Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 15 January 1952 — Page 1

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Kefauver And Truman Confer Over Politics Tennessee Senator Refutes Comment On Future Plans J Washington, Jani 15 — (UP) — \ Sen. ;- Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) spent 30 minutes talking politics today with President Truman, but he refused afterward to shed any light on their political plans for the future. The senator did say ti at he Would announce his own plans about Feb. .1. Kefauver, who is more than w|l- . ling to be considered for the 1952 Democratic presidential nomination, said he was sorry he (ould no,tV<ell reporters what went on ,„ In tne president’s office. Neither would he discuss his own plans in any detail. J Kefauver volunteered, however, that he had been encouraged recently by "grass roots support in the for him, plus calls from "some Democratic leaders.” includ- \ Ing "some good Democrats in Ohio.” Asked what he and the president discussed, Kefauver said. "I had a very pleasant conference with the president and we talked about political matters.” "Did he ask you if you are going to run?” Kefauver smiled and said, "all f I intend to say it that I will give a definite statement of my intentions about Feb.> 1.” "Did the president tell you what he is going to do?" i . Kefauver said he would not go -it into details of the conference Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D---fciinm) said Mr. Truman toid him yesterday that "he has not made a decision” on whether to seek renomination. The president had said earlier that he had made up hie mind but was not ready to say how. . Meantime, it was learned that several other highly-placed Democrat leaders are trying hard to get some indication from Mr. Truman • of his plans. \ 4 One qualified informant said they hoped to know “something” Avithin “a couple of days” but had no Eissurances that they would. Asked before the, meeting it he would tell Mr. Truman his own plans, Kefauver said, "I am still appraising the situation add I expect to decide definitely end an--4 Bounce my decision about Feb, V* . He said, however, that he was “going to the White House to talk politics with President Truman” and “we may also discuss other matters, like corruption in government.” Other political developments: 1. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge. Jr., manager of the Eisenhower-for-president drive, told a news conferisnce* in Boston that "if all the pledges we have received in the last week materialize, Gen, (Dwight D.) Eisenhower could be nominated op the first ballot” at the Republican, national convention. • The Massachusetts Republican declined to Identify ,any persons who had pledged or what (Tarw To Pace Six) \ Roof Township Bond Issues Sold Today r Finance Addition To Monmouth School The combined (124,000 school and .civil bond issue of Root township was sold this afternoon to a syndicate of Indianapolis buyers at only two percent interest. Purchasers were City Securities Corp., Indishapolis Bond & Share Corp., Raffensperger, Hughes & Co,, and Fletcher Trust Co.# Indianapolis. : The >77,000 civil township issue brought a (138.60 premium, and a hid of two percent interest. The $47,(J00 school township issue -brought a premium of (363.78 and interest bid of two percenjt. The bonds will finance and addition and remodeling of the Monmouth school. August Selklng, trustee and members of the advisory , hoard approved the pale. D. Burdette Custer is counsel for the officials body. . / F' ", Z?. • ■

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Red Cross Leaders | Will Meet Tonight d J I Plans for the 1952 Red Cross campaign, which opens March i. will be discussed this evening at a lifting of the chapter directors in the Red Cross office. County chairman Roscoe Glenpreside and it i? bossible tliat he will announce the names of the chairmen for the annual Red Cross drive. The budget will be announced and plans made to conduct the campaign. The national Red Cross budget is |85.i)00, 000. 