Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 16 March 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 63.

Atomic Tests j Scheduled For Farly Tuesday 22nd Atomic Test | Slated Tuesday At Nevada Test Site ATOMIC TEST SITE. Nev. UP"■’"‘Ap atomic device rested today Ip a “dog house” atop a spidery; 300-foot tower, ready to sear automobiles, life-like dummies and two typical American homes with the “heatJ of 190 suns.” The explosion, the 22nd atomic detonation within the boundaries G-f the boundaries of the United will take .place before the .sun rises tomorrow morning if weather permits. J Below the tower, hundreds bf men went about the' business ot preparing for another of the greatest of man-made explosions. Scores of scientists adjusted thf instruments which will measure! record and photograph the blast! Civilian contractor employes com| Dieted construction work and bey gan moving out their equipment; Tanks, trucks, and fifty passen| -gAr aHtomobiles. trailed across the desert floor by lazy dun-coloreq dust devils, rumbled into enciri' cling positions as guniea pigs id the target area. . I Final i and most delicate , assign! ment was the arming of the bomb! high in the tower’s cab. In |he ; interests of safety this is done witlt|rf the final 12 hours preceding the detonation. Personnel busy in the area pf “ground zero” included 200 from, the atomic energy commission testorganization; 300 unofficial ers from the civilian defense organization who will\ see in action the bomb against which they may one day have ’to (ope; and 26* accredited correspondents, photographers and broadcasters. The fate of the; two. houses conStructed near the explosion center will give the civil defense woAu'B new lessons.in atomic survival and shelter techniques. \ The fate of the two houses con structed near the explosion center will give the civil defense workers new lessons in atomic survival and shelter techniques, ■ Over a pass to the south among thq barren, pasted - colored hills which ripg Yuccas Flat and Frenchman" Flat, 1,000 soldiers waited at, bleak Camp Desert Rock. Tomorrow, morning they will be the hitman beings in closest proximity to an atomic explosion, excepting om' ly the Japanese of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The soldiers, accompanied by -20 volunteer correspondents, will be ' in fiVe-foot trenches within two miles of the tower with its. deadly” charge. The army and the scientists expect them to be safe from i radiation burns' and as they lie prone in the newly - dug trench-, es. Principal danger lies from material hurled directly intjo the air by the fury of atomic fission add falling in a parabola directly to , '-earth. 4 ,\ Tuesday’s explosion, first df 1953, is to inaugurate a series of tern experimental blasts at the Nevada Proving Grounds. -Th® climax of the experiments will be the use, for the first time in history, of atomic artillery, the (Tura Tn pace Six) Cincinnati G. E. Plant Is Struck ; Additional Men - [ Go Out On Strike j CINCINNATI. ,0.. (UP)—-Some 4,590 members of 1 the’ CIO United * Auto Workers Union went on ■strike early today at the Evan--i dale plant of the General Electric] Co., the nation’s largest of Jet aircraft engines. The auto workers struck at] 12:01 a. m. EST, joining I,loo] AFL Machinists who went on] strike at the plant two days ago! It was not known immediately] whether 7,300 unorganized Work] ‘ ere at the Jbig plant would cross] I picket lines to go io work today. | 1 A spokesman for the CIO unions said that despite > the importance* of the output of the jet engines factory the union would not ‘‘subL mit to unconditional surrender”, An its (bargaining for higher wages. |' Weekend piodaction lines at the plant were shut down Saturday when the machinists, also seeking a pay increase, walked; Off the job, \ The auto workers! voted Sunday to reject a tinah company offer and to go on strike. An official of the striking AFL union said. no attempt would he made to prevent unorganised workers from entering the plant. ■' \ ■

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J Irish Gift For The President ' ■■finrr'IT I/ aS-K ■ -War XwiOmw 1A I J '1 4 ' Ip 2 p s -p-'p- . PRESIDENT EISENHOWER receives >a shillelagh, a cudgel traditionaljy favored by Irishmen., from Rep. Fred E. Busbey (R-Ill.), after a : White House luncheon for;. GOP and Democratic congressmen.

