Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 12 April 1954 — Page 2

wagb six tl |f Fatality Sunday Pedestrian Death Only One In State By UNITED PRESS > A fata) car-pedestrian accident marred an otherwise "perfect" 48-hour highway safety mark Sunday nights as Indiana recorded only three weekend traffic deaths. The count, one of the lowest of the year, Included a father and son killed Friday night. There

SALE CALENDAR APRIL 15—12:30 p. m. Calvin McKean. 5 miles south of Decatur on U. S. 27 to Connies Market then 1 mile west or 1 mile north and 1 mile west of Monroe. Roy & Ned Johnson, Asets. APRIL 17—3:00 p. in. Kenneth Hoffman. 5 miles south of Preble on black top road, then 1 mile west or 4 miles west of Coppess Corner on road 124 then 1 mile north at Honduras. Closing ■— out sale. Roy & Ned Johnson, Aucts. southeast of Decatur on Piqua road, then % mile east, then % miles south or 3>4 miles northwest of Willshire on Piqua road, then % mile north. Personal property sale. Roy & Ned Johnson, Aucts. APR. 17—1:30 p. m. Mr. & Mrs. Howard Shultx, owners. 2 miles east, 1 mile north, % mile east of Decatur. Machinery, cattle, furniture. Ge raid Strickler, D. S. Blair, Auctioneers. C W. Kent, Sales Mgr. APRIL 17—10.-WL a. m. Heirs of Emma Stewart, deceased. Ralph M Ja*in, administrator. CraigviUe. Ind. Real estate and personal property. Herman Strahm, auctioneer. APRIL 17—It. L. Gorrell, in Sherwood. Ohio, first street south of BAD R. R. on Route 127. then east to first house across NYC R.R. Household Goods. Garden Equipment, Miscellaneous items. 1:00 (Ohio Time). Midwest Realty Auction Co., J. F. Sanmann. Auctioneer. APRIL 19—1:00 p. m. Col. J. N. Burkhead, M mile west of Coppess Corner on road 124. Household goods and miscellaneous articles. Roy & Ned Johnson, Aucts. APRIL 23—Harry A. Smith, One mile east of Huntington. Ind. Court House on State St. then ’4 mile smith. Highly Productive 40 Acres with Complete Set of Modern Improvements. 1:30 P. M. Midwest Realty Auction Co., J. F. Sanmann. Auct. APRIL 24 —Geo. L: Coble, 7 miles south of Huntington, Jnd. on Hwy. 37 then H mile west. Well Improved 40 Acres with Modern Six Room Home. 1:30 P. M. Midwest Realty Auction Co., J. F. —-• Saumann. Auctioneer. — —■—■ APRIL 24—David Macklin. Admr. Estate of Robert Ailerson, 2 miles east of Decatur on U. S. 224 then % mile south. Garage equipment, tools, etc. Roy & Ned Johnson. Auctioneers. APRIL 24 —David A. Macklin. Admr. Robert W. Ailerson. 2 miles east of Decatur on U. S. 224 then % mile south. Garage equipment end tools. Roy & Ned Johnson. Aucts. APRIL 26, 27—4:30 p. m. Hardware and Appliances. Wren, Ohio. — Formerly known as Miller’s Hardware. Gerald Strickler, D. S. Blair, auctioneers. C. W. Kent, sales mgr. MAY I—John DeVoss, Executor, Estate of Catherine Sackett, Monroe, Ind. 5-room home and household furniture. Roy & Ned Johnson, Auctioneers. MAY 1—2:30 p. m. John L. De Voss. Exec. Catherine Sackett, t 4 block west of the Town Hall on Main street, Monroe. Personal ’ . property and real estate. Roy & Ned Johnsen, Aucts. MAY S —■12:30 P. M. C. L. Yost, ts mile southeast of Deeatur on U. S. . road 33. 50 registered Aberdeen Angus cattle. Roy A Ned Johnson. Aucts.

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were no traffic fatalities Saturday, and only one Sunday. Henry Week, 70, near Urbana, was killed when struck by a car while crossing Ind. 13 near his home to attend Palm Sunday services at church. State police said Week parked his cat along the road and was walking across the highway when hit by a car driven by Lee L. Flora. 50, Peru. Authorities said he was carried 40 feet on the car's fender, then thrown another 20 feet. A car-truck crash near Loogootee killed Samuel Graber, 54, and his son, James, 24, Friday night. Police said the crash occurred at a connXy road intersection.

