Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 31 October 1955 — Page 1

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A LOT OF TURKEY FOR CHILD CITY

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President And Summerfield In Conference Postmaster General Arrives In Denver To Meet With Ike DENVER (INS) — President Eisenhower holds a “nonpolitical” conference today with one of the administration’s chief political strategists, postmaster general : Arthur 3 Summerfield. Summerfield, seventh member of the cabinet to visit Mr. Eisenhower at Fitzsimons Army hospital, is scheduled to take up routine postal problems. The conference is expected to i cover administration strategy for getting congress to aprpove a boost in postal rates next year, along with other legislative recommendations of the Postoffice department. If Summerfield had any plans to talk politics with Mr. Eisenhower, they were a closely guarded secret. The postmaster general is a former chairman of the Republican national committee, and will probably be one of the first to know when the President makes his decision on whether to run for reelection. Cabinet members who have talked previously with Mr. Eisenhower in his hospital room came away insisting there was no„ discussion of politics or the President’s future plans. It was Summerneld who guided Mr. Eisenhower’s successful campaign for the presidency in 1952 as GOP chairman. Mr. Eisennower went for his longest walk yesterday since his heart attack. He stepped out of his wheel chair and walked 40 or 50 feet. In the afternoon he joined Mrk. Eisenhower in the hospital auditorium to see a movie, his second since bis illness. This is the “mobile” week in the president’s recovery. By the end of the week, his sixth in the hospital, he is expected to be ‘quite mobile,” in the words of bis doctors. Thus he will gradually gain the strength to woiv aboard the plane which will fly him back to Washington in 10 or 12 days. The President plans to stop off at the White House for a day or two before going on to his Gettysburg farm. Local Lady's Parents Killed In Accident Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schertz, of Metamora, 111., parents of Mrs. Fred J. Soldner of southeast of Decatur, were fatally injured in a head-on collision at 10 o’clock Sunday only one-half mile from their home. The driver of the other car was also reported killed. Mrs. Schertz had spent the weekend here with her daughter and had returned home Sunday even- ■ ing, Soldner is an employe of the Central Soy* Co. In this city. Funeral services have been tentatively set for Wednesday.

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Millionaire Race Horse Owner Killed Woodward Mistaken By Wife As Prowler NEW YORK (INS) — William Woodward Ju’s widow may be questioned more fully today about how she killed the millionaire sportsman and owner of the famed racehorse Nashua. The beautiful blonde Ann Eden Crowell Woodward told investigators she fired two shotgun blasts at her husband when she mistook him for a prowler in the darkened hallway outside his bedroom. The onetime model and native of Pittsburg, Kans., was Under heavy sedation in New York’s Doctors hospital. She had become hysterical during preliminary questioning in the Woodward’s Oyster Bay home. Dr. John M. Prutting, the Woodward family physician, said Sunday night Mrs. Woodward was in a state of “severe shock and hysteria" and that her condition was not good. Police said the shotgun blasts which killed the 35-year-old owner of the Belair stud in the pre dawn hours of Sunday “just about blew his head off.” Nassau county district attorney* Frank A. Gulotta. pending further inquiry, termed the slaying accidental. Woodward and his 32-year-old wife had returned to their Long Island home from a plush party for the Duchess of 'Windsor only hours before the fatal shooting. An hysterical and almost incoherent call to a telephone operator summoned police to the Woodward home shortly after 2 a.m. (EST). They found the beautiful, nightgowned Mrs. Woodward in a foyer of their home in a state of hysteria and with her hands covered with blood. The nude body of her husband lay face down on the floor. Mrs. Woodward told Nassau county chief of detectives Stuyvesant Pinnell that she and her husband — who occupied separate ground floor bedrooms —had planned to trap any prowler who might have entered the house. A big game hunter, she said a series of incidents in the area had made the residents “nervous" and that Woodward kept a pistol at his bedside while she had a Britishmade 12-gauge shotgun. Oyster Bay Police Lt. C. Russel! Haff said tnat only Saturday night a prowler had broken into the rear of the 12-room Woodward home and ransacked a wing rented to the Cinerama organization for research purposes. Pinnell related: ‘She and her husband had discussed the prowlers in the neighborhood and even at the party they attended talked about it and instituted plans to catch the interloper. “W’hen they came home, they went over the whole house together to make sure no’ prowler was there. Her husband pointed out to his wife possible places a prowler was likely to break in. “This is the story of the wife and it is supported by others at the party. They went to bed with the understanding this operation would go into effect” Pinnell /tated that Mrs. Woodward said she had been awakened by? the barking of a dog. went to (Con Clausa on ra«e Five)

