Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 31.

Eisenhower Ends Wage Controls

Referendum) li Suggested On Veteran Bonn Bill Is Introduced rl For Referendums Oj i I Korean Vets' Bonus [ lndianapqlis. UP 1- feop. Ralph G. Hine® (R-Portlani) tlday suggested Hoosier voters |be Permitted to decide in 1954 [whether Indiana’s Korean I war yetefans »hall receive a state soldier bcfms. | Hines’ bill calling for a ilum next year to let the people decide on the issue, as they di| in 1948 on the question of I'b|nus tor World . War II veteraps, fwas ime of more than 50 introduce! in the house of the legislature as? the {Deadline for filing new ’tjilfejari There were 524 bills in the Jnill ttp to noon, tying the 1951 house Record. Moire were expected |his ufternoon. j The Hines bill Would give voters t yea-or-no Vote on whetherto |pay i bonus. Then they woujd defcigate which of several of ! Inant-ing the bonus they prefer|ed. | In 1948. voters approved a sgles i ix in deciding to give a to 1 /orld War II vet*. But the legis--1 uture chose a gross income gurt ix, a method iwfhieh ranked fourth i i five suggested procedures, in he r ferendirm. - i ... - The bfll was introduced Join tly b i Hinee and Rep. John R. Fef Jrntr i(R-Marion) after two otl er nrbasures affecting Korean yet ?r---ai s were filed earlier in this \ii| «- *4 m. One, by Hines, would, ggre K yrean disabled vets and nejit iwt ki of deceased a bonus. *The oth tr bj - Feighner and Rep. Walter <. A’ker (R-Evansville). would iet e«ide funds left from the Woe Id Wkr 11 bonus for use when a I b rffin bonus is voted. ’ I Roth these bills, however, |rem pin in committee weeks after tl eir introdqction and presumably a'e scheduled to die | A bonus for Korean vets it delude albout 40,000 Hoosiers wh° h ive been inducted thus far siftce <tl|e fighting started in the summer ol 1950, and any additional s innet inducted month by mopth h Breafter. . 1 iThe World War II bonus mvglv* et about 300,000 servicemen &nd w |ll cost the state about $15O,(Bo,-* o io. . ' f T Meanwhile, Governor Craig was c infident. his "cabinet" plan fillv|n legislative approval, but |he lawmakers were more concerned with other issues. I « f fiCraig brushed aside a Repiibliedn’s statement that “cabinet” bill wsw amended to reduce The governor told a news con<erejice iate Thursday the nfents “muet have polished it u|>.” He said chances tor passage pre “Excellent.” r I JfThe amendments removed frpm tfie bill some ‘of the authority c|aiig requested—authority tri pre; scribe powers and duties of department heads. Craig said he was' jin at cord’’ with them. ■The legislators were snagged l>n n< n-admintotrative issues. In she hi use, attention centered on a mil reducing the number of brake njrpn r< Juired on freight trains. | It. failed to pass. 45 to 48, |ht th pn in a hectic rush of parliaments ry procedure, representatives fefuied to kil| the bill. It was! kept al ke as a special order of business la ie today. | ' , Bep. Frank Rarick - a (railroadman for 38 years, sfeidjit would be "sound |o elmiinate an extra brakemap, apd talk it would be detrimental |o safety is "gross misrepresentation.” Rep., Walter I'Acker anhville) charged the Sill dartroy the greatest «a|fety ou • state has seen fit to pasi.” 1 Q C. Directors To ( f Meet This Evening j | ■■ ■■ ■ -4 -j 1 4 k special meeting has been called forf 7 o’clock this evening aR the Ch imber of! Commerce office, Jit wt 8 announced today ;by Ralph Hi begger, newly elected; of pe Chamber of Commerce. I ■ ] tabegger siaid he called the Ini > to bes attended by the board of directors of the business Rrotw, to up business pending t|e lea ke-taking of Walter Ford SatiErda t. The new president dei|lar|d alsb that one. of the points up will be thii vacancy left by* Fofd of jibe position of executive tatk Habegger said no prospers ba’ *e been lined up as yet.

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Eagle Scouts Are Honored |[ 3 I r ft ■M wMMBI RE 2 v r 111 F» a v Em*lIn the above photo, W. Guy Brown, superintendent of th®, £)eca•tur public schools and chairman of the Boy Scout court of'honor, is showing the Eagle Scout badges, highest award in scouting, to David Uhrick, left, .and David Embler. to the awards; were!. made at a court |of honor held by the Decatur Rotary club T|»drsday evening. T ' . ' . | Ej.i : J :. _ • • 't » .

