Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 117, Decatur, Adams County, 18 May 1950 — Page 1

Vol. XLVIII. No. 117.

ATLANTIC PACT NATIONS FORM COUNCIL

UCWiili xqui Lesdcr Honored As'Key Mm' Steve Everhart Is M 4>. 44-*-- Am ■ Presented To Gimp Bic Island camp of the Aathony Wayae area Cornell of scouting waa presented a Johnson SeaHorae 10HP motor hy the four Decatur and one Geneva Boy Scoot troops in ceremonies at the Masonic hall last eveniac. which marked the cloriac of another aucceaaful year of scoot Inc in thia city and county. Steve Everhart. Decatur high school Instructor and youth leader, was honored as the “key man In scoutinc** In recognition of hla leadership in this organisation and other youth movements In the city. Mr. Everett la Seout Com,4 miiteioner In thia county The meeting was the annual gathering of Boy Scout execu-' fives, loaders, scoutmasters snd parents of scouts. A Hah try was served by the Eastern Star women Clare ace Einar,—district Scout chairman, was toastmaster Scout leaders from,Berne. Geneva * and Fort Wayne attended The Johnson Was accepted tor ”•'"’ the Boy Scottis of the arda who will enjoy outings at Camp Bis Island during the summer, by Clyde Headricks. - -Cub Scout - ■ JHMNWHrW''*' Hendricks is a former school teacher of Monroe and Decatur and the.son of Mr. amt Mrs Jim Hendricks of the former phtoa « The motor was presented in he- —. half of the Scouts by Arthur JT Holt house newspaper editor, who mentioned that the scouts In De cstur and Genera purchased It with funds raised through the waste pa|>er drives. The motor, will Ite used on barges on Sylvan lake, where Big Island la located The Berne Scouts are working on a Separate project. Herman Krueckeberg. cashier ot the First State Bank, made the presentation honoring Mr Everhart He cited Mr Everharts many contributions to scoutdOm and his unselfish service In other youth movements in the city . Charles Morgan, former American • Legion post commander, present-1 ed Mr. Everhart with a silver* pitcher, engraved with a tribute j to the Decatur man’s "superior | service.” from Decatur Si-outers • Mr. Everhart humbly accepted I the gift and stated that he was ’ more than--amply paid tm the time he devoted to scouting when he saw the many good results that boy* received from scout ! training” Troop fl. Kenney Secaur. scoutmaster. and Troop <3. William O. Fraser scoutmaster. received “Strengthen the Arm of Uherty” awards from George Bair, for outstanding records made during the year. R L Van Horn of Fort Wayne, director of the Boy Scout activities In the area, spoke In scouting and mentioned that the hew lodge on Big Island was one of the finest installations In the country "The benefit of scout camping la that the boys learn how to live together.** Van Horn emphasized A mock trial waa conducted hv Mayor John M. Doan who had •’prisoners" Steve Everhart. W Guy Brown and George Bai' brought before him for ‘violation’ of Jaw. They were tried and “found guilty." the mayor meting out sentences accordingly . County Camporae Mr. Bair, county chairman, ar nounced that the county camporee would he held tn Geneva. June 2. ’ and. 4 Keith Ranta of Geneva, is camporee chairman, assisted hv the Rev C. J Steele Camp will be established In the Barklev woods and ths Decatur. Geneva .... and Berne troops .Will be joined by four from Allen connty Robert Heyman and Ray Crlne of Port Wayne, accompanied Mr. WenUrkhs to the meeting Mrs. Mary Lose Is Reported Serious Mrs Mary Lose, well-known Decatur lady, was reported 111 at L her home on Second street todav Mrs. Lose, who wss 90 years of age last December, was stricken last night Her condition is regarded as serious

