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United Press Wire Service Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Sunday Morning, December 16, 1951. By Carrier Per Week, 25c Single Copy 5c day Grimewalct Comesftmdr Sheriff Raid Discloses LargeQuantityQfWhiskey Fire FroMN Quarter Paper-Sale Aids Legion Charities Local Post Carries On Varied Program At Veterans -''Hospital; Gifts Are Provided Funds from today's paper sale, the-30th -conducted by Bob Brown Post No. 5, American Legion, will be used to assist in the many ac As Probe Is Continued Sheriff George Sharpe, said he, his deputy and three state Alcho-lie; Tax Unit agents Friday night made the largest haul of illicit whiskey found in the possesion of a Rutherford county person in several months when they raided a Silver Hill community store. Sheriff Sharpe said Clyde "Shy" Big Three Won't Continue Talks On Disarmament Paris (U.R) The Western big three advised the United Nations today that they will take part in no further "secret" big four talks on disarmament at present. The Western statement itplied to a Syrian "suggestion" that the United States, Britain, France and Russia undertake a new series jQLprivate.

arms talks this LJtime abandoning the UN-indorsed Ba-ruch plan as a blueprint for atomic control. Philip C. Jessup formally advised the UN political committee that any private conference based on abandonment of the Baruch plan would be "dishonest" the start. The U. S.

Delegate, speaking also for France and Britain, did Judge Murphy Confers With President Truman RFC Directors Eased Payments For Lumberman Washington (U.R RFC directors eased loan department terms for a friend of Rep. Frank W. Boy-kin only two weeks after the Alabama Congressman entertained thehi at a private luncheon at the capitol, it was revealed yesterday. Although the firm, Stutts Lumber Industries Thomasville, was more than $70,000 behind in its payments on a $455,758 RFC loan at the time, the RFC directors granted the firm a 12-months "moratorium," on pay-nients which Boyki'n fOther evidence turned up "in in-vtstigation of the Stutts Tease shows that the lumber leaded by P. Stutts, earlier offered to release 20,000 acres of Eoykin's timber land from a lumbering contract if it could get the 12-months loan Stutts and two officials of the Thomasville Bank and Trust-.

co. were arrested by the FBI thi3 week on federal bank law charges. The company allegedly had been financing its' operations by use of Sen. Wiley Tries To Link Dutchman To War Scandals Washington (U.R) Henry W. Gruenwald, the silent Dutchman whose name has been linked to a $500,000 "soft touch" tax shakedown, came under- fire in a new quarter today.

Sen. Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.) revealed he is asking Assistant Attorney General Harold I. Bayn-ton to supply "full particulars" on Gruenwald's employment as a special assistant to Alien. Property Custodian Leo F. Crowley during World War II.

Wiley also said he is asking the U. S. Civil Service commission to -check its records -toJet ermine whether Gruenewald, the-un-com-municati've man of many ever worked for other federal Washington (U.R) Federal Judge Thomas F. Murphy, tough prosecutor who cleaned up the New York police department, met secretly with President Truman yesterday on presidential plins to' put the government's scandal-ridden house in order. White House declined to say what the President and the New York judge talked about, but it was patently obvious that- Mr.

Truman sought Murphy's aid lh taking a key role in ridding the government of rascals and restoring public Jaith in the integrity of the mass of government em Like Father It's good to be close to your -parents, in most cases, that is. But going to jail with your father, that's another thing. It happened here in General Sessions court yesterday morning when Judge John Rucker sent a 45-year-old fatherandliis 19-year-old son to the work-. house after they failed to pay fines. The father was charged with public drunkenness and will have to serve 20 days.

His son was found guilty of driving without a license and must serve 14 days. Both will be in the clink Christmas morning if their fines are not paid before that Burial Rites For Mrs. McKnight This Afternoon Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock for Mrs. Susie Hawkins McKnight, registered nurse who died at her home here, 819 Crestland avenue, Friday night. Services will be held at East Main street.

Church of Christ. George DeHoff minister of the church, will officiate. Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery under the direction of Jennings and Ayers Funeral home. Mrs. McKnight was the wife of Ben McKnight She was a daughter' of Mrs.

Allie Ray Couch Hawkins of Nashville and the late Sam E. Hawkins, She had-been nurse here for 26 years, including 10 years at Rutherford hospital. She was a member of the Church of Christ. Surviving, In "addition' mother and husband, are a daughter, Miss Betty King McKnight of Murfreesboro; two sisters, Mrs, W. H.

