Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 138, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 138.

Picked To Launch GOP National Conventions if . .. Ji ■ s'** lAMI - 1 1 AB ’*=*'• A : Hi ■ra HL THESE THREE MEN have been selected by the 46-man GOP arrangements committee meeting in Chicago to get the Republican national convention underway July 7, and to keep it going until a presidential nominee is achieved. Veteran Rep. Joseph W. Martin(left) of Massachusetts has been selected to be permanent chairman for the fourth time; Martin will take over from Walter 8. Hallanan (center) of Virginia who was selected temporary chairman. Keynoter of the convention will be Gen. Douglas MacArthur (right) who accepted the assignment “with a real sense of grateful appreciation.”

Allied Truce Heads Warn 01 New Walkout Clark Tells Reds' Stand Makes Daily Meetings Useless - ■ ’■ l . PANMI’NJGM, Korea (UP) — ; The Allies told the Communists Wednesday to lay down some useful truce proposals H)r face a new ! walkout by negotiators of the Uniti ed Nations command. • - ? ' i Thirst, Gen. Mark W. Clark, supreme commander, tdld the Communist high command in a note 'I that daily meetings in the truce tent are j useless unless the Reds have "a new proposal tb make which offers the possibility of substantial progress toward an armistice.” j, Then the truce negotiators met here. The Reds had nothing to dffer but invective, and after the meeting an Allied spokesman said the U. N, team might force a new recess. > Senior delegates from both'side# met for the first time since the United Nations called a three-day recess- Saturday. North. Kbrean t Gen. Nam II im- ' i mediately inquired if the U. N; ' j intended to settle the prisoner of war question "by negotiation and consultation or through massacre?’ He .referred to deaths of 38 prisoners in .Compound 76 on Koje Island Tuesday, wiien they resisted !. I movement tq sihaller enclosures. Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison, senior Allied delegate.- told the Reds the it N. i proposes a relu screening of prisoners, with Com--1 munist observers, only to - deter1 mine as fairly as possible which ones Want to go back to Com- ■ r munism. ■ = Nam replied with a barrage of shouted Invective. He accused the U. N. of “shameful and cowardly acts, / torture, forced tattooing, forced writing in blood petitions and forced finger printing.” All are old charges. x ' Step Up Attacks ! ’ I SEOUL. Korea, (UP) — Fifth j, Air Force Sabrejets, outnumbered I more than two to one, shot down i I three Communist MIG-15s Wedness day as they Reds stepped up the tempo of attacks in the air and on t the ground. ' Twelve Sabtes pipped' into .a flight of 25\MIGs at dusk near Sinuiju in far Northwest Korea, J Communist ground forces threw l a strong attack at United Nations : lines along the, classic invasion ' route to Seoul. A battalion of Reds —-. approximately 750 —attacked behind a 4,000-round artillery barrage near I Chorwqn, almost directly north qf ml Seoul. The attack, the third in thte same area ih three days, was thrown back after a tliree-hour fight. . . | ? Communist night fighter planes i appeared in new strength over Northwest Korea knd B-29 pilots reported they attacked “aggressviety.” apparently guided by radar. There were no details on (Twr« To p*4« ' j v ; || INDIANA WEATHER „ Partly cloudy, not much l! change in temperature' tonight and Thursday. Scattered show* erfr and thunderstorms Thurs- ! day possibly beginning north* west late tonight. Low tonight I \ 55 to 60 north, 60 to 65 south. Hglh Thursday 80 to 85 north, 85 to 90 south.

