Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 27.

I|2 Perish In Irish Sea Tragedy • f~- 2 . , . & *~ ?3 JI BL !■ E vik. jkTJlsm £ • JUr* i *• ■' ' ; ■ Ikß9mhKK*Jhk< C 3 3K ”' i! Ifiß^ * ;j - "&S~ E* SURVIVORS from the ferry, the Princess Victoria, await their turns at a rescue ship’s rail, before being lifeboats and carried safely ashore. At least 132 persons are feared to have lost their lives wheij the Victoria foundered in the raging Irish Sea off the coast, of Scotland. Petty Officer Wilf barren (inset); from the destroyer Contest, played an important role fn the saving of 45 Jives when hq dived into the turbulent sens to assist survivors to board the rescue ship

Death Toll In Europe Storm Nears 1,000

—— ■ i LONDON UP — The toll in Western Europe’s worst storm of the century crept toward | the 1,000 mark today. American servicemen. wives and families were- Incldded among the dead in-tfre j lashed floods which ’ extend ’ England to the northern coast of France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. » ■ ' Holland suffered her greatest natural disaster in 500| years. There, 400 persons were knbwn d®ad and rescue parties still liad not reached the two tiny islands of north Beveland and "'Schouweh where a population of 6,000 >had ' been sleeping when, In seconds time, the raging waters sihashed a sea. wall. j; Britain repotted 400 known <|ead anjj at least 400 still unaccounted tor. Included were eight t’riited States air force men or I their •wives and children at Soulfhqrpe bomber base in eastern .England. Nine other Americans ihf-- 'I "j- ••

Belgium counted J 6 dead and Germany 7. , h f Today\the storm hq.d movett to Russia and Poland it jvas Causing snowfalls, British air miijistry weather experts said. ■ .Damage will run into the scores Os millions of dollars. • . ; Holland estimated at least 2iOop of her total area of 15,450 square miles were under water. \ The waters swept 40 miles, inland, and thq brpwn earth which had taken centuries to. accumulate the dike barriers washed dyt to sea. Ostend, Belgium, estimated its damage, at 810,000,050. There, tl|e waters ihad receded,-leaving a s|a of' mud. * .• ' | On- Canvey Island in the Thairtfes estuary, 49 persons were knowrt dead. The eventual death toll wps expected to reach 100.. (Tarn Tw P»<r fCtebt) j | ;

M r s- Racnel Nicalet j Dies At Fort Wayne j ; Mrs. Rachel Nicolet, forhier resident of . Berne, died Saturday at-the home of a daughter, Mrs. Seymour Bennett in Fort Wayne. Surviving besides the daughter, are: tour other daughters. Mfrs. pecker, Mrs. Minnie Dollarhltet: Mrs. Harold Gerke and Mrs. Joseph Buehrer. all of Fort Wayne; j>ne son, Ell of Fort Wayne;, thqee brothers, Emil Brunner of Deca-/ (ur. Jule and George; Brunnejt of Icottsburg; 18 grandchildren and 3 | Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.rti., Tuesday at the'C. M-; Sloan & Sons funeral home in Fort f’ayne, ’with burial in the Lindenood cemetery. ] | \ INDIANA Mostly cloudy north, partly, ' • cloudy south tonight and Tuo» ; < day. . No decided change in temperature, low tonight 2025 ; north; 25*30 south. High Tues* j ? . day- from 32 extreme north tp ], 37 extreme south.

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Two Top-Level Appointees Face Senate Queries Conant And Talbott Are Summoned By I Senate Committees 'WASHINGTON, UP — T«/o of President Eisenhower’s top-level appointees faced senate questioning today, but no serious hitches were expected in their winning senate {approval. ' t V Dr. James B| Conant, Mated to be U. S|. high commissioner in Germany, was Called before a secret Session of the senate foreign relations committee to answer charges that he has criticized the Catholic school system. At the same time, tho senate armed ■ services committee: recalled Hajtjold E; Talbott, prospep- . tive air force secretary, for further cmestioning about his past ■business activities. , ■ The committee approved Talbott's nonjiinatfon last week. :He was: recalled a|t the insistence of Sen. Estes. Kefauver,v D.•TCnn., jwho voted his nomination: laM week,.

