Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 29 February 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 51.

NEW FRENCH CRISIS AS GOVERNMENT FALLS

Korean Truce Teams Facing Crucial Issue United Nations Not To Accept Russians S As A Supervisor Panmunjom, Korea. Saturday. A March I—(UP)—A crisis which could cause the break-up of Korea® armistice negotiations faced Filled and Communist truce teams today. The allies told the Reds “finally < anduitrevocably” yesterday—apparently on orders from the highest levels in Washington—that Russia is unacceptable as a member of a neutral truce-supervision commission. \ If the Communists insist on their stand that Russia be included. there seems no way out. The United Nations command '*>. hopes that as In the past where a breaking-point has been reached; the Reds will give in. But this seems the biggest crisis in the truce talks since last July. Then, the Reds and allies deadlocked on the allied demand that the existing battle front, not the 3Sth parallel border between South and North Korea, be made* the cease-fire line. The Chinese Communist Peiping radio broadcast* tonight a North Korean newspaper editorial which said the United States in opposing Russia as a “neutral” n>ember of the commission fear- , ed that the Russians would “ex* pose ts the world-’' Its policies. The refusal to accept Russia, the editorial said, is “an act of defiance against the peoples of the wortd.” The Communists may make a statement on the situation at a meeting here at 11 a. m. today (8 p. m., Friday CST.) They will have to make any statement on the basis of the ultiTUgtnm which the U.N. gave them' yesterday at a meeting of stat! T '“Further debate on tjjiis subject is completely futile? U. N> stoff officer Col. Don O. Drarrow told theft ads. r. ' frf .' ' i _ no circumstances wilt there he a qhange in the decision of IMN. command to reject -he. Shy let |>hton as, a’ member of in®?al' 'nations’ supervisory < oihmission." Cblflteunist staff officers at once M/MAa • the. V. N. attitude as ‘ piyWfhftabie. arbitrary and failed to sway tUf jtfuid tlbiotiatora. ■- : . ** I r • >.. z ' *■ Niw Urittaployment Claims Show Drop ItldtaUpoiit, Feb. 29.—(UP)— htekriyiOO tiwer persohs started ua»mf>|cymb|at insurance claims during the Week ending Feb. 23 thfh »in the previous week; the •) IMland emyioyment security diviaidh ami today. , . t)i vision offices reported 26,274 cohtlnt|<d claims bringing the total tb 10,4139; a four percent rise ofir pHitiouM week. Jdb bbenings and placements < abdWM a Might increase tor the wkek, the state office reported. \ ' . - ~ ~ ’ ■ Local Maa's Father Dies Thursday Night . | \ Norbert Goebel, 61, of Edgerton, Om father of. Maurice Goebel of this citjf died of a heart attack list night at his home, it was learned here today, lie had not been til and his death was unexpected. Surviving tn addition to the widow and,the son in Decatur are five other sons, Nial, Basil, Cletus* Edward and Clair, all of Edgerton; sig daughters, Mrs. Jesse Jackson aM Mrt- Walter Cline, both of Fbrt Wayne, Mrs. Wilford Hug, ofEdolV O„ Mrs. Richard Mercia, df-Ed ger ton. Ameldlk and Alice, bbth kt home. Mr. ahd Mrg. Maprice Goebel and dofb Joseph, left this morning for Edgerton. Funeral arrangements bate hot been computed but it is •ipected that defticee will be held Monday at Bt. Joseph’* Catholic church.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

