Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 7 January 1952 — Page 1

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Churchill And Truman Hold First Parley Plan To Streamline North Atlantic Pact Organization Now Washington, Jan.'\ 7.— (UP) — President Truman and Winston Churchill agreed today to work on a project to streamline the cumNbrth Atlantic treaty organization to make' it more effective. ; The first formal conference between ‘Mh. Truman and the British prime minister at the white house covered i wide range of problems under these tWo main groups: 1. Economic problems involved in the western defense effort, 2. General North Atlantic treaty organization problems, including the desire to simplify the present organization. iThe morning .meeting lasted 65 minutes, anti another was scheduled for 4 p.m. CST which would be devoted to military matters, including the atomic bomb. Conference officials said the 4 p.rti. meeting would involve a great deal of "highly classified stuff” and little information would be released on the meeting. Britain is seeking. a greater exchange of atomic ..information with the. United Spates- and reportedly written assurances she virill be consulted about the use of American atomic air bases in* Britain. o On Abe economic question, Churchill’ appealed for a large allocation ‘Of American steel if the British are to getj on with their 113,600,0^0 .'(boo three-year rearmament program, ‘ Mr. Truman and Churchill set up a working committee to go into the details a/t the steel and other raw materials problems. The small committee will report back to the president and the prime minister at a later meeting. Defence mobilizer Charles E. Wlldbn headed the American ■ group in 1 the committee. Lord Cherwell, an old crony of Churchill’s \as well as his atomic adviser, headed the British group. The com-, mittee scheduled a meeting this ’ afternoop. The infolmation was . learned I after th£ white house issued only a joint statement by Mr. Truman sand Churchill which said: "Therb was a general review of - the economic problems involved in the furtherance of thte defense effort of the free world. specific defense production questions of special interest to the two governments were referred to a smaller group. j “Views were also exchanged on general; North Atlantic treaty organization problems.” . Ever pince the last Atlantic pact meeting’ in Rome, both British forf eign secretary Anthony Eden and secretary of state Dean Acheson have bene promoting plans for simplifying NATO. Recent NATO conferences have been virtual mass meetings with from 300 to 400 delegates present. * J Mrs. Clyde Snyder Is Taken By Death i ’ Mrs. Celesta Anne Snyder, 71, of Rockford, 0., died Saturday night in a Dayton, 0., hospital where she had been a patient two months. Surviving are- her husband, Clyde Snyder, former Monmouth high school teacher; a son, Wilbur of Rockford; three daughters, Mrs. Mary Esstine Paver of Baldwin Park, Calif.. Mrs. Kathryn Davis of Gainesville, Fla.? and Mrs. Bessie Romerill of Dayton; nine grandchildren; a brother, Urban Hawk of Fort Wayne, and a sister, Mrs. Carrie Herrman of Rockford. Funeral, ( services will be con- » ducted at 2 p.m. (EST) Tuesday at the Rockford Methodist church, with burial in Riverside cemetery 1 Friends may call at the Ketcham funeral ’ home in Rockford until time of the services. . INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday, somewhat warmer Tuesday. Low tonight 18 to > 24, high Tuesday 35 to 40 I north, 40 to 45 south.

