Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 72.

CRIME UNDERMINING LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

$90,000 Real Estate Deal Is Announced Here Two Buildings At Monroe And, First Streets Are Sold The largest real estate /deal ever completed In Decatur 'wlas closed today when Perry-Robert Realties, Inc., of Fort Wayne, became the owners of the new A&p building, northeast corner of Monroe and First streets, and the Worthman building, op the opposite corner. The sale price was reported at 190,000, thW largest single transaction ever* made here, real estate men stated John 1U Worthman of John R. Worthman, Inc., realtors and buildera, was Owner of both properties. The A&P buildihg. which was built by the Worthman company in 1949( is leased to the chain market concern for the next 10 years. The twostpry brick residence at the southeast corner is the former home of Mrs. S. D. Beavers, who first, sold' the property to Robert Heller, realtor of this city. The one-story office buildings immediately east of the resilience were not involved In the deal. Both parties in the city's largest real estate transaction were represented by the E. H. Kilbourne company of Fort Wayne. The firm was presented by Norbert Knapke, a company associate. Rnapke stated that the purchase of this real estate and buildings was from an, investment standpoint. "We think Decatur is a town with ’ a good future. There ia a diversifiL- cation of small industry that speaks well for Decatur and we brieve that it will continue to gross.” Knapke said. The AftP site fronts 132 feet on Monroe and First streets. The store is;,so by 130 feet, with the former frontage on Monroe street. The Worthman property .across the street fronts 77 feet on Monroe and 66 feet on First street. It is occupied by three offices and one apartment. ! Knapke said that there would not be any change in/occupancies’ The current leases will be continued, he stated. ' The Kilbourne company Is one of the leading real estate firms in the .. state. The president of (the company is E. Hi Kilbourne, well known in this city. - . - r ) Sentence Suspended On Fraudulent Check Judge F. Parrish today fined Louie kazlbwskl. of Ladysmith, Wii.. >lO and costs and sentenced him to six months on the state penal farm for passing a fraudulent check in the county. The |state farm sentence was suspended, and KazloWski was ordered to make restitution of >ls to the Parr service station, in Geneva, holders of the worthless check passed by the defendant. Kazlowskl was obtained from Wise. Va., authorities who were holding him for Adams county officials. Sheriff Bob Sfcraluka and state trooper. Walter Schindler Journeyed to the Virginia city and returned Katlowskl to Arranlgned the latter part of last week, the court took the case under advisement until today. Frank Lough, of Burr Oak, Mich.. appeared in circuit court before I special Judge Homer Byrd, of the Wells circuit court, in answer to a warrant issued in 1947 citing him twth failure to provide support money. This was dropped, and citation for cantempt for failure to obey a court order was placed against Lough, who will appear with Ms attorneys, Voglewede aid Anderson. later (today to answer the second °\ Conduct Hearings < On Small Business ■ -A ' . - - '.. -. j Washington, Maisch -26—(UP)-— A subcommittee of -the house select committee on small business will conduct hearings at Indianapo. lis April 4 and Lafayette, Ind., April 5. 4 \ The'committee left Washington today for hearing in Lynchburg, Va., Nashville, Tenn., Atlanta, Ga., and Raleigh, N. C.

