Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1952 — Page 3

•ATURiDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1952

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ARNOLD FAMILY HOLDS CHRISTMAS DINNER A pot-luck dinner was enjoyed Christmas day at the home of Mrs. Charles Arnold. The after--noon was® spent visiting' Guests throughout the day were Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Arnold and son, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Maloney, Miss Jean Roth, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Roth and son, Mrs. John Anspaugh and Mrs. Charles Arnold, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Arnold and son, Robert, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Arnold and son, Sherman. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Arnold and sons, James and Harold, Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Arnold, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Arnold and family, Mrs. Naomia Bieberich, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Conrad and Mr. and Mrs. Roy BieVdrich and family, all of Deeatur. Kt- V ” Out of town guests included Mr. and Mrs. Warren Arnold and daughter, Mg, and. Mrs. Lawren Arnold, Fort Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. Lewellyn Stocky and family, Mr. and .Mrs. Ed Walters and faintly of Pennville and Mrs. Harry Bowers of this city. / A St. Vincent de Paul meeting t will be held Wednesday afternoon at two o’clock at tire C. L. of C. hall. . Tuesday, the Union Home Demonstration Woman’s club wilDmeet with Mrs. Walter Thieme for an all day meeting. A Tot-luck dinner will be served; at the noon hour and a fifty cent gift exchange following with cheer sisters an--1 noutrced. >. , : . -f— \ fV . The Ladies Aid of Trinity Evhngelical United Brethren church will meet at the church at seven thirty o’clock Tuesday. / ’ '. \ >. 1 Mr. and Mrs. .Edward Lose and .children have moved from Richmond to Cincinnati, O. Ed owns a barber’s supply house in Rich-' mdnd and recently expanded hih business with the opening of a similar shop In Cincinnati. . Mr. and, ‘Mrs. Adrian L. Baker and Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Minch and son, Denny, were Christmas day. visitors of Mr: and Mrs. .Raleigh Richards of Bellmont Road. Dr. and Mrs. .0. M. Neher and family of Baton Rouge, La., have < returned t<t ~ttgßir home, after spending the holidays with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Byerly of South Third street. Max Murray, aged 9, Underwent an operation for the removal of his tonsils at the 4 Wells county hospital yesterday. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Murray of Geneva. gw * A baby girl, weighing 7 lbs., 6 ox.. was born to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Arnold at 6; 45 p.m. Friday at the hospital. Admitted: Mrs. Chester Barker, J Decatur; Mrs. John E. Meyer, De- . catur ; Otis Wells Decatur. Dismissed: Mrs. Vaughn King and baby girl, Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Claybourne Magee, Berne.

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NOTICE -' . ■ • ■ ■ L - ' . > j ' • Auto Owners Requesting Special; License Numbers are asked to bring their application for registration to the License Bureau not later than Dec. 31st. ( / ’ TAX RECEIPT MUST-BE SHOWN! \ Decatur Auto License Bureau LaVelle Death, Mgr. \ > ■. 119 South Second St. \

