Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 49.

Ike Lunches With Southerners - I _ I ■ 'V -' Xi '■’■■*■* %*dno ■* «w mtafeL wx I ytb www , «Lsa.?S& \- "* ,*■ - .aRWR Vb .. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER poses in skious conversation with Gov. Allan Shivers'(left). (D), of Texas fend Gov. Janjjes F. Byrnes (E>), of South Carolina after lunching With a group pf state chief executives and congressional leaders at .the White Hoise. ■— : - ■- '——-L.|..- , Pupils Stage Youth Center ■ u. Drive Tonight •-.■•' \! ‘

. Promptly at 6 o'clock this evening. 30 teams Os Decatur -public and- Catholic high school\ students with | the fervor of crusaders will laijnQh their drive to “Save the'i Community Building.” The boy and girl students from 'both ■ high schools have been assigned territories in 30 zonds throughout the city. The teams - will be 'guided by Boy Scouts, the zoning plan being created by Steye Elverhart, scout commtssionj»r,.and used by the Scouts in city- , wide waste paper 1 drives. The- canvass of homes will be , made during the supper,hour and the ardent workers in the campaign to raise funds suffidTent to guarantee construction of the,pro* posed civic ahd youth center, hope to find "everylKidy at home.”' ' The high school groups answered their own question, “What rah we do to save the Community Building,” by deciding to do something effectively and immediately. . Their answer was given to J. Ward Calland,! a vice-presideiit of the Decatur Memorial Foundation, who appeared before the high school body and explained that the Foundation needed several thousand dollars to rpund out .the local commitment for The teenagers went to work and formed their organization in’/the two schools. In fiddition to this evening’s cjall at the homes/- all proceeds from a dance at the De- < atur high school following Saturday night’s basketball game will be donated to the The local campaign was laiyiche£ ten days ago to'raise a needed $6,730. Payment of pledges has r reduced this amount by, several thousand and ft is estimated fha,t 12,000 will put the fund bverUhe top/ In addition to the sl'>Ooo •Central Soya company will Contribute $75,000, giving the Foundation mor? than to start construction of the -building. ’ Interest iri the campaign reached a high pitch this week, with directors of the Foundation and ■enthusiastic workers calling on who pledged funds to make payment before March 1. One of these workers who contributed SSOO to the fund, safd, “I’ll leave a couple of $5 bills at the hotise for the high school [ teams. This campaign must be successful/for Decatur needs a .-Community and Youth Center.” A meeting of the Foundation directors and special chairmen will be held at 7:30 this evening at the Citizen* Telephone <xnn- , pany office, and check-tip- on payments will be made. \. TOVRNEY tickets ' Tickets for the Saturday sessions of the Decatur sectional tourney went on sale atthe four participating schools this morning. The f o ur schools shared the 1,871 tickets as follows: Monmouth, 520; Pleasant Mills, 414; Hartford 221. Unofficial reports at noon were that the tickets were fast disappearing, indicating the probability that there will be no tickets available at the gym tomorrow. /

