Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 83, Decatur, Adams County, 8 April 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 83.

Lovett Puls Ammo Shortage Blame On Army Former Secretary Os Defense Army For Shortage BULLETIN > * WASHINGTON, (UP)—For- < met defense secretary Robert A. Lovett today blamed tl?e army “at a whol j” for past ammunition shortages in Korea. . ' 1 WASHINGTON UP — Fornier defense secretary Robert- A. Lovett said today efforts tc remedy Korean ammunition shortages were J "definitely unsatisfactory” in some respects. I But Lqvett told senators there wasmore.ammunirjon id Korea in December, 19521 -dhan in all of Europe 24 days aft<tr the D-day landing in Normandy [in 1944. Lovett testified ,bei ore a senate armed service subcpnr mittee which is investigating amhiinition short■<&£>s in-Korea. . . Lqvet-1 emphasized*, wo points in . what he called tne “rather bewildering” mass of information ' presented t.o the >mmittee.\ He said the Korean outbreak found ammunition only “one of a-number of desperate shortages.” Manpower was the worst, he sai<. In the second place,! he said, the f “magnitude” of v the accomplishment in supplying Korean troops is evidenced by the fact that supplies in Korea in December, 1952, were ; “in many cases two tt three times as much" as\ on June[ 30. 1944/in Europe. Informed sources said the defense department produced secret records to\ abo'v’thai Gen. Janies A. Van Fleet actually advised against a major attack in June, 1951. in Korea When he said he was “crying" to superiors “to turn/me lqbse/’\Van peel- is the former eighth army [j commander in Korea, -. , J ' In discussing \ shortages, Lovett mentioned five “critical rounds” Or types of ammunition. He specified the 1 155 inm and 105 mm howitzer shells qnd ammunition for the 60mm, Bitnm and 4.2 iiich mortars. Although many of the shortages faced the nation tyith the outbreak of the Korean war were/‘ably handled,” he said the [performance in the ammunition field —and especially in regard, to those five rounds —was unsatisfactory.” Lovet't said any . claims that the atpmunition, shortage was due to a “shortage of funds” are "utterly and completely wrong.” He u said “there w®j)s no shortage of funds.” Lovett a ! nd assistant defense secretary Wilfred J. McNeil wlere called to testify as Pentagon clffiicials supplied |the subcommittee with .official messages that appear to conflict with Van Fleet's account of Korean strategy. The secret Pentagon*” records /Tarn T* P««« Democrats To Hold Monthly Meetings Jefferson Club To Be Organized Here * A shot in the arm i|s being prepared to enliven the! Democratic party in Adams rieu|ty and Decatur, according to ah announcement today by Dr. H|rry Hebble, county Democratic' chairman. \ . . /Said Hebble, “an < opportunity will be given <to the rank-and-file Democrats in th© Voujnty to take a hand in discussion# and partymeetings thaf will be [held . . . to be called the ‘Jefferson Club’.” Among the purposes? of the club, said Hebble, will be t<| attract the younger element Os Democrats into the party—get j»ome new blood —and attract speakers of national reputation on this political scene to visit here and speak to the members. i The meetings wotild !be held / monthly with a dlnne|- served. Another reason Hebble' sees the formation of the club as necessary *is to attract a higher type of candidate to run for office. Working with Hebble in this project are Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker, Tice chairman,. Leo “Dutch” Ehinger. treasurer, and Mrs. Elmer C. Beer, secretary. ■ INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with showers and / thunderstorm* tonight. Thursday mostly cloudy. Not much change In temperature. Low tonight 4045 north; 45-50 south. High. Thursday 53-58 north, 5865 south. . [ \' ' .

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sr -a K BKr z»- B i AN FBI AGENT who* sot nine years posed as a Communist, Herbert Philbrick ttells al Senate dnfternal security subcommittee Jn Washington that 70 to SO professional qien. including 7 or 8 ministers, were deeply hidden communistF in the Boston area. Throughout his undercover Philbrick made regular reports to the FBI.

