Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 181, Decatur, Adams County, 1 August 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L No. 181.

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To Dedicate Addition To Church Sunday

; dedication services for the new superstructure of the Decatur Missionary church, Tenttv arid Dayton streets, will be held Sunday, with special Services morning, afternoon and evening. The dedication service will be held at 2:30 pm. with the Rev. C. J. Gerig, central district superintendent of the Missionary church association, givinfg the dedicatory sermon. Leßoy Bradley of Fort Wayne, Vvjjs hired as the artiteet. Much of the work done by men of the local church and also some of th,e West Berne Missionary church. Noah Schrock was hired as head carpenter tjo supervise the work. The plastering was done by Lawrence VonGunten. member of the local church and the plumbing and new heating’ system was installed by Paul Harden, (of Haugk’s), also -member of the local church.. The brick work was done by Hammond -Brothers and the painting by of Berne. The new lime oakJ pews and chancel furniture were purchased front Reddington" Co. in Scranton, Pa. The carpeting was laid by the Wolf Co. of Fort Wayne. Electrical work (was done by Kiess Brothers along with the help of the men of the church. The basemen has been completefl ly remodeled with class rooms, rest rooms, and secretary’s room. ; The chancel has not been bricked i as the rest of the superstructure, as plans are some day to still further enlarge the building. The building committee has bfeen Roy Hook, Noah Rich, treasurer V Lawrence .VonGunten, chairman, Virgil Bixler, Ralph Myers, secretary, and Gerald Brodbeck. The complete program for the dedication service appears on page h T” ■ j' j T INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and warmer north portion tonipht. Saturday partly cloudy and warmer with scattered thun<* ers howers likely north and, central portions. Low , | foniflht 60 to 65; high Saturday 87 to 93. 1 |

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Winners Listed In Fair's Swine Show Judging Finished - In Show Thursday '- / ■ ■ I■ ’■ . The porkers had their day at the Decatur fair Thursday as from each succeeding -contest ■■ emerged pig royalty instead of just plain mon everyday swine. Foillowing are the winners in the many classes vying for top honors: Berkshires';’ spring gilt—-first, Marvin Taylor; second, Jim Taylor. \ Grand champion female—Marvin Taylor. Hatnpshires; agfed sow—first and second. Griffiths Bros. ! Senior yearling—Griffiths Bros, Jr. yearling—first and second, Griffiths Bros. ! i Sr. gilt—first and second, Griffiths Bros. (> ■ ■ Jr. gilt—first, Paul Short; second and, third, Griffiths Bros. < Grand champion female—Griffiths Bros. Jr. division; pen of three barrows —first. Max Yoder; second, Griffiths Bros. 1 ! i Open division; pen of thrtee barrows—first, Paul Yoder and Son; second, Griffiths Bros. - Jr. division; single barrow —first, Max Yoder; second, Harvey Short; third, Marvin Taylor; fourth, Nolan Griffiths; fifth, Kieth Griffiths. Open division; single barrow — first, Paul Yoder and Son; second, Harvey Short; third, Marvin Taylor; fourth. Nolan Griffiths; fifth, Kieth Griffiths. 1 V Champion of breeds, male. Yorkshire —Paul Yoder apd Sjon. ’ Champion of breeds, female Yorkshire —Harvey Short. Hatnpshires. jr. yearling boar— Griffiths Bros. Jr. boar—first and second, Griffiths Bros. Grand champion boar—Griffiths Bros. ; \ Yorkshire; aged boar —'(Paul <Turn To I’age Flye) '

