Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 7 July 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 158.

Boy Scouts To National Jamboree j <0 13 , frffßMßi ;A §L JkM * Jgl? t* < H-AUX HL*' Ja^a < J9m KT ZE Sk - ;A' HL. thUr BBHml * Kuflßt ■ '?■■'■ ■■ ■.. 1 Ik ;jH| Front row. feft to right—John DorWin. Boh Ochs enrider, Don Aurand, Bill Zwick. Steve Edwards. Rear row, le»t to right Dan David Uh rick. Robert Baker, Jim Sheets.

The nine Decatur Boy Scouts. I pictured above, will leave Thurs- . day morning to attend the nation: i al jamboree of Boy Scouts, which will be held on the Irvine ranch. Santa Ana. Calif., about 40 miles southeast of Los Angeles* The local scouts will be part of ■ a group of 105 from the Anthony ' Wayne area council, who will make the trip by special train from Fort Wayne.. Steve Everhart, of Decatur, scout commissioner for Adams county and for years one of the most active scout »wkers in this ' area, will be tiip leader for the 105 representatives of the Anthony Wayne area. He will be assisted by nine other adult leaders. | Leaving here Thursday morning j the local group wil spend Thurs- ; day and Friday in Fort Wayne • for, special jamboree training and checking of equipment. The entire group will leave by < special train Saturday morning, i A stopover will be made for a visit to the Grand Canyon.

Allies Repulse Red Attack On Western Front I ■ Americans Follow With Push To Drive Reds Off Porkchop SEOUL. Korea Wednesday UP — Heroic U. S. and South Korean soldiers broke a 2,000-man Chinese: assault on the western front Tuesday and the Americans followed with a surprise .night attack to drive the last Reds off Porkchop Ridge. \ The valiant defenders of Porkchop and Arrowhead Ridg'e fought IS hours with bayonets and rifle butts in ankle-deep mud that clogged rifles and machineguns. American footsloggers of the U. S. 7th Division annihilated a 1,500-man pinder assault at Porkchop. then launched , a counter* attack under the gfkre of searchlights and flares. The shattered Reds fell back from the churnedup north slopesj.leaving behind the bodies of many comrades. To the east kt Arrowhead. ROK troops beat back a reinforced Red battalion Which at one tfme had surrounded two outposts controlling the ridge. The onrushing battalions of Chinese stepped over the bodies of Reds who had fallen in the mud and died under the blasts of their own artillery in their vain efforts to take the two outposts guarding the invasion route to Seoul. Even though 8,500 rounds of artillery and mortar fire supported them, the Reds backtracked to the northern slopes of both outposts by late afternoon. • ’ Frontline officers estimated the Chinese hurled two battalions against Porkchop during the long battle that lasted all night and all day. Americans and Chinese slipped back and forth across the slippery battlefield several times during the day. - \ Red troops made only one other major attack during the night across the «155 - mile battleline, throwing a company at an Allied outpost southeast, of Kumsong on the central front. They failed to gain a foot of ground.* Fifth air force bombers resumed close-support strikes all along the front as the raipfall slackened. The . air force began partial evacuation of a giant airbase near Seoul as floodwaters of the Han River edged toward the runways.

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I'AI, ■ ' ' ' The jdmboree. the third annual. I will! open at 9 am. Friday, July 17. and will 'continue for seven packed days of activities. Hosing the nighjt of Thursday’, July 23. This tfrird ainnuaT jamboree will attract approximately 50,000 Boy | Scouts land Explorers from the States. The jaihbored is located in a 3,000-acre city of t|entS. j > . A colorful pageant of thi west will bie presented' op the opening night of the jamboree. Units themselves will carry on a varied; program of demonstrations. exhibits and special events. Troops by regions being “at home” to trbops of other regions. Special* feature will be preserited oh at least three afternoons, ranging from variety shows td » rodeo. Monty Montana will head up two performances of a rodeo, while the Orange county riding association will provide a thrilling horse show W’i'tfr (trick riding and color-