1 ’ I". —■ — House Group Votes First Money Bill V About Tw Percent J Cut Off Requests ■ L Washington, Feb. 29.—(UPM The house appropriations conimlttm today voted jls, 696.000,000 for the treasury and post office departments in the] fiscal year sorting July 1. It was the first big money bill approved by the committee in .this session of congress. The comrfUttee couldn’t touch 312.254.000.000 of'the total because it is. earmarked fbr interest on the public debt and other fixed payments. \, From the remaining 33.515,000,000 asked by President' Truman, however, the committee cut away 372,690,000, about two percent.|| ,i The post office wanted 32,822,000,000 and got |fc793,00(1,000. The treasury sought 3693,045,000 and was voted’ 3648.6&5.00. J Other congressional news: Military pay — The senate arrtied services committee voted a thtee percent acrose-the-board pay increase for members of the armed services. It also approved cost-of-living increases for rations and quarters. The base pay hike was well below the 10 percent approved by the house but the substitenee increase was generally higher than the 10 percent voted for that purpose by the house. Committee chairman Richard B. Russell (DOa.) estimated the senate bill would be 33*25.000,000 a year cheaper than the house measure. Lattimore—Far eastern expert Owen Lattimore told senate investigators he never received orders, instructions, or suggestions from any Communist or pro , Communist sounce. The senators are Investigating the institute of Pacific re iatidns of which Lattimore has been a director. Time and again he was questioned about hia relations. if any, with Communist® dr proOom munists. /He insisted he never received or complied hwith any orders or instructions from any sources re recognised as Red or pro-Red. Health —Federal- security administrator Oscar R. Ewing opposed a senate bill to set up a department of health. He said jit would separate federal health from federal welfare activities and would “greatly weaken the effectiveness” of both] Dwight Brown Dies Thursday Afternoon Funeral Services 'Sunday Afternoon Dwight Brown, 76, a resident of Adams county most of his lite, filed at 4:10 o’clock Thursday afternoon at his home on Beilmont road, one-half mile east of Decatur. He had been ill for the past two months. He was born in Wayne county, 0., Dec. 1, 1875, a son of Abraham and Samantha Orr-Brown, and was married to Elizabeth Bushnell Oct. 22, 1899. He had been employed as a carpenter at the Reppert auction school property tor many years, t Surviving In addition to his wife ire three sons; Marlon of KendallHile, Orlen of Decatur and Waldo Os Bristol; two daughters, Mrs. Mildred Huth and Mrs. Reba Sheets of Decatur; if- grandchildren; six great - grandchildren; three, brothers. Grant Brown of Omaha, Neb., Jay Brown of Beaumont, Tex., and Cliff Brown of Decdtur, and one Sister, Mrs. Beetle Patterson of Fort Wayne. Qne daughter and 1 two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Sunday at the Zwlck funeral home and at 2 o’clock at the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. L. T. Norris officiating. Burial will be in the Salem cemetery, i. Friends may call at the funeral home after? o’clock this evening, and are asked to omit flowers. Three-Yeor-Old Girl Is Drowned In Creek South Bend. Ind., Feb. 29.—(UP) —Kathleen Sue Harveny, three,. Roseland, drowned When she fell" Into Judie Creek and was swept downstream Ute jyesterday. Playmates said Kathleen ya# trying to walk across the stream on a plank. Her body was recovered. ‘

