Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 89, Decatur, Adams County, 15 April 1949 — Page 1

XLVH. No. 89.

IREDICT SENATE TO PASS HOUSING BILL

B Suspected ■nsp-Robber fcedToday Iwcst Virginia Man | Sized At Home By |Kate Police, FBI ■Hg.u.mun. W. Va.. Apr- 15 RH v; ,.. state police ■H r ,.i arrested Roy El he slept at his home E8,...'. mm wi’h a $3,000 bank ! kidnaping of two \V. Va.. police officers. ]) E. Adams of the state ftHlrre said Mann was anrest•y' ■ the request of Pennsylvania KB Th ■ officer* routed of bed at a. ■ B Andrew Hudock of the KB-|u:iia state police at ■Kshurc. Pa., said he had a ■"■Mann niisin be one of three desperadoes who held up wßink id Folansbee. W. Va., Besday and escaped with sAikiii. He said he had IBr in'o'-inatmn that two oh- | Hinli’> were "heading south," to Florida. ■ H Adams said Mann gave up a struggle. No firearms found in Ute hous», but a of .32 caliber pi tol shells ■ win a pin let of Mann's jacket. ■ B utdientified woman in the with Mann was not taken lln-'iuk said that he was ceriain that the other two ■ are Carl Klosz. 30. Pittsand Janies Bernett. 25, LaPa. said Mann. Glosz and Her-! linked with the! Ini'disi o’ a store at Ligonier. ■■la c t Tuesday. ■ Hudock s-'id that Lerov Hf*d yesterday in a stolen autoprohahlv had no connecthe holdups. He said bad b-en under suspicion the automobile had been ■Mn in Ohio near the p'ace I.t. Al Ro“sell end patrot■JUr .Lunes Herman wore found - EB' 1 marlumt in Oldn, West Vir Indiana and Illinois was off in Weirton. W. Va.. j KtJWfrdnv. Three men picked uni ■ •3 1 -t- •- in the Follansbee rob-, nr. rnuwered Rossel] and paHerman at the citv tail. I th officers into a car and ■B''"" u and Rosseil later wer n "bin Hod to two ch°rry trees B I (Turn ’’’n Pnre Three I raH — : |BOOO Damage Is ||Ccused In Accident wimated J2.0U0 damage co■B"' Thursday afternoon in a truck collision thr e |B southeast of Monroe at the EB. V Church intersection. ■ Hue of the truck drivers. HerBB 1 - Hangk, route 2. Decatur, sits- J a minor leg injury. An em- ' bimneth Singleton, Decatur. |B riding with Haugk, suffer■B"-' bead injuries. Louis Stef■H 3'l. Decatur, and Mrs. Flo ' Br? route 1. Monroe, the other |B driv ers. were unhurt. If Man's Sister j I Taken By Death 1 '” Edn » Langston. 62, sister 1 ■Charles Langston of Decatur: KB* al (), terbein home. Lebanon. ■ I urs, tay Miss Langston had Wn an invalid for several years. IB.'" 15 besides Charles LangI ■ is another brother. Bovd LangIE R i O3nolie Mi,s Lan^!on alsoi r 3 raided in Roanoke. t-4 “ eril trices will be held at IBs a" r * in honi< ‘ at Lebanon. 0. »BtT * } afternoon at 2 o'clock 18. anil ba «al *lll be in theOt-i cemetery. I Be. FATHER Cudy and colder. with I HL "* ,hif ting wind today. OcIHZ.' 0 "* 1 r,in north and central r Kali, * hower » extreme 18l • r* - * and colder toller MU * ir ,n<< eo ’’ ti ' ,ued rathjß.. ’’"Orrow. High today lEL . S ’ U,hand 42 to 4« north .. ||l2 to Z l4to 38 *° uth ln<l I » 35 north.

