Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 231, Decatur, Adams County, 1 October 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX, No. 231.

GIA NT S. DODGERS OPEN PLAYOFFSERIES

First Welfare Test In House Won By G.O.P. Bring All Except Eight Party Solons Into Line On Bill Indianapolis, Oct. 1— (UP) — House Republican leaders brought into line all except eight of : their Cn-member delegation today to win the first lower huose test on , the public welfare issue.. in the Indiana legislature's special sespion. - j "The house voted 55 to ;35 to blast out of cOmmitteeone of the GOP “home rule’* bills designed to solve the welfare ’problem without federal aid lost because of the state's new •‘anti-secrecy’’ - law opening . welfare rolls for public inspection. | The bift would establish a fornmla for dividing the cost of welfare while federal aid was lacking. -■ A moment earlier, the RepUb- -? Means and Democrats split strictly on party lines in moving } out of committee another ; of the i ‘’home-rule” bills. It was the first test to determine how many “rebel” Republicans deserted the regulars In the house to back a Democratic com-' promise plan to postpone . effectiveness of the “anti-secrecy” 1«W until 1953. All Democrats xoted with help from eight Republicans* agaipst a “regular” Republican bloc to force the bill r from ■ com-i rutt tea to the Door for further showdown votes.' The eight OOP representatives: who voted with the Democrats ( were Repa. Walter Acker, Evans-: ville; Laurence D. Baker. Kendallville; William P. 4 Blcchler, Cannelton; Ed Haverly, Mitchell; , Robert S. Justice, Logansport; Henry A.- Kreft, Michigan City; Frederick ' Landis, Logansport, and Edward C. Macer, Evansrille.: r '' I A tally of the voting showed the division was 53 to 38, giving the GOP Only two more than the necessary 51 votes. But speaker W. O. Hughes ruled and later reaffirmed that the vote was 55-35. Just after the first showdown, a motion to bring another "home rule” bill out of the same committee was adopted by voice vote and Hughes gave the committee five minutes to meet and send the bills to the house floor f The other bill was to appropriate < $14,500,000 a year from the state general fund to pay the extra cost of welfare without the federal aid. Earlier, the house voted 61 to 50 to reject a minority report of the judiciary “A” committee which recommended indefinite postponement of a bill to abolish the state welfare board and shift its powers to the state finance committee, i’hen they accepted by voice vote the majority report recommending passage; On the surface. It appeared that the Republican majority had regained firm control of the house, where it was reported last week to have lost support of as many as 21 of its 69 members. S J But w spokesman for the “rebel" COP group said the first test was misleading. He said a house rule would stop house action on. all welfare matters if the lawmakers voted to indefinitely postpone one o< them. Thus, he said, the “rebels” could not show their hand in that vote. Affidavits Signed By School Bus Drivers Police authorities today revealed •that they had started the ‘‘crackdown” on motorists who’ pass 1 school stopped to discharge or pick up children. School bus drivers have signed affidavits against three motorists to date, according to prosecutor Severin Schurger and Sheriff Bob Shraluka. Names of the motorists are not to be made public until the reeultant arrests have been made, they said. v INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued mild tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 55-60 north, 1 60-65 south. High Tuesday 80-85. •

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NtWEfAPER IN ADAMO COUNTY ,J I '

