Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 137, Decatur, Adams County, 10 June 1952 — Page 1

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' • I r i Jte • Wi'.irr 4 ’’ ; i \ Ike Meets Backers , fflkl ylfeJiß f If ■ — . B- - - ■ . B B£■ I ■ I *Sn SSe I PLEDGED TO SUPPORT Gen. Ike at the Chicago Convention. GOP delegates from New Hampshire meet the candidate and his wife at the Eisenhower New York residence. With the General and Mrs. Eisenhower are (left) Mrs. Katherine Jackson of Dublin. N. H. and (right) Gov. Sherman Adams, and Mrs. Blanche McLean of Manchester. ! «

Reds Cleared Out Os Koje '■ ' J Prison Camp

KOJE ISLAND, Korea, UP — • Tough American paratroops cleaned out compound 76, resistance center for 6,400 fanatical communist war prisoners, in a wild, three-hour battle Tuesday. The- American troops fought } with bayonets, flame - throwers, . concussion bombs, tear gas anti bare ,fists; the Reds [ with homemade spears, knives and bludgeons. Though not a shot was fired, t|e_ casualty toll was one American and ill Communists killed,. 14 Americans and 139 Communists wounded. Th£ result of the battle was that Jthe toughest Red prisoners in Allied hands were beaten into submission and thd , notorious compound 76 was wipeii out. ' i Compound 76 was the “h£adS. quarters” of the 80,000 Red pris-. oners on Koje tslahd. It was there that Brig. colonel— Francis T. Dodd was kidnaped and held hostage last month. J After the battfle was over, paratroops foun.d in the compound a “battle pJan” for a mass break by .the jiO.OOO prisoners into the hills bf Koje. They also found a secret tunnel jinking compounds 76 and ■ .77, ; 1 < ■ J Fifteen leaders of compound 76., are under and camp com--piandant Brig. Gen. Haydon L. • Bpather, who directed\ .Tuesday's "operation, announced that North Korean Col. Lee Hak Koo, their chieftain, will be held responsible for the bloodshed, j - “I believe all movements of prisoners from now on will be much more easily accomplished,” Boatner said. „“I feel this was accomplished with the absolute min-* . imum of bloodshed.” ' i Tanks and flamethrowers Jed the way as the paratroopers surged through. holes cut in the barbed wire around the compound. Communists were dug into trenches or barricaded.dn compound buildings. A shower of stones, spears and arrow’s fropi home-made bows bounced harmlessly off three ’ which spearheaded the attack. Twelve other tanks with flame (throwers and 90-millimeter guns stood outside, their crews ready. Confederate Rebel yells and the paratroops rallying cry "airborne!” mingled with the screams and chants of defiant Communist as troopers of the 187th regimental combat team hit the Red lines. The victory in compound 76, the ,Red “Headquarters,” convinced nearly 1,000 prisoners in two-ad-joining compounds— t 77 and 78 —that resistance; was futile. ' ; ‘ [J > Six-Year-Old Boy Is Hit By Truck * Six-year-old Danny Arnold, who lives with his parents, route 2, Decatur, was hit while riding bis triI cycle in front of his home yesterday and is in the Adams county memorial hospital with a/ mild skull fracture, lacerations of the scalp and abrasions about the face. He was hit by a pick-up truck driven by Floyd C. Ehrman, 49, also of route 2, Decatur, when he suddenly darted out, investigating police / said, into the path of the truck. No charges were filed against Ehrman. The boy is reported in fair condition at the hospital.

