Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 60, Decatur, Adams County, 11 March 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 60.

JUDGE ORDERS RAILROADERS TO END STRIKE

Weather Slows New Hampshire Primary Vote First Primary In Nation Held Today In. New Hampshire Concord. N. H., Mar. 11—(UP) — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower made a clean sweep in two of the first three tiny settlements reporting returns today in New Hampshire's first-in-the-riation presidential primary. With rain, sleet or snow falling throughout the state and threatgening to keep many away from the polls, Eisenhower received 13 of the 18 votes cast by Republicans in Minefield. Waterville and Hart’s Location. Sen. Robert A. Taft *(R-Ohio) tad received four'votes and former .Minnesota Gov. Harold E. Stassen, one. Only three persons voting in these same three communities were. Democrats. Sen. Estes Ke- \ fauver of Tennessee received two votes. President Truman, one. because of the miserable weather promised for most of the day it was possible that only about 100,000 votes, rather than the 150,000 ' anticipated, would be cast. Many roads were virtually impassable and driving was treacherous. Other than being official, the early votes carried no political significance. They were recorded "fet-Milfsfield and Waterville, two small communities in the northern section of the snow-covered gran- . ite state. The main army of voters moved to the polls this morning under heavy skies. Despite the inclement weather, officials expect a heavy turnout, possibly half of the state’s 300,000 eligible “voters. Tabulation of the fourteen votes gave some indication of the difficult iask facing officials, when they stark counting ballots in larger districts. The polls will remain open until all eligible voters have participated, but not later than 8 p. ni. _ • At Minefield, claiming to be the first community officially to record its vote, the galloting began at 12:01 a. m. The last of seven voters entered the booth at 12:3'5 and it whs 20 minutes later before the official count was ayailablq. Eisenhower was blanked at Millsflehi, where Taft received four votes, Harold E. Stassen, one, ond President Truman and JKe- ' ? fauver one each. At Waterville, , however, the general I swept rill seven .votes. There five candidates fav- _ oring Eisenhower running ahead in the delegate-at-large race and the other five were tied with Taft supporters. The general had one ’ district delegates and tied the cther,_j ‘ ' . ' . Elmer L. Annis, a hunting lodge operator, cast the first ballot.. He sMd he’s against “a military man for 'president” so he voted for Taft. The voting at Millsfield followed the “town meeting” custom. The voters disjcUssed local problems. sat down for sandwiches and coffee and' then w’ent to the » ballot box to vote. Many town meetings are planned tonight, which will slow/ returns from rural areas. The bitter campaign has been followed cldsel f by national political leaders. Some said the hardr (Turn To Page Two) • . : - — South Bend Girl Is Killed In Accident South Bend, Ind., March IT — (UP)- —Marilyn Y. Cole, 22, South Bend, was killed today when a car in which she was riding struck a gasoline transport on a county road pear here. ' Eugene G. Vandusen, 25, Misha; waka, driver of the car. was taken to a South Bend hospital in fair condition. State police said th© car was speeding in a 20-mile-per hour zone when it struck the transport driven by Upward W. Jacobson, 32, Plymouth. Jacobson was uninjured. , INDIANA WEATHEfi Fair and colder tonight. * Wednesday mostly fair. Low tonight 24 to- 30 north, 30 to 35 ? -south. High Wednesday 34 to 50 north, 40 to 46 south, f

