Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 131, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 131.

Red Reply To UN Proposal Raises Hopes

PANMUNJOM. Korea. (UP) — Communist armistice negotiators gave the United Nations a formal counter-proposal for ending the Korean war “extraordinarily” close to the latest Allied plan, a source close to the IT. N. truce team said Friday. All major points in the Tied ■proposal were identical to those in the “final” U. N. offer for compromising the prisoner of war issue which has deadlocked the truce negotiations, the source said. The Communist counter-propos-al, read to Allied representatives at a secret session Thursday, apparently brought peace in Korea closer than it has been since truce talks opened nearly two years ago. Only the actual wording of the lengthy Red plan differed from the U. N. proposal, the source said. ' _ Newsmen peering through the windows of the truce hut watched North Korean Gen. Nam II read the text for 63 minutes at the resumption of armistice talks- following a nine-day recess. When Nam had finished, reporters saw Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison’s lips move for about three minutes but they could not - hear what the chief United Nations chief negotiator was saying. After the meeting had been recessed until I'l a. m. Saturday at the U. N.’s request, Harrison declined to say what had been discussed. 7 Both sides were bound by a secrecy agreement not to make public statements made during this most crucial stale of the talks. South Korean delegate Major Gen. Choi Duk Shin again boycotted the session in protest against the “secret” U. N. compromise proposal which his gov- ; eminent has branded as “appeasement.” But Col. Lee Soo Yung, a South Korean staff officer, sat in on today’s talks as an observer for President Syngman Rhee. The Communists gave their reply in the face of a U. N. command warning at the last session on May 25 that the Allies could make no further concessions. Allied officials hinted that unless the Communists accept the main points of the latest formula. . efforts to negotiate a cease • fire must be abandoned. In Seoul, Rhee's information director issued a statement charging the I’. N. with abandonment of South Korea’s interests in submitting the current plan to break the war prisoner deadlock, only issue blocking an (armistice. Bierly Reappointed \ To State Commission Gov. George N. Craig has reappointed G. Remy Bierly, prominent attorney of this city, as a member of the Anthony Wayne Parkway commission. A former member of the Indiana legislature, Bierly was named to a four-year term. ~ Robert Heller, of this city, a former speaker of the houae of the legislature, also is a member of the commission. Other members are: Roy Welty, Fort Wayne attorney, chairman; Robert Harris, Fort Wayne, secretary; Clyde Dreisbach and State Sen. Lucius Somers. Allen county. The commission supervises the parkway in Allen and Adams counties. The Parkway runs from Allen county east to Defiance. Ohio, and south through this £ity to the Ohio state line. Funeral Friday For Phillip B. Thomas Funeral services for Phillip B. Thomas, Richmond insurance dealer who died Tuesday night, at his home in that city, will be held Friday morning at 10:30 o’clock at Stegall, Derkeid and Orr funeral home, 222 North 10th street. Richmond, with the Rev. Samuel Emqrick. pastor of the First Methodist church of Decatur officiating. ■ \ Graveside Masonic services will be conducted at Decatur cemetery Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock and the casket will be opened at the cemetery for 20 minutes, prior to the start of these services. Phil was a member of the Decatur Masonic lodge. Friends may call at the Richmond funeral home tonight between 7 and 9 o’clock. 12 PAGES 7 © o

