Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 73, Decatur, Adams County, 27 March 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 73

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New Vaccine Against Polio Raises Hopes

' By DELOS SMITH (United Press Science Editor) \ NEW YORK UP -— A research scientist gave the American public high hope today that the day is in sight when paralytic polio will be fought with a vaccine to make it as rare a disease as small pox. But the scientist, who has reached the .“experimental’' stage with such a, vhccink, urged anxious par* ents to sit tight. study and tests still must£ be made before the vaccine#.can be pronounced a success or a failure. ' " News of the important development came from Dr. Jonas E. Salk, director of the virus research laboratory of the University of Pitts■'A buryh. He is bringing to its final stages a. 15-year-old effort by the National Foundation for' Infantile Paralysisi to find a vaCcine that ' will give £v£ry man, woman and child an immunity against polio. 1 Salk'' has given a detailed and thorough scientific account of his work to the medical profession in the Journal of the American Medii cal Association. He told ihe public about it Thursday night in a nationwide radio broadcast. Salk announced that the vaccine has been used safely and success* p fully in preliminary trials on 90 children and adults. After Jieing injected wit i the vac- ! cine; the bodies of these persons produced the same amount of antibodies against all three types of polio as they would have produced if they had fought and survived attacks by the three pollp viruses. It is by fighting and suiyiving di- { sease—causing a body develops ininiuhity to h disease. Salk appealed to both doctors and the general publip J t>, take a “hands off” policy toward the vac’ll; I, cine. . \ , J. He said he is still testing the J vaccine in human beings and plans ” to test it in many more in ensuing months.. But, he emphasized, he is going t v o select the humans to be tested on a strictly scientific basis and only he and his associates will do the testing. In his exhaustive scientific, report to the medical profession,’ Dr. Salk, revealed that as .of the time the paper was written, the. , mental” Vaccine had been tested in 161 himans for its ability to stimulate the production of antibodies. Ninety-eight -were children crippled by polio living in the D. T. Watson Home for Crippled Children at. 'Leetsdale, Pa. Sixty-three were inmates, nurses, teachers of the Polk State School, Polk, Pa. None of the latter ever had had a . A (Turn T® Pace Six) \

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Soil Conservation Voting Scheduled Meetings Planned In Each Township Meetings in each of the 12 town!ghips in Adamk co/nty to start voting on establishing a county soil conservation district were announced today by L E. bold!, county agricultural agent. The meetings, all to be held at 7:30 p. m., are scheduledas follows: . French, Election school, March 30; Kirkland. Adams Central high school, March 31; Union. Luckey school, March 31; Wabash, Geneva school, April 1;, St. Mery's, Rleasant Mills school, ! April 1; Monroe school? April 2; Blue Creek, Kimsey school, April 2; Root, Monmouth school, April 6; Jefferson, Jefferson school. April 6; Washington, Reinaker school, April 7; PreUe, Magley school*, April 9; Hartford, , school, April 9. Township lists of eligible voters are now 'being prepared; Ifi\ the meetings, all present will be given an opportunity to vote. The remaining names twill be - assignedto one man in each section, with this man to contact the people on his list, giving them ,an opportunity to vote. As eac,k man will have less than 10 to contact. it is,believed the entire canvass can be completed within a week following the meetings. J School Junior Band Plays For Rotary Decatur Rotarians were treated to a fioyel and highly -entertaining program at their weekly meeting Thursday evening, when the junior band of the Decatur public schools- presented a musical program.. The band is composed of students frqm the fourth through the ninth grades, ilnd is directed by Clint -Reed, band supervisor in the public schools. Feature number was\a trumpet solo by Jack Dailey, accopipanied at the piano by his mother, Mrs. Harry- Dailey. W. Guy Brown was chairman of the program. INDIANA WEATHER \ Mostly f»ir tonight and Saturday. Warmer Saturday. Low tonight 28-34. High Saturday 52-57. ?‘ S

