Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 294, Decatur, Adams County, 13 December 1952 — Page 1

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Lay Cornerstone Os St. Mary's Church Sunday

■ - ■ 'I With : approximately 35 .percent of the stone \vork completed, the cornerstone in the new SBOO,OOO St. Mary’s Catholic church, northeast corner -of Madison and Fourth streets, will be blessed and placed in position Sunday afternoon at 3 o-clock by the Most Rev. Leo A. Pursley, auxiliary bishop of Fort : Wayne. 5 . The, Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Sei'metlt; pastor, who dug the first spadeful Os dirt in breaking ground for the? new church on March 12, will' beij in charge of the services. Pursley will give >a short sefmort; during the half hour program. | Expected at the cornerstone rites are thjp Rt., Rev. , Msgr. Charles • Felt.es and the Rt. Rev. Msgr, p. L. Monahan, dean of the Fort M£ayne deanery,, the Very Rev. Msgr. T. E. Dillon of Huntington and tli> Very Rev. Msgr. Charles of Fort Wayne. Among the clergy will be several former-assistants to Msgr. Seimetz and former Decatur men now mefrbers rtf the priesthood. They include Jthe Rev, Ignatius Vichuras, Gary; ;the Rev. Michael Vichuras, Bremen: the Rev.. Vincent Lengerichj? Elkhart; the Rev. Simeon Schmitt, Huntington; the Rev. i. Hessen Castle; the Rev. \ Robert Hbevel, Pierceton; the Rev. "kondzielafj Monroeville; the A. Phillips, Sheldon, and the R|v. James Conroy, of Victory Knoll£ Huntington, associate editor of Our Sunday Visitor. ■ JTho| Fourth QegreO of Columbus will form ah honorary escortlto Bishop Pursley in the profrom the Catholic school to F. j|. Wilhelm, Indianapolis, general contractor, and representatives of th® firms that have the heating and Numbing contracts, and hlec-

t trie wiring are also expected. > Since 1846, a church has occupied . the site of the modern Engt lish-Gothic edifice, which Msgr. i Seimetz hopes will be completed by [ Christmas, 1953. Os frame con- ; struction, the \ first church fdeed . Madison street in the Catholic ; square between Fourth and Fifth streets. The second church, a large brick structure, was completed in ■ 1873 and Was razed in February. ■ 1949. ♦ ' 1 Contracts for the , new church, > with rectory attached, were, awarded Jupe 11, 1951, but due to government controls on steel and other building materials, work\ on the building was not started until last 1 March 12. . The rectory wing, which faces Madison and Fifth streets, is near1 ly completed. Wayne M. Morningstar of Fort Wayne, superintendent for F. A. Wilhelm, estimated that 1 more than 95 percept of the ma(Tura To Pace Six) I ' , Church History j; Nudleus of St. Mary’s Catholic ■ parish formed in 1837. ; First Mass said in Decatur, in 4838? 1 First frame church built in 1846. Plans made tor new church in • 1865. ’ - I Foundation for new church completed, 1871. 1 New church completed, 1873. Centennial of first Mass, Aug. ’ 21, 1038. ' , Brick church building abandoned, June, 1948. \ Church building razed, February, 1949. . I Contracts awarded for new church, June 11, 1951. Break ground for new church, March 12, 195,2. Cornerstone laying, Sunday, December 14, 1952.

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Eisenhower Returns To United States As Plan Os Conduct Completed

