Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1953 — Page 3

TUESDAY. MARCH 3. 1953

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ELECTION OF OFFICERS " HELD BY ART DEPARTMENT Election of officers for the coming year was held during the busi- • . ness meeting of the Art Department of the Decatur Woman’s club . i-jehich met Monday evening with Mrs, Lois Black. The officers are as follows: Miss j Glenftys Roop, chairman ;\ Mrs. Ho- ■ mer Lower, vice-chairman; Mrs. i Raymond Eiqhenauer, treasurer;' and Miss Eleanor Pumphrey, secretary. ; Mrs. Clyde Harris was in charges the program and gave an inter-

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esting account of the Shakers, a religious sect, formerly living in what is ( no»v Shaker Heights, 'Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Carl Bari nett reviewed portions of the book, “The Index of American Design” by Erwin 1 O. Christensen, which covered American art and craft for over'.2(A) years. The remainder of the evening . was spent in decorating eggs for | thd egg tree at the Decatur public ■ library. The hostess was assisted by ' Mrs. A. N. Anker, Mrs. Carl Barnet and Mrs. Clyde Harris in serv--ing delicious refreshments during the social hour. ; . CIVIC DEPARTMENT MEETS MONDAY Mrs. Raymond Bierly was hostess Monday evening to the Civic Department of the Decatur Woman's club, which thirty ope members attended. Mrs. N. E. Bixler was chairman of the evening and also conducted a short. business session. Mrs.’ George Squier gave an ed-. ucatidnal lesson on “Your Family” followed with-an interesting display of antiques ovfer a hundred years old, twlikh were shown by the committee. . An , ehjbyable\ social hour was then held with a delirious lunchserved by the hostesses, Mrs. Henry Frdhnapfel. Mrs. Beery, Mrs. Fred McConnell, Mrs. George Squier hnd Mrs. N. E. Bixler in keeping with St. Patrick’s day. MONMOUTH MOTHER P T. A. GROUP MEETS MONDAY - Twenty > members answered roll call Monday evening, when a regular meeting of the Monmouth Mothers P. T. A. study group met at the Monmouth school. Mrs. Vera Owens opened with prayer, followed with Mrs. Robert Rice offering devotions. The principal speaker, Miss Louise Brum-

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-7 2 "If 1 ■— ■■■■l ■ i flllr I 'if : « I |fe W 'H V Us ! ■. I \ ’■’■BBr'i- s ' V ' IP” a i\ ■ ■ ■ ■ ; A RECENT CEREMONY united Miss Btirnadine Kirchhofer. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. RufuMKirchhofer of jfciute 2. and Hugh Ehrman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd'Ehrman of Monlroe, in marriage. The Rev. William Feller performed* :*hifej double ring rftes'in the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church inUhis city.' After a wedding trip, the couple are nojn at home in Monroe. ' . \ , ■ 'MI : U —Photo by Anspaugh

i baugh of Fort Wayne, wall introduced and her intetestiiitg and educational talk was followed with I a group discussion. pr Refreshments were sfervedi during the social hour by the hostesses, Mrs. Milton Hoffman, Mrs. Burl Fuhrman and Mrs. Earl!’ Fuhrman. V ■ ft ■ • . ."j ' . ALBERT ANDREWS TO OHIO CITY GIRL ' \ Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Myers of route 2, Ohio City, Ohio, announce the engagement pf their daughter Minnie, to Albert of Mr. and Eli Andrewt|jibf 608 Short street, Decatur, k | The bride-elect is ehiplciyed at the Van Wert, Ohio. hospj|al and Andrews is employed in !h: Fort Wayne manufacturing concern. NO date has been Set toy the wedding. b . “ -—' - £ Mrs. John' Chambers; M|ts. fra Bodie and MAp. Harry will be hostesses for the gelical United Brethren Aid, which tyill meet at |he Church Thursday evening at thirty o’clock. ‘ V-l I'lß —V- .. I Members of the Monroe sMethodjst W. S. C. S. will have aiiifamily might Thursday evening jat . six thirty o’clock,, i beginning With a ppt-luck supper in the chhifah annex. Members are asked (qp bring tljieir families. iL ' J ' 1 ’I - Mrs. Gqorge Wemhoff will be hostess to the St. Ann study club Thursday evening at sdyett; thirty ofclock. . . . ? . !l'; : | p — rl! r Ah all day I meeting willjb held Thursday at the Union 'lphapei church by the Ladies Aid? A potluck dinner will be seryea iat tho noon hour and a held in the afternoon, fallowed \ I J.