Senate Debate I v • Continues On j' Naming Bohlen Senator Capehart \ Announces He Will J Vote For Nominee WASHINGTON, (UP) — Sep. Homer E- Capehart announced to<iay he will vote for Charles E. Bohlen to be ambassador to Russia because the ''responsibility 1 ” for the appointment rests squarely with Elsenhower. It was the first time the Indiana Republican made known his position ton the controversial nomination. He did so as the senate began what was expected to be‘the final day of debate on the nomination. Senate Republican leader Robert A, Taft expected the senate to approve Bohlen with “onlj about a dozen votes against him.’* The debate was played out before packed public galleries. Crowds, lined three abreast, stretched half the length of the Capijol building seeking admittance to the senate chamber. Some brqught liinch baskets and planned' to make a day of it. A' final vote was expected by nightfall. There were that; the stormy debate had about run its coursei Sen. Joseph F. McCarthy, R-Wis.. leader of the anti-Bohlen 'group, said: ‘•>l have no hopes of succeeding.” \ President Eisenhower, w h o Thursday strongly his appointment of the career diplomat to! the Moscow post, was described by a reliable-congressional informant as “real mad’* about the fight which has occurred. The chief remaining controversy was over a side issue—whether former ambassador Hugh Gibson endorsed Bohlen's appointment. Sen. H. Alexander Smith, R-N. J„ who had lunch with Glbsdn Thursday, said he thought he could clear up the question to the senate’s. satisfaction today. Secretary of state John Foster Dulles had reported that a\ board of three senior diplomats, including tQibson, “unanimously" recommended Bohlen. Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, R-111., challenged this statement in the sepate Wednesday, saying Gibson had told him he made "no recommendation whatsoever’’ on Bohlen. Gibson, who called at the White House Thursday on another matter, said he thought the Whole dispute arose from "slight differences of memory.” t There seemed to be no major shifts in the senate voting alignment despite the furious debate which has pitted McCarthy for /Tara To Pave Klgnt>

Two Children Are Knocked Off Bicycle Two Decatur children, Gerald Villagomes, 10, and his sister, Shirley, 5. 845 North Eleventh street, were-taken to \the Adams county memorial hospital this morning after they were knocked into a ditch froni the bicycle they were on by a car driven by Elijio Fernandez, 61, 946 North Twelfth street. The mishap took place at Twelfth and Meibers. Fernandez pleaded innocent to a charge of leaving the acene of an accident and the case was continued to April 11 in mayor’s court. Strike Deadline Is Set On Nickel Plate b! Saturday Morning Deadline Is Set ’ CLEVELAND, 0., — The Brotherhood, of Railroad Trainmen today set a strike deadline for 5 /. m. CST., Saturday morning against the Nickel Plate railroad and its subsidiary, the Wheeling and Lake Erie. The walkout would affect about 1-5,600 employes, of which some 2,2(b> are BRT members. Ifniop officials said the order respited from “more than 100” un/ettled grievances, including working conditions, term claims and job rules. /pie Nickel Plate is primarily a freight-carrying line. It operates between Buffalo and Chicago and St. Louis. The line also runs'four passenger trains dally between Buffalo and Chicago and two between Cleveland- and St. Lou|s. The Wheeling and Lake Erie is one of the nation’s largest coalhaulers. It operates no passenger trains. . Officials of both the roads* involved and the BRT were noncommittal over negotiation plans.

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A f Decatur, Indiana/ Friday, March 27, 1953.

