Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 27 January 1953 — Page 1

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Top Republicans Confer With Chief ‘ v ■ 'in -V • ■H' ' r■ - ■ , - ' ’ ' —"""" —~ *—■’T—’ -w ’• fex • ■'•’■H -’M - ! Vrf:< '■ #1 | # ■;’ ! i pWWL FOLLOWING THE FIRST White House conference to be called by President Eisenhower, top GOP la<pause for pictures. In the group are (I. toj r.[> GOP policy chairman, Sen. William Knowland. House floor leader Rep. Charles Halleck, Ind-: House Speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr.. Mass.; GOP Whip .Rep. Leslie Arends. 111., and Senate majority leader Robert A. T£ft of Ohio.

. -r — ■■■ r—, — , f y 4 f— At Least One Dead In Blast At Aiken, S. C.

1 V BULLETIN • ■ \ AIKEN, S. C. (UP)—Police chief Brampton Gregory here said today possibly 11 person's are buried and dead, in debris 4 after an explosion that rocked the business district ahd killed one woman. AIKEN, S. Ci. UP—A shapering " blast rocked downtown Aiken, today, killihg least one .person and possibly “six or eight Tnior.e.” Firemen and rescue workers said’several persons were missing and believed trapped in the Jones Electric Co., building where ,-the? explosion occurred about 8:30 a. hi. The blast was believed, caused by a gas leak. \ 1 ' x ; ! Highway patrolman Ted> Day said one woman was killed and six injured tin McCrary’s department store next door to the electric company. , - N. Long, an employe of the electric firm said ‘six dr eight’ persons,' (including his -brother, were trapped |n the b&rning building as firemen fought flames that) spread through at least six' storey. Long said he and his brother. Nelson, were in the basement of the building getting supplies-for a job when they \smelled ' gas. "The basement was so full- of gas f could hardly see,” Homer Long said. He went out to. close' a warehouse door that had been left open, and that the blast occurred before he got back. . /. \ “The whole building blew up ' and caved in on Nelson hi the basement,’’ he said. ' , Long did not believe his brother <- or the others, trapped in the building could get out alive. , W. O. Jones, owner of the Electric. company, and his son, Jt&nes. escaped from the flaming wreckage. Both were badly burned. Fire-fighting equipment - from nearby Augusta, Ga., and the 6a- - vannah River H-bomb plant: rushed to help the local fire department battle the flames which were raging out of control. ‘ ? The force, of the blast "broke nearly' all windows in the downtown section. Two persons were' admitted to Aiken[ bounty hospital but the extent of their injuries was not immediately known. ji i Mayor O’Dell Weeks said persons as far as 300 feet away were knocked down by the blast.: ,He said three or four automobiles on the street nearby were “blown, to bits.” ' X WeekS said the fire had spread to the W. McCrary Co., a dry goods firm; Platt Drug Store; Diana Shop: Lyles \Thrift Drug/store, and the Holly Hardware Co.Mrs. Nathari Persky. who lives three and a_ half blocks from the scene of -the explosion sa.id the •blast was as if “a bomb had been dropped?’ V- ’’ x The Red Cross said supplies of blood had been eent to Aiken from Augusta. Nurses aides were sent to Aiken hospital. The blast .apparently was paused by a gas leak at the Jones Electrie Co,. Bernbn Williams, who Works (Tira To Faae Mm) » \

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Congressmen Speculate On Korean Plans 111-Fatecf Assault \ Os Sunday Worries Many Congressmen WASHINGTON. UP — Sunday’s ill-fated assault against Communist positions' on T-Bone stirred anxious congressional speculation today about the steps President Eisenhower may be planning to bring the Korean war to an end. The lawmakers generally were sure Mr. Eisenhbwer sooner or later must put the stalemated United Nations tfpops again on the offensive.’ The ■ feeling was general, howevek that the new offensive must not be built around a frontal attack on the deeply dug-in enemy lines, such as the Sunday attack. Some capitol i'sources believed the President Will order main emphasis put on an amphibious assault behind the Red. lines, coupled with a subsidiary head-on push plus heavy air strikes at main communications and rail centers in North Korea. • No matter what course is followed, many congressmen were convinced, that Americans must brace-themselves for Ipngeh casualty lists. -A | L ' I Mr. Eisenhower, keeping a campaign promise, went to Korea in December to see fdr himself what could be done to end the fighting pn honorable terms. He said he found no panacea but promised that additional steps would be taken. Since then he has been mum about his plans. However, a number of congressmen who also went to Korea and who talked to the same generals thertf believe they have a .pretty good idea what kind of advice the President* got./ Specifically, they\ believe' that two general courses were proposed to the President. Plan one, according to congressional reports, calls for an amphibolous assault behind the Red lines, possibly near Wonsan, coupled with a push from the southwest to cut off from their Chinese allies three! d|vjiSjK?ns of North Korean trbops ih thjit sector; plus air attacks on rail and communications Centers, • probably by nona|omic bombs. ~ The theory! behind this plan is that the Reds are suffering from a manpower squeeze and will fold; up under prolper pressure. Some of the military men, however, shy <Tur» To pax* Six) ' ■ — INDIANA WEATHER U 4 1 Mostly cloudy, occasional light j-ain, extreme south and snow flurries near Lake Michigan tonight- Wednesday past- , ly cloudy and a little colder. Low tonight from 25 north to 40 south. High Wednesday - 32-40. i