The hojqihatipii of Conant, retiring Ha:rvdj-d University president, brought a> scattering of congressional maij protesting a speech he delivered in Boston last April. The scientist-educator said that ( a “dual system” of education threatens deijnoefcitlej unity. Some Cathregarded it as an attack on parochial ft-hobls. Opposition to Conant was expected frofn Sens; Joseph R. McCarthy. R-|Vig. and Karl E. Mundt, R-S. I)., wutpthe senate expected to Okay the appointment. Talbott was questioned on two reports] One filed in. 1917 by the late U. Sj Chief Justice Charles Evans criticized contract practices and aircraft turnqd out by the old j Dayton-Wright Aviation company, pf which Talbott was president. The other report, filed last year by Rgp. Porter Hardy D-Va.. charged that the Chrysler Corp., and the Electric Auto-Lite companies, in which Talbott was a director and stockholder, cost the govetnjmeftL “untold Inilliohs” in purchas ng accessories. 1 1 - ■ • \' BULLETIN , ( HALIFAX, N. S., UP — A chartered British airliner, believed carrying 39 persons, \j. disappeared over the stormy 1 North Al fantie today. ■ The four-engined York ailrflner, owned by Skyway Airlines of London; England, was believed down some 350 miles east-southeast of Gander, Nfld.

Tommy f||nd Will Close Today Collections Here _ Go Over SI,OOO M . Jr. Today is the lasfday of collection for the Tommy Mann fund. There are so many parties who are accepting money and turning it right over to the family that it would be very difficult to an e|qct total amount. But, as we said before, we don’t think $2,000 is ont of the way. This amount will do more than pay for the operations so far for] Tommy Mann, and his care, Coo, As many-' al reedy hbfortunately know, ofteii 'ths hospital expensea, medicine, rooms, and so forth, top the.operations by many dollars. The Manns will have enough now to pay tor everything, including a plastic eye and plastic surgery whenever the timq comes, Frcjn ; a pittance—s3B on that first day^—the collection has grown to over !a thousand dollars. At the Daily Democrat office there have been 300 contributors or more appearing in. That’s not counting the Anonymous friends who send irt ptoney. The friends must reach into at least the 50’s, if not more. The, Mjanns have said Vgo many times that are greatful for the help, that we don’t ask them any more how they feel about so many stringers reaching over 100 miles to add a little comfort. We know how they feel. And Tommy, too; One look at his gaftnt A face is enouj h to tell what: is passing through his mind, as inexplicable a thing as it is for us to put it in words.-Suffice to siy-i-r-he thanks you all. He has said he; would like to get ir touch with all the people] organizations, everybody who dug down —and those who wished they could—and tell them about how he feSls. When Tommy can smile again, the pennies will have helped in permitting it, and with God’s help, toe. { Friends of Bluffton, Kendallville, South Whitley, Columbia City, Ma 'kle, Huntingtoii. Fort Wayne, Bryant and Decatur___|26 Elks ami friends 44.15* Fort Wafne General Electric. 31.50 Mrs. Ella Johnsop, Kendallville j-—... 1 Mrs. A. Van Gessel, Kendall-. vttle J_. 1 Alice & shirley Ann Roberts _ 1 Mrs, Roland Mills, Ft Wayne 1 Mrs. J. H. Gay, Ft. Wayne __ 1‘ Charles Liby, Howe 1 Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Strgub * 5 Mr* and Mrs. N. B. Wobds . 2 Mr. £ Mis. MArcus Schueler _ 5 Leland M. Higgins, Ft Wayne 10 M. M. Mjessick, Ft ’Wayne __ 5 Mr. and {Mrs. P. Lamle, Ft Wayne] --f—■ 1 Jim, ? Judy & Donna Lee Burk. 2.50 Mr. & Mirs. Ellis S. Kites ... . 5 Mrs. L. H. Lake, Junior and ' ' Alice [ T ..i 3 Susan and Anne Langston 2 F. H/ Sanxter, Ft Wayne {._ 2 C. P; Stqury, Berne 2 Miss Diao Baxter, Linn i Grove .... 1 U-fi— 1 Mr. 4 Mrs. Kenneth Hoff- ' man ; 5 Shirley & Donald Cumrpihgs _ 2 Mrs. John/Harold, Mildred, Violet, & Ralph Steffen __ 5 Howard Buck, Marion _j 2 Making a grand total collected since January Is\ of >1175.55 —deposited at the First State Bank, Deeptur. Some time Tuesday the check will be handed over to the Manns.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 2, 1953.

