Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 154, Decatur, Adams County, 1 July 1953 — Page 1

Vol- LI- No. 154.,

Ike Greets Junior Heroes .. —rj ;v,„. ja k • 'tWI; ••<* I I • , ■ jJHK - n \ ■ 1 B /" \ IJF%i r '• iflr O&fl * AMERICA’S FOREMOST military hero. President Eisenhower, greets three heroes of a younger generation at a White House ceremony. Honored for bravery were Charles W. Knighton (left), of Montgomery, Ala., who saved a swimmer from drowning, and Howard Fitzgerald of Dallas. Ore., who saved his m a an ? maker (right), of Denver, Colo., received an award for service.

Ike Predicts Truce finally To Be Achieved Advises Americans Not Be Discouraged Over Lagging Talks WASHINGTON UP —President Eisenhower said today he deeply believes that differences with South Korean President Syngman Rhee over a Korean truce will be-solved satisfactorily. Eisenhower expressed the belief as reports from Seoul said Rhee was preparing to make known his final decision oiF a Korean armistice in. a letter to Assistant Secretary of State Walter S. Robertson. - r The Korean situation is confused and .the differences between the Allies are very real, Eisenhower conceded, but he urged Americans not to be discouraged. At his first news conference in two weeks, Mr. Eisenhower also: 1— Had words of encouragement ft>r the-rebellious people in Soviet satellite countries behind the Iron Curtain. He discouraged any idea of physical action by the western powers that might be classed as intervention. But he thought that ,■ statements by our leaders should make it abundantly clear that the insurgent people behind the Iron Curtain have friends in this world. 2— Said the Big Three foreign ministers meeting here July 10 will try to reach better understanding rather than concrete agreements. 3— Said he thinks that a new directive involving books in U. S. overseas libraries will clear up the situation satisfactorily. . .. 4 — Asserted he has not changed his basic position against a proposed constitutional amendment by Sen; John W. Bricker R-O.— to limit the President’s treaty-making pbwer. But Mr. Eisenhower said he would not object if language could be agreed upon that would be only a simple statement of the aims of supporters of the Bricker proposal. t s—Said the Republican party is ‘ gradually showing that it is taking over the responsibility of the .party and "is organizing to discharge that responsibility of the party in power and is organizing to discharge that responsibility. 4 He said that whether he and GOP congressional leaders agree on everything is not \ important; that the important thing is whether progress is being made toward putting a liberal program before the people. The President said the Korean situation is admiUedly confused, tbut the United States should remerrrfber that the enemy is still in North Korea. Asked whether he had any reason for optimism about Korea, the President replfecbobliquely. He said that the current differences with the government of South Korea are an acute example of difficulties that arise among allies although they are dedicated to the same ideals. He said this is the history of coalitions and the people of this country should not be to discour- / aged, even though the differences among the Allies in-Korea are very real. Evidently referring to South Korean President Syngman Rhee, he said that officials in an emotional state are Quite likely to overstate (Tara Ta Face Twa)

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Name Committees For 4-H Contests Annual County-Wide Meeting On July 8 Committees who will! supervise the various 4-H judging contests next week were announced today. The annual county-wide meeting for all 44H members taking homemaking projects, their mothers and (friends will be held "Wednesday, July 8. at the Lincoln school in Decatur. The meeting j Will get undenway at 9 a.m. anq the demonstrations will be to the public. > Th® clothing judging cointest will be directed by a commltee composed ’Mrs. Orpett fpidilndler, Susan Rumple and Mrsb Theron Fensermafker. Mrs. Schindler, is the vocational home economics teacher at the Beme-Frendh School, Miss Rumple, a former Adatths county 4-H’er, is now a home economics student at Purdue and Mrs. Fenstermaker is a 4-iH leader at Geneva. The girls will place classes of summer skirts and blouses and accessories to .be used With a skirt ajwr sweater for school. In the baking judging, Mrs. Phyllis Haugk, Ann Smith and 'Mrs. Edwin Bauman will be io charge. Mrsu Haugk is the vocational home economics teacher at Monmouth, Miss Smith is a home economics student at St. Francis college and mA. Bauman is a 4-H leader in Monroe township. In this event the classes are plain butter cakes and * the utensils fonmaklng a certain recipe. Jane vocational home econotnics teacher at Adams Central, Alice Alt, 4-H leader at Hartford and MPs. Milton Kruetzman, 4-H leader at Pteible, will handle! the ■guiding of the food preparation. In this event the classes will be flower centerpieces and plans of work for preparing and serving a breakfast. In food preservation, the judging of canned Whole kernel corn and canned tomatoes will be emphasized. Mrs. Ben McCullough, 4-H leader at St. Mary’s, and Mrs. Wilson .WeiMnd off Union townsh’p will serve as the committee tor this contest. In home improvement the classr es consist of lamp shades for a reading lamp and the arrangement of furniture in the living room. Mrs. Walter Egltey\of Kirkland will conduct this contest. lEach -4-!H j club in the county is entitled to hjeuve two participants In each contest Triose members 14 years of age and older are in the senior division and those 13 and youngev are juniors. The winners in the senior division will represent Adams eounty in *the district contest at Wabash later in the month. Registrations are now being made in he county extension office. The demonstration contest will go on throughout the day and will be judged by Mrs. Luke Thaman, former home demonstration agent at Jaepter county; The demonstration program will be announced next week when the clubs complete their registration. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, hot and humid tonight and Thursday, with vttdely scattered showers ex- \ trem e north tonight. O O 12 PAGES

