Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 11 August 1947 — Page 1

,V. No. 188.

IECESS HUGHES PROBE UNTIL NOVEMBER

Proposed County Rate, 65c

■jested Levy ■County Is Doin 3 Cents »8 Budget Sets ■posed Rate At Rents On SIOO county s p opoeed tax in 194 s I* 65 cents on of taxable’. estimated to toward a budget 9 :35.5M2 tin. Thurman I auditor, who compil announced today “fil levy is three cents estimate Hied last year, cents above the 57 cent 3Kb wa.< fixed by the stale tax commissioners. li|B<'"unty Welfare Depart h listed at II cents. ftjj.«Bget totals 11X1,595 The gjggiKl produce approximately '3HVb.i»oi| oil the county's valu rtJStf >31.2X6.907. JHp'ai the department r<a f 5 cent rate and the -unc ll lopped off one c ent. OK),, levy at I I celite The de rsitK' had a 916.000 working in jgHhuiiwav department's bud .0-1 ■miniated at 9110.925. which (£■ is abHorlied by the ga.-o iuS s " leV > ' 8 'aatie on local ~,r (hiH department, listed in the budget ale the estimates l,v ’he county officiate. i^^Bi>l"l.'t ; on of county govern ' county home and salar | !■ •of'f'ltary'x budget of 922,townships for the support the institution and set with the levies against from the sale of farm K- ( expense of next year’s gen-1 tion in the coukty is eati- i filial at 911.133 Incident* to the' MgHmion expense and allowanc the members of the laiard I u ° Kfeef/i Nash To fee Okay; Heart Operation Success | Nash’s condition fol ' ■ an operation for cloning : <<!■ artery at the top of his |IMM will be perfectly normal, i Nash, the father stated [MB on his arrival home from Minn. surgeon mated that Ken ||nß wax coming along nicely, known exactly when the gjjwill lie aide to return home. pßh"'her toinained in Koches underwent surgery for ailment about ten days MH It wax performed by one famed surgeon* at the Clinic. The Incialon re-

■ualce Scares Decaturites; That ■ The Ones Who Knew About II

house shook I was frlghtH|l The first thing I did was lly l the bedroom to Me If our I PF a * okay It was all over just dSI wan a funny feeling Things Wtartcd to shake It waa scary " * ure 1 w * u Bu * l 1 |pM**ything to anybody for a 1 tiw,, Kht It must have been jWmagination" are typical comments by , who experienced that W earthquake Saturday night - .J didn't d o any damage here %W r M he ascertained, but w *re those who thought for gW u '- that “the heat really had j®®"' Lhe biggest thing that here to date, occurred <>n< * resident reported a small Uy* l * ln « falling from the top • t »ve. ano,her reported the home Jw**‘ rat “r shaking. There were who thought it waa "just that ||B hlesel going through on the

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Youth Struck By Auto Recovering Robert Heare Suffers Leg Injury, Shock * ' Robert Allen Heare, 11, son of i Mr. and Mr*. Ivan Heare. of I ' route two, Decatur, I* recovering : from injuries sustained Saturday night when he wan struck by an auio In downtown Decatur. The lad wan knocked unconscious and suffered painful right leg Injurle* when lie wax hit by a car driven by Harry Spencer, 14, 616 Kekionga street. The accident happened in the 2mt block on North Second street alaiut 9:30 p. m. Saturday. The lad was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital and then removed to hl* home Sunday. Officer* Robert Hill and Adrian Coffee, who Investigated, t lid that luith the lad and the driver said that they did not see each other until it wa* too late to avoid the accident. Police chief Ed Miller reported two other accidents In the city over the weekend. Car* driven by Robert Tumble*on. 17. route three. Decatur and Jame* Teeple. 18. 104 South Eighth street, collided near Madi son and Third streets about 12:05 a. m. Sunday. Officer* Chilcote and Hill said that the Tumbleson auto made a right turn north on Third street off of Madison *nd struck the other vehicle. Damage was estimated at 940. Cars driven by Claude Harvey. 20. Monroe and Loren Beer. 19, Berne, collided at Monroe and Second streets about 10:50 p. m. j Saturday as the latter attempted i jto make a left turn. Officer Ad- i , rian Coffee Investigated. o Henry Haugk Dies At Local Hospital Death Claims Decatur Man This Morning Henry Haugk. 78. of thl* city, died thl* morning at 5:30 o’clock at the Adams County Memorial ' Hospital, following an illness of ' several days. The deceased wa* born In Adams county on June 9. 1869. the son of the late August and Dori* Haugk. Hl* wife, the former Rosina Goldner, preceded him in death several years ago. Survivor* include two *l*ters. Mrs. Martha Wefel of Fort Wayne and Mrs. William Gerke of Waynedale; a brother William Haugk. also of Fort Wayne. Two brothers, a sister and a halfsister are deceased. The body has been removed to the Zwlck funeral home in this I city pending the completion of funeral arrangements.

