Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 7 February 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 32.

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State Assembly Buried Under! Maze 01 Bills \- H jF i Session Half-W<jy jI J Through With 856 f Bills Introduced | ; INDIANAPOLIS, UP—ijhe lidiana general assembly; fhalfway through it! 1953 session, yae girled in amaze of 8>56 pieces of ihg-. Isi at ion today from which ht nil? st let ermine ■within a month what Fill become law. . ; 5 IWh«i lawmakers return jio thfir , esks Monday, the emphasis wrjll hist to decision. The political mphasis, .‘particularly a! it rifecta the acceptance qr rejection if Governor Craig’s plans jbr.:fiit»:ing state government, wj|l o the seriate. | s Representatives had thMr mat Ipportunity to introduce bills Fyb ay, and tjiey flocked the it clerks rith 65 pieces rif legislation, ouse total set a new high? 1»35 ills and 33 resolutions. iSie sdnte total of 277 and 11, witji uctions still permissible Monday; The only notable legislative acton was approval of a’ ial ‘bill repealing the stale’s «- inirement of an extra brakemrin m freight trains. The vole wss >2-45, one above the mtnitniMit teeded for passage. A dak er, the bill failed to pass, The heart of Craig’s reorga lion plans, a bill treating i|an 11pan cabinet, was before thei houke in second reading. It was amend- ■ id to strike out the governor's authority to prescribe poweis arid lutiee of cabinet members—|tp 10klen opposition, a committee meriijer eaid, though Craig derated it./ The house, judging by pist. ab* ions, should' pass it next J week, hut the senate will be mumbling block, if there isito be ’h* i ' ’I '■ A test of! Craig’s strehgth|n th& i enatq—-the big unanswered! qiief--1 ion which is the key to whit will liedome law —is due Mopdaw after II I five-day postponement ordejep lyi administration - hunting a psychological mhmergt fir the test. = I I ' 1 Sen. Milford Anness, vhose elections committee | split 54" Tuesday on Hile allowing 19-year-ol<js to vot| and setting up direct primary s«| !>n of candidates, said? th| ige voting measure will h| ted out of committee I'Moii . ■ I ■ h 111 gave no reason for not als4 ting orit the primary bilf Icians figured that off th* Craig most wanted the Iprinri therefore was making| the subject to slaughter filfet, be killed if senators minority report, signed by Republicans. I 1 e anti-Graig faction in th| e reported a rift between thri •nor end Lt. Gov. l£arol<| ley, senate president, |ibou| pi tronage. Handley, it was report# e< , believedl he should have jbeetr consulted about sopie stateious# appointment!. f | Handley opposition coupled|;witlt a lukewarm reception of sonie ofc the Craig program by floor |ead4 er John Van Ness. R-Valpa|aiso| ctuld mean the kiss of death to many Craig proposals. j JW I nil hi i li jji ■■ I -j; I Noon Edition! 4 i . (i

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' ■ ■■! p ■ r | * '. , Eisenhower Powers Extended By Senate Powers Extended To Overhaul Government , ' WASHINGTON. UP— President Eisenhower probably wjll send congress the first outlines of his plans for government reorganization- by the end ,of the month, sources close to tile White House revealed today. -| , j ' The first proposals wjll he those considered foast controversial, they Said, but added “ft is too soon to «ay what they will be.” The senate Friday extended the powers -to overhaul 4he wowrnment. subject only to veto within 6b days by a i constitutional majority; of either iiouse — 49 senators or 118 representatives. It, was. the f major legislation passed by the Republican Congress, and it wga exactly w\iat Mr. Eisenhower requestjed. In testimony supporting extension of the reoirgaiiizatfon powers, budget director Joseph M. Dodge said he could,.not tell what proposals might be made, nor when they would be ready. Suggested changes are expected, however, io be in line with the administration’s new “austerity” progrdm. The budget bureau does most of the President'ls reorganizations! thinking for hiht, oind\ it is understood to be hard at Work on several plans wh|eh Should be sub-' mltted to the White House in another week or two. President Eisenhower albo has a Special