Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI No. 72.

- Arrive For Top Level Talks I' I _.JBH . Z Z1 •“ ' W?w % '‘-■■J mMB? * ’/ m \ JU • “’ ♦ K W- , 1 JB . . T ’ 1- . > ;t ■ I■l y v ' ~ J- I II * j.\ I ■ r \' ? ' S'* I ( ' i ■ . r y 'i Slfc • ■ ; ? • '\ ' j . . - ’ si i>a .... —I MINISTER Rene Mayer (center) and. George Bldault (left) minister of foreign affairs Stated Thev 11 are Ambassador to the U. 8. Hpnri Bonnet on their arrival by air in the United »n IhJw 17 , enroute to Washington, Mayer\said. “not to ask for more money;” but for conference on the world situation with President Eisenhower. T euu ‘ erence

Gromyko Says Soviet Policy Prevents War Says United States Qouble Talking On r Subject Os Peace UNITED NATIONS,' N. Y„ UP — Andrei A. Gromyko told the United Nations today that - Russia’s “peaceful vpolicies” have prevented a new world war, He accused the i’nited States otbngaging in “double talk" on the subject, of peacs. ** . ‘ Gromyko charged, in effect, that America’s refusal to accept the existence of Gommunist states was responsible for international tension? \, I ■ He \told the main political committee of the U. N. that the United States must abandon its policy of “intervention” in the domestic affairs of Iron Curtain nations, to achieve peace. > j- <\ Gromyko spoke aS the committee prepared to wind up its debate on Czechoslovakia’s chaYge that the United States in using its mutual security 4 agency for sabotage, espionage and subversion behind the Iron Curtain. i The. Soviet ambassador to (Britain spoke as Andrei .tf’. Vishinsky, Russia’s new chief delegate here, was lieturning today to a ,U. i which is hoping he is the liearer of some sincere word of a 7 ppcilitary attitude in the 2 cold war. But Gromyko’s diatribe, a bitter assault on U.'S. policies, indicated Russia’s'peace feelers are heavily qualified and that the main ?gosi of the Kremlin's foreign nnlicy still is to split the United State® and itsu fillies. : : “The time will come,” Gromyko said, “when the governments, iof the nations defending the U. fe. position’ hfefe will 'look more , and more to Moscow for aid and tb be ,safe from war.” H “Perhaps,l’ United States bassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr?, told the 17. N. political committee “Mr. Vishinsky can bring, new word from the Kremlin.” • “Perhaps,” British Delegate Sir Gladwyn Jebb told the same committee, “we shall even have a new and less aggressive policy. ’ Let us hope so.” . 4 ’ ’J But neither was ovet-optimlstic. And while the U. N. awaited a sign of conciliation from Vijhinsky—returning aboard the Queen Mary from four days' conference < (Turw To ’ I Union Good Friday ; Service At Monroe h I 14 " • 4 7. ! A Union Good Friday service will be held at the Monroe dist church, from 1 to 3 o'clock, the Rev. Ralph R. Johnson, pastor; announced today. Participating in the service will be the Rev. Johnson; the Rev. Stanley |Petfere, United) Brethren minister; f the Rev. <j, R. Shaw, Weslfyan Methodist minister, and the Bev. Vernon Riley, Friends minister. Holy Week union servlces|for \ the Monroe community will a be held each evening next week, i On Monday, At the Monroe Methodist church; Tuesday. Pleasant Vgjley Wesleyan Methodist church; Wednesday. Monroe Friends chtirch and Thursday, Winchester United Brethren church. The ministers will exchange pulpits in the Moly' Week preaching series.