All-Weather Fighters Now Used In Korea I New Radar-Equipped Planes Shoot Down Reds Without Sight SEOUL, Korea ifp — The United 'States air force announced today that a new fadar-equipped iallweather. fighter Which can ,shoot down an enemy plane without seeing It now is iiri use in Korea. The air said the new F-91 jets in their first offensive patrol guarded 10 American Superforts which dumped 100 tons d? bombs , on a supply V duipp and a troop juist south of the Manchtlrian bprder. The announce inent of the F-94' followed the ‘disclosure by the' navy that) indrines now. are using a new night fighter in Korea. The navy jet fighter, called the “Skyknight,” has beeri flying lh Koreji for several months 'and has shod, down several 'Red planes. j The dir force alFweather fighter has been used tar several months' on defense patrols, headquarters aaid, but hast not been used on offense until now. The two-mai crew of one of the all-weather Fdh’s claimed today to be the first American airmen in history to shoot down a Communist at night without seeing it until they pat afire 'with their machine gun Ijullefs. The lighters are bn guard against & mass raid by the hundreds pf -Communist planes known to be based in Manchuria. Whenever an : unidentified aircraft crosses the Yalu River border into North ! Korea at night the tightens are ' The planes are in two minutes ind in five minutes cab reach an attitude of 40,000 feet The war on| the. ground, according to Gen. Mark Clark’s oommunHque was quiet.’* the eighth army reported only scattered Communist jabs. Red* Store: Bomber* Seoul, Korea UP. — The pilot of a new air; force night fighter said today the Communists are a number of fighter-bomb-ers in camouflaged hangars wita- . in 75 miles of the front, - Capt. B. L. | Fithian of Kansas City, Mp., said he was “convinced the Reds are ferrying bombers close to the frpnt”[ for possible use ini a large-scale attack -on U. S. positions, ! , i Fithian flies one of the air force’s radar-guided F-94 all-weath-er jet fighters! which are Allied bombers on deep into North Korea. ■

Scout Honor Court Held Last Evening Two Eagle Scous Honored Thursday The highest award by theBoy Scoutsl of America wks presented to David Uhrfck anifj David Embler, members of trooujCl, at the weekly meeting of the wecatur Rotary club Thursday during a regular Boy SalHj'court of honor. ' | h lilll'i i W. Guy Brown, chairmans; ! of the. court of hpnor, the court' for tie Eagle aqra|in|s and l other presentations math during the evening.? The Eaglq awards »«{•! made by the Rev. William Feller, with the badges pinned J/m the scouts by their mothers, Mfli. Ernest Uhrick and Mrs. David Embier.; ® Other awqrds during the coiirt were: Life Scout,|\to David Uty’fcick by Earl Fuhrman; Star' Spoilt, to Robest Wenger by E. E. second class, to John Sty&ts by; Robert Heller; scout lifb»guerd, to Bob Balder by W. Guy jarown;: merit badgeu, to Roger . David Embhsr and Davi<||yogljewede, by Dr. Ray bronze palm, to Don AuramSby W. ' buy Brown. Sylvester Everhart;, Sccw commissioner, served as 'scripiß;',Everhart also presented special;' troop awards to Ed DeLong, scsi)tmaster of troop 61, which is sponsored by the Rotary club. Wewoop’s charter, renewed for the 2iO year, was also presented by Egprhart to Harold Englel, club The Rotarikns will join ''ffljh theLions club and American vyftegloh in sponsoring the annuaF Boy \ Scout banquet, to be helt j»t the Masonic hall; next Thursday evening at 6:30 [o'clock, __[ : | 53,000 Draft Call I for Army In April t ■ WASHINGTON, UP —defense department today ordered the draft of 53,000 young mjm for the army in April. ® ; The navy, marine corps q&d air force do not plan to take anm draftees in April. ' ® v I The\ draft call for April & the ! same ae for February and March. j Defense officials have satyK that < draft callq should run at atd|it 50,- ! 000 for each month througtajune. ; - - | K INDIANA WEATHER' Partly cloudy and cold*s tonight Saturday Inert Si ng cloudiness with rain or wow spending northward over sost ! of the state oy night Lew!, tonight 25 north, 25-32 »tsith. High Saturday 40 north, «j!-48 south. > ] !■ ■' Hl Mb

Decatur, Indiana, Friday,, February 6, 1953.

