Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 56, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1953 — Page 1

Vol. U. No. 56.

State School Aid Cut By Senate Group Aid Included Big Sum Earmarked To Raise Teacher Pay INDIANAPOLIS, UP—The Indiana ‘ senate finance committee shaved the biennial budget to $584,000,000 today by reducing state school hid by $19,000,006 including a biig sum earmarked for teacher salary hikes. r The three appropriations trills for the two-year period beginning next July 1 came to the senate floor with nearly four percient pf their proposals trimmed by house and senate (action. The senate met, as a cojnmittpe of the whole to vote on the finance committee's proposals and perhaps xnay make further reduction's. Committee members said they had cut th? biennial tuition fund distribution} which goes from the state to school units, from sl3Bp 000,000 to 9130,000,000 and eliminated an $11,000,000 appropriation by which the state’s 27,000 teachers were scheduled to get S2OO-a---year minimum raises. Approval, pf the reduced budget now only $3,000,000 higher than the 1951-53 budget and $23,000,000 'below the $607,000,000 proposed for next time, would place the burden of rafting teacher salaries > (On local schools through property taxes. The committee previously, had cut about $3,500,000 from the budget by reducing appropriations for salaries, operating expenses and j, construction funds in institutional and department budgets. * I News of the finance committee’s plans to rbmove the teacher salary hike item from the budget leaked out Friday and the statehouse was filled With teacher representatives j calling to protest dpd with messengers delivering hundreds of * telegrams from teachers. » 1 it was the legislature’s next'to ( last working day. , The principal business on' today’s schedule: 1. Senators tackled the S6OO,- 1 800-000-plus budget. ■ ", ’ 2. An attorney general’s opin- ' ion on whether an anti-gambling . bill is constitutional was due. 3. Representatives planned to suspend rules and approve creation of new health and penal departments.'Governor Craig’s only major reorganization bills stHl in the running. V ‘ Final day of the 1953 session Monday wfill be devoted to conference committee work, ironing out house-senate differences on approved bills. j A presidential preference pri-‘ mary, previously approved by'the senate, passed the house, 79-4. Friday night. Craig asked for it and no doubt will sign, > giving Hoosiers their first direct link to national political conventions in I Congressional district delegates to conventions would vote for the party presidential candidate winning the most primary votes in their i district, and delegates at larpe would abide by wishes of the state as a whole. They would be committed only on the first ball- ■ lot. /, “No group of politicians should be allowed to set themselves up as perfect judges of who should be the candidate,*’ said Rep. Joseph Klein. D-Gary.' “The voters shoul be permitted [to make their own mistakes.’’ Rep. Basil Lbrch. R-New Albany <Tarw Tn P««r Six) Fall Is Fatal To Decatur Man's Aunt •Mrs. Fielding Reynolds. 175, aunt of Roy Rnnyon of this city, died at six o’clock this morning at the Berne Nursing home. Mrs. .Reynolds! who had been in ill health for, several years, fell Wednesday and broke her hip. A daughter of Noah Runyon and Margaret Hoffman Runyon, Mrs. Reynolds was born in Hartford township March 3, 1878. She was married in 190,4 to Fielding \ Reynolds. i Survivors include the husband; a daughter, Mrs. Lewis Haines of Berne; a sister, Mrs. Ida Ralston. Eldorado. Kas., and three grandchildren. ’ . ' \ Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the Linn Grove Christian church r with Rev. Charles Locker and Rev. ; Kenneth Swan officiating. Burialj will be in the Six Mile cemetery; in Wells county. The body is at Yager funeral home in Berne where friends may call after 10 o’clock Sunday mornini-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Vishinsky Demoted. f \ Hi j • v; ANDREI VISH INSKI, his face a Sombre mask, slumps in his chair at the I’nited Nations, political committee where he delivered an eulogy to his dead leader. Joseph Stalin, and called for a minute of silence in his honor.. He had not at this time.: been informed of the shakeup in Russian higher echelods which found him demoted, and his place as Foreign Minister given to Vyacheslav Molotov.! rf— I— f —— S

