Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 254, Decatur, Adams County, 28 October 1947 — Page 1

LV. No. 254.,

Given sjgalh Sentence A Murders Wayne Killer Three Women In Guilt Plea 'ißJwayne. Ind.. Oct., 28 — Ralph W. Lobaugh. 30. was 'flK,.. s'uard in Allen county 7^K |V awaitina transfer to the "liere he facin th( . Heetrie chair for T’BLSq,..,- port Wayne women. WKe, pleaded gui’ty late yesa'grand jury indictment dial murdered WilMRj.,.... tuna Kuzt-ff. 32. MR,» a Havard. 32. over a ■K, period i'l 1941 and 1945. circuit J.idee William 11. ...u’etioed Lonaugh to be in the state prison at ■S city. Ind., next Feb. 9 WRnnen ordered that the forfactory worker be 5' guard in the county Lj two weeks. then transferrprison. guilty plea came as a , r)^^Kr a sanity hearing had been foi early in December., pleaded .guilty without oyHKtiey, admitting ail three slayd°ttfcjn(l declining to testify in his '*■& behalf or make any statement or after sentence was imordered Lobaugh to ]■While sentence was read. The hardly moved when lie reporters said Lotold them previously that he to the slaj’ings. deaths were unsolved for months. Hut last spring, Lowalked into the Kokomo city station and gave himself .up. signed statements admitting he all three women. he repudiated the confesthen repudiated the repudiaami police said he was JH^^Kused" Physicians who examin a -unity test said they sSHMmI was - .im but unhalanc■■lH " Kuesl Permanent Ss lines Permit igßity Bus Line Here Pniden. executive secrethe Decatur Chamber of returned today from where he attended a Monday before the In--BH* publi< service commission on filed by the Browning SB Lines. Im ~ for a permanent t 0 operate bus service in K^^B >t> "'. A letter favoring the was presented from or John Stults as evidence. Pruden stated today that ■R' 1 we re no objectors to the petiau d it is highly probable that for a permanent permit buses to operate on HilM eca * Ul ' streets will be approvHL loeal buses have been opefor several weeks on tern--7BE”:? I)eini ’* s issued by the com|^B",’ n . .“H' 1 the hearing yesterday jK leid in accordance with the aw, which provides that if are no objections the temary Permit can be made per- ' at request of the opecompany. buses are p rovin g. popular in \-, all(l many workmen. c i dren and shoppers use ■I rans Portation each day. As- ■ I ' era l wep ks of experimentK wm P J° bable that the sched■n „’. e chai >ged, to provide ° n for the & reate ßt ®nrad Witte Dies ■ For * Wayne Home ■= a 2? itte ' 79 - a native of in r y ’ dled Monda y at his lived f° rt Wayne ' where he near ° r tbe I,ast 61 years. K Alma S’ 01 - is a da ”Sht e r. Hfcan P '>n Uneral serv ‘ces will be fnn" !! 1 , WedneS( ’ay at the ra home ' w *th burial to rd a Friends are K| 10 omit flowers. I® ■~"-0 ■ Cloudy EATHER On, l rain ° ni9ht w 'th occasWed rth / nd central W" and y decrease IB 1 ' s and somewhat

