Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 119, Decatur, Adams County, 20 May 1950 — Page 1

Yd. XLVIII.

OVER SCORE KILLED IN MUNITIONS BLAST ■ . ... - — -- i-- . - :— —■ ————- «EUMrauura«nHra

r* J AM J lino Aiiegea Red Blueprint Os Destraction Communist Plot To Destroy Washington Io Event Os Wor Washington. May it> tUP). - Renatora Investigating Ml pyfversion In govurnmewt haveuncov* •rad what they believe nrty be a genuine communist blueprint for destraction of the nation's capital In event of war wljh Russia. It wan disclosed today: The purported/' blueprint tor disaster," an Uich-thick volume, contains detaßed inat ructions tor bombing key government offices, deetreylna /pubHc uvHWte* and poisoalng/of the city's water supply / Ths/slm of the plain would be to wirslyze the government par ticinsrty congress. the military establishment and the state department. / The volume ia currently in the / custody of Sat James K. Hunter

of the Washington police subversive squad. It has been examined already hy Sens. Kenneth S Wherry, ft. Neb., and Uster Hill, D. Ala. It was learned that Hunter told the senators he obtained ■ the "blueprint for. diaaater" from var ious communist sources over, a vlnced It is genuine "It looks genuine " Wherry said:, Wherry and Hill told tb« senate yesterday that police official* mate IhsrejHk 1.7.50 aex pervert* on the itovernmant payroll. Ot the total, they said, some Wh to 400 work for the stale department Wherry said local police officials have traced a "nest" of homosexuals to a foreign embassy. He later Identities the • -tuba*** a* the Soviet Union's Wherry and Hill Tondu< ted their Inquiry as members of a senate appropriations subclhnmittee which demand'd a fullscale senate investigation after hearlng thelr report. The senate was expected to authorise wh ah inquiry early next week It was con«idered probable that the investigation would bo conducted by Its top investigating group the executive exp.-tfliitures subcommittee headed by Sen Clvde R Hoey. D, N C The state department has denied there are any aex perverts on it* payroll Informed of Wherry's statement press officer Lincoln White said the department learned about the police estimate some time-ago and asked Lt Rov Ullck of the vice squad Io furnish the name* of the individuals Involved. “No such names have been furnished.” White ssid "A.s a result of previous and current Investigation. the department can cate roricslly state that to the best of Its knowledge there, is no such person on its rolls." ft has been the policy of the department to dismiss all homosexuals as bad security risks. Secretary bean Acheson and hl* top advisers have said that such persons are extremely vulnerable to blackmail by subversive agents Students' Work Is Displayed In * C Os C. Window Drawings and blue prints of students In the mechanical drawing class of Arnot Ketchum, of the Decatur high school, are on display in the Chamber of Commerce window. The works were placed there Friday and will remain in the window through next Tuesday. There are 1$ drawings and one bine print in the coffer t ion Among them are the second prise winning — drawing of Robert Strickler and the third place winner of Richard Dale Hott of the annual Purdue ■s ■ Afntwrstqt. .-Aißhc *-dvawtag competition *-• The drawings Include those of the high school, a home cogs, interior skeleton drawings and floor plana. The single blue print is the floor plan of a home Columbia City Boy Is Killed By Auto Columbia City Ind . May N — (TPI— A three-yearold boy. Rich ard Lee Marshall. Was killed ye* terday- when hit by an auto near his home 1

DECATUR DAIEF DEMOCRAT ONLY OAM.V NmnMMM IM AMMO COUNTY

To West Point n J* - James Myron Zcrkel . A grandson of Mrs J A Zerkel. 313 N Eleventh street this city. James .Myron Z~rket.son- of -Mrand Mr*. O. K. Zerkel of Herne route one, will enter West Point Military Academy on July 5. Hl* appointment was made through Congressman Edward F. Kruse A graduate of Hartford township high school the young man has been employed at Smith municipal airport He holds ' a pilot's license He is IK years old and formerly attended Purdue exten ! slon center in Fort Wayne.

