Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 296. .

Conservancy j Act Fought By Adams County Changes Proposed j | In Conservancy Adt . Affecting District * ... . 'V ■ . I The Indiana conservancy acd of IJM7, under which the northeist-i ein Indiana conservancy would be set up, |f it would Ire jSet. -up, may be doomed to repeal,; • through the efforts of irate ©ounty officials. j As previously announced, twdmeetings syere planned for tUil weekji before the week is buts / there may total, many more than tiiat. There was meeting Mon*. <lay afternoon. The outcome Ua<: the “permanent committee for in| formation on conservancy.” hlt|j can now be interchanged readily; with / “amendment committed.’; Present at the meeting were M!ay< or John Doan, elected permanents chairman of the committee; L j Arcftbdld. agricultural agent and* always" outspoken against the djs4 . trict; Chamber of Commerce Walter Ford, elected ' tury of the committee; Lawrehcei fame yer. extension Mayor Forrest Balsiger of Bedie :| Homer Winteregg. president oif the town board pf Monroe; Jay* Yost of the Farm Bureau; dnd’ other private citizens interested in the project. *t‘ ’ ] Another meeting was held tihiS morning at city hall and-Tt really allowed how the in reverse — regarding the district;, affected everyone else who has a stake in U In the six counties]hit eluded in the Fort Wayne schepid. | l Ford .finished- his rougti /draft Os the changes proposed fo.C ■the conservatory / act. Its firit and most urgent requirement; Q V that the act as it now , stand’? should “inrtnediatiely lie

and a cdmmiSs.ion appointed^fotrf; write the act to atoid “the folh‘>j|? Ing loopholes:’’ / * ' , “(a) Too low a minimum signatures required for every civil city should be relink sented ...” _ |f. The . rest of the document isj M effect a great criticism of the 1 jiff act arid sets up committees jSi place of a handful of judges required to be the only confilH over the /district. In other ways the document is a general deiml of almost every point included ah the 1947 act. 1-C-R It seems the word of last nigh|hs meeting and the, word of the vig&r .with which Adams bounty offiews* L have gone about their task, g&t abound with a maximum of haJfe. The state representative : of ?Sei Kalb county, Charles Misner, Ws- - ited the group at work this mo|hing and informed them that constituents in DeKalb coufe’ were in sympathy with AdatSis county -"folks and Were tented with the way the constancy act was arranged. Mi>Msaid he would do everythOg within his power to see that Ipe act was repealed and was, in f&W. on his way down to to call,<or flat repeal without <my substitute bills. But, said heJfee Wjtmld confer with the , section at the state capital vestigate the possibilities Os n taking a bill in substitution. The next move js a meeting planned for Friday when the formal amendment vpll he presented for approval. It t|tri be predicted pretty safely thaSfcit least one person present at ®e meeting will keep his “ayes' himself -Thomas P. RiiddTe. & Thomas P. Rid el Id, spokesiMh of the Fort Wayne citizen's qMc - association, a group that has much for the development of Mgrt Wayne and Its beautificatiop®? expected to attend. This la:-4> project of theirs, that of pronw ing very vigorously the consultancy district for six counties/M? their most ambitious juid-f-if Wams county spells the differertVc between a district and hot a ■dis-trict-much money seems :< going down the welhworn dritfn Fort Wayne did not expect this/ active type of opposition. £ Those who will be invited. Jto the Friday meeting are: C. &: Sorenson of the Indiana-Michijnn/ «"{ Electric Co.; Jim Guthrie, Frantz, C. R. Gross, R. J. and E. J. Lesiuk. all agents of Albion. Blufftori/ fit Wayne, Angola and \ Auburn ie- ' apectively ' 1 Luther Yager, elect of Adams-Wells cowntidl; Sen. Pat Eichhorn of |Unionda|e. Sen. Lucius Somers of Hoagland and ~Charl£s Misner, representative of DeKalb county, may Attend. • This group could be mtfet instrumental in putting i a igll through the state legislature ififit felt so disposed. <

