Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1950 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Vol. XLVIIJ. No. 190.

Boy Killed In Freak Accident Here Saturday Richard Bertsch Is Fatally Injured As Auto Strikes Horse Three and one-half yesridd Rich-' ard Bertsch wiw fatally injured Saturday afternoon when an autotm* bile driven by hi* father crashed into a heavy horse on the Clem* lake road, two mile* ea«t and one mile north of Decatur. The boy. son of Mr and Mrs Lewis Bertsch. Iterator route S.' djed at 2:15 p ni. Saturday at the) Adams county memorial hospital, ate tut !<• mlputes after the tragic , -.irrldent The lad suffered™*-burtH-f *kull frartute _ I The victim's father was driving I north when the horse broke through a field. da«hed acros* ,*-ditch and, mid the road When the car struckl the horse, the animal rented and crashed" down on the right door ; imho driving the root of the auto own on the boy's head Robert liefibaagk. also of roula 3. who was driving th* borne start across the Wixd and stopped hH ear. bat unable to avoid the animal Tfte horse, weighing 2.04(1 pounds had hern used by Paul ll* vis in horse pulling coniests It had been tied in a barn burhad broken away. a<- 1 cordtnK to Information given fjj.Bobj Shruluka deputy sheriff, who-"In- .. vestigated The horse was badly *iiijijred and ,It ad to be destroyed TKF'fW ! rl*i li boy »a- rtan'dtag.on the floor »f the car near the window, Shraluka stated William Ho**. 15. a neighbor of the Bertsch family, who was also riding in the car. suffered.a minor hand injury and. Ilert*. h was uninjured Funeral Tuesday The < hlld is stirvjyed by his par | ruts; a brother. Bickford; at home.; and the grandparents, Mrs Csit Fritzinger of near Decatur, and Mr and Mr* Cornelius Herts, h of near Geneva Funeral services will he held at T p m Tuesday at the Cornelius Bertsch home and at 2 o'clock at the Christian Apostollc_chureft-'lhe Rev; Samuel Aeschlhrtlin official. Ing a ltarial will be In the church cemetery. The body was removed Sunday evening from the Jahn fun erul home to the Cornelius Bertsch ' residence, where - friend* may; call

Adams County 4-H'ers At Three-Day Camping

(Editor's note: Dick Heller. Jr.. of the Dally Democrat staff, accompanied the 4-H members and counsellor* Io their tliroe-day camp meeting The following .1* Ids report of the first day'.* kctnlliro i dear 1-axe. Ind —The bus drtf-4 en by Bill Griffiths, of Kirkland township, picked up the iiieinbcrs making the. trip to camp at five . different point* throughout the county Sunday afternoon? There were about 40 4-H members in-the group, in addition to alaiut 15 aduit leaders. * ! We arrived Sunday shortly be- , fore dinner, and most of us went ‘ ’ swimming. Swimming also prqv- i ed popular early This morning for ■ Coßdhn Ealy, ItacJi**! Rtolf. ’ Anna Sipe. Sharon Schuller. Donna •Heckman. 'Mgrgaret Griffiths, and I a couple of the leaders, hut none 1 of the Imys would brave the early ' morning chill. The hoys wore busy doing other I things. It seems, for on the bus ’ coming up Carl Bluhm, tarry Hen- 1 leer. Keith Welch. Robert Wech- 1 ter and Larry Scbwarti- spent.. ‘ their time looking out tbo—regt J windows of the bus. What they ' skw they didn't report, but It was imagined that they only wanted to sec where they had been The old button ganie. or at least j ’ the 1950 version of it, came in for I.

