Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 186, Decatur, Adams County, 9 August 1954 — Page 1

Vol HI. No. 186.

Ready Final Resting Place Os Emilie Dionne <•; W-. '■■ . : w J 9ttEBL- 3MV HN . ,■ ■‘WfiMi HH 4J * ’ 4SH& 9 '•< JHe * #%ami| , ™l*s1 T . O,ONNE J l *?'- of the beloved Dionne Quintuplets, and Romeo LeWond. a cousin, arburial plot at Corbeil, Ontario, in preparation for the funeral of Emilie, cinirt aLV I *. nt! ’' wh<> dled in a Quebec religious rest home. An autopsy dis“at the girt died during an epileptic seizure of acute edema (the accumulation of fluid® in the tieeues) and* lun« congestion. Emilie was buried on Monday in the spot directly in front of Leblond

Emilie Dionne Laid To Res) This Morning Dionne Quintuplet Buried Today In Country Cemetery CORBEIL, Ont. (INS) — Emilie Dionne wan buried today v in a light, dismal rain, amid more than two hundred mourners, in a lonely country cemetery. Three of Emilie's quintuplet sisters — Yvonne. Annette and Cecile ~ were graven faced but quiet as Emilia's body waalo wared JtUA the earth. .' -* = ' But little Marie, always closest to Emilie among the five 20-year old girls, could not contain her tears, and sobbed softly. From nearby, the bell from the little Catholic church where the requiem high mass for Emilie was said, tolled out over the stretching green farm field in a sad farewell. It tolled the end of the close companionship of the world’s most famous daughters. A silent and prayerful crpwd surrounded the quints and their mother and father as a priest intoned at the graveside: “May the angels lead thee into paradise: may the martyrs receive thee at thy coming . . . may the choir of angels receive thee, and may you have eternal rest . ~” Marie wept quietly and bowed her head on her simple white collar of her black drees. t Annette. Cecile and Yvonne nev. er opened their eyes as the parish priest, the Reverend W. H. Lafrance, recited the prayers over the pale, grey coffin. Earlier, the tiny Marie sobbed uncontrollably in church as the coffin was being carried by her brothers and brothers-in-law from the jammed, little church. The long funeral cortege moved slowly a mile to the desolate burying ground. A light drizzle began to fail. The coffin was carried into the aenwfeiy between strands of a crude barbed wire fence to the planted flowers that her two brothers had lovingly waterd just Sunburial place, marked by newly day. , The quints and their parents followed the coffin to the shallow, four-foot grave, and then the quints closed their eyes. The coffin was placed in a brown, steel vault. Marie winced as she glanced at It only once for a frac r tion of a second. No one In the crowd spoke. No one moved. The only sounds were the words of the priest and the moolgg of Cows in a nearby farm field. '• A plane droned overhead as the family began to leave. Papa Dionne took bis famous girls by their aims and moved them slowly away so they would not have to watch the actual lowering Os the coffin into the grave. Hundreds of farm folk and visitors from throughout Canada trudged up a hillside to the small church for the requiem high mass at 9:30 a.m. , Papa and Mama Dionne, their beads bowed, followed their famous daughter's casket up the wooden steps of the town church. The mother was supported by her daughter, Rose. , The four remaining quintuplets (CanUaseU Ua rage Five)

