Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 143, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1951 — Page 2

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Eight Die Violent Deaths In Indiana Three Persons Are Burned To Death By United Press • Water,* fire and traffic claimed a ‘‘normal” toll of lives in Indiana during the week-end. At least eight persons were killed fn auto accidents and by dfowhitig and fire, police records showed today. The fire victims included Mrs. Ruth Murray, 62.- and her daughter, Mrs. Mary Friend, Indianapolis. They died When fire swept their apartment bedroom Saturday. Firemen believed a cigaret caused the blaze. A cigaret also was blamed for the death of Forrest E. Blackburn,’ 39, a Terre Haute" brewery work-; ' er, who was found overcome by smoke in his bedroom at Terre Haute yesterday. William F. Taylor, 18, Elkhart, V and Walter Parcel, 25, Crown Point, drowned in separate swimming accidents. Taylor drowned Saturday in a gravel pit near his home. Parcel perished in Fancher Lake at the Crown Point fairgrounds while on a family _■ outing. 4- The traffic victims were Charles L. Fischbeck, 48, Fowler; Tommy Mudd, 52, Fayetteville, N. C., and Mrs. Edith Taylor, 76, Forsyth. Ga. Fischback was killed Saturday night when his attto rolled over o'n U. 8. 41 near Kentland. Mudd’s car missed a purve oh u! 8. (> near Walkerton and hit aXparftbd truck. Mrs. Taylor’s car ran off V. S. 52 near Lebanon and overturned. ' ' * Richard K. Jones Is Ohio State Graduate Richard K. Jones, son of Mrs. Helen Beard Jones of this city, has been graduated from Ohio State University, where he majored in psychology, and he. has received his, commission as second lieutenant in the United. States marines. Lt. Jones was selected frpm his group of candidates as showing the highest type of leadership and his name will be engraved on a bronze tablet in the naval armory at Columbus, O. tor 1951. He also received a scholarship fronv Sigma - Nu fraternity for outstanding grades and athletic ability. ’LL Jones will be stationed at the Columbus naval armory until July 30 and then will go to Quantico, Va., for additional training. College Dormitory Is Damaged By Fire Robert, Clarence and Gilbert Strickler, of this who are representing the local Church of God at a conference being held at Anderson college, escaped Without injury and recovered their belongings when the dormitory in which they were staying was partially destroyed by fire shortly before noon Sunday, the cause of the fire, which broke out while the majority of persons housed in the building were attending chttreh services; has not\been determined. A number of Decatur people were on the campus yesterday for the conference and witnessed the fire. As far as was learned here no one was injured. T ; . A Democrat Want Ad —It Pays.

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Philmont Scouts To Meet Tueidoy Night The Philmont Scouts will meet at the Decatur high school building Tuesday evening at 6:30 o’clock. All members are asked to be presen. . \ ■ , I.U. Graduation Rites Held Today I ' ' President Wells Graduate Speaker Bloomington, lUd.. June 1R —- (UP) — President Herman B. Wells of Iridian* University told 2.561 students participating in the school's 122na annual cothmencO- , ment today their first obligation was to help preserve national freedom. Wells told the graduating class, including 990 who Will complete work for their degrees this summer, that freedom is the nation's most powerful asset and that pro* serving it is the duty of the generation represented by today’s college graduates. “Our political system Can be sound and healthy,” he said, “only when it is constantly stimulated by the Ideas and opinions of citizens freely expressing themselves through the pulpit, the press and radio, the schools and. the political party platform.” Wells warned against "too eagerly resorting” to economic and politleal controls but said Jthey were justified in certain emergencies. “But we should resort to them after long, deliberate; and prayerful consideration,” „he said. “For each step in the restriction of freedom makes the next*one easier and fa&ter to take?’ Straight “A” Bloomington, Ind., - June 18 -*- (UP>— A straight :‘‘A” student will be graduated by the Indiana University school of business today for the second time in history. . Myer M. Mendel. 23. Plymouth, who will get a bachelor of science degree, said he had :ho special formula for making perfect grades. “I just tried to keep up to date in my school work.” be said. Walter Robbins, Jt; West Braden, of the class of was the only other student tn make an “A” average. 1 ; 1 * : , Today's Sport Parada I (H*g- U. 8. Pat. Off.) | By Oscar Fraley • b- — H Birmingham,, Mich., June 18. — (UP) — They moved over Harry Vardon and Bobby Jppes today to make room for little rßen Hogan, Always, through the years, fairway fantasy has beqri that none of the present 'day gdlfers is good enough to carry the spiked shoes of the Hogan proved oVer one of thfe roughest courses in golf history Saturday that he Could play with anybody, anywhere, hhytime. Bantam Ben did it in epic manner to clinch forever the Hogan legend as, for the third time ip’three straight tries, he won the ‘national open championship. - And be did it the hard way. ’ I’ ' ’•> 4 He was tied for -40th place after shooting a 76 in what was for all concerned probably the worst collective round Os golf in the 51 years they’ve been shOotingjin this tournament. .Nobody broke par or even matched it op- a coufse trapped with more sahd than there is - ■ ■ sci '.J L-u!