4 , - H- ! p ■ I 4 . | " . ' ' • j i jj House Voles Pay Boost To Armed Forces ’ « ■■ ? : ■ f ''■ B r I 10 Percent Boost For All In Armed Forces Is Voted : . ' - V i 4. | k Washington, Jan. 15 — (UP) —* The bouse today approved a 10 percent pay increase for all per* sens in the armed forces. ! \ The vote was 269 to S9.t This was 30 votes more than,-the twothirds majority that was required to pass the bill under the’procedure by which it was considered. The increase would range from (7.50 per month for the recnjdtj to (114.68 per month for some geneqEds and admirals. It would cost about (833.000.000 per year, based on a military strength of 3,500,000 men. The raise would go intp effect on the first day of the first {month after it* enactment. The, panate' still must approve the end President Truman must> sign «■ . ■ The house approved the increase over hot opposition of economy advocates who protested tljiat generals would get a raise morethan 15 times that the of private?. It is the latter, the asserted, who need the raise moist Opponents also charged that the bill's backers brought iti to the floor under a "gag rule’’—ja refer* ence to the fact that the ,bll( was considered under special procedure that prohibited amendments! Under this procedure, passage of the bill required a two-thirds majority of those f The bill’s sponsors had feared 4 i tney might not win an endorsement! of this size. ’ll! U Dies This Morning > Funeral Services |i.. | Thursday Morning Mrs Mary C. Ehinger, 85, a member of a pioneer family <)t i this city, died morning at Adams county memorial hospital. 411 of .infirmities for the pist several montks. death was attributed to complications. Mrs. Ehinger was born in Minster, Ohio, June 20, 1866, a, daughter of John and Gertrude Eiting. ' The family moved here when she was 1.4 and her; father was one of - the pioneer merchants His More was known as Eiting and Company and the daughter J employed there as a millipeif. ; H. On May 23, 1889 she was married to Charles P. Ehinger, who also was a merchant of this city? His death occurred in 1902, | Five Children were born, td the union, four of whom are living. They are, Mrs. Vera KI Richard C. Ehinger, local, merchant, and Miss Jeanette Ehingef,- all of this city, and Sister. M.| Antbini i-ette of Evanston, 111. A spn, Her* min F, Ehinger, former manager of the Citizens Telephone company, is deceased. | ?[i| J Mrs. Ehnlger was a membei* of St. Mary’s church and the; Rosary, society. Funeral services will be held ht the church Thursday at 9 a. m.# with the Very Rev. Msgr. ij. Seimetz officiating. Burial 111 be la the Catholic cehaetery. The body was moved to the (3114 lig and Doan funeral home, where friends may call after 7:30 o’clock! this evening. The Rosary society will meet at the funeral home at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday. ,■ I - 2- V 11

' Claims Stalin Started Atom Control Plan i New Russian Plan Followed Directive From Josef Stalin 1 n, r ” j Paris, Jan. 15.-— (UP) — Russia’s hew proposals for world atomic Control resulted from a directive issued by Marshal Josef Stalin, Byelorussia told the United Natipns today, i ■ . Kuzma Kieselev, delegate from {{Byelorussia, an integral part of the Soviet Union, made the stateinent before the U.N. assembly’s main political committee. : He accused the west of trying to give the new Russian atomic proposals, announced Saturday by Sloviet foreign minister Andrei Y. fishinsky. a “first-class burial? in he fledgling U.N. disarmament Commission. ! He said Russia’s program of “measures to combat the threat of a new war flows from the directive Os Josef Stalin and squares with (he interests of peace and security and with the interests of the peoples of the entire world.” * Russia’s new plan calls for a Simultaneous atomic weapons ban ind control system. It agrees to a Continuous inspection prdgram on (he condition such inspection does not interfere with internal domestic affairs of any country. Kisselev reiterated charges that the United States was , preparing an aggressive war against Russia. ■■ He reiterated Vishlnsky’s demand for an immediate Korean armistice and withdrawal f 0 1? , eign trw»|>« from thertf within M days. i Kisselev said the Panmunjom talks were "stalled by the doings pf the American side.” i "More and more demands are qoming, starting with war prisoners and winding up with repair and building of airfields. This