Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 229, Decatur, Adams County, 29 September 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 229.

15-Cent Cut Is Made In : 'I ' ! ; ■ I "k : ■ County Levy r ! < - Adjustment In Cash Balance Leads To 15-Cent Reduction An adjustment in the county’s cash balance at the end of July, enabled the field examiners for the state board of tax commissioners to make a 15-cent cut in the county’s 1954 tax fate; Frank Kit«*in, county auditor, announced today. "The reduction applies to all taxing units in the county and reduces Decatur’s rate in Washingtbp frbm $4.94 to '54.92 oh each SIOO of assessed taxables. When the budget form was compiled last August the cash balance on July 31 was listedi at $75,000. The actual balance on control ledgei- was $130,000. giving the county a $65,000 credit.; which was applied to next year’s income account. “This favorable adjustment reduces the tax rateh in the townships, towns and cities in the county,” the auditor explained. , < The field examiners approved e levies for the welfare depart/nt and .the Adams County memorial hospital, which) are separately levied by the county. The three levies in the county rate are: General fundi 3$ cents; hospital, three tenth, and welfare department, 10 tent*. This total is ninle, cents higher than the current 42-cent levy. | A majority of the proposed tax, rates were okayed by George Gable and Roy M. Harris of the stale board. However, final decision rests with ijhe itatb tax commissioners and the tateis will not be final until official action is taken by the state board. Reductions Ar* Ordered (Reductions o rderad by the field ( examiners follow: Jefferson town ship special school fund cut 10 cents, from $1 to 90 cents. Kirkland) township general fund cut one cent, from 10 to nine; Preble township special school fund, one cent from 22 to 21 Cents. . St). Mary’s township tuition fund reduced three cents frbm 85 to 82 Cents; special school fund reduced two centt from sl.lO to $1.0?. • Union township general fund cut ione cent from 12 to 11. Wabash township special school cut Your cents from 87 to 83 cents. Berhe civil city rate,, cut six cents from $1.93|t0 $1.87; BerneFrench school | cut one cent from 75 to 74 cents. , All Other Rates Approved ■■ No changes x were ordered in other levies of the townships and incorporations. The Decatur school, library and civil city levies were approved. The total rate in Decatur-Root township, which is the northwest end !of the city, including Central Soya company, is $4.91, compared to $5.06 before the 15-cent cut Was made in the county levy. | The Monroe rate is- $3.76 and the Monroe-Washington rate is $3.84. | - Auditor Kitsoh expects final word on the rates from the state board within the next two weeks. The auditor’s office will then begin figuring taxes on the more than 10,000 assessments in the county. Bloodmobile Unit's Next Visit To Berne To Station Unit In Berne November 9 Whe next the F</rt Wayne bloodmobile visits Adams county, it will not be in Decatur but in Berne. ’ . This announcement \ came from Mrs. Schafer, secretary of the Adams county Chapter of the American Red Cross, who explained that while Berne has never be- ; fore been used as a site for the bloodmobile. the Red Cross does make it a policy to move to the smaller cities on occasion to make it easier for all to give their biooil. Mrs. Schafer said E. M. Webb ff Berne will be in charge on November 9 when the unit will be at the Berne auditorium. He will collaborate) with Sherman Liechty, vicechairman of the chapter and a resident of Berne. “This will give the people of thef southern part of the county, the one* who work in the Berne factories/* declared Mrs. Schafer, “and those who can’t afford the time to malto the usual trip to Decatur, to mate their donations."

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ONE OF THE MOTHERS who is going to Korea to match mother love against the influence of Communism is pictured above her husband and daughter. She is Mrs. William R. Dunn of Baltimore, Md.. shown at the time when her son/Cpl. John R. Dunn, was declared a prisoner of war by the Reds. “I’m ready to leave, right noweven if I have to finance my own trip,” says Mrs. Dunn, who refuses to believe her son has .voluntarily accepted dommunism.

