Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 200, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1949 — Page 1

01. XLVIL No. 200.

CONFESSED KILLER’S WIFE ASKS REWARD

Wain Hopes : or Solution o Problems Economic Conference Holds Key To Many Worries And Hopes Ixindon. Aug. 25 — (UP) —Great Iritaln enter* the Washington ecootnlc conference next month with o Illusions that she can expect a olracle —a miracle that would live all her problems over night. ;he won't ask directly for money. But she hopes the conference will ot be a complete failure. Between those extremes there Is j vast area for negotiation on some teps that will ease, but not solve, he British dollar crisis. That is the maximum British chancellor of the exchequer Sir Itafford Cripps and foreign secreary 'Ernest Kevin can hope lor then they ait down with U- S. lecretary of the treasury John W. Inyder and secretary of state Dean Icheson and the Canadian representatives to tackle what has beome a periodical British crisis The problem before these men Is complex. It Is entwined with dome.*lc politics in all countries It is a iroblem on which much emotion I* epent each day. It Includes the socialism versus capitalism contro rersy. But at the expense of over slmpll'ication the problem Is not too nuch different — even though far nore complex — than what hapjens every year to a lot of indivhila I people. A man who already is in debt expects to earn 15.000 a year, but to continue living as he does at the noment it looks as though it wtlL, cost him (8.000 He borrows 12.00* hoping to be able to earn more. By nidyqar he finds that his expenses ire running at the rate of (10,000 a year. The man finds a sponsor who has faith in him. The sponsor, who is Interested In seeing the man financially solvent, says he'll give him (5.000. of which (3,000 Is a gift and (2.000 is a loan, on the theory it will get him back on his feet But the man finds that rising prices and failure to earn what he anticipated makes his deficit grow even faster. That, in oversimplified terms. Is where Britain Is today. Day after day she Is going in toe red faster and faster. Immediately after the war she borrowed from the IJ. S. (3.750.00 U- . with the hope it would last five years to cover her deficit excess of buying over earnings from the U. S. It disappeared in little more than a year. The Marshall Plan came along Vast sums were given and loaned t<: Britain and western Europe to help speed up recovery. By 1952 It was supposed to have done the trick Good progress was made for 1 while. But the recession in the U. S. Ihe drop in prices, and the general growth of the lack of economic confidence finds that plan now having (Tara Ta Pace (Hat

Public Gets First View Os New Ultra-Modern Bus

Washington, Aug 35 (UP)— Going,crosscountry on a bus aoon *lll be at comfortable, almost, aw going crosscountry in anything Man. A number of things hare been added Continental Tra 11 *ay a. *lth headquarters In Dallas, exhibited a erimson-antkcream sample here yesterday, just before they gassed her up, and headed west on the maiden trip Ths bus. which is 35 feet lons •nd weighs over 35.000 pound*, is •quipped with a lavatory, a snack bar, tirconditioning and a pretty hostess, who comes to your beck •nd call when you push a little button. i An AM-PM radio is piped through the vehicle by means of half a dosen hidden loud epeakers. The , hostess, sitting at ths little snack table in the middle of the car. , handles the controls and get* the thing tuned in properly before sbe turns the music and commercials loose on the customers. i The "Continental is known as a deck**.Kxi.a.half Twelve pasaO

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

G.A.R. Final Meeting Gels Officials Aid Governor, Mayor Join To Help Entertain Indianapolis, Aug. 25 — (UP) The governor of Indiana asked 500.0(t0 residents of this city today to suspend business for an hour and ring church bells in tribute to six Civil War veterans attending the last encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. Gov. Henry F. Schricker called for the tribute to be paid during a twilight parade at 6:30 p. in next Wednesday, last day of the 83rd annual encampment that ends the GAR forever. Six of the 16 surviving Boys In I Blue, last bastion of an organization that once numbered 400,000 members, are planning to attend beginning Sunday if health permits. They hanged in age from 100 to 108, the extremes being "young" Theodore Penland. Portland. Ore., national commander in chief, and ''old" James A. Hard. Rochester. N. T. Schricker. in a proclamation Issued from the Hoosier statehouse where the GAR was organized in 1886, termed the fleeting the "last earthly encampment" of the vets. He urged suspension of all busi-1 ness activities in the city as a filial salute. The veterans will ride in separate open cars along a route that ends on Monument Circle, where a tall memorial shaft honoring the dead of early United States wars forms the heart of the city. Mayor Al Feeney, former Notre Dame football star under Knu'.e Rockne, came to bat last night for the white-haired ex soldiers when he rescinded a city safety board ' order banning the paraders from .one section ot the circle. i "They can march around the circle to times If they want to," i Feeney said. i At Portland. Penland gathered his battle ribbons and his cane and i caught a train for a three-day trip with his grandson to the eneamp- ■ ment city. He plans to arrive Saturday to help with last minute arrangements for the convention boginning ntxt day i Esponoza Child Dies At Riley Hospital Funeral arrangements have been completed for Pauline Espinoza. 19month -old daughter of Mr. and Mrs Frederick Espinoza, of Blue Creek township The child died at 9 a. m. today at the Riley Memorial hospital, Indianapolis She had been ill f>r six weeks, though there has been no report as to the cause of h>*r death. In addition to the parents, she ,s survived by two sisters. Carolina I and Victoria, and her grandmother. Hortenda Espinoza. The Rev. Ferado will be in J charge of the funeral services which will be held in the Black Funeral home, at 2 p m. Saturday. Burial will be In the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m Friday.

