Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 91, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 91,

Series Os Sex Orgies, Drfaking Parties Revealed ACCUSE RUSSIA OFMMt U. S. PLANE . WMtoKmriffßte■■■Mtemtriariß■■

Three Youths In Jail; Further Arrests Likely

Two Juvenile Gris Give Statements To Authorities; Two Os Young Men Confess iu l l a t i a *Mgs ®UJtoSNI " • FirriW today Issued • venire tor the grand Jury to convene at f a-s*. *- —--- — aaalaa* ShrAO "•" *tiPfpO3 ibbofbi toe sawsl retetlens wl» • ibyoareld pirl, and other chacps*. City and county police today made three arrests and promised to make several more after their Intensive Investigation uncovered a serie* of pea orgies and drink In* parties involving ><mnr men and minor girls The officers stat ad that farther arreata would be forthcoming shortly. to add to the list of those already in the Ad ami county jail. Deputy sheriff Bolt Hshrataka and city patrolman D»W Death whom police chief James Borden had assigned to thia Investigation to assist the deputy. today arrest rd Robert A. Toaneilicr. th. Md Freak Bardelta. M. both at (Water. alto James Rverett. 23. «• Pleasant Mill* laveetigntlhS <*- ficen stated that there would l>* possibly U or 11 more young men apprehended, some <rf them frorp Berne and Geneva as well aa Decatur and Pleasant Mills. Those arrested today wero charged with having sexual rela tlons with a 13-year-old girl Po lice officials have a, statement signed by thia girl, who admitted having aexnal relations with five different men. three of whom are already Jailed; also a statement "Uy' < w year-old girl The H-ywtr old girt-admitted to having sexual relations with three men, none of whom have been arrested yet. These two girls’ statements have implicated at least two other girls, police stated, both of then, 14 years old All of the confessions to date state that the Incident* occurri <1 In cars parked on lonely country roads. In several of the rases the ” girls and men both admitted the use of contraceptives, anti* on other occasions to drinking. Sardelle and TonneHler signet confessions which corroborated the girls' signed statements allud Ing to the different sexual relations. One of the girls' statements re lated the fact that she had had relations with men five times dur ing one night. The Investigation began about three weeks ago when parents of the two girls involved called deputy Khraluka to help locate the girls. They reported that the girls would remain away from home all night, and It was impossible to make them divulge their whereabouts Deputy Shraluka trailed the girls, in one Instance through radio, to Kentucky where they had gone with one of the young men involved. Also uncovered was a popular rendeivoua. to where the deputy had once traced them. At that time deputy Shraluka enlisted the aid of city police, and patrolman Dale Death was assigned to work exclusively, along with the deputy, on the case. After trailing these persons whom they arrested, keeping vigil all night at times, they mads sure they had the right people before any arrests were made. It was after such an all-night wait that the arrests were made Arty toddy’“isrffhralaka anti Death. Prosecuting attorney Severin <T*r* V* I-*** *:i«ki> WCATMCR •hewers tonight. Mild thin evening, turning much colder lets tonight. Wednesday cloudy and much colder. Lew to- - night OS to dg, high Wednesday St to M.

