Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 275, Decatur, Adams County, 22 November 1955 — Page 1

Vol. Uli. No. 275.

AIRUFTED TO CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT - 7' ■ TP K m ft• fx MF -w JKI a <■ X 4 ■>•! z K ■ w —a .- I -Trt ' «^^* >> ‘ • V7; p jfoik < '"'<Wr PJ K* JOINING THE AIRLIFT for conferences with President Eisenhower. Defense Secretary Charles Wilson (left). Attorney General Herbert Brownell and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey sit aboard a Piasecki helicopter at the Pentagon's new heliport. They were about to take off for Camp David, Md., where the President is continuing his ever-increasing activities.

Disarmament Discussed By Ike, Leaders Meeting Os Cabinet Mountain Retreat THURMONT. Md. (INS) —President Eisenhower discussed U. S. disarmament proposals today in a hush-hush cabinet meeting in the Blue Ridge mountains. The administration's reappraisal of its efforts to reach an agreement with Russia on disarmament was among a number of foreign and domestic problems taken up. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., U. S. representative to the United Nations, who directed U. S. efforts in the UN disarmament commission, was an unannounced addition to the cabinet meeting. Harold Stassen, the President’s special assistant on disarmament, also was present for the discussion* on the future course of U S , disarmament efforts. J" The President’s meeting with “‘ ■MhO-cabinet, his first in more than three months, got underway shortly after 9 a.m.. (EST) at the closely "guarded presidential retreat. Camp David, atop the Catoctin mountains. Three cabinet members — secretary of state John Foster Dulles, defense secretary Charles E. Wilson and treasury secretary George M. Humphrey—stayed at the president’s lodge overnight to attend the meeting. Lodge arrived this morning from New York while other advisers came from Washington by “helicopter lift.” — ——— Those officials flew to Camp David in three of the air force’s new dual-rotor “Flying Banana” helicopters, arriving at five minute intervals shortly after 8:30 a.m. (EST). Agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson said the flight was “fine but noisy—we couldn't talk»'7 Asked if he thought the cabinet would discuss with the President whether he will Ire a candidate for reelection in 1956, Benson smiled and replied: “It’s not on the agenda.” Benson also was asked if he had any new proposals for solving the problem of falling farm prices. He replied: (CotiumuHn nn Pare eight) Fort Wayne Pastor Lions Club Speaker The Rev. Robert MacDanel, pastor of the Third Presbyterian church at Fort Wayne, was the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Lions club Monday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Rev. MacDanel spoke on “Boys.” urging encouragement given to boys to make them better citizensHe also suggested ways in which service clubs can help boys of the community. The club will observe district governor's night next Monday, to which the ladies are invited. All Lionesses are invited to be present. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, warmer and windy tonight with showers developing most sections. Wednesday cloudy and windy with , rain, turning colder northwest half, with rain probably changing to snow northwest. Low tonight 40s north to the 50s south. High Wednesday around 50 northwest to the 60s southeast.

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Sororities Aid In Gifts To Patients Dec. 1 Deadline To Receive Gifts The Adams county mental health Christmas gift project got a lift this week w-lth the announcement that several local sororities have joiried the Christmas gift drive sponsored by the Indiana association for mental health. Gifts already have been received from Delta Theta Tau and Tri Kappa sororities in Decatur. Mrs. Lowell Harper, county chairman for the project, said today that Psi lota Xi and Beta Sigma Phi also had joined in the drive to obtain Christmas gifts for the 16,000 Indiana people in mental sanitariums. Many of those who will receive the gifts are from Adams county, it was pointed out. Some of these, who have been hospitalized for many years, are almost forgotten because their families have died or moved away, it was pointed out. Sources close to the state hospitals say that about 25 percent of the patients have had no visitors or correspondence since last Christmas when gifts were distributed. An effort is being made this year to provide'every patient with a gift and the Adams county organization is reported to have exceeded last year's gift drive already with a week remaining to solicit gifts. Gift depots for local contributions of gifts have been set up at the county agent's office in the post office building and the Youth and Community Center. Mrs. Harper has announced a third receiving depot, the Gas company office on North Second street. Church groups, sororities and individuals who do not know what type of gifts to give are urged to call Mrs. Harper or any member ,of her committe. The deadline for receiving gifts is December 1. New Castle Scene Os New Violence Shotgun Blasts Are Fired Into Homes INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Gov. George N. Craig’s office said today Indiana national guardsmen will not be returned to New Castle to dear with a new outburst of violence. His executive secretary. Horace M. Coats, said complaints by workers that shotgun blasts have been fired at their homes did not "justify any emergency action by the state.” Shotgun blasts were fired into the homes of four hon-strikers Monday as a new outburst of violence was reported in the CIO strike against the Perfect Circle. Carl Batchfield, president of the CIO United Auto Workers local, said he knew nothing of the shootings. Batchfield said that his union. which has been on strike against Perfect Circle since July 25. is pledged to non-violence. The firm manufactures piston rings. Roy Turner, 48, Who has been employed by Perfect Circle for 26 years, told police a shotgun blast shattered a picture window in his living room, as his four children were asleep. Gerald Harvey, who lives in a northwest side suburb, reported that another shotgun blast smashed. a window pane in his. home. Harvey is a supervisor at the Perfect Circle plant. Similar attacks. ..by ambushers raked the homes of two other non(Contlnued on Pa<« Five)

