Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 182, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1953 — Page 1

VoFil. No. 182.

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83rd Congress / Quits Shortly ' After Midnight Congress Finishes Action On Most Os 'Must' Legislation I WASHINGTON’ UP —Members C of the 83rd congress scattered for home and political fencer mending 'today with the possibility of a speg. cial fall meeting hanging over their ■ J heads. The firit session under a Repubs. lican administration in 20 years came to an end in the shadoWy -chambers of the senate at 12:39 / a.in. e.d.t. today. u* j President Eisenhower told congress that in spite of “many grave problems” it had,rolled up accom* plishments which had “advanced the nation substantially.” He planned tp report to\ the people in a nationwide radio broadcast Thursb day night. \ ’ In a final burst of speed, congress finished action on most of the President’s “mast program," «. including extension of the reciprocal trade act, the foreign aid - program, and vital 1 appropriations. 1 It also completed work on measures authorizing a new $127,000.000 school construction program in defense areas, wiped out a loophole, allowing movie stars and others overseas to escape income taxes, permitted compulsory food and drug inspection, and set-up machinery which may lead to pay raises for congressmen and judges. ' The house devoted much of Monday night to traditional windup merrymaking and adjourned at 11:07 p.m. The slower-moving senate kept grinding away until after 10 p.m, and 1 then voted to adjourn by midnight. The lawmakers agreed to quit • until noon. Jan. 6, unless the President calls them back sooner to act oi| his request for a boost in the national debt limit. .The house approved it but the senate finance committee shelved it. . - f Administration leaders decided after conferring with senate leaders to wait until after September tax collections are in before mak- -* ing any new move to get the ceiling increase. A special fall session •? might be called. Some top - ranking Republican leaders suggested that the way to deal with the debt limit problem. \ in view of the action taken by. the senate finance committee, was to cut out some of the spending projects 'dear to the hearts of senators and representatives. In contrast with many previous * adjournment-eve sessions, the one ending Monday night was relatively dull and free of > The house quickly finished its legislative work, passing a $615.989.594 supplemental appropriations bill and a measure to set up an 18member commission to determine whether members of congress are underpaid and, x is so, by how much. The senate approved these and sent them on~fo the White House. < BULLETIN WASHINGTON . UP —Sen. William F. Knowland of California was elected senate Republican floor leader today to succeed the late Sen. Robert \ A. Taft

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New Child Beating Case Shocks Chicago Woman Is Arrested After Beating Girl CHICAGO, I P -4 Another child beating case shocked Chicagoans today. ; r Mrs. Christine West. 39. was arrested Monday niffht after the screams.of her adopted daughter. Patricia, 6, attracted a throng of 100 angry some of whpm tried to force their way into 'thfe West apartnient. • The chilli wM taken tola hospital with severe bruises and a possibh* nose fracture. Mrs. Wept was with cruelty to a child, contributing to the dependency of?’a minor and operating nursery without a license, Police Said Mrs. West also has an adopted lon. Donald, 3. and boards two othpr children. In domestic relations court today. Judge Victor Kula continued the case uqtii Aug.lfs and ordered) that Mrs^_|Ves > t Ire by the rhurt psychiatrist. Officers Said Mrs, West had been drinking. Her husband, a certified public accountant, not at home at the time. [ Meanwhije, authorities said tlrfcy would seek a murder indictment against another mother accused of beating her son to deaths ps the woman’s fathet said he woiild try t® help her. George Trombleyj 55. Plattsburgh, N. was jitiff and aloof when he i first jonfrbnted his daughter. Mrs. Veronica Burowsky. 28. Mohday in the county jail. She held out het arms and stumbled toward |im. but he shook hufe-head and jnuttered. “My daughter — r iny o#n flesh and blood." Mrs. Burpsky’s sifter, Mrs. Geraldine Frechette, 24, who accompanied Trombley to? Chicago, asked the jailed mothqf: "How could you elver do this . ; (Torn To Page Stx) •4 j V' . ’ r • {l' ; Auction School Is Opened Here Monday 66th Session Os School Is Opened With the rap of the gavel the fcing-sonk chants of the aue--lioneer, the 66th session of Reppert's auction school opened Mondays the 32nd year t of continuous operation. I * ■I ' J About 60 students from 21 states and three provinces of Canada will lekrn duripg thp next three weeks whdt it takes to get up on the |block apd complete a successful sale. Col. Quenhn R. Chaffee, dean of instruction and manager of sessions. said many of the students already have businesses of their own and have come to Reppert’s to polish up their technique. “We have a solid group of men here, ranging from 18 to 53 years, none of them taking any! special courses.’\ declared the d<ean. Col. Chaffee said the accent is on farm sales as most of the group has cqme from the farm. There is. however, he averred, the usual inclusion of tobadco, household sales and registered livestock, to give the students s liberal education in all phases of auctioneering. Col. Chaffee said a complete list of the clasp would' be released sometime next week; T