Traffic Heavy In City Over Weekend A weekend of summer weather brought hundreds of Sunday motorists onto the highway yesterday and resulted 'fn the heaviest traffic through 'Decatur \ recorded so far this season. Weather was perfect tor motoring and there was a constant stream of automobiles going through thd business section and also on U. 8. roads 97, 3S~ and 294 all day long and far into Bunday night. There Were few sflSHs hhd only occasionally a wait of a few minutes at busy corners. City polled were on the job all day long and they Would assist at corners when the traffic got too heavy to handle itself. No serious accidents J were reported and only a few minor bumps to automobiles Were reported With no personal injuries. Woman Is Arrested On Murder Charge Held For Slaying Sister's Husband \ Indianapolis, June 19 — (UP)’— Mrs. Reba Szuch, 26, was held ph a murder charge today for killing her sister’s husband and slain by a shot through the chest, raid, they plotted to rob her of her virtue. Rufus Grubbs, 35, a barber, was slain by a shot through the sheet. His brother, Burnel, 25, was hurt critically. Mrs. Szuch, who operates a lunchroom in MacDonald, W. Va., signed a statement hours after the shooting yesterday. It occurred in Rufus’ home where the pretty WestiVlrglnta red head was visiting her Bister while Mrs. Bzuch's husband, James, a Mt. Hope, W. Va., policeman, visited ip Chicart) on their vacation trip. •' She said Rufus and Burnel proposed that She sleep with Btirnel after they 1 visited two taverns and drank beet. She refused and picked up a telephone to call her husband. ’TH kill you,” she quoted Rufus. Then, said Mrs. Bzrich, she her husband’s service pistol and »ired at Rufus. When he fell. Burnel threatened per and she fired at him. “I was true to my husband and did not step out oh him,” she said. “I wasn’t about to start now alter 10 years of married life.” Mrs. Szuch said when Rufus proposed that she be unfaithful, he told her "Jiinmy will never know it,” ' .. ’. “You will do as I say as long as you’re staying here," 1 ; she quoted him. ’

