Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 26 February 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 48.

Dulles Reveals Little Faith In Russian Rulers States Eisenhower Parley With Stalin • Merely Conjecture . WASHINGTON UP — Secretary of state John Foster Duile| said today that ,any-meeting between President Eisenhower and Josef Stalin “i» entirely in the realm of conjecture.” • ft" [The secretary told the house foreign relations committee he personally does "not hav|? any great faith in the present risers <\f. Soviet Russia” or in anything they might promise. v A , Dulles went before the C|Qnifhittee to urge approval of PresiderkhEiserihower’s proposed resolution repudiating Soviet violations of fbVorld War II tioned him on possibilityiof an > Eisenhower —■ Stalin meeting and ’ on' the wisdom of making future agreements with the Russians. Dulles said Mr. Eisenh&wer’s , news conference remark Wednesday that he.would be willingho go half way to meet Stalin ■’Ml if it would do any.good"does raot reflect existence of any plan/'i "Nothing whatsoever has 7 been x set up,” he said. “It Is entirely in the realm of; conjecture.” 7 . Mr. Eisenhower himself ha® said a|ny’future agreements with Ifussia would have to be the self-enfiircing kind, based on International inspection, and Dulles Agreed, Dußes* said past based on Soviet promises were'-tolly. Any future agreements. he||said, "should be either on a barter basis — on the barrelhead.’ or should require that the Russians “perform /first for once let us carry oht the promises ? thus revefsihg"tpast procedure, f ' i. The secretary said that iff the* I’nited States makes it- clear it will not be "submissive in" thef|face. of violations” the Russians rijight "bte more seribusly inclined}! to-! ward any future obligations—haps might live up to them.”| Members of congress .had |cautioned President Eisenhowef, to demand tokens ®f Russian :jgood faith before any meeting withfetal- • in. . 1 ’ ' : 1 Mr. Eisenhower, who once ftpod with Stalin atop Lenin’s tom® in Moscow’s Red Square, electrified world chancelleries Wednesday by telling his news conference!that under certain conditions he Would go half way to a meeting with the Soviet cl\ief of state. 1 .Diplomatic authorities believed the next move, was up' to sjjalin, and that it could be a warm homeon. The Russian premier juste: two months ago said he whs “favorably" disposed toward such ai|.*'*btg \ two” session. If . These sources saw a long, and thorny road, however, to any!< possible Eisenhower — Stalin meeting. They foresaw weeks of preparatory work on an agenda, the actual points to be discussed. And !|here were strong suspicions thafj the Soviets might use the idea a propaganda booby-trap to split the Western coalition of free natrons: Dental Clinic Held U ■'.!•' 1 I'' Here On Wednesday Tri Kappa Sorority? Sponsor Os Clinic | The annual Tri Kappa free|dental clinic was held Wednesday . morning and afternoon and jit* is reported that oyer 950 youngsters from kindergarten to the ilixth grade in the city school and jfrom the first to the eighth grade-in the Decatur Catholic school received examinations. )- The Decatur dentists who donated their services free Ray' Stingely, Joe Mortis, ! spohn Spaulding and Harold DeVor. 1 . Ladies of Trt-Kappa who assisted inAthe examination, were, Mrs.rDick Holler, Mrs. Eva Braun, ;|Mrs. Frhncjs Dugan, Miss Jane Maddox. •Mrs. Robert Mutschler, Mrs. (Kenneth Runyon, Miss Edith Lankidau. iMrs. Guy Koos, Mrs. Colin Ffinlayson, chairman. j! As in the past, said a spokesman, the Children whq| are found to need dental care i| and whose families are in prohibiting circumstances. Tri-Kappa will pay for such care. Parents of al the children examined \ will re reive cards of the results.' | INDIANA WEATHER Fair an® somewhat colde n;tonight Friday cloudy and somewhat ©older north and central. Flair extreme south. night 28-32. High Friday raging from 30-35 extreme nqyth to 40-48 extreme south. ■ .I;

