Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1953 — Page 2

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Rural Youth Holds District Meeting District Meet At r Wabash Last Night ip the meeting of the district 4 tih>l youth Monday night at the, £-H dirt) building in Wabash and fettfekded by foore than 17t> persons, .plans were made to attend ine district co up . school banquet larch 16 at the. Honeywell/Memorial in Wabash. _ : j The, educational feature sot the evening was a playlet, planning of senibri night, with James sjforriman and Margie Menter of Adams county participating, i Henry Get? ting, district ' sports chairirian. laet with the county basketball sports chairmen and drew up the distract basketball tournament schedule which will be announced la for. . : Tipton county won the coWjbell by having the highest number of members present. Adams county won third on its scrap book fvith Huntington county Whining fwst. Mia'mi county was in'charge of registration-. Grant county, enforlainmCnt. Tipton county. reqt'eatiou. and Wabash county the refreshments. / Adams county was represented with 19 members: Gloria Koene-, man. ...Sally McCullough, Jfonry Oettipg. James Merriman. Eileen pulfoineyer. Mhrgie Menter. BarLara ■ Kelley. Tom Noll. Norman Isbeets, Rosy Miller. J-arie Dailey, Mary Ann Owens. Carolyn Owens, Max Crownover. Evelyn Gerke, Peulah Bertsch, Earl Yoder, John Burkhart. 1 and Henry Sipe.' Assembly Program At-School Wednesday ifecatur high will present its, :irs£ special assembly urogram 'pi | thej? second Semester Wednesday , at pin at the high school gymnasium. Featured will be Cai l' Thdygbn, a juggler ahd cumedfonfof, “outstanding skill and dexterity.” ' "■ - —

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; ■ J 1 ' 1 . Brodie Tyins Are In Dangerous Condition! CHICAGO UP ~• The Brodie twins were still in dangerous condition i today, 34 days after the operation tha (Separated thfcm. Rodney Dee was understood to be resting and eating well and has been strong eiibugh to undergo subsequent plastic bperatiohsL ibut he Was still l.sted as “critical-’ Roger Lee .wah in deep comt and fr in “very predarkJus’’ conditio j. ' The 16-riouth-old twins rad been, joined al the lop of their skulls. Woman Convicted Os Impersonating Agent T j | ".' I Beaty Operator Is Convicted In Peoria PEORIA/ 111, UP —A beauty operator \yas found guilty of impersonating an FBI agent »in federal district ccpurt Monday*. A guilty verdict was returned againslt Mrs. ; Marie Fuleb, 52-year-old Canton, 111., beautician, who also vias found guilty on one count of conspiracy. • The jury also found an Accomplice. Gerald Dale Hodges of Macomb, j 111.,/guilty in an attempted swindle of a Michigan man. Mudge J.', Leroy Adair said he would sentence; the two later. Both were under 110,00 b bonds. Hodges and jWrs. Fulier offered Stanley Tgylor, 43-, ,of Oiyosso, Michigan, a job with the FBI for $4,006'. it lyas charged. Taylor lived here at (the time. ,The beauty operator testified she was duped py a “Mr. Moirgan” who , had power over her. ’‘Morgan” was not produced in dejuirt. Maximum penalty for impersonating a federal officer is, SI,OOO fine and three years in prison or both. Mrs. Fuller also coulid be sentenced.to five years in prison fined 110.000. or both, oij the qonspiracy charge. Hodges was charged only with conspiracy.!