on Coney Idland. Little Ben got better in the second round,’bat not enough to start any cheering. Hie 73 moved him only |o a suicidal spot five shots back of Bobby Locke, the austere South AfriCap whom nobody had ever seen ruffled. That’s where he stood when they went out for the two frightening rounds Saturday. \ Ben had won the open and the PGA in 1948. Early in 1949 he was critically injured in an automobile accident. Everybody believed that the little mechanical man was through for good, yet, last year a still-weak. Hogan labored over lengthy Mbriotf to regain the charm piotishlp. ' There was a feeling in some quartets that he had been terrifically Idcky. This feeling existed as he Started bis title defense at Oakland Hills despite his spring victory, his first, in the Masters. Coldly analytical, Hogan told me Friday night that he figured two closing par rounds would "put me in there.” \ He appeared to have missed the boat in Saturday’s opening round after a gallant start. For he went out three-under-par tor an unheard of 32. But coming home he blew to a 39 tor a 71—which meant to keep his prophesy he would need a closing 69 —and nobody had broken par 70 in full rounds. At the start of that last round, Locke, the Imperturbable, stood two shots Iti front in a tie with Jimmy Demaret. Jaunty Jimmy blew his Wad quickly with, a 79. Ben Hogan went at It. Oh the front side, battling Wind, sand and tenseness, he matched thfe card exactly. Then he started tb roll. He birdied the 10th and the 13th. bogeyed the 14th and got It right back With a birdie Jon the 15th. That made him two under as he reached the green of the par four 18th with his second shot. TWO putts meant a 68 —meaning Locke needed but a par 70 for a tie'. The crowd gave Ben a skysplitting ovation and he walked to bis putt with hat in hand, a smile easing the strain plainly evidenced on his face. There was another roar as he stepped up and knocked home a 14-foot putt for an almost unbelievable 67. That finished Locke—and made Bantam Ben Hogan a man for the golfing ages ... \ . \ In North America there are more than 600 different of butterflies.

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Lutheran District Convention Opens ' II ' \ Concordia College Site Os Convention The cphtral district of the Lutheran church—Missouri synod, comprising the states of Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, will meet ih convention this week at Concordia College, Fort Wayne. Over 600 pastoral, lay, and teacher delegates will attend the conrepresenting 90,000 communicant members from 245 congregations. Dr. John H.' Meyer, pastor ibf St. Paul’s Lutheran church. Lake wood, Ohio, is president Os the district and will preside at the sessions which open Tuesday morning. Zion Lutheran church of this City will be represented at the convention by its pastor, the Rev. Edgar p. Schmidt, and the lay delegate; Earl Caston. Rev. Schmidt is chairman of the district youth board And Caston will serve this convention as a member of a floor committee ordered to study miscellaneous reports submitted ito the district. H. H. Krueckeberg is a member of the district board of directors and will be present part-time in\dthat capacity. The convention opens this even--ing with a divine service conducted at St. Paul’s Lutheran church and the-Holy Sacrament administered to convention delegates. Dr. Walter C. Wuerffel; dean of students at .Concordia Lutheran Seminary, st; Louis, will preach the sermon? while the Rev. Edwin A. Nerger, pastor of St. Paul’s, will be |iturgist. f Other Adams county churches represented at the convention are: St. .Paul’s, Preble, the Rev. O. C. Busse, pastor; Immanuel, Union township, the Rev. Walter Vetter, jjaslof; St. Peter’s, Fuelling settlement, the Rev. F. Droegemueller. pastor; St. John's, Bingen, the” Rev. W. C. Schwehn, pastor; and Zion, Fried helm, the Rev. Albert Jenner, pbstor. \ Chief Qets Suit Back . Marion, S. C. —(IIP > — Police chief Lacy Edwards got bis man and recovered a suit of clothes stolen from him more than a year before. Hdwards, who \ maintained all along that he w\>4ihl recover his suit,- said it was still in good condition, although it had changeu hands three times.

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Deplores Increase In Narcotics Users St. Louis, June 17.—(UP) —Sen Herbert R. O’Connor, (R.) Md, said today the population of federal hospitals Indicates a 600 peirent increase recently in the number of narcotics users under 21 years of age. • < But he said the “awakening of the people to the danger to their own children" would motivate remedies for the illegal sales of drugs. 1 , Speaking before the Klwanis International convention here, O’Conor said general conclusions craWn from executive hearings ia Maryland and' Kentucky were that organized syndicates could be expected to take over the lucrative dope traffic. He said a law similar to the Lindbergh kidnap law should be adopted “to put the fear of God in the hearts of these outlaws:" \ ! . Alfred E. Isch Dies Al Home In Berne Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Alfred E. Usch, 82-year-dld retired farmer, died at 8:10 o’clock this morning at his home in Berne p.fter an illness of 16 months of cancer.. He was born in Switzerland Nov. 17, 1868. a son of Jacob and Mary Scholler-Isch, and came to French township in 1907, where he lived until retiring five years ago. lie was married to Elizabeth Bolliger April 2, 1809, Surviving in addition to his wife are three daughters, Mrs. Joseph Steffen of Bluffton, and the Misses Ida and Lillian isch of Berne; four sons, Henry of Berne. William of Keystone, Reuben of Fort Wayne and Chester of French township; 14 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; two brothers, Joe R. and John Isch, both of near Bluffton, and one sister, Miss Elizabeth Isch of near Bluffton. One daughter, two brothers and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will l»e held at 1 ip. in. Wednesday at the home and at 2 o'clock at the Apostolic Christian church, the Rev. Samuel Aschleman officiating. Burial will. I»e In the church cemetery. The body will lie removed from the Jahn funeral home to the residency jWhere friends may call after 7 o’clock this exening. ‘

