Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 307, Decatur, Adams County, 30 December 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 307.

Chinese Reds Warn U.N.Of New Offensive Tell Allied Troops Next Sunday Is Set ~ For New Offensive SEOUL, Korea UP 9 — The Chi- ' f nese Reds warned U. N. trbops in the Sniper Ridge sector of the J Korean front today that next Sun--1 day has been set asDey tor a i Communist "general offensive.” The Chinese blared their warnings through loudspeakers facing a sector of the lines largely manned by South Korean troops. Allied officers discounted the Red threat as a propaganda bluff in* spired liy Chinese belief that the South Koreans might be susceptible .to such psychological Warfare. A woman announcer broadcast A warnings that th» big Red drive j was scheduled for Jan. 4. ! Spokesmen at Sth Army headquarters said it was doubtful the Reds would telegraph their punches if they really intended to open an offensive. They recalled that the Chinese Communists boasted they would smash their way into the former South Korean capital' of Seoul By Christmas. That boast proved empty. The Chinese attempted- to give their propaganda some substance by staging a series of probing attacks—the heaviest of yhieh involved 200 Reds. That force was thrown against *two outpost positions/ in the Old Baldy sector, / northwest of Chorwon. U. N. troops slapped down the Chinese attack and killed 30 and woynded IPO Reds with deadly ° rifle and machine-gun fire. " Other small Chinese units' kept up harassing attacks against Sniper (Ridge and. Jane Russell Hill pn the Central Front. But those thrusts also were beaten back by tough South Korean defenders. Sleet and light shdW swhled across scattered , sectors of the /lines,; reducing visibility and increasing the discomfort of frontline uhits.: Temperatures ■ ranged from a figid> six degrees in the west to42decrees in the cast. \ American B-29 Superforts staged a 110-ton bombing attapk ori- a Communist troop billeting area at Taeg'am, on the fringe of the big military supply and troop complex near Pyongyang. Taegain, \ a main rail and 4ruck supply center on the route' frdiH Manchuria, was described jjs headquarters for Chinese forces. •' Returning pilots said a large* Vshaped fire was visible 30 miles from the target after the raid. The big bombersisaid they encountered only “negligible” ground fire and said the Red\ searchlights \ were “about/as effective as a cigarette lighter” in the heavy “undercast.” . The dense cloud cover hampered sth Air Force operations over most of North Korea.

Rosenbergs In New Plea To Save Lives y Judicial Clemency Sought For Spies v NEW YORK UP — Julius and Ethel Rosenberg make a new plea today \to save theqiselvfes from death in the electric chair for betraying U-. S. atomic secrets to Russia. , A petition clemency, seeking a commutation 'ol their death. sentences, Was scheduled-tb be argued before Federal Judge Irving B. Kqufman. who originally condemned >them\to death* -r 4Defense Emanuel H. Bloch a*id that if the petition were rejected and other last-ditch legal efforts fail he wpuld appeal directly to President ° Truman forclemency. The New York couple is scheduled rto he executed the week of Jan. 12 at Sing Sing prison. An appeal to the ; U: circuit; court bf appeals for a reversal of thbir conviction is still pending. Bloch said he would 'Wait the outcome of the clemency plea before Kernan and the court ot appeals decision before tiling a request for clemency with the President.*' In support of the judicial clem(Tura T« Pa« Five) . INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and slightly Colder tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy with little change In temperature; some risk of rain along Ohio river. Low tonight 22-28 north, 28-34 south. High Wednesday 34-38 north. 38-46 south. 1

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HAVING FILED MOTION that he be eliminated as a defendant T&-year-old Nevada Senator Pat McCarron (right) makes a pre-trial deposition in the Washington offices of his attorney in the million dollar suit of the Las Vegas Sun against some 50 persons. The suit t'hdrgew conspiracy 4n restraint of trade by the defendants In withholding advertising from the newspaper which had been critical of McCarran. The deposition will be used in deciding whether McCarran must stand trial. His attorney, William B. Leahy is at the left. ; | ,\

