Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 219, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 219.1

RIDGWAY CONFERS WITH MILITARY CHIEFS

Navy Ready To I " < __ ' •* f * x 1 Launch A-Bombs From Carriers Navy To Launch Atomic Z Bombs From Ships Washington. Sept;/ 17 (UP)—Adm. M. Fechteler disclosed today that J the navy has trained crews to launch atomic bomb attacks from carriers. At his first news conference since becoming chief Os naval operations, Fechteler also, revealed that the navy is ready to launch land planes equipped with A’ bombs. • i He said the planes to use them are the new carrier-based AJ 1 Savage and the land-based P2V Neptune. * Fechteler also said the navy hopes eventually to have two or three more super Carriers like the \James V. ForrestaT, now under construction—one for. each the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and replacements. There also were indications that atomic, warheads may be ready for the air force’s new guided missile squadron, by the time it masters “ its “fantastic new .. . weapons. Fechteler laid that both forces taking part in the Atlantic fleet war games which started yesterday would make simulated Afcomb attacks. \ He also , revealed that farrierbased planes had simulated the use of the A-bomb last spring, previous announcements hid said only th»t the Atlantic fleet' had ■ only defended itself against simulated atomic bombs. ■ Adm. Lynde D. McCormick, Atlantic fleet commander, said in New York /recently that naval farrier-based planes \would Use' smaller A-bombs tactically.- " Fechteler said the nfevy is thinking about an atomic-powered farrier but’hasn’t reached the design stage yet. He also said the atomic-powered submarine, re», cently contracted for, should be ready in 1953 0r.'1954. He said the guided missile battleship Kentucky and cruiser Hawaii projects are being held in abeyance for the present. The navy has no plans to expand its air arm as the air force is planning to do, the new chief of naval operations said. • ■ \ I Despite official secrecy, there were indications today that Hhe atomic energy • commission has turned out productton models of missile warheads, which Will be tested soon at the AEC proving ground In Nevada. U.S. Rubber Plant Resumes Production ' Fort Wayne, Ind., Sept. (UP) —Production was resumed today at the U- s - Rubber ;co. z plant here after 1,900 workers ratified a, “corrected” supplimentary cbn- ; tract agreement, ending a three-day strike. - The agreement, covering mostlyworking conditions, is retroactive’ to Sept. 12, when the old contract > expired. S The workers, members of the CIO United Rubber Workers, struck because of omissions and errors in the contract, union officials said. Local Man's Sister [ Is Taken By Death •,t .. ' ■ - j u Funeral services will be h«ld’ Tuesday for Mrs. Zeffie E. Reed, sister of James Kitchen of this city, who died Saturday afternoon at her home in Zanesville. Services will be at 2 p.m. at the Zanesville Church of God, the Revs- Harold Mishler and Sylvester Mattm officiating. Friends may call at the Elzey « Son funeral homo *n Ossian until IP m Tuesday, when the body will be taken to the church. X—i \ Surviving are her husband, jIHO F. Reed; two daughtdhrs, Mrs. Clair Geiger of Zanesville and Mrs* Donald Krick of Markle; three sons, CRarlep of Zanesville and Theodore and Ralph of Markle; a . aiater, Mrs. Arthur Platt of. Fort Wayne, and two brothers. James Kitchen of Decatur arid of Fort Wayne. \ .• <:• ) ' J ;■

