Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 10 January 1953 — Page 1

; Vol. LI. No. 8.

Three Strife Laden Measures To Legislature Three Controversial , Bills Introduced In ; State Legislature INDIANAPOLIS UP —'Bills covering three controversial Sub-' > jects rejected by the 1951. Indiana < legislature — gambling, highway safety and abolition of government agencies—rinoved through Ch'e legls- ? lative process ill a new try today. They preyed th lie "hot potatoes" two years ago, and every indication was that; they will give the new general assembly many tense moments. ~ ' r f The lawmakers themselves were home for the weekend.’ Both house and senate recessed to 10 a.m. Monday, inauguration day for Gov-ernor-elect George N. Craig. The controversial bills will, be up for discussion, and additional bills covering the same sub- . jectfc are being prepared fbr introduction. Already introduced are bills providing stiff penalties for gambling, .mandatory-jail terms for drunken drivers, and abolition of the state's judicial council. > ’ Five conference committees seek- • ing a house-senate, compromise on 'the apti-gambl.ing measure in 1951 | failed as the session;reached a midnight) adjournment. Shortly before, committee members, charged an i unidentified man attempted to “Steal” land "hide” the original 5 copy of the bill in an effort to prevent its passage. Rep. Thomas \C. Hasbrook RIndianapolis, blind author of the tyill, said the 1958 version has even more “teeth" than, the 1951 bill. He said it is modeled after the tamed 11. S./senate’s cringe investigation report. Persons consistently engaged in gambling activities would face JO years' imprisonment and 35.000 fine. Lesser punishment tape first violators who own, sell, operate or handle gambling! d'eVices,, houses or Information. Courts could strip witnesses of immunity from answering questions on grounds of self-incritnination, . f ■ ' As it affects newspapers. Ilasbrook interpreted it as an ban on - publication of pre-event information helpful to gambling activities, as pre-fight odds on a boxing exhibition. He said publication of race results wpuld be considered legitimate news. : Sen. Milford E. Annes R-Meta-mora relied bi|ls to supplement one introduced by Rep. Frank O. i Rarick R-Warsaw. The bill, requiring judges to send drunken drivers'to jail for at least five . days, didn’t attract enough support for passage last session. I To further highway safety, Alness skid he will suggest speed / limits of 65 miles per hour by day and 55 by night plus more stringent tests for driver’s/license applicants. ' v/ : Rep/ Charles T. Miser R-Gar-rett. who. built a reputation in 1951 .. for attempts to abolish what he called “useless" government agencies, has similar plans again. He started Friday w|th a bill abolishing the judicial council and said he holds a similar attitude toward the Indiana economic council, aeronautics board and beauty and barber boards. I : - a--- ... ..' - H -A- ■ ...■■• ' Local Lady Meets 45-Year-Old Sister, for The First Time I' > Two sisters who had, never seen r each other before, met today at ithe Pennsylvania railroad b tat ion , in Fort Wayne. ; Mrs. Joe Kelley, 1116 Nuttman ; avenue, had the first glimpse of her sister, Miss Victoria Smekens. 45, of Brussels, Belgium, as she stepped off the train at, the union statioh. • ‘ *: Miss Smekens grossed the ocean by plane and arrived in Chicago last night. Weather conditions were unfavorable for flying, st} she remained in Chicago- until this morning. Mis. Kegey's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert, Smekens Os Bluffton, came to the United Stages in 1911. Her slater remained in Belgium, where later she tared for an aunt. Mrs. Kelley, was born in the United, States.- i ; : • ... The union of the sisters ,was scheduled for 11:05 o’clock this morning., B oth Mr. and Mrs. Kellgy and the latter’s father.had gone to ' Fort Wayne to meet Miss Smekens. Miss Smekens intends to’. live with her parents in Bluffton; She * also has another sister, Mrs. Kenneth Bayless, and a brother, Clemen Smekens, residing in Bluffton, . Noon Edition

