Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 183, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 183.

Annual County 4-H Club Fair Opens Tuesday . To Run Three Days At Monroe; Nightly Entertainment On The annual Adams county 4-H club fair gets underway Tuesday at Monroe and according to all signs promises to be onp of the most fruitful series of in recent years. Following is the program from August .to-7:0" Tutwtay 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.—feeef, dairy, meat animals and pigs dbe in tents. 8 a.m. to 1:40 pm. Electric exhibits due in place. v- 7 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.—Poultry due In tent. \ 8:30 a m. to 10 a.m.—Receiving of handicraft exhibits. 9:30 a.m. to 10:3(1 p.m.—Food tent open. * 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.—Clothing, baking, food preservation/ and home, improvement exhibits open to the public.' \ 10:30 a.m.- —Judging of handicraft exhibits. 12 noon to 10 p.m^ —Commercial displays open. Rural youth tens selling] refreshments and 4-H novelties, 1:30 p.m.—Poultry judging. 4730? p.m.— soil conservation. forestry, bees, and entymology due in place, 7:15 p.m. to 8rl? p.m.—Grand parade. " ' 8:30 p.'m.T- Adams county entertainment festival, i A Wednesday 7 a.m. to 8 : a.m. Breakfast for livestock exhibitors. J Sr* 30 a.m. to 10 p.m;—Home economics and handicraft exhibits open to the public. T —9 a.m.-'-Judging of wildlife, soil conservation, forestry, bees and entymology. . ‘ 9 a.m. —Dairy judging. ' 9:30 a.m. —Garden exhibits should be in place. 9:30 a.nri—Food tent open. 10 a.m.—Garden judging. 12 noon to 11 p.m.—Rural youth selling refreshments. 2:30 p.m.—Tractor drivers congest. ■■ ' : 3 - 7 p.m.—Rabbit judging. 7:30 p.m.—4-H band-concert. 8 p.m.—Adams county entertainment festival. Thursday 7 a.m.—Breakfast for livestock /exhibitors: J I 8; a.m. —Arrival of food preparation. ' 11 8:30 a.m. —7 p.m.—--Heme economics and handicrafts exhibits open. - *■ 9 a.m.—Food tent open. 9 a.m.—Swine judging starts. 3:30 a.m. —Judging of food preparation. > f j 10 a.m.— Commercial display opens. ■ 12 noon—Rural youth selling refreshments. - - — 2:30 p.m.—Tractor driver’s contest. I' 3 p.m.—Beef and meat animal judging. j ■■ \ 6 p.m.—Sate of barrows, beef and meat animals sale. V ’ 7 p.m.—Preparation of clothing members for dress'revue. ; 7:30 p.m.—4-H band concert 8:30 p.m.—Public presentation of dress revile. 9:30 p.m —Removal of exhibits and close. ■ _ ■ ■ f - \ Abbie Anderson Dies At Home In Gary Abbie Anderson, aged about 30, husband of Hanna France Anderson, died Sunday morning at his home in Gary. A soldier in World War 11, he received al serious leg injury which never headed. Two amputations were made to sayd his life but relief was oniy temporary. Mrs. Anderson is the daughter of Mr. and_ Mrs. Carl _ France. Other surviving relatives 7 include a s<j>n and daughter and the parents, who also reside in Gary. y Funeral services will be. held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Bittner funeral home on West Fifth street in Gary. Charles and Calvin Magley and Cal E. Peterson plan to attend the services. - ' ' j. ■ '!' • 7 ' i7 ’ * ■ 1 • - r - • \ “ Scouts In Nation's Capital Two Days v • = Decatur Boy Scouts and Scouters who left here Saturday for their annual summer trip, will be in Washington, D. C., Wednesday. Any mail sent to them this eveninglikely will be delivered before they move bn. The address in the nation’s capital is: Potomac Park Motor Court, East Potomac Park, Washington 4, D C. 7 ■ ' .. 7. 77 1

