Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 12 February 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 36. ’

Eisenhower Meets Lincoln

Sy if \ W%» JL u . ? f X / fIT - ' «Hr aa a < WjiilK w. A fi3 ; -Llk: GREETING MEMBERS of the Lincoln Day committee of Republicans ’h the House of Represent lives. president Eisenhower shakes hands with Robert Todd Lincoln (right) great iXrandsQn of Abraham Lincoln. The group, which presented .Eisenhpwer with a scroll i commemorating Lincoln’s; birthday, includes Rep. George A. Donder<> (R). Mich., (second from left) and Rep. John M. Robsion. Jr ,RIKr - ; '' i i 1 J 3 ■<\ Chiang Says Forces Ready For Invasion " • I I P ? i-l 1 .

((Editors note: President'Eisenhower’s order making it possible, to unleash the army of Nationalist China for raids against the Chinese Communists has altered the entire strategic picture in the Far East. Hfere is an interview with Chiang Kai-Shek, generalissimo 'of Nationalist China, giving his< viqjvs on what ? can and will be dbne inview of the new status of his forces . on Formosa., It was obtained in .response to questions sent tp Chiang by Frank H. Bartholomew, United Press vice .president ,in charge of the Pacifip area.) 1 By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW United Press Staff Correspondent SAN; FRANCISCO. UP — Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek Said in a wireless interview today that his forced can invade Red China when-, ever they choose, without sanction of the United Nations and with no fear of Russian intervention. . But he does not believe he is \ adequately prepared f,or such an l invasion now.* The Nationalist leader answered nine questions which I p’rit. to him after President Eisenhower’s ah- ’ nonneement lifting the “neutrality" ban on Formosa. - \ 7 Chiang said {hat full-scale invasion of China cannot wait "nntjl we are fully prepared.” , - “We must' adnfiti, however.” he continued, “that our armed .forces are not as yet adequately equipped for a'full scale invasion. “It will take some time tp have our. arjned forces adequately equipped.” Chiang said that when, the time comes, the. Chinese Reds will prove \ themselves-incapable of fighting a , two-front war. ' ’ > * r 'I had interviewed Chiang twice before. I saw' him the first time just at the fall of slhanghai ih.1949 and again at Taipeh in October, 1951.Chiang said today that any invasion’ of Red China nbw’ w/lli require United States logifetif support. ’ ■ ; “The most .essential support that we need consists of air and naval weapons apd ammunition. ■; He said, "I feel certain that put armed forces w-ill receive' the full support of the civil population, on the. mainland. “n have reason to believe that -as the invasion plans unfold, many soldiers mow under Communist command i will rally] to our cause. It must be pointed opt” however, that such results wilt accrue only after our all-out invasion effprt has '.reached a given stage of development.” • t .7--On\ the question of Red intervention he said: , “Soviet Russia will pot intervene directly. As I understand jtnd in the light of . nty extended experience with her, Soviet nssia's theory and technique of <world revolution have never* made any (Turn Tin PM*e Six) , *. . .. Defense Bond Sales Increase In County * Defense ond pales in January in Adame county totaled 1121.345, compared with |4&,810 for the same : month a year ago, T. F. Graliker, county bond chairman, was informed today; • • V.. . \ Sixty-one of Indiana’s 92 counties reported increase in bond sales last month, the state repdrt shows.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT .fl t - . ‘ HT £ < ONLY DAILY NEWSFAfrfell IN ADAMS COUNTY .

