Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 22 March 1952 — Page 1

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-7"- -I : • ; i j ■ M . ! 42 Killed As ■. ' 1 H • ■ . ' : i' Dutch Airliner Crashes Today

Frankfurt, Germany. March 22. — (UP) —A Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM) DC-6 attempting an instrument landing in heavy rain crashed and burned in woods near here today, killing 42 of the 48 persons Six survivors'-pilled from the flaming kreckage taken to a hospital. One was $0 severely burned it was feared h<|?might die. The plane carried 38 passengers and 10 orew members. tjL The airliner was tan a flight from Johannesburg, Africa, to Amsterdam., The jjetherlands. It had sbtopped thi^-morning at Rome and was coming’iri ! for a landing at Frankfurt when it ripped into woods, splintered into pieces and caught fire, ' ! The plane was nearly an hour behind schedule and was flying in a heavy overcast and a driving rain. The aircraft was KLM’s Queen Juliana and 1 had been earmarked to fly the Dutch queen and her consort, Prince Bernhard, to the U;S. April 1 for a state Seven persons wgre found alive in the debris, but one died on' the way to the U;S. air force hospital at nearby (Ihein-Main airport. Another was critically burned, but. still alive. The remaining five were expected to live. . First persons to reach the -wreck were three German truck drivers. “We heard meaning and screaming coming from the wreckage." said Willibald Hoffman. “We managed to pull out forty persons—two men and two women.” Hoffman said one of the women, who spoke German, kept crying; “My husband is dead. My husband is dead.” A worker at a nearby brick factory said the plane “appeared to have been completely atomized. It was ripped into small pieces and hurled all over the place." s New Legal Holiday Will Be Observed ( ■ ' . ■ 4'V Citizenship Theme For September 17 “I Am An American” day is the name of a new legal holiday to be observed by every state in the union by a congressional resolution. The date is September 17 of each year, according to an official communication received today by Judge Myles F. Parrish, Adams circuit court, from United States attorney general J. Howard McGrath. McGrath also enclosed a copy of the joint congressional resolution and gave a "'brief explanation of the new holiday. jQitizenship is to be the principal theme to be brought to t.he public’s attention in observing the day. It is suggested that all courts in the nation hold naturalization ceremonies on the “1 Am An American Day,” if thefre are any applicants for naturalization at the time,! Federal, sti.te and city buildings all will be askejl to display the American flag and schools throughout the nation will be asked to hold special convocations stressing citizenship. The date commemorates the signing of the United States constitution September 17, 1787. The joint resolution calling for \tbe observance was passed in February by both houses of congress and was approved by the president 1 ! February 29. J 952. ~ The letter to Judge Parrish also stated that other plans were in the~making to make the new holiday one of the most forceful of any throughout the nation. Hold Conference On Plague Os Anthrax Indianapolis, Mar. 22 — (UP) — Ltoiana and Ohio officials met in enclosed meeting at Richmond yesterday to discuss a plague of anthrax, a deadly animal disease * which killed hogs and cattles in nearly 30 Ohio counties and eight in Indiana. Meanwhile, officials of the Indiana state board of health planned a conference this morning to-dis-cuss the of a visit by Dr. James W. Jackson, director of the division of communicable disease control, to northeastern Indiana yesterday. ; . 7 ■ Noon Edition

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Gen. Gruenther Flies Home To Support Aid To Give Testimony On Military Aid ! Before Congress Washington, Mar. 22 — (UP) — Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther. chief of staff to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. flew home today to testify on military aid before congressional committees next week. Gruenther said he'had to idea when Eisenhower himself is coming home. He said that if Eisenhower had decided, he had hot given any indication txt it to his staff. Eisenhower's constellation plane, the Columbine, landed at National airport with Gruenther a. m. CST after a 19-hour. 15-mihute flight from Paris. ' Gruenther said western European defenses under Eisenhower are improving continually ancFthat it is “getting more difficult all the tmie for an aggressor to atitick with any degree of success ” j “The tide is flowing out- way.” he said. The senate foreign illations committee decided last Monday to hear testimony from GrtrenihW on President Triiman’s reqjudst for 900,099.0|() in foreign aid. Mutual security director W. Av- t erell Harriman warned the com-' (Tiittee it would be “diisAst|busH.to cut any funds from Mr. Truman’s n-equest. He said he was particularly concerned about $1,819J000,00<T in “defense support” fur ds for America's European allies. I I Sen. Brien McMahon -(D-Conn.) had propoped calling Eisenhower himself to testify on the 'oheign aid program; He told the senate he had “no political motive of Any kind, but rather a conviction that Gen. Eisenhower will be erhbarrassed unless he comes home and supports this program.” H | Republicans who support Eisenhower for the GOP presidential nomintaion opposed his return to this country while he stUj is in uniform, on grounds such! action woi|ild prevent him from declaring himself on controversial issued. Several Republicans iaid it might “embarrass” Eisinhßwer to seek approval of the prejsid&it’s aid program while-' serving as commander of the! Ncrth .Atlantic army. Some 9 congressmen who are backing him for tie priesi(Tura To P»gc Four 1