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B’ 'til iu it ft J— i ■ j-4 -* i I ' ' ' r : [Moose Dedication Wednesday Evening . • j Formal Dedication | Os Lodge Addition ’ The $75,999 / addition to the Loyal Order of Moose home, gives Adams lodge 1311 one of finest lodge and duh room quarters in the country,; visitors .jo the enlarged building which will be formally /dedicated, Wedi esday ( night, declare. The 72 by 36 feet addition, adjoining the main building at the northeast corner. enlarges the lodge room, club room and kitchen space, and also provides stage facilities and other improvements tn the spacious home; Entrances and ; exits to the new p-ing of the building are on the east side of the building. Teijraza tile flooring and steel staircases make the hallways fireproof and adequate in accommodating guests to the home. 'Xi ; Director general Malcolm Giles C( Mooseheart. 111., will j dedicate the building in Wednesday night conducted by Lester Sheets, governor of the local lodge, and his staff of officers. I Erected along the north Wall, Stages 2» by 15 feet. Mth two dressing rooms each, are : built in fLe new building in the lodge room and club room. . The revamped and enlarged Uitclien is 25 by 19 feet. A new ’■tjle floor has been laid in this enlarged utility rooin. t To the west of the L of the club room there is a new gatpe room tfl by 15 feet. A pool table and radio are installed in this recreation center. i ’The addition to the lodge room opens with folding doors. The main lodge room is 54 by 34 feet arid the L wing increases the space for lodge meetings 63 by 19 f|et.: Approximately 8b) mepibers cipn be seated. 1 The club Doorns, which are on tie first or grpupd floor level, ate 54 by 192 feet anc, 32 by. 23 fit. -’New chairs and tables have been placed in the club rp,om. | Yost Contruction company of t|iis city had the general contract for the building. Baker Plumbing and Heating installed the plumberg and heating and Engle & Kies? installed the electric wiring and fixtures. Other contractors, qn the job included Kocher Luriiher company. Hakes cabinet shop. Ashbaucher’s tin shop and Heber Feasel. Leroy Bradley of Fort Wayne Was the architect for the building; C. W. R. Schwartz Is Taken By Death i Prominent Farmer Dies Early Sunday «Christian W. R. Schwartz* 62, prominent Adams county , farmer, 'died at 5-a.m. Sunday at his home, three and one-half miles northwest of Berne, of a heart ailment. His condition had been serious since Jjily* f fr | | . ! : He was a member of the First Mennonite church at Berne. Surviving are his wife, Arveda; fbur sons, Ernest Schwartz of BeYne, Hardld Schwartz of near Berne, Larry R. Schwartz, .at homie, arid Darrel Wagner of Angola; eight daughters, Mrs. James KEfrown of San Antonio, Tex*, Mrs. Paul Bahner of near Monroe,. Mrs. Vi’arren Lehman Os Decatur, Mrs. if ax Sprunger of Berrie, Mrs. Laverne Gilliom of Linn Grove, Mrs. (jbmer Kropa of Indianapolis, Collien Wagner, at home, and Mits. Rosalyn Wagner Kuhn of Angola; 1$ grandchildren; three brothers, David aJ. Schwartz of near Berne, tl of Phoenix, Ariz., d J. K. L Schwartz of Fillmore, Ualif., and’four sisters. Mrs. Katherine Mazelin Mrs. Rachel of Tenn., Mrs. 4be Inniger of near Berne and Srs. David J. Mazelin of near Mone. ■ ■ i ‘ ' ; Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the First Mennonite church, the Rev. Olin A. Krehbiel officiating. Burial will be ih the MRE cemeterL Friends rnay sill at the Yager funeral home unth tjme of the services. . . ' ■ — — J ' , / INDIANA WEATHER ! Fairtoniffht and Tuesday, not • much change th temperature. t Low tonight 4945 north, 42-48 s' south, high Tuesday 7975 ' I north, 74-78 south. ■1“ I >• •• " j '

