Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 11 April 1949 — Page 2

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Merchants Warned Os Check Forger Decatur businessmen are warned to be on the watch for a smoothtalkins check forger operating in this district. Passing his creations in feed and furniture stores is a specialty with him. Police give this description of him: his name is either Robert Cline or Robert Carter. Nineteen to 23 years old, he is 5' 7” tall, weighs 140 pounds, and is of a fair complexion. His method of travel is unknown. Car Damaged When Struck By Truck I A truck backed into Decatur-res- | ident Ollie Chronister’s parked car ■ at Eighth and Jefferson streets Sunday, causing $25 damage to the car. j Police information on the identity ! of the truck driver is incomplete, j Kenneth Neuenschwander, Fort I Wayne, was arrested Sunday by j city police for failure to have a , driver's license. His case was continued in J. P. court Sunday. Fort Wayne Resident Is Fatally Burned Fort Wayne, Ind., April 11 —I (UP)— Edward R. Hailey. 50-year-old brewery employe, died late yesterday of burns suffered when his i bedding apparently caught fire : from a lighted cigaret, Alien coun-' ty coroner Paul H. Miller said today. Bailey was found seriously burned yesterday’ morning in a shed where he had been sleeping near his home. Miller said the fire apparently started accidentally from a cigaret. — Westinghouse costs no 1 more Why take less. See the new 1949 Westinghouse Refrigerator.—Arnold & Klenk. Inc. 1

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Holstein Cattle Sale and Hampshire Bred Gilts Bellmont Farms—2 Miles East of Decatur, Indiana, ’ */j Mile North of Road No. 221: Tuesday, April 19| Evening Sale 6:30 P. M., C'-S.T. (In Sale Pavilion) 80—Registered and High Grade Holsteins 12—High Grade, First Calf Heifers, Fresh. B—High tirade First Calf Heifers, freshen May and June. 44—High Grade Heifers, freshen late summer and fall. 6—Registered Heifers, freshen this fall. 7__Registered Bulls, 14 to 18 mos. old. 3—Grade Bulls, 3 mos., 4 mos., 14 mos. old. —HOGS — 11 Top-Notch Registered Hampshire Gilts, double immuned, Bred to Registered Hampshire Boar. NOTE—These Heifers are of outstanding quality. Were selected from very high producing herds in Minnesota. Out of | Cows with good records. The exact freshening dates will be given bv day of sale. Have been diagnosed for pregnancy by Dr. M. C. Stewart. Individual Tkplfh Chart for each animal will be furnished. Some are Calfhood vaccinated, all Tested for Bangs &T. B. March 30th. The Bulls are good type, out of good record Cows. You arc welcome to come to farm and see cattle any time Ipcfore the sale! TERMS—Cash. Not rt-ponsiblc for accidents. C. E. Bel & M. 0. Sljulenberry j Decatur. Indiana OWNERS Rov & Ned Johnson—Auctioneers Melvin Liechty—Auctioneer Bryce Daniels—(lr-k Ltmeh will be served W» wHi b* gi»« to "wire Hotel reservation* for buyer*

John Lewis To Sue Soft Coal Companies Seeking To Collect For Welfare Funds Washington, April 11—(UP)— John L. Lewis will file suit against a dozen soft coal companies in a few days to collect unpaid contri-j butions of 20 cents a ton to the j United Mine workers welfare and ; retirement fund, it was learned to- j j day. All of the claims represent past | due payments for 1947, and amount ■ to several hundred thousands of 1 dollars. | They will be a follow up to suits I filed or threatened in PennsylI vania, Illinois and Arkansas for delinquent 194 payments of five I cents a ton under the government's i strike.emergcncy contract with the i union. Four of these five suits j have been settled out of court in j full, it was reported, bringing more i than SIOO,OOO into the fund's treasI ury. Additional suits reportedly will ■ be brought to cut down the tardi- j ness of some operators in making' i payments to the fund. Under the producers' agreement 1 with Lewis, the payments must be I i made by the 20th of each month: ! following the month in which the j ooal was produced. Failure to do ! : ■ so may be interpreted as a breach ; of contract. I ( Lewis, court action is regarded I, ' in some quarters as another step in ■ his strategy to build up pressure ' for an increase in the 20-cents a: ■ ton contributions to the welfare j fund. He and Sen. Styles Bridges, I ’ as trustees of the fund, voted over, •' trustee Ezra Van Horn’s objections 1 1 last week to reduce the miners' re- ■ 1 tirement age from 62 to 60. I < Rio de Janeiro is named for a I { river that does not exist. Spanishi j discoverers in 1502 mistook the ( j wide bay for the mouth of a river. ' which they called River of Jan- t uary because they came upon it on . Jan. 1. ,

