Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 4 February 1952 — Page 1

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Ex-Secretary Harold Ickes Dies Sunday Former Secretary Os Interior Dies At Capital Sunday Washington. Feh. 4. — (UP)— Harold L. Ickes received in death today what he never asked and seldom got in tite —a lot of kind words. v > ■ The “Old Curmudgeon,” who was secretary of the interior for 13 years, died last night (at 5:25 p.m. '(’ST)’in Emergency hospital. He • hacfr heen suffering from arthritis for months, and his 77-year-old heart finely gave out. « President Truman, who once felt the lash of Ickes* sharp tongue, was one of the first to t pay tribute to the outspoken New Dealer who was known, in admiration rather than irony, as “honest" Harold.” ‘‘Although he was often irascible and could be intolerant of the opinions of others," Mr, Truman said, “his sharpest critics never doubted his integrity... he was a true patriot and a many-sided citizen whose passing leaves a void in our national life not easily filled” \ There were many similar eulogies, for Ickes had a knack of making admirers out of the enemies he cultivated assiduously throughout his stormy career. Funeral services will be held in AH Souls Unitarian church here at 1:30 p.m, CST Wednesday. The Rev. Palfrey Perkins, minister of Kings Chapel in, Boston, will conduct the rites, and burial will follow at the Sandy Springs, Md., cemetery near Ickes’ Srm. The list of 32 pallbearers was itself a graphic testimonial to the extraordinary diversity of the “Old Curmudgeon’s”, friendships. It brought together former vice president Henry A. Wallace and Sen. Robert A. Taft; columnists Waiter Lippman and Drew Pearson; supreme court justices Hugo L. Blackband Robert L. Jackson; td name only a few, \ Hi% wife,. Mrs. Jane Dahlman Ickes, and his physician, Dr. /Stephen N. Jones, were at his bedside when the end came last night. Ickes also is survived' by a son by his second wife, .Harold McEwen, 12, and a daughter, Elizabeth. 10., , Raymond W. Ickes, a son of / J Ickes by his first wife, the late Anna Wilmar Ickes, who died hi 1935, is an attorney* in San Francisco. c In his 13 years in the post of Secretary of interior, a tenure exceeding that of any other man in that job—lckes was brEsh, noisy, capable—qualities that infuriated his enemies and prompted Ickes to dub himself the “Old Curmudg-. eon.” - . He was born in Blair county. Pa., on March 15, 1574. At the age of 16, he moved t& Chicago, where he went to high school, worked his way through the University of Chicago and became a newspaperman, writing first sports and later politics. In 1907, he became an attorney, and he was active in the practice of law in Chicago until his appointment \by then President Roosevelt to his cabinet’ post in 1933. \ He served as interior secretary until his monumental dispute with fPresident Truman in'l946. The controversy was promted by the president's nomination of California oilman Edwin C. Pauley to be undersecretary of the navy. Ickes, challenging the nomination, said that Pauley, as former Democratic national treasurer, had “advanced the rawest proposition ever made to me” —that $300,000 in campaign funds could be raised if the government would drop its suit for the oil rich Tidelands. ’ At a white house press conference, Mr. Truman said that Ickes might be mistaken. Thb irate . \ (Tara T» Pace , INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and colder tonight, partly cloudy with a few anew flurries extreme north. Tuesday partly cloudy. Lpw Monday night 22 to 28 north, 25 to 32 south. High Tuesday around 40 north, 40 to 45 south. ■ ■ ’ -j' ■ !: •

