Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 83, Decatur, Adams County, 7 April 1952 — Page 1

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First Anthrax Case Reported In This County Farm Quarantined By Stbte Following i Disease Diagnosis The Lousi* krueckeberg fprrh, four and one-halt miles nrotheast of Decatur, has been quarantined by the Indiana stqte veterinarian, •following the death of a hog of anthrax. Dr. Ed ffbck, local veter- , inarian, stated today. Positvie diagnosis that the hog died of anthrax/Was made by the Purdue University laboratory and announced by Dr. R. W. Elrod, state veterinarian. This is the iirst case discovered in Adams county. , The hog had been ill only a -couple hours. Its neck wgs swollen and Dr. Peck, suspected anthrax was the cause of death. .Part of t’.ie Carcass was taken to the Purdue laboratory by Krueckeberg arid - late Saturday he was notified that'the hog had died of anthrax. A few days previously \a cow dead on the Krueckeberg farm. No autopsy was mqde on the cow. and Dr. Peck wonders if . ithe animal, died of anthrax. ,4. I Krueckeberg is cooperating fully dih the veterinarians and state livestock sanitriry authorities! to stamp out dreaded disease. When a <ase is found the Usual procedude of the state veterinarian is to quarantine the farm. Traced To New Feed Indianapolis, Apr. 7— (UP) — Indiana authorities reported todny lhey have traced new outbreaks of anthrax, a deadly livestock disease. to recent distribution of a different feed but that it is being ■ •■■ called in. jf br. Roy W. Elrod, state veterinarian. said that “unless, another new source breaks out, we ought 5 to get it corralled.’’ i Purdue "University specialists reported at- a governor’s conference last week they believed the disease under control But since then, nexv cases cropped up in at least two sections of the state. > Elrod ■ said the new outbreaks resulted from the distribution of a different livestock feed, which lifts been called back to the distributor. The new cases added Adams county to a lirit of 18 Hoosier counties with positive or suspected r- of anthrax. Monroeville is „ Included in the list. Meanwhile, the state livestock sanitary hoard cleared its 26 rendering plants of any contamination and lifted an embargo set March 26. Although the plants were permitted to resume operations. Joe W. Green, assistant state veterink arian, said the board recommend--4 ed the plants have local veterinarians examine all questionable animals before accepting them.

Workinger Funeral Tuesday Afternoon Edwin Workinger Is Taken By Death Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Edwin Bert Workinger, retired farmer, who died suddenly Saturday morning of a heart attack at his horhe six and one-halt miles east of Dricatur on the state line. Born in St. Mary’s township, he was a son of Samuel and Margaret Hilyard-Workinger. and had lived in Harrison township. Van Wert ..county, 0.. most of his life. i He was a member of the Pleasant V’iew, Baptist church and the Maccabees at Wren, O. *; ; Surviving are his wife, the former Katherine May Roth.; a son, Richard T. Workinger, and a daughter, Mrs. J. N. Friedly. both of Pontiac, Mich.; five grandchildren; two brothers. Pierce of Greenville, JMichb and Terry of Wren, and two sisters, Mrs. Florence Workinger of Lima, 0., and Mrs. Lawrence Johnson of Decatur. One brother is deceased. • Servicesrivill be held at 1:30 p.m. (EST) Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2:30 o’clock at the Pleasant View Baptist church, the Rev. O. B. Turner officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the,_services.

