Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 128, Decatur, Adams County, 1 June 1953 — Page 1

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A Soldier Pays His Respects f 7 > BlßheC i BW^B' -B - w B* - < l B1 k-&b Er E ".w Ik '"""*‘t 1 m ft.«- ; I S Biß K V •' t. ■ LS ... i/ ■ - ■ „y|- j ' .v: WIpH THE NATION'S FIRSJ LADY at his side. President Eisenhoiver stands reverently at, attention jg - ML* bugler sounds taps at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Memorial Day ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery. Mr. Eisenhower placed a wreath on the tomb. -- : — — ■ -1...; ; ■— -

i London Jammed I For Coronation r Rites Tuesday Queen Entertains Prime Ministers Os Her Commonwealth LONDON, UP —Queen Elizabeth 11, radiant in a summery creamcolored dress, entertained 11 prime ministers of her Commonwealth at a state lunch today while thousands of her subjects set up camps —complete with cooking stoves — along* Tuesday’s coronation parade route. : . - . Little Prince Charles, yearold heir to the throne, delighted the massed outside Buckingham Palace by appearing

at a window Xo hear a Guard’s band play “Teddy Bear’s Picnic” while his mother received the premiers. The great coronation invasion approached its peak. Only the weather man refused to cooperate. He forecast occa- ' sional showers, blustery winds and ! “perhaps hail” with only an occasional glimpse of the sun in prospect. Ocean liners, channel steamers, planes, trains and buses brought more thousands to London. The wide mall leading from the palace to Trafalgar Square- resembled a battlefield strewn with bodies at dawn, but it soon became a scene of great activity. Overnight campers rolled out of their blankets and started making j coffee ahd frying bacon. The queen’s guests at the palace lunch were prime ministers ■ Winston Church of Britain, Louis ! St. Laurent of Canada and the premiers to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Southern Rhodesia, Northern Ireland’ and Malta. Queen Elizabeth received her guests in the palace picture gal- , lery—standing with her husband • Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh I in front of a portrait of King : George 111 who lost the American ; colonies. The queen wore, with her cream dress, white gloves, white peeptoed shoes and a spray of diamonds. She was smiling, bubbling with happiness as she talked gaily to the statesmen about her\ coronation Tuesday. After the reception, the lunch was held in the state dining room. Present, in addition to the premiers, were members of ; the royal family and high commissioners of Commonwealth countries. So great was the crush in front of Buckingham Palace this after- I noon that Churchill’s limousine was brought to a halt as he left after lunch. He grinned and waved at the people w-ho rapped on the car windows before police cleared a path for him. I Prince Charles kept pushing back the curtains from an upstairs window to watch the crowd. Defers Rulings On Race Segregation WASHINGTON, UP — The supreme court today again deferred rulings on five test cases involving the issue of racial segregation in public schools. The tribunal met for less than an hour, handed down four minor decisions and then recessed" until aext Monday. <

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j Woman Talked To Safely From Ledge Soldier Prisoner's Wife Leaves Ledge MIAMI, Fla. UP — A soldier prisoner’s wife spent several hours on a 25 story ledge overlooking busy Flagler street today but was talked back to safety while her husband was enif route on a dramatic flight tp her side arranged by the Air Force. Sjheila Rose Mosso, who had been held in the skyscraper Dade county jail atop the county courthouse for slipping her husband a pistol for use in an escape, climbed out on the ledge .early, this morning. While thousands watched from below, the child bride of Pvt. James E. Mosso defied authorities to coax her back inside. But about the time her husband was due to land at ' International Airport outside this vacationland capital, she changed her mind and calmly made her way inside and

