Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 82, Decatur, Adams County, 5 April 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 82.

Plane Crashes In New York City i t % ' t • . • ! i'l . . 'I. I -I W 1

Final Effort Underway To Block Strike Desperate Effort * Underway Today To Block Steel Strike New York, , April 5—(UP)— A taut-lipped government negotiator shuttled dpggedly today between skyscraper hotels in a final try to block a strike in steel. Failure would orlng a walkout at midnight Tuesday of 650,000 workers in the mills which make the basic steel for 95 percent of U.S. defense and civilian needs. Nathan P. Felnslnger. chairman of the wage stabilization board,-who flew here from Washington and said he was ready to stay “till hell freezes over,*’ was trying to find a formula that would bring together two men who are old antagonists in the field of labor vs management. The two are Philip Murray and John A. Stephens. They live in Pittsburgh, near each other. They ; call each other —outside formal meetings—“ Phil” and “Johnny.” Their final word, as representatives of big steel and the men who labor 1 in the mills, usually sets a wage I contract pattern for big and little steel companies—and for the whole of the country's heavy industry. Murray is president of the United Steelworkers of America (CIO). Stei/hens is a vice-president of I United. States Steel Corp, and chief . negotiator for it and five other big , companies. Together these six companies produce 70 percent of.the nation’s steel. Thursday at mid-afternoon Murray and Stephens walked together out of a hotel room. Standing In. the glare of television and newsreel camera floodlights, they announced that negotiations for a new Steel contract had collapsed. Murray ordered a strike. Plant bosses across the country got.ready to bank their furnaces. Yesterday John R. Steelman, acting defense mobilizer, announced thau'the industry and the union had agreed to stand by while Felnslnger flew here for a last-hope attempt pat settlement. The WSB director} ) strain and fatigue showing on his face, began a taxicab shuttle between the hotel where Murray and his union officials waited and the . one in which Stephens and the injdustry representatives gathered. 5 After several meetings, ger announced each side- had agreed to meet with him separately ! today. ' Hoosiers threatened i Indianapolis, April s—(UP)—' Hoosiers faced the threat today of what could be the most serious communications tie-up in history. Western Up ion Telegraph Co. employes have been on strike sev- ** eral days, cutting telegram service to a trickle, and a scheduled waikoiit Jtfonday of Western Electric Co. installers conceivably could put a crimp in service of state's largest telephone utility. A There was no indication of an early j end! to the walkout of commercial telegraphers employed by western Union. About 2,000 of them in Indiana are.on strike and most branch offices of the firm are closed. . ' ' •,' - Noon Edition

Annual Easter Egg Hunt At Elks Easter Sunday

One of the outstanding enter- ' tainment features of the year for the youngsters of Decatur and vicinity was assured again today, with formal announcement that the annual Easter egg hunt will bi held at the Elks lodge home on North Second street Easter Sunday" afternoon, April 13. This year’s event will be cosponsored by the Elks lodge and the Emblem club, ladies* auxiliary of the Elks. r \ The egg hunt, as has been the custom for a number of. years, will be held at 2 p.m. Easter Sunday on the spacious lawn ofjtbe lodge home unless inclement weather intervenes, in which event the eggs and prizes will be distributed in the lodge home. Fifty dozen brightly colored eggs will be scattered over the large

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

lke f Taft Compete For 62 Delegates j Eisenhower Backers V Win Upset In lovrd Washington. April 5— bUP) — Eisenhower and Taft forces ] competed for 62 convention delegates in three states today in the windup of a hectic week of the campaign for the Republican presidential domination. ’ /t' J. Backers of Gen. 'Dwight D. Eisenhower won an upset victory yesterday by taking 14 of the 26 delegates elected at the lowa GOP convention against eight for Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Four others Were uncommitted, but one of thesk w’as counted pro-Taft, even by the Eisenhower organization. r Eisenhower headquarters here described the Jlowa result as a “smashing victory” and a plete overturn” of earlier C aims from the Taft organization. I' The stakes in today’s contests were 46 delegates to be named at the Michigan GOP convention, 14 at the Idaho convention and two at a district! convention at Great Bend, The riyal camps were most. Concerned with the big Michigan delegation. . ■ i While Michigan Republicans were expected to send an unins trueted delegation to the national convention, both Eisenhower; and Taft Supporters claimed P r(> spects were good for the election of friendly delegates. I , Neither side, however; made any advance claims in terms of numbers of delegates. Idaho Republicans also were expected toi name an uhinsttt|<)ted delegation, but the Taft organization looked for all or nearly All to support the Ohioan. * ’ In all, 138 national convention delegate seats were at stake in this week’s GOP state conventions and primaries and six others were involved in three Kansas district conventions. ' ; ■ Prior to today's eleetions ( . Taft <Tura To Pw 4lx» February Term Ofi Court Closes Today April Term Will Be Opened On April 14 The February term of Adams circuit court ended today and bpurt attaches will get a nihe-day vacation. The April term will start Monday, April 14, at 9 o’clock. The first three days .of the' pew term will be devoted to the calling of the criminal and civil docket. Under the statutes criminal bgses must be set first, then the cjivil casbs are set. i ! : !J I Judge Myles F. Parrish indicted that he would spend inost of the vacation week preparing for the new term of court. New juries, both grand and petit, will'be drawn byi the two commissioners, :| Ed BOrling and Frank C. Rowley, at the clerk’s office Monday morning at 10 o’clock. \ r- |i Judge Parrish is reluctant to' call juries during the spring months because a majority of the jurors! are farmers and April and May! are their busy times. - However, no format announcement has been forthcoming regarding the grand jury for April, and whether it is called will be announced later by the court.