commission studying new and old reorganization proposals Lorn all sources, under the chairmanship }>of Nefcsori Rockefeller. Plans drawn up by former President Hoover’s commission on government reorganization,’ bqt so far not put into effect, pre being studied by the Rockefeller group. These include twio of the most controversial suggestions—merger of the corps of engineers with the bureau of reclamation, and establishment of a United medical .administration— atjd some less disputed proposals on management of personnel. P More likely tb get early attention is an old Truman tration plan to elevate the federal secifHty ‘o full, executive department status. Prejdddnt Eisenhower already has installed the agency’s chief, Oveta Culp‘ Hobby, in hi! cabinet. f: P ■ ■■ J 4— Has Gas Tank Filled, Flees Without Paying A stranger prilled into Jack fc. Baumgardner’s new service station on Dayton and Thirteenth streets here at about 10 o’clock last night, had his., tank filled with gas, then stepped-,oq the accelerator and took off in the direction of Fort Wayne without paying for the fuel. Local police werO notified and radioed ahead to Vort Wayne police, who were waiting. A man identified as David L. Hillrir, 19> Redding, Mich, was hauled out of his car at 10.26 o'clock just/‘outside Fort Wayne and found to be armed with a .45 caliber gun. Thh car he was driving was checked and found to have been stolen from an Anderson parking lot. Hiller made ho attempt to u»e the weapon. Hiller is reported still tp be held In Fort Wayhe rind may face a variety Os charges: failure to pay for the gj|s he tookj carying a concealed weapon; and conversion. fe-" .\ ! r . h ji' j : -1

‘ _L'i hl- » i Dulles faces Secret Senate Quiz On Asia Partisan FigKf; In Senate On Offers From Eisenhower WASHINGTON Mpjß- Secretary of state John Eciffter! Duller will face a secret! Senriie quiz on how far the admlnistr|j||;ioh plans to go in Asia when helmet! home from Europe Monday. A sharp partisan Irighig-haß. broken out in the /Senate Eisenhower's recent ortlhr barring the seventh fleet shielding Communist China any Kmger. And in view of I th® Sen. H. Alexander Smith R-N. i'jL sjaid he would ask Dulles, projfebly next week, to meet with his relations subcommittee East ern policy “to see if w can get an understanding.” The toughest foreign'4)olicy goaround on Capitol Hill; |ince congress gathered came Fhylay when Democrats began taking|:|ißue with developing foreign policy. I '_■] .' jitt 1 -Sen. John Ji. Sparkn||h D-Ala., said Mr. Eisenhower should state whether his new “poKitiilsT foreign policy for the Far (Eastj- .envisages steps “which may lead fto World War' HI.” 1] Senate Republican pWicy committee chairman Knowland t Cal., howeVeiOi warned against premature He told his Democratic) cbllc&ues that It would be “the heighfflipij folly” for the Eisenhower-Diull||i tieam to tip its hand to the Redsiipn future action. “You ask for precise dlfinition,” he said. “The then in thO Kremlin and at Peiping would their eye teeth for such information.” Dulles In BRUSSELS UP — Unijt|d States secretary of state Jolj4 Foster Dulles arrived here todm for the next to last stop on his f European tpur to encourage West Europe to unite in its own Dulles, accompanied W mutual Security administrator Itiirold E. Stassen, arrived here At if: 40 a.m. 4: 40 a.m. e.s.t. after l a quick flight from Amsterdam, ifhe Netherlands; ,' 'M i' » The Americans will ctriker here with Belgian leaders as t| ’ey have With Italian, French, BrAh, German and Dutch officialO on the subject of European unitygand the ratification of the Europo,n army plan. j/® Dulles and Stassen have pnly one stop left on their tour if|t seven Western European capitaii 4- Luxembourg. The Americans |j jiy there Sunday to confer with folders of the little grand duchy, Ind then head back to They will be able to Alport to President Eisenhower -taat all along the line on the tour they received would cooperate in trying; |o build Western defenses. J 1 ! — It ' • V I IM !'■ INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy toniohj ii and Sunday. Not much etui he tn temperature. Low tonlg»& 25-30. Hiph Sunday 35-40 northP 40-45 south. ! ’\; ’ 1 ! M ‘ ■

Decatur, Indiana, February 7, 1953.

