Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 124, Decatur, Adams County, 24 May 1952 — Page 1

■ Vol. L No. 124.

House Slashes Foreign Aid 22 Percent Heads For Another |i Partisan Economy Battle In Senate Bl I T • ! ■ ■ •• f: Washington, May 24 — (UP) — /The admi lustration’s $7,900,600,000 foreign ai< program, already slashed 22 per ent by the housed headltd today I for another partisan tconomyp (attje in the sedate. I Sen. J<j>hn J. Sparkman, a mem.; iier of thplsenate foreign relations' served notice that Republican ajtempts in the senate to duplicate: (he house cuts would meet stiff resistance. The Alabama Democrat said the reductions, totaling $1,737,400,000 in Administration requests, were "dangerous” and that they "cut too sleep and do not have the flexibility,”. The senate will open debate Monday oa its own version of the mutual security bill, which the Ibreign relations committee has Rimmed ' $1,000,000,000 across-the- ■' Hoard below what President Truman had;Asked. Sparkriiin said the committee Bels strongly that further cuts beW its | recommendations would ftnpair west's buildup against Jpommunjysm. Chairman Tom Cohsally (TMTex.) has announced He Will flgltt any additional slashes' pn the program. Herman; Welker (6|lda.) asd 10 other Republicans', /said yeMerday they will come out t swingiiii their - economy axes, 'They lijed two amendments, one 'to cut |he hill hy another $1,006,another for half that amountK the first propsal fails. An fefconomy-insistent house ignored ; fast minute administration pleas |1 ite yesterday and approved, 24| to 110, a $6,162,600,000 foreign ai<i program. The brunt of the hqt se’s flashes were aimed at military and economic aid to Europe. Voting for the house measure were 167 Democrats and 78 Republicans, j Opposed were 20 Democrats And 90 Republicans. The final vo|4. however, did not reflect* fully the GOP power that forced the sharp cuts in the bill. The ■ Republican-led economy bloc. With some southern Demoreinforcements, trimmed $616,3i0p j 000 from "defense support” ! economic aid to Europe by a 3211 to-137 vote. Another sUl> 200,<)d0fwas cut fro'm economic and techn|eal assistance to Asia by a 192 t<p6s vote. Even before the house started making, the slashes, the house foreign affairs committee had knocked ou^ $1,010,900.000 from the bill', all in|n|ili tary_ and /“defense support” Munds for Europe. Elmer Schmitt Rites / Sunday Afternoon Funeral services for Elmer E. ‘ Sehm: t|, 53, operator of the Decatur Cannih| Co., who died at Dayton, O. Tl ijjrsday will be held Sunday aft|rnaim, at the Areanum, O. Methodist :|urch at 2 o’clock. The Rev, Ira Clijk and the Rev. L. J. Rhodeback wlTi "nave charge of the services a ;d burial will be at the Mote, 0., ce isetery. Scb! uitt operated the local, canning ■ B|ctory | and also one at Arcan it), where he maintained his reside Friends may call at, the Schmit®/home in Arcanum until time the funeral S-Unday Afternoon. j ■'' ' '') >■ i' ? ■ I ... fa. — Fulton Oursler Dies Earl d This Morning New® kork, May 24.—(UP)—Fulton Oursler, 59, author and senior editor iff the Reader’s Digest, died early in his apartment in the Hotel sjivarro. Men ters of Oursler’s family said he hac hot been ill and apparently i died o'|a heart attack. ■ In iepent years Oursler turned to the Bible for literary material. His d 'Jmatic condensation of the Bible, “’The Greatest StOry Ever Told,” published in 1949, was widely serial! ;ed in newspapers and magazines. I . r ' 1 — “ Hearing Tuesday On j Appropriation The township school in Genevphas requested $2,0&0 in additions!? appropriations for emergency epre of the school building. . The state board of tax commis- ! sionerf |wfll hold a hearing in the ; matter bn May 27 at 10 a m. in * the county commissioners office.

