Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 134, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1952 — Page 1

! Vol. Il No. 134.

Seven Men In G.O.P. Battle jFor Governor u* ■ . ' ■ « Fll ’ ' d J State Republican W Convention Opens Saturday Morning | ,1 11 > INDIItAPOUS, UP — Seven ? men wfned a last-ditch battle for |>|h« Indiana Republican gubernatorial nomination Friday as 2,116 I delegates; to the party’s rotate con-" vent ion ’Assembled. V tj The |i|ld was broadened when (yierbert JW. Lane, Indianapolis, Eiid hi? •?2,(M)0 convention assessment late Thursday ahd officially itered||he scrap against six Withers who have campaigned for |ire«tak'|| ~\ Strangely, the governor candiJ dates wpbed not only the delegates j but also-; sought “favor with each | other. Nflth so many candidates, || they fdjrisaw a inany-ballot race J|fbr the| nomination and were anxious to win popularity with their I* opponent! t 0 el P coalitions which might develop in a deadlock or* a iwildflrei f movement for any one Icandida|i ; Ji J The balloting for top spot on the | state ticket probably will begin ; late' Saturday. If state chairman sCale J. folder elects to have sep- £ Urate bu&ots for\each of 12 places J |on the the governor fight t will be il|st oh the program. Hold* er may! -brder voting, however, at the sarjf time for all spots. The Invention opens at 11 a.m. IjCDST kt the fairgrounds coliseum. | State Sen. D. Russell Bontrager of *|Elkhar|Js the keynoter. The delejlgates vfi'jl adopt a platform for the J November election campaign and choose delegates at large to the national J convention before they J, ballot for nominations. The convention for all practical Jpyrposd* opened Friday morning J. when tijib Claypool Hotel thronged |p w ifh dsilfgates from all around the (state tepneet Sen. Robert A. Taft in his convention-eve trip to Hoo- 1 sierlanOand get the lay of the 1 land on the state ticket races. 1 . Delegates meet by congressional 1 district? g Friday night. They will 1 tWo national convention delJ" egates J from each of the H districts. Afterward, a platform commi|ttee| .-will work into the wee hours bfeparing planks for conven11 tion Maroval Saturday. Russia To Send New | Ambassador To UJ. Report Zarubin To BeNew Appointee j WASHINGTON, UP — Soviet J Russia ?s sending a new ambassaJ dor tc| fVashington—- ; gi Zarubin, who was Russian envoy / to London until recently., J Zarubin was Russian ambassador tq ; Canada when the Soviet spy ; ■ case ihs Ottawa broke there shortly I after iVorld War 11. J Thf* present- Soviet ambassador , here, i Alexander S. Panyushkin, announced Friday he is\ “leaving the United States forever” Sunday' to take, a new Moscow assignment. He (<|d not say who would sucI ceed him here. But diplorhatic sourc?* \ reported that Moscow's J choice Js Zarubin. J Thd Jtiate department has Zarui? bin's ji|oposed appointment “under J consideration.” He J was in the ; , Uplted 't States last September to [| attenef Jthe Japanese peace treaty II confereiice at San Francisco. J Panylskin announced his perma- ' nent departure from his post here J following a 25-minute talk with J secret&ty of state- Dean Acheson. Panaskin later told television i reporters, "Tam leaving the United State*forever in connection with i a new| Assignment. i “Veyji soon, ladies and gentle- > meii, flam leaving for my home- | land, k|f course, I am very happy ; about I ij. I would like to express Ij my really friendly feelings toward J the American people.” j 1 ■- Tl ■ | LiopsTo Breakfast Graduates Saturday ||| Gle< president of the Decatur Lions club, today asked J all mi tubers of the club to aid in |,i entertaining the graduates of the i ; Decat r' Catholic high school at j breakfast Saturday morning. L IThe decorations and table com- < mtiteefciare asked to report at the Ameriettt; Legion home <by 3:30 |l o'clock |ombrrdw morning, and all f other Jjns members are to report not la ejr than 4 o’clock. I; ' i I \' J ■■ ■ 5

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY I !

