Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 39.

Opposition To Reorganization Bill Growing I Retrenchment Move Made By ,Backers Os Gov. Craig's Plan .INDIANAPOLIS. UP —Administration forces in the Indiana legislature made another ‘‘retrenchment” move in Governor Craig's reorganization program today on the heels of mounting opposition. Sen. Roy Conrad (R-Monticello) amended on second reading in the senate a bill which carried out Craig's recommendations, to -remove the judicial powers of the state alcoholic beverage commission. , . f Craig had proposed in his Jan. speech to the legislature the day after his inauguration that “in the Interests of economy ... the thtractions of the liquor laws'’ should be tried in the courts of the various counties which handle violations of other criminal and thus permit the abandonment 1 of the quasi-judlcial structure within the ABC.” That’s just what was provided in a senate bill introduced the day after Craig’s speech by Conrad and Sen; John G. Tinder (R-lndianap-oHs.) 1 'My i . ■. But today when the bill came up for second reading. Conrad offered an amendment which rewrote the measure from the enacting clause to the end? The senate adopted ,the amendment. ? • The amendment leaves the judf cial powers in the ABC as at present but additionally gives permit _holders penalized by the commis* sion the right to appeal to superior and circuit courts from commission decisions. On the surface, it appeared the< i amended bill -would not represent' economy at all. Rather, it might J coat more if it becomes law. For i the cost of ABC operations would 1 continue as at present And if a i penalized permit holder appealed, v the state presumably would have to send legal representatives to ; the local courts to participate in 1 the appeals. 1 The watered-down version appar- , ently came as a result of a close < shave Craig's 11-man cabinet bill,’; - heart of his program, had in the house last week when it passed with only two votes to .spare, and ’ the senate amendment ; of his one-: man highway director biH to ere/ ate a three-man commission. \ - As the senate reconvened after,. a week-end recess, a resolution to extend voting rights to 19-year-olds; in 1958 was on the agenda for as final showdown. Senate president: John W. Van Ness learned seven: or eight senators planned to debate on its merits and indicated he may. ask for time limits on the argui ments. .1 The senate passed, 40 to 1, a senate bill proposing a two-year study of the state persohal proper-: ty tax assessment methods by at commitee which would recommendchanges to the 1955 legislature. • It also passed. 44 to 0, a bill ralsing the limit for burial expenses for indigents from $125 to >ISR ’ As the legislature resumed,?. Craig concentrated on senators to; keep his governmental reorganiza-! tion program from going down thei drain. Ike Is Briefed By Atomic Commission n 14 * v Disculs All Phases 11 Os Atomic Energy WASHINGTON, UP — President „ Eisenhower summoned key offi- | cials of his administration to the I White House today to learn the facts of living in the H-bomb age. With chairman Gordon Dean and three other members of the atomic energy commission in the role Os teachers, Mr. Elsenhower took his I place among oth'er "pupils” for the I secret briefing session. j Authoritative sources said Dean and atomic commissioners Dr. ry D. Smyth, Thomas E. ' Murray and Eugene M. Zuckert were prepared to give administration leaders a concentrated “indoctrination course" in all phases of atomic ergy, from the recently-tested • ftydrogen superbomb to peaceful usee of the atom in medicine and power. ' production, -j. * These informants insisted that Mr. Eisenhower arranged the : ? Pvtn. e.s.t. session solely for hjs own enlightenment and that bf other government pblicy-makefs. They said no high-level decision® on atomic problems were involved Presumably, however, Mr Eisenhower will use the information gained at today’s meeting in mak(Turn To Pace Two) -T:

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Plan ‘Hour Os Sharing’ Appeal K ’ ■ JI - .. .LiL I a Cw /w - I BISHOP WILLIAM C. MARTIN (center), president of thb> National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States!:.holds the VOne Great Hour of Sharing” poster to be nationally displaced in- connection with the 1953 United Appeal. More than s7,ooo*y(lHQ ie* to be raised for overseas relief and reconstruction work. Millidpts of Protestant churchgoers win observe the ‘*Hour of Sharing" on Sunday, March 8. At right is Dr. Samuel Mcßae Cavert, general secretary of the National Council of Churches, and at left le Dr. Wymi C. Pair'fieM, executive director. ■:> 7 T ' ' + 1 11 " 11 .■■■"' ■■■ i'i ■ I Ai.ii4ftß ■

