Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1952 — Page 1

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Truman Flatly Says He Won't Accept Draft

Washington. Apr. 10 —■! CUP) — President Truman said "flatly today that he will not accept a draft ■lor renomination, nor does he intend at present to attend the Democratic convention in JUIy. Mr. Trurftan said he, does not plan to attend t,he nominating con- ’ r vetion because he sees no necessity for being in Chicago. Asked whether he might express a preference for candidate psior to the convention, the president said ; he hoped this would not > be" necessary. He added that he (has a righj to a preference just as any citizen does. He promised to campaign in behalf of the Democratic nominee—whoever ne maybe —to the extent of his ability and to the extyit der'shed by the Democratic national committee. V f The president, responding to reporters who sought additional background on his decision to. forego a re-election campaign, said ' he decided not to run again simply I ecause he did not want to. He . said he made up his. mind hot to run again more than a year ago. ' The president said that while ’ he had known for a long, long ■ u - time —for a year or fwo. as he put it—that he was not going to run i again, he timed his announcement for the March 29 J.effersonsJackson day dinner here for two principal reasons: v . 1. The Jefferson-Jacksoh dinner- audience, plus radio listeners and TV viewers, constituted the biggest audience be thought he would ever have. Sv , *. ■He wanted to make the announcement in person and I in as plain English as possible to avoid any distortion. ° .. “Are there any conditions under which you would accept a draft?” he was asked. Mr. Truman answered by the flat statement that he will not. accept a draft. He refused to express, any preference for a Democratic Candidate. He was asked speciifcally about his feelings toward Gov. Acjlai Stevenson of IlJ&iois but h§ declined to comment-.— Business W/7/ Be Suspended In City During Three Hours Business in Deactur will come . to a standstill from noon Friday until 3 o’clock in the afternoon in observance 6f Good Friday. All local stores will be closed during ' that time. ' The First State Bank and court house will lie closed all day Friday. The public library and city hall will be closed only vthree houfs during church observance from noon until 3 o’clock. There will be regular mail delivery and most factories will operate" on regular schedule. There will be no classes at the Catholic schools and an appropriate observance will be held at the public schools. The Daily Democrat office will be closed for the three hours, but the paper will be published at the regular time Friday afternoon. ■_ ■ ■ ■ •. ■ BULLETIN * Santiago, Chile, Apr. 10 — (UP) —The foreign office announced today that it had received a message from the Chilean embassy in La Paz - reporting that Bolivian government forces had put the revolution about noon today. f Wisconsin And lowa Act Against Anthrax Chicago; April 10—(UP)A-Wis-consin and lowa today closed their borders to the entry of bone , meal imported from foreign Countries x in an attempt to halt the spread of livestock-killing anthrax. of anthrax also have been' reported in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Wisconsin agrcultural officials said the cause of the choking dis ease has been traced to “feeding of animal products <- of foreign origin.” . * INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and colder with diminishing winds. Heavy frost southwest portion. Low tonight 25-30 northwest, 30-35 southeast. High Friday 4G45 north, 45-52 south. ,( - ■ • *

