Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 213, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 213.

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Fort Wayne Man Is Killed Near City Saturday Two Persons Hurt InHeadon Crash Near City Limits BULLET IN j Sheriff Bob Shraluka and state trooper Walter Schindler late today were to prefer formal charges against Reed Le- ’ ( Fever, driver of one of the illfated automobiles which collided on U.S. 27 about one mile; nortH of the city Saturday. Thetwo police officials were to confer with prosecuting attor-, ney Severin Schurger on charges to be preferred. “It is established," stated sheriffShraluka, “that the LeFeyer vehicle was in the left lane of traffic when the accident occurred.” County and state police officers were continuing their investigation of the Saturday .accident in which ope man was killed and two others hospitalized with/ “serious” Injuries. -L., z Sheriff Bob Shraluka today was questioning witnesses to the accident to determine the manner in which if occurred. x ’ 4 All those, involved in the accident, at 4:50 p.m. Saturday about .one mile north of the city on U.S: 27. were from Fort Wayne Dead was Savon A. Smith, 45, owner ahd Operator of the Smith Distributing • company. 1 f His was the sixth traffic fatality in Adams county this year. Those injured, and reported by Adams county memorial hospital attaches as “doing fairly good." were Mrs. Irene J. Baker, 46, z a passenger in the Smith car, who suffered" a compound fracture sos / the right knee, fractured ribs a?nd * a punctured lung, a fractured ankle and head injuries, and Reed LeFever, driver of the other car. The latter is suffering from a broken jaw, fractured right knee cap and sever’e head injuries. Reconstructing the accident, sheriff Shraluka, 3 who, in company dtate trooper Walter Schindler investigated,- said it appeared likely that the southbound DeFever; car, pulled out of. a lane of traffic and crashed beadron with the Sinitli car. . -1 J The DeFever car bounced off the highway and caught fire; the Decatur Tire department raced to. the scene but damage was completed (Tnr» To Tw®) , INDIANA WBATHER Clearing and a little cooler . tonight. ■’ Tuesday fair, somewhat warmer in afternoon. Low tonight 55-60 north, 5864 south. MHlgh Tuesday 75-82. -I 4

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Charles E. Hammond f r \ ■ Dies Suddenly Today 'Well Known Decatur /|Man Dies In Auto Charles E. Hammond, 58., well kifown Decatur brick mason-1 and contractor, died of a heart attack sbajrly this morning while driving tet work. He was found in his car at Winchester and. Line streets, only \a<,bl°ck from his home at Winchester and Reiter streets. ! 1 He was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival about 9:30 o’clock. He had had a heart ailment for several years but his death today was entirely unexpected, S A lifelong resident of Decatur, ■Mr, Hammond was born .in this City June 20, 1893, a son of Lewis apd Kate McCulloilghrHamniond, aiid was married to Dahiel Dec. 24X1922, Mrs. Hammohd died in 1944. He was a member of First Christian eftureh. He wad a eran of Worjd War I and a'member >of Adams , Post 43, American Legion, and the Moose lodge. 1 Surviving are his mother, who resides, on Line street s one* son. Keith ■ Tfamjnond of Dejcaturi two daughters. Carolyn and Gail, both at. home; one grandchild; three broHammond., allXof Decatur, and tljrtee sisters. Mrs. Vera Fritzinger apd Mrs. Ethel Rayer. both of Deeftur, and Mrs. Lois Kerr of Colon, Mich. One daughter is deceased. • i Funeral services will be held at Wednesday at the Black funX , home, the Rev. Jonas M. iferkey officiating. Burial will be \iß the Uecatur cemetery, with the American Legion post conducting Military rites.. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2. p m. Tuesday. Three Escape Injury, As Auto Is Wrecked 1. 1 V f 9 f Sheriff Bab Shraluka and city police investigated the early Sunmorning accident that pccurrril near the ■“’south city limits on B. S. 33 when a tire on the cair Biven by Robert Williamson, df jftear Pleasant Mills, blew out. Williamson, his wife. Maty, apd, tme-year-old daughter Connie, all brought to th®’ Adams fhunty memorial hospital, given Emergency treatmnet, then releases. -pl W According to the sheriff’s report. ||ie car jumped about 20 feet into ?4 creek. Williamson veas thrown a)ito the water and was pulled out |fy Bill Dixon and Mickey Lee. 9ioth of Decatur, and both near the l|cene of the accident. Mrs. Wil41amson struggled out of the car. ?ffhich was turned upside dbwn, ;>ith their daughter. The vehicle sought fire and Decatur firemen, to the scene, were able- to ‘shvte tires of the otherwise completely demolished car. B -i !• -''x