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Sheppard Hearing Is Delayed To Thursday Grants Continuance Sought By Defense di-VELA ND (IN) —Hearing on an affidavit .of prejudice filed by attorneys for accused wife-killer Dr. Samuel Sheppard was continued today until Thursday to allow the defense to obtain additional witnesses. Cuyahoga county common pleas Judge Frank J. Merrick granted the continuation requested by Dr. Sheppard’s chief defense attorney, William Corrigan, and rescheduled the hearing for 10:15 a, m. EDT Thursday. Dr. sheppard was not presentbut ■MI gl u»ii w to"Uie Thursday tearing. Corrigan charged in the affidavit that Day Village council president Gerahom M. M. Barber, who signed the ’warrant for Dr. Sheppard's arrest on July 30th ia not qualified because he is “prejudiced" and he had already formed an opinion of guilt regarding Dr. Sheppard. Barber, who was present at fchis morning's brief court session, eaid that if Judge .Merrick had denied Corrigan the affidavit, he had planned to hold the preliminary hearing at 1 p. m. this afternoon at Bay Village city hall. If Judge 'Merrick upholds the affidavit. however, the preliminary hearing will be transferred to another suburban mayor's court or to Cleveland municipal court. In older to obtain the extension of time. Corrigan waived a state law which to obtain the extension of time, Corrigan waived a state law which requires that the defendant tn a murder case be given a preliminary hearing within 10 days after hte arrest. Today was the 'loth day after the 30-year-old osteopath’s arrest and the preliminary hearing and was originally scheduled tor this morning. The affidavit took precedence over the hearing, however. Corrigan, a prominent Cleveland criminal lawer, would not -say whom he plans to subpoena tor the affidavit hearing Thursday. Shortly before this morning's brief hearing, cornorer Samuel R. Gerber ordered the bed on which Dr. Sheppard's wife, Marilyn, was murdered taken from her suburban Bay Village home for use in re-enacting the crime at the murder trial and for scientific tests. Also removed from the home was the downstairs sofa on which Dr. Sheppard says he was sleeping when he heard his wife's ecreams on July Fourth, the day she ,wa» bludgeoned 27 timee on the face and head. The Bay Village neurosurgeon has told police he was sleeping on the sofa when he heard his wife cfy out in terror. He claim* he ran upstairs and struggled with the killer before he was knocked unconscious. Meanwhile, detective inspector James £. McArthur reported that a close relative of Marilyn told I»olice that Dr. Sheppard asked his (CaatlnaeU Os !•««» Five) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with ohance of a few scattered thundershowers extreme north this evening. Little change in temperature. Low tonight 58-64. High Tuesday 78 83 north, 83-87 south.

Study Charges Made Against Sen. McCarthy Committee Confers On Elimination Os Some Os Charges WASHINGTON (INS) — The sixmember blue-ribbon committee investigating misconduct charges against Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy will confer today on whether to eliminate some of the lesser counts against the Wisconsin Republican. The important meeting Will de•*’***‘"T" ' * ***’ ’ r>f. tha zfi count Ji •gftia&L M cC&r thy sfiouTa o? eliminated on the premise that some of the charges overlap while others are of little moment. Meanwhile, Sen. Edwin C. Johnson. of Colorado, one of the three Democrats on the special committee headed by Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R Utah), suggested that defenders as well as accusers be given a chance to testify. Johnson said: "We will want testimony from those who preferred charges and people who are perhaps refuting charges. 1 can't predict what will happen from time to time, but I know this is not a quickie. We have got to come up with a good job.” Watkins said that a legal opinion may be needed before some of the charges are dropped. He explained: “I can see half a dozen legal questions there now. We may need to have some research done before we drop any of the charges." He said that conclusions reached by- the Mundt subcommittee which aired McCarthy's row with the army may result in relieving “some of our responsibility and narrowing the issues." The report of the group headed by Sen. Karl Mundt (R S.D.), is due by the end of this week. Sen. Francis Case (R S.D.), a member of the committee studying the censure resolution, said that some of the charges against McCarthy would not warrant censure even it true. He said, however, that others, if proven true, would constitute grounds for formal criticism by the senate. Meanwhile, the senator wlito originally proposed that the controversial Issue be referred to a special committee said he feels that senate sentiment would go along with the recommendations made by the group. Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R NJ.), whose plan for a special com--1 mlttee won overwhelming approval, also declared that members 1 of the senate cannot commit themselves on that point at this stage. 1 Smith made his comments on I NBC’s televised “Meet the Press.” 1 A two-week delay in the start of 1 bearings on the censure contro--1 versy appears likely. Watkins ruled 1 out hearings before congress completes its legislative work, which ’ will be Saturday at the very eari liest. Then, he said, committeeI men will need a "breather" of a i few days before getting down to work. " • , Watkins and his panel expect to give the senate this week some estimate of the time it- will need to make a report. This will be ths basis on which the senate can decide whether to take thrte-day recesses until the report is ready, or come back later this fall to act (TUS Ta Face Klatt)

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Wabash Man Killed And Wife Critically Injured In Accident Near City