I — : Sen. Wayne Morse Wins Nomination Polls Easy Victory In Oregon Primary ’ Portia*. ot*.. May 20 - il’Pi ‘Wayne Morse won the ll<* I Publican hotniaatloii lur the U. 0. > TWBWa from Ida conaerraUve op-' ponent, farmer Dave i looser j flionntinK return a from Omron’s} primary HerJlon «tu»we4 10-Uy ’ . i - Hoover conceded the victory to-| r Morse. A ii I pan «1 tu< k fight developed J ( among thn’e fair-deaiTfni? IWo I ; crata seeking the nomination for governor and the eight to »»pp.»se incumbent Douglas Nfrk'ay in ’he November < ;•«tifjm . X-.. state Senator Austin and Lew Walla/ v. lurth whole |o % trte-1 . Truman Democrats . ext-hm. e<l tha lead several thries and state treasurer Walter .1 Peafson was i running • lo<e behind them Returns from of the 2.017 ; preeitut- gave I s s«‘ti *t.,i Republican Hoover 3,5.544 John ' I Mcllrido S Gt*s, Mntse. I Democrat if Howard* I vat ou retie : 37.312: Dr Louis. Wood 3fi.«Hl ’ Governor Repwldfcan McKay tun opposed* l>emocrati< Fb* : gel 29,242: Perarson 22,972; Waij lacs 26.5111 Morse who campaigned nn the 1 | slogan of '’principle over partx*”._L‘ ' ran almost two to one ahea«l of ' Hoover in populous Multnomah j county. Portland Hoover drewp ' most of his vote strength from'; downstate comm unit tex and rutalh areas where he stumped on the theme that Morse was more Demo- j i crat than Republican and a l»e- i • T»rw Tw Fwae i . j » • | I Herbert H. Ehinger Dies last Evening World War Veteran - Dies In Hospital Herbert H. Ehinger. SS. died at C+s u'chu-k last evening ot » beart-L ultack al Veterans Hospital, Utflei, Rock. Ark. his brother Leo 1 ] Ehinger. “20 N. Third street, win | advised last night , . - A paiieut at the howpUal tor the past 20 years. Mr Ehinger was ( watirw x#e — “ *elged by the attack. He was mor ( ed t'n the hospital and di> <1 within 15 minutes, hospital Informants said The body Will be brought here ' and taken to the dilllg and Doan ’ funeral home Funeral arrangemW' rsfffr.- Twat*will be tn the Catholic cemetery 1 Auton of the late Edward X ‘ Ehinger, the deceased was born in 1 Decatur. Oct 2. IMI He atfended ' the Catholic schoot and as a young 1 man wak employed In the farmer ’ Myers-Dailey clothing store : He was a veteran of World War I and later engaged In the oil drill ■ ing business In the south. Reside* his brother In this city > he is survived by another brother. I The Rev Vincent Ehinger of the I , Passlonlst order, and a sister. Mrs t 1 Will Barling of Indianapolis. a

