Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 142, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1952 — Page 1

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Truman Autographs First Nuclear Sub •****—SJSZi SBWi Ba £Vfell . iIJK I flH' Mj» n r SB 7 i; hBHKw i aBEi PRESIDENT TRUMAN (left L speaks? at I he, ceremonies proceeding the laying of the keelplate for the first npclear submarine “Nautilus,” at proton. Mass , Saturddyj At the right, the President autographs the plate of the first atomic powered John Jay Hopkins,! presidentnofkthe General Dynamics .Corp,, and Dan A. Kimball, secretary of the n&iy. Ipok on. J i .

Changes Made To Improve GE Organization Fractional Motor i Business Divided In Sub-Departments Further organization improvements of the General Electric company's fractional horsepower mqtOr department, Fort Wayne, were announced today by 'Manley E.l Lord; department general manager. . The company’s fractional horsepower motor business has been divided into font separate sub-de-partments, each with a general manager,. Lord said. * ' Leslie D. Hodell “Will head the general AC motor sub-department;; Ab Martin will serve as general! manager of the motor sub-department; Jack C. Clarksonf has been appointed general man-l ager of the specialty and defenses motor sub-department; and Carll W. Moeller has been named gen-| eral manager of the electric sink: arid laundry motor sub-department| . The general AC motor sub-def} pgrtment includes all AC motorrii for general purpose applications' The sub-department’s manufacture ing operations are at the Taylog street plant in Fort Wayne, at thri company's Decatur plant, and at a. new plant now uniTer construction at Linton. \ iff (Hodell will be assisted by the following section managers: Lee R. _ Beard,' manager-engineering j Leo W. Kuttner, manager-manufad taring; \ William R. Boggess, man;-ager-marketing; Clifton Duncan, manager-finance; W. Kenneth Williams, manager-advanced manufacturing development; John W Welch. manager-Decatur plant, GCorge W. Auer, manager-Lintop plant. .( i’t'he hermetic motor sub-depart-ment, with IMartin as general manager, includes manufacturing operations at the Broadway plant ip Fbrt Wayne, and the Tiffin, Ohio plant. I 'Serving on its, organizational staff are Robert W. Snyder' man-ager-engineering; David C. Hapson, nianager-mraketing; Edgar F. Waldschmidt, manager - finance}; Harold E. Boles, manager-Tifffih Plant. < The specialty and defense mot* sub-department, under Clarkson, consists of all series, DC, specialand defense motors. The'sumdepartment’s operatiohs are cojttcChfrated principally at the Broadway plant in Fort Wayne. \' || Section managers within sub-department are Irvine E. Rosts, manager-engineering; Adolph }J. Rinse, manager - manufacturing; Joseph J. Horan, manager-market-ing; Paul M. Deal, manager-fin-ance 1 , and Harold B. Carter, man-ager-advanced engineering devek ogment. j| Principal manufacturing operations of the electric sink and laijhdry motor sub-departinent, headed by Moeller, areat the DeKalb, 111. Plant. '|| | Managing the various sections. (Thhi To Pace Six) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, scattered thunl dershowers tonight or Tuesrday. Warm and humid to» night, turning; cooler and less . humid by Tuesday night. Lovy tonight 72-76. u . High Tuesday 80-85 northwest to near 90

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- —r Ridgway In Italy J | Under Heavy Guard Italy Communists 'Opposed To Ridgway ROME. VP — Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway arrived in kqme Monday under an unprecedented guard of 50,000 troops and poli -e who had orders to crush mer ilessly| any Communist demonstrations. ’ ! / The angry Redsj charged that the government had put Rome in a “state of siege.” ■ I / Tljie new Allied $u premb iiccjmindnder landed at Ciimpino’ Airport, accompanied by 1 is wife, tifter a. flight from Paris. i f Heavily armed carabinieri, the crack federal police,' guarded fthe entire airport and llnpd the runway on. which Ridgway’s plane landed. The entire grille route Ito Ronie also was lined with fcroqps , and police. L . I Precautions were fhrtheri jtightened after police selzjed five men ari they tried to plant 20 rounds of-dynamite under a bridge ori the northern outskirts Sunday inight. Two men\identified as Communists weire arrested. The others There had been nd similarmassing of security forces since 1948 when the Communist!s threatened a revolution because c f an attempt to assassinate Red teider Palmiro Togliatti. Ridgway was greeted