Britain, Egypt 1 Grant Autonomy To Sudan Land Self-Government Is Granted In Historic ) J Agreement today [ LglndON,; IP I, l— Great Britain and )EgXpt ag -eed today to grant self |O the AngloEgyntiap Sudt.n, and thus opened the iway for Sgypt’s possible) entrance tb the spiled Middle Eastern defense [setup. Foreign secretary Anthony Eden announced in the House of Common* that the historic agreement was initialed in. Cairo today. Ttje agreement ended a joint British-Egyptinn rule of the Sudan which Was existed Since? 1899. It ended yanks ,pi biffer disputes over Jhe f67.!|()ft-square-mile African teriritoty and lafig nnonths of tedious nego iallons. •* Egyptian stroiig man premier Mahdmnied Naguib and British ambasst dor Sir F:dTptr Stevenson concluded tj[te agr >e.nent in Cairo at a final conference. The issue of British military occupation; of :he Egyptian Suez Cana| Zone remained. But it was hoped here that the Sudan agreement would lead the way to settlement of;(hat i roblem. and that as the re,suh Egjpt and its fellow I Arab nations tnigM come into the Allied plans 'Or 1 defense of the |Midd e Kfrist [againstiCominunist encroachment. / Under the ag fement |he 8,080,000 people of th? Sjudan will get selfgo ver mh ent. A tqr three years they will (leter'mit'C t;hien|ise|lves whether to ti > tq\j the British cbnin on4eal! h, tb Egypt or to remain independent. In aptipipaticn'jof the agreement, i British and (Egyptian garrisons in [ the §udtin already had been > in- . stmeted io make inventories of I their stores, ready to; hand them i bver to a! new Sudan defense force. United [ Stati'g ambassador to fn ,on the long Sudanese negotia(Turn In Six) Mrs. Rose Mills Is Taken-Ely Death Mfs. Brise Mills, 54, of Tocsin, died suddenly s.t the Wells county hospital. Wednesday at 5 p.m. Al-" though she had been- in ill health for years, death was unexpected. Surviving art the husband, ward Mills of Tocsin, the mother, Mrs. Louis? Kruetzman, df Decatur; two daughters, Mrs. Lucille King and Mrs. Evelyn Brinkman, of Tocsin. four sisters, Mrs. Ida Frauhiger, Mrs. Emma B( ineke, Mrs. Orene DeWeese, of Decatur, and Mrs. Marie Nehgy, ol Ft. Wayne: three brothers, Benjanin) Kruetzman, of Decatur, 'iand IJdwiard and Elmer Kruetzmah, o| arid four grandchild ren. ’ Fuberal services will be held in the Elzey funeral home at Ossian Saturday at 2 p.m. the Rev. William b. Feller officiatipg. Burial will be in the Ossian cemetery. Friends may call at the Elzey funeral home after 7 o'clock 'his evening.

Stale Senate OpposeslSingle HighwajjHead Decide State Commission \ To Run Highways \ " INDIANAPOLIS jt T P — Indiana senate Republican < fearful that Governor high* way control plan jpuld . lose 'to a coalition of oppor mats, decided today on a cjjtppr Jlpise • three-man commission. I . \' .[J Craig wanted) a jingle director to head i the highv by department* state government’ld,biggest agency in point of perSonO and spending. A four-man commission now runs the Democrats notice-early in the session they disliked the highway director aspemf of Craig’s 11* member “cabinet” ’plan more than any i other feature JjiSome Republicans agreed with ’ihlem, and the reorganization plan teas jeopardized. But the 40 senators caucused on the iss le this morning qnd agreed on tl|rbe commissioners, chosen geographically, to manage highway arahirs. One would come from the north half, another from the south halld and the third would be choSen large. Republicans saidlt did not, as it might appear oty* the surface, punch holes in Craig’s plans. The governor three members. two'of whomAnay be of one party,\ and designates the chairman. Thus, the chairman could be the highway member of the Craig cabinet and the GOP could controjl. Seri. Roy Conrad! R-Monticellb, who [ had proposed! san 11-membcr commission chosen|for congressional districts, ternw the caucus agreement “a victim’ for the governor.” Craig saidat a Tuesday press conference h^,'favored a oneman director over like 11-member commission. iji \ . The bill was eligible for passage but faced certain imposition. But since its foes cj| ildn’t muster enough votes to ai[ (■nd or kill it two days ago, it g jpeared likely the measure would jdvancC to the senate. ri To most observers this will be a case of transferring! she bill “out of the frying pan intoiiithe fire.” Reception of Craig’s pjriposals by conservative senators |j||as been cool. Education and veterans’ me asures comprised the important legisjlation passed by tlje lawmakers late Wednesday. drtpositloi| was. negligible except oi i|ua bill extending the World Wt WII bonus tri certain classes of conscientious objectors. Ur; - , Rep. Luther L. R-Berne said it would affect Jabout 350 menand cost about $l(ifl£000. He said' the bill covered who were available for duty but would not bear arm|;m« contrasted to absolute objectorfelj who remain-) ed in civilian J “Any man who willj-go up to the front lines without is brayer than a man who gotpfwith a gun,” said Rep. Otto J. IWgay D-South Bend. >■•*» The bill passed, 63|i& 28, and was sent to the senate! |Rep. Merett Monks R-Wincheste| ’led the opposition. asking: “PgTtkere ■ would this country be if werybody refused to carry a gunf’ LqLIII; ' 1 SI Contingent Leaves | For Physical |xam Draft 'Board,Sends 25 Young M|n Today Twenty-five Adame! men boarded a special bridi| for IndianapoliS this morning kfc take their pre-induction physical examinations for the U. S. it was reported today by ther local draft i»oard. 1' „ They are: ’Ffrederfek' William Kukelhan, Wißiarp; Aloysius Brown, Robert Joseph Fuhrman, Willmott Doyle Behnke. Roger Dale Fruchte, ’ Edgar <slenn Sweger, James Lee Frey, Richard William Macke, Weldon) Lee Biberstein, Robert Lerdyj sdeshbe'rger, Allen Lee Fleming, jpmil Mkrtin Kiefer, Jr., David Roy IHarklesa, Richard Glen Young, Arthur Kelsey, Samue Gaius Lehman, Donald Elmo M|Her, Ralph Eugene Busse, VincCrrt Aloysius Faurote, Roger Roy ifjoon, Leroy Forrest Walters, Donald Richard Bleeke, John Lewis ,’Frank, and Myren Vernon Hacke Oos. Raul Zavala report George Marion Ba(£ Jr.,, was transferred to local cie; Wendell Bowards to local board 29, Hopei Ark.; Edward Olalde to board cago, ill. \ 11