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•’ • i Demands House Probers Recall Harvard Prof Ask Explanation Os Statement Tb Press ; Following Hearing t WASHINGTON, W -Bep. Rer- ~ nard W. (Pat) Kearney (R-N. Y.) demanded today that the house un-Americ.ah activities committee recall Prof. Wendell iE. Furry of Harvard to explain why he issued a press release denying he is a Communist. ’ Kearney noted tha| the .professor issued the statement immediately after he had refused to tell the committee under path whether he is or ever was a Communist. Furry contended at ds stormy committee session Thursday that it was none oh the committee’s busimess: he also claimed.'constitutional immunity against possible' Selfincrimination. . The physicist. whp worked on radar research during the war/said in his'press release that he defied the committee because of his “Strong feeling that the policy of interrogating persons on tjheir private beliefs and assocfatiops is utterly inconsistent with American traditions of freedom.” / I ! i ’ . “I want to assure! my friends and colleagues,” he said. “tha| I am not a member of <the Communist party ; that I have no personal knowledge as' to whether or not there is any Communist activity at Harvard or anywhere else.” 'Kearney, whq served as chairman during mbst off Thursday’s hearings, said Furry should be recalled “to tell the: committee that.” J .He speculated that | Furry' may have had “a change of heart” because author Granvillp Hicks followed him to the witness stand, and identified the professor as a member of a Communipt party cell at Harvard in the late 30’s. Paul H. Buck, Harvard University .provost, said Minty's case will be given “full and deliberate consideration” by university authorities.. "\ . vj|, ,•:'ip .- The committee meantime moved its investigation of Communist activities in the nation’s! schools behind closed doors. It (was understood that a number of other pres'ent or former college: professors Will be interrogated. -1 Kearney and Rep. Francis E. Walter (Pa.), the ranking committee Democrat, demanded that there be “no reprisals” against friendly witnesses at its hearings. '. / “ New Phone Directory Being Issued Here The 1953 directory 'of the Citizens Telephone' company, dated March 1, was being issued today. The directory is several pages larger than last year’s edition, due' to increased listings ®f patrons and telephone The directory serves Decatur. Berne, Bryant. Linn Grove. Monroe and Pleasant Mills! patrons of the local telephone exchange.

Warns Against Repudiation 01 Russian Pacts Dulles In Waning To Republican In On Pacts ' WASHINGTON, UP president Eisenhower’s ? resolutionjcondemning Soviet of free peoples appeared liketj*i today to sail ’through congress Without major alteration] ’)]■ ’ ‘ \ i (Republicans who had'oen clamoring for drastic changjo.' to turn the resolution into a virtual repudiation of the Yalta arid Potsdam Agreements, backed del Hri in the i|ace of a warning from 'secretary of state John Foster Dp ijes. \ Dulles told them i blunt iy that denouncing the wartime s gjreements made by Democratic | presidents Roosevelt and Truman^ might be good domestic politic!! but it Would be bad foreign wlicy. The house foreign allairs committee was .called into :ilosed session to begin “polishirifr up” the language of the resolution. Ateting chairman John M. Vonys (R-O.) predicted committee approval before this, weekend without any ‘‘•big change” in Mr.\ Eisenhower’s proposed wording. 1 ■ Senate Republican lewder .Robert A. Taft, Who backm thp administration in opposing oufright repudiation of the wartime pacts, indicated he would seri|; at least one revision pf the reffejution. It would be at making clear tjiat ,the resolution did constitute “reaffirmation” of| the con- . cessions made to Russiahat Yalta in 1945. Such a elapse proba&y would not be .partciularly objectionable t 6 the administration. ’|- Dulles told members senate foreign relations confthittee at a closed session late Thursday that the purpose of the (resolution 4sj to indict Russia for. I Violating the wartime and to assure people enslavedwipy Communism that the # ■Unitm States wants therm-toj be tree, ijh He warned that any attempt to inser language;criticizing*,the late President! Roosevelt for ’, making the Yalta agreement 4 Held stir up a partisan row and be; fan absolute • detriment to what [i! we are trying to do.” j ‘I —ri ■ . , BULLETIN i|| . V’ ' WASHINGTON, UP;#- The house foreign committee approved without, opposition today ; President^JEisenhower’s resolution to condemn Russian violations of ’biternational agreements. I; Miss Emma Wickey Dies Os Injuries' Young Adams County Lady Dies Thursday Miss Emma Wickey, -Z%: of Geneva route two; died lasilevening .at the Adams county iniemorial hospital, without regainMg consciousness following crinal injuries received in an o’to-train crash last Nov. 15. ■ jg| ’Miss Wk-key’s car wasi struck by a Baltimore & bhionMilroad freight train at a grade grossing two miles west of Mario (Center. Ohlo.\ She was taken tomhe Diefiance, Ohio hospital anir; moved to the local hospital last [idee. 29. Neurologists who examined her whten she was taken to fee Indiana University Center j! ißobert Long hospital, Indianapolh; found damage to her brain so gr 0t that she was destined to spend it he remainder'' of her life unconscious. Surviving are the parents. Mr. and Mrs. David D. WiclttigH five brothers, Joseph and ijeivi R. Wickey of R. R. 2, Beraft and daebb, Reuben and David,’Wickey Jr.,i at home, and five sistas, Mrs. Dan M. Schwartz, R. R. a. Geneva, and Katherine, Rebec<ir. Adel and Elizabeth Wickey, at ‘|jbme. Miss Wickey was a meijiber of the Old Order Amish church. The body was taken : to the Yager funeral home in Bejrike. Services will (be conducted at 1 p. tn. Saturday at the residence. ,' Bishop Samuel Hilty Burial will be in the cemetery, southeast oif Benhle. ’ U j —- ;I ’ | ' INDIANA WEATHER \ Considerable and colder tonight and Satt&clay. Snow flurries extreme H&rth. Lpw tonight 24 29 north,; *29-36 south. High Saturday ; north, 35-42 south. m 1 ’ I. \ . SiSE I: ' ■

