Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 130, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1952 — Page 1

VoUL No. 130.

SUPREME COURT UVERTURNS SEIZURE UF MILLS; MURRAY URDERS MEN TO STRIKE

Ike Ends Military Life 8 • IL- .... ■ : ij, •" - IS. V -• A W </■»«.> hi x. jB B A I 'y;■ } |l|||-« J||| jWEjjjjß .. j|B i| wlvSi ■j . jgß j tfrJßßi ,' GENERAL AND MRS. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER are shown coming down the steps of the Air Force ConsteUation that landed them in Washington as they came home “for keeps.” lien. Ike liUeuda to end h|s military career and open his persona.l t?anr|paign tot the presidential nomination with a flve-week tour beginning, in Abilene, Kans., Tuesday night. . ; \ I T

’ 1 '•' W J J'' Ike's Return Plunges Him Into Politics

I 11 —— I.' *1 Washington. June 2 — (UP) — .yjjr, Gen. 'Dwight D. Eisenhower reported in klcret to defense-officials tol day on|| progress in 'building up allied I forces in Europe to meet the tljiyat of Communist aggresi| sion. || . ' " ' Top ■ Officials of the North At’ij lantic Hreaty organization agreed at Lis)>on last February to raise. a European defense force of 50 land divisions and 4,000 warplanes •by, tho and of this ytear. (But. according to recent unofficial -reports, this program is lag- 1 ' ging. .j : j The; retiring supreme allied commander started makihg his fv nal rtepejrts on ( his European inis’ . eion shortly after his four-engine Constellation plane Columbine landed at Washington national airport at |: 57 p. m. CST yesterday. After being welcomed by pentagon tojbljhraas with full military jcisenhower was whisked ? -ijin a IjimqMsine to the White House ifor an hour’s. conference with r*reside|iti Truman. Mr. Truman {.did not go to the airport to greet Eisenhower, as he has in the past. He sent Mis naval aide, Rear Adm. Robert Dennisqn. to represent ' J Defeniei? secretary Robert* A. Doiett. ( tjrmy secretary Frank .pahe Jr., tend Gen. Omar N. Braddy. chairman of the joint chiefs . 0f staff. |sat in on part of Eisenhower’s . ‘preliminary, up-to-the-minute report to the president on the state (of the joint antKtom■rnunlst forces in Europe. | White House press secretary Joseph Short said only that Eishjd reported on his work Ip Europe ( to his commander-in-chief, and p aid Qle usual “courtesy ’ <&1.” ‘ 1] • Eisenhower arranged to make similar rtepprts and tomor- , row to U.( $. afmed service secretaries and as well as’'the British, French and U. S. officers on NATO's top-level standing group. His crowded schedule today be- ■; (Turn Te Page Four)

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i ' J- — . ' 'v '* Washington. June 2 -+- (UP) — Gem Dwight D. return to the United (States pluiiged him willy-nilly itod«y into a rearing political battle flor the Republican presidential nomination. I ■ '■- | - j “ The general proclaimed a s (“no politics” rule for h|s first day in the capital,: which was devoted to submitting final reports to the pentagon and fPresident Truman on his 14 mon'ths as supreme (Atlantic pact commander in Europe. But Sen. Robert A. Taft refused to wait for his] chief rival to- pick his own moment for stepping into the political arena. Taft greeted EisenhoWer with a broadside blast at his foreign and f military policy which automatically made a political issue of the one subject the general was willing to discuss while still in unMoriji. Informed sources al the pentagon said that Eisepho(wer will ask to be placfed on the retired list (tomorrow, so that he will be free to ( campaign as milch as he pleases without violating army regulations. Eisenhower makes his first public appearance in civilian’ clothes •at a huge homecoming” celebration Wednesday in Abilene,' Kan. He makes another* major appearance June 14 at Detroit. At least one (major address may be scheduled before the Republican al convention opens July 7. The tempter of thte rival camps assured there will be no let up,; on either side, until the'] ballots at Uhicago are taken. , Less than two hours before Eisenhower landed at Rational airport. Taft was on the airways with a radio talk accusing Eisenhowjer, ’in effect, of starting American airpower on a (downward trend. He said there has been a “steady deteriorating” of this vital defense arm ever since Eisenhower was j chief, of staff. ( THI ’ | The wheels of Eisenhower’s foiir-enginOd plane Columbine had barely touched the ground at 3157 p. m. EDT before there was an (Tan T® Pace Six)

