Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 45.

Heavy Patrol Action By Reds On Korea Front • ' Unusually Heavy Communist Patrol Movement Reported SEOUL, Korea UP -—Unusually heavy Communist patrolv • action 'was reported today alon,r \t'.-.e snow-covered battlefront las Allied pounded ' be-hind-the-lines build-up centers for Red troops and supplies. ’Allied artillery and infantrymen killed 130 Communists Sunday and Monday in patrol cashes . ajong the front. The Reds Attacked at various points from Anchor--Hill on the Eastern Front to the? far Western Front. ’ ' ■ „ Action was especially heavy on the Central Front where observers reported “unusual” ntoveriiept of enemy troops close behind the fightipg lines. Sunday 156 grotops of Red troops were spotted in the area, some of them ranging up to ’* a platoon in size. " Allied artillery zeroed in on the Communist groups l as observers reported [them and sent the Reds scurrying for cover. v Heavy clouds closed over most of North Korea this morning limiting |Jn|ted Nations fighter-bomber attars. But South Korean Mustahgw destroyed or damaged nine Ited gun positions and four bunkers in close-support attacks. , ' r Scattered Air Force, Marine, and South Korean attacks during the afternoon brought the day’s .total to two more gup positions destroyed and 17 damaged. The overcast also failed to stop radar-guided B-26 light ,bpmber> •which destroyed 125 Red supply vehicles and one locomotiye\ during the night, ft brought the number of Red trucks destroyed in the past 12 nights to 1,303. Twelve Japan-based B-29 Superforts also battered Communist West Coast- supply routes In pre' dawn raids on a 65-acre supply area west of Chaeryong and a supply and repair center northwest] of Pyongyang. The Superforts met only “light . to moderate” anti-aircraft \fire. Heaviest ground action of I the week end came':near Anchor kill in the far eastern sector where 91 . North Koreans were killed. ' In some Western Front clashes, the Reds jumped at the U. N. to "the din of bugle 'blasts, whistles and shouted commands. Six School Houses Are Sold At Auction Six Adams Central Buildings Are Sold The six school houses and-ad-joining la.nd, sold at auction Sat-, urday by Adams County Central consolidated school corporation in Monroe and Kirkland townships, "brought from >I,OOO to 12,17 s, 1 4t was announced today. .s \. All six of the*buildings were sold. The sale started at? 9:30 o'clock Saturday mornidg and a good sized crowd was on hand at each location as the officials and auctioneers made the rounds. J ; \ Following are the names of buyers and prices: ■ , ‘ - Sprunger school, >1,675, bought by John Wiekey: Election school, (Monroe township) >2,175 bought by Noah Schwartz; Rfeicheft school, >I,OOO, bought by William Reichert; Winchester school. >2,000. bought by Enos Girod; Election school (Kirkland township) >1,625, bought by Decatur Canning Co,; Hower school, >1,600 bought \6y Ralph Freels. - ' Melvin Liechty Berne; Roy and Ned Johnson. Decatur; C. W.-Kent, ' Decatur, and Gerald Strickler, Decatur handled the sale and served as auctioneer?. Custer and Smitn law firm of Decatur served as legal advisors for the board in'the transactions. ** \ Krueckeberg Condition J Termed Fairly Good The special burse on the case reported Herman H. Krueckeberg's condition as “fairly good” this 4 morning. He is a patient\at Luther- , an hospital, Fort Wayne. The attending physician was quoted as saying he was “pleased, by the progress made by his patient.” He had a restless morning described as “stormy.” Krueckeberg, cashier of the First State Bank, was moved to the Lutheran hospital last Wednesday--l\ • ■ I '• - 4 14 PAGES

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Agriculture Counterfeiters Apprehended \ I B fl jy Iff» I MARTIN T. STOREY, of Oxon Hill, Md7. and Mary Ellen vH|tson, o Washington, D. C., both employees of thfe U. S. AgrfcultuM depart meht Live Stock division, were arrested by Secret ServiO agents and arraigned in the U. S. Commissioner’s office' dn charge# jjof making counterfeit’. >lO bill plates. Storey, an administrative wicer in the department and Miss Watsonj a clerk, were picked uHaftier a month-long seardh by the Secret Service. Miss Watson ;iffidmitted buyirtg the plates from Storey but denied however, that'she had ever used them. ' Al

