Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 140, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 140,

SWEET AND LOW M _ -j,. , - - - , , LMT * .„. ■>■ **■ wKnftAiii-T » *.v——»| **> '.< EW<T»>’HdS IRIwMr'L. ji * < ..... ■Ki V * i ->w| fl\ * y |hMfW « SK ' <’ “W QI fl&i ißimOt i f fl fl I fl 7 3 WHILE THEIR MATES look on, from deck of the IU. $. Maritime training ship Empire State, young gobs ge| enthusiastic sendoff from sweethearts on embarking on a 10.000-mile cruise to foreign ports from • Fort Schuyler, N. Y. Four hundred midshipmen are aboard the Empire State.

10 Men Feared Dead As B-29 Crashes Asea ? Air Force Pilot Is • Sole Survivor Os Crash In Pacific I'l ' ' 9 - ■ 1 •■ ’■ < ; ' HONOLULU, UP — Ten men w'erie feared dead and one -was rescued Friday when an air force B-29 crashed Into Jhe shark-ijifesu ed Central Pacific 125 niiiles west , of Kwajalein Island. I • V The commander of a navy rescue party reported 7 the pilot, an 1 air force captain, wasJ/the only / . survivor among a crew of 11. He suffered a broken leg. I ~ 1 (The pilot told his resciiefs the B-2.9 broke up when it crashed shortly after taking off from Kwa- ■ ... jalein for Guam andSthat only one other man besides himself mani aged to get out of the plane. He said this man sank before he cOUld get to his sidej . The navy s I A C boat that rescued the; pilot, a navy crashboat and a navy , patrol bomber. were ordered to stay on the scene-, and search I I for other p&ssible survivors. Several hours after the- ; crash, only floating, debris was found. ~ i boats reported there were many sharks area. The pilot was forced to, ditch in the Water after feathering two (engines and losing power in a third. The accident took place at 10:30 a.m. Thursday. The second B-29 spotted the pilot on a life raft. The plane circled overhead until the' boat arrived about tour hours later. :' I • ;;■ >;■ - 7: .1 1 <• —■ ;. , .[". t 7 J ' ' I■, .. ' All Hospital Beds Reported Occupied Study Possibility Os Addition Here Every available bed at the Adt ams county memorial hospital Was . occupied today, according to a re-? port from trustees of that institution. Crowded conditions have i ■' prevailed for some time, and it ' was necessary to turn three parents away Thursday, p t . L- l "’ Trustees of the hospital state there is a dire need for the addition of about 40 or 50 beds to the ' facilities Os the hospital. I 5 vH Some beds at present are placed in the hallways for occupancy of patients not regarded as serious. l The crowded condition is hot new, T J it was stated, and for some time ' < trustees have been* considering proposing plans for an addition. I ThF local hospital has achieved 1 an enviable reputation for the care of the sick and it is believed that 1 _ a majority of the citizens of Adams county would back the trustees in their proposal for an increase in beds. 7 . j r . ■ 7 7 V . 7 ■ Authorize Loans On Newsprint Production WASHINGTON, UP—The house banking committee agreed Thurs-. , day to authorize government loans to encourage. U.S. production of scarce newsprint. -

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY 1 I . ' . ■•_ I

Oppose Purchase Os Ground At Geneva - - - i ' ■ i I Residents Oppose Recreation Area . s 7 : ' ; The several] weeks old controversy at Geneva over disbanding the present playground and baseball diamond Jat the north edge of the town apd joining with Wabash township] in acquiring a new and larger aroa outside the town came to a boiling point Thursday night .with the filing of a* remon strartce signed.] by 278 Geneva resi.dents with the town board. Sofne time ago, the town board tentatively accepted the plan of disbanding thb present recreation area, dividing (it into lots and selling'it, At the (same time, the town board voted to join with the township in acquiring a larger area southeast of Geneva, outside the town limits. The remonstrance to the plan, signed by Thiirman Baker and 277 other Geneva residents, was presented by Robert Anderson, Decatur attorney. to the town board in regular session Thursday night. Ray Umpleby, president of’ the board, presided at last night’s session and both other members, Wai-, ter Hofstetter and Stanley Baumgartner attended the session. AtJ torhey Anderson and Baker bdth spoke for the remonstrators. The 1947 Indiana general assembly .enacted a law, according to the remonstrators,. which stages that in casea town board decides to. plat and sell parklands Or playgrounds. if 25 percent or more of the legal voters of the town sign a remonstrance, the platting, and sale ordinance shall not \be finally adopted. ; ! Those opposed to the change to the larger athletic field state that 276 remonstrators are considerably more than the necessary 25 percent. 7,1 ■ ■ ■ f I The town board published a letter some time ago stating that the board felt the larger playground ■would be more adequate for the town and that such a move would benefit all the people. The present playground is lighted’for night baseball'and the principal. argument for moving .it is because of its size and also the belief that the present recreation center is the growth of Geneva northward, which many say is the natural direction of development. Proponents of the move also state that the present site, being close to U.S. highway 27, has traffic hazards, which the proposed site does not have. John DeVoss, attorney for the town board, advised the members to take the remonstrance under advisement so that the names of signers cupld be checked. The board and attorney DeVoss will meet soon to fctudy the statute, before jnaking a final decision on the-matter. p. 7 J. • 7 -JU- .'f; INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and rather humid and not much change in temperature tonight and Saturday. Scattered showers and thunderstorms north and east tonight and \ Saturday. Low tonight 65-72 and high Saturday 80-88 for the northeast and 88-93 for the south- >

