Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 44, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1946 — Page 2

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Veterans Eligible For Dental Exams Exam For Veterans Here Next Friday —"— I All veterans who have served at hast six months In service and have been discharge! within the past 12 months will be eligible to take the dental examination at the local lt*d Cross headquarters Friday. Mrs. Ruth Hollingsworth. ex- \ ecutive secretary of the Adams i county chapter, made the announcement today after receiving further information concerning the examination from Red Cross authorities. The examination will lie con- ' dinted at tin headquarters on Madison street from 9 a. m. until 1 p. m. No treatment will be given at that time, however, ac- ' cording to the Information receiv-I ed here. Dr. George A. Gwinn is the, dentist to be sent here to conduit the examination. Mrs. Ho! ' llngsworth stated Decstar is one of 69 cities in the state se-. Icctcd as sites for the examination under direction of the veterans administration. o— ■' ■ zntmati — uwoj. poo© w us epa-ij.

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Youth Confesses To Killing Farm Woman Welfare Ward Held In Shooting Death Monticello. Ind., July 30— <t’P* —A 13-year-old welfare ward was held today In connection with ’he shooting death of a farm woman with whom he argued over hoeing a garden. The frail youth, Robert Houchen, led authorities and neighbors through muddy fields to a Spot where they found the body of Mrs. Emma Jean Ixtuderback Houchen had made his home with the Louderbai-ks for three years. Sheriff Andy A. Roudehttsh said the woman had been shot in the • back. Houchen, the sheriff said, had signed a written confession that he fired the gun. Houchen said he argued at the breakfast table yesterday with Mrs. Louderback. He said she accused him of being lazy and | told him to hoe She garden. Houchen said he worked in the garden all morning. After he had eaten his lunch, he related to the sheriff, he picked up a .22 calibre rifle and fired at Mrs. Ixiuderba<k, standing In a pumphouse. She ran Into a wheat field. The boy said he fired two more timer The youth said he then rode his bicycle to a neighbor's house

and asked him to call the sheriff The husband. Everett Louderback. M, was working on another neighbors fern al the lima of the shooting. The farm couple took the boy from welfare auihoritioa In the county three years ago. The sheriff said the youth's mother was dead but that his father wss living.

Two Men Are Fined In Mayor’s Court Jail Sentence For One li Suspended Fines were meted nut to two men in city court by Mayor John H. Stulta late Monday afternoon, and one of these drew a suspended jail sentence. Richard Spencer. of Seventh street, was fined OS and coats and sentenced to serve 90 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and battery. Tlie jail sentence was suspend'd upon good behavior, however. The charge was preferred against him by his wife. Elaine, whj charged that he struck her Saturday evening. Iraneus Mattox, of West Monroe street, was fined 110 and costa when he pleaded guilty to A charge of permitting his 15-year old son to drive his car. He waa arrested by state police officer Richard Myers last week. The defendant told the court that be had permitted his son to drive the auto because he was of assistance In work at their garage. Prosecutor G. Remy Blerly represented the state at the arraignments. Neither defendant had employed counsel.

Battleship Nagato Latest Bomb Victim Former Jap Flagship At Bottom Os Lagoon In Bikini Lagoon, July 30 — (UP)—The battleship Nagato — flarthip of the former Japanese Imperial fleet—tank to the bottom of Bikini lagoon today to bring the Baker Day atomic bomb total to Are ships. totaling *1.120 tone. Thia total la more than three time* the tonnage of the Are ships sank by the July 1 Able Day air burst. With the battleships Pennsylvania and New York and the < reiser* Balt Lake City and Pensacola listing and settling — though not believed mortally hurt —the sinking of the Nagato enhanced the respect with which all aboard the flagship V. 8. Mt. McKinley look on the atomic bomb. Any other bomb ever Invented, which exploded as far from the Nagato as did the Raker Day weapon would have been called a miss and would not have done more than rattle the crockery aboard. The Nagato—once the flagship of the iafe Japanese Admiral Yamamoto who boasted he would dictate the peace In the White House—was well over 500 yards from the place where the Baker Day bomb hurst beneath Bikini lagoon. Even though the bomb's Initial pressure of trillions of pounds to the square inch had fallen off with the speed of light by the time it delivered hammer Mows against the Nagato. there still was enough left to rend the old battlewagon's 11-Inch armored hull. In addition to the capital ships Nagato, Arkansas and Saratoga, the list of Baker Dy targets sunk includes the concrete oil barge 100, and LRM (landing ship med ium) <0 from which the bomb was suspended. Missing and assumed sunk were the submarines Pilotfish, Apogon and Skipjack. One target previously reported anna—tank landtag craft 111*— is drifting bottomaide up. Beached on Bays'* “drxd men’s row" to prevent sinking are the destroyer Hughes, the transport Fallon and the submarine Dentuda. The night-time exit of the Nagato saves joint task force one the expenditure of as many torpedoes as It would have taken to sink her in the open sea. ▼lce Adm W. H P. Blandy only yesterday repeated to reporters aboard the press ship U.S.S, Appalachian before Lt sailed for home that he planned with the approval of the joint chiefs of staff to tow the Nagato out and finish her off with torpedoes The Nagato assumed a list shortly after the Baker Day blast but settled slowly enough that officials believed she might stay afloat. But the liat to starboard became steadily more acute. She was too hot radiologically to bo taken under taw. o ■■ -

