Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 3 February 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 28.

New Congress Heats Views Os New President 1 — « X i IMrIiHII * I iBEf U ■HHhs ■ B > m IK* K «kk HHKb IB Jbb M * I ISiii 'Bh j K Bwif - m-q ill aIMr ■ Sfißß N I "Hr 1 j *ft WF jpl I jL Tl ■ wwf - iss? aßh ~ ~/‘ y< y W! GENERAL VIEW of the. chamber of the HouAe of Representatives as President Eisenhower delivered his State of the Union message to a joint se sion of the Congress. Behind the chief executive sit Vice President Nixori and House Speaker Martin. .- ■ ” *

,13 Communists Sentenced To j Prison Terms Second String Reds Prefer Prison Over Going Td Russia i NEW YORK, UP— Thirteen coni' victed second string Com mini fists I leaders in the United wore .- -fined up to $6,000 today and sent fenced to prison terms rangihg i from one to three years. ! ; i Each of the 13, who Monday told ? the court a jail term would be j better than going to-Russia, could | have been sentenced to five yeah* I t in a federal prison and ' $lO,•f 000. Federal Judge Edward \J. pit mok said Monday he would iml’ pose rhe maximum sentence bn |p none df ttife defendants. - ‘ | The stiffest sentences — three years and $6,000 — passed | on seven I defendants;/ Elisabeth Gurley (Flynn, 62-year-old "' ‘‘first lady** of . the American Communist - party; Pettis Perry. 56. AUbamaborn Negro who was active in the ’ party in California before assuming national office; Alexanderßittelman, 63, Russiah-born (Jommun;i ist theoretician; Alexander Trachj tenberg, 67, also Ru£sfan.-born. a ? founder of the Communist newsi; paper Daily Worker;! .Victor J. | Jerome, 56, Polish-born member of f the party’s National Educational |i committee: Louis Weinstc&k. 49, Ip Hungariah-born Communist trade union Worker, \ and Arnold Johnson. 48. a native of Wash.. ■ who was also active in Communist ! groups in Ohio , and-iri Pittsburgh, Pa. !' ' Sentenced to two years'and fined- $4,000 were; Jacob Russian-born charter member of ■ t the IT. S. Communist party; Betty Gannett, 46. Pplish-born national director of "education; Albert Francis Lannon. 4fy, party maritime worker and- organizer in Maryland the District of Columbia; William Welnstbne, 55, | Russian-born organiser of the | American party, and George B. i Charney, *4(7. Harvard graduate I and officer of the New York State ,i Communiat party. | Lightest sentence was handed Claudia Jones, 37, secretary of the j party’s National Wbmen'n Comi mission, who Nvas given one year and a day in prison and a $2,000 hne. Mi3s Jones is a Negro native of the British West Indies; Oratorical Contest Wednesday Morning (Starting at 8:30 Wednesday morning will take place at Decatur high school the - eliminations 11 i preparatory for the county ora i | .torical contest sponsored 'each year by the American Lee-ion. - , ■ Director of the activity i° Deane Dorwin, Decatur high speech . instructor,- who- .reports ; that 12 students will compete toil. morrd.w ip room 307 at the, Ar.hool. , Dorwin said Decatur high has . ■ won 13 of the last 16 CQun-fy orai torical contests. - He said, parents : may attend . tomorrow’s elimination—it will last for at least two ■ hours. 1 • ; _ - ' ’ V ■’ ‘j- . INDIANA WEATHER; * Partly cloudy tonight ,and Wednesday; a little coldbr toI night; warmer Wednesday. lai Low tonight 16-22 north, 22-28 \ fl i south. High Wednesday * | north, 42-48 south.