New Rulers 01 Russians Show Unified Front ~ H O' Top Level !<f lashes Believed Likely To - Become Inevitable •LONDON, UP -j-i The new streamlined Soviet government of Premier Georgi M. Malenkov turn- : ed a unified , front i tql the West ) today. • . . , Observers believed, however, , that top ! level clashes- eventually would bring; changes, The Communist party newspaper Pi+avda in thq firftt 1 Officialand obviously inspired r comment on the new government plugged the unity-at-all-cQsts theme. It repeated the admission that the new government considers one of its main talks tijue j ‘’prevention of dissension and panic.”; - ! A conirhunique announcing Malenkovs appointment Friday night used a pimilar phrasei. | | ( The Pravda editorial said tl^at: 1. There will be no; changes IP ■ Stalin’s foreign! policy of “international cooperation.! and i development pf business relations with all countries.” 2. Russia will strengthen her, army and navy “by all means” — which presumably includes atomic weapons 3. Malenkov’s government• will follow faithfully |“the| great and clear program” ot Stalin in building Communism. ? 1 | ! Pravdt. said that the streain-! lining of the ruling body of the* powerful Commuriist party i — the. presidium from 36 [to 10' members was for “the prevention of any interruption in leading the ac; tivities cf state and party organs.” The st reamlining - also carried over into the government where several ministries were merged., The reorganitaliop gave Russia a "big four” — with Malenkov top pian in the quartet. / IJut, it appeared pertain that soon it will be a “pig two” — Malenkov and Lavrenjti Beria. his close friend and head pf the secret police. The pair gainep ehbrmous pow-| eps in thd\ changje. They are the leaders Os a group which; is against| anything) that wijuld provoke the West into war. f ! ( Malenkov as premier can enforce this policy — especially with the help of Beria. 1 | 'll h 1 Sources in Londfop said there can. be no, doubt the Soviets’ senior statesman. Vyacheslav■ Molotoy, suffered most crushing defeat of his career. He had l|een credited. by some observers With a good chance of becoming premier, hut instead becomes! foreigb minister under Malenkov. • * Appthqr of Stalin’s oldest friends,; Marshal Klementi Voroshilov was shifted off to the honorary function of president of the presidium of i the Supreme Soviet —- the so called "Soviet president’! who Is without 'power. [ -> : ? INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Light snow north portion tonight. A little warmer Sunday. Low tonight 12-20 north, 23-28 south. High Sunday 2»34 north to ne*r 50 extreme south. t 1. ' s ’ 'i- ! - ■! “t' ■ f '• i

