Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1954 — Page 1

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Proposed Hike In Postage Is Facing Battle Hot House Scrap In Offing Over GOP's Postal Rate Boost WASHINGTON (UP) — The administration's politically • explosive plan to boost postal rates 240 million dollars annually threatened today to touch off one of the hottest house scrape of thia election year. Republican leaders were leery of predicting passage of the bill. They were aware of considerable opposition within their own party to the proposed increase which includes a one-cent hike in first class out of town letters and air mail stamps. Democrats displayed no such reluctance. Their party whip, Rep. John R. McCormack, Mass., said flatly that "W doesn’t have a chance of passage.” The measure was approved Friday by the house post office com mittee under considerable administration pressure. The vote was reported to have been 13-7. \ Major rate changes and anticipated new revenue it proposed: 4. A four-cent stamp, instead of three."'on the first ounce of nonlocal or out-of-town first class mail, 15V million dollars. 2. A sdven-cent stamp, instead ®f six, forNkzch ounce of air mail, fls.floo.We. -— 3. A 39 percent increase over a three-year period for out-of-coudty mailing rates for newspapers and magazines, 15 million dollars. 4. Increases in fees and mailing rates for circulars, packaged medicine and other types of third class mail. 50 million dollars. 5 Boosts in rates for technical, business and other “controlled circulation” publications mailed to selected groups without a subscription charge. >60,000. Except for the second class increases for publishers, all of the boosts would become effective - Jan. 1, 1955—some two months after the fall elections. The second class increases would be Imposed in three installments: April 1, 1955; April 1. 1956. X and April 1, 1957. These hikes would be in addition to a 10 percent hike effective next April 1 under present law. . - President Eisen’Sbwer had asked for the increase* to help wipe out, an anticipated postal deficit of 367 million dollars for the fiscal 'year beginning July 1. McCormack has ordered a "nose count” among the Democrats to eee If they still are as overwhelmingly opposed to the rate increases as they were last year. A survey then, he said, showed 20 Democrats against to every one in favor of the proposals.** X Rep. Harold C. Hagen, R-Minn., a lender of the GOP opposition to the increase, wouldn’t venture a guess on the outcome, but said the bill faces “rough going” on the floor. But H. R. Gross, R-lowa, another opponents, said he’s confident it will never pass the house.

Youngsters Attend Circus This Morning Carrier Boys Join Caravan To Circus Young America went to the circus today. Anticipating the thrills that go with a circus, 49 happy youngsters pulled away in Robert Gay'q school bus from the Daily Democrat office promptly at 8:16 this morning to join the Shrine caravan on Thirteenth street, headed for the Shrine circus .in Fort Wayne’s Memorial Coliseum. The boys were carriers and their helpers of the Daily Democrat. Their routes will I>e delivered this afternoon, immediately after their return home. Arrival is scheduled for about 1:30 p.m. The caravan of a dozen or more buses, carried 500 children to the circus, the morning exhibition being at 10 ©dock. The Decatur Shriners invited third-grade school children as guests of the local club. The Gay bus was in charge of Robert Gay as chauffeur. Clarence Ziner was the Shriner escort. Guests of the circulation department of this newspaper, each carrier and helper was given a coin for hot dogs and the traditional bag of popcorn or peanuts that go with circus watching. Noon Edition

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Dedicate Addition Feb. 14 Kr ■KI ’P’laß iK; -'SI® Rev. F. H. Willard Rev. George 3. Lozier The Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church will dedicate its basement addition Sunday, Feb. 14, with the dedication service at 2:30 p. m. The Rev. Ralph M. Holdeman, D. D., of Dayton, 0., will be the gueyt speaker. .He is the director of church school administration and has lyid a leading part in the educational and evangelistic programs of the denomination, particularly of the current one. “The spiritual life and church loyalty program.” Rev. Holdeman wUI also epeak at the regular morning worship service at 10 o'clock. Two former ministers of the Bethany church, the Rev. F. H. Willard, of Wabash, and. the Rev. George S. Lozier, of Mishawaka, will assist in the dedication service, as will the conference superinterflent, the Rev. Benj. F. Smith, of Warsaw. The Rev. Benj. Thomas, pastor of tha church, is ,in charge of arrangements. Many former members are expected to attend the dedication service. Cost of the basement addition was >46,000, of which >34,000 ha* already been paid. Plans include raising of a large portion of the >12,000 indebtedness in cash, with the balance to be covered by pledges.

