Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L No. 144.

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, (UP) — The Swedish air force rejected Wednesday a Russian charge that one of its planes fired on Soviet A jet fighters. Relations’ between Sweden and Russia plunged to a new postwar low. ; . ■ The cabinet held its third emergency meeting in three days to consider the shooting down of a' Swedish air force plane by Soviet jet fighters and the Russian charge thi.t the Swedish plane fired when challenged after violating Soviet, territory. 1 The Swedish air force said the plane could not have ( fired because |f- it* was completely unarmed. Swedish arnfed - minesweepers stood ( by the spot in the Baltic where wreckage of a second air force plane, which disappeared last Friday, has been spotted 60 feet .under the surface. The government partly reactivated the World War IF air observer corps and issued live ammunition to jet fighters \and warships In the Baltic with orders to'shoot back if attacked. ' It was disclosed in Copenhagen that Danish planes and warships' also have orders to shoot hack If attacke'd in international or territorial waters. Thsi was the chain of events in an: increasingly complicated situation: - I—A .Swedish air force “flying .classroom” plane disappeared on a training flight over the Baltic last Friday. Swedes believe it was shot down by fighters. This belief, was hardened when bullet holes were found in one of the plane’s liferafts. '2; —A Swedish air force plane seeking the “flying classroom” was shot down Monday by MIG-15 jet. fighter planes. A German freighter picked up its crew. J3—The Swedish government sent Russia a stern protest over this attack, demanding punishment of the attackers. 4—-Russia alleged in a note Tuesday night that the Swedish plane had violated Soviet-held territory and fifed on Soviet fighters which challenged it. “ s—Sweden's resly was .expected to be that the search plane -was shot down without -warning ovfer the open Baltic and that it hail noi guns with which to return the fire. tj--The Swedish government made it known a Swedish plane accidentally flew over Russianheld territory last Friday and that a formal apology was given Russia for this violation. This plane returned safely. V • 304 Non-Communist Prisoners 801 l Ranks Leave Red Comrades In Prison Breakup KOJE ISLAND, Korea, UP — Three hundred and four non-Com-munist prisoners bolted from their Red comrades during the breakup of: two more prison compounds A U.S. 2nd division guards with fixed? bayohets herded 5,600 war prisoners from orice unruly compound 85 and 5,400 others from compound 605 into small, more manageable 500-inan enclosures without resistance. AH 304 prisoners who dashed for* freedom from Red rule had been in I compound 85. They fled from the .Communist ranks and flung theif- red-starred, caps in the dirt to Enthusiastic cries of “Attaboy!” and “Come on, Joe!” from the American guards. One of the prisoners displayed wounds apparently received in a ' recent'beatlng by Communist “goon" squads. / • The latest movement brought to 61,000 the number of prisoners shifted to smaller enclosures or whose compounds have been searched for tunnels, weapons and Red propaganda. \ —ln Washington, acting defense secretary William C. Foster said (Tara To Pave Elrht) INDIANA WEATHER \ Partly cloudy; Local showera and thunderstorms north and central/tonight and extreme south Thursday. A little • warmer' in south and central f tonight. Cooler Thursday. Low tonight 60-66. High Thursday 81-85 north, 85-89 south.

