Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 206, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 206.

Roundup Call For Eight To Leave For Service Sept. 7 \ James K. Staley, chairman of local draft board .number 1 today pointed out that the universal military and selective eervice act J as amended sets out the fact that persons who are or may be detarred under the new provisions of the act will remain liable for f. future service and military training. 1 Ail persons subject to draft are under supervision of the .draft board until their thirty-fifth birthday. It is important, Mr. pointed out, that registrants, keep their files up to date at all times. The file must show a registrant's present. occupation, address and dependents. New information may be mailed to the //local board. i Twelve Adams county young men have been called for preinduction physical examinations September 5. and eight will be called for induction September 7, according to a notice received from the local board. As is the board’s custom, no names are If made public until the young men enter service. j 1 ' I Ne Paper Monday In line with a practice adopted several years ago, there will be no issue of the Daily -Democrat Monday September 3 in observance ibf Labor Day. Business in general will be shut down in Decatur for the observance. Court house and city hall offices, business houses, and the First State bank will be closed all day. f ■ t Novice arrested ii

Sheldon Leßoy Egley, 16 own* er of a drivers’ license for less than two' weeks was arrested at 11 o'clock Thursday night by city police after a chase of several blocks. He was charged with running a stop sign at the corner of Seventh and Monroe streets and ordered to appear in Justice of ; Peace court at 4 o'clock this af- ' ternoon. Police officers reported that Egley turned off his lights and dodged his automobile down several streets before he was apprehended. There were several other young occupants of the car. _______ Suffers Heart Attack William Reynolds, Newton, la. brother of Doyle “Pete” Reynolds, city editor Os the Daily Dentocfat . suffered a heart ailment at his lowa home \his week and will be confined to the hospital for several , weeks, according to word received here today. Mr. Reynolds visited in i Decatur two weeks ago and also visited the bedside of his mother, who has been ill at Bluffton. 4. ’ 1 • : ■ -Mi • ■ Visit Parents Prosecutor Severan’ Schurger and family motored to Indianapolis today to visit Mrs. Schurger’s parents and also attend the Indiana state fair. In his absence, Lewis L. Smith, Decatur attorney recently returned from service in the armed forces will act as prosecutor. - - V Pvt. Jones Home Pvt. Alta Jones of the WAC’s is visiting her parents here. Pvt. Jonetf is enjoying her first visit heme in the eight months she Jias been in the service. She T will ' remain here for her 10-day furlough and wHI report at Ft. Hood, Texas September 12. Pvt. Jones is a Decatur Catholic highV school graduate and until her enlistment was employed by Holthouse Drug Co. here. \ ' — < Crime Doesn't Pay Montreal, Que., Aug. 31. —(tIP) —Guy Bolet, 18, was given a three-year prison sentence Thursday for robbing a 73-year-old man of four cents. It was Bolet’s first offense. , , ■Ji , — : Shipped What? London, Aug. 31.-— (UF^ —Britain has started shipping red herrings to Russia for the first time since 1940, an official Report said today.

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Some Good, Some M Days’ News Even In Score

By The United Press Balance sheet for the week between good and bad news in the pot and cold wars: Good News 1. The United States and the Philippines signed a mutual defense treaty. It.was the first of a series of such pacts ultimately may lead to a Pacific security arrangement paralleling the Atlantic pact. The breakdown in the Korean peace talks has served to emphasise anew the constant Communist threat in the far east. 2. The United States showed that it has not forgotten William N. Oatis, American niewsman sentenced last fourth of July to 10 years in prison on a trumped-up charge of espionage. Both President Truman and secretary of state Dean Acheson sharply reminded Czechoslovakia’s new ambassador, Dr. Fladimir Prochazka, that no improvement in Czech-American relations can be expected while Oatis remains in jail. 3. The first squadron of U.S. air force F-86 Sabrejets assigned to defend western Europe arrived in England After a flight across the Atlantic. It underlined America’s determination to build up the defense of western Europe regardless of the coninuing war in Korea. Moreover, it showed that western air strength in Europe can be quickly reinforced by trans Atlantic flights if the need arises. Bad News 1. Armistice talks remained suspended in Kqrea. Supreme United Nations commander Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway and Communist commanders swapped a series of sharp messages which added Nothing new to the situation and left the door open for rest mption of the ceasefire conference. ’ UN sources believed the taliks ultimately will be resumed, but saw little chance of an agreement on an armistice. 2; 5 Both the United States and Britain let it be known that they have given up for the present trying to reach an oil agreement with

Iran. This means that the west will have to find other sources to replace the oil it once got from Iran, while Iran faces possible bankruptcy from loss of an estiFive Decatur Youths Under Investigation For Auto Part Thefts Five Decatur young men, all from prominent families, were under investigation today by city police following a report last night of the theft of two chrome tire discs valued at more than 325 from an automobile belonging to Fred Dellinger, North Ninth street. A son of Mr. Dellinger was sitting on the side porch when the theft occurred and he obtained the license number of the car .in which the young men had driven up to the Dellinger home. L Police questioned the driver Os the car and the other four boys were implicated. Police are continuing their investigation. Mr. Dellinger had not filed an affidavit against the youths late today- 1 \ ..

