Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 140, Decatur, Adams County, 15 June 1953 — Page 2

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Southwest Sizzles In 100-Plus Heat Ranchers Marketing Texas Cattles Early \ By UNITED The sizzling southwest, which suffered through a disastrous drought last summer, baked in another 100 degree-plus heat wave today. « The IU. S. weather bureau said there was no relief in sight today or Tuesday for Texas. Oklahoma, Kansas and th e lower Mississippi Valley. Texas ranchers were driving their eattle to market early, rushing the market and dropping the price of livestock. The cowmen had no choice. Last summer the heat was so oppressive and rainfall so scare 3 that portions of the Lone Star state were declared federal disaster areas, The parched pastures had not recovered when this year's heat wave ibegan burning the grasslands again.

ADMINISTRATRIX SALE OF REAL ESTATE Notice is hereby given that by virtue of an order of the Adams Circuit Court of Adams County. State of Indiana, the undersigned, as Administratrix of the Estate of Nate Haley, deceased, will, on the premises, 614 Schirmeyer Street, Saturday, June 27, 1953 1 o’clock P. M. offer for sale at public auction for not „ less than two thirds the appraised value thereof, the following described real estate situated \in said County and State, td-wit: "Inlot No. 14 in Citizens’ First Addition to the City of Decatur. Adams County, Indiana." TERMS—One third doWn on date of sale, balance upon delivery of deed and abstract. Possession within 30 days. Subject to 1953 taxes due and payable in 1954. Sale will in all matters be subject to the approval of the Court. BETTY I. RUNKEL, Administratrix Sale Conducted by The Kent Realty & Auction Co. D. S. Blair and Gerald Strickler—Auctioneers - Severin H. Schurger. Attorney. June 15 25

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The number of cattle received In the Fbrt Worth, Tex., stockyard* last week kit record er nearrecord level, and price* dropped from to $2 per hundredweight. Meanwhile, the toll of persons across the country killed by the late spring heat wave was at least 20. Saturday six persons died in Kansas City, Mo., alone. Three little girls, Beverly Jean Scott, 11, Melissa Scott, 10, and Linda Marshall, 12, said they fried an egg Sunday on a sunny Dallas sidewalk. They said the egg spuU tered and fried. i The temperature in Dallas was 106, and the girls said a reading taken near the sidewalk showed 120 degrees. The 105 reading was only three-ten tbs- of' a degree below the all-time June record in Dallas, set last Friday. Kingfisher, Okla., reported 113 degree heat Sunday, and at Hobart, Okla., the mercury climbed to 112. Oklahoma City police were kept busy answering calls ito enforce the city’s stringent water usage laws. The rest of the country had monerate temperatures and generally clear skies.

Eight Violent Deaths Reported In Indiana Four Persons Are Drowning Victims By UNITED PRESS At least eight persons died violent deaths in Indiana Saturday and Sunday, half of them .by drowning, as Hoosiers rushed to lakes, rivers and parks for a week-end outing. Walter Hampton and Walter Rassico, both S>l and both of Vincennes, were drowned Saturday when their boat overturned as they fished In the Wabash river at Vincennes. Gary Thrasher, 8, Evansville, was drowned Sunday when he fell off a boat dock into the Wabash at New Harmony. His body was washed down the river and found 25 minutes later. Edgar ‘Lowery, 22, Valparaiso, father of a two-week-old baby, was drowned Sunday at East Edgewater Beach Lake three miles north of Valparaiso while swimming with his wife and a friend. Fred Bales, 12, Anderson, a member of a Boy Scout troop visiting Turkey Run State’Park, died of Internal injuries suffered Saturday when he fell 37 feet into a gulch. He was .believed to have burned his hands sliding down a rope and dropped into the gulch when he let go. Two children were traffic victime. William Gage, 10, Lynn, was killed Saturday when the gasoline tank truck in which he rode hit a culvert in Randolph county and overturned in a ditph. Sue Ann Sausserman, 15, Bicknell, was injured fatally in a truckauto smashup on ilnd. 67 two miles north of Bruceville. Three other teen-agers and the truck driver were injured. Florencio G. Garcia, 35, Indiana Harbor, was killed when an auto struck a bridge on Ind. 54 three miles east of Linton. A car drives by Robert *E. Wooders, Llntou. piled liito the wreckage, injuring Wooders and four others. Two died during the week end of injuries suffered earlier. Marvin Galbehart. 17, Greenwood, died Saturday in Indianapolis (Methodist hospital of injuries received when a car smashed into a tree along a county road four days earlier. Wilber Powers, Gas City, died Sunday in Marlon hospital of injuries suffered in an accident north of Fairmont.

