Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L No. 20.

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17 Persons Die After Winter's Worst Blizzard Some Relief Seen Throughout Most Os Midwest Area ! , By United Press South Dakota ranchers found cattle frozen to death in deep snow today after the winter’s worst blizsard, which left 17 persons dead in the midwest I Numbing eoTd began to moderate in lowa and the Dakotas, and U.S. weather forecasters promised some relief from the cold throughout ..most of the midwest. Transportation in the northern tier of states was returning to normal as roads and rail lines were cleared. At Pierre, S.D., the first passenger train since Monday arrived early today from Rapid City, S.D. Ranchers in the Millboro, S.D., area, snowbound for days, got out into the fields today to find many cattle dead. Some ranchers reported losses as heavy as 100 head. At Des Moines, la., the airport was reopened for. airline travel after workers spread limestone over icy runways. Throughout the upper midwest, however, many roads and highways still were dangerously icy. Temperatures hovered near zero over much of the area. Subsere weather still prevailed, **owever, in the extreme north. Bemidji, Minn., reported 35 below zero and Grantsburg, Wisconsin 34 oelow. Eau Claire, 'Wis., recorded 28 below and Park Falls, Wls., 25 below. In South Dakota, the mercury climbed from 18 below at Philip to sero, and from 24 below at Aberdeen to 6 below. 1 The latest death attributed to the storm and cold weather was that of Thor Fosheim, 75, a rancher found frozen to death in a field near bis home at Moenville, S.D. Meanwhile, rescuers resumed a search for the bodies of two ranchers missing in the chest-high South Dakota snowdrifts. The rescuers left Murdo, S.D., to try to find rancher Pete Judd and his nephew, Cecil Judd, 20. The bodies of the elder Judd’s two daughters were discovered hnddled together last night, the state’s fourth and fifth victims of the bliz-zard-cold wave. _ Six deaths attributed to the weather were reported in South Dakota, onp in North Dakota and 10 in Minnesota. The four Judds had been missing since when the two men picked up the girls Mt a School four miles away. The Judd’s jeep was found abandoned later in a snow drift and the bodies of the girls, Flora, seven, and Helen, eight, were nearby. The search for the men Was given up temporarily because of a ground blizzard but they were also presumed dead. Meanwhile, the freeze prowled into the east and extended fingers as far south' as the Gulf states where temperatures dipped sharply from balmy highs. /A new storm closed in on California, promising a good - size drenching for northern and central California today and tomorrow and mdre snow in the high Sierras. The storm threatened' to end a twp-day dry spell which brought relief from last week’s disastrous endws and floods. The mercury slumped to 30 be-| 1 low sero in parts of North Dakota, one of the states hardest hit by the cold blasts. At least 14 persons were treated for frost bite in neighboiing South Dakota, including seven snow plow crewmen found near Kellar’s Corners. « * ■- ' Six Above Zero Is Reported Here Today A touch of winter has returned {to Adams county and the tempera- \ tttre early this morning was recorded at elx above zro in Decatur rising to 10 above at about 11 o’clock. 4 west wind was working tgidast a bright sun and the fore- \ east "Was for continued cold through the day. The official temperature at Baer field in Fort Wiyne wa* six abovethis morning.

