Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 84, Decatur, Adams County, 8 April 1952 — Page 8

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Worst Missouri Valley Flood In Years Predicted i t Warning Issued Os Potential Floods For Other Areas 'Pierre. S. D„ Apr. 8-(UP)-— The worst Missouri Valley flood ip 70 years was predicted today as the “Big Muddy:’’ ted by the* runoff of melting highland snows, churned south into South Dakota and lowa. The river stood more than 21 inches above flood stage at. Pierre. The weather bureau predicted that by next Tuesday it would rise four or five feet above the levels which ’ rought the disastrous hoods ’of Aim 3. ■; ■ Hut the rivet! receded slowly at Bismarck where 2.00(4 persons Iwere hriven from their homes. Its tributaries ajso were on the .1 ampage. v ; i To thp east, the. Red river of the jnorth ros 2 e almost two feet yesterj day at Fargo. N. D. Weather ob’server R. S. Schultz warned that ;i the.worst Qood since 1943 would st like ’ Fargo today. ; * All .along the Missouri, the level rose dangerously. • The national Red Cross issued a sobering warning of potential -floods’-brewing in central California, New England. Utah anti the Rio Grande, region in addition to the Missouri Valley. The' relief agency said, that continued warm, weather and any prolonged , rainy periods would bring serious flood threats also to the Lake Erie and,. Huron regions, But for the moment, the greatest danger lay along the Missouri between i Bismarck and Mobridge, S. D. • ‘ . AU reMdenta, were warned to be ready to , flee, and river-., (ovyns were at work sandbagging aghius-r the rising waters of the, river. Huge ice floes, were carried downstream! by the rushing waters pouring south. . ' At Chamberlain, S. I)., the ice pattered the pilings from.under a railroad Itfcidge., Tn lowa and Nebraska, warnings of crests above flood stage yt re Jssued for the end of the week. 1 he Sioux City, la., weather bureau warned that the river would crest at 21 to 22 feet—more than, three feet above the level which brought disaster to the area in P.)1% Already, 24-hour sandbag watches were maintained along the < (ver-front at South Sioux Citv. Neb.

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— — —r —p —- One Paratrooper 1$ ij Killed In Exercise Jump Is Supposedly Ordered Postponed Fort Hood. tex.. April B.j- ■ (UP)- The clitie 508th parattot)ji regiment jumped in exercise Eoni . Horn: today three hours after the jump had been lordeted postponed. One paratrooper was (ffticiplly re-J ported killed and an undetermined number injured. Anoilur man. :i fighter pilot, was killed whth'twp dogfighting F-. 71 Mustangs collided 20 miles from the jhmp area. The pilot of the secor.p plane bailed out. He was dazed; but apparently not seriofisly j injured. Lt. Gen. William MM. Hoge di-i reeiorj of exercise Unig-Horn, big-. gest jpint air force-army maneuver in L’.f'. history, ordered ttyeJimp; canceled. The wind was estim ited at 20-25 mph. A wind of more han 15. mph is considered for a mass paiathute drop. 1 J < There was’ no report of . any parajoopeis being serioujy liurf; ' The planes collided near Evant. Tex . about 20 mites from the drop area (isid about 55 miles nbrlhw.s; ■of Fort lit od. V- ■ ■■- j' A- - drop caught spmV of the ■ nation’s highest milithiy leaders ; flat-foots .Becans )W junrpl had been’cnict lied they did nbti go to ; the dlop area. G. ii. J. Lawtop (’oilins. army . chit f'■■of: staff. Gen. Matk. Clark. G» n. jaeob Devers and (><{n Hoyt i Valid* n-bt rg, air force chief of s.affi { had come to Foil Hood the jump; TlrCy missed it alohß Villi a number.of military observers rom fore ign countries. . Ibige’s maneuver headqu:,rtersii- ued an order at 4 a.in. (‘ST canceling tire drop because of high vvimU. There was no change it thd older, headquarters admr ed. Btif at 7:,15 a.m. (>4 I’athlii tiers . par.tehuhd over the jump area U > niiiesj southwest.\ of Goldthwaite. | .Tex. Fifteen men followed, and then the entire combat teani billed out in accord‘anci‘ with yesterday’s j plans'. \ ■' 1 t ; ; ' J Thse 508th ordinarily wtjs schedV" —-—: b

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I * Asks Transfer, Third Holdup Is Too Much . Indianapolis. April S rUPi Mrs. Hazel AIRn, 54, askefl Davis Cleanqrs Co. today to transfer her to another store. »■ , Mrs, Alien was the 1 victim Os (he third holdup at the sjtore where she works in Hss than a month. The first tiine, March 2b. two guhnu n j obbed her Und one knocked her to the floor. The last two fobberids. in less than a week, w’ere by another maij. “1 have a sick baby in the hospital and 1 have U> have the moriey," the bandit told tier. She said’ he took $lO and ran. , ? "Three hdldups are getting to be too much." Mrs. Allen said in ask- ' ing for a transtler. —r U uled to bail out with three-quarter million pounds of equipment, tihe largest such operation since World War 11. It appeared they had, despite the headquarters Order which apparently faTfed to reach the cot'll- ’ mandets concerned 1 . When word of the reache^lA Hoge’s headquarters, military meh correspondents hurried toward | tin to delermine Wil. l ' had happened. t Exercise Longhorn, m< anwhile. Jhundeipd alonlji on, blank and hai(nle!-s ammunition i toward its Friday close wijih U.S. forces of the I ve "atpmi{* war” — J the | 31st, 47tjh and first armored divisions, now winning and advarning with gusto. ’ ’ \ WAGE STABILIZER ! (Continued From I’iige One) talked about "sieel prices. ! The possibility of government seizure qf the more than 90 com-I panics wb.ich would be hit by a! strike had not been discussed, he ; 'i’id. . ~ k W . Feins.iiiger said he had been in i touch by telej hone during the U| .ruing Wit)i acting defense mo- ; 1 Jitter .John R. sent i iitm here in the final trjF'.to avert i WillkOut by tiSo.iiim steel worki ?r,s tonighi.i There was’ no possibility of ! averting a slowdown in the production of steel. . The plants which