30 Are Dead In Airliner Crash Today Three Americans In Crash Os Liner In Portuguese Azores LISBON (IN) —Thirty persons, including three Americans, were raported killed early today when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Constellation place crashed and burned in the -Portuguese Azores. The Parte office of the Avianca -said the U. S. citizen aboard were Franklin and Gertrude Prager and an American crew member named Hopkins. There was no other immediate identification. The crash occurred at 12:40 a. m. Azores time 10:40 p. m. Sunday EDT. shortly after the fourengine airliner bound from Parte to Bogota took off from I-ages airport. The plane enroute to Columbia byway of Lisbon, tlie Azores and’ Bermuda, crashed into a mountain near the airport on Terceira te-i land. An Avianca official in Lisbon renartifia. -found no* The plane reportedly hhd been diverted from the main Azores commercial base at Santa Maria to Lages, which is a U. S. military airport with commercial facilities, because of heavy tog. There were 21 passengers and nine crewmen aboard. Visibility was reported still poor when .the big plane took off at Terceira island, which is the third largest island in the Azores. The island ia volcanic and mountainous with steep cliffs along the shores. The highest point on the island is about 3,500 feet. The Avianca office in Paris said that the Pragers boarded the plane there. Another passenger was named Donald Mclntyre but his nationality was not determined. The names of the other passengers indicated they were Spanish or Latin American nationals, but their home addresses were not immediately -learned. The airlines spokesman -said 12 Germane from Hamburg had been booked to take the plane, but they cancelled at the last moment. Mrs. Betty Ruble Dies This Morning Young Adams County Woman Dies Today Mrs. Betty Ruble, 21, wife of Thomas Ruble, residing in Union township, six miles northeast of Decatur, died at 6 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital following an illness of three weeka«pf complications. She was born in Van Wert county, O„ Dec. 2, 1932, a daughter of -Mr. and Mrs. William Pancake. She was a graduate of the Convoy high school. The family moved to Adams county about one year ago. Mrs. Ruble was a member of the Bethlehem Lutheran chtirch of Convoy, O. Surviving in addition to her husband are a daughter, Debra Lynne; her parents, Mt. and Mrs. William Pancake of Convoy, route 2; aix brothers, Harold, Kenneth and William Pancake, Jr., all of Convoy, of Findlay, 0., and Carl and Herbert, both of Van Wert, and two sisters, Mrs. Lucille ’ Kolbaw of Fort Wayne and Mias Mary Loulae Pancake, at home. The body was removed to the Marquart funeral home at Monroeville, where friends may call alter 12 noon Tuesday. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

Increased County Budget Approved Three-Cent Boost In County Budget Adams county commissioners thia morning approved a 1955 county budget which would raise .the tax levy from last year’s 38 cents to 41 cents. An 11-cent welfare., tax levy, a two-cent COUU,ty 4-H levy and a 12-eent hospital levy were also approved by the commissioners. the coming year requires an income of $137,278 from taxes on the $40,814,330 of taxable property. The county council will meet in September for final action on this budget. The 12-cent levy would be required by the proposed $267,070 hospital budget, of which $51,293 would be raised by taxation. This levy would be a nine-cent raise over last year’s hospital levy. The county welfare department proposed budget is $44,622 which would require the 11-cent levy. This is a slight increase over last year’s budget of $40,950. * The county highway department's budget for the coming year will be $222,480 if finally approved. This amount comes from other tax sources and does not require a county levy. - The ~ t>lete jjudkat.. Kllt-ha. Democrat” later and a date for a public hearing on the budget will be set. Heavy Traffic Toll On State Highways Two Couples Killed In Head-on Collision INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — A huge highway death toll of Indiana residents was lecorded during the past week-end. The carnage list was headed by two Indianapolis couples who were injured fatally on the crest of a hill on Road 40, two miles west of Martinsville. 111. yictims were James R. Hutson, 47; his wife: Mae Jean, 47; Leroy Gong 55, and his wife, Rena H„ 49. All were riding in an autoi mobile which collided head on with a dump truck. Three-year-old Dennis Laymon, of Casey, 111., a passenger in the truck, was injured critically. . Judith Ann Eisler, 15. of Hebron, met death when a car driven by her father, Leonard Eiler, went off road 2, a mile south of Valparaiso, then swung back onto the pave ment and stiuck an automobile driven by Hugh A- Sanders, 35, of Whiting. Robert E. Myers, 29, of near Portland, was killed when he lost control of his automobile which hit. a tree near Portland. Elmer C. Godsey, 29, a soldier stationed at Fort Benjathin Harrison, was killed when his cat and a tractor-trailer crashed on Road 67, one mile west of Oaklandou. Walter D. Read. 64, of Indianapolis, driver of the trailer, was uninjured. State police said the tractor, owned by Ezra Malone, of Sullivan, was hauling the trailer, owned by the Interstate Motor Freight System and carrying a 13.-000-pound cargo from Indianapolis to Detroit. Three-year-old Jan Ashe Burroughs, of near Hagerstown, met death when a gasoline truck backed over his body in a driveway at the home of hie parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burroughs. Forrest R. Williamson, 25, of Van Wert, 0., and Mrs. Ellene M. Frend, 28< of Elkhart, were killed when his car collided with a sethi-trailer at the intersection of Roads 6 and 15 in southern Elkhart county during a heavy fog. Injuries suffered when he was stnick by an automobile Wednesday caused the death of George Wiederman, 64, Elkhart. He was struck by a car driven by Jack R. Lee, (*iwra Ta r«a» * ■

