Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 286, Decatur, Adams County, 4 December 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L No. 286.

Dulles Gets Foreign Policy Fill-In

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WASHINGTON from the U. N- in New York especially for their meeting, secretary of state Dean Acheson (right) gives 'his successor. John Foster Dulles a complete briefing on foreign policy and state departmenfr problems. \ t

Stevenson And Truman Pledge Help For Ike Pledge Cooperation With Administration Os President-Elect WASHINGTON UP — Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson pledged himself and President Truman tbday to cooperate with the Eisenhower administration “insofar as it patihle. with the view® of our party. ’’ - ■ . ' ' , The defeated Democratic presidential nominee discussed the future rede ®f the party, with newsmen at the White House where he is spending two days as\the guest of .Sir. Truman. The Illinois governor met with newsmen after the President’s daily staff conference. He reported that he had also spent about an hour with Mr. \ Truman in the President’s study Wednesday night. ■ He said he regarded the party's campaign deficit, which he reported at more than >500,000, to he the •No. 1 problem facing the Democratic party now. S’- I To questions about the role of the Democratic minority in the new administration of President-elect 'Eisenhower, Stevensok replied that. Mr. Trumap and he both agreed that party concerns “must be subordinated utterly to the dispatch of public business. ' - * pit is not our intention to influence ■Democratic members -of congress to obstruct, delay or in any way imperil the national welfare and the hew administration prograin insofar as it is compatible with the views of our party,’’ he said. '. "The,, instrument of doing this and of being a constructive and wholesome influence in\our public life will, of course, be 1 the Demo- ■ ci-atic leadership in congress.” he added. Stevenson reiterated that Denio, cratic national chairman Stephen A. Mitchell will remain in his post and said he did not expect any changes HO also repeated that he was not willing to spend in the forthcoming period money on ra,dio and television speeches—as titular head of . the party—-until the campaign deficit has 'been erased. Stevenson said he always believed that “good government is the best politics.’’ A political party, he said, must “subordinate pyrrhiC victories and (skirmishes to the long-term interests of the United ,Spates.” He said his party must recognize (Turn To Page Four) Halberstadt Rites Saturday Afternoon' Funeral services will be held Saturday for Thomas P. (Mutt» Halberstadt, of Pleasant Mills, who 4 was killed in a traffic accident east of New Haven Wednesday morning. ■ Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 o’clock at the Pleasant Mills Baptist church, the Rev. Ralph Johnson officiating. Burial will be in \ the Decatur cemetery. Military rites will be conducted. at the grave by the Willshire, 0.. American Legion post and the -Do* catur VFW post. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening. • : \

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEW SPARER IN ADAME COUNTY

Attend Meeting On , Conservancy Plans Adams County Men V Dissent To Plans I ■ h i Two carloads of officials of Adams county and Decatur attended a so-called farmers meeting at the DeKalb-county courthouse at Auburn last evening that was advertised as educational and for the purpose of dispensing information on the proposed northeastern Indiana- conservancy | district. \ Included in the Adams county .group were Mayor John Doan of L. E. Archbold, Adams dyrnnty agricultural agent, Walter of the Chamber of Coiphierce of Decatur, and Otto Hoffman. Adams county commissioner., -About 120 people showed up Trom all the counties involved In the proposal with the exception of Wells county. Representatives came "from Noble, DeKalb, Hteuben, Allen and Adams counties. The' possible reason the Wells county wasn’t represented was that it has a very Small stake in the proposed district. Chairman of the meeting was Eliner Kolermerton. director of the Indiana Fannl Bureau and a comthitted; member of the Fdrt Wayne Citizen’s civic association. It is reported that Kolermerton did not speak for or against the district hut kept his talk more on an aca- . (jemically informative leve|. After his talk, however,- Chamber secre-tary-Walter Ford grabbed the ball and informed the group of the sentiments of Adams county concerning the district. As soon as Kolermertori’s talk was finished, the Adams county group gave out mimeographed sheets, the text of which proved ■highly, disturbing to Kolermerton, who not approving ( of this brash display of initiative, advised Ford that he was not welcome >at the meeting. This after Ford gave an impromptu talk' of some of the dissenting points set forth in the circular. Several members of the Ad ams county grpup advised this reporter that not only were farmers present at the meeting but and men in the f|eld of staie legislation. including Anson Thomas, legislative head of the Farm \Bureau. ! . . ’• ’ ' , Here are some excerpts of the circulars given out at last night’s pieeting: “ Highly dangerous and undemocratic*’ is the criticism of the mechanics of the 1947 Indiana conservancy act levied by, the Adams county conservancy district information committee. (This committee had its first meeting at city hall Tuesday afternoon, at wtyich time the circular was drafted.) The committee further states that the proponent of the northeastern Indiana conservapcy district, naiAely the Fort Wayne citizen’s civic association, is asking that “we sign a blank check that can run into millions of dollars; that they are trying to" Invoke A T.V.A.-tike set up that will deprive us Os home rule.” r ,'. And then they go into the reasons for those aforementioned criticisms: ' , ( "(1) (Section 4) A minimum of 600 petitioners can force the issue before the court. \ (2) (Section 7) An objector must file his objections with the court and objections will be limited to a denial of the statements in the petition.” The circular called the threemam board of tho district a “die- - tatorship," for the'reason that it has the power of eminent domain (Turn Tn Page Seven)