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Berne Musicians Winners In State Contest Saturday Auburn, hid., April 11 —(UP) — Twenty-eight musical organizations held superior ratings today in the northern Indiana school band, orchestra and vocal association final competition. In the contest held Saturday, the following were given the highest ' rating: Bands —Warsaw, Plymouth, Griffith, Hartford City, New Haven, 1 Hammond Morton, Culver, Nap- | panee, Bunker Hill, Brook. Bouri bon, Medaryville, Elkhart county, I and Pulaski-Cass-Polk. Orchestras — Plymouth. Berne, Topeka. Choirs — Merrillville, Middlebury, Nappanee, Berne, Portage. Glee clubs — Chesterton (boys), ; and Knox, Elmhurst. Plymouth, Middlebury, Kewanna (girls). DRAMATIC (Cont. From Page One) ed the 95-foot level where the liti tie girl was trapped. A lateral tunnel was dug from the rescue,, shaft to the abandoned well. , Machinist O. A. Kelly and Hom- ] er E. (Whitey) Blickensdorfer. , both of whom risked their lives to . reach the little girl, found ’ her ( broken body jammed into the pipe , at 6:03 p. m. PST. But they could | not get her out. f Kelly said he realized immedi- ( ately that she was dead. 1 "But I didn’t want to attempt . to move her until the doctor had seen her.” he said. "My work was to cut a window into the shaft. His work was to examine the child." Dr. McCullock, the Fiscus family physician, was summoned from Pasadena hospital where he had been waiting to treat Kathy. He was lowered into the narrow rescue shaft and, after an exam- ■ ination pronounced her dead. Then a rope was attached to the body and it was drawn into the rescue shaft. The body of the child was brought to the surface at 9:52 p.m. PST cradled in the arms of Bill, Vancey, one of the many who re-; peatedly risked death to rescue i her. The body was wrapped in a ’ gray blanket and was immediately I put into a waiting truck and taken , to a mortuary. Kelly and Blickensderfer were near collapse when the child final- , ly was brought up. Blickensder- 1 fer, a hard rock miner from Rosemead. Cal., was ordered to a hospital. As soon as the body was taken away, Raymond Hill, who directed rescue operations, ordered men and equipment to begin covering the rescue shafts and eliminating i all trace of the tragedy that occur-, red a few hundred yards from the Fiscus home. "When I leave, no one will know i there has been any activitiy but ; plowing," Hill said. Recovery of the little girl s| body ended on° of the most dra-1 matic rescue missions since Floyd i Co lins was trappe in a cave near Cave City. Ky., 21 years ago. Thousands of persons m churches across the country prayed ' for the little girl yesterday. And 1 hundreds of thousands of telephone calls were made to newspapers and radio stations asking , news of the rescue. The Washing- 1 ton. D. C.. Times-Herald reported . 9,009 telephone calls yesterday.

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Funeral Thursday 3| whhb w* ■* n Funeral services will be held, here Thursday for Pfc. Fred R. Harden, one of Adams county’s World War H war victims. For Civil Service Take Applications Applications for the U. S. civil service position of material requirement specialist at a salary ranging from $3,737 to $4,479 per year, will be accepted until April 28, it was announced by the U. S. civil service examiners, U. S. natal ammunition depot, Crane. Further information and application forms may be secured from Robert Frislnger in the post office building.

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Reverse Convictions Os Brewery Officials ! Cincinnati. 0., April 11 - (UP)— : The sixth U. S. circuit court of api peals today reversed the conviction jot two Detroit brewery officials and the head of a brewery supply | house, and dismissed mail fraud I charges against them. ■ The defendants were Alfred EpIst ein president and genera" manager of the Pfeiffer Brewery Co.. Detroit: Carleon Smith, president and general manager of Drewery’s Ltd., U. S A., a South Bend, Ind., brewery, and secretary-treasurer of the Pfeiffer firm and Elias Epps, head of illisa Epps & Co., supply firm. Two Decatur Youths Charged With Thefts Marion Sipe, 18. 619 Kekionga street, and a 15-year-old boy, also of Decatur, were arrested today, and after waiving extradition, were taken to Van Wert, 0.. to face charges of ransacking automobiles at .Middlebury, 0., April 2. Sipe confessed to stealing a camera and various smaller items from the Ohio ears. He also admitted taking a rear-view mirror from a car parked ’east of Second street, Decatur. Sipe was traced through the license number of his car. which was reported by a witness to the ransacking. Sheriff Herman Bowman made the arrest this morning at Berne, where Sipe is employed. Washington State has seven na-j tional parks.

Business Gains To Be Shown In Census Business Census To Reveal Gains New York, April 11—(Special)— The extent of the gains made in business in Decatur over the past 13 years and the city's current standing, in relation to other communities, will be determined by the new census of business begun by the department of commerce. The census, the first since the 1939 one, which represented conditions in 1935, is a nationwide undertaking. Enumerators, now in the field, will cover all retail, wholesale and other businesses, gathering figures on employment, payrolls, receipts and the like. The last census showed Decatur to have 111 retail stores in operation. They grossed $2,460,000 for the year. The 13 wholesale establishments in the city did a sales volume of $1,660,000. These activities. and others, gave gainful occupation to 2,700 people out of the 5,800 then residing in Decatur. Since that time the national income has risen from $56.4 billions a year to $224.5 billions, or four times as much. One of the many questions the survey will answer is whether or not Decatur’s gains were in proportion. .Emphasis will also be Igid in the census on the development of statistical information designed to furnish management with data to be used in the appraisal and development of business operations.

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