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' > I Schoo, Industrial leaders In Meeting ■ r H Ji ' Problems Os Schools Discussed By Leaders “That if it'| is necessary to . . . spend more money in the form of a higher tax rate in order to havq the best schools possible . . . and to pave the way for industrial expansion—we are for it.” ‘School superintendent W. Guy Brown and the Decaur school board heard this theme spelled out last evening at a joint rneet-i ing of the school board and the industrial division of the \Chamber of Commerce at the Moose home, v ■( ? i. : ' , . J \ ’ vil' : ■ ' ! The best way to ’[describe the i meeting last night be to say it was 1 harmonious, filled with amity, the school tfaroiigh the voice of W. Guy Brpwn, wholly concurring with the poricept of increased investment for greater return that permeated the meet-i ing all night long. Head of the industrial body Charles Ehinger. president of the Citizens Telephone Co/ keynoted the meeting after the gfoup enjoy! ed a dinner prepared by the Wo! men df the Moose, saying, “the i purpose ot this meeting is to ac+l quairii the. members of Uie indus T ■trial division with the problems faced by the schpoi face with theni the problem of considering foture crowded schools . . . through growth of the city.” , Ehinger emphasized that these were nationwide \problemt and not local. i ) The industry leader restated that the divis/ou which, he said actually represented ait \least 5( percent of all the taxes taken in the,city,” was in favor of increased spending because they believq they will eventually reap a profit from a better school system. Hel said' of the some 22 industrial leaders present—-representing ev ery industry in Decatur -4 that their personal opinions bear gfeat weight in the formulation of policy of their respective companies and thus feel, !he said, that they should have a Voice in all munici-i pal. . matters, including! thoke of the schools. \ , Ejiinger introduced Brown who. in turn, presented Gerald Cole, president of the school board, to the men of Decatur industry. Cole said he was happy to meet with' the group and was glad that they were interested in school prob-1 lems, “You, are' welcome to any information we can give you,” he pronounced. ft George. Helm of the school board then took the floor and reiterated what Cole had Said. Harry Irw'in, .the last member of the schoolmen, greeted the assembly arid likewise expressed the vie.w Os his fellow members. Brown then took ( the floor for the balance of the meeting. He produced figures and facts substantially the same as those’given before the Lincoln P. T. A. on January 19, when they attended a meeting with the school boards When the statistical data had been dis- !■ pensed with there ensued a ques- . tlon-and-answer session which had as a nucleus the cumulative building fund. Although ndthing concrete regarding the futurb of the cumulative building fund for 1954 jis past the embryo stage, therei is, a strong indication, attested to by a high source, that the fund may come into the fore of the news very soon.

—-——« Great Britain II : - Protests Ad On Formosa British Government Protests Decision ( ‘ By Pres. Eisenhower' LONDON, UP —Foreign tary Anthony Eden announced today the British government has protested to the United States against President Elsenhower’s decision to ddneutralike Formosa. Eden made the announcement in the'house of commons shortly after secretary of state John Foster Dulles arrived here from Parts, on his fact finding tour of Europe. It was indicated that British anxiety over the President’s, goahead signal to the Chinese Nationalists to raid the! Communistheld mainland would! take precedence over Eqropeari issues in Dulles’ talkri here. In Paris, Dulles apparently had succeeded so convincing French ■leaders the President’s decision did not contain the threat of extended war. But Eden made it plain, in his commons statement, that prime ! minister ChjirchiU’s | government ! thought the decision politically unwise. '■:.)■ ;'■)'! i ’‘Her majesty’s government were informed in advance of this decision by the U. S. government and at once made; known their concern at this decision, which they fear will have unfoirtunatq political repercussions without compensating military advantages, ’’ Eden said. “This continues to be the position of her 4ajesty’s) government. Eden jmid both the decision of former President ATrqman to neutralize Fortnosa to keep the Chi-, nese Nationalists from attacking the mainland and Mir. Eisenhower's decision to deneutralirie it were unilateral or direct actions by the United States. Dulles arrived here in President Eisenhower’s I plane with mutual security administrator Harold E. Stossen, who is accompanying him on his tour of Europe. / Before leay|ng Paris, Dullete met this morning with the NATO permanent council. They agreed to a meeting of ministers of the 14 members of the Western alliance in |he French capital in April to decide on pace and extent of v the defense program against posfciblevSoviet aggression, Dulles also conferred with Britijsh Gen. Lord! Ismay, secretary general of NATO, j [ Ismay strongly defended Western European countries against charges that their rearmament efforts were slackening, a communique J ! ■ Dulles told the NATO permanent council that the U. S. looks on the organization “as a great and £roiVing force for peace in the (Tarn To Pace Six) Quincy School Is | Destroyed By Fire SPENCER, Ind. UP —Fire destroyed the combination grade and high schobl at northeast of here, Monday while grade school pupils were in recess. Principal John Archer said the flames apparently started under the roof of the structure and spread through the building, halt* ing classes for 200 students. The fire spread to the nearby gymnasium but damage to that building was light.