lawn, and among these eggs will be numerous ones calling for prizes of stuffed rabbits and chfckenjs. : In addition, special Easter baskets will be prepared for babes in arms. While all details of the appual hunt have not been complied, the youngsters will be divided into four age groups; babes in hems and up to three years of age; fbur to six; seven to nine, and 10 to 12 If good weather prevails, ? ithe lawn should be in excellent condition for the hunt, as if was recently rolled. Hubbard Steiner, general chairman for the hunt, has f Asked al’ members of the Elks lodge to be present Easter Sunday to aid in handling the hundreds of youngsters who attend the event each i year. ■ ’' J ! , <ii- ■■ ■■ H f i -■

Gen. Van Fleet Son Is Missing In Air Action Bth Army Leader's Son Missing After Night Combat Flight Seoul, Apr. S—(UP) —First Lt. James A. Van Fleet, Jr., 26-year-old son of Gen. James A. Van Fleet, eighth anny commander, was missing in action today following a night combat flight over North Korea early Friday morning. Lt. Van Fleet was piloting a B--26 invader bopiber of the third bomb wing on his fourth combat') mission with crew members. He and his two crewmen failed to return.after an attempted raid on a secondary target east of 1 Sonchon, 50 miles south oftbe Yalu rivet* in northwestern Korea. Van Fleet whs diverted by fog and low clouds) from hitting his primary target near Sonchon and later radioed tlfiat his fuel supply would not permiit hitting a second target. His last radio transmisas he headed southward toward sion was heard at3:ls a. m. Friday his fifth air force light bomber base. I I Hundreds of fifth air force planes searched northwest Korea 'oday without finding a tract) of the plane or wrpckage.\ His plane, however, could conceivably have crashed into the sea, a fifth air force spokesman said. G6n. Van. Fleet was told of j his son’s failure to return from his fourth combta mission by Lt Gen. Frank F. Everest, commanding general of the fifth air force in Suwon yesterday. Mrs. James A. Van Fleet, now in Long Beach, Calif., was notified her son was missing by telegram from Gen. J. LarWton Collins, army chief of staff. Geti. Van Fleet also received condolences from pollins yesterday ip a personal telegram from Washington. When asked to comment on his report that “My boy, Jim, is missing, in action," Gen. Van Fleet said that he first wanted to give to the press a letter that his son wrote to his “mother and which she sent me a short time ago:” “Dear Mother, “This is a., letter to an army wife. I don’t tears spilled on it. “ft! through my own request, have been assigned to undergo a combat crew training course. I will be thoroughly trained here at Langley Field and I leave here the ninth of February for California. Early in March I leave California for Korea. I will fly a B-26 in combat. I am the pilot. I will have a bombardier in the nose, a navigator beside me and a gunner in the fear. We will fly at night. I carry and machine guns, (Taru To Fuse six) ■ - —!’ l Paul Allspaw Dies Suddenly Last Night Heart Attack Fatal To Berne Resident j Paul Allspaw, 46, well known Terne resident, died suddenly of a heart attack at 10:30 o’clock Friday night at his home in that city. Although he had not been in the best of health for several weeks, his death was unexpected. Mr. Allspaw,’ who was well known in Decatur, operated a custom upholstery shop and was also employed part time at the Smith Furniture Co; He was. born in Jefferson township Nov. 11, 1905, a son of Wesley and Emma Seitz-Allspaw. He was a member Os the B. P. €>. Elks lodge of Decatur and the Modern Woodmen of America. Surviving are his wife, the forFlorence Emick; one daughter, Sharon; four brothers, Orval and Robert Allspaw, both of Berne, Norman Allspaw of, Easton, Pa„ and Earl Allspaw in Florida, and one sister, Mrs. Marie Smith of Berne. \ Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. at the Yager funeral home, Karl Tauber officiating, burial will be in the MRK cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday/April 5,1952.

