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Evening star., 1948-03-01
Finnish Leaders Begin
Conferring on Stain s
Proposal for Treaty
President Will Receive
Decisions of Political
Parties Wednesday
BY the Associotsd Press

HELS1NKI, Mar. 1.-PreSident
Juho Paasikivi opened discus
sions within the Finnish gov
ernment today on Prime Minis
ter Stalin's proposal for a Finn
ish-Russian treaty of friendship
and mutual aid.
Mr.. PaaSikivi conferred at the
presidential palace for 31a hours
with Premier Mauno Peekala, For
eign Minister Carl Enckell, Vice For
eign Minister Reinhold Svento and
1t. Gen. Aaene 'Sihvo, commander in
chief of the Finnish army.
President Juho Paasikivi, 1t was
learned, will be told Wednesday OF
the final decisions of major political
parties on the idea, which is ex-
peeted to be submitted to Parlia.
ment. The governments official
statement is not expected before
Wednesday night.
Well-informed sources said the
President is in favor of signing
such a treaty. Over the week enc
he received K. L. Kulo. head oi
the pro-Moscow Socialist Unity
Party.
The Executive Committee Of the
Popular Democrats, a bloc of the
Communists and the Socialist
Unity Party, is to discuss the pro.
posal later today. Mr.. Pekkala is tt
attend.
Stalin's Letter Published.
Press and radio here. published
yesterday the text of Stains let.
ter to Mr.. Paasikivi, dated Febru-
ary % and closing, with deep re.
spect.' The letter proposed negoti-
ations in Moscow or Helsinki to.
ward pact of friendship, cooper.
alton and mutual assistance" against
possible German aggression.
Well-infofmed sources said now
that the letter is published, get.
ting the pact has become point
of prestige for the Soviet Union
They said they believe President
Paasikivi feels this way:
To turn down the Soviet bid woulo
aggravate Russian Finnish relations
to a dangerous degree. To accept
it could mean Finland might gel
as favorable conditions as possible
toward keeping national independ-
ence.
/ Sees Change Possible.
tx. A. Fagerholm, Social Demo-
cratic speaker of the Finnish
Parliament, said in Stockholm
last night. 1--WE do not want to
see events of the kind now
occurring in some other countries
who have closed agreements with
the Soviet Union"
GA change in the government
is conceivable, however" he
added, "as a consequence of what
has happened"
(He and other Finnish leaders
are visiting Sweden for Fin
(See FINLAND. Page A-5D
Evening star., 1948-03-01
American Grain Ship
Afire in Indian Ocean
BY the Assoeioted Press

SYDNEY, Australia. Mar. 1.-The
American Liberty Ship Cecil G. Sell
lers caught fire in the Indian Ocean
today and radio silence indicated
her 38-man crew had taken to life
boa is.
Sydney agents for the Sellers said
Is hours had elapsed since the
7.216-ton vessels reported she was
ablaze and her crew ready to aban-
don ship 200 miles off the Cocos
Islands. She left Freemantle, Aus
tralia, February 81, her agents said
Three ships were racing to the
aid of the stricken vessel, loaded
with grain for France. 1t was ex-
pected the British liner Atlantis,
bound from New Zealand to the
United Kingdom, would be the first
to reach her last reported position
Evening star., 1948-03-01
Three Shot as Juke Box Plays
'Bonqo Bonqo' Song for Hour

changed a 81 bill at the bar and
walked toward the juke box after
she had played Civilization" over
and over again.
The victims were reported in
serious condition at Roosevelt hos
pital.
Police said Torres seized patron
of the bar and forced him to ac-
company him as hostage as ne
escaped to the subway. A rookie
policeman pursued them, followed
by two radio car patrol men. They
cornered Torres on a subway station
platform and all three returned
his fire when he began shooting
Torres fell with a bullet in his wind
pipe.
The unidentified hostage, pos
sibly also wounded in the subway
gun FIRE. jumped over a turnstile
and fed.
Evening star., 1948-03-01
Only Three Of Is Survive
Plane Crash in Brazil
BY the Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO Mar. 1-Only
three of 26 persons aboard survived
the crash of Brazilian Air Force
CAT transport near Belem, an
Asapress news agency dispatch said
today.
The plane carried six crew mem
bers and 20 passengers, including
two women and six children. The
Asapress dispatch said the survivors
were a sergeant, a woman and a
child.
The plane was en- route from Rio
de Janeiro to Cayenne, French
Guiana, when it crashed in the
jungle. 1t had been missing since
Saturday night. The crew had asked
for emergency landing instructions
in a radio message heard at Belem.
Evening star., 1948-03-01
Coup Will Of People,
Czech Ministers Say;
Elections Promised
Nation Hopes to Keep Up
Western Trade Relations,
Cabinet Member Says
BY the Assoeioted Press