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Says Mine's Danger Wis Often Reported Senate Committee Conducts Hearing Li '■ ' ■ ' Washington. Jan. 24 — (Up) — Government officials said today that the "potential for disaster” at a West Frankfort, 111., mine, where 119 men were killed in an explosion last month, was "reported on numerous occasions.** Robert K. Rose.'assistant secretary of interior, tqM a senate labor committee that federal inspectors had reported r many times on the mine’s condition to coal operators, the of mines, and the state of Illlnoip. ■: t - Sen. Paul Douglas (D-Ill.), in A hose state the tragedy Occurred, psked for a full record oif report* made on the mine before the explosion. . ' Rose testified in behalf of Interior secretary Oscar) L. Chapman, who Is Hl. He read a statement by Chapman asking legislation giving federal inspectors authority to c ose mines fpund to be unsafe. The present j law does not require mine operators to comply with an inspector** request. Speaking of the /West Frankfort disaster. Chapman said in his statement that the requested authority would "help prevent this kind of tjilng happening.” United i Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis, scheduled to testl;fy later, attended the opening hearing as a spectator. j I Sen. Hprley 4-i Kilgore (D-W-Va.) issued a statement saying ha proposed hg'jslajion “could re prevented the terrible dis 3er at West Frankfort.” . "It is a tragic Sthinte that pro-* press toward adequate mine safey legislation comes only after errib’.e disasters/’ Kilgore said. President Trumftn has Joined Jhapman and Lewis in demanding i mine safety law “Wltli teeth in it.” ’ I '. 4 L L John J.| Forbes,jt director of the bureau oif mines, testified that federal Inspectors had made four 'reports since January, 1950, izidl“serious hptards similar to | .hose that have caused heavy loss ifjife-J.” I . He said the last Inspection .■ In uly showed 31» violations of the federal mjine safety code, and that otice of these violations was sent o the company, but that many of he ‘seridus hazards . . . were not Directed/’ I i ’’ Forbes i said the Inspectors had detected methane gas In the mine and recommended a change in the method of ventilation. The interior department’s report 'on the ragedy said the qxpldsion resulted from ignition of accumulated methane gas. Forbes backed Chapman’s recommends ion that federal inspec tors be given power to close down mines where code violations exist. ■ '"--4 —4* [ Oratorical Contest Here This Afternoon i i Local High School Students Compete ; ' ■' ! 4^4r 1 Six students were competing ♦his afternoon lb an oratorical contest at the Decatur high school to represent the local school in the annuil American Legion con test, whic h will be held j later. A winner and alternate will be named this afternoon '|o reprOsen’ ♦he school in the couzfty contest. This contest will be held before March 13. I| \ j ; Five gif Is and one boy student will give their, drations lon the U. S. GorstitutiOn, Deane Dorwin teacher of the speech class in the hcih school, stated. The orator? may expqund oq the eonsHtutto*’ Itself, or nnv par; of ii, the amendments or the bill of rights, it wa? explained. I ‘ Following the conn tv contes’ the winner here Will compete lr\ ’he district contest. ! 4. Robert Anderson, loci! atjtornev ’s chairmnn Os the couptv ednteet ’•enre«entlng Adams Post 43 of th'* L*eion. vJi 2 Tjnp-h Andrews hfrh nrlnMnal *nd M f ruihet, Pomwqndor of Adsma Poat, !» the district chairman. J I •• f m

.-.j-L i . Vast New Atom Project Now Being Planned Vast Production Centers Planned Under Expansion Washington, Jan. 24 — (Vp) — At least one, and probably Mi, vast new atomic production Centers are planned under President Truman’s secret blueprint for expanding A-bomb output, it Was learned today. > The congressional atomic energy committee is studying the expansion plan at closed hearings. Nlo official details have been given out beyond the bare facts that it W?li involve a cost of more than 15,000,000,000 over a five-year period. But informed sources said it chn be assumed that aa expansion program of that size will not Bb carried out simply by adding new facilities to the atomic energy commission’s established production centers at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Hanford, Wash., or at the new opes now being built at Savannah River, S. C., and Paducah, Ky. These sources also noted that he Savannah River project—largest single industrial plant ever undertaken—will cost about |l,250,000,000, or one quarter of the Wm Involved in the proposed new expansion.The funds cal’ed for in the president’s blueprint do not in lude the Savannah project, whic’ already is under cons'ruction. I 4her yrords, fdur new plants, each as tremendous as the 20000 b-acre South Carolina project, coul£ be" htzllt with the money Mr. Truman plans to seek. In choosing the sit-e or sites for aew production centers, the AEC will face a “Hobson’s choice" problem. It can go into the wide open spaces of the west or southwest, where It would have to build 4w government-owned "atomic tdwns" to house- the plant workers. r Op it can make displaced persons I of thousands of residents in some more popu'ous area in order to build the plants near established < ities. The AEC has forced the evacuation of some 7,000 self-stvleW ’DP’s” from the farming community around Ellenton. S. C., to make (Torn Jo Paxe Ei«ht> February 26 Is First To File Candidacies j Deadline For Filinq Is Set For March 27 \ n February 26 is the first day a candidate can file for a county office for either the Democrat or Republican primary election in May, according to a letter received today from the state board of election commissioners by Ed Fj Jaberg, county clerk. The deadline for filing intentions of candidacy is March the ’etter stated. The statute governing the filing of declarations of candidacy was changed by the !951 general assembly and now sets out the time as not morq than 70 days or less than 40 days prior ’o the election date, which is May 6. - These dates also apply to registration of voters J and all voters who desire to cast preferences in ’he May primary elections must he registered by March 27, it was •minted out. It' also was pointed out that if ’he constitutional amendment is arried at the November general "lection, all county offices with ‘he exception of commissioner will he for four-year terms. The eiaht out of 12-year limit to -»erve will be placed on all county offices except purveyor and assessor. for which there will be no INDIANA WEATHER j\ Increasing cloudiness tonight. Cloudy and not so cold Friday.! A period of lloht snow north oor’lon fate tonight and early Friday. Low Thursday night zero to 10 above north, 10 to 15 south. High Friday 22 to 28 north, 28 to 82 couth. ■

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, January 24, 1952.