Funeral Rites On Wednesday For Dr. Bryan President Emeritus Os Indiana U. Dies Monday At Age Os 95 BLOOMINGTON. Ind. (INS)— Funeral services for President Emeritus William Lowe Bryan of Indiana University will be held Wednesday in the I. U. president’s home on the Bloomington campus. <, Dr. Bryan, who was president of the state university for 35 years, died Monday afternoon at the age of 95, Os the 11 presidents I. U. has had in its 135 years of life, Dr. Bryan served the longest tenure, from 1902 to 1937. Dr. Herman B. Wells, who succeeded him, is to speak at the last rites at 11 a. m. Wednesday. Burial is to be in Indianapolis Crown Hill * cemetery. The Bryans had continued to reside in the*' university .president's home at the insistence of Dr. Wells after Dr. Bryan became president emeritus. At the time the 95-year-old educator died, all of his immediate family were dead. His wife. Charlotte, with whom he had coauthored several books and articles on philosophy and psychology, died in 1948. Two sisters who had lived in the campus home with Dr. Bryan also preceded him in death in 1952 and 1953. Dr. Bryan’s long life was entwined around the university almost from birth. He was born on a Monroe county farm two miles east of Bloomington and became a student at I. U. in 1880. He was the inistitution’s oldest athlete, having received his “I” in baseball in 1883. He studied abroad on three occasions at Berlin in 1887, and Paris and Wurzburg in 1900-01. He received a doctor of philosophy degree from Clark University in 1892. But he was on the 1. U. staff for 59 years, beginning as asso(Continued on Page Five) Father Os Decatur Pastor Dies Monday Jesse Welty Dies In Medford, Ore. Jesse Welty, 76. father of the Rev. H. J." Welty of Decatur, died suddenly late Monday night at Medforfl. Ore. Although he had been suffering from a heart ailment for soms time, his death was unexpected. Mr. Welty has been making his home in this city with his son, who is pastor of the Missionary church, and had left Nov. 5 for a visit with relatives and friends in California and Sacramento. Mr. Welty was a member of the First Mennonite church at Bluffton, 0., where he resided for many years. Survivors include three sons. Rev. Welty of Decatur, Henry Welty of Cuyahoga Falls. O„ and Oliver Welty of Sacramento. Calif., and three daughters, Mrs. Eldon King of Cairo, 0., Mrs. Clyde Roush of Wise. Va., and Mrs. Edgar Shady of Jackson Center, O. The body will be returned to a Bluffton, 0., funeral home, and services will be held at the First Mennonite yhurch in that'city at a time to he announced later.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, November 22, 1955.