Interest Light In Illinois Primary First Primary In Nation On Tuesday CHICAGO UP — Voter interest was reported light today in Illinois’ primary election, first in ths nation this year, despite a nineman race for the Republican nomination for U. S. senatorr. Democratic and Republican party leaders both predicted thd turnout, would be relatively small, perhaps as low as 1,500,000. Cook county alone has more than 2,500,000 registered voters. Democrats had little to attract them to the polls. Sen. Paul H. Douglas (Dili.) is unopposed for renomination and there are no jtna-. jor contests for Cook county offices. On the Republican side, even a nine-man field in the ,GO>P senatorial contest —an ■ all-time record number of candidates—failed to stir unusual interest. Downstate congressman Rep. Harold Velde (4t-IH.), chairman of the house un-American activities committee, was facing serious primary challenge from a veteran state legislator. In the senatorial race, and other contests with more than two candidates, the man with the most voteflf will be declared winner even though he fails to win a majority. With the campaigning almost over, most observers believed that only five of the nine fuls had serious chances for victory. They are Austin Ik. Wyman, Joseph T. Meek, HayeS, Park Livingston and Julius Klein. Velde’s opponent. Robert H. Allison. is « known friend of labor in industrialized Peoria county, the largest of Velde’s home district. To counteract this, Velde has said he is -working for the “rank and file” of labor and not “unscrupulous labor bosses. Particular NASHVILLE, Tenn., UP — W. G. Baker got free paint jobs on both of his cars. However, Baker told police he didn’t like the color schemes. A night-time vandal sprayed his two cars with white, blue and aluminum paint.

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WILLIAM C. OsKONING SR., 66. U escorted from court Id Mineola, N. Y., where he was sentenced to three terms of one year to 18 months in Sing Sing Prison on two counts of extortion and one of grand larceny. The former Nassau County labor leader was charged with mulcting $860,090 a year from employees of the Roosevelt Raceway and from building contractors. His son, William C. DeKoning Jr, 35, drew a ore-year suspended sentence in prison for coercion. (International)

Presbyterian Church Observes Holy Week Opening Services Held Here Sunday The sacrament of baptism and reception of the 1954 Lenten communicant's class marked the opening cf Holy Week services Sunday at the First Presbyterian church. Baptized during the regular worship service were Eric Alan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Heller; Daniel Clyde, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stallbaum; John Willia, son of Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Cravens, and George Jeffery and Karen Kay, children of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Zimmerman. Members of the communicant . cLass received into the church during the service were Jay DeVoss, Mary Kocher, Larry Macklin, Sara Runyon, Jean Smith and Karen Zimmerman. They were received after completing a six weeks course and passing the examination by the .session Friday evening. Services planned for the remainder of Holy Week are as follows: Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.— Lenten prayer service, “The Abiding Presence.” Maunday Thursday communion service 7:30 p.m. The adult choir will present a concert to provide each one the occasion for contemplation and preparation before partaking of the Lord’s Supper. Union Good Friday service, 12 noon to 3 p.m. at First Methodist church. Miss Alice Langston of the Presbyterian church will sing during the third hour service. . • a h-A pan. ■ '.Friilay,'. ifiunifan--"Rev. walther will ’a'atniir ifeter the sacrament to all those unable tn attend the Thursday service. Only those ’ who request the sacrament before Thursday evening will be served. • Easter Sunday. Union sunrise service for youth at 6 a.tn. at the First Methodist church. Following the service, a breakfast will be served to the Westminster Fellowshippers at the manse. During the Sunday school service at 9:15 a.m., "Pages from a Dairy” will be presented. The Easter Sunday services will be at 10:30 a.m., with the morning message on “This Is Life Eternal.” The. choir will sing “The Gloria." and Miss Langston and n ’ul Saurer will sing a duet.

