Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 110, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1958 — Page 2

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Freedom Os Worship But Not Religion Baptist Officials Give Impressions o By LOUIS CASSELS United Press Staff Correspondent A visit to Moscow convincd Rep. Books Hays <D-Ark .) that “the Russians have freedom of worship—but they don’t have freedom «f religion.” Hays is president of the Southern Baptist Convention. He and the Rev Claren W. Cranford, president of the American Baptist Convention. He and the Rev. Claren W. Cranford, president of the American Baptist Convention, flew to Moscow last month for a good will visit with Russian baptists. They reported their mpressions in separate interviews in Washington this week. Hays will give a formal report to the Southern Baptist Convention, which meets in Houston May 30-23. They found, as have other visitors to the Soviet Union, that worship service in Russian are heavily attended. At an early Sunday service at Moscow’s First Baptist Church, for example, every one of the 1,400 seats was filled long, before the opening hymn, and more than 600 worshippers stood thoughout the two-hour service. Aware Os Restrictions But as Baptists who attach great importance to evangelism, Hays and Cranford'.' were acutely Stop That Cough use “OUR OWN” COUGH SYRUP KOHNE DRUG STORE

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conscious of the restrictions which the Soviet Communist government has placed on church activities. “The reason I say that the Russians do not have freedom of religion,” Hays explained, “is that they are not free to propagate the faith. The churches cannot operate Sunday schools dr conduct any kind of educational programs. ■ They are net permitted to acquire property to open new churches” Only the government can carry on “educational functions’’ in Russia. And in state-operated schools, Russian children are taught that religion is an “outworn superstition.” They are told that the Soviet government tolerates religious worship because it makes the old folks feel good. But that young people are expected to take a “scientific” — i.e., atheistic — view of the universe, Soviet Communist leaders believe that this strategy will be more effective in the long run than open persecution of the churches, and that it will virtually eliminate religion from Russia within one or two more generations. Is it working? Mostly Middle Aged Hays and Cranford saw some evident that it is. Middle - aged adults greatly outnumber young people in Ryssian church congre- ■ gations. “On the other hand, we did see some young people at services.” Hays said. “And the Baptist leaders’ told us that about 20 per cent of their church membership consists of young people. “We asked them what they did about religious education and they I told us: Our homes are our Sunday schools, and the grandmothers are our Sunday school teachers.’ ” ’ Cranford said Russian Baptists are allowed to hold prayer meetings in private homes, as well as fomal worship services in

Predicts High Food Prices To Continue Leading Retailer Makes Prediction HOT SPRINGS, Va (UP) — • The president of one of America’s r major retail organizations forecast today that the nations house- ’ wives will face continued high • food prices well into 1959. The prediction was made pril vately by one of the prominent - members of the Business Adviso- • ry Council which met to discuss - tax reduction as. a primary fed- : eral move against the recession, t Informal, talfrs with the more ■ than 100 corporation and business - leaders here at the Homestead, a luxurious resort .hotel, indicated ■ a large majority of them opposed ■ a cut in corporate or individual i income taxes. They were strong, ' however, for slashing excise taxes and speeding the rate at which businesses may depreciate poperty and equipment for tax purposes. The depreciation speed-up has the strong backftig of Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, ex officio BAC chairman who will report back to President Eisenhower on the mood and recommendations of the council. The member who talked privately about food prices said a truly discernible drop was not in the cards for this year and possibly 1959 because of inceased labor costs, not only in actual [ marketing but in handling and ■ shipment of food. • He said some sort of govern- ■ ment action to control ri s i ng I wages was, in his opinion, the only Way to start food prices ; down, but he did not “for a mo- . ment” expect Congress to enact i such controls. L churches He—said—the—prayer, meetings are “where they do ■ most of their evangelism.” “The vitality of religion in Russia seems to depend, even more than in other countries, on the every-day witness of Christian laymen in their private lives,” I Cranford said.

