Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 120, Decatur, Adams County, 20 May 1952 — Page 1

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Ask Injunction II . I On Bond Issue Be Ruled Out ~ I ... ■

If —— ' * 1 UB ULLE TI N j Judge Myles F. Parrish set ednesday afternoon at 3 o clock far the hearing of the !i io dissolve the ten> restraining order - t Adams Central ConsoliSchool Corporation filed days ago by Adams Cout> eholders, Inc., Thompson II and Ronald Yoder. 1 sale, which wlll be held til the matter is dete-r---io set for 10 o’clock lay morning. The court,' ifternoom, ordered sumIssued and the motion to ird‘ prior to the time set i sale. dams County Central CbnI School Corp., through its b, Custer and Smith, struck s afternoon at the injanct brought last week by Jounty Freeholders, line., m R. Noll and Ronald n which a temporary , Reorder was filed in Adams ourt against the sale ; of bonds for construction of a consolidated school at Iftlonroe. f Aft answer denying each of 10 paragraphs in the suit was filed and Adams Central Corporation asks for damages in the sum of $50,000. A. motion to dissolve the restraining order was filed setting out.that: I’f’he bond is wholly Inadequate will npt indemnify defendants fo| whiqh of legill advertising, attorneys fees aigd ! possible difference in bond pre nium and interest costs. tf'hat the bond filed is signed ti principals and surety by County Freeholders, Inc., irns no personal or real r; that the other signers. Ft. Braun, piinton Hart, on R.NoH and Ronald L. ximmb very little personal r and no real estates in or Madison county, Indinpanying the motion and answer were three affidavits, settip out that incorporation papers of ;4dams County Freeholders, inc., disclose said organization to be a organization with -assets bJth real and personal to be notte; also one stating that Noll, Yoder anid Adams County Freeholders own nd [real estate in Adams icounty; alio that the assessed valuation, of personal property is as folows: I .'. Adams County Freeholders, Iftc., noqe; Ronald Yoder, SBSO. qnd Thompson R. Noll, *53,600. The affidavits countering the original suit have been signed by CCMhty officials who have used of flqiftf county records to make' the sftdrn statements. Rose Nesswajd, coftnty recorder: Thurman Drew, eftunty auditor, and Mrs. Mabel Striker, employe in the assesses office, signed the affidavits. d;, ' pHncent Kelley, Anderson lawyer and former Adams county man, of thd law firm of Kelley, Arnold and Kelley, represents the plaintiffs In the restraining order. He also is the person who filed the incorporation papers for Adams County Freeholders, Inc., some time ago. ~ Ij J ■ . I f City Council Will Meet This Evening \ | ' 11 ■ \|Tfte citycouncil will hold a regwlar May session tonight at city hftjl at 7:30 o’clock. One of the ■ important to be brought bftfore the councilmen. it is rftported, will be the northwest sewty project. j [Tonight’s meeting will be th®; last regular May meeting. Plans also will be made at tonight’s sty--8 lon for members of the counqf’l 1b - motor to Hamilton. 0., next Week to witness test runs of Dft-- < utur s newly constructed diesel; jower plant. ’ jjj As K. Os C. Delegate . a © 4 ■ Herman Geimer of this city wfts elected one of seven delegates to the national Knights of Columbty convention to be held in Los Aftgeles. Cal. in August. j Geimer, Who is a trustee of fiatur council 864, Knights of Columbus, is also a former grand knight of the local lodge. Geimer was elected at the tyR state convention held at ,jnpolls over the week-end. He > first Decatur member to fee ■ed tn several years and will i* of seven Indiana delegates e national conclave. p

