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FREEDOM OP THE PRESS IS A RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE THE LUDINGTON DAILY NEWS An Independent Neiuspaper Serving Mason County and Surrounding Area WEATHER: Cloudy, occasional flurries fomght Tuesday. Coldtr. VOLUME NO. 63, NO. 51 LUDINGTON, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS Dodge to Have Extensive Power in Shaping GOP Fiscal Policy What's Doing in The World US and State NEW YORK Iff) Winston Churchill has arrived with this latest estimate of war prospects: They have not subsided, but they have receded.

The British Prime Miniser credits the Allied intervention and stand in Korea for the rollback of a third world war. Churchill says the greatest event of the past five years is that Soviet aggression has been resolutely and fully that this is the meaning of Korea. It has, he adds, done more to improve the chances of world peace' than anything else. And, Churchill notes, there are things worse than a there's a checkmate. PARIS to General Ridgway, our side would take a bad beating for a while if the Russians attacked during the next year and-a-half.

But, said Allied commander today, he does not believe we would lose the war. DETROIT (5V-The Army told the Ford, Motor Company today double its 40 million dollar order for Sherman tank engines. NEW YORK special trainload of 750 persons went from New York to Washington this morning in a clemency demonstration for the atomic spies, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Rosenberg: The time for their Sing Sing electrocution has been set for January 14th.

WASHINGTON Iff) President Truman has denounced what he called unwarranted and reprehensible attacks on his special commission on immigration and naturalization. Truman set forth his views in a statement issued whon the commission called at the White House for formal presentation of its report which recommends complete revision of McCarran Walter almmigration Act. The, findings already have been sharply assailed by Senator Pat McCarran. NEW YORK out of a meeting today with General Eisenhower, Republican Senator William Knowland of California announced: "I have every reason to believe that Hawaii will get statehood at a very early date." By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH NEW YORK Iff) An associate of President-elect Eisenhower said today that Joseph M.

Dodge as federal budget director will have perhaps unprecedented authority in shaping fiscal policy. This associate, who asked not to be named, talked of Dodge's role as Eisenhower made ready, to meet with four Republican senators William F. Knowland of California, new-chairman of'the Senate GOP Policy Committee, Hugh Butler of Nebraska, Guy Cordon of Oregon and Arthur V. Watkins of Utah. Eisenhower headquarters said each of the senators had asked for an appointment and that arrangements had been made for them to come in together.

The headquarters said it had no advance information on why the lawmakers wanted to see the general. Eisenhower's afternoon schedule was free of visitors pending the arrival in New York this morning of Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain. The general and his old friend plan to confer informally, but no time had been set for the meeting. Eisenhower aides said the session probably would be held tomorrow, but they were not ruling out an earlier meeting. The President-elect announced the appointment of Dodge as' director of the Budget Bureau over the week end and asked him to sit in at Cabinet meetings.

Dodge, 62-year-old Detroit banker with a long record of government service, has been serving since Nov. 9 as Eisenhower's fiscal liaison man with the outgoing Truman administration. Eisenhower also chose three men to serve in key jobs in the Justice Department under Herbert Brownell attorney general-desi ignate. The three, named as assistant attorneys general, are: Warren Olney III of Berkeley, to be chief of one Of the department's most important units, the Criminal Division. Olney, 48, formerly was head counsel of California's Special Study Commission on Organized Crime.

Warren E. Burger of St. Paul, to head the Claims Division, which handles all civil suits filed by and against the govern- TAIPEH, Formosa UP) Francis Cardinal Spellman, en route home from Korea, arrived today at this Chinese Nationalist island. Shooting Tops Family Feud IONIA N. Wilson, 66, of Lake Odessa, was held for questioning today in the wounding of his stepson, William Parker, 39, in Lake Odessa last night.

Sheriff's officers said the shooting climaxed a family feud, a .32 calibre bullet creasing Parker's scalp. Parker was taken to a Hastings hospital, suffering from loss of blood but in good condition otherwise. The Weather By The Associated Press Colder weather headed into Michigan today in the wake weekend snowfalls. The U. Weather Bureau predicted a low of 15 degrees for Southern Michigan tonight and still colder Tuesday night.

Upper Michigan got most of the snow. A fall of seven inches was reported from Houghton. The snow iced many roads in Southern Michigan. (U. S.

