Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 137, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 137.

Ike Opposed To Too Much Power For Washington Power Over Natural Resources Should Not Be Concentrated GARRISON DAM, N. Ik, UP — President Eisenhower said on a visit to the new $300,000,000 Garrison Dam today . that “too much power” over natural resources should not be concentrated in Washington. The President addressed an open air audience of about 5,000 persons at a ceremony to mark the closure of the massive earth-filled dam that spans the upper Missouri river. Mr. Eisenhower told conservation conscious North Dakotans that “the federal government has a major role to play” in the development of natural resources. But he said the country's founding fa- " thers knew the pitfalls of narrowing control in federal hands. “In a great development such as this, the state has a great function to perform,” he said. Municipalities and private enterprise. too, must share in the job, \ he said. “There Is always a place in our country for private Enterprise,” the President said. He said that if private enterprise ever is restricted by the federal government. Americans would find themselves “under some alien form of government.” The President came here by motorcade this morning from Minot, N. D., where he promired that his administration will be scandalfree, and that there will be no one “escaping taxes who should be paying taxes.” Perfect weather greeted the President as he arrived looking relaxed and chipper, at tbe huge dam. The structure, started in is designed to prevent recurrence of < sevet at -ftoodw do »rtti and to j provide irrigation for a million i acres of land, generate electric < power, provide a recreation area and a wild life refuge, and give North Dakota communities a stable water supply. The dam will back up (water to form a lake about 200 miles long and 14 miles wide <yvhen it is finished. Before his speech, the President rode in an open car along the. top of the west embankment. He was briefed on details of the structure by Gen. Samuel Sturgis, chief of army engineers. The President and his party stopped their car at a high vantage point to survey the mammoth /Tara Ta Paca Klcfet) Dr. D. D. Jones Dies This Morning

Retired Physician Dies At Berne Home ] Dr. Daniel Dailey Jones, 82, prominent retired Berne physician, died at 1:55 o’clock this morning at his home in that city. Dr. Jones had been in failing health tor several months and his condition had been critical for the past two • weeks. \ One of the best known physicians in this -area, Dr. Jones practiced medicine in Berpe from 1909 until "his retirement ini October of 1951. •In addition- to his wide medical practice, Dr. Jones was connected ■ with several Berne industries and was highly active in civic and community affairs. ! i . The Berne physician was a veteran ot World War I, serving with the medical corps, and was discharged at the end of the war with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was born at Wren, 0., March 4, 1871, but spent most of his life 4 in Berne. He was graduated from Northwestern University school of medicine and then opened his of- * fice in Berne. He was for years associated with his brother, Dr. Harry O. Jones, who died several years ago. t Surviving are his wife, the former Maggie Pearl Rawley: three sons, Robert Jones of Ontario,’ Calif., Rawley Jones of Berne and Benjamin Jones of Atlanta, Ga-1 five brothers, Harlen H. Jones of near Decatur, B. O. Jones of Citronellfe, Ala.. Charles Jones of Berne route 2, Clyde and Fred Jones, both of Willshire township. Van Wert coun- , ty, O.; and two sisters, Mrs. Charles Volts and Mrs. Clara Greulacb, both of Willshire township. The body was removed to the Yager funeral home at Berne. Funeral arrangements have not been completed pending word from relatives. ,

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Illness Downs Taft • 'L PLAGUED by a hip ailment which caused his recent hospitalization Sen. Robert A. Taft (right) chats with Sen. William F. Knowland (RE Calif., outside the senate chamber in Washington after announcing he would give up active duty as GOP floor leader for the rest of this session. Sen. Knowland will assume Sen. Taft’s floor duties.

House Whacks More Funds Off Federal Budget « Urges Careful Look At Free Hospital Care To Veterans Washington. cup) — The house appropriations committee whacked more money from the federal budget today and recommended that congress take a fresh look at free hospital care provided veterans with civilian • type ailments. It made the recommendation in reparting to the house a pareddown 55.254.35».6<M money bill to run the weterahs administration, atomic energy commission, Tennessee Valley Authority, and selective service system in fiscal 1964, which starts July 1. The committee called for a study of whether the government still can afford free medical care for ex-Gl’s with noJi-service-con-nected ills such as tonsilitis, hernia, and appendicitis. The money recommended for the four agencies represented a cut of about 15 percent below former President Truman’s request for funds and was about 6 percent less than recommended by President Eisenhower, who already had wielded his own economy axe. Today’s cuts brought to almost $3,000,000,000 the total trimmed from Mr. Truman’s budget requests so far by the appropriations' committee or the house itself. Mr. Eisenhower’s economy version of the same budget had been cut by more than SI,OOO,-

