Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1953 — Page 1

• Vol. LI. No. 114.

'' House Group Votes Hike In Farm Program Congress' Economy Drive Temporarily Halted By Action • WASHINGTON. UP—The house committee voted today to boost outlays of federal funds for farm programs in 18 months beginning July 1 more than 1100,000,000 above the Eisenhower recommendations. The action temporarily stoped the congressional economy dnvbl It came while some Republicans disputed administration contentions that the federal budget can’t be balanced in the 1954 fiscal year starting July 1. The committee recommendations.. while above those recommended by President Eisenhower, were below those, submitted by former President Truman. The outlays voted by the committee do not entirely mean actual “spending” because some of it is for loans which eventually •wrill be repaid. The committee approved and sent to the house floor a bill which would: 1. Appropriate $712,308,328 for the agriculture department’s regular activities in fiscal 1954. This was a cut of $37,101,014, or about five percent, from the budget submitted by former President Thruman. But it was $8,942,088. or 4.4 percent, above the revised Eisenhower budget., 2. Authorize -$347,500,000 in government loans to bring electricity and telephones into runal .areas and to help individuals buy and improve farms and purchase production equipment. This was a cut of $17,500,000. or five per-> cent, in the proposed Truman budget But it was a boost of $43,500,000, or 14 percent, above the . revised Eisenhower budget. 3. Authorize Congress to appropriate $195,000,000 next year for the 1954 program of agricultural , conservation subsidies. This was a cut of $55,000,000 from the level recommended in the Truman budget. But it was $55,000.000 —or 40 percent — above the Eisenhower recommendation. Such outlays extend through most of the calendar year of 1954 instead of ending June 30, 1954. „ ~By a secret vote of 19 to 18, the committee rejected a move by Rep. John Phillips, R-CallL, to cut ~ the soil conservation subsidy to ~ihe $140,000,000 requested by the administration. Th close vote was taken after farm congressmen sent a hurryup cdll to .absent members who favored a $195,000,000 subsidy. Only one Democrat was reported to have voted for Phillips’ proposal. School Calendar Is Sei For Next Year * - . / ■ School Officials Announce Calendar 1 A tentative calendar of events for Decatur high school for the school year to begin next fall was released today by sthool authorities, and follows: Sept. 8 — Opening of school; teachers’ organizational meeting. Sept. 9 — Classes begin. Oct. 16 — End of first six-weeks period. Oct. 22, 23 — Indiana .teacher association meeting. Nov. 25 — End of second six- - weeks period. Nov. 26, 27 — Thanksgiving vacation. Dec. 24, noon — Christmas vacation -begins. Jan. 4, — Classes resume. Jan. 16 — End of first semester. Jan. 18 — Second semester be-f-.gins. , ~~ \ Feb. 26 — Close of fourth sixweeks. . April 9 — Close of fifth sixweeks. > - April 15, 16 — Easter vacation. May 27 — Commencement. May 28 — Close of school. Lesh Approved By Senate Committee WASHINGTON; UP —A senate judiciary subcommittee today approved the nomination of Joseph Holmes Lesh to foe U. S. attorney for the northern district of ’ Indiana. The nomination must be approved by normally routine action of the senate itself.

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Town Honored At White House S 3 EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Riehkrd Stransky of Funkley, Minh., present* President, Eisenhower with carved wood figures of legendary woodsman Paul Bunyan and his blue ox "Babe” on White House steps following a ceremony in which Funkley’s entire population (rear), a bare dozen and a half, received personal commendation from the President for their work in the recent cancer fund drive. Funkley was,cited by the American Cancer society for efforts in converting old bed sheets into dressings for cancer patients. At left (full view) is Senator Edward J. Thye (R), Minnesota.

