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Evening star., 1953-10-14
Next Years Defense
Plans Kept in Dark
After Policy Talks
Bx John A. Giles

The administration had before
it today the unanimous recon-
mendation of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff on the complexion of the
Armed Forces during the next
fiscal year. But there appeared
some doubt it had been received
with equal unanimity.
With President Eisenhower
presiding, the National Security
Council met for more than three
hours yesterday to canvass the
plan and fit it into the overall
tax and spending programs.
What the Joint Chiefs pro-
gram envisaged and what it
would cost were not disclosed.
Secretary of Defense Wilson
conceded at a press conference
later that he took what he called
a rough estimate" of the pro-
posed cost.
Ban on Discussion.
Mr.. Wilson and other Penta-
gon officials, however, would refer
only to a statement by White
House Secretary James C.. Hag-
erty putting a virtual ban on dis
cussing the plan or the meeting
in answering most other ques-
tionS.
This was the answer to a
question as to whether the chiefs
had been asked to review their
recommendations.
Before the meeting, top Pen
tagon officials had talked about
a decision on the program this
week.
But after it the Chiefs paper
was called preliminary" and Mr..
Wilson announced Gen. Eisen-
hower's mid-January budget
message to Congress would carry
only a one-line estimate of de-
tense costs with the details to
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and welfare. without which there
can be no liberty for any one."
Evening star., 1953-11-25
Mother Never to Drive

CHICAGO. (P).-A young
mother, twice arrested for
drunken driving, was banned
from ever driving again in Illi-
Evening star., 1953-11-25
Suspect Is Indicted
In Woman S SHOOTING
And 4 Other Cases

A grand jury yesterday re-
turned five indictments against a
man accused of shooting Capt.
tol Hill secretary during a rob-
berry 10 days ago.
One of the indictments against
Wilbert w. A. Green, IS, of the
300 block of Second street S.W.,
includes three counts in connec-
tion with the robbery and shoot
ing of Miss Elsie Lemke, Al, an
aide to Senator johnson, Demo-
crat. of Colorado.
The four others charge house
breaking and larceny in other
cases.
Miss Lemke, still hospitalized
as a result of the shooting, was
assaulted in front of her apart
ment building at 211 Delaware
avenue S.W. The indictment ac-
cuses Green with robbery, assault
with intent to kill and illegally
carrying a pistol.
Assistant United States Attor-
ney John c. Conliff, jr., said
Green was indicted on all cases
submitted by police. Mr.. Conliff
said police told him they are in
vestigating Green's possible con-
nection with about 100 other
cases. Green has a long police
record.
In the other indictments, the
victims and the amounts taken
were:
Margaret L. Cochran, 101 Car
roll street Sc, September S,
$500 in cash and other items:
James D. Padgett, 228 South
Carolina avenue Sc, September
27, jewelry valued at $66: a
home at 456 New Jersey avenue
Sc. also on September 27,
money and property valued at
$44, and a home at lis C street
Sc, October 81, $100 in cash,
two revolvers and a box of cart
ridges.
The indictments were returned
before Judge Edward A. Tamm,
of the U. S. District Court for
the District of Columbia.
Evening star., 1953-11-25
Union Agrees TO Delay
GREYHOUND Strike 10 DAYS

Ten-day postponement Of a
strike scheduled to go into effect
at midnight last night against
Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines
has been agreed to by union
officials.
Clark Dorsey. chairman of the
unions negotiating committee.
said the Penn Executive Council
of the AFL Bus Drivers Main
tenance and Terminal Employees
Union agreed to the postpone
ment and will participate in
bargaining in. Philadelphia on
December 2.
Earlier yesterday Whitley P.
Mccoy, director of the Federal
Mediation and Cancellation Serv-
ice, urged M. Herbert Syme, at
torney for the union, to persuade
union officials to postpone the
strike.
Evening star., 1953-11-25
Dynamite on the Loose