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First State Bank Deposits Increase Savings and checking account deposits in jthe F\rst Stajte bang increased $1,443,570.64 during 1951, the bank’s published; statement shows. Deposits are? lifted at $11,589,622.15 on December 31 Ja year ago on the same date they were $10,146,051.51. , • ! s Total footings of the bank increased from to This is the highest total ever Reached in the bank’s history. T. F. Graliker, president, stated. The anuual meeting of sstockholdetss of the bank will be held January 15. Five directors of the bank w()l be elected, followed by the election of officers. hf— ! ’ ’ Suspect Reds Os Sabotaging Korean Truce Red Indifferent View At Latest Parley Tokyo, Tuesday, Jan. : B—(UP)-- 4 - United Nations leaders suspected, today that the (Communists may be sabotaging the Koread armistice talks in support of a Soviet move to shift them to’ the (United Nations security council. Red delegates adopted an attitude of indifference in yesterday’s \ negotiations, raising .speculation that they may even be planning *o.break off the talks. ] Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, head of the’ U. N. tri|ce delegation who flew to Tokyo to confer with supreme 'U. N. commander Matthew B. Ridgway on (he truce deadlock, said it appeared mor© and more that the Communists mdy not W’ant a "stable armistice.” ■( Some believed the Red attitude at Paniuunjom yesterday—described as “strange" and ‘Weird’’—may have resulted from the west’s rejection of the proposal; Foreign Minister Andrei Y, Vishinsky to move the trhce to the U. N. security council. In the of these observers, the Communist delegates may have received Orders tip make it seem that there, Was ho hope of further progress so l(|ng as the; negotiations continued! in Panmunjom. : . ! ■ I U. N. spokesman sa|d he could recall no situation comparable to that of yesterday when the Reds were “rude and ill-mannered." He said their attitude marked “the sharpest change yet fo| retrogression rather than progression." Although he insisted his visit had (Turn Te Paste Two) Mrs. Sarah Welker Dies This Morning ■ ' ’ ’fit Funeral Services Set For Wednesday Mrs. Sarah • Catherine Wejker, 83. lifelong resident of Adams’ county, died at 6:48 a. m. today at her home on Decatpr route 5, following an illness of I feeven, months. . . She' was borh. in St. Mary’s township Jan. 25, 1868, a daughter of Conrad and Catherine LenhartChronister, and was married, to S. T. Welker Jan. 20, (1894.'d'Mr. and ; Mrs. Welker celebrated, their 50th wedding anniversary in 1944. She was a member of the Bobo U. B. church. i Surviving in hdditiqn to Jier husband are fiik' sons. Jesse Earl of Wren, 0., Harley of Van 0., Fred C. ,bf Ligonieh, Matthias of Decatur, Gerald of Lima, 'O/; anti Charles, of Dixonj O.; four daughters, Mrs. Edison Bowman of Vltn Wert, Mrs. Lena A. Shook of Decatur, Mrs. Artie Mhe Tope of Pecatqr and Mrs. Gladys Kreischer of Van Wert; 53 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren, and one broth-, er, Ed Chronister of Fort .Wayne.' Three brbthers and three eifetersj aro deceased: Funeral services wi|l be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Black funeral ’ home,’ the Rpy. W. F. Ensmingef officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Tabor cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.. ' ‘T' t ' ' \ '

T r — —, t “Social Evening” Afloat Precedes Conferences ■ MHJ ■ f, Wo’Xt • • C. X Wk JML fl EMr I » 1 TOP GOVERNMENTAL figureTof two ifttions appear in this U. S. Navy photo of a “social evening” aboard the Presidential yacht Williamsburg, in a prelude to! earnest dlqlbUssibns to follow in Washing™n ‘ l T li. the r . <ro 1 U J P ftre (fron l‘k 1° r > British Foreign Secretary Anthany Prime Minister Winston Churchill; i resident Truman: Secretarj*of State Dean Acheson; Trehsdry Secretary John Snyder: Defense Secretary Robert Lovett, and (rear), U. S. Ambassador to England .Walter Gifford; Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman,;Joint Chiefs of Staff; British Ambassador to the V. S.'Sib Oliver Franks; British i ; aym f. st . e t r Genera * U° r d Cher well British Secretary for Commonwealth Relations Lord Ismay, and W Averell Harriman, Mutual Security Administrator. |\ _ ' * ' ■ J >’ ‘ '

