Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 111, Decatur, Adams County, 11 May 1953 — Page 1

Vol. Li. No. 111.

Dress Rehearsal On The Mall i '* • ■ WI/ • 1 •*•••’ Ji' ' —~ w* • . T v-L > ' : t allLv ; ■‘UtSTfcU r ♦ ♦ JmL ieiarX, jrr2 l**2Mtt'®it mVBBF li£ T^ E ROYAL CORONATION COACH, built originally for George HI, in "which England’s Elisabeth II will ride to Westminster Abbey to be crowned on June second, is shown arriving at the* Mall n6ar the Abbey on a timed run from Buckingham Palace. At left are the stands from which spectators will view the procession on Coronation Day.- One of the eight grays drawing the coach is named Eisenhower.

UN Says Reds' POW Proposal Is Too Vague Prisoner-Exchange Proposal Is Termed Too Vaguely Worded PANMUNJOM, Korea UP— The. United. Nations command told the; Communists today their plan to j end the prisoner-exchange z Readdock was worded too vaguely and . asked for a more direct proposal.J Lt. Gen. AVilliam K. Harrteon, senior U. N. truce delegate, said that as it stands now the Communists’ eight-point plan is not a “final resolution.” \ The Communists’ chief spokesman. North Korean Gen. Nam 11, ■said it was “unnecessary to repeat” their proposal, which would give a post-armistice political commission the job of determining finally what to do with anti-Red Allied captives who do not want to go home. Other than this. Nam had little to say during the 53-minute conference and his unwillingness to reply to Harrison’s questioning seemed to tighten the deadlock blocking a truce in Korea. Harrison brought up the subject of the political commission and again asked Nam for an explanation of how this agency could avoid placing some prisoners inJ indefinite captivity if the- Communist plan were followed. The U. N. objected to this 1 sec-1 tion of the plan because it could ; mean a prisoner, to avoid extensive detention, would consent eventually to return to Commun-! ism against his will. This would be forcible repatria-[ tfon. an issue which led to a breakoff of truce talks last Oct. 8. Nam argued no‘such threat to prisoners existed. He earlier had said the prisoners would agree to .go home after they had been assured by the Communists they had nothing to fear. Harrison then asked for a “further proposal for the ultimate solution of this problem if the political conference cannot arrive at a settlement.” Nam did not reply. A North <•' Korean major who interprets English into Chinese for the Red delegation nonchalantly blew smoke rings. Harrison ignored him. Harrison submitted several new questions on prisoner disposition! which he told newsmen later were , “all very important matters.” Then Harrison asked the Reds to give “satisfactory answers" to ■ those questions and the ones previously submitted. Nam said there was no need for answering the questions until the dispute over the political conference is settled. The U. N. asked for a recess until 10 p. m. E.D.T. Monday. 7, ■ Numerous Relatives In Tornado-Hit Town Hebron, Neb., one of the western towns severly damaged by the week-end storms and tornadoes, is - the home of numerous relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Anton F. W. Thieme of this city. The Thiemes visited in Hebron last fall and are anxiously awaiting word from their score of relatives in that city.