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Decatur Pastors To Return

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Adlai Hits At GOP Split On Foreign Policy Warns Voters Not To Trust Foreign Policy Os G. 0. P( 7 -i j 7 ' , "'7 v WASHINGTON, UP—Gov. Adlai Stevenson warned voters today against . entrusting U. S. foreign policy to a Republican party i“split down the center” on the basic issue of international cooperation. The Democratic presidential nominee hammered away at GOP differences on foreign policy in a message to the Ohio state Democratic convention' at Columbus. w Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower held his oratorical fire for thie three months of campaigning stilFto come. He claimed a victory over one of his most serious organizational problems: How to hitch enthusiastic ' amateur! Ike backers into a tandem harness with the professional politicians of the GOP National Committee. Eisenhower Announced ih Denver that the citizens for Eisenhower group, which helped him win the presidential nomination, will be continued during the campaign hs a “separate and special agency.’’ This was a triumph for leaders of the group, who had demanded independent status during three days of talks with top Republican leaders. Spokesmen announced immedh ately that “many prominent Democrats’* will work with the group during the campaign. “We are not ready to announce any names yet,’’ Mrs. Oswald B. Lord, co-chairman of the citizens group, said. “We don’t know whether they will want to work openly and publicly or "whether they would prefer to do their work quietly.” GOP national| chairman Arthur S. who wanted the citizens group Subordinate to the national committee, was? promiaed that one of his top aidefc, Wesley Roberts/ will have power to “coordinate” the activities of the citizens group With those of regular Republican organizations. Eisenhowbf continued the quiet but essential work of fence mending today by scheduling private talks with former Sen. C. Wayland Brooks. GOP national committeeman ?for Illinois, and with several prominent Negro leaders from Eastern I Stevenson/who also scheduled a news conference today at Springy field. 111., told the Ohio Democrats' that the voters’ choice this fall is between the party which “created and cherished” the policy of cooperation among free nations and“the J party which has opposed that policy and is today split down the center, in bitser division about ft.” He said* the people also must decide whether to continue in power the party '‘which took us out of the first depression into the greatest and most widely shared prosperity of our history" or turn to “thejparty which looks back with nostalgia to the 1 brief, lop-sided booni of the ’2o’s.” Vibe presidential npminees also got into the. campaigns acts with gusto. 1 I The Democrats’ John J. Sparkman said in a radio interview that an “appreciable”; tax cut should be possible "within two years’ time.” He based that forecast bn the belief that defense spending will slack off by then. ■ V The Republicans’ Richard M. Nixon aimed kttaight at Stevenson in a speech to the California state Republican central committee convention denouncing the Democratic nominee akja man >ho “owes (Cea tin wed On Pn«* Six) l.z.

