Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 74, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1953 — Page 1

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20 Persons Killed In Wreck Os Two • ~ I -■ ■ , i Passenger Trains

’ CONNEAUT* 0.. UP—The deat> toll rose to 20 today from; the "Wreck of two high-speed New York Central passenger trains. ‘ i Reports indicated the number of injured would exceed 100. The twq passenger trains smashed into a derailed freight, spewing coaches over a half-mile area like pieces of broken toys. ' Rescue workers recovered' 17 bodies and reported three more visible id the jumbled debris, according to W. C. Mulligan, deputy’ coroner of Erie. County, Pa. Authorities at. Brown hospital here said they hdd been told that 26 persons had been killed and their bodies had been sent ? bf train to Erie, Pa.. 28 miles north* east of the wreck scene on a de-srt-late, rain-swept curve near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. 4 The wreck occurred Friday night, two miles east of this bpi|' der town and several hundred yards inside the PenpsylVanik border* I Erie trainmaster William Sprunk.sald' steel casings 12 td 14 feet in diameter and 20 feetj long either fell or shifted on the car of a freight train and derailed: Jt ' :! , Within moments, speeding pas-T senger trains approaching front opposite directions alohg the fourtrack main line smashed into the; derailed freight, f | •Mt just happened almost simuH taneously,” Sprunk said. “There: ■was no lime to flag anyone down.”] t Wreckage was flung for half a; mile and five passenger carsjvere! turned o,n their sides, at right: - angles to the twisted tracks. The train approaching fi-om the . west was the Southwest Limited, | crack St. Louis to New York passenger train. Nine of its 12 cars were derailed as it plowed into the disabled freight. The Chicago Special, speeding from Buffalo to Chicago, hit the opposite end of the freight almost at the same moment. Ten of its 11 cars left the track. * Mrs. Alice Hill Mackey, a Conneaut housewife who was one of ■the first to reach the scene: said it was “horrible, just horrible.” “Wreckage was scattered for half a mile,” she said. “It was dark and raining and hard to see, You could hear the moan's and > cries ot the injured. > "Nobody seemed to know' what happened. It seemed like one car went right through the engine.” ■Sgt. John Gosling of the Ohio state highway patrol, who directed^patrol operations frojn the Ashtabula sob-station about 10 miles ■ from the wrjecjk scene, said workera. were forced to “just pile up the dead alongside the tracks” and (Turn To Paice Three) Annual Easter Hunt Planned By Elks Annual Hunt Easter Sunday Afternoon The 17th x annual Easter egg hunt arid party for the children of Decatur and community, will be staged by Decatur Elks lodge at the Elks home, Easter Sunday afternoon, April 5. George F. Laurent, exalted ruler, announced today. - * " Weafher ifermitting. the picturesque egg hunt will be held on the spacious lawn of the home on North Second street. A minimum of 60 dozen of eggs Will be colored for the children. A series of s contests will precede the \l egg : hunt, with bunnies and appropriate Easter gifts being ed to the winners. The committee, headed by George Laurent, announced that these events will be arranged according to age grohps, So that the tiny 1 tots will have an equal chance in winning prizes. Children from ohe to I’2 years are invited to the big party. .5 -. Inclement weather will switch < the egg hunt and party indoors, the committee said. \ The Elks Easter party was established in 1936 and each year is attended by several hundred children and witnessed by parents anti adults. The Elks extend a cordial invitation to the public to attend the colorful event. Assisting the- lodge ’Officers in details for the party are members of the Emblem club, who will ar- . range the gifts, and act as escorts for the young boys and girls. ' ■ . . v ' ■ •

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

——. i Ike Greets Prince . PRESIPENT EISENHOWER greets Prince Bernhard of The Neth- . erlands. at the White. House as the latter called for a conference with the chief executive. • ‘ ? * : «

