Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 7

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J ’ SEOUL, Korea .UP- ' fied warplanes-presumably Amero ican-today mistakenly kslammed 15 bombs into a U. /Si? artillery battery tat- behind thp Korean frbnt lines, killing and wounding aii undisclosed nujnber of Ameri'■J can soldiers. A : \ The heaviest, casualties? resulted I \ from ope direct bomb bit on a wooden 'administration building. The army headquarters tin- ‘ mediately clamped tight censorship on the incident and officers and men of the unit involved Maid they had been forbidden to talk to newsmen or even to write details to j their families at home. The planes-said to have numbered two or more-returned after /- the bombing and? raked the atrea ? with.machinegin fire in a strafing attack. 'f r Seven or eight tents were de £ , stroyed in the attack and a number ’ of others bore gaping holes from I bomb and shell fragments. ’’ : At least three IT. S. trucks also I- were destroyed. (' One army officer suggested that ? the attack might have been made ’ by enemy aircraft, but this was generally discounted. >. Men of the attacked unit said | they were f so taken by surprise that they did not attjeriyit to note - markings on ‘.he planes until the ’ attack was over. They were too i busy scrambling for cover, they f said. ..; » The casualties were said to have ' resulted largely from the fact that i the attack, was totally unexpected j and caught men in the administration building,and in exposed areas, p The artillery unit, service organ- [ ization, wa s stationed nine miles behind the lines. “A L S Recently a Greek United Nations unit charged that it was mistakenly attacked by allied planes. There were a number of similar incidents during World War 11. A colonel from Bth army headquarters and several air force .were Investigating the in/cident on the scene this morning. “We are I getting a lot of con- \. flicting testimony,” the colonel said. ’ . “No one Saw whether there were any markings on the planes.” the colonel said- "One man said they had ,8 wept I back wings, another swore (they didn’t. They said the same thing about whether they liart wing Both Ruskian-built DfflG-15's and American Sabrejet fighters have swept back* wings. ’’The trouble was,” the colonel said, “everybody was looking at the explosions when the planes were overhead.” j He said that “We ktiow the Communists rjbave soiheAof our planes, but thpy r don’t have our ammunition. ’ T Investigators \would be able to j. <Twr» To Page Six) INDIANA WEATHER a Considerable cloudiness, occasional light show or freezing drizzle extreme east portion tonight. Saturday partly cloudy to cloudy. Little change in temperature. Lqw tonight > 27-32, high Saturday $5-40. 1 ‘ .. I < ' " .

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7 7V' \ Spiritual Emphasis , Week Closes Sunday Power Os Gospel' Topic j “The Power of s the Gospel” was the subject of the sermon delivered ■by Dr. Cl;«de W. Meadows, in the Thursday evening service . of Spiritual Emphasijs week series 1 currently being heldj in the First Methodist church-- his' sermon well illustrated from his ’ iildetrious pastorate; of 25 years I in Chambersburg, P|a., Dr. Mead- : ows fspoke of the Gospel’s power to convince the x honest critic, to •\ effect Salvation for the sincere • believer, and to compel the con--1 secrated Christian to go into all the world as a, Christian witness. » keferring to :he : fetter point, the speaker reminded the auoi- ; elite of the story of t>r. John and ; Betty Stamm. Presbyterian mis- ; siqnaries who graduated from Wilson College in I and went to China, they . were murdered by tie Commun- ■ ists. This yean Pauline Stamm, » the only daughter, ivho had been' 1 miraculously spared at the time . of her parents’ death, rs beginning her studied at Wilson Col- . lege in preparation for mission- ; ary work in China. |- l In the Thursday service the . Bethany church chdjr gave the special music which was. the anthem, “Come, Ye Disconsolate.” - Ttje spirited congregation al singing was directed by the speaker. , In the Friday evening service. , the choir of tM Fjrst Baptist , church will king,- and. a glroup of , laymen from the); Zion Reformed church will serve as ushers. . The Rev. Romaine \Wood wi® , greeide in the service tonight, and the Rev. Traverse Chandler and the Rev. John E. Chambers ’ will be the devotional leaders. The'public is reminded that there will be a service at 7:30 > Saturday evening. * The final services on Sunday will include -tlie -union youth nieeting at the Baptist, church at 5 p. tn., and the evening rally at ’ the high school auditorium at . • .I- ■ ' ! Budget At Glance J WASHINGTON, UP — President “ Truman’s fiscal 1954 budget at a 1 glance: f \ ESTIMATED SPENDING; $78,- ; 5*7,000.000, including $46,296,000,000 for military services. \ ESTIMATED RECEIPTS allowing for a $2,000,000,01)0 loss in rev--1 eniie from automatic' tax reduc- . tions: $68,665,000,000, 4 ESTIMATED DEFICIT: $9,922,000.000. « TAXES: Should continue high, or go even higher, sd there can be pay-as-we-go financing of rearmament and a balanced budget. Automatic tax redactions scheduled for fiscal 1954 should not he allowed to take effect, j ; ,