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Schwartz Hearing Resumed In Court Former Officials Called To Testify Judge Homer J. Byrd, presiding at the Peter L. Sfchwartz hearing that could result in a trial for the Amiehman now serving a 2-21-year sentence in state prison for incest; this morning denied the entrance as exhibit B of the petition for error coram nobis by the defense, upon which this action is based. . This is. understood to mean that instead of ttiei state having to defend against all the allegations in.the petition? each of "them must be taken separately on the basis of the contents of the transcript of proceedings. V Toward the conclusion of its case, the defense called peter L. Schwartz to the stand and asked him how he had been instructed in his childhood on maters of: attorneys, government and politics. Schwartz answered that he was told that he shouldn’t have anything to do with them, except he might hire an attorney for other than the purpose of “making trouble for . . . somebody.” Deputy attorney general Carl Humble asked Schwartz, in crossexamination, whether he ever admitted on the witness stand to ever using an attorney. Schwartz replied that he had used lawyers for abstracts, ’ Upon that the defense rested ' and the state opened its case with ■ Adams county prosecuting attor- • ney Lewis L. Smith calling Severin H. Schurger, prosecuting attorney during Sch-wartz’ arraignment in September, 1949, to the stand. Schurger testified that he never advised Schwartz not to get an attorney, and at the time he saw * Schwartz in the courtroom on September 25, 1949, the day of the arraignment, he merely “bid him the time of day." ’ In answer to tlhe question as to (Turn To Pace Three) Hubert Miller Dies Suddenly Sunday Native Os County Dies At Van Wert Hubert Miller, 54, a native of Preble township, died suddenly of a heart attack at; 1 o’clock Sunday I morning at his home in Van Wert, O. ' i He was born in Preble township I Aug. 14, 1890, a son of John and Emma •Reppert-Miller. A resident of Van Wert since 1922, he was a former owner and operator of the Miller Distributing Co., in that city, retiring in. 1949. Mr, Miller was a member of the St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran church, and the American Legion, Elks and Eagles at Van Wert. Surviving are his wife, Winifred; a daughter,;. Mrs. Theodore Worthman of Millersburg; three grandchildren: two brothers, Otto F. Miller of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Edwin H. Miller of Delphos, 0., and two sisters, Mrs. B. M. Schultz of Cleveland, 0., and Mrs. Taylor Durflinger of Van Wert. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at thfte St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran church, the Rev. Edward Driscoll officiating. Burial will be in Venedocia cemetery. The body will remain at the Cowan & Son funeral home until of the services.

Violent Death Toll Worst 01 Year In State Six Drownings, 11 Traffic Deaths Are Reported In State By UNITED PRESS Drawnings claimed the lives of six persons in Indiana Saturday and Sunday as the week-end violent death toll mounted to >7. Eleven persons were killed in traffic <4 amashupa, including a wreck of a sleek sports car which killed a young Indianapolis man and two mothers at Bloomington. State police said it wag the deadliest traffic toll so far this year. Three Evansville men died in a drowning tragedy at Evansville. Lawrence Ferguson, 28, Earl Alston, 30, and Frank King. 31, were testing a new outboard motorboat 'Sunday when crgft spapsized and •yrair sucked under barge on the Ohio, river. 7 < 'Ferguson drowned when he swam lhack. to try to rescue the other two. .. : f Other drowning victims •were Timmy Kirby, 8, Jonesboro, Marian Frances Devine, 9, Vincennes, and Daniel Cole, 2, Connersville. The Kirby boy drowned , while swimming in the Missiesinewa river Saturday at Jonesboro; the Devine girl drowned Saturday as she and a friend waded in a pond near Vincennes, and young Cole drowned in Whitewater river Sunday while his parents fished nearby. Deed in the Bloomington crash Saturday night were Michael Fairbanks, 22, Indianapolis, Mrs? Helen Smith, 39, Madison, and Mrs. Eve - Mahoney, 58, Marion. The two women were attending a Mother’s Day dance at Indiana University 1 with their daughters. • Fairbanks was driving an Eng-lish-made sports car when he collided with a car driven by Robert Barger, 