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r -i;r ™ . . ’ with sewing and quilting. The ladies (k- the church are invited. r* . -—— A Missionary meeting will be* held at the Nazarene ehur ch Wednesday evening at seven thirty a’iclock. Mrß.ijwilliain Kuhnle will be hostesst io the St. Jude study club evening at eight o’clock. Mt. add Mrs. Paul Strickler and family igve gone to Houston, Tex. to atier d an auto and trailer show. Miss M iyy and Miss Sharon StiriiiKler will accompany them as faifj r s San Antonio. Tex., where they wi ij visit with Robert Strickler. wh >! is stationed in the air force' a < Lackland air base, Mr. a th 'Mrs. Cliff Steiner have returnee ; to their home in this city tft< it visiting over the week-' end, wit 1! Mr. and Mrs 4 John MeConnell’gnd son Alike at Youngstown, ()> : • • Child I Suffocates ■ $ On Aspirin Tablet Babb Dies Despite Mother's Attempts SACRA'MiENTO, Calif, UP I—\ A pretty, jjqung doctor slitjher baby’s throat Mth a paring knife - and razor bihtle in a futile jattempt to dislodgej !an aspiriri tablet which suffocated the child, police said today. 1 i nor Strathman., 27, worked feyiet|ihly with the drude surgical instruments to complete an tracheotomy and clear her daughter’s throat. ' . Whihlhelp the. baby w’as dead an| .the doctor* was, in a state of. shoclL \ I ■ , The at-year-old McClellan Air Force and her husband, Benjamip Thomas Strathman, ,26, a suppliman, were getting ready to hate pinner Monday. Eight | month -old Jane Marie Strathmo, youngest of two Strathman children, had been running a fever. gave the baby a|i orange-flavored child’s aspirin, i She thought the baby would dmw it, she said. The child gagged. Mrs. Strathinan to pry the tablet out with herjifingers. She held the baby upsid|oi down and hit ita back. She lifted the child frdm a play pen tdi tpe living fobm diven. She tried to open the windpipe with a paring khife. that failed she attempted; the tracheotomy with a double-edge razor blade. By 7 p‘m. the child was dead, coroner’sf deputies said. Dr. A.j ;G. Prisiqzand, autopsy surgeon, 'listed cause of death as “suffocat|on from particles of chalklike: ’ material found in the glottis, presumably aspirin.” Deputy! Sheriff <Ed Sypnicki said Strathmap wept openly and said, "we triexJl : everything, everything, damn . i The attractive brown • haired mother sat with “mouth half open and, bewildered” Sypnicki said. The, Strathmans haye another child, three-year-old Nancy Ann. Authorities said Mrs. Strathman, a native of Dayton, 0., was not a surgeon. They said she was graduated! from medical school pr bout three years ago. Mrs. Strath man later told authorities she did not cru<h the aspirin before feeding it to the baby because it was orange-flavored "child’s ahpirin” and shs thought the little girl could swallow it. ■ ' rir i .