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F ' 1 Russia Breaks Off Relations With Israel j Israeli Minister* Ordered To Leave I Russia Immediately MOSCOW, UP — Russia broke relations with (srael today for. acta' which “openly incited acts against the Soviet Union,” and ordered the Israeli minister to leave the country “without delky. M < Immediate cause of the bre&k was the “terrorist” bombing Monday night of the Soviet, legation in Tpl Aviv. i h 1- ) The Russians said the bombing had the “dbvious connivance ■oft the police.” ' \ - Soviet foreign , minister Andrei, Y, , Vishinsky handed the note breaking relations to Israeli Minister Shmuel Samuel Eliashiv .who haid been dramatically summoned to; the foreign office at 1 a.rii. j The note rejected Israeli apologies for the bombing and accused the- Jewish government of "evading, responsibility", for the crime. Members of the Israeli legation spent the rest of the night pcLcktag. lit was understood the Dutch Ehib*4#y had been requested to- ngndlet). Israeli interests after the' legation members departed. The Soviet note specifically cited the bombing of the Soviet legation; and a speech Jan. 19 Ijy Israeji foreign minister Moshe Shargtt at a meeting of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem as evidence of “hdjstile actions.” ' ? 11l his speech to parliarhetjt. Shgrett .said, the Israeli government would regard as a “hostile tx t' against the state of Israel” any attempt to “justify or defend campaigns of anti-Jewish instigation whijbh Imperil the safety of Jews in any land.” . ' Ai'dispatch from Tel Aviv today said the Russian break .was, not • unexpected but expressed Israelisccincern for the approximately &• &60.1 NM Jews still living in the Soviet Union and its satellites; jThfe note rejected apologies seht. tot) hfoscow Immjediately after the bombing by the Israel government. THrXe Russians V-* including the wifei of Minister P. I. Yershoy -jr wbrei injured when the bomb egpiibdbd in the Soviet legation. -• . "Tj|e terrorist act of Feb. 9 is bvid&rice of the absence in Israel of elementary conditions for the n&rniai diplomatic activities of representatives of the Soviet Union,” the Russian note said.' The (Russian note wai published tl>ls morning in all Soviet newspapers. Besides the note the Soviet foreign office also Issued a com'mhnlkiu'e on the severing of relationskl •_): Thte Soviet governmeht actlog elided four years of diplomatic-re* lallons between the two countries. The Soviet Union, along with the United States, was among the first (Tara Ta Fan Five)

