Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 181, Decatur, Adams County, 3 August 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 181.

U.S.-Korean Defense Pad Is Expected Dulles Expects To Pledge U. S. Aid For South Koreans SEOUL, Korea UP —Secretary of state John Foster Dulles exi pects to sign a defense treaty this week pledging the United States to come to South Korea's aid again if the republic is attacked, a reliable source said tonight. The source said the U. S.— Korean treaty would give - ‘ the United States the “right” to base {American forces in Korea *as long as necessary for mutual security? • t , Dulles, army) secretary Robert Stevens, and two planeloads of high American state and defense department officials will arrive here Tuesday to open “common front” talks with South Korean President Syngman Rhee in prepa- • , \ ration for the Korean peace conference. Reliable sources told the United Press Dulles hopes to complete his «•talks with Rhee in four days, a mutual defense pact and depart Saturday for Washington. Dulles expects that he jfhd Stevens can agree with Rhee on the final details of the security pact and sign the document while they are in Korea, the sources said 'A ? well-informed _ official said . / is carrying the revised draft of the treaty and will confer, along with Dulles, with Korean and American officials on the . points still not settled. The United States is going ahead with the defense treaty in ,f?pite of the announced Commun- j ist demand for the withdrawl of •V. tN. forces simultaneous with Chinese troops withdrawal in any , peace settlement, the sources! said. ‘However, both American and Korean sources emphasized *hat the pact would not dose the door to a peace conference agreement on simultaneous troop withdrawal which would require a revision of the security treaty. Earlier, it was learned that Rhee has prepared a “line of no retreat” program foriSFthe Korean political conference. The informants said Rhee .wou’d ask John Foster Dulles to give it America’s stamp of approval dur<Twr« T® P»«. Kt vet Funeral Held Today For Rawley Infant Funeral services were held at the Zwick funeral > home this morning for Rex William Rawley, Infant son of Mr. and (Mrs. Winston Rawley, of this city, who died Saturday night; in iSt. Joszeph's hospital. Fort .Wayne. The child, born early Friday afternoon at the Adams ‘county memorial i hospital, was removed to Fort Wayne after becoming critically ill Saturday afternoon. fiuryiving in addition to hfs parents are a brother, Robert, at home;; two sisters. Mrs. Richard Ogg of Decatur, and Janis Sue, at home; and the grandparents, Mr. and -Mrs. William Noll of Pleasant Mills and Mrs. William j Rawley of Berne. The Rev. F. H. : \ _ Willard officiated, wfth burial, im the Decatur cemetery. . ’ Needed Rainfall Is r Received In Area More Than Inch Os Rain Over Weekend Parched lawns and famished corn and soybean crops in the Decatur area were revived with more than an'inch of rain Satur-, day night and Sunday, the first abundant showers received in several weeks. * | Saturday night’s rainfall was .76 of an Inch, followed by .44 of an inch on Sunday and up to 8 a. m. today. Herman *1H1” Meyer, local weather observer, reported. The rain clouds broke loose about 10 Q’clock Saturday night. Thunder and lightning accompained the rain. Sunday’s shower 1 started before noon. Farm crops were greatly in need of moisture and many farmers reported that corn stalks were not filling; out, due to the lack of rain. Beans were at a standstill. Tomato fields were arid and the j weekend rains will benefit these crops and all garden plots. Scattered showers were forecast for 1 today.