Some hurriedly checked the hot ' water heater In the baMment. It could have been an explosion, you know. A few more telephone calls were placed about that time, but It was mostly neighbors checking to see If one another had efcterlenced anything unusual. There really was no one here. In particular, to call ' for Information. Times of the ■shake" vary among local residents, but It Is believed that 10:45 Saturday night Is about as accurste a report as any. Some say It lasted mere seconds — others nearly a minute. The quake itself was felt through- 1 out the midwest. A Loyola university professor of physics said It was caused by the shifting of the 1 earth's crust below the surface. The quake wm mild as quakes go. be I said, but It was the biggest one experienced In thia sector. Decaturites recall two quakes i about IMS. These were of about 1 the same Intensity as the one Sat < urday night- 1

Picnic Pilot 'Buzzes' Pals; 3 Die; 2 Hurt — Baby Escapes Death Although Airplane Crushes Her Buggy Inglewood, jCak. Augl 11 -I (UP) —A grief-stricken husband told police today how one member of a picnic parly left the* group yesterday to buzz over them in an airplane. A few minutes afterwards the FT-19 trainer crashed into the midst of the party and killed three person*, including the pilot; Mrs. Eula Walters. 29, Ix>* Angeles, and Myrna Lynn Coffey, A 4 Two person* were Injured seriously. One of them was Porter’s wife, Brownie Bell, 20. who was riding with her husband. The other was Mrs. Wanda Coffey. 29, Los Angele*. "I saw the plane coming down low and I knew It wa* going to <rash,*’ Kenneth Walters told police. “I saw my wife and baby in Its path and I knew they couldn't get out of Its way. “I started to run to them just as the plane hit. It crashed near them and bounced across the walk and hit Eula and Mrs. Coffey. When I got to them I thought my baby was dead. Then (Turn To Page 2. Column 5) 0 Death Claims Mrs. ■ Alvah M. Wolfe Funeral Wednesday At Union U. B. Church Mrs. Alvah Marbaugh-Wolfe, 58. died this morning at her home hi Blue Creek township aft’er an extended illness. She had been bedfa*t the pa*t 19 days. Death was attributed to complications. The decea*ed wa* born in Mercer County. Ohio, on February 10, 1889 the son of Henry avd Margaret Myers-Marbaugh. She was married to Allen Wolfe on March 22, 1911. Surviving are the husband; a son. Thurman, of near Decatur: two grandchildren; three brothers. Francis. Fort Wayne; Floyd. Lima. O. and Fred. Blue Creek i township; two sisters. Mrs. Anna Rosswurm. Fort Wayne and Mrs. Naomi Baker. Decatur. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 p. m. at the Union U. B. Church near Salem, of which she was a member and burial will be in the Mt. Hope cemetery near Berne. The body will be returned from the Yager funeral home to the residence this evening and may be viewed there after 8 ' o’cloc k. o Josephine Ivetich Is WLS Radio Speaker I Aviatrix Returns From Illinois Air Meeting ) Axiatrix Josephine Ivetich has returned from the Second Annual Flying Farmers Field Day meet at the University of Illinois airport near Champaign. Miss Ivetich was one of the speakers at the Saturday program broadcast over radio station WLS. She was the first to arrive at the convention site, flying there from this city. • Heralded as the city’s first lady aviator a number of years ago. Miss Ivetich has been building up her log of air hours. She recently flew Sr. M. Patricia. of the Decatur Catholic schools, to South Bend for a summer course in music at St. Mary's college and returned her here at the completion of the course. *

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August, 11, 1947

Hero’s Welcome £ t t \ I B “ twSMfel 1 3 >. -Tl ■Ttv**?wdi Bui ■ I&. *

CAPT. WILLIAM ODOM receives a hug and a kiss from his wife. Dorothy, after he landed the "Reynolds Bombshell" at the Municipal Airport In Chicago to establish a new around-the-world solo record. Odom's six year-old daughter, Rochelle, stands by awaiting her turn to welcome her hero father.

