Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1952 — Page 1

I Vol. L. No. 274.

—r-t | - Crowds Cheer As Ike Visits Future Home [ - Cwl ~> r TJP' T' ) WJ. g£3B * JL*T I 5 X?* mHE **" ****-• •. • * bi . I ' -j' ' vsT w *TH THE WHITE HOUSE, bis hoftie4o-be for four years starting next January, in the background, President-elect Eisenhower waves from,the car that brought him to his change-in-leadership meeting with President Truman. The throng, that greeted him here duplicates the thousands that lined his route from the airport to give him the most tumultous Washington welcome in years.

Allies Repulse Heavy Attacks On West Front V" ' ■ j - ” ’ South Are Also Standing Firm On Central Front SEOUL, Korea UP-: — Allied troops hurled back heavy Chinese attacks on the U. Ft. main line on the western front today. South Koreans stood firm on. the central front against 4a rash of enemy raids apparently aimed at testing thejr defenses. , ", The Chinese staged three heavy attacks Tuesday night and early today against The Hook, a vital main line ridge guarding the western invasion route to Seoul. U. N. defenders drove the enemy off ,w|th bayonets and /fists. i South Korean soldiers fired a deadly rain of .rifle and machinegun bullets at Chinese troops stabbing at Sniper Ridge on the central front. The Red attacks were made on Pinpoint Dill and Rpcky ' Point. ' At 7 p.m. the Koreans and the J . Chinese were still shooting at Rocky Point at the eastern part of the ridge. The ROK’s called in artillery to help blunt the Chinese attack, i United Press correspondent Victor Kendrick reported from ths central front that 200 Chinese, leading pack animals, were caught in an Allied artillery barrage northwest of Sniper this afterriqop. He said American military ' advisers speculated the Chinese were having trouble bringing? supplies, to thVir troops gnd had: turned; ty horses for transportation. 5 , 1 ' The Chinese also, probed shellblasted Finger Ridgej jduring the day,, presumably in another test of South Koreati defenses. In the air, American Thunderbets attacked a large Communist „ military 'headquarters and an oli storage area 25 miles from the Yaiu Rivers leaving both targets in flames. They also hit troop concentrations near YOnan. j Screaming Sabrejets damaged: on« Communist MIG-15 jet when four;Sabres and four MIGs clashed "*35 miles southeast of the Sulho Reservoir. *] *b ’ , A platoon of Chinese—-about 70 Pinpoint Hill in mid»afternoo.n, then withdrew after a 20-mihute clash. The platoon/ returned at sunset arid fought for an hour and 10 minutes. The Hook is a long, rolling ridge; line shaped like its name northeast of the truce village of Panmunjom. just south of the 38th parallel It is only 30 miles from Seoul. The Chinese first attacked at 9 p.m. Tuesday. Pushing through minefield* and barbed wire. It took Allied soldiers three-. hours of closequarter fighting to break that assault. At 1:15 a.m. the enemy tried again, apparently under Orders to seize the hill at all costs. Again, U. N. soldiers drove the Reds back. The final attack began! at 4; jo a.tn. The Allies broke the assault in a 40 minute fight. After that, the fighting, became sporadic. ; S The last big battle on The Hook took place Oct 27-28 when 3.0Q0 Chinese attacked !u, S. marines .holding the position. The Marines beat off the attacks, heavy losses to the enemy who at one point breached the Allied main line. In the central and eastern sector of the front, the' temperature dropped to eight degrees above aero, i I ■ •> ?