All Controls Suspended Immediately; All Meats Taken Off Price Control L... ... . . H 1

Planes Drop Supplies For Flood Victims Vaccines, Medical Supplies Dropped; Worst Part Is Over AMSTERDAM. The Netherlands UP—-Planes dropped vaccines and medic*! supplies over the wastelands of Holland today to help rescue workers prevent an outbreak .of among flobd victims; Loiw-flying American planes also dumped: rocks and 350,000 empty sandbags fpr dike repairs. Workers immediately began filling the 100-pouiid sacks with sand and mud left behind by the retreating sea; and piled them on the battered dikes. !'■ , Tht Dutch radio soil! thrAworrt; part of | the emergency was over but th Meath toll\ fixed officially at in Holland and M 23 Ip, Britain, ;js expected to keep' rising for dayi as more bodies are Recovered.! Rescue workers turned to the task of forestalling an epidemic of typhoid ’threatened by 'pollution of water supplies ift Holland's worst flood in five!centuries. Rubber gloves dropped from planeip Will '>e worn by Workershauling 'cattle out of the contaminated winter. Typhoid inoculations were being given to hundreds of flood wprkers and survivors. United Press correspondent Harold Melihn said the burgomaster of ruined tqwn of Nieuwe Tonga on G^eree— Overflakkee Island fought tlaick tears as he slogged through ifflud in wooden shoes toward ,a V. S. helicoptei*. TheJ burgomaster had helped make * landing place for the helicopteir dnd had spent hours arranging for aerial removal of his' townspeople. A Dutch lieutenant was so Impressed by the burgomaster's; efforts that he gave the dumpjyi .Wed-faced little . man a snappy - salute. “A hero deserves a salute,” Ithe lieutenaiit said. Melahii said scores of men and To Pa** Six) Lincoln Day Dinner Saturday Evening ' ! ■ No Tickets Needed To Attend Dinner Plans have been made for taking dire 1 ! of the largest Lincoln •day dinnter crowd ever to attend the annual affair in Decatur; Harry Essex,: Adams county and fourth district Republican chairmanannounced today. The dinner, which will start at 6:30 d’clock Saturday night a|t ! the K. of P. home, is free and i'no tickets are necessary for admission, it Was announced. Thomas Gallmeyer, Fort Wayne, president! of. the fourth , district Young Republican club, will be the .principal speaker and county and city Republican officials will bo l guests of;honor. The event held annually is sponsored by the Republican county central committee and the county Young Republicans. Party workers from ail counties of the fourth dlfttrict also are expected to attend. ' . ! Speaking will follow the dinner, which will be served cafeteria style in the K. of P. dining hall. Chairman Essex stated that he desired to stress the fact that this year no advance reservations are necessary.

Finland Halts Aid To Reds In China No Further Oil And Gasoline Shipments vj ' ■■ J.; , 1 - ' . .\ ; WASHINGTON, UP — Ffcilknd has promised the United States that its tankers will not carry oil and gasoline to Communist China in the future, it was learned today. Authoritative sources said the Finnish foreign ministry mkde lijthe pledge to the state depart* ripent in an effort to close an inroident involving the Finnish ta,nkkter Wiima. The Vessel is carrying »,000 tons of aviation jet fuel frpm Romania to Red China. The state department tried in vain to get both Finland and Turkey to block the shipment as soon tSs it learned .of it. Turkey was approached because the ship had to pass throujgh the Dardanelles Strait* on its voyage from the Black Sea. " The departmeat has refused to whether it received any assuraucee from Finland that fur- , ther shipments would bes barred. Other' sources said, however, thht Finland has made the promise.' The \iny Baltic nation pointed out that ft had no legal means to haV the shipment now on the, end therefore is powerless to block it. Turkey’s reply to the United States is said to have included a < .reminder t!hat international agreements provide free ! transit for all ships through'the Dardanelles. The only chance of stopping the jet fuel shipment now appears to he id the; hands of the Chinese Natiojnalist navy. The Wiima might be challenged by Nationalist naval units when it enters Fprmosan waters toward the end of its voyage. \ Finland does not receive any Americkn aid that could be cut off as a result of the shipment. A second vessel now carrying oil (Tur* To Pave Five). Queen Mary Docked Without Using Tug Delicate Operation Directed By Skipper. NEW YORK .UP — The giant Hrier Queen Mary was docked successfully today without the. aid of tugs or longshoremen to handle her lines. y ' '.j ' ' The ship, which iq about size of the Empire State building, was brought parallel with her pier on the second try, 70 minutes after she started a first, unsuccessful approach. . \ Shg was warped to the pfer 26 minutes later with white collar longshoremen handling her lines. Passengers and dockside spectators cheered the delicate feat of seamanship ,as Capt.’ Donald W. Sorrell maneuvered the 'world’s second largest ship into her dock without assistance. New York’s tugboat men are on strike and the slight, soft-spoken British master was banking on 42 years at sea to give him the skill to maneuver the 81,000-ton ocean giant under her <\wn power at ! right angles in the Hudson River and into her pier. Captain Sorrell got the liner '.turned toward shore and aimed at her slip at 9:40 a.m. As ahe edged beside the upstream side of' pier 90, the ship’s stern began drifting downstream arid it appeared the . how might swing intb an adjacent pier. Sorrell immediately reversed his engines and backed into the river. Only about 200 feet of the more than 1,000-toot long liner had entered the slip whep Correll called off his first attempt at a delicate