Truman Doubts Ike's Figures On Subversives Challenges Ike To Reveal Number Os Red Security Risks NEW’ YORK. UP — Former President Harry S, Truman challenged President Eisenh6wer Friday night to reveal how many Communists are Jncluded in the '2,200 "security risks” ousted from the government by the Republican administration or risk going down as a perpetrator of “one of the biggest hoaxes ever attempted in American history.” .> Mr. Truman bluntly voiced his doubt that even one case of actual subversion has been uncovered by the Eisenhower administration and quoted "responsible Washington correspondents” to support his charges. He said he- had personal knowledge that there were “very few, if any" Communists in government when Eisenhower took office. Mr. Truman jumped into the "numbers” controversy in a speech at the annual Franklin D. Roosevelt dinner sponsored by the Americans for Democratic Action at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

Following the speech (he former chief executive returned to Kansas City, Mot, by plane. At Laguardia Airport a reporter asked him if the speech could be considered a kick-off of the 1954 congressional campaign. "As far as I’m concerned I just gave a good Democratic speech/’ Mr. Truman said. "I have no plans at present to make any campaign speeches but I am at the service of the Democratic committee and I’ll go where they want me to.” In' his address, titled "The Real Issues in American Politics,** the former President charged that the Republican administration had abandoned the Democratic policy of raising the income level of the farmer and working man. "Our national wealth and income are now being redistributed in reverse, from the poor to the rich,” he said. He described Republican tax legislation as "a rich man’s tax relief measure if I ever heard of one.” Mr. Truman made a point of blaming the “deception” in the Communists-in - government issue on the administration rather than on "irresponsible members in congress.” President Eisenhower used the 2,290 figure in his state of the union message* last month. He said last Wednesday that he was considering some means of “breaking down” the figure so the public may know how many persons’ have been dismissed as suspected subversives or for other reasons such as drunkeness and perversion. “I believe the President owes a duty to the American people — and especially to all the government employes whose good names are involved — to tell us just how many Communists and other actual subversives he has found.” Mr. Truman said. "If he does not do this, he will leave our governiTarn T« P«m« Ftve»

Republicans Slake Chances With Ike President Invokes Lincoln Heritage WASHINGTON UP — Republicans staked their bid for continued control of congress today on the heritage of Abraham Lincoln and the popularity of President Eisenhower. The Lincoln heritage was invoked by Mr. Eisenhower in a challenge to fellow Republicans to match the courage of their first president and not be afraid of the wb'rd “conservative.” y The Eisenhower popularity was paraded by administration and party officials as the key to success in the crucial November congressional elections. Republican house leader Charles A. Halleck of Indiana proposed in a breakfast speech to the GOP national committee ’that the differences be written off as profitable self-criticism which leads to strength in the long run. ‘'Republicanism was born of, and thrives on, the healthy stimulation of vigorous debate,” he said. The intra-party differences were pointed up by the appearance of Mr. Eisenhower and Sen. John W. Bricker of Ohio, Friday night before about 8,000 Republicans gathered to open their 1954 campaign, -honor Lincoln and kick-off a nAtional celebration of the party’s 100th birthday. Bricker, in a warmup speech, paid tribute to the achievements of the Eisenhower administration in its first year and urged fellow Republicans to “uphold the hand of the President by giving him an overwhelming majority in congress” next year. Discarding his prepared text, he shouted: "1 like Ike” ~ • The Ohio senator did not mention the proposed treaty-restricting constitutional amendment he is pushing in Congress against the outright opposition of Mt. Eisenhower. Neither did the President. But, in the course of his tribute to the Lincoln heritage Mr. Eisenhower said: “We, in our time, must make certain that the genius of the Constitution, and of our government, shall not perish, that it shall belong to the young and those who come after ns in the same general form that it has been received by us.”

March Os Dimes Previously reported ~.....i...43994.25 Jefferson Twp.—Mrs. Paul 'Butcher : 139.90 Women of the Moose .. 5.00 Blue Creek Twp.—l Mrs. Rue Strayer 85.00 Bobo & St. Marys Trwp.— Mrs. Thomas Sheehan .... 72.31 Coin Collectors (Add’tl.) — 194.33 Donut Shop March of 'Dollars 15.00 iHolthouse Drug March of Dollars .......................... 100.00 Peterson—Mrs. Russell Baumgartner (Addtl.) .. 1.40 Berne—Roger Augsburger —(Addtl.) 8.88 (Mothers March at Dimes — (Addtl,) 7.00 . * T0TAL—...4462'2.62

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, February 6, 1954.