Second Decatur Man Held For Robberies I J, ■ . I . Paul Lambert Taken Into Custody Here Paul. Lumbert, 27, stepped happily, from a bus here last evening with his bride of but a few hours . . . right into the hands of lawmen; waiting to arrest him for his implication in several armed robberies and in Fort Wayne. Lambent had the “finger” put on him by either or both of the Clossons. Herbert and Richard, now being held in Fort Wayne for compliance in an armed robbery last week jof a Marathon filling station. A|so fraught in the net was h Fort Wayne man, Everett E. Iholt. Both are being held under $10,006 bail on charges of armed robbery. The latest catch may, according to sheriff Bob Shraluka, who, with deputy \ Merle Affolder and Deca-’ tur policeman Roy Chilcote arrested Lambert, clear up a number of breakins. during the past two months in Decatur and possibly the .county proper. Lambert had been in Decatur only seven weeks and worked as a bartender in a Second street tavern. "Missing •'yesterday morning when he was scheduled to be at work. Lambert, itl developed, was in Angola with Dorothy Sheridan. 27. Decatur, getting a marriage license, and later married. He called his employer, Al Peconge, telling him he would be late, i * ! Meantime, Fort Wayne detectives Jack Lakt}. Edwin McCarthy and Robert Scihnieders, and Lt. John Carpino came to Decatur about 12:30 p.m. Monday and were joined by sheriff Bob Shraluka. They met all busses coming to town and put a “stake out” at Lamberts address here, the 500 block of Thirteenth, a trailer court. Also in the investigation was \Allen county sheriff Harold Zeis. Iholt was taken into custody at Fort Wayne at about 3 p.m. as he started for work. The Fort Wayne contingent, after spending fruitless hours in the city, finally left the arrest of Lambert to the sheriff and other officers. At 6:30 p.m. a bus arrived —it was knowm that Lambert didn’t own a car—and Lambert stepped off with his, new* wife. Neither is reported to have said a word and Lambert was led away, his bride, having no part in the case, was not held. Lambert admitted taking part in robberies at the “Gasateria” and the Mclntyre Shell Service ITm Te P»ce WkU j

ful acts. , America’s best songs and stories will feature the three kdmpfire nights at the jamboree. Familiar movie stars will also act Upon the jamboree stage] during the “Salute from Hollywood,” and then the spotlights fade, a breath-tak-ing fireworks show will be presented. Various religious services, including daily devotions, will be arranged by the chaplains of the various faiths. Formal worship services are scheduled for Sunday morning in open-air chapels on hillsides overlooking the Pacific. “My Duty<to God” is the theme of (the great Sunday evening assembly that will bring together the entire camp and the leaders of the religious faiths into a great demonstration of the brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of God, On the return trip, the Anthony Wayne group will make stopovers at San Francisco, Salt Lake City and Colorado Springs.

Reds Execute German Police For Riot Aid Red Firing Squads Reported To Have Executed 46 Men BERLIN, UP—lßed firing squads . were reported today to have exe-' cuted 46 East German polciemen -for participating in the workers’ revolt against Communist rule last month. The West Berlin newspaper Telegraf said Red army courts convicted 15 Peoples Police officers and 31 enlisted men of mutiny and “resistance against the Soviet army," and had them shot. Earlier reports from East Germany said that 18 Soviet soldiers were executed for disobedience at Magdeburg during the rebellion against the Compiunist bosses of the Russian-occupied zone. Another 578 German policemen were sentenced to long prison terms on similar charges, according to the Telegraf. | The report could not be confirmed but Western I Allied officials said thousands of police joined the rebellion in East Germany and tens of thousands stood by passively and made no move to suppress the anti-Communist uprising. East Germans convicted of lead- ' ing the rebellion were? reported facing possible reportation to the ■ Soviet Union. The information bureau west, a private' intelligetice agency in i West Berlin, said Soviet military authorities already have deported f German civilians convicted by 1 • Red army courts. Russian fnilitary tribunals as ' i well as East German courts were ' reported busy trying alleged lead- ' ; ers of tne revolt which swept the i Soviet Zone June 17. Some 300,000 tank-supported Soviet troops were - called in and martial law de- • claimed to crush the threat to the ' Communist East German regime. • But a western spokesman said labor unrest still simmered de- * ■ spite military rule and some con- • cessions offered by the Red government. Strikes tied up a num- i ber of factories while workers at i other plants maintained slow- , downs to obtain the release of fellow workers netted in the round- : up of thousands of demonstrators. The three western command- 1 i ants for the third time demanded /fm Te rase

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 7, 1953.

