Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 53, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 53.

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Five Suspects Questioned In Huge Robbery Two And Half Million v Loot Is Obtained At Millionaire's Home X Reno, Nev.,! March 3.—(UP)— Authorities today sought to link a heel print, a palm print, a Button and a miniature soap wrapper with a frightened blonde and her four companions held in Butte. Mont., for questioning in a $2,51)0,000 robbery of a millionaire's mansion here. The clues were al Ithat police had to work with in solving the Friday night burglary of the home \ of La Vere V. .Redfield. The theft, in which cash, securities and jewelry were taken while a “vicious” w’atchdog gnawed on a hambone thrown him by the thieves, was one of the biggest hauls in modern times/ police said. “ The five persons in custody were stopped at a roadblock near Butte last night in a two-tone - Cadillac in which they viiere carrying 16 pieces of luggage, most of it crammed with dirty clothes. j Police said ther names were i the same as those issued in a Nevada police bulletin. Nevada authorities said the suspects were: Geraldine Harris (alias Geraldine Unger), 27, Tulsa. Okla.: Floyd Dwight Dugger, 26, Mis* aoula. Mont.; Rodney C. Unger . (alias Robert Clinton or Armstrong). 31. of Tulsn; Walter EL Moore, 23 Las Vegas. Nev.; and Bendel Lee Moore. 30, Monroe. I>. Four of the suspects have “reer* ords as long as your arm,” said Butte assistant policy chief Emmett Sulivatt. The loot was taken in a safe which the thieves carted away. The robbery victim said the sate contained $300,000 in cash, SIOO,OOO in jewelry and morethan $2,000,000 j in negotiable' bonds. “But they'll have a hard time getting rid of if," Redfield “There were two SIO,OOO bills.',ipnd about 122 SI,OOO bills in that sfafe. How are they going to break them without raising suspicion? And the securities had my name on -them.” -..'M* “They might as well light their cigarrettes with the SIO,OOO bills, Redfield added. Furthermore, he said, some of the cash was in the old fashipoed- bills of SIOO, SSO and $lO denominations. .‘i guess I was just keeping them, like a coin eollertor would do.” he said. . The millionaire financier, wearing his usual oxfords, brght tartan shirt and worn was pleased that the burglars passed up another $1,000.00(1 ip negotiable securities jammed into a suitcase. The burglars left only the four slim clues at the scene—a palm print, a “well-defined” heel print, a brown lpi tton and a soap wrap ’ per from a mid-western hotel. Reno police asked Butte authorities to get, fingerprints, shoe prints and palm prints. Butte lice also were checking the suspects’ clothing to find if a button was missing. ‘ “All we can find is scads of dirty clothes, boxes of costume jewelry and enougth cloth to make at least four suits,” Sullivan said. “We found no money in thfe ■ . j • . ■ \ ’ i Local Man's Father Is Taken By Death Michael J. Kallenberger. SO, retired farmer, died Sunday at his home near Chattanooga, O. Survivors include 'his wife, Maggie; two sons, Wesley G. Kallenberger of Decatur and John A. Kallen her ger of Willshire. O.: a daughter, Mrs. James Hamrick of Wren, 0., and 18 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. (EST'j Tuesday at the Zion Lutheran church at Chattanooga, the Rev. W. E. Dyers officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be removed from the Yager funeral home to The residence. Where friends may call after 6 o’clock this evening.

