Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1953 — Page 1

Vol. LI. No. 174.

; Plan To Investigate Farm Problems d Ui [ "99HF HHF* * HBB nr wK O Ifff: 1- Bl ■L. ■Hfiff jffißWlF > fa aWw trfFiifflic , ' - WBWPUw . i 9> 9P31 Uh • H » *> * I w<- J i BBhflp /* wUHHHIAMB f LbCbb * . r Kftjffll aFzw i <L IML~<X. wt ,v v 11 ••* WW'vrffi- W <. <*p» ' S 3 Ktl :fw mBMMHB BumM JjCZ3aM MEMBERS at the House agriculture committee discuss current farm problems with President Eisenhower during a meeting at the White House. The committee plans to copduct hearings On the agricultural situation while Congress is in recess. Seated are. Cl. to r.): Rep. August H. Anderson (R), Mihn.; and committee-chairman, Rep. Clifford Hope (Ri. Kansas. Standing are: Rep. Harold O. Lovre (R), b. p.; Rep. Ralph Harvey (R). Ind.; Rep. Walt Horan (R), Wash.; Rep. Charles B. HoeVen (R), lowa, and Rep. William S. Hill (Ri. Colo. ■ : ■ ;

Senator Tobey Dies Suddenly At Washington Underworld Enemy Dies At Midnight After Heart Attack WASHINGTON UP — Sen. Charles W. Tobey, Bible-quoting enemy of the underworld, died at midnight last night following a A ' heart attack. The outspoken New Hampshire Republican, who gained nationwide fame in 1951 during the senate crime committee’s televised hearings, celebrated his 73rd birth- * day Wednesday. * Tobey, who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage July 15, 1951, at his Temple, N. H.. home was stricken at 5:30 p.m. Friday in the Capitol. He was taken to the Naval Medical Center in nearby Bethesda, Md., and was treated for coronary thrombosis. Cmdr. S. W. Eyer of the naval medical corps said Tobey was conscious when admitted to the hospital but died in his sleep. "He was doing pretty well earlier in the evening, but suddenly’ he died at midnight,” Eyer told a reporter. ff The twice-widowed Tobey’s third wife, the former Mrs. Lillian Crompton, widow of a Philadelphia leather company executive, was at his bedside when he died. Tobey, who was elected to his third senate term in 1950, apparently had been in good health. He had attended senate sessions np to the time he was stricken, and was present Wednesday night when Sen. Wayne Morse Ind.-Ore. l asked the senate leadership to do < ; i away with late-hour meetings. The senate has been meeting day and night in its drive to adjourn r i by Aug. 1. Morse said he and other younger men could stand 14 and 15-hour sessions, but many older members couldn't The death of Sen. Willis Smith D-N.C. several weeks ago was blamed partly on strenuous senate work. Tobey, who never lost an election, achieved his greatest fame during the crime committee hearings when he repeatedly quoted the Bible to such underworld characters as Frank Costello, Joe Adonis and Tony Accardo. Tobey, in a booming voice and gesturing widly, urged the reluctant witnesses to “come clean and bare your souls." In an exchange with former Mayor William O’Dwyer of New York, who admitted he had visited Costello's apartment, Tobey exclaimed: "It almost seems to me you should say unclean, unclean, as the old Romans practiced it, and that you should leave him alone as they do a leper.” - In January, 1952, Tobey published a book. Return To Morality,” in which he described the philosophy which won him the title of “God’s angry man” during the crime committee’s televised hearings. Tobey said America has a “lack of Christian stamina" and needs “a widespread moral and . spiritual awakening.” He warned that failure to defend religious principles is "aiding and abetting forces of corruption in our midst.” ' Tobey’s last role as a crime investigator was as chairman of a senate commerce subcommittee delving into waterfront rackets. When the senate last January apwee •f'o* Par* j Noon Edition