Senate Votes I 4\ : '. • . - i . r . Approval For Chas. Bohlen Vote Is Resounding Eisenhower Victory Against McCarthy \•: _ ' N . WASHINGTON. UP —President Eisenhower racked up a resounding victory over Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy today with the senate’s landslide approval w of Charles E. Bohlen as ambassador to Moscow; Mr. Eisenhower’s immensej personal prestige never shone brighter. tljan it did late Friday , in the climax of the stormy th&ee-day debate on the career diplomat’s appointment. \ Seventy-dour senators voted to cop firm Bohlen. Only McCarthy and a dozen other diehard oijponerfts maintained their opposition to the bitter end.; | \ When the roll was called,; the Democrats threw in. their support almost to a man largely because Bohlen was the respected adviser of Democratic presidents. But the Republicans, including senate OOP leader Robert A. Taft, were voting for' of ly one; thing—to back 'the personal'choice of the general who became their \party commander and the nation’s 'President. Sen. Alexander Wiley, H-WisL chairman of the senate foreign relations iomtnittee. said the big vote was “a sign that the popple feel that Ike knows what he’s .about.’* ■ Bohlen, oiie of the Country’s foremost! experts .on Russia, was .expected :tp I>e sworn in next week and hurried off to Mpscow to take soundings on the intentions of the new rulers in the Kremlin. ' ’\iAß the rumble of the formal senate debate Sdied away, there was speculation that the furor might have left a permanent split ; between 5 McCarthy and the Eisen* ’ hower administration. \l| The Wisconsin Republican had company ;iji the vote against Bohlen, including Republican Sens. Styles Bridges. N. H... and Everett M. Difkseri. 111. But it was plain the dispute also represented a kind cot MeCarthy-administraj tion test of strength. \ * On the prospects of a split. TaR said “No. no. no. no.” But congressional observers said the very emphasis \vith which he said tills seemed to Indicate the Ohioan was aware of the danger. The dissenters were: pemocrafic Sens. Edwin C.j Johnson, Chlo., and Pat McCarran. Ney.4 and, besides McCarthy, John W. Bricker, O„ Styles Bridges, N. H.. Everett M. Dirksert. 111.. Henry C. DworShak. Ida., Barry Goldwater. Ariz., Bourke 8., Hickenlooper. la.. George W. Malone, Nev.. Karl E. Mundt, S, jD„ SchoepKan.and I Herman Walker, <Tw* To Pago Six) I . .

►—l ■ . Mrs. Burt Lynch Dies In Arkansas , \ Word was received here today of the death of Mrs. Bert Lynch, 78, at Jonesboro, Ark. Widow of Burt Lynch, the deceased was born in this city, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Holthouse. The family moved tax rkansas more than 5Q years ago\ She is survived by oneVaughter Mrs. Beatrice Lynch sloan, And three grandchildren of Jonesboro; two brothers, Clem and Bernard Holthouse, and three sisters. Funeral services will be ; held Monday in Jonesboro. Marines Again Retake Vegas Hill From Reds Red Counterattack Blasted By Weary American Marines SEOUL, Korea UP —“Exhausted American marines retook embattled Vegas Hill on the western front today as \U. S. Sabrejets shot down or damaged five Communtst MIG 15’s. The battle-weary leathernecks, in their bloodiest fighting in six months, .won the top of the battered height -hear Old Baldy mountain for the second time in 10 hours. Immediately after they scrambled to the crest of Vegas the marines were hit by a Communist counterattack but they knocked the Reds back. i; ■ “The marines are In complete control of the top,” an American commander said. “Our purpose is to stay there.” In the air action, another jet ace was .crowned in battles against the Russian-|>uilt MiG’s. Col. James K. Johnson, Phoepix, Ariz.. became the Korean war’s 29th ace by shooting down one of the MiG’s. Four other MiG’s were damaged today. \ Fighter-borpbers meanwhile continued unloading tons of bombs across the front in support of hard fighting infantry men. Marines suffered “very few’’ casualties in the hour-long fight for Vegas Hill despite’heavy Communist artillery and mortar barrages. Allied artillery was also heavy. The marines took vital Vegas Hill after 30 hours of continuous fighting. \ On Old Baldy itself, 25 miles to the east, U. S. air force fighterbombers blasted Chinese in apparent preparation for-an Allied ground assault. s The key defense point on the invasion route to Seoul was lost to the Chinese Wednesday. On nearby Reno Hill, meanwhile, the Communists* hold there remained unchallengd. Noon Edition \ 1 ; 1 ; I- .i ; •

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 28, 1953* ■ " 1 ' ■ »—i.■ ■.i r » .. ~ .j... —j