Adams County Man Is Killed In Auto Crash Eudon Hill Killed In Head-on Crash Saturday Evening Eudon Hill, 24, of near Pleasant Mills was killed instantly in a twocar collision at 6 p.m. Saturday four miles south of Fort Wayne on U. S. highway 27, which is still under construction. The entire Harold Thieme family, of 526 Studebaker street was hospitalized as a result of the accident, which occurred when Hill ewerved into the left lane of the highway headon into the path of the approaching Thieme vehicle. Both cars were totally demolished by the impact. Hill’s death was caused by a basal skull fracture. The five Thiemes were rushed to the Parkview Memorial hospital, where four of them are still receiving treatment. Harold Thieme, 36, driver of the car, sustained facial lacerations, a chest injury, injuries to the right arm and left shoulder, and shock. His condition, first listed as critical, is now' improving and is fair. His wife, Elma, 36, is still in serious condition suffering with multiple lacerations about the face and head and a bad chest injury. Still critical is their oldest daughter, Karel, 15, who suffered severe shock and lacerations and a concussion. Another daughter, Donna, 12, sustained lacerations on her forehead and hands and numerous abrasions and bruises over her body. Her condition is described as good. The Thiemes’ five-year-old son, Duane, was released Sunday after treatment of minor cuts and bruises over his body. The Allen county sheriff’s department, and state police who investigated the accident, pointed out that the highway has not officially been opened to traffic and that persons travel it at their own risk. Funeral services for Hill have been scheduled for this week in Paducah, Ky. The body is now at the D. O. McComb and Sous funeral home and will be taken to the Kennedy funeral home in Paducah, where the services will be held. Burial will be In the Paradise Cemetery at Smithland, Ky. Hill came to this area about seven months ago from Smithland. He lived in Fort Wayne until his marriage to Carrie Baker, of near Decatur, when he moved to Decatur route three. He was employed at Fruehauf Trailer Co. in Fort Wayne. Surviving in addition to the widow are two daughters. Margaret and Brenda, both of Paducah; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hill of Flint, Mich.; two brothers. Euing Hill of Flint-and Billy Hill of Fort Wayne; three sisters, Lois, Jean and Belinda, all of Flint, and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Cam Driskill of Tiline, Ky. I ,

Indiana Is Divided By Change Os Time 53 State Counties On Standard Time INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indiana was a state divided against itself today, with respect to time. The average citizen could wander about the state and find himself arriving at various hours in different cities without rhyme or reason today following the shift of northwest Indiana from fast to slow time Sunday and other changes that preceded it. Fifty - three Indiana counties were on central standard time today and 39 remained on eastern standard time today after the various bizarre changes. Joining communities of northwest Indiana in reverting to slow time Sunday were Seymour, Columbus, Brownstown and Nashville, in southern Indiana. Already back on slow time was all of southwest Indiana, from Evansville east to Jeffersonville and north .to Bloomington, Terre Haute and Attica. The Fort Wayne region began the vogue for eastern time more than a year ago and it has been joined by the Indianapolis area, including Martinsville, Franklin, Greenfield, Noblesville, Tipton, Anderson. Lebanon. Danville and Shelbyville. ‘ Outlying recrulta have been Madison, Versailles and Greensburg. Pressure mounted today for members of the 1957 general assembly to take some practical action to straighten the weird situs(Coounuba on rugs Five)

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAME COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 31, 1955.

