Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 234, Decatur, Adams County, 5 October 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 234.

Ohio Lady Dies In Auto Crash Saturday Night Mrs. Ota Harman Is Killed Near Decatur Saturday Evening Funeral services for the 11 th , road fatality in Adams' county this year *lll be held Wednesday for Mrs. Ota E. Harman, 62, -of near Wren, 0., who was killed instantly in a two-car wreck Saturday night at Piqua Road and State road 101, four and one-halt miles southeast of Decatur. -* Death came when the car In ■which she was riding with her husband, C. C. Harman, 57, collih- • ed with a car driven by Lester >Manley, :19, of route 6, Decatur, was alone. Harman ahd Manley are at the Adams county memorial hospital, pronounced in ••good” condition this morning by a hospital spokesman. Harman sustained several broken ribs; Manleg has a brain concussion, scalp wounds and numerous cuts and bruises about the face, the attending physician said. j I Authorities who investigated, deputy sheriff Merle Affolder\ and troopers Walter Schindler and Betin|rd Maag, said they believed the Harman car was going east on the Piqua 'Road ahd Manley’s was going north on the state road, the litter being preferential. But they asserted that matters stood as they did Saturday night, with no report of the circumstances available as no one has been permitted to speak to the injured. The Harmans have relatives in Decatur but were in town Satur-' day night to do some shopping, according to Mrs. Harry of Decafur, daughter-inlaw of the accident victim. A. L. Harman of Decatur and Oscar Harman of near Decatur are brothers-in-law to the deceased. Nora Harman of rural, Decatur is a sister-in-law. 4 Both vehicles were totally demolisher, Manley's, an bld car, with the entire front en® virtually pulverizOd, the Harman car with the right aide smashed in and the frame bent severely. teral Wednesday services will ;be conL p.m. e.s.t. Wednesday at theZwick funeral home and at 2 o’clock at the Radical IU. B. church ;at Wren, the Rev. Dale Osborn and the Rev. W« . C. Davies officiating. Burial will be in Woodland cemetery at Van Wert, O. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening, •She was born hear Wren Aug. 10. 18911, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hunter. Her first bus-, band, Harry Mauller, died in 1919, and shb was married in 1925 to C. C. Harman. • Mrs. Harman was a member of the Radical U. B. cthurch of Wren. Surviyihg in addition to her husband ire a son, Harry: Mauller of Wreh; two foster Mrs. Walter OWens of Marion and Clifford Miller of Wren, and two grandchildren.

Charles A. Welker Is Suicide Victim [ t Charles Austin Welker, 43, a World iWar H veteran, j took hlg own life with a 12-gauge shotgun in the* rear yard of his hdme aj Convoy, 0., early Sundays *He was foupd by his wife, Isabelle. He was born near Decatur Aug; 30, 1910. Surviving besides his wife avje three sons, two daugh* ters, his father, five brothers and four sisters. Funeta| services will b 0 held at 2:30 p. m. EST Tuesday at the ,H. D. Smith funeral home in yby, witb burial in the lOOF cemetery at Convoy. I James Staley Heads 139th Field Artillery James K. Staley, prominent Decatur; Legionnaire, was elected president! of the World W’ar I, 139th field artillery regimlent. at the annual reunion Rushville Sunday. Two hundred veterans attended the reunion. The 1954 reunion will be held in Decatur, also selected at Sunday’s meeting. —“ 40,000 Trimmed Off Federal Payrolls . WASHINGTON, UP The administration trimmed almost 40,000 employes from the federal payroll during the first two months of the current fiscal year, the house-- . senate committee on reduction of federal expenditures reported to* day. j' .

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Discuss Problems Facing France ■Eli (> I Jiilf Iv FRENCH AMBASSADOR HenrLßonnet (left), former Prime Minister Antoine Pi nay, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (right) Bidet at the State Department in Washington. They discussed major international problems which are confronting France.

