Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 11 February 1954 — Page 1

Vol. LII. No. 35.

Seek Showdown With Molotov On Peace Move Western Foreign • Ministers Seeking Molotov Showdown BERLIN. — The Western foreign minlaUrj#'' sought a showdown in a secret Big Four meeting today on Communist willingness to negotiate peace settlements in Korea and Indochina. Secretary of state John Foster Dulles, British foreign secretary Anthony 'Eden and French foreign minister Georges Bidatilt decided to try 4e-pta down Soviet foreign minister M. Molotov on Russian and Chinee* Comma-', nist intentions. The result might be that Russia would use its as the Western Allies have asked, to get the Red Chinese to negotiate a Korean peace treaty and stop supplying the Communist Viet Minh rebels in Indochina.* If Molotov stalls or refutes to ',, mediate, the Big Four foreign <*- Jininisters conference would be deadlocked on the two most impartant issues it is considering— German unity and the Far East. This was the second secret meeting of the ministers this week and the 16th of the conference. At the first secret session Mon-, day the West rejected Molotov’s proposal for a Big Five conference on world problems with Red China but asked Russia to intervene with the Peiping regime to get Korean peace talks started and halt shipments to Viet Minh aggressors in Indochina. Western sources said the foreign ministers accomplished nothing in their first round on the Far ■ East. - ; -■ Molotov at that time offered no answer to the Western ministers’ request that he use his influence with Red China to have the Peiping regime end its material sups *>port to rebel aggressors tn Indochina. , The Russian's tight-lipped reaction caused no concern because it was not expected that Molotov would commit himself before consulting the Kremlin and Peiping. Dulles, Eden and Bidault appeared ready to continue discussion on MoitovM proposal for a Big Five conference with Red China next spring to take up all problems of international tension. I Delay X-Ray Exam For Pope Pius XII Postponed To Gain Additional Strength VATICAN CITY, UP -*A scheduled new X-ray examination of Pope Pius XII has bedn postponed until he regains additional strength, Vatican sources said tonight. The need for X-ray tests was announced last Friday in the only formal medical bulletin which has been issued by Prof. Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi, the Pope’s physician. The tests will involve the gastric - and nearby region. Vatican informants said the decision to postpone the test is really a favorable sign, because it means there is no need to rush it to disclose any special ailment. The new test, they explained, , would prove very tiring for the Pope in his present state of gener- , al weakness. Galeazzi-Lisi’s bulletin said that , initial X-ray tests made on the , Pope produced normal results but ( that further tests would be made ■ when his condition permitted. , A Vatican press office bulletin said that the Pope "is on his way to convalescence. But other sources said that a 24-hour-a-day watch is still being kept on him. Because of his illness, the Pope ( cb’uld not attend ceremonies which marked the 25th anniversary of the signing of the LaterSn Treaty with Italy, which established Vatican City as a' sovereign state. President Luigi Einaudi of Italy sent the Pope a telegram express, ing his “most fervent wishes for ’ the precious health of your holiness.’’ . Einaudi is 79. The Pope Will be 78 on March 2. Because of the I Pope’s avanced age. and his fatigue, his physician is taking no chanced on his conditiop. But the official Vatican continued daily to note marked improvement. 0 0 12 PAGES 0 — i ;O 1

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New Crop Os Dimes Inspected "X, X;X ► .* ' “MONEY is still as good as ever . . . except that It buys less” says Mrs. Rae V. Biestor,'superintendent of the U. S. Mint in Philadelphia as she Inspects a pile of new 10c pieces in the annual assay of coins minted by Uncle Sam. There are 720.000 dimes in that pile.