HU' " ' More Measures Are Signed By Governor Craig J 'One Authorizes si Development Os 1 Limber lost Park ' • ■ . ' ■' ■ (INDIA NAPOLIS. (UR) — Four ikmendment-riddled administration |)ills and a resolution to lowlr the Indiana voting age to- 19 j were among measures of the recent legislature 'bearing Governor j|!raig’s signature today. j| The governor signed into law Ipte Saturday administration measures to establish a department Qf corrections, provide tor appointpient at a state traffic safety director. replace the four-man highi’Ay commission with ai threte-man commission and increase the ad-Jutant-general’Si authority. <■ i The 19-year-old vote resolution requires a! constitutional aimendiient. which means it must be Approved by another session of t|he legislature and by voters at a leferepdum. Georgia is the’only tate at present where persons nder 21 are permitted to vote. .Three bills affecting veterans Iso' received the governor's sig-, ature. They would extend the eadline for application foi the 4tate veterans’ bonus until ; June jjo. treansfer payment \ot the {bonus |o the stake auditor’s office, and 411 ow payihent of the bonus to next of kin of all deceased veterans. j- Other 'hills signed by Craig fvould simplify absentee ballot procedures for tihe bedfast Ind for servicbmen‘ create al. Commission to plan a new state toffice jiuilding, define duties of a fair Employment practices commission, fereate a permanent tax study Commission, prohibit •feeding of tincookfed garbage to swine and imake it illegal for minors to; have Alcoholic beverages in their possession. I , He also • approved measures to require county and tofwnship offiiieiate to make annual reports of all monies received, transfer |wblf Lake Memorial Park to«the city of Hammond. permit bigger■ cities to' establish traffic engineering de\ apartments. [ create posfr| of two ■ |leppty state budget I directors; •extend authority of the! civ|l defense program arid authorize the department! to develop Limberlost state I pari in {Adams Jay counties) j - Seven bills allowing increases for county and local: offii t’pipls were approved by th,e governor. and |ne was vetoed. [signed would boost the if pay of 'iedroners ip larger counties: and i permit thiejn to name court reporters. indrease the pay of‘chief officers in St. Joseph fg-nd Lake bounties, raise salaries ■irf field assessors, and boost the jjpay of coUnty commissioners in [larger counties and the pay of [pome officers in Center township, [Toward county. ; d Prosecutors’ salaries could be jhiked by SI,OOO to >3,000, depending. on population, under another jfcill approved by Craig. !■ j J | Vetoed Was a bill t<t> pay city iClerks of njammond. Bast Chicago jgnd Gary ah added $3,500 yearly {salary. Crgig said it would [“provide for a: remuneration tor the ’Officers nafned out of proportion sto that of-other cities in, the tfeate.” 'F\ . :• I ;L Also signed were bills creating (Tur* T® Pa<e Five) B '

