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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-18

Of their loans to business is at
a record high. After taxes, how
ever, net earnings shrink SO
much-bankers claim-that inves-
tors can't see their stocks as q
buy, with many industrial shares
yielding SO much more.
Bankers say this difficulty in
expanding capital and building up
paid-in surplus is one Of the rea-
sons behind the many bank mer-
gers and consultations around
the nation.
Every one, or course, thinks he
pays too much in taxes. But If
the banks prove that high taxes
are hurting their financial struc-
ture, by stunting its growth tas
some say taxes do with other
businesses) it might affect con-
gressional thinking on the whole
tax policy.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-18
Brother Local
Woman Found
Dead In Barn

LANCASTER, o. -Pl- The
frozen body of Earl Boyd, about
60, was found hanging from a
rafter in his barn yesterday Cor
oner Joseph Geer ruled suicide.
Sheriff Dudley Crider said
Boyd left note saying:
"My sisters name is Mrs. Ho-
mer Ford of london"
Boyd, who had lived alone on
the farm on Route 6, about five
miles west of Lancaster, had not
been seen by neighbors since
Wednesday. Charles Beatty, a
neighbor, went to the house and
then to the barn where he found
the body.
Funeral arrangements are being
completed by the James II. Sheri-
dan Son funeral home, Lancaster
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-18
All committees
To Plan Program

The Executive Committee of
the All Club Council has appoint
ed the various All Planning
Committees for the coming year,
according to Robert Eby, Associ-
ate Agricultural Agent.
The Chairmen OF the committees
were appointed as follows: Dis
plays and Publicity-Mrs. Homer
Francis; History of All Work
Mrs. Paul Overturf; Leaders Rec
ognition Banquet-Mrs. Edward
Hennis; Leaders and Officers
Conference Mrs. Weldon Brown;
Nutrition-Mrs. Carl Smith; Clo-
thing-Mrs. Dean Goodyear; Mis-
cellaneous Home Economics
Mary Alice Sherwood; Dairy
Byron Smith; Beef-Don Becker;
Swine-Paul Overturf; Sheep
Gene Harbage; Miscellaneous Ag-
ricultural-John Quail; Awards
Mrs. Russell Rothe; Special
Activities-Mrs. Robert Halter
man; Finance-Lloyd Re by;
Health and Safety-Jacquie Kies;
Recreation-Teddy Meeker; Rally
Mrs. z. Converse.
Each of the other All Advisors
were appointed to one of the COM
mittees. These groups of leaders
will plan and help carry out that
particular part of the total All
program for 1852.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-18
Reds List

Continued from page one
armistice negotiators and military
commanders.
Ridgeway was quoted as saying
the Military and truce delega-
tions are in compelete accord"
on future steps in Korea.
The conference was attended
by Gen. James A Van Fleet, U.N.
ground commander in Korea, and
Vice Adm. c. Turner Joy, head
of the II. N. armistice team.
No progress was reported by a
second truce subcommittee argu-
ing at Panmunjom over how to
enforce an armistice. It adjourn
ed until II am. Wednesday (9
pm. Tuesday EST.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-18
indian S Widow
Sues Cemetery

SIOUX CITY, Ia, ,-tP)-The widow
of Sgt. John r. Rice has filed suit
in district court for $180,000 in
damages against Memorial Park
Cemetery here for refusal to bury
the Indian hero of the Korean
war.
Mrs. Evelyn Rice of Winnebago,
Neb., sued the association for
injuries and humiliation she al
legged she suffered when the
private cemetery refused to bury
Sgt. Rice last August because he
was mot member of the eau
casian race"
Sgt. Rice was killed in Korea
Sept. 6, 1850. After his burial
was halted, President Truman
proffered a resting place among
the nations heroes in Arlington
National Cemetery. The Sioux
cemetery later apologized and
offered free burial plot.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-18
Brown Assigned

FORT MEADE, MD.,-Pvt.
John l.. Brown, %, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Lawrence Brown, Lon
don, has completed processing at
the 2053rd Reception Center here
and is assigned to the 7th Arm
ored Division, Camp Roberts,
Calf, for army basic training.
He will receive Is weeks of
basic military training. Funda-
mental military subjects such as
close order drill, care of clothing
and equipment. first aid, scouting
and patrolling, and map reading
will be taught.
Individual firing of the MI ri
file, carbine and light machine gun
will be included in the battle in
doctrination phase of the training.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-18
Consider Truman
Float Bad Taste

