Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 213, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1953 — Page 1

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Craig Would Put Stale In ■! • H Beer Business Plan To Take Over Wholesale Business Called Un-American i. r * Governor Craig was eriticiZffl today for an “unAmerican” plan to liave state government operate tUe geer wholesale business. '[ . Ir■ Craig said late Wedbesgay he planned to ask the 1955 general assembly for legislation to take over the 9100.0<M),00(-avear industry. He said he wanted to “straighten up this mesa which has plagued the sts te hince pro4, hihition ended.” ' . ’ , I; . u Immediate opposition was .voiced by Lt. Gov. Harold Handley, president of the Senate. * “I sympathise with Craig’s plan to take beer out of soli tics,’’ Handlgy said, “But I do ft thin.k government should I com >ete wjth private industry. That’s notttri American way, if I interpret ’the governor’s remarks correclly.fi Handley added he does not believe the legislator b Would approve “such a radical proposal.” Craig said he has been ’very much against government conducting a business i . . ißuti the beer . business in Indiana has been politi- ‘ cal. not free enterprise.”* | j “If a business can’t! police itself, the government, should Itake corrective steps,” he said. |. Under his plan, most! counties probably would have a sipglje state owned warehouse for I handling beer on a wholesale basis. Larger counties would have two|or more outlets. J■j '• 1 f The wholesale beer business now is handled by about 200 "firms licensed by the state ilcobollc beverage commission. Thei licenses often have been regarded las political patronage “plums.’’ iS: . | Since Craig office, has been criflclted tot directing several of its investigation against Democrat license-holders! Some Democrats claimed they were threatened with loss of permits for . solely* political reasons. Craig said his administration wanted to dissolve ’’forced . marriages.” He said previous administrations forced Republican wholesalers to accept Democrat partners. ' ■ ■ 9 ; ■ • Some brewery representatives criticized another recent Craig plan f I which they said constituted “a’ revolution in the reljalionship beI tween manufacturer I and whole- , I sal er.” ; ' Craig suggested ithe j brewers deal with all licensed wholesalers, ' ’regardless of the number in each community. Heretofore, one wholesaler was given exclusive right to distribution of a brand in one community. » 1 ' • Indiana brewers fejt this would H'\ <T«ra T* P«*e Flve» ■£ ■'ji. ■- * I H ■ ihr •. Mrs. Phoebe Reece Dies This Morning L H Funeral Serviced Saturday Afternoon Mrs. Phoebe Reece, £2, a resident of Willshire, 0.. for more than half a century, died at 9:10 o’clock this morning at the Home Os a daughter. Mrs. Glen Hurless, Willshire,; with whom she had resided for; the past 13 years. Death was caused by a cerebral hemorrhage suffered Aug. She was born in Adami county May 8, 1871. a daughter |of Ohio and Nancy Stetler-Gause. jand was married to William H. Reece Dec. 7, 1891. Het husband died Oct. 25, 1937. ; • j . ’'1 1 J' Surviving in addit on io Mrs, Hurless are two other daughters. Mrs. Lucy Baney of (Findlay, 0., and Mrs. Mae Schwarti of Decatur; three sons. George Reece of Dayton, 0., Frank Reece of Willshire and Mack Reece of Mlansfjeld. O.; eight grandchildren; 15? greatgrandchildren, and two Mrs. Lucy Stickel of Canton, 0., dnd Mrs. Belle Jones of Findlay, O. ' < One sop preceded her in death. Funeral services will be Conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday it the Zwick i funeral' home.. the Rev. Herbert Schumm officiating. Birial will be in the Willshire cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Friday until timf of the serv- ' ic r u 4!I " r ' INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy wlti a- few scattered showers tonight and 'Friday. Little chan je ln‘ temperature. Low tonight 56-62. High Friday 80-85 north,Bs-90 , south. 1 fc. '■ r ; 11 I::. I ! i

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Beauties On Parade k ■ 'T ■ io ' . *•* a ‘la' « gqjjggSJ EfS 8 UHr • ' ’ : THE FAMOUS boardwalk at Atlantic City is filled with cheering spectators as far as the eye can see during the annual American Beauty parade of “Miss America” contestants.