BULLETIN Washington, ' Oct. I.—(UP) —The Republican party’s na» tional executive committee gave a unanimous vote of confidence today to GOP chairman Guy George Gabrieison who has been under fire in congress for his dealings with the RFC. Congress Opens Conferences On New Tax Bill Start Is Made On Compromise For Tax Differences* ■ ■ ’ -J T , . . •Washington, Oct. 1. — (UP) — Congress made a start today toward compromising senate-house differences on the muiti-billion-dol-lar military spending bill and hew tay legislation to help pay for it. A joint conference committee began work on the final version of the military bill but chairman Joseph C. O’Mahoney, D., Wyo., said only a few Items were taken up. He said the conferees will meet again tomorrow and that he hopes the measures will be completed this week, d ■ The has approved $59,5Q8,000,000 for the armed forces for the fiscal: year which started last - July 1. That te about $3,500,000,000 more than has been suggested by President Truman or approved by the house. O'Mahoney started the economy breezes blowing yesterday when he said he favors cuts in the military bill to keep federal spending in line with the pending new tax legislation. As expected, the house rejected senate amendments to its tax bill and speaker Sam Rayburn appointed seven house conferees to work out a compromise with the senate. Rayburn bald he hoped tha( wouldn’t tak “too long” to finish the job. < ' ■ : . The senate bill calls fpr a $5,500,000,000 boost ih taxes and the house for a $7,200,000,000 increase. Mr. I Truman has asked for a. $10,000,000.000 tax hike. ’ ( . 1 -* | T- U Beulah Chapel Church \ Is Destroyed By Fire Fire. Sunday completely de-’ etroyeft the one-story Beulah Chapel Methodist church one-half piile south of Preble when an oil stove exploded in the church basement. De<atur and Poe firemen were called to the scene but were unable to extinguish the flames because of insufficient water. All that remains today is the church foundation; everything else, was by flames Sunday. The fire broke out shortly before noon Sunday as a church dinner was being prepared in the basement. No one was Injured as the result of the explosion of the stove which spewed oil over the basement and fed the rapidly advancing flames. Birth Record Set At Local Hospital During September While colleges were getting their football machines, in readiness during September, many of them getting a game -or two under their belts' —■ -Ji While baseball became more hectic than ever during the month, with the National League going into an overtime, and the Yankees winning the American League pennant in the waning moments-*-While summer lingered on but trees begah to change to . their autumn attire during September— A new record I was set at the Adams coubty memorial hospital While September is usually regarded by students throughout the nation as a rude reminder that summer has gone — < I There were 72 babies born in the Adams county memorial hospital. ‘who regarded the world mostly with a scream, which is perhaps ' apt. ! V ■ This number is one more than August, the \ previous high, and three more than the former record, when 69 bablee were born in February. 1948, and March, 1949. The two-month total of 143, for ' September and August, is the greatest number born in two consecutive months. |

r ! » Gen. Bradley And Ridgway As War Front UN Forces Hurling Back Communists By Air, Ground Bth Army Headquartersf Korea. Oct.' 1. —(UP)— United Nations forces hurled back the Communists in the air and on the ground today as Gens. Omar N. Bradley and Mat-< thew Ridgway toured the Korean front- i | [ American jets shot down their 114th Communist jet fighter of the war and damaged three others in plane dogfight high over northwest Korea. The rest of the enemy formation fled north to Manchuria. South Korean grourfd forces at the same time captured the third crest of a hill mass west of “heartbreak ridge” on the east-central front and sent the remnants of ai North Korean battalion fleeing north. ' \ M r The South Koreans won the two western crests of the hill Sunday night. They smashed to the third crest, Monday morning, but were driven )>ack pearly \ 100 yards by the determined Reds.\ The South Koreans charged up the hill again with fixed bayonets and routed the- North Koreans after a bloody hand-to-hand battle. Other South Korean troops farther east captured a hill northwest of “punchbowl valley,” above Inje, agaipst light to moderate enemy resistance. Victory came 24 days after the UN initial atack on the position. : * Bradley, chairman of the ; U.S. joint chiefs of staff, and Ridgway, sHipreme UN comman<f<*f,' atrived by plane at an advance Korean air base from Tokyo at 11:27 a.m. (9:27 p.m. Sunday EST). They apparently spent the night In Korea. The blacknosed Constellation 1 in which they flew to Korea returned to Tokyo Monday night without them. The generals’ visit to the front (Tun T» Pace Six! Gives Open Verdict In Chrisman Death Funeral Services ' Are Held Sunday County coroner Harmon Gillig I today returned an open verdict after | an autopsy was performed Saturday on Osia Chrisman, who was |)urned to death in his home about one mile south of/i Linn Grove Friday. \ ! The autopsy failed to shoyr any evidence of bullet wounds as was suspected by police authorities who investigated the fire, which completely razed the Chrisman home, and the subsequent death. It was revealed that (he autopsy, which was performed in Berne, did reveal the victim's lungs were charred and indicated the man might possibly \ have inhaled fiatneß. ■ < At : first, authorities believed that had been ghot or had committed suicide by using a gun he was known to have had. However, this was not revealed by the autopsy; the gun itself was not found. The open verdict does not establish whether or not the death was accidental or suicidal. \ ’ Funeral services for Chrisman were held Sunday in the Christian Congregational church, Linn Grove. i d • • ‘ ' ■* ! •- Mrs. Helen Strong Dies At Fort Wayne ; Mrs. Helen Marie Strong, ‘ 50, died Sunday afternoon at ’her home in Fort Wayne after a short Illness. Surviving are the hus-> band, the Rev. L. A. Strong, pastor of the Fort Wayne Home Mission; a daughter, Joy Jean, at 'borne; her father. Juliug M. Lindemann of Tocsin: a brother. F.alph Lindemann of Tocsin, and three ssiters, Mrs. Devon Pence of Alma, Mich., Mrs. Herbert Smith of Muncie and Mrs. Robert McAfee of Tocsin. Funeral services have not been completed. The body will be returned to the residence, 361.4 New Haven avenue, at 7 o’clock this evening.

