Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 18 February 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 41.

Reveals The Destructive Power Os An H-Bomb I Arae ftwyniitntif— Mg»Maw IBKiIf loop SStW V ■ Bp ji i IwKMSjMSh* . * 80n,,b WomW Mak *' Holc B On * Mi>> ] REP. STERLING COLE (left), congressional atomic specialist, told a Chicago audience that the U. S. may have hydrogen weapons more powerful than the device which ripped a hole amide-wide and 175 feet deep in the floor of the Pacific ocean in 1952, In revealing details never before discussed publically of a thermonuclear test in the Marshall islands, Cole said the heat and blast would completely devastate an area three miles in all directions from the point of explosion. Photocfiagram (right) shows the extent of this “absolute destruction” if such an H-Bomb were dropped on Chicago’s Loop. - J-,-. --- — —

Big Four Agree On Far Eastern Peace Parley Conference April 15 Will Include Communist China BULLETIN BERLIN UP — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles announced today that ths Bis Four conference has agreed to hold a Korean political conference, including Red China, • which could be followed “if Communist China wants it", by a meeting on Indochinese peace. BERLIN UP — The Big Four foreign ministers agreed today to hold a Far Eastern peace conference including Red China, in Geneva, Switzerland, April 15. The agreement was reached at a secret meeting of the foreign ministers on the last day of the Berlin Conference. Western informants said It would be announced formally in a communique later today. Discussion at the Geneva conference will be limited to a Korean peace treaty in its first phase,“lnformants said. ' Participants will be the United States, Great Britain, France, Soviet Russia, Communist China, South Korea and North Korea. After the Korea conference, a second conference would be held on Indochina. Taking part would be the United States, Britain. France, Russia, Red China and the three associated states of Indochina — Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. The Big Four foreign ministers agreed to draft a communique, announcing the Far East conference agreement, at their final plenarysession which started shortly after 3 p.m. Agreement on the ‘Geneva con- , ference saved the Berlin meeting from total failure. It was made possible by a series of concessions by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov, who had demanded a conference —on all world tensions with Red China a full participant. _ To French foreign minister Georges —Bidauit the agreement was a major personal triumph. It enables him to return to Paris with least, to end the grim, costly war in Indochina, now in its eighth 'the ipromise of negotiations, at year. It is expected to increase the French government’s chance of getting Parliament to ratify the European defense community pact which provides for the inclusion of German troops in a six-nation West European army. - — - When the final secret session opened this morning, a high source said the ministers already had reached tentative agreement on the Korean conference on terms submitted by the west. The Soviets were said to have agreed to give Red China a back seat at the conference by dropping their demand that the Peiping regime be admitted as a full participant. — J ■__ The Western informant said the Soviets had accepted the following conditions for holding the meetin<B: • 1. The conference would be held in Geneva? Switzerland, preferably April 15. - 2. It would be limited to a dis(Twrn To Pw« Six) ... .. , . ; .1

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Boy Scout Leaders Meet Al Portland €t Scout Executive Meeting Is Held i 'Decatur Boy Scout attended a Scout executive meeting of the south district of Anthony Wayne Council Wednesday evening in Portland. — 'Among the group from Decatur were Steve Everhart, Lowell Smith, Clarence Ziner, Jack Gordon, Joe Kaehr. Robert Ashbaucher, Bob Nisbet, Charles Morgan, Harold Hoffman, Gene (Rydell and Kenneth Secaur. Also attending were Watson 'Mattox, William Lose Jr., Bob Theobold and John Ebersole who were interested in a discussion of the proposed Cub split which will form two Cub packs in Decatur. 'Plans were made for the Scoutorama which will be the merit, badge show at the Fort Wayne Memorial Coliseum in iMay. An increase of units in the south district was also discussed. Financial “reports of“the units will be due Feb. 28. Decatur and Berne have theirs ready. A larger attendance at the Boy Scout carpp on Big Island was also,discussed. Plans are being made to send at least 1500 boyj? from nine northeastern Indiana counties. Entertainment at the Wednesday meeting was provided by the boys’ choir of Portland high school. Refreshments were served. Infant Found Dead Early This Morning Zehnder Infant Is Suffocated Today Frederick James Zehnedr, 12- ; day-old son of Frederick J. and ; 'Ruth Kirewall-Zehnder, was found . dead in his bed at 6:30 a.m. today ' at the home in Preble township, i The infant, born Feb. 6, apparent- , ly was suffocated in its bed cloth- , es. ‘ v“» The father is principal of the Zion Lutheran school at Fried- , h eTin. Surviving in addition to the parents are a brother, Martin and ( three sisters, Anna, Esther and , Norma, all at home; and the . grandparents Mr. and Mrs. George . Zehnder of Cleveland. O. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim, the Rev. A. A. Fenner officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body was ’ removed to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after ’ 7 p.m. Friday until 1 p.m. Satur- 1 day, after which it wall be in state ‘ at the church until time of the J 1 services. ' - ; . J Berling Rites Here On Friday Morning A solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Friday i morning at St.-Mary’s Catholic i church for Miss Mary C.TBerling, 1 well known Decatur lady, who died Tuesday, at her home in this • city. The Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz will be celebrant of the ■ mass, assisted by the Rev. Robert ■ Contant, assistant pastor, and the Rev. Thomas Durkin of Fort 1 Wayne. 1