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Says Eisenhower May Not Get Either Bid I. A l\ > f■■, ; ■ii lor Douglas Says Ike Caught In Middle Washington, March :: • (UP) — Sen. H. Douglas, who once proposed that both parties nominate Gen. Dwight D. EiSenhfweir sfoi? president, said today he now fears Eisenhower may wind up without either party’s nomination/ “Gen. Eisenhower upesn’t want the (Democratic) nomination, he, can get, and lie apparently is gpjngl to have great difficulty getting the, (Republican) nomination, he 1 wants.” Douglas told ti reporter. ' p “He may l be in the process of falling between two stools, to the great loss of the na|hm ” Douglas, an Democrat who has long been cm the outs with President suggested in a speech last j yejar that bpth parties back Eisenhower as a unanimous choice for thU presidency. His idea was received coldly by Democratic supporters of Mr. Truman. as well as by Republican Supporters of Sen. Robert A. Taft. Douglas indicated that he has no hope of reviving thej proposal \ ! •“Why should I waste my energies on something, that didn’t take hold?” he, asked. , J , ( Douglas made his comments as political attention was turning td New Hampshire and Ifte final Week of the campaign tiere for the ! nation's leadoff presidential phi* rnaries on March 11. TaftEisenhower battle I nbld the spotlight. 1 • Taft supporters claimed a big boost for their “underdog” cam* paign in the form of a roundabout public endorsement from Gen. Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur sent a handwritten note to former state Sen. J. Wesley Colburi?. who had headed the “draft MacArthur” t movement in New Hampshire until the general Withdrew his narnje from the race. The! note said: t “Under the circuriistanpes I suggest you support Taft " Col. Laurence Bunker, a MacArthur aide, said in New York that the note spoke for Rself, and that the general did not wish to exi plain what “circumstances" he had in mind. Home Badly Damaged Here This Morning :■ : ‘r ' !(' iir!l 'H p if . Explosion of an bil floor furnace at the home of Mrs. Clifford Hakey, 103 North Tenth*, street, at 5:50 o’clock this morning did considerable damjagb to the home. Fire which followed was Confined largely to the rjfear of the home. Firemen' did a quick job of getting the flames' under control;j; but smoke and the damage of- the blast |h«id occurred before the firemen arrived. , It ; was believed* that oil gathered in" the pot of the oil jet and apparently when tile heat control was- turned 'up the gas formed from the oil and exploded, The entire interior of the home was badly damaged. Firemen,, would not’tnake an estimate on the loss but it was high. j I ~ Commissioners In ? Monthly Meeting Three Groups Appear Before Board Today Adams county's : three, jcommlsiioners met today for their regular monthly meeting in the commissioner's roqta in the auditdr’s office of the ccjurt house. Most of the ' morning was consumed with allowing, the monthly Lilis and the board adjourned for * m hour at noon to', make their monthly Inspecttoii of thp county infirmary. Three groups of citizens were scheduled to appear this afternoon. Two of the groiipsj planned to present petitions for black top improvement of county roads. The third group was interested W a ditch cft-anlng project, ! It was believed that the would finish all the work on the agenda today and that it would hot be necessary dor a second say’jj meeting this jnonth. i ;> .i | j • The* board held a special session several days ago to dispose of several election problems before the deadline for the changing bf#precinct boundaries March 1. ’ I : T ■ .

UN Sabrejets' jBag 200th Red ■ Plane In Korea '' 1 ' I ' ’ .I I U.N. Planes Accept Two-To-One Odds In Aerial Battle Bth Army Headquarters, Kirea, March 3. —(UP) — United \Naions \ F-86 Sabre jets shot down the :!