Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 79, Decatur, Adams County, 4 April 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. Na. 79.

HARRY BRIDGES IS CONVICTED BY JURY

Good Friday To Be Marked By Reverence Suspend Business During Three Hours In Decatur Friday I treat nr will pause In reverence, on (load Friday In comiueinoratlon of tbe three hours Christ epent on the cross rt*** . „ r _ .Practically all business fit down : town Decatur will be suspencTeS during the period from 12 noon until 3pm Friday, while chitons of the city and community throng to church services In the . . Business houses ami offices wilt close, public offices will be closed The windows at the post of flee will close during the three hour period hut the post office lobby will remain open. where, stamps may he obtained The] l»aHy Democrat w»H also dose during the three hours, with the usual edition published after the resumption of buainess Protestant churches of the city will unite In the annual union Good Friday service. which will he h»dd’ listing the entire .period at .th.- First Methodist church " under sponsorship of the iterator ministerial association Drr 8 A Witmer, president of the Fort Wayne Bible Institute will present the meditation* on the seven last words which Christ spoke on the Cross. Pastors of the participating ebun hew will as slst in the service. and mugi< wIW lie provided by the Music depart * ment of Ute Deeatar Woman*' club, with Mrs Walter Krick, th»T Bev William C Feller and Inland | Neuen as soloists, and Mrs. Edgar, “ Gerber as organist. .=? I shera Will be Instructed to permit worshipers to •giter' and leave the sanctuary of the chttreh, (.Illy during the organ intecludes ; Services will also be held <IU1» ; -iirg the three-hour period at the; - , st Mary's Catholic church and ‘ tin- Zion Lutheran church- - I At St. Mary's, the three hours 1 will be observed from noon tn 3 | o'clock. with public Way of the] Cross at 12:45 and 1 45 p m. | and blessing with a relic of the ! True Cross at 2 to o'clock ( The Zion Lutheran church ser- ( vice Will open at 12 30 --rfchu-lr with a midday passion service | centering about the reading of the] entire passion stoiy a.-cordinc to] the four C.ospeN, Inter«per' with appropriate hymns and pray ers The various churches of the chy are also holding speetel services throughout Holy Week, and the observance will be < llniaxed with Faster Sunday services In all the churches. ,v St. Mary's River Above Flood Stage The St. Mary's river was above flood stage this morning rising three feet through the night It -stood at 13.35 feet at g o'clock and was rising rapidly .Herman "Hi? Meyer, local weather observer. _,. stated T,| e crest may not he reach ed until tomorrow. Meyer said. . The stream will go neverad feet higher before it create. Rainfall was measured at As| of an Inch this morning April showers started falling eerly last, evening and continued during most I of the night The forecast was tor . more rain during the day. Five-Year-Old Girl Is Traffic Victim Terre Haute. Ind.. April 4 — tl’Pl Susan Johns, five, Itenntson. 111. diet! yesterday in a hospital here of Injuries suffered when the auto she was riding in struck | a parked highway truck near the; state line on V. S. 40 Her mother, Mirs Thelma Johns, driver of the car. and a sister, Dorothy, four, were treated and released WEATHER Cloudy and c•ld • r tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy and cold. Low tonight 30 to 35. High Wednesday 45 north, 46 south.