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Illinois University President Is Fired ' - ' ' 1. * Quits After Losing Vote Os Confidence CHAMPAIGN, 111. UP — University of Illinois President George D. Stoddard resigned after losing a vote of confidence from the board of trustees, an official source revealed today. The nine-member .voted six to three Friday night that they ! did not have .confidence in Stod- ■ dard. The president was called in and informed of the vot£. He resigned and ■ his resignation was accepted immediately by the board, the source said. The confidence vote was taken on a motion by Harold "Red” Grange of Chicago. The meeting lasted-until past midnight. The official source, who asked that bis name not be revealed, said the board would allow Stoddard enough time to find another job. Lloyd Morey, of the university, was expected to be named acting president of the school once Stoddard's resignation from the $23.1)00 a year job becomes effective. Although the source refused to /teveal what the vote of confidence was on, it was believed that it centered around Stoddard’s request that the post df vice-president of Chicago professional schools be abolished. ||' \ Stoddard requested the move after he be.canie embroiled in a controversy with Dr. Andrew C. Ivy over the merits of the Cancer drug krebiozen, Stoddard forced Ivy to take a leave of absence from the vice-president's post and then recommended the job be eliminated. ; i ; The squabble over krebiozen was carried to the state legislature and a committee was set up to evaluate evidence in the case and to determine if Ivy had received fair treatment. | Stoddard was. tight lipped after leaving the ‘board meeting early this morning. He and members of his staff were closeted with the trustees for three hours. Fortyfive minutes after Stoddard left he was called back into the meeting alone. | ‘ He left the room a few minutes later without speaking to members of his staff and brushed past newsmen without a :word. __—L Mary Neaderhouser Is Taken By Death ,Mrs. Mary Neaderhouser, 87, a native of Linn Grove, died Friday at her home ih Fort Wayne following an illness of six weeki. •Survivors include three daughters and a sister; ■ Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Mungovan <£ Sons funeral home, the Rev. E. E. Petznik officiating. Burial will be in the MRE ceihetefy at Berne. Krick-Tyndall Co. I Picnic Here Sunday, Office and factory employes and . their families of Krick-Tyndall Co. of Decatur will hold a mid-summer picnic at park Sunday. A basket dinner will be served at noon by the< company and an informal program will be\ held during the afternoon. Special entertainment will be on band for the children, company officials said, and, all employes of the Decatur plant have been asked to take part. The company was one of the first in northern Indiana to give each of its employes a\complete Christmas dinner in a basket for a family. |

Senate Bill To Raise Congress Pay Criticized | Rep. Usher Burdick Criticizes Method Used For ; Passage By UNITED PRESS Rep. Usher L. Burdick today criticized senate-passed legislation which would "slip a pay, raise to members of congress without letting anybody know anything alxiut it.” The North Dakota Republican referred to a bill parsed by the senate wlthoiM debate or exptanation. He b’id that if lawmakers “think they need a pay raise, let them stand up and vote directly on this issue without goiu& through the back door in a sneaky, crooked way.” The measure would set up ay 18-member commission to study salaries and living costs of congressmen and federal judges. It is unusual in that it would require no further action by congress to increase salaries to leyels recommended by the commission, except actual appropriation of the funds. The usual procedure where federal money is involved is to pass two separate bills —the first authorizing the expenditure and the second appropriating the money. Burdick said he will make sure the legislation is well publicized before it comes up in the House, possibly next week. Other Congressional news: Foreign Aid: The Senate Appropriations committee met behind closed doors to set its own figure on Presidept Eisenhower’s request for $5,128,922,277 in foreign aid funds. TMie President has warned that the House went too far in slashing $1,100,000,000 from the bill but some committee members served notice they would seek even deeper cuts. Books: The senate appropriations committee was expected to finish action on a money bill to provide funds for the international information under a new reorganization plan. However, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., said . the state department should reveal "who is responsible" for buying Communist - authored books for overseas libraries before the senate votes funds for the program. Taxes: Republican congressional leaders said Mr. Eisenhower has given no indication whether he will sign or veto legislation repealing the 20 percent excise tax on movie tickets. The measure easily passed both house and senate. Adjournment: Congress was set to buckle down to a stiff work schedule in an effort to adjourn a week from today. House majority leader Charles A. Halleck, RInd., virtually promised adjournment by then if house members were willing to work hard. Acting senate Republican leader William F. Know land has made the same assurance. Drought: The house passed and sent to the senate the $150,000,000 requested by Mr. Eisenhower for southwest drought relief. Food: The senate agriculture’ committee approved a bill to allow shipment of $100,000,000 of »urplus food to needy friendly nations. \ -e.. - _ INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair an# warmer night. Sunday warm and numrd. Low tonight $7-7s.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 25, 1953 J

Armistice Signing Is Believed Near; Truce Officers In Meetings

Russians Seek To Keep Food From Berliners Barricades Strung Up Along Frontier With West Sector BERLIN UP — New barbed wire barricades were strung by, the Communists today on the frontier between Red East Berlin and the western sectors of the city in an apparent attempt to keep Soviet septor residents from getting American food. The West German newspaper Die Welt said Soviet sources had indicated to neutral diplomats that they will seal off the East-West Berlin border if the West Berlin government proceeds with its plan to distribute 1,000,000 food parcels to hungry residents of the Soviet occupied part of the city. But even after the erection of the new barbed-wire barricades the city frontier remained open. The West Berlin' distribution of food was scheduled to begin Monday morning.