Berne Furniture Plant Suffers $157,000 Loss In Fire This Morning . F K ■! r‘

Reds Call For Truce Heads To Meet Wednesday Expected To Answer Clark Proposal Os Immediate Trute SEOUL, Korea UP—The Reds called a meeting of truce liaison officers for noon Wednesday, presumably to answer Gen. Mark Clark’s proposal for an immediate armistice with or without Sypgman Rhee’s approval. 1 ■ Rhee, meanwhile, told United Press his talks with American truce expediter Walter Robertson still are deadlocked but he is willing to accept “any plan , which will guarantee Korea’s survival.” The Communists called the liaison meeting shortly after Robert-, son postponed his conference with the aged South Korean president today, possibly because he was awaiting word, from Washington. Clark. U, N. Far East commander, asked 'the (Communists last June 29 to resume the meetings at Panmunjom and iron out differences in the yay of a ceasefire in Korea. At that time. Clark disclaimed responsibility for Rhee’s arbitrary release of 27,000 anticommunist war prisoners, but said the U. N. would make the effort possible to enforce a truce. Thus far, the Communists have not replied to Clark’s request. Instead, Peiping rid io has accused Clark, the United States and the United Nations | of “conniving” with Rhee and attempting to “hoodwink’'? the people of the world. The United Nations truce headquarters at Munsan announced the forthcoming meeting in a short announcement. It said: “United Nations command and Communist liaison officers are scheduled to meet tomorrow’ at 12 noon at Panmunjom. The meeting was arranged at the request of the Communists.” The call for the liaison meeting eclipsed the unexplained failure of fTwr» T. P»«» IDUrkt) BULLETIN William Biggs, 79 r of 1222 North Second street, died at 1:30 o’clock thia afternoon at the Adam* • memorial hospital. The body was remow ed to the Zwick funeral hpme. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. - —-- - McCarthy Plans No Clergymen's Probe Says Vast Majority Os Clergymen Loyal WASHINGTON UP — Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy said- today “the vast majority of the clergy in every religion are good loyal .Americans” and he does not intend to investigate the preaching profession. The Wisconsin Republican opened a public hearing of .he senate investigating subcommittee by announcing that an article by J. B. Matthews, the group’s executive director, “does not represent in any way the thinking or viewpoint” of the subcommittee. McCarthy postponed until 3 p.m. e.d.t. a private session requested by Democratic members to discuss Matthews’ charge that Protestant clergymen form “the largest single group” aiding the Communist party. Meanwhile the subcommittee rtesumed its hearings on the overseas library program. Heading today’s witness list was Mrs. Paul Robeson, wife of the left-wing baritone. The Matthews article, which appeared in the American Mercury, was written before he joined the subcommittee staff two weeks rrva To race Klcau ,

— —— Four New Teachers In Decatur Schools Only Two Vacancies In School Faculties ■' r ■ ■ ■ Four new teachers wferp cniployed for the Decatur school- faculty by the school truMees Jn meeting last evening-and phnouffced today by W. Guy Brown’ superintendent of city schools.-; Supt. Brown also a renounced that one teacher resignation was accepted by the schopl board and one. teacher was transferred from the kindergarten to tie first grade. f The staff of 46 teachers* is complete, with the exception?*! of one teacher in the first grade and a vacancy in the second the superintendent stated*. FL The resignation of Mn|. Deane Dorwin, a member of tlfe teaching staff for several and a teacher in the kindergarten last year, was accepted., , I Mrs. Samuel Emerick.ijwife of the Rev. Emerick, pa stop of the • First Methodist church fn ■ this city, was employed to (Jill the kindergarten vacancy. Mrs. Emerick has a degfee from Asbury College. Wilmore, Ky„ and a master’s degree frqm Drew ‘ University's, Madison. N. J| Mrs. Clint Reed, a graduate of Butler University, Indihnapoli*. will also teach in the kindergarten. ? Her husband is director of the ?Decatur high school 'band. Hugh Cobb of Wells ! county, win join the local high! .school staff as teacher of commercial and English. He is a gra feate of Indiana University and Fills the vacancy caused by the resignation of Fred Boiler, who resfltnedt at the end of the May semester. The fourth new teachers-is Miss Velma Huser of Berne, kihci will 1 teach mathematics and scleiice in the junior high school. jWmerly a teacher at the Pleasant Mills high school, Miss Huseri Is a graduate of Ball-state Tfeafhers College, Muncie. * Mrs. Madeline Snell, a (member of the teaching staff, will be transferred from the kindergarten to the first grade at the building. The board also employed Vera Dofy us secretary tp Hu; h An<Tur» Tn pave Kick* i ■ ' • :.L* ’ To Repair Covered ■ Bridge At Ceylon' ■ JL. •!! Covered Bridge rs ' Termed As Unsafe J County commissioners have con-; demned an old and familiar landmark in Adams county as Hiiisafe, the covered bridge at Ceylon.' Commissioner Otto Hoffmtfn divulged the move and said set Came because of the clamor of feersons in Geneva who had noticed the bridge sinking into decay. Specifically. Hoffman named the bridge abutments as being.in sad shape, inadequate drainage adjacent to the bridge | had causetH’kn undermining of ‘ the bridge until the condition became exceedingly unsafe for travel. Hoffman ‘ indicated work wrould commence as sdon as possible as the bridge is on a mail route? and its removal from service would be felt. [ ■ Hoffman estimates the bridge to be about 60 years old -at the feast, one of the few remaining covered bridges in the state. The other in the oounty i« as Pleasant, |Rlle, still in good shape, it is reported. Hoffman said Geneva residents photested the condition <s[•> the bridge but at the same tinfe feel such a sentimental attachnpebt to the ancient landmark thMffif|they would be loathe to see iffilffltorn down*. Hoffman implied th|'Commissioners would* do everything to restore -the bridge in its present construction and at thegame time make it safe for travel. The job of fixing the bridge was given to Frank Singleton, highway superintendent. -| ifi