- - - ? - ----- Ike Delays On Nomination Os Service Heads ■ Wilson Confirmed \ By Senators For Defense Secretary WASHINGTON UP — President Eisenhower sent the Senate today the nomination of Roger M., Kyes to? be deputy defense secretary but again deferred formal appointment of the men he wants as army, navy, and air force secretaries. t Kyes, former vice president of General *Motors Corp?; has agreed to sell his GM stock, thus following the pattern set b|y defense secretary Charles E. Wilson whose nomination the senate confirmed Monday. > \ Mr. j Eisenhower held' back on, the proposed nominations ofc the three service secretarys: Robert T. B. Stevens, aj-rny; Harold E. Talbott, air; and Robert B. Anderson. prospective \ navy secretary. - and Talbott thus far have declined to get rid of stocks in corporations doing defense business With the government, so they are currently the subject of serious ..senate, controversy. Senate Republican leader Robert A. Taft told newsmen he understands conversations about the matter are continuing In the executive branch of the government. It seeiped likely the Kyes nomination! will go through the senate without difficulty, .. Wilson, meanwhile, promised to •‘‘serve and strengthen America” in hisjrole of defense secretary. Only the formality of a White House sweating-in j ceremony stood between (Wilson and the high government job for which he gave up a $600.000-a-year salary as General Motors president and agreed “(Turn To Paso Six) I. I Former Decatur Boy Dies In Air Crash Berlin Nagel Dies In Arizona Crash Funeral services are scheduled Wednesday in Rockford, 111., for Berlin Jlnthony Nagel, 21, formerly of this city, who presumably was killed in an airplane crash near vMarana Air Base, Tucson, Ariz. The Joseph Thompson family received work of 1 the young man’s death yesterday and Mrs. Thompson said that funeral rites would be held tomorrow. Their son Jqhn, a student at the University of Illinois, is a school boy friend of ; the army cadet, who met accidental death. Details have not, Been received by relatives in Berne. I A member of the air force? cadet Nagel was graduated from Decatur high school in 1949. He Was born in /Berne, Dec. 4, 1931, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Nagel,' Jt His father and step-mother row live in Cochranton, Pa. His father was formerly employed at Central Soya company. His grandparents are MT. and Mrs. Emil Nagel of Berne? August C. of that city is an uncle. Cadet Nagel served about two years the army and last summer transferred to the air force. ‘ - (■- 1 ! ?\ IL :? " : "

Biggest Budget In State History Is Submitted; ' ' ' ■ Warning By Governor

Gov. Craig's Reorganization Bill Submitted To Grant Governor Sweeping Powers To Control Government IN’DI ANAPQLIS UP — Governor Cruiz’s sweeping governmental reorganization bill, giving him brosui powers to run the state wilh'thb help of his own 11-member *caMnet.” was introduced in the Indiana Legislature today. Rep. Norman Neely Rrßloomfrig ton - threw the bill info the house hopper just before.. Craig presented his record $607.ft06, ! 0<M) biennium budget message. The bill carries out Craig’s pre-viously-announced. plans to create a “cablhet” and thus Centralize control of executive and administrative affairs by removing powers front dozens of boards and commissions. i - The bill would create a Jaw known as the “Government Management Act of 1958.’’ Only live pages long, it briefly creates 11 departments and provides for/ a director for each. \ 1 Craig would be in complete comtrot. He would appoint the directors, prescribe their powers and duties, and fix their salaries , wish approval of the state budget i:otn-‘ mltteje... /;j Thb bill would create a: 1. Department of commerce J . 2. State police department. ,3. Department of health. 4. Department of correction; 5. Highway department. , > 5. Department of education. 1 7. Budges. and finance departmbnili . t ' ’. . S. Department of labor. 9. Department of public welfare JO. Department of coriservalion. 11. Adjutant general. A|l of these departments ait*eady exist in one form or another, but some are controlled by commissions and boards of bipartisan nature. I . Thil bill designates the state police suprintendent as head of that department and the state ’’superintendent of public instruction as head of the education department. The latter office is and is held by Wilbur Young of Osgood. Frank! Jessup is superintendent of police. . i The governor is not bound r to appoint any certain officerholder t<s; any of the other nine “cabinet’’ pasts. • •. Thei bill also gives the goverpor v sweeping authority' to “assign, re'!j (Twrn T» Fxc Six) > .-r-r 4+ t **—i— r—4-r .

