Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 201.

Okay $300,000 For Addition For Hospital County Council In Unanimous Action After Cutting Fund BULLETIN The county council unanit mouqly approved a $300,000 bond issue for the county hospital, late this afternoon. The $400,000 proposal failed to receive a two*thirds vote of the seven-member board. Attorney David Macklin advised the council that the taw: Burns-Indiana Statutes — 26521—provided that an appropriation of thig amount required two-thirds approval of all members. The vote on the larger bond issue was four to three in favor. bounty council approval of a $400,000 £ond issue to finance, an addition to the Adams county memoriaT hospital and nioderniza 1 ' tion of the 30-year old building in this city hinged on the legal interpretation of what constitutes a voting majorßv or quorum of the tax governing body. t -lAtSI: 15 o’clock this afternoon, the councilman adjourned a three > and for lunch. Henry Dehner, council president, stated the members would reconvene at 2 p. m. President Dehner stated that the vote in favor of the bond issue was four to three. He said that' he broke a tie by voting in favor of the bond issue. Other members who favored the project were C'hapjes Jones. Chris \ Stahley, and William Kruetzman. Those opposed to the .bond issue, Dehner were Julius Schultz, Leon Neuensch winder and Rufus Huser. County attorney David Macklin attended the morning session of ♦be councilmen and Dehner state..' that the question of >hat constituted a voting majority was broached. Attorney Macklin tegan a study of the law which sets out count? council powers and the rule oh what constitutes a quorum. If the ‘“’majority. rule . applies, the bond issue will be a’pproved; if the law states that two-thirds of the members must approve it, then ratification of the bond ordinance is lost. ". !a - The councilmen convened yesterday and heard arguments sor 1 and against the proposed hospital project. The bond ordinance was drawn up and placed on the minute books, awaiting signatures of the members on approval or disapproval of the legal document." The ordinance states that $400.000 in bonds shall: be issued by the county to defray the cost of the proposed additions and modernization of the hospital. Extended over 20 years, $20,000 annually would be paid on principal, with interest not to exceed three percent. j . For the adoption or rejection of the ordinance, the mfembers must sign the minute record page, aith the affix, ‘‘No’’ or {‘Yes,*’ after their names. _| I. Florence Pickering Is Taken By Death Farmer Resident * Os Monroe Mrs. Florence Pickering. 7.7, died, in the Fort Wayne St. Joseph hospital Tuesday of complications following an illness of several years. She had resided ip Monroe until a year ago, when she movedto Fort Wayne. She was born Sept. 27. 1876, the daughter of Charles and Anna Smith, in Cooksville, 111. Her husband. John Pickering, preceded her in death, as did one daughter. Survivors include two daughters Mrs. Grace Carby of Lincoln, Neb. and Mrs. Beulah Uncapher of Fort Wayne, two sons, Carl and Ernest, also of Fort Wayne, a sister, Mrs. Anna Berby of Borup, Minn., a brother, Earl Smith of Flint, Mich., three grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral services will be held at the Lobenstein funeral home in Monroe Thursday morning at 8 o’clock with the Rev. Vernon Riley officiating. The body will be takftn'lo Lexington, 111., for burial. Friends may call at the fuperal home after 8 o’clock this evening. INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight. Sunny and warm Thursday. Low tonight 62-68. High Thursday 92-98.

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This Is The Life IBB< nJ / - 7' "■ v - WaJ 1 E. , B 1 THIS IS THE LlFE—lt’s just like he thought it wouM be during three bleak Christmases spent in Communist prison Scamps. Sgt, Raymond Mills, ope of the first POWs returned to Chicago, sits back and meditates on his ‘dream come true" beside the Christmas tree his family saved for his hoipecomlng. >?*• — * I .. ..