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—— *■ ■■■ • P WASHINGTON, UP —Secretary pi' State Dean Acheson said Wednesday that the action of Russian tighter planes in shooting down a Swedish plane was shocking and indefensible. ? Asked at his news conference about the Swedish-Soviet plane incidents. Acheson said it was primarily a matter for the Swedish government. Then, permitting direct quotation of his remarks, Acheson added: j "I can only say how deeply shocked and concerned 1 was by this Indefensible action.”. > This referred to the Action oi Russian jets which shot down a Swedish plane Monday. > Acheson reported optimistically (hat Communist aggression against tndo-China “has been checked ami recent indications war-ant the view that the tide is now moving in our favor.” j jHeJ connected his optimistic Views on the six-jyear fight against) Red aggression in Red Ciina with tirst-hand reports he received earlier from Jean Letournea i. French niinister of state for Mr do-C'hina, Mio is visiting here. 5 I‘Acheson said the threct of Red aggression in Indo-Chjna has'been piet "with great; courage and admirable resourcefulness” under* French leadership. i lie- also complimented the role Atnerican military and economic aid has played in the fight against in Southeast Asia and the creaton, training ai|d equipping of anti - Communist native it 1 * 9 - ■, Funeral Friday lor Mrs. George Stultz Young Decatur Lady ■ Is Taken By Death I (Funeral services will be held Friday for Mrs. Marjorie Stultz, 27. 922 Dierkes street, who died Tuesday in University hospital. Columbus, O. Death was attributed to fepkemia, following an illnesj; of Several weeks. She was takeh to the Columbus hospital last Weekend. ; Mrs. Stultjz was in South fcqnd March 3, 1921, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William G. Sullivan, l|ut had Hved in Fort Wayne for ippny years. - , i She was a member of the First ihpthodist church of this city. /./Surviving are her husband, Gporge W. Stultz, manager of the furniture store in this city; a small son, Gregory Alan; her parents; who reside in Fort ? Wayne, and a sister, iMrs. Riobert Walsh, 41so of Fort Wayne. ('Services will be j (conducted at (pm. Friday at the C. M. Sloan A Sons funetalj home in Fort Wayne, the Rev; Sjdhuel Emerick o(ficiating. Burial wjll be in Greenown memorial park in Fort Wayne. Friends may ball at the funpral Home after 7 o’clock this evening. East German Reds Accuse Officials P Charge Sabotage Os | Evacuation Program I BERLIN, (UP)—TI e Communist East German state has accused lipre than 100 local Red Officials sabotaging the program to forcibly evacuate EasbWest border residents. Informed sources said jVednesday. \ 1 fWest Berlin Socialists said the Charges were made as the regime ordered Communist holders Investigated in 15 border sectors Where farmers and villagers bat'police with! axes and scythes (o; resist eviction. I ' ? It was believed the Officials faced certain ouster from their jobs at|d perhaps arrfest. | The “Fighting Group Against inhumanity,” a West Berlin antifbmmunist organisation, reported flint many persons’ were arrested hy the Communists in a Harz Mountain areal which was evaluated under the plan to set up a three-mile-wide no - man’s - land Vjong the Charged with being agents of the American-operated radio station in West Berlin. i ' [ H The organisation said the evacuation was supervised by Russian hj-my officers. rP ,; i ’ ■ h': L ' . ’V .

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Long Island's Train Service Back To Normal Commuter Railway Strike Is Settled In New York City NEW YORK. (U'P)—Train service returned to normal Wednesday on the Long Island railroad and a two-day transportation nightmare ended for the line’s 300.000 daily passengers. I I The Brotherhood Os Locomotive Engineers late Tuesday, called off a strike which caused the ; worst traffic jam in the history of New York City. • \ r I An agreement in the contract dispute was reached at 5 p. m., hut service could ndt be resumed jn timeto help city workers get to Long Island homies. For the fourth . time Tuesday, highways and subway lines leaving the city felt the pressure of the strike) While the walkodt brought a room boom in business for bus companies and. taxi drivers, it cost the commuters an estimated |400,000 in extra expenses. News vendors in railroad stations also felt the pinch. ' , The r a i I r o a di Wednesday resumed hauling mail and freight shipments which were delayed by the strike. More than 700 freight cars loaded with building materials fuel and other items'had piled up in the Long Island freight yards. The back-to-wo?k agreement w’as reached after a three-hour negotiating session. ‘J. Frank Doolan, chief operating officer of the railroad, said both parties agreed to modify certain rules laid down in the national settlement which *a month ago resulted in the railroads being released from government operation. ' ,j. Lions Officers Are Installed Last Night Ronald Parrish Is President Os Club Ronald Parrish was installed as the new president of the Decatur Lions club last night, at the final meeting of the summer season. Also installed were:- Watson Mad- ■ dox, first vice-president; Walter, Sittman, second vice - president; ■ Clyde Butler, third vice-president; 1 Walter Ford, secretary; Alva Lawson, treasurer; tail twister. W. M. • Bumgerdner; and Lewis Smith, lion > tamer. Glen Mauller, the retiring presit dent, gave a short speech marking - his retirement, lauding the cooperate tion he received Tn all the many I civic projects in which the Lions : have engaged during the past sea- ■ son. j , i To mark the closing of Lions acI tivity in the city for the rest of the j summer, the club will have a family t picnic and barn dance next i Tuesday night, the picnic to take place at the shelter house at - Hanna-Nuttman park* 6:30 p.m„ i and the barn dance to be held at Geels barn at 8:30 that evening. ■V. ; »VI ‘ ■' \■ | ’

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 18, 1952.