335 Killed In Traffic Over Long Holiday 520 Violent Deaths Os All Types Over Memorial Holiday p By UNITED PRESS The weekend toll of traffic deaths set a new record for' any three-day Memorial-, weekend, a final tabulation showed today. I The nation counted 335 dead in traffic crashes from 6 p.m. Thursday to midnight Sunday. In addition, 97 persons died by drowning, nine in airplane crashes and 79 in miscellaneous mishaps to give the country an overall total of 520 violent detfths. The national safety council said the number of traffig deaths was "shocking.” Its experts had expected 310 persons would die on highways. “This certainly is nothing to be proud of and is an ominous way to begin the vacation season,” said council president Ned H. Dearborn. “We can only hope the magnitude of the toll shocks the motoring public into better traffic behavior.” The worst previous toll for a three-day Memorial weekend* was in 1949 when 250 died in traffic. The 1950 holiday covered a fourday fpau and waaeven larger, however. . ...*. California led the states with 48 deaths of all -types, including 31 auto fatalities and 10 drownings. Ohio, however, had the most traffic deaths —37. ' ' < ■ New York state counted 19 traffic deaths and Texas had 18. Florida reported only one death on Its highways while Delaware, South Dakota and Nevada reported no accidental deaths of any type during the weekend. Five persons were killed in auto accidents in Wisconsin in the span of three hours yesterday. Saturday night a freight killed a father and his two sons by sweeping them off the trestle where they had been fishing apd into the waters of. Carson Bay, Minn. The dead were Edward Esjer, 32 and his sons, Thomas, 9, and Charles 12. Four other members of the fishing party, including Esler’s wife and daughter managed to pull themselves of the waters of the ba^., | state police investigated /Turn To Pave Two) County Council To Meet June 12-13 Special Session Is Ordered By Board The Adams county council will meet in special session in the auditor’s offibe at the coubi house Thursday ind Friday, Junei 12 and 13, to consider additional emergency appropriations totaling $30,616.50. ' | The council session was called by Thurman I. Drew, county auditor, on order of the county commissioners. Bulk |of the is for the highway department, $25,100, with $5,516.50 for county offices. 1 11,. Included in the county office appropriations are: treasurer properties, $75; sheriff properties, $125; surveyor properties, $4,600; assessor, operating, expense, $200; circuit court, pauper attorney, $500; school superintendent salary, 1951, $16.50. Highway appropriations include, assistant superintendent, $2,000;\ truck drivers and diesel, $11,500; single hands, $1,500; repair trucks, $2,600; gasoline, $2,000; oil, $300; tires, garage supplies, S3OQ; ditch assessments, $800; tile and sewer pipe, $1,000; insurance, SBOO. Taxpayers may appear before the council for a hearing on the appropriations, and if 10 dr more taxpayers protest they may appeal to the state board of tax commissioners for a hearing.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, June 2, 1952.

