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Evening star., 1951-03-03
New York Artist Held
In Stepson' S Killing,
Stabbing Of Wife
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Mar. 3.-An artist
garbed in womarfs beige sports
coat and paint-stained shoes was
taken into custody today in the
fatal stabbing of his 17-year-old
stepson and the wounding of his
estranged wife.
The painter, identified as Laszlo
Pinter, 40. was found by police on
Staten Island after an all-night
search. He had fled his Park
avenue studio bare-footed and in
an undershirt last night after an
apparent attempt at reconciliation
with his wife, Mrs. Christine
Pinter, 40, ended in the double
stabbing, police said. ...
Leonard Allen Fleming. her son
by a previous marriage. died Of
a wound in the abdomen.
Military Academy Student.
He was a student at La Sale
Military Academy on Long Island
and at the time Of his death was
wearing his cadet uniform.
The boy managed to stagger to
the doorway Of another apart
ment building and asked that po-
lice be called. He was dead when
they arrived.
Patrolman James Mann, who
picked up Pinter. quoted him as
saying an argument developed
when the boy urged his mother to
leave the studio at 1868 Park
avenue.
He quoted Pinter further as
saying:
For six years she's been giving
me a lot of trouble. The boy hit
me. What could I do? They
tried to push me out the window.
I put up with it long enough"
Sounds of Fight Heard.
Neighbors told police they heard
sounds of a fight in the Pinter
apartment last night. In a few
moments the bleeding mother and
youth were seen fleeing down the
stairs.
Mrs. Pinter was picked up by
a motorist and taken to hospi-
tai, where her wounds were de-
scribed as not serious. But she
became hysterical when she
learned her son had died only a
few moments after he left the
apartment building.
Police said the Stabbings appar-
emily were committed with
bloodstained antique belt-knife
found on an ornate chest in the
apartment.
Woman Supplied Clothing.
The search for Pinter, police
said, led to an attractive, blond
woman friend of Pinter's. They
said she supplied him with the
coat and the shoes.
The woman, identified as Mrs.
Frances Grassl, 35, also an artist.
was quoted by police as saying
Pinter liked to walk for hours
on Staten Island when he was
moody or upset.
Neighbors said Pinter was born
in Hungary and came to America
in 1887.
Evening star., 1951-03-03
Addicfs Help Teen-Agers
To Acquire Narcotics Habit
BY The Associated Press

BALTIMORE, Mar. 3.-Somo
drug addicts give free dope injec-
tions to Baltimore teen-agers SC
they can build up the habit, u
says policewoman Violet Hill
Whyte.
Testifying in the narcotics trial
of Mrs Marie Banks, %, and
Lawrence Horton, Is, yesterday
Officer Whyte said the practice
fourishes in the Negro district
along Pennsylvania avenue.
$50 many young people are in
volved in the Is and 16 years of
age group" she told Judge Joseph
Sherbow in criminal court. ''They
call it 10y popping she added.
The judge had asked for some
background on dope traffic in the
city.
He gave two-year prison senten-
ces to Mrs. Banks and Horton on
heroin.
Evening star., 1951-03-03
Foreign Policy
Continued From First Page. J

