Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 26 February 1954 — Page 8

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Farmer Is Killed By i His 12-Year-Old Son j Slain After Threat To Kill His Family ♦ BROWNWOOD, Tex. VP rFarmer John 1). Bartlett. «2. was i shot and killed by his 12-y ear-old son Thursday, after Bartlett threatened to kill his ‘‘whole family" and began to chase his daughter with a tire iron. Authorities said the killing was "justifiable homicide.” The childrens’ mother took them and left Bartlett earlier this week to sue for divorce. Officers said Bartlett, who had been married 16 years, apparently went berserk as a fesult of the suit, ,’iled Wed-1 nesday. His son, John Paul Bartlett, said I ' his father called for him and his I sister, Dorothy Jean, 14, at school Thursday morning. He told them their mother was ill. But when they got to the family farm, purchased only recently, Bartlett forced his children into a back room and tried to shoot his daughter. The pistol failed to fire and the children escaped. Barltett told them he was going to “do away with the whole family.” w When they got outside, the farmer fonnd a tire iron and began to chase Dorothy ‘Jean. The boy got his small caliber .rifle and fired at his father, only grazing him. But the injury was enough to step the chase. % . . The son got more cartridges and fired again. His father dropped to the ground, he said, and threatened . them again. The boy moved closer to his father and shot him a third time, through the back of the head. <Mrs. Bartlett’s divorce suit, like one she filed last September but dropped, said it was “dangerous” for her to live with Bartlett, and she probably would die within a year "even if defendent, himself, did not murder” her. Tonight, Sat & Sun. Continuous Sat. & Sun. "TERROR ON A TRAIN” Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon & WAYNE MORRIS "THE MARKSMAN” Only 14c-30c Inc. Tax

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Change In Seniority System Is Unlikely Senator Knowland Faces Opposition WASHINGTON, VP —• Senate GOP leader William F. Knowland faced a tough and probably impossible selling job today to get his fellow’ Republicans to weaken their time-honored seniority system. Know-land 4 has proposed that senate Republicans name committee chairmen from among the top two or three senior members. Long standing custom has dictated that a committee chairmanship goes to the senior majority member if he wants it. The Knowland proposal was apparently aimed at Sen. William Langer of North Dakota, unpredictable GOP maverick who heads the judiciary committee. By voting with Democrats, Langer has often been a burr under the saddle for senate GOP leaders. And he really inflamed their tempers last week whgn he made public unevaluated charges, unsupported by. evidence, against Chief Justice Earl Warren. While he named no names, Knowland told reporters he thinks it is. time for the senate to "free itsplf from the shackles of the seniority system." He said he intends to carry on some "active discussion" to that end. By giving the majority party caucus a choice among two or three senior candidates, he said, it could pick a committee chairman in sympathy-with majority party policy. Sen. Hugh Butler (R-Neb.) commented in an interview that he thinks the parties in congress cannot “find a workable substitute for the seniority system.” Any other system, he said, would create “constant confusion and maneuvering.” Other senate GOP leaders, who asked not to he identified, also shook their heads and voiced doubts that any tampering with the seniority system would be approved. Langer himself laughed when he heard of Knowland's proposal and said he doubted the GOP floor leader was referring to him. Democrat Want Ads Bring Results Use The * «s Daily Democrat Want Ads

qhhtvie ML wHL K Jr* THE DHL FAMILY (above) Is alive today as result of heroism of daughter Betty Jean, 17, who awoke to find their trailer (background) on fire in Joliet, 111., and rushed the vest of the family out safely. The fire resulted from explosion of an oil stove. Firemen arrived in time to keep the fire from spreading to other trailers in the park. Photo shows Betty Jean surrounded by the family. From left: Robert, the father; Russell, 5: Betty Jean; Joyce, 7; Douglas, 9; Frances, 12, Stephen, 13, is not shown. Only members of the family not present in the fire were Mrs. Jeanette Dill, 33, the mother, who was in a hospital with newborn son. (International Soundvhoto)

Prisoners Not Sure Os Breaking Point . Question Involved In Inquiry Court WASHINGTON- TTP —Even war prisoners who survived Communist torture don’t know the breaking point of the human spirit and mind. The question was involved today in a marine court of inquiry against Col. Frank G. Schwable from whom Communist captors wrung a false “confession" of germ warfare in Korea. Schwable, 45-year-old flyer, pictured himself as “dull, mentally stupidand thoroughly exhausted" after four months of humiliation and degradation, fear, and intimidation and mind poisoning aimed at instilling a false sense of personal and national guilt. Captured in July, 1952, he capitiulated in November, by which time it was so cold in his prison hovel he had to sit on his pen from time to time to thaw out Thfe ink. “Expert” testimony on the subject is scheduled. It includes the findings of. Dr. Charles W. Mayo, Rochester, "Minh., who made a special report to the United Nations; Lt. Col. Vincent J. Cassone, army psychiatrist who examined Schwable after repatriation, and Dr. Winfred Overholser, famed - psy chi atrist at Washington’s St. Elizabeth’s hospital. Maybe they know a man’s breaking point. But the prisoners who underwent the ordeal aren’t sure. This was shown during their testimony tn Ute inquiry. Maj. Roy H. Bley, co-pilot captured with Schwable who also "confessed” germ warfare, told how he underwent similar treatment until he was “pretty well physically and mentally broken.” Navy ' Lt. jg Andrew L. Riker. Manchester, Conn., said he broke down and cried at the end of one period of about 10 days of intensive questioning but refused to sign a germ warfare confession. ..