Nation’s High Tribunal Rules Seizure Os Mills Is Unconstitutional

Red Policeman Is Beaten By Berliner West Berliners Are t Irked By Blockade * Berlin, June 2 —(UP) — AngrT West Berliners today beat a Communist politeeman manning a barrier between the city and the surrounding Soviet zone of Germany. It Was the first outbreak of violence since the Soviets barred West Berlin’s 2,5(M),0b0 inhabitants from all access to Soviet-occupied eastern Germany yesterday. Al-lied-occupied western Berlin is an island of the free world more thajn 100 miles behind the iron curtain. Allied officials said some 12fi West Berliners, irked by the Soviet blockade tactics. Went to thp Communist checkpoint .at' Lichterfelde. on the border of the American sector of Berlin and the Soviet zone of Germany, and pummeled the Red policeman on guard duty there. The policeman was 1 a member of (Tun To Piute Rtx> I Mrs. Minnie Siegel Is Taken By Death j ' * Funeral Service Tuesday Afternoon Mrs. Minnie Siegel, 75, died at4 o’clock Saturday (afternoon at : ; the home of her daughter, Mra.i Harold Germann in Harrison; township, Van Wert county, ,|o.| She had been in failing health! for four years and serious for the* past week. f She was born in Willshire township July 5,1887 i, a daughter Os C. S. and Hannah Schumm-Ger-mann. ! Mrs. Siegel, a resident of Van ■ Wert county practically her entire’ life, was a memfoter of the St. Thoms Lutheran chufch, one mile south and two miles east bf Middlebury. Surviving in addition to the daughter . are two brothers* O. L. germann of Harrison township and F. E. Germann of Van Wert; ; four sisters, Mrs. Rbsa sichaadt and Mrs. Karl Holm of Lima, 0., Mrs. C. L. Germgnn of Harrison township and Mrp. Carl Schurnm of Rockford, O.; two grandchildren' and three great-grandchildren. j| | Funeral services will be con-( ducted at 2 p, m. Tuesday at the residence and at 2:30 o’clock at ' the St. Thomas Lutheran church, the Rev. August Gerken officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body hate been rte-i moved from the Zw|ck funeral home to the residence, where friends may call until (time of the services. i ( Mrs. Adelia Smith \ Dies Sunday Night Mrs. Adelia Smith, ope of Adams (county’s oldest residents, died Sujnday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been a patient at the hospital since fracturing a hip in a fall May 22. She made her with a son, - Dewey Smith, one mile west of Berne. The family had resided near Berne for the past five years. The body was removed to a funeral home at Parker. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

Catholic Graduate Exercises Friday Special Awards To i Graduates Listed Diplomas and awards w’i.ll be presented by (the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz, pastor, to (J 2 graduates <if the Decatur Catholic high and St; Joseph’s grade in annual commencement exercises Friday evening in St. Mary’s church; ? The Rev. Donald Muldoon, instructor in English at Central Catholic high School, Fort Wayne, will deliver the address. Thirty-six stehiorte, in cap and gown, will advance through ah hon<w guard of 2ft - eighth-grade graduates. Vera ( Geimer, high school junior, will be maid o| hon.or - ( The services will consist of the seniors singing, “To Praise the Heart of Jesus.’’ followed by their consecration to our Blessed Mother and singing pf the hymn, “Hail. Holy Queen Enthroned.” Benediction of the Blessed Sacrement and singing, "-Holy God We Praise Thy Name,” will bring the impressive ceremonies to a close. Special Awards Thomas Rumkchlag and Vera Geels, with averages of 93.4% and 93.2%, . respectively, for the fouryear hfgh school course, will be awarded highest scholastic honors. Other seniors who have earned an average above 90% rank as follows: Ktenneth Schwaller, Mary Ann Ulman,; 1 A|in Smith. Catherine Loshe, Mary Catherine Paterson, and, Naureen Miller. \ Awardte for a four-year perfect attendance record will be presented to: Shirley Lightle, Janet Osterman, and Mary Lou York. The boy and girl having the highest average for the eight years at St. Joseph’s will each receive a scholarship sponsored ityy the Holy Name Society and the Delta Theta Tai sorority. High School Graduates Members of the graduating class are: Adrian Baker. Marcile t ßentz, Thomas Bosse, , ohn Braun, Diiiie Brown. Francis Coyne, Mona Lee Fairchild, Robert Gase, Vefa Geels, June Kelly, Barbara Kortenber, Anthony Laker, Louie Laurept, pan Letigerich, Shirley Lichtje, Catherine Loshh Max Meyers, Donald Miller. Maurice Miller, Naureen Miller, James Osterman, Janet Qsterman, Mary C. Peterson, Thomas Rumschiag. Richard Sautbine. James Set indler, Julia A. Schultz, Kenneth Schwaller, Wii<bur Schwaller, Ann Smith, Marylyn Smith. Paul Spangler, Mary c Anh Ulman, Charlene Wilder, James Wilder, Mary, Lou York. Eighth Grade Graduates Paul Braun, Hbnry Costello, Baul Faurote, Johjn Lengerich, George Litchfield, Raymond Lbshe, Edward Meyer, Thomas Omlor. Donald Rumschiag, Gerald Voglewede, Donald Wilder, Marian Bashara, Rosemary doyne, Rita Heiman; Suzanne Holthouse, Angela Japregul, Dolores Kintz. Doris Laker. Joyce Lpshe, Ann Miller, Karen Murtaugh, Judith Parrish, Monica Rumschiag, Alice Ulman. Mary Voglewede, Marjorie "»ork. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and warmer, •mattered tnunderebowers north portion tonight Tuesday scattered thundershowers turning cooler north portion. Low tonight 55-60. High Tuesday near 7$ northwest to 85 southeast. 1

