Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 21 January 1952 — Page 1

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American Nun Is Murdered In Egypt City > Hun Is Killed In Convent Saturday By Terrorist Band Is ma His, Egypt, Jan. 21—(UP)' — Fighting broke out today be--2 tween British troops and Egyptian guerrillas as funeral rites were heldfor an American nun killed in a gun battle Saturday in this turbulent Suez Canal town. Four Egyptian guerrillas were killed and a British officer was reported wounded seriously when British troops raided a big guerrilla ammunition dump. The Egyptian government promised a full investigation of the nun’s death and thousands of Egyptians, British and French lined the • streets as the body of the victim, Sister Anthony, was borne to the little church of St. Francois De La Salle. •- - \ The guerrillas fired with sten >guns when the British troops surrounded a cemetery where the ammunition ' was stored. The troops broke through the guerrll''s la defenses after heavy fighting and five guerrillas were captured. In Cairo the U. S. embassy awaited a fuirreport of the nun's death from American representatives sent to lamailia. The embassy said the pledge to investigate the incident was made by acting Egyptian foreign minister Ibrahim Farag Pasha ta Caf--fery last night. . « The announcement said Caffdry had called on Farag to express hie “grave concern over the tragic death of Sister Anthony” a’tt he Sisters of Charity (St. Vincent De Paul Society( convent Saturday. Both the U. S. embassy and Brtiish military beadquarters also have launched investigations into _ the first American death since Egypt began trying to expel British forces from the canal zone late last year. The British and nuns said Egyptian terrorists murdered 52-year-old New York-born Sister Anthony when she tried to prevent them from hurling their bombs in the convent grounds. . The Egyptians said she’ was killed by British troops. A private requiem mass for Sister Anthony was said at 9 a. m. in the convent today. Her.-body was then taken to the Roman Catholic church at nearby Moascar, where it will lie in state until the public requiem, mass tomor<Tan Te Pm Six) I'. ' - Authorities Report Quiet Week-End Here Police and county law enforcement officials reported one of the t quietest week-ends in history. No major. automobile accidents were reported over the weekend in the county and only one minor traffic arrest was made. Traffic was reported lighter than usual during Sunday afternoon and night. Police answered only a few calls the entire week-end. Travel on U.S. 27 and 33 also was reported light for a weekend. Horton Resigns As Martinsville Coach ; Martinsville, Ind., Jan. 21—(UP) —Burchard Horton's resignation as head coach of Martinsville high school's basketball Artesian* was announced today midway through a so-eo season schedule. Horton, in 'hie fourth year at the*helm of the south central conference team, quit effective last Saturday. . he would join a surgical instrument manufacturing concern and had no plans to return to coaching. Horton was forv merly a-head football and assistant i \ basketball coach ,at Decatur high school. ; INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, windy and warmer tonight with rain central and south and rain, sleet or snow extreme north tonglht Tuesday cloudy, windy and turning much colder occasional snow flurries. Low ''tonight near 32 extreme north, 46 -south, falling temperatures » during Tuesday.

