Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 264, Decatur, Adams County, 9 November 1950 — Page 1

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TELEPHONE WORKERS ARE OUT ONSTRIKE

- mini iisu si ■*. .— .i.i United Slates ) Planes Smash Bridge Links Biggest Air Strike By Navy Manes In Warfare In Korea Tokyo. Friday. NOT. Id. —(UF)— i TOT U. ». Navy's Mggset air strike I of We Korean war smashed Yala < river bridge Unto In the Chinese l communist Hfeltae from Maacbnrta Thursday American auperforts and smaller i planes of the U. 8. Sth Air Force ; joined la tto pulverising aaaaah on communist strongholds '» North Korea and on transport H»«« “»er i which Chlaaaa divisions moved u> ■ join tba fighting against tto alltea. U. S. airman ran ap a aaara of two Russian awapt-wias Jrt fight ; era destroyed. another prohaMy destroy*. one damaged aad one prate ably damaged. white two Yak-typo ( fighters ware, daalroyad. For the third day th# Chlaaoa aad North Korean troops faded back from the frost lines aad avoid rd combat. A If. Barmy Mb corps spokesman arid tha enemy seemed S to torMfttoa aaatward ttom tba . hastily defended Ctoagctoa river ‘ HnsHl tto worthwum. poartMy ta proto far week spots tai the Allied 'fiftl—r" roti 1 From aboard the carrier Valley Foepe, United Prase correspondent Jack Hurby reported that nary bombers hurtled oat of the early morulas mteta and poured thoseends of pounds of bomba oa three IntornattateM bridges across tto » Yala YWW boundary between Korea and Mam hat la Pilots returainc from the strike reported that the Mateway bridge »>uih of the riant Rutho dam In central Korea was knocked oat temporarily. Reports on the other bridge* downriver had not been received. The airmen loosed their bombs In downriver dives, and they' said none of the explosives fell on the, Manchurian side, although common , Ist gun posts on that side of the river threw ap heavy anti aircraft fire. Panther jets guarding the navy Skyraiders and Corsair* during the « bombing reported that thfry were jumped by two awept-wtng Soviet type jets One definitely was de stroyed. another probably, they said While the Valley Forge airmen were lashing at the bridge below the Suiho Dam. other planes from the same carrier hit another span some 10 miles downstream at ChongsongJln. At the same limo (Tara to pawe Mai U. S. Coiuolties Now Total 28,235 Washington, Nov. ».-(UFI— Tho defense department said that the humber of American casualties in the Korean war ’ officially reported through last Friday totaled 28.231. including 5.455 dead. Today's report added 425 casual ties to the total of 27,414 announc ed last week. Actual casualties are higher because the total announc , ed Includes only those whose next of kin have been notified. Brico Deal Is Nomed Attendance Officer Adams county township trustees sitting In special meeting today 'an the county bogrd of education. elected Brice Deal to Servo as the county attendance officer to replace the late Rollo Houck, who died recently while attending teacher's convention in Fort Wayne. Deal, who lives at <22 St- Mary's street. I s married, and the father of one child; he »as elected from a field Os three candidates. TA graduate of Olivet Naiarene college, of Kankakee. 111., Deal recently completed graduate stu dies at the Indiana University extension center In Fort Wayne. He Is expected to assume hte duties Immediately. WEATHER Cloudy, windy, and cold this afternoon, tonight and Friday with winds diminishing in south portion by Friday. Oeeaetenal snow flurries north portion by tonight and Friday, especially near Lake Michigan. Low tonight 84 northwest to M southeast, high Friday 10 north, M south.