GOP Dispute Embittered By Manion Firing Clarence Manion Is Removed As Head Os Ike's Commission WASHINGTON (UP) — A Republican congressman angrily qiiit President Elsenhower’s commission on intergovernmental relations today in protest against White House dismissal of chairman Clarence Manion. Rep. Noah M. Mason'of Illinois, resigned with a sizzling statement that Manion’s ouster “smacks ot autocratic dictatorship.” Mason’s parting shot at the White House dramatized the bitter dispute within the Republican -party over the proposed Bricker amendment on presidential treaty powers. Manion, former dean of Notre Dame law school, announced Wednesday he was fired because he supported the Bricker amendment. He said he quit at request of presidential assistant Sherman Adams. Mason, a GGP right-winger, said he had come to regard Manion “as one of the biggest men in the country, a man big enough and capable enough to be President of the United States." “For a man of that calibre to be fired from a position of national importance by a presidential assistant because of his expressed convictions that we need the Bricker amendment is nothing short of a national calamity,”« Mason fumed. “Such action smacks of autocratic dictatorship.” Sen. John W. Bricker Ohio and his supporters were voting Wednesday in favor of a Republican leadership compromise on the most disputed section of the proposed amendment when Manion’s announcement was made public; A final vote is sought this week. There was immediate speculation that further compromise efforts by the Republican senate leadership would he hampered by (Manion’s removal. Bricker and others instantly denounced the White House action. Bricker said : "When the time comes when thoso-who do not believe alike with the leadership of the government in power cannot continue to serve in official capacities, there is serious storm 'brewing ahead. 1 hope he continues in this campaign for the amendment and devotes his life and his ability to it.” Bricker seemed greatly moved as he addressed the senate. Sen. William E. Jenner R-Ind. tola the senate he was ’s'hocked and by the firing of Manion. He said the White House should make public its reasons. Jenner is chairman of the senate i.ntgyial security committee. He remarked that congressional investigators often are criticized because witnesses cannot confront their accusers. He hoped Manion would get a chance to do so. —■ Michigan Man Dies In Auto-Truck Crash FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UP) —- Joseph Quirk. 30, Niles, Mich., was killed When his car rammed Into an oncoming truck on U. S. 33 five miles northwest of here Wednesday night, injuring Louis F. McGrus, 28, South Bend, a passenger. -7 ■ f ' m ' •

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Pairings Announced In Sectional; Opens Here Wednesday Afternoon

