Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 284, Decatur, Adams County, 2 December 1952 — Page 2

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Attend District Rural Youth Meet ■ ■ M District Plans For Year Are Discussed * nian, Gloria Koeneman, rural youth officers, aQd ' Henry Qet r ting, district vice president, repr®* seated Adams county at the district four, rural youth board meet, ing Monday night at the Fann Bureau Co-op in Marion. Plans for 1958 in district four ■were* formulated. Henry Getting was appointed district Sports chairman of basketball and will also serve on the state spprls committee. * ‘y: "’'• The next district event will be Come to Kohne’s for Gifts that* are a pleasure to give and exciting to get. Kogne Drug Store. It

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the January 14 meeting 'kt th® 4-H building in county. ' February 16 all district add county officer®, along with Farik Bureau and extension advisors, wiU meet <t the YMOA in Koko-1 mo to discus* duties and policy relaUonahipjs.: The Farm Blureau sponsored coop ichool was set for March 16 at the Honeywell building in WaTfce arrangements for the remainder of |he year’s district meetings were made with Adams county rural youthers presenting a special number at the April 20 meeting in Wells county and in charge of devotions’ at the picnic July 19 at; Lake Blue Water in Blackford county. Adams county will serve as boat to the district October 19. John district president, and Gordon . Jones, state Advisor from Purdue University, were in charge of the meeting. Trad® in a Good Tot^n—- Decatur.

Changed From Man To Opposite Sex 26-Year-Old Blonde Undergoes Operation LONDON, UP—Blonde, 24-year-old Christine Jorgensen of \ New York, who was changed from a man to a Woman, says she would like to meet Dr. sw*an ForbesSempill,- 40, who recently was changed from a woman to a man. Interviewed by telephone Monday night; In her room in the Copenhagen Rigs . Hospital, Christine said she would likk to talk with the 40-year-old’ Scot doctor who officially became a man hbout two months sgo. j\ “These years \of change have been a great difficulty for m®,T said Christine, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Jorgensen, live in the Bronx, New York. “I am a very natural womanb’ she said. “Have you a girlish figure?’’ she was asked. \ “Uh‘huh,” she replied. | She said she is five feet seven and weighs “somewhere near 125 pounds” That, would bf an average figure for a girl of her height and age. “How did it begin?” she was asked. ‘ I’d rather not talk about it as it is a very personal matter,” she said in a husky voice “Are your interests male or female? I mean are you Interested in say, needlework rather than a ball game?" she was asked ♦ll am just a natural girl,” she said interest then it interests! me. I do my hair in a roll at the beck of my head, for instance. I’m womanly enough to be very glad it is such a nice blonde color” She said she planned to return to New York after her discharge from the hospital here. “Any boy friends?” she was asked. i “No.” she replied. y “Would you say ‘no boy friends —yet*?” ' 7 ! , “Yes, perhaps. ' I have to concentrate on developing my personality. I have just got out of bed. The first time for 10 days. 1 am a bit shaky, but doing very well.”

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School Board Hold* Business Session The Decatur school board met id regular session last night and carried oh business strictly of a. routine nature. It was noted that delivery has been made ,of a combination tractor, snow plow and mower of a portable type that was recently bid on. The price tor the outfit—which was made use ot this morning as a snow plow—was 1287.08 and supplied by the low bidder, Klenk’s of Decatur. Six Oftscaped Men Are Still AlUrge !| Two Captured Men Dupes Os Escapees PITTSBURGH JUP ! — Police said today that two convicts who were' captured 24 hours after breaking oift of Western penitentiary were .dupes tor six bther inmates who apparently had perfected their escape plan. The six fugitives remained at large today. If police had any notion of their destination , they kept their information secret. Officially, police said they were without clues. After Questioning Ralph Mastermonica and Carmac McNeils, the t'wo recaptured convicts, district attorney Janies F, Malone said he believed both men were dupes. They were left to shift for themselves, he said, while the other more hardened ahd escape-wise inmates followed an orderly plan. The two were seized Monday morning. ' \ - Authorities were skeptical at the tale of Mastermonica, who said the Sunday morning breakout actually began as a long-planned riot demonstration. > included among the six still at large were two of the mofet dangerous of the escapees. Virgil Tpney, <2. leader of the breakout, was mastermind of one of Pittsburgh’s most notorious holdup gangs. He was serving a 120year maximum sentences. Nick The Torturer Derembeis, 41, an immigrant teom Greece, was serving a 26 to 72-year term* Derembeis earned his nickname when, in 1934, he and a pal gouged out the eyes of a robbery victim for a 115 loot, I

