Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 225, Decatur, Adams County, 24 September 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. No. 225.

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Plans have been completed for the fbrth'coming v month-long centennial celebration -of the First Methodist church, of this city, which will begin with a “Serviced rededication”~on September 30, and - * will be climaxed with a homacom--1 ing day November 11. \ Committees have been appointed for the celebration, and a full 1 _ schedule of events has been announced. 7 Three former pastors of the church! will be featured during the irionth in special services, assisti \ ing the present pastor, the ilev. Samuel Emerick, recently returned from the Methodist ecumenical conference at Oxford, England. Keynoting the celebration is the quotation of a booklet published by the church for the occasion: ‘‘our past is history: our future the harvest from seeds of service sown today.” \ With- this theme, much reference will be made to the past, to the be; ginning of the Methodist church in Decatur when it was first, located on, the corner of First and Jackson streets, where the Moose Lodge home currently, stands. To the present, where plans are made for future growth, Os the church “for those who will come after us.” ’ ; In JB5l, following a great re; ' vival. the first Methodist church was built in the city under the leadership of the Rev. M. M. Haun. In 1853. the first parsonage was built beside the church: Present Church Built In 1881 The cornerstone of the present sanctuary was laid July 4| 1881. In 189?, the educational unit was added: the present parsonage was built in 1891, under the pastorate of the Rev. G. B. Work. ,>, . Present plans call for the future erection of a new church. A plans, * and construction committee was appointed and authorized “to hire the services of a competent church architeet’’ to “serve our present needs as the needs that some with future growth.” The building fund is presently announced as <35,500. ; Rev. Emerick will deliver the sermon at the September 30 service. then for the next three succeeding Sundays; former pastors wpi be in charge: l Dr. Gerald H. Jones, pastor of the Wayne Street Methodist church. Fort Wayne, will speak October 7: tfye Rev. B. H. Franklin, pastor here from '- 1930-32, and currently pastor of the Broadway Methodist church, Logansport, will preach the Octb- ■ ber 14 service. Dr. Ralph W, Gra- " ham, here from 1937-41, Fill preach October 21. Dr. Graham is pastor of the First Methodist church, Marion.

DECATUR DAIJ.Y DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NCWtPAFKR IN ADAM* COUNTY

' -4—- i. _ « . ■■■■— t Fi om Sunday. October 8, through NoV ;mber 4. Dr: John G. Benson. Christian missloner, Indianapolis, will speak at the “new life preaching Mission” series. ' 50 Year Members ■ The first service of the celebration will also honor the persons of th# congregation - who have been members 50 or more years. Thirteen persons will be so honored at the September 30 services: Mrs, Geo ’ge Flanders, Henry B. Heller, Fra 1k Krick, Miss Catherine Mangolc, Mrs. John T. Myers, Mr. and Mrs Harry Moltz. Fred Mills, Mrs. R. D. Myers, Alva Nichols, Mrs. Joh i Mrs. Arthur Suttles, and. Mrs. E. N. Wicks. Mrs. H|igh Andrews Is chairman of the anniversary planning committee whose are Miss Bdrhlce Nelson. Mrs. Clyde Butler, Miss Anna K. Williams, Miss Etta Mallonge, Mrs* W. P- Robinson, Miss Helen Haubold. Mrs. Elmer Chaste, Fred Busche. : Lowell J. Smith, Luther Schropk, Noah Sblrrock. Chester Da|zelL John Doan, Alva Lawson, ■ and Rev. Emerick. The brochure prepared for the centennial states that Adams county, as far as Methodisni is concerned. Was organized January 23, 1836. 'The Decatur, Methodists are going to take the month of September to reveal the astounding progress that has made—especially during the* last 100 years. ■ And the, congregation and pastor wilt take this event as the opportunity to announce future plans—perhaps for the next 100 years. < ; ■ J ' I. -—. —* -■> G. Remy Bierly J < May Submit Ist Legislative Bill Indianapolis, Sept. 24 —(UP) — The first bill introduced in the Indiana ' legislature during the, special may be a Democratic minority measure to repeal the public welfare “anti-secrecy” law. The house and senate adjoqrne<J toddy after Governor Schricker’s speech until 2 p.m. tomorrow without Accepting any bills. Xhen the house reconvenes, the roll, is called by counties for introduction of bills. Adams county is first on the list. It was reported tnat Rep. _G. Remy Bierly, a Democrat from Decatur (Adams Co.'), will respond on s the first call With a bill to repeal -the act which got Indiana into trouble with the federal security administration. ‘ T■ ' 1