Durkin Delays Visit To Ike Headquarters Labor Secretary Declines Comment On Taft Criticism \ NEW YORK, UP —Secretary of Labor-designate Martin P. Durkin, whose appointment threatened to end the political \ truce ... between President-elect Eisenhower and Sen. Robert A. Taft, cancelled his scheduled visit to EisMhower's headquarters (today. v-JBu There was no immediate explanation at the general's headquarters for the change in plans. Durkin remained in Chicago and his wife said he < would attend to “strictly confidential” business. He would not be available to reporters, she said. Cancellation of Durkin’s appointment resulted in one of the quietest days at Eisenhower’s headquarters since the election. Nt* other appointments were scheduled, either at y the general’s Commodore Hotel\offices or at his Drive residence. x Gov. Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, who will be assistant to the president in the new administration, and Mrs. Adams arrived Wednesday night. He was expected to spend most of the day at the general’s headquarters, working with Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr., Eisenhower’s secretary. Durkin, who became the new administration’s fjrst controversial figure when Taft made a bitter -attack on his selection, had! only kind words for Taft. The Ohio Republican’s attack on him was not believed to have influenced Durkin’s decision today td\ cancel his projected first visit to Eisenhower’s headquarters. Taft, in his first attack on Eisenhower cabinet appointments, had described the general’s selection of Durkin, a‘ Democrat who had supported Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson for president, as “incredible.” But Durkin declined Wednesday tp discuss Taft’s criticism. “Senator Taft’s remarks about my\ appointment were not a personal attack on me,” Durkin said. Taft, whose own recommendations for the labor post had been ignored, made it clear ai the time he criticized the Durkin appointment that he was not attacking the Chicago labor leader’s character. The Ohio senator, who had 1 failed three times to win the Re publican presidential nomination but joined the Eisenhowet 1 fofees following the GOP convention in Chicago last! July, remarked that Durkin had advocated outright appeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. Durkin said Wednesday, however, he hds "no intention of trying to scuttle” the law which Taft co-authored. Durkin also declined to discuss a possible fight by Taft supporters to prevent confirmation of his appointment. ' > ' “Don’t forget, I’m just a designated appointee,” he said. He promised he would do ’’everything I can to encourage unity between the CIQ and AFL.” 12 PAGES - V- •' -

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, December 4, 1952.

Wagfe Stabilization Head Resigns In Protest To Approval Os Coal Hike

South Koreans Smash Attacks ' - !» On Key Height Three Red Attacks On Pinpoint Hill SEOUL, Korea, UP-Parka-clad South Korean infantrymen rolled hand grenades down the ice-crust-ed slopes of Pinpoint Hill today, smashing hack three Chinese attacks against the key height on Sniper Ridge. The RQK troops fought through a rain of potato-smasher grenades and exploding satchel charges to recapture Pinpoint from the Reds Wednesday night. , It was the 18th time they have, retaken Pinpoint Hili since Oct. 14, when .the battle of the Kumhwa Ridges began. The Reds held the height less than a day, winning possession of it shortly after midnight Wednesday. . ■ Temperatures fell to a new low in the Sniper Ridge area of the central front, freezing thp enotk to a jagged dirty crust that ed the movements of attaekiM Red infantrymen. , > The Reds continued to pour infantry waves from their tunnels and caves of the Yoke on the northern tip of Sniper. But the ROK troops, again firmly entrenched on the crest, beat them off. * \. •

