Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 55, Decatur, Adams County, 5 March 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 55.

DEMAND ACCOUNTING FOR 174 PRISONERS

UMT Returned To Committee By House Vote Little Hope Held By Proponents For Early Bill Passage Washington, Mar. 5 — (UP) — Glum supporters of universal military training pinned waning hopes on the senate today, but most lawmakers figured UMT was dead at least for this year. There was a slim possibility that the senate might disregard yesterday’s house vote against UMT and pass its own bill, hoping the house then would change its mind. ’ ! . . - ’ But most members of the house end senate seemed to think this possibility was remote. One senate leader, noting the lopsided 236 to 162 vote by which the house consigned its UMT bill to oblivion, said privately: f “What is the use of our wasting our time on it. unless there is ? some reason to think the house ■ pmigbt reconsider?” Many members thought the house, in its six-hour wrangle over UMT yesterday, gave little reason to think it would buy UMT now or later, regardless of form. Before sending the whole issue back to committee,-members had: 1. Voted 126 to 19 to put UMT on theMawbobks now —with "its requirement of six months Jfbasic military training for all men at age 18. followed by 7’4 years in the reserver-but to hold it in standby until the armed halt the draft for actual military rervlce; also to put a termination ' oate on the law —July 1, 1958. 2. Agreed, 150 to 145, to toss out even this watered-down UMT plan in favor of a proposal to train youths instead in compulsory IvOTC classes in the junior and senior years of high school. 3. Reversed themselves, killed ’ the'ROTC plan 235 to 156 ( and sent the original UMT bill back to the armed services committee without instructions. This normally is eqiijvalent to killing abill. Rep. Charles B. Brownson (RTndJ, sponsor of the high school POTC plan, was amoiig the few house members who didn’t give up. He said today he will ask r armed services committee to start over and consider a training plan ♦fslmflar to the one” he tried to put over. . x , Committee chairman Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) had told reporters earlier however, that he would not v ask the committee to take un the UMT js’ne again during this session , of cress. As for Brownson’s suhtitute plan, the committee alreadv had con«idered and rejected it as impractical. The senate armed services committee has approved a UMT bill similar to the one pigeon-holed hv the huose. j It has been set for s early debate in the senate. After, the house vote, however, sbnate Democratic leader Ernest W. McFarland (Ariz.) said he didn’t know whether it w'ould be considered. ■]/’ ■ • j'. ‘ -. i Funeral Rites Thursday for Mrs. J. L Mueller Funeral services for Mrs. Addle Mueller. 63, Wife of J.L. (Hans) Mueller, 3602 Reed street, Fort Wayne, will be held Thursday at 3 p.m. at the Klaehn funeral home in that city. . Mrs. Mueller, who w’as well known-here, died Tuesday at St. Joseph's hospital, ‘ following a month's illness. r . Besides her husband, she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Giles Pierre of Fort Wayne and a- son. . Jack Mueller of Dallas, Tex., and four grandchildren. • . . 65 Persons Injured When Trains Collide \ Gary. Ind., March 5.-—(UP)— Six persons were hospitalized today ! with injuries suffered when two crowded rush hour commuter trains collided. A total of 65 persons were injured in the last night, but by mofning all but six had been dis•charged. No deaths were reported and the six were in “fair” condition with cuts and bruises. V. '

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Club Speaker ■ ! » iMUt ■ if James K. Eyre, Jr,