Earl Warren Sworn In As Chief Justice Former Governor Os California Sworn In At Washington WASHINGTON UP — Earl Warren, swearing to. “do equal right to the poor and to the rich,” became 14th chief justice of the United Stptes today and then presided over the opening se'ssion of the Supreme Court’s 1953-54 term. The former governor of California took the oath in the marblepiilared chambers of the supreme court in the presence of President and Mrs. Eisenhower, Mrs. Warren, and other dignitaries. Mr. Warren, who was summoned to the nation's highest judicial post by Mr. Eisenhower, succeeds the late Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson who died of a heart attack Sept. 8. The President and Mrs. Eisenhower arrived for the colorful ceremony 4 minutes before the court formally went into session at 11 a.m. CSTThey\ left at 11:08 a.m., after Mr. Warren took his second oath as chief justice. Mr. Warren took the first oath — administered by senior Associate I Justice Hugo L. Black — in the j presence of his court' colleagues only in a private ante-chamber of the courtroom. In that ceremony, he swore to uphold the constitution. The second oath, in which Mr. Warren swore to administer justice “without respect to persons and do equal right to the poor and to the rich,’ ’was administered in the courtroom by court clerk Harold B. Willey. Mr. Warren gravely and quietly took over as chief justice at a time when the tribunal was confronted with some of the most historic decisions in its history, including the question of racial segregation in public schools, l \ • When he' finished the oath, Mr. Warren smiled broadly far the first time. He strode to his seat at the center of the bench. He shook hands with Black on his rifcht and Justice 'Stanley F. Reed on his left before taking his seat in the chief justice’s chair. Mr. Warren flashed a glance of recognition to President and Mrs. Eisenhower and to Mrs. Warren before turning to the court’s business.

The 62-year-old Californian arrived Were by plane Sunday night, after resigning the governorship he had held for 11 years. He was accompanied by Mrs. Watren. She had not planned to come but changed her mind at the last minute when her husband said he “just wouldn’t know what to do” if she were not here to share his big day. The eight associate justices of the supreme court were waiting for their new chief when he arrived at the white marble court building on Capitol Hill. Mr. Warren took his first oath —to defend and uphold the constitution —in the privacy of the court’s conference room adjoining' the chief justice’s chambers. V, INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight, rkln near Ohio river early tonight Cooler south, central. Tueeday partly cloudy, cooler north, central. Low tonight 40-45 north, • 45-50 south. High Tuesday 53-58 ndrth, 5843 } south.

County Board Votes sls Tax On Buggies Tax Is Effective On January First County commissioners this morning voted unanimously to levy a sls tax, effective January 1, on all horse-drawn buggies operated in this county, consistent with a law passed by the 1953 Indiana legislature making such action legal. Commissioner Harley Reef explained that the tax would be collected by the township assessors of each township and the money to be turned over to the county oft ice, where it would in turn be in the county highway fund. It was out that while the action would obviously hit the Amish rig-riding population of the coqnty the hardest —paying the tax tor J the first time in the state’s history—-all other operators of horse pulled vehicles would also be responsible to see that the stated fee —$15 —was paid. Adams county Is not the first to act on the, statute of the. legislature. It culminates ■ years of dispute over whether buggies ought to share the expense of keeping up the public highways in view of the fact that they are used by them. Commissioner Otto Hoffman released the monthly report of county home superintendent George Fosnaugh with the announcement that Fosnaugh has turned in the best record of any superintendent, in the state In the past year. Hoffman said he learned .of the distinction at a meeting he recently attended. ■ f 'By the best record, explained Hoffman, is meant income volume, commodities produced and general management. Following is laat month’s report: Total \monies taken in by the home, through the sale of commodities —milk, eggs, crops, and so forth—-amounted to $1,874.94, paid into the county coffers through the auditor’s office. Population at the home increased by one male inmate. It is now 23 males and 12 females, totaling 35. ' i Plans were submitted this morning for work on the damaged abutment on the Blrfe Creek township Durbin-Duer* bridge, pronounced in critical shape about three months ago. Commissioners explained that the abutment became undermined with ditches in the vicinity, actually deeper than the abutment —led water into the supports and weakened them. Lewi* Worthman said he has beard of other reports in the county of a similar nature, where dutches are deeper than abutments. He declared that this was due to the fact that water running through ditches years ago was less than it is today, and abutments were buried according to the former depth required. He hinted that work would soon be required on a Union township bridge abutment

Announcement was made ,the commissionebe would receive the the proposed petition of additions and improvements to the Adams county memorial hospital this afternoon. Clerks at the auditor’s office said last week that the 800-name mark was passed on the remonstrance, more than was necessary to defeat the petition with a few mor* than 600 names allowed. County health nurse Mi** Marie Felber, in her monthly report to th* county body, said she ha* finished hearing tests in the schools of Adams county. Mies Felber <Tm T* Fw* Twe)

Decotur, Indiana, Monday, October 5, 1953.