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■ ffj ■ . ' ' : : i Telephone Work Stoppage Grows Across Nation Striking Western |. Electric Workers Extend Picketing New York, April 104-(UP)— Telephone work spread across the country with the sun today aslong lines and local operators refused to cross new and in-* creasing picket lines of striking Western Electric company installers and sales employes. Leaders of the Communications Workers of America (CIO J, ordered members to ho nor the picket lines with which some 16.000 striking Western Electric workers; threatened to cripple long distance and locdl operations in IS 3 cifiesJ American Telephone ajid Tele- 1 graph company long lines workers were off their jobs in New York.; Pittsburgh and Philadelphia in the early morning hoprs. as .their fellow CWAfmembers manned ■the picket lines. Some 300 workers in the long lines’ Boston center refused to work in a separate dispute arising from a mass meeting of telephone workers there- yesterday.; Stoppage spread to the west as thehnonting advanced. Service it) Hammond. Ind., Oklahoma City and Tu!*a, Okla., was slowed to handle emergency or urgent call* only. ’ i Pickets' hits at CheyeHpe. Wyq.. Grand Junction, Loveland and Boulder Colo.. and at two points in Washington in the early hours. At Washington. D.C.‘, 6;0(J0 Chespl peake and Ohio Telephone i company workers were off tleir jobs because pf picket lines and the company reported long distance service from the “hampered” but being handled by supervisory employes. 1 : I The Illinois Bell Telephone company was “rushing people by carl, train and air” to six Illinois cities where pJcßetsj held operators off their jobs at the G a.yn. shift change and promised to maintain ’pubrt staritialy normal” service! J Separate disputes arising from the Western Electric str ke iepL workers off theif jobs in thC Kansas City area and in West Virginia. At Fairfnpnt, W. Va.. the Chesapeake and Potomac closed operations “to protect the lives of supervisory employes.” Still on strike in wage disputes with companies of the Hell System were telephone company employes in four states—New Jersey, Michigan, Ohio and northern California. Picketing spread the stoppages to southern California points as well. ’ i ! Picketing spread through the eight-state area of the Southeastern Bell Telephone £nd Telegraph company, with operators remaining off work at exchanges in Mihmi and Atlanta, among other cities. The company obtained a court ihjuijlcjtion against picketing in Mississippi and considered asking similar court bans in Georgia and Louisiana. , In Missouri, pickets massed to keep 5.000 Southwestern Bell Telephone company workers off theit ‘jobs in the St. Louis area. Pickets also appeared at Joplin and Springr field and operators walked out. al-, though no picket lines appeared, in Moonville, ITannibal and NeW Franklin. CWA picket lines were disregarded in 10 Pennsylvania cities and Wilmington, Del., where operators, members of foub independent unions with a “no work stoppage” clause in their contracts, continued to work. I■' . i ■ ; ’ ''■ H H .p; J, ■ hi County Officials To Attend Road School All three Adams county commissioners, Otto Hoffman. John Augsburger and Lewis Worthman. and county road superintendent Frank Singleton, wll leave Monday morning for Lafayette where they will atted the annual Indiana road school at Purdue university. ; The schbol will beheld from'Mon i day through Wednesday. The school annually draws hundred*' of commissioners and road super-; intendents from the state. i i '

Turns Down Anti-Seizure Injunction Bid \ I str "■ I : — WW! I'WW I -1 - HT ■ FEDERAL JUDGE Alexander Holtzoff (left), in big Steele’s first court attempt against governmental seizi ure of the mills, turned down industry’s bid for an injunction o prevent operation of the vital industry by Commerce Secretary Sawyer. Representing the government Was assistant attorney general Holmes i Baldridge (right) and presenting the industry’s case were John\Gall (center-right), attorney for YoungsItown Sheet and Tpbe and Republic Steel, and John L. Wilson, tjttornpy for Youngstown Steel.