May Make Field. Trial Os New Polio Vaccine

y NEW YORK UP -Polio , be ,op the way out as a crippling, killing disease, mainly of children, but keep your fingers crossed. 5 A has been developed which! is safe. It can be made cheaply, ip unlimited quantities, enough to vaccinate every man,, womatt. and child. It makes moqkeys .immune to all thr>le of the polio Viruses. > r '. ; Buti; will \it make humans immune j That’s the big question and why you must keep your fingers crossed. Big scale testing on humans*;is about to begin, probably thin spring. , / 'i'hiii culmination to 22 years at scientific searching and the expenditure; of $18,0()0,0W| in March-of-Diine funds came to light Monday night. J pr. Har?y M. Web ver, research director of the National Foundation for Ihtantile Paralysis, dropped very broad and unmistakable hints at annual dinner iu.eetirg of the foundation’s trustees. Ha jfras cautious and his reasons were only too obvious. Foremost was the well-established fact that wbkt, works perfectly in monkeys wop "t always work, in humans. ’ ? Also, back In 1935 another polio i.i- , vl-r i 11 ’ « I

i —J—l—ike To Emphasize I Balanced Budget Ist State Os Union Message On Monday WASHINGTON UP’ — President (Eisenhoower’s first sta,te of the union message will emphasize that he Wants a balanced budget but will offer few details on hbw to achieve one, informed sources said today. (Mr. Eisenhower met with Republican congressional leaders to discuss his stilhunfinished '• message, which he will deliver in person before a joint session of the house and senate at 12:30 p.m. e.s.t. nett .Monday. 1 . According to: one informant, the President will put considerable pmphasis on foreign policy and will Restate the basic political phiolsophy which Mr. Eisenhow’er outlined during the 1952 presidential campaign. \ Thus the message can be ex- t pected to chart a generally conservative course in domestic affairs. Mr. Eisenhower during the campaign called for sharp cuts in government spending, tax relief after the budget is balanced, less federal intervention.in fields when? state or private initiative is possible. “equitable’’ revisions of the TaXt-Hartley labor law, and maintenance of most of the social welfare reforms of the, past 20 'years. Although the message inevitably will touch upon the Korean war, It was understood Mr. Eisenhower will not attempt to pi-esent a pat solution. It was pointed out he would be unlikely, in any (event, to announce details of, military strategy in a public address. Informants predicted the President will stress the needifor a balanced budget, without going into detail on where spending shoultj be cut. His specific proposals for cuts in federal spending will go to con<Tun> To Pave Six) Dollar Day Planned Here February 6 The retail committee the, Decatur Chamber of Commerce announced today, that Decatur merchants will observe “Dollar Day” in this city Friday, Feb. 6. “Doil y ar Daj” pennants will be displayed throughput the city arid merchants are planning for unusual bargains for the shoppers one we<»k | from Friday. '■ BULLETIN WASHINGTON, UP — The senate with a voice vote confirmed Harold E. Stassen tp- : f, day as mutual security administrator. B

! vaccine caused a national scandal. Its highly reputable creater was positive it would work, having tested it in monkeys. Whether it did or not was never 1 conclusively demonstrated. Some of the persons injected with it died >•*— of polio soon after their and its further use was forbidden by the U. S. Public Health Service. The new-vaccine, at very least, is safe. ,It won’t cause polio. But beyond Dr. 1 Weaver’s hints neither he nor any of the scientists would go. ?*I would like jo be able to announce this evening that field tests with such, a vaccine will be undertaken during Dr. Weaver said after describing a safe vaccine. “This I cannot shy with complete assurance, but\l can say that tremendous progress has been made during the past several months — intact, the kind of progress One is accustomed to see priori to the taking, of an important forward step.” The safe vaccine he described is the one which scientists at Yale, University of Pittsburgh, Joh n s Hopkins University. University of Minnesota and University of Bouth- • ern California have been exper(Turn T® Paa® Fire)