Plan Reorganization Os Ag Department Eisenhower Plaits Reorganization Move WASH INGTON, UP — Republican legislative leaders said today President Eisenhower will send congress a plan this week to reorganize the [ar-flung agriculture department. - I p The | lawmakers, leaving the regular Monday White House legislative conference, said it will not mean “violent changes” but will be aimed at “better Organization and coordination.” f Congress work an President Eisenhower’s first reorganization plan — to make the federal security administration a full-fledged cabinet department. The house and senate government operations committees scheduled a joint session to speed approval of a proposal which Mr. Eisenhower submitted last Thursday to convert the federal security agency into a new cabinet-levell department at health,\ education and welfare. \l t ■ i . * . I, Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby. FSA administrator who would become the hation’s second woman cabinet officer under, the proposal, and budget director Joseph M. Dodge were the find witnesses. A White House spokesman told reporters they could expect another announcement on government reorganization soon, perhaps today. No details were givjen, but there was speculation Mr. ; Eisenhower might propose abolishing the reconstruction finance corporation. The PSA proposal deemed to have dear sailing ahead, especially since it won the endorsement of the American Medical Association’s house of delegates! Saturday. AMA leaders approved the plan op the basis of Mr; Eisenhower's personal assurance he is -opposed to “socialized medicine.” « Congress twice vetoed'proposals of former President Truinan to raise the ESA to cabinet status. In each case, the main opposition was to Mr. Truman’s FSA administrator, Oscar R. Ewing, whom the AMA denounced as an apostle of “socialized medicipe.” i) Mr. Eisenhower’s reorganization plan would go into eifect automatically after 60 days if pot vetoed by J a majority vote of either 1 the House or the Senate. Selective Service Exams Taken Today I Twenty-four Adams county youths went to Indianapolis this morning to take their pre-induction physical examinations for 'armed forces service under the selective service act. x ’ ... j--. They were: Gerald Eugene) DeBolt, Louis Witte, Edward Jerome Stoppenhagen, Robert Lie Herman, Robert Lindell Ross, Jamis Edward Goldner, Franklin Clark Crosby, James Raymond Johnson, Thomas Frederick Weaver, Floyd Ira Mcßride, Norman Eckrote, Frederick James Werst, Loren David Moser, Albert Jackie Daniels, Albert Leroy Huston, Harvey Gene Hendricks, Jimmy Dow Price, Henry Franklin Sipe, Leonard Charles Herman, Louis Bertrdhd Laurent, Apthony Lawrence Laker, Boyd Levern Nevil, Harold Glen Manley.! \ ■ ' ' '

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 16, 1953.

Challenge Malenkov To Back Up Peace Address With Acts Os Sincerity

Supply Routes Are Blasted By Allied Planes \ Red Trucks Jammed Burpper-To-Bumper Blasted By Hanes Korea UP — American and AjMralian fighter-bombers turned I r a ' rugged , mountain road into a iihming death trap for Communist supply trucks today In the biggest, jingle blow against Red in' months. Red Jt rucks were jammed bumper-to-bumper along a fivemile stretch of road on the east coast as Meteors, Thunder jets, and Marine swooped down on the (.‘envoy, with bombs and bullets. Lj.; The ASlted warplanes destroyed two-thirds jpf the 159 trucks in the convoy.; 1 , | Returning pilots said they le'ft burning; wreckage of the convoy strewn ;bvfer five miles of road. Smoke cjoyds hung over the area for holing.’ Preliminary estimates said moCe ] than I 90 trucks were destroyed knd many damaged, Meanwhile, two SabraJats pilot* •potted < flight of MIGs come out of. theUj; "sanctuary” across the ; Yalu River. Although outnumbered the Sabres piled into the MlQdi and downed one of them. Twenty-eight F-84 Thunderjets created 'Uaioc in the Red freight yard southeast of Chongju, destroying 17 txixdars believed filled with war material and touching off four large ex,plojHons. Marine;! Pantherjets and Corsairs struck U, l|ed supply and vehicle revetment Northeast Os Kaesong, home o£i;tUe Communist armistice delegation. Pilots said they set off four An Bth! armyi officer said ground action ;?hdwed a “marked increase” iStinday night and early today. South ■ltoreab infantrymen of the (Tar* To Page Three) Monroeville Youth Dies Here Sunday Thomas Joseph Geis, 8-year-old aon of ft^r. 1 and Mrs. Joseph Geis of Monroeville route i, died Sunday mornihg at the Adams county memorial hospital. Surviving In addition io] the parents are three sisters, ShAllali, Sandra and Sher ryl, all at home, and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Flaherty of Van Wert, O. Funeral serviaes will be held at 9:39 a. WU 'hiesday at the'St. Rose Cathoiic iehurch at Monroeville, with 4>u)rlal In the church cemetery. ■ i ' ' ,