Democrats See Ike's Comments Rebuke To GOP 9 Sharp Disapproval Os GOP's Partisan Tactics From Ike ®emoerits today hailed President Eisenhower’s disapproval of sharp partisan attacks by Republican orators as a “rebuke”, to some GOP leaders. But one Republican leader. Sen. Homer Ferguson of Michigan, insisted GOP speakers are giving the nation “facts" and declared there can be ho “armistice” on telling the truth. J Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson said Mr. Eisenhower’w comments Trmounted to a “rebuke” to his own advisers. Sen. Lister Hill, D-Ala., agreed “the effect of what he said is to rebuke those in his own administration who have been making these vicious and unwarranted attacks.” National Democratic chairman Stephen A. Mitchell said his party welcomed the . President’s statement. He said Mr. Eisenhower issued a "challenge to his own leadership” and the nation would see if he could “lead the Republican party down a path of reasonableness." Mr. Eisenhower said Wednesday the times are too serious for extreme partisanship and said he expected his official family and national GOP chairman Leonard Hall to show tolerance for Democrats. But Tie said he could not control others, apparently meaning members of congress, governors and others outside the exexutive department. He said it would be untrue, foolish and politically unwise~tc charge that Democrats were ting ed with treason and were all se curity risks. ' Hall and the Republican national committee trad no comment on the President's statements. Tht committee is sponsoring and Hall has endorsed the current speaking tour es Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. R-Wis., whose charges helped tire Democratic ire. McCarthy said in San Mateo Calif., Wednesday night that he would not let up on his charges o f Communist coddling by Democratic leaders “because the price Is too high.” He said he did not think Mr. Eisenhower was “advising us to .whitewash.” .. Democrats began getting nettled by Republican attacks when they read a speech two months ago by Gov.’ Thomas E. Dewey of New York which tied past Democratic administrations with treason in government. They were further incensed by McCarthy’s current Lincoln week tour with speeches based on the theme, “Twenty Years of Treason,” referring to the years, 1933 -to 1953, when Democrats were in ’ power. The payoff came last Friday when presidential assistant SherI man Adams called some Demo- ( Continued on Page Eight)

Governor's Faction Seeking Donations Craig In Rebuff To Indiana's Senators JNTMANAPOff-TS UP -r Governor Craig’s faction .of the Republican party sought donations today to make the group financially ■ iti-; dependent of the GOP state com-/ inittee. Craig thereby severed contact with party headquarters in an obvious rebuff to Sens. William E. Jenner and Homer E. Capehart, whose faction noiw controls the state committee. An ’’lndiana Committee for Republican Victory” was officially announced late Wednesday. Craig’s friends outlined the committee's purpose after a day-long conference in the governor’s office, and Craig telephoned his approval from Chicago. Fred C. Tucker Jr., Indianapolis realtor who will head the committee, said it will accept “voluntary contributions from all legitimate sources." It meant rank-and-file Republicans may contribute to either of the two factions. The two factions were expected to split albout SIOO,OOO a year in "voluntary" contributions front statehouse employes and auto 11 cense branch managers. The statehouseworkers are <adked to give a week's pay each year, and managers “donate" 2 cents per license plate sold. The Craig group said for the record they will “supplement” work of the Republican state commute eand “aid” it. (Bat it was no secret they were irked by the JennerCapehart choice’of a new state chairman, Paul Cyr. And they complained the state committee would give no money to finance campaigns of Craig supporters- or to pay for radio and television time used to publicize work of the administration. The new committee said it will "support the programs of President Eisenhower and Governor Craig and aid our Republican members of the Indiana delegation in congress in their efforts.” ’The committee will give finan- ’ clal and other support to all Republican candidates named in the primary election and the state convention of the party,” an announcement said. An advisory executivexcomtpittee was named by the gjxiup. i£ will be composed dt. John Ruckelshans, * 'Ernest Lee, 'H. Pale (Brown, V. M. Armstrong and Eugene Hibbs, Indianapolis; Mrs. Joseph A. Osborn, Marion, Mrs. Betty Littlejohn, Brabill; Oscar A. Ahlgren, Whiting; Walter Hehnke and Mrs. Dan Flanagan, Fort Wayne, and Isidore Levine, La Porte. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and much colder tonight except cloudy with snow flurries and occasional heavy snow squalls near Lake Michigan. Friday partly cloudy and continued cold, with enow flurries near Lake Michigan. Low tonlght_lO-15. High Friday 20-28.

