Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 47.

Record State Budget Heads For Showdown House Committee* Completes Study Os Record-Budget INDIANAPOLIS. UP -&A monstrous budget “trimmed" $606.250,000 headed for a shovftjown in the Indiana house today; while stale .legislators broadened their attack on Governor The wayp and meanft cfrhmittee completed study of the'budget and made seven major The net result *as a reduction. scarcely one-tenth ol >bne per cient. Chairman Baker. R-Kendallvdlle. said the M budget will be reported out frjlay if amendments containing those; changes can be prepared|fe time. Late this morning. hou.f- majority Republicans met in to s'udy the budget was submitted to the house |feqr Cor amendment. Craig's prospects of Savaging ■ much victory from the diminished. The goverijiojt.iuas rebuffed on a new front —fe&iti’cs — when senators late Tuesdfrft voted GO-16 to deny him control jbyer the patronage-rich motor pifehicles bureau. s f The budget, biggest ta ftfete history, faced rising sentiment in both houses for some B€-rt of across-the-board cut. Many lawmakers criticized the«. • deficit spending it contains. |jf , Committee members it $1,800,000 and \added mcfe? .than •half that much. Their Itihanges provide: H 1. A S2OO Increase ln£seacher minimum salaries, paid .fry- ?locil School units, A $138,00000 appropriation for state support to schools was unchanged,. but the salary' boost "was allowed, by cutting from 97 to 91 percent tfee burden assumed by the stafeL ' The 91 percent ■formula has used in- previous years. 2. $750,000 more for equipping 1.600 rooms for patients And 400 for personnel at the Beatty Memorial hospital, Westville. The-cojn-mittee left to legislators fee issue of whether additional money ' . should be appropriated Ifrri’new mental health . was requested. W I 3. Pay raises of $lO pet- month for 590 state police ■cost $141,600. and of S2OO per^"ear x for t? 141 teachers -in state | $56,400. ~g: > 4. Additional $91,875 'fe state board of accounts to hiremore field examinees and iftnofe .to Indiana Deaf school ripfeet personnel error. i 5. Reductions of $1,50'1.000 from state welfare aid b«®afrse of ZT»ni Tn P’-arf « Assessing Work Io Start Next MondayJ Instructions Are Given At Meeting ,- • . • Adam® county, city tfed township < assessors met witl#; county -assessor Albert Harlow at the auditor's office tod a < <&r, instructions for the niontij fhd, a half personal property assessment that will begin March l.g $ ; The instructions on fts- _ sessment values of certain per- , sonal property cams frfrm the state board of tax commissioners and are as follows: II « . Work horses, S4O; rac|j ponses with records, $460; stallfepft and niares, $230; drivers and uwlers $144); .ponies, $80;. Aules $45; registered cows a|ri;|;huJliS, $240; good cows and common cows and bulls, s9.i- registered milk\cows, $230; gbod milk cows, T\sl4o; common milk Scows, | S9O; registered sheep. $!«;;• <oml mon sheep, sl6; goats (rjfrilfr > $9. , Registered brood sows £ri(Y pigs., $95; registered brood soffel S7O: registered male hogs, s6|;f= common. brood sows with $65: > common brood sows, $5Q| j gilts. $37.50; male hogs light chickens, per do|eg_ $6: heavy chickens, per dqjfefr $8; ducks, per dozen. $6; geejelheach $1; 1 turkeys, per dozen, $3; rabbits, peg jjozen, $7.50; chinchillas, each, fe'h Trustees of the townsfrlpi who will do the assessing wer® jwpsent rrarw P»o» RlKkft) ; k INDIANA WEATHtfij I Cloudy with rain tonight ending Thursday. A j little warmer tonight. Low feiilght 32-38 north; 32-42 southV;feigh Thursday 40-45 north; '£s-50 ’ south.- ri