Russia Makes - i b Accusation In United Nations Charges Plans To : Issue Ultimatum To Wreck Parley BULL e t r N 1 UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP—Russian tactics forced postponement of the crucial United Nations vote today on arrangements for the Korean , political conference. * ‘ UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP — Russia accused the United Nations today of preparing to issue an ultimatum tq, the Communists ■hat would wreck the Korean political conference; Soviet delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky took the floor as the general assembles poßNcai committee prepared, to i’ote on the composition of the Fas Eastern parley. He launched an anti-western tirade which he promised would “not be of the briefest.” Vishinsky’s outburst came after the Russians sought to avoid ah aggressor brand in an invitation to the conference and attempted, in an obvious parliamentary maneuver to substitute Moscow’s Com-munist-stacked slate for the line-up of U. N. representatives proposed by the western powers. An invitation to Russia is contained in a resolution sponsored by Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Denmark, which declares ihat the Soviet Union could be invited to the Far Eastern parley "provided the other side desires it." : j The United States has announced support for such an invitation inasmuch as it placed the Russians definitely on the side of the Communist aggressors where they could share "responsibility and accountability for peace."! Vishihsky proposed I .today to strike out the phrase “provided the other side desiies it.” The veteran Kremlin mouthpiece "also submitted an amend-l riient to the membership measure sponsored by 15 of the powers that fought the Korean war for the U.N. United States ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., told the committee Vishiiisky’s amendment was .simply “another device to confuse the procedure and get the Soviet proposal to an early vote.” The amendment would strike out the western ticket and insert in its place the Soviet line-up. Vishinsky’s amendment was regarded as a futile parliamentary move which had no chance of success. The amendment was made at the close of debate on the makeup of the conference and as Britain moved to close the gap in western ranks over India by pledging that disagreement on the slate would not cause a major split between London and its western allies. The pledge was made by British Delegate Sir Gladwyn Jebb, who reaffirmed his country’s support for a seat for India at the conference, a position contrary to that of the United States.

Two Boys Oil Bicycle Are Struck By Auto Miraculous Escape From Death Here Twp local boys riding one bi-’ cycle back from the Decatur driven in theater about 10:40 o’clock last night on U. S. highway 33 were struck by a car and one is at the Adams county memorial hospital with a fractured collarbone land upper right arm. Harry Hebble, Jr. 15, 116 Elm street was taken to the hospital in a severe state of shock w'hile liia bike companion, Walter Gene Werst, 15, 728 Schirtneyer escaped with minor cuts and bruises and went home early today. The tw-o occupants of the car escaped serious injury, Mrs. June Lantg, 24, Fort Wayne, with cuts on the arms, and her husband, Beryl Lantz. 27, who had no apparent injury. Mrs. driver, said she was northbound on the highway when she spotted th4 two boys suddenly. She said she moved over toward the center of the road to avoid them butt a ear was coming from the opposite direction and it appeared, to her that there was going to be a headon collision. She said she moved over toward the right side and could not see the pair on the bike as she was blinded by lights from the other car. The auto, 1953 , $4,000 car. rammed the boys and want down a 25-foot embankment, rolling over several times Aid coming to rest on its top. • Mrs. Lantz, |ind her husband, sleeping in the seat, managed to squeeze out ®f the windows — the car was gnashed and, looks like a convertHge—and they were on their feet wizen police and ambulances arrived. Sheriff Bob | Shrahika, investigating with deputy Merle Affolder. city policeman Maurice Teeple and state trooper Richard, Myers, said the boys were Sprawled out when he arrived and views the fact that anyone is alive as amazing. > Hebble was taken to the hosi pital in a state of shock which, in the words of his doctor “could have gone all the way. The doctor said the fact the boy is alive can be attributed to his youth and plasma that was given him on arrival at the hospital. X-rays early today indicated the* fractures but he is conscious and in good condition. The ill-fated bike had no lights on it but a frayed piece of phosphorescent material that goes by the name of “scotchlite” that was so old as to make it Ineffective. $150,000 Fire Loss At Fort Wayne Firm FORT WAYNE, UP — Authorities .said today fire caused an estimated $150,000 damages when it swept part of the Kammeier Trucking company. Flames destroyed SIOO,OOO worth of merchandise stacked on a loading dock and licked at nine semitrailers and smaller trucks Tuesday. Owner Albert H. Kammeier said the trucks could be repaired.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, August 26, 1?53.