Mother's March Os Dimes In Decatur Next Monday

DecAtur will have its “Mothers Mareks of Dimes” next Monday evening; it was officially today. V The three Decatur ot the Beta Sigma Phi sorority will be in charge of the drive for fuhds ■in the fight on polio, and are outlining plans to visit every home in Decatur next Monday evening, Feb- , 116, begining at 6 o’clock. . The; local Mother’s march has been delayed until this late date because of the many conflicting evehtk in the city during repent weeksMlri- Ralph Hobbs is chairman of the sorority’s campaign. Local chapters of the Beta Sigma Pill are the Epsilon Sigma, Delta Lambda and Xi Alpha lota, and the ' members of the sorority will have corwplete charge of Monday’s drive, with the cooperation of the Adame county chapter of the National

Provoo Convicted On Treason Charge Guilty Os Betrayal Os Soldier-Buddies NEW YORK UP- — John David Provoo, a former bank employe with a flair for Buddhist philosophy faced a possible death sentence tjdny for-betraying his soldier-bud-lea. as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War 11. • A federal court jury Wednesday convicted the 35-year-old exSergeant from Sausalito, Calif., of committing four acts of treason the United States. The penalty of any one of the four counts g:ou!d range from five years in prison tb death in the electric chair. Federal Judge Gregory F. Noonan set next Tuesday for hearing on a motion for appeal. He said that if the motion is denied, he will sentence Provoo at that time. Provoo was found guilty of contributing the death of a U. S. army captain who, wigs execut led by the Japanese, of volunteering his services to the enemy shortly fall of Corregidor iji 1942. and ot twice making broadcasts for the Japanese from Tokyo. - I ’ Jury of seven women and five men deliberated a total of 13 arid Ifr returning verdicts on four of the seven counts in the against Provoo. The jurors failed to agree on a verdict on the other counts. I \ ) T*hese were charges that Provoo tried to persuade a U. S. colonel to give a military code to the Japanese, that he took a pair of from an American prisoner to give to a Japanese soldier, and\ that he helped Japanese officers question a prisoner about the secret hiding of a feu-tune in Philippines silver toullion. The lanky defendant, wearing a gray suit that was rumpled from his long wait for a verdict, stood with his head bowed" as the court -clerk read the findings pf the jury, Thjen he was removed to the federal house of detention. The; verdict climaxed a trial that last®d\three and a half months and cost the government an estimated $1,000,000. Sixty-nine witnesses, including 20 flown to New York from Japan, testified about events took place more than 10 years agri on the other side bf the world. Witnesses testified that Provoo, who had an interpreter on the staff of Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, gave the Japanese a report dn .U. S. Capt. Burton C. Thomson of Ames, la., which contributed to Thomson's being executed. Provoo, who took the "witness' stand in his own defense, testified that he cooperated with the enemy because he hoped it would allow him to help his fellow prisoners. ■ INDIANA WEATHER | Mostly cloudy and a little colder tonight. Friday partly cloudy. Low tonight 2228. High Friday 32-38.

Foundation of Infantile Paralysis, and other organizations and indi- . viduals. The sorority members will meet at the Decatur high school Monday evening, and plan to start on their intensive house-to-house canvass promptly at 6 o’clock. Decktur residents are asked to turn on their porch lights before € o’clock Monday evening to facll- ■ Rate the ladies in their task. All contributions will be turned over tq the Ideal March of Dimes, , with 50 percent of all funds retained by the local chapter to aid the victims of polio in_Adams county, and the other 50 percept going to national for continued research into the neverending brittle against the crippling disease. Turn on your lights Monday! Give to March of Dimes.

