Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 70.

Dowager Queen Mary Reported Critically ill Grand Old Lady Os British Empire Is Reported Dying LONDON.L’P — Dowager Queen Mary, the grand old lady of the British Commonwealth, lay dying tonight in her old red mansion on the mall. Gloom spread through Landton and the nation at the news of Bu-year-old Queen Mary’s desperate , condition. People started going Unto churches to pray for her. “Queen Mary’s strength is ebbing,” her physicians said in a bulletin—third of the day—issued at 7 p.m. * •; —The archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual head of the r Church, ofc England, was summoned to her bedside after it became evident her condition was desperate. •< V Other members of the royal family, including the duke of Windsor, her favorite sop. and Princess Mary, the princess royal. her only daughter, gathered at the old brick Mansion, House on the mall. ' J'.; Queen Elizabeth, whoriF the!'Old lady used to hold in her arms as an infant, awaited a call to the bedside from nearby Buckingham Palace where she .was working op state papers. J Queen Mary took to her bed Feb. 22. It was announced she was suffering from a recurrent gastric dib ment. But the news leaked that her illness was far more serious,? i i Two grave medical sued within a feW hours, disclosed today that Queen Mary mjght oh her death' bed. Then cametofrom sources clos'jdto the royal family, the disclosure' that Queen Mary suffered a severe internal ' hemorrhage during tsh£ night. i ■ ' fqdonihable, fighting even in extremity, she rose from her bed —and collapsed in a faint on t’ne, floor. . , • ,' >i I; AU her Hfe. she had stuck to a rigid code of duty. I F A crowd outside saw the duke of Wipdsof, Queen Many's best-belOv-ed son, arrive at Marlborough House and go inside with hepd bowed in grief, fj; Then came the archbishop of Canterbury, the Geoffrey Francis Fisher, hurrying to the bedside. Shortly after 3 p.m. Queen Mother Elizabeth, widow of\ Queen Mary’s second son. King Georgy VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth H,‘arrived. She was dressed entirely in “black, hdr face was pale arid grave. ’ , K - 4S *Queen Mary began to suffer from gastric trouble before Christmas. Slto was kept largely indoors, but insisted op going to Sandringham, the roVal country estate in windswept eastern England, for the traditional Christmas -family fathering. She caught chid there. Returning to London, she stayed almost constantly indoors; Ijhen took to her bed. It became knpwn that her memory—a memory shat extended reigns—had started to stray. It was difficult at times to get her to tpke ’ For the first time, a formal medical bulletin. , was posted outside Marlbotbugh House this morning: “Queen Mary had a restless night due to a sudden occurrence of more symptoms of trouble,” if said. “Her majesty’s condition 1$ (Tun Te Paste Six) U. N. At Stalemate ’ \ ' I’ ■■■ On New Secretary \ Meetings Failing Ta Produce Results UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. UP— The United Nations security counclL apparently deadlocked in an effort to agree on a new general secretary, planned another, secret session todav. . / Two similar meetings of the veto-holding Big, Five Monday failed to produce results and it ’became more Trygve Lie might be Aasked to continue in the $55,000 a year job. Informed sources said Russia's Valerian A. Zorin clearly indicated his country could do nothing more about resolving the stale mate. - • !. Russia's first choice for the position was Polistr foreign minister Stanislaw He received only one vote. Then Russia proposed India’s Mrs. Vijayla Lakshmi Pandit, who received only two votes. - ’ J , The Russian position as today's \ rrura Ta rose* kikMo

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f Hits Back At Red Charges! : i i . tj t Wai U replying TO CZECH charges that the U. S. foments “subversive activities” through the mutual security act behind the iron curtain, \ U. S. ambassador to the V. N. Henry Cabot Lodge strikes back, citing the transformation 'by. Russia of democratic Czechoslovakia into a communist puppet state. Lodge holds up three fingers to emphasize tp the U. N.; political committee the three days it took the Soviet to complete subversion of Czechoslovakia.