James K. Eyre, Jr., educaior, author and Far Eastern observer will be speaker ait ajoint meeting of the Rotary and Lions dubs, at the K. of P. home Thursday evening. An adviser to* .former Philippine president Sergio Osmena. Eyre was an independent' {observer in the Orient from *1946 to 1948. He has lectured at several colleges and is a former staff member of the library of congress and •he lioard of economics warfare, returned to the United States in-1948. ■ i ; ,i | i|s-| I |'S.N ■ i Fort Wayne Girl Is Oratorical Winner Central Student Ist Winner In District Miss Carlene Miller. 1910 Raymond street. Central high school student. Fort Wayne, won the American Legion fourth district oratorical contest in a field of Six contestants at the Legion home In this city last night. Their orations were given on phases of the consti-i tution. il ; J ' Miss Miller will represent ;this district in the zone contest March 16. Competing with her | tor the honor to go to the state contest will be the winner in the |fifth district. The contest will be held at Post. 47 home American .Legion iti Fort Wayne, with Charles Frazf, 4 Albion attorney, as chairman. Miss Caroline Alger, daughter oL Mr. and Mrs. Merritt J. Alger, Decatur high school senior who ; wori the Adams county Contest; placed ! third in the district meet. 1 ! ‘ Others who placed In the decision of the judges are: Miss Betty. Gib lespi of Columbia Oily high school, second; Miss Karmen Sims, Wolcottville high school, fourth. Two of the eight counties, Stem ben and DeKalb, were not rbj?re* sented in the district contest. Hugh Andrews, Decatur high school principal and a fqrtner commander of Adams Post 43, presided as district chairman. He said .that the contest was one of the! most interesting and competitive ever staged in the district. A number of (Turn To Pare Kight) Post Office Changes Are Given Approval | All Recommendations Formally Approved Recommendations naming Robert Frisinger as assistant postmaster in the Decatur post office and the naming of William H. Btown, to transfer from Battle Crekd, Mich., post office to the position stitute clerk in Decatijif, were approved and made'official in a letter received today by Leo Kirsch, postmaster. 1 All other caused by the assistant’s vacancy, due tq: the recent death lof CarreT H. Cole, were approved. The letter »was signed by Joseph J. Lowler, assistant postmaster general'id charge of post office personnel. ; The changes in the Decatur ; post office will be effective as Os starch 1, the letter stated. There is; one exception and that is the transfer of Brown from the Battle Creek office. The transfer date must be agreed on between the postmaisters of both offices ’ ; John Boch, former substitute clerk, has been elevated us of Mhrch 1 to the position of regular clerk. Brown will assume -his work in Decatur as soon as a satisfactory transfer date can be agreed on, postmaster Kirsch stated today.

Ellis Amall In Blast At Cattlemen 1 Declares Industry Deliberately Seeks To Wreck Controls Chicago, March s.—(UP)—Price stabilizer Ellis Arnall charged todi.y that part of the cattle industry is conducting a “callous and irresponsible’’ campaign to wreck ail price controls. Making his first public address styice taking over the price job 10 days ago, Arnall picked up the fight which his precedessoy, Michael V. Disalle, waged all last year against the Cattleilen. His speech was prepared for deli’,'er yat a meeting of the national wholesale frozen food distributors here in the heart of the meat packing industry. Arnall based hig charges on a *B9cret" meeting held in a Chicago hotel last week by a group of cattlemen. That meeting, he said, “was called to blueprint the latest plan ,fqr the destruction of the price stabilization program.” Arnall quoted press reports as saying that a confidential document billed the meeting in advance as a move to "stir up resentment” against the OPS by making the agency “as unsavory to the pfablib as was OPA.” 11 “OPA, we all remember, held the Hue in the cost of living to 4.3 percent during three full years of extreme wartime pressures,” he said. Arnall did not identify any of the cattlemen. But he, said their confidential document proposed that represetatives of different industries pressure members of congress and delegates to the Democratic and Republican national conventions to kill OPS this summer. . i ‘•This is callous and irresponsible gambling with America’s economy and America’s security,” Arnall said. “It is a calculated effort to mislead the congress of the United States. My own deep conv ctlon is that until the danger of inflation is past—util production n eets both military and civilian needs—we must maintain and si rengthen our stabilizing controls.” - The former Georgia governor that if prices .lad continued to rise throughout 1951 at tke rate they were going up before the general freeze was Imposed in Jan-(To’-n To Poice Bbcht! Plan Horse Pulling Contest During Fair Feature Event For Fair Next Summer Plans are underway to«add a ht>rse pulling contest to the large li|st of feature events at the 1952 Decatur free fair to be held for the first time at Hanna-Nuttman park, it was announced today by Roy Price, general chairman for the event. Dates for the fair are from July 28 to August 2, both \inclusive. Aire ady contracts have been signed fcr the midway and free acts and several other features also have bj=en announced. It was pointed ’ out that many events of interest especially to farmers such as tractor and horse pulling contests can now be held since the fair has been moved to Hanna-Nuttnian park. Formerly the flir was held in the business section on the streets. ! , Most merchants have expressed themselves as favorable to the move, and fairgoers in general approve the move because it means so many features can be added. There is no race track at HannaNuttman park, Price pointed out, but there is plenty o< space for all types of agricultural exhibits and Ji horse show, if there is sufficient interest. The fair is conducted annually by the Decatur free fair association, which is a branch of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Price has had several years experience in piro inotlng the fair and ajso has been interested for a good many years n the 4-H and other activities of he state fair. j

