Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 57, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1952 — Page 1

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See Congress Likely To Cut Foreign Help Call Secretary Os State Acheson To Appear Thursday f. J. ' z‘ t Washington, Mar, 7 — (UP) — Congress, determined to whack large chunks from the administra--tion's proposed 17,900,000,000 foreign aid program, today called secretary of state Dean Acheson to testify next Thursday. Acheson, along with mutual security administrator W. Averell Harriman and defense secretary Robert will defend the entire amount before a joint meeting of three house and senate committees. Despite two urgent appeals by President Truman yesterday for the full program, congress appeared set no cuts of $1,000,000,000 or more, and likely to tie some strings to the rhoney to force European allies pull together on re-armament. The house foreign affairs committee, , the senate foreign relation committee and the senate armed stfr/ices committee plan to sit in joint essionV to hear testimony Os the three lead-off witnesses next week and then split up bor questioning and further hearings. - • \ Despite two strongly-wdrded presidential pleas yesterday for the full amount, congressional leaders trimming would be done. * In a special message to the 7 house and senate yesterday, and in a radio and television broadcast to the nation last night, Mr. Truman warned that any economy cuts in his program would be “dangerous” and might undermine “our chances for avoiding another world war.” / There was general agreement in congress, however, that some cuts will be made.; A few lawmakers spoke of cuttingrihe request in half,"but the figure most often mentioned was a reduction of. si.ooq,ooq,aoo. s , ' MutualSecdrlty ’ Washington. 7 — (UP) — President Ti;umah told congress today that 1952 may be the “critical" year in western Europe’s buildup against dpinmunism. In his first report to congress on the mutual security program, the nresident said Europe has made “marked" and "steady” progress in building “positions of strength" against the threat, of Communism. But he added: “For nations of western Europe, the year 1952 may well be ►he critical time in the defense buildup, bridging the period between extreme vulnerability to Soviet attack and effective preparedness” , Mr. Truman, in a letter sen Bing the report to congress, described mutual security as a “program for peace” despite the large amounts spent on troops, and arms. “Its ultimate success will come when the troops and weapons are no longer heeded, and the monies now required for defense can be used to raise the living standards of our own and mother nations who are truly devoted to peace.” The mutual security program, administered by W. Averell Harriman, was se t up by congress last year to coordinate all forms of U. S. foreign aid. _ The report reviewed foreign aid. activities from the pre-Marshall plan days to the current buildup of military strength under the North Atlantic treaty organization. V . . ' “Progress has been steady,” the' report said. “A crowning achievement so our mutual security program has been the fact that not one nation has turned from) the path.” I i . . if- ' : /. - ■ . ‘ v - - b i ■ \-- / . ' ■ Three-Yeor-OIH Boy Suffocatedjtn Fire New Castle. Ind., March —(UP) — Leslie E. Nash, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Nash, New Castle, suffocated late yesterday in a fire which started when leaking gas exploded in the home. Leslie was asleep at the time of the fire. J ■ ' ■ ; , ' / ' : .