()Oth i Mjg-15 of the Korean war today, knocking out two of the Ru isian iSWept-wing fighters during tw> air battles south of the Yalu rivet. The Sabres, accepting nearly twotoone; odds, damaged five other M|gs during tw*o morning actions to bring the day’s total to.two Migs destroyed and five damaged. / . The. sth air force Mlg scoreboard now reads: 200 destroyed, 36 probably destroyed and 388 damaged. Cap|. Jack C. Schwab, Brston, Mass;, downed one Mig when 23 Sabres tangled with an estimated 100 Red jets jqst south of the Manchurian border. It was Sch rad’s first claim of the Korean war. Two pilots shared Credit for the day’s other kill when 27 Sibres shot it out with 60 Migs east of Sinuiju. v Maj; Donald E. Adams, Mount Clemens, Mich., received one-half credit for the second downed Mlg, bot a. total of 2-% destroyed and Capt. R. Moorman, Fbruina, Calif., received credit, his first\ claim. • Twenty - seven F-86 Sabrejets bpred into a formation of abcut 50 eherny fighters 20,000 to 40,00) feet above “Mig alley” in tije fir it gir battles of the day. Maj. Vnn E. Chandler, Waxahachie, Tex., damaged one of the enemy btfbte the fight was broken off. In the second clash. 28 Satwres and 40 Migs tangled in a battle raingtng fMm 23,000 to 40.000 feet, i Four Migs jwere hit in 10 minutes >f 600 iniledn-hour dogfighting. I While jets battled high over North Korea, U.N. fighter bombers swept low oirer enemy rail lines and road networks. Twenty-five holes were blasted in Communist rail lines southeast of Chongju. Marine Corsairs and airforce F-80 Shooting Stars worked over Com- ' muniflit front line positions n the “iron triangle” area of the central front. The marine airmen claimed they killed or wounded 36 enemy troops near Kosong, on the east coaAt, and knocked out an enemy anti-aircraft <T«rn Page Five) y it * ' J Adams Central Bond Issue Is Approved £.■ r p / . -•! h \ 0, Bonds For Building School Arfe Approved \. I J The $162,500 proposed bdnd issue for the Adams County j (pentral School Corporation has officially approved by the statei Imard Os tax commissioners, .• Thurman prefc, auditor, announced t<|)day. The approval was Received this -norning by the auditor and the official declaration was signed by Noble Hollar, chairman, and attested by Ralph Wilson, secretary of the state board. l|j ! A remonstrance was filed by 13 residents oil the corporation and a public hearing was held February 13 at Adams Central gymnasium in Kirkland township. D. Burdette Custer and Robert Smith of the law firm of Custer am} Smith represented the school corporation end Robert Anderson, of Voglewede and Anderson, represented the remonstrators. The hearing judges then took the matter under advisement so that the full board fould act on the The action was taken Saturday ?.nd the auditor\ was notified by mall today. Thb next probable rtep will be the of the proposed bond issue by tjie school. Hoile Funeral Rites Tuesday Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. Wilhelmina Hoile, 88. will be held Tuesday •'at 2 p.m. at I Emmaus church. Fort Wayne, with the Rev. Fred Wambsganss officiating. Burial will be in Concordia cemetery. Mrs. Hoile was the mother of i 'Otto Hoile, formerly of this city and the grandmother of Mrs. Raymond McDougal ot this cityj Hi !'

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HST Predicts Century Os Peace i RQMBHKm •• ' : ■ S' PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN smiles broadly as he shakes hands in Washington with Judith Shlmahsfry. Brooklyn, N. Y.. and Uaul Messinger. Los Angeles, Calif. They are among 40. finalists chosen to compete for SII,OOO in aciende seholarHhips. The Chief,Executive told them he believes the world will have peaee : for a century.

38 Persons Die In French Air Crash ■ A ‘ American Ballerina Is One Os Victims |*'■ Nice, France, March 3.—(Lil*)—r All 38 persons aboard, including an American-born ballerina who had Just danced “Os Love and Death." were killed today in the takeoff crash of a Frencß liner. Airport official* said two of (h> big air France plane’s font apparently failed after it ran into a block of migrating birds while straining to gain altitude lover this holiday city. The airliner crashed in La Valentine valley, a little more (han halt a mile from Nice airtppZ and burned. One of the 34 passengers survived the crash, but died in the hospital. All four crew 'members were killed instantly. One of the passengers was identi* fled as a Ballerina, Mrs; Harriet Toby, born Harriet Joan 'Katzrnap Dec. 12, 1929 in New Ybrk. Her present nationality was not known. She had danced as second ballerina with the Marques de Cuevas ballet last night in thje Municipal Casino. She appeared in both “Del Amor Y La Muerte” (Os Ix>ve and Death), by (he Spanish composer Granados, and in “Pas De Trots.” After the performance, photog* raphers took pictures of the 22-year-old dancer posing with hiayor Charles Antoni of Cannes. •j * J Eleven other passengers were British,, one Belgian, one Italian and the rest French, the air line’s official casualty list showed. ; ; ■ 1 -J J INDIANA WEATHER ■* Cloudy and windy tonight with fain central and squth and rain or snow extreme north portion. Snow flurries and turning colder late tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 2532 extreme north to near 32 extreme south. Slowly falling temperatures during Tuesday. '