by defehse minister ‘Randolfo Pacciardi, Ahierican Ambassador EllsJwqrth Biipker, and other Ijiigh officials of North Atlantic treaßry organization countries. . j I4\- | - fyater Ridgway conferred with (Turn To I’nare Five) ! Decrease Shown In | County Bond Sale | I i T. F. Craliker, chairman -of the Adams county U. S. defense bond committee, has been advisqd that the county’s May -borid sales of all defies werp $25,465 c )mpar<*d with $53,210 for the corresponding period of 195.1. Total band sales for the state during r May were 553 compared with for May of last year/a gain of .almost 3 percent. The sale of “E” defense bbnds for the state during May was $6,890,749 compared with $7,112,259 for May of 1)51. q- i- 4-i , —t—M: 1 " 1 ' \ Mrs. lona Stevens Dies This Morning . Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Mrs. lona M. Stevens, 72,1 widow of R. B. Stevens, former Vail, Wert, O. county sheriff, died/ at 1:20 o’clock this mornlrig ilat the home of a son, James at Cpnvoy, O. She was born in Tully township, .Van Wert county, May A 1880, a daughter of Edeni and Arabella Fletcher-Green. j [ j* Surviving are two sons,; James Stevens of Convoy' and Ralph Stevens of Harrison} township. Van Wert count)}; a daughter, Mrs. Vernon Richey of Darns, Tex.; 11 grandchildren; two greabgrandand two sisters, Mrs. Fannie Hitchcock of Dejcatur and Mrs. Lottie Collier of California. \. i FuneraL services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the tiertz funeral i home in’Convoy, the ReV. Albert Swenson and,the Rey. Albert fetraley officiating. | Burial will be in Woodland cemetery at Van Weft. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of |he services, f ' : •

Death Toll In State Is Heavy Over Weekend \ Drownings Add To Traffic Toll On State Highways | I By UNITED PRESS &ear 100-degree heat, crowded highways and “the old swimmin’ hole” combined during the w-eek end to send Indiana’s accidental death rate soaring with the temperature. At least 10 persons died in traffic accidents, five drowned and a three -\year -old Indianapolis boy died of heat exhaustion for a Sat-unday-Suhday violent death toll of id. The toll might have been much greater. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois flyer “The Georgian” wal derailed Sunday at Farmersburg with 365 passengers aboard. None was killed but 13 were injured. The heat victim was Max Meryitt Tuttle. Police said the child Crawled into his father’s parked car with all windows closed and apparently was unable to get but as the sun sent the inside temperature far above 100 degrees. All the drownings occurred Sunday, the year’s hottest day. | Thurl Jester, 18, son of Mrs. Vornia Jester, Salamonia, drowned in a gravel pit near Portland. He apparently suffered a cramp. Maurice Peterson, 27, Chesterton, drowned in Lake Michigan at Porter when his rowboat capsized about 400 feet offshore at Johnson’s Beach. Charles Hart, 17, Corydon, drowned in a Stony Point swimming area, and Eugene Brown, 9, Columbus, drowned at the Burnside gravel pit along U. S. 31 near that city. Patrick Murphy, 22, Chicago, drowned Sunday night in Lake Eliza near Valparaiso. A Logansport mother and daughter were killed Saturday and six persons were injured in a head-on auto collision on Ind. 25 hear Cjymers. The dead were Mrs. Edna Swisher, 46, and her daughter, Shardn, 13. Earl Shorter, 38, Chicago, died in Hammond Sunday \of injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident at the intersection of Inds. 30 and 330 near Schererville. William Wasson, 59, Lewisville, was killed Sunday u;hen a car he was riding in went out of control and ran into a ditch on Ind. 103 near New Castle. Stanley Szozda, Chicago, was killed Saturday when his car struck a truck parked along U..S. 20 near Elkhart. A passenger, Albert Davis, 65, was injured. Mrs. Edna L. Britt, 42, Cincinnati, was killed Saturday in a twocar collision on Ind. 9 near Shelbyville. . r Floyd D. Edwards, 35, Chicago, died Saturday of injuries suffered Friday night in a two-car collision on Ind. 54 near Sullivan, balton L. Middleton, 17, Hymera, was killed in the accident. In Greenfibld, Thomas A. Walsh, 31, Indianapolis, died In an ambulance of injuries suffered Saturday on U. S. 40 when his auto struck three other vehicles and swerved into a utility pole. Other Saturday traffic fatalities were an Ohio truck driver who died in the flaming wreckage of his truck when it struck a bridge near Fort Wayne, and an Indianapolis pedestrian hit by a car.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday,;J|ne, 16, 1952.