WASHINGTON -tP- Th q
White House thinks it would be
very bad taste" for the Pasa-
edna Tournament of Roses to
have a float showing President
Truman playing the piano and
"burlesquing mink coats and
deep freezes"
The idea for the parade en-
try was advanced by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce Of Temple
City, Calf. Charles Morse, Presi-
dent of the group, telegraphed
the White House about the plan
and asked for Mr.. Truman's reac-
tion.
Presidential Secretary Joseph
Short made public his reply:
In reply to your telegram of
December seventh, it is suggested
that most people viewing a float
such as proposed in your wire
would consider it in very bad
taSte.'
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-18

world. At least half of it, west
ern Europe, is exhausted. We
must try not only to breathe life
into it but even the desire to live.
We may fail, of course, and for
various reasons:
The roots of decay-political
economic and social-may be SO
deep in us that ruin is inevitable
anyway, or maybe our leadership
has been too little or too late or
too shoddy.
At the end of World War | we
could have accepted response
bility as a No. ] power, which we
were but didn't understand, by
joining the League of Nations.
With our help, it might have kept
the world steady. Without us,
the league became a joke for
Hitler.
Communism was only an eye
sore then. 1t was facism, not
communism, which became the
aggressive menace.
This country tortured itself be-
tween two central ideals. Should
we become an active force on the
side of free Europe, bolstering its
will to resist Facism?
Or should we retain our
splendid isolation, as some
thought, turning our faces aside
from the spectacle of agony and
tyranny which lay ahead for those
western Europeans who were our
spiritual brothers?
All Europe, except England, was
gone before we really began to
arm. In rearming we Insisted
upon business-a usual, an invita-
ton to disaster which overlook us
10 years ago today at Pearl Har-
Dor. Overnight we took leader
ship.
When victory came our allies
climbed back out of the cellar of
history. Together with them we
created the United Nations. This
time we joined Our isolation
seemed over. Not quite.
We disarmed, thinking Russia
w uld b. 1uiet. VIC were wrong
in disarming and wrong about
Russia. And we were slow in
or er things.
We dl'n't Get the big ecc"a'nic
help for Europe, the Marshall
Plan, underway until 1947 BY
then communism had taken east
ern Europe.
1t wasn't until the shock of
Czechoslovakia-when the iron
curtain changed down over it in
1948-that we set up a military
alliance, the Atlantic Treaty.
There were still those. who
yearned to scamper back into iso-
lationism. they opposed the At
lantic Pact and they opposed
arms for Europe. Il was when
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-18
Z SHOPPING DAYS
a TO CHRISTMAS
Swine Clinic
January 9Th

w. L. Robinson. in charge of
Swine Research at the Ohio Ag-
ricutural Experiment Station, has
been scheduled as one of the spec
ialists for the Madison County
Swine Clinic scheduled for We'd
nesday, January 9, the Extension
Office reported to day. The swine
meeting will be in the Court room
Of the Court House at 1000 am
Mr.. Robinson, who is the lead
ing authority in the midwest on
antibotics and vitamin BIZ in
hog feeding, will discuss the feed
ing experiments conducted the
last few years at the Ohio Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station. on
Antibotics and vitamin BIZ sup
plement in hog feed.
Other topics to be discussed
will be hog diseases and parasites
brood sow management and inn
proved pastures for swine; the
HG6u III fllE6l tyPC AA1SS
and the seasonal variations
of market hog prices. There will
also be period for questions.
Extension Specialists scheduled
for the day are Herbert Barnes
and Wilbur Bruner, Ohio State
University. Veterinarians from
Ohio State University are to be
contacted for the swine diseases
topics. This will be q valuable
day from 1000 am. to $500 pm
January 9, for all swinemen in
the county and surrounding coun-
ties.
This program is sponsored by
the Madison County swine COM
mittee v. Y. Overturf, Chairman;
Jack Donahue, Vice Chairman;
John Moore, Secretary; George
Ropp, Warren Harbage, Willard
Davis, Jim Smith, Wilfred Garen,
Howard Dorm, Raymond Lanigan,
Bob Goodan, Marion Meats. Ro-
bert Hunter, G. w. Putnam, Jr.,
Bill Hook, Robert Dillingham;, Bob
Patterson.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-18

check our clients, but sometimes
forturne hunters do creep in.
But the fortune hunters are
among the men. The women are
looking for more than money in
marriage"
That's what the lady says, and
she's looking for the right man
herself.
Amy woman who claims she
isn't is a downright liar" said
Miss Wilder.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-18
Today's Business Mirror