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Harvard Prof Declines To Answer Query f Refuses To Answer Regarding Link To Communist Pajty WASHINGTON, UP Wendell EJ Furry of .Harvard University refused to tell the house un-American committee today whether he is or ever has been a CQmmunisi party member. Furry’s refusal catAe shortly after Daniel Bootstin/ associate professor of history at Chicago University, said he' wias a Communist “for something I less than a year” In 1939. The un-Amprican activities committee js investigating Red influences in the nation's I colleges and has promised l not 40 coradact; a witch hunt. Furrjf, a 46-year-old; professor of physics', said the fiij&t ahd fifth amendments to ine; constitution protect, him againjst; giving any answer that might be self-incrim-inating. -ii i L ■ Furry, who worked on a radar research project fote the Massachusetts Institute of technology during World War 11. refused to answer almost every qhestibn referring to Comhiunism oif those grounds; '• ißep. Kit Clardy (R : Mich.) asked if he would answer ihe are-Uou-a-Communist question i if the committee granted him immunity frpnr ■possible prosecution. > “I don’t think this ior any other committee hap fthat adthcrity,’’ Furry replied. | ![ “Don’t lecture us. Just a|h'siw’ er the question,” Clardy snapped. Furry s’aid he would answ er if the “immunity were! bf o lajd edough.” ' ' ’ Ulardy wanted to know Ftirry was under indictment! or undsriinvestigation. “Not to my knowledge.” FurryA : Rep. W. (Pat) Kearney (R-N. Y.). who was presiding! shid Clardy was being “unfaii\” and s-hut off such further' questioning. a graduate of Oxford, Yale, and Harvard ? universities, said he joined a Communist party groqp at Harvard fn 1939. but 'dropped out in September of\that year. ; 1 He said,he broke with the party after, the HJtler-Sqjin pact because ot ftis "growing disgust with the way of thinking df party leaders.” said the pad demonstrated the “bankruptcy ! o|f the American SJotiet party.” \ The 39-year-old professor also testified that he hail previously been a member of • a “Marxist ktudy group” while attending Oxford in England as a Rhodes scholar. Cigarette Prices Increased In City The price of cigarettes went up today in Decatur, followin|g\the lifting of OPS controls yesterday. A? far as could be learned stores ' that formerly l sold popular brands at 21 cents per pack; boosted the price to 23 cents. Those,who charged 22 cents t}wo cents per pack, and in some casejs to 25 cents. Vending machines Had not been changed early this morning. The old price was 23 ceptka pack, the purchaser deposting a/quarter and getting \back two pennies with the pack. Yhis price may :go to 25 eents. dealers speculated.' o — 0 12 PAGES 1 I ! • j . \ ■ o o

