Labor (Continued on Page Twenty) 5 Perish in Farm Tenant House Fire CIRCLEVILLE. O. -(P)- A family of five persons burned to death early today when fire destroyed their tenant house on a farm 12 miles northwest of here. The victims were: Leonard Estep, 28, tenant farmer; his wife, Frances, 26, and their three children, Jean, Beverly, 4, and Joie Lee, 17 months.

They lived in the Earl Miller farm on Route 104. A neighbor discovered the fire about 5 a. m. and called the Circleville fire department. The neighbor said he observed no activity about the house until the firemen arrived.

Two hours later, Sheriff Charles Radcliff of Pickaway county and deputies had removed three bodies from the debris of the frame house. The bodies of the three children were found on the springs of A bed, which had fallen thru the floor. The father's body was found later in a downstairs bedroom and that of the mother beside a coal stove in the living room. A fivegallon kerosene can, containing some fuel, stood nearby, Sheriff Radcliff expressed belief the fire started the stove exploded. Widow, 85, Succumbs At Newcomerstown Home on Wednesday Mrs.

Melissa Marlatt Tufford, 85, died at her home, 547 West State Newcomerstown, at 10:30 a. m. Wednesday after an illness lasting several weeks. She was born Jan. 29, 1863, in Coshocton county, a daughter of Addison and Selina Minnick Marlatt.

On Oct. 28, 1884, she was married to George W. Tufford, who died in 1930. She was a member of the College st. Methodist church.

Survivors are three sons, Frank, Earl and William A. Tufford, all of Newcomerstown; two daughters, Mrs. Catherine Brown, Newark, N. and Mrs. Alta Ross, Canton; 13 grandchildren, eight greatgrandchildren and a half-brother, w.

B. Starts, Newcomerstown. Two sons preceded her in death. The funeral services will be held Saturday at 3 p. m.

at the Bonnell funeral home with the Rev. George G. Shurtz officiating. Burial will be in West Lawn cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and from 7 until 9 p.

m. Friday. First Scarlet Fever Case of Year Reported The first case of scarlet fever in Coshocton county this year has been reported by the county health commissioner, Dr. H. H.

Schwindt. Raymond West, 15, Roscoe, was reported by his family physician to have contracted the disease, according to the county health office. Dr. Schwindt states that all children suffering with sore throats and headache should be examined by the family physician to be on the positive side that scarlet fever is not present L. Lewis today ordered to return to work Monday.

An executive order to district officers said: "The present memorial period will terminate Monday, March 28. Production may then be resumed in all mines and all members should make themselves available for work on that date." The order was directed to miners east of the Mississippi who have been idle since March 14 in a work stoppage Lewis said was meant as a memorial to dead and injured workers. Lewis said it also would appointment of Dr. James as head of the U.S. protest, bureau of mines.

The mine closings have cost the diggers some $300,000,000 in wages. During the mine shutdown, coal-carrying railroads laid off more than 70,000 employes. Bare Red Plan for World Revolution NEW YORK (AP) A Communist master plan for general strikes and revolt "according to the rules of military unfolded before a federal court jury here yesterday, The prosecutor of 11 Communist party leaders read from a Communist document which bristled with such words as "armed insurrection," "revolutionary positions," "putschism," "revolutionary upsurge," and "mobilization of the masses. A copy of this Communist program was identified by Louis F. Budenz, former Communist official, who renounced the party in 1945 and returned to the Roman Catholic church.

Budenz testified the party had demanded his loyalty to Premier Stalin as the leader of Communist world revolution in all countries, including the United States. Budenz was the first witness called, by the government in the 10-week-old trial. The defense got an offer of help yesterday from Earl Browder, deposed leader of the U. S. Communist party, who has been attacked recently by the Daily Worker, the party's official publication.

Browder offered himself as a defense witness, saying he made this public announcement to spike rumors that he would be a prosecution witness. W. T. Mikesell, 86, Dies at West Bedford Home on Wednesday William Thomas Mikesell, 86, died at 3:30 p. m.

Wednesday at his home in West Bedford from the effects of a stroke. He had been bedfast months. He was born Aug. 30, 1862, in Perry township, a son of Daniel and Anna Crawford Mikesell, In 1884 he was married to Eva Barrett, who survives, together with one son, Grover Mikesell, West Bedford: one daughter, Mrs. Laverna Griffith of the home; three sisters, Mrs.

Belle Barrett, Warsaw, Mrs. Emma Clark and Miss Orpha Mikesell, both of Coshocton, and four grandchildren. Mr. Mikesell was a member of the Perry grange. He was also a member of the Christian church of New Guilford.

Services will be held Saturday at 2 p. m. at the West Bedford Methodist church with the Rev. Harry T. Lambert in charge.