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Veterans Memorial Services Sunday . All war veterans are urged itq attend annual memorial services, which will! be held Sunday mornihg at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, with the Rev. John E. Chambers, pastor, delivering the sermon. Members of the American Legicin, its auxijiary and junior auxiliary, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and auxiliaries, and the Disabled American Veterans and auxiliary are asked to meet at tHe Legion home at 10 o'clock (tomorrow morning to go to the church in a body. Leaders Meet To Complete German Pact Western Big Three Foreign Ministers Meeting In Germany Bonn, Germany, May 24. —i(UP)4— The western big three foreign ministers met today under heavy guard to complete a west German peace treaty which may touch off a new Berlin crisjis and other Communist retaliatory measures. U.S. secretary of state Detin Acheson, British foreign secretary Anthony Eden and Freqch foreign minister Robert Schqman planned to call in west German chancellor Konrad Adenauer after discussing the treaty among themselves. \ The throe ministers and Adenauer hoped to settle the last three minor issues 'connected with the treaty—officially known, as a peace contract—in time to sign it on ■schedule in the senate chamber of the* German parliament building Monday. r Still td be worked out were the Official? title of the treaty,*its effective date, and the status of Belgian and French troops in Germany before their incorporation into a projected European army. • Camnpmist leaders have callqd strikes and demonstrations throughout western Germany to protest the treaty. The Red regime in east Germany has begun raising an army and has been muttering threats of qivil war in retaliation. Western authorities in Berlin reported omihoys sigps of a possible Soyiet attempt to renew the 194j849 blockade of western Berlin, Tpe Russians in the past two days haye closed five of the IP highways used to ferry supplies across the Soviet zone between western (Germany at)d Berlin. \ However, the five closed all are secondary highways used only by German traffic. The auper-highwAy between Beilin and Helmstedt, usted by both alin'd arid German traffijc, is among the five arteries still opeh. Although Communist demonstrpt|dn».tAgainst the peace pact were threatened, west Berlin police said (Turn To Pace Six) i- • H 4 ' Church Conference Will Close Sunday Methodist Pastors Will Be Appointed The Rev. Samuel Emerick, pajstqr of the* Mrst Method st church, is a member of several of the important committees r at the Nort|h Indiana Meithd di s t meeting in Elkhart. : > The conference will Adjourn tomorrow with thte appointment 6f pastors. ; ■Rev. Emerick was elected a member of the board oif missions And church extension for a fouryear term. He also was elected (o the committee on conference relations, and is a member of tpe district committee oh qualifications of ministers. J' The Rev. W. P ( .- Thom of Gjeva is a member of the committee of the board of temperance. Laymen from this city named to committees are: Fred Busche and Lowell Smith, members of the board of lay activities. Qusche was also elected a member! of the com- ' mission on town and country work. Dr. Light, a former pastor of the Decatur church, recognized at the conference as the oldest member in point of service. He is the hplder of the Bitehop Fred B. Fisher cane, a syrpboj of his long service to the conference. Dr. H. R. Carson of Muncie, a former Decatur Methodist pastor, now the secretary of the preachers’ aid society, reported pet earnings of $33,681.11 for the year. Dr. Carson reported total receipts pf $475,792.43 in the ministers’ fund. Dr. Carson was re-elected general secretary of the society.

Defiant Reds “Show” New Commander 1 L £ mb W - IF’’i & Ab *■*

AS GEN. JAMES A VAN FLEET (right-below) goes over a topographical map of bristling Koje Island with the new commanded, Brig. Gen. Haydon (Bull) Boatner, a defiant Communist prisoner In one of the compounds forcibly prevents a fellow captive from esc&i> ing through barbed-wire surrounding the prison arbas. The PO>jV on the ground apparently tried-to reach newsmen who have been barred from talking with inmates. Meantime, 'POW’s continued their 'bayonet drill with sharpened tent poles as UN forces concentrated on the trouble spot. \

Five American Jets Lost In Air Combat i' p ' Seven Other Planes Lost During Week *Seoul, Korea,: May 24r-i-(U>P) —• Russian-built Communist Mig-15s shot down five American jets in air combat this week while losing four pf their won. The sth air force said it probably was the first time ip i the Korean war that the Communists had outfought tire Americans, who usually have‘ an 8 to 1 edge. A spokesman said- he had',‘not been able to comb all files but that he was “quite certain” the Americans have always had the upper hand. America’s newest ace, Col. Harrison Thyng of Pittsfield, N. H., said in Tokyo that the Red pilots recently have been unusually aggressive and skillful. He said he and other allied pilots believed there are German and Polish adventurers in the enemy planes. , , ■ i Migs downed jhree F-86 sh'bre jets, America’s best combat fighters. and two F-84 thunderjet fight-er-bombers. The sabres knocked down four Migs and damaged four. The allies a lost severi other planes during the week. Two F-84s and two hit by enemy anti-aircraft, ohte F-84 wate kpock(Tum To «txi Truck-Car Collision Claims Fourth Life Indianapolis, May 23 — (UP) — Lillian Lundy, 17, Indianapolis, died yesterday of injuries sustained in .a truck-car collision on U.S. 421 near New Bethel May 5 in which; tltree other persons were killed and two others seriously hurt. Welfare Tax Rate Decline Forecast Indianapolis, May 24 — — The Indianat state welfare department today forecast a possible ’decrease in welfare tax yates next year. ’ ' ■ William R. Stprnett, department statistician, said downward trends in public assistance probably will continue except in counties where the employment picture has changed drastically. Sterrett told a meeting of the welfare board decline probably will be slower than during the past 18 to \26' months.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, May 24, 1952.

INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy with an occasional shower or thunderstorm tonight and Sunday Continued warm and humid except not quite so warm northwest Sunday. Low tonight 5868. -High Sundav RO.RS. / [ I '■ All Cancer Society ■ ' f • ;V Officers Reelected New Directors Are Named Frday Night \ Three dictors, Hugh drews and Dr. Louis Raymond of Decatur and Simon Schwartz, Berpe, and a new vice-president, Dr. Arthur Girod, were named by the {Adams county cancer society for ihe 1952-53 term and all other directors and officers were reelected at the annual meeting held Friday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs/ Roy Kalver. ' \ ' Officers named by the society include: President, Roy Kalveri vicepresident, Dr. Arthur Girod; vicepresident, Mrs. James Burk; secretary. Mrs. C. I. Finlayson; treasurer; Theodore Graliker; publicity director, Dick Heller. Advisory council members are: Dr. John darroll, Dr. Myron ijiabegger, Berne; Dr. Louis Raymond, Dr. Harold Devor, Thurmlan Drew, Hugh Andrews, Max Schjafer; Robert Holthouse, Kenneth Hirschy, Earl Fuhrman, Simon Schwartz, Berne; Mrs. Raymond Kohhe, the Rev. W. Feller apd Mrs. Roy Kalver. r Dri. Girod was named vice-prtes-ident, ' succeeding Dr. Harold Zwick, by virtue of being president of the county medical society. Plante were made for a more ex-, tensive educational program in the south half of the county and j>r./ Myrdn Habegger. Berne, outlined tentative plans for a series of educational movies to \be held in Berne. I Treasurer Graliker read the group’s financal report showing that- Ajams county'has met its state financial quota every year and also had a substantial balance for local work. The local society has assisted Ifinancially wil several cancer patients during the last year. The group also owns a hospital bed and wheel chair which it loans free of charge to cancer patients. Funds are raised each year to carry on the* work through the placing of cannisters in stores and public throughout the county and also by a contribution from the Decatur Community fund.

Settle Strike In World’s Biggest Refinery Today

\ Republicans Choose 51 Delegates Today Expect Eisenhower To Gain Some Votes ; Washington, May 24 — (UP) — Republicans in three (States today <’hoße 51 national convention detegates whose first ballot votes may • >be split, -among three or four pres'idential candidates. The 51 included 24 to be named lat the Maryland state convention ;24. in Washington state and three :in. Minnesota, j /in the major GOP delegate conGen. Dwight D. Eisenhower wik) expected to gain some ground iop Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio by (winning a majority of the officially uninstructed delegation chosen ;by the Washington convention. The Taft organization, which johee figured on a majority of the ‘Washington delegates, hoped to isttlvage some of the Washington {votes. Taft has slipped in that state during recent weeks. Maryland Republicans were expected to give their 24 national convention votes to Gov. Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin as a “favorite son” candidate on the first ballot. McKeldin has seem to be leaning toward Eisenhower, while , Sen. John Marshall Butler (-R-Md.) has piiblicly endorsed Taft, 'paft supporters were optimistic about their‘f'hanees wf getting a majority of the Maryland votes after the first ballot. The. Minnesota GOP convention elects th^ee' delegates at large to jsiipport former Gov. Harold E. winner of the Minnesota :GOP presidential primary last March. > AVith the national convention petes than seven weeks away, the .United Press tabulation of pledged and publicly committed delegates showed Taft 1 with «#B, Eisenhower 36b,: arid Stassen 22. To win the (Presidential nomination, a candidate must get 604 votes. d /Taft now is campaigning in iShuth Dakota, where he is matched against Eisenhower in the June 13 primary to elect 14 national convention delegates. | . Arthur Summerfield, Michigan , (Tnrx To Paco Six) ~■ ■ John P. Thompson I Dies This Morning Bluffton Attorney | Is Taken By Death John P. Thompson, 34, Bluffton attorney well known in this city, died at 4 o’clock this morning at the Clinic hospital in Hluffton. tDeath was attributed to complications developing from chronic ; nephritis. He becamp ill early tliis week and was removed to the ‘hospital Thursday when his condition became critical. ! He was marjied May 18, 1946, { to’Miss Paula Hakey of Decatur. The young attorney, a member .of the law firm of Gordon, Edris Thompson, was graduated from (the Indiana University law school :iri 1942 and had served as Wells .county attorney since Jan. 1, 1949. i Born in Bluffton May 21 1917, ihl was a! lifelong resident of that city; He was a member of the {First Methodist church, a past ex- ■ alted ruler of the B. P. O. Elks, a inember of the 'Moose lodge, the Kiwanis club, the Wells county bar association and served on the {board of the Bluton public library. Surviving in addition to his wife -ane one' son, John P. Thompson, Jr.; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. ;Perry E. Thompson of Lima, O.; i obe sister, Mrs. John C. BrachJ bill of 'Williamsport, Pa., and a ‘btepther, Thomas G. Thompson ot | Bluffton. , Funeral services will be sonduct- . ed at 2 p. m. Monday at the Thoma funeral home, the Rev. IE. E. Kaufman officiating. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 io’clock this evening. t

