Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 13 January 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 10. j

Ike And Top Leaders Confer On 6.0. P. Plans

Inaugural, State Os Union Preview Given To Key Men NEW YORK UP — Prudentelect Eisenhower today his cabinet and key-men of the new Republican administration p line-by-line preview of“ his. inaugural address and the state»of the.upion message which he wife present to congress shortly after he • takes office. 1 ‘" o{■ Elsenhower and more tmiU 20 leaders of tije new administration ,v met for nearly three hours this morning and planned to wsrk on through the afternoon in a privatediping room on the main fjpor of the Commodore Hotel, where Ei- , senhower has his headquarters. Major John (Eisenhower, fmtu of the President-e lec t, who? Was f- brought back from Korea fferthis {father’s ‘inauguration, joined §the 'group for lunch. ? < a Eisenhower read the inapgfral | address aloud, .but did noi-qpad | the longer state of the union dr|ift. One of the future cabinet; jnlmbers who attended the opening session Monday said “the team, will be all ready to go” when the Republicans take over the government for the first time in 20 The President-elect left his rooms on the sixth floor of She Commodore Hotel for. today's meeting in the same private rooms where Monday he • met with Ms full cabinet for the first tirbe.J . His prgss secretary, James Hagerty. indicptedthe ijh command 'would keep the enhe going at a fast pace thrmiMout most of the day. . , I He hoped there would be a fijllpr report atjthe end of today’s than the sketchy reports hfa®? after Monday's afternoon meeting. The meeting started around > U-shaped table with a green entering in the private cons er eh®* room. .3' * ' ■ 1 A< each place were large paas ant pencils. Reports, covered wi®i neat typed rows of figures, s ht|d\ been put on tire table by Joslin yffl. Dodge, the next director .of t f|»budget. /■ I About 40 persons outside Oe roptn applauded as the PresideAelect entered the chambers. Kis|tynhower was followed by Mije President-elect Richard M. NiilciL ■>, With only one week remain!fe before his inauguration jas the President, Eisenhower set up |jn agenda for' speedy executives Ration the 'instant the Republic! s mdve into office. Eisenhower spent almost $ e hours Monday with 22 menite 3 of his high, command. Press •- ' retary James C. Hagerty g| » newsmen pnly a bare stateme t on what was at the h - cijet meeting. ? ‘ p i “It was a discussion of the if : ture duties of the - foreign and domestic, if you t to add that.* Hagerty said, < 1.1 Gov. Douglas McKay hf OregOi . who wili.be secretary pf the |i ■ terior, came away well 1 with the first, major meeting i ■ GOP administration leaders. I “The team! will be all ready 1 ' go,” he said. Another future cabinet mem be who- asked to remain anonymom said : i [ “We walked in and while w ‘ \ Were eating our oysters on >tn , I Turn To P»r» Six) / | v Mrs. Amelia Parrish ! WE Taken By Death \ Funeral Services | Thursday Afternoon Mrs. ' Amelia Lydia Meyer-Patjl rish, +6, a native of Adams couiftylq died at 4:15 o’clock Monday aftep noon at her home in .Fort Waynes A She was born in Adams countil I Jan. 15, 1907, a daughter of Mt| and Mrs. Herman Meyer, who r« side at Monroe. Mrs. Parrish hail resided in Fort Wayne for the past \ 25 years. „. Surviving in addition to her parents are three sons, Robert, Ron r aid and Donald Parrish, all of Fort Wayne: four sisters, Mrs. Deesie Preston of Kenosha, Wis., Mrs. id> Holthouse, Mrs. Zelma Converse and Mrs. Marietta Dellinger, al| of Decatur, and two brothers, Rohert H. Meyer of Inglewood, Califg *nd Paul H. Meyer of Berne. 1 Funeral services will bte conduct-' * ed at 2:45 o’clock Thursday after noon at the D. O. McComb & Sons - funeral home in Fort Waynei ! Friends may, call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.