; Society Items for day's publication must be phoned In by ’ 11 s.m. (Saturday 9:30 am.) : Kathleen Terveer Phone 3-2121 TUESDAY Eagles Auxiliary, Eagles hall, 8. p.m. ■■ . | , J . Pleasant Grove W. M. A., Mrs. John Burger, All day Bible class, ; Mt. iPlea?ant church, 7:30 p.m. [ M Ladies Aid, l Trinity E. U. B. church. 7:30 p.m. » .Union Home Ilemonstration Woman’ll club, Mrs; Whiter Thieme, all day. WEDNESDAY i St. Vincent de Patjl, C. L. of C. hall, 2 p.m. \ ' Two More Deaths On Indiana Traffic Toll Increases Holiday Death Toll To 18 By UNITED PRESS The Indiana yiolelnt death toll for the four-day Christmas Week end climbed’ "todayas a traffic accident at Lebanon added two more names to the list of victims, David Strong, 14, Thorntown, died Friday night in ia- Lebanon hospital of Injuries suffered earlier in the day in a two-car cplli■sion which kjilled Mrs. Helen Tarman, 22,' Lebanon, on the U. S. 52 bypass. j Mrs. Tarmjan was riding in one car with heir husband and baby daughter. The Strong boy was riding with his uncle Jn the other car. . Th b'eoy's death was the 18th from traffi e since Christmas Eve in Hoosie-iand. ■ Fourteen were killed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day aind four others Friday, including Mrs. Ethel Smith, 3"; Hillsboro, {killed on Ind. 3 near New Castle when she dozed while ‘ driving, and' Charles Jenkins, 45, Fort Wayne, whose car swerved into a utility poles. With four days to go in 1952, the state traffic death toll stbod at 1,253, six above the 1951) all-time record. 460,000 Pounds Os Hog Hair Destroyed / MUCH IG AN CITY' Ind., UP — A >65,000 fire destroyed .a supply shed of the = Blocksop company here Friday; including 460,000 pounds of hog hair used for upholstering. ip -'J ■ , 1 Trade In a Good Town—Decatur! t® I 111? a > 1 i z l’ Til# • I '~ f ' W' Bfci I * if. if ■Yr ■ •—« 1I- r •. ’ 1 Uh*/ I 8.1 V "IN VAST regions where the weight of absolute power souls and bodies, the church is. the first to suffer/’ Pope Pius declarw i* delivering a Christmas MMfi from Vatican Citv. (

Movie Lion Mauls Six-Year-Old Girl Bitten And Clawed At Training {Farm LOO ANGELES. Calif, ftp — Doctors said today that a six-year-old girl who was mauled by a motion picture mountkin Hop was severely wounded by the big cat,,: but wpuld survive. : \ ‘‘Buddy,•” the supposedly tame cougar;, had been thought to be a, “docile’’ animal. - The girl, Mary Lynne was bitten and elated about the face ahd body at an animal train's ing farm Friday \ where? the lion is quartered. ■ ! Sheriff’)? deputies shl4 the occurred ' when thO girl and h er eight-yiear-old brother, Harry, accompanied Bill Marquis, 29, a’ neighbor, to a boarding kennel adjacent to the animal farm. The children wandered into the farm while Marquis made arrangements’'to board his- dog at the kennel. They met attendant Danny Moore. 50, whom ihtey to show them the animals. \ Moore told deputies that as they passed the cage of the six-year-old lion, h| noticed remains of the lion’s meal and entered the cage to remove them. As the door was opened, Moore tine Hon slipped past him and leaped at the little girl. , * . s The big cat’s claws ripped open two oak-inch gashes over the child’s right eye and cheekbone and wounds on her arms and hands. Moore said he pulled the Hon off the girl ( by grabbing its collar and wrestling it back to the cage. Mrs; Christine Fite, daughter of the owner, J. H. Kerr, described the abimal as “always docile.” Non-Farm Workers Increase In State INDIANAPOLIS? UP — Hoosiers had non farm jobs in midNovember than ever before, the Indiana security <Di- . vision reported today. , The division said the record number of 1,38x000 non farm workers resulted, mostly from\ industrial eXpansiofi to develop 1953 models. Workers! in manufacturing plants totalled an-estimated $45,200, ; six per cent above the total for November, 1951. The report noted little, change in non - manufacturing employment from the- October figure. Three Youths Hurt In Traffic Wreck MADISON, Wis. UP — Police reported three Valparaiso, Tnd., youths' werp injured Friday in a ■ traffic accident between ’ Maflison afod Sauk City on Highway 12-13. They were Gene Allen. 18, Robert A: Berkoski, 18, and Charles R. Stinchfiefd, 17. Week’s Sewing Buy ■ : f vVJh • vX 'y. <,,w \ M.-V \. • \ ’-t) ifoFa / Only ■ \ S\ P I One Yard p 7127 M—lß—2o Thrift apron! Pattern 9129 requires only ONE YARD of 35-inch fabric for either size — Misses small —14, 16 or medium —18,. 20. Shop for pretty remnants at <)iksavings! You can sew several in\ remarkably shout order — pattern has only ONE main pattern part. A beauty, with scalloped hem, petal pockets. Gay for teatime! Church bataars, too*. This easy-to-use v pattern gives perfect fit. Complete, illustrated Sew Chart shows you every step. Send Thirty-five cents in coins for this pattern to Maidan Martin, care of Decatur Daily Democrat, Pattern Dept, P; 0. Box 6740, Chicago 80, 111. Print plainly YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, ZONE, SIZE and STYLE NUMBER.

