Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 11 February 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 35.

Ike Is Host To 13 Outstanding Boy Scouts i'j; r ■■■LOBi it ir ''wwipbetmlHH I IWrMK I*’ ■ iHJi MMRuf JPT’ -•—» >*x ; Ji wl tßf * - A *">- ***l7 ■ \ . r,.f ./> , Nf . • !H < . . ■ wWwy •=. JHh i. HHI *e J« I■> ■ ( j£M ■ £*** . ViH * XJi I » i "■ 7 < Hit 13 OUTSTANDING Boy Scouts, representing (he nation's 3,250,000 Scouts and Scout are received in Jhe White House by Presiedn-t Eisenhower, ' From left: Emmett Sdtton. 17. ToleiS, 0., Eagle Scout; Henry Minton. 16, Danbury, Conn.. Eagle Stout; Thomas B. Carmany. 16, Lefoandny Pa., Eagle Scout; William R. Flint, Michi Explore!- Eagle sfcout; Newt P. Harrison, 17.r|New Albany, Miss., Eagle Scout; Robert Peterson. 16, Emporia.. Kan.. Explorer Eagle Scout; Edward Brannigan, 16, Johnstown. N. Y.. Explorer Eagle Scout. Raymond W. Waddelow. 17. Ponca City. OMlia' Explorer Eagle Scout; Herald C. Bakken. Aitkin, Miijm... Eagle and junior assistant Scoutmaster: R&bert Tucker, 16. Tracy. Calif.,, Explorer Eagle Scout; Sammy Tyler, 15. Eldorado. 111., three-millionth atta'ye member; Maurice W. Wippel. Jr.. -Ellensburg, Wash., Ejcpbler Eagle Strout; Robert B. Savage, 15, Mount. N. C„ Explorer Eagle Scout. . X R;, \

Bill Passed To Stop Loans Os School Funds Senate Takes Step ) To Aid Schools To Budd Classrooms. L INDIANAPOLIS UP — Indi i ana senate mpved today /to aet I aside a $26,000,000 state common i school fund fojr loans to schools f faced with classroom shortages be- t cause of the high birth rate of the t 1940’5. ! By a vote of 42 to 6, the senate : passed and sent to the a bill to prohibit counties from making any further mortgage-, loans from the bulky fund. The fund now is used for mortgage loans to farmers and’ other residents who may apply through their local officials. The bill the senate passed floes not actually make the loans avail- 1 able for schools in need of new i buildings to house an unprecedented volume of pupils. A companion bill still in committee does that. But it paves the way for application of the second bill by stopping the practice by counties of lending the money with mortgages as security. , Sen. Charles R. Kellum R-Mpores-ville, one of the authors of |he twin trills, said passage of both are needed to ease the burdens of school-officials who find enrollment mounting year by year and overcrowding a natural result. (Sen. Wesley ■ Malone R-Clinton Said the proposal would be a hardship to farmers and other borrowers under the present law.. He said also it would create hardships < to which had found the loans a profitable investment. But Kellum said many of the loans were “hot good risks" and . since the fund must be held inviolate, a county with a bad load has to make up the losses through local taxation. . * ’ . Another bill in the legislature would set aside the common school fund for use as a loan in financing a state office building. . Under terms of the Kellum bills, a school could borrow frbm the ? fund after It exhausted its Possibilities in other legal channels. . Meanwhile, Governor Craig kept . control over. enough legislators so l\ let hist" reorganisation plans move ahead toward law. > ; His proposal for an 11-mah cabinet, foundation for all the other plans, moved up for passage in the House despite a attempt to kill it for the remainder of the session. The bill is eligible for passage Thursday. Three unsuccessful attempts were made to aniend it late Tuesday. _ These Were supoprted by all' 19 Democrats in tpe House and eight Republicans. But 65 pro-Cralg Rer (Tan T® P®«e El«ht) ■ i INDIANA WEATHER Rain changing to show and ending tonight. A little colder tonight. Thursday -cloudy and colder. Low tonight 30-35 northwest, 35-40 southeast High Thursday 30-35 north, 3540 south.

