Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 283, Decatur, Adams County, 2 December 1953 — Page 6

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License Plates On Sale On January 4 Full-Sized Plates | On Sale In State INDIANAPOLIS UP — Indiana’s liHrt full-sized ‘auto license p|ates ■will Jgo on sale Jan. 4 and must be on, vehicles by March 1.1/ the state bureau of motor vehicles announced today. It/will be the first time in three years'; Hoosiers have received large I plates. These will be used three/ years—small tags for attachment! to the 1954 plates will be sold in 1955 and 1955. j ♦

/Oh TOA " ■Ks SANTAS On A Budget V ' Selections Still Good! .FT Hurry! OPEN EACH NIGHT Till 9:00 JOY BRINGER SPECIALS! RINGING DIAL PHONE, reg. 98c 75c HANDY ANDY CARPENTER SET, reg. 2.98__52.29 14” GIRL DOLL, reg. $4.50 $3.29 18” BABY DOLL, reg. $4.9853.95 GALLOPING COWBOY CHIME, reg. 98c 77c MECHANICAL RACER, reg. 98c 79c SMOKY JOE HOLSTER SET, reg. $3.98 $2.98 TRAINS Lionel 5-unit freight $19.95 LIONEL SMOKING, WHISTLING 6-Unit FREIGHT; $39.95 OthersXs49.9s to $70.00 J HUSKY REMOTE CONTROL 5-Unit FREIGHT $9.95 TWIN DIESEL FREIGHTSI2.9S STURDY WIND-UP TRAINS for Beginners-$2.95 & $3.49 , LOADS AND LOADS OF EXTRAS! LIONEL AUTOMATIC GRADE CROSSING $4.89 LIONEL OPERATING CATTLE CAR $15.95 LIONEL OPERATING LOG CARRIER $7.25 LIONEL 110 Watt TRANSFORMER T _ $13.95 LIONEL AUTOMATIC FLASHERS 1.95 AUTOMATIC CROSSING GATE $ 1.95 5 29-Piece PLASTIC SIGNAL SET $ 2.95 LIONEL STRAIGHT TRACK 027-Ga. .25 LIONEL CURVED TRACK 027-Ga * .25 LIONEL 027-Ga. SWITCHES with double remote control box MANY, MANY OTHERS FOR THE BICYCLE ENTHUSIASTS—AII kinds of Bicycles, Accessories and Parts. FOR THOSE YOUNG ATHLETES--Everything from , Boxing Gloves, Footballs, Basketballs and Baseballs. A wide variety of sporting goods. — i in .i ' WIZZARD AUTOMATIC STEAM IRON $16.95 WIZZARD AUTOMATIC IRON $ 9.95 WIZZARD 10-Speed FOOD MIXER $31.95 ELECTRIC WAFFLE IRONS $8.35 up POP-UP TOASTER $13.79 ELECTRIC POP CORN POPPER $ 4.19 ELECTRIC ALARM CLOCKS ....-$3.98 up WIZZARD DEEP FRY $21.95 i WIZZARD SWIVEL TOP VACUUM CLEANER $69.95 v @ GIFTS for DAD XZ7 r 1 ' 'j' - ♦ WIZZARD ELECTRIC DRILL —510.98 WESTCRAFT 12” JIG SAW —->l9-75 TOOL BOXES, 20-Ga. Steel, Beautiful Green I Finish —O— $5.35, $5.95, $6.49, $9.85 WESTCRAFT the Beet in HAND TOOLS. Unconditionally / guaranteed. For the Woodworkers and home mechanics. BLACK & DECKER '/ 4 ” ELECTRIC DRILL 5ET532.95 COMPLETE LINE OF HUNTING and FISHING EQUIPMENT. MANY, MANY OTHER GIFTS FOR DAD, TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION. BORG BATHROOM SCALES \ 1— $ 7.95 TRUETONE TABLE MODEL COMBINATION RADIOPHONE. 3-speed automatic record changersß9.9s TRUETONE CLOCK RADIO, Walnut - —534.50 Ivory $35.50 TRUETONE AUTO RAD10'549.95 TRUETONE TABLE RADIOS $16.95 up ■_• / „ All Wbl 1W kl ome Owned and Operated by f/ U JOHN G. GORDON - 7152 N. Second St. Phone 3-2757