United States Marines Recapture Vegas Hill In Murderous Fighting

Russia Opposes Germ Warfare Charge Probe Opposes Any Probe Unless Far Eastern Reds Participate UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. UPRussia served notice today it stands firm in its opposition to any investigation of germ warfare charges in Korea unless Communist China and North Korea are invited to participate in the United Nations debate on th/ chargfe. The political committee refused to invite the Oriental Communists. The vote was; 40-15; with five abstentions. 5 ■ ;. . | J ' Andrei Y. Vishinsky,: Whosb heturn 'from Moscow had been hopefully awaited by Uj. N. delegates seeking a sign that the Kermlin’s “peace” talk is sincere, was not present. 1 Soviet delegate Valerian A. Zorin, who spoke at the opening of the political committees debate on germ warfare, told newsmen Vishinsky would not be here tojday. ’ The demand for an impartial investigation — blocked twice before by Russia — whs made by the United States, whose troops have been the target of concerted Communist propaganda alleging they used germ weapons in Korea. "The genuine of an Impartial investigation can be possible only with the participation of representatives of those states directly concerned,” Zorin said as he moved tb invite the Oriental Communists to the committee’s debate. Experienced observers felt that, if Vishinsky does have a genuine peace offer to make, b e is more likely to set negotiations in motion through a private corridor chat than in a public speech. When he returned, looking jin frailer health than ever before and Accompanied by a physician, Vishinsky gave no hint of hi/ plans. Hopes that the Malenkov regime may be embarked on a real peace campaign did. not receive any encouragement from the swan song of Soviet delegate Andrei A. Gromyko Thursday. Gromyko, who flew\ here from his post as ambassador to London to take over the delegation temporarily,\ Ip Vishinsky’s absence, is due to return to Britain this afternooju 1 Final Performance Os Revue Tonight \ About .500 people saw the annual Becatur high school stage show last night at the high school gym. It’s a" musical revue and called '‘Off the Records." The cast includes 70 junior ahd senior students and the entire high school choir, with music under ‘the direction of Miss Helen Haubold, school music director. The last performance be givep tonight at the gym at 8 o'clock. Admission is 90 to adults, 25 cents to

(By, Rev. Romaine D. Wood, Church of the Nazareney A NEW CALLING - ' \ 1 Peter 2:4 '?. ; ; ■ •Peter gives us a brief description of the spiritually depraved emotional and volitional condition of the unsaved man. From this, - he tells us, God- calls unto us to come and have our natures changed by tile regeneration and build upon a neW foundation. With Christ, whose spirit all saved persons, have, as the foundation stone, we are to shape ourselves to fit upon the foundation. He the “Master Builder” helps us -to transform our lives from the world fashion, <0 the divine pattern. He shows us the elements which are not right, we help Him to correct these wrong elements ot character. If we maintain a constant love and devotion to Him. a constant yielding of bur will to Hl? will, a consistant purpose of conforming unto him we will be indeed—“A chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people;—Which were in time past not a people, but are now the people of Qod.”

Bendon's Plans On Budget Cut Opposed Slash Is Proposed In Ag Department -WASHINGTON UP - Agriculture secretary Ezra T. Benson apparently yaced rough-sledding loday in trying to get a $130,800,000 budget cut through congress. He had no sooner proposed it :; before a house agriculture appropriations subcommittee Thursday than Rep. Jamie L. Whitten objected. \’< The Mississippi Democrat said he differed with Benson and planned to fight ihe put \on the . grounds there is a need for “increased attention" in the areas where reductions were recommended. In actual appropriations tor fiscal 1954 Benson asked for That is $70,600,000 or 0.4 per cent less than those recommended by former President'Truman. Except foif forest services—whose budget would go up near!}’ slo,ooo,ooo—and the extension service—whose Ipidget. would stick to ■ the Truman request—it was an j- across - the - board cut for each agency in the department. , -'Benson asked for a $1,193,800,000 budget compared to the Trui.man budget of $1324. 600,000. Nos, included in\ the budget tigurewis price support speuding which was estimated at about $729,300,000, Experts predicted it will be "lligher” than that, chiefly because of dairy price supports.\ The revised Benson budget is the second presented since the new administration moved in Th’e commerce department has called for a 15 per cent reductiori in its Truman budget. Biggest cut for agriculture likely to stir up the most fuss is a $40,454,000 reduction in conservation and flood prevention appropriations. Benson asked for $211,982,000 compared to the Truman request for $252,436,000. ■ Benson said until after further study of flood prevention, activities. “It does not appear desirable to expand this work as rapidly as planned ... ” He eliminated provisions for work in seven, new watersheds noi yet approved by congress; and reduced to “some extent" expansion originally proposed iri the 11 already authorized. Churchill Favors . Big Three Meeting LONDON; UP —Prime minister WiPston Churchill favors a Big Three meeting with President EisenhpWer and Soviet Premier Georgi M. Malenkov, but the time must be right. Churchill. expressed caution Thursdaj' bight when questioned on the subject again by.two Labor members of Parliament. * Award Os $1,050 Is Returned By Jury An award of $1,050 was returned by the jhry late Thursday in the case of Letisfaa Flauding’s claim against the estate of Martha Dillavou, held in the Adams circuit court since Tuesday.'

