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THE DE KALB DAILY CHRONICLE FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR NO. 198 DE KALB, ILLINOIS, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1954 PRICE FIVE CENTS ra1 Mfonr If 1 i-wv 111111 wwfmrffrv Weather Forecast BITTER FALL BATTLE SEEN DeKalb Area: Generally partly cloudy skies and warm humid weather will PONY EXPRESS DRAWS CROWDS Dash From DeKalb to Fairdale on Saturday Attracts Interest MENDES MEETS WITH WINNIE Wreckage of Allied Defense Community Kests With Two Men L. -TV fy, I I I- J. continue over Tuesday. Scattered showers and thun GOP-Democ'ratic Leaders derstorms wall appear over northwestern Illinois with the Give Sharply Different Appraisals of Work 3 fjml i 4 a JT -Ik-Li p'M i' risk of a few showers eastward into extreme western Lower Michigan.

Temperatures will range ln the mid and upper 80s this afternoon in the shower area but IS GRIM PICTURE IS FAST JOURNEY elsewhere temperatures will reach the lower 90s. Letters sent from DeKalb to Fairdale by Pony Express on Saturday arrived on schedule Tuesday temperatures will be about the same as today's. Low readings tonight are expected to be in the mid to lower WASHINGTON UP Republican and Democratic leaders fired sharply conflicting appraisals of the 83rd Congress today to set the stage for a bitter fall campaign for control of the next Congress. Chairman Homer Ferguson, of the Senate GOP Policy Committee said in a statement prepared for the United Press that the Eisenhower administration and the Republican-steered 83rd Congress "worked together for peace, preparedness and prosperity." But Senate Democratic Lead 70s. Outlook for Wednesday: Part fell i-'- V-- 1 ly cloudy with little change in temperature and a few showers or thunderstorms reaching southern Wisconsin.

but not without a few harrowing -experiences that included an attack by Indians. It was a reenactment of pony express trips of a century ago with ten horses being ridden by men and women of the Circle Trail Riders, ten stations having been set up. Roxy Nelson was the first rider and was given the mail pouch containing: about 250 letters at Station One, located at The Chronicle. Over 50 automobiles followed the riders along the route but the public cooperated well in keeping one WORLD COUNCIL HOLDS SESSION Sri ff Ik i 0 iv" WEEP FOR GANGSTER Mrs. Anna Candice, mother-in-law of slain Chicago gangster, Frank Maritote, consoles her daughter, the widow, Rena, after Maritote, alias Frank Diamond, was ambushed and killed while putting his car away at his Chicago, home.

Maritote, questioned in recent slaying of gangster Charles "Cherry Nose" Gioe. died of shotgun and bullet wounds. (NEA Telephoto.) er Lyndon B. Johnson, said in a parallel statement that a Congress could be judged only by what it does to promote peace and prosperity. The statement reflected his belief that the GOP has 'nothing to boast about.

President Eisenhower will give the nation his report on the achievements of the 83rd Congress in a radio-television speech tonight from the summer 'White House in Denver. House Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn. charged the Eis livered the mail in Fairdale just two minutes over one hour later. It requires 48 hours for regular mail to reach Fairdale via Chicago, traveling the regular train route. Three Indians attacked the last rider as he neared Fairdale but were discouraged by the rider's .22 pistol which was loaded with blanks.

(Chronicle Photo.) START SUCCESSFUL RUN James Jarvis of The Chronicle hands over a mail bag containing about 250 letters to Roxy Nelson, the first rider on the Pony Express run from DeKalb to Fairdale which was held in connection with Fairdale's annual Community Days celebration. Miss Neison left from the first station in front of The Chronicle at p. Saturday and the last rider de Pageant Depicts Plight of World's Refugees on Sunday Night EVANSTON, 111. UP A side of the road open so that the horses could travel without Interruption. The trip took one hour and two minutes.

Today's mail from DeKalb to Fairdale takes 48 hours by train via Chicago. Crowds of from 50 to 100 persons were on hand at each sta VVESTERH A M. England--UP French Premier Pierre Men-des-France flew to an urgent conference with Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill today in an effort to salvage a defense alliance from the wreckage of the European Defense Grimly smiling, Mend. ranee stepped from his plane at the Biggin Hill Royal Air Force Station and shook hands with the 79-year-old Churchill. Mendes-France's mission was so urgent that he came to Britain directh from Brussels, where he failed to water down EDC, without even stopping for consultations in Paris.

