Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 94, Decatur, Adams County, 19 April 1952 — Page 1

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THE TAIL-SECTION of' a smouldering converted C-46 non-scheduled airliner forms a grotesque cross (top) above,the wreckage in which 29 persons perished in a fogbound crash near Whittier, Calif. • The airliner, enroute from New York to Los Angeles, crashed into a slope and burned to the rubble shown below where rescue workers search for bodies of the dead.

Reciprocal Support Law Is Effective Orders Defendant Pay Support Money • -I ! *■ -. - For the first time since the reciprocal support of dependents; law his been effective. it has beep -successfully used in a cause originating in Adams circuit court. Richard Routt, .formerly of Adanis/county,, now of Van Wert, 0., hus been mandated in common fleas court in Van Wert to pay $7 a week for ,support of a minor chlid. -4 Until the various states passed t)ie new law. an order in one state to pay support money was ineffective if the defendant moved to another state. ~ Judge Myles F. Parrish used the liivV when, on February 6, he transferred the cause of Severin H. Scliurger. prosecuting attorney, for Wajnetta Routt against Richard Routt from Adanis, circuit Court to yah common pleas court for action. i Van Wert prosecutor Sumner J. Walters then took the role'of attorney for the plaintiff and Routt -was brought! before Judge Eugene ■R. .McNeill Thursday. Routt wdfe ordered -to pay $7 a week to the clerk of Van Wert county and'that office in turn - sends the money to Adams- county |lerk Edward Jaberg to be paid to the plaintiff as support money. With the new reciprocal law in operation, it now will be impossible for a* defendant in a divorce cause, who leaves .the state where a support .order has been made, to avoid paying for the support. of minor'childreir There are numerous cases similar to the Routt case in s every i|'ounty in Indiana and local attorneysand officials believe how thiat Other similar proceedings will be started soon. . Fort Wayne Man Is Found Dead In Truck Upper Sandusky. 0., April 19 — (UP). —Authorities investigated today to establish cause of the death Os Henry Yale Barnes.\-29, Fort Wayne. Ind., whose body was found in the cab of his truck in a state park eight miles east of here yesterday.

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Prisoner Os War Parleys Are Resumed Believe New Lists Os Prisoners Are f Being Exchanged ? 11 .j t■ ‘ >/: i■ '! j Panmunjom, Korea, Apr. 19 — (VP) —Allied and Communist staff officers resume prisoner of war ulks in executive session today md may have taken a first step toward a- compromise agreement that would speed up a Korean Although both sides refused comment after the. Si-minute session, it was believed they handed in new lists' of prisoners whom they propose to exchange after a Cease-fire. jj Observers at the -truce site Speculated that the new United Nations list of North Korean and Chinese prisoners omitted • the names of those who do not want to igo back to their Communist-run homelands. ( ? v (■ This might provide for a compromise Settlement of the (laedlodk over thp U. N.*s refusal'; to return jto the: Reds prisoners who do not want to be repatriated, r The CotpmuniHts have demanded jthe return of all War prisbners, by force if necessary. H’owever, the omission from the U. N. list of those reluctant iot return would prpvide a face-saving way out. It was the first meeting of staff Cfficers dealing with an exchange Os prisoners in two weeks. The talks were recessed to give each Side time to review the situation i»nd seek a compromise formula. The officers will meet again Sunday. ■ ! ' In an adjoining conference tent, senior truce delegates debating terms for supervising an Armistice decided to turn the stalemate problem back to another set of staff cfficers. i Harrsion said the U.* N. had no imention of dropping it* opposition to Russia ~pr its insistence on an airport construction bah. J U. S. Ship In Duel i Seoul.-- Korea. Apr. 19—(UP)— The fast minesweeper U. 3 S. Endlbott withdrew unharmed today af(Tum To Pmco >lx) i