Bell Telephone Is Picketed In State Restraining Order Issued At ■ ■ 1 . k f - / Indianapolis, Apr. 10 — (UP) — “ - Pickets tramped about the entrances to Belli Telephone system J buildings in fqur Hoosier cities ' today but withdrew in one city Jin compliance with A restraining ' order. \ ; » Ain estimated 1,2i0 operators and ■ repairmen staged off the job in i.Marioii. South Bend, Terre Haute land Hammond, the first three •sierved by Indiana Bell apd the latter by Illinois Bell. But at noon, Grant circuit judge qCliver D. Clawson granted, a Bell Request fqr a restraining order at ■Marion, and Western Electric Co. kbmmunicationk workers pickets promptly faded and employes went Jhack to their Bpll posts. il'nion officials said they would juot try to defy any cdurt orders lend indicated the pickets would fset|; up fchop elsewhere before nightfall. j Hammond and Marion were hit : hardest by the operator walkout ? because they have manually operated switch boards. Local service ;in South Bend—dial service—was luoVmal, while the Terre Haute ! situation affected only long distance lines. ; . Supervisory personnel handled a i majority of the long distance calls, giving priority to “urgen|” calls. Officials reported, the Hammond [rervice disrupted except for emergencj- purposes. Utiltiy officials said some of Maripn's 200 operators stayed on the job despite picket lines and that their strength will be supplemented; by. personnel sent there from Indianapojlis. The picket lines will be main(Turn To Pasr EUcht) ■ • : Sunrise Service At 6 Sunday Morning Union Service For Youth Here Easter I The : union faster sunrise service will be held at the First Baphist church, South Fourth street, it 6 o'clock Easter Sunday morning, according to an announcement ; today by the committee in charge. | I Miss Lois Strahm, inter-church chairman. will preside. Faris) Franz, pre-ministerial student, will give the meditation. Special music will be furnished by the youth choir? of Zion Evangeliclai a.nd Reformed church and the First Methodist church. The trumpet call to worship will be “Christ Arose,” by Robert Boat and Allen Lehman of the First/ Baptist l-hurch. “I Wonder Why He Died For Me,* will-be presented by a Vocal ttrlp from the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, dompdsed df Dorcas Davidson, Lois 3liahm and Dorcas Sautbine. The instrumental offertory will be given by the Rev. John E.‘Chambers, Lou Ann Dayidson, Jean Ann Cotts and Ronnie Secaur. I The scripture lesson for the vjice will be read b Y Patricia Treon df the First Christian church and pavid Blackburn of the First presbyterian ctyurch will offer the ’ prayer. Organsft for the service will he Mrs.' Robert Hammond, and the ; Rev. Robert Hammond, host pastor. will pronounce the benediction. ; Ushers will be Jerry Kolter, Roger ■ Cole, Roger Eichenauer and Larry Hutker of the Bethany Evangelical . United brethren church.

( Decatur, Indiana, Thursday April 10, 1952.

— —« —_ _ South Dakota StafeCapital' Hit By Flood Missouri Bursts Dikes, 1,600 Are Driven From Homies Pierre, S. D.. April Iff.— UP) — Muddy waters lof the Missouri river hurst through dilqes and drove 1,600 persons frotii their homes in this state capital city today in the wor*t Missouri valley flood in modern times. Downstearm, the river poured through soggy dikes at Soutl) Sioux City, Neb., and surgdd into a residential section. Elsewhere; flood waters were rising in sota. North Dakota and lowa. Pierre’s business section Already was flooded khee-deep and tire river’s 25-foot floodcrest hid not yet struckThe surging waters covered 3G blocks of the lower town's business district and residential area; and inundated G 5 piore blccks of a sparsely settled section from which 31 persons were removed. -. The flood threatened the. city's plant, knocked out the pump on the last municipal] water well left operating, and created fresh hazard by' knocking] over about 10 gasoline and oil tanks. .1 . The city was left with a I three-, day .Water supply, and residents Were askfed to save every drop of water they could. . • t City engineer Roy Baker! said volunteer crews and city workers had to sacrifice the water] pump in order to concentrate theii- fight to save the city power plant) “It was a hard choice,” hb said.“but we chose the power plant.” Across the river at Fort Pierre, workers were gaining in a\ fight to save the telephone exchange building and courthouse frpm inundation. i But only about 250 of the ojwn's 750 inhabitants were “high; and dry” today. At south Sioux City, the rfiver gushed through two holes In a sodden dike and flooded an [area of 1,100 acres about a half /mile from town. ■’ ayor Wilbur Anderson proclaimed a state of emergency and not’-' fied Nebraska Gov. Vai Pet jrson, who promptly sent natinal guard troops to police the town of 5,557 inhabitants. The troops were equipped with three anfph bious (Turn To Pace Elcbti

