Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 122, Decatur, Adams County, 22 May 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L No. 122.

liman Says Seizure Right Is Inherent Pledges To Abide -i By Supreme Court s|eel Mill Rulihg Washington, May 22 — CUP) — President Truman told a news conference today he does not think the (jtairts or the congress cantake &wajt Mis power to seize fundamens tai Industries in a national emerj Under questioning by reporters, he said he does not believe this h inherit, constitutional right of ] his Is at stake in the steel case currsijtly before the Supreme , c P ui i< , r Ha p promised to abide by the Supreme Court decision on steel, and said his news conference commen^':' in no way constituted prejudgment of the court decision. He said that if the court decides that tie did not have the power to seijte steel, he would turn the millffi back to steel management and B(fe what happens. m 4 'frruman, however, said repeatb ly and pointedly that neither It ie courts nor congress could takes om the President his inherent right under the constitution ] to sei « properties if such a step i is nepi ssary to protect the welfare of the nation. Thrje Times reporters put this 1 matted up to the President in Virtime ®lr.» Tfurnan said nobody could intake from a President the inherent rights granted him under the qmistitution. . \ "Tiiat means the courts?” he was asked. J Nobody, the President replied firmlyf ( Mrs Truman said he favored con- ■ gressional enactment of a new 1 law giving the President specific authority to deal with strikes in fundamental Industries. He said he thought the taw should contain a provision for seizure. > Crit|t!S : of Mr. Truman’s stee’ I seizure) said he should have used' the Taft-Hart ley act which permits , , the gclrernment'to get a court or-’ der preventing a strike for 80 days ; In evoit of a national emergency. The, act does not provide for in-, dustry seizure. Mr. Truman has contended that the steelworkers union (voluntarily put off a. strike for mere than the 80 days provided v in tb« Taft-Hartley act. I : Memorial Services Os Veterans Sunday War veterans organizations of Decaijuf will hold their annual me-' morjal services at 10:30 o’clock Sund|y morning at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren! church, with the John E. Chambers, pastor, delivering the menhlrial sermon. v ; Members of the American Legion, its mxlliary and junior of Foreign Ways ' auxiliaries, and the Disabled Amerb can I Veterans and auxiliary', are asked tai meet at the Legion home at 10- t.RJ. Sunday to go to the church in a body. ' , *- ' - Ir —— - ■ ; Report Harold Hess As Much Improved - e- Harold Hess, 42. badly burned in a gafe explosion Tuesday at the H. ffl. Schmitt packing Jbmpany/ who has been on the critical list at the Adams county memorial hos-pital-since the accident, was this? morning pronounced ’“much improved" w the hospital. II ■ Three-Year-Old Boy Suffocation Victim " Indianapolis, May 22 — (UP) — j Thrdojyear-old Dewayne Wilkinson died qif suffocation last night when he Jeanie trapped in an abandoned . icebox in a neighbor’s yard. Thjes boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Wilkinson, had been missing tnpre than three hours when his bopy was founds by a neighbor, ft Irani Dewey. Friday Is Senior Day At Indiana U. ■|| ■ Bloomington, Ind.,. May 22 — (UP) t- Tomorrow is “senior day” at Indiana university. University president Herman B. Wells will j address the class in the morning. ! a cot '(je hour is scheduled for the after and (he traditional “senior i flhash” will be held in the eveni! with music by Louis ArmI Strong orchestra. \ r■ ' I i. ■ ■ ir. ■ ■ i

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BuLL E T < N Nuernberg, Germany, May 22.—-(UP)-—A U.S. army cotirt* martial sentenced a 19-yearold American soldier to death today for the premeditated murder of two German civilians. Pvt. John F. Vigneault of Goffs Falls,' NjH., was found guilty by a lOpfficer court, of shooting 'the Germane who 'gave hi®n • and another Gl‘- a ride and 1 then stealing the car last April 19. 1 ! i Red Prisoners Post Guards To II i ‘ Prevent Escape Sentries Posted By Prisoners To Halt Escape, Bloodshed Koje Island, ‘May 22.