Reds Reject UN Proposal On Prisoners Truce Negotiations Slipping Back Into Complete Deadlock PANMUNJOM, Korea UP — The Communists turned down the Allies’ 26 point war prisoner plan today, provoking a United Nations charge that the “master" behind Red negotiators deliberately was delaying a truce in Korea. As the negotiations slipped back into a complete deadlock, Communist troops started tearing down the -“tent cRy” used last month for the exchange of sick and wounded prisoners. The Communists flatly rejected the new U..N. proposal for disposing of prisoners who do not want to go home and the Allies repeated they would not accept the Reds plan. . “We resolutely reject it,” North Korean Geh. Nam 11, chief Communist negotiator, told Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison, head of the UN. delegation, at a meeting lastnig one hoiir and 34 minutes. Nam said the U. N. formula, approved by Washington as a coun-ter-proposal to an eight-point plan submitted by the Communists a week ago today, was “absolutely unacceptable.” Harrison said the Reds proposal to decide final disposition of prisoners refusing repatriation at a post-armistice political conference was worthless and “could no more reach an agreement we could honorably accept than can these delegations up to this , time." “The faces and voices would change but the master behind them would not change,” Harrison said. The two- sides agreed to meet again Friday at 11 a.m. (10 p.m. Thursday e.d.t.) “As it stands now, their May 7 proposal is completely unsatisfactory to us and they said ours of yesterday is completely unsatisfactory to them," Harrison said. Nam went further than simply rejecting the allied formula which would free all Korean prisoners now or immediately after the armistice is signed and turn river to a neutral custodian for a period of explanation only those Chinese prisoners Who refuse to go home. He said the plan “tends to overthrow the basis of negotiations,” obviously deferring to the Reds’ proposal last March to resume the truce talks bn the basis of a Communist compromise. Nam’s rejection also spurned a U.N. proposition that Chinese prisoners be j freed in Korea to go where they' choose Ifj after two months in custody of the neutral commission, they still refuse to return to Communism. This clashed with the original Red proposal that all prisoners who not directly repatriated be placed in the custody of a neutral nation. Gen. Mark W. Clark, who personally had delivered ths-*u. N’. plan to Harrison at Munaan, had thought it might lead to an armistice. There was no immediate official comment on what bourse the U. N. would take next!

Property Purchased By Red Men Lodge Teeple Property On First Street Sold The Improved Order of Red Men, Pocotaiigo Tj-ibe 203 of this city, last night closed a deal for the purchase of the David H. Teeple residence apd warehouse property,* 122 N. First street, as a future home for the fraternal organization. Consisting of a two-story frame 12-room house, a reinforced warehouse and large barn at the rear of the lot, wh|ch extends about 206 feet from First street to the St. Mary’s river, the deal is one of the largest reported in the city this year. The purchase price, wih a down payment to the owner and the balance to be financed by a newly created holding company, was reported at $25,000 by Dr. Harry Hebble, a member of the building committee. ' Possession will be given the Red Men July t. Mr. and Mrs. Teeple have purchased a modern ranchtype house in Stratton Place from Kenneth Arnold, The latter was represented by Robert H. Heller, realtor. For the present the Red Men will occupy the office rooms in the warehouse for club and lodge rooms. The lodge intends to convert the house into a duplex for rental purposes. The barn can be used as a garage. . Members of the building committee besides Hebble who negotiated the deal are: James Strickler, Jr., sachem of the lodge and chairman of the committee; C. L. Weber, Harmon Gillig, Junior Lake, A. N. Hilton and Theron Dull. ~ Pocotaiigo Tribe has approximately 100 members. It was organized here more than 50 years ago. The Red Men claim to be the country's oldest fraternal organization, dating back to revolutionary days. Dr. Hebble explained that the lodge’s purchase of valuable real estate was primarily to provide a future home for the Red Men and that the Teeple property had an income. It is planned to sell shares of stock to the members for the down payment on the same plan as that used by the government in selling defense bonds. Members will purchase an $18.75 bond and at the end of 10 years receive $25 in payment, which includes interest. The warehouse is an industrial type building, about 40 by 60 feet, floors. A modern heating plant serves the business office and residence. The Red Men now have club rooms in the Lamon building above Frickle’s place. Active membership necessitated larger quarters for the lodge, Hebble stated. Mies Recreation Is Robbed Last Night The Mies Recreation. 266 North Secona street, was burglarized last night between 6 and 10 p.m. of <55 in change and bills. Molly Mies, owner, said Mrs. Mies went in to the small office near the sales counter, where a change box is kept, to cash a check and discovered the money taken from the box. i \ Mies reported a city policeman is investigatin* the possibility of the theft having been committed by an idle pin-boy loitering In the area of the office.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 14/ 1953.