Butter Price Supports Cut On April 1 Eight Cents A Pound Cut In Supports Is Announced Today WASHINGTON, UP — Government price supports on butter will be cut 8% cents a pound beginning April 1, the agriculture department announced today. Supports on cheese will be cut 484 cents a pound nad on dried milk about 1 cent a pound. c - The reductions reflect the slash from 90 to 75 percent of parity in dairy price supports announced by secretary Ezra T. Benson Monday. Benson estimated this would mean a drop of about 8 cents a pound in retail butter prices. Under the reduced support level, the department said its actual purchasing price on grade A butter will be 57%c a pound in. Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle; and: 58% cents a pound in New York. This year U Has been paying 66%, cents a pound in New York; 65)»' cents a pound in Chicago and 66% cents in San Francisco and Seattle’ ' ,v For grade B butter - the new., price pegs will be 55% cents a pound in Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle, and 56% cents in New York. This year it has been buying . grade B butter at prices 2 cents a pound below grade A prices in specified cities. The new cheese support price, will be 82% cents a pound compared to this year’s 37 cents a pound. Meanwhile, a congresswoman from Brooklyn and a congressman from the heart of Wisconsin's dairyland agreed that the administration hasn’t gone far enough in cutting retail butter prices. K But the two —Reps. Melvin R. Laird R.-Wis., and Edna Kelly D-N. Y. — daagreed sharply on whether the administration already has gone too far in slashing prices guaranteed dairy farmers. ~..7 Their views indicated widespread congressional backing tor a hew plan under study by the department ot agriculture for further cutting retail butter prices without a reduction in farmers' prices. It would involve movement of gov-ernment-owned surplus butter into the retail market at cut-rate prices to be “blended” with currently produced butter under price support. Butter prices already are expected to drop about 8 cents a pound after April 1 when agriculture secretary Ezra T. Benson (Tsra T» Pmn> wire) Telephone Hearing Set For March 9 Hearing Is Set For Sale Os Securities The Indiana public service commission has set Tuesday, March 9, at 11 a.m. for the date for the public hearing of the petition of Citizens Telephone Co. of Decatur to issue >150,000 of additional securities submitted to the state body several days ago by Charles D. Ehinger, president and general . manager. The hearing will be held at room 401 in the state house. The notice of the hearing date was signed by Paul M. Tingle, secretary of the utility governing body. The petition asked authority to sell an addition >150,000 of securities, covered by an open-end mortgage to Lincoln Life Insurance Co. of Fort Wayne. Reaspn for the proposal stated that because of the fast growth of the local concern, additional equipment would soon be needed to keep abreast of the times. The local telephone company is regarded as one of thb most modern small city exchanges in the ' world.

<4— tisenhower Relaxes Under California Sun President And Wife On Brief Vacation » PALM SPRINGS. Calif., UP — President Eisenhower took what |he doctor ordered —a vacation in Southern California with a willing jgrin today. In surroundings living up to the colored tourist folders, the President and his wife relaxed in the warm desert sunshine of Palm Springs, a Hollywoodtype resort about 90 miles south of Los Angeles. The President’s physician, Dr. Howard Snyder, and members of the White House staff have been urging the Chief Executive for some time to get away to warm weather as a respite from the tough winter routine of Washington. Under the further urging of Paul G. Hoffman, board chairman of the Studebaker Corp, and moving spirtl behind the citlzens-for-Eisenhower movement in 1952, the President finally made it. Today, he and Mrs. Eisenhower and her mother. Mrs. John S. Doud of Denver, were in residence on Soketree 'Ranch a few miles out•side town, living in wbat Hoffman described as "really a very simple little cottage” with.fuor bedroom# and enclosed patio. | •r Op today's agenda for Jlrs. Eisenhower was sun in the patio. an<U for the President probably golf at Tamarisk country club where Ben Hogan, winner of the 1953 masters tournament, is the resident* professional. W’hen the President’s big government plane rolled to a stop at the Palm Springs Airport Wednesday night after a nine and a half hour flight Trom Washington, the Chief Executive told Gov. Goodwin Knight: "I’m delighted to be back here once again. We've been looking forward for a long time to this trip—being on this desert —that’s j what We’re here for." Once airport formalities were out of the .way, the President and (Conllnued ob Pace Five) Final Hearing Set By Appeals Board Junk Yard Case To Be Heard March 23 Final hearing by the Decatur board of zoning appeals to determine If an affidavit charging violation of the zoning ordinance should be filed against William Smith, operator of the Smith junk yard in the south part of the city, has been set for Tuesday night, March 23, at 7:15 o’clock at city haH. . Clarence Zinef, chairman of the appeals board, stated thkt he believed the board could hear sufficient additional evidence in one session to determine what its next step would be. Residents of the area, who claim Smith has greatly extended his operations since enactment of an amendment to the ordinance forbidding It, are represented in the matter by Custer and Smith. Ed A. Bosse is representing Smith, who avers that he has operated a junk yard in the same location for several years, prior to enactment of the original zoning ordinance. A score of witnesses have been examined by the attorneys. The hearing, which already has consumed two night sessions, is informal and has been called to determine what action the board might take in the matter, Residents of the area claim that the operation of the junk yard is not only a health hazard but also has caused a depreciation In value of their property. Violation of the ordinance carries a >IOO a day fine. INDIANA WEATHER IncreMing cloudiness and warmer tonight, Friday cloudy, windy and mild with showers by sftemoon or night Low tonight 38-46, high Friday 6865.

