Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 14 January 1952 — Page 1

Vol; L No. 11.

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Truce Talks Nearly Break Up In Row Meeting Abruptly - Adjourns, Reds Hurl Lie Charge Panhunjom, Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 115.— (UP)—Korean ceasefire negotiations nearly broke up Monday in an angry exchange of accusations by the United Nations, and (gjmmunist truce teams. TheS Allies abruptly adjourned a subcommittee on the exchange of war pilsoners when the Reds accusedjthe U.N. command delegation s os lying. The|Reds alleged, at a subcom- ' mittgef on conditions for enforcing an at|nistice, that Allied planes, had flbwn over Mukden, the great military and industrial center of Chinese Manchuria. . TheJjU.N. command, in a special stateri&nt, said the Reds had shown? ho disposition to want a real armistice. v In this statemint, issued at midnight | Monday (9 a.m. Monday CSThl|p.N.\spokesman Lt. Walter J. Elili, U.S. navy, said: "Wehwant an armistice but we can hardly be expected to welcome 'it as j* means for. our tion. If the Communists sincerely want <ian armistice as the first step toward peace, they have succeeded Completely in obscuring the point Ify their determined opposition to: all reasonable safeguards.” The Conference came perilously near a? break when the Reds accused the Allies erf lying. “As t| repersentative of thd“U.N. command, I shall not sit here arid listen to unfounded charges that the U:|i. command is making a deceitful proposal and lying,” Rear Admiral R. E. Libby angrily told this Reds. * He den ie d the Communist charge/ demanded an apology and finally; proposed a recess. r ”Ydti» cannot intimidate Us,” retorted H North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee Cho. But he agreed to the reefess. ( took place in the armistice subcommittee debating an exchange of war prisoners after Libby had contended that the U.N. tPluntary repatriation plan \ contained advantages for both sides.; Jj • „ The -jtruce supervision subcommittee iialso recessed until 11 a.m. Tuesdays after the.feeds strayed from the subject to accuse the sending planes over the - Red Chinese mainland. -\ -Repulse UN Attacks Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Jan. 14—(UP)—Waves of counterattacklhg Chinese smashed a United; Nations attack on “Christmas today, but it cost them at least 100 men. * ; An Bth army spokesman called the ac.tioq the “heaviest and bloodies” of 'the new year despite its small Jjcale. ’ . — The ' Chinese also repulsed a U.N. attack northeast of the cease- • fire conference city of Panmunjom last night and, pursuing, drove the Allies from two advance positions. However, the U.N. troops rallied and retjaptured one of the positions in a cciunter-attack early today. On the other side of Korea, the 45,0(rt>-tpn U.S. ‘battleship Wisconsin blasted Communist east coasst positions in the Kansong-Kosong area with at least 90 tons of its 16-Inch. shells. ■ j e — ' - Close Public Schools For Ross Funeral Decatur high .school and Lincoln school Will qlose at noon Tuesday fur the balance of the day to permit faculty and pupils to attend the funeral of Dale Ross. Regular schedule will be resumed Wednesday morning, superintendent W. Guy Brown announced. 1 -ii 1 \ : .? - ‘ INDIANA WEATHER 5 Mostly cloudy with scattered showers north , portion Monday wight and early 'Tuesday. ; Turning colder Tuesday and near Lake Michigan Monday night. Low tonight 30-40 nortH ( 40-50 south. High Tuesday 3£-4O f north, 40-50 south.