Senate Group Would Extend Ike's Powers Reorganization ' Power Extension Favored By Group UP —A senate committee today quickly and unanimously i approved a bill to extend the President’s government reorganization powers for two years but making it easier for congress to veto reorganization plans. K . The action ’cama shottly after President Eisenhower, in his first executiv<‘ order, formally estab--1 lisned an advisory committee to study gcvermnent reorganization. The measure approved by the; senate government operations i committee would extend the President’s reorganization powers through- April 1. 1955. But it would njake it possible for either the i senate nr house to reject a re- : organization plan by a “simple” iriajorltyß a majority of those pres- ■ ept and voting. Under present law, • a reorganization plan becomes law < in 60 days unless either house re- . jects it by. a constitutional majority . -r49 in ttye senate; 218 in the housq The senate measure was sponsored johitly by chairman Joseph , R. McCarthy R-Wis. and Sen, John • L, McClellan D-Ark„ the commit- ; tee’s ranking Democrat. McCarthy . hoped for senate \action in a few days. Sin. John F. Kennedy DMass, reserved the right te introduce an amendment’ to keep the re- . quirement for a constitutional majority on any-\.congressional veto action. The Wuse government operations committed considered a twoyear extension of the present Mr. Eisenhower’s advisory committee actually was set up Nov. 30,, with Nessim A. Rockefeller as chairman. The effect of today's order was to formalize the earlier action. The grou[p\will advise Mr. Eisenhower onj how best to prompte economy and efficiency in the executive branch of the government through reorganization. ! The committee, which will serve without pay, must complete its work within a year. Besides Rockefeller, the commits (Tarn To Page Three) I 300 Women Attend j Meeting On Cancer Danger Points Os Cancer Are A film on “Self Examination for Breast Cancer,’> and, a learned dissertation ori, the subject by WJ. M. Burk held the attention of Over 300 Adams county women last evening at the auditorium of Decatur high school. The nriinber of women heard Dr, Burk enumerate the seven danger points of cancer that everyone should know to protect themselves: (1) Any sore that does not heal; (2)1 A lump or thickening in the breast or elsewhere; (?) Unusual bleeding or discharge; (4) Any change in a wart or mlole; (5) Persistent indigestion or difficulty in swallowing; (6) Persistent hoarseness or (7) Any change in normal bowel habits, \ H Last night's project was a joint effort fit the Adams county canc«S spciety and the Decatur Woman's c!ul», headpd by 'Mt- and Mrs. Roy Kalver, respectively. The film's for the Showing were procured by the county group. Dr. Bprk;, it is reported, cleared up many of the misconceptions concerning the disease that yearly kills at lease 200,000 Americans. The most important step to take in cancersaid the local doctor; was speedy diagnosis and treatment. Cancer caught too late accounted for St least 70,000 deaths last year that might have been cured. J<' ■ i

William Remington I : Convicted By Jury /‘ Guilty Os Lying On -* Secret Information NEtV YORK — A federal court jury convicted former government economist William W. Remington early today of lying* when he denied passing secret inforrpation to a Communist spy courier. j | The jury of 11 nien and one; woman which deliberated 10 and a half hours found the 35-year-old former commerce department employe guilty on two ebunts of a five-count perjury indictment. It was the second time he had been 'convicted of perjury. The six-fbot, two-inch Dartmouth graduate stood quietly in a nearly 1 deserted courtroom gt 3:30 a.m< to hear jury foreman George Kempler read the verdict Which, in efl, feet, branded him as a willing tool of Communist espionage agents 1 operating in Washington during 1 World War 11. ! \- Federal Judge Vincent L. Leibell j set no date for sentencing, On the two charges on which ~he was found guilty, Remington could re- • ceive a maximum • sentence of 10 r ~ years in prison and a 54.000 fine. The two counts on which Rem- ’ ington was convicted charged that ’ he lied when he denied giving government secrets to confessed Coni--1 munist courier Elizabeth Bentley 1 and when he denied the existence ‘ of the Young Communist League ' on the Dartmouth College campus. , The jury found him innocent of a charge that he lied when hp testified he never attempted to recruit new members for the Communist ’ i party. The jurors, red-eyed and visibly tired after their long deliberations, reported they were Hopelessly deadlocked on the other'two counts—-whether Remington 4 mas telling the truth when he he never belonged to the Commynist party and never paid party dues. Leibell dismissed the jury, and the government was not expected (Ton To Pare Five)