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25 More Blood Donors Needed By Red Cross The Red Cross needs; about 25 more blood donors to meet requirements when the bloodmcibile visits [fecatur Frtday. -* | : I-J The quota is 125 pints of blood and Mrs. Max Executive aecretaiy of the Red Crpss said that 144 donorsi should he on file before Friday. ' !■ J Blood is furnished to (the armed forces and to hospitals through the Red Crpas program. Gen. Ridgway J Blasts At Red j Truce Ethics Known Falsehoods Used By Reds To Run Down The UN Panmunjom, Korea, M4r. 11 — (UP) —Gen. Matthew B. and an allied ; truce stub-delegate severely criticised Communist ethteS in armistice bargaining today in an apparent attempt; to prod Red negotiators into givtinjg ground. The supreme* allied Commander, who returned to Tokyo tonight, ?aid the Communists had used “ known falsehoods” to; mint down the United Nations and that it was impossible fbr him to guess what would happen next in armist|ce negotiations. North Korean Maj. ; iGen. Lee Sang Cho toned down his two-day long bla'st at conditions in allied prison stockades but continued to blame the U. N. command ifor the deadlock on voluntary repatriation of war prisoners. I Lee accused ; the atlles of “fabrications” to cover up! abuse of' captured Communist soldiers. ‘ To this Rear Adm. Ruthven E. Libby replied: “Wa are getting fed up with your attempt to make things appear Ms facts Jthat are riot facts." Lee dropped his threats ?and charges of “lies” untjer Libby's warning yesterday that the allies would walk out if the Reds kept it up? . - , ' ; All in all, Bibby said later, the 45 minute ROW meeting was “quite mild” and; minus the vic'ous Communist Ihveotive of the past two, days. \ i » Ridgway said the armistice conference ' was a “fightUgpiritual, ideological contest with Communism” that lias become ippreasihgly “trying” in cecenj weeks. Ridgway assailed the Communists charging allied planes and artillery with loosing {diseased insects in North Korea arid China to spread epidemics. L .-j “There is not a scintilla of truth in the Communist assertions,” he said. “I repeat—not a scintilla of (Turn To Pate Blicbt) Man Charged With Assault, Battery ■' ... . Alleged Assailant , Os Girl Arrested ,1 Screams of a young 11 Decatir, woman sent her assailaiit disa;>-! pearing into the darkness sh tte 700 block on Fifth street at about 10:45 o'clock last night. The man had allegedly grabbed the girl and bad throkn her to the griound. j Her screams attracted nelfhbo|s and police were notified. After obtaining a description of the alleged assailant, police and sheriff Uobe|rt Shraluka arrested Carl Royce of North Third street and after questioning him for some time, took him to jail. : i; T Royce was arraigned in jus-tiye Os peace court this morning on j a charge of assault and batteity apd entered a plea of not guilty, justice Floyd Hunter set his bopd and at noon today Royce tyas making arrangements to provide the cash bond. . : |>j lady was positive jlri her identification of the man and on thel strength of this tion, he wjas charged with the assault. This Is lhe second attpdk on, a young girl in the north part lot Decatur in the last yeaiij .At t|he time of the other attack the Assailant got away. Police have working on several clues, '' I : I

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Air Action Steps Up Over Korean Front Three Enemy Planes Downed By Americans Seoul, Korea, March 11. —(UPf—j American Sabrejlets shot down three Communist Mlg-15s, probably destroyed another and damaged five of the Russian-built jet fighters in air action over Korea today; \ The, action brought the two-day total to 10 "eri'-ny! alrcw.ft destroyed, one probably destroyed and eight damaged. The kills brought to 205 the numben of Migs destroyed in the Korean Iwar. Sixty-seven Salirejets, taking on their nsual odds, • battled with 263 Migs In four' encounters over northwest Korea wherq the Red fighters were trying to break through the U.N. cover to gejt a crack at the fighteft-bombers working over bnemjr eommunichtions near Namchonjom. Meanwhile, fighter-bombers slammed Inore than 33,300 gallons Os naplairn, 300,0ri0 pounds of demolition bombs and ; 45,000 rounds of machine gun bullets at Red positions over a four square mile supply concentration, turning- it into a flamhig mass. ' I l Th® onslaught by Bth wing planes I was probably the most intense maplam attack on a single area thus tar in the Korean war. Pilots rcpbcted they hai| destroyed “many targets.” | The entire attack zone, a triangleshaped supply storage and troop training- center located near Sihmak about 30 miles northwest Os the’ truce village of Panmunjom, Was reported enveloped in flames. “fetery officer in the outfit was out there loading naplam and bomtjs or flying; them to the target,” said Lt. Cpl. Levi Chase, of Cour land, N.Y., teommander of the 3th fighter wingiwho also flew today. | ' B Elsewhere ovqr North Korea, F-84 kept up? their steady pounding; of Red supply lines, tearing up >35 separate pieces of track between Huichon and Kunuri and north of Sonchon. Driver Killed As Train Hits Truck \ Hammond, —-Peter E. Unziqker, 75, Washburn, 111., was hurt fatally yesterday his panel truck was struck by a New’ York passenger train at a grade crossing three miles South of Schneider. The train was commandeered by the U.S. army ajnd was enroute to Gibbon, 111., to pick up a troop train. Most other NYC trains were idle because of the rail strike. lowa Newlyweds Die In Head-oq Crash Sycamore, Ill.J March 11—-(UP| — A young lowa couple, whose riar still? carried a “just married,” sign w’dre killed in a- head-on collision hefe yesterday.’ Authorities said Mrs. RAlph Arter. Hudson, la.,’ was driving when their car pollided with an oil truck in a heavy fog. Mrs. Arter and her husband died in the wreckage.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 11, 1952.