Costello Convicted :|l W Wil IkW w S FRANK COSTELLO, (IbftF New York gambler, was convicted Friday night by a jury in New York of contempt of the senate crime investigating committee. Mrs. Helen Louise Mason fright) jury foreman was abruptly excused earlier in the day;, as was a second juror. Mrs. Mason branded as “ridiculous" .a • report that an attempt had been made to bribe her to "Sway my judgment."

Secret Talks Bolster Hopes 01 Cease-Fire ;. .. z b i . ? High-Level Talks Increase Hope Os Early Cease-Fire Panmunjom, Korea, Apr. 5 — (UP) —Secret high-level talks both at allied truce headquarters and behind the iron curtain raised hopes today for an early cegse-fire in Korea. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, Supreme United Nations commander, presided over a meeting of U. N.. generals and admirals at the allied truce camp at Munsan. Gen. Nam 11, head of the ’Communist truce delegation, at the mg Pyongyang and Peiping, fire same time was believed consultNorth Korean and Chinese .capitals. Observers hoped the conferences would result in compromise proposals that would break the last remaining deadlocks blocking an armistice—the right'of war prisoners to refuse repatriation, the Communists’ choice of Russia as a “neutral” truce inspector, and a U. N. demand for a ban on airfield construction. Prisoner of j war negotiations were recessed indefinitely Friday to give both sides a chance to review the voluntary repatriation issue with high authorities. U. N. and Communist delegates discussing supervision of the truce, includiijg Russi«/A eligibility to help police the armistice, reported no progress after a 20-minute session today. They appeared to be marking time pending higher-level decisions. ] ; Communist newsmen outside the conference tent hinted a bargain may be made to settle the unresolved issues. But U. »N. delegate Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison said the Red negotiators hadn’t said anything about a compromise. “I can’t negotiate bn the basis of hints* or what is said on the road," he said. Near Inch Os Rain Falls In Decatur Rain that tell in Decatur for the 24-hour period up to 8 a.m. today, was .97 of an inch, Herman “Hi”, Meyer, local weather observer, said, f The St. Mary’s river stood at 8.21 feet at the same hour today and was still rising, Meyer said. Yesterday’s rain started before noon and continued through until about 6:30 p.m. A drizzle followed later in the evening. INDIANA WEATHER v Mostly cloudy with diminishing winds tonight) snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Part ly cloudy, continued rather cold Sunday. Low tonight 24-34 north, 5338 south. High Sunday tower 4fTs north, upper 400 south.

Youth Confesses To Killing His Father Minnesota Youth Tells Os Hatred Bemidji, Minn., April S.—(UP) — A 16-year-old boy confessed today that'he shot and killed his father, dragged his body Into a barn, dynamited it, then burned the barn to the ground. ..Lloyd Knutson told authorities he had planned to kill his father, Eari Knutson, the 57-year-old gravedigger at Blackduck. Minn., for at least two weeks. “1 hated him for a long time,” the boy said. Beltrami county attorney Herbert Olson said he would file a juvenile' delinquency petition against the youth and If that were approved he would go on to seek a first degree murder indictment. The father’s body was found Wednesday in the splintered and burned wreckage of his batn at Black duck. Olson* said the boy had worked s out an elaborate plan to kill his father. On Tuesday he took a large-cali-ber deer rifle and hid it in a wood shed, Olson said. He also obtained two sticks of dynamite, caps'and fuses used by his father in logging operations in this sparsply-seuled north woods area. When the youth returned, from school Wednesday,’ Olson said, he told his father he was going out. Then he got the deer rifle and waited for his father to emerge from the house. When the man came out, Olson said, Young Knutson fired, striking hiA father in the chest. The man staggered but did not fall, Olson said,’ Olsojn said thb boy was an expert marksman. He took careful aim and fired again. The second shot hit his father in the head, killing him,.! The boy then dragged the body into the barn. He placed one stick of dynamite under the stomach and the other under his head. He rigged th'e fuses and lighted them. The explosion decapitated the father, Olson said. Then the boy set fire to the barn and left the farm |n the family car. \ Young Knutson picked up his 17-year-old sister, Agnes, and told her what he had done. The brother and sister, accompanied by a schoolmate, Gofdon Bloomquist, returned to the farm, verified that the father was dead, then drove to the home of a relative. Stanley Enberg. where authorities were notified. — Monday Deadline For Voters To Register All voters in the May 6 primary elections must be registered by Monday and county clerk Ed Jaberg stated today that his office would remain open Monday night until 9 o’clock to accommodate latecomers who desire to qualify for the May election. Both the Democrat and Republican orffaaipations in the county have been biisy the last several weeks registering voters and members of either county committee will register any person who asks them, regardless of politics.