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Hallanan Holds Key Convention Position Taft's Supporters \ i In Strong Position WASHINGTON. UP— The show of force with which Sen. Robert A. Taft’s supporters crushed opposition to Gen. Douglas MacArthur to be Republican national convehtiqn keynoter achieved something ' else much more important. • That was the selection of Weijt Virginia's ( Walter S. Hallanan as temporary convention chairman.- \ The keynote speaker makes the principal opening address and usii|ily serves also as temporary chairman. A temporary chairman’s duties 'are difficult, requiring special skills. They will be especially difficult in the Republican national convention because .the bitter disputes over the seating of contested delegates must be adjusted before the temporary chairman steps down. So the jobs were divided among two men—both Taft partisans. Taft so firmly the Republican organization ak represented by the convention arrangements committee that Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s friends dared not even propose men to keynote or to -preside temporarily. Thus, Taft is assured that ttje keynote speech will be friendly to him and cool if not hostile to Eisenhower, delivered by one of the master orators of our Umes. It is no small advantage. * But Hallanan has the real kejy position. His rulings as temporary chairman will enormously affect the composition of the cohventiop. From the temporary chair he can and probably will give Taft forces the parliamentary breaks. | Hallanan is a capable and sturdy member, of the Old Guard, a veteran of 40 years in republican most of it on the national level. His business interests are oil, gas and pipe lines. He already is on record that delegate disputes, -uch as that now flaming in Texafc, Shall not be considered in Chicago at all. Hallanan cites the rule adopted in 1948 that disputes over , all but delegatesrat-large must he settled by the states in which they originate and before the convention meets. That rule automatically would seat the bulk of the chajKathryn Mangold ' Funeral On Friday i Native Os Decatur Is Taken By Death Funeral services will be held Friday morning for Miss Kathryn Mangold. 80, who died Tuesday afternoon at the Haven Hubbard hotn£ near New Carlisle. She was born in Decatur Augj. 12, 1871, a daughter of Jacob F. and Sophia Spangler-Mangold, and resided here her entire life until going to the New Carlisle home three years ago. ( + . j Miss Manfcold was a member of the First Methodist chdrch. Only near surviving relatives are a sister. Mrs. Fred. Taylor of Portland, Ore.; a niece, Mrs. Glen W;' Lundberg of Los Angqles, Calif., and a nephew, Arthur M. Taylor o| Washington, D. C. Services will be conducted a|( 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Zwick fun» eral home, the Rev. Samuel Emerick oxidating. Burial will be in the\Decatiy cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock Thursday evening..' |

Churchill Warns Britain Near To Bankruptcy Says Britain Is In Dire Peril Os Loss Os All Possessions LONDON, UP —Prime Minister Winston Churchill said Wednesday that Britain is in peril of losing all her possessions and glory because she is dangerously near economic bankruptcy. Churchill gave his warnings dramatically during a speech at a luncheon of \the British Press Association. Britain, he said, is standing on a “treacherous trap door” which may fall beneath it at any time. He was urging newspaper men to put the facts of Britain’s economic \pligtit before Britons and the world when he startled his hearers with his warning. The 77 - year -old Conservative leadei\, whose public life goes back to the glories of the Victorian era, said that he looked with a great stirring of emotion last week when young Queen Elizabeth II rode a h(orse at the “trooping of the cploT” parade in her honor by her brilliantly uniformed household troops. ' He could not escape, he said, “the terrible question: On what does it all stand?” v That is the question,” he said. “And it does seem indeed hard that the traditions and triumphs of a thousand years! -.should be changed by the ebb 'and_flow of markets and commercial transactions in the vas( swaying world which has sprung up and is growing ever larger around us; and that have to watch from month to month the narrow margins on which our solvency and influence depend.” Never in history, Churchill said, has there been such a nation of 50,000,000 people like Britain, limited in agricultural production, at such a “dizzy eminence” and at the isame time on such a precarious foundation. ' \ ’ ■ i — O rO $2,000 Fire Loss Here Early Today Fire early this morning whipped through a storage shed belonging to , Decatur Industries, on Jefferand Eighth streets. Noah Steury, president of the company, estimated the loss at:|2,ooo, mostly in spare parts and lumber. Fire chief Fisher said that the cause, of the fire had not yet been determined. Mrs. Ada Walters Dies In Florida Word has been received here of the death May 16 at Orlando, Fla., of Mrs. Ada Dorwin Walters, 98, formerly of Decatur. Mrs. Walters was an aunt of Mrs. Maude T. Dorwin of this city and resided here until 21 years ago when she went to Winter Park, Fla. At the time of her death, Mrs. Walters was residing in a nursing home at Orlando. Surviving are fwo daughters, Mrs. Margurite W. Clarke, Winter Park; and Mrs. Helen Z: Wright, West Monroe, La.; 12 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren. Mrs. Walters was a member of the Methodist church. Funeral services were held at Winter 'Park on May 17 at the Methodist ehurch of that city.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 11, 1952.