Reject Moscow Explanation 01 Aerial Attack Reject Explanation Os Air Attack On Weather Airplane

b, WASHINGTON, UP -rThe state department today accused Russia of “fabricating an unfounded version” of a recent skirmish between a I'. S. and a Soviet plane off Siberia. ; j [ In an official statement, . the department rejected a Soviet note claiming the 'tk S. ffir force plane violated Russian territory and fired first. 1 [ This government stood firm on a previous protest to Moscow demanding Jh® Soviets discipline the 'Russian airmen involved and take steps to prevent trbciitfrence of similar incidents in the future. State department press officer . Michael X McDermott read to newsmen a statement saying the Rosian allegations are “completely it ‘ variance with the facts as established by a careful investigation.”* He said the investigation showed the'American plqine “was at all times over international waters” and at the time of the! incident was at least 25 mile's from the nearest Soviet territory. He said this government stands on its protest and expects that “the Soviet government will take measures to discipline the Soviet personal responsible and to prevent recurrence of; such incidents.’’ McDermott said he does not know, however, whether the United States wilt reply : to the Soviet , note. The United: State® had charged in a protest note that the RB-50 plane was orj a routirte weather reconnaissance mission over international waters off the Soviet Kamchatka Peninsula when it was ■ fired on by M®G-15 fighters March J 14 : : / I . ! " . ( In its r€ply,[ Moscow denied the claim, arguing that the American | plane actually had'[| twice flown bvdr Siberian territory and opened fire first. <lt demanded ihat the United States take measures to prevent any further such frontier 'violations. . -Mj !’ A stale department spokesman said this explanation was “direct;iJy contrary to facts-known here,’* The Soviet note, delivered Sunday, was made public in Moscow Monday night. The note said that “in accordance with verified data, it was established that an American bomber of the ’B-29 type violated at 11:57, a. m., March 15 the local district of Cape Krestbvoi of the U.S.S.R. state frontier." The is a modified version of the B-29 bomber., equipped pri- ( marily for reconnaissance, not . bombing missions. Moscow »aid the American plane k opened fire against the Soviet jet i plane. 1 The RB-50 crewmen said one of i two intercepting MIGs fired on ; them first, and they fired back in [ .self-dqfense. “Fot* the purpose; ofL self defense, one Soviet aircraft had tb • open fire after which the Jnfring- • ing aircraft turned left over the - Soviet coast and disappeared in • an eastern direction," the Russian ; note said. The, note said that in view of the “facts,” the protest made by the U. S. on March 18 “it without (Tnr» Ta P>toe Elcbt)

To Confirm Class Thursday Evening Rites Thursday At St. Mary's Church The Most Rev. Leo A. Pursley, auxiliary bishop of Fort Wayne, wyi confirm a class of 99 school children and a number of adults in the Catholic faith in rites at St.-Mary’s* Catholic bhurch Thursday evening. The services will begin at 7:30 p. m. The confirmands and their sponsors will proceed to the Communion railing where Bishop Pursley will confer the holy rite. j The sign of the cross is made with chrism by the Bishop on the recipient’s forehead. I The Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seim[etz, pastor. Will he to charge of the service. Bishop Pursley is expected to make a short talk during the evening. The school children who will receive the sacrament, are: Janet Baker. Ronald Baker, Sharpn Baker, Patricia Beal, Stephen Blythe, Donna Bowers, Edna Bowers, Ruth Ann Braun, Susan Braun, David Colchin, Thomas Colchin, Isabella Costello, Patricia Coyne, Sylvia Deßolt. Steven DeBolt. ißernardine Eiting, Edward Loshe, Kathryn Faurote, Michael Forst, Robert Gase, Mary Geimer, Gerald Heiman, Sharoii Hess, Frederick Kauffma®, Patrick Kelley.' Katherine Kessen. Thomas Ritson, John Kohne, Thomas Kohne, Mary Kriegel. Michael! Lengerich, Ruth Lichtle, Jean Lose, Patricia Loshe.'John Mendoza. Daniel Meyer, Sharon Miller, Mary Murphy, Nancy Murphy. Virginia Ralston, Ronald Roudebush, Patricia Roberts, James RhmschlOg, Judith Roberts, Elizabeth Schultz, Michael Schultz, Joseph Schurger, James Staub, John Tricker, Joyce Trickery Donald Ulman. Ruth Ulman, Gerald yilagomes, Sharon Wietfeldt, Fred Zintstnaster, Patricia Alberding, Juditji Baker, Rosemary Baker, Sue Baker, Nancy Colchin, Emma CoJpaert? Patricia Cook, Joan Gage, Nancy G£se, Kathe Hain, Suzann® Hess. Marilyn Hake, Marilou Holthouse, Nancy. Holthouse. Patricia Jauregui, Carole Kahle, gusan Keller, Carol Kefcsen, Carolyn Kohne, Ann LaFontaine, Joaq Lengerich. Joanne Lo®he, Rita Miller,: Ann Omlor. Catherine Schnepp; Mary Schwaller, Lupe Serna. Mary Serna, Gloria Voglewede, Mary Ellen Walter, Garjr Coffee, M|chael Coffee, Glen\ Colpaiert, David Deßolt, Patrick Ellenberger, Kenneth Geimer, Donald Kitson, Philip Lose, David Meyer, David Omlor, Raymond Reed, Carlos de la Rivera, Edward Schultz, Robert Tricker. \

