Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 243, Decatur, Adams County, 15 October 1953 — Page 1

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New Building Started Here By Methodists < Initial Pfiject Is first In t&ftg-Range Building Program The construction of a new building project at the First Methodist church was begun this week. The * structure is being erected by the Bultemeier Construction company. DecatUr, it a cost of (55,410 for construction, wiring and plumbing. The heating contract has not yet been awarded. A ground breaking ceremony was conducted Wednesday theming before excavation work was started. Tita pastor, the Rev. Samuel Emerick, conducted the brief servjce, and shading with him in the event were Alta Lawson, chairman of the First Church board of trustees Virgil Krick, chairman of the construction committee for the trustees, and Clal- - Bultemeier, contractor. The building will be the first phase of a long-range building program Which will eventually include a parish educational building and a new sanctuary.; The| parsonage will be relocated before the next phase of the project is started. The first unit will ibe a twostory building 38 X 52 and will be located at the rear of the present church lawjn. It will be of colonial design and colonial furnishing. It will include a memorial cliapeL a ladies parlor, ladles wash room, two youth classrooms tacr*»ational room, and heating room for the hnltire building prbject. This space Will provide room for five Sunday school classes temporarily relieve the overcrowded church school facilities. The board of trustees, charged with thie direction of the building program, include the following mtrnktai Alfrtd Beavers. Uo>d Cowens, Card Gerber, Aly* Latasou, Frank C. Rowley, Deon«ta SeMay, l Forrest Brown’ clgde Butler, and Paul Edwards. i ReV. Emerick stated that the present construction program is the result of long-time planning. The original consideration of improvement in facilities was a plan tar remodeling of the present structure. This plan, was found to be exceedingly costly and engineers advised .against it. t In the fall of 1950 proceedings tor hew btiildlng facilities weta started. In the fall of 1952 a major building fund campaign was launched. The lalrgest weekly offering , of the first year in the-|hree-year payment period was the offering of last Sunday. The amount was . nearly It isj hoped that the building now under consttaction will be compleied in February. ■ .11 ' To Attend National Gtr| Scouts Parley L Decatur Women To Attend Convention Two local women wilt represent the Girl Scouts of Decatur at the 32nd national convention of Girl Scouts October 18 kt Cincinnati, O. (Mrs. Chester Dalzell and >Ls. Doyle Collier, president and vicepresident respectively, iwill. be a mong the 8,000 leaders scheduled to attend the mammoth conclave which is to run tout; days. The theme: "Girl Semite—A Growing Force for freedom?’ 'Among the prominent speakers at the biennial* convention will be ’ /Mrs. Oswald B. Lord, th S. representative on the' United Nations commission on human rights; Dr. Ethel J. Alpenfels, anthropologist and processor of New York University’s school of education; and Baden-Powell, wife of the Scouting movement for hoth boys and girls. : 1 Former national president of the Girl Scouts, Mrs. Alan H. Means, will make an address. She is currently chairman of the world association of Girl Chides and GH Scouts. Delegates to-’the convention comprise the representation of more than 1,300 Girl Scout councils which administer the programs locally; | i 1 ' ■ -' . INDIANA WEATHER ' Fair tonight. Friday sunny and pleasant. Low tonight 40-48. (High Friday 74-80. o— ■■ | -4. —o 12 PAGES o L_ — 0 ' T. ’ \ P: ■ i'’ ■ 'I > 8

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OFFICIALS EXAMINE the effects of some or the 44 persons who died in the crash of a Belgian airliner near KelsLerbach, Germany. At least 8 Americans were aboard the Brussels bound plane which had taken o.’f from the Frankfurt Rhine-Main airbase only a few minutes before the accident. —~t— — ’ —