NEW YORK-LP,-Taxes are
top news Just now. And, like
most other taxpayers, the banks
are wondering if they're getting
as fair deal on taxes as some
others are.
To find out, they're conducting
their own examination of their
earnings and the effect of tax
alton upon their capital structure
All businesses, and all individ-
uals, may learn something from
the results.
Taxes when they reach the
u. S. Treasury support govern
mental functions. But many busi-
nessmen, and bankers, contend
that if the rates are too high they
may end by killing the goose
that lays the TnPasury's golden
eggs.
The Federal Reserve Board is
polling 1,60o representative COM
mercial banks throughout the ma
ton ito obtain factual date for
studying the effect of taxation
on the ability of banks to improve
their capital positions out of
earnings and to attract new cap
ital."
Bankers contend that the ex-
cess profits tax bears SO heavily
upon banks that fresh capital is
being scared away, that surplus
funds aren't being built up at the
rate that increased deposits and
loans make prudent and that
some other industries get more
favorable tax treatment.
All Americans are interested in
the soundness of their banking
system. And leading financiers
warn against considering federal
deposit insurance as a safe SUBJ
stitute for adequate capital.
Therefore, all Americans will be
interested in the findings Of the
Federal Reserve Boards question
naire.
In urging ifs members to fill
out the questionnaires quickly,
the American Bankers Associ-
alton says: Bank shares are in
most cases selling at a substan-
tial discount from the real book
value because earnings are not
comparable with those in other
lines of business, nevertheless,
many such banks, both large and
small. find themselves subject to
excess profits tax"
This comes about because most
banks use invested capital as the
basis of determining normal earn
ings, with any thing above that
subject to excess profits tax bite
Bankers point out that in the
drafting of the present excess
profits tax, utilities were allowed
to consider earnings up to six
per cent of invested capital as
normal before being subject to
EPT. Railroads can call seven per
cent normal earnings, before
EPT applies. But bankers say
that banks with capital invest
ment above $40 million can earn
less than four per cent before
being subject to EPT; while
even banks with less than IS mil
lion invested capital must pay
EPT after making 5 3/4 per cent.
Like many other industries, the
banks have been making larger
profits before taxes, in dollar vol
ume, than formerly. Their total
deposits have been swelled by
the general initiation. The total
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-18

Many people
who laugh at the
idea of going to
a marriage bro
ker are the ones
who most need
TO go to one"
she said firmly.
Miss Wilder
said the high di-
vorce rate in
this country is
due to the fact
that too many
young people de-
mend on instinct
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-18
TO PLAN PROGRAM

The next meeting Of the Madi-
son County All Club Council is
scheduled for Friday, December
18th, at the Extension Office, ac-
cording to Robert Hunter, the
President. the All Advisors will
discuss such topics as the new
junior fair building" the fair
program, and the annual advisors
recognition banquet.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-18
BY Hal Boyle

BY Hal Boyle
NEW YORK-tP,-A lady mar
riage broker said today the trou-
BILE with matrimony in America
is the helter-skelter romance. "
Miss Edna Wilder makes a
business of bringing together
wife-seeking men and husband
seeking women.
It's a booming industry, and
she believes it deserves more re-
spect than it often gets from the
general public.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-18
IN sPITAL-

IN HOSPITAL
Rodney Slyh, Liberty Street,
who was taken suddenly i'll Sat
urday night, entered Grant Hos
pital Sunday for observation and
treatment.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-12-18
Calendar For The Week

NOTE This feature ,Uu rsgap~h and si BE- pabhshea
Monday Tuesday The FREE Please send IN
copy By Friday for taking the fooeing ok
Copy be submitted before Fdcs deadne Thank Yoai
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10
Sterling dance naugurate $50 p
Community dinner 11:15 Lafayette
School,
Forget-Me-Not club home Mrs Fl. W Sark at 730 p
Madison Local Young Farmers Club at school at 73O m
Circle WSCS Soc gift exchange home Mrs
M. B. Cannon, No Main St, 730 p. m.
Presbyterian Christmas party at church 7:30 m
THURSDAY DECEMBER %
London Chapter OES at 8 p. m.
Club pot-uck dinner gift party home
Mrs Earl Postle, 90 Elm st.
FRIDAY. DECEMBER d
London & P w club house, $50 for party at
Madison County Home.
Lilly Chapel wscs SOC gift exchange home Mrs H W. sark
at T:30 p m.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-06-12

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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-06-12
0berlin Deplores
Lack OF ROTC At
Ohio Colleges
BY Fred 8. Hoffman