is tantamount io. direct intervention in internal affairs. Continuation of'that war is beneficial for the imperialijsts, for under that cover they can carry out their arms race.” /; ■ ; County School Head Handles Two Posts J Seeking Principal At Pleasant Mills Glen B. Custard, newly elected, county superintendent of schools, and still pinch-hitting at his former post as principal of Pleasant Mills high school, had two unusual experiences during his first afternoon in his new office he related today. ‘ . First, he said, he had the privilege and honor of locking up the court house list night. Because he still is doing the work of two men, he was compelled th remain at his desk until late and in the absence of- all other court house personnel, he locked the front door. . .■ ;J ■' !, The other unusual experience came Monday afternoon When he hiterviewed two applicant? fbr the principahship at Pleasant Mills. One of the applicants tobk superintendent Custard’s hat and left one which won’t fit. Other than that, superintendent Custard gbt off to a? gobd start. He said that hb was sure that he and trustee Nimrod McCullough would obtain a principal in a few *dayiß. The post ,ia still dpen and two or three of the present applicants are still in the running. The newest member of Adams county’s officjal family is a native of Wells county. He. attended Northwestern University and received his master’s degree in education at Purdue University-. While at Northwestern he became a member of Phi Delta Kappa, national educational society, whose members attain the highest scholastic records. The Custards reside on Rugg street in Decatur. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Custard, there are 1 a daughter. Miss Nancy, senior at Pleasant Mill? high school, and a son, G/ilen, aged 4,’ at home. A married daughter, Mrs. Shirley Haines, resides <at Fort Wayne.

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■■-■■a r ,,„ nypisa i H ii ii hi .—pi - Heroic Seaman Honored fl I ’ COUNT EDWARD Ambassador to Britain, pins the Gpld Cross of the OrdeA>f Danneborg on American Capt. Henrik (Curt Carlsen of Woodbrldfg N. J., at the Danish Club in London. The ceremony who wrote maritime history in his fight to save his vesAC Enterprise, brought such enthusiasm that Carlsen, himself, tfad difficulty gaining admittance because of the crowds.;

Huge Process Unit 'Jj • ■ ’i ' ■' ' I ' ' 1 ■ For Central Soya Solvent Extraction Tower Is Massive Norman F. Kruse, vice president ahd technical director at the Central Soya company, announced torday that the final major piece of operating equipment for the company's now solvent extraction plant in this city is enroute to the plant site and will begin to arrive this week. 1 > The unit, absolvent extraction tower, is so massive that ordinary modes of transporting it to the installation site had to be discarded. It is the largest extractor ever fabricated in this country, and in the world, he stated. Combined | Weight of the six sections and the running parts is over 200,000 pounds: the assembled dimensions being 13 by 64 feet. The sections range in weight from 5,000 to 21,000 pounds. | The extraction unit was fabricated by the French Oil Mill Machinery company, Piqua, Ohib, according to plans and specifications developed jointly by the French OU Mill Machinery Co. and Central Soya’s- engineering and technical departments, headed by J.J. Thompson and Kruse, respectively. A largs portion of the operating parts of the unit were fabricated at tjie Soya company’s Gibson City, 111., plant. A shop inspection by engineers and technologists froth both companies was held recently at the French factory in Piqua. At that time portions of the extractor and its integral parts wave assembled and operated to test its mechanical details of construction and alignment before delivery. It was important to do this and to take all such precautions because the nature of the location where this equipment is to be installed does not permit the use of welding and cutting devices. Because of its size and weight special alloy metals- were used in the construction of all working parts. More than ay year was required to complete the entire fabricating projects with some equipment such as