McCarthy To Ask Questions Os Scientist German Scientist Disclosed Stolen Papers In Germany NEW YORK, (UP)—Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., announced today that he would question a German scientist who disclosed that the Communists Were in possession of top-secret United States radar documents. , The scientist fled a Russian laboratory in East Germany and Me- 1 Carthy said he 'would question him F as soon as arrangements are made with the army to bring him here , from West GOvniany. -* >— '•*» , The Wisconsin Republican said ( the report was vital to his senate < permanent investigations subcotn- 1 mittee’s investigation es alleged espionage at the army signal corps radar laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N. H. “The scientist, whobwas working on radar research alt the Paran laboratory in East Germany, told air force intelligence that . the Communists were using documents from Evans laboratory at Fort Monmouth," McCarthy said. The senator said the scientist took refuge in West Germany about 16 months ago. He said the scientist was reported to have serial numbers of the documents and ' details of their contents in his possession but “I’ve been told there are some discrepancies in the serial numbers as compared to the missing ones?’ McCarthy said air force intelligence officers were “inclined to discredit the scientist’s story." McCarthy has asked the air force for a complete report on the scientist’s story, and will Confer with army secretary Robert T. Stevens on arrangements for questioning the German. The senator opened the fourth day of his investigation into security leaks at Fort Monmouth by questioning a group of unidentified witnesses. A member of his staff said he would proliably Interview several of the five signal corps civilian employes whose suspend sion on security grounds he revealed Wednesday. McCarthy said he would call Major Gen. George 4. Back, chief of the army signal corps, before the subcommittee Friday. He will ask Back to explain why one year elapsed before the commander at Fort Monmouth received an intelligence report that secre documents missing from a radar lab had turned up in the Paran laboratory. The Fort Monmouth commander, Maj. Gen. Kirke B. Lawton, told McCarthy at a closed hearing Wednesday night he had not heard of the intelligence report on the missing documents until a few hours before he testified. McCarthy said the delay in relaying the report to Lawton was "completely unheard of," and he would try ta find out “what caused the-delay** when he questions Back Friday. McCarthy also revealed that a total qf 10 signal corps civilian employes have been suspended in recent weeks for security reasons. This is five more than bad been announced previously by army authorities. It was understood that not all 10 were employed at Fort Monmouth. The 10 employee, McCarthy said, had been given top security ratings. V

Cancer Fight Aided By Community fund County Society Is Aided By Campaign About seven cents out of each dollar contributed to the current Decatur Community Fund drive will help fight cancer. The Adams county cancer society will receive S7OO of the $10,228 drive goal. Cancer kills more children than all of the other so-called childhood diseases combined, including polio. Next to heart disease, cancer is the nation’s greatest killer and many well-known Adams county residents have succumbed 'to this disease during the past year. It is also highly probable that several Ilves were saved and many more lives prolonged because its victims learned to recognize the danger signals early enough to get adequate treatment before it was too late. Education with the goal of teaching every citizen to recognise the seven danger signals cAeancer and urging*- Mm fO Tfeek Wpert • Hil8!cal advise without delay is thp main objective a‘t the local level. Various booklets have been distributed explaining these signs. Several motion pictures are available for showing to any organization at no charge. Dr. J. M. Burk addressed a special meeting for ladies during the year explaining self-examina-tion for breast cancer. I Facts are made available and old incorrect ideas are debunked. The Adaihs county cancer society is a chapter of the Indiana cancer society and as such is also a part of the American cancer'society. \ Roy Kalver, who has been very 1 active in (his work since it began here several years ago. is president of the local society. The president of the Adams county medical society is automatically its first vicepresident. This year Dr. James M. Burk holds that office. Mrs. C. I. Finlayson serves as secretary. T. F. Graliker is treasurer and Dick Heller is publicityj director. A board of directors of 14 members operates the justness ot the group. The local society has available a hospital bed and a wheel chair which cancer patients may borrow by contacting the organization through their physician. Indigent patients may have their transportation to a cancer detection center paid for by the society. Cancer dressings and other items to make the patient comfortable have blso been provided. On the national level, a com pre. hensive program has been arranged with research constantly going on in various universities and medical centers to learn more about the disease and its possible cure. Recently radioactive materials made, in atomic furnaces have been used not only to treat cancer but also to learn more about the disease itself. “Cancer is a dread disease and a merciless killer. Anything that can be done to aid its early detection, to alleviate some of the suffering it causes, and to continually search for a cure surely l support,” according to Roy Kalver, local society president. Pension Payments In County Total $7,968.50 An examination of the county old age assistance rolls revealed today that the 216 persons entitled to the pension this month drew $7,968.50. Poor relief in Adams county, which is paid 4>y way of township trustees, in September amounted to $613.58 for 25 people. Out of that amount, explained the auditor's office, depository of the public records, comes the expenses of maintaining the Washington township trustee’s office, and the pay of the township clerk.

