Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 197, Decatur, Adams County, 22 August 1955 — Page 1

Vol. 111. No. 197.

Home Crashes Into Rampaging River . *. .-'/7 X - V ." -./■ . SWrSt 111 TORRENTIAL RAINS have put the entire central and western parts ot Massachusetts under water today. Aerial view shows home crashing into rampaging river here onrushing torrent hurls masses of debris against walls of nearby buildings. 13 lives were lost in this flood which was claimed to be the worst in state’s history.

Rain And Wind Break Intense Heal In City State Benefits As Rain, Wind Arrive To Aid Sufferers BULLETIN The unofficial temperature on the Daily Democrat ther* mometer at 2 o’clock this afternoon was 80 degrees compared with 95 degrees at the same time Sunday. Adams county's second intense heat wave of recent weeks has been broken, at least temporarily and almost an Inch of rain fell in Decatur during the early morning hours today. A strong west wind, starting about 2:30 o'clock this morning heralded the temperature break a high of 96 degrees was recorded Sunday afternoon. At 6 o’clock this morning the temperature in Decatur had dropped to a comfortable 70 degrees and (he rain continued until about 8:30 o'clock. Weather forecasters predicted that the temperature would rise to perhaps the'middle eighties today, but it was generally believed that the intense heat was sidetracked at least for the present. Temperatures in the 90’s were recorded in Decatur and Adams county every day last week. The only difference between the present hot weather and that of a few weeks ago. was that a slight drop was recorded at nights, during the past two weeks. Cooler temperatures were predicted today for all of Indiana. Many Hoosier spots recorded near 100 degree readings Saturday and Sunday. Fair and cooler also was forecast for Tuesday in Indiana. New Storm Seen MIAMI (INS) —A new disturbance located about 450 miles east south-east of Miami was watched carefully today on the possibility that it would develop into a tropical storm. Cecil Gentry of the Miami Weather Bureau said the easterly wave extended from the southeast end < of the Bahamas Island chain into the Caribbean Seo. It has a “50-50’’ chance of turning into a tropical storm —the forerunner of a hurricane. The disturbance is believed to be an outgrowth of another easterly wave spotted in the Caribbean last week. Gusts of winds up to 35-40 miles per hour were clocked in parts of Cuba as the wave moved westward at about 25 mph. Soil Demonstration Reset For Wednesday The Soil Conservation demonstration scheduled for today at the Sherman VonGunten farm near Berne has been postponed until Wednesday afternoon at 1 o’clock. All those planning to attend are asked to note the change in schedule due to heavy morning rains. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly clear north and central scattered shower extreme south tonight. A little cooler north and central tonight Tuesday fair a little cooler extreme south. Low tonight ranging from 62 to 68 north to 68 <6 74 extitme soilth. Hlffh Tuesday 85 to 90.

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D. H. Callow Named To District Post Heads Broadcast' Group Os Church D. H. Calow, Stiefel Grain Co.. Decatur was named Lutheran Hour director for the Northern Indiana district of the Lutheran Laymen's League at a meeting of the board of governors held Sunday afternoon at Van WSKL.I>Callow succeeds John Bleeke of Fort Wayne, who has been appointed to the national Lutheran Hour operating committee. The Northern Indiana district includes 139 congregations in northern Indiana and northwest Ohio. As Lutheran Hour director, Callow heads 8 COftitttlttee with representation from each of the 46 zones in the district. Each congregation has a local director. This committee assists national headquarters in promoting the Lutheran Hour and the-Family Worship Hour. It monitors the various broadcasts from area stations, 1 The Northern Indiana district sponsors broadcasts each week from two South American stations. t The board also approved plans for the annual convention which will be held at N®* Haven Sunday September 18. William Selking represented the Decatur zone. Herman Krueckeberg and Louis Jacobs, both of the Decatur church also attended. Four Auto Mishaps Are Reported Here Two Arrests Are Made For Speeding City police investigated four accidents, made one arrest and recorded one state police arrest over the week-end. Saturday was the big day as there were three accidents and one arrest. A car driven by Charles E. Owens, Centerville, lows, hit an auto operated by Bob Oschsenreider of this city. Oschsenreider was backing into a parking place on Second street and as Owens attempted to pass him, he bit the right front fender of the Ochsenreider auto with his left rear fender. Damages to each car were estimated at |75. A U. S. mail truck driven ’by William P. Schrock Jr. was hit while parked in the alley bordering the A A P parking lot by an auto operated /by Leonard Ai Schwaller of Monroe, as the latter backed from a parking place. Damages to each vihicle were judged at 816. A parked car owned by Vivian M. Miller of Decatur was hit by a hit-skip driver while parked on Madison street north of the court house. The vehicle inflicting the damage was identified as a green pick-up truck. Damages to The left rear fender of the Miller car amounted to 830. — - Robert F. West, Hubbard, Ohio, was arrested east of Decatur by state police for speeding. West was fined five dollars and costs totaling 819.75 in Justice of the Peace court. One arrest was recorded Sunday. Joan Harrell of route three Decatur, was arrested on south Thirteenth street for speeding. A one dollar tine and costs amounting to 815-75 was assessed by Justice of the Peace Floyd Hunter. . An übtfsual accident occurred fOonunued on Page Two)