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Kidnaped American Girl Is Found Safe 18-Year-Old Girl Safe In Germany Frankfurt, Germany, (UP)-A kidnaped American girl was found “iri good condition” today after bein£ molested by an armed solier-hjtch-hiker who abducted herein ;a : i car stolen from Her two GI eisciortis last night. i■•* j ! -'4' fl MP’s and German police fipneid out in a giant manhunt through southwest Germany for an Atherlcan GI reported absent kfitpptt leave from h|s post in this area this morning. The soldier was said to have taken a jeep and a .45 caliber pistol with) him. An MP patrol car found Mamie Shelton, red-haired freckled Stepdaughter of an American toasti r sergeant, shortly after 8 aln^.. s s she was walking along the Toad toward the village sos Bischofsheim, northeast rtf Franl/ur t. She had stayed in the car untyl daybreak and then had det out to walk to the nearest village. | ; The kidnaping took place last night on the highway only a few miles awky. i Miss Sheltoh told MP’s she] wis with her abductor in the caf for about 40 minutes. He moiestjed her . but did not attack her criminally, she said. I , I > The gunman had claimed he escaped a U.S. army prison. American forces radio stations thrpugh(Twin To Pace Kight > | Chairmen Listed For Heart Week National Drive To Open Next Sunday Local chairmen for national heart week, February 10-16; were an l nOunced today. Mrs. R. C. kersh and Mrs, |G. R. Durkin will head the drive in Adams county. Mrs. Durkin a|so is serving as publicity chalrmaiij. Mrs. DeWald Beitler will be the chairman in Berne. Mrp. William Neadstlne will head the >dj?i|e in Monroe and Mrs. Frances jßiery 1 will lead the campaign in Canisters will be placed in Stores and other places frequented bjy the public, where donations toi the , heart cause may be made. I The American heart association points out that 745,000 deaths atlrh' I buted to heart trouble occurred in this country fn the Jatest . figure available. (■ i/| j i The association sponsors medical research In disease of (he heaft and i circulatory diseases; the resets be- , ing given to the world in thei fight against man’s major enemy. I • The study of rheumatic fevjer|; which may lead t<j> rheumatic heart disease, also is one of the tive sponsored by the national association. . j . Public contributions to the cane paign permit this research sb that medical science may cope with the disease that claims untold UV4s djui* ing the year. I ■ ■!J ' £ n -IV 1 L f

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26 Crewmen Os Abandoned Ship Reach Safely Ride Boat Through 4 Pounding Surf To Reach Shore Today n j Ocracoke, N.C., Feb. 4.—(UP)/— Crewmembers, of the motorship Miget, grounded and -breaking up in a howling Atlantic storm, rode a lifeboat through a pounding surf to a safe landing on tiny Portamouth Island near here today. The 26-member crew abandoned the stricken vessel at 2:55 a.m. on orders of skipper Ludolph Von Tangen. of Melford. N.J., after the Coast guard made several futile attempts to,reach the vessel which had been driven aground by a freak storm. < “Coast guard boats couldn’t get out to them because of the rough water,” a coast guard spokesman at Norfolk said in announcing that the crew had reached/safety after Its daring plunge through the surf in an open boat. Von Tangen grive the order: to abandon ship as seas—boiled up by gale force winds —began breaking the back of the Miget. I He estimated the crew rode the life boat from a mile to a mile and a half before hitting thie beach on tiny Portsmouth Island along North Carolina’s outer banks, scene of many a previous ship wreck. i Headquarters of the coast guard at Norfolk said a coast guard search plane from Elizabeth City, NjC., spotted the grounded ship before the order to abandon was given and a crew with portable lifesaving gear landed on the Leeward side of the Island from a picked boat. The coast guard said the lifesavIng crew found the crew of the Miget already ashore when they crossed to the seward side of the island. A larger boat was dispatched to pick up the crewmembers. They were brought to the coast guard lifeboat fetation here exhausted from their ordeal. ( The skipper said water got in the Miget’s fuel, making it impossible to maintain enough steam to keep headway before the ; near hurricane-force winds and \ high spas. He said uqe hjs anchor because he hadn't realized he was so close to the beach. i : ; l 4 ■ . 