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Spiritual Emphasis Week Closes Sunday Final Meeting Held At School Building r The 1952 spiritual week services, by the Protestant churches of Decatur, closed wlthHhred splendid services Sunday, climaxed by a great audience of 1.400 people in the public high school auditorium last eveh ihg. 7 , * ' A choir of IflO voices assisted Dr. Clyde W. Meadows in the final festival of s|ng, and ait least 50 additional volunteers for the choir could i)ot|be used ijecadse of the lack of Space. Mrk Earl Chase was organ accompanist ahd ,Mrs. Meadows wias at the piano.. Dr. Meadows made his final sermon of the Peek’s service an appeal to each Christian to ble a stronger supporter and more loyal worker in his loml churich. Usin r as his subject, tGod’s Great and Final Invitation”^ the speaker drew on his rich knowledge of ) he scriptures and his experience ! of world travel in making- his final appeal to loyal Christian discipleship. The Rev. A| C. E. Glllajlder, president of the Decatur ministerial association, presided the\ service, with the. Rev. Dwight McCurdy and the Riv.'John E. Chambers leading the devotions. The Reiv. Samuel Emerick, chairman of the committee in charge of the week s services, said. “This .has been a splendid indication of the unity of the? associated chprches of the citj( and since the ministers have Unanimously invlh \lsr. Meadows do return the same week in 1953. there H promise, of even greater united spiritual advances ahead ”? ! ■ Speak* Worker* Approximately >175 officers arid teachers -of Shnday schools from churches cooperating In thb ser v.ces heard Dr J Meadows; speik on the religious educational task of the chprch at a meetinig SUnday afternoon at the Zion Evangelical pnd Reformed church. ' Dr. Meadows bfegan his informal talk by saying that the Sunday school is: an jesadntlal part Os the church’s program because it is the . agency along jwßh prejiching which carries opt the emphasis Jesus made on Reaching .in His great commission to the disciples. Five points foitned the basis bf the speaker’s remarks. They were: Sunday school is the best teaching agency khe church It puts more people to; work than any other R is the church's graded approach to people: It is an ’ agency which reaches across denominational barriers: It is the, agency through svhicW ’’you can get thiqgs done.” ' \ Speak* To Youth Dr. Meadows Addressed nearly (Trim To Eight) William Simpson Is Taken By Death ■■ i ■ ! I j : J . Former Sugar Plant Executive Is Dead i i ; I < Funeral? services for William Simpson, 59; a former superintendent bf the old feolland-St.; Louis Sugay conjpany in this city, will be held sTuemdy morning at iSt. Joseph’s Citholic church in Bay City, Mich. Burjal will be in Bay City. Mr. Sinjpkon’s ‘death occurred Saturday fn a Cincinnati hospital, where he ,had been a patient for ipany months. He suffered a stroke a few yeafs ago and a fatri attack’ Saturday morning, Born in Bay City, Mr. Simpson at- . tended St. John’s school; ant. Michigan Stated University. He was a chemist engineer and became Affiliated with the Alma, Mich., sugar factory. He also studied the process of sugar extraction ip Puerto Rico. He came to Decatdx in 1922 and was Superintendent of the now extinct sugar factory until after the 1928’ beet .sugar-imaking campaign. ■ > • Forseveital years he was nianager of the Hiram Walker Distillery ih Peoria, Ill.' Latefr he becaime associated with Joseph E. Seagram & Sons bf Lawrenceburg and was ap executive with th*t company whep he suffered a strike. Surviving are three brothers!, Andrew, J., and Jerry J., all of Bay City, arid one sister, Mrp. Emma Lepine of Detroit'. Andrevjt Simpson is? general-manager of the Times, Bay? City’s' only daily newspaper, 5 ? , ' I ' A ' 2 A. ' • H ’ ji -i • • >1 > 1-iI

—— ——— „ —1 - .''•.' : ; . I U • Torrential Rains Swamp California " ■'* A r Ml M l Mi f. V 181 w® I LT'"':- Ki " ... : J' ' ' '■ —t.-. ‘ i?' i ..j I RUSHING FLOOD WATERS swepp past evacuated homes at Havls near Brentwood, Cal., after bjtorrbntiat rain siprms poured creek aiaters over gardens and into of many of the Two weeks similar storm flooded the Los Angeles area. •

