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■ Truman Says World Peace Prospects Up Believes Prospects ; z Os Peace Are Better Tnan A Year Ago V' ■■ Z y ../ ■ - ,; " WASHINGTON Up — President Truman said today he believes the prospects sos world peace are better now than they were a . ago. • , % Mn- Truman made the statement at a .news conference when asked to' appraise the peace outlook, at this—the last day of 1952—as rCohpared with the start of thd year. Mr. Truman said he could not go into the details as to Why he j that way. However he noted that as President he has a lot more information at his command , than the general public. Heygaid he is confident, however, the Ichanoes for peace are even better than lhey were last Jan. 1. \H said he did not refer exclusively to the Korean war but to the cold war all around the world. Other highlights of Mr. Thruman’s news conference:- - 4 1. He will discuss the state of the nation in a radio and television -■ addtens Jan. 15 —fivd days . befor? lie leaves office. Mr Trumdn , he also will send congress the regular state Os. the unioil niesage, but that diet will not deliver that ■message in person. The message, however, will not contain any rcCommendattonSi 2. Mr. Truman deemed to anticP; pate what legislative program may ■/ come from the new Republicaii ad- •( ministration, saying he is not, a columnist or commentator. 3. He'Shid he hopes the new congress will do something about making it easier td shut off senate filibusters. ; ’ f 4. Mr. Truinan was asked for convment on a statement by senate j leader djtobert A. Taft that I Republicans will put the counry back on the track where 4t got Off 20 ago. He said with a laugh that he is of the Opinion that if Taft has. his way. that is. what - will happen. < - , 5. He denounced a provision 6f the defense production afct which the agriculture department* Tuesday slapped controls oh certain dairy products to pro- .. tect prices of domestic producers -* and cut government price support spendings He said this kind of law makes “the jjbb of .the Kremlin’s \pro'paganda agents a great ileal ■ easier.” -'\ ' /■ 1 'a 6. He is looking forward witK. pleasure; to his forthcoming visit with British prime minister Winston Churdhll. He doubted they would make any important government decisions. He said, Churchill’s visit is only a courtesy calk . ———- — —, —

Many Important News \ Stories In Year 1952

*"“* — '-’i ■■ 4 .A lot of event? htave been shoved injothe history book as 1952 gives way to a brand pew year. Month-by-some otthe more important i events which will make history for PUg, grand-children include: r ~/ J January ' 1 \ President Trunian ordered reor- , ganizatipn, ofthe internal revenue department, i replacing politically appointed collectors with Cjivft serv-i ice employes. The President, in his state of the union message, told congress that the workLstiH walked r in the shadow of World War 111 as he asleep continued defense pro- | ductioWjAhd unity. A few days ■ later, he asked for five billion dollar? more in revenue, hoisting the I new budget to mdre than eigh'ty’two billion dollars. * The Flying Enterprise sahk after 25-day fight the sea, and Capt. Carlson abandoned, the shfji just minutes before she sank. This also was the- month that more than 200 persons were riiarooned on the San Francisco train in the Sierra mountains. /. Prime minister Churchill tells Congress (England would like to

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Withholding Tax Meeting Jan. 5 Decatur C. Os C. ; Arranges Meeting V'. A ■ .| .■ ■ T’zi./' ' The Chamber of Commerce r:eeting to present the. issues invafved ip the matter of withholding state gross income taxps at rhe source —-in a similar, way that federal are jwithheld — will take place Januarijt 5. 6:3b p. m, at the Zion Lutheran parish liftll Chamber secretary Walter Ford urges all to attend. Ford said reservations may 1M madb by‘calling or calling at the Chamber off Commerce office. Tickets may be. purchased not later than 3 p. m. Friday. L piiarles Ehingeij. in charge of making the contacts to the senators and i Representatives of this northern area, reports \ he has received two replies to the\lo invitations he sent out; Paul C. Moellering, Rep., Fort j Wayne, will attend. and Richarid .IL Fishering, Rep.. Fort Wayne, will try to Attend. • . The balance of invitations* were to the following legislators: Senators—Von Eichhorn. v Uniondkle; Dorothy Gardner.! Fort * Wayne, and Lucius Somers. Hoagland; representatives -4- Luther Yager, Berp[e; W. O. i Hughes, FOrt Bernard Jt., , . W I'rurn To I‘njce TnvoF '’’ ' p U