War Prisoners Knuckle Under To New Leader .Mi . Gens. Dadd, Colson Broken In Rank For Incidents At Koje Koje Island, Korea, May 24 — (UP) —Rebellious Communist war prisoners began knuckling under today to Brig. Gen. Haydon L. tougb new. commandant of the Koje Island prison camp. The Reds hauled down their Illegal, taunting flags and propaganda banners in violence-ridden compound 76 and eight other compounds, and a prisoner spokesman assured Boatner the captives now were "willing to obey orders.” Although several other compounds still flew the forbidden banners, they too were expected to fall in line. The Communist backdown came as army secretary Frank Pace announced in Washington the breaking to colonels of Boatner’s two predecessors as camp commandant for their handling of the mutinous .prisoners. / , The two demoted were Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd, who was Kidnap’etflby the compound 76 prisoners May 7 and held hostage for four days, and Brig. Gen. Charles F. Colson, who obtained Dodd’s release by granting the Reds a series of embarrassing concessions. Other developmnets included: 1. —Authorities disclosed belatedly that four South Korean guards and 11 Communist, prisoners died and ( 57 teix South Korean guards and an American officer were wounded in a riot in compound 95 on Koje April 10. This brought known dead in prison camp riots to 108, including one American soldier. 2. —One company each of the (British) King’s Shropshire light infantry regiment and the Royal Canadian regiment arrived on Koje to Reinforce an American paratroop regiment and other U.S. and South Korean units guarding the prison camp. Red prisoners began hauling down their flags after a meeting between Boatner and a North Korean prisoner leader, Col. Lee Hak Koo,, in a headquarters room. The meeting was at t>ee’s request. He wrote Boatner that the- prisoners were now "willing to obey orders.” \ i The long-censored account of the April 10 rioting disclosed that a jeep-mounted American maqhine gun quelled the demonstration which had begun when a South Korean guard fired into a group of screaming Red Queen Os Rites Here Sunday Night Service Sunday At St. Mary's Church Services of the Queen of May, honoring Mary, mother of Jesus and patron saint of the local parish, will be held Sunday at 7:30 pj m. at St. Mary’s Catholic church. 1/ . Miss Ann Smith, Catholic high school senior, will be Queen of May. Her attendants will be the Misses Marilyn Smith, June Kelly, Dixie Braun and Marcile Bentz. Included in the procession will be the members of this year’s first Communion class, the high school students and members of the 1952 high school graduating class, who will wear cape and gowns. The Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimtetz, pastor, and the Rev. Robert Contant, assistant pastor, will be in charge of the devotions, which will be Concluded with benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Noon Edition