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LIGHTS BLAZE frdm an 80-foot. Christmas tree and 100 choristgp! sing carols at ceremony which ushered in the traditional holiday dctivitteH in Rockefeller Plaza, New York City? _T , ,

Diplomat Is Suspended On Loyalty Charge Career Diplomat Is Suspended By State Department Monday Washington, it -John cartef Vincent’s last hope of salvaging his 2^-year’career in the U.S. diplomatic rested today on the slim Chatice that President Trqjinan may' overrule hisj top loyalty review) board. r The bdarld Monday night found “reasonable, ddubt” as to Viripent’s loyalty andj redbmmeinded; that he be fired immediately. The state department suspended hirii asi'njinis--ter to Tangier anil him hack to this country, .a final decision on fitting hint wilL be left up to \Mf. Truhian j The President is exjpected to deRide Vincent’s fate after conferritjg with secretary or state Dean Acheson, whq returns Saturday frqni Paris, Even if Mr. Truman should over-rule the loyally board, which he lias 1 never ’done before, the decision \Vo.uld tw? subject to review by the new Republican administration coming? in next month. While bradding Vincent a loyalty rislf. the lior.rd completely cletardd anpjher\ career diplomat, John Paton Davies. Jr.;, Both. Davies and Vipcent were targets \of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy campaign against alleged Communist' influences in the state'departA ment. Both also had icome under fire from the senate internal sei eurity subcommittee. .

Board chairman Hiriin Bingham said any question of ijavies’ loyalty was reinoyed by iconfidential testimony given to the board by Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, head of the central; intelligence- agency, and U.S. ambassador to_ Russia, George F. Kennan. Davies, a veteran pf many years diplomatic service in China. 18 now serving as deputy director of the U.S. office of political affairs at Bonn, Germany. .’•/ \ . . j ' ' . Vincent. SS, who 6nce headed the state Far Eastern division, was given a clean bill of health by the department’s pwh loyalty board last Feb. 19. After lengthy closed -hearings on Charges made by McCarthy, exConimunigt Louis Budenz and oth-> era. the board sent Vincent back to his mist at Tangier with an ex(Turn To Pare Eski's Back! REMEMBER ES]kl. the little Eskimo child, whose Christinas tree last year was doomed to be without ornament until Santa Claus and the' kindly members of the' Astronomers’ Club came to the rescue and made it bright with real stars? _J Well —Eski will be back again, Thursday, beginning a new and evep more wonderful, adventure! Look for Eski In “Once Upon a Christmas Eve’’ —beginning in the bally Demo- . dfat Thursday. \

Files Suit On Wage Scale Set Up Here Opposes Wage Scale Os Board Os Works 4 Lloyd Hartzler. a Fort Wayne lawyer representing Ernest Redden, Fort Wayne . man named by the state federation, of labor to ait on the northwest \ bewer construct ion minimum yrage scale committee, today filed a slftt in Adam* circuit court <or an injunction and judgment against the city of Decatur; board ot w-orks and clerk-treasurer Vernon Aurand. . j The affidavit sets out thit in plaintiff’s opinion = since he and John Williaips, state labor department, representing the governor cf Indiana agreed •'n a minimum wage scale, their, scale should be adopted for the sewer project in preference, to one set by the board r of works, prior to advertising for Lids for construction, * The minimum wage scale committee met Here November: .5 and failed to agree. l’nder\ thie 1935 statute, if the committed fails to dgree. the scale then is set by the local hoard of works. The plaintiff further says in! his complaint that , because the two representatives agreed, an agreement actually was reached, because they jConstilfute. a majority of the committee. Summqns were ordered return-, able December 30 in the ma ter. Bids win be received jteceniber IS. as' advertised, and it was learned following the filing of the complaint that since no lemporary injunction was asked !and since po bond was filed, there was no legal restraint from proceeding as advertised and receiving the bids and letting the contract,’ Those cloge to the situation pointed out that the main issue whether, the Fort Wayne union wage scale can be adopted as thf| prevailing minimum wage scald in Decatur. Dick Heller was the third member of the wage scale committee, representing industry and people of Decatur. Good Fellows Club 1 J Previous Total j ...|447.57 Mabel Eyanson 1.00 St. Vincent de Paul j Society 5.00 Berpan Class of First Baptist Church 10.00 Eta Tau Sigma Sorority 5.00 A Friend ~..r , 10.00 Frank Q. Rawley , 10.00 T.\ Fr Graliker '.. 5.00 A Friend ; 1.00 Mr. and .Mrs. W. L. Linn ...,J 5.00 J. H. Heller 1.00 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond 1 Kohne 1 \ 10.00 W. A. Klepppr L,.....;.., 10.00 A Good A Friend .86 • C. ’ . ~ ■ — TOTALS .7. 531.43 ’ . _J INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Wednesday. Not so warm north and central Wednesday. Low tonight 22-28, high Wednesday 34-45 north, 45-53 south. '

