Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1954 — Page 1

Vol. HI. No. 13.

Allies To Free 22,000 POWs On January 23 Allied Commander Ignores Warnings Issued By India PANOrUNJOLM. Korea. Sunday UP — Gen. John E. Hull announced today he will ignore Indian warnings and will release 22,000 anti<Conununist prisoners as civilians Jan. 23. The Allied commander in chief said in a letter to Indian Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya that he will accept , the 22,000 anti-Red prisoners whom Thimayya proposes to turn over to him next Wednesday. But instead of holding them for disposition by a Korean peace conference, as Thimayya demanded, the United Nations command “will honor its obligation to treat them as fully entitled to their freedom as civilians on Jan. 23," (Hail said. The Communists warned over their tPeiping Radio Saturday that if Hull releases the prisoners, and sends them to Chinese Nationalist Formosa and South Korea as planned, he will “destroy the truee." With this issue heading toward a crisis, Routh Korean President Sypgman Rhee threatened to take "definite action” to unify all Korea if a peace conference fails to do so by April 26. ; In a second fiery statement. Rhee said at a press conference that South Korea would rather join the Ccsnqiunists than be put again under the dominance of Japan. A Chiese Nationalist newspaper In Talpeh, capital of Formosa, asserted the Chinese Communists are rushing troops to Manchuria for a possible renewal of the Korean war. One field army is already in Manchuria, the newspaper China Union Press said, and two morware on the way. The 22,000 anti-Communist prisoners and abou t 500 proGonrmtmlst prisoners now in the custody of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission, of which Thimayya is chairman, should be freed as civilians Jan. 23 under the armistice. The Communists demanded they be hold in neutral custody until they have been questioned further by indoctrination officers and their status considered by a peace con(Tnra T« I'u, sixj Municipal League Seeks Tax Relief Back Legislation For Aiding Cities INDIANAPOLIS UP—The Indiana municipal league’s executive committee late Friday voted to. bac< legislation to give elites' and towns a elite 61 state taxes and end payment of gross income taxes on municipally owned recreation facilities. The committee specifically proposed again that one-half of the alcoholic beverage tax, or about million dollars annually, be returned to cities and towns and Jthat the cigaret tax law be amended to allow return of 32H pef cent to municipalities and 17% per cent to counties. Mayor Ivan Brinegar, Bedford, who presided at the meeting, said the proposals would be set before a meeting of a state legislative advisory sub-committee at Lafayette Jan. 28. The league unsuccessfully sought passage of the alcohol £ and cigaret tax proposals during the 1953 session of the legislature. Brinegar said the league felt that since the state does not pay gross income tax on admittance receipts from state parks, cities should be exempt from payment on tickets to golf courses and swimming pools. , Business Building Sold This Morning The Miller building, 229 N. Second street, with a 66-foot frontage, was sold at public auction this morning to Mrs. Charles Brod teck for 228,06(1. The bidding on the up-town business building started at >IB,OOO. Several prospective buyers attended the auction. The purchaser is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller and was sold to close the Miller estate. A farm owned by the estate was sold Thursday for 27,200. The Mil ler residence at 209 S. Third street, will be sold this afternoon. J. F. Sanmann and George Thomas of Midwest Realty and auction com pany conducted the sale. Sanmann was the auctioneer.

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Harvard Profs Admit Red Ties ’’ APPEARING at a televised hearing of Sen. Joseph McCarthy's permanent investigating committee, Leon J. Karnin (left), and Wendell D. Furry, both members of the Harvard University staff, admitted to having been members of the Communist party. They risked contempt citations by refusing to name persons with whom they associated as party members.

