Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1953 — Page 1

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Car Up-Ended In Wreck Inside Washington Depot Jr ; war jHB ?|K MfflM HKsfl I 's• I nB S' ; " ;dR P*- a : .?% IBHHHI v« A PASSENGER CAR of the Pennsylvania’s: Boston-to-Washington express. The Federal, lies up-ended in Washington’s Union station after the train, brakes disabled, thundered into the concourse ifc'it of control. The locomotive dug a gaping hole in the concrete floor. Engineer Henry W. Browetw~63, Philadelphia. kept his whistle ' wide open and the! bell clanging to warn the 8 t :45 a. tn. crowd; I®

Blocks Move To Repeal Vet A'' v x ■. ' ' ■: \ } Bonus Payment Block Introduction Os Measure Designed To Repeal Payments TNDIANAPQLIS, VP — The author Os Indiana's soldier Wnus law today blocked at Teast temporarily the Introductioa of a Kill to repeal it. . • ' 1 Rep. Joseph Klein (IJ-Gary), who helped write the act which created cash gifts of more'than 1100.0U0,CoO for-more than 300.000 Hoosier World War II veterans, moved the 'lndiana house to reject a hill' offered by Rep. Philip H. Willkie ( It-Rushville). \ / Willkie would pay only wounded veterans and next of kin <>f deceased. He would exempt about 250,000 who came home “uns*cratched” and save |97,‘000,000 to divert to cither purposes. Klein's maneuver resulted in a decision ,to make the motion special order of business next Monday. Several lawmakers Willkie had a to introduce the bill, even though, they said, the majority of legislators oppose his idea. • "This is merely a publicity stunt.” Klein said, "and it does not merit survival a» a bill." i Blocking a bill at the time; of introduction is rare in legislative history. Bills unwanted by majority blocs usually are killed in com-, mittee or later on the floor. • Klein said the legislature has no right to "breach a contract” with voters who approved a bonus in a referendum. ' '' “It would be insincere and immoral and fraud the people 7 of Indiana by using the bonus tax for any other purposes.* he said. Another bonus bill came intb-.the house to extend to April *3O the deadline for filing applications for the bonus. The original deadline was in 1951 but-has been postponfed twice. Authors of the extension bill werie Rep. Carlson H. King.iDBoggstown) and John R. Weightier (R-Marion). Another extension .bill, before the present assembly Would stretch the deadline \to next Dec. 3i. : . * . T,he action came as the bonus hung in a cross fire of* conflicting aims. > '■< ' There were - three distinct' .plans ’ advanced: ■ '- i. .• ' , • ' 1. To mail jchecks beginning June 1. . . 2. To allow veterans to’ negotiate notices specifying the amounts they are to receive. 3. Abolish the bonus law' Without paying anything to uinjiired 'vetls. ■ The legislature will consider all three possibilities.< A house Committee' already has approved the first proposal! 3 : \ A i house veterans affairs committee recommended today passage of a bill starting check-writing June 1. With present facilities, it would take a t year tp, write, all checks totaling |97,200,00(f at. the rate of 1,000 per day. A subcommittee was formed to investigate mdahs of speeding up that process; The investigation will cover the possibility of making negotiable the notices already mailed to all but 50,000 of the 246,000 eligible vets specifying the amount of their bonus payments. • . f ' ■ ■ . : ■' ■. — ■ ' ' p ■ 1..' h- ’ i : -•;<