Fathera and Mrs, AI D. Kerr, both of Nashville, and a brother, Ernest B. Hawkins of Louisville. Wade Urges Safety In Tree Lighting John S. Wade, electrical development supervisor for the Murfreesboro Electric department, has recommended a set of safety rules for lighting Christmas trees.

Wade says its easy to make these holiday lighting installations entirely safe. Here are the recommendations he made: When you take the 'looting set off the closet shelf, inspect it for insulation weaknesses. If the insulation -is damaged or if sockets are broken, discard the set and a new one. Screw some of the lamps into the sockets and see if any "live" metal of the sockets or lamps is left exposed, which could contact metal tinsel and cause a short-( Continued on page 4) agencies. Baynton is now in charge the Alien Property office still holds control of of foreign assets seized during the war.

Sen. Wiley has demanded a full-scale inquiry into-'manage-ment of the office and hasprom-ised a scandal out-ranking that turned up in the House investigation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Wiley said he has information that Grunewald was an alieji property employe from 12, 1942 to Feb. 27, 1943. He said Grunewald got $10,000 a putting him near the top in the Civil Service pay scale, Wiley said he wants the Alien Property office to tell him Grunevald did, what he was supposed to do, and who-hired him.

He also wants to know What'seiz-ed property cases Grunewald was (Continued on page 4) Winter's Worst By UNITED PRESS The Winter's worst cold wave sent temperatures plunging to record-breaking lows Saturday throughout most of the nation Past of the Rockies. The numbing cold and the heaviest snowstorm of the season combined to cause at least 68 deaths, directly and indirectly. The, cold air mass extended southward all the way to the Gulf of Mexico and Florida, where it threatened Winter vegetable crops. Throughout the Midwest, numerous fires were caused by overheated furnaces and stoves as residents sought to combat the cold. At St.

Louis, firemen battling one blaze had to chip the ice from their slickers with hammers when water from their hoses sprayed and froze. Forecasters said the cold air still was moving down from Canada, where the little community of Smith River in northern British Columbia reported 52 degrees below zero lowest reported on the North American Entries Coming' In For Home Lighting' Contest Entries began pouring in this week to the Chamber of Commerce's annual Christmas home decorating contest Henry Harrelli, chairman of the committee in charge of the event, said yesterday. Contestants already listed are Mrs. George Osborn, A. B.

Rut-ledge, Mrs. Aultman Sanders, Mrs. Horace Holden, Mrs. R. Kirk Webb, James- G.

Bell Mrs. James Roberts, Hamilton McClahan, Mrs. Thompson Halcomb, Mrs. Hugh Cladish. Mrs.

W. Westbrooks, Clyde Cromwell, W. D. Haynes, Walter1 Coleman, Gordon Lynch, Gracy III, Melvin Vaught, Mr. and Mrs.

L. Ransom, R. G. Follis and Mrs. Tom Teel.

Registrations must be made by December 20. There is no charge for entering the contest which will award $195 in cash prizes this year. The money was donated by 17 local business firms. Fh-st prize will be $75; second, $50; third, $25, and fourth, $15. The fifth and sixth place winners will receive $10 each.

The- judging will take place on December 24 and on Christmas Day. hot completely" rule put the pos-1 sibuity of renewed conversations o-Tisome-ther basisr-but -another American spokesman said later that the answer to this phase of the Informal Syrian proposal was a flat "no." Syria's Faris El Khoury had dangled the- "scuttle-Baruch" plan before the committee as a feeler, wishing, to find out whether it would be approved before he risk ed losing face by submitting it as a formal resolution. Russion delegate Arkady A. Sobolev refused comment on the suggestion, but Communist Pol-, (Continued on page 4) Tnrkev Shoot Planned For Officers, Firemen The City Police department has announced it will sponsor a turkey shoot Thursday, December 20, for the benefit of all peace officers of the city and county and the City Fire department. The shoot will be held at the Murfreesboro Supply company, Shelby villi road, the sitd of the recent Kxuhange club sh4ot.

The. shoot Will begin at 9 o'clock in the morning and continue as long as the participants want to shoot. Lighting has been arranged so that the contests may go on into the Arrangements for the shot are being, handled by Police Chief N. W. Powers, Sheriff George Sharpe and Fire Chief B.