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New Haven Church Damaged By Fire A fire in a small room of St. John the Baptist Catholic church in New Haven Sunday at 12:3-0 p.m. caused a loss of many religions articles and smoke damage to the rest of the church. Total loss was estimated at $15,000. The fire was caused when warm incense and burning charcoal ignited a small cabinet in a room to the left of the altar. New Haven volunteer firemen brought the blaze under control before it could spread to the rest of the church. Mrs. Jeff Augsburger Dies Saturday Night Mrs. Sadie Mae Augsburger. 71, lifelong resident of Adams county. died at 9:30 p. m. Saturday at her home in Linn Grove. She was a member of St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed church at Vera Cruz. Surviving are her husband, Jeff Augsburger; one son, Robert of Geneva; one grandchild, and two brothers, Arnold Ashbaucher cf Bluffton and Orlando Ashbaucher of Toledo. O. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Jahn funeral home in Bluffton, the Rev. H. H. Meckstroth officiating. ; Binial will be in the Vera Cruz twine ter y. XOTK’E OF VOTING PLACKS FOR ( THE PIUMARY KtJEC’TIOV ( Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Adams - Countv, State of Indiana, has fixed . -and designated foUowing as the voting places several i pneinets in said f’ounj V for the . Primary -Flection to be held <sll Tuesday May I. 1951. , • . 1 _itreeixirt.dSn. •aSeiwwi Mouse-. * ’ t-- - a t&idiii t No. r 2 West Union LUckey ■ To bool House , ’ Precinct No. 3 East Root Dent , gehool House -Precinct No. 1 West Hoot Monnioufli School House Precinct No. 5 North Preli'lc h'riedRegn School House Precinct No, 6 South PreMe School bouse 1 nil. north of Preble Precinct No." 7 North Kirkland Clara Ball Residence Peterson Precirnvt No. S (South Kirk land Hoffman’s Gayage. See 26 Precinct No. 9 North Washington .Ben Kiting Residence HrecincS N<>. 10 Soutilt Washington Rinaker School House Precinct No. 11 North St. Mary s ißplio School House Precinct No. 12 South St. Mary’s P. Mills High School Basement Precinct No. 13 North Bkie Creek Kiuuie.V School House, irist. No. ■> Precinct No. II South Blue. Creek DiSt. No. 1. Lincoln School Precinct No, L’> North M- nrvi Town Hall. Monroe Prerin<-t No. 16 South Monroe Election School Preeiin l No. 17 Berne A E. Alam St. Filling Station I’recinet No. IS Berne B . AuditoriU4U Precinct No. 11* Berne C City Hail |*re inct N<>. 2« French Tw p. Election SHfool House Precinct No. 21 North Hart fur d. .Spivhigir Store. Llttn Grove Pre.-Ind No. 22 South Hartford Gail -I I liny on Sec. 35 Precinct No. 22 North Wabash WesG. Amiatutz Residence precinct No 24 Ceylon Quinton Hall Residence, Se<-. to Precinct No. 25 Geneva A Fire Dept Office told Town Ha+H Precinct No. 26 Geneva B New I fad Pfecinrt No. 27 West Jefferson Basement High School. Hreeinet No. 2S East Jeff-rson Frame Si bob’! House se cor See. -. .17 .. ■• .. a’ ■ ■ liECATI It "reeiuet No.. 29 First Ward r> Pre ittet No. 2') First Ward A M'. Brides Welding Shop WtrffiiTST' Pre-inet No. Jll First Ward B t’ol- ' ter Brik' i-ete Fact. Adams & 10111 Pre ini t No. 31 First - Ward C t’ouniv Jail Precinct -No, 32 First Ward D Am- . old I,umber t.’n. Office Winches- « ter St. K- Erie It. R. Precinct -V0.'33 Second IV ;i rd ’A Co .rt House Preeim-t No. 31 Second Ward 1? Fife Station *■ Pte iuit No. 35 Second War’d C Wortlbr.ap Field House Prei-inet No. 36 Tbi'd Ward A i " i’ojnty Highway Garage P’reJ-ipei No. 37 ’HiH'd Ward B La' j nderajJ Laundry. 7‘>h St. Pr einet No. -'IS Third Ward C Jess Sheets Garage, 957 Walnut St. pre'-inct No. 39 Decatur - Root Kbu|»* IJ-«u»ewoo4 Grwag)'. JAash.-- ' ihgton st. LEWIS 11. WORTH-M - tto Hoffman H.MtLEY J. REEF Bv Order of Board Os 1 Awn miss ion ers FRANK KITSON. Auditor — Adams County, Indiana AIR. 12—19

