Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 78, Decatur, Adams County, 2 April 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. Ng. 78.

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Cut Civilian Rubber Supply By 5 Percent Government Bans Spare Tires For New Automobiles Washington. April 2. —(UP)— The government today banned spare tires for pew cars and cut total civilian supplies of rubber for April by an additional five percent. The national production authority directed that the rubber slaved by the of spare tires go iPt° production s os tires for trucks, r [ tractors arid farm equipment. 1 Io some ways, the order satisfies , complaints of a senate small busl- «’ Hess, subcommittee that NPA’s original' plan would favor the big rubber 'companies. The agency had announced previously that it would cut the supply of tires and tubes for hew £ars by 25 percent. This Was changed today to a flat ban on a fifth tire for new cars. Most automobile manufacturers *■ have eliminated the spare already as a result of the proposed cutback. Today's order makes an estimated 38,000 tons of rubber avail-, •able during April. This is about 1,500 (ohs .below, the average used in the first three months of 1951. NPA estimated the cutback ? would mean that tie output of auto tires, bopts and goloshes,^mats and* other civilian rubber , items will be about 10 percent below production in the year prided last June 30J Output already has been cut back about five percent), , The order requires the “big four" tire manufacturers — Goodyear, | Goodrich, U. S. Rubber- and Firestone —to use the rubber sayed by ' elimination of the “spare” in making badly needed farm equipment tires an 4 heavy duty truck and trac- . tor tired. It also prevents automobile manufacturers trtoip buying spare tires independently: But a person who buys, a hew car can get a spare, from an automobile dealer, a gas station or from' other retailers. The order states that no person may sell tires to any automobile manufacturer unless the manufacturer signs a certificate stating he will not put more than four tires on any new car. 1 ’ ' j The order, effective as of yesterday, places a limit on the number of tires auto manufacturers and tire distributors and dealers j may keep oh hand. Auto makers are limited to a 15-day inventory while dealers and distributors may have a 3Oday supply. ( ’ 1 The government yielded recently to congressional demands; to postpone a further cutback in civilian use of aluminum, but as of yesterday the following restrictions went into effect:. . use-of steel for automobiles and other durable consumer goods from stoves to TV sets. Coppefr—The 20 percent across- *; the-board cut for civilian production is increased to 25 percent. Aluminum—The present 35 pen cent across-the-board cut for civil tan production is continued. ’. Nickel—The 35 percent across-the-board cut is continued. Platinum —Use banned in jewelry. Sales for speculation or investment banned.' ( Glass—No new designs in glass jars or bottles to avoid wasting pro ductlve capacity. Tin —A little more tin allowed for cans: for perishable foods. \ G.E. And Union To Resume Negotiations \ ' Negotiations between the Gener al Electric company and the UE will be resumed Wednesday in New York. The\ UE is asking for & general wage increase of 32 cents an hour. | The first meeting between com pany and union representatives was held last Wednesday 1 . INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight, be- ' coming partly cloudy Tuesday. _ Occasional light rain extreme southeast early tonight. Continued cool. Low tonight 30 to 35. High Tuesday 44 to 48. 4 ■ • V i. • ■

