Sandusky Register Star News (Newspaper) - July 20, 1953, Sandusky, Ohio FINAL EDITION ISTER fair1 tonight and cept for some chance of thundershowers Low tonight 6?-72. Hot again high 90. Founded 1822. VoL 131. No. 81. International Service JULY 20, 1953 United Praia NO ANNEXATION VOTE Two Die In Area Auto Crashes Exchange Student Is Victim Toll Hits 13: Fayette Man Is Crushed July 20-Sandusky-co officials over the week-end recorded the 12th and 13th traffic fatalities of the year with the deaths of a Fayette man and a Norwegian student attending school in Three others were hospitalized as a result of two The dead Joseph W. 2, O Gunnar 24, The Fayette man died Sunday morning of a fractured skull crushed between 'the truck he had been driving and the truck in a National Guard convoy of guardsmen returning from summer An employe of the Conklin Trucking Ikerd was standing beside the truck and preparing to pour oil into the engine when Swerves Around Truck The fatal accident happened on 20 Accidental Deaths In Ohio Over Week-end July 20 least 15 persons lost their lives in accidents in Ohio during the week-end and four drownings were reported including George Schmidt of Cleveland who died when he tumbled from a boat while fishing in Lake and Wade when he slipped and fell into an abandoned mine Adam of was crushed to death while sleeping in a railroad gondola TEARS OP JUSTICE - Circuit Judge Clyde I. himself confined to as he sentences William R. to a year and a day in for the mercy killing of his Jones had admitted the bathtub electrocution of his legless who suffered from and who was in constant Judge Webster imposed the lightest sentence possible under the during session of the reporter Frank Whitman is at in Justice home in Mich. Believe New Truce Butter Zone Being Mapped Out- Military Armistice Reds Accept Group Pledge On Actual Signing Soon Route 20 about four miles east of Leroy B. 25, was driver of the National Guard He told Deputy Sheriff Bernard Halbeiser that he swerved to go around the parked truck and did not see its driver before hitting Guardsmen in the convoy were from the Kent area and returning home a training period at Mich. The accident victim died shortly after arrival Memorial Gunnar Hansen was owner of a car containing three other young foreign persons enroute from Chicago to He died early today in Memorial Hospital of a fractured pelvis and skull received Sunday night in a collision of the car and a tractor-trailer outfit on Page 12-Col. 2.) July 20 officers representing the military armistice commission met today with Communist presumably to stake out a truce of the last tasks remaining before a cease-fire agreement is Bridges Hit By Coming From White House July 20 Styles Bridges was struck by an today as he stepped from his car on a downtown Washington The 54-year old Senate president protem and chairman of the Senate Appropriations committee was taken to emergency The accident occurred while Bridges was returning from the weekly - conference of congressional leaders with President Eisen hower at the White STATISTICS MARRIAGE APPLICATION Alvin K. 19, U. S. Air and Marilyn F. 17, office rural Rev. C. J. Dobmeyer to Richard D. 22, S. Air and Dorothy M. 20, office MARRIAGE LICENSES John J. 25, research and Geraldine L. 25, lab Rev. Ray Evans to BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Robert 1007 a at Providence Mr. and Mrs. Lyle 405 W. a at Providence Mr. and Mrs. Paul 722 Sycamore a at Providence Mr. and Mrs. Dexter a at Providence Mr. and Mrs. Dale a at Memorial Mr. and Mrs. Jack Strickr Berlin a at Memorial Mr. and Mrs. Charles rural Port a at Memorial Hospital DEATHS Frederick 77, 335 F. 76, Vietminh Faces Change With Dump Loss July 20 officials said today the parachute raid that smashed the major Communist Vietminh supply base at Langson may force the rebel high command to revise its military Some 5,000 French and paratroopers dropped onto just six miles from the Red China seized destroyed 5,000 tons of to equip two rebel divi The airborne raiders caught the Red defenders by surprise and met with little French officers said among the equipment the Communists lost were 1,000 from the Skoda plant in six trucks made in the Soviet and engines and rubber The raid may compel the Vietminh to delay an expected autumn offensive by weeks and possibly French officials No date was set for the actual armistice signing ceremony but observers believed it could be set for some time within the next few Three American members of the