Increased Revenue Reported By Stale State General Fund In Good Condition ! INDIANAPOLIS UP — Indiana's general fund was pronounced “in extremely healthy condition'* by state auditor Frank T. Minis today as he reported a revenue increase of 111,500,000 aver last year. The state board of revenue received a report from Millis and Dr. George W. Btarr, director of the gross income tax division, department of revenue. The board consists of Governor Craig, treasurer John T. Peters, and MiTlis. “Based on the economies affected and on Business prospects gathered from available statistics, the state’s general fund should be in aa extremely healthy condition by the end of the current calendar year,” Millis said. He reported total gross income tax collections for the 1951-52 fiscal year were 196,000,000 compared to 1108,5*0,000 expected at the close of the 1952-53 period June 30. Bonus tax collections increased $4,000,000 above the $32,500,000 collected last year. Millis credited a more intensive check of delinquent taxpayers with much of the Jacrease. He said although he has 59 fewer employes, 5,000 more returns were filed in the 1952-53 yar than the previous one. He predicted that a “small task force” of tax investigators could further Increase collections by tracking down persons who are not on the state tax mailing list. Revival Services At Spanish Church A week of special revival services is in progress at the "Lar Hermosa’* Spanish church at 803 North l(/th street in this city. Services begin at 7 o'clock each evening. The Rev. M. Canales is pastor of the church and the evangelist is the Rev. Eugene Jimenez of New York City, There will be special music each evening by Lolita Medina, pianist from Chicago. Special sermons will be brought on salvation and divine healing by the guest evangelist. Both American and Spanish people are invited as the evangelist can preach in both the Spanish and English languages. The church is affiliated with the Assemblies of God with headquarters in St. Louis, Mo. The associated churches of Decatur and the county ministerial association have helped the Protestant Spanish people of the community to establish the “LaHenuosa” church.

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Auto Strikes Parked Car, Damage Slight A car driven by Perry L. Sheets, 16, of 310 South Fifth, backed into a parked car belonging to Forest D. Lake, 50, of? 29 South First, yesterday When Sheets attempted to back out of a parking lot along Thirteenth and his attention, was apparently drawn elsewhere. Damage to Lake’s car was estimated by police at S2O. ”- . - }r p | ; . Mennonite Church Segments United Two United, Bid 18 Others To Join OMAHA UP — Two segments of the Mennonite church united here Sunday and invited the other 18 separate religious groups using the nam e to join them. The Evangelical Mennonite Brethren and the 'Evangelical Mennonite church formally united in services climaxing a three-day conference here. , — Officials said it was first time in some 400 years pf the church's existence that two of the separate groups united. The two groups separated from the original Mennonite church 75 years ago. They elected a general executive board of eight numbers to govern the new combination. They wet e Dr. John «. Dick, Omaha; Rev. Reuben Short, Bluffton, O.; Rev. A. iPL Toews, Omaha; Rev. H. E. Bertsche, Archbold, O.; Dr. M- A. Bediger, Upl a rid, Ind; Rev. H. H. Dick, Salix, fa.; Rev. E. G. Steiner, Berne. Ind.; Rev. John R. Bartunan. Henderson, Neb.