Expect Solons Will Vote Own Pay Increase Little Opposition But Members Shie * From Big Increase By UNITED PRESS Congressmen seemed likely today to vote themselves a pay boost at this session but shied away from the 12,500 a year hike recommended by a presidential commission. 'There was little opposition to any Increase at all. But many congressmen thought the commission's recommendation “too high" and discussed a more modest raise of 15,000 a year as a “likely compromise.” The 18 - member commission unanimously decided the nation’s lawmakers are “grossly underpaid” and said >27,500 a year would be more in line. Senators and representatives now get >15,000 annually in salary .and expenses. The commission also called for salary boosts for the vice president, house speaker and federal judges. Other congressional news: Program: House speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr,, predicted President Eisenhower would! win "more constructive Icgisletton" from the 83rd congress than any other chief executive in the past 20 years. He said Mr. Eisenhower’s personal popularity with voters would cause some congressmen to support his program. Bricker Amendment: Mr. Elsenhower was reported ready to make a public fight against a proposal by Sen. John W. Bricker, R-Ohio. to limit the President’s treatymaking powers if Republican leaders cannot work out an acceptable compromise. But administration sources scoffed at a report he would “stump the country" agalngt it. Hawaii: Chairman Hugh Butjpr R-Neb., of the senate interior committee predicted his group will approve legislation to make Hawaii the 49th etate when it comes to a vote next Tuesday. The measure passed the house at the last session but faces stiff opposition in the senate. Security: Sen. Matthew M. Neely, D-W. Va., called on Mr. Eisenhower to eay how many of the 2.200 federal employee dismissed under hts security program were “tainted with Communism Or disloyalty.” Un-American: Chairman Harold H. Velde, R-111., predicted a majority of the House Un-American activities committee would sup port his firing of the group's veteran chief investigator, Louis J. Russell. t — - - County Receives Tax Distribution Adams county has received >43,992 as its share of >4,920,479 distributed Iby the state in motor vehicle tax and fee, collections for the quarter ending last Dec. 31. Other distributions were: Allen, >137,924; Blackford, 352,572; Huntington, >46,586; Jay $44,509; Wells, $43,982.

Statements Filed Here By Officials Statements Filed On Compensation Twenty county and township officials have filed statements of compensation received during 1953, above their statutory salaries, in compliance with a 1953 act of the Indiana state legislature. Friday was the last day these could be filed without the county auditor, Frank Kttson, having to report the absent reports to the state board of accounts. County Officials Judge Myles F. Parrish, statutory salary >7,206, plus >l4O for change of venue cases, a total of >7,346. County clerk Ed Jaberg, statutory salary >1,840, plus >2,150.70 tor per diem and registration; change of venue costa; fees for discharge of patients from state institutions; naturalization, passport, certification of Conviction of motor vehicle violations, birth certificates, hunting and fishing licenses, gross income tax and unemployment warrants, election and canvassing board, mHeage procuring etate ballots, mileage and expense attending achooln—making a total of $3,990.70. County auditor Frank Kltson, statutory salary $4,254), plus >ll3 tor per diem and >52.80 for mileage and expense of attending meetings, making a total of >4.416.30. Sheriff Robert Shraluka, statutory salary >1,840, plus >3,317.36 for per diem; per diem mileage; car allowance; meals for prisoners; traveling expenses; transportation expenses—making a total of->5.157.36. County assessor Albert Harlow, statutory salary >1,500, plus >2,138.03 tor per diem and fees, making a total of >3,638.03. County recorder Mabel Striker, statutory salary >1,200, plus >l,686.14 for per diem and fees, making a total of >2,886.14. County surveyor Herman Moellering, statutory salary >2,000. plus >1,102.72 tor per diem and mileage, a total of >3,102.72. Township Officials Union township councilman Henry Dehner, statutory salary >l9O. The same tor the following councilmen: William Kruetzman. Preble; Julius Schultz, Washington; Leon Neuenschwander, Wabash; C, J. Jones, Blue Creek; Chris Stahley, Hartford. Trustees Ed Auman. Preble, statutory salary, >990, plus >516 for travel, telegrams and allotment for as sewing, < total of >1,506, L. A. Mann, Wabash, statutory salary. >1,275, plus >1,920 tor rent, traveling expenses and telegrams, allotment for assessing, a total of >2,195. - ; Fred Bittner, Union, statutory salary, >9OO, plus >527.27, for travel, telephone and telegrams, fire reports to state fire marshal, a total of >1,427.27. H. p. Mower, Jefferson, statutory salary, >9OO, plus >620 for travel, phone and an item entitled "one-fourth of salary paid by county auditor,"..a total of >1,620. William E. Heeter, Wabash, no compensation whatever. Wifi Winnes, Washington township assessor, statutory salary only, >1,200. Floyd L. Meyer, Blue Creek, statutory salary >9OO, plus >6OO for county fund and travel ex(Tara Ta Pam Six)

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 16, 1954.

