Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 26 May 1952 — Page 2

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Four Os Family Die As Auto Hits Truck On Highways Lead Indiana's Toll - I By United Press One accident in which four persrjs were klH ? d B a Y e highway d yhs the lead Over the rest of ti £ field in claiming lives ip indiaiii during the week-end. \ 4t least 10 . persons were killed iri ‘auto collision?, four persons downed and threSTdied in miscellapjous accidents for a total of 17. jsour members of one family were kod instantly Saturday night wi|n their car collided with the rea f of a lumber near their h< i|e at La Crotese. The victims James A. Benner. 37, his wife, C< c|lia, 35, his son, James, 15, and I a ]ti'o-year-oljd sort, John. !• driver of the truck, James »n. 35, East Chicago, was ar--1 by state police on charges erating the truck without ince lights, v ‘re wete two doublerfataiity mts. ;' ' . nces Billheimer and Mrs. RobHendricks, both of Indiananoere killed Saturday in a two-iead-dn collision on U.S. 31, -miles south of Edinburg, | Evansville school teachers, fret Ann Holland; 23. Bloomi and Kay; Cotton, 23, Elwood, filled Friday night when their ft a trucjc during a, pelting 4rm on a iiH-top curve on Ind. aj- Bloomfield. |Glen McCombs. Muskegon, itatioped at Cajup Atterbury, vias killed Sunday in a cartruck Collision on t’.S.<. 50 west of SeymOur. Five other persons were injured! when, state police said, McOembHcar hit the back of a truck at a lirfh rate of speed; Near Elkhart, ja| xar, driven by Lowell E. Evans boshen. struck a tree, fatally injt ring Evans. , „ Two »f the drownings occurred during fishing trips. Jerr -1 Reinhard, 16. drowned in Wabasij river near his home west of Ber if, while fishing with Alphie Bertscs. (40,. Berne. Authorities said the-twj» |were separated 20 minutes and Bdrjsclj found the youth lying face His in an inch of water near the bap®, i ’ Far Mwii the Wabash, near the Knox-Sufliv'hn county line, Joseph Grimes! |23. drowned. Grimes.; his father Ltlex and Bill Pierson, all, of Sull|v|in. were fishing and their boat capsized. The father and Pierson swhhi ashore. The hbdy B of Maurice Tull, 33, I h

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Indianapolis, was recovered Sunday from White river, Tulf browned iu Indianapolis when a speedboat he rented capsized. Witnesses skid he started to swim but couldn’t; make it. ! . | A flood-swollen drainage ditch at Wabash claimed the life of five-year-old Carol JBarrus Saturday. Heavy rains were partly responsible for the death of Mrs. [Marie Yates, 51. who burned to dekth in her home northeast of Fort Wayne. Authorities said the victim was trapped on the second floor Os her frame home when it burst into flames after being struck by- lightning. Roads, turned to mud by hegvy rains, kejit fire engines from reaching the scene in time' George W. knight, Bi, was itrnck and killed by a Pennsylvania railroad switch engine as he Walked along the tracks near his homie Saturday night. The train crew said they didn’t see Knight in tipie to stop but blew the engine’s whistle. However, neighbors said Knight Was deaf. • - Pfc. Wiltord Montgomery, 22. a native of Danville, Va.,- stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison! near Indianapolis, | was shocked fatally Sunday when he touched a [' highvoltage Wire dangling from a tree in Andefson. i

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FRANCIS CARDINAL Spellman, of New York, who interrupted a pilgrimage to Barcelona, Spaing to fly back for the funeral of his hunt, is shown as he said mass for drew members aboard the S. S. Constitution. The liner wm en route to the Eucharistic Congress in Barcelona.flntemational)