roller* mills being purchased and imported from the German manufacturer who supplied identical units for the original extraction plant in 1937. •MM. Feat In Transportation Transporting the new extractor to the Decatur plant site will be an undertaking of gigantic and painstaking proportions. Special permits and licenses from state, county and city officials in Indiana and Ohio have been secured to move the unit via large flatbedded trucks. Rail transportation was not possible due to the extremes in size not permitting clearness. It will be necessary to transport all of this machinery in a series of six or seven truckloads to he 'delivered at the plant on successive days. Each load will be escorted put of Piqua by a special police detail. Similar service will be rendered by state and local officials all along the route up U.S. highway 127 to Van Wert and then west on U.S. highway 224 to Decatur. Special routing to avoid narrow bridges (Tara To Paco Six)-

Three 'Bon-Fire' Sweaters Picked Up In Decatur Fire Chief Cedric Fisher reported today that he had picked up three of the “l>on-fire” sweaters In' Decatur. They are madb of the nytterlal which has made the front pages bf many newspapers recently because of their ready inflammability: Chief Fisher said that he tested one. of the sweaters, purchased from a house-to-house canvasser, and that the sweater 'burned up completely In a few seconds. The chief, warned against the Wrchaae of this type of merchandise and said that while the pur? chase is not illegal, the material is highly dangerous and\ Very inflammable. Manufacturers of the material have stated publicly that on shipment, it always is marked However, when the material is made into sweaters, these. Items are not marked in any way. ' Decatur Man Robbed Os Honey And Auto Good Samaritan Act Costly To Plasterer \ l ! " ■ - : Ed Plasterer, Decatur man who is employed at Fort Wayne, lost his inpney and automobile late Monday night in an effort to be a good SamaHtan to a hitch-hiker, according to police reports. Plasterer was returning from Fort Wayne last night and picked up -a! hitch-hiker. Some plgce between the county line! and the north edge of Decatur, the man Stuck a revolver Into the side of Plasterer and tbld him to “keep driving.’ As the two approached the north edge Os Decatur, the man Relieved Plasterer of his money, j which amounted to about 110. and forced him out of his automobile. = plasterer went to a residence in the north part of Decatur and immediately notified police. The theft was put on the radio immediately and- county and state police officials were notified. Plasterer’s car was a black 1942 Ford sedan. Description of the car and &■ partial description of the robber were radioed to all neighbering cities and towns. j No information had been obtained at noon today concerning \ the whereabouts of either the bandit or the automobile, but police officere are continuing the search. -Plasterer in his statement to offi-* cials said that he picked the man ( up near the Nine Mile house and * before, long he felt anlekleplated gun in his side, o—— — 0 -A 'O' b r \ ' 1 " I January Clearance Sales . Wednesday n ' 'V Decatur Stores ■ O i— 0

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' • \ | Food, Medicine To 226 On Stalled Train Rescue Crews Seek To Reach Stranded San Francisco, Jan. 15.—(UP)-*-SRi teams, dog sleds and snowgoing vehicle? carried food and medicine today to 226 persons trapped without heat or light aboard the snowbound streamlined-train City of San Francisco high in the Sierra Nevar das!. A railroad snowplow fought to within 12 miles of the train, followBy a spedtal train wrrylng a 6th army rescue crdW equipped with six snow weasels. j The rotary snowplow growled past Alta, Calif., 12 miles from the snowbound streamliner, early today, a Southern Pacific railroad dispatcher at Colfax reported, The Soldiers planned to use the weasels for the final dash to the streamliner when the plow could gq no farther. ‘ ’ The army crews included two doctors and six medical aid men. Food was reported running j short aboard the snowbpund train. Six. children were «lck! and six adults suffered heart attacks,, one passenger said. , ) ■ p, ' A Pacific gas and electric company “snowcat” brought out one unidentified sick person. MeanwMi* aAnthe^Witf train fought its way up the eastern elope of the; mountains from Trubkee, Calif., near the Nevada border. It also carried doctors who expected to make the last few miles by dog sled. The sleds and dogs were carried aboard the relief train. i , \ A 16-car Pullman train awaited in Colfax to bring the passengers down if they are freed from their 48-hour ordeal. > Already, the rescue operation had claimed two lives. Engineer Roily R. Raymond. 