j -- - .- - - - - . Sen. Russell In Race For Presidency Georgia Senator Ehters Democrat Nomination Race Washington, Feb. 29 —• (UP) — Southern Democrats rallied today around the banner of Sen. Richard B. Russell and kept the dibor open for a possible withdrawal from the Democratic party. In Washington, and in state capitals -throughout the south, antiTruman Demeorath leaders enthusiisitcally pledged their support to thb veteran Georgia senator who Announced, his candidacy yesterday. Russell himself left the way open for a southern revolt like that whicn led to formation of \ the stated rights party :in 1948. He did dot say he lead such a third party—but hf carefully refrained from saying; he'would not. Pressed to say whether he would support President Truman if the president finally decides to run. Rusnell declined to answer on the grounds that Mr. Truman is not yet a candidate and the party platform is not written, Hih evasive answer was Interpreted as a bargaining maneuver to keep pressure on the Democratic convention to come forward with: a candidate and a platform acceptable to the south. Rnssell, who got 263 southern ballots for the U4B Democratic nomination without announcing his candidacy, is sure to be an important power when the convefttion ballots a¥e' counted ia july. • President Truman gave no clues on fps own intentions at a news conference yesterday. He stirred up speculation, however, by saying Illinois Gov. Adlai E. Stevensoul is a very able man and one of tb|jß best governors Illinois ever had. i '■[That, the president added, is aboui the best recommendation a presidential candidate can have. In' other political developments: 1.,* Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-O.) returned to his home state for a series of meetings with campaign aides. In a “non-political" speech Taft urged “local control” of soil conservation districts and said the federal government should "keep out.” . 2. California Gov. Earl Warren —like Taft, an avowed candidate for the GDP nomination—entered the Wisconsin primary and said he is not just “carrying the torch” for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. *3. Eisenhower Won top spot on the ballot for Pennsylvania's preferential primary. The general (Tarn Ta Pare Twa) Await Decision On Adams Central Bonds ? Indiana Tax Board. To Announce Ruling A decision will be forthcoming late today or Saturday on the issuance of bonds for the Adams County Central School Corp., Noble Hollar, chairman of the state board of tax commissioners told man Drew, county auditor in a telephone conversation today. The board held a hearing here recently following the filing; of a remonstrance against the proposed issue of bond with which to construct a new building. Holar told the auditor that the board had discussed the remonstrance and was about ready to make a decision. He also said that several of the. remonstrators had visited the board recently, Hollar did not Indicate what the decision would be, but he did say unofficially that the bpnd issue appeared to be in order. It is believed likely that the auditor will have the decision Saturday, INDIANA WEATHER | Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday with snow s south and central portions toplght'and a few snow flurries possible extending north. A little colder tonight and In * touth portion Saturday. Low tonight 24 to 28, high Saturday SO to 35. !' IL : ■ r.; . HU i.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, February 29,1952.

— , —1 Drive Opens Foy $85,000,000 ' - Ls/' ' : ■ I OPENING THE 1952 Red Cross gind raising campaign, E. Roland Harriman, president, pins a buttof bn lapel of President Truman in the White House. National campAn goal is 185,000,000. MAR. 15—7:00 p. m. DecSW Sale l*rn. Community Sale. Sponsored by St. John's Men's Utah it Btn{fen. E. C. Doehrman, aucL

Hope For Break lib Oil Wage Dispute Nationwide Strike Is Postponed Week Washington, Feb. 29.—(UP)— Federal mediators throughout the nation called representatives of oil companies and unions together today in an effort to beat, the new March 10 strike deadline. Government officials hoped for a break in the wage dispute—wo® slbly in talks between the CIO oil workers and Sinclair, traditional industry pattern-setter—(hat would, lead to industrial peace in .(ke.de-fense-crUical refineries. An tfhprecede nted coalition of CIO. AFL and independent unions bowed last night to a request by federal mediation chief Cyrus S. Ching to postpone for. one week a nationwide ojl strike threatened for midnight Sunday. K j Ching bad warned that a walkout, which would cripple nearly all of the nation’s refineries, many oil adn natural gas pipelines and key distribution points, would be a, “serious threat to the defense effort ” , ’ > ' If mediation efforts fail, defense mpbilizer Charles E. Wilson was reported ready to ask President Truman to refer the dispute to the wage stabilization board for settlement terms. The unions had served strike ultimatums after the ; industry threw up a solid front against their demands fori a 2&-cent hourly pay hike and bigger night differentials. Oil workers iow average about 32.12 ah hour. The (oil industry normally bargains on ap individual company and sometimes on a plant-by-plant basis. Many individual companies had offered a 10-cent hourly boost to match the cost-of-living rise since January, 1951. The union coalition agreed to the postponement after day-long conferences with Ching. The medlar tlon chief also held “exploratory" talks with spokesmen of a “representative group" of seveti big oil companies responsible for one fourth of the nation’s daily oil production.