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Foil Plot To Bomb Airliner With 16 Aboard k # Engineer Admits Attempt Te Bomb California Plane I Loo Angeles, April , Police worked today on the theory j that love for a redhaired airlines . stewardess drove aircraft engineer j John H Grant to try to kill his wife and two children by time- , bombing a plane carrying 14 peri “P* I. Grant claimed h»- plotted the mass murders to collect 325W0 in ~ surance. hr took but on his wife, Betty. 39.. and 4hek children. Rob. erf, 6/ Anq,e. 4. just be- , fore they boarded the United Airj. lines DC 3 * Heacid he heeded the-, money to * elear hte>«e|f of back-breaking I. fpH- totaling about Most f. of the debts were IncurrM. h* eaid. , when a New York woman won a , suit naming him as the father of (her child. , ■ However. Betty Suomela of Herm<t*a Beach. Calif., told officer* 1 j-: that she and Grant had carried on a love affair for the past three ' years. , ■ Miss Suomela. assistant super I vtaor of'stewardess for American . Airlines said the 31 year-old engi , neer was supposed to be in court' [ arranging for a divorce at the very . ..rnotum. .bl» plot., to, ble». 1 I airliner wai discovered Police" sail“flie“Jailer found nnoose, fashioned from cloth torn. , off a mattress cover and made Into a three-foot rope, under Grant's i , mattress today in his cell. Grant dented he made It, but Jail attend ' , ants said it was not there last I night ", . "A nightlong suicide watch wav 1 , .kept over the cell, and officer* In . spectid II every 45 minutes They 1 , n moved Grant s belt and Shoe; laces as a precaution I Grant was described as "very depressed” this morning and declined to eat breakfast’ Grant claimed it was a last min I Tar* Ta Paar VtluWSk Waher W. Steffen | Dies This Morning Funeral Services . Thursday Afternoon J ' Waller W. Steffen, M. of Port land, a native and former resident , of Adams county, died at 3:45 , o'clock this morning at the Clinkhospital in Bluffton following an . illness of two weeks. He had been . manager of the Firestone store in ‘ Portland lor the past two yeura. ,i Born In Adams County Aug 15, i 1911, he was a son of John and , Lydia Gerber-Steffrn. and was ntar-h ried to Nova Fiechter March J. I 1947. L He was a member of the Apos- - toile Christian church. * i Surviving th addition to his wife ; are his mother: six brothers. Hur- l vey, Wilmer. Glennea, Norman, < Ralph and Harold Steffen, all of 1 Decatur rural route; and four *le r lers. Misses Catherine. Mildred and ' Violet Steffen and Mrs. Roy Rinehart. oU of Decatur rural route. .1 Funeral services will be held at 1:W pm, Thursday at the home.* of the mother In Kirkland township, and nt T o’clock at the Apos- j | toile Christian church, the Rev. Samuel Aeschllman officiating Burial will be In the church ceme |.t fery. The body will be removed.’ from the Jahn funeral home to t the residence of the mother, where < friends may call after <.30 o’clock < thia evening. : |

Ex FBI Agents May Be Wied By McCarthy Ta PrapoM Format Agents To Testify Against Lattimore Washington. Apr li—(CP)— Ban. Joseph R. McCarthy said today ha will propose three former FBI agents aa witneases la his case against Owen Lattimore. The Wisconsin Republican has accused the far eastern specialist of being a communist-spy for Russia. He told reporter* he Is handing a senate investigator the names of three one-time ftaleral agents who will ■’corroborate or supplement" testimony to be given Thursday by ex-communist Louis F. Budenx. McCarthy has said Budenx will sWear be knew Lattimore, now a Johns Hopkins university professor. aa a communist party member subject to the party's "disciplinary powers.” .McCarthy said he will give the names of two of the former FBI men to Edward P. Morgan, counsel of the senate foreign relation* subcommittee' invoatlgat- . »•«.'*,l." lharges. some time today He will name th* third prospective witness in the next few days, the senator said. One of the es-FDI agents, he said, was aa *'Mdern>v#r agent for Id yeaaa" aad specialised in espionage cases. Meanwhile, chairman Tom Connally. D.. Tex., of the full foreign relations committee said his group may decide today whether a show-down should be force ! on President Truman's refusal to let the sub-committee see federal loyalty files. The subcommittee has subponaed the .loyalty files of aB persons McCarthy claims are bad aerarity risks. The three agehetea holding the files state departmein. Justii-e department and'civil ’ sen ice " < oniinl-slon - refused - on"Mr Trumans order<. to comply. rTurw T* Fane Klabo Deaf School Head \ To Speak Thursday J. E. Raney Speaks At Meeting Os PTA J. E Raney, superintendent of the Indiana state school tor the 1 deaf at Indianapolis, will speak • at the meeting of the Lincoln par- ; ent-teachers association Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The school head will be accom-1 j panied by some of the pupils at i the slate school, to give a demon-1 stration of teaching methods employed at the institution. Mr. Raney Is well known tn the educational field He has been | superintendent of the school for I the past 15 years, after serving - as superintendent of the county ; schools in Ripley county. He 4s. , a graduate of Versailles high , school and Franklin Collage. Robert -Lankenau and Carl Wilhelm former Decatur resident* are graduates of the school The public lb Invited to attend thto meeting becanae of the wide-J ' spread interest In teaching methode practiced at the school for i the deaf. During the business meeting, i PTA officers for the ensuing year will be elected, with the installation set for the May meaUng. Robert Latte will conduct the business meeting tn the abe ears of Mrs. Paul Haacher. Mrs LeM* Smith aad Mrs Robert Lane, who win be al the state PTA convention nt French Lick Refreshments will be served foUowlag the meeting TB Association To Meet Wednesday Night The annual meetfnr of the Adams county tuberculosis association will bo held at S o'clock Wednesday evening in room IM, Decatur high school Directors and officers will be elected, sad the public is invited to attend. _