Eisenhower, Leaders Meet On Yalta Pact Weekly Conference Held By Eisenhower And Congress Heads WASHINGTON. UP— president Eisenhower and his congressional leaders today made “some progress” op a resolution encouraging people fighting for freedom in Soviet satellite countries or elsewtiene. C Senate majority leader Robert A. Taft, leaving the weekly White House legislative conference, eaid the resolution* will repudiate parts of the Yalta and other international agreements which “might be Construed to limit the freedom of people for self-determination.” However. Taft eaid,, the Yalta agreement is not the principal target. “The idea is not a repudiation .of any particular agreement, but rather of any construction\ that would lead to acquiescense on our part to suppression of freedom in satellite countries or elsewhere,” Taft said. He said* the language of s the re-solution was one of the major subjects considered.' . “Ft was discussed at some length and we made some progress,” Tait said. He was ; reminded Mr. Eisenhow'er’s state of the union message asked for action to make clear “this government recognizes no kind of commitment contained in secret understanidngs of the past With foreign government's.” Taft said he thought Mr. Eisenhower referred to agreements that were secret at the time of their completion. He said he knows personally of none now which have not been made public. .No date was agreed on for introduction Os the resolution. Tnere is no thought that such a world-wide declaration ,by this government can do more than to encourage suppressed peopled behind the Iron Curtain. ■Sen.. H. Alexander Smith. R-N. J., was confident a resolution would be approved by congress. 1 (Turn T« Pave Five) — 22 Persons Die In I Italy Train BENEVENTO, f ltaly UP , — Twenty-two vteje killed and more than 100 injured Sunday when the Bari-Naples Express was derailed while traveling at nearly 70 miles an hour. The engineer, slightly injured, told police his brakes failed as he roared into the small station here shortly before dawn. He denied he was going excessively x fast. The train was 12 minutes behind schedule. Ambulance And Auto Crash, Five Killed SISSONVILLE, W. VsQ UP ' — An ambulance, racing to a highway accident call, collided with a car near here Sunday night, killing five persons and injuring four oth- ■ ® rß ' * ii ■ The dead, all passengers in the car, were between theages of 14 and 20. Two of them were sisters.

Finance Board s . . | - ||a: . ■ j:. County Meets today Funds Allotted To Three County Banks The County board ofijinance met for its bi-annual \ sessj&n at the county auditor’s offleH today to i allot the funds of thCJfcounty—in varying proportions upon assets —to.the 'three bgqks in the county it does with—the fFirst State Bank, Dfcpatur, the Bank of Berne, and t||| Bank bf Geneva. The First State Banfe will contain 51.7 per cent of aOdeposftories; the Bank' of Bern«feßß.7; and the Bank of Geneva. lET. T In addition to this, county attorney David Macklin to act for county surveyor Herman Moellerlng in the thaler of the Citizens Telephone claim against the county foroeimbursement. Before last iphvutmas s the telephone company way asked to move a stretch of its; ltfli|s in MonSoe township, near .the Wtttmer itch, to make way for; the county surveyor to dredge along its path. The Citizens Co. iq claiming the they incurred In moving tho telephone Unes. g Five township trustees; sat in at the meeting and resolved* to seek a man and woman to. wffltk at the county home as attendants for the inmates. County auditorpFrank Kitson said the trustees;/found the hospital too expensive Stake care of the regular and they were therefore seeking\|kt citt down by getting additional at the home. All for these positions should be fiOd at the auditor's office at the (wurt house Kitson said. The who attended today's meeting ijiere: L. A. Mann, Wabash townsfel David Mosser, Jefferson; WiHfam Linn, Washington; Ed Aumaqu, Preble; and Eli Graber, Freuch||| i Commissioners said s |pday they will make soon to have an abutment thesaid was about to collapse rebuilt||They were to have a conference oi'Jthis matter in Fort Wayne toMF but was cancelled because the dangerous road abutment is in Blpe Creek township, the exact locatlop not divulged. -H 1 ■ • House Group Kicks / Off Economy D|ve ! Defense Department Hardest Hit B|JCut WASHINGTON UP — : lhe house ‘ appropriations commlttw kicked off the Eisenhower administration s economy drive today b$ slashing ; |1,481,046,6?0J from a bill , originally totalling |2,3&|,719,590. , The 60 per cent cut in> request j prepared by the Truman* adminis- ; tration before; the Republicans took over hit the defense hardest. ' : ijf j \ \ Bulk of the savings rented from complete elimination byTthe committee of ||»Ught by the defense to meet higher pay, subsistence,>|ind other ’ increased costs authority in large ' part, by the I congress. The committee directed the defense department to £et such money as it needs the new demands by dippingsuto funds (Tant To

