Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 269, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1949 — Page 1

®i No 269

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Need Os Failh Is Cited By Speaker Spiritual Emphasis Week Service Held hr. Gaitton Euote. guest speaker for spiritual emphasis week, delivered the second of his series of messages to an attentive audience a 1 Zion Kvangell.al and Reformed church Monday night. The Re/. 11. J. Welty, pastor of the Missionary church, presided, and the Rev. John F. Chambers, pastor of Trinity Evang Ileal I’nlted Brethren church read the scripture and gave the Invocation. The choir of the First Bapti t church rendered special music and Mrs. David Kmhler presided at the organ. Dr. Foote based his sermot of John I, chapter 5. verse 4: "This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith " "Two philosophies are followed in the world fatalism and faith.' he said. "We are living In a day of pessimistic fatalism. It was fosterel In the days of the war when a soldier believed that he would be kil'ed because a bullet 'had his name written on it.' Carried over into everyday life, a man says he cannot help himself; he is bound by his heredity — he drinks liecause his grandfather drank; th“ boy steals because hlv father was a thief. Man cannot govern hU actions. “What we need is a great faith. First, a great faith in the future. Jesus Christ put His faith in the future. The future Is all we have; we can do nothing about the past Yet many people have no faith in the future and do not plan even five minutes ahead. "Second, a great faith in human goodness. In spite of all the sin In the world, yet there Is a great human goodness in people all over the world." For illustration. Dr. Foote referred to two different young women who during war years In Germany. were put to every kind of mlstreatm nt because they would not sell out to the enemy. Dr. Foote said. "As long as there are people like that In the world, that's a challenge to me.” He continued, “third, a faith In the transforming power of God. The age of miracles is not over. The beautiful flower is made possible by the sun whose light must travel 93,000.000 miles." Referring to one of the novels of Sinclair Lewis which starts out "God died last night." Dr Foote said many people live as if they believed it. Vsing the great Lou Gehrig story as an illustration, he closed his message with the thought. "We too need to walk with Ood." Tonight's service will again start at 7:30 o'clock, at Zion church. The Rev F H Willard, pastor of Bethany Evangelical I'nited Brethren church will pre side, and the Rev. Ralph Carter | pastor of the Church of the Natarene, will have charge of devotionals. Two choirs will join In giving, the special music. They wl l be iTwrw T« l , ea» Wist Albert C. Saallrank Is Taken By Death Heart Attack Fatal To Hoagland Man Albert C. Saalfrank. 5«. well known Hoagland carpenter and brick mason died suddenly at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon of a heart attack at his home. He was born in Marlon township. Allen county. Dec. 22. 1892. a son of Henry and Elixabe’h r-Saalfrank. and was married to Elisabeth Judt Nov 5. 1914 He was a charter member of the Hoagland fire department and wav serving as assistant chief at the time of his death. He was a member of the Emmanuel Luth- I eran church at Soest < Surviving are his wife: two brothers. William flaalfrank of Fort Wayne and Carl of Alien county, and one sister. Mrs. Martin Or-lhel o' Fort Wayne One son. Warren, is deceased. Funeral service, wi’l be held at 2 P m Thursday at the Emmanuel Lutheran church at Soest, the 1 Rev E T. Schmidtke officiating 1 Burial will be in the church eeme- ' tery. Friends may call at the Zwlck funeral home this evening, t and the body will be removed to I the home Wednesday morning l