Senate Defeats Another | \ ' S'! i ‘ Attempt To Give Steel Seize Right To Truman

1 Communist Prison Camp leaders He d I Brutal Murders In F Koje Island Prison Camp Are Uncovered KOJE ISLAND, Korean UP — American military seized; seven top Communist leaders from prisoner compound 77 where as least 15 victims of kangaroo courts were murdered brutally just the compound was evacuated. j? Paratroopers were searching foi “possibly, hundreds” more antfe Communist victims of the Red commissars. While troops probed the earth for more bodies, camp headquarters announced the death toll of the savage fight In compound 76 Tuesday had risen to 38 Seven died in a hospital Wednesday. One American was killed an£ 14 wounded, and niore than 15# prisoners were) wounded. ' The seven were grabbed ft) omg of the new 500-man compounds at they were returning to their barracks from an hour of athletics* They had been transferred Wrdl nesday morning along with some 6.000 other North Korean inmatet of No. 77. MP’s marched them away for questioning. It was assumed they would be held in solitary confinement as are some 20 othbr leaders of the Red fanatics. The 15 died at the hands of fellow prisoners in the last 12 hours before the compound was cleared. Troopers found the horribly mutilated bodies after tips from anti-' Communist prisoners, one of whom said he too was slated for death but escaped. They had been strangled, stabbed and beaten. Men of the 187th airborne regiment, hardened to the grisly sights of the battlefield, were appalled by the tortures that had been inflicted on the victims. Burned, garroted bodies were lifted from wells and ditches. Eight were found in one well, two more in a well 50 yards away. Four lay face down in the slime of a ditch and another was alone in a trench. , Maj. David Korn, Richmond, va., said all 15 of the prisoners were “murdered.” “And all within the last 12. hours,” he. said. “I think there are at least four more, in oil drums in one well and possibly hundreds more buried in other places in the compound.” The bodies were smeared with fresh blood, some still bleeding as if killed only minutes before para(Tam To Pace Kl<h«)

Daily Democrat Editor On Cruise With Navy

Editor’s note: Arthur R. Holthouse, editor of the Decatur Daily Democrat, left Norfolk. Va., Monday on an eight-weeks cruise as guest of the United States navy, Following is the first of several dispatches written by the Decatur newspaperman on his experiences afloat with the fleet. (By ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE) ABOARD USS WISCONSIN — Three thousand midshipmen from the U. S. Naval Academy and colleges that have reserve officers training courses, are at sea getting actual practice aboard several of the navy’s finest ships. Headed by the USS Missouri; flagship, the USS Wisconsin, the carrier USS Saipon, two cruisers and a dozen or more destroyers Compose the task group where the young men will be trained in ship operation. As men of the navy, they also will learn first hand howto perform their stations and live aboard. As a guest of the navy, I am most funtunate in being aboard the Wisconsin. With her crew of

U.S. Casualties In Korea Now 109,712 Increase Os 553 Over Previous Week WASHINGTON, UP V- The defense department said Wednesday that: announced American battle casualties in Korea now total 109,712 an increase of 553 over last Week. ! The total includes casualties whose next of kin had been notified through last Friday. It does not include all casualties through .that? date because it normally iaWs one to three weeks to notify next of kin. The latest summary includes 19,317-dead, 78,116 wounded, 9,675 missing. 1,223 captured and 1,381 previously reported missing but returned to service. The.breakdown by services: ARMY — 88.832 casualties — 16.131 dead. 61,523 wounded. 8,640 piissing, 1.219 captured, 1.319 previously reported missing but returned to service. NAVY — 1,375 casualties — 301 dea<t l»019 wounded. 53 missing, two previously missing byt returned to service. « \ MARINE CORPS—IB.3IB casual-ties—-2,445 dead, 15,535 wounded, 318 missing, 20 previously reported missing but returned to service j AIR FORCE —1,187 casualties — 440 dead, 39 wounded, 664 missing, four; captured, 40 previously remissing but returned to service. Communist Leader Is Sought By French Nationwide Alarm Sounded For Toutin PARIS, Ur — The government sent out a nationwide alarm for a Red leader from Toulon. France’s greatest naval base, and resumed lightning raids on Communist headquarters Wednesday. Investigating a suspected Communist espionage and sabotage plot, .the interior ministry issued a search warrant for Andre Toutin, secretary general of the Communist led general labor confederation for the Toulon area. Police riot squads at the same time raided Communist party headquarters at Aix en Provence, north of the great Mediterranean port of Marseilles. The alarm for Toutin was sent out after discovery of documents in the homes of Toutin labot unionists which authorities sa(id contained instructions to Communist reserve officers to go into training so they could report on latest French army tactics. \