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■ '" ' ’ ; 1 ‘ \P' . Be" w * ‘ 1 Ksl ■ ; : ■■■BEkKlv BARBARA EISENHOWER, wife of Maj. John Eisenhower, the President-elect’s son, snaps a Yuletide photo I of three generations of the family. In rear is Mkmie Eisenhower’s mother, Mrs. Elvira Doud. Mrs. Eisen- J | hower . holds her grandchildren Barbara Anne, 3, and Dwight David 11, A Sublimely immersed in the j mysteries of a kiddie car is Susan, 11 months. | - (International) ~ „.a !■ „■■■■ 1,,,.- I, I, L, • ' I—. ,1 ,11 ~4' ' J,4 ■

little Boy' Singer Is Big 250-Pounder Declares He Isn't Insulting St. Nick HOLLYWOOD UP 4 That “little boy” who sings “Motpma’s Kissing' Santa Claus” turned out . today to be .a 250-p.ounder who wants it known he’s grown-up and not insulting St. Nick. | • George Rock, who helped make the tune 'famous on Spike Jones’ RCA-Victon record, has found him-, self both adored by youngsters and blasted by Santa Claus lovers. Rock sounds like a four-year-old on the record. > but Actually he’s hefty arid adult with a mustache and ties hand-painted with trumpets to prove It. ,i “I get fan letters from kids when 1 ae nt back my photograph they protest that’s not 111’ Georgie Rock,” he said sadly. “They think it’s .really a child on the. record. They can’t believe a voice like that bould come out of anyone as large as me ” In Wichita Falls, Tex., one mother brought her child to meet Rock whe» he was on tour with the Jones band of organized bedlam. But the youngster, said Rock, didn’t believe he was the singer and cried until Rock sang thie .sAng for him. ' His other problem concerns listeners who think the song is risqpe. One radio station ’ ifi Huntington, W. Va., banned it as “an insult to Santa Claus.” ; “I don’t see where they get ’that idea,” ishiffed Rock. “The lyrics just tell how the little kid creeps downstairs and sees mommy kissin’ Santa Claus and tickling him underneath hfS beard. ; Rock was recruited into the Jones rand from his home town of ; Farmer City, Il|. He’s a trumpeter who started out screaming, burping, laughing, crying and ho-ho-ing on the Spike Jones records. He was proudly graduated to stardom and a falsetto voicb with the recdrd. “I’m Forever Bowing Bubblegum,” Two Christmases ago Rock climbed to further heights of creative success when he sang “All I want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" in his little boy voice. When that tune was released, Rock was deluged with hundreds of letters containing teeth, real and otherwise. Today Rock actually IS minus two teeth. “1 just had two wisdom teeth pulled,” “But I don’t want ’em back for Christmas.” Girl Charged With Defrauding Stores TORONTO (UP) Patricia Ambrose, 22, appears in court today on charges of dpfi*auding department stores out of SI,OOO in the last three years by using 156 fake charge accounts. *1 Detective Sgt. Bob Doman said the girl bought only small articles and "by using a different name and card number was able to avoid detection 'for three years. I Too Many Ice Skates Given For Christmas NEW YORK (UP)—Too many kids.got ice skates for Christmas, that’s all, the police lamented today. They said that 4,000 children showed up Friday at the Central Park skating rink and caused a near-rlot when they tried to get on the ice. The two policemen on duty at the time to call for reserves to restore “order and ration the ice. The rink holds 2,300 persons.

