Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 129, Decatur, Adams County, 31 May 1952 — Page 1

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i ■ini— ■,. *■ CLUB-BVVINGING COMMUNIST rioters attack a French gendarme (middle) in Paris during bloody antlRidgway. demonstrations. Another gendarme (left) fjees the attack. The rioting resulted in one death, injury to: hundreds, and arrest of Jacques Duclos, Parliament member and No. 1 French Communist, for carrying -concealed weapons. > ' I i \, 1

Van Fleet Says |th [Army Set For Red Drive i General Says Bth \ | Army Will Defeat I Reds Decisively k|SBOITI^ Korea — (UP) —\ fierr. Ikntes A| Van, Fleet said Saturday | fep doesnpt -believe the 1,000,000man Communist army in Korea B “fooliili enotfgh” to start a ii|ajor offensive fiut that if It does ms Bth kt m y wlll “defeat, it demsively.’T e [ Van Fleet’s statement to newsmen herd threats by the dpmmun&i truce delegation at PanmunjOtii tc) turn Red forces j loose in • Retaliation for alleged ‘tmassacrb|’’ of Communist pris-_ Opers of war in the Koje Island ' >*mps. | ; IfFhe StOarmy commander said Wat' the ‘Cpmmunists have suffici'■lpt strength for a limited ( campgign but that it would he easier tq contaißithan the Red drives, in sprirjg of 1951, which wbre ' thrown bßsk after thef Allies rplled .Sth the ji|itial punch, j <t‘He, the enemy, miist know.” &d Van[|Fleet, “that the Bth Mmy. witft its trained divisions, firepower, Jnobility and naval and air suppoHl will make him pay a disastrous mrice for any offensive. Iti my opmSon he is stlil smarting <j|er thostejdefeats of last summer aiid has no appetite for more of them.” 11 aVan FlfOt said the Communists Halve a tw® and. one-half to .one |n manpower and a two tRi one superiority in artillery. ‘flaowOverri he said, “he is interior in tank strength and tank — ' Wust w’ha[t the Communists will d«> Van Hoet "said, is the “$64 question.l ,/ ’ He made these points: m. U. efforts to gain control 1 of rebellipi s prisoners have been in strict inherence to the Geneva (Knventicm j’|. Prispfier sit-down strikes in Alril and; day were tied in with tflfir proßt ganda tirades at Panriinjom. | J • , _ ~ O. He does not believe the Communists Wjll use germ warfare, w>ich theyjpave accused the Allies oRI doing. 11 , [||. Thepp. n. air interdiction pgbgrana against Communist supply lines hks not prevented them building up adequate supples. | , ffUnfortiijiately,” Van Fleet said,: “Opr air interdiction is not quite enough to! prevent the enemy from? supplying |ps forward areas.” . || 1' ■ ■ ' ■ Dies In His Father's Car \INDIAbjiPOLIS, UP — William Rosner, |wo-year-old son of the mrnard |U Rosners, died in his father’s stalled by Memorial Oy holiday traffic at »a street inttrsectiod yesterday. A heart condition wais blamed. The boy was Mund unconscious in the yard of $8 home'while playing and the father triißd to drive him to General hospital but couldn’t make time because of traffic. ■> r •■.‘•J - r