Society Items for today’s pub* lication must be phoned In by 11 a. m. (Saturday »:30 a. m.) Kathleen Terveer Phone 3-2121 TUESDAY | f Tri Kappa,' Elks home, 7:30 p.m. Woman’s Guild. Zion E R. church, 7j:30 p.m. <3irl S(:out leader club, Lincoln school auditorium, 1:30 p.m. Eagles auxiliary public party, Eagles hall, 8 p.m. Kirkland LadieS clulb, 7:80 p.m. C, L. ojf C. society, after (fhurch, C. L. of d hall, i \ Magley Ladies Aid, all day, Mrs. Martha Dettinger, Mrs. Edna Conrad. Cub Scout Den Mothers Trailing Course, Lincoln school, 7:30 p.m; Delta Theta Tau, Miss Mary Martha Teryeer, 8:15 .m. Root Twp. Home Demonstration club,. Mopmouth school, 6:15 p.m. Progressive Workers class. Trinity E. U. B church, Mr. and Mrs. Sephus Jackson, 7:30 pJn. WEDNESDAY Nazarehe Missionary meeting, Nazarene. church 7:30 p.m. St. George study club. Mrs. Jerry Burnett of Monroeville, 8 p.pi. Historical club, Mrs. W. P. Robinson. 2:30 p.m. Santa Maria study club, Mrs. . Charles Q’Shaughnessey, 8 pzn. Our of Good Counsel study club, Mry. Herman Alberding, 8 » P-ni. ; v Ladies Shakespeare club, Miss Frances Dugan, 2:30 p.m. ► Psi lota XI, Mr&. John Halterman, 8 p.tn. i THURSDAY Trinity E. U. B. Ladies Aid, at church, 7 30 p.m. c St. Jude study club, Mrs. Wili Ham Kuhnle, 8 p.m. i Monroe Methodist W. SI C. S„ Church a inex, 3:30 pirn. ■ r St. Ann; study club, Mrs. George Wemhoff, 7:30 p.m. ' Union Chapel k Ladies Aid, all ddy, chur:h. St. Jose ph study club, Mrs. Joe Murphy, ll:15 p.m. Pleasant Dale Ladies Aid, all day, Pariuh hall. Great Books Discussion group, Library, 7 :30 p.m. Woman’s Missionary Association, Nuttman Avenue U. B. church, Airs. Frank Lundin, 1:20 \ Methodist Ever - Ready class, Mrs. Samuel Emerick, 7:30 p.m. • Women of Moose, 7:30 -p.m., officers, 7 j.m., Moose hotae. \. FRIDAY Ava Maria Bible study club, Mrs. Al Schmit :, 8 p.m. Decatur Emblem club, Elks hotne, 8 pjm. /i ' ] Underworld Facts Revealed At Trial c Estrcnged Wife Os Racketeer Goldmine FREEHOLD, N. J., UP—Authorities planned to listen closely todajr to testimony in a divorce case* here which has -told them facts about the worldwide crime syndicate headed by Frank Costello which they have been unable to p|h down in years of their own investigations. The goldmine of information whs Mrs. Anna Genovese, 48, estranged wife of racket overlord ' Vito Genovese. In a few hours on the witnes*s chahr Monday she spilled a Wide assortment of secrets about the operations of Americl’s bigtime racketeers. once described by Gov. Thomaa E. li>eWey of New Ydrk as "king of the racketeers," sued his wife for divorce. Mrs. Genovese brought her own suit Cor >350 a Week separate maintenance. Both cases are being tried together in superior court here before Judge Donald H. McLean. Ganovese, she testified, takes in 140,000 a week from syndicate enterprises that include gambling casinos, narcotics,'control of labor rackets 6n the New York waterfront, an ’’ltalian lottery in New York,” dog and race track opera- 1 tfons anjd a few “legitimate” business interests in the United States and abroad. “He’s Involved in almost all the , rackets," the fashionably-dressed . Mrs. Genovese testified. Her husb.and sat impassively in the courtroom surrounded by several toughlooklpg companions. Her testimony, was sprinkled I with the names pt such under- 1 world \ bigwigs as Frank Costello, < Albert Anastasia and the late ,Wil- I lie 'Moretti. She even mentioned < when hhe and Genovese 11 wjre entertained lavishly by the late Hermann Goering, the Nazi 1 a- ir marshal, and the late Count I Cianb, son-in-law of. Benito Mus- 1 solipi, during a trip to Italy be- 1 fore World War 11. 1 ' me t other members of the syndicate in N«ir York eveiT Tuesday and Thursday to discuss business and divide spoils, she said, f 'V i 1 . iS • ; ' .« i \ •