Senate Is Set For Showdown On Farm Bill Republican Heads Predict Flexible Program To Pass WASHINGTON (INS) — The senate .wM_aet.loday._for a. showdown on the administration’s flexible farm price support program with GOP leaders predicting victory by a “safe” margin. The big test will come on a proposal by senate agriculture committee chairman George D. Aiken (R-Vt.) to authorize flexible farm price supports ranging from 80 to 90 percent of parity on basic commodities, beginning next year. . When the senate meets at noon, it will be operating under a debate limitation that will bring a vote on the Aiken plan five hours later. Thereafter, debate on further amendments will be limited to two hours each, and the senate will have three hours to debate the hill itself after disposing of all amendments. Aiken said he is confident his proposal, which is endorsed by the administration, will win by a mar- - jdd I> lie declared the senate probably will dispose of two other amendments today, and then will spend all of Tuesday completing action on the bill. Aside from the flexible support plan, he anticipates a vote today on his amendments to strike from the bill, as reported by the agriculture committee, the requirement that dairy products be supported at 85 percent of parity, and that mandatory 9ff percept supports be provided for barley, rye. sorghum and oats. He said he was confident of victory in bis efforts to delete these provisions from the bill. After they are out of the -way, he added, there will be 20 other amendments to dispose oL For that reason, he does not anticipate final action bn the bill today, Aiken declared that if the provision to support dairy products at 85 percent of parity stays in the bill, creameries will start holding butter off the market in anticipation of higher prices. Smithson Funeral Tuesday Afternoon Portland Lady Dies Following Operation Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Baird funeral home, Portland, for Mrs. Garnet Smithson, 50, Portland, sister of Gerald V. Timmons. Dally Democrat employe, who died early Sunday morning in the Jay county hospital. Mrs. Smithson underwent an emergency operation Friday and died early Sunday. Survivors Include the husband. Max Smithson, three sons, Kenneth Sanders, Detroit, Micb., Merldith and Max Sanders, Portland; six grandchildren; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Timmons, Portland; five brothers, Gerald, Berne, Nigel. Omer, Virgil and Ross, all of Portland, and two sisters, Mrs. Arbutus Rarick and Mrs. James Stephenson. Portland. Mrs. Smithson was a member of the Womepof the Moose. The body is at the Baird funeral home, where friends may call until time of the funeral Tuesday. Burial will be at tbe Green Park cemetery. Portland. Austrian Proposal Is Accepted By U. S. VIENNA (INS) — The United States accepted today a recent Austrian proposal for a five power committee to study methods of reducing Austria's postwar occupation burdens.

Hoover To Observe Birthday Tuesday : Former President To Be 80 Years Old WEST BRANCH. la. (INS) — Herbert Hoover, “the great engineer" who rose from a penniless orphan at 10 to become the 31st president of the United States, te.turna to West Branch Tuesday to celebrate his 80th birthday. » And America, still resitting Hoo- -. ver's record as a Repnhiicen presi- - dent, through two television and i all four radio networks will take another look at the man who probably was the most villified figure ever to leave the White House. Hoover, the only native lowan and only Quaker ever to become president, comes "home” to a gigantic celebration touched off by an invitation from both houses of the lowa legislature. The little lowa community, now listed as having a population of only 749, was one of the few areas which stood behind Hoover in his hour of defeat in 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was swept into office for the first of four such victories. West Branch in 1932 went for Hoover, 450 to 156, when traditionally Republican lowa went Democratic in the Roosevelt landslide. Vice • President Richard Nixon 1 ■. ; , ■ .-lilUjl. idents and friends and relatives Os Hoover have taken up almost ev--1 ery available lodging space in West Branch and in nearby lowa City and Cedar Rapids, la. Also attending the birthday celebration will be Hoover’s two sons, Herbert J., and Allan. The former president's wife died a decade ago. The venerable former chief executive will be lauded in at least two speeches ns lowa celebrates “Herbert Hoover Day." Gov. William S. Beardley and University of lowa president Virgil Hancher will use Hoover's life and career as subjects of addresses. Hancher will confer an honorary doctor of laws degree on lowa's most illustrious son. It will be (Csstlssed Os Psqe KKht) Mrs. Nancy Biggs Dies This Morning Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Mrs. Nancy Ann Biggs. 81. who resided with a daughter. Mrs. Goldie Close, 1222 North Second street, died at 11:30 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital- She had- been in failing health for some time and seriously 1 til tor the past four weeks. She wa» born near Monroeville Aug. 18. 1872, a daughter of George W. and Isabelle Murehland-Stout. and was married to William P 1 Biggs July 23. 1891. Her husband ' preceded her In death July 7, 1953. Mr. and Mrs. Blggw moved here i from Petersburg in 1945. I . Mrs. Biggs was a member of the First Presbyterian church in this . city and of Beu Hur court 15, Fort i Wayne. i Surviving in addition to the i daughter in this city are two son*. . Lawrence and Marlon Bigge, both of Petersburg; four grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren, and . two haM-sletera. Mrs. Enest Close ! of Spokane, Wash., and Mrs. Zoma Mfnebart of Fort Madison.'la. Funeral service# will be conducts e<l at 2:30 p. tn. Thursday at the . Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Ray B J. Waibher officiating. Burial will , be In the Decatur ’ cemetery ( F: lends may call at the funeral 1 home after 7 p. m. Tuesday. BULLETIN WASHINGTON (IN) —A house group Investigating Soviet conquest of Its satellite nol tlons recommended today that t the free world break off all r diplomatic relatione with the Iron Curtain bloc and halt all trade with the Communlet countries