Eisenhower To Reveal Long-Awaited Tax Plans To U. S. Tuesday Night

Ike Challenges Statement By Clement Attlee Sees No Evidence Os Good Faith By Russians On Peace WASHINGTON. UP —President Eisenhower told a news conference today he has seen no definite evidence of good faith on the part of Russia that would warrant holding a big power meeting\ as suggested by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The President also challenged the correctness at former British prime minister Clement R. Attlee who said some people in the United States do not want peace in Korea. Permitting a direct quotation, the President said. “I have met no one in the United States who does not want peace.” Mr. Eisenhower said he hoped he was mistaken, but he thought the quick Communist rejection of the latest U. N. Korean truce proposals indicated what he called a sort of fixed attitude on the part of the Reds. . i The President, questioned ak lengthabout the Churchill proposal for a meeting of heads of State, said he was ready to take almost any kind of a chance to get peace. But he said befbre undertaking a top level meeting, he would want evidence of good faith all around. He followed this with a blunt statement that he has seen nothing yet that could be pointed to as really definite evidence of good faith. ’ Asked if he would put f this label ’ of insufficient good faith sqiiarely on Russia, the President said that is the nation to which he referred. He said he had no objection whatsoever to Churchill’s proposal, but he thought that international negotiations, because of their complexity, usually can be conducted better by foreign offices and our state department. Mr. Eisenhower, as in the past, did not rule out his willingness to meet with other heads of state if he thought there would be some promise of profit. He said he is personally feady to do anything but that the dignity of the United States would require in advance some reasonable indication that progress could be made. He said he would not, in event of such k meeting, insist on advance assurance that the; confer(Turs T« Pa*e Tkre«) Buddy Poppy Sale Here On Saturday VFW's Buddy Poppy Sale Here Saturday Saturday, the Veterans of Foreign Wars here will sell Baddy Poppies on the streets of Decatur to ease somewhat the blows struck by three wars. The sale of these poppies began after World War I, in 1921, and the VFW was granted exclusive patents to the name shortly there'after. The Buddy Poppy was an outgrowth of violence, a paradox born of a monster that represents the compassion of a small group of men for their brothers fallen in the wkrs. i ' } K As well as easing the lonely hours of Wounded men who mdst stare up at bare, blank hospital ceilings — sometimes for years—the money that comes from the sale of the little red veteran-made blossoms, goes to cushion the pain of survivors of soldiers who forfeit their lives. Throughout the nation, on Saturday, thousands trf VFW poets will join hands through the Poppy and go all-out to lend practical thanks to those whose lives have been Irretrleveably effected, and In the memory of those who live no mere, (Twra T* Fa«e Five)

July Draft Call Is Cut To 23,0D0 Men In Line With Cat In * Military Manpower ’ WLASHtINGTON UP — The Defense Department is going to call only 23,000 men in July in keeping with administration plans to cut military manpower. The new call, issued Wednesday, was 9,000 below the June draft : call and was th© first since defense secretary Charles E. Wilson Announced plans to start reducing in the fiscal be"gtnning July 3. > . ’ !; ; . ■ But selective service director Gen. Lewis B. Hershey said the cutback does not necessarily mean I the military situation hps eased. "It may be only a delaying of 1 the time when we need 'more men,” Hershey said. J He told a news conference in Madison, Wis„ that the “needs’’ tor ■ men are slightly less now tfoan 12 months ago because the rush to draft men for the Korean war is not as great. All the prospective draftees were earmarked for the annyj The navy, marine corps and air spree will continue to meet their manpower needs through volunteers and reenlistments. The call was the smallest since \ June, 1952. The defense department said the July figure Is “based pn requirements to maintain strength levels anticipated tender the department of defense budget for the fiscal year 1054.” It explained allowance*! have been made for army volunteers and re-enlistments as well as the discharge of men who have completed regular enlistments or two-1 f year draft terms. The priak draft rate during the nearly three years of the Korean war was reached in March and April, 1951, .when 80,000 men were drafted each month. Wilson announced Monday that the defense department woulki slash draft calls by 50 per cent for the coming fiscal year and would cut the projected strength of the armed forces by 291,000 men. jj i: i I 1 '1 / . 11 . : i . CIO, U. S. Steel Open Negotiations New Wage Demands Are Made By Union Pittsburgh UP —. The United Steelworkers CIO opens key negotiations today with the giant United States Steel Corp, on new wage demands which the industry said woqjd boost steel prices. USW president David J. McDonald, making his first appearance as No. 1 union negotiator since he succeeded the late Philip Murray, will lay his still unspecified proposals before a 35-man company delegation. The wage demands made on U. S. Steel will be the demands for the entire basic steel Industry. McDonald already has stated he believes the industry should grant pay increases because they are "sorely needed” by the USW’s 1,200,000 members. The industry said higher wages are not justified and would mean higher prices. ; McDonald’s assistants also will meet today with officials Os the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., at Youngstown, O„ fifth largest producer, and Inland Steel Co.. at Indiana Harbor, Ind., sixth rank- i ing. Meetings with the other major producers are expected to start in a few days. !| I But the union again ’has singled out U. S. Steel, the nation** biggest producer and employer of 260,000 of the USW membership, as the main target. June 30 is the contract deadline after which the anion is free to strike. |. 4, H >'!. Today’s meeting was expected to be "exploratory” jwith McDonald presenting reasons why he be- . (Tara Ts Face Five) ?