Funeral Rites Are Held For Chief Justice I Pres. Eisenhower, Former President »Truman At Rites &H| ■ ' WASHINGTON UP — President Traman jdthed hundreds of others who loved and honored him in farewell today to Chief Justice Frc*M. Vinson. ' 'J' 4 ' They paid their tribute to Kentucky’s distinguished son at a brief but moving memorial service in Washington’s majestic Episcopal Cathedral atop tree - shadowed Mount St. Albans. ; i | Vinson’s sudden death early Tuesday at 63 shocked and saddened this capital and brought scores of his friends and colleagues from far places to attend the rites conducted by the Right Rev. Angus Dun, Episcopal bishop [of Washington. Immediately after the service the body, draped in the Chief Justice’s black robes of office, was escorted to Union Station by the supreme court’s -associate justices for a night journey to Louisk, Ky. There at 2 p.m. Friday the body will be laid to rest on a high bluff overlooking the Big Sandy River and the little town which was Vinson’s home. J Mr. Elsenhower flew* here from his summer White House at Denver and Mr. Truman came by train from Independence, Mp., to salute for the last time the: friend and colleague who had administered the president’s oath of office to both of them. The President waited to enter the softly-lighted cathedral uniil members of the family, Mr. and Mrs. Truman, members of the supreme cjourt, cabinet, and diplomatic corps, and scores of judges, congressmen, and members of the bar had taken their seats tn specially reserved sections. Then he was escorted by the dean of the cathedral; the Very Rev. Francis B. Sayrd Jr., to a seat on the front row near the central dais on which rested the mahogany casket bearing a silver plaque on which was inscribed: ’Fred M. Vinson. 1890-1953.” Close by were Mrs. Vinson and her sons, Fred Jr., and James R. With them was James’s wife. The service opened with a processional hymn, “O God Our Help in Ages Past.” Then the congregation chanted Psalm 46 — "God is our refuge and strength, a very (Tara Ta Paaa Wtve» Studebaker To Lay Off 6,000 Workers SOUTH BEND VP — Studebaker Corp, officials ordered a one-third cutback in auto production today, which will, mean unemployment for about 6,000 workers. President Harold Vance said the cutback will be effective Sept. 14. But despite it, he said, retail deliveries should increase “due to the wide public acceptance of Studebaker styling in the 1953 lino.” ; ' . ' ' ' ' \ J

Meet Monday Night; On Garbage Problem Objectors To Meet I With City Officials I <' I | Mayor John Doan has called | meeting at city hall for next Mon| day night with the some 60 slgn| ers of & remonstrance against ths proposed four-acre site of a gar* bage dump that was to have beer? leased from the Krick-Tyfedall Cm It was learned that the remoni strators had brought theft’ Petition go Dan Tyndall anddsCTyndall tamed it over to the city. f The petitioners claim rata would result from the dump and make the area unsanitary. 1 While the proposed site of the dump is out of the city limits, a distance west of U. S. highway 27 at the south city limits, names appear on the petition from Nuttman and Thirteenth' street, about two miles from the dump, and Madison and Thirteenth. f !' City attorney Robert S. Anderson said today the city would try to explain the more technical aspects of a sanitary land-fill to the remonstrators in an effort to show that their fears about the dump are erroneous and based on misconceptions. He pointed out that the sanitary land-fill method of getting rfd, of garbage is approved by numerous boards of health out the nation and this state. Anderson said the “city has to have a place to \ put its garbage.” He indicated the matter was being given great priority in the city circles as It is mportant to thd welfare of the cty. In a previous inspection it waj revealed that the site of the dump is in a practically desolate parts of the county, even though it does appear close to Decatur, and is at. the very least, one-quarter of a mile away from any residence. At present the garbage is being; dumped at Monroe near First street and dirt then pushed over" it ’ . | ' Sanitary land-fill jnethod of gar< bage disposal requires a plot Os, ground and a land mover. Thesej steps then follow: ? A hole is dug at first to re-f ceive the first load of garbage.. After it is dumped in, |the land mover scoops up dirt nearbyleaving another hole—and uses it; to cover the garbage. It is then thoroughly packed down on "the garbage to leave ns little air-space as possible in the garbage. As in the case of all buried organic matter, bacteria, in time, attacks the garbage and decompoees i*f with no manifestation of this any~ where on the surface. This means no rats, insects or smell. (It should be pointed out that at a previous visit to the city a board of health man who had inspected the proposed site said the dirt there was "particularly good” because of its packing qualities.) \ When this first garbage is covered, the hole left from the mover’s scooping to pack it is used subsequently for another load of garbage. And so on until the acreage is deposited with its rated maximum. It has been figured that the city would use one acre a year for its garbage, a total of four acres being consumed in four years. Krick & Tyndall have recognized that after four years the (Twit» race Kiaht)

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: Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 10, 1953.