Ex-Officer Os RFC Admits To Receiving Gifts Prince Admits To Taking Gifts From Firm Seeking Loan ■ Washington, Sept. 17 — (UP) — Frank Prince, a former Reconstruction Finance Corp, official, admitted today that he received a camera, a bottle of perfume and food as gifts from the president of the American Lithofold Corp. * ■ Prinpe, who resigned last May a‘. the request of RFC chairriian W. Stuart Symington, told senate .investigators he received some of J the gifts from R. J. Blauner, Lithofold president, while the firm’s requests \ for RFC loans were pending. Some of the others, he said, werereceived after the loans were repaid. . >i Prince was chief- of RFC’s loan operations division in 1949 when the company received $645,099 in loans from the big government lending agency. . The RFC board of directors granted the first loan of $80,990 despite the opposition of several examiners and the agency review committee. Later, it approved a $565,000 loan over the objections of the review committee. Priince, who now lives in Baltimore, said the .gifts did not ‘have any bearing on the loan” but “I don’t intend to let /anybody else send me anything." He testified before the senate (Tara To Pace KIsM) Seek Maniac Killer For Nurse's Death Nurse Is Brutally Slain At Ann Arbor Arin Arbor, Mich., Sept. 17.— (UP) —A “maniac" killer, who bludgeoned to death a shy 34-year-old nurse, was sought today by police who believed the same man attacked two other nurses .in this Ismail college town within the last week/ The body of Pauline Campbell, was found early yesterday on the curb in front of her rooming house. She had been beaten “viciously” on the head, but had not been raped, police said. ' “There seems to be no motive,” Sgt. Claude Damron said, “but it looks like the work of a maniac.” A few hours before the body was found, another nurse, Frances Elyea, reported a man chased her in the vicinity of the University of Michigan, the same area where Miss Cariipbeli was slain. Last Wednesday. Shirley Mackley, 22, a nurse at th£ University hospital, was beaten as she walked past a dormitory. “It probably is the same Damron said. “Whomever and wherever he is, his clothes are a bloody mess." Christian Helmus and a companion found the.body shortly after midnight. “At first I thought it was a bundle of rags in the street," Helmus said. Police said the killer apparently dragged the body across the lawn into the street to make it appear she was the victim of a hit-and-run accident. Barbara Ferguson, a telephone operator, who lives at Miss bell’s rooming house, told policy she was awakened about midnight by the sound of two men talking on the lawn. She said she then heard groans and a few seconds later a car sped away. , — Mrs. Eliza Goertz Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs. Elizabeth\ ; Bleeke-Goert», 871 a native of Adams county, died Sunday morning at Fort ’ Wayne after a long illness. She was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Fort Wayne. Surviving are two brothers, Louis F. and Andrew Fuelling, both of Woodburn. Funeral services will be held ct 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Roden-beck-Pook funeral borne. Dr. Paul L. Dannenfeldt officiating. Burv ial will be at Concordia cemetery. I ‘ ‘ ; V

■HI " f 1 Decatur, Indiana, Monday; September 17, 1951.

L — Testimony Conflicts On Boyle Bi. ■ j TESTIFYING before the Senate fluence was used' to obtain a RFC loan for the American Lithofold corporation at ? St. Lopls, J. Frank Williams (left)., the RFC examiner who recommended the loan, tells the committee that no one —including Dririipcratio National Chairman William Boyle—ever approached him abjiUt the loan. The next day. however. E. J. Toole (right), the flrin sj ex-treasurer, said the loan was approved three days after Boyle called parley Hise, former RFC Chairman, andi asked him to set a c&riipany delegation. He said this happened about a month before Boy|a became Democratic chairman. Thi loan had been previously been Aimed down twice, Toole said.

■ —— Pilot Saves Lives Os 53 On Airliner ■ I : ''' 1 i' [Crash Landing Made When Engine Fails fr z ■ . ? Chicago, Sept. 17.—(UP) — A i pilot’s tiool thinking was credited today Mritti saving the lives of 53 i persons aboard a C-46 airliner when one of Jts two engines went dead shortly after take-off from Chicago’s Midway airport. The pilot? Capt. B. J. Mountain of Miami, eased the disabled plane 4o a wheelsrup crash landing in a weedy pasture near a busy intersection two miles from the ak- j port yesterday. Foi-ty-two of the persons aboard were injured but none seriously. ’ Th|rty-eight weye taken to hospitals) for treatment. Twenty4hree were released within a few hours. The 15 still hospitalised were reportEd in good condition. The plane, operated by Peninsular Air Transport, Inc., had just taken on a charter flight to Cincinnati, Miami and Tampa when mountain radioed the control tower that his left engine had failed; “I need emergency clearance to land|”-he said. Tower operator J. R. Kenwood said he radioed back that all runways were cleared, but Mountain / had j|ni>t gained enough altitude to swing back toward the field. Instead, he glided over treetops and Into a field in what airport officials described as a “remarkable” / crash landing. Control tower personnel praised Mountain’s handling of the ( crippled plane. 1 At Washington the Aircraft Transport Association said “Mountain’s beautiful landing” had averted a serious tragedy. Alfred M. Walter, attorney repre(T«rn To Page Kl ß kt) Jnii ’-J ■ H- ’ \' ■ .' ■ / Rural Students To m Garrett Schools Garret, Ind., Sept. 17 —(UP) Thirty-ohe students who attended a fural one-room schoolhouse branded as “unsanitary” by their parents, ; were transferred to the Garret City schools today. The pupils, who just completed , sumirier had an extra “holiday” last wAek while their parents picketed the Schopf school. The parents met with county school 1 superintendent Carl Stallman arid Keyser Twp. trustee Lester Smnrr Saturday, and Stallman agreed to close the school. : , Boost In National Income Is Detailed Washington, Sept 17. —(UP)— Americans boosted their total \ annual ihcome from $87,000,090,000 in 1929 to $239,000,000,000 last I yeai;. [ v ? Tjxe figures were contained in a study by the commerce department of national income and production over more than a 20-year \ period. The study also showed that the nation increased its gross national production from $104,000,000,000 in 1929 to $283,000,000,0000 last year. The department said part of the increase was due to the • gradual increase - of manpower resources. J;■/• ' ’ . : :■-! V ' ’

