Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 87, Decatur, Adams County, 13 April 1954 — Page 2

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Holy Week Services At Methodist Church Holy Communion On Maundy Thursday The Holy Week services planned (or the First Methodist church will include the Maundy Thursday service of -Holy Communion in the sanctuary at 7:30 o’clock. This will be a service of meditation and prayer in contemplation of the sacrifice of Christ. Special music will be providfed by the choir. All who may desire the minister to take Communion to their homes on Friday should call the church office any afternoon. This church will be host to the union Good Friday services which will be arranged in three one-hour periods from 12 until 3 o’clock. The four usher teams of the church win r>e available at difterINSURANCE Leo “Dutch” Ehinger FIRE WIND AUTO 720 No. 3rd 8t Phone 3-2004

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ent periods to assist in th* services. Mrs. Edgar Gerber will serve as organist for the entire period. The ReV. H. D. Neel, minister of the First Methodist church. Mishawaka, will be guest speaker for the first and third periods. The music program by the music department of the woman’s club will be given in the second hour. The • mixed quartet of the host church , will sing the offertory in the third • hour. T This church will also be hoot to ' the union satirise service at 6 o'- • clock Sunday morning. The pro- ’ gram has been arranged by the >ottth council of the Associated churches. A breakfaot has been arranged for th* Methodist youth fellowship for approximately 7 o’clock. The adult counsellors will be In charge. In the 10:20 service of divine 1 worship, the pastor will conduct the service of dedication and baptism for infants and children. The pastor’s sermon theme will be, 1 "The Easter Alternative.” Special musical selections have been prepared’by the choir. On attendance ’ goal of 600 has been set for this service. Persons who may have flowers to be used in this morning service should inform Mrs. C. I. Finlayson, chairman of arrangements.

Conferees In f Agreement On I Roads Measure 1 > Would Authorize Federal Fund For Building Highways By UNITED PRESS i A senate-house conference com- - mittee reached agreement today I on a billiOn-dollar "better roads’’ bill strongly backed by President , Eisenhower. > The measure, a compromise be- . tween differing senate and house i versions, would authorise a federal outlay of 966 million dollars a year I for highway building, compared Ur . the current spending level of 675 , million dollars. t Mr. Eisenhower had urged in his budget message last January that highway aid funds be sharply increased. ' The compromise, which is virtu- ■ ally assured of speedy acceptance by both chambers, was worked out after the house authorized 375 million dollars and the senate $1,010,000,000. Action on the measure was the legislative highlight of a day which found many lawmakers with their minds on baseball rather than bills. ( | The senate took a day’s holiday and the house recessed early in the afternoon ho that members could go to Griffith Stadium to watch President Elsenhower throw out the first ball in the season’s opening game between the Washington Senators and New York Yankees. Other late congressional news: Housing: Chairman Homer E. Capehart (R-Ind.) announced the senate banking committee will hold up action on the administration’s housing bill until officials complete an investigation of the I scandal - rocked federal housing Li.MmlnutratiQa-. J&StafLafiiOis... I committee may decide to conduct | an inquiry of its own into FHA. I Health: Secretary of health | Oveth’ Culp Hobby told the senate I labor committee that the^adfhrpTsr ‘ | tration’s plan tor federal “rein- | sura nee” of private health-care | programs would provide prepaid I mediqal protection for the public 1 I “In the traditional American way." • I Perjury: Atty. Gen. Herbert I Brownell Jr. asked congress to •' simplify the legal requirements 1 I for proving perjury charges. He 1 | said it would be a “particularly I effective weapon’’ in dealing with | Communists.” Social Security: The CIO told | the house ways and means com- | mittee that President Eisenhower’s ’ proposals for liberalizing social I security don’t go far enough. The I council of state Chambers of Com- | cierce opposed the administration | plan on grounds that present so- | cial security should be scrapped | in favor of a pay-as-you-go system, j Farm: Senate supporters of high i farm price supports ’ ready to give a little ground in" 1 their fight against the administra- | tion’s flexible price prop plan. I *. • _ j T wo Motorists Fined I Oh Speeding Charges j Jack Baylbs. Ohio City, route I onh, and Richard Leßoy Roth, De I catur, route one. each paid fines I of $1 and costs in justice of peace g court Monday afternoon after I Pleading guilty to Identical charg- | es of speeding. g Fine and costs amounted in I each instance to $14.75. I [A VACATION 15 NO L ASSET WITHOUT A ). AT < KOS4E 'J Farmers, we» guarantee a new ‘ John Dt>ere Corn,, Planter will be an “asset" to your fartp’:' New. 30% larger seed hoppers, j will cut ybur refilling stops .*. • the larger fertilizer hoppers let I you empty a full 80-pound sack ■- into each for more rounds of j' non-stop planting . . . jou cab ! adjust planting depth qujekly i and easily.

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..i HERE IS AN AERIAL view of Dienbienphu, where Indo-Chlna'S biggest battle is underway. Photo shows planes on the airstrip. The fortress is surrounded by Vietminh Communists, with heaviest attack* coming from positions in background. High terrain favors Red artillery, (International)

