Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 54, Decatur, Adams County, 5 March 1955 — Page 1

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Mixed Weather Causes Damage In This State Lowland Residents In Indiana Forced Out By High Water INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Hailfltonek belted most of Indiana as the weather continued its lionet rampage Friday with summer, winter and floods all mixed into one bundle. The Ohio river went over, its banka from Lawrenceburg to Mt. Vernon. A flood creat of 43 feftt waa set for Evansville before Friday's hailstorm, but weathermen now are revising their estimates upward. Much property damage occurred throughout Indiana particularly, however, in Evansville where a flash flood knocked some power out temporarily and flooded stere basements and in Mt. Vernon where Arnold Dausman and Melvin Ziegler were injured when the roof of the garage in which they work collapsed at the height of the storm. Residents of lowland areas along the Ohio and Wabash rivers were warned of possible • floods and some areas already have been inundated. At Wabash, firemen, Red Cross workers and volnnteers moved stranded families from their homes. Trailer homes were moved to higher ground in Aurora. Vevay families, moved to the second floor of their homes. Lightning started fires at Orleans; southeast of Indianapolis, and a third one in Decatur, Friday. Three to four inches of rain hit Monroe in a cloudburst. Meanwhile, the state highway department reports that eight state highways continue closed by water. Today’s forecast calls for cloudy and colder with occasional drizzle or light rain in the south; cloudy tonight and Sunday with' some light snow north, and rain* becoming mixed with snow south I tonight and early Sunday. Hoosier To Present Book To Eisenhower 'Lafayette, Ind.—An 18-year old Lawrence, county 4-H farmer, Elden. Holsapple, is in Washington where Monday he will present the "4-H Report to the Nation" record book to President Eisenhower. It will be a feature of national 4-H club week. March 54'3. Elden is one of six 4-H club members, representing more than two million in tfie U. S. and more than 80,000 in Indiana, who have made f- tW- trip‘to Washington'. Indiana’s representative won his trip by being one of two national achievement winners at the national 4-H club congress in Chicago last year.

INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy tonight- and* Sunday with some light snow north and rain becoming mixed with snow south tonight and early Sunday. Colder west portion tonight and entire state Sunday. Low tonight 25-30 northwest to 30-40 southeast.

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National 4-H Club Week Opening Today Membership Goal In 1955 Set At 85,000 Hoosier boys and girls will organize their plans during national 4-H club week, March 5-13, to try to reach their goal of 85,000 members in 1955. This year members and leaders will stress the theme, “Improving Family and Community Living," according to Harold B. Taylor, state chib leader at Purdue University, During this week the purposes and objectives of 4-H will be told through store window displays, news stories, radio and television talks, and programs at local gatherings. Helping the members will be volunteer local leaders, county agents, and home demonstration agents. These 4-H boosters will carry on local membership drives in order to try to push Indiana over the 85,000 enrollment mark in 1955. Memoers of Hoosier 4-H clubs will be able to choose from among 37 projects in 1955. Last year the 7,669 4-H club members in Indiana enrolled in 72.915 agricultural projects and 97,387 home economics projects,-an increase of 11,280 over 1953. The most popular agricultural projects during 1954 were garden. 8,043 enrollments; electric, 6,704; swine, 6,185; corn, 6,515; dairy, 4,754; wildlife, 4,560; beef, 4,216; tractor. 3, 998; and forestry. 2 ; 899. The most popular home economics projects were baking with 32,297 enrollments, clothing with 27,827, and food preparation with 16,364. In addition to seeking new members, more local leaders are also needed, says Taylor. During 1954 it took 1,601 men and 2,519 women as local leaders to help Indiana's 3,132 clubs. They were assisted by 3,900 boys and 5,561 girls as junior leaders. Taylor again emphasizes that the sue cess of the community 4-H program depends in a large part on the efforts and assistance of local leaders. Membership in the 4-H club program is open to any boy or (Continued on Pa ire Five)

Threatened Strike On Pennsy Delayed To Postpone Strike Pending Mediation WASHINGTON (INS) — The chairman of the national mediation board said today the CIO Transport workers have agreed to postpone a threatened strike of 20,000 employees of the Pennsylvania railroad, pending mediation. Chairman Francis A O’Neill Jr. said that both sides have agreed to submit their dispute to mediation. Conferences will begin in Philadelphia later today or Monday. - If mediation efforts fail, the board can recommend to President Eisenhower that anemergenboard be set up to hold hearings on the dispute and propose a settlement. . Under the law, this would automatically postpone a strike for another 60. days.