House Plans s \ . ’ s* * - - ■ ' 7 * . I For Debate On Controls Bill •' . ; 7 . ! ] - - . House Final Major Legislative Hurdle To Extend Controls WASHINGTON, (UP) — The house stood Friday as the last major hurdle to congressional action extending wage-price-rent controls. Chairman Brent Spence of the house banking committee said the house probably will start de-* bate Wednesday on extending the defense production act beyond its June 30 expiration date. The Kentucky' Democrat W’as hopeful that the house would complete action on the legislation by next Friday. Congress took two big. steps Thursday in the race to extend anti-inflation | economic controls before the deadline: 1. Thle senate, by a 58 to 18 vote, passed legislation extending wage-price-rent controls for eight months,-to next March 1. j 2. The A house banking committee followed the senate aqtioh by recommending Thursday n'ght that controls be extended for one The senate and house versions bf the controls bill differ in several important details, but both fall far short of President Truman's request for a strengthened, twoyear extension of the defense production act. The house committee introduced a new feature in the controls legislation by recommending an (antired tape amendment aimed at keeping prices below ceilings. The amendment wuold suspend the 5 requirement for retailers and wholesalers to keep full records on their sales if their selling prices are 7 or more percent below government ceilings. . 1 The amendment is a compromise with a widespread congressional demaqd that controls be lifted from items consistently selling below Ceiling levels. The senate bill no similar provision, but does include a recommendation that controls be suspended in\ cases where they would not be unstgbilizing. Ji The house committee bill contains no amendments requesting President Truman to use\the TaftHartley law to end the steel strike, or limiting the wage stabilization board to handling economic issues in labor disputes. Both\ amendments adopted by the senate as a result of indignation over the administration’s handling of the steel controversy. The hotise committee also went along-with the senate in voting to prohibit price ceilings on fresh fruits and vegetables. Potatoes have been the only such produce to be controlled thus far. The house group also voted to end wage ceilings for trims with eight or less workers, with certain exceptions; to exempt bowling alleys from price ceilings, and farm workers from wage controls, and to make it easier for landlords to test the validity of their rent ceilings.

Decotuiylndigna, Friday, June 13, 1952.