C. Os C. Meeting Monday, March 2 Full Membership To Attend Meeting / ! ■■ 1 ' ' ■■■ A new- Chamber of Commerce policy will the evening of March,|, Monday, when a meeting of' the entire -membership of the CC -will be held at the Moose home, it was: revealed today by Ralph Habegger, president of the Chamber of Commerce. * Habegger said that beginning with the meeting at the Moose home the CC {board of directors .will meet as often as possible with the general membership. Thip,\ though, can be done only with the cooperation add participation of everyone in the CC, he declared. With a general discussion of future activities 40 be discussed, he val that is being planned for May, val tha tls being planned'for May. and was recently denounced by Ferd Klenk. who said he will present a petition before the city council to prohibit the holding of a carnival in the vicinity of the court house. Aside from the above stated purpose of the jneeting, Habegger said the directors will give their members- a chance tp “get any gripes, off their chest 1 ,” and close ranks'to operate as a unit for the good of the whole membership. Habegger averred tha( the only way to get coordination from the rank and file of the CC would be complete cooperation from membership with a .governing policy of ■ “majority rule. will be taken in the membership op any activities that are in the works and thej rule of the majority will be the order of action.” •Habegger indicated' that the Chamber is low on funds and is badly dn need {of projects promote ing the raising of funds for operation, wtijch, jhe 1 said; Will come ► high on (he lijs-t of discussion at tne meeting. The city council meets the fol-' lowing evening after the CC meeting. at which Lyle Mallonee and Earl Futyrmdln. directors on the CC board, are to come before the city group a|n<k give definite plank as to the bolding of a street carnival sopretimA in May, Ferd Klenk, petitioner (against the carnival. indicated he would be at the next meeting of the city coun<il to inform the councilmen of his thoughts on the matter. ~ .1 ; A ’ ■ ■ Four Youths Injured In Wreck At Muncie Four local'.young men on the way to the state K. of C. tourney at Indianapolis Saturday night at about 9:3(? o’clock Vent \io the Muncie Ball memorial hospital for treatment Instead after they were involved in a wreck that completely demolished their car. The mishap occurred seven miles south of Muncie on state road 67, when, according to a report from Dick Gage who was in a second car going to the basketball game, the first car’s tires went off the rqad and in trying to get back went into a skid on the wet road, spun around and hit a tree. Injured were Don Bernard, 24, Dick Coyne, 19, Eugene Baker, 22, and Paul Kohne, 23. Coyne received the worst injuries said Gage, who was released frbm the Muncie hospital today after being treated for cuts on both cheeks and a cut beneath the nose for which he -needed stitches. All the men were cut up to some degree but they .received only treatment and were released. State Trooper Darwin in-, vestigated the wreck, according to Gage's report. A • • -4