| I | Pakistan Rioting Is In Third Dai •' ' ' Third Straight Day Os Street Battles KAkACHI Pakistani UP — Police backed by army tfcitibps opened fire on Communist-led snOgs again today as and looted shops in the third straight day of mass street battles. Z At least seven persobls were killed in today’s clashes, bfinging the known three-day tpll t||j|6. At mid-afternoon, n|»jtlt rioting still blazing at a Of places across the edged that the mob? *isre not under control.” The official list injured since ilvas 61, including 41 polibm TmURt: yas believed casualties wonMmtQt'al wall \ ov,et 100 when final fibres can be compiled. • ,\'ij in Bunder Road, the United Press bureau is sweated, one band of rioters their way into a liquor store, destroyed the stocks and then set ths|f.hree-story building ablaze. I watched a crowd siss the office bearing a long, bundle —the body of tleen-aged boy who had just beemi'hdt down. Hundreds of grim fytred. shouting demonstrators jostled, around the body as the procession bobbed along. ;.' r . : Nearby, a municipal Jjjgh-voltage power 'substation wajj|||set afire with torches and the of a post office smithed out. Police intervened only at the most dangerous apparently considering it'hwise to let the defiant crowds exhjaust themselves. Mobs marched through streets shouting to shop owne|ijs: : “Close down, observe hartai\’ (mourning). j Dozens of shops whish had opened this morning hastily closed doors and shutters. Traffic in the clty’<,mairi thoroughfare was choked to a standstill. The mobs halted buses, streetcars and cars anc| forced passengers to get OUt. Even bicyclists were • forced to dismount and push thhli' vehicles ITani To P««e EDIKM) Dr. Clyde Meadows Is Rotary Speaker Dr. Clyde W. of Chambersburg. Pa., guest ||™acher for Spdrltiull Emphasis services in this city, was the guest speaker at the weekly meeting-iof the Decatur Rotary club evecing - j HI \ Dr. Meadows epoke ori the need of Christ Unity in thefU’orld and of the religion -could have in solving the worlO pressing problems. The Rev. IfVilliam C, Filter was chairman w thd proeram' J; Odes Gould Funeral Sunday Afternooh A'fii Funeral services foit Odes R. Gould, of Who died Thursday tnorning, will 'be held at 1:15 p. m. Sunday ai?khe Black funeral home, and at hlb’clbck at the Afonroe Friends cnurch, tliyl Rev. Vernon Riley lofficiating. Burial will be ip the Spring Hill cemetery east of Berne® Military rites WiH be conducted at the grave by the Anjerican Legion. and Monroe volunteer firemen wilDaerve as honorary pall beerers. , Friends may call at the Btapk funeral home after 7 o’clock tl4s evening. A . { '1 A ■ ; I ■

i Decatur, Indiana, Friday, January 9, 1953.