PRAGUE, Mar. New cabi-
net ministers told foreign re-
porters today the events last
week giving Communists control
of the government were the will
of the people.
Vaclav Kopecky. Communist min
ister Of information, told a news
conference questioner mo figure is
available" on the number arrested
or how many persons were expelled
from their positions. He refused
also to identify the Western powers
Premier K1ement Gottwald asserted
were behind "reactionaries" in the
former government.
The cabinet will meet tomorrow
for the first time. The Communist
leaders already have made broad
promises to farmers and workers.
Elections May Be Put Off.
One minister told the reporters
constitutional elections would be
held in the prescribed time before
Parliament is due to adjourn June
Z. Alois Nuemann, National Socialist
minister of posts. said, however, the
crisis and the crush of legislation
might cause legal postponement
Kopecky said foreign correspondents
would be allowed to report the cleo.
ton.
Antonin Gregor, Communist Min.
lister of Foreign Trade, said Czecho'
slovakia hopes to maintain trade
relations with the West. He said 8
delegation left Saturday for Brus-
sells to discuss trade with Belgium.
I'VE will keep our commitments
and we will expect others to keer
theirs" he said.
The new ministers said they were
from the rank and file of theil
(See CZECHS, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1948-03-01
Lamarre Says Meyer!
Boasted He Could
Stop Senate Probe
'Briefed' on Story Of
Aviation Firm Setup,
Witness Testifies
By Robert K. Walsh

Mai. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers
boasted last October that he had
enough influence and friends
In Washington, to stop the Sem
ate War Investigating Subcom-
mittee's inquiry into his wartime
association with the Aviation
Electric Co. of Dayton, Ohio
Bleriot H. Larnarre testified to-
day at the District Court trial
of the retired Army Air Forces
officer.
Lamarre, former president of thu
Dayton company, told the jury h
testified falsely to the subcommitte,
after being assured by Meyers tina
"if / perjured myself I would be de.
Tended by Mr.. Amen, an attorney fol
Meyers"
The witness identified the attorney
as John H., Amen of New York
whose law partner, Robert T. Bush
nell, is one of the defense counsel al
the trial.
Shortly after Lamarre's testimony
that Meyers believed he could stor
the subcommittee investigation
the defense began cross-examinine
him.
Admits False Testimony
Meyers is on trial on charges o1
subornation of perjury, accused o1
having induced Lamarre to testify
falsely before the Senate subcom'
mittee. He also has been indicted
on charges of perjury and March II
has been set as the trial date.
Lamarre, who also was indicted
for perjury and pleaded guilty tt
the charge, testified today that he
gave false testimony to the subcom-
mittee last October 4.
The night before he appeared be-
fore the subcommittee and also an
hour before he went to the Capito
that day, Lamarre said, he was
"briefed" by Meyers as to what he
would tell the Senate investigators
in an effort to mislead them.
Al tll6 I'LL CStlOu vi "Sy ca o
Lamarre testified, he told the sub
committee Meyers had had no f.
nancial interest in the Dayton con
Germ except to lend it money which
the company repaid after getting
started.
He also told. the committee. h
said, that $4,000 Meyers receive'
to decorate his apartment at tn
Hotel 2400 here was a personal gil
from Lamarre and was not compan,
! money.
Told Not to Worry.
II told Meyers it sounded like
pretty weak story" Lamarre saio
"and I believed the committee ila'
information to the contrary. H
told me not to worry. He said a
long as we both stuck to the sam
(See MEYERS, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1948-03-01
Stop World War HI Before Start,
Protect U. S. Vandenberg Asks
As European Aid Debate Opens
Reds Peril World,
He Asserts, Citing
Czech, Finn Fotes
By J. A. OLeoY

