Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 266, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 266.

SIOO,OOO Sewer Project Here Is Approved

Stream Pollution Commission Gives | Project Approval At long last the Way is cleared for .construction of the slo6,(|ftß sewer to benefit, thy entire northern Jsection of Decatur. Final approval u was given over the weekend !jby. the state stream pollution sion—(be final authority for sijjch construction—to “go ahead.”, I Mayor John Doan has called y special Informal meeting of the board of works and the city council for Wednesday bight at the cjity hall to discuss immediate plans. ~\ The city council must give approval to the sewer—at this stage, just a formality—after* which the bJprd rof works will take over the plan’s and call for bids. After the awhrd of contracts the city council agjaln acts with the passing of an Ordinance approving the in the usual manner. Ji t Already On hand is the SIOOJMo necessary to finance the 'aewef.X Sale of, bonds Was completed two ■X months ago with City Securities and Indianapolis Bond and Share, both of Indianapolis, putting upi the amounts • L In addition to the construction of a trunk sewer through the £a|e Os general obligation bonds—-whidh; has been done—a revolving sewer' fund must be created which wifi provide funds for construction. Jim-, provement and maintenance of; all sewers in the city. The revoltfin# fund will be created by a charge for tap-ins to all hew sewers and laterals, the tap-in fee to be established after the city engineer prepares a list of commensurate benefit to property owners to be serfey Mayor John Doan emphasized t<>day that it is of extreme importdnqe for Chose parties cr-tacerned With laterals off the main trurik tolfiffj j petitions so stating as soon as Bible, thus facilitating quick action . by the city engineer. - j ■: Parties interested' in laterals should circulate a petition and .file th* petition with the clerk-treasuu er, VernOn Aurand, at the city hail. Some petitions have already Beqo received. _ - > ? ; The benefit derived from any lapin or lateral will be calculated qn the basis of'square feet,of property. The city engineer has nrit established his basis of cost as yet but (this _ should be worked out soon, he Indicated. , J J’ ■ Alfter a list of benefits is prepared it will be submitted to the city council for approval or rejection-, and if approved a public hearing will be held so property owners as-, fected by such charges cad be heard prior to adoption of The route of the sewer remains unchanged from the route planned! at the outset of sewer talks: The sewer will extend from Eleventh street at Nuttman avenue and will run north through Homewood and the Central SoyaQo. area to the St. Mary’s river, jrfie terminus will be near the RiverI ciew Gardens site.. General obligation' bonds baye been sold in denominations pf SI,OOO each. The bonds will bi retired annually on the basis of $3,000 on July 1, 1953 and $3,000 each six months until January:!, 1959,;arid $4,000 each six months thereafter until January 196(7. Success of the sewer project marks the culmination of many Efforts to do the same thing in the past , . , with many petitions filed 'and susequently turned down. Thfe sewer marks a great step forward in the growth of the town, in the opinion of many officials n Decatur. . ' V As is well known to thosd Dechtyr residents living in the portion of Decatur there has never been adequate sewage serving thM part of town, and beside, jail sewers In the city are overloaded so .some extent. This situation may (•be traced directly to the trenqenjb 'ous increase In population arid building in the' last 10 years. Iri the opinion of officials the new sewer will take a great load off the seW* 1 ers now existing, and of course, 1 will relieve the many- troubles which accompany an overloaded sewer. . ' 4

Test New Equipment ; ;? On City Fire Siren L A fire was not indicated because .of the sounding of the fire siren at approximately 9 o’clock| this morning, merely the testing of new equipment. A fire department spokesman said today that an automatic signal controller was installed to fluctuate the fire alarm to take the place of a fireman doing the job. j w ' J I

