Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 54, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1952 — Page 1

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Truman Makes Appeal Direct To Communists Voice Os America's Ist Sea-Going Radio Station Inaugurated Washington. Mar. 4 —I (UP) 4President Truman told the Russian people today there can He peace “it your rulers will turn from their senseless policy of hate and terror.” "We have no quarrel with the people of the Soviet Union,” he said in a dramatic broadcast direct • o Russia and Communist satellites around the world. Mr. Truman spoke at ceremonies inaugurating the Voice of America’s first sea-going radio station —a major new V. S. weapon in the propaganda war. J The courier, a converted 338-foot 4 coast guard cutter, is designed for moving quickly and easily to the seacoasts of iron curtain countries to relay voice broadcasts. It W’ill leave for New York Friday and then go on a shakedown cruise, in the Carilkbeajp. Its first assignment is expected to be to the middle east. ' The ship is the first of three being converted for sea broadcasting under “operation vagabond.” It is operated by the coast £uard for the voice. The president assured Russian - listeners that America “The aggressive policies of your * rulers are forcing us to arm to -defend ourselves but we cannot find in our hearts against you.” he eaid. “We know 4hat you are suffering under oppression and persecution. We know that if you were free to say what ybu really believe, you would join, with us to banish the fear of war and bring peace to the world." The president said Communist leaders are trying to poison the minds of their people with lies about the United States. But. he said, “I want you to know’ that our highest aim is peace and friendship.” "Wherever you may be listening to this broadcast, remember this: The. people of the United States extend the hand of friendship to you across the seas. "The future may look dark, but let us have faith together that all peoples will one day walk in the sunlight qT peace and justice.” Thirty-seven voice transmitters beamed the president's unusual message behind the iron curtain and to free nations in Europe. Latin America and the Far East. His words also were rtanslated into 45 languages and rebroadcast. Inspect Equipment For City Utility Mayor John Doan and Lester Pettibone, superintendent of the Decatur light and power plant will leave Wednesday, i. afternoon for Philadelphia. Pa. where they vHll visit the General Electric pant of that city. '• G. E. is manufacturing the switchboards so the new Decatur power pant and the local men will inspect the progress made to date on the equipment. It was pointed out that by inspecting the equipment as it is in (He process of manufacture will save several weeks of time in completion. Indianapolis Woman Slain This Morning Indianapolis, March 4.—(UP) — Mrs. Jacqueline Johnson, 27, was shot to death on a street early today, and police held another woman on a preliminary charge of murder. ~ ■ *'4 Police said Gillespie, 37, admitted firing . three times at Mrs. Johnson “to frighten her.” She was wounded in the neck and breast. William Torrence, 24, and DeForest Grayson, 24, were held “for questioning Jn the slaying. * .'nigg WEATHER Cold yvave tonight wltfi low temperatures 5-10 10-18 above south. Clearing and u diminishing winds tonight. Wednesday generally fair and bold. High Wednesday 15-22 north, 22-30 south. : 1 ' ' ■ ’ r V. - ■ ■ .