to safety. ' Sheiff Tom Kelly, w-ho appealed to -the air force at McDill air force base near Tampa to set up the flight for Mosso when it appeared his charge might jump to her death, said she agreed to come inside w-hen advised that her man had landed. . j Earlier, her eyes tense and her pretty face framed in a determined mask, she called to’ Kelly, “I won’t come in until I see him. I don't want to live withbut him. If they hurt him I'll kill them." !\ She said she once saw Mosso in solitary confinement. “It's terrible," she cried. The sheriff calmed her down , with coffee and cigarets when he 1 had her safe and she chatted with | i him while awaiting the arrival of | her husband. I Sheila told William McAndrew, ■ the jailer who discovered her on the precarious perch, that she feared the air force would send Mosso to Korea. “One more move and I’ll jump,” she said when McAndrew edged <Tnra To Page Two) Commissioners In I Monthly Session Monthly Report By County Healfh Nurse County commissioners in regular session this morning allowed 205 routine bills, received two regular reports and set a meeting date out of Adams county for next week. ' Following. is a report of activities for the month of May made to commissioners' by county health nurse. Miss Marie Felberl Miss Felber attended a state tuberculosis meeting at Indianapolis on April 28, 29. She lent assistance in pre-school checks at the Lincoln school, Moilmouth, Jeffer- . son, Pleasant Mills, Geneva and Adams Central. Hearing tests at . Decatur Catholic were completed by her. she reported. Commissioners were told that Miss Felber assisted Dr. Kidder, of the Irene Byron hospital, and Mrs. W. Guy Brown, secretary of the Adams county TB society, at the TB clinic at the K. of P. home last month. She attended the northeastern conference of social workers at Wolcottville on May 19, and went to a meeting at the crippled children’s society on May 26. She reported traveling 481 miles last month and has made 15 home calls. \ It was resolved by the county <Tara Te Pace sic)

Nation Counts ; 251 Deaths In Holiday Traffic Final Count Shows 410 Violent Deaths Over Long Holiday By UNITED PRESS The nation today counted 251 traffic deaths during the Memorial Day week end and drew a blistering attack from a top safety official for its “stupid apathy” nbout the slaughter on the highways. A final count showed 410 violent deaths for the holiday period which started at 6 p. m. Friday and ended at midnight Sunday night. In addition to th< traffic deaths, 94 persons drowned. 10 died in fires, eight died in plane crashes and 47 were killed in miscellaneous accidents. Ned H. Dearborn, president of the national safety council, said it was “bitterly ironic that once again America has seen fit to honor the dead on Memorial Day by needlessly killing the living—this time to the extent of 251 deaths.” “How long are we going to accept such bloodshed' with stupid apath? Isn’t it about time for someone besides public officials and traffic police to get excited over this massacre on the highways?” The number of traffic deaths topped the council’s pre-holiday warning that 240 persons would be killed on the highways. This was the first two-day Wmoriai holiday i since the council began keeping records for Memorial Day in 1946. year’s total was 359 traffic deaths for three days.; New York led the states with 19 traffic deaths, and Illinois and Ohio reported 16 each. California had 15, and Pennsylvania and Michigan both counted 12. Delaware and Nevada reported no holiday deaths of any kind. A line of thundershowers spoiled Sunday plans along a line from Minnesota to Washington, D. C.. and although most Sections sweltered in hot, humid weather, New England was fanned by cool , winds. Portland!, Me., reported a chilly 34 degrees). - • Some 8,000 persons saw race' driver Al Speth, 38, of Davenport. ( la., fatally injured at the lowa state fair grounds track Sunday. Speth’s car hit the inffeld fence, bounced 200 feet and landed outside the main wall. Bloodmobile Unit In Decatur July 10 The next visit of the. Red Cross bloodmobile to this city will be July 10. Mrs. Max Schafer, executive secretary, announced today. Last Friday, 102 persons went through the line at the bloodmobile unit at the American Legion home, contributing 77 pints of blood. Several prospective donors were unable to fill their appointments because of conflicting arrangements with the Memorial Day .holiday, the Red Cross announced. Since the next visit of the Bloodmobile will follow the July Fourth holiday; it is expected that the donor list will be substantially increased. - , - J if ' INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Tuesday; cooler extreme south; a little warmer north Tuesday. Low tonight 48 • 54 north, 54 - 58 south. High Tuesday 74-80.