— Dulles Meets With Officials Os Netherlands Floods To Hold Up Holland's Aid To Western Defenses THE HAGHiE, Jhe Netherlands UP — Secretary of state’ John Foster Dulles met today with Dutch officials who were prepared to tell . him disastrous floods have, forced them to hold up a definite pledge on Holland’s contribution to West- ■. ern de feh se. \ •., 5 Dulles and Mutual Security Administrator Harold E. Stassen arrived here from Bonn, Germany, on the last stretch of their nine-d»y fact-finding tour of Western Europe. ! ' ' ' ' Before leaving Bonn, Dules an 1 nounced that Wi&st German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will visit the United State* this spring. Adenauer (said the Visit will come Neither the end of March or the beginning of ylpril.” informed sources said the financial blow deaß the* Dutch economy ’ oy the floods would delay a definite ; commitment until the full cost of jthe disaster is analyzed. . The same also holds true for dollar aid which the Netherlands recently announced \it was prepared to forego as ia result of its, greatly improved economic situation. That announcement was made before tens of thousands of acres were ruined and tens of thousands of persons made homeless. ype European army treaty which Dulles has beeri urging European countries to ratify is well advanced in Dulles and Stassen went to The Hagpe for confererices with premier Willem Drees, foreign minister Johan W. ''Beyen and other officials. | The American secretary said at the airport he saw only a little bit of the flood zone on the flight from Bonn because the, skies were overcash; but what he saw impressed him very much. “It is a tprrible thing,’ Dulles was heard to say three times. April 1 Deadline BONN, Germany UP — Secre':i ■ <Twr* ’T« Paxe Six) Lawrence P. Sheets Dies Last Evening Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Lawrence P. Sheets, 66-year-old farmer, died suddenly of a heart attack at 7 p. m. Thursday at his home! three miles east of Pleasant Mills, or two tandr one-half miles north of Willshire, 0., eas,t of the Indiana-Ohio line. He, had not been ill and his ddath was He was born in Wren, 0., Aug. 10, 1836, arid was married to Nellie Brown June 2, 1938. Except for a few years in South Dakota, he spent his entire life in and near Wren, \ ' Surviving are his wife; one brother, Dt. O. B. Sheets of Forest Gome, Calif., and one sister, Mrk Ada Harr of Sand Springs, Okla. Seven brothers preceded him in death. f v Funeral services will be conducted at ?:80 p. m. E?ST Monday at the Zwick funeral .home, the , Rev. Wallace Turner officiating. Burial will be in the Woodland cemetery at Van Wert, O. Friend** may call at the funeral home after 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon,

.■, i | J National Boy Seoul Week Opens Saturday Scouts Take Over Government Offices Decatur Boy Scours will take over city and county government Saturday morning as the official opening of the local observance of national Boy Scout week, Feb. 7 to 13. ' The Scouts; elected from the three Decatur troops, will take over official government*! duties at 8 o’clock tomorrow thoming. The boys who will “assume the duties are as follows: From Rotary , troop 61 — Gene . Baxter, judge of the Adams circuit! court; Roger Cookson, De- . catuir fire chief; Bob Baker, count ty Surveyor; Larry DeLong,- prosecuting attorney; Roger Bieberich, city) clerk-treasurer. From Lions troop 62 — Bill ZWick, mayor of Decatur; Jim H Sheets, eity water Bupef|ntendihnt; Paul Schmidt, Adams couaty.sbert iff; Dari Krnecfeberg, county auditor;! Tony Kelly, county recorder. From American Legion troop 63 ,\ — Bob Ocnsehrider. ehief of police; Robert Mcpuhdy, street and sewer superintendent;'Dan Runyon, light , and power superintendent;, Dwight McChrdy. county treasurer; Harold , Van Horn, county clerk. Scouts will attend church services Sunday morning as the second daiy of, the week’s observance. Cgthbiic and Lutheran scouts will attend services at their individual churt-h£s, and all others will mept at the high school at 10:15 o’clock to ajttend services at thb First Presbyterian church. 1 Other activities during the week Include the annual Cub banquet at , the Lincoln school Monday evening, the Lincoln pilgrimage to the Abraham Lincoln statue at Fort Wayne Thursday, and the annual Boy Scout ; banquet at the Masonic hall next 1 Thursday evening. Ned Garvbr. fam- j ous major league pitcher, will be 1 the speaker at the banquet, spon- ( sored by the three organizations .