Swedish Plane I Shot Down By ■ Russian Jess Unarmed Swedish Flying Boat Shot Down, All Saved J STOCKHOLM, Sweden, UP —. Two Russian - type jet fjghter planes shot down an unarmed } Swedish air force flying boat i the . open Baltic Sea Monday. Its 1 seven 'crewmen — 4wo suffering from gullet weunds —were rescued"': by a German freighter. The attack shocked and angered i the entire nation. The government, in an unusually ;, stern note, charged flatly that So- ; viet planes made the attack on the unarmed plane. It demanded punishment qf the attackers and measures to prevent a recurrence, and asked a prompt reply. Two hundred persons massed outside the Soviet embassy, hoot- : ing and -J jeering everyone who passed in or out, and police reinforcements were called. 'i i' King Gustaf Adolf was kept informed of every development by telephone to Northern Sweden, } where he is visiting.,; Newspapers called the attackers ; "Russian pirates.” Tfie official • Swedish State Radio emphasized ‘ that, before the crewmen were res- i cued, armed Swedish fighter [ planes equipped with jive ammunition had been sent to'search for : them. But the air force announced that the German freighter Muensterland had rescued the crewmen and put thepi ashore at Hangbe in Southwestern Finland- All were taken to hospital. >- , Advices from Finland said that six of the crewmen were sent later to Aabo, en route to Sweden, ami | that the seventh was kept umder treatment. \J - / The foreign office said that in addition to protesting: the attack the government instructed the Swedish embassy in Moscow to tell > Soviet authorities that a search for wreckage of the plane was continuing. The embassy' w-as instructed to define the search area and ask that Russian forces refrain from interfering with t Swedish search operations. The Swedish plane, a Catalina.! was on a mercy flight it was attacked by two MIG-15 jet fighters of the type the Communists are using in Korea. ! It was seeking trace of a Swedish air force “flying classroom” plane that disappeared oyer the Baltic Friday with three crewmen d and five radio students. Swedes believe that the “flying; classroom” was attacked by RuS- ; (Tura To Pace Six) Safety Campaign To ; Open Here Saturday j To Present Awards For Safe Driving The Chicago Motor Cluli today ( opened their annual safety cam- ■ paign in Decatur with a luncheon ; : at the Failway Restaurant. Mar- ‘ ion Kirkpatrick and iirii Mitchell, } representatives of the club, outlin- ; ed final plans for the cash safety. ► awards be given to “partciularly courteous and safe drivers,” ob-; served during the five days, ex-, ’eluding Sunday, beginning Satur-' day. _ . V j Those who will act as judges were 'ht the luncheon, and are:' Mayor John Doan, Walter Ford,] Lawrence Anspuagh, Ronald Par-: rish and police chief James Bor-! ders. ;< Both drivers and pedestrians:: will be eligible for the $5 awards,; They will be judged on (1) coiirl tesy, (2) safe acts, (3) past rqc|| ord, (4) observance of all the rules? of the road,i (5) consideration be-| yond the call of the law. The judges will first of all, they® were# instructed, spot an especial* the safe driver to the Ilecatur* to see if such things hre his per| manent driving habit, and thenfl call his attention in some way s® that hte wlll\ go ovbr to the’ curb}: The judge will then identify him| self hrid ask for t|he license of th< prospective winneh. If everything is in order the ji|dge will directi the safe driven to the Decatu| Democrat office where he maji} pick up his check. Licenses be in perfect order before a wirif i ner can be picked. Pedestrians will be chqsen on the basis dt j their heeding pedestrian law; n$ } jaywalking, going against this . lights, or unnecessary interferencl i with traffic.