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n® JS I " ’Hi 88l / BHL ' /MB ■a L. M. Busche, of Purdue university. a native of Adams County, will speak at the Rotary cluh meeting in this city Thursday evening. The Rotarians will entertain their wives at this meeting. Stale Police Join Search For Garrett Treasurer Os Wells County Disappears Bluffton, Ind.. Oct. 28—(UP)— Indiana state police joined today in a search for the Wells county treasurer, who disappeared shortly before he was charged in a criminal affidavit with embezzling $14,696 in public funds. "* The search was spread for Alonzo B. Garrett, one of two Republican office holders in thS Demo-crat-controlled Wells county courthouse. Pierce Harnish, president of the county board of commissioners, signed the affidavit at noon yesterday. Harnish, a Democrat, said the affidavit was based on a report of two field examiners for the state board of accounts that a shortage was found in Garrett's books for the period from Jan| 1, 1945, through Aug. 18, 1947. Garett was serving a second two-year term. When authorities sought to serve a bench warrant for Garrett’s arrest, they couldn’t find him. A checkup disclosed his office was I not open for business yesterday, although Garrett had been at work daily through last Saturday. It was learned today that a letter of resignation dated Oct. 2 was found in Garrett’s office desk yesterday. The letter, however, never had been mailed to the county commissioners. When commissioners learned of the letter, they called a special meeting last night and appointed David E. Schwartz, Uniondale, to serve out Garrett’s term, which extends through 1948. Schwartz w r as Garrett’s Democratic opponent in the 1946 election. Officials said the field examiners (Turn To Page a. Column 5) — o William J. Rawley Dies Last Evening Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon William J. Rawley, 74, lifelong resident of Adams county, and a former resident of Decatur, died at 5:30 p in. Monday at the home of a son, Wildas, at Berne, after a week’s illness of double pneumonia. He was born in .Adams county July 2, 1873, a son of Samuel and Susanne Abnet-Rawley, and was married May 2, 1896, to Drucilla Gilliom. He was employed as a railroad carpenter for 27 years, later working at Dunbar’s in Berne until his retirement. A former resident of Decatur, he and his wife had lived in Berne since December of 1946. He was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church in Berne. Surviving are the wife; two sons, Wildas of Berne and Winston Rawley of Decatur; one daughter, Mrs. Albert Sorg of Fort Wayne; two sisters, Mrs. E. H. Alspaugh of Willshire, 0.. and Mrs. William Eley of Smyrna, Del., and nine grandchildren. One son, one sister and one brother preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church in Berne, the Rev. C. P- Maas officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery. The body be removed from the Yager funeral home to the Wildas Rawley residence at 7 o’clock this evening.

Russia Revives Plans To Pull Out Os Korea i Simultaneous Move For United States And Russia Urged Lake Success, N. Y„ Oct. 28 — (UP)— Russfia revived in the United Nations today its proposal for a simultaneous American - Soviet withdrawal from Korea and called on the UN general assembly to invite spokesmen for the Korean people to take part in debate over the territory's future. The Russian withdrawal offer was flatly rejected in advance by American delegate John Foster Dulles. He opened the United States fight for UN intervention in Korea with a warning that occupation forces cannot be pulled out until the UN sponsors elections there. Dulles asked the assembly’s 57 -nation political and security committee to give prompt approval to the American plan for a UN Korehn commission to oversee election’s foster establishment of an independent Korean government and help the big powers speed their withdrawal from the area. Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei Gromyko promptly countered with the Soviet offer to pull out by Jan. 1 if United States forces do likewise. "This is both a simple and radical way of settling this issue,” Gromyko asserted. "It will afford the people of Korea opportunity to choose their government without pressure from outside.” Gromyko renewed Soviet objections to UN discussion of the problem, claiming it was brought here by secretary of state George C. Marshall in an “unjstified and unlawful manner." "Nevertheless,” he said, “since the general assembly has decided to place the question on its agenda, the Soviet delegation is ready to its views.” He then proposed the admission of the Korean people to the political committee's debate. Airport Operator Sued By Aero Club Asks $1,500 Damages For Loss Os Plane The Decatur Aero Club, Inc., has filed suit for $1,500 damages against Vaun Liniger, local airport operator, Adams circuit court records revealed today. The suit, filed by the law firm of DeVoss & Smith, avers that the defendant operates an airport which stores airplanes and that on January 1, 1947, the plaintiff delivered to Ithe defendant an Aeronca plane, valued at $1,500. It alleges that the defendant agreed to keep it securely tied down and continues to aver that another plane, owned by the defendant, was carelessly down; that the latter broke loose and hit the plaintiff's plane. It contends the plaintiff's plane was damaged heyond repair. The date of the alleged incident is left blank in the complaint. It asks $1,500 for loss of the plane. Application for letters of administration was filed by Arlie Ellenberger in the estate of Henry H. Ellenberger. who died -October 11 of injuries sustained in an auto accident. The personal property is valued at $25,000 and the real estate at ss.ooo|j Six children are listed as heirs. H. B. Heller is the attorney. Application for letters of administration was filed by Sarah Busche in the estate of Edward B. Booth. The personal property was valued at $2,400 and the real estate at SI,OOO. The widow and one daughter are listed as heirs. D. B. Custer is the attorney.