Leading Cities Lag I On Civilian Defense No Detailed Plans In Largest Cities Chicago, Aug. 14—(UP)— Some big industrial cities have made a j -tart toward setting up civilian deifense program*, hut a survey show- > ' <-d today that most of the work re- | mains to be done , , Military and federal authorities i have said (hat civilian defense, in i eluding defense against an atom | bomb attack, is the primary re-, i rponsihillty of civilians themselves ' To find out what local govern-i ment* ar* doing to discharge this 1 the I'niter! Press i made a spot check of cities and ; area swhkij would-be likely Indusi trial targets. Many city officials Interviewed said they are awaiting specific adf ‘ley and Inforipatum from Wash I Ington bfTtiie pus ceding too tar . with plan* and organisations Only yesterday rhe government Issued .a comprehensive. 456-pagc handbook .milled'"The-Effects of • Atomic Weapons' for the guidance! ! of federal state and local civil de! sense official* A survey of such cities as New York, Chicago. Detroit, Pittsburgh. Cleveland. Portland. Ore and the uaßon’s capital showed that no such i defailed plant have yet'been drown. R VW key areas, this was the sitna ' non New Vdrfc Arthur Wallander, 'former police > commisslnne r. has; ! been appointed full time clvl£ de. f< n*e director and Is working Ona* blueprint for an eventual citywide defen*** staff: including both paid; and volunteer workers. He ha* ask »d the Cpy for fl for medical supplies. and laim.tum for airl raid siren* Walland.r said the! overall cost of the defense program would be d li'.utHt.tuh! to gr.h imttiMHr. ■ Washington President Truman signori a bill* last Friday authoririnit the establishment of a civil de-, fr-n*e office for the District of Columbia The District has a«ked congress tor »292.inm as a starter in setting,up the office and buying equipment Recruiting id an auxilt* ary police and firefighting force of 10,250 memtnrs has been pn-t>i>*»<l Chicago The nation's railroad 'center probably Is farther along on I protective planning than ynost , cities because it is one of three *elooted by national authorities fori testing with ■ftnaglnary atomic at I tacks Chief fire marshal Anthony J Mullaney, acting on a volunteer <Twra Ta Page Five)

some hard thinking on the part of the group while the bus headed for Clear take, and the camp, Dennis Norman, who is in charge of the camp's recreation, had some trouble working the puxxlp. hut Sara' Jane Frank straightened rverylhlng out for Altai, and the ride went along smoothly without further Inci-’ dent. There I* one main building at th ■ camp where the meetings are held, and six or eight cabin* Either credence if given to the boys’’siW or the love 'of company of the girls, for there are five or six buy* In each cabin whilej there are nine girls. J nine girls claimed they couldn't sleep. Sunday l-rmn«etim<s * paxrtuff -by t hriwtg hou’ ’ the night said that they were lilts*- ■ fu|ly snoring, and were really not too wide awake even five inlniite* or so after they went to bed. The troulile began wAien the ; girls spied a mouse In their tenr and CiTsla Jane Hike wa* certain that ska-hudn't slept a wink last I night. Carol Egley said she hears, a noise In the middle of the night, -but a search party revealed no' mouse ’ i The only casualty occurred I when Donna Heckman. In inspecting one of Hie jCgliihs. was hit ; when a w|n<lt>w T Mtr - Ifnocking her , l Taro T* *«• Ms)

Predict Senate Passage Os Tax Bill Next Week War Tax Increase Asked By President Faces Early Action ~ .Washington. Aug 14 —(CP) — Administration leaders predieted, i today that the annate will pans ' President Truman’s J6.000.00d.000 war ta* l>oo*t nest week—possibly on Wednesday or Thursday The hill then would go to a bonsv-senate conference committee. The tax Increase is In the form of senate amendments to n measure passed by the house before the Korean war prompted the president. to call for the *5.000.tmo.mm revenue boost -Vive President Allien W. Barkley and senate Democratic lender. Hy-ott W lauas of Illinois said atl» r a wtpgressibaal conference at j the White House that the tax bill proimbly *M go before the senate Monday. They said debate should lasi only throe or four days. Lucas said an excess profits tax amemlment prolmhly wtt| *e offered from th* aonale floor sMlmmui* a majsirity nf the sonafe fMhsiwe lOmmlttee. which Is drafting the ! hill, opposed an excess profits levy at this time. Barkley predicted that tpe senate will pas* the eiamoinii' controls bill this week Adtninlslralion leaders expect It to c<mtaln : standby price-wage-rationing con , trol authority which the proslden! ~ < <utld Invoke If < <mdrriobs warranted -Other congressional tAwlopl men!s' Foreieti Policy. Sen Brien McMahon. D . C*onn charged Republican* with trying "to cut themselves in on the victories of our foreign policy and to divori e 'liem*elve* from our d* feata.'.’.. Republican member* of the senate: foreign relation* committee had • issued a statement blaming ad f ministration policy for the tom munisl tbmtiuest of China and tor the Konan war Bocial Security Speaker Sam ITwrw Is r-ag* Seven)