| Ford, Erskine Hurlers In Sixth Series Game In Yankees’ Stadium

Elect Turkey For Seat On U. N. Council . Named On Eighth Ballot After Hot Contest In U. N. BULLETIN UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., UP — American-backed Turkey was elected to*the United Nations Security Council on the^eighth ballot today after a sizzling contest with Communist Poland and the Philippines, backed by the AslanAfrican bloc. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP — American-backed Turkey led Communist Poland on the first ballot today in a sizzling contest for a sest on the United Nations security council Brazil and New Zealand were elected with ease on the first ballot to two-year terms starting, in January in the seats that Will be vacated then by Chile and Pakistan. Brazil received 56 votes for the South American seat and New Zealand received 48 far the British Commonwealth seat — the totals greatly exceeding the required two-thirds. In the race for Greece’s seat, however, was no immediate decision. Turkey compiled 32 votes, 8 short of the require;! 40, while Poland got 18 and the Philippines 17. An immediate run-off between Turkey and Poland was begun. The balloting got under way following an appeal by Soviet Delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky for election of Poland as the representative of Eastern Europe. Vishinsky argued that, under the so-called gentleman’s agreement of 1946, the assembly was obliged to elect Poland as the candidate of Eastern Europe, meaning the Sov-iet-dominated area. . He said Turkey had been elected in 1951 as a Middle East candidate and could not now take up an Easter European seat. The election found the United States in the uncomfortable position of opposing the Aslan-African bloc,, which supported the Philippines. The U. S. delegation had pledged its support to ’Turkey before the Philippines became a candidate with the backing of tbe Asian nations. The two-thirds majority requlre- , * J CTWra V* Paa* *fcrt

Treat Governor For Serious Infection In Secluded Rest Haven For Week INDIANAPOLIS, UP-KJovernor Craig is receiving daily treatment from a doctor for a “serious” virus infection in one lung which will keep him at a secluded rest haven for at least another week. William Sayer, the governor’s administrative assistant, said Craig made three trips to Bloomington hospital. Examinations revealed his heart condition and blood pressure to be “perfectly normal,” Sayer said, but his blood, count showed a “rather serious” virus infection. Craig became ill a week ago while in Kentucky for conferences about a proposed Indiana-to-Florl-da toll road. He wa* flown to Indianapolis in a state plane and confined to bed in the executive mansion. Dr. Dillon Geiger of Bloomington, the governor’s physician, advised Him to rest the remainder of the week. Mjs. Craig was with him. Geiger said Craig went to Ames House in Nashville following a hospital examination Saturday. Craig chose the Brown county ret treat to escape numerous wellwisheVe who telephoned and visited the mansion here.

. . 19 Traffic Deaths Recorded In Slate Heavy Traffic Toll On State Highways By-UNITED PRESS Indiana counted at least 19 dead id traffic during the weekend, and |ho deaths were blamed on the nrst rain in weeks. Killed during Sunday’s showers ending a long drought were Mrs. Bessie Mae Rogers, 59, Frankfort, and Robert McKenzie Jr., 19, Muncie. State police said Mrs. Rogers was killed when, a car driven by her husband skidded cut of control 0n slippery Ind. 38 east of Sheri- | iMoKenzie was killed when his ear skidded out of control and Mt a tree on fad. 67 near Muncie. Another Sunday victim was Mrs. Nora Lykins, 73, Winchester. A car in which she rode overturned after a blowout on Ind. 18 west of Montpelier. Three'persons suffered fatal injuries in a three-car collision that icaused leaser injuries to four others Sunday near Highland. Tho crash occurred a car two other automobiles. The dead were DU Vis; the driver of the second car, Clarence Chandler, 25, and his 4-months-old sbn, Tommy, of Cedar Lake. Chandler’s wife, Ruth, 25, and their four other children were hurt Occupants of the third auto, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Royaler of. East Chicago, were uninjured. ! The high toll was registered despite state police efforts to curb th® weekly two-day slaughter. Patrolmen recently were ordered tc dispense with warning slips and hand out tickets to all offenders. ‘'Wolf Pack” patrols continued their concentration on highway ***** T* Pxt Slzl U. S. Official Slain By Mexican Bandits Seven Indians Are Seized As Suspects MEXICO CITY UP — Police questioned seven Indians today as “first rate suspects” in the shotgun murder of a U. S.\ state department official who could not give bandits the money they demanded because he carried only travelers checks. The Indians were among 240 persops rounded up by Mexican army troops, vigilants ahd polic<J|unday Im the wake of the highway robbery slaying of Dr. Ralph B. Swain, 40. of Benton, 111., a point four official attached to the U. S. embassy in Nicaragua. Swain was killed by a shotgun blast in the chest Saturday before the eyes of hit horrified wife, Su zuanne, and their sons Tomml, 12, and Ralph, 10. They were stopped by four bandits as they d ro+tthrough a wild mountainous section 130 miles southwest of Mexico City. Mrs. Swain skid the masked gunmen appeared suddenly, two on either side of the road, and forced the car to stop. One of them stepped up and demanded 2;000 pesos, about |250. Swain tried to explain that he had no cash and 'Carried only travelers checks. When Swain reached into an inside pocket to get the travelers checks, Mrs. Swain told police, the jittery bandit fired the shotgun. The bandits fled on foot and Mrs. Swain moved her husband* from behind the wheel and drove to a village 20 miles Away for medical aid that was tod late. Swain, aa insect expert who held a Ph. D. from the University of Colorado, was returning .to Managua with biz family after a two month vacation in Mexico. He and his wife, an American-born Japanese, were married while be was an iTasa 9* Pas* Sia)