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The Rev. Eugene &. McAllister, newly named minister of the First Baptist church of this city, and his family have arrived in Decatur and are now occupying the Baptist parsonage on South Fourth street. Rev. McAllister will deliver his first sermon as resident pastor of the local church Sunday.. He has served as student pastor at the Hanpa City, 111. Baptist church for the last sixt years and was graduated last week from Northern Baptist Seminary, Chicago, with a bachelor of divinity degree. The new pastor received his bachelor of science degree from Bradley University at Peoria, 111. Rev. and Mrs. McAllister both are originally from New Kensington, They have three children. Dianne. 11; Annabelle, 8 and Dawson, 6. Mrs. Anna B. Carrier, mother of Mrs. McAllister, also moved lo this city and will make her residence with the McAllisters. — Program Friday To Close Church School ,r I To Presertt Closing Program At School The closing program o»f the vacation church school, now being held in the Lincoln school 'building, and sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur, [will be held in the Lincoln auditorium Friday at 7;30 p.m. The program is planned to show the parents and interested friends what has been done during the sessions of the school. The opening -worship service will be in charge of the intermediate department. The other* departments of the school, including the nursery, kindergarten, primary and junior groups, will follow withs their songs and a demonstration Os their class room work. A display of handcraft projects will foe found in the hallway of the school on the first floor. The sessions of the school will close Friday at 11 a.m. with a picnic. The nursery and kindergarten departments will remain at the school. The primary department will go to Memorial Park, and the junior- and intermediate groups will go to Worth man Field. Each child is asked to bring a sack lunoh for the picnic. A treat of ice cream will be furnished by the school. Parents may pick up their children at the above locations <Tara T* Pa** Five) p ) Zack Smith Dies At Home In Bryan, 0. IZack Smith, 78, died Wednesday at the Christman hotel at Bryan, Ohio, which he had owned 55 years. He was born and grew to manhood here, leaving 58 years ago for Bryan. He served as a porter and later as night clerk at the old Burt House in Decatur. After forking only three years at Bryan, he was put in charge of the hotel and later became sole owner. He was a leader in civic affairs in his community and a member of the Masonic lodge. He is survived by his wife, Helen, and one sister, Mrs. Mary Chenoweth of Bluffton. Private services be conducted at Bryan at 10 a.m. Friday with the Rev. J. Louis Crandell, of the Presbyterian church officiating, and burial will be in the Fountain Grove cemetery.

Ike Tells U.S. No Appeasement 01 Communism Unprecedented TV Report Is Made By Pres. Eisenhower . WASHINGTON, UP —President Eisenhower assure the | nation Wednesday ni"ht * , administration will neither tolerate 4 “new Munich” nor risk a “general war” in its effort to achieve an honorable peace in Korea and the wrold. In an unprecedented television report from the White House. Mr. Eisenhower sought to put his. countrymen at ease regarding American policy % the current critical armistices negotiations at Panmunjom. He said bluntly he would not be a party to appeasing Communism. At the same time, he vowed his resistance to an expanded war “because a modern war would be too horrible to contemplate.” The President offered these sober thoughts aa he made his debut as moderator of a folksy discussion of government problems in which four of his .cabinet officers served as a supporting cast. Wearing pancake makeup and a pastel shirt preferred by TV directors to conventional white, the President handled himself with the ease and confidence of a professional performer as he masterminded his forum for 27 minutes over alt TV networks. The show was simulcast or rebroadcast, later by the radio chains. The President's strong stand against any appeasement of Communism apparently was aimed at some Americans —ineluding several leading Republicans and Democrats in congress—who have expressed serious misgivings about the value of a truce in Korea. “There is gping to be no new Munich.” he siaid firmly, “and at the same time there's going to be no risk of a general war because a modern war would be too horrible to contemplate.” < j| , Republican lawmakers generally praised the program as an effec-, tive way to present the administration’s policy to the people. But some Democrats suggested it glossed over basic facts. Sen. Wayne L. Morse (I-Olre.) snapped: “I’ve seen better vaudeville shows?’ The President — using graphic TV charts worked out by his staff experts from the television industry and New York advertising agency specialists—explained his defense program as “vWy large but . . . logical.” He sought to quell criticism of reductions in air force appropriations by saying, “We are not going to r cripple this nation and we’re going specifically to keep up its air power.” “Right now, sixty cents of overy dollar that goes into defense business is in some form of air power,” he said. i “We are going to keep our temper” he said. “We are going to build our strength.” Using simple terms, he referred briefly to his planned Bermuda meeting later this month with British prime minister Winston Churchill and the French premier. “I’m going over to Bermuda,” he said, “to meet with some t)f our friends and talk over these things.” i He joined treasury secretary /Twra T* pace ElcM) j Catholic Graduate ~ Exercises Friday | Bishop Leo Pursley To Deliver Address Catholic school commencement exercises will be held in St. Mary’* church in the school building at 8 o’clock Friday evening. The Most Rev. Leo A. Pursley, auxiliary bishop of Fort Wayne, will give the address. Diplomas to 29 high school graduates and certificates to 23 eighth graders will be awarded by the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz pastor. The i religious ceremony will include: ’ Processional; Hymn, "To Praise the Heart of Jesus.” Consecration of seniors to the Blessed Mother. Hymn, “Hail Imimaculata.” Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament Hymn, “Holy God We Praise Tby Name.” Recessional. Conferring of awards and scholarships. The penior class has selected Mary Heimann, junior, to be the taald of honor of the exercises.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 4, 1953.