Clemency Plea Os Rosenbergs r Refused By Ike \ Eisenhower Flays Convicted Spies In Rejecting Clemency j NEW YORK UP — Convicted atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, tHblr last-ditch appeal for clerriency turned dotgn by President Eisenhower, wilt learn next Monday the new date for their execution in Sihg Sing Prison’s electric <}hair. ] Legal Sources nere said they believed Judge Irving R. Kaufman, who presided n't the couple’s 16day trial in 1951, would set an early execution date, possibly, during the half of March. Emanuel H. Bloch, attorney foi* the Rosenbergs, said he would make effort to save them. He had ttyese avenues open to himi! 1. He |nay ask for an extension of the stay of execution which Judge Kaiufman granted Jan. 5 to permit t|ie Rosenbergs to seek executive clemency. It expires -Monday. M 1 2. jnay ask the circuit court of appeals or supreme court for a stay of e|xecutlonj 3. He; may gpply to the supreme court for a fwrit of certiorari for the granting of a review of the -case, )■ ' \The supreme court twice before has refused to review the case and the finality of Mr. Eisenhower’s statement Wednesday on the \ Ilosenpierg’s appeal left considerable doubt that Bloch would meet with much success. In deny pg plehiency, the President concurred with Judge Kaufman, who said in passing sentence April 5, 1951, that)the Rosenbergs committed "a crime worse than murder" they passed America's atomic secrets to Russia. ‘“The nature of Ihe crime for which theX have been found guilty and’sentenced far exceeds that of the taking of the life. of another citizen,” Mr. Eisenhower said. “It involves tpe deliberate betrayal oi the entire nation and could very well result in the death of many, many thousands of innocent citizens. By their act these two individuals have in fact betrayed the cause \ot freedom for which free men are fightiflg and dying at this very hour.” i The President said he had studied the case carefully and was satisfied t) ha t the Rosenbergs (Tana Ta Pace Five* . p—Foyndafion Heads Win M6et Monday Directors To Meet f Here Monday Night A meeting of the directors,Of Decatur Memorial Foundation, Ine., and chairmen who are calling on individuals to liquidate their pledges to. the Foundation this month, will be held Monday at 7:30 p.m. pt. the Citizens Telephone company office. Reports will be received\on payments made since the first of the year. The last report showed the Foundation jhad received approxi mately $143,00 from signers and according to the agreement with CenSoya company, the amount apQuld ; be brought up to $150,000. H C«utral Sqya company has already contributed $70,000 on payments received by the Foundation. The company fixed a minimum of $150,000 in offering to contribute one dollar tor every two dollar's collected locially. Directors of tpe Foundation will proceed on plans for the Community Center when the financial require- ' ments are met, the board announced at the January meeting. , Payments to the Foundation can < be made gt the First State bank, I where the original pledge cards are ; filed. z . 7

i —I Report Safe Stolen From Quarry Office ■' ; , \ 300-Pound Safe Is •J Taken From Office some time during the night broke into the MCehberger Frothers Stone Corp., Blue Creek )\township, and removed i a 300pound safe containing $75 to SBO in cash and checks. \ The burglary was discovered at 6;;30 o’clock this morning by an employe of the company, Jack Reynolds. Reynolds told investigating officers — state jletectlve Truman Bierie, state trooper Walter Schindler and sheriff Bob Shraluka—that he found the padlock to office door ; missing, probably having been smashed off. The safe, the type that fits under a xl&sk. was removed. Police said the distance from the door to the safe -was about lb feet. Tije weight of the safe. 300 pounds, is usually too much for one man to handle. \ayefred police, and they Indicated at least two handled the job. Although police didn’t bay they found any elves, they believe the safe was trundled into a. waiting cur and driven away. Nonphysical damage was done inside the office. The missing safe was . insured eaid police. , . This is the second tkne la years that pas beer victimized. Their safe, 'although not removed, was pilfered of Its contents in April. 1951. The po lice later captured the guilty parties, juveniles. ■ ’ NO houses are near the stone quarry and k wris impossible for police to question anyone about anything suspicious havihg happened. They are carrying out a full scale investigation. New Trial Motion In Court Here Friday Zone Appeals Board Seeking New Trial Last November 20, Judge Myles F. Parrish, in a 56-page opinion, criticized the city board of- zoning appeals for refusing to grant permission to the Jehovah’s Witnesses of Decatur to build a Kingdom Hall at Monroe and Ninth streets, and reversed the previous action of the board that denied the religious sect the license to build. Friday, the court will hear the city’s motion for a new trial. Judge Parrish called the refusal of the board “arbitrary and. unreasonable.” Judge Parrish maintained that his action was in keeping with the function of the court, and referring directly to the board of zoning appeals, “to check and rebuke overzealous local officials who have sought to cloak religious persecution in respectable clothing in order to crush the religious minorities of whose doctrines the majority of the community do not approve.” , The dty, in the person of Robert S. Anderson, strove repeatedly, in pleadings 'both Verbal and to base the case on nonreligious grounds. Judge patrish’s opinion held restrictive ordinances of this type can enforced when not applied to) religious buildings and are exempt from holding any influence over the aforementioned religious buildings. Anderson claimed the building was not described as a religious building as far as the city was Concerned—merely a building. ! Custer and Smith, attorney’s for the plaintiff, in collaboration with Hayden C. Covington, regular attorney sot the . Witnesses ) from their first pleading, held to; their religious persecution line of argument and first saw the refusal of the board to grant a variance as “arbitrary and capricious.” Cbvfagton declared in his plea last fall that the building was in the ‘interest of the public health and; safety,” and tbe city's denial was an abridgement of freedom of assem-Mr-TTf r ' I .1 ’ ( f