ton had argued in the Senate YES
terday that steps be taken to bring
the soldiers of Spain, Greece
Turkey and Yugoslavia into Gen
ElsenhoWer's defense force as a
condition to sending more Ameri-
can divisions.
Senator Hunt interrupted to
say he also wanted these nations
especially Spain, included, and had
gone to "the highest authority in
washington" to find out why this
was not being done. He quoted
the authority as saying:
Spain doesn't want in. Franco
doesn't want in"
Senator Hum said he understood
leaders of the French government,
and the controlling Labor govern
ment in England, also were op-
posed to admitting Spain to the
North Atlantic Treaty.
Senator Cain, who visited Spain
not long ago, replied that Senator
Hunts high source had not told
the whole story. Senator Cain
said Franco told him Spain does
not have much confidence" in
some of the Western European
governments, but that the Span
iards would like ito do business
with the United States
On the question of approving
the Presidents decision to send
more American troops to Western
Europe, Senator Wiley, Repub-
lican, Of Wisconsin, indicated the
Republicans would continue to
work next week on resolution
requiring action by both Houses.
Senator Saltonstall, Republican
of Massachusetts,. favored action
by both Houses, but suggested it
might be wise for the Senate
which had sole jurisdiction over
the North Atlantic treaty, to act
Immediately on a resolution of its
own, interpreting the treaty, in
the light of new developments.
He pointed out that when the
treaty was up in 1949, witnesses
thought no American ground
troops would be needed for de-
fense. in advance of an attack on
Western Europe. The Senate
should clear up that question by
approving the sending of troops
now, Senator Saltonstall said.
Later, he said, both Houses could
act on a resolution laying down
the broad policies governing Amer
ican participation in the defense
force.
Evening star., 1951-03-03

it very important to get the sup
port of Baltimore and Southern
Maryland voters in the campaign.
There were not 1000 people
in Maryland who knew Mr.. But
Ter before he ran," said Mr..
Jonkel.
He testified he wanted some
one to come in from the outside
and tell me what the score was"
since there were many factions"
in the party to contend with.
And so, he said. Mr.. Simmons
was brought into the campaign.
Evening star., 1951-03-03
Pro-Peron Jews Urae
Reelection; Others Silent
BY the Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
Mar. 3.-The pro-Peron Jewish
organization, Organization Is
raelita Argentina, was reported
today to have issued a manifesto
urging its members and supporters
to work actively for the re-elec-
ton OF President Juan D. Peron
next February.
The official Jewish representa-
tive organization. Daia, has made
no public statements concerning
the election campaign.
Evening star., 1951-03-03
Allied Diplomats Wary
As They Plan Opening
OF Talks With Russia
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, Mar. 3.-Western diplo-
mats are approaching the East
West talks opening here Monday
with wary eye on the Russians.
There is little optimism that the
parley will lay a firm structure for
enduring world peace.
The Paris meeting of the Deputy
Foreign Ministers Of the United
States, Britain, France and Russia
is designed to see whether the Big
Four powers can even agree on an
agenda for a future meeting of
Big Four Foreign Ministers.
Diplomatic observers here admit
that the deputies may not even
be able to see eye-to-eye on what
their chiefs should talk about.
Jessup Reserves Opinion.
DR.. Philip c. Jessup, chief
American delegate to the pre-
liminary conference. expressed a
reserved attitude as he boarded
a Paris-bound plane last night in
New York.
I'VE want to be shown" he said,
"past experience does not make
us very hopeful"
He said the conference must
discuss the broader questions that
are causing tensions in the world
CDR. Jessup left New York at
1853 am. today after his origi-
nal flight had been forced to
return because of a faulty en-
gine.
(Iis plane returned to Idle
wild Airport on three engines
about five hours after it took
off yesterday. The passengers
were transferred to another
plane which left after short
delay.)
Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet
deputy foreign minister and head
of the Russian delegation, arrived
here late this afternoon and
hustled to the Soviet embassy
with members of his group. Gro
myko hadn't changed a bit from
his U. N. days-he had nothing to
say to reporters who met him at
the airfield.
While not over-optimistic, French
official sources believe the Rus
slams are coming here willing to
talk about something other than
Germany.
Charges and Counter Charges.
In an exchange of notes in the
past few months the West has
accused the Russians of rearming
East Germans. The Soviets have
accused the West of warlike aims
in the Western defense plan of
rearming Western Germany. The
West says it has been forced to
do this by Soviet saber- -rattling
all over the world.
Sources here said the West
wants to talk about the extent of
militarization in Russias satel-
lites, the long delayed Austrian
peace treaty and Korea.
It is believed here that the Rus
slams may advance some proposals
for a unified Germany that would
require the withdrawal of all oc-
cupation troops. East Berlin
sources said last night the Rus
SLAMS may come up with such
scheme.
British Delegate Ernest Davies,
parliamentary undersecretary of
the Foreign Office, will arrive here
later today. The American and
British delegations will confer at
the French Foreign Office tomor-
row with French delegates headed
by Alexandra Parodi, secretary
general of the Foreign Office. to
plan their conference strategy.
Evening star., 1951-03-03
Death Toll Rises 10 Is
In Iowa Plane Crash
CAA Begins Inquiry
BY the Assoeioted Press