Rail Strike Is Postponed UnfilJunel Govammont Pho For Delay Granted By Railway Union Washington. May 20-(UP>— The national mediation board was counting today on last-minute peace talks to avert a second railroad strike within a month. The board arranged tor the conferencea Tuesday between spokesmen for the AFL switchmen's union of'North America and 10 western and midwestern railroads At the government’s request, the union agreed yesterday to move . up it* strike deadllaa from g am, Tuesday to June 1 The union has demanded 48 hours pay for a 40-hour week. In an effort to back up these demands, it threatens-to pull g.oou switch men off these roads: Chicago 41 Great Western: Chi cago. Rock Island d Pacific; Dav-, enport. Ruck Island A North WestI ern Denver A Rio Grande: Great I Not hern: Minneapolis t St. Uiuls; Northern Pacific Terminal 1 Company of Oregon; St. Paul I I'ulon Depot Co ; Sioux City j Terminal Railway Co., ami West- : etn Pacific Railroad Co. f , There were signs, however, that Ho switchmen planned to strike WW 'the Such a procedure would follow ! the pattern In the recent week long -trike of the brotherhood pt locomotive. firemen and enginemen against tour other railroads. Cenjtrt Tokar Killed " (By Own Automobile Bloomington Ind. May 20. — j trtTpr ‘ tA~ sis -year-old Filet t svliie: 'census taker. Mrs. Alva May. died: 'of a fractured skull yesterday at ! ter she was run over by her own driverless automobile. ' Iteputy c.n imer Eithyl Reynolds said the car ran over Mrs. Ma.' :-.f_trr. she-deft it parked with the motor -running on a slight grade* . while she opened a gate at her ■arm home' Urge Woman Named On School Board Organizations Urge City Name Woman Several Decatur women's organi : rations are reported to have be ‘rome active In recommending that ■i woman be named to membership cn the Decatur school board. It was learned today. The term of i Gerald Cole expires thia summer and the post will be filled at the ijuhe council meeting. Two points to substantiate their iecommendation of a woman board i member have been advanced by j those favoring the move. One Is I that there has not been a woman on the board for more than to years. Mrs. Carrie Haubold well-; known Decatur musician and music Instructor; formerly was s ( mem tier. The other contention is that •" three of the present members reside south of Monroe street, leaving the entire north part of Deiatur unrepresented. Th name most prominently mentioned the last few days Is ths" |of Mrs Robert Freeby. who has been active in club and civic affairs Mrs. Freeby resides tn the north part of the city. "At the present time one or two of the councilmen are non-com-mlttal on the subject. However, there appears t° be a feeling among the majority that there should be a woman on the board and also that one of the members should reside In the north part of the c|ty. K. .Ma. Md Mrs- Freeby dnxw two*, sons. - both graduates of Decatur high school and both now in college. It la the custom of the conn cil to consider only names of per- ‘ sons filing applications tor the ’>oard post and to date no formal applications have been filed. It has not been learned whether Mr. Cole will seek another term. Mr*. Freeby has not formally filed an application and the work done tn her behalf to date has come from the various civic groups Interested In the selection ot a woman./ -

pKtMf, Sefwrityg Mty 1950

x *’. China Commimiata* Prisoner Home iml ■ / // A WcW't / J / J A WITH A MARINI CORR* hand Haring a “welcome home." Navy Chief Electricians Mate William C. Smith greets his wife and children at Long Beach after a Marine Cbeps C-M Transport plane brought him home. With M ’Rgt. ranter C Bender •*' Cincinnati he has been a prladner of Chinese Commußist* tor IS months following their capture when their light plane made a forced landing Iwhind red Chinese lines. ' ,

Dismissal Os Two bathers Protested Montnouth Patrons Protest Dismissal *>be dismissal of two teachers in the Monmouth schools ha* ere ate* a furof in the community -- which has resulted in lauding ot the teachers' work In mass meetings and pleading with the town1 ship trustee to reinstate them ; Through unofficial sources it ■ was learned that trustee George ta’hleferstein, ot Root township, has not renewed the contracts of basketball coach Myron lehnun and first and second grade instructor Mrs, Vera Owens As * result, meeting have b* en held in the school and at the home <>f the trustee but to no avail Sclhefersteln stated that he, does not have his teacher list completed a* yet. and would not make an official announcement ot the staff for the next year. How-ever, It was learned from a reliable source that Mrs Owens and I.ehman were the only two not to receive cont raids for the, i 1950-51 term. Under the Indiana school laws. , i the trustee has the power to hire ! and fire teacher* unless there is I a school board, then the trustee 1 has only nominal voting power ; There are plans underway by ' partisans In both Root and Preble to consolidate the schools. This would, as a consequence, create ! ; a five-man board, eliminating the j one-man rule Nothing official has been done on this matter though Prominent cflliens of lullh townships have studied the plan and have taken tt under advisement. In the meantime Indignation meetings have been held in the ! Monmouth school and at the home of the trustee In an effort to make him change his list, and reinstate both Mrs. Owens and leshman. A group of women approached the schlefersteln home to dlscuas the retention of Mrs. Owens. They praised her, and stated they hoped that she would continue to work in the school Schlefersteln Stated then that the teachers' dismissals were no reflection on their work as teachers. It is understood that there was a salary difference between the trustee and at least one *»f . the teachers. Last Friday s meeting of men In the Monmouth area was held In the high school, with slmilajapprobation tar Lehman and the expression made that he. too. would remain as coach of the Then Tuesday a meeting was held in the high school by partisans of both dismissed teachers, where It was almost unanlmausly 1 voted hy the approximately 45 present that they resented the dismissal of the teachers who had the favorable backing of the community. WCATHtR Partly cloudy today, tonight •nd tomorrow. Not much change In temperature. High today 72-2*. low tonight 4S-60 north, MMO south.