South Koreans Battle To Hold Sniper Ridge Reds Drive Through i Blinding Snowstorm As War Lull £nds SEOUL, Korea. Wednesday, UP Korean defenders of icecoated Sniper Ridge battled fiercely early today to sweep stubborn remnants of a 750-man Chinese assault force from the ceptral front height where renewed fighting has raged for more than 24 Atoung The Chinese struck through a blinding snowstorm just after midnight''Tuesday and fought to pithin 100 yards of the crest before the hitack stalled against a stonewall ground defense supported by artillery fire and Allied fighter bombers. , But at least 100 Chinese still Clung to positions below the peak of Rocky Point, which juts eastward from the main Sniper Ridge line ‘ north of Kumhwa. United Press War correspondent Victor Kendrick reported from the front that the tight Mill blazed at close range early today. \ A ; five-inch snowfall melted briefly, then froze again to coyer Sniper with sheets of ice. Temperature was near zero. The Sniper attacks and light jabs along most of the rest of the 155-mile battlefront broke a two-week lull in the Korean fighting. > The western front, where U. ,N. trpops guarded the shortest route to Seoul, remained mysteriously quiet. Some officers believed the Reds Werp “saving \ip” for the visit of President-elect Eisenhower. One Communist MiG-15 was afoot down today by Ist Lt James F. Low pf Sausalito, Calif., the 17th American jet ace of the Korean war.; . ' . The Chinese aimed their two attacks on Sniper &t Rocky Point, the highest pinnacle on Little Finger Ridge, which jut* eastward from Sniper Ridge itself. A full battalion of perhaps 750 then crept through a snowstorm that blinded South Korean defenders early reached tile bottom of the peak and began a charge upward. It carried them to within 100 yards of the crest. Allied artillery crashing down on the Reds stalled the attack briefly but the Chiense fought through the storm of shells and Into South Korean bunkers and trenches. ■ , f , i The ROK's threw them back in an hour of vicious infighting. With snow stiM falling, the Reds launched another assault at "V:3O a- m. from each side of Rocky Point. At noon, the 'ROK’s were holding them off with showers of hand grenades. ; Snow fell over most, of the front today. Rising temperatures melted it almost immediately at the Western end of the line, reducing valleys in no-man's-land to lakes of clinging mud. 4. Five inches of snow falling on the pastern and central fronts gave\the Reds perfect cover for stealthy jabs l at U. N. positions Anchor Hill and Heartbreak ißidgee in the east, and near Old Baldy in the west-cen-tral sector. If you have something to sell or room* for rent, try a Democrat Want Add. It brings results. \