Senator Taft Is Buried In Quiet Rites Ohio Buries Her Senior Senator In Simple Ceremonies CINCINNATI, UP-Ohio buried her senior senator-Robert A. Taft, today in a quiet, simple ceremony, that would have pleased the dignified statesman. The son of a President,, who failed four times in his own bid for the nation's highest office, was laid to rest in. the first grave of a new cemetery in suburban Indian Hills, only a mile from his home. Private funeral services were held at the Indian Hill church with only the family and close friends attending. But downtown, hundreds jammed the large Christ as memorial services were conducted there simultaneously for the public. Bishop Heyr Wise Hobson of the Episcopal diocese of isouthern Ohio, the senator’s pastor before the Indian Hill church wa-s founded six years ago. read the Episcopal service, burial of the dead, the same ceremony that was read at the private services. In ithe small Indian hill church, seating only a little mbre than 200 persons, the Rev. Luther M. Tucker, read the same simple ceremony. The choir and congregation sang'Taft’s favorite hymn. "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind.” The church, jammed to capacity, in almost 90 degree heat, was decorated with only a few flowers since the family asked that all offerings be given to cancer foundations. On a wall, of the church hung a bouquet of dark green magnolia leaves. The dark bronze casket was covered with several hundred yellow roses. In accordance with Episcopal church funeral practices, no Serbian was read at either the private or dow’otnwn ceremony. The senator’s body was flown here Monday afternoon from Washington where the nation’s highest _ officials, including President Eisenhqwer, attended a memorial service for the senator in the rotunda of the nation’s Capitol. 4■' . \ ■ ! Police estimated 15,000 persons filed past the bronze casket containing the body of the senator during five hours it was on view Monday night at a downtown funeral home. ] Maj. Rudolph Wheking of the Cincinnati police, head of ah honor guard stationed at the funeral home, said many Cincinnatians stopped to kneel and pray in front of the unopened casket. Many women wept softly as they passed. While crowds l were smaller the sentiment here reflected the same sense of loss expressed by high government officials at Monday’s state funeral in Washington for the 63-year old “Mr. Republican” who died last Friday of malignant tumors. Taft’s body was flown here Monday afternoon accompanied by two of his sons and their wives. The senator’s brother, Charles P. Taft, also was aboard the plane. Mrs. Martha Taft, his widow, arrived aboard a later plane accom(Txr* Te Fa«e Fixe)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 4, 1953