Engineers Strike World’s Largest Commuterßailway

Eaitfern Two-Thirds Os Nation Swelters I Least 48 Persons j Die During Weekend m By UNITED PRESS ski’ihick, humid blanket of stirl«4s|air hung over the eastern twoof the nation Monday and cut ever deeper into the o fthe millions Seeking relief, jrii least\ 48 persons died over the end, most of thehi drowning who died trying to escape tbe.beat. ( ( «From the Rocky Mountains to tiie|}Allantic seaboard and south to AhejGtilf of Mexico the giant mass :of ihriiidity-ladeh air lay in stifling ina|:tivity. \ , : 'gemperatures in the high 90’s 'vieje the rule with readings over lpo< commonplace Sunday. The rheprd temperature, for the day waishared by two Nebraska towns ;? f Imperial and Lexington—where thd mercury (climbed to 109. I There not a single weather iib>?ervation station in all of NebJhat reported a reading underloo. • } Reversal locations reported temp(friUui'es of 107 degrees including 4d|dland and Hill City, Kan., La .furita, Colo., and Burwell and North pliltte. Neb. I ijyealher bureau records came down in many spots thrbugllout the area. Many loca(iulis rebutted it the hottest June 15 record, br the hottest day far in 1952—even the hottest in five years. > } Bilt relief was on its way—from (vib directions, the forecasters said. ' A large cold mass of air marched it»;kdily eastward across the Great Plains and a Canadian-spawned piajsS of cooler air crept down into K’ejv England. l | forecasters said relief would be widespread within 48 hours. ' Massachusetts Ted the states in prawning deaths with 15 reported, n of them in a single accident Ilioard a sloop off Dennis, Mass. ? j; , — t Paint Yellow Lines Oh State Highways j ' ' ■ j State highway employes are working in Decatur this week, re-1 pointing all yellow lines at street liiitbrsections and other no-parking on the local streets which }aje part of the state highway syshim. \ } tcenter lines were paintqd last fWek and in two or three days the }v|ork will be completed sor 1 the islinmer. Highway repair crews alare continuing repair of deep rifcts in the highways. I E ! ' ' ■ ■ William Gallmeyer Dies This Morning f Funeral Services j To Be Wednesday f William C. Gallmeyei-, 84, retired farmer and lifelong resident of Idams county, died at 2:30 o’clock (his morning at his home at Bin|en following an illness of six |»onths. | He was born in Preble township |lay 20, 1868, a son of Conrad and Wilhelmina Scheiman - Gallmeyer, |rid was mraried to Lisette Berning -Nov.- 24* 1898. Mrs. Gallmeyer |ied Odt.; 13, 1946. | Mr. Gallmeyer was a member of Bt. John's Lutheran church. | Surviving are three daughters, Mt’S. Charles Thieme of Union tipwnship, 'Mrs. Fred C. Bieberich &f Preble township and Mrs. Arthur Buuck of Fort Wayne; one ion. Paul H. Gallmeyer of Root township; 16 grandchildren and Seven great-grandchildren. Two |isters and four brothers are deceased. g Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday at-the Zwick funeral home an<4 at 3 b'clqck at the St. John’s Lutheran ijthurch, the, Rev. W. G. Schwelm /bfficiafing. Burial will be in the Iphttrch cemetery. Friends cay call the funeral home after 7 o’clock .this evening.