Economists In Disagreement On Upswing Differing Views On Prospects Os Nation's Economy WASHINGTON UP — Three economists Disagreed today over whether the nation’s economy will take an upward swing this spring. The were offered by Edwin G. Nourse, head of the council of economic advisers in the Truman administration: Alvin H. Hansen, professor of political economy at Harvard University: and Martin R. Gainsbrugh, chief economist of the national industrial conference board. They testified before a joint congressional committee on the nation's economy as Republicans and Democrats prepared to back President Eisenhower if he feels emergency measures are necessary to prevent a depression. Mr. Eisenhower told a news conference Wednesday that if employment does net pick up in March he will consider steps, including possible tax concessions to boost consumer purchasing power. Nourse said he was “less sanguine” than President Eisenhower’s recent economic report, on “the prospect for a spontaneous upturn of business in the next few months.’’ He said the current “economic adjustment” is “much more fundamental than mere inventory trimming,” as analyzed by administration economists. “We do not have adeqifite grounds for counting on a second or third quarter recovery,” he added. , Hansen said that while a slight drop in the economy is “plausible” this year, “a cumulative spiralling collapse of serious proportions is unlikely.” The serious problem confronting the nation, he said, Is not stabilizing the economy at the present level, but "maintaining the growth, expansion and momentum of the last four years.” Gainsbrugh said the nation's economy has “passed well beyond a rolling adjustment, a term used by administration economists to the next stage of cyclical recession—namely an inventory reces(Ceatfaued on Pace Eight) Former Decatur Man Dies Last Evening Charles H. Reffelt Is Taken By Death Charles H. Reffelt, 86, a former resident of Decatur, died at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had ibeen a patient for three months; — — (Mr. Reffelt was 'born in Fort Wayne and moved to his home near Albion four years. He had lived in Decatur for 10 years, leaving this city 16 years ago. He was an upholsterer for 28 years for the Pennsylvania railroad, retiring about 35 years ago. Mr. Reffelt was a member of St. Jude’s Catholic church at Fort Wayne. A veteran of World War I. he was a member of the Veterans of . Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans. Surviving are a son, Leo Reffelt of Fort Wayne; four Mrs. Gertrude (Miller of Decatur, Mrs. Rosella Smith and Mrs. Lillian Addis of Albion, and Mrs. Mildred Flack of Fort Wayne; 10 grandchildren; nine great-grand-children; two sisters, Mrs. Louise Begue and Mrs. Charlotte Zurbruch, both in California, and a brother, Harry Reffelt. Funeral services ’Will be held at 9:45 a.m. Saturday at the Getz & Cahill funeral home and at 10:15 a.m. at St.'Jude’s Catholic church, the Rev. Msgr. Charles F. Girardot officiating. /Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.

v - . e South Korea Backs Down From Threats Relaxes Position On Indian Troops SEOUL, Korea UP — South Korea apparently /backed down today on threats to hold Indian troops in Korea 'by force. The ROK government merely asked the United Nations command <for “prdper assurances” on the welfare of 76 North Korean prisoners spnt to India for eventual resettlement in a neutral country. The relaxing of the ROK position came in a mildly-worded letter from defense minister Sohn Won JI to Bth U. S. .army commander Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor. The tone of the letter contrasted sharply with a note from ROK provost marshal Gen. Won Yong Duk to the Indian Command in which he said flatly the “remaining Indian troops will not leave hera” unless India guaranteed the welfare of the 76 men. India ignored Wo’s demand. The ROK defense minister asked Taylor for three “minimum assurances” on the tPOW question: 1. That the Koreans “not be sent to Communist countries,” although two of the POWs asked t-o be sent to Poland and Czechoslovakia. 2. That they “not constitute any financial burden to this government.’ 3. That if no neutral nation accepts them as permanent settlers, they “all be returned to Korea st the responsibility of the Indian government.”. Says West Powers To Stay In Berlin SHU Hoping For Unity Os Germany BERLIN, (UP) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles said today the western powers intend to stay in Berlin, and warned they will treat any attack on the city “as an attack against their forces and themselves.” Dulles told American occupation troops at an early morning review that they are “guardians of the first frontier of our freedom — the freedom of the Western fltorld.” He hailed Soviet-surrounded Berlin as “a very special . . unique symbol of the indomitable spirit of freedom.” The secretary of state recalled the U. S.-British-French declaration of May 27, 1952, which said ( in part: “The three governments will continue to maintain armed forces , within Berlin, and will treat any | attack against Berlin as an attack | against their forces and them<Tura To Face Six) Cub Scout Dinner Here Monday Night The annual blue and gold Cub Scout pack dinner will be held in < the Lincoln school gym Monday at 6 p.m. All Cub Scouts, their i parents, and Cub Scout leaders will participate in the event. AU adults will bring a basket of food 1 for the dinner period, and the committee on arrangements will pro- i vide the milk and ice cream. Each den will plan its own table arrangements and decorations. | The special program feature will be “The Bubble Man” from ( Huntington. E. G. Plasterer, a sosschool science teacher, , will-give a colorful program of bubble blowing, showing bubbles of many sizes and interesting designs. Cub Masters Robert Theobald and John Ebersole will arrange for the presentation oT Cub j Scout awards at the event Cub Scout committee chairmen, Chai- < mer Bollenbacher and Joe Azhell, have assigned members of their committees to various duties to < see to it that this shall be one of the highlight events of the year ] for peeatur Cub Scouts.