4 i . Adult Achievement Banquet On March 3 Annual Banquet To Be Held At Berne • The annual adult achievement banquet will be held at the Berne auditorium Monday, March 3, With Vilas Habegger, general chairman, as master of ceremonies. L. E. Archbold, Adams county agricultural agents stated today thpt more awards will be made this year than ever before. Awards will be given in gold medal calf work, ton litter, swine testing, dairy herd improvement association, and fiveacre corn club work. Details of the program will be announced later. Feature of the menu for the bam quet will be chickeq. barbecue. Broilers, barbecued over onen charcoal fire, will be prepared by Gordon Liechty, assisted by Wayne Detwiler, poultry specialist of Purdue University. Martin Habegger, of Monroe township, has been darned ticket chairman for the annual banquet and will be assisted by the following men: Harry Raudenbush, Leland Ripley. Blue Creek township; Alonzo Amith, Loren Heller and Sam Kaehr, French Orville Ault and Ralph Myers, Hartford;* Holman Egly and H. I. Rumple, Jefferson; Homer Arnold and <&len Griffiths, Kirkland; Rolandes Liechty, Harry Lehman, Edison Lehman and Benjamin Mazelin, Monroe; Vern Linker and Ed Reifstick, Preble; August Selking and Winfred Gerke, Root; Carl Frey and Noble Raudenbush, St. Mary’s; Vic Bleeke and Herman Oeimer. Union: Harve tnelchcn and Weldon Neuenschwander, Wabash; Russell Stump. Russell Mitchell and .Ralph Bluhm, Washington. V ! !

— Doctors Battle Measles Epidemic ’ w/J*' ?.• • ' >■' A PATIENT in Roosevelt Hospital, New York. Judith darita.lo, la. prepared for an ihjection of gamma globulin by Nurse Margaret KeM ind and Dr. James Wynn,, Un the past M days, 14,000 such injections* have been given as a flretectton against measles. Records in New York City disclose that the disease has Reached almpat epidemic proportions. There were 3,710 cases in January, 1952, as compared to 282 in the same month in 1961, accerdlligt to health department. — —Hr ■ ■ -—■■■■ ■ - - . :

—, t M-. Commissioners In Monthly Session Heavy Program On For County Board TH Adams county board of | commissioners had a heavy program today and it was doubtful . at noon whether; ■ the complete agenda could hej covered in one s day. Most of th)s morning was consumed in alloWing monthly claims. The board members and cottnty auditor Thgrman Drew adjourned to the Adamsl county home, where they were luncheon guests. Signing of contracts for county employes, including also the county physician, was scheduled for today. It all to Was believed certain that the commissioners would sign a conrtact wjth the stat? livestock sanitary board and federal, bureau of aiima} husbandry for participation of Adams county in the drive to eliminate tuberculosis cmong chttle by inspection and eradication. i A proposed addition of election precincts prior to the May 6 primary electfoi; changes in ? the' structure of the cells at the jail to comply wI th a recent ’ recommendation of segregation of young and old prisoners; a ditch hearing and other routine matters were on the hfternoor schedule today. If the prog'am is not completed the commis doners will return Tuesday to Wind up the month’s session. •. ' 5 - |: \ j - Over Indi Os Rain In Decatur Sunday A drizzling rain that started, early Sunday morning amounted to 1.11 incheu for the 24-hour period ending at 8 aim. today, Herman Meyer, local weather observer, stated. | ; It' rained jail day Sunday. The swollen St. Mary’s, river measured 14.86 feet, about two feet oven flood stage. The stream was rising today and probably will nob crest until late Tuesday. There was only) a trace of rainfall up to 8 a m. Sunday. The drizzle continued this morning, turning into a wet snow at around 10 o’clock. The temperature was 34 degrees at 10:30 a.m. today. ——L .. i...— Mrs; Shirley Haines Is Named Assistant Mrs. Shirley Haines, former assistant to the county Superintendent of schools of Wells county, £4yod C. Lieurance, has been named assistant to Glen B. Custard, recently elected Adams county superintendent of schools; The Appointment/la on a temporary basis and Mrs. Haines started on her duties this morning. She succeeded Mrs. Hansel Foley, who was elected Adams county attend- , ance officer Friday, to replace Albert Coppesa, who resigned. Mrs? Foley started her new duties this morning ip her office on the second floor of the court house. ii ■ ; i . si . i . r ’