19, Fairland, just inside the Bloomington city limits. In critical condition in Bloomington hospital were Barger, Nancy Smth, 18. Marilyn Mahney, 19, and John Smiley, ‘l9, all Indiana University student®. Brown county Sheriff Clarence 'Roberts said he had chased the sports car at a high rate Os speed over several miles of hilly roads into Bloomington when the Crash occurred. He said Fairbanks was arrested earlier at Nashville on a reckless driving charge. Fairbanks was the grandson of the late Charles W. Fairbanks, vice president under Theodore Roosevelt. His father, the late Richard iM. formerly was publisher of the IndianapQlls News. Clifford Compton Jt., 3, and his sister, Carolyn, 4, were killed Sun- • day when their family oar overturned on a (gravel road near Boewell. The father, Clifford, 28, his wite.Helen, 22, and their six-year-old daughter, Connie, were injured. Dorothy Slagle, 1?, (Brookville, was fatally Injured Sunday when she was thrown from a car on Ind. 1 a mile south of Cedar Grove. • State police said the driver, Robert Pail, 20, lost control as he drove at high speed. Pail was injured. t ,7 Verne Etchineon,. 45, Terre Haute, was killed Sunday night when his auto careened off Ind. 53 six miles south at Terre Haute and (Tara Ta Face Fear)

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SevenSfates* Are In Path Os Tornadoes Minnesota Hardest Hit, Nine Persons Victims Os Storms By UNITED PRESSS Tornadoes and windstorms that killed 11 persons and injured at least 180 left a pattern of destruction today in seven states. Minnesota, w<here nine persons were killed, was hit hardest. Eight of the victims were killed 1 In nadoes and the ninth in a violent wind. | Wisconsin reported two dead and at least Id injured. ■' Other tornadoes hop - skipped through lowa, Arkansas and South Dakota Sunday night. Saturday night twisters struck in Kansas and Nebraska, injuring 150 persons at Hebron, Neb., and “almost blowing the town off the mdp.'* Six piembers of one famity were killed I*4 miles south of Hollandale. Minn., when a twister, splintered their home and tosSed their bodies 100 feet. The dead were identified as Anleeto Martinet. 20; his wife] Magdalene, >5, and their four children. Their two other children were hospitalised In critical condition at Albert Lea, Minn. 3 ! Near St. Charles, Minn., a one-year-old girt was killed and her mother seriously injured when a tornado lifted an automobile into the air and then dashed it with tremendous force into a ditch. The mother, Mrs. Dorothy McDonald, 29, of Rochester, Minn j Was taken to Rochester for treatment. Otto Jeche, about 70, was crushed and killed near Wyeoff. Minn., when his barn coHhpsed, pinning him under a heavy beam. His grandson, Dennis Boettcher, was injured seriously. Another' storm-caused death was reported in Minnesota, Frank Lenehan of Spring Lake Park, Minn., 1 was killed when his auto sideswiped another car on highway 10 north of St. Paul in a heavy rain and wind storm. A witness reported that a blinding bolt of lightning flashed over the cars just before the collision. An elderly spinster, Miss Mary Maloney, was killed when a twister carried away her farm home near Stanton, Wis. Three other persons in the house were injured. Farmer Frank Novak was killed (T«iw To Pace Two) Mrs. Sarah Dunlavy Dies This Morning ! Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Mrs. Sarah Ann. Dunlavy, 77, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Willard E. Brant, 62 N. Second street, this city, at tL2:<45 o’clock this morning. Mrs. Dunlavy had been visiting here with her; daughter foi* the past three weeks. Born in Montpelier in October, 1875, she was the widow of Mar? tin J. Dunlavy, who died in ApriJ, 1962. She .lived at 1102 W. perry street, Fort Wayne, since 1922. \ Besides the daughter in thia city, she is survived by one son, Gregory Dunlavy of Fort Wgyne; two sisters, Mrs? Eva NusSaummer, Montpelier, and Mrs. Christina Vachon of Fort Wayne. The body was taken to the Mungovan A Sons funeral home. 2114 S. Calhoun street. Fort Wayne, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening. Funeral services will be condented Wednesday at 8:45 t. m. at the funeral home and at 9:15 at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, of which she was a member. The Rt Rev. Msgr. John A. Depp, will officiate at tbg requiem mass. ? 1' Burial will be in the Mt. Calvary cemetery, Montpelier.