French Leader Urges Common War Strategy Common Strategy In Wars In Far East Urged By Premier WASHINGTON, UP — French premier Rene Mayer today' called on the options fighting Communism to adopt a common strategy in the Korean and Indo-Chinese wars. Mayer took time out from his talks \vith President Eisenhower and secretary of state John Foster Dulles to address a National Press club lunch meeting. Asserting that Korea k n< i IndoChina are “two extremities of the same -battle front," the French premier said _ the Communists against whopi his country x has been fighting! for seven hard years seek to Conquer "the whole of southeast Asja." , , \ Their aim is to conquer not only Indo-China but also Thailand and Burma, “the first bastions on the road to India." “We are convinced." Mayer said, “that we can pool the experience gained iu Korea and indo-China by our respective military staffs to the common advantage of us all, The French government calls earnestly for a cl/se co-ordination of bur strategy and our methods iff the Far East.” The premier declared France is dedicated to economic and defense unity of Western Europe and to the aims of the North Atlantic defense pact. , » Mayer said France and other European countries need did in carrying out their economic and defense obligations. ,~ In conferences Thursday and today; Mayer and other members of /Turn To PUe Eight) $ . .« Jelke Is Sentenced To 3-6 Year Term Oleo Fortune Heir 'Given Prison Term NEW YORK, (UP) —Minot F. (Mickey) Jelke was sentenced to three to six years In prison today for inducing shapely models into a l(fe of catering to'cafe society playboys. \. Se/tenee was pronounced .by general sessions Judge Francis 'l. Valente as the 23-year-old heir to a $3,000,000 oleomargarine forttthg stodd pale and frowning before the bench- '

Jelke already- hqd * begun an eight-month workhouse sentence imposed a week ago in special sessions court for- his possession of a pistol and a revolver at the time of his arrest' last Aug. 15. In pronouncing sentence, Judge Valente said Jelke, during the one month he has been in jail following his conviction by an all-made jury, has adopted “an attitude of evasion, rationalization and untruthfulness.” * ' “Apart from this self-servihg evasiveness concerning many, facets of his involvements, he shows virtually no indication that he has been generally moved by even the superficial implications of his behavior,” the court con- 1 tinned. “In fact, he Remains resistant to any true knowledges of wrong-doing, including its criminal aspect.” Judge Valente said Jelke must be disciplined “to recognize the reality that his position of advantage does not make him a law to himself— he must face the consequences of his wilfulness.” Jelke, on Feb. 27, was convicted oh two felony counts of inducing and* attempting to induce girls into prostitution. Judge Valente sentenced him today tq a minimum of three yekrs and a maximum of six. years on each count, the sentences to run concurrently, j \ - / i r

Guest Speaker BHBBPKw 1 l & y Jn ■ The Rev. F. Olin Stockwell. Methodist missionary held by the Chinese Communists for 23 months on trumped-up espionage Charges, will speak at the Monroe Methodist church at 7:30 p. mV Sunday. ■ ! Craig Orders Cut In State Personnel All Employes Must i Reveal INDfANAPOUS UP — Governor Craig ordered all departments of state government! 4 (oday to submit job\ evaluations, ihcluding the politics of employes, for the designated purpose of reducing personnel ahd costs. \ I ■ He said the project started in the Indiana public service commission and will result in a $23,220 a yCar savings there. He directed other departments to follow PSC’s lead lead and believed the savings could ’“be magnified many times.” , - Each .state employe must state whether'he is a Democrat or Republican. Some Democrats feared this made them more readily subject to discharge. The governor also told a news conference late Thursday that: :1. Religious and fraternal groups have another think coming if they believe their Hasbrock anti-gambl-ing law exemption legalizes gambling? A . j, ''s 2. The motbr vehicle bureau and state police plan a crackdown on "wide scope” tniq/ license violations may be cheating the state Jbut of $200,006 a year. 3. Albert Wedekjng, Dale, will be chairmah of the revamped highway commission, and officials are making “great progress" toward a toll road across northern Indiana. Craig said emphasis in the job evaluation will be bn duties of each stkte worker with an eye toward “eliminating duplications and unnecessary personnel.” He believed “most substantial" reductions could be made in the raptor vehicle bureau. The PSC. savings will result, he said, from, firing four members, of the legal staff, some who noW work part time, and by combining duties of non-legal employes. was uncertain how many persons would be fired under the latter. In line with that, he said a business leader will be appointed to examine all state spending and make certain “The state is getting its money’s worth.” 1 Commenting on a social club’s ( court suit filed luckily in quest of ; a ruling the Hasbrbok law exempIT>»rn To P»ire ElKkt) ■/ — J • ■■ 'M 3 ' Gen. Taylor Unhurt fit Copter Accident SEOUL, Korean UP — A helicopter carrying Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor was involved in a “mi- < nor" accident with another heli- 1 copter today but. the Bth army t commander was not hurt. , J 1 Two officers in the other copter 1 were slightly injured. i The accident happened while Taylor was flying to the western 1 front ton a. first-hand look at bat- I ties ranging there.. He continued t his trip after the accident 1