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, December 16, 1952.

Last Os 39 Seamen On Broken Stern Os Navy Supply Ship Rescued

Unifed States Stands Firm On War Prisoners Demand Voluntary Repatriation For Prisoners Os War UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UP - The United States stood firmly to . day .on demand for voluntary; repatriation of war prisoners a»i the sole condition for resuming^Korean peace. talks. An American statement I issued here Monday'pight said the United Nations command—ln effect th;e U, S. government was ready to negotiations at Panmunjoip/ whenever the Communists accept the proposals contained in the U. N.’s compromise peace proposal* which w r as rejected by the Peiping government earlier Monday. The Panrnunjom talks, the Americans said, could be resumed whenever the Oriental Reds accepted’ the proposals of the' resolution/ passed by the general assembly on Dec. 3. or when they advanced “constructive proposals of thefj own which could lepd to an honorable, armtstice." “However.’’ the U.S. “there, can be no compromise with the humanitaiian principles con-’ tained in the resolution of the general assembly of Dec. 3, 1952." // That resolution, a compromise formula designed by India!, provided for nomforcible repatriation of prisoners and stipulated thht th»S< not willing to be returned tjl their homelands eventually would be turned over to the U.N. for rer settlement elsewhere. Peiping's formal rejection received by general assembly Presj-J dent Lesley B. Pearson in a cablegram from Chinese foreign ter Chou En-Liai, j ’ u But no step for? a tougher prosecution of the Korean war wak; planned by the C.N., at leash until after \ President-elect Dwight li. : Eisenhower takes office next .month. . 'll The Americans agreed Monday to the action of the geiieral , assembly’s steering committee in recommending that tjhe current seif (Turn To I’nitr Sis > \ JJV -'J Mrs. Herman Tewers Is Taken By Death* Mrs. Herman Tewers. 77, died at the home of a son, Norman, with whom she had been making her home with the past |eri years after moving from Decatur, of failing health. She resided at Port Clinton. Ohio. Three daughters, Mrs., Anna Francis of Clyde, Ohio, Mrs. Fred Weidler of near Geneva and Mrs. Alma Goelz of Decatur and the son. survive. Funeral services will he Wednesday after-, noon at 1:30 o’clock at Port Clinton. Her bushand died six yeark ago. '' ■'? '1 Mrs. Pearl Place | Is Taken By Death j Funeral Services To Be Wednesday i Funeral services will 'be he’d Wednesday for Mrs. pearl Place, native of Adams county, w’ho die# Saturday > night at a rest homj, in Jackson. Mich. ? Born in Adams county, she wai a daughter of James and Carrie' Watkins, ,and was married to H. E. Place,, who preceded her in deati two years ago. | • \ Surviving are two Mrs. Archie Wheatop Keijneth Titter of Jackson; two kobert Place of California and Leb klace of Detroit, Mich.; nine grandchildren; and one brother, Williaip T. Watkins of Decatur route 6. |' Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. EST Wednesday at the Baileu funeral home in Jackson, with burial in Jackson. | '