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Serious Mood r ; j' -ri < - 188 - K? * ‘ J ■Bl j—ujr ’ I W* ' I t USUALLY SMILING Gen. Dwight D Elsenhower is caught in a serious mood by the camera as he chats with Jean Letpurnead, minister of Associated States in fallen government of Edgar Faure* during >d reception at the Elyfeee palace give!) by French President Vincent Auriol. Later General Eisenhower urged U;. S. congressional approval of universal military training bill, calling? it a question of “utmost gravity for all our citizens.” H

.T--"-" -j-—■» -jj - 1" "i" 1 y i>s 'I • > 1, Council Gives O.K. < To Sewer Project Ordinance Is Passed For New Police Car ; 1 \ ' The city council tn its regular Tuesday night meeting passed a resolution approving ;: assessments for the George Anspaugh sewer in the south part of Decatur. There were no remonstrances or Objections to the preliminary assessment roll and the total alocation of costs was approved as previously divided. ♦ i I rj " The $1,532 cost ; Was divided among the several ; beneficiaries and the city and the project will 6e completed soon. ' An ordinance wad passed approving the contract ■ between the city and Phil L. Macklin Company for the purchase of a! new police patrol car. The Mabklin bid of 1924.50 and the old police car was the only bid submitted some time ago. \ A petition signed by Bernard Loshe and several other residents of the north part of Decatur asked for the erection of two alley fights; one in the east and west alley between Jackson and Marshall streets and the other ip the north and south alley between Third and Fourth streets. The matter was referred tp the electric light committee and the light superintendent for further action. :il i ||' • > A report also was made a mat-> ter of record that to date there had been no response from th“ county commissioners pertaining to a four-way division of a sewer' extension project through thh Der'atur cemetery. At the present time, raw sewage from the west part of Decatur flows intb the cemetery and in summer mbnths (Turn To Page Kight) :

'dentes 'Mteditatcw : : ; (Rev. Dwight R. McCutdy, Church of God) hi | CHRISTIANS ARE BORN j [ John 3:7—Jesus said: Must Be Born Again}?' . : i J ;■?■■■ 1 ' U -i A ' ■ Quite contrary to present teaching, Christians ire born. Christians are not made, self-developed, manufactured, nor grow n into the spiritual state; they are born frotn above. We must get it settled in pur blinds that this hew birth is a miracle of diving grace. Jesiis declared in John 31.6-7, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh;' and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee. Ye mhst jbe born again.” This being truej God alone makes us Christians and that is by spiritual birth. x Many good people think that a Christian is anyone who is nbt a pagan, that one becomes a Christian by the doing of works, by self-development, the keeping of certain laws, bynot doing certain things, by being baptized, by doing the best he can. Paul in Titus 3:5 says: “Not by wroks of righteousness which he have done, but according to his mercy He saved us. by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit.” If you cou|ld bp saved in any other way, Christ died in vain. HE DID NOT D|E IN VAIN; His blood is powerful to regenerating of the Slnflul Heart and Life. Yes. Christians are born. “Marvel not that I said unto thee, YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN?’

—— —s— —.—< — . jH ~ j ' ' • i ! • ■■ Initial Report Made On Red Cross Drive | xThe first report In thp Red Cross drive in Decatpr shows contributions of $1,303.08, Earl Fuhrman, city chftinnan, reports. The Schdfer Compariy and eim pioyes of that, concern were the first to report, tlay Leitz, industrial group chairman, stated. H The list of industrial and special gifts,. the latter reported by the Rev. Samuel Emerick, I; chairman, is printed on another page in this newspaper. — — - , Cost Is Estimated g ' > On Sewer Project )i !' ■ ' Jensen States Plan p Appears To Be r Q.K, Progress was reported at Jthe Tuesday night council meeting on the proposed new sewer project in the northwest part of Decatdr, Ralph Roop, city ’engineer qdb? mitted a preliminary Estimate pn the cost of the proposed PorterHomewood main sewer, without laterals. ’ Otto Jensen, chief of the state Hoard of accounts told the council by letter that he believed there jWas sufficient statutory support for the issuance of general ; obligation bonds and also Barrett; law bonds and he suggested thht the city Consider a combination of both if the proposed project is adopted. This proposal was made, because Jensen in his letter stated, that Ab ready m an y citizens bad; paid under t,he Barrett law for their J sewers and it ‘Jjvould not be ‘fair for them to also assumb obligations for other stwers.” Roop estimated that the main, sewer, from the St. Marys river to die intersection of Dayton and Eleventh streets, withodt ahy (Turn To Part Right) \