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I ; Accuses Reds Os Blocking Korea Peace Vicious Propaganda Outburst By Reds Assailed By Joy ■' ■ . ' . 'LA Panmunjom, < Korea, May 20.-— (UP)—Vice Adin. C. Turner Joy. chief United Nations,' truce dele--5 gate, accused the Communists today of blocking peace in Korea by “every vicious means” at their disr P° sal - ! ! ' ' d ' < Joy said the" Communists turned .’ on the most “vicious, degrading propaganda” outburst today tftat he has heard in the more than 10 , months since the talks began. He told the Communists * “the responsibility is yours” if the stale- ( mate continues. j Joy will leave Friday 1 at his own ( request to take over his new assignment as Superintendent of the U.S. naval academy at Annapchs. He will be succeeded here by Mpj. Gen. William K. Harrison, a veteran of, almost five inonths at the truce talks. The admiral’s departure underlines growing pessimism Over outcome the talks. The only member of the original U.N. trdee team still here, he had hoped to crown his efforts with actual signing of an armistice. Gen. Nam 11, chief negotiator for the Conimunists, paraded the “Colson concessions” of Koje island during his tirade today. The “concessions” were granted by Brig. Gen. Charles F ( COlson to secure release of Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd. Koje island prison camp commander who 'was seized by the Conimunists. They were repudiated by Gen. Mark W. Clark, supreme U.N.' commander for the -far efcst. Nam accused the allies of mal treating Communist prisoners and said the "concessions” gave proof the U.N. command was Retaining prisoners forcibly. One of the “concessions” agreed there would be no more “forcible screening” of prisoners to see if they wanted to return to Communism. The U.N. repeatedly has denied any prisoners were screened “forcibly" and offered to let the Commuinst command participate in the screening. Joy declared once riiore that the (Tura To Page Eight) Cancer Society To Meet Friday Night Annual Election Os Officers Planned \ i ‘ ’ ■■ ii ■! i > ! j . ’ The annual reorganization meeting of the Adams county* cancer society will be held Friday night at 8 oclock at the ftome Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kalver on North ? Second street, it has been an- , nounced by Mrs. ty II Finlayson, • secretary of the county group. The annual election of officers will be held and T. F. Graliker, ; treasurer of the group, will submit ? [the annual financial report. PresJ ent officers of the group include: Roy Kalver, presdient; Dr. H. F. Zwick and Mrs. James Burk, ■ i vice-presidents; Mrs. Finlayson, - secretary: Graliker, treasurer, and Dick Heller, publicity chairman. - There \ a r ® three vacancies on ; the advisory I council. Present members include: , | ' Dr. John Carroll. Dr. Myron Habegger, Berne; Dr. Harold V. Devor, Thurman Drew. Max Schafer, Robert Holthouse, Kenneth Hirschy, Earl C. Fuhrman, Mrs. (Raymond Kohne, the Rev. W. C. Feller and Mrs. Roy Kalver. President Kalver has named a nominating committee composed of Heller, Holthouse and Drew to present nominations and also to fill three vacancies. on the advisory council, two caused by death and one caused by moving from the county. They werq the late Clifton Sprunger, and Dr. Ben Duke, and. county superintendent of schools L. h. Hann, who moved to Elkhart.

j Held Jungle Hostage ■ w. „ ♦ wwM If ll 'fl » Jia f Wbk i wt-C ; M WtwM BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE paratroopers are flying to the aid W Scott Magness. U. S. civil aeronautics safety advisor of Miami, Fla., picturf ed here with his wife. Magness, and a Brazilian Major are beings j held at the site of a recent crash of a Pan-American airliner in the; jungle, by “wildcat parachutists” who beat the official rescue partj| to the scene. AH official rescuers have been removed by helicopter except these two. who the “wildcatters” say they will not release • until they, the unofficial party, alko are taken out of the jungle by thft ? helicopter "lift.” it L

To Ask Solons ■' V V ; Vi/ ; Okay Seizure Os Steel Mills i Tobin To Request Okay If Supreme Court Opposes Washington,, May\ 20.—(UP) — Labor secretary Maurice J. Tobin Said today he will ask congress to okay President Truriian’s st£el seizure if the supreme court doesn't. Tobin told a senate labor subcommittee that a presidential election year is no time to pass basic legislation dealing with labor disputes which affect national security. But if the supreme eburt rules the steel seizure invalid, he will recommend that congress immediateljy pass legislation coping with the situation. “I have in mind,” Tobin said, “a simple bill ratifying the steel seizure and authorizing temporary seizure in labor disputes during the present national emergency where the national security is gravely threatened . ...” \ Tobin’s chances of persuading congress to pass any stopgap ratification of Mr. Truman’s steel action appeared remote. Many members of both parties have denounced the seizure. O t her Congressional developments: \ New law — President Truman signed legislation giving the armed forces a four percent pay boost and a 14 percent hike in food and quarters allowances, 'the increases are retroactive to May 1. The house and senate unanimously passed the measure May 15. New weapons—'Defense secretary Robert A. Lovett asked the senate to knock out the house-approved ceiling of $46,000,000,000 on military spending. Hinting at important developments in the field of "new weapons,” Lovette urged congress to “pay the price,” Rents —Spokesmen for landlords urged congress to let federal rent control die June 30, when the defense production act expires, or at least confine it to critical housing areas. They said rent control is “morally wrong” and “economically unjustified.” \ ° Newsprint—Rep. Robert L. F. Skies (D-Fla.) called on the state department to do something to keep Canada from boosting the price of its newsprint $lO a ton. Sikes said the price increase is “a matter of greed, not of need.” This country gets most of its newsprint from Canada. Publicity—Sen. Estes Kefauver said the senate should welcome the “widest possible dissemination*’ of information on committee hearings. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy and cool tonight, with occasional light rain or drizzle ending most of west portion. Wednesday partly cloudy arid not quite so cool. Low tonight 46-52. High Wednesday 62-66. 1