‘lke” Weathers News Conference WK JI ■ , 1“, PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (left) mops his brow during a hot-and-fyeavyj news conference with sotne 300 newsmen in a small A'bilene, Kans., theater. The press meeting was “Ike’s” first joust with newsmen cm a give-and-take political basis.

Ike Rules Out Any Fight With Senator Taft Keys Campaign For GOP Nomination To Downing Democrats ABILENE, Kkn. UP — Gen. D'wight D. fcisenhower ruled . (out a fight with Sen. Robert A. Taft ! for the Republican presidential nomination and keyed his campaign Friday on defeating the Democrats and “Socialism.” The retired five-star general, now fully in the political swim, Wopnd up a two-day visit to his home town and headed for New York, i Eisenhower set forth bis ideas and the basis for his campaign during.; his first| political speech, his first /hews conference and subsequent talks with Republican delegates to the July convention. Fundamentally, he said, he ivas in “genCfal accord”, with the Republicans stand in the mid-term elections of 1950 whiph stated that the basic difference between theparties was the fight of “liberty versus Socialism.” i _ j , By so doing,' he implied agreement of a sort with his arch-rival because 'i'aft had a pig hand in shaping that policy. Eisenhower went on to disavow even more flatly any fight with the ; Ohio senator by saying he would support him should Taft win the 1952 GOP nomination. Taft, speaking in Cincinnati, however, said that Eisenhower seemed for the most part to have “dealt in generalities” with “some implications as to a position on various important; issues—but not very definite commitments in these implications." \ - Eisenhower was firm in his attitude toward the Democrats and said he would bend every j effort to defeat them if he won the GOP nomination. He said the federal government heed a thorough cleaning out by a party not committed to the system developed over the past 26 ye^rs — the period the Dembcrats have been in power. “Mister,” Eisenhower, the name he he would be “delighted” to be known as, faced a fairly heavy schedule of politicking before the national convention in now just a month away. He will arrive in New York at 9 p.m. Friday night where he will be met" by Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York, the 1944 and 1948 GOP presidential nominee and one of- the original Eisenhower-for-boosters in 1952. At 11 a.m. Saturday he will hold another news conference at! New York’s Commodore Hotel, i. His second and final speech before the convention will be! June 14 in Detroit. After that he will go to Denver, Colo., Mrs. Eisenhower’s 1 home town, for some intermittent politicking and relaxation before the July 7 conventioti. B —.A List Bus Stops For Brownie Day Camp The schedule of bufc stops for the Brownies who will attend day camp at Hanna-Nuttipan park ttext week is as follows: I . \.i First run, leave Gay’s filling station, Monroe and Thirteenth streets at 9:15 a.m.,—with stops at the Methodist church corner, Miller’s grocery and the south edge of Master Drive. Second run, start at the court house, with stpps at the intersection of Winchester, Russell and Grant streets, the north end of the Homestead addition, the Sanitary Market on Mercer avenue and the corner of Stratton Way and Porter Vista. - F,