■ Rev. F. H, Willard

Ministers Returned 7 J' -,L \ ' ■ '■ To Decatur Churches Willard, Chambers Reappointed Here Two Decatur ministers, the Rev. John E. Chambers and the Rev. F. H. Willard, were reassigned to the local*charges at the closing session of the annual meeting of the Indiana conference north of the Evangelical United Brethren church Sunday at Oakwood park, Syracuse. Rev. Chambers returns ito the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church and Rev. Willard to the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, j The Rev. Lawrence T Norris was returned to the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church, (northeast of k Decatur- the Rev. Lewis Strong was returned to the Calvary E. U. B. church ,east of Decatur. Other ministers in this area returned to their pastorates include: the Rev. Wilbur Workman. Craigville circuit; the Rev. Karl Tauber, Berpe: the Rev. Garth Shepherd, Geneva, and the Rev. Robert L. Cox. Linn Grove. Other appointments in the area include: the Rev. Ethel Hollingsworth. Ossian circuit; the Rev. Emory Leader, Petroleum circuit; the Rev. E. E- Petznik, to First church in Fort Wayne; the Rev. R. E. Vance, Canary, the Rev. A. Hunter Crescent Avenue, and the Rev. S. P. O'Reilly, South Wayne, all in Fort Wayne. Miss Edna Fleming Dies This Morning Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Miss Edna Ellen Fleming, 66, former Adams county' schodl teacher, died at 1:45 O’clock this morning at the home of a brother. John Fleming, Decatur route 3, ;with whom she resided. Death followed an illness pf several years. 'I \ She was born in Allen county July 26, 1886, a daughter of J. A. and Cinda. Miller-Fleming, and had never married. A Resident of Adams county most of her life, she taught in schools of the county for 15 years. Surviving in addition to the brother are two sisters, Mrs, Monenia Hawkins of Monroeville and Mrs. Lucille Miller ? of Decatur. One brother and one sister preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. im Wednesday at the Black funeral hom£, the Rev. Lawrence T. Norris officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. ! ■■ ~~~ ■ ! Dr. C. C. Rayl In Chicago Hospital Dr. C. C. Rayl, prominent Decatur surgeon, is a patient in the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago. Dr. Rayl suffered a head Injury several days ago when he was, forced to stop his car suddenly to avoid hitting another auto, and his head struck the windshield. Symptoms latex developed which necessitated a trip to Chicago for further diagnosis and he Underwent a delicate operation la|t Friday. His condition today was reported as fair. The Decatur surgeon 'is expected to be confined to the hospital for at least two weeks.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 4, 1952.

At Least 28 Killed When ■ ■ ' I Buses Collide Head-on In Texas This Morning

Allied Planes Destroy Vital Military Point Vital North Korean Headquarters Near Capital Smashed SEOUL, Korea, UP United Nations warplanes smashed a vital North KoFfean ' military headquarters near Pyongyang today, destroying one Communist MIG-15 jet and damaging another that made a vain attempt to break up the raid. /j ;\ > ’7 ! Screening American Sabrejets tangled with 17 of the Rod sweptjets. Today’s two claims} together with belated credit for a jet shot down Friday, brought the total of MIGs claimed destroyed or damaged by the Fart East air force planes to 1,002. Fifth air force headquarters said two waves of fighter-bombers flew more than 275 sorties over the North Korean headquarters. The nature of the headquarters was not disclosed. The air forbe described it only as “vital.” Its location was given as northeast of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. The air force withheld the number of planes involved. A “sortie” is one combat trib by one airplane, but one plane could make more than one sortie during a day’s attack. Pilots returning from the initial assault reported “excellent results.” The first wave flew 190 effective sorties. The U. N. planes dropped 185 tons of high explosives and 3,500 gallons of napalm and fired 15 rockets and 15,000 rounds of machine gun and 20-millimeter ammunition. Pilots said they destroyed 39 buildings, an antiaircraft gyn and four \machine gun positions. Two buildings were damaged and approximately 70 hits were observed in the target* area. Today’s heavy attacks were the latest in hte U. N.’s decision to keep pressure on the Reds, even though the armistice talks and ground action arb stalled at pie moment. With today’s 'claims, the record showed U. N. * pilots have shot /Tura Pege Two) Report On Fair To Be Released Later Decatur Fair Ends Saturday Evening Walter Ford, bhamberj of Commerce secretary, reports about $7,000 expended for the Decatur fair held at Hanna-Nuttnian park last week. As for receipts, this -will b 4 covered in a general financial report to be releasjed Thursday. 1 *' • . I / 7 ' Ford eaid fair people were pleased with the Way things turned out and will be back next yegr. Other concessions will be in as the word quickly gets around whein a “spot” develops. Facilities’ that are l at the grounds will 'be left, with many more added. It will .be a mutual project, a combined effort of the city and the Chamber j of Commerce. Permanent toilet facilities and showers will be installed and more floodlights placed around the field. In thfc near future. Ford said, the grounds will be scraped even and seeded; it will be used as a park and a camping spot for Girl and Boy Scouts when a fair is not in operation. Another entrance wil| be provided to add access to the fair; this proved to be almost an urgent need as the crowded traffic concaused a serious bottleneck for at least three nights last week.