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( J Flbod Disaster h Northwest States Minnesota, North Dakota Hard Hit Jamestown, N. D.. April IS.— (UP)—Flooding rivers caused suf sering for iTmost 5.000 persons In North Dakota and Minnesota today and the Red Cross declared the situation a "number one disaster.” * Red" Cross officiate .. .estimated that L 387 families were affected and weather observers said the worst was yet to come Rivers and streams, still gorged with the winter’s lee and overburdened by rapid melting of a heavy snow pack, rampaged over lowlands In . more than a score of com munitfes. Hundreds of fsmilies were forced from their homes, water supI pile; were contaminated, food shortages developed and bridges, highways, apd railroad beds were I washed out. Jamestown. Where the James and Pipestem rivers meet, was hardi e»t hit. Between 3«0 and 400 famlilie* here fled higher ground More than- So crippled children. , driven out of a church home Into ;lhe Farmers Union building, were forced to flee again aa the floodwaters endangered the Faftjier* building. Army ducks and truck* took them to the Knight* of Columbus building. Other refugees camped in the <Twvw Ta Sta* Kluati 60 Retail Stores Will Take Part In County Senior Day Sixty Decatur retail stores will, ■’tahe part la tha first Adams county senior day. It was announced today by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, sponsors of the first annual event. Seniors of all Adams county bigb schools and Decatar Catholic high school have been invited to take part. Rataitera will select a senior to work for them all day oa Saturday. April 29. \ Those who do not have a prefereaea will have a student assigned to them. Decatur high school te MM taking part Ini the event, because the senior etass «ts that school held Its own senior day- Wfth the merchants several months .ago Students will be paid at the prevailing -wage rate la ths store where they are asstßnod to work. The event, which will become ah annual activity, ta sponsored by thu retail dirintoa. U ■. Anspangh. chairnMa of that division, aaaouac- i

iffA ■■ ■■■■ ton. ——. sail,,' - ®a6 Ctoss DnocTors Meet This Evening The. quarterly meeting of the. Red Cross directors will be held 1 st 7:3ff o'clock this evening at tbe I Red Cross office. Reports on the! annual drive will be made and | plans made for the election of 1 - officers in June. C. E. Bell, president of tha I i county chapter, will preside at the i meeting. J I ..... , , * I * * Candidates Speak I As Joint Meeting Rotary, Lions And h, C.C. Meet April 25 six candidates tor joint slate: . representative and joint senator: I j have been Invited to attend a meet-1 Ing of Decatur Rotary and Lions clubs and the Chamber of Com-"l I merce oa Tuesday night. April 25. II it was announced today by Earl . Caston. Chamber of Commerce db ’ . rector In charge of the affair Tbe joint meeting at the K. of P. . home will be known as "know , your candidate" night and each , candidate will be given time to re.l late bis Ideas and plans on legtela- , 1 tion, if successful. All member* , at the three organisation* also wHI . | be given an opportunity to advahce queries to the candidates. Those invited Jo attend tbe as fair include Kenneth Hirochy. Von Eichorn Democrats. -And Edward Lieehty. Republican, senatorial, candidates; and C. Remy Bterly. Don Carnall. Democrats, and Ervin i Fox, Republican, house of repre 4 sentstlve candidates. The joint meeting will serve as the regular weekly moetlag for both Rotary and Lions, it was am nounced Retailers, mannfariurers. j professional men and “just dttsens” are Invited to bring their question* and attend the confab. Dunkirk Accident Toll Is Now Six I Redkey,. Ind.. April 19—(UPIOnly one of seven joyriding teenagers whose car was hit by a alow-moving freight train st a crossing here Sunday sight still #ak alive Four were killed nut right In the mishap, which occurred at the WMt .Main St., rraaring. and two others died yesterday latent victims were Beverly Gilbert. If. RedtW. u>d Richard Lord, 13. Dunkirk. Doetars said the coodlUon of Mary Janice Cechraa. It, Redkey, wee critical j but that she had a good ehaaeej to survive

