Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 135, Decatur, Adams County, 7 June 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L, No. 135.

Ore Boat s&Fam Up Awaiting End Os Steel Strike

WHILE STEEL NEGOTIATIONS Continue, ore boats jam'i up-in a slip off Dake Michigan at Milwaukee, Wis. —and elsewhere. Nine of 13 pare are in view. Destination; Gary and East Chicago, Ind.

Potato Prices Rise Sharply, Ceilings Off .8 ''. L - I y'\ i J Buying Resistance J ■ ‘ Expected To Level I , J Off Prices Shortly j By UNITED PRESS Potato prices, stripped of govern* I rpent ceilings, rose sharply in many cities Saturday, but \n>arke| I : conditions and the American house| wife were expected to force thens back down again next week. ’ | i - j Spud prices in neighborhood groceries promptly spurted after? \ the price lid was lifted Thursday 1 but wholesalers immediately began! to thrtew more potatoes ionto the! market and Jhe black market «eem4 I , ed dead. ■ Prices may evendrop below the! old office of price ceilings', sorpe market analysts pre| • • “The American housewife is'the greatest price control agent in th? world,” a chain store buyer said, “She won’t let the price oL-spudl rise too high.” '• Another said he hoped "our cusl : tomers won’t buy” at the new high prices; ‘ 1 At San Francisco potatoes wer& $6 per hundredweight, with sbm® batches going for as high as s7| i. was the most common wholesale price for spUds. > Buyers thought that the priced would slip Monday when a great’; ■i. influx of potatoes hit she marketj They pointed out. that much of the| crop is of the thin- skinned wfaich will turn green quickly iff not moved. I \ | Executive Secretary Charles * { Bromann of the associated food! '.4 dealers of Greater Chicago said terminal' market experts were "very optimistic that prices will, fall below the old ceiling levels as soon as the crop comes in.” “The black market is broken as of today.” Bromann said. “There’s, just no inceptive for the, crooks ; without ceilings and with supplies { increasing." | i f ’ A Chicago super-mkrktet buyer' I agreed with Bromann and said the market should le*vel off when the ■ new crop is brought in next week. He said the market there was “in a turmoil” and revealed that % California whites had bounced from I $5.75 a hundred weight to about $9. Prices at and ,SL Paul took a sharp rise from 90 , cents for 10 pounds to $1.56 but' .] | _■ housewife resistance was so strong that potatoes were moving slowly. A Wholesale buyer said, “A lot of spuds should be conning up from Texas and Alabama in a few days and there’ll be plenty by'Tuesday. ■■ ' “I suppose We’ll be forced to buy," one big retailer said. "Bui. I hope the ladies won’t until prides come/down.” . , - / , ... _ . 11l Pints Os Blood Given Here Friday Decatur American Red Cross secretary. Mrs. Max Schafer, reported today that the bloodmobile unit of the Fort Wayne blood center received 111 pilots of blood from' ’citizens of Decatur and area. Mrs. Schafer f farther stated that a very small percentage was turned down for any blood defects, and that nearly no reactions were suffered by any of the donors. During the day, however, it was noted that' some contributors felt somewhat k depressed, this, the 'Official said, was probably due to the high humidity present yesterday, but ? was in no way serious. ! 4