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“1 don’t know how long I could have kept it up," Riker added. Marine f,t. Col. William G. Thrash, Atlanta, Ga. later decorated for his conduct iu two years of captivity, eight months of it in solitary, said he underwent periods of “frustration, indignation and despair” but refused to confess because the Communists' “price was too high.” A former Georgia Tech football star. Trash said the torture was more mental than physical. "Whether I ever was close to being broken, I don’t know,” he said. Predicts March To Come In like Lamb Snowfall General Throughout State INDIANAPOLIS UP — March will come in like a lamb as one of- Indiana's, warmest F»b in history bows out, the weatherman indicated today. His outlook for the next five days was like several preceding ones —temperatures averaging 6 to 10 degrees above normal; Readings as high as 42-50 and as low at 24-30 are considered normal. Meanwhile, Hoosiers tramped over as much as 3 inches of snow this morning. Fort Wayne’s .37 inch of precipitation amounted to 3 inches of ground snow, while Goshen- had 2 inches and Indianapolis an inch. Almost all state points reported light precipitation overnight; but downstate it was mostly rain or a .mixure of rain and snow. Thursday’s high temperatures ranged from Evansville's 71 to South Bend’s 35, where the mercury dipped to 9 degrees early today. Other early morning lows were 31 at Evansville. 22 at Indianapolis and 18 at Fort Wayne. Today’s highs were expected to be 37-45 north and 45-55 south, followed by lows tonight of 30-38.

Caroline Winteregg Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Mrs. Caroline widow of Daniel Winteregg. died Thursday at the Berne nursing home following a heart attack. Mrs. Winteregg. a native of Missouri, had resided in Adams county for. 78 years. She was a member of the First Mennonite church at Berne. Surviving are two sons, Ivan and Earl Winteregg. Van Nuys. Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. Leslie Stuckey, Sr., of Berne, and Mrs. Harry E. Stoner of Bemidji. Minn.; 11 grandchildren; 12 great-grand-children; a brother. O. F. Glllioin of Berne; five sisters. Mrs. A. A. Lehman. Mrs. William Rawley. Mrs. Jeff Liechty and Mrs. Jonas Sprunger of Berne and Mrs. CharJes Laisure of New Castle; two half-brothers, Howard and Clifton C Illibm of Her tie; ’ a hal f-sis tbr Mrs. Tillman Flueckiger of Berne; a stepbrother, Robert Neuenschwander of Fort Wayne, and a, stepsister, Mrs. A'da Wall, in California. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Saturday at the Yager funeral home, the Rev. O. A. Krehbiel and the Rev. C. A. Schmid officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery. —

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Warning Is Issued Os Water Shortage Water Shortage To Increase In State BLOOMINGTON. IOC. (UP) — Indiana will have “more and more" water shortages in the future. an Indiana University weather statistician warned today. Prof. S. S. Visher of the geography department said shortages can be expected even though there is no repeat of last summer's drought which parched Hoosier farmlands and dried out wells and reservoirs. The reason is a con-stantly-increasing use of water and decreasing suppily in the topsoil, he said. “We use more., water every year.” Visher said. "Industry's needs constantly increase, and air conditioning takes a growing amount. Even farms use more and more to produce the larger crop yields now being emphasised- Intensifying the problem is the effect of population growth.” “To meet increasing usage, there is less available water, even in periods of normal rainfall, because run-off of rainfall grows more rapid,” Visher asid. IX RRi ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS in cot NTY COVNCIL Notice of Special Meeting of the Adams County Council and Pub-* lie Hearing in the Matter of Emergency Appropriations Notice is hereby given to the tax-' payers of Adams County, Indiana, that the County Council of said county will meet at Its usual meeting place in the Courthouse In the city of Decatur. Indiana, at the hour of 9:00 o'clock jhM. on the 10th day of March, 1954,'tfe consider the following additional appropriation which the Board of County Commissioners considers necessary to meet the extraordinary emergency existing at this time, which were not included in the current budget: COINTY Item 104 Treas 6% Del Fee JOO.OO Item 600 Treas-Property JOO.OO item 602. H Surveyor—Truck 3020.00 Item 101 Jan Sal—Ct Ha 300.00 Item 102A Mat Sal—Ct Hs 180.00 Item 104 Lab at City Prop JOQ.OO Item 200 "Co. Com Speaks" 52.00 ADAMS CO. 4-H CHIBS and EXTENSION EXHIBITS 5739.89 Reductions of funds: COINTY Item 602 D Surveyor 3020.00 RECREATION FUND 5739 89 Taxpayers may appear at this meeting-and shall have the right rd be-Heard on the necessity for such emergency appropriation. Any emergency appropriations finally determined upon will be automatically referred to the State Board of Tax Commissioners, which Board will hold a further hearing thereon within fifteen days at the County Auditor’s office. At such hearing, taxpayers desiring to object to such emergency appropriation may be heard, and any interested taxpayers may inquire of the County Auditor when such hearing will be held. Dated-thTs ‘ Seth day- of February.’ 1954. FRANK KI THON Auditor of Adams County 2/2J 3/5 <=• TEE P L E MOVING & TRUCKING Local and Long Distance PHONE 3-2607

“This is partly due to deforestation and denuding of topsoil. It has been estimated that we have lost about a third of our topsoil, which acts as a sponge to hold water where it is useful. Increased and more efficient drainage adds to the speed of run-off.” Visher said "there is no particular significance” to below-normal rainfall the past 19 months. "There have been worse dry spells in the past, from which there has always bee® recovery. Rainfall has always averaged out over a period of years,” he said. But he said dry spells become increasingly worse because water use increases while supplies from a given amount of rainfall decrease.

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