’ r » . . " ’.■, - South Korean Troops Retake Little Nori Call Off Attack On Big Nori After Six Hours Os Battling i SEOUL, Korea UP — A force of "amazing" South Korean troops recaptured embattled Little Nori Hill on the western front today but called off an attack on Big Nori after pushing nearly to its crest in nearly six hour|s of hard, blpody fighting. Scrappy Republic of Korea infantrymen pushed up the icy slopes of Big Nori at 10:30 a.m. 7:30' p.m. Friday c.s.t. behind a curtain of accurate tank fire that ripped up several Chinese’bunkers. ROK commanders ordered the South Koreans to withdraw five hours and 45 minutes later. But the stubborn South Koreans still clung desperately tb Little Nori 200 yards to the south despite a counterattack by grenade-hurling Communists. The Red assault was turned back in 20 minutes by deadly fire from 50 caliber maehihegiHis and U. S. Patton tanks stationed on Little Nori's crest. United Press correspondent Fred Painton reported froth the blazing area that an Allied officer him lie considered the ' ROK's the “toughest little soldiers in the world.” Painton said one South Korean rifleman led his comrades i:o within sight of Big Nori’s crest before failing under heavy enemy* fire: “We were amazed at the unknown South Korean soldier's bravery," Painton said. “He seem-, ed to have a charmed life through mpst of the attack.” .Painton said the gallant little soldier, waving his men forward, followed within 15 yards of the tank shell bursts until he fell. The ROK's atop Little Nor) promptly dug in and started build-f ing strong defenses. It was the 10th time South Koreans had charged little Nori hill since the Reds seized it ea-rly Thursday. | -i Allied, planes meanwhile swarded over the blazing Yonchon sector at dawn to pound Communist entrenchments on both Nori Hills. Mrs. Schlaudroff ’\ " I'V L ■ ' . P t\ 1 Dies This Morning Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon v Mrs. Katherine Schlaudroff, 80, died at 4:30 o'clock this morning at her home in Adams township, Allen county, sik miles of Fort Wayne on Wayne Trace. Death was caused by coronary occlusion following an illness of. two ybars. She was born in Marion township, Allen County. June 24, 1872, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Lepperi and was married to John Schlaudroff Oct. 26, 1896. Her husband preceded her in death June 20,, 1921. Mrs. Schlaudroff was a lifelong member Os the. Emmanuel Lutheran church at Soest'. Surviving are three sohs, Emil and George, at home, and Edwin of Fort Wayne; three daughters, Mrs. Arnold Judt, at hoihe, Mrs. Waiter Saalfrank of Hoagland and ‘Mrs. Paul Krueckeberg of the Tillman road; and two sisters, Mrs. Gustav Buuck of New and Mrs. Henry Woebekking of Woodburn. . f Funeral will be conducted at l:30 p. m. Tuesday at the home and at 2 o’clock at the Emmanuel Lutheran church at Soest, the Rev. Otto Mueller officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral home to the residence, where friends may call after 7 p. m. Sunday.

■ „ T ' Bradley To Report On Eisenhower Trip Schedules Call On President Truman Ornftr N. Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, scheduled a call on president Truman today to report Jon President-elect Eisenhower’s ijispeefion tour of Korea. Bfadley, who accompanied Eisenhower on his three-day visit to the Koreah battleground, was to report so deputy defense secretary: William C. Foster. A Pentagon spokesman refused to say wjiether Bradley would relay to the President any conclusions or recommendations Eisenhower may have reached since he went to Korei in search jfor a , frpsjti approach toward solving the Korean stalemate. Mr.' Trfcman said Thursday it would be Eisenhower’s duty to report- to him if he found any practical solution to gnd the war. He characterized Eisenhowers trip as demagogic and expressed, doubt that the pre^vient-elect would come up with <ny P la n \to end the war immediately. Oh his Arrival here Fpiday night by plane.tJßradley had np comment on his Korean trip except to say that he had been “plenty busy” in Hawaii. .'Bradley and Eisenhower conferred there Thursday, surveying: the jfindings of their inspection tours', and talks with top military commander': in the Pacific. Returning with Bradley from the mid-pacific conferences were six bf Efsenhower’s top advisers: Herbert prownell, attorney gener-al-designee; George M. Humphrey, slated to be secretary of Maj. Gen. Wilton Persona, retj, military adviser io Eisenhower;! Gen. Lucius B. Clay, ref., a cltise friend of Elsenhower; Joseph Dodge, Eisenhower's . <«fs’ >»»«<» ox wjnx> Col. Doherty Named Adjutant General Succeeds Hitchcock lh State Position INDIANAPOLIS, UP f- Col. Harold \head, of the Indiana military district, Friday was state adjutant general by Gov.-flect George N.’Craig. ( Ct*aig, .who had pledged to take the Indiana national guard out of politics, i said Doherty’s appoint- 5 ment in keeping with his u promise,; “The only way I know how to keep oujp word is to appoint' someone without political background," Craig s|id. “Dohe|’ty has a fine background, both by-; training and experience,” Craig <gid. The national guard should seach "the maximum level of efficiency" under its new chief, Craig added: .1 He wjtl not take over as Indiana selective service director “at present,” Ddherty said Friday. By tradition. Jthe Indiana adjutant general and the state Selective service director are one and the same. Dohetty, who succeeds Gen. Robinson Hitchcock,, has spent 3| of his 5V years in military A native of Omaha, Neb., he ’ was. graduated from Shattuck Military College, Minn., in 1920. He commanded a field artillery battalion of the 25th division in Honolulu when the Japanese attacked .Pearl Harbor in 1941. Later during World War II he served 'with the 9th army in Europe. Fallowing V-E day he served sot years with th£ army of He then became an assistant; in the'RQTC program at Purdue University? He was assigned to Fort Benjaihin Harrison last year as chief pf the Indiana military district. s) —r—■ ■ ' . . Indiana weather Cloudy with occasional snow flurries tonight. Sunday partly cloudy except cloudy with. MOW flurrips extreme nortn. Low tonlght 18-24. Hign Sunday £B-32.