Chairman Vandenberg of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee opened Senate debate on
the European Recovery Program
today with a statement that:
"Aggr essive communism
threatens all freedom and Sc
curity in the Old World or the
New when it puts free peoples
anywhere in chains"
The Senator-leader of this
country's bipartisan foreign policy
in Congress-departed from the text
he had prepared to open the Sem
Evening star., 1948-03-01
U.S.Must Be Set for Any Attack,
Air Policy Board Tells Congress
Urges $4,000 Planes for Air Force and Navy
At Cost of 30 to 50 Billion in Next Years

of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to sub
NIT unified defense plan.
THE loyalty of each service to
its traditions is understandable" /"
the report said, but unyielding ad-
herence to service loyalties at the
expense of national security is a
luxury the Nation no longer can
afford"
The report says steps must be
taken to:
l. Resolve the conflict that is
delaying unified military plan.
2. Start building a 70-group Air
Force with 20,541 planes and a
Naval Air Arm with 14,500 planes.
3. Give top research priority to
applying atomic power to aircraft.
4. Develop a Federal airways sys-
tenn with ultra modern equipment
for all-weather, large-volume flying
to serve both civil and military
needs.
"The answer to this greatest of
historical dilemmas," the report
said. would be the Magma Carta of
world defense, ringing declaration
OF moral challenge to match the
(See AVIATION PAGE A.37
Evening star., 1948-03-01
Navy Pilot Sets Jet Record

I LOS ANGELES, Mar. ga
new air speed record from Seattle
| to Los Angeles was established yes
terday by Navy Comdr. E. P.
Aurand in a jet fighter. He covered
the 1,025 miles in hour, So min
utes, 7 seconds. The old mark OF
Army Capt. Mack A. Mitchell was
Ia hours, IA minutes. Comdr.
| Aurand's speed was 52l miles an
hour
Evening star., 1948-03-01
Jup War Hoard Hunted

TOKYO, Mar. l P.-The news
paper Mainichi today reported the
Nagasaki public procurator is look
ing for an estimated $4,000, 900 900
yen Isl 200, ,0O0,o ,o0O worth of hidden
or hoarded war goods. The materiel
Is believed to have been taken from
the former Japanese Navy station
at Sasebo.
Evening star., 1948-03-01
British Warn Jews
After Train Is Blasted ,
Killing II Soldiers
Mines Injure 33 Others;
Agency Accused Of Trying
To Avoid Responsibility
BY the Associated Press