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—————— Ike Declares War Not Just Around Comer President Headed For Kansas City, Farm Policy Speech DEFIANCE, Ohio UP -- President Eisenhower moved through ! the upper middle west today with t assurances for two Ohio audiences . that war is not “just around the i corner.” \ i To a trainside crowd at Willard. Ohio, the President—bound for a i big farm policy speech in Kansas I City, Mo., tonight—solemnly pre- , dieted that the United States > could successfully produce “a • world situation in which we can i have peace.” ; Later at Defiance, Ohio, laying > the cornerstone for a new library i at Defiance college, the President i said there could be “no validity” of International agreements unless i they were based on “knowledge of thle people.” At Defiance, the President paid particular tribute to the late Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio). Siting «1 the platform behind the Presl<yfin, - -were Sen. John W. Bricker Ohio) and Ohio’s Democratic governor. Frank Jt Lausche. The President stopped at Defiance out of long-standing friendship for Kevin McCann, president of the college. \ McCann was one of the President's campaign advisers in 1952. Mr. Eisenhower, ■ when he was president of Colum- > bia University in 1950, recommended McCann for appointment to the presidency of the small liberal arts college. i The President took the Defiance I College campus as an academic backdrop for his informal re-. marks. He spoke of his “ultimate faith in education as the hope of the world.’’ The President in an oblique fashion proposed a secondary system of education on the local level and extended beyond the high, school level. He did not spell out his plan, but he seemed to be referring to some system of junior colleges. He did not suggest how such an educational between high school and formal college be financed. The President, after an overnight train run from Washington, (Tara T« Face FW*> . I ' . Geneva Man Killed In Fall From Roof Lee Robert Schell Is Fatally Injured Lee Robert Schell. 61. lifelong Gendva resident, died at 6:10 . o’clock Wednesday evening at the Jay county hospital in Portland, II of injuries received when he fell while working on the roof of a ‘farm home near Portland. Jay county officials reported Mr. Schell tell about 3:30 p. m. while , | helping to build a chimney on the roof of a house two and f cyie-fourth miles northeast of PortI land. He suffered a fractured "skull and crushed chest. Mr. Schell was employed by Ed Pfhennig, a contractor. He formerly was employed* for many years at the Nussbaum Novelty in Berne? •He was born in Geneva Feb. 2, 1882, a son of Larry and Linnie Schell. His wife, the former (Nell I Eckrote, died in 1947. Surviving are one son, James, i and a daughter, Mrs.. Theron Fen- , stermaker, both of Geneva; five , grandchildren, and a brother, John i Schell of Fort Wayne. I Funeral services will be conduct- ! ed at 2 p. m. Friday at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home in Geneva, the Rev. Verdean Owens offioiat- ! ing. Burial will be tn Riverside cemetery. Friends may call at the ■ funeral home after 6 o’clock this evening.

Nobel Literature Award To Churchill Much Coveted Prize To British Leader STOCKHOLM, Sweden. vUP — The coveted Nobel prize for literwas awarded today to British prime minister Winston Churchill, who is credited with I‘mobilizing” the English language during World War IL It was an open secret that the i7B-year-old Churchill, , who has dedicated his remaining years to the cause of world peace, would peace, would haye preferred the Nobel peace prize. But he was genuinely moved, friends said, when informed of his selection for the world’s highest Bterary distinction. Churchill’s choice by the Swedish academy of literature, over Buch contenders as America’s Ernest Heminway, is worth $33,840 In prize money.The designation was made a month earlier than usual to enable Churchill to come to Stockholm U> receive the prize from King Oustav Adolf oh Dec. 10. Churchill, he first active statesman to be chosen for the award, , deceived the prize for his fivewolume war memoirs. “The SeeeWorld War.” ■rChurchttl’B fame in statescraft tended to obscure his remarkable writing talents but he was, even before the turn of the century, the highest paid war correspondent of his Time and author of several brilliaxA Jiooks on military camChurcnnl’s wartime speeches rank among the greatest English writings of any era and his eulogy of the late King George VI was a literary gem of such measured majesty it seemed almost to have been written in blank verse. In all. Churchill’s name appears (Turn To Fnac Six) ». \ ' House Committee Heads Into lowa Continue Hearings On Farm Problems NORFOLK, Neb. UP — The touring house agriculture committee headed for politically-parti-san lowa today, with Republican members convinced that something must be done to restore farmers’ confidence in the future under the Eisenhower administration. The committee* conducting “grass roots” hearings on the farm problem, has found farmers apprehensive in the deep south. Minnesota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. In South Dakota, one member said; they were “plain scared.” What most farmers in these States want was spelled out again here Wednesday night at A committee hearing attended by almost 1,000 farmers and local businessmen. The farm group spokesmen called for: 1— Extension of mandatory price supports for corn, wheat and other basic crops at 90 percent of the parity or so called “fair price.’’ The present legislation expires after the 1954 crop year and the committee is expected to write legislation extending it. Some Republicans feel that should be congress’ first order of business next January. 2— Step up government beef buying to insure cattle markets. will hold steady at least at present levels. National average farmer prices for cattle have dropped 48 percent from the February, 1?51, record high and 32 percent during the year. Farmers who buy cattle from rancher# to fatten them with grain want assurance they won’t take another financial beating tor the third straight year. They were hard hit in the past two years when prices skidded sharply while <Tvns T» Pa*e Six)