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Homage Paid To Sen. Tass At Capitol National Farewell Pay? Tribute To Great Statesman WASHINGTON UP —President Eisenhower and a host of other trustees of a nation’s grief paid farewell homage to Robert A. Taft today and heard him extolled as a man who “personified the noblest attributes of the Republic.” In the majestic rotunda of the Capitol, by Order of the congress in which he performed his greatest services, Ohio’s fallen senator was given the highest honor this nation can pay its dead. Only a dozen times in all its past before had the'Republic given a dead leader a national farewell like that which, starting at noon, it gave today to Robert A. TafL The nation’s greatest and might!: est assembled to hear Taft’s friend and political partner, the junior senator from Ohio, John W. Bricker, give! expression to their love and respect tor “Mr. Republican.” Seated in a wheel chair in the place of honor before the flagdraped bronze casket was Taft’s invalid widow, Martha, flanked by her four sons. < To them and to the 900 others in the giant! room Bricker spoke words of comfort for the bereaved and words of praise for the dead senate leader. Taft’s death oh Friday of cancer, which struck him Mown at 63 when he had seemed t(i be entering the prime of his career, ended a life dedicated to service of others, Bricker said. “Htrnfble in victory, without rancor in. defeat, he traveled far along life’s road to great achievement,” Bricker said, adding that: “Greed for power never goaded , him.' There wag no scheming and Ino conniving in his makeup. Bob Taft would not compromise with wrong nor waver on a principle.” Today’s 22-minute memorial service was the last Tor JTaft in the capital where he had lived in his youth as the son of a President and where as a man he had achieved a stature unparalleled in modern times as a legislative leader. After the memorial services the body was flown to the late senator's home city of Cincinnati for religious services and burial Tuesday. Although the nation would not make Taft president, at the last it gave him honors lavished in the past on only five Presidents— Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield.l William M< Kinley. Waren G. Harding, and, in March 23 years’ ago, the senator’s own father. William Howard Taft. The bodies of only two other senators before him had lain in state in the Capitol rotunda. Sunday 40,000 citizens tiled past the casket. Today's service was limited to 900 for reasons of space. Among the mourners today were national leaders, dignitaries of foreign nationh> cabinet offcials, members of the house and senate, and Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson and other members of the supreme court who were in town. There also were many distinguished personal friends of the senator, including Douglas MacArthur, who flew here from New York with Mrs. MacArthur, and Gov. Frank J. Lausche of Ohio. The service in the rotunda opened with an invocation by the senate chaplain, Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, who paid tribute to the Taft courage—a kind of coup age which enabled him at the end “to greet the unseen with a cheer. “He has fought a good fight, he (Tur® Tq Page Ttftee)

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Decatur's School Staff Completed Complete Faculty List Is Announced Decatur’s public school staff for 1953-54 has been completed with the selection of Miss Marnell Burns, Star City, Ark., a graduate of Arkansas state teachers college and with eight years teaching experience, as a first grade teacher at Lincoln school). The complete personnel was announced today by superintendent W. Guy Brown. Miss Burns has been teaching in the Pine • Bluff, Ark., public schools since her graduation from college in 1945. Pine Bluff is a city of 40.000. . Following is the complete staff for both Lincoln and Decatur high school: Lincoln School J ■P. Bryce Thomas, principal Patsy Emerick. Doris 4teed, Miriam 'McDonald, kindergarten. Alma J. Brayton, Ruth Petrie. Madeline Snell, Thelma Tinsky, Marnell Burns,, grade 1. Mary Jo Hoffman, Evelyn 'better, grade 2. Lauranell Macklin, Jesteen Cole, Dorothy Amstutz, Ruth Flora, grade 3. Vera Vanßuskirk, Matilda Sellemeyer, Raymond Lehman, grade 4. Opal < Sprunger. Jerry Leitz, Glennys Roop, grade 5. ‘~ Floyd Reed, Hubert Zerkel, Jr., grade 6. High School Hugh J. Andrews, principal. Merritt J. Alger, mathematics. Hugh Cobh, commerce and English. * , Harry Dailey, mathematics and science,! Deane T. Dorwin, social studies, public speaking, guidance. ’ | Sylvester Everhart, physical ed., driver training. ! ■Helen Haubold, music. 'Maynard commercial. Robert Hertnan, English and social studies. William Journay. vocational agriculture and science. Kathryn Kauffman, art. • Amos Ketchum, industrial art. Eleanor Pumphrey, librarian. Clint E. Reed, band. Lowell J. Smith, social studies. Ormajene Steller, vocational home economics. Velma Huser, science and mathematics. Charlotte Vera, Latin and English. Rebecca Walters Worthman, physical ed., health and safety* , Catherine Weidler, English. Robert Worthman, coach, physical ed., health and safety. Secretaries — Vera Doty, secretary to high school principal;! Iverna Werling, secretary to superintendent. Superintendent Brown also announced that the antiquated toilet rooms at Lincoln school, were being modernized. New toilets are replacing the old ones and a hot water system is being installed. This improvement program has been a long time project of the Lincoln parent-teachers association. Plastering of the three new rooms which were once part of the auditorium is being completed this week and painting and wiring will be started immediately. This project also will be ready for the opening of school next month. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, occasional shower* and thunderstorm* - north portion tonight and Tue» day, and a few widely scattered afternoon and evening thunderenower* south portion. Cot* tlnued humid, quite warm south. Low tonight 68-73. High Tuesday 85-95 north, upper 90’s south.