. 4 4 -J.. . t ' , .. ... - Enters Presidential Race - ssbmhmhhbmb ■ I PROMISING CONTINUED WAR on’corruption if elected, Sen. Eetea Kefauver of Tennessee, announeed his candidacy for nomination on the Democratic ticket for president before a news conference in Washington. He said he is in ithe rkce “to the finish,” and is “not A candidate for any other office.” ws. Kbfaiiver smiles approval..

Kefauver Planning Active Campaign J Decares He Is In Race To The Finish i I t *■* S ILr rj it Washington, Jan. 24. —(UP)~ Sen. Estes Kefauver, who has !kssured the Democrats a party fight his began casting about pto fay for promising state primages n which to make his-long-shot bid for the presidential nomination. Ii He already has entered the 01t nois primary, and be announijod;. plans tp enter in California. iHe promised to disclose within a few days what he will do in other stales. The Tennessee J Democrat, Mtho captured national attention ng over the senate crime investigation last year, announced at a news conference yesterday that;he will seek the Democratic presidential nominatiom He said he'ljs in the race “to the finish,” whatever President Truman may do about seeking reelection. || The fact that he gave no heed to Mr. Truman’s still undisclosed nian= has already led some administration Democrats to join, a top-Kefauver t movement. Sen. Brien McMahon <DConn.)' ■’as been Entered In the Illinois nresldexitial primary with the baf|king of State organization Democrats. When pro-Kefauver activity appeared In Minnesota, SenA Hubert H*. Huniphrey (DMinn.) was persuaded to become a “favorite sqn’’ candidate in that state. Some Democratic party strategists have prediefed a similar pattern in other states where KefauHr decide to bld for delegates v^ 10 will pick the nominee at‘the party convention next July. If Mr. Truman decides against seeking reelection, few expect him to support 8 Kefauver as his successor. \ I ' L !’ ; In his announcement, the Tennessee senator said world peace is the paramount issue today. He said he was proud foreign policy achievements under Democratic administrations'but that he would hope to develop "positive and creative elements” In foreign poller. Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ul.) said he was “on the spot” because of the McMahon-Kefauver contest in Illinois. He praised both senators but said he thinks KefauVer. is “well qualified for the presidency.” J. [ . : " r " '■ _ 4 Welfare Department Balance Is Increased Starting with a balance of $30,566.82 Jan. 1, 1951, the Adams county welfare department received $223,561.77 for a total of $254,128.59 and disbursed during the year a total of $193,065.28, according to a report filed in the office of county auditor Thurman Drew. The balance of December 31, 1951 was $60,973.31, 1 almost doiible the balance of a year ago. This balance la reflected in the tax rate which a year ago was 17 cents for welfare and now is 12 cents. Old age assistance is still the biggest item of expenditure, according to the report. Operating expense totals $17,110.33. The ziew report reflects a trend of economy (Tw» T® Pa«c Fiv®) ■■ ■ : H ■ 4- ■ V 14 '■

Two Men Killed As Auto Hits Trailer Indianapolis, Jan. 24 —(UP)— Two men were killed today when their car rammed into the rear of * parked semi-trailer on U.S. 52 near the oast edge of the city. Dead were John W. Schmidt, id,. Indianapolis, driver of the car, anid Cpl. Earl E. Stapp, 21, New Pale* Hie-. Auttiorlties said Stapp wad •oh leave from Presque Isle air force jase, Me. Laborite Attacks :• i \ | . t’ J Churchill Policies L Recent Talks With Truman Assailed ■ London, Jan. 24 —(VP)—A key abor party leader charged tonight hat Prime Minister Winston Churchill in his talks at Washing ton may have set Great Britain 4n a slipper slope‘at the bottom •>| which is war with China.” |The charge, made by former labor minister of state ' Kenneth Yhunger, made it almost certain hat the laborites