Van Fleet Warns Os Fight For Freedom Says Korea Front Line Os Freedom SAN FRANCISCO — Gen. ■ James A. Van Fleet Widay will begin his “leisurely”. tri|| to Washington, where he will repeat his warning that if the Whited Nations lost Kored “the Paafic Ocean would become a Commimist highway.” k 1 ’ Ji; “If Korea is lost, Japa#> and the rest of Asia would fol suit,” the former Eighth battle commander said Wednefl Say. He warned ip his firlfte address since returning to v thj! United States after 22 months sj: chief of all U. N. ground forces ji Korea: “I want to make it < tear that this war is not merely I ipe U. S. helping to defend the Rji public of Korea against Communlsi -China. “ft Is the front line o!| l] freedom opposing a Russian - suppirted and Stalin - directed attack, a i|h ft Is a battleline which, if lost,! jbses far more than Korea.” ' ; He spoke at a 'civte lui it;h given in his honor shortly ass g he arrived from Honolulu a military trans port. \ 11 Van Fleet was accoirdi I a rousing hero’s welcome by Francisco in an official c|vie Welcome and ticker-fape parade! th}: pugh the downtown area. •] lb f The retiring four-star g tieral declined at a press confet following his lunch to discuss tactical questions ’’ fpvolving the Korean war. \ IL \ He reminded I that he had said in Tokyo F6b. jijthat he “certainly” felt that ttfji Eighth Army was capable “at this time” of “mounting an bffenilive that would break the presqfM stalemate\’ in Korea. ’ !»'' He was not expected t 4 go Into detail on his,ideas for effing the Korean war until he telfjlfies before Congressional armec| services committees in Washingtifr begin‘<Turn T» Pase Fi| Boyd Fuller Die: In Hollywood Hospital Brother-In-Law jpf Decatur Lady Dses Boyd H. Fuller, 64, founder and head of Craftsman Guild, and photograph specialists'jn Hollywood, Cal.', died Wednes lay evening in a Hollywood hq Ipital of complications following njijor surgery. He had undergone two operations in the last ten days|b Mr. Fuller was a : brotinr-in-law of Mrs. Charles E. Holfhouse of this city. He and Mrs. Fuser visited here with the Holtho«files and Mr. and Fred Smith;Bast November. Xfi Born in Twin Falls, lij|ho, Mr. Fuller was married to M||s Maud Shoaf in this city in November, 19$), at the C. J. Lutz qsidence. He was the inventor* <>u several camera devices and his i business specialized in cameras equipment. Recently the Ful|«fs built a hillside home at 2337 HJgh Oak Drive, Hollywood. Besides his widow hd iis survived by one daughter, Joseph Engbgrth of Hollywood: two sons, Robert, also of Holly Lt. f Richard T. Fuller of the ;4fmy air force, located at Wright Filild, Dayton, Ohio.- One sister, MrspStewart Taylor of Twin Falls, Idaho, also survives. ’•! Mrs. Holthousedeft this irfternoon for Hollywood. Her sister, Msr. Ethel Burger of lola, Kau'fiwill accompany her. Funeral arrangements J|dve not been completed. Burial be in Hollywood. Hi

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, February 26, 1953.

Plea Os Cities, Towns To Share In Revenue Is I ‘ . ■ ■. ■ . Handed Severe Setback

Price Boosts Follow Order To De-Control Cigarettes, Gas And Copper Price t Increases Follow if |ißy UNITED PRESS .! i. I ■ ’ P!ric£ increases on some brands of jptekrettes, copper and gasoline today followed hard on the heels of/ihe government’s newest round of pricte decontrol measures. . The ■ administration Wednesday annioufyeed the end of ceilings on, aluimitturn, some steel products, capper! cigarettes and everything in tlhe market basket except bread! coffee and beer. \ ; i.. Reynolds Tobacco Compatty, jrnaker of Camels and Cava.IJeiWfaaid it w*ould announce the exact ||mbunt of its price increases Tobacco Co,, another major Tfirm and of Lucky Strikes. Herbert Taretetons and Pall increased ' prices about one -cept a pack Wednesday. Wires inform|ng dealers of the hike were sent aqfoss the nation. •The,: cigarette fcriep incraase* Were! ig the price of wholesale lota of 1 .ono sold to jobbers and dealehk Thgjf Will undoubtedly be reflected in Vettel prjees across the counter. The lrest: of thei “big five” in — Chesterfields. Old Gdldls :and Philip Morris — said th^jt watch and wait before making any price and Fatimas, said that' being the leader in thecigarette industry; our attitude will have t 4 be ■wait-apd-see.” Meanwhile. Dun & Bradstreet report:ed4hat its wholesale food prtee indt'x ijidvanced for the ‘third straight week. But grocers contad.Ud ;in a nationwide survey insisted ifhey would hold food prices, on all'lbut money-losing "margin” Items, ito present levels. Tproinf‘the nation’s major copper producers reacted almost immediately to the end of confrols. \ ■ ' ' Kennecott Cqpper Corp., largest in thte country, imposed an immediate ; increase df three cents a pound on domestic copper—raising it to 2liM» cents a pound. Rtteljis Dodge Corp., second largest ! producer, raised the price of .ttietejnratal 'four cents a pound to 28%, ii THle Veiling had been 24% cerite. The - Vacuum Oil Co. at New Yfrrk joined west coast; oil companies in taking advantage last i week’s decontrol of gasoline prices. '? The increase, effective todayOniNew York state and New England, amounted to a half-cent "a gallon.!|i Prices on the west coast rose) mike than two cents recently. The jbun & Bradstreet index for Feb! 24; — which is based on the total pdice per pound of 31. Common foods, climbed to $6.21 cents compared with. $6.20 cents last I To P»»ge