— kL'frJ .J? J. 4e«*« ' ilOl; t' j. j ; I (By Rev,, William Ensminger, United Brethren in Christ Church) TRANSFORMED TRIBULATION “Arid not only so, but we glory irj tribulations also: knovingtljat tribulation worketh patience.’’ Romans 5:3. ij\'T -■ i; ■ ' i ' Tribulations cam only be transformed within. Paul says we, exult in qur tribulations. It iis an inner joyful confidence, rather than an outward glorying, although the latter will often necessarily follow. ! i ’> |. v >. The Pivine process is as follows? God brings us into tribulations; graciously supplying therewith a. ! rejoicing expectation of deliverance in due time; and a knowledge that, as tihe winds buffeting Witte great oak on a hillside "cause the tree to thrust its roots deeper into the ground, so these tabulations will result in steadfastness, in faith and patient endurance. A« we are delivered we receive a sense of Divine approval which is oply found in those who, have : been brought through trials. This sense of God’s apl proval arouses witlhin us a happy state of soul. \ ■ j Briefly, we can but give a testimony from Russia. From Northern Siberia a letter came signed "Mary" and reads: "I experienced so many things that looked ierrtbie, but which finally brought me closer to Him. Each time circumstances became lighted, I was {tempted to break fellowship with the Lord. How cam I do otherwise than thank Him for additional hardships? They < only help me to what I always longed for— a continuous unbroken abiding in Him. Every so-called hard experience is just another step higher and eloper to Him.” 1 Paul regarded these as "our affliction, which is but for the moment, and is waking for us a iiar more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” (TH Cor. 4:l7);.add so Paul ! *took pleasure” in tribulations! (II Cor. 12:10). 1 \ ' ' I ■ '{ ■ _|*. U ' i. i'. ; ’ i i- ■ l i£ ; . -U... ! * ■ . '

| British Planes Fly Armed Over Germany Arming Ordered After Incidents 1 Frankfurt, Germany up — British bombers, fully armed and with jet fighter cover, tqok to the air over West Germany today m the; biggest royal air force exercise Since World War 11. 4*IW arming of the bomhers and fighters was ordered after last -week’s series of Communist-Allied plane incidents which included the shooting down of a British bomber’ hnd an American Thunderjet by Red, Jets. T&e U. S. air force, Which this week’is to be reinforced in Germany by 25 F-86 Sabrejets to mati?h the Russian MKMS’s, will Ben 4 its jets up to try to “knock down” the British bombers in the. incn.epvers. ’ The air games—called- exercise “Jutigie King” — are part of threO separate “war games.” being staged by the North Atlantic treaty organization command. ■rt, naval forces of the new I Mediterranean command pf Admiral -Earl Mountbatten -4-in exercise “Rendezvous” — will newest NATO sea command- At the . same time exercise “New feooh” w*n be an air defense test of NATO southern areas; covering South Europe from Italy to North Africa and eastward to Turkey’s frontier with Russia. , There were two) Important points to (ested in the widespread war How Britain’s twin jet Canberras which are similar to Soviet bombers massed ip Eastern Geriquny and. Poland stack up against the latest model jet fighters: and how well Mountbatten's command will work with the south European headquarters of U. S. Admiral Rofcerti B. Carney. After last week’s four incidents — severt.British airmen were killed in the down of a Lincoln bomber in one clash—the British air nifntstry announced that "any trginiing aircraft, will be fully arAied and 'yrin when necessary apford fighter cover.” ' v The bodies of five of the British airtnen killed when the bomber w*as slhot down by a Russian MIG along' the Soviet-British zonal borders In Germany were brought out of Russian; zone Sunday night. RAK experts at the scene of\the crash in the Soviet kone, still were inspecting wreckage of the bomber, accompanied’ by a Soviet contact officer. ’ I b INDIANA WEATHER 'Generally fair tonignt and T-ueaday; warmer Tuesday. Lbw, tonight 28-34 north, 33-37 south. High l ' Tuesday ] 5055 north, 55-60 south.