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I ”< : s; L; Two Tankers Collide In Chesapeake Bay New York. Mar. 4—(UPJ—Two tinkers collided in dense fog about noon today, seven miles north of smith Point Light in Chesapeake flay, the coast, guard reported. The coast guard dispawclued four boats to the scene. They were the Mistletoe, the Androscoggin, the The tankers were not immediNarcissus. and the Madroha. ately identified- / , p f | — h .4_ ' , Three Stales Are Struck By Severe Storms Arkansas Alabama And Georgia Hit By Storms, None Killed By United Press | Tornadoes, hail and violent thunderstorms lashetl widely scattered arqas in Arkansas, Alabama and Georgia as a squall line spawned by a Texas cyclone whipped eastward across Dixie. | . i'l [' At leas" 10 persons were injured and more than 300 homes aamaged or destroyed. | There were no deaths reported. Hundreds; of birds were killed in northeast Arkansas, where hail “as big as golf balls'" piled up to a -depth of two inched ip kome places. Small ' but vicious twisters leapfrogged through central Alabama and Georgia, razing homes,-uproot-ing trees and knocking out power, end communication facil tieh. Dave Miller, UTS. district weath-! er forecaster in the squall line was generated jby thb; action of warm southern' winds on the lower quadrant ofhhe cyclone. a h u ß e i iowJ pressure area moving eastward from the Texas panhandle. The weather front brought a heavy dose of fjg, rain, show and sleet to the nt.tion east of 'the Mississippi rivet*. , [ Behind it,! a ciold front closed in. locking the northern ihidwest in an icy chest. At Manila. Ark., Mayor J. B. Shedd said hai| that flailed the city yesterday (ioatejtl street with a layer “(wb to two and a half inches deep." J i r 1 Shedd said 200 homes wejre-dam-eked by the hail, “sonie If it as big as golf balls." He set.damage at 5150.000. A "baby” tornado played hopscotch across the twp-west-cHntral Alabama counties of Pjckens and' Tnscalobsa. injuring five persons slightly, demolishing 23 hpriaes, .smashing a five-room school house and uprooting trees and utility Poles. The heaviest snow of th4> winter (Turn Tb Page Two( Tax Exemption To Disabled Soldiers :'T•' 'I ’ U ‘ I Maximum Os $2,000 Exemption Allowed ’J All Adams county soldiers witfy 10 percent or more service disability may file for to >2,000 tax exemption with the? county auditor any time until Maw 5, it was announced today, The tax exemption inchides poll tax, personal property, and real estate up to the >2,000 maximuip and forms may be obtained ht the office of Thurman Dreivf County auditor. Drew stressed thfe fact thqt there is no charge foi* filing thje exemption. A soldier must either > present his government disability check or a letter from the veterans administration setting out that tlie applicant has a 10 percent or more > service-incurred disability, I There are some instances where solidiers of World War I may ojb- . tain a partial exemption jwith dis- . abilities .contracted after discharge from the serviced; | Drew* said that already a large number of Adams county meh filed their exemptlops, jbut [that quite a few did not kno'w their rights in filing. The auditor said that his office W'ould be glad to assist any of the [applicants in filing their for th« exemption.

Heavy Quake Rocks Japan, | Toll Mounting ■ ■ ' n Heavy Earthquake Rolls Tidal Waves On Japan Islands Sapporo. Hokkaido, Japan, Mar. 4 -(UP)-— A. powerful ocean-floor earthquake rolled eight tidal waves out of the pacific agdinst Japan’s northernmost islands today. smashing and flooding thou- . sands of homes, overturning trains rnd killing at least 35 persons. Official reimrts sqiii 169 persons were -inju red and 15 missing in Japan's most severe earthquake since the Fukui disaster of 1948, which killed 5,507 persons in east- ■ 1 1 ri Honshu islnad. j Hokkaido and northern Honshu islands counted more than 2,000 . coastal houses destroyed or washetl away. Some 10.000 Japanese were homeless in bitter winter weather. The first heavy ehock was re- [ corded at 10:24 a. m. (7:25 p. nu Mdpday CST). It was followed by 11 minor tremors. The last one was recorded at 1:41 p. m. (10:41 p. in. CST). I % Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway ordered all American military units in the disaster area to "render all possible assistance.” The U.S. air force began a nyercy air lift of to Stricken towns on \ Hokkaido - No Americans or other foreigners were listed among the casual- [ ties. Little damage to U. S. Ist | cavalry dviislon and air force installations on Hokkaido was reported. * The earthquake, classed as "vary strong.” derailed I- five trains, snapped bridges, started landslides and ripped sipall fissures in the snow-covered coastal shelf of mountainous Hokkaido? Two small; fishing villages w’erb isolated and officials eaid they may have suffered major disasters. The entire 400-hpuse village of Kiritappu was "washed away," according to police reports from the Haea. There was too immediate estimate of piasualties there. The big U. S. aiy force base at Mjsaw’a in northeastern Honshu escaped damlage. • The eight tidal waves, fotir to 10. feet high, flooded out 400 dwellings. \ Japanese authorities feared the paper manufacturing city of Tomhkomai, on the £outh shore of Hokkaido, had been damaged seirnnmi To Paae gi x) -r 1 [I County Employes Ask For Social Security Petition Is Filed With Commissioners Petitions Have been filed by the personnel of the Adams county memorial hospital, cbunty\ highway employes and a majority of county officials and employes, that all county employes placed under social security, in accordance with the recently amended federal law. The petitions wjsre filed Monday with the board,of county com, mfssioners and’ they will be acted on at a later The earliest dUte on which county employes could now be takerj into social security is January i b 1953, it was pointed out. Jt was learned joday that employes of more thhn half of the counties in Indiana are now in social security and jthe balance are filing petitions to be taken in, similar to Adams county’s employes’ action. • ? The commissioners turned down the request last y<ar, deciding to wait and see what other counties planned to do following a change in the federal statute. "’ [ - ,If a favorable decision is made here, the action would place alf epunty officials and all county em-' ojoyes under the apt and a part of their pay each would be withheld as is the i case in business. , 'Civil city employes of Decatur recently were placed under social security and the police and firemen ' have their own pension systems. A’t present there Is no provision of any kind for a pension for Adams county officials or:employee. 1 u ■ ■ , '