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Tniinsn Pfedycs T« SMr GOP Petorsss PIUS I O dirvllgTßUfl B«-Partisan Foreign Policies Os Nation Washington. April lI—(UPlrPresldent Truman, in aa unusual bid to strengthen bl-parttean for elgn policy, pledged today to take Republican Hews "fate serious am count" Mr. Truman's pledge was contained in a statement issued after a lengthy White House conference with secretary of state Denn Ache- - sou- -and-Ren. tteytee Bridge, R.. N H Bridges, ml outspoken critic of affthlntstTMte® foreign potivy. -was oqe of three Republican 'senators recently denounced by Mr. Truman at Key West, Fla., tor "sabotaging” 1 18-MMOR WOR jolter Ms Trw man also had accused the threeBridges, senate Republicaa leader Kenneth S Wherry. Neb., and Jo- ! seph R McCarty. R . Wls —of be I ing among "the greatest assets of ': the Kremlin" for their attack* oh II the state department. 1 1 Bridge* told newsmen that the 'President s Key West comment I was not discussed at the conferilence. He said Acheson indicated a desire for an .arrangement whereby Republican leaders would be eon--tutted slid Informed In the development of major elements of U. 8. ‘ roretgn poltcy ■ • •• - Mr -Truman said in his statement •Tm Te ttace El<ktl ~ i Dennis Striker Dies After long Illness Ex-County Officiol Is Token By Death Dennis Striker 79. lifelong resident of Adam* county, end s I former county commissioner, died > let 3 30 o’dbck Mondsy sfternoon 1 at Ms'komr two and one-half mitre north of Berne following a year's Illness of leukemia A well known farmer and con(fractor. Mr. Striker served as Adams county commissioner from Jan. L 1932 until Dec. 31, 1934. The former county official waa born tn Monroe township Jan 3. IX7I, a son of Matblaa and Lucinda Hanley Striker, and was msrrtod to Mary Meyer. Ho wai a member of the Cross Evangelical and Reformed church at Berne. Surviving in addition to Ma wife are five mm. Clifton, fonaai Adams county school superintendent. nt heme. Clyde of near Geneva. Dolt of near Monree. DnnM of near Berne aad Robert of Ltaa Giove; six daughters. Mrs. Jrese Aadereoa and Mrs. Floyd Johnson c* Fort Wayne. Mrs. Adolph Hanote and Mrs Lee Meyers e< Monroe. Mrs. Wilbert Btahly of EHda. 0.. and Mrs. Lewis Mattia of near Geneva; 2* grandcMMrea: IT great-grandchildren; four brothers. W. X Btriher ( of Beattie. Wash.. W N Striker of Geneva. Finley Striker of Butler and Charter C. Striker of Bucyrua. N. D, and three sisters. Mrs H. H. Laisure us BMrne. Mrs. Mi- Wagner of Seattle and Mra George Heck of Cleveland. O / Funeral aerviceo will be held at 2 p. m Thursday at tbe CroM' Evangelical aad Reformed church, the Bev C. A. Schmid oflTetettag. Burial will bo in the MRB eametery The body will be removed fra* the Tager mortuary to the (residence, where friends may call after < o'etoek this evening.