U. N. Council Awaits Report On Gaza Case Egypt And Israel Warned By Speakers At Council Meeting UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) —The UN security council waited today for a personal report from its Palestine truce chief on the responsibility for the “shocking’’ Gaza Incident. The council adjourned Friday until the middle of next week after ail of its 11 members except Russia blasted the bloody 'border clash in which 47 men died as “shocking and indefensible." The chief of the UN truce supervision organization, Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns of Canada has investigated personally the scene of the fighting between Egypt and Israel. Burns will fly to UN headquarters to make his report. Speakers at Friday’s session warned both disputing nations against pursuing a policy of reprisal and retaliation. The meeting ended with council president Selim Sarper of Turkey making the following appeal: “I strongly urge both your countries to abstain from the use of force and to maintain the greatest of calm on your borders, and to refrain from any acts or measures likely to aggravate the situation further.” ■ Ambassador Omar Loufti of Egypt and Ombassador Abba Eban of Israel will present the statements of their respective governments before the council after the report of the UN mixed armistice commission and the personal report of Gen. Burns have been * h,eard. ! Colder Weather Is 1 Heading Eastward j Near Blizzards For lowa And Minnesota ‘ CHICAGO (INS) — A new wave I of Arctic air moving eastward , will bring near blizzard conditions ( to portions of lowa and Minne- ( sota today and cover the rest of , the midwest tonight and Sunday. It will be accompanied by snow, strong gusty northerly winds and rapidly falling temperatures. The areas ahead of the cold 1 mass will be generally cloudy with some light snow in the ex--1 treme north portion. ' The mercury will plunge tonight to zero or somewhat, below in portions of lowa, Minnesota ' and Wisconsin. The rest of the midwest, with the exception of southern Illinois and most of Indiana, will have temperatures well below freezing. Woman Found Dead In Apartment Home Puzzling Angles In Philadelphia Death PHILADELPHIA (INS) — Police today probed puzzling angles in the death of- an attractive 29-year-old Swiss woman whose beaten body was found Friday night in her poorly-furnished west Philadelphia apartment. Next to the body of Miss Sonya Mermond, who had been living here on a visa, police found a note which described how she was attacked but which appeared to s'hield the identity x>f the assailant. "I kicked my assailant,” part of the note divulged by police said. “He went mad, which was very silly of me. He was like a monstir. I’ll always see his horrid face ... I hurt so much, I can’t go on. Believe me, I tried to live, but I can’t go on. Don’t make any inquiries, it’s all my fault.” Miss Mermond, who had been In this country since Sept. 1953 and who was employed as a statistician by an insurance firm, apparently was slain early Tuesday morning, police said. The body was found by the superintendent who wss by neighbors who said they had not seen the woman since Monday -night. Police said that while the woman's apartment was in confusion there was no evidence of its having been broken into and that it appeared securely locked. Miss Mermond's body was covered with bruises and there was some evidence of an attempt at criminal assault, according to Dr. Arthur H. Thomas, a police sur(Continued on Page Five)

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 5, 1955.