|Sorg Funeral On Tuesday Morning Funeral services for Albert Sorg, w-ho \died iSaturday morning at her : home!>n Fort Wayne, will be held at 9 s|m. Tuesday at the GetZ & Cajii# funeral home and at 9:30 a.m. aliSt. John the Baptist Catholic cOreh,Athp ; Rev.' James O’Connor dmciating. 'Burial will be in the Fqnjt Waynie 1 Catholic cemetery. i i- 4 ■ |_ !||| Says Resistance|o Soviet Is Increasing Yugoslav Official { Reports On Riipia BELGRADE. Yugoslavjj UP —t Viee Presidept Edvard said today is to entangle the I United Styles into ivar with Communist Chi#! and at the same time sub Jugate Jtjhina to: Soviet influence. ’(f But Russia's aims, in fomenting the Korean war, have failed so far i -•—along with other foreign policy failures —with the renultftxhat resistance to the Soviet .regime at home has increased, he kfeserted. The current purges in countries kere made by the resistance, he said, all \ Kardeli urged that in Korea be ended as sbon ai{ possible to defeat Russian maclllnations. He implicitly warned thO United States to beware of the ftzemlin's wiles. . W Kardelj said thd issue) peace clr war “depends almost effiblusive-'. ly on the Soviet government” at present, but he added: “Although Stalin once jMceeded in uniting the Soviet peopl® in the fight against Nazi aggreßd|i|n. this does not mean he could nb>* unite them for aggression agaiiuM other pjebples.” A Kardelj. also the Yugoslav Communist party’s principal ideologist, delivered a 35,000-word Hbort to 2 r l<N> delegates of the national fitont on the foreign and do|neßtlc situation. 1| i The gathering, which Sunday, marks a change iw Yugoslav pd|icy by which the '(multiparty national front is transtomied inlto a national political otlpniza(Tarn To Page Six• — - 1 —4 —- — IB Jacob L Mitch Dies After Long lllnes|j Funeral Services || To Be Wednesday Jacob F. Mitch, 81, retirei|tanner, died at noon Sunday his home on Monroe route j, foj»wing an illness of several years, tie had bejen critically iH for the dalys. • 4| \ He was born in Adaans Hbunty Npv. 12, 1871, a son djf Christian and Mafy E. and was married to Sarah Kii&land April 19, 1891. Mrs. MitcM died Maj- 28. 1950. M Mr. Mitch was a meraber ® the Knights of Pythias lodge ajG,Willshire, O. \ \ .4 ® Surviving areAtwo sobs, and Sherman Mich-, both bHMonroe route 1; three grandchildren; four great-grandchildren, ar|<B one brother, Alfred Mitch of Ofobvoy, O. One son, four brothers ;and a half-stetef preceded him in - Funeral services will be cdZjducted at 2 p.m. EST Wednesday at the Black funeral home, th|i|Rev. Earl Bragg Os Napqjanee ing. Burial will be in thq Wijlbhire cemetery. Friends may eaitW tke funeral home after 6 o’clock this evening. The Willshire K.Vff P. lodge will hold services at funeral home at 8 p.m. Tuesday

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Anti-Craig Legislator Moves To Trim Portion 'I ■. 4 e | Os Appointive Powers

— —— Weyl Queried 1 In Secret In ■ Voice Probe {Writer, Admitted Ex-Red, Is Queried By Voice Probers WASHINGTON UP — Nathaniel Weyl, 'writer and admitted ex-Com-munisE, was questioned in Secret today by Senate Voice of America investigators. Was learned he was called before;! chairman Joseph R. McCarthy's permanent investigating subconimittee ‘in with one phrase of the inquiry into the state department's overseas information;; urogram. Weyl testified before the senate internal security subcommittee last year that when he was a Communist he had seen Alger Hiss pay party dues. Hiss, former state departihejikt official, is serving a sentence perjury. \ Weyl; formerly worked for the agriculture department and several otltet agencies. He told reporters he!left tRe government in 1947 and readily Admitted his one-time Communist affiliations. \ > X * MeCdjfthy accused “left-wing writers hand commentators” of “trying to ImAke the exposure of the Voicje of America an attack on the admints|ration.” He told riewsmen, “it is ntyt even remotely that.” 4 • John Foster Dulles has done a “i think that secretary of state good jb!) of housecleaning,’’ McCarthy laid, “but ft canst be done overnight. . ' “We pave had no trouble with the qpw team, but the old Dean Acheßoris lieutenants carefully placed ih key spots have been trying to hamper the investigation ~ “The exposure of those has done Dulles 4: great service.” witness called today fok closed-—session questioning was Reed HisrriS. deputy administrator pf the Voice programs who hjs been this acting head. Mcpai|by said earlier the, sub* eomtilittees has “only begun •tp Scratch ithe surface” in its Volte inquiry. ,•! Me&nt:ttae, there were mixed reactions suggestions that ,the embattled ice” be given a new tease ott- Ife in an independent pgency pt cabinet level? Most interested senators thought the cabttiet-level agency unnecessary, bait several applauded the. idea of tnkijng the program out pf the statpl; department. I A special citizens advisory commission pnade the recommendation for d toedir ggency of. cabinet rank to overseas programs. Sen. HPnjry M. Jackson D-Wash.,l a member of McCarthy’s investigating stabipmmittee, said thje idea sbunded and “I think something alopg that lipe ought to be sound.”. I ’ \ , Jackson; said the “only way ,'to . save” ths overseas counter-propa-ganda ptbgram is “to start from scratch apd give ft some' dignity and presage” in a new agpney. The, Washington Democrat said disclosure#,in the investigation have ftobin To P»Kt Flv>