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Romania Demands Legation Staff Cat RnrhateM, Romania. May It—(UP)— Romania demanded today that the Waited Blates cut Ito Buchareet legation staff to 18 persuae, claimlag that American diplomate took part in “eaplooage activities.’’ - U that the Ro maniaa legation staff In Washing loa ffrtmit ** reduced to the same r (Weeiern quarter* said the Ist ter move obviously was annoumed to fore Mall American retaliation, including possible expulsion from the United State* ot Romanian dip tomato.) 15 Men Killed As Superfort Crashes Today B-29 Crashes la Emergency Landing At Base In Azores London. May Iff — (UP) t~ The U. S air force announced - today -that 15 of Ila men—werekll led when a H D superfortress crashed while trying to make an emergency landing at 1-ageUs air base in the Asores. _ ’ ' TS* iuperferf Was one. of a flight of the .Wist bomb group flying from Barksdale Field. 10. &&SRWO6«S?« which had completed a ItOilay training period The total of 15 dead conflicted •tab au announcement from the I bomber's home base' where a pah- . .Jfa: relations officer said 18 per* sons ll crewmen and five pas eengers were killed The air force said Hie wrecked bomber waa diverted from _the main group on the flight from 1 Bermuda to Rcunthorpe England, after Its left outside engine failed A light rain was falling and the celling was only 500 feet when the bomber went _in. for a . ground i ontroi approach at Lagens. the air force reported •yte pilot approached the field normally, and" was nearing the runway Suddenly he apparently' decided to pull "up and make another try J The bomber went Into a steep I climb, appeared to stall and i plunged to the field It burst In . to flames I None aboard survived The air : force said the list of victims | would be released in the United States as soon as next of kin had . been notified The crash occurred at 1:69 a m (7:59 P m. Wednesday. CRT) } * The air force said there were I about SO planes in the bomb group making the flight, and that the others continued to England. District Offices | To Announce Census Announcement Soon For Local Figures Washington May IS. —(UP) First population figures of the 1950 census soon will be. announced by district offices although ths national total will not be known for several months Each of the 450 district super visors of the' census bureau has been Instructed to announce re suits of the county In hla area. The figures will be for counties and for incorporated municipal! ties, of more than 1.000 persons. They wHI be subject to later correction when deductions and additions are made for persons count ed away from home. After* the county and municipal figures are announced locally., they wHI-be sent to Washfngtntr where the census bureau will make them public as part of state totals. The first stale totals are expected about the last week of June ar the - first weed of July. , Sometime sifter Sept. 1. the ] •Were Tw wane seal WEATHER Mostly fair thia afternoon, partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Local showers or thunderstorms northwest portion I lota tonight or Friday. Warm- i er Friday. Low tonight 45-50 north, near 55 .south. High I Friday 75-ffO north. «M 5 south (