Local Man's Father Dies At Fort Wayne ■Funeral services were held at Fort Wayne this afternoon for Howard F. Mansfield. 70, father c t j Richard Mansfield of thi* city, who ; djed of :i heart attack Saturday at jhis home in Fort Wayne. Survt'jjng are his wife Mae: two sons. Richard M-thia city and Elvadoro of ■ -Fort Wayne; five grandchildren andjour gieiU-grantkhUdren. 60P Committee To Meet On Saturday To Reach Decision On Filling Ticket E Ross Adair. Fort Wayne attorney and fourth district Republican candidate for congress, mes with the Adiuns county G.OJ 1 . j candidates Saturday night at the invitation of Harry Essex. Adam* coupty and fourth district chair,m»n * , . _ ■ - ' .Adair promised the caMldates i an-'Active Campaig'n and start*ftuit' he would spend considerable time with them in Adam* county. It was j pig first meeting of ■ candidates i Since the spring primary election. Chairman Essex also announced that the .Republican county commiti't'ee would' meet at the K. of P. -home Saturday night at 9 o'clock to determine If the yaeancle* for county offices would r be. filled by I nomination of the committee. It the committee determines to i fill the vacanelea. which include, ; surveyor, clerk, treasurer and. i prosecutor, they will nominate at that tpeetlng, Essex said.

\ ONLY MAY MWSMHUI M AOAMR COUNTY

Decatur, ladiaiMi, Monday, August 14, 1950

U.S. Planes Blast Korean Plant 1 CMOKC RICKS SKYWARO town A factory in North Korea after a awrton wr immta wt Vailed state. Mr I rter-basedßSWWfftWwtWWrtTT I——-—a... .. . ' • r,tmga»*w., yil i

Breakin Reported At Wayne NoveHy Other Incidents Are Probed By Police police hud vomplabUi owr the weekend for a broakln and entry of the Wayne Novelty com |utny. uu Washington street, an other for a theft: two »<■< iileiit* were ievestigated. one of them by the sheriff's Office, and one man "was Hued for speeding. ' : Indication* were that some ram ' pant youths had gotten into the Wayne Novelty company, for Inside the building were found bicycle track* and strips left from cap guns Police investigated following the complaint, and found that the back door appeared not to have been forced, giving evidence that the door might have lieen unlocked. However, company officials reported with certainty that the door had been locked: there were some screws loosened, but no tampering with the lock*- ft i* reported. There was aothtag missing or disturbed, at last check. John Meyer, of North Sixth street, though, reported tliat ah electric drill, valued from between *4h and *SO was missing at the borne of Jerry Schlickman. I*9 North Thirteenth street. where Meyer had been working, and where he had left the tools He reported that the Schlickmans ■•were away during the time the drill was taken. lietween August 4 and 7. Police investigated the minor accident on Madison street when a-war driven by True Miller, ot 121 South Tenth street, barking out of a parking spot, humped the car being driven by Mrs. Hen Eichenauer. 1015 Master Drive Total damage was estimated at about *3O. Deputy sheriff Bob Shraluka estimated the total damage at .*126 resulting from the accident which occurred early today when cay a driven by Roy S(rl*kler. of near Monroe, and Charles Ha beg ger. of route 1. Berne, sideswiped as Strickler was making a left turn into tbs driveway of hi* home five miles south of Decatur on U. S. - - - - ' Saturday Eugene Shannon, ot Dayton. 0.. paid *1 and coats it) justice of the peace court when he pleaded guilty to speeding on Thirteenth, driving Sff miles an hour in a th-mlle gon*. 12 PAGES

I Dean Emeritus Os 1 Purdue Is Killed j Alton. 111. Aug 14 (Ul'l Dr. Richards Duke* 7*. Purdue. Uni- , vetslty dean emeritus from West ’ Lafayette,- Ind . and bl* wde. I Mary, 60. were killed Saturday 'night when their car crashed into I another at a state highway Inter- '; sec tion Confesses Killing 10-Ye*r-Old 6irl Climaxes Manhunt Lasting 20 Months Chicago. Aug 14—(UP)— A lanky 36year-old father of three cobfessed the murder of pretty Roberta- Rinearson. 10. cjimaxlng a 21Vmonth manhunt in which more than 2.J00 sex offender* and other suspects were questioned George (Whitey) Lettrich. Jr.. broke down after a sis-hour lie detector test and blurted out: ' I did it all right '■ He signed a I.soi*word statement yesterday •dtnlHlng that he enticed the girl into his car the night of Dec. J7, 194 k, tlien raped, beat and strangled her when she resisted his advances. The girl’* body was found Iff a ditch along a suburban road the next day. She had been gagged by her own underclothing Lettrich wa* charged with murder; early' .today and arraigned before police magistrate Frank Kane io* at subutban He was held without bafl for a preliminary bearing Friday. ; State's attorney John Hoyle said! DfHrlch's confession appeared *tw*w Ta race ata) Chauncey C. Corey Is Token By Death Chauncey C. ,£orey. 4S. of four and onehalf miles ea«t of Berne, died Saturday at a Fort Wayne hospital after -a month's il)ne*s I Surviviag are hl* parent* Mr and Mrs. John A. Corey, with whom ha resided: three brothers. Donald of Decatur. Theodore ot Wood* Cross. Utah, and Oscar of Salt . take City, and two sisters. Miss Veltra Corey, at home.’and Mrs Carl lluser of Lima. O Funeral serviceg will he held at 2 p m. Tuesday at the Cross Evangelical and Reformed church. Berne,-(he Rev. Wilson Bixler offlctatleg Buriat wIH be at Lttpa. O The body ha* been removed ■from the Yager mortuary to the (residence.