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' ' ■ ji • . h * \ . ;■ ! •: b ii .-k: Truman Embarks On Florida Vacation Washington, I March:. 7. —(UP)— , President Trufrian flew to j Key West, Fla., today for a three-week vacation while shivering, enVlous cabinet members bad hint gjbod bye. As the presidfent boarded, his plane, the Independence, at-Na-tional airptirt, four cabinet: pffi-! ciala expressed ehvy of Mr. Truman being able to exchange the cold weatheir here for Florida’s sunshine. ? I I h J / ■ ■ L -L ■[. : Decatur Grocer Is Slugged And Robbed By Duo Lloyd Spiegel Not Badly Injured In Holdup Night Two armed bandits slugged Lloyd Spiegel at Spiegel’s grocery on South Second street at 8:50 o’clock Thursday night and escaped with thap sß<f in [dash. The bandits, about 25 years of age. entered the store when Spiegel was alone. One of the men, wearing a topebat, he|d a gun on Spiegel and the dthfek wearing a red jacket, ffai|ie up pehinp r liirri end struck him on tl)0 heid With •in object, presumably the butt of a gun. , ' As the men were leaving With •he money from the cash register,) Mrs. Louise [ Ehlerding, South' First street, entered the store. She assisted Spiegel in giving; police officers a description of the who left in an automobile. J' Spiegel suffered a gash had bump on the head but jwas not ;Un+ conscious when Mrs, Ehlerdlng entered the store 1 . Pbiice officers Ed Miller, Dale Death and chief James Borders and sheriff Robert! Snraluka were called iand an- immediate investigation} jWas Started.; The local polite officer® Were joined in the probe by Cpl. Robert Adams,. Pendleton state police barrar ks technician; The first |bus-' pects. after- Was put on the air. were taken into custody at Muncie. ■ about tw'O hours after the hold-up! >! J H Shraluka, Borders, ■ Death and Adams went to Muncip with, gel, but apparently they were not the men wanted here< ! (1 Several clues pertaming td the robbery are being traded today b police officers and descriptions of the men were broadcast to-, all nearby cities and towris. \ - The exact amojunt of money; taken was \ not learned, but Spiegel stated the loot was mdre than isßo. Spiegel was not critically hurt when struck. - | I 'I Several rumors concerning the whereabouts of the (wo bandits pi lor to the robbery ate being circulated. It is Understood! they were in a local restaurant shortly before the robbery, but this, story was not confirmed- ‘ Lists Non-Baftle U.S. Casualties i d Defense Secretary Releases Figures Washington, Mar. 7 — (UP) — American servicemen suffered 1,853,910 non-bgttleb casualties throughout the jfrorld froth , the Korean outbreak! to last Dec< 31, according td defense secretary Robert A. 'J ; ' The figure Includes all military nersonnel treated for diseases,and non-battle injuries. Os the total. Lovett said, 9j.7| percent returned to active duty. ' ' / Lovett disclosed the figure jn a letter to Sen. Williath F. Kjftowland (R-Cal.), jwho protested • recently on the senate floor that? the defense secretary had to divulge non-battie casualties to him. . Lovett warned that the term “non-battle casualties’ 1 was “misleading." It includes. h 0 Said, everything from a simple headiche to a maior surgical - operation, from a minor bruise to a Serious Injury caused ijy an; automobile (Tura T® P««e WhO

| Where Foreign Aid Asked By Truman Would Go gBBMit. I. L..1J.-saagaet— !■ i u ju. ■AOfKAIIEAS; , WESTERN EUHOPf: . E MIUTARY AID, MUTANT A®, tc A 0 ECONOMIC AID HAWXWttOOO ECONOMIC AM> B(f 'l'fla- 'iu. wi.airsLfiK<:' jfe- AAAB9CAN REPUBLICS:! |f/ JT NU* IAST, AFRICA: A V EOZOOOfIOO MIUTARY AID, H J S4O6XM»X>OO MIUTARY AID, a » r JS g tnOOOJOO ECONOMIC AID ~ HERE IS WHERE the foreign aid dsked of Congress by President Traman yrould gd. The President said the aid is neither “charity’knor “handouts," and might avoid higher ©oat |n money and jives “a few years later.” > 7 ! L ’ ! I ' T I I - I- ■ • ■ • o ' fl f ‘ ■

i - j— — Demands Gen. Grow Given Court Martial L , ' ■ ; ' _ ij . General's Diary Is i Employed By Soviet Washington, March 7 —(UP) — A congressman demanded j today that Maj. Gen. Robert W. Grovf, whose diary fell into the hands of the Russians, ’“be given a general couH hiartial.” The. demand came from Rep. Pat Suttoh (D-Tenn.), a frequent critic of the military. He said that Grow’s diary, proposing that the United States attack Russia “as soon lak possible" and “by hitting below the belt/’ should not have been kept. Especially, he said, it should not have been allowed to fall into Russian hands.' > |' b“We should not let him off With a slap on the wrist,” Sutton said. Rep. Robert L. F. Sikes (0-Fla.), a irieriiber -of the house appropriations s|ubcommittee. demanded that congress investigate the whole affair. The army meanwhile refused to discluss whether any action would be taken against Grow because of his diftry, which he kept while serving as U.S. military attache ip Most dowi last<year. The diary fell into (pommunist hands and the Reds are now widely’ advertising its copt'&pts, particularly iihat part which advocates an attack against Russia. The army also said that Grow would not he available for comment. ' Sutton and Sikes thought that Grow' was “indiscreet” in keeping such a diary. “It was not all all smart of the general to keep a diary, and I think congress should ask some questions abbut why he did,” Sikes told a reporter. He added that if the house armed services committee doesn’t investigate, “I think our subcommittee will.” Chairman Carl Vinson’ (D-Ga.) I [declined to say whether the armed services committee may look into the matter. ; Discouraged state department officials noted that the publication of Grow’s diary coincided with Russian charges that the United States is rearming , western Europe with the aim of waging “aggressive” war on Russia. In an effort to offset this Communist propaganda, Presided Truman and secretary of state Dean Acheson have emphasised depeatedly in recent speeches that the! western rearmament program is purely “defensive” in nature. In his foreign aid message to congress yesterday, Mr. Truman said (hat deliberately starting a “preventives war” —such as Grow urged in his diary—is A I 'policy which “no Democratic and Godfearing people can consider even for a moment." Jobless Pay Claims Decrease In State • Indianapolis, March 7, —(UP) — Hew Indiana unemployment insurance claims during the last week of February dropped I below the 4,000 mark 'for the first time since October/ thd Indiana employment security division said today. Increased outdoor work and industrial activity are credited with reducing the initial unemployment claims to 3,217, their lowest figure since October. The 24,924 total of new and cowtlnued claims was 18 percentbelow the week before, as nearly 5,000 persons ceased claiming, benefits.