Pres. Truman Submits S7B Billion Budget To Republican Congress ■ •: . i - I

Ike Schedules Busy Day 01 Conferences Halts Intense Work On Inaugural Talk " For Conferences V \ / ’ NEW. YORK, (UP) — Pnesident- . elect Eisenhower, breaking off his Intensive work on his inaiigural address and state of the union reyiort. scheduled a busy round of cohterencee today. Aid bng his scheduled callers were his new secretary of the air force. Herold E. Talbott, and .an economy - minded congreftsirian from York, Frederic R<Coudert, a nieml>er of the bou4e»'ap* proprkations committee.. Another important' caller was Robert P. Burroughs of Manchester, N. ; H., a former Republican nnHonal who was'on the EXkenhower advisory staff during the presidential campaign. * Eisenhower spent almost the’entire day Wednesday putting lhe finishing touches on hie inaugura tion address and on a state of ihe union i repprt \ A . headuuat H-i • spokesinan said iff 'had Bot IwJetf decided whether he will deliver the latter report to congress jiersonally. i Eisenhower was preparing, for round-table conferences which will be held here Monday ijmd Tuesday with the 31 senior appointees of his executive family t*nd y’ce president-elect Richard ?M. Nixon.' ■ ' ' i - ' The, conference® will be devoid to a general discussion of donii&stic and foreign problems confronting the new administration. 4 Elder statesman Bernard im; Babich conferred with er for an hour Wednesday. “He said afterwards that he available a® an adviser to the,new as J ministration. ; Baruch said he talked ot l er With Eisenhower “the military eecurft.y and economic well-being of lsie United States.” Asked .whether he believed the country was headed for inflation or a Baruch said that could not be Answered “until we know what tl Vre propose to do in the matter Ijof expenditures for defense and we are going to spend it.’' ' ~ - I 45 Homes Built In | Decatur Last Year | Building Reports ‘ By City Engineer ; ■■ 4 Forty-five new homes were btfilt In DOchtur during 1852, an item’ ized accounting of building permits taken out last year showed today. The report was made public by Mrs. Ralph Roop of the city engineer’s office. The report further shows that 37 garages were 1 constructed; three business buildings; two tool sheds; one breezeway; one sleejjing quarter; one dog kennel; oh* service station; one storage building; one grocery^and lunch; one fence to enclose scrap-iron; one accessory building;? one shed for a portable saw; one shop: one unloading dock; one ,joiniiig roof for two buildings; one, ifirge sign; one fruit market; and 16 set trailers. a Addition* To Buildings Forty houses; three garages; four additional apartments; three business buildings; five porch enclosures; one relocation for church building'; one fruit market enclosure; and one shed and gavage. , A house and a room were demolished. One land-use permit each Was issued for a supermarket, a parking lot for a church, and uptfolstertng shop and a welding shop. Two permits were issued for radio and TV repair shops. ' : ' I ■ \A ’’

p Allied Siperforts ’ t ■'l g.• 1 - Hit Supply Centers 35- Ac re Red Supply Center Is Wrecked SEOVU. Korea UP -c Allied Superforts flew through heavy clouds Thursday night to hit an enemy supply center in their drive to kgep all . potential Communist staging areas off balance. < ! v ; Eight B-29 Superforts dropped fyll loads of 500-pound bombs to - wreck a 35-acre Red supply center ’ Wve miles south of Sariwon con--1 gaining 50 barracks not previously 1 *attacked. r Another lone Superfort dropped 10 tons of bombs on a 4,000-foot ’ airstrip three miles south of Hungnam pear the east cqast. 1 Fighting along\ the 155-mile bat--1 tie line fell off sharply after lightning punches by Allied raiders at ‘ both ends of the line killed or wounded 200 Communist troops. 1 On the Eastern Front, South ’ Korean troops reported the total “ dumber of Communist troops killed 1 in a raid on ah enemy tunnel was ■ IM. ■ \ Fdrty-four of the\ casualties were trapped in the tunnel being dug by * the enemy toward Allied positions on Anchor Hill when the project * was destroyed by ROK-activated r TNT t . The rest Were killed In front line skirmishes as the raiding ROK’s were returning to their own base. ’ Gen. Mark W. Clark’s Friday ‘ ’morning communique said the tunnel blast was one of five separate . Eastern Front hit-rUn attacks that “dealt punishing bfows to enemjinstallations” and “inflicted heavy . casualties.” I 11 Over Four Billion In Vets' Benefits Truman Estimates Future Costs Up WASHINGTON, UP —President Truman today proposed spending . $ 1.564,000,000 for veterans’ services and benefits during fiscal 1954 —about the same as this year. The President emphasized that future costs of veterans benefits •we likely to increase due to a “rapid increase in the veteran population” and liberalization of laws governing these services. New veterans are being d|sI charged ffpm tlie armed forces at a rate of about 1,000.000 a year. If the size of the armed forces continues at about present levels. 1 he “most of the people of the United States will eventually be veterans or dependents of veterans.” Outlays for, World War II veterans are declining, but those for veterans of the Korean war are climbing. During the coming fiscal year, Mr. Truman said, 70 per cent of the money spent for readjustment l>enefita —such as education. and training — will go to men who entered military service since the far \ eastern | conflict broke out. The President included in his budget funds to build the four remaining hospitals on the veterans administration construction program. Those are a 1.000-bed general medical and surgical hospital at Cleveland, a l.’ooo-bed neuro'psychiatiic hospital at ■ i Topeka, Kans.. and> a 500-bed general medical and surgical hospital at Washington. D. C. The San Francisco and Washington hospitals are planned as special atom bomb-proof Installations constructed with window lees c(Micrete cores designed to withstand severe blasts. Origtanlly. the Clevela!nd\ bosI pital also was to be of this special atom-proof construction, but a VA spokesman said the agency now plans to drop that feature and instead buftd the hospital 10 miles outside Cleveland, thus removing Ait from a critical target area. A The budget also requests enough (Turu To Page Berea) I

