Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 9 February 1953 — Page 1

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Slate Senate For. Lowering Ot Voting Age Governor Wins fest Os Strength, Seiiote Favors Lower L&nit •INDIANAPOLIS. UP—governor Craig won a test of strength'in the Indiana senate today by scarcely four votes as th* senate adopted a report recorp.mending passage of a resolution u? give 19y ear-olds the right to vote The senate voted 30*f to •19 against accepting a minority report from two members-;!?' of the elections committee ing indefinite postponement, of the resolution, a move whidlj would have killed it this sessional Then, by a voice vote, it accepted the majority .report recommending passage, end the resolution moved a (gep forward in the legislative process. ' \ The showdown came two members of the committee changed their minds amj threw their supixirt to the majority report. • ' It was a preliminary victory for . ( Governor Craig, who p/' ping the voting age fronr|2l. and changed from 5-to-4 to ratio of committee members favoring a floor showdown. H. | At noon, the senate wad locked i in a long dieoussion of the issue. When it was completed, a test vote was scheduled to determine whether the resolution should be -killed or whether it should move<forward another step in the legislative process. . H I ' ■ The senators who were Charlee it Leavelj, R-Winchester and Willis K. Batehelet. ?lt-Ango-la. They were reported Ito have changed after Craig eent trative aides to the sena|e, .Reeking to away some' of the mriators. If the resolution died by fpdefi_nita postponement* as rfcont- ( mended' by the committee minority group, it would be al.slap at Craig and possibly a sign his strength on other administration measures — including a;'gpverntrental reorganization phogram—•was low despite a HA-to-lp Republican majority in the upper, pouse. Two bill* the governor would like to - see become law figured in ”• the elections committee split. The second provides direct primary selection of political candiidjatee., Anr.ess offered no excuse for not reporting it to the floor aldo;’ Observers second-guessed him. They said the 19-year-cild vdte measure had a better chance — amd therefore was better /‘test” material — because senate president pro tern John. W. Va& Nees. R-Vafcparaison, has opposed publicly the direct primary bSlf , Van Ness said only a wealtihj< man ' could afford to run for prfffce under that system. • Three Republicans arid' two Democrats formed a majority of the elections committee? nf- urge passage of the bills. Morse significantly, four Republicans prapired the minority report urginabrejection of the bills. I , The house took a to the senate s proceedings.- ■ Craig generally was accorded ai nfajririty of the representatives ag Supporters, and It was anticipated his government-by-cabinet bhl|; heart of his program, would paits the lower chamber this week. A veteran Senator said house will approve most anything, partially because representatives will be for election befor4 i?bother torm and might need as Well as voter support Representatives also appear less intoned to kill colleague's bills. r ‘ Half the Senators begintgng four-year terms, eran senator said, and hded not worry about reelection. too, (TnrnTa Pace ■ 1 ' No Lions Club Meet I Here Tuesday Nicjlit Lions will forego fheiff i regular meeting Tuesday night attend a joint meeting with thie SRotary club and the American post 43, at the Masonic Lodge Thursday night, to celebrate Ht|e 43rd anniversary of national Boy Scout week.';, I The three organization* support and sponsor local Boy Scout troops 61, 62 and 63 and will hate’aD the young scouts present tophear a speaker who. It is predicted, can hold the aterition of any youth in the country any day of week, Ned Garver Os the Detro|| Tigers. It has been requested Lions check with Bob Fronhapfel as to whether they're going to* attend the Thursday night event.:- This is is to be done by Tuesday night at the latestJ >i . I

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Inmates Riot At State Hospital ■ I- lb atM p - ■ -1 > • It Milfe' ; . 1 hk a. U| j’ w ' r kt J ir< w J € QmfMm ■'l' FLOYD PACE, injured during a two-hour riot at the Crownsville, Mi, 't State Mental Hospital for Negroes, is assisted from the scene by;h firemen and a nurse after being released with three other guards that?, were-held jas hostages. After destroying furniture and bed clothes the seventy-one rioting inmates set fire to the building that they controlled. Police from the county and city of Baltimore finally brought 'J the uprising under control by using tear gae. - tii : ; ■ : : : E»