15 Miners Are Rescued From Fall in Mine Men Trapped Eight Hours Rescued At Pennsylvania Mine Mahanoy City, Pa.. Nov. 15 — (I'P) Rescuers brought out 15 weary coal miners early today who bad spent eight hours trapped behind a rock fall 900 feet underground. The trapped m< n dug continuously during their captivity to help rescue crews working from the other side clear away the tons of rock, coal and dirt which blocked their path to freedom. “I wasn't afraid they wouldn't reach us," one of the miners said as he came to the surface. "But, I'm glad I'm out. We sure did a lot of digging for this night's work." Physicians who examined each of the men as they came to the surface said that they suffered no ill effects. They were sent home to rest. The urn were trapped in the No. f> slope of the Philadelphia! And Reading Coal And Iron Co. | Maple Hill colliery when a runaway mine <ar jumped the track and knocked out timbers supporting the sides and roof of the tunnd. The crashing timbers and a warning rumble alerted the mon. but the sides and roof of the tunnel collapsed with a roar before they could flee. Fortunately, however, the debris was not packed tightly enough to block off ventilation and the trapped men had sufficient air. They tapped mine car rails to rail attention to their plight and then cut in on a permanent telephone line to communicate with rescue crews. The rock fall occurred only two hours after the men started working yesterday afternoon. Ail 15 had enough food in their lunch boxes. Because the men were not in immediate danger, rescue workers sounded no alarm for volunteer rescue crews and the townspeople were hardly aware of the incident. The scene at the top of the shaft gave no indication of the dramatic struggle going on nearly one-fifth of a mile underground. Only a few relatives were there. No curious crowd milled about It looked as though only ordinary (Twre Te I'aae S|s> Student Day Sale In City Saturday High School Pupils To Work In Stores The annual student day sale will ' be held Saturday, according to an announcement made today by W. Guy Brown, principal of the Decatur high school. The sale Is being sponsored by the senior class of the high school In conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce. All students of the high school clerk or do general work In a store or office on that particular day. The proceeds from the day’s labor go into the senior class fund. Handbills advertising the sale are in preparation under the direr* tion of Dale Ross, senior class sponsor, and members of the senior class, and they will be distributed by boys of the Lincoln school. The work serves two purposes. ' Mr. Brown said. It adds to the senior class fund, and It gives the individual student vocational ex perience. "A surprising number of students in the past." he stated, "have retained their jobs as a result of this one-day sale." Close Highway For Sewer Excavation Traffic over V. S highway 224 was being detoured today as Monroe street was closed in front of the new A 4 P Food Market site for sewer excavations The detour followed Front street, east of the site, and then to Jackson street to the corner of Second and Monroe streets. The sewer tap will be made into the Monroe street aeww, which drops 14 feet Into the Bt. Mery's river, a half block east of the excavation.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, November 15,1949

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VALENTIN GUBITCHEV (right). 33. Soviet engineer and former employe of the U. N, strides into New York Federal Court for the opening of hi* espionage trial with codefendant Judith Coplan (left!, 29-year-old former Washington Justice Department worker. Both are charged wi h con piracy to transmit so< ret U. S. documents to a foreign power.

Jurors Are Drawn I I For November Term , Grand Jury To Meet During Court Term Names for the grand and petit jurors to serve during the Novetn- I ber term of court were selected Monday by county officials. It is i noted that all members chosen for this session of court are among j the living. There were several I members of the September term ' 1 of jurors who had been dead, one or two of them tor as long as 25 years. To eliminate this posi-ibillty for the November term, the registra tion book was checked. There are several members wb«>i ( have been chosen for duty who are alxive the age 60, the last yeat when one is required to serve. It ’ Is pointed out that over 60 it la no longer mandatory but is options!. It is also delmted whether or not Roliert Heller, of Decatur, and a member of the state legislature would be allowed to serve. His name Is among those chosen for petit Jury service, Tlte grand Jury is require! to meet this session, for the law states It must meet at least on-e a year. Judge Myles F. Parrish 1 ; stated there are some criminal cases on the docket, hut it Is Impossib'e to state If any of them will be disposed of during the November term. However, the grand Jurv will be required to make an inspection of county building*, especially the county home. Any recommendations the grand jury may make for the improvement of any county building are. under law, mandatory. At the end of the term the grand Jury will be required to file 1 a report with the court explaining . all actions, number of indii tments • Tara Tw Paar *ls» Legion Votes Down Pledge To Center Resolution Favors Unit Only For Youth Members of the American Legion. Adams Post 43. voted unanimous!/ to donate 8500 to the Community Fund's red feather campaign at their regular meeting Monday night. Also at the meeting, attended hy approximately 200 members, it was voted by a vast majority not ta pledge Legion funds for the propped Community Center, due to what l-eglon official* claim are "insut'ident funds." to meet the proposal of the fund's campaign committee. Members engaged in a lively de hate before the vote was taken, both side* of the Community Cen«er theme being clearly and capabl'/ 1 stated. i 1 A resolution on the Post's stand on the Community Center had been : 1 brought to the floor by a utecial 1 committee, plus members of the I e-! ' gion's executive committee, and it was this recommendation which members voted into effect The reeolution favors building first a uni*. * oaly for the youth.