Eisenhower Says Fleet Will No Longer Shield Chinese Communists

Bill Submitted For More State Police Patrols r Aiiothjer Bill Would End Department Os Veterans Affairs ,' -: * ' • I U■■ H ' iI 8 1 ■' ■ H '• .: iNbrANApPOLIS, (VP) - The Indiana seriate was given bills to day tdjiforee more state police, into highway patrol duty and to a]boL‘ ish the -atsjte department of- >et« ej*ans jgffaiijs. i I -.;■ | |l| • Senft. Hiiward Steele, TR.-Kpox.'. and Samuel Johnson* R.-Anderppn.' introduced ]a measure requiting that at teast 90 percent of; all uon-clericnd personnal in the state police'department spend t h eU r| time patrolling roads. i ?'f don’t know where the police j are (spending Itkeir tiife/' : Steele said J, "but it’sd not oft Itlie : highwi|>e”r ■■ ■ f ■ Sens f i Joh|n G. Tinder. R.-lndlph- ’ oplis, iind Hoy Conrad, (cello, Sought to transffr the der botius f-esponsibilUjes of ithe , veterans affairs department fto < the state auditor. They would !rfttain cqunty;*veterans , service cCrs. [flkidir estlmated; ft w<Uii4 *1 save ;£300,040 in the next 'tw » i yoars. [ . fl othfer. frills vjere Introdue- i ed the senate and house as She < fourth full |reek of the 61-day |es_Biopi b|igan | fallowing a <week-|nd j |ecoi».j!Am4ng them were bills|to: i RidstLtoxfnsrhip trustees’ ' les, B 4 w. Johnson. i Ti anijfer to set for ci buses and trolleys - [ the public Berv|ce.\com,mi»slUnfctd city cduncilK.Rep. Kleth. K- ,- Alloty taverns and bars td Open tdl 1 a.im. by paying an ej||ra siod a&ear|fee. Reps. Bartoci U<id • liVoodwiprthJ j ' ;T Require inspection off all to drivfe without a 10-ceirt stlcter showing ,c|r passed inspection. - I'- .riWrU To P«*e Eickti B ■ < I—-- ■ !T 1 1 Muselnian Is Named ( f r L ’ " Just ce pi Peace j ’ ■jSfiingel Resigns In | ■ Monroe Township | ”j •- • i ' 1 ! ! * J'l ’ Twe ity-three year old Arthur K. son of Ohrls j multi titernet Was named to repine j Emeet'J. Stengel as justice of the ( peace jM lljonroe township, at ta regular meeting of the courrty ] today. Stengel , gaVe no reasons for his resigns ] tidn! blit' be recommended Muabi- ] mgn td talje his place until ele< i tiona lit 1954. J* Muselmaji is the assistant man- i ager of hid father’s business -at Bertie,, th4 Economic , Printing : Conceril. « f’he elder Muselman Ms ’ also'the probation officer of Ad < ams cdiintf. 1 Aithoughi there is no official statement to tjie effect, MuselWn ' is estitnateil to be the < citizen to hbld the office of justice < of the pea<|e, in many years, 'if 1 Qavid "Macklin, Decatur J ney. sit irl on his first commas- ’ sionera’ Ineetlng since being ip- ’ poiirited county attorney after the -resignation*of Ed A. Bosse, court- ( ty since 1948. ';]<• Commissioners let .about 20 ( > claims during the morning, ft ?is reported bjf county auditor Frahk Kiteon. Mrs.; W. Guy Brown. I secretary <?f the Adams 'J tubercftlosH association, was na/tD ’ ed the (official visitor to the Irehe Byron (sanitarium in Allen countyKifson | said * would ineetHn special session Fch>- } ruary 16 to allocate the various | of -county funds fbr | the thrtee banks the county does 1 business with—4he First State «i Bank, ,Deca|ur; the First Bank of ] Berne; and| the Bank of Geneva. < are . based on <He> amount of Assets of the bank, i I t .I i. il -I \ ■ ■. ■