Dulles Hopeful On Prosptecf Os European Unify Secretary Os State Back From Europe, Meets Eisenhower WASHINGTON UP — Secretary of state Jpfcn Foster Dulles returned front Europe today and reported immediately to President Eisenhower' about “mildly optimistic” prospects tor European unity. Dulled and Foreign Aid Administrator Harold E. Stassen, who accompanied Jhim on the 11-dqy tour qf European capitals, spent an hour with Mr. Eisenhower at the White House. . -i- I '' ' ' \ . ' “I am encouraged by the situation in Eurppje, but see*difficulties ahead," Dulles said as 1 ‘ft the White House. “You may interpret this as meaning I’m mildly optimistic abMit situation.” Dulles ahd Stassen arrived by air and mei With Mr. Eisenhower an J - The senat£ foreign relations committee asked Dulles to appear before it Tuesday morning for a report on his trip. , Dulles i briished aside questions regarding the possibility of a U. Si naval blockade of the Red China mainland. Asked if he thought a blockade would bie' “k good idea,” Dulles said, “i shave nothing to sdy.” Dulles handed out, a 650-word typewritten statement to reporters as he st|eppe>d from President Eisenhower’s (personal plane with Stassen. (DUIIO said he expected to see Mr. ! Eisenhower today to report on the trip to seven Western European coijntries. \ | “Mr. Stassen and J shall\ report to the President and to members of' "congress.,” Dulles said. “At the moment Jwei limit oursblves to saying that we‘ are, on the whole, encouraged by what we have been told byvthe leaders of the six.continental European nations which have signed the treaty to create a European defense^ community. “W’e do not minimize the difficulties confronted by those who have undertaken this great project, but we belitve that there is a responsible determination to bring the project to completion.” Dulles said by putting the military forces of six European countries into a single unit under the European defuse community EDC, unification wbuld be created kt points where di visions had beea “disastrous” in (the past. ~ Dulles njpted the EDC treaty had been signed\ last May but that so far none sas ratified it. This was the reason Mr. Eisenhower asked Dulles and: Stassen'to go to Europe and see wihat was the matter. Stassen,! in another statement, said he believed that the way Dulles conducted the discussions with s\atesmep would-be known in future years “as 10 great days of sei-vice by the secretary of <Twr» T» stxy INDIANA WEATHER Moat y cloudy Aonight and Tuesday. Warmer tonight. Low tonight 27-33 north; 35-40 south. I Hlgo Tuesday 37-45 north, 45-55 south.

Delay Hiring New • C. C. Secretary ... jffl ; fe Decision Made By Board Os Directors ;i The Decatur chamber of Com-r merce will remain,'lor the present at least, without an executive sec-, ! retary of the Cumber of Cotn-; ’ merce, it was rleyapiled today in a 1 statement by iHabegger, new-; ly elected president ibf the business: 1 group. ' JBi / •, | 1 Instead, the otfHm South Sec-: 1 ond street, by the Cham- I ber and Western will still ! be fMI Chamber busi-i ’ ness and will be headed up by Wai- 1 ter Ford’S secretary. Mrs. Franklyn ; C. Detter. She wi|-|' also be aided i by an assistant, The decision to Mpego a private ■, party employed l|wi the business- ■■ men, was made at] p. board of dir- ]< ectors tneeting adjfhe Chamber of j Commerce office Saturday night. A source in thpri' retail division of the group madejig statement today that shows Rfco schools of thought in the Cumber prior to, ' the decision. The jflirst of these iis dead-set. against h' secretary be- ' cause of the expdjn&e. (Ford was? i paid about ss.o(lffl S| ia year). Thej i secorid faction wasytpore temperate ! and was not for’’a secretary .jtt'v this time even thtp|igh two applications are known, to have been received. This gpoup, said the source, was holding! off until “bet- ; ter prospects up.” Habegger spoke guardedly about*. l hiring a some time ipl] nfye future. Hia abatement in a i telephone Interview ; reflected the j faction in the Chamber that iis ; against the expens^Jpf a secretary*, [ He said the felt that . ; . it was an unnecessary. expense io hire a secretary tint! the dues of the organization coWld be used fbr other things. ” I The duties of an jegecutive secfe- \ tary are defined as co- ; ordinating activities!sos the group; attending state Chamber conferences at Indianawopis; an “idea man” \to- bring iiwptore business for and "krpntacting businesses who blight thinking of locating factories here. ■ City Officiall'To Capital Wednesday Mayor Jo]in Doaji <will leave for Indianapolis Wednqkpay with city | engineer Ralph Itopp to qlttend state-wide conferert|ps from Wednesday to Friday (wilth water department officials the state, the mayor announced ts(iay. The mayor declined to say whether there legislative significance to the ponference. ’ < Ex-President F|oover Reported Improved MIAMI, Fla. — Doctors said former President Herbert Hoover was expected to show further recovery to|Uy from his “slight” attack of'iinfluenza and start his delayed fishing x trip by Wednesday. Authorities at St*'Francis Hospital reported Sunday midnight that the 78-year-ol(l. t elder statesman’s condition wWs “good.” !♦ was emphasized tlifti his ailmedt was not consideredjberious. L ■■ • '' 'i 1 H