commission flew unexpectedly from the Allied truce i camp at to Panmunjom where for the first they conferred in secret for an hour and 50 minutes with the Commission members themselves did not go to Lists Members Navy Captain B. M. Coleman of along with Col. John K. San and Col. Samuel L. joined a group of staff officers it was were discussing a new line of demarcation marking a two and one-half mile buffer zone for the This staff officer group is headed U.S. Cautious As Optimism Raised July 20 - Administration officials were optimistic about an early Korean truce today they kept their enthusiasm in check for fear new hitch might develop at the last The State Department withheld official comment pending a thorough study of the lengthy note offering to resume preparations for an armistice were understood to feel the three-year-old war could end in as little as three days or a But they were cautious about pinning down the date because of possible President Eisenhower was at his retreat in the Catoctin 60 miles from when the Communists announced their for the United Nations command by Col. James C. a map Another group of staff headed by Col. Douglas M. Caims for the also met during the day and presumably discussed wording of the armistice In a third liaison from both sides got together but there was no announcement on the subject of their discussion Agree To Sign Stepped-up activity of the var ious groups followed Sunday's clt meeting of plenary truce delegates during which the Com agreed to begin immedi ately for the signing of an Setting up of a demarcation line on the basis of present battle po sitions which were altered somewhat last week by a Chinese Red offensive apparently waa the lone remaining major On two previous the on Page 12-Col. Attend Lutheran Meetings July 20 who were registered at the 1953 Chautauqua of the Michigan and Eastern districts of the American Lutheran Church here last week The Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Grif Elaine Ann Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mrs. Edward Bessie Mrs. Harold Audrie Mrs. Glen Mrs. John Also Mrs. Otto A. Hugo Laura M. Mrs E. C. Wilma and Marie Mrs. C. L. Mrs Minnie the Rev. and Theodore Jenny Lou and Mrs Larry the Rev. and Mrs David Wolber and Mrs. Ralph News In Brief Egyptian govern ment today issued a blanket banning movement of supplies and commercial deals with the British in the Suez Canal Zone except by special Allies Lose Hill In New Red Drive 14 Yanks Survive Outpost Tell New Gains 20 - Chinese Communists mounted vicious new attacks on the western and central fronts important positions in bloody battles with American Marines and South The Chinese overwhelmed outnumbered Leathernecks on Outposts Berlin and East Berlin in a sudden and savage attack in the and regained Sam Hill from the South Koreans in the 14 Marines Survive Only 14 marines survived the western front a Marine Corps spokesman He would not disclose the number of Marines on the outpost but unofficial estimates ranged from 30 to 60. The survivors said the Reds charged behind a artillery barrage and swarmed over the Marine positions with little advance During the bloody 55-minute one group of Marines called in - artillery their own positions in an effort to stop the onrushing Northeast Panmunjom Berlin and East Berlin lie of where UN and Communist teams met to work out final deails of an armistice A Korean Service Corps column trying to bring ammunition to the hard - pressed Leathernecks on was ambushed by the The 8th Army disclosed Sua Jay that the U. S. Marine 1st Division returned to the front July 8 after a month in It also identified the U. S. 3rd Division as be ing in action in the center of the South Ko rean Make New Gains The South Korean on Page 12-Col. 5.) Thieves Lock Truck Driver fn Plant Cooler BOWLING July 20 North Baltimore truck driver for the Cross Distributing Co. near Bowling Green was robbed of and locked in a cooler at the plant for nearly an hour this The victim was Owen Egbert 40, who drives a beer truck for the Egbert said he entered the plant this morning and was held up by two men armed with Checks Found Later They took his wallet which contained in cash and in The checks were found later in a field near the Police said Egbert told them the men locked him in the which has a temperature of around 37 and He was released nearly an hour later when the manager of the company came to Court Of Appeals Decision Upsets Previous Ruling Toledo Judges Grant Permanent Injunction