which sponsor the troops in this Skip-Election Law Is Submitted Today Would Postpone Next Municipal Elections INDIANAPOLIS. UP “skip election” Law which 'WotwH keep all present city officials in power aon extra year was introduced in the Indiana senate today by Sen. Charlps F. Rutledge, R.-Elwood. The bill would postpone the next municipal elections from 1955 to 1956, thereby extending their terms which began in 1952 an extra ;year to Jan. 1. 1957 and giving them <flve years in office instead of the four for which they were elected. > \ \ ' This has been done before, scarcely a decade ago, in Indiana. Three-fourths of present mayors In Indiana's 103 cities are Republicansi Others among a flood of nearly 100 bills in both houses would’: Oreite a department of corrections, Seos. Van Ness-Gaiidner. ' . Authorise ‘Evansville to set up s merit system .for police and firemen, Sens. Stone-Wesselman. Make it a felony to interfere with transportation of articles by threatening; ‘non-union haulers. Sen. Wesselman. , Make the secretary of state the commissioner of motor vehicles. Sens. Eichhorn-Johnson. Increase salaries of all county commissioners, Sens. Ream - Tinder, . -U I

Price Five Cents

Wage Controls Are Suspended By Eisenhower 'r Detailed Report On De-Control To J Be Announced Later 4. • f■' ft ' ' .. WASHINGTON UP — President Elserihower today ended all wage controls and removed! price controls from a number of consumer goods, inbluding all meats. Wage controls and the selected price controls w-ere suspended immediately by jexecutive order. The order was’ issiued after Mr. Eisenhower met two hours with his . cabinet, j ■. • . - ■ Controls were taken off prices I 'for all hieat products, furniture, 1 clothing,! repturant meals and ; “[thousands of items normally sold » in department store* . . , 4.“ “These controls have not been effective ,in protecting the family ! budget against high price*,” said a White House• statement accompanying Mr. Eisenhower’s action. The executive order provides that wage adjustments pending before the wage stabilization committee may be put into effect immediately. Mr. Elsenhower, however, provided for ; continued authority to enforce penalties sty past violations of wage controls. The President’s action was described by the W r hite House as the first in a series .Os steps to decontrol all prices. A more detailed report on pfifee de-control was scheduled io crime from the office of price stabilization later today. The, action also de-controlled cattle. prices. 1 -> Mr. Eisenhower said in his order that “the earliest possible return to freedom of collective bargaining in the determination of wages will serve to strengthen the national economy and thereby the national security.”

He also found that “the production of and services and the demand therefore in the national economy are approaching a practicable balance.” Mr. Eisephower's order decontrolling wages followed disclosure in his stat 4 of tjhe union \ message to congress Monday that he favored letting control laws die on schedule April 30. The wage order rnCaijs that hundreds of thousands of workers will be in line for pay hikes because a big backlog of increases already negotiated, but held up by the wage stabilisation committee, now will go into effect automatically. The de-coptroll order was known to have been in the works for the past 48 hoists. Thursday. CIO President Waited P. Reuther wrote Mr. Elsenhower urging an immediate end to all wage curbs. AFL President George Meany V said in Miami that de-contrel 1 of wages means that many labor: contracts will be “immediately reopened.” j I Mr. Eisenhower’s .executive order applied only to wage controls. Price de-controi on a number of selected items was ordered by the office',of price stabilisation on instructions from the President; The White House announcement said the actions were aimed at “eliminating in an orderly fashion the price and wage controls under which the Amedoan economy has been required to operate for the past two years." • • The OPS said today's action el- ’ . iminates wholesale and retail price controU on most consumer, nonfood items and that major foods still to be de-controlled consist of a large number of grocery “dry” items such as cereals, flour and flour mixes, bakery products, milk (Tarn Ta Paua Ms)