i gers can rit in the lower part. | while the topside compartment , holds 30 person* The inside is fixed up like a living room The seats are upholster- , ed in plushy nylon done in pea , green and lavender with a white ( lily painted on the back of the , seat for decoration. Each seat Is , equipped with an ash tray and ( they say the airconditioning is ( able to draw out the clgaret smoke , as fast as you can puff It. Then Is an individual reading light over each seat for the benefit | of the sleepless. The seats can be ( tipped back for those who have , learned to snooxe while in motion., | Windows on both decks are set , in with a "kick out” sash In | of an accident you give the pane a kick and it falls to the pavement All of the windows, incidentally, i are of "telex." which is a heat- I absorbing glass that soaks np a lot '| of the sunlight and keeps out a < lot of the heat. | Not only can you fetch along the ( whole family but there la room underneath for about everything. btt tb . ice box and the graad To Pent M*>

Atlantic Pact Becomes Reality - JSmbßbh k " Jbb K P* i

SURROUNDED BY a distinguished diplomatic gathering at the White House. President Truman, with receipt of the final Instrument of ratiiicatlon from France, signs a proclamation which formally put the North Atlantic Pact Into force. Arrayed behind Mr. Truman are (I. to r.J F. It. Hoyer Miller. United Kingdom; Henrik De Kauffmann. Ambassador of Denmark; W. D Matthews of Canada. Defense Secretary I-ouis Johnson: Wilhelm Munthe de Morgensierne, Norwegian Ambassador; Ambassador Henri Bonnet of France; Baron Silvercruys. Ambassador of Belgium; Senhor Pedro T. Pereira. Ambassador of PPortugal; Secretary of State Dean Acheson; Jonkheer (). Reuchlin, Minister of Netherlands, and Signor Mario laiciolli. Counsellor of Italy.

Two Are Arrested On Traffic Violations Girl On Bike Hurt When Auto Hits Her Sheriff Herman Bowman han ordered two inen to justice of the peace court today, one fur vio lating a traffic sign and the other for failure to report an accident. The sheriff arreated Don Ei< Iler. Bellmont road, for disregarding a atop sign at the Twin bridge nn U. H. highway 324 Wednaeday. The other man to be arraigned for Ji* court today. Weldon Nussbaum, route 1, Berne, Is alleged to have struck Betty .MeKean. who was riding a bicycle one and onehalf miles weat of Monroe on state road 124. The accident, which oc curred Tuesday, was not reported to the sheriff's office until Wed neaday evening. Mias McKean suffered left arm and foot bruises, and a swollen left ankle. Sheriff Bowman ordered the girl be taken to a doctor for treatI inent of the ankle. The bicycle was demolished, damage estimated . al *4O; the right front fender of 1 the Nussbaum car was slightly denied. A car driven by James Dailey, route 3. which had pulled to the right of the street to allow a car driven by Walter Winchester, of Berne, to pass, caught the right rear fender of the Winchester car. Police, who investigated, estimated the damage to the Winchester car at |45. to the left front fender of the Dailey car at (10. — Phone Company Gets Long Delayed Cable Work Starts Monday On New Phone Lines Residents of Stratton Place and McMillen addition, two of Deca tuCs newest residential subdD visions, soon will have private line telephone service. It was an nounced today by Charles Ehinger. secretary and general manager- of the ('lt liens Telephone Co. For two years residents of those two areas have had only party-line service from overhead wires. Th* cable for underground permanent wires has been received and work will stgrt Monday on laying the cable, which when completed will provide any type of telephone service desired. Mr. Ehinger said. Work will start first on the Stratton Place area and as soon as it is completed the workmen will shift their activities to tbe McMillen addition All the work will be completed soon. It was learned Cable was ordered for the job more than two years ago. but because a special type of wire Is required. deUys were encount I The Installation of underground cables U part of the local com pony's program to make the Deca tor system one of the moot modern in the nation

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 25, 1949.