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Clear Wreckage Os Spectacular Wreck Brake Failure On \ Train Is Blamed ; WASHINGTON UP — Repairmen left ; a battered locomotive burijed iri Union Station’s basement today and wforßed to clear away the wreckage from Thursday’s acular train wieck in tjr*e for neXt weeKs inauguration) travel rusm ; ! . i About passenge A were injured when .a ruhaway Pejin ;ylvania Rail road express plowed hhrdugh con--cretei and i steel! bkfri trs 'into the station’s great conjcdu -se at 50 to 60 miles ap hour. mighty impiici turned the concourse Into a slisim rles arid left a’ gaping One-acre 'hAle in the concrete floor] But off oiiils said “Nd one will Hnori? the difference by day.” At learit I three'groups—the railroad. tpe jsenite Vd mitnerce committee and the iitfrstate commerce cortrmission—were looking itlto the cause of the |>rake failure that prevented v the dHin from slowmg down as it whlee ed into the Capital wi|h about 140(1 passengers aboard. i '. • More than SOO repairmen were drdered orj rourid-tpe clock shifts* with cranes blowtorches to clear away the wreckage and patch die holes in the (floor t nd wall. <; Officials said the tr tin's 150-ton ehgine, which plunge 1 into the basement, Would be lie ft there tor the time being., it will be dismantled and canted away piece by piece foir repair. Tre cars that landed in the concourse will be dragged ou|. The railroad said in a , special stigteifient that qnly ‘quick-think-ing” by thp crew of the Boston-tq-Washingfon streamliner prevent-* ed a major catastrophe ,'Horace A|. Bardwin„‘ , i official railroad claim intestigi tor, said “about 60 people" claimed to be or were reported |injured. He said nhly sijx wer< hurt badly enough to. irequirq ovjt might hospitalization. | Many in hired wera dismissed fifom hpspita s after get-' tipg first aii treatment. » i Officials iaid rittet quick, on-, thfe-spot investigation, that there “still ijs no dxplanatlon for the failure ©f the brakes.” ’ Neither Engineer Uen r y W. Broker of Philadelphia nor fireman *J. W. Moyer pf York, Pa., was hurt, but they she'l no public light oh exactly what happened. . Chamber Os Commerce Directors Are Named ■ Walter Ford, retiring executive secretary of I the *(’hamber of Com-merce-having this week accepted a similar position with the Connersville C. 1 of C.— announced today the incoming directors of the local business organization for the criming year. I ißepiricing John Welch. Lawrence Anspaugh, Robert Macklin and Joe •Kelly as directors will fed: Roy Stewart, retail director: directors-at-l*rge, Lyle Mallonee and George Stultz: manufacturing director, Paul Loomis.' Ford the annual election of the Chamber will probably take place during the week of January 29, the 29th being the day of the annual meeting. John Welch was president lljfor 1952 and it is expocte<| that his replacement Will be announced at the annual meeting two Weeks he ice.

Pres. Truman A® ' * Gives Farewell Talk To Nlfion | Urges Natiomßack Eisenhower \Aj|ien He Takes Over Cities WASHINGTON, TTP<The plain little man from Misscwi thanked the people for the of serving as their president,,fnd he told, them he believed he fed done a right good job. $ There was the fammr, folksy, unemotional twang in |Ai-.voice as President Truman saipXhis -goodbyes in a nation television address Thursday night. But the drama was heightened at the end when Mrs. ’j’Jhiman and daughter Margaret.- waßed softly to his side and- het concluded: ' “And -now, the come for me to say ni|ht — and God bless you all.” : Mr. Truman spoke wistfully of his nearly eight in office, of the lonely burden dr decision, of his hope for pearie, ti|s fears, of atomic war, his for the; nation’s | sqpport and Jlhis good Wishes for his "The is prassident of the whole country,” hqSiaid. “We must ail give him our port as citizens of the United Abates. He will have mine and I wsrit you to give him yours.” The 30-m inute farewqH address —the first carried to j|ie nation by television- was about the .end of the presidential trail for the' one-time senator and cotAty judge. Secretary of state Dea® Acheson will give him a lunch Tytsday aftr ernoon and four hours latter he will leave for Mr. Truman said he Mpped his administration had ! brnght the .country to the threshold? pf inter: national peace, to the point where a third world war will par prevented “as far ahead as mannan see.” Looking back, Mr, Trwian said! it fe “quite simple” to way why \he.has not tried to ens international strife by dropping:?the atom bomb ot making all-btit “We are not made he said. “We are a mora|j people. Peace is our goal, and jtf|tice and freedom. We cannot, ofwur own free will, violate the vejy princi-* ples< that we are striving to defend.” >■ ?1|: The President said he |fnd Mrs. Truman are leaving tltt White House? with “no regret,’^ because *>*e feel we have dope' i|ur best in the|(public ’per'vifee + ’A S “I hope arid believe 'we have contributed to the of nation and to the peari® of thd wotldj,” he said. 1 « |_ | > City? Adams Couiify Receive Distribution Cijties, towns and counties in Indiana are receiving $12,80,301 in grisoline taxes by the state government for thw?quarter ending pec.\ 31. The was more (than $1,000,000 hig>r than the Ootresponding 1951 wiod. The distribution includes Adams county, $36,989; city of Becatur, $8,822. ■ j . .. ('B: INDIANA WEATHRR Fair and cokier tonight? Saturday mostly cloudy wijrp' oleet or freezing rah, extreme jsouth. : Not cjuite so cold. Low tonight \ 8-15; High Saturday 25-iiju.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, January 16, 1953.