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Catholic Graduate Rites Held Friday High School, Grade f ; Exercises Held Here ' Graduation. exercises were held Friday evening at St. Mary’s Catholic church for the 36 members <if the senior class of the Dfacatur (jatholic high school. (The Rev. Donald Muldoon, Ene llsh instructor at Central Catholic high school in Fort Wayne, delivered the commencement address,' telling the graduates, their parents and teachers: /‘This is your hour of triumph, the culmination of many years of preparation toward assuming the dfatltes and responsibilities of atlult citizenship. j“To you graduates, tills is another step, an important step as you go out into the world. You nfust not forget your obligation, an ohligatioß to those who have helped you throughout these of preparation. “The purpose of education is not merely a matter of teaching, but prepare the graduates: for a thoroughly happy life.” • Diplomas were presented to the 36 high school graduates and the 36 eighth grade graduates ,by the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz, dhurch pastor, assisted by the Rev. Robert Contant. .''Honors not previously announced were the scholarships Ifor the eighth graduates for scholastic achievements, by the Holy Nafaie society to Gerald Voglewede and by the Delta Theta Tau sorority to Judith Parrish. I The ceremonies concluded with the benediction of the Blessed Sgcrament by the Revs. Vincent Lengerich. Hidden Spending By Government Fought Agencies' Spending Assailed By Aiken WASHINGTON, yp — Sen. George D. Aiken pledged a continuing fight Saturday -to bring "hidden spending” by government “out-into the open.” The Vermont Republican won opening round Friday night by getting the senate to label as a direct appropriation the $109,301,134 granted to the /Commodity Credit Corp, to pay ibssejs iin s supporting .farm prices. Previously, tbo price support funds had been listed as “borrowing authority,” a foßm of blank , check granted by copgress. > ' •, The funds were included in a $840,704,604 agriculture appropriations bill approved by the Senate as titer beating back several economy efforts. The big economy wrangle was over an unsuccessful drive to cut $100,000,000 a year from soil conservation payments to farmers. The measure was sent to a hofase-senate conference i committee! carrying sll6, 118,905 more than dhd ; $724,5857099 approved hy the hofase for the agriculture depart- . meat. * .j’.-' /father congressional developments: ~ | ; CORRUPTION—A house judiciary subcommittee investigating the /justice department promised to avoid repetition of sensational testimony which collapses into thin air.; Chairman Frank L. Chelf DUCy said “R was just one of .those things',” referring to testimony which falsely linked former Democratic national chairman Wiljiam M. Boyle Jr. and recentlyousted attorney general J, iHowfTuni Te Pmm Mxlp. j'

Three Persons Die In Car-Truck Crash TERRE HAUTE, Ind. UP — An auto collided with a semi-trailer on U. S. 41 six miles north of .here Friday night, killing three Hattiesburg, Miss., persons. ‘ Authorities said the truck, operated oy Harold Harlan, 40, Terre Haute, was in the wrong lane and struck the car headon. Harlan was held bedding an investigation. ; 12 Chicago Firemen Hurt Fighting Fire Wall Os Paper Box Factory Collapses 1 CHICAGO, (U»P)—The wall of a blazing paper box factory collapsed on two companies of firemen Saturday burying several in rubble and sweeping othaw from the roof of another building. \ Fellow firemen sprang to the aid of the trapped men and dug them out of the pile of bricks and mortar. J \ Authorities at the three hospitals where the firemen were rushed said least 12 firemen were injured. The Victims were being treated for injuries whcih included broken legs and arms and skull injuries. Firemen were fighting a 5-11 alarm fire in the three-story Terre Paper Mox Co. when the north wall of the building fell toward 18 firemen. A few of the men managed to leap to safety, but the remainder were either knocked headlong into the street trapped under the debris. ! 1 \ | Police Lt. Michael Tydings said police used “plan five,J' which was especially designed to cope with an atom bomb \disaster, to control the crowd that thronged around the building; Fireman John Scalbus, 24, said, “We heard a puff and instantly all of us knew that wall was coming oh us.” -• “I got out of there, but some of the fellows were caught under all those bricks.” Capt. Robert Byrne of fire squad 10 said, “f picked up one helmet which was literally torn in half from the force of the bricks.” The fire was estimated to have caused damage totalling $200,000 to the building and its contents. Tire Blowout Blamed For Fatal Accident VALPARAISO, Ind. UP — A tire blowout Saturday was blamed for the death of Almy Sutton Jr., 11, Melrose Park, 111. He was killed when a truck in which he was riding, overturned in an accident on Ind. 8 near Kouts. His father and nine-year-old Gerald, a brother, were injured. ,— Father And Son Are Crushed By Tractor SALEM, Ind. UP — James Boyd Begley, 4, was crushed to death and his father, Jasper Begley, 51, Scottsburg, died later of injuries, when their tractor fell over a 15foot embankment 12 miles north of here Friday night. . State police said the father, holding his son on his lapj, apparently pulled the 'wrong wheel brake throwing the tractor Into a ditch, ' - . Noon Edition

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, June 7, 1952.