War Prisoner Wounded On Koje Island IJ '■ H ‘ Shot By South Korea Officer As Column Os Troops Stoned Kpje Island, Korea, June 2 —(UP) —A South Korean officer tonight shot and wounded a jeering, rockthrowing prisoner of war only a few hours after an American Patton tank and bayonet-armed troops tore down taunting banners inside a compound. 1 t The new shooting was reported as Gen. Mark W. Clark, supreme U.N.\commander, flew here for an inspection of prisoner stockades and said that “maximum force” would be applied if necessary toj get obedience from the rebellious captives: Ti|e 200 Communists inside compound 60 carried the prisoner, wounded in one leg, into a tin shack about feet from the They refused to turn him over to American officers for medical care. 1 The Korean officer fired three shots from his .45 caliber pistol after the prisoner and his comrades jeered and stoned a passing column of . South Korean soldiers. Earlier, at’ compound 602, camp commander Brig. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner stood in a machine gun guard tower and shouted while his'tanks and men took direct? actioh to enforce his orders that the banners must come down. Compound 60. where the prisoner was Founded, is the smallest of 17 enclosures and confines only prisoners accused of war-crimes. . When American officers asked the prisoners to give up the ,wounded man the Reds formed intp a solid mass just behind the inner gate. They sang and shouted antiAmerican slogans while a cheer leadter spurred them on. waving a, scrap of blorth Korean flag and giving them insulting phrases which they repeated in chorus. , A witness to the shooting said the South Korean officer had been goaded beyond control by the shouting and rock throwing. Only one of his three shots hit the prisoner. The man spun half around under impact of the bullet and fell to the ground. His comrades rushed forward and carried him into the shack. \ Capt. Jim Miller, Washington, D.C., head of the medical company of the 187th airborne regiment, ask-, ed the prisoners to return him. They responded by yelling belFor a moment it appeared that the apgqy Miller was going to charge; alone into the compound, but after a few minutes he and his 'men folded their medical kit and left. The troops of the battletoiighened 9th regiment, 2nd infantry division, wore gas masks as they went into the compound behind the tank. Two other tanks stood putside, their 91-millimeter guns Raided and ready. Boatner’s men knocked down a flag pole, threw gasoline off propaganda banners and set them afire, and pulled out of the compound in five minpttes. Prisoners who recently risked their lives to defy his orders stood by meekly. Clark riiade a quick tour of the (Turn To Pose Mx)

Holiday Death Toll Is Heavy In Stale * 26 Persons Killed. In Varied Accidents By UNITED PRESS Death rode the highways and risers of Indiana during the tended Memorial Day week-end. A total of 26 persons were killed —ll in traffic accidents, five by k drowning and 10 in miscellaneous I mishaps. Paradoxically; the day on which it all began, race cars roared around the Indianapolis motor spegdway in record time with no . injuries to drivers. But on Hoosier highways that , day an Indianapolis family, Frederick L. Borror, his wife, Mary, and daughter, Mary Lou, 10, was > wiped out when the Borror car ran med the rear of a Greyhound bus on Ind. 67 near Fortville. Elga R. Johnson, 80, resident of 5 Lafayette nursing home, w‘as struck by a car and killed on Ind. near Crawfordsville, as was Cathleen Merkley, 5, Evansville, on Ind. 62 near her home. John B. Kell, 16, Attica, was killed in a two-car, collision near Attica; Persie F. Amos, Jr., 24, Gleason and Indianapolis, killed when his car went out of control near Oakland City; Mrs. Inel L. Cunningham, 32, Detroit, Michthrown from a car near Oakland City and killed in a collision. Two other out-of-state-residents i were killed. Ray Smith, 31 Kentucky, hometown unknown, killed ’ Sunday -when <his‘ car was struck ? by a train at a crossing in Austin. Oscar Yarbrough, 54, Clarksville, Tenn., died Sunday of ifijuries suffered several hours earlier in a car'i M ' .■ [(Tara To Paso Mix). Al Zink Dies As Hospital In Ohio | Former Decatur Man Is Taken By Death Al Zink, 61, former manager of the Kaye Shoe Store in this city, died Sunday at 10 a.m. at the City hospital in Springfield, Ohio. Mff Zink, who left here in March, went to Russels Point, Ohio, where he operated a concession at this well known resort, fie, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage last Thursday and was moved to the hospital in Bellefontaine and later mdved to Springfield. A native of Vandalia. Ohio, Mr. Zink operated a shoe store in Piqua from 1929 to 1942. As a merchant of this city, Mr. Zink took an active part in retail Shopping circles and was a member of Chamber of Commerce commit-, tees sos the promotion of trhde events. He was a member of the Elks and Eagles lodges of Tipp City and the Masonic lodge of Toledo. He was a member of Adams Lodge 1311 of the Loyal Order of Moose in this city. His wife died in 1923. He is survived by his son, Richard Zink of Springfield?, a brother Grover of Daytqn, a sister. Mrs. Gertrude Hoover Tipp City. One grandchild also survives. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. at the Cop-pock-Lee funeral home in Tipp City, with thte Rev. K. M. Glaesner officiating. Burial will be in Tipp City cemetiery, I i