will launch aj 'dtter attack on Churchill’s policies when parliament reopens next ■Tuesday, with debate centering on his talks with President Truman. .Younger said dangerous ideas «*re coming up in the United States and that they had become ' more dangerous than before” because this is a presidential elec'ion vear. Churchill, he said, mav tell parI’ajtnent that he made no formal agreement in Washington which would extend the Korean war. But American opinion a’ready has conehtded.. Younger said, that Churchill* can be relied upon to back an an|i-Communist crusade in <ABla. ”At the very least Mr. Churchill has missed a, big chance to Inflfc--oh£e American policy,” Younger safd, “At the worst he may have us on a slipper slope at the Wtom of which *is war with China." Tounrer made his speech at a tefior partv rallv at Saltney. His key position In the late labor government made It more significant He was minister of state in the ‘ore|gn office and It wsa he who signed the Japanese peace treaty for this conntv at San Francisco. F The outbreak of a world war wnuld set back prosperity and democracy for a veneration and 'he , west must avoid any action which might lead to war, he said. y . : 4 : . i — Started On Second Street s A group of state highway enjployes started today to do some patchwork on Second street Decatur. Winter freezes and thaWs paused some deep boles In tlje street from Monroe street south and also on Mercer avenue. * : The patching material Incluaes hot asnha.lt and sand. The material ip then pressed into the holes with < roller Similar nst-’hes were ” sp d last summer when, all state highways through Decatur were smoothed out

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MacArthur's Name Is Removed In Illinois Name Stricken From Republican Primary Springfield, Illinois, 24— (UP)— The Illinois secretary of state's office reported today it 'had received a notarized withdrawal statement from Gen. Douglas MacArthur and J.'has stricken his name from the April 8 Illinoisrestate Republican presidential primary elections clerk Don Butler received MacArthur's formal wltjh* drawal this morning. MacArthur had telegrammed Butler Tuesday after his name wa9 entered by Lar Daly, Chicago, and requested his name be withdrawn, However, Butler wired back that the general would have to submit a notorized statement. In today’s statement, MacArthur said “I request my name be with* drawn from the Illinois Republican state presidential primary . . . and that notification this has been done be sent to me.” ‘ I MacArthur's withdrawal leaves three Republicans in the president* ial race: Ohio senator Robert Taft, University of Pennsylvania president Harold E. Stassen and Chica;can Riley Bender. At the same time, Daly, backer bl up. organization known as “MacArthur' and McCarthy in '52” protested that MacArthur cannot with* draw himself ftom the raee. Daly said in a letter to Butler bat according to la* a presidential primary 13 advisory. As a result, an .ndividual candidate does not fie jnd therefore cannot withdraw his jwn name, Daly said. Farm Institutes lo Be Held Next Week ’ Annual Institutes For Adams County Three farmers Institutes are scheduled for ! north and central Adams county next week. The combined St. Mary’s-B'.ue Creek institute and the Adams Central institute Will be held Tuesday and ?he Root-Preble institute will be held at Mpnmouth Thursday. I Good programs have been assured for farmers at all three of the mid-winter events. The St. Mary’sBlue Creek all-day session will be held at P easant Mills high school. F. R. Willsey and Mrs. Lawrence Vannlce, Purdue extension speakers, will headline the morning and tute. At night, starting at 7:30 o'clock, Nancy Lee and the Hilltappers radio artists will feature the program. Officers include: Eiisha Merriman, chairman; Donsaid Colter, vice-chairman;i Mrs Thelmg Bilderback, secretary; Mrs. Fanny Nyffler, treasurer. ' At Adams Central high school