Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 198, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1954 — Page 1

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As 83rd Congress Adjourned B- w Jy JJw it b|j|R ft Si ■ TH« RBWU»UC*M«OWTBO£MO MM <■<>,.„■,..« .<!),>«,„«d ,M Its members went home to face the voters with a “irtll dbne” pat .on the back from the White House. At top. Rep. Robert Grosser (IM).) get* a fond farewell from four lady colleagues. From left, clockwise are Repe. Vera Buchanan (D-Pa.) Leonor Sullivan • ’ (D-Mo.), Elizabeth Kee (D-West Va.) and Grade Pfost (D-Idaho). At bottom. Vice President Richard M. Nixon breathes a sigh of - J — retlef after the senate adjourned. With him is senate minority leader Lyndon Johnson. ■ - — -■■■ •— —-— ■—■ ■ . ,

Rural Youth Has Week-end Outing Twenty-nine Attend From Adams County Twenty-nine members ot the Adams county rural youth returned today from a weekend trip to Lake McClure. in Kosciusko county. The young people spent the weekend swimming, boating, sunbathing. and square dancing. Robert Drew won the coveted ping pong cti'ampionship at the camp by defeating Carl Bluhm in the three games Saturday morning. Guests of the camp on Sunday were Ervin Schuller, and Sharon and Dennis Schuller, who reported catching several bluegills and crappies, and baas in the small natural lake. Cooks for the two day camp were Mrs. Ervin Schuller and Mrs. Omer Merriman. On Saturday evening* a scavenger hunt was organized and group four won the *5 minute contest by returning with the most articles listed for the hunt. Only article not found by the group was a snake, alive or dead; they did bring in, however, a large carp; to the surprise of the other rural youth members. t Swimmers who completed the «rwim across the lake and back included Jim Merriman, Robert Drew, Berthe Landis. Dick Heller. Jr., and Anna K. Williams. The awimmere also enjoyed towing a large rubber raft out into the lake Sunday morning services, under the direction of Paul Busse, Robert Draw, and Marge Merriman, were held gt 11 a.m. Oh chapel lull, near the camp. ' The group held a square.dance Saturday evening In the recreation building at the camp. Most of the members returned by automobile late Sunday evening from the two-day trip. Those who attended the camp , were: Carl Bluhm, Ronald Stucky. Bob Drew. Jim and Marge Merriman. Esther Soward, Gloria and Roger Koeneman, Earl and Carl Yoder. Dallas Neuenschwarider, (Ceatlßßag Ob Pag* Eight) INDIANA WEATHER Fair, warm and humid tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 70-78. High Tueaday 8898.

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Local Movie Owner At National Meet Roy Kalver is attending a meeting of the national board of directors the Allied Theater Owners of America, being held at the Greenbrier hotel, in White Sulphur Springe, W. Va. Kalver ia president of the Allied Theater Owners of Indiana. Polio Balloons Are Sold Saturday $137.33 Netted In Local Drive The sale of “Polio Fighter" balloons Saturday night on the main streets and in stores in Decatur netted 1137.33 for the Emergency March of Dimes Campaign, treasurer Herman Krueckeberg stated today. The sale, organized under the direction of polio drive chairman Lyle Mallonee, was formed to help raise the <I,BOO expected from Adams county in the emergency drive, necessitated by the fact that the regular March of Dimes drive last January Cell <20.000,000 short of the necessary amount to carry out the polio foundation's two-point program for prevention and treatment of polio patients. Mallonee reported that Mrs. Chester Dalzell and M/rs. Gerald Strickler organized a group of 12 girl scouts to do the actual selling of balloons. Mora than 800 were sold by the girls. Those who aided in the sale were Pat Cook, KeVMe and Paulla Strickler, Mary Snyder, Karen Zimmerman, Sandra and Sue Strickler, Edna Dalzell, Lea Mueser, Ronnie Glentzer. Mary Kocher, and Nancy Helm. Harry Snyder, local merchant, loaned the group his sound truck for advertising the sale, and, Norman gteury and Clark Mayclln operated the truck all evening during the sale. Ben Webster arranged for the group to use a section of the Why store as headquarters, end Mr. ami Mrs. Ralph Hobbs, Mrs. Zane Musser, and Bob Hess spent the evening blowing up the balloons and getting them ready for eale by the gtrl scouts Mallonee reported that Bob Holt(COßtlnurd Ob Page Eight) , J

