Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 9 February 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 34.

SOUTH KOREA DENOUNCES TRUCE LEADERS

One Killed 4s i*T ' •■ Auto Crashes; Into ABC Bus Auto Driver Killed In Crash Near Fort Wayne Last Evening Michael Bate, 103 South Fourth street, a passenger in an ABC bus which left Decatur at 4:50 p. m., escaped injury when a skidding automobile crashed into the bus -- at 5:20 last evening, on U. S. highway 27, four miles south of Fort Wayne. I : Lee Brandenberg, 31, of 524 East Wayne, street, Fort Wayne, an engineer on a .Pennsylvania t allroad switch engine operating n on the Central Soya Company • tracks, and driver of the automobile, was killed in the crash. Doyle Rich, local manager of the ABC station, said he sold four tickets for the Fort Wayne bus trip. lie did not know the passengers, but recalled that Bate was one of them. Fort Wayne ruthorities said there were 18 passengers, one of whom was Lois M?Dermott of Cincinnati; who suffered an injury to her right leg, hut was not hospitalized. Norman Heimbaugh, 30, of Richmond, the bus driver, escaped injury. North and south traffic on the highway was detoured east and west until the wreckage was removed. A relief bus transported the passengers to Fort Bate stated. “I didn’t Bee the car when it first went out of control, but I suddenly noticed its rear end swing into the path of our bhs.” The impact occurred at the north edge of a bridge over Marion creek, near the Hessen Cassel road intersection. Brandenberg was unconscious when lifted from his car and was dead when admitted to the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. Indiana Is Swept By Heavy Windstorm Indianapolis Feels Brunt Os -Windstorm Indianapolis, Feb. 9 — (UP) — Shrill winds with gusts up to 62 miles per hour buffeted Indiana late yesterday, snapping trees and utility poles and smashing chimneys and windows. The high Wfads accompanied a weak cold ffojnt, but the weatherman said It would be warmer by Sunday. Indianapolis felt the brunt of the windstorm. The 62-mile gusts were recorded in late afternoon ■w bile winds averaging, from 46 to 50 miles per hour were reported elsewhere in the state, Msot extensive damage resulted from a fire indirectly caused by the winds. A chimney was blown down at the Samuel Irvin home in ) suburban Maywood, closing the > draft and causing an oh stove to explode. ’ Fire destroyed the four-room home, causing damage estimated at $5,000. Wind; lifted a piece of plywood from a truck in the downtown business district, hurling it into an * L. S. Ayres & Co. department store display window. Police said no one was injured. 1 But Mrs. Helen Bunten, 42, was cut on the wrist and foot by glass broken from windows at Progress' laundry. A giant tree snapped and crashed into the D. W. Mussmna home, and utility poles and street lights were broken throughout the city. Special repair crews were called to fix utility wires torn from - homes. > — INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fajr and warmer tonight and Sunday. Low tonight 25-30 north, 30-35 south. High Sunday 4O~4snorth, 46-50 south. 1 NEW SERIAL STORY “Dead Weight,” a mystery story by Frank Kane, will start In Monday's Issue of the ■ - Dally Democrat. It's a thriller from start to finish and you'll enjoy every chapter of IL