600,000. Biggest item in today’s bill—and ithe item hardest hit in the rolling economy drive—was that for the veterans administration. The committee recommended for VA an allowance of 4,098,335,264, a reduction of $565,879,400 from what Mr. Truman said was needed and about $286,664,736 less than ' the sum recommended by Mr. Eisenhower. The committee recommended $1,057,781,000 atomic | energy, compared to Mr. Truman’s request of $4,692,786,000 and Mr. Eisenhower’s $1,096,060,000. The recom--1 mended allowances compare to $4,124,621,500 allowed the AEC in the current fiscal year, < For TVA. the committee put up $138,371,000. I Mr, 4 Truman had sought $264.356,000 and Mr. Eisenhower $190,822,060. Although proposing a study looking to reduced spending on V’A hospital care, the committee recommended $565,000,000 for this purpose, a fat $31,000,000 more than Mr. Eisenhower said he wanted and $6,000,000 more than Mr. Truman called necessary. The action caihe after members were snowed under with protests from organized veterans at prospects that some hospitals might have to <be clqsed. Now none need be closed, the fommittAe said, and no bed need remain idle for lack of money.' At the same time, thei opened the way for VA to trim non-servke connected hospital cate on its own by authorizing it to see for itself if veterans seeking such care can. in fact, afford treatment privately. , Under present law. a veteran’s statement of inability to nay must be accepted Ss final. The committee has reported abuse of this privilege by ex-Gl’s with substantial big income and property.

Bidault Is Rejected By French Assembly Fails By One Vote Os Needed Majority PARES UP — The National Assembly rejected Georges Bidault as premier by one vote and France went into its fourth week without a government. The assembly gave Bidault, Catholic Popular Republican leader, 313 votes against the 314 absolute majority he needed to be confirmed as head of the government. Votes against him totaled 228, with 86 abstentions. I ' 'Bidault was the fifth man named by President Vincent Auriol in his search for a new premier to replace Radical Socialist Rene May-

er, whose coalition government foil May 21, iThe assembly vote left France without a leader to repiwMmt It at the Big Three Bermuda conference, scheduled for Tab? tlri* month. The meeting already hat been postponed once because of the French crisis and another delay now may b e necessary. ; . • I It was believed President Aurkl might next ask ex-Premier Antoine Pinay to try to form a hew cabinet. Eight Youths Leave For Army Service • Eight Adams county young men left this morning for Indianapolis to report for active induction into the U. S. i atmy under selective service. I Members of the contingent were Franklin Clirk Crosby, Leo Thieme, Roger Lee ) Bollenbaeher, Richard William Macke, Robert Warren Gilliom, Weldon Lee Biberstein, Robert Leßoy Meshberger and Max Eugene Crownover, the latter an enlisted active reservis 1 . INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Warmer west Friday. Low tonight. 55-60 northeast, near 70 southwest. High Friday 85 northeast to low 90’s southwest 11 1 Russians Give Up Claims On Turkey Seen As BidjFor Better Relations PARIS UP —Soviet Russia, in a major bid for better, relations with Turkey, has tjiven up its claim to Turkish frontier areas and its demand for military bases along the strategic Dardanells Strait, it was reported today. , Reliable diplomatic sources said a note was delivered to Turkey about one week ago and its contents were made known to the United States, Great Britain and France. Informants said the maiA points in the note were: 1. The Soviets \ give up their claim, made in 1945, to the Turkish vilayets (districts) of Artvin, Ardahan and Kars, li opposite Soviet Georgia and Armenia. 2. Russia abandons its demands that Turkey permit it to establish bases In the Darganells Strait, which links the Black and Mediterranean seas. ! 3. Russia is ready to negotiate modifications of the present agreements on control of shipping through the strait. - 4. The Kremlin would welcome Improvement in the hitherto strained Turkish-Soviet relations. Informants said also that Russia had agreed )to permit turkey to use water power from its Serdarabad Dam near the frontier.