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Twa Boys Confess Shoplifting Spree Omaha. Nett, April 4. — tUPi A pretty crime wave was ended today with two Indianapolis broth era behind bars after ad mil I inc a two-aeek shoplifting spree. The boys. Robert. I*. and 13-year-old James Smith, admitted a wave of minor pilfering# which included gum. pipes, cigars and dgarets and Iho theft of |l3 from apattment I Defense Chief May Request More Planes Defense Secretary May Ask Congress For Added Money Washington. 'April 4 it’P> ilk fens* namtary L<mi* Johnson I said today h* jna> ask < for tiiio•• iiitiii. y r<i buy ffirptanr Johnson said Jie bus asked the joint chief* of staff to determine whether the military budget now before rongfi** provid* - »noftfch liioro y lit iniiin’oiu 4S nni'ilnn an groiuf*'..,,; \Mirtt the - w»* -abfuii tr d. he and T*re«»M» nt Truman 4>» th \ed |H, made adr<i u 4.; e ftWSMum-- - groups-. J'ohiiMon told a lie W nan inference He said ho lia> ask«d the joint chiefs’ advice as to whether riling eostK-juMte bteiw r n< t . 1 Johnson -aid he experis tn art the John chh f* r< commendation* tN’fore frF ate cppruprlKfkmi committee About ; 10 days from now | ftther cortit regional develop' menta I Taft Hartley Hen Robert A Taft. R . <>j accused Prenident Tru man, of trying in tiuHlfy the Taft Hartley art Hr linked the senate executive exp*ind.itures committee I t<> dhapprose a pr» aide’ll Hal J< m KN-' Iniiaiiim platj whh h would thf Huh j>» tub tn p<--t bf g< n< tai jo the national labor tela 7 ifiiin* board Taft nald' Mr Tiu I man’s wa« improper, bi* I ■ hi •- It nr. bfvi it a poUt \ math r I in<!» ad ’ i»T Jtniv reorganization of I 1 function- in the interest of ♦ ffiefJ I • ■"' Foreign policy Sen Estes K* ( fauver. I) . Trail , asked «ecr«taty of Mtate Inali A< he<<-n . f<. j -m a ■ it -! .i • I !,i- I;' i'.f I S Ipo’lry objectives and to give the people ”Kome overall idea « f where wt are going ■” f -< 'TrnutiWHivttx S-e-nsO-^. i<- < Headers poliirly bni*hed aside ai proposal by S» n I h nry . .Calmt Lodge. Jr. R Mass, to set up a; bipartisan cominixsion to invest! t gate charges of procommunism ini the slat* department. They said a special foreign rvjations strbrom-1 I mil hr t lye jenat e authorized Jo in ( Hstigat-r the charges would haveI to finish the job 1 Economy R* publicans made the | I payroll of heavily rtalfvd govern-1 <Twe» T*» Pre* V-'.labn I i Pre-School Clinic | Here On April 13 Clinic . Sponsored By Lincoln School PT A Tbe annual clini* for phyzlfal examinations fur children of pre I school age will he held at Lim tdn School Thursday. April 13. it was announced today by i IJnroln Par* nt Teachers club in' ‘cooperation with national and alate |parLDj l.earhe.rs organiaations | The clinlr, known as the summer roundup, is conducted each spring with local d<M’tors in charge for the purpose of detecting physical defects in preschool children in ample lime to have these 'defects corrected before the child enters Parents of al! children who will | enter kindergarten next September. ; are asked tn bring their rhitdrrn tu the Lincoln *u h<»ol gymnasium at 7:30 o'clock on the morning ofi Thursday. Affril 13 In addition io doctors and t in charge of the c4in4i\, -Mbs Jean< Shockley, county health nurse. wilH be at the clinic «I1 day to.consult with parents. \ Mrs D Burdette Custer is- generar chairman clinic- The cooperation of all Hecatur parents is solicited