Communists Agree To Exchange Os Wounded, Sick Prisoners Os War

Peace Formula: May Be Made By Vishinsky U. N. Observers See New Peace Formula . May Be Presented u . ! UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. MP’ —Unitd Nations observers expert; ed today the new Communist prisoner offer would probably be fallowed up here with a new peace formula by Soviet Delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky/ It- was considered likely- that Vishinsky, wno recently -returried from consultations in Moscow, have the new korean peace mula ready to present for consideration When the General Assembly take up Poland’s omnibus peaMe plan- .h' ' : ill It. was also probable the “peace” offensive would be ’ttflected in a relatively mild Vishlpsky approach in the current debate on the American (frmand for impartial inquiry into germ w|b fare charges. : Illi, However, observers did n$F Idjbjk acceptance of the An Jitlean proposal that Americans allegedly have confessed to engitging iu germ war operations brought to neutral points for impartial verification 0f the storyjh A first reaction here was tligft the Communist prisoner offer resents the sort of “deed” the west has been seeking as proof of putt genuiness of Premier Malenkovs “peace” talk. ■ ! It looked now more than eves 35 though the world, was moving Howard a top level conference Malenkov and President Eisenhoyj er‘ and perhaps also , top British and French leaders. But it wj# problematical whether this cbjfi come before or after an armisti™ in Korea. ; 1 ® The U.\ N. was considered qh excellent spot for behind-the-scenjsg approaches that could initiate rangements for such a top lev® get-together, -! , I On the other handj there was telling Whether the approach wouj | be made here by Vishinsky $ (Turn To Paste Six) .. , '■ n - 11 Russian Gesture To French On Prisoners ? 1 [ MOSCOW, UP —Foreign minis { ter Vyacheslav M. Molotov, in It I gesture similar to that made- ts § Britain last week, has inform® I France the Soviet government wi| ’■ tpy to Arrange the repatriation d | French civilians interned in Ncpru | Korea at . the start of the war. Molotov tbld French ambassadoab Louis Joxe he would!try to compls|| with a French request to aid il| the repatriation of the Frenchnter|h Joxe met Molotov Friday.

Ante* ! • It ? v ’ (By Rev. Ray J. WalthenfFirst Presbyterian Church) A NEW RESPONSIBILITY i : ;g r 1 Thessalonians 5:5 “Ye ipT ill the children of light,' and the children ot\the iire not,of the night, or of the darkness. r - J People develop an amazing Ability to see in the dark it they are forced or trained to do-so. Hit the strange thing is that when we become accustomed to darkriftss and we perfect our vision in darkness, the smallest amount off jig lit has blindening effects upon In the Gospel Os Jesus Chrisft. ‘there is no room for double vision, for man must choose light and darkness.. And when he has made the choice, then that new choice places certain new responsibilities upon him, =|jh writing to the Thessalonians, Paul said “Yc are all the children of: light.and, the children of the day;\we are not of the night, noj* of When one makes the choice one feel the of being a child of the light without a shadow of a dgubf.- \ As an animal of darkness isjiiirided and strange in the light, so is a person of sin blinded to rfehteousness. and is a stranger in the light of God’s countenance, l|ut When God’s light attracts and \ one becomes a creature of it, thin ft becomes one’s challenge to , remove all the shadows and enjo/ all of the light, ' . Are you a child Os light or of the darkness? Will it take the dark hours of Calvary to shock wpuHnto the Recognition of your stumbling and sinful living in t|e ishadows of that cross? We ■, children of God can find joy on£v When we Hve in the light of His presence. | . fr *

t _. Republican Party Head Quits Post Roberts Resigns ( , Under Heavy Fire J WASHINGTON UP — The res> jgnation under of Republican national committee chairman C. Wesley Roberts left the unprepared Eisenhower administration today With an urgent repair Job to per£oßn on the party organization. ’ President Eisenhower was caught almost'flat footed by his chief political agent’s retirement. Last Inonth he expressed full confidence |n >Roberts. This week he tbld his hews (conference he would await the findings of tl|e Kansas courts and the legislature on Charges Against the party chairman. ; legislative findings alone proved to be sufficient to end the dUapense. A committee of the Kaneah legislature sgid Friday Roberts had violated the spl’rit if not Hip letter of the state’s lobby law in connection with the sale of. a hospital building to the state which ijiyolved an $11.0(>0 fee for the departed chairman. Roberts resigned a few! hours afterward. | Roberts conferred with presidential assistant Sherman Adams and then with Mr. Eisenhower Friday before announcing his resignation. The President said ta a subsequent Statement ! that Roberts' deers low Was “a one.” s He Roberts took the initiative in resigning and that appreciated the resigned “valuable and tireless efforts” "Yor t-he Republican party. f In his resignation statement. Robots said a "plot” \among Kansas politicians had “destroyed my usefulness as national chairman." He 4‘Uied the charge's brought againsthim and asserted that his part in the sale ot a hospital |>uilding to tbe state was “right and proper ajpd for the best interests of all Wljo were concerned/’ i The legislative committee objected that Roberts had seemed to be tadre lobbyist than public relations, counsel in the transaction which gained him SII,OOO on a SIIO,OOO s|les price. It also was arguec( tha’t the hospital building situated oh state property bukj-built and operated' by an insurance company actually belonged to the state, anyWjay. A?, court suit\has been filed op that question. The sale took place in 1951. .’Roberts insisted that he did not lobby in connection with the sale. (Turn To Puce Three) ; | _____ . ■ A • ■ " ; ‘ ' Decatur Physician Taken To Hospital I'Dr. W. E. Smith, well known physician of this city. Was moved ip an ambulance from his homd tc| the Adams county memorial hospital this morning. Nq report was made on his condition.