Harriman And Truman Confer On Candidacy Says Truman Lauds Campaign Tactics Os W. A. Harriman WASHINGTON, UP—W. Averell Harriman reported to President Trumhn Monday on his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination and said Mr. Truman praised his campaign as “tops.” , “The President said that what I ivas doing was tops and to keep on fighting, after I told him I wab campaigning without compromise on the New Deal and Fair Deal principles befeause they the “The President said no candidate Ooulil run on the Democratic ticket who did not support those principles because they were the principles that made our. country prosperous and improved conditions of all the people.” The 60-year old mutual security director said this did not constitute an endorsement of his candidacy by Mr. Truman. But speaking entirely for himself, he said, “I’m the only one who has come out four-square on all of the issues in support of the New Deal ami, Fair Deal.” He said he did not ask the President for an outright endqrsement. “Since the President "Praised the type of campaign you are running and told you to keep fighting, what is left to endorse?” a reporter asked. } Harriman smiled and said he did not care to comment. „ y While Harriman was talking to the President, Sen. Estes Kefauver I>-Tenn., walked through the, Negro section of the capital, handshaking and seeking votes for himself in the District of Columbia Tuesday. At Atlanta, Georgia Democrats chose a 72-member delegation Monday pledged to give Sen. Richard B. Russell the state’s 28 convention delegates. Thp Georgians reserved the right to bolt if an unacceptable candidate or platform are chosen at Chicago next month. Mississippi’s states rights Democrats, at three district caucauses Monday, three more Tuesday and one Wednesday, will name 14_ delegates to the national convention. Eight others from the state at large will round out the 22-delegate slate which will be instructed to “stay in there and fifht” for Russeljl. Flag Day Services Held Here Saturday Annual Services Are Held By Elks Lodge Annual Flag Day services were held at the Elks home in this city Saturday evening, with the AmeriWars assisting in the service. Judge Hoirier Byrd* of the Wells circuit court at Bluffton, delivered the Flag Day address, urging his listeners to remember what tremendous accomplishments have been made by the United States wherever the country’s: flag flow-n. Color guards of the VFW and the American Legion took part in the opening ceremonies, with the Decatur high school band flaying the national anthem. Thq Flag Day ritual was conducted by George F. Laurent, exalted ruler of the Elks, and his staff of officers. The history of the American flag was read by Julius J. Baker. The service closed with “America,” played by the high school band.

Eisenhower Speaks At Farm Convention Establishes Denver For Headquarters PENVeIr, Colo., (U'P) — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said Monday he may lack answers to a lot of the nation’s specific problems bu the does possess “a determination to approach these problems with the help of the finest brains in the cquntry.” Speaking to a convention of farm and agricultural editors, Eisenhower remarked that he had been asked numerous questions requ|ripg specific answers. “1 have' freely confessed that I do not have that kind of answ-er," he said. (“The most that I have is a determination to approach t h q s e problems with the Jhelp of the finest brains in the country.” His appearance before the farm editors was Eisenhow’er’s first Denver speech since his arrival Sunday to /'establish his preconvention campaign headquarters. r J|e told the editors he was not going to “try to claim a close relationship with you.” . Gov. Dan Thornton, a Colorado cattle raiser, who introduced the general to the. editors at a breakfast, had referred to Eisenhower’s. “Hereford Herd.” : “I have an interest in one heifer in Pennsylvania,” the general confessed, “We’re expecting this year’s increase today.” The general said that because of his upbringing, he had a , “basic” interest in agriculture and natural resources. “I wnt to ask this fine group to help me learn more about agriculture, water, conservation and the general -farm problems of our (Turn To Paire Three) Propose Change In State Bonus Law I ■ : j. W ’ SqUTH BEND, UP — Members of lhe Indiana Department of Disabled American "War Veterans believe Korean War veterans should share in Indiana’s veterans bonus. A resolution proposing a change in the bonuq law was adopted at the group’s convention Saturday. Edward