I lowa Auto Crash Takes Four Lives ’ Perry, la., Sept. 10.-— (UP)— Four persons were killed and; two others injured in a two-car collision three miles east of here at the intersection of highways 141 and 169. Mra. Vera Virginia McClow, 58, Uda Grove, was killed Instantly when her car collided yesterday with an auto driven by Leßoy P. Lapsen, -32. Elkhorn. Mrs Gertrude Anderson, 70, Ida Grove, who was riding with Mris. McGlow. died shortly after being taken to a hospital. Larsen s wife, Gladys, 32, and his brother, Marvel R. Larsen. 29, also died at the hos> pital from injuries received in the crash. pc. ;■ Murphy Will Absorb Morris Store Chain Initial Step Taken For Sale Os Chain 1 ‘ ; McKeesport, Pa., Sept. 10 — (UP) —The first step in a plan by which G. C. Murphy Co. will absorb the 71 midwestern stores of Morris Stores, Inc., Bluffton, Ind., v,as announced today by the heads of both \organlzations. Murphy filed an application with the Indiana securities commission to qualify 207,5 M shares of its common stock and? asked commission approval of the exchange of its common stock for the common and cumulative preferred stock of Morris. Paul L \ president of Murphy, and Ray P. Brown; president of Morirs, siid detailed studies of the advantages of such a plan have been' in progress for \some timA It was pointed out that the geographic location of Morris Store Here Morris Stores\ Inc., has op- - erated one of its 71 stores in Decatur for many years, with the store here located at 165 North Second street. \ ■ i ' ' ■ u \ the Morris stores would permit them to take full advantage of the Murphy \warehouse here and the buying offices in New York City. Morris operates ’ 24 . stores in Ohio, 26 in 8 in and 13 in Michigan. Only seven of them are in tommunitiee where stores also*are operated by Murphy. -Brown and Sample said the application with mission was only the first step in an involved plan and that upon acceptance of the exchange offer by Morris stockholders, many technical difficulties remained to be overcome. ' X Morris sales last year; were in excess of 113,000,000 while Murphy sales ran 8150,000,000.

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Bethany Church May “Build New Addition > - S ' i j ,X./ Meet Wednesday To Decide On Addition The Bfethany Evangelical United 1 1 Brethren 1 church is giving], con- ■ sideration to; much needed additional space ifor Christian educa- ‘ tional purposes. The first step now ; under consideration by the con- ‘ gregatioh is the addition of a base- ] ment connecting to the basement of the existing building. Thib addi* , tion will be located to the rear of the present, building and will cover an area apbrovinigtely 40 by 60 feet. The \ project will provide for better departmentalization of the children*# department, additional class rooms: and larger dinning room facilities. The kitchen and furnace ;rooms will be removed from the present building and incorporated ih the new. Entrances \will be provided on the liorth and south sides of the new' unit. \ The project now under consideration is the first step in a larger plan to remodel the church sanctuary into a more ecclesiastical design afid to] provide additional class rooms for other departments in the Sunday school. It Is estimated that t#e cost of the present unit '.is ikpproximatly $47,000. The church jias available for this purpose abopt #21,000, The congregation will meet Wednesday to consider the proposed addition and if approval is given a campaign for raising additional fund's will be innaugafated. The building committee consists of the Rev\ F. H. Willard, chairman; , Amos Katckurn, Vice-chairman; Alice Tumbleson, Secretary; Earl C. Fuhrman, treasurer; Raymond Eichenauer, Arthur Beeler, William Christeri, Mrs. Vernon Custer, Mrs. Harlan Jackson, Adolph Kolter,!’ : Carl Hammond, Ralph Habeggiey, Dr. Ray Stingely, Mrs. Earl Fiihrmtm, Mrs. Richard K. McConnell, ; Jerry Kolter and Rheta Butcher. \ The congregation is also planning to redecorate the sanctuary. Indid To End State Os War With Japan ! Tokyo, Sept. 10-.*—(UP)—lndia notified the ] Japanese government today that it will .end State of war With japan simultaneously with the coming l into force pf the San Fraricisfco peace treaty. The ?New peihi government said in a formal note that it will negotiate a separate bi-lateral peace treaty /’whereby the relations between themselves and the government of Japan will be brought into conformity wjth the amity whiph i existed between them before the ] declaration bf war.” X ■ X ' ■ ; ' ! 'K' ’ " I

