Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 132.

Industry And Union Heads Meet Friday

Submit Plan To Congress In Steel Case . Industry And Union Heads To Meet After Request By Truman i» ■ I Washington, June 4. —(UP) — Heads of major steel companies and the CIO United Steelworkers agreed today to meet here tomorrow under White Hbuse auspices to try for a settlement-of the strike underway since Monday. As President Truman stepped in to sponsor Resumption ofcollective bargaining,’ Sep. Burnet R. Maty bank (DMS.C.) introduced legislation to create a new “super” emerg-' ency wage and price board tp , handle such disputes, The Maybank plan would impose a 120 day ‘‘no strike, no lockout” ban while the board studied tlie case and both sides considered its ~proposals. \ Then, if either side refused the board's terms, the president would be empowered to seizp the industry. | Sen, Robert A. Taft said Maty bank’s plan would be “infinitely more tougher off labor” than the Taft-Hartleß law. The Ohioan singled out th£ clause for “indefinite seizure” aloft g with, another forbidding governjment Changes of wages during such: a period. Maybank countered by pointing \ to another feature giving congress the right td “veto” any seizure order within 24 hours. . Tomorrow's bargaining session iifere was balled by presidential assiatarft John R. Steelman, acting for Mr. Tnimai '■ ' ■ '' u ; v Within Jttttle more than three hours afteß the White House summons, both? industry and union had accepted.’ i From Npfv York,'where they were in a stratwy huddle, the steel company executives sent word they were readyl to bargain “in a spirit of give ants! take.” >, ' ■ Philip Murray, president of the Steelworkers union, issued a terse ’ atetement, |n Pittsburgh saying “I have rectwed the invitation and will be at ithe White House meeting." IN ' ■ The meeting Will be held in Steel-, main’s office, where the last at!npt to little the steel dispute at similar i bargaining session broke wn jusi a month ago tobay. Hay bank’s plan immediately bene a subject ot spirited debate in » s'enatyj ; .4 ' . \ Jen. Rhtiert A. Taft (R.O) said ly In itk longer codling-off period d seizure provision was it any. ferent from ,jthe‘ Taft-Hartley act which he was co-author. The ft-Hartleß law,'which President Truman ignored when he seized the steel indmqry on April 8, authorizes :th 80-day hntfestrike injunction. Senate Democratic leader Ernest W. McFarland and Sen. Spessard L. Holland (p*Fla.) joined in praising MRybank, ift>wever, for "having the cphrage t|>| try to do something.” Here is M&w Maybank’s proposal would wo|h: . WhenevH the president found an , actual or threatened industry wide strike or lockout “Imperials national: defense or defeats purposes of the defend production act*’ he would reftrjthe dispute to a sevenman emergency price and wage board. IT ... (The board, appointed by the president |nd confirmed by the senate, would! nave a maximurn of 113 days to rwtynmend settlement, including ary? necessary! changes in wnke and i trice regulations. Kurin® he 113 days the hoard considered (he dispute and for sqyen days jfter it reported to the president, 4 Btrikb ar lockout Would be prohibited. The president*coul<L sepjk a courtj injunction against any violation, | Industry and labor would have sevjtn days after the board reported to of reject its recorrinendaIf all agreed, the president would change: wagej and price regulations ’in line with jthp board’s report. It (Turn To Pace Klabt)