— — Gross Income Tax Repealer Is Introduced Bill Submitted To State Legislature For Repeal Os Law' INDIANAPOLIS, ujp-4. bill to repeal the Indiana gross income tax law which produces nearly $100,000,000 a year to m the government ivas introduced today In the senate for the sixth time bySen. Samuel E. Johnson (R-Ander-son). - - T '' Johnson, a 10-year veteran in the legislature, favors another method of taxation to raise the money. l|e thinks the gross income tax is discriminatory in its application Ito business, penalizing state concerns and giving interstate commerce ajn advantage. J » Co-author of the <4ll was Sen. Edward L. ( hubinski (D-East ChiThe bill was offered as house and senate reconvened for the second day of a 61 -day- biennial regular session. Heavily dominated fn both chambers by the! Republicans. A new measure by D. Russell BontrageA (R*Klkhart) pud Von A. EicW.orn (p-Unlondale), would amend' the constitution to provide for city and town charters and allow cities to choose the city manager of government. In the house, Rej). Ralph G. Hines (R-Portland) sought to Hurry up tl|e payment of a state kojdier bonus anil to extend again the time to I file applications for thje bonus. S J ~ [J Rep. Frank ,0. Rarick, saw) introduced a bill Iforcing judges to jaiji. all drunk drivers. First offenders wqujld get five days to six months, subsequent offenses punishable by 6P days ito one year. Judges couldn't Suspend sentences or gMht Rep. CharlefrjfT. Miser (R-Gar-rett). Introdutgja a bill to Lsellminate the state jmlicial council. Miser. w-ho introduced several boafd-and-commissio|| hboliiioh bills in the 1951 sessiih, said the council was useless’’ and he was growing tiwd of appropriating money for it. TO Council was giv(Tara 'Paaa Six) Mrs. Benj Shook ' t 'A Is Taken |y Death J Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Mrs. Sarah - Catherine Shook. 81. wife of Shook, died at 11:05' o’cldql Thursday night at hoi- home O. She had been bedfast for the past seven weeks. ® She was in Adams county May 1, 1871, bB had lived in the Wren community practically her entire life, sft was married «o Benjamin Deq-\ Mrs. Shook yas a member of the Wren Evangelical United Brethren church. - I 1 '! ! Surviving in addition to her husband are threb daughters, Mrs. Fannie Wittung of Rockford, 0.. Mrs. Tpla CurtiS of Kalida, O.j and, Mrs. Blanche Welker of Decatur; four sons, Lawrence of Sturgis, Mich;, Lewis of Wren, /ohn of Decatur and’ Theodore of Convoy, O.t 81 grandchildren; 47 great-grandchildren, and,, three great-great-grandchildren. , Two daughters, one -son, one brother, two sisters and a half-elster preceded her in death. \ Funeral services will be coin-, ducted at 3:30 p. in. (EST) Sunday at the Wren Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. Donald Martin officiating. Burial will be In the Wren cemetery. The bodbr was brought to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 2 p. m. Saturday until noon Sunday, when it will be taken to the church to lie in state I Mill time of the services. J • \. . ' !