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-■ Monmouth Man Killed * w j \■/ ' 1 . >, ■ . - ■ -3* .. • ■ When Auto Hits Tree In Fort Wayne Park

. jvj: . '■ _ ' Senate Action Is Sought On Naming Warren Administration Tries To Speed Senate On Approving Warren By UNITED PRESS The administration is trying tn’ speed senate action on the mysterious stymied nomination of Earl Warren as chief justice, it was learned today. President Eisenhower gave the former California governor a recess appointment while congress was out of town and then formally submitted the nomination to the senate when congress returned last month. _ But though Mr. Warren has been presiding over the supreme court since October, a senate judiciary subcommittee studying his nomination has not. yet It was learned that Vice President Richard M. Nixon has been working behind the scenes to geL the subcommittee to move. talked with senate judiciary chairman Wiiliafh Langer, RN D., for an hour Wednesday. -Deputy Atty, ; Wiliam W Rogers alsp has talked with Langer. It was not clear just What is holding up subcommittee action. One issue is whether to ask for an FBI report on Mr. WarrenLanger said the subcommittee “seemed to want” one but that no request has been sent to the FBI. As of now the subcommittee isn’t even meeting. Langer said the staff Is going over a batch of letters and documents received from various sources on the nomination. He added that he doesn’t know when the subcommittee will meet again. Senate Republican leader William E. Knowland. Calif., expects overwhelming confirmation whenever the nomination reaches the senate floor. Other congressional news: Farm: O. V. Wells, administrator of the agriculture department’s agricultural marketing service, (Continued on Pnire Seven) Fort Wayne Youth Put On Probation Court Orders Youth To Make Restitution Neil McClain, confessed member of & group of youths who burglarized several filling stations and eating places in Berne and Geneva 10 days ago, was placed on probation for a five-year period t 6 C. H. Muselman. Adams county probation officer, hy Judge Myles F. Parrish Wednesday afternoon in Adams cirfciilt court. The youth, 18 years old. was told by the court that he must make complete restitution within 30 days or the 2-5 year sentence for second degree burglary would be imposed. The court stated in suspending the sentence to the state reformatory, that because it was his first offense and because the others connected with the incidents were placed on probation by Fort Wayne juvenile authorities, it was "proper that Neil should be given a chance to make restitution and lead a new life?’ The young man, only one of the group connected with the burglaries to be 18 years of age, left the court room with his mother after a conference with Muselman and the youth’s attorney, Arthur Miller, Fort Wayne. The youth also agreed to attend church services regularly. He •will continue to reside with hie mother in Fort Wayne. Judge Parrish admonished the young man to "never appear on another charge in his court.”

4 | Dedication Speaker Rev. Ralph M. Holdeman

Church Dedication Services Sunday Dedicate Addition To Bethany Church dedication services for the basement addition to the Bethapy i angelical United ”be ehuroh Sunday afternoon at 2:3g o'clock. The Rev. Ralph M. Holdeman. D. D.. of Dayton, 0., will deliver the dedicatory address. Rev. Hold’eman is director of church school administration and assistant sec--1 rttary of evangelism for the Evangelicial United Brethren church. He formerly held pastorates in Louisville, Ky., and Elkhart. The public is invited to the service. Rev. Holdeman will preach at the regular morning worship ser-vice-at 9; 45 o’clock. The Rev. Benj. G. Thomas, pasor, will also be assisted during he services by the Rev. George S. Lozier and the Rev. F. W. Wilard, former pastors. Preliminary studies for expanding the church facilities -were darted agd.7Members of the building committee, appointed in June, 1951, are: Rev. Willard, Earl Fuhrman, Mrs. Eari Fuhrriian, Ralph Habegger, Dr. Ray Stlngely, Adolph Kolter, 'Mrs. ,R. K. McConnell, Mrs. Harlan Jackson, Carl Hammond, Arthur Beeler. William Christen, Miss Alice Tumbleson, Raymond Eichenauer, Amos Ketchum, Rheta Butcher, Jerry Kolter and Rev. Thomas. Remodeling of the old basement and construction of the addition was done at a cost of approximately $46,000, of which $34,000 has been raised. The church expects do raise $3,000 in cash and the balance in three-year pledges Sunday. The children of the Sunday school were moved into the new quarters last Sunday. These consist of the nursery, kindergarten, primary and junior departments. Mrs. Harlan Jackson is superintendent of children’s work, with Mrs. Benj. G. Thomas as assistant. ' A tour of the new building will be conducted after both the morning and afternoon services, and the public is invited to attend the services and inspect the addition. No service will be held Sunday. Court House Offices Will Close Friday The offices of the Adams couhty court house; the public library and the First State Bank will be closed all day Friday in observance of Lincoln’s birthday. Other local business will be in operation as usual. There will be regular mall deliveries but Robert Frisinger, assistant postmaster, said there would be no deliveries on Washington’s birthday, February 22. According to the city ordinance, no deposits are required tn parking meters on either February 12 or I February 22.