t BULLETIN Chicago, Feb. 4. -(UR)- - Secret service agents announced today that they and local police have broken up a ring * of Counterfeiters who peddled more -than 13,000,000 worth of bogus bills In four years. ■ ■ 17 Violent Deaths Recorded In State - First Three Days Os February Take Toll | By United . Press Indiana counted a highway death toll during the first three days of February which was more than onefifth ai large as during the entire ihonth of January. f • At least 14 persons died in traffic and three miscellaneous deaths raised the violent death total go 17. Traffic’accidents claimed 810 lives last month. , Donald Current, 20, Anderson, remained in w critical condition, at Methodist hospital in Indianapolis of injuries suffered in a two-ear collision on Ind. 67 at Oaklandon Friday which claimed five lives. Richard Canterbury, 18, Gene Rains. 19, both of Anderson, and Mrs. fWdy Smith, 51, Marion, were killed outright in the crash. Mrs. Smith's husband, Otis, and Jerry Phillips. 18, Anderson, died later. A two-car collision on Ind. 45, four miles south of Loogootee, late Friday claimed the lives of Frank Morris, 74, and his wife Grace 55, of Loogootee, and Delmar Potts, 57, / Owensboro, Ky. Dorothy Ann Clark, 21, \Linton, was killed Bunday when the car in W|lch she rode left Ind. 48 and struck a tree near Shakamak state ■park! Also killed Sunday was Ar- ; nold M. Smith, 37, Lafayette, in a twogar collision on Ind. 25, two miie» south of his hometown. Reid M. Sarratt, 39, Indianapolis, was tilled Saturday night when his car struck the rear of a wrecker pullipg another car from, a ditch at, the- function of Ind. 13 knd 37, south; pt Elwood. A hit-run accident Saturday claimed the life of Andrew W. Beard, 78, on U.S. 41 near his home south of Evansville. A three-truck collision north of Angola Saturday claimed the life of Richard L, Cantrell, 441, Bloomington, and Hotnbr E. Starbuck, 62, Montpelier, died ih a hospital Saturday of injuries suffered earlier in an accident south of Hartford City. Miscellaneous accidents claimed the lives of three persons. Walter 15, Rome City, died Saturday of a skull fracture sufferedwhen he feu from a hayloft of a barn where he was playing basketball. WttHam Strycker, 52, Mishawaka, was shocked fatally Saturday at Dodge Manufacturing Co. in his hometown, and Rita Weaver, about; 40, Syracuse, was drowned yes ter-, day whea a thin coat of ice gave; way ahe and her husband, Clyde,; 44, Attempted to walk across Syra-* I I ; - I -• ; I

Allied And Communist Truce Negotiators Move ■ — ' ' "''4 _ \ -* i Closer To Korean Truce — ! ’

February term Os Court Opens Today ; Nine-Week Term Is .Opened Here Today The February term of Adams circuit court opened at 9 o’clock .this morning and indications are that nine-week term will be a busy one, Judge Myles F. Parrish sailed criminal docket today and the civ|| docket will be called Tuesday and Wednesday. Prosecutor Severin Schurger was making an Effort to arrange his Schedule so that the case of the land township trustee, indicted several weeks ago by the grand jury, be tried in the February tenq. Tu date’, High has not entered a formal plea but it was understood that his attorneys, Custer and Smith, would be ready some time today to enter the plea and agree on a trial date. ’ j Other criminal cases set for trial in the February term include the slate vs. Enterkins, issuing a fraudulent check, .set for February 25; statd vs - Grubbs - charged with committing a crime while armed, auto theft and grand larceny, set for March 18. |- Another cas? involving the prosecutor and attorney general of Indiana- fa 'th* hwHhF 'stake vs. Collendar to make permanent an injunction restraining the defendant from operating in Indiana 4s a chiropractor. The cause is not a Criminal action but is brought in relation to the state and therefore the prosecutor represents the state. ; Several civil causes already have been set by attorneys and numerous other causes will be scheduled Tuesday and Wednesday. The present term of court will close April 5. • 22 Youths Leave For Physical Examination Contingent Leaves Here This Morning Twenty-two Adams county young men left this morning for Ipdianapo; lis and pre-inductidn physical examinations under