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BULLETIN Washington,. April 2.—(UP) —President Truman asked- congress today to provide an additional $51,300,000 to the atomic energy commission for “the construction 'of certain urgent production and research facilities.” ■(. 4 | a j. Along with that request, he also submitted to congress proosed changes in the 1952 budget which would result in a net decrease of $4,866,000. President Os I - : ' • ■ ? France Speaks To Congress Promises Congress France Will Fight Soviet Aggressidn Washington, Apr. 2 — (UP) — French President Vincent Auriol today prbmised the U. S. congress —a congress shabply split on the troops-for-Eurvpe { issue—;that his country will fight if it has to against Russian Auriol addressed a joint session of congress shortly before the senate was scheduled to vote ori the question of sending U. j)S. troops to the Atlantic pact defense army under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Republicans opposed to dispatch of American fqrces to Eisenhower's command (have argued that western European countries lack the will to defend themselves. But Auriol told them .France rejects as “nonsense” and ah' ’ absurdity" the “barbarous name of i i > France, he said, is rebuilding her defenses and has no false hopes that an aggressor would stop at frontier posts guarded only by “a dove holding the branch of an olive tree.’ \ * Nevertheless, he. said, his country wants psace—a peace defended by a United Nations army in a world where eVery country's arms- , meats are fairly limited and, ultimately, all atomic weapons have been destroyed. ' .< . He presented a long-range program for world peace -and appealed to Russia and ! interaritional communism to stop meddling with the iriternal affairs of free countries. i Auriol, speaking in French, addressed the hbusei and senate just before concluding his week-long state- visit herei , i Congressmen were provided In. advance with English texts of Auriol’s address. Aurlol's plan for peace contained these points:' J 1. The “allied I of yesterday” (T«-» Far*- Six) | _p_. | Painter Funeral To Be Held On Tuesday Decatur Lady Dies i After Short Illness Funeral services will be held . Tuesday afternoon tor Mrs. Lucille Lois Painter,- 35, wife of Clarence Painter, 709 Dierkes who died Saturday morning at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne after i an illness of nine days. Services will bej held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at t|ie Zwick funeral i home, the Rev. H. J. Welty Officiating. Burial will be* in the Decatur cemetery. Friends) may call | kt the funeral home until time of the services. ' . She was born in Decatur Sept. 8, 1915, a daughter of Roy and Daisy : Deihl-Rickord, and was married'to Clarence Painter Nov. 20, 1941. She • graduated from the Petroleuip high : school in 1934 and was a fonper employe of the General Electric in this city. ■ ' i j \ Surviving in addition to her husband are two daughters, Shirley Ann, 6. and Wanda Lucille, 2; her mother, in Fort Wayne; four brothers, Edison Rickord, in Michigan'; John and Alvin, both of Decatur, and Paul of Fort Wayne, and two sistVrs, Mrs. Helen Marker of Huntirigtdn and Mrs. Jung Orr of Fort Wayne. _ s

\i : —— 1 --p t : ' k Widespread Floods Claim 11 Victims SPRING FLOODS hit hard at the Midwest, the deep South, and the East aS 11 persons l lost their lives in swirling waters across the nation. Above is an aerial view of Pequannock, N. J., where the only dry spots are the safety islands in the center of a highway.

. . I ■ ■ L \ Juries Drawn For April Court Term •\ ' i Grand, Petit Juries Drawn Here Today Members to serve on the grand and petit juries for the April term of court were selected today by jury commissioners Ed Berllng and Fiank C. Rowley In the office ofEd Jaberg, clerk of the Adams circuit court. v i'hose selected to ' serve as grand jurors for the next term of cou?t. which begins today, include Glen Grogg,’ of Hartford township; Gerhatd Preble; Walter Conrad, Kirkland; Leo A. Braun, Decaturi Tillman Beer, Monroe; William Bauserman, Geneva;' Chester L. Haines. Jefferson; George Drew, .Geneva; Gerhard Bultemeier, Preble; Walter F. Clem, Union; Henry Conrad, Preble, and George liirschy, Monroe. ' , The Hsrt of petit jurors includes, Donald A. Hejman. Union; DanleJ Berne; Ernest F. Rekewege. Root; Effie B. Campbell. Geneva; Charles Christener, Monro&; Glen W. Adams,\ Jefferson; Edwin D. Frauhiger, Kirkland; Rolland J?' Miller, St. Mary's; Frederick C. Bittner. Union; Albert Fox, Monroe; Marie Boch, "Decatur; Lawrene© F. Grote, Union. Clara E. Ewell, Preble; Erwin pro. Berne; DanUJ Kehrn. Kirkland; Burley Hoiigh. Wabash; Earl Jamei, Jefferson; Daniel Habegger. Monroe; John J. Doherty, Genieva; Cyrus _R. Becker, Root; Richard A. Briggs, Geneva; Alfred W. Bollinger, Monroe; Daniel Jones, Berne, and Russell Q. Kraner, Wabash. Continue Probe In Infant Death Here q■' 1 ' Authorities Confer lOn Possible Action . Authorities were conferring today wjth prosecuting attorney Severin Schurger to fully deter-i mine whether or not legal Action should be taken against Mr. and t Mrs. Wayne Fisher, of Schirmeyer street, whose four-month-old daughter, Peggy Sue, died Friday, The baby was found dead upon the arrival of a physician at the Fisher home late Friday. At that time the doctor said the baby had been dead about three hours. Funeral services for the infant were held from i Black’s’ funeral home Saturdayj afternoon, with the Rev. F. H. [Willard, officiating. Sheriff Bob ’Shraluka, Harmon Gillig. county coroner, and Schurger were assembling all data concerning the circumstances leading to the* death of the infant and were to decide whether or not any legal \ action would be taken against the parents. None of these officials would Indicate the possibilities of calling the grand Jury Into the matter for further investigation. “We have a lot more people to see and discuss this mat'er with,” prosecutor Schirger stated late (Tara to Page 81vi

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, April 2, 1951.