Espionage Trial Begins

First Snowfall Os Season Here Today Snow begun falling in Decatur a* about 9 o'clock this morning and a brisk flurry followed. Aside from a flake in the air a week ago. this was the first snowstorm of the season. Temperatures hovered around the freezing mark early this morning. The Daily liemocrat's thermometer showed 34 at 9:30 this morning. Baby Girl Born On Atlantic Airliner Child Is Delivered In Lounge Os Plane Sydney. N 8 . Nov. 15— (UP)— Mrs. Leokalla Rolbleckl, Polish refugee, enroute to a town In Illinois, gave birth tn a daughter without the aid ot a doctor in a Scandinavian airliner over the Atlantic Ocean today, and when the plane landed here she was feeling so well she decided to fly on to New York. The child was delivered In the rear lounge of the 6<»passenger DC-6 by the stewardess, two pursers and a woman passenger, on Instructions radioed by a doctor from Prestwick, Hcotland. "She was a sturdy woman and didn't utter a word." Capt. There Strensrud. the pilot, said when the plane landid here. "She ate a hearty breakfast a few hours after the baby came and decided to con Untie to New York.” The plane, now carrying 57 passengers including two more pregnant women. 13 other babies, and nine other children, was due in New York about noon. ”1 hope I can get the other pregnant passengers to New York safely without something similar happening,” Strensrud said while the plane was re-fuellng here. The plane took off yesterday from Bremen, Germany, for the United States with 56 passengers, sit of them displaced persons en route to new homes. Mrs. Rolbiecki. mother of three other children, and her husband, were on their way to Ahlgre. 11l When the plane was one hour and 5u .minutes out of Prestwick, Strrnstud radioed back: "Advise company one ot our women passengers likely to give birth. Need medical advlee. Suggest you have doctor available." Dr. J. Rowell hurried to the Prestwick airport. The baby was delivered in the lounge by Barbro Wimmgren. the Swedish stewardess. Niels Jensen, a Dane, and Bjorn Skaar. a Nor wegian both pursers, and Supanka Bukou'kl. a Polish passenger vn route to Chicago. At midnight ('ST. the plane, the "Sverre Viking.” radioed; "Passenger No. 15, page 12 of Manifest, baby born at <»ssa (5.55 am Atlantic time or 11:55 am UST). Child doing nicely The plane was enroute to Gan der. Nfld. for re-fueling, but was forced to continue to Sydney when weather closed the Gander air port Strenerud said the plane was bouncing around in "bumpy" weather when thu child was born "It was not quits what I eg peeted." he said "But It wasn't too (Turn T» rasa Mat

