Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 77, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1952 — Page 1

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Wilson Resigns Defense Job In Angry Protest

\ “■—f“ • I \ Washington. Mar.3l — (UP) — 1 The wage-prive stabilization program.was rocked tojts foundation todya by tfefense 'mobilizer Charles E. Wilson’s .stormy departure from the government The former General Electric president, who held the second moat powerful post in th.e administration, resigbed in angry protestf< gainst President Truman's handling of the steel dispute. Although steel union, and management representatives scheduled new bargaining talks in New York 'today, government hopes for averting a nationwide strike, on April 8 plummeted almost to zero in the wake of the top-level row. Senate action \on a one-year extension of the controls law. scheduled for a committee vote today, ] was called off to permit senatorial | tempers to cool. Some RepublicJ ans 'demanded that the legislation X he put on ice until the steel crisis !. ;is settled and Wilson’s successor fIL-ia chosen. . . . | “Mr. Truman said presidential i assistant John 'R. Steelman Will serve as acting director of defense \ ; mobilization for the time being. X Wilson planned to get out at the dose of business today. He scheduled a 3 p. m. (CST), news con■i inference. His office said Jt w’ould be confined to a review of the re_.tcmanient job to which the presiy dent appointed him in Decaember. . . !\ 1950. " ' ' i Mr. Truman and the 65-year-old i industrialist parted company with a blazing exchange of letters which the White House made public late yesterday. Wilson charged that Mr. Truman reneged on an agreement made wt the steel industry pricp relief if Key West, Fla., last week to give Philip Murray’s 650,000 CIO United Steelworkers get a pay raise. The president retorted that ..no final decision was made at Key , West on the price issue. And he raid Wilson was all wrong in his contention that the steeUpay raises of 26 cents an hour recommended ! by the wage stabilization board were “unstabliizing.” j Wilson’s resignation hit the White House shortly before mid--I 1 flight Friday, a few hours after the defense mobilizer learned that Mr. Tryman had refused to--go 3 long with his plan for settling the stele dispute by raising both -wages and prices. • ' i 4 Price controller Ellis Arnall and economic stabilizer Roger L. Putnam tipped the scales against WilsorT at a . long White House meeting Friday afternoon. They were understood to have convinced • Mr. Truman that the steel conk panics could pay the proposed wage increases out of their current profits without hiking steel prices. Informed sources said Wilson "really blew his top” when he got the news, because he k had just natified steel company officials they would get ,price increases to cover at least part of the wage raises. It was on that assurance. • that the’ steelmakers agreed to Hurt joint bargaining meetings with Murray in New York today.

President's Wife Key To Truman's Decision

Washington, March 31.—(UP) — Politicians from congress .to the | Kremlin found it hard to believe, but the key to President Truman’s decision • not to run again was his wife. i- -- : ■' '< His “beautiful little girl with golden curls.” with whom he was first "smitten” at the age of six, had more to do with his bowing out of the White House than all the machine politicians put together. She was not the sole factor, but a highly important one. Mrs. Truman knows better than any other person outside of -the president, himseft, the physical and emotional toll 17 years of official life in Washington have taken from her husband. Seven of those years have been in the White House. She shares with him a deep yearning for life without pressure, and in comparative privacy : / Consequently, she has for some time encouraged the idea of his not running again. Mrs. Truman has too much respect for her husband’s own judgment to use tactics more forceful. But she has made ' no secret of her desire to leave the