Former Banker Is Given Prison Term .* <. A 44 year-old former banker. Ken-: neth W.. Boldt of Milltown, hea four year sentence today for i em bexzlement. ' j Boldt pleaded guilty to taking 1 the moaev and staging a fake rob befr. at th* Jtttttown First National bank. Chicago School Girl Is Brutally Killed 19-Yeor-OM Youth Seized As Suspect Chicago. May 20 tl’Pl A I pretty 14 year old brunet wa> beat,tll and stabbed to death tin her doorstep earljModay a* her famfly ! sat in the parlor only a few feet away The unknown killer e-< ap»d without being seen Police broadcast an alarm for a "man who may Im* covered with blood " it was the only description Ijhey could offet ; Squad* of officers converged on I the area and hunted through dark alleys and side streets for the mur j derer. | The victim was Patricia Swarts, J ; a junior at Englewofid high school. Her killer stabbid her nine times and fractured her skull I She apparently fought bitterly! Ifor her life Less than two hours after the slaying police seized Raymond; Jenko, 19. who Ilves three blocks I from the girl's home. Officers said that Jenko, who Is; serving five years on probation for burglary, was brought to a hospital with deep knife gashes on his handL and foot/ Jenko claimed he had been held up by a negro who slash ed him However, a neighbor who brought Jenko to the hospital said Jenko had carried a six-inch butcher! knife home with him The knife was twisted and bloody and the neighbor's wife said Jenko had asked her to wash the blade for him;*"'/Z / ~~ ‘ ■' Officers described Jenko as “a. very good suspect" and questioned him extensively but he etang to hi* story Miss Swarts spent the evening playing volleyball at che Engle center An ardent sport* enthusiast, center An ardent sporty enthuiast. she had been working as a part ' time waitress to save money fori a college course in physical education. Mr 4 snS Mr- ' Wtf Ham Swarta. suddenly heard the girl scream on the stairs outside their first floor apartment. Swarts reached his daughter seconds later The killer wasn’t in sight and tbeeglrl Jay in, her awn blood Tbe father took the girl to St. Bernard's hospital where she died without regaining consciousnes» ' i Doctors at the hospital said she had not been'raped •ww They said the killer bad struck her brutally and slashed her face, ' neck, wrists and cheat

Atom-Like Explosion Os Tons Os Munitions Injures More Than 350

Hero’s Welcome For Imprisoned Marine Sgt Bender Will Lead Parade Today Chicago, May 20 — (UP)-*-Marlne M/Sgt. Elmer C. Bender, who was held prisoner by the Chinese Communists for 18 mouths, will be welcomed hack to his wife’s hometown ■ Tstrsy ■tw-»■ "Kgrts w nfF«mf”war““ The handsome 27 year-old leatherneck will be invited to lead Chicago's forges day P»rade. riding In ad opcfe'ear*at thh head ot -25.000 marching marines, sailors and soldier*; Binder’* pretty wife Shirley, their daughter Kathy. 4. and hts mother. Mr* Edna Bender of Cincinnati. waited at Glenview naval air station for the plane bringing him from Long Beach. Cal. City officials planned to give him a few hour.-e-with his family, then take him to the armed forces day; liini-hton in a U*q> hole! where l he■ was echeduled as the guest of ; Then he Will be a-kcii to head up ■ the big parade down Michigan -, Boulevard A* .‘loo planes ot all serv- | Ic * near overhead ; High brans will pay honor to the . marine Secretary of the navy . Evkad* Matt he ws himself was pre •cat A* prvstde al Ihe tancbewi and to invite Bander to ride with him is the hug cotamn. —- ~ Other official* Included Illinois Gov Adlai Stevenson, Chicago mayor Martin Kenneily and more I generals and admirals than Bender has saluti-d throughout hi* time in the service ' ; Bender laud* <1 y* -Iddgi at Iy» ; Aiameto* nava: air station 1 with-, naiy C|N» William C Smith the "man 'to- , al*.o ItiHiri! , aimed Th- tffo were lield In «4»e l orn' - muni st* after etn+r —plate - cra*h'; landed during a flight from the former U S naval base at T«lns-' tan Smith* wife nut him at the Caiifotui.l base Hut .B*nder » wife] .aped for him to arrive hue a* Chh ajto where she has lived -With her parents since the start ot his iTuvw r*ae atai Snyder Resigns As Jefferson Principal / To Accept Position In LaGrange County I Marvin Snyder, principal of the ; Jefferson township scbwil* for the past three years, has/resigned this ! position, according to an announcej meni of the county board of education. to accept, a similar position in the Scott high school In LaGrange couiyy Two instructors, one of them In the high School, the other In the grades, have also signified they ) will not return next year. Mrs. Nettie B. Davis, who teaches home economics, health and English, and whose home is In Angola, has resigned to contact work nearer her community. Miss Elaine Christy. Instructor of grades one and two. is planning on going to college Io prepare tor missionary work. ’ - Those who wttl return next year. are Fred Boiler, commerce, social studies: Claren Neuenschwander.> social studies physteal education. 1 c.iach Syhllla G. Sprunger. music. I ! English: Ruby Miller, grades five and six: Helen Kenney, grades thcee and tour - . tar-a.. 1 ■ w Society Editor Os Democrat Resigns Mrs. Betty Melchl Terveer, octefy editor of the Distly Democrat I for the last several years, has tendered her resignation effective today. Mrs Phyllis Hunter Acheson. I who was employed here several j veare ago, will replace Mrs. Terveer Mr* Acheson will start her new duties as society editor Mow day morning.