on the same day, morning and afternoon sessions will be feature*’ by addresses by Ralph S. Yobe farm science editor of Prairie ' Farmer, and Yohe also will show movies concerning farming ir foreign countries. I • At the night program, which Is ■ Scheduled to start at 8 o'clock. ; Walter Zuercher and his accordion . band will be the headlinerg. Adsms Central institute officers are: Eugene Arnold, chairman; Daniel Lantz, vice-chairman; Eli\ Schwartz, treasurer and Brice Fisher, secretary. ■ The Root-Preble event will be January 81 .at Monmouth ♦’iHh school and morning and afternoon sessions will feature nportre W. Nuffler, Purdue extension sneaker, and Mrs. Vannlce ’’’V* P’vht session will start at 7:30 o'clock and the headline at. ‘rsction wif be the Joe Geels ■*«mJlv program. Officers of *he R^nt-Preble ins*i♦rtfe era; Fred FnafHng. Jr., chairman; Tz>rpn Krneteman, vfr’a-cha’r-man: H®nrv Dotting, treasurer and Mrs. Carl Hurst, secretary.

House Group Backs Truman Cleanup Plan Approves plan For Purifying Internal Revenue Bureau \ Washington, Jan. 24 — (UP) — The house executive expenditures committee unanimously approved President Truman's plan for purifying the scandal-ridden internal revenue bureau. The committee action foreshadowed approval by the house when it votes next week on the reorganization proposal. What the senate will do is not certain. Under Mr*. Truman’s plan the 64 tax collectors appointed by the president will be replaced by up to 25 district collectors under civil service. Under the present svstem, colj lectors in effect * r ® named by senatorSj They suggest men for the president to appoin*, after which the nominees must he approved bv rhe senate. Thflit adds up to “patronage ” a political perquisite some senators, at least, don’t *ant to glvel up. . - The president's idea is that cutting the number of collectors and introduction o* civil service standards will lessen the likelihood of corruption. i •'I ' Though some congressmen have warned against putting too muc b faith in the president's plan, m- i fority of house members appear willing to give if a try. Other congressional news: 4-Fs-v-Sen. Harry P. Calni,(R. Wash.) called for re-examination hf military physical standard? He did so after hearing a repor 4 that the army automatically reacted three six-foot-six basketba l ' plavers because th® v were tooitali Draft director Lewis B. Hershetold the 4-F poo' is grow’ng too rapidly, largelv because o* the army’s “appallljag! reiection rate.” He said standards will hav? te be lowered or “eventuallv” th*» armed forces will have to turh to veterans, fathers, and men mow (Turn Tn Pure F.lchfi . • F j [ . 11 County Delegates To Each Convention Name Delegates At Primary Election Indianapolis, Jan. 23—(UP)— T ndiana Republicans will elect delegates and Democrats I.BOT a 5 * ‘heir representatives at state (conventions for party nominations thi? vear, tabulitions by the state election board revealed today. Voters in .the ilth district, comnosed 0f population-heavy Marlon county, will send the most delegates to both conventions. The fifth district will be second higher ’n representation at the GOP mee f and the eighth district, second high-' est for ta e Democrats. \ Delegates will be elected at May nrimaries, one for each 400 vote? **ast for secretary of state in th? Preceding election. A delegate ajsr ’<? given for each fractionaJ yote of tao or more. Number of delegates from eac’’ district —Reuubllcan and Democra()!icj in that order*—are: >■ First district 133-164. second 14* third 209-184, fourth 179-127 •Wth 226-193. sixth 176-154, seventh ■»73-169. eighth 183-201. ninth'l46<36 10th The Democratic convsijtinn Tune 9 and the Republican July 3. Delegates by counties in the *ourth district are: - - r Adams. 11 to each nnnvon*l*'n ■ *’t*n 9R RonnhHf’an 62 Demof«r»». Mer D*K«lb. 17 R . 12 n • ’ R.. 3 D; Noble 1« R„ 11 D * qtenben. 10 R.. li p. Wells. 9 R.. 10 D.; Whitley, 12 R., 10 D.