Powerful Atomic Test Rattles Windows In Cities In California

New Milestone Announced In Atom Progress Atomic Breeding Demonstration Is \ t Announced By Dean , ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. UP — Gordon Dean announced today successful demonstration of Atomic “breeding”—a process expected ultimately to multiply the world’s nuclear fuel resources more than 100 times. Dean, chairman of the atomic energy commission. announced he called this “naw milestone” in man’s conquest of~ the atom at the annual meetings of tne Edison electric institute here. He said atomic breeding, accomplished at the AEC's nuclear reactor testing station in Idaho, Is as Important in its implications for the future as if man had learned to produce 100 gallons of gasoline out of water for every IDO gallons of gasoline burned. Dean also: 1. Denied that ABC proposals for letting private industry into the nuclear power field would be an “atomic giveaway program.” Industry would pay its own way. 2. Asserted that all that’s needed now is for congress to lay “the ground rules” for private development of atomic power. Breeding and other developments show "almost without doubt” that atomic power can some day compete with coal, gas and oil. -7 ■ 3. Said the next five years will be a development period in the power field, with government- and industry participating in construction of pilot atomic power plants. Breeding is the production of atomic fuel fissionable material simultaneously with the consumption of atomic fuel. Theoretically it is possible to manufacture more fuel than is consumed. The AEC so far, however, lias been able to breed only at the same rate it consumes fissionable materials, Dean said. Even that, however, gives promise that it will be possible 4o convert all of the world’s uranium into the material of bombs and fuels. As of now, only sevenrrwrw To Pa<* Bi*M) Part Os Re-Wiring Project Finished i Work Progressing On City Power Line One mile of the flve-mile ref-wir-ing project now being undertaken on the Mud tPike south to state road 124 was completed Wednesday and another mile is expectea to 'be finished today, it was disclosed <by Decatur power and light chief IL. C. Pettibone. (Pettibone city light and power crews are changing the ;No. 6 wire, in service for many years, to No. 2 wire, which will permit igreater current to flow in the wires resulting, in part, in less voltage <drops at-tho end of the line and more efficient service, generally, to the subscribers on the line. Pettibone«said all old poles that were found to be decayed fronp age and otherwise in poor condi<wer« replaced with new poles reset alongside of them so as to keep the interruption of service at a minimum. The power chief said users along the Mud Pike will have their power cut off from time to time because of the new installation. The shut-offs will proceed south during the summer and should come between the hours of 8 and 11 a,m. Where new lines have already been placed, however, no further shut-' downs will be experienced, he sale}, on account of the employment of junction connections which permit power to be turned on in sections of wire not involved in a given operation.

Pro And Con On Air Cut

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GEN. HOYT S. VANDENBERG, retiring air force chief of staff sits with air force undersecretary James H. Douglas during testimony before the senate military appropriations committee at which Gen. Vandenberg declared that President Eisenhower’s reduced air force program carries;a risk to. national security. Countering the general’s claim, secretary Harold E. Talbott, who also appeared, defended i the proposed cut as “sound.” i •

Extension Os t ’ • • Excess Profits : Tax Foreseen IT » Martin Predicts d Tax Extension To Come From Congress 1 >f By UNITED T»RESS Speaker' Joseph Martin. Jr..' predicted today that congress will e the excess profits tax from June 3(T to Dec. ’3l as President g Eisenhower requested. g If it doesn’t, Martin told reporters. it may be impossible to cut individual income taxes as Schedv uled v Mr. Eisenhower wants the exn cess profits tax extended for the d sake of about $800,000,000 in additional revenue needed to put the budget in shape for balancing in the fiscal year starting July 1. 1954. Without the revenue, Martin said it may be necessary to postpone the cut of about 10 percent in individual taxes now planned for the first of the year. Other congressional developments: \ President—'Mr. Eisenhower dis- .. cussed taxes, Hawaiian statehood. n and wheat for Pakistan with his e i legislative leaders at a White y House conference. Action on all 0 of these issues appears likely in d this session except, perhaps, the t Hawaiian bill. It is bogged <Jown in the senate. 7 / j Defense —Gen. Hoyt S. Vanden- ( berg, air chief of staff, told congress the United States has only j the “secoh'd best air force.” yandenberg contends that the mini--8 mum air power goal, if we are to e cope with kussia, is 143 wings. He argued before a senate approi>ria- ” tions subcommittee against ; f the administration's budget cutting , which has trimmed the “interim” goal to 120 wings. ’ Treaty powers—The senate judiciary committee approved a o constitutional amendment proposed by Sexi. John W. R-0., to curb the" President’s troatymaking powers. Thie vote was 8 ’ to- 4. The proposed amendment, Strongly opposed by the administration, would give congress pow- “ er to “regulate” all agreements not only with other countries but with any "international organiza- ’ tion.” * Wheat —The agriculture 'flepart- ■' men-t asked' congress for, permis- ’ sion to cut wheat plantings in J 1954 by 16,000,000 acres. ; Chalr--1 man Clifford R. Hope. R-KansJ, of 5 the house agriculture committee opposes so large a reduction. Re <T*«a Te Pace Five) T