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--— County School Head .. kF I B V Ml Jilll j. : Glen B. Custard, former principal of Pleasant MiHs high schoql, was recently elected to serve (as county superintendent of schools. The new superintendent succeeded the late Hansel Foley. Mr; and Mrs. Custard reside on Rugg street tn Decatur. ' . ■■; ■ 1 " " ■ !»■ |■ ■ ■ New Hampshire’s ; J Deadline Tonight p Delegate Slates Are Filed For Candidates Concord, N. (Y„ Feb. 9—(UP)4The lineup of presidential convention candidates for the March 11 New Hampshire primary underwent last-minute shuffling today as the 8 p. m. filing deadline approached. Supporters of some presidential hopefuls worked to complete full slates of delegate candidates entbred for their champions. j ■' ; Supporters of President Truman, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen. Robert A Taft of Ohio, however, faced the problem of,( trimming their delegate salutes down to size. i /< ; || H.( President Truman picked up three more supporting candidates yesterday to bring his total to( 19 —seven more than the number of New Hampshfre’s delegates to the Democratic national conventionThree Elsenhower delegates withdrew from the Republican 1 race yesterday to drop, his total to 15, and one more was expected to quit before the deadline and pare his supporting slate to 14 — the number of delegates to the GOP national convention. The 19 candidates favoring Taft also were expected to be reduced to 14. | Meanwhile, a movement was underway to file a slate of GOP convention candidates j favoring Sen. Styles Bridges as New Hampshire’s ‘‘favorite son” candidate for the presidential nomination. John P. H. Chandler JrJ of Warner filed favoring the senate (minority leader yesterday, and it was indicated that more would file today. h ; I i •>' j'? Republican supporters of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and former Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota were expected to attempt to enter full delegate slates favoring their champions. ? '! I'l MacArthur has eight ‘ Supporting candidates thus far, but Stasgen, who is entered in the presidential preference section of the priniary against Eisenhower and Taft, lias t.one. On ihe Democratic side, Sen. Estes iKefauver’s backers must enter nix more convention candl(Tvnt Te Six) E ' — ' - • Lincoln Day Dinner 1 Held Last Evening A sell-out crowd attended the annual Lincoln \ day dinner ©nd meeting sponsored by the j\dams county Republican committee at the K. of P. home Friday night Edward Meyers, comptroller of Fort. Wayne, | was the principal speaker and he phid a tribute to Lincoln as one of the greatest Americans. 7*ie speaker wag introI dueed by Robert Smith, Decatur attorney and Republican city; cliajrman. ’■ i I ;' ' J H i Among prominent party leaders attending were congressman Ross Adair and former senator Raymond Willis. J Angola newspaperman. Harry 'Essex, county and fourth dlstrict chairman, also was introduced at ths dinner. .■ ■ i ?■- ■ -ff ( •Ml I iLN ; 111

'Tennis Pay. Final Homage To King George Queen Elizabeth II Pays Final Private f Homage To Father ■ Sandringham, England. Feb. 9— (UP) —Queen Elizabeth II paid what may be her last private homoge to her father, King George VI, today and gave him back to a grieving nation. Even as villagers and royal tenants began'lining up outside little, St. Mary Magadalene church, Elizabeth slipped inside and stood silently with bowed head beside her father's plain wooden coffin. The 25-year-old queen, dressed in black and obviously emotionally and physcially tired, a few minutes later walked slowly back through the yew trees to Sandringham house to take up pressing affairs of state. Then the plain people of Sandringham who knew the king as squire and “guv’nor” began filing past the royal bier. , The king’s body, dressed in his favorite uniform of an admiral of the fleet, lay in a simple oak coffin on trestles before the rails of the gleaming silver altaf. A metal plate \ was inscribed, "Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor: horn 1896; died 1952.” Many of those who entered the churchi were in tears. Some had seen the king out shooting from a jeep only the day before his death early Wednesday. These ftw hundred mourners were only the vanguard of the tens of thousands pf -Britong from peers“lo who wtH pay George VI a final tribute while he Iks in state in great Westminster hall in London next week. The coffin will He in the church until Monday, When it will be placed on a gun carriage and drawn by grenadier guards to Wolferfon station, three miles away, for the journey to London. The Duke of Gloucester, brother of George VI. and the Duke of Elinburgh,] Elizabeth’ s husband, will follow it on foot, as did the four sons of King George V'when his body was carried in procession along the same route 16 years ago. (Tarm To Pore Five) \ • ‘l' ' rtj ,<•••! file Final Report In Shock Estate Estate Total Value More Than $230,000 The final' report of the executrix, Mrs. Butler, in the Arthur Shock estate, has been .filed by the attorneys, DeVoss, Smith and Macklin, and will be disposed of in Adams circuit court March 6. The estate, exclusive of real estate, had a det worth of $171,645.10. Real estate brought the value of the estate to about $230,000; The report shows that under the terms of the will the, Shriners hospital for crippled children, a corporation, will receive $59,033.40 and the Indiana Masonic home will receive $65,033.41. A fund of SIO,OOO also will be left in custody <rf the clerk of Adams circuit court pending an appeal taken by the state of Indiana tp ’ a ruling .involving taxes ; due from the amount because the Shrltiers organization is not an Indiana corporation. \ Judge Myles F. Parrish ruled some time ago in favor of the Shriners organization and the stake appealed to th© appellate court, where the matter now rests. If the higher court upholds Judge Parrish’s ruling, the SIO,OOO will then go to the Shriners organization. ' The report shown also that all other paragraphs of the will have been carried but and beqdests to relatives have been distributed. Administration of the estate, including attorney fees, executrix fees, burial and all other debts totalled $37,578.29. The notice of final settlement appears in today's Dally Democrat. The estate was one ol the largest ever administered in the local courts. The report shows that there were 196 separate items of caah paid in and expenditure© totaled 117 items. J i ■/' "