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Humphrey Asks Excess Profits Tax Continued Concedes Tax Is Vicious But Urges Extension Granted WASHINGTON, UP --Treasury secretary Georage M. Humphrey, conceded today the excess profits tax is “very vicious” but urged its continuation for six more months to provide sorely needed revenue. • “The danger of an atomic Pearl Harbor is real,” he told the house ways and means committee in stressing the necessity for maintaining all federal tax rates at present levels through Dec. 31.; The tax-framing ways and means committee is considering President Eisenhower's request that the excess profits tax on corporations be continued from June 30, scheduled expiration date, until Dec. 31. As he faced the group that is Mr. Eisenhower's chief stumbling block in getting an excess profits tax extension, Humphrey confessed that he agrees with those who have called the excess profits tax vicious, unfair, Inequitable and—as he said himself—an “iniquity.” The secretary good-naturedly agreed with chairman DanielAA. Reed (R-N. Y.) that the excess profits tax tends to limit the growth of small business and interfers with the normal improve-; ment in the standard of living. * But he said the administration had to “face the facts” in its survey of government expenditures as compared with government income. It was decided, he said, that the excess profits tax should be continued for six months to provide >800,000.000 in additional revenue, and to make its expiration coincide with a i(f percent cut for Individual income taxpayers on Jan. 1. \ ' He said he could not express any opinion about a sales tax until studies have been completed (Tarn To rage Two) Alva Burger Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Alva K. (Burger, 74-year-old retired farmer, and a lifelong resident of ; Union township, died at 1:15 o’clock this morning at thS Adams county memorial hospital of a heart ailment. He had been ill ' for the past year and critical for i six months. He was born in Union township Aug. 21, 1878, a son of Frank and Clara Kern-Burger. He was married March 6, 1805 to Lucina E.\ Harden, who died in 1914. He was then married Aug. 29, 1917, to Bertha A. Welty, who died in 1946. Surviving are eight daughters, Mrs. Pearl Worthman of Preble, Mrs. Francie Harvey, (Mrs. Ruth Suman, Mrs. ‘Mary Shifferly, Mis. Rosa Fox and Mrs. Anna Grote, all of Decatur, Mrs. Margaret Caripenter of Poneto and Mrs. Lucretia Minnich of Berne; six sons, Frank, Wayne, Harold, Brice, John and Robert 'Burger, all of Decatur; 25 grandchildren; 11 great-grand-children; one brother. David Burger of Michigan, and one sister, Mrs. Mollie Standforg of Fort Wayne. 'Two sons and one daughter are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the home, six miles northeast of Decatur, and at £:3O p.m. at the Pleasant Grove church, the Rev. William (Ensminger apd the Rev. Lawrence Middaugh officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant Valley cemetery. The body will be removed from the Black funeral home to the residence, where friend? may call after 7 o’clock this evening. •J I ; '' S

A r JL nils Industrialists ( In Atomic Program ■* Congressman Sees i Profits Motives UP —Rep. Chet Holifield (D-Calif.) charged today that certain “self-serving" industnalists seek boldly to convert the atomic energy program into ','prdfiit making” venture of their own. In a speech prepared for delitjdfy in the house, Holifield also assailed as "a dangerous retreat” President Eisenhower’s ordered cutback in funds for development ■'of atomic-powered aircraft carriejand planes. Holifield, a member of the Joint congressional committee on atomicenergy, said the President’s economy move was “timed to fit in with demand for concessions to private industry in the atomic field.” He said it could set the program ; back three to five years at a time when it is vitally essential tp maintain U. S. supremacy. N J “To pull up short now and look for economies when the issue is nothing less than survival of the free world," he said, “is to tfifW with destiny and to court disaster. "We dare not let leadership in the atomic field slip from oUr grasp” Holifield was -equally blunt in his protest against the “bold-faced bid” of private interests to tnovjfe into th® A-bomb program. }■ ■ Noting proposals to revise the atomic energy commission law to ■ remove the “strait jacket on industrial development of atomic power." Holifield contended that they are merely part of a scheme by private interests to tap a richer field. . . f( | “Some companies,” he said, “want to take over the job of manufacturing plutonium for atomic bombs, selling the plutonium in 4 high priced, government guaranteed market, and developing atomic power for industrial use as ? bjre product.” In report for the AEC. font;, industrial groups said Saturday that peacetime atomic power is feasible now, if subsidized by the taxpayer; But in a statement earlier iq the week, the commission said ope of its objectives is to “further the development of nuclear plants whicti are economically independent of government commitments to purchase weapons-grade plutonium.” Holifield accused Dr. Allen iTum Tn Six) All TB Officers L Reelected Friday Annual Meeting Is Held Friday Night All officers of the Adams county tuberculosis association were‘ reelected at the annual meeting of the organization, held Friday night at the Decatur high school, Robert J. Zwick is president of the association, Charles Fuhrman, vice-president; Mrs. W. Guy Brown, secretary, and Dr. Roy Archbold, treasurer. The association’s executive board members are the Rev. Robert Contant, Dr. James Burk, Mrs. Ernest Reicheldetfer. John j B. Stults and Hugh J. Andrews, -j Directors are: Mrs. J. Ward Calland, Charles Fuhrman, Mrs. Nellia Coppess, Helen Kenney, E. M. Webb. Mrs. Xariffa Walters, Mary Schlagenhauf John B. Stujts, Hugh J. Andrews, Dr. James Biirk. Mrs. Ernest Reicheldeffer, Mrs. Lloyd Byerly, Mra. Eli Graber, Mrs. Charles Kuhn, the Rev. Robert Contant, Dr. Norman E. Beaver, Glen Custard, Theodore Gfptrian, Harvey Haggard and Mrs. Murray Holloway. The financial report was presented by the treasurer, Dr. Archbold; Charles Fuhrman repotted on a meeting held at Bluffton for board members, and the secretary, Mrs. Brown, presented her annual report, which included patch tesb ing in ‘ the schools, health education in the schools, X-ray surveys, I clinics, follow-ups, and rehabilitation. r