Churchill drove to the airport, to greet his guest and then took him to his country home at Chartwell for lunch and in opening conversation on the crisis precipitated at Brussels over the weekend. In the general diplomatic view, the collapse of the Brussels conference which rejected Mendes France's efforts to modify the EDC plan spelled final defeat for the project in its present form when it comes to a vote Saturday in the French National Assembly. British officials said Churchill was urging Mendes-France to make a last supreme bid to get EDC accepted by France to avoid forcing the United States to reconsider its foreign policy. This was considered hopeless unless Britain could offer some dramatic and massive encouragement to France. Authoritative sources said Britain was not prepared to offer the degree of encouragement that France wants ac Polio Cases report on the plight of the world's refugees came alive Sunday night as 50 performers enhower administration with acted out a pageant before dele THOMAS ADEE Genoa Man Killw in following a "giveaway policy" tion to witness the transfer ofi the mail pouch on the fly.

Just as the final rider reached his destination, he was attacked bv three Indians but hp gates attending the Second Assembly of the World Council of RETAILERS TO HOLD MEETING and being "inept" in domestic and foreign affairs. ELEVEN DIE IN AIR CRASH Severe Wind Hail Rain Storm Causes Accident Near Mason Citv Auto Crash! CRASH VICTIM Ferguson credited the GOP GENOA August A. Wester-1 Congress with cutting taxes 57.500,000.000 a year and providing other tax benefits to create Churches. The "report" was based on the Biblical text "by the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion." The performers, moving beck, 21, of Genoa was kill- DeKalb Merchants Will ed instantly Sunday at 4:30 a.m.! Clare Young Man Is In- chased them off with his .22 pistol, that was loaded with blanks. Jt appeared as though the horses ridden by the Indians were a bit speedier than the one ridden by the pony express rider and the Indians had trou Showing Sharp Decline Today SPRINGFIELD UP Polio cases have declined sharply in downstate Illinois this year but are up in the Chicago area, the state Public Health Department said today.

The department said it was "gratifying" to note that on a statewide basis, the number of cases as the polio "season" nears its midpoint is "markedly lower" than in 1953. Nationally, the number of cases from April to August 14 Hi i ii when his car crashed into a tree old Store Hour Seion traveling on route 20 stantly Killed Saturday Evening across the stage of McGraw MASON CITY, Iowa UP on Wednesday through Elgin just beyond the intersection of route 20 and Memorial Hall on the North western University campus, be Eleven persons were killed and eight were injured Sunday night Playing the part of a good Sa- Highland Avenue. came statistics in the story of All DeKalb retailers are to meet on Wednesday evening, His death was attribued to maritan Saturday evening cost internal injuries. Westerbeck Thomas Earl Adee. 23, of Clare, when a hail-battered Braniff Airways plane, seaching for a the world's 40 million refugees.

Three churchmen took part landing, snapping a power line ble making it appear as though the express rider was outdistancing them. The mail arrived safely despite the robbery attempt and all in all the pony express ride was most successful. Specially printed envelopes. ctnrp hmTrs The was the son of August and An- his life in a Hampton, retail store hours, lne in the pageant to plead for aid jobs. To Ferguson, the administration's embattled farm policy provided a long range program to keep farmers independent and self-reliant.

But Johnson said the GOP programs would drive farm income down and depress the whole country's economy. On foreign policy, Ferguson said the administration has stopped the fighting in Korea and confronted world communism with a firm determination to protect freedom. Rayburn charged the administration with indecision and timidity in this na lenz wesierDecK. Me was mooue collision. May 9, 1933 at Pingree Adee was sitting in an Iowa for the millions of homeless was down 8.7 per cent from anu Grove and when he was about 'restaurant when a woman pas-room of the township office i and crashed into an oatfield.

The DC3, flying from Memphis, to Minneapolis, with 19 persons aboard, ran into a violent wind, rain and hail storm near this north- 1933. In Illinois, the reduction Indipfitinp that thev were car- located at 1341 in the same period was 36.6 per ed to Genoa where the attend-itrom a bus discovered that she persons. Bishop Fredrich K. O. Dibelius of Berlin, president of the Evangelical Church in Germany, told the churchmen that ic Prntpatanfe in ried by the pony express, had Highway ceptance of full-fledged mem cent, the department said.

ed the Genoa schools and grad- had left her purse on the bus Wednesday con been prepared and were sent in The topic bership in a seven-nation Euro Adee volunteered to drive her i uated from the high school In In downstate Illinois, the re-; ern Iowa city. the pouch. These letters were, Cerns the question: "Should the Xq The pilot. William Pickering, VtZ fr re 'port listed a 45.2 per cent cut Germany are struggling for re- mailed from the Kirkland post summei mois uui. armed services and received his On the way.