' t —r— —. Northeast Indiana Nurses Meet Tuesday -Fort Wayne, Ind,, Sept. 17. — (fp)— Some 300 \ northeastern , Indiana nursed meet here tomorrow for a ■ disaster preparedness aHd casualty prevention conference with stress on what nurses should do if their communities are btitnbed. The Nurses’ Association and Allen CoUnty Civil Defense Council \ will sponsor the confer- ™ 4 ' Authorities Check Copeland's Story Ip . •.' I ' Story Os Brooklyn Man Being Checked City, county, and federal police officials are trying today to piece together the story of John Copelahd. SO, of Brooklyn, N. Y„ who shortly before noon Saturday gave himself up to sheriff Bob Shratdka and deputy Jim Cochran. Copeland told the officers he was wanted in Brooklyn for embezzlement of SIO,OOO from* a clothing firm. He said he had cashed a check of the firm’s for that amount January 26, and since then had visions of being wanted by New York police. Polled here are cooperating with federal bureau of investigation officers to pinpoint certain facts of Copeland’s story. / |3ome of it checks. The rest of It.- needs further investigation by .police. According to testimony, which Was obtained by sheriff Shraluka, deputy Cochran and Decatur police chief James Borders Saturday, Copeland recently worked at th& Irene Byroff sanitarium near Foil Wayne. The . forepart of last week, he tald officers, Copeland left? the inditution with- a considerable quantity of narcotics secqeted in a tan-striped suitcase which he claims was lost in Decatur. numben of witnesses, however, told police during the investigation they remembered seeing; Copeland, but did not see any suitcase. . \ « Irene Byron officials notified local authorities that such a quantity of narcotics was not believed piUsing but that a lyge amount of Sleeping, pills were. An invenlory, though, would be necessary before a final answer could be obtained. ■ >dopeland’s story to police traveled from New York to the sohth, I ta; : Indiana, until Saturday when he. gave himself up to the authorities here. '“Enough of his story checks,” said sheriff Shralukd, “to warrant 8 complete investigation. Some of the stuff he tells, though, just doesn’t add up.” • \ The slim, not-too-tall, . blonde man remembered spending much of Übe\ money, but today he is without funds. He told of buying 1 property and stock and a truck for J a small farm in Virginia; and mufeh* was invested tn. narcotics. He told of other places, other pedple and other things; all of Which is being checked thoroughly by city, county and’ federal authorities. ■ r- '■

■ _ ■_ - - ■ - Meets With Leaders In z Korea; Ready To Resume Cease-Fire Negotiations