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Four Os Escaped Prisoned Caught Seven Saw Way To Freedom From Jail j Indianapolis. Apr. 8 - (Ul’) — SeVen prisoners-. Using Uackaaw blades smuggled into Marion county jail by the sweetheart of one of them, sawed their way to five dom toflay but four v. ere apprehended minutes later. Still at large were Keith E. Wright, 24, his Jrother. Robert., 20 and Arthur Doom. 24. all of Indianapolis. j| , Police sail 1 S-year-ohl Madaline L. Adcock, a strawberry hlotule who herself was free on bond; admitted slipping five hacksawblades to\t,he men through a. ventilator shaft f. She said she did it becaust' >?he lo\es Keith Wiigiit. ’ | The girl was accused of being iviht Wright during a satj-crtii king I burglary here Feb. 15. pbln ei paid. The men sawed through bars of ; a window in the "‘biim’s room” -■* ian area surroupding the cell blocks which is i^ed’ the jail is beyond capacity. They! used •■oap and marshmallows to muffle •tie sounds and had severed the bars after six- hotirs sawing. i They squeezed through an open- I ing lo inches high aipl :16 inches wideband fled, ('ity patb'olmein in !iie area stopped four of Ihehi minutes later because tljey were Rearing prisoner (-overalls. Those apprehends) w>‘re William Brown, 43. CincinpAti. ()., El--;un Shaw. 17. Marion (‘otfey, 17, ni<! S,.ni 'Gregg. ,2(L all of Indiani anhlis. j J ■ j . The seven prisoners were aWait- , ing trial on charges rangihg- from l | second degree bur jury it o assault I ;nd battery with intent.’ ot kill. ; r - J UT ’ •’ |‘!, . would be hit by tlie strike protliice 95 peref nt of the country’s steel for defense and civilian neo. Many of them already have) virtually stopped operations in preparation J for the strike. i | — LuiUu- 1 1 ■ • ■

Beulah Bertsch To Europe This Summer Miss ; Beulah Bertsch will receive an I.RIY.E. European exchange trip this summer. Definite wold has been received in the county ext; nsion office 'from Eric A. Holm of Purdue. Three other Indiana 4-H-’ers are also fio make this trip. They are Rita Eiijckhffltz, Charles Beymer.-and Eldor) Ruff., Xftter having made ihis trip, ' young people will make illustrated talks about their experiences for any gitpup that asks for the service ifi the state. Miss Bertsch is, the daughter pf Mr. and Mrs. William Bertsch of Flench township. She is a graduateof Kirkland high school, and xylirked for two years in the county extension office. She has been a stddent. at Heidelberg College for two, years. FIVE MORE I (Continued From l»n«e One) smirce of all the contaminated feed, the spread of the disease .will bfj stopped,” Green said. Ho said the pattern of (he oub breaks indicates the disease is passing through feed and pasture ratio r than from animal to animal, Control pleasures, therefore. h;ive been directed to restricting suspected feed supplies. Yesterday the state livestock sattitary board lifted its March 26 -nibargq on feed sales among the’ Trade In a Good Town —Decatur

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state’s 26 rendering plants. Green recommended, ’'however, the plants -have local veterinarians examine all questionable animals before accepting them. Meanwhile an embargo continues against imported bone meal which is believed to be the source of the outbreak. Green said the rendering plants'do not put the bone meal in their feed. The complete .list of counties in which anthrax disease been diagnosed positively is as follows: LaGrange. Noble. Whitley, l Allen, Adams, Wells, Jay. Randolph, Wayne, Union, Madison, Wabash, Tipton, Howard. Chrroll, Clinton, Hendricks, Montgomery and Tippe- - canoe.

Suspected cases have been if - ported in Lake, Pulaski, Putnam. KoscjUsko, DeKalb Jand Greene counties. The veterinarian j paid, a sample of suspejc.ed anthrax jin l|>een counity was too decomposed to run a laborafoiy test on it So the area will remain under surveillance. REDS HINT (Continued From Pnge One) gates met for onfyTthree minutes and 20 seconds at Panmunjpm on ’he armistice tenns question. ’ Neither side made a strong effort i to aigue whether Russia should be ; a truce inspector or whether the Reds should be allowed to build ’ B i Lj : :

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— J i airfields during tihe trUce. ! Chinese Maj. Gen. Hsieh Fang to’d U. N. Maj, William K. Harrison that the Reds had’ proposed tlje subdelegation i »?kfj over the issues from staff oiiicers because the allies hjid refused to disduss the airfield question at the working level. . Harrison pointed out later that each side had agreed, to shelve 4he airfield issue while staff officers hammered opt details of an armistice charter, ~ ' Peiping raldio. In mild tenns, anj nouneed that Reel officers Sunday protested an alleged strafing of a Communist trued convoy by.an ’ allied plane. . ‘ ■ \ ,