Decatur, Indiana, Mondayl October 1, 1951.

, Truman Meets (hiurch Leaders ’• - 1 ' V J ! ■' IN A SPEECH before the Pilgrimage df American Churchmen in Washington, President Truman saiathat he has made futile attempts to get churchmen of all faiths to lsy aside “petty and insignificant” differences so as to present a nnitedWront against Russia. Here, the Chief Executive is greeted at the meeting by (1. to r.): Dr. Ralph W. Sockman. minister, Christ MethcdisF church, New York Dr.\j. Warren Hastings, minister of tho National City Christian church, and i Dr. Edward H. Pruden. minister. Mrst Baptist church, both in Wastu ington, D. C. ■ Jjv-l ‘

Seek Perpretator Os Injury Report Entire Monmouth Vicinity Aroused Police authorities are contihu- , lug their search for the perpetraV or of the report that a Monmouth youth was either seriously injured in an automobile accident, or wan the victim of foul play. The story aroused the entire Monmouth community . Sunday night *nd cabled Into play t^e’Allen county* sheriffs departvneqfy' the Monroeville town marshal as well as sheriff Bob Shraluka and state trooper Walter Schindler. The report to members of Elbert Huston’s family said that his ca was found abandoned somewhere near the Adams-Allen county line. Further, the , voice in the telephone'said, there was blood in the car. Nothing more specific than that. i Consequently the northern part Adams and 4hb southern part of] Allen counties were combed by Mr. and \ Mrs. William Huston ip one car, neighbors in several others, in addition to the police. Hospitals in Fort Wayne arid Decatur were checked to see if the young \nan had been brought in Police covered the territory foi* several hours. >• Sometime, while the search v/us on, Elbert returned to his home, unaware he was the subject of a vast, intensive search, an|d went io bed. (Sheriff Shraluka trooper Spindler, after returning from Allen county, began tracking down leads to determine the source of the report. < Today two young meij are unsuspect and police were to Question them for their part in thU “prank.” One of the men supposedly admitted he told the story “jhst to create excitement,” while another youth is implicated. « So far, though, police are not (Turn To Pace Five) \ ' ■ : . ~T~ ■ Man Escapes Death In Freak Accident Injured Wfien Box Cars Roll Over Him , Howell Duff, an employe at the Central Soya company, today is recuperating from Injuries sustained when two box cars rolled over him while he lay between the tracks. Duff, an Elevator man at the plant, was atop two boxcars Which were being switched. Holding a lantern in one hand, Duff worked atop the cars which had been unloaded. ' According to the report, Duff set the ladder down, reached for the brake, his glove slipped, and h« fell to the ground. On (he way his face and chest were brimped by the couplings. Still conscious, Duff wiggled his body as the two cars passed over him, thus minimising the injuries. He sustained a broken arm, severe facial lacerations and chest injuries as the result of the accident. ; '■ * 1 j '

