Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 23 January 1948 — Page 1

Vol. XLVL No. 19.

GEN. EISENHOWER REFUSES NOMINATION

State Denies City Extension

leny Request | Extension I Deadline Stream Pollution foard Orders City Build Sewage Plant The Indiana state stream polluH board has denied the city’s Kion for a year’s extension in ie [deadline for beginning conrJbtlon of a sewage disposal [ant here, it was made known >day ■ copies of letters sent to Hor John M. Doan, city attor- ■ Robert S. Anderson and formayor John B. Stults, B. A. Me, secretary of tne state Ed, declared he had been in■cted to “inform the city of Edur that its petition be dehgl on the grounds that it had ■ proceeded expeditiously in E>lying with the order.” Ee letters continue to state E “subsequent action by the El will be determined by the ■s progress toward compli- ■ ■’ ■he letters cite the fact that a etition had been made January E1948 by Mayor Doan, and that M had been made by former ©or Stults on November 28, K for a “second extension of ■pllance with the final order ■lecember 14, 1945.” These were submitted to the Ee board at a hearing on Janury 13 and its decision made ftwn here today. ■the original order from the ■te charged the city to abate ■ correct pollution of the St. ■ry's river on or before October ■ 1945. Extensions had been ranted since that time. Nearly $700,000 ■Construction of the proposed ■rage disposal plant had been ■luded in the largest public pro■t ever proposed for Decatur, bounced on August 1, 1946. Kix major projects were to be ■braced in the plan at an esti■ted cost of $625,285, plus cost I the first year’s operation, ■nging the total to some $670,|The sewage disposal plant, Ider the plan, was to cost about 193.515, including about $30,000 Sr garbage disposal facilities. Ilifterceptor and relief sewers Id a main lift station brought |e total up to the nearly $700,000. [While no official estimate was ■de today, the belief was exJessed that the cost of such a [eject today would be as much I two-fold the original estimate. Compliance Unlikely I Immediate compliance with the [Turn Tn Pasre 2. Column 5)

kmi’sh Bishop Is Arrested For peeping Daughter In Chains

BULLETIN Goshen, Ind., Jan. 23—(UP) —A grim white-bearded bishop of the Amish church today was sentenced to six months in the Indiana state penal farm after he pleaded guilty to keeping his 41-year-old daughter roped and chained to a filthy bed in an unlighted room for the past 10 years. . Goshen, Ind., Jan. 23 — (UP) — I grim, white bearded bishop of he old-order Amish church mainalned today that he had “done no rrong” in keeping his 41-year-old laughter roped and chained to a ilthy bed in an unlighted room for he past 10 years. The bishop, Samuel D. Hockstetler, 75, whose word is absolute among the Amishmen in this irea, was arrested yesterday on harges of assault and battery after 1 neighbor reported the imprisonment. He was to be arranged today. Hockstettler’s face was a study n dour righteousness a« he enterhis jail cell last night. Neither ' y Wor d nor action did he show any . gn of repentance at the treatment 6 had accorded his daughter,

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Candidate :A. ' — EE " ; " I s ® Wto,.. jSSfeir' ' & wlliil il ” BMMI John C. Augsburger John Augsburger To Seek Renomination Will Be Candidate For Commissioner John C. Augsburger, of Hartford township, today announced that he would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the May primary, for county commissioner from the third district, a post he now holds. Mr. Augsburger, who took office on January 1, 1947, was elected president of the board of commissioners at the January meeting this year. He began the second year of his three-year term on New Year’s day. Long active in Democratic party circles, Mr. Augsburger is a well known Hartford township farmer. He has resided in this township since 1919. He was horn in French township. The primary election will be Tuesday, May 4 and the person elected to the commissioner’s post in November, will not take office until January -, 1950. — j —o Baker Infant Dies At New York City The body of infant Nancy Rose, nine day-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Baker, 824 N. Second street, who died yesterday, will arrive here Saturday. Prematurely, he baby was born January 13 at the Women’s Infirmary hospital in New York City, where Mrs. Baker had gone tor a holiday visit with her mother. The casket will be met by the Gillig and Doan ambulance and taken to St. Mary's church for blessing. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Besides the parents, the infant is survived by two sisters, Diane and Janet Baker.