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Decatur Plays Hartford Five In First Till Commodores Battle Monmouth In Second Game Os Sectional Pairings for the Decatur sectional tourney, in which the nine Adams county high schools will compete, were announced this morning by the Indiana high school athilettc association. < The -tourney will open at the Decatur gym next Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 24, with two games, continue with one game Wednesday night, two Thursday night, the semi-finals Saturday afternoon, and the championship game Saturday night. The Monmouth Eagles will be the defending champions, haying won the crown in the 1953 sectional. The Decatur Yellow Jackets will open the tourney, meeting the Hartford Gorillas in the Ud-lifter at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday. This will be followed by a battle between those old rival#, the Decatur Commodores and Monmouth Eagles at 2:30 p.m. . . The winner of the Decatur-Hart-ford game will move right back into action at 1:15' Wednesday night, meeting tji'e counfy champion Geneva Cardinals. Lower bracket games will be played Thursday night, with ’ the Berne Bears playing the Pleasant Mills Spartans at 7 o'clock, followed by the Jefferson Warriors and ths Adams Central Grey- _ hounds. No games will be played Friday, with the day open for distribution and sale of tickets to fans of the four schools still in the running after the Wednesday and Thursday sessions. Semi-final* will be held Saturday afternoon, with the first game at 1 o’clock pitting the winner of the second Wednesday afternoon game against the winner of the Wednesday night encounter. The Thursday night winners will battle in the second semi- final at 2:16 p.m. The championship game win be played at 8:15 p.tn. Saturday, matching the Saturday afternoon winners. Officials for the tourney, assigned by the IHSAA, will be Frank Carnes and Gene Davis, both of Muncie. The Decatur sectional winner will again compete in the Fort Wayne regional, to be held at the Coliseum Saturday, March 6. The Decatur winner will meet the Fort Wayne winner in the first game, followed by the Kendallville and Garrett winners. At the Marion regional, the Marion and Hartford City champions will clash in the first game, followed by the Ossian and HuntIngtoh winners. . - Sectional pairings: Wednesday '5 •J'” ' Game I—-1:15 p.m.—Decatur and Hartford Center. Game 2—2:30 p.m. — Decatur Catholic and Monmouth. a , ' Game 3—8:15 p.m.—Geneva and winner game 1. Thursday Game 4—7:00 p.m.—Berne and Pleasant Mills. Game 5—8:15 p.m.— Jefferson arid Adams Central. Saturday Game 6—1:00 p.m. — Winner game 2 and winner game 3. Game .7—2:15 p.m. Winner game 4 and winner game 5. Game 8—8:15 p.m. — Winner game 6 and winner game 7. At Ossian Thursday 6: p.m.—Ossian and Jackson. 7:15 p.m.—Union Center antT Bluffton. 8:30 p.m.—Lancaster Central and Chester Center. * ■ Friday 7 p.m.—Rockcreek and Liberty Center. 8:15 p.m.—Petroleum and winner game 1. s (Caatinued »» Page •*!«•». -- - ' - ,9