6.0. P. Leaders Turn Down Bid To MacArthur ' ■ '4l Congress Leaders Veto Proposal By Democrat Solons WASHINGTON UP — Congressional leaders turned a-, quick thumbs down today on proposals that Qen, Douglas MacArthur be asked to give the outgoing -congress his ideas on settling the Korean whr. > » ' Such suggestions wrere advanced by junior Democratic meihbers of the senate and house armed services committees. 'They met with a sharp veto from the leadership on groupds that any such action would be wrong in timing, place and principle. 1 There were hints that the proposals to ask MacArthur to come up Capitol Hill were not disassociated from a bit of political needling. But there were' 60 takers among the men who make the decisions in congress. It all grew out oL MacArthur’s recent statement that he had a “clear and definite solution” to the Korean stalemate and Presidentelect Elsenhower’s announcement that he would meet with MacArthur to learn'what the deposed fivestar general has in mind. This touched off an angry roar from President Truman who said he didn’t think either man had any plan in mind and that Eisehnower’s Korean trip was demagoguery. Mr. Truman said that if MacArthur had any ideas on the matter it was up to him to come forward at once and share them with the present administration. This touched off the proposals that he be called by congress. Sen. Lester C. Hunt D-Wyo. wired Chairman Richard B. Russell D-Qa. of the senate armed services committee that MacArthur has “no for withholding information from the joint chiefs bf staff or congress and that the committee should be called into extraordinary session to question MacArthur “at the earliest possible date.” Russell, who presided at the lengthy hearings and questioning of MacArthur after the general’s dismissal by President Truman 20 months ago, didn’t think much of the idea. Russell said it would do more harm than good and that a more logical course would \be for Mr. Truman tot “order General MacArthur to report to him or to tTurn To Pace Mx) James F. Bright Dies Last Night Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon James Franklin Bright, 08, retired railroad employe, died at 'll o'clock Friday night ;at his home two miles- south of Tocsin following: a heart attack. lie was born Dec. 20, .1883, a son of Joshua and. Sara Baurp-Bright, and yeas married to Celesta Gahtnan Nov.'-17, 1900. Mr J Bright was member of the United Brethren church at Tocsin. Surviving in addition to his wife are three sons, Martin L. of Sharrpp, Pa., Wallace H» and Gerald bright, both bf Bluffton; three daughters, Mrs. Earl Woodworth of Phoenix, Arie., Mrs. Wade Bowman of Zanesville and Mrs. Harold Blue of Fort Wayne; five grandchildren, and a sister, .Mrs. Bessie Mueller of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Pleasant Dale Church Os the Brethren in township, the Rev. J. F. Bright officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body is at the Jahn funeral home in Bluffton, and’ will be removed to the residence, where friends may call after 2 p«m. Monday.