J \ ' \- !\ • 10 Are Tentatively \ Accepted For Jury y Ten jurors were tentatively chosen today to serve on the panel in the case of Letisha Ftouding against the estate of Martito Dlllavou, a claim against the estate for $1,955. The plaintiff claims the estate owes her that amount for services rendered before! the death of Martha Dillavoti. The administrators of the estate maintain there is no debt, the 1 statute of limitations no longer holds (six years), and deny any obligation. Fourteen prospective jurors were dismissed peremptorily and sheriff Bob Shraluka was directed to summon two more prospective jurors.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday# March 24, 1953.

Allied Counter-Attack To Regain Old Baldy Is Stalled By Heavy Rains

Asks Senators i To Study FBI I File On Bohlen Taft And Sparkman { Asked To Report On < Derogatory Material J WASHTNGTON, UP— The sen| ' ate -foreign relations committed asked \Sens. Robert A. Taft, R-O.j and John J. Sparkman. today to study the FBI file oh Charts E. Bohlen and make a ' report on “derogatory” material to it. The committee acted at the gestion of Taft himself in th< hope of calming a furious senate- : controversy over Bohlen's nomination to be ambassador to Russia? Secretary of etate John Foster Dulles and attorney general Her| bert Brownell Jr., already have in| spected the career diplomat’s file| They reported it contains nothing i credible in the way pt derogatory* material to indicate he would be ft, loyalty or security risk. ’i Taft. Republican leader of the; senate, suggested Monday that tit| protect 'Bohlen from innuendo if m|ght be a good idea for the for-;, eign relations committee so hav<’ one or two members read the file.' The committee acted on his suggestion at a closed meeting whito the senate -itself was in recess. The debate on Bohlen's nominal, tlon will resume Wednesday. 1 Leaders of the fight [against him are Sens. Joseph R. McCarthy. RWiA., Pat McGarran. D-Nev., and Styles Bridges, R-N. H. Sparkman, the 1952 Democratic candidate for vice-president, is the ranking Democrat on the foreign! relations coriimittee. Arrange-! ments for him and Taft ioysee the Bohlen file were made through assistant secretary of state Thurston B. Morton, who attended the! committee session. A member w’ho left the meeting! early, told newsmen he'“assumes” this means -the two senators twill be granted access to the FBl’s; closely guarded “raw file,” so* rrara To pa*o Btx> . j Orders Schwartz Be Returned To Jail Peter L. Schwartz, convicted in 1949 for incest and sentenced to. from two to 21 years at the Ini diana state prison, Michigan City* has been ordered returned to the Adams county jail to await a hearing on a petition for error coram ■ nobis, error of the court. The hear- : ing on the petition will be held with venue Judeg Homer J. Byrd, Wells county, presiding, on April 20 at 1 p.m. If Judge Byrd finds i tljat there has been an error of the : Court then ’he may order a newj trial, if not, then Schwartz will be returned to prisbn. Schwartz’s at- [; torheys are Jenkins and Fiely of b PoHlano; Sheriff Bob Sbraluka will ; go to the state prison tomorrow I ior Schwartz. . ’ L t ‘ s-iti !\1

