Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 279, Decatur, Adams County, 27 November 1953 — Page 1

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UN Votes Censure To Israel For Qibya Raid BBSS S%& *j .. uWjrrrMf-- - ' EPs

ISRAELI DELEGATE Abba Eban (arrow) looks on in New York as the UN Security Council votes a 9-to-C censure of srael for the border raid on the Jordan village of\ Qibya in which more than 50 Arabs were killed. Russia and Lebanon abstained from voting on the resolution, sponsored by the U. S.. Britain and Franck "\ ' \

Laniel Wins Partial Vote Os > Confidence French Premier To Lecd Delegates To 1 Bermuda Conference PARIS UP — Premier Joseph Laniel t Jday interpreted as a comfortable vote of confidence a vojfcof 275 to 244 in sipport of foreign policies, and said" he will lead the French delegation to t!»» Big Three conference at BermhflM The vote inf the national bly fell short of the absolute majority of 314 hippor(ing deputies he had demanded, but Laniel ac-; cepted it as “a strong majority.?;'; He had to quit ns premier unless he was-backed by an absol .ite majority ion his polic| of European unity. That have required favorable .votes from at least otee inbre than hal£ of the total assembly membership. But after analyzing the voti; Laniel said he felt he could remain in office and attend the De|. 4-8 Bermuda conference with President 'Eiaenhowfer and prime minister Winston Churchill, i . . ; 'Laniel’s decision’ And the vote both were influenced by a new. note Soviet .Russia delivered Ho the west today, ofering to meet with the western Big Three foreign mirtei isters in a conference) on Germany,; i_. iLaniel’s decision against dissi.ving the government on the. eve of the Bermuda conference was ans nounced more than twb hours after the crucial vote art a.‘ weakl.v worded motion in support of continued , French participation plans for Europea'nMinity. The ballots cast by the deputies were recounted twicle- before Whe. oficial tally was announced. Orville Grim Rites Saturday Afternoon #4- Orviltte Grim, 60, est Tocsin, died Wednesday at the Veterans hospital in For* Wayne after a long! illness, tie was employed by the * state highway department! Surviving are tils wife, Vivi m; two sons, Harold pf Bluffton and John p* Tocsin; one daughter, Mrs. Ralph Bailey of Tocsin, and one brother, — William of Bluffton. f Funeral services wll be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. C. L. Dafvis officiating. Burial will be at Onsian. Friends may call at the Jalrt funeral home in Bluffton ■until noon Saturday, when the body will be removed to- the church. _ , ' l|! Christmas Opening In Decatur Saturday A Christmas tree 20 feet tall ‘was erected this morning on the northeast corner of the court house, grounds, lights to be strung on Its* branches in time-for the appearance of Santst Claus Saturday a’ternoon at 1:30 O’clock. The tiee is provided by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce and was put in place by the following, members: Jack Gordon. James McGPe. Lyle Mailonee, Ci iff Brewer and Ben Webster. Chamber executive secretary Fred Kolter aaid the lights will be> turnod oil each afternoon at 4 o’ploc K and turned off at 10 o’clock until after Christmas.