— y p- — Anniversary Os Girl Scouting March 12 Observance Planned By Decatur Scouts The 19 registered Girl Scout troops of Decatur will join with 1,900,000 sister Scouts throughout Jhe nation on March 12 to celebrate the +1 st anniversary of Girl Scouting, it was affirmed this week by local Girl Scout adult leader! Mrs. T. Q Smith. “The late Juliette Gordon Low organized cthe first Giri Scout troop \on March 12, in Savannah, Ga„ and founded what has become a nation-wide organization spreading out over state, territory, and United States possession,” said Mrs. Smith: V Out of every 10 girls in the country, declared Mrs. Smith, one can be counted in the ranks of the Girl Scout establishment, and for every three Gir) Scouts there is at leats one adult leader, testified Mrs. Smith. “The \iGirl Scouts of employ more than 1,500 women in full-time professional jobs in all parts of the country, with membership open to all girls and adults of every race, creed and national heritage.” Mrs. Smith stated the\Girl Scout 41st birthday celebration will be held in Decatur next Thursday, March 12, at 7:!30 tpjm, at the Lincoln school auditorium. The local president of the Girl Scouts is inviting all (Girl Scouts and their families to attend in the memory of the founder of Girl Scouting, Juliette Low. The chairman of this party will be Mrs. Harold Glazer, who will receive cooperation by Girl Scout leaders and thoir charges. The program is listed as follows: Color Guard, Troop 3—under the direction of Mrs. Joseph Thompson and Mrs. Robert Smith. < (Piano music throughout the program* is by Mrs. Max Spencer.) Orchestral number, Troop 7 — under the direction of Mrs) R. C. Hersh. ” . 1 \ “Be a Clown” Troop 4 — under the direction of Mrs. Watson Maddox and Mrs. JHarold Hoffman. Accordion and piano selections, Troop 17 —by (Miss Jane Bedwell and Miss Gloria Wall. Trumpet duet, Troop 17 —by Miss Cheryl Ashbapcher and Miss Brenda Summers. \, ( ‘The World Pin,’ Troop 13 — under the direction of Mrs. Lowell Harper. '\. i “I’s Wishing,!” Trpop 17 — under the direction of Mrs. Burdette Custer and Mrs. Vern<j>n Custer.\ For the /inale the entire Browm ie troop will render, “Wishing Will Make It So.” Girl Scout Week is from March 9-14 and to coipmemorate the event, Brownie' troops will decorate the windows of Kohne’s drug store and Gerber’s market with suitable displays. ? Brownie Troop 18 will decorate the drug store window with the assistance of Mrs. Vivian Powell, Mrs. Edward Wert and Mrs. Doyle Collier. \'h I Brownie Tropo 10 will decorate Gerber’s window with an assist by Mrs. Zane Musser and Mrs. Olive Harmon. Public relations assistance has been lent by Girt Scout adult leader Mrs. Roy Kai- ' ver. ■ i. Noon Edition

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New Russian Hierarchy Takes Over Leadership As Stalin Rites Planned ♦

Allied Troops Repulse Bitter Red Assaults Outnumbered Band ? Os Americans In Victory Over Reds SEdUL, Korea ur — American’ and South Korean troops drovd back savage Chinese Cornmunisi attacks on the Western Front early ! today despite intepse Red mortm| and artillery fire. A 9mall, badly outnumbered, band df Americans heroically slug-, ged itfj out at close quarters witn a reinforced company of 200 screaming Chinese bent on pulling a sneak attack on U. S. held Porkchop Mill. | The]! drove the Reds back in a halt hqur of fighting and then stood up nnjier a two hour mortar and artillery, barrage hurled against U. N. positions. Southwest of Kelly Hill. ROK a forward position killed ibr wounded an estimated 95 Communists in an hour-long fight abdUt midnight, blit the Reds came back fbmr hours later.. Again they weiw qriven off and with 11 casualties. , Red'big guns hurled more than' 2,000 rounds at XL N. positions on Old Baldy and Porkchop Hills,, guarding the traditional western ■ Invasion route to Seoul, for 5% hours Mn a “softening up’’ *qperh’tlon. ®ut the IT. N. patrol prowlin'* Noi Man’s Land then held off a Red aSsault force for 30 minutes until I Allied artillery could be brought in to smash the attack. The i badly outnumbered patrol had barely climbed from Its trenches whfeh it met the Chinese face to fac< t were right there in, front qf dB HWpen we climbed out of the trenches,” said Sgt. Robert L. Whit, man, 21, of Warrenton, Va. started yelling and shoot? ing asjsoon as they spotted us.” - One small U, S. support element climbed out of an outpost trench near! tfprkchop Hill. Chinese, hiding orily a few feet away in the dark, fiddled tfce advancing Amef T icatts with grenades and burp guns, United} Press correspondent Al Kass reported. 14 the air meanwhile night-flying American B-29’s roared through heavy'clouds and Red anti-aircraft fire tef, drop more than a third of. a million pounds of bombs into a 250-scite Communist supply center at Onjbhg, northwest of the Chongchoii ftiyer mouth. , TMe;alr force said 125 buildings, 70 buhkers and numerous revetments J housing Red supplies and trodpsjiwere in the area. Rail! and fog hampered Allied air operations elsewhere. \ The; fifth air force reported- a slow week in Korean air operations. Allied pilots made only three I .11 '(Tara To Pare Four)

