Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1953 — Page 6

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Coroner Jury Rules Murder Charge Filed Charge Mother With Killing Young Son t CHICAGO UP — Spectators applauded when a coroner’s jury ruled that a .mother who beat her three-year-old son to death be held to the grand jury on a murder charge. The woman, Mrs. Veronica Burkowsky, 28, and her husband, Peter, 35, received the verdict Thursday in silence. Then they embraced fondly before being separated and returned to jail. When she was arrested after the death Tuesday of her son, Peter Jr., Mrs. Burowsky said she beat him with a hardwood stick because he wet his bed and wouldnt’ mind. The coroner’s jury ruled that the child died of a "brutal assault" by his mother which was “condoned and participated in by Peter, his father.” Before the inquest Mrs. BUrowsky was taken to the morgue to Identify her son’s body. She collapsed and later sobbed: “I didn’t mean to do it.” “Crocodile tears,” coroner Walter E. McCarr an commented coldly. At thsf Inquest policewoman •Ruth Biedermann said that one of the couple’s four other children, six-year-old Georganna, had also been “horribly” beaten. She said the girl’s legs and face were battered and bruised and her wrists bore red marks. Mrs. Burowsky worked nights and her husband worked days, earning a total of sl3l a week. Peter Jr., was sometimes tied in a closet while both parents were away from home, Burowsky testified. i • Burowsky also said that his wife had beaten him also, with a glass ash tray. 'Tye got scars all over my head from it,” he said. Pedestrian Death Toll Cut In State Special Citation Presented To State INDIANAPOLIS UP —lndiana’s efforts over an Ql-vear period t.> cut its pedestrian traffic death toll were rewarded today whan the American automobile association presented the state witji a special citation. ~ Noble Sutton, assistant manager of the Hoosier (Motor CJub. presented the citation to state police officials in recognition of a 41 per cent cut in pedestrian

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death since 1941. The drop was from 354 in 1941 to 208 last year. Sutton who presented the citation to state police Supt/ Frank Jessup and Capt. D. L. Laughlin of the records division, said Indaana ranked second only to Connecticut amoqg 11 states competing in a pedrestrian safety program. The AAA also cited 11 Indiana cities which reported no pedestrian deaths in 1952. They were West Lafayette, Peru, Plymouth, Valparaiso! Whiting, Bicknell, Jasper, Princeton, Greentfield. (Bloogi'ington and Jeffersonville. Jessup said credit for “this saving liven goes to city and city police departments for step-ped-up protection programs.” He said sdhool ; safety patrols also played in important role. Bloomington Youth Drowned In Quarry BLOOMINGTON, Ind. UP — Joe Hkhcoek, 16, Bloomington, drowned Thursday in a quarry near hei)e iwhen he slipped from a ledge at the edge of the pit. i — ; - I -- 4 Trade In a good Town—Decatur

Says Farm Prices Must Be Stabilized Warning Issued By Assistant Secretary CEDAR RAPIDS, la. UP — Farm prices “must be effectivelystabilized or there is a threat of real trouble ahead,’’ John H. Davis, assistant secretary! of agriculture. warned today. He said if farm prices are permitted to become “unduly depressed” by the weight of accumulating surpluses, “then we are setting the pattern for a general recession or depression -which would affect not only farm people but the entire nation.” Davis said he was not “prophesying” or acting as an alarmist, only warning that “this could happen if we fail to think our way through the problem anij act with sanity, order, and wisdom.” “Fully admitting that there are great weaknesses in existing farm programs," Davis told the lowa beef producers association, “now is no time to make basic changes for the 1953 crop year.” He said the first "big problem” in. agriculture is to “get through 1953 with reasonable price stability.” Davis said the administration is hopeful that “orderly marketing,” federal beef buying, stepped-up selling campaigns and other moves will stabilize cattle prices at a “fair level" without’the government having to buy cattle on the hoof. “With rare exceptions,” he said, most trade and producer groups advise against a "direct cattle buying program if at all possible.” He said it 'would be difficult to implement the mechanics[ Os such a program to bring desired results and difficult to dispose of the meat products acquired without depressing the market later on - AUCTION (Cantiawed From Page One) Other members of the faculty are: Guy Petit. Bloomfield, la.; Huy Johnson, \ Columbus, Q.; C. B. Drake. Decatur, Ill.; Clyde R. Wilson, Bucyrus, O.; H. W. SigriSt, Fort Wayne ; Carey M. Jones, Oak Park, Ill.; George G. Borum, Centralia, III.; Ray Elliott, Portland; Walter Carlson, Triumph, Minn.; Homer Pollock, Delphos, O.; Earl Gilead, Mt. Gilead, O.; Donald E. Rolfe, Orient, 0., and H. B. Sager, Bozeman, Mont. ©isArAPEI ( 60R,LLA ) e Why monkey around with less than low-cost dependable FORD SERVICE? Factoryapproved methods and tools save you money! Ray Plan,Too! SCHWARTZ FORD CO., Inc. Cor. 3rd A Monroe Decatur, Ind.