— (UP) —Communist prisoners of war .posted guards inside the barbed -wire of notorious, compound 76 tonight to prevent fellow captives ■ from escaping. I', Their action wps notpd. for the first lime by allied newsmen shortly after Gen. Janies A. Van Fleet. Bt‘h army commander, visited the prison compounds! here and de-, dared that he believed, violence had ended, f | I I ' i Allied sources tyere indicated the : sentries were posted by the prisoners themselves tci preve-nt fanatics (from attempting escapes! that could lead to new bloodshed and probably would be unsuccessful even if the captives got outside the Compounds. Two strong searchlights beamed a flood of light bi(o compound 76 from adjacent hills. The sentries, wearing red badges) on thpir Caps, obviously were keeping a sharp , watch on events in and out of the | .compound. - 1 j Van Fleet' said? earlier,” 1 don’t think there will lie aby more trouble." I ' , ' ! | His erptismistkr outjotik differed sharply with that of news WirreIspondents and with recent v|e-ws of the prison prig. Gen. Haydon L. Roa tn eV. ! , 1 t (Peiping radio ? said today the United Natiohs was “scheming new massacres*’ in the? Koje pnd Pusan ■camps. The broadcast, heard in Tokyo, led some listeners to believe Lhe Comrnuhists themselves might be. planning disorders, possibly on underground ordpr from the North Korean Chinese capitals.) | | t Boatner correctly predicted three days ago that there would be “more disorders.”! Since then there Jias been the violent Pusan Outburst on the mainland and sit-down strikes and demonstrations among the prisoners here, including women., j. Il | I A Chinese prisigier was shot and killed on Saturday when he threatened ah allied gpard at the gate of a >Koje compoitnd. In the Pusan rioting, it was learned today, two rifle companies fought the prisoners with about 100 concussion and tear gas while four tanks irid fivie machinegun mounted half tracks waited outside the compound- \ ? The riot occurred in compound No. 3 of camp ftp. 10. Four ringleaders were placed' in solitary confinement. Yesterday f.lbo were transferred to jofn the other diehard Communists) on Koje island' (Turn To Fiuze Eight) I : —fp — : n Local Lady ;s Father 1 ' .L.[ '■ ; ; |l' j ! - I • Dies This Morning | Emil Graefe Dies Today In Chicago Emil Graefe, 9s, a retired business and political leader of Chicago and father of Mri George D. Miac Lean of this city, |died at'7:3o a.m. today at the honfie of d dauihter, 8151 Crandon avefiue, Chicago, j He had been in (airly good hleaith until (the past thjtee weeks. Mrs. Mac Lean has beep at her sister’s home the past fevj weeks assisting in caring for her father. ; * A native of VaVaria, Germany, Mr. Graefe came to the United States when he was. about 20 age. He was active in business and political circles half a cenjtuyy. Besides the daughter in this) he is survived by the following daughters land sc|ns, Mrs. Helen Curtin, Mrs. Frieda Kraft, both;of Chicago; Mrs. starry , Ridderipg, Grosse Poihte Fa£ms, Mich., Mrs. Carl Drake! Glendglp, Cil., Willigm of Wisconsin and tftenry Graefe:of Chicago. His wife preceded him in death sfx| years'ago. ; i ; z Funeral will be hgld Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Tews funeral hoipe, 243| East 79 street, Chicago. Burial will be in Oakwood cemetery. | i bf m! :

* \ Tanker Tieup Ends I ■ R “ I ■ ■ ■ H » J/jKI., MIO * □■Ji LWB EASTjPHICAGO, Ind., deputy sheriff Michael Rivich (right) serves a court ordier to open his bridge on bridge-tender John Bialas at the Indiana Harbor ship canal where striking oil worker pickets have held the span closed for 21 days. First craft through as pickets withdrew was a tanker carrying >2,700,000 gallons of gasoline bound for Wisconsin ports. ; I , ! ( j, .....li ,1 1 ,„, ~, R P

Early Return Os Rail Lines Being Planned 3-Year-Old Wage Dispute Settled, To | Return To Owners Washington, May 22 —t (UP) — President Truman, pleased with settlement of the three-year-old railroad wage disput?, said today he will j return the lines to their, private jiwners as soon as he can get the ipapets signed. Mr. Tiuman told his news Conference that the dispute could have been settled, as it was last night, back in 1950. He expressed hope that railroad labor and management henceforth will abide by the railway labor act which had been successful until August, 1950, when Mr. Truman seized the railroads to avert a nationwide strike. The president praised his assistant, John