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Decatur, India no, Tuesday, February 3, 1953.

Heavy Snow, New Break In Dikes Bring Added Misery Into Lowlands

Higher Taxes,. ■ Proposed For Auto Owners Increase In Driver Licenses And Auto Licenses Sought if I ’ i ' i INDIANAPOLIS, UF —TheHiwliana legislature was asked today to ihnake it more e: pensivd for Hoofeiers to own and drive Automobiles. i , ' A>ill by Sen. Williq K. Batphelt <R-Angola) Would raise the Jfrper--atbrir license fee from sl-& to >2.56 every two years, set aft flat 111 (rate for auto license plates,! and double the fees of license bureau managers from 25 to 50 cents. , Bdtehelet’s bill was lone of jinore than a scow introduced today Which pushed the pieces of -fending legislation above the 60*0 njjark. >. ( License branch managers keepthe 50-cent fee! until their k gross Intake reached $15,0/10 a year. Then they would pave it with the 1 state. 25 icenta ill to the staite treasury earmarked f<ir t|ie vehicle account. ’ - The house late Mondjay approved antV sent to the senate a bill ball- - irigt if6r a conditional IfidMmflisfper-' hour; speed limit. | Repreeentatlves passed it ;plate Monday by a vote of 8A to 30. g * (A.l|jhough it Would establish a watered - down limit y— allowing speeders to escape penalties, by rtiaktng excuses—the bill wa«| expected to have inore (trouble-sur-viving the uppdr chamber. > Tliie speed limit bill is paii| of Governor Craig’s highway safety code. But the Cfraig endorsement > will have to compete in the senate with president pro tem Johri;’ W‘ Van Nees, Who spoke speed limit, at a, recent committee nibeting. V ; I Another (Craig ihelasure, ®the SOO7 000.000 biennial budget. ft*ew its fi |rst criticism—from a IRep|»bl£ cash. That could indicatg a liorr is afoot to trim the budget despite Craig’e assurances It (already has reduced to a minimum. TWO speed limit—6o for auto|, 50 for buses, and 45 for trucks~ is ni>i “Absolute.” (Excessive speeds would be prihia \f|tcie evidence in court of reckless driving. Butlmotori&ts (might defend their (Tura T® Pace, |Mx) 3 - i . —--—- - | \ < Disability Pay For Jenner Is Cut Off < ((Senator Jenner To J Refund All Payments WASHINGTON, UP — The general (Accounting office told th® air force today to cht off Sen. William E( Jenner’s military disability ■»«»-' sibn and said Jenner will rqjund all the money paid to him through •'errdir” —apparently about jOAO said the amount to repaid by the Indiana is “now' being computed?’ || Until the payments were tei&pdratily held up t last Septentjher. pjfodihg a GAO ruling, Jennerghadt received monthly disability checks ranging from $l5O to $179 fo|i almost eight years., 1 /ejjner was gn air force captain in World War 11. He retired thie service Nov. 7 f 1944, whei| he became a senator. * | , GAO’s ruling did not dispute Jenner’s to disability |ay. but aiaid he could not have ig at the same time he takes pay $s a senator. \ , 4 , A brief GAO announcement said “Jenher* had asserted his |ood faith In receiving disability rei|irement pay and his wiilingnes|f to repay the entire amount of tierpayment.” | Acting conyjtroller general Frank L. Yates announced thw decision which vrtw sent to force, advising that Jenner authorized” to receive disatelity pay while he takes “compensation <Tara T® Pace Six) I

