The Cedarville Herald, Volume 70, Numbers 1-26

CEBAKVILLE’S OLDEST INST ITUTE SEVENTIETH YEAR Americans For Americ srifca For Americans $1.50 T E R YEAR 5c PER COPY Is CEDARVILLE, OHIO, J W X A Y , FEBRUARY 21,1947 NUMBER 12 CONGRESSIONAL HAPPENINGS IN WASHINGTON OM IW IH I»W WtWIH>M CHURCH NO .ES mmnmuiwuHAMAMw l FIRST PRESBYTERIAN } I Pual II. Elliott, minister. Sabbath j I school, IQ a. in'. John Powers, supt. J IMorning -worship 11 a. hs . Sermon, | IThe Gift o f l i f e . j | On Tuesday evening, Feb. 23,. th e ! By CLARENCE J. BROWN !We--tr.::n:ter class will go to the ‘ Member o f Congress ; homo Mr, and Mrs. Rankin McMillan The house and senate held only , a business and social meeting. One formal sessions last week, with Wed-: o f the important matters is the an- nesday being set aside in each b od y ; nual election of^ officers, for a program in honor o f the natal Iwill please be present, day o f Abraham Lincoln. Many memb­ ers o f congress took avantage o f the pause in congressional sessions to accept speaking engagements at Lin­ coln day banquets throughout the country. Your humble reporter acl- dressedthe National Republican club YELLOWJACKETS TOGW FE SEASON WEDNESDAY Members at its Lincoln clay dinner at the Wal­ dorf-Astoria in New York, and the Lincoln day banquet at Hagerstown, Md., on last Thursday evening. That President Truman’s rather amazing budget request for $37.5 bil­ lion to run the federal government daring the coming fiscal year, which begins on July 1, will be drastically cut, now seems certain. Last week r sub-committee of the joint congress­ ional budget committee voted to place ceiling on appropriations for the- com­ ing year at $31,5 billion wind.', o. course, is 6 billion less than the pres­ ident requested As this is written appears likely the full budget commit­ tee will approve the $0 billion cut Ir spending, although there are some members of the senate who feel tha a $4.5 billion cut is about as far a; the congress should go at this session. The heads of every department and agency in the government who art having their requests for appropriat­ ions reduced are, o f course, complain ing loudly, but the congress is deter­ mined to go ahead with the plan te drastically reduce public spending. While interest on the public debt, veterans benefits and national defense expenditures will be much heavier than prior to the war, there is stil. no reason why our federal govern­ ment should be costing four time: more now—in the third year after the shooting stopped—than it cost ir, the prewar years when the New Deal was attempting to spend the nation’ s- way into prosperity. The Byrd committee o f the senate has just issued a report that the non military agencies o f the govemmen. have, since V-J Day, increased the number of civilians workers employ­ ed by 29-1,259—or approximately 30 per cent. According to the committee, we now have 1,039 principal divisions and agencies in the executive branch of the federal government. In addit­ ion thereto there are 1-00 federal of­ fices in New York City, 1,000 in Chicago and more than 500 each in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, The Byrd committee also had the follow­ ing to say: “ The conclusion is in­ escapable that the cessation of hostil­ ities has brought little reduction in the tremendous war-expansion pub­ lic spending has been in the war and navy departments. I f the Republicans in congress arc able to put through their program to drastically reduce public spending, the budget will not only be balanced, but anywhere from $2 to $5 billion per year will be paid on the national debt, however. The balance o f savings made through reducing spending of public funds would go for the purpose of reducing taxes. The first cut in federal taxes will be made in individ­ ual income tax rates. When it comes to deciding the best way to reduce individual income taxes, opinion is well divided, both in con­ gress and out. It is the New Deal tax philosophy and theory that practically all fax savings should go to those having low incomes, with tax