New Rebellion In East Germany Threatens As ~ " — r .--- —- •• ; —■ '■ - — ——L_ -< - ---■ Reds Move In Soldiers * _ _

Dulles To Seek Molotov Aid On Korea Deadlock Will Ask Molotov Use Influence With Communist China BERLIN UP — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles will ask Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov Monday to use his influence with Communist China to get - the deadlocked Korean, peace negotiations started, well informed sources said today. Dulles plans to make the request of Molotov at a secret meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers Monday afternoon. The question of a five - power conference including the Red Chinese regime is one of the subjects to be discussed at the secret meeting. But it w<as Dulles might discuss the Korean situation informally with Molotov tonight, •when he is to be the Soviet delegate’s host at a fortnal dinner. Pending Molotov’s reaction to the Korea conference reuest, the ■western powers are holding up a note to the- Chinese Gonwauntet : government on resumption of preliminary pence talks at Panmunjom. The United States broke off these talks last Dec. 12. There were indications that Dulles, in cooperation with British foreign secretary Anthony Eden and French foreign minister Georges Bldault, might be considering an entirely new approach to the Korean peace conference issue. The western ministers at Monday’s meeting plan: 1. To ask Russia to use its influence with the Peiping government on the Korean conference issue. 2. Hold out hope to Communist China that if negotiations on Korea succeed, it might be bruoght into negotiations on the war in Indochina, with the participation of the western powers, Russia, Red China and the three associated Indochinese states. •* The Western Allies are sticking to the refusal to hold apy "global” five power conference with the iPeiping regime. (But the situation in the Far East has made It necessary to consider talks with Red China on specific subjects in which it has an estAny Korean peace conference (Turn Tn Fnn-n Six* 1

Consent Judgment Granted By Court Authorizes Sheriff To Sell Property Judge Myles F. Parrish, Friday granted a consent judgment to Dean Colter, Noble county, against Walter Winteregg and Mary Winteregg, totalling 17,024 including attorneys’ fees, and authorised the sheriff of Adams county to sell enough of the mortgaged property to satisfy the judgment. The mortgaged property, which includes stock and equipment of the Winteregg Packard sales and service at the corner of Madison and Third streets in Decatur, has been locked and in the custody at sheriff Robert Shraluka since early in January. The mortgage was executed last August and the actual mortgage, according to the records, was for $6,287. In Friday’s Adams circuit court action, the defendants agreed to a consent judgment and the court then entered hik finding. The property involved includes tires, tubes, accessories and all mechanical equipment - used in automobile repair work. The build’ing has been locked slffce January k following the filing of the suit. Plaintiff at the time also filed a bond, which is required to guarantee defendant from loss.

Pope Pius Showing Slight Improvement Feed Milk To Pope By The Drop Today VATICAN CITY, UP — Doctors fed milk to Pope Pilus by the drop today and reported he was able to digest it for the first time since he was put on a liquid diet. •». A Vatican press office bulletin .said the pontiff spent a restful night and that his condition had shown improvement. Bat confidential sources in close touch with the papal household reported that while the present slight upturn in the Pope’s condition was "reassuring,” the improvement must continue through the week end and the first days of next week if a crisis is to be averted.* The milk was -administered in drops because the Pope had been unable to retain nourishment given to him in larger quantities. “We are happy to report that the improvement in the condition of health of the Holy Father, which had been noted late yesterday evening, has continued this morning,” the official bulletin said. ..... -y—“The Holy Father spent a restful night and today spent about one hour with Msgr. Giovanni Battista Montini examining With Ink'tfeie>st matters concerning the chtirch,” the bulletin addedMontini, one of the papal cosecretaries of state ", had been summoned to the Pope’s bedside by the pontiff himself, who felt well enough to talk about Vatican business. No official medical bulletin was issued today to augment that put out Friday by the Pope’s doctor, Prof. Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi. Galeazzi’s bulletin said Friday the Pbpe’s weak condition caused by a siege of hiccuping had weakened his condition to such an extent that he was unable to retain his food.