70 Americans To Step To Freedom Tonight In Exchange Os Prisoners

East Berlin Reds Seek To Disrupt Plans : j Attempt To Disrupt Distribution Os American Foods | L * BERLIN UP —West Berlin police today used water hpsest to break up a demonstration by East Bejrlin Communists who altered tho west sectors of the, city in an attempt to disrupt the distribution of “Eisenhower fpod parcels” to hungry East Germans. The Reds apparently ordered their “goon squads” into the vjest sectors of the city to stir |up trouble in an attempt to dHert attention from new outbreaksf of anti • Communist demonstrations and strikes which are sweeping Soviet-run East Germany. |-| The squads of Communist toughs concentrated on food distribution offices in two West Berlin centers. They attempted to discourage East Berliners from accepting American food parcels. j West Berlin police rushed \to the scene and readily drove off Ihe Red agitators. J Communist police were ripot|ed stationed around food warehouses throughout the Soviet zone as a precaution against raids by rebellious East Germans who have barred by Russians tanks and guns from obtaining American food |ln West Berlin. 1 Tens of thousands of East Germans also were reported engaged in strikes and slowdowns in protect against Communist restrictions and terror obstructing | the Western food reiief program. j The Northwest German radib |in the British zone reported Communist police stationed strong guards around food warehouses with or-deij-s to "use all means” to prevent looting by hungry and angry Etat Germans. There were isolated reports tlfat some East Germans who couldn't get certain foods at home and wdre prevented from going to West Berlin took direct action to seize 1 fTara T» Paw* Five* j , _ - George Helm Heads City School Board I Annual Meeting Is 1 Held Monday Night George D. Helm, Decatur grocer, was elected president of the 'Decatur school board at the ahnualj reorganization meeting held (Monday night at Dechtur high school. Harry O. Irwin, Decatur automobile dealer, iwas elected secretary, and (Everet Hutker, of the traffic department; of Cetitral Soya and new member of tne board, was named treasurer. | First action of the new hosted was to unanimously vote a resolution of 1 commendation to retfy ing member, Gerald Cole, wbio served I'S years cq the board. Cole also, received a certificate of service in the field of education for his work. He is the third board member to receivle the certificate, others being thb late Roy Mamma and Dr. Harry Hobble, on their retirement froth the board several years ago. The newly organized board go? a, first view of proposed budget, prepared by superintendent W. Guy Brown and his staff. A(ter i, discussion of the proposal. 4. the board decided to meet again Wednesday night for final adoption prior to publication of thb proposed budget, which according to statute must be made public by August 8. The new board president open ates a grocery in the north part ot Decatur and is serving the thirp year of his first three-year ternj on the board. Ut was reliably reported that <T«n T» Paa* six)

feed Cross Teams In Aid For Prisoners Joint Teams Sent Into Rear Areas PANMUNJOM, Korea UB- — The Allies and the Communists cautiously tried out each other's iospitality today for the first Itime they stopped killing leach ' Both sides sent joint Red (fross teams into the other's rear arfU to’ lit* aid and comfort to sick! and wounded prisoners. For the Communists, it was their first taste of the American invention, the helicopter, and jthey reacted with a combination of controlled fear and delight. ’ For the jo Allies from ferent nations, it was a lessqn in' Oriental patience. They had to wait more than five hours in the hot Korean sun while the Communists prepared for their' trip! North Korean guards in bjtggy uniforms and red epgulettes, roared and giggled with as they watched thein Red (|ross representatives awkwardly board the whirlybirds. ) Ten big army helicopters havered into position at i’anmuhjom at 9 o’clock this morning.!’ but the Reds were not ready. Nobody knew exactly why. The Cothmunfsts said they were awaiting Word from some higher-upti. " j; This scene was in strange |contrast. to the way the Allied ?Red Cross Teams finally departed. After waiting almost all day! the Communists finally began assembling Russian-made jeeps at 1:30 pm. With great fanfare. th£ drivers whirled the dull-green colored cars around the dusty roads, beeping horns and gunning engines until a convoy . line , had been (Tar* Ta Paae Five* Berne Postmaster j Dies Last Evening i Heart Attack Fatal To Mrs. Rena Zehr ■ ■ \ ' U' : Mrs. Rena Zehr, 55, postmaster of Berne and wife of Arthur £ehr, died of a heart attack' kt 6:45 p. m. Monday in the Lannon Stone Motel, at Janesville. Wis., enroute to Mankato, Minn., with her husband to visit their daughter, Mrs. Gary Schwartz. Word from the husband Was Mrs. Zehr was stricken denly. pThey planned to their vacation and spend sofne time with their daughter. Mrs. Zehr was appointed postmaster in 1933 on the recommendation of James I. Farley, reifretentative from the fourth congressional district. An efficient executive. Mrs. Zehr was postmaster when the hew Berne post ottjce was dedicated and opened to public. During her 20 years ’as postmaster the status of the office was promoted from second to flfst class. Mrs. Zehr’s death occurred >ofF her birthday anniversary. . ".A daughter of the late Philip ahd Mary Sibery-Macklin, she Was born in Adams county Aug. 3, She was a sister of the Igte Philip Macklin of this city, v(ho was Decatur postmaster at the time of his death. ' ! Besides the husband she; is survived by three daughters, Ikabelle Zehr, Mrs. Schwartz ahd Mrs. William Stogdill of Soilth Bend, bite son, Thomas Zehr at home. : One sister, Mrs. Hazel Graham of Bourboti and three brothers, A.T. Macklin of La Grange, J. Marie Macklin and Haskell Macklin, both lof Chicago, also survive. Besides -the brother who lived in this city, one brother and a sister also are deceased. Four grandchildren survive. ‘ • The body will be returned to Yager’s funeral home Ip Berbe. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Burial will be in MiRE cemetery, west of Berne.