JERUSALEM, Mar. 1.-The
Stern Gang said today it set the
triple blast which wrecked three
railroad sleepers yesterday, kill
ing q British troops and injur-
ing 33.
This is our answer for last Sum-
days Ben Yehuda street crime" the
Jewish underground group declared.
1t referred to the Jerusalem bombing
which killed 54 Jews on February ~.
The British mandate government
told the Jews continuation OF "mur-
der and condoned terrorism can
only lead to forfeiture by the COM
munity of all rights in the eyes
of the world to be numbered among
civilized people. y
The statement accused the Jewish
Agency of excusing itself of respon-
sihility for terrorist acts such as
Yesterdays train bombing through
calculated innuendoes, falsehoods
and propaganda
Abhors Violence, Agency Says.
The Jewish Agency, the repre-
sentative of the Jewish people in
all matters pertaining to the build
ing of a Jewish national home, had
asserted earlier in statement that
it "abhors incidents such as yes
terday's train bombing"
Haganah. Jewish militia, said it
had "unconfirmed reports that
British troops had arrested "a Jews
at Mikve Israel, near Tel Aviv, last
night and had turned them over to
an Arab mob as retaliation for the
train attack.
A police source in Jerusalem said
| it had reports the Jews were taken
by soldiers from a spirits factory at
Mikve Israel and released in all
Arab Jaffa.
Three Mines Exploded.
, 1t. Gen. G. H. A. Macmillan
British commander in Palestine
said three mines shattered the
wooden troop cars near Rehovot, Il
miles southeast of Tel Aviv. They
were jammed with soldiers return
ing from leave in Cairo.
Gen. Macmillan said fourth
mine failed to go off. Had it ex-
ploded, he said, the toll might have
been so or more.
Sappers who dismantled the due
said it contained 100 pounds of ex'
plosive and was connected by 40
yard wire to an electric plunger.
The three sleepers. part OF q
northbound Cairo express, were
passing through q Jewish citrus belt
Is miles southeast of Tel Aviv when
they were blown up. The blast
ripped the tracks and hurled pieces
of wreckage into the nearby orange
trees. 1t was the fourth attack on
the Cairo express.
CIimaxes Day of Violence.
The explosion climaxed day OF
scattered violence in the Holy Land
Jewish informants in Tel Aviv
said six Jews were killed when a
Haganah reconnaissance patrol was
ambushed in the town of Salama
near Tel Aviv. British police re-
covered the bodies.
| Eight Jews. reported to be Stern
lists, robbed the Jerusalem Munici.
pality Office of 800 pounds s3,200)
In Haifa. 800 Jews were taken
from the illegal ship Builders anc
Fighters, which the British inter.
cepted Saturday night, and shipped
to Cyprus aboard a British trans
port.
Most of the passengers were sale
to be from Romania, Bulgaria anc
Poland.
Two Jews Shot on Bus.
Two Jews were shot aboard I
bus in a convoy attack by Arabs II
! the Judean hills. Two others wer'
slain by snipers in Jerusalem, polic'
said.
Sundays communal fighting ant
Evening star., 1948-03-01
Late News
Bulletins
Eisier in Hunger Strike

EisIer IN Hunger STRIKE
Gerhard Eisler and three
others held on Ellis Island for
deportation hearings as alien
Communists are refusing
meals in q hunger strike, the
Justice Department said today.
An earlier Justice announce
ment said departure of Hams
Eisler, brother of Gerhard.
scheduled to leave today for
Europe, had been delayed be-
cause Italy refused to let him
pass through that country.
'DP Bill Approved
Legislation to admit 100, 900
displaced persons" to the
United States was approved
today by the Senate Judiciary
Committee. OF IL members
present only Senator LANCER,
Republican, of North Dakota
voted against the bill which
would admit $4,000 in the year
starting July / and another
$4,000 In the year starting
July 1, 1s4s.
Evening star., 1948-03-01
Senate Ignores Rules,
AppIouds Vondenberg
As He Ends Speech

In an unusual tribute to Sen
ator Vandenberg, his Senate
colleagues ignored their own
rule against demonstrations to
stand up and applaud him as
he finished his speech this
afternoon opening debate on
the European Recovery Pro-
gram.
The crowded galleries joined
in the applause and other Sem
ators. without regard to party,
rushed over to shake his hand.
Evening star., 1948-03-01

(See TRUMAN, Page A-5.J
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(See TAXES, Page AS,
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(See CZECHS, Page A-4)
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See TRADE, Page A-6)
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(see AVIATION, Page A-3J
Evening star., 1948-03-01

Sunny with highest near 40 today. Cloudy,
lowest near 20 tonight Tomorrow cloudy,
little change in temperature and some rain
or snow. Full report on page A-21
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Settlement