Utedttatiw .' U 'iF . ■ . ■ i- a' • •4 to ■ . • Rev. Robert Content, assistant, St. Mary's Church) WHAT HAPPENS AFTER DEATH? ' ' I' • 1 ri’ ■ ■ 1 ■: In ®ist a brief span of years, aft who read these lines will \ have vanished from the face of the earth. Man’s life here on earth is a preparation for the world to come—a time Os testing which ends with our death. { -4 \ Whtot happens after that depend* on Whether we die loyal to God or topposed to Him and the way he expects us to live. Christ gave, usia description of God’s judgment (Matt. XXV) which leaves no us to doubt that our wor&iiness for everlasting reward, will ibe judged according to the way We lived our lives down here pn earth: ' . All tonen must eventually face the fact of death. Lent gives us a special opportunity to thftik about it wisely—and in time. Death efjould not be burdened by grief but should be something joyous. {nA. goal has been reached—it’s up to us to see that that goal la tne eternal joy of heaven! \ ' '•

r- H Charge Hurled By Russians f Charges. Mania For World Domination y; MOSCOW UP — Marshal jvassiD. Sokolovsky, new ’ chief of Mtaff of the Sqvlet armed fbrees, said today ‘Lt S. imperialists, possessed by the mania of world dolnination. are striving to organlid a new attack” on Russia anp a Hips. • But the Sbviet Union, he said, “is now stronger than ever before and betted able than ever to Withstand whatever the future may bring.’ ; \ ' The Soviet armed forces, he said, “constitute a constantly growing force, composed of the Worlds *best personnel, owning best arms and equipped with the most Up-todate Stalinite science for the achievement of victory.” Sokolovsky, whose appointment hs chief of staff lo succeed Gen. Sergei ML Shtemenko was disclose ] Saturday, made his statements in ton article observing the 35th anniversary of the organization of the Red army. The article was published in the Communist party newspaper Pravda and broadcast by Moscow Radio. “The main threat to the cause tof peace and the national independence of the peoples emanates now from the U. S. A., where feverish preparations for a new wkr are on foot,' Skolovsky said. He said Russia bore the “whole weight" of the World War II struggle against German and Japanese ‘Yascist tyranny.” ; “It is no longer a secret that the ruling circles of the United States and Britain, while treacherously delayink the opening of a second frontin Europe, strove thereby to weaken and bleed the USSR to death and reduce it to the status of a second rate country and subject it to their imperialist interests.” Sokolovsky said. “However, these imperialist gentry were cruelly deceived in their hopes. The USSR achieved complete victory over the foe and came out of the wtoA as a still niightier state.” Sokolovsky said “self assurance and lack iof objectivity in their estimates bf the enemy” frequently defeat the aims of “bourgeois as in the instance of the Nazis in World War 11. “A similar case is noted now with the American strategists in Korea,” he said. “Having proved themselves bankrupt in the field of battle, they are pouring out their hatred on the defenseless* civilian population." . ■ _i A V • ■ i ‘ ‘ ■ Seeking To Prevent -\ E. Plant Strike J CINCINNATI, O. UP — Company representatives sought today to renew talks in an|\effort to avert a strike at the General Electric Co. jet engine plant: here. Members of the CIO Auto TjVorkers Union voted 1014 to 89 Sunday to empower ihieir leaders to call a!’strike if a Settlement has not been reached by March 15, the date tji® contract expires.