Warren Reappointed To Beverage Board Ed Warren, Republican member of the Adams county alcoholic beverage board for the last five years, today was reappointed \ for another, year by Mayor John Doan. Other members of the board include Groce Tope • and John W. Blakey. Tope is named by the commissioners and Blakey by the county council. The three, with a rep resentative of the state board, serve as the Adams county board. SenaleToHold Public Hearing On McGranery Senate Committee Studies Nomination As Attorney General Washington. April 7.—-(UP)— The senate judiciary committed ■voted today to hold phblic hearings on President Truman’s nomination of James P. McGranery to be attorney general and approved chairman Patl McCarran’s request for an FBI report on the federal judge. No date was set for the hearings, nor was there any indication whether they would be public or secret. But approval of the Nevada Democrat’s request for an up-to-date FBI report; on judge McGranery indicated it wpuld be several days—and perhaps two weeks before she committee would evep get around to considering his nomination. McGranery was selected by Mr. Truman last Thursday to be attorney general after the president fired J. Howard McGrath. Qther congressional development s: j Nathan — Senate investigators heard that Pittsburgh gambler Frank Nathan “blackjacked” a syndicate to get a 20 percent slice of profits in a surplus property deal Attorney Irwin Geiger testified that Nathan and an associate, Joseph Laboyifz. did nothing to get $114,000 of a, 1(570,000 profit the Landulant Torrance Corp, made from purchase of a surplus government aluminum plant at Torrance, Cal. said he “earned" his $57;-, 000’share by making one telephone call and declaring himself in on the profit. Ai£ bases —The house appropriations committee revealed that by June 30 the air force will haye 118 major bases scattered throughout the world compare<| with only 90 in continental United States. By June, 1953. the committed said, the; overbases will total 143 against 99 in the U.S. Seizure—President D. B. Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomonum To Pane Sixt Commissioners In Monthly Meeting Claims Are Allowed At Morning Session The Adams county board of commissioners spent all of this morning Allowing claims in their‘ regular April session. At noon the three-man board and county auditor Thurman Drew visited the county home. The afternoon session had several items on the program. The fleet insurance policy carried by the county for highway,* surveyor and county farm trucks was Scheduled to be renewed. The policy is written by Kenneth Runyon, Decatur Insurance agency. A bill submitted by Jay county amounting to about S6O for a case venued from Adams circuit court to Jay circuit court was being studied. Commissioners felt that this bill should be withheld pending the payment of more than SI,OOO owed by Jay county to Adams county for the same purposes. 1 An insurance company representative also was scheduled to aptpear before the board to 'make a settlement for a client, Frederick Ehlerding. whose automobile left the road and tore down some fence at the county farm last November 9. Road improvement petitions'and other highway matters also were on the program for discussion. Y- - ‘ INDIANA WEATHER Fair and warmer tonight, and Tuesday. Low tonight 30-36 -north, 36-42 south. High Tuesday near 65 north, 70-75 south.

Seek Solution In Steel -‘'J r V ' i fIU " J -te. v k ...xui-_ il AWAITING THEIR FIRST MEETING Sundiay with major steel companjr officials since the collapse of negotiations last Thursday. CIO president Philip Murray (right), chats in New York with' David McDonald (left), secretary of the United Stee.l Workers pnion and attorney Arthur Goldberg. With a steel strike deadline set, Nathan P. Feingsiner, chairman of the wage stabilization board, went to NewYork from Washington to arrange the meeting which, he emphasized, was "not a negotiating meeting.’’

North Dakota Suffers Worst Flood In Years Missouri Bursts Into. Bismatck As Thousand Homeless Bismarck, N. D., Apr. 7—-(UP) — The ice-laden waters of the\ Missouri river burst into Bismarck, leaving 1,000 persons homelessj today, houses chimney-deep in water and; hundreds of livestock drowned. „ The worpt North Dakota in 35 years Cost one lice. The’ "Big Muddy" swept into th4 North Dakota capital without, warning yesterday. Within min-’ perfectly dry land was covered with three feet of water. And it Continued to rise. The Missouri also struck at nearby Mandan, D., as the Big Sioux river churtied through a dike at Sioux Falls, S. D. More than 1,000 residents fled their homes there. And in Montana, the Milk river, a tributary of the Missouri, pounded at weakened dikes. The tow-ns of Chinook and Harlem were in immediate danger. At Bismarck, some residents waited oyt the long night In nearfreezing' feather atop their houses when rescue attempts to remove them failedThe Missouri stood at six feet above flood stage, the highest level since 1917, the weather bureau said. And the threat of an ice jam raised the possibility that it might rise even higher. , , J Lamps, curtains, rugs, chairs and a variety of other personal nfoperty cluttered the tops of houses as the surging waters, choked with ice, floating furniture, rdad livestock and other debris, swept by. The suddenness of the flood caught most residents by surprise. Willie Red Boy, 25, of Poplar, <T«ra To Pace Six) Adamsientral High Exercises May 20 < 135 Students Form Graduating Class Commencement exercises at Adams Central high school will be held May 20. Willis Robert, principal, announced today. H. Joseph Pierson, an executive of the j Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, will deliver the address fn the school’s auditorium. Thirty-five seniors are candidates for diplomas. The members of the graduating class are: \ Mary Ellen Byerly, Gloria Crownover, Fannie Margaret Habegger, Jean Haines, Mary Lou Hannie, Anna Ruth Inniger, Elizabeth Johnson, Phyllis Kohlf, Sally Ross, Mary Ellen Schnepp and Pauline Schwartz. Doyle Arnold, Norman Cook, Herman Dick, Millard Habegger, Clifford Hirschy, Dale Hirechy, Cleo Landis, David Nussbaum, Roe Allen Lehman, John Liby, Bob Mitdiel, James Riley, Lester -Schindler, Enos Schrock, Lester Schwartz, Robert Shaw, Paul Sowards, David Sprunger, Stanley Spronger, Henry Wagley, Jr„ Donald Walters, Dale Warthman, Earl Yoder and Raymond Zurcher. ?