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Nationwide Strikes Ease Off In France Paris, March 2C.— (UP)-*- Strikes which swept France last Week near, ly ended today except for bus and WUbway workers in Paris hnd 6,000 coal miners. | Rail transportation was normal f and gas and power workers returned to their jobs over the< weekend after the government raised raini-J mum wages from 11,5 1b IB per cent. An estimated 500,000 were idle at the heights of (he-Walk-outs. r ... : Moran Indicted ■ By Grand Jury ■ For Perjury Intimate Political t Friend Os o*Dwyer Indicted For Lies 9 New York, Mar. ' 2tj—(UP)— 9 James J. Moran, intimate political r friend of former Mayor William O’Dwyer, was indicted by a feder- ? al grand jury today on i a charge “ of lying to the senate crime invep« t tigatlng committee about his (relations with a Brooklyn policy t racketeer. A perjury indictment was re- . turned \ also against Luis Webtesr, t burly, Puerto-Rican born numbers t "king.” The jury charged that he lied when he denied that he knew » Moran, whose political fortunes j rose and fell with O’Dwyer’s. He was forced to resign a >15,000 a t year lifetime post as water commissioner, an O'Dwyer plum, by ; disclosures ‘before the senate I committee. z I 1 Moran was indicted on three counts — all Involving his testli mony regarding Weber \ The first s dount charged that he lied when s he said the underworld character . visited him “possibly three times’’ j while he was a deputy fire com- - mlssioner between 1946 and 1950. t Weber was a frequent visitor dur- • ing that period, the jury charged, In commenting on the indict- I t ments, U. S. attorney Irving 11, - Saypbl indicated that (he would > Inquire into testimony qf O’Dwyer and Moran regarding gifts totalf ing >65,000 which ( John Crane; • president of the Uniformed Fire- • men’s association, swore he con--1 tributed. Both O’Dwyer and Moran denied receiving the money. O’Dwyer again today dented Crane's testimony, branding it ,a “vicious lie” in a telegram to Sen. Estes Kefauver, D„ Tenm, chairman of the crime committee. (Turn To Pave Two) ' ' ' • . ' ( ■ > j _ j ! Rushville Weather J Prophet Predicts ‘ 1 A Normal Summer ’ Rushville, Ind., March 26—(UP) —Weather prophet Mark Purcell J announced today that. Hoosiers need have no fear of a sjevere heat wave next summer. -• i Purcell read the wind directions > for five days during the spring . equinqx last week and , eamle up 1 with the prediction |the 1951 sum- • mer would be “Just a normal warm [ summer."' "1 don't expect the temperature will get up to 100 degrees a single . time," Purcell said. | He said the first three Weeks of summer—from June 21 to about , July 12—would be “springlike and ( stormy.” After that, the rest of ( the summer will be “just normally warm.’ ' | “The winds weren’t very hard to read this time," Purcell said. “They were in a certain direction r of the time which Indicated the ■ weather would be about the same 1 from the middle of Juljj'on.” ' Purcell believed the mercury • might go no higher than 95 in central Indiana. Last summer, it didn’t get that high'. > Purcell, an elderly tobacco store clerk who has been predicting seasons far in advance for more than 30 years and claims "better than 95 percent accuracy,” said last September this would be jthe coldest winter in years. Five months later, 1 a reading of 35 below gero.was re- • corded—coldest in Indiana’s hls- ’ tory. j Asked if the type oft summer he 1 predicted would suit him. Purcell • said: > “No, it’4 not going to be hot enough” for me. I like it hot.”