■j - ; y.J' .! j 'Wiectefattoii' (By Rev. W. S. Luglnbllt, assistant Paglor, Nuttman Ave. U, B. Church) THE NECESSITY ©F THE CROSS I • ■ Text—Luke 24:26, Ought .not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter , into |is glory 8 ? I : Contrary to the facts in \the b a S® ordinary men, the death of Christ rather than the life I 'of 'ChVist is of supreme importance. All thils had been foretold 1$; toe prophets, but His disciples had failed to realize the necessity Sqf the cross. They had J lost [ their dearest friend, their hope f<to redemption of Israel. Their hearts were heavy; they did noH realize that Jesus had finished j the work He was sent to dt?. d f , Christ came to die, this chief purpose of the Incarnation, “For the 6oA[of man ca -te ‘.not to be ministeredi unto,! but to minister, and to give his life for many”—(Mark 1®:45) The death of Christ was essential for our Salvatioh. The Son of man had tp be lifted up if mah WAs to be saved (John 3:144:15); i the grain of wheat must fall, into -he ground and die |f it is to bring forth fruit. Christ came'that might have life (John 10:10) He is the way. the truth, and tile life. May we all during this Lenten season look to Christ as the true source of life.

Open Sale Os Stock for Adams Central | Nearly Third Os Stock Subscribed * More than $6,000 Os the's2o,ooo l&omnion stock was subscribed at the general meeting of patrons of County Central Consolidated: school held at the high school f|iiilding. in Kirkland township Mon-da-j- night under the sponsorship ftf’ihe Adams Central parent-teach-ers association. . Ttie stipek, at $lO a share par is for the holding company 4?t up to build and lease to the Adams Central school board two srade school buildings for a period % 20 years, at which time the will be turned over to we. corporation. | The five| incorporators, Fred Adler, Ezra Kaehr, fcalvin Coppess, wan Striker and Chris Inniger will as the first board of direct--,(§■B of the holdingi-'eompany and will serve until April 1, 1954. *The parent-teachers group will a drive this week Jo solicit tftnek subscriptions from dll of the; sl'hooi’s patrons and friends. lIL Burdette Custer, of [ the Srm of Custer and Smith, explains the entire school; construction an to Jh® Adams Central high drool students today and almost 1 of these students agreed to subscribe for at least one hhare of stock. . - J The common stock will [be relirat the end of th® 20-year lease, .period In the same manner as the to be issued for actual epnsiruction of the two. buildirigs ire retired. (The holding company plan will immediately reduce the duinui®tivp s|hpol fund tax from the [ present 73 tents a hundred on taxable prope<ty! to about .35 cents,, it was pointou|’ first of\ several laminated s|e®l arches was placed [in the fitst unit of the .four; buildings to ciftopos® Adams Central’s school system at the west edge of Mob■rjfe today. That building, 168 feet bf 153 feet the gymnasium, will be ready for use this fall. Bounds for high school unit, which will be billlt 40 feet_east of the gympasium, will' be sold April 2. The Adams Central school board will meet Friday. night to approve final plans so? this building and the plans then will go to the state departments for work on the high schodl buildIn* will start May 1 and that buildtoff will be ready for occupancy by< the second semester of next ye?r. . Sfllje holding company. board of -di|i^ tors "’Bl meet Saturday to ; bylaws, being prepared, by •CuMer and Smith, acting attorneys [fot ith® holding company and close :th| 'Stock list. The board will meet week with an architect to plans for the construction of twA: eight-room elementary school • biKlflings to be placed west, of the : gy|n|iasium, each building to be 40 fe4t ! away from the next nearest bJlding. The two grade school buildings • i *Tutb T» Pave Rlahf); iX- ~ ■