A 2.500-yard long barbed wire barricade was strung by the Reds along the border between the French sector of the city and the adjoining Soviet zone in the Frohnau area this morning. The Soviets have bitterly protested to the United States. Britain and France against the distribution of food to East Germans. They have charged it Is a Western attempt to buy the support of saboteurs and to foment more trouble In the riot-torn Soviet zone. In addition to the 1,000,000 German supplied food parcels, West German officials soon will have available for distribution $15,000,000 of food for hungering East Germans, supplied by President Eisenhower. American authorities announced Friday night that the supplies for the residents of the food-short Soviet zone would be turned over to the West German government. An announcement, issued at Bonn by the U. S. High Commission, said the first shipment of supplies was scheduled to be unloaded from the “American Inventor” at Hamburg on Monday; The supplies will be "started moving toward their destination ?vith the greatest possible speed,” the announcement said. It did not, however, reveal the exact destination, saying only that the "actual consignee will be an agency of the federal republic which has been designated to receive the goods and arrange for their distribution." \ Meanwhile, Allied and West (Tara Ta ,Pa<e Six) Craig Is Delegate To U. N. Assembly Governor Is Named For Next Session \ BRAZUL, Irid. (UP) — Governor Craig is slated to be a member of the United States delegation at the next sessiop of the United Nations general assembly. 4 Craig said Friday night he has accepted the appointment,, subject to senate confirmation. Official announcement of the appointment is expected shortly by President Eisenhower. The governor said he was advised about 10 days ago that he was being considered for the post. "If I can be of service to the hation I am willing to serve," he said. If the appointment is confirmed, Lt. Governor Harold W. Handley presumably will take over state government during his The U. N. assembly is scheduled to convene Sept 15. Craig said he would serve full* time without pay at the session expected to last about two-and-one-haU months.

Legion Criticizes Handling Os Truce Resolution Adopted By Indiana Legton INDIA NAPOLIS UP — The Indiana American .Legion today critlcized the present handling of Korean truce negotiations in a resolution demanding victory, not ap-. peasement. The resolution was adopted at the 35th annual state convention . £ of the Legion at its first business ‘.session. Earlier, delegates heard national commander Lewis K. Gough defend the Legion's stand in support of federal budget defense cuts • against criticism from former commander Paul V. McNutt. In the Korean resolution, Hoosier Legionnaires demanded President 'Eisenhower and congress a policy which wbuld give the Communists a six-month ultimatum on agreeing to 8, satisfactory peace, demand victory and not appeasement in the truce talks, and if the truce fails, use “positive action, including allifotce necessary” h The resolution attacked the administration's Korean policy bedftuae it “seem. th> decision " i the United States to drive for peace without victory . . Peace is no more important than free dom’s responsibilities.” . The convention also resolved to deny Red China any chance to"shoot her way into the United Nations, and commended congressional committees f!or their "relentless efforts to expose and oust Communists and fellpw travelers.” IMcXutt. in his opening talk to the Legion, said he was "shocked” when the national security commission supported the defense reductions h '"Between dollars "hnd security,’’ McNutt said. "I want to stand up and be counted as choosing security.” ■ Gough replied with a statement containing correspondence between himself and defense secretary Charles Wilson assuring that “sub sthntially increased combat effectiveness will be achieved." '"•Most of the uproar over the president’s >5,090,000,000 cut in 1954 air force funds domes from critics who have not analyzed the (T«r» Tn |

Council Discusses Garbage Disposal Special Session Is Held Friday Night City councilmen met Friday night at city hall to discuss one of the most serious sanitary' matters to crop up in rs long time—that of getting a new method of disposing of garbage. , •A recent ruling of the state sanitary livestock board makeb the problem of open dumping ot garbage—organic refuse Hon farms for the use of -hogs nearly impossible. It ruled that hogs fed with garbage must go through a rigamarole of processing that effectively ■blocks the farmer practicing it \because of increased costs. One ru!-\ for instance, states farmers feeding pigs with garbage must the meat cooked at 212 degree for two hours. ~ J J As a result of this Herbert Stoner, southeast of Decatur, whoje farm has been used for sometime as a dump for garbage to feed hogs, has stopped the gity from dumping the garbage. Councilmen at the special meeting were apparently much In favor of, using the sanitary land-fUI method of getting xid of the garbage, and a tentative plan was gone over. The city, it was explained, could contract for some property and either rent, lease or buy: a bulldozer to shove garbage into a pit that would have to be dug. The* machine would then pack the refuse in tight to eliminate chances ot small, flies and rats.

