Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 115, Decatur, Adams County, 15 May 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 115.

3 Killed In Wreck Early Today

House Group Cuis Funds 01 Four Programs Health, Education, -Welfare And Labor r <F unds Are Slashed J Washington up —The House appropriations committee which ■spared farm programs from its economy ax voted, today th slash federal spending for health, education. welfare, and labor programs. It recommended that these programs—exclusive of public assistance grants required by law—be cut $132,481.291 or 17 per cent below the original Truman request and 182,431.900, or 9 per cent, below the revised Eisenhower estiIn\ll, it approved a 11.965,581.570 apropriation bill for the 1954 fiscal year beginning July 1. The committee cut federal grants for schools and colleges, hospital construction, medical research, and public health far below levels recommended by former President Truman. . i The measure carried $1,697,883,570 for the newly-created department of health, welfare and education headed by Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby; $254,424,000 for the labor department, and $13,274,000 for three separate labor agencies. The. labor department’s funds , * were cut $42,394,600, or 14.7 per , cent below the Truman recommendation. and $30,491,600 or 10. T per , cent below the Eisenhower esti- , mate. New and lower estimates of | funds needed for unemployment _ compensation for veterans and others made possible the deeper cut. The bill provided $9,000,000 for the national labor relations board, a cut of $8,000,000 from the Truman estimate, and $500,000 from the Eisenhower estimated. It provided $1,064,000 for the national mediation service, a cut of $104,000 from the Truman budget, and $19,000 from the Eisenhower budget. The federal; mediation and conciliation was allotted $3,210,000, a cut of $537,500 from the Truman estimate, and $260,000 from the Eisenhower recommendation. The committee granted in full the $1,340,000,000 the Truman budget had estimated would be peeded to finance grants required, by law for public assistance programs. It said congress has no control over that. However, _ the other funds for Mrs. Hobby’s department were cut $88,645,191, or 25 per cent below the Truman estimate and $24,661,300 or 6.5 per cent below the revised Eisenhower budget. The action marked a resumption of the economy drive that was interrupted Thursday when the committee approved a bill to au(Tuni T® Page Two) ■' ; | • Carl Gerber Heads Community Fund Elected President At Annual Meeting Carl Gerber, local merchant and civic leader, was elected president of the Decatur Community Fund, at a meeting of the directors held at the First State bank last evening. Gerber Robert Ashbaucher, who retired from the board after serving a three-year term and last year as president. Others officers, elected are: Roy Kalver, first vice-president; Herman Alberding, second vicepresident; Gene Rydell, treasurer; Miss Dorothy Schnepf, secretary. Earl M. Caston, assistant cashier of the First State Bank, was reappointed executive secretary. The new board members elected - last month are, ‘Rydell, T. C. £ » Smith, representing fraternal organizations. and Hubert Jr., representing the schools. The Community Fund conducts the campaign for funds for the ~Boy and Girl Scouts, Salvation army, the cancer fund and local youth and recreation projects. The annual campaign is made during October and the budget for next fall’s drive will Be prepared late this summer.

Boy Scout Waste Paper Pick Up Saturday DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NBWBHU»Eft IN ApAMB COUNTY -f JII

“There’ll Be A 16 Year Delay” ***** 7 * leolßßk -'jSi I ' * 'KJ l\W ' -521 AT TWO YEARS OLD a Jittle girl can be pretty disinterested about winning a sweepstakes. But Rosemary Palumbo of Philadelphia, shown here with her mother, doesn’t realize what a furor winning SB9O in the 1952 Irish Sweepstakes has caused. Transatlantic iitlga- . tion, involving Irish laws forbidding payment to minors until they are 18. stilb holds up the prize she won on “Wellington Gastie,” which finished in the money.