borrow moire money from the Unitled States and also praises this nation on its stand against Red aggression. He .pledges British support to United States in Asia. J--.POW exchange stilb, deadlocks I Korean armistic? talk’s. Former war secretary Robert Patterson was among 28 passengers whd\met death in a plane crash lm£3tew ! Jersey on January 23. Former President Herbert Hoover asks. of V. S. army in Europe and the U. S. ■ government grants Britain 300 billion dollars to aid arms program. i The senate ratified addition of ; Greece and Turkey as N bers and a house judiciyaFy comImittee ordered a probe of the justice department and attorney general Howard McGrath. February Newbold Morris accepted a federal post to eradicate corruption in government. Harold Ickes, former New Deal cabinet member, died in Washington. ' King George VI of England died and Elizabeth became new ruler (Turg T« F*«e Two) ,\

Hoodlum Held For Hijacking 01 Airliner Two Crew Members Killed By Mqn On v Philippines Plane TAIPEFT, Formosa UP — The co-pilot of a Philippine Air Lihes DC —3 told (today how a “desperate" - Chinese gunman killed two crew members, - then \ ordered him at pistol point, to fly his plane and its seven passengers to Communist China. ■' ' / \ The terror-filled flight, which began Tuesday's* a short local hop in the Philippines, ended on Kinmen Island, when two Chinese Nationalist planes forced the DC —3 to land in Nationalist territory. / The passengers, who included two Americans, were unharmed. But the pilot, Pedro Z. Perlas, and the purser, Eduardo Diego, were shot death-one for trying to resist and th 0-other for intervening. Nationalist officials took' the gunman. identified as Ang Cho Kio. 25, alias Philip Ang and Hong Chu Chun, into custody. 'He wil be returned to Taipeh. Philippine government officials said he was wanted in .Manila for attempted murder and as a suspected Communist. Co-pilot \l Felix Gaston, took over the controls shortly after the DC —3 left Laoag for Aparri in Northerri Luzon on what was supposed to be. a 38-minute flight. “After about 20 minutes, a man came into the cockpit ahd handed a typewritten note to the captain," Gaston said. ‘\The captain read it and gave it to me. The note said: “ ‘This is a stickup. I am a. desperate man. Do not talk to each other.’ ” He said Ang told them to fly the plane to Amoy. “Rignt then Captain Perlas put the plane though a violent maneuver, trying to throw the man off his feet, but-he failed. . >\ “Without a word, the man shot Captain Perlas twice, once in the head and once in the side. Then he\ turned the gun on me." Then, he said, Diego, the purser,, L . tried to come through the door into the cockpit. “The man shot twice through the door, and everything was quiet. He kept the gun pointed at me all the time, standing right back of me.” Gaston saidnexkept flying out over the China Sea, trying to dissuade Ang from his plan, but he was not successful. He said he flew for more than four hours >hen a Nationalist AT —6 training plane (Tara Ta Page Blight)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December 31, 1952.