LucyIn the cell, he did not take oil his traditional Amish round hat. He was dressed severely in a black cape and a black buttonless suit, prescribed by the Amish law for all male members. Sheriff Luther W. Yoder, who made the arrest late yesterday, said Hockstettler readily admitted the charges and led him to the unventilated and unlighted room where Miss Hockstettler was chained to a bed. The Amishman claimed that his daughter was demented and that he only dealt with her in accordance with Amish custom. He denied that he had done any wrong, Yoder old-order Amish sect is one of the most strict of ail religious groups in this country. Its members reject all modern conveniences, and wear black clothes with no decorations, not even buttons. They do not believe in public institutions for the insane. Yoder said he went to the farm home seven miles east of here after a neighbor reported he had heard chains rattling overhead during a visit to the house where the (Turn To Page 5. Column 7)

Churchill Urges Settling With Soviet Russia Urges Democracies Make Supreme Try To Avoid Warfare London, Jan. 23 — (UP)— Winston Churchill urged the western democracies today to make a supreme effort to avoid war by seeking a realistic settlement with Russia before t’he Soviets get the atom bomb, which he suggested might be within a year or two. Churchill gravely warned the house of commons tha f the present taunt situation could not last. The Soviets, he said, are moving the southern anchor of their “iron curtain” along the Adriatic, and the fighting in Greece will decide whether “it shall curl around Athens and so to the Dardanelles and Turkey.” Churchill spoke on the second day of foreign affairs debate in the house of commons. Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin had started it with a charge that Russia was pushing toward war by seeking to dominate all of Europe. The wartime prime minister and present leader of the opposition heartily endorsed Bevin’s plan for a united western Europe. He reminded the house that he long had favored a United States of Europe, and repeatedly had advocated steps to bring such a union into being. The invention of the atom bomb gave the west a “breathing space” of three or four years, Churchill said, and two years of it already has passed. “The best chance of avoiding war is, in accord with other western democracies, to bring matters to a head with the Soviet government and to arrive at a lasting settlement,” Churchill said. “1 cannot believe any serious discussion it may be necessary to have with the Soviet Union would be more likely to leach a favorable conclusion if we wait until they have got the atom bomb too.” Churchill 'warned the house that it could be “absolutely sure that the present situation cannot last.” Even his proposed settlement with Russia, he said, would not “guarantee that war will not come, but it will give the best chance of preventing it, and if it came we should (Turn Tn pHkfp K I'nhimn 7) Harry Daniels Dies Suddenly Last Night Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Harry Daniels, 66, prominent Pleasant Mills resident, died suddenly of a heart attack at 5:30 o’clock Thureday evening at his home. He had not been in ill health and death came lyHe was born in St. Mary’s town ship Nov. 20, 1881, a son of Harvey and Ellen De Gormo-Daniels, and resided in the township his entire life except for 11 years when he resided at Convoy, 0., while he was employed as fieldman for the Central Sugar company. He also was a former auctioneer. He was married to Myrtle France Oct. 24, 1908. Mr. Daniels was a member of the Pleasant Mills Baptist church. Surviving in addition to his wife are two daughters, Mrs. Gerhard Schultz of Decatur and Mrs. Paul Lobsiger of Monroe; one son, Bryce Daniels of Decatur; two sisters, Mrs. Curtis Moser and Mrs. Jesse Tricker, both of Decatur; one brother, Otto Daniels of Huntington, and six grandchildren. One eon and two brothers are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 p m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home and o'clock at the Pleasant Mills Baptist church, with the Rev. Albert Swenson and the Rev. W. H. Day officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Saturday.

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BULLETIN Fort Wayne, Ind., Jan. 23— (UP) —Robert C. High, 27, Decatur, and Robert Taylor, 27, Fort Wayne, were sentenced to 10-25 years at the Pendleton reformary in Allen circuit court today for armed robbery. Miss Clara Collins, 23, and Mrs. Phyllis Taylor, 20, were sentenced to 1-10 years at the women's prison for grand larceny. O Stay Os Execution - Is Granted Lobaugh Delay Granted To Fort Wayne Killer Fort Wayne. Ind., Jan. 23 —(UP) —Judge William Sehannen today granted a stay of execution until April 2 to Ralph Lobaugh, confessed killer of three Fort Wayne women, who was scheduled to die February 9. Sehannen granted the time definite stay after hearing a petition for immediate attention to an earlier move from Lobaugh. The prosecutor’s office told the court that it needed more time to file replies t.o a writ of error coram nobis filed by attorney Robert A. Buhler. The writ asks the court to set aside Lobaugh’s plea of guilty to give him a chance to prove his need for a new trial. o i Colder Weather Is Forecast Tonight Reports Varied On Low Mark Hit Here Wanted —Someone to declare under oath just how cold it does get on these cold, cold nights in Decatur. While the Daily Democrat thermometer is just like those used at official U. S. weather stations, it does not have a graph or chart to keep a record of the temperatures and must be seen to be read at any given time. There are any number of thermometers in and around Decatur, upon which the owner or passerby relies as “official.” All of which produced “low temperatures” during the night something like this: One resident declared it was five below zero, another three below, still another two while another vehemently denied the mercury ever slipped below the single O mark. This we know: It was plenty (Turn To Page 2, Column 5)