Sen. Taft Bids For > J ■ 1 ' Indiana's Support Has News Parley At Indianapolis Today INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Sen. Robert A. Taft said Friday he would “like to compromise on a fair basis” with his presidential nomination foe, Dwight Eisenhower in Republican,delegate factional splits like the one in Texas/' Taft said at a news conference preceding his bid for national convention delegates who will be chosen Friday night and Saturday he favored compromise in “all contests where there are serious legal differences.” “I’d like to compromise them on a fair basis of what they actually seem to be,” he said. Asked if he meant splitting delegates evenly, he said he didn’t want to say that and wouldn't be able* to determine iyhat a fair basis is until he went into the whole problem. .. [' In Texas, Old Guard Republicans took over the convention and elected Taft delegates. The Elsenhower backers who claimed they were chosen at county elections bolted the convention. Taft also said pur air has “so deteriorated that we have no choice but to make an armistice now” in Korea. He believed there would be little value In using the atom bomb there notf 1 , said universal military training “certainly” is not necessary at the present time. He claimed credit for a “liberty against Socialism” philosophy he said he understood was used by Eisenhower in his Abilene, Kan. statements. Taft said the present foreign aid appropriations bill should be cut from $6,400\000,000 to $6,00'0,000,000, and said he shared President Truman’s position on Europe that i we should maintain troops until ' Western countries complete arm- I aments. He elaborated on a South Da- I | Russians Yield To I Blockade Demands > Lift Blockade Os A \ American Enclave i BERLIN, Russia yielded Frfday to two American demands I to (lift the blockade of an American enclave irf East Berlin and to get her armed sentries out of a U. S. sector border district. The Soviets pulled their sentries i out of the Lake, Griebnitz area on the border of the U. S. sector of Berlin and East Germany just 24 hours before the deadline set for their ouster by Maj. Gen. Lemuel : A. Mathewson. \ Mathewson had told the Russians that the sentries at Lake Griebnitz, { there since 1945, would not be per- ; mitted to remain after noon Satur- ; day. The guards left Friday. They , were originally permitted in the U. S. sector to “pj-dtect” Sovietoccupied houses on one of the lake, which is intersected by ( the border. «■ ( The Americans said the sentries ( no longer served any useful pur- ; pose. . » ' Withdrawal of the sentries fol- ( lowed the lifting of the blockade of , an outlying U. S.-administered dis- ; trict of Berlin. j \ — Movies Are Shown At j Meeting Os Rotarians Scenic movies of\ Canadian wild i life and a trip over the Alcan 1 highway were shown at the weekly < meeting of the Decatur Rotary club < Thursday evening. Dr. Victor Hil- '■ geman. Fort Wayne, narrated for ! the movies, which were shown by < Robert Klaehn, also“of Fort Wayne. Dr. Ray Stingely was chairman of : the program. <

Decatur, Fridh June 6, 1952.

Gen. Harrison Lashes Truce i I Team Os Reds I ■ Says Communists Stubbornness Only f Block To Armistice i Korea, UP - Allied tiuce negotiators told tlie Communists Friday that return war prisoners on Red terms would mean "betrayal, force and bloodshed.” “Neither, now nor in the future do we intend to be a party io such a said 'Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison, senior Allied delegate. i ”, - - . I He said that only the Commfenists’ "stubborn opposition to decency and truth” blocks a Korean armistice, i He repeated the United hphtions \ command’s “final rejection” pf| tSe Communist demand for return of all listed war prisoners of war Regardless of individual wishes. North Korean Lt. Gen. Nam opened the meeting with a 32minute statement in which He borrowed Harrison’s question technique of Thursday but gave hp answers. Harrison had asked if the Communists wanted the prisoners herded back “like cattle.’f J Down Seven Planes SEOUL, Korea, UP — Sabrejets shot down ,;seven Communist MIG-15S Friday' and damaged two morp in two blazing over Northwest Kored. Sixty-four FB6s tangled ; with 28 MIGs that wer£ trying to intercept United Nations fighter-bombers on rail-cutting and supply attacks. J It was the biggest one-day bag since April 21 and one more than were destroyed all last week. Th<? stl} air force’s MIG total tor the war was boosted to 361 destroyed, 58 probably destroyed and 507 dam* aged. Six MIGs were destroyed and two damaged when 36 Sabres 81aSh> ed into a formation of 16 MlGi trying to sneak by the screening Sabres and attack fighter-bomber* Fifth air force night bomber? hit Red rail and road lines jusl south of the Yalu river, destroying or damaging 45 trucks, six box cars and two locomotives. There were scattered patrol fights along the ground front. ? 1 - 1 1 Permanent 4-H Show Grounds Are Sought Ralph S. Myers, chairman of the Adams county swine project icomv mittee,. has purchased a set of livestock scales. This purchase was authorized by the Adbms county extension committee. The scales will, be mounted on rubber, and will be used to weigh the bar-; row and 4-H steers that are to be sold Thursday, August 7, at the; Adams county 4-H club show at' Monroe. The extension committee is acquiring an inventory of 4-H show equipment. This equipment needs to be stored between 4-B( clubj shows. This fact imposes the need; of a permanent 4-H club show growds and permanent buildings J states county agent L. E. Arch-' boldl- The extension committee has been looking for permanent? grounds for some time, They are prepared, to entertain propositions, on the basis of gifts of land, long' .time lease, or outright purchase. It is understandable that a fairly central location would be most desirable, but any location in the county will receive Any friend of 4-H club work wishing to makers gift of land, lease, or sale is asked to get in touch with Holman Egley, route 2, Berne. Egley is president of the Adams county extension committee.