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Advanced | HP' pw Is K’4 : U j < ’Jo Carl J. Klepper i 1 -i 4 , K - A. J. Graber Personnel Changes Made By Cloverleaf Changes Announced By Pres. Klepper W. A. Klepper of this city, president of Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., today announced the advancement of key personnel in the Huntington office of the company. Carl J. Klepper, now executive vice-president of Cloverleaf, has been named to the presidency of the Luick Ice Cream company. Milj waukee, Wis.. an affiliate of Na- | tlonal Dairy Products Corporation, j I However, Mr. Klepper will retain! his present official status with ' Cloverleaf and maintain residence in Huntington. He has been an I active participant in all matters ■ J of civic interest and will continue j to work in the many projects in | which he is associated for commun-J . Ry betterment. A. J. Graber, known to his as-' I scciades as "Felix," has been named vice-president of Cloverleaf > Creameries, inc. Born near Berne, i Mr. Graber has acquired broad | knowledge of the dairy industry i through many years of progressive ' service with Cloverleaf, both at the I I Decatur and the Huntington plants, j I Cloverleaf Sealtest maintains sales! 'offices in Huntington, South Bend.j I Fort Wayne, Crawfordsville and: j Indianapolis. Glen Claus will conduct all sales | activities that were formerly handled by Mr. Graber. Mr. Claus i qualifies for the sales managerI ship through wide knowledge ot 1 dairy industry activities, embrac (ng 26 years of association with the . Cloverleaf family. Other members of the executive I committee of Cloverleaf in Hun' I ington are R. M. Thompson, plant ' manager; F. P Rauktls. comptrol- . ler: and F. K. Bailey, executive in charge of engineering, construe ticn and maintenance. , . Enter Guilty Pleas To Evasion Os Taxes Indianapolis, April 15 —(I P) Two former officials of a Goshen trailer firm pleaded guilty in federal district court today to charges of evading thousands of dollars in . corporation taxes in 1943. I Don Farr, formerly of Decatur. | ! and John Drexler, hoth of Elkhart. ! entered guilty pR«» ju! ’ e ! Robert C Baltzell. Baltaell refer ' red their cases to probation a;i- ; ■thorities in the northern Indiana t district for pre-senteuce investigt- < I tion. Drexler was president and Farr t • secretary-treasurer of the Superior < . Coach Co. of Goshen, a firm which I no longer exists. '

Good Friday Is Observed In City Today - Churches Thronged By Worshippers; Suspend Business | Good Friday services, commemo-! rating the Three Hours that Jesus Christ hung and died on the cross on Mt. Calvary, were attended by congregations that filled the three churches where the solemn hours were observed. A union service of all Protestant churches was held at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, with pastors of the participating churches offering prayer and taking part in the meditations. Dr. Updike, of Marion, district superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene in Indiana, led the devotions. At the Zion Lutheran church, a service was held from 12:30 to 2 o'clock, with the pastor, Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, in charge. The journey of Christ bearing his cross to Golgotha was repeated in congregational Way of the Cross at St. Catholic church during the Three Hours, followed by a blessing with a relic of the True Cross from 2:30 to 3 o'clock. Business was at a standstill throughout the city from 12 to 3 o’clock. Stores and offices were closed during the Three Hours. A legal holiday in Indiana, the First State Bank was not open for business and most of the offices in the court house were closed. The city hall observed the Three Hours, opening its doors after 3 o’clock. The theme of the devotions and meditation on Christ's crucifixion at the union service was the Seven Last Words of Christ. Sacred, / hymns were sung during the serv-1 ice. interspersed with organ inter-' ludes. Everywhere the thought of Christians was directed to Calvary - and in prayer, sermon and hymn Hie faithful were reminded of Christ's suffering and death on the cross. Each church had worshipers filling the edifices •to capacity from noon to 3 o'clock, the last words of the Savior of mankind ringing in their hearts, “Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit.” This evening services will be held at St. Mary's Catholic church and the Zion Lutheran church, climaxing the meditations on the crucifixion of the Son of God. Accident Victim's Funeral Saturday Grandson Os Local | Residents Killed Funeral services for Robert Del Bolt. 18, who was fatally injured, in an auto accident on U. S. high-, way 24 near Antwerp, 0., late Wed-' nesday night, will be held at 2:30 pm. Saturday at the First Evan | gelical and United Brethren church j in Fort Wayne, the Rev. O. D. I Wissler officiating. Burial will be in Greenlawn memorial park. The youthful accident victim was! a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Alphusl Deßolt of this city, and there are also several other relatives living in Decatur. The youth was fatally injured when steering gear of the auto In which he was riding apparently failed as the car entered a curve. The car was driven by James Dunn. 17, also of Fort Wayne.t Dunn and two other occupants of’ the auto. Bruce Messman. 18. and Irvin Kniffeu. Jr.. 19. all of Fort I Wayne, were injured. Deßolt, a native of Fort Wayne I is survived by bis parents, Mr. and: Mrs Raymond De Bolt; a' sistar. Miss Patricia Deßolt, at home; two brothers. Jack, at home, and Pvt. Richard Deßolt. with the I’. S. iTu-* T» Five! Minnesota Rejects Presidency Limit St. Paul. April 15 — (UPI Minnesota last night rejected an amendment to the federal con«ti-1 tutlon which would limit the presi-1 dency to two terms. The state senate had approved > the pronosal. but the house refus-; ed to ratify it. 63 to 32. The action 1 killed the Issue for the current leg-; illative session.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, April 15,1949