Explain Shortage Os Potato Supply Small Crop In 1951 Cause Os Shortage Washington, May 26 — (UP) — Two* years ago, thrifty American housewives were shocked by news photoglyphs of bulldozers scooping thousands of tons of surpliis potatoes into pits to be burned, buried or Jest to rot. Today, these same housewives are pounding the pavements from one grocery store to another, trying to find a few pounds of highpriced potatoes to garnish a stew. The transition from feast-to-fa-mine has been so rapid that many puzzled shoppers are writing sharp letters to their congressmen demanding to know, “Why can’t we get potatoes?’’ The answer, according to agriculture department officials ,is as simple as A-B-C . A - A. Potatoes are scarce because the 1951 crop — which should be on sale in the stores right now — was the smallest since 1936, about 337,0W,000 bushels. B. The 1951 crop Was small because farmers didn’t plant as manypotatoes as usual, and a bard winter damaged what they did plant. C. the main reason why .farmers didn’t plant so many potatoes last year was that the agriculture department stopped supporting potato prices at the end of 1950, and prices fell sharply. D. The agriculture department acted under orders from congress, which in turn was under heavy pressure from taxpayers and housewives to terminate the potato price support program which cost the government $605,500,000 between 1942 and 1950. Thus, according to (he experts. J9so’s mountains of surplus potatoes were indirectly responsible for 1952’s potato shortage. But there are some bther factors in the situation, too. I The national potato council gives the office of price stabilization a large share of the blame for the current potato shortage, "the OPS rolled back ceiling prices on potatoes by from fiVe to 10 percent last January, and the council says that action discouraged farmers from enlarging their potato acreage. i officials retort that potato prices are plenty high. During April, for example, ah official re--port showed that the national average received by farmers was $2.31 a bushel, compared with $1.12 a bushel a year ago. and 86 cents a bushel in late 1950 right after price supports were abandoned. How long will the potato famine last? The agriculture department says the 1952 crop should\slart coming in heavily in June, arid by July there should be \plenty of new potatoes in thd stores. But it is not ready to guarantee that the 1952 crop vrill be big to last a full 12 months and prevent another shortage next spring. Eliminate Odor A piece of bread placed in the pot in which cauliflower or cabbage is being cooked will eliminate the unpleasant odor. w a. vn

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TH! PRESIDENT of the N. Y. Central Railroad, CoL Gustav Metzman, doffs the coat of his uniform with the aid of CoL Wayne Smith after the I nation’s railroads were turned back to owners after 21-months of government eontroL Metzman was commissioned a colonel to run the eastern division when the government stepped in. CoL Smith headed the officers who ran the 52 seized roads from New York. (International)

Fort Wayne Youth Escapes From Jail [ Deputy Sheriff In Nebraska Slugged Papillion. Neb.. May 26 Ul (UP) — A slight. 17-year-old Indians boy who slugged a deputy sheriff and escaped from tjhe Sarpy county jail here Sunday eluded a posse in corn fields dnd wooded areas near here today. v ;■ Authorities sought Richard Butler. Fort Wayne. Ind., who fled alone last night from the jail here, Butler hit deputy Herman Spethman on the head with an iron bar. Spethman had taken the youth tp‘ the Sheriffs office to telephone his parents. Deputies and volunteers rushed to a point four miles from town early this morning after the small five feet, five inch boy was reported seen on the highway. But he apparently fled into nearby fieldjt. were confident hecould he tracked down unless h 0 succeeded in hopping a freight train. Butler, held here on a burglary, charge and scheduled to be returnsed to Indiana this week, took a section of pipe from a show’er bath on the fourth floor of the jail. He concealed the pipe when Spethmatj took him to the office Sunday to phone his parents. Butler suddenly pulled out the. pipe and started beating Spethsman on the head. Dazing deputy, youth grabbed his keys and rhn back to' the fouth floof and offered to unlock cells of tw4 other prisoners, including Gerald Fowjep 17. Noblesville. Ind., a» rested with Butler. Both prisoners declined although Fowler later told deputies he had planned to but changed his mind. i Butler then ran from the jail to the first floor of the building which houses the Sarpy county courthouse. He knocked the glasj out of the front door and fled, j - T, l e V* 0 boys were arrested with another youth and three girls May t i

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SPLIT SECOND camera action ratchet a hungry seagull at moment of snaring a fish near Quay at Looe. Cornwall. England. (International) i.