Dulles Announces U. S. Removing Restrictions On American Travelers

ProposesU. H. Study Problem Os Radiation . Proposal Made By United States For Study Os Problem UNITED NATIpNS, N.Y. (INS) —The United States proposed to day that the United Nations set up an East-West fact-finding committee to study the problem of atomic radiation effects on mankind. Members of the committee would be the U. S., Britain, France. Russia, Canada, India and Brazil. Deputy U. S. delegate James J.’ Wadsworth told the UN political committee that the proposed study would clear up doubts about the genetic effects of radioactivity and “free ourselves of the fear of the unknown.” Swedish delegate Rolf Sohlman endorsed the idea of the UN study of radioactivity. He urged “concerted action" by the world organization to marshal all the facts on the problem. The U. S. hopes the commission will shed light on the true extent cf the radiation proglem in view of popular fears of a genetic threat, to future generations and- of cop-, tcminalion of the atmosphere from nuclear explosions. There is a world-wide controversy on the question. Some scientists have warned of grave genetic perils while others have claimed the threat has been over-exag-gerated.

Halloween Parade Here This Evening A large crowd is expected in Decatur’s business district tonight for the annual Callithumpian Halloween parade sponsored by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce. The parade will begin at 7:30 p. m. All participants are expected to be at the jail yard no later than 7 p. m. Heavy wheeled equipment will be lined up on Winchester street before the parade and floats will line up on First street. Retail stores of the city will remain open during the parade until 9 p. m. for their annual ‘Spook Sale.’ Following the parade will be the fall festival at the Decatur high school gym. Sponsored by the Lincoln P. T. A., the festival will include food, games and entertainment. Alva Baker Dies At Home Early Sunday Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Alva D„ Baker, 71, a retired employe of the Citizens Telephone company, died at 4 o’clock Sunday morning at his hom.e 307 North Eleventh street, following a years illness of comlications. Born in Decatur Dec. 27, 1883. he was a son of Philip and Nancy Kinsey-Baker, and was married to Anoti Dailey June 1, 1910. Mr. Bak’er was a member of the First Baptist church and the I. O. O. F. lodge. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Philip D. Baker of Decatur and JForggt F. Baker of Benson, Ariz.; one daughter, Mrs. Ruth Railing of Decatur; four grandchildren; two brothers, Harvey M. and Franklin O. Baker, both of Decatur, and two sisters. Mrs. Berta Elzey of Wren, G.,-and Mrs. Lola McCague of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Black funeral home, the Stay. Stuart Brightwell officiating. Burial will be tn the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral heme after 7 o'clock this evening until time of the services.

Spiritual Emphasis Week Opens Sunday No Service Tonight To Resume Tuesday A full auditorium at Zion Evangelical and Reformed church greeted the guest speaker, the Rev. William F. Rae, Stouffville. Ontario, Canada, at the opening of the annual Spiritual Emphasis week Sunday night. Rev. Rae was introduced by the Rev. Stuart Brightwell, pastor of First Baptist church, and he spoke on “The Sacrifice Os Praise.” "It is essential to praise God for everything," the speaker said. “If revival is to come, it must come through the Christian people of the world.” Giving a persona] example, the speaker showed how the hand of God is “ever guiding in our lives.” The 'Rev. William Feller, pastor of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, presided at the opening of the week of services, sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur assisted by the Decatur ministerial association. The Rev. John Chambers, pastor of Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, read the scripture and the Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick led the congregation in prayer. The Wells county men’s chorus rendered several special musical selections prior to the, address by Rev, Rae. There will be no service tonight but the second of the series will be held Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock at Zion church, with Rev. Rae delivering his second message. The ißev. Paul D. Parker, pastor of Nuttman avenue United Brethren church will preside. The Rev. Herald Welty, pastor of First Missionary church, will lead the audience in prayer and the Rev. John Chambers will read the scripture. The Zion Evangelical and Reformed church choir will deliver special musical numbers and Ronald Walton, Berne-French music instructor will Jead the congrega(Continued on Pare Five)

Monthly Luncheon 01 Retailers Tuesday Discuss Plans For Christmas Season The November luncheon meeting for all Decatur retailers will be held Tuesday noon at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Christmas store hours, a preliminary report concerning retailer assessments toward the promotional fund, 4-H appreciation dinner plans, and a final fish fry report. are listed as agenda items. With only 45 shopping days left until Christmas, the group will discuss plans for extra store hours in December for Christmas shoppers. The committee will present several plans with several options and it is hoped uniform hours nan be adopted. A Christmas promotion committee has been busy planning decorations and a gala parade scheduled for the Saturday following Thanksgiving. In order to finance the additional Christmas decorations and to provide funds for the Callithumpian parade and other promotional events, a budget of SIBOO has been approved. Each merchant has been asked to pay his fair share and the promotional committee, headed by Robert Tracy, is mak.ing the solicitation. A special ad in the Christmas opening issue of the Daily Democrat will list all merchants who have cooperated. Mart Sprunger will discuss final plans for the 4-H appreciation dinner to be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Nov. 8. Clarence Ziner will give his final report on the recent fish fry. A nominating committee for next year’? retailer’s officers will be appointed. Retailers wfce have not yet made their luncheon reservations are urged to contact the Chamber office at once.