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Reds Seizing Food Parcels From Germans Mass Seizures Os Food And Brutal Beatings Reported BERLIN UP -*-Thb Communists resorted to mass seizures of food parcels and brutal beatings todayin an attempt to halt distribution of “Eisenhower food parcels” to hungry East Germans. The Reds applied harsh strongarm tactics after the United States stepped up its relief program ahd announced it would supply food to every one of the 18,000,000 Germans in the Soviet Zone of occupation. The crush of East Germans who defied Red threats and terror to 6btain the food parcels, distributed in the American, British and French sectors of this divided city, was near the! 1,000,000 Squads of Communist police surrounded the railway station at Potsdam, on the outskirts of Berlin, and began the wholesale confiscation of all “Eisenhower food” found in the possession of passengers returning from West Berlin. | Similar measures were reported being taken at other stations. ’ Identity cards of returning Germans also were being checked and stamped. I . The wholesale seizures began as the United 'States rushed “Eisenhower” food here hy train, truck and plane. f j Original plans called for distribution of only 1,000,000 food parcels to hungry Soviet Zone residents. An estimated *200,000 persons defied arrest, confiscation of the packages, violence by Communist “goon” squads and other intimidation tactics to pour into West Berlin again today. i \ They boosted the totkl seeking food for the five days of the program to about 800,000. The number was expected to soar well over 1,000,000 this weekend when tens of thousands of workers are'scheduled to start their jnass “hunger march.” Strong-arm gangs waited at crossing in the Soviet sector of Berlin and attacked returning East- Germans. The Red thugs tried to snatch the food parcels and ideptity papers! of the returnees. The violent tactics were adopted after threats of reprisals and-pris-on failed to dim the defiance of Soviet zone i residents, some of whom traveled hundreds ot miles to get the food. The Communists themselves disclosed the gangs grabbed food and identity papers. Communist police also stopped the returning hunger marchers, confiscated food parcels and took names. Thousands of packages were “donated” by their owners to the “West German unemployed” under pressure from Red police, The diamond is the hardest of minerals as well as the gem which has the widest range of color or luster. ■! y " —‘h l "" " . h. An estimated 800,00 b Americans over 40 are losing their sight because of glaucoma, and many of them don’t even know they, have the disease, reports Dr. Franklin M. Foote, executive director ot the national society for the prevention of blindness. I . I

Woman Is Killed By Electric Shock INDIAN APOIAS IJP —Mrs*. Eugene Craig, 28, was killed by electric shock Tlhirsday night as she ran a vacuum sweeper at her home. Investigating officers blamed a short circuit, Benton County Lady Elected President i - ■ Mrs. James G. Potter, Rauh. Bentop county, was elected presi- . dent of the Indiana Home Deni- [ onstratlon Association at the 41st r annual business meeting of the i state, organization at Purdue Uni- , versity. Delegates from 82 coun’ies were present for the third and final day of the Purdue summer , conference at which • more than J 45f10 women were registered. , Mrs. John P. Curry, ‘Sullivan, was elected vice-president and Miis Janalyce Rouls, Purdue, sec-retary-treasurer. , *j' e,r Hampshire’s Mount WashTropical rain forests compose I about one-half of the world’s i forest area. Far from being impenej treble, the jungles are fast being destroyed by man.

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Highway Death Toll 17,000 This Year First Six Months Report Is Issued CHICAGO UP — crashes claimed 17,300 fives in the first six months of this year—47o more than in the same J period of 1952 —but your chances of dying in traffic are lower, the national safety council said today. The number of motor vehicle deaths was higher in every month* this year, except in June, but the actual number of deaths per the number of miles traveled decreased considerably* Travel was up 5 per cent over last year during the first fivq months <jf 1953 while the number of deaths in the same period rose only 4 per cent. Travel figures for June are not yet available. “phus there was a decrease in the mileage death rate deaths per 100.000,000 miles to 6.6 —a new) all-time low' for this five-month period—as compared with 6.7 at the same point a year ago,” the council said. There were 3,100 deaths in June, about equal with last year.

Foreign Aid Bill Headed f ' • • '' i i For Approve Final Version Os Measure Drafted* In Long Session WASHINGTON UP — A foreign aid bill carrying substantially rnorfe thap the house originally v o t,e d was headed today toward final (Congressional approval. The final version was by a conference committee which met until nearly midnight to adjust differences between house and' senate versions of the appropriation's bilL ’ . I . The compromise bill carried $4,530,457,999 in new funds, pluis authority to spend 12.121,964,35>1 in unobligated money previously appropriated. br a total program of $6,652,422,390 for the current fiscal Barring an unexpected snag, the bill was expected tp go to the White House in this form. However, two of dhe house conferees, Reps. H. Carl Anderson R-Mipn. and Otto E. Passman D-La,, refused to sign the agreement and promised a fight 09 the house floor against iL ! President Eisenhower had asked for $5,138,922,277 in new cash, plus $2,182,815,979 \in“ old funds, for > total program of On both the new cash and the carryover funds, the conference committee went almost all thi way toward the more liberal figures approved by the senate. The house had approved total program of $6,196,688.1,79 and the senate voted $6,745,318,202. | \ The largest item, in the conference agreement was $3,186,01)0,000 in new cash for military assistance to U. S; Allies. Man is Killed When Hit On Head By Brick TFlintE HAUTE UP — Everest Williams, 32, was struck oh the head and killed Thursday by a fire brick which plummeteti 130 feet from the top of as, smoke stack at a new Public Service company of Indiana power plapt here. In the south Pacific kingdom of Tonga, consisting of islands with a land area of 269 square miles, the first laws were ' compiled by missionaries. One law’ requires a preacher to wear white trousers, though he may cohduct religious seyvihes barefoot. Tfade In a good Town—Decatur

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