Seven GOP Candidates For Governor Battling At State Convention

Ike's Managers ; To Carry Fight To Convention 7 ' I’ . ’ 121 Fight On Disputed > Delegates Will Be ■ Taken To Chicago WASHINGTON, -UP — Seri Robert A. Taft pocketed 20 more’ 1 national convention delegates Sal urday and appeared certain tp pick up 10 more as Eisenhower forces spurned his offer to “compromise” on disputed state dele*ji gations. ’ Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhdwer’t poltical managers vowed to ( carry the fight for the disputed delegates all the way to the Republican presidential nominating convention which opens in Chicago just a month from now. Indiana Republicans Friday night elected 20 Taft-supporting delegates and two who favor Eisenhower. The Ohio Senator was expected to get Indiana's 10 additional delegates kt the second halt of the state convention Saturday.' The United Press tabulation of committed delegates and those known tp have a first ballot preference gave Taft 457 and Eisenhower 399. A candidate needs 604 for nomination. Eisenhower scheduled his second political news conference Saturday in New York. Following his meeting with newsmen, he was to hold a top-level strategy meeting, with some of his top boosters. Scheduled to attend the strategy conference at Eisenhower’s home on the Columbia University campus were Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. RrMass., his campaign manager; Sen. Jfames H. Duff, R-Pa.. Paql G. Hoffman, co-chairman' of the Citizens-for-Eisenhower committee; Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, and Herbert Brownell, who managed Dewey’s unsuccess-; ful presidential campaign in 1948. The Eisenhower group Was obviously pleased with the reaction so far to the general’s entry into politics, particularly his homecoming speech in Abilene, Kan., and his initial political news conference there. Taft said in Indianapolis Friday that he “would like to compromise on a fair basis” with Eisenhower over such “legal differences” as Texas’ disputed national campaign delegation. He did pot suggest a formula. Contests have been threatened at the national convention between rival Taf| and Eisenhower delegations from Texas, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi. These involve 61 Votes. | i Annual Leadership School Is Planned Churches Complete Plans For School Pastors and lay representatives of the Decatur associated churches have completed their plans for sponsoring the annual leadershiptraining school in the fall, it was announced by officers of that group today. i The school, which will be fceld bn the nights of September 16, 18, 23, 25 and 30, from 7 to 9:20 o’clock, will offer courses for nursery, kindergarten and primary Sunday school teachers. The courses’ will be open to all teachers, school superintendents and members of churches and Sunday schools affiliated with thte associated churches. -Thte Rev. Robert Hammond and Clifford Hoverman are the committee members in charge of planning the i courses. The school has been held here each fall for several years and annually draws many Sunday school teachers and others interested in Sunday school work. Small registration fees are charged to cover the cost of the school and text-books. Local pastors and lay conduct the classes;

Red Planes Shot Down Without Loss Sabrejets Down Enemy Planes ISEOUL, Korea, UP — American Sabrejet pilots have shot down 15 Communist MIG-15s in two weeks In air battles without a single loss of their own, the sth air force reported Saturday. The swept-wing F-86s knocked kowri seven MIGs Friday and damaged two to make their weekly total nine downed and three damaged: A propeller-driven F-51 Mustang damaged a fourth. The Sabres dowhed six the previous Week. United Nations losses this week were an F-80 Shooting Star fighterbomber and a T-6 Mosquito spotted plane lost to ground fire and a B-26. light bomber lost to undetermined causes. Allied and Communist ground forces fought a series of smallscale patrol .actions. Four flights of fighter-bombers struck the Kanggye-Huichon rail rout® In North Central Korea Saturday. They smashed 10 bridges on'the key Communist supply line. Two Workers Killed By Dynamite Blast BIRMINGHAM.. Ala. UP — Two ‘Workmen were killed and two critically Injured here Friday night wheu a dynamite charge exploded prematurely in a new sewer project 85 feet beneath city. '' ' ' Sees All Jet Combat Force In Five Years I TOKYO, UP — Lt. Gen. James H. poolittle said Saturday the United States will have an all-jet combht air force within five years. • ' • .> J ■■ 1 Strike Forces Air Flights Cancelled NEW YORK, UP— American Airlines cancelled 61 flight Saturday as more than 1,000 mechanics and handlers remained on strike at ’jLd Guardia Airport and International Airport here. Kansas Court Orders Ex-Berne Man To Pay Support Order Here Honored In Kansas I ■ , Judge Myles F. Parrish of Adams circuit court Friday received notice from Jackson county, Mo. circuit eohrt at Kansas City, Mo., that that {court had honored a verdict awarded by Judge Parrish in the action 'of Maxine Nussbaum, Berne, vs {Alvin Nussbkum, for support of two ;minor children under the reciprocal of dependence law. I- 1 Recently, prosecutor Severin Schurger brought the action ih Adams _ circuit court on behalf of Mrs: Nussbauifa. The action alleged that the Nussbaums were married * 1942 and that Nussbaum , had left on May 8, 1946, and since /that tljne had failed to provide for {his Fife or two minor children. { Judge Parrish found the aJtegations to be true and awarded Mrs. iNussbaum $25 a week. The order was stent to Kansas City, where /Nussbaum is employed, and the circuit court there ordered Nussbaum into: the Jackson county court, y Nussbaum appeared and admitted the charges. The court in Missouri, however, changed the weekly amount of payments tb S2O, but otherwise sustained the order. Nussbaum will now pay the Jackson county clerk S2O Weekly and the money will be sent to county clerk Ed Jaberg here, from where jt will be forwarded to Mrs, Nusst>aum. ,r/ This is the second time in the last'few months in which the reciprocal support of dependence law kas been used here. r ' v ■ - • ■