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Budget At A Glance * tVashlngtqn, Jan. 21.—(UP)— President Truman’s 1953 budget at a glance: ■j' Estimate receipts at present tax rate 5—370,998,000,000. Proposed expenditures—3Bs,444*000,000 including 351,163,000,000 Tor mllftary services. Estimated deficit (if no new taxes are v0ted)—314,446,000,000. New taxes asked—about $5,000,000,000. 42 Killed In Plane Crashes Over Weekend 61 Persons Injured As Three Military Airplanes Crash * •By United Press At least 42 persons died and 61 yiere injured in three weekend military airplane crashes into a mountainside, a prisoner’s bartacks and the moonlit North Pacific. Three others were feared dead but 12 survived the west coast tragedies near Port Angeles. Wash., al Sacramento, Calif., and in Hecate Strait near the Queen Charlbtte Islands. Seven survivors told grim stories of the crash of a Korean airlift IX7-4 which smashed into Hecate Strait as It attempted an : emergency landing at Sandspit Field on the Charlotte! Islands. ;J I The seven described how 36 others including two civilian pilots end a stewardess, froze or drowned in 27-degree waters before help arrived. ip, ■■ > Three other men wore feared dead in the crash of a D-17 rescufe ‘ plane which plunged Into Tyler: Peak near Port. Angeles while re- i turning from the scene? of the DC-! 4 crash. In Sacramento, a light bom-; ber "flopped down” onl a prisoner barracks, killing six persons and i injuring 61 others. The crash oc- : curred minutes after tfre 39 pris-' oners had returned to the barracks i from their noon meal, i • < The survivors of the sea were taken to McChqrd airforce' base, Kash.. where they gasped out their story of “deaith by slow motion" in the icy Nokth Pacific.: They were rescued by an outboard motor boat manned byf volunteers: who had heard their cHes for help.. They told how they patched survivors of the crash slip off a wing (Turn To Pace Four) \ ' Mrs. Adah Mauller Dies This Morning ■ '■ ; . r } ' ; Funeral Services ’ Ta Be Wednesday /Mrs. Adah Mauller, 73, a resident: of Pleasant Mills for i nearly 50: years, died at 10:10 4’c l °ck this morning at her home hfter an 111- > ness of nine months. She was born in Aljen county,: near Monroeville, Nov.r 6, 1878, a daughter of Mr. and Mita. Benjamin F. Brown, and was ;married ti> A. M. Mauller Oct. 16. 1896. The family has resided in Pleasant Mills since 1903. il She was a member of the Pleas-: ant Mills Methodist church. > • Surviving in addition to her hughand are one. son, Irvin Mauller of Pleasant Mills; three daughters. Mrs. jack Friedt of Decatur. Mrs. Reed Riley of Pleasant Mills and Mrs. Delmore Wechter of neat Willshire, 0.; 12 grandchildren| nine great-grandchildren; threb brothers. Sam and John Brown of| Monroeville and Morrig Brown of Convoy, 0., and three Sisters, Mrs. Ben Truman of Warsaw, Mrs. Harold Davis of Daytorf, 0., and Rosa Brown ot Decatur. One son end two brothers are deceased. Funeral services will? be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Pleasant Mills Methodist/Church, the Rev. Harley T. Shady : officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The \ body jras removed* to the Zwlck funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p. m. Tuesday. The body will then be taken to the home, where friends may call after 10 a. m. Wednesday until time of the services.

Bomber H ts Barracks, 5 Dead, 52 Hurt 1; i ■ L r Jfi ■ C f imTh - WRECKAGE of a B-25 twin-engine bomber Hee near the prison barracks at Mather Air Force Base at Sacramento, Cal., Into which the aircraft crashed. Five men were killed, abd 52 others injured, including the plane’s three crewmembers who were hauled from the wreckage as it caught fire. Note barred windows of the wrecked building in the background. ' ; ’ i ! I — -I — f ■

November Term Os Court Closed Here New *Term Will Open * Monday, February 4 The Noviember term of Adams circuit court closed Saturday and Judge Myles F. Parrish and Jipurt vyill get a two week vacation until Monday, February 4, when the February term etafts. Whilp 1 K is called a vacation Judge Parrish Usually uses most of the -vacgtloh time to complete records and other details connected with the job of being circuit, criminal, estate and juvenile judge. Jury commissioners will meet next Monday morning to draw the grand and petit juries for the new term. The commissioners are Ed Burling and Frank C. Rowley. SThe November term was a busy e for the judge and local attorys, and njiany cases were disposer For several days during the term just closed Judge Parrish conducted his Work from his own office, because a venued case was being, heard in the court room. I The grand jury held a session during, the November term and returned one indictment One or two criminal cases were disposed of add the balance of the team was consumed with estate and civil cases and juvenile: hearings. Open Ticket Sales For Lincoln Dinner Tickets will go on sale this week for the annual Lincoln day dinner to be held at the K. of P. home here February 8, Harry\ Essex, fourth district .Republican chairman, said today. \ Tickets pan be obtained from the office of Harry Essex in this city; the Berne Witness at Berne; Mahel Myers, Monroe, and Eleanor Snyder, Geneva, 1 . Music Festival At Geneva March 28 , County Schools To Conduct Festival Plans > for the ' Adams county music festival to be held at Geneva Friday, March 28, were announced today in bulletins to all principals of j Adams county schools. The plans were completed recently by superintendent of schools Glen B. Custard and Merl Goble, chairman of the festival] Robert Shambaugh has been engaged to direct the county chorus and band. These organizations will be composed of students frjom all high schools in the county. A rehearsal of the. chorus is set for March 25 and the band will stage a rehearsal March 27. The event i will be public and much interest is being shcrwn among the students and patrons of the various schools of the county. A complete program of events will be announced at a later date.

; Decatur, Indiana/ Mondafc January 21, 1952.