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— hcodVoNafto Stole Oa Teesdiy OH-Year Election Voting Record Set indlanapoli*. Nov. I - (UF) — Hoosiers set a new off-year election voting record Tuesday by casting an estimated l,<2o.e<M hoi lots. The turnout at the polls was nearly soe.MHi greater than In 1M«. the tost off-year election. aad 330.000 greater than in lift, the pre* lows non-presldentlal voting year. It was within 40.544 of tto 1.440.000 ballots cast both In 1*44 and IMS greeMeaiial election years. Complete returns showed today that coagreeoMaal races drew more Interest than the senatorial race between ton Homer E Capetot 1. and Alex M. Campbell. D They showed Capehar.'s final margin at altahtiy above 100.000 votes. Fifty-four percent of all coogresaioaal ballets cast for tbe major party candidates were cent Osun- Rte *»rer* S--S* -> ya Warn »*b * sr* ■ aIsMBUOT lOT IxwPUwIICBWw. " -apOTeewCa slightly mare than S 3 percent of th J votes coat ta Ms race with Campbell. Margins of victory tar tbe congreeatousl -■ winners ■'■swaged- from scarcely lOTO for William O. Bray. H, in the seventh district over Rep James E Noland. D . to more Ites MOT hr rimto R Rvowusea. R, ta the 11th district over Aodvw Jlowhlmi, 88 Rep Ray J Madden. D. won ever Fuat Cyr. R., la the tuwt dte-1 trtet by tower than JOTS votes, an i unusually toV margin tor iirarlly IjUuf TW - only other Dourer-at In win a booap seal ta Indtaaa. Mop. WOTftetd K Deaton, eighth dtetrirt. triumphed by only 4.40 T votes But tradiltoaal RepuMteeadom Insted districts piled up Ide marg ms tor that party's <-ongreasional nominees. Rep. Charles Halleck, second district, beat Dole R Beck. D. by about 23.*t<> votes K Ross Adair, fourth, defeated Rep Ed I ward J Kruse. D., by 16.000 John IV. Beamer, fifth, defeated Rep John Walsh. D.. by IS.IHHi Rep ■ Earl Wilson, ninth, won by 13.000 over Charles W. Long. D.. and Rep. Ralph Harvey. 10th. had a 24.000 vote edge on Vernon Dwyer. D. ... ... ..... Besides Denton's and Madden's, even closer races were run In the sixth and seventh. Bray's rare with Noland was touch and go for 16 hours after the polls closed. Rep. Cecil M Harden. R.. sixth, i won by only 6,000 in the six th- - that was totter thau the 500vote margin of victory she had In IS4X ~ BULLCTIN Lake tucceec. N.Y, Nov. g. —(UF>— A Yugoslav proposal to establish UeMed Natteae chlnery to halt any war immedt lately after He outbreeh was m< —a io al arVAsawad teyy. day by the general aegemhly'e mala political committee. The plan carved aa another link la a chela being forged by the UN’i fifth general aaeembly to prevent aggreeslon pr choke off armed conflict before it teade to a third World War. To Nominate For C.C. Uractors Annual Election To Be Held In December Namee of the members of the nomlnstlng committee of the Deca tur Chamber of Commerce Were reloerod today by executive secretary R W. Frudon. C. Is Ftalayson has been named chairman of tho commute which Is comprised of .Al Beavers. Avon Burk. Cal Feterson an<T Dan Schafer. This committee will meet next Monday pom. Frudon Mid. to formulate plans for the election of members to the Chamber's boerd of directors., The nominating commltee will select eight persons, and from these eight members of the Chamber will etoct four mon to serve on the boerd. The election will he held "sometime in December.'' Pruden eaid.