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lass Backers Say Wall Street For Eisenhower ... 4 Taft Headquarters Asserts Poll Shows \ Wall Street For Ike ; WASHINGTON, UP—Sen. Robert A. Taft’s campaign headquarters said Tuesday a poll of leading bankers and brokers showed that "Waif Street is for Eiserihower.” It said the Rogers Ci Dunn survey polled 1,800 Wall Street' financial leaders on their preference for the Republican presidential nomination. Os 1,008 replying. 557 preferred Gen. Dwight t). Eisen-hower-and 421 favored Taft. The statement was the first direct attempt by'the Taft headquarters to pin the “Wall Street”; laibel to the Eisenhbwer .presidential campaign. Some of Taft’s supporters have been following that line, for some time. Os the Dunn poll, Rep. Howard H. Buffett, R-Neb., director of the Taft campaign speakers’ bureau, said,: “Generally speaking, we do not put much credence in \ polls but tjils particular poll cannot be ignored. It shows clearly the truth of what we have been contending, Street is for Eisenhower and Main Street is for Taft.’4 \ Taft, meanwhile, laid out his own schedule of meetings with GQP national convention delegates. Eisenhower already is embarked on a series of talks with delegations from many states. ,i The Ohio senator told reporters that he intends to confer, with New Jersey delegates—a majority of whom are committed to Eisenhower—at New York Thursday. Taft reported that he also plans to confer during the next two weeks with delegates from Maryland, who have a first ballot pledge to "favorite ioh” Gov. Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, and from Delaware. ' ♦ ' He expects to meet with Pennsylvania delegates at Philadelphia and Pittsburgh on still undetermined dates. Both the Eisenhower and Taft camps have strength in Pennsylvania’s,’ 70member delegation, but a bloc of 25 or more looks to the etill uncommitted Goy. John S. Fine for leadership. Fine had a three-hour talk 1 with Eisenhower in New York Sunday. He emphasized that he had mdde no commitments to support the general. i Eisenhower met Monday wit) delegations from New Hampshire, Connecticut. Delaware and Massachusetts. Most of the 86 convention votes 'from those states are believed to be already in his co umn. The general arranged more "get acquainted” sessions Tuesday with (Tura To Pa*e Five)

General Clark Says Red China Should Be Hit Should Bomb China If Truce Talks In Korea Are Failure TOKYO, UP — Gen. Mark W. Clark said Tuesday the United Nations should bomb Red China if the truce talks break down and the Communists unleash their 2.000plane Air Force in support of a new offensive In Korea. The supreme U. N. commander said there was, “nothing new” in the message sent him Monday by the Communist high command in North Korea, and that there still was no military sign of ad offensive in the “immediate future]” ~ But he said he had treason to expect" that the Communists would use all available air power if they renew all-out war. For the time being at least the truce talks will go on. Clark and his delegates in Panmunjom rejected the Red demand that they cut short the U. N.-declared threeday recess, but the talks wjl Resume at 11 a.m. Wednesday as originally scheduled. * Clark told the 'United Press In an exclusive Interview that he was preparing to answer to the Communist letter “after closely studying the motives behind It.” The letter was signed by Gen. Kim II Sung, North Korean premier an dsupreme commander, and Gen. Peng TehtHuai, commander of the Chinese "volunteers.” Clark said it was his personal opinion that a Communist air offensive should be countered “with no holds barred.” So far the Reds have used their hlanes almost entirely to intercept Q. N. fighter-bombers deep in North Korea. They have made no major effort against Allied ground troopg or rear areas. **lf the enemy, as he has in his past offensives, attacks largely with ground forces and fails to implement his full air capability,” Clark said, “it is likely our air operations will be restricted to Korea for, the same reasons as before. H lf on the other hand, he strikes with his full air strength,'that’s another story. “Since his past offensives have failed, partly due to lack of air support, we have reason to expect he would throw his full air strength into any future full-scale offensive. If the restrictions were not lifted, we would be at a serious disadvantage.” I Clark, who visited the front last week, said the Reds have used the 11-month lull of the truce negotia/rr"ra To Paso Olx) Foreign Aid Bill Up To White House Senate Action Is Hailed By Connally ' WASHINGTON, UP —Chairman Tom Connally of the senate foreign relations committee hailed the senate’s approval of the foreign aid bill Tuesday as “a great vbte and a great day for the free nations of the earth.” The Texas Democrat said the 59 to 11 vote by which the trimmed down 16.431.249.750 mutual security measure was sent to the White House Monday will encourage Western Europe to approve the West German “peace and the six-qation European defense community'. „ Administration officials noted the bill was trimmed nearly $1,500,000,000 below the $7,900,000;000 President Truman said iwas needed for military, economic and technical aid to the free world during (fiscal 1953, beginning' July 1. They] said it would require a “sharp and discouraging’ ’slash in Europe’s defense goals. A top administration official said the reductions in the bill, which cut deepest into military and economic aid for Europe, will mean that the North Atlantic treaty organisation cannot reach its 1952 goal of 50 divisions and 4,000 plants. Connally noted that the senate <T»ra Ta Paw Mx) Schnepp Funeral Is Held This Morning ! Funeral services for Carol Irene Schnepp, 17-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Schnepp of this city, who died Sunday morning weye held this morning at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial was in the Decatur cemetery.