Sen. Russell Scoufs'6.o. P. ' : 'A' I ' . ' ' IIBudget Balance Georgian Senator i Doubt? Substantial Defense Fund Slash WASHINGTON, UP —Sen. Rich- > ard B. Russpll (D-Ga.) said today ? he dpubts tie Eisenhower admin- - istration can, trim more than >500,- ’ OOV,OoO\from' ( the defense spending budget \ithbut “getting into tite s ibono of American military - strength.” ; i He dismissed as “campaign t talk" the Republican promise to L balance the budget by lopping >lO,- ; 00Q.0000.000 from former President Truman’s spending estimate for t the next fiscjal year, with most of . the savings to come in military I spending. t But chairman Eugene D. Milll- . kin (R-Golo.), of the senate fi- , nance committee sharply ' disa- . greed. He predicted sizable re- . ductfons in military spending will t result from. President Eisenhower’s drive to eliminate waste, du- , plication nad costly competition ’ among the armed services. p Chairman John Taber (R-N. Y-) t of the house appropriations comt mi tree disclosed meanwhile that he has put 75 business and management experts to work “squeez- ’ ing every drop of water" out of ’ Mr. Truman’s >78,600,000,000 “budget for the fiscal year 1954 whibh begins July 1. ’ Taber said 18 of the experts wilf concentrate \on military spending, for which Mr. Truman earmarked 1 >46,300,000,000. There will be eler- \ en other ?task forces" to hunt for ' savings in other government de- ' partments. \ Talber set no specific goal for budget cuts, but said he “Operation Economy'*'will be com-plot-ed in four months —tn time for congress to act on a pending ■ 'bill td cut income taxes about 10 'percent- on July 1. Russell, ranking: Democrat on the armed services committee said that promised “efficiencies in administration and purchasing practices” at the Pentagon could result in savings of “millions, not billions.” ’ 1 ! i . I • ■ | He pointed out the senate preparedness committee, headed by Sen, Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.) “in all of its investigations into military waste and spending practices never found that more than (Turn To P«k* ■!*> Standiford Rises { I Tuesday Afternoon ? Charles Standiford Is Taken By Death Funeral services | will A be held Tuesday for Charles A. Standiford, 90, of Rockford, D., retired farmer and former resident of Decatur, who died Saturday evening at the home of a son, Paris, of near Fort Wayne. He had been ill two years. He was born in Allen county, 0., Dec. 12, 1862, a son of George W. and Adelin Shockey-Standiford, and was married April 12, 1888, to J6nMerica, who died July 25,1914. Mr. Standiford lived in Decatur from 1912 to 1918. t Surviving. are three sons, Paris Merl of Rockford, and Harold of Fort Wayne; two daughters, Mrs. Vern Schifferly of Sturgis, Mich., and Mrs. Iva Rademacker of Fort Wayne; 18 grandchildren; 17 greatgrandchildren; one brother, Frank Standiford of Van Wert, 0., and bne sister, Mrs. Fannie Jackson of Decatur. Twq sons, one daughter, two brothers and one sister are deceased. Services wi)l be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at thl Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Garrison Roebuck officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time i of the services.

Communists Lose In Austrian Vote Lose Strength In General Elections VIENNA, Austria UP — The anti - Marxist Austrian Socialist Party made substantial gains and the little Communist party lost strength in Austria’s general elections Sunday, according to unofficial final results totay. The Socialists puwed to within , one parliamentary seat of their . coalition government partners, the . rightwing Peoples Party and won , the greatest toal of the popular { vote. ( . Unofficial final results for the 165 seats in Austria’s third postL war parliament gave] the Peoples ( Party 74 seats, the Socialists 73, . the extreme rightist League of In- ; dependents 14, and the Commonists —running under ttte title of ! the peoples opposition, four. . In the (October 1949 elections the Peoples {Party won 74 seats." the . Socialists 67, the League of Inde- • pendents {ls, the Communists five - and unaffiliated independents four. - Sunday the Socialists led the pbp- | ular vot4 totals with 1,818,811, - while the Peoples Party received - 1,781, 969, the League of Indepeni dents 473.022, the Communists 228,228 and bther groups 17,244. According to unofficial estimates > 4.319. 274 of Austria's 4.586.879 ret gistered voters went to the polls - in the third general election since - World War 11. t Sunday’s plurality was the first ■ the Socialists have gained in Ausi tria sine* 1930. The Communists gained slightly in the popular vote, but the seat they lost was in. the . heavily Jewish populated fourth district of the sector of Vienna. This loss, observers said, might have been’the result of the Soviets recently initialled Semitic campaign. ] \ Some sources felt the Socialists woijld put up a hard fight for the pos|t of chancellor in the new government. Although the Socialist Parity— the most violently antiMafxist group in Austria —received dyiei seat less than their rightist government partners they increased their parliamentary strength and picked up the greatest popular vote. Sunday the Communists were (Tun To P«z« Five) Police Investigate Attempted Robbery. No Loot Obtained At Goodyear Store Police are investigating an attempted safecracking estimated to havd happened sometime late Saturday {night or early Sunday morning at tjie Goodyear Service store, 121 North Second street The unsuccessful attempt • was reported to police Sunday morning by manager Dale Alber, who recently took over operation of the store. Alber said he came in Sunday morning to check mail when he noticed the 150-pound office safe out of position. The hinges had been sawed through with a hacksaw but the burglar or burglars became discouraged when even prying with a heavy instrument of some kind failed to bring results. The manager reported that several hundred dollars were in*the safe. Police said entrance was gained through a forced overhead alley door. Alber said although nothing was missing from the safe an inventory was taken immediately of the com-' plete stock but, he said, nothing was missing or out of place. Police chief Borders and his department are making a full-scale Investigation but have thus far reported no clues leading to the identity of the foiled burglars. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little warmer to- \ night. Tuesday Increasing cloudiness followed by rain. Low tonight 30-38. High Tuesday 48-55. 'U