Decatur Fair u To Be Closed Saturday Night New F[ee Acts Add To Enjoyment Os Local Fairgoers ' 5 i\ Three new free acts came to the fair> Thursday in addition to Jaque Teeter's high act: Danny Daniels, a dne man vaudeville show, and Wofcott's dogs and ponies. j Daniels, who has just left Jerry Collbnna, has a fast and professional l|n4 of patter that makes friends of nis audience almost;,as soon as he (opens his mouth. His juggling U-as very well received,! the ancient art not having suffered in his skilled hands. Says Daniels, “of all the on4-shots and engagements I play all over the country, fairs are by far my favorite. 1 find the folks in the audience friendly and willing, and they make me feel at home rignt away.” Jaque Teeter, who has been doing her death-defying act all reek some lOQ feet above the fair grounds, strange to say, has been at that particular thing for only two; years. Thi? top portion of the steel pole on whjch she does her hair-raising stuff is constructed to bear weight df ionly 120 pounds. Jaque weighs lid. “Ts you gain a couple of pounds,” says she of her swaying to and fro at the dizzy height, “you jiusi might keep on going.” | Wolcott’s uog act proved td be a reajlly fresh bit on the free act platform yesterday. Five assorted' of tremendous control, go through a series of antics—jumpihgi, tumbling and using their hind like humans —with the poise and conduct that surprised even the;most cynical in the crowd. They sfeepied to sense their masters’ eVeiry wish ... if they failed in a particularly difficult feat, they niojnentarily looked ashamed and kept at it with envied persistence until they succeeded. The applause |T«™ T. Pa«e Biskt) I .

Boy Scouts Leave On Trip Saturday Make Annual Summer Trip To Washington Thirty-one Decatur Boy Scouts apd Scouterk will leave this city Saturday afternoon for their annual summer Scout trip, awarded th the Boy Scouts for their achievements in hte stimmer program. This year's trip will be to the eastern seaboard, principally Washingotn, D. C„> and nearby points of interest. i Principal places to be visited will be the Pennsylvania turnpike, the battlefield at Gettysbur;, Pa., an all-day tour of Washington, D. C., a baseball game between \the Washington Senators and the world champion New York Yankees, the Luray Caverns of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson’s homje at Monticello, Va., and the Neutral bridge in Virginia. The- Decatur group will camp out each night except for during their stay in Washington, when they will stay at the Potomac pdrk motor court. Two of the adults accompanying the Scouts will serve as cooks dtirngi the entire j trip. t . (The group plans to return to Decatur Saturday, August 9. Those making the trip are as follojws: * Ddn Aurand. George Bkir, Gene Baxter, Roger Cookson. Larry DeUrn g, Ed DeLong, Steve De Bolt, Larry Ehinger, Sylvester L. Everhartf David Embler, Francis Jacquay, Tony Keller, Dan Krueckeberg Alva Lawson, Jim Murtaugh, Watnon Maddox, Dwight McCurdy, Robert McCurdy,“ Terry Murphy, Niland Ochsenrider, Bob Ochsenrdietrr George Rentz, Larry Strickler. pirn Sheets, Paul Schmidt, Ted pSchrock, Bill Smith, Ernest Uhridk, David Uhrick, David Vdgi »wede and Bill Zwick. \| • * !1 q • ■ , Funeral Held Today For Smitley Infant \ Funeral j services were held ati the (Black funeral home this afternoon for Marcella Jean Smitley, infant daughter of John and Pauline Montinger-Smitley, stillborn at the Adams county memorial hospital Thursday afternoon. The Rev. Dwigpt McCurdy officiated, with burial in Mt. Tabor cemetery. Surviving in addition to the parents are a sister, Joyce Ann, and two brothers, John Edward and Roge r Linn. One sister is deceased.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, August 1, 1952.