Transport Plane Falls In Densely Populated Area Today; At Least 7 Dead 1 i x I.!''! " . ’Ji!

McGranery May Face Block In Corruption Hunt Attorney General May Be Stymied In Enlisting FBI Aid Washington, April 5.—(UP)— Federal judge James P. McGranery, President Triuman’s new 'attorney general, faced a possible legal roadblock today ip bis plan to turn over the corruptioh hunt to the FBI. ~ already under attack by Republicans as a “white wash expert," announced he will junk the special invesflgator post forby Newbold Morris. Instead, he said, he will rout out “jvrongdoers”; in government himself, with the aid of the FBI. I k ,:But legal barriers may stop McGranery from seeking corruption in the internal jr« v * nue bureau, focal point of current government scandals. Under a lU;W passed last year at the request of secretary of treasury John W. Snyder, the FBI is barred from investigating criminal charges in the treasury department, including tax scandals in the internal revenue bureau. 'The FBI has jurisdiction to investigate wrong-doing in every Other agency and department in the government. Congress exempted the treasury department, however, after Snyder contended that (he treasury’s own investigators should have sole power to. run down charges of bribery or other criminal activities by treasury employes. McGranery told reporters of his cleanup plans after a visit with President Truman at (he White House yesterday. He said the president promised tb “give me all support possible” and ordered him to “straighten out” the justice department “if], there is anything wyong there.” The first step in his campaign, he said, will be to find out “if and where corruption is.” He said he will call on FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to “furnish me with all the information he has” on “particular wrongdoers" in the government. Morris sayl he doubted that McGranery would be able to sweep out corruption in federal agencies before the end of the Truman Administration. The strapping New York attorney was fl?ed by J. Howard McGrath Thursday. His ouster and CTxra To Pxxc «lx> Elfttftn BoaitTo Meet Here Monday Complete Plans For Primary Election The Adams county board of election commissioners, Cal. E. Peter- ( son. David Macklin and Ed Jaberg, will meet Monday to check all declarations of candidates for the May 6 primary elections apd make other preparations ior the immediate printing of ballots. Actual printing will start either! Tuesday or xyednesday. The final deadline for candidates filing for •apy office is today and only candidates for delegates to ttye two state conventions can file today. It is understood that full slates of delegates to both the Democrat anU Republican state conventions will be filed today by Harry Essex, Republican county chairman and Dr> Harry Hebble. Democrat chairman. The election commissioners will determine just what names will appear on the ballots. There is a possibility that only names for offices where there is a contest; co&mitteemen and delegate® will be on the ballots. That will be determined Monday.

Bag Service To Aid In War On Anthrax To Close Two Weeks To Sterilize Bags Cooperating with the Indiana state veterinarian and the livestock sanitary board In the fight tQ eradicate anthrax, the ! deadly hog disease that broke out in Ohio and spread to Indiana, Bag Service. Inc., of this city will c|ose Its plant for two weeks during which a large inventory of new and used bags will bp sterilized in the plant s new heat fumigaters. I; > Announcement of the company’s voluntary, action in the effort to stamp out anthrax, and to protect it» customers and; farmers Against the possible spread of the germ, was made by Loiwell W. Harper, plant manager. I ! “The closing of the plant may be a little drastic ,bi|t we are willing to cooperate fullji with the state livestock board in the effort to eliminate entirely the possibility of the spread of anthrax spores,” Harper explained.; ■ ' ! , ' Normal plant operations will be curtailed and a crew will be. engaged in fumigating the bags that the company has in .storage. These bags will be given ja heat treatment in fumigaters grees. Dr. J. W. Green, Assistant state veterinarian; ijsaid that this process would destroy any vistage of anthrax spores that might be in the bags. Dr. Green asked ; For the cooperation of bag processors and since Bag .Service, Inc., aS! the only fiym of its kind in Indiana, personal epntact was made with the Ipcal management in the stage’s plan to lead a fight to wipe out ihe killing disease. Harper extended full cooperation to the! sanitary board. Dr. Green explained that anthrax germs could be carried In feed bagp. particularly in containers for bone meal and meat scraps. These products Are lArgely distributed in burlap and cotton bags. The sterilization of used feed bags has been going on at the local plant for a couple-of weeks. Only the inventory of bags in storage will be fumigated and then normal operations will be: resumed at the plant. It was explained .that all bags supplied feed dealers and processors from the lodal plant in the last few weeks had been sterilized in the company’s n£w heat treatment rooms. Only a small force'of men will be employed at Bag Service during the period when used bags are run through the heat process. Harper explained. “We want to do our part in licking this threat to the hog population in this and other Atate® gs quickly as possible and sifice we have the equipment and facilities; we will begin immediately to sterilize our inventory of bags.; This treatment requires about 10 hours for each batch of bags.” he said. h