Acheson Says Disloyal Amer icans Employ ed By UN Not Security Risk 5 i ; b ‘4,.. -.Aiy-'Sab. . ’. 1 ’ . ■ '* * ' *

Ike Promises To Cooperate With Congress Pledges Assault On Federal Spending On Taking Office NEW YORK, <UP)—Presidentelect Eisenhower, who has planned many a war campaign, left no doubt today his operations plan fbt the opening phase of the bet- > tie of Washington cails for harmouy with coureo »nd . sharp asskuft on fedenSl spending. In two meetings with the Presi-dent-elect, members of the Republican high command ,in the house and senate have been assured Eisenhower is anxious to cooperate with congress. The congressional leaders have emerged from both meetings talking about tackling the problem \of, spending first and looking into tax reduction afterwards. Eisenhower met Tuesday for two and one-half hours with four senators who will become powersin the 83 rd congress. Afterwards Sen. Robert \A. Taft, Who earlier this morith \ called EisSnhower’s naming of Democrat Martin P. Durkin to the cabinet “incredible,” said he had “every expectation" that congress and the White House will work in harmony. Taft, slated to be senate majority leader, said there had been complaints from both senators and representatives they had not been Consulted in advance about Eisenhower appointments. He said Eisenhower and three of his top lieutenants in the conference had agreed on a “g neral method ot approach" wiiich would provide (Turn To Page Six) Request Ruling On Injunction Clause Ask Supreme Court To Decide At Once WASHINGTON, UP —The CIO United Steelworkers asked the supreme court today to decide immediately whether the injunction provision of the Taft-Hartley laborlaw is constitutional. The request was contained in a petition asking the,'high tribunal to let the unibn by-pass the U. S. circuit court of appeals and carry its fight against the controversial provision direct to the supreme court. \ A Buffalo, N. Y., federal court this week upheld the constitutionalitwof the provision. If* the high court grants the union permission to by-pass the appeals court, it will set' the case down for a hearing at an early date. In that event, a decision probably* would not be forthcom- ' ing for weeks. No action on the petition itself is expected before Monday at the earliest. \ President, Truman earlier this month invoked the national emergency provision in a move to end a strike by members of the Steelworkers at Dunkirk, N. Y., plant of the American Locomotive Co. The plant manufactures nickel tubing needed in the atomic energy program. The plant was struck' last August. ' The union filed a suit in Buffalo federal district court, contending /Tua To P*»e Bight)

To Continue Study Os Junk Yard Case Zone Appeals Board , Holds Hearing Here After two hours of hearing' evidence. the board of zoning appeals until January 20 the controversy of the neighbors in the south part of Decatur against the William Smith junk yard on High street. Highlight of the long discussion • was the fact that no one displayed I any-desire to force the weH known i Decatur scrap iron dealer out of . business. The remonstrators ex- . pressed a fear, however, that if , the yard' was permitted to spread several were* wf land, values of adjacent properties would be reduced and several of the' remonstrators stated that when the rubbish was burned the entire area was filled with “a. rude odor, and considerable smoke." Smith took the witness stand in his own behalf during the informal hearing, and said that he had been \in the scrap iron business since 1910 and had been at the High street" location since ' 1846. 3! ~ i ' :* Several witnesses also substantiated Smith’s story. Protesting neighbors did not contradict the statements but they did* add that the storage space had grown from a small area to a. point where about two acres are covered with scrap iron of various kinds. V ? Remonstrators were attempting to show* that the business had actually expanded beyond its original scope and -purpose, and th'at if the entire area was used as a scrap iron yard, the amendment of September 2 concerning junk yards and scrap iron areas should be applied. ♦ This amendment requires to be enclosed\ with a fence and forbids the erection of yards within 300 feet of a residential area. Tlie board joined in the questioning ot witnesses and decided that a cooling off period might bring a compromise. However, board members expressed a strong \ (Torn To Pare six) ' • \ "" Former Assistant Priest Here Dies \ 5 .' • A .. t - Rev. E. Freiburger Dies At Lafayette The Rev. Edward J. Freiburger, superintendent of the Catholic Orphan’s home at Lafayette, and a former assistant at St. Mary’s church,, died this morning. Word of the priest’s death was received here by the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz. Father Freiburger was assistant to the late Rev. H. Theo. Wilken, pastor of St. Mary’s church, from 1912 to 1914. Following Father Wilken’s death in the latter year, he was assigned to the orphan’s home. Double funeral services will be held for .the aged and well known priest. Services will be held at W o’clock Friday morning at St. Boniface’s church, Lafayette. On Saturday morning at the same hour, solemn < requiem rites will be held at St. Aloysius church in Sheldon. Msgr. seiihetz and his assistant, the Rev. Robert Contant, will attend the services at Sheldon. The Rev. Anthpny Kroger succeeded Father Freiburger as assistant at St; Mary’s and remainled here until 1920. j