Ike r Mamie Spend Quiet Monday Hight Relax With: Friends \ In Washingfort;Hotel ; V *•'! WASHINGTON UP —j Fresidehtelect into ' a maroon dressing g|>wn,iliarly{'. today as he began khe ’feost important episode in /hisilfee infra relaxed and confident nillNL ' V | Outside the presidential, suite on the Stgtlef Hotel’s |2ths|por, the bedlam of .the celebration rattled furiously. Bat! inside, there was only the calm! of approaching solemnity/ Oi Mr. Eisenhower And ,ms wife, Mamie, relaxed last mighM- playing bridge with old friends circulating Minong more tshafodl) members of the immediate, dan. | j//'® Secret servicemen; ais| aides maintained tight seared jjl op details pf the Eisenhower mins and activities in advance'; of inauguration. I r !' I B ■ But it- was ■ learnfed foiat the new chips executive iiiMyrupted easy - going scifodulOi briefly late Monday to cons er Iwfthiharles ,E. Wilspn on sparls dvershls confirmation as defense There was some archirig when the Pfosidenj-el«|i failed to makej the traditional jiaugural evq call on his President Truman. ’Ji The last time this rite '&» performed was * when f'ranmin D. Roosevelt called on outgoiO; ■ President Hcldver, March 3; The Eisenhower staff ifjjsisted, however, that the new would make no public Appearances in Washington | prior to : ll|s preinaugural attendance ;thiif?'mornat special prayer in the National Presbyterian fthurdi. ■ r i I ! ; ;M! Nearly all the 30.000 lumbers |of the I’.Lg. armed fore ss rijsw stationed in England are Force.. . j/ ■ 'iw •

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AN AUTO which struck; a light' pole when involved in a seven-car crash on N|ew York’s west side highway blazes furiously. Nine persons, including four policemen in a patrol car which was Speeding to the scene of another accident, were injured in the pre-dawn accident. The patrol car struck the others ait scene of previous accident.

Weather Influenced Inauguration Change Inauguration pate J Changed In 1937; WASHINGTON t’G — The Weatlidr man had a lot to do with changing the presidehtiul inauguration date from March 4 to Jan. 20. So , did Ellsworth C./Alvord, a affable Washington lawyer, i Whep; the 20th “lanie duck” amend- ': ment jto the constitution''was being J thought up in congress. Alvord wak assistant legislative counsel of the house. He’ told me that drafting tbdj amendment took a lot of doing’ The weather wasn’t tic only con/ sideration, of course, bud it was arij important one. :J | - “A small congressional committee was he raid, “to looK into ti|e matter. It (ohcliided aftei/ studyipg. stacks of weather 'map& that March 4 had been pretty nasty down through t je years.” xEventuajly the amendment was submitted t and ratified/ It into effect Feb. 6, 1933, tpo late to' change the date for j Ftanklin D. Roosbvelt’s first inauguration but ! in plenty Os time for his second. So what happened? On Jan 2b. • 1937. jt rained. And rained. In/ sheets. The temperatu|re was well , above j freezing' but • it low enough, what wi;h rain, to make unprotected spectators shake ! and shivet? - \ . ! Dot Aivoid. watching the parade from a well heated nxiin,’ was not too di«turi)ed. Me figured or anyway heiped, that the future w v ould prove the wisdom, weather-wise, of the switch in dates. In J 951 Inauguration |)ay, though . crisp, was fine and clear But Jan. 20, 1949. when Harry S. Truman rode to-the Gapitoi to lie sworn jn. was a hbld-on-to-your-hat dwy. And it was a chill wind that blew. Mapyian Carlier inauguration ou Marcp f was chillier arid neaner. Somelof them pioduceid Idlzzards. others freezing rain. IrHei coldest \ Inauguration Day was March 4, 1573, Genj. U. S. Grant's second time ouit. . < : K '■ ' ■ ' ' * “ The ice cream froze, the chant-; pagne turned solid and.: according j to the records, valves’ on thq trom- j pones in the band “frizz and re- 1 fused to blow.” ;

i - ■ WK! k ; Mgs' . V\ “aSfr-. v : JL.. * £ MRS. NETTIE MOULDIN, 98, who has miswd only one presidential inaugu- i ration s.ince 18£5, holds an album in containing Lincoln's photo ahd autograph. Tile album wast presented to her mother wtyen Mrs. MQUldin was 10 years old. Mrs Mduldin has a choice seat arranged for the fcisenhower inauguration. (lHtennUM>Ml Soundpnotoj