Death Toll In Twin Tornadoes Mounts To 112 Abandon Hope Any More Victims May Be Found Living WACO, Tex. UP — The death toll from twin tornadoes that smashed into two Texas cities Monday ; stood at 112 today-—lO2 at Waco in central Texas and 10 at San Angelo, 190 miles to the west. Officials abandoned hope any more victims of the storm would be found alive. Rain drenched rescue workers here and temperatures were in the 50’s but the grim job moved speedily ahjead. ; National guardsmen, Connally air force base airman and hundreds of volunteers aided local officials in the cleanup task, Mourning families prepared to bury their dead. Only a few funerals have been held thus far. The latest San Angelo victim was Ben McNeal, 731, who diedi in a hospital Wednesday night from injuries received in the storm which struck that West Texas city about 3 p.m; c.a.t. Monday. The tornado, that wrecked 36 blocks ia downtown Waco hit about 4:30 p.m The; Red Cross said Wednesday an estimated 20 persons were missing. Since then, about 15 bodies have been recovered. Some 320 other persons were injured at Waco but unofficial estimates said as many as 500 fTara Te Fa*e Kickt) j . ' ~ j Emelia Tonnelier Dies This Morning Lifelong Resident Is Taken By Death Miss, Emelia A. Tonnelier, whose talents; won her national fame in an esSay contest, and for many years a stenographer <and clerk in leading law offices in this city, died at 8:30 o’clock this morning ait the Adams county memorial hospital. Miss Tonnelier made her home with the Misses Gertrude and Lena Holthouse, 333 Fourth street. She was removed to the hospital several weeks ago and had been critically ill for the past week. ■.

A lifelong resident of this city, Miss Tonnelier was born June 4, 1876, a daughter of John and Mary Colchln-Tonnelier. She attended St. Joseph’s Catholic school in this city and was graduated from St. Mary’a of-the-Woods Terre Haute. x She was employed in the law offices of two former judges and one attorney, former mayor of Decatur. They were the late Judge James T, Merryman, Judge Jesse Sutton and Mayor Amos P. Beatty. Approximately 30 years ago Miss Tonnelier submitted an article in a national essay contest and won first for her effort. The Chamber of Commerce and civic interests in New Smyrna, decided to publicise their city by having • persons write, “Why I should own a home in New Smyrna.” From the thousands of entries received, Miss Tonnelier’s entry was judged the best. She was awarded a modern bungalow in New Smyrna* which later was sold for a substantial sum. Miss Tonnelier wasna member of St. Mary’s Catholic church and the Rosary society. She Is survived by two brothers, Edward of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Charles of Michigan; one sister/ Mrs. Lena Dwan of Bentop Harbor, Mich. The body i has been taken to the Gillig and Doan funeral home. Funeral services will be conducted from St Mart’s church with the Very Rev*. Ms|r. 3. 3. Seimets, officiating, at a date to be announced later, pending arrival of relatives.

