Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 260, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1951 — Page 1

Vol; XLIX. No. 260.

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— t G.E. Workers Vote Against Calling Strike Majority Os Union Votes Against Call, Figures Withheld . I , [L A substantial majority of the members of UE 'Local 924 United Electrical. Radio & Machine Work* ers of America (.Ind.) voted not to call a strike at’(he Decatur (general Electric Plqnt. in the special election held ,at Union hall in. this citv Friday afternoon. ” h u * t Members of the union’s election committee, of which Dobell Singer is chairman, did not release the total vote cast. The vote “for" or the. strike also was not revealed, lie stated “there was a good turn-out of members and a heavy vote was cast." : ' Chairman Singer* issued the fob lowing statement, 1 which he said \ was approved by Henry Stauffer, president of Local 924. “Our membership of UE Local 924 has repeatedly expressed dis satisfaction with GE’s 214% 'offer, but in the vote on strike today the majority voted not to strike at this time.” Singer said that a complete report on the election would be given at a meeting of members on No▼ember 15 at Union hall, want the members to attend this meeting and a complete digest of the election will be ‘given to them Nov. 15" he explained,. “The strike was voted down.” he added, < Other members of the election committee were Kenneth Small. Tillman “Tlbby" Gehrigt Jerome Miner. Winston Rawley. ErhSh Johnson and Curt Baxter. Those contacted backed the statement of their, chairman. , - H Telephone contact was made by this newspaper with Robert MillWf secretary of the Union, who explained that the election committee had Bet up the rules about release of the vote and further added that he did not know the number of votes cast. A member of the election committee stated possibly Henry Stauffer. president of Local 924, who lives at Mdttfoe. might furnish tjbe press with the vote total. In a telephone call to his farm home, the reporter was informed that Mr. Stanfftir had gone to the elevator in Monroe to have some feed ground-. A la-ter telephone call fsUl ed to reach him. Voting started at 1 pm. yesterday and continued through th 6 p m Chairman Singer stated that the counting of ballots was completed about 7 p m. In explanation of the, 2)4 digit, used in the Union’s official statement. General Electric offered 2% percent wage boost, along with cost of living increases, based on the government’s index of increas* ed costs. Later the company offered that the minimum would be 3% cents per hour. The UE rejected the company’s offer which was accepted by the IUE (CIO). \ strike vote was taken in a number of cities yesterday where GE employes are represented by the '.UE One report heard here pertain ed to the DeKalb. 111,, plant, where employes are said to have voted down a strike. - i No official word was obtained from Elmira and Schenectady. N.Y.. where large GE plants are located aud employes are represented by the UE. v \ ! One report heard on the .street placed the total vote in Dedatur’s election at 340, but this statement was not confirmed. ’ 1 The Decatur GE plant employs about 900 workers and ah announced layoff of about 250 employes has not yet become fuTiy effective, it was stated. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and windy, occasional ; snow north and central portions tonight. Not quite so cold extreme south tonight. Cloudy, windy and cold with occasional snow flurries over most of state-1 Sunday. Low -tonight 15-20 > north,, 1&24 south. High Sunday around 26 north to 35 exs trsme south. \ ■■ Noon Edition ' . • v ~ • 4