50, and a machinist named Jxspez were killed when theic rotary snow plow engine was swept away by an avalanche after it was stalled by a snowplow. Their bodies had; not been recovered. > The two men were within sight of the trapped train when the avalanche roared down upon them. One rescue party, using skis, reached the train last night with a small amount of food and medical supplies. Snow at the scene was .14 feet deep. Roy Clator, a member of the (Turn To Paco Six) Mrs. Gerber Is Taken By Death • Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Mrs. bertha Gerber, t 5, died at 4:15 o’clock Monday afternoon at her home in Bluffton. , - She was a member of the Ap<ytolic Christian church. Surviving are her husband, Joseph Gerber; two sons, Samuel Reimscfaisel of New Paris and David Reimschisel of Oselan; four daughters, Mrs. Nellie Bertsch, Mrs. Menno Moser and Mrs. Mary Moser of Bluffton, and Mrs. Walter Moser r of FoW Wayne; seven stepsons; Lewis Gerber of Decatur, Fred Gerber of; Latty, 0., John, Henry and Roy Gerber of Bluffton, Lawrbnce Gerber pf Monroe, and Norman Ger- . ber of Petroleum; 23 grandchildren, three great - grandchildren, and three brothers, Jacob Kaehr of Bluffton apd Daniel and Joseph Kaehr of Decatur. i Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the residence and at 2 o’clock at the Apostolic Christian church. Burial will be tn the church cemetery. The body will be removed frpni the Jahn funeral home to the residence, where friends may call after 5 o’clock this evening.' INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight and Wednesday, colder tonight. Low to- . night 20 to 25 north, 25 to 30 < south. High Wednesday 35 to 42 north, 42 to 50 south. ; !! 'J' ! -

Opposition To ' 'i ! ■ i ® Truman's Plan Is Increasing GOP Solon Submits Resolution To Kill Trumon'sProposal Washington, Jan. 15 — (UP) — Rep. Cllftre E. Hbffman today a resolution to reject Presidents Truman’s plan for re-organizing the tax-collect-, ing internal revenue bureau. This ~ apparently will assure- a showdown vote on the controversial -proposal. * Hoffman’s move spearheaded ,growing opposition to the plan which wjil go ibto effect automatically on March 14 unless vetoed by either the house or the senate. The oppdhition must muster 218 votes inutile hopse or 49 votes in the senate to kill the proposal. J "Legislation iiyqot the answer” to cleaning up the government, Hoffman said. “Legislation doesn’t stop corruption Any more than the ten commandments stopped sin.” The jpresldentfi plan calls tor puttingjax collators bureau worker? except the commissioner of fatenikl revenue under civil service. Hoffman said ithat civil service “is not ' the anstfer” because it do*es not necessarily bar "political endorsements” iri selection of personnel. Many bureau employes involved in recant! scandale were' ueder civil service, he said. Hoffman said corruption has developed because |of Mr. Truman’s “taste” for hi£ “sendergast henchmen” in making appointments wheh he has "honest. Recent Democrats” to choose trom. Although no one was willing to put it quite so blimtly in a public statement, many| Democrats looked askance at t|ie proposal because it would, deprive them of choice patronage? opport unities. Some Republicans, on the other band, were loathiß to endorse an admiqsitration refora, which night tend to -(rSter down the political dynamite latent in the tax scandal issue. Surveying th<| situation, one highly-placed Democrat concluded that it is very doubtful whether Mr. Truman’s \ flan will get through congressz Mr. Truman proposed abolishing 4h€ offices of thej64 tax collectors, who are now appointed by the president, and replacing them with <Tnnt Tosix) Kenneth C.Kern Killed In