iPlan To Root Democrats Out Os Policy Jobs To Root Holdovers From Policy-Making Civil Service Jobs WASHINGTON, UP —President Eisenhower soon will issue an executive mrder. to root Democratic ’ holdovera’ out Ms policy-making jobs covered by civil service house speaker Joseph W. Marthv Jr., said today. Leaving the weekly white House legislative conference with Mr. Elsenhower and other key congressional leaders, Martin said the talk oh “unfreezing” civil service jobs covered only those at policymaking levels. The White House had announced more than twx> weeks ago that Mr. Eisenhower would issue (he older. He said then that past Democratic administrations had abused the idea of civil service by “blanketing in” some jobs. \ “Blanketing in” is government Jargon for giving politically appointive jobs civil service status and protection. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty announced originally that “fewer than I.tXW” pol-icy-ieyel jobs Would be affected by tne anticipated executive order. Martin said today the Republican leadership feels it is necessary to get men and women into administrative jobs who will be obligated to carry out policies for which 34.099,909 persons voted last N°‘ vember. 7 There was still no elaboration/ however, on the precise number of jobs involved or what departments and agencies will be affected, although it was understood virtually non'e will escape entirely. Arthur Flemming, a member of Mr. Eisenhower’s government reorganization committee, sat in on todsy> meeting. Republican officials have been complaining, ever since they took office 'last Jan. 29, that too many high-salaried federal officials appointed during 2Q yearp of Demo<Twm T» Pass Six) f. , /' '■ Funeral Thursday For Czech Leader Body Will Lie In State Three Days VIENNA, Austria. UP — Communist Czechoslovak president Element * Gottwald’s body lay in state today in the historic Spanish hall of Prague’s Hradcany Castle. Prague Radio announced the 56-year-old Communist leader would lie in state for three days and be buried Thursday with a state funeral. There was no explanation of the almost 48 hours delay in. announcing funeral plans. Gottwald died Saturday after a illness of two days. Western observers speculated an exhaustive autopsy may have been performed on the Red leader's body to “prove” he died of natural causes. .■ V —- Gottwald-apparently was in good health Wednesday when he returned to Prague from the Moscow funeral of Josef Stalin. Prague radio announced Friday afternoon the Czech Communist party and government chief was stricken Thursday with pneumonia and pleurisy. His condition worsened rapidly and Saturday morning the Czech radio anhounced he died despite “all that was done in men’s power" by 11 Czech and Soviet physicians. The announcement Sunday night •aid that at 1 p.m. Thursday all •work will stop throughput Czechoslovakia for five minutes to mark Gottwald** death. Thia is exactly the (procedure followed last Monday at Stalin’* funeral. . Western diplomatic sources in <m Te Ma) •• , I

’ • < Pennsy Passenger Is Derailed Today No One Injured In | Wreck This Morning MTNAMAC, Ind., UP — The Pennsylvania railroad’s "Southland” passenger train, headed for Chicago from FloHda with 178 passengers, pvas derailed at a bridge over the Tippecanoe river Urday. / r ' -Railroad officials said no one was injured. Sheriff James Bruce said one passenger was treated for a “wrehched however, and two'other personsl wpre “injured slighily.” Bruce said apven coaches, most of them Pullman cars on the rear of the train were derailed but none overturned. Two of the, coaches which left the tracks stopped on the north side of the bridge after one. of them -bumped and jostled across the ties 30 feet above the 1 stream. \ Bruce said it was prevented by a guard rail from plunging jnto the river. The other coaches left the tracks and stopped near the south end of the, bridge. Richard Swartnel, 51, Dayton, O.J who was asleep in a Pullman, was treated and released at a Winamac physician's office. Dr. Harold Hallock said Xirays showed a muscle sprain. . . : Slate police said the accident w*s caused ’by “a split rail”. ' - The locomotive’ and six other cars did not) leave, the tracks. The accident occurred two miles southeast of here |at 4:59 a.m., at a point ■where the double tracks of the railroad parallel U. S. 35. 1 About 3.040 feet of track was torn up. • Two other passenger trains were not -so far behind the “Southland” when the derailment'occurred. The “Ohioan” was at Star City, about three miles f)rom the wreck scene, ‘and the "Kentuckian” was at Lo(T«r» To Pace Six) Annual nigh School Show On This Month "Off The Records" Here March 26-27 “Off the Records” is the name of the annual spring dramatic effort to 'be (presented March 26 and 27 by the students Os Decatur high school at the gym. For the first time! in many years, said a| faculty spokesman, the school will put on a musical revue instead of a pageant or 1 a straight play. The performance will be in eight scenes jand will wind its theme around a record shop,with the >platters coming to life and being performed 'by the students. _ The music xyill range from popular, modern, to folk and religious, from Gounoud to Leroy Anderson, from ponderous church themes to light and frilly contemporary ditties. J Having speaking parts will be Sunya 'Stucky, Zelda Ensminger, Oarolie Nelson, Marlene Snyder. Janet Everhart. Jerry Cowan, Robert Brokaw, Joe Ditto, Robert Kise, Lois Strtihm, Russell Plumley, Louann Davidson. Singing roles will be performed , by Sharlene ,Lehman. Lois Wood, Jack Lawson, Jim Rowley, Gene Morrison and Bill Ditto. Faculty supervision was lent by Miss Helen Haubold, musical I director, and father members of the Decatur high faculty, aided ' fay students; Charlotte Vera, dialogue; Kathryn Kauffman and ] Amos Ketchurfa. stqge setting; , Rebecca . Walters, dances; Lowell i J. Smith, (lighting effects; 'Allan 1 Cole and Roger Pollock, stage managers; Catherine • Weldler, 1 costumes; and Carol Elzey, ac- 1 companist. t Three performances will be t given, two on March 26 at 1 p. m. and 8 p_. m., and one on March i 27 at 8 p. mJ The price will be i 25 cents to Lincoln echoed etu- < dents and 60 cents to others. 4 [l