■ i ’ i ''WRw,' Report Savage Night Fighting On Korea Front Counterattacks By Chinese Repulsed In Savage Battle SEOUL. UP — j American Infahtrymen . threw, strong Chipese counterattacks j» savage night fighting early Fridfc and held fast to hewly won hff positions on the Communist sidt of the “armistice line.” Fighting for the hill positions -> vital to holders it. theither side should mount a major offensive! — was the heaviest since last November when the Reds attacked jin last-minute efforts to capture strategic peaks. - The two new wedges hacked out Os previously ComWunist territory marked the\ deepest penetration hjf either side Since the line, officially obsolete but long observed, wa| set hopefully at Panmunjom Nov, 27. Qi’s of the Oklahoma 45th Division, supported by tanks .and fighter-bombers, knocked the Reds off hills west of Chorwon and southeast of Kumsong in twin stabs across the line. At least 97 Chinese w-ere killed by heavy fire from riflemen and artillery. b Night bombers roared low over the battlefront and blasted, the Reds with 1.000-pound Jaombs. Hint New Walkout I PANMUNJOM, Korea, UP — Allied truce negotiators hipted at a new walkout after accusing tthe Communists of maintaining combat troops inside the 1,000-yard neutral zone around Panmunjom. ■They said the area was not established “to protect” Communist soldiers. Liaison officers dickered over the neutral zone v before and after a session of the truce delegations. Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison, Allied senior delegate, hinted that the United Nations may eiitljer request or impose a new recess, such as the three-day walkout that ended Wednesday. ' He held a whispered conference with Maj. Gen. Hpward Turner and Rear_ Adm. R. E. Libby, U. N. negotiators, wheij North Korean Gen. Nam II proposed a meeting. Saturday. , “We were considering whether it was worthwhile .to come back tomorrow?’ Harrison said later. At the Communists insistence, Harrison agreed to meet again Saturday . i/ i' fi ■ ■>. V\ ■. /' d ji. '■ Rotary Club Hears Conference Reports Interesting reports on the annual conference of Rotary International, held recently at Mexico City, were presented at the weekly meeting of the pecatur Rotary elub Thursdayevening. Harold Engle, president-elect, and R. E. Glendening, who attended the conference as official delegates of the Decatur service club, gave 'interesting reports of conference sessions and sidelights of their trip to and from Mexico City, ~—T 4 Jesse Halberstadt Dies Unexpectedly Foritier Monroe Man Is Taken By Death Jesse Lee Halberstadt; 58, a former resident of Monroe, died unexpectedly Thursday at Detroit, where he had been playing for some time in an orchestra. Although he had been suffering from a heart ailment for the last few years, death was unexpected. , \ He was born in Rantoul, 111. April 15, 1894, a son of Frank P. and Anna and lived at Monroe for a number of years with his parents. He was married td Florence Marshall in Colon. Mich., March 27, 1937. He had played in orchestras throughout the country for a number bf years, Ms. Halberstadt served in the U.S. navy during World War I. Survivors include the wife, one , son, Jesse Lee Halberstadt, jf.; three brothers, James Halberstadt, of Pleasant Mills, A. F. Halberstadt of Union City and Glen Hilberstadt of Battle Creek, Mich., and one sister, Mrs. Baad of Colon, Mich. One sister is deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at ’ Colon, with burial '

Steel Strike Leads To Abandonment Os Easing Controls

Young Boy Tells Os Slaying, Suicide L Grandfather Killed | v Ailing Wife/ Self ‘BLOOMINGTON, Ind. UP — A five-year-old boy told Friday how liie looked on while his grandfather shot and killed his ailing wife so she “won’t have to cry any more.” j The child, David Gallagher, was nW only, witness when farmer Hamlin shot down his tfife- Hazel Thursday with a 12 Skauge shotgun and then killed himseff with the same! weapon. j Hamlin, 53, may have intended liis act to be a double mercy slayihg. said Deputy Sheriff Kenneth (jlorbin. jHe > committed the shootings because of failing health,” Corbin said. j David told authorities his grandmother had burst into tears several times during the day. j“I saw grandaddy go to the kitchen door With a shotgun behind 1 him. Grandmommy was Standing at the kitchen sink washing dishes and crying,” the child gaid. ; j “Maw, you won’t have to cty 4ny. more,” he said Hamlin told (he farni. woman. ; David said his grandfather (aised. the shotgun, shot his wife ind then turned the weapon on himself, if Hamlin’s body fell alongside that <pf the wtoman. Both were killed Instantly. i Corbin said the sheriff’s office would attempt to learn the nature bf the ailments suffered by the 33-year-old victim and her husband. | Neighbors told him both Mr. and Mrs. Hamliin had been ill fbr some time and that\ was the only reason they could think of for the slayipgs. ‘ ' j The chufch-goirig were reported to be well-to-do financially. | Hamjin borrowed the gun from (Turn To Pave Eisbt) Flag Day Services Saturday Evening | Annual Services At " Elks Home Saturday ? The public is invited to attend the annual Flag Day services, wh|ch will be held on the lawn of the Decatur Elks home, North Second at 7:30 o’clock Saturday evening. | This service has been held for years by practically all Elks lodges' ifi the United States, and for past sfevefar years, the Decatur Elks Have joined in sponsoring the j event* by the American Legion and V-eterans of Foreign Wars posts of this city. ; Judge Homer Byrd, of the Wells cjrcult court fat Bluffton, will deliver the Flag day address duripg , t|ie Saturday evening ceremonies, j 4 Color guards of the Legion aiid VFW will take part in the opening ceremony, with the Decatur high school band playing “The Star Spangled Banner.” i George F. Laurent, exalted ruler of the Elks lodge, and-his staff > df officers will conduct the Flag day ritual and the history of the f|ag will be read by Julius J. Baker. The program will close with ‘lAmerica,” played byj the high sjchook \bandl Participating organizations and the public' are invited to open House .at the Elks following the Flag services. Brownies Swimming Party On Saturday The Decatur Brownies'who have attended day camp this w'eek at Hanna-Nuttman park will hold their swimming party from 10 to li :30 o’clock Saturday morning at the city swimming pool, North s*ifth street. j There will be no bus pickup for thiA activity and the Brownies will be required to furnish their own transportation.