(Last Big Red Army Out Os South Korea Indicate Reds To Take Stand Along The 38th Parallel Tokyo, Tuesday, March 27.— (UP) —American tanks and infantrymen drove the last large body of Communist troops out of South Korea Monday but there were indications the Reds were preparing to make a stand along the 38th parallel. Two American tank and Infantry columns/ linked up north of Seoul, forcing 30,000 or more Red troops to flee north across the parallel rather than be trapped. The two columns joined above Uljongbu. 10 miles north of Seoul, in the area where the Chinese Communist 26th army and rem* nants of the North Korean lit corps have been holding out. Late . front dispatches said, however. there were indications the Reds' have halted their pellmell withdrawal along the 50-mlle central front. These reports saTd Communist troops who fled before the savage United Nations attack are filtering sodth again and* taking up positions on high ground just below the. 38th paraliel.l Fighting tapered off to brief clashes as the Bth army advance sloped up at points about 10 miles south of the border ail along the Western half of the 140-mile front. Ask MacArthur Curb Washington. Maisch 26—(UP) — The state department has asked the Pentagon and the White House to curb Gen. j Douglas MacArthur’s activities in the diplomatic field, It was learned today. | The state department's l request was said to have been worded “fairly strongly." The department acted as a result of MacArthuf’s dramatic announce(Tir» To Paso stir) Woman Fatally Hurt In Bus-Auto Crash Decatur Girl Hurt In Wreck Saturday Miss Marilyn Vanhorn, 18, pasr senger oh the ill-fated northbound ABC bus Saturday night, has been dismissed from the Methodist hospital, v in Fort Wayne, where she was taken following the accident in which a New Haven wopian I was killed and a Fort Wayne man critically injured. According to Mr. and Mrs. Delmer S. Vanhorn, of 1104 Elm street, their daughter sustained multiple bruises and severe shock from the result of the collision °and was one of eight bus passengers taken to Fort Wayne hospitals. She was taken to the Methodist hospital where she is a student nurse. Released Sunday, she will “return to duty for a couple of days,” according to her parents. Funeral arrangements have been completed for ‘.Mrs. Cora Smith, 42, who, as a passenger in the car driven by Ray M. Gordon, died. Sunday in the Lutheran hospital as the result of a fractured skull, suffered when an ABC bus crashed into the car driven by Gbrdon onto U. S. 27 off South Anthony boulevard extended. Gordon, who, according to investigating officers, did' no x t stop at the highway but darted into the path of the bus, suffered compound fractures of both legs, a shattered left arm. ' severe cuts to the head and right hand, and internal injuries. Funeral services for Mrs. Smith Will be held at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday at the, Harper funeral home. New Haven, with the Rev. James E. Hiatt, pastor of* the Cedarville Community church, officiating. Burial will be in the Bowers Chapel CfMnetery. Shes is survived by two sons, Harold DeVaux and Jerry Joe Smith, at home; two daughters, Martha DeVaux and Willodean Smith, also at home; a sister. Mrs. Kenneth Kapp, Fort Wayne; a half sister. Mrs.. Frank Lovett, jOf Cedarville; and the parents, ‘Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Gerig, of Cedarville.

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Easter Services In Hollywood Bowl \ ■ ■ ■ ■ ’. l - . ■ *. 1 ' - - nl ’ J f ' ‘ THOUSAND persons gtftheied early Sunday morn, tag to attend the Eaeter sunrise service* at California's Hollywood Bowl. Shown above is part of the crowd as the sun comes up overk the mountains surrounding the bowl. ; \

Family Os Four Die As Train Hits Auto Lebanon Couple And Two Children Killed By United Press A Lebanon family of four returning from an Easter visit were killed last night in the worst of Indiana’s week-end traffic accidents. At least eight persons died on Hoosier highways, including Mr. and Mrs. William Snow and their two children. Their auto was struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train on a crossing south of Lebanon. i SnoWk 31; his wife. Mae, 2'o, and their children; Billy Ray, 3, and Joan, 20 months, were headed toward Lebanon on their way \ home from a visit with Snow’s parents in southern Boone county. The train, traveling about 60 niiles an hour, according to state police, ripped the auto to bitsand scattered wreckage and bodies half a mile along the tracks and right of way. It was the second multiple-death crash in less than a week on a 20-mile stretch of Pennsylvania track. Five teen-agers were killed on an Indianapolis crossing last week. \ Mrs. Cora Smith, New Haven, died in a Fori Wayne hospital yesterday of injuries suffered when an auto la which she rode collided with an ABC coach lines bus near Fort Wayne. Police said Ray M. Gordon, driver of the car, pulled into the path of the bus after ignoring a atop sign. Henry Harper, 26, Evansville, was killed Saturday night when an auto in which he was riding ran off Ind. 45 near kuntingburg. Driver Daniel King of Huntingburg said he was blinded by lights of an approaching car. Eugene M. Pllipovish, 39, Gary, was killed near Gary Sunday when two autos collided head-on. A Greyhound bus hit the wreckage but nobody aboard was hurt. Paul Oshrjr, 8, Indianapolis, died of injuries suffered Saturday when he was hit by an automobile as he ran into an Indianapolis street. The accident happened shortly after his parents* Mr. and Mrs. Harold Oshry, left on a motor trip to New York. They Were located in Pennsylvania. Clarence Layton, 58, Marion, died Saturday of injuries suffered early last week in a three-way colUilon of a\ car and two trucks, near Elwood. , —, \ : INDIANA WEATHER Fair and warmer tonight. Tuesday cloudy <nd warmer followed by rain. Low tonight 25-30 north, 34-38 south. High Tuesday near 50 , north, 60 south.