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Anchor Hill Is Recaptured By Allied Troops Strategic Eastern Front Hill Retaken By Allied Soldiers SEOUL. Korea. Tuesday UP — Allied •_ infantrymen fighting with grenades, bayonets and rifle butts Monday recaptured strategic Anchor' Hill on the extreme eastern after losing i(t briefly to a LOOdnian attack by troops of lhe revitalized North Korean army. Tso hundred Chinese troops, who for tnonths have carried the brunt of the fighting while the North Korean army was being renewed, late ! Monday attacked Porkchop Hill jon the western front northwest; of Yoqchop. Upited Press war correspondent Fred Painton reported’ from the sector that Allied troops were “fighting with every weapon they have to hold the hill.” The Reds, struck in darkness against four jhills in the Anchor sector, 40 miles nor(h of the 38th parallel, after a 4.000-round artillery barrage from heavy guns apparently shifted secretly from the recently blazing Iron Triangle area on the central front. There was little action elsewhere oh the 155-mile ground frqnt, but U. N.\ fighter-bombers \hajnmered Chinese artillery positional in the Triangle Hill sector. Communist artillery fire in the sector has fallen off sharpljr. Anchqr Hill is just south of Kosong. an important Communist supply center three miles Inland from the Japan Sea on the main coastal north-south rwad and rail : route. \ , jp j A long-range rifle fight Wais still In progress in the area late Monday J night. | ! J. Increase Korean Army . \ PUSAN, Korea UP — South Korea’s defense minister sajd today negotiations are underlay With the JJnited States which will give the • Republic nf Korea an “astoundingly. greater" army within the riext year. . ; • y Lt Gen. Shinn Tae Yupg said part of the program already has j been mapped out. I “Ah extensive program to 1 strengthen the Republic’s armed forces is under negotiation with the United States, Shinn told United Press Correspondent; (Turn T® Pnjce Five)

Tuberculosis Clinic In Decatur Thursday The Adams county -tuberculosis Association will hold its regular tuberculosis clinic Thursday at the K. of P. home, it was announced today by Mrs. W. Guy Brown, -secretary of the organization.'. The hours are 10 S.m. to noon, and 1 p.m. to 3 p.Qi. -i . Appointments are by referral only, that ie those who wish to attend the clinic, and receive aid from Dr. O. T. Kidder of the Irene Byron saniiorium, tfjust be referred by their own lodal doctors. Time is still left toj accomplish -this. Four tysyes each year the Clinic is held. The November session makes the last one for this year. The activity is supported from the sale of Christmas seals each year.

Demands Probe Os Air Force Contract Demands Contract Os Kaiser Investigated WASHINGTON, (UP) — Sen. Styles Bridgea-fired the first postelection Republican blast at the defense department today by demanding investigation of an air force contract with Kaiser-Frazer Corp, for C-. 119 Flying Boxcar cargo planes. The New Hampshire Republican, who is slated to be chairman of either the senate armed icea or appropriations committee in the next congress, served notice there will be a double-bar-reled congressional inquiry into the “excessive costs” of the Kai-ser-Frazer contract. The point of the investigations. Bridges said in a statement, will be to determine why Kaiser-Fraz-er has a $189,952,519 cdn-tract to build 159 of the cargo planes at a cost df $1,200,000 each while the Fairchild Engine arid Aircraft Co. is building the sa4e planes for $260,000 each. Bridges said he Ims asked the preparedness subcommittee of the armed services committee to investigate the “disparity” in costs. The senate. Republican leader said Fairchild, which developed the C-119, has offered to fill\the government’s entire requirements for the plane. But he eaid the air force awarded a “cost plus fixed fee” contract to Kaiser-Frazer for the plane which “figures to !?ost the government nearly $150,000,00Q more than if the same contract had been awarded to Fairchild." ; A c Bridges disclosed that he asked air force secretary Thomas K. Finletter on Oct. 6 to withhold approval of the Kaiser-Frazer con,tract pending an investigation by the preparedness subcommittee. The “gist” of the air force reply, he said, “appears to be that Kaiser-Frazer has had no experience in the aircraft industry and necessarily undergo large \ (Tur® To Page six)