Burial will be in the West Carlisle cretery. Two Students Die in Plunge Down Ledge YOSEMITE, Calif. (P) The death plunge of two Stanford students down a 620-foot ledge at Yosemite was disclosed last night with the discovery of their snowcovered bodies. Their battered condition led investigating rangers to conclude they had fallen at least 400 feet. They had attempted to climb the ledge linked by 100 feet of rope, a length considered by veterans as too great for such a risky ascent up wet, snow-whitened rocks.

Cards in clothing identified the two as Peter B. Yeazell, 18, and Kenneth Alden Haines, 19, both of Fresno. Navy Wife Accuses Congresswoman Rep. Edith N. Rogers Mrs.

Eilene Diana LattaLawrence, above, a former California model, has accused her navy captain husband, Harold Alexander Latta -Lawrence of allowing Edith Nourse Rogers, 68-year-old Massachusetts congresswoman, to break up their 11-month-old marriage. Mrs. branded the charge altho she said she knew the navy couple quite Capt. B. A.

Latta- Lawrence well. Improved Rural Telephone Service by 1952 Promised telephone service going to be COLUMBUS, (A) Rural better before long, the house commerce and transportation committee heard last night. Representatives of small phone firms told the committee they could get equipment and make the changes demanded by subscribers before 1952. The committe is considering a bill to require such companies to provide adequate service by Jan. 1, 1952.

Such service includes no Jury Finds Trio Guilty of Murder NEWARK, O. (AP) Two men and a woman were convicted of first degree murder yesterday in the fatal beating of Edwin Hart. A jury spared them from death sentences with a recommendation of mercy. Convicted were Mrs. Maxine Dermer Sullivan, 24; her brother, Clarence R.

Dermer, 20, and Albert R. Hefley, 18. They were tried by a jury of six men and six wo. men. Verdict of the jury- returned at 4:55 p.

life sentences mandatory. The trio was- charged with beating Hart to death in front of a Newark cafe last Jan. 13. Judge Charles B. Holtzberry said he would sentence the defendants Saturday morning.

Heart Attack Fatal To George Smalley, Coshocton Route 4 George Smalley, 71, Coshocton Route 4, died at 9:30 p. Wednesday of a heart attack suffered rea rthe City Cab office on Main st. He was born March 17, 1878, in Coshocton county, a son of James and Rheuhama Banks Smalley, His wife, Mary Louise Sheely, is deceased. Mr. Smalley had been a square shear operator at the Moore Enameling plant at West Lafayette for 18 years.

The survivors include three sons, Ciraence of Fresno Route 1, Floyd of Cosoheton and Clyde of Coshocton Route one brother, James, Coshocton; two sisters, Mrs. Frank Hawkins, Coshocton, and Mrs. Joe Potts, Cambridge: 10 grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. One son and two daughters are deceased. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m.

at the Gibson and Lear funeral home, Rev. A. C. Shonkwiler officiating. Burial will be in South Lawn cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until time for the services Rankin Declares House's Action Kills Legislation Measure Hardly Recognizable After Amendment WASHINGTON (AP) By a one-vote margin, the house today shelved the Rankin veterans' pension bill. A roll-call vote of 208 to 207 sent the measure back to the veterans committee for further study. It is possible for the veterans' committee to write a new bill and send it back to the house at a later date. But Chairman Rankin (D-Miss) told the house the vote to recommit meant that the bill is dead.

"That kills this legislation for this congress," Rankin said. Rankin's bill already had been so amended that it bore little resemblance to his original proposal for $90 a month pensions at age 65 to all veterans of World wars and II. The vote to throw it back to committee climaxed a series of maneuvers on the floor. Rep. Teague (D-Tex) made the motion to send it back.

The roil cair vote was first announced as 209 to 208 against the motion. But on a recount, it developed that the tabwiators had erred on the first count. There were no vote switches on the recapitulation. Two votes preceded the roll calls. Teague first moved to strike out the bill's enacting clause- -ordinarily a motion that kills a bill if it carries.

That lost 169 to 158 on a standing count. Then Teague got a teller vote on the same motion. It carried then, 171 to 168. Teague's motion to send the bill back to committee followed bringing the roll call and the recount of the vote first announced on it. more than eight telephones on one "party line." The phone measure by Rep.

Robert W. Reider (D-Ottawa) originally called for five phones on a party line. The limit was changed to six. Committee members expressed belief the measure will be recommended for passage next week. About 40 counties were represented at the hearing.