Odom Gets Hero Welcome-Wants Plenty Os Sleep (*hicago, Auk. 11 — (UP)—Chicago prepared a hero's welcome today for round-the-world flier Bill Odom while hia backer* riade their plan* for hi* next globe-circling flight — over both pole*. Odom raced into municipal air port yesterday 73 hour*, live minutes, and 11 seconds after he had taken off from Chicago In an attempt to beat the solo round-the-world flying record set by Wiley Post In 1933. in hi* three-day flight, he not only bettered Post’* record by 113 hours. 44 minute*, and 19 second*, but he also broke the record for a crew manned plane Ly five hour*. 11 minute* ami 19 seconds. Odom and other* set that record last April tn the Reynolds Bombshell. the same plane which carried him alone around the world. It was the first flight around the world from Chicago, and the city promised to give the 27-year-old pilot a noisy ovation. .Mayor .Martin Kennelly planned a reception. and, later, a parade through the loop. The time of the celebration depended upon when Odom awoke from his first real sleep since he took off on the record-breaking flight last Thursday. While he was still sleeping, his boss, millionaire penmaker Milton Reynolds, already wa* making plans for Odom's next global flight—a daring dash over the North and South Poles. Reynolds and his associate Franklin lacmli disclosed that they had Imught a new plane for Odom's Polar flight scheduled tentatively for October. The plane is a B-32. bigger than the Bombshell. Ten people will accompany Odom on the flight including meteorologists, geodetic survey experts, scientists, and representatives of the press and radio. said. Lamb said the plane cost ReyFold* "up in *ix figures." The plan is to have Odom tune up for the next global flight by making three or four trips over the North pole. The route of the Polar dash probably wi'l he to Greenland, across the North pole to Tokyo, to New Zealand, across the South pole, and over Argentina and other South Amer(Turn To Psge >, Column »>

Chris Inniger Entries Win At Van Wert, Ohio Chris Inniger. of Monroe, won first prize and the reserve grand champion award at the Van Wert. Ohio. Berkxhlre hog sale last Friday. , The winning boar is a full broth er to the Inniger l-oar that won the grand champion prize last August. Mr. Inniger said that the grand champion barrow at the Decatur ' 4-H show, owned by Vera Inniger. was from the same breeding. Mr. Inniger is recognized as one of the leading Berkshire breeders in this part of the xtite. o Hospilal Budget Will Show $36,000 Deficit Operating "In Red" At $2,000 A Month The 1948 budget of the Adams county memorial hospital totals 9141.489.00, inlicating a deficit of 136.000 for the year Income is estimated at 1105.000. The hospital is now operating in the red at the rate of 12.000 a month. Up to July 1. the 1947 deficit over Income wax 112.010 Expenditures for the six month.' amounted to 174.812 and revenue totaled 162.8A2. Included in next year's budget are several items of capital outlay. for equipment and building repair. The trustees estimate that a new roof on the building will cost J 2.500. An X-Ray machine is listed at 13.000 and other equip ment. including 1250 for a water cooler in the lobby fountain of the hospital. Institutional and medical sup piles are listed at 416.000. The largest requests are for fc-od and personal services at the institution. The food bill Is estimated at 925.642. which Includes dairy products, meat and poultry, bread and other items. The trustees list nurses' salaries at 952.467; cooks. 94,530; diet maids. >5.577 and help in the laundry. 95.639. If the difference between estimated expenditures and Ineome Is appropriated by the county council. Thurman I. Drew, county auditor, estimated that a levy of 12 cents on the 9100 will b« required to raise the n«oesenry amount. —o - ■ ■■ 1111 — '" WEATHER Fair and warmer today through tomorrow. High today 96 to 100. Low tanlght in middle 70’s.