Adee's car skid- in the Greater Chicago. office int. ieci. oe mduepn.udnau discharge in February 11, 1954. on a slippery curve and "If the church life of these field, and said all Asia probably will be lost to communism.

radioed that he would try to skirt the storm and make a landing. But minutes later, the plane smashed to earth, flipping over, and strewed wreck- a idige auriiUt.n.r He has been employed as rail-i crashed into the ditch. Adee area, there were increases. These increases were 24.5 per cent in Chicago; 62.3 per cent Any retailer in DeKalb is in- roacj maintenance man with the was killed, and his woman com- vited to attend to participate in Illinois Central Railroad. He panion, whose name was not in Cook County outside Chica-i Honor Roll of Summer Term pean-army.

The Soviet Union was expected to make swift propaganda capital of the failure at Brussels with pressure for new four-power talks on Germany. West Germany, denied equal partnership by France, already was chafing for sovereignty and the right to rearm outside the proposed defense community, if necessary. this important session. At a was a member of Trinity Lu-: learned, suffered severe iniur- go, and 30.4 per cent in nearby t4U" lu lvvu square blocks. Dupage Count.

meeting of the DeKalb mer- theran Church. Because she had no purse 15 million Protestants breaks down, the whole of Protestantism in Europe is in danger." he said. "It's a question of life and death." He told of the divided city of Berlin, where "two sets of police hold the frontiers of two worlds." "But the church of Christ in AnnOlIllCPCl 'chant ln APrl1, was Survivors are his parents, a with her, Iowa authorities had cided to adopt a summer store sjster Betty, at home and his a hard time identifying the in-There were 154 undergradu -hour schedule closing Saturday grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Eric jUred woman, ate students named to the hon-i nights and remaining open on of Sycamore.

Fu-j Thomas Earl Adee was born or roll of Northern Illinois Friday nights. neral services will be held Tues- Jujy 7 1931 a the farm home State Teachers College for the This plan was adopted for a day at 2 p.m. at Trinity Luther- Clare, attended the Gibson a lit piaiic uiu nui uui ll, JJIULT ably preventing a higher death I toll. 1 The crash broke a 15-year old Braniff record of 3,500,000,000 passenger miles flown without AIR STRIKE MAY END TUESDAY Truce Signed on Sunday May Enable Planes to Co Into Operation WASHINGTON UP Ameri- CARRIERS ARE AT RIVERVIEW Tries to Eat Loot a fatal crash. The last, and only summer session, was an-iiour monin xriai penuu, ma; an cnurcn wun rtev an and Alms country schools, and Is Sick of Fish Berlin and German is not divided," he said.

"The Evangelical Church in Germany is a symbol of the real unity of mankind." TV, Dor Chin T-TinT fviin other time a Braniff crash has claimed lives was at Oklahoma City, in 1939. Four per- through August, and at the Kruse officiating. Burial will graduated from DeKalb meeting Wednesday it will be jn Genoa Cemetery. Friends ijownship High School in 1950. decided whejher or not this plan may call at the Cooper Funeral He spent two years in Wash-is to be continued.

Home after 7 p.m. Monday until ljneton State with the forestry LEHARVE, France UP" When Robert Boulestin. 45, couldn't riiennso nf hi rnhhsrv 80 Carrier Salesmen ofbons re k'Ue. mot, Lo-t-iiot Kiued can Airlines prepared today t. ProchutpI.i;,n rhurch Dr.

William V. Conneu. nw mu u.n, 0.1 department and had been with nounced today by the registrar office. To qualify for the honor roll, students must maintain a average. Those named to the honor roll include: DeKalb.

Thomas Bates, Margaret Butler, Albert Coxhead, Richard Coxon. Judith Crowell, Clifford Ferson. Kenneth Fleming. Ervin Hae- head of the speech department church the Automatic Electric Com- Chronicle at Hupe Park for Afternoon-Evening Included among the dead in loot which incuded 334 boxes Sunday nights crash were Pick- of 195 boxes of sal. resume operations Wednesday, Korpa said hjs divided coun.

under a "truce" signed Sunday, "millions of refugees have night with its AFL pilots who ded southwards. Towns at the Northern Illinois State Teachers College, will be chairman for the meeting. Dr. O'Con- rung, raiKvine, ana the W. B.

