Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 18 January 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 14.

Dulles Opposes UN Admission To Red China Testifies Before Senate Group On Foreign Relations WASHINGTON. UP — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, said today Red. China could not be admitted to the United Nations because it does not ‘‘reaped the elemental decencies of internation* al conduct.” Dulles also suggested to senators that the U. N. create a permanent council to work for atomic disarmament. Testifying before a special senate foreign relatione subcommittee to consider possible changes in the U. N. charter, Dulles suggested six problems which might be corrected. But he warned against disagreements over charter revision which might undermine or dierupt the U. N. “The United Nations as it is is better than no United Nations at all,” he said. He listed six questions which might come up at a charter review conftonce in 1956 and which the FT? pertinent is studying: 1. 'Grmament: He suggested a epeciar U. N. organ like the trusteeship council to deal permanently with "so hideous a threat” as atomic warfare. 2. Membership: Dulles said it is useful io have a world-wide organisation even if members disagree. But he said it is “unlikely” the U. N. will become truly universal because some governments, ■like Red China, do not respect international decencies. ,3. Security council: Dulles raised the question of whether the veto power in the security council should be taken away on questions of peaceful settlement of disputes and admission of new members. General assembly voting: Dulles questioned the present rule gives each nation one vote. He said the conference might consider whether nation#, which' 5 cannot bear serious financial or military responsibilities, should be allowed to vote-such responsibilities onto other nations. 5. Peace: Dulles asked whether charter amendments could help the veto-ridden security council discharge its "primary responsibility for maintenance of peace and security”—or whether that job should be left to special security organizations or the general assembly. 6. International law: He questioned whether the charter is adequate to encourage development of interniftional law. Subcommittee members present included - chairman Alexander Wiley, R-Wis., and Sens. Spessard U Holland, D-Fla., Mike Mans* <Twm» Te Paco Flr»| Third Grade Pupils Invited To Circus County Shrine Club e Invites Students All Adams county third grade pupils and their teachers have been invited to be guests of the Adams county Shrine club Saturday morning, February 6, of the annual Shrine circus to be held at the Fort Wayne coliseum, officers of that group announced today; The Saturday performance will otart at 10 o’clock in tho morning. Tickets, transportation and a light will be provided for each guest, without charge. The children will be picked up at several points throughout the county by school buses A state police escort will be provided from Decatur to Fort Wayne and also on the return trip. There will be an Adams county Shrine member on each bus in addition to the driver. As identification for each guest, arm bands bearing the Insignia “Adams County Shrine club guest" will be given to all children attending the circus as guests of the local club. Parents who desire more information concerning the annual project, any of the following Shriners may be contacted: Joe Anderson, Geneva; Richard Moser, Berne; Dr. James Bixler, Berne; Tom Burk, Pleasant Mills; Stm Burk, Monroe; Robert Mills and Dr. Joseph Morris, Decatur, and Sherman Kunkel, Monmouth. The club officers desire to em phaslze the fact that all third grade pupils are invited as their guests. The invitation Includes those pupils in parochial and public schools. Their teachers also are included in the invitation.

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Goes To Jail ‘To Prdve Point’ ... ; •Wr .3£w|93ejM||H|| K 3 K , PAUL C. FISHER, 38, is accompanied by his wife, Monique, and - their 12-week-old daughter, Uaroleem a* he surrenders at the U. S; Marshal’s office in Chicago to begin serving his indefinite jail eenti encefor contempt of court. Fisher, a pen manufacturer, refused to' ! let the United States Labor Department examine his books to see if he had violated the wage and hours law. He said' he would go to jail “just to prove my point” and that he then would turn over his ‘ books.

Benson Backs Farm Program Os Eisenhower Says City-Dwellers May Revolt If Farm I Program Too Costly 1 WASHINGTON UP — Secretary 1 of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson 1 warned today that city-dwelling 1 Americans may revolt against the whole idea of farm price supports ft the program gats too. costly. 1 Benson made the .be- | ■ ' 1 mittee in defending the administration's proposed new farm pho- ; gram which calls for flexible and generally lower price supports on basic crops. ' Farm state congressmen generally have been cold to the pro- ’ posal. They favor continuation of present law requiring rigid high supports. Benson said the present program has piled up huge surpluses in government warehouses and the government’s losses "are likely to be substantial and they might be staggering.” “We have reached the stage in our farm price support operations where we need to ask ourselves a few pointed questions,” he told the . senators. For example: “At what point will the 140 million Americans who do not live on farms rise up—as they did in the potato fiasco of a few’ years aao— and demand not revision but outright elimination of all direct aid to agriculture.” Other highlights of Benson’s testimony. 1. The administration will ask congress to appropriate up to one billion dollars over a three-year period to finance shipment of surplus U. S. farm commodities to “friendly countries” as a form of t foreign aid. The first installment of about 360 million dollars will be sought In President (Eisenhower’s budget for fiscal 1955 which goes to congress Thursday. 2. Present farm prices are “evidence enough of the fact that high support prices do hot mean high prices in the market pace.” Farm prices have been dropping steadily for two years,although government supports have been fixed at 90 per cent of parity on six basic crops. 3. ’’There is nothing new or revolutionary” in the idea of flexible price supports ranging from 75 to 90 per cent of parity. It was part of the platforms of both parties in 1948, and former President Truman advocated the flexible support system in a message to congress that year. Congress wrote the principle intos-lhe farm laws of 1948 and 1949 but it has never been allowed to take effect. Benson said it is “extremely dangerous” to assume. that the level of farm income is determined by the level of government price supports. The flexible support program recommended by Mr. Eiienhower, he said, will encourage “better balanced production and consequently higher average farm Income than the present. system of fixed supports.” But election-conscious lawmakers were hard to convince that now ia the time to junk high price supports.

Election Deadline Dates Announced • Partial Date List Announced By Clerk A partial list of important primary election deadline dates was released today by Ed F. Jaberg, county clerk. There have been some changes in deadlines for filing since the last election, it was pointed out. At the February meeting of the county commissioners, that body must make any changes it desires in precinct election boundaries. After this meeting, no precinct boundaries may be changed until .j; vomber. This date does not apply to precincts in cities. February 2 is the last day for Democrat and Republican county chairmen to nominate one county election commissioner each. If nomination is not made in writing by this date, the county clerk then names a member of the party of which the chairman has failed to nominate. February 23 is the first day on which a declaration of intention to run for a county hr'township office in the May primary can be filed with the clerk. The same applies to state offices with the secretary of state. This same date is the first day candidates for state conventions end precinct committeemen may file with the clerk. February 27 is the last day the cpuntj' board of commissioners caWchange city election precincts until after the November election. Deadline for filing declarations of candidacy in county and township contests and also for committeeman and delegate is March 25. Other important pre-election dates I (Continued on P«are Two) Electric Workers Strike In Britain LONDON, UP — Communist agitators led 30,000 electrical workers today in a 24 - hour strike against Britain’s atomic plants and export industries jn a demand for higher pay. Final Rites Tuesday For Fuhrman Infant Funeral services will be held Tuesday at Olympia. Wash., for the infant son of Pfc. and Mrs. Robert J. Fuhrman, stillborn Saturday at Oiympia. The mother is the former Jeanette pieeke. Surviving in addition to the parents are the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bleeke and Mr. and Mrs. Francis Fuhrman, and the great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Blakey, all of near Decatur. Fans Contribute To March Os Dimes Drive The March of Dimes campaign, underway this mbiith in Adams county as in the rest of the nation, was enriched by 867.75 during the final session of the Adams county tourney Saturday night. Boy a large blanket around the edge of the basketball court, with fans making their contributions. March of Dimes leaders today expressed their thanks to Wm. J. Lee. tourney manager, and Gail Grabill, county school superintendent, for' their assistance.,* ... __

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Warns Allies Not To Free Red Captives Commission Heqd Indicates Plan To Release Prisoners PANMUNJOM, Korea, (UP) — Lt. Gen. K. 8. Thimayya Indicated today he will go through with his plan to return 22.200 anti-Red prisoners to the United Nations but warned the Allies not to free their captives. Thimayya. Indian chairman of the neutral nations repatriation commission, said in an exclusive interview he “may have to" release the anti-Communists Wednesday to avoid a "mass breakout.” He also said he expected the Communists to refuse to take back 347 prisoners, including 21 Americans, on the ground they should be held while a Korean peace conference deliberates their fate. The Communists have not' answered Thimayya’s request for a reply to his announcement that he will return all prisoners to. their captors Wednesday, th- dayrf tree, and Thimayya said he may have to hold these men temporarily. ' Thimayya dispatched a note to Gen. John E. Hull in Tokyo, warning the U. N. supreme commander that release of the prisoners before the peace conference is held will be an armistice violation. But Hull, who lias completed elaborate arrangements ofr acceptance of the anti-Communist North Koreans and'Chinese, was expected to ignore Thimayya’s warning. Hull already had made it clear that the United Nations regards midnight Jan. 22 as the absolute deadline for detaining prisoners and that his command will free the men two days after receiving them. it was announced in Tokyo that Hull will fly to Korea Tuesday to be on hand for the Wednesday morning release. Advance Nationalist Chinese parties already have arrived on the peninsula to. greet the anti-Red Chinese and offer them a new life in Formosa. Thimayya said it was the “view" of his commission that the U. N. and Communist commands must (Contluned on Page Two) Wilbert Scheumann Is Taken By Death Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Wilbert Scheumann, " 51. fanner of near Hoagland, died" at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne following an illness of three weeks. Mr. Scheumann was a member of SL John’s Lutheran church on federal highway 27, north of Fort Wayne. Surviving are his wife, Loretta; a daughter, Melba, at home; a son. Kenneth, serving with the U. S. army; another daughter, Mrs. De-1 lores Hoffman of Hoagland; his father, William F. Scheumann of Hoagland; four brothers, Emil and Herbert of Hoagland, and Harold and Walter of Fort Wayne; six sisters, Mrs. Agnes Hockemeyer of New Haven, Mrs. Adella Thompson, Mrs. Emma Hollman and Mrs. Luella Oehler, all Os Fort Wayne, Mts. Velma Hockemeyer of Monroeville and Mrs. Gertrude Deister of Hoagland, and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at IfSO p. m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 o’clock at the St. John’s Lutheran church, the Rev. W. G. Schwelm officiatlili. 'Burial will be in the church cemetery. "Friends may call al the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.

Proposes Payment For Surplus Land Take Surplus Land Out Os Production WASHINGTON UP — A proposal i that farmers be paid perhaps 810 an acre to take surplus land put of production was affvaneed today by chairman H. Carl. Andeiisen of the house agriculture appropriations subcommittee. Andersen R-Minn. said he be-' 1 UrVes congress will continue presi eat rigid high support prices for . ’basic I crops because farmers favor ; it. lie, said if congress put the administration’s plan into force. f "Eisenhower wouldn’t be' t able to carry Minnesota in the i 1956 presidential elections, even . though he carried it by 155,000 . votes in 1952. However. Andersen said, no farm price support program will , work unless seme plan is devised . to take surplus land out of prod.uction and keep it out. [ He said the government must provide a “sufficient incentive” to farmers so that they will not divert to other crops land which t government production controls , are taking out of wheat and cotton and sprlus crops. There will be fthft,year,. he.said... ’ ernment should pay farmers an average rent of 310 an acre for the diverted land —depending on ’ quality—which Is kept out of production of soil-depleting crops and put into clover and alfalfa and soil- ’ building crops’’ he said. (New Equipment To Be Bought By County j Highway, Surveyor Equipment Is Sought i - > The county highway department ; and surveyor's department will toon have some new heavy duty equipment, including a heavy road i truck, and motor grader for the highway and a bulldozer for the ■ surveyor’s department. This was decided at a special session of the Adams county board ■ of commissioners held this morning in the commissioners’ chamber. All three commissioners, Otto Hoffman, Lewis Worth man and Harley Reef; auditor Frank Kitson; county attorney Richard Macklin; surveyor Herman ing and highway superintendent Frank Singleton attended the session. Singleton recommended the highway purchases, citing the need for the additional equipment and Moeilering made the formal request for the bulldozer for the surveyor’s department. _ .... The board authorized auditor Kltson to prepare the necessary legal advertising, giving specifications of the proposed new equipment and ft is believed likely that blds will be received at the February 1 meeting. The board discussed other impending matters during the session today but took no other formal action. ” . ... . ...... . .... 4 ■>.: Medical Bills Now i Over Nine Billions WASHINGTON, "UP —President Eisenhower said today 10 percent* of the nation's families spend more than 3500 a year for medical care. In his health message to congress. he said the total private medical bill of the nation now exceeds nine billion dollars a year, or an average of 3200 a family. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, occasional lightsnow or freezing drizzle north tonlght ,and Tuesday and oceaalonal freezing drizzle south 1 tonight, changing to light rain or drizzle Tuesday. Not so cold tonight and ovsr extreme ■ . 'south Tuesday. Low tonight 22-3 C north, 30-37 south. High Tuesday 25 extreme north to 40 extreme aouth.

, ■ ■■„ - ■ — r.— . , ... ... ■ I U. S. To Reject Plan For Red China Parley Big Four To Meet Jon. 25 In Berlin For Conference WASHINGTON UP — Officials' said today that U.S. delegates to the Big Four foreign ministers conference in Berlin will reject Russia’s plan for a world peace path ley with Red China. — These authorities said the United States will even oppose any long winded discussion of the proposal in an effort to keep the focus of the Berlin meeting where it belongs—on the problems of Germany and Austria. The Berlin conference gets underway Jan. 25 and it’s considered a sure bet that foreign minister V. M. Molotov will renew Moscow’s demand that Communist China be invited to five-powei* talks on world tensions. There’s an outside chance he might even suggest that it be cajjed in during the final stages of the Berlin conversations., 4 ‘We have said any participating views on the prospect of the fivepower conference*” one U. S. official here said. "That shouldn’t take too long. “We don’t expect any agreement on a later meeting with Red China. This meeting in Berlin has been called primarily to settle the German and Austrian problems. There is no place for a Far Eastern power in such a meeting .- — even if we recognized Red China.” Secretary of state John Foster Dulles and his top aides will leave for Berlin Thursday. They will hold preliminary strategy talks with the British and French before going to the conference table with the Russians. Opens Jam 25 BERLIN UP—Big Four experts began work today on technical arrangements for the foreign ministers conference which will open on'schedule Jan. 25 because the West gave in to minor Soviet demands that half the meetings hf? held in East Berlin. The three Western commandants ordered teams of technicians to set up communications and press accommodations as well; as make arrangements for translations. An American spokesman said no Terious difficulties .were expected by the United States, France and Britain in reaching agreement with he Soviet Union on technical quesHantlnued on P««e Two» Raymond Moser Ist Trustee Candidate ' ''- x c ■' ' French Township Trustee Candidate Raymond E. Moser, prominent French township farmer, today became the first candidate for township trustee in Adams county. Moser announced that he would be a candidate to succeed Ell Graber as French township trustee, subject o the Democrat primary in May. Graber is not eligible to succeed himself, having served his township for two'four-year terms. Moser, long active in township civic and school affairs, has been superintendent of the Evangelical Mennonite church of the township for more than 20 years. HeHas never help a political office in the township or county but always has been interested In civic, social and religious affairs. Trustees will be elected for fouryear terms In all 12 Adams county townships next November and because of the eight-year limitation, several newcomers are expected in several of the townships. The French township candidate is married and has three children. He resides on Berne, route 1.