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Decision Thursday On Witnesses Case ■I v • q I Judge Parrish To J Announce Decision Tomorrow the; case of the Jehovah’s Witnesses against the city board of zoning appeals will be decided by Adams circuit Judge Myles F.; Parrish. Involved in the case is tbap merq- law. Questions hajve : arise® as to constitutionality, discrimination and charges of that nature. . The principle of the accused, being innocent until proven guilty in the United States holds in: this action as' well as in cases asj serious as mqrder. That being (nite, the burden of proof has lain w|th v.the to prove the charges made. irhcoughout the entire litigation. th| religious grojjp has based its\ vase upon a foundation of a religious ,nature. They claim immunity of the- ordinance in question because they ar* ia religious group. Tsey said that the restrictive ordinance holds only for buildings other than those:of a religious nature,. They have called the ordinance an abridgement of freedom of religion. I They said that the refusal of the-city board of zoning appeals tq grantya variance to the > ordinance was “capricious and arbitrary.” They sought to show that the board of appeals discriminated against them by their refusal. On the other band, the' board of appeals has denied each rind every one of the ajlegqtions of the plaintiff, saying, the refusal Os the board was based solely on the merits of the ordinance, that of restrickibg buildings and not church buildings |n particular, td certain dimensions. The city maintained that the Church, if built. Would violate a offstieet parking portion of the ordi: ' nance and the frontage of the building would jut out too far into Mpn- ■ roie street, on which the disputed plat borders. \l, j. Following is a semi-chronological history of the case from the outset: Last spring the Jehovah’s Witnesses applied to Ralph Roop for a i building permit to build a Kingdom HaH ;on a plot of ground they purchased at Monroe and Ninth streets. - Hoop refused to issue the permit because he said it violated certain pacts of the ordinance governing off-street parking and the frontage (Turn To Pixr Eight) Christmas Hours Listed For Stores Christmas Opening Nov. 29 As usual, the Qecajtur Chamber of Commerce has drawn up a special sto|re hour schedule for the weeks preceding Christmas and up to ChHstmas eve. Chamber secretary Walter Ford ha* released the following schedule; (1) All store* to remain open every Thursday" afternoon in December, starting December 4. (2) Stores td stay open from a.jn. Until 9 p,m. every Wednesday in beceipbejr until. December 17, after which;all stores will retfiain open every night in the wepk until Christmas Eve. (S 3 On December 24, all stores are to stay open from 8:30 p.m. "until 5:30 p.m. only; has received a message that Saijita Claus will fly into Decatur on : November 29. He will be on display at the courthouse at 2 p.m. Ford reports thaf Kris Kringle will have lots of treats on hand for all the children who come to say hello to him. ? j » v n\\ . ■

Many Changes In Government Urged By Crah \ \ .j Drastic Revisions In State Are Urged By Governor-Elect INDIANAPOLIS UP — Indiana legislators prepared for a busy general assembly session today after hearing their governor-elect outline proposals for a drastic revision of state government. i V Chief among George N. Craig's suggestions whs the creation of a governor’s cabinet which -would take over the policy-making functions now vested in state boards and commission's. The cabinet presumably would be appointed by the governor and woiild be responsible to him. The Incoming Republican governor made his plans known at the closing session of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce’s conference. He suggested cabinet directors i>e appointed for highways, conservation, commerce, health, safbt.\-, state farms and prisons. ; “While I do not deplore boards, they should only be advisory. Responsibility should rest with elected officials,’( Craig said. , Other proposals included lowering voting age in Indiana to 18 and a requirement that all state officials take a loyalty oath. Craig also recommended repeal of the veterans’ bonus tax, with the loss in revenue to be madp up by borrowing from the state’s 370,000,000 surplus. I the administrative levelj, Craig proposed: . j ! 1. Expansion of the state board of accounts to place an examiner in every major state department. 2. Greater use of the “wealth of talent” in Hoosier universities and colleges. ! 3. Free access by the public to all state departments and their functions. 1 4. “Elimination of politics" from the adjutant general’s office through a new national guard program. y y .'I ■ 5. Expansion of “home rule” in which the state returns flowers usurped from the counties and Congress returns powers to the state. ■ Most of . Craig’s proposals would \. (Turn To Pa«e El*ht) - 7 “ T : Coroner's Inquest Scheduled Tonight. A coroner’s inquest is scheduled for 7 o’clock this evening by Dr. H. Paul Miller, Allen county coroner, into the traffic accident north of DecatUn Monday evening, which claimed .the lives of Alfred Zelt and Herman C. Mail and. The ( inquest had originally been scheduled tor this morning but has been delayed until this evening. Mailand Services Saturday Afternoon Funeral services will be held Saturday for Herman C. Mailand, of north of Decatur, who was killed Monday evening in the two-car collision in Allen county. ' Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 o’clock at the St. John’s Lutheran church, the Rev. ; W. G. Schwehn officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call \at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Thursday. i

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, November 19, 1952.

