Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 99, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 99.

x- Examine Convicts’“Arsenal” MB T? MW ~ • 'H JMK - J — ’MB M? . U’Ww fj&fl I * w J f J \ »L^ k ?V iv§S w Jwßk v> Wbwwlß kwO JhBSMEB PRISON GUARD Sgt. Eugene Dolby (left) and guard Herman Leister at tMr Jackson. Michigan prison, look over the varied weapons taken from convicts who participated in the five-day insurrection that cost one life and many Injuries. Thursday afternoon, fwith all their demands met. 167 convict ringleaders released tWeir eight hosfage' guards and- arrogantly marched out of cell block 15 to a steak dinner, with ice cream and all the trimmings. -xj . l w„ ■- -- -■ - - - ■-- - - fc- 1.. r . „) ... __ . 1 _ _ . r L. I . . ... : ' .•■ -■ -~

J ~ — » . , _ 30 Men Die In Blast Aboard U. S. Cruiser

Tokyo, Saturday. April 26. —?(UP) —An! explosion hi the forward tiir-l ret of she United States heavy I cruiser saint Paul killed 30 men. Monday /while the ship was firing i on Confmunist targets itr Kotea. ( the navy announced today. ? | explosion was not caused by ■ eiieiny action, the navy said. It was the heaviest casualty suffered by any U.S. ship in the Korea war. The previous high casualty list was 26, suffered 1 when the'destroyer Walke hit' a mine pear Wonsan June 12, 1951. Details were -lacking. A ' riavy in Tokyo'said a powder [bag may have caught f-ire, leading ‘ [to a heavy explosion inside the turexplosion may have flashfed down inside the turret’s armor 'to kill the men. In the upper ammunition handling room, i Every man within the Vicinity of , the explosion was killed, the navy 1 said. There were no wounded. . The Saint Pant retired from the action only long, Enough to put-the dead , aboard the American hospital ship Haven, which steamed north from Pusan to the scene of the accident, just off Komo.. a North Korean coastal town about halfway between the front battle lines arid Wonsan on the Sea of Japan. A similar explosion in a ‘turret of the battleship Mississippi [in*the 1920’s led the navy to redesign its turrets to prevent recurrence. Rear Admiral E. Stone. commander of cruiser division one, who - uses the Saint Paul as his flagship, ordered an immediate investigation . of the accident . The Saint Paul's commander. Oapt. Roy A. Gano. Palls Church, Va., kept his ship in position and action against the Communists. , A The navy withheld all information of the explosion until the families of the dead had been notified.. Rev. Gillander Is Honored By Pastors J At a dinner Wednesday noon at Coppess Corner, the Decatur ministerial association honoreld its retiring president, the Alexander GiHandei. who is moving to Indianapolis. The Rev, Samuel I Emerick? vice; president, takes over the Office Vacated-by Mr. Gillander. A book w%s presented to the departing minister as a token , of appreciation for his services to the association. . ‘ Present for[the occasion the Rev. Samuel Emerick. William Feller,-Robert* Hammond; Romaine j Wood, Jonas Berkey, John Chambers, Francis Willard, and Gilland--1 er. 3 The Gillarider family plans to move to Indianapolis! ’ Monday. Their new address wihl be 2818 Carrollton Avenue, Indianapolis 5, •Ind. ’ INDIANA WEATH ER Fair and cool tonight with scattered light frost. Satur- , day fair and warmer. Low tonight 35-40. High; Sautrday 1 65-72. ; ■■■ l f'[ > .- • ’>' !•■••• ••* ..' ■' .■