Personnel Director Speaks To Students Fort Wayne Man Is Speaker At School O. Matelski, personnel director of Wolf apd Dessauer, Fort Wayne, spoke to the students of the junior and senior classes of Decatur high school Monday afternoon, telling all what it takes to get, keep and hold on tb a position after graduation. ' Matelski told of the qualities employers look, for in their employes when thinking of promotions: Details—that knack of looking after the “little things” as well as the big ones . . . the later, when done,, marking that person as being above average and deserving of a more responsible position.' The executive held to be of importance the ability to be able to follow instructions. The fact that production depends on four personal attributes which Are highly priied by employers, when foundaccuracy, speed, orderliness, gnd job knowledge, and not least of jthese is a basic willingness to learn; to expand one's knowledge, which he annexed? Regarding the 1 processes he thought should be followed prior to graduation from high school, Matelski told the students to “think critically about choosing a vocation; make careful scrutiny—observe the job itself; get training; capability (personal limitations). On seeking a job Matelski named those things the “boss” looks for before hie considers hiring a new employe^—tadt, honesty, health, appearance, initiative and punctuality. He averred that these qualities might well go for the job seeker as well as the job bolder, the latter adding initiative, cooperation, and industry to lhe big list of musts. 1

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Record Budget Submitted To State Assembly Governor Warns Os Dangerous Finance Position Os State INDIANAPOLIS, UP —Governor Craig warned today a record $606.939.274 deficit-spending budget rpcommended for Indiana would place the state in an “extremely dangerfinancial position ip event of a minor economic recession. Craig told a joint session of legislators they must balance appropriation increases with oorresponding decreases to maintain a safe general fund surplus. ■ If they don't, he said, new taxes may be needed. The 1953-55 budget submitted by the budget committee —"raig said the\ group did “a good job” — would take $43x000.00(f more out of the state treasury than is put in during the next two years. That will reduce a general fund surplus to an estimated $28,460,000 in 1955. “It is vital that a substantial, surplus be maintained.” Craig said. “It would be poor policy to reduce the balance below the $20,000,004* level.” He warned that, excessive appropriations by the 1953 legislature might reduce the surplus “to the point where new taxes may be necessary.” - < "We are all opposed te increasing the tax load,” he said. “A minor economic i recession could throw tHe budget (so far out of balance during the next biennium that the state could be in an extremely dangerous financial po-. sittoh,” Craig ? said, ‘>n<j make it necessary to either shift the cost of many governmental services from the state to local units, to increase rates of present taxes or even to find a new 4 taxi” I Craig said at a news conference just before he spoke that he did pot believe there will be a serious recession during the next two years but if there was t“proper ad-

justments would take-place throughout ail levels of state government.” He endorsed the budget committee’s stand that the surplus should be reduced ohly for construction of “vitally needed” buildings. . In addition- to urging lawmakers to “strictest adherence to a truly economical program,” Craig:. Asked control over appointment of mental hospital superintendents. * Recommended an addition $lO per month cost-of-living bonus for state employes, which would cost the state sßoo,oo(Uper year. Suggested a constitutional amendment raising the percentage of bonded indebtedness permitted for school building construction and legalizing the investing of retirement funds in securities back of school buildings. Warned rerductibn of the state's share of alcoholic beverage and ' cigaret taxes might necessitate other new taxes. - ?. . The budget proposed to lawmakers was the biggest in Indiana history and represented an increase of ,$59,900,000 —or 11.36 percent—(Tin To Pace Tfcree) ? T'" Glen R. O'Laverty Governor Os Rotary • 't ■ — H ’ Glen R. O'Laverty, insurance company executive of Bluffton, was unanimously elected governor of Northern Indiana Rotary clubs at the annual conference of Rotary International in Fort Wayne last evening. Decatur Rotarians participated in the election of the Bluffton man. Clarence Ztner and Robert Ashbaucher were voting delegates from the local club. Others who attended the convention which opened Sunday were Wilbur Petrie. Louis'Jacobs and Harold Engle, the latter president of the Decatur club. Governor-elect O’Laverty, visited the local cluh last Thursday. He will be formally elected by Rotary International at the coriventibn in Paris, France. next May. ■ i ' . ' ■ - ■ i ' -