Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 153, Decatur, Adams County, 29 June 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XUX. No. 153.

WALTER J. KRICK DIES SUDDENLY TODAY

Truman Okays Instructions On Cease-Fire Field Negotiations May Be Conducted ' 7 * By Gen. Ridgway Washington, June 29. —(UP) — Instructions on possible field negotiation of a cease fire in Korea have been approved by President Truman and are being sent to Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, fat east commander. Deputy defense secretary Robert A. Lovett disclosed this at the Pentagon news conference today. Lovett refused to give any details of the Instructions but said any settlement reached, by Ridgway and thqrcommanders of North Korean and Chinese Communist forces would* be subjectapproval here, v H«f said the “general” Instructions were prepared by defense and state department officials, after consultation with the national security council. He added that he does not know whether the instructions actually have been dispatched but said that in any case Ridgway would get them soon and may have received them already. \ Lovett expressed fear that an end of the Korean war would result in a let down of public support for the rearmament program. This, he said, would be appalling. The nation, he said, most assuredly will be courting disaster if it lets the Russian politburo write U.S. defense program. \ ’ ’ t Lovett also warned that he believes the world situation is very dark because pf tension between the Communists and the democratic world. j . J - ' An end to the Korean war, ( he said/might well be the signal for Communists to put on pressure in some other part of the worldHis announcement came as the United States and its allies moved cautiously toward a conference with the enemy on possible cease- ' fire terms. I i It seemed likely, however, that the enemy would have to make the Xirst move. The Reds started the war and the western powers seemed determined to make them bid for a truce. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, UN supreme commander in the far east, let it be known in Tokyo after a telephone call to Washington |that he Is “willing to entertain any request for an armistice from the ‘ enemy.” '■ LATE BULLETINS Key West, Fla., June 29.— (UP)— A twin-engine navy •> plane crashed - shortly after takeoff at the naval seaplane base here today, killing eight persons. The navy announced that only one of the nine persons aboard the navy patrol bomber, a PBM, survived the accident ' Chicago, June 29.—(UP) — Pilots and co-pilots ended their 11-day strike against United Air Lines today under a formal “truce” which provided that negotiations should continue. The agreement to end the walkout was announced by Thomas E. Bickers, secretary of the national mediation board, \ and forestalled the threat of government seizure of the air line. Ay r. London, June 29.—(UP) — The Anglo-Iranian Oil company . said today it would close down its entire I operations = in Iran within the next 10 days. Basil R. Jackson, deputy chairman of the firm which was i nationalized by Iran, said there is no chance for a settlement Os the current oil dispute as long as Mohammed Mossadegh is Iren’s premier.Retail Stores Close Thursday Afternoon Ralph Habegger, chairman of the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, announced today that retail stores in the city "7 will be closed at noon next Thursday ior • the balance of the day, as customary. Stores will also be closed all day next Wednesday, which is July 4. . .. rr . ' ■ ■■ . .

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C. C. Secretary / w w ■ JBW:. > T* IF ' f* ’ ; \ t ■ ” Walter D. Ford, former Frankfort high school : football coach and civic leader lh jthat city/ was here today arranging to assume his duties as. executive secretary of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. He will begin work day. Accompanied by ly, president of the Cham her of Commerce, he spent the | day meeting local citizens.

■ ' • ’ ; I' <■ ■ ’ I Service Pin Awards ; f1To Casting Employes 31st Anniversary Os i Founding Observed I ■ - I IO I-Thirty-one years ago today tlie first castings * were poured, at the Decatur Casting company and theanniversary was cjpbrated witu the award of service, pins to 54 of the i company’s 120 employes. A <4dinh»r was given by the jiom,pany for the employes at the fair way restaurant Wednesday advening. Donald McDaniel, president, and Peter E. Rentschler, Vicepresident of the company \ from Hamilton, Ohio, attended witr Henry E. Broiner, local plant ntfanager. ’ Two men, Paul L.| McAhren~and Robert C. Butcher, were advanced 'to the 20-year group. Pius for 15 years of company j service V rere awarded to Rudolph ;Buuck, Edgar BA Swager, Russell |E. Edgelliand Grover H. Bleeke, gs new rtiemhers of that, group. •' ® New 10-ypar awards were to Francis p. Millei, Wajd<B C. Marbach, John F. ; Everett and John A. Weigel. Henry Joined .the five-year group. | The 54 pin servicemen havd an average of 15.1 years of service with the company, Bromer satd. In making the awards, Mac Daniel said: “Since June 29, 19-2(1, the first heat was poured, Jthe Decatur Casting company has peen building a family of, loyal, willing workers. Over the years, these employes have kept; on the job, giving their best for their company.” The local plant is pperating -five days a week, which possibly could be extended Jf it we|e not for the (Tarn To PaaeEUrfct) Barbara M. Schumm Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Miss Barbara Margarets Schumm, 92, died at 3:25 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the home of a niece sand pephew, Alma and Oswald Schumm, at their home in Schumm. 0., Where she resided for several years. Death followed an illness of 18 months. She was born at Schumm Aug. 26, 1858, a daughter of Frederick and Magdalena MaierSchumm. She was the last member of her family, eight brothers and three sisters having preceded her in death. — Miss Schumm resided in Fort Wayne from 1905 until 1942, when she returned to Schumm to live with her niece}' and nephew. . She was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Schumm. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the home and at 2 o’clock at the Zion Lutheran church at Schumm, the Rev. W.P. Kuhlberg officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery., The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral home to the residence, where friends may call after Saturday noon. V - ; ,• i -