Six Arrests Made Here Over Weekend One Minor Accident Reported By Police City police arrested two persons' state police arrested one and sheriff Robert Shraluka took three local men to jail In a quiet weekend featured by heavy but orderly automobile Stanley Robert Wagner, 17, Monroeville, was arrested late Saturday afternoon by state police officers charged with failing to stop at a preferential street and speeding. He will be arraigned at 8 8 o’clock tonight in the court of justice of peace Floyd Hunter. /. Ralph Williamson, arrested by city police, pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of failing to stop at a preferential street and paid a fine of >5 costs, amounting to >15.75. . Conrad Gallmeyer, 50, of Decatur route 1, was arrested Saturday afternoon by city police on a charge of public intoxication;. Later Saturday he entered a plea of not guilty and his trial was sent for June 26. Bond was set at |25. Sheriff Shraluka arrested three Decatur men, Otto Johnson, Fred Liniger and John Gilliom. Sunday evening about 6 o'clock. The automobile in they were riding on state road 101 near U. S. road 224 had gone into a. ditch and severalpeople had gathered around. The sheriff took the trio to jail and they will be arraigned today in mayor’s court on charges of public intoxication. The automobile was not badly damaged. Johnson was said to have been driving the car. One minor automobile accident was reported to police. It occurred Sunday morning at the corner of 13th and Monroe streets when a car driven by Margaret Rudy of Portland sideswiped an automobile which was parked on Mouroe street. The parked car belonged to Robert Mora and had an Illinois license plate on it. Damage was estimated to be about >2O to each car involved. The trio arrested by sheriff Shraluka appeared in the court of Mayor John Doan la|er today Liniger pleaded guilty to a charge of public intoxication. Liniger and the sheriff both testified Liniger was not in as bad condition as the ether two and Tie was fined |1 and costs, amounting to 111. He t paid the fine and costs and was re-

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leased. Gilliom entered a plea of guilty to public intoxication ant was fined $5 arid costs,' which were paid and be wks released. i Johnson, driver of the cat, was charged with public intoxicatior and also reckless driving khd he rdeadrd guilty to both charges. He was fined |5 tor the public Intoxication charge and <lO for reckless driving. Fines and costs totalled 926.75 ! and he was granted? until June 29 /te pay; Gilliom was released , until that date on his; own recognizance. ' M 4 —' I Margaret Completes Luxembourg Visit Luxenbourg Ciir, June 19 —tUP) — Margaret Truman bade goodbye to her week-end hostess, U. 8/minister Perle Mesta, and left tor Paris by ear today on the next kg of her European vacation.

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MONDAY, JUNE <lB, 1951

Enlistments Open For Near Draftees The army air force, navy and marine* corps are opening their enlistment gates to young men who have already been tapped;for induction, according to announcements released by officials of the three branches. Marine Maj. Robert A. Mills, recruiting officer, stated that “previously we could r>ot accept men for enlistment once they received pre-induction notices. Now we can take any one who has not received his actual '.iduction orders.” ; r I Similar announcements were made by recruiting officials of the ether two branches, including SjSgt. Nelson E. Sampson, U.B. air force, who is in Decatur on Fridays. The regulation allowing he other branched of tke service to accept selectees will be extended only through July 15, officials declared. All branches stated there were “plenty ot openings."