Weather Bureau Forecast) Lower Michigan: Cloudy with occasional snow flurries tonight and Tuesday. Colder tonight. Highest temperature one year ago today, 34; lowest, 24. Highest temperature this date since 1872, 57 In 1939; lowest, -6 In 1884. The sun sets today at 5:14 p.

in. and rises Tuesday at 8:01 a. m. The moon rises today at 10:49 p. and sets Tuesday at 11:02 a.

m. Temperature at the U.S. observation station for 24 hours ending at 12 noon: Maximum 26, minimum 20. MARION "PECK" MARTZ BOOKKEEPING AND TAX SERVICE LUNDQUIST BUILDING PHONE 232 SCOTTVILLE I Boys Drown While Skating GRAND HAVEN Skating on thin ice brought double tragedy to Michigan again over the weekend. Two Grand Rapids boys broke through on Stern's Bayou, five miles southeast of here, anc drowned Sunday.

Most of the ice on- the bayou wa frozen solid but a light layer snow concealed a paper-thin spot in the middle. The Koltak boy broke through first, then Smith plunged through as he went to his chum's aid. Fishermen, including the Smith boy's father, failed in attempts to push poles to the boys struggling in the ice-cold water. Their bodiei were recovered. There was near-tragedy in De troit a eight skaters broke through over water only wais deep, and all they got was an icy dunking.

Bags First MIG of '53; Winter Halts Land War. SEOUL An American Sabre jet pilot bagged the first Com munist MIG 15 jet of the year to day in a battle 35,000 feet above Northwest Korea. The ground war was stalled by the bitter Korean winter. The Fifth Air Force reported th Red jet fighter was shot down ir flames by 2nd.Lt. William R.

Bow man of Sarasota, his firs kill. Bowman was in a flight Sabres flying a protective scree for fighter-bombers striking through snow flurries at Commu nist supply targets. On sniper ridge, son? i 175 Chi nese stormed up the slopes of Pin point Hill under ear-splitting artil lery cover. They hit the ridg position in two waves but droppe back after less than an leaving an estimated 35 dead am 20 wounded. On the far Western Front, al most two days' of no contact wa ended by sharp patrol clashes.

Children Return to School Today Ludington school children re turned to public and parochia schools today following thei Christmas holiday vacation. Pupils have had a two-wee vacation. The nearest star is 300,000 time as far away from the earth as i the sun. lent. Burger, 45.

has been a prac- cing attorney in St. Paul since 931. J. Lee Rankin of Lincoln, be in charge of the Executive Adjudications Division. That unit repares presidential proclama- ons and executive orders which equirc legal advice.

Rankin, 45, as been practicing law since 930. The three Justice Department ppointees each will receive a alary of $15,000 a year. Dodge budget director will be paid 17,500. All four are Republicans. Eisenhower's press secretary, ames C.

Hagerty, said all four ppointments had been cleared Republican senators from the oine states of the men named. Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, the Senate majority leader, said after a conference with Eisenhower last week that they had reached a general agreemnt that key appointments would be checked through senatorial channels. Tafl said there previously had been complaints by Republican senators that the Eisenhower headquarters was bypassing them on job assignments.

An aide to Eisenhower said his request that Dodge sit in at Cabinet meetings was the tip off that the President-elect wants the new budget director to have a free hand in shaping fiscal policy for th new administration. Eisenhower reportedly feels that under the Truman administration the budget chief has been only a sort of super-accountant with little policy-making authority. SURVIVES 'FATAL' Jean Garrett and her hus- Dand, are shown leaving the Hawthorne, hospital where Mrs arrett underwent a Caesarean operation Christmas night, facing the possibility of death. Following the operation, Jean came through "beautifully" and is on her way home to introduce her fourth child, Michael Emanuel, to his three brothers. (International Soundphoto) Ferguson Listed as Senate Pilot in Hunt for Reds By G.

MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON Well-placed sovirces said today Sen. Ferguson (R-Mich) will command a Senate investigations subcommittee "task force" hunting for Communists in the government and the United Nations, The sources, declining to be named, said Sen. Williams (R Del) may abandon his lone-wolf role as a sleuth for scandals in the internal Revenue Bureau to head another of the group's task forces which will investigate that agency. There was no immediate com- ment from Williams. The informants said announce- lent that Ferguson will take the ost "will signal the official de- ision to shift the Senate's Com- umist investigation out of the ands of the internal security sub- ommittec" on which the Michigan enator was the senior Republican lember.