Kidnap, Shackle Two Policemen .B LT ~' -A- - K(iHEtt ■ V IWi > > iW JI ' k •A J HHHHH A WIDESPREAD SEARCH is underway for Clyde M. Johnson and his alleged wife Billie Blaze (lower picture) in connection with the kidnaping of two Weirton. W. Va., police. The policemen James Herman (top left) and Lt. Allen Rossel fright) were kidnaped by bank robbers, driven to Hanoverton, Ohio, ami handcuffed to a tree. I hey were released by a farmer. Johnson escaped from a F.orida jail March 1. ■

I — — Billion Dollar Plan For U. $. Airports Improvements For Decatur Are Listed i Washington, Apr. H — (UP) — A billion dollar plan calling tor 2,794 new airports and improvements or another 2.183 was announced today by the civil aeronautics administration. The estimated cost of the plan included $510,600,<00 111 feder.i funds and $604,700,000 in state and “local funds. Made public by civil aeronautics 1 administrator 1). W. Rentzel, the plan is the 1949 version of an annual three-year forecast required under the 1947 federal aid airport act. It involves no actual assignment l of funds. That is done by the I CAA after congress votes money [each, fiscal year. In three years. I congress has appropriated a total j of $117,500,000 for the airport proi gram. The program is scheduled to run through 1953. 53 In Indiana Washington, Apr. 15 — (UP) — Fifty-three Indiana airports were listed by the tivil aeronautics adj ministration today to he con 1 strutted or improved under the | 1949 national airport plan. The CAA said that the Indiana program would cost $6,8.>6,000. with the federal government contributing $3,169,000 for the projects. The remainder will come from state and local funds. The CAA does not assign the funds. Officials pointed out this was done after congress votes money each fiscal year. The 1949 i program was to run through 1953. CAA administrator I). W. Rentzel said. The Hoo'lor airport program called for the construction of 26 class I landing strips with 1.500 to 2.500-foot runways, at < sites still to be selected. Improvement to landing facilities at Danville. Decatur. Marshall and Mishawaka in class I ; and at Frankfort and Mar insville l in class 11, with landing fields with 2.500 to 3,500 foot runways also were listed. Aid Asked Here John E. Rogers, manager of the Decatur airport was not availahle | thia morning but memliers of the 1 I Decatur Aviation Boosters club I Mid that some time ago financial aid was a*ked of the CAA by local aviation enthusia*t«. Member* stated that they would do all in their power to keep the (Tam Te Pace Eight)

Error In Reporting Erie Time Change A typographical error in Tuesday's paper added to the confusion whidf many are experiencing when the subject of time is mentioned. In the Erie railroad’s time schedule the time of arrival of train No. 2, eastI hound, was given at 8:48 a.m. Il should have read 8:18 p.m. (Central standard time.) This is the train on which visitors to Chicago return | to Decatur. I World Endurance Flight Record Set Hope To Stay Aloft For Another Month Fullerton, Cal.. April 15—(UP ITwo tired but happy owners of a new world endurance flight record flew their light plane in lazy circles today and announced they hope to stay aloft "two weeks or a month more." While, a crowd of 2.000 cheered. Bill Harris and Dick Riedel shattered the decade-old mark of 726 hours at 5:44 p.m. yesterday over Fullerton airport, and an hour later hung up a new official record of 727 hours. • The 36year-old flight instructors' took off from the airport at 11:44 a.m. March 15 in "The Sunkist Lady." a small Aeronca cabin plane. Since (hen they have flown leisurely to Florida and back, taking on fuel and supplies three times a day from a speeding Jeep. Earlier yesterday they flew at windshield height alongside a fast moving car at Santa Ana. Cal. air port and shook hands with Wes Carroll and Clyde Schlieper of Long Beach. Cal., who set the old [ mark. “It was tough on the nerves those last 24 hours, knowing we were getting closer and closer to the record." they radioed the ground. "But it's great to be over the hump. Now we cat\ relax and just keep on flying.” BarrV and Riedel hoped to stay aloft at least until 11:44 a.m. April 26. making six weeks or l.Oi'S hours continuously in the air They estimated they had flown 60.0)10 miles so far. "We're feeling wonderful, both mentally and physically." they said, "and the engine's purring as smoothly as it did on takeoff." Their three previous attempts last year ended in failure, with 568 hours the longest they stayed aloft then. , The pilots alternated sleeping and flying the red. orange and <Tan To !*■*« Eight t