23 Killed As Plane Crashes At Louisville 18 Others Injured As Army-Chartered Transport Crashes LOUISVILLE, Kyi, UP—Airline stewardess Dorothy Jean Bush, 32, Miami, Fla., died today, raising the death toll to 23 in the crash of an army-chartered C-46 airliner. Two other crew members and 20 soldiers from Puerto Rico were killed. The crash, seriously dr critically injured 18 other persons Monday. Investigators of the' civil aeronautics administration picked through the partially - burned wreckage of the plane at Standiford field this morning, seeking some explanation for the disaster. The two-engined 04'6, operated by Resort Airlines, stalled several hundred feet jfrom the ground as it came in for a landing and dived nose first into a soy bean patch With a crew of three, it was ferrying 38 soldiers from Camp Kilmer, N. J.,-to Font Knox, Ky. The injured were in critical or serious condition, suffering btifns. broken bones, head or internal injuries. The dead crew members were the pilot, •Capt. Whorton Moller. 33. and the co-pilot, John Dewitt Picket, 31, both of San Antonio. Tex. Stewardess Dorothy Jean Bush of iMiami, Fla., was injured critically. The dead soldiers were all from Puerto Rico. It was the first fatal crash at Standiford Field, the city airport, since it opened in 1944. -Witnesses said that just before the planer touched down the pilot apparently seemed to sense something was wrong and pulled up sharply. When the r.lane hit the field, both engines caught fire, bu* the flames were quickly extinguished by airport emergency crews. The forward section of the plane *and the left wing were smashed into fragments. The rest of the fuselage remained fairly intact, but twisted and pierced with holes. One of the first to reach the wreck was Marion Hopper, an American Airlines employe. “I’ve seen plane wrecks before, but this was the worst,’ Hopper said. “The .plane, was afire when we arrived, and at least 15 or 20 persons were either lying dead or moaning pitifully.” , City fire captain -Ed Schmit*, who arrived moments later, said “It was just one mass of screams and moans. Nobody could talk coherently.” Lt. Col. Henry Stiebel, Ft. Knox transportation officer, said the soldiers were enroute to Ft. Knox for processing—either discharge from the service or reassignment. The plane was one of five chartered by the army for the 140-man troop movement. One already had landed and the others were sent to nearby fields. BULLETIN BERLIN UR — The West Berlin City Press Office announced tonight that West Berlin's fighting anti-Commu- ' nlst Mayor Ernst Reuter died shortly after 7 p.m. : O ■

Hospital Request For Funds Slashed Action Is Taken By County Council At the conclusion today of the two-day meeting of the Adams county council to consider additional appropriations for the various departments of the county, slashes were effected only in additional inoriey requests by the Adams county memorial hospital. Request* of the • institution amovwsud Jo $31.10© — approved was $22,000. ■ . The hospital asked for an appropriation of $12,075 as transfer from three sources; SIOO was proposed transferred from the salary of the superintendent of nurses, turned down; $925 was proposed transferred from the salary set aside for [the assistant superintendent, turned down; $13,000 proposed transferred from operating expenses, turned down except for SII,OOO. Os this amount SB,OOO was added to the salary of nurses aides, where $10,250 was requested; and $3,000 was added to salaries of cooks, maids, laundry, janitors, where that exact amount was requested. Turned down in requests for additional funds were: salary of business manager, bookkeeper, technician, operating expenses. Also turned down was a request for additional appropriations for the sum of $2,026. All other requests were accepted as received. Mrs. Rose Eddington Dies At Indianapolis Mrs. Rose Eddington, 68, widow of George Eddington, former Decatur residents, died Monday afternoon at her home, 1808 East 68th street, Indianapolis, after a long illness. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Irene Houtzer of Indianapolis; four sons, Walter and James of Indianapolis, Nelson of Chicago and John of Hollywood, Calif., and eight grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Black funeral home, with burial in the Decatur cemetery. The body will be brought here late Wednesday night, and friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m., Thursday. 11 1 t First Aid Classes Will Be Organized • A meeting to organize first aid classes under supervision of the American Red Cross, Adams county chapter, will take place at the chapter office here on the evening of October 6, it was announced today by Mrs. Max Schafer, secretary of the chapter. In chaYge at first aid instruction will be Mrs. Robert Railing, who win work closely with C. I. Finlayson, safety director Os the Red Cross organization of this area, said Mrs. Schafer? The sec* retary urged anyone who i« inter* ested in taking the course to contact the 'local chapter office at Decatur 3-3106.