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233 Persons Drowned When Ship Capsizes All Dead Believed Koreans; Seven Men \ Are Only Survivors PUSAN. Korea (UP)—A small, heavily loaded Korean passenger ship turned turtle in heavy ■seas 10 miles west of here Friday nigltf, drowning :238 persons within tdght of tlandh \ v All of the dead Were believed to he South Koi+ans. Ohly seven open, including the ship's captaiih, iwti crewmen anti | four passengers/ struggled through 1 tne icy water tp. the safety of a smail island SOOhyards away? The remainder of the passengers and chew trapped in the passenger comportrttents' gr died of exix>sure. / | < The l+Pton. ( 10t-foot coastwise ship, on its regular run from Yosu, 10 miles 'West Os Pusan, to this temporary Korean capital, was fighting iti# iwpy through mounthinous seds ihd gale winds when it w'as attack broadside by a huge anil <a<psizod. Three rescue yeasels were sent to the scene eight Ilnurs after the '■passenger ship overturned. They found only floating corpses. One (vessel parked up Captain Ha Pyahg Moh a/n<J his fellow survivors front .the #rtiall The South' Korean Ministry of Transportation opened an immediate investigation. \ The shiip-, named the Chang Tybng.Ho, was caiTying 240 persons altogether. ; But it also bore 400 bags of ricei. And a cargo of dried seiaweed. . It Ads one of) Several regular coast wise vessel's- Used between Korea's east and kept coasts. A preliminary / report indicated tne delay in getting rescue boats 1 , to the scene resulted i>ecause the passenger ship ha<| no radio. The captain sept the first news of the disaster to the mainland from a radio-equipped fishing hpa\ moored on the island' he readied with other survivors. Capt. Ha said there would have been no oipportuniity to send a radio distress signal even if the ship had been I equipped for transmission. ; , He said he was; struggling with tiie steering gear of the ship in an attempt to keep it; Ijeaded into the seas when it sWuh« suddenly and wae hit broadside |>y the giant wave. H \ M He saidl hf was thrown to the deck and dyerboard- as the ship heeled over tio one side. Water poured into the passenger and cargo trapping the screaming passengers. ?■ 4 —nt" : 1 INDIANA WEATHER « Cloudy tonight and Sunday with occa#ional drizzle ’ or freezing drizzle tonight Sunday cloudy and turning colder with anow flurries north. Low tonight. 30-36, high .Sunday SO--35 north, 35-40 south. \ . ■■ ■■ ■ 4

—_ m—Proposes Military Service Extension 36-Month \Teii|i Os Service Suggested WASHINGTON UP BL. Rep. James K. Van Zandt ,iit ; Pa- pro*; postal, today that a reputed draft manpower squeeze be by stretching the term of ipflttary aervice from 24 to 36 mdnti Ijs. Van Zandt, a memh| jr zof the house armed services committee and a reserve navy obtain who recently returned \ fronVrp tour of duty in Korea, also congress must tighten up on dripft deferments and start the Korean fighting “as a war." \ Van Zandt pointed to Iby drafj director Lewl| ; B.‘ \HerI shey that the pool of — undeferred through 25 — is "about w)run dry.” Van Zandt said lengtmiing the present two-year draf|||; term to three /years not only yfould ease the manpower squeeze 4>ut boost fighting efficiency and defense costs. ... i ■[. i ••• Hershey, writing Ini service monthly said Friday some .College deferments will have to be ended and s lw|t fathers deferred by presidential order—may haye to be called to service before long . >.' Hershey’s\plea for moi® men got a cautious! reception f®m most l congressmen. ■, Chairman Leverett SJkJlstonstall R-Mass. of the senate armed services committee said+ie thinks Hershey’s problem can .me solved by changing deferment regulations, a niove that would pot frequife legislation. 11 C I u Rep. W. Sterling Cols R-N. Y. a }«ey member of the armed services group, said if fears ard justified, should take an oyerail look draft deferments. About 184,300 draft-age^in en now are deferred to attend cp||ege. Under present Regulations, tHby usually can cbntiiiue in as long as they keep up their All told, about 1,380,500 meh are deferred for various reason#! the big(Taru To Pa«o S&) x — “jig . School Board Vofes For Survey By I. ft Five hundred dollars been deposited with the survey department of Indiana University in anticipation of the su-ryei jithat organization will perforin iihter this year, it was announced Aoday by schqol superintendent iw. Guy Brown. Brown said the bool board arid hipiself met in spatial session last night to decide |he issue. ■Heretofore, there had substantial indications to support formal action taken by tfo school board Friday night. A meeting was held tills week wjth almost every civlc/irad municipal organziation attinMng, with Dr. Harold H. Churchy director of the Indiana University school survey department. He said survey cqujd be done for about. Bp, 000, to be an all-inclusive evaluation of the city’s potential regaling its schools. ’ '\ ■ ;; i* : t I wh i