ToJMan Boy Scout Summer Activities Plans for summer activities of the Boy Scouts will be completed at a district meeting of Scouters Wednesday night at t:3O o’clock at Decatur high school, Clarence. Ziner, chairman, announced today.! R. L. Van Horn, council chief executive of Fort Wayne, will attend the meeting and assist In making the summer plans : tor Adams county's troops. County Grand Jury Indicts Bundesen i Noted Public Health Authority lndicted x Chicago, March 11.—(UP)—j A county grand jury today indicted Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, Chicajgo board of health president, on seven counts charging that he failed to act to stop the sale of horsemeat disguised as beef or pork; « Bundesen. famed public health authority, will face arraignment Friday. Bond was set at $5,000, j One count of the indictment — the seventh—accused Bun(iesen iof “corrupt oppression, malicious conduct and misfeasance of duty;” in “usurping”; the powers a>nd duties of the board of health and the citj’s judges and courts. Another count charged that rie failed to take steps to stop the s He of disguised horsemeat forconsumption and that he did jiot enforce laws regarding the ston.ge of horsemeat with beef in restaurants, markets and purveyors’ establishments. J ■ The horsemeat scandal has Resulted in 15 indictments agaihst several former state; .officials—rincluding the former chief state fried inspector—at suburban Waukegan, in Lake county, Illinois. Bundesen, how’ever, is the first person inducted in the investigation here. Today, the scandal was once more reaching into the administrative cabinet of Illinois’ Democratic (Tnrn Te Pas* Eiabti | |

(Rev. W. C. Feller. Zion Evangelical & Reformed Church) THE KEY TO MENTAL HEALTH \ '1“ ■ ; ; f ' :i: . I “Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, 1 believe also In me.”—-John 14:1. Most human beings are slaves to worry: We are “tossed about with many a conflict, many a doubts fightings and fears within, ’Without." We cannot get rid of the question: what shall we eat, what qhall we drink, wherewithal shall rire “be clothed? . We are anxious about our security, reputation, health, or the approvals and disapprovals of others. We pre troubled with a sense of sin and guilt, with a sense of inadequacy, defeat, and frustration; We are obsessed by an ever growing fear; fear of the past, fear ;of the future; fear of what might This sickness of mind is prevalent beyond our realization. - But fear and worry have ho place Christian life. Anxiety is a disease that need not bte tolerated. Christ goes to the source of it and offers more than relief* He is the Great Physician who gives healing. The key to mental* health is FAITH in God and Christ. Faith in a God who cares, a God who can and does forgive sin; faith in a Christ who came do give the life abuftdant, will release spiritual forces within us that conquer , the disease of mind and heart, bringing health and peace and happiness. May His peace and health be yours.; : U i j !

Says Reds Control J /vB • L [ j Ford Union Policy At Peak Os Strength At Ford Rouge Plant :■ '■ i I Detroit, Mar. 11 4- (UP) — An international representative of the CIO United* Auto Workers said today that *2.000 Communists and fellow travelers control union policy at Ford Motor company. Lpe Romano, ex-boss of local COO’s' stewi-heimeted riot" <«uad. said the t'omn;unist party was at its "peak: of Strength" at Ford’s Rouge : plant, nerve center of the Fqrid auto empire. He said the Reds and their fellow travelers control the local’s executive.board, it® general counsel and t’FOrd Facts,” a weekly labo? paper distributed to Ford UAW members. Testifying before the house unAmerican activities committee. Romano, admitted px-Communist, estimated there now are about 2,000 Communists and fellow travelers at Ford. 'it Local (JOO,’the largest local union in the world with normally about 75.000 members, is beaded by Carl* Steilato. a bitter foe of UAW president Walter P. Reuther. Two local union officers,, recordnig secretary William Hood and vice president Pat Rice, * refused on grounds of self-incrimination to say whether they were or ever had been Communists. Both are members of the executive board. Romano, who called himself “Public Enemy No. 1 of the Comlaunist party in local 600,” said he quit the Reds In 1946 after four years of membership "because they wanted to reduce workers to Vorfees, cows and jack-asses'.” i He told the committee at its second week of hearings Here that Red sympathizers and pro-Com-munists were mpre important at Fnrd fhan actual party numbers. "They can deny membership in the party and still advance the (Turn To Page Three)