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Soviet Troops Fire On Hungry.» East Germans Russian Tanks Move In To Crush New East German Revolt • BERLIN UP — Russian tanks moved into position to crush< new East german revolt today and Soviet troops were reported to have fired on hungry East Germans trying to get to Berlin for “Eisenhower food packages.” a Reports reaching here said Russian soldiers fired on East Germans in at least four cities when their hunger march was forcibly stopped by Communist American , officials said “truckloads” of Communist police Sunday dispersed 1.000 workers marching on Berlin from the Leuna chemical plant amd the Buna artificial rubber factory ih Merseburg. Police attacked the workers near Halle and arrested “whole groups’’ of them, the officials said.

The northwest., German radio Maid that workers in Magdeburg. Jena. Bitterfeld, Merseburg and other large industrial Cities went out on strike today. Tens of thousands of East Germans burned government buildings, fought with Red police, raided jails and called strikes in anger over Communist travel bans to shut them off from the food unavailable to them at home but offered free in the west. It was a small-scale revival of the uprising last June 17 which was also put down with Soviet tanks and troops. East Germans who ran the Red rail and road blockade said troops fired on the hunger marchers at Cottbus, Merseburg, Chemnitz and Zittau Sunday after they overpowered Communist police. The number of casualties was not known. In at least a dozen other cities East Germans were said to have held anti-Communist demonstrations, rioted, fought with police and called strikes ih outbursts against the Communist government. ' East Germans said secret police raided homes throughout the Soviet zone to arrest anti-CommUnist ringleaders. In East Berlin homes were searched for hidden Soviet zone residents who defied the travel ban and came to Berlin, (Tor* To po*o Six) Filling Station Is Robbed Last Night Eight Tires Stolen Here Sunday Night 'For the second time in as many weeks, Bob’s standard filling station, 4131 North Thirteenth, has been 'burglarized in the dead of night. r " 'Bob Laurent, operator of the station, reported Ito police this morning that some time last night quantities of tires were thken, entry gained in almost the identical manner as the last time. Laurent reported the following items taken: One 7.60 white ?ide •wall recap and seven 7.10’ U. Si Royal tires, also a combination bottle opener and key ring. Items are valued under SSO. Entry was gained through a door on the west side of the building where a small windaw was knocked out and the door unlatched from the inside. Last week three stations were hit in almost the same mannerincluding (Laurent’s—but thievery was confined ,to emptying cigarette machines of change? The other two were Jack’s Stoep station, (North Thirteenth, and Hoosier Pete’s, Nutbman and Thirteenth.