Decjotur, Indiana, Friday, February 27, 1953.

Lower House Makes Cut Os Five Million Dollars In Record State Budget , I. f ■ ' *—

Carlson Says . Federal Budget Can Be Balanced Kansas Republican ] Says 8-13 Billion Cut Can Be Made Hi ;‘U ' • ' . • I \V|ASH'INGTON. (UP) — Sen. .Carlson said today that federal spending can be cut between nt«k|hg way for a balanced budget and TeUticed taxes this year. < The Kansas Republican, pnfe ;of Eisenhower’s closest advisers during the election campaign. made the claim in a speech prfeph’red for delivery in the senatf h . ■ ;Hik estimate ran ctpunfer eof glblotiniy reports this week that top adtnJiriistration officials now see litllefjiope of balancing the budget in fikx-al 1954. let alone this year CapUon. said firmly, however thht government spending h d s sluhlppd in the first months of TDfSiB. i With this; plus tjie ruthless drH’e|i;on waste, he said the goveriwnfejnt should operatle onNtar less thain i ; !i former President Truman prortfefed for this firsoall year and n< #|; • t?arj|Bon called for a $66,000,000,000 &ling on spending for the current fiscal year, ending June 30, for deeper budget cuts in thd following li2 months. Theo figures compare with Mr. Truman’s estimates of $74.600,000, < o<>O f 0 the current year and $78.600,00,00 for next year. on, a member of the senate] committee, said with*! this' kind tis program “it is my hope thata.wfe can bring a progressive tax reduction into effect in 1953.” Carbon told the senptp that fed-] eral spending was at an annual 0 $73,000,000,000 during the first silk months of the 1953 fiscal year ijpd then dropped to $G8,800,000106 in January. Mr. Eisenhower Mraiji inaugurated JuV 20“Dyei’ have a mandate to ignore the astronomical estimate of expend itp res bequeathea us by the! formeili administration. We lean diohajwpe that mandate and start excessive burden of taxation from the backs of the American people if we have tlje defer 1 “Ali sending ceiling for the current iiyor of not more than $66.000.00(000 and a budget of something less than that in fiscal 1954 is\.th|p answer.” ; Th|e .administration’s problem, howdveif, is to trim expenses arid et .triel'ijdame time find the cash ) to flndpce bold- new diplomatic IS m>rn To P”««- i