\'. ■ k (Rev. H. J. Welty, Decatur'Missionary Church) WRETCHED IN BODY: 1 | ' 1 • ' ' *, • . O wretched man that I am!- who shall deliver mb from the body of this death? Rom. 7:24. ' I Many people have asked thia same question overand over and have ended with a mere question mark. They have not been able to go on and find the answer to their* question. Many will confess the wretchedness of the person because of conditions existing. They delight after righteousness and wish to dp right but find that sin Is present |wfth them Ao defeat them in their desires. They know what is right and expected Os them from God. but have not found \but how to accomplish the task. In despair they cry out, I “Who shall deliver me from the body of this death.” Inhere is an answer to Ahis Paul has found the secret and passes it on to us. He declares that it is through Jesus Christ our Lord. In Hom. si3. 4 he says the atoning work of Christ is so effective that the righteousness of thei law is able, to be fulfilled in us who walk npt, after the flesh but after the Spirit. rYes, Christ is the One who will free you from the bondage of yonr sin and enable ydu to live a godly and righteous life before » ta - ■ - I ' If’ V I ’■ , • ’■ V

-fr- ; Van Fleet Meets With Eisenhower Discuss Shortage Os Ammunition /WASHINGTON UP — President 3senhower got a chance; today to t a > personal report on Gen. James A. Van Fleet’s views about ammunition shortages in Korea. \i < Although the date was made before Van Fleet gave congress his Startling report oh serious ammunition shortages, it appeared likely the rqatter would be discussed. The shortage of ammunition supnlies was one of the matters that qbneerned Mr. Eisenhower most he Korea as presi-dent-elect last December. , Van Fleet told congressmen in a series of hearings this week that there were serious ammunition shortages all the time he. served ih Korea. But defense secretary Charles E. Wilson assured the senate arm-ed-services committee Friday night therfc is enough ammunition in the Far East to repel any attack the Cdmpiunists might mount. W|lson promised to \ get all the Pacts and present them to the committee. He is scheduled to testify before the committee Tuesday with army secretary Robert frj Stevens , and Gen.. J. Lawton Colling, army chief of staff. T ', A second senate panel heard Van Fleet Friday afternoon, then began Its own investigation., Chairman ( Homier Ferguson R-Mich. said his senate defense appropriations subcommittee is interested in why shortages developed when funds were avaiilablh. Sen. Burnet R. 'Maybank D-S. C. commented that the “deplorable” situation developed although congress had not refused to appropriate Ig. nickel” that was' needed for ammunition procurement, Senators and house members alike were upset by the fact that Van Fleet’s report of serious Ammunition shortages did "not square With reports on the subject recently received from the Pentagon. ~ Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey D(Tnrn To Paare Four) \ . •l\ Indiana Democrats To Hear Monroney \ ’ INDIANAPOLIS. (UP)—Sen. A. S.' Monroney of Oklahoma will speak) at the annual JeffersonJacksdn Day dinner foi* Indiana 'Democrats April 25, John K. Jennings, treasurer of the party’s state committee and chairman for the dinner announced tpday. Three Local Men In A Quarter-Century Club t Three Decatur men are listed as new metnliers in the G. E. 'Quarter-Century club. Employed) at the Decatur General Electric ;pla ( nt they are, Fi;ank E. Bqhnke, Lawrence E. r ßeal and Jerome Coffee. Their pictures appeared in \this week’s issue of the G. E. News. \ •