_ Here’s Pattern For A Big Family iO' 'ifl 'Cr* MR. ANO MRS. GEORGE B. MUTCHRV of Hurilnglon. VI . wko»e oldegi Mbn. Jimhiy lO (Irftl. wan tol lowed Into the tamlly by trfttletv. two (Irla and a boy. font year* ago. |iro»ant theh ISSO triplet*, again two girlx and a l>oy. horn aeven weeks ago The trew arrivals followed the birth two years ago of Tommy trtghu, to maintain the pattern. Al! live in a four-room apartment

Roy Price Is Name(L= Chairman For Fair General Chairman J Os Fair July 24-29 Roy Price, former Adams county jTrasuerr imd **li’knpwn farmer. wubL nam» d general chairman of the Ip.jo Decatur free street fair and agr .cultural show al Jhe regularly monthly meeting of fair board diuctom. held Monday night at the Chamber of <*«»mm«rce moms In rhe luViw* building rr i. . Ihkm b< «ft ix t in agricultural and fair-circles in Indiana and Ohio for. ht ver al years . F‘.»» J.h*: Ja*< I* w year® *he- has-had '-charge of- - ciew of workmen #ho srf up the tents and rxhibit pavilions for the Dvratur f*B Chairman Price, who has been! m»' iitinm d omminently for Jib* last year a* a possible member <>f the stale board of agriculture, has a< f«pt«d th* appointment and will have general supervision, of all phases of the local »v» nt, which will be staged’ from July 24 to 29. .-nHusive. < n jh« uptown s’ree.u ami at llanna S’uttman park m w\ imm* <«f the fair Several n* w f*nturrs are being added this y«ar and the several emmnitt* ♦ > already al work believe the l!U»o fair.- since it will be the l;t'f street fair, will be th£ largest ♦ v*! staged lo re • g#-' A general meeting of all v- Mimit jte uifcjubt-is. will be called as soon tin !.w' : ( ,f th. . ommifrre-s ahd Lother workers-are 'cftoHeft. Price -.nd Piqua Road Bridge Caves In Monday Portion Os Bridge May Be Salvaged Phil Sauer, county hUhway attpervfaor. t fc TO he oh“ of- the* principal apeakera at the annual, roa.l achol which will he held next week at Lafayette. For his, subject. Sauer, has chosen' ■'Bridges." a topic with which he is becoming better acquainted each day For the bridges throughout the. county, after a wearing winter of nlmtwt constant Twhr. are weakened considerably? some to the point of falling down The board of gccompanied the highway superin tendent to a bridge on the Piqua, road, one mile west of the state Tnanyrsw. TEgrye rawsuwr; -wmcv had caved in last night. Sauer had retelved a call from Benoit Johnson, a farmer near whose home the bridge is located, who had seen the collapsing bridge, and' Immediately notified the superintendent then placed a road "block there to keep traffic from any serious mishaps. Inspection today revealed that ft might he possible to salvage some of the bridge It will be necessary to place new abutments.' there, reinforce the old ones. and. <T«rw Ta (■>■* USa)

ONLY OAILV MCWVAMM Ml ADAME COUNTY

Decatur, IndioM, Tvaadoy, April 4, 1950

Spring Vacations Planned In Schools ■ l*Ucl<«suee as* made today by. officials of the different schools throughout the county of the spring vacations for the students. The Jle. atur t athollc high school • will recess Wednesday morning, and the Decatur public scboola ' sometime Wednesday afternoon,” • Hansel Foley. raperintendaM at I county schools announced M<mt day that alt . ougty achoola would recaga Thursday afterßoog for the Raster holidays. i ■ - -I — Query County Board On Highway Repairs Commissioners Cite General Conditions From 50 to 75 persons, representing four different groups, filed —separately into the commissioners’ room of the court house Monday to query the cnminlssloners concerning road Improvements, as set forth in previous petitions, for The remainder of the.year Those representatives were from Washington. Monroe. Blue Creek and Jefferson townships, and were seeking information aa to whether' or not roads in those townships would undergo near future black top repair ’ The board of commissioners pointed out that due to the extremely moist weather that prevailed throughout the winter and seems Inclined to remain for spring, that great damage has Keen done to the highways throughout the county The hoard stated that they felt that the first obligation was to kbep the roads In passable condition. to enable everybody to get I throirgh Hchool buses, mall cars iaml milk trucks' on all the roads, rather than To patch up one or two with blacktop. in many counties. It -was note.!. ' schools have been -forced to eloee' . because of the terrible road con ditioiu. this has not been evident in Adams county to date. The commissioners also awarded the contract to supply the county home with groceries and <Twm Ta Faw* KMW«* Funeral Wednesday For Gilpin Infant | Funeral services will be held at Ha m Wednesday at St Mary's Catholic church for Mary Kathryn Gilpin, infant daughter of Mr and •Mrs Keith Gilpin. 115 N l«th’ street, who died at 8 a m today at tbe Adams county memorial hospital. shortly after birth. The Very Rev, Msgr. J J, Seimets will of Delate and burial will be at New " Haven ~ Surviving In addition to the parents ate a slater. Dtaane Marie, and the grandparents. Mr -and ' Mrs 3ylr«ster Sorg of Fort Wayne and Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Gilpin of De-j catur Friends may call at the I Gilllg A Doan funeral, home this : evening and until time of the serv ices