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— I ' ’ • \ Report Mercury At 15-Degree Mark Here |The mercury dropped to 16 early tl{i< morning, local residents stated; A| about midnight the temperature was in the lower twenties, skidding to a new low for the season before sun-up. ■ ( FTHeregrly weather report forecast cdld weather and snow. \ 1 ‘ ' 11 “ ’ Stage Sei For i City Election I Next Tuesday Decatur And Berne ’ In City Elections; Two Towns To Vote 1 : ivith final preparations for the 1 coining election next Tuesday ‘ cpinpleted by both parties, the '-ajupaigns will taper off witii a ’ cot;pie of rallies in DecatuF* to--1 nidht. the Democrats and Bepub- • li< ins each in their own lairs to talle final glances at the political 1 situation. The same holds true in Berne. ’ Gelevp anil Monroe, where elec- ’ tiojrs are being held Tuesday, the ’ fiyiit regular election for city offices for Berne\ , In the cloning days of, the campaign in Decatur it is possible to he4r any sort of message jrou sqe|c. Consequently, there is little tn fco on as far as predicting the uithnafe outcome. ' • Wagers, normally so conspicuous! during Elections despite the fac| they might be slightly tinged ahb the brand as illegality, have beelj unusually quiet'this year. Ifbwever, opinions have kept pacw, and for the most part dame has had her day. How effecHve any of it has been will. of coiffse,- be indicated at the polls i 1 ' Political pundits and even some amateur observers have upon oc- , casipn -hazarded guesses as to'the I nup&ejr who will trek to the‘polls. Theie > are approximately 6,500 voters iin Decatur, Berne. Geneva and Monroe, with 4.300 in Decatur . and I.JOO in Berne, i > Estimates range, in Decatur, all > tins :way from 2.000 to as to the number who will vote. Both • mayoralty candidates, John M. . (Doah and John B. Stults, agreed - mat t{ie number will be “in the I neighborhood of 3,200." No matter the number, this elec- | tjon’ which has heen marked more by ffdor-to-door campaigning by > the Candidates than anything else, t will undoubtedly muont in tension ■' over the weekend. As is customary, the closer it t. combs to election day the greater - the discussions, yet there probably ! wdn|t be enough votes changed i one Iway or the Other to affect the i fina| outcome. A concensus among - meni! who have observed the local • political scene for many years is ill tliatsi most people’s minds were II made up probably a month agQ. - “It’ll’' be hard to change them in i V (Torn To Pane Three) r — ’rtffl ■ Ehinger To Speak > At Phone Meeting 1 Northeast District i Meeting Thursday Charles D. Ehinger, president of t Citizens Telephone bornpany, will j be tile principal apeaker at a meett ing iikxt Thursday of the northeastern of g the Indiana Tele- ? phonf Association in Fort Wayne. In iaddition to his talk on tele th phone company management, Ehint ger will give a film demonstration on the use of chemicals for the control of brush along pole leads on county roads. The local company uses this method 4h controlling brush and weeds along roads where telephone poles are located. Miss Laura Stanley, chief opera, ' tor of Cltisens Telephone company, also Will appear on the program. She and Misa Ada Yoder of Topeka will lead a discussion on general traffic problems, skits on proper operating practices and present a sound film op, "The Tell Tale Voice.” Approximately 100 telephone representatives In this sectlop of the state will attend the one day meeting, including those frot* Berne, Poe.' Hoagland and Monroeville". f • ’’ k ' t’ •