Emergency Is Declared In Hog Industry Gov t (Jraig Orders Rigid Measures In / Disease Outbreak '■ -i' ]r ! INDIANAPOLIS, UP —Governor Urhig, in, an executive proclamatiori, today declared an emergency in the swine industry and ordered rigid precautionary measures to prevent recurrence of an outbreak of vesicular exanthema. The proclamation, issued only hohrs after thd nation’s thirdlargest hog market, at Indianapolis was reopened, is effective immedi1. No swine which have been fed garbage, pan be Import|ed into the state for , any purpose, r J 2. All swine within the state which have been fed garbage are quarantined on premises; where they are now’ located. Th<?y may be moved only on' written permission from th[e state veterinary office. 3. public community sales barns and other ! swine concentration points except stockyards undjer federal supervision shall toe cleaned ariq disim fected- under Supervision of Dr. Joe Green, stats veterinarian.: The order meant all garbage-fed hogs, whether the garbage is cooked hr uncooked. ; A Farm Bureau spokesman estimated only a “small percentage” —probably less than 10 percent—of Indiana hogs are garbage-fed. into \the Indianapolis stockyards' which should not cut too sharply daily receipts averaging ground .10,000: \ Ji The Farm Bureau official added, however, that one hog found to be diseased could disrupt the enti/e market despite thfe dominance of corn-fed, hogs: | The lochl stockyards placed its own embargo on’garbage-fed hogs about two months ago but was uncertain how effective it has been. An official said it was 'believed the latest outbreak of VE came from hogs which had contact w’ijh garbage-fed hogs. J- Craig said the order will remain in effect “for such tifne as the present vesicular exanthema emergency exists or until it is canceled or modified on recommendation of the state livestock sanitary board.” j . The governor said th® proclamation would be enforced^ “by the state veterinarian with the cooperation of state police.” J There are some 400 hog receiving stations throughout the state. A law enacted by the 1963 legislature prohibits the feeding of uncooked garbage to hogs, but it will not be effective until it is published—probably in the summer. Attorney general Edwin K. Steers, Jf:,\ ruled the measure cannot be effective earlier 'because It was not considered emergency legislation *hen Craig signed it into law. The disease shut down the market thrice within- a month/ Most faprmep take their hogs to the stations rather than ship them to the stockyard® directly, and 70 per cent of the local hog receipts are sold to eastern packers. Craig said the hog industry is secondJn Indiana only to the steel and 'added “everything possible will be done to prevent this; vital industry from shutting down again.” He said another shutdown might mean “permanent loss” of the gastT* Page F«wr>

Resolution Adopted For Daylight Time Time Change To Be, Effective April 25 City councilman! at their regular meeting Tuesday night at city hall acted on eight matters including additional appropriations for the city, an increase in pay for the clerk-treasurer, and a confirmation of fast time fpr 1963. Two petitions were heard for electric light and power extension from Adolph Kdlter and Arthur D. Suttles, Jr., partners, of Washington township. Another was received from Ralph Loehe and Jeanette Loshe, of Washington township. Both petitions were reto the electric light*committee in conjunction with the suIt was. unanimously resolved that the city and its offices should go on daylight saving time fi;om midnight of the last Saturday of this month until midnight of the last Saturday ,in September. This is done each year despite a law passed in the 1949 state legislature making Indiana subject to CST the year round. Popular opinion, however, through most of the state, is in favor of fast time and so local city councils take it upon themselves to vote it in each year. There Is no stumbling block to this action because there aren’t any teeth in the state act. An ordinance was unanimously approved providing for an increase in water installation charges where those ! installations require over 50 feet of piping. The charges now stand at 5/8 inch pipe — S2O; % inch pipe — $25; and 1 inch pipe — S3O. i ; ordinance calls for, an additional charge for material and labor, whatever it .may be, in addition to the standard fee foir the above schedule. In accordance Witli action taken iby this session of the state legislature, city clerk-treasurer Vernon Aurand #ill receive additional pay of S4OO a year, the money to come opt of the parking meter fund. The additional compensation is being paid fork the keeping of records ahd parking meter fees. Councilmen voted unanimously in favor of this measure. ,v, • ■ <—i 70 Children Enroll At Catholic School At least 70 children plan to start to school next September kt St. Joseph's Catholic school, according to yesterday’B registration of protective > beginners. This is an increase of 20’over this yeat’B class. Sistet Ml Rosemary, school principal, stated that the enrollment list' might be jincreased with late registrations. I ' . ' I ■/"a ■ —-t™."' J ; Charges Buck Passing Over Amish School y Press wires from Indianapolis quote Wilbur Young, ®tate superintendent of public instructidh as saying there v was a 'case of "passing the buck” in delay over closing the Amisli school in French township in Adams county. Young said that the school could be closed under a law passed by the 1953 legislature. Glen B. Custard, Adams county superintendent, was quoted in the dispatch, stating he has taken no action because [the case already is in court. Yottdg ruled three months ago that the Amish school does not meet state board of education standards. The suit on behalf of the Amish seeks to set aside Young’s ruliAg.

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i ./.W'S-' Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, April 8, 1953.