Rev. F. H. Willard Will leave Decatur Bethany Pastor Is Assigned To Wabash The Rev. Francis H. Willard, pastor of the Bethany Evangelical ( United 'Brethren church in Decatur for the past 10 and; one-half VearS. was transferred to the pastorate of Central Evangelical United Brethren church, Wabash, at the close of the annual conference of the church at Oakwood park, Lake Wawasee, Sunday afternoon. Rev.' Willard, who came to Decatur from Dayton, 0., will preach • his first sermon at Wabash next Sunday, and plans to .mrtveii his family to his new Ibcation mhe time next week. / He will be succeeded at Beth•ny church by the Rev. B. G. Thomas, who has been pastor of Grace church at South Bend. The Rev. John E. Chambers was returned as pastor of the Trinity Bvangelical United Brethren church, and the Rev. Lawrence T. Norris returns to the Union Chap;el Evangelical • United Brethreh church, northeast of Decatur. Many change* werfe made in pastors! assignments in the conference. The Rey. Lewis Strong, it the Calyary church, east of Decatur. has been transferred to Ossian, and will be succeeded at Calvary by Carl Findley, a student minister from Dayton. O. The Rev!. Karl Tauber has been transferred from Berne to Glen Park, Gary, and will be replaced, by the Rev. A. E. Givens, of Porter. The Rev. C. L. Davis has been assigned to the Craigville circuit, succeeding Mhe Rev. Wilbur Workman, transferred td Silver Lake. The ReV. Garth Shepherd, who has been pastor at Geneva, will exchange pastorates with the Rev. A. B. McKain. of St. Luke’s, Kokomo. The Rev. Robert Cox, pastor at Linn Grove, has been sent to South Lawn. South Bend, and will be succeeded by the Rev. C. R. Smith, of Otterbein. The Rev. William Bustree, of Monroeville, has been assigned to the Butler eircujit, and will, be replaced at Monroeville by the Rev. Howard Reese. Calendar Announced For County Schools Enrollment Day Is , Set For August 26 Gail M. Grabill, who will become Superintendent of the Adams county.schools Aug. 17, today announced the calendar for the 1953 54 school year in the rural schools of the county. ' Principas of all schools will meet at the superintendent’s office Aug. 24, and a half-day institute will be held Aug. 25, followed by organizations in thi schools. Students will report Wednes, day, Aug. 26, for enrollment in classes. • ' Monday. Aug. 31, classes will start in all rural schools. The calendar for the balance of the school year: . Sept. 7, Labor Day—no school, pct. 15—Teachers and trustees’ Party. Oct. 22-23—State teachers convention. Nov. 26-27—Thanksgiving vacation. Dec. 23 through Jan. 4—Christmas vacation. Jan. B—'End of first semester (8% month schools). \ . Jan. 15 —End of first semester (9 month schools). Jan. j 1445-16—County basketbal Itourney. April 16—Good Friday vacation. May 7—School ends (BV4 month schools). May 21—School ends (9 month schools).