House Group ror uienuing Rent Controls ■ Approves Extension For One Year On Local Option Basis i: • Washington. May Iff—(UP)-— The house banking committee t» day approved a bill extending rest controls for one year, on a local option h*ai*. The present rent control law expires June 30, ", Under the commlttewapproved extension bill, municipalities would continue to have authority to take themselves out from under federal rent control between June 30 and Dec, -I Between Dec 31 and June 20. 1961. municipalities would remain under federal rent control under the bill only If the local governing bodies or the realdenta vote Ini favor of continued rent control. The commluoe-approved MH was sponsored by chairman Brent Spence. Kentucky Democrat. The vote was 13 to 4 in the comrnlitee lor the hill l*re«id> nt Truman had asked for another year ot rent control without any limitations But the com mil tee voted -to.. ■put G-deral • reaj control entirely up to the cities themselves. Many congressional leaders do har*atH s fi*u wte--yWr| ex'envion would pass the ’ senate snd the house. There Is some doubt even about the city option ex tension. _ Under present law. municipalities can take themselvee out from undet federal control provided they get the approval of the Mate governor Spence’s bill would no longer require s governor's approval before a city decontrolled Itself Spenet's bill alsp would continue the present authority of the housing expediter to recontrol areas between June 30 and Dec.] 31 ; I “ ■Spenee”T<'i44’''l*portei ; s that lie | thought a modified rent control ex-| tension measure along the lines] .the com'miiiee,approved .is the only i one that ittanda a reasonable ' f t hate >• of gelling through congress lt,e -aid he expects the housy to approve It A rent control •xtehsion bill has been under consideration by the banking committee, but lias not yet been approve* j | Program Listed For Baccalaureate Riles ] Annual Exercises Here Sunday Night | The program for the baccalaur j eeate service for the graduating students of the Decatur high school was released today by Walter J. ' Krick, superintendent of-the city's " schools The Rev Jonas M Berkey, paw ' lor of the First Christian church, 1 will deliver the sermon at the 1 services which are scheduled for ' Sunday at 7:M> p.m.. in the high 1 school auditorium. The program follows: 1 Processional I Call to worship 1 lavocMlpu—The Rev. Ralph A. ■ Carter. Church of the Nasarene Hymn—" Come. Thou Almighty i KingScripture reading — the Rev. Dwight McCurdy. Church of God. Prayer—Dr. Gerald Jones. First Methodist- church. Music—"A Hymn to M«s!e.“ girls double trio; "CllmMn’ Up the Mountain." and “The Lord's Prsyer.” high school choir. Baccslsureste sermon — "What Do You Want,” -the Rev Jonas M-. t Berkey. First ChriMlan church. | Hymn—“l Would Be True." j Recessional _ ...xs J ♦ South Bend Resident Is Suicide Victim i South Bead. Ind.. May Iff—(UP) I —Coroner T. C. Goroetewskl rv- I turned a verdict of suicide by stab- < blng today In the death of Charles I C. Ward. «7. whose body was found yesterday in his home Ward waa I HI for several months, suthorttles I ssid - I

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Hatted CHIDING the government Tor withholding specific charges that labelad her a “dangerous alien." Supremo Court- Justice Jackson virtually stopped the propellors of tho plane that was to re* urn German war-bride Mrs Ellen Knauff to Franhfurt The dark-haired beauty to aboWn (center! m ahe taUkml Jrtth reporters before leaving Idlewild Airport to return to Ellis island where she has been held two years . — '

Report Breekm At Berne Restaurant ••• ■ ■ ■ Parkway Inn Near Berne Is Robbed iouMlvcovitty* were continuing their investigation today of the breakia and burglary of the Parkway Inn. just south of Berne on U S highway 27. which occurred sometime during the plages ot the reetsuraat tel ported to deputy sheriff Bob Shra luka and slate trooper Walter Schindler, who Investigated, that the theft was discovered this morn Ing when the business place was opened Burl Feltenherger. owner. Item ized the losses as follows: a table | radio, a |7(l Waltham watch, ap. [ proximately t 75 In cash“ Bud about jl4 cartons of cigarettes An un I estimated number of packages of 1 gum and candy bars was also reported as stolen ... The burglars gained ’entry by forcing a window on the south side of the building Investigating police would not divulge any names hut they did admit that several were under susj plcfon for the breakin They statt ed that they would sift all informs- * tlon and follow all leads before Issuing a statement. Central Soya Makes Gift For Hospital I The Central Soya company ha« [ made a ISR.hOO gift to the Park-1 I view Memorial Hospital building fund In Fori Wayne It was announced yesterday by directors of the campaign. The gift was an- - nounced by D. W. McMillen, board chairman. Mrs McMillen and her daughter. Mrs. C. W. Crowe, also made - personal gifts -fa the hospital building fund.. The proposed hospital will be located east of Fort Wayne • and will cost more than ff1.509.M0. I Half of the amount Is being raised . among Individuals and industries ] In Fort Wayne. Harold W. McMillen |a general chairman of the ' <ampalgn Daily Bible Sthool -1’ Opens Here May 29 4I Community School To Run Two Weeks Announcement was made today 1 of the Decathr cbtiimunfty daily 1 Bible school, which will be held In ! the Lincoln school for two weeks. ' begltmlDg Moaday.-Mwy «■"- ■ Mrw Ruspell Owens-trill serve as ’ the dean of the school, and Mrs. ' Joseph Oelberg. assistant dean in " charge of crafts and handiwork The school will meet from 8:30 1 to 11 30 xa daily Monday 1 through Friday Mrw. Owens Mated. I She added that a full Itot of teach trt and helpers In the school will 1 be announced later. I In the meantime, she said, there < to to be a meet lag of these teachers i and Instructors Friday it 7 pm la < the First Baptist charch i