“ -1 -4— f— — — Draft Call Issued Far February 5 The local draft board today received a I call for induction of 14 Adams county young men for February 5, it was announced today*. The local board has not received a February call tor physicals as yet. ■. Stassen To Enter Illinois Primary 5 Today Is Deadline To File Delegates Chicago, Jan. 21.— (UP)—Harold E. Stassen will join Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-O.) in the Illinois, presidential primary ring today. But it looked like the backers of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower wouldn’t answer the opening bell. The' deadline for filing delegates for the April $ presidential preferential “popularity | contest" is 5 p.m. (OST). Attorney Thomas R. McMillin, a Stassen supporter, said he would enter petitions formally placing the former Minnesota governor in the primary. He said he would go to Springfield and file a. list of about s,o(fa) names. Stassen thus will join Taft, “Mr. Republican.” The regular Republican organization gathered petitions for the Ohioan early last week. But Eisenhower’s self-styled “amateur” backers have indicated that they weren’t too keen to enter the General in th© state primary. “The Illinois preferential primary is not binding,” said Jerry D. Brandon. “The call tp General Eisenhower to accept higher duty, can therefore be expressed just as effectively by direct petition.” \ Brandon also said that the state was “definitely isolationist” and therefore the primary was not a “fair test” of Ike’s popularity. However, he claimed that volunteers have stepped forward in large numbers to try to help* the General in Illinois. Stassen has claimed backing from registered Republicans in 1 the state. He said that a recent poll in five downstate cities gave him a healthy edge over Taft i But Taft has the solid support of the state GOP organization. One of his biggest boosters is a fellow Sen. Everett Dirksen (Rrlll.) How It's Spent ; Washington, Jan. 21.—(UP) — Here’s how the government proposes to spend your tax dollar in fiscal 1953: Military services—-- 60 cents Foreign aid 13 cents Interest on debt—— 7 cent* ’ Veterans programs 4 S cents All other expenses 4-16 cents j Total '——l 1.00 And here’s where the budged dollar will come from: Individual taxes -4- 36 cents Corporation taxes -.-'l7 cents Borrowing and nex taxes ————— 17 cents Excise taxes— 11 cent* Customs, other taxes 4 cents Total -c-—$ 1.00 > ■ ' ' ' li .

— : —f-j" f Spending for Farm •I ■ “ Program To Increase Will Triple Ouflqyl On Price Supports! Washington, Jan' 2J.f-(jUf)— President Truman predicted today the government’s call for record farm production this year Will reset in tripling outlays for term Mpporta, , As a result, Mr. Trurnah wold congress, overall spending on. all farm programs—now running thrice as high as last year—will Jump another five percent in the fiscal year beginning next July d. • j He submitted a 1953 budget which provided 1,478,000,0b0 for all farm programs, including supports. That compares with an estimated outlay, off 1,408,000,000 inj the current fiscal year, and an actual net expenditure of only in fiscal 1951. " ] :|\ Mr. Truman noted that these ferences” are due largely; to "fluctuations” in the expense of operating mandatory farm price support programs. .| i | The \ support program brought $781,000,000 into the treasury; in fiscal 1951 as the government disposed, of surpluses. But itdjs estimated to require an outlay of $70,000,000 this fiscal year and $240,,000000 in fiscal 1953; according to Mr. Truman’s budget Mr- Truman said the anticipated heavier outlays for farm: supports ip fiscal 1953, mostly because of expected big crops of wheat and cotton, would more than offset overall budgeted cutbacks of Jsloojoo,000 in other farm programs. | Outlays will .be cut for firm credit, loans to help farmers get electricity and telephones, an| a number of other programs. Mr. Truman’s budget also: 11 Revealed that the agriculture department for the next 18 months does not anticipate using its discretionary authority to fix support prices for eggs, hogs, chickens, and' turkeyh. • | ' | 2. Set the stage for a bitter intra, farm row In congress over governmeet "incentive” payments to farmers for soli conservation practices. Two major farm organizations have urged that these payments be stashed drastically on grounds that much of them are unnecessary. But '•■Mr. Truman asked congress to authorize I $256,500,000, same as Was authorized for this year. t 1 | .1 ■ ■__L_i__; 11 "■fc ■ , I ' Appraisal Sheets t Sent To Printer \■i V* I ' ! j' ■ v; Tax appraisal sheets, compiled by the county auditor, were lent to Hay wood , Publishing Co. ti in Lafayette today to be bound" for use. of assessors when the annual assessments are made this spring. The books will contain the appraised* value of all land and improvements in the county,, to which will be added personal property appraisals made by the assessors. The books are used by the board of review and then become part of the permanent records ln ;the auditor’s office.. i ' hi ■ -' .b ! i‘J I' ■