" - 1 ■ Fact-Finding Board Reports On Dock Strike Expect Eisenhower To Seek Injunction Under Taft-Hartley V ■ ■ BULLETIN WASHINGTON UP — President Eisenhower's waterfront factfinding board reported to him today .that settlement of the East Coast dock strike through collective bargaining was “exceedingly unlikely." Mr. Elsenhower was expected to seek a court order directing that the strike be called off for at least 80 days. NEW YORK UP —- President EisenhoweFs waterfront fact finding board flew to Washington today with a report expected to lead to a speedy end—-by injunction—of the five-day-old longshoremen’s strike.. White House about noonr Mr. Eisenhower was ready to act quickly to obtain a Taft - Hartley law injunction which would send 65,000 striking dock workers back to work for an 80-day "Cooling off’ period and re-open the strike sealed Atlantic ports. The President appointed the board last Thursday in a move to halt the strike under a Taft-Hartley provision allowing him to seek a federal court order prohibiting the walkout 80 days if it threatens the “health and safety” of the nation. It Was a foregone conclusion the board’s report would justify a request for an injunction. Barring delays in obtaining the Injunction from a federal judge, a back-to-work order could be expected late today or early Tuesday. The International Longshoremen’s Association struck at 12:01 a.m. Thursday over a wage dispute with the New York Shipping Association. However, the strike took on added significance because it coincided with an effort by the AFL to organize a new longshoremen's union to replace tbe crimeridden ILA: The huge Cunard linen Queen Mary, originally scheduled to dock in New York today, was diverted to Halifax, N. S., with 1,834 passengers who were scheduled to complete their journey to New York by train. • George Gage Dies Saturday Evening Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon George A. Gage, 82. retired farmer, died at 8 o’clock Saturday night at his home on Decatur route 6. He had been in failing health .for several years with complications. tMr. Gage was a lifelong resident of Adams county. He vM born in Blue Creek township Sept 3, 1871, a son of James and Jane Hedington-Gage, and was married tb Minnie Burekhead in Nt/vembab of IWBB. Surviving in addition to hit wife are one daughter, Mrs Charles Burke of Decatur; two grandchildren; two great-grand-children; two half-brothers, John Gage of Monroe and Wesley Gage of Indianapolis. One brother and a half-sister are deceased. ‘ Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until httme of the services. I ■ .■ • -

Rain Eases Hazani Os Fire In State ■ . ■ i'■ - 4 ■■ '; Heaviest Downpour In Southwest Part INDIANAPOLIS UP —- The heaviest rain since early August fell ou Indiana during the night, easing a serious fire hazard in wooded areas and bringing muchneeded moisture to parched farmlands. Southwest Indiana, scene of the worst drought got the heaviest downpour. West Baden Springs reported L 75 inches, Shoals 1.53 and Elliston 1.05. Other points were soaked with nearly an inch of rain. South Bend’s .06 inch was one of the lightest totals recorded. Joe De> Young, state (orester in charge of fire control, said despite, the rain ‘the danger of fires such as those which swept over Hoosier forests last week could be even more serious later on. "It’s slowed up the fire hazard right now for a day or two," De ‘ Young said. “But if this rain should stop Tuesday and the sun come out ’ again ... I believe we would have to be more careful than ever.” De Young said hn “awful lot" 1 of leaves fell Sunday and it would take only about a day et sunshine ' to dry them ufr ante. ! Beeahse of the raWl» TOUhg said, he believed state forests r would be re-opened and campers ' would be allowed to make fires ’ in state parks. The rain also was goodtnews to 1 farmers, whose harvesting and fall plowing have been held up by lack of soil moisture.’ 1 The downpour was expected to ease a critical water shortage in several communities which were forced to resort to emergency supplies. » " Muncie, one of the hardest hit cities, imposed a ban on unnecessary water usage. Authorities detailed a four-man police squad to enforce restrictions. The weather bureau said rain stopped in northern Indiana • this morning, but was still falling lightly downstate. A forecast called for occasional rain in tbe south today <T*r» Pm* tev*l " Alex Campbell Will Speak Here Oct. 21 v Alger Hiss Case Is ■ Discussion Topic Alex Campbell, Fort Wayne attorney and former assistant attorney general of the United States, instrumental in bringing about tbe indictment of Alger Hiss, will be the principal speaker at a public meeting Wednesday night, October 21, at the First Christian church in Deca’tur. Campbell will appear at the meeting under sponsorship of tbe Decatur men’s Cbrlstian fellowship organization of the Christian church. The speaker will discuss the Hiss case from the beginning. The local group decided to make the meetinf a public affair because of the Campbell topic and tbe event will start at 8 o’clock in the church auditorium, those in charge said. Campbell is a . trustee of Indiana University and has long been active in Christian church affairs. He also is Indiana representative on the Boys Clubs of America of which former President Herbert Hoover is chairman and J. Edgar Hoover is. national director. The Rev. Traverse Chandler, pastor of the local church and long time friend of Campbell, has made the arrangements for tbe public meeting. Prior to the speaking the first meeting of the autumn season will be held by men’s fellowship club. Campbell has given his Hiss address in msny parts of the nation In the Itet two yeen and has a heavy fail ahd winter speaking schedule. He is a trustee of the First Christian church of Fort Wayne. He is a member of tho law > flop Os Cmpbeii. yviDgston, Teeple and Dlldine. ■'