\ \ ;• . Senate Passes Controls Bill Early Today Senate Passes Bill Thjs Morning After 16-Hour Session Washington, 'June 29— (UP)— A quarreling senate early today approved a controls bill which permits rent increases and bans roll backs on beet prices, but might permit rollbacks on some manufactured items*. 'J' Despite passage of an eight months extension of the defense production act. the senate faced the likelihood of having to approve a house-backed 31-day extension of the present law. It exj.\ss at midnight lomorrbw. v The senate vote was 71 to 10 near the end of a 16 hour session, longest of the year. The senate quit at 4:02 a m. and postponed its regular noon session until 2 p.m. today. * 7 The administration claimed the senate bill would be disastrous Ito the economy, lead to black marketeerlng in meat, and injure the mobilization drive. \ But the senate bill had virtually no chance of getting through the house. 5 Senate leaders conceded they would have to approve some form of 31-day extension ] such as the house was scheduled to take up and expected to approve today. The house stop-gap measure would continue present ( controls through July 31\and also\federal rent control but would ban any further price rollbacks ditring the period.. Some manufactured Jtem£ were due to be rolled back in July. Chairman Burnet R. Maybank, D., S.C., of the senate banking committee said he would make a final effort to get the house to accept provisions of the senate bill—even if only fbr one month. But May bank said that if it is necessary to keep . wage-pricb-rent controls from expiring at midnight tomorrow he will tjake the simpler house extension. That Would leave a month for the house to pass its own permanent bill and for differences between the house and senate versions to be worked out. . Senate action came after a long, stormy session that lapsed Into shouting disorder at several points saw a bizarre procedure not matched in the memory of many veteran Capitol Hill officials. Sens. William Benton, D„ Conn., <Tarn To Pace Six) Camp Atterbury Cook Critically Wounded Case Proprietor Is Held For Shooting Indianapolis, Jiine 29. —(UP) — Sgt. William M. Jagolskl. 35, a cook at nearby Camp Atterbury, was shot and critically last night when he became enraged at taunts about his cooking. Police held Edwin Husband, 43, case proprietor who admitted shooting Jagolskl when he dumped a bowl of chili in the lap of one of his tormentors and Ignored Husband's demands to leavt. He was-charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. ; ‘ • "\- H' Husband told police Jagolski and another GI came into his restaurant and had dinner. Other soldiers from Jagolski’s outfit were sitting at a nearby table and jeered Jagolskl about the "chow” he prepared, Husband said. Husband said the mess sergeant rushed up to his tormentors, threatened to “shove one of these guys through the window,” and tossed the bowl of phili. He said he drew a pistol am} ordered Jagolskl to leave but tree soldier ignored him. Wltnessesi told police Husband fired after Jagolskl to leave three but Husband said" he shot onjy when the sergeant idnged at hiita. The bullet hit Jagolski in the stomach. •Cl didn't shoot to kill,” police quoted Husband. “I just wanted to wound him in the leg, but I guess my alm was a bit off.” Jagolski, of Williamsport, Pa., was taken to General hospital where he was reported in critical condition. He is a member of Co. K, 109th Infantry Regiment, 28th division.

Decatur. Indiana, Friday, June 29, 1951.