Threatened Walkout Os Long Distance Phone Operators Is Delayed

133 Americans Are Freed In Day's Exchange 267’Other Allied Captives Released In POW Exchange PANMUNJOM, Korea UP — The Commupnists freed 133 more Americans today as “Operation Big Switch” ;wetof into its final two, weeks. ' Besides the Americans, 267 other Hied captives of the rfeds passed through “Freedom Gate.” The Americans were in good condition and jubilant. ■. On the Communist side of Freedom Gate a dazzling ceremony was held for the men freed by the United Nations command. North Korea Lt. Gen. Lee Sang OhOi senior Communist member of the military armistice commission. .headed the welcoming comemittee. Members wero dressed in Rilssian-style blue trousers with crimson stripes. • Wednesday’s exchange pushed the total of Allied prisoners ,freed" past the 9.000 mark—including 2,188 Americans. It the Commun-1 ists continue to repatriate prisoners at their present rate of 400 daily, the last captive, probably Major Gen, William F. Dean, will go through Freedom Gate on or before Sept. 10. United Nations officers believe Dean and a few other high-ranking officers will be the last to be freed. ; An officer returned in Tuesday’s group said some high-ranking officers are now at nearby Kaesong awaiting the trip to freedom. First Lt. Henry L. Nielsen. 24,. of 400 LaSalle Ave., St. Joseph Milch., the fist man from officer prison Camp No. 2 to arrive at Panmunjom, said the officers recently had been released from prisons. He said all Camp No! 2 prisoners had reached Kaesong, including colonels, majors and captains who had been sentenced to up to 10 months for “fotrning reactionary (Tura Ta Pace Fiv«> Turn Superbomber Into Jes Carrier , i Air Force Reports Successful Tests WASHINGTON UP — The air force apparently: has found away to combine jet fighter speed and heavy bomber range for atomic attacks against distant targets. It announced it has successfully turned the B-36 superbomber into a flying aircraft carrier which can release and retrieve a jet fighterbomber in flight. Successful experiments have shown, the air force said, that an F-84F Thunderstreak jet can be launched from the belly of a B-36 several miles above the earth and then recovered, still in high-altitude flight, by an intricate set of “sky hooks” and lifting apparatus which hauls it back into Ithe “mother” ship. This kangaroo-like combination would have both the intercontinental range of the ’B-36 and the speed of the fighter, the Air Force said. The F-84F “parasite,” rated in the “over 600 mile per hour” class, would be far less vulnerable to enemy fighters than the 435-mile-an-hour B-36. Though the Air Force said the fighter would be used for “recon-’ naisance,” it added that with slight modification the F-84F could perform “varied types of missions.” The Tbunderstreak jet, a sweptback model produced by Republic Aircraft Corp., weighs about 25.000 pounds, mounts six machine guns and can carry a 4.000-pound bomb load or 32 five-inch rockets. Its operational T combat range is ram atx>

■ - - - - To Discuss Special d Legislative Session I • I ■ 1 Six Lawmakers To Confer With Craig ! INDIANAPOLIS,UP — Governor Eraig has invited six lawmakers > discuss with Thursday a one-day special session of the IhdiBna’ legislature to approve a plan /or financing a new state office building. Ctaig wants assurances from republican and Democratic leaders that the session would last only one day and be limited to the office building question. 1 Lawmakers have debated the advisability of a new office building many years. They previously suggested a plan to finance the structure by borrowing money from insurance companies. • Craig has approved taking the $15,000.00.0 needed to build the structure from the state’s cash surplus of more than $75,000,000.' He it would save taxpayers about $11,000,000 in interest. j j His request for a meeting with legislative leaders apparently was an attempt by Cr&ig to get a j’gejbtleman’s agreement” from both patties that the session would ex.elude all other Issues. I If lawmakers saw fit, it coifld run 40 days and involve hundreds "if pieces of suggested legislation. Fome observers believed Craig might run into troqble in attexrtptjng to limit the session. Some law? hikers have “pet projects” in m(nd and some factions; even in the Republican pafctk would prefer that credit for a new offtce building not go to Craig. • fine of the big stumbling blocks might be whether Indiana should paj a bonus to veterans of the Korean war. Craig has opposed a Korean bonus. ‘ |ome sources said, however, ihgt a number of lawmakers are eager to promote the bonus paymeut from the general fund smr<Tuhi To Young Stenographer Confesses Killing |: I ■ J \ 1 A- -J- 1 Admits Slaying Os 14-Year-Old Girl i NEW YORK UP — A pretty priinette stenographer confessed tc police today she killed a 14-year-olxl girl at Somerville, Mass. Mildred McDonald.’2s. signed a Statement in the presence of New York and Massachusetts police admitting she shot Mary .Di Ricco to dpkth in girl’s home Monday. sTfee victim was the sister of Miss former boy friend. w|p jilted her four nionths ago to mSrry another woman. i aliss McDonald. said she killed th| Di Rocco girl following an over a remark the girt that her brother and hb bri|e were very hnppy. The Stenographer said she held the gir) at gun-point for a while and shot het tn panic when Mary made an ptt&mpt to escape. The confession was announced by Massachusetts state 1 police Lt. pavid B. Murphy, who flew here Boston. j Miss McDonald had denied toi several hours after hen arrest that she- committed the bloody crime in the basement of the DI Rocco home. The girl had been shot severgl .times, her body slashed with 1 a knife and then covered with oil hi an unsuccessful attempt to burn it. ‘ After being questioned all night #t a Manhattan police precinct stationhouse, she tearfully confessed. ; Patrolman George Grace, 34. recognized Miss Mcßonald :Tuebday. night when she passex} him qn 1 the ;sidewalk in the Tonies Square theater district. A few minutes before he had seen, her picture In a newspaper while eeting his dinner. jfSM agreed to go with Grace to < nearby police station, but at ftoi insisted her name wsa “Mary <Vwa To Face Six)