Limberlost Meeting ‘ Is Held At Geneva p Fish Fry, Program Held Last Evening Approximately 300 persons attended a fish fry and program last night in Geneva to raise money for the development of Affolder park and to promote interest in the Limberlost area in Adams, Jay and Wells counties. rne speaker was former {A. Gov. Richard James, now manager of the Hoosier Motor Club and a director of Butler University. He was introduced by Bob Heller of Decatur, member of the Indiana conservation commission. Earl DaWaid of Geneva w*as master t pf ceremonies and introduced Judge Homer Byrd of Bluffton, who precepted giftfe to the Girl of the Limberlost anjd her court of honor. said by Father Roth, iof the St. Mary’s Catholic church jin Jefferson township. Music was furnished by the\ Geneva high school band and male quartet. James gave a biography of Gene Stratton Porter, stating that she was born’near Wabash, during the Civil War. was ’married and lived in Deiteiur a year before moving to Geneva, where he said she wrote her greatest books. . He: told how she took trips throiigh the swamps long before she wrote her first book. She not only was a naturalist, comparing , with the greatest, hut she also did cohsaderable original research. She took up’the study of photography and (t was to buy additional photographic equipment that caused Her to attempt to write, James said thatber first attempts at writing were a success and her books rank among the 10 best sellers of all time. They Ma've b»»pp translated to many langua,. are known over the world. Because of her great popularity he said he believed the Limberlost area would become a great shrine to nafurh lovers from every part of the world. He said he thought it was fitting that her two homes, ope at Geneva and one at Rome City, have been connected by the Gene Stratton Porter memorial highway. J * | He closed by predicting greater development of the Limberlost areal and the expectation that some day a lake would furnish recreational facilities* this section off the which is distant from all natural bodies ‘(Tara Ta Paata

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Report Sawyer Is Considering 26-Cent Boost To Decide Tuesday , * On Pay Boost If Dispute Unsettled Washington, Apr. 19 i— (Us) — Secretary of commerce Charles Sawyer is considering: a goVern-ment-imposed 26-cent (hourly pay boost for the CIO Uhited Steelworkers, the amount recommended D tihe wage stabilization txiard, ; > tined sources said today. ovyer, wh6 has been nominally rjmning the steel industry since it was seized by the (government April S. is expected to decide Tuesday the size of the increase to Impose on the companies if a settlement is not reached by then. Industry attorneys have served notice thqv immediately will challenge in the courts gny govern-fhent-orderfed pay hike for Philip Murray's union. Sources close to the administration had predicted earlier that Sawyer would match the industry’s '.‘heat offer” of an 18’cent increase r 12*4 cents in straight wages and S a 4 cents in fringe benefits. ;' The wage board recommendation Includes a straight pay hike of 17*4 cents and B*4 cents in fringe benefits. The question of the union shop by the wage board ’nd bitterly opposed by the industry—still was up in the Sawyer plans to consult with hist ice department officials Monday and then will discuss: his liecommendation with President Truman, who will make the final decision cn the increase to be ordered by the government. Union and company negotiators will meet Monday or Tuesday in a- last-ditch attempt to reach, agreement on a contract. Murray ahd the presidents of nine big steel companies agreed yesterday th Sawyer’s suggestion that they hold ;"one final joint meeting . . . to get the government out of the steel; business.” The question of a price increase for the steelmakers is iitill the allimportant issue in the bitter dislute. The industry insists that a sl2a ton increase is necessary to compensate for the 26-cent pay boost recommended by the wage board. Price stabilizer Ellis Arnall said yesterday he would grant a uniform $3-a-ton price increase instead, of amounts ranging from $2 to $3 which he says is the limit S <Tnrv To P<l>lK * * ,M » Bosse Will Acf For County School Head Move Made Friday By Commissioners The Adams county commissioners, in special session late Friday afternoon, authorized Ed A. oßsse, county attorney, to serve as attorney for Glen Custard, bounty superintendent of schools. The action was taken after superintendent Custard received a letter from justice of peace Earl DaWald, G -deva, threatening to order him • ’o DaWald’s court if he did not ..e action in the Wabash townshit) Amish case by April 18. !; pecatur attorneys took the letter lightly because the 1949 school statute gives the county superintendent certain discretionary powers, The powers are not mandatory. There is a small Amish school operating in Wabash township and the,teacher is not qualified to teach in Indiana public schools. There are about 20 to 30 pupils and they, would normally go to Wabash township Schools. However, during the last school year, they have been attending Their own school.

BULLETIN p Wheatfield, Ind., Apr. 19— (UP) — A father and his two j sons wert burned to death to- > 1 J day in a fire that destroyed t their home here. The victims were Leonard B. 2 i Girard, 47, and his sons, Albert | L., 14, and Paul Edward, 9. | i The mother, Mrs. Violet Gir- « ard, 37, and two daughters, J Bernadine Jean, 18, and Judy | L«e, one-week.old, were at the j heme of Girard's parents in ‘ nearby Kersey at the time of | the fire while the mother re- | cuperated from childbirth. 1 Pres. Truman ll■ ■ 1 I In Threat On Budget Slash I Threatens To Keep Congress Meeting Until Cut Restored | Washington, April 19—(UP) — senate economy advocates said today they won’t bp “intimidated” by president Truman's threat to keep qongress in session this summer un•qil it passes hi* miUiary budget. b t They defended the Wuse’s cuts tn military spending as “completely justified" and said they would not be “stampeded” |into restoring themoney by any “dictatorial” threat by the president. Mr. Truman, cjtiticijdng the house cuts as “terribly dangerous,” warned yesterday he i would recall congress this summer if it adjourns' without the senate restoring all the fpnds he asked foil- national defense. ■ Some congressmen viewed the president’s threat as the opening attack in p slam-bang fight with the lawmakers. They felt that Mr. Trunhan. free from re-election worries, had finally pulled out all the stops in his long-smouldering feud with Congress. » Senate Republican leader Styles Bridges (N.H.) charged that Mr. Truman “has thrown the constitution to the winds and is attempting tp seize the power of appropriations. the power to control the I|urse strings.” I Mr. Truman accused the house <*f a “fake” economy drive, motivkteb by election-year politics and a desire for headlines, ■ | “This may be ’an election year h|ere,” he said, “but the Kremlin 4on’t take a vacation simply be(Turn To Paso S|x) < Monmouth Graduate list Is Announced 'I -* •' ' ' • 30 To Graduate At j Exercises May 21 | Principal G. M. Grabill today announced the commencement program for the; Monmouth high school and released the names'of t|e members of tliis year’s graduating class. 'Senior week activities begin with the baccalaureate sermon at St. John’s Lutheran ; church Sunday, May 18.. ' ‘I iSraduation exercises will be held iy 21 in the Monmouth high bool gym. H. J. Pierson, director public information for the Indiapolis Chamber of Commerce, will be the speaker. ?The 30 graduates are: franklin Becker; Marilyn Bohnke, ijvelyn Bulmahn, Robert Bultenjfeier, Kenneth Busick. Larwell Jane Clark, Daisy Davis, Bpnnie Lou Deaijn, Jack Everett, A?lice Fuelling, Harriet Fuelling, ifoM’ard Fuelling, Charles Fuhrman, lionaid Gallmeyer> James Goldner, Marilyn Grotrian,: Marilyn Kiefer, Jean' Kirchhofer, Thomas Kise, EdWin Krueckebdrg, Robert Miller, ijawrence Roop, Kenneth Schueler, Virgeue Selkiug, Leo Sheets; David Ruben Thieme, Russel vyalchle, Leroy Werling. Noon Edition I 1 ~

Phone Strike Is Believed Near To End Western Electric Arid District 10 Os . Union In Agreement New York, April 19.—(UP)— An agreement was reached early today between Western Electric and district 10 of* the Communications Workers of America (CIO), representing 10,000 installation workers, and officials said the 13-day-old nationwide telephone strike was virtually ended. Negotiators for district 11, representing 5,500 warehouse workers, resume talks today with federal mediators and company officials in an effort to settle their differences. CWA president Joseph A. Beirne said in Washington that as a result of the settlement in New York “we hope to wind up the other Western Electric negotiations in a hurry and leach an (agreement in northern California.” A. T. Jones, bargaining coordlna>tor for the CWA, said the agreement covering installations men gave them an increase of 31.1 cento an hour. Os this ttJ cents was a wage increase and 17 cents was to be applied to fringe benefits. ‘‘Picket lines will be down later today,” Jones said, “by agreement with the locals in (Certain areas of the country.” At the conclusion of the meeting which brought about the settlement, Walter* * Maggiolo, general counsel, and Francis L. Maher and Harry Winning, members of the federal mediation council, made the following joint statement: “We are happy to announce that the dispute between Western Electric and the installations division of the Communications Workers of America has been settled.” \ The settlement is subject to ratification by the membership within 30 days. The mediators said the negotiation committee of the union I'Tnro To Pace Six) Agree To Dredging Os Jefferson Difch Conference Is Held Friday At Celina The Mercer county. Ohio, board of county agreed with the Adams county board and county surveyor Herman Moellering on, the dredging of the Burger ditch in Jefferson township at a joint cbnferece held Friday aftetoon at Celina, O. The ditch receives the sewage from Jefferson township school and in recent months, because of the need for \ dredging, it has caused the sewage to back into the school basement and also the well and cause a health hazard. It was necessary to make an agreement with the Ohio officials because the ditch runs for a mile or two Into Ohio and then turhs back into Adams county. The system of assessing the beneficiaries in Ohio is different than in Indiana and it will be necessary to contact the 11 land owners served by the ditch in Ohio and collect their assessments in advance of the work. This will be done immediately, it was learned following the meeting, and it is believed likely that the work will be completed in both states early this summer. State health outhorities recently contacted Jefferson township officials stating that if the dredge work Wfts not done it would create such a health hazard that state action would have to be taken, i INDIANA WEATHER > Partly cloudy and continued warm tonight and Sunday. Low tonight 46-50. High Sunday 7280.

Portland's Utility; Workers On Strike •, - '■ ] ■ Standby Electric Service\ Provided i Portland, Ind., April Water and Electric power remained normal s today in oislcity of 9,000 persons despitV a "Mrikfe of 35 municipal utility wbrk<s dver the demotion of a colleague.! J It was Indiana’s third utility strike in lesa thah three months. Others occuirred a( Alderson and Peru. The. employes walked off the job last night when a negotiating conference with city in Indianapolis with state labor commissioner Thomas R. Hutson failed ito produce an agreement. The city immediately switched to standby electric 'service: through the Indiana and Michigan Electric Co., and officials said thd supply seemed adequate to serve all <- except nidustrial users. Householders drew tubs and buckets of water yesterday 'when the walkout threatened and kept the supply in reserve for emergency. But 10 hours after the men struck, water still flowed normally through the mains from a reserve supply in the water plant’4 standpipe. ■ ... John Brubaker, a lineman in the electric plant and spokesman for the strikers, said the walkout was an indirect result of the of an old-time employe by the new Republican city administration headed by Mayor Dale Miller which took office last Jan. 1. succeeding a, Democratic administration/ Brubaker said the employes decided they wished to organize to bargain cbllectively with the city, and planned to organize a (United Mine workers union in the "catchall” district 50 unit. But Miller and the city council refused to bargain with an organized group,. Brubaker said. \V ! ■' A meeting was scheduled for the employes this morniag.'The city ordered all street lights turned off last night except in the business district and cautioner residents to use water and electricity sparingly. The strikers said they would see that power and water we*e fur- . nished to Jay county hospital and that water was available in event of a fire. ' Industrial plants faced a shutdown in the event the walkot t continues beyond tlhe week-end apd the plants still are not operating. 5 Children's HeaHh Roundup Thursday! Examinations Fgr L Kindergarten Age The annual child health roundup for children who will enter kindergarten next September, will ( be held Thursday at the Lincoln school gym, Mrs. Herman Kru sckeberg, chairman of the Lincoln FTA, sponsors of the program, announced today. Examinations by doctors ot the Adams oepnty medical society* and local optometrists will begip at 7:30 a. m. Parents are invited to bring their children to the free clinic and health check-up. ■ ApA prdximaetly 100 children lpre» expected to enroll in kindergarten next fall. Assisting the doctors, who donate their time in the examination of the children, will be the |PTA committee, composed of Mrs. Krueckeberg, Mrs. J. F. Azell, Mrs. Ross Way and Mrs. Randolph Brandyberry, president of the association. Mothers of the children and volunteer nurses will also assist in conducting the physical check-ups. 4*+ Children entering the first grade next fall and who were ppt examined last year are also invited to the clinic, the committee explained. »

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Line Bursts Under Strong River Pressure Thousands Fleming For Lives As Flood Crest Moves South ; Omaha, Neb., April 19.—(UP)— Army engineers fought desperately against the Missouri river today and said they ' weire “slowly win-, Ring” a battle to plug a sewer line which burst from the pressure and flooded an industrial section, of thb city. The Missouri, contained by levees and sandbag barricades, backed up intp the sewer and gushed skyward like a geyser, spreading over a riverside railyard “and factory district. It covered a squaremile area. > . Engineers .-at first tried to block the 12® foot crater torn by the water by dumping sand bags and loose earth into it. When that failed, they waged a nightlong battle to plug the sewer outlet, 1 25 feet below the surface of tbe river. They battled both time and river—for the .lodger the wa( rushed through the sewer condirt# the greater the danger that it would tear put the levee itself Sarid. dirt, rocks, sheet and construction I-beams were dumped Into the river from barges throughout the night. By 7:30 a.m., officers said they had slowed the flow' of water through the break from 2,500 cubic sees per second to 1.200. At that point, the river stage was 29.50 feet. The river was falling at a rate of four-hundredths of a 'foot per hour. ‘ | “It looks like we’re slowly winning this fight,” one officer said. The danger still however, that the river might sweep aside the makeshift plug and blast the levee aside. ‘ ' As the river’s cress moved downstream, thousands of residents of Missouri and Kansas; fled for their lives. Ten thousand persons left their homes in northwest Missouri' and * noiftheas| Kansas between Rulo, Neb., and Kansas City, the engineers said, apd 187,000 acres of farmland was unden-i water with damage estimated at >13.500,000. The situation at St. Joseph, Mb.,, was critical and mayor Stanley I. Qale sent a telegram to Missouri Gov. Forrest Smith criticizing the state executive for a public statement that he expected “little flood trouble” in the state. The river was four to six miles wide at Atchison, Kans., below St. Joseph and an all-nigbt fight was waged by soldiers and airmen at Leavenworth, Kan., to Save Sherman air field. . The tiny of Fortescue, Mo., and Elwood, Kans., were abandoned as the river flowed through their streets. The town of Wathena, Kans..’also was endangered. Oldtimers said that not even the flood of 1881.. : had threatened Wathena. Every available man was employed in trying to save the cities of Omaha and Council Bluffs, la. A judge gave one man, picked up on a drunk charge, his choice of flood duty or a jail sentence. The map appeared on the levee and went to work in his business suit.Along the Mississippi river, residents of .lowa, Illinois, Wisconsin <Tur« To Pax* Six J Local Lady's Mother Dies In Michigan Mrs. Susie Cooper, si, of Clinton, Mich., mother of Mrsi D. Burdette Cpster of this city, died at her home last evening of infirmities. Besides the daughter in th*s city, she is survived by 11 other yd sons. Her husband died several years ago. \ Funeral services will be held Tuesday at: Frankfort, Mich., and burial #lll lie in that city. Mr. and Mrs. Custer left this morning fort Clintoa and Frankfort.