New Leiter By Pres. Rhee To United Stales New Letter Outlines Present Position On Korean Truce SEOUL, Korea. Thursday (UP) — President Syngman Rhee sent the United States a new letter outlining his "present position** on armistice terms, late Wednesday. The South Korean foreign minister eaid the ndtL conhrhstter ne near concessions. Gen. Mark Clark held urgent secret conferences with his top commanders Wednesday,apparently in anticipation of a new crisis brought on by Rhee’s “totally unacceptable’* terms for a truce. South Korean foreign minister Pyun Yung Tae said Rhee’s latest note was delivered to President Eisenhower’s trouble-shooting assistant secretary of state, Walter ■S. Robertson. “I’m sure the contents of the letter are not new to Mr. Robertson,’’ Pyun said. "They are things already covered.’’ Robertson already has accused the stubborn Rhee of first accepting U. S. terms and then bringing up “new angles, new phases and subjects not discussed.” Os the new note, Pyun said “whether the 'position is final or not, that is our present position. President Rage may have told Mr. Robertson the position the South Korean government ought to take now. “The president has despaired of any peaceful solution to the Korean question. He believes that nothing but military means can bring about the unification of Korea.” , j Clark summoned his top ground, air and sea commanders 'to Tokyo for a secret, five-hour conference with him and army chief of staff Gen. J. Lawton Collins. “There will be no announcement of the subjects discussed,” Clark’s headquarters said. However, It seemed obvious that one subject must be the military problems which would occur’ in event the United Nations signed a Korean truce over South Korean opposition. In addition to Clark and Collins, the secret meeting was attended by Far East air forces commander Gen. O. P. Weyland, eighth army - commander Gen. 'Maxwell D. Taylor, Far East naval com- i inander Vice Adm. Robert P. Bris- < coe and deputy Far East army < commander Lt. Gen. P. W. ' Kendall. Collins is in the Far East on a ’ tour of Allied installations. 1 While Clark was meeting with 1 the high ranking officers, Rhee was blasting him and prime mln- 1 ister Winston Churchill for their ' criticism of the South Korean gov- ' ernment’s release of enti-Commu- 1 nist North Korean prisoners. ■ . < i Muncie Worker Dies ' ■ Os Heat Exhaustion I iMUNCIE, Ind. UP — Carl Tark- i ington, 26, died of heat exhaustion i Tuesday while at work at the Del- i ■coßerny Co. plant here. ]

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2 Adams County Men Drowned During Storm In Lake In Michigan