Tribe Violence May Cost Lives Os Over 1,000 French Troops To Aid Os Europeans In African Riots CASABLANCA (INS) — French - troops aided by tanks and fighter i planes today attacked Berber i tribesmen who had slaughtered i Europeans during the weekend. < The African violence may lave cost 1,000 lives. , The French attacked the tribes men who were entrenched in the 1 hills above the razed Moroccan ' town of Oued Zem, 80 miles south of Casablanca and the scene of Saturday’s bloodbath. First reports said that the French troops met determined rssistence, but gave no estimate of casualties. . __L -. '' Two fresh battalions of French troops, made up of conscripts, were flown into Casablanca from France Sunday night to join French foreign, legionnaires and elements of the fourth light infantry regiment and a Spahi armored cavalry regiment. In neighboring Algeria, scene of the greatest number of week end killings in the Arab Nationalist drive for freedom from France, officials announced the total destruction of nine Algerian b am ; lets. ' „■ Women and children were evacuated and the troops then destroyed the East Algerian hamlets because it was said the men not only harbored rebels but joined in mass attacks on some towns and were (Comtinned »■ Page Three) Contract Rejection Reasons Are Given Local U. E. Leader Says, "Why Rush?" ■President Henry Stauffer of UE Local 934, which presently represents the workers at the General Electric plant in Decatur, today isMied the following statement on the wage and contract proposals made by GE to both UE and IUEOIO, and which has been accepted by IUEOIO national leaders. “The first question we in UE must ask of other union members who are considering this GE offer is ■ what is the rush? This is the first offer made so far by the company. As in all previous years we in the trade anion movement know that to negotiate means to discuss, to give and to take. It does not mean grabbing the first offer by the company, which was obviously rigged. “In addition to proposals on wages, insurance and pensions which the Company has adequately publicized, it is important that the people of our community also know that GE has made these proposals contingent upon our acceptance of provisions which Would go far to wreck our present contract. “GE further proposes a five year contract. Large sections of the labor movement, especially tn the auto industry, have just rejeeted continuing the five year contract practive as doing injury to the workers it represent®. In fact UAW-CtO AWs Chalmers workers have just tu'rn&i <O4 a MH ?ftr (Continued oa Page TWe)

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 22, 1955.