• ■ . ! ■ * '■ Martin Sees Approval For Tax Extension Speaker Predicts House Committee To Back Extension By UNITED PRESS . Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr. predicted today that the house ways and means committee will approve ari excess profits tax extension bill Wednesday. Martin said after a\ White House conference between ? President Eisenhower and Republican legislative leaders that the tax bill will go before the house for action Friday or Monday. If the bill does get out of committee and if congress passes it, it will be a victory for- President (Eisenhower. He wants the] extens'on as part of the administration’s program for getting in balance (if possible for the fiscal year starting July 1, 1954; Ways and means chairman Daniel A. Reed R-N. Y., 'Who hates the excess profits levy and wants to reduce taxes generally, agreed to Wednesday’s meeting after house Republican leaders decided against by-passing his group to get the bill before the House. Other congressional news: Adjournment — Martin and acting senate Republican leader William F. Knowland Calif, predicted that congress will meet its Aug. 1 adjournment goal. Drought—The senate agriculture committee unanimously approved emergency legislation to provide millions of dollars in federal credit for farmers and ranchers hit by drought. In the interest? of speed the committee passed the bill without holding hearings. V Impeachment — The house judiciary committee killed a resolution to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. The resolution! was offeied by Rep. W. M. Wheeler D-Ga. when Douglas tempo-1 rarily stayed the execution of atom’ spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Korea — Wisconsin’s Republican senators disagreed about the rightness or wrongness of South Korean President Syngman Rhee’s truce balk. Chairman Alexander Wiley of the senate foreign relations committee said Rhee had endangered 300,000 American troops in Korea by his “reckless” conduct. Joseph R. McCarthy said Rhee is “one of the greatest patriots of all time” and has been “absolutely <Tun» Ta Six) Mrs. Lawrence Fair Dies As Van Wert \ Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Mrs. Lawrence Fair, 59, of Van Wert. 0., died' Monday at a convalescent home in that city following a year's illness. She was born at Stfett, 0., July 24, 1893, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elza Herdman, and was married to Lawrence Fair in 1908. He preceded her in death. 1 Surviving are seven children, Mrs. Betty Butler and Mrs. Mary Gennusa, both of Decatur, Vernon Fair of Winter Haven, Calit, Mrs. Charles Reichard of Fort Wayne, Raymond, at home, Donald Fair of Toledo, 0., and Richard Fair of Port Clinton, O.; eight grandchildren; two brothers, Ed and John Herdman of Van Wert, and four sisters, Mrs. Ida Bakle of Paulding, 0., Mrs. C- E. Thompson of Dayton, 0., and Mrs. Maude Holbrook and Mrs. Iva Pace of Van Wert. Eight children preceded her in deatfe Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Pentecostal church in Scott, with burial in the. Scoti cemetery. The body was removed to the Gamble-Al* spach funeral home in Van Wert, where friends may call after 6 p.m. Wednesday.