■->— —————————— Draff Board Sends Two Groups Today Two Contftigents Sent To Capital Two groups of Adams bounty young men were sent to Indianapolis this monnng-.on orders issued by the county service board. One contingent of eight was sent Jor active induction into the regular army, and the other group of 14 was sent for physical examinations prior to induction into service. > P Members of the contingent sent tor induction were: Burdette Lee Custer, Arthur Leroy Ford, Robert Lee Grogg. Ralph Eugene Jackson, Bruce Allan Schnepp, Kenneth Alvin Doherty, Howard Cotwin Booher and Rich,ar{i Augiist Selking. , ' • ' . Members of the group sent for physical examinations were: Robert Eugene Nicodemus, Lloyd Junior Charles Leroy Circle, Jr., Kenneth William Nash, William Don Workinger, Ralph Allen . Ballinger, Earl Wayne Gerber, Cur- ’ tis Paul Jones, John Howard Parr, Norman Leo Edwards, Marvin Don Brown, Gordon Allen Watts. Billy Wayne Johnson and Richard Leon Steiner, the latter transferred from local board tS, Lafayette, for examination under l-O. In addition, two others scheduled for examination transferred. Gordon Lee Itice. to local board 16, Muncie, and ftoger Earl Hirschy, to local board 25, Marlon. , ’ _ /j \ \ ' ■ ■ • ;; Report Wreckage Os Large Plane Sighted Believed Missing Army Transport MONTPELIER, Ida. (UP) — Wyoming police today informed Idaho officers at Pocatello that the wreckage of a “large plane” believed that of a missing C-46 army chartered transport With 40 persons aboard, has been sighted near Kemmerer, Wyo. The transport has been missing in the area since early WednesjdHy. •, However, details of the discovery and of the were lacking in the first reports, and it waa considered possible that any wreckage sighted might also be that of one of the two missing F-51 MuMang fighterg that disappeared Thursday on a flight frim Salt Lakh City to Great Falls, Mpnt- ’■ The Wyoming police report, sent to the Idaho police at Pocatello, indicated . that a Union Pacific freight train crew had spotted what was described as a “bonfire and three blue flares” atop a ridge two liiiles south and six inlles of Cokeville, Wyo., a tew miles east of the WyomingIdaho line. The site where theA “bonfire” Whs noticed by railroad bnakemen Bud Lind is about 15' miles from bear lake, where residents reported hearing a plane circling before dawn Wednesday-—the time the ill-fated C-46 was believed to, have disappeared on a flight froth Seattle to Cheyenne, Pa. | The '4O aboard. the transport in eluded 37 southern state soldier? just back from Korea and a crew of three. Lind said, the freight, train crew noticed a "glow” on the horizon tTwrn Te Pnxe Six) District Boy Scout Meeting On Tuesday A meeting of the south district, Boy Scouts, will be hold at,tlie Decatur high school Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock, for a round table and panel discussion. All Scout committeemen, scoutmasters and registered scouters are urged to attend. The south district, recently formed.' consists of Adams, Wells and Jay counties, with Clarence Kiner of Decatur as the district chairman.

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Says Present Taxes Should Not Be Slashed Republicans Term Budget Proposals By President Shocking WASHINGTON UP -r- President Truman today sent to a Republican congress that is in a penny-pinch-ing mood a $78,600,000,000 spending budget for fiscal 1954. Herald 1 present high taxes should be continued or even raised. •= He said his spending requests are “essential for the safety and well-being of the nation” in this time pf arming against the Soviet threat. He assigned three-fourths of it to “national — the military, atomic weapons, aid to Europe, and related programs. Republicans called tho budget proposals “fantastic” and “shocking.” Rep, John Taber R-N. Y. who will be chairman- of the house. appropriations committee skid a “10,000,000,000 cut is not too much to expect.” • J , , Rep. Daniel A. Reed R-N. Y. _ future chairman of the tax-writing , house ways and commitj tee. agreed and said there will be a tax cut this year and the budget [ would be balanced. But Rep. ClarI ence Gannon D-Mo. described Cha budget as "realistic.” ■ / If the Republican Congress adopted the whole budget—an unlikely “if’ —federal spending; in fiscal 1954, beginning July 1 thts year, would be the biggest except during World War 11. - , a President-elect Eisenhower and such GOP, leaders as Sen. Robert A. Taft have set a general goal of cutting it to i 570,000,000,000. The Eisenhower Version of the budget will be submitted, piecemeal later, beginning in April. * j . .Mr. Truman said the government would go in the red by 49,900,000,000 under his budget if congress lets a $2,000,000,000 corporate and individual tax cut go into effect as scheduled. He said congress shouldn't let this happen. He went further to say that “prudence and wisdom” dictated • that 'the budget be balanced and rearmament be financed pay-as-we-go. This would mean still higher taxes under his spending program. At a seminar with reporters, Mr. Truman made it doubly plain that he favors raising taxes to balance the budget. And he expressed doubt that Republicans could cut it mtflHi without weakening military or foreign aid programs. He called it a very tight budget. The President said that if epngressr permits the scheduled tax cuts to go r through, it should enact substitute taxes. i ‘ r Unless world conditions worsen, Mri Truman said, military spending ijrill hit a peak • fiscal 1954. He predicted a drop of $15,000,000,000 year but not “for at least two or three years.” A Mr. Truman said wage, price and rent controls should be contipuefl at least until June. 1954, - when the defense peak win be reached. ' f President Truman’s fiscal 1953 and 1954 budgets stacked up this way in billions of dollars? ; Estimated Proposed ’953 1954 Expenditures v $74.6 $78.5 Receipts $68.7. S«B.T ? . Deficit $ 5.9 I 9.9 The 1954 budget included these major expenditures:; Military $46,300,000,000; foreign aid $7,559,000.000; atomic energy, mainly weapons, $2,700,000,00(1; veterans $4,600,000,000; interest on national debt k $6,400,000,000; social security $2,600,000,000. - — ~ •- BULLETIN WASHINGTON UP — Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the Joint oniefs of staffs said today he doesn’t know and “hasn't met anybody who: does knowf* how to end the Korean — !