Senate Committee In Stalemate Over Wilson As Defense Secretary

Two American War Veterans Held As Spies Two Returned From Austria Under Heavy Guard To Face Trial WASHINGTON (UP)—Two decorated American w*ar veterans were jailed he«a early today Ori charges of plotting to deliver U.S. \nilitary secrets to Rurisia through t* Soviet embassy courier. Otto" Vertier, 31, arid Kurt L. Pronger, 39, were held; under $50,GO" bonds after being flown under heavy guard directly from Vienna where they were arrested Thursday.: * I I, _.• Bribught before Federal lu4ge Alexander M. Iloltzoff ; tot • formal arraignment, the judge ppt 'dlt off until IO a. m. Monday, j Thri delay will enable them to cjongluli law yers and study the charges.Ponger, a squat, dark man who spoke with a thick accent. was asked if he had attorneys arid re pried 4 “Not so far.” •< '. ' } “Have you seen a cppy of the indictment?” Holtzoff asked. , When Ponger replied “no" he was given a copy. The same procedure ' Was followed with Verber, a stocky, balding man who sppke dearly and dis tinctly. Verber atfso said he? does' not yet have a lawyer. . i The two men—both naturalized Americans originally frbm Austria -T-arrived in Washington just before 1 a. m. aboard a special ai.r force plane. Both werei handcuffed and heavily-guarded. Verber, who won silver , and bronze Stars for bravery with the ariny in Europe during World War 11, is a stocky, balding, man. He wore an overcoat but ho hat or tie ami snapped a curt "No sir," to a reporter who asked? i{ he was a spy. Pronger, a shorter, stouter man with "a shock of curly hair; re fused to say anything. He, like Verber a New Yorker, received a series of decoratibns,. including a bronze star, for his army service in Europe. ! ’.AT? \*' : /' U. S. commissioner; Cyril S. (Tara To Pave Six) • •' ~ i i ' ■ I ° ■'< ' ' r! : .■ • Security Program Report By Truman Pays Big Dividends In Security Os U. S. ■ i \J /< WASHINGTON, UP -President Truman told congress today multi-billion dollar foreigh aid programs 'harried out under his 4d ministration have paid big dividends in increasing U. Si security. In his final report on tlje mutUal ; security program, the i retiring chief executive traced the history of U. S. aid beginning with the Greek-Turkish program of 1947 through the present year’s heavy shipments of arms to North Atlan-’ tic Pact Allies in Western Europe, and termed it "a splendid record of accomplishment.” He said it is “appropriate and desirable” that the mutual security program be “reviewed” by the new administration and the Republican controlled 83rd congress, arid l conceded that some changes .in “timing, scope or etnphasis” maybe in order. . j But he delivered an implied warning against abandoning the programs, asserting that they have proved ' their worth in meeting ißussia’s many-pronged Attack on the free world, an attack which he said Is certain to continue relentlessly. He also -by indirection cautioned against the known disposition of GOP lawTnaikers to shift U. S. aid emphasis frojn Europe to Asia. t

BULLETIN \ BOSTON, Mass. UP —A federal grand jury reported today It had insufficient evidence to return indictments in the mil- ■| lion dollar Brink’s robbery. . British Seek Eighth Man In Plot By Nazis Eludes Crackdown By British On ExHigh Ranking Nazis BONN, Germany UP —British security officials searched today for an eighth follower of Adolf Hitler: who eluded their crackdown on former high-ranking Nazis plotting to regain power jn West Germany. British high commissioner Sir Krone,' Kirkpatrick conferred with his t<|>p Advisers on the possibility of further immediate arrests in the plot to create a new Nazi reich yith the help of the Communists. TH - . Friedrich Bornemann. owner of a so-called “independent news service.” escaped the simultaneous raids Wednesday and Thursday that netted -seven plotters. V Bornjemann’s Driesseldotf office and apartment were searched'and large quantities of documents impounded. But he was not fkere and his wife said he had left for an, "unknown destination.” There were widespread rumors that former top Nazi radio commentator Hans Fritzsche also had been arrested or was scheduled to be picked up as soon as possible. British officials denied Fritzsche wa§ arrested but refused to say whether he will be. It w*as know-n Fritzsche had close relations with some of those already picked up as well as with Bornemann. Fritzsche, who claimed he personally surrendered Berlin to the Russiaris, was head of the German press Section of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry from 1939 to 1942. Later he was Goebbels’ chief German radio commentator. I I In both jobs he was an intimate of Dr. Werner Naumann, former state secretary in' the Propaganda Ministry and named in Hitler’s will as Goebbels* heir. Naumann was arrested in Hamburg Wednesday evening and was believed to be the chief of the ringleaders along with Bornemann. According to British sources, the plotters had connections with East Zone Communists and possibly even with the Russians. They (were well hacked with funds and were shid to have had contacts also with former Nazis in Spain and South America. A British spokesman said there*, was no evidence they had any large following or were organizing a big movement, to overthrow the present West German government. AA- L '■ L.■ V . ' * Ladies Entertained By Decatur Rotary The Decatur General Electric Aeolian choir entertained thd Rotarians and their lady guests, last ( evening at the K. of P. home. A chicken dinner was served. Directed by David Embler, the chk>ir sang a group of dongs. The first number was a Fred Waring arirangement of, “This is My Country.” “There isn’t anything like a dame,” from the show South Pacific, a number from . Oklahoma, were features of the program. The* choir sang a request number, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” concluding the program. Director Embler announced thht the Aeolians would give a concert in ; Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne Feb. 15. John Welch was chairman of the ladies* night program. ; : | ' I