Begin Charting Path To Peace With Germany U.S;, Britain And France Begin Study ! After Japan Treaty I Washington, Sept. 16 — (UP) — The U. 8.. British and French fbr--1 eigti ministers begin charting today the path for a peace \ settlexnetit with Germany. A F the Japanese peace sighed, the western allies governments must decide how to restore Japan’s partner in defeat to the Jbesjceful family of nations. They ala? . may discuss the possibility 4f a separate peace with Austria a liberalized treaty revision Jfor Italy. ;' But the problems facing secretary of state Dean Acheson, British-. foreign minister Herbert Morrisuii, and French foreign minister Robert Schuman are different thsh those which led to the treaty of Reconciliation with Japan. S The .three flew back from San Francisco together yesterday to ftbegih formal conferences here tbday-., Ttte three hope to iron out details of a “political contract” with Germany that would, In effect, yvipe' out the occupation and give federal .republic nearly complete independence. \ t*lie pact — roughly comparable to Jtbe peace treaty with Japan— WtAßd permit the allies to keep 1 troops in Germany but at the same time give it the freedom it needs to ’become a full-fledged member of tl|e western bloc. The three nations generally agreed on the contract. They diff«n &n some of the safeguards to tnrfure Germany’s democratic development and cooperation with th4 west. | i ' Tfte three diplomats will tackle alspuhe tough problem of how to uae German forces in Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atlantic pact *rmy. i 1 They German units must . W employed but differ on how big . should be and whether they . shOpld operate separately or as an;[ Integral part of a European . a-:nj. _ i Essentially, the foreign ministwould like to give Germany thd ;Same peace treatment as Japap< But whereas Japan was not <sXi(ied Germany is. ' \ ,i » T|iat adds to the problems. Western forces still face Russia in f Germany. Berlin, largest German city, is an island in Russianeohtrolied territory. < i When Acheson , flew back from San Francisco yesterday, he said tl:4t the Japanese trpaty "very gr&atly strengthens the possibilities for peace.” ■’We have dorie very well,” Achesoli said. in, addition to the German, Austrian and Italian problems, these arp some of the other issues \tacI (Tara Ta Page Two) ] jIH . . i ; J _ . j .; r .Pj ■ 'Treasure Hunt' On • 4■ A J . i . • ! In Decatur Stores J•? ( | \ >.;■ f ■ j Fall Season Opening ■ Observed By Stores for the three-day Chamber of Commerce “treasure hunt” by the retail division tcglay, Tuesday and Wednesday—arte being distributed freely by participating merchants. The distribution comes with the notation that there is nothing to bijy. Merchants are offering the with each purchase, but they ean also be obtained by request, j L'phts is in line with the “fall opening” promotion by the Chamber to k&quaint the customers with the fall merchandise on display by business houses—9o of them that ate cooperating—for the event. . About 40,000 tickets will change hands from the merchant to the buying | public during the three-day spree, and all the tickets are good for up to |5 in merchandise from t&fe retailer. The object of the window shopping game is to match the number oh> h ticket with that listed in a particular store window. { The similarity in numbers is good thp awards; merely establish the fact With the merchant, and ije.’fl pass along the award. Italn today hampered crowd attractions in-downtown Decatur, but businessmen and Chamber officials rfre hopeful of clearing skies and cotnplete customer participation in \ t’he event—the chief attraction for on the Chamber’s ; monthly calendar ot events, iff < ■ • ■