County Net Champion Named Tonight; Four Tearns Still In Running

To Send Guided Missile Units To Aid Europe Plan Two Pilotless Bomber Squadrons To Aid Defenses WASHINGTON UP — The United Stales decision to send two pilotless (bomber squadrons to Germany will arm Western European defense forces with a new potential atomic weapon. Air Secretary Harold >EX Talbott announced Friday night the pilotless bomber, or guided missile, squadrons will be added to the Nopth Atlantic Treaty Organization defense setup. Guided missiles are capable of being armed with atomic warheads. Aircraft and cannon fitted to deliver nuclear weapons are already overseas. Shipping the 861 Matador -pilotless bomber squadrons abroad is in line with the policy announced last Tuesday by secretary of state John Foster Dulles :who called for “great capacity to retaliate instantly” in, event of attack. The Matador, (built by Glenn L. Martin Co., Baltimore, Mff., is ti jet-propelled aircraft with electronic guidance system. It is launched, by means of a booster rocket, from a tractor-drawn platform. it reaches speeds close to sound, but is not supersonic. The missile’s range is a secret but is ample to strike at the rear areas of Red armies should they move against Western (Europe. Air force officials said the two squadrons going to Europe this year would be assigned to fighterbomber wings of the 12th air force. They wffl not substitute for present piloted aircraft squadrons but will ibe added to them. Defense secretary (Charles E. Wilson said movement of the squadrons overseas is in accordance with plans to make available to NATO '-some of our better weapons.” (Equipment already in (Europe that can deliver atomic weapons include air force FB4G Thunderjet fighters, 845 Tornadojet bombers, and army 280-mm. gun battalions.

Jewelry Dealer Is Robbed Os $500,000 Half-Million Worth Os Diamonds Stolen DETROIT UP — A New York jewelry dealer paged through thousands of rogues’ gallery photograph today hoping to spot the two men he said robbed him of a half-million dollars worth of diamonds. ,/ Anthony Seaton, 43, president of the Henri Antovllle Galleries of New York, described one of the men as "dapper” and the other as "shabbily-dressed.” He said they entered his downtown hotel suite Friday, bound him at gunpoint and made off with 11 pieces of jewelry. "I’ll never forget the man who held the gun on me.” Seaton said. “He had the most washed-out and cruelest eyes I have ever seen.” Seaton said the missing’*ij>ieces included three bracelets, .three rings, three clips and two necklaces. He said they had a retail value of $500,000 and a wholesale value of $228,500. Detroit police said it was the biggest jewelry robbery in the city's history. Seaton told police he had withdrawn the pieces from the Statler Hotel vault and laid them out on a coffee table to show them to a prospective customer. Then, Seaton said, two strangers knocked at the -door and forced their way Inside when he opened It. He said oae of° them held a gun on hiih while the other bound (Ceatlauea ea Page Foor)

No Cut-Rate Butter For Soviet Russia Decision Announced By Secretary Weeks WASHINGTON UP — The Elsenhower administration made clear to Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov today that he can exbeet no help in the way of cut-rate U.S. butter in his bid for more solid popularity with the Russian people. Since shortly after he succeeded the late Josef Stalin, Malenkov has been promising the Russian people better living conditions and more consumer goods, such as butter. ' But the administration has turned down a plan under which the Russians would have received about 3.000 tons of surplus U. S. butter at cut-rate prices. Dwayne Andreas, a Mankato, Minn., businessman, had proposed buying the butter from this government at 50 cents a pound for export to Russia. Last Tuesday, commerce secretary Sinclair Weeks indicated he was looking with favor on the deal when he said the U. S. policy “has beep, and still is,” generally to approve export of non-strategic goods to Russia and its European satellites except when it has an “adverse impact" Ort tfye free worlds security. But Weeks Friday made cleat this policy does not include subsidizing consumer products for the benefit of the Comipunists. Accompanied by White House press secretary James C. Hagerty, Weeks came out of a three-hour cabinet meeting and read reporters a statement: "As a matter of principle, I shall not approve any application which would permit an exporter to buy butter at considerably lower prices than those paid by the American housewife, and then send that butter into Russia.” American housewives are paying about 75 cents a pound for butter. And the government’s commodity credit corporation paid an average of 65 cents a pound for the butter that is being sought for Russia at less than 50 cents a pound.