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New Face At United Nations J ' i > \ t | -11 ■ >■ ■ {J \ 1J ■< i[l ; ' ! i®;.’ UNITED NATIONS secretary general Trygve Lie (right) iwbepts the credentials of Ambassador James J. Wadsworth, new Unljed States delegate to the U. N. Ambassador Wad.*wqrth joined t>ie “Eisenhower team'' at the opening of the current eigfrt-week iaession in New York. * ii , .. : wf -

Says Russian Aid For Reds Prolongs War Henry Cdbot Lodge Speaks At Opening Os U. N. Assembly UNITfcD NATIONS. N Y. Up _ The United States told the United Nations today “the wa|- in Korea would now be over” ’if the Chinese and Korean jßeds did not have “active aid” qroin Russia. V Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. in his dgbut SpeechTto the world organization, tdld the main political committee the U. S. will stand pat on the Communishrejected Korean compromise plan adopted overwhelmingly at the first half of the' session.' ‘ Indicating the U. S. has no pew proposal on |the Korean conflict, Lodge said: * “Failure to ehd the fighting in Korea is not due to any lack of \cleverness with words Here in the U. N. It jg due to itne frankly announced -desire of the Communists to continue the war.” As debate on the Korean, war resumed today, sentiment was developing folr 4 formal appeal to the ComYn\injst4 to exchange' wounded and sick prisoners of wdr. SUch a proposal already- has been mane to the in Korea on the military level by Gen. Mark W. Clark. U. N. commander-in-chief, last weekToday, it appeared the issue might' be the only nie|v development In the Korean debate, due to be resumed in the geheral assembly's main political coipmittee. \ The 60-uati<>ii political committee. meets |o decide dni the order of discussion for nine agenda left over, from the first part of the assembly's seventh annual session when It recessed :Icc. 22. Committee chairmap Joao Carlos Muniz of Brazil Hoped to set the work schedule this horning and go into \he Korean debate this aftefnoop. Hej planned twq sessions daih\. with a Iqtg meeting on Saturdays, b Greece decided againyi a planned njove for deferral < f the Korean debate to present demands that Russia and its re-, turn 3|;000 prisoners they still hold from the ! Greek Civil War. Some delegate® feared that ijtt ssia might have labelled the\ Gret k demand as a : move to put off is long as possible any further discussion on Korea, 'LI- i \ The United States iras under stood to have taken the position that a debate on the I Greek item would have brought o<ily .long Soviet speeches at best Hud resulted in a week 4r more of fruitless discussion. ; There remained only the possibility that jthe unpredictable \Rus-; i slans \night upset the Korean debate plans but Soviet fr reign min ister Andjrei Y. y has given np indication of such a move. General proposal for a i prisoner exchange was understood Jto be viewed favorab y by the British, but'a spokesman for that delegation denied any plan for formal resdlution along those lines. ■-l-il i L 3; i ► T - ' I'l Pl; ; i -I"'? * 7; I : Report Krueckeb srg Condition Improved Herman H. Krueckoberg, patient at the Lutheran Fort .Wayne, sat u>p this morning, hia wife stated, tte suffered a ruptured esophagus, which Seems to be mending and it may ®ot be necessary to undergo surgpry. I- \l I \ I