Peiping Radio Declares Plan To Change Site Os Parley Is Unreasonable

Adjustment -Board Approves All Rates All Tax Rates In Coynty Approved ,■ i-■ i l The Adams .county tax adjustment board approved aIL tax rates pa proposed by the various taxing units for 19-52 and adjourned at noon today. The budgets included those for the 12 townships, Adams Central and Berne-- French consolidated achool units; cities and towns, library boards, school boards and the county. Notation was made on the budget for the Decatur libarry board that clarification of the levy for the building fund should be made by the state fax board. The budget for this unit was approved, but the levy for the proposed sinking, fund was not set up separately in the tax form. 1 The tat adjusters checked proposed levies in each taxing unty making comparison with the ‘current rates. The members were of the opinion that the officials 1 in the respective taxing units had thoroughly examined the budgets and that no advantage would accrue from exhaustive examination of thp Appropriations. f*j Members who served on the board, which may be called into session arid day up to October 1, are: Mayor John B. Doan, August Selikng, Charles Jones, Charles Burdg and A. R. Holthouse of Decatur, Clifton Sprunger and Everett Schug of Four Persons Killed When Truck Hits Auto Atlanta. 111., Sept. 10— (UP)— Four persons were killed and two were injured early today when their automobile was struck broadside by a heaty transport truck.'] The victims; all identified ap East St. Louis, 111., negroes, were members of a Church of God choir. They were driving back to East-St. Louis on U.S. route 66 following a meeting in Chicago. ‘ ‘ ..i-i ' .. ■ - Decatur Firemen # Win 7th Trophy Decatur volunteer firemen Saturday walked off with tfheir seventh water ball championship trophy of the year, when they won the contest at the Tell City fall festival, ij All trophies won to date, will be displayed in the window of the Chamber of Commerce, chief Cedric Fisher says. Fisher will leave the latter part of this week for Muncie and the state volunteer fire chiefs’ convention. .It will be a three-day affair f , - \ .. i I— r- ■ J ' W > . I ' ' . Martin Kiefer Dies I Early This Morning Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Martin Keifer, 86,. retired farmer aiftl lifelong resident of Preble township, died at 6 this morning\ at his home three miles north and one-half mile weh of PreMfet He had been ill since February. ; V ' . j. J Born fn Adams county April 28, 1866, he was a son of Jacob and Elizabeth Werling-Kiefer, and was married to 1 Lisette Fuelling Oct. 8. 1893. Mrs. Kiefer died Nov. 5, 1045. • ■* I He was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Preble. Surviving are two sons. Herman of Preble township and Martin H. of Fort Wayne; one daughter, Mrs. Albert Bertch of Fort Wayne ; five and six greatgrandchildren. ; Two brothers and two sisters are deceaseds Funeral services will be held iat 1.30 p. m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 o’clock at St. Paul’s. Lutheran church, the Rev. Otto C. Busse officiating. Burial wfll be in the church cemetery. Friends may \call at the tu+ neral home aftey 7:30 o’clock this evening and after 7:30 p] m. Tuesday. \ 1 • ' ,

Russian-Type Rockets Fired Into Un Lines Reds Are Reported Building Strength For New Offensive I i ■’!' \ l" I - Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 11.—|UPX— The Communists are firing rockets into the United Nations line on the east-central front and* are building roads capable of bearing armor'ed vehicles ft?r a possible big offensive, it was made known today. rockets have been landing behind front lipes for several days, it kras disclosed. They are 132-rnillimeter (about inches) Russian-type missiles With a range of about 10,000 yards (5.6 miles). Apparently they are launched from 3-% ton trucks, 16 at? a time. A headquarters briefing . officer said that considerable road and bridge building was noticed behind the Communist lines Monday. Many of the roads appear!, capable of accommodating armored vehicles, he s,aid. Air observer# also reportt\ ed seeing new which might house the vehicles. UN infantrymen cfontinudd aggressive action all; day yesterday on the western fronl, vphere the enemy might launch an offensive aimed at Beou), capital of the Korean republic. » Advances were at J several points southwest of Yonchon without enemy opposition, Gen. Jameq A. Van Fleet, commanding the Sth arm|,‘ said yesterday that counter-attacking UN ‘ troops in western Korea hold more ’ ground now than th#y did at the 1 start of the offensive a ' week ago. Van Fleet told reporters at Pusan 1 that every Red attad# in the area ’ had been defeated Iwith “great losses.” Today his |roops hurled three new attacks itjto Red lines ■ -as 110 Communist sand UN jet planes fbught one 4 the biggest dogfights of the war. / “The United Nations army now is controlling- more territory than when they (the Comiftunists) started the offensive a w#ek ago,” Van Fleet said. “All have been defeated, resulting in great losses to the Chinese iCommunists.” He said earlier tli]at the Communists lost 25,000 riien In bloody fighting in the past twb weeks. The general said he had. “nothing to do” with the armistice! but added in a sharp tonet:. > "My job is fighting the war and to win it; I’m doing it and winning (Turn Te Page Tw#)