Cyclone Cellar Is Safest In Tornado 1 I ' -L. ‘ v « Authority Reports On Tornado Causes NEW YORK UP — Because this year promises to be the biggest tornado year on record and the “tornado season” now i» at its height, you should know all about “the most violent storm nature produces.’’ Our authority is Snowden D. .Flora, retired senior meteorologist of the weather bureau, who studied thousands of tornadoes during his 47 years in the service, and is one of the top experts. There have been tornadoes in every state, but they’re much more frequent between the Rockies and the Appalachians. They have occurred in every month, but the season is from March through June. It begins in the south central states and moves northward. Tornadoes can form during any hour of the day and night but most often they form between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Jf the atmosphere is hot. and humid — it there are light winds — if the sky is filled with tumbling clouds although horizon* ar e clear, then watch out. That’s “tornado weather.” Tornadoes are made this way: Heated moist air moves northward from the Carribean in “weather fronts/’ sometimes 1,000 mib>s long. <Cooled, dry air moves southward from the polar regions. These are facts of life as regards weather. Tornadoes result when these two “fronts” come together under special circumstances. Generally, ’ the temperature of the cooled, dry air is decreasing rapidly with altitude when it overruns the heated, moist air. Being lighter, the heated, moist air rushes upward through thd dry. cool air. It cools quickly which condenses its water vapor. Now if the temperature ot the'cooled, dry air drops sharply with every font of altitude, the condensing rate exceeds. the saturation rate, 4 That makes for instability and nature often corrects instability with violence —in this case, wick a tornado. The safest place to 'be during a tornado is in one of the “cyclone cellars” which abound in the middle west. Next safest is the southwest corner o>f the basement of a frame house. Tornadoes usually approach from the southwest and if the house is blown away, it will ■be blown away from people crouched in th e southwest basement corner.

Two Drivers Fined On Traffic Counts Two paid flues totalling $22.50, with costs, for violations committed in the city over the weekend.. Robert ,C. Johnston, 28, of Monroeville, was fined $1 and costs when he pleaded guilty to drtvfng with improper lights. He was stopped by sheriff Bob Shraluka and deputy Merle Affolder on Thirteenth street. Howard D. Holtzapplo, 19, of Rockford. 0.. pleaded guilty to driving 55 miles an hour in t|je city and was fined sl'and costs. Gas is stored in underground salt beds iu ■Michigan. The gas is* stored iu caverns left when the salt io extracted from the earth;

Confusion Hill Is Puzzler To Writer Visits In Heart Os Big Redwood Trees CONFUSION HILL, Calif; UP — This big hunk of Rock Mountain impressed me as cometilidg, that needed tp be investigated. Nobody in the heart of this empire -of redwood trees could tell me {what was confusing about ‘lt, so I did my own gum-shoeing*—by auto. I believe 1 know the answer to the puzzle. For some unexplained reason when you go up; the hill you have a feeling you are going down. And when you go down you think you’re going up. . “Confusion Hill,’’ pretty as she is, isn’t the most |ovely jthing tn the so-called avenue of giants. We stopped at ranger headquarters in •Dyerville. f. “Out that window,’’ said the pleasant young ranger, “You’ll see the highest tree isi th? world." We looked and there in the distance stood a redwood towering 364 feet. If that log happened to fall on a football field, J|t would stretch the length of the field, with many feet to spare on each end. Down through the winding roads in this land of towering trees we came upon a restaurant built in the base of a still-growing tree. It was cool inside. Thejfopd did not have a wood taste. (Like all such places You find things for sale along the avenue of giants. i ' ' 1 \, ’ The most popular Item in this particular case is somethipg-callcd a “iburL” A burl is a srnall bud that grows Out of the bark of the tree. Some folks make a fat living going around snipping off th? buds and putting them in pots to sell to folks who want to grow their own redwoods. If watered. the; burls grow. I bought a couple of burls and shipped them home. I hope to have a forest soon in our Hviqg room baok in Silver Spring, MS. 1 I asked the woman who sold me the sprigs of lumber how; long it takes to raise a full grpwn redwood, one about 3QO feet higb—and should J worry about it poking through the roof? |j “I don’t think you should fret,” she said. “Some of the trees in this forest are over 2,000 years; old and have not grown up yet.’’ I — Itt King Os Cambodia In Voluntary Ex|e To Continue Fight For Independence