\ s Nine-Day Traffic Toll 40 In State Four Negroes Die In Traffic Crash By United Press Indiana counted a nine-day traffic \ death toll of 40 today in one of the bloodiest periods of'highway slaughter in history. J ] ■ At least 17 died during the twoday week-end alone, including eight in two accidents that claimed spur lives each. They' raised the numi ber of multiple-fatality in nine days to six, in wnlch 19 died. ! \ Four negroes were burned to death last night, when their \ autodived over a 20-foot embankment and burst into flames near Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Millard Melton and Miss Georgia' B. Carter, 44, Evans-' ville, and the latter’s mothec, Mrs. Sarah Carter, 78, Paris, Tenn., were killed Saturday when their car collided with % Southern rail; road freight train near Dale (Sppncer Co.). X The two accident#\raised to three the number of four-fatality wrecks in Indiana in four days. Four persons from Hobart were killed in a collision near Muncie last Thursday. The dead hi the Fort Wayne accident were identified as .Ulysses Dillard, 24: Curtis Turner, 26, and Betty Lee Williams, about 20, all of Fort Wayne, and Betty Murry, 19, Indianapolis. The accident occurred tnree and one-half miles north of Woodburn on the Indiana-Ohio state line road. The car was enroute from Paulding, 0., to Woodburn. It ran off a Tjunction into a deep ditch on the Indiana side of the state line. Two of the dead were unidentified for hours after the accident. Other week-end dead included; Steven Friedman, 2, West Lafay.ette, who ran into the path of.an auto in front of his home. Herbert R. Smith, 26, Montezuma, killed when his car ran off U.S. 36 near Rockville and hit atree. v ■ I ” John Cyphus; 65, Indianapolis, kilfhd when struck by a motorcycle on an Indianapolis street. Virginia Williams. 2, Watervliet, Mich., thrown beneath the wheels of her father’s jeep in a two-car collision at East Chicago. Mrs. Carrie Butcher, 62, Seymour, killed when her car collided With another in U.S. 31 north of (Tara Ta Pace Twa) ;A.i ' i .

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King's Life In Balance After Lung Surgery King In Semi-Coma After Operation H Performed Sunday \BULL E T I N London, Sept. 24. —(UP) — King George has gained strength during the day, his doctors said tonight, London, Sept. 24.—(UP)—KiB$ George, his life in the balance, * dozed in a Beml-coma today. A court' official said it would be at least three days before doctors know if the liipg operation will prove successful. The next three (Jays, it is understood are critical. If the k * n K can survive them, there will be hope fdr hia recovery. The king has been under the influence of opiates ever since he underwent an operation yesterday for removal of part or ail of, one lung and the cutting away of one or more ribs. _ A court official after a consul-, tation at the palace said: “I will be a very unhappy man for the next three days. It will be that long before the doctors can begin to have any real hope, or basis, for concluding ihat their work may be successful.? In addition to the shock of tpe operation, court officials worried over possible complications because, of the chronic arterial condition in his legs. Princes Elizabeth, iieiresis to the throne, kept in close touch with Buckingham Palaee, ready for a possible emergency \ call. \ A Buckingham Palace medical bulletin said the kink spent a restful night after an operation in which part or all of one lung was cut away and also, it waa understood, : one or more ribs. Reports from the silent, anxious* palace said in mid-afternoon that ever since he recovered consciousnes yesterday afternoon the ’ king had been in a semi-comatose state due to the administration of opiates to ease the pain of the desperate operation. ' This morning’s medical bulletin said at 6 a.m. (11 pm. Sunday CST): "The king has had a restful (Turn To Pase Two) Cite Rent Gouging In Atterbury Area | Senate Committee Lashes Conditions z Washington, Sept. 24 —(UPX — A senate subcommittee reported today that it found “many examples of substandard .housing and rent gouging” in the z Camp Atterbury. Ind., area but added. J they were “not as prevalent as in other parts of the cpdntry.” ; However, the senate armed services preparedness subcommittee said in a report touching 15 army, \ navy, marine and air force installations, the Atterbury conditions “are by no means satisfactory.” “Local estimates indicate that rents in the area have risen as much as from 60 to 150 percent sihce June, 1950.” thp report said. “Rent control is in effect ia the Columbus area, , but over half of the rental property does not come under the provisions of the present law because i the properties were either converted the effective date of the law or were not classified as rental prbperty theretofore ... “Ats a result of the housing shortage, families are scattered in sections of Indiana many* miles from camp. Public transportation is not available to all of these towns, and it is necessary for car pools to be organized. The expense of traveling ahd the inconvenience of commuting adds* much to the already existing problems of soldiers. “Worse, than the expense and inconvenience have been the large number of traffic fatalities involving camp personnel. Since reactivation of the camp there have been 43 fatalities in offpost automobile accdients. Os these, 38 have been men commuting long distances to he with their families." The report said ’that despite military inspections? of trailer courts and tourist locations, "numerous cases of Illnesses thought to be attributable to impure water have been brought to the attention! of the medical authorities." ■Concerning off-post housing, the (Turn Tn Pag* Twe)

