Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1954 — Page 1

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Get Preview On State Os Union —« — ; \ I-® • GmSMHMHA mWCwB ■& jNMHT'I 3,» jML W *’ *jf ■Jt * < ■!■* ■*i‘ If a W\Jr\ Hk Jjfl HL'. ‘ J h JS ~ A GROUP OF TOP GOP legislators leave the White House after being ■‘briefed” on President Eisenhower's program-charting which will be included in his State of the Union message. In the group who heard the details. which were broadcast nationally Monday evening, were (1. io r.)i House majority whip Leslie Arends, (R) ill.; House Speaker, Joseph W. Martin. Jr., (R) Mass.; Chairman of the House rules committee Leo E. Allen, (R) Ill.; Chairman of the Senate finance committee Eugene D. Millikin. (R) Colo.; Chairman of the House ways and means committee Daniel A. Reed (R) N. Y.; and (inset) Senate majority leader William Knowland, (R) ofJCal.

Ike Promises All Efforts To Hold Prosperity Assures Americans * To Use All Means i To Keep Prosperity WASHJNGTON UP — President '1 Eisenhower gave the American people his assurance Monday night i that the government <will use "every legitimate aneans” to sustain the nation’s prosperity against " any threat of refcesston or desrs*tf Sh”". v ' • ■ ' ' But he voiced a "persistent and reasoned faith” in .the basic 1 soundness of the economy and sternly rebuked the "selt-aifpointed peddlers of gloom and doom.” Mr. Eisenhower launched his sharp counterattack against “boom and .bust"fears Monday night in 7.W nationwide radio-teleyision report on his administration's accom- — plishments and plans on the eve of the second session of the 83rd conDemocrats generally applauded his i>ied®i> ssfeacE promptly, of a recession. They asserted, however, that his plan of action is borrowed from the Democrats. Some , suggested that he should _start ( moving now since a recession is. already here. "It is very good to know/’ said senate Democratic leader Lyndon j Johnson of Texas, “that the administration has adopted what has always been a basic feature of Democratic policy—the belief that our' people need not suffer from a boom ’"“T and bust America.” a- -r-j Republicans warmly .praised the j address and predicted that the j principles the President outlined , would be followed by specific recommendations which Americans . would approve. Mr. Eisenhower acknowledged | that “changing circumstances" — i including the end of the Korean j War and declining defense produc- j tion — require economic adjust- • ments. 'But he said these can be- ; made “without encouraging disas i ter or without .bringing about the i economic Chaos for which the Comihunists hope.” 1 <He did not spell out the "legiti 1 mate” means he would employ la i meetjrrecession threat. But he lid i say the administration would not/ be indifferent to those in adver- I sity "through no fault of their ! own."* _____ . _ J And it is known that the govern- < ment is prepared, if necessary, to alter its monetary policies, ease 1 credit, place more orders for goods. 1 and to take similar measures to 1 it shows signs of sagging. J iMr. Eisenhower did not give the public a detailed preview of his 1 Jan. 7 state of the union message 1 in which he will make his legis- 1 latlve recommendations. 1 Describing the administration plans for 1954, the President said:' "It is a program that does not | deal in pie-in-the-sky promises to ( all, nor in bribes to a few, nor i.i t . threats to any. It is a program inspired by ze:;l for the common 1 good, dedicated to the welfare of J every American family — what- f “ ever its means of livelihood may , -be. or its social position, or-its ah- ! j cestral strain, or its religious as- ( (Tana Ta Paste Five) 1

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Second Spiritual Week Service Held Second Service Held Here Monday Night “The question, ‘What does Jesus say about you?' is as important as the ‘one Jean's asked Peter, ‘What do ypu think of me?’ said the Rev. George St. Angelo at the second service of the Spiritual Emphasis week at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church Monday night. , In his second Jihessage. of the series. Rev. St. Angelo named three points in Christ's portrait of man: “Jesus sees exactly what we ars”. He sees us as sinners but he has ■ -faith In us that we can become children of God. He 1 word with us. He turns us around and squares us up. He has faith in those who are willing to see themselves as He sees them. He sees what we are but “Jesus sees what we can become. He recognizes our potential, our possibilities. The dream we -i dream often fade away. But if those dreams are in accord with His purpose, by His help they can become actual and real. He sees < what we can become. i "Jesus sees us bearing a cross i -of suffering. ‘lf any man would “COKfr arRT 'ifie,“Ter TOn deny him- I self, take up his cross and follow me.’ The good, the lovely, the beautiful things in life come I through someone’s having paid the ; price. The world advances on the feet of those who are willing to I suffer for the sake of others — i think of Abraham LincbTtr or Ma- i hatmah Ghandi. Jesus sees His follower^-as ones who are willing 1 to suffer for the cause of rightness and goodness in the world. “ 1 “A farmer found an eagle egg. i hatched it, and raised the strange i bird in his farm lot. Seeing nothing but chickens, it imitated chicle- I ens. It stretched and flapped its i wings but never flew. Finally the farmer tossed it into the air and . said, ‘fly, eagle, fly.’ But the bird I flopped to th'e ground. A week later I he carried the eagle to the house < top and said ’fly,' but again the 1 bird flopped to the ground. Two i weeks later he took the eagle to the high bluff. ‘You are not a chicken ; to scratch on the ground. You are i an eagle and made to fly in the I sky. Fly. eagle, fly.’ tie gave it a I toss into the air. It started flopping, I then its wings caught the wind and they began flapping. The ] mighty bird soared toward the sun. I What does Christ see in you? He i kees what you are. He sees what ‘ you may become. He sees you bear- i ing a cross Os suffering for His 1 cause." .__ . ' ....... i The Rev. Traverse t Chandler. ■/ pastor of the First- Christian church, - president; the Rev. Paul i D. Parker, Nutttnan, Ave. United 1 Brethren church, read the fecrip- i ture. A and the Rev. John Chambers, t Trinity Evangelical United Breth- j ren church, led in prayer. The Bethany Evangelical United Breth- < ren church choir sang "Come Ye 1 Disconsolate”, and ushers were I (Turn To Pnice Six) ( .» - ■ 1 Rev. St. Angelo To I ( Speak To Students ■ The Rev. George St. Angelo; of 1 Indianapolis, guest speaker for < the Spiritual Emphasis week seyv- 1 ices in this city, will speak at a 1 special assembly of the Decatur high school students Wednesday 1 afterhocm ,at 1:30 o’clock. The pub- j lie ip invited to attend. ( i

Declares Reds Ordered Gls Not To Attend Batchelor Asserts Reds Ordered Gls Refuse Interviews TOKYO UP —CpI. Claude Batchelor said today the- Reds ordered him and 21 other unrepatriated Asr-jdceES'-fflEk * “come-home” interviews during the explanations period which ended Dec. 23. - The young Texan, who unexpectedly returned to freedom nine days after the program ended, accused the Communists of using secret channels to communicate with prisoners in Indian custody. In an army-arranged interview with newsmen,' Batchelor, 24, charged that Communist correspondent Wilfrid Burchett wrote the bitterly anti-American letter which the Americans signed at the start of the talks. But Batchelor said he didn't believe Pfc. Richard R. Tenneson had any assistance in writing an anti-American letter to his mother. Mrs, Portia Howe, who had flown from Alden. Minn., to Tokyo, in an unsuccessful attempt to go to Korea. “I think Tenneson wrote the letter himself,” Batchelor said. He said also that Burchett, correspondent, for the Paris L’Humanite, and Alan Winnington, ‘correspondent for the London Daily Worker, helped turn him against the United States while he was in a North Korean camp. Batchelor, now reunited with his Japanese wife, refused to give details about “worsening conditions" in the Indian-contrcdled nor , t'h <i camp until he sees the mothers of the 21 prisoners who have refused repatriation. He did not say whether he had promised the prisoners to see their parents or give any other indication that the Americans knew beforehand that he planned to desert the Reds. Batchelor admitted he attended Red Indoctrination lectures while he was hekd .prisoner in North Korea and said that although he was “just playing along with the Chinese” at the beginning he finally began to believe their anti-Ameri-propaganda. “ “I am sorry for it now,” he said. Shortly after Batchelor asked for repatriation on New Years Day. he told neypmen atTJeOul be had remained with the Reds to become a "world peace fighter against American aggression.” Now that he has returned to freedom, Batchelor said, he no longer believes that the United States was the aggressor in Korea, as Burchett, Winnington and other Communist brain-washers had told him. Batchelor said that after he became a “progressive,” the term which American prisoners used to describe men who attended Red lectures, he informed on fellow captives who he said were smoking marijuana or exchanging clothing for alcohol. L 11 1 But he heatedly denied that he had informed on other prisoners to gain personal favors from the Communists.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesd ay, January 5, 1954.