Eisenhower Discusses Legislative Program With Taft, Martin

i United States .4 Firm Against India Proposal Mounting Pressure By Western Allies To Accept Proposal UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP — The United States stood firm today against mounting pressure from its Western” Allies to accept India’s plan for ending the Korean war. A serious rift appeared in the making as a committee of eight countries met secretly' the third time in an effort to reconcile the Indian proposition with an American peace resolution Cosponsored by 30 other countries. The United States objects to. the Indian plan on the ground it gives nd assurance tb at prisoners of* war will not be forced to return to their homelands. \ V. K. Krishna Menon was scheduled to expound the Indian plan fully to the political Committee when it meets this afternoon. Both Poland and the Ukraine,’ previously listed to speak also, cancelled their appearances. Indirat-; \ing thtit the Russian-led Soviet bloc had not yet decided upon its line regarding] the Indian measure. of state Dean Acheson, fresh from his Washington polipy conference with Presidentelect Eisenhower and President Truman, and British foreign secretary Anthony Eden ( returned to New York today. It appeared probable they would meet privately in an effort to align a concerted front on the new proposed. i The Indian plan calls for a commission of four — Poland, Czecnoslovakla, Sweden and Switzerland — with an “jimpire” yet to be chosen, to supervise repatriation of war prisoners from demilitarized zones. Prisoners willing to go home would be repatriated and those posing it would be kept for at least 90 days, whereafter their fate would be turnrid\ over to a highlevel far eastern political conference, tentatively provided for in the Panmunjom talks. In two previous meetings of the committee of eight, U. S. ainbassador Ernest A; was understdpd to have resisted all persuasion to yield from the American viewpoint thkt the Indian plan offers the prisoners “only one exit” from the 'POW compounds —a re(Turn To Pa<e Eight) ; .j - ; William Hendricks { Dies This Momiijg Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon William Archie Hendricks, 78, retired farmer and lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 9:15 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been ill of a heart ailment since July. He was born ip Adams county Feb. 16, 1874, a Ison of John and Margaret Hendricks. His wife, Daisy, died Dec. 27, 1951, He had lived in Berne for the past five years. Surviving are two sons, Gerald Hendricks of Burr Oak, Mich., and Virgil Hendricks of Berne; one daughter; Mrs. Ruby Peabody of Monroeville; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and one brother, George A. Hendricks of Ga|nes, Mich. \ Funeral services will be conducted at p.m. Saturday at the Lobenstein funeral home and at 2 o'clock at the Methodist church, the Rev. Ralph Johnson officiating. Burial will be Ip the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral hoine after 6:30 o’clock Thursday evening.

*—■ ; (Police Patrolling Michigan Prison Prisoners In Riot i Over Spoiled Food \ ! JACKSOSr, Mich. UP — Guards bolstered! by state police patrolled riot-ridden Michigan prison today in the wake of a 2% hour uprising by 1400 angry inmatfts'over what they charged was rotten spaghetti: and salted coffee. * Noltody was seriously injured in the riot, which broke out in the prisoh dining hall late Tuesday iftarnoon, although a \ “flying squad*' of! 10 heavily armed guards -fired 20 shotgun blasts (over inImatest heads. : One convict suffered a minor scalp ‘injury when a flying dish struck him. • It was the third of mass violence since April among the 5,941 inmates of the I world's largeatwalled prison. Warden William H. Bannan. •called; back from a deer hunting ■trip >heii tjse riot started, said only “40 to men took port in damaging the prison laundry and ibarbetshop. Il ' I Thd others, he said, just “milled around” | The viol epee was touched off when an inmate screamed that the spaghetti was rotten and there was ’salt in the coffee. It was salted coffee that parted the riot last April.- | Assistant deputy warden William Johhson sampled the coffee after the flare-up and said it de/finitely' had been salted. It was not determined Who was responsible./ ■ t I r — Putnam Meets With \ Mine, Union Heads WASHINGTON UP —. Economic Stabilizer Roger L. Putham sum•moned John L. Lewis* and soft coal industry leaders to a'private meeting at p.m. c.s.t. today to “go over the record” of the coal wage case.; An aide said Putnam is not ready to “announce” a decision whether he will give the miners a negotiated 51_.90-a-day wage boost or back up tho wage stabilization board’s ruling limiting the raise to $1.50. ■ . ! ~i Vo|e Resolution To, Boost Wafer Rates Action Is Asked Os ■ State Commission ! City councilmen Tuesday night passed the resolution calling on th,e Indiana public service commission to inspect the records of the city Water department and set ah' increase |n rates in accordance With the evidence. ' In the petition to the commission, the city claims that: \hey are operating' at a loss; $78,000 exists dn bonds fbr the water treatment plant; the treatment plant has caused a rise in operating costs which can not be taken jcare of With the present 1 rates being charged; present charges are insufficient .to make a profit. “Wherefore, the city petitions the 'commission to hold a public meeting and determine what rates are proper” i : . Three ordinances were passed In approval of contracts in adjunct to the I installation of the diesel power plant, due for, arrival next 'month. -In all, $205,145 was approved for- contracts recently let. for construction work of underground. ducts; electrical: and piping and heating. Assurance was given that there would be “no conflict With the installation of the diesel • plknt through work connected; with I but not actually a part of the diesel plant. ' IN DI AN A WRATH E R Clearing and colder tonight. Thursday mostly I fair. Low ' tonight 32-40. High Thursday 40-45 north; 46-50 sooth.