vR. Steelman, who came up with the proposal that resulted in the rail* settlement. . The agreement signed at the White House shortly before midnight brought to a close one of the longest and bitterest labormanagement disputes in U. S. history. The dispute oyer wages and working rules begatl (hree years ago. Mr. Truman seized the railroads 21 months ago io head off a nationwide rail strike. The settlement terms, which are still to be translated intp the precise legal language of collective bargaining contracts, provide for retroactive wtfge increases whici) will bring immediate lump sum payments of from S6OO ot $l,lOO to 150,000 engineers, and firemen. These payments will cost the railroads about $100,000,000. , ' r v . Yard workers, who now average $1.59 ain hour, will get an increase of about 24% cents an hour. Train \irews will get 17% cents an hour mroe than their present average of $4.95. 'the agreement, which runs until October, 1953, alslo makes several changes in the complicated working rules of the railroad industry.. One change, which union leaders hailed as a “major Improvement,” allows union officials to veto demands by railroads to lengthen the “divisions” or scetions j>f a railroad system which now constitutes a day’s run for train crews. The settlement was proposed by presidential assistant John R. Steelman and accepted by the railroads two days ago. The Unions gave their “final and binding” assent to (he terms after a five-hour session in Steelman’s White House office last ngitit. ' ’ INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with occasional showers north, partly cloudy ? with widely scattered showers south tonight and Friday. Not much change in temperature. Low tonight 55-60. High Friday 65-75 north, 75-80 south.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May, 22, 1952. - . .. - ■ —. .r. ' • _

East German Leader Warns On Peace Pact j ■ J Says Separate Pact Would Unity Beflin, May 22— (UP)— East German premier Ottd GrotCwohl said last night that west Germany’s separate peace treaty with the western allies would wreck chances for unification and bring, the country tp the brink of civil war. ? Grotewohl’s warning came. as: allied big three and west German! delegates announced at Bonn Uxat’ the peace treaty '-H technically' known as a peace contract—was now ready for signature by the four foreign ministers next Monday.: The east German premier told the Communist national front council that the treaty would "bring Germany into the hood of civil war and a new third world war.” |: He said signing of the pact wouldbe “the final blow” to Communist attempts to bring about understanding and unity between tt)e east and west German governments. A communique issued after the council meeting galled on east Germany to rearm to nieet tha threat posed by the new treaty. i "This hour of national emergency makes it necessary t|hat the people of the (east) German democratic republic raise their own national defense forces, 1 ’ the communique said. ( . j It accused west German chancellor Konrad Adenauer of plotting to split Germany permanently and to turn the western zones into a “colony of American imperialism under ‘plague-general’ Matthew B. Ridgway as governor - general.” Ridgway will succeed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as supreme allied commander in Europe next week. Completion of the peace treaty except for a few minor technical questions was annoupced by American deputy high commissioner Samuel Reber in Bonn last night after a 14 %-hour negotiating ses-i sion. < The western and German representatives: 1. Acecpted a German proposal that west Germany split its $2,678,000,009 defense budget half-and-half between its own defense forces and allied troops stationed in Germany. 2. Adopted a German proposal that Germany contribute 12 divisions to the proposed new European arrny. : 3. Dropped, at Germany’s request, a clause binding any future government of a reunited Germany to the \treaty. . ■ —“ _ pj Treasurer Reports On Tax Collection Adams county treasurer Richard D. Lewton -today issued the’ following report on the spring tax collection; I ■ The total money collected for personal and property tax jwas $605,872.90; ditch assessments came to $11,317.79; iand from the three banks in Adams county totaled $9,878.79. The distribution of the total money collected, is: 50 percent to the First State Bank in Decatur; 39 percent to the First Bank of Berne; and 11 percent to the Bank of Geneva, i { ■ 1 " >'