French Reservations May Be Acceptable ■ i Hi 1 Speed Agreenwnt On Europe Army PlahA \ ROME, Italy UP -k Foreign ministers of five wpstehr European countries agreed dondi|ionally today to accept French tiservations which for a time thr&atened to disrupt plans for six-nation European army.' - A committee of was named to re phrase tie French reservations in such a'pvay is to preserve the essential Fpfymch {goals and at the same time jjllay West German fears f and sti nicioiis, a conference source said.! I France demanded aciraptante of a series of protocols 4W reservations tp the army treaty. They were designed to preserve the integrity of the French Army «isd safeguard France agaiHßt domination by a re»armed Germany. A conference spokesman stiid a communique on the agisemeqt on the French protocols g jqld He issued tonight. | French foreign miniift ft Geprgos Bidault paved the way Hr aqcept-' ance when in a speefji he told. Germany and the other Countries— Italy, Belgium, The |jther ands and Luxembourg—sthat i|j fiance was sincere in w-anting to |wed ratification of the army trep|y and did not seek to? change it !j-msica|ly? As a result. inforih|hts jsaid, thq other ministers agrtA thtfr the French protocols wouldilipt require special ratification if jwere confined to interprets Ohe prmy pact without changing ifiiy basis. Bidault’s on t|e closing day of the two-day |bnfe|ence was described by a fellq*- minister as “a ray of light wich t has pushed aside the' cloud.! of pessimism over the European defense community project?’ If; ] Bidault assured his colleagues that the French governyfrent | will push for . early parliamentary Ratification of the army pipt oni the basis of today’s agreeme itt. With the threatened it frsis Lover the army agreement out of the way, delegates turned[fl to the French-German dispute- Ibver th«* Saar coal region,. Francdl waqts a solution of the future ofrithis rich little territory before aM ratifies the army pact. Bidafrfrf knd German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will confer here Thursday on the Saar issue. ■ . - — -H; Henry Koenemenn Is Taken By Death , I \ fl! Funeral Services Thursday Morning \ Funeral rites for Heni* Kceneniann, 72. will be conduced at the Rodenbeck funeral homdpn Fort Wayne at 10:30 a.m. ThuLday. the Rev. Edwin A. Nerfcer traficia Ing. Burial will be in cemetery. t ' A native ,of Adams county, Mr. Koenemann' moved to Foiftt Wiyne 40 years ago. He was of; the thfee founders of ,the Essay Dairy company in that city. death occurred Monday afternodk ' at[ his home, 1401 Kentucky - Survivors include his w|ie'; t|iree brothers, William of Efeagl|nd; Herman and Arthur of Kifedheim, and one sister, Mrs. Sopfrta Macke of Prfcble. Mr. Koenemann Was of St: Paul’s Lutheran chtjych apd a past president of the miik dealers association in Allen count!,

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, February 125, 1953.

Eisenhower Expresses Willingness To Meet Josef Stalin Half Way

Price Control Is Ended Today On Cigarels p’ (Veiling Prices I dijjaken Off Several j $ Other Items Today ! WASHINGTON (UP) — Prje ciuihtftbls ended today on cigaretk. c«rek|s.' tea and most other gr|k coftjn;i| products, copper, aluminum and iorpe steel products. ? A j Jefeontrol order tbo-k ceiling l»-.fcw off all\ grocery products eicept ftoftfee, bread and other bak|and beer. Prljei stabilizer Joseph Freehijl increases of at least ji c.entpA pack on cigarets, aboiit two cents !a pound on- rice, and at lea|t three cents a pound oh copper. | Hee estimated today’s woulhi leave about 11 percent <|f the iijtelms on the • governmentls cfrzt-iif-living index still under fujl prtk-diicontrols and about 28 per cent of the, Items on the government's wholesale price index sti|l undehi contilol. f 'W'as the fourth price control | action announced eiYuie President Eisenhower last monU) aMliahed wage and salary co|troils hn<l price controls on a large numbftr of other items including meat and furniture. It is part m th» president's promised "ordeftly*’ plrqcess of\ ending controls. VVagft/jprice control laws expire April 134. Mr. Eisenhower has he will i not seek an extension of the controls law or even stand-, bft authority, but has warned agpiriht gouging Consumers. ; jflfrfrftery. products today included jams, flour, ‘riefr cereals, macaroni, and spaghetti, yiackaged cookies and crackers, candy; chocolate and other cocop prddyj(ts, baking powder,, corn syftupj! fravoring extracts and te£ soups, vinegar, mustarq. A I ■ tfrebhil-l said therle may be some retail J price increases in cookieA. ertbekers, cooked cereals and candy, afrd; some price Cuts in/Otheft grocery items. ttedphopes” there will be rib jßfTwrw T« P«Ke Eiglirt