’Brownell Goes Slow On Reorganization Plans No Wholesale Firing Os Personnel • WASHINGTON Us» —The Eisenslower administration intends to j?gy slow’’ in reorganizing the justice department and replacing dts key personnel, it was disclosed . New Republican officials of the department said they ; plan ho wholesale* firings within the departrjpiiL and i will take their time bringing in new people. They pointed out that attorney general Herbert Brpwnell Jr. told ti>e senate judiciary committee that he plans to replace a justice de ! partment official only if a better ;man is available. But these' officials also said they have found] very mgny capable and competent attorneys anxious to work in the department “because of the prestige of President Eisenhower and Byoytnell.” Brownell became director Jan. 22. Last Week, ’deputy attorney general William P. Rogers apd two new asfeistarit attorneys general, Warren E. Burger and Rankin, formally took their oaths of office. In addition, two more designates for assistant attorney general. H. BrUn Holland taf Massachusetts and Warren Oiney of i California* have been confirmed by ibe senate and were to take their 6atha of (office today. Indicative of Brownell’s go slow policy is the fac| that he has yet; to name a new • solicitor general or to appoint new assistant s.tt’orneys in charge of anti(Twrn Tn P«« Klsht) William H. Haggard Dies Sunday Night Funeral Services To Be Wednesday William Henty Haggard, 9b, prominent retired farmer of lionroe, died at 11:40 o’clock Sunday night at the Adams county meinor'iai hospital. Death was attributed 4o infirmities, and follow’ed ari illness of three weeks. | i He was born tn Fayette county, 0., March 16. 1862, a son of John and Sarah Jane Allen-Haggard, and was married to Effie Mix Nov--21, 1884. Mrs. Haggard died March 14/ Mr. Haggard, a resident of Adam® county for , 63 years, was a member of the Monroe Friends church. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Elfia Jones of Monroe; three sons, Arthur Haggard of Fort Wayne, Ertos Haggard of Indianapolis and Harvey’Haggard of near Decatur; eight grandchildren; two brothers, Henry Haggard of Pontiac, Mich., and Jason Haggard of Holliday, N. D(; thr.ee sisters, Mrs. Roberta Noffsinger of Monroe, Mrs. Edward Roe and Mrs. Grace Erp of ■Decatur. Ten brothers and sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o’clock Wednesday aft ernoon at the Monroe- Friends chyrch, the Rev. Vernon ißiley and the Rev. Ralph Johnson officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body was removed to the Jahn funeral home at Bluffton, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening Unpl 9 a.m.. Wednesday, after which it will lie in state at the church until time of the services. Groundhog Sees His Shadow, More Winter Six more weeks of winter. That’s the outlook for the becatur area if the old superstition h regarding Mr., Groundhog is to be believed. According to the tradition, the groundhog appears from his winter lair on Feb. 2, looks around, and if he sees hty shadow, he. scurries back to sleep out six more weeks of winter weather. And the syn shone brightly at intervals today.