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■ | :: ! . 'I Doubt Major Changes In Military Budget .? . i Defense Leaders Doubt Revisions “ . ./ / i -3' ■■'! . ! ' ! WASHINGTON! UP — Defense authorities doubted today that major in the military budget will result immediately from the .quick study ordeiMd by the administration. • Although they Were hopeful of achieving savings, new civilian heads of the military services already were beginning to regard the fisdal 1954 budget! inherited the Democratic administration as a tightly-tailored job. Navy undersecretary Charles is|. Thomas said as much h * Former President Truman submitted the; budget —for the year beginning next July I—to1 —to congress in*January. Deputy defense secretary Roger M. Keyes has instructed the army, navy apd air force secretaries id propose! '‘changes’’ aimed at obtaining "lintjelligent savings.” He set a Feb. 28 deadline.’ • Some authorities believed .the I most that can be ( achieved in the jpext 17 days will <be to “educate” the net? Service J secretaries on budget land to identify areas where savings may eventually be made. • They regard A; “major remodelling” of the i, defense budget as out of the question in so short a time. < • jj '! ' i The task la complicated, it was disclosed today, by the fact that Mr. Truman's budget'estimates on -fiscal 1954; military spending apparently will turn (jut; too low. The spending figure he gave, congress was $46,300,000,00(11 At' the time, defense department experts predicted that $48J)OO,0OO,OOO would be more accurate ..and latest figures on Korean war copts and rearmament bills tend to support them. The current (monthly spending rate is* just under $4,000,000,000. The Republjcajd' administration seeks reductions ip both spending rates and requests'; for new appropriations. Mr. | Trpman’s military budget called for si4 J,535,000, 000 in new appropriat lonsi for fiscal 1954. Defense duth irltijss said the current may’eventually result in stretphfd-out production of some armaments to Spread Spending,over , longer ptetiods. It too early to predict another < general stretchout like that qydeijed by the Truman admiipilstr; itibd over military objections! last liyeaf, they said. Informants a|id jhat really substantial' savings! in ; military spending probably would: involve changes in military aiuChltiigoals:, These call for) an artny pf 20 divisions, an air foiTd of! 1:43; air wings and a navy with 408 combatant ships. Total manpower isiclose to 3,600,- ■ ° OO, ' J; H ’ Four Men Killed In Boarding House Fire ST. LOUIS, i Mo.- UP — Fire swept through ' a!;linen's boarding house here qarly j today, killing four roomers and injuring six others. Police said 15 other roomers and the ' boarding house owner made their way to safety,! many of them down firemen’s ladders. Four of the injured jumped ,out top-floor Windows of the three-story building- i i . : H rm i

Ike Callsjn ) Top Officials On Trade Problems Leading OfHciak Os! Congress Called To White Housg Parley WASHINGTON t?R —-President Eisenhower called I'lhtop officials of congress and administration -together today discuss a program o>f “more *tfpte and aid” for free nations. F - Presidential preU-s secretary James C. Hagerty solid was in> not to any information about the('3l p, ni. EST White House But.it was ! learned from severaMi’participante -that the conference ||! debit with various ways of atjng -world trade. ||i Extension of thj| reciprocal trade act, due to exo! pe ; June 12; and a streamlining it. S. customs regulations l>een listed on 'Mr. Eisenhower’dl ; rm|ust” legislative program forj’Mm session. He strongly indicate<|f in jhis State of the Union message; ;hat he con-1 aiders expanded tradf to continued aid grants as away cf enabling other nations to obtain dollars. |F ■ • Senate Republican-i eader Rob-j ert A. Taft described mday’s meeting as a “pipe-smokjr g session,” indicating that it w-fcs a general discussion of ideas with no pur-| pose of reaching \ sp&ffic deci-; sions.. ■ '■ ‘b j ) Besides Taft, leaders represented (f&ere chair-; man s Eugene D. MilUkiin, R-Colo., of the senate financ^' 1 committee and chairman Danftil RN. Y., of the housK:', ways and means committee. are the committees that -handle tariff leg-' islation. The contingent included foreign aid-[iadmini&t.ra-tor Haroid E. StaesUft. secretary of,commerce Sinclair:jljveeks, secretary of the treasuryt, George M. Humphrey, secretary!',! of labor Martin P. Durkin, uiidprsecretary of state Walter BedeftjSmkh, undersecretary of agriculture John D. VMorse, assistant of state for economic flairs Harold Linder, assistant Secretary of commerce for International trade Samuel W. Andepon, and Philip Arnow, assistant director of the office of inteftaiational labor affairs. i!'[ Mr. Eisenhower in his state of the’ union address for revision of U. S. customs; regulations fTur« Ta Pawe night) Eisenhower Pref Conference Tuesday WASHINGTON UP President Eisenhower will hqld? his first White House news contelrence next Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. I'J.t. Presidential press);,) secretary James C. Hagerty expected Mr. .Eisenhower to hplH his first formal meeting with rtpbrters this week. Hagerty said the ' conference would be opgp to but would not be televised)? !