County Board Approves Fund For Hospital 1 r - Commissioners In Favor Os County 1 Hospital Addition I Adams county commissioners at . 1:36 pm. today voted unanimously in favor of! a $400,000 appropria- . tion for additions and improvet nients, to the Adams county met morial hospital. s V , The petition, with 24 counterparts , and names, was presented to the commissioners by president of . the county hospital board, pal E. Peterson. ‘ Peterson told the commissioners the plans would call for a revamp- ? ing of rooms; lighting; heating, and f the addition of about 25 rooms. Al--1 so a changing of the dining room location, enlarging of th elaundry and the placing of larger operation preparation rooms on the premises. Peterson said in 1952 720 babies were born at i the hospital, a number of mothers having to be placed in beds in halls. He told the group that iff ttt» first six month* of this ' year 324 babies were, born at; the hospital, and of that number eight ’ mothers were placed in halls for 1 lack of space. 1 “I am proud of the fact," said Peterson, “that for the first time 1 the hospital Gias made money for 1 five months in succession, this L - year.” % j Procedure of the petition must 1 go according to the following sched- ' ule; according to county attorney ’ Dave Macklin and hospital board attorney John L. DeVoss: The county auditor is now ob- ' liged to call a meeting of the county council for August 24 and 25 to authorize the maximum $400.000 appropriation. jThirty days from that date. are for the public to remonstrate against the petition. If more names are received on the remonstrance than on the petition for appropriation. . the petition is killed. From then on the procedure is according to statutory requirements, including inspection by a state bonding representative and the meetings with the state board of tax commissioners. According to John L. DeVoss, bonds would begin to be paid in July, 1954 —$10,000 —and each six months thereafter in the same (Turn To Pa*e Three) — ■ Mrs. Maude Dorwin Dies Sunday Night Funeral Services Wednesday Morning Mrs. Maude T. Dorwin, 74, of 333 North First street, well kaown Decatur lady, died at 11:45 o’clock Sunday night at Stuart Lake, Marshall, Mich., where she had spent ■ recent summers with her daughter. Mrs. Helen D. Hughes. Mrs.,Dorwin had been in failing health for some time but her death last night was Unexpected. Born June 27, 1879, she was a daughter of Howard and Katherine Kirby-Thompson, and was married to Wid R. Dorwin June 24L; 1903. Her husband preceded her in death Dec. 5, 1918. | \ Mrs. Ddrtvln is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Albert E. Gehrig of Homer, Mich., and Mrs. Helen D. Hughes of Anderson; one son, Deane T. Dorwin, Decatur high school teacher; three grandchildren: Mrs. James A. Hendricks of Monroe, and a brother, E. Kirby Thompson of Van Wert, O. One brother and one elater preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Zwiqk funeral home, friends may call at the funeral home after 2 ! o’clock Tuesday afternoon until ! time of the services.

Heavy Violent Death Toll Over Weekend At Least 18 Lives Are Lost In State ■ ' i ■ 1! ' i By UNITED PRESS Traffic accidents and drownings took at least 18 lives in Indiana over the weekend, and a thunderstorm near Valparaiso contributed to a two-car accident in which an 18-year-old Chicago youth was killed and eight other persons* injured. 1 An auto driven by Dennis Dalman, 17, Chicago, skidded into another car on U. S. 20 near Chesterton. killing Donald Rasrhk and critically injuring Dalman. Three other Chicago youths and four persons in the second car were hospitalized at Michigan City. Traffic took 10 other lives, and seven persons drowned in Indiana: rivers. Richmond was hit hard when , three local men and a fourth companion drowned in the Ohio River near Derby. George L. Burton. 48. Walter Helton, 26, and Victor Remert, 48, all of Richmond, and Floyd Dayton. 26. Plymouth, Mich., died in the rough and muddy river when a strong wind capsized their outboard motor boat. Only John Ison, 36. Richmond, was able to swim ashore. . A Washington, Xnd., youth. William Charles Dillon, 15, drowned in the w*st fork of White River while on a Sunday outing with an uncle. . J ■ Claude Hudson, "Washington, saw his nephew sink in seven fleet of water but was too late to save the lad after he raced 200 yards up the stream from the point where he had been trout fishing. In another White River drowning hear Vincennes, Thomas Mooney, 15. Vincennes, died attempting to rescue a s£ven-yehr-old brother, Albert, Jr., w-ho also drowned. Their father, Albert, Sr., was able to save a 14-year-old sister, Emma Ruth. IfHot and muggy weather brought hundreds of cars to highways headed for relatively cool parks and lakes, perhaps contributing to tTwra *P» P«*e Rlx» Four Fire Calls In City Over Weekend Mayor, Prosecutor Warn Auto Owners Firemen were called to four fires in the city over the weekend. The first two were caused by lightning bolts about 10 p. m. Saturday, The home of Oliver Harman. 