Miss Carol Roop Is In/Fair Condition Carol {Roop is now in a “semiconscious” condition at the. St. Joseph hospital, Fort Wayne, where she was taken following a bridge smash-up near Poe Monday night. A hospital spokesman said Miss Roop spoke Some words and is in “fair” condition iwith a fractured SkUH ‘ \ Eden L. Yoeman Dies Friday Night ~ Retired Navy Man Is Taken By Death Eden Lester Yoeman, 53, retired navy career man, died at 10:15 o'clock Friday night at the Berne nursihg home, where he was brought last Sunday from the naval hospital at 1 Bremerton, Wash. He had been ill for, the past year following an operation. .He was born in Mercer county, O.j Dec. 5, 1899, a son pf John and Maryetta Snyder-Yoeman, and bid never married. I Mr. Yoeman navy when 17 years of ge and served until 193:6, when he retired with the rank of chief com nisary steward. He had lived in Seattle, Wash., since/ his retirement. Surviving are v a sister, Mrs./ Vincent Sprunger of Berne, and four brothers, George of Edison, 0., Albert of Fort Wayne, Dale and Omar, both of Chicago. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m- Monday at the Yager runeral home iri Berne, the. Rev. J. J. Klopfenstein officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetdry. Friends may call at the funeral home after 8:30 o’clock Sunday morning. Denies Dropping ) Spies By Plane / LONDON . UP —Poland charged today that an American military plane from Germany flew som®'4s miles Into-Poland last Nov. 4 and dropped two spy-saboteurs loaded with espionage equipment. At Wiesbaden, Germanyl a U.S." air force spokesman firmly denied the Polish charges. “We’ve never heafd a thing about this.” he said. “We do not drop spies from airplanes.” ? -■■■ , — Tfade in a Good Town —Decatur. Sjß - MEAk Ajas 1 NEW! PRI<E stabilization chief li Joseph F. Freehill of New York, shown at his desk in Washington. He had been acting stabilizer following resignation of Tighe Woods Nov. 24, (International;

— Young Mother Weeps With Joy At Birth |] Mrs. Jean Garrett In Good Condition ih LOS ANGELES, Calif. UP — A young mother who willingly faced death so thdt her child might live wept with joy today as she held her newborn son. delivered by Caesarean section. Mrs. Jeanj Garrett, 27, who was warned she; was so weakened by incurable Hodgkin’s 8 Disease that she risked immediate death by giving birth to her fourth child, was reported in “fine” condition following the operation. Her eight-pound, seven-dunce baby was strong and healthy, and doctors turned theid efforts today tp keeping Up Mrs.. Garrett’S strength. They said' stye was resting comfortably and appeared to be in good condition. But they would not discount the possibility of post-operative complications or after-affectss> Mrs. Garrett decided months ago, to, ignore the advice of physicians that the strain of childbirth blight cause <her death. “If I can* have my baby x I’ll die happy,” she said. ‘This child has as much right to live as anyone.” Together with her husband, ' Thoirias, she arranged for the “best Christmas ever” for their fliree sons, Thomas Jr., 7, Robert 3, and Raleigh, 18 months. Christmas night she kissed the children goodbye and left ‘for the hospital with her husband, an aircraft worker. [ / Just before she was wheeled to the operating room her husband whispered, “Hurry back, honey.” Softly she replied, “I will. But if I don’t see you again Happy New Year.” A short time later the 28-yettf-old father heard that both his wife and sob were in good condition. “He looks just like my wife,” Garrett said when he first saw the dhild. “He sure is a fipe boy.” I A hospital bulletin said Mrs. Garrett's condition “is as good as that of any mother who 1 undergoes Caesarean section.” > \ Cardinal Spellman Visits U. S. Airmen On Fifth Day Os Korea Front Tour . , SEOUL, Korea, UP — Cardinal Spellman, wearing a blue flying jacket with a fur hood embroidered with a white cross, visited American airmen today in the day of his', Korean tour. The Catholic church prelate visited a hospital and then went to a combat base where he talked to a group of servicemen and spoke in the base chapel. The cardinal celebrated early mass at the fifth air force chapel and urged the airmen to “always walk in the love of God.” “ After mass he stood for almost an hour in a drafty hallway while the men filed past for bls blessing. He was scheduled to visit bases of the eighth bomber wing and Sabrejet pilots of the 51st fighterinterceptor wing today. He [will haye dinner with Lt. Gen. Glenn O. Barcus, fifth air force commander. e [' 1- ' In a nine-stop airplane flight along the battle-line that ended Friday, the cardinal brought holiday blessings to more than 14,000 Allied troops, some of them within artillery range of the Reds., 4 « • I The U. S. Naval Academy at Anapolls was opened, Oct 10, 1845.