King-Size Cannoil Is Now In Use In Korea Hurls Huge Shells , Nearly 15 Miles NELAR THffiJ KOREAN FRONT UP —- The army repealed today It was blasting Communist fortifications with a mammoth field Artillery howitzer capable of hurling 360 pound shells about 15 miles. Second in size only to the atomic ' cannon, the new' 240 millimeter howitzer is so large it requires two specially designed trailers and tractors to move it, and a powerful crane to place it in position. f The army unveiled the king-sized cannon at a demonstration held in g blinding rainstorm and witnessed by Lt. Gen. Maxwell Taylor, Bth army commander, President and Mrs. Syngtnan Rhee of South Ko rea, almost 200 military guests and a corps of United Nations war correspondents. It was the most spectacular of E-al new weapons shown at a ay of the United Nations’ evening fighting power. New vehicles and ’weapons, including a light hand grenade, also were exhibited. L “We are just' (beginning to receive soqie of our new equipment in Korea/’ Taylor said. . The artny said the heir howitser, which has a gun carriage resembling that of the atomic cannon, had been In use for several days, blasting deeply dug Communist artillery and bunkers. The number of super-sized cannon in use was kept secret. < While jthe spectators. Including 15 U.S., South Korean and British generals, watched, a crew of 21 cannoneers manned the big gun They fired point iblank at a mouritain 2.000 yards away. ' Exploding shells shot fragments more than 'SOO yards, kicking up clouds of smoke and mud IQO feet <T«r» Ti» Pa«e Tw») ' Monmouth Graduate Speakers Announced Speaker at the baccalaureate ceremonies of Monmouth high school next Sunday evening will be the Rev. William C. Feller, pastor of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church of Decatur. Serv"ices will be held at the church at 8 p.m. The announcement came from Gail Grabill, principal, together with the speaker at the school’s commencement exercises May 20 at 8 p.m. He will be the Rev. Matthew Worthman, pastor of the First Evangelical and Reformed church of Bluffton. Graduation of the 36 seniors wfill take place at the Monmouth school gym. Five more seniors graduating thia year than last. Grabill Will Assume School Pod Aug. 15 Monmouth Principal Elected Saturday On August 15; Monmouth school principal Gail Grabijl will assume the post of Adams county school superintendent, two years after coining to this county. Grabill was voted in as superin- > tendent Saturday by vote of the township trustees. Born 37 years ago in Henry county, Grabill took both his baoheloFs and master’s degrees at Ball State Teachers College. His teaching career began in Nappanee in where he taught industrial arts and social studies, in addition to which he was baseball coach. After a year and a half ■ stay at Nappanee, .Grabill spent four years ip the. U. S. air corps, following which. Id 1946, he took another teaching poet at Pendleton, where he taught social studies and was all-aroHßd coach. A : Following his five-year tenure at' Pendleton, the' superintendent-elect accepted the post as principal of Monmouth high school in 1951. I:' ' •

Churchill Calls For Meeting Os Leading Powers ! dramatic Proposal h By British Leader > To Seek Agreement LONDON, UP —Prime Minister Windpn Churchill called today for a meeting leading wdrld powers “on the highest leyel’’ — presumably meaning himself, President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Georgi M. Malenkov. ~“I <jo not see why anyone should be frightened at having a try” for agreement, Churchill said. . we might have a generation of peace.’’ , d Chiirchill made uli,drainatic proposal: in opening ja two-day fulldress’ house of cod*imns debate on foreign affairs, virith 21 foreign ambassadors among his listeners. He called for an informal, extremely secret meeting “confined to the smallest number of powers and persons possible.” Churchill made it plain also that he believes the new Communist proposal on disposition of arttl-Communist prisoners held by. tlie United Nations Command in Ksrea provides the basis for an armistice. ‘ V ■ The proposal for a conference of world J powers came as one of a series’ of important foreign developments: i ' 1. |rhe announcement (hat deputies of the