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Action Taken As Craig Seeks To Save Plans Elkhart Republican Would Cut Portion Os Craig's Powers INDIANAPOLIS UP — An “antit Craig” lawmaker moved today in. - the Indiana senate to trim a pori tion of Governor Craig's present t appointive powers in the midst of -a last-ditch fight by the chief exec- , .utive to save part of his reorgani- > zation program. I Sen, D. Russell Bontrager R- ) Elkhart .tried to amend a bill so -ft would shift the power oftoppoint- . ing members of the statp budget . comknittee from the governor to f the (legislature. It yas a strange twist of an » fttra-patty Republican fight cen- > tering on (Jraig's, efforts to “re- . align” state departments and agen- ? ciesJ * ’ ■ i ‘ Up to now. the legislature has . been -content with amending the , administration bills,'usually to give 1 the governor less than he asked. t . But Bontrager moved to go a step . further, -although he denied there was any implication to the faction's al scrap, i # , . u “It’s something I’VF had in mind s for some time,” Bontrager said, a Hi said the governor has been appointing budget committee memt hers the last 12 years. But he . believed that in giving the governor s that i appointive power, the legis- , lature has been “abrogating its > power to the governor." t A showdown was delayed when r the' senate voted to make the bill , a special order of business Tues- • day. The’ bill itself concerned only . the appointment of two deputy state budget directors and a per ; diem pay increase for committee members. Bontrager,-tried to amend when the bill came up for second read- ■ ing. | The 10-member Democratic minority entered the debate over the issue when floor leader Leo J. Stemle D-Jasper told the Republicans on both sides they needn't expect “our little group to pull any chestnuts out of the fire for either of you.” “This seems to be a battle of survival between the Craig and antiCraig forces," \Stemle said. “It seems we of the fninority hold the balance of power and how we vote might determine the outcome of these issues.” \ - ? Stemle asked the minority to divide its vote “so we won’t be in. the position of either supporting or rejecting the governor's program.” Pro-Cralg Republicans leaped in- \ to the debate with strong criticism I of Bontrager’s move. Sen. Milfotod Anness R-Liberty said he didn't believe “the voters in Senator Bontrager’s district. mandated him to come down and challenge the governor, {his program or his powers.” ■ Sen. Frederick Landis R-Logans-port criticized the amendment as “seeking to abolish ‘the office of governor.” In the same session, the senate passed and sent to the house by a 35-10 vote a bill to set up a bipartisan personnel system in the state conservation department. Sen. Roy Conrad R-Monticello, sponsor of the bill, said he .favored a house To P««e Six) . . \ One Marion College Student Is Killed 4 FRANKLIN, Pa., UP — Ruth J. Debord. 19, East Millsboro, Pa., was killed and six other persons were Injured Sunday when the Automobile in. which they were riding lert the highway at a curve 10 miles west of here and crashed into a tree. Police said six of the seven persons, including the dead girl, were student* at Marion, Ind. College. The other was Dorothy Debord, 24, aister of the dead girl and • student nurse lit Meadville, P*., hospital. She was in critical condition with fractures of the neck and skull.