—H —- Ike Ready For Trip To Korea Alter Parley President-Elect Is ' Briefed By Truman On Grave Problems WASHINGTON. tTP- —Presidentelect Eisenhower has all the bad pe.ws about the hot-cold war before Mftm today and may be able to depart flor Korea in time to spend Thanksgiving 'lvith United Nations troops in the field. The Pentagon has been alerted to be ready with air transportation when Eisenhower wants it He refused the offer of President Truman’s airplane. Tentative Haris to depart Thursday apparently have been abandoned. Security precautions will forbid announcement of Eisenhower’s new schedule. [ \ It was nearly four weeks ago that he told a Detroit campaign rally that he would go' to Korea, if elected; to seek an honorable end to the war. Candidate Eisenhower made it a matter of great urgency. Presi-dent-elect Eisenhower has some urgent political huddles on his calendar forthe next few days, but the urgency of the Korean situation has increased rather than lessened in\the past four weeks as heavier I casualties and bitter weather swell public < anxiety and hammer hard at combat morale. Eisenhower’s meeting here Tuesday with President Truman, and other administration policy-makers and the high Pentagon brass was in part a preparation for his visit to Korea. The larger objective was to brief the President-elect and his, aides on the general situation at home and abroad and to establish channels of communication' between the going and coming- administrations in event of emergency. The trend of the report to Eisenhower was generally pessimistic, the. United Press was Informed, especially about Korea and the situation in Iran. Eisenhower and his aides spent 50 minutes in conference with President Truman and his advisers after the two principals had 20 minutes together unattended. A joint Truman-Eisenhower statement explained -that the President could neither share nor surrender and the President-elect could not share nor assume the responsibilities of government until the formfTura To Pace Eight) Bowen Funeral On Friday Afternoon Mrs. Harry Bowen Is Taken By Death r \ Funeral services will be held Friday for Mrs. Edna Bowen, 49, of Wren, 0., who died at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital following an illness of 16 months. She was born in Van Wert county, 0., bee. 24, ,1902,| a daughter of N. I. and Katherine FrysingerKirabofe, and was married to Harry Bowen June 2, 1923. , . Mita. Bowen was a member of the Wren Evangelical United brethren church. Surviving are her husband, her mother; three children, Charles, Glen and Apne Bowen, all at home; two brothers, John - Kiracofe if of Ronan. Mont., and Lloyd Kiracbfe of near Ohio City, O.; and two sisters, Mrs. Clark Cully of Willshire, O and Mrs. D. C. Fegley of Ohio City., \ \ ’*l ’, \ • ! Services will be held at 2 p.m. EST Friday as the Wren Evangelical United Brethren chprch, the Rev. Donald Martin officiating. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. The body will be taken to the church at 12:30 p.m. Friday and lie in state until time of the services.