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— _____, —.— County Roads Show I Surface Decrease , I )• Outline Program To; Obtain More Funds I * ’' j- ■ '' !r In Adams county roads have decreased, on the average, five Inches in surface during the last |o years, according to a survey made by the Indiana association of couftty commissioners and made public today by Otto Hoffman, presldeftt of the Adams county board of commissioners. Original roads had an top surface and how the average road in the county'has dropped to a three-inch surface. This has befh caused by heavier traffic and ino|e pse. and also by 4 the lack of fuhfs to properly maintain the county roads, the report states. The only source of revenue tyr county road maintenance, Hoffman said, is from the state, derived from a portion of the four-ce|t gasoline tax. J This amounts to about $194,0(|0 annually and when broken douty equals $267 per mile per year f<|r county roads. It is estimated about S4OO is actually needed f<jr proper maintenance of each mi|e of iPad. | Adazns county has 12,176 registered motor Vehicles and 725 of county roads. \ The state commissioners association has a four-point prograft which it is urging all -county boards to adopt and assist in, eftacting into law. The pflncipip points are: jl A two-cent increase in gasolinfe and diesel truck fuel tax. Route the property tax on motojvehicles into motor vehicle fund,' Enact a property tax far usd fft matching federal aid secondary road funds. ’ , ||j Establish ton-mile tax on The first point always is most controversial and if twfi cents were added to the present state tax, the total wpuld be six cens per gallon, which wohld pft|; Indiana’s tax only one cent that of Georgia and Colora4|t| which is seven cents and highesLj in the south and middlewest. The Adams county board of coift(Turn To Pave , - ■——

Lions ClubS’o Provide Breakfast jPbr Grads

■ H i i — — 1r The Lions club of Decatur takes second place to none in their la||.? est project, that of providing entertainment and 'an early breakfast'; for the graduates of Dlecatur higl« school. They have planned aft elabprate program to begin at j a. ni. Friday morning, with tiecooperation of Adams Post '4ft American Legion, where the atf fail* will be held. In order to make the night ft? complete success for the graduate!, iti will be necessary, first of all, f<ft; every member of the Lions ti|. show up at the post by at least 3:45 a. m. ‘ ( f. The program includes radio sta|'; tion WDLC (Decatur Lions, if yos please) with a special presentai tion of “The Lions Breakfast club," sponsored by “krunchS munchies and goo There will 'be group singing, skiti|

— One War Prisoner Killed In Rioting In Camp At Pusan

_____v i Harold Hess Badly Burned By Explosion Critically Burned At Packing Plant ' ‘i.’’ ' s Harold Hess, of Elm and Fifth streets, plftit foreman at she IL P. Scbmßt packing company. north of the city, is in a ethical condition; at the Adams county memorial hospital, a victim of severe bunts deceived in a gas explosion at the packing plant at d:45 al m. todayi ha,d opentyl a door to the smokehouse and ft burst of flkme caught him in the face, severely burning his head! face, neck hnd Shoulders. His clothes were afire and he rah outside the building and threw himself down in a wheat field, rolling over to extinguish the flantesJ A fellow wbrker arrived on the scene at that tiifte and took him to the hospital. Although his burns were not discribed as third degree burns, the attending physician said they Were “severe and that lhe\ man was In a critical condition.” H. P. Schmitt, proprietor of the plant, said that ghs was first used in the smokehouse, follow’ed by . burning of hickdry and sawdust in the curing of ntyaf. He thought that, possibly gaft had accummulated in the smokehouse and when the door liras opened It burst tyto. flame. j ' About SI,OOO worth of meat was partially destroyed, which Schmitt explained was covered by insurance. ; '<' ' . | .j' Grandstaff Placed Under $5,000 Bail Milwaukee Hearing k Is Set For June 12 Milwaukee, Wisl, May 20—(UP) •Frank Grandsta|ff, who was pardoned from a lifft sentence after he composed a musical cantata on the wall of hid Tennessee prison cell, sought bft.il today for- release from a Milwaukee cell. Judge Harvey jNeplen set bail at $5,000 and scheduled a preliminarmy hearing Jbne 12 on chaP ges tyat Grandstftff stole jewelry and a piggy bank, from a Milwaukee apartment. Grandstaff attained national /prominence in i1945i when Gov. Gordon Browning? of Tennessee lough” to attend tthe performance In Texas of Grandstaff’s “Big Spring Cantata.”' Browning latej- granted the musician a full pardon from his life sentence aft an “habitual f\ \ , I i i He had been earning a living j: playing his $2,000 electric organ $ in Indiana before! being ? arrested • on a vagrancy charge here. The (Turn To Pa ire Elarton gg. ; I p;