Mediterranean Island Os Cyprus Devastated By Severe Earthquake

Fear Many Os Missing Gl's j Have Perished Military Officials Begin Notification For Next Os Kinj WASHINGTON, UP — Foreign officials fear many of tire 944 missing Americans believed captured In Korea but never reported by the ; Communists have died in Red prison camps, it was learned today. | They voiced this heart-breaking belief as the military services began notifying next of kin df the missing servicemen that “th£re is reason to believe” the men' were in Communist custody “at one time.” The servicemen hadj previously been officially listed as missing. The defense department? will make public their names in installments Friday after next-df-kin have been notified. The includes 610 army. 312 air forde, 19 marine three navy sefvicemeiu | ’I,• ' [ The United Nations command in Korea submitted the names tn jguk Communists Monday at a meeting* of the joint military armjhrtlce commission. The U. N. told the Reds It had information that the men had been, captured but pever reported. It demanded an accounting of each man listed. But military _officials here said reports had been received, largely from repatriated prisoners, I that many of the Americans were dead. Despite these reports, military officials said the demand for an accounting wa? made to get the fullest information possible on the fate of every American missing in Korea. Officials hope that some of the Americans on the list may ; still be alive. The Communists say ithey have returned all U. N. prisoners desiring repatriation. The belief that the missing men captured .by the Communisms is based on a. compilation of reports by repatriated Americans, Red radio broadcasts and personal letters. -Shortly after the armistice, Gen. Mark W. Clark, Far Eastern commander, said the United States had information indicating the Communists held 2.000 to 3,000 more Americans than the ' 3,313 they agreed to return. * But Clark’s figures were'reMsed downward after Allied officers (Tan T» P*S* Kiskt)

Decatur Lady Installed District Legion Leader

\l ■■ IMrs. T. C. Smith, 615 Nut|man Avenue, whose civic leadersh|p Is identified with the Legion auxiliary, Girl Scouts and the Red Cross, today was Installed as fourth ; district president of the American Legion auxiliary in colorful seremonies at Lutheran parish h£ll. ‘ Formal installation of the district president was made by Mri. Rinda Rains of Madison,\ president of the Indiana department of the American Legion auxiliary, -and fallowed a noon business meeting and 1 o’clock banquet at the parish hall. Attending were delegates from 34 auxiliaries, representing 5,300 members in the fourth district over which Mrs. Smith will have supervision. ' I Other district officers Also were Installed during the afternoon ceremony, presided over; by Mrs. Ruth Mueller, the retiring fourth district president. f ■ i These officers are: Mrs. Harold Kryder, Leo, vice-president; Mrs. Ed Bauer of this city, secretary; Mrs. Nellie Plettner, Auburn, historian; Mrs. Katheran Smith, Ashley, chaplain; Mrs. Bertha Mason, Waynedale, sergeant at - arms, Katherine Mason, assistant sergeant at-arms, Mrs. Robert HOey, ■ls I ' - ■ ' ■ •

U. S. Preparing For .Hydrogen Bomb Test I Evidence Discloses Preprations Made •WIAWHNGTON UP — Further evidence came to light today in the Pentagon’s telephone directory tliat the Upited States is getting set to test mankind’s deadliest weapon of mass destruction — a deliverable H-bomb. (Both this country and Russia rhave exploded mammoth hydrogen test the United States nearly a year aigo and the Soviets just last month. Although there nave been no official claims that either, nation possesses a hydrogeu weapon in a form capable of delivery qn a target, American weaponeers arg believed to have progressed far enough in that direction recently to warrant new r 1 test explosions. \ As the United Press reported July, indications are that the nfw tests will be held at Bikini the atomic eniergy comihission’s new’ Pacific proving ground. ISO miles east of Elniwetok. They may be held late this fall, next spring or summer, or next fall. The -AftX! won't say and ■neither will tliieK defense departvnent. BUt the A®C-defense Organ- . JzaUon that will conduct the new ’ *ests has been! set up and threw i a name — point task force seven. JTF-7 is the successor of joint task force 132 which conducted the big hydrogen experiments that wiped out an island of Eniwetok atoll last fall. Its creation has never been publicly announced but its existence became known l*y virtue of the fact that it is listed, for all to read, in the defense department’s latest telephone directory, - Investigation disclosed that the new task force has existed as a going concern since February. Its commander, Maj. Gen. Percy W. Clarkson of ths army, also was chief of JTF432 The forthcoming tests cpncelably could be held late, this fall, but an Indication that they may be deferred until year] was seen tn the recent announcement that Clarkson will be kept on active duty “for a short period” after his scheduled retirement l in December. The presumption is that he will be kept on the job long enough to carry out the next tests. 'Clarkson, as top boss of the critical test operations which produced the world’s first big H-blast, is the natural choice to direct the ships, planes, scientists, technicians and others who will carry H<Tani T* Paw* Fl**B