New Russian Purge Is Announced As Former Officials Are Executed

Classes Moved To New School This Morning Northwest School Opened For Grade Pupils Os Decatur Classrooms in the new Northwest Elementary school received the initiation today as several of the classes moved in this morn- , ing. Those classes which were conducted temporarily in the high school building moved today. Tomorrow the classes that are temporarily housed fn the Lincoln school will move to their new location and the move will be completed ' Monday morning when the kindergarten class at the library reports at the new school.. The nine classrooms in the building will be utilized for two first grades, two second grades and one class each of the third,, fourth, fifth and sixth and kindergarten. The average size of each class is 32 pupils. Hubert Zerkel, Jr., principal of the new grade school, has issued letters to the parents of all children who will attend the school. TLe letters include a diagram of the school and explanation of the moving. It was announced that the east entrance of the school facing the Missionary church will be the only one used for the present time. Assisting with the moving are the Teeple Truck lines who have donated a truck and Gay's, who have provided bus service. The General Electric company has offered the use of its parking lot for teachers until the school drive is completed. Not Complete The wing which houses the classrooms, boiler room and library is the only completed porticnof the project. Still under construction is the main entrance wing which includes the lobby, the principal’s suite of offices, a supplies room, a health room, a canteen, a teachers room, toilets and the general purpose room which will serve as a gymnasium and auditorium. Also to be completed are the driveway, parking lot, playground area and the general landscaping. A formal open house program will be “delayed until next year, when all of this has been completed. The pupils assigned to this school will attend classes in modern, well-lighted classrooms ■ which are described as “self-con-" tained” classrooms. Modern Classrooms Each room features, in addi- j tion to the usual desks, black- i board and storage space, its own > girls and boys toilets, washbowl, drinking fountain, utility sink I (Oonttnuea on Page ElgHt)

Christmas Opening In Decatur On Saturday

The official program opening the Christmas shopping season in Decatur stores will be conducted Saturday afternoon, according to an announcement by Jack Gordon, chairman of the Christmas project of the Chamber of Commerce retail division. The program will include the coming of Santa Claus in a parade at 1 p.m. Saturday on the downtown streets of Decatur. Santa will ride in style in a convertible and the parade will also feature the bands pf the two Decatur high schools. After the parade, Santa will be at the court house corner to distribute candy to youngsters. William Bowers will be parade marshal and Clyde Butler will assist him. The merchants are also sponsoring with the city, the decoration of the downtown streets for the coming holiday season. The city utility workers have strung colorful lights along Second street and have decorated the street lamps.

Union Thanksgiving Service On Thursday Union Service On Thursday Morning The complete program was announced today for the annual Thanksgiving service, which will be held at 9 o’clock Thursday morning at the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church on Winchester street. This annual service is sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur, in cooperation with' the city's ministerial association. The Thanksgiving sermon will be delivered by the Rev. Stuart Brightwell, pastor of the First Baptist church. The Decatur high school ensemble will sing a special Thanksgiving anthem. —“7--The program is as follows: Organ prelude. Hymn of praise—“ Now Thank We All Our God.” Call to worship. Invocation—Rev. Benj. G. Thomas, Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church. Doxology. Litany—Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick, Church of God. Scripture: Psalm 119:97-112 — Rev. Lawrence Norris, Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church. Hymn — “The Witness of the Truth." Pastoral prayer — tßev. H. J. Welty. Missionary church. > Thanksgiving proclamation — ■ Chalraer Bollenbacher. Offering. „ Anthem — High school ensemble. Sermon: “The Message of Thanksgiving”—Rev. Brightwell. Hymn—“ Word of God.’’ Benediction—Rev. Kirkpatrick. Suspend Business On Thanksgiving Day All business officers, retail stores. and county and city offices will be closed Thursday In observance of Thanksgiving. Also closed will be the First State Bank, the post office and the public library. Restaurants, theaters and taverns will be open. All schools of the city and the county will close Wednesday noon for the rest of the week for the annual Thanksgiving vacationThe union Thanksgiving service sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur will be conducted at 9 a. m. Thursday at Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church. The Zion Lutheran church will hold services Wednesday at 7 p. m. and Thursday at 9 »• mNO PAPER THURSDAY In accordance with annual custom, the Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Thursday, Nov. 24, which is Thanksgiving Day.

The giant Christmas tree which is erected each year on the court house corner of Second and Madison streets will be featured again this year. The tree, which was brought to Decatur from the Bluffton state forest is now standing and will be decorated with lights in the next few days. Dave Smith of Smith Scrap Iron company donated the derrick to errect the tree. The city utility department will have 'change of decorating it. Sand and gravel for the base of the tree was donated by Yost's construction company. Among those who assisted Gordon in arrangements for the tree were Martig Sprunger, Frank Lybarger and Robert Crpwnover. Most Decatur merchants will launch their Christmas promotions and sales this week and it is expected that their window decorations will also be in keeping with the holiday season.