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, February 11, 1953.

Administration Puts On Brakes On Demands For Blockade Os Red China

Report Further De-Control Os Prices Thursday Informed Sources | Report De-Control Orders Thursday « Washington itp — informed soiirges said today government plans to end’ price cpptrols—Probably ; ThursdajA—on milk and other datrji* products, poultry and eg|s. Thtese Sources said. that, barring a laih-minute hitch, the decoflttjol •orde^\ will be issued by the Office of Price Stabilization. There also wash's report ofdefsi would decontrol price* irf radld and television pdrts. soaps, fata oils, rubber and rubber products, tin, paper and\ paper Jtolead and zind. TV and radio seta Already have been decont’roll- •„ A- tI orders would be the second ! big siep in the “orderly’ ’decontrol of Jrjdes between now and Apr|l 10 as Ss| forth by PVesideht ElFebho wet. < Chairman Horngt E. Oapehiirt of the SvtMMte Ban kJ n g Committee said Mr. Eisenhower has an "open min<P’-.bn the jUe’hiqn of stand-by economic controls. J . :- athfer informed sburces El«en|iower. has directed a thorough st« d y tp determine whether such /!e nier K ent> y authority is bec ; essary,; | I ; Senate Majority Leader Robert is on record againstj It, arguing it could be enacted quickly if it were needed. ■ • ■ Capldhart’s committee U’as scjjed ule4 <0 begin hearings on standJby controls next week, but he annotinCf ed a postponement. >:•' .i Capdhart said the postponement —froth; Feb. 17 to Feb. 23—was 4ue to the fact that,government officialH| had libit had time to evaluate theft position on his proposal. J 111 ifc State of the Union sagh/jihlr. Eisenhower called for.[ah “orderly” decontrol of wages hhd prices; by April 30, When the prteserit i cbntrol authority expires. He alsh skid, he would keep a constant watch on the economic situation and that he would ask for fqrjher legislation if he foresaw the peed sos it.'; ■ i ' ’ J , . Oh the same day, Capbhart ln- * ' er.ru To P»ar« tciKbt) I ——- ' ■ Flu Cutting Down School Attendance ■? Report Absentees Increased In City Whi|e it was pretty evidehf that Adams bounty and Decatur werO spared any major attacks by Jnfhlepza in the past months with the rest of the country being bit hdrd —attendance records -in Decatur schools are now beginning tO sag under a renewed effort o<: the flu bug. Decatur high school with Rs enrollment of 459 students in the seventh and’ eighth grades ahd high efchooi, has 65 students ou. sick. 15 more than were out yesterday., Principal -Hugh J. Andrews Said it began to take a rise apout two weeks ago. i Bryce Thomas, principal of the Lincoln school, reports 56 students out not counting kindergarten. Thomas said whole classrooms 'ar a time s are being hit, first showing no absence then coining up oni? day wfth 10 or more out. \! Decatur Catholic high school r<eH ported 21 students out today compared to its overall enrollment of about 400 students, including ! grade school. A breakdown showed 20 grade school children out, and only one high school student sick. . J ■ In the county, figures were not available from the schools bat Dr. Harold Zwick, county health officer, said tihe conditions in the . | ; (Tara Te Pa«e Mx) •I - H 1 < / Th- ■ ‘ft