rates remaining at nearly present levels on those having incomes o f more than §5,000 a year. Those in favor o f this theory insist such a tax program, is necessary in order to maintain pur­ chasing power. Many others, however, believe the benefits of reduced taxes must be given to all income taxpayers, including those in higher brackets, so there may be incentive to work hard­ er and invest savings in industry and business so as to earn more—and that without such private investments business and industry in this Country will not progress or expand. Opponents of the proposed 20 per cent reduction in income tax in all brackets insist that such bill would be o f primary benefit to those with larger incomes and would mean little to those having low incomes. Yet tax experts employed by the ways and means committee point out that the “ across the board” 20 per cent reduct­ ion in income taxes would mean those earning less than §5,000 per year would receive a major proport­ ion—some §2 billion—of the total tax cut of §3.5 billion, while all those with incomes o f more than $5,000 would receive the balance. There is a great demagogic appeal to the cry to increase income tax exemptions so that some 30 million Amei'icans will not have to pay any income tax at all— but the truth is, under the govern­ ment's present fiscal situation, taxes (Continued on Rage Jour} Fraycr meeting on Wednesday evening will be in the presbyterian church. The women's missionary society will meet Thursday afternoon, Feb. 27, at the home of Mrs. S. C. Wright. The topic is, Above the Scc-ptered Sway. (Continued on Paso Pour) SES TOROSS, m YALLEY OSSTS RIG REDS A first rc end loss to an underdog Ross aggregated and then a two point !efc .t a*- the hands o f Spring Valley ■.b?k school from the 33rd annual x te l the Big Reds o f Oednrville Green? coxnty basketball tourna- .i. nt over the past weekend. In opening the county meet with Eo;.s which they had beaten twice luring the regular season when they were without the services o f their big center, Cummings, they were un­ able to atop him, and thereby went down to defeat by a count of 81-28, Tlie reds were bellind at the end o f the opening quarter 6-3 and then outscorod Ross in the second quarter j ‘ o ail 12-11 at the end of the f Irst j half. The locals then went into the f bead as they chalked up 11 to Ross' § s in th >third to lead as the final per­ iod began. With ihar big center pushing •bora through Ross put 12 markers Front row — Coach Beattie, C. Murnahan, V. McNulty, Mauk, Trout. E. Murnahan, Ryan, manager. Second row—Geis, Farmer, Towns- ley, B. McNulty, Ball. Third row — Rileiy, Watkins, Mc- Photo by Romme Neal, Riggs, McGuffin. Fourth row—Rowe, Barton, Slon- iker, Barger, Irvin. TRIO OF GREENE COUNTIANS DIE IN ACCIDENT Seven men from Wright field, two listed as Osborn residents and a third from Yellow Springs, were killed 'nto the not in the final period while ! when their army C-45 transport plane he k-a.lo wore good for only half J a t many. Again t Spring Valley’s Spartans on Saturday night it looked as though ■he Big Reds were on the victory trail as they overcame, an early lead to knot the count at 8 at the end of the first quarter. In the second they went out in front and were lead­ ing by a comfortable 19-12 at the cud o f the first half. They lost 2 points of their had in the third as the Val­ ley connected fo r 8 and the locals took 6 to make the count 25-20 going into the last quarter. Spring Valley more than doubled the score on the Reds in the last canto as they split the nets for 13 and the locals took 6 to make the final score 33-31 and el- minuting the Cedars from the tourn­ ament. Cedarville (28) G F T Gentile, f _____- ____ 1 3 5 vVisecap, f ________ _ 4 1 9 Fife, f ......... ............... 3 0 6 Charles, c __________ 0 1 1 Koppe, g --------- — 2 1 5 Boyer, g ____________ 1 0 2 Total ........................ 11 6 28 Ross (31) G F T Luttrell, f __________ 3 1 7 Bobbitt, f __________ 1 1 .3 Gumming.-,, c ______ ... R 5 17 newell, g _______ - __ 1 2 4 Jmith, g ___________ . 