• : I J ' ; | • 9 ■ 1■: . ! (Rev. Robert Hammond, First Baptist Church) COMPENSATIONS Psalm 145:20—The Lord preserveth all them that love ‘ I Him; but all the wicked will He destroy. ■ i ■ J/4-y T'M'f i ' The basic motive for Christian living la a responsive love that conies in the human heart in answer to the love of God who “so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not pprish but have everlasting life.” ! It is, however, apparent that the* pages of God’s Word promise everyday compensations as are Ward fqr faithful Christian living. The sacrifices demanded of theS Christian, that he deny himself, | take up his cross and follow Christ will not go unrewarded. ■’ ' The compensation suggested by the above verse is that of pre- 1 serration*—that God will overshadow and preserve them that love, him. This is true, althoqgh sometimes we are troubled as was the Psalmist with the apparent prosperity of the wicked. It should bte sufficient to know that the albwise God works all things together, for the good of theta that love him —and that their adversity will bring a sure reward] May our prayer be that wp shall be preserved,' body, soul and spirit until the day of pFesus Christ. We know that our faithful living has an eternal reward; may we grow increas-; ingly mindful of its present compensations: an adequacy to meet the problems of*life, a faithful victory over the temptations with' which we are faced, a radiance and Joy in worship and devotion, ; and a selflessness in service to God and others. The workman is worthy of his hire-—we receive t’he compensations of our faith in direct proportion to that faith itself. < I ■

Tgr 1 -" 11,1 "— —: (Must Have New License Plates On* Saturday r-The Decatur auto license branch was ope of the most popular places In Decatur today as the final day •for utie of the 1951 auto license plates arrived. / All motorists will be subject th arrest if new plates are not dis? shrye4 Saturday. There were etill several hundred motorists in the area who had not yet purtheir 1952 plates. : 1 n ‘■ l > . r yr ■: Annual Assessing To Start Saturday Assessors, • Harlow In Meeting Friday annual work of assessing personal property Adams county ht|rts Saturday "morning. Alli [township trustees and their assist-: ants and Washington township assessor William Willes and his assistants met Friday with Albert Harlow, county assessor for final! Instructions. Wihnes has named three deputies to assist;him in Decatur aud' Washington township. They are: t Charles Robenold. Mrs. Elmer' ‘ Darwachter and Mrs. Harry ? Stults. ’ ■ h Trustees have the ta&k in the; townships and under the law they; are given a blanket amount for thej work.. Whether they name assist-; ants'is left to their discretion. Seyert! trustees have named deputes. ' ; [ j Using the recommended fortnu-? la, which is 70 percent of the market price on March U the following figures will be used in (he 1952 assessing program: « j Corn- H-60 a bushel; oats, 60 cents a bushel; wheat, 31.60 a bushpl; cloverseed, 39.80 a bushel;: timothy, 32.i0 a bushel; soy beans, 31,90 a bushel. ! v Hogs will be assessed from 3? to 311 and cattle from 314 to 319; /according to class and weight. Preliminary work will start Saturday but the actual work Will get under way next Monday morning. 1-. I: L I 1 \