Dulles Arrives In Korea For Rhee Parleys Hopeful Talks To ; Lead To Honorable i And Lasting Peace' SEOUL, Korea UP —U. S. secretary of;state John Foster Dulles arrived in Korea tonight- and said he believed his forthcoming talks with President Syngman Rhee will help assure achievement of an “honorable and lasting peace/’ Dulles said ip a written statement that his delegation, which included army secretary Robert -StevensJ would attempt to develop a common policy with South Korea “for the unification by peaceful means of all Korea" at the coming peace conference. A 19-gun salute greeted the Dulles plane as it landed here at 10:06 p.m., more than 12 hours late. Bad weather had forced it to turn back to Sheinya air base in the Aleutians, "1 hope and believe that these talks, conducted as they will be on the basis of mutual respect and mutual cooperation, will help to assure that the respite from war now made possible by the armistice will result in the achievement of an honorable and lasting peace,” Dulles said. Dulles said his mission to Korea should serve as evidence to the world that the United States spects the views of Korea, that we intend to cooperate in peace as well as in war and that we shall try to concert our common effort fpr the unification by peaceful meahs of all Korea/V The first round of talks with Rhee is scheduled to begin Wednesday morning at the presidential mansipnli ' j | Dulles declined to answer questions on whether he expects to conclude anti, sign a U. S.-Korean defense treaty during his four-day stay.. i I "We have not worked out the agenda yet with President Rhee," (Twr* T» Sixt Ask Commissioners Save Covered Bridge Groups Appear At j v [ Meeting On Monday A large group of individuals from the southern part of Adams county invaded the county commissioners' meeting at the court house Monday to air their thoughts and feelings on why the old covered bridge at Ceylon should be retained in its present form. I '' Leading the save-the-bridge group were the Geneva Lions club. Berners Rotary club, and the Limberiost Association. The group took turns and pleaded with I Commissioners to save “one pf the few remaining historic landmarks” in the county. ’ t _ \ Bob Heller, president of the Limberiost Association, was present; also E. C. Stuckey, chairman of the Lions club, Geneva; E. J. Schug and Earl DeWaldj members of the board of directors of the Limberlost group. - ; i The proponents of the landmark presented articles that had been written in and out of this Area on why the. bridge ought to be preserved. Commissioners Assured the large body of petitioners —which presented a formal resolution from the Geneva Lions—that nothing would be done about the bridge following a report from the state next week until there had been ample notice of public meetings. (Max Mitchell, field agent of the state flood control and water resources department, Indianapolis, will forward a report to the state on August 5, recommending either that the waterway—a tributary of the <Tm Te Paste rtve)