PNOM PFINH. Cambodik UP — Yeung King Norodom <Sib|nouk of Cambodia took up vohintafy exile in Thailand (Siam) today |n a surprise move to focus world attention on hie country’s bid for independence from iFrance. The 30-year-old western-educa-ted mtonarch reached Bangkok Sunday night after crossing the frontier from Cambodia with an entourage of 27 persons. 1 In a royal proclamation broadcast to his 3.270,000 subjects, the king said he was taking personal leadership of Cambodia's independence movement. He vowed he would not return to his homeland until the 'Frenlch give lu? to his demands. • It was stressed officiary here that Norodom has pot abdicated his throne although be tumped full constitutional powers over- to premier <Penn Nouth before*/leaving the capital—on the pretext inf making an inspection tour in |he frotier area. If! Cam-bodia la one of tlyj three French k “associated statis” M Indochina, along with neighboring K Viet Nam and Laos, The king’s move climaxed a long crisis in relations over demands for hoftie rule similar to that in British clmmon-l wealth dominions. demands have been voiced In Viet Nam and Laos, iboth theaters ot fighting tn the war with Vfet Minh Communist troops. II ' I Lions Appreciation ' Party Tuesday Night “You don’t have to be auexpert square dancer” - to attend the Lions minstrel appreciation party to be held tomorrow nigbUatrtha Clein’s Lake roller skating rink, said Frank Lybarger. partlf- chairman, today. y, Lybarger said he’s had some cancellations and wishes impress on the Lions that 4 tort Wayne square dance instructor. Paul Geisler, will be on \tap to lead one and all throuj&i their Paces. J: The party —a smorgasbord, round and square dancing-fm open for all members of the February Lions minstrel show whether or not Lions. All who attend Ore invited to bring their wives. Imd the single ones their girl friends. It begin- promptly at 8:45 p.Ui.

Reed's Group To-Pigeonhole Ike's Request House Committee Chairman Opposes Extension Os Tax WASHINGTON, UP—Chairman Daniel A. Repd, R-N. ¥., said today the house ways and committee will pigeonhole President Eisenhower's request tor a six month extension of the excess profits tax. Flatly contradicting the predictions of speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr., Reed said the measure will "never*’ emerge from his committee for house floor action., Martin had told reporters earlier that “the bill will be on the floor this month and will be passed” Reed conceded, in a copyrighted interview with U. S. News & World; Report magazine, that house leaders "may find some way around” his committee, but he said “I haven’t discovered what it might be.” “5 don’t think it — the excess profits levy — is going to be extended/* he said? Reed ended committee hearings on the tax , bill Saturday with the terse comment that the administrationhad failed to make a case for extending the levy, now due to expire June 30. He pointedly failed to schedule a committee meeting to vote on the bill. Martin refused to divulge his strategy for getting the\bill passed, but indicated that he was not surprised or dismayed by Reed’s stand.

Deny Any Treason' In Ammo Shortage Two Senotors Deny McCarthy's Charges WASHINGTON UP -4 Sens. Leverett Saltonstall R-Mass. 1 and Estes Kefauver have denied Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy’s charge that the recent ammunitionjnvestlgation uncoveted a “general picture of treason.” Saltonstall. chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the “only thing charged” by the subcommittee which looked r ttrto ammunition shortages In Korea was “inefficiency* and mismanagement,” McCarthy R-Wis. said Saturday in a speech at Madison,. .Wls., that the Justice Department should bring the “traitors” responsible for the shortage before a grand jury to “make them answer for their crimes./ Kefauver, a member of the ammunition subcommittee, also disagreed with McCarthy’s interpretation of the subcommittee's report. The Tennessee Democrat said the group “didn’t charge anybody with being a traitor and didn't pin the responsibility on any particular person.”