Six-Year-Old Hollywood Girl Murdered, Police Seek Sex Case Suspect

I Community Center Fund Near $75,000 Additional Pledges Reported To Fund The Community Center fund was boosted near to the 175.000 mark today with the report of workers from the special gifts, business and professional committees last evening at the city hall. Additional pledges totaling approximately 410.000 were turned in by the workers. An audit of all reports b being made at campaign headquarters in the library building, which will reveal the exact amount so far pledged toward the Community Center. The All Decatur committees made its first report last Friday and pledges for more than 19.000 were added to the fund. in the pledges so far obtained I j there ar* two for 15.000 each; one] for 13.800; one for 83.500; one for |3.O(M; one for 82.400 and one for 11.500. There were a couple for 11.000 and several for 1500. The range ran down to 810. Th" reports were made to Carl C. Pumphrey, president of the Decatur Memorial Foundation, inc., and chairman of the drive. The goal is for 8175,000 and up to 8200,000 if the fund is to share in the full amount of the 1100.000 gift from Centra) Soya company. If 8150,000 is raised in the campaign, the gift from the industry will be 875,000. Mr. Pumphrey urged the workI ers to complete their solicitation and thanked those who had turned i in their reports. The formal drive will cany through to November 28. at which time the trustees of the Foundation will decide on future action lu regards to the proposed civic under taking __a Bridegroom Os Day Commits Suicide I Suicide Note Says Married Wrong Girl Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. H.—(UP) —A 20-year-old bridegroom of onel day scrawled a suicide note on the| back of his marriage certificate then killed himself because he mar rled the wrong girl, police said today Former high school football star Tommy Lee Hchwader wrote trembling farewell note to his 16 year-old bride. Edna Irene (Jackie) Hamman, which said in part: "If anybody ever tells you this is a coward's way out. you try II i once . . . Jackie, please don't dream " The youth's body, the mugtie of a 12-gauge shotgun jammed against his head, was found in his car yes | I terday barely a day after he and | l Jackie were married in Yuma, Arts | He had fired the death blast with ■ i his big toe. Beside his body, officers found a Juma. Aril., marriage certificate i with a scrawled suicide note on the back, in his pocket, they found a note from the girl he had courted for months. 'Betty Jean Cron. 16. that turned down his plea ' to "go steady." "Tommy was sore because I had broken with him," Betty Jean, the ( bride's best friend, explained to day "He married the wrong girl, not the girl be loved I was sure It would not work wit." Although they went out together in a party Saturday night. Betty Jean said the final break In their 1 romance came the day before, when he found she had dated an- , other boy. Rut Saturday night after the par ty. Hchwader. a Compton college' student talked Jackie Into accom ‘ panying him to Yuma where they were married by a Justice of the peace. "1 thought I loved him." Jackie j told police "But on the way back ' from Yuma. I suddenly felt It was all wrong I told him so." They went to a motel, however, • (Twew T» Pace >ta)

Seek To Halt Strike Tying Up Shipping Strike Threatens To Tie Up Half Os Nation's Shipping I Washington. Nov 15—(UP) — Government mediators were set to make a last minute effort today to head off a twice-postponed strike that threatens to tie up half the nation's shipping A strike of 2.0U0 tast and gulf coast deck officers of the AFL masters, mates and pilots union is scheduled to begin at 12:01 am.. EST. tomorrow William N. Margolis, assistant federal mediation director, said the strike looks like a sure thing unless the government can get a settlenunt at conferences during the day. Chances appeared slim for an other extension of the strike deadline. And the unions insistence upon a "rotary hiring hall" system seemed to rule out the possibility of a delay while a presidential factfinding board looked into the Issues. Frank J. Taylor, president of the merchant marine institute and chief operators' spokesman, said a strike would keep some 100 ships now In east and gulf coast ports from going to sea. He said 38 companies, operating a large portion of the country's merchant marine, are directly involved in the dispute. A long strike. Taylor said, would tie up 500 American ships. This would have a serious effect on Mar shall plan shipments and other international trade commitments. Besides the union's deck officers, thousands of other merchant seamen here and aboard —as well as longshoremen—would be idled by the strike. Union president Charles F. May has warned that the union would have the active support of other American maritime unions and foreign labor groups. The only point at issue, it was brought out during a fruitless two I hour meeting yesterday, is the hlr (Turn To Peer Sis I BULLETIN Pittsburgh, Nov. IS.—(UP)— Westinghouse Electric Corp., one of the big three of the industry, today asked the national labor relations board to determine if a newly-chartered CIO union or the ousted united electrical workers represents its 75,000 employes. Simple Church Rises For Barkley, Hadley Limit Attendance To Immediate Families St. Louie, Nov. IE—(UP) —Only members ot the immediate families of the bride and groom will attend the wedding of vice president Alben W. Barkley and Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley in tiny St John's Methodist Chapel Friday morning Richmond Coburn, spokesman for the couple, revealed at a press' conference today that there would be no ushers or other attendants with two exceptions. William W Rucker of Palm* Beach. Fla will accompany Mrs. Hadley to the altar and Barkley's son, David M Barkley, will serve as best man Reporters will be permitted to atttnd the brief and simple service but photographers will be barred from the cbapel. There will be ' plenty of pictures outside however, snd arrangements have been made I to telecast the wedding parly uu the trip to and from church Ao Informal luncheon at the 1 swank Undell boulevard home of Mrs T. M Hayman will follow the j ceremony and the "veep” and hit bride will leave for their boaey-. moon immediately thereafter.