Schricker Appeals For Patriotic Approach To Welfare Problems As Special Legislative Session Opens i..1 f . ,

UN Balks At Resumption Os Kaesong Talks Site Is Unsuitable ' To UN Because Os Previous Incidents Tokyo. Tuesday, Sept. 25 —(UP)> -Uhited Nations and Communist liaison officers, \sharply divided, meet at 10 a. m. today (7 p. m. Monday CST) in an attempt to get the stalled Korean armistice negotiations resorted. \ .The UN command has balked at resuming- the talks in incidehtriddcu Kaesong on the groupd ■that It is unsuitable because of incessant Red allegations of neutrality violations. At an hour-long meeting in Kbescttjff yesterday UN liaison officers told the Reds that the talks cannot be reopened until they agree to “new conditions, more conducive to progress toward an armistice.” » The Reds, turn, insist on resuming the talks before any new conditions are discussed,At yesterday’s meeting the UN officers give the Reds a memorandum summarizing their commands position. SIX hours itaer. the Reds called a UN liaison officer to the border title between the Kaesong neutral zone' and the UN advance base near Munaan. They gave him a usmorandutn of their own. the nature so which has not been disclosed. Whatever happens at today's meeting, it was indicated that the armistice talks could not be resumed for 24 to 48 hours. Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, the chief, UN truce negotiator, is irk Tokyo. Last night he cancelled plans .for himself and his truce negotiators to return tb Korea in the mornings z The Communist Memorandum on ,?<he talks was handed to Sohlijr Korean Lt. CoJ. Lee Soo Young: at 6 p. m. yesterday (3 a. Ctgj.) Th“ Communist liaison officers demanded at the morning meeting that the armistice talks be resumed in Kaesong at oncje ' without (Tam Te Pace Tw«) Heart Attack Fatal To Frank W. Spade Peterson Resident Dies This Morning Frank W. Spade, 79, well known Pete*raon resident, died suddenly of a heart attack at 8:30 o’clock this morning at his home. He was cutting,corn on. his property when he suffered the fatal attack.. His body was found by his wife. Hb was employed by the Indiana Pipe Line Co. for a number of ' years and was later an employe of the Cloverleaf Creameries here until hte retirepient in 1945. , Bqm in Kirkland township Feb. 13, 1872, he was a son of Jacob and Mary Anp Kiser-Spade,, And was marked to Eva L. Tucker Dec. 24, 1898 j They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1948. He was a member of the Beulah Chapel Methodist church, north of Peterson. Surviving in addition to his wife ajfe five daughters, Mrs. Ida Dilling of Griffith, Mrs. Iva kelly, .Mrs. Gladys Mcßride, Mrs. Jeanette Heller and Mrs. Velma Liechty, all of Decatur: a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Katherine Spade of Fort Wayne; eight grandchildren; six greatope brother, James Spade of Rome City, and two sisters, ’Mr». Jetyite Sweigart of Boulder, Colo., and Mrs. Cora Good of Massillon, O. His only son, Ralph Spade, was killed March 4, 1945, while serving with the U.S. army in Europe- Four brothers and three sifters are also deceased. .Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Frank H Kise officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Fttends may call at the funeral home after 7:30 o’clock this eve ntog. "i ? . i ’’ ■ . ‘ '