■ 11 1 ■ —■■■ ■ ■■ Cost Os living Climbs To New All-Time High New Living Costs Peak Hit In U. S. In Middle Os July j| WASHINGTON, The government said today that the cost of living climbed to a new alltime peak in mid-July. This means an estimated j.000.00h auto workers will get an automatic wage increase of 1 cent an hour. It w3|S the second all-time peak fqr living costs in two months. The : pay indrease for the auto workers —at General Motors,'Ford, Chrysler and other auto manufacturers —will become effective with tire first payday after Sept. 1. n 'Rising priced for food, housing and medical care anxi transportation raised the bureau of labor statistics consumers’ price index 0.2 of 1 percent over the mid-June record, The mid-July index was 114.7 percent of 1947-49 prixjes. A further increase of just 0.1 off 1 percent in the injjex would .have meant a 2-cent hourly phy raise Os the government’s price report, jtpr the auto workers, whose contracts ar« tied to the rise and fall J A General Motors spokesman sjaid 390,000 hourly-paid GM workers would get the 1-cent Increase beginning with: the Sept. 7 pay period. He said another lOff.OQO salaried GM employes will receive a ,$5 raise at the end of the next quarter, in December, to offset higher Hying costs. : The bureau of labor statistics sqid the new increase put the index 1.1 percent higher than it was ftye months ago i—- in February, after living costs started rfeing steadily; | .. J jThe largest decrease from mid||'ne to mid-Juljy was for housing find medical care, up 0.3 of 1 percent. This was due to rent increases in such cities as Atlanta, Cincinnati, Detroit, Kansas City, and St. Louis. Household operations rose due mainly to higher ptices for laundry and dry* cleaning services. Transportation advanced 0.2 of 1J percent with higher prices for gasoline and motor oil, while food costs edged up 0.1 of 1 percent. "Despite the increase in food ■■ . (Tara .Ta »»»«— «tx> Otto Hartman Dies Today At Hospital j Funeral Services j Saturday Afternoon Otto Hartman, 51, prominent Preble township farmer, died at 7; 15 o’clxvck this morning at the Adams county , memorial hospital. w|iere he underwent an operation Saturday. He was born in Fort Wayno Feb. Is, 1902, a son of August and Elise S&heumann-Hartman, but had resided in Preblei'township most of his life. He was married to Rosa Sohaekel April ID. 1925. ’ Mr. Hartman Fas a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Fried? '* , i • .Surviving in addition to his wife, his mother; one son, Gilbert Hartman of Preble township; ojne grandchild; two brothers, Arthur of Preble township and Elmer of AN! ten county, and two sisters, Mr».l; Charles Hoffman of Preble township and Mrs. Pauline Lothamer of Huntertown. Two daughters and one son preceded him in death. funeral services will be conduct-: ed; at 1:30 p.m.; Saturday at the home, two miles South and one mile east of Pxie, and at 2 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran church at Friedhelm, the Rev. A. A.. Fenner officiating. Burial will be in the chjirch cemetery. Tha body wai removed to the Zwick funeral home, where friendfr may call after 7 p.m. Thursday until noon Friday, when it will be removed to the home, where friends may call until time of the services. i s ’ ■ . " o I 1