U. N. fighter-bombers ranged’ the ywhite-fcovered battlefront again at dawn today with the lifting of the cloud cover over the Korean Peninsula. Allied warplanes smashed for the second straight day at Red supply areas north of Kumhwa and Chofwon. anchor cities of the Reds’ “Iron Triangle.” V, \ “We leveled their strong point from one nnd to the other,” said lst\Lt. Kingsley G. Purton, Jr., Birmingham, Mich., after one series of kjw-level attacks. “In Cact» we almost blew the top off the hill.” \ Twelve \meriban Sabrejets tangled with 30 MIG-15 jets in a wild melee ofer MIG Alley in north-western Korea. One MIG" was shot down. \ B-29 Superforts attacked during the night, dropping 150 tpns of explosives on Communist troop and supply areas deep in NortiuKorea. One Superftfrt flight bohqbed troop' barracks and supply stabku at Taeyung, only 30 miles the Manchurian border. , * American Sabrejets ■, bounced •Tara To Haire .-.re> \. . • Ross Infant Dies At Hospital Today

Funeral \services : Saturday Morning Deborah Jane Roks, seven-week-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R6ss, of three miles east of died at 11 o’clock this .morning at the Adams county memorial hospital, shortly after admittance. The infant suffered from a choking spell Wednesday night. The child was born in Decatur Oct. 14, a daughter of Kenneth and Elva Irvin-Ros?. Surviving in addition to the parents are a sister, Sandra, at home; the\ grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Irvin of St. Mary’s township and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ross Os Preble; great-grandparedts, Mr. and Mrs. Fred . Ross of Fostoria. D„ and Mrs. Stella Bradley of Phoenix, Ariz., and great-great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Jeweal of Van Wert, O. Funeral services\ will be conducted at 10 o’clock Saturday morning at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. William Ensmlnger officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 o’clock Friday afternoon. • I

■■■■l'-* - ■■ . - - -r - UN Assembly Passes India's Peace Plan b French-Tunisian I Problems Studied WtTNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UP— The United Nations, its decks R cleared temporarily of the Korean ate, turned today to the touchy blem of French-Tunisian relars. % .he'general assembly passed India’s compromise Korean peace formula by a 54-5 vote Wednesday and instructed its president, Lester B. Petrson of Canada, to communicate; it to the Chinese' Communists and North Koreans and “ihvite their acceptance.” It had not been decided how or when the peace terms would be sent, to the Oriental Reds. There was little expectation that the Reds would accept the plan, but the U.N. hoped there would be no quick rejection of it.either.k There was general hope that the rejection — if it must come —would be delayed until the assembly has adjdurned for Christmas. The 60nailon world parliament probably Will quit Deo. 13, but that will not he decided officially until its steering committee meets this afternoon. The assembly would not come b(«ek into session until early Febrflary, by which time PresidentSect Dwight 1) Eisenhower s Repnbilcan administration wilt be firmly in power and the burden of taking steps to apply ihore military pressure in Korea would be removed from President Truman’s lame-duck regime. Its Korean debate now recessed to hwait the Communist reaction, the assembly’s powerful political committee took up the charge of the 13-nation Arab-Asian bloc that France’s relations with its North African protectorate of Tunisia constitute a threat to international peace; The Arab-Asian bloc presented (Turn To Page Five)