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GOP Wil Control ! Alltel I IMtllflMW _ 1 Sseete CeetMl : lets 24-24 Morgis Indtaaapoite. Not to-(UF)-Wton Governor Srlrlrkcr delivers hte gtaßtat MBRI to tbe 1»51 | Indiana legislature, hell find the ieudtenee politically hostile Just as I U was ta Ms first admlalatratlon lt> : A '‘ ; A — Ftari retWM tram IM races fur senate aad house sems ta Tuesday * election showed today that the Republicans kept control of the setOl* »" d wrested tto house from the Democrats , - The senate epatrol will bo by the 1 barest majorttv « to 14 stores" the Republican* Aomlnated 2* to 2b ijs thy l»4» pesalon. This might handicap the GDP. should one or | more of their senator* demonstrate |an Independent attitude on major | Issues. Hut Republlt an leaders have nothing to worry about on tbe house side There, will have pearly thre- fourths of thy membership on their side Only one Incumbent senator was smothered In Tuesday's GOP ballot avalanche Strangely, he was a Republican. Sen. William C. Bales of New Albany, who lost to a weekly newspaper publisher. Robert P O'Bannon of Corydon. But nine of his party colleagues In the IM* session were returned to office along with three Democratic Incumbents The Democrats lost the senate despite ths fact they had a Hrtoß margin in holdover personnel. With 23 seats not up for election this time, that meant the Democrats had to win only II of tto 27 senate nee* to control the upper house, white the Republican* had to win IS. Topranklng veteran senator* from both karttea were re-elected Senate president pro turn John W. Van Ness. R, Valparaiso, won easily a fourth term, and Leo J. Stemle. Jasper- titular head of senate Democrats, a third term. W. O. Hughes m Fort Wayne, minority leader ta the house last time, was returned to power and may to the GOP choice tor speaker. Point, known tor years as the "watchdog of the Indiana treasury.” also was reelected, as was Rep. Laurenre D. Baker. R, Kendallville. sponsor cf direct primary bills the last two sessions. Several womea were elected to . the house. But Mr*. Pauline Roush , of HuattegtM. a Democrat who was . chosen to succeed her husband on the tfcket when be was mustered Into the army. lost. i ' . Farm Prices Slightly Higher In October Lafayette Ind, Nov. »—(UPI— I Purdue University and U. 8. agricultural statisticians reported toI day farm prices wore slightly highi st In October than Reptember. They Mid corn. hogs, cuttle and i soybean, dropped more than expected. wbea* weakened Instead of - rising and eggs rose lees than anticipated.

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Ehinger Fanoral. 1 Saturday Morning Funeral service* will be |nM 1 Saturday tor Mrs Jams* Ehinger, former Decatur reaMent. who *M kilted 1* unto accident aoOr Ab Mot Wedtspedv asorntog. - Rervteea win be conducted at a.m. Saturday tto fhurek ri tto Blessed Sacramoat in Albion, tto Rev. Edward Mahoney - ufftetaHtag Burial will bo ta tto t Catholic cemetery In thte city. 1 Tbe body I* at tto Boteham R i Miner funeral beau ta Albion, t store friends may call aatll time e( the serviees. « First Muni W Season In Midwest Traffic Is Snarled 11 In Upper Midwest 1 1 .. w-.w . - ~ By United Press Tbe season's first bllssard Mt there upper midwest today and a heavy R inow*lorn> lashed the Rochy moun- t tain states Snow piled eight taches deep In; Colorado and Wyoming and six taches ta northern Minnesota' and f North H*k*tn. The mercury dived r to near s»-ro along tto Canadian « border , 4 . The twin storms snarled traffic. , cut visability almost to aero, closed highways aad plugged mountain passes | ,€ While motorists battled snowdrift* snd skiers tested the speedy ' runs on Colorado's 11.33tefoot-high Berthoud Pas*, easterners golfed In 1 their shirtsleeves But the east's Indian summer would end soon, weather forecast- ’ er* Mid. Cold winds whipped down out of I the Canadian Arctic, speared deep 1 Into the midwest and headed for ( Dixie and the Atlantic seaboard. 