Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 60, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 60.

Anti-Gambling Bill Is Signed Uy Gov. Craig | l \ Craig Announces He Will Approve. Record Budget Bill I ‘ INDIANAPOLIS UP — Governor Craig has signed injo law the stiffest gambling control bill ever passed by an Indiana legislature. ; t Craig put Ms signature oct the Ha«brook measure I night. He said he realized thelHopsier attorney general and “ofhers’’ consider the bill unconstitutional. 'H&~"added some other “able lawyers” disagree. fl - ;' The law, a sweeping act which makes possession of mechanical gambling devices a violation and prohibits transmission or publication of betting odds in advance of a sports event, was enacted flover the frantic efforts of gaining interests and fraternal grpupsj 56 defeat it. fl. ;. i Craig also announced: . h 1. He will sign the controversial biennial budget bill which <|eadlocked the legislature andthrew.it into a 36-hour overtime session. , ’ 2. He sees no present needffor calling a*-special .session of |the legislature before the regular tn.'>s session rolls around. 3. He will sign the 65-ihUe|peri» hour speed limit bill and willlsei . that it is “enforced to the besj,of our ability.’* •>.- J > ■ 4. He will, .resume making ? pointments to state jobs next wj’g.kj 5. He has signed bills giving judges retirement pensions- v and giving retired teachers slo’a month pension increases. . j i .—' Craig said ' iny sighing the antigambling bill it wks not hi.s .responsibility to decide whether It . is constitutional. i • “The question of constitutionality is not for this office to determine,’’ he said. "The matter is solely for the courts, ~ . “I believe that such a pojlc.y iVepresents the will of a vast ’majority of the citizens and I lieve the bill -as it is presently written makes a long stride’- to achieve the end of stamping syndicated professional gambling; which Is a platform upon greater vice and crime rest and spawn.” ' ? “Before any law-abidding group criticizes the bill it should readmit,” Craig said, “with the knowledge that it does not repeal existing laws against gambling. It is?,, ih addition to those laws that flwel already have and so for those in , stitutions that .have been exempted by the Senate amendments they are still covered by the Jaws that have existed in this seat for muhy 4 years.” '. \ . + Craig said Senate amendmqnje exempting religious and fratferpal - groups, ‘icrippl&d” the bill, “but its intehts and purposes, were in |nd wise changed.” I ifl'fl Craig said he would sign the budget bill although i “I am dis-, appointed the gallonage tax bill tdras not passed.” That bill would have distributed millions of dollars a year to Hoiosier cities, and from non-dedicated funds collected from liquor taxes. * fl The governor said he will for passage of a similar bill in the next session or “if we have Jar interim session.” But pressed .foi elaboration on .whether that he is thinking of calling a special session, Craig said no, it “woulflp t be economical to call the legisja ture back to act on one bill.” j- J ye said he doea_ not foresee the possibility of a special session pnd> “they will be called back onlyp in an emergency." Jhe gbvernor made the statements at a news conference called less than 24 hours after the legis - lature adjourned, leaving his desk piled* high with bills on whichflhe must act by Saturday night. fl,' :— ■ Girl Scout Birthday | Party Here Tonight I v fl . . ' ■ ■ i \ Senior Girl Scouts and Brownies —258 girls in 19 troops— will .Attend- the 41st birthday celebration . of the. founding of the Girl Scouts of America by Juliette Lowe ’tonight at the Lincoln at 7 fl3o o’clock. yAlso to attend will be the 141 registered adult leaders who guide the local scouts in their program during the year. Besides presepting. the program of entertainment, wjtiich appeared earlier, Mrs. C/harletf Jessup will supervise Tropp 7 in serving refreshments. (flhadrman of the entire program is adtglt leader Mrs. .Harold Glazner. -fl fl ' ~ I l ' 0 —r f 12 PAGES

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Probe Shooting Down Os Flyer fe. • ■tt' > \' s | flU—g ***** U. SJ AIRFORCE Lieut. Warren G. Brown (right-top) points out the spot at whioh his F-84 Thunderjet crashed after beins fired upon by ope of two Czech MiG’s that invaded t4ie V. S. zone over Bavarian While the Czech government rejected a strong American protect, a I’, helicopter alighted at the scene of the crash (below), some 15 miles inside the U. S. zone.