UN Proposes Kaesong Made i Neutral City United Nations In Attempt To Break Deadlock On Truce Panmunjom, Korea, Nov. 3 1 ‘— rUP)—The United Nations sought! Io break a deadlock in the Korean! truce talks today liy proixisillgi that Kaesong be made a tUy I J I The Communists retorted they still want to keep control ,4>f the controversial city, which 1 three mi>s south of the 38th parallel on the western front. Hbiyeyer. UNt spokesman Br&.) Gen. Willigin Nuckbls said tie Communists did mot “categorically turn down the T r °P osal ” be discussed farther at a jomt subcommittee meeting at 11 a. pj. tomorrow (8 p. m. today CST.) j If accepted, the surprise l T |l compromise proposal could meal) a major step toward agreement on a Korean armistice. - - ; Nuckols said he could not priw diet the course of the talks tomorrow, but thb ipeeting promised t| be one of the most dramatic sessions since tV’e armistice conference was reopeiped Oct. 25. ? U. S. Maj: Gw- -Henry I. Hoiles made the neplbal city suggestion in the form of a\2o-word hypotbejieal question the sub-coia-I niittee had spept pearly four houAi in fruitless discussion about tfye conflicting claims co Kaesong. A UN communique said Hodes asked the Reds if they Vwould epasiner placing « . Kaesong in an adjusted zone.” *,\ J Nuckols said the tion represented a “peW turn of thinking.” While it wmUld not give the UN what it want\ for thfe detense in depth of Seo\il,\he saijp the proposal would make !he for--pier capital more secure than; the city remained in Commuriist hands. , i J Hodes and U. S. Rear Arleigh A. Burke 'had spent the entire morning and most of the m tier noon session in a 'jain at* tempt to persuade the Cotnrhunist# ♦o swap Kaesong for UN-held Koj rean \lslands north of the 3SOi pbrallel. - ’ The Reds retorted that they already had made “adequate adjustments and compensations" for allied offers of withdrawals not only r from the coastal islands, but oij (Turn To Psge Three) Rush Effort To End I 'I k Strike Os Dockmen Ik i 1 Fact Finding Panel Named In New York s New York, Nov. 3 —(UP)-“State officials rushed efforts tod£y tq end the 20-day-old wildcat; iongI shoremen’s strike which rfpre* venting the unloading of vital defense shipments. ' State industrial commissioner Edward Corsi named a thrbetHlan fact finding panel last night to ln-> vestigate the strike after a request by the national production 1 authority to unload vital defense cargoes was refused bji the strike's leader. The matter of defense cargoes; camq, to a head yesterday when the Norwegian - American liner Stavangerfjord returned to Nor- 1 way with 60. tons of vitally heeded nickel still in hold. ' ij | Effort to get the nickel off the Stavangerfjortl failed [when John (Gene) Sampson, business agent of the AFL International Ix>ng--shoremen Association’s Locdl']79lh and leader the strikers, could not be found until fibe minutest liefore the liners left on the'beturn voyage. Sampson, in announcing the-re-fusal, said “Let Ryan (Joseph Ryan, president of the ILA) .re* open the contract and the me,n will i gq back to work.” Reopening of the contract tofobtain a 25-cent hourly wage rgisje is the principal Usue in the walkout. The strikers demand that a contract calling for a 10-eent houlIv boost be reopened with the New York shipping association although it was ratified Oct. 11 by a majority vote of the union. Ryaa ~ (Twr« Ta Page Foot) | ’•il : • V

Decatur, Indiana, 3, 1951.

?"*— Convicted Communist Returns ■ I * • Stu -. ' ■ Fir i GUS HALL (bareheaded). Communist leader, is greeted by his wife on arrival in New York from Kansas City. Hall fled to Mexico City in an effort to evade serving five years for conspiring to overthrow the U. B. government, and now faces a contempt action. With him is chief Deputy U. S. Marshall Albert Bigson. |

{Protected Troops Survive A-Blast Atomic Maneuvers Test Is Successful », Las Vegas, Nov, 3 —(UP^ — The world’s first atomic maneuver showed\conclusively today that troops lh positions coujd survive a medium-sited atomic blast within 1.200 yards ot the detonation. \ \ Informed sources said sheep were tethered in such positions last Thursday when a B-29 dropped a medium-sited A-bomb which <ix- ■ ploded 1,200 feet above them. After the explosion, the sources said, the sheep were dated for a tJinie, but they recovered from the initial shockwaves with no apparent ill effects. ' However, fbur dogs left in the open were killed. \ K The sources said the' tests indicated that soldiers protected by 1 shelters of some type where they would escape the tremendous shock and surface radiation could survive ithe blast within a distance of about ithree-quarters of a mile or less. I The test also showed that troops (would be able to launch an attack (after the blast. - ! It was learned that 90 percent jof the regular weapons that were placed in simulated combat positions within 1,000 to 1,500 yards of ithe air burst could have been fired immediately after the detonation and would have been fuly effective. Says U.S. To Offer World Peace Plan .French Leader Says Offer A Sensation Paris, Nov. 3— (UP) —French foreign minister Robert Schuman *aid today that a U. S\ "world peace plan" to be proposed to the United. Nations general assembly will “cause a sensation.’’ | The plan will be presented by yj.' S. secretary of state Dean Acheson. It \was understood to include: T \ A final peace in Korea. * 2. yt new offer for a world disai mament program. \ 3. UN-supervised elections in Germany leading to that country’* unification. 4. An expression of willingness to meet again with the Soviet in an attempt to reach agreement on outstanding issues. The Soviet Union is expected to offer its “peace plan’* durinc the assembly, which opens Tuesday. Some of the points in the Soviet plan are included in Acheson’s proposal but the approaches to* the various issues are \ miles apar|. • !;■ 4 • ■ ■ ' '