Hoboken Officials Linked To Rackets Crime Commission Continuing Probe .NEW YOTCK, UP — The New Yift-k state clime commission takes up/:the'; Jersey City waterfront today in an investigation that already has painted the neighboring ’’Hoboken piers as a jungle of labor racketeering bossed by. gangsters -'•'g pals in the city hall. A longshoreman, testifying despite a threat against his life tiold . the commission Monday that Edward Florio, No. 1 New Jersey organizer for the AFL Ihtematioinal Longshoremen’s Association. > bosSed the Hoboken racket .emplrle wttjh the cooperation of city official. The witness. Anthony De Vincenzo. said"Florio shared Lis gilaft with the Hoboken commissioner ; of public safety. Michael' M. Bonelli, who Was Florio’s chauffeur in the days when both were in the bootlegging business. The explosive testimony came as the commission carried its invektigallon of. New York City waterfront crime across the busy Hudson River into the congested Njew’ Jersey piers. ~ ; Mayor John V. Kenny of Jersey City li(|S refused to testify before !* the’ : New York: crime commission, hut Monday accepted a subpqna to 'ippefcr Vpec. 29 before a similar New Jersey investigating body, the state law enforcement council. (>n the eve of the Jersey Cityphase of the investigation, the secretary of lx>cal\_l247 of the Ipitgshqreinen’s union in that city reported to police that the Jocal’s membership rolls and financial recordh;had been stolen. Police said, the office'of th,e locaLljad been burglarized, and that . W storekeeper across the street had ■ seen a man run out of the huildiiig j carrying a bundle late Monday ' A commission spokesman said the records would not have, figured in today’s hearing, since tljej commission has no power to sulfpena the books. Mayor Fred M. De Sapio of Hoboken indignantly denied on the witness stand Monday that he was connected with any wrongdoing on the waterfront. De' Vincenzo testified, however, that De Sapio and his commission- : (Tih-n To Pa K e Elxht) ■ School Christinas Program On Sunday | Annual Christmas Presentation Here Ais part of\the annual pre-bhrist-mas ritual of'Decatur high school, on a par with the carol singing and colorful decorating, the music, art and speech departments each year put their’ heads together and come up with a beautiful Christmas program of singing and dramatics. So it is this yoar., Sunday. December 21 at 4 p.m., at the high school gym, another suck program will be ptesented. this/ time a little off the beaten track- The faculty members responsible for the presentation are Mist Helen. Haubold. Miss Kathryn Kauffman and Deane instrimtors oj - music, art and speceh, respectively. Tpe program begins with the professional, “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.” Then follows "Sing Gloria,” by Davis;; “Love Came Down at Christmafe,” by Smith; “'Carol of the Bells,” by Leontovich; and “Gesu Bambino,” by Yon* all rendered \by the high school choir. ? |\ •! TJiten a most unusual dramatie. presentation, nonetheless pious for its singularity. Its theme is of a symbolic nature rather that of dealing with definite action such as the well-known tale of the three wise men in Bethlehem. It is called “*®ood Tidings." . Lakt year’s offering drew 1,200 people and this is expected to be no less a success. No admission is charged and the public is invited to attend. x \