High Winds Strike ■: J' ■ |;/ 1" Early This Morning Electric Power Is Off Over Two Hours A severe wind storm, accompanied by some rain, sfrucjk Decatur and northern Adams county early this morning. Electric power was off in parts of the ci|y for a little more than two hours. A transformer at the rear of th£ city building was knocked out of 1 service for a time during the storrti. | The police radio also was out of commission and it made tlib repair work of the electric department all the more difficult. Normal electrical flow was restored before 7 o’clock this morning. The heavy winds blew down small tree branches throughout the city and there ,were a of shingles being removed from roofs. i . b H - No serious damage was Reported and the continuing wind bad dried the streets and walks following several heavy showers during j the storm. City employes were called to service at the beginning • ofj \ the storm and worked through until repairs were raadei [The sitorm showed the need for a stand-by electric line for the city ahd county police and service department short-wave radio systeip. p j'• The entire broadcasting system was out during the storm, just when it was needed. •• . !

J Senate O. K. Put On Jap Treaty 1 L b Mil... ? | BHza B $ $ Bp < r-J fa . MMT jSsagr . J U. S. SENATE Secretary Leslie Biffle affixes his signature to the Japanese peace treaty following a 66-10 ratifying vote by, the senate; Looking on are (left)'“Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Tom Connally (D), Senator Alexander Wiley, Wisconsin, ranking GOP foreign relation* taiember. Treaty sets unique standard of a conquered nation’s treatment by a victor.

Weather Slows Up Action On Korean Front Negotiators Show New Eagerness To Reach Armistice Seoul, Korea, Mar. 22— (UP) — Multiple cloud layers and snow flurries brought action nearly to a standstill in the Korean war toboth on the ground and in the' air. air force pilots could find only two holes in the clouds over North Korea but used them both to attack Conun uniat targets. A few F-84 thunder jets found a clear spot near Kosong on the east caost and pummeled Red positions. They destroyed an undetermined number of troop shelters and gun positions while flying in support of ground forces. Between Sinchon and Chongyon, the clouds parted long enough for a flight of mustangs of the ROK air force to crater a railroad in two spots. y j On the ground, the enemy braved snow flurries to make two probes shortly before midnight west of Chorwon on the central; front. One was beaten off easily and sh the second case, a U. N. unit pulled back on orders from an advanced post. Light engagements with enemy sjinits up to about 29 men in size . were reported west of the ? Mundugni valley ip the east. Qn the western front, small enemy groups stabbed at three U. N. positions | west of Korangpori without success.

New Eagerness Panmunjom, Korea. Mar. 22 — (UP) —Allied and Communist truce negotiators virtually disposed of the ports of entry \issuO today and showed new eagerness to settle the prisoner exchange prbolem. Red staff officers turned over to the allies maps of five agreedupon ports of entry in North Korea outlining areas open to neutral inspection during a truce. Through these must pass all supplies and troop replacements after a ceasefire. |, _ The maps at first glance appeared acceptable to U. N. officers. The Communists apparently accepted the allied proposal that ports of entry include all areas inside the city limits of each port. In an adjoining conference tent, ♦he deadlocked prisoner of war discussions adjourned after 55 minutes of sparring that, according to a V, N. staff officer, disclosed: \ |l. Each side wants frank, full and informal talks. I 2. Each side wants the other to propose something “more definite.” 3. The Communists want “both sdies” to exert every effort to solve the«deadlocked prisoner issue. \ The negotiators are stalemated _by the Communists’ insistence on compulsory repatriation of all war prisoners and the U. N.’s refusal to force prisoners to return to North Korea against their wlil. The deadlock is one of three bolding up final agreemnet on an armistice. The others are the allies’ refusal to accept Russia as a member of the neutral truce (Txra To Six)

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 22,1952.