— • —n "■■■■ -i —“— May Add School Man Al Adams Central i i ■ ' J { . \ Consider Naming Os Administratvie Head i . .•< I- '( ' '■- ■ h j j While under the resolution which caused the consolidation' of three Adams county township school systems into Adams Central, it is mandatory for the county superintendent of schools to be superintendent of the consolidation, it is believed that soon Adams Central will have a school man. duties of superintendent but probably with the title of assistant superintendent. No official action toward this course has been taken, but there is, considerable talk among board members that the action will be necessary# as soon as funds are available for the creation of such art office.. i Because of the; newness of the consolidation, it has been necessary tor the county superintendent to devote much time to that school during the last year and some of the trustees feel that if this is permitted to .continue some of the other township schools might be neglected. It also is known that the late superintendent Hansel Foley spent many hours of night work | add also his 1951 summer vacation working on school business f and both the Adams Central board and trustees have a desire to remedy the overwork of one: man. It is believed likely that some action will .be taken in the next few weeks eoncerning the matter. - - ; ■ ■ Mrs. Mary Ann Raver Dies At Huntington ■\ ; [ Former Local Lady Is Taken By Death !Mrs. Mary Anri Raver, 75, ; a ormer resident of Decatur, died at : 15, p’clock thft morning at the lome of \a son, George E. Raver, hear Huntington. She had been in failing health for three years and serious since suffering a fall Jah. 6. She was born in Van Wert county, O„ Nov. 30, 1876, a daughter of Ellery and Maria Lyons-Merris, and was married in 1896 in Decatur to Isaac Raver, who died 11 years ago. She was a membef of the Church of the Nazarene while a resident.of Decatur. ! i Surviving in addition to the son are a daughter, Mrs. Basil Bowloy of Fort Wayne; five grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren: a halfbrother, John Merris of Van Wert, and four half-sisters, Mrs. icy Crozier of\ Fort Wayne, Mrs. Roy .Grandstaff of MOtamorie, Mich., Mrs. CJiude Arnold of Detroit and Mrs’, Elma Linderman of Lima, O. Funeral services vflfikbe held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Robbing funeral home in Huntington, the Rev. I. F. Youhger-officiating. Burial will be in * Clark’s Chapel cemetery in Adams county. Frierids may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

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I Robert Parrish In Serious Condition Robert Parrish, of 1716 West Madison street, severely irijured Friday afternoon near Fort Wayne when the automobile he was driving went out of control, remained in j serious condition today at the Lutheran hospital.- The attending t physician stated that the extent > of i his injuries had not been fully ( determined late today, but some . hoiep is held for his recovery. ( | Funeral services were held this j afternoon for Ernest Gainbay, IM- . year-old Decatur youth who was t killed in the crash. The body will j be taken to Langdon, N1 D., for , burial. - !' -'.I :» ’ i ——r , Delays Taking Over > 1 ' ■ ■ I ' ! As School Leader I' I I •- . ■ i No Principal Named i At Pleasant Mills y i ■ ,i ~ ~ Glen Custard, former Pleasant ; Mills high school principal, delayed [ another day In assuming the office! ’ of pounty superintendent of schools, j to which tie was elected Saturday , by the Adams county board of edu- . cation to fill the vacancy created by .the death of Hansel Foley. The delay was brought about be- ! caijse a successor to the principal ’ ship has not yet been named. Two applicants were to be interviewed ‘ today by biimrod McCullough, St. Mary’s township trustee, and