Truman Plans For Budget Os $79 Billions Fiscal 1954 Budget To Be Submitted To New G. O. P. Congress .WASHINGTON UP —President Truman plans to send a fiscal 1954 budget of about $79,000,000,000 to the new Republican congress next week, it learned today. The budget, /covering the 12 months beginning next July 1, will estimate federal revenues kt about $69.000,000,0'00 —the same as the current fiscal year. . - if congress were to approve Mr. Truman’s epending'i program in full and leave taxes 'as they are, the govei'nment’s deficit for fiscal 1954 woult) be in the' neighborhood of $10,000,000,000. -\ - Spending for the 1953 fiscal year, now about half over, is expected to totakabo'ut $75,000.0(10*000. That .wobld run the government .about $6,000,000,000 in th|e red. Republican leaders of the incoming 83rd congress (already have announced their intention of cutting next year’s & spending figure to something likh $^0,000,000,000, which would bring a balanced budget within sight. They also have declared the budget must be balanced before taxes are cbt. t The incoming Eisenhower admirtistration may submit specific recommendations to congress for trimming government expenditures proposed in the Truman budget. President-elect Eisenhower's budget scout. Joseph M. Dodge, has been watching the budget-making process first-hamtTor almost seyen weeks, but he has given no hint of the new administration's feelings about) the- total. Mr. Truman told a recent news conference that this budget. hi£ eighffi, is fair, honest and as tight as possible. ' That this one- has been tightened in the making is , indicated by. the drop in the estimated total spending figure. Earliest estimates put government spending in fiscal 1954 at $85,0(H),060, 000.;; That figure was revised dokrnward’ to. $80,000,000,000 because of a slowdown in defense spending. The budget as now planned, according to various' administration sources, includes estrmates of $46,000,000,000 to $47,000,000,000 in military spending, $t,000,000*600 to SB,000,000*000 ih foreign military and economic aid, and $2,500,000,000 or more for the atobiic energy program. w The military and foreign aid figures are about $2,000,000,000 higher than estimates for the same programs this year. The atomic energy figure is more than $500,600,000 higher thati this year’s estimate. ' ' \ Other defense programs — civil defense, economic stabilization, the merchant marine — will take less than $500,000,000.; Spending fbr programs Will probably be next yeas than they are this year. ■ . / ’ . • r— — ; \ Breakfast Meeting Is Held By Lions : ' ' ; ■■' ' ■■ \ < The DecatuV Libns <4ub roared heartily over a breakfast meeting at the Fairway' Restaurant this' morning, > gulping down their platters of bacon and eggs with gusto. Discussion touched on the annual minstrel show the Lions put on about this time. The dates definitely set for this extravaganza are February 4-5.

School Equipment Surveyed By PTA > Extensive Survey Being Made Here “Equipment” takes the spotlight in today's release of the extensive survey being taken by the Lincoln P. 11.I 1 . A. Thus far, five of the i«ven surveys have been covered, not including today's; they, are: “Finance and budget, school lunch program, school board, the building situation, and transportation.” The committee appointed to consider equipment is chairman Lowell Smith, .Miss Georgia Foughty and Hubert Zerkel, Jr. Equipment 1 (1) Is there suitable lighting in the Lincoln school building? (2) Suitable-heating? (3) Suitable yentßation? (4) Adequate sanitary facilities? (5) Is the building safe? (6) Is the. building, inspected regularly? (7) Is the building attractive inside and outside? \ (8) Are the desks, blackboards and other furnishings satisfactory? (9) Is the most efficient use being made of all school facilities? (10) Is the play area around the school building satisfactory? - (11) What fire fighting equip .rnent available? 02) Is it regularly tested? (13) What medical supplies and equipment? \ (14) What cleaning and maintenance available? * (15). What other equipment is needed to help the school do a good job? (16) Are accurate and up-to-date inventory records maintained on all school equipment? , (17) How .is the equipment selected for purchase? (18) Does this result in the best selection? V (19) Drinking fountain? (20) How frequent is boiler inspection? (21) How thorough is boiler inspection ? (22) As a result of the above, what recommendations do you make? With Wednesday’s release titled, “sclioOl achievement and teacher improvement,” ends this series on the Lincoln P. T. A. survey. .(J -—' ————.0 City To Observe Arrival Os New \ Year Thursday The new year 1953 will be ush ered in at midnight Wednesday night at Decatur on varying notes of reception.* Protestapt churehes of the city will join in a union watchnight service at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethreh church from 9 to 12 o’clock, a New Years eve service will be held at the Zion Lutheran church, also a Thursday morning service, and ses will be said at St. Mary’s Catholic church Thursday morning. For the noisy welcome that always greets the infant New Year, the various clubs of the oty are planning the annual New Years eve parties and dances. On January 1, most business activity will be suspended in the city, such as practically all retail stores, offices and taverns.;. NO PAPER THURSDAY \. Following annual custom, the Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Thursday, January 1. which Is New Years day.