Sound Economy To Keep Prices Down • Washington, Sept. 24.—(UP) — Representatives of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States reported cautiously last night that the economy Is sound enough to keep prices down for “(he next six or eight months.” Three chamber spokesman said that defense production will not have as severe an impact on the ( economy as had \ been t predicted. Ciyilian goods, they added, will not disapepar as rapidly as had been forecast. Says Congress May Not Quit By October 1 Senate Democratic Leader Doubts W Work Is Completed Washington, Sept. 24. —(UP)— Senate Democratic leader Ernest W. McFarland said today that congress might not adjourn until “a little after” Oct. 1. . - , McFarland has said several times in recept weeks that Oct.\ 1 is his target date for congress to close up shop and go home until the new session in January. i But when asked at the White House today if his forecast stood., the Arizona Democrat said, “it probably will be a little bit after that.” “We will quit When W« finish this program,” be said: The house is far ahead of the senate, in its work. The senate is bogged down with taxes and proposed changes in the economic controls law. • , Other congressional developments: \ Foreign aid-—House-senate conferees reached a tentative compromise agreement to have President Truman appoint a single administrator to all U.S. foreign aid programs,, The question of administering the program had been the knottiest the conferees were, asked to (solve They were expected to agree quickly on the amount —somewhere between $7,-' 4ea.000.000 and $7,286,000,000. McCarthy—The senate elections cdriimittee failed In a two-hour session to reach agreement on a resolution calling for an investigation of Sen. Joseph R., Wis., to see if he should be expelled from the senate. The committee scheduled Another meeting later today. Lithofold—James B. E. Olson, recently ousted as head of the internal revenue bureau’s New York (Tara Ta Page Two) Clerks Appointed To Register Voters GOP City Chairman \ Names Six Deputies Robert G. Smith, Republican city chairman, today announced the appointment of I six deputy registration clerks. These people have been authorized to register voters to make them eligible for the city election November and they are available at any time. The deputy clerks are: Mrs. Annabelle Heller, 627 Cleveland street, telephone number 3-4429; Mrs. Nlnda Deutsch, 513 S. Fifth street, telephone number, 3-2237; Mrs. LaVelle Death, 846 Mercer Ave., telephone numbers, 3-3957 and 3-3803; Robert Attderson, 239 Stratton Way, telephone numbers 3-4397 and 3-2505; John Doan, 522 Jefferson street, telephone number 3-3452; Robert Smith, 609 Grant street, telephone number 3-3554. Smith stated that any of the clerks will be glad to go to the regsltrant’s home. whenever called or they may come to any of the above addresses. The registration service will be given regardless of political atfiliatibn and there is no charge made for registering a voter;The deadline for registration is pctober 8. ■ . .. - .

Reds Step Up Aggressiveness On War Front Four Americans Are To Retreat After Seizing Hill Bth Army Headquarters. Korea, Sept. 24 — a(UP) —Four Americans blazed their way io the peak of “Heartbreak” hill liorth of Yanggu' today but despite reinforce'ments were forced to surrended it two hours later to an estimated Communist regiment: The four Americans had survived a vicious bayonet and hand grenade battle through the pight to reach the summit Jn the crisis of a bitter 13-day fight for its control. Other members bit their unit were forced to tall back from the peak which controls the rugged surrounding area. J \ At 3 a. m., the exhausted quartet gained the crest. American reinforcements moved up quickly but fiercely resisting Reds drove i all UN troopsi off the peak just before dawn. 1 > Streams of deadly machine gun ( fire, mortar barcages, add small j arms fire punctuated the all-night . clash. ' ■ . ’ - UN troops who failed jto reach the peak from the opposite side > held a position on the slopes after „ digging out Communists with hay t onets and hand • The "Heartbreak” hUI clash came as the Reds turned increasi Ingly aggressive on all sectors of the east-central and eastern s fronts. i Southeast of KumSong, allied troops beat off four sharp enemy jabs from squad to Company strength yesterday. Just to the west of “HeaHbreak” hill, other UN force’s failed after an all-day battle .to conquer' another important crest. They withdrew at 10 p. m. Sunday Under withering enemy fire. Heavy Red reinforcements were reported building up west of Kumwha in the old -iron triangle” area, farther west of I ,“Heartbreak” hill. They used increasingly heavy amounts of small arms, mortar and artillery fire including that (Turn Tn P«je Three) Local Man's Mother Dies At Celina, 0. Mrs. Anna Kessen \ Is Taken By Death Mrs. Anna Kessen, 76, niother of Walter Kessen of this city, died unexpectedly of a heart attack Saturday night in the Gibbons'hospital at Celina, O. She was a member of the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception at Celina, its yromen’s societies, and the American Legion auxiliary, Her husband, Clem Kessen, preceded her in death. Surviving in addition to, the son in Decatur are five other sons, George, Arthur and Norbert, all of Celina, Clarence of Dayton, 0., and Russell ol Bryan, O.; four daughters, Mrs. Viola Froning and Mrs., Dora Buschor, both of Coldwater, 0., Mrs. Bernie Bornholt and Mrs. Marcella Fortkamp, both of Celina; 16 grandchildren; seven greatgrandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Louise Brooks of Crete, 111., and Mrs. Clara Rindler psi Celina, and a brother, Joe Fortsthoff of Dayton, 0. Funeral services will' be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the church in Celina, the Rev. Albert Gerhardstein officiating. Burial will be in the Celina Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the home in Celina after 6 o’clock this evening, INDIANA WEATHER V Cloudy and not much change in temperature tonight and Tuesday. Scattered showers or thunderstorms tonight and over southwest Tuesday. Low tonight 48-56 north, 50-58 south* High Tuesday 60-68 north, 65-72 south.