Fear Korean f j Truce Talks Face Breakup Deadlocked Over Repatriation Os War Prisoners PANMUNJOM, Korea UP — The Korean I trUce talks faced a breakup today unless either the United Nations or the Communists make a major concession on repatriation of: war prisoners. The deadlock on disposition of North Korean and Chinese prisoners who refuse to return to their Red-ruled homelands became complete. I! - U. N. and Communist truce negotiators Agreed only, at a one hour and 20 minute, meeting, that their proposals for repatriation were completely contradictory. The prosp ec t s for Saturday’s meeting is continued bickering. There are just two possible courses —a major concession by one side or the other, or an announcement by the U. N. that there will be an indefinite recess. But it is indicated that the U. N. is willing to listen to the Reds for a few more meetings before taking action. Also, the | possibility that the U. N., as well as the Reds, may make the necessary concession to break the deadlock is not ruled out by U. N. sources. Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison said after today’s truce meeting that the Communists either “misunderstood or deliberately misinterpreted” the Allied plan to settle the prisoner, issue. The chief United Nations, Command negotiator said after an 80minute conference with the Communists he did not believe they were even trying to negotiate at the long session. North Korean Gen.‘Nam 11, head of the Korean delegation, refused to budge from the stand that his side’s May 7 eight-point proposal was more acceptable than the 26point Allied plan he received Tuesday. The two sicles agreed today only that each proposal was contradictory to the other. "The basic purpose of our proposal is the opposite of that of yours,” Harrison told Nam. The North Korean general assented. “Right now they are standing firm,” Harrison said. Both sides' agreed to another meeting Saturday at 11 a.m. 10 p.m. e.d.t. Friday. The disagreement centered i around the functions of a five-na-tion neutral commission which would take custody of Allied capi tives who do not want to go home and the Reds’ plan for a postarmistice political conference lo decide the fate of these prisoners.

Spring Festival To Open Monday Night Week-Long Festival Opens Here Monday Decatur’s spring festival, sponsored by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce and Decatur's retail merchants, will open Monday night and continue all the grand closing Saturday night The festival, offering Gooding’s rides concessions, and amateur contests, will be located on Madison street, east of Second street, and on the lot at the east end of Madison street. Feature of Monday night’s opening will be the parade of high ■ school bands, auto dealers and implement dealers, The band judged as tops will 'be awarded $35, and all other bands will be presented $25 each. j ’ Featured In the parade of aqtos will be an exact replica of the Ford auto which will pace this year’s 500-mile race at Indianap-’ oils on Memorial day. This car will feature Ford’s 50th anniversary. Also, special prizes will be given for the oldest autos in the parade. Amateur contests, sponsored by thb retail merchants, will feature the festival evenings for the balance of the week. i The amateur contests will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Three prizes will be awarded each of these four nights. The final amateur contest will /T®r® T® Past® Kiskt) — . — t Mrs. Eva Moser Dies , \ ■■ ' .r"’" Thursday Afternoon Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Mrs. Eva Moser, 84, well known Wren, Ohio, resident and a sister of Harlen Jones of route six. Dr. Dailey D. Jones and Charles Jones of Berne, died at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Thursday afternoon. 'A: A patient in the hospital for six weeks, her death was caused from a cerebral hemorrhage. Surviving are two sops, De Witt, Fort Wayne and Earl of Wren; four daughters, Mrs. Sadie Gbeulach, Wren; Mrs. G. W. Batfcan, ‘lndianapolis; Mrs. Marlin Fryer and Mrs. Glen Longenberger of Fort Wayne. Besides the brothers in this county, B. O. Jonea, Citranella, Ala., C. Clyde and Fred Jones of Willshire township, Ohio, also survive. Two sistera, Mrs. Charles Volta and Mrs. Clara Greulach, both of Willshire township, also survive. Funeral services will be held Sunday al 1:30 p.m. at the Wren United Brethren church. Burial will be in Woodlawn cemetery, Van Wert. The body is at the Cowan and Son funeral home, in Van Wert.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday/May 15, 1953.