Holiday Death Toll Is Heavy In State At Least Eight Die \ In Highway Wrecks By UNITED PRESS . Death reaped a bumper crop of lives during the first half of the three-day Memorial Day weekend in Indiana. At least eight persons w’ere killed in traffic and thHe died in miscellaneous accidents Joit a total of ii. j:| 1 , Three members of an Indianapolis family dleit in a bus' - auto accident ooi Ind. 07 near Fortville. Mrs. Mayy Borrorj and her daughter, Mary Lpu, 10; were killed outright, and her' husband, Frederick £»., died sevleral? hours later in an Aftderson [ hospital. No one on the 1 Greyhound bus was injured. j ' ! A man struck and killed on In d. 43, near CfaWfotdsville, .vtas identified Hite Friday as Elga R. Johnson. 80, resident of a nursing home in Lafayette. ' Another car-pedestrian accident claimed t))e life of Cath Ie b n Merhley, q. Evansville. She was killed when she walked in front of a car driven by Charles) L. Tremper, 40, Evahsville, in Ihi. 62, near her hopie. 1 / Two men? were killed in separate accidents on Indiana fartnb. Elmer 'WiSsler, 59, wgs killed when a guy4wire he cut on his farm near Abington, south of Richmond, touched an 11.5<)0-volt high tension- wire and sent the current through his body; Russell White, 56, was killed when a tractor he was driving on his farm four miles southeast of Noblesville Overturned on him. Other traffic victims were John B. Kell, 16,1 Attica, killed in a twocar collision | near Attica; F. Amos Jr., 24, Gleason and Indianapolis, killed when his car swerved off a highway near Oak- , land City; Mrs. Inel Lewis! Cunningham. 32, Detroit, Mich., thrown from a car nehr Oakland City in a collision. Retired Geology, Profi JJ : . Elmer Switzer, 75, of Indiana University, died after a fall from a scaffold w'hile painting his house in Bloomington. ■ ’[< ■'! ■,(; i : - .■, I ■ Rehearsal Sunday For Atomic War Foot Soldiers To v Stage War Preview LAS VEGAS, Nev. UP—Tanksupported army foot soldiery un- ; derweht a finial rehearsal .sos the most realistic preview ever ati tempted of what tomorrow’s at omic war Will brings , i; The troops attack into the face of a nuclear explosion. . j Approximately 1,1)00 “housekeeping” troops at Camp Desert Ijtock -—the growing military installation on the southern fringe Os the Nevada test site —were tuning up for what the army germed “the most realistic atomic! land maneuver ever attempted." 1 , Weather permitting, the combined atomic maneuver and nuclear test will be held at dairn Sunday. • ( , The ‘“housekeeping” Jtroops include not only combat engineers, but cdoks, bdkfers, typists and clerks—the kind of soldiers who . <’r«n To Pace Six)- | Bwt J K

Fresh Support Claimed For New 61 Bill Bill For Veterans Os Korea Comes Up For House Action Washington, (UP)—supporters of a new' GI bill of rights for Korean veterans claimed fresh support Saturday for their drive to whip the legislation through the house Monday un4<fr limited debate rules. i : .Opponents of one key feature of the $l.(M)0,000,000-a-year veterans rehabilitation measure waveired as to whether, they will ask the house to. vote the bill down and lake it up again later under rules permitting amendments. ’ Rep. Olin ’E. Teagtie, b-Tex., sponsor of the legislation, made public letters and telegrams from major educational groups and the U. S. office of education support* ing the bill as it stands and opposing amendments offered by Rep. William L Springer. R„ 111. The bill comes to the floor Monday under what Springer has termed a ‘fgas Debate wiU be limited to 4<|!ninutes amendments can be considered. The bill must be voted up or down as it stands, with a two-thirds majority required for passage. Springer told a reporter he won’t decide until Monday whether to press for rejection of the bill in its present form. He charged that the bill’s free schooling provisions are rigged agaimO private colleges (Turn To Pave Five) \ , Roadside Council Beautifying Park I- t : Latest Project Is South Os Hospital The Adams county roadside council, headed by Mrs. Wilbur Stanley, met Thursday afternoon to do extensive flower planting on the? south border of their latest project— the area south of Adams county memorial hospital on High street. ' Ladies present Included Mrs. William Coles, Mrs. Ralph Stanley, Mrs. Henry Frohnapfel and Mrs., Hiram Wittnet. Also assisting in the. planning of the i spacious, tree-lised picnic grounds were MO. Bert Haley, Mrs. William Noll, Mrs. Freeman Walters and many other civicminded ladies. v The area will, wheri finished, be called Highland park and will boast picnic facilities, a shelter house and manyi conveniences to add to a pleasurable (amHy outing on a Sunday, \ . In addition to the lily of the valley, phlox, iris, lilacs, snow drops, and other varieties of flowers that were planted, red bud maple trees were also placed about the area. During last week a large hill was graded by roadmen supervised by courity highway superintendent Frank Singleton. They iused a i large grader and completed the 1 county commissioner-backed pro- 1 ject in one day.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, May 31, 1952.