Big Four foreign niini‘sters|will meet here May 27 to attempt; again to write a treaty restoring Austria’s sovereignty; 2. The demand of the United Nations command in Korea for clarification of the Communists* war prisoner <plan. 3. arrival of secretary of state gohn Foster Dulles Jn Cairo at thee start of a Middle-East factfindThk tour. <•• 4fj. ' announcement that will take on'the duties of ailing foreign minister Anthoy Eden. | j - ! ' Chui-chill did not indicate which powerg he thought should be included in conference on world issues. ?He has long' advocated a three-power meeting confined to the United States, Britain and Soviet Russia. “Thg question of the conditions governing an exchange of prisoners has really been reduced to terms - which no longer involve ay difference of principle,” he said ? (Tun To Page Two) . I — Marlin H. KircLJer ’ ’ -i . 1 Is Taken By Death i I * l -' ' ’ r iFiinerql Services Tuesday Afternoon Martin H. Kirchqjpr, 84, of onehalf niile south of Preble; retired farmer; and lifelong resident of Preble and Kirkland townships, died at 11:15 a,m. Sunday at the Adams county- memorial hospital; ,following a cerebral hemorrhage suffered last TUesdky. He Was born in Preble township April q, 1869,. a son of William R. and Pauline Otto-Kirchner, and was married to Anna Fuhrman Nov, 5, 18Si3. Mrs. Kirchner died in 1940. f Mr. Kirchner was a member of PL JPadl imtheranjchurch at Preble. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Norman Buettner of Preble, Mrs. Fred Werling and Mrs. Oscar Wefllng, both of Ossian; 12 grandchild refa; one great-grandchild, and two brother, John and Henry Kirchner, both of Preble. One brother and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the 2?wick funeral home and at 2 p.m. St Paul Lutheran church at UPreble, the Rev. Otto <!. Busse oilficiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this’ evening. * i

J Democrats Assail J Hard Money Policy Reckless Increase | In Interest Rates j WASHINGTON UP —Congressional Democrats today concerted attack on the administration’s “hard money” fiscal policy, charging it has led to a “rabid and reckless” increase in interest rates. As the first step in the campaign, seven senators and 13 house, members sponsored a resolution calling on ‘ the federal reserve system; to support the price of government bonds at par. The Democrats claimed this would enable the government?; to borrow at lower interest rates and “this in turn would permit loWer rates for farmer, businesnlen, homebuyers, local governments and other borrowers.” In a statement issued on of the group, Sen. James E. Murray D-Mont. tyid Rep. Wright Patman DTex. charged that the market price of long-term federal bqhds has fallen to an all-time low because of the refusal of the federal reserve system to support l<thle market; They said this has made it necessary for the government to offer higher interest rates to attract bond buyers. And this has forced up the interest rates paid by .private borrowers. They cited the recent increases on interest rates on farm price support loans, commercial bdnk loans to business, installmentpurchase loans and governmentinsured home mortgages. J? “All of this is happening a| a time when there is a serious ’decline in agricultural prices anw a growing danger that the agricultural price decline may spread|to the rest of the country," the statement said. i Sponsors of the resolution included Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey Minn., and Reps. Melvin Price 111., Uiid Barrett O’Hara 111. ? ' ! -.. I ■ j} City Files Appeal In Witnesses Case j | Appeals Decision By Circuit Court JI Through its attorney, Robert Anderson, the Decatur board of zoning appeals today filed an appeal from the decision of the Adams 4|rcuit court which ruled that the Decatur Jehovah's Witnesses hid a right to build a church at the corner of Ninth and Monroe streets despite the fact that certain specifications are at variance with i the zoning ordinance. Last summer the zoning boa|d rejected an appeal from the Witnesses after they were refused; a building permit by the city engineer. The appeals board said th£y were issuing the refusal because the specifications of the proposed building violated a zoning ordinance that regulates