The plates will be maroon with white numerals and will bear the customary two-letter prefix designating the city where purchased. Bureau officials said 1,500,000 applications for the new plates already have been mailed and an additional 700,000 will be mailed by Dec. I's. Early Start BOSTON, UP —All but nine of Massachusetts’ 277 public high •schools now offer students courses in automobile driving. Introduction of such instruction into high school curricula was begun in 1948 by the State Motor Vehicle Registry in the interests of highway safety. More than 40,000 students have taken the courses to date. \'

Two Bank Robberies Under Investigation Federal Authorities Join Investigation INDIANAPOLIS, UP —Federal authorities investigating two Indiana bank \ robberies at widely separated points said today there was nothing to indicate the same gang committed the crimes which netted about $53,000. Bandits struck twice within three hours Tuesday, snatching more than $40,000 from the Jasonville People’s Trust Co. after holding an elderly cashier and his wife captive all night, and taking an estimated $13,0u0 from the Cass County State Bank at Walton. Leonard Blaylock, Special agent in charge of the FBI office here, said the time element and descriptions of the bandits provided by witnesses almost made it physically impossible for the same men to have been involved in the two robberies. The towns are about 135 miles apart. “There doesn’t appear to be any similarity” between the two holdups, Blaylock said in discounting a theory the crimes may been committed by the same gang. However, state police said it was possible that one gang pulled both jobs to divert police into two investigations. Capt. John Barton theorized the three men who robbed the Jasonville bank concentrated police action downstate, enabling, two others to hold up the Walton bank in greater safety. Authorities searched for the getaway cars, one of which was used to drive John W. Pope, cashier at Jasonville, about the area for several hours until he was taken to open the bank. Pope, 68, a cripple, was knocked unconscious when he entered his apartment Monday night, and held at gun point for several hoftrs until he was taken for the ride. His wife, Stella, 65, was bound to a\ bed when she returned home from a church meeting. Pope said the bandits took him to the bank early Tuesday morning and ordered him to open the vault. The men took $5, $lO and S2O bills but overlooked “a lot of money" in the vault; Pope said. At Walton, two men held up bank president L. H. Babb without arousing the suspicion of two other bank employes and three customers. The men used a ruse of seeking to rent a safety deposit box and while Babb was making out an application, one of them pulled a gun and told him to fill up a grocery sack with money. Police said one of the men involved in the Walton robbery fitted the description of a “polite” bandit blamed for looting six other places of about $62,000 within a year and a half. The "polite” bandit is wanted for the $24,000 holdup of a branch bank in Evansville last July, the robbery of $15,000 from a Bourbon bank, a $12,000 job In East Chicago, looting $4,000 from a Hamlet bank, and taking $7,000 in a southern Illinois holdup. Over 100 Injured In Texas Tornado Snow Storm Brewing In Prairie States JBy UNITED PRESS A heavy snow storm was brewing in the Prairie states /today after a late-season tornado raked central Texas, injuring mord than 100 persons. The weather bureau forecast four to six inches of snow, lashed by high winds and accompanied by falling temperatures, for \Kansas and Nebraska and similar storm conditions for parts of the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma. Weathermen said the storm, which began to develop in New Mexico, would move northeastward today and tonight. The Texas tornado struck Tues, day night at and around the town of Seguin. Only one of the injured persons was seriously hurt. “It was just a miracle more weren’t hurt worse or that qome weren’t killed,” said Guadalupe county sheriff Bill Medlin. Pasco Morgan, whose house was one of nine destroyed by the tornado, was hospitalized with ' a broken leg, but the oiher victims, / about 150-200 persons, did ’ not require such treatment. Moist air and rain was pushed northward across the midwest by the advancing cold front and snow storm, bringing hope of relief to drought-stricken areas. v But by Thursday, weathermen said, cold air will have edged into the Upper Mississippi Valley. A separate cold front, blowing out of Canada, had already brought light snow and chill weather to western Minnesota and lowa. Golf Hound LINCOLN, Neb., UP — Butch, a springer spaniel, suddenly stopped eating. A veterinarian was con-, suited. He told the Elden Hitz family their needed an operation. It