Increase Granted *, In Telephone Rafes ’ Citizens Telephone Granted Increase The public service cbmrhisslon of Indiana has written an order in which it has authoried and directed the Citizens Telephone com-; pany, of Decatur, to : place new rates into effect at the six exchanges served by in Decatur, Berne, Monroe, 7 Bryant, Pleasant Mills, and Linn Grove as of March 22, 1952. No copy of the actual order has been received at the offices of the however. Charles D. Ehinger and Jay Markley, president and accountant, respectively, of Cit|zene, are conferring with official* of the puWN service commission today. „ \ It would appear, from information gathered concerning the commission order, that [monthly rates for telephone servfcei In the exchanges mentioned will be increased from 40c to 75c per month and that there will also bei other minor increases, mainly in mileage charges tor special serried beyond the corporate limits of thej exchange aiea. It appears that the monthly rates will be as follows:

tndependetet business [ ,11——-$5.75 Multi party business i-4—- 5.00 Rural party business 4.75 Extension business 1.50 Independent residence 415 Two party residence L-4— 3.60 Four party residence j._* 3.15 Eight party rural residence._ 3.10 Extension residence _L_| 1.00 Service beyond corporate limits: private line per M mile, 69c: two party line per >4 mile, 40c; party line per 14 mile, 25b. 7; The above rates are all basic rates and are before any extra charges for handset charges, extra equipment, etc. All quoted are also subject to the addition of the federal excise tak of 15 percent. The new schedule of rates has been made effective by the commission on April 1. : Mrs. Mabie Bockman, in charge of revenue billing and collecting .fori the Citizens Telephone company, that every effort would be made to have >the new rtaes reflected In the bills leady for collection on: or before April 1. • ’

Hl (Rev. L. T. Norris, Union Chapel Evangelical j United Brethren Chiirch) “THE HIGHER SELFISHNESS” “Therefore .all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to yod. do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.’’ Matt. 7:12. ■i"> * • !’ I . T j ' j i■ l •■ !'P ■ '' V m. ! . '’ ■ H '7 —• | This is a most sublime precept, and highly worthy of the grandeur and beneficence of the just God who gave it. The general meaning of it is this: “Guided by justice and mercy, do unto all , men as yoii\ would have them to do to you. were your circumstances and?theirs reversed." Yet, this saying may be misunderstood ; “If the Prfsoher should ask the whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case. he‘ would answer, No. Then says tfae prisoner, Do as you would be to: —neither of them must do as private men; but the judge must do by him, as ; they have publicly agreed; that is, both judge and prisoner have consented to a law, that if either pf them steal, he shall be hanged. None, but he whose heart is filled with love to God and all man* kind, can keep this precept, either in its spirit or letter. Self-love will feel itself sadly cramped when brought within the limits of this precept. But God hath spoken it. Yea, God hath written it upon the hearts of all His children.

Nearly 200 Die As Killer Tornadoes Hit South States

Stabilizers Confer Over Steel Dispute Price Increase Key Issue In Dispute Washington, March 22—(UP)— The nation’s top three stabilization officers huddled today over .the key issue in the smoldering steel dispute—a price increase for the steel industry. Defense mobilizer Charles E. Wilson was scheduled to confer with economic stabilizer Roger L. Putnam and price stabilizer Ellis Arnail amid official warnings that a steel strike would kfill all hope of lifting controls on the civilian-eco-nomy this year, i ; The officials planned to meet after receiving the full report of the wage stabilization board, which has recommended a hourly pay boost and a union shop for the CIO United Steelworkers. ! The union yesterday postponed its threatened nationwide strike for the fourth time, but warned it will call a walkout April 8 if an agreement based on the board’s recommendations if not reached with the steelmakers. A spokesman for Wilson said even a two-week .strike would be a crippling blow to the nation. Counting time required to get furnaces back into production after a strike, he said, it would mean a loss of three weeks’ output, m about 6,000,000 tons of steel. “If that happens,” the spokesman said, "it will set back the Relaxation of steel controls by a year.” Informed sources believed President Truman eventualy will have to decide! how big a price boost steel industry should get. There were: reports that Wilson may fly to Key West, Fla., during the weekend to confer with Mr. Truman. Union and management representatives will resume negotiations Monday on a company-by-company basis. The wage board’s proposals are not binding on either side, but the Steelworkers have accepted them.