Dedicate New Ziori Parish Education Building Sunday

Hold Open House . Y ' In New Building After Cerempny The new parish education building of the Zion Lutheran church, pictured, above, will be formally dedicated Sunday, with special services in the church. The Rev. Edwin Jk. Nerger, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran churph. Fort Wayne, will be the guest speaker at both Sunday morning worship services, at 8 and 10:30 o’clock. The church choir, directed by David Em bier, will be a feature of the morning services. The choir will song “Gloria in ExcelSls,” by Mozart, and “How Lovely is Thy Dwelling by Brahms. Miss Eileen Bieberlch, church organist, has chosen for the serviced :> prelude, "1 Will Give Thanks," by Darnton; voluntary, “Now Thank We All Our God," by Ashford, and postlude, “March Religleuse,” by McDonald. The Rev. Armin C. Oidsen, professor of religion and sociology at Valparaiso University, will speak at the special dedicatory service at 2:30 p. m. Rev. Oidsen will be the new speaker on the Internal* Tonal Lutheran Hour, beginning Sept. 30. The church choir add children of the parish will also take part in the dedicatory program. The Rev- Edgar P. Schmidt, pastor of Zion' Lutheran church, will be in charge of ail services. The public is invited to attendthe services, and to tour the building during the open house to be held immediately CoU’uwing the' formal dedication. Members of a special dedication committee will direct visitors through the building, which will be put into use immediately, with vacation Bible school to open next Thursday., Fronts Monroe Street The parish education building, of lightweight block construction with light brick facing, has an

City Recreation Setup Is Outlined To Rotary

An interesting and highly informative discussion of the! recreation program in Decatur vias' presented at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club 'Hursday evening, with Sylvester EVerhart, recreation supervisor, as the guest speaker. Everhart stressed the fact taht the recreation program covers many different fields in this city, that too many times people think only in terms of children playing, and not the diversified nature of the program. The recreation setup, the speaker explained, has been made possible through cooperation of the city school board, the Decatur Community Fund, and the city park board. Plan of the recreation board is to add a few pieces of equipment, the best available, every year, with safety the foremost thought in the board’s planning. At the present time, there have been purchased 10 all-steel slides, with stainless steel bedways; seven swing sets with special safety rubber seats; five climbing towers; five merry-go-rounds;) ) sand boxes and a number of roadside tables for the parks. There are I three horseshoe courts at Worthman field, equipped with lights; two paved shuffleboard courts, with lights at Worthman field; three paved tennis courts, at the Homestead, Worthman field and North Ward, with night play at Worthman; two paved basketball courts, one dirt court and one more being built. Supervised craft work is also done at Worthman field, with Miss Nancy Krick as supervisor. This park is open under proper supervision from 9 a. m. to 4:30 ■'3 j' ) '/ ” ' " j |

overall size of 54 by 84 feet. Built at a cost Os 185,000. it is located on the site of the former parson- - age and parish house. A passagebf wky connects the new building to the church. Many new building features have been included to make it of rhe most modem type construction. Temperatures in each of the rooms can be controlled indi- ■ virtually 1 by thermostats, operating by pneumatic pressure. Air coming lh through vents is heated and distributed throughout the rooms. The central steam heating system is located in the church basement. Latest type ventilating is included, with two ventilators in /the roof, connected by ducts to the main floor; Lockers located on this floor are also vented, with a large fan at the roof assuring a fresh air system. < Modern fold doors, forming a Tcßdlng partition between two of the large classrooms and dividing the Sunday school rooms in the basement, are sound proofed and firfly insulated. They are constructed of washable leather and slide on tpfler bearing tracks. •Birch trim iS used throughout, and other* features are the instant fluorescent lighting, the asphalt < tile flooring and the sound proof ’betting. The three large classrooms will accomodate 45 pupils each. The pastor’s office, hall and library are located on the first floor. The basement space includes seven Sunday school rooms. Walther league room, classroom, stage, modern kitchen and assembly room seating 450 persons, or 275 at tables. Leßoy Bradley of Fort ' Wayne was the architect and Bultemier Construction Co. of Decatur was general contractor. The building committee consists of Phil Sauer, Herman Dierkes, George Rentz, Oscar Bankenau and Norbert Aumknn. The building finance committee fs composed of Earl Caston, H. H. Krue<:keberg, Robert Zwick, Gerhard Schultz and Louis A. Jacobs.