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Much Os Fury Os Missouri's Waters Spent Additional Farm Levees Crumbled As River Rolls On . . Kansas City, Mo., April 25. —• (UP)—The onrushing flood waters of the Missouri river crumbled additional farm levels today but much of their fufy,was’spent. / As er churning harmlessly between Kansas City’s reinforced levees, the crest which had boiled to record levels upstream moved into a widening channel.; and officials said the “worst has come and passed.” ,j. - Kansas City’s 47-spot levees held fast, againsjt the full Weight of the flood-tide, which reached a height of 30.66 late yesterday and then began a gradual drop. By 6 a.m. today the level had receded t0*29.2. The jittery metropolis, scene of last year's!, billion dollar blood by the tributary Kansas river, began to'relax. ■ A spokesman for the U.S. corps of engineers said the Missouri was nearing the end of its most devastating rahipage. 'lt apparently had' struck itsj final major blow Wednesday nighs At the s:<pOfl.OOd Sherman air force [base upstream. at Ft. Leavenworth. Kan: It was the climax to a three-week tour< of disaster which started in Montana and engulfed targets in the Dakotas. lowa. Nebraska, Missouri. ariu Kansas. ' « - « Weather forecasters iri Kansas Cft/y added to the optimistic pi<S ture. forecasting “fair skies” in ' the critical areas. “Things look, very bright and (Torn To EUhu Examination Held For Pre-School Children About a one-third increase in the number jof pre-school children -turned out Thursday for the animal child health round-up sponsored by the Lincoln school PT A • at the Lincoln school, Mrs. Herman Krueckeberg announced. Local doctors and optonietrists examined 120 children yesterday. * Lagt year approximately 80 children reported for the free health examinations. > The group included children who I will e|nt;er kindergarten and the first grades next Any health defect was reported [to (parents. Boy Scouts and volunteered i|n moving equipment to the schodl. Mra..:Krueckeberg and her committee 'expressed appreciation to doctors, optometrists and others who assisted in conducting the clinic. \ i 'i!' ; ■ ■

Bloodmobile Unit In Decafur Today Year's Visit Is Madefto Decatur ' With 146 volunteers listed this morning, thd i» charge of the Red CrossMlood center At the American Legfcn home, believed that the cloungis quota of 125 pints of bloodSrould be met with the third visit 4bf the bloodmobile t<> this cits'th ® year. Donors fronf Soya Co., lie Schafer C Bag Service, Inc., rick-Tyndall. U|o., General EJecc Co., and Casting Cb., me swelling ne list of tndlvldus who contri iuted to the blood [ nk today. E<ployeA from Smith os. Furnitures Co., and the Berne irniture Co., [were scheduled to i through thegblood hank tbi ;p---rnoon. . ! j| Mrs. Clara Baudr, chairman dunteer servg?e, announced that e fallowing pirsons served at the ood bank Charles J'u'dt, ick Gaskill, Brunner, Max yers and RSjert Sprague, unading equipment from bloodmo- '| . 1 Serving in canteen, were: esdames Elizabeth Hersh, Bertha ijßuffenbarger, 'Mildred Nash, Bertha Haley, Esther Reinking, Hazel [[Schultz and Florence Noll. Transportation:' l "Mrs,. Ruth Vir-’ jjginia Railing. Staff aides: • Mesdames Frances Engle, Gladys Reynolds, Nellie Schlickman, Frances Magley. Helen Reynolds, Mildred Von Gunten. Ntirses . aides: Mrs. Kathryn Oschenrid’er, Margaret' Helm. Registered nurses: Miss Margaret Eiting. Mrs. John (Killer, Mrs. Jean Azbell. , ' [ Mrs. Max Schafer, executive secretary, was on duty at the center, and Mrs. Lowell W. Harper was the volunteer secretary in Red Cross headquarters. . ■■ Dr.-,, Theodore McCabe of Fort Wayne and eight nurses from the regional center were Inp charge of official operation of the icenter. Robbery At Berne <1 '< - [ ■* i■’ . <■ Is Investigated Accordion Shop Is Victim Os Robbery State patrolman Walter Schindler and detective Charles Epperson were continuing their investigation today of a robbery of the Zuercher Accordion shop on U. S. road 27 at Berne, which occurred some Wednesday night. entered the building through gs window and escaped with instruments, electrical appHances and a small amount of cash. Entrance was gained b£ breaking a ‘window and state troopers are of the opinion there wefe at least two burglars. several thousand dollars but the exact value was not anounced. Detective.; jbpperson will continue on the cAse. A fewyciues such as footprints have be&i obtained. No fingerprints found, but * at least two sets of footprints were found near a Window which had been broken. Sheriff Robert Shraluka entered <Tur»» To Pace Etsht) -i- ' ' I’P ■■ '

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday; April 25, 1952.