'1 Br ■ Nr*. T. C. Smith New Haven, parliamentarian. Accompanying Mrs. Rains, the state president, was Mrs. John Kundrat, secretary of the Indiana department of the Legion auxill* ary. ‘ Welcoming the state officers and distinguished guests to the city was Mrs. Dee Fryback of this <Tur« Te ra«e Five J ‘ M . r ■ ' i

■ - First Crisis May Develop [ On Prisoners !. ‘ '' ■ 1 I I Chinese Radio U. N/s Prisoner List Is A'Fake ■PANMUNJOM, Korea, Friday UP — The first crisis since the signing of the Korean armistice may develop today over the United Nations charge that the Communists are holding back war. prisoners. i Maj. Gen. Blackshear M. Bryan, senior U. N. command delegate on the i military armistice commission, warned the Reds Wednesday that they must free 3,404 prisoners* listed as still in their hands —“or else.” I ■ The Chinese Communist Peipihg radio retorted Thursday that the i list is a “fake,” intended to cover i up the forcible detention of North Korean and Chinese Comrriqnist prisoners. it is believed that the CommsI nist delegates will give Bryan a ■ formal statement today td this ■ effect. ' >lf they do, they, may learn what f Brjhni meant when he gave them . his “or else” ultimatum. Indian guards at "Peace VilI lage” took over the first batch'of anti-Communist prisoners held <>y the U.N. Thursday, and the angry ; POWs, hurled rocks at Chinese Red observers. • The United Nations command brought about 400 North Koreans who do not wish to return to Communism into the Indian camp near here to be held in custody while Red lecturers attempt to lure them home! ■ ? . When the Communist- hating North Koreans arrived at “Petice Village” they were smiling and orderly. The rocks and insults began to fly a few minutes later. An Indian spokesman said the North Koreans “became enraged when they shotted the Chinese Communists just outside the barbed wire enclosure.” j i After Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya, head of the neutral nations repatriation commissfion, persuaded the Communists to leave the vicinity, the North Koreans calmed down. The U. N. held another 600 antiCommunist Chinese just south of Panmunjom and will turn them over to the Indians Friday. Thus far, the Indians have pot received any of the Communistheld U. N. prisoners who say they do not want go home. ’ Radio (Peiping, voice of Commu nist China, broadcast the first official reaction to a U. S. demand for an accounting of 3,000 prisoners . held by the Communists and whc fTaro T» m*»t> Final Rises Friday i For Edward Bovine I Decatur Man Dies At Vets' Hospital < ‘ Funeral services will be held Friday morning for Edward Bovine, of Decatur, who died Wednesday morning at the Veterans hospital ip Fort Wayne following an illness of six of pneumonia. A native of Adams county, He had lived in the Decatur community most of his life. He had been’ employed as a pipe line worker. Mr. Bovine was a member of the American Legion and the Disabled American Veterans. Surviving are a brother, Harvey Bovine; a half-brother, Gary Bovine, and a half-sister, Mrs. Grace Dennison of Arcola. Services will be conducted at 9 am. Friday at the Lobenstein funeral home, the Rev. Vernon Riley officiating. Burial will be in the Ray cemetery, west of Monroe. Friends may call at the funeral home until timeipf the services.