Hearing On Brink's -■< • y ■ ■■ f Robbery Continues Report Startling Disclosures Mad£ Boston UP — A federal grand jury resumed hearings ■ in deepest secrecy today amid reports that a gangster’s pretty young sweetheart and a convict “squealer" have made “startling’ disclosures to FBI agents investigating the $1,219,000 Brinks, Inc., holdup. Tight-lipped officials looked blank when asked whether the Stepped-up investigatknj was based on actual new information or* whether indictments were being sought in a last-ditch effort to get around the federal thrfee-year tute of limitations. It was learned unofficially that 20 additional FBI agents had entered the case. The Halloween-masked robbers—victims counted from seven to nine of them — could not\ be tried in federal courts after Jan. 17, the third anniversary of the nation’s biggest cash haul, unless indictments were handed down before then. * U. S. attorney-- George F. Garrity said he would appear today and “make a formal request that the life of the grand jury now in session, which expires Dec. 15, be extended to and including the.lsth day of January, 1953,* if necessary, for the purpose of completing -the investigation.” The jury took a day off Wednesday but observers felt this was to permit the FBI and Garrity’s staff to coordinate testimony already presented since Nov v 25, when this investigation began, or to develop new evidence. Ari official leaving the closely guarded courtroom Tuesday was overheard to remark that “Thursday should be quite a ‘show.” Later, It was rumored a “squealer” had offered to name eight of the 12 men who engineered the crime and gave him ajpuny share | ' <Ture Te Pace Five)

British Arms Program Cut Is Announced Defense Production Cut Announced By Winston Churchill \ LONDON UP,—Prime Minister Winsion Churchill announced today that Britain will have to cut back its defense production program for 1953 and must cancel oireduce some military contracts already placed. Churchill made his announcement to the house of commons. The cutback will particularly affect aircraft production, Churchill said-. Output of present military planes will be reduced, he ! said, while the government concentrates on introduction of newer and more advanced warplanes. Churchill explained that his government \has still not overcome the country’s financial difficjiities - < !'\ : ; A ; He sai4 that it understood its committanents under the North Atlantic treaty pact with the clear nnderstaading that the defense program depended on the financial situation. The defense budget for this year amounts to F 4,093,600,000 including 11,680,000,00(0 in defense production, ‘Churchill said, apd defense production expenditure for 1953 must not go above this year’s figure. * l

Any g( reater load, Churchill said, would faH on the engineering industry which must be the backbone of the country’s commercial export trade. He admitted that it will be impossible to solve the\detfense cutback problem by Spreading deliveries forward into future months. Britain’s economic position will be aided somewhat, he said, by the fact that it will be able to sell to fellow North Atlantic trea- t t;- organization countries, and other friendly nations, military equipment which will not only contribute to the defense of the free world but help to balance British expqrts.

Draft Board Sends ' ■ ' J !i V 1 Two Groups Today ( 11 For Induction; 16 To Examination ' \ ■ \ Twenty-seven Adams county young men" went |to Indianapolis today, 11 for active induction into the nation’s arined forces, 16 for pre-inductlon physical K examinations. The twp contingents were sent on one bus under supervision of the Adams county selective service board. One member of each group was a volunteer, and one transferred from a Tennessee board. Members of the contingent sent for active , induction were: Ifred Ralph Isch, a volunteer; Laverne Robert Gerber; Charley Edward Ripley, Ted David Lehman, Eugene Leonard Meyers, Virgil Leon Moser, Donald Lee Hammond, Carl Joseph Lengerich, Edmund Walter Louis Thieme, Richard Lee Baumgartner and Cecil Caldian Macias. Members of the contingent sent for physical examination were: Burdette Lee Custer, a volunteer; William Reichert, Donald Wayne Harvey, Louis Robert Rumschilag, William Edward Schulte, Robert Edward Harvey. Ralph Bryce Christy, David Louis Sheets, Qafl Franklin Thieme, Walter Daniel Mazelin, Raymond Eugene Velez, Max Ted Stucky, Elmer Joseph Smith, Manuel Mendez, Joseph Ray Jauregui and Roscoe Miracle, the latter transferred from local board 13. Tazewell, Tenn.