•d&tt&i *}fteditatiwi j " ; ..' I ' - ; .' i; (Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, Zion Lutheran Church) v ] WHAT HAPPENED WHEN CHRIST DIED? j. * I > ' J. “He died' for air’’—ll Corinthians What really happened when Jesus Christ didd? For anyone who is willing to take the [Bible’s word for it, the answer to that question is simple. Wheii Christ died, the sins of every member of f r the human race — past, pk-esenti, and future — were canceled. Christ, the God-Mah, died as all men’s substitute. That is the clear Bible teaching. By paing the hell penalty “for the sins of the whole world” Christ blotted out the charges that stood-against us in the book of heaven. "There is therefoie now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,” the I ible says. “Who’ shall lay anything to ithe charge of God’s elect?” Perhaps clearest of all, the Bible puts it this way: “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing (not chsrging) their trespasses unto them , . . For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” ‘ The Bible leaves no doibt about the purpose, of Christ’s death. He paid the price for the fifths of all mankind. — Have YOU found Christ to be YOUR PERSONAL Savior? —- Me died for you!

Taft Backers Claim 186 Delegates Now Kentucky Support Conceded To Taft Washington, April 10. — (UP) — The Taft ckinp today claimed 186 Republican national convention delegates and looked to Kentucky to push the total beyond 200 this week Republicans backing Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for the GOP presidential nomination expected to pick up nine or 11* delegates at the Kansas state convention today. However, they were pessimistic about Kentucky, and conceded most of that state’s 20 GOP delegates to Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Kentucky Republicans elect 20 delegates in district meetings this week and al the state convention Saturday. Taft hopes to get 19 of them. Taft headquarters claimed 49 of the 50 delegates elected in Tuesday’s Illinois primary. It conceded a total of (69 Relegates to ElsenA United Press compilation of epmmitted delegates showed Taft Udth 180 and Eisenhower with 71. \ There will be 1,205 delegates at the GOP convention, so that 603 will be required to nominate a presidential -candidate. j \ The Eisenhower organization is counting on next week's New Jersey primary and the New Ydrk primary a week later td close the gap- | . While , quarreling wtihj some Los the Taft camp’s claims. |he Eisenhower forces disputed only a relatively small number of delegates. The 'major conflict between the rival involved the bloc of 46 Michigan delegates elected at the state convention last Saturday. Since the Michigan delegates officially were uncommitted. Taft headquarters lists them that way, claiming none for Taft aild conceding none to Eisenhower. . However, the Taft man: gers have estimated that 28 to 31 of the Michigan delegates favor the Chioan. In contrast, the Eisenhower organization claims more than 30. Seeks Settlement Os Dispute At Lafayette Lafayette, Ind., April 10. — (UP) —State labor Conciliator Charles Wilson was scheduled to meet with officials of the Lafayette Transit Co. and the AFL Motor Coach Employes union today to settle a wage dispute. Some 4ff transit company workers voted to strike unless their demands for a 30-ceiit hourly pay increase are met. 1