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DeattrToll In New England Storm Is 89 i ’ 1 President Studies Weekend Visit To | Devastated Scene WORCESTER, Mass. UP —Relief officials revised death and damage figures upward today as President Eisenhower considered a weekend visit to the devastated scene of Tuesday’s New England tornado. The death toll climbed to 89 early today and official estimates of damage iff the Worcester area totaled $^5,060,000. At Minot, N. D., meanwhile, .Mr, Elsenhower designated Massachusetts as a major disaster area, qualifying it for federal financial aid. No specific funds were allocated, but requests from Massachusetts officials had ranged from $10,000,000 to $25,000,000. Sources at the temporary White House in North Dakota said Mr. Eisenhower was considering a visit to the tonado area when ha makes a New England swing before returning to Washington hue «widay. Saturday appeared to bvthe most logical day for a trip to Worcester. including casualties from twisters that struck in the midwest eatlier in the week, the national tornado death toll stood today at 245. The Red Cross set the Worcester area death toll and said many of th4-300 injured who remained hospitalized might soon be added to the list despite an emergency bloodgiving program. An initial 800 pirits of blood was rushed to the disaster scene Wednesday. A 6 p.m. curfew was imposed and enforced by national guard troops of tbe Massachusetts 26th Yankee infantry division to curb looting.. Passes were required for persons! to move in )and out of devastated areas. The Hartford, Conn,, Red Cross chapter offered 300 additional pints of blood to the Worcester chapter. Connecticut also offered emergency shelter, mobile X-ray equipment and a Sikorsky helicopter from United Aircraft in Bridgeport. The national Red Qross allocated SIOO,OOO in disaster funds and Gov, Christian A, Herter’s request for $10,000,000 from the federal government was upped to $25,000,000 in a late bid Wednesday by U. 2F. Sen. Leverett Saltonstall R- Mask. Gas, electric and telephone servthese women will be recommended «Tara T* P«r» Five)

Plan Designed For Training Teachers Women Graduates To Receive Training Superintendent of schools W. Guy ißrdwn has returned from a meeting Wednesday at Fort Wayne of northeastern Indiana pducators where a plan was worked out whereby women with university degrees but not qualified to (become school teachers can qualify through Indiana University, extension. The plan, it is believed, will be of much assistance in solving the scarcity of elementary teachers in northern Indiana. Decatur schools will join the plan, superintendent Brown said. Any woman, not more than 45 years of age, who is a graduate of any standard four-year college, not trained for teaching, is eligible to enroll in the program. i Tbe enrollees will spend a half day in the classroom with a licensed teacher and a half'day in regular classes furnished by tbe Fort Wayne (Maneb of Indiana University extension. On completion of the program, J (Tw« To Page rtve>

No Connection In A-Bomb, Tornadoes Rep. Von Zandt Changes Statement WASHINGTON UP —The atomic bomb was acquitted by the experts today of any responsibility for this season's series of tornado disasters. „•. \ | For a while it appeared that a politician was appealing tbe Verdict of science. But after saying be believed “definitely” that the tornadoes were traceable to the Nevada A-bomb tests, Rep. James fy Van Zandt R-Pu. took it all Meanwhile, the atomic eneryg commission and the weather bureau’s top scientists had asserted there was no connection between jthe big bomb and the big /winds which so far this month have eost ht least 243 lives. , , Meteorologists have explained often since the advent of the atomic age that A-bombs lack the flower to produce anything but extremely local weather events. f Most members of the house-sen-ate atomic energy committee accepted the scientific explanations of the weather experts. But’Wednesday referring to the feqent tornado tragedies, . one member. Van Zandt, told the United Press: “I think definitely that Ktbese Attows can be traced to the recent series of tests in Nevada.” '• “I know,” Van Zandt ydded, “that the experts will deny) that this is possible." The experts did deny it and so, in effect, did Van Zandt latep. He issued a statement saying: >' “Nothing I said was to indicate a connection between the recent tornadoes and the testing of atomic Weapons in Van Zandt added he had not attended. this season's test iqp Nevada and had received no inffernjatlon about them “which could, in any way have a bearing on the question of weather.” Scientists have been studying atomic explosions since 1945 and In report after report have stated they were unable to detect any indication that A-bombs have apy general weather effect. ■H J — i V ‘ House Group Cuts ?• Foreign Aid Fund , Cut 300 Millions j From Aid Program * WASHINGTON, UP—The foouse foreign affairs committee today cut $300,000,000 from military and economic aid to Europe and "military aid for the Near East in President Elsenhower’s $5,474,606,000 foreign aid request. * The committee also specified that only half the remaining $2.079,589,000 in European military aid shall be available until the European defense community pact is ratified. The cuts are the first action’by the committee which will continue work on the foreign aid authorization later today and Friday. On motions by Rep. James G. Fulton, R-Pa., the committee cat $<100,000,000 from the $2,179,689,870 requested for military aid 1 for Europe; $100,000,000 from the $406,212,637 asked for military aid to the, Near East, $100,000,000 from the $300,000,Q00 asked for defense support funds for Europe. The cuts are subject to possible reconsideration when the committee takes final action on the bill. The votes came' as chairman Robert B. Chiperfield, R-111., forecast the committee would end up by taking at least $500,000,000 off the President's request. The senate foreign relations committee Wednesday approved a $5,312,000,000 foreign aid measure, cutting $166,000,000 from the administration request, for the 1954 year beginning July 1. o 12 PAGES ;