— _ . Annual Union Services Here On Good Friday - rliree-Hour Service Friday Afternoon At Zion Reformed z ‘ . V The anftual union Good Friday services of the Decatur Protestant churches will be held next Friday, from 12 noon to 8\ p. m., at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, Third and Jackson streets, The services., commemorating the Three Hours Christ spent ort the Cross of Calvary, will be divided into three periods of one hour each. > The Rev. William 6. Feller, pas? tor of the host church, will preside during the first- hour, opening with a 15-minute organ meditation by Mrs. J/ Fred The call to worship will be given by Rev. Feller, the scripture lesson by the Rev. Ilwight R. McCurdy, of the Church of God. the general prayer by the Rev. John id Chamber*, of the Trinity x Evan* - ge-Hcal United Brethren church, and the benediction by the Rev; Traverse Chandler, First C|lM*istlan church, ~ Guest speaker during the first hour will be Dr. Elmer Becker, president of Hun-tington College. . The second period, from 1 to 2o’clock, will be a presentation of earned music by the Music department of the Decatur Woman’s • club, directed by Miss Helen Hau-i l>old, ■ln addition to numbers by the choif, gololsts will lie Mrs: Dan Tyndall. Mrs. Myron Haggard. Miss Helen Haubold, Mrs. William C. Feller and Mrs. Walter J. Krick, Mrs.! O. H. Haubold,. will be the .\organistJ s ' ||| The final period will be from JI:0-5 until. 3 o'clock, with the> Rev. Samiiel Emerick, 'First Methodist church, presiding. Assisting will be tlie Rev. A. B. Neuenschtvander, Nuttman Avenue, United Brethren church, the Rev. ,H. J. Welty. Decatur Missionary church, the Rev. Romaine D. Wood, Church of the Nazarene. Guest speaker for the final hour will be the Rev. i. F. Gerig, president of the Missionary church association. i L | —' April Draft Calls Received By Board T>ro Contingents Ordered To Report Twenty men have been called by selective service to take physical examinations at Indianapolis on April 9, James K- Staley, chairman of the local draft board, announced today. ' j ' ,A • The group is divided into two classes, the board announced. There will be 12 of; 1-0 registrants and eight g>f class 1-A or 1-AO registrants. The i-Q classification If for conscientious objectors. The local board- also z received orders to induct 14 men on April 13. They will be sent to Indian-! apolis for induction in active military service. *' Staley reported that 27 Adame county conscientious objectors hgve been called* and they have beep placed in the following institutions: five at St. Elizabeth hospital, Lafayette; one' at Boone county home, Lebanon; three at Dr, Beatiy Memorial hospital, Westville; one at Goshen College; 13 at Central State hospital, Indianapolis; one at Boys’ village, Smithville, Ohio; , one at KJng’s View home, Reedley, California; one at Daviess county farm, "Washington, Indiana and one at Alexian Brothers hospital, St. Louie, Mo.