Bob Gay To Start School Bus System; Routes Outlined; ‘Strictly’ School Trade Robert Gay, operator of Gay’s Mobil station, announced today that he had purchased a bus and would operate a bus route in Homestead and the Master Drive area’s of Decatur Cor school children only during the entire school year. / : • X The service will start Wednesday morning at 7:45 o’clock, and Gay pointed out the service would be strictly for children and his bus will not carry adult passengers. \ bus will start pick-up at Winchester street near Studebaker and will run through Homestead and then proceed north no Tenth street and go throgh the Master Drive area returning to school through Central avenue and down Seventh Street. Parents interested in obtaining rides for their children may get full information by calling Mr. Gay, he said. \ . While the Decatur Public Schools are not directly sponsoring the bus system, it is known that officials of the schools heartily endorse Gay’s proposed plan. It is an answer to the problem whiebshas arisen several tiipes within the past couple of years — especially since the discontinuance of the city bus line — when parents living on the fringe of the city wanted transportation services for their children.

mated 1140,000,000 In royalties, taxes and wages formerly paid by the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil company. 3. t India found itself in the position of “backing the Soviet bloc on opposition to the American-propos-ed Japanese peace treaty. India announced she had decided not to

I Senate Crime Committee Calls For Action To Combat Narcotic Rings 'g; By The Hutted Frew* i ’ 1 Washington, Aug. 31—The senate crime committee i called foj* action at all social levels today to combat the “re- i volting” narcotics traffic which offers organized crime a “most profitable opening.” T ' . i In a final report on its 16-month investigation of the nation’s s underworld, the committee termed the Illicit sale of narcotics “an evil

of major proportions” and said law enforcement groups, legislators, educators, and parents must join in the fight tp stamp it out. The committee suggested that' a "clearing house” on crime be set up to circulate! information on narcotics. It also proposed that the growing ** of opium-producing poppies be abolished throughout the world. The report said that experienced enforcement officers believe the Mafia, the Sicilian terrorist organization. is managing Ahe present influx of heroin into the United States and that Charles (Lucky) Luciano, the deported vice lord,

is the “operating head” of the Mafia's operations. Other recommendations included adoption of uniform state laws of gambling, vice, narcotics and racketeering, the prescription-only sale of barbiturate drugs and additional facilities where necessary for the treatment, of addicts. The committee also proposed increased enforcement staffs and stiffer penalties for violators. The report emphasised the need for an intelligent educational campaign to tear back the “veil of secrecy” which permits young people to learn the “contagious disease of narcotics from the drug peddlers in th* back streets and alleys.” The nation, it said, has been “jolted to its foundations” during the past 24 months by the “startling increase In the abuse of drugs by young people.” Noting big increases in under-age addiction in New York, Chicago, Baltimore and Washington, the committee said: “In a large number of cases, these young people were engaging in crime for the sole purpose of supporting their drug habit.” It said a “carefully devised” educational program to help tell the nation the trne facts about narcotics will be helpful, just as a similar campaign has “greatly enhanced” the success of the campaign against venereal disease. “The committee does not subscribe to the theory,” it said, “that public discussion of drug addiction should be avoided to addicts from being tempted to try drugs.” The committee said the illegal sale of narcotics “pays enormous profits to the lowest form of criminal, namely the drug peddler who is willing to wreck young lives to satisfy his greed.” “No penalty is too severe foj a criminal of such character,” it added. , ,