-Joel E. Schwartz • Is Taken By Death Joel E. Schwartz, 77, died Saturday at the home of a daughter. Mrs. Samuel Mailer, Bluffton. Also surviving are four other daughters. Mrs. Mary Ann Gressley ot Fort Wayne, Mrs. Aldula Steffen of Blufftqn, Mrs. Edward Gerber near Berne, and Mrs. Walter Fiechter of Craigville, and two sons. Ray R. Schwartz of Acton and Buddie L. Schwartz of Downey, Calif. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Edward Gerbef home and at 2 p.m. at the Christian Apostolic 'church. Burial ; will be' in the church cemetery. The body has been removed from the Jqhn funeral home to the Gerber residence. All-Out Atom War Increase Problems TTHACa/n. Y., UP --The Rt. Rev. Richard C. Raines, Methodist, bishop of Indiana, said Sunday he believed an all-out atomic 1 war would raise more problems'than it would settle. Bishop Raines in a baccalaureate sermon at Cornell University warned that east-west tension might last for years. • ' i ’“While we must be militarily strong we must not permit ourselves to become militarily minded,” he said. “This is the road down which Germany went and (Russia going.” U N PLANES IN From Page Ow> years, an action interpreted here as a lied bid for final “victories” to boaid about after the truce is signed: Allied and Communist liaison of(icers bold a mysterious 19-minute conference in the trace hut, iudieating A-day u m eight. ' - l I !

Priest Offers Aid In Man's Kidnaping 'i No Clues Uncovered In Graver Kidnaping i 1 r 3 i i CHICAGO, (UP) -f- A Catholic i priest offered today to act as go- 1 between in contacting the kid- 1 napers of State Rep. Clein Graver, 1 missing since Thursday night, s i Police, who fear Graver may be i dead, appeared stymied after a methodical search failed to produce a single clue. ~\ ' | j There were reports also thAt big-tkne hoodlums of Chicago's 1 notorious crime syndicate wefe ' looking for Graver themselves to • prove they had nothing to do with 1 his abduction. The Rev. Wallace A. Mahoney, pastor of Sacred Heart chtfrch, offered his services as an intermediary between the abductors and Gravels family. $■ > The priest said he has been friend of Graver, who is Jewish, for six years. “If someone is holding him ?nd wants to, make arrangements for his release ''l’ll be glad to carry S message alone and in confidence,” he said. Sources close to crime syndicate leaders told newsmen that the syndicate had ordered its own search tor Qraver in the hope l of indignant civic leaders, the statfe administration and the FBI ok their necks. J - The Republican representative was snatched near his home in th? tough west side 15th district bk\ three men Thursday night. Therfe has been no ransom note. The syndicate sources sgid it was “ridiculous" to think the kidfnaping was ordered by big-tim? gangsters, who have just through an investigation of the February. 1962 slaying of 31$t Ward GOP jcommitteeman Charles Gross. v \ “The most baffling thing about this case is that we can’t determine a motive,’, said police- Capt. Eugene McNally./ If Graver is found dead, he wfll be the sixth victim of a politick! assassination here in five years. If have something to sell dr rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. It brings results.

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Hundreds Os Dead, Dying Fisli Found • ’ t -■ : - - Hundreds of dead and dying fish have been found in St. Mary’s rfc ver in Fort Wayne. River banks in the Foster Park area were littered with fish. Contamination of water is blamed as the cause, bub health authorities have not determined the source. It is believed that phenol Crashed by rains in the stream after roads in. the Urea had been oiled contaminated the water, i Years ago the sugar factory was blamed for contaminating the water, but this cause no longer, exists Since the sugar factory qwit business in mid-thirties. -J

twis Franke Park, Fort Wayne , Open Air Theatre June 19, 20, 21 Sigmund Romberg's i “THE STUDENT PRINCE” — In Person — Marlene Koenig - Paul Gilbert with ' Walter Floyd, Jr., iof St. Louis Municipal Opera 00. Make Calif Reservations ‘ A-2582 Bl 0»m Daily 930 aTW I P.M.. Wed. -til 8-45 \4 IT IS & McCAKtHv'ily WAYNE. PHONE A-J582 j Seats. — $2.50 - fl I ’ & Lower Terrace.. $1.75 / I a| AWahuon—_ SI.OO I 7ark box office opens at ‘ on performance '582. On Sundays. wf»en > performances, box office 1 p.m. Transit bus service ishmaton at Calhoun St. $ (fess Mail Orders to ; FORT WAYNE ' OPEBA FESTIVAL 208 Straws Bids. , i r ort Wayne 2. Ind.