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To Extend Gas Main To Mercer Avenue New Six-Inch Main Is Being Installed The six-inch gas main being in-> stalled on Second street, will be extended south to five Points, where it will be connected with the new line at the Mercer Avenue intersection, C. W.. Fuelling, contractor for the pipe installation, stated today.Approximately 1.200 feet of new main is bping laid 3$ inche's under the street. The old line, which .was plhced ip the street ip the early 1890’s, will not be reapved, Fuelling stated. Ji, “|ull and complete service j to customers will be mtdwtnfned bv the. Northern Indiana public Service company, (The Gas’ Co.) while ' the new line is being installed," Fuelling said. V Extensive the gaa lines has been underway in this city for several years. Recently the line which rung on the east side of Second Street was extended north to the corner of Second and Jackson streets. > Other connections have „ keen made in different areas' in the city and new services- have been? installed. Fuelling explained. “The Gas company is doing everything |K>ssible to. improve its distribution service and bring the lines to customers”, the contractor I said. , ’ The torn up street surface will he replaced to the satisfaction of the state and city \sireet deparmens. he sfiid. j | C. W. Fuelling, Inc., is located in Fort Wayne and the company i; - the , gen >rai contractor for gas main extensions in the northern Indiana The company also operates in Michigan? 1 where Bob Cook, foimerly oflhig city, is ic charge ol tjae construction\crew. r ■ ’\ ■ '~ 4 jv Mrs. Lizetta Knapp Is Taken By Death Funeral Services J Saturday Afternoon Mrs, Lizetta Knapp,Ußs, died at •10:25' o'clock Wednesday night at the home of a brother, Henry Presuhn. Hoagland. She Raided in Root township until after suffering n cerebral hemorrhage last June.when she was taken to her brother’s home. ' » ’ She was ’born in Auglaize county, 0., April 88,. 1867. a daughter of Francis and Uhristena Shinet Presuhn. Her husband, William Knapp, died Mrs. Knapp was a . member .of St. Lutheran dhurch. ■ Surviving are twi> brothers, John Presuhn of Monroeville and Henry Presuhn of Hoagland; one : sister, Mrs. Sophia Gantz of Piqua, 0., two nieces and five nephews. Qne daughter preceded her in death. i > ? Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p. m. Saturday at the Zwlck funeral home find at 1:30 l p m. at St. ! Peter’s Lutheran , church,. the Rev., F. W. Droegemueller officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home After? . 7 o’clock this evening. l i-O P— k i o j, » 12 PAGES O' 'i — 4 '■ ■ o

Eisenhower In Strong Defense Os Chas. Bohlen. Vote On Bohlen's Nomination Slated \* For Senate Friday [ WASHINGTON, Ut> —President Eisenhower today ihade another strong defense of Charles E. Boh- 1 len as the best qualified man to be ambassador to ‘Riissia. He also told reporters he was saddened by dissension within his own party over the nomination. The President, at a| news confer ece, spoke of the fight over Bohlen’s confirmation with more feeling than he had shown in the past. He stated flatly that Bohlen’s nomination would remain before the senate because he felt strongly about I Bohlen's qualifications. He noted that he himself had been a guest in Bohlen’s home, had played golf with him, and had listened to his philosophies. The Bohlen conflict has produced a dramatic clash between Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) and the senate’s Republican leadership led by Sen. (Robert A. Taft of Ohio. McCarthy also has questioned the good judgment of secretary of state’ John Foster Dulles in backilng Bohlen. \ i\ . \ A vote on Bohlen’s nomination is expepted Friday. The senate was in recess today. Tempers, which were high Wednesday during bitter debate, were cooling down. Mr. Eisenhower showed some distaste for commenting directly op the attacks on Bbhfen by McCarthy and Sen. Pat McCarran (D-Nev?) He suggested that they might be indulging in what he called a shell game. Later in his news conference a reporter pointed out that the Democrats were getting some satisfaction from the present dissension within the Republican party. Newsmen wanted to know whether the division in Republican ranks reminded him of similar splits in the Democratic party under President Roosevelts Mr. Eisenhower said he was tryihg to be\President of the United States, biit added that of course these partisan arguments within his own party saddened him. f* Without, referring to specific individuals, the President said that before he makes any major federal appointments, he calls in the potential official and examines him personally for traces of bias and doctrine which might be contrary to the government policies. He said he prefers men with middle<>f-the road philosophies and does not like extremists who make up their minds before they, have all the facts. After the specific question of Bohlen was raised the President rejected the theory bf Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N. H.) that Bohlen, having partibiated in| the TrumanAcheson foreign policy, could not be expected to support Mr. Eisen-how-er’s different policies. The President said that \ men who could not give loyal support to policies determined by the state department had only one course—to resign. I j v ; '■ INDIANA WEATHER J Partly cloudy tonight. Moatly fair and warmer Friday. Low tonight 26-34. High Friday 46-

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Ammunition Supplies Now Ample In Korea; Ship To Other Areas ■■ '-t ' ... ,