Five More Red Planes Fall To U. S. iabrejets Korean Fighting [ Continues Mostly As Aerial Action iSEOIIL, Khrea, UP —American. Sabrejets alight Russian - built MlGs out in the open for the 15th straight day and destroyed* or damaged five of them injdogfights over North Korea today. / U. S. gupefforts, ranging cloudless skies, dropped 200,000 pounds ofj bomba across the 155-mile battleline in their biggest attack in mbre than a year as the Korean fighting continued to be\mostly in thje air. ] ' ] ’ ■ • JAbout IG, fighter-bombers smashed a troop concentration southeast of Cinmampo on the West Coast. levelled 200 buildings and touched off six explosions that stint dense smoke .shooting thousands of feet into the air. {other U. 14.. planes followed up thje massive Superfort raid during thje' night with strikes all across the front, damaging 41 «un -positions and destroying 15 supply shelters and one armored vehicle. Four of the five MIG claims were chalked up in a furious series of duels between 19 Sabres ond eight MIGs which ranged from the Yalu river to the Chongchun river. Marine Skyraiders sealed a tunned south of Kumchon, trapping a train inside, and sealed another tupnel running; parallel to it. Australia Meteor jets blasted a trijick and train convoy south of K<]won on thejeast coast. On the gro|un<| United Nations troops temporarily lost an outpost npar Old Baldy on the Western Frpnt. but Otherwise the .trench war remained stalemated. \ Ij'Jine bther Superforts dumped 90 tons of explosives on a Rqd supply concentration south of dhinrnapipo. the west coast port for . the enemy capital of Pyongyang. 11 ■ '-H- —{——'. Dismissal Motion Is Filed By Stale Latest Action In Amish School Case j A for dismissal, based on an alleged cine-day discrepancy, was filed by the state in the dispute with the Amish over the right to operate a private school. Briefly, Amlshmen Noah Wenger, John GifokT and Cletus Christner— plairitiffk in the motion for a judicial reiheyt of the case—asked the court, fjor a 15-day continuance to file the: proceedings of a state hearing with Wilbur Young two months agei. Young is the superintendent of public instruction:. The Amish filled their request on January 23, having filed for a review on December 23. The attorney general, who filed %is appearance this weekend, Edwin K. Steers, main.ains the eburt no longer has jurisdiction in the case because ; the motion for continuance should have been filed a day earlier January 22. The law states that proceedings of the hearing in point must be filed within 30 days of filing for a review. ; j • Judge Myles F. Parrish has not yet set a hearing date for this latest move 1 Ini the heated controversy of the ri&ht Os the t Arhish tO hold school in the southern part of the county actjorjlng to their own Young previously ruled , that in his opinion the Amish were operating contrary to the laws set up for education within the state, tie further! said |hat any further action would be up to law enforcement. Substantially, county superintendent Glen Custard holds the same view. Also filing his appearance for the state along with Steers is thomas L. Webber, deputy attorney general of Indiana, .

Eisenhower Urges Full Farm Parity Little Concrete To Offer To Farmers WASHINGTON. UP—President Eisenhower told congress and farmers # today to look ahead to 1955 to develop a program “economic Stability and full parity of income for American farmers.” He did not spell out in -his state of the union message exactly what he meant by “full parity of income” or how it should be achieved. \ t “But we must seek this goal Iri ways that minimize governmental interference in the farmers’ af;fairs, that permit desirable shifts in production, and that encourage farmers themselves to Use initiative in meeting changing economic conditions." he said. Mr. Eisenhower had little conto offer American farmers whose prices have been slowly declining for almost two years. He prortiised that secretary of agriculture Ezra Taft Benson will see to it that prices of basic farm commodities are supported at 90 percent of parity. This i» required 1 by lair.; It expires Dec. 31, 1954. Mr. Eisenhower said Benaon bis associates ■ will, “of courst execute the present act faithful!: and thereby seek to mitigate the consequences at the downturn it farm Income." He termed the farm price situation “ono of the difficult problems which face the new administration." He said the price decline has occurred at a time whes “most non-farm prices and fartn costs-of-production are extraordinarily high.” , { ' — \ Lions Minstrel To j Be Given Two Nights Annual Minstrel To L Be Presented Here . j ' ' j ' Lionsj and others toiling on this year’s minstrel show, spent a happy though grueling six hours rehearsing and re-rehearsing “Everything Goes” Sunday afternoon and evening at the Decatur high school gym, where performances will be given Wednesday and Thursday evenings.. Come Wednesday evening the show will be as perfect as it can be gotten, Lions report, they also say, a little weakly and with the slightest tinge of hoarseness, that it will represent, work. For six, hours they did it. Over and over, and ovey, through the thick fog of cues , miscues and flubbed lines the unperturbed soprano of Mrs. Rickard came through In the clutch to take the Lions by the hand, as it werei, and show them the right direction, be it an expression, facial or body, or whether it is proper to go ooh, or ah. J' ■ ■ ' • 1 ' . ■:< In the chorus, or the circle, are included the mob Fbith is the body of the singing. W’here before they hesitantly sloshed and waded through their renderings, they are now renditions and are accomplished in so lusty a manner as would enrapture the eardrums of a goliath. The Rev. Edgar Schmitt makes' do in his sweet version of "Carolina in {Morning," the chorus wait-ing*-anticipatingr to pounce spiritedly on the tune. And so, as, the mid week is awaited with baited breath, Lions are meanwhile thinking of the dress rehearsal to take place at the Decatur gym tonight. So no one should be surprised today if suddenly, out of nowhere, comes a loud guffaw or a gutteral “yowsah.” It’s probobly one of the sidemen muttering to himself, trying to get his part down pat.