House Probers Defend Lamar Caudle Record - ’ * I i-| | | f . i Public Sacrifice .-' : To Cover Scahdals In Two Departments WASHINGTON, (b?) — Housd Investigators said today that T. Lamar Caudle is an: /honorable man who wds fired Liy President Truman as a “public sacrifice” to cover up treasury anr| justice department scandals. One of seven house: subcommittee members dissented, saying the ousted assistant attorney general “blamed everyone but iCaudle” for his “transgressions.”, He said Caudle’s testimony should be referred to the U. S. attorney “for action.” ! Mr. Truman fired Cgudld—then the government’s top tax prosecutor —Pon Nov. 16. 1851, for activities the .President said Were “Incompatible” with his official duties. > i - ' The report on Caudle’s activities was made by a bouse judiciary subcommittee headed by Rdp. Frank L. Cbelf. • D-Ky. It said Caudle was “honorably motivated.” “In every Instance where choice was clearly black or white, the report said, “Caudle’s choice appears to have been impeccably correct.” 'I The Truman ax fell oil Caudle a few days before another house subcommittee investigating 1 tax scandals had disclosed that Caudle had received a mink coat at a cut-rate price, a free, TV set and other favors from lawyers representing persons in tax trouble, and got a $5,00G commission for helping sell an airplane to a representative of two persons under indictment for tax avoidance. The Chelf subcommittee, which questioned Caudle later in its investigation A the justice depart-,, ment, came to his defense today in a 70-page’ report which described him as, “honorably motivated.” i Rep., Byron G. Rogers. D-Cq1o„ protested. He said the subcommittee was Upraising” a man who “violated his trust.” \ “He, Caudle, received a mink coat and |5,000 from persons interested in cases before . h|m,” Kogers said “How ‘hopQrably motivated’ can one; man get . . does the committee suggest that President Truman did wrong when he fired Caudle?” The subcommittee said it was not trying to excuse Caudle’s “shortcomings.” It said the drawling lawyer from Wadesboro, N. C., was “weak and vulnerable” and “made errors in judgment, some of which played their in destroying public Confidence in the government.” - But it added that every time there was a choice between right an|d wrong Caudle did the right thing. ■ ; . I DON’T TAKEACHANCE TAKE PLENAMINS Smith Drug Co.

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'Cooks' Corner' By Mary R. Thaman New Year Resolutions for the Cook Most people make resolutions at the beginning of a new year and here are ten resolutions of “I will’s” for those who have the responsi-i bility of feeding a family and themselves: , X I will serve my family well; balanced, wholesome meals, keep-’ ing. in mind the Basic 7 foods. 2. I will plan meals ahyad of time. This will help me plan better meals and serve them more economically, 3. I vcjll prepare food properly, I 4. I will sefive the food I prepare in an attractive manner. , |5. I will try to find new ways olj serving the everyday foods /so rriy family will not tire of any of these foods. 'I * [ 6. 1 will follow recipes and pot try to improve on someone else’s work. 7. I will measure all ingredients called for in recipes accurately. 'B. I will not waste food. This can be avoided by buying only what yoirr family can eat and by utilizing leftovers promptly. 9. I will store food properly and under sanitary conditions. V 10. I will keep in mind all thiough. that good, Nutritious food means good health. All \ thv vitamins in the world cannot take the place of a good diet. A Very v Happy New Year, readerh. and good health to you and ycjur families. Sincerely, Mary sinith Thaman. Mace iis not a true spice, but Is derived from the dried covering of the deed of the nutmeg. ,■■—ll ..I,! nueiM l 4 ■ ||| .Uli' | 111 'ifa

WELCOME WAGON e tfor You — through Gifts & Greetings . from Your Friendly ■' Business .Neighbors and Civic and Social Welfare Leaders On the occasion of: i The Birth of a Baby Sixteenth Birthdays Engagement Announce* ments Housewarmings Arrivals of Newcomers to Decatur i Phbne 3-3196