1 Temperature* fell sharply throughout tbe midwest today, and forecasters said the cold front would hurdle tbe Appalachians tonight The northern blitsard pounded the northern one-third of Minnesota and the Red river flats of North I Dakota today Winds up to g 2 miles I per hour piled snow Into great i drift*. . ’ < More than six taches had fallen 1 at International Falls, Minn, by 1 early today and tbe storm was con- 1 tinutag. Devils Lake. N. D . had five taches of snow and Duluth. Minn, three inches. j The bllssard was expected to . diminish »s It moved east across I the northern Orest Luke* But heavy snow squalls were expected on tto Keweenaw peninsula In up , >rr MteMgaa. and the cold wa« , scheduled to Intensify throughout . th* upper midwett. Forecasters said tto mercury ; would plunge to five degrees below rTwen Ts Fuoe test Mother, Two Sons Perish In Flumes i Newcastle. Ind.. Nov. *.—(UP)— I A mother and her two sons perished last night In a fir* which -de- i stroyed their five-room home on I th* ontaklrt* of Nomoaatte Police Mid Mr*. Kathryn Maynard. 2*. and her son*—Larry Gen*. 10. and Philip Allan. »— I apparently were trapped when th* ' fir* started ta or near a coal stove. I

20 Prisons Injured When Tnh Wracked pl «. /• . Tibia Smashes Into - Switch Engine Today Logansport, lad. Nov. », —fUP) — A Cinclnaathto-Chlcago train plowed Inta a switch eaglae ta tto Logansport yard* of tto Peansylvante railroad today, sending 20 persons lo hospitals Fifteen of 17 passenger* ta the single paesenger coach on the train were taton to Rt. Joseph'* and tamplute Seven remained and tbe other* were released after treatment and checkup*. Th* diesel-powered locomotive, nulling eight coaches, apparently hit qn. *OT" switch while traveling 50 mile* an hour and smashed into ibis switch engine The injured included several trainmen, two of whom suffered t-roken bones Fourteen persons a-ere taken lo St. Joseph's hospital and seven remained. Four were tabun to Memor lai and two reinained. There were four storage two express and one mail car on the train The accident occurred at 6:55 a. m. Three hours later, the train continued to Chicago carrying peas engers able to travel. Rome had been examined and treated at the hospital* and dismissed. The tender and cab on the switch engine were ripped apart and wrecknge was strewn across four sidetracks. The diesel engine pullin* the train. No. 37. left the rail* andstraddled tto tracks. No coaches overturned. Carl Reynold*, a railroad clerk working ta the yard*. Mid the collision sounded -like "n muffled exploaloa.” He and other employe* called ambulance*, hopaltal, pby»*clan* and police. Taxicab* helped take injured to hospitals. Anderson Mon Dies In Auto-Truck Crash Anderson. Ind, Nov. »—(VP)— Lundy Swinford. 26 Anderson, wa* killed today when his ear collided with a truck on Ind. g7, tour mile* east of her*. Brady Tutoo. 3». Muncte, driver of the truck, and Everett Bmltk. 23. who wa* riding with Swinford were injured t S. S. Convention November 27*28 On* of the features of the annual Adam* county Sunday school conventtee which win bb told Nov. 2< and 27. will to th* large young people's and Christian workera' banquet, which will be held at tto Pleasant Mill* high school gym Monday evening Nov. 27. The banquet will be served by tto St. Mary's township home economic club. Mr*. Harry McDer mott president. Price per plate te 81, and* It te deelred that roaervattato be made early. Tickets may be socared from Mlm Janet Drowa aad Cnrtte HUI. Decatar; R. H. Everett at Pteasaat Mills; Dorothy Laßua and Carl Shoemaker. Geneva; the Rev. Elmer Smith. Linn Grove; Glen Stucky. Monroe, or Mlm Frances Bsrkhal ter, Beene

Some 34,000 Telephone Workers Strike Across Nation This Morning