Allied Troops Wait Sign Os Red Offensive Constant Vigil To Detect First Sign Os Promised Drive SEOUL, Korea, Thursday UP — United Nations soldiers, shiveiV ing in the 10-degree cold of a New Year’s morning, peered across a blanket of snow today in a constant vigil to detect the first signs of a possible Communist offensive. * The Reds for th® most part spoiled whatever chance front line soldiers had of celebrating the new year by warning that an offensive whs coming soon. One broadcast said it would come Sunday. Most Americans had at least a can of beer to welcome the year 1953. Soldiers in isolated outposts and positions under shell fire toasted the new year with plain Water. Although U. N. officers did not believe the Reds would’ follow their threats up with a large-scale attack. the Communist broadcasts were enough tq force front line soldiers to concentrate on watching for an enemy move against the invasion routes to Seoul. Front line reports said four to six inches of snow, fell on the battlefront New Year’s Eve. The Cominunists made no mqves Wednesday afternoon and early Wednesday night. Earlier, however, Chinese infantrymen made five attacks the defenses of Seoul to back up their propaganda threats of an offensive next Sunday. Two Reds thrusts ’overran U. N. (Turn To P«ae Six) 1 ’ ' Joel Reynolds Dies ' ■■ I' A j \ . Early This Morning Former Police Chief Is Taken By Death Joel Q. Reynolds, 76, former Decatur police chief, died at 1:20 o’clock this morning at his home, 252 North Seventh street. He had been in failing health for some time and seriously ill since Christmas. Mr. Reynolds served as chief of police during the term of Mayor Charles Yager and later became a custodian in the Decatur public school system, retiring in 1948. He was born in Adams county April 24, 1876. a son of Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Reynolds, and was married to Grace Shaw Nov. 17, 1898. Mrs. Reynolds died Aug. 3, 1950. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. David H. Teeple ot Decatur; four grandchildren;' five great-grandchil-dren ; one brother, Lewis Reynolds of Decatur, and one sister. Mrs. William Raudenbugh of east of Berne. One brother and three sisters are deceased. \ - Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Dwight R. .McCurdy officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home'after 7 o’clock this evening. ■\ ■ > | INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy tonight and Thursday. No temperature changes. Low tonight 2834. Yligh Thursday 33-40.

Final Questionnaire Submitted By PTA Meetings Planned For Survey Study With today’s Lincoln P. T. Asurvey release —the last of seven—ends the series. It deals with "school achievement and teaehpr improvement” and is being considered by a panel of four. Chairman of the Committee is C. I. Finlayson, with Mrs. Louis Jacobs, the Rev. William Feller, arid Miss Glennys Roop. The survey committee of the organisation has planned two coordinating meetings to take place within the next three weeks. The' first‘s January 12, 7:30 p.m. at the public library, is for the benefit of all the members of all seven survey committees. The next Is a conclave with the Decatur school Board during one of their regular meetings, January 19, 7:30 p.m. at Decatur high school: school finance problems will be discussed. In no way connected with the survey but related nonetheless, -is the February 2 \dinner meeting at the Moose home, the parties to pe the industrial .division of the Chamber of Commerce and the Decatur school board, the planned purpose of which is to discuss “the future” regarding the schools of Decatur. (1) Teachers’ average salaries: 1940-52. (2) C. P. index, teachers' average salaries: 1935-39; 1940-52. (3) Training and experience of Lincoln school teachers —make table. (4) What are the practices governing increases of salaries? What educational * and personal factors should be considered?’ (5) Do we give school personnel contracts? (6) Is this desirable? (7) Is it desirable to have a system tenure for schooLpersonnel? (8) Is their a period for new teachers? (p)‘. Do the school authorities make every attempt to find the best possible person to fill each (Tun To Pace Blcht)

