Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 57, Decatur, Adams County, 9 March 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 57.

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Funeral Rises Are Held For Josef Stalin \ Premier Malenkov Says Soviet Russia - Seeks World Peace MOSCOW UP — Russia’s new premier, Georgi M. ifalenkqv. speaking at the funeral of Josef Stalin, said today the Soviets Wanted to collaborate with the Western ■world but would keep their armed forces strong. , Stalin was interred exactly at 4 a.rti. e.S.t., in the Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square—which .now ; Jias been„renamed the “Mausoleum i of Lenin and Stalin.” . t Speaking from the rostrum ,of the Mausoleum where Stalin used to review Red army troops,, Mklenkov told the thousands assembled lor the last rites for the Soviet leader: ’ “Our sacred duty is to strengthen by every means the mighty So viet armed forces. We must keep them in a state of fighting preparedness for crushing rebuff to any attack of the enemy.” • < Malenkov, minister of interior and security Lavrenti Beria and foreign minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov eulogized Stalin. Malenkov used the funeral tribute to Stalin to make his first: major foreign and dpmestic policy statement. i . - “Under the direcq leadership of comrade Stalin the Soviet army was created b and strengthened,” Malenkov said. ' Under Stalin, the premier said, “a mighty camp of peace” was set iip---including Chink, .Poland, \ Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, \ Hungary, Romania, Albania, the I German Democratic Republic and the Mongolian People’s Republic. x 'Malenkov also paid tribute to . the Communists of North Korea and in French Indo-China. “In a stubborn battle the heroic Korean people are defending. the independence of their motherland,” he said. “A courageous fight also is being waged for freedom anil national independence by the people of Viet Nam. y “The Soviet Union protebti peace, is against war, and i s Mor friendly relations with other peo pies,” 'he said. y Beria, who as minister of interior affairs is responsible for security and Russia’s atomic development projects, spoke next. He — also emphasized that Russia’s policy is one of peace. “Opr party stands united and' unshaken. The pepples of the IT. S. S. R. have rallied; their ranks ever, closer around the /party >nd the government,” Beria said. ; - “Our people approve Os our internal and foreign policy.. The. U. S. S. R. pursues a policy of economic and political strengthening of the country.” Although he, said Russia’s new /Twrw Tn ■u , ’ INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and warmer tonight. Tuesday /Increasing cloudiness, mild. Low tonlght 25-30 north, 30-35 south. High Tuesday t. 40-45 north, 50-58 south. ? ' . . . I , J , . < ■

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Republicans Battle For State Control' ! : / L■. I- vV-ll’i Factions Defined During Legislature INDIANAPOLIS UP Y- An Intense political struggle fpr control of the; Indiai a Republican party, which'featureil the sessions of the 1953 state leg slature, ends tonight without a wini ler. The assemb y’s only accomplishment in this vain, it appeared! was to define the fictions. ; Governor Craig cannot claim' much of a vict ary. But neither can his opponents generally > regarded as the faefiqn most devoted tjo Sens. William ienneri and Homer Caprihart. ! j ’ ! The fight rio doubt will continue, becoming a jrt.ee to build up support before th|e 1954 election and, looking ahead, to 1956 vyhen Craig and Capehart be opponents for Capehart’s senjate seat. Both factions' used the 61-day legislative s&tfciori to exhibit their strength. Republicans outnumbered Democrats 4-ticl-l in both house and 'Senate. But at the end, Cfaig had a voting majoritl only in the house. Even it, had dwindled from «*hat it was early in Iqhe session. \ , V Five administration bills containing Craig’s mahor governmental reorganisation proposals became focal point of the dispute. All of them went, through the house, but only three passed tie senate and they were amended to deny Crjiig most of the “ceniri.lized authority" he sought. ! Sen. John V m Ness, sepate Republican leader from Valparaiso, led the oppos tion to Craig’s pet measure, a bill creating an 11-man ! cabinet. He sa:d it “places a great deal pf jmower ip one man” and comm*&d tho governor “lacks experience,in . > Senators killed 'that administration bill, and k eked another, creating a nAw| ,cottimerce department, in committee. 'ljhdyj feared the commerce pill Ivould curb Lt. Gov, Harold Hapdlej ‘s Authority. Bills creating health and penal ■departments v er4 approved, but toned down to certain they pwould riot bk labeled “power grabs.” Similai treatment Went ito one realigning highway department control: ’ Legislative leaders bickered' fre- , quently ;as an outgrowth of the » Craig versus J tiff. Most-dissension was between house ; and senatri. ; ,L ■ ! ■ ' Budget chief La irerice’ Baker RKendallville cc mplained senators would not pass a bill bearing his name, and house (majority leader Norman Neely R-Blpomington argued about stnaie- “delays” on house bills, accusing senators — and some 1 representatives—of digging jip ways tol embarrass the j j j /Turn Te Pa»ce Kfant > Queen Ma y Still Confined To Bed LONDON U Queen Mary . was to bed today with gastriri trouble I tof the 16th consecutive day. \ A medical ata|tenient issued Sunday night from Marlborough House said the 85-yeat-old grandmother qt Queen spent “a Tatheri comfortable day.” It added, “Her majesty’s condition remains unchanjgedj.” ’■-..! \ ■ F , r !

