Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. N0?302.

Premier Pinay Quits, French Crisis Grave ' - V - < .. if - * A Premier Resigns, Nation Is Plunged Into Grave Crisis PARIS, UP —President Vincent ~Auriol today: accepted the resignation of Preniier Antoine Pihay and France plunged into a grave Christmas time crisis. Aurlol acted after he failed In a last-ditch plea to the popular busi- > nassman premier to stay on the job and see through his program to save France from economic disaster. A Pinay, disillusioned by rebuffs in the national assembly, refused to reconsider his dramatic early morning resignation. \ > “On no pretext will I descend again into that lion’s den.”_he s£aid. . The French president 'immediately resumed talks with top political leaders to find a successor to Pinay, whose nine-month term of office gave France its third longest government in , postwar politics. ; \Even before_ accepting Pinay’s resignation, he “conferred with former premier Georges flidault and Pierre-Henri Teitgen, leaders of the Moderate CatholiC Popular Republican party (MRP). It was the MRP which drove Pinay ipto resigning by refusing to back hirA on three confidence votes on the 1953 budget the premier was to have faced before his resignation cut short an ■ early morning national assembly debate. Pinay, confronted with growing opposition to his budgetary policy and the near collapse of his “save the franc" program, threw in the towel for his nine-month-old coalition government in\ a dramatic nearly morning announcement. He told the Startled assembly he was f-esigning because of ‘the impossible attitude” of the Popular Republican party MRP, w'hose 88 members of his shaky coalition had voted, to abstain from balloting in threO crucial confidence votes. Confronted with certain defeat by that\defection, the 60-year-old tannery owner, who headed the 17th and third longest-lived French government since the liberation, Refused to await the outcome of the voting*. .He made his curt announcement from the / rostrum, then left With his cabinet. Pinay. (leaving the presidential palace,saiid he had insisted to the that the . resignation must stand. "The country cannot . afford the luxury of a parliament that doesn’t have a stable majority,"' he said. “1 cannot govern without an efficient majority and I couldn't agree to stay in power when 1 saw that majority was refused me." ' ) Although, technically, v the opposition would have requiireiji 313 votes —an absolute majority of the 625 living deputies—to overthrow’ tradition cancels out the possibility of a premier remaining in power once/lie is defeated on a confidence issue, absolute majority qr not. ' K 3, \\ Kermit Crist Will Arrive Home Tonight Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Urist. o! Plimroe. received joyous ChristA man hews today when they were informed that their sori, Kermit serving with the U. S. navy, it scheduled to arrive home tonight . by plane for Christmas. , ' Orist, serving aboard a tanker was enroute hame whep liis shli was ordered" tb return to the Fai Fast to replace a tanker lost lij explosion. However, todayts mOjs sage stated he would be home to night. - -i *-C - ■ ■ : -■ [Good Fellows* Pervious total $896.69 i James kocher, Sr._\ 10.00 H. P. Schmitt and Family 10.00 Trinity E.U.B. Junior C. E. 5.00 Xi Alpha lota Exemplar chapter — - 10.00 Leonard Soliday and Family 5.00 Marilyn Johnstoii .01 A Good ;Feflow 2.25 A Friend ..._l£._<• 1.30 Mr., Mrs. W. Guy Browri 5.00 '/ — — Total -$945.25 Niblick and Company, $25 in merchandise. \ \ ■ I Merchandise from Begun’s; Economy Store and Ehinger’s; Lee’s Hardware, Goodyear and Rural Youth donated toyS.~~~ INDIANA WEATHER \ , Cloudy tonight and Wednes* ( 'day with occasional light rain dr drizzle north tonigrit. . A little colder tonight and /Wed-, ' Low tonight 32-37. High Wednesday Al 1 : "

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Candidates For Queen

jjjy r\ 1 : .• ... - 'L ■ ; ' t-k ' :' \ / ■ Honora Braun « BBr - Bl h * Kif i HU '.l , / 1 Rose Mary Gase Queen candidates for the 1953 . homecoming of Ilecatur ! Catholic high school havg/been selected bythe four classes of the school The seniors have named Miss Honora Braun, daughter of Mrs. Martin Braun of 222 N. 7th street; juniors Miss Mary Ann Heimann. daughter of Mr. ahd Mrs. Jaiiob Heimann of routed str,<homoreA Miss Rose Mary Gase, daughter o:' Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gase of 409 W. Adams street.' arid the freSiman voted Miss Joyce lA>she, j,of Mr. and Mrs. Biernard Los he bf 1316 N. 4th street. , December 16 (narked the opening of the event, with the fans Voting for the queen of their choice for the time, at the CommpA dpre-Central Catholic encounter. The next two home games, Janh-