* Bodies Os Missing Children Are Found Children Missing Two Months Found NAPERViLLE, 111. UP — The bodies of Jean Peterson, 6, und three-year-old Edward Rosenstiel were found today beneath the ice of the Du Page near their homes where' they disappeared ■ nearly two months ago. Police Sgt. Darwin Matter said investigators had not been able to determine how children died. However, they were inclined tp believe the childreii drowned while at pHy. Tlie children disappeared Dec. 7, touching off a vast search by hundreds of volunteers who, covered 400 square miles and pumped out millions of gallons of water from a quarry, 90-teet deep, located near the river. ; | The girl’s body was the first found. A lineman working on a transformer pole 4t the bank of the river spotted something red ‘beneath the ice.. Investigation disclosed the girl's body, clad ip a red coat and parka which she was wearing when she disappeared. Her hody was beaneath the ice in feet of water. , , . Police began an immediate search ana found thie boy’s body about 33 away. The bodies were takeh to a funeral parlor for autopsies. i The children disappeared alter (Mirs. Geraldine Rqsenstlel, 24, the boy’s mother, (had left them to go to work for one day as a waitress. “f just wanted to earn solme rijohey to buy Christmas presents,” she said. ' \ L'lm ■' ■■■ I* n ? ?\ ? Marie Felber Named County Health Nurse Appointment Madfe By Commissioners County commissioners met for the second of their two-day meiet(hg at the courthouse and appointed. as part of other business handled. Miss Marie Felber county be'alth nurse at $3,000 a year. Miss Felber was formerly the nurse employeq by the late Dr. C. C. Rayl. Earl Adams appeared in regard to the blacktopping of the Fuelling church road. No results were re®ported by Ftank ‘ Kitson, county auditor. Glen Nu'enscfcwqpder and Everett Schug, of Berne insurance firpi of Nuenschwanwer arid Schug, were awarded an insurance company renewal for one year, it is reported. I Petitioners appeared regarding roads 38, 37. Petitions to repair or blacktop these roads were entered previously and the petitioners showed up once more, reports the county auditor, merely to keep their petitions alivfe. \ J|. B. Neff of Indianapolis, assistant engineer for the county federal aid program, or,\as it is formally known, federal aid secondary, appeared before the commissioners to get their feelings on the program 1 the government is willing to help, that of construction and repair of county roads.(Each year a certain amount of mpney is get aside foi each county in the state —the na tion, actually—which, if matched by the county, would become available for the construction qhd im provement of county roads.) The amount the government will provide for Adams county this year —and expiring July 1, 1953—is- $16,537; In order to become eligible for these federal funds the courity has to put up SIB,OOO. Neff explained that the roads would not be treated or Constructed as federal hjgjhways. The aggregate would be for maximum \loads estimated. Neff explained that it is possible to make such an offer through subsequent modification of the 1950 act of congress called the federal aid highway act. Neff said it is the government's aim to push the) p‘ropositloq\to better roads throughout the ■ nation. The money which is now available (Tar® To P«s® *tx)