Senate Group Orders Probe Os Shortages Committee Says Vqn Fleet Charge Is Substantiated WASHINGTON, UP YThe-sen-ate .armed services cowmilittee said today that Gen. James! A.\ Van Fleet’s charge of ammunition shortages in Korea has been “fully substantiated.V It directed a Subcommittee to determine who— or \ what—-was responsible. Van Fleet had said in testimony before the committee' that there had beeu ammunition shortages in Korea throughout the 22 months that he was commander of the Bth army and until he left Korea about a month ago. Chairman Leverett Saltonstall of the armed services committed said Monday that ammunition supplies to Korea improved rapidly since Van Fleet left Korea. Saltonstall’s committee approved a resolution directing a subcommittee to continue the ammunition inquiry started by the full committee. It called for a report on “the officials and conditions responsible for this situation of ammunition’ shortages.” The resolution was sponsored by Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.), who has railed the shortage a “national scandal.” ' Saltonstall said he will' appoint members to the subcommittee in a few days. _ The resolution, approved unanimously,: took official dote of Van Fleet's testimony that: 1. “Serious and a| times critical shortages” existed throughout hjs tour of duty as Bt|h army commander. * > I , 2. Van Fleet “reported almost dAily the existence of such shortages. * 3. “The shortages of ammunition substantially restricted the action of our' troops an 4 endangered defense Uities." 4. The situation (was “improving" when Van Fleet left .Korea but “shortages still (existed.” The committee said these chief points of Van Fleet’s complaint "have been fully substantiated by the’testimony before the committee.” The committee also had heard testimony from defense secretary Charles E. Wilson, army secretary Robert T. Stevens and Gen.. J. Lawton Collins, army chief Os Bt'ftff. •= ' ' | j ! The resolution dlso noted that army officials unanimously testdfied? that congressional appropriations for ammunition since the outbreak of the Korean war “have been adequate.” BULLETIN WASHINGTON UP — l . The »government today removed price controls fl ffeyn beer, coffee, and all other consumer goods ; still under\ ceilings. Con- . trols were removed from . . thousands of industrial i items, including all : building materials.

Youth Confesses To Slaying Two Girls 16-Year-Old Boy Makes Confession v ■ MEW CITY, N. Y., UP —A 16-year-ol<| boy has confessed he lured, two little girls into a “forbidden forest” and, killed them when they upset big plan to make love to the 8-year-old victim, the district attorney amtounced today. Both the boy, Curlpton Mason, and the slain children, Marjorie Boudreau, 8, and Esther Nagy, 5, were residents of the Lakeside school, a private institution for children of broken hotnes. An autopsy report said both little girls had been' victims of a perverted Sexual act, hut Rockland county district attorriey John A. Skahen said Mason had denied he made such an attack. School director Russel Wight said he found Mason's confession “incredible.”,! He said the youth had appeared ito all school officials as a “noi’ipal” boy. \ j Skahen said the bby confessed after long | questioning and a He detector te&t and late Wednesday night led officers tc( a swampy spot in an “off limits” section of the school grounds Und showed them where ID find his missing hunting knife. Skahen said Mason admitted he wanted to make love to Marjorie, who was described by school authorities as “a very beautiful child," and lured hdr into the woods by. telling her a house father wished to see her there. He quoted the boy as saying: “I wanted to get rid of Esther. I djdn’t want her, but she kept hanging around. I had to her. I couldn’t get rid of her. 1 I didn’t know what to do with herb I told Marjorie the house fither was behind a ,pile of wvod and branches, to go over there, he’s waiting. “She left , and went over there. Esther 'started 0 cry. She was crying. Il took out the knife and (Turn T® Musk Festival At Monmouth March 20 Annual Festival By Schools Os County Plans are being made for the annual Adams county festival scheduled for Friday night, March 20, at 7:30 o'clock at Monmouth high school auditorium. AU Adams county rural schools will take part in the annual event. f I There will be a total of 275 students in-the chorus and about 200 students in the band, garner M. Chance of Baldwin-Wallace college, Berea, O. will direct the chorus and Richard Guthrie, music director of New Haven public schools, will serve as director of the jband. Rehearsal of the county-wide band is scheduled for Monmouth school Wednesday; March 18, and the chorus rehearsal will be held Friday afternoon, March 20, prior to the public program scheduled for that night. The complete program will be announced soon, the cotpmitlee in charge of the annual festival announced today. The public is invited to attend.

Decgtur, Indiana, Thursday, March 12, 1953.