- ' ■ j ■ s ■ I Routine Petitions I Received By Board Final Session Held By Commissioners Monday, at their las,t meeting of the year, the boded of county commissioners received several routine petitions and recorded some corerspondence. i.[ ij, * ■ I<. ' The first order of business was the reading of the report of the grand jury to the commissioners by county clerk Ld Jaberg, which appeared in the i Daily Democrat three weeks ago. , A petition was received tp clean the Hessler drain in Washington township. Heading up the petition was P. B: Lehman and otliers in Washington towhjsllip. \ A letter \ was received from Henry O. Getting, treasurer of the AUams county 4-H clubs, informing the commissioners that the $2,000 appropriated tot pins, ribbons, awards and trips has been overdrawn by The extra funds, however, will eOifte from 4-H proceeds from the 4j-Hl fair, held during, summer. Word ' was received from the state highway commission giving notification that* Adams county’s portion of funds set aside jm connection with the federal aid 'secondary highway construction program is $18,37?.: the funds to be available on July 1, 1953. \ The following bonds of public servants were filed with th? commissioners Monday morning: Herman~Mpellering, surveyor. $5,000; HarmOn Gillis; coroner. $2,000: Mabel Striker, recorder, $4,000; and deputy sheriff Jim Cochran, renewed, SI,OOO. J. W. Green, secretary of the Indiana livestock sanitary board, notified the board that $7,158 is available for T. B. testing of cattle for 1953. Two applications were received fpr the job of matron in thei ladies rest room at the courthouse for 1953, Vangee Withan, and Hazel Galagee. The appointment in made as of the first of the year and runs for one year. ' ; - To Hospital Beard Late business attended .to at Monday’s meeting included the appointment of Wifbert Nussbaum (Tura T» P«ce El*ht)

K'" < dKt x ■ ■ jh. ■■ « 1 x \ A* J( Mary Ann Heimann . \ • \ fi ■■: i ■EW ' UMM Joyce Loshe I ary 6 and 9, are the final voting dates. The winner of the . coptest wifi be crowned at a ceremony during the half time interlnissiOn of the homecoming game; February 6, by the Booster club president, Carl Braun. A party and/dance will follow with the rnn&ersup Mp-'the Winner’s trophy will be given the queen during the program, which a large nuipber of the alumni are expected to attend. ’ I Last year was the first time inj 25 years, since Ddcatur Catholic high school was completed, thaLa homecoming affair was held and since it was a huge success it is planned to become an annual event.

NO PAPER THURSDAY ? In accordance with annual custom, the \ Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Thursday, in order that employes may spend Christ- • x mas Day with their families. -a ; j A— —_—, —l u' , Fort Wayne Man Is Labor Commissioner Alton Hess Named By .Governor-Elect INDIANAPOLIS UP —Governor elect George N. Craig today appointed Alton Hess, Fort Wayne, state labor commissioner in the incoming Republican administration. The, announcement followed speculation earlier today thab Hess> would get the job. Craig’s staff made no comment on additional speculation he will name Freeman P. Grpesbeck; Columbia City, director of the bureau of motor vehicles. A map withput political back ground, Joljn A. Cartwright, 54. Greencastle, 1 was named director of the state public works and supply division* Monday night, sue ceeding Democrat Walter R. Mybeck. Cartwright, who owns a coal company, thereby becomes the state’s chief purchasing agent, j Hess, 58, first vice president of the Indiana State , Federation of Labor, has been active, in labor movements since 1913, Craig’s announcement said. Hes? was business agent for a teamsters local at Fort Wayne. ' /■! Craig, announced that Claude,J. Black, purchasing agent at Indiana University since 1938, would serve as a corisultant to Cartwright. “I am extremely gratified to have the benefit of practical business, experience from these two men” he said. “It Will help us make our state purchases wisely . .we are going to have to watch expenditures closely.’’ \ Hess, mentioned as possible successor to | Democrat Thomas R. Hutson in she labor post, in 58 and a vice president of the Indiana State Federation of Labor. Much speculation about Gruesbeck stemmed from the fact he was assistant director of the motor vehicle bureau in 1946-48.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, December 23, 1952.