Legislative Leaders Meet With Governor Welfare Problem Is Studied At Parley Indianapolis, Sept. 17 —-(UP)— Democratic and Republican legislative leaders -met with Governor Schricker today to hear what he has to say about Indiana’s publid welfare problem. Schricker,'. uncommunicative since a federal judge ruled the U. S. had a right to take $20,090,000 a year in funds from Hoosiers because of a new anti-secrecy law involving welfare rolls, called the leaders into conference shortIv after 11 a. m. CST. During the first 45 minutes, the state welfare board had the floor and members explained in detail what effect the federal fund withdrawal would have the next few months. \ \ Most of the conferees declined comment as tiiey entered the governor’s office. A few said they’d let the governor do the talking. The threat of a special session of the legislature* which finished its 61-day biennial regular session only six months ago and passed the bill opening welfare records for public inspection, hung over the statehouse. Some observers believed SchNcker would tell the leaders a special session wag the only way out of the financial plight enforced by federal security administrator Oscar Ewing’s action. They expected hfm to ask the GOP majority to confine its work to tbe welfare question if he calls a special session. Technically, a special session may last 40 days and need not be confined to any subject \ Some Republicans have said they might “embarrass” Schricker with a long session, wide-open to all , kinds of bills and extending the full 49-day limit. BULLETIN Washington, Sept. 17.—(UP) —The senate judiciary committee sided with Sen. Paul H. Douglas, D., 111., today in his controversy with President Truman, and rejected two Illinois federal judgeship nominations which Douglas apposes. Mrs. Hu Ida Crist Dies Sunday Night Funeral Services |* To Be Wednesday Mrs, Hulda Jane Everhart-Crist, 75, a lifelong resident of Adams cobnty, died at a Fort Wayne hospital at 7:45 o’clock SundayXveniing following an illness of six weeks of complications. She was born in Adams county Sept. 7. 1®76, a daughter of David and Frances Everhart. .Her husband, John Crist, died in She had resided in Monroe for the past 52 years. > . 1 , She was a member of the Monroe Methodist church, the Royal Neighbors and the Adams county economics chorus. Surviving are two sons, Raymond E. Crist and A. D. Crist, both of Monroe: one sister, Mrs. Creo Meyers of Fort Wayne; six grandchildren; one great-grand-child, and a'brother, Ab Everhart of Monroe, i A grandson, Kermit Urist, is serving with the U. S. navy in Japan. One brother is deceased. \ Funeral services will be conducted at 2 Wednesday at the home and at 2:39 o’clock at the Monroe Methodist church, the Rev. W. L. Hall officiating. Burial will be iri Pleasant Dale cemetery. The, body will be removed from the Lobenstein funeral home to the residence, where friends may call aftef 7 o’clock this evening. . L

Eisenhower In Plea For More Armed Forces \ Asks Atlantic Pact Nations To Provide Additional Forces Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 17.—(UP) — Gen., Dwight D. Eisenhower asked the Atlantic pdtt nations'today for more allied air, lancf and sea forces in a secret report marked for urgent attention. \ Eisenhower’s report to the 12nation North Atlantic treaty council was understood to urge special efforts by the pact powers to pro- . vide more first line armed forces had been contemplated for reserve forces [i that criuld join to meet any Red . thrust in Europe* ■! 'the day’s agenda for the council also calls for the first address by : Italian premier Alcide De Gasperi,' ( appointmept Vof committees to I broaden 1 western n<Jn-military cot operation and first mrives to disI cuss admission of Greece and Turkey to the non-Communist alliance. „ American urging the admission bt the two new members, . expressed confidence that the 12 ( nations would agree unanimously to recommend membership bf Greece and Turkey before tbe conference ends Thursday night. Ttje supreme commander’s bid for faster action is part of an overall military picture of European defenses drafted >, by an American-Briilsh-French military group. The speed-up will be discussed although final action is to be taken’ at the next council meeting in Rome, Oct. (Turn To Pace Eight) ■ —:' ' Rev. Franklin Norris Hurt In Plane Crash • Word was received here today; by tho family of the Rev. Frariklin Norris, of Wren, 0., that he was “seriously” injured when hisl private plane crashed near Free-1 port, 111. A first cousin of "the Rev. Lawrence Norris, pastor of ’ the pnion Chapel United Brethren j church, Rev. Norris was scheduled | to preach tonight at the ;Van Wertj County fairgrounds, at the begin-1 ning of an evangelistic campaign. ’ The minister was returning to this region when he plane crash occured. Rev. Norris was flying his private Cub plane, arid no details of the crash were available here., The Rev. Lawrence Norris is driving Mrs. Franklin Norris to Freeport today; she is employed at the Adams county memorial hospital. Mrs. Edna Newport Dies Last Evening Funeral Services To - Be Held Wednesday Mrs. Edna Frances Newport, 56, of 916 West Indiana street, died at 5 o’clock Sunday evenirig at the Adams county memorial hospital of an embolism after an illness of three weeks. ” She was born in lowa Dec. 31, 1894, a daughter W Mr* and Mrs. A. L. Stevenson, and was married to Ed Newport in 1939. ? She was a member of the Trinity Evangelical U n ilt e d Brethren tehurch. Surviving in addition to the husband are two daughters, Mrs. thy Mood of Columbus, 0., and Mrs. Genevieve Peterpon of Peoria, 111.1 Funeral services will be held at 1:39 p.m. Wednesday at the Black furieral home and at 2 o’clock at Trinity church, the Rev. John E. Chambers officiating* Burial will be in the Ray cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Tuesday. / > /