Operation Haylight For South Indiana To Truck 650 Tons Os Hay Into Area INDIANAPOLIS. UP — Trucks will carry 650 tons of hay to 22 southern Indiana counties the weekend of Jan. 30-31 in an effort to temporarily ease a feed shortage in the drought-troubled area. Date for "Operation Haylight” was set Friday after trueklng’*officia'ls found- 100 or more trucks can. be available to carry the hay from Lake county to Farm Bureau Co-ops in county seat town® where It will be distributed. Credit facilities will be available in those counties for farmers who cannot immediately pay the approximate charge of *35 a ton. The date for the haylift was set tentatively at a meeting of etate officials, agricultural leaders and the Indiana Motor Truck Assn, a few days ago. ~~~ ~ ■lt was confirmed by the truckers Friday but . will not be absolutely final until it is definitely known whether brokers in Chicago can buy and concentrate the hay at one loading point in Lake county by Jan. 30. However, IMTA General Manager James Nicholas said 350 tons already had been contracted for and the additional 300 tone will be requested by next Wednesday. The hay will come from surplus stocks in Michigan and Wisconsin. The "haylift plan” was formulated after President Eisenhower refused to declare a drought emergency in the area because the situation was not that serious. However, many farmers were (Centfno«4 on Pace Six) Noon Edition

Resume Talks On Big Four Meeting Site Allied Compromise Proposals Will Be Submitted To Reds BERLIN, UP — Delegates of the Big Four powers agreed today to resume their negotiations to choose a site for a foreign ministers conference on the basis of new Allied compromise proposals. The meeting is scheduled for 5 p.m. here. United States, British and French commandants, who are conducting the negotiations for their governments, received new instructions this morning. They immediately Invited Soviet Delegate Sergei A. Dengin to resume the deadlocked negotiations at 5 p.m. and Dengin agreed. Tt was indicated strongly that the Allies hadmade a major concession to the (Russians, who bad demanded that at least half of the: Big Four sessions which are ached-; uied to start here Jan. 25 be held In Red-ruled East Berlin. A high French source reported Jn Paris the commandanta .were fnstructdd to give -the Russians two choices: Hold all the Big Four meetings In the "internationalhied” former Allied control authority in West Berlin or hold half of them in the western part of the city, the other half in the eastern part. A western spokesman here denied this report insofar as it concerned giving in to the Soviet position that half the meetings be held in East Berlin. He declined to disclose the exact terms of the new proposal. But reports from Washington, London, and Paris had Indicated that the Wesjefn Allies, In their determine tion r to gi*e the Russians no excuse to sabotage the conference, were prepared to make concessions. The allied spokesman said the western delegates had been instructed to arrange a compromise. „ Apparently there was Strong hope that the way was now open for an agreement which would permit the foreign ministers to start their conference on time. It was indicated it was the United States rather than Britain or France that urged concessions to the Russians. It was announced in Moscow' Friday night that United States Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen was expected to leave for Berlin by plane Jan. 22, three days before the scheduled opening of the Big Four meeting. This will enable (Coatlnued on Paar Pour)

Annual Report By County Surveyor Herman Moellering Files Annual Report • County surveyor Herman Moellering today filed the 1953 report of activities of his department. For convenience, the following breakdown contains the name of the ditch and the number of families served: Grandstaff, 16; William Reichert, 4; Gerke and Wagner, 100; Hessler, 10; Julow, 19; Schug, 24; WerlingBuuck, 3 Meyer Werling, 3; Austin McMichael, 3; Gerke-Ohler, 12; Wittwer. 16; Buckmaster, 12; William Kerr, 1; Peel, 1; Salem, 4; David J. Roth, 8; Staub, 12; Jessie Ford, 9; Mathias Miller, 21; Wittwer (Monroe), 16; Bernard Staub, 12; Clure, 106 (main), 75 (branch); Nuerge, 3. Adams county contains 1,150 miles of ditches and drains. The trend, during the past few years, has been toward open ditches, said Moellering. Moellering said there is still about 450 miles of tile drain work to be taken care of, estimated at a cost of >5,000.

Defense Workers Called To Testify Sen. McCarthy To Quiz Plant Workers BOSTON, (UP)—Defense plant workers with alleged Communist ties were called to testify today at a televised hearing of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy’s permanent investigations subcommittee. The Wisconsin Republican said "10 or 12" witnesses who testified at a secret session of the subcommittee last November would be questioned at the opening hearing. At a televised hearing Friday, Prof. Wendell H. Furry, 47, and research assistant Leon J. Karnin, both of the Harvard University faculty, admitted they were former Communf&ts but refused to become "political informants" by naming their Communist associates. McCarthy said he would recommend contempt of congresef citations against both for refusing to identify Red “spies and saboteurs." Furry refused to reveal the identity of five other Communists with whom he worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology radiation laboratory from 1943 to 1945. The physics professor admitted he knew- the /tee but said "they were devoted to the war effort and were loyal." i • - He said he would give the names "if I were called before a grand jury investigating crimes against the United States such as espionage or sabotage .. . but not when it involves merely political crimes of opinion.” None of the five are working for the government at present “as far as I know," Furry said. One, he said, now works at a British university and another at an American university. He identified two others only as living in Western Europe and eaid he did not know the whereabouts of the fifth. Neither Furry nor Karnin invoked the Fifth Amendment. Nor did they admit having any knowledge of sabotage or espionage.