Pacific Security Conference Opens U. S., Australia, New Zealand Meet HONOLULU, T. H. UP — Foreign ministers (or the United States. Australia and New Zealand formally open t’he Pacific mutual security conference today to solidify their 1 sountries’ unified pledge to protect each other from “arme]d aggression." * * Secretary of state Dean Acheson, Australian external affairs minister Richard G. Casey, and New Zealand external affairs minister T. C. Webb were to open their first conference at 2 p.m. GST. | The meeting, set at Kaneohe marine air station, scene of the first Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, was organized to “work out \ the machinery” of the tripartite agreement.’ The three foreign ministers said in prf-conference statements that they intended to establish a working basis for the treaty signed by their nations in San Ffaneisco last September. | The treaty pledges ,eacht nation to meet banned aggression” on any one of the other parties. 1 “We expect to discuss every single subject confronting us in the Pacific,” . Acheson said on his arrival from the United States. But he said the purpose of the first niffAing of the so-called Anzus council was “prirtiarily to consider matters concerning implementation" of the treaty. The missiofl of the three n’ations was to merge their military power under the pressure of threats of new aggression in Asia and Pacific. ' < ' '■ ! ~~ / ' Burns Prove Fatal To Willshire Man ■ • Harold J. Bpbout Dies At Hospital Harold J. fiebout, 54, retired carpenter of Willshire, 0., died at 9:45 o’clock Saturday night at the Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne, of third degrek burns suffered Friday night at his home. His clothing. Ignited when a match fell onto his clothnig. He was a former commander of American Legion Post 207 in Willshire, where he had filled all offices. . He was also a member of -church and the Buffalo of America Incorporated. , \ Mr. Bebout was born ih Adams county Feb. 41 1898. a son. of Abe and Alice Hisey-Bebout, and was married to v Ethel Hoblet Dec. 4, 1920.’. 7' ' d Surviving in addition to his wife grb three daughters, Mrs. Norma Hoyer, Mrs. Alice Mcßride nad Mi's. Ellen Sunian, all of Decsltur; one son. Gene Bebout of Convoy. O.; six brothers. Glen. Ernest and DqylCj all of Van Wert, 0.. RQger of Fort Wayne, Joel of Indianapolis and Wayne of Dorset, O.: 'three sisters, Mrs. MaUdie Bucher in California, Mrs. Clarice Brunnegraff of Decatur and Mrs. Roy Fetters of Dorset, 0., and 12 grandchildren. Funeral seyvcies will be conducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Union United Brethren church, the Rev. Bragg officiating. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery, with Willshit-e American Legion post " conducting military' rites. Friends may call at the Black funeral home here ugtil noon Tuesday. when the body will be removed to the church to lie in state until time of the services. ' A ■ Polio Is Fatal To j 12-Year-Old Girl INDIANAPOLIS. UP — Pearlle J. Blodgett, 12, Bennington, died Sunday in James Whitcomb Riley hospital for children. She was admitted as a flolio victim from Switzerland couiity.