Predict New I■ V ■ Purges After Stalin Funeral ■ j 1 American Officials See Ruthless Moves By Malenkov Regime WASHINGTON. UP’— American officials predicted (today that the nlw leaders in th l © Kremlin wijl movq quickly after Stalina’s funeral to(, purge Soviet and satellite leaders who might threaten their newly won power. . These officials feel there also is a slight} possibility of a falling-, out between Premier Georgia M. Malenkov and his rivals that could shake Russia and Communist world to its foundations. Authorities pointed , out that Malenkov,! as ’Staling “shadow” over the years, know? all the techniques: for ruthlessly stamping qut opposition with guns, prison cells and slave labor camps. "They will have to clean house; again, and it’s anybody’s guess where Itj, Will start and stop.” one official saiid. \ - I News that the Soviet leaders had been chosen a mere 20 hour* after Stalin died earn* aa a surprise to (his government. The White and state department declined comment. But officials and ! congressmen generally agreed the implication was that Russian cold war policies would continue id full force, if not increased. The Soviet reorganization was regarded as a Kremlin effort to present a Solid front to the. free and Commiinist worlds as a warning against action aimed at (capitalizing onj Stalin's death. And the selection of Malenkov as the top man indicated, officials said, that the Soviets hoped to avert frictions fh(at might have developed out of a sharing of top power, between several men. > Little is known here of (Malenkov that would reflect the path of his leadership in world, affairs. Some authorities believed it possible he will follow a “harder” attitude toward the'west. They said he mighty tie less cautious than (Turpi T« Page Six) West German Court Clears Pad's Path Way Is Cleared For European Army Pact BONN, Germany (UP) — West (highest epurt cleared the way today for swift ratiflca tion of tpe Bonn peace treaty and the European army pact which put 500.000 Genhans under arms. J. g | ' The Karlsruhe court refused to rule on the constitutionality of the pacts in a decision which thwarted Socialist opposition efforts to delay or defeat ratification.\ ' 1 The Socialists had sought a ruling Parliament must ratiitjf the treaties by a two-thirds instead of a simple majority. They said a two-thirds vote was necessary under the constitution. Such a. vote would have meant automatic defeat for German rearmament, since Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s government coalition doe? not command a twothirds majority in either house of parliament > The lower house Bundestag Is scheduled to hold the third 7 and final reading of the ratification bills (March 19 and 20 and there is little doubt now they will be approved by a comfortable majority. They -passed on second reading by a 50-yote majority. There was still some doubt however, that the measure would get through the upper house where anti-rearmimenr> sentiments i? stronger than in the lower cham- - $

'’i-•• ' 1 • h A Gromyko Replaces Vishinsky Al U. N. Vishinsky Enroute Home For Parleys UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP -r Grim and tight-lipped, Andrei A. Gromyko, the original Soviet “no" man, arrived today to assume command of Russia's United Nationls team. 1 Gromyko. flew in posthaste to Replace Andrei Y. Vishinsky, demoted from the post of foreign minister to that of U. N. chief delegate, Vishinsky sailed for home Friday to cpnsult with the new Kremlin administration. Russia was scheduled to speak on Korea in the general assembly’s nva i n political committee around noon today and it was expected Gromyko would be on hand to restate, the Soviet policy on Korea. * Gromkyo refused, however, to say whether hd intended 1 ! to speak today. > ( “I am not familiar with the situhe snapped. But the fact he drove to the ■ Russians’ Park Avenue headqarters instead of driving to the Glen Cove. Long Island, mansion suggested that the bulbous-nosed Russian , would turn up at the IT. N. during the day. Forty police and a dozen Russian diplomats awaited Gromyko at the airport in 25-degree weather as the plane from London landed almost three hours late. Gromyko was accompanied by Vladimir Lavrov, first secretary of the Soviet embassy in London. ’ Poland. India/ Russia, Honduras and the United States were on the speaker’s list in that order- for the addreviatbd Saturday session. If Russia cancels out today, it was likely that the debate would go over until Monday with the prospect of a head on clash between Gromyko and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., the new US. chief delegate. The return of demoted Soviet foreign minister Andrei Y*. Vishinsky to Moscow to be (briefed by (Tarn Ta Page Four) . , ■ - -- Taft Favors Firing Os More Democrats Hits At Democrats y In Service WASHINGTON UP — Senate GOP leader Robert A. Taft hinted today he believes Republicans should go farther than they have to oust Democratic holdovers from key government jobs. Wfaft stamped > J’very good’’ on President lEisehhower’s plan to eliminate several hundred Democrats holding government posts blanketed under the civil service system by orders of former President Truman. But in talking ?vlth newsmen, the Ohio senator suggested something a bit more extensive. “It seems obvious to me,” Taft said, “that a man running a government activity must have his own people in high office; every member of the cabinet has the problem and so have division heads. "The President’s contemplated order doesn’t even raise the question of civil service. But I’m not even promising: to maintain the civil service system intact.” Acting defense mobilizer Arthur Flemming, going farther than the President’s directive, late Friday called on all Democratic holdovers tn key posts to submit their resignations. He especially suggested the with- ( drawal pf any federal worker who has become ,“so attached intellectually and emotionally to a policy of the last administration that he would be stultifying himsel! or injuring the country" if he remained. . Mr. Eisenhower’s plan to remove policy-making jobs from the clvu service system didn’t draw much Democratic tire. But what had some senators concerned wa» To PW St* >