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Eisenhower Backers Seek State Support State Convention Slated Saturday , Indianapolis, June 4 — u ;(UP) — Indiana Eisenhower campaigners bid today for delegate support at Saturday’s state Republican convention as criticism flared about how much control party bosses might exercise over the session. U. S. Sen. James H. Duff (RPa.) arrived from Washington after conferring with Gen. Dwight “D. Eisenhower. Duff will make the state’s last big Eisenhower-for-president plea before about 600 staet convention delegates at a dinner tonight. Friday will be Sen. Robert A Taft’s day His appearance, with two sons, at a reception dn the eve of the convention was considered an “insurance” measure for expected support from a majority of Indiana's 32 delegates tb the national nominating Twenty-two of those delegates will be named Friday night at disjyicf caucuses, and 10 at-large delegates will be selected Saturday. The six-day governorship scramble* was mired down in a flurry of reported deals and pressuresThere were no public commitments, and onq report had about one-fourth of the 2.116 delegates still ofaen-minded on a preference, Supporters Os governorship hopefuls Leland Smith, now secretary of state, and George Craig, former American Legion national , commander, claimed their nien hold the most , delegates. Sen. John Van Ness .was touted a strong third. U. iS. Sen. Homer E. Capehart,, who will wield the gavel as per* manent convention chairman, was accused by various factions of exerting : pressure to knock Craig out of the race. > Craig could be Competition for Capehart’s senate seat in 1956. ; 'jl J .. ’ : |lt was reported Capehari and state GOP chairman Cale Holder favor Samuel Harrell for governor and Sen. Harold Handley for lieutenant governor. The latter would be logical in view of the 1948 convention, when William tyortune bucked the state committee and won the nomination for state treasurer. Fortune now seeks the lieutenant governor post. How much weight two other gubernatorial candidates, Rep. W. O. Hughes and Francis T. MeCarI (Tun* To Pace Six) j Ask City Take Over Stratton Place Park Area In Addition Is Offered To City ' ■ 'll - ' ' ' J Together with other important business taken up at the meeting of the city council last night, ofae proposal was received and a bidding date named. Dr. Joe Morris and Lyle Mallonee offered to the city the deed to 2.56 acres of'lajnd, a field east of the Stratton addition, owned by John R. Worthman, Inc. The land, they said, .Was Originally planned by a community group in the area of the field as a playground, complete, with a baseball field, swings, a shelter house, a tennis court and basketball court. The ambitious venture, however,, was discovered to be too large for a private group to undertake, they declared, taking into account the maintenance, investment and supervision. They proposed that the city take over the land, free of charge—on which there are already some improvements —and develop it, maintain and supervise it. The council took It under advisement until the next meeting. ' Bids will be heard June 24, at city haU. on a new fire thick for the; city fire department. The price estimated for the truck will be approximately SIB,OOO, the truck to be a completely equipped 750 gallon triple-combination motorized unit

Americans Wipe Out Defiance Os Koje Reds Storm Into Three Prisoner Compounds In Blitz Operation Koje Island, Koreai June 4 —(UP) —American troops ■ stormed into three prisoner of war compounds behind Patton tanks today and wiped out the last symbols ot Communist defiance on thik strife-torn island. , In a blitz operation, they ripped down illegal flags and propaganda banners, rescued at least 17 bound anti-Communist victims of “kangaroo epurts,” and arrested 75 Red leaders. The arrested men Included five- "commissarS” who had directed the defiance of allied authority and had presided over Red “courts” which sentenced at least 115 men to death. Not a shot was fired. Brig. Gen. Haydon L. (Bull) Boatner, who took command of the island and Its 80,000 prisoners less than three weeks ago, personally directed the \cleanup and bellowed orders from the top of a machinegun guard 4ower. f •J \ The troops wore gas masks And carried bayonet-tipped rifles, A light barrage of tear gas was fired into one cotnpound. But in this one, as in the other two, Communists who had shouted threats to “fight to the death" meekly watched the Gl’s chop down flag poles, tear away flags and banners, and charge into buildings to seize leaders of the rebellious Reds. The cleanup was the climax to 24 hours of new riots and gunfire that left one Communist dead and nine wounded. ! | Baatner’s “conVincer” action started at the wire-woven gates of compound 85, where 4,200 North Koreans had brazenly defied his men to enter. At 12:30 p.m. Boatner stood on the platform of a guard tower and ordered two Patton tanks and two companies of gas-masked infantry(Tm To Pue Elcht) I Irwin Elected To City School Board Harry Irwin Named At Council Meeting Harry (Jack) Irwin, of 740 High street, was elected to the Decatur school board last night at a regular meeting of the city council. Also in the field were Gerald Strickler, Dr. Janies M. Burk and C. L. Dalzell. Irwin succeeds Dr. Hary Hebble, Adams county Democratic chairman, whose three-year term as member of the school boarfl expires Aug. 1.

Irwin is 34 years old and a lifelong citizen of Decatur. He and his wife have three children; Joyce Ann, 12, who goes to Decatur junior high school; Judy, 5, will soon attend the Lincoln school; and Ned, 2 years old. Irwin is a former unsuccessful candidate for sheriff and makes the second Republican oh the school board. The other members are George Helm, in the second year of his first termj and Gerald Cole, a Democrat, in the third year o! his third | Irwin is in business with councilman Hugh Engle, operating the Studebaker automobile agency in the city. Irwin will officially take his post for three years starting in August. ■ 1 ; INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, scattered \ thundershowers beginning northwest portion tonight. Warmer north and central tonight. Thursday party cloudy and warmer with scattered thundershowers. Low tonight naer-55 north, 60-65 south, high Thursday 82-87.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 4, 1952.