Allies Term Red Offer To Return 600 Sick Or Wounded Is Too Small

Korean Trace,?l To Pose Maid/ Urgent Problems I Korea Truce To Pose Urgent Problems; Forf Ike Administration 1 WASHINGTON, UP — A in Korea would confront the Bis| enhawer administration with :ur gent new problems, including! def mands for a' reduction in defeeise'spending a public outcry to the boys home,” officials day. . // j Thiey said President Eisenhower and. his advisers already are giving serious thought to problems both at home and abroad which would; spring up the minute the shooting stope? Besides creating domestic prob-, lens, a trade would signal the: be-? ginning |of delicate political neg- ? citations over the future of The South Koreans are determine ed to set up a unified Korea their control, something the North* Korean Communists would neiver) agree to. r . Under trace terms •! ready tied, political negotiations on Koi rea’s future will begin 90 dhysi after an armistice is signed. On the domestic front, istration leaders are concerned chiefly about a wave of public, “peace” sentiment such as that| which hastened demobilization -af| ter Wprld Walr 11. Mr. Eisenhower warned TttjMH day. in an informal talk befiire| leaders of the 'united defense fund.; that American troops will hav«jto| remain on guard against a revival! of Red aggression in Korea eyenj if “peace does come.” I Mr. Elsenhower also is expectbdj to resist any move in congress; louse a Korean trace as a sighgl'i for deep cuts In military spending. 5 In thia stand, he apparently count on considerable support, from senate Democrats. U The diplomatic problems th|it would be raised by a truce a|e numerous and knotty. In the f|dpt place, Mr. Eisenhower may hftje to use all the persuasion at' hh commend to get South Korea r |o sfop fighting. j i The South Koreans are dead set against any settlement that falls short e of unifying all Korea under their control. There is little HleWhood the North Koreans' ever would yield to such a settlement The first political negotiation!#, according to the Allies, are to lie solely on Korean problems. But the Communists are expected ,tb drag in such issues as the fatb of Formosa ahd China’s bih for methbetship in the United Nations. The Eisenhower administrat tion would be courting serious trouble if it made any compromising moves on these issues. ; | Ford Follows GM I In Wage Reduction Other Auto Makers R Expected To Follow 15 DETROIT, UP —Ford Motor qd followed the lead of General Motors today, cutting wages one-ceist an hour in line vyith the latest government price index showing a decline in giving costs. Chrysler, the other member us the J “Big Three’ auto firms, aud the independent makers with CIO United Auto Workers’ “escalator* contracts were expected to follcyir suit, affecting more than 1,£50,000 wage earners. ■/' ! [;[! The Ford reduction is effective April 13 for 130,000 hourly rated employes and most of 40,0*00 salaried workers. v General Motors cut wages cent an hour Tuesday for almost 400,000 employes. J; In Chicago, International Harvester announced it was reducing, wages by the same amount .for 75,000 employes whose pay also IB \ ■ ■ i... . 0

| Ajks Extension Os Reciprocal Trade Congress Likely To, Grant Ike Request I WASHINGTON UP* —’Congress’ I appeared willing -today •to • grant ’ ’resident Eisenhower’s request for I a simple one-yeijr extension of the’ present reciprocal trade law, . • > Senate lepublican leader Robert | A. Taft said th|e GO1? featfership* | seemed, to be siolnl in support- of. the proposal. With Democratic help, If needed,* the Republican leattersfj are .ex-, -periled to muste - the votes needed to extend the triacfe Ugreftneht now due to expire in.Jupe.. Before passage, however, the bill probably will rap into -attack- from two sides r somei members of congress waht to mo?e restrictions into it to protect domestic industry. Others want to tariff reduction easier so free nations can earn through trade the U. S. dollars they now receive under foreign aid (programs. The reciprocal trade law, first enacted in 1934. authorizes the ad* ministration to make trade agreements With other countries for tariff and removal of barr * erß to toter »ationeL | In a message to congress Tues- ? day, Mr. Eisenhower asked that j[ the present law be extended for one-year pending “a thorough and S comprehensive reexamination of [the economic foreign policy of the a United States.” | [-'•-Taft endorsed the proposal and ‘5 told \ reporters i L would postpone any fight whkl may be in the '/offing, it alsiFwquld mean, he said. I |that the “trade n»t aid” idea would = "stew for a Iji -Chairman [ Eugene D. Millikln I [iR-Colo. of the Senate Finance [Committee, which handles tariff legislation, favor|» granting Mr. Eisenhower's request and expects | Congress to go alpng. House SpeakI er Joseph W. Martin Jr. bad previously endorsed the plan. '■ Man Dies As Roof Os parage Collapses !| COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., fep — jßalph E. Lbpsh ire, 34, a farmer employe of the V. S* Rubber o. at Fort Wayjjie, was fatally injured Tuesday >ohen the roof of A garage he was repairing collapsed. f ' [ Discuss Problem Os Street Cutting | \ City Ordinance Is | Discussed Tuesday Aft ordinance regulating persons B>r Industries cutting into city jtreets came up ifor discussion at Vhe city council [meeting and for she third meeting .running seemed I) give the local law body nothing ut headaches. The gas company Showed up tst night and let [it be known that too, had a stajie. in what the tty was doing. I . _ The question how is fee &all be charged for a permit each line a party wishied to chop a hole |fi the .city streetjs. They- have alSi?ad.y decided tiijat the for Idles should be of tho same nature (||t that takenl out from tlfe hole, ormerly, the ordinance called for high grade! gralvel and concrete i be replaced [ even In fourth -ade streets and jit was playing a irdship \ oij seme [ contractors hile others were ignoring it. hat much has been settled. But lere’s the permit fee. The ordinance seemed perfectly -ceptable, according to the reacons of the councilmen. but where charge for a cub would have apared in the ordinance it wag left ink. And that whs the nucleus bf e problem. The clerk-treaaurer is asked and he thought a 45 s waa fair. Floyd Acker, street perintendent, was in favor of ■ . 'I ■ ,