I- ' i? ~ ■ , j 'j ' > ■ i Leo Sheets, Decatur, Two Fort Wayne Persons Are Killed In Accident

Negotiations On Steel Contract Upset Today Claim Unauthorized Disclosure Os USW ; Demands To Blame (PITTSBURGH, (UP) — Ignited States Steel Corp, asked today for immediate adjustment in its important wage talks with the CIO United Steelworkers pending,clarification of what the union said was an “unauthorized** disclosure of the USW demands. . Negotiations here were obviously knocked oft -balance by a union official's statement that one maJon produce): and the USW were less than «six cents apart-r-with the company willing to settle for 12(4 cents an hour and the union countering with a minimum 18cent demand. USW President David J. McDonald said the statement was not authorized but did not denjr the figures. He,hurriedly left the negotiations shortly after the( session resumed Ihis morning to contact USW negotiators in other (cities. _ , ■j■ ,i, When the session opened, fc. S. .Steel vice president Johh A. Stephens requested that the talks here, which traditionally se>t the wage pattern for the entire Industry be delayed. Both sides; were upset by the disclosure in Youngstown, 0., that the USW was demanding an increase of at least 18 cents an hour. Church To Observe ! 50th Anniversary Service Sunday At Lutheran Church I ' »l ji The golden anniversary of the dedication of the original church building will be observed by Zion Lutheran church, West Mpnroe and Eleventh streets, Sunday evening at a service beginning-at 7:30 o’clock. The Rev. Walter A. Klausing, pastor of Concordia Lutheran church,', will deliver the festival address.' A special men's chorus of 15 voices will sing “The Lord is My Shepherd," by Thomas Koschatt. Liturgist for the festival worship service will be the pastor of the congregation, the Rev, Edgar 'P. Schmidt. Following the anniversary service a fellowship hour will be held in the auditorium of the parish hall, the ladies of Zion Missionary society serving light refreshments. Old congregational record books, pictures of members taken many years ago, and, a few copies of The Dally Democrat, and Decatur Morning Journal, carrying accounts of the dedication service on May 17, 1903, will be on display. Committee for the special anniversary celebration is composed of Arthur Hall and Emil Bienz, the board of elders of the congregation , ( \ \ INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy north and central, mostly cloudy, occasional light drizzle extreme south tonight. Saturday occasional showers south, Increasing cloudiness north with showers beginning at night Somewhat warmer Saturday. Low vto* ; night 4*54. High Saturday 6*72. \ \ ' , \\ '

Lions Speaker • I 11 ' 11 fl ■ U* I a ML.. Mi i B Gilson Wright lions To Entertain ; .A* 1 i ’ Ladies On Tuesday Gilson Wright Is Principal Speaker v Members of the Decatur Lions dub will entertain their wives at a ladies night dinner and program Tuesday night at the K. of P. home at 6:40 o’clock.- Frank Lyibarger, manager of the Equity store here and chairman of the arrangements committee, stated that Gilson Wright, director of the news bureau of Miami University would be the ‘principal speaker. The program wm follow a special dinner to be served the guests at 6:30 o’clock. Special musical features also will be included on the program. Members unable to attend Tuesday evening, may checkout Monday noon. Wright is director of the news bureau at Miami University, Oxford. 0., and is assistant professor of ‘English in the college of- arts and science at Miami, as well ascorrespondent for the Oxford area for newspapers in Cincinnati, Dayton, Hamilton and other Ohio He began his newspaper experience as a sports editor of a Lima, 0., newspaper while he was a senior in high school in 1922-23. He. attended Ohio Northern University at Ada for a time and then returned to (Lima to work on newspapers there in various reportorial capacities. From 1926 to 1930 he attended Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, working his way through, college as a newspaper correspondent. iHe received the bachelor of arts degree. 4

From (March 1, 1930, to March 1, 1931, he -was court reporter for the IMarion, 0., Star, which had been owned for years by the late President Harding. From March 1, mi, until Sept. .1, 1931, he was aports editor of the Mansfield News, -which later merged with the (Mansfield Journal. From Sept. 1, 1931, until Sept. 1, 1940, he wa® affiliated with the news (bureau at -Ohio Wesleyan University, and since Sept. I, 1940, he has been a (Miami University, one of Ohio’s six state-supported colleges. In the course of his 30 years of connections with newspapers he has interviewed -many well-known people and looks back upon an in terview with Will Rogers a® the biggest thrill of them all. He will talk here on “Typographical Terrors,” an explanation of the reasons newspapers commit some of the boners (which give newspapermen themselves a big laugh, ®ven bigger, perhaps, than -they give the general public.