off-street parking and frontage set-back. An appeal was taken to the circuit court and Judge Myles F. Parrish ruled that, in his lengthy opinion, to refuse the Witnesses permission to build was an abridgement of their constitutional rights of freedom of worship .. >, | Anderson filed his motion for an appeal witk the transcript of t|e case together with an assignment of errors, whereby he will base hjs case. Anderson drove to Indianapolis to file the papers. By la>. Anderson has 30 more days tb file his brief, after which an additional 30 days are given to the Witireests to file a reply brief. INDIANA WEATHER Increasing cloudiness with shower* spreading Into moot of south tonight ana over entire ) state Tuesday. Cooler over f most of state tonight and somo-| what cooler north Tueeday.f Low tonight 46.52 north, 52-58 j south. High Tuesday 6070 ; north, 7GBO south. |

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Great Lakes Freighter Is Storm Victim Ship Founders Anc . Sinks This Mprning In Lake Superior PORT ARTHUR. Ont. UP 4- A Great Lakes freighter foundered and sank in Lake Bup'erior. off Isle Royale, in i neap hurricane winds today and at least 10 of the 31 crewmen were drowned. \ i ' Nine other were rescued from life rafts in the pounding seas. Rescue vessels found 10 bodies. according to ship-to-shore radio, reports. At Cleveland, 0., Capt.- Albert Stiglin, skipper pt the\ freighter, was listed as-one of the survivors ,by the coast guard. f ! 4 The? freighter, Henry Steinbrenner, struck the Rock of Ages 14 oft the southern tip the ; nearly un-inhabited vacation island . which lies some 30 miles oft the [ Michigan shore and about the same s distance from Canada.' ? Winds Up to 72 miles an hour j buffeted the lake Sunday night and t early today, turning the shipping i a boiling mass of white . caps, I ; ; The gale tore off half of the , Steinbrenner’s hatches and it filled f rapidly with water. At 7:30 a.m. the ship’s captain SOJfed he was abandon! g ship. The 420-foot vessel Went under at about 8 a.m. e.s.t. 1 Fiye Crewmen were rescued from a life boat by the steamer Joseph Thompson. They were all in good condition. The Thompson also picked lit* three other survivjors from ai raft. One of them was reported, injured. f ' i y i High seas and winds hampered rescue efforts, but coast guard and air force ' planes swept dangerously low to hunt survivors. At noon, the wind had subsided some. The Rock of Ages is a tremendous rock rising-out of the lake’s bottom and just on the edge of the shipping lane. t ; A coast guard life boat from Grand Marais, Minn., reported it I had sighted two life boats'. It ’was I not known, however, whether they I were the same as those sighted by the Thompson. I The coast guard drew rescue vessels from Minnesota and Michigan to aid in the search for survivors. Amphibious plans from the coast . guard station at Traverse <Tar*t To Pmok Tkree) Mrs. Rowena Davis Is Taken By Death I J Funeral Services Wednesday Morning ?iMrs. Rowena L. Davis, 73. a resident of Willshire, 0., for many yfears,; diet! at 5:40 a.m. Sunday at the Bethesda hospital in Cincinnati. 0.. after a week’s illness of bronchial pneumonia. She had'lived for the past sik months in Cincinnati with a daughter, Mrs. Harriet Cole. She was born in Paulding county. O„ Sept. 4, 1879, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mathias Her husband, Melvin L. Davis, died in 1950. Surviving are five daughters. Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Fern Heath\ of Akron, sO„ Mrs. Goldie Karsh of Williamstown, 0., Mrs. Mabie Converse of Lima, 0., and Mrs. Frank Fortney of Pleasant Mills: four sons, Forest Davis of Fostoria, 0.. Robert Davis of Fort Wayne. Leßoy , Davis of Mendota, 111., and Harry Davis of Indianapolis; 17 grand--children; J 2 great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Helen Bushong ot West O., and one brother, Walter Leeth of Lima, O. • Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Willshire Church of God, the Rev. Herbert Schumm officiating. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. The body was removed this after- < noon from the Cowan & Son fun- | eral home to the Fortney residence in Pleasanti Mills, where friends may call until time of the services, i