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Bible School Opens At Pleasant Mills Average attendance during the first week of the Pleasant Mills community vacation Bible school, which opened Monday, is reported as 63, with 68 children enrolled. Mrs. Elmer Golliff, director of the school, reports that eight churches are represented at the school, which closes May 16. Every child attending the closing program Sunday evening, May 18, will be eligible to attend the picnic and outing, to be held at Affolder park in Geneva Wednesday, May 21. Youthful Bicyclist Is Killed By Auto NORTH VERNON (W — L y n n Smith, 13, North Vernon, was killed Thursday when his bicycle was struck by’ a car along Ind. 7 north of here. Authorities said the boy was traveling in the same direction as a car driven by Russell Bartlag, 54, North Vernon, Bartlag said the bike suddenly turned into the path of his vehicle. Lynn was thrown about 40 feet by the force of the impact and sustained a broken neck and crushed skull. /He was pronounced dead on arrival at a Seymour hospital. Fail To Get Vote As Precinct Committeemen INDIANAPOLIS W -Three Democratic candidates for precinct committeemen jobs lost out in Tuesday’s primary when they failed to vote for themselves. Ellis J: Hall and Clifford Woodson opposed each other in tfee traditionally Republican 9th precinct of the 12th ward. “Neither got a single, vote. Virginia B: Denton had no opposition for a committeeman post in the 2nd precinct, but she also failed to poll a vote. State law requires at least one vote for election.

Temperatures Dip Into 30s In State Below-Normal Will Continue In State By UNITED PRESS Temperatures dipped into the 30s again in Indiana early today and the weatherman said belownormal readings would continue into the middle of next week with a chance of scattered frost north tonight. * A slight warm-up was due Sunday and Monday, but a cooler trend will return Tuesday, keeping temperatures averaging 3 to 7 degrees below normal for the fiveday period beginning Saturday. The mercury fell to 37 at Lafayette and 39 at South Bend this morning but dropped no lower than the 4Js elsewhere. Highs Thursday ranged from 68 at Evansville to 70 at all northern Indiana check points. Fort Wayne got the only rainfall, measuring .07 of an inch, although showers had been forecast, for the entire state. Temperatures may drop to the mid-30s tonight in the northern third of Hoosierland. Fair weather was due to accompany the drop, lending a threat of frost. A chance of scattered showers was seen for the central and south portions today and tonight. After that, little or no rain was expected before Tuesday, then all around the state. Precipitation will average little if any north and one-quarter to one-half inch south, the outlook said. Highs today will range from the upper 50s to the upper 60s, lows tonight from the mid 30s to the 40s. and highs Saturday from 60 to 62 The outlook for Sunday was partly cloudv and a little warmer. SENATE (Copttoded from__PaKe one) Rules Comrinttee kiUed tris small boat safety bill through “misconceptions." The me a sure was asimed at modernizing laws dealing with use of the nation's seven million pleasure boats. Airports: The Senate Commerce Committee voted a four-year extension of the Federal Airport Act to help fit the nation’s airports 'for the jet air age. The act 'is due to expire June 30, 1959. The | administration opposed the extension on grounds local communities could meet their own airport needs.. Under the bill, federal matching funds for airport devel--epments would be increased each year from the present 63 million. [ dollars to 100 million annually. * ; Child Welfare: The administra.-, : tion asked Congress to liberalize 1 I the child welfare provisions of the 'Social Security Act so it can ex-/ tend it to’children’s programs to cities. The program is now co:j- . fined to rural areas. Immunity: The Senate Internal Security subcommittee recomj mended Coiißress byp a s s the (courts in offering legal immunity to prospective congressional witnesses, The group 'proposed that a 1954 law governing such cases be amended. Meantime, the administration's tspace control agency bill was • criticized by Senate Democratic 'Leader Lyndon B. Johnson. He 'said it was "whizzed through the Pentagon on a motorcycle.” FIRST (Continued from Pas, one) red-haired garbage hauler was sane. Couples Contrasted Scheele Thursday presented the i elements of the state's case , against Starkweather, and drew a ' contrast between two young couples whose destiny brought them ; together in a scene of death in : an abandoned school yard. On the one hand was the 'Strange and unhappy Starkweather and his 14-year-old girl friend. Card Fugate. On Jan. 27 they | armed themselves with guns and (ammunition, a knife and some (hamburgers and set out for thrill Starkweather admits he had already. killed four . people—including Card’s mother Heading toward them were JenIsen' and his high school sweetI heart. Carol June King, 16. They | were next-door neighbors who had (been going steady for six months Fate drew the two young cou- | pies to a country road where (Starkweather’s car bogged down 'in a snowdrift and Jensen and i Carol.- out driving in the evening. | came across them carrying a riI fie, a shotgun, a revolver and a hunting knife. Let Scheele tell the story: Wanted to Help “Robert Jensen stopped the car and asked if they were having trouble and'if he could take then) some place. And Starkweather and Caril got into the car.” The high school boy started to take them to a pay phone but Charlie made them keep driving and suddenly told them to go back to the school yard, where he and Caril ’Ann had spent-the afternoon in a storm cellar “getting warm.” “When they reached the school yard. Charlie Starkweather and Card Fugate ordered them out and marched them to the entrance of the storm caVe,|“ Scheele said. . “Starkweather then ordered Jensen to go down into the storm sen to go down into the storm cave . . He was shot from behind six times. He fell to tlie boti tom of the cave. ’ I Carol King was killed after that.