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Report Truman Plans To Back 6ov. Stevenson Illinois Governor Reveals Pressure , , To Join In Race Washingtno. March 31.—-(UP) — Gov. Adlai E. Stevensoriof Illinois said today Democratic party leaders are bringing "considerable pressure” on him to run fay president. He indicated in an interview that he is resisting the overt tires for the time being, but he certainly avoided saying that he would not accept the Democratic domination. A White House official reported meanwhile that President Truman has definitely decided to- throw his full support behind Stetenson tor the nomination. j There was no immediate -confirmation from the president, and Stevenson refused to comment on reports that Mr. Truman has offered to back him. ‘ "I can’t discuss what has transpired between us.” hei tobd a reporter-. as he prepared to return to Springfield. 111. “That’s fbr the president to disclose.” Stevenson said he hiad not conferred with Mr. Truman; since the president’s dramatic announcement Saturday night that he will ndt seek reelection. I ■ ■ He acknowledged, however, that he spent all Sunday noon and most of Sunday evening Jiri private huddles with other Democratic bigwigs. , ■ Stevenson declined to identify the party leaders. But saidl “they brought considerable pressure on me to run for president.” j “I told them that J just -can’t be put' in the position l of running for two jobs at the same timje,” he .said. | I . I That was a referencje; to his al-?, ready-announced candidacy tor reelection as governor of Illinois. During an appearance over NBC’s “meet tlje press]’ television program yesterday, Stevenson said his ‘‘only ambition” is to We rejected governor andU’l will, npt seek” the Democratic presidential nomina. tjon. . | '*But when h e was challenged to say that he Would not accept the presidential nomination if it; were offered to h ini, he replied: “I will not say that.”;; In the interview, the same question was put to ; Stevenson in a positive way: “will you accept the pemocratic presidential nomination if it is offered to r you?” “1 will have to cross that bridge when 1 come to itj,” he said. A close political associate hinted that Stevenson's > attitude toward the nomination ijiajiJ be governed by whom the Republicans nominate. He said the Illinois goyerpor would be more jo becoming the Democratic standardbearer if his GOP opponent was to (Tnr» fTo Page Sixt

fishbowl life of the White House. Her desire to leave the /White House reached an all-time high on Nov. 1. 1950, when .two Puerto Ricans tried to shoot their way into Blair House and kill the president. Mrs. Truman was alarmed and frightened, as any normal woman would have been/ after Un experience. : : Since the president made his announcement, Mrs. Truman hap been jubilant. At the big Democratic party reception yesterday afternoon she was noticeably relaxed and' . glowing for a relatively shy person to whom pubic appearances are frequently painful. She evert smiled while the flashbulbs were flaring, More often she squintg.(/ Aside from Mrs. Truman’s feelings, there were other important reasons behind the president’s decision. One political [J uchctol of thought here believes that Mr. Truman was deeply impressed by the strong showing Gen. ;>Dwisht D. Eisenhower made in the Minnesota and New Hampshire primaries. This school thinks tljat Mr. Tru- .. (Tnra Te Pwxe Six) ‘