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President Truman Asks Legislation Authorizing Steel Industry Seizure

MacArthur lr ! Named Keynoter 5 '-J By Republicans 1 Taft Supporter Is Chosen To Keynote | G.O.P. Convention J CHICAGO, UP — Gen. Douglas MacArthur, supporting Sen. Robert A. Taft for the Republican pres£ dential nomination, was named Tuesday the keynote speaker for the GOP national convention which opens here July 7. Supporters of Gen. Dwight IX Eisenhower for the nomination had asked for any who was not committed to a candidate. ' The arrangements committea named MacArthur by a voice vote after his name was ! the only one placed In nomination. Eisenhower’s supporters had said before the meeting then they had no specific choice for the keynote speaker. A- spokesman for the arrangements committee said there was a scattering of “no” votes in MacArthur’s selection but that the overwhelming preponderance of the committee voted “aye.” Walter Hallinan, vice chairman, of the GOP’’ national committed’ and national committeeman from West Virginia, was chosen temporary chairman in a break with tra? dition which usually makes tlie keynoter and the temporary chairman one person. Rep. Joseph W. Martin’ Jr., Massachusetts, was recommended by the arrangements committee for the permanent Chairmanship of the national convention, for his fourth consecutive term. Martin’s selection wks by unanimous voice vote. He was - nominated by J l .’ Carroll Reece, national committeeman from Tennessee. J Hallinan, In addition to being vice chairman of the national committee, is chairman of the arrangements committee which selected him for the temporary chairmanship of the convention Tuesday, in private lite he is president of thePlymouth Oil (Sb. ; MacArthur’s name was placed in! (Tura T® Puce Six) BULLETIN Miss Katharine Mangold, a former resident of Decatur, died early this afternoon at the Haven-Hubbard memorial home near New Carlisle. The body will be removed to the Zwick funeral home in this city. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Deposed President Sues Kingan Co. Files Five Million Dollar Suit Today INDIANAPOLIS, UP —H. Frederick Willkie, deposed president of Kingan & Co., Tuesday filed a $5,650,000 damage suit against the meat firm charging he suffered “great and irreparable damage” in a management feud which resulted in his ouster. The suit, filed in superior court, named as defendants William R. Sinclair, Kingan president and' board chairman; his son, Thomas Taggart Sinclair, a director, andEdward Scheidenhelm, vice president and secretary. Willkie claimed his reputation as a business adviser suffered from statements released during the management shakeup .earlier this year. v Willkie, brother of the late Wendell L. Wilkie, Republican presidential candidate in 1940, served as head of the firm for 14 months prior to his removal by the board of directors in February. During the management battle the Sinclair interests said Willkie’s policies cost the company $1,043,452 in operating losses. In his suit, (Turn To Fare Four)

I Bank Director *i " fir ' ■. ■pg fl ’ I 4 I . ■ I I Earl C. Fuhrman Earl Fuhrman Named Director Os Bank Is Elected Director At Special Meeting Earl C. Fuhrman, executive of the Schafer Co., hardware wholesalers and glove 1 manufacturers, 4 bsrap. elected a director o( the First State barik of Decatur at. a special meeting of directors held Monday [night. S The new director will fill the vacancy on the board made by the recent death of Theodore Hobrock. Fuhrman will serve out the balance of the year. AH five directors are elected for one year terms, starting each January. \ Fuhrman has had vast agricul-, tural and manufacturing experience and has long been active in local church and civic affairs. He resides on Bellmont road. Other directors of Decatur’s banking institution include Theodore Gralike,r, president; Herman Krtieckeberg. cashier; E. W. I Bus.che, Monroe, and Gerald Vizard. The First State h ank Decatur’s only banking organization, and is regarded as one of the outstanding financial institutions of northern Indiana. J k . Senate Group Votes For Own Privileges 4 , ]' Opposes Truman's Civil Service Plan WASHINGTON, UP — A Senate committee voted Tuesday to kill President Truman’s plans to put postmasters, customs collectors, and U.S. marshals under civil service. 5 Mr. Truman made his proposals —which would deprive the sen-* ate of rich patronage privileges—in the three separate reorganization plans which he said would help to reduce corruption in government. senate government operations committee, to which the plans werp submitted, approved resolutions to kill them all. Unless the full house or senate vetdes the plans, however, they will go intd effect June 20. Other congressional developments: i GERMANY—Secretary of State Dean Acheson asked the senate for prompt ratification of the German pea£e contract and. the associated agreement extending North Atlatic pact guarantees to West Germany. He said the agreements are vital to defense of Europe against Russia. Acheson said prompt ratification would show the world that in America "there is no difference between the two parties” on Western defense. CONSTRUCTION— The house armed services committee approved a $2,758,818,000 military construction bill, it refused to restore $250,000,000, previously cut out, in U.S. contributions to Atlantic, pact bases in Western Europe. ’ (Tura To Pose Foor)