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Four Hurt In Wreck Wednesday Evening Head-on Collision North Os Decatur Three Berne women and a Fort Wayne man who were badly in jured in a two-car headon wrecK four and a half miles north of here on U. S. highway 27, about 9:15 o’clock Wednesday night, were re ported late this morning to have had a “comfortable night” ,at jthe Adams county memorial hospital Most seriously injured was Mi*s Linda Liechty, 52. driver, who suffered the loss of much blood, a fractured right kneecap, extensive lacerations on the right leg, multiple facial lacerations' and shock. Her condition is still reported as •'fair”. Miss Liechty’s sister, Edna, 52,, a fractured right kneecap, fractured right wrist and several facial lacerations. third occupant of the one Mrs. Gloria Lehman, 18. nieces of the sisters and a recent bride, who sustained a broken jawbone, compound fracture of the right leg and facial lacerations. Driver of the secopd car was Thomas B. Tone. 34. suffering compound fractures of the right leg and right arm, chest injuries and i umerobs facial lacerations. He is “fain”, according to a hospital spokesman. The hospital hinted Tone would have to be removed to a Fort Wayne hospital some time today. The fracture of his leg is to be so extensive that ordina-y procedures are inadequate. Tone is well known in Decatur as a butcher for the local A & P stores Both cars wre telescoped on the east side of the road, and sheriff Shraluka, who investigated with deputy sheriff Merle Affolder and state troopers Ted Biberstine and Richard Meyers, deduced that the Tone; car, facing north, was north bound, while the Liechty car, sac ing south, was southbound. However, since police have been unable to talk tA me accident vic tims, or a truck driver said to have been an eyewitness, a definiiversion df the wreck could not he 'given. Mrs. Cleo Linn's Painting Is Tops An oil painting. “When Day Is Done.” received first place in the are exhibit held last Wednesday the auspices of the Color Wheel, an organization of art students of Miss Kathryn Kauffman. The painting was done by Mrs. Cleo Linn of this city. Second place went to Miss Carolie Nelson, a Decatur high school student with her f)il “Springtime” scene. Third place was voted by those attending the display to Jim Callow for his charcoal sketcji entitled “Bill.” All visitors attending the exhibit were asked to cast votes for their choice of first, second and third places. No cash awards were given and no judges were named for the show. It was pointed out by those In charge of the exhibit that three of the exhibitors had a number of paintings and their votes were divided. Interest in the exhibit was Such that the Color Wheel plans to make the show an annual event and in all probability it will be enlarged next year., INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and colder tonight; some snow flurrlel extreme north tonight. Saturday partly cloudy. Low tonight 22-26 ■ /north, 26-30 south. High Saturday 30-35 north, 34-48 south.

Russ Intimate Possession Os New Weapons Vishinsky Boasts Os Arms Unknown To Western World UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP —United Nations Interest centered today on a new Russian intimation that the Soviet may have atomic and hydrogen weapons \unknown in the western world. Andrei Y. Vishinsky offered the obscurely-worded boast Thursday in the genera! assembly’s main political committee. He said hjs country had matched the west in atomic and hydrogen weapons and "possibly” had weapons no other country possessed. V \ , The statement was made in debate on the Soviet “peace package" proposal. which was defeated paragraph by paragraph. Reaction to the Soviet insinuation was expected w hen committee members explain their votes at a meeting today.; Fifteen items werte on the agenda at a session of the general assembly. \ Vishlnsky’s statement on atomic weapons was in reply to a statement earlier in the debate by Britain’s Selwyn. Lloyd, who said Russia sought elimination o£ njiclear weapons because it was deficient in this field. “This idea of superiority which is alleged to be held by other countries is a* mere fairy tale, long since exposed,” the Russian said “It applies to the olden days ol 1946-47*when some countries still were dizzied by their successes in atomic 4 secrets and monopolies—monopolies and secrets which they soon and definitely lost. “How can one speak pf such things at the present time when the Soviet Union does have the atpmic bomb and does have the hydrogen bomb and when the So viet Union is not behind other countries in this respect — other countries which, I may add. even possibly do not possess all atomic and other weapons that - the Soviet Union already has" U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. promptly accused Vishinsky of engaging in “debating tactics” and appealed to the Communists to choose the path to peace Three-Inch Snowfall | Recorded In State INDIANAPOLIS, (UP) — Snow ranging in depth up to three inches fell on Indaina during Thanksgiving Day and the first few hours on Friday. Weathermen said warmer temperatures during the next five days would melt any accumulation of the season’s first general blanket of white. I. ■ . ' Brazil Youth Killed When Auto Hits Tree TERRE HAUTE, UP — Pierce Calton, 19, Brazil, was killed and John A.! Price, 18, Brazil, was injured critically early today when their auto smashed into a tree after swerving off slippery U. S. 40 at Seelyville. Calton drove Price’s car. Price was taken to St. Anthony’s hospital here.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 27, 1953.