Viet Nam War Cabinet Orders 140,000 Drafted * Order Coincides With Counterattack By French Forces HANOI, Indochina, (UF) — The newly formed Viet N*m war cabinet today ordered the drafting of 140,000 more men in a major win-' the-war effort aimed at putting all able-bodied men under arms. The cabinet's first action in drafting ail men aged 20-25, anncunded in Saigon, coincided with a heavy counterattack by French Union forces from their foxholes at Dien Bien Pha in an effort to ciush a threatened Communist assault. It was the second heavy French counterattack of the weekend and came after the Reds made six futile efforts to drive French Un-, ion forces from a strategic hill overlooking Dien Bien Phu. The cabinet, meeting under Premier Prince Buu Loe, estimated the draft would increase the Vietnamese armies by 140,000. The gain will not be larger, officials said, because many young men already have volunteered. Severe penalties were prescribed foi draft dodders but delinquents will have until April 30 to join up without sanction. Bloody close - quarters fighting was in'progress around the hiil which overlooks both the besieged fortress'and the Communist positions east of Dien Bien Phu. ft is only half a mile from the French command headquarters. It was the second big French Union counter-attack of the weekend. In the first Col. Christian De Castries sent tanks to the hill to save the French and loyal Vietnamese troops who had beaten hack five battalion-size Communist attacks. French artillery went into action from the strategic height against the enemy but the Communists mounted a sixth attack during the night. It failed and the French moved out of their foxholes with bayonets fixed. Communist troops have tunneled ever closer to the heart of the besieged fortress for the past week end French sources said the enemy slashed a trench through the southern French airstrip* today rendering it useless. Hoosier Arrested On Murder Warrant FORT WAVNIE, Ind. UP — Leon Peeler, 30, Syracuse, Ind., was arrested Saturday night on a Chicago warrant charging murder. Peeler was caught on the basis of information in a circular from Chicago police saying he was wanted in the death of Leon Hiil, 31, who died March 4 of injuries suffered in an assault Feb. ll._ 'Peeler-was arrested in a restaurant.. -He denied the assault.. HA shgl hevfi'ad .pot' since last November.* He signed a waiver for return to Illinois and was held on $20,000 bond.

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Indiana Congressmen Seek Renominalion Five Os Incumbents Have Opposition INDIANAPDU3. CUP) -- Rep. Charles A. Halleck, house majority leader, seeking his 10th term, and 10 other congressmen bid for renomination in Indiana primaries May 4. Nine other Republicans and Rep. Ray J. Madden, lone. Democrat in the Hoosier delegation, are candidates for new terms. Halleck and five other GOP congressmen have no party opposition and automatically qualify for the November election ballot. But Madden, who led a house investigation of the Katyn Forest massacre in World War 11, and four Republicans have opposition. Ordinarily, the odds would be heavily in favor of all 11 being renominated. No incumbent congressman has lost in an Indiana primary since 1942. But a GOP factional fight between the forces of Sens. William E. Jenner and Homer E. Cape hart on the one hand, and Gov. George N. Craig on the other, has projected what observers consider a bitter battle for Rep. Earl Wilson’s seat in the 9th district. Wilson, second only to Halleck in years of service in congress, is said to be lined up with the Craig faction. State Sen. Ed Whitcomb, a prisoner of war of the Japanese in World War 11, was entered In the race as a candidate of the Jenner-Capehart forces. Whitcomb vyas given a chance to unseat Wilson, who early in hia Washington career proposed a wartime curfew for. government workers so they would get to work on time. Wilson has been in the house since 1941. Halleck has been there since a special election in 1935. Other congressmen seeking new terms are Reps. Shepard J. Crumpacker. Ross Adair, William Bray and Bailey Merrill, who are unopposed; Ralph Harvey and John Beamer, who have one opponent each, and Charles Brownson. who has four rivals in the 11th district (Indianapolis). Rep. Cecii Harden, a 59-year-old grandmother who has been in congress einee 1949, also has no opposition in her nomination bid. Among the liemocratie candidates are Winfield K. Denton of Evansville and John R. yralsh of Anderson, former house members; Edwin A. Lynskowinski. Seymour, a basketball coach, and Mrs. Inez M. Scholl. Connersville. Democratic national committeewoman. The first free schools for Negroes were founded in Charleston, S. C.. as early as 1740.

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Return Engagement Os Quo Vadis Here The return engagement of “Quo Vadis,” which will be presented at the Adams Theater Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, bring# for the first time this magnificent production on wide-range panoramic screen. This picture, which has baen booked as a special attraction for Holy Week, was shown in Decatur nearly two years ago at, greatly increased admission prices, but this time, only the regular low admission will b® charged. “Quo Vadis," which stars ®obert Taylor and Deborah Kerr, includes in the cast thousands of extras, and the wide screen shows to great advantage the huge spectacles and mammoth crowd scenes. The burning of Rome, depicted in vivid Technicolor, is said to be particularly sensational. A< special matinee for the pupils the St. Joseph school is being bald at 1 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, at which the Sisters of St. Agnes will be the guests of the management. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur.

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