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Eisenhower Meets With Taft, Other Top Senate T .1 ' ■ T\ • »’ Leaders For Discussion

Says Election Rrm inhi hnlau DiOtiyni l/ClOf In Jury Report Justice Attorney In Testimony To House Committee WASHINGTON UP, —A justice department attorney testified today that the presidential election Was a factor in top-level deparb mpnt discussions which resulted In delaying a New York federal grand jury report on Communist infiltration of the United Nations. The testimony Was given by Roy Cohn, former assistant U. 6. attorney at New York who handled the jury, to a house judiciary subcommittee. The ■subcommittee is investigating charges that the justice and state departments “obstructed” the grand jury's work. Cohn, now a epecial assistant to. Attorney general James P. McGranery, was asked whether the Nov. 4 presidential, election was discussed at an Oct. 8 department meeting on the case. “There definitely was mention of the forthcoming presidential election' and its effect ode way dr another—it also was discussed in the grabd jury,” Cohn said. Cohn said he was out-voted. 4 to 1, at the meeting in his efforts to have the grand jury make an immediate report. The report finally was made pec. 2. Cohn said McGranery was present at the meeting but did not take a stand on the matter. Others at the meeting,'“"Cohn said, were deputy attorney general Ross Malone; assistant attorney general Charles Murray; Myles J. Lane, t r . S. attorney at New York; Cohn, and G. Frederick Mullen, justice department public relations chief. Cohn said he did not know who brought up the question of the presidential election. He said “somebody* raised the question whether a report at that time would be “made a political foot(Tara To Page Two) - ' ' . '■ /' '■ \ ) ' ... ' V Decafur Merchants To Honor First Baby Valuable Awards To First Baby Os 1953 Decatur merchants will participate in the annual first baby derby for 1553, 'and all of them describe their gifts in a two-page in this issue of the Decatur Daily Democrat. < Along with the announcement of the gifts, contest rules are printed, the rules pointing out that for ISie parents to be eligible they must be residents of Preble, Root, Union, Kirkland, Washington or St. Mary’s townships. The birth must be reported to the Daily Democrat office not\ later than 10 a. m. Saturday, Jan.| 3; the date, hour and minute of birth mUst also be reported, epn"irmed by the attending physician ir s, hospital officials.' • The Decatur merchants sponsoring the lineup of gifts to be awarded to the first baby born in 1953 to parents living in the six northern townships of the county include: Adams and Cort Theaters, Babers Jewelry Store, Bower Jewelry store, Begun's Clothing store. Bob & Ed’s Standard service, Ehinger’s, Equity Dairy store. First State Bank,\ Fairway, Gambles, Gerber’s Meat market, Goodin’S Food Market, Holthouse Drtitg Co., Haflich & Morrissey, Holt-House-Schulte & Co., Halterman’s. Habegger Hard-ware, Kaye’s Shoe store,; Kohne Drug store, Dick Mantfielq) Motor Sales, Myers Home & Auto Supply, Niblick. & Co., J. J. Newberry Co, Cal/ & Peterson, Smith Drug Co., Uhrick Bros., Wylie k Furniture store, Decatur Daily Democrat.