Second Atomic Explosion Set Off By British Second Atomic Test Is Held By British In Australia Today WOaMIERA, Australia UP — Britain touched off today its second atomic explosion, which sent a whirling bi-own cloud two to three miles above the Australian l desert. The atomic “utility" weapon, believed to be an atom bomb, explod ed with a blinding flash on a steel tower at the desolate Woomera Rocket Range at 7 a.m. 4 p.m. e.s.t. Wednesday. It was the first British atomic explosion on a land site and Was less powerful than the atomic blast in a British warship off the Monte Bello Islands last year which vaporized the vessel. American observers were excluded from the test which was wit nessed only by British and Australian newsmen in addition to authorized scientific and military ex perts. However, two American B--29 flying laboratories were used as weather planes.. ■ - — The successful atomic blast was expected to reinforce British demands for Anglo-American sharing of atomic knowledge. British and Australian officials were prepared to relate their feelings against the United States ban on sharing atomic knowledge to Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Nixon arrived at Sydney from New Zealand only 6 1-2 hours after today’s explosion and amid pubi c excitement over the test. He wiH remain in Australia until Tuesday. The "utility” label was applied to the atomic weapon exploded today because it is believed capab'« of being used in a terpedo, rocket or shell as well ds a bomb. Another atomic weapon will be exploded nearby “soon" —probably in a week or 10 days—followed ty smaller ones, each designed to provide information on a different strategic problem. Today’s blaM sent \,up a cloud which looked liae a huge face leering over the land. The gaseous mass took five minutes to reach (Taw T» Fm» Ftvei Mrs. Rose Wybourn Dies This Morning Funeral Services Saturday Morning Mrs. 'Rase wybourn, 79, a former school teacher, died at 9:30 o’clock this morning at the Cooper nursing home in Bluffton. She had been an invalid for the past four and one-half years. She was born in Union township Nov. 5, 1873, a daughter of Simon and Sarah Miller-Barkley, and was married to John A. Wybourn March 20, 1902. She taught schbol in Adams and Allen counties for 11 years, beginning in 1889. They lived in Sturgis, Mich., for 30 years, returning to Adams county shortly- before Mr. Wybourn’s Mrs. Wybourn had made her home for the past four and onehalf years with a sister, Mrs. Freeman Walters of Washington township. She was a member of the Presbyterian church at Sturgis, Mich.,- and of the Order of Eastern Star. Also surviving is another aister, Mrs. W. C. Turner of Van Wert, O. One brother and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will l be conducted at 11 a. m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral the Rev, Ralph Johnson officiating. Tha body will be taken to Sturgis for burial in Oaklawn cemetery. Friends may call at the taneral home after 2 p. m. Friday until time of the services.