Chinese Reds Force Allies Off Old Baldy • ■ ~ u-. Chinese Reds Slam I Into Four UN Hills / On Western Front. l\l t « SEOUL. Korea. UP —MOre thjhi 1,000 Chinese Communists slatnmed into four United Nations hiljs' on the weste’n^'front Thursday night after forging American aid! Colombian troops off Old Baldy,J: | The Reds,* attacking under cover, of heavy artillery and mortar sent a full battalion of more thah 800 men against Bunker Hill, while some 2(0 charged nedrbyposts. ' ' . ; » Allied troops, were reported standing fast on Banker Hill but Chinese swept into Allied trenches in at least one of the outpoiP 'battles. - . u. Bunker Hill guards the short ! w-estern invasion route through { Munsan to Seo al—a position sirti-i liar to that of Old Baldy at tl|e head of the’ Chorwon-Yonchon ithl vasion corridor on the west-cep-tral front. F The new attacks began at 7:15 p.m. (4:15 *.m. csd.) about 30 miles west of Old Baldjr where* U. S. and Colombian troops were pit by a 3,500-man Chinese attack Monday night. ; Fighting continued past midnight at two outposts. Allied troops battled the Reds with knives, bayonets, lists artd hand grenades as assault waves swept into their trenches. .;!• Observers believed the Reds may have made the new assaults, in an effort to relieve pressure oh Old Baldy. i American hghter-bombers drpp: ped 200,000 pounds of bombs today on Chinese troops defending Old Baldy. At the same time. Allied' warplanes destroyed or darnaged eight Communist MIGs that tried to break up the pulverizing attacks. » The Reds also paid heavily in casualties for their assap.lt on Old Baldy. The Sth army said that up' tb 6 p.m. last night 1,859 Red troops had be®n killed or wounded in thfc repeated Communist ‘‘human wave" assaults. U. N. Sabrejets destroyed one MIG, probably destroyed another, and damaged five more of the •Russian-built jet fighters. A propeller-driven marine Corsair, believed hopelessly outmatched by the swift enemy jet fighters.damaged another MIG in a fight about 4ff miles north of the 38tji parallel. Although the Sabrejet claims came in‘battles In northwest Korea far from the Old Baldy area.the sth air force said the Red jets-, were trying to break through aSabre screen to stop the U. H.* fighter-bomber assaults. h “Sabrejets swept MIG alley and repeatedly turned back attempts , (Tarn Tn Psire kfxl

>* (By Robert J. Tlnsky, Church of Christ, 121 W. Grant St.) ■ A NEW. WORLD “Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of -the saints In (light: Who hath delivered us frouj the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the (Jdngdom of his dear Son.” U O' Col. 1:12, 13. r ! A ; '1 ■' < - J I• i \ , Some have proposed <a new fworld by means of social They are to be commended that It hey want the world made better. . Their folly is in falling to see that the world can only be made . right as the individuals who m|ike up rhe world are right with God. Bin has brought chaos inti? the lives of individual men and into society. Only in Ch-ript if there redemption, only through Christ can we have a new wori|. Each person must accept His transforming grace. Only when men put Christ in the right place will we have the world as God wants it to be. ! i j . Are you in Christ? True filth, complete repentance, and Immersion in name of the Trinity are the steps that put us in \ Christ If you are concerned abqut .making this world better and about living in the better world >after this life is ended you> need' :to be in Christ. ‘ I > ■ ! ' ' '' I i. ' '\ I I ■

Mirt.-?;. ;■ ■■■ J --- - j family Funeral For bowager Queen Mary > Private Ceremony F Is Planned Tuesday t LONDON UP — Guns at British' |havy bases throughout the world boomed a salute to- Queen Mary today while the royal family prepared to give her, the simple funeral she requestedi \Forty-gun salutes weri fired at ; 21 navy and army bases throughout - the British isles at noon.. By order of the admiralty, salutes also were fired at all British navy bases aboard. The dowager Qtieen will he > buried in the royal chapel of' (St. » George's at Windsor next Tuesday, ■. one week from her death in Marl- : borough House at 85. The service id the dhapel will be ’I private. But it was announced today., a public memorial service will be held at 3 p.nn Tuesday in London's vast St. Paul’s Cathedral. Workmen building stands for ’ Queen Elizabeth's coronation 5 cession speeded bp their work opti side (Marlborough House, Queen Mary’s home, where her body Jay today. They want to be eute the stands are sturdy by the time Queen Mary's body is taken to ancient .Westminister Hall in the house of ■ parliament Sunday to lie in stare. It is by QUeen Mary’s» own request that the coronation will be . held as scheduled June 2 despite her death. The official period' of mourping will be one month. Her funeral Will be televised, i. ' was Announced today. Her body will be placed in the" tomb where her husband. King GeorgeW. is buried. When George died in 1936, she asked that the tomb be built with a space for her beside him. Many's request for simplicity was part of the she conveyed tq her family before she died last Tuesday night. f ‘ Another part of the wish was that the coronation of her granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth 11, go on as scheduled June It will. i The chapel at Windsor will be closed to the public fqr thfe simple .family burial Tuesday. Admission wil be 1 by ticket only. They were being sent today > to closest relatives and friends. On Sunday the royal coffin will be carried in procession from Queen’s chapel, at Marlborouh House, London home, to Westminister Hal, lesb than half a mile (Tnra T« Pave Five) Install New Signal Lights After Easter Four signal lights, delivered last week foi\ the intersection of Monroe and Thirteenth streets, will be installed some time after Easter, announced Mayor John Doan today, According to a previous agreement with the state highway commission, the state will provide the lights and necessary equipinent while the city defrays the cost bf installation.