Will Install New Pasler Here Sunday To Install Walther Next Sunday Night Installation services for the Rev. Ray J. Walther, new pastor of the First Presbyterian church here, will take place next Sunday night at 7:3d o’clock at the church, it was announced at the Sunday services of that Church. Rev. Walther delivered bls first -sermon as a Decatur pastor Sunday morning. The Walther family came here last Thursday from Tipton, where the new local pastor had previously been located. Five paetors of the Fort Wayne Presbytery will take part in the installation services next -Sunday which will officially establish the church and pastor relationship. They include the Rev. John Meister, the Rev. Robert McDaniel and the Rev. William J. Ratz, all of Fort Wayne; the Rev. D. R. Hutchinson, Huntington, and the Rev. W. W. Wimberly of Wabash. Rev. Walther succeeds the Rev. \A, C. E. Glllander, who resigned several months ago to accept an Indianapolis Presbyterian pastorate.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, Norember 10, 1952

Vishinsky Says Korean War Is Military Fiasco For The United States

Senator Lodge Is Ike's Envoy To White House -n ■■ 1 Detroit Banker To Budget Bureau As Eisenhower Aide AUGUSTA, Ga. UP — Sen.Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachu-i setts and Joseph M. Dodge, a De-, troit banker, took over today the preliminary details of easing, the Truman administration out q 4 Washington and replacing it witli that of Dwight D, Eisenhower. President-elect Eisenhower named v the two men Sunday—Lodge as. his chief liaison man with the outgoing administration and Dodge a< his personal envoy to confer with budget officials. t The assignment given Loage re* fleeted the strong probability that Eisenhower would give him a top government post. He has been mentioned frequently for secretary of defense. Dodge’s assignment! however, was not regarded As a sure ticke| to a cabinet post, aB though the nature of his chore fo4 Eisenhower naturally pointed td the budget bureau. j Lodge and Dodge were without authority to participate in any pols icy decisions of the Truman ministration. »But they were enU powered to sit in on high-level pol-i icy conferences and report back immediately to Eisenhower. Lodge, who was whipped tor re| election by congressman John F| Kennedy last week, played an en| ergetic role in helping Eisenhbweil get the GOP nomination and in subsequent Dodge, 63| once served as economic advised to Gens. Douglas MacArthur, Lui cius D. Clay and George Marshall. « Lodge, Dodge and other GOI} bigwigs conferred at length late (Turn T® Pane' Five)

Robert W. Marbach | ■ 1 •. . t Is Taken By Death j I Funeral To Be Wednesday Robert W. Marbach', 59, of 917* Hanover street, Fort Wayne, die 4 at 9:45 o’clock Sunday morning at St. Joseph’s hospital' in that city following an illness of four years, He was born in Decatur June 25, 1893, and had lived in Fort Wayne for a number of years. Surviving are his wife,, Verla; two sons, Waldo Marbach of Decatur and Louis Robert Marbach.j serving with the U. S. navy\at Nor-; folk, Va.; two daughters, Mrs. Delia Brodbeck and Mrs. Betty Both of, Decatur; eight grandchildren; three brothers, Adolph; Fred and Gerhart Marbach, all of Decatur, and three sisters, Mrs. Marie Welland, Mrs. Louis;? Grote, both of fyecatur, and Mrs. Ruth Sei king of Lake Everett. Funeral services will be conduct ed at 12:30 o’clock Wednesday after* noon at the C. M. Sloan & Sons funeral home in Fort Wayne, with burial in Greenlawn memorial cemetery in that city. Friends may call at the> funeral home untii time of 'thi? services. U |

Nine Souths Leave For Army Service i■ \ 1 Nine Adams county young men left Decatur th|e morning for Inddanapolis and -active induction into the nation's armed forces under selective eevlce. | Members of the contingent were Jack Edward Harker, William Kamman, Merlin Eugene Bixler, Patrick Roger Case, Robert Joseph Dick, Ramon Dee Marvin DeWayne Watkins, Hilbert Hugo Thieme, Claude Edward Foreman.. Selective series officials also stated that the Decatur office will be closed all day Tuesday, Armistice Day-