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Corruption Hunter 1 : 1 .rdJ J Morris Testifies Gives Estimate On Tanker Deal Profit Washington, March 11.—(UP)--Newald the administration’s corruption cleanup man, estimated today he probably grossed $30,P00 to 35,000 in atorney s fees for representing two Chinesefinanced? firms! in surplus tanker deals. ' '• ] < , , He told the senate permanent investigating committee, however, there \as no way to determine his exact sttare of [the gross or net in the slss,sW his firm was paid for representing the Chinese groups, tors .of caliing him only because of corruption hunter, but he later rehis Washington assignment as a corruption hunter, ut he later retracted the statement. He denied suggestions by Sens. Joseph R.. McCarthy and Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.) that the white house arranged his first appointment in Decembers 1947, with the maritime Commission. / Morris said the white house did not mqke the appointment and he failed to get J permission to buy the tankers, ii The Chinese he represented get the tinkers later from a group headed by former Rep. Joseph E. Casey (DrMaSs.) Morris testified. The Casey group's “fat profits’’ would not have been possible if the government had taken public bids op the surplus tankers, Morris said. j . , Otheir congressional developments : ’ Foregin aid—Sen. Brien Me(Turn Tn Pape •**> | | ’ • j Township Dog Fund _■ Report Is Released . Nine Os Townships Show Fund Surplus The annuah report of the condition Os the township dog funds was announced today by county auditor thurriian Drew. The fupd is derived frpm the dog tax and is used in the various townships to pay for destruction of livestock and poultry by stray dogs.* The total of unused money from all townships was $1,610.65 and three townships had a deficit, so the total deficit of $111.86 was taken from the surplus and the balance pt $1,498.79 will be forwarded to the state. In years when the total fund in the county Las a deficit,; the state reimburses ’he county for the shortage. Following is the condition of the fund id each township: Blue Creek $47 unpaid; French, $8.25 surplus; Jefferson, sl|rß surplus; Kirkland SSB surplus; jWonroe, $285 surplus;' Preble, sl6 Surplus; Root, $38.65 deficit; St. Mary’s, $26.21 deficit; Union, $62.90 surplus; Wabash, $302 surplus •' Washington, $700.50 surplus. Total, $1,610.65 surplus, less $111.86 deficit, balance $1,498.75. ; ‘ f 1 Each township retains SIOO as a balance so tjiis money is not reflected in the surplus. All monies collected by the assessors for annual dog taxes go into the fund in the town Ship in which the tax is collected. : ..; 4-x ; Ko r ten be r Retires From Clothing Firm ! 4 Clem F. Kortenber, prominent Decatur merchant, today announced his retirement from the Holt-house-Schulte Co. clothing store. He has been; a member of the firm for the pastj3o years, having joined the company with the late Henry Schulte and Harry Helm, later associated with Fred Schulte and Robert Helm. Kortenber; In announcing his retirement. stated that he has made no definite plans lor the, future. ■'■''l - \ ' ?

Batista Sends Out Troops To I ; ■ ’ Complete Coup Little Resistance As Batista Seizes Government Os Cuba Havana; Cuba, March 11.—(UP) —Some! 2!50 regular ‘ army troops headed for the. central Cuban city of Camaguey today under orders from Gen. Fulgencio Batista to put. down the last organized resistance to his revolutionary coup. Batista displaced the troops by special train from Havana last night after Col. Juan Acpsta, army commander in Camaguey, issued a manifesto denouncing the general for seizing power yeeteday from president Carlos Prio Cbcarras.y However, revolutionary sources believed Acosta’s 1,000-jnan garrison would yield without a fight to the pro-Batista forces under Col. Jose Carreno Fiallo, former chief of the national police. Carreno Fiallo’s troops, armed with rifles, sidearms arid machineguns, were expected to arrive in the main railway station in Camaguey, a ’city of 250,00 d about 350 miles east of Havana, g In nearby Las Villas, Knobs .stormed the political offices ot Batista’s unitary action party and destroyed photographs of the general last I night, but all was reported quiet I there today. Havana was uneasy, but Completely under control bt Batista’s forces. Streets were Virtually deserted during the night* and tanks, armored cars and infantry were on the alert; for any possible counterrevolution. Roadblocks,: were established on the approaches to the presidential palace and, searchlights were installed atop the building. Handbills denouncing Batista as an i “assassin and thle<” and promising to punish him for “treason’’ appeared in the capital; late yesterday, but no trouble followed. Airline workers at the big Rancho Boyeios airport on Havana’s outskirts went on, strike against the coup. However, full Cuban ipternal air service was re* (Turn To Pawc Ki«ht> • .- J " | \ Democrat Meeting Held Last Evening State Chairman Is Principal Speaker Adams county Democracy was well represented at the, “political workshbp’’ conference ip Fort Wayne last evening, at which Ira L. Haymaker, Democratic state chairman, made the principal talk. Among those from, here who attended were county chairman and Mrs. Harry Hebble, f; state representative and Mrs. Q. Remy Bierly, county clerk Edward Jaberg, Walter Butcher, Leo Ehinger and Mrs; Catherine Lose, Mr. and Mrs. Theron of geneva, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Bjaumg-irt-ner of Berne, Boyd Stepler of Monroe. \ Chairman Haymaker emphasized that political victory! is the result of hard work. . “Our Republican opponents are locked in a. titanic struggle aipong themselves — the greatest fight in thjt party in a century. We Democrats. however, cannot expect Republicans to win our elections. j , “The issues are with .lie Democratic party. They Jhave been for 20 yeairs. The Republicans have no jssues and have pone this year. When questions of national import arose tjhe Democrats, found the answers and then the Republicans opposed them.” Haymaker also cabled on the neople to defeat William Jenner in his bid to be returned to the United States senate < • ! I I- J :■