New Outbreak Reported In German Revolt ■ ! I Rifle, Machine Gun : Fire Crackle Over East Berlin Today * ■ I I BERLIN-, UP —Rifle and machine gun fire crackled over Soviet Berlin early today indicating new outbreaks in the Germaii revolt against Red rule. Western authorities said there rfwas no immediate indication of the nature or extent of the new; clashes that began Tuesday night. Soviet authorities Tuesday ended the curfew clamped on Red" Berlin when the rebellion began two weeks ago. They apparently believed the city had been cowed by Russian bayonet rule, but today’s reports made it airpear their optimism was premature. East Berlin was the fountainhead of the strikes and riots that flashed across Soviet Germany in mid-June and which were still continuing at many points in the puppet state. > Western police stationed along the 28-mile boundary between throughout the night. The hear* test volleys were fired between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m.—the hours during which the curfew had been in force. The new outbreaks in Berlin came less than 24 hours after a wave of housewives* hunger riots had jarred the' Red regime. Communist authorities rushed emergency food supplies to key points in their zone today in an effort to appease the angry women. At the same time, reports from Austria said the Russians killed 300 workers and escaped political prisoners in the Dresden area; during the June 17 riots which touched off the anti-Red revolt in Germany. It was the bloodiest incident reported so far in the two-w'eek rebellion, during which 50,000 Germans had been arrested, at least. 68 slain by Soviet firing squads, and thousands'reported exiled to the East. An Austrian who claims to be one of 80 political prisoners re-’ leased during the Dresden riots said in a radio interview that Russian machinegunners killed 250 workers in a clash at the prison. Fifty of the escaped prisoners were shot down later in a clash* near the West German border, he said. — —_ | Leona B. Troufner ■ Dies Last Evening Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Mrs. Leona B. Troutner, 71, native of Adams county, died at 5 o'clock Tuesday evening at her home in Willshire, O. She had been ill seven years and an invalid for’ the past four years. She was born in Blue Creek township Aug. 23, 1881, a daughter of Samuel and Clara Stove-Fair-child, and was married to Leonard Troutner Dec. 31, 1903. , She was a member of the Church of God at Willshire, and served as minister of the church for a number of years. Surviving in addition to her husband are a son, H. R. Trouttier of Rossford, 0., and one grandchild. One brother and one sister preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Church of God in Willshire, the Rev. Herbert Schumm officiating.] Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. The body was. removed to the Zwick funeral'home, where friends may call after 7 o'clock this evening. The body will lie In state at the church from 1 pun. Friday until time of the services. 'i < 1 x.

Hoosiers Sizzle In Near 100 Degree Heat Possible 4 Break By Thursday Or Friday INDIANAPOLIS UP — A near--1 100-degree heat wave sizzled in Indiana today. | Hoosiers struggled to qpol off »nd farmers prayed for r|in. * It was 99 in Fort Waynfr Tuesday afternoon and well aljbve 90 rt most other Indiana points. The weatherman said ;the inerjcury may again soar todagr to a high of 99 in southern counties. At least one person <ied in scorching heat which begqn during the weekend after heavy rains] Carl Tarkington* 26, died of heat exhaustion at Muncie. | Wallace A. Bertrand, chief meteorologist at Indianapolil, said there was a “chance of a;|break” in temperatures by Thursday or Friday. Thundershowers f«l this morning at* South Bend an|l were expected shortly at Lafayette. By 8:30 a.m. temperatures rose to 89 at Evansville and 84 gt Indianapolis. 1 Farmers reported hardest hit by heat and dryness, especially in the southern fialf of the state, where rain ha£ been . moat scarce. * r -Jlit Peru, a 40-year-old elephant 1 <T ”* T * ***** New Teacher Hired At Moninouth School Frank Strohm, Indianapolis, and a teacher last year at Forest fn Clinton county, has been obtained as a science and mathematics teacher for Monmouth high |chool. August Selking, trustee, announced today. | Strohm and his family, coasting of Mrs. Strohm and an old boy, will move io Decdtiif prior >to September 1? The new teacher is a graduate of Purdue and has had several years of|teach- p i ing experience. ’ I* | Democrat Meeting Held Last Evening Officers Are Named By Young Democrats A political meeting with tional grass-roots flavor held Tuesday night at the Berfid park with the Adams county Iroung Democrats as the focal poire, the design of | the meet to hoifl the hopes of the Democrats to ch]pturo seats in the next congressional elections only a year away, v! About 40 in and out of county Democrats attended the combination rally and pot-luck suppe? and witnessed the formation o? an Adams eounty young Democrats organization with the following officers at the helm; Fred Sprunger, Berne, president; Miss Ann Staley, Berne, vice-president; Mary ,Jane Tronel, rural route Decatur, secretary; and Bobby Heller, DecatuA treasurer. ' I A meeting of this group will be held at the office of the cdunty Democratic chairman. Dr. Harry Hebble, in Decatur Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The purpose of the meet will be io acquire delegates to attend the’ state convention of the Indiana Young Democrats July 17 and 18 at the Hotel, Indianapolis, z Sparking the organiz&tional ing last night was Miss Barbara Suelzer, Fort Wayne, active a vice-committeeman in the natfpnar young Democratic organization* She informed the group of|how the young Democrats ate set n£ on a state, local and national level’and how the activities of the individual clubs are integrated to be a smooth working entity. Miss Suelzer said Adams county has 10 delegates of the 1,426 oWjaed by the state. These delegates have one vote each, she said, and :wiU be used in electing national officers in two weeks. la Indiana the uhper age limit for young Democrats is 35. * , ' . 1 '■■■ 1 X. \ -i .