Slated Steel Talks Today Are Delayed Slated Show-Down Bargaining Parley | Today Is Delayed < I J \ - New York, Mar. 31 — (UP) —•• Representatives of the “big six” f(eel companies and the United Steel workers “postponed” their scheduled show-down bargaining conference today. Industry sources indicated a belief that the postponement was for an “indefinite” tinje. But unio,n sources said they understood it would be for only a few hours. At any rate, -the conferees didz npt meet at 2 p. m. as scheduled. •» IA) steel spokesman said the companies needed more.time to study thq wage /Stabilization board’s recommendation. The spokesman said John A. S|ephens,» Drifted States Steel Corp, vice-president and chief industry negotiator, telephoned- uniolnXfjresident Philip I Murray and asked for »the delay. :Sixteen-man bargaining teams for both the industry and Philip Murray’s steel union were scheduled to meet for \the fijsjt down-to-earth talks in three months. ”Whe union will drive for industry acceptance of an 18-month contract calling for a total of 26 cents in wage and fringe boosts in installments —as recommended by a .wage stabilization board majority. But an exchange of letters between President Truman and Char-; les 6 E. Wilson as the mobilization chief quit yesterday threw' a big roadblock in the way of an early settlement. • < *|Wilson. who had opposed any wage boost for the 650,000 steelworkers, accused Mr. Truman of altering a plan, on which they had agreed for permitting (he industry to boo A prices to offset—at least partially—any wage hike granted. , The president, accepting Wilsop’s resignation replied that he expects to see the price controls law “faithfully executed.” Under price rules, the industry is entitled to about a $2 a ton increase by thie so-called Capehart formula although it claims it would need sl2 to| offset the recommended wage package. ’ ■ jThe industry had counted on Wilson to ram through more than s2i a ton in price relief and the resumption of negotiations was kfranged last week after it had the former mobilization chief’s assurance that the president would go Economic stabilizer Roger L. Putnam and price chief Ellis <Tnn> t» Pace Six) Adams County Man Killed In Accident Roscoe Dennis Dies Saturday Evening Roscoe Dennis, 64-year-old farmer Residing eight miles east of eneva, was- fatally injured Saturday evening when the auto in which he and two stepsons were riding went out of control on Ohio state road 29, west of Celina, 0.. and upset in a ditch. Dennis was pronounced dead on arrival at the Gibbons hospital pt Celina. Death was caused by a skull fracture. j; The stepsons, Charles Payne, 28, of Fort Wayne, and James Payne, 32; of near Celina, were reported in critical condition today at the Giblxms hospital. Charles Payne suffered a fractured left arm and head injuries, and his brother a broken rgiht leg and back injuries. Mr. Dennis was born in Huntington county Dec. 27, 1887. Surviving ars his wife. Altha; one son, Kenneth Dennis of Ban Berpardino, Calif.: four daughters, Mrs Pauline Carson of Fort Wayne, Mrs! Rpth Spencer of Rayton, 0., Mrs. Esther Johnson and Mrs Garnet Scott, in ’ the west; eight grandchildren; one greatgrandchild; a brother, Everett Dennis,’ of near Huntington;, a sister, Mrs. Laura Blondell of near Geneva, and 12 stepchildren, including the two men injured in ’he accident Saturday. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home at Geneva, with the Rev. James Wallace officiating. Burial will be in the Union cemetery near Markle; Friends may call at the funeral homfe until time of the serviciep;

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 31,1952.

Hears Husband Bow Out Br ' *2;:' t.- d ■r i W r Ji : - ■ i M 1 ; ■ ' ; TW’ i 1 * k i (O’ S I T' IWI I MRS. TRUMAN, as she has throughout his career, helps the President as he gathers up his papers following his< address to the annual Jef-ferson-Jackson Day dinner d-n Washington during which the Chief Executive announced he will nbt run for re-election this fail. \ I k- r-~f— ■■ ’ • ; ; H-

Plan Addition For St. Peter's School 1 . J. | Take Construction Bids On April 22 Bids will be received April 22 tor the construction of a one-stnry addition to St. Peter’s Lutheran school, five miles north of Decatur, Irwin Fuelling, chairman of the building committee, announced today. *’ J J Plans and specifications for the building are being issued' by Le Boy Bradley. 1115 S. Clinton Htcpet, Fort Wayne, architect for the improvement. 1 1 ? Separate bids will bo received for the general construction, plumbing, heating end electrical work. The one-story addition will compose an additional class room, and indoor lavatories on the first floor; a new boiler roorh, kitchen and confirmation room in ithe basement. J The estimate on the project was net released by the architect, but contractors were invited to Obtain copies of the plans;and submit proposals to the school building committee. Honeymooners Robbed Os All Possessions• New York, i March 31U—— Mrs. Ireijie DQnatq, 21. Princeton, Ind., and her husband; William, 29, Oak Park, Illi, reported to police here during the* week-end they were robbed of all their possessions ’ while on a honeymoon. The Donatoes said they were spending the night with his aunt, Mrs. Arthur Wild, when somebody broke into their parked car and stole all their luggage, valued at about SSOO, and an army jacket” Containing a wallet and >300; Big Crowd Attends Elks Cancer Party Devote Proceeds To State Cancer Fund There was a large turn-out at the* Elks party Saturday night when a benefit Tor the Elks State canlcer fund was staged by Decatur' lodge 993, assisted by the worsen of the Emblem club. The smorsabord was’ heaped with a variety of food that would have pleased the appetite of a Swedish king and his royal guests. Moye than 400 persons partook of tne dinner, the coipmittee stated. Tables were arranged on ;the first, second' and third floors of the home, where guests gathered tor dinner and the entertainnient that followed. , ij Twenty-five games were played and the major prize,, a 1952 model bicycle, was won by Mrs. Whiter G. Sittman, 122 Harvester Lane. Donations were made by local merchants and members from Berne and Geneva. Gifts were distributed throughput the evening. Proceeds from the party are donated to the Indiana Elks capcer fund. Final compilations were being made today and it is expected that the cancer fund will receive several hundred dollars from Sat-, urday’s very successful charity affair. Food for the smorgasbord was prepared by the Emblem Mdub women, and Walter hilliom was chairman of the annual event.