Votes Shake Truman's Hold On Democrats Election Returns Put Administration On The Defensive Washington. Nov. » — (UP) — Ball"* box order* tor mor* conservative government and spending In Waahingotn have shaken PreridoM Truman's bold on tba Democratic party. I They also may have shaken Ma intention to recall congress before it* scheduled Nov. 37 retar*. I General election return* Jolted the peraoerotic left wing aad pat , tho admtaistrattea on tbe detenaive from hare on to tto !»63 : prueMenttal nom eating eon ven Ren. Rotort A. Tnft O . baa Wen voted No. I conteoder for tba IM2 tion. A bitter struggle for RepaMlcaa party control Inevitably must dr ’ veto* between Taft's haetora aad “ supporter* of (ten. Dwight D. 'EiMnhoww - —- -- * Gov Thoma* £. Dewey. N T, 1 who twice challenged Tati for tto GOP presidential nomination I* ' Ike'* chief sponsor for 1*52. Balance of poster in the battle ' for contrS of tbe Republican par- ' ty apparently tie* with Sea.*eieet James H. Duff of Pennsylvania, Duff could not succeed himself as governor there. But he hand picked Ms successor. Judge John S.Fine. and carried hint to victory In Tuesday's general election That gave Duff control of the party in the state. Duff is a Vandenberg man in foreign affairs and profoundly opposed to Dewey tor president or tbe party's leadership. He reluctantly backed Taft in 1343. but only as a last-minute maneuver to stop Dewey. The fourth big personality in 1 the new-born Republican party Is 1 Gov. Earl Warren of California. Just elected to a third term. He ' waa Dewey's IS4* running mate. * Like Duff, he has balance of power position between Dewey of New York and Taft of Ohio. [ All Democrats did not regret the ’ sharp reverse suffered by Mr. Tni ' man and hl* allies in organised, > <Turo Te Pa*e Sevsat I * Warren’s Daughter Omoa ft wR n ail IgMgamaaßaAaa Keponai inipfovca Governor's Daughter Stricken With Polio i i Sacramento. Calif, Nov. 9.— (UP)—Pretty Nina "Honey Bear" I Warren, youngest of Calitorni* j governor Earl Warren's six cbll> dm. was ta an improved condition today after a three-day battle with Infantile paralysis. Physician* attending - 17-yearold "Hoaey Bear" said they were “pleased with tor progress” and that her temperature "dropped la a toartsntag manner " Dr Juul* . B. Harris said thbre had been no “eateoofcdr-i-ot the dteeaae .which 1 paralysed both her tegs ‘ Ntaa. who woa the "Hoaey Bear" ’ nickname from her father, wa* ‘ given special serum yesterday. 1 After tto injection*. Dr. Harris a*M he hoped the disease reached It* ’ crisis He said Nina spent "a good “ night and appeared bright and k cheerful yesterday * She spent tto day happily admit - lag the flower* and note* she re- ■ ceived Dr. Harris saM t The girl was rushed to totter ; hospital Tuesday morning after ; ah* complained of a severe head ► ache and pains In tor leg* War r ran. elected to hl* third term yaw '. I terday. rushed to Sacramento from I- hte voting place ta Oakland when 1 to learned of Ute attack

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Tto Rot. Arthur Holme*. Th. D, D. D.. proteasOT of psychology and. philosophy of religion at tto col lege of religion. Butter Univocally, will be tbe speaker ter tto week of xptetroal emphasts ta Deeatur Nov. 12-I*. Tto week of services te spoosored by the Deeatur ministerial association and tbe associated churches of Decatur Service* this year will be la tto First Methodist church. lisi ntniMrs m Advfcory Boards i Most Os Candidates : Unopposed In Races Once the excHemeui of tabulating lire vote* qaat (or county off I-, rials had diminished, a further. check of the official canvasstag I books rev-qgled the names of the memtors of the 12 advisory board*. Thera boards will work in .conjunction with the township trustees, and the primary duties will be to check on fiscal expenditures There were but two actual races in (he adlvsory board campaign Ing. the others being unopposed In St. Mary's and in Wabash township. six candidates vied for the •three positions. In Monroe township there were four candidates for the three offices while ta Kirkland township there were only two men named to the board They were unopposed / ; The complete list of tbe advisI ory boards and trustees ta the 12 township* in the county follow* Washington — Ben Elting. John Parrish and Roy Runyon. Democrat*. were elected W. L. Unn is the trustee Monroe—Edison Lehman (331) and John Roldner (3M>. Democrat*. and Roger Bluhm 1337) Republican were elected to the advisory board while Edwin Bauman. Democrat, with 771 vote*, wa* defeated. Noah Neuenschwander is th* trustee. Union—Richard Bleehe. Herman Geimer and Edgar Krueckeberg. Democrats were selected to serve on the advi'ory board. Fred Bittner is the trustee. St. Mary's—Kermit Bowen, with 2<2 vote*. Marshall Hilpert. 