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Joint Meeting Held By Service Clubs James K. Eyre, Jr., lecturer and author, was the speaker at a joint meeting of the Decatur Rotary and' Lions clubs Thursday evening at the K. of P. home. Although bill* ing his address as “The Inside Story of Gen. MacArthur,” the speaker devoted most of his remarks to villification of the nation's leaders, both political and military. Clarence Ziner was chairman of the program. Pay Boost Approved For G.E. Employes Approve Increase Granted Last Fall The wage stabilization board late afternoon approved a wage increase for General Electric Co. employes, a pay boost which was negotiated~iast fall. The increase approved yesterday is an approximate four-cent hourly productivity increase which was negotiated by management and labor last fall, and affects employes of the Decatur plant. A total of 320,000 workers will be affected by the boost, which also applies to employes of the Westinghouse and Sylvania Electric companies. February 15 the WSB approved the 1.08 percent cost-of-liying increase negotiated last September but at that time the 2.5 percent productivity increase, approved yester-; was indefinitely postponed. As published in Thursday's Daily' Democrat, the General Electric Co.; yesterday announced proposal of a cost-of-living increase that can be effective as early as. Marsh 15 for local employes. The proposed, increase, subject to WSB approval, would be put into effect for. all nonunion employes March 15, and would be effective on that date for unionized employes accepting the offer by March 31. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and hot mucn change in temperature tonight •nd Saturday. Low tonight 1522 north, 22-28 south. High Saturday 35-42 north, 42-48 south. |

— ■•' _ ■ ' idetttoi flftecUfat&M (Rev. Harold E. Basehore, Bobo Methodist Church) “CLOSED DOORS” “Withal praying for us that Cod Would open unto us a J door.” Col. 4:3. 1 * ' ■ ■ ; ' : ■ . • ' > I saw the other day a map attempting to split a rock with A sledgehammer. Down came the sledge upon the stone as if it would crush it, but it merely rebounded, leaving the rock as sound as "before. Again the ponderous hammer was swung, and again it came down, but with the same result. Nothing was accomplished. The rock was still without a crack. I might asked (as so many are disposed to ask concerning prayer) what good could result from such a waste of time and strength. But the man had faith. He believed in th<o power of that sledge. He believed that repeated blows had a tendency to split that rock. And so he kept at it. Blow after blow came dpwn, all apparently in* vain. But still he kept on without a thought of discouragement; He believed that a vigorously swung sledge “has great power.” And at last came one more blow and the work was done. This is the same type of faith we need in the power of prayer when the “spiritual doors” of heaven seem closed to our pleas; Listen to the words of Christ “knock and it shall be opened unto you.” Knock, in prevailing prayer, as if at a barred door, and the door of God’s grace will open wide, and the rain of God’s forgiving love will drop upon you, and make the wilderness of your heart ■ to rejoice. .J, . • ■ ■ ■ ’ '' \

60 Persons Hurt As Bleachers Collapse Spectators At Ice > Show Are Injured ‘Baltimore, Md., Mar. 7 —(UP) — Collapsing wooden ! stands that fowled over Sonja Henle ice show spectators “like ten pins" put i dome 60 persons in hospitals, *thore than half with serious injuries. The temporary bleachers gave way' last night before the schedjUled opening performance of the Ice show and hurled almost 300 spectators 15 feet to the fifth regiment armory floor in a deafening roar of splintering timbers. Paul Cohen, city building inspecengineer, said after an Investigation at the acene, that the stands were of temporary construction and had not been nailed down. Doctors and nurses in the audience administered first aid as soon as they could reach the screaming men and women, some of whom were trapped 30 minutes under the heavy planks. Altogether 270 persons were taken to the hospital in ambulances hnd private automobiles. All bur 60 were released after receiving first-aid treatment and early : this morning 30 more were sent home and told to report back for : checkups. ' / J,. Hospital authorities said the seriously Injured patients received ; either broken bones or internal ' injuries. Two suffered possible broken backs,* Including six-year-old Jean Webber. “People fell like ten pins," a spectator said. Miss Henle, who was in, her , dressing room when the stands collapsed, disclaimed responsibility for the accident. She also said her khow would not go on today unless she was assured spectators should be safe. She said she thought the man who contracted for the stands knew what he Was doing. Cohen said the temporary stands were installed after city inspectors had left the armory yesterday. "No city pbrmit had beep given tor prectiejn of the stands because tho armory is technically under CTurn T® Pa*e El*ht>