State Department Says Russ Note On Big Four Meeting Disappointing

Six Men Die As Air Force Plane Crashes Cl 19 Flying Boxcar Crashes In Flames At Paris Airfield PARIS UP — Six men were killed today when a U. S. air forge Cl 19 flying boxcar plane crashed in flames while approaching Paris’ Orly Airfield for a landing. French officials said the plane appeared to explode in the atmoments after it had been given a clearance so- its final, approach to the field. They said six bodies had been recovered. Air force sources said the plane was manned by a ferry crew from Dover Field. Delaware. The bodies of five men were pulled from the charred Wreckage. The body of a sixth crewmair wa| found later ini a clump of after he had tried unsuccessfully, to ball out from about 700 feet. Ills partially-opened parachute was tangled in branches 40 yards from the trash site. \ Witnesses said the plane apparently had been having engine trouble before the crash. Crews of firemen still were pouring water into the flaming wreckage. < One fire chief said he had removed five bodies from the remains of the plane. One unconfirmed report- said one crewman apparently bailed out before the crash. 1 The air force said a Cl 19 norm-( ally carries four to tix crewmen. 'Bodies of the crash victims were taken to the local morgue pending identification. American air force authorities said names of the dead would be withheld pending notification to next of kin. Eisenhower Declines Comment On Parley t AUGUSTA. Ga. U> President Eisenhower declined comment today , on Russia's agreement to attend a coriference with the western Big Three powers. Sponsor Gifts For Hospital Patients ' Farm Bureau's SEC Aids Mentally 111 The social and educational de partment of the Adams county Farm Bureau again will sponsor a program to give sifts to patient of Indiana mental hospitals, Mrs. Clarence Mitchell, .department leader has announced. Those who desire to take pa-t in the gift program are asked '„<» give their gifts to either the township social and educational leader; deliver them to the Farm Bureau office in (Monroe or to the off’.ct of the Adams county agricultural agent in the post office building at Decatur. Candy, cosmetics, custom jewelry, dresser sets, gloves, sown?, pajamas, knitting bags, scrapbooks stationery magazine subscription - belts, bill folds, cigarettes, shaving lotion, stispenders, underwear, tieclips and numerous other items are on the acceptable list. Airs. Mitchel Isaid. Gifts should be labelled for women or men and should be delivered not later than December 1. it was pointed out. The Adams county program is part of a state wide program of the Indiana association for mental health to bring happiness at Christmas time to the 16,000 patients in the state hospitals.

Sergeant Confesses To Murdering Child Girl Strangled To Death In Tokyo TOKYO, Saturday, UP — An American army sergeant has confessed to the strangulation murder of S year-old Susan Rothschild, the army said today. - . An army spokesman identified the confessed slayer as M. Sgt. Maurice I. Schick, 29. He said the soldier confessed Friday night that he had slain the girl, daughter of American Ariny Col. Jacquard Rothschild. The army did not say what motivated Schick to the crime. The spokesman said only that the sergeant “volunteered to make a concession” after "intensive questioning.” “Finalization of the investigation is expected within the next few days,” the spokesman said. The army said Schick is married and lives with his wife and Jtheir two adopted Japanese children in the same housing area •where the girl was murdered, k ’J'he army said Schick, whose Hometown 'was not given'immediately. was attached to the 8169th army hospital, the same hospital where the little girl was pronounced dead. Schick was chief ward master of the hospital, the army said. Susan was found unconscious in a drainage ditch two blocks from her home Nov. 21. Schick told army authorities he had no intention of tape and did not plan the murder priter to meeting the girl in a wooded area in an army housing area 30 miles southwest of Tokyo. V When iß'othschlld found Susan in the drainage ditch, she only partly-ciothed and was lying face, down. ‘ x Army officials said an "autopsy revealed she was killed by a gag forced down her throat. Three Young People, \ Hurt This Morning ' -'Blame Accident On Slippery - | L v ;. - Three Montoe young people Were injured at 2:35 o’clock this morning—one with a brain concussion—ln a accident one mile and a half sbuth of Decatur on U. S. 27, attributed to the extremely icy road conditions forming at that time, according to sheriff Bob Shraluka. In the Adams county memorial hospital with a brain concussion, in ‘fair” condition, is Melvin Wolf. 15. His sister. Virginia. 17, sustained a facial injury, cut Up and dose injury; she was not admitted. The driver. who escaped with the slightest injuries, was Robert Johnson, 17, who was reported to have suffered a bruised knee. Sheriff Shraluka said the care went out of control when it left the berm and hit a tree. ( A property damage accident was investigated by deputy sheriff Merle Ass older Wednesday at 4:45 p. m. six miles north of Decatur on U. S. highway 27. The deputy said a northbound car driven by John F. McMahon, 40, Fort Wayne, attempted to pass a car on a hill and could not get back on his side of the road in tline to avoid clipping the left front fender of a southbound car driven by Doyle Krick, 28, 308 Sputh Twelfth street. Neither party was injured, according to Affolder, but damage to the cars was extensive. McMahon has been cited to appear in mayor’s epurt next Monday to face a charge of improper passing, according to the sheriffs department.