Auto Mishaps Costly In County In 1953 SSOO Daily Damage In Auto Accidents More than $175,000 in property damage in Adams county in 1953 through automobile accidents which is a minimum of. SSOO a day. were the figures released at the semi-annual meeting of Adams county law enforcement officers at 4 the Adams county jail Thursday night. Lew<s L. Smith, prosecuting attorney presided at the meeting and reported the accident figures.. . In the state during 1953 there was a loss of more than $125,000.000. from property damage alone. This 1%, sufficient, Smith said, to run the state’s public school system for an entire year. Other phases of law enforcement also were discussed at the semiannual meeting, but chief topic was a plan to cut down the loss through auto mishaps. Those attending included Smith, Sheriff Robert Shraluka, Preston Pyle, Geneva; Raymond Seitz, Dale Death,.Chief James Borders, Robert Hill, Roy Chllcote, Ed Wolpert, Robert Schmitz and James Cochran, all of the Decatur police force; state trooper Gene Rash; Jack Hurst, state conservation officer of Adams county. Chief Karl Sprunger and Alfred Zumbrum of the Berne police force; Ray Coon. Geneva;— Deputy sheriff Merle Affolder; state trooper Walter Schindler. Following the business meeting refreshments were served. Decatur Lions Club Will Meet Tuesday The Decatur Lions dub will hold Its regular weekly meeting Tuesday evening at 6:15 o'clock at the K. of P. Home, according to announcement today by Paul Hancher, president of the service club. '

Hvasfa Refuses Statement On Czech Escape American Declines To Reveal Details On Return To U. S. NEW YORK UP —John Hvasta, 26-year-old naturalized American who escaped from a Communist jail in Czechoslovakia, came home today and said he had eluded capture for 21 months “with God’s help” and the aid of unidentifiedCzechoslovakians. Hvasta arrived by plane from' London and was taken In a sevencar cavalcade to his home in Hillside. 7CE The Navy veteran was met at the airport by his mother, father and brother Steven, 23. He hugged his mother so hard her hat fell off. “Thank God!” Mrs. Hvasta sobbed as she embraced him. Hvasta declined to go into details about his escape, saying he intended to publish “everything I know later.” He declined to attend a prearranged press conference. His only interview at ths airport was for the and newsreel cameras. "Listen fellows,” he said into the microphones, “I want to thank everybody—anyone who helped me in past days to get out of Czechoslovakia— especially Congressman Peter Rodino D-N.J. who was interested, as well as the newspapers anti all the others.” Hvasta said he wanted to thank especially U. S. ambassador U. Alexis Johnson and former ambassador George Wadsworth for (Turn T® Paste Six* Local Lady's Father Dies Friday Night C. W. Norris, 66, of Greenville, Ohio, father of Mrs. John Morgan. 310 South Eleventh street, this city, died Friday night in the Greenville hospital. Death was attributed to a heart attack, which he suffered Thursday. Besides the daughter, he is survived by two grandchildren, Susan Kay and C. Eddie Morgan of this city. The body has been moved to the Zechar funeral home in Greenville. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday afternoon and burial will be in the Greenville cemetery.

C 47 Carrying 16 Crashes In Alaska Some Servicemen Believed Survived ANCHORAGE, Alaska UP — A COT carrying 16 persons crashed aibout 15 miles northeast Os Curry, Alaska Friday and a "nimber” ot servicemen survived, an air force officer said today. “We know there’s more .than two survivors but as yet we don’t know exactly how many there are,” said Capt. Earl Ray. ’Elmendorf air force base, Anchorage. The COT, based at Elmendorf, took off at 12:35 .p m. Friday on a 275-mile flight to Ladd air force 'base, Fairbanks, Alaska, but vanished in a freezing rain. Ray said three FSAI6 Albatross planes and one C 54 were ready to flake to the air in rescue operations, He said two helicopters were now at a small airfield near Curry awaiting takeoff orders. He said a doctor and three aidmen were standing by at Curry and would travel in the helicopters to the crash site. Ray said a freezing rain was failing in, the vicinity of the crash. Bush Pilot Cliff Hudson of Curry spotted -the crash Friday and said he saw two persons moving about the wreckage. He said one of them had set off a smoke flare.-'.':

Annual C. C. Dinner Here Next Thursday -T To Canvass Members On Ticket Purchase Directors of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce today were scheduled to complete a canvass of all Chamber members for tickets to the annual Chamber of Commerce. dinner and program scheduled for next Thursday night at 6:30 o’clock at the Moose home. After today, the remaining tickets will be offered to the public until 350 are sold. That is all the available seats for the dinner which will precede the program. The public can obtain tickets by contacting the Chamber office here or any of the directors. J. Dwight Peterson, former Decatur resident and president of City Securities Corporation of Indianapolis, will he the principal speaker. Students of the school of music of Indiana University will present a program taken from three well known operas, Including the second act of Der Freschutz by Von Weber; the last scene of the third act of Der Rosencavlier by IR. Strauss, and the Telephone by Menottl. All parts of all three operas will be sung In English. The parts will be taken by students from Indiana University...... Chamber members and their wives already have taken more than half of the available tickets, It was reported. Both men and women are Invited to the annual affair. Besides the dinner and program, 1954 officers of the Chamber and the industrial and retail division will be formally installed.