Jefferson High School Athlete Killed Friday Night As Car Overturns

Nation Is Past 4 Half-Way Mark On De-Control / [End Os Economic • [Control Near; No < ? t Serious Inflation i Washington. up-The nation rac’ed well past the half-way m!at*k in ending economic controls tbShy anrjld some assurance there; would, ibeUno serious new wave of infla- . ' * - I k- ■* • ' t ffresident Eisenhower’s brder <eliljrtinating all wage curbs and price controls on a big batch of Consumer goods' left only About' 20 percent of the price control pro; 1 grajh intact. And that is slated to; go Joon. ; ;Irthe action was the first and biggesf step toward the “orderly" Temoyul of two years <f econorrtic controls, by. April 30. li Itl. meant '.immediate; pay hikes for hundreds of thousands oft York the prospect bf an* other round of wage bikes and some price rises. But government officials do not expect ai)y general price rise. Nor do Jhey anticipate the planned step,by step decontrol cf all j’r-.rcs to Start another round of inflation. l>arkng some change in the intel** national situation for a step-up in military activity. I they said the final end to all price curbs between now and April 30 probably will boost consum/f pplc<|s by $500.000,000 to OOt) fever the year. This averages about $lO to S2O per family a year. Industry representative)? indica*. ted, (however, that business would go cautiously in piking price? for tear-of raising consumer reaction against decontrol. The end of wage control permits a backlog of 9.200 wage increases' an<| 0.500 contracts for health and welfare benefits before the noWdefitact wage stabilization committed to take effect immec iately. Friday’s action pro! ably will taring; price hikes for restaurant mfealh in some areas, children’s' fufnijture and clothing tnd living room; furniture, according to government officials. Thfey said it may also mean scattered* price rises and reductions for department store items. They dp not : Expect' any general ’rise in meat!tprices except throigh pos»i- : (Turn To Pan Six) laj Workers Willing To Return To Work Owners Decline Intervention Now YORK, (LTP) — Striking tug wferkers agreed today to a govevnmdnt request to return to Work while a fact-finding board invee-, their demands, but tug owner> declined federal intervention “at this delicate stage of the bargaining.” The week-end strike in New York,!: Philadelphia and Norfolk, Va„ hias seriously curtained shipping Operations in those ports. The situation-was further complicated* here by sympathy action by longshoremen who, with the tug. workets, are members of the AFL Interactional Longshoremen’s Association. Representatives of both sides in the dispute got together Friday for an; 11 -hour bargaining session, the first attempt at negotiations since the strike began last Saturday.’ The owners reported both parties “made concessions which we consider progress." The . negotiations were to resume today at 1 p.. m., EST. / While both sides were meeting Friday! night, federal mediation chief David L. Cole issued a request for the strikers to return to work ’’while a Tact-finding board investigated the dispute. , Cole said a continuance of the ? <T«ra Te Pm« Six)

-L-a 1 Five Are Killed In i French Plane Crash Report 13 Others } Seriously Injured | BORDEAUX, France. UP — A French DC-4 airliner crashed and kbumed today near Bordeaux Aiir- | port, killing five of the 20 persohs aboard. Thirteen others' were jn- ' jured seriously. The dead included the pilot, Who i was trying to bring his craft down for a landing in heavy fog. ' AH 13 passengers and seven z crew members were French. Two men escaped Unhurt. One . was thrown clear of the wrec'k- ; age, still strapped to hl's seat. " Police had feared earlier that 12 persons died in the crash. They revised the' casualty figures after it was discovered seven passep- , gers and crew memiiers, at firpt' 1 believed trapped in the fuselage, hac( taken refuge in nearby homes. ‘ . i \ | The