NORMAN, Okla. (P.-Resi-
dents in this area braced today
for 19 dynamite explosions which
might go off any time, any
place.
Police think prankish young
sters broke into a seismograph
crews trailer and stole 20 sticks
of 5-pound dynamite. One was
exploded Monday night. digging
crater a foot deep and feet
wide in a wheat field and flood
ing police with calls from jittery
citizens.
To ease the tension, officers
promised the culpritS lenient
treatment if the remaining dy-
Mantle was returned within "a
hours. No takers yet.
Evening star., 1953-11-25
Boy, IA, Injured in Blast
OF Firecracker He Made

A homemade f1recracker ex-
ploded and injured a 14-year-old
boy in the basement of his home
yesterday, Arlington police re-
ported.
Taken to Arlington Hospital
was Basil A. Justice, of 1920 Old
Dominion drive. The hospital
said the end of one of three in
jured fingers on his left hand
might have to be amputated,
Police said they were told the
boy had partially filled an eight
inch glass test tube with kitchen
matches and was tamping gun
powder on top of them when the
explosion occurred.
Evening star., 1953-11-25
Boy Revives Wild West
PORT HURON Mich

PORT HURON, Mich, (P).
Police were the good guys"
yesterday and an 8-year-old
boy was cast in the role of the
bad guy" He was captured
after ventilating a house and
automobile with .22-caliber
rifle bullets.
Police, called by neighbors,
found the boy with two of his
fathers rifles, peering around
the edge of a window, just like
the badman in the rip-roaring
days of frontier towns.
The boy, who said he got the
rifles by removing screws from
his fathers gun cabinet, was
turned over to the parents for
suitable punishment. No one
was hurt in the brief Wild
West spree. The boy was not
identified.
Evening star., 1953-11-25
Gambling Count Dismissed
For Lack OF Evidence

A gambling charge against
Roosevelt Spencer, 80, colored, oi
the 200 block of F street NE.
was ordered dismissed yesterday
by United States Commissioner
Cyril Lawrence.
Mr.. Lawrence took the un-
usual action during a prelimi-
nary hearing on grounds the
Government failed to show prob
able cause for the house painter's
arrest. However, a co-defendant,
Emanuel w. Brown, 81. colored
of the 100 block of D street
NE, a Pullman car cleaner, was
held on $500 bail for grand jury
action.
A Government witness in the
case, Miss Mamie Bennett, col
ored, of the 1900 block of Parker
road NV. with Brown when the
latter was arrested November 8,
refused to testify on grounds of
possible Standardization. She
was not charged.
Evening star., 1953-11-25
Couple Wed 78 Years

SAGLE. Idaho (P).-Mr. and
Mrs. Benjamin F. Hartley
spent a lively 18th anniversary
yesterday with their three sons
and many friends who called
to wish them well.
The HartleyS, who at the
age of "a have 81 great-great-
grandchildren, say they under
stand only one other couple
has been married longer, a
Texas couple married 80 years
ago.
The Hartleys were 16 when
married in Tennessee in 1875.
Mrs. Hartley predicts both will
live past 100, but admits she
finds the modern pace a bit
fast.
How people get anything
done these days, I don't know,
for they are always on the go,
going here and there" she
said.
Evening star., 1953-11-25
Johnny Learns by N