Finnish Tanker Is Now At Singapore Loaded By Fuel For Communist China.... . SINGAPORE. UP — The 7i,717ton Finnish tanker Wilma, carry.-. Ing 7,M)0 tons, of jet fuel for Communist China, anchored off Singapore today. \ / The ship, which picked up its strategic cargo at Romania’s Black Sea Ploesti refinery, dropped anchor near the Shell Oil company’s Pulobukon installations. The Wilma is anchored some 16 miles northwest of Singapore; inside Singapore territorial waters 'but outside the port’s limits of authority. Local authorities haye not boarded her. i /T I The ship’s master and another officer Came ashore, I>nt refused to answer questions. j The Wiima is expected to make Hong Kon& her next port jof call. From Hong Kong the tanker Cohld move up the Pearl Riveit estuary to Canton Or up the Whampo River lo unload. This would keep the tanker out of range of Nationalist Otelnese naval patrols and under the protection of Communist fortified islands guarding the- estuary. I,!- : ' The> United States vainly tried to stop the Chinabound tanker. Jjltate department officials contacted Helsinki to ask it the Finns could prevent* the Wiltna from loading the jet fuel in Romania. However, the Finns said they could not legally stop the China voyage. . The U. S. also asked. Turkish officials at Ankara if the ship cbuld be intercepted in the Dardanelles. The Turks replied the|r could not because the straits were under an international convention guaranteeing freedom of transit for all ships. 'I Last Friday Omdr, Niieh Chieh Ting of the Nationalist navy said Nationalist naval\ uiiits had been alerted to watch for the tanker. He refused to give any information about the instructions (Tara To Pave Five) L. To Sell Six School Buildings Feb. 21 Adams Central Will Sell Six Buildings i '' \ • T ill Six school buildings and adjoining land, properties in Monroe and Kirkland township of Addins Coqnty Central school corporation, will be sold at public auction starting at 9:30 o’clock \in Ithe mornjng on Saturday, February 21. it was announced today by the board through the secretjfty. 1 Glenn Wqrkinger. Legal, description and notice of sale will appeal* in Thursday’s Daily Democrat. The schools to be sold are: Sprunger school, Monroe township, one mile north and one mile east of Berne. Election school, Monroe town ship, three miles 1 south of Mohrde Reichert school, Monroe toWn ship, two miles east and 1 three miles south of Monroe. I k Wincheeter school, Monrjoe' township, two miles west of M<jnrbe. Election schtxfl, Kirkland township, three miles south bf Preble Hower school. Kirkland 1 township. two miles .west of Prefole. Warranty deeds will be given the purchasers hut no abstracts will be furnished, it was stated. Five well-known Adams county auctlonieere will conduct the salds. Those named by the lx>ard Include Melvin. Lieohty, Berne;, Roy Joh-n- --, son. Decatur*. Ned Johnson, niecatur; C< W. Kent, Decatur Gerald Strickler, Decatur. i •Legal -work pertaining to the pale of the buildings will be do»e by’ the hoard’s attorneys, D. Burdette Custer, and Robert Smith of Decatur. The buildings will 'be sold, at one hour, intervals, at the site of the building, starting at 9:30 o’clock on the aborning df February 21. ’ h i- ■ " ( < -; . . 'i ■ I -