TftecUtetton ' Br -. o (By Rev. Ernest L. Cobbs, Mt. Tabor Methodist Church, Bobo) ;.': !• THE BURDEN- OF TOIL Ij /I *'.' i Gen. 3:17, 18 jt Was a dark day in the history of man when God said to A-d«mJ|| “CJursed is the' ground for. thy sake, in sorrow shaft thou eat oTit all the davs of thy life; .Thorns also and thistles shall it, bring .forth to thee?’ Truly thorns and thistles have sprung up in thU wtyrtd and man has tasted of sorrow and grief. Into every life romie-Sj isomewhat of sickness?, accident, pain, cold* hunger, disease, , and dfegth. Not bnly are these thbrns and thistles manifest in nature arid to the physical flesh of ipan, but they are manifest to Kis moral, and spiritual nature also. Because man is a creature of his environment he is more or less in, bondage to the thorns and thistles of this world. As the world appears evil to l|ini, so he becomes' evil. The Scripture says that, “the imagination of man's ts dvll from his youth continually." IBd-t it was not God’o intention-to destroy or forsake man by this ciijrse. even though his sin w<s worthy of immediate death, butlbather it was God’s love for map that brought’about this curse and trife probation period Os his life; even as God. said. “For thy I sake —>j. Paul in the epistle to the Bomans declares that, “The creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who subjected the same in Hope.” It was the hope of God that man because of this curse would seek him for forgiveness, strength, and blessing, and God has also promised, to those who will : 8 Him and trust Him, a new heaven and a new earth wherein righteousness shall dwell. This was probably :in the mind Q< Jesus Whenkhe said, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are hedvy laden, and I win give you rest." ■’ Seot Jesus for the removal of. the thorns and thistles of this What He does not remove He will help you to bear. ■ . . ’ . i ' :

U N. Session In Recess Jo Monday Vishinsky Reluctant To Answer Charges UNITED NATIONS! N. Y. UP foreign minister Andrei Yi. Vishipsky’s reluctance to -speak galled the Unhed Nationp\ Korean debate today and resulted in posh ponement of further meetings pntll Monday. f I ». ; Vishinsky did riot eVen show up l at Thursday afternoon’s rifeeting of 4fce general assembly’s political committee, where he had been expected to answer the challeng of W. S. representative Henry Cabot uodge Jr., to disprove that Russia is responsible for keeping the Koreap war going. J The foreign minister. Russian sources \said, was the speech in\whicri he eventually will repljr to'Lodge. ’ \ Observers speculated, however; that the veteran Moscow moptppjece probably was awaiting instructions from the Kremlin.] especially In view of President Eiseru power’s offer to meet with Russian premier Josef Stalin. Jron Curtain sources here we're Inclined to dismiss Mr. Eisenhower’s offer, as being too '.hamstrung with pre-conditions t|o result in a meeting, but they left fife''impression of‘talking wife uncertain authority. There has been no official public reaction , from Moscow to the offer, and indications were that no adyice had been received hete privately, either. Vishinsky has given no indication when he will answer Lodge’s challenge. And until 'pe speaks, noti more than one or two othei delegates were willing to take the rostrum. Committee chairman Joao Carlos Muniz of Brazil, was confronted with the problem of either taking up an item other than Korea or cancelling meetings for lack of speakers. He adjourned the 60-nation group Monday. Lodge served notice that \he would move on Monday to get Rome time limit of the debate, in au obvious effort to smoke out Vishinsky in the event -he still is hot ready to speak. i •' ■! . — t' 400 Auto License Plates Are Unsold At 11 a.m. today there still reinained( 400 people who had not bought their 1953 plates, said Mrs. Dale Death, nianager of fee local motor vehicle bureau, today. The deadline, Mrs. Death pointed out, is Closing time Saturday, 5:45 p.m, Th\e office is'located Second street. It is a misdemeanor to drive a .rar with license plates of the previous year after the deadline.