Resolution Adopted For Disposal Plant Action Is Taken By Council Last Night i A resolution was adopted last night at the meeting of the city council calling for the construction of a sewage disposal plant to be locited on the St. Mary’s river downstream from the proposed oiitjet of the new sewetf system, passed upon at the last session of the; city council. Construction o£ the e plant wHI tentatively , begin in twd years, dependent on final action by the state board of health. Originally, the council had asked the state board for “three or fduf years extension” in the building; of the plant, but was turned down last week at a meeting of the, board with Mayor John Doan at Indianapolis. The grounds for refusal by the state board were that the proposed extension was “to indefinite” and that, as a matter 11 of fact, construction of the sewage disposal plant should begin immediately. It is expected by informed sources, however, that a two-year extension will be acc'epjed and thus permit construction of the new northwest sewer first. " . j ls The health board will only recommend the floating of a bond issuei/ for the construction of the new sewer if a date is set for the building of a sewage disposal plant. The reason Igiven for this is that it will prevent “pollution of the St. Mary’s river.” —« Nfoney for the plant will come out; of direct, or revenue taxation, and. will not affect the- ability to float bond issues, as in the case of the new- sewer, funds for tyhich wilf come from the sale olf general obligation bonds. Settle Contests By Committee—Tait Should Settle All \pelegate Contests WASHINGTON. UP — Set. Robert. A. Taft said Wednesday thle Republican national committee should settle all Contests in his bitter dispute with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower over Texas’ 38 delegates to the GOP convention. Yraft said in a statement that he w’ould welcome action by the national committee to decide the Con tested district delegates as well as delegates-at-large. The national committee promised a ruling Wednesday in the Texas dispute. “F have examined the rules of the. Republican national committee as related to the Texas con-, tests,” Taft’s statement said, “and under these rules I believe that the contests on district delegates as well as delegates-al-large should be decided by the national com mittee and not certified to -the state committee, because these delegates were not ‘elected by district convention.’ “I would welcome this treatment because the issues in that case have been so completely misrep-, resented by the Eisenhower press that I hope they will be exam<Tnr* To Pare EUM) i- . ■' ■■ 1 .

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;~y ’■ r -7 t —— U S. Casualties In Ifrea Total 109,971 Washington, (up) —The Det’ejse depart htetit said Wednesday American battle casualties in Konow loatl 1^9,971 t an increase ovjcr last week. casualties include all whose nexjt of kin have been lithified • through lakt Friday. ( It requires from ohe to three weeks next of kin are notified. J: ■, ' I Home Blown To Bits By Blast, Girl Is Killed Home North Os Fort Wayne Destroyed By 4 Blast Th|s Morning • FORT WAYNE, Ind. UP — A prefabricated home was “blown to liitk” by a butane gas- explosion Wednesday, killing a 12-year r . Old; girl and seriously injuring her mqth er, fathjer and younger brother. body of Carolyn Staszak was hurled 40 feet by the blast. i jjler father,’ Aldelbert C. Staszak. year «■ old machinist, suffered kepdnd and thiij’d-degree burns of th| entire body. /‘the explosion seared off all his clqthes. Hie dashed from the house nuked, screaming for help. tils wife, Ruth, 34, suffered a broken left and extensive butns, Her ha r was completely burned off. : .'Carolyn's 1- -old brother, Algelbert Jr., : suffered a kkull fracture and ccnciission when he Wa£! buried under the blazing debris; of the prefab, i - I ; \ the explosion blew out the walls, hujliiig debris up to 100 feet in all (lirgctions. The roof collapsed. f A television set, its aerial entlwjned around Jt. was blown thrt’Ugh a wall and* landed outside. Articles of clothing, furniture and Hits of paper money were scattered ijVfin the neighborhood. j. Sheriff Harold Zeis said the blast bi/pbably was caused by butane gas listl for cooking in the home, tihbut eight miles north of Fort A-ayne. , ; s?is said Stgszak worked a 4 An)-., to midnight shift and' had been home about an hour when the Explosion occurred. , The dazed father told Zeis “I 4'as trying to light the hot water Heater.” The house did not have a hot water heater. \ ! Ah English war ( bride who lived <Tur« To P«i» RUchtk ; — , . Plan Playground In ' | ! -I Stratton Addition ! /Council Approves j Taking Over Land { Accompanied by much favorable Jblpment, the city council last night approved a proposal made 4t; the last session that the city taile over a plat east of the Stratfiori addition and develop it as a sltFf ground. ; The land, 2.56 acres, is a gift to from John R. Worthman, fih|., initially intended for developmg?l by a community group residing at Stratton place for the use qft neighborhood Children. ? 7 It will eventually contain a ten;4i& court, a basketball court and •i .baseball field. Alsfo planned in the future are a Shelter house, swings, monkey bars and general playground facilities. \ IlThe field was offered to the city of the problem of mairiieAance and investment whicih prifnte citizens could not surmount. I Eventually, the cquncil said, a portion of the ground will be graded to allow the proper layout of a bail field, meanwhile, however, the only immediate ebst in view will bA to mow the grass,