Record-High Food Prices To Increase * Drought, Disease Epidemics To Push Food Prices Higher WASHINGTON, UP — Food prices, already at an all-time high, may soon be driven to even dizzier peaks by the drought and livestock disease epidemics now stalking*the natioh’s faring, officials said today. A worried Spokesman for the office of price stabilization, summed up the outlook in one sentence: “The food price situation certainly looks bad for housewives.” ' He pointed out that under the new controls law, all fruit and vegetable prices are entirely exempt from price ceilings, and the OPS has only limited power to check increases on other. food items. - Agriculture department officials said the future supply of beet, milk, corn, potatoes, peanuts, vegetables, pecahes, cucumbers, berry crops and many, other foods is jeopardized by the drought which has scorched crops froin Maine to Mississippi. They said it Is still too., early for an accurate estimate of how much food will be lost because of the prolonged dry spell. But it doesn’t take an expert to see that the situation adds up to shorter supplies and higher prices in general. Equally alarming .to officials in Washington is the epidemic of vesicular exanthema which hits broken out in hog farms of 16 states. Chairman Harold C. Cooley, D-N.C. of the House agriculture committee said that “millions of consumers” will suffer unless the disease is'stamped out quickly. “The epidemic now endagers the nation’s supply of pork and couldvery easily result 'in substantia] increase!'ln the price of pork and pork products to consumers,” he said. An OPS official said fruit and vegetable prices would normally be dropping fast at this time of the year, as the bountiful summer harvest poured into the grocery stores. Instead, prices are going up, mainly as a result of short crops. > , ,7. '. 7 . He said the drought may have, the reverse-English effect of causing a temporary drop in beef prices if * farmers are compelled to send their cattle to market prematurely for lack of feed. But he warned that the nation would pay dearly for this shortITnrn To Paso Six) Mary Heidenreich Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Morning Mrs. Mary E. Heidenreich, 44, of Fort Wayne, died Saturday afternoon at St. Joseph's hospital in that city following a shqrt illness. She had resided in Fort Wayne for the past 22 years and was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church and the CCHS mothers club. Surviving are her husband, Wilmer; a daughter, Susanne; three sons, Robert, Edward and Thomds, all at home; her parents, Mr. and strs. Willard Kelsey, who reside on High "street in tt|is city; two sisters, Mrs. John Bochet of Fort Wayne and Miss Frances Kelsey of Northville, Mich., and three stepbrothers, Forrest Buffenbarger of DecatiSr, Lawrence Buffenibarger oj Wabash and Harvey Buffenbarger of Sidney, O. Funeral services will be held at 8:30 a.m. 'Tuesday at the Jule Schone funeral home and at 9 -o’clock at St. Mary’s church in Fort Wayne, the Very IRev. Msgr. Nicholas J. Allgeier' officiating. Burial will ,be in the Catholic cemetery at Fort Wayne.

Stevenson Denies Left Wing Ruling * News Conference Is Held By Stevenson SPRrNDFiELD, Hl- (UP)—Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson today branded Us “nonsense” charges that the “left wing” of the Democratic party had taken over his campaign for the presidency. The Democratic presidential l nominee made the comment at a news conference at which he also declared he was unafraid about the possibility of southern states cutting loose from the Democratic party. - He held the news conference standing at a lectern on the bandstand of the Leland Hotel ballroom which has been converted into a room for the Stevenson campaign. His comments im eluded: 1. He has no intention of making “sectional appeals” or “adjusting convictions to suit localities” in a bid southern support; he does not believe “that our people are basically different” and-"hie has “little apprehension about the fidelity of the south” to the Democratic party. , 2. He has no intention of intervening in Democratic primaries such as in Tennessee where Sen. Kenneth McKellar is being challenged Thursday by Rep. Albert Gore for the senatorial nomination. ' ’ 3. He can hardly see how the Negro vote can find any happy refuge” in the Republican party arid he is “grateful” to Sen. John J. Sparkman of Alabama- the vice presidential nominee, for a major cohtrlbution to writing the “excellent" civil rights plank in the Democratic platform. 4. He has invited Gov. Allen of Texas to Sprihgfield to discuss the issue of state vs. federal ownership of the offshore lands; Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia, who had the slipport of most Southern delegates for the presidential nomination, will come Wednesday for a conference. Stevenson was asked about charges that Americans for Democratci Action and the “far left wing” of the Democratic party have taken over his campaign. “I can answer that ih two '’’’nra To Paso «lx) Six Persons Killed On State Highways j Three Other Violent Deaths Are Reported By UNITED PRESS 7 At least six persons lost their lives on Hoosier highways, a race driver died of burns, one person drowned and another was shot in a week-end of violent deaths in Indiana. Lee Blankenship, 30, Beech Grove, died instantly Sunday when he was hit by a bullet from a gun used for target practice by Mrs. Patty L. Hood, 24, Indianapolis. Police said Blankenship was on a boat on White River and Mrs. Hood wa? shooting tin cans from the river bank. Mrs. Elta Hobpie, 32, South Bend, and Mrs. Jacolen Ide, 65, Fostoria, Mich., were killed Sunday night in a two-car collision on Ind,. 2. about five miles west ‘of South Bend. .Critically injured in the accident which occurred when Mrs. Hoople lost control of her auto in a heavy rainstorm, were William Riggs Jr., Howard Schroleder, Lonnie Watson, all of South Bend, and a 10-year boy believed to be Mr.s Hoople’s son. Wade Bowman, 75, Dallas. Tex,, and Mrs. Mary Hullinger, 3f, Eaton, died Saturday of injuries suffered in separate accidents. An eight-yea?-old Gary boy, Frederick Hill, was struck and killed Saturday near' his home by a hit-and-run driver. Witnesses said the car was traveling 80 miles (Contiaued On Pa*c Six)