Dulles Denies His Policies Are Dictated Says No Outsider Is Dictating State Department Moves WASHINGTON UP — Secretary of state John Foster Dulle? said today in relation to congressional investigatwns of the state'department that its policies are not “being dictated’” by any outsider. “The responsibilities for the conduct of the state department fall squarely on my shoulders and I expect to exercise them in a just apd fair < manner,” Dulles said in a special statement at a news conference. Dulles also said: i\ 1. He would welcome any disclosures .resulting from congressional inquiries that would help to riiake the state department ; “more competent, loyal, and secure.” ' 2, He was prepared to defend whit he knew to be “sound and but he was not prepared “blandly to defend a situation Which was created undef my predecessors and which taken office with a mandate to ‘change.” " ] . Dulles was questioned about reports of poor morale in the state department steaming frorri the investigation of the departnient’s Voice of American program by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. The Wisconsin Republican said today morale of good Americans in fee department is at an all-time high and is low among only those who “have something to fear.” Dulles was asked whether ,he believed McCarthy was “encroaching” on the state department. He said he was not going to give any lessons to congress. He said, he agreed with President Eisenhower that congress has broad pQw^ rs investigate and they should 0 respected. Dulles .said he had no evidence state department morale is bad. Dulles said it would take approximately six months to reorganize the state department’s' vast persopnel mumberiing 42,000 people at home arid abroad- / “I frankly concede that the present months are months of difficulty, since it will necessarily take considerable time before the new administration, through ife own orderly processes, can correct the /Turn T«k P««re RlMBt? o — Mrs. Frank Gillig Is Taken By Death Funeral Services _ Monday Morning Mrs. Winnlfred P. Gillig, 66.. wife of Frank Gillig, of 115 Marshall street, died -'Thursday afternoon at a Richmond hospital. She had been in failing health for nearly two years, and seriously 'iH for the past month. She was born in <!hampaign, IM., March 2, 1886, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Keller, and was married in Chicago to Frank Gillig in 1915. Mrs. Gillig was a membej- of St. Mary’s Catholic church, trie Rosary society, Cathojic Ladies of Columibia. St. Vincent de Paul and Third Order of St. Francis. Surviving in addition to her husband are a sister, (Mrs. Nell Buck of Decatur, and a brother, Howard KeQler of Chicago, 111.. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a. m. Monday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. \J. Sfeimetz, officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was brought to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, where friends may ca|H after noon - Saturday. The Rosary society\ will meet at the funeral home at 7:30 p. m. Wmday. ' ‘ \ i

Slight living Cost Drop Is Reported Lower Meat Prices Bring Index Drop WASHINGTON. UP —The government today reported thp cost of livjng fell slightly in January sor 1 the second straight month because of skidding meat prices. The .bureau of labor statistics said its new consumers’ price 0 dex showed a two-tenths olf one percent decline in “'market basket’ prices between mid-December and rnid-January. Meat prices fetl 1.9 percent in the 30-day period. The decline in prices, combined with a slight drop-in December, put prices three-tenths, of one percent below the November record high. ' . . Thp burpau said January prices for all and services were pt the llowest level' since last June. Food prices dropped to the lowest point' since last March, while apparel prices fell to the lowest point in the past two years. The new index figure, published for the first time, wari 1.13.9 per-, cent of 1947-49 prices, \or 14 percent higher than average prices oring that feree-year period. The bureau, said all food prices . fell six-tenths of one percent. Lowj er prices for meat, poultry, and ( fish led the decline. Dairy products dropped on percent. Milk and butter prices dropped. The report did not reflect the gradual dropping of price controls. That wHI iproiiably be shown in the next report. The bureau saitjl retail food prices in the two weeks after Jan. 15 continued falling, with a full one percent drop. The wages of more than Lorio.) 000 CIO Auto Workers, had been due to be affected by this month's ’old” index. But old system was temporarily dropped and will not be assued again until April. A General Motors spokesman said its employes would have been given a one cent-an-hour cut under the '“old” index. ' HbWever. he said (he pay checks tTurm To Pn* e Klahn Vacation Church School Institute Associated Churches Sponsor Institute The Associated Churches of Decatur, through its vacation church school committee, will sponsor an institute March 5. in the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church.. The institute will be in the form of a workshop and is planned to bring specific help to directors, teachers and workers in the kindergarten,' primary, junior and junior hifh departments. \ For several years, churclt stehool leaders from 11 denominations In Indiana have organized into interdenominational teams to give specific help to vacation church, school workers in their planning for summer vacation schools. During the frist two weeks in March, theh teams will conduct 30 institutes in various centers throughout all pf Indiana. Decatur for the. second successive year is privil-, eged to hold an institute. An interdenominational team; of three women and tiwo men will conduct the local institute, which will begin at 9 o’clock next Thursday morning. The probable hours will 0 from 9 until 11 a.riv, and frpm 1 until 4 p.m. Teachers and leaders in the jo\cal church schools are invited to | attend even though they may not be able <o assist in the union vacation church, school, which will be feeld this spring from May 35-Jupe 5. All persons who plan to assist In the school are urged to be present frir the entire institute. The vacation church school committee, appointed by the Associat- 1 ed Churches of Decatur, is composed of Miss Glennys Roop. W. Guy Brown, the Rev. SamueLEhnerick and the Rev. William C. Feb | ler, chairman.