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43 Kidnaps Own Children | I ... - ■ 1 I Tj >*■ 1 a 1 i ■ I ■ E'XC/ r Ait Kt- I > ' I 1X < I h' ! 11 \k Ki ■siMiK « 1; ti ■I A i’F’tk j \ jo 3|i ELMER PADGETT, former GJ, sits with his two daughmirs. Linda Lee i(left) 4. and Nelditi Marie 5, whom he kidnaped fijipm their mot-her in Belgium last Wednesday, and flew to the Ottoville, 111., home of his sister.' jMarried while in service in BelgititHif Padgett and the children's mother are'now divorcej. He says hdijlvill fight any attempt to return them to their mother!. Ilsi

11. N. Bombers In Attack On Supply Route Two 200-Airplane Attacks Made On Main Supply Route SEOUL, Korea, UP—United Na; lions fighter bombers made two ’2OO-plane attacks i on tljeV main Manjc huria-Korea supply route today in the biggest? air raid of the nesk - year, while 'protecting Sabrejets destroyed or damaged four Communist MlGj-15's. i Ari early morning attack by 220 planes on five bridges north of Sinanju wj|s- followed up by art equally large Alllfed st dike this a>fternopn. J; ;T*o Rijssiandupilt jsts were shot down by F-fG Sabrejets as they iwoaped down between Sinanju- and the Yalu river to intercept the Slower tfi|fhtei-ix>nibers, Anooher Reh jet w a » probably destroyed, and a fourth was damaged. > It was the fifth straight day that Allied warplanes! hit the bridge! cpmplex nprtl) of Sinanju. The Allied raiders ra£ into intense lire from radaiMcon trolled anti-aircraft gurus. The-, Reds, re-J qlizing the importance of the smpfly route at the bridge complete, have invade it one of the most heavily defended ; areas 'in North Korea.! “TheyVwere shooting at us point blank with heavies,” shid Capt. Carl J. !i Oopmhn of Pontiac. Mich. “I could even see the muzzle blabts.” i In both \nctrninig and afternoon attacks the f|nst waves of U. N. jet bombers concentrated jon the aoti-aiferaft ‘positions. Bilots esti-\ mated they destroyed or’ damaged 15 Red guns. Todaiy’s bombing's followed Monday nights attack by B-29 Siiperforts for the fourth straight night on Communist railroad yards in the same area. Both; attacks were aimed at destroying the enemy supply system carrying food, ammunition and men t<J> the Comjmunisti armies ranged!against the United Nations along J the western and central fronts. ■ ' I On -the ground, Allied raiders on the western front stormed a hill in bitter cold before dawn this mojrning to blow up an enemy supply dump and destroy fortifications threatening the U.N.; lines. The UJ| N. ground raiders fought two hoytls with hand grenades, flame throwers, fists, Nile butts (Turn To Pair* Ftoe) ' . F BULLETIN , ‘ HEW YORK UP — Presidentelect Eisenhower today ordered secretary of statedesignate John Footer Dulles and Harold E. Stassen, mutual security directoodesignate, to go to Europe “to gather Infor* i. mation on political trends in relation to U.S. participation in f NATO and in the economic assistance program.”