- r ILIl L1 - ./■ I ! Reorganization Os State Dept. Asked By Ike Far-Reaching Plan Os Reorganization Asked Os Congress WASHINGTON, UP—President Eisenhower today proposed to congress a tfar-reaching reorganization of the state department under which the mutual security administration would lose its independent status. All foreign information programs also would be combined in a new agency under final control of the secretary of state. The state department reorganization, designed to eliminate “confusion, blurred authority and clouded responsibility,” was contained in two plans submitted to the house and senate by the chief executive. The plans become effective in 60 days unless vetoed by a full majority of . either the house or senate. . w< Mr. Eisenhower also submitted two other reorganisation plans: To remoyw from the post office department the payment trf airline subsidies and place this responsibility in the \ civil aeronautice board. Revamping the council of economic advisers to re-establish a three-man board with new, wider powers vested in the chairman. This plan also provided for appointment of an advisory board on economic growth and stability. It would be made up of federal officials. The state department-plans contain two basic 1. The centralization of all foreign assistance and related economic programs, including MSA and the so-called point four program for underdeveloped nations, under a new agency to be known as the foreign operations administration w-hich presumably will be headed by Harold E. Stassen, now MSA director. Stassen will retain administrative autonomy, buy policy control will rest squarely with the secretary of state. 2. Establishment of a new governmental body, the United States informational agency which will conduct all foreign information’ programs now divided between the state department, MSA, the (Tara Ta Pa*e Five) - J ' Burkhart Lehman Is Taken By Death Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Burkhart Lehman. 86, retired farmer, died at 12:35 o’clock this morning at his home in Berne following a year’s illness. A native'of Switzerland,, he was born there Nov. 13, 1866, a son of Jacob J. and Elizabeth Marti-Leh-man, and came to the United States when 14 years old. His wife, the former Lydia Sprunger, died in 1938. Mr. Lehman was a member of the First Mennonite church at Berne. Surviving are seven sons, Harley Lehman of Decatur, and Leo, Herman, Elmer, ' Albert, Reuben and Leslie Lehman,' all of Berne; three daughters, Mrs. Noah Neu- 1 enschwander. Mrs. Frank Nussbaum and Miss Viola Lehman, all of Berne; 40 grandchildren; 42 great-grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Florine Geiger of Columbus Grove, O. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the First Mennonite church in Berne, the Rev. Olin A Krehbiel officiating. Burial will be In the MRE cemetery. The body was removed to the Yager funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening.