BoatnerSays Koje Control Now Assured Back Os Communist Resistance Broken In Red Prison Camp y KOJE ISLAND, Korea, UP — Brig. Gen. Haydon L. Bull Boatner claimed, victory in the bloody “little war” to regain control of this island’s 80,000 Communist prisoners. “The thing is over,” he said. Boatner, tough combat veteran who took command a month ago after prisoners kidnaped Brig. Gen. now * Col. Francis T. Dodd, walked unarmed among recently belligerent Reds inside a new compound. He broke the back of Communist resistance Tuesday when paratroopers of the 187th airborne regiment stormed compound 76. Savage hand to hand fighting left one American soldier and 39 prisoners dead and 150 prisoners wounded. The North Korean officers of compound 66 surrendered in smart military fashion Friday and were hauled off to new enclosures while heavily armed American, British and Canadian troops „ stood by; ready for a fight if necessary. ThO 5,000 civilian internees in compound G 2, where one American and 87 prisoners died im a Feb. 118 riot, sent a note to Boatner saying simply, “We are ready to move.” ’ r'• 1. ■ Sj| - " ; ( These were the last two compounds in which serious resistance was feared. Boatner’s men are breaking up the compounds holding up to 6.000 men each into 500-man sections. \ < All empty compounds will be cleaned up except No. 70, Boatner said. It will remain as a warning jh (Tnrn To Pare KUrht) Continued Warm Is Forecast In State -INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Scattered light thundershowers and continued warrti with temperatures averaging four to eight degrees above normal during the weekend in Indiana was forecast Friday. Weathermen predicted continued warm in the south and warmer in the north Saturday and\ Sunday. However, it will turn Cooler again j Monday or Tuesday. A !. Precipitation will average up to one-half inch as Friday night or Saturday and again Sunday night or Monday. Rayer Is Appointed As Regular Fireman Jack Rayer Is Named As Hill's Successor jack R. Rayer, automobile mechanic,, employed at the P. L. Macklin and Sons garage for the last s&ven years, today was a regular city fireman by the board of safety and fire chief Cedric < Fisher, effective Monday. Rayer will take the pla6e of Vernon Hill, who resigned effective Junej 15 to devote all of his time to his coal business. Hill has served as a regular fireman for the last three years. He also has operated the Hill Coal Co., where he will now work, full time, as general manager. Rayer has had many years experience as an automobile mechanic, and it is understood that part of his new duties as a fulltime fireman will be mechanized care of the city’s Tire fighting equipment. A new fire truck costing about SIB,OOO will soon be housed at the Decatur fire station to supplement the present two trucks.\ | According to specifications, the' new truck will be one of the most modern on the market.