Wilde, 31, pany in DeKalb. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Raymond Dinsmore, of Clare; two sisters, Virginia Moe 1 Ulrtv Two Crashes Recorded Over mon, he decided to eat them. By the time police caught tip with him Boulestin had eaten agreed to end their three-week and viuages he in ruins and nell was selected to chairman ZZJ-XSTLl i'nal -rywhe there is Benie Ann berle, Jackie Hartman, Patricia 'h mpptine as he in unbiased 137 boxes of lobsters and 17 llidll v. inrr ana nOpeiCSSIie.

ronrloH intn thoir lta Q9t. T.l CU I in the matter that is to be dis Union spokesmen and com- The World Council director, SDent'rflnJ, anfl wa. u. tn havp boxes of salmon He was rush cussed at the Wednesday meet Danv officials met with federal of refugee service, Dr. Edgarior, attomnnn to a nospitai immediately af tlie Week Cjliajrison of Tacoma, and a Two accidents were reported brother, Gene Adee, of Malta; to the DeKalb police over the grandparents Mr.

and Mrs. A. week end period. Ic- Wald of Sycamore and Mrs. Ahont midnifrht Saturdav an'E'iie Adee of Clare.

'ter his arrest. (Turn to Page 2, Please) ing. Ann Kus will be the sec I can a a. iv 1 1 1 wj 1 0.1 ivi vai i v. v.

1 mij, mediators in an effort to reach Chandler, reported that more; agreement on three conditions; than 250.000 Chinese refuge-s, the pilots insisted must met; are crowded into paper nuts LAST MINUTE NEWS auto driven east on Market! Funeral services will be held fore they start flying and caves in Hong Kong iri cic at 2 d. m. Tuesday at the Van I Holv Communion se hv Karl Torinem 53 5 p. m. iuesaay ai uie ng Holy Communion temporarily.

services "1" 6 even WASHINGTON UP Chairman Karl E. Mundt, an- .111 North held for the delegates at 14th Street, collided! Natta Funeral Home in Syca- Hubbard, Dwignt Jonnson, noo-ert C. Johnson. Albert Kramka, John Kubilus Mary Mullins. Ar-vo Niskanen, Robert Lund.

Ronald Russell. Don Sheriff, George Sullivan and Robert Tudor. Elburn, Betty Smith; Genoa. Alice Paulson;" Hampshire. Helen Peterson; Hinckley, Evelyn Saddoris; Kirkland.

Neta Bailey and Maude Miller; Lee. Phyllis Mullins; Maple Park, Frank Powers; Sandwich, Alberta Miller; Somonauk, Jessie Tillotson; Waterman, Fern Cook: and Svcamore, Anne 0A hitch any of the three Methodist Church nessmen who deliver The nounced today that aU four Republicans who participated in the the First could oeiay me DacK-io-worK; ag twQ cnurchmen de. Chronicle to your nome each recent Army-McCarthy hearings have agreed on a majority re with a parked auto belonging more bunal in me Maua to Andy Hamoutz, 1142 Market, Cemetery. retary. A 100 per cent attendance on the part of the retailers is urged to participate in this important meeting.

Now that the four month trjal period for Friday night opening is nearing completion, the retailers have had an opportunity to evaluate the desires of their customers and should be ready to make port. His announcement came as a surprise. One GOP subcommittee member Sen. Charles K. Potter, R-Mich.

had been re- Todnem was arrested and! rnenas may ta" ttl v1" predicted speedy agreement on' ithg snould join in a The bus left DeKalb at 2 p.m. Natta Funeral Home until time charged with operating a mo wit two more busses in sur- ported to be insisting on strong criticism of both sides in the (Turn to Pajre 2, Please) mon communion rite. for the services. rounding areas picking up other i Army-McCarthy controversy. Potter's views had been understood tor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor and when given a preliminary young carriers in their home be unacceptable to other Republican members of the subcom- cales.

mittee, namely Mundt, Sen. Everett M. Dlrksen, R-I1L and Sen. The groups arrived en masse Henry C. Dworshak, R-Ida.