Mons Club Meeting Time Is Advanced . Lions club members were reminded by their president, Glen Mauller, that the new starting time will go into effect Tuesday, when thfe club will meet at 6:15 instead of the former 6:so p.m. The Rev. Samuel Emerick, pastor of the First Methodist church and a club member, will be the principal speaker, pointing up the highlights of his recent European trip. Violent Death Toll Umvv (tear WfrmMfi nCTvyvVvl fvvimvnil At Least 15 Killed In Indiana Traffic * By United Press Autumn’s first week-end drew hordes of motorists onto Hoosier highways and many , of them were killed, including two European displaced persons. At least 15 persons died in traffii' mishaps over the weekend, two others were killed in a crash and bne was burned tv death In an explosion. Lullus Hanson, 35, Mt. Etna, la., was killed last night when his truck rammed th©: rear of another (nick which had slowed dowri to let oncoming traffic go through a narroW\ bridge on U. S. 30 west oft Fort Wayne. Injuries suffered when his car ran off Ind. 58 southwest of Columbus were fatal yesterday to Car) Young, 21, Columbus. Aibert Cavolt, 69, Terre, Haute, was Jcifted yesterday when his car sideswiped anpther and overturned on Ind. 517 near Somervill©. A two-car collision on Ind. 2\ yesterday was fatal to Mrs, Stella Szcipchowski, 53, South Bend. v Richard Murdock, 28, Washington. was killed yesterday when two cars collided gs the junction ■of Jnd. 67 and UUfi- 41 near Vincennes. Two Indiahapoli9 from Latvia were killed yesterday when their car collided With a truck t in a city street. They were Edward Ludvigs, _ 52, and Andrejs Spekmanis, 40. A plane crash yesterday was fatal to Elford Klkly, 28, and his wife, Elizabeth, 34, of Auburn, near their home. Charles Sheets. 71, North Vernon. was killed in< a two-car collision on U. S- west Os Versailles Saturday and Mrs. Patricia Elliott, 23. Bloomington, was injured fatally when she fell from a truck. . - Winters, i 23, Peru, was killed Saturday w'hen his car crashed into a tree, along U. S. 31. Barbara Ann Slaybeck, 12, Milan,. died Saturday when her mother’s car collided with another, car on Ind. 101. -Bethel Tayl\>r, 25, EvansVillp. was. killed Saturday when his brother’s car ran off U. S. 41. Ben Decarn, 18, Salem, was killed Saturday when his motorbike and a car collided near Seymour; i Burna sustained when a kerosene stove exploded Saturday were fatal to six-year-old Oracle De Prieat. of Evansville. Two other persons died in traffic accidents earlier Saturday. ' ' ' .;1 ’.x.