Heavy Fire Damage At Huntington Today Huntington, Ind., Jan. 23 —(UP) All fira fighting resources battled a fire that began today in a paint vat at the Majestic Co. and had already destroyed “several hundred thousand dollars" wirth of plant materials. Fire officials said the fire was “under control” and that half of the company's main building would be saved. o Two Million Germans Walk Out On Strike 24-Hour Strike Is Called In Protest Os Food Shortages Frankfurt, Jan. 23 — (UP) — Business, industry and transportation In 'the American zone province of Bavaria was paralyzed today when an estimated 2,000,000 German workers walked out on a 24-hour general strike to enforce approval of an emergency food program. Dispatches from Munich, largest city iii the American zone and third largest in Germany, said that life came to a virtual standstill. All streets cars halted and the only public services still) going were gas, electricity and hospitals. The main railroad station was reported as quiet as a tomb. Union leaders and government officials pleaded with the people to “stay home and stay quiet.” The mass protest was aimed directly at the bizonal economic council, scheduled to meet at 10 a. m. today in Frankfurt to consider an emergency food program which union leaders insist must contain a clause for confiscation of all foodstuffs. The council, however, postponed its morning meeting until midafternoon, apparently because of disagreement over the wording of the law r . An estimated 50,000 strikers walked to a food demonstration in the Koenigsplatz, Munich’s (Turn To Pago 6. Column 6) O WEATHER Fair and very cold tonight. Fair Saturday with slowly rising temperature. Low temperatures tonight, ranging from 10 below some sections of north portion to zero or slightly lower south.

Repudiates Efforts To Nominate Him Candidate For President Os U. S.

Oil Industry Makes Plan To Ease Shortage Sufficient Heating Oil Will Lead To Gasoline Shortage Washington, Jan. 23 — (UP) — Petroleum industry leaders warned today that a gasoline shortage next summer may be the price the nation will have to pay for getting enough heating oil this winter. The national petroleum council recommended last night that the industry sacrifice gasoline production to increased fuel oil output for 60 days, and dig Into crude oil inventories that might have gone for gasoline stockpiles. The 85-member industry advisory committee said today it recognized the recommendations “as creating future shortages of gasoline.” But the council believes “it Is in the public interest to exert still 7 greater effort toward meeting home heating requirements rather than meeting gasoline requirements.” In the interests of equitable distribution, the council also asked that household and industrial consumers limit their fuel on hand to a two-week supply and that even shortage areas take no more than a 30 day supply. To help emergency areas and relieve transportation bottlenecks the council proposed a seven-day work week for tank car loading crews for the next two months. Meanwhile, secretary of Interior J. A. Krug said he believes price and rationing controls will have to be slapped on oil next winter. It’s too late to do it this year, he told a congressional committee. The petroleum council joined Krug in urging a 15 percent re(Turn To Paep 6. Column 7) 0 Boston Store Sale Is Announced Today Lankenau Store Is Sold To Ehingers Announcement was made today of the purchase of Lankenau’s Boston Store from Oscar Lankenau by Richard C. Ehinger and Mrs. Margaret S. Ehinger. The change in ownership becomes effective February 1. The business, one of the oldest in Decatur, was founded by the late John Eiting. The founder, incidentally, -was a grandfather of one of the new owners, Mr. Ehinger. Mr. Lankenau has been affiliated with the concern for more than half a century and plans to retire from an active business life. Mr. Ehinger, who will actively manage the business, has been a member of the Daily Democrat newspaper staff for 31 years, most of that time with the advertising department. An extensive remodeling and renovating program is being planned for the store by the new owners and will be started in the near future. The new business will operate under the name “Ehingers,” and will in the very near future specialize in a complete line of ladles ready-to-wear and accessories, lingerie, notions, floor coverings, yard goods and general merchandise. The new owners stated that they hope to have one of the finest and most modern stores of its kind in this vicinity and one which will adequately meet the needs of shoppers In this trading area.