■ |l I Ml • and some other doings which even f this reporter could not uncover. >. It is known, however, that “Dr. ' I. Q.” will be on hand complete * with his “woman in the balcony,” nW forgetting, though, that there will be a “romantic vocalist,” im- ‘ ported at great expense, to lull ■ the grads with swjeet croonings. The entertainment will \<be in. "' charge of Watson 'Maddox. Kitchen committee chairman Roy Mum-1 ; ma. together with his helpers, will arrange all the details of their six-course breakfast. \ The other committees tp share *<the chores are headed by Jim Kane, decorations; Clyde Butler, t table; and John Halterman, the waiters. M 1 ! ’ The plaits are ambitious and can be carried out sihoothly only if »each and every Lion shows up.

Pres. Truman Alerts Nation On Korea War Speaks At Rites In Commemoration Os Academy Founding West Point, N. Y„ May 20 — (UP) —• President Truman today alerted the natibn for possible renewal of large-scale warfare | in Korea. sneaking at ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the U. S. military academy here, he said he is \ still hopeful of concluding “A just, and honorable armistice’’ In the Far East. \ But he added: “We must also be alert and ready to meet treachery or a renewal of aggression if that should come." I - • -I ■ Drawing up a balance sheet on the general world situation. Mr. Truman said it remains "difficult and dangerous ■ in the extreme" and “no one should assume that the possibility of world war has become remote." \ But he said the United States has ij tripled its military production in the past year and its allies are rolling forward rapidly with their rearmament programs, so “I believe we are, well on the way to preserving toiir freedom without paying the frightful cost of world ; war.” ’ I He warned congress anew that any “substantial" cuts in his defense and foreign and spending requests will have “extremely serious effects.” (Senate and house committees have trimmed $1,000,OOb.OOO from hi 4 17,900,000.000 foreign aid request, while the house has voted a ciit of in the $50,900,000,000 defense budget. In \ discussing this' country’s growing strength. Mr. Truman confirmed an earlier report from Gen. (Tura To Paso Six) Former Local Pastor I Dies At Fort Wayne Rev. M. Sunderman Is Taken By Death The Rev. Martin W. Sunderman, 79, pastor of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church in this city front) 1928 to 1936, died at his hornet 4209 Hoagland avenpe, Fort Wayne, last evening’ '< Rev, Sunderman retired from the active ministry in 1945, following a pastorate at Avilla. From Decatur he went to Celipa, Ohio, serving as pastor there until 1939. He also held pastorates in Fort Wayne and South Bend, jr' Rev. Sunderman was , born in Huntingburg, Jan. 2, 1873, and was graduated from North Central College, Naperville; in 1900. He was ordained into the Evangelical ministry in Berne in 1900 and his first pastorate was in Portland. He received a call from the Beville Avenue Evangelical Church in IndiaAapolis tn 1915, and remained there until 1920. In 1921 he chll to fill the Fort Wayne pulpit. He is survived by his wife, Berthaj: three \ daughters, Mrs, Naomi Hosterman, Charleston, W. vA.; Mrs. Ruth Poucher, Silver Springs, Md., andi Mrs. Esther Yoder, South Bend, a son, J. A. Sunderman, Silver Springs; nine grandchildren, three sisters and two brothers. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at -the First Evangelical United Brethren church in Fort Wayne, the Rev. O. D. Wissler officiating. Burial will be at Manhattan, 111. The body was removed to the Klaehn funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening, until noon Thursday, when the body will\ be take nto the church to die in state until time of the services.