Confessed Kidnapers Are Heavily Guarded Pair Is Questioned On Missing Money KANSAS CITY, Mo., UP — An all-night ban keeping newsmen out of the Jackson county jail was lifted today, but .federal authorities kept all but official personnel out of the 'section holding kidnapers Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie 'Heady. The guard was increased around the separate cells of the kidnapers on the 11th floor of the courthouse. U.S. Marshal William Tatman late Wednesday posted new rules that reporters and photographers be banned from the jail. In addition, only FBI men and local deputies with special duties were allowed in the area where the Bobhy Greenlease slayers are lodged. Deputies reported the two pris- . oners slept most of the night. The night before and all day Wednesday, FBI agents interogated Hall and Mrs. Heady, using He detectors. Agents were expected to resume the intense questioning today in an effort to crack the secret of the missing $300,000 ransom money. IMeanwhil*, there was a reportunconfirmed by official sourcesthat the trad of the missing monev waa growing hotter. I The St. Joseph !Mo. NewsPress said FBI men were search 1 ing for a package that was mailed from East St. Louis, 111., u> St. Joseph and was believed to contain the $300,000 still missing from the $600,000 paid to the kidnapers after they already had murdered their six-year-old victim. An East St. Louis mail clerk, according to the News-Press, received the package from a man he later identified as Hall. St. Joseph was the home of >Mrs. Heady, a plump alcoholic divorcee who posed as Bobby’s aunt to spirit him away from his school and who hoped to share in the huge ransom. The boy’s body was found buried in a lime-packed grave behind Mrs. Heady’s neat bungalow. Dulles Arrives In London For Parley Attends Big Three Ministers' Meeting LONDON, UP -U. S. -secretary of state John Foster Dulles arrived today to attend a Big Three foreign ministers* meeting on urgent World issues. \ He was promptly invited to dine with/i prime minister Winston Churchill tonight to hear Churchill’s ideas on a new strategy iij relations with Russia. Dulles made the hurried flight tor meetings Friday, Saturday and Sunday with the British and French foreign ministers, with the avowed mission of seeking “the basis for lasting peace.” Dulles was met at the airport by British foreign secretary Anthony Eden and American ambassador Winthrop Aldrich. French foreign minister Georges Bldault is scheduled to arrive this evening. Britain’s cabinet had a final foreign policy discussion today as a preliminary to the Big Three meetings. Churchill was reported to have a plan to give the Russians one more chance for a realistic cold war settlement before the west adopts new measures to meet the growing threat of the Soviet Hbomb. The foreign ministers are expected to give quick approval to another Big Three invitation to 1 Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov to meet wih them in garly 1 November at Lugano, Switzerland, to take up the problems of Garmany and Austria. Th» Russians 1 rejected, in effect, a previous bid 1 1 (Tara Ta Page Six)

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Only 10 From Initial Group Wish To Return Others Os Initial Group Os 500 Firm On Anti-Red Stand Korea UP — Jlearily-arrned Indian guards forced antbßed Chinese sit-down strikers to attend the first Communist lectures today but the prisoners rejected repatriation in overwhelming numbers. For seven hours the violently anti-Communist war prisoners ot the Allies refused to leave their compounds. They came out quietly when they were told their Indian guards would use force if nccessary. The Indians, carrying rifles and swinging nightsticks, herded the first group of 22,418 prisoners into the miniature tent city built by American engineers on an around-the-clock schedule. Only I'o of the 500 Chinese interviewed by Communist political officers today decided to return to Red rule. The others held firm to anti-Communist stand. The 1W who accented repatriation will be turned over to Reds Iktbr today. i The first\ nine men who refused to go home came out of (he intei• view huts and planted the Chinese Nationalist flag in their compound. Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya. Indian chairman of the neutral nations repatriation commission, had ruled that prisoners must attend “explanations" but had remarked that his guards could not make the men listen. Thimayya was correct in making this observation. Many of the Chinese not only refused to listen to the Communist wooing but also sang, shouted and danced up and down on the. wooden floors of the tents while the Reds talked. One prisoner tried to flee but Jndian .guards ;overpowei%d hign and forced him into a tent. The Chinese refused to sit in front of the Communist explainer as ordered and stood with his back toward the officep hands on hip. ■ The 10 prisoners who decided ttf gO back to Communism left their tents through specially-prepared exits. They made their decision after the Communists and neutral. Red and Allied observers left the men alone to think it oveif. The dismal failure of the Communists in their first attempts to lure the prisoners back to Red rule had been forecast by the defiant behavior of the men. ? They poured such violent abuse on the explainers that some ot the Red officers stumbled ftom the tents shortly afterward with flushed and perspiring faces. Neutral observers were surprised by the Red propagandists’ quick abandonment of pressure. The officers excused many of the men after asking only b questions. Under the armistice regulations, however, the Communists can force the prisoners to return to the tents as often as desired until the deadline ends on Christmas Eve. • **po you want to go back to your home and your family?" the explainers would ask. ' Most of the prisoners replied that they wanted to go to Formosa. Chiang Kai-Shek's Island stronghold, and repeated this answer until the Reds gave up. One New Death, 15 Polio Cases Reported INDIANAPOLIS UP —One new death and 15 new cases of polio were reported to the Indiana state board of health during the week ending Oct. 10. The total for 1953 to date is 553 cases and 23 deaths, compared with l,l«0 cases and 26 deaths .this time last year, and 1,002 cases and 91 deaths in the epidemic year of 1949. Cases have been reported in all except 19 counties.