’’’ ;' ' ' ■ • i 50 Rioting Women Inmates Subdued Maryland Prison Is Scene Os Rioting v JESSUP, Md.. (UP) -r Alxout 50 rioting women inmates fought a pitched battle today with clubswinging state police and guards i at the Maryland reformatory for women before the screaming prisoners were subdued. The women, all Negroes, barricaded themselves in cottage on the prison grounds. They hurled’ crockery and smashed furniture. On their first attempt to storm the cottage, the policy were forced to retreat under the barrage of missiles. _ While the inmates cursed and howled, a reinforced detail of 17 state pplice, armed with pistols and clubs, invaded the cottage on the second try. They hauled out 15 of the women. State polide reported shortly before noon that the situation was under control. oAe state policeman—Lt. Martin M. Puncke—suffered cuts of the ffw'e and hands. Qffieials said the disturbance began late Monday night apparently as a protest against disciplinary action against/one of the women who had been transferred to the prison from Crownsville state mental hospitalX Prison officials said that whefl the woman attempted to injure hersqlf, it was decided' to move her. The outbreak occurred when officials tried to move her. Warden Donnell, state superintendent of correction, said the sight of the police apparently infuriated the women. Head Os Overseas Information Quits Eisenhower Seeks I Johnson Successor WASHINGTON UP — President (Eisenhower began a search tbday for a public spirited man with. a thick ?hide to take over the government’s oyerseas information program, one ot| the hottest jobs in Washington. Dr. Robert L. Johnson, the man he named to the jorb only four months ago, turned in his resignation Monday. He said the harassments were too great. On the orders of his doctors, he would have to step out within 0 days. The action, coming in the middle of the book-burning furor, touched off immediate speculation that n)ore than health was involve! As late as May 19, Johnson was firmly and formally denying he was about to resign. Some observers believed Johhson was possibly quitting to escape the barrage of criticism that has been aimed at the way his administration has been removing controversial books from the state department’s overseas libraries. The library program in particular and the overseas information service in general have been under heavy attack from Sen. Jot' seph R, McCarthy R-Wis. and his permanent investigating spb-coin-•mittee. Johnson and McCarthy are known to be friendly, however. McCarthy said he had “full confidence” in Johnson’s effort to remove the work of "Communists” from the information program. The senator’s investigators have- wo r kT» p«*e First State Bank's Deposits At New High Deposits in the (First State Bank on June 39, totaled >11,883.284.77, a high mark in local banking history. t - - The bank’s statement published today, shows total footings of |13,The statement is published in compliance with the regular call from the (Federal Reserve Bank.

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Dunbar Plant Badly Damaged By Fire Today Heavy Damage'ls To Expensive Fabric, Other Materials Fire of undetermined origin did an estiipateA-damage pf $157,000 to the nationally famous Dunbar ' Furniture Manufacturing plant in Berne at 11 o’clock this morning, Grover SV. Sprunger, general manager of the industry, stated today. The fire broke out in ine paint room on the second floor of the block long building on Fulton , street. The intense heat from the ' flames set off the sprinkler sys- . tem on both floors and drenched the modern factory! , The damage from water and smoke was to expensive fab A rics and materials stored in the building. Thesp fabj rics in piles and rolls were valued at $175.d00 and all except 10 per•J cent damaged beyond use, . firemen | and company officials . estimated. Nearly 100,000 gallops of water from the overhead storage tank poured ipto the plant through the sprinklers. Rivers of ( from . four to six inches deiep covered both floors. v <1- i ' The Berne fire-department, un- ' der the command of chief Ermin Bixler,, fought valiantly and effectively fe saving the building. ( machinery and other contents. More than |,a dozen window pahes were knocked out to air the building so that firemen could penetrate the clouds of smoke and get the blaze under control, j The factory was closed for the second vacation week and only a few men were on the job. An employe noticed the blaze and gave the alarm. ~ h . I Albert Yoder, an employe, w’as Severely burned on the hand. The Bluffton fire department >was called and'the run from that city to iferne was made in '3O minutes. ! The Blufftoh firemen assisted ,in fighting the flames. The fine caused great excitement in Berne and citizenry went to the scene where flames threatened complete destruction of the city’s largest industry. Dunbar employs approximately 250 persons. Total loss may feach $175,000, for in addition to the drenched and scarred fabrics, the company Will suffer loss to machinery and building from the flames and Water. I Will Resume Operations The management called back all employes in the city to assist in removing the damaged materials from the building and to put it in shape for normal operations next week. Foremen were summoned to the •plant_ and; instructed to put men to work in clearing the building. Manager Sprunger staled that he hoped to have the factory in operation next Mofrday morning. <Tar» T« Pace Fire) Slightly Cooler Weather Forecast INDIANAPOLIS, UP —Slightly sub-normal temperatures and a smattering of showers are on tap for Hoosiers during the next five days. ( A weather bureau outlook said today, temperatures Wednesday through Sunday will average two to five degrees below normal. That still could mean above 90degree heat in some areas, but “normal temperatures average out to maximums in the high 80’s and minimums in the mid 60’s. “ INDIANA WeIaTHER Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Local shower* tonight except In extreme northwest. Moderate temperature*. Low tonight 5643 north, 62-70 south. ( High Wednesday 75-83 north, 83-89 south. \