GOP Senators Resent Dewey Domination" Senators Fearful Os Likely Loss Os Patronage Rights WASHINGTON UP A wave of resentment against Gov. Thomas :E. Dewey of New York was building up tpday amopg Republican senators who fear that “Dewey domination” of the Eisenhower* administration majr deprive them of patronage rights they have waited years to exercise. 1 Grumbling has become widespread, even among senators who were early supporters of Presi-dent-elect Eisenhower. They have been waiting in vain for definite assurances that Eisenhower will follow the tradition of “consulting” majority party senators about federal appointments. Senatorial blood pressures began to rise when Eisenhower filled cabinet and sub-cabinet posts in some cases without consulting or notifying interested senators. The appointments themselves persuaded many senators that the Dewey influence is already dominant In the. new administration. This suspicion has been heightened by the fact that Herbert Brownell, a former Dewey lieutenant who will be Eisenhower’s attorney general, has emerged as the key man in passing out jobs under Eisenhower. . -Sen. Frank Carlson R-Kan.. one of Eisenhower’s closest friends in congress, was expected to report on the problem dupjng his conference with the Presidentelect in New York today. Some senators hoped his report would prompt Eisenhower to issuo a reassuring statement on patronage. One senator, who was an early Eisenhower supporter, said the wave of “anti-Deweyism” is aNi ready a serious threat to the Eis-l enhower legislative program, which could be wrecked by a hostile. senate. But another senator, also an early Eisenhower booster, discounted its importance. He said a certain amount of grumbling is inevitable when a party returns to power. . i This senator believes Dewey and Brownell have become scapegoats for a situation that developed because Eisenhower was unable to (Turn To Pn*e Kight) Young Farmer Class Will Open Thursday Evening Class To Be Organized The evening classes for young farmers will open at the Decatur high school Thursday evening at 7:30 o’blgck,) with the early part of the period devoted to organizing the class and outlining subject matter for the course. ' i I A questionnaire to potential enrollees indicated strongest interest in the fields of soils, crops, dairying and arc welding. ’ ( To. insure definite instruction during the -initial periods of the course, the instructor, William H t Journay., vocational agriculture teacher at the school, will discuss problems concerned with the use of commercial fertilizer and Ihne. The remainder of the course will then be Organized according to the needs of the class. Plans are toeing made to include periods for recreation in conjunction with, the course of study. This cqurse is offered without, charge* to any young person in the vicinity of Decatur who is interested in learning more about approved practices in farming. Ahy person interested should be preisent for this first meeting in order to take part in organizing the subject matter for the course.

No Trace Found Os Missing Children Job Os Pumping Out Quarry Nearly Done NAjPERVILLE, 111. UP — The grim, nine-day job <>f pumping out a quarry sieared completion today and tired volunteers still had found ho trace of the. bodies of two missing children.' “I don’t think they're in there,” said 'Marshall Erb, a Contractor who has headed ' the heart-break-ing operation;' “if they were, we’d Lave found the bodies by now.” \ Seven men in hip boots walked the liottom of the big quarry and probed the oozing mud with long iron rods. In spots they sank to their knees. The! viiaders will \ brave beloWfreezijig <to form r a human chain and systematically explore the muck at thie bottom of the pit. -j ' i Meanwhile, pumping began ors anothjer, smaller quarry nearby on the chance that Jean Peterson, 6. ama\ har “little boyfriend," Edward jßosenstiel, 3. drowned in its> icy waters Dec. 7. The, scope of the search was amazijig as it entered its second week.) Hundreds of volunteers have (dedicated themselves to the proposition that it is worth $1,000,000 to fipd tke, missing children dead Or alive. Marshall ]prb, the contractor bossing the big operation, estimates that’s how piuch the task would cost if machinery, manpower, fuel and food were not donated free. Bloodhunds, deep-sea y divers, sailors, coastguardsmen, hedgehopping airplanes and search crews have been thrown into the of finding the youngsters. The pumping operations at the big quarry were hampered by cold wekther aa the last few feet of water were sucked nyo specially(Tarn To pk*e Ei*ht> Robbery Is Fresh Lead To Slaying I ! . . ! Continue Hunt For 1 Indianapolis Killer I INDIANAPOLIS UP — The robbery of a Frankfort gas station provided a fresh leatj today for police investigating the slaying of, a filling station attendant here. Authorities said the description of the escaped Frankfort, robber resembled “in a way” that of the killer of Harold O. Carl, 29, who was shot in the back Monday.’ Patrolmen, who arrived on the sceqfe of the slaying seconds after it occurred, caught a glimpse of the killer hnd his companion as they sped away in a car. The resultant manhunt? one of the biggest ever staged in Indianapolis. was* halted Monday afternoon after an air-ground search failed to turn up the pain. Meanwhile, police continued • questioning & a 24-year-old parolee from the state reformatory and searching for tw’o state penal farm escapees. ■ . \ j- ■ David Eads. Indianapolis, was held on a preliminary charge of murder. Police said he denied any knowledge of the slaying. The two escapees—Edward Huddleston. 20, New Albany, and RaTo P*«e EichO John Wilhelm Dies At Fort Wayne Home Funeral services for John Wilhelm, 71, formely of this city, will bd held Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the Klaehn funeral home in Fort; Wayne. His death occurred Monday at his home, 1202 Somerset Lane, Fort Wayne. Prior to 1936, he was employed at the former Mutschler Packing company in thlq city as sausage makdr. He is.survived by his wife; a son Carl, Marlon. Iowa; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Fred Beck of Fort Wayne, and two grandchildren.