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Malenkov New Strong Man Os Soviet Russia Thousands Stream Past Stalin Bier; 1 Funeral On Monday ( MOSCOW, UP — Georgi M. Malenkov, 51, Premier Josef Stalin’s peir, assuriied supreme leadership today of the new streamlined Soviet government and Communist party. I VI / , The new hierarchy took dver as thousand? of persons, ranging from bemedalled marshals of the Red army to factory workers streamed past the bier of Stalin, died Thursday. A mammoth state funeral will te held for the 73-year old Soviet leader Monday at noon. A pan- , theon will be 'built in Moscow to house the sarcophagi of Stalin and V. I. Lenin. Stalin’s body lay in state on a i bed of flowers and wreaths. The Hall of Columns in/ the House of i Unions was kept open all night . and by this morning It was estimi ated 1,000.000 .persons had shuffl--5 ed silently past the body of their dead leader. i The government appeared con- ? , Btderably fortlfM by the inc In- > sion in the council of ministers of • some oC Stalin’s oldest collaborators such as Lavrenti P. Beria, Vyacheslav M. < Molotov, Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin and Lazar (Kaganovich. These men take over tho actual management of Soviet departments of internal. external and military affairs wherein they are the most experienced in the p. S. S. R. The supreme leadership of the Communist parly was transferred from the \large presidium, established at the party congress last October and which numbered 25 delegates, to a small body made up of virtually all of Stalin's old collaborator*. The new premier’s righthand tnen within th4 government are Beria. Mdlotov, Bulganin and Kagonovich—named in that order in the announcement—with the titles \ of “first deputy premiers.” Foreign observers expected an especially vigorous foreign policy under Molotov. They saw special significance in the emphasis Malenkov put on the United Nations, by appointing former foreign minister Andrei Y.> Vishinsky as the permanent head of the Soviet delegation. VishinskyUs expected to spend most of his time in New York while Jacob Malik, one time Soviet U. N. delegate becomes .Molotov’s righthand (nan in the foreign ministry. ) Malenkov was trained exclusively under Stalin. And since Stalin's old collaborators were included in the new government foreign observers believed there would be tittle change in domestic or foreign policy—at least’ in the near future. The supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union will meet, in the Kremlin March 14 to ratUy the governmental reorganization. Stalin’s funerai was expected to be one of the moat lavish ever |ield in the Sovi»t Union. Details probably will be announced shortly by the special committee ot government and party leaders. . i A decree said that after the “pantheon is built the sarcophagi containing the bodies of Lenin and Stalin, as well gs the remains of outstanding leaders of the. Communist party and Soviet state buried near the Kremlin wall, are to be transferred to it” Almost every man, woman and. child of Moscow’s 5,000,000 population are expected to view Stalin’s body. j ’ BULLETIN } INDIANAPOLIS UP — The Haabeook ant|-gamt>llng bill, ’ (paseed by the Indiana leq 1 sinturn, is unconetftutibnal, attorney general Edwin K. Steers Mid today In an official oplnlbn. /(( ’ ' ■ - P.. 1