13, Fails Again To Join Army , BT: ■ ■I 1 i WET t' Sr AM jIMI : ; i IB T ■ : ” 1- «Er -vJImI iii... ;:..>x<iSSllSi^SiimilSHKk•. -«HHI JOHNNY ARZOOMANIAN, 13-wPar-oi(l “one-man army” from New York, Is put aboard a plane in Washington by Detective Herbert Marcey of tlie Fairfax, Va,, police, wadte Johnny turned up on his second runaway in three weeks to join U. S. Army. “1 don't want to see the Communists come over herel il want to go out and fight them,” he said, promising to run away a|nln- tri P he financed with |26 in bills from papa’s trousers anT 840 from family grocery cash box. The first time he ran away he showed up ati the Penatgon. looking for “just any general” Who would inio the army. W

Sewer Network Is j Okayed By Council 1 No Remonstrance Is Filed To New'Sewer j ■ ' v : ' ! r An extensive seweit network to benefit the entire northeKH section of the city was approved last jrtght at a regular meeting of the city council. The construction ot the sewert which has been hanging Gre\ many years, was approved without remonstrance and is recognized by many as a most important step in' the progress of Decatiir. There remains only a public hearing by the state board of tax commissioners, a sale of bonds, and bidding by contractors to begin the work. The; amount ‘ asked was 00,600, an amount which was considered previously by some conitr|actors to be well within the sum- necessary to accomplish the job. In addition to the construction of a trunk'-sewer through the sale of general' obligatjo'h bonds, a revolving sewer fund will be created which will provide money for construction, improvements and maintenance of all sewers in the city. The revolving fund will be created by a charge for tap-iiis.to all new sewers and laterals, the tap-in fee to be established after the pity engineer pirepares a list of benefits to property owners to be served. The benefit derived will be calculated on the basis of square feet of property. After the list is prepared, it will be submitted to the city council for approval or rejection and if approved a public hearing will be held so that all the property owners affected by such an action can be heard prior to adoption. The sewer will extend from Eleventh street at Nuttman avenue and will run north through Home(Torn To Pace

Day Camps Planned For Girl Scouts, Brownies

The calm of Hanna-Nuttman park will be energized with the lively spirit of Girl Scouts and Brownies jfor the next two weeks, the. annual summer camps of these two organizations getting' underway next Monday, Mrs. V. J. Bormann, registrar, announced tbday. Separate camps of one week eaqh will be established .for the more than 250 children who belong to the Scouts and the junior division of Brownies. Both camps will b 4 supervised and managed by adult leaders. The Brownie camp will extend from Jung 9 tb 13, ending with swim day at the city pool on June 14, from 10 to 11:30 a. m. Children from thq second through the fourth school grades are eligible. The eamp will operate from 10 a. m. to 3:30 p. m. |{ The Girl Scout camp will, run from June 16 to >2O, climaxing in swim day at the pool on June 21, from 10 to 11:30 a. m. The camp will operate from 10 a. m. to 4 p.m. \ Registration can be made with

Boy Scouts Planning |Trip Asked To Report All Decatur Boy Scouts planning to make this summer’s trip to Washington, D. C.. are asked by SteVe Everhart to report at Worth4nan field either Thursday or Friday morhing between 9 and *ll o’clock. Kefauver, Warren Win In California Easy Victories In Tuesday's Primary tyan Francisco, June 4 — (UP) —Sen. Estes Kefauver and Republican Goy. Earl Warren of California emerged as winners of the Golden State's presidential primary election today. Kefauver pocketed 68j more votes for; the Democratic national convention in Chicago in July after beating a delegation of old-line Truman followers Iteaded by ('alifornia Attorney General Edmund G. Brown. Coupled with his victory in Tuesday’s South Dakota election, the coon-skintyap senator from ■ Tennessee now comniands 251 conveni tion votes. He needs 616 to win the nomination.' Warren, three times governor in his home state and proven votegetter among both Democrats and Republicans in California, defeated On unpledged slate of delegates which openly admitted it favored either Robert A. Taft or Gen. Douglas MacArthur for the GOP nomination,. Congressman Thomas H. Werdel, R-Calif.. was the nominal head .of the Republican slate of delegates which . opposed Warren. . 'Republican U.S. Sen. William F. (Turn To Pa«e Fire>