it 1 was beiieved highly likely that superintendent Custard would be ; in his new office Tuesday. , ! The former Pleasant Mills princi- '■ pal spent most of today completing • reports in his former office and making ready for his successor. Mrs. Hansel Foley, wife of the late superintendent was in charge of ’ the county office today. Superintendent Custard was serving his first year as principal of Pleasant Mills high school, having come here from Wells county; The Custards reside on Rugg street in Custard was named to the Superintendent’s office Saturday morning by the 12 township trustees sitting as a board of education. There were 10 candidates for the post and ; the new superintendent received; ! seven of the 12 votes on the first ’ ballot. i . ■ ■ -■h r ■ [.— J ; , k w| . ! I : Ross F. Lockridge L J [ Dies Saturday Night * Bloomington, Ind., Jan. 14.— , ' (UP) —Hoosier educators today . ‘ mourned the death of Ross Frank- ] lin Lockridge, 74, historian and author who died Saturday night of J a heart ailment. * Founder and director, of the ' Hoosier historical institute, Lockridge died only hours after he was ’ taken to Bloomington hospital. r His son, Ross. Jr., who wrote the bests-selling novel, “Raintree i County," committed suicide several years ago at the height of his t career. . ' Lockridge wus an author is his , owtn right. His latest book, *!story , of Indiana,” was adopted recently I as a text-for eighth grade pupils I i in Indiana public schools. He also I was an authority on Abraham Lincoln. ,

Annual Report Made! By [County Recorder c j j 4,576 Instruments ; Recorded In 1951 • The office qf Adams countv recorder In 1951 received 4.576 insttuirients to make record of, according to the annual report of Miss Rose Nesswald, county recorder. Os : the total there were 1,431 marginal releases; 1,431 chattel mortgages; 401 mortgages and 718 deeds' recorded. The number of dSed<\ recorded usually shows change of ownership in property, and total of 718 reflects the brisk real estate business in the county. Following is a summary of Miss Nesswald’s annual report: Deeds, 718; mortgages, 401; mechanic’s liens, 45;* chattel mortgages, 1,431; releases, 241; assignments, 19; power of attorney, 8; .articles of incorporation, 9; plats, 8. Marginal releases, 1,431; miscellaneous, 223; old age assistance, 23; release of old-age assistance, 2: right of way, 5; honorable discharges, 8; reports of separation, 3; disability pension, !; total, 4,576, . . ' Peters Dismissed As State FHA Director Washington, Jan. 14.—(UP) — The Housing Admlnistration- Saturday announced dismissal of Rj Earl Peters, Indiana state FHA, director. Deputy FHA commissioner Walter L. Green said a mortgage on an apartment house owned by Peters at Fort Wayne was ? insured through the state director’s office. This, the announcement said, is “contrary to the established policy of the administration.” George Bailey, assistant FHA zone commissioner, will be in charge of the Indianapolis office until Peter’s succesor is appointed. Dr. Fremont Fribley Dies Sunday Night Logansprot, Ind, Jan. 14 —(UI-) —Dr. Fremont Frib'.ey, pastor of the Tipton Metho r.st church, collapsed and died in his automobile last night on U. S. 35 as he drove home from a speaki igjhngagewriit tn the Loganso > c Method's! church. Frfbley was supe jctomlnnl of the Fort Wayne district of trie church from 1934 to 1939 and of 'he Kokomo district from 1913 to 1948. He served pastorates in Anderson, Muncie, LaFontaine, Columbia City, Elkhart, Logansport New Castle and Richmond. His son, Robert, is pastor of Central Methodist church at Richmond. ’. i ’ . — - One Auto Accident Reported In County One automobile accident in Adams county was reported Sunday by Sheriff Robert Shraluka. The mishdp occurred on the Wabash river bridge at Linn Grove about noon. Cars driven by Franklin Lybarger, Decatur and Kermit Yoder, Berne, touts one collided. Sheriff Shraluka estimated the damage to the ears to be about 16200. There was no personal injury.