Suggest Changes In - •* * State Tax Structure ; ■■ 4 ■ \ ■' Recommendations By Stddy Commission INDIANAPOLIS UP .4- The Indiana* tax study* commission todpy r recommended six measures to cut taxbs and urged that no new majbh state taxes be levied “at this title.’’ * I The recommendatlbM W|ll be submitted to 1953 Math legislature. In iti| 169-page report, the commission: alsb recommended four measures which would slightly increase |ax or license payments of' special Jgroups, and nine qther recommendations to seek more revenue fropi present tax laws:through improved administrative procedure. Principal tax cuts recommended were elimination of the present slate tax on property, amounting to 15 on each SIOO of assessed value, «|nd elimination of the $1.50 state p(|ll tax. L of the state property tax woijld decrease state revenues some' $5.800,000 a year. Dropping the: poll tax would cost the state another; ssoo,ooo annually, the commission, said. \ The* jl-member commission also WOmpFnded elimination of the gross iricome tax on excise tax on alcoholic beverages and “tnodiftyation” ofJlicense fees on cha|n stores. Unde| the recommendations, revenues would be increased by limiting exelnption from gross income tax ;bf groups such as labor organizations! cooperatives and churches to contributions and fees, elimination pf s free hunting and Ashing licenses* for war veterans, and payroll deductions of state gross income of all persons working in Indiana to chrb tax dodging. ' The also reepmended a flat license fee of sll for all passenger cars in place of the present $7-f 12 Scale. The commission -said the average fee is $20.61, and that most vehicles now fall into the sll \ ■ ( t TA Improve administrative prae, ttces in* the state revenue department, t&e commission urged adoption ; .of I a “bi-partisan method of employing personnel, to that already used by sotpe other departments.”

« I ' j I' l Juries Are Chosen For November Term I Circuit Court Will Relume Next Monday Today being the last Monday before the opening of the November term b| the Adams circuit court, jury commissioners Ed. Berling and Frink, Rowley chose the following panels to serve on the petit jury ant the grand jury. The Grany jury: Reinold F. Sauer, hoot; James A. Michaels, Monroe; Harold .Mattox, Geneva; Harry fc- Johnson, Berne; Thurman : ,E.j Charleston, Jefferson; Elmer Byerly, French; Benjamin Eichena|ier, Decatur-Root; Clinton V. Hart, Washington; James L. McC’ibgg, Decatur; Alfred Buuck, Preble ;JWilmer Beer, French; Clinton V; Bubach, Hartford. , The Petit jury: Preston L. Pyle, Genevai Howard W. Fox, Berne; Robert 'Lehman, Jefferson; Orval L, Hicks, Decatur-Root; John A. Kintx, Washington; Jesse Plasterer,' Deeatur; Edward W. Cook, Preble;; Roger J. Kaehr, French; Harold ;J. Fields, Geneva; Vera M. Decatur; Carl E. AmatuU;' Jefferson; Charles F. Burkhart, /Blue Creek; Albert F. Dick, Kirkland; Floyd Engle, French; J. Schmitt, Dedatur; Samuel E, Haggard,, Blue Creek; Clifford A. Heyerly, Kirkland; Ralph J. Roop, Deeatur; Rolen Ross, Decatuifßoot; Edgar Ehlerding Preble;! Daniel Ff Grile, Geneva; Alpha E. Chew, [Geneva; Kennet Reed,- Harold A. Moser, French. ; • _ •-O I • ’ . . H" ■ • :