1 ; " 1 r h (By; j ßev. William C. Feller, Evangelical and Reformed Church) ! THfc CROSS AND FORGIVENESS '' 7” • I ■■ j; “In whom (the Sori) we have our Redemption, the fp 1 ! forgiveness of sins.” Cd. 1:14. j Ip a dramatic way the Cross of Christ focuses our attention on tv{o great facts of the Christian Gospel: the fact of sin and the reality of forgiveness. Looking at Calvary we become aware of thej: awfulness of sin. which crucified the loveliest Mfe the world twte eker known, and we see evil met witlh an undying iove and 4evotfon. The cross assures us of the forgiveness of our sins. J 7|: Forgiveness ia never eisy.s Wlien a wrong has been done by one person to another, personal, relations are broken and friendship ils destroyed. To receive forgiveness there must be a recognition of tihe wrong, sincere sorrow because at it, and a determination tjo change one’s ways. After we have confessed our wrongs and determined to do right wd must accept the outstretched hand whiplte invites us back to fellowship and friendship. ;|'Ti|ie cross is God‘B invitation to return to Him. ahd also His pledge of restored fellowship if we/Sincerely repent and return to the Asj 1 other’s love. May we accept that invitation in faith.

Senate Bill Would Create Department Bil Vastly Changed ! From Craig Proposal iNpIANAPOLIS Up — A drasticadministration proposal tc create a state hqpartment of edfrections advanced t!o the floor of . the jntjiana senate Wednesday *niih{ with 1 a warning "much w*ork regains so be done on this bill.” I One Os the major changes proposed by the amendments was establishment of a three-man sripei;yjsjory board rather thah a single iiirectior as requested by Governor fcraigl The bill was reported out of coiymittiee without recommcndAj . I \ ‘ Seri. RiclUrid G. Ellis R-Kol:o---too, chairman of judiciary !“A” commit|tee, explained that eight of pine cpinmittee concurred iri sending out the measure Without recommendation. The other ine:mber was absent. ; Ellis said the only reason the Senate bill was reported out in its breserit form l was because “This was the last possible night . . .7 at i'thia late stage” that it could emhe ort of senate committee and have g chance of paissage. T Re |said the b|ll “seeks to unify functions of‘correctional and penal ms.” 4 *TOs !prlm*iples of this bill *re, Important,” Ellis said, "because theve its a need for a change in our ipsutt}tLmal system.” But* he -cautioned) “much work remains Ito be done 1 .k.” ; Tpe amended measure, which is gSarte <|f iCraig’s reorganization prograbi. calls for appointment df the foperVispry board by'the governor with itwo members of the same party holding thi? balance of power. Presumably the chairman wotfld be g nieiiibler of Craig’s) •"cabinet.’*' It| rilfo provides folr a separate garble) board for the three adult pendl institutions and a combined iriveinite pavdje board. Committee member!, believed the parole section the weakest of; the bill!. L ' ■ ' Ip other actions, the senate rejected; an administration leaders motion to amend Governor Craig’s speed lii lit bill from 65 to 70 miles f>er hour, and representatives votbd so iio estimate the Indiana public service conimission. NO TICKETS :■ • 1 | ' I I ' - ; : ’ —T ' Hugh J. sectional tourney manager, announced today that ! there will be no tickets J on shle at the gym for . 1 tonight s tourney session. All tickets for toj night were sold to the i four participating j schools.