Senator Urges Eisenhower And Churchill Meet Smith Says Leaders Should Close Rift Over Korea Policy WASHINGTON, UP — Sen. H. Alexander Smith appealed today for an early "Big Two” conference between President Eisenhower and prime minister Winston Churchill to close the U. S. I- British rift over Korean war policy. The New Jersey. Republican, a senior member of the senate foreign relations committee, said the two leaders should get together either in, Washington or London; ai|. soop >s jMjsyWe lish a common Anglo-American position in Asia, just as we have done in Western Europe.”, He: told a reporter the “most pressing single issue” to be threshed out at a Big Two meeting "is our justified concern that Britain will back China’s entry into the U. N. as part of a peace settlement in Korea.” He urged Mr). Eisenhower to tell the British "that is something ,we could not tolerate.” Smith deplored the “exchange of epithets at range” which has strained U. S. - British relations during the past week, and said the situation has deteriorated to thispdint where dramatic moves* such as ap Eisenhowmeeting,. are needed to sake the day. Sen. John Sherman Cooper, RKy., -A former U. S. delegate to the iirnited Nations, also called for “moderation” on both sides. He said the “rash remarks” of recent days had jeopardized chances tor a Korean truce and it was time for all parties concerned to calm down.; The uproar began” Monday when Churchill called for a topi level meeting with Russia; and hinted that Britain might favor admitting Red China to the U. N. after a Korean armistice.

Frank Crist Dies Thufcday Evening Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon | Frank M. Crist. 65, well known Decatur resident, and fireman at the city light and power plant since Feb. 1, 1944, died at 6 o’clock Thursday evening at the 'Adams county memorial hospital., He had been a patient at the hospital since last Saturday evening, when he suffered a stroke uKhis home, 610 West Jefferson strfel. had worked ajjtsual A lifelong resident of Decatur and vicinity, he was born in Adams county May 15, 1883, a son of George and Martha Johnson-Crist. He married May 19, 1923 to A#oia Frank, - > Mr. Crist was a member of the First Methodist church, the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Knights of Pythias. The wife 'is the only survivor. A sister, Mrs. Sarah Jones, died four years ago. Funeral services will be conducted at ,2; p.m. Sunday at the Gllllg 4k Doan funeral home, the Rev. Samuel Emerick officiating. Burial will ba in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening.

Democrat Speaker K” K Paul Butler '■ ll *'! 1 . i »■. ' » Democrats To Hear Paul Butler May 26F National Committed Member Speaks Here * , Democratic national commlttfeeman Paul Butler of South Beid, will be the principal speaker at a dinner-meeting of Democrat workers and guests at the American Legion home in this city, Tuesday, May 26. Dr. Harry Hebble, Democratic county chairman, announced today. Thp meeting is co-sponsored by the Democratic county central committee and the Democratic women’s clubs of Adams county, the chairman and Mrs. Paul Stanley bf Berne, president jof Che women’s organization, announced. The dinner will be served Jby the Legion auxiliary at 7 pim. The dinner hour was fixed to give committeemen, vice-committeemen and guests in the rural pfeclnbts ample time to arrange for the meeting. Reservations should ibe made) by May 22, it wns explained. Accompanying Butler to this cjty will be James Koons, of Avilla, fourth district Democratic chairman, • . ■ | Elected to the Democratic national committee at the Chicago convention last July, Butler is Asking jevery county in the fouith congressional district. His ability as an organizer and political leader has already been effective |in revitalizing party worked) in plkhs for an active organization to carry on the 1954 congressional catnr>r«r® T® p®s® RlSkt)