Tough Anti-Narcotics Measure Passed Friday By Indiana’s Assembly

Heavy Rains Push Ohio To Higher Level River Is 4.2 Feet Over Flood Stage Now In Cincinnati CINCINNATI (INS) — Heavy rains during the night pushed the Ohio river to new flood levels today, exceeding all previous forecasts. At Cincinnati the river swelled to 56.2 feet, or 4.2 feet over flood stage. Damage is still confined largely to low lying farm areas and basements of homes along the river, however. The river was supposed to have crested at 55 feet tonight, but the flood exceeded the predicted crekts for the third time. The weather bureau said that substantial rainfall around Cincinnati and further upstream will probably push the river still higher. During the night it was rising at the rate of one-tenth of a foot an hour. Upstream at Huntington, W. Va. 1.19 inches of rain fell during the night and at Charleston 1.75 inches was recorded Vp to 1:30 a.m. The river crested at Portsmouth at 11:15 Friday night, just 2 and-one-hait feet over flood stage, But the new rains are expected to start the river on the rise again. Red Cross units in Cincinnati and other river towns have been ordered to stay open and prepare for further evacuations if necessary. - s St. Mary’s River Is At 21.47 Feet River Is Two Feet Higher Than Friday Sherman Kunkel, official weather observer for Decatur, reported this morning that St. Mary’s river had risen to a depth of 21.47 feet, a rise of 1.87 over Friday morning’s depth. It was believed that most of this rise occurred yesterday afternoon. According to unofficial observation, the river is now halting its rise, which threatened the Bellmont Park area east of Decatur with flooding. Water is over the road on U. S. highway 224 in Bellmont Park but it was reported that traffic is still able to move through the area. Some light snow was predicted for this area tonight but, unless it rains southeast of here, there should be no further danger of flooding from the St. Mary’s. NOON EDITION

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Harley T. Shady, Mount Pleasant Methodist Church) YOU WERE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE Scripture—l Corinthians 6:12-20 "You were bought with a price,"—Jesus’ suffering and crucifixion—is an important theme of the Christian faith. There is the story of a slave who suffered indignities to mind and spirit, bruises to the body from physical beatings and who was compelled to “serve his master with strength, energy and time beyond human endurance and decency. with a compassionate, heart slave's plight and bought him from bis cruel owner. TlMu lUdWFthe maij free, free, to live his own life. *• Did the former slave use his new found freedom to scorn his benefactor and to exploit other human beings? He did not. . / > He appreciated the fact that he had been bought with a price. He respected his benfactor and sought to show frindship for him in every possible way. And he sought ways to help other slaves from their bondages. Yes, we "have been bought with a price”—God’s self-giving to us in Christ. Do we scorn God and exploit our fellow men? To do so is to commit spiritual suicide. Or do we honor our Lord and worship Him, and seek ways of working with Him to free mankind from bondages? To do this is to live—to live with God.

Plan Polio Vaccine Campaign In County Mrs. Glenn Hill Is Appointed Chairman Mrs. Glenn Hill was named county vaccine chairman for the local polio chapter at a meeting of the county board Friday night at the First State Bank in Decatur. Mrs. Hill assumed the leadership of volunteers needed to assist in the prospective polio vaccine program now being planned for Adams county’s elementary schools. Mrs. Robert Hess, county chairman of the March of Dimes drive this year, was named to replace Mrs. Lavonne Hobbs as chairman of the county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The chairmanship was turned over to Mrs. Hess at the Friday night meeting. Mrs. Hobbs resigned the post because she is moving out of the county. Dr. Harold Zwick, county health officer, was named physician in charge of the medical phase of the vaccine program. Members of the county medical society have appointed Dr. Arthur Girod to assist him. Both are Decatur physicians. Persons, heading the vaccine project in the county will attend a meeting March 13 in Indianapolis. The purpose of the meeting is to explain in detail the vaccine project and to assist in planning it. Results of the Salk vaccine will be released during the first week in April. Since these results are expected to be favorable the National Polio Foundation is planning ahead of time to administer the vaccine to the 1,193 first and second grade pupils throughout the county. . It was pointed out at last night's meeting herp. that the vaccine will be given entirely free of cost to the children of the county. It is being financed by the dimes and dollars donated In the polio drives. It was also noted that after years of giving to the foundation, the public is now benefiting from the research and Will receive something from the foundation. The exact plan for giving the vaccine will be made at a later meeting of the county chairmen involved, but it will probably be carried out through the schools. The vaccine must be administered over a six-week period. The first shot is given, then a week elapses and the second shot is injected, and after four weeks the booster shot is given. • The county medical society will assist in setting up the schedule and will do the actual injecting. Volunteers Under Mrs. Hill will assist in keeping records, transport ing supplies and personnel, handling children at the vaccine clinics and the countless other jobs necessary to the successful completion of the program. Ah appeal for volunteers to assist in the work in various parts of the county wilt be made as soon (Continued on Page Five)