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Robert Helm Sells Interest In Store Helm Retires From Holthouse-Schulte Robert “Bob” Helm retired to> , day from the Holthouse-Schulte Clothing company, having sold his interest to other members of the corporation. A member of the firm since 1926, Helm took over the interest of hi* father,; Harry Helm, who died in October of that year. ]He wag ( a partner of the late Henry Scbufte. Owners of the business, the oldest clothing firm in the eity, Mrs. Annette Schulte, widow of Fred Schulte, and her two sops, William and Matthew; Clem Kdrtenber and William Lengerich, who purchased a share of Helm’s (stotpk In the corporation. The new part ner has clerked at th© etore fpr several years. Active in business and civic circles in this city for a quarter century. Helm has served several terms as a director; of the Chamber of Commerce. He filled an unejxjpired term of a former officer as president. He has beeh active in street fair promotion and at present is chairman of the concession committee for the 1952 fair, fte was president of the HolthouseSchulte company. ! Mn and Mrs. Helm and son will leave Tuesday for New Port Richey, Florida, where they will spend a few weeks with Heine’s mother, Mrs. Harry Helm, and lite sister, Mrs. Don Bradley. He will not determine hl* future business plans until after his Florida holiday Noon Edition

March Os Dimes Drive In Citv Monday Niaht

Turn on the porch lights at 6 p.m. Monday! \ I For Monday evening a house-t® ► house canvas will be made in De . tur for the March of Dimes to aid ► in the nation’s fight against infan- ; tile paralysis, dread crippling disease. | ‘ Decatur’s Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts will epearhead the March •’ of Dimes drive Monday evening, , calling at every home with canisters to accept contributions to the i Adams county chapter. No amount is tqb small, no i amount too large to give to this battle against the disease which has crippled so many citizens of i the nation. > Os the money collected in the drive,i 50 percent is retained by the Adams county chapter to aid citi--1 sens of the county, young or old, ► who ire stricken with; the disease, ► The other 50 percent goes to the National Foundation, whose funds are used for research in the fight : and to extend aid to sufferers. i .Although Adame county has ! largely escaped the disease in the i past two years, with only a few scattered cases, reported, the local : chapter still has heavy expenses in’ I aiding those stricken during the ► epidemic which stfusk hard In this i county and area in 194*. [ 1 Decatur’s finest young dtisens; the Oirl Scouts and Boy Scouts, I :•' '

!■ . ■ ■• I • ■ ■■■ nil Draft Quotas From 21-Year-Olds Indianapolis, peb. 9 — (UR) — ’ Indiana’s local draft boards were advised ioday bjjr Brig* Gen. Robinton Hitchcock, itate selective service director, to fill the February aid March calls from the 21-year-old age group. Younghr men may be called When thkt gVoup te used, Hitchcock said, bui no on© would be accepted Who was not 20 years old at the timei of induction, except volunteer* |md delinquent registrants. Hor»me4 Scandal Is Growing Daily lltii Illinois Food Inspector Is Fired Chicago. Feb. 9— (UP)—The 11th state foqd inspector was out of a job today aanidl, new charges of bribery, (denials and counter chargee in the ever-widening horsemeat scandal. | *i (State agriculture director Roy fired John Malone, Chicago, lor "laxity" after states attorney Bernatd J. Moran of Rock island county said Malone confessed taking bribes from two Rock Island county 'meat dealers, after an all-night grilling. "Morraa said the -Rock | Island Grand jury will hear the charges against Malone, FJC. Lindskog. operator of the Moline packing company and Sam Karras, operator of the East Moline produce company. Karras and Lindskog have been in warrants charging they bribed a public official. Moran said Lindskog admitted paying a bribe and Malone admit<T«ra Te Pa«* ■»»

—.■i — | . — 'will meet at the Decatur high school gjym at 5:30 o’clock Monday evening. There they #lll be assigned to ‘ certain areas of the city, where . they will be escorted by adults who have volunteered ;as drivers. The fecbuts #lll be returned downtown 1 when they have completed canvassIng their areas, ; fevery home ip Decatur will be „ solicited during the intensive oneevening campaign, but resident* ( are urged to turn on their porch lights by 6 o'dbck to facilitate the work'd the Scputs. Business firm* and organisations who will not be canvassed during ( Monday’s campaign are urged to , mail their contributions to March . of Dimes, Decatur. Likewise any individuals who arenot at home ’ or may be inadvertently missed, in > the housoto-house drive. > A number sos volunteer contribut torts have been received to date. The largest one came from the > Apostolic Christian church, southt west of Decatur. A collection was taken 4n this church recently and I. the donations were divided bei! tween the Adams and Welle coun- > ty chapter. The local chapter re i ceived $125 from this chuheh. A volunteer donation of |SO has ; also been received stem the Pythian , Sisters of Dedatur. ■ ; • 'L ■ 1 ' ?- -1 '