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Mar. g.
The death toll in the worst air.
plane accident in Iowa aviation
history. the crash of a Mid Cont
nent Airlines plane yesterday,
rose to 16 today.
Archie McKillop of Artesian,
s. OAK. died in a hospital early
today of third-degree burns.
Nine other persons survived the
crash, which was being investi-
gated today by Civil Aeronautics
Administration inspectors.
The twin-engined DC-3 plane
hurtled into cornfleld near the
airport yesterday during a snow
storm, burst into flames and was
destroyed within minutes. 1t was
the first fatal crackup in Mid
Continents II years of operation.
An Air National Guardsman
who reached the scene shortly
after the crash said that nothing
could have survived those flames.
The ones who were thrown out
were the only ones who lived"
Gale Olson, an electrician at the
airbase, was the first to reach the
burning plane.
Finds Soldier Dazed.
He said he found Robert Toman,
a soldier from Camp Polk, La,
who had been a passenger on the
plane, standing nearby in a daZed
condition.
"The soldier and I pulled one
man out" Mr.. Olson said. HE
was still alive. Then we went to
the front of the plane and pulled
the pilots out. They were dead"
The pilot was Capt. James
Graham, "a. of Kansas City. The
co-pilot, Philip K. Toler, 80, of
Mission. Kans., and the first Off
Ger, Ernest F. Eilert, 26, of Over
land Park, Kans., also were killed.
The stewardess. Marilyn Wood
bury of Kansas City, was hospi-
talized with severe cuts and a pos
sible broken back. One other of
the injured is in a critical con-
dition.
Four of the dead were soldiers,
all believed to be stationed at
Camp Polk. Five of the survivors
also were soldiers. The airline
identified the dead soldiers as
w. C. Ding, Bismarck, N. OAK:
L. L. Nogosek, Bismarck; M
Asachau. who was en- route to
Sioux Falls, S. OAK, and C. T.
Loon, whose mother lives at Kim
ball, S. OAK
Coroner Thomas L. Coriden said
there was some question as to Mr..
Looms identity. He said the body
wore an Identification bracelet
with the name Daniel Lipman.
However, Mrs. Lillian Loon,
mother of the soldier, said she was
expecting her son home from
Camp Polk.
The other deac were identified
as M. H. Steffenson, Rapid City,
S. OAK; Fred Kellog. jr., st.
Joseph, Mo-; Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Kannegister, Willow Lake,
N. Oak: Mrs. Jane Cook Lundahl,
Kansas City; Mrs. c. j. Pademore,
Woonsocket, S. OAK; Eldon A.
Clark, Watertown. S. OAK, and
Mrs. j. D. Away, Aberdeen, S.
Oak.
Mrs. Away survived the crack
up of a Mid-Continent Airlines
Convair plane in a landing acci-
dent at Tulsa, Okla. last Tues
day. That plane also burned after
the crash, but all passengers, in
cluding Mrs. Away and her hus-
band, escaped unhurt. Her hus-
band did not accompany her on
this trip.
Evening star., 1951-03-03
It's Difficult to Keep
Soviet Zone Shirt on
After It's Washed
BY the Assoeiofed Press