Eisenhower To Pay Higher Taxes Than \ v Predecessor Paid WASHINGTON UP — Dwight D. Eisenhower will get the presidential income. 1150,000 a year, that Harry S. Truman gotibut will hay at least $39,000 more: faxes on it. Mr- iruman nas ireen jgettini a taxable salary of SIOO,OOO and a tax - free expense allowance of . imum A income tax, he had ope dependent around $56,000/ j . . But the last congress tnade the allowance taxable, effective j this year. So the new President, one dependent, jwill have tn pay a tax on his'official income of around $95,000 a vear. • ’ - t<* 4 Mr. Truman asked the hew Republican Congress to resftpre tax to the presidential sqo.,opo allowance and do G’ quickly because the Constitution forbids c hanges in a President's pay onct he starts his tqrin. But Congress didn't want to do it. In addition to the President’s 5150.00'0. Congress appropriates up $40,000 a yeas to help pay the tost of his official entertainment and travel. That is the only part ;of the money he gets soy which jhe must turn in an accounting to Congress. . : J r t /\ rJ Korean War Veteran Electrocuted Monday I JOLIET. 111. I’P —- A Korean War veteran was electrocuted Monday when he,, touched a like wire at|bp a utility pole. ; j to revjve the victim. Janies Convoy, were, delayed when ati"ambulance racing to th'q seen? emshed, injuring four, pprisohs. /Gonroy. 23, was discharged from the Army last month. He was employed by the Public Service Co., '?_ ~ ~ ' 15 Million Frenchmen Arg- Laid Up With -jflu LQNDQN. UP — Fifteen million Frpiiehmen more than a third of the'nation- were reported laid up with flu today as icy, choking sos? continued to blanket northern Europe... H France's flu epidemic left toun(less offices and factories witl only ■ skeleton staffs and cut school at- I tendance in half. j

Congressmen Hail Inaugural Speech By Ike Termed Magnificent Creed As Guide For New Administration WASHINGTON UP -U Republican and Democratic congressmen generally hailed | President Eisenhower’s inaugural message today as a magnificent creed to guide the new administration in the troubled days ahe!ad. \ Most of the iGOP lawmakers couldn’t find enough adjectives. They called the speech “clear and courageous,” “inspiring,]’ “dramatic.” the “hillmark of eloquence.” ■ ’ But some, sharp critics of any policies remotely jresUmbling those of the Truman Administration, gave Only qualified endorsement. “The message, deals in generalities,” said Rep. H. R. Gross Rla. \ “I'm waiting to see him get down to specifics." Some of t|ie Democrat*.! Observed wryly that it was Undouraglng' to see tha( the' new- President: planned to carry out ’the wise: policies of the previous'administration. S?n. Styles Bridges R-N.H., senate president pr® (tempore, said: "With the siDiplicJty which is t|he hallmark of eloquence. President Eiseinhower ' set forth the creed of his administration.” Other comment: , \ Sen. Hubert Humphrey D Minn.; “A dramatic and bhalle jgihg statement of our declaration of faith that should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind as the President's and the nation’s deterrilinati m to fulfill our responsibility of world leaderj ship.” - •/ ■ Rep. Charles Halleck R-lnd., majority floor leader: “It, was a magnificent presentation j deaißhg with the problems cons-outing the country." , ' Rep. James P. Ricilaris D- S.C.: “It is a clear arid cbuiagnous exposition of wha.t our foreign policy shlould be and What it has bAen during the past administration.” Rep. James Fulton R-Ra.: “President Eisenhower stands four square on the idea of mutual security, with the emphasis on mutual.’’ i \ Rep. Clarence Brown R ? Oi: “Vhe President’s speech gives ‘encourage/ ment to thbee who seek cl€|an and sound government." Rep. Usher L. Burdick : R- N. Dak.: ”1 6 approve exerrt I don’t think We can bring abju: peace through the frame worl pf the United Nations as now co jstituted." House speaker Joseph W. Margin Jr. R-Mass.: “The peoplle will receive it as a much needed jtonic." House minority leader iSaiin Ray burn D-Tex.i “I agrjee Wtith, President Eiserihower that We should continue to make ourjselvels strong.” Rep. Overton Brooks D-La.: “I have, said all along .that; we have had io build tip our frown! defenses first.|” c I■ ! r ’ J*en. Harry F. D-Va. called the address a “good! speschfr/ and said he agreed with 1 , most Os .Mr. Eisenhower's “philosophy. ' y , Sen. Mike Monionei- D-Okla:: “A thoughtful and correct approach to the paramount problem of combatting Communism.” J . ’ ! . ■ i