Pedestrian Killed When Hit By Truck Columbus, Ind.. May Iff—(UP) — Mike Rogers, 62. Edinburg, died at Bartholomew. county hospital yesterday as a result of Injuries rectived when he was struck by a truck as he crossed U. 8 31 south local Government fcafwmr Ara Ilrno4 Declares State's System Confused - Lafayette, Ind., May 18. —(UP) I — A DePauw University political! K-ientist sajd last night. Indiana * system of local government was "complex and confused.” Dr Clark Norton told , some 153 delegates attending the 23rd annual Indiana league of women voters convontion that the township government structure was "anti■lusted." "It is too small under modern conditions to provide proper financial support and effit ien* administration. Norton said. He suggest ed the townships be disbanded and their functions absorbed by couulle». . . - The counties also should be streamlined. Norton declared To cut expenditures and overhead, he advocated elimination of the "complicated administrative or ganixation." establishment of, an ’ overall administrative head. a good personnel system "Including appointment and promotion of officers by merit." Norton also called for home rule .as a means to improve municipa* 1 government xnd charged that cit- ; les now are "at the mercy of the : legislature." "There Is no reason why local -flairs must lie Involved in Mate i politics," he told the league Earlier state health commlaaionjer Dr. Leroy K. Burney said two : vital problems-personnel and H-nances-werv slowing efforts to set up local public health units on a fulltime basis He said few doctors preferred public health work after finishing medical school, apparently hei ause preventive medicine is not taught many places, and because (ke profession offers more attrac ] five positions. However he said he believed the state board of health should provide leadership in setting up local health boards, althou n ii it waa up to the counties to decide what program they wanted in their com munities. RIITBAX rwawscvliv*KoVt—allocation of funds to public health was an "'nveMment" and not •" expenditure. Mrs John L. H Fuller. Indianapolis, retiring president of the league, presided at the final business session this mornlag A talk hy Prof Bea H. Petty. Purdue Valverstty. and John Barnett Indiana state chamber of commerce. *a "less costly and more efficient state government? Mowed th* three-day conclave this afternoon.