O Mrs. James Westveld Reported Satisfactory

Dr. and Mrs. Fred Patterson and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sauer returned last evening from Grand Rapids, Mich., where they visited over the weekend with Mrs. James Westveld. a patient in St. Mary’s hospital. They report finding her con- ' dition as good as could be expected after the serious operation preformed a week ago. She is quite cheerful and appreciates greatly jJie many cards and letters of encouragement received fro.n Decatur friends.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 28, 1947

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Nine-year-old Francine Lamotte is comforted by her mother at Central Emergency Hospital in San Francisco, after the child had escaped from a kidnaper who snatched her from a street as she returned home from a movie. Held in connection with the attempted abduction is Samuel A. Hallford. 33. a streetcar conductor. The kidnaper wrecked his car in attempting to elude the pursuit which quickly followed the abduction, and the child was found bruised and dazed, wandering nearby. (International Soundphoto.)

Pave Main Streets In Stratton Place Conclude Paving Work This Week Paving of all the main streets in Stratton Place. Decatur's new east ftide subdivision, will be completed this week by Meshberger Brothers Stone Co. of Linn Grove, it was announced today. The streets are being covered with a bituminous asphalt surface and will be open in a few days, it was learned. The streets being completed this week include Stratton Way. Litnberlost Trail, and Harvester Lane. The remaining lots, which are from 66 feet to 80 feet in street frontage are being resurveyed and will be offered for sale at once, by John R. Wortliman Co., Inc., through the local representative, Bob Heller, Realtor. It is said that several lots still are available in the new addition and several already have been sold. It was pointed out today by the owners that street construction was delayed until now, so that all pipes, including water and gas, could be brought into each lot ready for connection, so it will not be necessary to dig up any part of the new streets. All of the new houses in the addition have been sold and are now owner-occupied, it was said, and several more that are under construction, already are sold. The prices of the lots vary, in accordance with location. Turn To Page 2. Column 6) 0 Navy Day Program Is Held By Adams Post Annual Observance Held Monday Night A large crowd of veterans from all branches of service attended the annual Navy Day program at Adams Post 43, American Legion. Monday night. The showing of “Silent Service,” a film on submarine warfare in the Pacific during World War 11, highlighted the program. H. Vernon Aurand, of the post naval affairs committee, was in charge of the program and the movie was shown by Lowell Smith, local projectionist. Commander Charles Morgan was in charge of the business meeting which preceded the program. An ayster stew luncheon was served later in the evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Alorrison were special guests of the post during the showing of the movie. Henry “Peck" Morrison their son, lost his life in 1945 while serving aboard the U. S. S. Kete, a submarine.

State Polio Cases Lower Than 1946 Indianapoli,, Oct. 28 —(UP) — The Indiana state board of health said today that cases of 'infantile paralysis reported thus far in October equaled the 10-year average for the month. The 28 cases reported were announced in connection with a board statement which said Indiana had 207 reported cases since Jan. 1, compared with 337 cases during a similar period last year.

Democrats Appoint Election Workers Workers Are Listed For City Election A list of the Democratic precinct workers for the city election next Tuesday was filed today by county Democratic chairman Gerald Vizard in the offices of county clerk Clyde O. Troutner. Republican workers were named yesterday by chairman Harry Essex. Following is a list of the Democratic workers as filed today: Decatur 1-A Judge, Mrs. Florence Green; clerks, Mrs. Doll Mills and Mrs. Lottie Runyon, sheriff. John Baker. Decatur 2-A Judge, Fred Hancher; clerks, Mrs. W. P. Robinson and Mrs. William Keller; sheriff, Dick Burrell. Decatur 3-A Judge, Mrs. Lawrence Kleinhenz; clerks, Mrs. Tom Titus and Mrs. Kenneth Runyon; sheriff, Charles Feasel. Decatur 1-B Judge, Esther Hilton; clerks, Mrs. Helen Johnson and Violet Sanders; sheriff, Jess Gilbert. Decatur 2-B Judge, Alvena Smith; clerks, Crystal Elzey and Velma McFarland; sheriff, Lewis Keller. Decatur 3-B Judge, James Hoagland; clerks, Mrs. Elmer Darwachter and Mrs. Martin Worthman; sheriff, Ed Hower. 0 Fountain City Man Reported Improved The condition of F. R. Hinshaw, Fountain City, critically hurt in an auto accident yesterday, was reported today by Adams county memorial hospital attaches as improved. Mike Biberstine. driver of the Decatur car involved in the wreck one mile south of the city, is reported to be suffering from chest injuries, facial cut* and several teeth knocked loose. He is at his home. Hinshaw’s wife and daughter escaped with less serious injuries.