Wilson Report Draws Warning From Congress Cautious Optimism Shown In Report On America's Build-up Washington, Apr. 2 • — (UP) — Charles E A Wilson’s cautiously optimistic report on America’s buildup against aggression ran Into warnings today from a congressional committee on the high cost to make th© nation safe. ' Wllsoir, making his first quarterly report since he became defense mobilizer in January, said that if Americans '. produce and sacrifice for 24 more months the nation then will have th© military and economic strength “tb give us 'reasonable safety against aggression." And by that time, Wilson added, civilian living standards could be restoredi to |)re-Korea levels or even higher. J Although the nation is a long way from military might it needs, Wilson said the United States is fore the outbreak of war in Korea now “measurably safer” than ben|he months ago. , Wilson reported to President Truman that heavy civilian shortages lie ahead, living standards will go down, taxes wUI go up, and inflation remains the number one threat wfiich could wreck the deltense program “if we let it.” But he said that guns. l>ullets, tanks and planes are flowing from the’ production line and by . the end of 1951 the ■ government will be spending almost $1,000,000,000 a week for military preparedness. In a report which coincided '"with Wilson’s report, the house-senate committee recommended that congress appropriate no more money for military spending than it is willing to raise ip taxes. The committee Mr. Truman’s pay-as-we-go program, but said it would go further. “It feels. that the defense garment should be cut to the revenue clotp,” the report said. “Measuring with care the things that must ~ be done, congress, abort of all-out war, should makd no military appropriation unless and until adequate federal tax revenues are definitely in sight.” Sephus Melchi Is Reported Serious The condition of Sephus Melchi, former county sheriff and a veteran police officer of this city, was reported as “serious” but not critical this morning by members of his family. \ Officer Melchi was' taken to the hospital early Sunday morning. He suffered from a bowel obstruction, and* due to* his weakened condition it may be a week before surgery can be performed. Mr. and Mrs. Melchi celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary on March 18.

1 ■ ' ■ Breakin Reported * At Stone Company Meshberger Bros. J Office Is Looted State and county' police authorities tpday were continuing their investigation of the breakin and robbery of the Meshberger Brothers Stone company weighing office in Blue Creek township. A total of $270.91 was taken from ■ the company’s safe,;of which $237.1)5 waa removed from the cash box; ‘ sl2 in change from a tin box in the safe, and a total of $21.26 in checks was discovered massing after a check of the premises early toddy. Sheriff Bob Shra-luka was notified of the bheakln; by Hugh Reynolds, company employe, about 6:20 a.m. today. Shraluka notified state 1 trooper Ted Biberstipe, and the two officer© undertook • the investigation. A.ccordlng to preliminary reports of the burglary, breakin occurred “sotpetlme between Sunday evening and 6 o’cl'pck today.” A punch apparently failed to open the safe at first'for the burglars, SO th© safe door was. forced, knocking off the panel and concrete, until the lock could be opened. City police were also investigating further the two attempts to, break into'the garage at the H. G. Hendricks residence, 804 West Monroe street. The breakins toere reported about 10 p.m. Sunday. The. complaint stated that someone had tried to gain entry to the garage, apparently tn syphon gasoline from the car, and sped from the " scene when Hendricks investigated. The same incident occurred again, and again the breakin was stymied by Hendrick’s appearance on the scene. Hendricks said that gasoline had been iaken from lyis car’s tank’ when outsfde, which; prompted him to the car in the garage. '■ - i| f I’’ Five Persons Killed Near Muncie Sunday Head-on Collision v Kills Five Sunday By United 'Press Five persons, including four members Os mile fanjiily, were killed near Muncie yesterday in Indiana’s third serious; multiple-fatal-ity traffic: accident in less than two weeks. ' A head-on collision which killed four members of the:Charles Acker family of New Castle and Edward S-telvy; 27. ? Albany, ; boosted the Hoosier violent death toll to at least eight. ' It also raised to t 4 the number of deaths in three accidents in cen- > tral Indiana since March 20. Five teen-agers were killed by a train in Indianapolis week before last, and four members of a Lebanon family were killed by a train near Lebanon a week ago. Dead in the Muncie collision were Acker, 2?. his\vlfe. Helen, 29, their son, Charles, 7, and their daughter, Connie) 4,' and Selvy. Critically injured | were another Acker child, Carol, 5, and Selvy’b (Tan to Pa*e Six)