Plan Green Pasture Contest In County The Adams county dairy project committee has included the gfeen pasture contest in their plan of work. They are now making plans for this activity The Bank of Geeya will again furnish the township and county ribbons. The vocational agricultural instructors will be asked to take charge of the township judging. The enrollment committee asked to work is Holman Egly, Charles Mays, Ivan Huser, Leonrad Kingsley, P. B. Lehman, Elza Lynch, Alton Bittner, W. L. Gerke, Ben G£rke, Jim Smith, Homer Arnold, arid Vilas Habegger. The rules are being revised by a-district committee and will soori be distributed. Deadline for enrolling ijj the contest has been set for August 10. | A I _ Approve Addition For Berne School The state board of tax commissioners Saturday approved the requested appropriation of for the construction of an addition to the Berne-French school in Berne. The date for bidding has not been announced but it will' probably begin shortly. I ( " 11 5 ;at Lincoln and accused of a burglary of a general store at Springfield, Neb. Butler and Fowler both entered pleas of innocence at a hearing and were being held under sl,ooo bond. i was on parole from the Indiana state boys school, authorities said. The two . teen-age girls arrested with the boys have been returned to Indiana. The third youth. Edney Defoe. Iron City, Tenn., is awaiting sentence on a charge df transporting a stolen car across a state line. , Spetlrman was reported in good condition in an Omaha hospital with head cuts and bruises. Blinded in War « Fifteen hundred American seryfcemen lost their sight during World War H.

fen. Ike Narrows Lead Held By Taft Expect Eisenhower To Pull Into Lead Washington, May 26 — (UP) — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhewer’s political backers are confident that he WOl pull into the lead early this week in his heck-and-neck race with Sen. Robert A. Taft fdy' delegates to the Republican presidential convention. The Eisenhower forces expect to win most, and possibly all, of the 22 delegates to be chosen by the Connecticut GOP state, convention today and tomorrow. Eisenhower, with 380 delegates in the United Press tabulation, needs 12 to overtake Taft, who is credited with Elsenhower closed the lead on the Ohio senator over the weekend When he picked up ’2O delegates in. the Washington state GOP'convention to Taft’s four. Taft’s backers asserted, how ever, that any opposition ga|ns in Connecticut will be more than offset later in the week by the selection of pro-Taft delegates in Texas, Alabama, Virginia and New Mexico. . Democratic presidential candidates also faced a crucial week, with 219 national convention delegate votes at stake in eight 1 tates. Democrats in President Truman’s home state of ’Missou ’i are expected to pidk 34 uninstructed and uncommitted delegates at today's state convention. Mr< Truman, who is not a candidate for renomination, probably will be named a delegate-at-large. ’ - Kentucky Democrats intepd to give Vice President Albeit W. Berkley his first large bloc ot delegates for the presidential nomination when they name 26 delegates at a state convention tomorrow. The United Press tabulation of pledged and publicly committed delegates chosen so far shows Kefauver with 13816, mutual (security administrator W. Averell Harriman, 95’6. Russell 63>6 and Sen. Rdbert S. Kerr of Oklahoma SO Russell has ia good chance of Showing a net gain during the week. in other political developments: 1. Gov. Paul A. Dever of Massachusetts. who will keynote the Democratic national convention, said Democrats should take a •'forth-iright’’ stand on ciVil rights in,their 1952 platform. 2. Harold E. Stassen, who admits he no longer has a chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination, appealed to new and independent voters to help the Republican party ‘change’ the national administration. 3. Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois repeated again that he does not\ want to be the Democratic* presidential nominee. But he added it would be “presumptuous, arrogant and conceited 11 ’ for him to say now that he would not accept a draft.

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RfP. FRANK CHELF (D), Kentucky, Is interviewed by White House reporters after a one-hour conference with President Truman during which Chelf, chairman of the House subcommittee investigating the Justice department, asked the President to turn over Attorney General J. Howard McGrath’s income tax returns, j (International) - s PEMOCRATWANT ADS BRING RESULTS I

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