Decatur, Indiana, Monday .February 9, 1953.

, — ~ ... i ; 1 Eisenhower, Congress Leaders Agreed On 11 Point Legislative Plan •IL— -■- --- --- ~ . i l — J

Tass Squelches GOP Hopes For Cutting Taxes | Firm Opposition To •} ’ Proposed Tax Slash !■ Is Voiced By Taft 3 Washington up — Firm pposition from Sen. Robert A. "taft today doused the hopes of house Republican leaders for j Jjuly 1 tax cut. '* The senate GOP leader said*flatly it would be “unwise” to cut personal income taxes this year, | and suggested that it may be neces-, shry for Congress to go in the opposite direction and extend the eycess profits tax on business, now dbe to expire at mid-year. . ! Taft made it clear, in a television interview Sunday and ‘ in. a laiter talk with a reporter, that he sqfes eye-to-eye with President Eisenhower about postponing tax relief until federal spending hqs been sharply curtailed. jHouse GOP leaders also profess full agreement with the view (hat sfiending cuts must come before tak cuts. But they believe that Congress can whack upcoming appro* priation bills feo drastically that it w(U be possible to lower personal arid corporation income taxes this i x? tr - L '• ■Under legislation passed by the Dfemocratic-controlled 82nd congrriss, the excess profits tax on corporate incomes is due to expire June 30, and an 11 percent cut in personal income taxes is due to .tajke effect automatically next Jan. ' Jjoth house and senate Republican leaders ’agree privately that it i would be bad. politics to give (Tan To Pore Six) Spring Tides New Threat To Holland ? Helicopter Fleet Is f •! Alerted For Action | Amsterdam, The Netherlands —‘A seven-nation helicopter fleet was mobilized in emergency reiidiness for new high spring tides which threaten further aeter to flood-wrecked co*Btland®. :i Allied officials «aid the helic<witerfj armada will bp based at Wlon the fljo.l perimeter to i-meet "any contingency” requ>‘ihg! their use whe-n l he tides staf: ;tb swell the North Sea again weekend. - \ I Tfhe fleet will inclt.de at least • 0 -Cozens —il9 American. 11 Britis i, ’ four French, two Italian, two B< Igraft, one Swiss and one .Dutch. ■ I; *fhe official storm toll for all • f pujrope stood Uoday at 1.559-H< Ilan<l 1,395; Britain 436; Belgiuti 20;« an-d Germany seven. i Queen Juliana led her nation I i ft <tAy of mourning Sunday, just’ i week after gale - driven s« s pmashed through oastal dike i, took at least 1,395 lives and' Te t 45Q500 acres inundated. < \ I Disaster masbs ted ty showed < I breaohen in outer se i defenses. Officials said ithele points would be especially vulne - kblb If new tides c hould be a--by moderately heav p ' Flood waters receded rapidly I i widespread areas tolday and ofllciale predicted that large sectioj> of farmlands may bp restored lb use; much earlier than expected—provided the tides m> not surge inland again. | i' .' Kinq Returns I BRUSSELS, Belgium. (UiP) Ir Young King Baudouin, criticized for baking a Flren<&i Riviera holiday in the midst national disaster, wae 'back at hjs Brussels palace today preparing for '? a Cour of Belgium's florid 22-year-old monarch brol|e (Tar* Ta Paata Sts)