Over 34.000 Families In Eastern Flood Area Routed From Homes I

President Will View Disaster From His Plane Plans Temporary Headquarters For Aid To Homeless DENVER (INS) — President Eisenhower will make an aerial inspection Tuesday of six stales in the eastern flood area and confer on the scene with leaders of relief Operations. The Chief Executive has invited the governors of all eight states which suffered flood or hurricane damage to meet with him at 8 a.m. EDT Tueaoay In Hartford, Conn. En route to Hartford, Mr. Eisenhower will fly over Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York to <®t a bird’s eye view of the t damage. » Mr. Eisenhower personally an- ■ nounced his plans before television I and newsreel cameras at the summer White House shortly after re- » porting back to work from a Rocky Mountain fishingtrip. » He appealed to Americans to > contribute generously to the apei cial Red Cross fund drive to aid ! victims of the most savage floods ’ in the history of the northeast. Speaking from a briefing room i at Lowry Air Force Base, Mr. Eisenhower declared: ’ “The heart of America is not going to stand still while other i Americans are in distress and in . need of help . . . i “My own reaction is that we will, i of course, pitch in and help.” The President gave the Civil Defense Administration a ‘blank 1 check” today to use as much money as necessary from his 312,000,000 disaster fund to aid flood and 1 storm victims. Mr. Eisenhower will set up an emergency office at Hartford, possibly aboard his plane, for conferences with the governors, Civil Defense Administrator Vai Peterson. E. Roland Harriman, chairman of the Red Cross, and other officials. He had planned to take off from Denver Tuesday morning for a stopover in Washington en route to Philadelphia, where he will deliver a major speech. Instead, he will leave Denver about 9 p.m. MST tonight with his flight timed to take him over the flood area shortly after sunrise. WASHINGTON (INS) — The Small Business Administration today designated the entire state of Connecticut and nine counties in Rhode Island, New York and New (Continued on Page Two) Berne Man Victim Os Heart Ailment Thurman Schug Dies Sunday At Residence Funeral services for Thurman Schug, 67, ot near Berne, who died Sunday morning following a heart seizure will be held at the residence, three and a half miles northeast of Berne Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery at Berne. Rev. C. A. Schmid will officiate. Mr. Schug Hved most of his life in Adams county. He is survived by four brothers, CaFI of Blue Creek township; John of South Miami. Fiji. I Harry, of Land-Of-Lakes, Fla., and Herman of Berne. Three sisters also survive. They include Miss Mildred Scbug, with whom the deceased resided; and Miss Leona and Miss Naomi, both of Berne. The body was removed to the Yager funeral home in Berne and was returned to the residence today where friends may call today and until funeral time Tuesday. The Was requested that friends omit flowers.

"" — Ohio Woman Killed 10 Hurt In Mishap Accident Occurs - East Os Van Wert VAN WERT, O. (INS) — A 28-year-old Latty, 0., ' woman was killed and 10 others — including her husband and three small children —■- were injured in a collision which demolished two cars at a county road intersection about 20 miles northeast of Van Wert early Sunday evening. The- dead woman was Mrs. Dema Rae Saxton, of near Latty, in Putnam county. Her husband, Stanley G. Saxton, 50, and their two-year-old daughter Dema Ann are <u» J the critical list at the Parkview hospital in Ft. Wayne, Ind., where they were taken after receiving first aid treatment at the county hospital in Paulding. They have possible skull fractures and other injuries. Their five-year-old son, Francis, suffering from a broken collar bone and severe lacerations of the face, and their eight-year-old son, were held at the Paulding hospital. The driver of the other car, Alex E. Miller. 25, of Ottoville, Putnam county, and his (ive passengers were injured in the crash which, state police said, demolished both cars. Miller suffered a fractured jaw. Hiss passengers were: Albert- Smith, 48, lacerations: Smith's wife, Loretta, 45, broken left hip and right arm; their daughter, Bernice, 5, severe bruises; another daughter, Virginia, 10, severe injuries to both legs; and their. 20-year-old daughter, Mary Ix>u, shock. Alt were: taken to St. Rita’s hospital in Lima, after emergency treatment at the Paulding county hospital. The Smiths live near Ft. JOS> nings, about .15 miles west of Lima. Mrs. Myrtle Strock Dies At Bluffton Local Lady's Mother 111 Several Years Funeral services for Mrs. Myrtle Welch Strock, 82, mother of Mrs. Charles Langston of Decatur, who died Saturday afternoon at South View nursing home Bluffton, will be field Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Black’s funeral home here with Rev. Ray J. Walther, pastor of the First Presbyterian church officiating. Burial will be in the I. 0.0. F. cemetery at Roanoke. Mrs. Strock had been ill for several years and critical the last two weeks. She was born July 27, 1873 at Roanoke, daughter of Deßoy and Malissa W. Welch. The deceased was married in 1895 to Alexander M. Brown, who died in 1901. In 1912, she married W. H. Strock, who died April 30. 1928. Mrs. Strock resided with the Langstons in Deeatur for more than 10 years. In addition to the daughter, she is survived by two sisters. They are Mrs. T. K. Biggs, Delphos, O. and Mrs. B. H. Smith. Fort Wayne. Two grandchildren and two great grandchildren also survive. Two brothers and a sister preceded Mrs. Stout in death. Friends may call at Black funeral home today and uAtil time of the funeral services Tuesday. Legion Meeting Set For 8 p.m. Tonight First meeting of Adams post, American Legion under its 1955-56 officers is scheduled, ter 8 o’clock tonight at the Legion home. Following announcement of committees for the coming year and the business session a chop suey luncheon will be served. All members are invited to.,atboth "the meeting and the luncheon which will follow.