—.—i^.- —t -J' — — ~r— Gotten TftedifatitM, (Rev. John E. Chambers, Trinity Evangelical United Brethren) SAFE JOURNEY "Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not. neither do they reap, nob gather into barns, yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them; Are-yet not much better than they?” ' }• ' Matthew 6:26 We are told that the migratory pfovW spends its summers along the Arctic Coast of North America and Rs winters in Argentina. This is a round trip of 8,000 miles, including a 2.400 mile nob- j stop flight across the ocean from Nova Scotia;'to South Americk. These birds make this trip year after year, God having placed into their being unerring instincts and powers. <! . Jesus said "Are ye not much better.; than they?” Will God provide guidance for the fowls of the air and not for man? We too can "put our hands Into the hand of God.” We too have found that “It is better than a light and safer than a known way.” “He who, from zone to zone, ! > Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.” 8 | '

ice Five Cents

New YprU, April 5.—(UP)— A two engine transport plane crashed in a heavily populated section of New York City today in the metropolitan 'areaj’k fourth “death-from-the-sky” <|isftater since December. Police said at least seven persons were killed when the plane swooped down in|o 169th street of the Jamaica section of Queens Borough and crashed i!nto a row of houses, demolishing!' .two and enveloping four in roaring flames. But police feared the toll would mount. The ..occupants of the houses appgifjently had been trappl !I'!; 1 The ojpecptfonal. office of Idlewild international airport identified the ptanp as a two-engine C-46 owned by the i’;S. Air lines, a nonschedulehcpinpany of Fort Lauderdale, Fig; It was believed to have carried a c|ejw of two. b . i The plane was trying to reach Idlewild international’ airpoit ill rainy. jifeat|ily_ overcast weather with at a minimlum. Residents? of Queens had been agitating: far;- the removal of' Laguardia field and increased safety at] Idlewild because of the hazard of idgy flying planes as they approached and left the fields, particularly in bad weather. j , ilt was ihe’jirat recent air disaster involving fields in New York City proper bht.j|!iree passenger planes crashed ip Elizabeth, N.J.., within two month^?beginning Dele. J 6, as they left or approached Newark airport; Tlfe death toll of those crashes totajleci 116. , Today’s crabh occurred two rpUes from Idlewild and about 10 miles from Laguaifdia field, tpe city’s main air terminals, at 8:30 a.m. (7:30 a.in. CST). \ Among thje dead was police inspector Thomas Boylan who commanded' the 22nd police division which covers; the Jamaica section of Queens Blough where the crash 'occurred. The falling plane crashed into the police car in which Boylan was being driveg by his chauffeur who also was believed killed. It careened off the pplice car into a row of houses, demolishing two and enveloping foui* !in flames. ’The occupant's of the houses were trapped antfs:! police feared that casualties were heavy. The first'fire engine at the scene turned in aperies of alarms that marshalled equipment from miles around. {Twenty! ambulances, reached the disaster within 15 minutes. - . — Packed House Views School's Operetta ‘j J;T | . . A packed house, with every available seat taken, greeted the final performance of “Tulip Time,” annual operetta of the Decatur high school, jwhich was presented Friday ilighit at the school auditorium. , The of persons who jammed'thqpauditorium were highly pleaded with the excellent performance, of the 70 high school students who inyeaented the tuneful Dutch musical comedy, directed by Miss Helen Haubold, music supervisor, and otbet members of the tigh schoL faculty.