— K Toni Ruble Injured In Fartn Accident \ Tom Ruble. 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Romey Ruble, jof route £. Monroeville, was rushed to the Adams county memorial hospital today after the tractor be was driving apparently turned over; pinnihg the youth upder it. First diagnosis by a Decatur phy. sician revealed that the youth suf- ’ sered twA broken vertabrae bf the upper bick. broken rib, and possible internal injuries He was brought .-first to the office of a, 1 Decatur then rushed to • the hospital where ondition is considered "serious.” 1 I it , i ' Bellmont Property ■ Is Offered For Sale ■. . i > ‘■ -a -y ■ 4 ■ Public Auction To > Be Held April 1Z ’ Ail advertisement will appear in the Tuesday issue of this newspa- ’ per, offering {Or sale at public auction .the, William Bdll property at -the southeast corner of Nuttman 1 Avenue and Thirteenth street, L (US 27-33 and 224 . highways) L known ,\as the Bellmont service ’ statlon*and restaurant site. The • sale will be April 12, beginning at ' 1:30 p'-m. The real estate has a frontage of 338> feet on Thirteenth street ' and 297, feet on Nqttman avenue. . The east border of the site faces 305 feet on Twelfth street. • The service station building is 42 by go feet, with an upstairs office. The building is 24 Ijy 36 feet and is operated by Polly VJan. It is nationally known 1 on the highway route. The southeast part of the site is used as a terminal for the Bellmont Trucking company, owned 1 by Bell and his father. C. E. Bell of this. city. The office of the - company will be proved to Fort 1 Wayne,f it was stated. Ronald Parrlahr is manager of the office. 1 The gale will he conducted by /Turn ’io rnn i WO ) n ■ Democratic Women Will Meet Thursday Mrs. Charles Lose, county Democrat vice-ohairman. president of the Adams county Democratic women’s club, and general chairman of the meeting to be held Thursday at 6:30 jp. m., reminded all women a covered dish and their own table a coVerpddish and their own table service” and urged all Democratic women '.to be present. ■ Mrs. Kirby Ware, of Indianapolis, state Democrat vice-chairman, and Mrs. Marie Smith Lahmon, of I Fort Wayne, fourth district Dem- 1 ocrat vice-chairman, are the prin- 1 Cipat. speakers 1 at the meeting which will be held in the Par-4 room at the Fairway restaunmnt.