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Orders Across Board Cui In State Budget House Amendment \ Approved Cutting In All Departments INDIANAPOLIS, UP —The Indiana hduse today made a $5,142,000 across-the-board cut in the state budget for the next two years. The house approved an amendment forbidding each department to spend more than 97 percent of- its appropriations. Hpuse members voted to accept, the suggestion by Reps. Henry A., Kreft, R-Michigan City, and Bernard Swanson. R-Fort Wayne u to have three percent of all general fund appropriations set aside as an emergency fund. The fund could be used only if ) department, heads showed the state budget committee a pressing need for more money. The amendment does not affect dedicated funds, such as for education and.high ways purposes. It affects only $171,400.000 of the $607,000,000 budget for the period beginning next July 1. ’Swanson explained the amendment does, not actually take any money away from any department because proof of a legitimate need would enable the department to spend 100 percent of its appropriation. The horike also accepted an amendment wiping out an SB,OOO appropriation f6r the Indiana judicial council, thereby abolishing It. The house later adopted additional amendments cutting out a $17,000 appropriation for the “Indiana Yearbook.” $20,730 from the Indiana economic council; SBO,OOO from the department of commerce and public relations, and $168,720 from appropriations for state oil inspectors. ] \ Members rejected an amendment offered by Rep. Jesse L. Dickinsori. D-South Bend, to eliminate a $30,000 FEPC appropriation. and adopted pne adding $3,000 to print a legislative manual. ■ \ The amendments were part of fee house work on the, recofd--oeaking deficit-spending 1 budget. The budget bill came out of committee with amendments removing scarcely $1,000,000. far less than one percent of the total. Governor Craig had said the total shouldn’t be changed. The house met as a committee of the whole to consider the amendments hopeful of passing them quickly to the senate with only 10 days remaining in the 61day session. , Earlier, Craig acknowledged one political defeat and was apprehensive about the legislators’ treatment of his reorganisation bills. The lawmakers busied themselves with ' non-admlnistrative matters — money for cities And counties, an anti-ganibling bill delay. and a Korean veterans’ bonus referendum. Representatives hoped to get started leafing through the state’s biennial budget. \ Craig’s attitude was new. Heretofore, he hag expressed confidence about legisiative action on his proposals. But at a news con- ‘ Terence late Thursday, the governor admitted tough sledding and ‘hinted more may be in store. He was questioned about the senate’s 30-to-16 vote thrde days ago reversing his action in assuming control of the motor vehicles bureau from secretary of state Crawford Prirker. Newsmen asked if that was a “defeat.” “I, don't believe we’re exactly decorated with a victory,” he replied. “I don’t think it an accolade. commendation” On the prospect of his Yeorganizatirin bills becoming law, Craig said! “I have no more confidence of that than of a jury’s verdict. | To me. our case is good. I am confident the program wHI receive careful consideration.”