Inventory At County Home Is Increased Inventory Report Is Given County Board \ The Adams county home further proved its solvency jin the annuail inventory re port\ released today by the board of county commissioners in their regular meeting. ; The inventory reveals the lasi-few-years' trend of ; annually increasing value of the home. The total inventory for 1952 is $32,128.85, a sizable increase over 1951’8 inventory of $29,9|.1, and reflecting the increase over previous years in the review that 1950’s inventory was $28,952.70. 1 I The breakdown of inventory l figures short's cattle and hogs at the county home were valued at grain, hay, poultry, $8,223,50;' farm implements, $8,4f»7.7?; supplies, $5,134.05, and clothing and miscellaneous items, $728;55. ■ '!' ■ ' The board of commissioners in the afternoon session of their allday meeting will receive bids for two carloads of -prepared stoker coal for all governmental biddings, Us well as for a heavy duty motor grader for the highway department. i This morning the commissioners received an outlined sewerage project presented by Mayor John M. Doan to colse the ' open drain which runs through the Decatur cemetery.! According to the ifnayor’s proposal, the city would furnish a six inch drain through the open ditch. Don MacLehn, owner of the Decatur golf course, through which the open drain ultimately winds, appeared before the commissioners objecting to the project. McLean stated that such should be pushed through. the cemetery, but also through the cqurse, for the same reason of the proposal’s initial discussions: sanitation. i Commissioners took no 'action on the project but made the sewer proposal, a matter of French Government Expected To Fall Paris, Jan. 7.-f-(UP)—The Socialist party decided today to oppose premier Rene Pleven in a scheduled confidence vote, making the fall off the government virtually certain, i ■ . • ■ - j Pleven Has demanded a series of eight confidence " votes in an attempt* to ram through his £9,628,000.000 budget, i The first vote was scheduled, late today. ;1 ■ King George Plans South Africa Visit London, Jan. 7— (UP) -—King. George VI will visit} South Africa pn forthcoming ocean cruise to help him Convalesce from his illness, it was announced today. A Buckingham palace announcement said the king would be accompanied by Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret on the Cruise, which will start in March. | | .: •’ ' J' ’ ! • ■ ;•' ’’ I i. '■

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— ■ Six Airmen Killed In English Crash ' ! ? ' * | Burtonwood, England, Jan. 7.— (UP) —A formal inquiry opened today into a ground collision between two U.S. planes Saturday night in which six airmen were killed and 18 injured. One wa% missing. A long-range navy] Neptune bomber was trying to land when it collided with a C-47 taking off from Burtonwood a|r ba<»p. largest U.S. field in Britain. The planed exploded and burned. None of the 25 men aboard the two planes—ls on the Neptune and 18 on the C-47—escaped injury. Most of the Injured suffered from bums and shock. I > 1 i i U.S. Fighters Bag 19 Os Enemy Planes j Destroy Or Damage 19 Communist Jets Bth Arjny Headquarterfc. Korea, Tuesday, Jhn. 8 — (UP) —- V. S. eabrejet fighters, outnumbered more than five to one|! : brought iheir two-day bag of Russian-made Communist jets to 19 destroyed or damaged yesterday. They shot down two MIG-15s to biing the total of enemy, planes destroyed to sevjen, and damaged three for a total of 12 in two days. , | In savage ground fighting, allied infantrymen, numb with {cold and fatigue, failed again Monday to recapture a Western froht mountain which Chinese Redsi took 11 days agb. The allied G. I.’s jutnped off shortly after dawn in the freezing coM, only to be thrown back after a fight of less than 30 minutes. They attacked again dufing the morning after} a heavy bombardment by artillery on th< enemy defense bunkers but at , last report the Communists were holding, with no? signs of weakening. In accordance with' the? new air ‘forest policy of amtouncifag allied plane'losses only once a week, no statement was issued of possible losses in yesterday’s aerial}battle between allied and Communist jets. 'i ' Twenty . American . isabrejets tangled wjth more than ;50 MiG’s Monday morning in a 20-minute battle south of the. Manchurian border townl of Uiju. It: was the first time in recent weeks that the air war had raged that’close-to Communist China’s borders. In the heaviest action since Dec. 13, the F-86 sabrejets, outnumbered more than two-to-ope, shot'* down five MiG’s and damaged nine Sunday in three dogfights over northwest Korea that ranged from 30,000 doWn to 18,000 feet. One MIG Was damaged by a comparatively slow-moving F-80 shootbig star wheh Six Communist fighters jum’ped * four F-80’s Returning from a rail-cutting mission over Sinanju. Seventy-nine allied planes j took part in Sunday’s engagements ' (Tara To Page Two)