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Committees To Hear Retiring Army General Faces Queries On Statement Bth Army Set For Offensive ’WASHINGTON, UP — Two senate committees today called on ’ Gen: James A. Van Fleet to spell 1 out his ideas -for cracking the Koc rean military deadlock by a new ’’ United Nations offensive. ! The senate armed services and ? foreign relations committee sumk moned the retiring Sth army commander in what shaped up as the • biggest congressional Korean war ■ investigation since the 1951 hearings into Gen. Douglas MacArth1 ur’s dismissal. - Van Fleet faced questioning on [ his statement that the Bth army ’ with its present manpower and • material is capable of mounting a • major offensive that could break the present military deadlock >' along the 156-mile fighting front. ® Against this’ view, senators x ? weighed a warning from Gen. Om1. ar N. Bradley, chairman of the ' f. joint-chiefs of staff, that an endI. the-war offensive in Korea would requlrq a vast step-up in American b mobilization, and could be undern taken only at the cost of heavy h casualties and the risk of a bigger s war. >- Sen. Homer Ferguson (R-Mich.) - said in Kalamazoo, Mich., that ho is calling Van Fleet for testimony ? on March 6 ’before his senate forr eign relations subcommittee, Sen. > t H, Alexander Smith (R-N. J.) said - he would ask that thef retiring geni eral be questioned by either the full committee or his own far eastern affairs group. Simultaneously, armed services chairman Leverett Saitonstall (RMass.) announced Van Fleet wriuld appear before his committee as soon as possible to testify on the probable costs and results ot an early, major drive against the Communists. Meanwhile, Rep. Laurie Battle (D-Ala.) said in a speech prepared for delivery in the house that the United States should screen Allied shipments to Red China to determine whether a full-fledged blockade is necessary, } Battle, who sponsored the act barring U. *8- aid to nations sending strategic goods behind the Iron Curtain, said the screening authority already is contained in a United Nations resolution against strategic shipments to the Chinese Communists. Van Fleet left Tokyo at 5:03 p.m. (3:05 a.m.. e.s.L) today for HOno(Tmw T* Pace Five) — Feb. 28 Deadline For Aufo Plafes Only 50 Percent Os Plates Sold Here With February 28 set as the absolute deadline for the purchase of 1953 automobile license tags, work at the local bureau looms heavy. Mrs. Dale Death stated today that less than 60 percent of the local automobile owners had obtained tjielr 195$ plates to date. From now until after February 28, the local auto license branch manager said, the office in the Heimann building 119 South Second street, will be open from 8:30 until 4:45 p.m. each <|ay. except for the afternoon closing on Thursdays. There will be clerks on dijtyduring each noon hour. ” Mrs. Death urged that all car owners get their plates as quickly as possible to avoid the long lines and confusion which ,is probable on the last two or days prior to the deadline. > Applicants must have their tax receipts or a certificate from the county treasurer showing no taxes due before A k 1953 plate can be Issued, it was announced. This is in compliance with the statute.