nearly 1,500, there are about 2,500 aboard. With other newspapermen and college executives, we were greeted by Capt. C. H. Bruton, U.sl.N., and told that his ship would be our home for the next eight weeks. , The hospitality extended by the captain and other officers made us feel at home, despite the fact that a great “man of war” is built along dfiferent lines. , However, it is home to all of us. Our first port will }be Greenock, Scotland. There will be two weeks of training before we reach Greenock June 23. After five days the task force will sail south, reaching Brest, France, July 9. Maneuvers will conclude at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. For an inlander like me, proud of the fact that my home town is named for Commodore Stephen s»ecatur, a naval hero, the sight that met my eyes when I came up the pier was awe-inspiring. The “■Mighty Mo" was alongside, with the Saipon loaded with planes on the opposite side. Having traveled through a section of the Blue (Torn To Pa*« Elcht)

House Group For Extension 01 Controls Banking Committee Votes Extension To June 30 Os 1953 A : A : Washington, up— The house banking' committee voted Wednesday to extend price, wage, and rent controls until June 30,. 1953, and to abolish all restrictions on installment buying and down payments on housps. In a surprise move, it also adopted an amendmeht which would force the government to keep price supports at present high levels of 90 percent of parity for basic, faitm crops next year. The committee’s action on consumer credit would junk all remaining credit curbs on purchase of housing. . These,curbs are contained in regulation X. This regulation was relaxed, effective Wednesday, by the government and permits lower down payments on houses. The committee also would aholisdi the present voluntary credit restraint program and prohibit the government from restoring installment buying curbs which were suspended recently. The committee’s actions were \takeh as it drove tp hammer out new legislation to replace the present defense production act which expires June 30. Aides said the cmomittee may complete final action on the [bill Thursday. The senate already has voted to extend controls over prices, wages and rents for eight months until Feb, 28, 1953,. The controls measure on which the senate s(ill is working provides, however, for a one-year extension of allocation and credit control authority. President Truman had requested a two-year extension. The committee rejected Mr. Truman’s request for restoration of authority to impose slaughtering quota controls over meat animals. The farm price support amend** ment would assure continued high' level supports next year for wheats corn, cotton, tobacco, peanuts and rice. Approved overwhelmingly, it says that any price supports announced for these crops while price control authority is on the books must be set at 90 percent of parity.

C.C. Membership ■J'.' 1 Drive Successful Competing Teams Tied In Campaign After almost a full month of button-holing, explaining, cajoling and informing, the annual drive of ti>te Decatur Chamber of: Commerce ended today one of the best drives in recent years. The two teams, led by Hermkn Krueckeberg and Wilbur Petrie, who hfid to extend their drive for an week because a tie emerged from the race—again finally tied, each team bringing in 17 new members, j : , “The Chamber has, since its inception, removed to a large degree many unscrupulous influences on local business, promoted business, and, through its membership, cooperated in every way with industrial, commercial, and civic programs; to raise the living standards of our city,” said Walter Ford, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. “The Chamber,” he added, "Endeavors to raise the standards of trade in local business as well as recognizing and developing agricultural pursuits in Adams county —through fairs, fish fries, and cooperation with governmental agencies.”