The investigations and internal ecurity subcommittees have been ying for assignment as the Sen- tc's official Red-hunters. Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis), who will ead the investigations subcommit- ee, and Ferguson told a reporter was too soon to make any an- louncements. But it was learned that Ferguson ias decided to quit the judiciary ommittee, parent of the internal ecurity group, and join both the ienate Foreign Relations and Gov- rnment Operations Committees. The investigations subcommittee is branch of the latter.

Under McCarthy, the subcom- nittee's task force method would issign various members to specific nvestigations. However, Sen. McCarran (D- Nev) predicted last night that the nternal security subcommittee, vhich he headed in the last Con- will have more questions to ask the State Department about its oyalty check of Americans employed by the United Nations. McCarran contended in a state ment that information from the department itself shows that loyalty Churchill Lauds Korean Action Congress Waiting for Inauguration By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON of the new Republican Congress concerned themselves principally today with committee assignments while waiting for Tuesday's ceremony which will formally declare Dwight D.

Eisenhower elected as president. The Senate and the House, which convened and organized Saturday, will meet jointly Tuesday to tabulate the electoral votes and officially declare Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon the next President and vice president of the U.S. The meeting will be held in the House chamber. Except for the likelihood of a Senate rules fight, the outcome of which was pretty much a foregone conclusipn, and the receipt of several messages from the expiring Truman administration, the new 83rd Congress will then mostly mark time until Eisenhower is inaugurated two weeks from tomorrow.

Two presidential messages are due later in the week, one transmitting President Truman's budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 and the other outlining his views on the state of the union. The State of the Union message is expected Wednesday. The budget message is due Friday. Neither will be delivered personally by the President. A third message, an economic report, may reach Congress early next week.

Congress probably won't pay much heed to any of the three, waiting instead for Eisenhower's recommendations. Sen. Bridges (R-NH) said Sunday he expects Eisenhower, shortly after being inaugurated, to address a joint Senate-House session and present his own State of the Union message. "I think," Bridges added on a CBS television program, "that it will differ from Truman's." Bridges said that "unless something more developed" he guessed the new Senate would take no action on a report questioning whether Sen. McCarthy (RWis) Grant Taxpayers 11-Day Extension City and township taxpayers have been granted an extension of time to pay their county and school taxes for 1952, according to a state statute amended early in 1952.

Taxes, which were due Jan. 9, now become due Jan. 20. When paid after Jan. 20 a four percent penalty will be charged.

used for his own purposes funds donated to help his campaign against what McCarthy calls Communists in government." Sen. Welker (R-Idaho), terming 'outlandish" the report by Democratic controlled election subcommittee of the last Senate said he will ask that it be rejected Welker is a member of the rules committee, which will consider next. The subcommittee accused Me Carthy of trying to thwart its in quiries. McCarthy dared th group's two Democrats and one Republican to try to bar him from being sworn in for a second Senate term Saturday. None took up the challenge and he was seated with out question.

Most of this week in Congres will be spent on the difficult anc somewhat touchy task of assignin senators and House members committees the groups wher much of the actual business writing the nation's laws is done A over the Senate rules on curbing filibusters prob ably will be settled Tuesday the next day. A group of 19 sen ators wants to change the rules make it. easier to limit debate, bu their proposal is headed for defea unless there is a sudden change sentiment. NEW YORK Church- liill said today that resisting Communism in Korea has "clone move to improve the chances of world peace than anything else." The. British Prime Minister, arriving here for talks with President-elect Eisenhower, said danger of World War III "has receded during the last year." He told a news conference aboard the Queen Mary that (lie Korean war means "that Soviet aggression has been resolutely and fully confront eel." "That has been the greatest event of the past five years," he said.

The 78-year-old British leader said his country was against any "definite extension" of the Korean war. He expressed distress i American trade tariffs, and said VEEPS MEET AT 83RD President-elect Richard Nixon (left), and Vice President Alben Barklcy, talk things over following the opening of the 83rd United States Congress Saturday. The official business took only 69 minutes with the big issue being a proposal that the individual income tax for 1953 be cut five and one-half percent. The existing rule states that an 11 percent reduction starts the fi'-st of next. year.