~ ’“F—, “TVolunteer Workers Aid Tornado Drive Volunteer Red Crops workers were stationed at the First Stalte bank today in support of the tornado drive and the effort to raise S6OO for the fund. < So far $96.06 has been donated to the special drive, The .local Red Cross office has been advised |hjaT the tornado killed 231 persons, injured 1,202, l.lfd homes, damaged 1,499 and affected 3,052 families in |. the four-state area. More than 700 persons were hospitalized. The tornado fund drive is separate from the annual Red 1 Cross drive. With a $9,915 quota, the fund reached $6,400 today. The campaign will continue until all wqrkera complete their canvassfthe drive, chairmen stated. Crucial Week For GOP Candidates ’ Sen. Robert A. Taft Has Greatest Stake Washington, Mar. 31 — (CP) -A Republican presidential candidates began a ’crucial week today, with Sen. Robert ArTaft appearing to have the greatest Stake in four state conventions and two primaries’. National GOP leaders were trying to assess the effect on the party’s candidates of President Truman’s announcement that he will not run again, -i ’ ' But the -White House hopefuls themselves were more concerned about the views of 138 national convention delegate's tq be chosen this week, For Taft, this weekfs contests offered a chance to recover ground lost to Gen. Dwight D. Elsephower in ‘ the ; New Hampshire and Minnesota primaries. Wisconsin Republicans will elect 30 delegates and Nebraska Republicans will choose 18 in primaries tomorrow. Taft supporters hope to win a substantial majority in the Wisconsin vote which the Ohio senator has built into a major test of his power at the polls. ; Eisenhower is not ip the fiveman field in the Wisconsin primpry, and neither Taft nor Eisen(Turn To Pace »lx> LATE BULLETINS Washington, Mar, 31 — > (UP) — The senate today approved an amendment calling for a $45-a-month combat pay bonus fdr members of the armed forces fighting in Korea. By a standing vote, the senate tacked, the amendment onto\a bill to all military 4 pay about thf4e percent and boost rations fcnd quarters allowances to keep pace with the cost of living. 1 V ■ ; ' • Omaha, Neb., Mar. 31 — .(UP)-p-Brig. Gen. Jesse D. Auton, Pemossville, Ky., deputy director of operations for fighters of tiie strategic air command/ and Lt. Col. Edwin R. Bush, Burbank, Calif., of the same office, were killed early today when a B-25 bomber crsahed at Offutt air force base near here. = ——— t i: ■ ■ Tokyo, Mar. 31 — (UP) — Two persons were reported dead and at least nine misting in two American | bomber , crashes in Japan tonight.