Planes Ad As Observers For Struck Plants I Governor Warns I Agonist Violence > At Perfect Circle ' (NEW CASTLE, Ind. (INS) —lndiana National Guard planes flew ■ over the strike bound Perfect Circle • Corp, plants at New Castle and • Hagerstown today. r ] And National Guard observers, » headed by Col. Howard S. Wuiwere in action on the ground. r Governor George N. Craig Satifrt day withdrew state’ police from the strike area but warned emi phatically that he would declare martial law and. send guardsmen , to the plants affected in New Casr tie, Hagerstown and Richmond, if > violence continues. . However, negotiations between • the company and the CIO United Auto Workers were resumed today. , New Castle Mayor Paul McCor- , .mickeaid: — “Everybody feels as though-they 1 are sitting on a powder keg.” A chartered bus, followed by a police car. picked «p 50 Workers ■ who entered the New Castle plant this morning. Outside the plant were nearly 100 persons, but no J violence occurred. However, Howard L. Oler, of near Hagerstown, said two shotgun i blasts were fired Into hit home and he returned the fire. Rocks also were tossed at a floodlight in the barnyard of Robert Payne, of near Oler. J Princess Fails To Announce Her Plans BALLATER. Scotland (INS) — Britain's unpredictable Princess Margaret failed on her 25th birthday to solve the mystery over her romantic Interests. She added to it. The pert princess became free Sunday to marry without royal consent. ...... She celebrated quietly at Balmoral Castle with her family and a new beau-a tall and handsome 24 year old Scot, Dominic Elliot. For weeks anxious Britons had speculated that Margaret might announce on her birthday that she would renounce her right of succession to wed RAF Group Capt. Peter Townsend, a divorced commoner with whom she has been romantlcaly linked. Peter Everett Dies At Vet's Hospital Was Veteran Os First World War Peter Oscar Everett, 67, Decatur route three, died Saturday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock at Veterans hospital, Fort Wayne, where he had been a patient for 28 days. He had been in ill health tor three years. A son of Barney and Mary Passwater Everett, the deceased was born October 9, 1887, in Blue Creek township He was a retired farmer; a member of the American Legion and a veteran of World War I. Surviving are two brothers, Joseph C. Everett, Decatur, route three and Grover C. Everett, Troy, O. Two sisters. Mrs. Frank Dellinger, Decatur route six and Mrs. Anna Longenberger, .Decatur route five, also survive. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral .home here, where friends may call until the time of the funeral. Services will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, with Rev. Harley Davis, officiating. Graveside military services will be conducted kiM buriil *lll be In Tricker cemetery.

Geneva Girl In lop 4-H Demonstration • Best In State To Take Part At Fair One of the finest programs during the 1955 state fair will feature the stae's top 18 demonstrations by 4-H girls Thursday, Sept. 1. One of the demonstrators will be Nancy Jo Llechty of Genva. Miss Edna Troth, assistant 4-H leader at Purdue university, says “11 tA> 1 Irt V I Xl-t lAJllirt 1 vnt 111 VIXT” best of 25JM10 demonstrations given in the local clubs and at county and district contests. The five high placing demonstrators will receive a week’s trip, sponsored by the state fair board, to Washington, D. C. the United Nations and other points so Interest. Demonstrators are Jeanne O’Shea, Washington; Nancy Tower, Campbellsburg; Almeda Kemp, Wheatland; Louann e Mueller, route 9; Evansville: Miss Llechty, Geneva; Linda Schermerhorn, Wawaka; Judy Rees, Columbus; Dorothy Carter Brownsburg; Judy Stipe, New Ross. Janet Chambers, Galveston; Marilyn Wolf, and Jean Edwards, Walkerton; Sally Nuest and Gwen Heinhold, Kouts; Sandra Kelso, i Osgood; Jane Watterson, Scottsi hurt: Joyce Arnold, Albany; Eli- [ Wsbeth Wolfe, Converse; Rheat dor Sparks and Rita Roudebuah, > Switz City; and Qenny Salsman, Carlbfle. t *— u -‘—• ‘ Few Tickets Remain i I For New York Special , Indications are that the special Labor day excursion to New York city from Decatur sponsored by the Erie Railroad and the Decatur Democrat Co, will be sold completely out by next Saturday, two days before the announced deadline for reservations. When the 45 seats on the special car are sold, sale of tickets will stop, it was announced today. , Today there are about a dozen seats remaining. All persons planning to make the trip are urged to fill out a coupon immediately, so they will not be disappointed. The special leaves Decatur Friday afternoon September 2 and returns to Decatur Monday afternoon September 5. G. E. Proposal Gets IUE-CIO Approval Local 901 Agrees On Five-Year Plan Members of Fort Wayne Local 901, IUE-CIO, Sunday afternoon voted acceptance of a new 5-year con tract with the General Electric Company at a meeting at Civic Theater. The theater was filled to capacity. The vote to accept came after a report by John H. Callahan of Pittsfield, Mass., chairman of the GE Conference Board of JUB-CIO and of the union’s national negotiating committee, and Thomas Heyden, president of Local 901 and member of the national negotiating committee. Both men recommended fn their reports acceptance of the settlement which the national negotiating committee had worked out with GE. The committee voted unanimously August hl. to recommend to the locals that the new contract be ratified. The action of Local 901 was by voice vote and Hayden said approval was voiced by 80 to 86 percent of those present. Among other GE locals of IUECIO which have voted acceptance of the contract are the big Lynn. Mass., Works, the huge Schenectady. N. Y., Works, the large Cleveland, Ohio, plant and the Tell City; Ind., plant. Ratification votes are being held by IUE-CIO locals throughout the chain. Delegates from the various locals to the GE Conference Board (Conttaued on Page Four)