„r. , u ■ 1,000 Reds Are Killed Or Taken As Prisoners French-Led Forces Kill Red .Soldiers In Red River Delta HANOI, Indochina UP — Frenchled forces killed or captured 1.000 Communists this week in the Red River delta, some 40 miles from, the airfield where newly arrived U.S. airplane mechanics are at work, it was announced today. The French high command said another 800 persons, believed to be Red guerrillas in disguise, were rounded up for screening in the 96-hour mopup of the Nam Dinh area, south of Haiphong airfield. The Americans are protected by tank patrols- and barbed-wire entanglements constantly prowled by savage “war dogs," French officials said the greatest danger confronting the Americans is the threat of ambush or land mines on the roads linking the base with nearby towns. In a report on the situation at Nam Dinh, French Gen. Rene Cpgny said today the “extremely murderous'’ fighting there was intended to check Commuhlat infiltration of the delta. The Reds had hpled up among the flooded rice paddies of the region, and warplanes roared over to blast their hideouts while loyal troops waded in to rout them out. Meanwhile, reports from embattled Luang Prabang said heavy Red columns, moving for the first time in days, had pushed within 30 miles of the ancient, royal capital of Laos while some 1,500 Red guerrillas harassed defenders 4’£ miles from the city. A French army spokesman said Communist forces esjima/ted at 12,000 meh are advancing from Nam Bao down the Nam Nga Valley, despite unremitting attack by American-built warplanes. Just north of the threatened city, ““(Coatlauea ®« Seven) Election Board To Meet Next Week County Clerk Will Issue First Call Ed F. Jaberg, Adams county clerk and secretary of the Adams county hoard of election commissioners, said he would call the first meeting of the 'board, including David iMaoklin, Democrat and Cal E. Peterson, Republican, early next week. (Election of a board chairman will be the first order of business. Jaberg, by virtue of his office, is secretary of the 'board and under the statute it is his duty to call the first meeting. Changing of delegate districts for both Democrat and Republican delegates to the state convention will be discussed at the first meeting. Districts are set up in accordance with population and the number of delegates authorized for each major party convention. In 19&2 each party l had 11 delegates and this year each party will elect 12 delegates. Allocation pf delegates is based on each 400 votes or major portion thereof cast for secretary of state in the last general election. Republicans cast a few more votes than the Democrats did in; 1952 in Adams county and as a result will name the election inspectors for each voting precinct. It is likely that the delegate districts will be similar for each party,, since the allocation is the same. The board also will discuss preparation for printing of primary election ballots and also will seek a joint meeting with the Adams county board of commissioners to discuss precincts and other matters pertaining to the May primary elections, Jaberg indicated.

| Dies Suddenly nBHBk ill w s I ( ———- .. .. > ■■ ■' — Dorphus L. Drum [

Dorphus Drum Dies Suddenly At Home Former Councilman Dies This Morning Dorphus L. Drum, 58, well known Decatur resident and a former city councilman,- died suddenly of a heart attack at 4:30 o’clock "this morning at his home,. 427 Fonugt; street. Mr. Drum ha<f not been in the beet of health for the past four' 1 years, but his death was unexpect- ’ ed. . Mr. Drum had been employed as a salesman and serviceman for the Schafer Store since 1938, and servr ed nine years on the Decatur city , council, beginning in 1943. In his ( earlier years, Mr. Drum operated a grocery store at Curryville, and . later was a salesman for Everett & Hite and associates grocery for until tluK fiiiipXoY , ment with Schafer. He was born at Curryville March ' 27, 1895, a son of Peter H««ry and ' Flora Brentlinger-Drum, and was married to Clara Kober Nov. 30, 1918. Mr. Drum was a member of the ' First Christian church and the I. O. O. F. lodge and the fathers' auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Surviving in addition to his wife are a daughter, Mrs. Vincent Tanvas of Decitur; a son, Marion L. Drum, of Decatur; fottr gisndoUdren; one brother, Noble Drum of Decatur, and three sisters. Miss Opal Drum and Mrs. Stanley Callow, both of Decatur, and Mrs. Effie Ellis of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Saturday at the First Christian church, the Rev. Traverse Chandler and the Rev. Kenneth Timmons officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening until noon Saturday, after which the body will lie in state at the church until time of the services. March Os Dimes Previously reported $4622.62 Geneva, Mrs. Thurman Baker — 354.74 Root Tw'p., Mrs. Erma additional 12.00 Berne, Roger Augsburger, additional — 22.77 Monroe, organizations in ) Monroe, Washington ) twps. ) Adams Cep. grade school ) & Washington twp. ) Country schools, Mrs. ) , Russell Mitchel ) 292.77 Psi lota Xi sorority 10.00 Washington add! _ 7 _ 2.00 Mothers March of Dimes addt’l —- 6.79 Total ——.55323.69 BULLETIN WASHINGTON, UP — Gen. John E. Hull, commander of U. S. Far Eastern forces, eaid after a visit with President Elsenhower today that' there would be “certain advantages” - in South Korea sending troops to fndochina. - -