Committees OI|PTA Ji’ Study Survey Report Consider Reports On School Su.r|tey ' . \j ' ft . “The Lincoln JL T. A. will not be contrary to or overlap the Indiana University survey planned tor Decatur late this averred Chest?.- Dalzell at the K’F A- cop* fab Monday evening at tlhd Decatur library. Dalzell is chairhidn of thto seh(h;l board survey cotp|, itjtee. And so saying, the l||men and women of the survey, W> o ut twothiidr of the tqtal members, coniidered the reports theyj/would be cabea on to mak?, what|J|«nhi they would take, consider.; ; ®T of tie Various flets'tiiKy may be 1:3 (iryt, and length of rieports. , In principle, it was aglfeed upon by the civic workers that a summary of fehort duration!Wohld be most efficient in get‘.in®phe meat of a report across. ||| 'j ■ ! At least two members expressed concern tj||e survey of tjte P.T.A. mighjt bedconstrued as being a criticism of t||e present school administration. " Chairman of the suiwiy, Mrs. Margaret\FinJayspn, opportunity to each of the peop|e present to ask questions about t|& survey, it appearing that the onelhh buildings held the most interest, As the questions Were asked it became increasingly evident to ilitp group that they were mor? |iplicated than was tlliought at f|rst 5. ind some members at Least indidtjied that more work would be due ie survey than Originally thought. Mrs. Fihlayson ex pl ail ed that with few exceptions, juestions On the survey were takM from a group of bibliographies education. and some provision wias made sou the committees to rakve several of these books mad?’vailable to them. 6 1 Finances, pnd budget to the heaj of the dlass M on?spOjnt in the | discussion with it ■[Upcoming that possibly the whole iprvey on that topic could be taken of in lone fell swoop. School superintend-' ent W| Guy Brown, it was disclosed will give a talk bn i finsHjces and budget at ,t|ie next meet,’[& o f the scho >l board. January 19; ;I§ie meeting at which thelß.jr.A. is to meet witih the board. >!■' The 1.6 members preset at the grouped according to their respective coimnittees: Finance budget: uhairman Jameri Cowan, Leonard Sm day and Mrs. Raymond Heller. Equipment M r.S( i (pari Barnett and Hubert Zerke , Jr. School achievement teacher improvement : Chairman (| I.L; Finlayson, Mrs. Louis Jacobs Miss Glennys Roop. H[ | School lunch program: Chairman Mrs\ Roy Kalver and Mrsl Mildred Kocher. Transportation: Chairipan Joseph Azbell, Carl Gerber api! Robert Gay ‘ - I Building situation: Chairman Dr. James M. Burk, Mrs. ChpHer Dalzell and Bryce Thomas (h'incipal, Lincoln school). School board: Chairmap .Chester Dalzell. 11l

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, January 13, 1953.

Gov. Craig Presents Sweeping Legislative | Program To Assembly

i i,—. — Says Congress To Refuse New Foreign Funds Taber Predicts No . New Foreign /Aid Funds This Year P WASHINGTON. UP --Chairman John Taber of the house appropriations committed .- predicted today thatfcongress! will refuse' to vote any new fund?; for foreign aid this year. | ’ The New York Republican is&id dn an interview that Presidentelect Eifienhoiver himself may cancel Truman’s budget request for |7.600,000,00(t in new, foreign aid appropriations during the- 1754 fiscal year which begins July 1. But if Eisenhower doesn’t the request, he said, congress probably will. ! “T Taber, long-time leader oft. t|se house economy bloc, contended that the! mutual security administration already has enough ’"backlog” funds over fijotn previous appropriations to meet all “legWb matO” foreign aid needs during the coining fiscal year. 4 This assertion wax promptly, dis, puted by officials of the mutual security administration. They said the agency wjill have an unAprht balance of about $10,000,001) 0n hand at the end of the culrreht fiscal year. But they said practically all pf this money w|ill already be ‘,bbiigated,” br set aside to pay fiir arms and other foreign, aid shipments that have, previously been ordered. d■ i •f • Retiring foreign aid director AVerell Harriman said, any cuts whatever in Mr. Truman’s |7,600.000 f bqdget request would be ‘•riskjf’ and a large slash would bb arddus.” . '' ; I ’ He said abdtit 70 percent of the new funds would go to buy arms for U. S. allies. j .: Harriman, who has been confer-, ring with his GOP successor, Harold E. Stassen, also said he S> quite T sure that', Eisenhower “is gcjing to support a mutual security (Turn To Page Six)