Bill Provides Long-Range Housing Construction And Slum Clearance Program

Lobaugh Is Granted Sixth Death Stay Commutation Os Sentence Denied Indianapolis, April 15—(UP)— A gravedigger who had been scheduled to die May 25 for the murders of three women won his sixth stay of execution' toda I '. Gov. Henry F. Schricker announced that he has postponed the execution date for Ralph Lobaugh to Aug. 25. But he denied Lobaugh's petition asking that the death sentence be commuted to life im- j prisonment. Eobaugh had claimed that he 1 was under the influence of drugs when he pleaded guilty to the three slayings. Schricker ordered a "fullscale investigation" of the case, 1 and hinted he would grant a : seventh stay of execution if the investigation is not completed by 1 Aug. 25. i Lobaugh was charged with the : murders after walking into the i Kokomo, Ind., police station in j 1947 and announcing that he killed Mrs. Dorothea Howard, Anna , Kuzeff and Wilhelma Haaga. Since then, two other men were indicted for Mrs. Howard's murj der, but charges against one of ; them were dropped. The other, Robert Christen, Denver, Colo., faces trial. "This case," Schricker said, "in all probability is one of the most (j difficult and most involved in the ’ ■[history of criminal procedure Ini' . our state." 1 Schricker said he ordered a full- , scale investigation ot the case, to begin immediately, before the death penalty should be imposed. 1 He said he gave Lobaugh's clem- 1 I eney petition "careful considera- : ■ tion" but said facts he has now 1 I,were “insufficient to warrant the ' I exercise of executive clemency at 1 (Turn T« Pnirr IHuhti j . j Scouts Distribute Cancer Literature Boy Scouts of the three Decatur ' i troops are distributing literature to [ i i all homes in this city today in the; 1 interest of the annual campaign i I sponsored by the Adams county.< cancer society. t < Fred J. Hofmann Is !: . 't Found Dead Thursday!; Ii Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon t I Fred J. Hofmann, G 5, retired [ | farmer who has lived at 616 Win-,, t Chester slreet for the past three] I months, was found dead late Thursday afternoon at the home . of a son-in-law and daughter, Mr. ami Mrs. Richard Mailand, east of Decatur. Death was caused by a self-in-flicted gun shot wound. Hofman shot himself through the heart with a 12-gauge shotgun. No motive was attributed for his act. He was born in Madison town 1 ship. Allen county. Aug. 4. 1883, a son of Christian and Magdoline!' I Hofmann. He resided in Pleasant . township. Van Wert county. 0.. for 40 years until his retirement in !' January. He was married to Lena : ' K Vergin April 26. 1911. Surviving are his wife; two , daughters. Mrs. Richard Mailand ■ and Mrs. Robert Nyffler. south of [ , Decatur; two grandchi'dren; four I, brothers. Adolph, Herman. August Hofmann, all of Van Wert. 0.. j and Otto of Toledo, O.; and two: i sisters. Mrs. Hugo Allmandinger < of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Charles] Schlemmer of Monroeville. Two | 1 sisters and two brothrrs are de-1 ceased. Funeral services will be held at • 1 2P m. Sunday at the Zwick fnnen ' at home, with burial in the DecaI tur ccmgery. Friends may cwl! a’ [ the funeral home this evening and t " after 4 p. m Saturday until time ' of the services. s. |

Hew Attempts Made To Solve Balkan Dispute Truce Over Easter Weekend Arranged In UN Assembly J-'ltishing. N. V., April 15 —(UP) --- The United Nations today prepared new efforts to solve the Balkan dispute after arranging an Easter weekend truce in the heated East-west clashes over the North Atlantic treaty. The UN announced that assembly president Herbert V. Evatt would meet next week at Lake Success with representatives of Greece. Albania. Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia to seek a “peaceful solution" of the! satellite-Greek conflict. Mediation ! efforts broke down last fall at Par-1 is. UN business ended last night for i a three-day holiday In the wake of a fierce debate on the Atlantic, pact. The fight, interjected relent- 1 lessly by both sides in connection ! with another quarrel on the veto.! left the UN split wider than ever before. The final foray ended just before I midnight in an exchange on the: assembly floor between American delegate Warren R. Austin, and So , viet deputy foreign minister Andrei Gromyko. After Austin had challenged Gromyko’s charges made Wednesday. Gromyko shot back that the American's statements on the pact "are not convincing and , are, moreover, thoroughly hypocritical." They (ontain "nothing but empty words,49lie said, "and pom-, pous phrases.” Gromyko told the delegates to road statements by Rep. Clarence, Cannon. D., Mo., to see “who. hatched up the North Atlantic treaty and for what purposes." “The most aggressively-minded ' apologists of tile North Atlantic pact from among United States pol- [ itical leaders.are with ever greater frequency and frankness blabbing out their aggressive designs direct-1 ed towards unleashing of a new [ war," Gromyko said. “The only difference Is that some . of them, like Cannon, without con cealing their aggressive plans use, the language of highway gangsters : while others ( over up these plans I by hypocritical statements concern-1 ing the defensive character'of the j North Atlantic treaty." (In house debate Wednesday on • the sls.9tm.OOft.OpO defense bill (Turn To I’nae —— Louis Jacobs Named President Os Rotary Election Held Here; Bob Heller Speaker Louis Jacob% member of the Holthouse Drug Co. firm, was ejected president of the Decatur Rotary club at the weekly meeting of the service club Thursday evening. Jacobs will succeed C. I Finlay-1 son. Central Soya plant manager,| who has served for the past year. Other new officers are Wilbur Petrie, owner of the Pettie Oil Co . vice-president; Donald Norquest, supervisor of the local office of the farm home administration, secre tary. Sim Burk, of the Burk Ele valor, treasurer, and Ivan Stucky. Decatur Hatchery owner, and L C Pettibone, superintendent of the ci;y electric department, directors The new officers will assume ' their duties July 1. Heller Soeaks Robert H. Heller. Decatur joint representative from Adam* and Wells counties to the state kghla'urc. and speaker of the house during the 1949 general assembly. was the guest speaker The legislator, who has served in the tower house for the fi»t 12 (Tara To Page FJcktt