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Jet Collides With Hospital Plane, 14 Die \ Hospital Transport Plane, Jet Collide On Runway In Korea SEOUL. Korea UP —A hospital evacuation transport plane, loaded with American casualties, collided with a jet plane on the runway of a western Korea airbase Monday nighU and 14 .persons were killed. The sth air force said tho disaster took place while both planes were in motion on the runway but not in the air. . ■ ‘ Six American hospital patients and two flight nurses were among the dead. The\ pilot of the jet plane, a medical technician and four members of the Greek air. force, who were operating the plane, were also killed. One of the four Hellenic royal air force crewmen was lifted from the wreckage Os the C-47 hospital plane alive, but he died late today. The transport, a U. S. air force plane piloted by a Royal Hellenic air force crew, was taking off when is smashed jinto the jet. The' accident was believed to be the first ground-to-ground collision of the Korean War. The, 0-47 had just landed to pick up the/six patients from an evaluation hospital. The wreckage burst into flames seconds after the collision,, but the 13 persons killed were believed to have died instantly dh impact. Th,e air force issued only a brief (Turn To P*Se FiKht) Water Rate Hearing Held This Morning ’ Word wns received from Indianapolis shortly after noon today from city attorney Robert Anderson, who attended thO publife service commission hearing at Jthe state bouse this moaning, with six other city officials. \ Anderson said “therie is a good indication from the PSC commissioner at the hearing. Weather Holt, that the water department will be awarded a raise in rates by the first of January” Acting as witnesses for the water department were Mayor John Doan, Edwin Kauffman, wtaer department auditor; Ralph Roop, water department/ head; and councilmen Hugh Engle, /Don Gage and Al Beavers of the w r ater Comtnittee. Tlhey were iriterrogby city attorney Bob Anderson. \ Suspend Business On Christmas Day Church Services To Feature Qbservonce\ In observance of Christmas day. shops, public offices, the First State bank, all mercantile! operatil/e operations, will suspend opetations. Retail stores will be open until 9 o’clock tonight but close at usual closing hours Christmas Eve. Beginning Wednesday ,at 11:30, Decatur’s city schools will close fbr the holidays until January 5. The Catholic schools closed Friday and will also reopen January 5. \ The Adams county courthouse will close until after Christmas Wednesday at noon, an unofficial but traditional practice. The Decaturi, Lions club will not hold their regular meeting tonight at the K. of P. home, it was announced today by a JLions club spokesman. Decatur’s churches will hold extensive services Christmas Eve and Christmas day to receive all of the city’s faithful. Christmas night, the annual teenages dance will be held at the Ameican Legion home. The dance is sponsoded jointly by the Den and American Legion. \ ' /' .. ■ ■ " '\•''!Sb ' J. ' ” *

Exhaustive Survey Is Planned By PTA Schod Questions Will Be Surveyed With today’s issue of the Daily Democrat, arid for the next several days, will be presented the ques- ’ tions to be set before pre-appointed committees of ( the Liincoln parentteacher association of Decatur, constituting an exhaustjvje survey. Since the texts ofithe separate surveys all published/at the same time would be.of prohibitive length they will be Set forth in small units, making digestion of the material easier. . * “. . . The main purpose of this survey is to collecL make a record of, and distribute inf|>rn(ation concerning our (Decatur’o) school system and\the Lincoln school in par- . ticular.” ' \ \ . -A 1 The foregoing is anl excerpt from a letter by Mis, Maijgaret- L. Fih-, > layson, chairman of ! T. A. survey commtttee,, to the several eommittet s formed to consider certain issues. / Said birs.; Finlayson. This survey is for the benefit of the people of Decatpr —it is in the interests of .an informed public.” In all there are committees rarigißg from tw4o to five members. The first presented here —arbitrarily— will/ Consider questions concerning ‘/transportation." the questionnairei following: (1) are the state and local laws and regulations concerning transportation? (2) Is transportation needed? ’ (3) If transportation is riot to be provMed,r should an allowance be given to pupils for it? (4) How many vehicles are needed? , (5) What should be the minimum distance for free transportation? (6) How many children live one and 4' hair miles from school? (7) Hrtw many children live one (Turn To Pare Two) Vet Killed After Tavern Is Bombed - Marine Sergeant Is Killed By Police &EW YORK. (UP)— A marine sergeant on Christmas leave was shot and killed by police today after he threw two grenades into a Crowded bar, seriously injuring a federal narcotics agent and burning 12 others. Sgt. Eugene McDermott, 19, shot after a\ sfx-'block chase. He first slashed at a pursuing policeman with a, five-inch knife after the bombing. - . Thirteen persons were, burned ’ by explosion of the two grenades, described by police as a phosphorous smoke bomb and a grenade flare, 'the burning fragments sprayed after-ipidnight drinkers in thO crowdetl bar _a/nd filled the room with dense smoke. The young marine and two boyhood buddies, both servicemen, fled after McDermott pulled the pins from the grenades and rolled them along the barrom floor. Police captured one companion, air force sergeant Mark Sutter, 19, and the other, Patrick Joseph Shanahqn, a sailor' on leave, gave ,himself up after escaping the police. r ' ; . “I didn’t do it,” Sutter told pqlice after his capture. “McDermott did it. We were half shot." Asked if he knew the grenades would go off, Sutter replied: \ “Os course. Four seconds after they are lit.” Police said <the fiery blast literally “burned the pants off” John H. Orth, 60, a narcotics agent who was working on an investigation. Tfiere was no connection between Orth’s investigation and the bombing. police said. No motive for the bombing was immediately established, police said. Some 50 residents of the brick tenement above bar fled their apartments in terror after the (Turn Tci/Page Six.)