U. H Awaiting Soviet Answer To Challenge Lodge Charges War Is Kept Going By t Russian Support \ UNITED NATION'S, N. Y„ UP —The United Nations waked today for Soviet, foreign minister Andrei Y. Vishins'ky to answer the American challenge to disprove that Russia's material resources are keying the Korean war goin'g. , i Vistiinsky announced in the general assembly's political committee tlhit he w’ould accept the challenge by Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 'new* chief American delegate. But he showed no alacrity in doing so. It was balrely possible vishinsky would make a last-minute decision to sipeak today. Whenever he floes speak, his challenge is to disprove these "10 fa|ts" put before the committee Wednesday by Lodge: 1. Russia .instigated the Korean aggression and maintained it with its aircraft, artillery, tanks and automatic weapons. ■ «. North Korean forces 7 took sanctuary beyond the Yalu river af|er the Inchon tending in 1950 and emerged almoat completely equipped with Soviet weapons. 3. The "constant and steady” flow of Russian equipment accounts for the increase of jthe enemy’s combat effectiveness during the past year. A 4. The Chinese Reds, who entered the .war with only light equipment, now* are fighting with heavy Russian equipment. . |5. Russian-made ' naval jmines hive been found in large number off the Korean coast. 6. j Russia has supplied the enemy) with MIG-15’s and other So-viet-made aircraft. | y 7. Communists recently have been using a new Russian plane, the IL-28. 8. The enemy has some 2,500 \ (Tnrw To Pace Kight) . >W ! Samuel U. Butler Dies Unexpectedly Prominent Decatur Man Dies Suddenly Samuel U. Butler, 84, prominent Decatur resident, a forriiev town-, ship trustee and city street commissioner, suddenly at 10:15 o’clock Wednesday at his home, 114 Sofith Eighth street. He had not been ill and hts death was entirely unexpected. Mr. Butley, a lifelong resident of Decatur, wss formerly a cement contractor, served as Washington township trustee, was city street commissioner during the term ot Mayor Forrest Elzey, and later was deputy 'Adams county road superintendaiit. He was horn in Adams couhty Apri| 9, 1868. a son of Jesse and Catharine Erhart-Butler and was married to Hester Stalter June 19. 1890. Mrs. Butter died Feb. 15, 1928. He was married April 19, 1930, to Mrs. Anna Malott, who survives. Mr Butter was a mepiber of the First Methodist church and the Masonic lodge of Decatur. [ Surviving in addition to his wife are two daughters, Mrs. Ross Tindall of Van Wert, 0., and Mrs. Joseph R.: Peterson of Terre Haute; two sons, Arthur Butler of Dechtur and ftalph Butler of Detroit; 17 grandchildren; 22 greatgrandchildren; and one rpther, Harry E. Butler of Decatur. Two sons, one daughter, six brothers and four sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Samuel Emerick officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetary. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Friday. 'A ' • 1-

.' ■ i •", i.- - Here Sunday -j Ju Bishop D. Stanley Coors, bishop of the Minnesota wiM be guest speaker at the Firsc MetthodisU church in ,) Decatur Sunday evening.\ Eisenhower Meets With State Leaders Discuss Federal, State Functions WASHINGTON. UT President Eisenhower tackled a problem today that has plagued other presidents and othe|r administrations for many years—a proper division of powders and functions between state and federal governments; Mr. EisenhoWer promised during his campaign last fall that, if he would give early attention to such subjects as overlapping taxes and federal intervention in areas that some state governments contend should be left in their hands. J* 7\ To carry out his campaign promise, the President called a 19 a.m, e.s.t. conference at the White House today of state gpvernors, Congressional leaders and key adjministration figures to talk over the problemIt appeared that their headaches would be many. Congressional committees, governors’ committeet}. and various other groups have agreed many times in the past 40 years that something should be done. But they have never been aide to agree on specific proposals. 7 v j.. L ’ Last year, a house ways and means subcommittee reported after a study of duplicating taxes that it is “very probable that no ■two states would completely agree as to what would be a proper allocation of taxes between the federal government and state b Q d local governments.” te)ne popular proposal which prefuanably was up for consideration is that the states yield to the federal government the exclusive right to levy incteme CSxea. and that the federal government get out of the excise-sales tax field. On the other side of the ledger, there have ’been suggestions that the federal government withdraw from the field of aid to the needy aged, leaving that exclusively to the states. Similar suggestions have been heard as far as federal education and agriculture aid is concerned. \ Federal aid to the states for such purposes has been running about $2,000,000,900 a year. Governors invited to today’s conference were Allan Shivers of Texas, chairman of the national governors’ conference; Alfred E. DrisI IT«1H T« PXt KiKhQ /A A’ Business Activity I Increases In State BLOOMINGTON, Ind., UP —* There was more business aetvilty in Indiana during January than for any month ot 1952, the Indiana University bureau of business research reported today; The January business index was up four percent, approaching the all-time high of March, 1951. \ Biggest gain, nearly 13 percent, was in the volume of building contract awards.