Bulk Os $160,000 Taken From U. S. Bureau Is Recovered In Virginia

Jenner To Ask Permission To Publish Data — — — j Senators Back From Secret Interview With Ex-Red Spy NEW YORK, UP—Sen. William E. Jenner, R-lnd., said today Ms senate internal security subcommittee •'probably” will ask the Canadian government for permission to make public testimony taken in secret Monday from former Russian code clerk Igor Gouzenko. Jenner and Sen. Pat McCarran, D-Nev., ranking minority member and former chairman of the committee, arrived by train from Montreal and planned to go to Washington later today. "Ottr mission has- been accomplished,” Jenner said. “It was a satisfactory interview. We’ll probably make a formal request to the Canadian government for release of the information. We plan to study it and make a further announcement.” Canadian authorities gave permission for the congressional in-, terview of Gouzenko—whose.flight tawa broke the story of a Red spy ring in Canada—with the stipulation that no part of his testimony should be made public'without authorization of the Canadian government. McCarran said the committee, would “use the information” given by Gouzenko "for the internal protection of the United States.” He added that “Gouzenko and the Canadian government were coopemiva under the agreement” Asked if the senators had really “learned anything,” McCarran replied: “Yes, we did.” The senators, accompanied by U. S. Ambassador R. Douglas Stuart, made a quick exit from the Windsor Hotel in Montreal Sunday afternoon and climbed into a black limousine. The big car sped toward the outskirts of town, (Tara To Paar* Eight) “ “ ' ' 1 .. J Fire Loss 511,381 In City Last Year s One Fire Brought Death For Three Although fires in Decatur last year cost property owners an rrstimated 111,381, the most important thing about 1953’s blazes is that one of them killed three people in one fell swoop. It was si lazy Sunday morning last July 12 and only a few residents were up and ajpund. Then it came. The pastoral quiet was shattered by the shrilling of the fire siren. AU arodnd the shingled house the heat was intense and firemen Wouldn't approach closer than hosing distance. The three who died that morhing were George Gilbert, 23, his wife, Norma Joline, 22, and their two and one-half month old son, Bruce Edward. Following is a breakdown of the 88 calls made by the Decatur fire department last year: v . ... - City fires, 58—car and truck, 12; wiring, 3; overheated stoves, 4; unknown, 11; grass, 7; trash, 5; false alarm, 2; grease, 1; natural gas, 2; bverheated salamander, 1; chimney, 3; cleaning fluid, 1; explosion, 1; spontaneous combustion, 2; lightning bolt, 2. The special calls made by the department consisted of putting out "tr 4 mattress fire at the county jail which was started by a prisoner; 2 resuscitator calls; repairing a broken sprinkler head. Rural tires, 24—unknown, 6; car and tractor, 3; explosion, 1; false alarm, 1; grass, wheat or trash, 8; overheated Stoyes, 4; railtoad car hot box, 1. There is no estimate off cash losses on. rural fires.'