Filho Barred From Brazil Presidency Brazilian Congress Adopts Resolution Barring Return RIO DE JANEIRO (INS) —The Brazilian congress approved today a resolution barring Joao Case Filho from returning to the presidency after two weeks of illness. The senate endorsed this morning by a vote of 35 to 16 the measure accepted earlier by the chamber of deputies. 179 to 74. Case Folho was placed under house arrest Monday night shortly after he announced his intention to return to office with his doctors' approval. The .congress resolution expressed the view that Case Filho was ineligible to return, to power. The capital was completely quiet this morning. A few patrols of soldiers were seen in the streets. Case Filho was released from the hospital Monday afternoon alter weeks of treatment for a heart condition. • The former president’s home in the fashionable district along famous Copacabana beach was surrounded late yesterday by army troops, under the command of war minister Gen. Henrique Teixera Lott. Tanks and troops were stationed at key points throughout the capital city, but there were no' disturbances. Teixera Lott, who sparked a socalled anti-coup seizure of power on Nov. 11, moved again night when Case Filho’s doctors announced his heart condition had improved sufficiently for him to return to office. .WhejLthe president stepped down in favor of the president of the chamber of deputies, Carlos Luz, on Nov. 8, it was for an indefinite period. Three days later. Teixera Lott, with the support of most of the army, deposed Luz and installed (Continued on page Five) ■- - < d Chauncey 0. Manley Dies This Morning Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Chauncey O. Manley, 64, prom-; inent Blue Creek township farmer,■ residing four miles east and one- ’ fourth mile south of Monroe, died . at 11:35 o’clock this morning at I the Adams county memorial hos- 1 pital. He had been seriously 111 since August. ~ “i Born in Van Wert county, 0., Dec. 10, 1890. he was a son of Mr. and Mrs. James Manley. He was married in 1915 to Mary Mae Julian. who preceded him in death May 21, 1936. “* t ” Surviving are nine daughters, Mrs. Clifford Roe of Blue Creek township, Mrs. Harold Miller and Mrs. Leonard King of Willshire. 0.. Mrs. Parley Agner of Leipsic, 0., Mrs. John Suman and Mrs. Grover Wolfe 'of Pleasant Mills. Mrs. Wilbur Cook of Bobo, Mrs. Roy Cook of Monroe, and Miss Edna* Manley, at home; four sons. Glen and Lester Manley of Blue Creek township, tßichard Manley of Decatur and Kenneth Manley, at home; 33 grandchildren;, two brothers. Harry Manley of Fort Wayne and Floyd Manley of Bluffton. and two, sisters'. Mrs. Frank Sheets of Convpy, 0., and Mrs. | Myrtle Jones of: Decatur. Funeral services will be con-' ducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Zwiek funeral home, the Rev. W. Earl Patrick and the Rev. Vernon Riley officiating. Burial will be in the Tricker cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Wednesday until time of the services.. ........ , .