FBI Director Hoover, Atty. Gen. McGrath Testily To Probers

Easier Celebrated In Decatur Sunday Residents Throng To Local Churches 1 .- -’ v Services celebrating the anniversary of Christ’s resurrection XroHb the tomb were, largely attended by Decatur chqrch-goers on Easter Sunday. an, early Easter, attendance at inan early Easetr, attendance at in-’ dividual and union services filled the churches during the morning. The Easter high mass at 5:30 o’clock at St. Mary’s Catholic church was largely, attended, as was (he union sunrise service. at 6 a. m. at the First Christian church. During the day the mercury climbed to the mid-forties and a bright sun added to the cheerfulnesh of the holy day. Family reunions predominated in the observance. The Egg Hunt \ Several hundred children were guests of the .Decatur Elks at the Elks home at the annual egg hunt and Easter party, which began at 2 p. hi. A continuous throng of children, many accompanied by parentk, uncles and .aunts, marched through the home, where they were handed baskets and sacks of brightly colored eggs, candied sweets a,nd stuffed rabbits. Live rabbits and chickens were not distributed this year. Committees from- the Elks and the Emblem club the 400 baskets to the children. 1 No tragedies were \reported in the city to mar the day and in celebration of the Resurrection of the Prince of Peace. Two Calls Issued By Local Draft Board v Pre induction And Active Calls Issued The number of Adams ' county young men who will undergo preinduction physical examinations | for army service will come close to\ the 200 mark ® when 10 more youths report in Indianapolis April 4. This quota raises the total to 191 men who have either undergone such physical examinations or will do so. i While making the announcement, the Adams county selective board also reported that 13 men will be inducted into .the anny April 9. This will raise\ to 92 the number of men who have left for duty since last Serptexnber through the selective service board. Though all nien being inducted for service report to Indianapolis, most of them from this area are assigned to basic training duties at Camp Custer, Mich. The government has decreased the number of men to be called Into service on a nation-wide scale from 80,000 to 40,000 for the month of April. Although there was no such statement from the Adams county selective board, this decrease prossibly 4111 be noticed here for the next call, which, acording to past records, should come during the latter part of April. \ Third Youth Faces Murder Trial Today Tipton, Ind., March 26 —(UP) — The third of three youths accused of the bludgeon slaying of Albert M. Thayer, 39, former Indianapolis city attorney, goes on trial today for murder. j ( James Chaflin, 18, Indianapolis, was indicted last summer ' along with Carol Dooley and ®arl Michael 'Kelly, 17, Dooley "Was sent to a hospital for the criminally insane to append the rest of his life, and Kelly last week was given a life term after a jury found him guilty of murder in a trial at Greenfield.

See Possible Halt To Draff In 18 Months Expansion Os Army Ahead Os Schedule According To Vinson Washington, MaVch 26.—(UP)— Chairman Carl Vinson of the house armed services committee said today it now seems likely that the army can halt the draft and start universal military training within 18 months. He said this In turn should make It possible to reduce the size of the standing military force. He said both forecasts are based on the assumption no new world emergency develops. 1 The Georgia Democrat told a reporter he is confident some form of UMT will be enacted. The;, senate already , has approved a bill to extend the.draft law and set up UMT for use later. A similar measure comes' up in the house next week, under heavy fire of opA ponents. In testimony before the armed services committee recently military spokesmen said it probably would be years before they could shut off the drafting of men for actual military duty and crank up the program of military training only. But expansion of the army is running ahead of schedule. It now is only about I*oo.ooo men short of its goal of 1,500,000 men. As a result, it <;ut back itk April draft call from 80.000 to 40,000 men. Vinson said these developments should push ahead, the time at which the long-range,' permanent UMT plan can be put into operation. He said this wRi hasten the dky when a powerful reserve force can be built and thus Mil make possible a reduction in the site of the standing force. Under UMT plans in house and senate bills, men„would serve six months on active duty, then'go into the reserves. Under the senate bill, men would go into UMT at 18. The 18-yekr-olds in the meantime could be drafted for actual military duty. The hpuse bill fixes the bottom age for UMT and for the draft at 18 Elizabeth Luginbill V Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Mrs. Elizabeth Fox-Luglnblll, 82, native of French township, died at 2:15 o'clock Sunday morning at the home of a daughter, Miss Aldine. Luginbill, in this city. She had been seriously 111 Tor the' past six months. She was born in French township July 27, 1868.' to John and Mary Schwartz-Fox, and wgs married to Solomon Luginbill May 14, 1898. Her husband preceded ,her in death. She was a member of the Mt. Hope Church of the Nazarene. Surviving in addition to the daughter with whom she resided are three son?, Irvin of near Willshire, 0., Roy of near Rbckford, 0., and Vilas of near Bernet five daughters, Mrs. True Foreman of Ceylon, Mrs. Albert Hamerick of Ohio City, Or, Mrs. Marcus Parr and Mrs. James Frank of near Berne, and Miss Dora Luginbill of Decatur; 26 grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren: a brother, Edward Fox of Decatur, and a sister, Mrs. 1 Enoch Yoder of Berne. \ 1 Funeral services will be held at 2 p in. Tuesday at the Mt. Hope * Church of the Nazarene, the Rev. Doyle Hoffefbert officiating. Burial ’ will be in the Willard cemetery, 1 northeast of Berne. The body was • removed to the Yager funeral home 1 in Berne, where friends may call I until time of the services. 1