Five Day Old Steel Strike Paralyzing Nation Industries J . . L • ' ' ■■ . .. S • ' .1 ■ ■

Bi-Partisan Foreign Policy—Sen. Wiley Republican Leader Speaks To Senate < WASHINGTON, UP — The ranking Republican on The senate foreign relations committee, in an apparent attack on Sen. Robert Taft, said Friday “so-called American leaders” contribute to Russian propaganda by talking as if air pbwer alohe would be decisive in Europe. \ Sen; Alexander Wiley, R-Wis., appealed to both Taft and Gen. Dwight D. Ersenhower, principal GOP presidential aspirants, not “to ■ permit the foreign policy issue to become a football” in the (campaign. He said he> would Urge the Republican convention to adopt a strong bi-partisan foreign ; policy plank. \ Ina speech prepared fqr senate delivery, Wiley said,' “Sometimes certain of us here in this country are guilty of contributing to and feeding the Russian propaganda mill.” : . “So called American leaders make reckless, ill - considered statements give the Germans to understand that we are lYresponsible, that' we do nbt intend to hold a line at the Elbe,” he shld., will probably just retreat fb the Rhine, or perhaps Way back to the Pyreneies, and then we will use air power to smash to pieces everything in between’ they imply, “They talk as if air power alone would be decisive and as if we didn’t mind at all if Western Europe were occupied by an invading army. ‘let them occupy it,’ some of our ‘leaders’ seem to say. ‘We cap shower down atomic bombs bn Western Europe and blow their armies to pieces.’ ” In this he took the side of Eisenhower, tvho plugged for more air power in a news conference at the Pentagon on Monday but also declared there was no way to dispense of the foot soldier. If anyone knows of away, Eisenhower said. “I wish they would tell me.” ' . Truman To Reunion With Army Buddies 35th Division To Meet In Missouri KA'SHINGTON, UP — President Truman tooX off from National Airport Friday for Springfield, Mo., where he have his last reunion;, as commander ih chief df the atmed forces, with his World War I comrades of the 35th division. The president's plane, the Independence, took off in clear, hot weather. Mr. Truman was dressed in a blue, dowble-breasted summer suit which he told reporters was of a and brought to him as a gi't by his daughter, . Miss Truman and a friend, Mrs. Frank Wright; Laurel, Md., were at the at 'port to see the president take off. Mrs. Wii/lit accompanied Mltis Trimiau on her trip to Europe last year. , The president was scheduled to land at the Springfield municipal •airport shortly after 3 p. m. CSI, after a fi/c r.our flight from Washingtoin. Mr, Truman’s journey was one of his Over the intervening year* he has lost none of his affection for the men with whom he served in France in 1918. Reminiscing will reach a peak Shortly after dawn Saturday when the president will breakfast on Missouri him “red eye gravy" with, the veterans who served under hltti in battery D, an artillery outfit of which Mr., Truman was captain. \