WASHINGTON, - tP1 - The
President of Oberlin College says
Air Force did a great injustice"
to the Libertl Arts colleges of
Ohio when it failed to select any
for a new ROTc unit.
Recently, the Air Force an
nounced it is establishing 81 new
reserve officers training units.
Ohio schools getting new units
were Bowling Green State Univer-
sity, Bowling Green; Case Insti-
tute of Technology, Cleveland;
Kent State University. Kent; and
Western Reserve University,
Cleveland.
President William E. Steven
son of Oberlin wrote Secretary of
Air Thomas X. Finletter. He sent
a copy to Rep. Ayres (R-Ohio),
who made it public today.
Stevenson told Ayres he wrote
Finletter lin the hope that more
units may become available and,
If SO, one may be assigned here"
He wrote Finletter:
II believe that in negIecting the
Ohio independent colleges, and
Oberlin in particular, and in as
signing units to so many tax
supported institutions, many of
which have no reputation for
academic excellence, your depart
ment has overlooked an opportun-
ity to secure a large number of
Americas best and most intel
ligent potential leaders"
President Stevenson noaed that
two of the four recent awards in
Ohio went to state institutions
which until recently had been
teachers colleges and Xxx do not
have as high standards or caliber
of student as many of the inde-
pendent Ohio colleges"
He told Finletter that by con-
centrating on these state in
stitutions' the Air Force has, In
effect, decided to strengthen in
stituttons supported by tax money
at the expense of those high
standing independent institutions
which for many generations have
provided a high degree of cduca-
tional leadership to this country"
Stevenson said that not only
did the Air Force overlook" the
Independent Ohio colleges in its
last selections, but that it now
has only a single unit at one of
these schools Ohio Wesleyan.
He pointed out that Ohio has
36 Independent, non-tax supported
colleges "of national reputation,
many of them over century old.
According to a recent check,
Stevenson wrote, there are more
students in Ohio institutions of
higher learning than in all such
schools in the six new England
states put together.
yet" he stated, "the Air Force
has established 18 units in New
England and only 10 in Ohio"
Evening star., 1951-04-06
'Ex-SaiIor Found Sane,
Fights Second Court S
Ruling 10 Get Funds

A 60-year-old former sailor
sane by one courts Judgment but
not by another, yesterday won his
right to contested future retire
Iment payments.
But he faces a fight in the
Louisiana courts to lay hands on
some $4,000 in back payments
over which his sister is trustee.
Judge Edward M. Curran OF
District Court here ruled in favor
of Henri Stanley Lill, of the 1906
block of Rhode Island avenue NE
Last August, Judge Curran found
Mr.. Lill of sound mind, after the
former pharmacists mate had
been confined to st. Elizabeths
Hospital for II years.
$150 Monthly Retirement.
Mr.. Lill was sent to st. Eliza
beths for psychiatric treatment in
1888. Two years later, his sister
Mrs. Gwen Lill Sims, of Baton
Rouge, La, obtained trusteeshir
over his $3.50 monthly retirement
pay from the Navy. when a Louis
LANA State Court adjudged hei
brother insane.
After obtaining his release from
st. Elizabeths on a habeaS corpus
petition last August, Mr.. Lill asked
the Government to resume paying
him his retirement and to award
him the $4,000 in payments his
sister has accumulated for him
over the years in view of his SIS
ter's refusal to give him the fund
Louisiana Finding Unchanged.
Judge Curran's favorable ruling
yesterday, however, marked only
a part of the battle won. Mr.. Lill'.
attorney, William E. Owen, re.
ported he has since received a let.
ter from Louisiana State Judge
Charles A. Holcombe, who ex,
lplained that the 1885 Louisiana
insanity decree remains unshaker
by Judge Curran's finding.
In the letter, Judge Holcombt
further stated that he learned thu
sister intends to oppose surrender
OF the $4,000 to Mr.. Lill.
MIR. Owen said he intends tt
take the sanity question before
the Louisiana courts. Mr.. Lill will
stay behind, the lawyer empha
sized, since possibility exists tina
Louisiana still may try to commi
his client.
Evening star., 1951-04-06
Third Battle Resumes
In Martial Warfare Of
Blackjack keleher