Rich Draft Dodger Ordered Deported \ Rubinstein Ordered To Surrender Today NEW UP — Draft Rodger Serge M. Rubinstein, once a boy wizard of Wall Street, hall orders today to pick up a one-way ticket to his native Russia. | 't’-here was some doubt," however, as to whether the Soviets would welcome the millionaire financier. Attorney general James P. McGranery signed an order Monday, giving Rubinstein until 4 p.m. e.-s.t. today to surrender to U. S. immigration authorities for deportation. McGranery had planned to give the 46-year-oid speculator a 10 a.m. deadline but offered Rubinstein more leeway to permit his attorneys to take action bn the order. The justice department has been trying to give Rubinstein the heave-ho since 194.3. /when he was accused, of obtaining his passport fraudulently. > Ironically, the unwanted financier gave the department the gimmick it needed when he dodged the World War II draft. He was convicted in 4pril, 4947, of giving false statements to draft board and received a sentence. The justice department sought .’o deport him in 1943 but an appeals board reversed the ruling of the immigration commissioner. Rubinstein was tried anq acquitted last July on a- charge of violating the securities and exchange act in his dealings with the Panhandle, Production and \ Refining company. When Rubinstein sold his controlling interest, he grossed J , (Turn To Paar Two) Lone Picket Still On Duty At Plant S' ' 'A ' • I Plumbers, Electric Workers Not Working For the second day in succession a lone picket marches back and forth in front of the hew light and power department bullying at Dayyton and Seventh.’streets. The picket was placed there by the building trades council of Fort Wayne, (AFL) in protest over The Yost Construction Go.’s not hiring union workers. In deference to the international unions rule of not working where a picket line is set up, neither the plumbers or electrical workers are on the jobJ The brickmasons, however, do not fall under 4 that uhion organization’s influence, and are working. Though they too reto cross a picket line they happen to get on the job before ther picket arrives in the morning and sb technically, they cross no picket line. . The building itself is almost finished, the over 4500 cubic yards of engine foundation having long been poured. The finishing touches are being -placed on the masonry with the installation of the last few modernistic glass bricks; which, said Yost, provide increased lighting/ as well as insulation. Actually/ if the brickmasbns keep working and the building structure is completed, the Only effect the picketing -will have is to keep the electrical and plumbing workers off the job, very little of whose work ihas been completed. Julius Lindemann Is Taken By Death Julius M. Lindemann, 78, died Monday a( his home in Tocsin following a heart attack. Surviving are a son, Ralph, near Tocsin; three daughters, Mrs. Devon. Pence of Alma, Mich., M rs - Robeft McAfee of tocsin and Mrs. Herbert Smith of Muncie; 10 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and a brother, George of Tbcsin. \ ‘ Funeral services will be conudcted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Elzey & Son funeral home in Ossian, the Rev. Matthew Woijthman official tug. Burial will be in Lindenwood cemetery. Fort Wayne.

Tax Rates Are Officially Set For All Units City And Township Rates Are Announced Today By Auditor Decatur’a 1952 tax rate, payable in 1953, been officially set at $3.93 a hundred dollars of taxable property for Washington township and , $4.05 per ■: hundred for Root township, it was announced today by retiring auditor Thurman Drew and auditor-elect Frank Kitson. All rates for Adams county’s 12 will appear in legal form starting. January 6 in the Daily Democrat. Decatur Washington’s rote is broken d°wn as follows: State, 15 cents; county, 42 cents; civil towjnship, 13 cents; school and library and civil city, $1.36. Decatur RboUs rate is: State. 15 cents; county, 42 centp; civil township, B'cents; school and library, $2.04; civil city, $1.36. Berne’s total rate for the year has beett set at $3.80. the figures disclose. Following is the rate for each township: Blue Creek. $2.02; French, $2.58; Hartford, $2.60; Jefferson,\ $2.90; Kirkland, $2.86; Monroe, $2.88; Preble, $1.43; \Root, $2.54; St. Mary’s $2.58; Union, $1.98; Wabash, $2.72; Washington, $2.99; Geneva, $3.62; '■ Monroe, Monroe township, $3.76 and Monroe, ington township, $3.82. ' L Following are the poll tai assessments in each unit: Blue Creek, $1.50; French, $2.50; Hartford, $1.50; Jefferson, $1.50; Kirkland, $1.50: Mohrbe, $1.50; Preble. $1.50; St. Mary’s, $1.50; Union, $1.50; Wabash, $1.50; Washington. sl.so; Berne. $2.50; all Decatur/ $2.50; all Monroe* $1.50; Geneva. $2.50.