Senate Votes End To Foreign Aid In 3 Years Unexpected Vote In Senate Ends MSA Program Os Aid ( WASHINGTON, UP — The senate unexepectediy voted today to cut off the mutual security administration program of aid to friendly foreign nations in three years. / ? By unanimous voice vote the senate provided that MSA should stop making commitments by June 39, 1955. I&gave MSA an additional year, until June 30, 1956, to complete shipments and liquidate all operations. After 1956 any economic and military aid that might b»> necessary would be handled by the state and defense departments. Senators, who were debating the 15,138,000,000 aid program for the fiscal year beginning loday, said the United States has gone about as far as it can in such < spending. J t The senate actions are not final, since the bill must be returned to the house for conference, y. The amendment was sponsored by Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) and received the surprise backing of aqting senate Republican leader William F. Knowland (Calif.). The amendment added the $5,318,000,000 foreign aid authorization bill provided a much closer cut-off date than President Eisenhower requested. The administration urged originally that the program be continued until 1958. Later it accepted a foreign relations committee compromise to extend it to 1956, with an additional three years to liquidate. But under the new amendment MSA must be out of business completely by June 30, ,1956. Mansfield said that any foreign aid after this date should be admin- ( istered by the state department. Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) announced just before the vote that the present bill is the last (Tun Te pa*e Six)

Mrs. C. E. Stuckey Dies This Morning Funeral Services On Friday Morning Mrs. C. E. Stuckey, 83, a resident of Adams county most of her life, died at 6:40 o’clock this morning. at her home in Berne. She had been in failing health for a. year and bedfast several days with a heart condition. She was born in Mercer county, 0., July 14, 1869, a daughter of Jacob and Carolyn BollenbacherBaker, and was married to C. E. Stuckey Aug. 25, 1888. Mrs. Stuckey was a member of the Cross Evangelical and Reformed church at Berne. Surviving are her husband, four sons, Carl E. Stuckey of Decatur. the Rev. Walter J. Stuckey of Walbasha, Wis., Homer C. Stuckey of Fort Wayne and Leslie J. Stuckey of Berne; four daughters. Miss <Estella Stuckey, At home, Mrs. Calvin Sprunger of Berne, Mrs. Homer Winteregg of Monroe and Mrs. Adolph Ferber of Fort Wayne; 17 grandchildren; 15 great - grandchildren; four brothers, Lewis, Jacob and Henry Baker, ( all of Chattanooga, 0., and T. A. Baker of Celina, 0., and four sisters, Mre. Mary Stuckey of Rockford, 0., Mrs. Albert Germann and Mrs. M. A. Linn of Celina, Ok, and Mrs. Fi-edona Germann of Ohio City, O. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday at the Cross Evangelical and Reformed church, the Rev. C. A. Schmid officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery. The body was removed to the Yager funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o'clock this evening.

City Swimming Pool Closed By Bad Leak 30,000 Gallons Os Water Drained Out A bad leak at the municipal swimming pool has drained more than 30,000 gallons in the past 12 hours and an announcement has come from Mayor John Doan and city engineer Ralph Roop that the pool would be 'closed tomorrow' and all the circulation shut off to determine where* the leak is. • Roop was notified by pool supervisor Hubert Zerkel, that water in the pool was a foot low and the shallow end of the pool threatened to be. without water soon. It was .known by authorities that a leak existed in the pool when the pool was first filled a month ago, but it was not considered too bad and nothing was done. The pool was said to be losing 31,000 gallons in 24 hours. That figure doubled last night. The level of the pool has dropped five inches overnight, and at a rate of 63,000 gallons surface feet of water, about 30,000 gallons have leaked. Roop said a check would have be made of almost all piping to discover the leak. Most of the piping Is under the sidewalks around the pool and they may have to be broken into, he skid. Yesterday, crews from the light and power department, adjacent to the pool, carried out as thorough a check as possible on the pool and could not find any leak. It is generally agreed that ; all water would have to be drained from the pool before anjr good could be done. Until today the condition of the breach has been more or less steady. Last Saturday the pool was overflowed to let water drain out over the scum gutters and the level the next morning was observed to be almost what it was the night before. It is thought therefore, that a large break finally developed. Five Youths Leave For Physical Exams Five Adams county youths went to Indianapolis this morning to, take physical examinations prior to induction into the' armed services. They are: Robert Francis Braun, Raymoqd Koeneman, Howard Edwin Fuelling, Frankfin Fuelling and James Herman Loshe.i Gerald Max Parr was transferred to local board 49, Indianapolis.. No Objections To New School Fund No Remonstrances To Building Fund At a brief session of the Decatur school board Tuesday night at the high school building, no remonstrance* were received to the 75-cent cumulative building fynd rate voted unanimously by < Uie board at a prior meeting. Present at the meeting besides the school board were five members of the Lincoln P. T. A., in- | eluding its new president. Dr. James M. Burk. Others were James Cowans, Mr. and Mr®. C. I. . Finlayson, and Ed Wert. Also, other civic-minded groups and individuals interested In the step who were kept away by other business called' superintendent W. Guy Brown before the meeting 1 and expressed approval of the move. A cumulative fund hike was one of the foremost aims of the ' P. T. A. and the school board was congratulated on the step. - Before the raise can be added to the city levy, however, the fol- ' lowing remains to be done: legal 1 notice given in newspaper of cer- ' tifieatton to board of tax com- > miss loners; hearing fori possible < remonstrance then set by tax i board in Decatur. Upon favorable reaction, the board customarily i 4Tmb Te Maa