General Taylor Takes Command Os Eighth Army Takes Command In Korea, Succeeding General Van Fleet SEOUL, Korea UP — The man wlio JwjH lead any new United Natidns offensive against the Reds in Korea look formal conqnand cif the United States eighth army today. Gen. Maxwell D. Tayloif signed the document formalizing his taking over of command from retiring Gen. James A. Van Flbet with a flourish of his peij atop his leather-covered desk; As he did so* officers cautiously speculated about a possible U. N. offensive In the stalemated war which today had bogged dow*n more than ever, with rain, snow and heavy: clouds all along its 155mile front. No orie would say the U. N. will launch tin offensive, or even that it necessarily would drive to Koraa’s niarrow “waist” at" Pyongyang. ' Van Fleet, before departing f<W Tokyo on’ the first leg of his trip home, Would shy only; that any offensive 'would break the' stalemate. By this,! he apparently meant that either side could break the stalemate simply by' starting the fight again. In such an event, he said, the eighth army could handle anything the enemy had. Lt. Gen. Glenn D. tlarcus, commander of the; fifith air force.-in Korea, added a further note when he said On offensive to form a new battleline at the waist would demand a sharp buildup in United Nations-air povt er - “Any offetasive would break the -military deadlock, which is one of our choosing and pot imposed by the enemy,” Van F|eet said. Despite a "continuous buildup” Os enemy pbwef-, Van Fleet said. Taylor’s forces on the offensive should be able to handle anything the Reds threw against them. A driving snowstorm lashed the front before dawn and then turned into a steady drizzle of rain about 7 a.nj. Temperatures rose to above (Tura To Page Eight) ' 1 . ' M Burglary Charges, Dropped On Duncan Case Dismissed On Lack Os Evidence Formerly charged with three counts of burglary here in connection with the theft of a safe from the Barger farm ,in Kirkland township laet May[ Kenneth Duncan. 25, Fort Wayne, was Tuesday dismissed because of insufficient evi dence. h : Duncan was implicated shortly after the theft last May 11. but Was returned! to Fort Wayne to await action ou a burglary charge there. Duncan received a suspended sentence from Fort Wayne this week and Adams county 'was offered a crack at him. (He was also wanted in DeKalb county and in Van Wert, 0., -for burglary.) Upon examination of the evidence Lewis L. Smith decided the state -had ho caee and issued! nolle pros. The evidence, said the prosecutor, did not stand up next to the charges issued by former prosecuting attorney Severin I. Schurger because, said Smith, testimony of investigating officers revealed that Duncan was on crutches at the time of the theft and could not move around. Specifically, .the charges against Duncan .were first degree burglary, -breaking and entering, and grand larceny. Duncan -was not transferred here from Fort Wayne since the decision not to' prosecute ! -was made in his absence. ' I

A- h Adams Central Bond Sale On March 3 . . . ; | Bonds To Finance Building Os School • Bonds totalling 5162,500, fqr completion of construction of the Adams County Central Consolidated school bui ding at the west edge of Monroe, will be offered for sale Tuesday afternoon, March 3.'at 1:30 o’clock at the school offices in Monrde, it was announced today by the board of the con- ’ solidation through its secretary. Glenn Workanger. Legal (notice of the offering is made in tonight's Daily Democrat The bond issue -will be sold, according. to tire notice, to thebbiddter who off els |he lowest rate of interest. - Retirement of the bonds will be made semi-annually starting July ', 1953. and retirement will con; tinue each six months until the complete issue Is retired through taxation of property within the three townships in the s<tho<d merger; _ . , | Sale of the ■ bonds on March 3 will nyark another step. favorabU <0 the boai-d.’ in -the long legal scrap following adoption of) the consolidation by a majority of tbe voters of the tpree townships affected. There hate been numerous efforts on the part of a ffroup of resident unfavorable to the consolidation to etop the erection of the large school at Monroe. These olietacles have been overcome through several legal tests, during all of which Custer and Smith, Decatur attorneys, i represented the merger. Actual construction wbrk started on the building [several months ago and issuance of| the bond issue will\ guarantee completion of the modern structure ni-tihin a period cf, months, those close to the situation' A ; ' Three People Hurt In Headon Collision |T| Smoke From Weeds Blamed For Wreck ; ‘1 J Thick, blinding smoke from burning webds whs blamed for a headon collision ht 2 p. m. Tuesday that put three local people in the Adams county memorial hospital with minor injuries. Aiflo Drake 41. of route 3, -driver of one car. is at the hospital Jn “good” Condition. He sustained lacerations of the legs and facial cuts. Driver of the Other car, James Sheehan, 76, route 3. has a cheat injury and facial huts, and is also regarded by the hospital as 'being in “goo<|” condition. j A Wife of Drake, Cleta Drake, 33, is reported by ! police ito } have •been unconst-ious when she arrived at the hospital, but hospital re 2 ports this morning did not indicate injuries of a serious nature. The mishap occurred two miles south on the Piqua road'. Police said Drake's car had just gone 100 feet past the Erie railroad crossing when smoke from weeds that were (burned along t-he railroad right-of-way clouded vision. James -Sheehan, earning from the other direction, south, ahg/became blinded, according to the reports, and the two vehicles collided headon.. The victims told police their respective speeds were 30-25 miles an hour. Both cars -were totally demolished. ' ' In the! Drake car. but reported to have escaped any injury, -were Sammy Drake, 5, son of the injured couple, and Sally Andrew®, a passenger. Immediately after the wreck police I reported the Drake child to have suffered from shock and- bruises but the hospital said today that there was no record of the child having had any treatment. Deputy sheriff Jim Cochran and state policeman Dick Meyers were in charge of the investigation. J '