Delay Changes In Labor Law After Parleys \ Plan Congressional Hearings On Changes In WASHINGTON, UP The administration today aMMoned efforts to recommend changes tn the Taft-Hartley labor law until after congressional hearings are held on the Subject. A Ttie decision 'was disclosed by senate Republican leader Robert A. T|aXt, co-author of the controversial law, after he and other GOP congressional leaders contorted at the White House with President Eisenhower and secretary of labor Martin P. Durkin. !\ ' ' Durkin agreed to the delayed approach. Taft said. “I think it was generally! agreed that the proper approach is to' have these congressional hearings first," Taft said. Taft said there 'may never be 1 an official administration bill a? such to* revise the law. Durkin has encountered difficulty in getting labor-manageirient agreement on proposed changes;. The administration’s first effort to achieve agreement ended in fail,! ure last week when Durkin’s tripartite advisory committee broke up in disagreement over procedure in recommending changes. -, Labor and public members of the! 15-menvber tri-partite group favoured taking a vote on proposed changes in the law, but management representatives opposed the idea. Taft said after today’s White House conference that Mr. Eisenhower “expressed a feeling that he would like to have the congressional hearings befdre we try to write an administration bill.” Hp said it may be (possible, after the for senate and house leaders and representatives to sit down and agree on changes to be made. But Taft said it is possible they will not reach an agreement until the senate and house have acted \ independently arid a final measure is agreed; upon by senate-house conferees,) Taft himself said the law may need more drastic .revisions to coftibat “Communist-dominated” labor, unions. Indicating he is not fully satisfied with the present an-ti-Communist provisions, he said congress "might have to try a new approach” to strip such unions of government - protected bargaining rights. Nationalist Navy Raids Red Ships TAIPEH, Formosa, UP — Thi Chinese Nationalist Navy made a surprise raid on.Uommunist ships off the coast ot Kwantung Province last week, capturing one and causing “heavy damage” tq others xhe official Central News Agency reported today. The Nationalist ships left from a navy base in the Straits of Formosa and headed for Swatow Harbor, southwest of the KwantungFukien border, where toey found ‘ the Red ships based.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 9, 1953.

State Legislature, In Final Day, Deadlocked On Teacher Pay Issues

Taft Backing Down On Probe Os Korean War Senator Backs Down On Korean Probe As { Opposition Mounts *! Hi • WASHINGTON. T’P — SenMe Republican leader Robert A. Taft backed away today .from his proposal! for a broad congressional, irivefctt gallon of the conduct of the Kprean war after Republicans and Democrats alike opposed the idea. -Taift had suggested Saturday that' the senate armed services committee widen its Inquiry into rmnranitlon shortages in Korea anti make a “pretty full investigationT of the conduct of the war. including the handling of the ’prisoner iof war problem and the deadlocked truce tlalks. ' "Since the committee does tjot seem; to yant It; I certainly have no desire to force an Invest iga tid|kk/| Taft said today after he and other 4 GOP congressional leaders held ‘their weekly legislative conference with President Elsenhower.’ j • • '' i *. ;V Ta<t said his proposal did not fighH in' the White House meriting. ij l Taft contended he had riot.<dvocatied “a full-scale war investlDemocratic senators had quickly Ibjiposed a proposal tor a “pretty ) fujl investigation,” saying any such (Inquiry would open the dobr to political strategy and might .valuable information to the Communist I \ ' lAfliiential Republicans, including chairman William F. Knowland Cal. of the senate GOP policy, committee, agreed that a general investigation of the* stalemated conflict pt this time "would not be profitable." A few GOP. senators, however, sided with their" party floor leader. Tuiu' made the! suggestion Saturday gfter the senate armed services 'committee had called de-‘ fenpie /secretary Charles E. Wilson and dtfyer military leaders for qudfstipning tomorrow! on Ge he James' A. Van Fleet’s report of serious ammunition shortages In Korea! \‘. \ • r ' ' . \ The? Ohio senator skid the Inqui® well b 0 broadened to include the deadlocked truce talks, thei[i| prisoner of jwar problem and. oth»r\ inspects of the 30 months old, wdr. MiDs| the adverse GOP ,cOmmeril|i was politely phrased, out. of deference to Taft’s leadership position. ■But Democrats did not pull their punches. Sjen.‘Homer Ferguslbn R-Mich., a of miny Congressional InqtiHrifcs, said that |n any investigation of the KJorean conflict "paßic|Ular caire” would have to 'T»n T» pace Ktcbtt