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Fred Brough, Charles Ross Lake Victims ißoat Overturned By Sudden Wind Squall At Lake On Tuesday • Two Adams county young men, one an employe of the Central Soya Co. in this city, were drowned when their boat overturned 1 in a small Take near thb Manistee river at Oliver’s Landing, Mich., Tuesday night. The victims were: Fred Brough, Jr., 27, of Ceylon, who was scheduled to return to work at the Central Soya plant here Thursday, and ; Charles Ross. 17, also of Ceylon, who would have entered his senior year at the Geneva high school hi September. Fred Brough, Sr., father of one of the victims, was also, fishing in =■ another boat nearby and witnessed thq tragedy, which occurred during p. sudden wind squall. The elder man was able to reach shore safely but could not assist t his son and Ross. All had gone to Michigan .Monday evening sor u • a brief flsftiing trip. t Brough i» anrvived by hi* part ents and four efatare. He gradu- • ated from the Geneva high school in’ 1948, and returned from army service in Korea about 10 months ago. Rose, employed by Bill Fraveh of Geneva, on construction work during the summer, was a sop. of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Ross. He fe ■' survived by his parents and four brothers. Brough's body was recovered by searchers at’ 9:30 o’clock this morning, but Ross* body had not been recovered at a late hour this afternoon.. Over 20 Missing By UNffTED PRIESS (More than 20 persons were miss' j ing br dead today in boating tragedies and electrocutions caused by treacherous wind squalls, a flash and swimming accidents. " L Meanwhile, the eastern twothirds of the country sweltered in j' ■ a humid heat wave and the weatherman said there would be no relief before the July 4th holiday. 1 ■ Forecasters also warned that million dollar rains that have blessed the drought-stricken southwest were at an tend in much of the area. The United Press counted at least 26 weather • caused deaths Tuesday, most of them in boating accidents. Four members of the Lee Upton family were drpwned near Eagle River, Wis., when heavy winds bpended their boat and flipped them into the of Laura Lake. Upton, his wif*. Caroline, their daughter, Karen, 5, and Karen’s . grandmother, Mrte. Clara Hornback, were lost. A 12-year-old son, Leland, clung to the, boat and was rescued. In Michigan, Kenneth Nelson, his wife, and Uwo apns, aged 11 and eight, were missing since they set | - out on a Houghton, Mich., lake in ] an outboard motor boat shortly ibefore a storm hit. x | High winds overturned a boat in which Fred Brough Jr., 27, and Charles Rom, wj, both of Adams county, Ind., were rawing in a lake near the river near Cadil- I lac, Mich. Brough's body was recovered this morning. Ross still was - ; j missing and presumed drowned. Four mean were missing and feared dead in Lake Erie qtt Toledo, (A, after a thundersquall tipped their boat ovet. , _ A Dee Moines, |a„ man, was lost in a similar accident when his , j boat was swamped in choppy water. Two drowning accidents .were reported in Now England and two | in Colorado, and a- woman was seen drowning in Lake Michigan [ off Chicago, but her body was not i recovered. Another family tragedy took ; place at Plentytwood, Mont, when Ctam Te Itga Twe)