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—f — Gen. Ridgway Again Rejects Charges Os • [ UN Violations Os Kaesong Truce Area Tokyo, Tuesday. Sept. 18. —(UP) ' —den. Matthew f B. Ridgway, supreme United Nations commander, conferred with allied military chieftains in Korea Monday after telling the Conunuiiists that he was ready i to resume cease-fire negotiations. ■ It was announced late last night ( that Ridgway hadi returned at 9:4O« p.m. (6:40 a.m. Monday CST) front Korea. Until then hothing was known publicly here or in Seoul, the South Korean capital, of his . s . ' > ' U Public information officers said the visit was a ■ routine one for conferences with 1 army commanders. ! But it was assumed that Ridgway talked over not only the ceasefife situation but the steadily intensifying, fighting on the--battle front. Four United States divisions and their South Korean allies beat off attacks by thousands of screaming Reds yesterday on parts of a 60- ! mile frOnt. The Peiping radio took a new turn iri its propaganda as Ridgway ’ sent his latest message to the Red high Command. Peiping, voice of the Chinese Communist government. quoted a statement alleged to have been signed Ameri- ’ can prisoners of war repeating the old Communist argument that any j armistice line should be set along , the 38th parallel; border between > South and North Korea. ThCrstatement was addressed to “our buddies on the front.” -On its surface ’ the broadcast seemed to imply that the Communists still look forward to resuming truce negotiations. The supreme ’United Nations commander’s- latest mild but firm message to the Communists did not mention his previous proposal—al- ? ready rejected by the Red commanders —to shift the suspended armistice, conference from Kaesong. Ridgway’s brief, message again rejected all Communist charges of UN violations of Kaesong's neutral zones except the accidental strafing of the area, by a VN night I bomber Sept. 10. 1 It put responsibility for the suspension 'of the armistice talks and the'opportunity to resume them . squarely up to the Communist com--1 manders.-' I At (the same Hine, he made it (Clear that he has. no intention of 1 accepting the Communist demand he acknowledge responsibility for imaginary -UN violations of the Kaesong neutral zone as a price for resumption of the conference. 't Altogether, the Reds have ac- ' (Tara To Fa«e Stic) ■■ r '■., ,■ < ' Nif hols Appointed Hoover's Assiirtant Washington. Sept. 17.—(UP?—\ FBI director J. Edgar Hoover announced, today the promotion of Louis B. Nfehols to the position of assistant,. to the director. A native of Decatur, 111., Nichols has been assistant FBI director since 1941. - He is a graduate of Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Mich., and of the George Washington University law school. He became a special FBI agent on July 30," 1934, and worked in variou| field offices before coming to Washington in November, 1935. ■ • < ■ij. • '■ • ;' ' Sqys Fr£e Nations Now More United Washington, Sept. 17. —(UP) — The free world is more determined than ever to fight Communist aggression, according to the Braokings Institution. > The .private research organization reported that the Korean war at firs’t threatened to ruin united policy? But the war now has brought (he free nations closer together, it said. The institution’s statements were made in. a study Os “th« major problems of United States foreign policy 1951-52.” > : i . ' ■