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.■ .. A: - • 44“ v'Kf '- ‘ - Propose Higher Level Talks On faming Russia Communists Offer Plan Over Unsolved Issue Os Inspection Panmunjom, Korea, Mar. 31 — <UP) j— Communist staff officers proposed today that a higher-level trace team take over the unsolved issue of Russia as a “neutral” Inspector of a Korean armistice. The allies reluctantly agreed to consider the suggestion. i United Nations staff officer Col. Don O; Darrow said he will relay (he proposal to Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy. allied Chief negotiator, and give the Reds his i decision tomorrow. L|' The Communists proposed that subdelegates, who have not met for more than two months, tackle once more the question of Russia’s eligibility to help police a Korean truce. Darrow protested that the staff officers hadi not completed their proposal, Darrow said: “It’s hard to tell why they pronosed it. They can stall fully as well in either staff officer or subdeligation meetings. If they want to stall. “I don’t think they necessarily have been stalling. They have been trying to get their views into the armistice agreement. In discussions on exchanging prisoners of war. other staff officers continued “explorations in an amicable session.” U. N. Col. George W. Hickman reported. He ka’d negotiators still were studying a Communist proposal of March 21 to exchange prisoners on the basis of lists already exchanged. I) ' The truce supervision negotiators have solved all the issues before them except the Coirimunist insistence on naming RuSsia as one of the six neutral truce inspectors. the right of the Reds to build military airfields during the truce, and how to translate ‘Korea’ in the Korean language. Wayne Man Dies Os Accident Injuries Fort Wayne, Ind., March 31—(UP)—Lep J. Ley, 29. Fort Wayne, died in Lutheran hospital Saturday, night of injuries received two days earlier when a New York| Central passenger train struck his auto near Ligonier. . J ( Jesse S. Gilbert Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Jesse S. Gilbert, 80, of 345 South Tenth street, who died, Saturday morning at the Adams county memorial hospital of a stroke suffered two weeks ago. He was born in Adams county Aug. 10(, 1871, a son of Jasper and Millie Stogdill-Gilbert, and was married to Maude Highland. He was a retired laborer and a lifelong resident of tpe county. Mr. Gilbert was a member of the First Methodist church. Surviving in addition to his wife are a son, Cpl. George Gilbert, who returned dnly last Thursday from service in Korea; three brother®, Charles Gilbert of California, Ervin Gilbert of Michigan and Frank Gilbert of Battle Creek, Mich., and two sisters, Mrs. Elias Sudduth of Decatur and Mrs. Thomas Trimm of Sturgis, Midh- Two brothers are deceased. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. Samuel Emerick .officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. I <

To Start Work On Monmouth Addition V ■ 1 ' .; Break Ground This Week For Addition V '"4 '■ ' , ' ': ' ' The Fred O. Careyi Construction company of South ‘’Whitldy, will break ground this week for the $124,000 addition to the Monmouth school, nort(i-of. Decatur. The South Whitley firm was awarded the general contract on q. bid of $84,950 less a deduct able clternate of $1,462. The alternate eliminates the facing oif the east wall with brick and giving the cement block walls two coats of water-proof paint; i The heating, ventilating and plumbing contracts were awarded tp P. B. Arnold company of Fort .Wayne, pn a bid of $24,420. The two bids total $107,008. Trustee August Selking and members of the Root township advisory board postponed award of the electrical contract until a later 'date. Bids fdr the three projects were received by the township on March 21. Tabulations were completed Saturday, D, Burdette Custer, attorney for the township stated, had awards were announced today. Civil township and school bonds have been issued by the township and to keep the project within the funds available, the advisory board said alternates in the contracts were included in the proposals. Albert Heeter, Fort Wayne, the architect for the building. i ° Buy 16.66 Acres of Land Attorney Custer also announced that the township closed a deal (or 16.66 acres of land surrounding the school on the east, north and west sides. The land was purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Leo H. Roe for $3.915 r This tract will jsive the school 20 acres of land. A playground, baseball diamond, football field, tennis courts and agriculture gardens, in addition to additional parking space near the tchdol, will be provided. - v . r George Antilla. who lives directly east of the school, has done the engineering work for the various outdoor areas, which will give the Monmouth school one of the most adequate playgrounds of any consolidated school in the state. The addition to the building will include class rooms, vocational work shops, a cafeteria, and modern toilet] and lavatory rooms. ! Remodeling of the front of the building, located east of the Monmouth road, will be included in the construction project. \ Last fall high school students fr6m Preble township were transferred to the Monmouth school. The schdol also has the full complement ,of grades from one to eight. Gail GrablH is principal and Charles Holt is coach of Monmouth Eagles. ’■a ■. — ■ INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy and continued mild with occasional periods of showers and local thunderstorms tonight an d Tuesday. Low tonight 50-56, high Tuesday 52-60 north, 6068 south.

