Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 68, Decatur, Adams County, 22 March 1954 — Page 3

MONDAY, MARCH. 22, 1954

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GROUP MEETS AT KIMBEY SCHOOL Forty members, two guests, and ten children of the Blue Creek Township Friendship Village ctyb met Thursday afternoon at the Klmsey school. After Mrs. Rue Strayer, president, opened the meeting, the group sang, “The More We Get Together.” The creed was recited in unison, and Mrs. Helen Burkhart gave the devotions. The song of the month was discussed and the group sang “Happy Birthday” to Agnes Carver and Mabie Miller. Installation of officers was conducted by a former president, Roxie Schaadt, after which a le»eon on cooking of organ meats was given by Jessie Maitlen and Lettie Burkhart. Mrs. Strayer conducted a business session. A donation was made by the club for the Red Cross fund, and Nora Bollenbacher reported for the travel committee. Tickets were passed out to be sold for the achievement day pancake and sausage feast which will be held May 1 at the Decatur high school. The meeting closed with the reading of the collect Marjorie Carver conducted the birthday auction. A delicious luncheon was served by the hostesses, Mary Ellen Beer, Mary Raudenbush, Lulu RaudenQuality Photo Finishing Work left before 8:00 p. m. Monday/ ready Wednesday at 10 a. m. ■\ Holthouse *■ Drug Co. *

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bush, Mary Wolff, Elclnda Wolff, and Georgia McMichel. ROOT TOWNSHIP FARM BUREAU CONDUCTS MEETING The Root Township Farm Bureau met for the’ March meeting recently at the Monmouth school. Devotions Vere given by the social and educational leader. A brief report on the state social and educational convention, which was held in Indianapolis, was given, and a gift was presented to Mrs. Paul Becker, past social and educational leader, for her splendid work. A business session was conducted after which a panel discussion was held. The subject was “bow can Farm Bureau best develop favorable public relations for agriculture?” Mrs. Omer Merriman was moderator and speakers were Mrs. Joe Oelberg, Mrs. Clarence Mitchel, and G. M. Grabill. A question and answer period followed. Moving pictures were then enjoyed. During the social hour refreshments were served by the hostesses, Mrs. Martin Braun and Mrs. Edward Selking. BAPTIST PHILATHEA CLASS MEETS FRIDAY Friday' evening the Philathea class of the Baptist church met in the social rooms of the church. Twelve members and two guests were present. The following officers were elected for the coming year: president, Mrs. Hope Moyer; vicepresident, Miss Nancy Fields; secretary, Mrs. Jimmy Reace; and treasurer, Mrs. Dot Johnson. Curtis Moser presented a gift atia memorial to his wife who had been a member of the class since ft was organized. J During the social hour a reading, ‘‘Housecleaning,” and several