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IT'S CONGRATULATIONS for Carlyle Greathouse, 18, from twin sister Sue at the International Livestock exposition in Chicago as they learn Carlyle’s black angus yearling steer Little Stuff (shown peeking between them) becomes the junior grand champion. Little Stuff had been reserve champion, but the original grand champion, Blackie, was disqualified for age falsification. Carlyle is from Hindsboro. HL (International Soundphoto)

Deputy High Schpol Gym Is Destroyed (MADISON Ind. UP — Officials at Deputy high svhool today sought another home for their basketball team following a fire which destroyed the school’s gymnasium. Authorities said the remaining season games probably will be played at, Dupont and Paris Crossing. Deputy, located 20 miles west of here, lost its combination gym and community building in a Monday night blaze.. Plans to cohstruct a new $175,00p building at the school which have been in progress for some time, probably will spurred by the loss of the gym, officials said. Soil Conservation Fight Collapsing Seek To Make New Plan Workable One WASHINGTON, UP — The ,big fight over secretary of agriculture Ezra T. Benson’s reorganization of the soil conservation service showe dsigns of collapsing today just as a congressional committee prepared to look into the matter. A house government operations subcommittee headed by Rep. George H. Bender (ROhio) will begin hearings Thursday on the reorganization plan which touched off a bititer public controversy whicn Benson announced it last month. ’ Instead of the public airings oft coihplaints which seemed in prospecjt when Bender scheduled thel hearing, the subcommittee rtiay end up trying to find out how the. fuss ever got started. Waters S. Davis, Jr., president, of the national association of soil conservation districts — wl)ich all the criticism now sayis he is “ready and willing to help make the new plan work." In a weekly newsletter to Na|sCD members, Davis said it is “ouir big job now" to “help the secretary and his staff make good cn their promises of a ‘stronger, more dynamic’ technical agency The main feature of the reorganization plan, which went intb effect Nov. 2„ was the abolishment of the seven regional offices of soil conservat|ioi> service. 1 produced the core of a golf ball ! —about an inch in diameter — that the animal had “retrieved." I

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BERNADINE POLLOCK, 13, unconscious 14 months, Is shown with her parents in Davenport, la., where she is being kept alive by help of a homemade suction pump devised by her father from a refrigerator compressor and a washing machine motor. The pump is used hourly to clear her throat Bemadlne (inset) has been in a coma since surgery for mastoid, followed by a brain operation to remove an abscess in August 1952. Parents are 1 Cecil Pollock, 47, and wife Vera, 30. (International Soundphotoe)

Local Family Made 111 This Morning / 1 s j Tests Being Made At Decatur Home > A Decatur family or rnree awakened this morning to find the house filled with a “musty, gassy” odor, f the father passing out and the mother and girl becoming ill. Ed Teeple, 35, his wife Florence, 30, and dayghter, Connie Sue, 7, of 128 South Tenth street, are re- > cuperating from their experience at the home of Mrs r Teeple’s sister, Mrs. Darrel Cookson, 1203 West Adams street. Teeple remembers getting up with the alarm at 5 a.m. and complaining about smelling “gas." “I got a boot and went to the door to prop it open and I walked Into the bathroom and keeled over," hitting his head on an object, according to Mrs. Teeple. " / Prior to walking to the door, said Teeple, he asked his wife to take a deep breath to see if it was his imagination; she did so, describes Teeple, and fell ill with a terrific headache. He passed out after coming back from the door with the boot. Connie Sue woke up sometime during the night complaining of being sick to the stomach. She vomited after the doctor gave her a pill later bn. When Teeple passed out, Mrs. Teeple said she ran to a neighbor’s home and then passed out. The family is comparatively well at present. Teeple complaining of being weak, Mrs. Teeple still with the headache. The attending physician, said Teeple, said he appeared to have been gassed but a blood count - would have to be taken.. The house has been sealed for .the time being. M. J. Pryor, manager of the local branch of the Northern Indiana Public Service Co., said the most thorough testing with all instruments has failed to reveal a gas leak of any kind. Pryor said the city crews combed the grounds in an effort to find a possible sewer gas leak but could find nothing. It is being considered that the house the Teeples live in was shut so tight that, during the night, the oxygen supply in the air was being used up without being replenished fast enough. The Teeples have lived in the same house for seven years, they I said, and have never had anything ■ like this happen to them.- They said,' however, that, on occasion; neighbors \ have complained of “smells.”