The commTttee said the courts have been “far too lenient” until

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sign the pact, and the reasons she , gave are the same as the objections j to the treaty raised by Russia. Primarily, both India and Russia think the treaty should turn over For- 1 mosa to Communist China and 1 should not include any clause per- < mitting U.S. troops to remain in Japan. '

recently in dealinfi with narcotics offenders. “The organised gangster syndicates will unquestionably turn to the sale of narcotic drugs when they are driven out of the presently lucrative field of gambling,” the report continued. “As they did at the end of the prohibition era, when bootlegging no longer offered substantial profits, they will turn te another form of illegal activity. Look For That Silver Lining-Yoa CooHße Ssrprised With Raia weather man gave residents of northeastern Indiana a faint ray of hope concerning cooler weather for the week-end. According to the forecast it will cu>tinue hot and humid today with a pollen count of more than 400, but it may cool off a little Saturday with the approach of cloudy and threatening weather. Decatur and Adams county baked all day Thursday and most of Thursday night in the hottest weather of the summer. The temperature got into the high 90’s Thursday afternoon and WEATHER x Indiana: Partly cloudy. Cooler and less * humid tonight \and Saturday. Some slight drizzle In extreme northeast tonight. Low . tonight 60-65 north, High Saturday 72-78 north, 78-85 south. stayed until late Thursday night iMtet dropped to the 80's. There' some clouds in the sky whichxemporarlly relieved the but they failed to materialize into rain and Decatur Lawns and gardens continued to get browner and browner. The Dally, Democrat therometer registered 80 degrees at 8 o'clock this morning -and the sky was a perfect Hue-without a trace of a cloud. There were some shaky predictions, however, that there might be' Cloudiness by evening and even S 'wee faint hope for a shower or two. Niehalos, lai Rotary Speech, Says Politics Retard Road Progress Contending that politics retarded progress in the state highway commission and that trucks paid their just share in road building and upkeep, James Niehalos, secretary of the Indiana Motor Truck Association, told of the vast expansion in motor trucking lines in Indiana and the nation before members of the Rotary, club last evening. He said that mass changes in personnel when state administrations changed, prevented a smooth and continued operation of the important business of road building. He advocated that the highway department should be operated on a non-partisan basis. . An interesting film of “Truck Horizons,” was shown following Mr. Niehalos' brief talk on the trucking industry. E. W. Krause, president of Security Cartage Company and R. J. Me Laughlin, of Trailer Sales, Fort Wayne, were guests at the meeting. The program was tn charge of C. E. Bell of this city, vice-president of Security Cartage Company. The company's general office is located in Fort Wayne and managed by Arthur E. Voglewede of thia city.

Plant Befog Made For Dedication Services Os Zion £ And R Building being made by members of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church of Decatur tor dedication services to be held •11 day Sunday September 34), at the church here. It will mark the completion of more than |9g,goO worth of improvements at the Decatur wimb. Chief among the improvements are the construction of a onestory addition to be known as the Education and Recreation building, attached to the north side of the Jhurch proper; installation of a new chancel and redectoration. of the entire church interior. *' ' •fA dedication committee including Ed Jaberg, Gottlieb Stautfler, Mrs. 8. E. Leonard son. Mrs. Adolph Weidler, Mrs. Joseph McNerny and Rev. William Feller, has announced tentative plans for the all day observance / \„ . Dr. John Gieser, pastor of Grace Evangelical and Reformed church of Milwaukee, will be the guest speaker at morning and afteranon services. Dr. Gieser is well known in religious circles throughout the middlewest. He was a classmate in seminary of Rev. Feller. A complete program for the dedication will be announced soon, committee members said today and the general public will be invited to the services. ' The building program at Zion church is the end of the first phase of plans which some day will include the construction of a second floor to the new addition and other improvements. The new building will give the local church modern Sunday school rooms and large space tor meetings, dinneiy and other social and recreational activities. \ r While the actual coqt of the improvement totals more than I3MM, the value of the new addition is closer to 150,000 because members did much of the work without cost.

Survey Shows City's Sales, Spending Up New York. Aug. 31 (Spl)-With incomes high in Decatur, local families were able to allot a greater part ot their earnings toward more luxurious living in the past year. This was noticeable, tn large measure, in more liberal spending in food stores. It was also observed in the ability of Decatur residents to indulge more freely in automotive purchases, Rrbicb correlates closely with living standards in normal years, and in purchases of furniture, household accessories and radios. The spending increase was greater than was called for to meet the rise in living costs. The facts are brought out in Sales Management's current copyrighted study, covering all 48 stores, showing how money is spent in each community. The food bill in Decatur in 1950 came to $2,313,000. Divided by the number of local families, this repretfented purchases in grocery stores, meat markets, and the like, of $l,lOO per family. This was more than the average American family spent for food, $729 a year. It was greater, too, than was spent generally in the East North Central States, $750 per fomily, and than Indiana’s average, $655 per family. How much emphasis is placed on food localy is shown by the fact /that stores selling, edibles receive 22 percent of all the city’s, retail business. An examination of other categories of--retail business, used as indexes in the study, also bears out the indication that Decatur tis a flourishing market. Local sales of automotive equipment, including cars and parts, farm machinery and such,\qmount>6d to $2,827,000 or 27 percent of the total retail business. « Sales of furniture,, household - <Ter» T» rewe mat Schwartz, Al Michigan City Resort, Mot To Obtain Parole A report was current in Adams county today that Peter L. Schwartz, sentenced In Adams criminal court by Judge Myles F. -Parrish in September. 1949, to serve from 21 years after pleading guilty to a charge ot incest, was to be reiea«ed to his family today. The rumoy was false according to attachdepf the warden’s office at the state prison. When asked by a Daily Democrat reporter if Schwartz was to be released today, a deputy warden said “absolutely not" The attache also said ♦hat Schwartz would not be given a temporary parole at this time. Apparently after he was refused a permanent parole he had asked for*an opportunity to visit his family on a temporary basis. This also was refused.