Kansas Man Is Named 6.0. P. Party Chairman C. Wesley Roberts Is Appointed To Succeed Summerfield NEW YORK UP — Presidentelect Eisenhower today approved the Republican national committee’s choice of C. Wesley Roberts of Kansas aS its chairman to succeed Arthur Summerfield, jwho is to become postmaster general in the new administration. Harry Darby, national committeeman from Kansas, announced the selection of Robert after he and a subcommittee of the national organization had conferred with the President-elect at his Commodore Hotel headquarters this morning. Darby said ' Eisenhowe.r "seemed very happy about it” when informed of the committee’s Selection. The Republican national committee will meet at the Mayflpwqr Hotel in Washington Saturday night. Darby said, to accept Summerfield’s resignation and receive the report of Darby’s' subcommittee. Roberts, a former newspaperman, lives at Oskaloosa, near Topeka, Kans. Darby said the subcommittee “just discussed this one man.” Roberts., He? said Eisenhower expressed his understanding that the seleo tion. of course, was a matter for National Committee and. needled no fprmal approval from him. Darby said the executive committee Wil meet tonight In Wash■ington and will the possibility of making the chairmanship post a salaried one. ' The President-elect ran through a crow'ded schedule of morning appointments. Press secretary James V C. Hagerty announced an afternoon and evening schedule im eluding a farewell to the faculty and students of Columbia Univer-il sity. ' "\J Eisenhower made one ot his laat trips to the “White House” on 42nd Street today while aid is packed up, papers and belongings at his home.) Eisenhower set aside most of the mdrning for chats at his Commo I dore Hotel headquarters with visb tors and old friends, beginning with Indianapolis publisher; Eugene C. Pulliam. X 1.1 J A A > 1 _ East Germany Reds Arrest Dertinger A • ’■ ■ \ : Foreign Minister j Is Charged As Spy BERLIN (UP) — Foreign Minis ter George Dertinger has been arrested by the Communist East German government as a Western spy it was announced today. The arrest of the 50-year-old deputy chairman of the Christian Democrat party, which has colla+ berated with the Communists, may be the start of a purge W nonCommunists from the government and the suppression, of non-Com-: munist parties in the Russian zone. Dertipger’s ajrest also was considered here as possibly another step in Communist' preparations for a large purge show trial of East German Jews' and fellow travelers. The former newspaperman’s arrest was announced in a frontpage story in tpie official East German Communist newspaper Neues Deutschland. “His arrest was an immediate consequence Os his enemy activities against the German democratic republic on orders <rf the imperialistic espionage services,*