"I hearing before Police Magistrate James C. Hdlderness was bound over to the grand jury -X. Montanus, and Dorothy Tarn- their reports on these evalua-lyrv ltins- 3 and bond set at $1,000. Shortly before noon Satur at Riveview at approximately 4 p.m. where each carrier received -ROME UP Friend and foe alike paid final tribute today to an envelope containing ten tick-''ornier Premier Alcide de Gasperi whose death coincided with a ets for the various rides at the new crisis over his cherished hope for European unity and re-park, ports of a growing split within his party.

Even the Communists, At' 5:30 a box lunch was dis- is Jmosf bi'ter nt t0 hU th? '1. day cars driven east on Fisk by Adelbert Sitler of Mount '1 Abundant Crop of Corn Borers Forecast Soon 'Morris and south on Fifth i. i trihrntori tn 9r.h tv. on reiuKi re onw me nureii ui rau wirere Biaie iunerai Street by Mrs. Leona Cooper i of Cortland collided at the in pita tlt a thm I TP counts of corn carworm eggs on lersecuon.

still point to an abundant crop fresh corn silks in Southern Illi- Saturday evening William riers making the trip. Following j8668 were and 8tood outslde until tne naonj was the mardi gras parade the buses over' were loaded for the return trip t.4 to DeKalb at about 9pm SPRINGFIELD LT Former State Rep, James J. Adduei, 1 Chicago, has been virtually assured of a seat In the 1955 Illinois Practically all of the carriers a WM disclosed today. The office of SecreUry of nSTn Stte F- Crpentier announced that RepubUcan State one bus loaded with DeKalb i ao fsTol of second-generation corn bor- nois continue 10 run nign, anu mremi, ouwi, was iters in Illinois, insect experts re- they are increasing in central; moved to the St. Mary's Hos- piial in the city ambulance when he fell while alighting ported today.

and northern areas. The weekly bulletin of the In-' "It seems likly that all sweet sect Reporting Service said ear corn coming into fresh silk now droppage and stalk breakage will require a full schedule of from an auto and struck his boys developed engine trouble and another bus had to be dis head. drawn his candidacy for re-election. The announcement said the GOP senatorial committee ln Yaculio's district, the Second, had filled the vacancy by naming AdducL patched from DeKalb to bring them home, the delay resulting in about an hours loss of time. -v The Netherlands UP A KLM Royal Dutch v.

Although tired from an aft airliner with 21 persons. Including: two Americans, aboard dis- noon ana evening of taking In appeared only 19 minutes from its destination today. OneTenort said it had collided with another transport plane over, the Dutch almost every ride in the park the boys really enjoyed them coast. Soh even in gen Dutch Coastal Radio reported the fishing: will be common in corn fields, treatments, it said. 1 Best time for treatment has Scattered reports of grasshop-' NEW TYPE THIEF passed but where the infestation per damge were noted but the' FORT WORTH, Tex.

UP A is high, spraying now might do bulletin said "most critical ar- pickpocket at Forth Worth not "much good," the report said, eas" have been treated. lifts his victim's billfolds, The bulletin said pupation of There were reports of large he takes the pockets as well, first generation borers was numbers of fall armyworms in; Police said the pickpocket ap-about 90 per cent complete. Em late corn fields in Southern Illi- parently uses a squirt gun to -rgence of moths was reported nois. Corn was badly damaged spray a line of acid around complete in Central Illinois and. in one Franklin County field men's hip pockets.

In a few about 90 per cent complete in; where there was an average of minutes the acid eats through the Rochelle and DeKalb areas. I more than one egg mass per the cloth and the billfold, pocket The Insect specialists said plant, the insect bulletin said, and all, drops out. I selves. vessel Trexel had sighted life raft and some floating buoys and packages in the North Sea 17 to 17 miles west of Ijmuiden. Hol They were accompanied on the trip by members of the Cir papers were delivered, and arrived home, tired but happy around midnight after spending several hours taking advantage of the many rides and other features off ered to them.

(Chronicle Photo.) OFF TO RIVEKYTEW Paper carriers for The Chronicle got their annual summer treat Saturday, a trip to Riverview Amusement Park in Chicago. Three busloads of 81 carriers, 48 from DeKalb and the rest from surrounding towns, left as soon as all the land, where the collision was reported to have occurred. There was no mention of any survivors. KLM Royal Dutch lines reported the plane missing after it made contact with Schiphol culation department who watched over the boys while at airport only 19 minutes before it was to land..