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| Richard Mahan | Dies Instantly In Auto Crash Monmouth Resident Killed Wednesday In Fort Wayne Crash Richard Edward Mahan, 27, ot Monmouth, was killed almost instantly when his automobile crashed into a tree in Foster Park, at the southwest edge of Fort Wayne, about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. He was taken to the Lutheran hospital and was dead ou arrival there. Three witnesses of the crash saw that he was badly hurt and were able to get a telephone call to the Fort Wayne police department at 2:40 p.in. An employe of the Salisbury Axle plant in Fort Wayne, for six years, Mr. Mahan apparently was taking a short cut through the park to ' . Fairfield avenue extended and thence to U. 8. 27, enroute home. A half hour before the fatal crash, Traffic Lt. Joseph Heidenreich, Fort Wayne, said, Mahan’s car was involved in a minor property damage accident. The other driver did not report the accident, otherwise the Decatur man might have been intercepted by a cruiser " car before 'he reached the pprk. * ‘, There was a passenger in threat* at the time of the incident, the officer said, and it is presumed ( that he left Mahan in the south* , western section of the city. Mahan was unconscious when a , police emergency car reached the scene. His injuries included a major skull fracture, crushed chest, and a double compound fracture ot the right leg. One ot his shoes was found inside the driving compartment, which had been compreraed 1 to a width of? feet, 2 inches. Accident Investigators said the car was one of the "worst wrap jobs” in their experience. The front and rear sections of the car overlapped around the tree, which had a diameter of 18 inches. There was only a space ot 2 fe4t, 4 Inches front the rear of the twisted car to the steering wheel. The machine left a curve as the roadway turns directly south. It skidded sideways on the soft more than 100 feet, police said. ’ '■ Tlie imphet ejected the entire windshield panel, which was found on the pavement 109 feet south of the wreckage. The glass panel struck, the pavement about 50 feet south of the wreck, and then slid the remaining distance. The door of the glove compartment was found about 100 feet from the wreckage. Mahan's body was compressed between the trunk of the tree and the twisted frame of the front door. He was bleed- ~ ing fro mthe nose, mouth and ears when lifted onto an ambulance stretcher. . A special police escort z was required to move the death car. The freed wreck, in shape, required two lanes of traffic for clearance. The auto was a new one and had been driven only 2,000 mileb. Mr. Mahan’s mother and sister were in Fort Wayne at the time of the accident. He worked the night shift at the axle plant, midnight to 8 a.im % . Native of Decatur He .was born in Decatur April 8, 1926, a son of Fred and Maud Magley-Mahan, and was married to Norma McKown Nov. 25, 1949. He graduated from the Monmouth high school in 1946, after serving in the U. navy during World War II from April, 1044, to February, 1946. Surviving are\his mother; his wife; three children, April Clair, < p Richard Ivan and Michael Mac; three brothers. Jack Mahan of near Decatur, Lloyd Mahan of Parkston, S. D„ and. Capt. Ivan Mahan of Albuquerque, N. M„ and one sister, Mrs. Edward Casanova of Fort Wayne. ' Mr. Mahan was a member of the Zion Lutheran church in Decatur. Funeral services will be conduct(Continued on i’«»c Seven)