Two Americans Are Freed By Chinese Reds Jesuit Missioner, Woman Scholar At Hong Kong Today HONG KONG (INS) —A Jesuit missioner and a woman scholar arrived in Hong Kong today after years of imprisonment in Communist China on charges of spying for the U. S. Father Armand Proulx of Lowell, Mass., and Miss Harriet Mills of New York City, entered the British crown colony separately. The 59-year-old missioner arrived aboard the British liner ‘ Hanyang’’ from Shanghai,, while Miss Mills, a Fulbright scholar, crossed the international bridge from Red China. Miss Mills looked very pale and wan as though she might have been brainwashed. She told newsmen she had not been indoctrinated with Communist ideology but she admitted: "I underwent rehabilitation.” Father Proulx arrived unheralded and unexpected at the harbor while British and American officials waited at the herder 30 miles away. He said he was sentenced to tour years imprisonment following his arrest in March, 1952, for failing to register his membership in the Legjon of Mary, a Catholic laymen's organization. The father said he was released five months earlier than expected. He was asked whether the Communists were justified in sending him to jail and declared: “According to their law they are justified but according to Catholic moral law they are not. 1 believe in |Cod." The woman, who said she hoped to return to New York City as soon as possible, said the Red Chinese were “absolutely justified" in arresting her. She said she had made a full confession to her “crime” but said she wanted to stress she made it (Continued on Page fClgat) Harry Fritzinger Is Taken By Death Funeral Tuesday For Former Postmaster Harry Fritzinger, 72, well known Decatur man. former Decatur postmaster, and retired rural mail carrier, was found dead at 3:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon at his home, 511 North Second street. He had been in failing health since last January. Death was caused by hanging, according to a verdict returned by Harmon F. Gillig, Adams county coroner. Mr. Fritzinger, a lifelong resident of this city, served as Decatur postmaster from 1922 to 1927, and a« rural mail carrier from 1927 until his retirement from the postal service in 1951. Prominent in Republican political circles much of his life, he had served as chairman of the Adams county Republican central committee. He was born in Decatur May 8. 1883, a son of Erastus and 'Rachel Hoffman-Fritzinger, and was first married to Mayme Conter, who died June 29, 1951, of injuries sustained in an auto accident. He wsfs later married to Rose Conter April’ 19, 1954. Mr. Fritzinger was a charter member of’ the Decatur B. P. 0. Elks lodge. Surviving are his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Richard Steele of Jonesboro. Ark., and one brother, Robert M. Fritzinger of Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the funeralhome until time of the services.

Heavy Slate Traflic Toll Over Week-end October Closes In Style Over Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — October, listed as the most dangerous driving month of the year, closed in style today as rain and sleet turned Indiana highways into week-end death chutes. Heavy traffic moving to football games and for a last look at fall’s colors provided the actors in the continuing highway slaughter drama in Hoqsierland, where the toll is nearly 10 percent above 1954. The week-end toll hit a climax this morning when two cars and a truck collided west of Taylorsville In Bartholomew county. Killed in the crash was Elonor Lowerjr, 20, of Indianapolis. Her husband, Bernard. 20, their one-year-old daughter, Debra, and a passenger, Ronald Grant, 19, also of Indianapolis, werd Injured. Police said Lokery hit the rear of a truck driven by Leonard Patterson, of New Albany, and a car driven by Elmer Buck, of Franklin, struck Lowery’s automobile. Neither Patterson nor Buck was injured. Eighteen-year-old Donna Jean Curran, of Roachdale, was killed and her husband, 19-year-old Ev-erett-Ray, wqs injured seriously in a two-car collision on Ind. 236 five miles west of their home. Police said I .ester Booker, iff* also of Roachdale, who suffered minor injuries, turned off the road into the path of the Curran car. A Sunday night accident claimed the life of Leonard Hammond, 39, of Schneider. He was killed when he lost control of his car on a county road west of Schneider. The car hit an embankment along the county road, overturned, and Hammond was pinned underneath. George R. Johnson, 37, of Peru, was killed in a one-car accident two miles south of Peru along a country road late Saturday. He died about four hours after the accident in Dukes hospital at Peru. Otto K. Severns, 69, of LaPorte, died Saturday night of injuries suffered a few hours earlier, in a two-car accident along U. S. 20 about six miles east of Michigan City. Police said Severns pulled out of a driveway and into the path of a car driven by Carl W. Harris, 32, of LaPorte. Harris and a passenger, Sam Rose, 40, were injured. Euden Hill, 24, of Fort Wayne, was killed and five other persons were injured in a two-car crash late Saturday on U. S. 27 some four miles south of Fort Wayne. Hill's car skidded 134 feet into the path of a car containing* Harold Thieme, 38, his wife. Alma, 36, and their three children, Karel, 15. Donna, 12, and Duane, 3, all of (Continue on Page Five)