/f i ' /ftedttatuM, \ (Rev. L. W, Strong. Calvary Evangelical United Brethren) THOUGHT CONTROL “And the peace of God. which passeth all understanding, , shall keep yotar hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” i I \ r'l ’ '| Pbilippians 4:7 V Paul’s general exhortation on our meditation was on the wonderful things of God. We. rejoice in the Lord because our minds are free from the guilt of sin. Paul was telling the people that their minds should be centered on the things of the Lord. Our prayers and supplications to the Lord come from the intents of our thinking. If our soul’s condition is sinful it is impossible! for us to control our thoughts on the things of God. until we first have the peace of God plantedjn/our hearts and the Lord shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Price Five Cents

President Out Os Democratic Nominee Race Truman Withholds Any Endorsement Os A Successor Washington, March 31.—(UP) — The great political organisation Franklin J>. Roosevelt created and willed to Harry S. Truman was leadfcrless today and dividing for fitter north-sou|th conflict over policies. I Platforiij principles seemed to outweight personalities in (he first confusion following President Truman’s announcement that he would retire. But some Democrats including men of the south hoped and believed Mr. Ttuman’s retirement offered a better chance for eventual party hoi mony than had existed be. fore. i , 1 , ■ The president withheld endorsement of a Democrat to succeed hhn. . Mr. Truman’s choice, how’ever, was reported to be 53-year-old Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois. A White HoueCotfjclal stated that to , be a fact,? The president himself ( made no hint of his choice when he 'revealed Saturday night that ha.- ' would not run again. ; Stevenson told the United Press thut “I Can’t discuss what has transpired” him and the president. He sgid he had not talked 1 to Mri* Truman since his retirement announcement, but that other Democratic leaders had "brought considerable pressure on me to run-.” ' ( I ' He insisted that the only political job he "sinks’’ is, reelection as governor. Asked directly whether he would accept the nomination if it were offered tp him," he replied that “I'll have toj cross bridge when I come to it.” \ Friends believe vice president Alben W. Barkley will become a candidate. one of them said ley probably would announce his decision early (this week. He thought it would be yes. Barkley is 7J4 years, old. Three United States senators — Kefauver of Tennessee, Russell of Georgia and Kerr of Oklahoma—already were avpwed candidates when M,r. Tiruman announced he (T«v» To Paso Six) Moose Will Elect Officers Tuesday “i' \ ' Tlie annual election of officers of Adams Lodge 1311, Loyal Order of Moose, will be held Tuesday evening at the Moose home. The candidates are: Herbert Fravel, Anthony Murphy, for governor; Kenneth Friedt, Virgil Fleming and Paul Hilyard. junior governor; Junior Lake. Lloyd Roth, treasurer; Boyd layers, Carl Sheets. Paul Sharpe and Matt Breiner, prelate; Waldo Eckrrite, Edward Hurst sand Frank Ross, (for trustee. Lester Sheets is the retiring governor and Richarb Baker, the retiring junior governor. The new terms will begin April 30 and the I installation ceremonies will be held April 29. The ceremonies will be in charge of Russell Baumgartner, past junior governor.