Indianapolis Bank Is Holdup Victim Foiir Suspects Are Questioned By FBI* 'ANDERSON, Ind. UP ~ FBI agents questioned four/, suspects today In the $4,500 daylight holdup of an Indianapolis branch bank. Three well-dressed guhmen entered the Union Federal Savings and Loan Association branch in a crowded shopping district on the Capital city's North S.ide Monday, locked the manager aild an assistant in a vault ahd stooped money from a cash drawer. ( They fled in a car parked in a lot behind the bank- It was* believed an accomplice stayed ip the auto. About midnight, , state troopers and Anderson city police stopped a car fitting the description of the get-away vehicle near here and took fdur men ipto custody. State police said the -four were' intoxicated. (Police skid three of the suspects wore brown hats, similar to those worn by the bank bandits. The gunmen . also wore sun glasses and held handkerchiefs to their mouths. Bank Manager John T. Fogarty, 43, paid one of bandits approached cashier Patsy Williamson 25, saying “This is it.” Fogarty and Miss Williamson were forced into a Vault while the men grabbed an estimated $4,500 in currency and silver. ' ' There were no customers In the branch during the holdup. Fogarty released an inslde-the-vault lock after waiting about six minutes to make certain the men had left, then called police. It was the latest in a series bf major holdups and slayings in Indianapolis during the Met six weeks. Police said it was the first city bank robbery! in more than a decade. k '

Three Persons Die In Chicago Blast « Three Others Are Reported Missing CHICAGO, UP — Firemen dug into the ruins of 1 an explosion-shat-tered furniture etore today in a search for the bodies of three persons missing and feared dead. Three other bodies were carried from the destroyed building. A powerful blabt rocked the retail establishment Monday afternoon, shaking other buildings in the heart of Chicago’s largest neighborhood shopping area and smashing windows. . Then towering columns of flame turhed the four-story General Furniture Co., into a dangerous shell before the blaze could be controlled. A wrecking crew- leveled two walls which were dangerously close to collapse. The basement of the store, ■where the missing, persons were believed to f have died, was filled with eight feet of whter and the rubble from the destroyed j building slowed the operation. The dead were identified as advertising manager Earl Hildebrand, personnel manager Harold Kistner and office girr Elaine Lapka. > Fire commissioner Anthony J. Mullaney said “it would be a miracle—and a big one” if the threle missing persons had, Survived the explosion and the fire that followed it. The missing persons were 'believed to be salesman Alvin Kesisel and two unidentified woihefi customers. Kessel was believed to have gone to the basement, of the store with the customers. Damage to the furniture company Was estimated at $500,000.