■ 'i, . ——— . __' I ■ United Nations Makes Demand On Accounting For Prisoners Os War

Gambling Payoffs Reported In Stale Certain Cities In * Indiana Are Cited Indianapolis, March S—(UP)5 —(UP) — A federal grand jury reported today that U.S. authorities have Evidence of payoffs to permit gambling in “certain Indiana cities” and termed the condition “deplorable.” The jury said that “instances of corruption made known to fhis grand jury are due primarily to gambling interests” and recommended the lofal law-enforcement agencies conduct county grand jury Investigations and “take \ whatever action is necessary.” " The jury named no cities. It said the evidence “is available through the department of internal revenue in Indianapolis indicating instances of corruption of officials by gambling interests in certain cities in Indiana, involving payoffs bribing officials to permit operation of illegal businesses.” The jury also reported to judge William E. Steckler that southern Indiana has no major narcotics problem but “the use of barbiturates is much more widespread.” It criticised ‘fraternal ' and church organisations” which sored types of gambling” uhder a federal law loophole which does not require them to bay wagering tax stamps. The jury, which convened two weeks ago to study syndicated crime conditions in line with a U.JJ. justice department nation-wide investigation, made five specific recommendations in its report. It recommended new federal legislation to license and Control the manufacturing of barbiturates, the use of which it said “should warrant considerable attention because persons addicted to barbltur*" a tea are more likely to commit crimse of violence.” It recommended local law en(Tura To Pose Ei«ht> Vacation Church School Institute One-Day Institute J Here Next Tuesday A vacation church school institute, sponsored by the associated churfches of Decatur, will held uext Tuesday morning and afternoon in the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Sessions for the Institute will begin at :30 a. m., with registration between 9 and 9:30 a. m. A team chosen by the vacation chujrch school committee of the Indiana council of churches will direct the institute. The team is composed of Mrs, Charles Kuhlman. Mrs. Charles Coan, Mrs. Earl Carr, Mrs. Harold Richardson and Miss Shirleen Satterfield. These five leaders will have charge of the kindergarten, primary, junior, junior high and administration groups, respectively. The cooperative series of text will be used in the vacation church school this summer, under the general theme of “The Bible.” These text \books and all phases of the school will be studied during the one day institute. All prospective teachers , in the vacation school are requested to attend the institute, but Attendance is not limited to these. All Sunday school teachers and others who might be interested in receiving. direction and help are invited to attend. Expenses of the i istiube will be< borne by the associated churches. The committee of the associated church council that is planning the union vacation church school from May 26 to June 6, is composed of the Rev. Samuel Em* crick 1 , Miss Glonnys Roop, W. Guy Brown, and the Rev. William C. Teller, chairman. Mrs. Russell Owens has been chosen to serve as dean of the school.

Senate Group Vetoes Bureau Reorganization Committee Vetoes President's Tax Reorganization Washington, Mar. 5* — (UP) — President Truman’s proposal to reorganize the internal revenue bureau took a beating today in the senate executive expenditures committee. The committee voted 7 to 5 for a resolution to “veto” the reorganization plan. If the committee vote accurately reflects the sentiment of the senate, the plan is as good as dead. , The resolution of disapproval must, however, be okayed by a constitutional majority)—l9— of the entire senate by March 14 or the plan will go into effect automat- , ically. The house already has approved it. Senate Democratic leader Ernest W. McFarland (Ariz.) said the . resolution, will be put before the ’ senate next Tuesday or Wednesi day. \ If it is killed- then, the executive expenditures committee pre- > sumably will take up a substitute plan offered by chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.). The issue is political patronage. Mr. Truman proposed to replace the 64 politically-appointed regional tat collectorsKwith up to 25 dis. trict collectors under civil service. McClellan’s substitute would keep 'op bureau officials under political appointment. Otbel* congressional news: Justice—The justice department turned down a blanket house committee request for a list of all cases referred to the department for persecution—but not prosecuted—in the past six years. But the department promised to "honor” all reasonable requests far information on “definite cases and (TinT* Pace eight) it. d, U . ■ Adams Central Board Will Meet April 4 Study Appropriation For New Building Another stop toward construction of Adams County Central Consolidated school at Monroe was started today with the publication of a legal notice that the board of trustees of the consolidation will meet at their office in Monroe Friday night, April 4, at 7 o’clock to consider the appropriation dLS34O,000 for the construction of a new consolidated school building. Il} is proposed that the appropriation be divided as follows: $162,500 from a bond issue. This issue was recently approved, by the state board of tax commissioners. $177,500 to be taken from the cumulative building fund set up by the corporation. The monies extracted from the additional appropriation would be for construction and also for equipment for the new building and for all expenses incidental to the construction work. Any taxpayer shall have a right to be heard at the April meeting, according to a statement issued by Custer and Smith, attorneys for the school corporation. If the appropriation is voted by the board, the action will be referred to the state board of tax commissioners, who will hold a further hearing on the appropriation within 15 days at the office of the county auditor. A The plan of the board is to event-, ually consolidate all school operations at Monroe. At the present time high school students of the three townships attend school at Kirkland.