11 [ ; i:i .•! • ■ * ’ (By Rev. Dwight R. McCifedy, Church of God) FOREVER THE SAME f !'• I ] “The Prayer of skall teave the sick, and the| •! !■! I Lord shall raise them up.” James 5:15. ! 1! • ' i I' L ' ' a ■ J ' i i, InTime after time we bead Gospels tfrat tfhe afflicted were touched and restored bjr fee Master. Hundreds were brought to fejlma and in one or two places; in fee Bible, we are told that He healed them all. '.''■! 'l’riy to picture what must I have taken place. As hundreds \ cro Wiled about him, suddenly seer el was thrust into Hits presence aimari who thad been born blind. The Master lifts his eyes toward heafep and implores God to giye sight to this poor fellow. Then i tljie felracle happens: the gray curtain of 1 Mind-ness i» slowly lifted, apd- ne, who groped for years ifr darkness, sees perfectly. iDid such a thing happen? Os course it did. And We believe itl who is the same yqscer&ay and today and forever. TlhejH brought the palsied to him, and when he prayed they ceased tliieib; shaking, and their nerves and \ fttuaclps became normal and feilajtied. The deaf were made to hear. After a touch by the Maker’s hand, the qrippled ami infirm went leaping and praising !|| nfee Prayer of Faith still the sick. Watch as the man, B ■withered hand has been’restored, goes 'home to search out >ls. He’H fre 'back on the Job again tomorrow, and he hasn’t? a day’s wbges in a long, long time. Jarius' daughter given up ffrr dead,, but now touched by the Master’s hand, will be play-i ftfrth the other children again in the morning. And- had you Ihdard? The nobleman’s son is well; healed through the power of the Nazarene. Then there! was the! woman who merely touched the hbm of His garment and was miraculously brought, to recovery from 'a long-standing illness. > : \ I "And Jesus Christ is the same ‘(Yesterday and today and forevftr<! Hebrews 13:8. Do you Ueliqve that? I do. I believe that the prayer of faith still brings hewing to Che sick and the Lord t stilt raises them up. f 1 ! ! Jisu« Christ died for your healipg. Miracles are still wrought by the power of God. My friend, wherever you are and whatever yqfrr Affliction, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, cares. He loves you. Hft (feed for you, not only for fee salvation of your soul, but for yojir physical needs, also. Takq all to Him in Prayer. i If you feel urged to do so, write; to us, and we will agree with yon -Ja. iprayer. We have no power <tb heal and make well, but we wiß piray to God that your, health may toe restored and that He wfro feuChed; the multitudes in healing power many centuries ago may frome to touch you also and make you well. J ”i ' i'll ! ' t ‘ !

College Professor ■ Admits Being Red ; Prof. Robert Davis : Admits Connections i' '' '■ \ WASHINGTON UP Prof. Rob-, fert G. Davis of Smith College today admitted to the house un-Ameri--can activities committee, that he joined the Comniunftst ’party in 1937 while teaching at Harvard. Davis, English teacher at the Northampton, Maas., girls school, said he quit tiwo years later. He began -his testimony after ■chairman Harold /H. Velde R-111. said he could add “finnteasurably*’ to the committee's work. j ! Davis was the first witness called as the committee opened, a qon, troversial investigation of frommuriist influences in the nation's colleges. -■ \ He said he quit the Communist party when found members Mfere blindly following Soviet policies and were Vin a certain sense Soviet nationals.’’ 1 The hearing opened wife members sharply split over possible “persecution? of professors who flirted briefly' with Communism during their youth. » , Velde alluded to that in his opening statement, saying it is "quite obvious” that it often is necessary to call witnesses who no longer are rjembers of the party. • ! “Such witnesses." he said, “add immeasurably to the sum total pf knowledge of the character, extent and objects of Communist activities/’ jVelde reiterated the donimifree is not Investigating education!, and educational institutions as such, but is checking into “Communists and Communnist activities wherever it has substantial evidence of its existence.” {Two of four professors who testified at closed hearings last week were said to have told the comiriittee that they joined the Comniuniat party for a short time while undergraduates, but left wjhen they “found out what it was all about.” Rep. \ Francis . E. Walfer Pa., .the. committee’s ranking Democrat, said he had hoped the committee would not Subject to public questioning the ones who admitted (Turn To I’««e Elsht)