plane: crashed into a small patch of trees and hurst into flames as it came down for a lahdins in & fofi- ;k ,i * ■ The DC-4, operated by the Union Aeromoritim Des Transports was flying from Abidjan, on the African ivory coast, to Bordeaux. It had made stops at Conakry. Dakar and Casablance in Africa' Emergency crews rushed to the crash site from Merignac Airport at Bordeaux. Clad in asbestos suits apd with chemical tire fighting equipment they, dashed into the .fierce heat of the burning plane to pull out survivors and bodies. The passengers were hot identified immediately, but they ail -were believed to be French citi- ■: zens - ' | ' : ; . | ! Parachute To Safety LONDON. (UP)—An American B-36 bomber on a training flight from the United States..crashed on a farm near Lacmk in Wiltshire Uotinty today, but U. S. air force: . officials said all 15 crewmen para chuted to -safety. One of the crew suffered a pos(Torn To Pace «ttx> I _____ See Opposition To ; . Blockade Os China K- 1 | < Bitter Opposition In United Nations UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP observers predicted today that if President Eisenhower orders a naval blockade of China it will touch off bittier opposition In the United Nations, led by Britain hnd India. Adm. Arthur W. Radford, United States Pacific fleet i commander, told a congressional committee that the President was considering such a. blockade and assured the members that “we can do it.’’ Consultations with ' - other countties maintaining forces in the Korean war syere understood to be going on in Washington, and opposition from London qould bq expected. | /Technically, the dedision oh instituting such a blockade is solely the i responsibility of the unified Command — which is the U. S. government — but the ramifications of such a step were so far-' reaching that a U.N. debate on it appeared inevitable. The British w-ere certain to oppose a China coast blockade If for no bther reason than that It would cost them their lucrative; Hong Korig trade. But the British were understood to fear even more than a blockade Would spread the Korean war into World War 111. British sources have expressed doubt .that a China coast blockade «?duld be effective in preventing material from reaching the Communists unless it also sealed off the Siberian port of Vladivostok, Wich' can conveniently tranship supplies into Red China. The British fear wks that If Vladivostok also were blockaded, the Russians w*ould have no alter<T«ra Te Page llx) \

.—\ u Two Red Planes Blasted From t Sky In Rattle Outnumbered U. S. Sabrejets Defeat Communist Planes \ SEOUL, Korea UP — Outnumbered American Sabre jets battled Ceinmunis| fighters in a wing-tjip direl high over northwest Korea today and blasted! two Red iMIG-15’8 out of the sky. One of the Russian built planies narrowly missed crashing into a U. S. F-86 after the Sabre hit it with two cannon bursts. Thunderjets bombing Red gun positions in the Kumsong sector spotted a gallery of Communist troops , standing on the ground watching the raid and strafed them. \ 1 “Before they knew what hit them we had emptied: all our guns,” said Ist Lt. Miles <?, McDonnell, Birmingham, ’ Planes from four U. S. air wings hit a personnel and supply building in the Kumsong area. Eight build- ' ings were by direct hits.” a returning pilot said. Other planes ,qtnick tt rail and road networks suplying the Coiin--1 munist front line. A | The screaming air battle was hie- ’ tween eight Sabrejets and 14 Red MiG’s. It brought to four the jiunie ber of Communist jets shot down by F-86 pilots this month, the air 'force said. B-26 Invader light bombers carried out a scorching raid on enemy trucks and knocked out 90 Red vehicles headed for the frontlines, B-26's also bombed a supply and billettag area near the east coastFighter bombers roamed through clearing skies to blast Red infantry positions elsewhere along* the 155) mile front. In its weekly air summary, fifth air foiSce reported