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6-Year-Old Kansas City Boy Is Kidnaped, First Move Os Captor Awaited

Threaten Delay In Explanation To Prisoners Allied Objections To Operations By India Cause Delay PANMK’NJOM, Korea UP — Allied objections tq India’s operations threatened today to delay Indefinitely the beginning of “explanations” to prisoners resisting repatriation. The United Nations command insisted that-Indian guards had exceeded their authority last Saturday in distributing pro-Communist propaganda leaflets to some 2.000 anti-Red North Koreans and Chinese in their custody. Allied authorities also declared, they would adamantly resist Indian efforts to march the North Koreans and Chinese before Communist at gunpoint, as demanded by the Reds. The atmosphere of dissension was charged further witlr disagreement by both the Allies and the Communists over facilities for each other’s explanation teams. The Communists said the U. N. command had hot erected enough, tents for Red explainers to use in trying to talk Chinese and North Koreans into accepting repatriation. They demanded 28 tents instead of the 16 now available in Indian Village. U. N. command spokesmen said the five 9 by 15 huts built by the Communists were too small for Allied explainers assigned to talk to 359 prisoners, including 23 Americans. who say they do not wish to go home. The Allies also found fault with the location of the Chinese-built huts, situated .on a slope overlooking the center of the prisoner compound, because demonstrations could be staged within sight of men listening to explanations Explanations were scheduled to begin Thursday after a five-day postponement caused by the’Communists in haggling for the right to question prisoners individually instead of in groups Although the armistice agreement does not set a date for the start of the talks, they must end by Dec. 23.. ffiThe \U. N. | command charged that the Communists, with the help of Indian guards, had jumped the gun on explanations by addressing a letter to the prisoners. One phrase advised the Chinese that if they went to “return to your fatherland you can go.” v An Indian spokesman accused the U. N. command of making public its letter of protest before the <Tara Tn Pace Fire) U. S. Rubber, Union In New Agreement Five-Cent Increase Included In Pact CINCINNATI UP — Some 35,000 employes of the United States Rubber Co. were operating under a new agreement today that included a 5-cent hourly wage increase to workers in 19 plant* across the nation. The company and the CIO United Rubber Workers reached agreement on the wage boost Monday night after five weeks of' negotiations. An ImpYoved pension plan to provide a $125 minimum pension after 25 years of service, and an increase in company-paid life insurance of SI,OOO were also granted In addition to the wage hike. The increases are retroactive to Sept. 21. • ’ Nineteen U. S. Rubber plants are affected by the negotiations. They include plants in Mishawaka, Indianapolis, Washington, Bristol and Fort Wayne, Ind.; Chicago, and Eau Claire, Win.

Senator McCarthy Is Married Today Former Assistant Bride Os Senator WASHINGTON, UP —Sen. Joseph R. 'McCarthy married Jean .Kerr, his pretty former assistant, today in a glittering society wedding that formally ended his reign as one of the senate’s most confirmed bachelors. Two thousand guests — high government officials, diplomats, and congressmen — witnessed the simple ceremony before the gemencrusted high altar of St. Matthews’ Roman Catholic Cathedral. President Eisenhower did not attend. But Vice President and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon and other representatives of the administration were on hand. I McCarthy, who is 43, and his radiant, 29-year-old bride stood silently at the foot of the altar as the Rev. William J. Await began the ancient Catholic nuptial rites —advising them of their marriage obligations, admonishing them to cherish each other for the “whole future,” and praying that their love would “never fail.” Th* senator placed a narrow platinum band on bis bride’s finger, Low organ music and the holo, Schubert’s Ave Maria, rose in the background and th* nuptial mas* began. The entire ceremony lasted only 31 minutes. McCarthy is a life-long Catholic. His bride recently joined the church. The senator’s courtship of the one-time college beauty queen began soon after she went to work in his office as a researcher in 1948. But announcement of their formal engagement, made only two weeks ago, came as a surprise to friends who were aware of their not-infrequent spats. McCarthy once called her “the prettiest and brainiest girl I've fTarw T« Mac* WlflCkt) - Gov. George Craig Is 111 In Kentucky • Complete Rest Is Ordered Fbr Craig INDIANAPOLIS UP — Gov. George N. Craig is ill in Kentucky and has been ordered to bed for “a complete rest,” bis office announced today. Craig has a virus infection incurred during a trip to Kentucky for a conference of governors on a Lakes-to-Gulf superhighway, according to William E. Clarkson, his executive secretary. Clarkson cancelled all Craig’s engagements for the rest of this week and said Craig is being returned to the governor’s mansion In Indianapolis by auto from Kentucky State Lake. Attending physicians said his illness was “not critical but a complete rest was ordered/’ the announcement said. William E. Sayer, Craig’s administrative assistant who went to Kentucky with the governor, said Craig was “indisposed” during his entire stay and left his foom only to attend the highway Conference Monday). . Craig cancelled appearances at ap eighth district Republican meeting in Evansville tonight, and meetings in Monticello Thursday and Indianapolis Friday. Decatur Man's Father Dies At Calumet City Word has been received herp of the death of M. J. Pryor, Sr., Calumet City, HL, father of M. J. Pry* or, Jr., of this city, manager of the local gaa office for Northern Indiana Public Service Co. Pryor’s father died early Monday morning at his residence. No word ha* been received here as to when the fqn*rel services,will be held. Pryor left early Monday : morning, tor Calumet City, after receiving word of his father’s death.