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (P).-John
Begue of WICS-TV, Springfield
station. has learned of another
peril facing television announc-
erS.
Last week as part of a COM
mercial he took a knife and
ripped apart two mattresses to
reveal the voluminous interior
foam padding. Yesterday Mr..
Begue learned that his young
son Johnny, who watched the
exhibition on the family's TV
set, had duplicated his fathers
performance.
The two that Johnny ripped
apart were newly purchased
mattresses for the Begue house
hold.
Evening star., 1953-11-25
Perjury Case Appeal
Lost by Remington,
Former Economist
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-.The
United States Circuit Court
Of Appeals upheld by a 2-1 de-
cision yesterday the perjury con-
victioll of William w. Remington
former Commerce Department
economist.
Remington. 35. was convicted
last January of lying when he
denied that he transmitted clas-
sified documents to a courier
for a Russian spy ring. and also
of denying he knew a Young
Communist League unit existed
at Dartmouth College when he
was a student there.
He is serving a three-year
term in the Federal Prison at
Lewisburg. Pa.
Judge Augustus Hand wrote
the majority opinion, which was
concurred in by Judge Thomas
w. Swan.
The perjury charges grew out
of Remington's testimony at his
first trial, when he was convicted
of denying to a grand jury that
he ever was a member of the
Communist Party. That convic-
tion was reversed, and a new in
dictment. based on his testimony,
was returned.
In the appeal counsel for Rem
ington argued that he was en-
trapped.
Remington has been en-
trapped, not by devious means
and methods employed by the
Government, but by his own
acts" Judge Hand wrote. HE
is caught in a web of his own
duplicity and jealous prosecu-
ton by the Government"
Evening star., 1953-11-25
Miami Elects OfficiuIs

MIAMI, Fla. Nov. 25 (P).-
If custom is followed, Abe Aron-
ovitz will become Mayor of Mi
ami tomorrow. succeeding Chel-
sic j. Senerchia. Mr.. Aronovitz,
55-year-old attorney, led the
six-man field yesterday in the
race for City Commission, receiv-
ing 28,206 votes to win a four
year term.
Evening star., 1953-11-25
Biggest Underwater BIust

LEVAN, Utah (P).-Fifty tons
OF TNT-believed the largest
underwater explosion ever fired
in the United States-were set
off in Sewer Bridge Reservoir in
Central Utah yesterday after
noon.
The explosion. set off by the
Navy, was termed a success.
Weather conditions were per-
feet.
Several Federal agencies con-
cerned with national defense CO.
operated in the detonation to
obtain scientific data on what
happens during an underwater
explosion.
Evening star., 1953-11-25

nois yesterday by Judge EN-
met Harrington in Auto Safety
Court. He imposed the pro-
hibition on Mrs. Christine
Peretti, 33-year-old mother
of two.
Court attaches said it was
the first such action in a
Chicago court.
Evening star., 1953-11-25
Youth Making Good

TULSA, Okla. (P).-A Tulsa
boy. sentenced to one day in
Oklahoma'S State Prison two
years ago for armed robbery,
has begun his third year as a
law-abiding citizen.
Jim Glen Kimbrell, now 81,
was ordered by District Judge
w. Lee Johnson in 1851 to tour
the prison, remain there over
night and think about living
behind the stone walls.
The boys report impressed
the judge who then placed him
on five years probation.
Evening star., 1953-11-25
Life in the u. S.
Life in the u. S.
For Fun, and
Santa Works
.$4.54 dnHour
BY the Assoeioted Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 25.-
Santa Claus got a pay increase
yesterday.
Phil Downing, national repre-
sentative of the AFL American
Guild of Variety Artists, to which
most department store Santas
belong, announced the new wage
schedule.
Last year, Santa got $100 for
a f1ve-day, 27l2-hour week of
$3.65 an hour.
This year the scale will be
$125 week, or $4.54 an hour.
Evening star., 1953-11-25
Banks Aid Left-Hunded

SAN DIEGO, Calf. - Check
books for left-handed writer's are
offered by a San Diego bank.
They have stubs and binding on
the right side of the book instead
of on the left.
Evening star., 1953-11-25
SIS, 900 in Gems Stolen
From Mrs. Lee Shubert
IN fha Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-Mrs.
Lee Shubert, wife of the Broad
way producer, yesterday report
ed the theft of SIS, 900 in jewelry
from their Ritz Towers apart
ment.
She said she believed the jew
elry was stolen while she was
out of the apartment. From Sat-
urday night until Sunday night.
she said, she was away most Of
the time.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-06-05
Some Steel Being
Delivered To Site