p. m. five days each week. \ Participation in the craft work averages 75 to 100 daily attendance. Everhart also outlined softball and basebail activities for boys of the c|ty and vicinity, under the supervision of Deane * Dorwin. Four teams of 60 boys, aged 9 to 11, are in the softball league, playing two days each week, with a tourney planned at the close of the regular season about August 1. Four teams of boys, aged 1215, totaling 64 players, are in the baseball league, which also plays two days a week. A tourney will also be held at the close of the regular schedule for this league. Dorwin also hopes to\ start a “little major league” next year, a plan which has met with great success in cities ail over the country. Dorwin is also in charge of the Junior Legion team, which is sponsored by Adams Post 43, American, Legion. ’ This team, includes boys up to 17 years of age and all five high in the north part of the county! are represented on the team. Sixty boys attended tryouts for' the Junior team, with the squad cut' to 16 certified for regular league play. The team is playing a regular league schedule and will partici-' pate in the sectional tourney at Marion opening July 9. The second round of league play will open following the tourney. • Softball League <<. I One of the features of adult recreation is the Decatur softball league. There are eight teams entered in this league, with 150 men participating in play three nights each week. Two games are played each night, with the, Monday and TnesMay night games (Tara Ta Paga

Superintendent Q£ City Schools Dies Suddenly " ! !:'• r I ■ '* In Michigan Hospital . , ' * I ■ Ei r . L—

United Nations Hack In Vain At Red Lines Ridgway Willing To Entertain Request For An Armistice\i Tokyo, Saturday, June 3.—(UP)‘ —Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway is “willing to entertain any request for an armistice from the enemy,” it was announced today. But the Communist troops in Korea fought bitterly along the front. The North Koreans announced in a radio broadcast that they had seat a demand td the United Nations that “foreign troops” in Korea stop their' “aggression* and that American and South Korea leaders be tried as war criminals. There was no comment from Ridgway, the allied supreme commander, on the Washington announcement that President Truman had sent him instructions on possible cease fire negotiations. It was reported that a plane was standing by here to take Ridgway to Korea at a moment’s', notice. There was growing hope that the days of the Koieap war might be numbered. - \ . | On the battle front, however, UN troops hacked vainly at a new formidable Communist defense line. Every thrust they made was thrown back Friday. One hill in the Yonchon sector on the western front changed hands six times (luripg a day of savage fighting, and remained at the end in the enemy’s hands. While Ridgway remained here ambassador William J. Sebald, top state department representative in the far east, made an unannounced visit to' Pusan, Korea, presumably in connection with tUe cease fire situation. He conferred with Ridgway op his return to Tokyo. A diplomatic (Tara Ta Paa* I ' ■" JAT & T President Is Taken By Death Terre Haute Native Pies In New York > New York, Jlune 29—(UP)— Services were planned today for Leroy A. WilsonJ 50, president of the American Tqtephone and Telegraph Co., who died yesterday. Wilson, a native of Terre Haute, Ind., was the second among the seven heads the company has had since it was formed in 1877. Wilson, ill since last winter, relinquished the post only Wednesday to Cleo F. Craig, a company vicepresident. i ■ Wilson worked as a boy in his father’s Terre Haute upholstery shop. He operated a newspaper route during his years ini Terre Haute Garfield hflgh school and used the money to supplement a scholarship at Rose Polytechnic Institute. - -I After graduation, Wilson was employed seven years at Indianapolis in the traffic division of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co., during which time he worked on traffic problems at Indianapolis, Muncie, Kokomo, Marion and other Hoosier cities. Wilson joined AT&T in 1922, became a vice-president in i 944, financial vice-president in 1946, and was elected president Feb. 18, 1948.’ He also was a director of-«the Chase National bank. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., a member of the board of managers of Rose Poly, a trustee of* Dennison University, the Carnegie Corp, of New York, the East River Savings Bank and the Grand Central Art Galleries. 1 Wilson is survived by his widow, the former Blanche L. Willhide, Marion, Ind.; a daughter, Shirley Ann, and his fatther, Garrett A. Wilson, Brazil, Ind. * ' • : . ' lA.