that no Sabres were lost in air to air combat in the past seven days. The reportj did not include today's battle. Allied planes during the week stepped up their attacks on enemy l transportation facilities. The .sumi mary of destruction claims listed 450 trucks, 23 locomotives), 110 rail cars, and eight bridges. The air force also estimated it killed 248 ehemy soldiers and wrecked 62 bunkers and 52 supply To P»re Six) Netherlands Dikes Surveyed By Planes Workers Seeking To \ Prevent New Breaks AMSTERDAM. Tho Netherlands UP —A squadron of Dutqh, British and American military planes was ordered today to survey every broken dike in The Netherlands* 450,000 flooded acres. : A second allied aerial squadron took off to locate every - visible group of people still marooned in the flood of Zeeland. South Holland and North Brabant, k The Dutch death toll was 1,372. Planes and helicopters flew through the night to drop sandbags and other emergency equipment on the stricken island of Tholen where some of Holland’s richest farmlands still are menaced by sea water. Disaster crews on the island toiled in; the light of floodlamps, bonfires and flares to plug dangerously weakened dikes before new spring tides Swell ithe North Sea again next week end. Officials described the Tholen operation as “urgent;” : In England, where the storm death toll has reached 437 engineers and repair crews crammed rocks, soil and sandbags into breaches along 1,000 miles of coastal dikes and sea walls. v Search continued for an estimated Britons still missing in flood areas. ' 1 * ■ ■ X I: ~1 \ v

Tear Gas Squelches Rioting Prisoners 400 Inmates Riot At Arizona Prison 'V:■ ; > ■ ' FLORENCE, Ariz. UP — A tear gas attack early today ended a riot of 40,0 inmates at the Arizona , State Prison, A guard captured by prisoners was freed. It was the third outbreak at the prison in as many days. r Warded Lon Walters raid it was “awfully quiet” after two tear gas attacks by guards and Arizona highway patrolmen. 4 His regular staff and 40 extra men were on guard. , Guard Don McAfee was held for about five minutes by inmates of cell block 3. and three sets of keys and a tear gas gun taken from him. An estimated 15 to 20 men pounced on MbAfee as he approached the entrance to their cell. McAfee was investigating a light failure cdusefl when convicts short circuited tl\e system. The guard said prisoperi yelled ' “don’t hurt him” to one another : as they robbed him. After McAfee w’as turned loose -by the inmates. Walters quickly t .ordered six Arizona highway patrolmen to fire tear gas into the I cell block, A dozen rounds of tear gas caused the convicts to toss out'the un- ■ used gas gun and keys. I The keys would have opened doors in cellblocks two and three. Cellblock two also fwas gassed by the prison authorities in the outbreak. i ; The prisoners made their first demands Thursday, asking for better food, more clothes; permission to keqp money on their persons, more recreation and pash money in the yard. Thursday sotae 300 inmates refused to resume the prison schedule after the lunch period for hal f an hour, and a delegation explained to a yard captain that the demonstration was to bring an invest(Tur* To Pave six) ; , j ' ■ K . Long-Range Program For Training Allies > To Train And Equip Asian Allied Forces ;. .. is . i ’ I ‘ NEW YORK UP — The Eisenhower administration is planning a long-range program to train and equip ground forces of our Allies in Asia at a cost of billions* of dollars, the New York Times reported! today. The program is understood to be an extension of the President’s' campaign promise to give Asians a larger share in resisting Communism in Korea and other parts of the Far (East, the Times said in a dispatch written by its United Nations correspondents. . The Times said the administration already has detailed studies of the manpower situations Eta Nationalist China, Japan, the ’hilippines and The studies show comparatively ew of the men of military