‘JftecUtetiM 1 •■■■;' 1 ' ! (By Rev. William E. Myers, St. Paul Church) L I ,' • ■ ' > ; 4 THE SPIRIT’S ANSWER Spirit itse\f beareth witness with our spirit, that n|re are the children of God." <4 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God. and ioint-hriirs !; vlzith Christ; if so be that rire suffer with him,’ that we riiay be also glorified together." Romans 8:16,17. The person who receives Jesus Christ as Savior is immediately awakrined to a deep inner consciousness of a transformed life arid the presence of Christ within him. His spirit testifies that ChHst ha« dome into the life in the Persot) pf the Holy Spirit. God does not leave us without His own witness^—the Witness from I above. When God imparts His life to the believer the H|oly Spirit becomes co-witness. The Spirit attests that our, experience with Jesus Christ is genuine, and that we are the children ot Cod by a (“new birth.” The believer's testimony may be ridiculed And mocked, but that doesn’t harm the .assurances of his salvation in •Christ aha the God-given witness the indwelling Spirit. I lyhen bqrn into the family of God: we become heirs of God, imd joint-heirs, with Christ. Here, God shows the necessity of suffering wltlh Qhrlst that we may partake of the future inheritance «.nd glory. If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him. These persecutions, afflictions, distresses, and trials, become insignificant wlren compared with the glory that shall(be revealed in us. j

tame Duck Measures Die In legislature ■| About 200 Os Bills | Die In Committee, INDIANAPOLIS UP — ' The ducks" of the' 1953 legislative session, those bills Attracting go much opposition they died in CUimniittee, <ould have been the &fseimblyjp jbiggest news-makers. About 200 of these bills failed to niukv It to first ba/e. They i were referred tri committee after being introduced and never returned to the floor for action. *iOne of the most far-reaching would ha re repealed the \ state gross income tax, replacing it with a four per ceht sales tax. Another Vpuld have more than doubled the tax to set up’ a “Townsend Plan," ■providing \monthly pensions to all persons over 65. Others 1 would have permitted communities to determine by local option if thby wanted alcoholi • beverages sold in sipeciflc areas, penalized non-voters by making them pay ah' extrfi poll tax. paid a bopus immediately to 'disabled and •Icin of .deceased Korean war veterans. There was one providing penalties for sports bribes, lobbyists’ repoHs on contributions to lawmakers, spotting the cigeret tax with cities and counties, mandatory bbservianee of central standard lime, | twice-yeariy inspection of motor vehicles. ' Also reapportionment of the legislature, direct primary selec-tion-of state candidates, establishment Os a “Little Kefauver" commission to investigate state crime, impounding of overweight' trucks for 90 days, repeal of the poll tax. Withholding of gross: income tax, pnd reshuffling of legal holidays so mbst'jbf them (ell on Monday. , . —i—L_ Mossadegh's Answer Slated This Week \ j TEHRAN, Iran, UP — premier Mohammed Mossadegh will hand his reply to the latest U. S. and Rfltish proposals for settlement of the Iranian oR dispute with Britain to American ambassador Loy Hendersbn by Friday, an informed source today. L, : The reply ds expected to be unfavorable, observers said. Two Persons Die In Country Home Fire ‘, MT. VBRNON, Ind* UP — Authorities investigated the possibility'of foul play today in fire deaths of. Joseph R Mattingly, about 50, and his wife, Ella, bl ■Poseyville. \ . 1 , The couple was found in the 1 charred ruins of their country home Friday night. Authorities s&id the Mattinglys. who came tof Posey county from Evansville al’out two years ago, lived, secluded lives and were not friendly .with neighbors.