Stockyards Strike Ends At Indianapolis Week-Long Strike Is Ended Sunday INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Workers returned to their' jobs at the Indianapolis stockyards today following an end to their week-long strike. CIO United Packinghouse workers left the yards Oct. 23 in a wage dispute and the yards actually had stopped receiving shipments Oct. 21 in preparation for the walkout. Settlement came when the union accepted 11 cents more an hour and three-cents additional in insurance payments-the same offer the company had made before the strike began. The union had demanded a flat 14 cent across-the-board increase. The new contract, reached Sunday in a meeting between company and union officials with federal mediator James S. Allen, will remain in effect one year. ' During the strike, various stockwards throughout Indiana increased their working hours to handle the trading of cattfe, hogs and sheep.

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Permit Travel By Americans To Red Lands Says Restrictions Eased To Improve World Relations GENEVA (INS) -r Secretary of State John Foster Dulles dramatically announced today that the United States is removing restrictions that had prevented American citizens from traveling in the Soviet Union and communist • ruled satellite states. Dulles told the Big Four foreign ministers’ session that restrictions were removed starting today in the hope of Improving East-West relations. “Hereafter,” he said, "American passports will be valid for the Soviet Union and all countries in eastern Europe with which the United States maintains relations.” Dulles’ colleagues urged the Soviet Union to stop “jamming” western broadcasts and to give reporters free access to information if it hoped to improve relations. The American minister also proposed that the East and West eichange rights to each other’s civil aircraft, meaning that: Soviet commercial airplanes might land at Idlewild Airport near New York and United States airplanes might similarly land at the airport serving Moscow.” Dulles* announcement about lifting restrictions on all citizens wishing to travel to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was aimed to elicit reciprocal action on the part of the Soviet Union. He expressed hope that controls imposed on the movement of foreigners inside the Soviet Union might be reduced. He said the United States was willing to reduce on an equal basis the controls on Soviet citizens residing in the United States. The Soviet Union years ago marked off “forbidden areas” to foreign travelers and the United States followed by setting up restrictions on Soviet nationals in the United States. Dulles also said that the high Soviet ruble exchange rate should be lowered so travel of individual tourists, and East-West trade, could be promoted. British foreign secretary Harold MacMillan warned Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov that any progress in improving East-West contacts would be unrealistic, however, if the big four failed to make progress on European security, German reunification and disarmament. Molotot himself proposed a list of fields in which relations could be improved and also suggested that an international conference on use of atomic energy in the field of public health be held next tear. Dulles presided at the session (Continued on Page Seven) Fall Clean-up Week Will Open Tuesday Decatur’s annual fall cleanup week will be marked this week. The city street; department will pick up rubbish according to the following schedule: Tuesday- fire ward 4, north of Monroe street, west of Fifth; Wednesday- fire ward 1, north'of Monroe, east of Fifth; Thursday- tire ward 2, south of Monroe, east of Fifth; Friday- fire ‘ward 3, south of Monroe, west of Fifth, INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cool tonight. Tuesday increasing cloudiness and a little- warmer, followed by showers. Low tonight 36-40, High Tuesday 53-60. BULLETIN LONDON (INS) — Princess Margaret an- — nounced today she will not marry Peter Townsend.