French leader ‘ Confers With Eisenhower French Premier And Eisenhower Meet On Presidential Yacht WASHINGTON Vl*— President Eisenhower and French Premier Rene Mayer boarded the yacht’ Williamsburg today for strategy] talks on the cold war tn Europe and the hot war in the Far East. The presidential yacht remained tied up at the naval gun factory while the two leaders and their top advisers talked in the dining room on the main deck. It was Ms. Eisenhower’s first meeting with a foreign chief of state since his inauguration as President. Mr. Eisenhower told his news conference shortly before he met with Mayer that they would discuss a broad range of matters which affectl France’s ability to carry her full share of world responsibilities. ; . The President said they would also talk about progress of the Atlantic treaty organisation and the French war against Communism in In do-China. Secretary of state John .Foster Dulles and French foreign minister Georges Bidault headed a glittering array of top military, diplomatic and financial advisers summoned to the conference. Congressional leaders including Sen. Robert A. Taft R-O. i and chairman Alexander Wiley of the senate foreign relations committee were invited to join them later at lunch. Informed sources said the threeday series of talks would cover a wide range of problems — strategy in the Indo-China war, French requests foi' more U. S. aid, Frances delay in approving the European army agreement, and the ' impllca-i tions of the change in Soviet lead- \ * (Tun To P«Ke BUt» - '■ School Production Here This Evening Final Performance Here Friday Night | About 25 percent of the students of Decatur high school will pitch in tonight for the evening herformance Os this year’s production, “Off the Records,” to be, presented at the Decatur high gym. The final performance will be given Friday evening. The production has a dream-se-quenot formaU an* is in eight scenes. As anyone who has ever had anything to do»with the prop end of a musical production—as “Records” is—they can tell you there are times when the job is no picnic. And whatever it isn’t it is expensive. Take, Ifor instance, the-costumes, to buy or rent them all wovjld have raised the cost of' the show beyond the scope of a high school effort ; I . but no obe will tell the difference. i Instead of straining the till, the students and teachers got to work ahd made many of the costumes, borrowed much of them, and rented the rest. Needless to say, the scenery is custom made. t While costumes were rented from the Eaves Costume Co., New Yqrk City, a lot of it was borrowed- Choir robes tor a religious scene were provided by the Lutheran and Methodist churches of Decatur. Costumes for the square dance ■number emerged through the skill of Decatur high teachers Misses Jean Steller and Catherine Weidler and sortie students who lent aid. Seventy gtudents are in the show and manage to cram onto the comparatively large stage during one choir number, cowboys, horses, a mustachioed barber shop quartet, and a girl with a mocking bird whistle.