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Four Firemen Killed Fighting Hotel Fire San Francisco Hotel It Ravaged By Fire San Frsneieco, July Iff— (UFI —Four firemen were killed and >0 Injured or overcome by smoke while battling a stubborn fire-a-larm fire that raged inore than tour hours In the downtown hotel Herbert Early today. Two hundred hotel guests fled to the street after being roused by frantic phone calls from Mrs. Msry E. Perry. 39. night clerk who turned In the first alarm. Damage was estimated at (ISO.000 by assistant fire chief Marttae J. Kearns, who described the blase as the "the worst in fire department history. In fatalities, since 1909.” Origin of the fire was undetermined. although fire department investigators seld it could have been caused 'ey someone in the seven-story brick hotel dropping a lighted cigsret out a rear window. Tbs first alarm waa tnrned In around 3 a. m. PRT four hours later firemen still were playing water on the smouldering building. Fifty-five persons were forced to flee down the fire escape or were carried down ladders by firemen when the flames, whipped by a burst of wind, flared up and blocked off the hotel main entrance.

Fund For Veterans Training Illegal No Fund Available By State Assembly Indianapolis. July 10- (UP) — A proposed 110,000 rotating fund to provide emergency financing for the Mate's G I. farm training pro gram wax ruled Illegal today hy attorney general James A. Emmert, because the state legislature had appropriated no money for such a purpose Dr Clement T. Malan. superintendent of public Instruction, who had sought the fund, said the farm training program would continue anyway. He said he planned to obtain needed funds from two other sources. Malan said the money was needed to pay the coat of administration of the farm program until federal funds were forthcoming. He anticipated a 80 to M-day delay In processing of expense* by the federal government. The farm program will be carried out through vocational departments of Hoosier high school* for veterans. Farm-veterans will attend special agrtcuHursi classes. Malan said he would seek a rotating fund from money alloted to the state department of veteran* affair*. He called this a “logical” move since the program benefited veterans. If this plan failed, he said, he would ask for emergency funds from the governor’s emergency contingent fund. ' O' —- —• ■fig feed BgiMsgO Approximately one-fourth of al food produced In th* country I* wasted. PSrt I* wasted by being left unharvested; more in storage and in wholesale markets through improper handling. Some is wasted in retail stores but the biggest waste is In the American heme

. Bl ’ ? ' * >4 p I i MUSHY 4* devotion is reached b? Jotted* Jateota, wife of th* (Matter, who dtttlfully aerob* Mr buries** otcli ta Ms Mgpol* tub at Ramon* F*rk. Grind Rapid*, Mich, wtar* M seeks to break M* r-day ro* ' ord ort atop a pel* at Corioetoa, 1 0, te Jtm« "Mod" MarsfeaU Jaoob*. from hi* 304-foet perri, *ay* He 11 te U 8 * tto Mr trttil Uta* day.

I Baptist S. S. Picnic At Berne Thursday The Baptist Sunday school picnic will lie held at U’hman park in Berne Thursday afternoon and evening. Persons not having trail* port at ion are asked to meet at the church at 3 p.m. Thursday. Each family la to provide food and table service, and refreshments will be furnished by the church. 0 Drunken Driving On Increase In Stale Arrests In Indiana Are Up 100 Percent Indianapolis, Jidy 30 (VP) The number of arrests due t> drunken driving has Increased more than 100 percent over last year, state police said today. "The Individual," said stipt. Aus tin R. Killian, “who deliberately endangers the Ilves of others hy drinking and driving constitutes the greatest menace to highway safety today.” Killian said that his force ap prehended 1.132 drunken drivers in the first half of 1940, as com pared with M 9 arrests In the same period of last year. To combat the increased ratof traffic violation, the division of pnhllc safety announced the suspension of 2 556 driving per mlts In the first half of 1940 Re vocations for the same period last year totaled 1,140, Killian said. The Hoosier chief of police said fining "was the easy way out" and urged jail sentences for offenders. Death Toll Mounts Ry United Press The state traffic death toll mounted again today after a weekend which saw only two fatal accidents. Five persona died In highway mishaps during the last 24 honra Two men were killed early today west of laPorte when their car crashed into a semi-trailer truck They were Roolet. Whitaker. 23. Rensselaer and Steve Reidy. 19. Medaryville. They hoth were navy veterans. The driver of the truck. Donald Insert. 23. of Milford, escaped Injury. A Corydon youth. William Gets. 17. died of Injuries in a New Albany hospital last night after his car ran off the road and crashed into a bridge abutment. At South Whitley, rites were planned today for Mrs. Jesse Byers, 56, who was instantly killed in an automobile collision near North Manchester yesterday. Services ’were arranged today for Edward Rogers, 56. a Nobles ville crane operator, who was Injured fatally yesterday when be stepped into the path of an auto mobile. o