Reds Overrun Key Outposts , On War Front I Heaviest Attacks In Nine Months By; Communist Troops SEOUL, Korea UP — The Communists, mounting their heaviest attack in nine months, overran key outposta and knifed through the main lAllied defense line on east central front at three points Thursday. More than *7OO Chinese Reds were si|ll behind the U.. N. line hours after the first attack. Others sat atop newly won frontline positions as South Korea troops slowly pressed the Reds back. A fourth gap was closed by Americans of the U. S. 3rd Division after 12 hours of bitter fighting. (By Afternoon, Allied fighting units were reported bringing under control all points attacked Wednesday night by an estimated 8,000 (Reds. At the major .point of attack, where the crack sth ROK division was bit in a bwo-rsgiment Red push, the Chinese still held two frontline hills they took In the assault; (But at the third point of penetraion, near Outpost Texas, a Chinese (battalion drove through the ROK i line and curved along behind South Korean positions. The ROK's mounted two counterattacks in the afternoon and were reported to have started driving the Chinese back. Another counteratfack by the 12th ROK division was making progress at Christmas Hill, where a Red company had gotten a foothold. Late reports said tbe position had been nearly destroyed. Eighth army headquarters described the assault as “very heavy’.” The Red forces swarmed over ROK outposts behind a deafening artillery barrage. During on e hour of the fighting Chinese cannoneers fired about 33,000 rounds. Communist troops originally knocked four holes in the main Allied line near “Outpost Harry” s but Americans of the U. 8. third division closed one of the gaps 1 after 12 hours pf bitter fighting. Shortly after daybreak, the /▼■ra Te P»k« Rtaht)

Post-Electien Fight Repelled In Italy Monarchists Hold Key To Control ROME, — A supporter of Premier Alcide De Gasperi was killed today and two were seriously wounded in a post-election battle with Communists near Bari. *the first major violence in the parliamentary elections that provided a setback to the De Gasperi coalition broke out in the main square of Minervino Murge. The two factions fought, a pitched battle with knives and pistols after hearing a report on the elections from their local leaders. Police restored order and arrested two persons whose party affiliation was not disclosed. A number of others was temporarily held for questioning. As a result of the Sunday and /Monday elections the fate of De Gesperi’s pro-Western program appeared to lie in the hands of the Monarchists who blasted his hopes fit decisive victory. The Monarchists won 46 seats in the new Chamber of Deputies — enough in combination with De Gasperi’o 36-seat majority to provide a firm foundation for Italian support of the Atlantic pact, the European army and other key western projects. Other potentially pro-western (Tara T 6 Bia)