Price Four Cents

Bill's Opponents Concede Support Is Insufficient To Kill Housing Proposal Washington, Apr. 15 — (UP) — Supporters of the administration’s long range housing bill predicted today that the senate would pass the measure early next week. Chairman Burnet R. Maybank, D., S. C„ of the senate banking committee, and Sen. John J. Sparkman, 1)„ Ala., whose subcommittee' drafted the proposal, said the senate should approve the measure Tuesday. And senate Democratic leader Scott W. Lucas, HL, said he thought the legislation should reach a vote by Tuesday or Wednesday. Opponents conceded that they don't have enough support to kill the measure. The bill calls for construction of 810,000 public housing units during the next six years, a $1,500.- : 000.000 slum clearance program, ! and a $267,500,000 rural housing program. The house and senate began their Easter recess today. The ! senate meets again Monday, and i the house tesumes action Apibl 25. There were these other developments on capitol hill: Taxes-Republican Sens. Styles Bridges, N. H„ and Kenneth S. Wherry. Neb., both members of the senate appropriations commit : tee. accused the president of pH- , ing spending demands on congress with "reckless abandon." They said Truman apparently is trying "to force a huge deficit in the federal treasury and saddle more : back-breaking taxes upon the people.” Taft—Sen. Robert A. Taft. R, 10., said It h time for the people to realize that they can’t get something for nothing. “People i can only be foole'tl into such a hope.” he said. For this reason. , Taft said, he will oppose the administra'ion's compulsory medical insurance program. He and two other Republicans are sponsoring a substitute which would provide f- deral funds to the states to care for persons “who cannot pay the full cost.” Recor'l — Sen. J. Howard McGrath, Democratic national chairman. a'ked house Democrats to talk over the led dative records of both parties with their con- | stituents during the Easter recess. He said the record would be one , of "Democratic accomplishment" 1 and "Republican obstructionism.” tabor —A coalition of southern : Demm rats and Republicans have come up with two measures aimed at the administration's labor proi gram. One. sponsored by Rep. ] John S. Wood, 1)., Ga.. is a new > substitute for the Taft-Hartley re- ! peal bill. It would repeal that lay by name and then reenact •most of its provisions. Tlie o'her sponsored by Rep. Wingate H. i Locos. D.. Tex., would establish a flexible minimum wage pegged to the cost of living. During the first year, it would increase the present 40-cent minimum wage to 65 cents an hour. Mr. Tt uman wants the Taft-Hartley law replaced wl'h an “improved" ver ion of 'he Wagner lalior act. and the minimum wage raised to 75 cents an hour. Pensions—About 250 bills to aid veterans arc stalled in the house veterans conitplttee behind the controversial Rankin pension measure. Some committee members are upset ataut the logjam. Appropriations—The house, now finished with all regular appropriations bills, has voted $."8,399.<Tw«~> Fare Couoh Killed When Auto Strikes Train Frankfort. Ind. April 15 -ff”) — Funoral see-lcea were nlann A l • T 75. >nA ’•»< w’*e. Dottie, It. "-*>n rrr-» >lllO-4 vesterdev -wh’tt Thn—u«<n d-nv« his ear In front of the Penn»v|vania railroad s "Florida Arrow."