Striking Indiana Miners To Return Terre Haute, Ind., Mar. 22 — (UP)—Peacq reigned in southwestern Indiana soft coal mines as some 3,599 striking miners prepared to return to their jobs Monday. Rbscoe McKinney, district 11 president of the United; Mine Workers Union, said after a meeting heye late yesterday o-f UMW local officers, that workers at Green Valley mine, where the strike over seniority issues started 11 dyas ago, would return Monday. He said other local officers assured him sympathy strikers would return then, too. McKinney said the Green Valley local; agreed to return and iron out issues later in contract negotiations.

Eisenhower To Ask Release Os Command Expected To Ask Command Release jWithin Two Weeks Faris, March 22.—(UP)— Reliable? sources said today that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower probably will ask to be relieved of his Atlantir;“ pact command within two weeks to campaign for the presidency. 'Rhey speculated that he might send his resignation to Washington along with his first annual report as supreme pommander. on or about April 2. .The he probably w’otild return to! the U.S. between imitf-May and June 1. Eisenhower himself had nothing to say on the question. He sped through a quick morning of conferences with members of his' staff and was expected to spend a quiet weekend at his walled, closely-guarded suburban Villa. He. had no meetings 'scheduled with non-military visitors. \ Those close to the general believe he is hopeful that Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, his chief of will make his mission to Washington to suport foreign aid before congress such a success tlmt he will emerge as a logical successor to the five-star general. headquarters sources said they believed Gruenther was prepared to 'press for the apopintment of Britain’s Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Eisenhower’s present deputy, or France’s Gen. Alphonse Juln. commander of the Atlantic Padt ground forces, as supreme commander. 7 However, North Atlantic treaty military sources believed such a mpve would be merely a polite gesture doomed to defeat from the start. ' I ■ y 1 Both Montgomery and Juin have had more field experience than Gruenther, but Eisenhower’s successor must almost certainly be an American. Too many Europeans would oppose serving under a British commander on principal, and even more would object to French leadership. Moreover, military circles were certain that the U.S. congress would never consent to a foreign commander running the European defiese organizatio so log as American taxpayers foot most of the bill. Montgomery already has let it be -known that he would not object to serving under Gruenther, although: the American is junior in rank.

8 : l Music Festival At Geneva Next Friday K, ■ ' Annual Festival Os Rural High Schools The ahnual Adams county music festival will be held at the Geneva high school next Friday night at 8 o’clock, with music students from all-pf the six rural high schools of the county participating. Robert Shambaugh will be the guest conductor, with Dorothy Owens as the accompanist. The program will be divided into two parts, with the first part numbers by the combined band, and the* second part selections by the combined chorus. \ Merl H, Goble, music director tor ;the Adams Central high school, is general chairman for the annual festival. Other school music direcwho are assisting in the presentation are: Delwyn Elliott and Dofothy Owens, Geneva; Donovan Geiig, Hartford! Delwyn Elliott, Jefferson; William Thomas, Monmouth and Pleasant Mills. The public is invited to attend thia county music festival.

Continue Probe Os Infant Boy's Death Adams County'Lady Under Investigation Sheriff Robert Shraluka %nd state police detective Charles Epperson are continuing an investigation here following several reports that the mother the infant boy found in the St. Mary’s river at the edge of Willshire, fO. earlier this week, might be an Adams county woman. - The woman under investigation resides east of Decatur and is employed in Decatur. !she underwent several hours of questioning Friday and denied any connection with the incident, j Sheriff Shraluka first entered the investigation when rumors apparently starting from: a relative of a doctor who called on the Adams county Wroman.-came to* his attention. ’ i. Sheriff StiraluKa conferred with Ohio police authorities and it was learned that the baby did not die of drowning of suffocation. There were no bruises on the body and when found it was not clothed. However, a sweater and other garments were; found nearby. Officer Epperson joined in the investigation Thursday. Sheriff Shraluka stated this morning that he and detective Epperson were not ready to i&sue any formal statement, but that he believed some developments in the case might be brought to light in the next few days. It was learned that the woman who was questioned Friday volunteered td present herself Friday night to a physician for a physical examination to uphold her denial of any complicity. It was also learned that she failed to appear at the designated time. Local authorities expect to receive a formal report from Ohio authorities who are performing an Laboratory tests also will be completed over the week-end. hn- "H ■ ? L