selective Service. ° Officials of the Adams county selective service board also announced that 14 young men will report tomorrow for active induction t into the armed forces, and a supplemental call for induction of three youths has been issued for Tuesday, Feb. 19. Members of kodayV contingent were as follows: \ Jdhn frreston / Zehr, Chester Christian Habegger, Dwight Lee Dpiley, Patrick Roger Case, Robert Joseph Dick, Ramon Dee Steffen, Marvin DeWayne Watkins, Cecil Caldlan Macias, Norman Lewis Sheets, Eugene Leonard Meyer, Edmund Walter L. Thieme. Richard Lee Baumgartner, Ralph Eugene Jackson, Charles Wilford Norris; Robert Lee Grogg, Richard Arthur Werling, Norman Lee Haines, - Bruce AjTen Schnepp, Frederick John Eyanson, Kenneth Alvin Doherty, Paul Wayne” Zuercher and Howard Corwin Booher. .In addition, Ollie Truman Mayberry, scheduled for examination today, has been transferred to the jurisdiction of local board 35, Kennett, Mo. Equip City Trucks With Radio System installation of the radio system tot trucks of the Decatur light and pbwer utility is being completed this week. When installed, office personnel will be able to contact utility truck* regardless of where they are located. Broadcasting can be done from the police station or the utility riffles on the firtt floor of the city new system will operate .independently from the police .raolo system. h :

Korean Island Seizure Claimed By Communists Claim Capture Os Island South Os The 38th Parallel ? " ’ ■ ■: Bth Army Headquarter*, Korea, Feb. 4-HUP)—The Communists claimed today to hayd 1 captured a Korean Island south of the 38th parallel. “ * Radio Pyongyang*, the voice of the North ‘ Korean said Red troops seized Yuk-To island south of the Ofigjin peninsula on the west coa|t of Korea \Snnday. ♦ It-said the island hgd been a refuge for South Korean troops driven from the pemnsula by Communists troops. The broadcast marked the first time that the ; Communists have claimed t$ havg captured an island south of the 3gth parallel. However, they previously had reported the capture of several allied-held islands off the northwest cbast of North Korea. j The Ongjin peninaUla. Which dinaXaouUi at th* Xfuh w«t a the first segment of Booth Korea sofsod by the In their invasion in June 1955. They reoccupied it after Red China’s intervention forced allied armies south of the 38th parallel in December 1950 and January 1951 and Still hold it. The Reds for a time laid claim to five islands off the peninsula in armistice negotiations kt Panmunjom. but last week withdrew their demand. * Meantime, 19 American sabrejets gripped into ' 50 « Communist MIG-15 fighters today and damaged two of them in a dogfight eight miles up ovqr northwest, Korea. A lateV 5 flight/ of sabrejets spotted 60 to 70 more MiG’s, but made no contact. Credited with damaging ! the enemy jets were 51st interceptor wing pilots Ist Lt. Anthony Kulengosky of Cptawissa, Penn., and Ist Lt. Ivan C. Kincheloo of Cassopolis, Mich. Fighter-bombers cut Communist rails lines in 90 peaces and destroyed or damaged a road / ( (Tera Te Page Five) \ 'Dixie Scandals' To ::r ' A . . i ’ ' \ Be Given Two Nights Dress Rehearsal To Be Held Tonight A Complete dress rehearsal for the “Dixie Scandals,” home talent minstrel to be presented here by the Decatur Lions, will be held at 1 o’clock this evening at the high schobl. AU members of the production are requested to be present for this rehearsal. Highlights of the minstrel will be aired over radio station WOWO, Fort Wayne, at 10 o’clock tonight by Glen Mauller, president of the j Lions club. MauHer will be a guest on Ron Miller’s program. | “fcixie Scandals” Will be presented Wednesday and Thursday nights at 8:15 o’clock at the high school auditorium. *■ L E. AnspaUgh, Chairman of ticket sales, reports | a brisk sale of the tickets, and urges persons planning to attend jo obtain their tickets early as a sellout for both nights appears . This same production drew capacity crowds at Celina, 0.4' a few weeks ago. . - J ’ 1 President Mauller today asked all Lions club members to make a report of their ticket sales at the weekly meeting of the club Tuesday evening at 6:ls o’clock at the K. of P. home. . I 1 . r-.'