0 0 0 T o t a l........................ 11 9 31 Score by quarters: Ceik.rville _________ 3 8 11 6—28 Ross - _______ - _____ 6 6 7 12—31 Cedarville (31) G F T Fife, f ----------------- — 2 2 6 Wiseeup, f __________ 0 1 1 Beattie, f ................... 4 3 11 Charles, e ________ _ 1 0 2 Koppe, c“ __________ 2 4 8 Coyer, g ------------------- 0 0 0 Cultice, g ---------------- 1 1 3 Total ....................... 10 11 31 Spring Valley (33) - G F T Harvey, f ---------------- 2 0 4 Carter, f ----------------- 0 2 2 Stoneburner, e --------- 1 5 7 Williams, g -------------- 6 2 14 tloITer, g ___________ 2 2 6 T o t a l______________ 11 11 33 Score by quarters; Cedarville -------------- 8 11 6 6—31 Spring V a lle y _____ 8 4 8 13—33 Cedarville (76) G F T crashed in a dense swamp near Mac­ on, Ga., Thursday night. Greene Gountians, aboard the plane were Capt. William W. Whalen, 25 co-pilot, and Ralph Billings, 45, civ­ ilian, both of Osborn, and 1st I.t, Lavems W. Gonyer, 29, Yellow Springs, ground safety officer. Also killed were Lt. Col. G. E. Layman, 45, pilot, East Springfield, O., chief of flight operations o f the base service division; Lt. Col. R. A. Zaiser of Dayton, former military attache at Prague, Czechoslovakia, who was to replace Col. Yayman as chief of flight; Maj. C. H.* Grenier, 33, Columbus, assistant to the quart­ ermaster for plans, policy and act­ ivity and Tech. Sgt. Austin E. Case- bier, 2G, Dayton. Weary searchers reached the fire- blackened wreckage o f the plane Fri­ day morning. Removal o f the bodies all badly burned was held up until GI’s armed with machetes and other jungle-type equipment could widen the trail into morass and tangled undergrowth. The big ship crashed and hurst in­ to flames only a mile and a half from Warner Robbins Field at Macon. Commissioners Buy New Boad Grader County commissioners have award­ ed the Highway Equipment Co. of Cincinnati a contract to furnish the county highway department with a new Diesel-power road grader. The grader, equipped with a snow plow and replacing one in service many years, will cost the county §8,586,35 in addition to the $850 al­ lowance for the old one. The Cincin­ nati firm, lowest of three bidders, will make delivery -in May. Bull Benamed ONA i» Treasurer at Meeting Katlh Bull, former publisher of the Gedarville Herald, was renamed as treasurer o f the Ohio Newspaper association at the group’s annual con­ vention at Columbus last Thursday and Friday. Other officers named were J. A. Van Buren, Cleveland Plain Dealer, president; E. C. Dix, Wooster Daily Record, chairman o f the board o f directors; Roger II. Ferber, Cincin­ nati Enquirer, vice president. At the Osman G. Hooper weekly newspaper show, held in conjunction with the convention, the Qsborn-Fair- field Herald, competing in the class of newspapers published in towns of over 25QQ population, on third place in front page and other makeup, second in advertising, third in local art and second in geneval excellence. The Greene County Journal, ^competing in the class o f papers printed in small­ er towns took second prize in makeup and first in advertising. Mr. and Mrs. Karlh and Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Miller, Jr. attended the convention. McCorkell to^Sell Auto License Plates Names o f deputy registrar for 81 counties were announced by Edward T. Fago, registrar o f bureau of Motor Vehicles. The sale of auto plates will begin March 10. Motorists are warned by Registrar Fogo that there will be no extension this year. Licenses must be attach­ ed to vehicles on or before April 1. For the first time since 1941 Ohio motorists will use two plates. The deputy registrars follow: Cedarville—P. J. McCorkell; James­ town—Elmo B. Higham; Bowersville —Mary G. Wallace; Yellow Springs ;—Glen Deaton; Xsu£i—Auto Club (members only) and Roy V. Hull. JUNIORHIGHBOYS WIN FIRST ROUND GAMEOVERSILVER The junior high team o f Cedarville high school opened their touranment play Wednesday night at Ross gym by defeating Silvercreek by a score o f 35-20. With Vest splitting the nets fo r 21 points to lead the