Preventing Board of Elections From Placing Question On Conflicting Sections of Ohio Code Basis For Sandusky voters will not have to vote this fall on referendum to the 1951 annexation of 130 acres of the Point chaussee now in which had been due to a 40-year-old quirk in election Judges Lehr Amos L. Conn and Clyde L. of the sixth district Court of today granted a nent injunction to prevent the Board of from placing the referendum question on the November Report Arrest Of Key Aide In Bonn EDC Defense Post July 20 key aide in the West German shadow defense was re ported arrested today for deliver ing important security information to an unidentified eastern presumably a Communist man allegedly confessed to accepting a bribe for espionage in this first example of high-level infiltration in the Bonn federal The whose name was was employed in the so-called or Blank's named after Defense Theo dor who just returned from the United est decision His press James C. said he would have no immediate Top experts on the truce negotiations spent most of Sunday at the State Department going over the Red note sentence by In spite of the exhaustive was believed they reached no immediate decision on instructions to be to the United Nations Command in the Far East. To Ask Senate For Curbs Of Probing Groups July 20 Sen. A. S. in a move aimed at Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy said he plans to ask the Senate today Identify Remains In Quebec Woods As Pennsy Youth July 20-A government spokesman said today that the bones and personal ef found in the rugged Gaspe woods last week were those of Robert 17, and that a search was continuing for his father and a youthful Young his Eugene H. 45, and Fred 20, all of disappeared June 12 when they entered the Gaspe hunting Mutilated human believed to have been mauled or eaten by were found last Tuesday Solons To Act On Must Bills Despite Adjournment Date to curb its investigating commit said he will propose a change in the Senate rules to permit the full membership to halt an investigation in the same manner as it now a committee which bottles up Asks The of the 1946 Congressional reorganization question is Does the Senate want to continue to be responsible for investigations which become but which the Senate has no power to said that has been leveled on the entire for McCarthy's methods and his attempted excursion into the Central Intelligence July 20 - Republican congressional leaders said at the White House today they are still aiming for a July 31 adjournment but told President Eisenhower they will extend the session if necessary to complete his They listed these things be done before we get Pending appropriations re trade act oil rights in the outer emergency refugee legisla higher postal farm credit military public works a small business loan Senate ratification of five treaties on commerce and and an agriculture surplus disposal Other Proposals Acting Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland said those are bills but others may also be run through we have He said the others conceivably could include Hawaiian statehood and legislation on disposal of government-owned synthetic rubber Both Knowland and House Speaker Joseph W. Martin said Congress can meet the July 31 it wants The action upset an earlier ruling by Common Pleas Judge Russell who had determined that a referendum petition filed Dec. 24, 1952, was sufficient to force Sandusky Judge Maxwell's decision had upheld Charles J. Fred William J. O'Brien and Elmer C. election board who had found the with its 670 valid signa was sufficient to force the ' Conflicting Sections Conflicting sections of the Ohio code led to the One law prescribes that be signed by 10 percent of the and in Sandusky's case this would be 1.264 signatures based on the 1952 a conflicting section said the petition required signatures of 10 percent of the number who voted for the office of mayor at the last Since Sand us kians elected their last mayor in 1913, prior to changing to the commission form of this would mean only 387 were needed today's opinion writ ten by Judge re versed the Ohio General Assembly had no intention to by 40 years the basis for a referendum petition in a growing city such as Judge Fess When there is an irreconcilable conflict between the court must give that construction which will accord with common sense and not result in the presiding judge Another Statute Cited The appeals court also cited still another statute which could control the Sandusky case