■■ b.Wn- urn i-ieUmiN | iymntf American War Planes Blast Troop Center Ground War Quiet . Except Scattered Action By Patrols SBOUL, Korea UP — American warplanes blasted a huge Communist troop center near Chaeryong in Northeast Korea today,, destroying 40 buildings and leaving the arda a mass of flames dotted with columns of black smoke. The attack came shortly after F-80 Shooting Stars smashed a Red airbase at Pyongyang, capital of North Korea, from which the Reds were beliqyed 'to have been carrying out an intensified propa- •, ganda leaflet campaign over \AI- - front line positions. I Four Sabrejets ' roving North Korea to block off. Red attempts to intercept the fighter-bombers 1 dueled with eight' Red MTG-15’s, ‘ sending one of them plunging to • the earth. ■, . ‘ Today’s claim, plus three pre--1 yious claims copfirmed by the 6th • air force, brought the December > tjoll of Red jets to 42. The ground war was quiet except for scattered patrol actions. Temperatures plummeted to 13 $eI grees above zero. Pilots who took part in the raid east of Chaeryong said the combined air force-marine attack virtually razed the troop center. ‘ “As we circled • over the area.” said Maj. Russell Christensen of ' Salem, Ore., “I saw nothing but . buildings in flames and smoke 1 spiraling into \ the J air.” Other air force ?. and marine ’ fighter-bomber? smashed at Red supply dumps in the Punchbowl, area of the eastern front. The sth aiij force' said its planes destroyed 770 buildings and one road bridge. Twelve B-29 Superforts, continuing the U. N. campaign <0 cripple the Red striking power by battering Communist installations behind the lines, carried out* attacks aghinst a sprawling troop billeting and supply base covering, an \BO-’ acre site at near Pyongyang.! \ (Turn To Pave Five) Decatur Girl Badly Injured In Wreck Carol Roop Critical Following Accident Two local girls—one in near critical condition—and the two boys they were riding with, are in St. Joseph hospital at I x Fort Wayne with injuries they sustained in a bridge smashup two miles east of . Poe at 9:30 o’clock Mopday night? Those injured were: . i. The driver of the car, Norman Logan, 19, of Bryant, a severe fracture of the pelvis, multiple lacerations. \ Beverly Douglas, 15, of 443 Winchester stree|t, a fractured leg-and multiple lacerations and bruises. Carol Roop,-15, of 609 Schirmeyer street, lacerations and a skull in-' jury. She has been unconscious since she was taken to thd hospital last night. James Hyitt, 19, of Monroeville, multiple lacerations and bruises. According to reports of Baer field state policemen Jack Tqbias and Robert Fortner, who investigated, the car was heading west at an evidently high rate of speed, hit a curVe and skidded out of control. The vehicle hit a bridge abutment, overturned in a ejeek and caught fire.- The Poe fire department put out the fire add removed the. occupants. Carol n Roop had been thrown clear, the others having been trapped inside the burnipg auto. The authorities said it was s pretty lucky that those trapped didn’t drown in the creek. An excessive rate of speed is- ! seen by police as being the cause ( of the accident Nd'charges have been filed. "