Says Americans Mnra Faarfiil sis nuic rCariill VI War Than Europe ■ American Educator Reports On Tour Os European Notions Imadon, May 2d—(UPl—Goebel Patton ot West Frankfort, ill, aaM 1 today that the American people are more fearful of war than the Europeans who are closer to Rn* sia. ~~ry Patton, who I* winding up a J 9-, day tour of 11 European count rise with S 4, American educators, said the average American's fear ot war was almost hysterical compared to that of tbe average European He is principal of Community high I.school at West Frankfort and .ad- ' ministrauff of Wy schools He said other impression* of hffl 4.4a»*.-:-WAM*u.itat Kijr^-s-f'.'C .1- « 1 Communism was decidedly on 1 : the decline in Europe I 2. America could stop giving * Marshall aid to some countries bes I cause they don't need tt,, 81 3 Ih Eurtvpe. the SMtadard of liv» ' Ing to highest la Switaerland and 1 lowe«t in France 1 The educators made tbe topr under the auspice* of the National L[ A*su<T*tiun ot Manufacturer*. Iks ‘j U. S Chamber of Commerce and *! the National Education Association They were led by Prof Carl: ' Horn, director of education al/ Michigan State /College, and ; I'hiislopher E Sower, aassu'tste; prutessnr of sociology and anihro , pptagJ •' th* same «<-hool | Patton was interviewed at the Rodney hotel here, where the group , K..w 1» lodged, j - I~»Biy»ed Tjhe tour/immensely." ! Io said It wa* tlnng. but very -iifri-liing There/I* a very nice i lelailonship beiwxui America and Eino|H arid the American 1* cer raitiiy burtrid pjem as a much nicer guy < vi r b*j4> than he was baton-! ■qile wsr " He summed up hi* impressions by country as follows: Frar/i- "Ihe standard of living : I* the lowest in Europe The French have a long, hard way to; u/ before they meet the needs of All their people We were very di.-couraged by the economic post , <T»ew T. Pane Star f Mrs. Dorothy Dull Dies last Evening Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Mrs. Dorothy Dull. SI. wffe of Hurry Dull, died at 4:45 o'clock Friday evening it her home ta ’Wren; O. “ She had been ill slnca last August. She was born In Blue Creek ; township Feb. 14. 1919, a daugh ter of Sidney and Leona Baker Dague. and was married to Harry Dull Ang. C. 1938 She was a member of the Wren Evangelical United Brethren church - Surviving In addition to her husband are tour children Myrtle Patricia, Donald Dean. Richard 1 Dwight and Linda Joan., all at > home; her father. Sidney Dacue Pleasant MUI*, her mother. Mrs: Leona Paddig. Grand Rapids Mich.: one brother. Marion Dague , «{„JgRME*.-WngNn-;-* toew-hntMtrosb- - ereflctaipb fixStae Port Wayne 1 Glen and Gerald Dague of Plans ant Mills, and a half-sister, Mias Patricia Jean Dague ot Pleasant Mills. Funeral services will ba held ; at m Mondar at the Rev Harry L. Smith residence 1b Wren; and at 2 o'clock at the Wren E U. B church, with Rev Smith and the Rev O B Turner officiating Burial will be tn the Wren cemetery The body will i be removed from the Zwick funeral home to the Smith residence | 1 Sunday afternoon