lewis Seis Up 10 Million Fund To Aid Strikers To Support Workers In Strike Against 'Predatory' Mills WASHINGTON, UP — President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers set up a $10,000,000 fund Wednesday to support the CIO United Steelworkers strike Against what he called the “rapaciops and predatory steel Industry.” _ Lewis announced his action in a telegram to Philip Murray, president of the CTO and of the Steelworkers union. The pledged the UMW’s full support to the steelworkers, who went on strike June 2, after the supreme court voided President Truman’s April 8 seizure of thie steel mills. Lewis told Murray the steel strikers may draw on all or any part of the $10,000,000 strike fund and repay it “when you \ have achieved victory and convenience permits.” “We are conscious of the strength o£ the vast array of adversaries which confront you,” Lewis | said, “Rarely has a union membership faced such sl formidable grouping of financial and corporate interests as now oppoke the steel workers of the nation ip their \long-standing struggle to achieve their rightful aims and objectives in the industry.” Lewis lashed out at the steel industry and a congressional group headed by “Mr. R. Alphonso Taft” who, he said, are trying to break the steel strike through the “infamous Taft-Hartley slave statute.” n . The reference was to Sen. Robert A. Taft, R-Ohio, \co-author of the Taft-Hartley act. Confesses Part In Mattson Kidnaping Checking Story Os Fort Wayne Convict FORT WAYNE, Ind., (UP) — Sheriff Harold Zeis said Wednesday that a 51-y?ar-old convict had admitted taking part in the unsolved kidnap-murder of Charles Mattson in 1935.1 I Zeis identified the man as Charles Edward Cramer of Fort Wayne. Cramer’s criminal record dates back to 1024, Zeis said. The sheriff would not comment further until the FBI checks Cramer’s statement to determine its .authenticity. \ Cramer madd the statement Tuesday just prior to being taken to the state prison at Michigan City to begin serving a two a five-year term for robbery and parole violation. Zeis declined to speculate on whether Cramer might have made the admission in an effort to delay his transfer to the prison. \ The Mattson boy ..was IQ years old at the time of his kidnaping the night of Dec. 27, 1935 in Tacoma, Wash. His badly beaten body was found 15 days later by a rabbit hunter near Everett, Wash. The kidnaping and murder aroused so much indignation that ' the late President Franklin Roosevelt ordered an all-out investiga- , tion. The victim’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Mattson, were attend- ’ ing a party the night of the kidnaping. - Charles and the three o(her Mattson children were playing around the* family’s Christmas tree when Charles spotted a man peering through a window. A moment later the man broke a window with a pistol butt. The ' children opened the , door and he ' entered, wearing a mask. The man fifst demanded money. (Turn To Pace Eight) .2 ■' ; < ''' ■ ' L