Huge Future Expansion Os U. S. Atom Weapons Program Is Announced

t :■? ' ■ ■■ j : UN Raiders Forced Back By Red Fire I Force Back Raiders !.[ On Western Fron> i.; Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Jan. 21. —(UP) —Fierce Communist tire forced back United Nations raidefs on the western front today. . ? Th« U.N. raiding patrol fttst attacked a hill northwest of Yonchon at 2 Am., only to be thrown back By intense small arms and mortar • After ah artilleufc.. bombardment, the raiding%arty .again assaulted the hill and this time got close enough to hurl hand grenades at the Reds. Once .more, however, the enemy fire drove the Allies back to their own lines. Slightly farther east, U.N. units repulsed a probing attack by 15 Communists near Chorwon. Another 15-man probe was thrown back South of Pyonggang on the central front. ’ On the eastern front, U.N. patrols fought four engagements with Communist units in bunkers west of the Mundung valley. In one, the Allies surrounded four bunkers, killed 24 Reds and captured five others in a 20-minute fight, I t ’’-'‘BaA 1 weather hampered air activity after another day of methodicaf destruction of Communist Installations and supply routes Sunday. Patrolling American Sabrejeta also shot down two Communist Mlg--15 jet fighters during Sunday. > 111 : Advanced Typing To Be Started Tonight The advanced typing class for adults will open at 6:30 o’clock this evening at the Decatur high school, vith Maynard Hetrick, commercial teacher in the school, as the Instructor. Seven persons attended the organization meeting last week, and it is hoped that at least three more will sign for the course this evening. Name New Principal At Pleasant Mills Howard Locke New 7 School Principal I Howard Locke, Muncie, a teacher at Royerto®, has been named to fill the princtpalship vacancy at Plear sant Mills high school caused recently by the election of former principal Glen B. Custard to the post of county superintendent pf schools. The new principal is a graduate of Ball State Teachers College, where he received his master’s degree. He has been actively engaged in the teaching profession for nine years. Principal Locke began his duties today and his contract is for the balance of the 1952 school * year. The appointment was made by Nimrod McCullough, JSt Mary’s township trustee. and superintendept Custard. ' The. new principal said that he would not move Ms. famjly to Adam* county the balance of this year but would do so if be remained here for the next school term. Superintendent Custard, who has been holding down both jobs -the last week, said that starting immediately he would devote all his time to the superintendent’s office. Mrs. Hansel Foley is continuing as office manager in the superintendent** office. Memorial Foundation Directors To Meet .yr ■■ ■ / ; ■ ■ y Directors of the Decatur Memorial Foundation, Inc., will meet at 7:30 tonight at the First State Bank. Reports for the past ybar will be made, including one on payments, made to the foundation during December. I r y , n•- ;• . -I’. r • • hl a . • 1 ' ' ’ T

Korean Truce Talks Appear At Dead-end i I : Both Sides Refuse : To Budge; Final 3 j Collapse Feared Panmunjom, Korea, Jan. 21.— (UP) —Korean armistice talks appeared to have reached a dead-end today with both sides refusing to budge. . ! Only a major policy change by the United Nations or the Com* munists can end the endurance contest and save the negotiations from final: collapse. Both subcommittees working on a truce agreed to meet again at 11 a.m. tomorrow j (,8 p.m. today CST), but neither held out any hope for agreement. Each side served notice in the two subcommittees today that It will not yield on the two main issues blocking an armistice —the U.N. demands for voluntary repatriation of war prisoners and for a ban on military airfield construction. \ a ? A Communist newsman covering the talks told U.N. correspondents) that full-scale Korean fighting is "sure to begin" unless the U.N. drops its airfield ban demand. : . :; y. ' ] At the same tlmp, ’ the U.N. denied a Communist charge that Allied planes deliberately bombed and strafed a properly-marked. Communist truce delegation convoy on the Pyongyang-Kaesong road last Friday. It conceded that some such Communist vehicles might have been hit during an Allied air attack .at the spot—a bridge 40 miles north of Kaesong. However, the U.N. said, the four attacking planes did not see any vehicles In jthe vicinity. >. Truce delegates in the subcommittee dealing with supervision of a truce took <jrnly 10 minutes to restate their positions on the question o’ airfield construction, then adjourned until Tuesday. The U.N,’s Maj. Gen. Claude B. Ferenbaugh sharply told the Reds that there was no point in prolonging thq meeting if they were not prepared tq accept the ban on airfield construction during an armistice. — ; Paul A. Fugate Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services To Be Wednesday :*: I I , Paul Arnol Fugate, 39, a lifelong resident of Adams county* and a resident of 213 South Seventh street* died at 4 o’clock this morning at the Irene Byfon sanltorium near Fort lie had been ill for the past five and one-half years. He was born in Adams county March 19, 1912, a son of Clyde and Mary Miller-Fugate, and was married td Vera Mattax Feb. 8, 1936. He was employed at the Community OU station here at the time he became ill. I He was a member Os the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. ’ J ; Surviving are his wife, his fattier, two daughters, Gloria and Janet, both at home;: one brother, Raljph Fugate of Fort Wayne, and ter, Mrs. Ruth Post of Auburn. i Funeral services will be conductat 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Black funeral horhe and iat 2 o’clock at the Trihity 'Evangelical UnPed Brethren church, the Rev.\John E. Chambers officiating. z Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Frfends may call at the funeral home after o’clock this evenitg.