Marines Fight Off Attacking Chinese Reds 3,000 Reds Attack In Closing Hours Os War In Korea SEOUL, Korea UP — American marines fought off 3,000 attacking Chinese Reds today with bayonets and rifle butts in the closing hours of the Korean war. The Reds- hurled the regimental force against U. S. Ist division leathernecks on position l Esther and two other western front outposts Friday night. The fight lasted eight hours. At Panmuhjom, only a few miles away from, the blazing battle, truce negotiators prepared to end "the thre^-year-old war, but Red commanders apparently were set on fighting to the finish. Russian-made rockets and heavy artillery fire supported the unsuccessful Chinese assault and Allied big guns answered with great barrages that eut Red reinforcements t, bits. The Chinese tried to pick ap reinforcements twice, but the fresh troops were killed or wounded by artillery fire before they could reach the scene. During the peak of the fighting, 2nd t. William H. Bates, Portland, Me., radioed from the crest of Esther that the marines were “holding and doing fine.” "Will continue to hold as long as ammo (ammunition) holds,” Bates! said. Shortly afterward the Chinese forced the marines Off the crest and down the reverse slope, where hand-to-hand fighting raged in the trenches. American 'reinforcements crept up the slopes but a Chinese machinegun hajted their advance until it was knocked out. Then the marines counterattacked and. in the stinging rain, drove the Reds from Esther. The marines? also kicked back the Chinese who had attacked two nearby heights simultaneously. On the central front, fighting taperetf off after United Nations troops repulbed a 250*man attack northeast of JKunihwa with no loss of ground. \

Off the east coast, the battleship New Jersey wound up two of it?, most successful days of the war, smashing targets on the shore and then moving north into the Hungnam area to hit important rail and communication positions. Tw e r ; v e B-29 Superfortresses blasted a 4,60 foot concrete strip :Ta»a Ta P»«* six) - —■“ ./ ' jf' j. Four Are Appointed To Aviation Board Decatur Men Appointed By Mayor Mayor John Doan today announced (he appointment of four promi-1 pent, Decatur men as members of the Decatur aviation commission. They are: Robert Smith, attorney; Robert Cole, proprietor of Cole’s Market;; Andrew Appelman, proprietor of West End Restaurant, and Louis Jacobs, partner in Holthouse Drug Co. w The new commission will study the advisability of a municipal airport in Decatur. If the board determines that the city should have a municipally owned field, then a further study will be made as to cost of maintenance, location and al| other preliminary problems concerning an airport. The commission is authorized to report to the city council with recommendations. U is set up under authority of a recently passed ordinance giving the mayor the pciwer to set up a Study commission On all problems relative to a public airfield.