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Chicago Awakened By Gutter Slaying Public Indignation Aroused By Murder Chicago, Feb. 9.—(UP)— The gutter slaying of a fledgling politician today awakened th© crimehardened city of Chicago to a resurgence of gangsterism in its midst. The murder* of Republican Charles Gross, j 56. and two threats of death within 48 hoars triggered a storm of public indignation in this city MKchj normally takes its crime witn its morn Ing, coffee. Gov.,Adlai Stevenson, who rarely invades tire field of Chicago crime, - tie ( destruction of “hoodlum political power.” Mayor Martig H. Kennelly, whitefaced with ragje, stormed that his administration had not “conceded the surrender of Chicago to the Capone mob. ,r Cook county Republican leaders issued a “purge” of some 300 payrollers in the i west side wards—scene of Gross* intended cleanup. Newspapers in stinging frontpage editorials denounced the slaying and called for every phase of local government to stand up on its hind legs and fight. Rewards totaling $25,09» were I offered tor the arrest and conviction of the two gunmen who killed Grose Wednesday In frtmtnff a church as he strolled to a political meeting. The church federation of greater Chicago denounced the political situation which led to the slaying of Gross. “The people of Chicago stand aghast,”(the federation said. Lt was generally considered that tbp' so-called I “west side bloc” figured heavily in the Gross murder and the threats to Republican committeeman Eldwln Koiski and Daniel A,- JCovplli, Jr., the 22-yearl- - sop ofcriminal court judge. Kennelly was furious at the end of the roughest news conference of his political life. He pounded his desk, paled in anger and threatened to make reporters put their questions in writing in the future. He usually is a soljbspoken, mild(frwv rt~> ' E ' Hineranl Admits Attacks On Women ; -■ * Joseph Herwig Is Arrested In Ohio 1 Joseph Herwig, 54, itinerant worker, who spent several months in Decatar and Berne recently, was , arrested at Sidney, O. Friday afternoon by sheriff Robert Shraluka state police officer Ted Bieberetlne, and confessed to police chief James Borders late Friday night to attempting at least three attacks on , women in Adams bounty. * > Two of the alleged attacks oc- > curred in Decatur several weeks t ago and Herwig readily admitted both of them. He said that he had also molested several Amish girls in the south part of the county, before going to Sidney some time ago. ' Authorities believe that the, arrest and confession also clear up a number of (“grabbings” reported to police in recent months. Herwig has served at least one term in an Ohio work-house for molesting girls in that state, he admitted. Sheriff Shraluka stated that the first clue on Herwig was obtained when a motorist called him and 1 told of picking Herwig up at the edge of Decatur and taking him to Willshire- O. In Hie course of the trip. Herwig told the motorist that he was wanted here for assault. Sheriff Shraluka and officer Bieberstine then arranged for Her- . wig to be picked up at Sidney and they interviewed the man there yesterday. He immediately confessed and waived extradition. Herwig, after pleading guilty ift mayor’s court late this morning, was fined SIOO and costs and sentenced to serve 90 days at th© rtate penal farm. .. ,r v 4 -