■ ■' V- , Graduate Speaker Dr. George E. Davis Graduation Rites Thursday Evening Public High School Graduate Exercises ’ . ■ The 71st i annual commencement of Decatur high school will be held Thursday evening at 8 o’clock in the school auditorium. Dr. George E. Davis, who has been described as one of the greatest interpreters of the famous Hoosier poet. James Whitcomb Riley, will deliver the address to the class of 55, entitled: “How Smart Are You.” Dr. Davin currently is director of the nearly created division of adult education and director of the summer at Purdue University. He was formerly the director of student affairs at the school. The processional will be accompanied by Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance," followed by the invocation to be (delivered Rev. John E. Chambers, pastor of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. The Decatur high school choir, under the direction of .Miss Helen Haubold, supervisor of music in the city schools, will render three selections: “This is My Country,” arranged by Fred Waring; “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes,” arranged by Hawley Ades; and “Halls of Ivy,” by RusselKnight. **■ Hugh J. Andrews, principal of Decatur, high school, will make the presentation of the graduating class and Gerald Cole, president of the Decatur school board, will hand out the diplomas, j / The seventy-first commencement of Decatur .high school wHI ;Cldse with the benediction by the Rfev. F. H. Willhrd, pastoi* of the Bethany Evangelical Unitecj Brethren church. V ( ; ______ ' Sabrejets Destroy Four Enemy Planes i America's 16th Jet j Ace Joins In Fight ,*A'\ ' .! 1 Seoul, Korea, May 20 —(UP) — American Sabrejets shot down four Communist Mig-15s today ano damaged another in a battle near the' Yalu river that produced America's 16th jet ace. Twelve Sabres ripped into 12 Mlgs that were stalking slower allied fighter-bombers. They fought for 15 ; minutes while the fighterbombers plastered rail. lines from Manchuria with bombs; and rockets. •' Today’s; victories ran the sth air forces’ toll of Red jets to 302. Col. Harrison R. Thyng, Pittsfield, N.H., commander of the 4th fighter-interceptor wing, shot down his fifth Mig to become the newest American ace. His wing has downed 200 Migs and it scored all four kills today. Ist Lt. Coy L. Austin, Millstown, Tex., destroyed one Mig and damaged another. Ist Lt. Robert L. Straub, Flagstaff, Aris., and Capt. (Twv T® r®s® Ma> b -

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Sit Down Strike On Koje Island Also Disclosed I * 85 War Prisoners, One Allied Soldier Are Also Injured ■ ’ • “I. ■■' ’ Seoul, Korea, May 20—(UP) — One prisoner of war was killed, 85 were injured and one allied soldier hurt today when guards broke up a riot by “fanatical" Communist prisoners near Pusan. At the same time it was disclosed that a “sit down strike” by Korean prisoners, doctors and attendants in the main prisoner of war hospital on Koje Island had been broken without violence. Trouble flared in the Pusan camp when prisoners described as “Communist agitators” tried to prevent segregation of prisoners for medical treatment. Gen. James Van Fleet’s Bth army headquarters here called it “an attempt by fanatical Communist prisoners to resist proper medical treatment of patient inmates of enclosure 10.” Battle-toughened allied troops moved in after the prisoners ignored two warnings that force would be used. Thjp troops carried arms and used “riot tactics” but no shots were fired, the Bth army said. On Koje Island, where rebellious hard-core Communists recently kidnaped the allied camp commander, trouble broke on May 18 and 17, It was disclosed today. Prisoners, doctors and attendants in the main hospital went on “strike” i.with demands ranging from better food to Van hour of pleasure every day with the women.” | In a companion incident ,400 women prisoners refused to accept the return of four women back into their compound. Both Koje incidents, described as apparently part of a plan to force Brig. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner to lose his patience and use violence, were settled quietly and the prisoners did not get their demands. i _ The Pusan riot was the first major disturbance since rebellious* inmates of compound 76 on Koje kidnaped Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd on May 7 and held him 78 hours. ' One United Nations soldier received a “minor injury,” the Bth army said. Prisoners held in the Pusan area camps are those who have renounced Communism. But American officers said last week they feared pro-Communists had slipped in ainong them to stir up trouble, declaring themselves to be anti-Coinmunists. Trouble began today at 6:30 a. m, in prisoner of war enclosure No. 10 where the prisoners receive medical care. Two and one-half hours later the situation was reported “well in hand.’* Camp officials had ordered- a "small group of agitators” among the 1,600 inmates of one compound to move’ to another compound. The Bth army' said the transfer was ordered because “their actions for several days had been impeding proper medical treatment of patients inmates.” The agitators were described as “part of a group of non-patients who ordinarily work as attendants in the hospital.” Most prisoners in the Pusan area are held under conditions of “minimum security” and have been well-behaved. Low barbed wire fences surround the enclosures but in some places they are neglected and lay flat on the ground. ' The latest outbreak came while a board of high officers in Gen. Mark W. Clark’s U. N. supreme headquarters in Tokyo still was reviewing the findings of a Korea (Tam T® Pas® Bixbt)