Ruth Boaz left Friday for
Wheaton, ILL.,, where she has taken
up studies at the college where she
had in previous years been enrolled
as a student.
Mrs. Lee Amstutz of Fostoria
spent several days last week with
her sisters Katie and Marian and
brother Irwin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delos Rach of Lynn,
Indiana, were weekend visitors in
the home of Mrs. Barbara Welty and
daughters.
Paul Barkman representing the
Grace Children's Home of Hender-
son. Nebraska. is to speak and show
some notion picture film of the home
and its activities.
Amos Neuenschwander returned
Friday morning after having ac-
companied Rev. and Mrs. John
Neuenschwander and family of Pop
lar Bluffs, Missouri on a trip to the
Pacific coast. His granddaughter,
Marjorie Gratz returned with him
and is spending several weeks in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Omer Gratz
and sons, Arthur and Allan.
MISS Eileen MoSef, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Moser and
Robert Knott of Columbus Grove
are to be married on Thursday, July
8th.
Saturday evening at the Grace
church in Pandora. Miss Agnes
Suter. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Suter was united in marriage
to Roger Berkey, son of Prof. and
Mrs. II. w. Berkey of Bluffton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Green OF
Bowling Green were Sunday visitors
in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Suter and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Luigi,
bill and family.
Elvina Steiner who has been EN-,
pIoyed in the high school at Belle.
vue, Ohio, is spending the summer
months with her mother.
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and Mrs. Roy Cook and son Max.
Harry Schumacher returned Satur-
day from Philadelphia after attend
ing the Republican Convention.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Hilty and
daughter Margaret and Mrs. Clara
Light are on a trip through the
East.
Laurel Bracy and Lawrence Am
stutz are owners of new Oldsmobiles.
Thrapp-Rapp Wedding
Miss Audrey Claire Thrapp,
daughter of Mrs. Melvena Thrapp
Gaskins of Ft. Wayne and grand
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. II. NJ.
Thrapp of Pandora was married to
Bernard Rapp. son of Mrs. Robt.
Clark Of Allen Park, Mich, Friday
evening, June II at 7:30 o'clock.
The double ring ceremony was
read by the officiating minister, Rev.
Harold Mcdonald, pastor Of the First
Baptist church, Dearborn, Mich, at
his home in that city.
The bride wore a floor length,
pastel printed skirt, long sleeve
white blouse and white orchid cor
sage. Miss Sheila Sutherland. maid
Of honor wore a floor length yellow
gown and carried colonial bouquet
of yellow carnations and blue for
get-me-nots. Jerry Heska, brother
in-law of the groom was best man.
Following the ceremony a reception
was held at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ted Sutherland.
Mrs. Rapp is a graduate of Pan
dora high school. Her husband is
attending a radio and televisior
school from which he recently
received his first class radio
engineers license.
The couple are at home at 1885
Flint St., Melvindale, Mich.
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Alvin Rodabaugh home at Battle
Creek. Mich.
Carolyn Moser. north of Beaver
dam. has returned from a Al camp
outing near Archboid.
Mrs. Virginia Wilson and daughter
Hope of Benton Ridge were Tuesday
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Ruel
Suter and family of Pandora.
Harry Nemire and Mrs. Err
Bridenbaugh were reelected presi-
dent and secretary respectively of
the Nemire reunion held at River
side park, Findlay. Sunday.
Harl Mann, Bluffton underwent a
major operation at Bluffton hospital
Saturday.
Mrs. Dan Sheahan. formerly of
Mt. Cory has been made manager of
the ready-to-wear department of
Gordon's store in Findlay.
Bluffton clinic will be open Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays from
l to and to D. M. starting
next week. For appointments call
241-Y. 1t has been closed because
of the recent illness of Mrs. Chester
Huber.
Df. ana Mrs. +. A. Day ana
daughter Carol Sue of Emmaus, Pa,
are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Forrest
Bauer and family of Pandora. Mrs
Day and Mrs. Bauer are sisters.
Mrs. Glenn Schumacher and Mrs
Arnold Schmidt of Pandora have re-
turned from a visit at the home of
Mrs. Schmidt's parents, DR.. and
Mrs. w. K. Voight in Detroit.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Warren
Eastman, Col. Grove. Rt. /. a boy
at Lima Memorial hospital, Friday
Misses Barbara Hamman, Ruby
Watkins and Mariellen Shidemante1
of Col Grove Presbyterian church
are attending junior high church
camp near Celina this week.
J. E. Smith of Arlington was in,
iured when he fell 10 feet from 8
scaffoId while working in Findlay.
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began to grow and to covet the
county seat, an honor Piketon had
enjoyed since formation of Pike
County from parts of Ross, High
land, Scioto, Adams and Jackson
counties in 1916, when the town was
a yearling.
In 1850 when a railroad from
Columbus to Portsmouth was propos-
ed and every county through which
it was to pass voted $4,000 or
more towards its construction, Pike
County voted it down. The road
was to go through Piketon-which
blamed the defeat on Waverly vot-
ers. 1t was completed from Ports
mouth to Jackson and called the
Portsmouth Branch" of the c. w. &
B. r. r.
PIONEER B. & o. RAILROAD
The Marietta & Cincinnati Rail-
road, now the Baltimore & Ohio,
also missed Piketon. A branch was
built to Hillsboro then abandoned.
Hillsboro retaliated by projecting a
railroad of its own to, the Ohio
River near Galliopolis but after
spending more than 100000 on
the roadbed and right-of-way, ran
out of money and abandoned that
enterprise. That again left Piketon
| out in the cold.
The last big brass pin was jabbed
into Piketon's home-spun pantaloons
in 1861 when Waverly got the
county seat away from that town
AS to the general store Robert
Lucas ran in Piketon thereby hangs
another tale. Lucas sold the store
to Duke Swearingen. Swearinger
started to New Orleans with a fiat
boat loaded with -four and meat
After he passed out of the Ohio
onto the Mississippi River, he never
was heard from again.
! After months had passed and hi
did not return home a search was
made for him along the Mississippi
and in New Orleans and newspaper
advertisement after advertisement
was run without result.
Shortly afterwards another Pike,
ton merchant, man named Willard
disappeared in an identical manner
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Pandora