j ' a Decatur, Indiana, Soiarday, January 10, 1953.

Schedule Drawn For Annual Adams County High School Tourney

■■l- ■l'*! ■ ■■■' I■■ —— ■■ « 11. «'l GOP Prepares Budget Cut 01 Eight Billion Optimistic Solons See Balancing Os ! Budget, Tax Slash WASHINGTON UP — Republicans refused to take President Truman’s. whopping 378,600,000,000 spending budget very seriously today. They set their sights on slashing fiscal 1954 spending to a minimum of 370,000,000,000, and some thought they could cut even deeper. More optimistic Republican congressmen thought the budget not onjy could be. reduced by the last of this year. • • Xir. Truman estimated federal revenue for the 1954 -fiscal year starting July 1 at 368,700,000,000. He said present high tax rates should be continued or even increased. The Republican feeling was that Mr. Truman had sent the new GOP congress a budget made-to-order for trimming. Speaker Joseph * W Martin Jr., ‘said\ the proposed spending program represented « “phantom budget.” "It is a spendthrift budget, calculated on policies and programs which no longer prevail," Martin said. "At the proper time, the new administration will submit its own program, alnd a balanced budget to support it.” j Senate Republican leader Robert A. Taft said he had not had time to study the figures. But he .told newsmen that the-Republican goal stilt is to hold federal spending th the newitiscal year to 370,0.00,000/; 000 at the most. Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana, GOP floor leader in the houhe, said the budget would he redqced “without any of the dire consequences predicted by the out going President." Rep. John Taber R-N. Y., .who Will be chairman _’of the house appropriations committee, said the GOP would have little trouble cutting the budget substantially. He thought a 310,000.600,000 cut might be within reach. The new Eisenhower administration will go over the budget care(Tuta To I*a Be $| X ) Mills Bros. Circus In Decafur April 24 C .C. Sponsor Os Circus Appearance Mills Brothers circus) a threeriAg show with seating capacity; under the big tent for 6,500 people, will come to Decatur April 24 it was announced today by Dale Morrissey, chairman of , the retail division of the Decatur Chamber ol Commerce, which group will sponsor thb show. The circus, with star entertain-, eris from 18 nations, has been oh the toad for the last 12 seasons, playing under auspices of civic groups and charitable organizations in the middlewest. It is the largest motorized show in the world. < The 1953 edition of the show has a personnel of more than 506 people and hundreds of wild and trained animals, including 40 tons of elephants. Two performance# will be given, afternoon and night/ and the location will be announced later, Morrissey skid. / r Mills Brother# show is unique in that it never shows on Sundays and the only circus in the nation carrying its own minister. The big concert band Is regarded as one of the finest in the nation Advance ticket sale will start six weeks before April 24, and plans also are being made so that’ needy youngsters of the community may attend the matinee performance free of charge. These details will be announced later. \| •