United Nations Forces Hand Reds A Smashing Double Defeat Today

Atomic Engine Is Planned For Huge Carrier Government Seeks Development Os Powerful Engine PITTSBURGH, UP — ; The government moved closer today to making atomic power the chief driving force of all its fighting machines. ; Westinghouse Electric uorp: spokesmen disclosed that the government had asked the firm to develop an atomic engine to power a gigantic aircraft carrier for the U. S. navy. ‘. j Westinghouse presently Is constructing an atomic power plant for a super-submarine. The company reported recently it was making “considerable” progress on its project. Engineers informed the government that if an atomic* engine could be built for a super-sub. it appeared logical a Mmilar mechanism could be developed to move surface craft: • \J Encouraged by Westinghouse’s progress report, the atomic energy commission amended its contract with the firm to include development of an engine of the future 'suitable for the propulsloij of large naval vessels such as airibraft carriers.” ; If th!e atomic engine is developed successfully, the navy’s largest ships will be ableTo cruise almost indefinitely without refueling. \ Only three days the AEC announced it was tjuildihg facilities in Eastern Idaho to test an atomic-powered airplane engine. Preliminary survey work already has been started on a 400,000-acre testing ground 40 miles southwest of Idaho Falls. ' ‘ Consolidgted-Vultee, builders of the B-36 intercontinental said the company and the air force were developing an air-frame for the first atomic-powered bomber. Design, development and construction of the aircraft’s reactor has been undertaken by General’Electric Co. at its Lockland, Ohio, gasturbine department. Secretary of the navy Dan A. Kimball said the nivy plans to float at least 10 super-carriers of; the Forrestal class, with some of them powered by atomic energy. •'— I I Von Arnold Winner to Tractor Pulling The second part o|f the tractor pulling contest brought out 11 entries in the heavyweight class with Von Arnold copping top honors with a pull of 105 percent over weight. c Hugo Bulmahp was; second with 103.6 percent over. Alvin Krueckeberg third, 98.1 percent; Lloyd Roe fourth, 97.03 percent; Raymond \Becker, Jr., fifth, 97 percent; Orville Neuenschwander sixth, 83.8 percent: Darrel Stout seventh, 80t2 percent; Wilmer Bolinke eighth, 80.1 percent; Herman Franz, \ninth, 70.8 percent; Ed Marbach 10th, 70.2 percent and Raymond Becker 11th, 67.5 percent. Friday Nignt 8 p. m.—Comllle’s dog show. ■ 9 p. m.—Danny Daniels oneman vaudeville show. 10 p. m.—Jaque Teeter, high wire act. Saturday Morning 9 a. m.—Horse pulling contest Saturday Afternoon 2 p. m.—Comille’s dog show. 3 p. m.-— Danny Daniels oneman vaudeville show. 4 p. m.—Jaque hign wire act. \ Saturday Night 8 p. m. —Comille’s dog show. ■ 7 ” 9 p. m.—Danny Daniels, one man vaudeville show.* 10 pi m.—Jaque Teeter, hig'n wire act. *

Lone Bandit Loots Bank 0f525,720 •ll » I - \ \- ' I p lowa Bank Victim Os Husky Gunman ANKEXY. lowa. UP — V A tall, hssky bandit carrying a pair of guns held up the State Ilank of Ankeny today, forced an assistant cashier to give him $25,720 and fled in a light-colored car. The bandit, wearing dirty light tan crawled into the bank through a |> asem en t window, forced assistant Cashier Waynie Roland to open the ; vault and Safe and scooped the money into a sack, officers said. He then locked Roland in the vault and escaped. ' \ !W. J. Lliechty, a member of the bank’s board of directors, said the bank had a large amount of money on hand to handle pay checks' for workers at the nbarby John Deere plant who were paid today. “We’ve established that $25,720 was stolen,” he said. —. Roland, 35. said he went to the bank about 7 a.m., read a morning newspaper and walked t,o an adding machine. The bandit walked into the room, lenTled, a pair of guns at Roland add tpld him: “Come on, let’s go.” He forced ißoland to open the bMink vauß and the safe and scooped the money, mostly bills and about 20 stiver dollars, into a sack. I’he bandit, then swung the vault door shut,! leaving Roland inside, and fled. ' ■’ Cashier L. E. Brewbaker entered the bank about 15 or 20 minutes later, heard muffled shouts from the vault and steed Roland.

i " 1 ■ 1 I ' Motorist Is Killed At Auto Hits Tree \ . -; • ; : • 4 »• • . ROCKPORT, Ind. VP — Charles A, Garrett J 21, Rockport, was kill-ed/-Thursday night when his ear left Pottery road two miles north of here, glanced off a bridge and smashed t into a tree. ||| ."j ■ Plan Entertainment V-• ' j h ■' ■■ - At County 4-H Show \To Present Program j Tuesday, Wednesday Two outstanding home latent entertainment programs will be presented at the county 4-H club show states Gene Hike, master of ceremonies for the show. After the 4-H parade Tuesday evening, the following program will be presented. V Band concert: brass band. Don Gerig, director; accordion band, Arlene Becker director. Quartet, French township — Jerry Spruhger, Keith Reinhart, Don Neuen, Kedwin Graber. Piano solo — Flight of the Rouble Bee — Alice Sprunger, Montoe township. ,|e Three Blind Mice — Janet Shaffer, Lynda’ and Lyla Krutzman, Preble township. Accordion solo — Janice Badenhop, Union township. Twirling apd drum act—Alice Stuber and Cplleen Egly, Jefferson township. • Accordion solo —Ronald Corson, Washington township. Skit —Hartford 4-H girls, Rebecca Lehman and Bhrdella Ault. ) Jim’s Daffy s f)oodler’s band, Blue Creek township. Accordion . solo — Jim Moser, Hartford township. : Blend Airs quartet—Blue Creek township, David Ripley, James Habegger, Jerry White, Bob Merckel. The acts will be judged and the winners will try for places in the Purdue entertainment festival. . Wednesday night Hie program 1 - will be as follows: j Band concept: accordion band, Arlene Becker, ' brass band; Don Gerig, director. ! J3kit —“Cabbage Soup” — Friend(TnrnTo Pace Eiaht)