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Many Homes Are Destroyed By Floodwater | Red Cross Makes Survey; Sends Aid To Those Stricken WASHINGTON (INS) — The • Red Cross reported today that at least 34,169 families were routed from their homes by rampaging flood waters in Pennsylvania. Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York. New Jersey and Rhode Island. It said there was “every indication that the final total would be much higher.” The number jumped more than one thousand over night. The Red Cross added that incomplete surveys show that 439 homes were entirely, destroyed in the six states and that nearly 14,- ’ 000 were damaged. However, the organization also reported it has found that children tn seven more northeast Pennsyi- _ ' vania summer camps are safe. 1 Sunday night, the occupants of 36 '• camps were reported to have es- ' caped harm.. • Ttft settg additional camps ■ were identified as Delawaxen, Del- • amore, Bambi, Ten Mile Row Roy > Scout Camp, Coland, Ironwood and j Pocony Boy’s Camp. The Red Cross also told of moving “full spaed ahead today with plans for emergency care and rehabilitation of flood sufferers” in the face of “mounting tragedy.” It said a Red Cross U. S. Public Health Service team which made an aerial survey of the flood situation Sunday found “an acutely serlous water problem tn Scranton, . Pa.",which has been without water for three days. The city’s population was being supplied from 173,000 gallon canvas Army tanks set upon street corners. The Red Cross said the health problem in Pennsylvania "was complicated by the presence of thousands of dead chickens and many head of livestock, drowned as waters rose and washed into basements and streets.” The organization told of supplying four tons of ice flown in by U. S. Marine Corps planes to the isolated town of Newfoundland, Pa., over the weekend. U.N. Officials To Get Body Os Dead Flier SEOUL (INS)-—United Nations officials will recover from the Communists Tuesday an injured U. S. Air Force lieutenant and the body of an Army captain killed when an unarmed training plane was shot down by the Reds over Korea’s neutral zone. The Communists agreed to return 2nd Lt Guy H. Bumpass, Jr., of Jackson, Miss., and the body of Army Captain Charles W. Brown of West Louisville; Kg., in a meeting at the demilitarized zone TuesGeneva Auto Mishap Nets Driver's Arrest Boyd NevU. 21, of Geneva route two, wae arrested for failure so yield the right of way after an accident Saturday at 10 p.m. on U.S. highway 27 to Geneva. Nevil’B car struck the rear end of a pickup truck driven by Ceci) D. Bollenbacber. 34, of Geneva route two, who had slowed down to • make a left turn. Janett NevU. 33, a passenger in the NevU vehicle sustained a slight eye injury. Also slightly injured were Shirley Boilenbocber.'l4, a passenger in the pick-up truck, and Boyd NevU. Both received bruises. Damage® was estimated at 1500 , to the NevU oar and >l5O to the truck. NevU will appear in the justice of the peaice court «t Geneva tonight.