Suit Filed To Halt Sale Os School Bonds Berne-French Bond Issue Opposed; Ask Court Injunction Legal steps to stop sale of $102,900 worth of bonds for purchase of land and construction of an addition to the Berne? Freqgh township school system 'at the west edge of Berne, were I taken today by 23 French townsnip property owners who have asked a temporary and permanent injunction against the school consolidation and the school board menibers. Sale of the bonds was scheduled tor Thursday of this week. The suit to enjoin the sale sets out four reasons for stopping the sale: That the proposed issue is excessive and unnecessary. That no emergency exists to warrant the issue of bonds for additional construction because the overcrowding is caused by acceptance of/student transfers from out of the school corporation. That proposal is excessive because the present building is adequate for Berne end French township patrons. 1 That issuance of bonds would impose a tax hardship on residents of the school corporation. ; Signers of the suit were: David C. Lantz, Ezra Kaehr, Mahilda Kaehr, Harry L. Ashliman, Cordelia K. Ashliman. Glen D. Adler, Bert A. Seesenguth, Clara Seesenguth, Curtis Tonner, Jacob Kaehr. V Oscar Bertsch, Jeanette Tonner, Willis A. Presdorf, Richard Clark, Roger Kaehr, Henry B. Drayer, Walter Kaehr, Reuben Gerber, Sam E. Kaehr, Elma Kaehr, Walter Bertsch, Lewis Gerber and Floyd D. Engle.- \ It is believed that the board may go ahead with the acceptance of bids on the sale of bonds Thursday, but it is not thought’ likely (hat bond attorneyff would approve delivery of the bonds. It usually is required that the sellers sign affidavits stating that there is no litigation pending against the proposed issue. The filing of the injunction suit agaiiist Berne-French school corporation is the second time in Xhe few weeks thgt the court has been asked to step into a school controversy. Several weeks ago, Adams County Freeholders stopped the (Tarn To Pace Five) To Query Officials On Tidelands Scrap ■ - Hi i < v 1■; , Senate Committee Summons Officials \ WASHINGTON, UP—Chairman Fat Mcbarran, D-Nev., said Tuesdya the senate judiciary committee will call two cabinet members and other top government officials to answer charges that the administration is trying to “seize” tide lands oil fields as "surplus prop erty.” The charges were made in the senate Monday by Sen. 'Spessafd L. Holland, D-Fla., in the wake of President Truman’s veto of a bill to give the states clear title to the submerged Inads, The legislation would overturn a supreme court finding that the federal govern-, ment has “paramount interest” in the offshore lands. ’ ’ Holland asked for an investigation by MbCarran’s committee, MeCarran said he will call a meeting this week to decide what steps to take. Before the inquiry is over,, he said, secretary of interior Oscar L. Chapman, attorney general James P. McGranery and general services administrator Jess Larson will be asked to testify. There was no immediate emo ment h from I the • administration (Turn To Page Ftva>