B. Quails. They said proceeds from the shoot will go to buy equipment for the officers and firemen for which no appropriations are made. This includes modern filing systems and other up to the minute materials. Both turkeys and country hams will be oifered as prizes to bhe best shots.

Midland Wins 100 In Contest 1: The Midland community, winner of the Rutherford county community improvement contest, was awarded $100 in the Middle Tennessee division of the judging in Nashville. Winning community In the Midi-State area was Sango community in Montgomery county. The Farmers' club of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce sponsors the contest. i LAlsup, about 40, has been arrested and chai'jcd with the sale of, and with possessing whiskey. Alsup is GEORGE SHARP free on bond 'awaiting trial in General Sessions court Monday morning.

The exact amount of whiskey taken in the raid was not disclosed but was known to have been a large quanity of several gallons. A few minutes before the raid one of the Alcoholic Tax Unit agents succeeded in purchasing 12 one-half gallon jars of Moonshine whiskey Alsup, the sheriff stated. Following the purchase by the officer, the party of five men searched the premises the store and found both moonshine and the regular taxed whiskey. Sharpe said the moonshine was found in Half gallon "jars' and was "hfctdeh In a garage across the Ltbanon highway, from the store. More whiskey was found just outside the store building, he said.

Along on the raid were Deputy Houston Carlton and agents E. M. Hawkins, Tom Anderson and Bill Watkins. The iheriff said the. success of the raid was largely due to work of the three agents' who had been investigating the case for some time before actual raid was launched.

Baby Sitter Services Free To Blood Donors The American Red Cross office here is trying to make it as convenient as possible for blood donors who will give blood Tuesday. It was announced yesterday that baby sitter service will be available at the Bloodmobile which will be stationed as usual at the First Methodist church. 4 Mothers who wish to leave their kids at home may telephone the Red Cross office, 1505, and make an appointment for a sitter, i Appointments should be made by tomorrow night. Mr utar-imili. 'i mm iwn.

7 bank overdrafts, and used most of its HFC loan, made in July, 1919. to cover $300,000 in overdrafts. The Senate's Permanent committee is looking into the case. Eoykin has admitted helping Stutts get the loan but said the case is "clean as a hound's tooth." Wilson Company Adding To Plant Here An addition is under construc tion on the Wilson and Company plant here which will give the milk receiving and butter manufactur ing division an additional 3,000 feet of working space, officials of the- company said yesterday. Harvey Clark, district manager of the company, said the addition was expected to be completed in the early spring when the milk production reaches its highest point.

Construction has been delayed by the wet weather but is expected to proceed rapidly at the end of the rainy season, he concluded. Britain To Meet Payment On Loan London (U.R) Britain Will meet its $138,536,000 payment covering capital and interest on the 1945 loan from the United States and on lend-lease settlement.the treas The first installment payment is due Dec. 31. The treasury also announced it would pay both the principal and interest on its Canadian loan. This amounts to $23,700,000 interest $14,010,000 principal.

Dritain could have waived payment of the interest on the TJ. S. loan and lend-lease totalling but Winston Churchill's Conservative government decided to honor its obligations despite the critical economic situation. 2SlTO5. I'MSiffVi tivities of the Legion at the Vet- erans hospital as well as many other charitable projects.

Organized in 1918, the local Legion post has been especially active during the past 10 years B. B. KERR since the Veterans hospital wag opened here. It now has more than 700 members. More than 1,100 gifts have been provided by the state Legion and will be distributed by the local post to hospital patients at Christmas time.

Both theyLegion and the Auxiliary decorate 'two Christmas trees at the hospital. Monthly bingo parties are sponsored with more than 125 patients i attending. Each Week the Auxiliary furnishes refreshments aha volunteers for a class 'on one of the wards. Patients are paid for making poppies which are sold on Poppy Day." The funds received from this sale are in turn used to fi-CContinued on page 4) Fort Benning Beats Sewart Carriers 10 to 0 The Sewart Air Force Bae Carriers, Previously un-beaten by a service team, were nosed out 10--Q yesterday afternoon in the last three minutes of play by a Fort Ejenning team which took a couple of "breaks" and converted them 7 into a T'Geechie Bowl" victory, An estimated 2,000 hearty fans shivered in freezing temperatures through the game which looked as if it would end in a 0-0 tie. The.

break came when Tom Cole-? man-, standout tackle for the Fort (penning team, blocked Charles Sarratt'sl kick on the Sewart 15-yard line. There the powerful, undefeated Benning offense seized tie advantage Halfback Dougherty ran the ball to the goal line, on a handoff. Jack Faubion, the quarterback, knifed over on the next play and Ale Constance kicked to point giving the Georgia team a 7-0 lead. Ben Nue returned the ensuing kickoff to the2a where Sarratt pass was intercepted on the 10 by At that point Constance came back in and booted a field, goal making the final score 10-0. The game ended on another intercepted Carrier pass.