British Break Up Defiance Os War Prisoners Tear Gas Grenades Break Up Defiance On Koje Island KOJE ISLAND, Korea, (UP) — Six tear-gas grenades hurled by British guards broke up the first teal show of defiance in three days Saturday among the thousands of Communist prisoners of War quartered here. A seven-man special guard detail of the King’s Shropshire light infantry threw the grenades into Compound 66 while other British troops searched outside the barbed wire for Communist- escape tunnels;. The guards acted when the North Korean Officer prisoners refused to obey an order to remove blankets they had draped over the. barbed wire, covering its sharp points. Amerclan troops were drilled in the tactics they will use to split up t the compounds next week into 500-men groups. They will start with tough Compound 76. where the former camp commander, Col. Francis T. Dodd, was. held hostage for 78 hours after he was seized on May 7. Brig. Gen. Haydon L. (Eiull) Boatner, present commander, is expected to arrest the ringleaders' of Communist resistance who were admitted to Compound 76 to negotiate for Dodd’s release. They have been There since. t —- ■. Essex Delegate To | National Convention I '/■ To Attend National) G. 0. P. Convention Harry TPeck” ‘Essex, Decatur insurance agent and Adams county and Fourth district 'Republican chairman, was elected delegate to the Republican national convention to be held in Chicago in July, by delegates to the state Republican convention at Indainapolis Friday night. ' -\ \ Essex and Clifford Ward, Fo.rt Wayne newspaperman, were named as delegates to the national convention from the Fourth congressional district. Each of the 11 districts in the state nanied two delegated. Essex and Ward both are reported to be favorable to the nomination of Sen. Robert A. Tatti of Ohio for president but neither candidate was bound by delegate action to vote for any candidate.) in several of the 1| districts the delegates were mandated | to vote for Taft on the first ballot. Ten delegates at large will be selected this afternoon by the state convention to round out the total of 32 Indiana delegates to the pat ional GOP conclave. Political observers believe that 30 and possibly 31 of the 32 Indiana delegates will vote for Taft on the first ballot. • 7 7". \ J. . Five-Year-Old Girl j Is Killed By Fall QUINCY, 111. UP — A fifae* year-old girl was killed and her three-year-old brother was critically injured when both fell 35 feet from a . bluff into a shallow creek Friday. Linda Wade, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wade, Griggsville, 111., suffered a broken neck and was dead op at the hospital. Her brother, Courtney, was in serious condition Saturday morning.