Vishinsky In Challenge On Peace Moves i' — : Challenges West. . To Match Russian . Moves For Peace . . . BULLETIN UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UP) —The U. N. general assembly adopted a measure today * instructing the disarmaj ment commission to press toward an arms reduction program. ; UNITED NATIONS, rs. yJ UP —- Russia’s Ahdrei Y. Vishinsky claimed today the Soviet Union has demonstrated a new conciliatory foreign policy “by deeds,” and challenged the West tb do likewise. Speaking for the second time today in a disarmament debate in the United Nations general assembly, Vishinsky delivered what appeared to toe a policy statement of the international intentions of the new Kremlin regime headed by Premier Georg! Malenkov. ' 0 *4a the past month/’ Vlahiiuky said, “there has been < host of instances demonstrating the readiness of the Soviet Union to reach agreement by deeds. -The foreign policy of the Soviet Union j has shown itself. “You.asked for deeds and they have been forthcoming. Where are yours We were hopeful that you would show a willingness to produce deeds.” / , " Vishinsky’s declaration camd after the grizzled Russian had [appealed to the West to meet [the Soviet Union “half way” on disarmament and the United States had declared that two. Russian amendments to a Western-backed resolution would “turn back the on the U. N.’s efforts to reduce the world’s armed strength. The Russian diplomat told the (T«ni To Page Six) Bible Authority To Speak Here Monday Women's Cjlubs To Hear Mrs t Andrews Mrs. Harold Edward Andrews, professor of English at Ashland college, Ashland, i Ohio, and wellknown authority bn. the Bible, will address the Adartis County federation Os Women’s clubs Monday evening, April 13 at the Zion Evangelical and Refprmed church, corner Third 'and Jackson streets. The meeting/will begin nt 7:45 o’clock and will] be for club members and their guests. Mrs. Andrews will speak on the subject, “Our Greatest Book, the Bible.” She lectures ‘on ~a wide variety of literary and educational subjects but she reports that these is ibore widespread interest in the Bible as literature than atty other topic she has presented. Mrs. Andrews says that controversy disappears from Bible study When the objective literary approach is followed. "On the literary level there is no conflict of faith or creed/’ says Mrs. Andrews. The speakor was a student of |he famous Bible authority, Dr. R. G. Moulton of the .of Chicago. She has given mgny’ courses on the subject to various organizations, includ ing the Fort Wayne Woinbn’s clap. The program i 8 being presented jointly by the Adams County Federation and the Dechtur Woman)) club, which makes a total of eight clubs comprising approximately 40*0 women. A musical portion of appropriate selections is also being planned. Presiding will be Mrs. Roy Kalver, president of the Decatur Woman’s club, who is urging that all members of both the county federation ahd the city organization come and bring guests tb this outstanding program.