New Victim Wounded By Phantom Gunman Illinois Motorist Wounded By Phantom SPRINGFIELD. 111. UP — The “phantom gunman” who has ter-i rorized Illinois highways wounded a new victim near here after apparently slipping into nearby Indiana and attacking three motorists. Phillip Mossitt, 31, Loami, 111., was cut across-the face, eyes and hamt Monday when bullets shattered the windshield of his car. Mbssitt said he U’as fired upon while driving along U.S. route 66 bypass south of Springfield about 7 p.m. St|ate police said the clugs blasted two large holes in the car’s Window. \ „ Earlier in the day someone driving a “dark colored car bearing Illinois license plates” fired wildly at two cars ip the vicinity of Sullivan, Ind. Sheriff Hugert Wagner speculated that the "phantom” had ranged into Indiana to continue his strange assaults. Sullivan is about 150 miles from Springfield and Wagner said the gunman would have had “plenty of time to have come here and then get back to Springfield by 7 p.m.” Wagner said his deputies searched the area of the Indiana shootings intensively and planned to continue their hunt for the. gun-tot-ing autoist Tuesday even though indications were that he had fled back to An unidentified woman and her daughter turned in the first report, but Wagner was skeptical and did not take her name. He said the widespread publicity given the lldinois phantom might have made the woman juinpy. The sheriff changed his mind and took action when he received another complaint five minutes later from Charlies Meier, Sullivan, who told an alost identical story and said he was- attacked from a car bearing Illinois license plates. “We thought the woman’s imagination was getting the better of her,” deputy sheriff Harold Conner said, and Wagner added. “I thought some car had backfired (Turn To Pace Five) Flag Day Services Saturday Evening Judge Homer Byrd Principal Speaker Judge Homer Byrd, Wells circuit court, Bluffton will be the principal speaker at the annual Flag day ceremonies to be held at the Elks home in Decatur, Saturday evening at 7:39 o’clock. George Laurent, exalted ruler of the Dkcatur lodge, and O. W. P. Macklin, program chairman, announced today. Among the local organizations participating in the annual event are the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion auxiliary, Emblem club and the Boy Scouts. , . \ The American Legion and V.F.W. color guards will take part in the opening ceremony. The Decatur high school band will play "The Star Spangled Banner” and introductory services will be presided over by exalted ruler Laurent and officers of the local Elks lodge. A history of the flag will be given by Julius Baker and the Elks altar service will be presented by A. L. Colchin, esquire, and other officers of the B.iPjO. Elks. Judge Byrd wpl deliver the formal Flag day address and the program will be closed with the playing of “America” by the high school band. and officers of the Decatur lodge also announced that the Elks would hold an open house Saturday evening for the public and all participating organizations. The public also is invited to attend the formal services.

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Acts Swiftly As Negotiation Talks Collapse Tells Congressmen \ Issue Os Peace Or 1 War Is In Balance WASHINGTON, UP —President Truman asked congress Tuesday tp enact legislation authorizing the government to seize the steel industry and run it until the contract dispute is settled. Mr. Truman, in an extraordinarypersonal appearance before a joint session of congress, said a “properly drafted” seizure law can assure steel production, treat both parties “fairly” and encourage collective -bargaining. “I hope the congress will act quickly,”. Mr. Truman said. “The issue of peace or war hangs in the balance, and steel is a vital elemenf in the outcome.” . , \ “The issue is squarely up to congress,” the president said. “I hope the congress will meet it by enacting fair and effective legislation.” Mr. Truman said use of the TaftHartley law injunction would be “grossly unfair” to the 650,000 striking CIO United Steeiworkers because they Had postponed their walkout many times before finally* striking June 2. If, however, congress Wants to obtain an injunction against th-i strike, the President.said, it should direct the President' to seek such a order without waiting for the appointment and report of a fact finding board as required by the Taft-Hartley law. The' Taft-Hartley approach. Mr. Truman said, would be “unwise, unfair, andkquite possibly ineffective.” Mr. Truman went before the joint session of congress 16 hours aft§r the steel negotiations collapsed at jthe White House Monday night. While the nine-day old strike of the 650.000 steelworkers went on. preparations were rushed to resume production at steel plants turning out the goods for the de. sense effort. ( , • Acting defense mobilizer John R. Steelman called government officials to a meeting to decide which plants should reopen to provide the critical needs of the Korean war. CIO president Philip Murray promised Monday night that workers would return to the plants the government deems necessary to keep running to turn out w’ar goods. The steelworkers walked out June 2. minutes after the supreme court nullified Mr. Truman’s April 8 seizure of the , industry. Mr. Truman said, "We cannot expect to get enough steel in this way to meet all erf the essentail needs of the defense program.” In asking for a seizure law, the President indirectly asked also for authority to raise workers’ wages. Mr. Truman was prepared several weeks ago — before the supreme court prohibited it—to put wage increases into effect while the mills were under seizure. ■/Mr, Truman said “there can be no question of their (the court) majority view that the congress can enatft legislation to avoid a crippling work stoppage in the steel industry.” The President quoted, supreme court justice Hugo L. Black, who wrote the majority decision, as ’ slaying htat congress “can authorize, the taking of private property for public use.” — ■ - INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, warm and becoming more humid with scattered showers likely over most of the state tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 60 to 65 north, 65 to 72 south. High • Wednesday 90 to 96.