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~ J j Warns State Faces Financial Disaster If GOP Legislature Flouts Federal Indianapolis, Sept. 24 — (UP)— Governor Schricker appealed to a hostile Indiana legislature today for a “patriotic” .approach to ttye public welfare problem for which It was summoned fnto special session. and warned the* state faced a “disastrous financial calamity.” His face showing the strain of days of worrying over U. S. withdrawal of $20,000,000 a yeir in wel- . fare funds, t|je Democratic gover- ■ nor spoke soberly of What he thinks the state may expect if the Republican legislature flouts federal regulations without find? ing new sources of revenue while” Keeping up the welfare aid level . to 75,000 recipient#. ? I GOP lawmakers acknowledged Schricker’s message With polite , applause, ?then adjourned both s houses uptH 2 p. m. tomorrow for . majority caucuses where strategy ( of the next few days will blossom. State Republican chairman Cale J. Holder immediately termed the . speech "Cleverly political” and , said “the governor is still fighting r for Oscar Ewing.” } Amid indications the session t would 1 last no longer than two weeks, Schricker also warned of j the consequences of a GOP plan I to turn down all federal grants in t , aid as a protest to “bureaucracy.” j'\The governor said he felt is was 3 not his duty, to “direct or even e Suggest how best this welfare r problem can he rksolved.” r . “(But) it is my considered opinion that the Situation* we now face; l ( “transcends utterly the controversial question of the confidential I nature of the welfare rolls,” j Schricker said. ■ j “More important is the basic 1 philosophy of obedience to the r law and'the nature of federal-® r State cooperation.” The new Indiana law opening » welfare rolls for public inspection . caused: federal withdrawal of $20,- . 000,000 a year in U. 8. funds and' . brought the legislature into its . first special session since 1944. Schricker told tlje | lawmakers k that even with federal welfare . aid. the stkte was iri a two-year > period of deficit spending. > “If anticipated welfare costs, r tinder our present law, are to be . paid entirely from state funds,” he Said, “then it is predicted by the budget department that the .general fund balance on June 30,' 1953; ( will have shrunk to less than B2.000.d00; “This would be disastrous, to Bay the least. Only an immediate plan for hew sources of revenue can prevent such a financial calamity. Our people then will be Submitted to double i taxation for ' Welfare purposes.” I > On the eve of his speech, a GOP party advisors committee i recommended that dhe niajorlty bloc make brdad changes in the J state welfare adininistration and' concentrate (he special session on breaking “the held of federal bureaucracy.” | : J ' ' Republicans generally oppose re- , pealing the law. i Schricker warned that not only . the state woiild haxie a serious (inapdikl crisis, but also all the 92 , counties “if they ate; compelled to assume the full 40 percent e* the - welfare load Under the state's I own welfare act.” Obviously referring to GOP talk of “going in other depart- , ments by turning down federal . handouts, Schrciker ,reeled off a list of millions of dollars the state ■ now receives for hospital con- . struction, health,, I education, highways, and flood i control. / . . ■ - • 1 . ■ L Local Man's Sister ; Dies At Fort Wayne 7 r *■ i ■ 1 Mrs. Edith Lauer, Ulster of Wil- ■ liam Pennington of Decatur, died 1 Sunday at her hdn)e in Fort ■ Wayne after an illness of four , months. Other surviVors include her husband, Gustkve Lauer j three daughters and four sisterd. Funeral services wi;l be held st 9 a. m. Wednesday at the G» Cahill funeral home air .at \ • o’clock kt St. Very Rev. Msgr. Ct^R* w dot officiating. 1 the Catholic , Wayne. * > ' c. '’V ; j■ IL- ' rl