Flying Radar Lab Crashes, 13 Escape Crashes Into Bay, All Aboard Escape HAJMULTOuN AER FORCE BASE, Calif. UP — An air force ‘‘flying laboratory," a Super Constellation crammed with, top secret radar gear, crashed into San Pablo Bay Friday night while attempting a landing in dense fog. The air force said all 13 men aboard survived and there were “no serious injuries.” The “Super Connie”, designated •RO2L2 by the air force, apparently lost power while making a low approach to the field, and splashed into shallow water some two miles short of the runway. A Hamilton Field spokesman said the fog was so dense that the plane was discovered only through the use of a radar-equipped rescue boat. The four-engined plane is one of a pair assigned to the western air defense command. An ADC spokesman said the top-secret plane was “very costly,” but the actual value of the latest-type of radar gear aboard “was still secret.*’ The air force said the plane wias makin a final 'approach to the field, some 30 miles north of San Francisco, and was following routine blind landing procedure. It suddenly disappeared from the control tower screen while turning to line up with the runway. Apparently pilot Lt. .Col. Russell Cheever of San Antonio, Tex., had sufficient control just before the crash to keep the plane on an even keel. The plane had been on a routine radar flight over the Sierra Mountains from its home base at McClellan air force base near Sacramento, Calif. Cheerver was ordered to land at Hamilton when the MbClellan base was blanketed by fog. INDIANA WEATHER;/' Partly cloudy and a little colder tonight, snow fiurrlee mostly near Lake Michigan. Sunday partly cloudy. Low tonight 18-23. High Sunday 25-30 north, 30-35 south.

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Russian Moves In Conference Anger Germans Feeling Threatens To Boil Over Anew Similar To 1953 BE RIAN, UP—The Communists moved a Soviet army division to Berlin’s outskirts and handed heavy arms to their Peoples Police tn an effort to head off a new East German rebellion. Western sources reported today. Reports from throughout the Soviet Zone said East German feeling threatened to boil over in--to a revolt similar to that of last June 17 when workers staged a series of violent uprisings. Russia’s filibuster on German free elections and unification at 'the Big Four foreign ministers conference brought about the latest upsurge of East German anger, the reports said. Communists authorities have taken stern measures to keep the situation under control, but East Germans were said to be planning protest marches on Berlin. Communist officials already have been reported beaten up, government-sponsored rallies have been heckled, add atttl-Soviet leaflets distributed. The West Berlin "fighting group against inhumanity’’ said the Soviets moved an army division from the Potsdam area to Babelsberg, a suburb 10 miles southwest of Berlin. The action, was considered the latest of Communist moves alerting security forces to cope with trouble resulting from East German demands for free elections and unity. The Soviet Zone government also sent thousands of picked agents into the area to show the ' alleged wisdom of continuing Red rule. Other reports said the Commanists distributed carhinns to their factory militia, alerted their 200,-000-man police army and organized a special auxiliary police force. The Communists also ordered the arrest of all suspected rebels to crush the unrest, according to reliable reports reaching West •Berlin. At least 200 persons were seized by the secret police. Western officials, said the Communist police reinforced their border guards around Berlin and cancelled all police leaves. They said East Germans were being arrested merely for listening to western radio broadcasts. In addition, the Taegliche Rundschau, official Soviet high commission newspaper, disclosed that the contral committee of the East (Continued on >••««<• Five)

Eight Persons Die As Home Destroyed Missouri Home Is • Destroyed By Fire SPRINGFIELD, Mo. UP — Eight z persons, including seven chi’oren, died in flames that destroyed X four-room frame house early Aodlay. / (Five of the dead were identified as members of the Jojyfi Lillard (family-—the mother and'four child, ren, ranging in from five months to six yeafs. Three other /hfldren, aged four to 11 years, Were living temporarily with the Lillards while their mother/Remained at the hospital bedside of another child, doomed with cancer df the brain, police . Only one of nine persons asleep in the house when the fire broke out managed to escape. He wits John LllMrd, 38, who “in panic” ran from the hxjjne when he awakened and then tried in vain to return and rescue members of his family.