Money Returned To Wells Co. Farmer Money Returned By Magazine Salesman BLUFFTON, Ind. (UP)— Charlie Jones, 40, a bachelor farmer and railroad section hand who paid $1,044 for magazine subscriptions assuring him of periodicals for 60 years, got his money back Monday. Wells circuit judge Homer J. Byrd received $731.85 from the sales manager of a Terre Haute magazine crew and turned "to” Jones, who changed his~mrnd’ after buying the subscriptions last week. Jones stopped payment on a $313 check. The sales manager told —thejudge it was the bigest sale any cf his salesmen ever had made. Byrd continued indefinitely a charge of false pretenses against Jerry Davis, 24. Fond du Lac. Wis.. who allegedly sold the subscriptions to Jones. Byrd ordered Davis never again to make his sales pitch in Wells county. Y, The complaint charged that Davis falsely pretended to Jones that Jones’ aged mother wanted cer 4 tain magazines. Jones subscribed to about 25 magazaines for periods ranging up to 60 years. ' Indianapolis Man Is Kilted In Collision INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Clarence Ammerman, 59, Indianapolis, was killed today when two autos collided at an intersection where signal was installed only 24 hours earlier. The accident occurred at Kessler Blvd, and Ind. 37. Five persons were injured, including three members of the Ammerman family

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Good Old Days HARTFORD, Conn.. UP —City Assessor Fred H. Newton discovered that the men who held his job 150 years ago received 25 cents for every SI,OOO on the grand list. At that rate, his salary now would be $129,101 annually—or 16 times greater than he actually receives. Newton doesn’t plan to ask for the old rate, although he'd like to. Ilki & ? '* si j WILLIAM J. O'HARA, former naval intelligence officer who investigated Communist activities in New York during World War 11, testifies before Senate internal security subcommittee in Washington that the U. S. NaVy ordered him to Stop making anti-Comrnunist speeches after he left service in 1945. O’Hara is a Mount Vernon, N. Y., attorney. The subcommittee is investigating charges that ‘the White House” in 1944 ordered destruction of a New York naval intelligence unit’s files on Reds. (International)

Australia Grants Asylum To Russian Diplomat Reveals Russian Spy Plot CANBERRA, Australia UP — Australian prime minister Rbbert G. Menzies said today that a Soviet diplomat who asked and was granted political asylum has revealed a Russian spy plot in Australia. Menzies said that Soviet secret police (MVD) documents handed over by the refugee diplomat, Vladimir Michaelovich Petrov, involved both Australian citizens and Soviet MVD agents in Australia in the plot. Petrov, a career diplomat who had been serving as the third secretary in the Soviet embassy, chose freedom after living in Australia since February, 1951. Menzies said Petrov voluntarilyleft the Soviet embassy and asked the Australian security and intelligence organization to grant him asylum. The government granted the request. The information handed over by the defecting diplomat, Menzies said, disclosed, “what I might call espionage activities in Australia.” Menzies called for a royal commission to investigate into the case and asked that it be given powers to compel witnesses to give evidence. It was not indicated what information was sought by Soviet espionage agents, but Australia was the site of Britain’s atomic bomb tests. £ ~ ' To Take Bids For Old Kirkland School Notice is being published today by the Adams Central consolidated school board that the old Kirkland township high school building and two acres of land in Kirkland township will be offered for sale at the offices of Custer and Smith in Decatur. x'' Bids will be received at 2 p.m.. April 17 and the building will be offered continuously until sold at not less than the appraised valuation. t . The building was offered at an auction sale several weeks ago but the highest bid did hot reach the appraised value and therefore the auction was declared “no sale.” (lifts & Greetings for You — through WELCOME WAGON from Your Friendly Business Neighbors <" n d Civic P’-'d S r '<'ir»rW«* , fnre I »Tr|»r4 On the occasion oft The Birth of a Baby Sixteenth Birthday* Engagement Announcement* Change of residence Arrival* of Newcomer* to City i ‘ Phone 3-3196 or 3-3966

Governor Craig Says Criticism Political Ban On Reports Is Defended By Craig INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Governor Craig charged today criticism of his pre-election ban on state board of accounts report* was politically-inspired and "untruthful." He said state administration* for 25 years invoked the secrecy order just as he did. But two termer governors denied that. “Sometimes in public life it’s heck if you do and heck if you don't,” commented Craig. He started ths controversy Friday, citing a 1917 state law and ordering the board to keep secret for 45 days before an election any findings of irregularities in accounts of governmental units. Public leaders, many of them Republicans, protested. Some said he Was trying to hide corruption of his '‘cronies.” Craig said there has been “successful application’ 1 of the law ter 25 years. He said the ban Is “wholesomd" and “will stand.” “It is disappointing that those who know the law and who know of this policy would attempt for political devices to give it unfair, unreal and untruthful interpretations,” the governor said. The board of accounts said in a statement that since 1929—during the terms of Governors Leslie, McNutt, Townsehd, Schricker and Gates—the same policy was “followed to the letter.” However, former Gov. Ralph F. Gates, a Republican, said “I never issued any order to suppress any report during my term. I never knew of it (the 1917 law 1 ). It doesn't sound good.” Former Gov. Henry F. Schricker said no such order was issued by him during his eight years in office and “as far as I know the question was never raised." “Why could anyone expect that in following the law and estab-

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IMhed policy of state «<’ vernf " ent J the rule would have been changed this year?” Craig asked. “Had it been changed, he con tinued. "those who wished to be unfair would then have said t nal it was changed so that exposure could be made of their friends.’ Craig added Be has learned to “expect unfairness in criticism. The state board said the Craig policy “should be continued” unless the legislature changes it. The ban will be lifted when reports of audits “cannot be used for unfair and malicious political purposes," the board’s statement said, and a similar ban “will be mad* prior to the November general election." 4 Craig's ban keeps ((unscrupulous people" from using reports to “further their effort,” the board *aid. Hunting Handicap , ROCHESTER, N. H., UP — Though paralyzed from the waist down, Chafes Kendrup, 22, is an enthusiastic nlmrod in his wheel chair. He wheels himself through the woods in quest of game; and this year he missed only one day of the deer season. A erack shot, he recently was awarded a life membership in the Cocheco Valley. Sportmen's Club.

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