Governor Asks Federal Aid To South Indiana Asks Eisenhower To Declare 21 Counties As Disaster Area INDIANAPOLIS, UP—Governor Craig asked President Eisenhower today to declare 21 southern Indiana counties a major drought disaster arae. Craig sent a letter to the President after receiving a report from Hussil E. Schenck, president of the Indiana' Farm Biireau, on a survey of drought conditions in those counties. Mr. Eisenhower was expected £o refer the request to secretary of agriculture Ezra T. Benson for another survey to determine it an emergency agricultural relief proby the agriculture department, gram should be started in Indiana The counties affected would be Switzerland. Jefferson, Scott. Clark, -Floyd, Washington, Harrison, Orange, Crawford, Perry, Spencer, Dubois, Martin, Daviess. Pike, Warrick. Vanderburgh, Posey, Gibson. Knox and Sullivan. Craig said those counties suffered a "serious teed shortage as a result of an extreme and longenduring drought.’’ State officials pointed to Perry county as an example of the crippling effects of the lack of moisture which plagued most of the state sihee early August. From May 19 to Oct. 26 Perry county had only 3.25 inches of rain, compared to a normal 16 inches. Farmers already have fed 50 percent of their normal winter hay supply. , and 80 percent of their pasture and hay seedings put in a year ago this fall and all of last spring's pasture and hay seed ings have perished. Officials also noted severe army worm dalnage in Perry copnty and an Estimated loss of more than twoßhirds of the soybean crop. About one-third of the county corn crop was completely lost and the rest was below normal. Perry county farmers also lost 3,300 acres of oats because of a lack of moisture. 90 percent bi the barley crop, and 30 percent of the ryfe. Wheat losses were “severe" and 70 percent of pasture normally seeded in the fall was not seeded because of dry weather, while the other 30 .percent died. 'March Os Mailmen' Here This Evening Muscular Dystrophy , Drive Here Tonight The "March of the Mailmen” will be on tonight, beginning at. 5:30 o’clock, Lawrence Rash, chairman of the muscular dystrophy drive, announced today. - City mall carriers will rewalk their routed'this evening and call at homes tor donations to the drive. Citizens are asked to turn on their porch lights as a signal to the carriers that they wish to contribute to the campaign. The carriers will stop only at homes’ where the porch light is burning. Throughout the country, mail carriers will be on the march tonight to collect funds tor the muscular dystrophy drive. Their participation in the campaign has the.approval of postmaster general Summerfield. The carriers also delivered envelopes and leaflets to all homes in the city in connection with the campaign. Contributions can be placed in the envelopes and taken to the local post office.