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Move To Force Bill To House Floor Beaten I Half Os Alcoholic i Beverage Tax Asked By Cities, Towns INDIANAPOLIIS, UP--The plea Os Hoosier cities? and towns for a “share the wealth” program by the state suffered a sharp setback: in the Indiana legislature todhy. The house defeated a move to blast out of committee a bill which would divert half the state alcoholic beverage tax to local communities on a population basis. The bill is ten house ways and means “A” comrtjittei. Rep. Jesse L. Dickinson. D-South Bend, moved to force it out. saying cities and towns have been given “many new burdens” but “no fi< nanciat help.” - < * Chairman Laurence D. Baker, R-Kendallvilte. of the committee, who also heads the state budget committee, said the ! \ committee had given “careful and fair” consideration to the measure. Baker said the coipmittee recognizes the needs of cities and towns but also the obligation to protect state finsriees. For two years, nicipal league and other local l government agencies have sought* a workable pfan to get tjhe state to share more taxes it collects from taxpayers in the local units. Otlier plans included sharing the state three-cerits-a-pack cigaret tax and using the gross income surtax after it had produced enough for the soldier bonus. / Meanwhile, the house passed 89 to 7 and sent to the senate a bill requiring the ilndiana public service commissidn to hold hearings on utility petitions in the areas • affected by the petitions. The hill originally called for hearings in counties affected. Tt was amended in committee to change “counties" to “areas’’ and require local hearings only if the utflities serve 15 counties or fewer. \ The rebuff came after the legislature challenged the federal government to keep its {hands off welfare matters and. as in 1951, offered again to forfeit $20,000,000 a year in federal I aid rather than abandon stale’s rights. Republican representatives in the Indiana house revised the Issue by voting down late Wednesday tvfo companion bills designed to put the state in Conformity with new federal socieity security regulations. i Consideration of the state's $606,250,000 biennial budget was postponed when Deniriierats and Republicans said copies of the budget were not distributed and they had no chance to: study the deficit-spending bills, j Printers worked overtime to -supply them with copies. The welfare issue was a continuation of a 1951 dispute which resulted. In a special session. Federal aid was lost temporarily when the stae passed a law ■ opening welfare records to the public. Aid was ' restored when congress changed that portion of the social security law. I ; Republicans charged states are being “intimidated” again by a federal rule that private old-ago home®, many operated by fraternal grows, must ba inspected. Rep. W. O. Hughes. R-Fort said non-compliance might mean loss of $100,009 per year for those homes or of the entire $20,000,009 "handout.” , “But we haven’t changed our minds,” Hughes said! “We refused to sell our liberties for $20,000.000 in '1951, and I refuse to * sell mine now for SIOO,OOO or $20,000,000.” f x The b«te placing Indiana in conformity —> allowing inspection ot the homes after July I—were defeated. 8443 and 80-14. Support for the measures came from Democrats who said, as they did in (Twra T* Page KNtet) 1 7’ . ■ k