Spiritual Emphasis Week Closes Sunday Closing Service At Public High School "Why do men follow Christ,” waq the question with which Dr. Clyde W. of Chambersburg. Pa., Decatur’s Spiritual Emphasis week speaker, began last night's sermon. ,‘lt is significant that men follow Christ. Why?" he continued. "Men follow Christ because first, an Example for life which men discover/ to be better than any other; second. He is the master of men because He becomes the center of scholarship and the arts. Men, however, follow for greater reasons.” Dr. Meadows said. “Men follow him because He is their Saviour. He alone frees men from the guilt of conscience and the power of temptation. \ Men follow Him, finally, becaiisd He is the way of life. Christ is the answer but the application of this truth to personal lives Is necessary if He is.to become the Saviour of mankind. \. The Rev. Romaine D. Wood, pastor of the .Church of the Nazarene, presided over last evening’s session. The Rev. John Chambers of Trinity Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Rev. Traverse the Fjrst QVi» tlan Church were the devotional leaders. The choir from the First Baptist church provided the anthem. The ushers were supplied by the Zioq Evangelical and Reformed church. Three morfe meetings remain in the series: the Saturday evening session at 7:30 at the First Metho’dis[ church, the youth meeting, Sunday evening at 6 o’clock at the First Baptist church and the mass meeting Sunday evening at 7:30 at the high school abditprium, A choir of 150 voices to be made up of choirs of the cooperating churches for the closing session. .Under the direction 'of Dr. Meadows as song' leader the singing will provide one of the high moments of the weeks observance. People from the churches in/the surrounding territory are expected and cordially welcomed. rLong Distance toll Dialing In Tonight Goes ;ln Effect At 'Midnight Tonight At the stroke of midnight tonight, Charles Ehinger and the Citizens Telephone Co. will have realized,a dream of long standing: long distance toll dialing. i ' V ’‘ ‘ Heretofore,, when a long distance call is made it has been necessary to contact several operators to get the call through the system. A system has been perfected whereby certain code numbers, assigned to various points, route a call through the wires without the intevention of aid of another operator, even the one at the, final destination. This is how it works, according to an explanation from Ehinger; If. say. one wishes to Call Norwich. Conn., and Khe local nurhber is known, one merely gives the number to the becatur operator who looks up the special code number assigned to Norwich, Cpnn. The code happens to be 212+57$ +, the local number to come after the last plus sign; automatically, the code opens the way through to Norwich and the local number rings without the Norwich operator having anything to do with the call. The only way she knows there is a call cooking is the busy signal. / Ehinger declared that with ohly three exceptions, thousands of cities may now be reached through this* direct method of toll-dialing. The exceptions are Toledo, 0., Chicago, 111., and Detroit, Mich., these points to be reached through Fort Wayne as formerly. £