700 Auto Ports Workers Idled 7 INDIANAPOLIS, UP —A strike against McQuay-Norris Manufacturing company plants here and in Connersville idled* about 700 auto parts workers today. About 2,000 CIO United Auto Workers at the company’s tiro St. Louis plants also joined in the walkout. A union spokesman said the workers seek 10-cent hourly pay boosts and fringe benefits. Seven Persons Are Killed As Train Hits Car Four Women, Three f Children Killed At Illinois Crossing UP — Four women and thrtee children were killed and another woman and child seriously l injured when a Michigan Central I passenger train sliced their auto in I half at a-crossing in nearby Burnham, 111. The dead were taken to the Cook county morgue where relative identified them. The passenger train, the Cana-dian-Niagara, was delayed 55 minutes bqt -none of the crew or its were wurt. It was bound lor Detroit. z The browded automobile was dragged 150 feet after the crash. The two survivors, both in “critical condition,” were taken to St. Margaret’s hospital in H® m " inond, Ind. They are Virginia Wojincz; 20i and David Sakala, 4, whose mother wap among tlfe dead. • The (lead were: Mrs. Irene Sakala, 23, David’s mother and driver of the car; her sister, Barbara Davis, 14; Mrs. Catherine Zawacki, 61; her daughter, Patricia, 18; Patricia’s niece, Arlene Zawacki, 7; Mrs. Genevieve Novack, 26, and her daughter, Jacqueline, 5... Police said the car apparently was driven through flasher signals at the crossing, which js not pro-, tected by gates. Officers said they found the signals in operation when they arrived at the scene of the accident Engineer Claire Phillips told (T*n T* Past* Flv*t INDIANA WEATHER Partly, cloudy tonight and Friday with a few widely scattered thundershowers north tonight and south and central Friday. A little cooler and less humid north Friday. Low tonight 65-70. Hi Friday 8068 north, 88-93 south.

City Swimming Pool I Will Open Saturday • 1 ■ ■ I Municipal Pool ToJ Be Opened Saturday Better trot out the old swimmine toggery, family, the dayYhas come! i Decatur’s municipal swimming pool is getting the final touches and will be open for business Saturday, it was announced today by' Mayor Jphn Doan. The city’s cooler will be open starting Saturday, each afternoon' from 1-4:30 o’clock from Monday through Saturday: It will be open evenings from 7-8:30 o’clock Monday. Wednesday and Thursday; for the rest of the summer. Regulations will appear in Friday's Daily Democrat. \ Supervisor of the municipal pool will be Hubert Zerkel, Jr„ instructor at the Lincoln school. The city fathers would not like to see anyone get hurt while hav-j ing a good time at the pool and they set down the following rules| and regulations for the protection of patrons: 1) Children under six year* should be accompanied by an adui< or an older child; 2) children should not stay in -the pool for more than one hour at a time, in order to avoid chilling and fatigue; 3) Money and valuables should not be left in the dressing room.*; All users are subject to th4 following: v 1) AM swimmers are required to take a shower before entering the pool; 2> children must pass a 50yard swimming test before they are permitted to into deep water; 3) running and tag gameswill not be permitted on the concrete walk around th e pool; 4) only one person at a time may 'ft® on the diving board'—no pushtfpg of any kind will be tolerated, t The above spiles are endorsed by the Decatur board of wj?rks ahd safety with th e hope that all userjs ha\7 a safe summer. Aufoist Fined For Disregarding Light Auto Crashed Into Taxi Here Tuesday Lloyd Gerber, 35, or route 4, | pleaded guilty to disregarding a J red traffic signal Tuesday afternoon in which a taxi-load of seven children were shaken up after it was hit by Gerber’s car, and was fined by Mayor John Doan $lO and costs. In levying the fine, Mayor Doan said that Getber had fallen into a familiar trap that many motorists are snared by, driving by habit in-' stead of with awareness of the hazards of the toad at all times. It was implied that the penalty taxed ' against Gerber was a lenient < ne I because he had no previous record. ; The taxicab hit by Gerber was , loaded with eight persons, including 1 the driver, Charles Minch, of 128 North TJiird street, who was proceeding east on Monroe in the inter- , section of Monroe and Thirteenth at about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday when, said Minch, he saw a Gerber travel past a red light as he was enroute north on U. S. highway 27, Marlu I on Minch’s cab showed he was : struck broadside just aft of the ceh- < terpost, indicating to police that i Minch was past the centerline of 1 the road when struck. Police < measured a 42.9 foot skid by Gerber I prior to the crash. i At the time of the wreck, Gerbet • told police he “didn’t see the light.” 1 None of the seven children, all from the northwest part of town, I were found to have been injured 1 seriously although Alicia Morales. 1 9, was detained at the hospital < overnight to receive treatment for 1 a mild concussion received (when she was knocked unconscious as ■ she spilled out nnto Monroe street 1 when the left door of the taxi tn 1 the rear opened. -1 The cab’s damage was estimated 4 at abouj, W dama** fe tfe? fIW. Ts Pewe W«t> ’