Seaway Project Is Killed By Senate Return Project To Senate Committee wTsFUNGTON, UP—the Senate Wednesday sent the St. Lawrence seaway project back to committee, killing it for this session of congress. The vote was 43 to 40. The seriate’s action was taken despite a last-minute appeal Dy President Truman not to let the joint seaway project fail “by default.” Mr. Truman said that would be “one of the nation’s * worst economic mistakes.” Twenty-four Republicans and 19 Democrats voted to send the bill back to the foreign relations committee, which reported the project out earlier this year without recommendation. Sixteen Republicans and 24 Democrats voted against the riecommltal motion by Sen. Herbert R. O'Conor —Md. •> Chairman Tom Connally D-Tex. of the foreign relations committee led the fight against the seaway, telling the senate the plan had reposed in his committee so many years it would be “lonesome” if it were not sent back there. Two candidates for Mr. Truman’s job. Sens.' Robert A. Taft R-Ohio and Estes Keiauver I>Tenn. joined in the fight against recommital. .Taft told th? senate the seaway “is going to be built—no question about it —” by Camrda, whether the United States becomes a partner in the project or not. He said development of iron ore traffic through the channel would make the project “completely self-liqui-dating.” Kefauver said there is “no better investment" the United States could make. Mr. Truman sent an llth-hour plea for support of the proposed project to Chairman Richard B. Russell D-Ga. of the senate armed services committee. Mr. Truman said Canada will develop the combined waterway and power project if the United States fails to join in the project. That might open the way for unwise division of the resulting power, Mr. Truman said, and would cause steel producers to pay iolls on ore imports with possible dislocations in the industry as a result. “If will be one of the worst economic mistakes the country has ever made to allow that great project to go by default," Mr. Truman wrote. — Rayer Appointed By Council As Fireman Named To Regular Fireman's Post Councilmen last night appointed a fireman to the city fire department, heard a petition for electrification, and clarified a point in je gard to the new sewer brought up by a citizen. Jack Rayer/ 24-year-old son qf Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Rayer, was appointed as a (regular fireman with the fire department. He is now employed at Macklin’s garage. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Hamerick of St. Mary's township petitioned the council to supply electricity to their farm house and facilities. The matter was referred to the electric light committee in conjunction with the light superintendent. Chet Reynolds, Os 309 North Tenth street, questioned the council on the effect of the construction of the ngw sewer An his sewage problem. He told the council that his system, which runs on Tenth street, at times became so badly loaded that it backed up, and he wanted to know if the new sewer would relieve the strain. Ralph Roop, city engineer, explained that there was a good chance the Reynolds sewer would be detached from the Marshall street sewer, with which it now conhect's, and be placed onto the new sewer. This, he said, would remove excess pressure on the Reynolds sewer as Well as on the Marshall street sewer. U ■' 'I ■ u v'X

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Price Hike Is Expected If h Strike Ended Stabilizer Putnam Says Considerat on Promised Industry WASHINGTON, | UP— Economic stabilizer Roger L. Putnam said Wednesday the? steel industry has been promised “friendly and sympathetic” consideration of a price increase beyond $3 a tbn if it negotiates a wage contract with striking steelworkers. Putnam told a news conference that he and acting defense mobilizer John R. Steelman discussed a $4.50 per ton price hike “among other things” during the latest steel wage negotiations but that no figure was decided on. Putnam said Steelman has “let them the steel industry know it will ge a friendly and sympathetic hearing” on prices if they settle the wage dispute. - Putnam's statement was made as house members got a chance to tell President Truman how to handle the strike of 850,000 steelworkers. The senate has voted to request Mr. Truman to use the Taft-Hartley Act. Putnam indicated that ;he assurance give® the industry of “another day in court” on the ,price issue by Steelman during the last negotiations session that broke down. 1 Putnam reiterated the government’s position that $3 per ton is all the price increase the idustry is entitled to under stabilization rules. ] But, he said, one of the purposes of the defense production act iis to get “increased production.” pointed out that the government had granted price increases on east coast fuel oil to the machine tool industry in order to get greater production. Those increases were npt waranted by price rules, he added. \ Fie said the steel industry, if it settles the wage dispute, may be able to give the government some l“compelling reasons” for a fulrther price increase. The senate already has passed an amendment to its controls bill “requesting” Mr. Truman to invoke the Taft-Hartley law to hajlt the 17-day-old strike of 650,000 CI|O United Steelworkers. As the house began debate Qn its controls measure, Rep. Howard W. Smith D-Va ; said he would offer an amendment identical (o !the one approved by the senate. Democrats'and Republicans said passage Os the Taft-Hartley amenid- , merit was assured. Bishop Stepinac To Slay In Yugoslavia Cbmplies To Order To Stay In Village KRASIC, Yugoslavia, UP — Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac said Wednesday he would not leave Yugoslavia “until the Holy Father calls me—and then I will not come back.” “Os course that’s what they, the Yugoslav government wants, and I don't know when it will be, if ever," he said in an exclusive in- x terview. Meanwhile, he said he was perfectly happy to comply with orders of the Communist government to remain in this quiet village in the foothills of the Dlnarjo Alps, 30 miles from th? Croatian capital of Zagreb, the seat of his archbishopric. He said he was not mixing |n politics or provoking the local authorities. “They’ve learned that they can’t achieve anything with force where I’m concerned,” he said. Following his release from Lepoglava prison seven months ago, <TMra Te Pare Kfrbt)