Tug Towing Broken Freighter To Port Convoy Headed For« Port Os Falmouth Falmouth, England, Jan. 7„— (UP) — The tug Turmoil towejJ the broken, listing American freighter flying Enterprise and Rs doughty nut” jfttyper the haltfway mark today ijfg race against time and heayilig seas tor bring them, safelvjbtb port. | By 9 (3 a.m. CST) the convoy was less ti an 150 miles from its,goa|—-Falmouth, hear the southof England, where a hero’s welcome aw r aits Capt. Henrik Kurt iparlsen, skipper of the crippled i Rising winds and heavy Atlantic .swells tipped the Flyihg Enterprise another 10 degrees to port early today, buff at 8 a.m. (2 a.m. CST) the escorting U.S.;, destroyer AVillard Keith .reported only a moderate sea. ' A light fog limited visibility to three to six miles. The barometer was steady and the' wind was in the west. The deeper list —to 74) degrees— Was reported by the radio operator df the, British rescue tug, but it; caused little cor cern. ; “We will get her in all right,” tiie operator saild. Carlsen was in high spirits at the approaching ei|id of his modern Odyssey. He had ridden out the storm on the leagihg freighter alone ifqr a week before a mate of the jTnrmoil leaped aboard last Friday >’/The tiny armada crept toward (land at the steady rate of three ‘knots. The Turpioil said the Enterprise was “riding well . . . it’s gone ./(Tara To Pax* Six) 5 1 hf f / ■ . . I ■■ Mrs. Sue Cook Dies Here Early Sunday ♦ Funeral Services J To Be Wednesday - * • Mrs? . Sue Cook, 69, died at 1:30 p elock* Sunday morning, at her hdme,‘lo4 East Oak street, following a long illness. A former resident of Mercer County, 0., she had made her home In later years with a daughter, Miss Savella Cook, a in|rse. at the Adams county memorial hospital. • feurflvirig in addition to the daughter here are another daughHelen Crouch of near Coldwater, O.; two sons, Levi and l brojr;Cook, both of Lima, O.; six grandchildren; four great-grand-children, and two slaters, Mrs? Flbrep.ce Weaver and Mrs. Harry Carter, both of Van Wert, O. Funeral services will be conducted . at I p. m. (EST) Wednesday at the Beaver Chapel church, near Celina; 0., the Rev. Mervin Taylor off thia city officiating. The body was removed to the Pulskamp .funeral home in Celina, where friends taay call after 6 o’clock ti|s evening. Burial will be in College cemetery. ;■ . ;