Shutdown Os Power In Decatur Sunday The shutdown of power on Sunday, a light department spokesman explained today, will be brief and at about a nine-hour interval. The power will be turned off to enable light and pbwer men |to complete a connection between foe present power plant and the new diesel plant being assembled ht Sevens and Dayton streets. ;• At 5 a.m.' Sunday, power to foe General Electric and Central Soya plants will be shut. off for nibe hours, until 2 p.m. All other users will have their power shut off for about 15 minutes at 5 a.m. aid again at 1:30 or 2 p.m. Tonnelier Rites Monday Morning Funeral arrangements for Miss Emelia Tonnelier wore not entirely complete today, pending arrival of a brother from St. Petersbuifj Fla. Unless a change is made, sery* Ices Ml be held Monday at 9 a.m. In St. Mary's Catholic church. I - .1 ' r f i

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Third Auto's Driver Sought Throughout Day Three Persons Die In Accident East Os Decatur Today Leo David Sheets, 20, of 122 North Tenth street, and two Fort Wayne people were killed at about 12:30 o’clock this morning in a three-car pile up three miles east of Decatur on U. S. highway 22-4. Dead besides Sheets are Ralph W. Van Oadale, Jr., 33, and Mary E. Owens, both of Fort Wayne. / According to sheriff Bob Shraluka, who investigated with his deputy, Jim Cochran, state troop* ers Ted Btberstire and Richard Myers, and Harmon- Gllllg. county coroner, said Sheets, going east, rammed into the side of the Van Osdale car, in which the woman was also riding. Another car apparently going east believed to be driven by Dale Haggard, of near Ossian, in attempting to get out of the way of the crashed gars, said the sheriff, rolled over several times after running out of control. The Van Osdale car apparently was entering or backing out of- a driveway at the crash scene. Sheets was reported to have beqn thrown out of the car, which burned. All three apparently died instantly, or soon after the wrecks. Police are now concerned with the whereabouts of the man tentatively Identified as Haggard, and there are so many conflicting reports as to w-hat he did after he rolled over that it makes any certain statement impossible. Police chief Jim Borders, who took police pictures, reports speaking: to a woman who saw the man get out, of his car and Into another car. Another report has it that the man walked down the road with a fusee, a phosphorous flare, and disappeared. At late reports all attempts to discover the man have failed. Sheriff Shraluka said the entire area around the wreck was combed this morning as soon as it got flight, but failed to reveal anything. ; Haggard’s home was contacted at , Ossian but he wasn't there either. AU hospitals in this section were called; the same thing, nothings ’ Van Osdale’s body was taken to the:Gillig and Doan funeral home and will be removed to the Klaehn funeral home at Fort Wayne. The bodies of Sheets and the Owens woman were taken to the Zwlck funeral home, the woman’s remains to be removed to Wellman’s funeral home. Fort Wayne. {Funeral Monday i The accident victim, a lifelong resident jof Adame county was born in Washington township Feb. 5, 1333; a son of Jesse E. and Vora Woods-Sheets, and was married to Mary Ada Everett Aug. 3, 1952. He assisted a. brother in farming and was also employed at the Inca Wire Co., Fort Wayne. He attended the Decatur high school. He wns a member of the Pleasant Grove United Brethren church. Surviving are his wife, an Infant son, Stephen Allen; his parents, who reSide at 957 Walnut street; three brothers, Lloyd M. and Lester E. Sheets, both of Decatur, and Lewis L. Sheets of Union township, and: two sisters. Mrs. Helen Melheim of Tecumseh, Mich*, and Mrs, De Is Is Nishiyama of Grand Rapids, Mich. / Funeral services will be conducted at 2 pm. Monday at the Zwlck funoral home, the Rev. L. T. U ITv» To r««e WM)