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Today's Blast Ends Series Os Spring Tests Explosion Probably Most Powerful Ever Set Off In U. S. 4 7 * ' LAS VEGAS, Nev. UP — The, atomic energy commission ended7 its. spring test series today with an atomic explosion that was probably the most powerful ever set off in the United States. 7 The brilliant fireball of the blast lit up the western sky from southern Canada to Mexico and from the skyscrapers of San Francisco to Colorado. The shock rattled windows in Los Angeles, and hit Modesto, Calif., wgth a rumble that one radio announcer said “sounded like someone trying to break down the front door with a sledgehammer.” The AEC acknowledged that one of the air force’s intercontinental. B-36 bombers, the first plane designed specifically as an atomic bomber, dropped today’s bomb "from a high altitude.” It was the first announced use of a B-36 in any atomic test. The Mgh-flyin* bomber dropped its weapon, twice as strong as the “Model T” A-bombs that devastated Nagasaki and Hiroshima In Wqrld War 11, at 4:15 a.m. p.d.t., fused to explode 2,ooopfeet above the Yucca Flat proving ground. Thirty-five minutes earlier, a B-50 bomber dropped conventional explosive bombs to enable AEC scientists to forecast effects of the blast. ' , • So successful they in predicting wind and weather conditions that, despite the size of the explosion, it ■wasjoelther heard nor felt in Las Vegas, only 65 mijles from the proving ground. l Observers said it was the most brilliant they had s.een, however. For the, first time, one Las Vegas resident said he was blinded temporarily. Another, W. Donley Lukdns, said he could read his watch by the light of the blast for a minute and 22 seconds. ' From Mt. Charleston, a 9.000fbot vantage point 35 miles from Yucca Flat, the blast appeared to be by far the largest ever set off in the U. S. The tremendous fireball churned and bdiled in a fiery mass for 40 seconds before it started to rise in the mushroom cloud. It could be seen, still glowing and flaming,, for another two minutes and 2(X seconds as it rose in the zooming cloud, which shot swiftly to a height of 40,000 feet. For the first time, scattered brush fires were set on the floor c£Y ucca Flat. Syie ABC’s official tri'enf', as usual, gave no details of* the test. It said only that a nuclear device was set off about an hour before, dawn, dropped from a B-36 attached to the, air force special .weapons center at Albuquerque. N. M. Scholarships Granted By Business .Women Mrs. John Bayles, chairman of the scholarship committee, and , Miss Grace Lichtenstiger announced today that the two scholarships awarded annually by the Decatur Business and Professional Women’s club were received by Miss Lois Wood, Decatur high school senior, and Miss Marthe Jeanett • Pursley, senior at Decatur Catholic high school. Miss Wood received SSO to further her training at Indiana University and Miss Pursley receives a like amount to study for a home economics major in teaching at St. Francis college, Fort Wayne. The Fort Wayne Business ond Professional Woman’s club ap-' pointed Gertrude J. Oppelt, chairman, Hasel Calvin and Selina Connett the committee to judge the entries These girls will be guests and receive their checks at the next meeting of the club June 10.