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■ i n-nsMum— —A—— High Winds Pounding Al Winnipeg Today Dikes Are Weakened By Wind And Rain Winnipeg. Man., May IT— (UP) —Winds of near gale force pounded the flooding Red river agalust this prairie capital’s sagging dikes today. Fred McGinnis, a flood control spokesman, said that even it. the dikes held, waves would lap over and deepen the seepage pools behind them. At least 17 percent of Canada’s fourth largest city already to under water. -~ Dikemen and spotters equipped with walkie-talkies reported scores of weak spots In the 20 miles of earthworks Within minutes, flying squads of Civilians and soldiers from headquarters were filling Jhe breaches with | sandbags. A weather bureau forecast of showers tonight added to the worries of 55.000 floodfighters battling the 20.2-foOt -crest. I noticeably and doubled the num- | her of calls for reinforcements from a stockpile of SW.OJO sandbags A half Inch ot rain which Jell in southern Manitoba waa espaeted to maintain the four*teyold flood crest. , Muddy flood waters already have poured oyer 10 dikes, forcing at least 106,000 persons, a third of the city’s population, to flee to neighboring provinces The remaining dlk- s protect a third of Lthe city, and the rest or the city is above flood level Unofficial estimates of damage ■Tor the- entire -Oavntte-stretch ot the Red* river valley ranged from *100.900.000 to *300.000.1X01 Agriculture authorities said farmers I in the. 65-equare-mile area under water would suffer at least *20.090,000 in crop losses. Slur Witness' Life Reported Threatened Government Career Woman Threatened ■Washington. May 18—(UP) —] Rep Raymond W. Karst, D.. Mo., said today the government's star witness In an Investigation of the army's finance center at St Louis has been threatened with death to I keep her quiet" The wltnetts. Sally Dewey, a government career woman who accus'd the center of harboring Communists and mismanaging government funds In 112 separate charges, will be called to testify before a house armed services subcommittee She already has unfolded a story nt polilicsl intrigae and money mismanagement to Karst's posl- : office and civil service subcommittee which made a preliminary Investigation of th* big disbursing center. Karst said her story “reads like a dime mystery thriller " He said the threats against her life were made while Miss Dewey was employed at the center as an Inspector on servicemen's allotment and allowance waivers "It is no secret that army tutelltgence furnished a bodyguard to escort Miss Dewey to and from het home." be said On one occasion, be rotated. Mtoa Dewey found a threatening note in her typewriter. "Thia note, along with others similar to. Ji, -msateriousty dtaap* - peered." he said "Ute committee has evidence that they did extat We now want to know what became of them " He said she was discharged by the eenter more than a ' "on a trumped up charge of In efficiency" Rhe waa assigned to a new job in the adjutant general’* 1 department throe months ago after 1 her case was reviewed by the civil ’ service rirmmtoetota Chairman Paul J Krldav D. ' ot the armed service* sub tTessi Te Faws ata)

New Railroad Strike Called ForNextWeek Switchmen Union I» Cails Strike; Bus Services Cut OH By United Press Strikes cut off bus service to < 850,000 riders at Atlanta and Pittsburgh today and the AFL , switchmen’s union called a strike { for next Tuesday against 10 midwest and western railroad companies. Bus service at Kokomo, Ind . a city of 35,000. was disrupted when 25 drivers failed to report to work 1 after losing a court appeal adklng reversal of an arbitration board's decision denying them a pay raise The union, however, had not called a strike. At Clevelabd. 0.. 1.300 members , <af tfcekJnrereattoaei AsabeMW W ! Machinists walked out at the Crawler Tractor plant of Oliver Corp, to protest a proposed wage rate cut Nearly 200 pickets surrounded the plant but there was no violence. ... At Toledo. O. a Jffxen girl MM ployes Mruvk ■ gelato taanl Off «t the CIO Auto Workers to protest the "domination of the office" by Richard T. Goeaer. UAW international vlce-presidant. About SOO.’hOO riders Were fioreed to seek other means of getting to work this morning at Pitts burgh and its suburbs as the AFL 1 Amalgamated Ktreet Car W-irkers union went on strike against five 1 motor coach companies A sixth ’ firm was grsnted “a day’s grace” for more talks on wage increases < The union had struck previously I against a seventh firm t The union, with almost 890 « members on strike, is demanding 'nt least 10 ceiit* an hour in wage ’ boost*. t The same union was Involved in I the strike at Atlanta where 350.- 1 000 riders formed car pools, bitch- l biked, or rode bicycles to work » The union was demanding an | eight-cent increase Tor c at Atlanta who drive trackless trolleys* e The switchmen's union issued, > I its strike call against the west * and midwest railroads to enforce t tTere Vs Paes Flaati ' t Christina Liniger 1; Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon * Mrs. Christina Liniger. 88. a real- r dent of Decatur and community r practically her entire Hft. died at f 1V:15 o’clock Wednesday night at * her home. 804 West Adams street. « following a long Ulases ” Born in Cvavoy. 0.. she waa a 0 daughter of John and Mary Kyle- f Dettinger She was married Feb 15. 1883 to Benjamin Liniger. who died Feb 11, 1941 She waa a member of St Lake's [ Reformed churck al Honduras / " Surviving are two daughtero. ' Mr* Al Brush wilier ot Decatur sad Mr*. Fred Jess* of Fort Wayne: j five »on*. Fred Liniger of Decatur. . Daniel W of Marlon. Charles R j of Hartford City Georgs of Fort. t Wayne and Roger of Rome City .- Id grandchildren; 12 great-grand- j children: three brothers. Charles i Jjettlnger, At Magley WHHs Det ( tlnger of Tocsin and Samuel Det- t finger of Eagle Bend Minn : and two stater* Mrs. Mary Drook and ( Mrtv Roe* Wolfe, both of Marion | TWo children preceded her tn a death . Funeral aervtc** will be held at ] 2 30 pm Saturday at the Black « funeral home and M 2 11 o'clock t at the St Luke * Reformed chureh. 1 the Rev H H Weefcstroth of F Dctetlag aaeiMad by the Rev Wtb | Ham C Feller Burial will be at t J'era Crag Friends may call at the < funeral home after 10 am. Friday |