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T . _ South Congressmen ! .Threaten Controls ■ Protest Action On ; Defense Contracts [AVashin'gton, May 22. —(UP) — ‘Hep. Paul Brown (J>Ga.) said today that southern congressmen may try to kill the controls law it the givemment insists on awarding defensecontracts on the basis of regional unemployment instead Ot low bids. ' i Brown and six other southern house members appeared before a government panel which is study* iyg whether clothing contracts should be channeled to unemployment areas of the east and north* east even though lower prices could be obtained elsewhere. Ji Brown skid he and his colleagues •'[lntend that this shall not happen.” ; He asked the panel to make a de* cision promptly “so we pan kill the defense production bill or amend it." i: The senate banking committee has approved a bill extending wageprice controls to next March 1 and continuing other features of the defense; production act for a year beyond June 30, the law’s scheduled Expiration date. ‘Other congressional developments: •' Threats;— Secretary of agriculture dhaples E. Brannan said at a senate hearing he intends to keep on branding Sen. James P. Kem (RM(>.) as. the foe of farmers!* running for re-election this year, put Brannan “on notice’? that, “the libel laws being what they are you’d better document it: thoroughly."' Brannan said he would document his charge “thoroughly.” j Budget-—House leaders opposed $ senate bill to create a joipt comihlttee 6ri the budget. The measure, approved by the senate 55 to 8, is aipted at giving ( congress tightef ciontrol 9ver federal spending. But acting chairman E. E. Cox (D-Ga.) of the house rules committee called the bill an attempt by the senate “to barge in on the house in its constitutional right to initiate appropriations.,’ Appropriations chairnaan Clarence Cannon (p-Mo.) also opposed the senate measure. He Said it would be unconstitutional. Foreign Aid—Rep. Carl Hinshaw (RrCal.) said that before tlje house votes on foreign aid it should take into account criticism of the United States by Aneurin Bevah, British laborite; Hinshaw said it is possible that Bevan might become leader of the British labor party (Turn To Page Four) Graduation Rites Here This Evening Commencement To ~ Open Festivities Commencement Exercises at Decatur high school mill begin tonight at 8 o’clock in the school auditorium. Guest speaker, Dr] George E. Davis, will speak to the graduating class on his theme, [“How Smart Are You.” Dr. Davis ig famous as an interpreter of the gfeat Indiana bard, James Whit* [comb Riley, and is currently! director pf adult education at Putdue University. " i The commencement will only be the beginning of the ail-night affair that has been planned for the young men and women to provide wholesome diversion for their traditional "flight out.” When the graduation prom ends,; which, will probably be about ; mid-, night, Mr. and Mrs. BUrdette Custogether with co-hosts Mr. and Mr*- Charles Hite, have scheduled a buffet dinner at the Custer residence, 358 Winchester street, for; the entire graduating class. At 2 a.m., immediately’ following khe dinner, Roy Kalver will present a speciakshowing pf “Sound Off*”? p technicolor musical starring Mickey Rqoney, at the Adams •theater. -1 ■\ [ i [a Then, as has been announced, the Lions cbm mence their didoes at the American Legion home, with entertainment and a breakfast. f

p — Admiral Joy In Parting Blast At Negotiators Tells Reds Decision I’ Fbr Peace Or War Is Up To Communists Pa&munjbm, Korea, May 22 — (UP)i —Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy stepped out of the Korean armistice talks today with a parting blast at Communist negotiators and the statement that there is “nothing left to negotiate.” The senior allied delegate, [ who has served the entire 10 months and 12 days since the talks began, told the Reds that the decision for peace or more war in Korea “is in your hands.” During a 1 moving \ 1,200-word statement of United Nations aims, Joy said: , “You have increasingly presented eiidencp before the world that you did not entei 1 these negotiations with sincerity and high purpose,; but rather than you entered them to gain