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I Dodgers Have Backs To Wall In 1953 Series Yankees Hold 3-2 Lead In Games As | Series Is Resumed Score by innings: RHE Dodger* 000 001 002—3 8 3 Yankee* 210 000 001—4 13 0 Today's Lineups t Brooklyn I ”New York Gilliam, 2b Woodling, If Reese, ss Collins, lb Robinson, If Bauer, rs Campanella, c Berra, c Hodgee, lb Mantle, cf ' Snider, cf. Martin, 2b Furillo. rs . McDougald. 3b Cox, 3b Rizzuto, ss ' Erskine, p Ford, p NEW YORK, UP —The Brooklyn Dodgers, trailing the NewYork Yankees 3 games to 2, en- ' trusted their World Series hopes ' today to their strikeout king, Carl Erskine. ,‘L.He was opposed by Ed (Whitey) Ford, who was trying to wrap up 1 an unprecedented fifth consecutive series triumph for Casey Sten- > gel’s Bronx Bombers. *. * Erskine' who won 20 games as ( the Dodgers captured the National ‘ league pennant easily, *et a new series strikeout record when be fanned 14 Yankees in winning the third game. . The play-by-piay follows: DODGERS FIRST Gilliam popped to Collins on the edge of the right field grass. Reese lined into left field for a single. Robinson ] bounced to Martin, who tagged Reese in the base line, Robinson reaching first on t . the fielder’s choice. Casey Stengel claimed Reese interfered with Martin but Umpire Gore’Yafused to allow the protest. Campanella hit Ford’s first pitch on the ground into center field for a single, Robinson going to second. ' Hodges lined sharply to Rizzuto. No runs, two hits, no errors, two left | , YANKEES FIRST Erskine walked Woodling. Collins went down swinging, Bauer .slammed a hard grounder pkst Reese into left field for a single. Woodling going to second. Berra lined Erskine’s first pitch into right field and it went into the stands on one bounce for an automatic double, Woodling scoring add Bauer going to third. Mantle was purposely passed, filling the bases. Martin’s sharp liner bounced oH. Gilliam’s left leg for an error, Bauer scoring, Berra taking third and Mantle going to second. McDougald grounded into a double play. Cox to Gilliams to Hodges. Two riins, two hits, one error, two left. DODGERS SECOND . Snider went down swinging. Furillo’s fly dropped just inside the right field foul line for a single but he was out attempting to stretch it into a double. Collins to Rizzuto. Cox went down swinging. No runs, one hit, now errors, none left. * YANKEES SECOND Rizzuto. lined over Reese’s head into left center field Jor a single. Ford lined Erskine’s first pitch Into right field for a single, Ruzzuto racing to third. Woodling flied to Robinson. Rizzuto scoring after the cateh- Collins hit a slow dribbler along the third base line but Erskine’s throw to firet Yas wild. Ford goinng to thlrd and Collins to second. It waz scored as a i single and an error for Erskine. Bauer walked on four pitches, fillIng the bases. Berra filed to Snider in deep right center field and Ford, who had held up at third, was doubled at the plate, Snider to Gilliam to Campanella. One run, three hit*, on* error, two left. i tDODGERS THIRD Erskine struck out Gilliam flied to Woodling. Reas* died to