Hired Hoodlums To Slay Nagging Wife Truck Mechanic And vKillers In Custody BUTLER, Pa. UP — A ,50-year-old trutk mechanic who waited to get rid of a "nagging” wife was to be arraigned on first degree murder charges today alpqg with three hoodlums he hired to itll her for 310,000—t0 be paid in installments. | , Butler ' county district attorney Clark H. Painter said he would seek death in the electric chair for the mild-mapnered husband and the professional killers, three Pittsburgh Negroes, who have confessed their parts in the plot for a “perfect” crime. \ Painter said the murder of Mrs. Alice G. Storch, 49, in her 1 home at nearby Zelienople last Wednesday might have gone down as, a mysterious unsolved crime if her, husband, Ernest, had nijt cracked up <undpr questioning. • Storph nt first told > authorities he came home from his job in Pittsburgh and found j his wipe's battered body on the bedropin floor. She had been strangled and stabbed 13 times in the abdomen and hip. ,\ ; Later Storch was questioned “at length,” Painter said, and finally admitted he had hired three thugs to murder his wife. He saitl she had been "nagging” him incessantly, and also hinted he was interested In “another woman,” Painter said. 1 v \ , i ■ Storch wag known as a hardworking, frugal min.: He had acquired money to build his home and buy a late-model I Cadillac — and apparently to pay off his wife’s killers —by Sale of land near his home. Storch agreed to go along with authorities in a Scheme to trap the slayers. It was announced to local newspapers and radio stations that Storch was “cleared and never had been considered a suspect” in the ease. This was done to give the killers a false sense of security. ’ iStorch, \ under police supervision, arranged meet with the killers in Puttsburgh last Friday to discuss an arrangement for payment of th,e balance of their fee. He had paid a total of $3,500 Jn advance and was to pay the remaining $6,500 in installments. Police swooped down on the Pittsburgh meeting place and arrested two of the hirelingsv-Rlch-ard Haines, 28, and Walter Henderson, 26. The third, Russell BPIdA. 28, escaped but was caught Monday. Storch said he first began Contemplating the murder as early as last September. He said he first I contacted Haines, who agreed to do the job with other men. Storch paid Haines a $1,500 down payment while Henderson and Budd each received a SI,OOO advance. i Storch admitted rhe killers to his six-room natural stone home to “case” the rooms while his wife was away. They decided to make the killing look like the work Os surprised burglars, and on the day of the murder, dumped contents of drawers onto the floor, jimmied a lock to indicate forced entry, and left “signs of a struggle” in the Mrs. Storch’s stepfather, Charles Convary, 77, was asleep at the time in a second floor bedroom. He is practically deaf and said he heard no disturbance downstairs. GIRL SCOUT ; On February 23, we me,t for our February party with Donna Bixler, Melissa Maycliii and Mr|s. Faulkner as the hostesses. On March 2 we opened opr meet- y ing with the Brownie promise.’We had roll call and paid our dues. We played games and practiced our wishing song. We closed with Good Night Brownies. Scribe, Donna BixlerGirl Scout Troop 17 piet lapt Wednesday at the home. of our leader, Mrs. Burdette Custer. The meeting was conducted by the president and dues and attendance were taken. Plans were made for a theater party in Fort Wayne March 14. Patrol 1 took magazines to the county home and also discussed badge work. A Valentine surprise party Was given by Patrol 3 after which the meeting was adjourned. \ Scribe, Jaralee Magsamen. ' V. ■ ■ Girl Scout Troop 17 had their weekly meeting Wednesday. Cookie sale will start (Monday, March 2, and continue through March 7. Our troop went to Fort Wayne Saturday to attend the stage play of Captaiu Kidd and we had lunch while there and then came home. We were accompanied by Mrs. Reid Erekson and leader, Mrs. Custer. We discussed the Juliet Lowe program and practiced our part which we have in it. The re? freshments were served by patrol 2. Scribe, Jaralee Magsamen; . ' ’—"V " 1 " L Trade in a Good Town—Decatur I

Rent Control To End In Many Districts Control Off Unless i Congressmen Act WASIHINGTON, UP — Federal rent controls will end April 36’ in a dozen big cities and more than 1,100 smaller places if congress decides to limit further controls to “critical defense areas” only. Possibly several hundred more will join \ the likt if congress also narrows the definition of critical defense areas to include only those near military and atomic-energy installations. I There are now 1,133 incorpor- , atejd communities with limited federal rent controls. The controls in these cases apply to houses and apartments built Feb. 1. 1947. These 4 re the communities —not classified as critical'defense areas—whose local governing bodies voted last fill to hang 04 to < rent curbs until the pi-esent' federal expires April 30. . \ ' More than 34,000,(iOO persons—• about 21 per kent of the national population — livq in these communities. About 14,000'000 of then: live in rented quarters that are under, control. These federal controls apply to 4,300,(XML dwelling units, or ?3 percent of the nation’s rental units. ~ . _ The heaviest concentrations of these 1.133 communities are in Massachusetts. Connecticut, Maine Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, North . Carolina, Ohio, Minnesota ' and Illinois. The major cities include Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. Newark, San Francisco, Cleveland, Baltimore, Louisville, St. Louis, Minneapolis. St. Paul and Cincinnati. Washington, D. C. has a separate federal rent control law. . New York city is under state eoiL trol. y Major cities in a “critical” classification Columbus, 0., Norfolk, [ Vp., Kansas City, Mo., and Indianapolis, Ind. , ' ■' <gjOSPJTAL I u n Admitted: Dean Monroeville; Thomas Bush. Monroeville: James Price, Geneva. Raudenbaugh, Monroe. •Dismissed: Mrs. Louis and-baby girl, Hoagland; Edward

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