177 NOW (Contlu*s«d From Page O*o) Wade, ballas. Tex.; Dallas Tyson. Lone Jack. Mo ; Norbert Updike. Greensburg; Melvin Wehrheim. Webster City, la.; Walter Davis, Billings. Mont.; George Bruno. Mingo Jet.. O.; Wm. E. Hutseii. Davenport. Wash.; Homer C. Miller. Durango. Col.; Howard Saturley, Short Falls, New Hamp.; Frederick Stevens. Indianapolis; J. B Haggerty, W Huntingdon. Ont. Canada; Garland Sheets, Roanoke. Va.; William Neverett. Chaxy. N. Y.; William Pachmager. South Bend; Clarence Evans. Sheridan. Penn.; Eugene Coy, Goshen; John Jerschefske, Belgium Wise.; Ralph Turner, Newark. Ohio: Robert Amos, Scio. Ohio; Samuel Seibert. Elisabethtown. Penn.; John J. Miller, Elisabethtown. Penn.; Ray Mallernee, Unloport. O.; Frasier Jager. Walton. N. Y.; Walter Moreland, Peoria. 111.; 8. C. Swearingin. Marion. Ohio; A. B. Cecil, Hasel Green. Ky.; Jack Samuels. Orange. Va.; Koisle Tudor, Princeton. Ky.; Herbert Morse. Jr.. Princeton. Ky.; Arthur West, Slippery Rock, Penn.; C. P Mayland, Modesta. Calif.; , Lnwrenee Haglund. Modesta, Calif.; John Sims, Odon; Pate Mathis, Ripley, Miss.; Geo. Sake), Bucyrus, Ohio; Joe E. Devi*. Marlon. Ohio; Fred Hixton. Hustonville. Ky.; C. R. Maloney. Lexington, Ky.; Ira Nelson. Trappe, Md.; LuaKe Phelps. Tipton. la.; George Stephens. Durham. N. C.; Eugene Harper. Oskaloosa, Ida.; Lloyd Ol*on, Merna. Nebr.; R. L. Williford, Henryetta, Okla.; Seott Wilson. Toecane. N. C.; Harold Strait, Bryan. O.; Albert Six. Red Bank, N. J.; Wm. Slayer, E Peoria, III.; Wilbur Jacobs, Portland; Leslie D. Chamberlin. Pilot Grove. Md.; Geo. Water*. Waukon. la.; V. A. Ruen. Waukon, la.: Percy Chapman. Sardis. B. C., Canada; Quentin Norman. Blacksburg. Va.; Ben Craycroft. Mt. Enterprise. Tex.; Garfield Ogilvie, Tee*. Alberti. Canada; Clifford Stump. Fort Wayne: Dee D. Adams. Cincinnati. Ohio; Dwight Grubb*. Tylertown. Ml**-; Wa. Jamison. Tylertown. Miss : Clarence Suith. Jr.. Ptnconning. Mich.; J**s* Thorn-

pSpr Jw 'Sr a*# f - fICHWI HwH ML- > JI ■ F .. IMWI jfl 'WirTi TWO OF THE FOUk VICTIMS of the lynching at Walton county, Georgia, are ehown being ImrMiJ! i Monroe. Strangely missing from the services were close relatives. Friends said they belief» family members were “too frightened” to attend. The two buried in this ceremony were Georp sev and his sister. Dorothy Dorsey Malcolm.