Ag Reorganization Plan Is Approved Congressional Farm Leaders Voice Favor WASHINGTON, >UP —Congressional farm bloc leaders today expressed general approval of President Eisenhower’s plan to reorganize the agriculture department. Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt.) said there may be “lengthy debate” on some aspects of the plan. But he felt the senate would be willing to give secretary of agriculture Ezra T. Benson the broad powers it withheld from his predecessor. J-' “Let’s flace it.” the chairman of the senate agriculture committee said, “it is essentially the power that we wouldn’t give former secretary Charles F. Brannan in 195 CT.” Sen. Milton R. Young, often at odds with Benson, said the pain seems to he a “necessary move to bring about more efficiency with less money.” The North Dakota Republican predicted aproval but onlj> after “quite a lot of questioning.” . f -' ;\ . -J Rep. Cliffprd R. Hope (R-Kans.) chairman of the house agriculture committee, said the revamping “was needed \for a long time. He said there shouldn’t be a “great deal of opposition” to it “once it is understood.” Rep. Harold D. Cooley (N. Q.). senior Democrat on the house committee, applauded the addition of three new assistant secretaries in the department but reserved comment on other changes pending further!study. The President’s plan, which will become effective in 60 days unless either house of congress vetoes it by majority vote, essentially does three thihgs: , 1. It \transfers to Benson “ail department fuhctions not nowvested in tiim.” giving him fu<l legal authority over the bureau of agricultural economics, the! U. S. forest service, soil conservation service, farmers home administration, rural electrification administration and the solicitors office. f , 2. Is gives Benson authority to transfer functions from one agency to another or in any way he chooses._ The only restrictions are that he must give “pqblic notice” <Turn T» Pawe Five) Mrs. Louise Haugk Dies This Morning Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon (Mrs. Louise Haugk, 81, died at 5 o’clock this morping at her home, 1306 i West Monroe street following ah illness of six weqjcs She had been critical sincO Sunday. ' ~ ' A resident of Decatur for\ thg past 50 years, she was born in Preble -township Frtb. 14, 1872, t daughter of Jacob and Mathilda Schmitt-Kiefer, and was married o Julius Haugk in January of 1802. Her husband died 1 in 1938. iMrs. Haugk was a member of the Zion Lutheran church. Surviving are two sons, Robert Haugk at Anderaon and Herman Haugk of Blue Creek township: ( four daughters, Mrs. Harry Bittner of Byron. 111., Mrs. Gerald Nelson and Mrs. Vtla.s Wittwer. 1 both of.. Decatur, and .Miss Edna < Haugk*- of Indianapolis; eight ( grandchildren; four great-grand- i children; two brothers, Martin Kiefer of Preble township and . Emil Kiefer of becatur, and one : sister, Mrs. Gust Reinklng of Fort , Wayne. Four brothers and four ( sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be con- ( ducted at 2:3.0 p. m. Saturday at , the Zwick funeral home and at 3 p. m. at the _Zion Lutheran , church, the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt ( officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. | Friends may 3 call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. The casket will not be opened at the church.

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Ike Affirms Situation In Korea Eased Supply Satisfactory For Present Type Os Operations In Korea WASHINGTON. UP— President Eisenhower told a news conference today that the ammunition situation in\ Korea is satisfactory for the precept scale of operations. The army said, meanwhile, that ammunition supplies for Korea are now so abundant that shipments originally destined for the Far East are being diverted to other areas. The ammunition pipeline to the war area is filled and “running over.” ah army spokesman said. \ The President said, however, that if the scale of Korean fighting were increased, steps Would have to be taken to send still more ammunition to Korea. The President said that two shipments of a certain type of ammunition destined for Japan were ’ stopped because reserve supplies > there are more than adequate. * As for the impatience of some t field commanders over nmmuniL tion supplies, the former general - recalled his Norttistidy beachhead • days and said no commander ever ’ has all he wants. 1 He disclosed that he had made a personal eheck this morning to see whether an ammunition shortage was to blame for American troops being driven off Old Baldy Ridge in Korea. He said he was informed that ammunition did not figure in it. Mr. i Eisenhower said that considering ammunition reserves In Japan and on the scene in Korea, he feels the present situation is perfectly sound for the type of operation that is .going ahead. -\ Asked to elaborate on this point, the chief executive said he meant the ammunition supply is satisfactory for meeting the present scale Os operation. But he assumed that if somethings different were planned the scalp would have to be changed. Army officials had refused to say that the iifeproved ammunition picture meant the United Nations had enough to launch an offensive. A senate armed services subcommittee will open hearings next week into charges by Gen. James A. Van Fleet that there were i serious and frequently “critical" shortages of ammunition during (Twra Ta Pa*e Kl*lrt) Bloodmobile Unit In Decatur Monday Volunteers Needed To Complete Quota 1.1 U-'. fs •; t The Red' Gross blood procurement committee still needs 34 volunteers to donate blood next Monday when the bloodmobile visit? ' Decatur, 'Mrs. Ed Bauer, committeeman chairman, stated today. The bloodmobile will be stationed at the American Legion home and Dr. Waite, a retired physician of Peru, yvill be in charge, assisted by the regular staff of nurses. The March quota for the county] chapter is 150 pints of blood. To obtain this amount there should fye at least 184 volunteers, Mrs. Bauer said. Reservations to donate blood at a ‘ specified time during the day j may be made at the local Red ] Cross office. Mrs. Max Schafer, executive secretary, said. The chapter has been furnished figures which show the extent and usefulness of the blood program. During 1952, 141 pints of blood were furnished to the Adams county memorial hospital and 228 pint* to other hospitals Tor local patients, all free of charge to patients. The cost of operating the blood(Tan To Pace Five)