Assert Warren Will Be Named To High Court High Sources Say Eisenhower To Name California Governor - WASHINGTON, UP —President Eisenhower has decided on Gov. Earl Warren of California to be Chief Justice of the United States, high administration sources said today. sources said Mr. Eisenhower is expected to make the announcement Wednesday, probably at his news conference. . They said Mr. Eisenhowen decided Jo make a recess appointment so the Supreme Court can be at full strength when it convenes next "Monday for the 1953-&4- term. Warren would succeed Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson who died Sept. 8 of a heart attack. The formal nomination will ba sent to the Senate in January after Congress convenes. ' Warren would be the 14th Justice of th* United States. He would become the second Republican on th* high bench. Th* other is Assoclat* Justice Harold H. Burton. V\\ .. , . At the White House, Press Secretary James C. Hagerty was asked whether Mr. Eisenhower will announce the court appointment at his news conference Wednesday morning. “When we have appointments to. announce, we will announce them,’ Hagerty said. Apparently, final details of the Warren appointment were worked out Sunday in Sacramento, Calif., between the governor and Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. Brownell told reporters after a White House visit today that he has not yet made any recoinmendations to Mr. Eisenhower on filling the supreme ciurt vacancy. Mr. Eisehhower will meet reporters Wednesday in his first regular news conference since July 29, shortly before he left for his six weeks vacation in Colorado. Administration figures in a position to know said confidently but privately that the chief executive would make the court announcement then. Warren, who has announced ne T* P*<» BU«**> Brother Os Local Lady Dies Sunday J. F. DeCamp Dies At Ohio Hospital J. F. DeCamp. 84, of near Grover Hill, 0., died Sunday night at the Paulding, 0., county memorial hospital, where he had been a patient five weeks. He was born in Middle Point, 0., .Sept. 14, v 1869, a son of Andrew and Catherine DeCamp. Surviving are his wife, Susan; tour sons, Warren of Van Wert, 0., and Williaifi, Ernest and Andrew DeCamp, all of near Grover Hill; seven daughters, Mrs. Florence Daniels of Jerome, Mich.; Mrs. Sarah Grunden of Delphos, 0., Mrs. Esther MHler .of Van Wert, Mrs. Ethel Long of Middle Point, Mrs. Bessie Price of Paulding, Mrs. Grace Mosier of Fostoria, 0., and Mrs. Lucy Adam of near Middle Point; 34 grandchildren; 34 greatgrandchildren; two brothers, Edward and Job DeCamp of Van Wert, and four sisters, Mrs. James R. Meadows of Decatur, Mrs. Mary Gattschall of Dupopt, O.; Mrs. Minnie Kohn of Grass Lake, Mich., and Mrs. Martha Ulm of Van Wert. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. EST Wednesday at the Middle Creek church, the Rev. C M- Wallick and the R*v. J. C. Swain officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the home until time of the cervices.