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Washington, June 2 —(UP) — The supreme court today overturned President Truman’s April 8 seizure the steel industrjh CIO president Philip Murray promptly called an immediate strike of his 600,000 steel workers. By a 6 to 3 vote, the high tribunal ruled that Mr. Truman’s seizure ordter was unconstitutional. In the first ruling of itsjkin i ever handed down by a supreme .’court, the high bench held that Mr 1 . Truman had no power—under liw or by the constitution4-to ord(t the seizure. It knocked down every argument advanced by the government. ; I The majority opinion by justice Hugo Black said Mr. Truman had no inherent constitutional er to seize the mills, not even in wartime or as commander-in-chief of the armed forces. The only authority for such seizure, R said, would be by act of congress—and no such statute exists. Never before has the supreme court ruled on the inherent constitutional powers of a president. Today, the tribunal met the issue squarely. And, as it turned out, two of Mr. Truman’s own supreme court appointees—justice Harold H. Burton and Tom C. Clark —cast votes which helped decide the issue against the president. Justice Hugo L. Black delivered the historic opinion voiding the steel seizure. Lined up with him besides Clark and Burton were justices Robert H. Jackson, W lliam (1 Douglas and Felix Franks trier. Chief justicte Fred M. Vinson arid justices Stanley F. Reed and Sherman Minton dissented. Tney said in a 44-page dissent written by Vin-\ son that history supports Mr. Truman’s position “when survival itself” may be endangered. Mr. Truman received word of the court’s ruling and Murray’s strike call without comment. There j was no immediate hint from the White House what Mr. Truman would do tp counter the new strike in the steel industry. He had said previously he would cross that bridge when he came to it. J The court in an unusual .step handed down the history>-making decision. as soon ,as it convened at noon for its pext-to-last decision day of the t’erm. Vinson announced: “Admissions to the bar will be postponed until after the reading of the deciaiob in the steel case.” Black began to read immediately in a very calm voice. He did not —! as he often does —raise his voice slightly or point his finger at the spectators to emphasize his words. Eyery seat in the chamber was occupied and there were a few standees. The government’s chief lawyer, solicitor general Philip B. Perlman, seated in his usual place just in front of the bench, hardly changed expression as the import of the opinion became apparent. extreme quiet which lay over (Tara T® Pace Two) Elmer Daniel Smith Dies At Fort Wayne Elmer Daniel Smith, 83, retired brickmason, dJed Saturday night at his home, 707 Wagner street, Fortj Wayne. Surviving are four sons,- Dale, with whom he. lived and Burton and Harold of Fort Wayne, and Richard, with the air force in California; four grandchildren and four great-grandchil dren. Funeral services will be held at 3 Tuesday at the D. O McComb & Sons funeral home, the Rev. E. S. McKee Officiating. Burial will, be in th\s Decatur cemetery. ?• ' ' . . J/. ■ ■ j