Proceeding his talk with Nixon, Mr. Barkley administered the oaths to 97 new and re-elected senators. (Internationa! Soundphoto) to the United States was a secon- considered at in such checks. McCarran's statement was based on a State Department memorandum dealing with secret arrangements made in 1949. The arrangements governed how the department would fill U.N.

requests for data on U. S. citizens employed by or applying for jobs with the U.N. Copies of the memo, as distributed by McCarran, said in part: The department will decide whether any information of a derogatory character is of sufficient substance to warrant the conclusion that the individual would appear to be so disposed, through political affilitation or sentiment, (Please turn to Page 2, Column 4) Car Wrecked in Accident A car, driven by Edgar Mercer Jr. of Fountain, was demolished in an accident which happened al 2 p.

m. Saturday three quarters a mile north of Scottville. Mason county sheriff's officers told The News that the accident occurred when the Mercer car skidded across the highway into the path of a car, which was driven by Austin Pehrson of Manistee. Mrs. Mary Pehrson, wife of Mr Pehrson, received minor injuries and four-year-old James Ruboyi anes, grandson of Mr.

and Mrs Pehrson, suffered a leg injury. The Pehrson car was reported to be considerably damaged. ircuit Court Opens Today The January term of Mason county circuit court was scheduled open this afternoon with Circuit Judge Max E. Neal presiding. The court calendar will be read 'or the January 'term.

Says Fred Alger to be Envoy DETROIT M. Alger, former Michigan secretary of state defeated for governor as the Republican candidate in November, will be named ambassador to either Canada or Mexico, the De troit Times reported over the weekend. There was no comment from Alger and Eisenhower headquarters has repeatedly refused to discuss prospective appointm ts. The story was written by Frank Morris, Times political writer. Claim Rates Are Illegal General Telephone Co.

has branded the increase in granted by the Michigan Ask Retailers to Meet Tonight The Retail division of Ludington Chamber of Commerce will meet at 8 p. m. tonight at the Chamber offices at Hotel Stearns. All merchants interested in the Home Show tentatively scheduled for March, are invited to attend the meeting. STREET FLOODED COOPERSVILLE street was flooded with water and this community of 2,000 was without water service for 10 hours Sunday after a truck hit a water hydrant in the center of town.

The truck was driven by Richard Homrich, 31, of Grand Rapids. rates public service commission both eont'isca-. tory and illegal in a suit filed Saturday in Ingham county circuit court. The utility charges that the rates set by Uie MPSC do not cover all of the company's costs of rendering telephone service and are therefore under the laws of Michigan and the 14th amendment of the United States Constitution contis- catory and illegal. Fred E.

Norris, president of the utility, said that the MPSC set the new rates at such a level that the company is unable to pay investors for the use of the capital they provided to build the plant now dedicated to public service and cannot therefore attract sufficient additional capital needed to improve and expand the service to meet the public demands for telephone service. "The company," he said, "is anxious and willing to continue to give the public it serves the quality and quantity of telephone serv- it wants, but cannot, under the law, accomplish its service objectives from the revenues derived from the charges for telephone service. Those however, must be at a level sufficient to cover all of the company's costs of rendering service, including its capital costs. If we cannot cover those costs people won't buy our securities, the sale of which we must depend upon to attract the investors capital needed for service improvement and expansion." "We believe," he went on say, the United States had failed fully share its atomic information with Great Britain. Churchill declined to indicate what subjects his talks with Eisenhower will cover.

The meeting has been labelled an "informal" one, but British governm spokesmen have said it may touch on a wide range of international questions. Churchill told the newsmen that prospects for peace this year 1 "certainly are not less encouraging than they were in 1952." To a newsman who wanted to know whether the danger of world war had subsided, the Prime Minister replied quickly: "Leave out the word subsided for the word receded." Asked whether Britain opposed any moves to extend the conflict, Churchill said: "I think it would be a greet pity for the United Nations or the United States armies go wandering about all over this vast td make any definite extension of the war." He said there are "worse things than a stalemate," such as that which prevails in Korea. "There's a checkmate," he said. But he said Korea must not divert the free nations from the "real center of gravity," which he said he believed is "along the frontiers of the Iron Curtain i Europe." The British Prime Minister and Eisenhower are expected to meet tomorrow, but there is a possibility they might get together sooner. No agenda for the meeting has been disclosed.