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Two Local Churches Hold Celebrations v Special Services Held By Churches Members of the First Methodist and Zion Evangelical and Reformed churches turned out en masse Sunday when both churches began cele* brations, the Methodist its centennial, the Zion its dedication of a new addition. . A Both churches celebrated with the solemn accent on future growth. The Methodist church began its as a churifh by Honoring its 50-year Members. The Rev. Samuel Emerick was in charge ot the sermon, “A service of rededication.” •• The haK-century or more mem- ’ bers ot the church included Mrs. , George Flandehs, Henry Heiler, Frank Krick,. Miss Catherine Man- ! gold, Mrs. John T. Myers. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Molta, Fred Mills, Mrs. ’ R. D. Myers, Alva Nichols, Mrs. John Peterson, Mrs. Arthur Suttles I and Mrs. E. N. Wicks. r Later this month former pastors of the church .will speak. Dr. Gerald Jones next Sunday, the pey. B. H. Franklin, October 14, and Dr. Ralph w\ Graham, October 21. Dr. John G. Benson, of IndianaI polls, will be in charge of the eightday "new-ttfe preaching mission” series. The members of the Methodist church have appointed a building committee to plan for the erection of a completely new structure. The Zion Congregation dedicated their ‘ first step” in the church’s building program. \ • The new addition is onh story', but plans are formulated for the addition of another story In the near future, ' ' v : The Rev. William Feller, pastor of the church, was in charge of the morning and afternoon services, and Rev. and Mrs. Feller, held open house in the parsonage until 9 p.m. ■ \ I —\ ' Wisconsin's last Civil War Vet Dies Only Five Known Union Survivors King, Wis., Oct. I.—(UP)— The tfody of Wisconsin’s last Civil war vet tbday will be taken to his home in Cadott, Wis., for a military \ burial. y (Commanders of state veteran organisations wil Iserve as pallbearers at rites tomorrow for Lansing WilcoW, who died at the Grand Army Veteran’s home hospital here Saturday at the age of 105. His fourth wife,. Marie, whom he married when he was 96. was at the Wilcot hoihe in Cadott when be died. ,' The bld soldier was born in what is now Racine county, two years before Wisconsin became a state. He lived in Washington and Kansas before moving back to the state 13 years ago. His diath left only five known survivors of the Union army. \ ' All the remaining five are members of the Grand Army of the Republic, ah organisation of Union vets which once had 409,000 members of the 2,200,4)00 soldiers who wore the blue in 1861-65, .They are James Albert Hard, 110, Rochester, N.Y.; Douglas T. Story, 106, West Los Angeles, Cal.; William A. MaGee, 105, Los Angeles; Albert Woolson, 104, Duluth, Minn., and Israel A- Broadsword, I 104, Samuels, Ida. —a Commissioners In Monthly Session The county commissioners were to receive bids for three months groceries for the Adams county home at their afternoon session today, \and discuds further the federal secondary highway proposal. During -the morning the board approved all claims. I \' v \ t \ f

British Order Evacuation Os Oil Men In Iran I' Evacuation Order For 300 Oil Men 1 Is Sent To Abadan \ 1 Abadan, Iran, Oct. 1. —(Up)-*- • The evacuation by warship of the 1 last British oil men in Iran was 1 ordered today. ’ The 300 Britons,' who. had rebelled against London orders to ! “stand firm” against Iran’s ultima, ? turn to get out by Thursday, will be taken out Wednesday under protec- ’ tibn of the Royal navy. They prob- • ably will leave on 'the cruiser • Mauritius, which has been standing ■ off Abadan tor several weeks, the 1 Anglo-Iranian Oil company sais. Alec C. Mason, assistant general • manager of the ( AIOC, made the 5 evacuation announcement after the oil men protested\ London’s orders 1 and said they would rather leave 1 voluntarily than become “political • pawns” in the Anglo-Iraniah crisis. 1 The oil men told the AIOC management they were certain Iran ‘ would carry but the threat th expel ■ them from this southern oil center Thursday. - In London, the British foreign 1 office confirmed that an evacuation ’ order had been sent to Abadan but 1 said the government still intended ? to “restore the position” at the rer finery there. The government ap- ‘ patently still hoped the evacuation could be forestalled. • “Recourse by his majesty’s gov- ? ernment to the security council in s the Persian oil dispute is intended among other things to restore the position at Abadan.” a foreign of--5 floe statefienj said. • | The company,: on urgent advice 1 from the British foreign office, had - asked the men to hold out until the last possible moment before evao uating. Plans to begin a voluntary evacuation yesterday were cancelled. ... Britain has j asked the security council to seek cancellation of the expulsion order against the technicians and to demand that Iran hold up nationalization, of the Britishowned Anglo-Iranian Oil company «in compliance with a world court irequest. In Tehran, the Iranian capital, ( U.S. ambassador Loy Henderson had a long talk today with premier Mohammed Mossadegh, who is prei paring to lead an Iranian delegation to the security council. Mossadegh has let Jt be knoWm . that he is ready to leave by plane . for New York if and when the council decides it is competent to act . on Britain’s complaint. .Mossadegh Contends that the oil nationaliza\To Pace *»»> Man Is Sought As Slayer Os Ex-Wife Fort Wayne Worker Sought For Killing Fort Wayne, Ind., Oct. I—(UP1 —(UP) — Donald Rogers;, 30, a steelworker, . was sought today tor questioning in the gun slaying of hiA former wife, Rachel, 30, whose body was found Saturday by the couple's seven-year-old son. Phillip Rogers found "the body of his mother in the, basement of her home, three wounds in her chest and head. Detective Sgt. Alfred Hoevel s£.id Rogers was known to be the last' person to see her alive and was seen leaving the death house only a few minutes before the body was discovered. ~ \ Dr. H. Paul Miller, Allen county corner, issued a murder warrant for Rogers and authorities learned he was seen at Logansport in a rented auto shortly after the body was found. The couple was divorced about' two years ago.