Adto License Bureau Closed Election Day Aljj automobile license branches tn the state will be closed all day Tuesday. it was announced today, As 4»- nswai. -state offices IBTIII depart ipeuts wi|l be closed for the’ municipal elections; Mr*. Dale. Death said that regular hour* would start again Wednesday and that an examiner would be here all d>y Wednesday. i national Politics Near Boiling Point Sen. Tass Speaks At 1100-A-Plate Dinner By United Press « Uoast-to-coast presidential politics ; l*y both parties neared the -boilihg point today with Sen. Robert A- Taft, the only announced candidate for either party, playing his one-man performance to the fullest, \ [■ \ The Ohio Republican s potential opposition for the GOP nomination in 1952 mostly Waited offstage In the wings for the proper moment to make its entrance. \ G'eh. Dwight Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur and Harold Stassen—with Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-Hl.) a possible dark horse — were thpse mentioned inost frequently as the men Taft would have to beat for the Republican jspdt. But ail of these declared flatly—but indirectly—that they wanted no part of the nomination. Democrats kept mum aj>out who would be their standard fearer in 1952 gs they waited to see what president Truman would do. Most observers were convinced he would run. I » . | ' Taft spoke to a 1100-a-plate <lin-1 ner Os 4,000 Republican faithfuls 1 In Chicago last night. He told them • the nation was faced with a “cru- ■ (Turn Te Page Three) 'V Monday Is Deadline For Tax Payments County treasurer Richard D. Lewton stated that his office will remain open until 4:30 p.m. today and| and next Monday—the last day when taxes may be paid—to accomodate the crowds that are making the las|kminute rush to beat the . deadline. \ <J, . j The treasurer’s office is.- proving one of the most popular gathering places in the county today, with lines Stretchjng sometimes into the hall, and the office itself at times packed six and seven deep. I Lewto> said that “about one-half, million doUtrs’ 1 in taxes ate to be collected in this fall installment. His office has seen a steady stream of taxpayers come in for the past couple ot Weeks. butj during the last fair days the Crowds have at. times "been terrific.”