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 16, 1953.

House Committee Votes Individual Income Tax Cut Effective July 1

Two American Jets Fire On Russian Planes ,v -' -rl \ ‘ |i' ’ I ■ 7’ Send \fwo Russian j Made Planes From Ajr Over Japan TOKYO UP — U. S. air force Thunderjets fired on two Russianmade fighter planes over northern Japan today, damaged one and sent both. invaders fleeing back towatg Soviet-held territory, The alr ; force presumed \ the planes were units of the Russian air force. They came from Rus-, sian territory and fled toward.' it. But lacking positive proof, Far Eastern air Gen. O. P! Weyland said, he could not identify them officially as Russian.' Foreign minister Katsuo Okazaki' told the diet he did not consider the overflight as. “an act of hostilities. ’* He said it would not be necessary to invoke the U, S.v — Japan administrative agreement/ J H|deji Kawasaki. Progressiva party leader, urged that Japan ask the U. S. to “exercise discretion'’ in attacking intruding aircraft. He said the Incident w«a further ev) . dence Japan should rearm. J: Left and right-wing members In the diet expressed similar concern over : the incident. Kanju Kato, chairman of the said American authorities should be cautious when protecting Japanese territory. It -was the first positively confirmed flight by Russian planes bver Japanese territory since'Jan. 13. when the Japanese government warned Russia that .American fighters i guarding Japan would meet border violators with bullets. V The two Thundgrjets on a rou-, tine patrol over northern Japan were guided by radar to the Russian aircraft at 9:15 p.m. e.s,t. Sunday. ‘ At the time, the Russian planes were heading across the Nemuro Peninsula, a neck of land that juts eastward from Hokkaido to within two miles of a Russian-occupied island in the disputed Habomai grou-pj ■ Wfeyland said the interceptors closed in on the two Russian planes <T.„ TA . ... Tw.> r True Andrews Named , 11 \ I To Highway Position Decatur Man Named Sub-District Head Triie VTabby” Andrews, Adams, county farmer and construction worker, and long active in Republican politics in ihe county and fourth J congressional district today assumed his new duties as sul> district highway superintendent of the Bluffton sub-district, which Included all state highways in. Adams and Wells counties. Andt<ews* headquarters will be in Blufftqn and he will have super-, vision ibf state highways in the entire district. Other personnel in the siib-district, including office and highway workers, will be changed March 1, it was learned to-day-.V-'v •! . L Andrews, a native of Monroe has been fa construction work fbr the last IS years. He also has operated a farm, which he owns north of Decattir on U.S. highway 27. The appointment was recommended by Harry "Peck” Essex, Adams county and fourth districtG.O.P. chairman. Other fourth district highway ap'poit ments effective today include Fre<f Beal, LaGrange, to be subdiistrict superintendent at Waterloo, and Charles LaTourette, Allen coun- , ,ty. to head the Fort Wayne sub- , district The retirlsf superintendents in . each ot; the three districts have agreed to stay on the job until March j to instruct their successors in the Office and field work, Esser said. *4