122 Traffic Deaths Recorded In Nation California Leads In Traffic Deaths Ry UNITED PRESS The Thanksgiving holiday was marred by scores of traffic deaths" as snow and freezing rain turned many highways into glazed death traps, accident reports snowed today. But for most Americans the first peacetime Thanksgiving in four years was nearly perfect, with typically nippy November weather in northern states. A United Press tabulation showed 122 persons died in traffic accidents during the holiday period between 6 p.m. Wednesday and midnight Thursday. Another 41 persons died in miscellaneous accidents. bringing the deaths to 163 from all causes.’ 'California had 12 traffic deaths; Illinois and Near York 10; Florida 9; Ohio. 8, Jumbo. 40-foot balloon figures of spacemen, clowns and comic strip characters delighted children in a crowd of about two million Yorkers who lined up to watch ’he traditional Macy's department store parade. A similar affair, the annual J. L. Hudson Christmas parade, drew 60,000 persons in Detroit. Although tjie national safety council issued ho prediction of the death total because it was a oneday holiday, it had warned that wintry weather would make driving extremely hazardous. . A one-to-three inch blanket of snow today covered the eastern Dakotas, northern Illinois, most o f Indiana and Ohio and eastern Pennsylvania and western New York. Even heavier snow fell on lowa and the northern Great Lakes states like Minnesota. Cold rain along the Atlantic coast and much of the south made I «Tur» To Pace Two) Donations Received For CROP Campaign Excellent Response Reported To Drive ' Many of the townships in Adams county have completed the CROP (Christian rural overseas program) canvass for commodity grain and eash donations to the assistance of nebdy persons throughout the world hs township chairmen arranged for the survey last Monday. l Tuesday and Wednesday. Other townships will be reached by CROP representatives soon. Chairman August Seeking of Root township and chairmen Frank Dellinger of Blue Creek township are planning their drive November 30 and Deptember 1: The rural youth of Adams County (are making their pickups of the commodities donated in six townships on the following dates. St. Mary’s November 27, Monroe November 30, Preble December 2, Kirkland December 3, Root December 4 and Blue Creek December 7. Other township commodity donations are being cared for by the CROP representatives. Some of the township chairmen reporting to the Rev. John D. Mishler, county chairman, state that the response has been very‘good. Several churches have also reported on the donations received for the program of relief and rehabilitation of lives in famine stricken areas of the world. The “Plows For India” project in Indiana is a real way in which to help others to help themselves by getting the opportunity to raise more food. Roscoe Glendening of the Decatur First State Bank is serving as treasurer of the county CROP campaign. He reports that some individuals have been making donations there.

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Declares Note Effort To Cover Up Reaction > Say* Note Adheres To Previous Stand Taken By Russians WASHINGTON UP — The state department said today the new Soviet note proposing a Big Four foreign ministers meeting is “disappointing.” The' department issued a formal statement describing the note a.4 an effort to cover up the “disastrous consequences” to. Russia from the w’orld-wide reaction to its earlier rejection of Allied offers for talks on Germany and Austria. The state department said the Soviet note adhered to all previous positions advanced by the Russians in a formal notes and repeated, at the current session of the United Nations general assembly- in New York. These positions have been rejected outright in the past by President Eisenhower, secretary of state John Foster Dulles,''and Other-Allied leaders. “The unacceptable nature of these - Russians positions has been < made evident by delegates from many countries and reflected in overwhelmingly adverse assembly votes,” the statement said. “Therefore, from the standpoint of real substance, the note is disappointing.” The cold American reaction tn Russia's new “offer” of Big Four foreign ministers talks in Berlin was in sharp contradiction to reaction from London. A British foreign office' spokesman bad said earliest the Soviet note “amounts to acceptance” by Moscow of proposals made by the United States. Britain, and France in previous notes to Russia. The state department said “one of the most significant and obvious aspects" of the Russian note is that it was timed to coincide with the foreign policy debate in France on tre plarfi to rearm West Germany under the European defense community proposal. r .. Therefore, the department said, the new note would appear, to be > “another Soviet effort to impede progress on EDC ratification and other steps toward European unity and strength.” \ Moreover, the department said a “second significant aspect” is that the Soviet note marked “another effort to gloss over the uncompromising rfature of Soviet policy as exposed” in Russia’s rejection of Big Four talks in its note of Nov. 3 tn the Allied powers. \ The Russian conditions advanced then were that plans to rearm West Germany be ended and the North Atlantic treaty organization be scrapped. The difference in reaction to the Soviet note" by Washington and London suggested President Eisenhower and British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill may be hard pressed to reach common ground when they with French Premier Joseph Laniel. if the French leader is able to hold office, in Bermuda jiext week. Meanwhile: 1. Paris dispatches described the Russian note as an offer to meet with the Western powers as soon <Twra Ta Pare Twe)

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