Atomic Device Is Fired In Nevada Today : Report Troops In Area Unharmed By * Atomic Detondtion MT. CFJARLESTON, Nev., UP —The atorqto energy commisslah fired its slcond atomic device within a week shbrtly before dawh today, and reported the 1,300 [troops huddled in foxholes in the 'area survived “without injury” the tower detonation at the Yucca Flat proving ground. The top secret explosion went off “exactly on schedule” at 5:10 a.m., p.s.t. (7:1(7 a.m., c.s.t.) but there were conflicting reports' of its intensity/ The flash was not seen in some areas where ptevious atomic explosions sighted. Other localities, to the east and north, reported the flash brighter than the public demonstration of last week. 'A ; : The flash was seen in Pocatello, Ida., 700 miles north of Yucca Flafc and also in Reno, 450 miles north. \Residents of Las Vegas 75 miles away, estimated it took from five and a half lo five and .three quarter minutes for the faint rumble of the explosion to reach there. In an official statement, the AEC merely described the explosion as that of a nuclear device which detonated at the Nevada proving ground shortly before dawn today, being fired from a 300 foot tower in the Yuccg Flat firing area. The nuclear shot was preceded by high explosive shots in the bias® effect studies. The staterrtent said the device exploded with a flash that looked like g hundred! suns... The fireball boiled furiously, for about 10 seconds, and then the atomic cloud itself began to churn into the sky. Ten minutes after toe flash, the cloud had taken the of two squat toadstools. the stain of .'one growing out Os the head ot the other.. The 'wind carried the atomic cloud toward the east. Fifteen minutes latel* the double inushroonfe cloud had climbed to more than 30,000 feet and hung in the sky. grotesque and deadly. Less than five minutes after the blast, Yucca Flat became a beehive of activity. Maneuvering troops climbed from their trenchI I Turn To Pagre Etckt)

State Asks Venue Change In Case Inheritance Jax . ; Claim Is Filed George L. Denny, an official of the state inheritance tax division, has asked for a change of venue from\the Adams circuit court in the matter of the estate of the late William F. Kukelhan, who died February 11, 1952. The state claims' a certain parcel Os property.. 80 acres in Union township, formerly appraised by' appraiser? Oscar ■ Fuelling and Charles Thieme at $16,000, has inheritance tax due on it in the amount of $316.80. Attorneys for the estate, howjever, maintain that the property should he taxed in the amount it was sold .for and not the appraisers’ amount. I The. 80 acres were sold, to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Franz, bn ‘December 18. 1962 for SB,OOO, ;<balf of the appraised amount. And they want to he taxed only for the SB,OOO and not the $16,000. The tax on SB,OOO is $158.40. The ground for a -change of venue in Denny’s statement is local prejudice. | The attorneys for | the estate state that the" SO-acre tract was contracted, for sale before the death of the deceased but not completed until after his death.

Secret Committees Opposed By Baruch Continues Testimony Before Senate Body

WASHINGTON, UP — Elder statesman Bernard Baruch suggested today' that* cotigress quit having so many secret committee meetings and ‘itell the American people what’« going on.” “All this talk a'liout government secrets is a lot of hokum,”- the white-haired financier ; told the oena-te banking committee. "Foreign agents know more about military masters than our own people. They went to the toeart and center of the atomic bomb before I knew one was being made.’ , Baruch unloaded his criticism *as he testified for the second day on his ideas about stand-by economic controls for b se | in case of emergency. Monday he said congress would rue the day if it neglected to make such plans. The 82-year-ol& adviser to presidents pleaded for more with the public after a question on the subject by Sen. Burnpt R. Maybank. D-S. Q. He said he wouldn’t have brought up the ma-tter himself. I !< \ “The American people aren’t children,” Baruch said. “They art*' the ones who have to fight, to die. to suffer and to pay. ’ They dre wiser than many of us think —we sometimes find that out at elections.” Chairman Homer E. Capehart. R-Ind., said he is about ready for a showdown on the senate floor between the people who are interested to preparing for an emergency “and those who want to keep on profiteering when millions of boys are sent to the battle fields.” said the proposed stand-by legislation has nothing to do with peacetime controls but is for use o-nJjMn the event of war. He and Baruch agreed that i. people‘understood that they would support the legislation.