Living Cost Index Is Edging Upward Uncontrolled Items Held Cause Os Rise Washlogton, May 24 — (tiP) — Despite price controls, the got* ernm ent’s cost-of-living Index keeps edging upward because of certain uncontrolled items in the economy, federal economists said today. Experts of the bureau of labor statistics said the substantial upward pressure on the consumer price index comes from jittienoticed items like recreation, transportation, and personal and medical care. t These items, classified as "mis>cellaneous,” give the index a "built In” Inflationary pressure, economists said. Coupled with anticipated higher food prices, the experts said, they should result in an, increasing cost of living this year, ' As of April 15, the index had climbed nearly four points in the past year to put it at 198.7 percent of the 1935-39 average. Food prices and the "miscellaneous” items were largely responsible for the rise. > ' Food and “miscellaneous” items each account for about a third of the dollar in drawing up the coat-oC-living yardstick. The remaining thlfd Is divided among rent (11 percent), clothing (12 percent), house furnishings (6 percent ( apd fuel, electricity and refrigeration (a total qf 3.4 percent.) The consensus ( of government economists is that the cost of such "miscellaneous” items as recreation (5.4 percent), liquor and tp>bacco (4 percent), public transportation (4 percent) and tmedical care (5 percent) will keefKrising slowly but steadily, to insure an upward creep in the index—regardless of food prices. But they also look for an increase in food prices. Prices of fresh fruits and vegetables, I which (Tern To P»ce Six) I Announce Memorial Day Services Here ■ \ .. Judge Myles Parrish To Deliver Plans for Decatur’s annual Memorial Day services, honoring the hation’s war dead, were announc- , ed today by the Rev. Otto C. Busse pastor of Gt. Paul’s Lutheran church at Preble, and general chairman of next Friday’s observance. I The obsrevance, the City’s only formal celebration of the May 30 hqliday, is sponsored jointly by the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts of this city. The ceremonies will open at 9 o’clock, with services at both the Catholic and Decatur cemeteries. Cars will leave the Legion home promptly at 8:45 # o’clock for the cemetery rites. The Memorial Day parade wiH start from the Legion home at 10 o’clock, moving north on Second street to Monroe, thence east to the river bridge,, where services will be held for the navy and marine dead. ' The parade will then return jo the Peace Monument for serjrices. Walter Koenemann will serve as parade marshal. Judge Myles F. Parrish of the Adams circuit court will deliver the Memorial Day address at the monument on the court house lawn. Rev. Busse, a former state chaplain of the Legion, will conduct the memorial services and deliver the invocation and benediction. ■ j . \ ’ All members of the veterans organizations and their auxiliaries are urged to participate in the services. A The line of march will be led by color squads of both organziations and the Decatur high school band.

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Standard Oil Os Indiana And ' Union In Pact Ends Biggest Single Plant Dispute For . I Nationwide Strike Whiting, Ind., May 24—(UP)— The 25-day old petroleum strike at the world’s biggest refinery was settled today when the Standard Oil Co. cif Indiana and the Central States Petroleum union signed a for a 15-cents-an-hour wage boost. The increase will raise the hourly rate to approximately $2.25 t company officials said. Offloials of the company and union eame to agreement over important contributory clauses after an all-night session in Standard's Whiting plant. » Some 8,060 workers started to return to work at dawn to end the biggest single plant dispute in the nationwide oil strike. The contract included a number of individual classifications and rating changes along with revisions in the all important apprenticeship arrangements in the mechanical craft. Harry Fallin, president of local 106, Central States Petroleum union, labelled the’ settlement ate a "definite victory” for the unibj. Wage boosts of 15 cents an hour are effective immediately and will extend to March 1, 1954. They must be approved by the wage stabilization board, however. Retroactive pay of approximately nine cents an hour will be paid from Dec. 1, 1951, the contract specified. The settlement provides for shift differential of six to 12 cents an hour effective today. | ‘■Fallin said a major victory for the union was the clarification! of seniority clauses whereby employees will get credit for their services in all departments. He also said he was pleased to get the retroactive pay date pushed back to Dec. 1. Several unions had settled for a Jan. 15, 1952, date. "We eliminated the clause which called for no strikejs and no arbitration, so all-in-all we’re pretty happy to be going back,” he said. Plant manager J. C. Ducommun said distribution ot gas and Other - petroleum products from definery storage would begin immediately. Full scale production is anticipated within seven to 16 days. , He said employees will be called to work gs required to start in order crude batteries, pressure stills and the catalytic cracking units. Near Three Inches Os Rainfall Here Heavy RainfaH In Decatur Last Night 9 Nearly three inches of rain fell in Decatur hr the 24 hour period ended at 8 a.m. today, Herman "Hi” Meyer, local weather observer, stated. f The gauge recorded 2.9 inches of rain. It rained during most of the night and sewers were overtaxed. Many of the streets were flooded ’ because of clogged sewers. Farm fields were inundated, and the planting of corn has been delayed. \ Meyer reported the St. Mary’s at 5.70 feet. The stream was rising rapidly today and. may reach flood stage over the weekend, Jn view ot the forecast of more rain. Rainfall for the previous 24-hour period up jto 8 a.m. Friday was about one-quarter ot an inch, Meyer said. r Heavy In State ■ I, Indianapolis, May 24 —(UP)^ — Locally heavy rains fell over wide areas of Indiana in the last 24 hours, measuring up to 4.25 inches. The weather bureau reported Columbus had the most drenching showers. Thunderstorms and inter<T«mk Ta Pa«e six) ,!\