Labor Leader Phil Murray Dies Sunday CIO President Dies Os Heart Ailment In San Francisco ' \ . PITTSBURGH UP — The body of CIO President Philip Murray was flown today toward Pittsburgh, where union leaders gathered to pay final tribute to one of the labor tmoveunept’a most powerful figures. Murray, 66, died early Sunday of 1 a heart ailment iri the Mark Hopkins Hotel atop San Francisco’s Nob Hill. He had been ill more than a year but only last Tuesday joked about a rumor that he had died. His death occurred only eight days before the scheduled opening at > Los Angeles of the C|O’s annual convention, whose delegates now must choose his successor. President Truman, top labor leaders and officials of the steel industry with wkom Murray struggled in behalf of the United Steelworkerß, which he also headed, joined in mourning his death. Mr. Truman, in a message to Muray’s widow, said his “contribution to our contemporary life was extraordinary.” Benjamin Fairless, president of U. S. J Steel said the riation “has lost a great citizen as well as a great labor leader.” ■p An airliner left San Francisco with Murray’s body at 9, o’clock Sunday night midnight for Chicago, where the casket will be transferred to a Pennsylvania railroad train due to arrive here shortly after midnight. Finril rites for the soft-spoken, Scottish-born' coal miner who worked his way from ti|e pits to one of the highest union offices Will be held Thursday. Burial at St Anne’s cemetery will follow a requiem high mass. Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin headed the list of honorary pallbearers which included almost a dozen U. S. senators and congressmen and the nine CIO vice presidents who make up the CIO executive board. Murray and his wife. (Tura T® Page Five)

Ernest Zelt Dies At New Haven Home Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Ernest Zelt, 82, died at 5:40 o’clock Sunday evening at his home on Seiler road near New Haven, following an illness of two weeks. He was born in Arcadia but had lived in Adams township, Allen county, for the last 79 years. He was a farmer and also operated a dairy from 1911 to 1932. Mr. Zelt was a. member Os the Martin Lutheran church. He and his wife,. Carolina, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary five yeays ago. Surviving in addition to the wife are one daughter, Mrs. Walter Werling of Fort Wayne; seven sons, Amandus J. Zelt of Decatur, Alfred Zelt of near Decatur, Paul, Karl and Ervin of New Haven, Walter of Waynedhle and Ernest, Jr., of Gladwin, Mich.; 32 grandchildren; three great-grahdchll-dren; two brothers, Fred and William of Fort Wayne, and one sister, Mrs. George Dudenhoefey of Fort Wayne. | Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at theHarper funeral home at New Haven and at 2 o’clock at the Martin Lutheran church, the Rev. Otto A. Mafschke officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends are asked to omit flowers. They may call at the residence after 7 o’clock this evening.

First President Os Israel Dies Sunday Dr. Weizmann Dies After Long Illness REHOVOTH, Israel, (UP) — Thousands of mourners walked slowly today past the body of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, first president Os Israel. The famed Russian-born statesman and scientist who would have been 78 on Njov. 27 died -of a heart attack early Sunday at his home here. The heart ailment from which he suffered a long time was complicated more than a year ago by an inflammation of the respiratory tract and he was bed-ridder for six months. Weizmann will be burled here lit Rehovoth iri Citrus Twp. south of Tel Avlf Tuesday in accordance with Mis own wishes. Although Orthodox Jews normally are buried the day after death, Premier David Ben-Gurion announced the funeral was postponed to permit mourners to arrive from distant places. The chief rabbi granted special permission for the delay. The body lay in state on a black-draped catafalque beneath a high blue and- white canopy in the open before the home where he has lived for the past 25 years. Mourners filed slowly past to pay their last respects to the man fegarded by many |as the new Moses who once again led his people to the Promised Land. Long lines of soldiers formed an honor guard along all roads leading to the residence. Special mourners’ trains ran to Rehovoth from Haifi, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. i ■ ■ Mrs. Vena Weizmann, his widow, sat by his body which was covered with a black and white prayer shawl. His- only son, Benjamin, was enroute by plane from London. Another son was shot down over Berlin and killed while serving with the royal air force in World War 11. All government offices were (Tur® T® Page Five)