Final 1952 Meeting Is Held By Council Ordinance Passed On Sewer Contract Gonncilmen convened for the last time in 1952 at feity b a ß l ast night, and although they walked out of the council chaipbers 15 minutes after they had entered it, a piece of business they transacted made a little Decatur history. An ordinance was passed approving a contract between the city of Decatur and the Yost Construction Co. io build the SIOO,OOO sewer-> the Porter-Homewood sewer—the contract signed, sealed and delivered. Yost’s price for the job, $79,900.» (Exactly when work will start is not included in the agreement, however. councilmen were not cpnc&ned with this too much. They named two or three months hence as a probable time, the eatjier having a great deal to do witn the work. Clarence Ziner was reappointed to the city board of zoning appeals for the next four years. The ppil was unanimous, ail councilmen being present exdept Hugh Engle. With the reading and approval of the bills since the last meeting of the council, Mayor John Doan called the meeting to a eJose, the remarks/going something like this: “Well; that’s that, I guess/ . .quite a year. . .fastest I ever saw.” s It seems only fitting that an accounting should be given here and now of several of the accomplishments of the Defcaiur city, council during 1952. The council didn’t take this up at the meeting and,lndeed, it wasn’t a part of the meeting. CalUlit an extra, somehing special, to mark the end of the year. Citizens in the western portion of the city are enjoying better electric service than formerly since bf a line of increased capacity. City police and firemen have the guarantee of security through the pension plan, enacted at the outset of 1952. /Five years ago the valuation of real estate in Decatur was $7 million. It is now $lO million. At this rate, by 1960 Decatur will have (Tira Tb Page F««r)

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Ike Seeks Best Way To Harmony With Congress Initial Meeting Os \ Ike And Taft Since Appointment Scored •NIEW j YORK UP — Presidentelect Eisenhower met at luncheon today with senate Republican leaders to discuss how best td get along with congress and shaue a pro- j. gram to deal ; with vital foreign and domestic issues. At his left hand sat Sen. Robert A. Taft, his bitWr opponent for the Republican presidential domination recently criticized one ot his cabinet appointments as “increcb. / ible.” A , The Ohio senator is expected to become majority senate leafier when the 83rd congress convenes Saturday. At Eisenhower’s right Sen, Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, who is slated to become senate president pro tempore. Two other senators were present Milton R. Yoi)ng of North Dakota, ranking Republican member of the agriculture committee and secretary of the policy committee, and Leverett Saltonstall of yvfassachusetts, prospective chairman of the armed services committee. Sen, Eugene D Millikin of Colorado had been scheduled to attend the luncheon 'cooperation” conference, but did not arrive. Eisenhower’s press secretary said there was no immediate explanation of his absence. It jwas the first face-to-face meeting between Eisenhower and Taft since the senator, while Eisenhower was in Korea, slrongly criticized the appointment of" Martin P. Durkin as secretary oF labor in the new administration. Durkin had supported the Democratic presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson., and had favored repeal of the TaftHartley Act. Taft said his appoint- ’ ment wqs an affront to union meinbersswhb voted Republican. Also attending the luncheon were Herbert Brownell, attorney generaldesignate and a close Eisenhower--adviser on appointments and patronage; Gov. Sherman, Adams of New Hampshire, who will be assistant to the President, and Thomas E. Stephens, who wil be special counsel to the president... : Prior to the luncheon, Eisenhow- , confered with FBJ director J. lEdgar Hoover. He also had a talk with Bertha Adkins, director of the womens’ division of the Republican national committee, whh said the President-elect has further appointments of'women i.n mind for federal jobs. There was no immediate indica- " tion of *what subjects Hoover covered in his meeting with Elsenhower, which had not been scheduled in advance. Other major items of discussion were expected to include theChristmas Eve'suggestion of Soviet Premier Josef Stalin that ha J would favor personal tdlks with Eisenhower aimed at easing world tensions and the forthcoming visit of prime minister Winston Churchill to New York to see Eiseqhower. The President-elect Monday named his third administrative assistant — Rober Cutler, a 57-year old Boston attorney and fiduciary agent who yvas his personal assistant during the last three months (Turn To Fa*e Two) Indiana Draft Call 1,561 In February) JNDIANAPQLIS UP -r- Indiana son may havq to draft 19-year-olds to fill., its selective service quotas, Brig. Gen. Hitchcock said today. Hitchcock said the ranges of 30- r-year-olds and older are thinning fast Indiana has been ordered to induct 1,561 men into military service, during February, an increase of more than 500 over the January (Jraft call. < Indiana’s January quota is 1,019.