British Plane Is Shot Down In Germany; U. S. Is Preparing Protest

U..S. Drafting Angry Protest On Air- Attack .fl ■ ■* fl Czechoslovakia's Fiiry Tale Claim J Ahgrily Rejected . | BULLETIN ’ L ■ Germany UR Aj United States air force spokesman announced tonight ‘ that ! American planes patrob. the Iron Curtain frontier back if they are shot ■ at within the American zone of fl Germany. It ;is a long-standing regulation, he said, to take such, action. WASHINGTON, UP—The United Stftes today drafted an angry rejectton of Communist Czechoslovakia'! I‘fairy tale” claim that a pair cif. American jet fighters had Red territory before one shot down in flames. Theri stiff American reply, was, under Jpnepapation at the ! state depart some congressmen suggested' warning the Communists <iUt “bullets not soles" wth ans-wejf Any new’ cold war attacks on U, AS. planes. ■■ U. X rejection of the Czech Charged was based on the word of the! jplets, supported by ground radar\^a£ c hers. that they had hot Crossed’ Gferman-Czech border duringfrft patrol flight, tn formed! spurces said radar operators •efr -the attacking M4G-15 jet pilose in on the two V, S. F-845 T^h undei-jets 12 to 15 miles over territory in Germany. dnd defense -department authorises said the 'Czech claim that the' planes were 25 miles deep in Czechoslovakia was a lie and\ a Red i tovierage. An air force spokesthah called it a “fairy tale’* l and a fantastic excuse.” The V. S. reply is expected, to demand dn apology for the “unprovoked iand unjustified” attack; seek; peated,||land build a case for demandlnit approximately $200,000 Indemnity for the wrecked plfipe. But me final wording of the note defends on an exhaustive air force •ihyeatigation. The note would i|ie the second American protest ’over the incident.!” - American Ambassador Gebrge 'acting on state departmdnt orders, objected in “the strongest terms” to Lhe Czech violation of the IT. S. zone of Germany wbd the attack on the U. S, jegt (tightens. The pote was delivered to a night guard pt the Czech foreign* office at 3:20 a. m., Prague 'ki|ne-t—9:2o p. m„ EST\ — Wednesday., 1 | - The fast action by tMs government Apparently caught the Reds off guardtj Their propaganda effort to responsibility to the United '(Mates followed many (Taifw P’o

rt/M / j u > jL&itot' f/tecutauxM, lj <? , '\ ' ■ ■ ■•;: ■.. ■ ; ■ (By Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, Zion Lutheran Church) | RUN WELL THE RACE OF FAITH Hebrews 12:1-3 —“Surrounded then as we are by these great i ranks of witnesses, let us strip off everything that hinders, as well As the pin which dogs our feet,, and let us with patience run the ' race that we have to run, our on Jesus, the Source and Goal of our faith. For He Himself endured the Cross and thought nothing of its shame' because of the joy He had’ in doing, the will: and He is now seated at the right hand of God’s Throve.. 'Think constantly of Him who endured all that sinful men could say against Him, and you will not lose your purpose or your courage.". (Letters tp Young Churches, by J. B. Phillips). .’S 1 \ • ' I Prayer ' “ ( LORD JESUS, Thou Son of God; and Source and Goal of our \ faith, we* thank Thee that Thou didst choose to endure the Cross with alljts cruelty and shame, and thereby didst earn'for us the forgiveness of sins and the joys of heaven. We pray Thee, grant that we may not recoil from the crosses and the shame we must bear in our heavenward course, but run with patience the race that is set -before us. Strengthen us to ifarht against all sin and un- , godliness in our life, and help us, O Lord, to remain loyal to Thee and to persevere in <faiih, and so obtain the salvation of our souls. We ask It for the sake of Thy bitter passion and death. Amen. *. : J' \’ j • : ' * . t' A ' - . ' i ' h’ \ ''‘ ■ ■