rggwijOn I * I Society Item* for‘today’s publication must be phoned In by 11 a. m. (Saturday 9:30 a. m.) Sharon Kimble Phone 3-2121 MONDAY Flo-Kan Sunshine Girls, K. of P. home, 6:15 p.m. Executive officers of Women’s association of Presbyterian church Mrs. Lowell Harper, 7:30 p.m. Music department of Decatur Woman's Club, Methodist Church, 7:30 p. m. Pythian Sisters Needle club of Eureka temple, K. pf P. home, after temple. TUESDAY Rebekah Lodge, 1. O. O. F. hall. 7:30 p.m. Three Link club, I. O. O. F. hall, after lodge. Delta Theta Tau sorority, Elks home, 8 p.m. 'Root township Home Demonstration club, annual husband’s party, Monmouth school, 6:30 p.m. XI Aplha Xi and Delta Lambda chapters of Beta Sigma Phi sorority, Mrs. Glen Hill. 8 p.m. Church Mothers study club, Mrs. Lowell Smit|i, 8 p.m. Jolly Housewives Home Demonstration club, Pleasant Mills school, 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY Ruth and Naomi circle of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, church, 2 p.m. Historical Club, Mrs. Rose Weidy, 2:30 o'clock. St. Vincent DePaul society, K. of C. hall, 2 p.m. Women's association of Presbyterian church, 8 p.m. THURSDAY ‘St. Ambrose Study club, Mrs. Bernard Kruse, 7:30 p.m.• W.S.W.S. of Bethany E. U. B. church, at church, 2 p. m. Great Books Discussion Group, Public Library, 8 p. m. Order of the Eastern Star, Masonic hall, 7:30 p.m. Circle 1 of Methodist W.S.C.S., Mrs. D. L. Bedwell, 2 p.m. Emblem club, lElks home, 7:30 p.m. contests were enjoyed. The hostess served lovely refreshments from a table beautifully decorated with Easter appointments. Favors of candy and Easter candles were given to those present. The Tuesday evening meeting of Eta Tau Sigma sorority has been postponed. , The Historical club will meet Wedhesday afternoon at 2:30 with Mrs. Rose Weldy> The St. Ambrose Study club will meet Thursday evening at seventhirty o’clock with Mrs. Bernard Kruse. The name of Don Burke was unintentionally omitted from the list of officers elected recently by V.F.W. Linrberlost Post 6236. - The Monmouth P.T.A. Mothers Study club will tour Ball State Teacher s college, Muncie, Wednesday. The group will meet at the school and plan to be on their way by eight-forty-five o'clock. Mrs. Madge Workinger left Baer field Saturday noon via a United Airlines plane for Sequoia national park in California w-here she has accepted a position at the Giant Forest lodge. The V.F.W. Ladies auxiliary will meet at the post.home this evening at eight o’clock for a party. Thursday afternoon at one-thirty o’clock Mrs. Gyneth Baker will be host for a party for the V.F.W. Ladies auxiliary. Different articles and their use in the home will be shown. - ) At the Adams county memorial hospital: Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Sharp, city, became the parents of a baby boy Monday at 11:12 a.m. He weighed 8 pounds and 2 ounces. A baby son, weighing 7 pounds, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Andrews Sunday at 11:35 p.m. Monday at 5:53 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Schumm, Rockford, 0., became the parents of a baby boy. He weighed 6 pounds and 2 ounces. WJOSRITAL Admitted Mrs. Arthur Miller,. Portland; Lee Faurote, city; Mrs. L. R. Zintsmaster, city; Mrs. William Saut,bine, city. ""Dismissed Mrs,. Remma Kable,. Celina, O.; Mrs. Mattle Krugh., city; Anthony J. Metzler, city; Edward Schug, Berne; Miss Marlene Bietrick, Willshire, O.: Mrs. Raymond Bodie and , twin sons, city; Mrs, Dale Park, Dixon, O.; Mrs. Bertha Campbell, city.