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( 1 U —* ' Communists Charge U.S. Planes Again Violate Manchuria Territory By Bomb\ Pgnmunjbitt, Korea, Friday, Jan. 25;—-(UP)—The Chinese Communists aa»erted today' that United States air force planes violated Manchurian territory three times in three days and that seven bomba were dropped on cpe town. It was expected that the Reds would minke a formal complaint at the truce session which starts at 11, a.m. today (8 p.m. Thursday CST). Radio Peiping said a lone American plane dropped seven bomba on Masienkan, Manchuria, last Saturday, that another single plane flew more thati sfx miles into Manchuri? Sunday and that on the same day 19 planes conducted a scouting (light into the country. The U,N. ! command radio in Tokyo Accused ta e Communist truce negotiators night of “killing time until thpif next offensive” or else waiting'for the allies to give in to their demands” out of ’beer exasperation” over their de'aying tactics. I > ' Due to the Red stalling, the broadcast said, the truce negotiations “arie bow In ja complete state ,'f paralysis.” ( This broadcast strgng’hcned indi -vions jeert herd that the U.N. may make a major atempt sopn to break the deadlock lit ruce talks by offering further— - nd possibly final-concessions. One concession rfaay be ah allied tier to accept a simple oral pledge by the Redj that they will not try ‘o build up theinjntiitary strength during an armistice. y , If this offer weta made, and the ’ accepted it, the big deadlock of the trucje negotia‘ions— "■ ‘ ♦.be Red refusal to guarantee not to ibuild new air bases ip North Korea —wbuld be broken. -The following developments eemed to point toward a major breitk in th* (present stalemate: *l—Therie was a persistent report h Tokyo, unconfirmed bu ? from ’-ually reliable soiirces. that Gen. -*i*tHew iR; Ridgway, supreme allied commander, had received in■‘.ructions from Washington to un”Hn U.N. demands. -4-1 ,f*2—The replacement, of tough faj. Gen. Claude H. Ferenbaugh as ne of the allied hegoHa’lng team y Maj. Gen. William K, HarrlsSnl nnounced .Wedhesfltyx —The steady withdrawal by T .N. command frbm its original irm. insistence thit the Oommunsts give an Iron-clad guarantee not o build any bases in North ’ Corea during ad armistice. 4' j». In Thursday’s talks here, |he[ ’lies asked the Communists:- < ■ “Will you now express in simple \erms what your intentions are durog an atanlstide on this matter” , f airfield construction? it was reported that, In the end, h#> allies: might not even insist on, mention psi air bases but would ettle for ! a mere promise not to - ncrease military strength. The Comtnimists made ode poh’tesion. They proimised to mark their 11 war prison camps in North ’Corea to safeguard them against tilled aerial attack. Red staff Officers also gave Unit’d Nations officers a map pinpointing all but one of the camps where ’1.559 allied prisoners. Including 1198 Ameticianii, ar> confined. They oroihised to locate the 11th camp z ’oter. Tn the steiemafeil truce nesrofia‘<nns. the'iU.N. gave the Commun- ’”♦? ano’bier icbkhce to settle the key armlsiicie Issue of airfield cnn--’ruction wt’h a sirnole pVomise to buod up their air power. Thwtpffer was in line wi’h a retorted Washington (Hrrcttve' to uu” joh armistice demand? in ‘h? Interest of sue* dine tio>d truce. Ru’ the Reds refn»ed ta scceo.t ‘*»e bait. NeVber was there sny nrperpss fn the subcommittee trytee to work but an est Hear -”-l»oners. ! Thus the VT-dsv . te -tee ♦nite pegmta’fons , upta’c? en*ied ♦ Vl P<r te(rd mon'h; since their resumn’tnn Oct. 25. ! (.4 I c Xi