IftedttatuM ■ ' V H i < V ■, Il I ■ r. (Rev. F. FI. Kise, Preble Cricuit Methodiat) HANDS “And when they had.prayed, they laid their hands on them.” Acts 6:6: : It is a duty and privilege to lend ;our hands to our Lord and Master. And Christ today makes His appeal for workers, and; yet J more workers. "The harvest truly is great and the are few.” Will yOu lend a hand? Christ says: “I need help, your help.” We are not sent into this world just for our own selfish ends. We are meant to lend our hands to a good deal that t eeds to be done. There are wrongs that .cry to heaven to be righte<l. we can all do our part. When Jesiis was arrested in the Garden the soldiers bound His hands, and every time we refuse to respond to the prompting of the Holy Spirit of God to lend a helping hand, we, too, bind His hands. • • . ' We do not pretend to understand in all its fullness the mystery of the love of God In Christ on Calvary, but the wonder of that love ]\ never fails to make its appeal. > , Can I, can you, in the face of such love, refuse to lend a hand? Remember: He has no hands but our. hands to do His work t>day. He has no feet but our feet to lead men in His way. He has no voice but our voice ,to tell men how He died. He has no help but our he|p to lead men to His side.

Mrs. Adam Buettel Is Taken By Death Mrs. Ellenora Buettel, 92, widow of Adam Bueitel, a former merchant tailor of this city, died Sunday morning at Sacred Heart home, Avlll*- Funeral serviced will be held Tuesday morning and the body will be taken to New-Riegel, Ohio for burial. Mrs. Buettel and daughter, Miss Addellw, entered the Sacred Heart homein 1933, following the death of Mr.. Buettel. The deceased was born New-Riegel, Dec. 31,1859 and lited in this city many years. She Is-'survlved by her daughter. France Seeking To Form New Cabinet Pinay Accepts Os Seeking Cabinet L■' . ■ j Paris, Mar. 3— (UP) —Ar tome Pillay, minister of works in the outgoing French cabinet ard an independent, . accepted President Vincent Auriol's invitation today to Yoiih a new government and end the country's political crisis. I ( Pinay announced after a onehour interview* with the president that he reluctantly had accepted the mandate. "I tried to refuse, but in th ? face of the president's insistence I had to agree to see what I cduhl do,” he said. He< expressed the hope that “with'* the help of everybody” he equid,: successfully end the crisis ♦hat developed last w*eek when Edgar Faure gave up as premier after/losing an assembly Confidence vote on a tax increase proposals Reliable sources said thai; Aurin}, hard-pressed to find u new premier, had rebuffed an overture Horn Gen, Charles De Gaulle.* Pinay, considered a stronj hope for forming another middle-of-the-rbad coalition, prepared* to t tart a (Turn To Pace Three) ~ ‘Zi »_■ —

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James E. Finnegan Trial Opens Today Ex-Tax Collector Asks Continuance St. LOuis, Mar. 3—(UP) —James P. Finnegan, former St. Louis internal revenue collector and Democratic party workhorse, went on trial today oh a five-count indictment charging bribery and misconduct in office. As the case opened in the crowded court of U. S. district judge Rnbey M. Hulen, Finnegan’s attorneys askeij the court for an indefiujle continuance, .claiming that newspaper, radio Tend magazine publicity given the case had prejudiced a fair trial for Finnegan. - Hulen overruled, the motion. The defense then offered a motion tp allow 1 them to choose which of five counts would be heard first. This was , also turned down by the" court. | The court then proceeded to the selection of a jury to hear the charges from a venire of 28 names, a task expected to take all the first day ot the