ST* - — 7 tisenhower Invites ElT' ~ k- • Y Y - Stevenson To Meet Stevenson Mending Political Fences ' WASHINGTON UP —Adlai EBfeyenson. was busy mending Democrat it* political fences today biit smilingly insisted that if he runs In 1956 it will be “for tfovetj.” He also prepared for his firjst post-election meeting with the man who defeated him for the presi(heney^—Dwight D. Elsenhower. Mr. Eisenhower expressed interest in;Stevenson’s forthcoming trip to the Far East, and invited hiis Campaign opponent to drop-in at tbe White House and talk it over. White! House aides were unable to give the precise time of Stevenlon’s appoiutmnt, but it was indicated he may be the President's guest at lunch tomorrow. The former Illinois governor, , now titular head of the Democratic * party, bad a heavy schedule f<?r his three-day visit to the capital. Today’s round of activities included a staff meeting at the Democratic national committee in tt|e i morning, ytsits with house and Senate Democrats in the afternoon knd a reception in the, evening f<j>r some of the\ leaders in his unsuccessful presidential campaign. Tomorrow, ia addition IpMs tatk with Mr. Eisenhower, he plans to see some state department officials about his Far East trip and talk to the’ ambassadors of some of the countries he will visit. It was assumed the call at the state department would include a talk with secretary of state Johp Foster Dulles whom he criticized. In a speech Saturday night, for adopting a “big stick” policy toward European Allies. The ' invitation to the Whltle House was for the specific purpose of talking about Stevenson’s trip. Another meeting, for Stevenson tp T» Pair* Six) ' J Lenten Services At St. Mary's Church Services To Begin On Ash Wednesday Lenten services will begin at St Mary's Catholic church this week on Ash Wednesday. The distribution of ashes will take place after the Wednesday morning mass and following the services in the evening. : • j The Very Rev. Msgr. J. Jj Seimetz, pastor, will give tpe Wednesday evening sermon. The pastor l announced that beginning next week services will be held on Tuesday. The Way of the Cross will be made on Friday. The evening services begin at 7:30 o’clock.' Msgr. Seimetz will exchange pulpits with four Fort Wayne pastors during the Lqnten season. He will preach at St. Jude’s. St. Peter’s, St. Paul’s and St. Joseph’s churches. The pastors of these churihes will deliver sermons at St. Mary's each Tuesday evening. z - The pulpit exchange schedule and sermon subjects follows: * Feb. 24 —Very Rev. Msgr. Charles Girardoi, “Judgment.” March, 34-The Rev. Leo Armbruster. “Sin.” , March 10—Very Rev. Msgr. John F. Nadoiny, “Your Soul.” March 17—The Rev; Stanley ManoskV “National Disloyalty.” March 24 —Msgr. Seimetz, “Key to Whole Life.” March 31—Holy Week. Nichols^Funeral To Be Held Wednesday Last ritee will be held at 2 p.m. » Wednesday at the First Methodist church for Alva Nichols, former j Decatur businessman, who died last Friday at St. Cloud, Fla. Dr. Gerald Jones will officiate, and burial will be in the Catholic cemi stery instead of the Decatur cemi etery, as previously announced. I The body was brought to the Gillig i Doan funeral home today, where r fHpnds may call after 7 o’clock this evening. i > /