Boy Scouts Planning Annual Observance National Boy Scout Week Opens Feb. 7 | This being the Boy Scout season, what with Boy Scout' week' coming up February 7, local Boy Scodts are joining with, their brothers in the county; state, and the other 47 states, to cook up # set of -programs to properly mark the passing of another year* of the? long Boy Scout history. February 7, of course, begins tional Boy Scout’ week when the Boy Scouts are given their heatfc and permitted to take over the reigns of their respective! local' administrations. Decatur and Adams county, says an informed? source, will not be found lacking. Elections will be held Saturday? morning February 7 —in the best democratic fashion —after whiclM with due ceremony, the youthful citizens wil unseat their older counterparts for one whole day and “show 'em, how to. do it.” Two days earlier, on 5, two Decatur scouts Will receive: the most coveted award ’ that can ; be bestowfed upon any scout—Jiisj Eagle award.' ! f |j. Tonight at Decatur high school will meet the newlyformed Boy’ Scout district comprised! of three counties—Adams. Wells and Jay counties, te discuss plans of each of the local Boy Scout communities. Topping off the week will be the annual Boy Scout banquet Feb. 12, attended by the Scouts of troops 61, 62 and 63, sponsored by thq\ Rotary club, the Lions club and the American Legion? respectively. ( . £ !■ . ■ . ! ih ." ■ ! i ! ■?■ tn

To Leave Decatur j / w Walter Ford

Walter Ford Quits As C. C. Secretary . Accepts Post With I Connersville C. C. Walter Font. executive secretary <rf the Decatur Chamber ol pmww* for ‘the last two years today announced his resignation from that post,! effective February 7. Ford has Accepted a similar position at Connersville. The local secretary informed the l>oard of directors of the Chamber of his intention to leave Decatur at the regular meeting Monday night and his resignation was-accepted. Mrs. Ford and two sons, Wally and >Mike. will,remain in Decatur at 'the present time until a suitable borne can be 'obtained at Connersville. Ford came to Decatur two years ’ago from, Frankfort, where he was fodtlxall <Soach at\ Frankfort high tehool. He is a; graduate of Jefferson of Lafayette high school and Louisiana Tech college. lle| also has a master’s degree from Purdue University. Following ibis' college training t'e 'taught schod? Nevil high sphoolat Monrok>tja., an d during the war was an instructor at Yale University. He served four years in the U. S. army during World War 11. The Decatur post Ford's first Chamber of 'Commerce work and during his two-yeajr stay in Decatur he has made a fine record in thatKjyork. He has directed the activities of the Chamber' of Commerce and the Decatur (Tara To Page Six) Meet Thursday On Elks Cancer Party Annual Cancer Fund ' Party January 24 Plans will be completed Thursday night sor 1 the annual Flks cancer fund party, which will be held at the lodge home on North Second street Saturday night, Jan. 24. All! members of the various committees aye requested* to be present', for the regular lodge meeting Thursday night at 8 o'clock, after which the committees will meet' with Walter . Sittman, cochairman for the annual party.) The following committee chairmen are especially Urged to be present: L. R. Zintsmaster, prizes; George Alton, food (smorgasbord); Dale Death, tickets; Bernard Meyer, equipment and decorations; Hubpard Steiner, special tainment All proceeds from the party are devoted to the Indiana Elks cancer fund, which has contributed many thousands of dollars in repent years to cancer research. The party, which is open to the public, will start with a smorgasbord, with, serving to begin at 6 o’dock, special entertainment at & p. m., and concluding with g dance at \lO \ o’clock.' I

Japanese Warn Russian Planes Against Flights Stop Flights Over Japan Or Run Risk Os Being Shot Down TOK|’O UP — Japan bluntly warned Russia tdday that if any more Sbviet warplanes fly over Japim they may be shot down by the •U. S. air 1 ' force. American leaders here said the United States would cooperate. Japan issued the warning in a public Statement referring- only to “The foreign power concerned,” but the reference to Russia was obvious ; in recent months many foreign planes, believed to be Russian, have flown over Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island. A spokesman for the Far East command said Gen. Mark W. Clark hag issued instructions to “appropriate commanders to take all meksnrea to prevent further violations.” . i \ The spokesman said the "stateissued today by the Japanese goverminent has the full concurrency o|f U. S. Ambassador Robert D. Murphy and General Clark.” The government statement said “violations of pur territorial air over Hdkkaido have of late become increasingly frequent" and that Japan 14111 an end to them “With the cooperation of the Uiiited States security forces stationed in Japan.” ! ] Mitsub Tanaka,, foreign office spokesman, said in a> press conference that "we cannot tell what measures will be taken. Sometimes we try to force the invading I airplanes out of our domain. Sometimes, if necessary, we will order them to land,” But “sometimes.” he said, “when they don’t follow’ orders we Will use force. We, will shoot them down.” ! Tanaka said the violations, by a country he refused to identify as Russia, have occurred with increasing frequency since Japan regained her sovereignty last summer. Lately, he said, . the Intruding planes have been 1 flying deeper !i ('FUra To' PaUc Six)