; ■ Pastor Returns B | 4 ■' ■ UHL s Rev. Samuel Emerick Rev. Samuel Emerick Returned To Decatur Methodist- Pastor Returns To Charge The Rev. Samuel Emerick was reappointed pastor of the , First Methodist church in this city, at the annual North Indiana confet- »■ ehce in Fort Wayne Sunday. . v > Rev. Emerick will begin his ■ fourth year in the local pastorate, i Recently Decatur Methodists requested the return of their pastor, Which was made by Bishop Richard C. Raines, resident bishop of the Indiana area of the Methodist church and his cabinet, composed of the superintendents of the six districts in the conference. The Rev. A. Wesley Pugh of Fort Wayne, was reappointed district superintendent. The Rev. Ralph Johnson was reappointed tq his second year as pastor oL the Monroe Methodist church. The Rev. Gerald H- Jones was reappointed pastor of the Wayne Street Methodist church in Fort Wayne. Other appointments in the local area are: Geneva Appointments Reappointed are the Rev. Roger Lautzenheiser to the Geneva Methodist church and the Rev. E. Rarl Hartman to the Geneva circuit, Other Appointments The Rev. Benjamin H. Franklin, Logansport Broadway Methodist churchthe Rev. Ralph W. Graham, First Methodist church, Marion. + Under special appointments, the 'Rev. H. R. Carson. Muncie, was renamed general secretary of the preachers aid society. The above three ministers and th4.Rev. Gerald Jones are former pastors of the Decatur Methodist church. Hoagland-Poe: Yet to be named. ( The Rev; George Thomas will go to LaFoiitaine. The Rev. William Meddock, effective Aug. 1, now in chaplaincy, to succeed the Rev. Harold Jensen, not appointed to the North Indiana conference. New appointment made. , Pleasant Mills: The Rev. H. A. Davis, a conference succeeding the Rev. Harley Shady,: who goes to j Preble. Preble Circuit: The Rev. H. T; Shady, from Pleasant Mills, succeeding the Rev. Frank H. Kise, wlio goes to Shirley-Wilkinson. J , Memorial Services Are Held Saturday | . Memorial Day was observed inDecatur Saturday morning with the annual services conducted by; the city’s veterans’ organizations and their auxiliaries. Services were held at 9 a. m. at both cemeteries, followed by a' parade, led 'hy Decatur Catholic! high school band, to the Monroe, street bridge, and return to the peace monument at £he court house, where services were under the direction of the VFW. The Rev. Lawrence T. Norris, pastor of the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church, the memorial address. ■ ■ .4

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Eisenhower And Security Heads | In Conference Report South Korea Asld Agreement In, Exchange For Truce WASHINGTON UP — President Eisenhower met with the national ‘ security council today amid reports South K,o|*B has asked for a military-economic pact in exchange for agreement! on a Korean truce. President Syngman Rhee was said to have- dispatched the pro-' posal to President Eisenhower. His request was said to include a pledge of United States military help in event another Communist invasion and a promise of a mammoth economic rehabilitation of, his ravaged country. The White House an<| the state department had terse “no comments” on the reports. ' It was learned Rhee also had asked that there be simultaneous withdrawal of foreign troops frOin ! Norih and South Koren after a ■ truce had been arranged and pri- - soners of w’ar had been exchanged: I A South Kdrean source said in / Seoul that Rhee insisted that the [ 8 proposed pact be signed before ihe - Korean Republic will agree to an * armistice. South Korea presently . bitterly opposes th? latest U. N. ; proposal to the Communists. toe national security council was called into special session by y Mr. Eisenhower to get a report from secretary of state John Foster Dulles on his tour of the Middle East and south Asia. The top strategy board, however, vtas ready, to discuss the Korean truce situation and Rhee’s violent opposition to the U. N. armistice plan/ Says Reds To Accept SEOUL. | iCorea UP — South Korean Foreign Minister Pyun Yung Tae said today his country , believes the Communists will ac- - cept the latest Allies truce proposal. ' “The new proposal is exactly what the ! Coynmunist-s have demanded,” Pjuin, who also is acting premier, said. “And now we come to the point where we cannot compromise further.” “If the !_ Communists still disagree, it means they want a third world war,” he said. “This I do not believe. Therefore, I they will j agree this time to the Uhitetj Nations proposal.” The Communists are expected to i give 4heir reply to the last U. N. . formula to break thte war prisoner deadlock pext Thursday in the j truce hut at Panmuhjom. Lt. Gen. William K. garrison, chief U.* N. negotiator, handed the proposal to the Communists on ! May 25 and both sides thdn agreed to a seven-day recess. The Reds asked for a three-day extension / Sunday. ! ! ; Pyun reflected his government’s view on the Communists’; attitude i toward the latest U. N. proposal Ji. following a top secret cabinet meeting with South Korean President £ Syngman Rhee at the aged president's sumpier home on the south coast. Rhee and his officials bitterly opposed the new U. N. truce plan because it would drop demands for immediate release on Koreans on armistice day, bring foreign troops into Korea to take custody of the prisoners and leave the country divided. - Pyun refused to confirm or deny jj reports that President Eisenhower had sent a personal appeal to Rhee asking him to drop his opposition to current efforts to end the war. “1 don’t know,” Pyun said. “I can’t say. I have no comment on the letter. Although the Communists asked for the three-day extension of tjie recess for “administrative pur- - poses," Pyun said his government believes the Reds "probably want to consult their home governments." ! _ < Pyun said South Korea would f (Tara T« six) *