■.' .it... ■-— \ -:.±— , r Severe Test To Ike In Tax Cut Battle ■ "t Statement Is Made By Key Congressmen WASHINGTON UIF — Key mertbers fit congress said today that President Eisenhower’s leadership Will get a severe’test if he tries to fight a congressional move to tote new tax cuts in this election year. They made the statement after Rep. Daniel A. Reed R-(NY announced that hie ways and means committee is giving top priority to proposals which would cost the government an estimated 1 1-2 bill lion-dollars a year in taxes. He called-the group into session next (Monday to consider a proposed major overhaul of the tax system that would bring tax benefits to working mothers, corporations, parents with income-earning dependents and taxpayers with heavy medical bills. (President Eisenhower has not revealed the tax recommendations he will make in a special message to congress. But he has made i*. plain he is opposed to any proposals that would put new dents in the government’s revenue. Reed and (Mr. Eisenhower clashed head-on last year over Reed's bid to cut personal income taxes iu m.id-1953..instead .of last. hut absrevers refused to predict the outebme of a new wrangle if congressmen are forced to choose between the 'President and elec-tion-year tax cuts. ”, Sen. Harry F. Byrd D-Va . warned in an interview today that it is difficult to stop the spread oT tax reductions once they are started. He challenged the President to present a balanced budget when he sends congress his budget (Costiaavd Pawe Kight) Catholic Men Plan District Meet Here Organization Meet / Here On Wednesday A district organization, ineeting of the National-Council of Catholic Men will be held Wednesday ;atß p.m. at the K< of <J. hall, with Decatur unit as host. ■ * Representatives from Catholic 1 parishes in New Haven, Besancon, Monroeville, Bluffton, Hessen Cassel hrid Yoder are expected at the meeting. Officers of the district organization will be elected and members named to the several committees to be named during the session. ■ The Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seiinetz, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic church, is the moderator for the local district. Prior to naming officers, it is expected that William J. Miller, newly Installed president of the Holy Name society, will act as chairman of the meeting. The NCCM was recently organized and diocesan officers were elected at a meeting tn Strath Bend. These charter officers are./ Kenneth Dempsey, South Bend, president; Martin D. Johnson, Fort Wayne and Joseph O’Dea, Cook, vice-presidents; Frank Crane, Gary, secretary; and Donald Collins, La Porte, treasurer. The new organization will function under the National Catholic Welfare Conference, which is composed of Catholic bishops in the United States. ’.J.There are 44 parishes in the deanery and Foss Smith of Fort has been appointed lay representative in this area. Need Blood Donors The Red Cross bloodmobile will be in Decatur Friday. To meet the county’s quota 184 donors and 36 stand-bys are needed. The score to-date: . _ Signed up 84 - Volunteers needed — 136 You are asked to make your [ reservitidhs at the Red Cross office ... Phone 3-3106- -•■■ — - ? ;

Eisenhower In Frank Bid For Democrat Aid Outlines Program To Democratic And Republican Leaders WASHINGTON, UP —President Eisenhower today gave Democratic and Republican congressional leaders a preview of the defense, foreign policy and foreign aid sections of his forthcoming state of the union message to congress. The White House said after the 2%-hour conference that the legislative leaders were given an out line of the foreign military, economic and technical aid program which will be presented to congress. No figures were mentioned.. The bi-partisan conference also heard special reports from secretary of defense Charles E. Wilson, secretary of state John Foster Dulles and Harold B. Stassen, director of the foreign operations administration. Afterwards, the President was host to the group at lunch. For the first time, Mr. Eisenhower called Democratic as well as GOP leaders to the White House in a .frank bid forDemo. and defense -policies. Insiders reported he is deter- : mined To fight if necessary to put ■ his 1954 