Mrs. Bormann. The fee is 50 cents per .child. Milk will be furnished the children. Each is expected to bring a “nose bag” lunch. Mrs. Erman Johnson will be the camp director, assisted by Mrs. Byron Smith. Other camp leaders will be Mrß. Kenneth Smith, outdoor consultant, and Mrs. Robert J. Railing, chairman of first aid. All troops will be under adult supervision and each troop will have an leader and an assistants Mrs. Bormann estimated that more than 50 adult leaders will be employed in the operation of the camps. There will be instruction in dramatics. singing,* dancing, handicraft. outdoor and nature studies, cookouts for Brownies and Girl Scouts, special hikes and overnight camping for the Girl Scouts. The . adult ; leaders and camp supervisors have also looked after transportation for the campers. A Schedule of bus pick-up has been Arranged. \ 1 On the first run, the bus will (T"ni To Pace KicM)

Taft Holds To Slim Lead In South Dakota

ML : ~ i Ike Plunges Info Battle For President | Initial Campaign Speech Scheduled In Kansas Today With Gen. Eisenhower, En Route To Abilene, Kan., June 4 —• (UP) — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower plunged personally iiitq the 1952 presidential race todaty with, a return to his Kansas homeland for his first Speech of the campaign. His political bolsters predicted he would speak out clearly on' foreign and domestic issues in a talk scheduled at 5 p.m. CST from Abilene, Kan., his home town. At Abilbne, banners and bunting draped and arched the streets, the first thousands of visitors were already there, and the' forecast was for clear weather with wheatripening temperatures of 90 degrees or better. "Eisenhower Day” committee* men said the crowd would range from 35,000 to perhaps as many as the 75,000 who jammed the town of 5,736 residents when Eisenhower returned to Abilene after World War 11. The general returned to Kansas last night a few hours after doffing in Washington the uniform he has worn for years. He retired early at the town house hotel in Kansas City, Kan., in ( preparation for the gala homecoming celebration which marks his fo rm ' al entry into the political field. Returns from the South Dakota primary, in which he was entered against 'Sen. Robert A. Taft in their for the Republican presidential ; nomination, were made available to Eisenhower last night but he dffered no comment. Nor did the general participate in a huge “I Like Ike” reception (Turn To Five) . —_ Reject Permit For Jehovah Witnesses i Building Permit Is Rejected Tuesday Lack ot sufficient space for offstreet parking and distance of proposed structure from the front property line caused refusal of a building permit for the Decatur company of Jehovah’s Witnesses, which group planned to construct a church at the corner of Ninth and Monroe streets. The rejection tyy Ralph E. Roop, city zoning ordinance enforcement officer, was immediately answered by an appeal to Jhe board of zoning appeals and that group has set Tuesday night, June 24, at 7:30 o’clock for a public hearing at city hall. i

The appeal was signed by Clyde Steele, president of the Decatur company of the religious organization and was made a matter of record at the Tuesday night meeting of the zoning board- Legal notice of the June 24 hearing appears in today’s issue of the Daily Democrat. The lot involved is the same property where a request for permit to construct a grocery store was rejected by the appeals board several months ago. Residents in the immediate neighborhood have waged a long scrap to keep the area strictly residential. At Tuesday’s meeting, permission was granted to Dean Reber to add two additional rooms to his property at 945 Walnut street and the board also gave an official o.k. for the construction of a second house on the corner lot on Adams street owned by Mr. and Mrs. Leland 1 Ray. z Both petitioners had letters signed by adjacent property owners that there were no objections to the new construction.

Three Men Rescued In Mine, Two Dead Find Final s Victim Os Cavein ■ Ironwood, Mich., June 4—(UP3 —Rescue workets today found the second and final victim of an iron mine cavein near the spot where the body of his co-worker was foundThe body of Seraphim Zacharewski, 56, was found under a pile of rock in Penokee iron mine. Workers said they would be'able to free the body about noon today. Walls of the mine collapsed two days age< and trapped five men. Yesterday workers found the body of Goriha Olkonen, 33. Three'other miners were rescued earlier in the day after they guided the relief parties |>y tapping S-O-S signals on rock walls. Mine officials said that a “full” rescue crew was still down in the mine and was exploring four levels of the shaft. About 100 diggers, split into thre crews, were digging out the area where Zacharewski was working lirhen the cavein rocked the mine at 1 p. m. Monday. An eight-man crew was working in a loading room on the 2JSOO foot ’ level of* the mine when the shaft ceilings nad walls to crumble. Three escaped to safety and reported their 'companions missing. The men found safe yesterday were Victor Cox, 46, 'Matt Crocker, 54, and Christopher Hocking, 46. They were brought to the surface at 2:?0 p. m. while hundreds of well-wishers crowded forward to catch a glimpse of them. : Olkonen’s body was brought up the mine lift and positively identified at about 11:30 p. m. Rescuers had found his crushed body draped over an ore carrier. Ted Nyman, Geogebic county mine examiner, said the dead man evidently “jumped for it” when he heard the cavein but did not have time to make it to safety. Nyman was one of the first members of the digging party to reach Crocker, Cox and Hocking. “It was simply a miracle that We were able to get them out alive,” Nyman said. Cox is a shift boss in the mine, which is owned by the Republic Steel Corp. *• ; The Imine inspector 6aid that Cox kept the group from being killed by directing their search for a safe place in the deep mine. Twice Cox ordered the other men to move just before rocks (Turn To P*«e Seven) > Walter Reed Dies ■ Tuesday Afternoon Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Walter R. Reed, 84, retired farmer and school teacher, and a lifelong resident of Craigville, died at 3:15 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton following an* Illness of six months of arterial sclerosis.