South Koreans : Refuse Return : To Democracy • c 30 Prisoners Turn w Down Interviewers On Return To Home y k PANWUNJdM, *Korea UP — ft Communists scored a shutout today in the first attempt by United ii Nations interviewers to woo South o Korean prisoners of the Reds over v to democracy. n Thirty men and women came, shouting Red slogans and singing \ Communist songs. They listened, tl Then all 30 turned tbeir backs on w their anti - Communist homeland and marched back to Red custody —still chanting their songs and I slogans. * The unanimous refusal of the South Koreans to return home 1 gave the Communists a propagan- I da victory they are surb to exploit in broadcasts . from Communist Pyongyang and Peiping radios. They also are expected ta use the example of the South Koreans in an attempt to influence the 22 r American Gls and one Briton, who j chose to remain in Communist i hands when other prisoners were } Exchanged, to resist U.\N. “come | home" appeals. The first explanation sessions t were entirely orderly. Only one or j two of the South Koreans inter- t viewed spoke abusively to the | smartly uniformed Korean officers • who talked with them. One jump- , ed to his feet and demanded that a , tape recording be shut off. It carried the voices of a civilian woman prisoner, her husband and tyro children who asked repatria- ; tion last month. ..Many of the prisoners chainsmoked nervously as they listened to patient explanations, tape recordings and South Korean patriotic songs. South Korean explanation teams carefully schooled for their task, did not plead, intimidate or attempt to argue with their former comrades in arms. They made an obvious effort to demonstrate to the prisoners that South Korea did not wish their allegiance if they had become firmly 1 convinced of Communist doctrine. Obviously all had. R remained anybody’s guess whether the first 30 hard-bitten prisoners were typical of the other

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?98 South Koreans, and the Ameri- : •ans and British who remain to i ;e Brig. Gen. Paik Yon Joon, the / South Korean repatriation com ! inander-, suggested that those interviewed today may have been ‘hand picked” by the Reds for their- reliability. Their idea, he mid. would be to score a propaganda victory at the outset which i:ould be used to influence those who come before the U. N. teams later. “I think these first 30 were plants,” he said. J‘The Communists knew these men* could be trusted to retuse repatriation.” The United Nations command mdibatfed no disappointment at the jutcome of the first attempt to win back prisoners who had renounced their free heritage. Maj. Edward Moorer, of Tacpma Wash., chief American repatriation officer said, “this is about what we iJpd expected." , ; Longshoremen Back To New York Jobs -4 j 'i/ ■ ■' !■" No Pickets Today Along Waterfront NEW YORK UP -r Longshoremen returned to work along the New York harbor waterfront today as pickets failed to show up to protest for a second day a new bi-state waterfront law. The touchy dock situation had threatened to erupt ino violence if oulawed dock wallopers continued their demonstration against the law which became effective Tuesday. The pickets were long shoremen who had been refused work permits because of criminal records. The fedeijal government, which has outstanding a Taft-Hartley law injunction against a water front jstrike, apaprently had a hand in calling oft.' tne picket lines t

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U.S. AMBASSADOR Arthur H. Dean, talking to reporters, accuses Communist negotiators of engaging in vilification without saying “anything constructive” in the Panmunjom talks aimed at setting up a Korea peace conference. Debate still swirled around the role of Soviet Russia in the Korean war with the Redz insisting that Russia was a “neutral” and with the Allies demanding procff of the claim. (International Soundphoto)

United States marshals rounded up a number of the disgruntled longshoremen late Tuesday for appearance before a federal waterfrcnt rackets grand jury. United States attorney J. Edward Lmnbard announced that hi 3 office was investigating possible* violation of the injunction. Five gangs under the union leadership of John Dwyer, former International Longshoremen’s Association leader who had become a major organizer of the new aFI!>LA, went to work loading cargo aboard the Grace Lines’ Santa Monica at 8 £.m. The men had refused Tuesday to cross the picket line which protested the waterfront commission’s refusal of registration to the I pickets.