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' New ’Copter Goines In A Box 'T* p— -r—i nun ~ , T? ' ' 1 AVi lA' A •■WIF AwlwaMtwEll 'L. the U. S. ARMY displays collapsible nfew midget helicopter, the XH--26. built so it can be caridetl and dropped by larger aircraft. It can be unpacked and airborne in 20 minuted with two men doing the job. i The craft weighs less than 300 pounds, is six feet high, collapses into as’ by 5’ by 14’ container. The H* diopter can carry two men side by side or tandem in twin external litter h is intended for air exacuation and observation. Maker (s Amercian Helicopter company, Ijos Angeles, Army is lopkipg it over

Long Session Held ' . ‘ ■■■ By Commissioners Petitions Heard By Board Monday ‘ ■ •. ■ The Adams county board of commissioners held a long one-day session Monday, taking petitions for black-top road under construction and listening to petitioner* and salesmen most of the afternoon. The morning was consumed by allowing bills. The monthly pounty home inspection was held at noon and the board reconvened at 1 o’clock in the afternoon. -Edward Arnold. O. V. Dilling, Zimmerman, Victor Byerly, Lloyd Byerly and Fred Adler appeared personally before the board when a petition Was, presented by Walter Zimmerman and rigned by more than 7Q Adams county freeholder*. The petition asked the commissioners to blacktop a road running past the Kirkland. township school. The rpad also basses the Pleasant Dale church ,and cemetery and' is heavily travelled, according to tlie petitioners. The board agreed tp J,ake 4he petition under advisement and act on it in the near future.. Eli Graber, Martin Kiefer. Eli Kipfer, and Alfred Kipfer. all pf French township, appeared before the board to sponsoi* > a petition filed some time ago for the blaclcroppipg of a mile of road which starts at the Wells county line and runs bast past the new Apostolic church, east into French township, j The county road is number H>, and those appearing said that It was in constant u*.e .and should have, an improved surface. The (Tum To Paxe 8lx) ■J : j j | *p ~ J ■ ;j ' T

beaten (Rev. H. H. Meckstroth, St. Luke Evan. & Reformed Church) LIVING QUIETLY WITH OURSELVES “I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority: that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.” >• 2 Timothy 2:1-2 Unfortunately multitudes of earth’s inhabitants are not living peacefully with thetaselves. Their dissatisfaction drives them hither and yon in pursuit of something which they hope will make life a little more agreeable. Such disquietude of man, when carefully scrutinized, will reveal that there is a deficiency: It is imycative of the fact that men have not sown the right seed. “Do men gather grapes of thorps, or figs of thistles?” People reap what . they sow. v Sin has a disturbing influence. It never brings to anyone the good h? hopes to gain thereby. Rather it impoverishes, annoys and robs a mgn of spiritual wealth and contentment. Whed corruptible seed such as dishonesty, hatred and injustice are sown it mav Well be expected that place of mind will become corrupted. Living quietly with ourselves is a blessing many would enjoy to possess. It comes not by chance. It is not gained by mere human effort. When truth, which was ordained to beautify, comfort, satisfy hnd redeem life, is neglected: the sweet fruit of peaceableness will be wanting. Jesus said, “I am come that they might have life and'that thev might have It more abundantly.” Life’s greatest y purpose; and abiding joy are attained through companionship with Jesus, ?*Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world glveth, give I unto you.” . [ , ■ i, ; ■ : J 1 ' ' Mr- I 1 ' > I < ' I - :

jr H U- 4— !— r ■' :' ; Lions And Rotary Clubs Meet Thursday The Decatur Lions club will not meet this evening but will meet in joint session with the Rotary club Thursday evening at 6:30 o’clock at the K. of P. home. Lions club members who can not attend the Thursday meeting are asked to check out with Thurman I. Drew by 7 o’clock Wednesday evening.; , • 102 Killed In Trains Collision Near Rio Nearly 200 Injured In South America [, ■ r j Rio De Janeiro. Brazil, Mar. 4— (UP)—At least 102 pet-sons were killed and nearly: 200 injured today when two trains, one a crowded commuters' special, collided anti burned at a crossing pear here. Firemen and police recovered 93 bodies at the scene. Nine other passengers died later at the Carlos Chagas hospital. The accident. Occurred when the regular Rio-Belo Horizonte passenger train, with wooden coaches, w*s derailed at the Anchieta crossing. 25 miles from Rio. The wooden train plowed into the steel cars of the commuter train. Heavy rain made the dirt roads leading to Apchieta almost impassable and delated pescue squads and ambulances. Both trains were travelling at express speed when the wooden cars left the track. Some of the cars piled up against a bridge across the Pavuna river. Ih June, 1951, another train dls(Turn To Pare Five)