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Allied Artillery |j Blasis Red Lines [ H ■ H I • ' I ■' .. 1 ! t i L Bombard Chinese 11 On Eastern Front ] Bth Army Headquarters, Korea, Saturday, March 1. —(UP) —Allied artillery fired 4,432 rounds Friday in a blazing bombardment of the Chinese Reds on the eastern Jront. i The Reds started it, firing into the allied lines in the old “heartbreak ridge” sector. Allied artillerymen were ordered to fire 10 founds tor every one the Reds fired. Red shells totalled ■fU). Then the Red gunners gave iup. the allied compromised with a ratio of 9-*4 shells for each Red shell. Two United Nations tank forces stabbed across th£ snow-covered no man’s land in hit and run raids against the Communists. One armored unit dueled with Red artillery and mortars west of Chorwon bn the western front before returning to the allied lines. The other blasted targets in the Kumsong area of the central front and engaged an enemy force of undetermined strength southeast of the City. Two probes Dy six-man Commun- ; Ist groups were reported, from ithe eastern front. Both were repulsed northeast of Punchbowl valley after brief fire fights. Allied fighter-bombe'rs cut Communist railway supply lines , between the Manchurian frontier and ' the fighting front in more than i 130 places and destroyed or damaged two tanks, a railway bridge, five anti-aircraft guus and \l2 sufiply ' buildings. Vice-Chairman Os) Democrats Quits Mrs. Lose Resigns Committee Post . ! Mrs. Catherine Lose, Decatur, who has announced her intention of*seeking the Democratic nomination fbr recorder of Adams county, today submitted her resignation as vice-chairman of the Adams county Democratic central committee. Mrs. Lose has served in that capacity for five years. In submitting her resignation to county chairman Harry 1 Hebble, she thanked the members of tjie commitee for their cooperation. Dr. Hebble hajs not indicated when he will call the committee together to elect a successor./Under the statute the vice-chairman must be of the opposite sex from the chairman. It is believed likely that a new vice-chairman will be named to serve until the biennial reorganization next May because the county committee usually sponsors several (Tarn To Pn»e Seven) Warsaw Youth Killed As Truck Hits Pole Plymouth, Ind., Feb. 29. —(UP)*--William L. Zimmer, 19, Warsaw, wap killed # last night when his truck went out of control and struck a utility pole and a concrete abutment, at the junction o» two county roads 10 miles east of here. Police said Zimmer was killed when the steering post pierced his chbst. Leap Year Baby Is Born At Hospital Michael Dea® Merts. who was bom at 6:12 O’clock today at the Adams county memorial hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Ferris A. Mertz of Geneva route one, will have to wait tour years to officially celebrate his first birthday. He is the first Leap Year baby to be reported to this office. The baby tipped the scales at nine pounds, two and one-half ounces, and is the second child in the Mertz family. ■ ■ i

Dean Acheson J To Report Jo Nation Tonight Closed Door Report Given By Secretary To House Committee f ' _ Washington. Feb. 29 — (UP) — Democratic members of the house foreign affairs committee praised secretary of state Dean Acheson today for giving a powerful shove to European unity at the recent Lisbon conference. But Republicans , said congress should be given “concrete, evidence" that the Europeans mean business about bui)ding a strong mutual defense [system, before noting more billions in U. S. economic and military aid. Acheson , gave the committee a two-hour closed door report yesterday on the recent North Atlantic pact \ council sessions in the Portuguese capital. AcLvbvu scneduled a to the nation tonight at 8:30 p. m. CST. The speech, billed as a major foreign policy address, will be carried by the CBS, NBC and Mutual radio networks and Dumont television., NBC wilt telecast it at 10:15 p. m. CSf and the ABC radio network will carry it at 10:30 p. m. CST. ( Atlantic pact countries agreed in principle at Lisbon to create a European army, paving the way fur enrolling German troops in the western defense system. They also set rearmament goals for 1952 —including 50 divisions in various degrees of combat readiness. Some democrats were hopeful that Acheson’s ‘.‘encouraging” report would put a damper on congressional demends for sharp cuts In President Trumfcn’s bih for another 37.900,000,000 in foreign aid. Rep. Mike Mansfield (p-Mont.), an administration supporter, said Acheson’s achievements gt Lisbon “exceeded our expectations.”. “It marks a milestone in the efforts being made by congress for a unified western Eujrope,” Mansfield said. He said the Lisbon results justify Mr. Trurpan’s foreign aid proposals. ■ n H But Rep. John M, Vorys of Ohio, chief Republican [spokesman on the foreign affairs committee, predicted congress will continue to take a “show me” attitude toward European unity and self-help in defense preparations. Chairman James P. Richards (D-S. C.) of the [foreign affairs committee was nbn-commital on ,effects of the Lisbon conference on chances of congressional' approval of the foreign aid program (Tarn Ta Page Bight) Regular Meeting Is I Held By Rotarians Joint Meeting With Lions Next Thursday Robert Heller Harry Hebble were formally rebcived into the Rotary club last evening, in £ short ceremony conducted by Clarenice E. Bell. In addition to being greeted into membership by she speaker, the men were presented with Rothry lapel pins. H It was announced that Rotarian* will meet with the Lions club next Thursday at the K. of P. home. A famous speaker will g|v» ,an ad-, < H On Ahril 3, a group meeting of Rotary clubs from Fort Wayne, Churubusco, Columbia City, Bluffton and Berne will be held here with the Decatur club as host. Possibly four'members will attend the anhual; convention pt Rotary International in Mexico City next May. The president will be the delegate and the other three men will be alternate#. 1 k