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jy ‘-I .I ■ ’«- - • .; ■ ' •' ?. 1 -<» Hearn And Branca Opposing Pitchers In First Game Os Series At Brooklyn BULLETIN New York, Oct. I.—The New York Giants defeated the. Brooklyn Dodgers, 3-1, in the first game of the best of three playoff series for the National league pennant at Ebbets Field today. New York, Oct. I.—(UP) — The New York Giants, striving to climax the greatest uphill fightA in baseball history, sent Jim Hearn, a big righthander, out against 1 Ralph Branca today as they met the' Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets 1 field in the first of a three-game playoff series for the National league pennant. Hearn, with a season’s record of ’ 16 victories against nine defeats, ■ was going with six full days’ rest. Branca, a 13-game winner, and, 1 like Hearn, a > righthander, was a ’ desperate selection on the part of ! manager Chuck Dressen of the 1 Dodgers. His hurling staff was all ! but depleted yesterday when the 1 Dodgers staged a gallant uphill • fight to beat the Phillies, 9-8. the strength of a 14th inning ho I J run by Jackie Robinson. The second game in the serie r , determine the opponent for American league champion I. , 1 York Yankees in the world ser I. 1 opening at Yankee Stadium That I ■ day, will be played at the Pol 1 grounds tomorrow. If a third i! I necessary it will be played at the I -Polo grounds on Wednesday. 1 A play-by-play description fol- " lows: < . • V First Inning J Giants —Stanky fouled to Cox. • Dark flied to Snider. Mueller bounced out to Hodges, unassisted. ' Dodgers— bounced to Hearn, who tossed him out at first. Reese singled to left. Snider flied deep to Mays. Reese was out stealing, Westrum to Stanky. No runs, one hit, no errors, none left. Second inning - Giants —Irvin flied to Eurillo. Lockman popped to Reese in short center. Thomson fouled to oCx. Dodgers—i-Robinsdn flied to Mays. Campanella bounced out to Thomson. Pafko hit a home run into , the lower left field stand. Hodges popped to Thomson. One run, one hit, no errors, none left Third Inning Giants —Mays walked. Westrum i popped to Hodges. Hearn bunted foul on a third strike and was automatically out. Stanky lined single to lef(, Mays holding up at second. Dark fouled to Campanella. Np runs, one hit, no errors, two left. Dodgers—Cox flied to Irvin. >. Branca bounced out to Thomson. Furiilo lined to Thomson. Fourth Inning Giants—-Mueller flied to Snider in deep right Centerfield. Irvin was hit by a pitched ball. Lockman flied deep to Snider. Thomson hit a home run deep in \ the lower left field stand. Mays popped to Reese. Two runs, one hit, po errors, none left.. Dodgers—'Reese bounced out to Dark. Snider's drive bounced off Stanky’s glove. for a single into right field. On the hit and run, \ Robinson singled down the right ' field line, Snider going to third. Campanella hit into a double play. Dark to Stanky to Lockman. \,No runs, two hits, ho errors, one left. Fifth Inning Giants — Westrum struck out. Hearn fouled to Campanella. Stanky singled to left. Dark flied to Pafko. No runs, one hit, nO errors,- one left. •- : ' Dodgers—Pafko reached first when Dark fumbled his grounder. Hodges struck out on a 3-2 pitch, and Pafko was doubled up trying to steal Becofldi Westrum to Stanky. Cox singled to left center. Branca ' was called out on strikes. No runs, one hit, one error, one. left. Sixth Inning Glints-— Mueller lined to Snider in left center, Irvin also flied deep to Snider. In .left center. Lockman singled to left Thomson walked. Mays struck out, swinging. No (Tun Tu !***•