Varied News Stories < In Decatur In 1952

By JACK SCHHEIBMANJg A tale of the life of a city during qne whole year is a marvel to behold. In the lines of cold, type—and between the lines can Be found the very fabric, thread and stitch of humanity itself. Life and death, poverty, wealth, the precious moments of a happy experience. The weaknesses. The caprices. The blow's men receive — and the valiant comebacks. . This is the story of Decatur during the year 1952. A small town, sure, but no less warm or strange than any big town in the country. The story begins, fittingly enough, with the birth of a babe, and the death of a man ; . . On January 1/1952, Marylyn Arlene Miller, accompanied Sy the thwack of a , doctor’s hand, drew her first breath in this hectic life —the first baby born in Decatur and Adams county in ’52 . i . with the echos of the exclamations of joy not yet faded away, the Grim Reaper made a pass and snatched a life: Hansel Foley died- in Chicago on January 2; he served as a respected educator in Adams

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Says Disloyal Persons Should Be Discharged No Security Risk But Prestige Blow For United States WASHINGTON UP — Secretary of state Dean Acheson said todky that employment of disloyal Americans at the United-Nations does not-endanger “the national security’’ of the United States. - I But Acheson told a house judiciary subcommittee that such persona are giving the United State* • “a bad reputation and a black eyo and they shouldn’t be therei there’s 1 no question-about that." Acheson insisted Americans employed at the United Nations ars y"> not involved in “matters of defense" or matters of “classified material” and. therefore, are not a threat to what he called “national security.” Acheson was called before the angry legislators to explain how his department happened “to clear disloyal Americans*’ for employment by the U. N. secretariat. ' The subcommittee is investigating Communist and subversive infiltration into the U. N. Rep. Kenneth B. Keating R-N. Y. asked Acheson whether ,he felt "the'-presence of disloyal Americans in the United, Nations Was a serious blow” national security. “No sir,” Acheson replied. “I do not think it has anything to do with security but it is a Bias? to the - prestige, reputation and interest of the United States?’ Keating said he felt that the presence of disloyal Americans “does affect our national - seepri‘y ’’ 1 3 ' Acheson said. “The fact is. I 1 think it is just as bad as you do." Acheson told Keating they Were differing only on the meaning ot words. \ * Acheson testified that he dis- \ cussed with President Truman what stand he should take on a I New York federal gjrand jury’s reCTnrn To Pnare

county for 25 years, finally residing in the high post of county superintendent of With the uncertainties of life thrust so forcefully before the consciousness, Decatur launched the new year tooth and nail: \.■T\ - " , ■ City police win pensions ... report 358 accidents in ’sl: 253 ar- - rests .-. . nerves aflame as county basketball tourney looms jt.. Charles Ehinger, telephone head, speaks of dream of toll-dialing ... . qJHazel Follis awarded |5,000 in damage suit; asked $15,000 ... Lewis L. Smitft announces intention, to run for prosecuting attorney . . . G E. goes on five-day schedule . . . Hartford and /Monmouth win tourney openers ... Ernest Gamsby, 18, dies in Fort Wayne accident; first Decatur, fatality. County auditor Thurman I. Drew announces the county is in fine,, financial shape ... Berne Bears' drop 11th scuff in a row .... A Kansas man, Frank Cunningham, is found dead in the Rice Hotel; heart attack . . . Decatur teacher ? ■ ) (Tun To, Pose Six)