locals, they got back on the victory trail after drop­ ping their last regular season game to the Beaver juniors, the only loss they suffered all year, Cedarville trailed 4-5 at the end of the first quarter, hut then found their range to go out in front in the second period and were on the long end o f the 21-12 halftime count. The local juniors tightened their defense in the third period and allowed the Silvers only % points while they racked up 6 to make the count 27-14 at the three-quarter mark, and then ran out the string for the final count 35-20. Tonight (Friday) they face the winner of the Jeffei'son-Ross contest which was played at Beavercreek. Tonight's semi-finals, and the finals on next Monday night will he played at the Xenia fieldhouse in connect­ ion with the annual county tourna­ ment. Cedarville (35) G F T Parker, f —_____________ 2 0 4 Irvine, f ___________________ 1 0 2 Vest, c — --------- --------------10 1 21 Ileldorn, g ________ ________ 3 0 6 Tacket, g .1------------------- 0 0 0 Stewart, g -------------------------- 1 0 2 T o t a l----------------------------- 17 1 35 1947 Sales Tax Breaking* Becords Silvercreek (20) Fowler, f —---------—J_____ 1 Abels, f ________ _—__________1 Kencht, c __________ 1__.__ 2 Stafford^ g ----------------------- 1 Ferguson, g ---------------------- 2 Edwards, g ----------—______ 1 Total ,_______________ ,_____ 8 Score by quarters: Cedarv ille____________ 4 17 S ilvercreek__ ►— —, 6 7 & F POLICE OF XENIA MAKE3RAIDSON NUMBERS HOUSES In a pair of raids staged shortly before noon Friday, Xenia police took three alleged “ numbers” writ- res' into custody, charging them under a city ordinance with possessing unmbers slips and books, Raymond Goodin 48, Negro, Xenia, was arrested at 10:45 a. m. at his shoeshine parlor on W. Second St, near.- Detroit, The ..jferio of .officers went next to the home o f Everett and Faye Manor, 128 S. Mechanic St., Xenia, placing them under arrest The three accused writers were to be arraigned before Municipal Judge D. M. Aultman at 9 a, m. Saturday. Mrs. Manor, 47, is under a physicians care and was not tak­ en to police headquarters, but her husband, Everett, 51 and Goldin were booked. Maximum fine under the city anti- gambling ordinance is §50 and costs. Friday’s police activity followed similar raids on Yellow Springs “ numbers house” in December when four persons were arrested; a recent raid on a Cedarville “ house” resulting in nine arrests and one in Troy where eight more were apprehended. All those arrested paid fines of §75 to §150. The Greene county grand jury, meeting last month, urged an in­ tensive “ clean-up” campaign direct­ ed at the policy racket in this area and prosecutor Marcus Shoup after­ ward directed the Cedarville raid, con­ fiscating volumes of numbers slips, lectrically-operated adding ma­ chines, telephones and various other pieces of gambling paraphernalia. Virgil R. Hughes, 43, o f 125 E. Third St., Xenia, arrested by Xenia police and charged with possession af “ numbers” slips following a raid on his home Saturday afternoon, for­ feited §50 appearence bond in Mun­ icipal Judge D. M. Aultman’s court Monday. Three police officers, armed with a search warrant, went to Hughe’s home and found no one there. After trying for an hour to find the suspect they broke down the door and enter­ ed the house. Police “declared they found “ an armload of slips and books” linking him with the policy racket. Hughes appeared later and was arrested. Rufus Glass, 67, Called; by Death Rufus Glass, 67, died at his home, three miles north of Jamestown, Sat­ urday night after being in failing health the last five years. The son of Morgan and Nancy Bryan Glass, he was born near James­ town where he spent his entire life. He was a member o f the Church of Christ, Pleasant View, Ohio. He is survived by bis widow, Mrs. Hattie Tomlinson Glass; a son, Mar­ vin, -Irwin. O.; and four sisters, Mrs. Nora Leach, Winchester; Mrs. Doro­ thy Steiner, Jamestown, and Mrs. Lelia Bradds, Jamestown. Services were held, ^Wednesday at the Powers Funeral Home. *1 NIPS TIFFIN