224, and Harry Ray. 271. Republicans, were elected over Dent Baltsell. (313). John Bunner (177» and Paul Rich <171) Democrat*. NlmrOTb McCullough te tto trustee. Waba«h — Herman Burke <4W). Ernest Hanni <<»»> and James Lybarger (4«). Democrat*, were elected to t>e advisory board. They defeated Erwin Bauman (3U> DeWMt Bark <3341 and Harry Moore (3M). Republican*. I* A. Mann ta th* trustee ■ Jefferson—Ralph Christy. Aril* Foreman and Daniel Reef, unoppoeed Democrat*, were elected in Jefferson township. Hugh Mouser te the trustee French — Menno Augsburger. Harry Dustman and Alfred Hteachy Democrat*, will verve on the advisory board: Eli Graber is the trustee » 1 Hertford—Elmer Affolder Hur1 rey Garboden and Leonard Wag <Twsw to too* atet

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Local TdaplioM <X Service Duraptod In Soaie Places As Pickets Ara Hoaored New York. Nov. te-(tfF)—Bouse ' 34 .004 telephone worker* st reek across the nation at 4 a. m. today and an esttmated 16OT* tong distance aad local operatara rotuaed to cross their picket linee in 32 state*. Tbe striker* were 17.40 T Western Electric company Mptaller* : and anpaly men Hg .aad i fJ.gOT employes ~of the Michigan j Bell T*laphoiM» eonwußy. I Local tetepbon* servico was dia--1 rupted la a number of localities , > which do not have dial system* a* : tbe "toUo" girl* refused to cross ! picket lines of their fellow union member*. Long distance calls were put on an "emergency only" basis ta Waahington. Pittsburgh and Indianapoli* -.-""'J.' Tto long line* division ot th* American Telephone and Telegraph company reported a normal staff or work ta Ave of Ha 14 tewc distance' centers tiitvughout the nation and operator absentee* ranging from 10 to T 6 pereeat of norma) staff in six other centers. AR lb* striking workers and moat of those wbo have refused to cross the pletot line* ar* nsntor* of tto Cmmawatealtae* Work ! workers are striking ta aeparate ■ wage dispute*, however. No picket line* were thrown up ! today te nine southern state* aad Wisconsin pending the return of ’ local Western Electric union lead- ■ er* from district meeting* The Western Electric worker* walked but at 6 a m after an all f night negotiating session wfth fed [ era! mediators failed to bring a ’ settlement in the dispute which j has continued through more than a year of intermittent negotiations. Oosppony and union officials remained "on call" for further federal efforts to settle the wage dispute. Snarled ta State Indianapolis. Nov. > tl'Pi —. Striking CIO communications worker picket line s snarled long distance telephone traffic In Indiana today, and the state'a biggest phone utility prepared to file injunction suit* against the union Picket* set ap by Western Electric Co. employe* ta divisions 4 and It of tto CWA kept ladtena Bell Telephone Co. operators and maintenance men off tto Job ta Indianapolis aad South Bend Bell prepared injunction suit* ta both cltle*. asking th* onset* to prohibit picketing which the ..-m pany aaid interfered with its “public obligation to serve" Spokesmen raid tto salt* would be filed before noon But the CWA. In a strategy meeting a few hours before the strike hogan at 4 am, planned to . move plchets from city to city. None’would slay In any one place ( longer than one day and would move on by tbe time an Injunction ; could he granted A handful of operator* who ignored the line*, and a staff of su- , pewl*ory personnel, kept the switchboards manned and traffic flowing nearly normally for three hour* after the strike began i But a* the traffic volume mounN . .*g toward a mid morning peak. the big Indianapolis exchange began handling only emergency call* ■ Patrons dialing lona distance wera , answered by a recorded male volee which said; J "Due to a work stoppage, we . ean complete only emergency call* If yours I* an emergency call, please flash the operator ” : Will WiOM« Is Eosy 1 Winner In Election Will Wtane* Wsshlnxtoo township assessor wa* elected la ' fact, he was pretty sure before ‘ Twertlay that be would to elected. , boeauee to wa* unopposed Wtaneu won ouatty In th* May primary election over Gerhart Retaking and the Republican* failed to nominate an opponent