Oregon Neghew 0f LocaF ’ Residents Victim Mrs. Robert Garard received word Monday ni|rht of the death of her nephew, C. Kern, 47, who died last evening at Portland, Ore., of injuries sustained in a fal while at wdrk. A civil engineer, Mr. Kern was in government work in Alaska during World Wa| II and in 1948 went to Arabia an employe of the Standard 0)1 Co. for two years. | He wus the of Charles D. Kern, of Elkhart a former resident qf Adams county. His mother, Cora Mumma-Kern. died in 1910. Surviving in Addition to his father in Elkhart >re his wife, two sons and one daughter, all of Portland, Ore.; one sister, Mrs. Hattie Strahlena of Fort and two brothers, Homer and Russell Kern of Toledo, 0. Toin Kern of thia city is an uncle of the deceased. No partibulars of the fatal accident ( or funeral arrangements were revealed in the message received here. B - / If : \! ■

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Charge Communist Prison Camp Is Hit . By Allied Bombs, . Killing Prisoners j < Panmunjom, Kofrea, Jan. 15.—• (UP) —The Communists charged today that an Allied plane bombed i Communist prison camp in North Korea last night, killing at least 10 U.N. prisohdrs and wounding ih'ore than 60 others. > . The sth air force promptly denied that any of its planes had made the alleged attack on camp number 8 at Ka(igdong, i which holds one American and! 1,591 South Korean prisoners. J North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee . Sang Cho told U.N. truce delegates in the prisoner subbommittbe that three bombs hit the camp hospital Monday, He promised a list of casualties later. ! Rear Admiral R. ; A. Libby took note of the charge, but made no comment. The Communists previously had identified the only American in the Kangdong camp as a Tadahi Kanoko, U.S. army serial number RA 1ff103304, a sergeant in the Ist cavalry division. . J; ' Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme U.N. commander, was Informed in Tokyo of’the Communist accusation \ and ordered yan immediate investigation. Soon after* ward, a sth air forb® spokesman in • Korea, said no UN. plane had bombed the camp. Libby said "absolutely no progress” was made i|n the prisoner subcommittee.! The day’s Only development, he said, was to confirm that the deadlock centered On two issues—the U.N. proposal for voluntary repatriation of prisoners and the U.N.’s insistence that South Korean captives forced into tb.O Red army be reclassified as w:< prisoners. ' /!:'■; ’’ A U.N. commahd spokesman said the meeting was "tempered and orderly” In <• comparison with Monday's session, when the Communists accused the Allied command of lying and Libby threatened to walfc out ip protest. Both subcommittees will meet again at ij, a.m. Wednesday (8 p.m. today OST). | ! Aerial Dogfight Sth army headquarters, Korea, Jan. 15.—(UP)—American Sabrejets drew their first blood since Friday by damaging twol Communist Mig-15 jet fighters today in a 15-minute dogfight west Korea. !i / Thirty-six of the Sabres battled 40 Mlg’s between 37,000 and 5,000 feet over Sinanju in “Mig Alley.” The y damaged enemy jets were claimed by Ist Lt. Billy B.JDobbs of Qntana, Calif., and Ist Lt. Robert ,W. Smith of 516 West Jackson street, York, Pa. t \ Th® claim? boosted the sth air force’s score to 164 Migs destroyed, 31 probably destroyed, and 339 damaged. Other United Nations jets, flying as a screening force fpr sth air force fighter-bombers, sighted 150 more Mig's and exchanged fire with them. No further: claims were mad?, however, pending examination of the gun cameras. F-84 Thunderjets blasted a large - Communist hnad grenade factory near Pyongyang the North Korean capital, with napalm and 500pound fire bombs. . ? ~' ■ Highway Funds For Cities And Townjr Indianapolis, Jan. 15 —(UP) — Indiana auditor Frank Millis ttyiay announced the distribution of (11.711,921.20 In motor vehicle highway funds to citle? and towns, counties, and the state highway department. It was the largest January distribution in history. jaboUt (462,000 more sian the distribution a year ago. Th® distribution to cities and towns Decatur, (5,033.73; Berne, (1,576.3?; Geneva, (691.61; Bluffton, (4,206.43; Fort Wayne, (92,496.45; Monroeville, (796.15; Portland (4;890.48.