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Murray Snyder NEW YORK; political writer Murraj Snyder is assistant press secretary to President Elsenhower. Snyder served in North Africa and Italy in World War IL He I* a native of New York. fZatematioMaU 4 —; 1 — — Arrest Two Youths For deck Forgery Indianapolis Youths Freed Under Bonds LNDIjANAPOLIS UP — Benjamin F. Butler and Claudie M. MdAuley, both 18. were free on SI,OOO bonds today after they told police they forged and cashed a $2,5h0 check and spent most of the moneyon a holiday in Florida. The two, honor graduates from Technical high school here, called McAuley's' uncle, I’olice Capt. Roy , McAuley, and sUir en< l ere< L when j they returned from a 10-day vacation. McAuley was a mail messenger for Kroger Co. He allegedly took a ! check addressed to the Monticello j store's manager. : Unknown to the youths, the forgery was discovered a few minutes after the check was cashed. But a few hours later the two left for Florida. Butleri said he feared bi* unexpected absence might aggravate the illness of his mother, wife. oY t.lie Rev. Vernon Butler, pastor of the Woodruff Presbyterian . church. The boys said they decided to come home and “square things.” Voice Os America Broadcasts Inaugural WASHINGTON UP-/The Voice of Awrica broadcast the story of Fresioent* Elsenhower'S inauguration to the world in 46 languages in a special program lasting an. hour qnd 15 minutes. Steel Industrialist Dies Monday Night MADISON, Wis.. UP — George Gowen Thorp, retired steel industrialist. died «t the age of 8-4 Monday night after a long illness. Thorp was builder of the U. S. i Steel plant at Gary,, Ind., dne of the largest in the world. The plant erected in 1905. is now one of the largest producers of steel. He later was president of the Illinois Steel Co., and earlier was a Superintendent of the Joliet, Hi.. Steel works. He to his home here in 1935. ? ,

TUESDAY; JANUARY 20, 1953

Former Showgirl Granted Divorce Settlement Heads Off Lurid Battle ‘CHICAGO UP —An ex-*hoWgirl was granted a divorce from ber wealthy husband Monday ajfter be withdrew his own divorce suit and headed off what had promised to by a lurid court battle. I' ■ . Electrical appliance manufacturer Albert M;- Stein, 45, had filed suit accusing his wife. Elayne, of committing adultery with the family butler/- [ ■ Judge Bernard M. Decker, sitting in circuit court at Waukegan, Ill.; granted the 31-year-old woman a divorce on grounds of physical cruelty after Stein agreed to drop his suit. , ’ . The manufacturer's action came after A week end Os conferences that stfw Mrs, Stein substitute her plea for a divorce for an earlier /suit for separate maintenance. The former showgirl declined to tell newsmen what settlement she had made with Stein, but said it was “satisfactory.” She had denied the adultery charges. Stein had filed his suit for divorce sifter police w-ere called to hij 20-room house in suburban Lake Forest last Aug. JO. He charged in his suit that Ruth'-Hatcher, the wife of/his former butler, Harlan Hatcher, had discovered the butler and Mrs; Stein in bed together following a cocktail party given at the home. '!

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