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Names Missing From Lists Submitted By Reds; Accounting Demanded By UN ■ \ j • Panmunjom, Korea, March 5.--> . (UP) —The United Nations today demanded an accounting for 174 more prisoners of war, mostly Americans, whose names were missing from lists submitted by the Reds. . ' I U.N. truce negotiators *at the » same time released the new list for publicationpit was compiled front Communist radio broadcasts, publications and prisoner letters to families. ' North, Korean Maj. Gen. Lee Sang Cho said he would “carefully note” the list. It was felt herd the Reds might confirm it, but the feeling was based more on attitude of the Communists than any concrete statements. A hint that confirmation might be given by the Reds was contained in Lee’s reply to a U.N- request \ for data on 53,000 Republic of Korea soldiers whom the allies shy were impressedi into the Red army. “We have already handed over to your side the main list of the prisoners whom we hold in prison and have asked for necessary supplementary data,” said Lee. “It is 1 now put in order and we 1 will hand It over to your side in • due time. You must first give us the basic data which you have pro- ■ to give , us.” ii • t The list included only non-Korean r » troops. It brings to 1,621 the number of allied soldiers believed ip ' ■ prisoner \ stockades but missing from prisoner lists. Rear Admiral R. E. Libby pressed again in yain for information about some 50,000 South Korean soldiers whom the Reds at one time claimed to have captured, but did not name in their ifnal list of prisoners. Mij. Gen. Lee Song Cho, North Korean negotiator, received the list - and “carefully noted itE” Libby, describing the 'session on prisoner exchange as “reasonably tranquil,” said there was no progress on the basic issue of voluntary repatriation. “They wouldn’t biiy voluntary repatriation,” Libby said, “and wo won’t' 1 drop it.” J V''.' Allied and Communist negotiators in the next tent, deadlocked on ' terms of an‘armistice charter, met for only 15 minutes. They adjourned after both sides agreed it would be a waste of time to rehash old arguments over the Communist nomination of Russia as a neutral Korean truce J inspector. Down Red Fighters Bfh Army Headquarters, Korea, March S.—(UP) —American Sabrejets shot down five and probably six Communist Mig-15 jet fighors in a biasing half-hour air battle today just south of the Manchurian border. IM It was the Americans’ biggest bag of Russian-built Migs since Jpn. 25. when 10 enemy jets were sint spinning to earth. T wenty-eight Sabres rlpp ie d through a formation of 70 Mlgs in the latest battle over “Mlg near the Yalu river frontier. - “We capght them by surprise and bounced the whole formation,” One airman reported. Allied losses, if any,: were pot (Tarn To Pane Hight) Four Workers Killed In Elwood Explosion . Elwood; Ind., March 5. —(UP) — j Four men were killed today when a portable boiler they >ere firing exploded ; outside the Indiana Die Casting Go. plant. The dead were: " |. william James Hamilton, 21 / (3944 S. Elizabeth) Chicago. | / Arthur H. Gerth,- 45 (1316 Lunt ,Ave.) f Chicago. Kenneth U. Beemer, 24, Orestes, Ind. GeorgeLobell, 43, Elwood. j INDIANA WEATHER Fair/, colder northeast tonight. Thursday partly cloudy and not quite so oold. Low tonight 4-10 north, 1018 sputh. High Thursday 28-34 north, 34 40 south. ' r - a/ ‘a t M .. - J S- ■' i