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Challenge New I ' \ Russian Ruler On Peace Stand State Department Spokesman issues Challenge Today WASHINGTON. UP—The state department today chaHenged (Soviet Premier Georgi M. Malenkov to back up his “words” of peace with “acts.” | ' '' ' ’ J' ■ State department press officer Lincoln White said the United States’ government studied “with interest” the speech in which Malenkov Sunday asserted that outstanding questions could be resolved peacefully between Russia and the United States. “Protestations of peaceful intent are not npw from the Soviet Union, but words must lie weighed dgainst acts,” White said In an informal statement. “The war continues in Korea, planes on peaceful missions are shot down in Germany, and pledges for the independence of Austria continue to be ignored. •*lt will be interesting to how in these and other pressing respects Mr. Malenkov intends to his words of peaceful intent; White said this government noted that (Stalin’* name was barely mentioned by Malenkov in his speech to the •Supreme Soviet in Moscow. He said this was of "some significance.” - “From that standpoint, the words of Malenkov are received with interest by this government.” told reporters. “Their true ■ significance, however, must be determined by the future actions of the Soviet Union and by those under Its sway.” ♦ White recalled that secretary of state John Foster Dulles said in a press conference a week ago at the pnited Nations that the passing of Stalin opened a “new era” in wprld affairs. Dulles expressed his opinion that the new era would dawn in which aspirations of people and nations for freedom and dignity would make themselves felt more and more now that Stalin had died. ■ “I stress that this was a week ago,” White said,'' referring to Dußee’ views. "Mr. Malenkov yesterday, it would appear, also recognizes this latent power for good which Mr. Dulles emphasized in New York,” Asked to elaborate pn. what he meant by the. phrase “latent power for good,” White said Dulles, in effect, had said that no one else had the prestige Stalin had to exercise control over the Soviet and satellite nations and peoples. He said this meant that human aspirations for freedom could not be “stamped out forever.*’ Whether Malenkov intended it or not, his speech appeared to have done much to ease the world tension built up last week by two border incidents in Germany, in which Red fighter shot lowff an American and a British plane. The United States and Britain sharply protested the attacks. Many congressmen shared the feeling of Sen. Kart E. Mundt, R- • S. D., who termed Malenkov's speech “interesting” but who declined to guess at its meaning. Sen. William Langer, R-tN. D., a* (Ts« T* P«K* Tw«) Chinese Reds See Allied Offensive TOKYO, UP — The Comlnunist Radio Peiping said today the United Nations cammand is “tensing up” all along the Korean battlefront. Peiping indicated the Reds believe the Allie* are preparing to launch a major assault in Korea, including amphibious attacks on 1 both coasts. In reporting the “tensing up” along the front, the broadcast said since Jan. 1 ‘irew enemy troop disposltios have been made along the whole battlefront.”