U. S. Seeks To Ease Drought In Nine States ■ i ■ ’ .-" Emergency Session Held In Washington To Study Situation NASHVILLE. Tenn. UP—Farm officials of nine drought-stricken states helji an emergency session called by the department of agriculture today as estimates of crop damage in the southeast passed the $500,000,000 mark. The department has designated disaster areas in five states and may extend it to include the others as a result of one of pie most damaging dry spells in the region's history. Secretary of agriculture Charles F. Brannan called the meeting here tp find Some way to salvage the south’s agricultural economy and tide farthers over until they can reap another harvest. T. Hutchinson, assistant .secretary of agriculture, was expected to represent Brannan at the meeting. Two months of ’ rainleSsness coupled with unusually hot weather cut heavily into current harvest prospects, totally damaging some crops, and forcing stockmen th buy feed to supplement dried up pastures. The agriculture department enabled the farmers to obtain emergency loans from the farmers’ home administration and qualifies them for other benefits to help them recultivate fields. Brannan asked farm officials and representatives of agricultural mobilization committees of the affected states to | discuss other ways the department can help. The department 'designated as disaster areas Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, 'Mississippi and Tennessee and parts of Arkansas and Missouri. Other states affected by the drought are North and South Carolina. ’! | “We’ve been feeding livestock our hay from May and June which was cut for winter use,” said one Tennessee dairyman, Reece Thompson. “Our cattle are losing weight and milk production is off ' 20 percent.” I The Tennessee valley authority said it was forced to draw on its steam plants lor one-fifth of its power production in order to conserve reservoirs and warned that I the power supply available to large industrial users may be curtailed. ' Election Rules Are Announced By Clerk Sept 1 Deadline To File Candidacy In order that candidates not yet filed for any particular party not be left out. of the November general elections through technicalities, Edward Jaberg, clerk of Adams county, released the following schedule: September !1; day for filing candidacy. i September 5; firsjt day to print ballots, first day to make application for absentee ballots, and first day to mail out ballots. October JB; last day to register dr transfer affiliation and last day for disfranchised and deceased voters’ list. October 21; last day to publish candidacy list first time. October 28; last day to publish candidacy list for second time. October 25—November 1; vote in qffice, typwritten lists due. October 2s; appoint precinct election boards.

Wilson Wyatt May Be Stevenson Aide May Be Personal Campaign Adviser SPRINGFIELD, 111. UP — Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson was expected today to name a border state, “liberal” Democrat as his personal campaign adviser and trouble shoot'er‘ u • ; ■ ' ■ , The Democratic presidential Inominee will tap Wilson Wyatt, former mayor of Louisville, Ky„ and one-time federal housing expediter, for the top-level campaign post, informed sources said. Wyatt arrived nere Thursday, at 1 Stevenson’s invitation, for an overnight stay and a series of conferences with E the Illinois governor. Stevenson’s office promised an announcement today on the assignment Wyatt has been invited to take. An informed source predicted that Wyatt would serve as a sort of personal campaign director and troub’e shooter for Stevenson this in- the Campaign against Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican presidential nominee. Stevenson had an aide-de-camp in a similar role when he ran for public office the first -time and won the Illinois governorship in 1948 by a record majority of 572.000 votes. j Wyatt drove here Thursday and immediately went into conference with Stevenson. Their discussion was interrupted by the arrival of Sen. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma and later when Stevenson took time put for some business. The two men were closeted again at the executive mansion' Thursday night. Some of Stevenson’s state officials- w'ere said to have brought the two together. j * AuctiomSchool Dean ‘ , • • . ' - ■ j .’!• 1 . • ■ \ ' ‘ ’ \ ■ ■ if ' Rotary Club Speaker Col. Q. R. Chaffee Speaks Last Evening Col. Q. R. Chaffee, dean of the Reppert auction .school,, now in summer session here, was’ the guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the DecaTur Rotary club Thursday evening. The top flight auctioneer, a former school and college instructor revealed to the Rotarians the widespread, highly favorable publicity which the city of Decatur gains from the Reppert school and from its Col. Chaffee pointed out that the auction school has more than 5,00(1 graduates, scattered throughout the United States and Canada, and that probably 90 percent of these men are still actively engaged id the auction business. The speaker\ praised Decatur for its friendly spirit and for the warm wjslcorpe which the city has always granted to the auction students and faculty members. Otto Beehler chairman of the program. Harold Engle, club president, announced that the Decatur club will meet in joint session with the Bluffton Rotarians at the Bluffton Country club next Tuesday evening. The day’s affais will open with an inter-club golf match, starting at 2:30 o’clock, followed by the evening pinner meeting. Any members una,ble to attend must check out wi|th William Schnepf, day evening. The day’s affairs will Jr., by Monday noon. The club will of the Tuesday joint meeting.