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Reports Delegates Near Agreement On Prisoner Exchange; "|i Says Talks Pleasant j Panmunjam. Korea, I Feh. 4 (UP) — Allied and Communist truce negotiators have “moved, closer to an armistice . . . within, the foreseeable future” in the last few days, the che(f United Nations command spokesman said tonight. The chief U. N. truce negotiator on war prisoners meanwhile, / that Monday’s meeting on that 1 issue was “onp of the pleasantest i we ever had." ? \ ■ 1 iU Monday’s talks the\ truce delegates neared final agreement ’ on an exchange of war prisoners. I They also arranged a plenary > session of the full truce delega- ■ tions set IQ a. m. Wednesday I - p. m. Tuesday OST) to start dls-\ cussion of the final item on. the ■ armistice program -4- recommendai tions to be made to the belligerent ’ governments for . a final peace. settlement. The atmosphere in the negetla--1 tions, Monday’s talks showed, has been moving toward improvement’ - since last week. . "We have' moved closer to an armistice in the Mat few days,” ; chief allied spokesman Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols said late Mon* 1 day night. z ' 1 “The.tact that the Communists t agreed to initial talks on item • five is indicative of the; fact that • they want an armistice within the • foreseeable future.” 1 This statement, the most optim- - istic by a U. N. spokesman ip rel cent weeks, was accompanied by the statement of Rear Adm. Ruth- > ven E. Libby, chief negotiator on 1. prisoners, that the session on war - prisoners was one of the most pleasant of the entire series. Nuckols warned that the “main • major points of dispute are still . in major disagreement” and that new ones are bound to pop up, especially as regards the fifth arid last item; on recommendations so governments. The, Communists i are expected to insist on this poiht that all foreign troops be with* ; drawn from Korea at once. _ , There was a sunburst of developments Monday Including: 1— The negotiators peached general agreement on a parole clause binding released prisoners never to fight in the Korean war/again. 2- was agreement that sick 'hnd wounded prisoners be given priority in exchange. j '3—-The U. N. proposed thrift* the “target” for exchange of prlsoners be extended from to 90 \ days because of the large number | of Communist prisoners involved. The Communists promiselto return all allied prisoners within 30 days. 4 — There was general agreement that other sites in addition to Panmunjom may be selected as exchange points for prisoners :Is • necessary. 5— There was agreement to Exchange data on prisoners who have died In captivity. 6 — The negotiators agreed that Red Cross workers of both sides ►-1 may aid and visit prisoners. / , 7—Both sides that” civilI lans should be assisted to return 1 to their former homes. The Reds I (Tara Te Pace Ki*ht) Citizens Telephone Hearing On Today/ I Charles D. Ehlnger, president, Apthqr E. Voglewede, secretary of the Citizens Telephone cotnpahy, , and Robert Anderson, attorney, are in Indianapolis today to attend the ' hearing before the Indiana public J service commissteri, on rates grid charges petitioned for by the local utility. The hearing is being held at the \ state house. Citizens Telephone company petitioned the BSC to make an audit and appraisal of 1 the local utility and fix rates ac- ' cordlngly. As far as known no ob- ' jectlons were filed against an ad- - justments of these rates and > charges, the increase, if any, to be fixed by the PSC. / '■ ' ■’ ‘ J: