Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1954 — Page 1

Vol. LII.-No. 27.

Coffee Gets Congressional Attention ■ ■' g MEMBERS OF A SENATE banking subcommittee meet in closed session in Washington to plan details of their probe of skyrocketing coffee prices. With bags of the South American bean at hand Senators (1. to r.): Paul H. Douglas (D) 111.; Frederick G. Payne (R) Me.; J. Allen Frear (D) Dela.; J. Glenn Beall (R) Md., chairman of the subcommittee, and Prescott Bush (R) Conn., start their investigations of the lowly bean gone high-hat. ( '

Witness Case Returned To Local Court State High Court Orders Local Court To Modify Findings INDIANAPOLIS, UP — The Indiana supreme court late Monday rule# the city of Decatur was unreasonable in stopping a Jehovah's Witness group from building a church because of too little off-street-parking. But the-court said the church should conform with •'setback" regulations. in a split 3-2 .decision the high court sent the controversial case back to* Adams, circuit court tor modification of its findings against the city on the "setback” question. Judge Arch N. Bobbitt wrote in the majority opinion. Judges Floyd S. Draper and Frank E. Gilkison concurring, that the question was one of "balancing police powers of the city against freedom of worship. ' The Jehovah's Witnesses asked Decatur’s zoning board of appeals for approval of its plans to build a 150-seat rtrurch and the board denied the right on grounds the building would be constructed too close to the street and that the group failed to provide an offstre'et parking space for every six seats. Adams circuit court reversed the zoning board on both points. The city appealed. “The supreme court cannot see how a traffic hazard created would be serious enough to tip the scales of justice in favor of police power" the majority opinion said. It added application of the ordinance on parking •‘contravenes’’ the first and fourteenth amendments to the constitution of the United States. But dissenting, judges James A. Emmert, who wrote the minority opinion, and Dan C. Flanagan said “What might have been unreasonable> exercise of police powers in the days of the model “T" may * be clearly valid now under the growing menace of the automobile." They suggested the lower court be reversed and said the city was not unreasonably exercising its powers because "Our city streets are too often choekd with autos because cities were planned for horse and buggy transportation.’’ . • Receives Letter ~ The Decatur Award of zoning appeals today received the following letter: “Board of zoning appeals of De catur. Indiana vs. Decatur, Indiana Company of Jehovah’s Witnesses. You are hereby notified that the supreme court has on this day reversed the judgment of the lower courtwith instructions, in an opinion by Bobbitt, J.; Draper, C. J and Gilkison, J.. Concurs. Emmert, J. dissents with opin- _ lon In which Flannagan, J. concurs, In the above entitled cause. Please acknowledge receipt of this notice in order that our records may show that you have been notified of this action. . Thomas C. Williams, clerk of supreme and appellate courts. ’ The original finding of the Adams circuit court in part is: “ —The court finds that the denial of a permit Ko the petitioner, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, to build a church on the grounds that the (Tara To Pace Fini 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

County Board Lets Contracts On Bids Order Readvertising For Bulldozer Bids The Adams county board of commissioners in an aM-day session Monday purchased three carloads of coal, a heavy duty truck and road grader for the highway department but ordered spectfkations changed and blds readvertised for the bulldozer for the surveyprs office. Burk Elevator Co. of Decatur received the order for three carloads of coal on a bid of >12.79 a ton. Other bidders Included Heller Coal and Feed 00. and Monroe Coal Co, The n*>tor grader was purchasedfrom McAllister Machine Co., Indianapolis on a bid of >8,975.76. The other bidder on this equipment was Reid-iHokonift) Co., Indianapolis. An International heavy duty truck was purchased from Dagatur Equipment Co. On a bid of >3,845. Other truck bidders were Clyde Butler. Decatur and Schwartz Ford Co. Butler is-the local dealer for GJMjC. trucks. In other actions, the board received for its record a report from Miss Marie Felber, county health nurse, relating her work in the county with children who have defective sight and hearing. The report relates several instances •where the health nurse has been instrumental in bringing aid to children of the county. Dr. Harold F. Zwick’s appointment as county health officer was approved l by the state board of health and made a matter of record. . - < * The state highway commission also informed the commissioners that it had certified a total of 726 mUes of highway under supervision of the couiiyt road department. The number of miles are taken into consideration for each county when gasoline tax money is returned to the counties. In 1953 Adams county had 725.7 miles. Asking for a black top road improvement for county road number 31, the following Monroe township citizens appeared: -William Raichart, Martin Httser, Rufus Nussbaum, Archie Heddington, WilJlam Sadler and Carl Heddinfgton. French township citizens seeking a road improvement in their township for county highway number 16 included: Curtis Wulliman, Andrew Hackenjas, Albert Nussbaum and Leonard Kingsley. ' Both requests were taken rnder consideration by the commissioners who will confer with the county highway superintendent. Lawson C. Lenhart Dies In Michigan Lawson Chester Lenhart, 94, former resident of Root township, died at 9 a.m. today at his home tn, Jackson, Mich. He moved to Michigan 20 years ago. Surviving are three sons, Robert E. of Napoleon, Mich., Lawson C. of Jackson, Mich., and Lineas of Wolf Lake, Mich.; two daughters,, Miss Artha C. Lenhart of Chicago and Mrs. R. M. Ehmbom of New York Mills, Minn.; nine grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be held at .1:30 p.m. Friday ; at the Weatherby funeral home in Jackson, with burial in Roseland memorial garden. '' - A——--.— —

Receive Bids On Community Center Mar. 8 Construction Bids Will Be Received By Foundation Heads Bids for the construction of Decatur’s Community Center will be received by the Decatur Memorial Foundation, Inc., Monday, March S, the directors decided in a meeting last night. Incorporating minor chances In the final plans made by the build tqg committee apd an advisory, committee, the plans and specifications for the city’s modern civic eenter were approved by the directors. Prepared by L. L. Rado, ‘architect of New York City, the blue prints and specifications will be on file at the First State Bank in this city. The customary >ls deposit for blue prints wIU be made at the bank by contractors and prospective bidders. The blue prints will be ready for delivery next Monday, giving contractors a month in which to prepare and file proposals. The general plans will include three alternates, the major ones relating to the size of the auditorium of the proposed building. If building costs are under the amount of money available for construction of the building, the auditorium will be built as originally designed, an area 60 by 90 feet. Receipt of proposals to construct the Community Center will be the culmination of nearly five years of effort to erect the modern youth and recreation center at the east edge of the city. The building will be located on city property on the north side of U. S. highway 224, immediately across the Monroe street river bridge. It will be set back from the highway as far as space will permit, the directors decided. C. I. Finlayson, chairman of the building committee, stated that contractors should apply to~T. F. Graliker, treasurer of Decatuj Memorial Foundation, Inc., for the blue prints and specifications. Notice to bidders will be published in newspapers in thte city and Fort Wayne, and in the Construction Digest, Indianapolis. The directors" have information that several contractors will submit <T»r» Tn Paar Ftvei X-Ray Unit Is In County This Week; Schedule Is Listed The mobile X-ray unit, sponsored by the Adems county tuberculosis association, is in the county this week, taking free chest X-rays. The unit was in Geneva Monday and at Berne today. Wednesday, It will be located at the Central Soya Co., morning and afternoon. Thursday schedule: at Decatur Casting Co., 9-11 a.m.; at Decatur high school, Monmouth high, 1:302 /p.m.; Adams Central high, 2-2:30 p.m.; public and industry by appointment, 2:30-4 p.m. Friday schdUule: ait Decatur high school, Pleasant Mills high, 9-9:30 am.; Decatur CathoMc high, 9:3010 a.m.; Decatur high, 10-10:45 am.; public and industry by appointment, 10:46 a.m. to 12 noon.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, February, 2, 1954.

- „ * — — S I, — — - ■. Mi — Dulles Rejects Molotov New German Peace Plan; Rips At Red Pretences

Knowland In New Move On Bricker Bill New Compromise To Be Made In Effort To Break Deadlock - WASHINGTON (UP) — Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland said he will submit a “new" compromise to the White House today in an effort to break the deadlock over an acceptable substitute for the treaty-restrict-ing Bricker amendment. Knowland indicated earlier after a half-hour White House conference that the administration was not willing to go along with a previous substitute worked out by Republican and Democratic leaders and studied during the week end. He said the latest attempt to write new language centers ' around a section giving congress ' veto power over “executive agree--1 ments.” That apparently ’is one 1 of the stumbling blocks in efforts to work out a compromise suitable to President Eisenhower and Sen. 1 John W. Bricker. R-Ohio' Knowland said he has no "deadr line" for calling eff efforts at- • reaching a compromise. ; "We’ll just keep the negotiations • open till we get some agreement if we can," he said. Sen. Walter F. George, D-Ga., 1 author of one proposed substitute, 1 warned earlier that the senate will pigeonhole the Bricker • amendment unless a compromise

can be agreed on at once. But Knowland said there is “no use” sending the proposal back to committee, where it might be returned to the senate in “eight of ten days" to be debated alt over again. George said in an interview that if there isn't a quick settlement he believes the senate will vote to send the Bricker amendment back to the judiciary committee, j This usually amounts to formal burial. But GOP leaders are try* Ing to prevent thw maneuver betcause they feel it would leave the whole controversy unsettled—and open sore to aggravate party dis Terences during this session of ccngress and the crucial November elections. The veteran Senator George Ga., is the chief spokesman in the bipartisan negotiations on Sen. Jonu w. n , . . plan to curb the President’s treaty-making powers through a constitutional amendment, ... He also is author of the clause in the latest, four-point compromise proposal that snarled thepeace talks at the White House and on Capitol Hill Monday. The George provision would prevent executive agreements — as distinct from treaties — from becoming domestic law without a special act of congress. In day-long conferences with senate GOP leader William F. Knowland, and other congressional lieutenants, Informed sources reported, Mr. Eisenhower and s his advisers expressed concern about I (Continued on Page Six) I

Democrat Carriers To Attend Circus Saturday

Your Daily Democrat carrienboy is going to the Shrine circus in Fort Wayne Saturday morning and there will be a little delay in the delivery of your paper, but for a very good reason. ~ The <■ carriers and their helpers will be guests of this newspaper at the circus, which will give a morning in the coliseum. - Local Shrlners win escort the caravan to the circus and look after the hoi’s, The carriers and their helpers will ride in a .bus furnished by Robert Gay of Gay's

Humphrey Defends Tax Revision Bill No New Tax Cuts Until Spending Cut WASHINGTON, UP —Secretary of treasury George M. Humphrey said today the Eisenhower administration will propose new tax cuts as soon as additional cuts can be made in government spending. - — He told the, congressional economic committee that until federal spending is slashed further, new general tax cuts would “only i add to the deficit.’’ Humphrey said the administrat tion’s proposals to grtmW-H billion . dollars in selective tax relief to some individuals would spur busi- . Hess expansion and provide more jobs at higher wages for more workers. His defense of the pending tax revision bill apparently was designed to answer Democratic charges that the proposed changes would primarily benefit business firms and individuals in the high income brackets, while leaving taxes on most persons at about their present rates. Humphrey singled out particularly the administration proposals for 1 jiving special tax treatment to persons receiving income from corporation dividends, and more liberal depreciation' allowances } for business firms. ’ He said it is high time to take a step toward elimination of the so-called double taxation of divllenda —taxing both the earnings of '.he corporation and the dividends when distributed to shareholders. Jnder the administration plan, tax'ayers would get a credit up to 15 jercent on dividends, _ls .. - . . ..

Elks Cancer Party Saturday Evening Record Turn-out Expected Saturday Sale of tickets for the Decatur Elks cancer fund party Saturday light at the Elks home, indicate * 1 record turn-out, Roman Raudenbush, ticket chairman, said today. "We expect a crowd as large as the one that supported last year’s party,” he said. . The tickets tor the affair, includng the evening's entertainment, ilso are good for the smorgsboard dinner, starting at 6 p.m. Last year’s party netted >768, which was turned over to the Iniiana Elks cancer fund and donated to Indiana and Purdue universities for cancer research. Many prizes have been donated by local merchants for the auction that will be part of the evening’s program. IT ' ' ' - - — , — — Reported Serious The con <1 ft ion of William Schnepf well known Adams county township farmer, is reported to be serious. He has been ill for some, time and his condition has become serious the last week. A son, Roger, with the armed forces, has been notified, and arrangement are be- | ing made for him to visit his fathter in Decatur.

Mobil service and will be a unit < of the caravan that will leave for ■] the circus from Thirteenth street. 1 The carriers and their helpers . are asked to report to the Gay i bus In front of this office. The < bus will leave at 8:15 to join the i caravan. The Shrlners are taking 400 < children to the circus and Saturday <1 morning promises to be a holiday 1 notable in the life of a child. t Delivery of the paper will be as- f ter 1:30 pjn. when the caravan t expects to arrive in Decatur after t a morning of circus sights, hot i dogs, popcorn and peanuts. . 1

Regulation Os Coffee Market Is Opposed Coffee Exchange President Gives View To Probers WASHINGTON, UP — The president of the New York coffee exchange said today federal regulation of coffee trading is “an impossibility" and would alienate South American producing countries. Gustavo Lbbo Jr., the exchange president, appeared before the senate agriculture committee to oppose a .bill proposing to put coffee under market supervision along with wheat, oats, eggs, butter, and other commodities. Sen. Guy M. Gillette (Dlowa), author of the bill, sent the committee a letter quoting a New York coffee broker as saying present high prices are “ridiculous and fictitious.’’ Lobo said the exchange is only a “meeting place for buyer and seller. As a thermometer does not control the temperature, no more does the exchange control prices.” The real reason for high prices, Lofep said, “is the law of supply and" demand -which bas net yet •been repealed." The New York coffee broker quoted by Gillette said Brazilians not only control the supply but appear to have moved into the New York exchange to take control of the domestic marketing. 5 Gillette did not identify the broker, but he told the senate agriculture committee the man wrote him last July that >1 per pound i or higher prices apparently were comingThe senator submitted a portion of the broker’s letter in his own written statement to the senate agriculture committee, which was meeting today to consider Gillette’s bill to put the New York coffee and sugar exchange under federal regulation. Gillette had planned to testify personally but cancelled out because of a conflicting appointment. His cancellation left Gustavo Lobo Jr., president of the coffee exchange as the principal scheduled (Cenfinaed on Pure Five)

Archibald Maddux Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Thursday Morning Archibald Maddux, 84, a retired railroad employe, died at 4:45 o> clock, Monday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital. Death was attributed to complications following an jllness of four weeks. He was born in Markle Jan. 7, 1870, a son off Mr. and Mrs. John •Maddux. He had lived in Decatur for tide past five years with a daughter, Mrs. Ernest Wenger, 1225 Elm street. - Mr. Maddux, a veteran of the Spanish-American war, was a member of Linuberlost Post 6336, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Wenger. Mrs. Harold Nash of Bluffton, Mrs. Roll Smith of New Castle and Mrs. Naomi Causino of 'Monroe, Mich.; three sons, Harold of Monroe, Mich., Robert M. of LaSalle, Mich, and Elroy M. with U. S. forces in Japan; 25 grandchlidTen, 14 great-grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Corneftia Stout of Bluffton. One son preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 am. Thursday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. William C. FeMer officiating. The body will then be taken to Petoskey, Mich., for short services at the Valentine funeral home, with burial in the Petoskey cemetery.’ Friends may 1&11 at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. ,

■t.: '..Z ' - - Start Ticket Sales For C. Os C. Dinner Annual Dinner Will Be Held Feb. 11 Following their regular February meeting 'Monday night, Decatur Chamber of Commerce directors started ticket sales for the annual Chamber of Commerce dinner and meeting scheduled for Thursday night, February 11, at the Moose i home in Decatur. All Chamber members will be contacted in the next five days and any remaining tickets of the 350 available not taken by members will be placed on public sale.qJ. Dwight Peterson, fonmer De- ' catur resident and now president of Cities Security Corporation of ' Indianapolis, will be the principal speaker following the dinner. A group of Indiana University singers also will entertain with excenpts from well known operas. Men and women are invited to the annual dinner and indications are that all available tickets will ibe sold several days before the dinner. ' .. The directors also made an important decision concerning the retail division. The latter will be in charge of the annual spring festival and the fieh fry, with the cooperation of all members. Proceeds from these twb events will be earmarked, to the ,retail division to nneet cost ot other special days such as dollar days sponsored by the retailers. This decision, was made so that nd extra assessments would be necessary for the conduct of special days, it was reported. Kenneth Shannon, chainman of the retail division, was authorized to call an election or canvas retail members toy postcard In the naming of a chairman for 1964. This Will be done prior to the annual meeting, Shannon said. _ ■ The 1954 budget also was adopted by the Chamber board. Youth Is Arraigned On Three Charges Asks More Time To Plead To Charges •Neli D. McClain, 18, Fort Wayne youth charged with grand larceny, auto banditry and second degree burglary, appeared with his attorney, Arthur Miller, Fort Wayne, before Judge Myles F. Parrish in Adams circuit court late Monday for arraignment.

The defendant, through his attorney, asked for more time in which to enter a plea and this was granted by the court. Miller stated he would return here in the next few days prepared to represent the defendant in entering a plea. McClain was brought to Decatur from Fort Wayne last Saturday by Sheriff Bob Shraluka after he admitted a part in seven Adams county burglaries last week. Other Fort Wayne youths implicated in the burglaries at Berne and Geneva are all juveniles and they are held by Fort Wayne and Allen county juvenile authorities To ahewer confessed charges of Allen county burglaries. Prosecutor Lewis L. Smith represented the state at the arraignment Monday afternoon, which had to be, sandwiched at a late hour, because the Adams circuit court February docket is being called the first three days of this week. Court Room Closes For Niblick Funeral The Adams circuit court room will be closed Wednesday morning from 9 to 10 o'clock, during the funeral of Daniel M. Niblick, Judge Myles F. Parrish announced today. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness, continued mild tonight and tomorrow. A few light showers likely south tonight Low tonight 28-35. High tomorrow 40-48 north, 46-54 south. » . . V - — ll . i ■* • - - *

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Calls On Red Leader To End Foolish Chatter Charges Russia Is [ Seeking To Weaken > Western Countries r > BERLIN UP — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles rejected 5 Soviet foreign minister VyachesI lav M. Molotov's new 'German j peace plan today and called on s him to end his “foolish chatter” about western plans to remilita- , rite the country. t In biting speech at the eighth t session of the Big Four foreign j ministers* conference, Dulles taunt* ed Molotov with having “praised ' Hitlerite Germany as being a ’ peace-loving country" at -the outset of World War H, and asked )fwrong a g a j n ' He ripped to pieces the pretense _ rit „ _ . a ls w a a-f rSorrnonv h□ a I •- u*c a aaoi vrttinaitj uan a representative government He asked why nearly one million East Germans had fled to the west. Dulles charged Russia with trying to imbroverish the west by forcing the free nations to arm individually instead of grouping together* for defense against Red aggression. “It is understandable that the Soviet Union should want to force on rhe free nations a system which will drag down their higher standard of living," Dulles said. “But we shall have none of that, Mr. Molotov. We shall have both security and human welfare." Demanding that Molotov get down to business and negotiate on a German peace treaty, Dulles said: .... "We urge that Mr., Molotov agree to create quickly by allGerman elections a German government that can genuinely speak for all of Germany and thus provide the indispensable basis for a peace that will last, because it will be a peace of consent." Dulles was replying for the west to the “Molotov cocktail" which Molotov exploded Monday in the form of a new German peace plan. : The so-called Molotov plan was based on ideas completely unacceptable to the United States, Great Britain and France. Dulles charged that, in his plan, Molotov “sought to divert us from the serious discussion of this urgent German topic by injecting a series of charges against the United States, Great Britain and France, which he claimed are trying to form a military bloc directed against the Soviet Union.” “I will not take time at this conference to reject these charges in detail,” Dulles said. “There is nothing new in them. They have been refuted time after time, year after year.” As for Molotov's allegation that the United States seeks to recreate German militarism, Dulles said: “In the light of history th? Unit(Turn To Bin Six) March Os Dimes Previously reported ............$2060.27. Mothers March of Dimes (Additional) 13.00 St. Joseph School — (Additional) .20 Coin Collectors - 28.06 (Lincoln School „ 192.28 Berne-Roger Augsburger .. 730.97 Preible, Mugley and Preble township—Mrs. Walter Peck & Mrs R, Beery 325.14 Linn Grove and Hartford A . township — Miss Mary Schlagenhauf t 237.90 Root township and Monmouth high school—Mrs. lEnma Owens 216.41 Pleasant Mills — Mrs. Claude Mann 60.37 Peterson and one section of Kirkland township— Mrs. Russell Baumgart ner ..._ 1045 "Beta Sigma Phi-coffee and ‘ doughnuts benefit 24.18 Kirkland township—Mrs. Floyd Arnold 94.42 TOTAL ...—53944.25