Railroad Ordered To Install Lights INDIANAPOLIS. UP—The NewYork, Chicago & St. Louis railroad was ordered today by the Indiana public service commission to install automatic flasher lights at a grade crossing in Wells county where the railroad intersects Ind. 301. The Order called the crossing “extra hazardous.” V

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Win Air Fight; Old Baldy Hill Is Recaptured Five Enemy Jets Are Either Destroyed Or Damaged In Battles SEOUL, Korea, (UP) — The United Nations handed the Commpnists a smashing double defeat today, destroying <or damaging five enemy jets in an air battle and recapturing strategic Old Baldy hill on the western front. The allied .victories came as the Communists celebrated the 25thp anniversary of the “triumphant” Chinese Red army. Among the congratulatory messages announced by the Chinese was one from Soviet premier Josef Stalin. Three enemy MIG-15 jet fighters '• were shot down and two damaged in a 10-minute air battle between a--32 F-86 Sabrejets and 60 MIGs just below the Yalu ißiver in Northwest Korea. It was the first Communist challenge to U. N. air superiority since July 23. \ Credited with shooting down the MIGs were Ist Lt. Gene: F. Rogge, Auburn Neb.; Ist Lt. Alfred Mil-’ ler, Wighita Falls, Tex.; and CaptDaniel J. Dennemy, Sun Valley, I ’ Calif. I Lt. Gen. Glenn O. Barens, commander of the sth air force, challenged the Communist air force to a “slugging match.” He told th-j United Press the sth air force, now strengthened by a new fight-er-bomber wing, is in its “best shape” in a long time. He said the sth air force can handle any air offensive the Reds might hurl at his air elements, or at U. N. ground troops and supply netwgjks. “An initial strike would hurt,” he said, “they always do. You cgn’t . . . stop an entire offensive effort. But we could stop so that they wouldn’t have any appetite for trying very often.” —_ Qn the ground, two companies of Allied troops thfew the Reds off the crest of Old Baldy in an eight-hour night fight. The Reda - fought desperately -with machinegun, mortar and artillery. \ While U. N. troops battled up the muddy, slippery slopes, they carried with them logs, barbed wire and shovels. Immediately after. taking the height, they began digging deep bunkers and preparing .for an expected Communist counter-attack. Allied infantrymen gained possession of the hill exactly two (Tnrn To Pace Ktcht)

LATE BULLETINS HAVANA, Cuba, UP—The government charged 10 men with plotting toV overthrow l President Fulgencio Batista to- > day and said five police officials among them may face a firing squad. NEW YORK, UP — The United States court of appeals today denied Frank Costello’s second appeal from a contempt of congress conviction and the boss gambler was\ expected to begin serving an 18-month person sentence next week. 70 Students Enroll In Auction School The Reppert auction school, which opened this week for its semi-annual term of three weeks, has 70 students enrolled, it was announced today by Col.| Q. R. Chaffee, dean of the school. These students come from 22 states of the union, from California, to New York, and from Massachusetts to Florida, and two Canadian provinces. Ohio leads with 12 students. The school will hold its first public Saturday night at 8 o’clock at Madison and Second streets, the first of a series to be held throughout the rest of the school as part of the students' training.