Longshoremen Set Strike Deadline Threaten Strike At Midnight Wednesday NEW YORK, UP —The die-hard International Longshoremen’s Association, already embroiled in a bitter membership battle with . a rival AFL union, today called a strike of its 40,000 Atlantic Coast members for midnight Wednesday unlese shippers meet its wage demands. The ILA negotiating committee threatened a walkout at 12:01 a.&. E&T. Thursday that could tie up cargo on the vast New York-New Jersey waterfront and at every other port from Portland, Me., to Hampton Roads, Va. The strike deadline coincide* with expiration of the union’s contract with the New York Shipping Association. ILA negotiators, who last week appeared to be “softening” in their wage demands. Monday night abruptly raised their figure by three cents an hour and demanded acceptance by noon Wednesday. More than 1,000 policemen, meanwhile, patrolled New York piers where ILA longshoremen were pitched against organisers for a new AFL union in a waterIfront membership war. Brooklyn Judge Sam LeibowiU warned that “violence and even murder” could be expected in the loyalty struggle between the ILA. which was ousted from the AFL for gangsterism and corruption, and the new*'union chartered by the AFL last week to replace it. The judge issued his warning Monday after police confiscated 20 baseball bats and 40 bludgeons found in a sound truck being used by AFL seamen in an appeal to cargo handlers to desert the ILA. The organization drive of the new union is being sparked by members of the AFL Seamen’s International Union. About 1,200 Brooklyn longshoremen attended a mass meeting T* Florida's Governor Dies Monday Night Gov. Dan McCarty Dies Os Pneumonia TAILLAHASSEE, Fla. UP — Charley Johns, president of the state Senate, takes control as acting governor of Florida today ceeding Democrat Gov. Dan McCarty who died Monday night. Johns called for official mourning for the popular young governor who was elected by <the biggest vote *ever given a candidate for chief executive of the state. The new governor Indicated he would carry out McCarthy’s sweeping “clean upC policies which he had partly opposed. Johns, a railroad conductor, Insurance man and ice company owner, supported McCarty for governor but fought him In the legislature on several issues. I. McCarty, 41, a scholarly looking but robust six-footer, died at hospital at 9:55 p.m. e.s.t. of a heart disturbance complicated by pneumonia. McCarthy had never been seriously ill until he suffered a heart attack last February. Physicians, friends end members of his family, including his k wife, two brothers and a sister, were at McCarty’s bedside when he died following apparent improvement. A close friend said McCarthy commented, “You know, for a while <r*didu’t think I was going to make it,” then cried out and complained he hurt all over. He gare a long sigh and died. \ Johns takes over as acting gov* ernor in ceremonies set for p.nx INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight, turning cooler west. Wednesday partly cloudy and cooler. Low tonight 5M2 north, 6045 south. . High Wednesday 70-76 north, 7644 south.

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Newsmen Asked i : ■ i.' ■ ■■ k -n,. - To Leave Home To Aid Contact jWealthy Father Is Near Collapse;! Boy Kidnaped By Woman * KANSAS CITY, Mo. t UP — A grief-stricken millionaire father said today the kidnappers of his 6-year-old may be trying to contact him. Robert C. Greenlease, appearing near collapse, asked news and camera men to leave his residence “because we think they are trying to make contact.” The grounds were quickly cleared. “All I want is my boy back,” he said in a tear-wracked voice. His son was kidnaped Monday. After a night of helpless waiting, Robert C. Greenlease and his wife still had heard nothing from the stocky, red-haired woman who went to the fashionable Catholic school, the French institute of Notre Dame de Sion, and vanished i with first-grader Robert C. Green- . lease, Jr. Police chief Bernard Brannon t said, “We’re treading lightly. We L don’t want the boy hurt. I haven’t . anything sew to report.” (Police activity, he said, was be- , ing carried on strictly to the extent , permitted by the 71-year-old father and his 45-year-old second wife. His first wife is dead. The parents said they “ar© ready to do anything” to cooperate with the kidnaper to get their child back unharmed.. There has been no indication that the abduction was for ransom, despite the father’s immense wealth. He is a Cadillac automobile dealer. No word had been received from the woman since she and Bobby stepped out of a taxi Monday and vanished in a late model Ford bearing Kansas license plates. The car has not been found. Authorities would not speculate on the possibility that the woman was a person who knew details of the Greenlease home life. The taxi driver who took her and the boy from the school told of her asking Bobby about his two dogs and a parrot. Police said the Greenleases own two dogs and a parrot. .The federal bureau V-of investigation had “no comment” on the case. It was not learned if . the FBI had’ entered the case. The Lindbergh act under which the federal government enters a kidnap "ease does not specify the length of time the FBI must wait before \ assuming statutes have been violated, such as the crossing Os state lines, but the “presumption” is five days, the FBI said. <• Police declined to discuss “ransom” possibilities. They remained in the background entirely, although one closet door conference followed another at headquarters. All available detectives were assigned to the case and then withdrawn from the kidnap victim’s house after police chief Bernard Brannon expressed fears for the boy’s safety. The chief postponed making public the kidnapping for several hours at the request of Bobby’s shocked parents. Greenleas*,. a punctual man, took Bobby to school Monday at the French Institute of Notre Dame de Sion. He left the bouse precisely at $:43 'a.m., as he always does. He dropped Virginia Sue, Bobby’s 12-year-old sister, at her school. Sunset Hill, and then delivered Bobby at 8:57. Bobby’s kidnapper moved easily and surely. She hailed a taxi and told her story to the nuns. She said she was Bobby’s aunt and that the boy’s mother had suffered a heart attack. She even stopped to pray for Mrs. Greenlease in the chapel, at a nun’s suggestion. She said: “I’m not a Catholic, but it did me good to pray.” ' Then she left with Bobby in the taxi. They went a few block to the parking lot of a large drugT» raw Kismt)