Demands MacArthur Retire From Army Says Violation) Os Army Regulations WASHINGTON, UP — Rep. Melvin Price, D-111., has demanded that Gen. Douglas MacArthur retire from the army before delivering the keynote speech at the Republican national He told reporters that it was “a clear violation” of (army regulation 600-lff for MacArthur to accept the post of GOP keynoter while still technically on active military duty. ‘‘lt is a very dangerous precedent for a military man to be setting,” said Price, a World War II veteran/ and member of the house armed services committee. Price said MacArthur should follow the example set by his fellow five-star general, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who retired from active duty when he returned from Europe to begin campaigning for the GOP presidential nomination. Army officials said MacArthur could retire and still keep his lifetime salary of $19,541 a year. They said that under the special act of congress conferring lifetime rank on five-star generals, MacArthur need only write a letter to defense ' secretary A- Lovett request that he be “placed officially on the retired list. But there was no indication that the army would press MacArthur to request retirement. A spokesman issued a -terse formal statement saying: “The department of the army is not considering any action in connection with the designation of General MacArttiur as keynote speaker’ for the Republican national convention.” The GOP arrangements committee, meeting at Chicago, named MacArthur to the keynoter post Tuesday by voice votje. His name was the only one placed ip nomination. MacArthur promptly accepted the “high honor.” Brownies Holding Day Camp This Week Hanna-Nuttman Park Site Os Day Carpp Each day this week an average of 90 Brownies, ranging in age from 7 to 11 years old meet at Hanna-Nuttman park to practice their skills and remind each other -Of their motto, which goes in part: "I promise to do my best to love God and my country . The girls spend almost the entire day in the beautifully wooded park hiking, learning wood lore, and, aside from their many wellorganized activities,. just enjoying the invigorating atmosphere. The eight troops which make up the Brownies are led by Betty Chew, troop 9; Mrs. Joe Voglewede, troop 2; Mrs. Thearl Stults, troop 1; Mrs. Zane Musser, troop 10; Mrs. John Halterman, troop 5; Mrs. August Kelly, troop 6; and Mrs. Clinton Hersh, troop 19. The Girl Scouts who act as helpers are Carolyn Myer, Jeanette Kahnert, Janet Everhart, Shiela Ahr, Vera Walters, Gwen Hilyard and Jane Rentz. . The Brownies are instructed in arts that will be an aid to them indoors as well as out. Mrs. Paul Hancher tutors the girls in dramatics, aided by Greta Ereckson and Marilyn Jaberg; Mrs. William Tutewiler with her helper Girl Scout, Marlene Snyder, guide the girls in the handicraft skills;. Mrs. Anita Rentz and her helpers, Girl Scouts Dana Dalzell and Anita Smith with June Edward|s, pace 1 the girls in the out-of-doors skills. Mrs. Chester Dalzell teaches danc- 1 Ing with her aids, Girl Scouts Car- 1 olyn McDougal, Janet Hetrick 1 and Marilyn Kirchenbauer; Joyce 1 Franklin and Janet Smith instruct 1 (Tara To Pace Kight) '

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Rejects Morse Seizure Plan For 60 Days Fourth Proposal To Give Seizure Power Defeated By Senate WASHINGTON, (UP) — The senate Wednesday defeated another attempt to give President Truman Seizure power in the steel dispute. It rejected by a 54 to 26 roll call vote a proposal by Sen. Wayne Morse, R-Ore., to give the President authority to seize plants for 60 days—subject to congressional veto — when national emergency strikes occur or threaten. Tuesday—within six hours after Mr. Truman asked a joint session for temporary authority to seize the strike-idled steel plants—the senate defeated three proposals that would have contained such authority. Instead, it had pushed through, a proposal to "request” the Presi- ’ dent. to invoke the Taft-Hartley ’ law and obtain'an anti-strike in- : junction against the 650,000 CIO steelworkers who struck June 2 —- ’ minutes after the supreme court voided Mr. Truman’s April 8 seizure of the steel industry. Morse had offered his proposal as an amendment to the pending defense production economic controls bill. White House sources considered it “extremely unlikely” that Mr. Truman would put Taft-Hartley machinery into motion on the basis of Tuesday’s senate action. They indicated the President was hopeful the senate might reverse itself. or that the house might take a different view. ( Chairman Burnet R. Maybank. D.-S.C, said he will try to send the entire economic (controls bill back to his senate banking committee unless the senate gives M. Truman powers to deal with the steel crisis. He said that congress might as well let all economic controls lapse at the end of this month if it is going to deny the President “effective” weapons to get steel production rolling again. More said there is a “delusion” that the Taft-Hartley act would keep production going, i “It hain’t so,” the scholarly former law school dean said. He charged that Taft-Hartley “puts the government on the side of the employer.” Acting defense mobilizer John R, Steelman announced meanwhile that he will call in union and management officials soon to make specific— arrangements for reopening a limited number of plants to produce steel critically needed for (Tnrn To Pace Klcht) Add Another Well To City's System Another well to add to the city’s Strained water supply will begin to contribute to the water treatment plant later this week an additional 250,000 gallons of water, announced Ralph Roop, city engineer, in an interview’ today. ’ " He slated that the city is using almost the entire capacity of the three w’ells now’ in operation, 720,000 gallon each 24 hours. He added that, the new well will relieve a heretofore "unhealthy situation.” \ t— — . To Remove Parking Meters Near Signal In compliance with the recent order by the state highway commission calling for a “no parking” regulation in the vicinity of the traffic signal on Monroe street, upwards to 15 parking meters were prepared for removal today. The commission order stated (hat the regulation is necessary to facilitate traffic through the city on the main arteries. After a reasonable trial period, the city may file a protest which would be subject to a hearing with the commission. .