Strike Continues On Bell Telephone Phone Exchanges In State Strikebound INDIANAPOLIS UP —Virtually all of Indiana Bell's 82 telephone exchanges were strikebound today as an estimated 5,900 workers walked off their jobs to back demands for higher wages. No further contract talks were scheduled, although representatives of the CIO Communications Workers of America and the phone company said they were waiting for another session to be called by federal mediator Arthur Pierson. A company spokesman said 82 per cent oft all phones served by Bell are dial; so most local service has been unaffected by the strike. Supervisory workers and “volunteers” manned long distance lines, and the spokesman said service was "good,” #ith the public cooperative about delays. The last three exchanges reportedly hit by the strike were Linton, Washington and Vincennet. The company would not elaborate on who the “volunteers” were, but Mrs. Mae Mann. Indiana CWA director, charged the firm with using retired pensioners and “chiW labor” to Weak the strike, .. '"The company is using ever? low trick in the book to break the strike.” she clairped. Mrs. Mann said the utility was recruiting 16 and 18-year-old girls to operate switchboards, but the eoitapany denied tfhis. She said the main: dispute in the three-month bargaining stalemate was a company effort to institute wage differentials for workers in some large northern Indiana cities where the cost of living allegedly is higher. "We’re not too far apart on money,” she said, referring to tlhe. utility’s offer to boost wages an average of 4.9 cents per hour, “but we are far apart on application of wages.” j She said Bell’s plan would mean higher wages for workers In South Bend, Fort Wayne and Indianapolis than for workers in other exchanges, thereby creating a “north sputh differential.” i p She said the union believed wage gains should be distributed equally. School Survey Will Be Conducted Here Indiana University, , To Conduct Survey A survey of virtually all aspects of Decatur life with regards to schooling—from thp birthrate to the cost of blackboard erasers -r---will be taken this fall to check the. increasing problem of where to get school facilities for a steadily increasing population. A |sop deposit has been filed witli Indiana Unveirsity survey division for the job this fall. Action on this came about, in part, through the recent Lincoln P.T.A. survey earlier this year in which many of the surveys recommended increased building be given the priority over all other improvements. •In early spring of th|s year, the director of the I. U. division of research and field Harold H. Church, visited Decatur and conferred with school authorities here.., He deposited with a few parties here copies of thwljrpe of report his group issues, entitled: ”A cooperative study of the public school enrollment and the financial needs of the school eity of . < t and the townships of . . Indiana." The compilation takes Into account exhaustive details of the life of the community. In the introduction to the thesis is a discussion of the geographical setting of the area in point, describing the landscape and the various fields of productivity of that area. Then foMow studies of population: majority occupation; residence, <Twra »• Paea su>

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Signing Os Truce Likely In 48 Hours 1 Dramatic Meetings Held By U. N. And Red Truce Officers PANMUNJOM,, Korea UP • — i Allied and Communist liaison officers held four dramatic meet- . ings today to determine the time . and place fog the-Korean armistice signing ceremony -t—believed less than 48 hours away. • They ended their , suspense- ' packed conferences at 6:30 p.m. , and announced briefly there would be ho further meetings Sunday. i Their discussions remained a secret, but the most reliable ’ sources said the liaison officers’ exchanges now must receive final t approval from the high comtjnand . of each side. One of the questions believed to been discussed by the offb b cers was tb e ss te for the signing J ceremony. ’ The Communists had put shifts . of laborers on 24-hours duty erec- . ting a “peace pagoda" fot* an elaborate ceremony ending the three-year-old war. y But there was a possibility that, e in a sudden change of signalk. the “ Chihesp high command preferred to sign the armistice atr their own B headquarters north of the 38th parallel and authorize their negotiator 'to initial the truce at an 1 anti->climatie ceremony, in the “peace pagoda.” Under the present arrangement. t Gen. Mark W. Clark, will sigh for 1 the United Nations command and North ;Korean premier Kim II Sting and Chinese Gen. Peng TehHaui will sign for the Coihmu- 1 nists. Newsmeii and other observers had lingered impatiently around the truce hut for more than [tour hours, hoping to be informed that the armistice date had been decided alter, two years of bickering. Twelve hours after the atmis- i. tice has been signed, the shooting along the 155-inile Korean battle- i line will «B»d and troops of both sides will withdraw 1% miles leav- ' Inga mile neutral zone between them. Th<) extraordinary liaison meet* ing nettled observers and newsmen who wait outside the truce „ hut for a dramatic announcement. When the word failed to come at the end of the fourth special meeting, speculation began that an announcement of such importance would come from* Clark and his Communist opposites. An American source in Seoul looked skeptically upon rumors that Kim had been purged and said the North Korean premier "very definitely” would sign. Whether he will come to Panmunjom or remain in his capital of Pyongyang and sign there has not been determined. The liaison <|>fficers held a routine meeting Saturday morning and the session ended without a time being fixed for the next conference. Then suddenly the Reds called for a new 1 meeting at 2 p.m. Saturday. I Marine Col, James C. Murray, • senior U. N. liaison officer, entered the truce hut at the appointed hour and impatiently paced the floor for eight minutes before his Communist counterpart arrived. Heavy rains caused the delayed arrival of the Communists who had driven in „a Russian jbep from their base at nearby Kaesong. Twelve minutes after the meeting had opened, the Communists called for a 30-minute recess, then extended Ft another 30 minutes. In another significant conference ambassador to Korba Ellis 0. Briggs went to President Syngman Rhee's mansion at Seoul to hand him a note from secretary of state John Foster Dulles. The Briggs visit was part of Hst-fUiajite efforts by the United States to iron out truce differences with Rhee. 1