program across. In reviewing sections of his state i of the union 7 message, Mn Eisent bower apparently stayed away [ fro mpurely domestic matters. As the conference got underway, . informed sources said Mr/Eisen- . bower is taking a firm lead on j various controversial issues in his talks with legislative leaders instead of repeating the "give-and-take" policy he followed last year. ’This-Indicates he has responded to prodding from the so-called liberal wing of the GOP which has wanted him to assert more leadership to put over his ideas, especially with the conservatives in his own party. Mr. Eisenhower, it is understood, will lay great stress on the sweeping social security and housing recommendations he will' submit to congress. He views them, as a "liberal but sound” program that -i (Cowtlaued PaacT Eight) 1 -■ Reports On County ; Highway Operation More Than $202,000 Spent During Year A total of 3202,043.67 was spent on county highways during 1953. Frank Singleton, county highway superintendent, revealed in his annual report filed with the county boardcommissioners. A balance of 37,761.33 remained at the clpke of the year, the report showed., Adams county highways were reported in the best condition during the year just closed than in any other northern Indiana county. Singleton was reappointed January 1 by the commissioners to serve another year. , The sup’erintendent’s salary was 53,000 for <1953 and the four assistants received a total of 310,950. Jther employes drew a. total of 34(7,748.69 during the past year. -Other paid out items included;. Operating, 326,011.16; material, 383,832.29; Federal aid or stone. 312,04-HM; insurance, $3,047.27 j properties, 314,495.92. ‘ The balance sheet shows: Balance on .hand, January 1, 1952, 3248.47; received from state, $213,578.80; sale of dirt, 3720.00; total, 3214,547.27. Amount spent, 3202,043.67. (Balance, 312,503.60. The reason tjie balance shows larger titan .the actual .balance is that committments of about 35,000 on contracts are reflected in the took balance and not the actual balance.

Ronald Parrish Is I C. Os C. President Election Held By- < Directors Monday Ronald Parrish was elected of Commerce Monday night at a meeting of the board of director*, at Chamber offices. Elected vicepresident was M. J. Prjtor, and treasurer, William Lose, Jr. Parrish is manager at the Bell- ‘ mont Trucking Co.; Pryor is held ’ of the local office of the North- • eastern Indiana Public Service 1 Co. (the gas company); and Lose 1 is assistant cashier at the First ! State" Bank? On taking office, Parrish praised 1 the work of the retiring board 1 members and officers of the local business group. He named Ralph Habegger, past president, and Earl * Fuhrman, Gene Rydeli and Robert ’ Anderson, board members. Newly elected board members f are Dr. J. M. Burk, Fred M. Foos, { manager of the A & P; Adolph , Koltef, owner qf a burial. vault fjrm here; land Robert Bradtmiller, president, of the Wayne Nov- ' •Ity Co. A new policy was adopted on a proposal by Kenneth Shannon, 1 I retail division chairman, whereby , instead of being appointive, the t offices of retail division chairman > and industrial divUW«.* > *|ff , °n ; ■ wonald Be subject to election by ' . the general membership in each t division, it was annoimged. Robert Bradtmiller has already been 5 chairman of the industrial , / division and the retailers are to I hold their’s soon. 4 Fred Kolter, who has been part- , time executive secretary of the - Chamber was confirmed.in Mon1 day night’s meeting, as full time ( s paid executive secretary as a re- - suit of the “praiseworthy” work 1 • he has done tn the C. of C. since ■ being appointed after the leave | 1 taking of former secretary-Walter 1 ■ Ford. > The annual meeting and dinner | of the CC will take place Thurs- 1 ’ day, Feb. 11, and the next meet- 1 1 Ing of the board of directors will be on Feb. 1. ■«-» ■ »- ’ The 12 members of the board of j directors, including those already ' named, are: George Stults, Dale 1 Morrissey, Lyle Mallonee, Bob 1 Yost, Roy Stewart. 1 BULLETIN ROME, (UP)—Premier Giuseppe Pella went to President ] Luigi Einaudi today to hand s in the resignation of his Ital- 1 government. 