. . i ; r Atomic Spies File Appeals To President *I • ; ‘ ' !. Rosenbergs Appeal Tb Pres. Truman To Avoid Death Penalty WASHINGTON, UP — Atomic spies Julius a‘nd Ethel Rosenberg ■ appealed to Truman to- . day to sayd them from the electric chair. i The ap|>eal was filed at the justice department at 9;30 a.m., thus . meeting a deadline set in New ( York by Federal Judge Irving [ R. Kaufman who sentenced 'the couple to death two years ago. ( All court efforts to save the RosenbeCg# from death had failed. < Justice department attorney# . will process the appeal before at- , torney general James P.. McGranery turns it over tq the President with Ms recommendations. It was not certain just when the ’ appeal for J clemency will reach ’ Mr. Truman. Nor is it certain he will act updr .it before his retire- ) ment Jan. 2ff. He mky leave it up to President-elect Eisenhower to 1 make the iiteW-death decision. ’ 1 Judge Kaufman told the Rosen- ■ bergs’ counsel ! stay execution .of sentence if the 1 appeal for executive clemency ■ were filed by todgy. The Rosen- ) bergs originally were scheduled to ’ die in the electric chair at New York’s Sing Sing prison next Wednesday. Kaufman said if the President refuses clemency, the stay will ■ expire five days after the presidential decision i# announced. The Ttoselnbergs spied for Russia ! from 1945 to 1950. They were part ; of the espionage ring of Which : Klaus Fuchs; British atomic physi--1 cist, was a key member. Fuchs 1 is serving a sentence in\ \Great 1 Britain. The houeersenate atomic Energy coipmission has estimated that information supplied by the Rosenbergs-Fuch# ring speeded develeppment of -Russia’s atomic bomb by 18 months. ' Justice department officials refused to reveal the content of the appeal to the President Pro-Communist groups all over the world have been trying for months to make the Rosenberg case a cause celebre. For weeks pickets have been marching on a street next to the . White House carrying banners asking clemency. In sentencing the Rosenbergs two years ago, Kaufman said-that in his piind |hey were guilty-of a crime worse than murder. I Four Persons Killed As Auto; Hits Truck Automobile Skids Into Truck's Path v ANGOLA, Ind. UP —Four persons were killed today when their auto zigzagged out of ( control on icy U. S. 27 and slid mto the path of \a big truck. The dead | were identified by sheriff’s deputies as Myron Cribbs, Mt. Morris,ifMich,; ; his wife, Stella, 4t, Mrs. Winifred Jeanne Burgler, 24, Van N&yis, Calif., and Mrs. Burgler's small son, Craig. \ The four grere the only occupants. , of the car, sriyen by Cribbs. ) The car collided with a semitrailer driven by Robert Demond, ) 31, Lansing/ 1 Mich. * Demond tfpld polite the pavement was a ice apd he saw the car skid and forth from its ) own lane across the dividing line into the lipe in which he was driving. r/| Demond said he tried to stop but I it was too ~|cy and the car swung i sideways insa the front of the truck . near the cr&t of a hill. The accident occurred about 4 i a.m. on a stretch of highway three : and one-half/ miles north of here near the Michigan state line. ■ 4 1 • ; '

- i ■, . . • New Screening To Rid UN Os Reds Executive Order Signed By Truman WASHINGTON UP —The state department predicted today that new government screening method# Wilh purge tbe United Nations of any American Communists. But Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy R-Wis, arch antagonist ,bf the department, branded the new plan . as nothing more than "window ; dressing” rolledyout by President Truman,.“extremely late in his political life." Sen. Pat McCarran D-Nev. outgoing head of the senate internal subcommittee, took a similar position. • The President late Friday\signed an executive order tightening up procedures for weeding U.S. Communists and other disloyal Americans out of the U.N. 1 The action Came after nearly 40 American employes quit or were fired as the result of sweeping grand jury l and congressional investigations into Red infiltration of t the , organization. A. >. -5 The order provides for full FBI _ field investigation of 350 to 40U > y. S. citizens with top jobs in the j international organisation and civil service loyalty checks on up to . f;700 Americans in lesser U. N. I posts. The latter WHI get •• a full , FBI check- if the study turns up , derogatory information. Findings will be turned over to , the secretary of state ing to the U.N. secretary-general. . Final responsibility for hiring and firing of Americans still will rest with the secretary-general. I The state department said th,s procedure ushers in a “new era in our relations" with the United Nations and its special agencies. Officials said the plan will bring screening activities in the open instead of keeping them undercover as they have been under a secret arrangement. McCarran branded Mr. Tru-• • man’s action a "deathbed conversion." But reaction from other con(Turn To P«Ke Tkreet , 1 . ' 4 ’ ' ) ' • : x Finish Inspection / Os County Schools Severr Schools In County Inspected A week-long inspection of health conditions and sanitary facilities of seven county schools was completed Friday with the verdict: ‘health and canitary conditions-in the schools inspected are above average.” it was announced today by Glen Custard, county school puperintendent. The statement was made, said Custard, by Dayton A. Swickard, food and drug sanitarian of the date board of health, who made fhp inspection, accompanied by Custard. The. inspection was bi-annual and taken from the standpoint of school junch programs, health conditions, dishwashing facilities and efficiency and toilet facilities. The seven ochbols that fell under scrutiny Were: Monmouth school, Adams Central high and grade* school, township school, Geneva ndhool, Pleasant Mills high school, ind Bobo sdhobl. ; CustaM said Swickard thought the school lunches servfed in the Adams county schools inspected Were “unusual and above average." . Swickard also Investigated the efjiciency and capacity of the water Supply and pumps used at the schools. All of these in the county . Were reportedly “found in good shape.” \ Custard declared that the inspector found the dishwashing facilities fn all the schools up to snuff and psing tjhe correct temperature of Water | prescribed for washing fishes, 170 degrees. | < Swickard will ultimately file a > report to Indianapolis and a report i t|o every trustee *iu the county involved with the schools surveyed.