To Prosecute Ringleaders 01' Michigan Riot Attorney General ■ Will Act Despite No Reprisal Pledge Jackson, Mich., April 25.—(UP)— Ringleaders of the bloody riot at southern Michigan prison will be prosecuted despite promises of reprisals, state declare® today. “No state official, not lyen the supreme court, can grant anyone immunity for the commission of > crime,” said state attqrney general Frank Millard. “This is not reprisal in any sense but entirely in accordance with my oath of office,” The 172 prisoners barricaded in cellblock 15 with eight guards as hostages got a guarantee of “no reprisals” from Goy. G. Mennen Williams and prison officials before surrendering yesterday. .... But the., governor said the guarantee applied only in the strict sense of disciplinary I measures within the prison walls and under the prisoq code, j ' * -*'S 4<f He agreed with Millard that “nobody . , . could assure these convicts that they would not be prosecuted under the laws of Michigan for any unlawful act committed ing the riots at Jackson. Nobody, by any agreement, can set asjde the criminal laws of this state.” The question of “coddling” the mutineers became a political issue almost immediately, j Auditor general John B. Martin, 'Jr., a Republican candidate' for the U.S. senate, declared that th* state’s capitulation to the prisoners 11 reform demands “ruined prison discipline in Michigan for years to comeX’ “Prisoners throughout the country now know that all they have to do is seize axfew guards and barricade in a cellblock to git anything they want,” Martin said. . X, 1 Martin demanded tjigt state corrections commissioner Xarnest C. Brooks and warden Julian\Frisbie be asked to resign, and that deputy warden Vernon Fox, who arraitged V surrender, be sited. \ Jackson prison authorities have _„..,m atulated the prisoners oh their overwhelming victoryj over- ! law, order and discipline,” he declared. “Their (Brooks and Frisbie) resignations should he asked* for and accepted,” Martin said. “Fox ought to be relieved of.his jobl.” Jackson county- prosecutor George Campbell skid -he would (Tara To Pave Eight) Ladies Are Guests ■- - J ■ ni.. r At Rotary Meeting ! GE Choir. Features |l Club Meeting Here An evening of deightful entertainment was highlighted with -a repertoire of stirring songs by the' 1 Decatur General Electric choir, directed by David Embler, as the Rotarians entertained wives and sweethearts at the K. of P. home last evening. The first part of the program was a arrangement between the whining and losing teams in an attendance contest. The co-chairmen of this ’ event were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heller, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Macklin. The teams were directed by Mrs. Roy Kalver and Mrs. Heller, and the losers read jokes supplied by the winners. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Leitz were masters of ceremonies. Jerry Leitz. Oscar Lankenau, Avon Burk and Albert Sellemeyer judged the “merit?’ of the jokes. The Aeolian choir sang eight numbers, opening jthe concert with “O Lord Increase My Faith,” The all-girls choir sang two numbers, “A Legend" and “Jubilee,” directed by Mrs. David Embler. The combined choir also sang “Yea, Though I Wonder.” by Schumann - Christiansen. This number will be sung by the choir at the annual Westminster choral festival at the ' Plymouth Congregational church in Fort Wayne, Sunday at 7’30 p. m. The program, which is directed by Prof. George Kreuker of Indaina University, will be broadcast (Tver, WOWO from .11:05 to 11:55 p. m. Sunday. The crescendo was reached in choir’s singing. of the “Battle Hym of the Republic.”! The program concluded with, “The Lord Bless and Keep You." Miss Eileen Bieberich was the pianist. John Welch, club president, presided at the meeting.