Work on the Madison County
Youth Building went ahead this
week with many workrnen already
on the job. The land fill which is
being worked to make compact
foundation for the steel building is
being tamped and drained to over
come several soft spots.
The huge steel structure will go
up promptly barring any unfor-
seen circumstances. Steel for the
job is already being delivered to
the Fair Ground and is being stor-
ed nearby.
The several contractors on the
job are planning their work to
make construction possible with
all speed. 1t is not known at this
time whether the building will be
occupied before the Madison coun-
ty fair, but some hope is held that
it may be.
Night racing will be featured for
the first time here this year and
the commissioners are working on
plans to light the track, it was said.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-06-05
Mrs. Patterson Dies
At West Jefferson

Mrs. Susan Coalman Patterson,
80, died Thursday afternoon at her
home in West Jefferson.
The widow of Samuel Patterson,
she is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Ida Donald and Miss Ella
Patterson; two sons, Calvin Pat
terson and Hinkle Patterson; 10
grandchildren. 10 great-grand-
children, a brother, Riley Coal
man and sister, Mrs Nan Mitts,
both of Wilhamsport, Kentucky.
Funeral services Sunday after
noon at four o'clock in the West
Jefferson Methodist Church, the
Reverend George W. Eley, Off
ciating minister. Interment ir
Pleasant Hill Cemetery by Blaus-
er and Baker Funeral Home.
Friends may call at the resi-
dence in West Jefferson.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-06-05
Lester Roberts
Dies tuesday

Lester Floyd Roberts, 60, died
Tuesday night at his home on
Chrisman Avenue following long
illness.
Born in Pike County, September
%, 1893, he had resided here for
many years. He was employed at
Wright-Patterson Field, Dayton,
and was a member of London
Aerie Fraternal Order of the
Eagles.
Surviving are his wife, Chris
tina; son, Floyd Roberts, Wash
ington c. H.; five daughters, Mrs.
Isabel Rafferty,, Washington c. H.;
Mrs. Helen Justus, Springfield;
Mrs. Ruth Justus, South Solon;
Mrs. Berniece Coil and Mrs. June
Reeves. both London; sister Mrs.
Ella Mckee, Dayton; four BROTH
ers. Ira of Springfield; James and
Henry Clay Roberts, Columbus;
John of Bloomingburg; and Ia
grandchildren.
Funeral services Friday at two
o'clock at the Church of Christ in
Christian Union, West Center ST.,
the Reverend Harley Bennett, Off
ciating minister. Interment in
Kirkwood Cemetery by Schlechty-
Fichner Funeral Home.
Friends may call at the resi-
dence on Chrisman Avenue.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-06-05
Pastor Rueh's Father
Guest Preacher Here

The Rev. Meade A. Rugh, pastor
of Christ Lutheran Church, Char
leroi, Pa, will be the guest preach
err at both the 500 and 10:30 SER
vices at st. Johns Lutheran church
this coming Sunday, Jupe 7th, it
was announced today by his son,
pastor of the local church.
The Rev. and Mrs. M. A. Rugh
arrived Wednesday from Pennsyl-
vania to spend the weekend with
their son and his family, and to
attend the alumni and commence
ment activities at Wittenberg Col
lege, Springfield. They will attend
t he 40th anniversary reunion
luncheon of Mr.. Rugh's class at
Wittenberg, and their youngest son
John P. Rugh, will be graduating
at the commencement exercises
Monday morning.
The early, or soc am. service at
st. Johns, is an innovation being
tried for the summer months, Pas
tor Lawrence T. Rugh declared. To
inaugurate-th custom, his father
will preach on the subject, Here
and Haraa flor ~
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-06-05
Mrs. Tresa Karn
Dies Suddenly