DR.. and Mrs. w. C. Suter and
daughter Ann Margene of Water
vile. were Sunday evening supper
guests of Mrs. J. G. Reese and Miss
Harriet Krohn.
Sunday dinner guests of the
Hiram Krohn family were: DR.. w.
G. Slower and daughter Margaret of
Columbus: Mr.. and Mrs. L. NJ. Bow
man of Col. Grove; Mrs. Dale Snave-
" and children of Holgate; Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Krohn and daughters
and Mr.. and Mrs. Lorllys Krohn and
children.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Green and son
of Elkhart, Ind, were weekend
guests of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Corral Donaldson and her sister, Mr.
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Ind.
Marilyn and Carolyn Younkman of
Clyde spent the week here with
relatives.
Rev. and Mrs. Raymond Peterson
entertained the Home Builders s. s.
class of the Church of Christ at their
home on Wednesday evening. Present
were Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Vanmeter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Barber, Mr..
and Mrs. Kent Amsrutz, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Lewis. Mrs. Ralph
Vertner. Mrs. VIM. Ellenberger Jr.,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin keiffer. Mr..
and Mrs. Carl Amstutz. Mr.. and
Mrs. Grant Barber. Mr.. and Mrs.
Delmer Beery, Jr.; Mr.. and Mrs.
Plevel Fett.
Mrs. Cynthia Elliott. Mrs. Kath-
crime Bassett and Mrs. Delmer
Beery. Jr.. attended the Burns re-
union on Sunday at the Findlay
park.
Mrs. Melvin Arthur of Ada has
been employed by the Board of
Education as teacher Of the Second
grade at the local school
The Boy Scout Troop No. II is
SDG1ulIlE tltc NSIh az DeAf@''A~
camp.
have purchased the Ed Bogart
property on Main Street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Pugh and
son Jack. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Brakeman of Toledo. Mr.. and Mrs.
Merrill Arnold and son Frederick,
Miss Ruth Orchard Of Lima, Mr..
and Mrs. Gail Arnold, Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Arnold and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Willis Arnold and family Of
Elida. Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Arnold
were Sunday evening dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Arnold. 1t
being the birthday anniversary of
w. A. Arnold.
Miss Carol Clark of Lima is
spending the week with Mr.. and
Mrs. John Clark and Miss Ellen
Clark.
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Grin Sawyer at Van Vert.
Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Herr, Mrs.
Lille Anderson and Mrs. Clara
Jennings attended the Ovens School
reunion on Sunday evening at the
Richland Grange Hall.