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i J Government Falls « After Defeat Over Proposed Boost In All Existing Taxes Paris, Feb: 29 — (Up) —Premier Edgar Faure’s five-weeks-old government resigned today, plunging France Into an economic and political .; crisis which threatened •western Eurqpe’s rearmament program. > Faure handed his government's’ resignation to President Vincent Auriol after his radical socialist party failed [to support him in i a national assembly vote of confi- - dence. accepted the resignation. I 1! I j The [assembly defeated, 30£| to 283, a proposed 15 percent increase in all existing French taxes. Faure had asked the tax hike to meet military commitments under the North Atlanitc treaty and to balance, his record-high 1952 budget. : The defeat left France without a govern merit—and with little prospect of forming a stable one—at a critical, moment in the west's efforts to . rearm against th® threat ]Of Communist aggression. It seemed certain to delay indefinitely the defense program by the North Atlantic treaty Council at Lisbon last Week, which committed this country to make |ha largest military nad one of the- largest financial contrtbut ons to (Mh- Dwight D. Eisenhower’s army-; Moreover, th# whole N.A.T.O. progr am depends to a large extent i on stabilization of France’s totter-1 ing econorhy. But. with the fall of Faure's; government, the franc i dropped ‘to neW lows on the' free market. Nobody isould say for sure who ; will succeed Faure. who Jieaded France’s 16th government since World Way It But N. A. T. O. supporters feared Gen. Charles De Gaulle k s right-wing rally of the French people, largest party in the assembly, might make a grab lor power.; De Gaulle has made it clear that if he edmSs to power, he would do everything possible to prevent rearmanientf: of western Germany end creation Os a European army, two keystbnes of the N. A. T, O. program, until a European union—' a sort of JtJatted States of Europe —has been organized. U I—M ' ■ State Draft Quota For April Is 497 Indianapolis, Feb.. 29;—(UP)— Indiana’s. draft quota for April will be 497 men, selective service officials announced today. They said no person under 20 years old would be inducted under the quotas ■! ' !-■ [ i ; TOURNEY TICKETS Hugh/ J. Andrews, Decatur sectional tourney manager, announced this afternoon thatno tickets for the Saturday 3 j sessions of the tourney will be on sale at the gym tomorrow. , The four schools still in the running will dispose of ail tickets at their schools and none will be available at the aym. Decatur fans who will receive tickets may obtain them at the high school office from 7 to 8 o'clock tonight and from 10 .to 11 Unlock Saturday morning. The tickets are priced at 31 and are good for ’ bo(h sessions. Each of the four schools reP ceiVes 47 tickets under the 10 percent basis of seating capacity. /The remaining tickets are distributed according to enrollment. Under this arrangement, Decatur receives 688 tickets, Geneva 337, Pleasant Mills 278 and Adams Centra 1382. Tiital tickets for each echool follWiw: Decktur 736, Geneva I 884ji Pleasant Milla 325, Adams Central 429.