time to repair your shattered armies, and to try to accomplish at the conference table what your armies could not accomplish in the field ” He 1 then turned over his job to Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison with tbe words, f’may God be with [ him.” Joy turned and.left the armistice tent so abruptly that the Communists thought for a moment he was breaking pff the talks. Their translators quickly set them straight. Joy’s statement took up most of the 48-minute morning meeting. Harrison led the allied delegation back for a 32-minute afternoon session, and will meet with the Reds again Friday. Joy told the Communists once more; that the allies will not go beyond their April 28 offer to'return Only the 70,000 Red prisoners who want to[go\back to Communism] The other 99,000 prisoners (Tar* To Page Bight) Poppy Day Sale Here Friday And Saturday I Public Is Urged To ■ Donate Generously “A poppy on every person; remembrance in every heart.” That is the slogan for Poppy day* which will be marked in Decatur and throughout the nation Friday and . Saturday. The annual Poppy day sales are sponsored, by the ladies auxiliary of Adams Post 43, American Legion, with the auxiliary members and igirls of the junior auxiliary conducting tjhe sales. i , The Poppy sales will get underway Friday with the workers’ conducting the sales at industries in the city, while the business district Will be thoroughly canvassed all day Saturday by the volunteer workers. The Legion auxiliary is planning for record sales this year as ihe need for the organization’s aid to veterans and their families in child, welfare and rehabilitation is growing steadily. All; proceeds from the poppy sales are devoted solely to this welfare and rehabilitation work and leaders of the Region auxiliary in Decatur urge generous contributions by the public in the purchase of the little red flowers. Poppies which are sold here are made by the patients at the Veteran’s hospital at Marion. These 134 veterans, despite their illness and disabilities, have increased their efforts and made, all by hand, 882,990 poppies, which is 220,000 over the hospital’s quota. The little red flowers which will be sold here symbolize the poppies of Flanders field, where are buried so many American heroes of World War I. ! O \ ■ ■ . .< . I " 5 1 \ ... I *

Allied Planes Blast Reds' Supply Center ■■ ■ - . . War Manufacturing Site Flaming Ruin Seou, Korea, May 22. —(UP) — Allied 1 fighter-bombers blasted a huge Communist war manufacturing and supply center near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang into a flaming ruin in an all-day attack today. The [raid reduced at leasts 117 buildings between Pyongyang and Chinnatnpo, its west coast port, to smouldering rubble and heavily damaged 84 other structures. The ; fighter-bombers launched their all-out assault at dawn after air intelligence officers reported a weeks-long buildup had reached a peak. Relays Os jet and propellerdriven planes continued the attack with bombs, rockets, napalm and machine-gun bullets until nightfall. On the ground, more than 100 U.S. tanks lined up along the shelltorn ridges of the central front Wednesday and killed or wounded at least 354 Communists in one of the biggest “tank shoots” of the war. i The [barrage from gun barrels of \ two tank [battalions topped five days Os steady daylight drupifire into enemy bunkers in four areas of the central front Two battalions comprise 132 to 144 tanks* depending oh size. } Communist artillery struck back today with Violent artillery attack. They threw 4,183 rounds at the U.N. lines in early hours in a nearrecord : barrage. Heart Failure Cause I’ Os Rockefeller Death • j Coroner's Verdict Is Returnd Today The death of Frank Rockefeller, 52, of I Chicago, whose body was found in a thicket along the Wabash river near Unn Grove shorU ly before noon Wednesday, was caused; by congestive heart failure, Harmon Gillig, Adams county coronet*, ruled today. The coroner’s verdict was pronounced following an autopsy held this morning at the Jahn funeral home in Bluffton, where the body was taken. ' The ' coroper also said that Rockefeller, a contractor, apparently had been dead about 36 hours at the time his body was found. The Chicago man had been visiting ip Bluffton at the home of a son, [Howard, and was reported I missing Sunday night by the son