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Memorial Day ’ Weekend Death Toll Mounting More Than 100 Die In Traffic Mishaps Throughout Nation J : \ By United Press More than 100 persons we're counted deafl in highway j Crashes Saturday with the biggest crush of traffic yet to come in the holiday weekend. . 1 \ One death occurred almost every 16 ‘minutes as sunny skies lured city dwellers into the open for the first long weekend of the season. Altogether, the nation counted 168 deaths —117 in traffic, 25 by drowning, seven in airplane mishaps, and 19 in miscellaneous type of accidents. The national safety coupcil predicted 310 persons would , die in automobile crashes by the time the holiday period ends at mdinight Sunday. ’ \ ' ; I It expected the death rate to htf its peak Sunday evening when millions of drivers wheel Choir vehicles onto roadways for the journey back to homes and jobs. The weather } wa£ kind to most of the country. A hand of showers extended along the Atlantic Coast southward from New York Hpd another shower belt stretched from (Michigan to the Texas Panhandle... Elsewhere only scattered clouds were reported. At Audubon, la.. 20-yeay-old Jo Annee Allwood, Kansas Cjity. killed as she and hor fiance, Airman 3-c Charles G.I LevHs, Ayrshrie, la., drove to be married. The car went over a bridge into a creek. Lewis who received only minor injuries, said he fell asleep (Turn T« Paare Fivei) Taft's Backers See Gains In Delegates Two Conventions Are Being Held Today WASHINGTON, UP — Sen Robert A. Taft’s supporters predicted gains for the Ohioan in conventions in New Mexico and Virginia Saturday. I Republicans named 14 delegates to, the GOP national convention at the New Mexico copvention and four at-large delegated at the Virginia convention. ' > Taft backers claimed a Substantial majority going into the New Mexico convention, although county and district conventions have been divided and a heated contest appeared to be shaping up. Virginia Republicans already have elected 17 national convention delegates in district conventions. Two more will be picked at a district convention next week. Os the 17 previously chosen, eight favor Taft# one supports Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and eight are uncommitted. The Eisenhower camp believes a majority of the 23-man delegation will be uncommitted and that most of these uncommitted votes will go to he general. j The pro-i Eisenhower faction' of the GOP In Georgia also chose four delegates-at-large at a state, convention Saturday. The Taft faction already has completed its 17-member slate. Like Louisiana and Texas, Geor-' gia Republicans will send rival Taft and Eisenhower delegations to the national convention to compete for delegate seats. Eisenhower will arrive here Sunday from Europe to report to President Truman, Defense Secretary Robert A. Lovett and the joint chiefs of. staff. He will doff his uniform Tuesday and leave the same day—as a civilian, for his hometown of Abilene, Kans., where he will deliver a homecoming speech Wednesday.

r Unconfirmed Report Stalin Will Retire Radio Free Europe y Warns On Reports i MUNICH, Germany — (IUP) — “Radio Free Europe” said, Satur* day that it had received j unconfirmed — and possibly fak|d — re-’ ports that Premier Jose| Stalin of Russia has been advised 1 to give up all his posts “in to improve failing health.” | Radio Free Europe is financed a group of American citizens. It broadcasts nbws to Russia and Soviet satellite countries) behind the Iron Curtain. “Stalin’s physicians have him? to relinquish all his posts in the /near future,” the broadcast said, l! ' ■ | It; then imlplied that Stalin had decided |o take the advijee and said that the alleged decision had intensified disagreements between Gedrgi Malenkov and Viajcheslav MdlotoV,\ mentioned as the chief candidates for succession to leadership. | A Spokesman for Free Euippe said after the thrti according to the Stalin already had decided to retire. > | ■' Then he said that the source of the reports could not be disclosed, that their accuracy could 'not be vouched for, and that thejf might have been deliberately fakied. ; "Jf it did not have a [certain degree of credibility we wo|ald not made It public," he added. Brief Meeting Held By Rotary Thursday The Ijecatur Rotary club held a brief business session following their weekly dinner Meeting Thursday evening. No formjal pro*grhm was presented. - i Freight Car Os Tires Is Destroyed By Fire ' A (ire in an Erie railroad freight car at ? o’clock this morning in Preble, caused what officials estimated to be at least a SIO,OOO loss ih white sidewall tires. Bmoke was noticed coming out of one of the cars-as it traveled through Decatur. ,A warning was telephoned ahead and the car was detached from? the r ( est of the train. Both the Preble and Decatur fire battled the fire and had in under control in four hours. Preble fire chief Reinking stated that the fire was believed caused by a “hot box.” Reds Walk Out At Roosevelt Service Six Walk Out On V Memorial Service HYDE PARK, N 1 Y. UP—The Communists walked out at memorial services for the late President Roosevelt Friday. Representatives of all 50 of the Unite d Nations had gathered around the tomb of the former president in the rose garden of the family estate here for a Memorial Day service. W. Averell? Harriman, head of the Mutual security administration arid principal' speaker, touched off the walkout when! he referred to “a former aljy” who had “turned traitor” to the cause of peace. Immediately six representatives of the Soviet blob in the U. N. headed for the nearest exit. They walked through the old Roosevelt mansibn rind automobiles which took them away. Mrs. Eleanpr Roosevelt, hostess for the memorial service, said the Coinmunist gpests did not bid her goodby. The former president’s widow said tl|at to the beat of her knowledge, t|ie six included one Russian whilb the others were Czechs and Poles. I “You would expect them to do somethin* ilflre that here today,” Mrs. Roosevelt said.