Sees Stalin's Death As Boon To Peace Hope Dulles Says Death | Os Russian Ruler To Enhance Hopes UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., UP— Secretary jof state John Foster Dulles saMi today he believesi Josef Stalin’s -death enhances future hopes of world peace. "Stalin is dead,” Dulles told a nows conference at United Nations headquarters. “He cannot bequeath to anyone his prestige.” The. secretary of state added: ‘The Eisenhower era begins as the Stalin era ends. "For 16-years the world has been dominated by the iqalignant ‘power of Stalin. He capitalized on the prestige which was wo|n by the Red army defenders of Stalingrad, and when the 'Red armies moved into Eastern Europe, Stalin used fhem to establish his! Communist satellite regimes.” Dulles suggested that a split between the „ Chinese Communist leader. Mao Tze-Tung, and the new Kremlin regime of Georgi M. Malenkov might develop. r ? * Despite Stalin’s death, DulleS said, he did not thitak there was occasion for any particular change in the American prosecution of the cold war. j i The bourse followed by the U. 3., he said, is now more likely to succeed, and to be received bettef throughout the world as the Influence and prestige of Stalin wane. Dulles refused to commit himself onp. the possibility of the resumption of meetings among the Big Four foreign ministers pr a meriting with . Vyacheslav 'M. Molotov. ■ He said the' question of new measures in the field in Korea is for the military to decide. i Dulles renewed his warning to Europe that the U. 8. is impatient fbr the jneimbrirs of the European defense community to ratify the ■pact cheating a unified military machine. The most urgent .question! in Europe, said, is what will be the of the treaty to create the European defense community. Dulle?’ appearance at the U. N. coincided with the wind up of debate for the present on. the Korean problem. / | , 1 The main political committee met to approve the only resolution before WpF Western-backed' appeal for funds for Korean y re(Tnr« T® pace Et*bt> A :N ] i Saturday Deadline \ On Delinquent Tax Month Given Before Sale Os Properties A scant five days remains for those who have not yet paid their delinquent taxes on real estate to do so, announced Richard Lewton county treasurer, today. ;<t|. ' Saturday, March 14, is the last day to pay the taxes after which the names of all delinquent persons will be published, said Lew- , ton. If there is no response from the delinquents by April 13 then [the property in point will be sold for taxes at public sale at the county court house. Lewton said an opportunity is given befoye property goes on the block to pgy tries taxes. But an additional charge will Ve levied for advertising charges in connection with publication ajid other costs that may have been incurred by the county. b Asked how many public sales he has been! forced* to' conduct sihee he’s been in office, three years, Lewton said three lots were about all. “There are less than a dosen lots on she delinquent list,” said the treasurer. Aiding the treasurer in making up the lists is bounty auditor Frank Kitson.