One Red Plane Downed, Three , 1 H ■’ • More Damaged 10 United Nations Plahes Are Lost To Enemy During Week Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Feb. 9.—(UP)— United Nations airmen; seeking; revenge for tlue lose of 10 planes during Ahe peffiT seven days, probably destroyed one Communist Mig-15, jet fighter aid damaged three more in air battl es today. r. 1 The damage claims were G e first in three days of intermittent air fighting. The “probable” Yriis the first claimed by the U.N. sinse Jan. 25, ■ Only a tew hours earlier, the U.N., command announced that it lost 10 planes during the past week without destroying a single Communist plane. However, only one was lost in combat. Sev »n others [ were downed *by Russia nr built, radar-controlled anti-aircrift guns, an dthe remaining two were victims of mechanical failure. The Communist planes did slot venture within range of ©l|ied antiaircraft guns. American Sabre jets drew thoir first blood in three days in two separate dogfights high over nori hr west Korea. Some 52 Sabres and 80 Mig-15s took part. Allied losses or damage, if any, were not disclosed. ( The sth air force’s scoreboard now stands at 183 Migs destroyed, 34 probably destroyed, and 313 damaged. --A \ . Other U.N. planes were oat blasting Communist ground targets. They destroyed or damaged a railway bridge, five artillery pieces, 35 supply buildings and one vehicle. During the night, nine B-29 superfortresses dropped 90 tons of high explosives on the middle railway bypass bridge at Sinanju in northwest CKorea. Other night bombers hit the Sunshun railway yards, the Kunu supply center and front-line areas. j | I- « f : They piled new destruction on the 25 Communist bridges, 350 railroad cars, 23 locomotives, 530 supply vehicles and more than 700 buildings destroyed or damaged in raids during the past week. ■■ Northern Indiana Gambling Is Off Fort Wayne Federal Grand Jury Reports - Fort Wayne, Ind,, Feb. 9 —(UP) —Gambling and narcotics are Well controlled in northern Indiana, a federal grand jury reported today upon completion of a week-long investigation of organized crime. The jurors criticized federal internal revenue agents for prosecution delays and returned 28 indictments. But U.S. attorney Gilmore S. Haynie said none of the indictments dealt with the crime investigation. Professional gamblers, whose names were withheld, appeared Before the jury during the crime probe. The jury reported that gambling “declined materially” in the northern district within the last few years. \ It also reported that the sale and ' use of narcotics is “well controlled” and found the use of drugs by teenagers “at a minimum.” “An investigation of internal revenue department procedures indicates the effectiveness, spirit and morale of revenue agents preparing income tax cases for prosecution is often reduced by delays caused; by unwieldy administrative procedures,” the report eaid. \ Haynie said the indictments covered a wide variety of offenses. Five indictments were returned in (»w> Te rage ‘ ’ (L; I j

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—T \ Bitter Statement Issued After Red Plan Is Accepted With Reservations ■ l ' ■ ■ Panmunjom, Korea, Feb. 9 — (UP)—The South Korean government denounced United Nations truce negotiators today for yielding to the Communists like “a defeated command.” "The Korean government views with great concern the continuing concessions Which the U. N. dele- , gates are currently making at the Panmunjom cease-fire talks,” the government statement said. * IL said the Red* were using 3,009 U. fi. war prisoners as "hostages in order, td demand” even further concessions. the people nor the government of the republic of Korea cad tolerate these insulting humiliations," the Korean statement said. The bitter statement was issued at Pusan, temporary capital of South Korea, as U. N. truce negotiators at Panmunjom accepted with reservations a Communist proposal for a high-level peace conference within 90 days of the conclusion of a Korean armistice. Under the U. N. counter-propos-al, the conference would be limited to a discussion of the withdrawal of non-Korekn forces from Korea, a peaceful |ettlem»ut of the Korean sttuattbn and other Korean, questions. The Rdds had wanted to extend the thlks to include a general far eastern settlement.. Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, head of the U. N. delegation, also insisted that the South * Korean government be represented, in the talks. The Communist proposal hkd mentioned only the North Korean and Chinese Communist governments and the V. N. as participants. South Korea is not a member of the U. N. North Korean Lt. Gen. Nam H promised to, reply to the U. N, counter-proposal at another meeting of the full truce delegations at 10 a. m. Suhday (7 p. m. today CRT)., Today’s session lasted only 10 minutes. Staff officers meeting after the main negotiating session tentatively agreed on portions of three more paragraphs in a plan for exchanging war prisoners. I These dealt with the designation of Panmunjom as the initial exchange point, the establishment of joint committees to supervise the exchange, and creation of joint Ked Cross visiting teams to assist tn the transfer. Decatur And County Ruled By Boy Scouts Boy Scouts ruled Decatur and the Adams county offices toddy as z county and city officials relinquished their offices to the young Americans in the annual Boy Scout week observance. Offlcals were busy all morning teaching their elected successors the fine points of the offices. The young officials showed keen interest in their jobs. The Scouts were elected by the various troops for the post*; Berne and Geneva Scouts assumed the county offices and Decatur Scout* named the various city officials. World Prayer Day Here February 29 ; Mr*. J. F. Sanmhnn, president of the Decatur council of united church women, ha* announced that the world day of prayeV will be observed Friday, February 29. The annual 4 meeting will take •place in the First Baptist church on Fourth street at 7:30 p.m. The Rsv. Samuel Emerick, of First Methodist church, will speak on the subject "Power of Prayer ” The day’s offering will be used for interdenominational work with American Indians, share-croppers and agricultural migrants.