_____ Reds Charge UN Slaughter Os Prisoners '' f ' Charge Allies Are Making Plans For Extension Os War > ■ i '' ' ' PANMUNJOM, Korea, UP— The Communists accused the Unkited Nations Saturday of slaughtering prisoners ancF{refusing to negotiate for a Korean armistice. They charged that the Allies are preparing “for an extension of the war.” Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols, official U. N. spokesman, said the Reds apparently are “beginning to realize that the U. N. position is firm and final.” North Korean Gen. Nam 11, senior Red delegate, protested against deaths of nine prisoners in i Koje Island and Yongchpn camps Thursday and Friday. Nam twice has threatened to loose the 1,000,006-man North Korean and Chinese Army against the U. N.’s forces in retaliation for what he called “massacres” of prisoners. \ Gen. James A. Van Fleet, commander of the U. S. Sth Army, told newsmen in Seoul he did not believe the \ Communist Army in Korea was (“foolish enough” ~to start a major offensive, but if' it did it would be defeated “decisively.” Although recognizing the finality of the U. N. stand, Nam gave no indication that the Communists are any nearer to accepting it. tie said they wanted to go on with the meetings, i Am indeterminate recess was proposed. but Nam asked for a meeting Sunday, which was agreed on. i i ' ■' ' ' .i • Decatur Observes Memorial Holiday Services Held By Vets Organizations “Let us therefore resolve that we should not forget all those gallant patriots who gave their lives that we might live . . .” spoke Judge Myles F. Parrish, in an inspirational speech at the Peace Monument on the court house ildwn as the climax to Memorial Day services here. Judge* Parrish lauded the dead heroes of every war and their mothers who, though they live on, feei the pain of their passing as keenly as they themselves. He concluded the solemn oration , vfith a quote from the Bible . . . “Let us hope that the warlike nations of the world will beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” Decatur's official observance of Memorial Day began with a march of the American Legion post 43 and the Veterans of Foreign Wars to both the Catholic and Decatur cemeteries where, presided over by the American Legion’s commander, Robert Ashbaucher, seHricea. were conducted. The Rev. Otto C. Busse of St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Prelble, delivered the • prayers at the I graves of Leo L. Weber, last veterap buried in the Catholic cemetery, and George Harding, last veteran buried in the Decatur cemetery. After the services at the cemeteries, ' the detachment of the American Legion and the V.F.W. returned 1 and formed ranks and marched with the Decatur high school band and a group of Boy Scouts to the Monroe street bridge to pay homage to the navy dead by throwing a wreath into the water! The parade then moved to the court house for final services. Noon Edition ■