age In these countries are actually bearing arms, the newspaper j The Philippine army, for example, totals ohly 57,000 out pt 2,000,000 men of military age, it said. (Thailand has only 50,000 of some 2,000,000 potential soldiers under arms. ' ! * The smallness of the Asian armed forces is due mainly to lack of equipment and- proper training, the ' Tinies said, j ;.i v,' j The Eisenhower administration believes that tfer supplying weapons : And advisory help, the United ’ States can transform its Asian * ARies into a powerful deterrent to aggression in the Far East, it said. 1 * In the eveijt of a major war, tney would be able to -carry the 1 burden of the fighting on the Asi- 1 ajtic mainland) leaving American 1 forces free to concentrate in Eu- ' . (Tura TTrage Mx)

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Dick Stuber Is Victim Os Auto Accident Net Team Captain { Killed Instantly As Auto Is Overturned ? Ten minutes after Richard Paul Stuber, 17, route 2, Geneva, left a girl friends home) Friday nigftt at about 11:50 o’clock, his battered body lay crumpled and lifeless beneath l>is car on a dark country road. I, * 1Stuber was found shortly) after midnightt last night by Dale’ Johnson. who : summoned sheriff Boh Shraluka and* state; policeman Ted Bibetstine. , Stuber had just left a girl’s house in Geneva, after having attending the Commodore-Geneva basketball game in Decatur. His car apparently went out of control and tolled over several times. The tragedy occurred five and a half miles ej)st of Ceylon, just two and I a half miles from the boy’s home, pn ■ a blacktop secondary road. Po|ice reports state that as Stu- ) ber’s car rolled oyer .he was parr tially thrown out pf it and that is what caused his death. For as the a car, roUjed the weight of it passed part of hfe body 4hat pro- - truded. Efts Injuries Were yTsfed . as a broken neck, a fractured skull and many brtris*& and abrasions [ about the body. | Stuber was the tan of Mr. and Mrs. (Robert Stuber and was a seniof* at Jefferson high school. He w)as Well-known ; as the captain' of the Jefferson Warriors basketball team. He was born in Jefferson township June! 3, 1935, ta son of Robert G. and Gladys Bollenbacher-Stnber. \ Surviving in addition to his parents ■ are a sistier, Alice Rose, 14. and a > brother, Tom. 12, both at home; and a grandmother, Mrs. Elmer Stuber of Geneva route 2. The body was retaoved to the Yager funeral home and will be ’ taken to the young athlete's home, tbree-fourths of a mile west of the Jefferson school, whej-e friends may call after; 11 o’clock! EST Sunday morning. , Funeral services will be conducted at .2:30 p.m, EST Monday at the BL Paul Evangelical and Reformed chtirch, near Chattanooga, 0., with the Rev. John Pearl officiating. Burial will be in the church: cemetery. : IT ■ Louisiana Ripped By I Tornado, Three Dead Another Killed When Struck By Lightning HAMMOND, La. Ut* —Winds of tornado farce killed three persons in southeast Louisiana. Lightning killed another. The damage here was estimated today at $1,000,000. . The afternoon storm wh rled through this strawberry belt in a few minutes Friday. Sheriff Tom Sanders ident fied two df ifbe dead as ;Mrs. Corine Stewart,! who lived on £;farm a tout * five miles from here, fend Cordilia Williams. The third victim waa unidentified. Sanders said scores! of persons were injured but only (wo hospitalized. I ' I ! ;! 4 ■' Lightning from a thunderstorm in thd same squall line killed service station attendant Jim Lambert at Arlington, Ala., abofet 200 rqiles to the’ east. | I * I Th® tpVnaftlc winds swept in from the northwest, striking at nearby Albany before lushing Hgmtnond and curving south to batter Springfield five miles away. ( Buildings were wrecked, power lines downed and trees! toppled. The Red Cross sent four disaster workers from its southeastern headquarters at Atlanta. Red Cross official aaid at least 80 homes were damaged or destroyed here And at Springfield.