Daylight Time In Decatur Probable Council To Study Problem April 7 i • 1 It is “highly probable” that Decatur will join almost all other cities of northern Indiana in using daylight saving time from the last Saturday in April until the last Saturday in September, it was learned today. Because of a state statute, no ordinance regarding use of the fast time can be adopted, but each year the city council adopts a res- s olution urging use ot the. fast time to comply with the time used during the summer months by neighboring cities. Such a resolution is being prepared now by Robert Anderson, city attorney, for presentation at the council meeting of. April 7,, it was learned. \ J Local stores and factories also use the fast time. All legal papers; notices for bids and other matters of that type carry central standard time figures throughout .the year. For several, years, however, city and county offices have operated on the daylight time. Unless there is an about-face, the fast time will become effective here April 25 at midnight and Wijl extend to September 26 at midnight. These dates comply with Fort Wayne, Huntington, Bluffton, Portland,- Berne and other cities. Usually the county board of comorders the outside court house clock to be moved ahead to comply. In some county seats, however, the clock remains on standard time. Adams county commissioners likely will discuss the matter at their April meeting. Sunrise Service On Easier For Youth Announce Program For Easter Service* An Easter sunrise service for the-youth of Decatur will be held at the Church of God, Cleveland street, at 6 o'clock Easter Sunday morning, -April 5. The service is planned for and will be conducted by the youth of th? associated churches of Decatur, and all young people of the city are invited to attend. The program for the service is as folio wk: , Prelude: trumpet duet—Robert Boat' and Alarf Lehman. Invocation —Norma Alger. Hymn—Lois Wood, pianist. /Scripture—Marilyn Jaberg. Quartet — Jack Lawson, Jim Rowley, Dan Thomas, Gene Morrison. Prayer—Rev. Dwight McCurdy, host church pastor. Offering —* Roger Blackburn, Robert Lobsiger, Larry Hutker. Offertory— Carol Elzey,piano; Lois Wood, organ. ; Sermon—William Brentlinger. !a t Trio—-Dorcas Davidson, Dorcas Sautbine. Lois Strahm. Closing hymn. t Benediction —Rev. McCurdy. -■ ----- Cubs Plan Circus i Program On Monday 1 Decatur Cub Scouts and their families will shafe in a circus program at | the Lincoln school gym Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The several dens of, the Cub pack ■will each provide a special feature. On sale during the evening ■will be ice cream bats, candy, soft drinks, balloons, etc. Proceeds from the sales will go to -the pack’* general treasury. The Cubs scout committee planning for ths, evening includes Earl Caston; chairrnan, Hubert Zerkel, j:r., Cubihastet, Harold Hoffman. Bryce Tlfomas, Jerry Leitz and Samuel Emerick. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight and Sunday. A little warmer Sunday. tow tonight 32-38. High Sunday 60-70.

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Also Propose Truce Talks Be Resumed , / Sudden Agreement By Communists Is Offered In Korea TOKYO UP The Communists today suddenly agreed to exchange sick and wounded war prisoners with v the United Nations and pro--1 posed the immediate resumption cf talks. The Communists said agreement on exchange of sick and wounded men should lead to settlement of the entire prisoners of war Issue, “thereby achieving an armistice in. Korea." 1 Gen; Mark W. Clark, U. N. commander in chief, announced the U. N, would be ready to exchange sick and wounded prisoners “within a matter of days” if the enemy “ offer proves sincere. The proposal to resume armistice talks will be taken under consideration “immediately” Clark said. “ I’he enemy proposal seemed on ' Its surface to be the first concrete Communist move in a new peace 1 offensive launched after Georgi M. Malenkov took over Jdsef Stalin s place in the Moscow Kremlin. ’ “Our side ..fully agrees to your side’s proposal to exchange sick ( and injured ‘ prisoners of . war of both sides during the period of ‘ hostilities.” the enemy offer said. It was a complete reversal of the enemy stand up to now. p. . . We consider that the reasonable, settlement of?sick and injured prisoners . . . . should be made to lead to the smooth settlement of the entire question of the prisoners \ of war, thereby achieving an ar- ' mistice in Korea ...” The Communist proposals, made after 'a stalemate of nearly six months in negotiations, came from North Korean premier and commander in chief Kim II Sung and Chinese Coriimunist Geri. Peng TehHuai. Addressed to Clark the proposal? were handed to a U. N: liaisoij officer at the Panmunjom truce site in Korea. At last report—last fall—the Reds held a total of about 12,000 U.. N. the Allies held about 116,000 Communists. There was no way to estimate the number of Allied prisoners who w'ould .be classed as sick or wounded. , But one of them might w|bH be Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, heroic . commaftder of the United States 24th infantry division, who was- i captured in August. 1950 while fighting Reside his men. He was seriously ill for months after his capture and it is not known whether he has fully recovered. The Red message was in answer to a letter Clark sent to the Communists'last month, ”1 wish to be iriTorTned," Clark • T«rß T« Fx* Six) Pranksters Remove Caution Lanterns City and county law enforcement officers are on the watch for local youths who have been | causing considerable worry lately by removing red caution lanters from in the streets and also by turning stop and caution signs in opposite directions. For the last several days, red lanterns have been removed from various excavations in Decatur and placed on nearby porches. No mishaps have resulted from the pranks, but officiate fear that a serious accident „ might Result from removal of the lanterns. Several stpp sign® at preferential streets also have been turned and motorists not acquainted with \local traffic regulations have been confused while passing the city. The work all is believed to be that of local pranksters who do not realize that the misdemeanors might result in serious accidents. Local officials are maklhg a concerted effort to stop the practice before a mishap results.