Phantom Gunman Again In Action Terrorist Sought By Illinois Police iSPRINGPIEDD, 111. (UP) — The “phantom gunman” of Illinois was the terror of Route 66 Saturday despite efforts of state police |o trap Mm with prowling squad cars and a low-flying airplane. The sniper renewed his odd attacks by firing at four more motorists Friday and state police threw a hasty roadblock across the middle of the state. The gunman slipped right through it and drove almost to the Chicago city limits to make one of his attacks. - His marksmanship was as spotty as it has been during the past few weeks when he peppered a total of five cars. * \ The only victim who was wounded was 39-year-old George Cushing, Poiitiac, 111., who was ■fired on while driving on U. S. 66 near Towanda, 111. A slug fired from a passing ear smashed through the windshield of Cushing’s , car and splattered glass over his arm—cutting it. State police chief Thomas k)’Donnell said he had abopt 3*5 officers prowling the highways tor the gunman. V • / Pilot Don Bratt, Pontiac, skijnmed back roads in a light pline in an effort to get a glimpse i of the “phantom’s” blue car. The maniac’s'latent attack ' was against Raymond Wise, Atlanta. G., who was shot at while driving op Route 66 near the Argonne national atomic energy laboratory in DuPage county not far from Chicago. “I saw something sticking out of the window of his car as he approached but I didn’t know it was a gun until it was too late,” Wise said. The bullet “whizzed by" him as the cars passed, he said. Other attacks took place about 65 miles apart, at Litchfield, Ill; and Dalton City, TH. Ray Zepgler said a man standing beside a .blue, 1939 Ford fired a wild shot at7 him when Zeegler drove by near Litchfield. ’ William Holbrook said a man in a 1942 Chevrolet fired a pot shot at him near Dalton City. Expect Relaxing Os Final Credit Control Ease On Home Buying Expected Next Week WASHINGTON, (UP)—The government is expected early next week to relax its last majdr credit control — the regulation governing down payments and mortgages on homes. Officials said the federal reserve board will probably make two major changes in the so-called regulation X: 1. Scale down the minimum down payments required on home purchases, with the major benefit given to more expensive houses. 2. “Smooth out” down payment Requirements on homes in the $7,000 to $12,000 bracket so that the differences within the priec range will be less sharp. There is also a chance the board may remove outright the present requirement for! at least 10 percent dowh on houses costing less than $7,000, officials said. Relaxation of regulation X has been anticipated since the board suspended all credti controls on automobiles, radios. TV sets and other consumer goods last month. INDIANA WEATHEFf Mostly fak and continued warm tonight and Sunday except cooler extreme northeast tonight. Low tonight 65-70 north, near 70 south.

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Smith, Craig Strongest In G.O.P. Field Sen. Taft Assured Os State Votes At National Convention INDIANAPOLIS, (UP) — Indiana Republicans molded their 1952 state ticket at' a contestpacked nominating convention Saturday after assuring Sen. Robert A; Taft he’s their presidential favorite. A seven-way governorship race, which still hadn’t jelled after overnight shifts of strength, drew the most interest. The 2.116 hqt but happy delegates seemed to think Secretary of State Leland Smith was gaining strength most rapidly. Smith himself considered the situation “good” and “looking better all the time." The man he had to beat, politicians said, was American Legion Past National Commander George N. Craig. And in the event they deadlock, the choice was considered Sen. John Van Ness or Samuel Harrell. Craig forces looked to a firstballot test of strength to determine their fortunes. Harrell supporters claimed he would pick up votes starting on the second ballot and added the man with organization support probably will win. Harrell at one time reportedly had organization favor. But it is reported favoritism is shifitng to Smith or Van Ness. For Taft \ ( INDIANAPOLIS. (UP) — Sen. Robert A. Taft pocketed 20 of Indiana’s Republcian national convention delegates and was considered a cinch to collect 10 more Saturday. ' Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower got only two. But a state Eisenhower leader charged that tactics similar to the “Texas steal” were used tp help Taft win and predicted some delegates would switch to ElsefijJ hower before the July national convention? . District caucuses elected 22 delegates Frdiay night, and* 10 at-large delegates were to, be approved Saturday by the entire state convention. Taft headquarters claimed support from the 10 who were “slated” as qualified by virtue of haying paid a state committee assessment. Former Cong. Robert A. Grant, state Eisenhower campaign chairman, accused the “Taft-dominated state /tebmmittee;” of deliberately preventing an Eisenhower delegate from filing as a candidate for national convention delegate. He said the issue wotold be taken to the national convention’s credentials committee. “We hate seen the Texas steal duplicated,” Grant said. -'I. ' ; ' DCHS Graduates Entertained After ( Rites Last Night After the commencement exercises last night at Decatur Catholic high school, the 36 graduates moved into the K. of C. hall to begin tho traditional all night festivities, this time feted by their parents, individuals and civic groups of Decatur. Pattering itself after the affair given for the grads of Decatur high school, recently, » following the dance, a buffet dinner was provided by the parents of the seniors following which the group was treated to an early morning movie at the Adams theatre. The show was “Belie of New York,” a technicolor musical starring Fred Astaire. The then went to the American Legion home where the Lions club oft Decatur took over with impromtu ' entertainment and a tasty breakfast.