Oppose Efforts By Steel Industry For Return Os Mills

City Officials To Indianapolis Today Hold Conferences On Bonds, Pay Hike City engineer Ralph Elopp and city attorney Robert Anderson held a conference in Indianapolis today with Robert McCord of Rose, McCord, ice* and Miller, Indiana law firm which passes on the legality of municipal bond issues. The conference was another step toward Ute erection of the northwest seWer in Decatur. City ofti-j Have a tentative plan to us# 1 both general obligation bonds and -Barrett law assessments in conr structlon o fthe seWer. T • i The board of works met Thursday morning with officials of Central Soya relative to easements for construction of the main sewer. When completed, tj»e northwest sewer will provideXewage disposal for many residents of the west and northwest pdrts of Decatur. | The. new jilan would take in all property in the Hoipewood addition and. cut-in lines would make sewage removal acoesible |o the entire northwest, section of Decatur. The prelirninary plan is to construct the main artery with a general obligation bond issue. Cut-ins would be ~built under the assessment law, which would add the(COßt‘ of the cut-in to the property owner’s tax in Vrfe ‘amount of the benefit. To See Tax Board Anderson also had a late afternoon appointment today with members Os the 1 ) sta te board of tax oonimissioners. A letter Thursday to Mayor John Doan from that board’s chairman, Noble Hollar, threw\a wrench in the city’s proposed purchase of a fire, truck and also salary increases for city etnployes. X. Hollar said that the board did not think an emergency -existed. The city attorney will further explain the request for an additional appropriation, citing the fact that at present the Decatur fire department has only one truck on which it can rely in case of fire. Officials also pointed out that the present salary range of city employes was considerably below the amounts paid in neighboring cities. The men are expected tb return la*te tonight. \ . Announce Winners 1h Poster Contest Winners Are Listed For Poppy Posters i . j ' ■ . „ i Winners in the poppy poster contest, sponsored by the-ladies auxiliary of Adams Post 43, Americah Legion, were announced today by Miss Margaret Eitign, chairman. The contest is conducted annually to stimulate sales of poppies the week before Memorial Day, which sdle is also sponsored by the Legion auxiliary. All proceeds from the poppy sales go to disabled and ill veterans t of American wars. The contest is divided into three classifications: fourth, fifth and sixth grades; seventh, eighth and ninth grades, and 10th,, 11th and l£th grades. Students who participated were fr o m Monmouth, Luckey, St. Joseph's .Adams Central, Bobo and Decatur high schools. The winners are as follows: ji Class I—Judyl—Judy Rubb, grade five, Luckey school, first: Jean |Wass, grade six, Luckey; Sftlly GeraJ-odty, grade five, Luckey, third; Rita Mendez, grade six. St. Joseph’s, and Jane Wass, Luckey, honorable mention. ' : X v, . ! Class J&-—Sherian Drake, grade seven, Luckey, first; ‘ Helen M. Roth, grade eight, Luckey, second; Joyce Loshe, grade eight, St. Joseph’J, third; Gail Hammond, Bobo, Elizabeth Miller, St. Joseph’s. Ruth Lengerich, St. Joseph’s, Gerry Girod, Monmouth, and Steven Debolt, Monmouth, honorable mention. Class 3—-Ila Schaefer,'. Monmouth junior, first; Marilyn Grptrian, Monmouth senior, second; Marilyn Fieger, Monmouth senior, third; Virgene Selking, Monmouth, honor--(Tant T» pa** El<kt) '