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Gen. Bradley Warns Action Is Dangerous ; Declares Blockade Might Touch Off Third World War WAS HINGTQN, ■ u P<— The Bisen'hower administration gently ai>plied the brakes today to mount-; ing congressional demands for a blockade against Red China and. the bombing of Manchyria. " At the same time, it made clear it was not finally ruling out either move. It even-hinted the demands served the excellent purpose of keeping the Communists guessing on U. S. strategy. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman, of the joint chiefs of -staff, warned, that the naval blockade many Republicans and Democrats have called' for might touch off World War HI, Secretary of state John Foster Dalles told a secret session of the senate foreign relations committee there is no administration plan pending to blockade Red China, to bomb Manchuria, or Co use the atomic bomb in Korea. In testimony before the same group, Bradley, said this country would run into trouble trying to police the seal lanes to BrUish Hong Kong but sakkr otherwise there was no legal barrier to blockading the China mainland, including the Soviet-leased porta of Dairen and Port Arthur. Nevertheless, the nation's top rrilitary leader indicated the action might force a showdown if Russia chose to ignore the blockade or. China Invoked the SinoSoviet mutual defense pact. ■Senators said Bfadley’s -testimony eohoed the opinions he gave in the 1951 MacArthur dismissal hearings'when he said a blockade could be taken as “an act of war" and would- os ineffective “unless it was a United Nation® blockade, not just aU. S. blockade.” - With the sobering words of Bradley | and Dulles, committee chairman Alexander Wiley. RWis., warned his colleagues that tfte blockade and other possible measures for cracking the Korean deadlock were Up to President Eisenhower to decide,- not | congress. • And two Democratic committee members protested against too much “loose talk” from Republican congressional leaders on such delicate issuie®. Sen. John J. Sparkman, D-Ala., a leading committee Democrat, said he hoped reluctant U;S. Allies ‘might go along with the blockade Idea” if this country pressed the Issuer “very strongly" before the United Nations. Thje mounting fears, of jittery European Allies was believed one of the reasons that Bradley and Dulles were careful not to give the congressional debate any further encouragement. Some military leaders are known to have urged a blockade as a follow-up measure. And such influential Republicans as Sen. William F. Knowland of California eaid the United States should do it alone, if necessary; Meanwhile, it was learned BradfTvrw T» Page Rtakt) Reorganization Bill Signed By Eisenhower (WASHINGTON UP — President 'Eisenhower today signed the reorganization bill giving him the same powers that former President Trutnan had to reshuffle federal agencies. The bill signed by the President was the first enacted by the 83rd congress* It authorizes him to submit to Congress reorganization and streamlining planja • for federal agencies. Unless a‘majority of the full membership of either house or senate disapproves, presidential reorganization plariz betaine effective 60 days after they are sent to congress. v