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Seven Traffic Deaths Reported In Indiana Multiple-Fatality Wrecks In Indiana By UNITED PRESS Tiro multiple - fatality wrecks, one of them a train-car crash which killed two Greenfield women, raised Indiana’s weekend traffic fatality toll to seven. Lula May Lyon, 45, and Helen Francis Earnest, 42, Greenfield, were killed Sunday when they drove into the path of * speeding Pennsylvania railroad passenger train at a Greenfield crossing. Authorities said (hey had stopped at the guarded crossing for a freight train, but apparently drove on the tracks without noticing tbe passenger train approaching from the opposite direction. Their bodies were thrown about 50 feet by the impact, witnesses said. Mrs. Lyon was killed outright. Mrs. Earnest, the driver, died a short time later in Hancock county hospital. Earlier Sunday, two University of Notre Dame students were killed and a third injured critically when a wr in which they were riding swerved into a ditch and overturned. Dead were James Richard Byrnes, 21, Wauwatosa, Wis., and Clinton W. Core, Jr., 20, Graybull, Wyo. Their companion, Edward Dargis, 21, South Bend, was hurt critically. Police said the accident occurred just south of the IndianaMichigan state line on Ind. 23. Late Sunday, Mrs. Mary Hummer, 70, near Pennville, was killed and her husband, George, 70, injured critically when their auto collided head-on with another in Ind. 167 near Dunkirk. 'John C. Grouch, 21, Dunkirk, driver of the other car, and a passenger, Raymond Huitz, 21, Dunkirk, were hospitalized at Portland. Hummer was taken to Ball memorial hospital, Muncie. A three-car wreck on Ind. 23 early Sunday claimed the life of a soldier stationed at Fort Harrison. State police said Sgf. Emil Robert Berger, 27, Ellinwood, Kans., was killed when he tried to pass one car, sideswiped an approaching auto, apd then crashed into the car he intended to pass. None of the other motorists was hurt. Elizabeth Anderson, 67, Brazil, was killed Saturday when she was struck by a car while crossing a street near her home. The driver was identified as RollieWilliams, Brazil. » ■*%; • Air Force Jet Pilot Is Killed In Crash SOUTH BEND. Ind., UP — Authorities today identified an air force jet pilot, killed when his plane crashed near St. Joseph county airport, as Lt. William P. Kenyon, 31, Del Rio, Tex. The victim, who was married, and the father of two children, was a member "tis the instrument pilot flight training wing at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas. Kenyon’s father, Ralph, 67, lives in nearby Elkhart. It was reported the pilot flew here to visit him. The victim’s mother was in Texas. Report Big Trucks Blown Off Highway FRANKFORT, Ind. UP — A ■windstorm blew two big trucks off a highway and upset one of them three days ago, it was learned today. Two drivers for the Merchants Box Co., Indianapolis, told authorities a powerful gust of wind struck as they drove along U. S. 421 near Kirklin. Neither driver was hurt. The storm also blew down trees and utility lines in the area. Mr. and Mrs. G. Y. Trimble of St. Joseph, 81., and Phillip K. Trimble of Detroit, Mich., were weekend—guests-at the—heme—ofD. C. Langston. Frank Schmitz has returned from visiting with his son. Captain Paul B. Schmitz, and family of Tucson, Ariz. •Miss Dorothy Jeanne Kohne, junior at Northwestern university, is spending her spring vacation with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Kohne. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Beehler and sons, Butch and Roger, visited with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Beehler of Decatur. Jack Petrie, student at Hanover college, visited over tbe weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Petrie. American and French troops used University Hall at Brown University for a barracks while posted at Providence, R. 1., during the American Revolution. Cotton stored for more than 80 years has been found to be in excellent condition for fabrication into cloth.

Strikes Parked Car In Decatur Sunday patricla Lou Reichert, 18, Monroe, route one, was the driver ot an automobile which struck the parked car of Douglas Gilpin, at the corner of Adams and Eleventh streets Sunday. Damage to the two cars was estimated at $45. There were no personal injuries. Plane Crash Report Found To Be Hoax Sent Hundreds Into Fruitless Search VIPITENO. Italy, UP — A "mystery man” who sent hundreds of police, troops and planes on a 36-hour search for a "crashed American plane” that never existed said today he did it to attract attention to hie "pitiful” situation. /Lt. Mario Fichera, commander 6f the federal police headquarters here, said the man wore a U. S. air force sergeant’s uniform but claimed he was a Polish veteran who fought in Italy dhd later Was transferred to England. ( The man gave his name as Wasily Kowalenko and said he was born in the small town of Woctamek near Warsaw. Kawalenkp said he “received” an American uniform while working in a civilian job with an American command in West Germany and crossed into Italy clandestinely. "When I arrived in Italy I knew I would be caught traveling around in a uniform and I therefore told police I had bailed out of an American plane,” police quoted him. “This story r I knew, would attract wide attention and I would be in a position to get a good job.” Fichera said the man may be charged with hiding bis identity a*d masquerading in a U. S. uniform. The strange story started Saturday when a man wearing an American uniform stopped at a federal police station, identified himself as U. S. air force Sgt. Jim Smitbly of Chicago and said he had bailed out of a burning U. S. reconnaissance plane which had crashed in the Alps. The man told American officials rushed from Germany that he left “Lt. Jim Knolt” behind him when he jumped and that the plane was attached to the 36th air base. American officials said later there was no such unit, that they had never heard of Smithly or Knolt and that no plane was missing. But the search was already underway and for 36 hours police* and army units climbed through the. Alps looking for the non-exist-ent wreckage. Kowalenko himself directed the search saying he vfould not give up until “the lieutenant” was found. McCarthy Move Is Halted By Solons Attempt To Query Brownell Stymied WASHINGTON UP — Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy R-Wis. tried today to question Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. on why a newspaperman has not been prosecuted for espionage. .Democratic members of a senate appropriations subcommittee rebelled, and a Republican sided with them. • Sen. Allen J. Ellender D-La. said .McCarthy could get his information by letter “without making a big show of it” in a public hearing of the appropriations subcommittee. , Sen. Pat McCarran D-Nev., a veteran investigator of Communfsts, agreed. ’■' — “We’re not here to try espionage cases,” McCarran said “The point is well taken,” said Sen. Everett M. Dirksen R-111. who is also a member of McCarthy's permanent investigations subcommittee. The exchange occurred when McCarthy asked Brownell why the justice department had shown “re.luctance” to submit to the grand jury an espionage case against a newspaperman. He did not identify the newspaperman, McCarthy, who has said he has undertaken a personal project-of Communist infiltration of the press* and radio in W’ashington, said there had been “repeated recommendations” that the case be prosecuted, and two justice department aides worked on it for several months under the Truman administration. Browhell said he had not heard about the case, but would look into it. McCarthy then tried to question Warten Olney, head of the department’s criminal division, about the case. "Please address that question to me," Brownell broke in. "I will examine the file. Anything I can do that will not interfere with orderly presentation ot the case, I will be glad to do.” If you have something to sen or rooms tor rent, try a Democrat Want Add. It brings results.