Press Story Relates Death Os Local Man According to a United Press dispatch, Pfc. Lawrence E. Lichtenberger, son of .Mr. and Mrs W. IL Lichtenberger of Decatur route five, lost his life in a stream near Bernau, Germany, 30 miles from Mun Icb. The message received by the par. ents did not state where their son was drowned. Pfc. Lichtenberger was attached to a military police unit and went to Germany In January. His body Is being returned to the United States. Parly Bolters Are Offered Peace Terms Dixiecrats Invited To Return To Party Washington. Aug. 25—(UP)— President Truman held out an olive branch today to the southerners who bolted the Democratic ticket last year. He Invited them to come back into the party fold. But he warn *ed them that their return must be on his terms—not theirs. “The Democratic party is a national party, and not a sectional party any more." he said “The tail no longer wags the dog.’’ Mr. Truman spoke at a dinner of the Democratic national committee last night. At a onoday meeting yesterday, the committee ousted five southern supporters of the antiTruman "states' righters" ticket last fall, and elected William M Boyle, Jr., of Kansas City to succeed attorn*y general J. Howard McGrath as its chairman. Mr Truman endorsed the ouster of the five rebels. But he made it plain that this does not mean southern leaders are forever barred from high party councils. “We won the national election last November without New York, without the industrial east and without the solid south.” he said. “I am prouder of that than anything that has ever happened to me “JWid that doesn't mean that we are not inviting the Industrial east and the solid south and all the rest of the country to join the party of the people and help the country go forward That is exactly what we want, and that is exactly what we are going to accomplish in the next two years" Tbe states' righters were not Im pressed with the invitation. They contended that they never left the party-that the party left them And if the Democratic platform and ticket in 1952 does not please them.' they said, they will put up their own candidates, just as they did In 1942. W W. Wright of Mississippi, general chairman of the "national states* rights committee." said his organisation intends to establish headquarters here to promote a states' rights constitutional amend meat. It would forbid tbe federal government and congress from Interfering with southern racial or election laws The five committee members ousted were Marion Rushton of Alabama. William H. Talbot of Louisiana. Mrs Anne Agnew of (Tara Te runs Klabo i

Low Point Reached By Hoosier Business July Shows Lowest Since August 1947 Bloomington, Ind , Aug. 25—(UP) ■ — Hoosier business in July slipped to its lowest postwar point sines - August. 1947. the Indiana Business • Review said today. ‘'Preliminary figures reported to 1 the I. U. business research burea i j indicate that business in the state J was lower in July than In any i month since August. Iftf7." the ! monthly magaxlne said The Review blamed the reduction in coal output due to the three-da,' work week for the decline In business, because small declines in otli'er businesses were offset by gams In other industries. “The |M>sslbllity of a work stoppage in the steel industry Has brought altout an Inventory accumulation on tbe part of the principal 1 users of steel," the Business Re- ’ view said, “and in turn is no doubt inert asing purchases on the part of I many other users and distributors 1 of durable goods. "If no significant work stoppage 1 occurs in the steel Industry, present inventory accumulations will be re ’ fleeted in smaller purchases by con--1 sumers of steel products In the fourth quarter.” r News|>aper advertising lineage ‘ 1 showed a little improvement over ’ June figures, but total volume was i somewhat less seasonally than *n May. Bank debits were down mater- , (ally. Building, on the basis of contract awards, dropped considerably i from June's high levels but was I much altove normal for July. Department store sales were seas - onally the best so far this year. , i Electricity production was lower i than in any other 1949 month, out altove all postwar Julys but 1944. Farm income declined slightly, with i higher prices being offset by small- . I er receipts. I - Employment Rises In July C. of C. Survey ’! Few More Working Than Month Ago Employment In five of the city's industries showed a small increase in July, the Chamber of Com rnerce business barometer, shows The total employed was 1.123. compared to 1.109 in June. A year ago employment reported by six industries was 1.542. The payroll for the month was 3271.125. compared with 5279.543 a year ago. Blight increases were also shown in the number of electric, gas and water meters in use. The number of telephones In service Increased In July. The largest volume of business increase was in car loading, in and oat of Decatur In Joly car loadings totaled 3.443. compared to 12.403 in Jane and 2.334 for thq, same month last year Building permits were nine, with a value of *15,740. ah Increase of 55.5 percent over June.