Mrs. Louise Garwood Dies Last Evening Funeral Services *' Thursday Afternoon Mi-s.l Ixiuise Garwood, 79. a yesi|dent of Mercer, county, 0., most of“her lifie, died at 6 o'clock Monday evening at the home of a son, Oscar bar wood, near Willshire. She suffered a cerebral hemorrhage last Wednesday. She wdh born in Crawford county, 0., Sfept. 17, 1872,. a daughter of Ada{m land Susanna Coik-Yager, and was married to Joseph 6arwoo<| April 5, 1894. Her husband preceded her in death Feb. 12, Surviving in addition to the son are three other sons, Elmere of Van Wert; 0., Harvey of Wreh, 0., and Delrper of near Willshire; three daughters, Mra. Dennie Krick of Wren, Mu*- Mqry Btahl of Findlay, O. .and Mrs. Rpy Brod beck of Willshire ; 20 grandchildren and 16 great-krandchiflden. Two sons, two daughters and two brothers are deceased.‘ The bo<iy will! be removed from the Zwick funeral hom4 to the home of the son; Oscar, one mile south and one m|ie east of Willshire, friends may call after 7 o’clock this Evening. Funeral services wkll be conducted at 1:15 p.m. (EST) Thursday at the home and at! o'clock at the Union Evangelical United Brethren church at Willshire, iSthe Rev. H. L. Smith Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. J'J? F . J .■ ' V ' -A ...

Soviets Accuse Nine Physicians In Plot Group Os Doctors Arrested MOSCOW UP — A group of doctors, ,f most of them Jews, have been arrested forj plot? ting against the lives of Soviet military leaders, and for responsibility in the deaths of two topranking Communist party officials; it was announced toddy. ; Press and radio reports said nine doctors had been arrested as mew bers of an international Jewish bourgeois nationalist organization which was set up American intelligence agents. The doctors confessed killing Andrei A. Zhdanov, the founder of the Cohimunisf International Organization -Coniinfbrm. dnd Alexander' S. Scherbakov, another Communist party leader and administration head, through false diagnoses, the announcement said. t Yhe physicians tried to kill Marshall of the Soviet Union Alexander M. Vasilevsky and other military leaders including Marsha} Leonid A. Govorov, commander 1 Ibf the Soviet armies in Finland in War II; Marshal Ivan Konev, former commander of Soviet ground forces; one-time chief of the general staff Gen. S. ; M. Shteyienko. and Admiral R.\l. Levchenko, deputy naval minister, it was said. | Moscow Radio said all the arrested men proved to be paid agents of a foreign intelligence.. A majority of the doctors were said to be connected the Ainerican joint distribution committee, which was described as , a * socialist Zionist” and "Jewish ifatiopalist organization. ” , * l The joint distribution committee is a Jewish charitable organization which did [relief work throughout Europe after World War H. The doctors were charged with contributing to Zhdanov’s death in 1948. “The criminals confessed that having availed themselves of Com(Tarn To Pace Six)