Says No Negligence Involved In Tests Senator Asserts No H-Bomb Negligence WASHINGTON, (UP) — Sen. Bourke B. 41ickenlooper, R-lowa said today there is nothing to indicate that negligence was involved in the March 1 H-bomb test that accidentally dumped radioactive dust on 287 persons. Hickenlooper, vice chairman of the senate-house atomic energy committee, said he therefore sees no particular reason why the mishap should be investigated as several congressmen have demanded. “I haven’t any reason at all to believe that there was any negligence or carelessness in the tests down there,” he said.. And he emphasized that the committee “constantly receives” information on atomic affairs, including the recent test. He said the committee is. of course, concerned for the welfare of the 287 persons, including 28 Americans, who were unexpectedly subjected to radiation. But he said he believes no special procedures are necessary to get all the facts. Preliminary reports already have said a change of wind and the unexpected power of the blast sent the radioactive fall-out or falling particles down on the 287 victims. Editor-In-Chief Os Boston Paper Dies BOSTON, UP-—Funeral services will be held in New York City Thursday for Walter C. Howey, 72-year-old editor-in-chief of the Boston Record-American Sunday Advertiser who died at his home here Sunday. Howey, a member of the Hearst newspaper organization since 1917 recently was discharged from at hospital where he had been treaty ed for injuries suffered in an automobile accident. Howey’s wife, Gloria, died of injuries 10 days after the accident. GIRLSCOUT Brownie troop 11 met Wednesday afternoon. We opeped by singing “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.” We made shamrock favors, and then we took a walk. Hostess was Susan Reynolds; next week’s hostess will be Charlotte -Gephart. Scribe, Sally Schnepf. FILM Left Today Ready Tomorrow at 3:00 Closed All Day Thursday EDWARDS STUDIO Open 8:30 a. m. to 5:00 p. m.

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Railing Reelected Head Os Auxiliary Alva Railing was reelected commander of the father’s auxiliary, Post 23 of VFW 6236. Other officers elected are as follows: William Hunt, senior vicecommander; Ray Ballard, junior

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vice-commander; Herman Moellering, quartermaster; G. Remy Bierly, judge advocate; Sam Haggard, chaplain; Kenneth Barker, threeyear trustee; Fred Wagner, twoyear trustee; Adolph Bauman, oneyear trustee. A joint installation of officers will be held at the post home April 5. -

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