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Commodores Play Hartford In First Game ' ' ■ r J ' '■ . Annual Tourney To Open Thursday At Decatur High Gym Pairings wer,e made this morning j for the annual Adams county high, school basketball tourney, which, will be held at the Decatur high, school gym next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The drawing was made in the office of Glen Custard, county school superintendent, under supervision of L. Dallas Albright. Jefferson high school- principal and manager of this year’s tournev. Today’s draw was pretty evenly balanced and one of the best meets in the tourney’s history is in prospect as the eight teams battle for the county championship, now held by the Gorillas. The Decatur Commodores will . tangle with the defending champion Gorillas in the tourney* opence/ at 7 o’clock Thursday evening, lit the second game, one of the pre- ( tourney favorites, the Geneva Car- ■ dinals, will play the Adams Central Greyhounds. ' " + Play will resume Friday night, with the Jefferson Warriors tangling with the Pleasant Mills Spartans, another pre-meet favorite.; + The final first round game Friday night will pit the Monmouth Ea# les against the Berne Bears. The 1953 tourney will be the first- time in Hiany years that Berne has participated in the coun- \ ■ ty meet, adding considerable in-\ \ terest to the always-heated battle \ for the county crownAThe Decatur Yellow Jackets do participate \in the tourney. ' Semi-finals will be played Saturday afternoon, with the Thursday night winders clashing in the first game the Friday night w-inners. The final game will be played at 8 o’clock Saturday night, and there will be no preliminary game to the final. Officials will be Ted W. Butz and Roscoe Hall, both of Fort Wayne. '• • \ Season tickets, priced at 32. good for the four sessions, will go on ; \ sale at all the participating schools Monday morning. In event the tourney is not a sellout in peason tickets, single session tickets will be sold, only at the gym windows prior to each session.. The Decatur Daily Democrat will again present the trophy to the counyt championship ?team, and the individual sportsmanship tro- , phy wijl again be given by Robert Monnier. former Decatuir business man. •’ + • . /•?:. ■| ■ .!• Thursday Ggtne 1—7:00 p. m.A- Commo- . x dores vs Hartford. ' | / Game. 2—8:15 p. m.—Genf+a. vs Central. Friday *./ ; * <Game 3 —7:00 p. efi.—-Jefferson vs Pleasant Mitts. ; Game 4 —8:15 p. to, —'Monmouth, vs Berne. ' Saturday Game 5—12:45 p. —Winner game 1 vs winner game 2. Game 6—2:00 p. ip.—Winner game 3 vs winner gjune 4. Game 7—B\oo p. m.—Winner game 5 vs winner game 6. \ ■ ■ ‘/ / + - I -\ I . ■■ /' i \ '/'■'• I 'i I" S . '' -' 61,000,000 Americans Are Now Employed WASHINGTON, UP—More than 61,000,000 Americans held jobs in December and "emptoytnent xMtions have probably, never been more favorable.” , Commerce secretary' Charles Sawyer said Friday unemployment in December was at "a near minimum" of 1,308,000. Employment waa 750,000 below November, however. mostly because farm activity dropped off sharply at the end of —• the harvest season. ' j