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Reds Seek To Expand Anti-Blockade Pact Seen As New Effort To Stoll Truce Talk Panmunjom, |korea, Mar. 7— (UP) —The Communists moved today to place Red China beyond the possibility of a naval blockade or invasion from Formosa by proposing to bain naval blockades the world over between the powers now fighting in Korea. Chinese staff officer Col. Pu Shan proposed in truce supervision talks that all references to Korea be dropped from the already-ap-proved armistice clause forbidding blockades. •,» It was believed the Reds have probably been alarrfied by recent press reports from Washington that the United States. was considering military action against the 'mainland of China if the truce talks fail or if the Reds viole.te the armistice agreement. I ■ Allied staff officers wrote pff tjie Communist proposal as having no significance other than to stall the truce talks still further. Meanwhile, Vice Adm. C. Turn* er Joy, ctiief allied staff officer returned from Tokyo after conferring with Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, presumably about the progress of the truce talksSince Ifoy Was been in Tokyo. I the Communists have played what seems to be a waiting game. Presumably, they hope Joy will be Authorized to alter the U. -N, bp- ; position to having Russia as a (Tara Ta Pace Flee) Mrs. Fanny F. Gipe Is Taken By Death » Former Teacher In Local High School Mrs. Fanny Frisinger Gipe, wife of Roger C. Gipe of Alexandria, formerly of this city and a former teacher in the Decatur high school, died Thursday at Bhll Memorial hospital in Muncie. Several weeks ago Mrs. Gipe fractured a hip in a fall at her home and was moved to the hospital. Her condition had been critical for the past two weeks. Born in Decatur, January 21, 1890. Mrs. Gipe was a daughter of the late John M. and Mary Peterson Frisinger. She was graduated from the local high school in 1907 and then entered Indiana university. She received her degree from pre'university in 1911 and took postgraduate work at Chicago university. She furthered her education with a European trip. She was a member of the Decatur high school staff for several years and also taught in Columbus,-Neb. Mrs. Gipe was a charter member of Tri Kappa sorority in this city. Her membership in this social organization was transferred to Alexandria when she and her husband moved there 26 years ago. She also was a member of the Riley club and the First Presbyterian church in Alexandria. While at Indiana university, Myd. Gipe was active in campus activities and prominent in the Delta Gamma of which she was a member. ■ Ms. and Mrs. Gipe operated a funeral home in Alexandria and were active in that profession until Mr. Gipe suffered a stroke. The couple was married June 30, 1920. Besides her husband she is survived by three brothers, Maynard A. Frisinger, retired mail carrier of this city; John Frisinger of North Webster and Richard of Greenfield; <two Blisters, Mrs. J. Dwight Peterson, Indianapolis, and RJrs. George F. Myers of Palo Alta, Cal. The body was moved to the Gipe-Williams-Kyle funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p.m. Saturday. Funeral services will be held at the funeral home at 3 p.m. , Monday. Burial will be |in the* Alexandria cemetery. ■