Allies Hold After Atiainieg Key Hill In Bloody Ridge Figkl Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Saturday, Sept. I.—(UP) — United Nations troops fought to the top of a key bill on “bloody ridge** Thursday night after a day of savage fighting and held their linos against desperate Communist coun-ter-attacks on two other hills in the same sector. The South Koreans captured the hill early in the 13-day allied offensive north of Yanggu on the eastcentral front. The North Koreans recaptured it early this week. Attacking without plane support, due to rain and low clouds, UN troops jumped off again yesterday morning. Hour by hour they edged up the hill against fierce Red resistance and radioed to headquarters that they had mopped up at 8:30 p.m. (4:30 am. CST Friday). A release from the allied combat cargo command disclosed that 220,•00 pounds of emergency rations, ammunition and medical supplies were air-dropped Thursday to the UN forces fighting in the cruel of east Korea. It was indicated that the drop was made (Turn Te Pnae Twe)

At 14 14 Miles Up Airman Says He Was ‘Too Busy’ To See Earth

* By Tfce Ualted Frees El Segundo, Calif. — The pilot who has flown higher and faster than any human in history said today he was so busy with his instruments that he got only a brief peek at the world 14% miles below. t*l got only a brief look out,” said Douglas Aircraft's crack test pilot Bill Bridgeman. “It is quite a sight.” * H« said he could see the curvature of the earth, but could not distinguish objects on the ground. The navy announced Thursday that Bridgeman had broken the 16-year-old altitude record of 72,394 feet set by a man-carrying balloon when he took his rocketpowered Douglas Skyrocket research plane to an undisclosed altitude over Edwards Air Force Base at Muroc, Calif., on August 15. It was reported unofficially, however, that the needle-nosed plane topped the balloon’s mark by at least 5,000 feet The Navy also kept the plane’s speed a secret. The Skyrocket easily erased the altitude record for a piloted aircraft of 59,646 feet set by a British test pilot John Cunninghame in a Vampire jet three years ago. Bridgeman topped that mark oh an earlier flight in the Skyrocket when he flow at an “Unprecedented” speed, unofficially reported to be nearly 1,300 miles per hour, at an altitude of about 70,000 feet. Skyrocket? was dropped from the bomb bay of a Superfor-

By THe ißitM San Francisco, Aug. 31 —(UP) —Secretary of State Acheson arrives here late today to begin allied strategy conferences aimed at thwarting Soviet moves to block signing the Japanese peace treaty. The 40-man Soviet delegation headed by deputy foreign minister Andrei Gromyko arrives tomorrow ,by transcontinental train to start pre-conference maneuvering. The advance miard of the American delegation

predicted that Acheson, Am* bassador John Foster Dulles and their chief aides would waste no time in lining up support for strategy that would keep the Soviets from wrecking the 52-nation peace conference scheduled to open formally Tuesday night. Gromyko is expected to offer the peace conference a “made in Moscow” treaty that would be rejected outright by a heavy majority of non-Communlst nations. Red strategy may also be tied to an offer to discuss all far eastern problems, including the Korean war. Allied counteratrategy already under consideration calls for moves: ~ ' 1. Rejection of any Soviet move to claim that Red China should be represented at the peace table. 2. Election of stern, parliamen-tary-wise, anti-Communist Percy Spender, Australian ambassador, as deputy conference president to block Gromyko when be offers trouble. Acheson is slated to be conference president but officials thought it would be better for the secretary to be free to step down from the chair to tangle with Gromyko. 3. Adoption of an iron-fisted set of conference rules and procedures that would hold debate short and to the point.