A trophy was awarded the Fort (Continued on page 4) '-jgjjL-tlmt ait tt persuade even the gods." Give the Greatest Christmas Gift; A Pint of Blood for a fighting Man! Bloodmobile Here Tuesday, Dec. 18 i I I I 1 7 Mrs. Clmmhley Dies At Home Of Son In Nashville Services were held, yesterday afternon for Mrs. Mary Anthem Summer Chumbley, 72, "Battleground drive, who died in Nashville Friday at the home of her son, Walter Chumbley. Services were held at the Wood-fin Memorial Chapel with the Rev! Orel Summer officiatirjy assisted by the Rev.

Fenton WarrehTBuriaL was in Republican Grove cemetery. Mjrs. Chumbley was born, and" reared at Auburntown, Tenn. Her parents were Zack and Oynia Bry-son Summer. She was married 42 years ago to E.

W. Chumbley, who died three weeks ago. She was a member of the Baptist church. Surviving besides Walter Chumbley are one other son, Herman Chumbley of Smithville, a brother, Jim Summer of near Murfreesboro, and three grandchildren. i -L-- ployes Murphy came to the White House at Mr.

Truman's invitation. All the White House wou'd say was: "Judge "Murphy was in see the President this morning and the President reported he had a pleasant and profitable conversation with him." The White House added that there would be no announcement before Monday regarding the President's plans for a campaign to clean up the government. Murphy refused to say whether he had accepted a corruption-cleaning jobHe disclosed that he held two meetings with Mr. Tru-man one at the White House, the other at Blair House. In between, he conferred with Charles Murphy, Mr.

Truman's legal adviser, and conceded that (Continued on 4) James M. Mason Dies, Rites Set This Afternoon Funeral services will be hMd at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon for James- Mathias Mason of Manchester who died Friday. Services will be held at Hoover's Gap Methodist church with the Rev. Vaughn Fults, nephew of Mr. Mason, of Lewisburg officiating.

Interment will be in Jacobs Mr.Mason was born in Hoover's Gap in 1878. He had been in failing health for a number of years but had been critically, ill for only fcbout three weeks. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Josephine Fults Mason; a brother, Ewin Mason of Hoover's Gap; four daughters," Miss Sadie Mason of Christiana, Mrs. Floyd Lowe of Christiana, Mrs.

E. P. McFarlin and Mrs. Ira Daniel, both of Murfreesboro; five sons, A. G.

Mason of Murfreesboro Cecil Mason of Hoover's Gap, Roy Mason of Beech Grove, J. L. Mason of Tul-lahoma and Robert Lee Mason of Columbus, Ohio, and 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. ---i-i- .1 i the fair, pictured above. Left to American Legion, American Legion Auxiliary Booths At Veterans' Hospital Patients air I ww wrrwia trxv cm tmti 1:1 3 I -M-nrn -iMWMwi.

rmmmamsmxsmaKmtmL nm Legion Auxiliary had a boot. at right are Mrs. Ernest C. Dietrich, D. Vance, and Mrs.

W. Turner. the patients can select gifts to I' The i i Pictured above is the booth which the Bob Brown Post No. 5 of the American Legion had at the Patients Fair which was nelson the athletic field of the Veterans Hospital in October. The Fair is sponsored by the VAVS committee at the hospital.

Left to right in the booth are Mrs. Carl Elack, Aultman Sanders, and Mrs. L. Turner. This is one of many Legion- activities staged at -the Mrs.

Carl Black, Mrs. Robert Gordon Jr, president of Vie auxiliary; Mrs. J. The Auxiliary sponsors a Gift Shop at the hospital at Christmas time Where send home, the auxiliary, paying, the postage as, well as-providing, the gift..