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Indiana Hospital Head Dies In Fire J Dr. Herbert McMahan Dies In Kansas Hotel Indianapolis, March 4 —(UP) — Dr. Herbert G. McMahan, 41, head of Indiana’s newest and best equipped state mental hospital w,as burned fatally in a Kansas hotel room, fire last night on a trip designed to help make his hospital one of the nation’s best. . McMahan headed the Norman M. Beatty hospital at Westville since it was built in 1950. 1 tlov. Henry F. Schricker and officials of the Indiana mental health council learned of the death this morning. They said McMahan and Dr. R. Charles Eades, a member of McMahan's staff, went to Topeka on a combined vacation and business trip, i They hoped to recruit psychiatric personnel experienced i n a wellknown meptal clinic in Topeka, and get ideas on methods of treating mental patients to help make the Beatty hospital one of the best in the country. Details of the site were not known. Associates of McMahan said, they learned only that he died in a hospital some time after the fire. Arthur Campbell, Schricker** executive secretary, said the governor’s office had no details. Mo Mahan had gone west to visit a hospital, hie said. Spokesmen the Indiana mental health council said McMahan and another physician had gone to Topeka, where a well-known mental clinic is located, in an effort to recruit personnel for Indiana mental institutions. Indiana has had for several years a critical personnel shortage in its Institutions because of competition from industry and inadequate salaries for attendants. McMahan was a champion of gentle treatment for institution in? mates. Only eight days ago, he prosecuted a night attendant who beat an 83ryear-old ‘patient. McMahan demanded punishment in the courts for Walton Dowdy, 30, charged with assault and battery. Through his urging, the court at Michigan City sentenced Dowdy to 30 days in jail. “Abusing patients is a practice To Pmo Six) Hint Eisenhower To Ip \ \ ■ I Return Home Soon [ Eisenhower Backers Toss Out New Hints ' Washington, Mar. 4; — (UP) -r The Eisenhower-for-President org- , r.nization threw out nqw hints today that it hopes to put a flesh-and-blood candidate on public display before long. Reiports that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will come home before the July Republican convention oerslsted here despite contradictory dispatches from Paris that the European defense commander will not return in the foreseeable future. \ A : clear indication that Eisenhowdr is expected home before the GOP convention came last night in a speech by Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., (R-Mass.), manager of the Eisenhower campaign, at Berlin. N. H. Stumping the state ill the final week of its leadoff presidential primary campaign. Lodge said Eisenhower ’’will pick the day” when his European assignment id finished. And the senator said Eisenhower will decide "when he can take over the vigorous leadership of this job at home which millions of his frjends are now carrying [ rorward In his name.” He said supporters can- rest as-: sured that “Ike Eisenhower will be: ht the right place at the right; time." Alt of Eisenhower’s political (Ten Te Page Two) J ' ‘ <

Allied Planes And Ships Hit Korea Targets Engage Red Planes ’ In Vicious Battle, Smash At Supplies Bth Army Headquarters, [Korea, Mar. 4—(UP)-rAllied jet planes and fighter-bombers, roared over North Korea today, engaging in a vicious battle with 50 'Communist MIGs and striking', at Red troops, supplies and transportation, jf At the same time, navy ships pounded Communist spore installations. but it wad not immediately learned what damage was done. Twenty-eight F;B6 sabrejets fought off the MIGs in a furious r ive-minute battle 30 miles south of the Yalu river. Two sabrejet pilots scored hits on one of the Russian-built enemy fighters before It fled to Manchuria. Fighter-bombers were active in northwest Korea. Marine F-4 corsairs killed 20 enemy soldiers north of Kumhwa and knocked out four bunkers, two mortar*, one field piece and five vehicles during swooping, low-level attacks. Fifth air -fforce and attached units flew 800 srotles by nightfall today' ( Claimed as destroyed or damaged were on fail bridge, 14 vehicles, 11 field pieces, 32 supply buildings, 22 anti-aircraft positions and one MIG-15. Rails were cut in 86 places and 50 enemy casualties were inflicted. Ground troops reported little activity on the thawing 155-mile front. The navy said its planes and ships destroyed or damaged during the past week 687 Comtnunist sampans, 83 railroad cafs, 41 trucks, 12 bridges, 10 locomotives and 17 gun positions. It estimated naval guns killed or wounded 265 Reds troops during the seven-day period. Claim Admission Panmunjom, Korea. Mar. 4 — (UP)—Allied officers have Jadmitted that four American jet planes flew over the Panmunjom truce area last week, the Communist radio Peiping claimed' today. The broadcast said /the admission was made in a note handed yesterday to Communist liaison Col. Chang Chun San by Col. Andrew J. kinner, 4 “In the note,” radio Peiping said, “the American side expressed tegrbt for this violation of the agreement, but attributed it to ♦.ethnical con dieions beyond their (Twra To Pa«e Slx) Cold Wave Warning Issued For Indiana Special Warning On Cold Due Tonight* Indianapolis, March 4—(UP)— A cold wave pushed Into Indiana from the Dakotas today and temperatures will plunge to five degrees above zero tonight, U.S r weathermen Issued a special warning of the frigid blast. They marked down earlier temperature forecasts to expected lows of five to 10 above in the hor(h and 10 to 18 south. Light snow which gave Hoosiers another dose of winter weather during the day was to end by nightfall. The forecast then called for clear skies and diminishing wiads. The outlook for Wednesday was more of the same—‘fair and cold with temperatures no higher than IS to 22 in the north and 22 to 30 in the south. State police said today’s snow and sleet left nlany northern highways hazardous, particularly near Lafayette and Crawfordsville. Farther north, there wa* wet snow and rain turninc to sleet