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Probe Possibility Os Sabotage After New Jersey Blast; 20 M»ll*n»* DflflMHMl 4toV •w « • TWW V«U raw Mm •••MMMgw South Amboy. N. J„ May UA—(UP) -peeking tbe caase of an aiom-*» exptoatoa of tons of must tlons iiuoud for tbe sub-coattneal of India, authorities today Invest Igated the possibility of nabotage Fire cotnmlsaioner W’llll a M . G'L* aiy placed the denlh toll at * ■Me-,tJfc, saiS. totaled U 2. and property damage may exceed «2».o«*.4*hi Four- barge* loaded with antitank and aaU personnel mines went lap In a vast amah rooming roar that was felt in’New York City 23 mites away An estimated twothirds of the building* in this town of pi,tHiv pen-on* *urf. red *<>me kind of damage Tbe monitions were bound for / Pakistan which with Indi* share the subcontinent that recently constituted the British Indian empire: II had been purehaaed Under Mean**- ftom aa Ameticaju muni tton* manufacturer U> Newark (> O'Leary and state police wer* 1 cbecklhr all ''■■po^tbifftfnX'^k-' lag the cause of Ito* diaaater There was no evidence that pointed ‘ eonciMivaiy to any one possibility ' I The shipment through South J Amboy had byes authorised by the ~|coaal guard Üba thousand* of j other* the/port of New York. | Despite the virtual certainty that /the death toll was 24 at snare. -only four bodies had been found. ’’ The bodies of other victims.' 1 (>'|>ary said probably would never be recovered. Twenty to 25 were on the barge* or ■ on the Raritan Bay dock to which they were moored Their bod le*. he added wera blown to bit*. Hundred* of the small anti par sunnsJ mines were scattered over the countryside and today a state police sound truck toured . the : gta»**!lttered streets; blaring "do not' touch any ~Wsplcfous objects Report thfm’ to police"* . The explosion had a startling similarity to the famoxta Black Tom explosion of World War I TWO million pounds of munltionv desin- '.. ed for the allies loaded on bargea I blew up on Black Tom Island near Jersey City. 28 miles from South j Amboy, on July 30. 1918. The Healing Stevedoring Company of Jersey City, which had the I contract for unloading the explosive* from 12 freight cars onto the barges and then reloading j them onto a freighter anchored in I the remote reaches of the harbor. | was checking It* personnel record* ! to fix the final death toil. The freighter was the Flying Clipper of the Isbrandtsen Line* which was damaged recently while trying to run the Chinese Nationalist blockade ot Communist-held Shanghai Hans Isbrandtsen. prs*l dent of the line confirmed that the shipment was bound tor Pakistan. O’Leary said the bodies of the men on tbe job may never be ' ;found "They can't even find any of I the railroad cars, let alone a body." he aai*J t~ Coroner Frank T. Korsawa by , 10 *p, had received two telephone reports on the fiadlng of bits of <twvw -vw rrore ntsi — Bodrfy Aoppy JDoy Marked Today By Foreign War Vets ' Today la the day the ViF.W, ia giving Buddy Poppies away j'toe whatever you can afford to - pay ’ ' I When you buy a Ruddy Poppe -wer*auxiliary you will be investing in a symbol helping to recUty ths mistakes ot the past, and giving a financial boost to the future of hospitalised veterans widows and ' The symbol atrKcbea ovur two vast wars and a lot of territory, from Hander* to Blzerte. where “on the slopes of Hill <n» poppies Mow as rod as any ia Flanders rad among them lie Americans who tßed as bravely and as grandly as | any who Ml in tha Argonne', a. Gettysburg or at Buakar HUI"