Investigators Call Halt To Find Missing MoneySower, Partyman Meyer

Officials List 4-H Beef Prices Name Purchasers At Festival Sale — Officials of the 4-H Beef Calf Club Show held here last week a* a part of the Youth Festival have announced complete Information concerning the sale of the exhibited I animals. Following is the name of each exhibitor. purcna*er, weight of the animal, price per pound and total price. In order: Billy Sipe. McMillen Feed Mills. 870. .68. 591.60; Sally Ahr. First State Bank. 990, 50. 495.00; lx»roy Werling. First Bank of Berne. 970, 34. 329.80; Billy Sipe. Walter Plumbing A Heating. 1130, .34. 384.20; Sally Ahr. Berne Ice Cream Co.. 970. .30. 291.00; John Kintz. McMillen Feed Mills. 790. .34'i, 272 55; Billy Sipe. R. J. Holthouse A John Halterman. 880, .32. 281.60; ' Jim Ahr. Dick Mansfield. 875. .30. 262.50; Patsy Rumple. Decatur Daily Democrat. 960, .32. 307.20; Vera Inniger, Main St. Filling Station. 880. .34. 299 20; Jim Ahr. Dun lap Market. 775. .31H. 244.13. Marvin Fast. Cal Yost. 950, .33, 313.80; William Kintz. Moose Lodge. 1120. .34. 380.80; Allen Grote. American !<egion. 860, .33%. ' 288.10; Marcus Foreman. Smith 1 Drug Co.. 1035, .32. 331.20; Uroy ' Werling. C. C. Pumphrey. 1120. .32%, 375.20; William Kintz. Mack • lin A Co.. S6O. 34. 292.40: Alvin , Krueckeberg. R. Cole's Market, 800. .33. 264.00; Anna R Innlger, Graber , Produce, 1010. .34. 343 40; Marcus . Foreman. Burk Elevator Co w 930. .34. 316.20; Jim Ahr. Iceland Smith Ins.. 790, .30, 237.00; Marvin Sprun ger. Cal Peterson. 1050. .30, 315 00; Glen Manley, I.inn Clothing. 960. .33. 316.80; Susan Rumple. Zlner A Culllgan Water Softener 900. .33. 297.00. Darrell Lehman. Arnold A Klenk. 810. .32. 259 20; John Braun. D A. High. Ohio City. 1025. .33, 338 25; J Wilmer Grote. D. A. High, Ohio City, 900. .31%, 283 50; Kenneth Schwaller, Sugar Dale Prov. Co-C., 825, .34. 280.50; Bob Sprunger. Farmers Commission Co., 990, .30, 297.00; Bob Sprunger, Sugar Dab Prov. Co-C.. 915, .31%. 288.23; Mar cus Foreman. Sugar Dale Prov. Co-C., 860. .33%, 288.10; Bob l,ane. Ocsar Johnny Hllderback. D. A. High, Ohio City. 1150, .33%, 385 25; Roy Turn To Puse 2. Column () —O One Arrest, Auto Recovery Reported Sheriff Nabs Decatur Man Sunday At 3 A. M. Sheriff Herman Bowman reported one arrest and the recovery of a stolen car this morning as a result of weekend activities of his department. Theodore Eyanson. of 121 South Fifteenth street, wa* arrested by the sheriff on charges of failing to stop for a preferential highway. The arrest was made one mile north of Monroe about 3 am. Sunday. Eyanson will be arraigned before justice of peace Ernest Stengel this evening to answer to the charge. An auto, owned by Amo* Neuen■chwander and stolen from a parked position in Berne last Wedne* day night, has been recovered at Defiance, Ohio, he reported. A Decatur lady, lodged In jail last week for neglecting her children. was still In custody today awaiting appearance before Judge J. Fred Fruchte on a contempt charge. Her 17-year old daughter wa* taken, to a Fort Wayne detention home by the sheriff on orders of the court. Two smaller children were previously placed in a children’s home there.

Arrest Woman In Death Os Kaiser Wilhelm's Widow , Friend Os Prince Ferdinand Avows Her Innocence Berlin. Aug. ll—(l’Pt— Ajn<-ri , can investigators Itooked shapely Vera Herbst today for ‘‘suspicion <f murder and theft” in connection with the death of Princess Hermine. widow of the Kaiser Wilhelm 11. and the theft of J 2.000.000 worth of her jewel*. The black-haired Mi** Herbst wa* described as an intimate friend of Prince Ferdinand. Her mine’* *on, Ferdinand bal been caring for Hermine’* 15.000.00- jewel collecti »n. but reported that 29 pieces worth 52.000.000 had disappeared The criminal Investigation division of the I'. H. army formally )><M>ked Mis* Herbst at CID headquarters after carefully questioning the MUSpect. When arrested and loMiked Mis* Herbst loudly protested her InixM-ence. insisting that *he wa* a close friend of Hermine. who died Thursday at her home In Frankfurt. In the RoviettM-cupied zone of Germany. | O. R. Carlucci. CID chief, di* closed he has sent an agent to Russian headquarters to request | an autopsy on Hermine’* body Polson was suspected The CID wa* working on the been dropped Into Hermine'* tea possibility that drugs might have Turn T<> Page Column it o Boy Scouts Get Reward For Work; 16 On Big Outing Headed by Scouter* Steve -Everhart, Phil Sauer*. Bill Froeby. lx>well Smith and Dick Llchtenstelger. 16 Decatur Boy Scoutr. who won sufficient merit awards during the last year, left In two trucks Sunday morning at 6 o'cloc k for their annual outing in upper Michigan The destination this year I* Manistique laike in t.he upper penInsula and the mall address is c/o Decatur Boy Scout*. Curtis. Michigan. In addition to the Scouters who niade the trip with the Scouts, George Rentz and Phil Sauer* acted a* truck driver* to carry the equipment and group to the camp Mr. Sauers also lx a Scouter and Mr. Rentz will remain all week to assist in the camp activities. W. F. Beery and Alva Lawson who have (Turn To Pag* 5. Ccclumn 4) —