240 Stratton Way, was badly smoked up when a bolt struck his television antenna and current traveled down through electric rotor wires and those of the antenna itself. The television wat not connected but electricity got into the house's wiring and eled through the walls, burning insulation. Harmon said the heat generated in the walls of his bath room was enough to fuse together composition walls. He, and* hit! wife and three children were in the house but none was harmed. City authorities are up in armfe over the Harmod incident because* it might have turned into a tragedy “due to the stupidity of a thoughtless public.” Mayor John Doan pointed out that so many people got ty the fire jn their cars before -the fire truck-’that it was almost impossible for the truck to park elose to the house and let out hose. Police observed cars coming from all directions, converging upon the stricken house. Mayor Doad , expressed extreme alarm over the ' curiosity seekers who have no actual business at a fire and warned them they would >be in for a heavy ' fine the next time emergency vehicles are hindered in their duties. ' The mayor pointed ominously at the possibility that a fire might destroy the very house of person ] ; (Tarsi T* 1»««~

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Clears Way To Adjournment By Congress Humphrey Pledges Strict Economy To j Stay Within Limit WASHINGTON. (UP) — The .administration today, gave up hope of getting the national debt limit raised in this session, clearing the way for a rush to; congressional adjournment this evening. ", , President Eisenhower and treasury secretary George M. Hum-, phrey told Senate Republican leaders a White House conference they will wait for September tax collections to come in before taking another look at whether the 2275.000.000.000 ceiling has to be raised. Humphrey promised strictest economy in the months ahead. Acting senate Republican leader William F. Knowland said the ad-| ministration now “Jidpes” to stay under the limit until next January «—something Humphrey said last week could not 'be done, Thfe pos* sibility of a special session jot Congress being summoned tor October still * remained, but Ben, Eugene D. Millikin, R-Colo., said il every effort will be made to avoid it.” The senate finance which MilUkin heads, voted Saturday night to shelve the administration proposal to raise the debt ceiling to |2»0.000,00b,Qp0 or raise it ail. / | .A ' V'" LI. J U When Mr. Eisenhower decided to take the defeat without making a further fight, the way was opened for quick adjournment. It left this lineup of major legislation facing t|ie lawmakers: I A catch-all. $54-5,889.000 supple-: mental appropriations bill—(o fin-, ance civil defense, federal aid to schools, the international information program, and Korean rehabilitation. It awaited final approval in both house and senate. Foreign aid: A $6,653,201,391 appropriation of new funds for foreign aid. It needed; only>tsenate approval. . / Trade: Extension of the reciprocal trade agreement program until next June, it also needed only a senate okay. > State - justice - commerce departments appropriations bill: A $1,088,000,000 measure as passed by the house. The senate \refused to acce!pt it without funds for federal aid to airport construction and added $12,500,000. Compromise efforts failed. The deadlock still existed at noon. , New Mexico election investigation: A Senate move to give its elections committee $160,000 for investigation of last fall’s NewMexico (senatorial election. Patrick J. Hut-ley. Republican defeated by Sen. Dennis Chavez, has charged fraud and wholesale investigating irregularities* 'Both senate and house stopped work to attend 'brief stale memorial services in the Capitol rotunda at nopn for Sen. Robert A. Taft) Mr. Eisenjhower. who led the official mourners, met four minutes after the Capitol service with Knowland, senate Dena|e Demo<T«r* T® Pag® Three) : ! -■ Local Lady's Sister i Is Taken By Death Mrs. Homer F. Fry, 69, died Sunday morning at her home in Fort Wayne after an extended i illness. Surviving in addition to her husband are a son, Homer, Jr., of Fort Wayne; two 'brothers. L. W. Wasson-and Pau) Wasson of Bluffton, qnd a sister, Mrs. Ralph Habegter of Decatur. < ' Funeral services will be conducted at p. m Wednesday at the D„ 0. McComb & Sods funeral home, the Rev. F. J, LowePberg officiating. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery at Bluffton Friends may call at the funeral home after t o’clock this even1 . ; • r ' ■' i’