Fear Negotiation On Germany Collapsing No-Confidence Move Against Chancellor WASHINGTON UP — U.S. officials admitted gloomily today that the long negotiations to free and rearm West Germany are in danger of collapsing. f The diplomatic crisis was brought to President-elect Eisenhower's attention during his 'White House meeting with President Truman. . ' v' • Even as Eisenhower was talking to Mr. Truman, word reached here that the German . Bundestag had bluntly refused to debate ratification of the “peace contract” and European army, agreements next week. The vote, a virtual no-confidence move against Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, stunned American officials, including secretary of state Dean Acheson, who fear more delays may block German rearmament 'indefinitely. ,’ One ranking official said the president-elect will certainly have to give the problem the very highest priority next January if there isnJ’t a turn for the better soon in either Germany or France. Adenauer was sure he had the votes to get the Bundestag tor agree to debase ratification next week and to approve it. The United States was counting on this to encourage wavering France to fellow suit. | Officials here attributed the surprise reversal Tuesday fb FrancoGerman tensions over the disputed Saar territory, a constitutional eburt decision to hbld hearings on the legality bf the agreements, and a published interview with French foreign minister Robert Schuman Monday which Indicated France was in no hurry to ratify the agreements. Seeks Approval Os Sewer Extension I • ■ 1 ■ , . ; Petition Is Filed With City Council John R. Worthman petitioned the council last night to approve a sewer extensions accommodate section B of the Stratton addition, containing 70 more lots. The request was! pissed upon by the pouncil subject to the final approval of the state board 1 of health and city engineer }Ralph Roop. A petition “for the abatement of a nuisance” was entered by Tony' Meyers last night against William! smith, who operates a welding and jtmk shop on High street. Meyers said the shop was smoky and disagreeable and was lowering the value of real estate in the area. Meyers also maintained that the, junk shop started I within the tadt three weeks, therefore violating an ordinance stating a junk shop cannot be within 3po feet of a fee* idential area. The first 132 feet along street is residential, and the rest industrial. Smith's place lies in the industrial section but less than 300 l feet from the residential area. If however. Smith can prove his place was in existence before the ordinance was then he Is exempt from the ordinance. Smith claims his junk shop was there for the past 10 years, a long time before there was a restrictive zoning ordinance. Recognize Approval Councilmen gave official recognition to the approval given recently to the Porter-Homewood sewer by the state stream pollution commission and the state board of health. \ With the approval, (however, came a reminder to the city of the promise that was exacted from ft, on which the approval lies. Several months (ago, when jthe city began in earnest to formulate plans for the $100;000 sewer, the stream pollution Commission said the St. Mary’s river is almost at the point where further dumping of sewage might cause a pollution problem. They therefore stip(Tim T» race six)

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GOP Leaders Meet Ike In New York City Congress Leaders Exchange Views With Eisenhower NEW YORK, UP—Sen. Robert A. Taft and Rep: Joseph W. Mar/tin, Jr., today put before Presi-dent-elect Eisenhower in ’general terms a legislative, program for the 83rd congress. Taft and Martin put their Ideas on the legielative program into writing in a Washington conference Tuesday and presented their summary to Eisenhower in a conference kt the Commodore Hotel headquarters of the presidentelect. ' The Ohio senator and Massachusetts representative said they expected no detailed program to come from the meeting. Taft eaid no effort would be made to reach any definite agreement today, but that the purpose of the conference was to exchange views with Eisenhower. * Taft is. chairman of the Republican policy committee in the senate and Martin ie the prospective speaker of the house. \ ’Martin said they gave Eisenhower a list of subjects more or less certain to come up at the next session of congress. He said finance and economics headed the iistj Martin added Eisenhower would be expected to add his oWn ideas to the list. Neither Republican \ leader would reveal any specific subjects from the list they submitted to Eisenhower. Eisenhower’s first business session at his headquarters since the election produced a mass turnout of reporters and photographers who jammed the hallway outside the sikth, floor offices of the presi-dent-elect. Eisenhower, who arrived here late Tuesday from his Washington meeting with President Truman, was certain to get a lot of advice before the; day- was over. • Taft, chairman of the GOP policy committee, and Rep. Joseph W. Martin, Jr., R.-Mass., prospective speaker of the new house of representatives, were his first callers. Later In the Eisenhower will meet with Sen. Styles Bridges R.-N., H<, Sen. Alexander; Wiley, k-Wisc., and other key figures in ihe GOP. Taft and Martin will talk over the legislative program during their conference with the Presi-dent-elect. Presumably, too, Taft will discuss with Eisenhower the men the Ohio senator has recommended for the cabinet. Taft told a new conference in Washington Tuesday that he had -given Eisenhower some cabinet recommendations, at the Presi-dent-elect’s request. Taft emphasized that he didn’t know whether the men he recommended would be appointed. And there was no indication here that Eisenhower was rpady yet to make any firm commitments on cabinet -posts. Taft toM hie news conference Tuesday there were at least six legislative subjects which he expected to discuse with Eisenhow- y.' er, They were: 1. The budget, “the most Important thing;” 2. taxation; 3. the reorganization act; 4. wage-price-rent controls; 5. amendments to the Taft-Hartley act, 6. a proposed commission study of the role of the federal government in health, housw and social security benefits. In connection with the budget, Taft said he was sticking by hia goal for a budget of about $70,000,w0,000 in the next fiscal year and about >60.000,000,000 the following one. The present budget is $79,000,000,000 and preliminary estimates of President Truman’s budget for next year run to about $85,000,000,000.