Gen. Eisenhower Gives Republican Supporters Light For Draft

'■ Acceptance Eases Political Burden Os Backers; Plan Intense Campaign . Washington, Jan. :7 — (UP J — "Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's public acceptance of the Republican party label relieved his presidential boomers of their greatest political burden today and put |ke in the pre-bonvention campaign to P ta x- -■ . His boosters Jubilantly claimed « that the general's campaign was off the ground and soaring. The ? ' pro-Eisenhower z boosters still werej faqed with the task of winning Mm the nomination wlth- . out much direct help from thb general. For his \statement inFrance said he would “not ticipate ih the pre-convention activities of others.” But his supporters werejCbilant over the faqt that ilisepiiower finally} declared publlcly/he is a Republican and will accept the nomination'if, bfferedz Bickers Robert A. Taft of phio, who is openly seeking the t’.omlnaU6n—and seems to hold the leadjiow—conceded that the word from Paris gives, a lift to the Eis- > 'Cnhbwer boom. T|ie Taft people expressed skep- ! ticism, however, that a “draft” movement tor the can be successful. They took the position ‘ that delegates to the Republican ■ nominating convention in Chicago ■ next July, will want something mor|e tangible than Eisenhower’s willingness to be “drafted” as the party standardbearer. Eisenhower said he would not ask relief from his post as European defense chief to seek the nomination and would not participate in any pre-convention activities. The general indicated his willingness to (accept a “draft" however. by recognizing the right of his (boosters to seek for him "a cuty that would! transcend my present responsibilities." Eisenhower’s statement from his headquarter^, in France followed jesterday announcement here by his campaign manager—Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Mass.—that Ike’s name would be entered in the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary Match 11 — the/nation’s L Carrel Cole Rises Tuesday Morning Hold Rites Tuesday For Postal Official Funeral services will be conduct* ed Tuesday morning for Carrel H. Cole, assistant Decatur postmaster, who died Saturday morning at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne of injuries sustained several hours earlier in a leap from a fourth floor window \of the hospital. Mr. Cole. a postal employe since (1932 apd assistant postmaster since November bt 1938, was a member of the Masohic lodge in |his city and the Scottish kite at Fort Wayne, and the national association of postal supervisors. He was a member of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church. Services will be held at'lo a.m. Tuesday at! Zwick funeral home, the Rev. F. H; Willard officiating;. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery; Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. 'Pallbearers (will be Deane Dorwinj, .Wilbur Petrie. Milton Swearingen}, Clarence Smith, Hubert Zerkel, Sr., and Robert (Frisinger. Lions To Resume Regular Meetings Members of the Decatur Lions club will resume their regular weekly meetings Tuesday following the holiday with. Dr. (Joe Morris ,in charge of the program, which will be a Boy Scout honor court. The meeting time is the usual 6:15 p. m. V * j ' . . ! ’ i ’ t ! ill

.--■■ - - t k ■Available 1 J > z j ; A , • ;W " ]'•; ■ I Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Spiritual Emphasis! ! i' '' k ' z ' ■ ■ I Service Is Opened i Services Nightly Until Next Sunday Approximately 600 persons were, present to hear the concert of 1 sacred music by the h cipelja 1 phoir of Taylor University which * was given Sunday evening ‘in ,the ; ’J JLion Reformed church for the op--1 eaing service of spiritual emphasis week. In addition to the pro-1 gram choral selections previously announced, the choir director,! Prof, fcugene Pearson, sang an offertory solo, “The Lost by Sir Arthur Sullivan. , v A large attendance is expected tonight in anticipation of the first of the series of sermons to be given this week by Dr, Clyde W. Meadows, Chambersburg, Pa., who will be the guest preacher *each evening through Sunday. Dr. Meadows will be presented in the service tonight by the Rev. Lawr-i cnce Norris, who has been acquainted with the speaker in recent years, and has been associated with him in preaching mission services. \ * i , The devotional leaders for the Monday evening service will be the Rev. F. H. Willard of (Bethany \nhurph, and the Rev. (Johas Berkey* of the Christian ( church. Special anthems will be given by the choir of the* First jjiethodist church under the direction of Mrs. W. jl, Krick, accompanied! by Mrs. Edgar Gerber. Laymen from the Missionary and Nazarene churches will serve as ushters. The Rev. Harold Welty and the Rev. A. C. E. Gillander will serve as the welcoming committee. A special address will (be given * (Tura To Pace ~7 II * Mrs. Wilma Smith Dies Unexpectedly Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Mrs. Wilma Smith, 28, died unexpectedly at 7 o’clock Sunday morning at her home two m|les west and one mile south of Mohroe. Although she had been in failing health for the past ‘year, f|er death was unexpected. !. \ She was born in Blue. Creek township June 6, 1923, a daughter of John and Mahala Hayes-Grove, and was married to Alfred J- Smith Feb. 3, 1947. She graduated from the Monroe high school in 1941. , Surviving, in addition to her husband are one daughter,! Sharon Elizabeth, at home; her father, John Grove pf near Preble; two brothers, Victor and Gerald Grove,; both of Decatur, and one sister, Mrs; William Harvey of Becatur. j . Funeral services will be held 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoop at the Zwick funeral home, the R® v - H-H-Meeks troth officiating. Burial will be in tie Decatur cenjetery, Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. ; ' ■ * ■ h' ■ ■ : \ i ’ \ 11