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Nation Bundles Up Against Cold Snap > Cold Hits As Far South As Florida By United Press j Most of the nation bundled up against one of the most severe all , cold snaps on record today as wintry blasts mocked the calendar and howled as far south as Florida. Snow, cold and rain covered a widespread York, j*enp«ylvanig and the eastern Great LMtes regitiHL ' r ' Dixie also caught its share of the teeth-chattering weather. Snow fell as far south as Shreveport. La., about 195 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, and in western Tennessee and Arkansas. State police reported that driving conditions were dangerous throughout the area. Ruston, La., and Little Rock, Ark., reported snow and both cities said it was the earliest in their hlstoiy. 4 Fort Collins. Colo., held the record for being the coldest place In the’ country with a low of 17 degrees below zero. Chicago reported a 12-degree temperature which ’ shattered a 64-year-old rbcord. ’ r At Chicago weather forecasters • reported there might he a little ’ relief today but generally the cold s temperatures would continue through the weekend. ,1 13 At Fort Wayne Indianapolis. Nov. 3 —;(UP) — ‘ Hoosiers shivered in a record earlyNovember cold today as the mercury plunged to an ley seven degrees at South Bend. J It was almost as cold over the rest of the state. Terre Haute and Lafayette had 10 degrees, Marion and Indianapolis 11, and Evansville and Fort Wayne 13. The previous record low temperature for Indianapolis was 21 degrees in 1879. but today’s ebld mark eclipsed it by 10 degrees. The earliest a mark had ever been re- \ (Torn To Pare Three) Democrat Campaign Will Close Tonight : Headquarters Site c Os Clpsing Meeting The Democrat party’s hickory pole, symbol of Democrat victory, will be raised at the opening of the final rally of the ’Decatur Democrats at Democrat headquarters at 8:30 o’clock tonight. Headquarters in the K. of P. building and the adjoining auditorium have been decorated for the occasion and prior tq the formal ceremony there will be music by the Berne, accordion trio. Judge Myles F. Parrish, of Adanus circuit court and G. Remy Bierly, state representative, both regarded as able speakers, will [wind ug the speaking campaign. I The speakers will be introduced ;by Frank Bohnke, Democrat city chairman. Chairman Bohnke then will introduce mayoralty candidate John Stults, who will give U short address and then introduce the five Democrat councilmanic candidates, Al Beavers, Ed Bauer, Adrian Burke, Dorphus Drum and Joe Brennan. I Following the formal program, refreshments will be served to the men and women in attendance in Democrat headquarters. Chairman Bohnke announced that there ’would be plenty of room in the large auditorium and the doors will be open at 8 o’clock. It was decided to delay the actual opening of the meeting until 3:30 | o’clock and the speaking until 9 o’clock so that retail merchants and clerks could attend the campaign closing. 1 \ The public is invited to the entire program. Precinct committeemen and vice-committeemen will serve as hosts an dhostesses at 'the gathering. I

—- - • - . - r..i -i _ ’ Two Soldiers Killed As Bus Crashes Tree 16 Others Injured, All Men Statiohed At Camp Atterbury Franklin, Ind., Nov. 3—r(UP)— A bus-load of soldiers returning frpm a farewell party before they ship out for Europe Crushed ipTo a tree today, killing two men and injuring 16 others, Johnson county coroner Maguire said he feared the death toll would 'mount tq “four or five.t The casualties, all members of the 28th infantry division at Camp Atterbury, were not immediately 1 j identified pending notification of [ • kin. s, \ The military bus. one qf several . in a convoy returning soldiers from i a party, swervqd off Ind. j 252 south of here and skidded 270 foet into a - tree before dawn. The 144nch tree i was snapped off ami imbedded in |he- bus. C t - » It was believed ahout'lo soldiers s escaped unhurt. 1 1 But military police Brom Atterf bury had to use torches, crow-liars and axes to rip apart thte wreckage and free the injured. Five were ' ' treated and released, but II still ’ were hospitalized. Five military ambulances were summoned to take injured to the base hospital. Several df the sol- ‘ diers Were reported in “critical” condition. i* There were three buses In the convoy, returning the soldiers from a party at a neqrby Glens Valley club. The division is scheduled to be shipped to Europe later this month to join Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s Atlantic Pact Army. ■ _____ Patch Testing In Schools Completed i Mrs- W- Guy Brown, secretary of (the Adams county tuberculosis association, today announced that the “patch testing” in the ’county’s schools, conducted through the auspices of the local association by herself and Miss Jean Shockley, , county health nurse, was completed. The final tabulation of the records revealed that of the 960 first, ninth and tenth in the schools, nine proved reactots to the rest and were referred to their fam- i ily physicians for X-rays. ( Farmer Injured As Aufo Hits Tractor Samuel Gerber Hurt 1 Early Friday Night Samuel Gerber, 53, of route* 4, ; is in Clinic hospital, Bluffton, suf- | sering fVoin a brain concussion, j multiple facial lacerations, con- j tusions and abrasions plus ?a com- ( pound nose fracture when he was ] knocked from a tractor he was driv- , ing west along state road 124, one j mile west of Coppess Comer. ( The Adams county man’s condi- ( tion was nevertheless considered { good today by hospital attaches. / The accident occurred about 5:45 p.m. Friday when a car. driven : by Geotge Ertel, 18, of xqute 1, . Uniondale, crashed into the rear ’ end of ( the Gerber tractor!, Ertel told sheriff Bob Shraluka, who investigated, that he whs con- ‘ fused by the snow flurries and the 1 small llgiit on the" tractor ahead of 1 him. He said ttte was unable io turn J out In time to avoid biting the trac* { IBr, which was upset. 1 Sheriff Shraluka estimated the c total damage at SSOO. Ertel escaped with but a minor knee injury from i the accident. His car, however, r was bgdly smashed. s