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Ship's Master Is Final Man To Be Rescued All Hands Removed Without Injury As Assist LEGHORN, Italy UP - The last of 39 American seamen huddled on the broken stern of the U. S. Navy supply ship Grommet Reefer were snatched to safety today. The last man was brought oft by one of f&r U. S. navy helicopters from the carriers Midway and Layte. The carriers had raced through the "Ligurian Sea to this northwest Italian port the Grommet Reefer, with its cargo of Christmas turkeys for American troops, smashed on the rocks and broke In two Monday. “All hands removed. No injuries,” came • the word from rescue headquarters which told of the supply, dramatic ending of the twoday rescue operation by breeches buoy, boat and helicopter. In keeping with the rigfd tradition of the sea. the Grommet Reefer’s master, Capt. Henry P. Saukant, Brooklyn, N. Y., was'the last, man brought to shore. , . A hay*y helicopter landed him on the green lawn of the Leghorn* l football stadium, and at 4:05 p.m. came the report from rescue headquarters that all 39 of the crew had been saved. \ i The Grommet Reefer had started dragging its, anchor in a gale in Leghorn hhrbor and at 3:30 a m. Monday it had been hurled on the rocks of the* Queen of Leghorn reef, where it broke in two. in the final moments of the rescue operation Saukant storid alone on the battered stern of his ship. A helicopter hovered over him. He hauled down the American flag, which had been snapping from the mainbrace in the wind, grabbed a line dropped by the helicopter, and was raised, to the craft. An Italian flag. wniHi had flown from the ship's mast as customary because the ship W'as in an Italian hatbor, was left flying. 44 i The helicopters arrived at a critical moment. The stern, hammered incessantly by w’ind and water against the jagged rocklß, was weakening. It was listing so that the breeches buoy could ho longer be used, and every man would have had to jump into the icy sea—as some did—to be picked up by two Italian ijavy Jaunches. The flying “choppers” had arrived ajter some mqn had been hauled 4 cros s 100 yards of raging water atid menacing rocks, in the shaky canvas seat of the breeches buoy "and others-had jumped into 'the seaito ’be picked up by the Italian boats. .. The iiavy announced Monday that 40 frien were aboard the ship but it was announced today the crew' total was 39. ’ / The Christmas turkeys, which _ (Turn To Pas* Six) i K BULLETIN INDIANAPOLIS UP—Governor Schrlcker today overruled Governor - elect George N. Craig’s decision to postpone the sale of Indiana auto license plates. . i * Schrlcker said he was “flabbergasted” by Craig’s proposal. Schrlcker directed secretary of state Crawford F. Parker to begrn the sale of license plate* on Jan. 2, as usual.

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