BERLIN, Mar. 3. - The
American sector radio broad
cast today a set of instructions
IT said were issued by a Rus
sian zone peoples owned"
factory with each shirt it
manufactures. The instruc-
tions:
Don't boil. don't wash in
hot water. Don't rub, brush,
wiring or tear. After rinsing,
pull back into shape, if pos
sible. Avoid heat from stoves
or from the SUM-" A
Evening star., 1951-03-03

Although principally a Western
insect, the spruce budworm oc-
casionally invades the Eastern
and Lake States.
Evening star., 1951-03-03

NAVY'S NEW SUBMARINE SUB-Groton, Conn-The XII
Nays submarine for against submarines the
at the Electric Boat Co. just before launching The
first submarine to be launched since the end of World
War H. the XII equipped with the latest developments
and elecronc detection equipment displace
ment of $50 and 1876 long sponsored
by Mrs. Willis M Thomas of Arlington widow a
submarine commander of World War II. -AP Wrephoto
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SPORTSMEN'S CLUB
ROD & REEL NOTES

Charles Good of Lima showed the
local boys how to fish the past week
by landing a two foot long great
northern pike at the Buckeye. Not
to be outdone, Ronnie Deifendeifer
yanked out over two foot long
walleye Monday morning at the same
quarry to pace the Lima angler.
Good landed his big fish on dare
devil lure while casting. Ronnie
used live bait.
Jess Manages hooked two 14-inch
walleyes last Wednesday at the
Buckeye. In general fishing has been
slow the past few days despite the
fact the Buckeye was heavily stocked
with walleyes. The last load of wall
eyes on order two weeks for the
Buckeye has still not arrived, but
there is still chance to get them.
At, the Water Works quarry
Francis and Robert Kohl have snag-
ged four more pickerel last Wednes-
day night using minnows. The fish
averaged 16 inches in length.
At the Buckeye, Sam Stepleton's
record of six walleyes in one day
still remains unbeaten.
Charles Alderman landed a Ia
inch walleye at the Water Works
quarry and he and Rex had three
other strikes.
Juanita Klingler had big wall
eye on her line Monday night but the
lunker got away while trying to haul
the fish into the boat.
Donavin Stratton snagged a good
walleye at the Buckeye quarry last
Saturday.
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In the morning the soldiers lean
ed their guns against the cabin and
went out to spring at the base
of the hill to wash. When they
reached the spring some Indians
hidden in the cornfeld ran out, cut
off their escape and began toma-
hawking the unarmed men.
White and Red Men
In the cabin Copus seized his gun
and rushed for the cabin door. There
he saw another Indian. Both fired
simultaneously and both were
wounded fatally. Corpus staggered
to the bed and died begging some
of the soldiers to defend and save
his family.
| Two soldiers escaped and ran to-
wards the woods but We're overtaken
and scalped by the sayages. Anoth-
er escaped but later was found lean
| ing against a tree-dead with his
handkerchief stuffed into body
wounds to stop bleeding. Another
soldier was shot through his thigh
| Just as he was escaping into the
cabin.
The wooded knoll offered the In
dians good cover all around the
cabin and volley after volley were
fired into the house. Nancy Copus,
a child, was hit above her knee;
George Launtz, a soldier, was hit in
his arm but shot the Indian who had
shot him. The soldier hit in his
thigh was George Dye.
The battle at the Copus cabin
lasted about five hours. Then the
savages withdrew, carrying their
dead and wounded with them. A
parting volley was fired into flock
of Copus' sheep, killing most OF
them.
After the Indians had gone 8
soldier was sent to the block-house
at Beams for assistance. Reinforce
] ments arrived too late to pursue the
, savages.
Copus and the soldiers were buried
/ in a large grave beneath an apple
t tree a few rods from the cabin. The
t soldiers then took the survivors tt
E the block-house at Beams. Th'
t widow Copus and her children livee
r there for time then moved t.
t Guernsey County. In 1915 the.
Y moved back to the old cabin ol
e Black Fork, where the massacre ha'
a occurred.
After the Copus attack as fire
S holes were found dug in the groun
/. back of Copus' cornfeld, where tn
/ savages had roasted and eaten ear
{, of corn the evening the attacn tool
n place. The fire had been put i
holes to prevent discovery of tn
hiding place through blaze or smoke
e Figuring one fre-hole to the ma
n 45 Indians We're in the Copus ATTACK
It Two identical monuments, 10 an
e IL miles respectively south Of Ash
IS land, mark the spots in Miffli
a Township where the Ruffner and tn
It Copus attacks took place. They wer
r, unveiled 70 years to the day, FIR
d day, SEPTEMBER 15, 1882, after tn
attacks took place. The marker
e cot $500, raised by popular sui
d scription in Ashland and Richlan
counties by the Ashland Pionee
d Association.
II About 5000 persons were at tf
r dedication, with well filled basket
G as for picnic. Huff Brothers BAN
o from Ashland, played and promil
y ent politicians spoke touchingly ar
g at great length. A procession (
n more than 1900 vehicles passed tt
monuments during the unveilr
s ceremonies.
al So goes the story of how Mart
Ruffner died lao years ago ightir
d hard and long and fearlessly
defense of neighbor's family.
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Bluffton College Com
mencement Events
Concluded from page y