British government sources have stressed that the conference will be informal. However, responsible informants in London have indicated that the Prime Minister intends to broach four major topics, among them Soviet Premier Stalin's expressed willingness to meet with Eisenhower on ways of easing East-West tensions. Specifically, these informants said, the Prime Minister plans to discuss American-British tactics in case Stalin makes peaceful gestures more "ywvincing fhis Christmas Day replies to submitted by the New York times. It was in these replies that Stalin indicated his willingness to meet Eisenhower. The other three topics reportedly are: 1.

British desire to join the Anzus Pacific Defense Pact which now embraces the United States, Australia and New Zealand. 2. General Far East strategy. 3. The implication's of Eisen-; bower's recent trip to Korea and whether the visit opened any new approach to solving the Korean problem.

Their talks are expected to be held at the East Side Manhattan home of financier Bernard Baruch, an old friend of both Eisenhower and Churchill. The British Prime Minister and his wife will stay at Baruch's residence. On Wednesday, the Churchills Industry on Parade Star Watch Case Co. Wheels Run Smoothly By LEONORE P. WILLIAMS The wheels of industry in one of Ludington's leading manufacturing plants, the Star Watch Case Co.

on South Rath avenue, have kept running 'smoothly and well for over half a century in the almost exclusive manufacture of one single item, the watch case. Repeated many thousands of times in hundreds of sizes, shapes and designs and made of precious and semi-precious metal, the manufacture of watch cases has provided the livelihood of several thousand Ludington families since the factory's establishment here and has brought many millions of dollars into the community. The Star Watch Case Co. was founded in Elgin, 111., in the year 1897 by the late Otto A. Starke and Fred Hermann; both of whom were highly skilled artisans in watch case making.

They ere foremen in the Illinois Watch Case Co. plant in Elgin, 111., before starting in business for themselves. Mr. Starke was an engraver and steel hub cutter and Mr. Hermann was an ongine-turner.

Mr. Starke remained active as president and treasurer until his death in 1929. Mr. Hermann retired and sold his interests in the business in 1923, but continued to reside in Ludington until his death in 1934. Alfred W.

Church, then of Elgin, became financially interested in the new company about 1902, and moved to Ludington in 1923 to become active in the business. He has held the positions of vice-president and secretary during these turn to Page 7. column 5) years. At present he resides and spends most of his time in Camden, S. C.

The late Edwin Shelby Sr. a son- in-law of Otto Starke Sr. was a member of the firm and factory manager from the early 1920's until 1928 at which time he met an untimely death in an automobile accident while making a business trip for the factory. Otto A. Starke Jr.

entered the business in 1927 and succeeded his father as president and treasurer in 1929. In 1948, the Schwaibold and Northman a watch case manufacturing company of New York city, merged with the Star Watch Case Co. Edgar K. Schwaibold, Karl Schwaibold and Alfred Northman are all active at Star, with are scheduled to go to Washington for a visit with President Truman before leaving for a two-week vacation in Jamaica in the british West Indies. bringing the commission's before the court is in the that order public interest.

We, of course, know the public does not want to pay higher charges for anything, including telephone service, but at the same time, we also believe that it is willing to pay rates necessary to prevent service deterioration and to support a sound service inv provement and expansion program. We think that in the long ru'n the public will not appreciate our accepting without challenge an inadequate order from the commission and using its inadequacy to explain less and lower quality service than it wants." Reports to Police Home Was Entered Robert Bentz of 107 South Gay lord avenue reported to Ludington police Sunday evening that someone had entered his home during the past few days and taken articles of clothing. Mr. said entry was made through a window into a spare bedroom in the home, slips and a grey taken. Women's hose, felt hat were TO RECEIVE AWARD DETROIT W) Philip A.

Hart U. S. district attorney at Detroit will receive the Federal Business Association's first annual award as the "outstanding Federal admin istrator of 1952." Council Faces Light Schedule There was "nothing special" on he agenda as Ludington city commission prepared to meet tonight in its first session of 1953. City Manager Edward W. Larsen said regular department reports would be submitted but that thera was no other business scheduled.

The council meets at 7:30 p. m. in the council chambers of the Municipal building. Being Held Here on Larceny Charge Leonard Buckley, 37, of Custer is being held in Mason county jail on a petty larceny charge. Buckley is alleged to have stolen a wrist watch from a Custer garage Dec.

30. He was taken into custody Sunday. He will be arraigned before Municipal Judge Clay F. Olmstead Tuesday. A steam automobile was built in France in 1769.

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