— ; ; :■ . i Plan Four-Lane Road, Decaturf To Fort Wayne State Commission Orders Immediate ■ | Survey Os Project r The Indiana state highway comi mission, with Samuel Hadden, . chairman, Jap Jones and Albert , Mfwekiiig present, in special se?- „ Sion Thursday morning passed a 1 resolution ordering an immediate j purvey of U.S. highway 27 from De- > catur to Fort Wayne. Tne survey will start in the next f ew days with a view to making the highway a four-lane road all the t way to Fort Wayne. The commisr sion also stated that construction work on two of the lanes would start within d year. ' Present at the meeting from Decatur were state representative G. j Remy Bierly, Dr. Harry Hebble, Adams> county Democrat chairman, 1 postmaster Leo Kirsch and Gerald Vizard.; The four local men formed ’ a committee named by the Cliam--1 ber bf Commerce and other local 5 civic organizations which have long been interested in improving the J Decatur to Fort Wayne road. Ray H. Bowers, chief engineer for. t the commission, also attended the t special session and promised the 1 Decatur group that his engineers s would start the survey in the “next . Jew days.” ; Before the road can be made part ? of the federal aid system and rei ceive construction funds from the - federal government, it will be r necessary to cut down several of > the hills and remove some of the • curves, it was pointed out. ; [ U.S. highways 27 and 33 are the same from here to Fort Wayne and . the road Is heavily travelled day . and night. The commission stated f that it would not be feasible to re- . surface the road now since t|ie new . construction program is assured. During the last several months . the road has become filled with ( deep ruts. A crew of highway men, however, will continue to patch the road so it can be used until construction starts, probably early in the spring of 1953. The Decatur committee returned here Thursday night with a copy of the commission’s action. Provisions also were made in the resolution that place the project in the statewide plan immediately. This whs done to assure construction regardless of change in commission personnel; between now and next spring. ' , ..-T Bloodmobile Unit J In Decatur Today Regular Visit Made Here By Bloodmobile A bloodmobile unit from the Fort Wayne blood center of the American Red Cross took blood today , from citizens at the American i Legion home. , Over 35 volunteer helpers from ; Decatur took in the periodic visit. Among thSm were : Mrs. H. < P. Engle, Mrs. Thomas P. Smith, Mrs. W. E. Brant, Mrs. H. I s . Von i Gunten, Mrs. William Keller, all i nurses aides. The registered nurses i bn hand were: Miss Margaret Eit- ; ing, Mrs. Paul Loomis, Mrs. Robert Raatz. Two Girl Scouts were present to lend aid l Madeline Friend i and Greta Ereksop. j 1 - The junior police'who aided in < setting the home for the day J were Wayne Brunner, Earl Sprague, ] and his twin brother, Robert, Dick I Kiser, Robert Lobsiger, Max Myers, Dick Gaskill, and Charles Ludt. Counter workers were Mrs. Qelbergj, Mrs. R. C. Hersh, Mrs. Charles Beineke, Mrs. Burt Haley, \ Mrs. William Noll, Mrs. R. E. Glendening, Mrs. L. E. Archbold, Mrs. "Wendell Seaman and the chairman of the day, Mrs. S. W. McMillen. F 1 ' /

Four Buried Alive At Bottom Ot Pit Buried Under Tans Os Gravel In Pit ' HASTINGS, Mich. (UP)—Volunteer rescue,workers, facing a landslide that could entomb them, sifted through tons of fine-grained gravel Friday for the last of for men burled alive at the bottom of a huge canyon-like grhvel pit. The rescuers, lowered into the 85-foOt-deep excavation by ropes, worked through the night under the glare pf spotlights in an effort to recover the body of Roy Steenbock, 22. “There isn’t a chance that anyone under all that gravel could possibly still be alive,” said sheriff i Leon Doster. The bodies of Steenbock’s brotlier, Vernon, 26, their father, Henry, 52, and Eddy Lewis, 24, were hauled out late Thursday after ’one wall of the pit collapsed and smothered them under spilling gravel. Rescue workers were called to the pit, operated by the elder Steenbock, when Steenbock’s wife noticed the cave-tn as she drove up to take her husband and sons home tor lunch. The wife of Lewis, a truck driver hauled gravel from the pit, was among the hundreds of persons Mratchihg the grim rescue operations. Before her husband’s body was recovered, she had left her vigil only long enough, to prepare food for their two young sons, Eddy Jr., 4, and Jerry, 3. “The boys stuftfon’t know their daddy is gone,”%he said. Five Persons Killed In Two-Auto Crash 1 PELLA, lowa, UP — Five persons were killed and three injured Thursday night in a two-car cob lision on highway 163 east of here. The dead were Mr. land Mrs. John Vandervert Sr. of neat Pella; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ketels, Pella, and their daughter, Janice, 3. Injured were Carroll Ketels, 11; Evan Vaddervert, 12, and his sister; Bonnie, 7. They were taken to hospitals at Oskaloosa, lowa. Area Camporee To Open This Evening Annual Camporee At Portland Site Three Decatur Boy Scout troops, comprising over 100 young boys, will leave tonight to meet with Boy Scouts from nine other counties in an annuatjeamporee bf the Anthony Wayne area council of the Boy Scouts of America at Portland. Troop 61, sponsored ;by the Rotary club, led by scoutmaster, Kenneth Secaur; troop 62, sponsored by the Lions club, led by scoutmaster, Victor Porter; and troop 63, sponsored by the American Legion, led by scoutmaster Niland Ochsenrider, will all participate in a get-together that last year was held here in Hanna-Nhttman park and hosted over 1,300 boys. | The actual camporee will be preceeded by a parade of| all the Boy Scout* expected by officials to number over 1,000, down the streets of Portland. The Decatur high school band will participate hr the festivities. Z Sunday, the parents of the scouts will treat the boys to a carry-in dinner after which the crew will head for home tired After two days of exhibitions, demonstrations of Boy Scout skill, and a general outlay of the yeai-’s accomplishments by each troop.I INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturday. Continued warm except cooler near Lake Michigan Saturday. Low tonight 62-67. High Saturday 88-90 north except lower close to Lake Michigan, 90-95 south; y m:j<;JjjJ' J OiJ