Prepare Four Ships For Guided Missiles \ Two Cruisers, Two Subs Are Outfitted YOKOSUKA. Japan, UP — The U. S. navy said todayi it has four guided missile ships almost ready to\ join the seventh fleet off Korea and Communist China ."should the war situation require < their use.” A detailed summary of the seventh fleet’s recent history said that the ships—two heavy cruisers and two submarines—are ; being outfitted for guided missiles. The summary was issued iiby seventh fleet commander Vice: Adm. Robert P. Briscoe's office. Briscoe directs the fleet’s operations under, the U| N. command in Korea. Adm. ArthuV W. Radford directs its patrol of the Formosa straights in defense of Nationalist China. ' » I. \ I “At least four new : type ships could pe added to the seventh fleet in the not too distant future to Initiate guidqd missile warfare should the war situation require their use,” the navy said. “They are the former cruisers USS Boston and USB Canberra and the submarines USS Cusk and USS (*art>onero. Their conversion to this specialized purpose has been under way in ;the .United States since last summer.” ’ Brtscoe said that “jcontrary to popular concept, no major portion of the seventh fleet has ever been actively assigned to the Formosa patrol.” “At most, fewer than half a dozen destroyers have eVter been required in the straits ot Formosa. “In a shift of area responsibility a year ago, the Formosa problem was reasigned to Adm. Arthur W. Radford. USN, commartder-in-chief of the Pacific and U. S. Pacific fleet. : > -JT Jt “The seventh fleet, hbw*ever, has continued to furnish the ships and probably will do so if they are required in the higher strategy now being coiiipounded.” The statement said that in 32 months of action the seventh fleet has lost 345 men killed, 1,273 wounded and 82 missirig. Aircraft losses and the sinking of four minesweepers, have accounted for a large part of the navy’s losses. Ships of 10 allied nations—The United Kingdom, Canada. Colum(Torn Tn Pare Five) Meeting Tuesday On Federal Road Aid Aid Program For Secondary Roads A meeting to start the machinery whereby Adams bounty will \take of comparatively new federal aid program for secondary roads. Will be held at the office of the county auditor Tuesday morning. Available for this program is sl6.ij<>o, to be provided by the federal government. All the cdunty has to put up is SIB,ODO. The money will go for the improvement of county roads. Heretofore, an almopt identical program was sponsored by the ©tate, with the state namirig specifications for road buijding and handling all contractual business for the county. Under this program the state will sign contracts with bidders in the name of th«# federal' government, the aggregate of the road mixture to be the minimum to support the customary traffic of the road. There is an indication by a high source that actual contracts will be signed during tomorrow’s meeting" whereby the action for bidding may begin and * actual planning and' viewing; can be started. Just which roads will be considered Tor repair, or possibly, construction, was not | disclosed. This, said the source, would be a matter covered in reports ot duly appointed viewers. County commissioners will be present at <the meeting in addition to etate repre-, sentatlves of the plan. 11 •