Brodie Twins Live In Constant Danger Live In Danger Os Death For CHICAGO UP — Doctors said today thkt the Brodie twins, whose heads were separated by surgery six days ago, may live in danger of death for months to come. The head'of each infant is without a body top, and specialists said there is constant danger of infectidn. • .' ’ The condition of the children, they said, is far too critical to permit further surgery to restore the bony structure. ' Doctors studied the chart of each child. They hoped that the jagged lines recording pulse, respiration and other factors would “level off” and indicate| greater stability". Rodney Dee was still in critical condition todpy and | his weaker twin, Roger Lee, was in the twilight zone between life and death. Six days have passed since a. team of specialists severed the fused tissue, nerve structure and blood system that joined the 15-month-old boys at the top of their heads. Roger Lee was still in a deep coma. His condition was called “still very precarious.” Rodney was still “critical.” and no marked change in his condition has been noticed in three days. The pediatrics ward of the University of Illinois educational and research hospital, where the twins are being cared for, is the scene of several’ gay children’s (Turn To P»*e Fisht) * V 1 . . •- ' I’ j Clarence F. Herber Dies Last Evening ■ Former Decatur Man Is Taken By Death Clarence F. Herber, 61, a former restaurant proprietor and insurance agent of this city, and past district deputy of the 'B. P. O. Elks, died at 6 o’clock last eventfig in Veterans hospital. Fprt Wayne, following an extended illness. ’ I :■, i ' The body will be brought herd | to the t Gilllg and Doan funeral home, where friends may call fatter 1 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Thursday noon' the body 1, will be taken to the Mungovan funeral home in Fort Wayne. Funeral services will ,be held at 9 o’clock Friday morning at St. Mary's church. Fort Wayne, with the Very Rev. J. Nicholas Allgeier as celebrant of the requiem mass. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery in this city. 4 A veteran ok World War 1, Mr. Herber -was widely known in American Legion and fraternal ‘ circles. He was a past commander of American Legion Post 43, serving in 1924. He Was al past exalted ruler of the Fort Wayne Elks lodge and served a year as district deputy of this fraternal organization. He was a member of the Fort Wayne Knights of Columbus and the Last Man’s club of that city. Prior to moving to Fort Wayne, he operated a restaurant; in this city and was also engaged in the automobile insurance business. He developed this business into one of the largest agencies !in Fort Wayne, selling it a few years ■ ago to the Lelahd Smith Insurance. Agency of this city. r-He was born in Fort Wayne August 3, 1891. \ Mr. Herber suffered from a brain ailment and underwent surgery albout three months ago. He never regained consciousness. Mr. Herber married Miss Mary Harting of this city, who with one son, William Herbet of Clifton, N. J., survive? Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Josephine Ballot and- 'Mrs. Marie Rieg, and two brothers, Gerard and Arthur Herber, of Fort Wayne. The body will remain at the Cillig and Doan funeral home until Thursday noon. -

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150 Persons Rescued From French Liner ■ Scores Os Panicky Passengers Leap, 17 Are Drowned BULLETIN j PARIS UP — The Messageries Maritime* Company reported tonight that all surviving passengers and crew have been .. rescued from the wrecked French cruise liner Champollipn off Lebanon. BEIRUT, Lebanon' — The heroic captain of a Lebanese motor launch rescued single-handedly all remaining passengers and some ji crewmeri—a total of about 150 perso|fe- from the wrecked French cruisei liner Champoilion today. Before the rescue, scores of panic-stricken passengers had leaped from the slanting deck of tho linqr into the sea, 17 to Heath about 45 to be rescued by Lebanese fishing boats. As night interrupted rescue operations, only about 100 of the Chami pollion’s crew remained aboard, I confident of rescue in the morning, i According to official figures—subject still to revision—there were . 113 passengers and 205 crewmen in Jhe 12,546-tpn Christmas cruise liner when it was smashed into a reef in a. howling gale, only 200 yards offshore. * Seventeen crewmen who volunteered to try to swim ashore with a lifeline were picked up Monday by little Lebanese fishing boats. ~ it looked grim for those remaining aboard today, with the ship , fast breaking up and waves sweeping over it. f There was an anxious huddle of officials and boatmen ;bn the shore. Capt. B. . Radwan, who pilots ocean-going ships into Beirut harbor, volunteered to go to the rescue. ’ ■ . 1. Radwan bounced his launch • through the seas to the Champol--1 ion, its back broken and heeling over at a "80-degree slant. Crew members of the Champollion threw him ropes. He secured his little craft to the side of the liner. 7 The crew’men threw rope ladders over the side. While Radwan maneuvered hifa boat close, men and women started clambering down the side, first the women, then the men passengers, then some crewmen. Three women carried babies in their arms. Three other children climbed down in safety. The one casualty, was a 12-year-old boy. He fell while climbing II down a ladder. His head struck a bulwark of the launch and he died on the way to shore. Radwan made three trips in all, bringing about 50 to safety each time. Crews ashore helped the exhausted' victims off Radwan's boat, while women knelt in prayer in the background. Messageries Maritimes Co., owner of the cruise ship, said in Paris there was a brief panic aboard this morning as the ship settled into the sand of the Mediterranean bottom but the panic soon ended. ■» 0- , — o‘ 24 PAGES 0: 0 r £— —■/-&* <5