If Kromyko wants to talk about the whole range of far eastern problems, officials said he would be ruled out of order. They said any such discussion could be held only outside the formal peace conference. In typical Soviet fashion, Kromyko’s advance guard yesterday arranged to rent a 38-room mansion 16 miles from San Francisco instead of staying at the downtown St. Francis hotel. The state department learned only indirectly of the switch in plans. The Russians have spurned all offers to help on transportation and living accom modations. Temperature Hits 102 Downtown At 3 P.M. ;

ress at 36,000 feet for the altitude record test. Bridgeman cut in the plane’s four rocket tubes and tilted its 1 nose toward the sun. He blasted ' N through the sonic barrier (662 1 miles per hour) within 10 onds“There’s very little sensation going through the sonic barrier,” * < he said today, “but sometimes on* the. way back you get a little bump.” Bridgeman was wearing a spe- ■ i cial pressure suit designed by the Air Force to keep his blood * from boiling at the high altitude. At the altitude set by engineers, the 34-year-old test tfflot and held on for a speed trial that leveled off his dhlp may have sent him whipping 1 through space at speeds approximating 1600 miles per hour. “Actually there is very little feeling to fylng faster than anyone has before,” he said. “There is nothing up there to compare your speed with, v You are ony ak . ware of speeds by the fee of the controls.” i ■ Tbe Skyrocket burned up its L - three tons of fuel in three mlnt utes of light, . and Bridgeman coasted back through the sonic wall and glided to » perfect deadstick landing at the air base. The old altitude mark of 13.7 miles was set by Capt. Orvil. Anderson and Albert W. Stevens of the United States Army Air Corps in a balloon - flight from Rapid City. S. D.. Nov. 11, 1936. , Bridgeman said he hopes an American will break his new record soon.

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Nolan Griffiths Takes top Honor In Fair Contest Nolan Griffiths. 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Griffiths of Kirkland township, was named state champion in the junior division of the tractor drivers contest at the state fair yesterday and Ed Marbgch placed second in the senior division of the same contest. Marbach is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Marbach of Upion township. The young champion took«top honors from a field of 62 contestants. 14 years of age or under. Marbach’s second place also was a field of 62 entrants, 15 or older. The two youths' placed first and second respectively in the tractor driving contest at the 4-H fair in Monroe early this month and went to the state fair as a result. A new project of the 4-H program this is the first year for such a contest at the state fair, and is based on the tractor maintenance < course offered . during the winter months. A quiz on the course accounted for fifty percent of the scaring and an obstacle course driven with a trailer attached to the -tractor. . County agent L. E. Archbold stated today that “the honors these lads brought home from the state fair is concrete evidence of the fine cooperation on the 4-H tractor maintenance project iq the county.” • "The 4-H tractor maintenance leaders. William Sipe. Herbert* Marbach and Herbert Weigman,” Archbold said, "had access to all the shops of the local implement dealers." These same dealers be explained, set up a committee under the leadership of William Frazier to sponsor the tractor driving contest at Monroe and also sponsored the two young men on their trip to the state fair At the same time Archbold announced that the dealers havo agreed to underwrite the 4-H tractor plowing contest, sqt for October 13.

County 4-H'ers Win 18 Ribbons With Exhibits At Indianapolis Fair Eighteen ribbons were swarded to Adams County 4- Her’s exhibiting handicraft, clothing, and food preservation at the Indiana State Fair. All tbe exhibits will be on display at the Fairgrounds near Indianapolis. Forty per cent of all exhibits will receive premium ribbons. Tbe blue ribbon awards in the handicraft project were yard doll by Pat Reed and textile painting by Coleen Egly. Nutcups by Sandra Cramer and embroidery by , Ruth Zimmerman received red ribbons. Tile craft by Sharon Belts and a leather purse by Norman - Wall received white ribbons. Food preservation winners were: First Division, Ann Smith, white ribbon; Second Division. Margaret Schaefer, blue; Jean Haines white. .Third Division. Marjorie Neuen- ’ schwa nd er. blue; Fourth Division, Carolyn King, blue; Fifth Division. Elaine Freels, red. Clothing winners were: Second Division. Colleen Egly. blue; Third Division, Carol Heller, white; Fourth Division, Alice Stuber, blue; Ffth Division, Marie Habegger, red; Virginia Mitchel, whte. * Fair Trip .r" The county extension office will be closed all day Saturday. September 1. The entire staff wifi accompany the two bands, accordion and brags, junior 4-H leaders, and state fair exhibitors to Indianapolis. The bds drivers engaged for the day are, Lewellyn Dehman, John Mace/. William C. Auman, Palmer S. Moser, Ellis V. Converse, and Harold V. Schwarts. <