Stories Os Flying Saucen Still Rile ► Armed Forces Deny Any Secret Weapons i • Washington, April 4—4UF)-] t Two new "real” stories of flying . saucers today provoked vigorous I dqpMa from the armed forces that , they are. In reality, secret V S weapons. Both the air f.u-ce and the nap said flatly that they are pot ex l»rinonting with any plane or weapon that could account for wM»- ; spread repotts about the flying, disks A spokesman for the air force , which has been investigating bun dreds'of flying saucer stories, saiu the armed services are standing on I conclusions reached last IJecemberl that flying saucers psst don't exist ] At the time, the air force Inter preted the persistent rejvorts to! "misrepresentation of various con , ventional objects, a mild form' of 1 mass hysteria. <ir hoaxes." 1 Hut stories of strange objects ■ soaring through apace, often at Jan tastic spe. ds. keep cropping up Radio commentator Henry J ' Taylor and I! S News and World ■ Report, a weekly newsniagaaine ' published here, gave the latest ’ versions yesterday Both stated ' flatly that flying saucers do exist. i but neither quoted any authority > ' \ for their statement*; In a broadcast over the American ■ Broadcasting System. Taylor said I that there are two types of "flying ■ saucers" which the military has i classified as secret i One. he said, is a harmless, pilot- ’ less disk which usually disin tegratea in the air Its purpose. , lie said, is a top military secret He said the other is the navy's' socalled "flying’ phantom" or petpropelled XF-5-F1 The navy, he | said. I- experimenting with the radical plane at its Patuxent. Md. test center ’ V. 8 News said simply that the I saucers ate revolutionary new ’ j-planaa. .probably developed by the navy as part of Its guided missile experiments. The air force issued Its denial promptly. A spokesman said "The armed services are not- doing anything that could be traced to being the basis of reports of flyi Ing saucers." Funeral Wednesday For Manter Infant ] Davhl Phillip-Manter infant son I of Mr and Mrs Earl Manter, IV T aeu to day at the home after a short illness of lobar pneumonia The child was born in Van Wert G„ Feh 16 Surviving are the parents; oae brother. Bill Preston Manter, and the grandparents. Earl Manter of Van Wert, and Mr and Mrs Clair Coralsh of Cold water. Mich. . | Funeral services will be held at 1 pas Wednesday at the Gilllg A Doan funeral home. Dr Gerald ■ H Jones officiating Burial will be i; st Van Wert. Friends may call at I the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening

West Coast longshoreman Boss Is Found Guilty Os Perjury And Conspiracy

Associile Members Approved By C.C. Drive For Associate Members Is Planned An associate membership is now available in the. Decatur Chamber of Commerce, it was decided at the monthly meeting of the board of the Chamber at their rooms in the DeVos* building Monday night, following a meeting of the fair hoard A lee of 510 will be charged for associate members, the board de elded, and anyone, man or woman, who does not derive his livelihood m a result es direct sales, to the public is eligible. This means that retail clerks, factory employes, not executive*, teachers, federal, state and city employe*, houwwives and federal, state and local elected officials are eligible .to associate member ship .under the new ruling. A jlrive for associate members it being planned soon. Glenn HUI. president, announced Directors expressed regret that th'e local tms > service would be discontinued next Saturday and Instructed executive manager of j the Chamber R W Pruden to 11 gather some statistics on how oth- '! er cities the stxe of Decatur man--1 ] age their bus systome. | Several cities in northern Indiana with smaller populations than Decatur have had bus service In operation for several years and iip|>arently the undertaking has been profitable I'ruden will report his findings at a special : meeting tu be called as sotin aa 1 statistics are available Deane Dorwin Heads Ball Stole Alumni | - ~-c—■ Annual Meeting Is Held Last Evening Deane Dorwin. n>eml>er of Decatur high school faculty' and , coaching staff was elected presl dent of the Adams county Ball State Teachers college alumni association at the Annual banquet i and meeting of the group at the ] Rii-e hotel coffee shop Monday night Other officers named for 195051 included: Mrs -Raymond Eichenauer, vice president; Miss Mary Jo Hoffman.> secretary, and Bryce Thomas. I treasurer Dr Robert H Kcenter of Ball State was the principal speaker I at the program which followed the dinner. Dorwin acted as toastmaster and prior to lhe principal address he Introduced LeRoy Hull, director of alumni relations at Hall state Lloyd Monroe of Geneva favored the large crowd with several vocal selec nant In felling of the great progress made by Ball State. Dr Koenker said that last year the Muncie college.awarded more degrees in education than any college or university in the United States with the exception of the t'niversity of Minnesota A large percentage of teachers end school executive* tn Adams county's school eystems are graduates and former students of Ball T» *■!< •»*» Horkless Funeral . Rites Wednesday — Funeral services for Samuel Harkless. who died Sunday evening at the Veterans' hospital in Indianapolis. will be held at 1:30 p m Wednesday at the Black tuner-1 al home Dr Gerald H Jones will officiate and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery Military rttee will lie conducted by Adams Poet 43, American Lecioe. and SpanlehAmerican war veterans will be honorary pallbearers Friends may < all at the funeral home until lime of the servienn.

lowa Jurors Delteraling Rftdivicpk f afo DvUllujUn IQIv College Student's Murder Trial Goes To Hands Os Jury iowa City. la.. Apr 4— <UP»—The murder trial of Robert Bed naaek was given to a jury today with instructions to weigh cerefully his story of his eampu* sweetheart s death. White haired district judge James P. Gaffney gave the cnee to a email-town jury of eight men and four women al 10:#2. am, CBT He aaid if they found the handsome University of lowa psychology student guilty of first degree munler. It would be up to Them .to fix the penalty of a Mfe term or death by hanging Previously, the state in a mtrprise move in Its closing, arguments had demanded the death penalty J ‘ Thi jury recessed its deliberations at noon for an hour and a halt lunch perkid. Gaffney told tbe Jury that M‘ luuwk s cradibUKy as a witness "is a matter to be determined by' <ou." Bednaaek claimed that socially prominent Margaret (Gee -GBEJ Ja< kaon suffered her fatal throat injuries in a tall against a chair during their forbidden rendezvous in a. men's rooming house -fast Itec-li Gaffney aaid the jury "is not required to receive blindly that te* tlmony as true " But on the other band, he said, it was "not- to ■be dim’red it ed on ly . because the defendant was interested in escaping a possible convk'tion.'' As the jury retired. Bednasek shook hands with his mother and father, and told friends and fraternity brothers: "1 have hope " Then he was. led Mcy to the county jail to await -the verdict Gaffney told tbe jurors that they -must return a manslaughter verdict if they find that Bednasek “used his hands in a wanton or reckless manner, or caused the <Tara Ts Face ais> Holy Week Rites At Presbyterian Church