F. James, South Bend, was elected commander, succeeding Robert C. Graves, New Albany. — Herman Bieberich Is Taken By Death Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Herman Bieberich, 70, retired farmer, died at 1:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at his home, 710 North Tenth street. He had been ill for the past year?and bedfast for the last week. He was born in Preblq township June 20, 1881, a son of Christ and Marie Kdldewey-Bieberic#, and was married to Elizabeth Bittner Sept. 30, 1966. He moved to (Decatur in 1941 and w’as employed at the Adams County Lumber company and later as a watchman at the . Decatur Casting Co. until his retirement in April, 1950. '■ Mr. Bieberich was a member of the St. Paul Lutheran church at Preble. } Surviving in addition to his wifeare' two daughters, Mrs. Henry C. Gi;aft of Waynedale and Mrs. Otto Knipstein of Lake township} Allen county; one son, Victor C. Bieberich qf 'Preble; and 10 grandchildren. One brother and one sister are deceased. > The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral home to the home of the sori in Preble, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the son’s home and at 2 o’clock at St. Paul Lutheran church, the Rev. Otto C. Busse officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. / - (i

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Threaten To , Carry Strike To Other Roads 300,000 Os Daily Commuters Are Stranded By Strike \ NEW YORK, (UP)—The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers shut down the nation’s largest commuter railroad Monday and threatened to carry the strike to 63 other lines not covered by the recent national contract agreement. Engineers -went on strike on the Long Is and rallrpad at 4 a. m. Monday and all service was suspended immediately. The f}ash strike stranded 300,000 daily commuters and thousands of returning weekenders and, touched off. one of the biggest highway* bus 4nd subway traffic jams in history. The Lonfe Island is the only railroad serving the 120-mile island and the .sole link wtih New York iCity for many of its suburban communities. In a statement issued at Cleveland, James P. Shields, grand, chief engineer of the brotherhood, said he had authorized the Long Island strike and would “turn the full weight of our organization” toward?settlement of disputed contracts with it and 63 other roads “on terms at least as favorable as those we got at the White House."l At Washington, the national mediation board prepared to ask Shields;to call off the Long Island strike and set in motion the provisions! of the railway labor aicf which could bar a a 60-day fact-finding period. £ The railroad announced that it . winild meet with representatives of the striking Brotherhood of Locoi motive Engineers at 1 p. m. EPT under t tie auspices of the national mediation board. The city .board of transportation put all available subway trains into service and ran extra busses for the feeler lines in Queens and Brooklyn. Local bus lines switched their routes to shuttle travelers. Taxi drivers loaded up at fixed prices’ per head and thousands of private automobiles poured' into, the parkways in a colossal traffic ;snarl. Tunnels and bridges into the city reported the w'orst jams in the memories of police. •Col. Sidney H. Bingham, chairman o' the board of transportation, said the subw’ay crush was the “biggest since the World’s Fair.” • • ’ The engineers went on strike at 4 a. ml., EDT, in a long-standing dispute complicated by the recent settlement of the nation-wide rail dispute and the return of the roads from presidential seizure. Ross Barr of—"the national mediation board said die understood the strike was a “wildcat,” and had n<|>t been authorized by the national leadership of the brotherhood. ! , • The Long Island road was not a party to the national railroad mediation and the engineers had refused to accept rules changes provided in that settlement. Barr said wages were not at issue. The company announced it had (Turn To Pa Ke Throe) LATE BULLETINS UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. — Russia’s Jacob A. Malik Monday summoned a session of the United Nations’ security council for Wednesday to discuss Communist germ warfare charges. WASHINGTON, UP — The State Department announced that Russia will resume negotiations with the United States Monday afternoon on the question of settling its $11,000,000,000 wartime lend lease ac-L count. The Soviet Embassy gave no explanation for resuming the marathon talks which; have been held sporadically for more than five years.