No Political Post To Four Percenter No Appointment To Warren Stephenson WASHINGTON UP — Republican sources said today manufacturers’ agent Warren L. Stephenson, under congressional fire as a “four percenter,’’ will not be getting that political appointment he was reported shooting for. A spokesman for the Republican national committee pointed out that Stephenson, who rode President Eisenhower’s campaign train, helped stage his inaugural, and was a secretary of 1 a swank new club for Republican congressmen here, does not now hold any official party post. He indicated furthermore that Stephenson is hot likely to win either party or government appointment in the near future, unless he should emerge wholly in the clear from the current controversy over alleged “influence peddling” in the promotion of sales to the military. Testimony before a house armed service subcommittee showed that Stephenson told a prospective client he had contacts in the navy and could help him get a bigger share of a pending contract for rocket launchers. He also pawed along prices bid on the job by several competitors — information that the navy said was supposed to be secret. His asking price for this help was four percent of sales over the amount and prospect figured to get away. ( Percentage fees of this kind are not illegal. However, they have been under fire by the subcommittee as conducive to wire-pulling and influence. As for the “leak” of information on bids, the source of this still is being investigated. One pf Stephenson's clients testified that the socialite Republican businessman told him he was expecting to receive “an appointment of a political nature” and that he intended to accept ft. Stephenson himself wasn't talking, pending a decision to issue a formal statement. Busy Court Session In Prospect Here Docket Is Called In Circuit Court If the present calendar of Adams circuit court is carried out, Judge (Myles F. Parrish will have one of his busiest terms, the docket reveals. Hauses to be tried have been set the first two days of court.' J All members of th a Adams county bar were present at the calling of the docket, with two exceptions, and more than 40 cases were set for hearing or trial. A venued case of Black vs. Pennsylvania railroad, involving a suit for damages as the result of a death in an automobile train mishap is set here for October 20. with a jury trial in prospect The cause was venued here from Jay drcuit cpur t t and Barrett, Barrett, and MoNagney of Fort Wayne, and Henry B- Heller of Decatur are attorneys for the defendant, and Jacqua and Jacqua of Portland and Ed A. Bosse of Decatur represent the plaintiff. The complete calendar as set to date by Judge Parrish is published in today’s Daily Democrat in the court news. The grand and petit juries were drawn a week ago and Judge Parrish has not indicated whether he will call the grand jury. Judge Parrish usually is reticent to call either jury dorini September or early October because many of the jurors are farmers and have considerable fell farm work Fhleh needs attention i ! ■ “ . ■', *j) -

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Cyprus Rocked By Earthquake, Death Toll High [ Entire Villages In I Mediterranean Isle Collapsed By Quake NICOSIA, Cyprus UP — Violent earthquakes today rocked this Mediterranean island, collapsing entire villages and leaving a heavy toll of death and destruction in (heir wake. Incomplete reports from the stricken areas said about 30 persons were dead and 60 injured. The quakes were described as the worst in memory here. Doctors, police and army enits rushed aid to the stricken areas. The whole of the island—third largest in the Mediterranean —• was shaken by the violent earthshocks. Four villages were reported collapsed with many vic- . tims believed buried in the ruins, of their homes. ’ ' Reports filtering through this ! capital city said' the port of , Paphos and the villages of Djidassi I | and Stroumbi were rocged heavily, . with many buildings tumbling Inr to the streets. t I Shocks spread terror among r south coast residents in and j around Limassol. Cyprus’ second I largest town. The earth shook for 12 seconds at Limassol. , At Platres and Trodos, fashioni able summer resorts 40 miles , 'southwest of the capital in the Olympus Mountains. residents searched the rubble-choked streets for victims. Acting Gov. J. Fletcher Cooke. Archbishop Makarios and other authorities visited the stricken area. Twenty of the 1.500 inhabitants of Stroumbi were reported killed and the village was reported ruined. The colonial office in London the last word it had received from the island said 20 persons were estimated dead and 100 injured. \ ; Victims told United pMss correspondent Dimitres Demetrades that the earthquake was the worst they ' ever have experienced. f. — Death Os Russian Historian Revealed MOSCOW, UP — The death of Boris Grekov, 71, one of the Soviet Union’s most prominent historians, -was announced Wednesday. , Await Final Plan On Community Center Plans Are Expected | , By November First Final, plans and specifications for Decatur’s Community aad Youth Center will be furnished between Oct. 15 and Nov. 1, C. 1. 'Finlayson, chairman of the building committee of Decatur Memorial Foundation, Inc., reported to the directors last evening. 'Finlayson talked, with Antonin Rado, the architect in New York yesterday, who stated that the plans should be completed by Nov. 1. There was a delay in completing the drawings due to the time involved iff taking borings on the ground formation at the eite. Piers for the building will be sunk about 28 feet to solid rock. TMrectors of the Foundation are of the opinion that bids on the v building can be received late this year or early in 1954 and that construction will be underway early next spring. The site of the proposed community center is oast of the Monroe street river bridge on the north side of UB highway 3M. 0 —0 • 12 PAGES 0 —0