Ramadier Calls DeGaulle An Enemy Os Republic, Denounces Communists i

Funeral Thursday For Milo Stalter Second War Veteran Returned For Burial Funeral services for the second of Adams county's World War II dead to be returned from an overseas cemetery for burial herff. will be held Thursday. Graveside services for HAI/C Milo Stalter. son of Mr. and Mrs. Dorus A. Stalter. who died in 1944 in Hawaii of injuries sustained in a tali from a truck, will be held at 2:30 p. m. Thursday in the Decatur cemetery. Dr. M. O. Lester, pastor of the First Methodist church, will officiate at the services and military rites will be conducted by Limberlost Post 6236, Veterans of Foreign Wars of this city. The body is expected to arrive here at 12:57 o’clock Wednesday afternoon by Erie railroad from Chicago and will he taken to the Zwick funeral home, where the casket will lie in state after 7:30 p, m. The body of the Stalter youth, a hospital apprentice, first class in the U. at the time of his death, is the second to be returned here for burial. Graveside burial rites for TSgt. Richard Teeple were held last Friday. His body and that of Stalter were both returned to the United States on the Honda Knot funeral ship from the Pacific earlier this month. The bodies of T-4 Norwin T. Stoppenhagen and Pfc. Dale Baumgartner have arrived in the United States from Belgium, where they had been interred. The Baumgartner youth will be buried in the national cemetery at New Albany, while the Stoppenhagen body will be returned .to this county for burial. Relatives have not been informed as to <he definite date of the arrival of the latter, however. 0 Bluffton Driver Held In Cincinnati Crash Cincinnati, Oct. 28 —(UP) — A blazing gasoline truck driven by Dale Campbell. 35, Bluffton, Ind., crashed into a streetcar and destroyed it by fire today, but nobody was injured seriously. Campbell, who suffered head and leg cuts, was cited for reckless driving. 0 Meeting Planned To Honor A. N. Hilton

Red Men Lodges To Honor Decatur Man Preliminary plans for a congratulatory meeting, honoring A. N. Hilton, Decatur, for his election to the office of junior sagamore of Indiana Improved Order of Red Men, were started at a group meeting of 12 Red Men's lodges at the local hall Saturday night. The meeting will be held November 22 in this city. Final plans for the celebration will be completed at a special meeting of the Decatur lodge Wednesday night of this week at Red Men hall at 8 o’clock. All local members are urged to attend. Mr. Hilton is the first Decatur man to advance to the high state post, and appropriate observance of the honor will be participated in by all neighboring lodges. Representatives from 12 nearby lodges attended the Saturday night meeting, which closed with an oyster supper following several interesting addresses by past state officers. Members from Muncie. Marion, Fort Wayne, Monroeville, Gas City. Mill Grove, Dunkirk. Bluffton, Huntington, Warren. Matthews and Decatur attended the Saturday group -meet.- -. Committees for the Hilton day celebration will be named Wednesday nigHt and plans will be completed for what is hoped will be the biggest day for Red Men ever held in Decatur.

Charge Second Movie Writer With Contempt Alleged Communist Refuses To Answer As To Affiliations Washington. Oct. 28 — (UP)— House investigators of communism in Hollywood today charged a second witness with contempt of congress and heard another testify that reds tried to capture all movie unions. Film writer Dalton Trumbo. alleged to be a communist, was charged with contempt of (th<s house unAmerican activities committee. Trumbo. defiant on the advice of counsel, refused to say "yes” or “no" to questions as to whether he was a communist. Another writer. John Howard Lawson, was charged with contempt for the same reason yesterday. After the shouting Trumbo was removed from the witness stand, • committee investigator Louis J. Russell testified that Trumbo was communist party card holder no. 47187. He had testified yesterday that Lawson held card no. 4725. Trumbo accused the committee of setting up "an American concentration camp." Like Lawson, he was denied permission to read a prepared statement. Testimony about Reds in Hollywood unions was given by Roy E. Brewer, international representative of the Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes. His union has been engaged for two years in a bitter jurisdictional strike with another AFL union group. Brewer testified that Herbert K. Sorrell, head of the conference of studio unions — the opposition group — was a communist. He (Turn T„ t’.-ic« t fnin — n 0 Mrs. Anna Vining Dies This Morning Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Mrs. Anna B. Vining, 57. lifelong resident of near Willshire, O„ died at 3:30 a. m. today at the Otis hospital in Celina. O. Death followed a long illness of complications. She was born in Willshire township Aug. 12. IS9O. a daughter of James D. and Mary Eline-Banta, and was married to E. C. Vining Jan. 31. 1912. She was a member of the Union Evangelical United Brethren church near Willshire. Surviving in addition to the husband are three sons, James N., Eugene F. and Carl D. Vining, all of Willshire; three daughters. Mrs. Beatrice Rogers and Mrs. Lois Merinar of Rockford. 0.. and Mrs. Velma Hoffman of Bryan. O.: two brothers. Albert B. and Basil Banta of Willshire: four sisters. Miss Velma Banta of Willshire, Mrs. Iva Hooks of near Willshire. Mrs. Emma Lund of Naperville. 1., and Mrs. Findem of Chicago, and 10 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. (EST) Friday at the home and at 2:30 o'clock at the Union Evangelical United Brethren church, with burial in the Will shire cemetery. The body will be removed Wednesday morning from the Zwick funeral home to tbe residence, four miles south west of Willshire. Auto Found Here Stolen In Illinois