State Senate Passes Bill On Traffic Group • Bill Would Create Safety Commission At Craig's Request INDIANAPOLIS, UP -4The Indiana senate today passed and sent tp> the house a bill to create a tfeffia safety commission in line with a request by Governor Craig. The house approved on second reading a senate' bRI allowing l young adults t|o get “drinking licenses” as proof of' age when. buying intoxicants. i The senate vote on the traffic commission was 35 to 3. Earlier, the bill failed to pass, 18 to 20, apparently because it called for a $25,000 appropriation. \ The bill was amended to appropriate only $15,000 and passed on the strength of an appeal by Sen. John W. Van'Ness (R-Vai paraiso), wiho said: J A This is only going to cost the taxpayers $15,400. if that saves only on;e life, it’s worth it.” The “drinking license” originally would have! protected, tavern owners from responsibility in cases where minors buy intoxicants by misrepresenting their age. But Rep. Thomas C. HaUbrook (R-lndi-anapolls) offered an amendment, which was accepted, restoring to fee bill the same clause on tavern responsibility Us is in the present law. . ■ The bill allows youths 21 and older whose age might be questioned to giet identification cards on proof of age. The senate also heeded a plea by Van Ness that it recess this afternoon and meet tonight, the recess to be for daytime committee meetings oi Dills stalled ii| committee for lack of time to get them ofrt/ I J ' Von Ness said the senate is “confronted with an almost superhuman test in the closing hours of fee legislature.” Earlier, the senate adopted to the Hasbrook antigamlbling bill. The amendments would outlaw pinball rriachines and; exempt ftrearnal.r ? A exempt fraternal, religious, patriotic and charitable organizations from its provisions. Three other attempts to riddle the stiff garitfbling measure were rejected. Further action was delayed until Thursday when it will be called up'as a special order of business. Opfroqents of the amendment to (Tore Te Pa«e El«ht) 'lf - - . “H —— i Ross Harden Dies Lase Last Night Funeral Services 1 Friday Afternoon Ross Harden, 81, retired, died at 10:15 o’clock Tuesday night at the home of a son, Clyde. Decatur route 5, following a heart attack. A lifelong;! resident of Adams county, he\vas born in Union township Sept, p. 5; 1871, a son of William and Jane Burrell-Harden, apd was married to Nancy J. Harkless in 1896. Mrs. Harden died in 1939. Mr. Harden was a member of the Pleasant !Grove United Brethren in Christ church. ’’ Surviving are the son; two grandchildren; sift great-grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Leora Cassaday of Bluffton. A grandson, Fred Harden, was killed In action with the U. S. Army during World War 11. Four brothers and two sisters are also deceased. 1 | \ \ , Funeral services will be conducted, at 1 p.m, Friday at the Black funeral home and at 1:30 p.ifr. at the Pleasant Grove United Brethren ( in Christ church, the Rev. William Ensminger officiating. Burial! will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends , may call at the funeral home iafter 7 o'clock this evening. i < ■