For State Cbaplata ► ■ Rev. O. C. Busse - CIMMBB For BttSSt * ' At Stste CHidlom Si tami.a©*<u> ittelßiSgMMiaiU AB J p Adams Post Backs Busse Candidacy f An all-out campaign te under- ’ way by officials and members of; tbe American Legion poet 43 to: ’ install the Rev O. C Busse, po*' ■ chaplain, aa departmental of the Legion. Rev. Busse, a veteran of both world ware, has been unanimously endorsed by members ol post 43. i Officials of that poet are currently J circulating a multi-colored leaflet describing the qualificstions of the Sf PkUIV LtfflHßHttr dHfrch. BT Preble. pastor Rev Busse is also serving hta second year as poet Id? chaplXto During World War I. Rev, Busse sented as chaplain at Camp Shernten. O. During World War H ho served as chaplain at Camp Va.; transport duty; senior cbajv lain port terminal*. New York port of embarkation. He was discharged on Feb. It, I 9«. ' With the .rank of lieutenant'colonel . Rev. Busse is a graduate of Concordia college. Fort Wayne, and Concordia seminary. St. Loute. Be-,- ( fore coming to the Preble eburph he held pastorates at Ban Antcnflo. Tex. Rochester, and Schenerehdy, N.Y.'’' / Augsburger Rites " Set For Wednesday Tillman Augsburger Diet At Dayton, 0. Funeral aerslcue will be held Wednesday afternoon al 2 oclock for Tillman Augsburger. 39, Dey ton. 0.. et the West Mteetoaery church, three mites west of Berne. Mr Aggsburger. was a son of the late Mr and Mra. Jacob Augsburger aad a nephew of county commiestoner John Augsburger Death resulted from a bean ailment. He waa on bis way Monday morning to the National Cash Register Co . where he era* r n* ployed, when the fatal attack occurred, ' TUlmen Augsburger was bora at Um Grove Oct. 19. 1919. a see of Jacob aad Cora Schiadter Augyburger Surviving are the widow. Mary HeadrickaAugsburger two daughters. Susanne Kay and Barbara. and two brothers John J. and I Milton, both of Daytoa The de cebsed waa a gradaate ot Genera high school Another unete te Mooes Aweburger, (Ormer eoeaty eommteekmre. Burial will he at tbe Six Mite cemetery Tbe body will be brought to the West Mteetoaery church Wednesday morning

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Os Soviet Fliers, Washtwtou. April 13—4VF>— 1 ft* wm Rgwlsiw •ww vmoswi aspawn w» mmiuaf ugmrtag wm ww aUama csVmF ttui Bsltfe Sbmi mml demaMtofi ta* daßUkfttaßß OMtd (Ba That accusation and the accompaaytag demands tor oMtafacUop •are contained tn a note handed In the Bovtet foreign ministry tn Moscow at * p. ■■ (9 a. m CffT.l State department spokesman Michael J. McDermott made the note public here aad wont on to SAm » » tana AStal BI Ltal esß OBaPSu*w* Was t**ml Q"nWrer 9vo* 4J* the Soriot Vntea for Rs "aatoatebIW ack eH coauiuta aoertesy and . . . unusual disregard of human life." The note Itoelf denounced "ths / duuti mt tee of Amari/— can live* and property ~ The plane, a fmir-engtoed M»r od on a flight over the Ra.'te Bea - ,ea April I with 19 crewman aboard No trace of the misslrn; aMp or -Ma arew Jma. hmm tostod. deapita aa toUMive. week teas air-eea eearrh Oh April It. Moscow fired a protest At the United States i chargin* that an Americas plane *. had flown over Soviet Latvia and fired on Sori t fighter planes that Intercepted it. Both those allegatioas were denied flatly in today's note McDermott further called the 1 ; Soviets to task for decorating the 1 Russian tighter pilafs wbo shot ' down tbe American plane aad (or ‘ their failure tn help search for the missing men ' ■'"•Mniwovre: • ment has thus far shown, no sign ot regret for Its attack against an American aircraft." he said In amplifying tbe note. “Instead It has taken an aggressive tone and attempted to justify its-action fry= impossible allegations." The formal note, delivered by . .11. I'JB. Ambassador .A Hun; Kirk tip — ■ Soviet deputy foregin minister Andrei A. Gromyko, protested "In the moat solemn manner againtt thia violation of international law„'i ' *. ’ . z 1t demanded that Russia "Institute a prompt and thorough in- — vesttgation." express its official regrets for "the unlawful and provocative behavior of its aviators," punish the guilty fliers “promptly and severely" and instruct the Red air force to retrain from sueh actions in the futare The United Blates. R added, also expects that Raasta will ~hT accordance with established cus<Twe« T» rbam Mbm> Community Fund Ta Hama New Directors “ Tha eiecttoa of directors fur the Decatur Community Fund Ke Will take place Thursday erealnx Ut 7:P9 o'clock at tbe Dea on Madh wa street. Other nniiir* w«l come before tbe board President Joe Oelberg will preside at the meettag LATE IULUTINS •an Francisco, April W—(UP)—A seeraa plane found ;tbo tMflbMt Om*r ttß miteo off Ban Frantteii today that all eta orownraa < of toe otrteirea . voeoel are "oafe and welt." New York. April K—(UP) A - tat ftaM J * * t»WWv IWw from Toronto te Now Verb lb -,. * W mlnuteo and M aoobndu today oomplettaß tho flrut Co in oMfMiy more titan onoltaN