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55 Candidates For Graduation At Public High Graduation Rites A At Decatur School |J . Are Set For May 22 Candidates for graduation at the Decatur high school next month were announced today by Hugh J. Aadtews. high school principal. T here are 55 mevnhe/s of this year’s t senior class, one of the smallest graduating classes at the school in several years. Commencement exercises will ibe held Thursday night' May 22. Baccalaureate services will be held Supday night, May 18. Both services will be held in the high school auditorium. Speakers for the commencement and baccalaureate exercises will! be announced at a later date, as well as complete programs; The candidates for diplomas are as follows: . i Caroline Ann Alger. Betty Elaine Anderson, Norman Carl Andrews, Phyllis Mae Barr, Ronald Kent Bassett. Paul David Blackburn, Susan Jane Bowman. John Palmer Brunner. Rheta Mae Butcher, Roger Hgdley Cole, Thomas Carrel Cole, Joe D. Cowans, Burdette Lee Custer. Donald Wayne DeAnnond. Dolores Irene Delauter, Frederick Allen Evans. Kenneth Eugene Evejett, Erviri Ewell, Ellenpra Elizabeth Fisher, Marilyn Fuelling, Elnora Alice Gaunt, Patricia Joan Gause, : Allen Carl Grote.-Barbara Jo Hilyard, Jacqueline Ann Hite, Eugene Karl Hoffman, Donald Eqgene Hott. Betty Joan Johnson. Virginia Ann Koenig. Carpi JOan Klusman. Gerald Eugene Holier, Gearld Lee Lister, Char-lene-Mauller, Donald Webster Metzge'r, Nha Shirley Miller, Winpna Marie Miller. James Kenneth Mdses, Lester Earl Myers. James Dixson Nelson. Robert Cole Nelson. Nprinan Edward Pollock, Jean Ann Potts. Richard Herbert Reidenbach. Pauline Mildred Roth, Frederick Harold Scheimann, Norman Philip Luther Janies Schrock, Ilene Shaffer. Bonnie Mae Simons, Alice Evelyn Slusher,. Charles Edward Stocksdale, Sharon Rose Strickler. Mary Ann Swearingen. Vernon Otto Thieme, Douglas Philip Thompson. 1 Plan Schedule For \ 'V . ■ Id County Home Nurse i Commissioners In Special Meeting 5; The Adams county board of commissioners met in special session this afternoon to set up a salary and working schedule for the proposed job of practical nurse at the Adams county home. Superintendent Charles Fosnaugh also attended the meeting. One application already has been received at the office of county auditor Thurman Drew and several others have inquired about the job. It was decided to set up the job at the regular meeting of the board earlier this week. Several of the older patients are unable to feed themselves and for the last several years these persons have beeh sent to the Adanis county memorial hospital. Several of the township trustees suggested the hiring pt a practical nurse because most of* the hospital cases are not Critical,\ but the peopleware sent there because there has not been sufficient help >at the home. \ \ v Under the new plan, only critical cases will be sent to the hospital. Infirm residents and those requiring room attention will be cared for! by a practical nurse. Money already has been appropriated for the new job and it is likely that a. nurse will be emplciy(Tarn Ta Page Eight)

Shift Os Mountain I * ■ " 1 • . ' ' Range Caused Quake Underground Range Moved Four Inches Oklahoma 15ity, pkla.. April 10. — (UP) —Experts said today that a massive underground mountain range moved four inches and the whole midwest and southwest trembled in the resultant earthquake/ \ The earthquake shook sod. builds ings and citizens from Dss Moines, la., to Austin. Tex., yesterday. At some points the tops of tall buildings swayed six inches. Tornado-uneasy reside its of the southwest, warned ea-lier that twisters might strike the section, least of all expected an earthquake. It was the third earthquake in the history of Kansas. And it wasn’t even recorded, because the seismograph at the University of Kansas was out of paper. The explanation for the \ earthquake was that the vast, underground Nemaha mountain range, extending from Nebraska to Oklahoma, shifted itself four inches from one end to the other, generating the earth tremors. Actually the midwest and southwest got' off easy as a result, said the Rev. Joseph Downey, seismologist at Regis College at Denver, Colo. He estimated that th<? epicenter of the quake probably was north of Oklahpma City. It was a “seven, intensity" earthquake. Downey'said. violent enough to have done serfous damage if its epicenter hadbeen in l a city. ( The only casualty reported was a Tujsa. Okla., Woman who was hurt :when plaster fell on he r head as the shocks commenced , with a “rumble like thunder.” Throughout the vast a:-ea, chairs and desks slid across office floors; windows and w-ater pipes were broken. ! ! ’’The floor started swaying like it was a pontoon bridge," said June Hanna, secretary in an advertising agency on the 32 nd floor of an Oklahoma City building. “A nan standing by my desk had to grab the desk to keep from falling “Another fellow in the office got so dizzy he was sick fcr a short time.” ■ i Man Smokes In Bed, Is Fatally Burned Spencet, Ind., April 10. —(UP)— A preliminary investigation showed today that, Charles W. Curry, 45, was burned to death, when his bedding caught \fire while he was smoking in bed. The flames apparently spread to a gasoline container, destroying his sn ail houpe, authorities said. ' , p , Graduates Listed At Pleasant Mills 22 Graduates At Exercises May 5 Principal Howard C. Locke of the Pleasant Mills high schqol, today announced the names of. the 22 seniors who are applicants for diplomas at exercises to be held at the school, Monday, May 5. Dr. Guyer; of Findlay, Ohio, noted speaker and popularly known as Ohio’s ambassador of good-will, will delivef the commencement address. ' j The list of graduates fOßows: Thelma Grace Baltzel . Nancy Jane Custard, Janet Collehn Evans, Rita Myrna Foor, Alice Hirschy, Sally Jane McCullough 'Phyllis Luella Moser, Marilyn Jane Noll, Bonita Hazel Roe, Glen A; Bauman, John Walter Bilderback. Robert Heath Bowen, John W. Burkhart. A. Edgell. Norman Lee Edwards. Charles Edward Hawkins, Billy Wayne Johnson, Kay Benoit Millar, Robert Eugene Noll, Jack D. Raudenbush. Henry Franklin Sipe, Richard Glenn Young.