trial. Finnegan, wearing a natty blue suit aijd gray tie, sat with big two attorneys while the veniremen were being questioned. I The defense charged that wideanread publicity given the inquiry into the internal revenue office here, with repeated reference to the “Finnegan grand jury” which voted the indictment, made a fair Dial impossible. \ The trial was the culmination of congressional hearings atjd a later grand jury investigation which finally resulted in the resignation of William Boyle, Jr., as Democratic national committee chairman. The investigations revolved largely around the now-famous Ajnerican Lithofold corporation and: the association of Finnegan and Boyle with the St. Louis firm. One of the five charges against Finnegan alleged) that he took $3,000 from American Lithofold (Tnr» To Pa«e Five) - Mrs. Mary Murtaugh Dies At Home Sunday Funeral Services Wednesday Morning Mrs. Mary Murtaugh, 82, a resident of Decatur for pearly 40 years, died at 1 o’clock Sunday afternodn at her home, 434 Mercer avenue. She had been in failing health; since suffering a cerebral hemorrhage last October 25. Mm Murtaugh wak born in Rocklick, Pa., April 14, 1869, a daughter of John and Eliza Younk-in-Finnigan, and: was 'married to Williaitn' Murtaugh ip Cameron, W. V&„ Sept. 8, 1890. Mr. Murtaugh died March 14, 1923. She was a member of the St. Mary’s Catholic church, Rosary society, the St. Vincent de Paul society. Gold Star Mothers and the American Legion auxiliary. Surviving are one son, Joseph Murtaugh if this city; two daughters, Mrs. \l)larie Deiningen and Mrs. Jean Gilliom, both of Decatur; five grandchildren; two brothers, Dan and James Finnigon, both of Windridge, Pa., and one sister, sfrs. Blanche Staats of Wheeling, W. Va. Four sons, all of whom served in World War I, one daughter, one grandchild, four’ brothers, and four sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a. m. Wednesday at the St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral home‘to the residence, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening. The Rosary society will meet at the home at 8:30 p. m. Tuesday.

Sen. Connally Warns France Musi Do Duly France Faces Lass Os U.S. Funds If i Cooperation Fails ! ■ V ' I H' ■ - Washington, Maresh 3.—(UP)— Chairman Tom Cortnaly of the powerful senate foreign relations Committee warned i today*-t ha t “France must do her duty” or lose large-scale economic and military aid the United Estates. After a two-hour closed meeting of his committee Wit|h secretary of State Dean Abhasoh, the Texas Democrat said “if France does not do her utmost in her own defense, she cannot justify Urge appropriations from thi- United States.” Other committee members said Acheson appeared in discussing the current French crisis, in w r hich premier Edgar Fame’s cabinet fell because of parliament’s reluctance tp vote new taxes by v the methob he requested in support of NjL*TO obligations. A presidential message requesting $7,900,000,000 in funds for foreign military and economic aid will go to congress Thuradajr Some administration lieutenants appeared resigned to having it cut by at least $1,000,000,000. Elsewhere In Congress: Honor code: The parents committee 90 Went Point cadets dismissed for cheating on examinations asked for a thorough congressional inquiry. They said it should be determined whether the mass expulsion of cadets was legal, justifiable in relation to the offense, and “administered . . . justly to all involved." Japanese treaty: President Truman told senate leaders he wants quieg approval of the Japanese peace treaty and related far eastern security pacts. Mr. Truman said senatorial delay In acting on the treaty might be “misunderstood” in the far eajst. f Waste: Vice Adin. Charles "W. Fox, the navy’s top supply officer, told house investigators they had failed to show that unified system of procurement #ould result in any real saving to the; navy. Rep. F. Edward Hebert (D-La.), committee chairman, had accused the armed services of wasting “billions ot dol(Tnrw T» Pace Six) Indefinite Delay |n Anglo-fgypf Talks New Egypt 1 Premier Studies Situation' i Cairo, Egypt, Marek 3. —(UP) — Anglo-Egyptian negotiations over the Suez Canal zonb and the Sudan were delayed indefinitely today while Egypt’s new premier studied up on the situation. Premier Naguib