C. Os C. Banquet Tickets Go On Sale Annudl,Banquet To Be Held Jan. 29 Tickets went on sale today for the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet to be held January 29 at Decatur high school gymnasium, Catl Brauh, general ticket chairman, announced. The annual banquet is open to the general public and men and women are invited to attend. A limit of 400 tickets has been established and.jhe dinner has been a sell-out the last several‘years, .Braun said. Assistants on the ticket committee include Herman Krueckeberg, George Stultz of Wiley Furniture Co., John Halter man and Ronald Parrish. Tickets mhyibe obtained from these committee members or at the First State Bank; Chainber of Commerce office; Pederson's Clothing store or Hoithouse Drug Co. No tickets will be sold after noon of January 26. The Women of the Moose will-serve the banquet and the complete program of entertainment which will follow the dinner will be announced soon. Braun said that more than 100 reservations for tickets, already had been made and he urged that all who plan to attend secure their tickets immediately so there Will be no disappointments. Chamber members, their wives and all othei men and women of the community are eligible to attend the annual evept. ' ; - INDIANA WEATHER i Considerable cloudineaa to* nipnt and Wednesday with •bowers likely extreme south late Wednesday. Somewhat \ colder north. Low tonight 2530 north, 35-40 south. High Wednesday 30-38 north, 38-48 south.

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Urges Soldier Bonus Be Paid Immediately 29-Point Program Proposed By Craig In Reorganization INDIANAPOLIS, UP—Governor Craig presented a sweeping 29* point legislative program tjo the Indiana 'general assembly today to carry out his. reorganization plan:* and ursed immediate bonus payment, state salary increases and a lowered voting agie. He saidy, he wanted to operate Ltate government as a businjess in an. effort to increase efficiency and reduce cost. | • I / ’ “There is no attempt or design to increase authority." he sajd, “and. in my judgment, these suggestions will not require an increase of present taxes ncr the f* levying rtf any new taxps." Craig tbld a joint session of the legislature that it could attract talented and efficient workers to state jobs only by increasing salaries—not rash and exorbitant raises, he said, but sufficient to compete with private Im sin ess He suggested payment of the veterans’ bonus beginning not later than June 30. As did retiring Governor Schricker. CtaiP saif t money should be borrowed from the general fund to pay the bonus and the bonus tax should lie abolished when that loan is repaidNineteen year olds would be (allowed to vote if another of Craig’s proposals becomes law. He pointed to teen-agers in the armed forces and said ‘.“One who is capaWe of sharing his nation’s responsibilities is, likewise capable of expressing'his beliefs by ballot.” ' His legislative proposals for governmental reorganization wero-. similar to' those he has made in

the past. He urged a single director for the state highway department and reduction at the state boerd of commissioners tjo an advisory group. Democrats oppose both suggestions. Criticized by minority Remocrats recently for trimming IftlO.005,000 from a budget allotment fbr building new mental health facilities. Craig sought to justify his~position. He said legislative appropriations should be concentrated on obtaining personnel greater in taiept end in nuinber because “a hospital bed is but a cell unless it is attended by nurses, technicians and doctors.” \ He said administrative personnel of many state board of examination should be consolidated to savei money.'. He said activities and size of the department of veterans affairs should be reduced, a safety director post should be created, and a farm manager appointed to head state agricultural work. 1 ' “The question of law enforcement is critical in some instances; I recommend you provide more stringent penalties Cor the violation of gambling laws.” he eaid. He suggested mandatory jail terms Cor drunken drivers witJ; lifetime loss of driver’s license upon second conviction. He suggested a merit system Cor conservation, highway, and. motor vehicle department employes, more state, troopers, and higher, standards for excise police am} investigators for the state fire marshal's office. He verbally vetoed a now stated police headquarters, (Tara To Pace Five)

Frank F. Huffman Dies This Morning Frank F. Huffman, €l. died .suddenly this morning at his home in Muncie. Surviving are two brothers, William Huffman of Decatur and Edwin of Muncie; a sister, Mrs. Earl M. Houser of Muncie, and miro daughters, Mrs. Marcella Huff and Mrs. Roselyn Crawley, both of Dayton. 0. Funeral services will be heldi at 10:30 a. m. Wednesday at the Piepho funeral home in Muncie, with cremation following.