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Primary Goal For Balanced Defeme Force For Nations Os Western World London. May Iff-fDP)— TBff Atlantic pact nations set up a permanent council of deputies today to coordinate thrir dMaow asd nonth: program. The foreign mlatatere as tke IS countries announced crentlon of the 12 countries announced crew tlon at the new permanent body, which win aft eonttauouaiy tn Lowdon. The announcement was laa—ff a* the ministers met for the final MMksn of a conference here. In effect, the mintaters left selection of the bead of the new conncil up to President Truman. The deputies will elect their ova chairman, but it was understood the American deputy would get tbt» ’jamfc ' •. -' —-r — The- names most frequently mew ttoned here were those" of Gen. Dwight D, Elsenhower, president of Columbia university; Robert A. Lovett, former undersecretary of state; and .W. Averell Harriman, roving ambassador for the Marshall '■ :s,- x ---x v :/. < -• A resolution adopted hy the foreign ssiataters of the 11 eoMUteff waa made public juM before the laM session of their cowferenoo here. A pntnsry goal of the new coew <-q will be 4o develop in detail a •tea sheady oatllaed to oreate a balanced tatereational defease force for the west II would swper sede the eatottag separate national forces In each country The member nations wtl| try henceforthto specialise in various fields of defense These will be fitted together and coordinated Into 3-ltt defease program of the western world against any aggression. . -* With the conference of foreign ministers In Its Anal stage, the following additional stepe were taken. to weld the western world into a Mrong Atlantic community 1. France and Great Britain invited the United States and Canada to join the organlxallon for European economic cooperation, the European side of the ‘'Marshall plan, on an informal basis to help solve the deadlocked European pay men t s union plan f<yr great er convertibility of currencies. ff. The two units of the council of Europe, the consultative assembly and the council of mtaistera. agreed to set up a joint committee to try to solve their disputes The new council of deputies will . be spearheaded hy Its chairman He functions will Include presiding over the council and in effect running the whole Atlantic treaty 'rganisatkin The ministers said the deputies will start work here "tn the near future." —*"■*. In the first such move In world history, the foreign minister* have agreed to abandon national armies tor the purposes of common defense in favor of a single fighting foece capable of meeting a possible Soviet attack and stopping it at the frontier of western Europe Each nation will contribute Ha own specialty to the international forces The continental nations ot WeMfTwen T* ease aaat Legion To Nominate vTnctfj vn monaay M—b*r* of Adams poet 42. American Legion, will nominate officers tor the coming Meet ion Monday K waa announced today by eooimaatoT Ehner Dnrwaehter. who added that a fish fry will foilow the regular business meeting The election of officer* 'far. the comlnff year will to held laterthia aummer » Commander Darwachter also reminded member* ot the American Legion poM. aa did Clarence Weber. -commander of the VFW po*L to be preece- at the American Legion Lome at about 9 20 o’clock Sunday morning, where tranaportatkm will be furnished to the St Fears Lutheran ehurck. near Preble, when ths Rev O C Basse pastor will deliver the msanortal sermon Rev Rase* la chaplain ot the Atnrricaa Legion poet here