Senate Probes Stock Market Tips, Rumors Probe Is Underway To Determine If Prices Influenced WASHINGTON (INS) — The senate banking committee said today an investigation is underway to find out whether stock prices are being illegally Influenced by “tips and rumors" in the market. Committee spokesmen disclosed that 20 “unusual” cases involving stocks which suddenly came to life following tips in the market are being probed as part of the general investigation of Wall Streets. The committee said two of the stocks —Pantepec and Amurex Oil —were mentioned by Walter Winchell in a radio-television broadcast bu they declined to identify the other securities being probed. Winchell’s name came up during the committee's hearings when American stock exchange president Edward T. McCormick testified that emergency action was taken to keep Pantepec from skyrocketing after a broadcast by the columnist. McCornyck a&ld prompt action by the exchange in suspending trading in the stock for two hours and other measures taken saved some persons from suffering a possible loss of *8 a share on Pantepec. Winchell said In New York that “no one has ever challenged the accuracy of my report on the company in question.” He emphasized that “he himself has not “directly or indirectly, now or at any time, any interest in any stock.” Moreover, Winchell declared: “No one has ever suggested that newspapers limit the use of the information they £ive to the public. Any American citizen has a right to invest his money as he sees fit.” panking chairman J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) expressed concern over the problem of “tpisters” but he asserted that the committee was “not trying to make a goat or persecute Winchell.” . - ‘... The committee said it wanted to know specifically whether there was any organized attempt by some speculators to plant tips on the market in the hope of utrning a quick profit during the current stock boom. They said this was a violation of federal law.

One Man Is Arrested In Robbery Attempt Foil In Effort To Rob Tavern Owner INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Sixty-year-old Samuel Newton Green, of Indianapolis, was held todsy on preliminary charges of attempting to rob an Indianapolis tavern owner. ’ Green, who has a record dating back to 1919, was arrested shortly after two men failed in an attempted armed robbery of Allen C. Alexander, who was carrying a payroll from the bank to his tavern. Alexander said the men were waiting for him in his car and he ran when he spotted them. He said instead of shooting at him, theyMs»ran lb ttt opposite dii*ec« t ion. A witness, Mrs. Ruby Paxton, 48, of Indianapolis, said she saw the two men enter a getaway car driven by a third man. She followed the car but stopped when she believed the bandits had seen her. Her description of the car led to Green’r arrest. Green, who was sentenced to 10 years in Indiana state prison for robbery in 1944, refused to say anything to police.

Army To Increase Armored Strength Fourth Division To Be Added By Army WASHINGTON (INS) — The army announced today that it will increase its armored strength from three to four divisions in the belief that the hard-slugging battle outfits are still vital to success in modern war. The change is to be accomplished. beginning this month, by rebuilding the third armored division, now only a training unit with 3,000 to 4,000 men at Fort Knox, Ky„ into a full-fledged fighting unit of 14,500 men. A new organization, to be called the “Armored Replacement Training Center." will be established at Fort Knox to take over the training duties handled up to now by remnants of the third armored which was disbanded in Europe in 1945. "Hie increase in armored strength is to be effective despite a belttightening program that will reduce the army from 1,336,00 to 1,025.000 men and trim its total combat divisions from' 19 to 15 in the next few months. The new third division will devote the next three months to trainin gits commissioned and noncommissioned officers and to getting equipment in shape at Fort Knox. In June, the first “increment” of new men will be received and by September the unit will be up to full strength-larger than it was when the division helped exploit the St. Lo breakthrough and went on to capture Cologne. Germany, in World War 11. Charge Tax Evasion To Two Hoosiers Fort Wayne Lawyer Facing Tax Charge INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Two Hoosiers today faced charges of evading federal income taxes. They are Chester W. Cleveland, 56, newspaper publisher of Culver and active promoter of the annual Indiana Society of Chicago dinners, charged with evading $9,895 in income taxes, and Wayne L. Miller, 49, Fort Wayne attorney and former Republican city judge, charged with evading $2,642.32 in federal taxes. A federal grand jury in Chicago charged that Cleveland’s undeclared income represented "kickbacks" he had received from the Flanagan-Pearson Printing Company, of Champaign, 111., which printed the official magazine of Sigma Delta Chi, of which Cleveland was a former editor and business manager. Miller allegedly tailed to report $11,179.73 in attorney’s fees for 1948. Arch C. Charleston Is Taken By Death Arch C. Charleston, a native of Adams county, but resident of Fort Wayne the past 40 years, died Friday at St. Joseph’s hospital in that city. He had been blind the past five years. Survivors include his widow, Cora; a son, William I. of Fort Wayne; three stepdaughters; a stepson; five brothers, including Clint of Geneva, and two sisters, Mrs. Jeanette Striker of Geneva _ Mrs. „Zoe „ Tkylor of Fort Wayne. Services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Monday at the Chal-fant-Perry funeral homq* with burial at Huntertown. Sale Os Print Shop Is Announced Today Mr. and Mrs. Paul Worthman, proprietors of the Stop Back, have purchased the Commercial Print shop from Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Rowley. The sale became effective March 1.