Seek Missing Bow Os Broken Tanker I . I fl . All Ship Officers, Wife Os One Missing ; NEW YORK UP -rCoast fcuard flcutters and planes' searched \ an 80-mile circle of sea today for the bow of a Liberian tanker which vanished in! the North Atlantic Monday with all the ship’s officers and the captain’s wife. ’ First meager details of the sea ! terror which broke the 9.000-ton Angry in two before a distress s message could be sent were' replayed to the coast guard here today. The story came from a search ship in radio contact with the American • freighter that picked 28 .crewmen “ off the ship's stern section Wednesday. At least nine persons were ■ missing. - ‘'- The ship Was hit by fire and . broken by an explosion. \ ’ Survivors said that “at 3:30 p.ml., March 9, the bow was visible for more than a half hour.” the cutter UMmak radioed. “If was then , Obscured by rain and never sighted Again.” ’ The ship’s fate might never have bejen known has >t (he EuropePound American freighter Claiborne sighted the drifting stern through a howling ' storm Tuesday Mght. ; The Claiborne messaged Wednesday that iurVivor» said the ship had caught' fire and exploded “three days ago.* 1 ’ L The Unimak said survivors re’pohed thi? Angry broke in tvyo About 10 feet behind, the bridge (after an explosion in the aftei -piimp room. As heavy seas tossed the ship's /two sections apart, aniother explosion' blew out the after pgrt ofthe bridge, the Unimak mes;sigpd. ” *■' : * flThe coast guard dispatched the cytfer Unimak from Argentia, Newfoundland, and the cutters Uoos Bay and Chambers from their ocean stations to search the ajra Where the bow section disappeared. Seven planes were' scheduled to join the search today from ' Argenta. - . ! | • fourty-mile per hour winds were reported, lashing North A-tldnjtic seg lanes. Trans-Atlantic, passehliners were being delayed by fhb weather, with the Queen Mary expected in Nw York on day be|jiiid schedule. The freighter Claiborne, bound from New York to Cherbourg, prance, came across the stern sectiqn of the Angry Tuesday at a spot about 430 miles southeast of Stj. John's, Newfoundland. The freight tet had to wait for seas to subside before she could; carry out $ Rescue operation. The Claiborne reported 28-crew-jn4n safely takjen from the Andy’s ste’rn. hut the captain, his wife, .uni several sailors, including “all 'flflfl:.; (Tarn Tn Pa are Fiver . >• '■ H | INDIANA WEATHER Jifl Showers gnd turning colder tonight. Low tonight . 34-44. '■High Friday 36-42 north, 42-50 south.

Reorganization Bill Submitted By Eisenhower Proposes Security Agency Be Elevated To Cabinet Status r WASHINGTON, UP —President Eisenhower today proposed to congress that the federal security agency- be transformed into a fullfledged cabinet department of health, education, and welfare. The new secretary of the department wilKbe Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, now FSA administrator who has been sitting in on cabinet sessions. ' Thp new department also will have an undersecretary and two assistant secretaries. fl \ The reorganization plan will become effective if it is not disapproved by a majority vote of the full membership of either the house or w’ithin 60 congressional working days. 1 “The purpose of this plan is to Improve the administration of the vital health, education, and social security functions now being carried ob in the federal Becurity agency by giving them department -al rank,” the President said in his letter transmitting the plan to congress. Th;e new department would have controlling authority over the public health service, the office of education, and the social security administration. The head of the social Security administration is now appointed by the FSA administrator, while the surgeon general, head of the public health service, and the commissioner of education are nominated by the President and confirmed by the senate. Under the reorganization,; these three posts, would be subject to presidential appointment and senate confirmation. The plan provided for the nomination of’a special assistant to the secretary to be chosen from the field of Medicine. The appointee would be charged with responsibility for reviewing health and medical programs of thd new department. 1110 President advocated the creatiop withjn the department of an advisory committee on educa<T»rw «!*• P««p Five) -1 . \ No-Parking Signs Placed On Streets Six-Block Aren Is . Posted By Police Police have been instructed to hand out warning tickets to all drivers who park their cars on the east side of First and Third streets from Jefferson to Jackson streets, in violation of a city ordinance passed by the city council last month. Mayor John Doan gave the order and hinted if cooperation was lacking the real thing may be soon found dangling from .windshield wipers: They cost |l. > The city council unanimously passed the ordinance last zn°nth in order to relieve a situation, said councilmen, that has existed' for years on those streets. In all, 18 signs hate been planted ; three to a block, a total of ■fat' blocks involved In the strict parking measure. It was pointed out that drivers who have used the restricted in the past Could park in the city’s Spacious parking lot that opened last summer on First street and the Monroe street bridge. It has been stated that amazing little use is being made of the facilities especially placed there for the convenience of businessmen in the area, shoppers and visitors to the city. The parking lot is slated to be blacktopped next summer. ,