A 1946 auto which sheriff Herman -Bowman found narked on a county road, four miles south of Decatur recently, has proved to be a car stolen from Illinois, it was made known today. Illinois authorities informed the sheriff that the owner would call for the vehjele.

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Premier Ramadier Blasts De Gaulle And Communists In Speech To Assembly Parris, Oct. 28.— (UP)— Premier Paul Ramadier attacked Gen. Charles De Gaulle as an enemy of the republic today and denounced the French Communists as pursuing ends contrary to the safety of the country. Fighting for the life of his coalition cabinet, Ramadier lashed out at both De Gaulle and the Communists, two of the greatest forces in France which had caught the administration between them. The national assembly, meeting in extraordinary session for France’s gravest crisis since the war, was thrown into an uproar by the Socialist premier's assault. Working toward an assembly vote of confidence which placed his government in jeopardy, Ramadier drew shouts of protest from the floor when he lumped De Gaulle among the "enemies of the republic” and in attacking the Communists demanded that no French party “should follow ends foreign to the safety of our country.” Sarcastically he referred to De Gaulle, resurgent political leader who amassed astounding strength in recent municipal elections, as a modern Joan of Arc. "It does not seem to me that someone on the order of Joan of Arc could be the head of a political party.” He said he hoped any future strikes would be based on professional reasons, and called on the working classes to "beware of any group tending to split your ranks." “The greatest danger is not in the De Gaullist movement, because no true republican would endorse it." Ramadier continued. "But he risks starting agitation which wilt prevent European solidarity and the reconstruction of our already partly ruined country. We will defend France and the republic against all agitators as long as we have your confidence.” Ramadier spoke precisely an hour. He was applauded loudly by all deputies save the Communists. Economic trouble lies at the bottom of France's plight. Ramadier told the assembly in warning that the country must halt the wageprice inflation spiral. "Either we remain where we care in the salary issue, or another wage boost will give another price increase, particularly agricultural prices, and who knows what economic results that will have?” He said. Police reinforcements were held in readiness outside the assembly in case of disorders. But only 200 or so bystanders watched the arrival of the deputies for one of the most crucial debates in recent French history. Ramadier said France was “going through a very difficult period.” He called the special session, he said, to enable the assembly to "participate in the government’s worries and decisions.” 0One Man Killed In Auto-Truck Crash Franklin. Ind.. Oct. 28 —(UP) — Henry M. Ingram. 61. Indianapolis, was killed yesterday when his car collided with a truck loaded with hogs during a rainstorm on a slippery curve on U. S. 31 near here. Kenneth, Morris. 42. Greenfield, driver of the truck was uninjured. - LATE BULLETINS London, Oct. 28 —(UP) — Winston Churchill asked commons today for a vote of no confidence in the labor government on grounds that it had failed to overcome Britain's grave economic crisis. Berlin, Oct. 28 —(UP— Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American military governor in Germany, said today that ho had asked the army to retire him in the 1948 calendar year so he could quit all army and public life and "go catfishing in Georgia.” Woodward. Okla., Oct 28 —• (UP) — A4 least eight persons were injured today as a $300,000 fire swept through a downtown business block of this city wher« 85 people died last April in a tornado.