Downed Pilot Saved After 51 Hours Asea Rescued By Tanker ' In Gulf Os Mexico HOUSTON, Tex., UP - A 22-year-old naval flyer who bailed out of his stricken plane over the Gulf of Mexico and spent 51 hours in shark-filled waters on a mansized raft was delivered safely to Houston early Friday by the tanker which rescued him. \ J Ensign Charles Gene Lewis, his face raw and peeling from blistering sun, said he now ’knew the power of prayer. , “I never gave up hope,” said the Seymour, Ind., navy flyer in the matter-of-fact voice with which he described his experience at the ocean’s mercy. “I figured that something would come along, and if it didn’t j . . well, there was nothing I could do about it at the time.” “I prayed quite a bit while I was out there,” he said. \ The handsome pilot w r as one of two navy flyers who bailed out when their planes ran out of feul on ja flight from Warren-Robbins air field in Georgia to Boca Chiea naval air station at Key West, Fla. The other pilot, Ensign Thomas Y. Bowen, 20, of Ohio, was picked up almost immediately by the Spanish “Aldecoa.” But for Lewis, it was 51 hours Without food and with the everpresent fear of running out of water. “I had enough capsules to make five pintk of drinking water, so I did not drink any until I just solutely had to,” he said. “I used two pints while I was out.” When hunger began to draw his stomach, he said, he pressed a bag with a distilling plant closed to his body to relieve the gnawing. “I made a couple of grubs for some small fish, but I missed both (Turn To Pase EisbtJ To Fill In Land For Community Center Plans Completed k Here By Officials Plans for immediate completion of filling in the city land, east of the Monroe street bridge, which will be occupied by the Decatur Community Center, were completed this week at a joint meeting of city officials and officers of the Community building project. The' proposed building will set back from U.S. highway 224 about 100 feet and there will be about 160 feet between the proposed Community Center and the city water plant. There also will be a right-of-way between the river and the proposed building of 120 feet. On this will be, constructed a roadway which will lead north to the city dump,A which will be far enough away ftom the highway that it cannot be seen. Parking space for\ about 400 automobiles will be available in front of the proposed building and at the east side. At -the north end, there is a large area where future plans call for a swimming pool, locker rooms, tennis courts and other recreational facilities. Plans are underway to complete thu fill and have the entire property levelled off soon. The fill will continue east to the water department building line, and will come up even with the highway. A large portion of the dirt for fill will be available from the city property north of the present dump. The dump will be moved north as the fill is completed and eventualy. the entire city land north to wheret“ it joins a farm owned by Mrs. C. A. Dugan, will be filled level with U.S. highway 224. City engineer Rjalph Roop and his deputy, Harry £tults, are completing the drawings for the project. The completed drawing k will show the proposed community building; roadways and recreational area.

Price Five Cents

To Revoke Ease Os Curbs For Construction Tighter Controls May Be Needed If Strike Continues WASHINGTON, UP — The government abandoned plans Friday for relaxing controls on building as the nationwide stefel strike went in-, to its 12th day. informed sources said the national production authority has decided to revoke a series of orders, scheduled to take effect Julyv 1, which ' would have eased curbs |on construction of stores, theaters, schools, roads, amusement projects, private homes and all other types of civilian buildings. With upwards of 3,000,600 tons of steel already lost as a ■ result of the strike, informants said, the NPA may have to make building controls even tighter than they are at present, instead of relaxing them. Officials also, warned that the automobile industry will begin shutting down latte this month if the strike edntinues. The Ford Motor Co. announced plans to start closing its assembly plants June 2G, and officials here said other automakers are expected to follow suit. There was no. indication when, where or how the government will renew its so-far-futile attempts to settle the dispute over wage increases and a union shop which led to the strike by 650,000 CIO Steelworkers. Congressional efforts to arm. President Truman with legislative authority to seize the industry collapsed Thursday. The normally pro-administration house banking committee rejected a seizure proposal by a 15 to 10 vote. The senate, vvhich had rejected four seizure plans in a row, passed an economic controls bill calling on Mr. Truman to use the Taft-Hart-ley law. Mr. Truman refused to say at his news conference Thursday whether he intends to invoke the law, which provides for 80-day antistrike injunctions.! High administration officials said Friday that the President ha,d “no immediate plans” for using the Taft-Hartley machinery. Senate Group Plans Military Bill Cut Cut Expenditures For Construction WASHINGTON, UP -- A senate subcommittee set Its sights Fridayon eliminating “wasteful expenditures” from a house - approved $2*758,318,000 military construction bill. ’ Chairman Russell B. Long DLa. said a “great amount” of the construction authorized \ in the houste bill can be postponed “without doing any harm to the military establishment.” Long said his armed services subcommittee will start hearings on the bill Tuesday. Engineers and construction experts have already been, at work for the group analyzing the requests of the defense department. The bill, carrying funds for urgent Army, Navy and Air Force construction projects, was passed by the House Thursday. The __2,758,318,600 House total was about $269,000,000 less than the armed services had requested. The bußding program, which includes secret work K at overseas 1 bases for U- S. atomic bombers, carries funds for some 250 military bases in this country as well as abroad. The major share of the new authorization — $2,089,277,000 — would go to the air force. While $111,099,000 of this amount is speci(Tnnt To Pace