Price Five Cents

Crash Head-on At Hill Crest At Waco, Tex. 23 Survive Crash , Os Two Greyhound Buses Early Today WACO. Tex. UP — Two Greyhpund buses, one loaded to capacity, collided head-on at the crest of a hill, near here early today and burst into flames, killing at least 28 persons. There were 23 survivors, all of whom received emergency treatment. Seventeen remained hospitalized. James Le Blond, civil defense director for McLennan county and also an employe of Compton funeral home where an emergency morgue » was up, said there were 28 bodies in the mbrgue; The dead count had varied from early estimates by 34 by police dispatcher Sam Johnson to possibly as high as 50 by a highway patrolman. But Leßlond said tie didn’t think any additional bodies would be found, thojugh some pieces > may still be in the wreckage. Both drivers were killed. They were identified by a Greyhound spokesman as M. B. Herring, D ’as, and Billy Earl Malone, Waco. Herring was driving the southbound bus headed for San Antonio and Malone the northbound bits enroute to; Dallas. Both drivers had been with the company about a year. It was the first accident for either driver. Officials at Connaly air' force base said army and air force personnel had been brought there for treatment. They said only three z servicemen, Sgt. Ic. Alonzo Shelton, Cpl. Louis G. Marniquec and Air- • man ,2c'yJames C. Miller, required hospitalization and that their condition was not serious. Reports on the .condition of the 6ther survivors were not immediately available. Two Waco policemen, H. C. Garland and J. K. Smith, saw the southbound bus pull opt and had gone to the edge of Waco to check the bus again regarding ‘wo suspects they sought to arrest. They were about five miles; away when the buses collided and burst Into flames. Gariarid a said “it was a picture out of hades. Wheii we got there it looked as if only one bus was involvedt they were so jammed to- - gether. * “Both were on fire and bfazing sky high. There were bodies scattered over the road, some of them in ditches, some of the bodies (n tire. “The first bodies I J saw that could be recognized as such were two small children.” Garland said. “They were lying together. Both of the little bodies were on fire. It was horrible. There were other bodies burning and some just smoldering. Some were thrown 50 to 60 feet away from the 1)0868.” - Only., the steel frames of the buses were left standing after the gasoline tanks engulfed both of them in flames. Sheriff C. C. Maxey said the weather was partly cloudy and still dark when the crash occurred. He believed a third car might nave caused the accident., Compton funeral home said there would be considerable delay in identifying the (bodies because most of them were badly burned. . A reporter at the scene said it was the worst sight he ever experienced. Some of the passengers* who crawled through emergency exits were lying on the highway waiting tor ambulances to remove them. 1 INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and cooler tonight. Tuesday fair and pleasant. Low tonight 56-62 north, 62-66 south; high Tuesday 78-84 north, 84-88 south.