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Continued Debate On Training Bill Assured As Foes Lose First Move WashlngtonJ March 4 —(UP) — The house today rejected an opening move to kjill universal military training by a teller vote of 196 to 167, | ' [ , JThe vote an attempt by UMT’s to send the controversial UMT bill back to the armed : serviejes committee "for further/study”[ without further consideration/oh jhe house floor. It left the way open for continued debate ;and amendment of the bill and' for a vot|e later on approving or klll|pg measure. The bill would Subject [all men at age 18 to six months’ basic military training, followed by 7-*4 years in the re- ' serves. [ The vote wajS a triumph for hard- , pressed administration leader® who had feared they would be beaten. There still a good chapce; however, tha| the bill would be beaten later on Its merits. The Vote cpme on a motioni to strike out thb enacting clause of the bill —a mqve which would have 1 meant "audde|i death" for the measure if it had carried.* 1 The dramatic test pitted young L Rep. Williami H. Bates (RrMaas.), > a World War[ll naval veteran with - only two year* house service, against speaker Sam Rayburn (DI Tex.) % who rerplnded house members 1 he came to congress 39 years ago. Bate* moved to strike out the I bill's enacting clause. Hesaid be, * would follow: this up. If it were i approved, witji a motion to send the measure back to the armed services! . committee for study “which is so desperately needed.” UMT’s opponents had selected , this strategy-rand picked Bate* to propound it-r—'deliberately. They believed many I louse members wanted to dodge a vote on the bill itself, and that this would give them their "out.” i : . ~ Bate* was chosen to offer the "suddeb deat i” motion as a veteran, popular with other younger house members, and as a member of the armed services committee who originally voted with the com* mittee ? major! ty in recommending the UMT bill. But Bates was no match for Rayburn. Th© speaker, who seldom enters into house debates, took the floor to tell members he was addressing them as a "very old friend.” He mentioned piu long years of service, and drew a standing ovation in which Bates other Republicans took part. [ Rayburn bald he loved the house partly for its! respect for proceeding ip an orderly manner. "That’s what I plead for now.” Rayburn said; “Recommit this bill for further study? How many years of study havq we had on this sub- ‘ ject? “Do we hot[ have the moral fortitude and tpe[ courage to meet this issUet If we! are not ready today, when, will wq be ready?” The house thyn defeated Bates’ motion handily, upsetting advance predictions <|f UMT’s opponents that they had' enough votes to win, and surprising even the bill’s backers who had said the test would be “very tight,** « { Having defeated the first effort to kill the bill, the house began considering the first amendment, a proposal by krmed services chairman Carl Vinson (DGa.) to ban start of inductions under UMT as long as the dfaft is in effect. Vinson’s proposal—a compromise on his part dejsignfed to swing doubtful votes to! support of the controversial UMT plan—was almost sure of adoption. < Two-Car Collision Fatal To One Man Mopon, Ind 4 March 4—(UP)— A two-cgr collision at the intersection of U.S- 30 and Ind. 421 was fatal yMterday for Jopn W. Miller, 75, Mpnon. He was a passenger tn a car operated by Cgrl A. Millet, 38, also of Monon. t ■. .! J < i . / .. ■