To Discuss Possible New Industry Here • Decatur C. Os C. ( To Meet April 6 * Th© possible entry of a new industry in Decatur will be on the 'agenda at the next meeting of 'he general membership of the board of directors and the gehepal mem bership of the Decatur Chamber ot Commerce April 6, it was revealed today by CC president Ralph Habegger. ' Habegger said he was approach ed by several business men, whom he did not name; after a “trial balloon” was hoisted in the Dail.: Democrat after the last meeting of the CO March 2, in which it came out that Decatur was losing a. candidate for a new industry because ’ the > city coiild not offer facilities to house It. The industry unidentified, is represented by Syndicate which said in a letter here that t was a ndn-seasonal Industry providing employment for about 100 'persons. Habegger did not give afly de tails but inferred that he had written to the syndicate but has not received a reply as yet. It was also disclosed by Habegger that Moose home, will not be used for meetings in the future and another meeting place will be named jshoritly. ’ .'[ H Gooding Amusement Co. affirmed the dates when they will be here tor the €C spring festival as May 18-23, and it Is assumed that they will arrive here to set up equipment the evening of. May 17. . INDIANA WEATHER I Considerable cloudiness and colder, snow flurries tonight and In north Wednesday. Low tonight 27-34 north; 31-37 south. - High Wednesday 33-39 north, 39-46 south.

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Heaviest Red Offensive In Months Is On

Chinese In Control Os One-Third Os Korean Mountain SEOUL. Korea, Wednesday, UP —A driving rainstorm stalled an. ’ American connter-attack bn JBaldy early today, leaving the ? biggest Communist offenaivb force in five months in control of onethird of the mountain. Earlier seventh division trodps had been inching ahead in the battle to oust Chinese from the vital height guarding the Chor-won-Yonchon invasion gateway to Seoul. .[ I . \ Chinese commanders had hurled more than 3.50<» men into the battle which was 31 hours old at 4 a. m. [ United Press war correspondent .Victor Kendrick at jthe front said big guns from both sides were locked in a “tremendous” artillery duel, sending “very heavy*” casualty figures higher. I • , Maj. Gen. Arthur G. Trudeau, commander of the veteran U. S. seventh divatou. told Kejadri- k; “Wfe’re doing aH right." Kendrick said latest reports from battalion commanders indicated the counterattacking seventh division me» were gaining. Reserve troops moved up to reinforce the front lines. * Division officers said the battle might last three or four more days. ’ ** “You can call it our ‘Operation Smack Back’.”,, said Trudeau. “This is the Chinese ‘Operation Smack 5 .” He referred to the seventh division raid last December which some congressmen charged was a “show.” The seventh said it w;as a necestory although unsuccessful attack. Kendrick: said.* oSten “smoke, haze and disrupted I communications prevented a ctoar picture of what was going on or who had what part of the hillf’ Rain and clouds aided the Chinese, holding :U. N. [fighter-bomb-ers to a few scattered support missions Tuesday. Kendrick said amiong the dispatches coming back from battlefield telephone switchboards were several reports of individual heroism. ; | | First Lt. Alan Fegler, New Orleans, La., was trapped temporarily as Chinese overran a banker on Porkchop Hill, jle called in artillery on the Chinese and himself and was rescued unharmed by counter-attacking Americans. “He did a a'ondertul job?’ said Trudeau. “If I have anything to say about it he will be deebrated.

“Our men are courageous youngsters and are doing a splendid job,” said Trudeau. ’ "They have to ‘be to stay alive.” • » He told Kendrick ithe Reds regrouped their forces and committed a regiment of about 3.000 men in a stand-or-die effort to win the strategic peak. It was not known how many of the 3.000. if any. were being held in reserve. Kendrick said Colombian troops, first hit by the Reds in the Old Baldy “got the hell kicked out of them.’t American infantrymen later took over -the fight. The Reds also leveled their big guns on four other Allied positions adjoining Old Baldy in an attempt to keep re in force merits ’away. “At one time they must have been pumping shells at the rate of 25 per minute,” said Sgt. Samuel Hamilton, Philadelphia. Tank-supported Chinese launched a seriies of attacks at 9 o’clock , Monday night with : 3,000 Reds striking* against seven Allied-held hills guarding the traditional Seoul invasion route west of Chorwon. I The Red effort climaxed a. month *of Communist attacks against strategic Allied advance positions along the Western and ‘Turn To Face Six) *, I r