Abandon Hope For 46 Aboard Crashed Plane All Life Rafts Are * Found, No Trace Os Any Os Passengers MOBILE, Ala. (UP)—The last faint hope any of the 46 persons on. a National Airlines DC-6 that crashed into the Gulf might be found alive disappeared today asa.H the four life rafts the plane carried were accounted for. A preliminary investigation indicated the airliner may have been slammed into the heaving seas about 60 miles south of here Saturday night hy “unexpected tornadic conditions.” The plane carried four life rafts —three 20-man rafts and one for 10 men. The coast guard advised National 'AJrltnes today* that all have now been accounted , for. There had been the faintest of chances someone might have clung alive, to one of those rafts. As the search for more bodies proceeded. National announced efforts w4H be made to raise the wwwiMmmi Asms- .UbeMBwM. Seventeen bodies had been recovered. A search for more bodies and debris, focused M the crash site 12 miles off the Alabama coast. wa» intensified at dawn and extended over 60 square ini les of the choppy Gulf waters. The U. S. coast guard revealed a navy jet plane was believed to have plunged into the Gulf a short distance west of the airliner’s wreckage. Two coast guard cuttens and' two smaller patrol boats were joined >by pianos returning to the area at dawn for a combined I search. Three cutters had criss-crossed the area nightlong. Details of the reported jet crash were hot announced immediately. A Coast Guard spokesman said that many of the bodies recovered were so budly mangled he “believed the plane must have p-lu-nged i’with terrific impact" into the 15foot waves lashing the gulf at the 'time. T ! ’ The plane had gathered Rs passengers at Miami and Tampa. Many of thoee aboard were believed planning to visit thh New Orleans Mardi Gras. “Indicatioais are that unexpected tornadic conditione existed in weather encountered after this last routine report,” Kershaw said. All the bodies pulled aboard were transferred to the cutter Blackthorns, largest of the surface craft which had been crisscrossing the choppy crash area since dawn <Tara To Pace Five) Thomas Vail Dies Saturday Evening \ Funeral Services a Tuesday Afternoon . Hugh Thomas Vail, a resitjeiit of Decatur most of his life,, died - at 9:30 o’clock Saturday night at the Adams county memorial hospital following an Illness of three years of a heart ailment. 1 HU had been employed at the Fort Wayne General Electrip plant until ill health forced his. retirement. v ! ' ■ i , He was. born in Decatut Sept. lE\ 1890, a son of John W. and Christina B. Vail. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Christina Wicks, Os Decatur, and two brothers, Daniel R. Vail of Puerto Rico and Forrest E. Vail of North Webster. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the First Methodist church, the Rev. F. H. Willard officiating. Burial will be In the Decatur cemetery- Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home uhtll time of the services. The fatally has requested that flowers be omitted, but donations will be accepted in his mepioriam for the church building fund.

Rosenberg Execution Set Week Os March 9 'iv■li*'l “ • i ■ 4 ' Attorney Will Seek Stay Os Execution NEW YORK -UP — Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman today set the week of March 9 for the execution jat - Sing Sing prison of convicted atom spjes Julius and Ethel Rosjenberg. 1 United States marshal William A. Carroll, will go to the state prison Tuesday to arrange the exact, date fok* the electrocution. Executions, normally take place on a Thursday night at Sing Sing, but the first execution date set for the Rosenbergs did not fall on that day. Judge Kaufman turned down Friday a request by Emanuel H. Bloch, attorney for the condemned couple, to set the new date four to eight weeks after today. He tol l Bfoch “I think the time has come

for justice to proceed.” The Rosenbergs, convicted in March, of patssing this coru|i-t try’s atomic .secrets to Russig, originally had been scheduled to die in fßnig Sing prison’s electric chair 14. Judge Kaufman granted a stay of execution Jan, 5 so they might apply for 1 executive clemency. It was denied by H Prtesident last Wednesday. 1 With the setting of a new execn- ■ tion date, Bloch planned to go into r the U. s; circuit court of appeals tomorrow to seek another stay of execution, this time so he taay appeal to the U. S. supreme court for a new trial. I The supreme court already has turned down two appeals and other courts have denied four requests for further legal action. In addition Kaufman has turned down a petition for cotamutation of If the appellate court refuses Bloch's reqbeat for a stay, he still may apply to the supreme court for ih similar order. The Rosenbergs, who have been residents of Sing Sing prison’s death row almost two years, were visited Saturday by their tWo sons,' -Michael, IQ. and Robert, 5. The couple issued a statement : in which they'said they were “confident” President Eisenhower ’ would reverse his decision denying ■ them clemency. They claimed their conviction was a “fraud” and said < this was proved by “the deliberate i