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West Defense Lines Nearly All Restored Ignores Murderous Hail Os Shells To Retake Vegas Hill SEOUL. Korea, Saturday, UP— American Marines attacking through a murderous hail of Chinese artillery and mortar shells recaptured Vegas Hill Friday night and almost completely restored the western defense line guarding The leathernecks crashed back onto Vegas after a savage eighthour fight up its rocky-slopes. Chinese still held the nesfrby outpost Reno. I Recapture of Vegas came only a little moro than 24 hours after 3.500 Chinese hit 10 marine positions \ 25- milQg southwest of Old Baldy which Chinese captured this week; “We are on top,” a marine assault commander radioed from Vegas, “the situation is well in hand.” Early today marines still had not attempted to recapture Reno, lost along with Vegas to the massed Chinese attack. The coMmaiiUvi- of <he sth inarine regiment said his troops gain-; ed firm control of yegas in a des-incn-by-iffch fight! I the isteep slopes. Col. ik W. Walt. ’Northhampton. Mass., told United Press correspondent Robert Ujdick that the hill has been secured. When the marines gained possession of the hill, they radioed for supplies to dig in for keeps. , Two marine, task forces from the 2nd an/ 3rd batalion of the sth marine regiment staged today's counterattack. Udick reported thb iinrt group was “shot to hell” by a fierce rain of enemy mortar and artillery fire and had to withdraw. However, the second doggedly made its way up until it reached the top trenches - There the leathernecks engaged the Chinese in sa/age, no quarter hand-to-hand fighting for possession of the vital peak. Regimental officers estimated tentatively that 500 Chinese were killed in “battles around the hills and that 31,380 eneipr mortar and artillery round/ were rained on marine positions during the 24 hours ending at 6 p.tn. The marine counter - attack against Vegas began shortly before noon. It; climaxed! the week’s second battl/ for co/irol of hills guarding vital invasion routes to Seoul. The first battle wks fought for possession of Old Baldy. The Chinese succeeded in capturing it Thursday. j Overhead, sth air force and marine fighter - bomberfc hurled 850,000 pounds of bombs and, 30,000 pounds of flaming napalm on Chinese troops in the marine sector an f d on Old Baldy. .Jhe rain of flamed and red-hot sWapnel brought the itwo-day total of high explosives dropped from the air to more than a half-million pounds. j r The U. N. warplanes, poured 1,0000-pound bombs <jn Reno hill. A large number of Chinese trying to reinforce nearby Vegas were caught by bombs and strafing during the bombing of Jlfono. Before the marines counter-at-tacked Vegas hill. Allied artillery CTar* T. Ps«e Etstet) ■ \ Moeschberger Child Injured By Tractor Maris Ann Moeschberger, young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Moeschberger of Monroe, is in Adams county memorial hospital fol- ‘ lowing a mishap Thursday afternoon when she fell frpm a tractor and was run Over. The child’s condition is said by members of'the family to be serious but not critical. X-rays Will be taken today to determine tie extent of her injuries. -