World Churches Continue Study At Evanston Council To Tackle Six Problems Os Christianity Today EVANSTON, ill., (INS) — Delegates to the World Council of Churches assembly tackled Christianity’s most pressing problems today. The delegates broke Into six groups of about 100 each to discuss and- try to find solutions to the far-reaching questions of (1) Church unity. (2) how to spread Christianity to the millions now out of the church, (8) Communism and other social problems, 14) Racial and ethnic tension. (5) the place of the church in world affairs and (6) the role of Christianity in the layman's vocation. Each of these challenges is contained in one of the six sub-themes of the assembly, biggest and most important ecumenical world-wide gathering of Christians ever held in the western hemisphere. Each of them has been gone into extensively by special advisory committees of the Council composed of some of the world’s leading theologians. Now the delegates must consider these advisory committee reports, modify them as they see fit; and find some common, ground on which to express messages to the 170 million Christians represented by the Council. Their findings, which must be approved by the full assembly, the Council’s leglsaltive body, are not necessarily binding. ; But they will reflect the majority viewpoint ot the delegatee who Officially represent IS3 denW inatlons th 48 nations that belong to the Council. The six groups will consider the problems for three days. Chen write and present their reports to the assembly beginning on Friday. Gro&p debate on the main theme "Christ the Hope of, the World,” has been completed and the coordinating group’s report on. this will be presented to the assembly Wednesday. A difference of opinion on the meaning of this’seemingly obscure theme is almost certain to be carried to the floor of the assembly, and two plenary sessions have been allotted for this purpose. " The primary difference is whether the asembly should interpret the themes to mean Christ is the hope of the world as we know it, as western theologians generally view it. or whether the message should be written from the eschatological viewpoint of most Europeans who believe that hope for Christians lies ip the second coming of Christ and end of the world. Os the aulh-thesea, ‘Ths Church amid Racial and Ethnic Tensions”, “The Responsible Society in a World Perspective,” and "Our Oneness in Christ anti our Disunity as Churches” command the most attention. The racial is before the assembly for the first time as an individual problem.• On the matter of social problems. the council has taken a stand against both capitalism” and communism. The assembly, because of the outcry against the con-deni nation of capitalism. is expected to make clear <C»atlsu*e Ob Pane Elcht) “After 40" Title Os Wednesday Talk On Wednesday August2s, Adams County Home Demonstration members will hear Dr. Dorothy Mummery. “After 40” will be the subject of the Purdue Specialist’s discussion. Each of the twenty clubs has been asked to have two members present sos thit special interest sesion. The directors room at the bank of Berne has been scheduled for the afternoon meeting at 1:15 o'clock. Dr. Mummery is a specialist in family life education and will talk on making the most of life after one’s children are grown and after retirement. She will have help for planning famlllng outings and recreation as well as help on the more practical aspects of problems of the mature. There will be opportunity for a few non-club members to attend. Anyone interested should contact the Extension Ofice for reservetions. r '

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 23, 1954.