IN OVERTIME, 76-75 Rallying from a 40-25 halftime score, the Yellow Jackets of Cedar­ ville college came back in the second half to' tie Tiffin university '63-63 at the end of the regulation game Mon­ day night at Alford Memorial gym and then go on to win 76-75 in the 5 minute overtime, Jay Check was the hero o f the over­ time, when he sank a foul shot*with only 5 seconds left in the extra per­ iod with the score knotted at 75. The sharp shooting of Farmer and the ball hawking and shooting Barg­ er, especially in the second half, led to the locals'coming from behind as the clock ticked o ff the final seconds of the game and then put them out in front in the overtime. The win put Tiffin and Cedarville into a tie for the leadership in the Indiana-Ohio conference. The upstaters started o ff as though they aimed to make short work of the locals and kept out in front dur­ ing the majority of the first half by 15 or more points. But the Jackets found their range in the second half and kept hammering away at the leading Tiffins. ‘ For the Jackets it was the 11th win in 20 starts while for the visit­ ors it was only the 3rd time this season they had been on the short end Of the count. Other defeats came at the hands of mighty Bowling Green by 3 points and Wilberforce. All three were on'foreign courts. Farmer paced the Jackets with 19 maikers and Barger sent 17 through the nets. Oscar Tolson and Macko each tallied 15 fo r the losers. The locals met Wilberforce on the local hardwood Thursday night, the game being played after the Hearld’s press time. They travel to Bluffton Tuesday night and then meet George­ town in the final home game of the regular season on Wednesday. Coach Beattie has announced that their are plans now in the formative stage for holding a college basket­ ball tournament at Alford Memorial gym sometime in the early part of March. Trout, f ______________ _____3 0 6 Ball, f ... 0 2 Farmer, f ........ 1 19 Barger, f ____________ ------8 1 17 Mauk, e ............... _____3 1 7 Potts, a - .... .. . 0 4 Check, e . . A 1 9 3 9 V. McNulty, g _______ --------3 B. McNulty, g __ _____1 1 3 T o t a l_______________ 8 76 Tiffin (75) G* F T Trask, f ... . ------6 1 13 Clemons, f . _ 0 4 Lawrence, f ___ ____ --------6 1 13 Oscar Tolson, c _______ _____3 4 10 Claydy, c _________ _ w__ 2 1 5 Omer Tolson, g _____ 6 3 15 Macko, g _,__________ _____5 5 15 Total .......... ____30 15 75 MRS. ANNAACTON INAUTOACIDENT Mrs. Anna Bell Acton, 61, wife of Charles Aston, died Monday at 3 a. m. in Springfield City Hospital as the result of an auto accident Satur- daq evening. She suffered a cerebral hemorrhage when the car in which she was riding collided with another auto near Selma. The daughter of John and Almira Littler Klontz, she. was born in Glad­ stone, O. Oct. 10, 1885, but spent her entire life in Gedarville. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Fava Thornton, Cedarville; two sons, Charles J. Cedarville, and Huber E., Springfield; three brothers, Jesse Xlontz, Cedarville; George Klontz, Mechanicsburg, and Carl Klontz, Os­ born. Services were held Wednesday at 2 p. m. at the McMillan funeral home, Cedarville. Burial was in the north cemetery. FESS APPOINTED STUDY 01 BONOS Two sponsors of proposed constitu­ tional amendments to provide a bon­ us fo r Ohio veterans told the house military affairs committee Tuesday that tying the bonus to a real estate tax may be a method o f killing the measure. Rep. Benjamin F . Turner,R., Meigs who introduced a joint resolution in the house, said he doubted i f a bond issue backed by real estate “ would pass a referendum vote as most peo­ ple feel it would put too heavy a burd­ en upon the property taxes.” Rep. Guy C. Hiner, R., Stark, spon­ sor of a bonus amendment backed by the Veteran o f Foreign Wars, said he had been told that "tying the measure to real estate is one way of killing the bill.” The house committee held its first meeting of the session on the bonus Tuesday. Qhairman Henry W. Deal­ ing, R., Licking, made it clear to the committee that they were to “ take plenty o f