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'Stall'Charge Made Today By Steel Industry President Not To Attempt To Force s Wage Settlement Washington, Apr. 10 — (UP) — The steel industry today accused the government of “stalling” as a federal judge turned down a, new move to speed up action on the companies’ suit against President 1 iuman’s seizure order. Federal Jpdge Davdi A. Pine denied a request by four steel companies for a s speeded-up hearing on the merits of their claim that Mr. Truman seized the steel mills unlawfully. I Justice department attorneys objected to the speed, up. Pine then ruled he had ho power to order it. Assistant attorney general Holmes A. Baldridge said the gov- t ernment was entitled to a full 60 1 days to answer the industry com- ’ plaint and would insist on having •it. . • i Ulri i all frankness,” Baldridge alad, “this matter yas -suddenly cropped in oar laps. It is of great importance. We want to make thorough preparation.” , John J. Wilson, industry attorney. jumped to his feet and charged that the justice department attitude ”!§• one of stalling.” “I should have thought,” Wilson said, “that the government would know what the law was before the (seizure) order Was issued, and w'euld not have to do its reafterward.” The court developments followed an assertion by President Truman that he will not attempt to force a wage settlement—as recommended by the wage stabilization hoard- —on the steel industry * while it 4s bargaining with the CIO United Steelworkers. The president, however, did not give a yes or no answer., to the question of" whether the government might put into effect the recommended 26-cents-an-hour w|ge package should collective bah-gaining break down. The president’s position was thUt he did not want to do anytb.;ing that would Interfere with tW negotiations arranged by acting. defense niobilizer John R. Steelman. •\- „ Steelman met for almost an hour this morning with Philip Murray, who is president of the steelworkms union and the CIO, and then met with negotiators of the steel industry’s big six. Murrays 650,000 steelworkers, who were ready to strike Wednesday before Mr. Truman seized the industry, were returning to work and the ifiills were pushing to get back into full production. ’ When! they returned to work, it was the fifth time that the union members l had put off a, strike. The question was how, long they would continue to work at old wages If negotiations plod, along with no visible sign of settlement It . was patently obvious that the* steel companies would not agree to any settlement—along -the lines of the wage board’s recommendations —without increases of more than , #3 a ton in steel prices. President Tnjtnan and price stabilizers havet said that the steel industry Couljl absorb the recommended wage settlement with an increase of no more than $3 a ton —about the amount,- permissable Under the ap-called Capehart amendment to the controls act. The industry maintains that it needs up to a |l2 a ton increase to.compensate for the recommended wage increase and its falling ratio of profits. 1 The price hurdle and the union shop recommended by the wage stabilization board seemed to be the big sticking points.