Stiffest Bill In Nation Up ,To Gov. Craig 1 * 1 Measure Imposes Life Sentence On 1 Peddlers Os Drugs INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Gov- - ernor George N. Craig today was -about to sign the stiffest antii narcotics bill in the nation. , It was the senate Bainbridge--5 Rutledge bill which passed the house, 85 to 1, Friday afternoon, i Federal narcotics agents have . said it is the toughest in the t United States. The bill imposes a life sentence f on persons convicted repeatedly 1 of selling drugs. The highest pen- > alty to 20 year to life with a $5,000 fine. , First offenders among peddlers . are subject to a SI,OOO fine and . two to 10 years in prison. , Drug addicts who are first oft fenders are subject-to a SIOO fine , and 60 to 180 days imprisonment for the first offense and a SI,OOO , fine and on to 10 years confine- , ment for subsequent offenses. Governor Craig, prior to the . legislative session, had proposed capital punishment to persons selling heroin to minors, but the . lawmakers thought the sentence [ was. too stiff and would Interfere ( with convictions. There was a storm of argument in the house before passage, 71 ' to 15. of a senate bill hiking the ’ minimum salaries of school teach- ' era by approximately $620 a year for teachers with four or five years of training and about SI,OOO for teachers with two years of training and permitting pedagogues to waive certain sick leave rights in exchange for credit during periods of advance training. Republican Representative Mrs. Harriet C. Stout, of Indianapolis, in opposing the measure, said: “Shrewd and ruthless politlc- , lans have arisen to make a career out of making our teachers feel sorry for themselves.** ’ She signaled out Robert H. Wyatt, secretary of the Indiana state teachers association, who . she said is “a skillful Democratic politician who threatens the political punishment of anyone who refuses his dictation." The house unanimously passed a senate bill which postpones in future years the deadline for gross income tax payments fhom Jan. 31 until March 1. Advocates said it conformed to the -April 15 deadline for federal income tax payments. Governor Craig signed the chiropractor bill, ending a long fight between those practitioners and the medical doctors. Some 175 chiropractors must take an examination by May 2, if they wish to practice, according to terms of the measure. Democratic Representative Walter J. Beneville, of Jeffersonville, a chiropractor who was author of the bill, said: “It is wonderful to know that after so many years since 1527 the chiropractic profession now may be on a more stable footing in Indiana.’’ The senate; eight to 36, refused to pass a house bill which allegedly would “open the door to legalized gambling in Indiana” by allowing licensing of pin-ball machines at $25 for the first four (Continued on Fags Six) Band Booster Fund Previously Reported -...51151.47 •Civic Discussion club .of the “Donut Shop,” Ollie Chronister, Pres. 51.00 TOTAL $1202.47 Contributions can be made by sending any amount to Band Booster fund, care of Hugh J. Andrews, principal of Decatur high school. All money received will go toward the purchase of new uniforms for the Decatur high school band.

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