Suicide ■ K 1 ■ -J Former WlecOnsin Republican Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Jr . 57, a Washington consultant since 1947, is dead in what coroner's officials recorded | up a suicide. His hodyl shot through the was found in tlie bathroom of his hairie in Washington by his wife, whom he had summoned from a luncheon. He had followed his famous father ipto the Senate, serving from 1925 to 1947. (lose associates blamed his. death on deS'pondency over recent ill health. Funeral Friday For Robert LaFolleile 111 Health Blamed Far Suicide Action Washington up — Former Senator Robert Marion LaFollette will be buried Friday at his home town of Madison. Wis. ’ “Young Bob” killed himself in his home.- here Tuesday with a pistol shot) 'in his head, 18 days affer his 58th birthday. 11l health was the family explanation of the suiiide. Casual and close friends, however, wondered about that. Bob business connections were gofrd and his income was ample. But he had spent his life! in politics, literally, until Jan. 3, 1947, When he surrendered his seat in the |Tnited States senate to |a newcoiher—Joseph R.} McCarthy: ' I McCarthy licked LaFollette in Wisconsin’s 19'46 Republican senatorial primary, and LaFollette took it hard. Business was a! new and strange field to the man who became the youngest member of the United States Senate in 1925 affer a career already rich in political experience. LaFollette Snlssed politics and I senate and the hard work to Which he had applied himself to becpnfe one of the real congressional experts on such complex subjects as taxation, tariffs and government finance. fee had a heart attack a few yeafs ago, and Recently was hospitalized again for a recurrence of the 'trouble. But not even his wife, who knew he had been despondent for jsome time, had any inkling of what he was to do Tuesday. ■- Mrs. LaFollette drove him to his office in the National Press Building in the morning, and then went to a Red Cross meeting. Shortly before noon, he -telephoned to ask that! she meet him at hdme as 1 soon as possible. She hurried there 1 and found him lying on the bathroom floor. Eftfept in Wisconsin, LaFollette 1 always was in the minority even when he was tagged a Republican as a senate member. He was son and namesake to the bittertongued- senior LaFollette who came to the house in 1885, served as governor of Wisconsin from 1900 to 1906 and thereafter, until his death. In 1925, was a member of the United States senate. When Bob, Senior, died in 1925, Bob* Junior, rwas elected to succeed him. He was re-elected in 1928! as a Republican bht won in (Twra

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President Is Agreeable To Meet Leaders Willing To Meet Any World Leader If Freedom Aided WASHINGTON UP Presb dent Eisenhower told a news conference todaly he would be willing to go half way to a meeting with Soviet Premier Josef Stalin or any other world leader certain conditions. The conditions wSei If he thought >such a meeting would fur- ‘ th'er the cause of world freedom, and if it would be consistent with what the American people expect of their chief executive. At his second news conference with reporters since taking office, Mr. Eisenhower also announced: 1. He has called a conference Thursday of state governors, house and senate Republican leaders and top administration figures to examine the proper division of functions between the states and federal government — particularly as relating to taxes and. social secur--1 lt >’- . I ’ 2. He agreed with budget direc- ’ tor Joseph M. Dodge it will be difficult to balance the federal bud- * get in fiscal 1954. S. The armed services will cut their qujota of doctors to be brought jinto uniform in the first three months of year from 1,800 to 1,200 because of the shortage of physicians in civilian practice. The chief executive devoted'most of Ms 30-minute conference with 203 reporters and photographers to answering He. counseled congress to go slow on changing the wording of the resolution through which he wants this government to repudiate any interpretation of wartime secret agreements which led Jto or at least acquiesce<| in the enslavement of certain nations. He expressed flat opposition to any suggestion the investigative power of Congress be limited, fepwever, he said epngress should exercise this investigative authority only after extensive consideration and with the aelf-restraint necessary to protect basic American liberties. . The possibility of a meeting with Stalin came up when reporters reminded the chief executive the Russian leader last December publicly expressed a willingness to meet ' with Mr. Eisenhower. The President was asked whether he thought anything could be accomplished at such a meeting and) whether he would be willing to go out of the country to meet Stalin. f He thought fpr a moment and \ said he would meet anybody anywhere if there were any chance X of accomplishing something f&r the cause of world freedom and if such a meeting would be in keeping with what the American pebple expected of their chief executive. H said he was not committing himself to go to any specific place. He volunteered he would not un- ; \ dertake any such conference without the full knowledge of this country's Allies. Asked whether he would have any faith in agreements he might reach with Soviet leaders, the President declined to answer directly. But he said he thought , the only workable method would be lo draft treaties that would be selfenforcing through such provisions as the right of inspection. Russian has long resisted the inspection idea, particularly in con- „ (T*n» We Peace KlaM«> 79 TICKETS Hugh J. Andrews, Decatur high school! principal and aectienill tourney manager, announced today that 79 tickets for tonighj’a session will be placed on sale at 6:30 o'clock at the Jefferson street entrance to the gym. They will be on sale only at this entrance. Price will be 60 cents.