Orders Offshore Oil A 1 i L. ■ - ■ ■■■■ i A Reserved For Navy I" • i 4 i See Triiman's Moye As Futile Gesture i WASHINGTON, UP —Congressional leaders predicted touay President Trumpn’s order reserving offshore oil lands for the navy 'Would be overridden swiftly by congress. One senator called the order a “meaningless’’ gesture. ' ' There was also talk that Presi-dent-elect Eisenhower might beat 'the lawmakers to the punch by cancelling thd order soon after he takes office next Tuesday. jjfr. Truman (disclosed at his ’farewell' neo conference Thursday that an order is in the works to turn the' oil resources in the submerged coastal lands river to jthe navy for national defense purposes. Such a move had been ruipofed fqr days. ' It was the \retiring President’s -final attempt to prevent return of 'the so-called tidelands to the states they adjoin. He has twice vetoed .legislation which would surrender ithe federal government’s claim to jth® lands. That claim is ; based on a 1947 supreme court ruling; , Mrl Truman said that the offshore oil lands had 100.000,000,090 ’ barrels of oil. Crude oil in Texas feoW is quoted at 12.65 a barrel. At that figure the amount of oil cited by Mr. Trumap would be lyorfh $265,000,000,000. A Srin. Hugh Butler /(ft-N'eb.), new Chairman of the senate interior committee -whidh handles tideIhnds legislation, called* the President's order “a desperate attempt by a dying administratipn to confuse the Issue.” I “I think the present congress is going to give the final answer and L hope without too much dplay,” Butler said. ; Legislation already has been introduced :in ' the new congress ;to recognize state ownership of the tidelands. l President-elect Eisenhower promised during the electron campaign that he would approve such a measure. Srin. Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex.), seriate leader, said Mr. Truman’s order is “meaningless” and is bdund to be interpreted as a “spiteful act.” ’Even the congressmen who fa(Turn T® Pa«re Sevex) ■ r: I . . . ■ / . .v. ■ 15 Men Ordered To Report For Service Induction Call Is Ordered By Board Along with the announcement by Decatur's local draft board No. I that on February 10 there will pe'ian induction call here* for 15 meh, came a statement declaring thritl inadvertently many veterans discharged from military service aie breaking selective service law. \ The announcement went on to I Isay, that these violations, although are unintentional, are due to ignorance of certain of the selective service det laws. \ “All regtstrarits, including vet erans, were required to Report anj change of status to their local , draft boards, Such as changes in their marital, military, dependency or physical con- ( dltion.” This announcement Was ■ held to be i timely because of the . numper of veterans coming J home from Korea. The board said ( it is a legal responsibility of the ] draft 'board registrant to notify | the local board of the status of ■< the veteran; \ ( j i "All registrants are also warned that (hey must report ell address < changes, regardless of classifies- t tion or age of the registrant at the i time. Such reports should be i made in writing so that the file t copies will be in the draft office, t \ “Some recent veterans apparently do not realize they must regis- c ter for the draft even though they 11 <Tara T® Fa*® Sts)

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Senators Argue Over Wilson's Stock Holdings Wrangle Whether Holdings To Make Wilson Ineligible I ? A ' 4 WASHINGTON UP — Senators reported today'the armed services committee is in “a itafemate” over confirmation of Charles E. Wilson to be defense secretary in President-elect Eisenhower’s cabinet. Wilson’s stock ownership in General Motors Corp., a firm driing business with the defense department, is the, issue. Wilson has informed the committee ’that as ' former president of GM, his holdings are considerable. i involved in the knotty ques- . tion are all except one of Eisen- , bower’s top “defense team.” . The committee was expected to j reach a decision late today after 1 1 studying the law. I Sen. Lester C. Hunt D-Wyo., . told newsmen that “we have come \ ) to sort of a stalemate . \ . we ara , in a pickle.” ' ■ It was possible a delay may 1 occur in okaying the defense jobs « and that Wilson may not be able to take his oath pt office along with the rest of the cabinet Inau- , gural Day, Tuesday. (However, this was by no means certain. Involved was a law first passed (in the 1870’s and revised in 1948. which \. provides fines and jail sentences for government officials holding stock in corporations with, which as a government official they are doing; business. It "was learned the senators wrangled heatedly over the irisuo at a meeting this morning. The dispute occurred ipl a clpsed meeting of the senate armed setvIces committee. The committee delayed further consideration of the Eisenhower “defense team.” to be led by Wilson if confirmed, to call in expert congressional legal advisers on the The issue was whether the stock holdings of the former General Motors Corp., president would be a deadly embarrassment to Wilson as defense secretary. General Motors is one of the nation’s largest defense contractors. Wilson was not present at today’s meeting. He testified Thursday and reportedly was “amazed” that anyone would question his stock holdings. Sen. Harry F. Byrd I>Va„ left the armed services committee meeting temporarily and told newsmen that he had not yet made up his mind on how he would vote regarding Wilsori’s confirmation. w The senate labor committee informally but approved Eisenhower’s nomination of Martin P. Durkin as secretary of labor. Senate majority leader Robert A. Taft, who had termed ‘ the appointment "incredible," sat beside Durkin at todav’s session. As an AFL union president, Durkin said, he had gone along with policy to urge repeal of the TaftHaijtley act in the past. Now. said, he has severed all connections with labor groups and as a, public representative he will favor s amendment of the law rather than repeal. Republicans were confident that 'Wilson would be confirmed. But any substantial opposition to his appointment could prevent his being sworn in on inauguration day with other members of President- \ elect Eisenhower’s cabinet. Here is the issue—whether federal law or propriety bar a man from serving as defense secretary 1 when he has substantial interests in a corporation which is one of the nation** largest defense contractor*. Wilson told the senators In secret session Thursday that his holdings in stock, presumably-Gen-(Trim T® Pane Fowr) |