He was born in Wells county in 18<>8, a son of David and Eliza Gilliland-Reed, and was married to. Clara Clowser April 21, 1895, Mrs. Reed died April 21, 1951. Mr. Reed was a member of the Evangelical United Brethren church 1 at Craigville. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Clyde Harris of Decatur, Miss Devona Reed of Cleveland, 0., and Mrs. E. L. Pennington of Rensselaer; two sons, Kenneth Reed of Craigville and 'Karold Reed of Logansport; f five grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. J. L. Chevis of Vienna, Ga. Seven brothers and sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services Will be held .at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Jahn funeral home in Bluffton, with burial in Elm Grove cemetery. Friedds may call at the funeral home after nood Thursday.

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Neck And Neck Race As Count Nears Finish Sen. Taft Margin Fluctuates Under 1,000-Vote Margin Pierre, Sd., June 4. —(,UP) —Sen. Robert A. Taft clung to an everparrowing lead over Gen. Dwight Eisenhpwer today as the unofficial count in South Dakota’s Republican presidential primary neared a breath-taking finish. With only 60 of the state’s 1,953 precincts uncounted, Eisenhower had crept" up to within only 687 votes of Taft. The Ohio senator had 64,001 to the retired five-star general’s 63,314, with Eisenhower whittling away steadily at the narrow margin. Eiaenhower gained as the vote count was resumed this morning, then lost ground as the tide surged one way and then the other in. a dramatic race to the finish. Many of the few precincts still uncounted were in areas where Eisenhower had made his strongest showing, but other scattered precincts lay in Taft’s stronghold in eastern South Dakota. The latest returns trickled in slowly because heavy rains last night turned many rural roads info mud and slowed the count. There was a possibility that the final outcome might have to await the official canvass. Each county will nfake its canvass on Saturday, and the state-wide canvass will beheld about June 15. In the Democratic race, Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee scored an easy victory and picked up eight delegates to the Democratic national convention. He trounced an unpledged slate committed to vote for Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Mlnn.)« a native South Dakotan, on the first convention ballot. With 1,662 of the 1,953 precincts counted, Kefauver had 20,099 .to his opposition’s 10,484. The Taft-Eisehhower race was the closest yet staged between the two leading GOP presidential aspirants, and climaxed the most bitter clash between the rival camps. ) I Only 14 delegates to the GOP national convention were at stake, all of them going to the candidate with the most votes. But from a prestige point of View the primary was far more important. c The tjming itself lefct drama to the race,, for this was the day that returned tb his hometown of Abilene. Kan., jfor his long awaited homecoming address. South Dakota had been counted as Taft’s territory, and the senator himself spent five flays stumping the state. The primary gained added significance from the fact ;that it was the first to'plt Eisenhower against Taft since the general returned to this country. It also w4s the last test of popular »trength between the two before the Republican convention at Chicago in July,! V t j Eisenhower jumped into an early lead in the counting last night but Taft then surged into a lead that at onp time amounted to 3,600 votes. But even then, Taft’s managers were hesitant to claim a (Tw*»» Tn p«arr

Swiss Folk Songs Enjoyed By Lions At a regular .meeting of the Lions club last night at the K. of P. home, in charge of Noah Steury. Clyde and Vincent Sprunger of Berne, were presented and sang Swiss folk songs In addition to their skillful yodeling. j Plans were discussed to hold a family picnic to mark the last Lions meeting of the season. The final summer meeting of the Lions will be June 24. Ed Boknecht of Califorhia, formerly of Decatur, and a Lion, was a special guest at the meeting. . j i