Republican Power Policies Assailed Vast Give-Away Os Resources Charged ‘WASHINGTON, UP— Administration critics wound up the first session of the 83rd congress early today with a slashing attach on Republican power policies. Four Democrats and Independ* ent Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon accused the administration Os conducting a vast of natural resources and said the entire public pourer program is threatened by (“private monopoly.” Morse wound up his speech minutes before the 12:39 a. m. adjournment. He said the “Cadillac crusade” of the Eisenhower administration “is opposed to the public power program developed in the last half century." "I call to the attention of this body an organized, deliberate raid on the people’s energy resources, tidelands oil. the great hydro projects and atoml cenergy," Morse said. ’ He said a “big grab” is on to take over the energy resources of the couhtry. He denounced secretary of interior Douglas McKay as “Giveaway McKay, the philanthropic Oregonian whose spec laity is hydro power bargain bazaars conducted for the aUdentee stock holders of the big power comf»anies." Sen. Olin D. Johnston* D-S. C.. ras the only other senator wh6 elivered his attack in person. He aid actions of the Eisenhower dministration and congress tends to restore private power to I position of monopoly." '■ >aig Backs Millis or Next Governor Stiff Opposition { To State Auditor ' INDIANAPOLIS UP — If Governor Craig can pull the right strings, auditor Frank T. MiUis will be Indiana’s next governor. Millls won’t make it, though, unless he can hurdle opposition from other.top-ranking GOP state officials —and win over the Democrat nominee. The opposition within Republican ranks is his first hurdle and his biggest problem today. - The two—Lt. Gov. : Harold W. Handley and secretary of state Crawford F. Parker—are speechmaking their way around Hoosierland with fervor seldom seen In an off year. Their sights are on the 1956 election campaign. Craig has “hand-picked" Mil|is as his successor, those politicians, in the know report. Whether h 0 can put Millis over at the 1956 state nominating convention depends on Craig’s future dealings with the GOP organization. If Craig is as much at odds with thd old line Republicans in 1956 as he is today, Millls has little hope. The nomination then might go to Handley or Parker. On the qther hand. Craig whipped a “hostile” group of convention chieftains in 1952. There is no between Handley and Parker. Both are in the Jenner-Capehart camp, meaning that faction of the party herded behind; U. S. Sens. William Jenner and Homer Capehart and deposed state chairman Cale Holder. Craig’s allegiance appears divided between the GOP state organization headed by Noland Wright, whom Craig selected, and the American Legion. The Handley-Parker faction has, no quarrels with Legionnaires, but they place political affiliation above al|. else. Thus, they would have;’’loyal" Republicans sitting in a lot of the statehouse chairs Craig filled with Legion) friends. Craig himself, despite contrary reports, will not give up the governorship for a federal court bench, his closest friends said. A bill now before congress would give Indlyn Jwq neiy judges »t i fMsa Ve Face Ma)

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First Phase Os Operation Big Switch Opens 35 Wounded, Sick / Americans Slated For Release Today a PANMUNJOM, Korea. Wednesday UP — Seventy Americans, and more than 300 other U. N. fighting men, will step through the Bamboo to freedom here today In the first phase or Opera tion Big Switch. They will be the first of 12,763 Allied prisoners of the Reds to be returned under the prisoner exchange provisions of the Korean armistice. • , | Thirty-five .wbunded and sick i American captives qf the Communists will be the first men freed,. ut exactly 9 am. today (6 p.m.: Tuesday c.s.t) if the Reds stick \ to their promised time-table. They will be received by and administered to by U. S, army medical corpsmen? After they have been identified, ■ their names will be flashed to ? American newspapers and radio and television stations. || Two hours after the 35 ailing Americans have been returned to \ democracy, 35 more” G. I.'s. described as t “healthy" by their Red captors, will walk Into the cKeckpoint. H ' At the same time, the United States' will return to the Reds 2.756 prisoners—2.156 North Koreans and 600 Chinese—who elected to return to Communism. They included 360 sick and wounded North Ko rea ns. ’■ The exchange agreement called for the Communists to return 400 captives daily, and receive 2.400 from the Allies until Operation Big Switch ends. There was no immediate explanation of the larger number of Red POW’s to be returned the first day. Although lists of prisoners have been exchanged jby both sides,' there will be hope that the long roll call of 3,313 Americans to be j freed during the next 30 days include the names of missing Aoldiers whose whereabouts or fate <’T»rw 'Vto Utx) --<• i ■ ■ • ; Authorities Warn Autoists Against Future Violations In a combined statement today by Mayor John Doan, prosecutor Lewis L- Smith, and the sheriff’s department, notice was served that police would from now on be : i cracking down more than ever on all violators of the motor vehicle X code, and all other infractions from improper lights to worn out brakes, , / They said “police have been lenient in the past by giving out warning tickets fn the hope that they would stem the tide of recklessness of certain Decatur drivers. The warnings," ihey continued, “have gone unheeded and cit- " izen reaction his demanded a r Stronger enforcement oL traffic laws." < They said that in addition to enforcing the rules of the road, police have been instructed to pi/1 special attention to proper lights and accessories in working order. Also they said attention would be turned to the Increasing problem of improper registration. “Why, even auto dealers are guilty of improper registration,” they' declared, "many of them putting ! ? on dealer’s plates upside down, ,< a distinct violation." INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy , tonight and Wednesday. Local thunder- ' showers south end east portions tonight and extreme south Wednesday. Turning cooler north tonight. Cooler north and central Wedneoday. Low .tonight 65-70 north to 75 south, High Wednesday SO--85 north and central, 90-95 extreme south.