Stanley William Walton, Sycamore,
o.; Ralph K. Weber, Kitchener,
Ontario; Aldine Margaret thinner
man, Gridley, Ill.
At the close of the summer term
bachelor of arts degrees will be
awarded to Marilyn Florence Chiv-
ington, Leipsic; Joseph Robert Gra-
ham, Sidney, o.; Marjorie Bloom
quist Ramseyer, Columbus; and
Ralph f. 9TH, Dayton.
Bachelor School Music
Bachelor of School Music degrees
will be conferred unon Mary Kathryn
Bauman, Bluffton; Iris Ruth Melecio,
Puerto Rico; Ann Bechenbach Mei-
linger, Garfield, o.; and Onnolee Nc
Clintock, Wapakoneta, Ohio.
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ALLEN COUNTY, OHIO

Alice Phillipy. Plaintiff, VS.. William Phillipy,
Defendant. Case No. 402S2.
LEGAL NOTICE
The defendant William Phillipy, whose ad-
dress and place of residence is unknown and
cannot with reasonable diligence be aseer-
tanned, will take notice that the 22nd day
of May. 1851, the plaintiff. Alice Phillipy.
filed her petition for divorce against him in
the Common Pleas Court of Allen County,
Ohio. in Case No. 402S2, on the grounds of
Gross Neglect of Duty, Extreme Cruelty and
Habitual Drunkenness. praying that she may
be divorced from said defendant and for such
other and further relief as is just and proper
in the premises. Said cause will be heard on
after six weeks from the first publication
of this notice.
ALICE PHILLIPY, Plaintiff
BY J. f. Emans. Her Attorney
202 Dominion Building
Lima. Ohio IL
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LEGAL NOTICE

Lula May Davis, whose last known place
of address was Lula May Davis, l13h s.
Central, Lima. Ohio. is hereby notified that
Mccoy Davis has filed his petition against
her for divorce reasonable visitation with
his minor child and for all other equitable
relief which he may be entitled to in the
premises on the grounds of gross neglect of
duty. in Case Number 40257 in the Common
Pleas Court of Allen County, Ohio, and that
said cause will be for hearing on or about
six weeks from the date of the first publ
cation of this notice.
Durbin, Navarro and Rizor
Attorney for Plaintiff
30l Dominion Building
Lima, Ohio Il
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Reunions

The 18th annual Owens school re-
union will be held at Richland Grange
hall, Sunday, June 4. Basket dinner
at 1890 sharp. Bring your own
service. Coffee furnished. Gerald
Huber, Pres; Mrs. Henry Huber,
secretary.
Reunion of descendants of the
late Henry Augsburger family al
Pandora high school, Sunday, June
g. Paul Augsburger, Sec.
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LEGAL NOTICE