Gives Husband's Signed Confession To Sheriff; Then Demands $16,500

Program Is Planned By I. B. Association Directors Make Plans At Wednesday Meet Directors of the Adams county 'uberculosls association made plans for their fall and winter program at a meeting Wednesday night at the home of the secretary. Mrs. Guy Brown. The program for 1949 50 will be enlarged, it was announced following the session. Patch testing of pupils in all schools of the county In the first, ninth and tenth grades will be held the first two weeks in October, according to the plans. The patch-test-ing will be supervised by Miss Jean Shockley, county health nurse. All pupils who have positive reactors will receive X-rays when the mobile uult Is in the county in Jan uury. At that time, it was announ•ed. all students of the eleventh and twelfth grades of the county schools will be patch-tested. • The association also made plans to enlarge the health education serI vice by furnishing more pamphlets I and Instructional literature to ail i teachers of the county. i Mrs. Brown also announced that the results of the recent X-rays tak- , In In the county had been received J and would be mailed to all persons who took advantage of the free . service The complete results will be tabulated and announced soon. Mrs. Brown said Preliminary plans were discuss--1 ed for the mailing of Christmas seals and the county mailing lists are now being revised and envelop(Tern Tn Pear Plebe> I —.— Sunday Is Last Day For City Swimming Pool 1 Officials of the Decatur municipal swimming pool have announced that Sunday will be the last day r the pool will be open this season 1 The pool, which is supervised t»y Harry Dailey, instructor at Decatur high school, always closes Just 1 prior to the opening of the Decatur schools. John Bird Dies In Root Township Home Local G.E. Employe Was 111 Three Months I John P. Bird. 52. employed for the last seven years at the Decatur General Electric plant died ' Wednesday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock al his home in Root township He had been serloTisly ill for i the last three months. Mr Bird was born in Continental. O . March 7. 1897. a son of John and Nettie lx»y Bird, both deceased He was united in marriage to Eunice Brown at Continental March 12. 1919 The widow survives. Mr Bird had been a farmer until he was employed seven years ago at the Decatur factory. Three sons survive. They are John W. Bird. Root township; Lloyd M Bird of Union township and Dale D . at home Two daugh (era and a son preceded the father in death Two brothers. Adam of Ontario. Canada and Joseph E Delphos. O. and two sisters Mrs. Julia Harris. Lima. 0., and Mrs Viola Evans. Albion. Mich, also survive. Mr. Bird was a World War I veteran and a member of Adams Post of the American legion He also was a member of the Eagles lodge of Paulding county. Ohio. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the home and 1:30 at the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church with Rev L. T Nor ris. pastor of that church In charge Burial will be made in ' Monroe cemetery. Continental. O. , The body will be removed from Swick funeral home Xo the residence at 7 30 o'clock tonight, after which time friends may call until time of ths funeral.

———————————————————— . House To Take Month Rest As Senate Works Skeleton Force To Stay On To Make Formal Motions Washington. Aug 25 — (UP) House members are going off on a <>ne-month vacation tomorrow night, even if the hard-at-work senate objects. Speaker Sam Rayburn said hous<* vacation plans won't be upset just because the senate yesterday voted down a resolution to let the house quit work until Sept 21. A simple house resolution would authorize three-day recesses for the next four weeks. A few members of the house bill remain here to bang a gavel every i three days By Sept. 21. house members hope the senate will have I caught up with them on the leglslaI tive calendar. In other congressional develop tnents: Five Per Centers — Senate InI vestigators disclosed that John Mar- > agon got authorisation to go to r-'-t strlcted areas of Italy on a business 1 trip shortly after V-E day with tn* . help of a letter from Maj. Gen Harry II Vaughan • B-36 —Chairman Carl A. Vinson of i the house armed services commit- ( tee charged that “plenty" of navy - men had a hand in the now-famous memorandum attacking the air force's B-36 program The memo was written by Cedric R. Worth, assistant to Dan \ Kimball, assistant secretary of the navy. Economy — Economy minded - members of congress smiled I through their tears and okayed til-- | cutback in armed services personnel ordered by defense secretary Ixiuis Johnson an economy which ■ hurts congressmen in their home. districts. Some memlw-rs. of course, com-, plained bitterly that their district j had to take more than a fair share But most felt like senate Republican leader Kenneth S Wherry cf Nebraska. Wherry told newsmen he was naturally unhappy altout the dis-1 charge of civilian employes in Nebraska installations, but that congress can't blame the defense department "for doing what we've been asking them to do." ‘ They won't get a aquawk out of me." be said. Johnson told the lawmakers about his cutback yesterday. At a Pentagon meeting, he revealed tiia* he had ordered the discharge of l Torn To P«a<- Tsnl