Brewster Cuts Away Four Layers Os Brick; State Alert Is Given

■ New 4-H Grounds ; To Be Improved Work To Begin Wednesday Morning Discing, leveling, and seeding ’ of the 4-H club fair grounds will ‘ begin at 8:30 a. m. Wednesday, L August 25. Roy Price, chairman of ’ the 4-H grounds committee, said today. ( AU work on the grounds will be J done by volunteer help. Price etated, and anyone wishing to take . part in the "club grounds frolic” should contact Price so that he . will know- what kind and how . many ot the various pieces of ; equipment will be present Wednesi the James T. Dailey estate case. i The motion claims that the findll day. At the same time 300 pounds of > 10-10-10 fertilizer will be broad- > cast. prior to seeding of the L grounds. Alta feecue and ladiho .. clever will used in seeding the ' grounds. * L This will be the step in pre- , paring the grounds for the 4-H club ’ show to be there next year. ’ a-'. l< - y Honor Burial Planned I ■ For U.N. Korean Dead SEOUL (INS) —.Military author--5 ities revealed plans today for the r identification and burial with final honors of the bodies of some 4,000 > United Nations soldiers killed in ! Korea and until now interred in > 'the hostile soil of Communist-run - North Korea. > ' Ward Calland Will Attend Convention J.W. Calland, director of the Na- ' tional Soybean Crop improvement council, will attend the annual con- ’ vention of the American Soybean Association in Memphis, Tenn.. Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Program sessions will be held 1 the first two days, and they will be ’ followed by a field trip to soybean ' experimental plots at the State Experiment Station at Clarkedale, ' Ark - Advance registrations indicate a record attendance at this year's convention, according to Geo. M. Strayer, the Association's executive secretary. Many aspects of marketing and utilization as well as production ‘bf the soybean crop will be cohered by speakers of national and international reputation. The annual business meeting of the National Soybean processors association will be help Aug. 30, (mediately preceding the meeting of the producers' association. Heart Patients Offered Course To Save Energy INDIANAPOLIS INS) —Housewives with heart trouble will be shown how to save as much as 50 per cent of their time and energy while performing their normal household tasks, through courses sponsored by the Indiana Heart Foundation and the home extension, division of Purdue University. ' P.W. Ross. Foundation president, said the four demonstrationlecture sessions will be held on Sept. 14. 21 a>pl 28 and on Oct. 5 at the Purdue Extension Building, 902, N. Merath St., Indianapolis. The course also will aid the phyfelclan in the management of his women cardiac patients, according to Ross who said that the course will be conducted In 20 counties by July, 1955. .

Winners Named In Preble Event Friday, Saturday Tractor Putting, Amateur Contest Attract Interest Final awards were made in the two day outing sponsored by the Preble Volunteer Fire Fighting Association, held Friday and Saturday in the 4-acre Clarence Weber field west of the Preble tavern. Victor Bieberich, fire chief and William Selking, president of the sponsoring group and general supervisor of the event, both reported that this year’s event was the largest ever held. More than €,OOO persons attended the two-day event. There were 122 entries in the tractor pulling contests. There were three events for men and one for women. Womfen tractor pulling contestants stole the shM with higher percentages than the men. In the men’s heavyweight division Russel Meyer, New Haven won first place with 215.100 percent: James Reinhard. Bluffton was second with 210.144 percent and Raymond Becker, Decatur was i third with 205.882 percent. In medium weights, Richard Mad ! dock, Warren,-was first with 213.071 percent.; Glen Griffith was second! with 212.21 and Itbin Worthman, Decatur scored 211.49 for third place. Ferris Daugherty, Warren scored a win in the lightweight division with 223.88 percent; Gerald Balmahn. Decatur was second with 218.31 percent, and Marvin Sprunger, Decatur was third with ’99.80., In the ladies contest, Doris Reinhard, Bluffton received top award with 219.150 percent'.; Mrs. Vern Macke, Decatur was second with 218.700 and Louise Strater, Fort Wayne won third with 215.664. (Earl Arnold served, as chairman of the tractor pulling events and he was assisted by Art Wealing, Hugo Bultnahn and Boh -Eh ream. All tractors were weighed in at the Preble .Equity scales. Dale Ellenberger, Bluffton served as announcer and Goldfe iMoser Kipfer had charge of tabulating percentages in all events. Trophy contributors for tractor pulling events ineluded: Walter Peck of Preble Hardware; Mart and Lou Walchle of Preble restaurant; Glen Baumgartner, Peterson Grain: Jim, Glen and Tom iMoser of Oliver Sale®, Bluffton; Mart, Kid and Marvin Sprung er of Sprunger’s John Deere. Decatur; Ixiuis Steffen, Co-op dealer at Monroe; Robert Mankey, Preble Welding and Repair; the Moser family of Moser Implements, Bluffton. - ' Cash award* - were donated by Harve Ginter, Decatur Ready Mix Smith Scrap Iron, Tocsin Lumber Co., Jim, Glen and Tom Moeer Ervin Gerber, Louis Steffen and Decatur Klenk’s. In addition there were 25 finmr who gave amounts in trade. In the amateur contest, Linda Halt, vocalist, age five, Fort Waynt copped the 130.00 first "award. She was accompanied on the accordion by her slater Kay Halt. Second place went to Violet Walchle, Decatur. iMlss Walchle gave a vocal solo accompanied on the piano by Jane Rents. Third award went to Shirley Ix>u and Larry Marshand, Churubuecn, for their delivery of an accordion duet. g Bob Si vers, WOWQ, Fort Wayne, served as master of ceremonies rf»d the applause meter judge* were (CeatlaweS ob page Eight)