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36 Persons Escape From Plane Crash ■ ■ . . • J 1 { Airliner Lands In j\j River, All Aboard - V ■ i i Reported Rescued ‘>Jew York, Jan...l4.—(VP)— A Nwrtheast Airlines Convair plane came down in the East river a half mile short of LaGuardia field toddy but all 36 persons aboard were rescued by harbor craft. r V' s ■ Five passengers were hospitalized with serious injuries and; 23 others ware treated for mlnof injuries, shock and exposure at flushing and, Queenq general hospitals. The two-engined plane was making its second approach to the field in bad weather wheih was rabidly worsening, it let down in the river directly In line with the southwest runway. Visibility was poor due to .rain and fog. The accident ww ' witnessed by the crews of a commercial tug and of a construction firm’s crash launch. Both craft sped to scehe and -plucked passengers from the water and the wings of the plane. > They were joined quickly by harbor police rescue boats, coast guard crash boats and two coast guard helicopters from Floyd Benhet naval bir station. : Pilot Alva V. Marsh, of Winthrop, Mass., his co-pilot, Austin E. Briggs, of Hanover Center, Mass.) and stewardess Carolyn M. Hull pf (Gloucester, Mass., were last to leave the plane. -‘Miss Hull told police that all passengers had left the plane. “The plane left Boston at 6:53 a.m. (CST) and made its first pass Oyer the field at 8:03 a.m. in contact with the control tower. The pilot.missed the runway and circled to. make another approach. ’The tower's next word came 10 minutes later from the tugboat crew spotted the airliner as itisettled on the water. ' > • 1> ; trucker Found Dead In Decatur Hold ■nl ' 1 ; ■' i ■ 4 ■' > ; ;|j I ... > ■ .’■■■ S Found Dead Sunday After Heart Attack Frank Cunningham, 48 ; Wichita, Kan. truck driver, died Sunday ,morning in his room at the Rice hotel. The body was found by his son, Robert Cunningham, also of who was accompanying his father on a motor truck trip from Pueblp, Colo, to Seneca, N.Y. The Cunninghams had registered into t)ie hotel Saturday and Sunday morning the younger Cunningham reported that he had been unable to awaken his father. Police were notified and a local doctor was summoned. ]| Coroner Harmpn Cillig gave a verdict of “death due to a heart attack.” The exact time of the death was not fixed. > ; 3 J Cunningham was employed by an. trucking concern to delfyer a load of equipment from the Pueblo ordnance plant to Seneca, N.Y. fpr the U,S. army. Another driver will arrive in Decatur today, it was reported, to continue the truck trip to the New York city. The body was removed to the Gillig and poaq funeral home and will be returned today to the Wichita, Kan. home. The son, Robert, will accompany the body to Kansas.

.. . —-yfo 1 r- -r-r ’ i Dies Suddenly i ■- ■ I i ‘ Dale VV. Rosa ■ —-—>—— —i—‘4. ", 1. ' ! ' Dale W. Ross Dies Suddenly Here Saturday Heart Attack Fatal . To Decatur Teacher Saturday Evening ’ "'■ A Dale W. Ross, 4®, popular English Instructor in th|. Decatur high school, died pf a heart attack at f :05 o'clock Saturday evening at his homej 230 South Second street. . Mr. Ross had acted as off dial time keeper for the Adams county high school basketball tourney at the Decatur gym; |s he had for several years, during the afternoon, and appeared health. He and, Mrs. ROss had just started to eat their dyening meal when he was stricken bf ihe fatal attack, dying almost instantly. The Decatur teacher was a g aduate of the Vah>< Wert, 0., t igh school Wittenberg College., at Springfield, 0., arid the Univer dty of Cincinnati. H< had taught in schools at Van VMtt, New Brenen, 0., Milford,, 0., gnd at Pleasant Mills before joihihg the Decatiir high school He wris born di|' Van Wert, 0., Aug. 5, 1906, a of Harry and Idella was married to Miss Neva Brandyberry, a Decs' tur school teacher, June 18, 1931. > Mr. Rose was jai( member of the English Lutberab at s'an Wert, the MasoMc lodge abd Knights Templar ai Van Wert, i.nd the Shrine and I Scottish Rite at Fort Wayne. i £ His wife is thfe (pnly immediate survivor. i Funeral services jyill be conducted at 2:30 o’clockjTuesday afien noon at the First ; church, the Rev. Samuel; offic ating. Thp Scottish Jiite rituaf will be conducted at th^church. Burial will be in the Decatur pemetery. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home, whe-ge friends niay call until 12:30 Winlock Tuesday afternoon, when |t|b body will typ removed to the to lie in state. / J Pallbearers will, be Hugh J. Andrews, W. Guy Brown, Sylvester Everhart, HarryiDadley, Dr, Jan)es Burk and Fredeylci Snyder. Honorary pallbearers will be Cal E. Peterson, Robert Klick, James Bb berson, W. M. fiurftgerdner, C. C. Pumphrey and Alfred Beavers. Hammond Newspaper Backs Walter Helmke Hammond, Ind.; Jan. 14. —(UP) —The primes today boomed Fort Wgynb attorney Walter Helmke, a Republican, for governor of Indiana \ The newspaper, whose publisher, James S. a GOP mejnber of the Indiana |oll road commission, announced for Sen; Robert A. Taft ,(R4b.) for president last week an| Gen. Eisenhower forvice-preshieat. p ■ v . it . ir

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' ;! ! : s Counter-Proposal Made By Senators To Retain Present Collector System Washington, Jan. 14 — (UP) — President Truman sent to congress today his plan 4o take collectors of internal' revenue out of politics, and put them under civil service. Mr. Truman said the plan — which will becoime effective in 60 days Unless rejected by either the house or senatei—will prevent "improper conduct in public service” and protect the governihent from “insidious 'influence peddlers and favor seekers.” -V The president’s plan wotfld< abolish the 64 collectors, who now’ are political appointees, and replace them with up to 25 district commissioners who would bo under civil- service. ; Mr.-fcTruman’C; plan had' hardly reached congress before Sen. Estes Fcfauver (D-Tenn.), and 23 other senators introduced a biil to retain the present system of 64 collec- ' tors Wfat to put them under civil service and bar them from holding 1 outside, jobs. i Other developments as the new session of congress wings into its second week: .■ i Timetable -- Speaker Sam Ray- . turn said after a White House legislative conference that congress “should" cbmpletef Its work before thb national/ political cnoventions in July. / -i, Tidelands — Sen. Tom jConnalb (D-Tex.) asked the senate to force its Interior committee to send to the senate floor the controversial Tidelands oil bi-1. The bill, passed by the, house; hqs been bottled upjn the edmmittee tor almost six months. The measure "would overrule the supreme court and give coastal stat.es title to submersed cii lands. ■ . - McCarthyA-ThC senate elections “ committee postponed ' unfit,' after ‘his week its “sfiowdowii'’ 1 ipeeting on its investiga;tion of Sen. Joseph « R. McCarthy- (R<-Wid.) The post? ponement caused by.’ihe absence of Sen. Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (D-Mo.) Home Rule—The senate began debate on home rule for the district of Columbia—its fiyst order j of business in the new se'-iilon. Senate leaders p’ edict approval - of the measure which is. woe, {if theless controversial items In free*-, d-nt Truman’s evil rigfh|s hrb,rr m. But -it if»« ed opsos ; rom a soptherp contingent ’cd by-Sen. Olin D J.lmston (D-S.C*? Tie bill Would allow Vovek-.s capital residents to elect a city ; (council and crei.c a dlrstrlut mayor appointed bv the president as v.’qJl as a district delegate to congress. Past attempts tb give Washington iaj limited form pf selfgovernment have failed when the bills were > pigeonholed In the house. j ■ J -;A ; ■ } The house won’t break fho legislative ice until tomorrow when | it stahs of a bill providingwt 10 percent coSt-oMiv-Ing pay raise to members of the armed services. The economy bloc may fgiht it because of thp SBOO,- i 000,000-a-year cost. 5 “ j Vatican — President Truman’s j withdrawal of the nomination of G€|n. Mark W. -Cl ark as ambassador to the Vatican failed to bring a congressional truce in the controversy Over resuming diplomatic relations with tte Holy Chair- : man Tom Comally (D-Tex.) ol the senate fore gn relations comm’ttee said he will oppose any nominee for the ambassadorship. Foreign Affairs —The senate foreign relations committee started off its. legislated woyk with a 1 °ecret briefing bn “world affairs” J from secretary of state Dean Ache- . sen. The cominittee Scheduled further meeting^(this * week, on bringing Greece 1 and Turkey into ’he Atlantic pact oh financial aid ♦p India, and a survey of the European stiuation ;bjv( mutual security administrator W Averell Harri- - win. ’ ' i ; r. . ' L. ■I. vh ; ■