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Cars Crash At Intersection Sunday Night Theodore Loehner Dies At Crossing Os Two Highways Theodore Loehner, 65, of Wabaah, #tapfathar.of J£d.ward jGerhera of Adame county, was killed Sunday night in an accident which also critically Injured Ixmbnar’s wife, lEHa Gerbers Ixx-hner, 54. The accident occurred at the intersection of state highway 101 and U. S. highway 224 four miles ' eaet of Decatur at 9:20 p. m. Sunday. It was tbe eighth traffic fatality In Adams county in 1954. Loehner was traveling south on 101 and. probably not familiar with, the road, failed to stop for the intersection. He was struck by a westbound car driven by Robert Oeoskie, 20, of Wyandotte, Mich. Oaoskle and four other passengers of the Michigan car were soldiers returning to Fort ICnox. Ky., where they are stationed with the armed forces. The tLochners were enroute home after visiting Genbers at his home ] stated that Loohnw’iTdeath caused by a tussal skull fracture, •Mrs. Loehner, who Is still in the Adams county memorial hospital, is suffering from shock, head injuries including a brain concussion, and several fractured (Mbs. Oeoskie was treated at the local hospital for a mouth injury and released. Treated tor cut# and. bruise# and then released were Donald CUre, 21, Detroit, Mteh.; Charles Rhoades, 18, Antwerp, 0.-; Dale Turner, 17, Detroit, and Clarence <Morreau, 18, Wyandotte. The impact which forced both vehicles into the ditch at the southwest corner of the intersection totally demolished the cans. Three ambulances and two wreckers were rushed to the scent of the-accident. Sheriff Robert Shraluka, deputy sheriff 'Merle Affolder and state trooper Gene Rash investigated the accident, which slowed heavy Sunday evening traffic for almost an hour. Funeral Wednesday The. accident victim, born March 29, 1889, was employed as a school supply salesman for the United Chemical Co. He was married to Mrs. Ella Gerbers Jan. IS, 14)51. Mr. Loehner was a member of the Presbyterian church at Wabash, and the Eagles, Moose and Elkw lodges, all of Wahesb Surviving in addition to his wife are three stepsons, Edward J. H. Gerbers of Monroeville, Donald Gerbers of Columbia City and James R. Gerbers of Woodburn, and five stepgrandchildren. The body, first removed to the Zwick funeral home, has been taken to <tbe Wire funeral home at Wabash, where friends may call after 2 p. m, Tuesday. Services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at tbe Wire funeral home, the Rev. James Y. Brown officiating. Burial will be at Galveston. • * .. • 'i ■ Cool Temperatures Continue In State INDIANAPOLIS (IN) —The Indianapolis weather bureau predieted today that Indiana’# cool temperatures will continue until Wednesday when tbe mercury will rise somewhat. . Scattered showers also were predicted over the state tonight and Tuesday. Only light rains occurred during the week-end. South Bend, at M. was the coot- . eet spot tn the state early today. Other low temperatures were Lafayette 58. Fort Wayne «J. Indianapolis 63 and Evansville <7.