President To Lisi GOP Contributions First Major Address Os Campaign Tonight DENVER (INS) — President Eisenhower will make his first major oratorical contribution to the Republican congressional campaign tonight in a nation-wide speech praising the record of the GOPguided 83rd Congress. The point of the Chief Executive’s half-hour radio-TV report to the nation will be simple and clear — Republicans have done a good job and deserve reelection in November. The President, determined to keep Congress under Republican control, will recite a list of accomplishments ranging from cuts in taxes and government spending to the administration’s new farm program apd expansion of social security benefits, Mr. Eisenhower will go to a Denver television station to deliver \ the 7lj).m. which he will make irom detailed notes. 1 He interrupted his first full day of his Colorado vacation Sunday to spend an hour and a half going i over the address with his speechwriters at the summer White i House, and was to put the finishing touches oh it today. The President planned to be in i his office at Denver’s Lowry Air ! Force Base before 10 a.m. EST ito .work ,on the speech and the ! mountain of bills dumped on his I desk by the last-minute burst of activity in Congress. Nearly 500 bills are awaiting his signature. Polio Benefit Dance Plans Completed Record Crowd Is Expected To Attend A large crowd ia expected to attend the polio, benefit danoe Wednesday from 9 p.tn. to midnight at Sunset park. The dance is planned to raise 118,000, Adam* county’# goal in the nationwide emergency fund drive. JJmmy Stier and hi* orcheetra will provide the music for the dance which will be a cabaret affair. Ben Webster is dance chairman. Co-chairmen for the fund drive are Lyle Mallonee and M. J. Pryor., .... . . ' 4’7 ■ j; The general public including teenagers 'is invited to attend. Door prizes will be awarded and orchid corsages flown in from Hawaii will be given to the ladies who attend. A highlight of the evening will be an auction conducted by T. D -I Schleferstein and J. F. Saiwnann Local merchants will donate the item* to be auctioned. Tickets for the dance are still available at Newberry’s Dime store, Morris Dime More, Miller < and Jones shoe etore, the Why ; “tore, Holthouee Drug store, the i Gass store and Holthouse Furnit ure company in Decatur. They 1 can also purchased from Mrs < Thurman Baker of Geneva and 1 John Porter 'at Berne. ■ a ' 1 BULLETIN “ I An investigator from the ar- ’ eon department of the state fire mirehairs office In India- 1 napoils will arrive In Decatur I late this afternoon or tomorrow morning, fire chief Cedric 1 Pleher reported today. Both 1 Fleher and ohlef of police James Borders made prelim- « Inary Iriveotlgatlone Saturday, < the morning after the fire at the Jehovah’a Witneee king- I dom hall. 1