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Most Tax Burden To t Fall On Common Man I ■ • ■ Jfl- •' • 4 Future Burden To Hit Individuals I] Washington, June 29 (UP) — The hardest fact in the tax situation is that one way of another the heaviest future burden piust finally fall on the fellow who used to be known around here as the common man. He. does not have much money individually. His income ranges up 6o $5,000 a year. < i|[ Collectively the cominoii man is I in the chips. There are nearly 34,000,000 ■. of him and haj earns about $100,500,000,000 annually. At the j rates proposed in the ne|w house tax bill he would pay eadh year $9,307,500,000 impersonal income tax. And the littlb fellows or common men amonk themselves would have left nearly $90,000,000,000 of spending money. From that $90,000,000000 gov-1 ernment ultimately will i have to’ take a large part of any tax increases after “this year. of treasury John W. Snyder hinted yesterday that some new: forms of taxation might have to He considered hereafter. That might mean a federal sales tax or a manufacture- excise tax so widely applied as to< amount to the same thing. Such a tax) would hit the little fellow* hardest 1 of all. But if a sales tt|x is politically impossible and ; income taxes\ must continue ' to go up, they will do their climbing, in the lower and A middle 1' income, brackets. I .1 The maximum effective income tax rate in the new bill is 90 percent and top rates begin) on taxable income pver SBO,OOO a year. Top rates cannot be raised much this side of I confiscation. Elven confiscation-—a 100 percent levy against taxable income -4 would not raise a great deal of” money from high brackets. £ . \ T|je | treasury reported year ago that if government confiscated all incomes over $20,000' a year there would be only $1,800,000,000 (Tara Ta Pace Six) Mansfield Conscious For Short Time After being unconsciouj for more than 11 days, Don a traffic accident victim in the St. Joseph’s hospital, Fort Wayne, today regained consciousness for “a short while.” Though lapsing back into unconsciousness, the young man did recognise bis) mother and friends while conscious. . . j • INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight. Partly cloudy extreme north Saturday. Showers in south and central portion* tonight and Saturday. No change In temperature. Low tonight 55 north, 60 jo 65 south. High Saturday 75 tp 80c .)) .-/A. J''

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Suffers Attack On Way Home From Trip To Canada On Annual, Fishing Vacation Whiter J. Kridk, 54, superintendent of Decatur public schools since 1934, died suddenly at 9:30 o’clock this morning in a hospital at Cadillac, Mich. He had been in Canpda on a fishing trip, and became ill at the camp. The group; including Roy Mumlua, Sim Burk and Tom Burk, left camp Thursday arid started to Decatur. Mr. Krick’s condition becariie wo?se and at . Cadillac he was taken ‘to the hospital, where be died shortly after being admitted. ' ’ . r *' ■ The four local men had left Decatur last Sunday and expected to remain at the Canadian camp until Saturday. /Walter Jennings Krick was born' in Decatur November 14, 1896. He was a son of Henry and Sarah G. Mangold Krick. The father was a founder »of the Krick-Tyndall | Tile Co. Educated in the Decatur ? schools, Krick received his A,B. decree frpm Purdue University in 1920. He received his Master’s degree from Columbia University in 1927, and in 1928 received a diploma: from the Columbia University Teachers’ college. He taught in Monroe high school from 1921 to 1923 arid driving the 1923-24 school term he served as principal of Chester Center high school in Wells county. <ln 1*924 Krick came to Decatur thigh school and served as principal from 1924 to 1930. He left.Decatur and was principal- at Van Wert, O. high schqol from 1930 to 1934, returning to Decatur in 1934 to become superintendent of the Decatur public schools, succeeding the late Martin F. Worthman. Mr. Krick was a member of National Education Association, ' Indiana state school superintendents association, Indiana superintendents club, Decatur Masonic * lodge, Scottish Rite and Shrine at Fort?' Wayne and the Decatur Knights of Pythias and Lions clubs. He also was a member of the budget committee of the Deeatur Community fund, and a member of the Decatur chapter, citizens historical society, kj / t Mr. Krick was an active member of the First Methodist church lof Decatur and served in many 1 capacities in the church and Bun--1 day school, including the superintendent’s post, church trustee and numerous committees. ,He was long interested in youth activities , in the community and attended almost every high school athletic event. ~ I. ,'' Months ago when the senior class of D HJS. planned the annual editibn of the high school year book, and unknown to Mr. Krick at that tlriie, space was reserved for a full-page picture ot tfffeir beloved superintendent. Ravelings was issued , today with the picture of Mr. Krick, i In 1929 Mr, Krick married Cecille Andrews Moser, who survives. Three daughters also survive. They are Mrs. Patsy Mann, Misses Nancy and Sarah Krick. Three brothers survive.. They are George M. Krick. Flank Krick and Virgil M. Krick, all of Decatur. Two sisters, Mrs. D. E. Butler. Fort Wayne, and Miss Agnes Krick, Detroit, Mich., are also living. • : The body ,will be brought to the Zwick funeral home in Decatur, but frineral arrangements had riot been completed, at a late hour today. During Mr. Krick’s superintendency, the present junior-senior high school system was established. Under his supervision the Decatur Schools advanced, not only in enrollment, but academically. Many of the outstanding features in Decatur’s modern high school building came from suggestions made by Mr. Krick to the architect. ■ : \ ■ .’V ■