Proposal To Hike Benefit Payments New Social Security Proposal Aids Aged WASHINGTON UP — The Eisenhower administration’s proposed new social security program would increase old age insurance benefits to persons now on the rolls by >5 to >13.50 per month, it was disclosed today. \ ■ Those who retire at the age of 65 In the future would fare even better. The maximum benefit to a retired worker,, now is >BS per month. Under the administration program, the maximum benefit would be >108.50. If the worker who retires in the future is married and has children under 18, he would receive additional benefits. His maximum benefit is now >168.75. The maximum •would be >l9O under President Eisenhower’s proposal. Rep. Daniel A. Reed R-N.Y*. chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has introduced the administration proposals in the House. He said his committee would start hearings on the social security program early in March. In addition to providing increased benefits, the administration program calls for extension of old age insurance coverage to some 10 million persons not now covered. This group includes farmers, doctors, lawyers, some domestic workers and some farm laborers. - - ■"J ■ INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and much colder tonight, reaching cold wave proportions locally; snow flurries continuing near Lake Michigan. Sunday partly cloudy and cold, with snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Low tonight 5-10. High Sunday 18-22.

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Cardinals And Eagles Win In Friday Games Adams Central And Commodores Meet In First Semi-Final Adams Central vs Decatur Com- * modores at 1 p.m. Geneva vs Monmouth at 2:15 p.m. That is the lineup for this afternoon’s semi-finals in the annual Zidams county high school basketball tourney at the new Adams Central gym. And tonight, at approximately 10 o’clock, the county’s net king for 1954 will be crowned, as the winners of this afternoon’s battles tangle in the tourney final at 8:15 p.m. At 7 o’clock tonight, the reserve teams of Monmouth and Berne will clash for the championship of the reserve teams, whose preliminary rounds were played earlier this week' The Geneva Cardinals qualified for this afternoon's second semi final with a 73-53 triumph over the Jefferson Warriors in Friday nights opener, after which the Monmdifth Eagles eliminated thePleasant Mills Spartans, 75-58. Adams Central and Decatur Catholic won their semi-final berths Thursday night with victories over Berne and Hartford, respectively. Corps Back To Win Geneva’s Cardinals, down by eight points at the end of the first quarter as the result of some sensational shooting by the Jefferson Warriors, came back to wi,n last night’s opener going away. «

i Jefferson hit Just about every- ■ 'thing thrown at the hoop in the first .period and held a surprising . 2042 bulge over the Cardinals at . the close of the stanza. The defending -champions began to close the gap midway through the second quarter, and as the teams left the floor at the main intermission, the Warriors lead had been wiped out, as Jim Long hit a couple of quickies in the last minute to give C-eneva a 28-27 margin at the half. Jefferson, led by Dick Butcher's great sniping, moved back into the lead early in the third period, but Geneva then took control, tied thb score at 37-37 at the half-way mark and then rapidly pulled away. The Cardinals were on top by 16 points ty the end of the third quarter, as Larry Hanni poured 13 points through the hoop in. this period, r-nd the final eight minutes were strictly no contest. Hanni, with 26 joints, and Butcher, with 22, were the outstanding scorers. Only 27 fouls were called in the game, 15 on Jefferson and 12 on Geneva. Eagles Advance Friday night’s second game was a close battle until the early minutes of the third quarter, when Monmouth built up a fairly comfortable cushion and overcame the Pleasant Mills lads by the final* 19-point margin. Tho Eagles led all the way through the first quarter, although never by too much of a margin, and the Spartans were only two points back at the end of the period, 16-14, Pleasant Mills finally worked into a 21-21 tie after 1:40 of the second period elapsed, and then took the lead for the only time in the game on Roger Frey’s free throw. Harry Myers then hit a couple of fielders and Monmouth never trailed again, although the Spartans pulled into a 26-26 tie with three minutes to play. The Eagles pulled away again, and had a four-point advantage at the half, 33-29. -T ' < The Eagles slowly increased this margin to 49-40 at the close of the third period and were never pressed in the final bracket. Harry Myers of the Eagles top- . ped all scorers with 19 points, while Leon Byer led the Spartans with 15. Only -eight fouls were called on Pleasant Milla, while 23 (Contiaued aa Fa»e Six)