Propose Top Negotiators On Truce Confer UN Appears Headed For Showdown On Long Truce Talks Panmunjom, Korea, Apr. 25 — (UP) —The United Nations, apparently heading for a showdown in the lengthy tYuce talks, proposed tonight to the Communists that both sides hold a meeting of their highest-ranking truce negotiators Sunday. , _ The allied proposal was made a few hours after the United Nations and the Communists recessed the prisoner of war discussions. The recess indicated then thbre was not much hope for an earlY armistice. Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols said the request for a full plenary session on Sunday was delivered to Red Col. Chang Chun San at Panmunjom by air force Col. Andrew J. Kinney, senior U. N. liaison officer. Kinney flew’ to Panmunjom by ’ helicopter j and delivered the * request at 7 p. m. The message, signed by Kinney, asked the Reds to confirm the date and time of the plenary Allied spokesman did not disclose what the u! N. had in mind when it> asked 1 for the meeting Sunday. However, it iappoared that the allies might be ready to make some sort [of effort to end the deadlocks on the principal issues before the rtuce negotiators—prisoners of war, Russia as a truee supervisor and airfield reconstruction. | I" ■ . | On the prisoners of war issue, the allies insist that only prisoners who wish to be repatriated to the Cpmmunist side should be returned. The Communists insist on forcible repatriation. The Communists also insist on having Russia as a “neutral” nation to police the truce and they have demanded the right to reconstruct airfields -in North Korea during a truce. The Communists earlier today lifted the secrecy which surrounded the prisoner of war discussions. They accused the allies of refusing to return some 100,000 United Na-tions-held prisoners. Under a prison of war screening process held during a two-week recess in the prisoner talks, the U. N. discovered that only 70,000 Communist prisoners want to Return behind the iron, curtain. The 70,000 prisoners included 53,900 North Koreans, 5,100 Chinese, 3,800 South Koreans and 7,200 civilian internees. Sdme 59,00 d North Koreans and (Tarn To Pace El<kt) Strike Idles 1,000 Fort Wayne Workers Walkout Leads To GE Plant Layoff . ’X v . x. Fort Wayne, Ind., April 25—(UP) —A union official was scheduled to meet with testers and inspectors today in an effort to settle a strike which caused the of 1,000 General Electric Co. workers here, i The testers and inspectors walked off yesterday in a job classification dispute. They filed grievances Wednesday, but a company spokesman said their walkout violates their contract. President Virgil O. Brown of local 901 of the CIO United Electrical workers, who said he would meet with the testers and inspectors, said the strike is unauthorised. Meanwhile, normal operations were resumed at| another GE plant after 35 diet casters ended their twoday walkout in a similar dispute. Brown said that walkout also was a contract violation. It affected 500 workers. y

Hearing Conducted For Adams Central Hearing Is Held On Remonstrance About 400 persons, including students of Adams Central high school, attended today’s hearing on the remonstrance to the request for an additional appropriation for Adams County Central Consolidated school at the Adams Central gymnasium In Kirkland township. The hearing waa conducted by George Gable, representative of the state tax board,.and information’ concerning the hearing will be forwarded to the full state board for determination. \ < David J. Schwarts, farmer of near Berne, a school board ihember, spoke for the remonstrators. D. Burdette Custer, of Custer and Smith of this city, represented the school and Gene Hike, Monroe town clerk, also spoke in behalf df the appropriation. The hearing is one of k long series of actions brought since Monroe, Washington and Kirkland tbwnshipa voted to consolidate their school facilities several years ago. The consolidation, at the present time, is conducting schools In both Kirkland and Monroe townships. The high school is being held at the former Kirkland high school and grade school is held at Monroe. [ The plan is to build a central school near Monroe. The request for an additional appripriation is to spend the money which would be obtained from a bond issue and the money from the special school tax. Columbia City Youth Killed At Louisville Louisville, Ky., April 25 —(UP) — Two first-string university of Louisville football t players were killed this morning ,two co-eds were injured seriously apd a sec-ond-team quarterback was arrested after their car hit two trees during a race with a police cruiser. J 'j ' ! The dead were identified as Bill Pence. 22, Columbia City, Ind., the school’s star fullback and Keith Meyers, 22, Harrison, 0., standout guard. ; Scout Honor Court k ■ ! X ' ' . -< . j Held Last Evening Court Held Thursday For Legion Scouts A court of honor for Boy Scout troop 63, sponsored by Adams Poet 43, American Legion, was held Thursday evening at the Legion home in this city. The court opened With a carry-in supper, attended by approximately 75 Boy Scouts and their parents, followed by the court of honor. Awards were made as follows: Second class — John Hebble, Steve Edward.s, Harry Hebble, Jimmy Anderson .and Kenneth Vanho(ir. First,* class— Larry = Strickler, Doyle and Harry Hebble. Merit badges— Niland Ochsenrider, firemanship: Dwight McCurdy, safety; public health, personal, health and printing; Robert Egly, cooking, ° safety, personal health, public health, bookbinding, athletics, wood carving and printing; Larry Strickler, printing; Dave Runyon, reading, public health, safety, firemanship, mechanical drawing printing and art; Lawrence Ehinger, .reading; Harold Vanhorn, electricity and consent tion; Harry Hebble, art, conservation, rabbit, raising, gardening and electricity; Ronnie Secaur, printing. ' ' . J ' ' Star scout —Dwight McCurdy.) W. Guy Brown served as chairman of the court, with Sylvester Everhart as scribe. Second class awards were?'made by Hugh J. Andrews, firsti class by Clarence Ziner, merit badges- by Everhart and stat* scout by Brown. 1 { '! Following the court, brief takls were made by Niland Ochsenrlder, scoutmaster, and Carles Morgan, troop committeeman.