————-— 1— Allied Planes Pound Al Key Red Centers Follow Huge Night Raid With Blast At i Both Korean Coasts SEOUL, Korea UP —! United Nations Warplanes, following up a huge night raitf on a Red army supply center near Pyongyang, swarmed over both coasts rif North Korea today to bomb pnd strafe hn. industrial area and ri Vpop concentration', Three air force Swings and one marine air group joiried toi plaster the industrial area at Chinnampo <s) the west coast. The;,,U. N. planes destroyed nine buildings, damaged seven and touched off at least three secondary explosions. 1 Pilots reported they turned the area into ia ball pf smoke. "The clouds and smoke jwere so heavy I couldn’t see a thing? said 1 2nd Lt. Lloyd R. Irish, Decatur, 111. ' B-26 light bombers attacked a troop concentration near Yonan in 1 eastern Korea. Pilots reported \75 * per cent coverage of the target. Today’s attacks followed a raid ( on a s(*(b!re Red asmy supply center near Pyongyang Sunday ‘ night. B-29 pilots said they left the ' center “cratered and smoking” 1 after the > attack, in which they dropped 220,000 pounds of bombs on 150 buildings and supply The eighth army reported only minor action along the 155-mile front dp lo* 6 p.m. The Reds attacked a small outpost in the western sector.; U. N. soldiers pulled off the position after a 10-minute fight and directed artillery fire, on the Communists. The eighth army had no\immediate word on the-outcome of the attack. ; \ The target for Sunday night’s raid was about eight miles southwest of thfe North Korean capital. Buff's flew through the coldest temperatures ot the year. 45 degrees below' zero, to qariy out the huge attack, s “Fires in the target area cast a glow over the surrounding country,” the pilots said after dropping their bomb loads. L Three Red night fighters made passes at (he B-29’s, but did- not. ! fire. Anti-aircraft fire was “meager to 4 moderate.” Elsewhere in the air, navy pilots attacked an airfield under struction north of Pukchong and bombed a large cliff at Hungnam. causing a j tremendous” landslide \ <Tnrn To P**e Six) ' J— —'' . Miss Gertrude Boese l A: . \ Dies This Morning ■ ■ ' ' i p ■ Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Miss Gertrude Boese, 45, a lifelong residept of Preble towndhip, died at 11 o’clock this morning at the home of her parents, four miles riorthwest of Preble. She had been ill of carcinoma for eight months, and bedfast for the past 14 weeks. She was born in Prebie township June J 2, 1907, a daughter of Martin and Anna Boese, and was employed at Generali in Fort Waynq until forped to retire because of illness. Miss Boese was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at heim and the Decatur chapter of thfe Valpo guild. Surviving iin addition to her parents aje two sisters,. Miss Eldina Boese, at home, and Mrs. Hugo Fuhrman of Preble township, and three nephews. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday afternoon, at a time to be determined later, at the Zion Lutheran church at ithe Rev. A. A, Fenner officiating Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body Will be removed from the \ Zwiok funeral home to the residence, where friends may call after 7 o’clock Tuesday evening. \\

Pravda Says Order May Extend Warfare Russian Newspaper Attacks Eisenhower MOSCOW, UP — The official Communist party newspaper Pravda said today that President Eisenhower’s decision to “de-neutralize” Chinese Nationalist forces on Formosa threatens to extend the war in the Far Euf(t. The Pravda article by Victor Koriosov was the first official Soviet comment on Mr. recent order to the U. S. seventh ' Beet to stop shielding the Communist mainland. The newspaper said the new American administration’s foreign policy was counter to pre-election promises to end the Korean war. Fravda also attacked the European trip of U. S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles and mutual security administrator Harbld E. Stassen as designed to restore the West German army for ‘(military adventures.” Pravda's attack today was not directed personally against the American president, but against the foreign policy of his Republican government. The newspaper said the de-nfeu-tralization of Formosa, which frees i Nationalist Premier Chiang Kaishek's forces for attacks on the Chinese mainland, sharply contra- , diets Mr. Eisenhower’s pre-election promise to -work for .peace. “The course of the American multi-millionaires toward continual tion and expansion of the war contradicts the will of peace loving peoples tpr the preservation and consolidation of peace,” Pravada said. ' The newspaper said that British French and Indian diplomats had expressed indignation and. alarm oyer the de-peutralization measures. i \ '4'"The reaction of the European and Aslan countries to Eisenhower's statement on Formosa, and also Dulles’ demands on West European countries, has produced a new and sharp division within the Anglo-American bloc,” Pravda said. "Foreign observers connected President Eisenhower’s decision on «T*r« To Pare Five) CIO Lashes Taft's Labor Law Changes Taft Amendments Assailed By Union WASHINGTON WP — The CIO charged today that-Sen. Robert' A. Taft’s proposed intendments to the Taft-Hartley Law “are not even a beginning” toward a “fair and just” labor law. It said therih aa r e 8 would increase government “interference” with collective bargaining and fall far short of President Eisenhower promise ot “justice and fairness to labor.” The CIO attacked in a detailed analysis two of bills that Taft introduced to modify the labor law. “For each mincing step forward they take a stride the CIO said. “Petty liberalisations are coupled with new anti-uhion restrictions. Innocuous procedural improvements are more thin offset by proposals which would — and are clearly intMded tb-pro—-ducS administrative The study, prepared by ordelr of the CIO executive board, criticized .Taft’s proposal to boost the labor board from five to seven members. It said the Increase In size is intended to “pack” the board by adding more GOP members. | ' J.: The CIO said Taft’s plan to replace the board’s general counsel with an independent administrator rirould lead to j divided authority and is "even more objectionable than the current act.” The CIO approved proposals to permit strikers to vote in labor board elections, the “limited steps” toward removing. compulsory injunctions against unions - - — (Tam Te Peae Five)