Vote Winding Up Bitter Three-Month Debate On \ Troops To Europe Issue * —-—i; *

10 Billion Tax Hike Likely Sulficienl i Treasury Secretary Gives Rosy Picture Washington, Apr. 2 — (UP); — Treasury secretary John W, Snyder said today the government is in such an unexpectedly strong fipancial position that a $10,000,000,000 \tax increase may be enough to keep the treasury from, goipg into the red next year. Two months ago, both President Trunaßn and Snyder, had told congress 'they wanted a two-package, $16,000,000,000 thx boosting program to put the government on a pay-as-you-go 'basis during the 1952 fiscal year starting July But Snyder eased away from that position today. He told the house ways and means committee that, barring unexpected developments. a $10,000,000,000 increase might be endugh. ' Some members of congress held that view' even at the time Snyder ajid Mr. Truman expressed thg, opinion anothep tax hike of $6,000,000,000 would be necessary. The secretary painted a rosy picture of the government’s present financial condition/ He said that Instead‘of the $2,700,000,000. deficit Mr. Truman predicted for the present fiscal year a $3,000,000,000 surplus how Is in prospect. t Heavier receipts than expected and a slower rate of spending for both military and civilian projectwere responsible, he said. Today's ireasury statement showed a surplus of 15,394,657,393.18 through last March 29- At the ame time last year, the government was running $917,037,479 in -the red. , - Snyder said it now appears that revenue in the 1952 fiscal year Will run > nearer $58,000,000.000 than the $55,000,000,00Q forecast in January.' But he emphasized that a; tax increase of at least $10,000,000,000 is still necessary. ’ : f —-7\ i t. James Cowen Dies At Home In Wabash Former Decatur Man Is Talcen By Death Services for James G. Cowen, 56, president and general manager qf the Standard Foundry, Ind., Wabash, arid a former manager of the Decatur, Casting company, whose death occurred Sunday, will be held Wednesday at 9 a:m. from St. Bernard's church in Wabash. Burial wilt be in Fall’s Admetery in that city. ■ ' - Death resulted from a heart ailment which confined Mr. Coweri to his home, 567 N. Wabash street, a greater part of the time during the past four years. , ' Widely know.n in the foundry and iron industry, the Cowen family lived’ in -Decatur until about 15 years ago. Mr, Cowen came here in ’ , . ■ ’ ' A son of George Terrarice and Adelaide Pipet Cowep, he was born in Hamilton, Ohio, Jan, 21, 1895. He was a veteran of World War I and was discharged as a captain. He was” married to Miss Marion Carey of Toledo, Oct. 1, 1921, Mr. Cowen and sons operated the large foundry 'in Wabash, which they acquired about 11 years ago. He was considered a leader in the industry arid traveled widely rintil illness forced him to retire. i Besides the widow,' he is survived by six children. Mrs. Richard \Smith, Mrs. Fred Hoefer, Gertrude, Daniel and Stephen, all of Wabash,' and Pvt. Michael Cowen of Fort Knox, Ky. Three grandchildren also survive. One son died in Infancy. The body P'as moved to the Cowen home this afternoon, where friends may call until time of the funeral services. The Rev. Leo A. Hoffman, pastor, will read the requiem mass.