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Hoover Says Flatly Organized Gambling Would Collapse If Laws Are Enforced Washington, Maych 26. —(UP) — Attorney general J. Howard McGrath and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover told the senate crime committee today that crime is undermining local self-governmeht. Hoover, who has put many gangsters behind bars, said flatly that organized gambling—a backbone of criminal rings—would die in 48 hours if local officials went after the violators. “Blast the foundation of the local gambling czar by vigorously enforcing (he statutes against gambling without fear or favor, and he will collapse,” he said. \ “And, like a house- of. cards, the vast pyramid of gambling will collapse.” McGrath said the mob leaders of 10 to 20 years ago have been supplanted by a new type. These, he said, combine the “worst features of big business manipulations with violence and corruption.” He suggested a broad program of federal legislation to swing the full force of the federal government against tbes? elements. But he and Hoover voiced the strong feeling , that local responsibility is the first , line of action. Both opposed any action. that I would create a . “national police force” on grwwidastieh an orgtai. zatioh does not befit a democratic \ Hoover said the defeat of racketeers, hoodlums and similar persons preying on the nation depends on the people themselves. In other developments as the crime committee under chairman Estes Kefauver, D., Tenn., reached tfie last week, of its 11-month nar tional (inquiry: 1. McGrth told the cpmmittee there is no federal law which would allow h|m to start deportation proceedings against New York racketeer Frank Costello, who defied the senate investigators in New York hearings. 2. Former New York mayor William O'Dwyer telegraphed the committee that the sworn statement of a fireman’s union official that he gave O’Dwyer a >10,600 campaign contribution in 1949 was a "vicious lie.” This question is under investigation by a New York grand jury. 3. Kefauver Invited anyone whose name has been mentioned in the hearings to come forward with a reply if they feel an explanation is needed. Nobody will be denied a hearing, he said. Hoover, told the committee only an aroused and united citizenry can bring About a “crimeXree America.” Law enforcement "is only as effective as t!he citizens demand,” he said. He scored the tendency of recent years to “buck pass” the program to the federal government. The federal government, he said, “can never be, satisfactory substitute for locgl self-government in the enforcement field.". \ “Too frequently, when pressures mount in local communities by reason of dissatisfaction with conditions, leaders, either to escape the wrath of citizens jor to conceal their own Inability. to. cope with situations, have advanced the alibi that 'this is a job for the federal government,’ ”he feaid. \- ' Hoover said there is a "gambling czar” In every community' where gambling flourishes. - - ' - - Snowfall Reported In Southern Indiana \_. Indianapolis, March 26 —(UP) — Sunshine slanted across Indiana today to move temperatures above freezing and melt snow that piled as high as four inches last night in a near-zero early spring cold wave. Weathermen said the mercury 4 dropped to seven degrees Scottsburg Igst night Where four inches of anow were reported. Bedford reported three inches, Shoals and Edardspont two and Vincennes one Inch in an Easter Sunday Snow flurry that missed northern Indiana, the weather bureau said.