"Crack Down" On Minor Vets Buying Beer Here Is Underway

In an apparent “crackdown" on World War II ex-servicemen buying intoxicating beverages after they doff uniform*, and before they become 21 years of age. Mate excise officers made their second arrest Saturday in less than a week. Sherman Gould. 19. Monroe, is the latest to Im* charged with a violation of the Mate liquor law*. Paul Penrod, of the slate excise department, charged him in an affidavit with entering a local t'tvern while still under the age of 21. He was taken before Mayor John B. Stult* in city court this morning and after pleading guilty. was fined 91 and costs total ling 911. Gould was arrested Sunday hy Police Chief Ed Miller, after Penrod preferred charges against him In the affidavit Issued by prosecutor Myles F. Parrish

Price Four Cents

I I " i— » » 2 Hughes Labels Delay As Vindication Os Himself In Warplane Contract Probe Washington. Aug. 11.—(UP)— The senate Investigation of Howard Hughes' warplane contracts was recessed for three month* today In an atmosphere of political bickering because, investigator* said, they could hot find '‘miswlng" Johnny Meyer. Hughes’ money sowing party thrower. Chairman Homer Ferguson. R. Mich . of a senate war Investlgat Ing subcommittee which ha* been conducting the Investigation, announced the inquiry would be resinned Nov. 17. , Hughes quickly labeled the postponement a "vindication’' of himself. A few minute* later Ferguson signed a subpena for Meyer’s appearance on Nov. 17. He said Hughes, however, would be the first witness when the hearing* resumed—"at 10 a m.” He told the plane builder. Ferguson declined all comment on the case because, he said. "I never comment on a matter pending In committee and on which a report will be iswued ' In setting Nov 17 as the resumption date. Verguson said that was the earliest the members would bi able to get together again ID said some of them were maklnr trips abroad in connection with other congressional Investigations. Hughe* said he would leave for the west Jroost thl* a/temoonr .aboard hl* private plane, a con verted bomber. The hearings were supposed to be an inquiry Into Hughe* contracts to build a mammoth eight engined flying boat and three photo reconnaissance plane* But a couple of side shows quickly moved into the main tent, and the subcommittee spent most of the time talking about Meyer's parties for such person* a* Elliott Roosevelt and secretary of interior J. A. Krug and a personal feud between Hughes and Sen. Owen Brewster. R.. Me. Hughes charged. In press releases and under oath before the senators, that Brewster once offer ed to call off the Investigation If Hughe* would merge hl* Trans World Airline with Juan Trlppe’s Pan American Airways. Brewster, chairman of the full committee which eventually will have to decide what kind of report to make on the inquiry, took the witness stand himself to deny Hughe*' charges. Ferguson called the BrewsterHughe* name calling a “side issue" and .tried to get the subcommittee back on the main track late last week But the side issue refused to stay burled Hugh Fulton, former committee counsel and morrecently a Hughes attorney, dug iTnrn To Pric> 2. f’nliiinn

Gould is a I’. S navy veteran of Ihe last war. latst week the excise offhers arrested James Everett. 19. of Pleasant Mills, an • x-soldier. whom they charged with buying a bottle of beer. Excise officials have pointed out that while the men may have been privileged to purchase alcoholic beverages as long as 194:? when they entered service -and were in uniform tin ler the law. they are not permitted to even inter a tavern until they reach the age of 21 after they are discharged. Urban H. Post. Celina. Ohio, I* to appear before Mayor Stult* on Thursday to' answer to a charge of speeding He was arrested about 2’30 a. m today by officer Roy Chilcote of the city force, who charged him with driving 55 miles per hour In a 30-tn lie zone.