GOP Blundered On Labor Appointment Failure To Tip Off Taft Called Blunder r WASHINGTON UP —Key Republicans agreed today that Eisenhower headquarters made an “incredible” blunder in not tipping Sen. Robert A. Taft on the pending appqintment of Martin P. Durkin as secretary of labor. , They denied, however, that an open split had occurred between President-elect Eisenhower and the Ohio senator. The word “incredible,” used by Taft in blasting Eisenhower’s appointment of Durkin, was bandied about in GOP circles but in a different context. There was general agreement that the Eisenhower camp' should have given Taft notice «lthat he was being handed a blttei pill to swallow. One result of -the Taft blow-up, according to several Republicans who did not want( to be quoted by name, was to make it more probable that Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire wilt grab the senate Republican floor leadership to off a battle for the post between Taft and pro-Elsenhower Republicans. 1 There was a good deal of fingerwagging, started by Taft himself, in the direction pt Herbert Brownell Jr„ Eisenhower attorney gen* eral-designate and a adviser on cabinet appointments. Even staunch Elsenhojwer men said the usually suave Brownell should have passed advance word to Tift tfrat an (AFL official, who was a Democrat to boot, was being named secretary of labor. Taft’s friends said it was Brownell who got Taft’s Recommendations of two other men for the labor post and actually got Taft to do spade work on investigating the fitness bf some of those suggested for cabinet posts. Both sides were in agreement that Taft’s bUst does not mean V (Tarn Te ” Seven)

Hew State Office i Building Is Urged Working Conditions Te r med 1 n tolerable INDIANAPOLIS UP — Indiana’s “Little Hoover*’ commission today blasted wdrking conditions at the statehouse as “intolerable” and said the need for bigger and better facilities was 'J The commission's report said it] will urge the 1953 general assem-l bly to create an office building commission composed of the governor, four members of his administration, and senate and house leaders to plan a.* new state office building. ‘•‘A tour of inspection in the state capitol building discloses working conditions that would not be tolerated in private industry,” the report said. It said “the cost to the state due to inefficiency that results from poor working conditions is impossible to compute.” The commission picked out the 1 bureau of motors vehicles, housed In hallways of the statehouse basement,'as an example of adverse working conditions. It said heat, light and ventilation there are “poor.” The report also told of overcrowded offices, limited library space, and safety and fire hazards. ▲ building commission in 1946 found "great and urgent” need for (additional office facilities, the gropp skid, and "the necessity for additional space is greater today than it was in 1946.” The report pointed out Governor Schricker and before him, Gov. Ralph E. Gates, both recognized the need for a new office building, but nothing materialized. The commission suggested the state board of finance should authorize transfer of school funds\ to the commission “in trust for (Tara Te Page Seven)

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Cox Resigns In Protest To Truman Order President Orders \ Approval For Full \ $1.90 Wage Increase WASHINGTON UP —Chairman Archibald Cox resigned from the wage stabilization board today in protest against President Truman’s approval of a SL9O daily wage increase for coal miners and the whole wage program came to a standstill. Formal announcement of Cox’s resignation was expected from the White House later today. And en masse resignations by industry members of the wage board also were expected. Cox, along with industry and public members of the board, had approved a wage increase of $1.50 for John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers and said anything beyond that would be inflationary. p.... Meanwhile, industry members of the wage board boycotted today's meetings and called an emergency meeting for tonight either in Washington or New York to decide theiij; future course. It was expected that many, if not all. would resign. The walkouts would cripple the entire wage stabilization program in the waning days of the Truman administration. Meanwhile, industry members charged that the administration purposely held up Mr. Truman's wage-raising announcement until 6 p.m. Wednesday after industry members and industry representatives op regional-. boards had finished a meeting in New York.’They claimed the administration did this so that the industry members would not be together to issue an immediate statement. Mr. Truman touched off the revolt late Wednesday when he ruled that soft coal miners could get the full $1.90-a-day Increase negotiated for them by the United Mine Workers chieftain, John L. Lewis. Industry and public members of the wage board had. ruled in October that any increase above $1.50. would be inflationary. Mr. Truman said he acted to avoid pissing on “any major economic disturbance” to the incoming Republican administration—a clear reference to Lewis’ threat of a strike, if the full pay increase was npt approved. ( At the same time, Mr. Truman stated his “firm intention to continue a strong stabilization program” and asserted that his decision “would not have a serious inflationary effects upon wages and the economy generally.” Industry members of the tripartite wage panel called an emergency meeting today to review Mr. Truman’s announcement and decide whether to resign in protest. Roger Bassett, an industry member, predicted “Some, if not all, industry members will be inclined to resign.” He termed the President’s decision- a “fraud” on the American (Tan Ta Five) INDIANA WEATHER Cipudy, rain or drizzle tonight and over the north and east Friday. No decidedchange in temperature. Low , tonight 34-38 north, 38-43 south. Hlgti Friday 36-44.

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