Resurfacing Work To Start Next Monday" Highway Employes Start At 2 a. m. Work of resurfacing UJS. road 33, from 'Monroe street south through the business section to thq corporation limits on <Mercer avenue, will start Monday morning at 2 o’clock, it was announced today by True Andrews, sub-dlstric. highway superintendent. b ■A request was issued by Andrews, that no automobiles b e parked on Second Street all night Sunday. Highway | employes will stvt at 2 o’clock Monday morning at the Monroe street intersection ar.d will sweep the entire area. The 'Meshberger equipment will , be brought to the corner of Monroe and Second streets early Monday morning and th e resurfacing will start from that point. ! The area from Monroe s|treet to Madison street will be completed ' first and that part o. the highway then will be reopened \to the public. Ektch block will be reopened as quickly as possible, it was said. The Jobkwfll take from 10 days to two weeks, depending on the ■weather, highway men state, and the project will be-completed under an extension at the (Meshberger < contract with the state for reaur- > facing of U. S. 33 from* tbe corporation limits to; the Ohio state ■ line, Which was completed a few days ago. * (State highway employes will do the sweeping and prepare ihe street for resurfacing but the actual resurfacing work will be done by Meshberger. j State Civil Defense , Program Realigned i Indiana's Program * Is Badly Lagging INDIANAPOLIS UP — Indiana’s civil defense organization was realigned today in an attempt to i bolster a program lagging so badly it might be ineffective in event of disaster. Officials were especially concern- ; led about county set - ups. They i hoped to mold units which would ■] work together and without con- , fusion in any emergency from a < tornado to atomic bombing. , The major reshuffling was in accordance with Governor Craig’s - plan to transfer civil defense policy to adjutant general Harold A, . Doherty. Doherty named Col. How;- , ard S. Wilcox, Indianapolis, as hut ! liaslon officer. ’ Fred T. Cretors, who formed the state’s first civil defense unit while with state police, will be retained , as state civil defense director. Hie job will be operations, not policy. Larger counties hdve made some headway in civil defense, Cretors said, but most smaller counties have done “little or nothing.” •'’Until civil defense reaches a certain minimum condition Os readi- , ness. it can accomplish very little,” , he said. “Nowhere in Indiana can it be said that tbis condition has ( been reached.” Wilcox, formerly county civil de- , sense director at Bloomington, said “nine out of 10 persons think civil } defense is useless.” qH The big change Wilcox suggested —and Craig approved—is reorganization of all 92 county groups into an operational idea started by Bar- 1 tholomew, Monroe, Morgan and Lawrence counties. • . ’ It groups civil defense workers under the county seat mayor.. One 1 group handles "their own backyard”—rescue work and handling < of evacuees from stricken areas — ‘ and the other group is foi* mutual 1 aid to stricken areas. ' 1 A 50wnile mutual aid zone is 1 Ssed. As an example, Wilcox said,- 8 aould disaster strike Logansport, civil defense workers in all coun- ’ ties within a 50-mile radius of 1 Logansport would rush in supplies 1 and process evacuees. estate planning isn’t enough,” J

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South) Koreans Continue To Protest Pact Stubbornly Oppose What Rhee Terms Surrender By UH PANMUNJOM, Korea (UP) U Staff officers speeded up the drafting of a final armistice text today While South Korea stubbornly opposed what it called a United Nations surrender. The staff officers splirYnto two teams, one defining a cease-fire jiqe along which the United Nations and Communist forces are to be “frozen” when the truee is signed, the other smoothing out other details. Formal acceptances of India* Sweden, Switzerland, Poland and Czechoslovakia of membership on a neutral commission to take charge of anti - Communist war prisoners were expected within a few days. T On the battle front the Commu- . nlsts unleashed their heaviest ait- . saults in eight months. Possibly k seeking to gain a more favorable truce Hne. they hurled W.dOO or ‘ mere mw tat» atUMw which Mt ' into the U. N. defense positions at Cour points. ( There was etrery Indication that an armistice might be signed within a Tew d!ays. But in Seoul. Washington and Paris the South Koreans sounded their protests against the armistice terms. ] They want Korea unified and they want to get Chinese Communist troops out of North Korea at once. Korean Ambassador You Chan Yang said in Washington that South Korea will refuse to abide by an armistice “even if we are exterminated.” In Paris Korean Premier Too Chin Paik. who is about to return home after attending Queen Elizabeth’s coronation, said Koreans will fight on until their country is unified. In Seoul 78-year-old President Syngman Rhee told his people that the proposed armistice would be fatal. Referring to President Eisenhower’s personal appeal for cooperation, Rhee said South Korea’s objections to the truce were misunderstood. “We regret it very much that we take a different view to his friendly advice, and this is unavoidable because a truce on present terms Simply means death to , I ■■■ “Although the difference between our views and that of the United States are wide . . we al-, days remember the fact that the United States has no less concern In our future than we have. J “We wish our Allies would come - to understand our true intentions.” At Pusan, South Korea’s national assembly, which recently adopted a resolution calling for a march to the north, rattled another saber today. The legislators passed a resolution urging the government to make a “mutual assistance” pact with the Chinese Nationalists. < Rhee sidestepped a clear, statement of whether he would order his ROK army, now maniyng twothirds of the battlefront, to ignore f and wreck a U. N. - Communist truce now in its final stages. The president appealed to the people to avoid “radical conduct” i and expressions of complaints tp our allies.” As he uttered his warning, his cabinet met in a (building next to the bombed-out capltol, his chief of staff called 16 top generals a “council of war,** and SO.OOO Ko- I reans demonstrated for the third straight day in Seoul. A clear indication that, though things seemed going well, the signing of an armistice wu not Imminent was given when three* high-ranking m«*ub«rs of the U. N. truce delegation left their bake camp at Munsan.