when he failed to return from a fishing trip on which he started Sunday noon. Rockegeller’s auto, parked along the highway near Linn Grove, was towed into Berne yesterday morning, ahd search for the man was launched after the auto, bearing Illinois; license plates, was identified as one owned by the Chicago man. Rockefeller is survived by two sons, Howard of Bluffton and Frank H. of Chicago: two daughters, Mrs. Mary Steegan and Miss Edith Rockefellre, both of Cicero, 111., two grandchildren and a sister. The body probably will be sent to Chicago for funeral services, and then to Wisconsin for burial, ' Canning Plant Head pies [This Morning Elmer Schmitt, 58, of Arcanum, 0., owner of the Decatur Canning co., Incl, died at 2:30 o’clock this morning at Grandview hospital in Dayton, O. Although he had been in ill health for the past two years, his death was unexpected. Survivors include his wife, Mabel, and two sons. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. ;

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Stalemate In Korean Talks r laid To Reds Former Commander In Far East Speaks / To Joint Session May 22 — (UP) — Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway today blamed i the stalemated Korean peace talks on the “blind hatred, vituperative venom, the vicious falsehoods” of the communist negotiators. The former supreme United Nations commander in the Far East told a joint session of congress that “there rests in the communist hands a logical, reasonable, and honorable settlement on equitable terms.” “Acceptance or rejection, cessation* or continuance of hostilities . in Korea, is now* the responsibil- 1 ity of. the communist leaders,” Ridgway said. This was RldgWay’s only refer- ( ence in his 2,500-word speech to the possibility ot\ renewed large- ' scale warfare tn Korea. He did not mention the recent capture by ' communist prisoners in the Koje ’ Island camp of Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd, and the quickly-repudiat-ed concessions which were grantc ed for Dodd’s release. Many con- ’ gressmen have demanded Investi- [ gations of the entire. Koje affair. Ridgway had met earlier today | with the senate foreign relations committee to discuss his new assignment as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s successor as Atlantic Pact commander in Europe. Ridgway divided his first speech to congress into discussions of military operations in Korea, the armistice negotiations and American relations with Japan. He said Japan’s continued role “at our side” depends “more on us in the immediate future” than on the Japanese because "ours is the role , of leadership." He said the Allied Bth army, “under the conspicuoqs battlefield leadership” of Gen. James A. Van Fleet, repulsed repeated enemy attacks, “passed into the counter-of-until by November last it stood fensive and continued its advance , approximately where now It stands / —proud, defiant and confident of its capability for accomplishing any mission it might be Assigned.” Ridgway praised the U.N. truce negotiators—“individually and collectively of as high principled integrity, fidelity, courage and vision, as any group assembled fbr any similar purpose anywhere, , anytime”—for their efforts in “full I faith and loyalty to achieve an honorable armistice ..." “That they have so far been unsuccessful is no slightest mark of failure,” he said, “but rather, a monumental tribute to their strict adherence to United Nations [concepts of human dginity ahd hdman rights and to their efforts in the cause of peace . . , they have . served well. > “They have striven with logic and reason, with patience and restraint, ahd above all with principle and truth, to overcome the blind hatred, the vituperative venom, the vicious falsehoods, deliberately employed, which are all 1 inseparable elements of the technique of communist negotiation.” Ridgway repeated his denunciation of communist charges that U. N. forces are using germ and gas warfare n Korea. J Commissioners To Take Bids June 2 The Adams county board of com- . missioners will receive bids for a corn picker for the county farm at the next regular to be held Monday, June 2, Otto Hoffman, president of the board, said. The commissioners also will receive bids on the same date for furnishing gasoline for the highway department trucks for a period of ■ six months.