Atomic Bomb Test Held In New York All Traffic Stops During Test Today NEW yoRK UP — One man was killed today when he refused to obey orders during the nation’s biggest atomic bon|b test.' ■) The noisiest city in the world becaihe the quietest after 579sirens touched off the test at 8:30 this morning. All (traffic stopped. Pedestrians were. (shooed off the . streets into shelters. The city’s broadcasting facilities were thrown into a special civil defense network. Fifteen minutes later the all clear sounded and traffic began rolling again—just as if someone had turned on a magic switch. But in the Bronx—where a theoretical A-bomb bigger than the one that destroyed -Hiroshima Aas supposed to have been dropped—Ceasar Flores refused to take cover. Standing at dead center of the blast, he pulled a butcher knife on patrolman Ludwig Schilling who had ordered the man off the street. Schilling fired four shots to subdue the man.: Flores Was dead when the ambulance arrived at Lincoln hospital. There was other, minor grumbling, blit cfvil defense officials were ' generally satisfied with the test. All traffic above ground stopped. Looking down from the city’s skyscrapers the streets suddenly became bare. All radio and television facilities were turned over to civil defense authorities. / “This is an air raid test. Take cover,” an announcer warned. (Mayor ‘ Vincent ImpelUtterrl broadcast a Teborded announcement. , i •t y i “Keep your radips turned on," he said. “Keep calm.” \i The test was based on the assumption that an A-bomb more destructive than the one which leveled Hiroshima had been dropped on a major traffic intersection In the Bronx—which adjbins Manhattan island on the north. Times Square—the nexus of New York’s communications — emptied as fast as a horse-betting parlor during a police raid. : 1 ■ <Turn To Page Six) 18 Inches Os Snow Covers New England - - L ■ -I 1 Savage Storm Takes Toll Os 10 Lives BOSTON, UP — Northern New England dug out today from beneath air 18-lnch snow blanket and began to restore power and Communications in the wake of a savage storm left a toll of 10 dead and uncounted damage. ( Light snow still fell in parts of Vermont and New Hampshire, and a six-to-eight-inch fall was predicted for northern Maine, but the new snow was expected to cause little trouble. Polar air sleeping in from the west caught up with a wind-driven rainstorm that slowly was heading seaward "Friday and converted the rain into heavy, highway-clogging snow. The snow snapped power lines * and felled trees, reduced highway traffic to a crawl and isolated at least 20 coipmuriities in a 3,500 square mile area of Vermont. The‘storm dropped snow in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, then unleashed its full fury in Vermont and later in New Hampshire. Maine was -luckier — and forewarned i highway crews kept the roads open. \ Telephone company troubleshooters early today headed from Boston by train for the snowbotind sections of northern Vermont Thicks and line-repair equipment were placed aboard the special train for the 350-mile trip. Ten- deaths were attributed to the storm. Dr. Stanley F. Dwinell. 32, of Bradford, Vt., together with his sons Peter, 5, and James, 4, and Jonathan, 2, Were killed when their automobile collided with a train at a mist-shrouded grade crossing at Newbury. L ■ ■ i '

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Plane Due In New York's Field Sunday Definite Program For Administration Reported Completed HONOLULU/ TH. UP —Presi-dent-elect Eisenhower returns to the United States today and according to a high-ranking member of his party he has completed a definite program for conducting the n£w Republican administration. The source said Eisenhower had “jellied” the course his government would follow in final policy consultations with members of hik staff here.' I Eisenhower worked out the general philosophy for direction of his administration in a series of conferences with designated top-level officials, the informent said. He said talks Eisenhower had with secretary of state —designate John Foster Dulles, Gov. Douglas \ McKay of Oregon, who will be interior secretary, and defense sec/ retary-designate Charles E. Wilson Were valuable.” 1 Close! gssodiates to Eisenhower < said he had been able to 'work without interruption in the ineetIngs aboard the USS Helena as he returned from Korea <nd those held shortly after he arrived here. The associates said the relief from the daily pressure of accepting callers at his New York headquarters%nabled Eisenhower to get straight to the basic problems of organizing his administration. Eisenhower and the remaining, members of his “team” were scheduled to depart 'from Kapoehe ' marine air station aboard his military air -transport service Constellation at noon today. \He was to make a stop-over of about 1 % hours at Travis air force base, Calif., near San Francisco beginning at 11 p.m. p.s.t 2 a.m. Sunday e.s.t before continu- ' ing on to New York. Eisenhower’s plane was expected to set down at LaGuardia airport’s marine terminal about 1 p.m. Sunday e.s.t, completing his historic mission to Korea begun under strictest -security regulations' two weeks ago. Officials of the National Broadcasting company in* New York said ; Eisenhower’s press sec r e tia ry. James Hagerty, told them by tele* phone the president-elect would make a major statement itn|nedi-i ately after his arrival in New York. Asked about the NBC announcement, Hagerty said Eisenhower originally planned to make a Statement on his trip during a stopover at Travis air base. However, since the stopover will be late at night, Hagerty said the presidentelect may hold his statement unt|l he reaches New York. The president-elect relaxed for th[e. most part during his retraining hours in the Islands. He pjlayed golf, khot a/93 on the beaiitiful Kaneohe station course Friday and intended to play another round before taking off for\the mainland. Eisenhower’s Hawaii “vacation” was interrupted for consideration I of a niap President”" Truman had taken at him for agreeing to hear Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s plan for ending the Korea war. A spokesman said Eisenhower respects MacArthur’s opinion on the Far East and feels in addition (Tun To Pare Six) —J- ;—L—.

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