concealment of Pope Pius’’ sentiments” from Mr. Eisenhower and former President Truman. City Finance Board Will Meet Tonight 1 | 1 r St ' ’ | Check Deposits Os City Departments The Decajtur board of finance will go through its bi-annual formality tonight at city hall, that of making official note of all the city’s depositories in all banks in which the city holds its money. I\he meeting is just a formality because the city does business . wiih only one bank, the First iState Bank in the city.' Normally, \with more than one bank holding the city’s monejy, an apportionment would be mg{de based on the assets of each of banks involved. As it is, the meeting tonight will, according to Mayor John Doan, probably be 10 minutes long with each department’s fund being read off and collectively matched against the total deposits at the bank. Those departments that will be checked and balanced tonight, are: The city of Decatur; electric utility bond fund; electric depreciation fund; electric utility construction account; electric meter deposit fund; water deposit fund; parking meter fund; firemen’s pension fund; pension fund; withholding tax fund; defense bond allotmenl|s; the Barrett law fund. The city councilmen ere members of the board of finance with Mayor Doan. They will hold their regular meeting Tuesday night at city hall.

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Go-Slow Plea By Eisenhower Ignored Today Measure Approved Despite Request By Pres, Eisenhower WASHINGTON, UP-H’he house ways and means committee ignored President Eisenhower’s goslow request today and voted to cut individual income taxes July 1. The vote Was 21 to 4i The cu>t, if it becomes law. would amount to about 5 percent for most taxpayers in this calendar year. An additional cut of about 5 percent would go into effect on Jan, 1, 1954. making the total reduction' about 10 pertent. Legislation providing for the tax cut was approved despite Mr;. Eis-

enboiwer’s statement to congress two weeks ago tho*t “until We can determine the extent to which expenditures can be reduced, it would* not be wiee to reduce ov.r revenues.” Speaker Joseph W. ( Martin. Jr., later said the -tax hutting bill would not be called up for action ea the floor until a balanced budget id eight. Eyen if the bMI pussds-the house in April or May, as Mafrtin believes is likely, She measure* still may nover get through the senate, which It would have to do before it could became law. Sen-. Robert A. TsftJ R-0.. and other senate Republican leaders are doubtful that congress will know before fall whether a balanced budget—their first goal—■ can be achieved. The measure approved by the house committee was sponsored by the chairman, Rep. Daniel A. Reed. R-N. Y. Reed* insisted that hie bill bq acted oh immediately ■and without any expression of views from or other adm inlet rat ion officials. Emphasizing that the government “cannot afford” to turn up with an unbalanced budget next year, Taft said in a radio interview that he “hopes” taxes can becbt earlier —he mentioned next Jan. I—but he said -there “very definitely” should be a s tax cut of at least 12 or 13 percent by mid-1954. ’ . ;

Reed’s committee held no hearings on the tax bill, omitting even the traditional etep of seeking the treasury department’s views. Thu®, the Eisenhower administration was never formally consulted on the measure, and did not take a public stand on it 'I However, President Eisenhower emphasized hi hie state of, the I union message that tax reduction will be | justified only after ron- • gross lies cut federal spending enough to shoW that the budget Is "under control." Reed’s ‘bill would reduce individual income taxes 10 to Id percent as of July>l, or a net .of about five percent for the full year 1953. It would move ahead 'by six months* a reduction now scheduled to take place next Jan* 1 under provisions of existing law. Reed wanted to make the income tax reduction coincide with expiration of the excess profits tax On corporations, now scheduled to die June 30. Some members of congress including Taft, have taken the position that it might be better to extend the excess profits tax. Taft recently has been talking If. he favors postponing both i the expiration of the excess profits tax and the present! y-sched- : uled Jan. 1 drop tn personal income taxes nutil mid-1954, INDIANA. WEATHER Partly cloudy to eloudy and much colder tonight, snow flurries northeast and extreme north. Tuesday mostly fair, i colder south. Low tonight 4-12 above north. 12-20 south. High Tuesday 18-28 north, 26-32 'i !