Thomas Maxson of Columbus, former secretary of the Ohio publie utilities commission, said the phone companies could and should improve service. "Over half the complaints filed with the public utilities commission of Ohio within the past two years will be eliminated if this bill is made a law," Maxson asserted. He said the alternative probably would be federally-financed co-operative phone companies serving rural areas in the state. The Rural Electrification Administration would be authorized to finance projects in a bill pending in congress. purchase, lease or condemn land to be used for off-street parking.

The legislation provided the cities must dispose of the property within two years after securing it. Faced with this restriction, no city took advantage of the plan. Today the house passed, 122 3, and sent to senate an amendto ment removing this limitation. The house Wednesday passed and sent to the senate a bill to permit full credit toward retirement to policemen for military service. The vote was 129-0.

The senate passed measures to: Allow the state to increase payments to non-profit hospitals for indigent traffic accident victims from $6 to $10 a day. Permit public expenditure of a maximum of $1,000 for street repairs without bids. Authorize bond issues to finance realty appraisals, The measure already has passed the house. The senate public health committee recommended a passage of a bill to license practical nurses. Mrs.

Cora Kaley, 82, Millersburg, Dies at Rest Home Wednesday Mrs. Cora Kaley, 82, Clay Millersburg, died at 5 a. m. Wednesday at the Smith rest home in that village following an illines of several months. She was born Nov.

18, 1866, in Ashland county, a daughter of Barnhart J. and Eva Ullman Young, and was married in 1891 to Martin Kaley, who died in 1895. Mrs. Kaley was a member of the Millersburg Trinity Lutheran church. She was an aunt of Chic Young, creator of the popular comic strip, "Blondie." She is survived by one sister, Mrs.

O. J. Uhl, Millersburg: two brothers, Walter G. Young, Los Angeles, and William Young, Elkhart, Ind, Funeral services will be held at the Hunter funeral home in Miltersburg Friday at 2 p. m.

Rev. Knox R. Roberts will officiate and burial will be in the Millersburg cemetery. Friends may call at the funral home tonight I Value of Farm-City Link Emphasized James B. Waddell, Former Custodian of Elks Lodge, Stricken James Blaine Waddell, 71, died at his home, 1412 Orange at 6:30 p.

m. Wednesday after a nine months' illness. He was born July 28, 1877, in Jackson township, son of Samuel and Catherine Wright Waddell. On Sept. 2, 1916, he was married to Mary Berlean, who died May 4, 1946.

Mr. Waddell was educated in the Roscoe schools and worked as a pressman at the Guy Meek Calendar Co. A former captain on the Coshocton fire department, he served for over 20 years as custodian of the local Elks lodge. He was a member of the St. John's Evangelical and Reformed church and the Elks lodge.

He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Maude W. Loos, Springfield, and Mrs. Jessie W. Shafer, MeClain av.

Three brothers and two sisters are deceased. Services will be held Saturday at 2 p. m. at the Glass funeral home, Rev. Clarence Higgins officlating.

Burial will be in South Lawn cemetery. Friends may call at the Glass funeral home after 7 p. m. today. Another Convicted In 'Hot Ham' Case LANCASTER, O.

(P) A common pleas court jury yesterday convicted Denver Ball, 29, in another of the series of "hot ham" trial in this community. Ball was found guilty of receiving meat stolen from a Columbus packing plant. The jury deliberated three hours and 25 minutes COLUMBUS, -The welfare of city folk is permanently Intertwined with the welfare of farm people, the president of Michigan State college told Ohio farmers today. In a speech prepared for delivery at 4 p. m.

before a general session of the Farm and Home week at Ohio State, university, President John A. Hannah reviewed the history of land-grant colleges and agricultural progress. Attendance at the program, which extends thru Friday, mounted toward its 10,000 goal today. Official registration last night was (Continued on Page Twenty) Bedford Township Native Stricken at Columbus Hospital Mrs. Dollie Darr, 54, widow of Donnie W.

Darr, died Wednesday afternoon in a Columbus hospital after an illness lasting 10 years. She was born May 28, 1895 in Bedford township, a daughter of Thomas and Lydia Rolston Barnes, The survivors are one brother, Lemas E. Barnes, Pittsburgh, two sisters, Mrs. Verva Coulter, Coshocton, and Mrs. Frank Underwood, Newcomerstown.

One sister is deceased. Funeral services will be held Friday at 1:30 p. at the Urey funeral home in Warsaw with Rev. David Talbott, pastor of the Trinity Episcopal church, officiating. Burial will be in the Valley View cemetery at Warsaw, Eastern Star lodge will hold graveside services.

Friends will be received this evening at the funeral home. THE WEATHER OHIO rain and milder tonight and Friday, becoming colder Friday afternoon. Temperatures High and low temperatures in the past 24 hours: 44 at 4 p.m. Wednesday, 40 at 6 a. m.

today. At nion today, 53..