Counter-Attacking Gl's Drive Half Way Through Communists' Bridgehead

Yogrtlrful Mountain Climber Foead Dead Search Cohtinuod For Second Youth Lone Pine. Calif , Aug. 14 — IVP) — Rencue parties searched the perilous east face of Mt. Whitney for r 17-year-old multimillionaire today as other mountain crews brought the froxen body of bis companion down from the windswept heights. r . Teams of rxperDuced climbers hunted in the ris k and snow wilderness of the nation's highest peak for Christopher Smith Reynolds, son of the late tobacco king Zachary Smith Reynolds, and torch singer Libby Hoiman. There was little hope that young Reynolds, heir to a *6,000.OW trjpd fund, would be found aliruv ■ • Meanwhile, rescuers were carrying the body of Stephen Wasserman. Reynold*' companion, down from a crevasse on the mountain's east face The two youths *et out a week ago to attempt the "impossible" by <-limhing , ’the 14.4h6-foot mountain's east; side with loss than six elimlier* ; Was«ernian. 17. son of wealthy New York atm kbroker William Wasserman, wa*, found m the desolate crevasse near ’he 121IMWfoot level yeiTerday. ' Climber* usually-scale Ml. Whitney from its. west face*.-' Few have conquered the jagged, stone faced east climb The Ixsly was in a crevasse at the base of an almost g.OW-foot sheer ascendency to the mountaift top They fried to do something (Tara Te Pawe Five) To Name Democrat Chairman Tuesday To Name Successor To Gerald Vizard The election of • Democrat county chairman will take place Tuesday evening at 7.30 o'clock at the Lincoln school building. U was announced today. James Koon*, fourth district I chairman, will preside at the meet I Ing. The session will |>e opened only tp cAhitnltteemeii and vice- < commilteemen. Koons also an- | nounced that proxies must lie held ' by. riiembers of the county committee. There are 3S precincts in the ' county and a committeeman and vice-cosnmitteeman from each dis- ; trlcf. Members must show credentials for admittaiKe to the meeting, it was stated. ' Koons also informed the copnty committee that offer of 'election I first would he made to a member of the county prganlaation. .If this ■ is declined.• then nominatlpns of candidates will be accepted. The ■ special meeting -1* called. Tor the Gerald "Doc" Tigard of thia city, .who piloted the. party through several campaigns Visard tendered his resignation to the organixa tloti last month WEATHKR Partly cloudy. Scattered showers south portion tonight and south and east partions Tuesday. Not so cool north and ■« .O — I —Swltv t Paaea >**« • r M v elwx xsetsvgg’va • ing from 57 te 62 Hi nertheaat, 62. 66 southwest High Tuew ' day around 60.