Speaker April 20 < "1 /' ■ “ SKm Cl J Dr. James A. Crain ) tlpMirkshop Here On April 20 Decatur Churches Sponsor Workshop , The Churches of De , catur, in cooperation with the Indiana council of churches, will con r dufet a'chbrch and International as r fairs workshop in the Zion Evan [ gelical and Reformed church in this city Monday. April 20. The Decatur meeting is one of a series of workshops to be held in nine Indiana communities from April 19-27, inclusive. / Leaders are provided bj’ the national and Indiana councils of churches, and the workshop is open to all who are interested in developing a Christian concern for international affairs. The meetings wil| open at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m., with Ihe Rev. F. H. Willard presiding. / Speakers at the afternoon session will be Dr. R. L. Holland, general secretary of the Indiana council of churches; Ernest Lefever, associate director of the department of international justice and goodwill. national council of churches, and also representative of the Indiana council of churchwomen. Principal speaker at the evening meeting will be Dr. James A. Crain,, executive secretary of the department of social welfare of the United Christian missionary society, national board of missions and education of, Disciples of Christ, with headquarters at Indianapolis. Ernest will speak on the Unitbd Nations at the evening meeting, land the third speaker will be William J. Reagan, peace secretary for the American Friends service committee. Pefiiion Is Filed For Lateral Sewer Petition Received By City Councilmen The city council heard a petition Tuesday night for a lateral sewer to -be constructed in the Twelfth and Washington streets vicinity' of the Homewood additiop. The is beaded by Brice D. Roop. Specifically, the petition calls for construction I from \ the southwest corner of inlot 94 of the Homewood addition on the south line of 'inlots 93, 92, 91, and and on the north line of inlots 95, 98, to end at the Porter-Home-wood sewer. ' A memo calling for a resolution by the councilmen to plant trees on Arbor Day in commemoration of Gene Stratton oPrter was received and signed by Ear) DaWald, public relations director of the Limberlost Association. This was made a matter of record. Councilmen adopted a resolution for additional appropriations for the city in the amount of 120.891.84, with the breakdown as follows: SI,OOO will be used for a binding of the complete transcriM »» the case of the Jehovah’s Witnesses ONur* To P*«e «U»t>

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Ask Reds To Reconsider Small Number :■ I ' - . ■ -| < ' Reds Promise To Toke Allied Plan Under Consideration r’ i i f - I PANMU?fJOk. Korea. Thursday UP — Allied officers today de- ' , Scribed as “incredibly small” a Communist offer to return some , 600 sick or wounded United Na-' tions prisoners, and asked the (Reds to reconsider. The figure would include possibly only 100 Americans. The "Communists promised to [■- take the , Allied proposal under consideration, and another meeting was set for 11 a.m. todays The Red offe? represented 5 percent of th<* estimated 12,000 U. N. prisoners they hold. The Allies offered to return B.SG’O sick or ' wounded Communist POW’s which ■would be more than 7 percent of 81,500 who want to be sent home. Some 46,600 others have said they forcibly would resist repatriation. u The Allied offer included 5,100 >• North Koreans and 700 Chinese. ’• Between Wednesday’s and tof* day’s meetings, junior officers for both sides met to work out the n mechanics of the prisoner trans-\ ; fer. a Col. *Willard Carlock, 45alveston, a Tex., headed the special U. N.i liaison team and submitted a detailed plan to the Reds for the ex- • change. f Carlock asked the Communists i to select a site inside the neutral • zone around Panmunjom for the ■> actual exchange of the prisoners of war. i The Reds also said they would . take this Allied proposal under ' consideration. ' _ The Allied plan also included details \of jthe facilities needed by each side to handle prisoners returned to their care, mechanics of “ supplying repatriate rosters, maintenance of order in the repatriation center, hours of operation and the naming of control and duty officers. Communist correspondent Wilfrid Burchett, who usually reflects the trend of Communist thought, told Allied newsmen he saw “no reason” why the figure could not be increased. He said the Reds might have been caught unprepared by an Allied proposal for ah immediate exchange of prisoner figures. The small number of ailing prisoners the Reds proposed to exchange slowed the pace of negotiations which in the first two days had indicated a possible speedy end to the nearly three-year-old Korean war. i “The figures of the sick and wounded captured personnel that you say you will repatriate seem incredibly small in view of the total nurrilber of captured personnel you have previously indicated 'you have in your custody,” chief - U. N. negotiator Rear? Admiral John C. Daniel told the Reds. “Accordingly, I request that you have these figures reviewed and a more liberal interpretation;, made of ypur definition of sjck and wounded personnel. I reserve the right to make further comment on < «T»™ To Six) / Dorwin Is Speaker At Lions Meeting The Decatur Lions club last night heard a talk by Decatur high school instructor Deane Dorrwin on the vocational guidance department recently set up in the __ school. \ _ He told the members that the program is expected to reap rich rewards in time, to come insofar as results may then be forthcoming on how efficient the ing proved to be. Dorwin said there is a profile dossier Un each student at the school in wfeich his or her special aptitudes and prob- ■ lems are outlined. Special guest tor the eveninc was Lion deputy district governor Wilbur Ohmart, of Wabash.