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J ; '"T ■ It Orders Three Rail End Strike; Also Forbids Strike On Other Railroads Cleveland, 0., Matoh 11.— Federal judge Emerich B. Freed to- - day granted a government request for a temporary injunction and ordered three railtoad unions to end their crippling strike against the New York Central system and the terminal railroad of st. Louis. After a morning-long hearing, interrupted by union attorneys who plead that the government seizure of the railroads was not law, judge Freed issued the order shortly before uooni (CRT). “I am compelled to*take but one' course,” he s(dd. “Refusal to issue the restraining order would endanger the national security and cause irreparable injury to the United States.” I. f I In Asking for the order, government; attorneys said “irrei "foie damage” to the United States would be caused if the strike continued. ? In his order, judge Freed also forbid the unions from striking against any other railroad in thd nation. . Attorneys for two of the three striking unions attempted to upset the government's case by contesting Ifguahee of the restraining order. ; Freed, after hearing the presentation by government lawyer Edward H. Hickey* granted the union attorneys half an hour to prepare a defense. jJ ]• Clifford M. O’Hrien representing the Brotherhood :of Locomotive ‘ Engineers, and Harold C. Heiss, counsel for the Brotherhood of Firemen and told the court they contested President Truman’s seizure orders of the summer, 1950, and that the government should not take the "extraordinary legal measure” without full recourse to arbitration proefeduresi O’Brien said that the engineers had never been granted use of arbitration' procedure* established by the tollway labor act, and that a section of the Taft-Hartley labor act specifically established an 80day “cooling off” period, which also had not been employed. The strike of 6,000 union men began at 7 a.m. (CST) Sunday. Withili hours the army said the strike wjas “intolerable” and yesterday sent the union leaders a;.wire directing them to call ott their walkoht. The leaders said\ (hey were “Considering” the request. r J ; > The uniop, if it fails to nmn to work, could be held subject to contempt of Ffeed’s order. Undpr term® of ’the, edict, a preliminary “show cause” hearing would be held in Freed’s court March 19. Two days later, providing defense attorneys do not request an extef? sion of the order, the unions must file answers to [the government charges. The government i presented aa "exhibit A” an order signed Aug. 26, 1950 by which the army took over control of the railtoads. : The judge Issued orders to the unions to tellvtheir members to return to yrork ai [’expeditiously” as they went out Sunday. The leaders \of the strike were not available for comment, although a spokesman said they would “consider” the ruling. Over Two Inches Os Rainfall In Decafur 1 : : ! ; : H ■ -I More than two inches of rain fell in Decatur during the 24-hour period ended at 8 o’clock this morning, Horman “Hl” Meyer, Ipcal weather observer, announced. The dxact figure is 2.10 inches. St. Mary’s*river is above flood Stage and this morning stood at 1,5.80 feet. The stream was rising rapidly o and Meyer estimated it w-ould reach 17 feet before it crested. ,] The lowlands are inundated and some damage to county roads was done by the exceedingly heavy rainfall. The weather observer said last night’s rain was one of the heaviest ever to strike the community la March. I *