7 Candidate Richard Lewton Richard Lewton Is Candidate For Clerk Former Treasurer Seeks Nomination Richard "Dick!’. Lewton.. former , ■ eui.ty : ship resident, today announced his candidacy for clerk of Adame circuit court, subject to the decision of Democrat voters in the May primary election. Lewton served two terms as county treasurer, completing his second two-year term last December 31. He is a graduate of Monmouth high school and for several years was in the electrical business in Decatur. i; The candidate is married and Mr. and Mrs. Lewton reside on a farm in Root township. They have six children: Mrs. Carolyn Lehman, Barbara, Richard, Nancy Lou, Kathleen Rose and Geraldine. Lewton said that If successful he would conduct his office in the same manner which prevailed during his four years in the treasurer’s office. He said that he would, make an active campaign for the office which he seeks. Mrs. Chas. Feasel Is Taken By Death Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Mrs. Emma M. Feasel, 76, wife of Charles Feasel, died at 11 o’clock Sunday morning at her home, 316 Marshall street, following an illness of three years of complications. ‘ ... She was born in Van Wert county, 0., Aug. 31, 1877, a daughter of David and Elizabeth Saum, and was married to Charles Feasel Oct. 28, 1894. Mrs. Feasel was a member of the First Methodist church and the Decatur home economics club. - Surviving in addition to her husband are six sons, John, Heber and’ Delmas, all of Decatur, Doll and Vilas of Fort Wayne, and Clarion of New Haven; a granddaughter, Mrs. William Brown of Decatur, who was reared in the Teasel home: 18 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; one brother, Charles Saum of Fort Wayne, and two half-brothers, Walter Stahl of Ohio City, O„ and Lloyd Stahl of Findlay, O. One daughter and four sisters are deceased. Funeral services .will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the First Methodist church, the Rev. Samuel Emerick and the Rev. yernoii Riley officiating. Burial will be in the Tricker cemetery in Blue Creek township. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

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[Asks Congress I Ease Burdens On Families Re-Insurance Plan Urged By President In Special Message WASHINGTON, UP—President Eisenhower recommended 1 today that congress establish a 25 million diollar federal! re-insurance pro gram to help private and nonprofit insurance companies offer broader health protection to more L famines. i He also called for a greatly expandedl vocational rehabilitation program to restore 660,000 disabled Americans to active workfhg citizens in the next five years. These were part of a basic fivepoint program Mr. Eisenhower recommended to help relieve the "serious burden” .of medical and hospital costs so that “the means of achieving good health” will be "accessible to’ ail.” Th a special 3,800- word health and welfare message to the house and senate, Mr. Eisenhower also: 1. Urged strengthening of research activities by the public health aorvice, particu.larly ip the. ’ field* of caiuier, 'iienUr' UlnFss, 1 heart diseases, dental problei’fh, arthritis and blindndes. t . 2. Proposed a new approach to ’ federal grants-in-ald to states for health, child welfare and rehabilis tMion. He said states with smaller . financial capacities should receive proportionately larger federal assistance. He also suggested part ! of the federal grants to states be set aside for “the support of unique projects of regional or national significance." I 3. Presented a four-way plan for i expanding construction of medical ) care facilities, including added . federal financial help in building ■ non-profit hospitals for the care of . the chronically ill. Chairman Charles A. Wolverton, 1 R-N. J 4 of the house commerce 1 committee already has introduced a federal reinsurance bIH which calls for government guarantees on the : benefits of acceptable health Insurance plans. This would be similar to the federal guarantee on bank deposits through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. In laying down his health recommendations, Mr. Eisenhower rejected “this socialization of medicine.” But he said the government could well commit itself to “certain national health goals.” “No nation and no administration can ever afford to be complacent about the health of its citizens,” Mr. Elsenhower said. 'While continuing to reject the government regimentation of medicine, we shall with vigor and imagination continuously search out by appropriate means, recommend, and put into effect new methods of achieving better health or all of our people.” Concerned became the total private medical bill of the nation now exceeds nine billion dollar* a ■ear, Mr. Eisenhower proposed that the government launch a ‘limited" re-insurance service. Purpose of this plan would be “to encourage private and nonprofit health insurance organizations to offer broader health protection to more families.’’ He proposed that the 25 milliondollar capital fund to launch the re-insurance program be retired from re-insurance fees. “The government need not And should not go into the Insurance business to furnish the protection which private and non-profit organizations do not now provide,” he said. “But the government can and should, work with them to study and devise better insurance protection to meet the publfff' used." . The President proposed extension of greater federal assistance <jo the states to speed up and'expand the rehabilitation of disabled persons in order to return them (Oeatfaued Page Tww>