burg. Lynchburg. Ohio; Arthur Grand), New Haven; Geo. Hanis, Decatur; Odls Newton. El Camp. Tex.; Herbert Green. Portland; Wm. Yoder, Millersburg. Ohio; Bruce Johnson, Liomis, Nebr.; Lloyd Nelelgh. Loomis. Nebr.; Marlin .Maddux. Greensburg; Leland Osborn. Huntington; Milan Graner, Brighton. 111.; Glenn Arnold. Waynesburg, Pa.; Robert Jones, Bloomington: Norwin Jones. Muncie; Noland Uoppedge. Polson, Mont.; Howard Vargaron. Independepce, Iowa; Leo Hutchins, Franklinville. N. Y.; Edward Stubert, Viking. Alberta. Canada; C. W. Whitmore, Burbank. <>: Harold Bollenbacker. Greenville. Penn.; Delbert Winchester, Waukomis, Okla ; William Harvey, Sargent, Nebr.! Ross W. Smith, Fremont. Ohio; Robert Ridgeway. Robinson. III.; Ray Danklefsen. Niles City. Mont.; M S. Danklefsen. Jordon. Mont.; Raymond Sigmen. Gambier. Ohio; Leon Forbes. Northville. Mich.; Nat Caldwell, Columbia. Tenn.; Neil McTaggart, Bad Axe, Mich.; Clint Thompson, Modesto, Calif.; C. R. Ihtwall, Brucetown. Va.; Grover Joseph. Jr., Harrisonburg, Va.; Ellis Mayo, Clayton: Gus Bender. Billings. Mont.; Fletcher Terry, Terry, Miss ; Dale Ixwmati, Akron: Mark Crotisore, Rensselaer. Mo.; Eart Gault. Kewanna: W. O. Watte. Twin Falls, Idaho; Dale McLain. Elk City, Okla.; Donald Asching er. West Side. Iowa; Robert Thomas. Billings, Mont.; Ray niond Thomas. Billings. Mont ; Delbert Kane. Broadus. Mont.; William Austin. Edgerton. Kan ; Randall Smith. Greensburg; C. O. Dooley, Ottumwa. lowa.

CANDIDATES tCaßflsne* From Psge Owe) ...... —______ . _ —— the exception of a candidate for ' prosecuting attorney. Myles F.! Parrish, a former FBI investlgat or and ex-naval officer. Is the Democratic candidate for the office. The Republicans have candidates for trustee in 10 of the 12 townships, but none in Washington and French townships. John Stonchiirner Is the eandl date for trustee in Washington township, which includes the city of Decatur and Ell Graber is the French township trustee candidate on the Democratic ticket. The Democrats do not have trustee candidates In Preble and Union townships. Mr. Essex stated that in view of the scarcity of available rooms, that headquarters for the cam paign would prnhahly bo maintained In hl* office at the rear of • the license bureau building. POLIOMYELITIS 4Cww«lew»* Pram Psge <)■•> bnana, churches and playgrounds In Florida 3«k persons have eon tracted polio since Jan. 1 com pared with only 83 for the same period last year. Aairplanea have Sprayed DDT over most of Dad« county. Miami where the outbreak was the worst. Dade county health officer T. E Cato said that the worst was over and Insisted that the disease "never did reach epidemic proper tlons," although the neighboring state of Georgia had tarred visitors from Florida. “Something 1* keeping polio otit of Georgia." state health officer T. F. Abercrombie said. In reponse to doctors claim* that the quarantine would do no good “We'll keep the quarantine on indefinitely." Georgia ha* bed only 53 cates to tar this year.

Colorado, with 216 cases and 14 j deaths during 1946, has formed an emergency committee to help com bat the disease. The first cases were reported in Denver, but health officers said polio now is | spreading to many small towns throughout the state. Colorado had only 11 cases and no deaths last year. Although Texas has had 451 cases. Dr. George Cox. state health director, said he did not anticipate a peak year. There were 413 cases during the same period last year tind about 1.000 for all of 1945. Cox said the pattern of the disease this year was about the same ns last. There were 140 polio ca*e« In Illinois from Jan. 1 to July 21, 1946, compared with 37 case* for the same period last year. But f Dr. Jerome Sievers of the public health department said there as yet was no great cause for alarm Chicago and snrroudlng Cook county have had 92 cases and four' deaths so far this year. State

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I health official* , I ' camp at Carlyle, in., ' campers developed point ; Most towns in Westen I* > and Kanmi* <!«,.. r| th<-n <«| i prsds Sixty case* ver» m ’ in 12 day* in Kanu> Mi<w* j had tlo cases so far. jog* ' Week There have Is-ea h jin Kansas City Mo. S| Lonte. Louisiana ha* had 111 i Arkansas 89 and Alatau! Although the heavy fo* has been concentrated la at and the midwest. ('aHenfi had 303 cases. < <>inp»M r* in 1945. Th. state paMk service said the increaw ff necessarily mean a polio since 1945 was r<«r4«d "very mild ' polio year 1 The Pennsylvanli beaitlff ment said it was "above average in< iden,e«(| this year. Indiana ha- hifXt ! so far. but healt t <>ffi<tabm I number was “very little I than normal."