Price Five Cents

Assert Truman Has Unlimited Seizure Power I • , I ■ ‘ X s Industry Leaders Court Actidh To Void Seizure I -1 .. j ' BULLETIN Washington, April 25—(UP) —Federal? judge David A. Pine took under advisement today the steel industry’s appeal for court action against President Truman’s seizure of the steel milts- ■ ' ■ * ■ X His ruling is expected within the next few days,, [ ' [ Washington, Apr. 25 — (UP) The government asserted the doctrine today that President Truman has unlimited emergency powers and that [the courts may.liot interfere with his exercise of them. The doctrine was voiced before Federa) Judge David A. Pine by assistant, attorney general Holmes Baldridge in arguing against an Industry- request for return of gov-ernment-seized steel mills to their owners. *‘ls that your concept of our government?” Pine asked, i Baldridge said it was. There followed tin* question and answer: ’’Then the constitution limits congress and it limits the judiciary but doeb not limit the executive?” “That’s the way jre read the constitution.” V Pine commented that he? heard that expressed in anY authoritative case” before. - V x . The industry asked Pine yesterday to do one pf two things; Grant an injunction invalidating the seizure or, if that calls for further study, issue an immediate order forbidding a government-imposed wage boost. < Mr, Truman seized the steel ! mills April 8 to prevent a production stopping strike by the CTO United Steelworkers union, Baldridge argues that the steel companies can file d < Snpage actions against the government under the federal tort claims act but cannot get injunctive relief. He went on to say that if the government imposes a wage increase on the industry, it is not traveling on “a one-way street” because it is ready to grant price adjustments under the economic controls act./ • When Baldridge said he did not know exactly when the price adjustment move would be made,: Pine retorted: ’ | , “Then I shall have to act on this motion as ” expeditiously as. possible consistent with ealm, liberate understanding qf the case. “I can not assure you that J Will take a week (Baldridge had asked fofr a week in which to dig up cases hearing on the issue.) vlt will probably be much less. The exigencies -I’ of the case require 4 prompt decision.’’ In arguing that the courts may not , interfere with presidential acts, Baldridge said: / “My concept ,is that this is a government df separation of phw? ers. Except. am occasional lapse thdre are no instances where one branch of the government -has tended to encroach on th.e and authority of another.” - Demand Increase Washington, Apr. 25 — (UP) — Clarence B. Randall, president of “ Inland Steel Co., said tpday his industry should demand a $5.50 a ton price increase if the CIO Unifetd Steelworkers get a cents an hour wage and fringe hike. The Wage Stabilization board has recommended a total of * cents ah hour in wage and fringeg benefits ifor the steelworkers which would be spread over an 18- 5 month period. ,v ‘ Randall told a national preS»club luncheon that the 26-cedt package proposed for the union ultimately would cost steel makers 4inut* T« rase KKkt)