Frigid Air Engulfs Majority Os Nation Midwest Marks Are Lowest Os Winter By United Press A great mass of frigid air engulfed the nation from the Rocky mountains to the Atlantic coast today. Temperatures dropped in the midwest to the lowest point this winter. The cold zone took the shape of a rough triangle extending from the Canadian border southward 1,000 miles Into north Texas, and from there 2.000 miles diagonally across the continent to New England. The steady stream of cold air pushing down from the Canadian Yukon brought further hardship to more than 100 midwestern communities stricken by a critical shortage of fuel oil. The number of deaths attributed directly or Indirectly to the 10-day siege of cold rose to 98 today. Eighty persons had died in fires or explosions caused by overheated stoves, 16 had frozen to death, and two had died of over-exertion in sub-zero weather. Two children burned to death today when fire from an overheated stove destroyed their oneroom. tarpaper home at Peoria, 111. At Minneapolis, two infants were killed early today when an explosion and fire from an overheated stove swept their barracks in a student housing project near the University of Minnesota. The coldest city in the nation today was Bemidji, Minn., where the temperature dropped to 41 degrees below zero. International Falls, Minn., with less fuel oil than any other city, shivered at 36 below. The mercury went to 37 below at Pembina. N. D., 34 below at Fargo, N. D., 31 below at Water- , town, S. D., 22 below at Sioux City, la., and 15 below at KirksTurn To Page 2. Column 1)

AN EDITORIAL

Decatjir was named for the famous naval hero, Commodore Stephen Decatur, whose victories over the Barbary Pirates established freedom of the seas; yet this town is so inland it doesn’t even have a navigable river and is at least 1,000 miles distance from the sea. Singulary, no monument has i ever been erected to the scores i of individuals who through the years contributed zestful spirit, energy, time and unselfish service in the building of what we now proudly refer to as Decatur, a prosperous county seat, home of industry and the residence of a great people. The lights that glow from a dozen churches, the romp and youthful life around our schools, is the antidote for the cynic who thinks that towns just grow without the idealism of men. A man in simile with the noblest character that ever lived, is the beloved French Quinn of this city, who a few months ago retired from active business life. He contributed a half century of unstinted service to his home town, its progress and civic spirit. In his illness, tUousa .ls of people think of him. They recall what a gallant son of the community he has been, how his system burned with the desire to serve his fellowman. They are reminded of his unbounded optimism and his fervor for the cause he espoused. French Quinn’s sincerity in civic

Price Four Cents

Tells Republican Supporters He Is Not Candidate, To Refuse Nomination Washington, Jan. 23 — (L'P) — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower finally and positively repudiated today efforts to nominate him for president. He told his Republican supporters that he “could not accept nomination to high political office.” “I could not accept the nomination even under the remote circumstances that it were tendered to me.” Ike told Leonard V. Finder, publisher of the Manchester (N. H.) Union - Leader. His announcement was in the form of a letter to Finder made public by the army department. The Union-Leader was booming Eisenhower for president. A s late of Eisenhower delegates had been entered in the New Hampshire presidential preference primary. Ike’s positive statement came after months of speculation that he would not be a candidate. He had disavowed political ambitions on many occasions, but never until today with sufficient force to persuade his admirers he really meant It. General Ike generally was counted the most glamorous potential political figure in the country and many Republicans hoped to capitalize on his winning smile. Polls indicated that — on the basis of present conditions — he would have swamped President Truman if lie headed the Republican ticket in next November's presidential election. His withdrawal probably will b« counted a boost for the president ial ambitions of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, v'hose political sex appeal generally has been rated second only to Ike's potential Republican candidates. The general accompanied his refusal to run with a word of advise to other professional military men. It was that except under the most extraordinary circumstances they should stay out of polities. Ike said he always would be available to ■serve his country in a military capacity. “It is my conviction.” Ike wrote (Turn To Page 3, Column 5)

and community leadership was engulfing, if not enrapturing to all those who had the privilege to listen to him and watch him in action. French Quinn needs no monument to be gratefully remembered by local citizens. He built his own through unselfish service, the immortal kind that carries on through generations. His idealism Is reflected in many different ways in this city. Inspiring has been his love for children. Him, we have to thank for launching the movement to erect the Peace Monument in honor of our Civil War dead; the unique memorial to Gene Strat-ton-Porter; his patriotic voice ringing in dark war days, in support of Red Cross, war service and bond drives. Always, he offered the challenge and gave the lighted torch which helped lead the community to achievement, whether spiritually, industrially or patriotically. French Quinn loved Adams County and its people. In anecdote and individual phraseologly he told his story, in “A Short, Short History of Adams County.” Both as disciple and apostle, he lived and practiced the precept of “malice toward none,” and for his service, noble character and example has helped make Decatur a better place in which to live. Prayerfully, we wish him a speedy recovery.