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No Decision Is Made On Tax Policies Taft-Hartley Law Tidelands Oil On | Congress Program WASHINGTON, UP—President (Elsenhower and Republican cringreralqnal leaders agreed today on. lan lli-point legislative program, including Taft-Hartley labor lew rej visions anri a tidelands bill, bi|t »reached no decision on taxes. I Senate GOP leader Robert A. Taft pf Ohio said after a two-hour White House conference that taxes i were discussed and there “ol>will have to be tax legislation, but that both he and Mr. 3 Eisenhower feel there should be »no tax cuts until the budget is bal-sa-need. \ j He said that while taxes were |not included in the 11 point lisc jthat (‘must" be considered at this some kind of tax legislation definitely would be passed at session. Taft said' such legislation might include a bill to certain present taxes ot* a pending 1 sone to cut personal income taxes * percent this year. 1 h Tafit raid Ira deea net feel that ’ hthe excriss profits tax shouM be 1 ‘.allowed to expire June 30. as but if this is congress* |wiah. he expects the house and ■ feenate to permit the excess profits and an 11 percent indivldbal income tax increase to die to- ’» The ill point program: | 1. *the reorganization bill ali*eady passed. < 2. Appropriation bills to clear the hohse and reach the senate riot latfer than May 15. |3. Hawaiian statehood. ?4. Taft-Hartley amendments. i 5. Limited extension of controls arid allocations dealing with, materials required for the defense program and critical defense areas. ; |6. Legislation relating to tidelands oE. A p |7. Extension of the reciprocal trade laiw. |B. U; S. customs simplification. » f 9. Extension of old age and aiilrvivoris insurance to cover geoups (presently excluded. \ (10. Extension of temporary aid to Schools and critical areas. ill. Adding two commissioners fqr the»District of Columbia. The program was announced by Taft aria house speaker Joseph W, Martin Jr. after a two-hour meeting with Mr. Eisenhower. Their statement eaid: "The Conference discussed legislation which must be considered by congees st (his session. The .. | .' lisft was not intended to be exclushie. Other subjects were discussed and will be pressed to a conclusion later. It was not intended to make any of this “must" legislation, or reach a full agreement rin details.” By Ithis, they explained the legislation need riot necessarily be passed, but “must” be considerd at this session. Taft feaid discussion of taxes reached no definite conclusions. He «aid» the President still feels thpre should be no tax reduction until the budget is in balance. T4ft said he shared this feeling. Chairman William F. Knowland R-Oalif.,| pt the senate GOP policy committee met with Taft last week jo prepare for today’s meeting* In thh three weeks since Mr. Eipenhoiver's inauguration, congress hAbi passed only on major bill —a (neaaure giving the President power to put reorganization plans ifito effect, subject to a congreeriional veto. With ‘much of its attention still devoted Ito confirming nominees for executive jobs it is unlikely that thd aenate will pass any more mAjor legislation until next month. -* Both Taft and Knowland expect the next major bills before the <t»m T® P®ge Six)