Quadruple Amputee Os Korea TFar PTec? Sunday

Joliet, 111., Sept/ 10.—(UP)— Pvt. and Mrs. Hubei t Reeves began a marriage today that millions of Americans are w itching as a test of young couragp. ' \ Reeves is a quadruple amputee of the Korean war. , The 19-year-old soldier was married yesterday ? to Beverly Jean Hall in the Hrst Baptist church. More than <SOO persons .crowded into the church normally holds only 450. 1 They watched aS Reeves, seated in "ifc wheelchair, gave the re&ponsesj to the ceremony without taking his eyes from his dark-haired bride. Beverly, 18, the girl he met after she wrote him letters to cheer him up, gazed back. A tense quiet settled over the guests when it came time ( for putting the ring on Beverly’s hand. The ring lay on the bandage covering what is left | Os Reeves’ left hand. At the proper time, 'he lifted it up to Beverly who hooked her finger through ft then slid it onto her finger herself. I t Many women in the audience wept openly during thie ceremony. Gifts from all over the nation poured in on \ the [ newlyweds, bringing tangible proof of the widespread well wishes' for the teenage' couple. Both of Reeves’ feet and all but ■’ \

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Latest Complaint Os Violations Os Cease*Fire Zone Is Probed By UN .J : ; | Tokyo, Tuesday, Seipt. 11—(UP) —The Peiping radio, mouthpiece of the Chinese Commpnist governni'ent, said today that the proposal pt G«n. Matthew B.'Ridgway to change the site oUcease-fire talks was ’insolent and unreasonable.” It was indicated that the broadcast might foretell a rejection by the North Korean and Chinese Red commanders in chief of the proposal by the supreme command; er of the United -Nations forces. RidgWay proposed that the site of truce negotiations be shifted from Kaesonk so that the Reds would have no more excuse to allege violations of the city’s neutral zone by his forces. But the Petping radio said he made thq proposal “because he found it-impossible to get around the hard evidence of these criminal and ceaseless violations of the Kaesong neutral gone.”' ' Peiping took . occasion to deny reports that Soviet puppet Caucasian troops were, in sKorea and that tanks and- Infantry divisions were in Kaeseng, ; ; Allied officers investigated i yesterday the latest Communist complaint — allegation that a UN airplane machine gunned the cease-fire zone early yesterday. The aljied officers said they could J not the\ Red allegation, either that there had (been a plane attack or that, if thqre ' was an attack, a UN plane niade it. ;* The Red complaint was the 12th allegation in a long series the cease-fire talks started July 10.< Air force Goll Don O. Darrow' of Tacoina, Wash.; senior United Nations investigating officer, refused a Communist demand for an immediate reply to their protest against the alleged machine gunning. t The UN team spent four hours Inspecting the area indicated by the Communists. They found bullet marks and a dozen .50\ caliber slugs In and around a group of\ tile-roofed ;ston;e houses alknit of a mile 1 froin hte conference site itself. The investigators Said the bullets appeared to have been fired from several directions and at different angles. This, they said, disproved a Communist claim that the plane made only one pass over, tli ehouses the alleged attack. - ' , Darrow otld North Korean Col, Chang, sneior Red liaison officer present, that the evidence would be studied further ahd that he would report hi sfindjngs to Gen. Matthew B. ]. Ridgway and Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy. \ Ther ewere several sharp ex-‘ (Tara Ta Face Twa) / \ .; ! . ■■ * I ' -

one of his were amputated • after he suffered severe frostbite . during the winter campaign in Korea. He had been in combat scarcely a month. He met Bever|y after 1 he was , returned to the United States for extensive surgery. She wrote Ito him when she read about him,in newspapers' and Reeves said he' was attracted to her because her letters did not \ that she felt sorry for him. He visited her in Wilmington, 111., and the romance began; The Rev., Ralph Blatt who performed the ceremony, warned the couple a difficult road lay ahead. 1 •! . , “Some people are wondering whether you can lead a normal life/’ he said. “That will depend on everyone—not only upon yourselves ,but upon everyone with whom ybu hpve contact.” Hp urged them ; to “work and grow” together and to adopt a" ; “give ’ and ake” attitude. p •* A reception was held after* t|ie ceremony and then the couple lefh for a week’s stay, iat the Louis Joliet hoteL '• iL. \ • ’ Among their gifts' were almost complete , .furnishings for their home, given them by Welcome • Traveler’s along with ah all-ex-pense free honeyrttOon anywhere " (Tw«n Ta Page Pour) \'i I M