£. W. Busch e Returns From 30-Dav Visit In Eurone

Returning from a 30-day flying, trip to Europe. E. W. Kusche of I Monroe, one of Indiana's leading I agriculturalists, said that the tierman people were making marked t progress in agriculture recovery , "The European Recovery Plan (Marshall Plan) is doing a wonderful job and is well thought of in Germany The German people appreciate American help and do not hesitate to inform you that they would have starved to death, if it had not been for our food." Mr Bundle commented. The 78 year old agriculturalist > made his European trip by plane. leaving New York on July 20 and • arriving home last Monday He had passage on a Constellation both I ways and landed and took off from ' Amsterdam. Holland. In contrast with his first voyage I to the United Status when he was > a boy of 15. and traveled in steer-' age. with 17 days “aboard ship be- \ | fore he landed at Baltimore. Mr Busche made his most recent trip | across the Atlantic in only 17 h hours , The constellation took oft from

Price Four Cents

Click Relates All In Letter Written To His Wife From His Cell In Jail Fort Wayne, Ind.. Aug. 25—(UP) —The 28-year-old wife of a confessed triple slayer today claimed a (16.500 reward for his arrest and conviction because she gave police Ills confession. Mrs. Marie Click demanded the reward In a letter to police chief lister Eisenhui which accompanied the confession. Police said her husband. 30-year-old Franklin Click, confessed three 1941 murders Sunday night after a five-hour He detector Investigation. "My dear wife," Click wrote, "1 want you to be the first to know and learn from my own Bps that I am a murderer. I am the one and the only one guilty and the only one that murdered Billie Haaga, Anna Kuzeff and Phyllis Conine . . . This I know is a terrible confession and I want you to hand thia confession to chief of police Lester Eisenbut. I understand that by doing so you will be entitled to the reward offered for information hading to lhe arrest and conviction of the murderer." Click wrote. The confession was written in Allen county jail Sunday and was witnessed by attorney Robert Buhler. Click's defense lawyer Buhler also witnessed Mrs Click s reward demand which she gave to police with the confession. Buhler also is attorney for Ralph W Lobaugh. Kokomo factory worker, who confessed, denied and pleaded guilty to two of the murders Click now says he committed. I.obaugh repudiated his guilty plea and has received seven stays of execution. He is slated to die Nov. 26. In addition to the Haaga and Kuzeff murders. Lobaugh also confessed and denied the 1945 killing i f Mrs Dorothea Howard A third man. Robert V Christen. Denver, | Col, was convicted of second dei gree murder for that crime and wa* sentenced to life imprisotyuent. He filed an appeal to the state supreme court yesterday. Busy Days Are Ahead For South Budd Plant The South-Budd Tomato fanning plant at Preble began its first full day of operation today, with more than 75 persons employed In processing the tomatoes. Growers began to deliver the redripe tomatoes a few days ago and preliminary operational steps were started yesterday. The prospects for a good tomato crop are good. I farmers stated The plant is operated by Richard South of this city. WEATHER Fair with little change in temperature tonight and Friday

i Amsterdam at 10:4tf o'clock Saturday night and arrived at International Airport. New York City Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. ; Front New- York to Fort Wayne Mr Ruscbe made the trip by train. The successful American farmer who "made good" in the land of opportunity and was most happy 'to return to his adopted country, visited his three brothers and a r later In Germany He represented I the American Soyabean Association on an agriculture trip through j American tones in Germany. His i brothers and sisters are well. They live in a village near Hanover and are prominent farmers "The crops are good this year and the truck gardens are very productive. The people are not faring badly With the exception of corn, an acre of land in Germany will produce from 50 to 100 percent more of wheat, rye or potatoes than the same area will la this country." Mr. Busche observed. Mr Rusche visited American (Twrw To Pace Seveol