Mrs. Anna T. Dolly" Keleher,
wife of the self-styled retired
gambler. John Blackjack" Kele-
her, was to delve further today
into her $25O.O00 grievance against
Mrs. Dorothy Blake for allegedly
stealing "Blackjack's" love.
Trial of her damage suit before
District Court Judge Edward A.
Tamm and a jury got off yester-
day with the 51-year-old plaintiff
calling the slender 47-year-old
Mrs. Blake "repulsive."
This is the third battle of the
IKeleher's marital warfare in Dis
trict Court. Mrs. Keleher twice
has lost her divorce suits against
Blackjack" while the latter has
won one against her. The United
States Court of Appeals cur
lrently is pondering the District
Court divorce rulings of last year.
Mrs. Keleher yesterday again
began to relate the details of her
II years of marriage during
which mutual love was the key
note until Mrs. Blake, a divorcee,
came along.
She told how Blackjack" had
provided her with from $500 to
$4,000 monthly pin money, $780,
900 worth of jewelry. a $4,000
car and $4,000 worth of furnish
ings in the seven room suite they
occupied for a number of years
in the Woodley Park Towers.
1t was in 1888 when she first
met Mrs. Blake in a bottle club
here. Mrs. Keleher testified.
"She was SO repulsive," she
testified.
Thirteen years later, she said,
she saw the defendant waiting
for her husband outside his down.
town Office. Later the same year,
1916, Mrs. Keleher said she saw
her husband and Mrs. Blake to-
Igether constantly in Miami Beach,
Fla.
Evening star., 1951-04-06
Nichols Replaces Ireland In Deputy Post al NPA

Thomas S. Nichols Of Baltimore
yesterday was named deputy ad-
ministrator of the National Pro-
duction Authority.
Manly .Fleischmann, NPA, Ad-
ministrator, said Mr.. Nichols
would take the place Of Glen Ire
land. who has been deputy admin
istraator since last October. Mr.
Fleischmann, who praised Mr.
Ireland's service, said Mr.. ireland
is returning to his job as vice
president of the Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph Co.
Mr.. Nichols Is president and
Evening star., 1951-04-06

chairman of the board Of the
Mathieson Chemical Corp. He has
been a special assistant to Mr..
Fleischmann since early March.
From 1941 to 1945 Mr.. Nichols
served with the old War Produc-
ton Board and then with the
State Department.
Evening star., 1951-04-06

Civil defense needs 100000 vol
unteers to protect you. your family
and your neighbors. Will you be
one? Volunteer now at the
Veterans Service Center. 1400
Pennsylvania avenue NV.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-05-10
Red Oak Fairview

49,, !,
Rev Daniel SpaId heid worship ser
vices at FalfNIeW chuleH 9u''o'|
morning.
The CB.Y.F. meeting was held at
Failvcw Sunday evening.
The Womcn's Work meeting was
held at the nome of Mrs. Walter
Coone, with cipht members present
Tbe regular meeting of the Red
Oak In club viii he Wednesday, May
lis. Plans viii he completed for the
Nav festival to be held May 10. The
county leaders arc expected to be
present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Selders and
Lizzie Fike. Of Red House. were sun
day evening dinner guests of the VIII
liam Bittingers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Blam5le were
in Golmania on business, Tuesday,
and were evening guests at the home
of Mr. and Mrs Henry kitzmiller.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gibbs were Mon
day evening visitors of Mr.. and Mrs.
Elmer Soldiers and Mr.. and Mrs. Viz
oil Stone.
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Blamble were Mr.. and
3 iN. bOlll -. Lldllblts wi anu WI -
Willard Feather and daughter, Colleen,
Awctia Dean and Glendora Lee.
Mr. Ralph Deem spent few days
last week with his family.
llr. and Mls. Albert Davis and Mr..
and Mrs. Gilbert Blamble visited Mrs.
Ralph Deem and family ON Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Stone spent
Friday night and Saturday with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey Stone,
of near townsville, w. Va.
Mrs. Rosetta Harvey was Sunday
dinncl. guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Biggs.
Mr. and Mrs. William Bittinger and
family were Sunday dinner guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Richie.
Mr.. and Mrs Ralph Deem and son,
Ronald, were Wednesday evening
guests at the home of the Gilbert
Blambles and Albert Davises.
Mr.. and Mrs Alonzo Cummings and
son, Keith. visited Mrs. James Childs
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-05-10
SWANTON

A Young Peoples Fellowship was
organized at Our Fathers House. Al
lamont, May 6, by the Rev John j..
Atwell. This is an Episcopal organi-
zation, and it will meet at $50 p. m.
at Our Fathers House the first and
third Sundays in each month All
young people are welcome to take
part Officers were elected by the
young people Miss Carol Ann Rener.
chairman; Mary Jane Wright, secre-
tary; William Dale Mellinger, trea-
surer. Plans were made to study the
religion Of China. Several committees
were appointed.
The Boy Scouts at Swanton met
Thursday at 1870 p. m. at the Swanton
school. They have made plans to cook
their Thursday evening meal in the
open.
An organization of Girl Scouts is
also planned for Swanton area i'm the
near future. The group will include
girls from II years up from Mt Zion,
Altamont, Swanton and North Glade