Navy Blockade Os China May Be Next Step 1 r r Blockade Designed To Crack Stalemate In Korean Vlfarfare WASHINGTON UP — Congressional and military sources said today the next step in President Eisenhower’s drive to crack the Ror.ean stalemate may be to clamp a naval blockade on Red China. Mr. Eisenhower announced Monday he was freeing Chiang KaiShek's forces on Formosa to raid, the Chinese mainland in a move to force the Reds to divert troops from Korea for home defense. A naval blockade, certain to be opposed by Britain and other U. S. i allies, would lie designed to choke I off the vital war materials still .. streaming into Communist China t from the free world via tjie open ; sea. It is said to be one of a series j of trip-hammer moves the President and his advisers are consid- » ering to make the Korean and Indo r Chinese w’ars so unprofitable the seds wRI threw in the sponge. ( Congressional reaction to dfe neutralization of Formosa wan • highly, favorable, even though some ■ allies showed some concern and , military experts said it was “questionable” how soon Chiang eould mount any raids on the mainland. But a storm of allied criticism almost certainly would Accompany any decision to blockade the China coast. Britain has opposed this idea in the strongest possible' terms on the grounds it would wreck its big 1 colony at Hong Kong and kill off a good part of its important Far Eastern trade. It might conceivably defy a blockade, so strong is its feeling on the point. Othier allies would object not only, on loss of trade grounds but on the theory that the blockade, although technically not an act qf war. might unecessarily invoke the Soviet-China defense pact and touch off a new world conflict. Nevertheless, underlining thepossibilty of ,a blockade was a remark by joint chief of staff Chairman Gen. Omar N. Bradley and statements by congressional sour\(Tur® T® Pm®* Five) Senate Agreed To Yalta Repudiation See Little Real Impact On Russia ; WASHINGTON, UP —The senate was ready today to go along with President Eisenhower in repudiating secret deals made at Yalta. But of both parties said it would be only a protest gesture with no real Impact on Russia. fMr. Eisenhower said in h|s state of the dnion message that he will ask congress for a resolution .“making clear that his government recognizes no kind of commitment contained in secret understandings of the past with foreig governments” permitting “Enslavement of peoples?’ I Though he did not spell out the secret commitments he would have congress repudiate, lawmakers said he was obviously referring to Yalta. ' On Feb.' JI, 19<5, the late President Rooeevelt, aifiLng and tired by the admission of his friends agreed with Russia and Britain at Yalta that \ the Sbvlets would regain Southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, which Japan took from Russia in the Ruseo-Japanese War of 1904. They also agreed that Rus- ' sia’a “pre-eminent interests” in the Manchurian railroads, the naval base at Port Arthur and the commercial port of Darien would be restored. This came |n payment for Russia's promise to entqr the war (Tar® T® Pas® Six) I ' ' ' "' ■ '

Craig Speaks Out Against Gambling Considers Closing Places Os Business INDIANAPOLIS UP —Governor Crate said today he is considering closing any place of business which violates Indiana gambling laws. He said gambling conditions are “cancerous.’’ Craig said at a news conference his administration will fight ail forms of gambling and will use any tools at its disposal to eradicate , the vice through the state. “Gambling has plagued the cities and communities a|)out as much . as, or more than, any other form of vice,” Craig said. “It is a very difficult situation to eradicate, but , certainly there is no more cancer- ( ous condition contributing to delinquency. , “I believe w£ should use all the teeth we can to eradicate gam- ‘ bling,” Craig said. “We’rd going to ' use every weapon we have.” Craig said he thought most gambling could be outlawed by revoking beverage licenses of tavern? which permit gambling. Also under consideration, he said ' is the possibility of using the state Store license law in the same man '■ ner as the liquor laws wo'uld' b< e used as a club over the owners beads. All selling establishments mus 8 buy annual store licenses. Craij ’ presumably meant these licenses 1 could be revoked, or renewal de * nled to gambling law violators. Thai 1 would have the effect of closing • the stores. 1 , He also indicated a study is being made vof the possibility of revoking the charters of fraternal organizations which permit gambling. Craig said he\ favors the Hasbrook bill now pending in tHe Indiana legislature, which would put more teeth in gaming laws and give enforcement officers additional weapons. However, he said he be llleyed present laws are sufficient if they are regidly enforced/ v Asked if he favored banning poker games, replied: , “Yoq cannot say one kind can be (Tur® To Pa®e Six) ’ - - I ’ 7 Dismiss Suit To Halt Berne Bonds Way Cleared For School Addition The way -tyas cleared Monday afternoon for issuance of $102,900 worth of bopds for construction of an addition' to the Iforne-French township school at Berne. Plaintiffs in the injunction suit of Daniel Lantz, et al, vs BerneFrench ' township school corporatipn. appeared in Wells circuit court Mqndqy and asked thatnheir suit to withhold sale of bondsrfor the proposed construction be dismissed. Judge Homer Byrd, of Wells circuit court, where the pause had been vended, granted the petition to dismiss arid assessed costs against the plaintiffs. Custer and Smith of DAcatur the- .petitioners and oward Baumgartner, Berne attorney, represented the school corp oration. Baumgartner said today that it would be necessary to readvertise the request for an appropriation and then readvertise the bond sale. These legal steps will be started at it was learned. In all probability, actual construction work' will start early next spring, It is Plaintiffs in the cause included: Daniel C. Lantz, Ezra Kaehr, Mar thilda Kaehr, Harry I* Aschllman, Glen D. Adfor, Sert A. Seesenguth, Clara Seesenguth, Curtis Tonner, Jacob Kaehr, Oscar Bertsch, Jeanette Tonner, Willis A. Presdorf, Richard Clark, Roger Kaehr, Henry B. Drayer, Willis Kaehr, Reuben Kaehr, Sam E. Kaehr, Elma Kaehr, Walter Bertsch. Louis Gerber Floyd Engle and Cordelia K. Aschlim&n.