Mrs. Tresa Karn, SO, 3480 Lon
don-G -Groveport Road, Grove City,
mother of Mrs. Douglas Davis,
South Madison Road, died sudden
ly Tuesday at her home.
Surviving in addition to the
daughter in London, are, her hus-
band, Adam; three daughters,
Sister Mary Amadea, Mrs. Ruth
Wallace and Mrs. Irene Miller;
two sons, John and Paul Karn; one
sister, Mrs. Mamie Rohr and nine
grandchildren.
Funeral services Friday at two
o'clock at the Norris Funeral
Home, Grove City, the Reverend
]. B. Shellhaas officiating minister.
Interment in Concord Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral
home.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-06-05
Legion Will Send
4 To Boys State

Kenneth Norris, Commander of
Madison Post los, The American
Legion, London has announced
that four boys will represent the
Post this year at Buckeye Boys
State which will be held at Camp
Perry, Ohio, June 12th-21st.
This is the sixteenth year The
American Legion of Ohio has con-
Quoted practical school in city,
county and state government.
Every boy present will hold an Of
flee, either elective or appointive,
and will take active part in con-
ducting the state, thereby learn
ing more about government on
these levels than most adults.
The boys from London High
School who will attend Boys State
are William Sanders, sponsored by
the Veterans of Foreign Wars;
Gerald Baynes, Jr., sponsored by
the London Rotary Club, and Don
Barr, sponsored by Madison Post;
the London and Sedalia Lions
Clubs are sponsoring Richard Bog
enrife of Sedalia High School.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-06-05
Man Held Here By
Arizona Police
Warrant Sent Here BY
Tuscon Authorities

Lawrence Conley, 19, Madison
Mills, is being held in the Madison
county Jail after having been pick
ed UP by Mt. Sterling police for
questioning concerning a robbery
at Tuscon, Arizona recently. Sher-
iff Harold Bidwell said Thursday
that Conley had been working in
a restaurant at Mt. Sterling for the
past several weeks.
Conley had recently been placed
on probation for non-support, it
was said. The Tuscon police de-
partment telegraphed Mt. Sterling
police and asked that Conley be
held for questioning concerning
what was believed to have been a
jewelry store robbery there some
time ago. Conley had recently re-
turned here from Tuscon, it was
said.
Tuscon authorities said that they
would extradite Conley. However,
Conley has refused extradition.
The warrant for Conley was de-
livered here Thursday afternoon
by Chief Joe Smith of the Mt.
Sterling police. The case will be
heard in Judge James F. Bells
court at later time, it was said.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-06-05
Farmers Sow crop
For III Neighbor

The spirit of friendly neigh
bors" still prevails among Madison
County farmers, according to the
agricultural extension office. Last
Wednesday during the busy plant
ing season, group of neighbors
took time out from their own work
to plant 18 acres of soybeans and
20 acres of corn for Basil Cresap,
Route 3. London, who is critically
i'll in the hospital.
The 13 men and boys who help
ed in one way or another prepared
the seed bed and planted the 38
acres in less than 5 hours. Those
helping were Phil Ferguson, Clin-
ton Stickel, Dewey Mayabb, Bill
Warnock, Amos Cordle, Gene Will
son, Bob Wilson. David Andrews,
Dick Minner, Virgil Bush, John
Brill, Ralph Matlock, Cecil Tee
master. The equipment used in the
operation included 6 tractors. 3
disc harrows, a cultipacker. corn
planter, grain drill and two trucks.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-06-05
Defendant Wins
$4,000 Lawsuit
Deputy MarkIey Held
BIameIess In Crash