Services Nightly At Decatur Church At 7:30 o'clock every evening of Holy Week except Saturday, special services are being held in tbs First Presbyterian church. Five Pointa. Decatur Through amne of the service*, the pastor, the Rev. A. C, B Glttander. til couttaulng a seri** of biography-serm-ons on “Personalßtes ot tbe Passion." The list of services follows ' Tuesday—" Judas. Enemy or Impatient Friend’" Wednesday- "Mary, the Mourning Mother " —— Thursday — Holy Oemmunton: and reception of new members J Friday - Prayer?' meditation oa* the meatal state of the Diaciptes. foliowing Palm Sunday's narrative plan In present vivid tense first person Monday night's rate did not kabp w/wahlppers .away, and the, pastor told those present why "Simon Peter, the big fisherman Disciple, stands oat In tbe attention of mea in all generations. Most men can Identify themselves with Simon. Son of Jonas. In his impulsive goodness or sinfulness And hope that although they sometime* talk sod act like Sat an as did Peter that tbe Lord's forgiveness and challenge wtll restore them te usefulness, a* did the wards 'Feed my sheep!' to the Disciple who bad dented hi* Lord"

Frica Foot Coati

Verdict Returned After Trial Lasting Four Months; Denied Being A Communist San Francisco. April 4. —tUPi— Harry Bridges, boas of 75.006 west coaM loagabaramtn, was eaavteted . today of perjury and conspiracy tor swearing he was not and aever had been a communist A middle-class jury of . eigbt men and tour women lound Bridges guilty after a stormy 'trial which tasted more than tour months TW jury deliberated 31 hunrs Conviction carrtes a maximum prison term at seven yean plus a fine of 111. neo and paves the way for lhe government to prone nrUon to deport the CIO km<*boremee's .and , WMebonMmeay ~u*>Mt .I***?.... ‘te*' l Tbe jury also found J B -Robertson, top orgaatoer in Hridseunion, and Henry ItehmMt. ,anion vice-president, guilty of both a con apiracy eouar and a • barge of aM inx U 4 sbeiHas Bridge* m the •'ommisekua of perjury . - . Jun loremaa Glenn CbriMewaeu. Oaklaai'e£hly~sate«auuk handed' the verdicts 'to .>«rk , Edward Mitchell who passed them tu judge George. B. Harri* The- lodge read them, passed them hack to lhe clerk, who then asked the foreman tor the verdi< t "We find th* detemdanl. Harry i UeMon Bridges, nitty on tb* first count tconspiracyl' and gatlty of » the second count Tperjwryi “ Chrtsleasen said tbe Jury found Robertson and Schmidt nifty, aa charged, on the conspiracy count and a charge of aiding Bridges' lie at his IMS haturalisation hearing when hr,...swore he was not and never had been a communist -. Vincent -HaUinan - attorney tor — Bridge*. Immediately announced the verdirt would be appealed Conviction for • the Austratian,1s president of tbe CIO itit! rnatiotial longshoremen,- and warehousemen's union, means he automatically will lose hi* citizenship and become, once again, an alien in the United Stales The government, in order to deport hint will then have to hold a formal hearing before a trial ex- - ' aminer of the U 8 immigrationand naturalization bearing to obtain a deportation order Normally. Bridges would be deported to Australia his homeland But a high Australian official said today in Sydney. Australia, that Australia might refuse to accept him This official said "I don't think we want him be is America's baby ' A U S government official, who was closely connected with the prosecution of Bridges, said that in iTwew T* Puai Ktab a i

Arthur Wilder Asks Commissioner Fost Arthur B Wilder has announced Ma candidacy for commtoatoner of the second district subject to the decision of voters at the Republican primary election May 2. . Wilder has resided on hi* own farm for 41 year* in Washington township He 1* married and has nine children The candidate tea graduate of Adams county grade M-boois and attended Decatur high •chool Wilder assisted in the recent reappraisal of Washington I township real estate Thia la tbe ' first public office he has sought ATTENTION ADVERTISERS All display advertising fer the Geed Friday issue must be received by THUR&, APR. 6 3 P.M. Claaelftod Deed line x »a. «. FRIDAY The Belly Demecret efftee*” will be cleaed Good Friday from it te 3 p. m.