Bids Received For Monmouth Addition Bids To Be Under Original Estimate Bids for construction, plumbing, heating and wiring of the new Monmouth school addition will, be under the $124,000 estimate, D. Burdette Custer, attorney for Root township trustee August Selking, stated today. ’ • \ Proposals from contractors were received Friday afternoon and tabulation of the figures, ' ■ with the elimination of certain alternates, will permit letting of contractors, Custer estimated. ; On the general contract there were five bidders. Five contractors submitted bids on the plumbing and heating and four for the electric wiring. . ' Plans call for refacing of the front entrance of the building and construction of several class rooms and a cafeteria. The building will be modernized in every way, trustee Selking stated. A few of the alternates will be dropped from the present contract and arrangements will be made to equip the class rooms. It is planned to have the remodeled and enlarged building ready for occupancy by next fall, when the September semester begins. Enrollment at the Monmouth school increased last year with the transfer of high school students from Preble township to Root township. The school building is one of the frequently used community centers in the county. | j INDIANA WEATHER Rain changing to snow flurries, windy and cold’er tonight. Sunday cloudy and colder, snow flurriea extreme north. Low tonight north, 28-38 south. High Sunday 30-34 north, 34-38 south.

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Arkansas Hit Hardest, New Storms Feared Hundreds Injured [ In Five-State Area 1! Hit By Tornadoes Little Rock, Ark., March 22.—< (UP) —Tbe weather bureau today forecast the “possibility” of more tornadoes ovir a wide five-state area ringing the ruins left by vicious twisters that killed almost (209 fiersons and Injured many hundreds yesterday. Devastated areas of southwestern Arkansas,; Mississippi, the southern corner* of Missouri and parts of Tennessee were just staggering back from the impact of the funnels of death when the new forecast was made. Friday’s twisters came in undetf 7 boiling qmees of cloudes that covered the southeast, turning Atlanta into a c|ty of darkness until aftert noon. ! Into the swirling vortex houses, humans, livestock and automobiles were caught up in a counter-clock-wise tempest,that added up to the 'winter’s, worst disaster. i B<i fierce Was the power of the'i winds that an automobile body was twisted from its frame. A house wits shaken from its foundations and rolled across a street. A state trooper, answering the eall to, disaster duty, was carried to his death when his car was hurled end pver end into a field. Arkansas counted 110 dead, Ten> nessee 48, Missouri, 15; Mississippi, nine. ( The weather bureau, which only recently started predicting for the public the general area of expected tornadoes, issued bulletin shortly before 11 a.ra. today: “Thunderstorms are occuring over a widespread portion of , southeastern United States (his morning. “There is a possibility qf tornadoes occurring this afternoon in central Kentucky, central Tennessee, and extreme northern Alabama, moving across eastern Kentucky and eastern Tennessee to reach western Virginia and western West Virginia during the night.” |,The Red Cross said It has allocated 1250,009 for\rellef work and has sent 50 disaster workers, including doctors and nurses, into the 19 counties of Arkansas, Tennessee. Mississippi, and Missouri hit by the tornadoes J The agency has sent 224 units of whole blood and 274 units of blood plasma frqm St. Louis, Mo., and Little ? Rock, Ark., into the affected area. \ , ! Yesterday’s twisters started shortly after 3 p.m. - During the next few hours they slashed a path of death and destruction that leveled entire villages, and crumpled houses like playthings. The death count still was tentative. And identity of all the dead will not be established until sor- " rowing lines of relatives finish their slow shuffle through emergency morgues,—school houses, public buildings,, anything left standing—to view the blood-and-dust caked bodies of the victims. >| Hundreds of national guardsmen, state police. Red Cross and otherL civilian rescue workers converged on the scenes of tragedy from many surrounding states. Gov. Sid Mc->

Delaware County Officials Indicted Muncie, Ind., March 22.—-(UP)— Indictments were filed today charging five present and former Delaware county officials with unlawful payment of 163.145.81 in claims., ’ W* 7 • • A grand jury returned indictments last night against Carl J. Fisher, county auditor; Woodrow W. Parkinson and Roy J. Mcßride, county commissioners; Leonard Thomas, former commissioner, and Harold Cronin, former county highway department, superintendent.