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, April 7,1952.

Holy Week Services At Catholic Church Observance Opens On Holy Thursday! HoljF Week serveies will open at St. Mary’s Catholic church with the observance of Holy Thursday. High mass will be celebrated at 1:30 a. m„ including procession and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Holy Communion will be distributed at 6 a. m. The church celebrates the institution of the Holy Eucharist on this day. The church will be open throughout the day for private devotions before the Blessed Sacrament. A prayer hour will be held at 7:30 p. nM • I 1 ' The mass of the presanqtlfied will be said at 7:30 a. ni. on Good Friday. The Three Hours,-will be observed from 12 to 3 o’clock. There will be congregational Way of the Cross and adoration of the Cross during this period. A sermon on the Crucifixion will be given at the 7:30 p. m. service. On Holy Saturday, the lighting of the Easter fire and blessing of the water and paschal candle will begin, at 6a. m. Mass at 7:30 a.m. The Easter Sunday high mass will be celebrated at 5:30 .a m. Other masses will follow at 7:30, 9 and 10:15 a. m. Hearing of confessions for those who will receive Holy Communion on Thursday. Saturday and Sundhy will begin Wednesday. A missiontry will assist the Very; Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz. pastor, arid the Rev. Robert Contant, assistant, during the Holy Week services.’ .1/ ■ ‘ Local Lady's Father Dies At Fort Wayne Martin J. Dunlavy, 85, father rif Mrs. Willard E. Brarit of this city, died at his home, 1129 Spy Run avenue. Fort Wayne. Sunday morning. J ! Funeral services will be held at 9 a. m. at 'the Cathedral, with the Rt. Rev. Msgr. iohn Dapp officiating. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery, Montpelier. Besides the daughter, Mr. Dunlavy is survived by his widow, Sarah A., a son Gregory at home, and a sister. Miss Anna Dunlavy of Youngstown, O.

' ’■ ■ '' ® ’ ■ ■ (Rev. H. H. Meckstroth, St. Luke Evan. Reformed Church at Honduras) ON CHOOSING A MASTER No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or elsri he will hold to the one. j and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matt. 6:24. No man exists without being effected by some dominating force, great or small, worthy or unworthy. It is the misfortune of many not to know what it is that makes life worthwhllej meaningful and \hopeful for they have not heard of or understood, or perhaps they haVe hot chosen the bettet way. i Tw owidely differnig sovereigns are contending for mastery in our lives. Choosing, therefore, becomes imperatvie, “for no man can serve jtwo masters.” Our choosing a master we need, assistance, i The Bible will aid us, for therein the true nature ot the contenders is revealed, and who it is th®! Is worthy of our time and talent. We do well to read and behold the worthiness of the one and the insufficiency of the other. The lordship of Jesus, is unique. He is the good Shepherd. He has given\ Himself for us. May His great | sacrifice win our heart's affection and submission. In choosing consider also the experience of the righteous throughout the years. A great throng of witnesses has rightly acclaimed Him as a Good Master.

Phone Workers On J ' ' /; > Strike; Seeking To Avert Steel Strike

Last-Minute Attempts To Avert Strike Nationwide Steel Strike Is Set For Midnight Tuesday j BULLETIN Washington, Apr. 7—(UP)--The government today banned all deliveries of steel for civilian use in a move to save supplies for high priority defense needs in case of a steel strike. Facing the threat of a nationwide steel strike at 12:01 a. m. EST Wednesday, national production authority chief Henry H- Fowler ordered an immediate freeze on all ateel products now on hand in any warehouse or mill. Fowler said that steel actually in transit may be delivered, bu| that all other dqllv- • eries must be hatted. New York. April 7—(UP)— The government wage stabilization boss scheduled separate and joint conferences with industry and union leaders today in a desperate final effort to head off a nation-wide steCl strike at midnight tomorrow. Nathan P. Feinsinger, stabilization board chairman started the day by talking with union representatives. He met with company representatives late last night. ( "I expect to have either separate or joint conferences throughout the day,’’ he said, "I do not expect to have anything further to say for the rest of the day.” While settlement attempts were being intensified in the meetings in New York hotel rooms, plants which manufacture 95 percent of the nation's steel for defense and civilian use beganjeooling furnaces and laying off workers in an orderly shut-down. * jJ Other industries throughout the country were planning for a curtailed use of steel. Large users of’steel ‘said they’believed they could.keep going for two to six weeks. Feinsinger reported after a joint meeting yesterday that “gradual * progress” wis being made in attempts to find a peaceful settlehient of the wage dispute. But an angry exchange of charges last night between Benjamin F. Fairless, president of U.S. Steel, and Philip Murray, head, of the Steelworkers union (CIO) dimmed chances that a walkout by steel workers Would be averted. Furnaces in the "big six” plants w£re being banked in of a shutdown which would cUt off (Turx T® Pxce Six)

Juries Drawn For April (Zourt Term New Court Term To Open Next Monday Pe«tlt aid ; grand juries were drawn today by commissioners Ed Berllng and Frank C. Rowley for the April term of Adams circuit court, which starts next Monday, \at which tlime Judge Myles F. Parrish will qall the.docket. The petit jury includes: Harold Runkel, Hartford township; Eugene Charleston. Jefferson;’ Os rar Lehrman, Union; Daniel D. Dounely. Berne; Roland J. Miller). St. Mary's: John Doherty. Geneva; Frank R. Braun, Wasbingtori; Leo A] Braun, Decatur; Millard Sprunger, Berne; Marvin Conrad, Preble; Ernest Rekewege, Ro|ot; Daniel Habegger, Monroe. ■ ■ ? Also named as alternates are: William Bauserman, Geneva; Adams, Jefferson; Frank WaltCTB, Uniori; Delrnas W. Feasel, Decatur; Charles Christener. Monroe; Herbert Jkckson, Hartford; Edwin Frauhiger, Kirkland; Gerhard Heckman, Preble; Cyril Becker.Tßoot; Russell Wabash; Edwin DrO. Bern 4; Walter Conrad, Kirkland. ‘ ’ The grand jury includes: Tillman Beer, Monroe; Arlie Foreman, Jefferson; Daniel Jones, Berne; Chester Haines, Jefferson; Claude Koons, Preble; Henry xj. Cook, Washington; Frederick Sprunger. Monroe; George Drew, Geneva; Ruben Smith, Kirkland; Lawrence Grote, Union;. Burley Hough, Wabash; Walter Ryf, Root’; x The first 12 names drawn on the petit jury are regular members and the last 12 are alternates, taken in Order if any of the first 12 are excused from duty. r Judge Myles F,, Parrish hag been reluctant to excuse any person from jury service since he has assumed the bench. M.Q. Brandyberry Is Taken By Death Funeral Services To Be Wednesday

Millard Otis Brandyberry, 61, a lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 6 o’clock Sunday morning at his home in Monroe. Death was attributed to complications resulting from a fall 14 months ago at the Central Soya company, where he was employed on the research farm, * "I I " He was born in Adams county April 20, 1890, a son of Amos R. and Cinda Brandyberry, and was married to Flossie Laisure Sept. 27, 1011. Surviving are his wife; "his mother: and (three sisters, Mrs. Ethel Branch and Mrs.” Addie Lobenstein of Moproe and Mrs. Frank Hartnett of Scottville, Mich. One brother is deceased. j Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the home and at 2 o’clock at the Monroe Methodist chfurch, the Rev.. W. L. Half and the Rev. Vernon Riley officiating. Burial will be in the, Ray cemetery, west of Monroe. The body will be removed from the Lofyenetein funeral home to the residence, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening. Today Deadline On Vote Registration Indianapolis, April 7 —(UP) — Hoosiers rushed today to beat the midhlght deadline for registering to Vote in the May 6 primaries. Voter registration authorities said anyone unable to get to the various centers may transfer a registration by mail if the letter is postmarked before midnight tonight.