■ . .... *.... Polio Emergency On In New Jersey City Semi-Quarantine As j Seven Persons 111 WALDWICK. N. J. UP —A tight state of emergency held Waldwick in semi-quarantine today after person's in the city!.of 7,000 were stricken by polio within a weelq Mayor Nelson Lumley declared a state Os emergency Tuesday night following a special pity count cil meeting at which doctors reported four adults and three children within a 500-foot residential area contracted polio. He appealed to federal and state authorities? for gamma globulin to inoculate 47 other persons exposed to the disease. .\ But Rep; William B. Widnall (RN. J.) telephoned the mayor that the office of defense mobilizer Arthur S. Fleming had "temporarily" turned the request for*G-G. Lumley’s, order banned publipi! recreational activities, picnics, parties and group meetings. The mayor said the Atate of emergency would last n|t least two weeks. Lumley also telegraphed appeals for medlcai >id to Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll, State health commissioner Daniel- Bergsma and members of the sUbßj’s congressional delegation in Washington. He said WidnaH was unable; to explain the federal refusal of gamma globulin but the congressman promised another attempt to obtain aij allocation. Sen. Robert Hendrickson (R-N. Y.) also premised “100 perttent support‘d |AMthe appeal for G-G. the mayor s4id. The Seven polio victims lived in a 500-foot area across the Hudson River frotjx New York. The city council ibet three and ope-half before Lumley decreed the .twb week state of emergency. . Ten! Meetings Will Continue Next Week Children Sessions Today And Thursday “Your Sipk Will Find You Out” was the subject of the Rev. Patrick Henry" 4 Tuesday night message to 302! persons attending the start of the second! week’ of the three-week ■-revival service sponsored by s|ven Ixxal churches at the tented corner of Tenth and Dayton streets. The evening session was presided over by Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick, and by the guest' minister followed a half hour song service. „ More thah? children attend? Cd the of three children’s meetings Tuthday afternoon and similar sessions Aare scheduled for this afternobng and Thursday afternoon. ' - , i Preaching will continue each night, except next Monday, with the closing set for Sunday night September 6. Wendell Miller, laj member of Union Chapel Evangel! cal United Brethren church, will preside tonight and have charge ol the scripture reading. Rey. Henry’s message based on Numbers 32:23 and lie emphasized the fact that even if a person hid his sinjt from his parents, the police andi’the public, eventually they would be found out and the person “wxjuld be lost.” “God put a high moral standard and purity in each individual/’ he said, “and whbhever a person doessomething contrary to the moral standards, It leaves a mark on his moral character.” “The only way an individual can have Gx>d destroy a bad record of the individual is to accept His simple faith and be saved by His Grace,” the evangelist added. Services will start at 7:45 o'clock tonight and. those in charge of the services stressed the fact that all meetings are open to the entire npt for just members of churches. Ki ': . > ■

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Noon Walkout Threat Fails To Materialize Seek Quick Settlement \ Os Labor Dispute \ NEW YORK UP — A threatened noon walkout of CIO long; distance telephony workers failed to materialize today as union negotiators pressed for a “quick and peaceful" contract settlement with the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. As the reported deadline for an unauthorised strike' passed, the president of the New York local of the Communications AAforkers of America, issued a statement saying: ; ; ! ? ; “We’ro doing everything we canfe to reach a peaceful and quick settlement with membership is rtestfve, but there is no walkout and none has been authorized,” Negotiations involving 22.000 AT&T employes who man the nation’s long distance and overseas telephone .exchanges were resumed this morning amid charges by union members that the company was “stailing." The wage talks began 1 last May. The union’s contract was ' continued in force beyond July 5 expiration date, pending & set- * tlement. z After a 2-hour morning negotiating session, company and union representatives announced they would ineet again at 2 p.m. They refused Ito comment on progress of the talkjs. which were being watched closely by the hot-tempered mem 1 bership of the Manhattan local which represents one-third of the ! CWA’s total long lines strength. John Lbtx, president of the local, said hei expected the company to J press fir union acceptance of a wage JseUlenient which Jts subsidiary. Soujthern Bell Telephone do., reached with 50,000 employes Tuesday in Atlanta. The /Southern settlement was for a weekly wage increase ranging from $1 ito $3 according to the size of citie? where exchanges are located. The long lines workers are seeking a $3.50a-week general wage increase. An unauthorized strike by CWA members here might touch off a walkout of 13,500 AT&T long distance operators, 6,500 maintenance men and 2,000 clerical and administrative employes in 40 states and at overseas switchboards in New York,. San Francisco and Miami, informed sources said. Officials? of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. said ■ service would be maintained by Supervisory pensonnel if the union members £arry out their threat. Ceiitract negotiations between AT&T J and the CIO Communiea- , tions Workers of America which began four months ago, were to continue today in New “York. The union is demanding a s3 ; R(li a week general Wage increase. The long lines strike threat came on top of?! previous work stoppages ?by employes of the Bell Telephone systems in Indiana and in six Southwestern states. Incidents of sabotage jwere reported in those areas.; \ • An unexpected walkout struck a third local area early today. Maintenance and commercial workers?/ of thb Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. Went on strike at 6 a.ni in the Western District of Maryland. Picket lines were set up at eight communities. The Maryland walkout of CIO communications workers came on the heels of a postponement of a threatened strike by 3,800 operators employed by the same company but belonging to an independent union. The operators were delaying their strike to consider a “final” offer of a $1.50 to $2 a week wage Increase. \ The union's long lines members in Chicago passed a resolution last week urging a walkout today to back up the wage demands. Handbills containing a resume of the negotiations and a copy of the Chicago resolution were circulated Mere Monday-