Price Five Cents

Rails, Mines And Shipping Industries Hit New Negotiating Session Delayed i Four Hours Today : I-’ . ' ; PITTSBURGH, UP — The five day old steel strike spread a creeping paralysis the nation's railroad, mining and shipping industries Friday. By early (next week unless Washington negotiators can reach some kind of settlement 800,000 workers may be idle in the mines and on the railroads. U \ , In addition to the 650,000 steelworkers automatically idled by Philip Murray’s decision, thousands of railroaders have been furloughed with more scheduled to be laid off Friday. The Pennsylvania railroad »which laid off 9,000 workers Thursday, scheduled hew layyoffs because of the strike. The New York Central also planned a drastic cut back Friday announcing it would fur- ‘ lough 8,000 men throughout its system. ' Illinois Central officials said ' th.ey would shut down operations at the IC’s. Paducah, Ky., shops Friday. The move will throw 1,000 mein out of work. A walkout by 16,000 Minnesota iron miners also resulted in the lay-off of 2,000 Duluth Mesabi and Iron Range workers. In the coal mines, 40,000 workers were above ground most of them in Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. I "When the Great Northern docks at Superior, "Wis. are forced to close, 1,000 workers will join 600 riy'er boat men already given indefinite lay-offs. - Session Delayed WASHINGTON, (UH)—A new negotiating session between heads of major steel companies and the striking Steelworkers Unoin was delayed four hours Friday to give the management group more time to discuss progress made Thursday. John R. Steelman, presidential assistant who is guiding the talks, said the delay, from a scheduled 10 a. rp- opening to 2 p. m., was at the request of the steel executives. The only explanation was that the industry leaders needed more time to “talk over’,’ Thursday’s bargaining meeting a union • group, the first such session in a month. After six months of deadlock, the negotiators appeared to be getting down to “brass tacks” bargaining and the “good progress” in their; initial go-around so encouraged, Senate Democratic Leader Ernest W. McFarland that he “hoped” the dispute would be settled by Monday. ' Industry sources were less hopeful that the dispute would be settled over the weekend. They accused the administration of using optimistic talk to head oft unwanted amendments to the economic controls "bill now in congress. ’ Industry officials also said that the union insisted again Thursday thajt it should have the staggered wage increase proposed by the wage stabilization board rather than a lump sum hike, which the ( industry was reported preparing to off.ar.. The company sources said no dollars-and-cents offer was made Thursday. Rev. Paul A. Wolfe Indiana U. Speaker BLOOMINGTON, Ind. UP — The Rev. Paul A. Wolfe, moderator of the Presbytery of New York, Friday was announced As baccalaureate speaker at Indiana University’s 123rd commencement June 15.