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Girl's Body Found In Backyard Os Man Sought When Child Disappeared Hollywood, Nov. 15 — (UPi — The l»ody of six-year-old Linda Joyce Glucoft, hacked with an axe and buried under debris, was found by |m>llcr today in the buckyard of a man sought since dusk yesterday as her suspected kidnaper. Detectives R. T. Reid and Llpyd Vaughn found the girl's body under a pi e of boxes, bottles and tin cans in the rear of a house diagonally across an intersection from her home. The child's father, Jules, a commercial photographer, and her mother, Lillian, collapsed In their home where they waited anxiously all night for word of the girl. Police Immediately intensified their search for Fred Stroble. 67, who disappeared almost ahnultaneously with th» girl Police said that Stroble was a fugitive since he Jumped 81.000 ball In connection with a child-molesta-tion case and was known to have been friendly with Linda. Police gave this timetable on Linda's and Stroble’s disappearances : Linda left home at 3:45 p. m. yesterday to play with Rochelle Houseman, nine-year-old neighbor girl and granddaughter of Stroble. Rochelle, however, was not at home, officers said, having gone away with her father, Reuben, and her mother While only Stroble was left at home. • Neighbors retorted they saw Stroble leave the house alone and on foot at about 4 p. m. It was In the rear of the Houseman home that Linda's body was found A bulletin was Issued for the arrest of Stroble, described as a fugitive from a sex-warrant issued last summer in connection with the alleged molestation of a girl in the Highland Park district of l-os Angeles, where he formerly lived. The slaying recalled the mutilation murder of six-year-old Suzanne Degnan of Chicago She was killed and her body dismembered by William Heirena, a University of Chicago student, now serving three life terms for the crime and two other slayings. Today was Heirena' 21st birthday The last person to see the pretty brown-eyed little girl wss her mother, Mrs. Lillian Glucoft. She said Linda Joyce was playing with other children shortly before dinner time. The Glucofts' only other child. Richard. 8. was In the house. "When she didn't come In at 5:30. I looked for her." Mrs. (Mucoft said. "I couldn't find her anywhere Then I became frightened and called police." Two squad car officers Joined Mrs. Glucoft In a thorough 15 minute search of the neighborhood Then 36 patrolmen, two policewomen and scores of neighbors were enlisted to aid in the hunt. After eight hours of fruitless searching in the thickly-populated area n*sr the fringes of Beverly Hills, authorities announced their conviction that the girl had l>een kidnaped. They said It was almost impossible that she could have become lost without some <Tem T« P«s» Tbreei Omar Reusser Again Heads Draft Board Omar Reusser, ot Berne, was reelected chairman of the Adams county selective service board at an organisation meeting of the board. Hugh Andrews, Decatur, was elected secretary, with Ralph E. Roop, also of Decatur, as the third member Youths becoming II years of age must register at the local board office. In Earl Adams' law office. on Tuesday or Wednesday, or at the county clerk's office Monday. Thursday or Friday Every man separated from active service In the armed forces, who was not | registered prior to such sepwrs--11 ion and would have been required Ito register, must appear before ths local board after bls discharge,