1 •■- - I Turkish Ambassador ' Expelled From Egypt ! Serious Diplomatic ( Crisis Is Feared * CAIRO, Egypt UP — Turkish * Ambassador * Fouad Toghay was expelled from Egypt today by gov- . ernment order and a serious Tdrk- , ish - Egyptian diplomatic crisis ' seemed imminent. Toghay was ordered out of .the 1 country on 24 hours’ notice as the ' result of a series of incidents in which the government held he in ! suited Egyptian officials. 1 The direct cause of the order, undersecretary Hassan Abul Saud ' of the ministry of national guidance said, came last Saturday E when at a ballet performance at . the Opera House Toghay told Vice I Premier Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nas- I ser: "You are not behaving like a gentleman." ' A United Press Ankara dispatch j said that officials of the Turkish < foreign office met for three hours < today, considering retaliatory ac- I tion. Ambassador Toghay is married to a member of the Egyptian royal family whost property has been confiscated by the government as the result of the ouster of King Farouk. . Saud said that because of this (Contlnwd o* Page Five)

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Money Is Found In Tool Box On Virginia Farm Part Os Crisp New Money Spent; Early Arrest Predicted WASHINGTON UP — The bulk of the $160,000 stolen from the *Mvily guarded U. S. bureau of engraving and printing has been recovered on a Virginia farm and an arrest in the case is expected soon, officials said today. (Virginia state police .said the money was found in a metal tool box on a farm near Centerville, Va. Part of the money already had been spent, officials said. Two of the 8,000 crisp new 320 bills turned up in Washington today. A high secret service official said he expected a “break” in the case sqon. Other sources said the arrest of a bureau employe was believed to be imminent. Secret service chief U. E. Baughman had “no comment” on the reports, btft would not deny them. He Indicated he might have an announcement later today. “We have to work fast,” Baughman added. It was the biggest theft in the history of the sprawling engraving is produced, Recovery of the missing bills was reported as secret service agents prepared lie detector tests for bureau employes who might have had opportunity to carry out the bold theft. One of the crisp new 325 bills was found by Osaac Jacobson, president of the National Produce Co., as he was checking receipts. It caught his eye because of the high serial number. - Jacobson said he received the bill from a small grocery in Takotna Park, Md. The Takoma Park grocer said he got it from one of his customers — whom he apparently identified to secret service agents. The bill’s serial numlber was 8902559&1A, one of those in the stolen batch. - • The secret service refused to say where the other bill cropped up. But a high serept service official •aid: , think there may be a break soon.” ~~ Bureau officials had thought it possible that the 3160,000 might somehow have been’ misplaced. But a night-long search of every nook and cranny of the huge engraving building, plus discovery of the passed bills, proved- the money had been stolen. A secret service official daid “There is no longer any doubt in my mind that we are dealing with a carefully-planned theft." The secret service broadcast a description of the missing money throughout the nation, and enlisted the support of all banks and other financial institutions in watching out for them. The 320 bills are federal reserve bank notes, on the New York Federal Reserve Bank. They bear the numeral “2” and the capital letter “B” in the left hand corner. Their serial numbers run from 890236001A through 890240009A, and from 890252001A through 890256000A. Any person spotting a 320 bill With such.serial number should notify the secret service immediately. „ • ' ■ - —■ ■■“ ■ * ---wirat? ’— Decatur Lions Will Hear Guest Preacher Speaker at tonight’s Lions meeting will be the Rev. George SL Angelo, guest speaker during Decatur’s epiritual emphasis week, underway nightly at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight, colder ■ In extreme south. Wednesday considerable cloudinew, few •now flurries extreme north. Low tonight 22-28 north, 26-30 south. High Wednoariky’394o north, 42-48 south.