School Head | • ... - . t -h * Galt’M. Grabill, principal of the Monmouth school, will assume the office of county school superintendent next August 15. Successful as a school administrator and educator, he served as principal of the school at Pendleton, follot’ing his ] service in the air force during World War 11. ' K -- - I? - T McCarthy Demands Apology By Britain Assails Attlee's ’ Attack On Nation f > BULLETIN LONDON, (UP) — Former prime minister Clement Attlep tonight answered «n attack on him by Sen. Joseph McCarthy with that he and his Labor party were fighting Communism “long before Senator McCarthy ever was heard of.” \ : ■I •" ’' . • . .• j - K WASHINGTON UP — Joseph R. McCarthy demanded (in apology today tor thel “cheap” ahd “fantastic” attack which former British prime minister Clement IL Attlee made against "the President and people of the United States." ’ ; »In an angry speech prepared delivery tn the senate, McCarthy denounced the Labor leader as tie British "counterpart" of formhr secretary of state Dean Acheson and a man <who praised th© Communist brigade during the Spanish Civil War. ; (He charged that Attlee’s address in the house of commons Tuesday was “one of the most insulting speeches ever made" in the legislature of a nation receiving aid from an ally that has beep "ipouring out her economic life blood for practically every othdr nation on earth.” I Attlee stirred up a hornet’s nest of resentment on Capitol Hill when he said some elements in this . country wanted to continue the Korean war, criticized the Constitution as an “isolationist”’ document. and said it wa» questionahle “which is th© more powerful, Lha President or Senator Wisconsin Republican said he iwo “not shocked" (by what Attlee said because he “no more represents the British people than the Achesons, Lattimores, i and Vincents represented the American people.” Acheson, Far Eastern expert Owen Lattimore, and former diplomat John Carter Vincent are old (McCarthy targets. 5 But what really sheked hint I McCarthy said, was that “no mem* •ber of the majority party" of British prime minister Winston Churchill arose to contest Attlee's statements. ! “Th© American people are 6n« titled to an aipology for this cheap, uncalled for, fantastic attack upon the President and people of the United States." he said. “We To Fam Ktcbt) *U' ■ , I * INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, occasional light | showers east and south tonight Friday partly cloudy ' / and warmer. Low tonight 4O> 46. High Friday noar 60. 'll ° 12 PACES —f— ———8-*—g ;

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Radio Address To Nation On Varied Issues Plans Explanation Os Administration Plans For Public WASHINGTON UP — ’’resident Eisenhower next Tuesday night | will answer the big question—when ; can taxes be cut? \ He will unveil his long-awaited ” tax plans in a nationwide radlb t £ speech. J Mr. Eisenhower told his weekly hews conference today that the I. speech will include a discussion of the whole tax problem and mow the administration will approach , it. J : ’ ’ . 1 Mr. Eisenhower said the speech will coyer national security, economy. the budget, spending, taxes and their relationships. He said he will try to explain exactly what the administration is trying to get < ■kt. TJ ' V The nationwide broadcast is scheduled tentatively for 8 pun. c. s. t. I Mr. Eisenhower said he will go over the speech with Republican congressional leaders next Tuesday morning at his weekly meeting with them. He said he will work on the , speech during his week end aboard / the presidential yacht Williamsburg, and that he expects one or two of his top advisers to come aboard Saturday morning to go over it with him. Mr. Eisenhower in his broadcast will try to end the confusion that has developed over the new administration’s budget and tax outlook. The President himself has said he does not expect a balanced budget in fiscal 1954, which ends June 30. 1954, and has eaid repeatedly he opposes any" tax cuts until the budget is balanced. ! But in the past week, two members of his cabinet have given conflicting views on when they expect a balanced budget. Secretary • Os treasury George M. Humphrey has said he expects government ! spending and income to get into i balance by July 1, 1954. But de- { tonse secretary Charles E. Wilson j told a house committee it probably I will be two or three years before budget is balanced. : House speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr. said aftey a breakfast meeting with Mr. Elsenhower and Humphrey this morning that the President expects to /get spending and income in balance by July, 1954- *, the start of fiscal 1955. / VMr. Eisenhower told his news conference that a week or so after his radio broadcast he also will make a similar last-mifiute report . to the nation over television. -Wilson has said twice- within the _ past week that he thinks it will take two or three years to balance the budget and clear the way for tax cuts. publicly repudiated Wilson’s estimate, - and asserted that he expects federal spending and revenues to eVen up by. July 1, 1954? the Start of the 1955 fiscal year. Neither forecast was particularly cothforting to GOP congressmen, who read, between the lines a strong possibility that Mr. Eisenhpwer will ask congress to postpone sorrfe or the tax cuts which under present law are scheduled to take plate, automatically during the next year. The excess profits tax; on business expires June 30, and a 10 per cent drop in personal income taxes is slated for nelt Jan. 1. Cuts in regular corporate tax rates and some excises are on the books for next April. / - Guesswork about Mr. Eisenhower’s forthcoming tax proposals has centered about the assumption the Republicans cannot politically afford to give business a break, by letting the excess profits tax expire, six months before individual taxpayers get relief. - From this thesis has been drawn the ideas that Mr. Eisenhower may - — seek a six months extenttoq . Frara Ts raaw am) \