U.S. Patrols Dip North Os 38th Parallel Chinese Reported Massing Strength On Central’Front Tokyo, Apri. 2 — (UP) — Tank, tipped U. S. patrols for the third straight day shot their way north of Korea’s 38th parallel’ today through Chinese rear guards big communist offensive build-up. Onei tank patrol northeast of penetrated at two miles beyond the parallel into communist North Korea before returning to the main Americah lines just south of thq pre-war ' frontier for the night. i Front dispatches said other ‘‘Arperican sebuts” rolled a mile > north of the parallel to the Yongpyongchon river, also northeast of Seoul. On ahe east coast, the South ■ Korean capital division sent patrols roaming 12 miles north of ■\ the parallel. The division crossed i the old frontier in force last I week. \ . Only on the central front were hte Chinese Reds fighting hard to keep the Bth army away from tne parallel. Chinese entrenched on high ground j?orth of Chunchon all but stalled the allies three to five miles from the former boundary. It is on the central front that the Reds are expected to unleash their all-out spring offensive iri an attempt to split and break through the United Nations line. The Chinese were reported massing 40 to 45 divisions'—more than 300,000 men —for the assault. Some 2,300 or more communist vehicles were, spotted from the air last night inovlng up supplies and 'reinforcements. It was ' (he heaviest enemy traffic of the war. Allied air fleets ripped into the supply columns both by night and day. At leasts 150 were destroyed or damaged In a little more thin 12 hours. Gen. Douglas MacArthur warned in his daily communique of the ominous increase in communist traffic. He said the majority of vehicles delivered their cargoes To Par* six» William F. Beihold Is taken By Death Funeral Services ' Tuesday Morning William Beihold, 67-year-old Preble township ' farmer,’ died at 3:20 p.m. Saturday at his home, seven miles north of Decatur following a week’s illness. He was born in Fort Wayne May 1, 1883, a sori' of Gottlieb and Mina Copp-Beihold. and had lived in Adams county for 40 years. He was married to Emily Heriline June 16, 1910. ' He was a member of the Magley Evangelical and Reformed qhurch. Surviving are his wife; six (daughters, Mrs. N. M. CoO(k of Bojurbori, Mrs. Carl Cook of Warsaw, Mrs. Floyd Strouse and Mrs. Robert Goldner of Decatur, Mis? Imogene Beihold of Greenville, S. C., and Miss Nelvalebe Beihold. at home; three sons, Lawrence. Edison apd Wilmer Beihold all of Decatur; 10 grandchildren/ and one sister, Mrs. August Worthman of Preble township. Funeral services will be held at; JO:30 a.<n. Tuesday at the Magley Evangelical apd Reformed church the Rev*. H. A. Meussling and the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. The body will remain at the Zwfc> funeral home until 10 a.m. Tuesday, when it will be to the church to lie in state until time of the services.

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Amendnient Voted Down Ta Require Congress Approve Further Promises Washington,, April 2. —(UP) — A bipartisan senate bloc defeated by jonly two votes today a\proposal that np iurther American troops be promised to Europe without advance "congressional approval.” On a\ 46 to 44 roll call the lawoffered by Sen. John L. McClellan, D., Ark., which some administration senators claimed would be “putting the hobbles” on military leaders. The important test vote came as the senate took a series of votes winding up a bitter three-month de-‘ bate on resolutions approving sending an addjtiopal four American ground divisions into Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atlantic pact army. v On an earlier vote the senate defeated, 62 to 27. $ proposal to forbid sending to Europe any soldiers younger than 20. There seemed little disagreement ori sending pie .four additional divisions into the unprecedented international army. The big fight was whether congress should have a controlling voice in the program. McClellan claimed that his ■ amendment would make dear that ! congress was insisting that its adl makers voted down an amendment : vance approval Xertkcoming before any commitments are made< i beyond the four divisions. Lan- / guage In the pending resolutions, . McClellan said, left this matter unclear. — Sen. Robert A. Taft,,B . O', urged 'approval the amendment as a 1 guarantee that congress "definite- v ly” can limit the number of American troops committed to the pact army. He said that 58 percent of citizen? questioned in a forthcoming Gallup poll approved such a step. But Sen. Brien McMahon, D., one of his party's leading foreign affairs spokesmen, maintained the proposal would “subvert the constitution” and InVite future \ “pitched battles” in the senate any time the president felt it necessary to deploy troops abroad. “It is putting the' hobbles on General Eisenhowerl and the joint chiefs of staff,” and is an effort to determine military policy "by the Gallup poll,” he said. The resolutions before the senate - would in effect approve the dispatch of- four divisions but, request Mr. Truman to consult with congresi before sending any troops beyond the tour divisions. McClellan wanted to try to make it mandatory for the president to get .congressional approval. Huge New Factory Planned By G. E Bridgeport, Conn., April 2.—(UP) —The General Electric company is planning a multi-million-dollar plant' “.somewhere !jn the middle west,” executive vice president Roy W. Johnson announced today. He said that a number of sites “near the / geographic center” of the United States, including Louisville, Ky., - were being considered. The plant will be known as' “Appliance Park,’* and “will be used for war goods production; but within several years will be converted to appliance output," Johnson said. He said “we havq absolutely ng - thought of abandoning our present manufacturing facilities. Every plant we now occupy is required in the company’s total expansion program.” \ lions Club To Honor Basketball Teams s Decatur high school athletic director Bob Worthman wi|l be in charge of the program ' Tuesday when members of Ahe Lions club \ honor the players of both the Yellow Jackets and Commodores’ basketball teams. Bob Nulf, North Side, Fort Wayne, high school football mentor, and assistant to Hilliard Ga f es during sports broadcasts, will be, the principal speaker during the evening.