Price Five Cents

• 'Price Os Peace' Spending Budget Is Submitted To Congressmen Today Washington, Jan. President Truman today banded congress an $85,400,000,000 "price of peace" spending budget, and capped it wfi(h Xhe, announcement pf a mammoth future expansion of the U.S. atomic weapons program. He proposed an putlay pf.35,000,000,000 t0^|6,000,060,000 over* the next five years to double the size of the already-va&t atomic project and speed mass production of “Ameri- . ca’s "fantastic new Weapons.” "Actual spending on the proposed , atomic expansion will not start in the 1953 fiscal year so it was not part of the budget. But Mr. Truinan unveiled the plan along with Ms spending proposals for the 12, beginning next July 1. The new budget provided a record for atomic energy in fiscal 1953, but its really big items were 351,200,060,000 fori our own armed forces and 310,500,-j 000,000 to help build up pur allies against the Communist menace. J Those two Items together mean the United States is carrying about; 85 percent of the cost of rearming 1 the weslern world. The foreign aid • request was much larger than many congressmen expected and facet ■ rough going, Anticipating economy outcries). ; from the election-minded lawmak- ** • ers, Mr- Truman conceded that his ) budget “will involve a heavy buri den for our taxpayers."; But he Warned that “the price of peace is preparedness.” i . ' ; Presept taxes will bring in 371.- . far and away the big-l gest revenue in history. < Mr. Truman renewed last week’s request for another tax increase of 35,060,000,000. Congress is not disposed to vote it. That would leave a deficit Os 113,400,000,000 and push the national debt to. the legalplmit of 3275,000,000,000 by June 30, 1953. \lt was the third largest spending program ever I proposed by an American president. Only the peak waT yeata of 1944 and 1945 exceeded it. The lop tnen was 398,000,000,000. k [ The federal spending will take 29 percent of the national Income, according to Mr. Trumantaj figures, against 52 percent in 1945 when spending was not so much higher. This is because the American economy has expanded so much since the war. The proposed huge spending and taxes are necessity now, Mr. Truman said, because: the current world crisis, the price of peace is preparedness. In terms of the sacrifices which this involves, it is a heavy price, but when freedoid is at stake it is a price which all of us will gladly pay" ■■ R | -.J; ' 1 The budget which he presented today is for the I'lscal year 1953, which begins this July 1. Here are the basic figures, compared with the current year: . 1953 1952 Spending (B) 385,444 (B) 370,881 Receipts (B) 70,998 (B) 62,680 < Deficit (B) 14,446 (B) 8,201 Mr. Truman said non-defenee spending be lower by a billion dollars, largely because of a dropoff of that amount in veterans’ benefits. He propoeed expansion of public power projects, but a hold-down on other public works. I He renewed his pleas for federal aid to education, Including soholarahipe to needy college students, and slightly higher social security benefits. He proposed a new system of Insurance and benefits for A-bomb victims in event of war. . He repeated his wish for creation of a fair employment practices commission, but he did so in one short sentence that passed almost unnoticed. i j And he had nothing to say on the controversial compulsory health Insurance f scheme which loomed, so large in his messages of former years. Mr Truman did not at this time provide any details of the foreign aid program. He sdid about $8,000,(Tura To Page Four) \ .