although it on Page 12-Col. 5.) Humid Weather Stays In Midwest Hail To Dixie N. July 20 at Municipal Airport here blinked their eyes when an elderly man in a Confederate army uniform stepped from an airliner waving a Confederate It was Civil War veteran John 107, returning to his home at from a trip to West Virginia and Washington with his sister it By The United Press SINGLE CANDIDATE July 20 - Conneaut Insurance Agent Howard C. Kingdom today remained the only candidate for state commander of the American succeeding W. O. McClellan of Elyria at the state convention starting Eisenhower today nominated Avra M. Warren of a veteran foreign service to be ambassador to * * * BOWLING Walter A. Zaugg will end his 53-year-old teaching career August 7 at Bowling Green State University when he delivers the commencement address at the close of the summer * * * WASHINGTON - The Census Bureau today estimated the total U. S. population at 159.473,000 on June 1, a 1.7 percent increase over 1952. 1 Texan Fights Off Lady Matador Gets Her Bull After Goring July 20 one of the most publicized lady bull fighters in the is recovering today from a painful The 23-year-old Texas matador was gored by a bull in the Tijuana bull ring Sunday before 11,000 Arena officials pleaded with her to quit as she hobbled around the blood running from a wound in the but she kicked and fought policemen who tried to stop Kills The Bull After she finally dispatched the La J Junta bull he insisted on walking around the ring to receive a tremendous ovation for her SLUM CLEANER - G. Yates 43, will head the National Association of Home Builders project to rid the U. S. of slum Twelve years Cook rose to national prominence with his fine work in clearing slum Hungry Pour Over Curtain July 20 East Germans today openly defied Communist threats to jail them as and swarmed across the Iron Curtain to West Berlin to get free food to accept coupons The weatherman says there | no immediate relief ler sight as hot and humid tions continued Ohio Scattered were slated to fall in some parts of the state afternoon and but they are not expected to have much effect on the muggy Partly cloudy and continued hot was the story for ' Steambath weather tortured all of the midwest and east as more welcome rain soaked the west drought - V. A of. 75rdegree and humidity of 75 percent early today spoiled A high of 93 has been forecast in typical of the Great Lakes and midwest Four Die In NYC New Yorkers were warned to expect warm and with a high in 80'a. At it was relief irom week-end heat waves broke temperature records and contributed to four is the largest Thundershowers that were eral from the Rockies to the ' Sunday and early today blessed drought-stricken and Oklahoma with of In some areas the showers broke the back of drought worst in But agricultural experts warned that much parched area still suffers - from lack of good for five West German marks worth of food even though the Red German regime said they would be considered spies and agents of the ana become liable to stiff prison Distribution of the food coupons began in the American sector border borough of More than 1,000 East Germans were queued outside the borough hall before it opened and many more arrived us the coupons were handed Too Willie impetuous Socalist mayor of organized the local relief action after becoming impatient with American and West German officials he too American and German officials have still not come to any decision on how to distribute the worth of food promised East Germany by President Report Tornado A small tornado hit causing 000 At the totaled 4.80 At 3.75 inches and at creeks flooded and undated U- S. Highway 66 for a Severe lightning nied 1.50 inches of rain qt Tex. - Sympathetic police relaxed York laws against sleeping in am lie parks and many the night under the The polar bears at Highland Park zoo leave their specially cooled ' even to A thief in the city apparently lost his values in the and stole from a swimming pool locker HAS HALF OF PIKE LAND t July 20 Ohio Turnpike Commission today its job of acquiring land parcels for the 241-mila across northern Ohio about 1 m * 5 Shirt Out Of Blue LOS July 20 Roscoe Johnson was sitting in front of his service station when a shirt dropped out of the The shirt bore an Air Force ma In the pocket were military orders directing Maj. Charles E. Barnett to fly his from Loa Angeles to Nel Us Air Force Base near Las Nev. The shirt apparently blev out of the cockpit as Barnett bis Ghosts of Her Post