State Traffic Toll Exceeds 1,000 Mark Fort Wayne Man Is Thousandth Victim INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indiana's 1955 highway fatality death toll has shot past the l,0"00-mark today. The rate is considerably higher than a year ago. The I,oooth death was that of Charles Parmer, 21, of Fort Wayne, who was killed at 1:35 p.m. Monday. About six hours later, James M. Saylor, 25, of Indianapolis. died in St. Joseph hospital, at South Bend of accident injuries. Parmer’s car, which police said was going at a high rate of speed, failed to stop at the intersection of Highway 101 and Woodburn road. —He hit artruck southbound on the state highway, then careened 237 feet to a parking area in front of a school where the vehicle hit a cement post, overturned completely and landed back on its wheels, continued 75 feet further and struck the porch of a nearby house. The truck driver, Donald R. Hissong, 29. of Woodburn, and the occupants of the Knoblaugh residence were unhurt. Parmer was dead with a fractured skull, broken neck, and both arms and a hip were broken. Saylor’s death followed that of the Highway 101 driver, but resulted from an earlier accident Nov. 20 on U. 3. 20 near Valparaiso. Rachel Reynolds, 35, of Marion, was critically Injured in the two-car crash. , William L. Brown. 21, of Waldron. became victim No. 1002 when he was killed today at Shelbyville. Police say he drove into the side of a New York Central freight train. K Other accidents Monday which sent the highway deaths soaring included these seven: John Kopak. 38, of Highland, and Jerome Ruzyekl, 14, of Hammond, killde in Hammond when a car driven by Kopak hit a bus. Ruzyekl was one of three Hammond Clark high school pupils who had hitch-hiked a ride with Kopak. 'Ross A. Cowling. 72, of Mt. Carmel, 111., and his 62-year-old wife, Alice, killed when their car was nois passenger train in Princeton. Miss Rose Stahley, 70, of Sunman, fatally injured in a collision near her home. Edward Curry, 28, Garland. Ky.. who died of injuries received in a collision on U. S. 31 near Jeffersonville Oct. 24 in which three other persons previously had died. Miss Judy Gillis, 16. of Crawfordsville, who suffered fatal injuries when an auto backed out (Continued on Page Five) Carl Baker Is 4-H Tomato Champion Adams County Man Is State Champion LAFAYETTE, Ind. (INS) ~ Pur..d,(ie University announced, today that Carl Baker, of Berne, is Indiana’s 1955 champion 4-H tomato grower. Baker's one-acre entry yielded 23.68 tons and a profit of $424.24. He had raised the tomatoes for the Naas Corporation, of Geneva. Reserve champion honors went to Jack Gainey, of Milton. whose 1.69 acres produced an average of. J 7.59 tons per acre. In the double tonnage division of the 4-H contest, Billy Osborn, of Sunman, was first with an acre yield of 16.7 bushels and a profit of $321.41. He sold to the Naas Corporation at Sunman. Baker used land which had been in corn last year. He applied 64ft pounds of 3-12-12 fertilizer and disced and cultipacked the land twice before planting. The plants were set on May 13. but Baker reset missing plants three different times. He hired the crop sprayed four times. The first tomatoes were ripe late" in July and the last picking was on Oct. 8.

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Five Os Beria Aids Executed In New Purge < Soviet Radio Says Five Are Executed J For High Treason > LONDON (INS) — The Soviet - Tiflis radio announced today the - execution of five former Georgian I. security officials for high treason . and the imprisonment of two othl ers. , The men were described as coli laborators of former Soviet secret i police chief and deputy premier Lavrenti P. Beria, who was shot ! i by a firing squad nearly two years ago in the power struggle resulting from the death of dictator 1 Stalin. This was the first disclosure of ' such a purge since Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Communist party chief Nikita A. Khrushchev emerged as the new strong men in the Soviet Union last Febi ruary. A foreign office spokesman.,.in London commented that the British government “has been disabused again of the idea that the period , of executions in Russia had come to and end.” ; ’The nve executed men were identified as: . N. M. Rukhadze, one - time chief i prosecutor in the Soviet Georgian republic ministry of internal as- ■ fairs, and a former ministry of sei curity. Rokava, formerly commissar for i internal affairs. Stavitsky. a former prosecutor for the internal afaflrs ministry. [’ Khazani, a former prosecutor for , the same ministry. Tserteli, a former deputy commissar for internal security. The broadcast recorded in Lon1 don said that two other former Georgian officials of the internal . affairs ministry, Paremenov and Naderai. had been imprisoned. All the men who were accused of treason and counter-revolution- , ary activities apparently had been i held in prison for two and one- ■ half years. All had appealed their convic- ■ tions to the supreme soviet (parlii ament) but without success. Rukhadze, the most prominent of , the officials, first figured in the (Continued on rags Btx) Community Fund Is Far Short Os Goal Urges Contributions To Community Fund The semi-annual report of the 1955 Community Fund is still incoinplete, but indications show the fund may be short a considerable amount unless a final effort is made to fulfill the quota. Chairman of the drive, Otto Beehler. reports there are still several solicitor’s reports incomplete as well as several industrial contributions. ' > "The Community Fund board does not wish to let down the * worthy organizations which they sponsor. They feel a contribution to this cause shows faith in our future generation. It will save the citizens dollars in taxes by curbing ■ the need for more prisons, reformatories. and asylums. It may even bring forth another Dr. Salk with 1 a cure for one of our fatal diseas- ■ es. "Most of our surrounding towns • have already completed their 1 drives and gone over in their amounts. If you have not made ’ 1 your contribution, you are asked 1 to do so at once to 'Robert Boch at the First State Bank, so that I the organizations supported by ' this drive may then plan their fu- ' ture programs,” Beehler concluded. I There will he a final and detaili ed report issued by the officers of the Community Fund within a short time. *

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