Breaks From JaU -* ■ ' sQ ■ war Mainard Brewrper, pictured above shortly after his arrest here several weeks ago as a burglary suspect. Brewster cut his way through four layers of bricks at Adams county jail and escaped early this morning. Highway Death Toll In Indiana Listed Two Fort Wayne Youths Killed on 24 INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —lndiana’s week-end highway death toll ran somewhat lower than during past week-ends. However, William C. Pennington, 22, of Indianapolis, was killed while returning from a flailing trip near Newport, Ky. when an automobile struck a bridge abutment on Road 52, two miles west of Arlington, in Rush County. - ' A companion, Bradley H. Staples, 24, of Indianapolis driver of the car, was injured seriously. Mrs. Leota N. Johnson, 48, of Chicago, and Charles P. Beveridge, 22, of the Royal Candlan Air Force, were injured fatally in a head-on crash on Road 12, one and one-half miles east of Gary. Arthur F. Johnson, husband of the victim and driver of one of the automobiles, suffered a fractured leg and Donald J. Lahey, 21, also of the Canadian Air Force, driver of the other car, also was hurt. The two airmen were stationed at the RCAP base at Trentoh, Ontario. tMrs. Frances Batchelor, 79, of Kansas, 111., driver of the car, and two other passengers were injured slightly. . 7 Two Fort Wayne youths were killed and another was Injured critically when an automobile, driven at' a dizzy pace, went out of control on Road 24 near Fort (Coatiau** 0b Page Eight) Governor Craig As Democratic Target At Annual Picnic , INDIANAPOLIS (INS) Governor George N. Craig was a major target at the Marion County Democrats' family picnic Sunday. Floyd E- Harper, of Tipton, Democratic nominee for Secretary of State, maintained that the Craig Republican administration is a "Dr. Jekyll and ,Mr. Hyde affair.” The speaker said Craig brags constantly about his accomplishments but has trouble defending the following: Naming bls personal doctor as a member of the Indiana Toll Road Commission. Patronage practices In hiring and firing at Muscataturk State School Appointing a drug store clerk as chairman of the State Highway , Commission. Appointing an American Legion buddy as spuerintendent of the Indiana State Police.

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Prisoner Gains Freedom After Threats To Mate * Bank Robbery Suspect Stays To Face Charge Mainard Brewster, a parolee from * life sentence «ea habitual criminal, captured here July 10 and charged with grand larceny and second degree burglary, escaped at 6 o’clock thia morning from the Adams county jail. Brewster, a former local man. pried oft a steel plate covering an old hole formerly used’ for hot air pipes and tunneled through four layers of brick to escape through the dark room in the garage of the county jail. The hole, approximately 12 to 14 Inches in diameter, was located in the jatrine of the cell block in which Brewster, and Richard K. Clark, charged with robbing the Heme bank. were confined All law enforcement officers in the state were notified of Brewster’s escape, and roads leaving the Decatur area were sealed, by state police, county and City officer* working in unison. A man answering Brewster’s do--1 scription was seen shortly after > seven this morning near Coppese Corners hitchhiking south. Brewster, a very small man, ■ ' standing only five feet, five inche* tall, is considered dangerous by the police. He will face a certain life sentence when recaptured. First news of the break reached Sheriff Robert Shraluka at «:18 this morning when he heard ■ loud racket in the jail. On investigation, he found Clark gagged in the cell, with his legs and wrlsM still bound with fine wire. He immediately notified the city police, who came to the acene. Together, several entered the cell, in order to prevent any break through the door. Chirk, when unbound, told the officers that Brewster had escaped at 6 a.m. through the hole in the wall, end that he had juat cut himself free with a tin can lid so that he could warn Sheriff Shraluka. Clark eaid that Brewster had been saying “Let’s go — let’a get out" tor several days, but be, Clark, thought the older man was just kidding. Finally, last night, after a iate check of rthe cell by Sheriff Shr*luka, Brewster took Clark aside and showed him where in several days’ time he had pried seven bolts off the metal plate covering the hole, which was behind and to the right of the toilet In the email Jail latrine. Clark aaid he wanted no part in the break, so Brewster held, him at bay with a steel bar shaped like a knife, and then bound and gagged Rim. Ho worked 1 all night at prying and smashing up four layers of brick wall before finally reaching through the wall into the darkroom. The hole was just above the sink in the mall room used to develop picture* of wrecks, and criminal* taken by the local law enforcement officers. The ’Sheriff and deputy Merle Affolder. together with chief of police James Borders and Walter Schindler, of the state police, made a thorough investigation of the jail and jail grounds. Tracks to the river through the wet grooe led the officers to surmise that Brewster might have followed the river bank immediately after leaving the jail. Sheriff Shrahika reported that this was the first time tn hi* memory that anyone had actually made a break through the walls of the jail; all the waUe on the inside are encased in riveted steel, "except th* very small hole, which Ci-ara Te rase ■)•*<>