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Launch Drive Few Hours After Stiff New Legislation Is Signed By Truman Washington, Nov'. 3. —(UP)— ' Federal agents, armed with a stiff new law aimed at narcotics peddlers, began Joday a nationwide roundup of drug peddlers.*; I Narcotics commissioner Harry J. Ansllnger predicted the new legislation will result in a “noticeable decline” in illegal drugs traffic within six months. ' Anslinger’s agents started their t < drive against drug peddlers at midnight, only a hours after President Trutfian signed a law providing that “repeat” offenders must serve full prison terms with no probation or suspended sentences. The new law also provides prison sentences of as long as 20 years for third-time offenders. Narcotics agents swung into action against known peddlers in several <\tties. Anslinger refused to ( identify these localities because it would have tipped off the pkddlers. “All I can say now is that the drive is on.” Anslinger said. “We’d rather have tljis law than a thousand others.” Anslinger said his agents have “had the finger” on many peddlers for some time, “but waited until the stiff sentenc|e law was aIL set.’’ He said 87 new narcotics agents will start training aa soon, as, pos* sible to bring his force up to 275 within “U month or two.” I The new law— Anslinger predicted would' “just about dry up” illegal narcotics traffic—-n< longer leaves it up to a judge to dt* dide the length of sentences. K imposes minimum sentences instead of maximum terms Tor illegally importing, handling, [possessing or “pushing” narcotics. 1 Anslinger long had urged such legislation. “Now’ a soft-hearted Judge can blame it on the law,” he said, adding that courts have been inclined to hand out lenient punishments; “A judge would hand doMhi ;i sentence one day, think it over and pare it down the next.” he said. The new law provides a fine of up to >2,000 and a sentence of not less than two nor more than five years Jor a first offense. The previous maximum fine was $5,000. with no minimum term and a .maximum sentence of 10 years. - Second offenders now will bo < (lorn To Pure Sts) Junior Red Cross Enrollment Drive Opened In County This week [marks the opening; of the annual fall enrollment of the American Junior Red Cross in Adams county public and parochial schools. Effort will he made to give every elementary and secondary school an opportunity to enroll for the calendar year Miss Glennya Roqp, chairman of Juniqr Red Gross said Hansel Foley, county superintendent of schools;, is assisting in the drive. ; ’ • Because of the tense world situation. Miss Roop said, ft is increasingly important that schools be ready to assist in the traditional services of the Red Cross to men. ; in the service and to the community. Last year the national membership rqaohed a total df 19,334;783 boys and girls in 89.182 private, public, and parochial I elementary and secondary schools throughout the United States an(i its-terri-tories. In addition, 34 American schools in Japan and Okinawa—schools for children of U.S. military and civil employes epi ployed on those islands —enrolled in the Junior Red Cross. This marked the , first time in the history of the junior membership in which scnools outside ohapter jurisdiction have been permitted to enrol]. Last year all parochial and public schools in Adams county were enrolled, in addition many schools participated in the gift box project for children overseas. v H It is hoped that Adams county will join the 104 percent enrollment ranks by November 15, Miss Roopj said. '