El Hilaly Pasha nevertheless announced last night that he, like hifc two immediate predecessors, would injsist on the withdrawal of British forces from the canal sone and union of the Sudan with Egypt. He also announced that King Farouk had eignedj a royal decree suspending parliament for one month. Ali Maher Pasha resigned as premier Saturday after refusing to issue a similar degree. Hilaly said no date has been set for the start of Anglo-Egyptian negotiations, originally scheduled for last Saturday, because he needs more time tb acquaint himself with the situation. ‘ j The Wafdist party, which has a majority in parliament, postponed until Thursday a meeting scheduled for today. At that time it will decide its attitude toward the new government, Hilaly formerly was a leading member of the Wafdist party, but was ousted because of his criticism ot Its handling of the (Tua Te F««« *U)

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Hurl Blistering i Insults At Allies In Discussion Os Prisoner Exchange Panmunjoin, Mar. 3 — (UP) — Communist truce admitted today that the United Nations has thq right to veto Red nominations of Russia as a neutral truce * inspector but hurled ‘ blistering insults at the allies in prisoner > exchange discussions. alfaj. Gen. Lee Sang Cho, North f Korean truce talker, accused the allijes of blackmail, lying, stalling, \ massacre of prisoners and “com-: plejtei lack jnf sincerity.” the Reds told the allies In armistice terms discussions : that tjhe U, N. could reject Russia if tMb U. N- gave valid reasons for the Soviet Union’s unfitness to sit on a! neutral commission. The alliqs stood on reasons the Peds already haie rejected— Russia's record of “past participation in Korea” and her geographic * proximity’’-Russia border’s Korea's northeast corner. It represented -the Rede’ firßt retreat on this major deadlocked issue. Only last: Saturday, the Reds ha<| haid that Russia must serve on the sik-nation neutral armistice inspection commission, ; wtht or without the allies’ consent. 1 Even this back tracking by the ’ l<,er|s. howqver, did not revive fading allied hopes for a Korean armistice. The Communists already- i have rejected Jhe allied reasons for the veto—Russia's close geographcial proximity to Korea and her record of past participation in the country. “'l’m sure any reason we give would not be sound to them,” Col. Don O. Darrow, !u. jr. staff officer, said after the "50-minute meeting, jj He said he had told North Korean Col. Chang Sah that nothing the Communists would | vay would “change the fact that the Soviet Union was e unacceptable to our side —that I already i had told him our stand was irrevocable ahd firm.” ’ Darrow suggested the Commun- I ists might be stalling, jtfst io assure themselves that the U. N. r command meant what it said about j xever agreeing to Russian mem- jj berflhip on the neutral coipmission. In the armistice subcommittee debate on an exchange of prisoners, Nbrßj Korean Maj. Gen. Lee Sang Jo accused the allies of lying, blackmail. staling, massacring and k ’''complete lack of sincerity,” 7 1 ' 7 Retorted the U. N.’s Rear Admiral R. E. “We do hot lie. We have not lied, ojjd we shall/not’ lie.” At one point a Lee tirade against the U-/N., the Communist / voipb reached Such volume thkt Libby told him he was not deaf. i.j “I haye noted that the more uncertain you are of your position, the Iquder you scream at me," Lib- I by said. "I must request that you j moderate) your vpice. if possible.” 1 Libby said afterward that the m«»eting “was one of the most unpleasant we’ve ever had. Progress was absolutely nil." . U- ,N,j negotiators >pn Sunday JlfTwre T" n ’«tnet Oratorical Contest Here Tuesday The fourth district oratorical I contest, sponsored by the American Legion, |rill be held at the Legion!, home’in this city [at 8 o’clock Tuesday evening, Hufch J. Andrews, Decatur high school principal and former commander of the local Legion post, is dljitfict chairman. There will be six contestants in the district meet. The entries, their schools, and the counties they represent, are as follows: Carolyn Alger, Decatur, Adams ' Karmen Sims, Wolcottville, LaGrange; Gloria Sinrleton, Albion. Noble; Michael D. Young, Bluffton, fWells; Betty Glllesnie, A Columbia City, Whitley; Carlene Miller, Fort Wayne Central, Allen.