;•■ . I Boyle Orders Indictment Os Dr. Bundesen Orderfl nd ict me nt >. Os Chicago Health Board President Chicago, Mar. 7—(UP)—Stale’s attorney John S. Boyle announced today he has instructed his staff to draw up an indictment charging Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, president of the Chicago board of health, with malfeasance and nonfeasance in the city’s horsemeat scandal. ! Boyle made his announcement after the Cook county grand jury was reported to have named Bundesen, a nationally known health authority, in a true bill, preparatory to Indictment. , The formal indictment vyas expected to be returned in court Monday. ! ' Bundesen made several appearances before the grand jury during its investigation of the multi-million dollar horsemeat racket He was not available immediately for comment, however, on Boyle’s announcement. Bundenseh’s office is charged with the responsibility of enforcing city health ordinances which orohibit the sale of unlabaled horsemeat for human consumption. ' The grand jury’s investigation disclosed Instances in which horsemeat was spld to An unsuspecting public, allegedly through the connivance of city During the course of the investigation Bundensen himself ordered two loop restaurants closed. The charge of malfeasance is odp of official misconduct. Nonfeasance is omission of duty. The fraudulent sale of horsemeat was uncovered by agents of tbp office of price stabilization, who said the “take” from the racket in Illinois had exceeded $10,000,000. Subsequently, 15 state food inspectors weie fired for complicity or for refusal to lie detector tests ordered by Goy. Adlai Stevenson. Spreads To Indiana i ( South Bend, Ind., Mar. 7—(UP) —The midwest horsemeat scandal (Tarn T® Pa«® Five) Exped Request To Delay Oil Walkout President Orders WSB Intervene Denver, March 7,—(UP)—The president of the Oil Workers International union sent telegrams to OWIU locals today recommending postponement of any plans for shutting down refineries in preparation for a nationwide walkout in the oil industry scheduled for 12:01 a.in. Monday. OWIU President O. A. Knight also notified the director of the wage stabilization board's disputes division in Washington, Frank Klieier, of the action he had taken. Knight’s telegram followed r an order by President Truman last night that the WSB intervene in the threatened oil industry walkout both in the interests of national defense and the civilian economy. ; J" In his telegram to the OWIU locals, Knight said he had been unofficially advised of the WSBA intervention in the threatened oil walkout He added it Seemed likely the government would “dsk all parties to cooperate and continue production" during the WSB’s investigation of the dispute. J ■ . (Tara T® Page Kl«kt) 1 I '■ .' - j

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Two Men Are Seized Few Hours Later As \ Suspects in Daring Naval Base Holdup Quonset Pont, R.1., March T.— (UP)—Two Halloweea-masked gunmen robbed a credit union manager ofsloo,ooo cash at the U.S. naval air base here today and a hours later two men were adzed for questioning as they drove through Cranston. The robbery, largest in New England since the $1,219,000 Brink’s Inc., holdup and second looting of the credit union within a year, was so swiftly executed the bandits drove past two armed isentries wtfhout a shot being fired. J With police throughout the state petroling the highways, a green Oldsmobile convertible sedan wag found burning on a road in East Greenwich. It was similar to the bandits’ getaway car. Police, believing the pair had abandoned the car -ang continued their getaway in a black convertible, sent (>ut an for this automobile and it halted on a ■ street in Carnston. In the cat* were two men, the driver identifying himself as a • worker at the quonset naval air r station. He said he was taking a > day, off. , t The driver said he had dropped two other workers off at the base . this morning. Those men also were I to be questioned by police and FBI acaitfa who had sped to the scene. I One of the MM had $193 in cash. . The other had $54. J , They were picked up by detecI tives Adalbert Hay and Charles . Carney, who bad been warned to be on the lookout for the car. The men were turned over to the ! Rhode Island state police who with the FBI agents were in charge of the investigation. It was the second time in six - months that the credit union on the base had been looted, Ahput $60,000 was taken in a burglary which occurred at ni&it while no one was in the building which is situated inside the main gate. That robbery still is under investigation. Tills morning’s hold-up was so swiftly executed and well-planned police hnmediately suspected a worker oh the base might be involved'. :' I The bandits seized the cash from credit union manager Gerald Lynch outside the building and fled in a green Oldsmobile sedan —past armed sentries at the gate two and a half blocks away from the holdup scene. ■ The sentries were unaware the robbery bad taken place. The robbers raced away along South county trail, a highway outside the naval reservation. ‘ A civilian guard, who had followed Lynch to the building, gave chase in another automobile but t soon was outrdlstanced. Lynch had just obtained the cash (Tara To Pace Two) Permanent County Records Are Bound Permanent Adams county records are being bound into leather 'bindings today by Milo Faulkner, \book-binder ©f Marion, Faulkner comes tb Decatur each year and binds the records of each office, whihe are permanently kept The work is done in the base-1 ment of the court house so the official documents never leave the building. Each office has Its own, appropriation for the work. One Killed, One Hurt In Two-Auto Crash Portland. Ind., March 7—(UP)— William R. Stephens, 24, Noble, Was killed apd Norvail Ferner, 48. Noble, seriously injured in a twoear collision four miles north of Fort Recovery, 0., late yesterday. Stephens died in an ambulance enroute to a hospital here. The accidfent occurred at the intersection of a county road and Ohio 49, when their car was struck — by one driven by Jacob A. Siegrist, Celina, who suffered minor injuries.