Christina Marie America. who resides at
14l Alabama Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
will take notice that on the lst day of May,
1851. the plaintiff. Joseph L. America. fled
his Petition against her in the Common Pleas
Court of Allen County. Ohio the same being
Cases No. 40254, praying for. divorce and
other equitable relief. Said defendant will
take notice that said Petition will be for hear
ing after the 23rd day of June, 1851
and that she is requested to answer said Peti-
ton on or before said date.
JOSEPH L. AMERICO
By James G. Blair,
His Attorney
IN THE COMMON PLEAS COURT OF
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The Fighting Ruffners

1t is in the blood, this trait of
battle to the death against over
whelming odds and through more
than a century the family has
furnished many military men-one,
a general, doing his bit in Korea
today.
But let us go back to the begin
ming and little group of log cabins
a half-mile southwest of Mifflin,
Ashland County, Martin Ruffner and
his brother-in-law, Richard Hughes,
built theirs near each other there
in spring, 1872.
Frederick Zimmer built his hut a
couple of miles southeast of Ruff
ner's and lived there with his wife;
his daughter, Catherine; his son,
Philip, 10; and Michael Ruffner, his
hired mana brother of Martin. A
"bound boy" Levi Berkinhizer, also
lived at the Ruffner cabin.
Armed Indians
The morning of September 10,
1872, Martin Ruffner saw two well
armed Indians near the thinner
cabin, got on a horse and hurried
there to warn them. There Philip
Zimmer took the horse and warned
James Copus, who lived two miles
further south, and John Lambright
near the Copus shack. W..
Early in the evening the four mer
got back to the Zimmer cabin but
found no light there. Copus crep'
cautiously to the hut and found thu
door aiar. He pushed on it and i
gave a little but went no furthe
because of some obstruction agains
it inside. Carefully feeling his wa,
Copus began creeping through tn
doorway then put his hand in
pool of blood.
He hurried back to his companion
and all went to the Zimmer cabir
There they found the bodies-Fred
erick Zimmer, his wife and daughter
and Martin Ruffner, who had bee
visiting there with the Zimmers.
Bodies Mutilated
Ruffner had made a desperat
fight. He had fought his way fror
the cabin into the yard, his gun ben
nearly double from the clubbing h
had done with it. Several of hi
fingers had been chopped off by
tomahawk and he had been sho
twice through his body. Ruffnel
like the others in the cabin, ha
been scalped.
The attack apparently had com
about meal time as the table ha
been set.
Eight or 10 Indians were believe
to have been implicated in the at
tack on the Zimmer cabin. Zinfme
had incurred their enmity by tyin
clap boards to their ponies tails t
keep them out of his cornfield. An
injury to an Indians pony or do
was an affront to the whole Indial
family.
Martin Ruffner and the Zimmer
were buried in a single grave on
little knoll near the cabin.
The cabins of Martin Ruffner an
Richard Hughes were not disturbed
Levi Berkinhizer had slept alone a
that night in the Ruffner cabir
Martin Ruffner was on good term
with the Indians but was entirel
fearless in his relations with then
Move to Safety
Copus and Lambright returned t
their cabins and moved their familie
to a safer place-Jacob Beams
block-house. Several days went b
and Copus, believing that the savae
es bore him no ill will, took hi
family back to their cabin. Min
soldiers from the block-house wer
with them as an escort.
The Copus family went to bed i
the cabin and the soldiers in tn
barn. During the night Copus' dog
put up such a fuss that he got u
and invited the soldiers into tn
cabin.
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EDITORS NoTE-This 10 one
of q series of articles to appear
in the Blufton Net0s dealing
with early Ohio history. Others
wiu appeai IN Forthcoming
assues.