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State Os Union Message Given By President, Asks Repudiation Os Secret Pacts Os F. D. R.-Stalin i. . WASHINGTON, UP—President; Eisenhower told congress today the. U. S. fleet Fill “no \ longer shield Communist from armed Nationalist invasion and called for repudiation of secret Roosevelt-Stalin agreements to clear the. slate tor a “new, positive foreign policy.” In his first state of the union i message, he also charted .a > “middle way” in domestic policies. ■ proposing tax eutq at the “earliest ; possible" moment but not until government spending, is sharply - reduced and a balanced budget is 5 ip sight. - - He recommended abandonment of wage-price controls which ex* f pire April 30, but said rent con--1 trols should be continued in areas i of serious housing shortage. 0 His 7,000- wo rd message, deliv* I ered in person before a joint session in the house chamber and. 4. carried to the nation M all radio and television fftetwwitß. dealt dly rectUy with many urgent issues, e but postponed recommendations n on some policy matters, notably farm and labor legislation, pendH ing a further report to congress, s Highlight of the hour-long ad- . dress was his blunt announcement » that he is cancelling the orders t iskuod by former President Truman in June, lsso. under which the U. S. seventh fleet has prevented Chinese Nationalist troops on Formosa from raiding the Red China mainland. It was his first move to step up military pressure on the Chinese: Reds fi»r peace in Korea and throughout Asia., In another implied slap at his Democratic predecessor, Mr. Eisenhower said the United States has “incontrovertible evidence that Soviet \ Russia possesses atomic ■weapons/’ regardless of Mr. Truman’s recently-voiced doubts on the matter. _ , His major legislative proposals include: i'. 1. Extension beyond June 30 of materials and products controls, limited to defense priorities materials. . \ .1 ’ 2. Extend the tariff-cutting reciprocal trade act with due safeguards for domestic industries, agriculture ahd labor standards. 2. Extend without change presidential authority to reshuffle federal agencies under the government reorganization act for 18 months to two years. A congressional move was underway to water down this power, but it now appears Mr. Elsenhower will get the same authority Mr. Truman had. 4. Grant Hawaii statehood time to participate in the 1954 congressional elections. ; 5. Corrective amendment of the Taft-Hartley irct, tor which, the labor department wifi have later recommendations. - i ' 6. Amend’ the McCarran-Walter I . (Turn To Pose ElKhtl Ike's Philosophy Is Summed Up In !L Today's Message WASHINGTON UP — President (Eisenhower summed up in these words in his state of the union message today what appears to ba the philosophy of his administration: “There is — in world affairs — a steady course to be followed between an assertion Os- strength that Is trucelent and a confession o’! helplessness that is cowardly. - “There is — in our affairs at home —a middle way between un- > trammelled freedom of the Individual and the demands for the welfare of the whole nation. Thia way mhst avoid government by bureaucracy as carefully as it avoids neglect of the helpless.”