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Judging Continues *1 liwtatk Show Grand Champ Steer To Be Named Today CRICAQO, Up —Judging in the international live stock exposition approached a climax today as thousands ofexhibitors and spectators awaited the selection of th® grand champion steer, William E. Ogilvie, exposition manager, expected the largest crowd to date In the 10-day show which started Saturday to see the winner of the coveted steer The “king of cattledom” will be sold at auction to the highest bidder in another highlight ot the mammoth exposition. | The grand I champion barrow of the swine show *lll be chosen Wednesday. Monday saw the first of the top prize winners selected when a 145pound Southdown wether exhibited by Pennsylvania State College won the sheep class. C. B. Teegardin and Sons of Ashville, 0.. showed the I grand champion polled shorthorn bull and Mathers Bros., Mason City, Hl., won grand championship and the reserve tor shorthorns, f A. C. Stewart of Greensburg, Ind., captured the coveted title of "Cora King of North America” Monday after a girl, Ila Maxine Hiner, 13. Lewisville, Ind-, startled the exposition by becoming the first feminine “corn princess." Allen Haig, Chadwick, la., was reserve junior champion. Stewart, 84, showed a sample of the "870" variety grown on bis farm. E. W. Doubet, Hanna City. 111., won reserve honors with an 843 variety. > . Stewart was one of several Hoosiers to win international honors at the show. Charles N. Fischer, Shelby county, was a three-time winner of the king title, his most recent victory coming in 1950. He Was ineligible this time since triple winners are barred from further competition. One of Stewart’s two sons, Gilman C. Stewart, an Indiana state fair board i membet, was corn prince in 1938. The 1953 king’s 10 ginning ears of corn were picked from a field which yielded an average of 104 bushels ah acre. Young Miss Hiner won the princess title with “844-D” yellow corn. She is the first corn princess since 1940 when another Hoosier girl, Beverly Mead, Waldron, won the crown. Canadians took the bulk of grain awards, winning in oats, rye barley, alfalfa and flag. The tiny community of Caro. Mich., shared in the awards with the winning sample of wheat and field beans. Spencer Dunham of Caro took the title of wheat king, and his daughter Janet. 13, was at bis side when he claimed the crown. He won the. reserve wheat and barley light of his five children. Betty Lou King, also from Carp, boosted the town’s prestige when she' won with her field Australians p&idtop prices for Polled Shorthorns to be shipped to their country to propagate the breed which has become popular there. Delgety and Co. of Sydney paid 82,600 for one bull and 81,600 for another at auction. In the national 4-H club congress being held in conjunction with the exposition, 24 national winners and winners from each state were Announced today in th? canning achievement, poultry, garden and dress making projects. - ■ : \ ■ , George Schultz Heads Holy Name Society George Schultz was elected president of the Holy Name society of St. Mary’s Catholic church at the annual meeting of members at the K. of C. hall last evening. He succeed# Kenneth Loshe. Other officers named last night are; Hubert Lengerich, yice-presi-dent and William J. Miller, secre-tary-treasurer. The latter was reelected- Cyril' Becker is the retiring vice-president. \ The hew- officers will be in stalled January 5. CHURCH NEWS Nuttman Ave. U. |B. Crowds are hearing evangelist John Sprunger at the Nuittman Avenue United Brethren in Christ Church. The evangelistic series began Bunday and will continue for two weelu. At 7 o’clock ®ach evening, Mrs. Sprunger, -ts teacher in the ; local grade school conducts a children’s meeting for the boys and girls of the community. Series illustrated on the flannel board and Object lessons together with-gospel choruses are featured each evening. All children are invited to enjoy this 30 minute meeting. At 7:80 the entire group gathers in the main auditorium for the evangelistic service. Everybody' takes part in a rousing song service. Special music is 'rendered by visiting friends from neighboring churches each night. Tuesday evening will feature Rev. and Mrs. L J. Klopfeustieu of Berne singing the gospel selectiou “The Meeting lu The Air.”

AMt Farm Class Wednesday i AgriculturffKijistruotor of Decatur high achoObWilUam Journay, announced today that the adult farmers class scheduled for last night at the high school has been changed to Wednesday night at 7:80 o’clock! at the school. Rhee Says Koreans To Launch Offensive Koreans Not Afraid Os Chinese Troops SEOUL, Korea UP, — President Syngman Rhee said today he will tell President-elect Dwight Eisenhower that the South Koreans will launch an dffehsive against the Communtets—-alone, if necessary, Rhee told a press conference the South Koreans are not afraid ot 400 million Chinese. “The people and the army have nearly come to the end of® their patience," he said. Rhee’s press conference took place wlhile Seoul anxiously and tensely awaited Eisenhower’s arrival. , The war-batt4red city bore A Chris-tmas-card look because of a one-inch mantle of. snow that covered Its thousands of tiled roofed homes and hid much of the rubble. i The place and time of EisenI? *' I i .

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hower’s arrival were still cldsely guarded Armored cars and armed jteeps patrolled the streets an<Fthousands of soldiers an police kept a close watch on passers-by. ‘ A Security precautions were tightened .even ,more after a U. S. marine was wounded slightly ,in the knee while''driving a jeep Monday night a road within 15 miles of Seoul. . ' . ' • 'Shots from an American-made M-2 carbine and an M-l Garand punctured seven holes in side of the jeep and blew out two tires on the right side. . 1— The geographic center of the United States is Smith County, Kansas. ; ’ . / I TjonTtake a chance T/kKE PLENAMINS Smith Drug Co. ' For Eager Schooltime Appetites