Phantom bunman Is •[ ■ I Sought In Illinois Two Motorists In v Illinois Fired On V t ST. LOUIS, UP—lllinois highway patrolmen rushed a spent bullet to. the police laboratory here to see if a “phantom gunman” who fires at passing motorists on U.S. highway 6G is responsible for the mystery murder of a St. Louis man. . The gunman, who police believe is a madman, took potshots at two motorists on a stretch of one of the nation’s busiest roads Thursday near Plainfield, 111. ' Capt. James Thompson of the St. Louis police department said he could be the same person who shot and killed Raymond C. Raack, a businessman with no known enemies, on a downtown street corner i here Wednesday. Raack fell dead with a .38-caliber slug in his back, but police could find no one who had fired a shot in the area nor could they locate the gun. ( I Thompson asked that a slug , found on the floorboard of a car involved in the Plainfield shootings , be sent here to compare with the . bullet in the Raack slaying. One of the Plainfield victims, William Eirthisel, 45, suffered a . badly injured finger on his left hand when the gunman’s bullet ’ smashed his window, throwing ’ fragments into his finger. ( The second man, Daniel Schoner, 32, ducked and escaped injury. ’ J Police were looking for a blue car, but other ; than that scanty lead they had 'little to go on. Eirthisel and Schoner were both fired upon, some nine hours apart! a» they traveled north on 66. The' gunman was headed south in both cases. XI, k ; ___ . injuries Fatal To f Albion Bank Head KENDALLVILLE, Ind., (UP)— Fred Jacob Schwab, ! 51, Albion, president of the Albion National bank, died in McCray hospital here today of injuries suffered in an auto collision Thursday. Others injured were his wife, Evelyn, 4*6. seriously, and Mrs. Dean Warner, 30. State police said the accident occurred at the intersection of Ind. 3 and 8, four miles south of here, when the Schwab car attempted to make a Ifet turn and was hit by an auto driven by Russell C. Warier J 32. Warner was’ uninjured. ■' - j ■ \ j Decatur Youth Is Sentenced To Jail To yon Wert Jail For Petty Larceny Ralph Sells, 20, of Decatur, was arrested and sentenced to 10 days in Van Wert, Ohio, county jail last night for petty larceny. The arrest was made by sheriff Roy Shaffer of “Van Wert county. Bryan Myers, owner of a farm near Wren, Obio, told investigating officers that he surprised Sells, who was with a 15-year-old boy, as they were about to get away by car with a pump jack of his. He said that when he flagged them down Sells nearly ran over him. Myers, then called the sheriff of Adams county, Robert Shraluka. Before Shraluka got to Myers farm, however, the 15-year-old returned and told Myers that he had nothing to do with the theft and that he “just happened to be along.” The sheriff the narrived and took the boy in tow. ' r\ '■ » Meanwhile, Sells ran out of gas in Willshire, Ohio, and left the car to try and get some. Sheriff Shaffer, who had a description of the car discovered the auto and was waiting for him when he returned, made the arrest without any trouble. I-.' ... The young boy was released without any charges being placed against him.

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To Make Final Report As Head Os Allied Army Speaks Wednesday .\ , In Home Town Os Abilene, Kansas PARBS, (UP)—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower left by plane for Washington Saturday to retire from active service and become an open ■ candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. He will make his final report as tfie retiring Allied supreme commander in Washington Monday 1 and Tuesday and then, in his home town of Abilene, Kans., on Wednesday make a speech which may prove to be a major political pronouncement. Eisenhower’s plane took off from Orly Airport here at 5 p. m. He is dbe in Washington Sunday afternoon. IJis wife ond a few aides _ were with \ him in his private plane Columbine. , Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, to whom Eisenhower turned over his command Friday, Gen. Alfred Gruenthetr, chief of staff of Supreme I headquarters, and French defense minister Rene Pleven bade Eisenhower farewell. A battalion of French soldires presented arms as Esienhower .stepped into his plane. Eisenhower turned and waved as ne entered the plane, and a French military band played a salute. V . ' French authorities took special security precautions at Orly Airport, and along the way there, to prevent possible hostile Cornmun-’ A Ist demonstrations against Eisenhower and Ridgway, It was still uncertain just how acitve Eisenhower’s candidacy for the Republican nomination will be before the convention itself in Chicago July 7. “On Tuesday night,” he sa|d, “I will take off my uniform. Th£n I will assume the privileges of an American citizen.” Eisenhower still is not expected to malU any all-out campaign for the nomination. However, the fewspeeches he will make before, the Republican convention in July* al- > most certainly will be political in nature. Plan Huge Welcome KANSAS CITY, Kan—(UP) — Gen. Dwight D,/ Eisenhower will stop here June 3 en route to Abilene. Kans., for a gigantic home- ! coming celebration. Eisenhower -for - President leaders said Friday night he would arrive here by plane the eveiling of June 3, and depart on a special train for Abilene the morning of June 4. Washington newsmen will fly in а, second plane to Kansas City. <Twn> To P»*» Six) .!< ' б, Sought For Corn Detasseling INDIANAPOLIS, UP b- The Indiana employment security division sought 6,500 or more teenagers and others today for corn detasseling work during the last two weeks of July and the first week in August. Detassbling is an important chore in producing hybrid seed corn ini north central ) and east central Indiana. j No Auto Accidents Reported To Sheriff Sheriff Robert Shraluka report- . ed today that the sheriffs department had its , quietest i Memorial day in years with no < accidents, even minor ones, being reported. INDIANA WEATHER Occasional thundershowers, turning cooler central and north portions tonight. Sunday partly cloudy and cooler. Low tonight near 50 north to * 55 south. High Sunday 7075.