The civil action brought by Pearl
Boisel Summerville. Ohio, against
Madison County Deputy Sheriff,
Herbert Markley, was heard in the
court of Common Pleas Judge,
James F. Bell, earlier this week.
The jury decided Tuesday after
noon in favor of the defendent,
Markley, in the $4,000 suit for
damages brought as the result of
an auto accident Sept. 21, 1851.
The case was brought after
Deputy Markley's car crashed into
Boisels truck at what was FORM
erly the Bessie Kilgore farm on
the Old Springfield Road, west of
London. Boisel was turning into
the drive of the farm when Mark
ley attempted to pass, it was said.
Markley was represented in
court by Attorneys, Frank ]. Muir
ray and Charles Richmond. Boisel
was represented by Youngstown
attorneys.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-06-05
New Real Estate
Project Planned
Garfield Avenue Site
Has Many Features

H. H. Hume, prominent London
hardware dealer, is planning SUBJ
division of real estate on Garfield
Avenue on the north side of Lon
don, it was announced Thursday.
The original plan calls for cir
cular drives and two bridges on
the 48 lot subdivision which will be
enhanced by the rolling land which
will include a permanent pond, Mr..
Hume said.
It was explained that the. prop
erty will be offered to those pers-
ons who plan to build with some
measure of protection as to the
type of building permitted under
the terms offered by the owner.
The subdivision will be the first
restricted property offered here,
according to Mr.. Hume.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-06-05
Four Teenage Girls Placed
On Probation For One Year
Mother Files New
Claim In Ruff
Estate Tangle

Ella r. Ruff, Ashville, mother
of Daniel Ruff, Jr., through her
attorney had filed claims totalling
$181, ,581.75 against her sons es-
tate, according to attorney En-
NETT Crist, Circleville.
Mrs. Ruff is executrix and sole
distributee of the estate left by
Daniel E. Ruff Sr., father of the
35-year-old farmer found fatally
shot last January in his home near
South Bloomfield. Mary Agnes
Ruff, 34-year-old wife of the slain
man, was acquitted of the shooting
last April 81 in a trial that drew
high interest throughout Pickaway
County.
The claims were presented to
Tom A. Renick, Circleville attor-
ney and administrator of estate of
the Daniel E. Ruff Jr. estate. It's
appraised value was said to be
$66,57161.
lie GlueT WIS. null Sdlu uSI
son realized S135,773 from "the
collection and use and appropria-
ton of her funds from the sale of
her crops, grains and farm pro-
duce and that no part of said
amount has been paid -
Ella Ruff~also asked that real
estate purchased by her son in
Union and Madison counties be
decided to her, contending he used
$30,808.75 in funds belonging to
her to purchase the land.
The claim said Ruff took title
to said lands in his individual
name and that said lands are now
inventoried as part of the estate.
Ella Ruff also claimed $15,00C
for money received from the estate
of John Ruff, brother of her hus
band, contending it was "appro
priated and used personally by the
said Daniel E. Ruff Jr. during hi.
lifetime for his own benefit"
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1953-06-05
10 Day Suspended
Sentence Given
Male Companion

Four teen-age girls who were
recently arrested on delinquency
charges and held in the Madison
County Jail were placed on one
years probation by Juvenile Judge
Maurice Beathard here Thursday.
Two male companions of the girls
were also heard in court. One was
released without charge and the
other was given a 10 day suspend
ed sentence on a promise of good
behavior, Judge Beathard said.
Three of the girls were IL years of
age and one Is.
The group had appeared earlier
this week in Mayor E. P. Speas-
makers court and all were dis
missed with the exception of one
youth who was fined $100 and SEN
fenced to 80 days in the county
Jail. Mayor Speasmaker suspended
$75 of the fine and the Jail sem
tence pending good behavior.
Judge Beathard stated that the
girls must report once each month
to officials here. In addition, the
girls must be home each night at 9
pm. and attend church each Sun
day. Each must bring signed note
from a minister as proof that they
have attended church. The girls
and their parents were heard in
closed chambers.
One of the two men involved
was given a 10 day suspension for
contributing to the delinquency OF
a minor but was released on his
promise of good behavior. The
other was released on his promise
to behave after his wife spoke in
his behalf. One of the men gave his
age as 19 and the other %.