Committee Moves Against Chairman House Un-Americar) Group Slows Velde WASHINGTON, (UP) — The house un-American activities committee today unanimously approved a resolution to stop chairman Harold. H. Velde from starting any new Communist investigations without the committee’s approval. The resolution w-as offered by Rep. I Francis E. Walter, D-Pa„ in a committee fight that followed yelde’s suggestion for a possible investigation of Communism among the clergy. Its adoption ca\ne after a hectic public session called to check into an alleged spy' ring seeking to obtain confidential information. TMie scheduled witness — Abraham Glasser, a Rutgers University law .professor — got a postponement until Wednesday and then issued a public statement blasting Jhe Reds-in-educatidnal investigation. \ ; He accused the, committee of trying to "destroy” his reputation and challenging its right to rake over what he called \ 16-year-old disloyalty charges him “long since put to restfl’ Glasser'was called before tbe committee at a hearing which Velde said would involve “an espionage ring . . . whose objectice was to obtain government secrets.” \ But Gkisser, former justice department and OP A attorney, did not testify. The committee granted! hjs request that his testimony be postpened until next Wednesday because his attorney’s Aife la gravely ill in Connecticut. After taking the oath on his own Bible and then getting a postpone- <*■»■ To Paso st X ) Shailene Lehman Is Oratorical Winner Decatur Girl Wins In District Contest Decatur high school senior flharlene Lehman night climbed another rung of tie, oratorical contest in a field of five competitors. Mips Lehman’s winning! speech was the same onb given at Decatur high recently when she won the local enabling her to enter thq district contest. It wag entitled “Your House of Freedom.” v ■ Miss Lehman was presented with a gold medal and a cash prize of sls for her excellenceJn oration according tp the unanimous decision of four judges. The judges were, Lewis X>. Smith local attorney: Robert Fritz, Bluffton; Charles Ovennyer, Waterloo; and Bill Burger, Fort Wayne. Winner No. 2 was a Bluffton student, Michael Young, who also received a sls cash award and, in addition, a silver medal. Miss Barbara McWhortner of Fort Wayne received a cash award of undisclosed amount and a silver medal. Charles Fraze, 1 fourth district commander of the American Legion, of Albion Post 246, made the presentation of the awards. Miss Lehman’s next| test will come at a date not yet announced when she will climb to the zone contest where she will compete with the best of the fifth district of the American Legion. Prior to the speeches, Decatur high principal Hugh J. Andrews welcomed the spectators, and noting their sparse number remarked on how much greater a crowd, basketball seemed, to draw compared to oratorical contests. Last night’s meeting was the 16th state-wide oratorical contest. The contest is sponsored by three organizations and not only the American Legion, They are the Indiana Bar Association and the The contest was held at the The contest was hied st the American Legion; post 47, Fort Wayne.

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Jes Fighters Out Os Soviet Sector Attack i- ! ■ i " ‘ * Four Feared Killed As British Plane Is Downed By Fighters BULLETIN ! " LONDON UP — Prime minister Winston Churchill called his top civilian and military i advisers into conference tonight on the shooting jdown of a British bomber over Germany. The foreign office indicated it was convinced the attacking planes were Russian. LUENIEBURG, Germany, UP — Swept-wing jet fighters zoomed up out of Soviet-occupied East Germany today and shot down a British Lincoln night bomber in the Berlin-Hamburg air corridor with the loss of possibly four lives; German eyewitnesses said the attacking fighters Were Russianinadie. The British foreign office said they were jets of a new and 1 previously, unidentified type. One member of the British plane 1 crew was killed. Three are missing. ThVee pthers. including thd 1 pilot, are in hospitals in West 1 Germany. 1 German border guards said the plane, after being ripped by several bursts of machine-gun fire from the attacking planes, appeared to explode in the air. Part of the wreckage, ’they said, fell near tile Soviet zone village of Boitzenburg and the rest inside the air! corridor. The attack was the second such incident in Germany in three days. Two Russian-built MIG-15s on Tuesday attacked two It. S. air force Thiinderjets over the American Zone of Western Germany and shot down one. West German police said today’s attack occurred over the Allied air corridor from Hamburg to Berlin. Other; witnesses said they believed the British plane may have strayed briefly across the Soviet-British zonal frontier. The British plane, an obsolescent War II night bomber, was on a routine training mission from an RAF base in England. A British foreign office announcement said tbe attack was carried out by “swept-wing jet fighters of a hitherto unidentified type.” The British announcement did, nbt specif)’ the nationality of the attackers. British sources said the plane’s navigator was shot through the neck and died before reaching a hospital. The pilot and two other crewmen parachuted out and are in a hospital. The other three crewmen are missing and are feared to have been killed when the crippled plane exploded. _ ' An official British announcement said that Boizenburg, where the plane may have crossed the. Soviet frontier, definitely is inside the* Allied air corridor. That is | one of three 20-niile wide air routes through which Western Allied civil and military aircraft are permitted to fly over the Soviet zone to reach Berlin-110 miles inside Soviet-oc-cupied East Germany. The British government said if it is 'established that the RAF bomber was shot down by Soviet fighters “ay very strong protest" will be loged with the Russian commander-in-chief in Germany. Orders Election At Decatur G. E. Plant WASHINGTON UP — General Electric employes at Decatur and Fort Wayne. • Ind., have been ordered to hold an election within 30 days to determine whether they t desire representation by the CIO International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. The ,i national labor relations board ordered the election for engineering assistants, laboratory assistants, draftsmen and trainees. All now are part of the union's unit of salaried clerical help, but individual petitioners sought to remove them from union jurisdiction.