To Leave City Rev. A. C. E. Gillander — L—; Rev. Gillander To . ih XL- ' Leave Local Church h Quits Pastorate Os Presbyterian Church The Rev. A.C.E. Gillander, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of this city for the last three and a half years, today announced that he had accepted a call to the Sutherland Presbyterian church at Indianapolis. ' . Itev. and Mrs. Gillander and their two children. Bruce and Mary Beth, will leave the last o)f this month arid Rev. Gillander Will officially start his new pastorrite May’ 10. The Gillanders camje to Decatur from the FirstXPresbyterian church at Brazil. Prior to that time Rev. Gillatader had served a Presbyterian church tn Deqatur county and also had served Us a chaplain is) World War 11. b'he Presbyterian bt|ard of elderjs of the local church accepted .the resignation Sunday afternoon and the congregation will be called into ’special meeting April 20 to hear the resignation read and diipos? of the matter. The resignation then will be forwarded to the Fort Wayne Presbytery for final action an,d transfer. The procedure at the church here will be to name a committee,to accept applications for a new minister. Final acceptance is made by (Twru To PSK* Six)

Walter Krick Plaque Is Unveiled Today Formal Unveiling Held This Morning ’ , i|.'4- | A new bronze plaque, honoring the memory of the late Walter J. Krjck, superintendent |of the Decatuir public schools, wap unveiled in impressive ceremonies held ’ this morning at the high school, Brief eulogies of the popular .school leader, who died suddenly last summer. Were given by W. Giiy Brown, superintendent, and the Rev. Samuel Emerick, pastor of the First Methodist church, of which Mr. Krick was a faithful member. The plaque is placed on the wall of the main corridor of the School building, opposite one placed several years ago in memory of M. F. Worthman. also a former superintendent. The plaque was erected through contributions by students, faculty members and friends. On it is inscribed, "His time and talents were freely given.” All school children and faculty members of the public schools will be! given an opportunity to view the plaque this week, under a schedule worked out by school officials.

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Threatens To Mar Service In 43 Stales Communications Os Nation Disrupted By Labor Trouble: New York; "---(UP) —More than 65.000 telephone workers went on strike across the nation today and threatened’ a “hit and run” disruption of advice in 43 stated and the District of Columbia. The strike at® at 6 a. m. Combined Rith the fl|ve-day old strike of Western Union operators. , it confused and limited the nation’s communications. But the telephone strike wts immediately eftectlve in ohlyJ four states —NewJersey, Ohio; Michigan, and Northern California. | \ \ The major threat to national service was froth the comparatively small —15.500 member —districts 10 and 11 of the communications worker® of jAwrica (CIO). All are employes of Western Electric and their hit-aftd-run picket lines could idle all * <>the£ telephone workers in all |tates except those of New and Montana. \ x The first Woste-n Electric pickets appeared in Augusta. Ga.. and Jennings, La.. shortly before 9 a m. A Soutjiern BelD spokesman said one picket? at Augusta kept i some (operators off their jobs. Two • pickets appeared at Jennings and prevented Silt ofl2 operators from entering the; exchange, the comnany said. ’ . In addition. H 4.500 - telephone operators in Otjdo, Michigan and New Jersey, represented by other divisions of the CWA, walked off their jobs in separate disputes with local Bell telephone companies. Service of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company struck in northern California. These 6,500 strikers were expected to idle operators with their picket <Tr , n»ixj TPo Page Six) Stale Convention L Delegates Named

-7 '• ■■ 1 r - ' No Opposition To List Os Delegates Democrat and Republican candidaies for delegates to the respective state conventions, have been filed with cq’unty clerk Ed Jaherg and theqe is no contest for the 11/ seats at IpHher State convention. Democrats who will represent me party at the Democrat state convention include: , Thurmaij Drew. Decatur; r.'wis Rich, Jr.. Prbblu; Boyd Stepler, Monroe; Max Schafer, Decatur; Judge Myles ,F. Parrish, Decatur; Leo C. Ehlnger. Decatur; Joe Oelberg, Decatur; Richard Meshberger. Linn Groye; ‘ Theron Fenstermaker. Geneva, and C. H. Muselman, Berne. : The Democrat, delegation is un» pledged, but it is understood that several of the delegates favor the, nomination of Ls. Gov. John Watkins for governor. Republican delegates are: True Andrews,'Decatur: Charites Fuhrman. Preble; Eni Curtis Engle, Monroe; Gerald Edwards, Monroe; Menno Lehman. >Berne; Glen Neuenschwander, Berne; Leo Fngle, Monroe; Floyd Aspy. Geneva; Cal E. Peterson, Decatur; Mayor John M. Doan. Decatur, and Harry Essex, Decatur. This delegation* is reported to be unpledged in the hot Republican governorshpi contest, but a quicksurvey of several of the delegates revealed that the Adams county majority favors Taft for president.