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Joseph E. Davies I Dies Early Today Former Ambassador To Russia Is Dead ~ WASHINGTON W — Joseph'E. Davies, 81, international conference maker for three Presidents and former ambassador to Russia, died at his home early today after a long illness. Davies, whose last, major public service was as adviser to President Truman at the Potsdam Conference in Berlin in 1945. maintained activity in a Washington law firm until recently. He was U. S. ambassador to Russia from 1936-38. and ambassador to Belgium and minister to Luxembourg from 1938-39. 'Davies“was defeated in an ef~ ..fort to wdn election to the U. S. Sedate in 1918 when he ran in his native Wisconsin.

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i His activities as a conference I specialist began the same year ' when he served as economic adi viser to President Woodrow Wili son at the Versailles Conference. ‘ He was a special envoy of Presij dent Franklin D. Roosevelt with ; rank of ambassador to confer with i Soviet Marshal Josef Stalin from I May to June 1943 to arrange for Xthe"TeheranrConference. —— Recession Is Felt Sharply In Midwest Federal Reserve Bank In Review CHICAGO (UP) —The recession has been more sharply felt in the Midwest than the nation as a whole in terms of employment, construction and sales, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reported today. — ; | The bank's monthly. review.

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.■“Business Conditions,” attributed the declines to the heavy conceni tration of machinery, automotive ; and steel industries in the region. More than 6 per cent of the la- ’ i bor force was unemployed in 15 I 'of the 7th Reserve District’s 24 1 major labor market areas in 1 March, the report said. The figure compares with a Labor Department estimate"that 55 out of 125 areas in the rest of the nation were similarly affected. Joblessness was more than 12 per cent in Flint, Grand Rapids. Muskegon and Detroit in Michigan and in South Bend in Indiana. Unemployed percentages ranged from 6 to 9 per cent in Lansing, Saginaw, and Battle Creek in Michigan, Joliet and Pebria in Illijnois, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, and Terre Haute in Indiana, and “ Kenosha and Racine in Wiscon- ' 1 sin, the report said. 1 j Figures for the first three ■ ’ months of 1958 showed that coir ’ I struction was down 25 per cent ’' from the first quarter of 1957 ! Nationally, construction awards 'suffered an 11 per cent decline.