Price Five Cents

. Only l|£lear Cut CalHs Issued To Political Duties /Parris, Jan. 7. -—(UP)— Gen. 'Dwight D. Eis#nhower gave his Republican supporter? the gjreen light today to go with the “Ike for president” campaign* but said he would bed&rne a candidate ! pnly if he got “a clear cut call to Wlitical dtity.” I* •( I'’/? \ In a statement, read to reporters, Eisenhower gaid that Henry Cabot Lodged R„ Mass., gave “air accurate accdiint” yesterday of his political feelings but added: “I would ndt seek nomination for political office.” ‘ , | \ Apparently! the genera) plans to continue his activities as Head of the western European armies until he is convinced there is a strong movement in the United States to draft hlnp. t “Under no circumstances .will Is ask for belief from this assignment, (his supremo allied command) in order to seekj nomination for political office an 4 I shall pot participate in the activities of others who tnay have such an intention with respect to me," Eisenhower said. .J , “Os course there is np question pf the right -tis American citizens to organize; il| purault of their common convictions. t “I realize t|at senator Lodge and his associate are exercising this right in an attempt to place before me next July a ffnty that would transcend inj? present “In the absence, however, of a clear-cut to political duty, I shall bontlpiil to devote my full intention to tie performance of the vital to which iWm assigned” •M! . EisenhowejUmade his (statement, which was risid for him by Brig, Gen. Charlps'T. Lapham, his pres? chi4f, in reppSnskto the announcement by .sebaior Lodge pt a Washington press conference yesterday that he whs’lgoipg to enter the supreme commander in the New pjr|maries in iMarch as Republican candidate. Lodge’s announcement of | yesterday! hs reported ik the press gives ah’ accurate account'of the genera) tenor of my political convictions and of my Republican voting record:,’l Eisenhower said. “He was'cWrect also in stating that I would idt-seek nonjiination to political ofji([e| J have frequently and publicly !espressed my refusal to do so. ! ! | “My convictions in this regard have been reinforced by the character and importance of the duty . with which} | was charged more than a year pgd by my country and the other natiohs of the North Atlantic organization. \ “America's enlightened self-in-terest and the; future of western | civilization ja|like demanld success, in our collective effort to security ag a ijn « t Communistic threat and so to -preserve peace.” Eisenhower that under no circumstances ’tiould he psk for relief from his assignment in order to seek the nomination and that he would not take part in anyjpreconvention activities of his supporters. Eisenhower njade his statement on the first anniversary of his arrival in Europe to take the supreme , (I>ra(Tcj Pnire Two) ' / ■. 17 Year-Old Boy Is Takeh To Plainfield Sheriff Bob SJiraluka today took a 17-ytear-old ybuth to Plainfield where he is to Remain until he attains 21, years of age. He was convicted in juvdnife court*fc r a series of thefts in Adpms and Jay counties. The youth’s name was not divulged. I| . i V He was recently nabbed by Berne police chief Herifean Bowman in the act bf removing accessories from a Vehicle at the Wittwer Body shop, in that city/ He subsequently! confessed to several other car stripping thefts over the pAst several months. Some of the loot was from the boy’s homa In Portland. ■ !