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Death Toll In Europe Storm Is Now 1,542 Rescue Work Brings 1 Back Memories Os World War Dunkirk AMSTERDAM. The Netherlands UP — New breaks in centuries-old dikes and heavy snows heaped * , additional .misery (today on the flood-wracked Low Countries. , Official and unofficial totals t placed the number of dead in the t century’s worst storm at 1.542. But the disaster united Europe . as politics never could. Small boats in numbers recalling . the days of Dunkirk worked slowly through icy, debris-laden waters , to Isolated islands and still . cut off by the flood waters, seeking j survivors. . Under the leadership of Halted t . States Lt: Gen. Manton S. Eddy, .. named “military assistance com--9 mander” by Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, aid poured in from the United I Britain, France, Canada, p Sweden and South Africa. Little Holland was mobilised as if for war. i I g . Prime minister Willem Drees fold the nation:/ ?t “There is solidarity - against the g elements and w« shall win.” 3 Drees told Parliament «27 were j. known dead in The Netherlands. t Other, unofficial, figures placed ? the total, at 700, not counting 200 reported’ dead at the village of _ Starenisse and 180 others at the village of Oude Tonge. I Deaths from the iame storm in Great Britain were placed at 445: in Beigiufci 20. and Germany, seven. A U. S. air force spokesman announced 11 American service men. wives apd children were known ddad and six were missing and presumed dead in Britain. Holland death toll at about 1,000. Communications were restored in parts of the afflicted area of Holland Monday night. Immediately, new casualty' reports starfod coming in. - J ; , An 18-houri snowstorm isolated four Small villages in Southeast Holland just outside the flood zone. Hundreds of rescue workers were digging through seven feet of snow , to aid the towns of Holset, Harles, . Kottesen and Gerig. The nation's centuries-old dike system, weakened and undermined by the hurricane-driven tides of the North Sea were breached Monday night. The new breaches in the dikes brought a rash of SOS from towns and villages isolated and threatened by new floods. One of the towns threatened most Seriously was Zieriksee, a city of 10,000 on Schouwen Island. - An- amateur radio operator said “many were missing and probably lost.” ,— a See Possible Tax Slash By July 1 House Republicans See Possible Slash WASHINGTON UP — House Republican . leaders said today there is a good chance that fed- | eral income taxes cab be cut by July 1 without violating the fiscal ground rules laid [(down by President Eisenhower in his State of the Union message; Senate leaders, however, were not yat ready to make any promises about tax relief this year. Both professed complete agreement with the President’s statement that tax reduction | “will be justified only as we show we can succeed in bringing the budget under control.” House leaders said they expect to prove in a matter of weeks that they do have the budget “under control.’?) They feel that in the various appropriations bills they <T«r® T® roar® Stx)