Million Dollar Fire In East Coast City Three Firemen Are Reported Missing WILMINGTON, N, C. UP — Wind-whipped fire roared through the heart of the waterfront district here today, engulfing six warehouses and damaging several others. I Three firemen were reported missing. - Unofficial estimates of damage ran ito more than f1.000.0Q0. Five firemen were injured.’ A dozen others suffered minor hurts. '* The three missing firemen were caught in the show-er of tumbling waH|, flaming timbers arid exploding piums of sodium nitrate that touched off an hour-long series of mintjr Cause of tpe blaze was not determined. Dejbris was hurled through ihe streets, blocked off [\ by police. Communications in ihri stricken area were down. j Fifemen were ready to blow up buildings and walls in the path of the rife with dynamite to prevent further spreading when .an almost miraculous shift in the wind at nOon halted the forward progress of |he racing flames r at least temporarily. Officials feared the wind might shift; again. , Red Cross disaster workers set up aid stations |ri the area to give first I aid to the injured. Upholds Legality I Os Featherbedding Majority Opinion By Supreme Court WASHINGTON UP — The suprem'e court today upheld the legality of “featherbedding" or makework practices by labor unions. Justice Harold H. Burton gave the court’s 6-3 majority opinion in tyro cases where unions demanded payment for work the employer ( said he didn't need. One involved employment of unwanted musicians; the other “bogus.” typesetting in newspaper plants. Such made-work practices are designed by unions to spread work opportunities and cushion layoffs stemming from improvements in machinery. Employers claim they are wasteful and costly, and a hindrance to production. The employers had argued before the supreme court that “featherbedding” violates the Taft-Hartley labor lawK Burton held that “the, act now limits its condemnation of instances where a labor organization or its agents exact pay from an employer in return for services not performed or not to be performed.” “Thus where work is done by an employe, with the employer’s consent. a labor organization's demand that the employe be compensated for time spent in doing the disputed work does not become an unfair labdr practice.” Burton, said, "the transaction simp’y does not fall within the, kind of, featherbedding defined in the statute.” The cases specifically involved the International Typographical Union and the American Federation of. Musicians, both AFL unions. Burton wrote separate opinions in each ease. Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson and Justices Tom C. Clark and William O. Douglas dissented in the printers’ case. Vinson, Clark and Justice Robert H. Jackson dissented in the musicians' case, j The printers’ case was appealed by the Amerfcgn Newspaper Publishers Association. Setting of “bogus” type, which is never used, long has been a bone of contention between the association and .the ITU. The practice calls for paying printers to set type for advertisements for which no typesetting to. necessary because the ads are received in the form of engravings or other processes requiring no ;| ' (Tant T» Pag* Fear)

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Assembly Is Scheduled To Quit Tonight Conference Group From Both Houses Deadlocked On Cut INIMANAPOUS, UP —The Indiana legislature met for its last 1953 regular session today, . still deadlocked on the issue of trimming in. teachers’ salary aid from the • budget—an issue twhich could hold the lawmakers overtime. ’ A revised conference committee, composed of the four majority and minority leaders in house and senate. still disagreed at 11 a.m. on whether state aid to schools should be cut so teachers'won't get |2<H> a year pay raises. The first hint that docks might lie stopped a moment before midnight, so the legislature could “illegally” evade the constitution, which says the sesshm can last ( only 61 days, came from a senate • leader. ' Asked if he still believes the ■ legislature eaa flaunt I its business by midnight, senate president .pro tern John W. Van Ness (R-Valpa-raiso) replied: \ “Id the budget can be worked out, we will.tThe implication was that if it cannot, the clocks will be stopped and the session will continue into the early hours of Tuesday— or later, as some legislatures have in I tlje past—4>efore adjournment. I Sen. Leo J. SLemle (D-Jasper), one of the four members- of the conference committee on the three budget bills, said agreement -was reached on two of the bills and on most issues in the third arid largest bill. \L , He said the committee restored >l4l>ooo tio the state police; budgrit for $lO (monthly pay hikes for troopers, an 6 added $42,000 to the wafer resources commission apI Therfe was little fight left, about the political undertone which Influenced mt>st_ of the 61-day session. Governor Craig salvaged a small part of his reorganization proposals but not enough to claim a victory. Today’s schedule was devoted to conference committee work with senators and representatives meeting to write compromise versions of bills acceptable to both house and, senate.The biggest conference committee tangle was on the budget. Craig v proposed spending about $607,060,000 during the next two years,! the house settled on $605.500,000 and the senate trimmed it to $59'5,000,00’0. l Last Saturday, senate finance committee chairman Clem ■ McConaha told newsuaen his committee cut $19,000,000 from school aid and another $3,500,000 from other funds, which would have reduced the budget to About $584,000,000. It was learned however the school aid cut was only $8,000,000. Representatives, as expected, refused to go along with senate amendments, and a committee composed of Sens. John Van Ness (R-yal paraiso) and Noble Ellis (ROrleans) and Res. Lauprence Baker (R-Kendallville) and Norman Neely (R-Bloomington) started meeting Sunday toihunt a solution. Principal house objection was to the senate’s $8,000,000 reduction in aid to schools, which erased a proposed S2OO increase in teacher minimum salaries. It was basically a house Republican versus senate Republican issue. House leaders! believed the senate cut too much. Senate Democrats fought for more school aid. when the appropriation bills were up for passage. And house Democrats issued a statement saying :< "We will resist relentlessly the .curtailment of the state’s educational system as suggested by the senate majority amendments . . . We will stand by our schools.”