St. Louis Bus And Street Car Walkout Ended Armour Signs New Contract; Ford Co. Faces Strike Vote By United Press St, - tSKta bus and street car drivers ended their wildcat' walkout today, while In another important labor development Armour A Co. agreed to an 11-cent hourly wage inervase for 3<I.W employe* At Detroit, the CIO United Automobile Workere aoM that, if* Ford Motor 08. refueos to reopen their contract tor unMM dttweaw shins before next year. jt;. strike vote will be taken. Armour Co. signed two-year contracts wiih the ClO’United Pu< kinghouse Worker* and the AIT. Amalgamated Meat. Cutters whh h are expected to set the pattern for the entire Industry The contracts, negotiated by the two union* hi cipse cooperation, also provide for three wage re-. openings, but no ' granted. The St Txrais Traction workers; ended their wildcat walkout jtisl p* Gov Forrest Smith planned to obtain a court injunction to force ! them back tb work They had struck Saturday' In defiance of a state law -pcohlhlt . Ing strikes against public utilities and despite state sytsure of the lines. The traction system and the AFL Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach, Employes had agreed to accept a stat* mediation Iward's recommendation for a seven-c-ent hourly pay bolwt but differed on the board's proposal that it lie made retroactive to Jan. I when the old contract expired .. . In the Ford dispute. Carl Stellator president jnf the CIO Auto Fasi asa> Dorothy Alverson Is Taken By Death Funeral Services _ To Be Wednesday Mrs Dorothy Jean Alverson. 20. of 2015 South Harrison street. Fort Wayne, died al »;15 am Sunday at tlie Robert Long hospital in Indianapolis after an illness of five year*. She was born in Charleston. 8. C.. May 23. 1030. a daughter of Mr. and Mr* Kelley Mole, and wa* married to Clarence IT Alverson, former Decatur resident. April 2. 1046 She was a member of the Baptist church Surviving In addition to her husband -are thwyeayoM : aoe. Brian her mother. MrvQfßa-xkvatK of Summerville. N C ; throe brothers. William Mole of Charleston, 8. C„ Robert Mole of Michigan and Richard Mole, In the Ts, S. army, and three sisters. Mrs. Ethel Mae Evans and Misses Annette and Janet Mole, all of Summerville, SC - Funeral service* will We held at 1 pm. Wadneaday at the Zwiek funeral home, the Rev J. Cart William* officiating Burial srtil be In the Antioch cemetery Friends may call at'the funeral home after 2 p m Tuesday

Price Four Cents

Americans May Have Upset Communists Plans For Drive Against Defenses v Tokyo. Tuesday. Aug. I*.—(UFI -Counterattacktag U. 8. troops drove halt way through the communist bridgebead in the elbow oC the Naktoag river today They may have upset enemy plans for a big offensive agateat the Naklooa defenses. Troops ot the U. 8. 24th division attacked the atx-ntfie rim of the Naklbng' bridgehead southwest of Taegu. 'ln some sectors they advanced moro than a mll«. to strategic heights near the middle of the bulge Another bridgehead across the . Nsktong Just west of Tas<ae was smashed by the U. S. Ist cavalry 1 division. About 7(w or soe comman- ' Ist troops were wiped out The early hour* of Tuesday , brought no Sign of the big offensive indicated by- a massing at dl« " enemy divisions totaling perhaps Su.oiHi men on a 2t*mile stretch of the west bank of the Naktong apposite Taegu A late dispatch from U. 8. eighth army headquarters in Korea said military leaders expressed canthms optimism over the defensive situ* tioa on this second anniversary ot ’ the independence of the Korean rei public and fifth anniversary of *h« : end ot Jspanedb control. The anniversary had been herald: -■d as the likely day for the start, 'of thv Communist offensive along , the Naktong Hut the Sth army dis--patch-said that in the pr<*dawn hour*, at'least, there was little more than what one officer called -a ! the usual activity along the front Gen Douglas MacArthur's midnight communique said the 24th tiivision. reinforced by units from another division, pushed the con* munisl fourth division back about t.oyo yards in the main Naktong bridgehead Hut field dispatches covering later developments gave the U. 8. ; advance as 2.000 yards, and said it carried to high ground from i which the enemy had been giving the Gl's considerable trouble. ' One enemy tank ha* been reported in the bridgehead, the communique said it reported that the Pohang air field, the biggest and best in the allied beachhead, still was in friendly hands But the air force had abandoned IT as an'operating hue when the communist* advanced virtually to D>e edge ot it. American and Korean republican troops were reported fighting a ■force believed to be the North Ko . rean 12th division west of Pohang Front reports said they were trying - ■ to wedge in between the enemy forces holding Pohang and several ’’ thousand other communist* in . th* ~ bills-to the northwest. ' Dollar Day i Decatur merchneta have mode fma*.- giurte trod "gewes , *» hnv* been alaahif far Online Day. te be held here Wegneeday The retell devtertn of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce believe* thi* event will J prove the moot attractive Dollar Day •inc* Ha atari eeverai years - 1 Retail merchants throughout tho bueineea dietrlet hove eg operated wMh the Chamber an* the Decatur Dally Democrat Is running a special esctlis of oh - w* wwe* tion of the bargains being ofhered during Dollar Day.