time” in considering each proposal. “ We will put this problem in the hands o f a sub-committee,” Deming said, “ so that all parties and organ­ izations will have a chance to be heard.” The senate military affairs com­ mittee is working under the same “ go slow” methods. It appointed a five-man sub-committee headed by Sen. Albert L. Daniels, R., Highland, which after adjournment Feb. 12 is not meeting again until Feb. 26. Deming concluded the committee hearing by appointing Rep. William E. Fleckner, R., Ottawa, chairman of a five-man sub-committee. Other members o f the committee Rep. Lowell Fess, R.,Greene; are William Saxbe, R., Champaign; O. F. Sharp, R., Vinton; James M. Carney, D., Cuyahoga. 8—35 6—20 IN HOSPITAL C, E. Masters is a patient in the Springfield City Hospital where he is undergoing treatment. . World Day of Prayer Continuing to widen the margin be­ tween 1947 and record-breaking 1 9 -1 46, sales of prepaid tax receipts in To Be Observed Greene County during the week end­ ed Feb. 1 amounted to §7,159.12, com­ pared with §4,518.46 last year. The total o f 1947 sales has reached §27,- 241.71 to take a big lead over the §18,597.58 in collections fo r the cor­ responding period last year. WORLD’S DAY OF PRAYER TO BE .OBSERVED AT CLIFTON The Woi-ld’s Day of Prayer will he observed by the Clifton Commun­ ity on Friday o f this week. The pro­ gram has been arranged and spon­ sored by the missionary societies of the Presbyterian and United Presby­ terian churches of Clifton and will be a pot-lunch at eleven-thirty. Fol­ lowing the luncheon the World’s Day o f Prayer program will be given. The 'subject is “Make level in the dessert a highway for our God.” Quite a number of women will have part on the program. The address will be given by Rev. William Waide o f Cedarville who spent a number o f years as a missionary in India. All the women of the community are in vited to observe this World Day of Prayer, '! * Local Legion Post to Entertain 40 & 8 ^ Commander Edwin Bull announces that the Wallace Anderson Post No. 544 of the local American Legion will be host to the 40 & 8 Society o f Xenia at the Masonic Lodge Room on Friday, February 28, the meeting was origionally scheduled for Feb­ ruary 27. The Commander would appreciate the attendance of all the members as there are some important matters tojae iscussed in addition to a memb­ ership drive now going onJThe com mittee on arrangements also an .lounce that there will be refresh­ ments following the meeting. Any former member who has not been reinstated or any eligible men who have not visited may become members by seeing the Commander or any active member o f the legion and obtaining a membership card. Please do this at once in order to get on the new mailing list and obtain all the advantages of the legion, Accident Near Here Injures Pitchin Man Two accidents in the area resulted in one drivers arrest and slight in­ jury to one man. Sherriff’s Deputies Robert L. Wood and Fred M, Lewis said John Coons, Pitchin, R. R. 5, a passenger in a car driven by John R. Wilkinson, 62, South Charleston, R. R. 2 suffer­ ed a minor leg injury when the driver reportedly fell asleep and the car ran o ff Route 42 five miles east o f Xenia, at 8:50 a. m. Tuesday. The injured man was treated by Dr. Donald F. Kyle, Gedarville.- Police charged Loran R. Bennett, 42, of 338 Linden Ave., Dayton with reckless operation after they said.he violated a step intersection while driving east on E. Market St., Xenia, crashing into a car operated by Harry B. Buckley, 59, Shelby, O., southbound on N. Columbus St., Monday noon. Municipal Judge D. M. Aultmaii fined Bennett §35 and costs Tuesday morning. IN FLORIDA Mr. and Mrs. ff.-H . Brown are now in Florida, They expect to xet- tum to Cedarville after spinding a- bout two weeks. NEW OPERATOR Mrs. Allen is announcing the com­ ing o f a new operator, Mrs. Margaret Grube o f Springfield, Ohio. Mrs. Grube comes highly recommended haying worked a number o f years in Springfield, Ohio, St Louis,Mo. and Omaha, Neb. bringing with her th® latest in hair styling.