Smith's Term To Be Only For Two Years Prosecutor Office Up Again In 1954 INDIANAPOLIS UP I— Eight prosecuting attorneys elected in Indiana last week won a five-year term although 75 others will be in office only the customary two years, the state attorney general’s office announced today. Deputy attorney general Robert li. Christy gave this interpretation of what will happen as a result of voters’ approval of two constitutional amendments increasing terms of county prosecutors, treasurers, surveyors and coroners from two to four years: Seventy-five prosecutors elected last week will serve a two-year term, and the persons’ winning their offices in the 1054 election will serve four years. But in\ eight judicial districts, affecting 10 counties, the prosecutors elected this fall do not take office until Jan. 1, 1954. They will serve five years, their offices being up for election again in the fall of 1958. The amendment boosting terms of treasurers, surveyors and coroners was effective immediately when voters approved it. Therefore, persons elected to those offices last week won a four-year term. . z ' ' ' The eight judicial ) districts where five-year prosecutors were elected were Brown-Johnson, Elkhart, Faiyette, LaGrange-Steuben, Monroe, Sullivan, Vanderburgh and Tippecanoe. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair, little colder tonight. Tuesday fair, eomewhat warmer. Low tonight 20-25 north, 25-30 south. High Tuesday 46-51.

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Says Acheson, West Powers Ignore Fads Hits Insistence Os United States On Prisoners' Stand UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UP) —Russian foreign minister Andrei Y. Viahinsky declared lo&ay the Korean war is a "military fiasco” for the United States. •Speaking in the United Nations’ main political committee, Vishinsky accused secretary of state Dean Acheson, apd western spokesmen supporting him, of ignoring facta and directing attention to only one issue In the truce talks—the voluntary repatriation of ‘war prisoners. “The U. S. delegation has done this,” he eaid, “knowing in advance that this principle is totally unacceptable and therefore Im s been rejected. ‘'Consequently, any insistence upon it inevitably will lead to the collapse of the Panmunjotn truce talks and the further protraction of the war.” Viahinsky was reported to have a new resolution ready for presentation at the conclusion of his speech the teit of which ran 52 pages and, as Usual, was not made available in advance. But he gave no hint of any proposal in the early part of his delivery, which was confined to a review ofthe Korean war sprinkled witU invective against the U. S.\ * “For years,” he said, “the U. S. has been brutalizing tiny North Korea in its nightmarish dream of world domination and hegemony . , , it had hopes of enrichment since it looks upon was as a source of billion-dollar profits. “North Korea was a victim of aggression. We have produced Evidence to show it, and Lt has been unrefuted to date.” Vishinsky complained twice that “noise” was interrupting his speech and at 11:26 a. m., after he had epoken for 41 minutes, he refused to go on. Committee chairman Joao Carlos Muni* declared- a recess to determine the source of the “noise” and elim-, inate it French foreign minister Robert Schuman makes his first appearance today in a talk before the full general assembly. Schuman and British foreign Secretary Anthony Eden who probably will peak Tuesday delayed their arrival until the United States had chosen a new president. , Secretary of state Dean Acheson ipet Sudnay night with Schuman and- Eden, for a private talk that was described as “a short (Ton To rag®

Community Fund At 85 Percent Os Goal Solicitors Urged To Finish Canvass ■ I *•' .Report from Decatur Community Fund officials indicate approximately 86 percent of its quota has been met, with an excellent chance of reaching the goal of 110,003, according to a statement today by Earl Caston, Fund executive secretary. Wilbur Petrie and Joe Kaehr, drive co-chairmen, today urged all solicitors to complete their canvass and report at once. Cash contributions -to date total 16,478.88 and pledgee at the present time are $1,985.60, making a total up to date of $8,464.38. Officials report there are two smaller industries still -to report and several organizations have not *made their contributions. Several of the area solicitors also have one or two contributors to contact and these are urged to de so as soon as- possible in order that the drive may be closed.