Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 146, Decatur, Adams County, 20 June 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 146.

Democrats Os [ State Hope To Draft Schricker Party Convention 1 Will Open Monday fl At Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Indiana Democrats, although just a week end away from their sta-J nominating convention, pinneJ, their big hopes Friday on two neighboring governors who, even up for nomination. •• A majority of Hoosier Democrats want an opportunity, to elect Indi: ana Gov. Henry F. Schricker as|i U.S. senator and Illinois Gov. Adj. lai Stevenson as president. Their hope*is that both wtH accept a party “draft.” Speculation is that Schricker most certainly will. • • ' f The groundwork has been laid to sweep prolific vote - getter Schricker into the senate race against Republican nomipee SenJ William E. Jenner. His by acclamation, if it develops,; probably will be made while the' governor is before the Tuesday as keynote speaker. ' Schricker gave his backers no’ public encouragement. But nation-; al committeeman Paul Butler,? South Bend, said after a confer-’ ence the governor left the impres-; - sion he will bow to a “draft.” ; Other party leaders said the fabt ( no one has declared his for U.S. senator indicates Schrick-; i ! 1 er’s acceptance. There is a vacan-’ cy at the head of the ticket which! Schricker will feel obligated to fill; for the good of the party, they said,. It was reported Schricker would be a willing candidate if Stevenson runs for president. Stevenson.; of course, has not agreed to runs and. like Schricker. is the object’ of "draft” talk. Party bigwigs, including Schricker and state chairman Charles E.. Skillen, said Stevenson will have most or all of Indiana’s 26 votes to the national convention, if he wants them. Pending Stevenson’s entry" into the rice, Skillen said the 30 Hoosier delegates to be v named Monday and Tuesday probably will be “uninstructed.” Sen. Estes Kefauver hopes to change that, however. Kefauver ’will meet the 1,807 state convention delegates at a reception preceding Monday night’s district caucuses at which 22 national delegates will be selected. Eight atlarge delegates, each with one-half vote, will be named Tuesday. / The governorship race, a two--way affair, picked up interest as Marion County’s Young Democratic organization adopted a -resolu-’ tion calling attorney B. Howard Caughran, Indianapolis, best qual ified. Observers believed this ac-| tion meant Caughran will control! a large portion of the county's 215; delegate votes. Lt. Gov. John A. Watkins. Boomfield publisher, appeared to be the! organization choice ,> for the, post which Schricker, by law, must vacate. \ Meanwhile, the lieutenant- gover-i nor race became a three-way affair' with the payment of S6OO conven-; tion fee assessments by Earl Everett, Mimpie, 10th district party chairman, and Clifton E. CabdwelL ,37, a Tipton farmer-salesman. Pre-. I viously Mayor El Spencer Walton.’ of Mishawaka paid his fee. : \ - Another late filer was George; W, Long, judge of Bartholomew: circuit court at (folumbus and now, serving his foufth six-year term. Long. 75. tiled for supreme court judge, 2nd district.Others who paid assessment pre-* viously were: secretary of state —; William Wilson, \Crawfordsville;supreme and appellate courts re-t porter—Miss Eudora Kelley, Nash-* . ville; attorney general—J. Emmett. jieManamon for renomination;. ap-. pellate court judge—Warren Mar-; tim Boonville, and F. Leroy Wil-, trout, Elkhart both for renomin>tion; two to be nominated. \ Fort Wayne Teacher Found Dead At Lake ANGOLA. Ind. UP — Officials 1 believed a heart attack was responsible for the death of L<ouis A, Briner, 46, intramural athletic director at Fort Wayne South Side high school. • Briner’s body was late Thursday on a porch swing .at his Lake Gage cottage in Steuben County. \ Dr. Norman Rausch, Steuben County coronet, said the former Indiana University football star apparently died of a heart \ attack Tiiesday. 1

DECATUR DAUS’ DEMOCRAT

New Technician Now At Hospital Ralph McCuddy, Osceola, newly appointed technician at Adams county memorial hospital, has assumed his duties here. Tjie McCuddy family will move to this city as soon as housing accommodations can be obtained. The technician started his new duties at the hospital today. Expect House To Ask Use Os I Tass-Hartley / ! : I . Expected To Follow Senate In Request For Invoking Law WASHINGTON, UP -f Republican leaders predicted that the house, by a Sizeable margin,” would join the Senate (Friday in “requesting” President Truman to invoke the Taft-Hartley set to halt the* steel strike. Administration leaders conceded, they did not havfe enough votes to stop the move. ; ( ’ . * Meanwhile, the national production authority announced that the striking CIO United-, Steelworkers had agreeq to an Emergency planjo ship finished steel from 132 selected warehouses and ! plants to be used for military goods. Administration sources’ said’ that if both houses of congress hand Mr. Truman a virtual mandate to use the Taft-Hattley act. he probably would have no alternative; but to def so. | ! j Mr. Truman told his news conference Thursday he is considering invoking the Taft-Hai tley act’s provision 'of an 80-day anti-strike 'injunction against the 650 000 striking steelworkers despite his distaste for .shch act iop. 'But he lemphasized that congress can only advise him what tp do — it can’t force him to invoke the law. The Taft-Hartley “request” took the form of an ament.ment to pending legislation to extend wage-price-rent controls. The House met two hours Friday in hope of completing action on the bill by nightfall. NPA sent a telegram tc the steel ponipanies involved informing them of the shipping arrangement reached between the union, NPA and the office of defense piobilization. “ This means striking workers will go back to work and man 35 warehouses and 97 mills throughout the country to moire defense steel which was ready for shipment when the strike began. NPA said MuHay would inform the local unions of the arrangement. The agency asked the steel companies to contact the local unions to thresh out the details. - Postpone Ease \ ’ WASHINGTON,; UP — The government announced Friday the steel strike has forced I postponement of plans to relax controls July 1 on home building and residential construction. ’ '! ■ ——. : ; j. Safety Campaign To Open Here Saturday Cash Prizes To Be Awarded By Judges For special acts of ss.fety, $25 ih caph prizes will be given out —ss a day for five days beginning tomorrow’, except Sunday—by the Chicago Motor Club, currently conducting a safety campaign in conjunction with the awards. The judges—appointed this week at a dinner at the Fairway—are; Mayor John \ Doan, pol ce chief James Borders. Chamber of Commerce secretary Walter Ford, Ronald Parrish, Lawrence Anspaugh and Dally Democrat reporter Jack Schreibman. Winners will be judged on their habitual safety-mindedness. Consideration and ability and courtesy will count heavily. Licenses and registration must be in\ perfect order to be eligible. Anyone is eligible for the prizes; pedestrians, for their understanding of the, problems bf the car driver; motorcyclists, bicyclists, scooter drivers and eveh fathers pushing baby carriages. The judges | will be on the lookout for patience and courtesy, the owner !of which will be immediately eligible for a cash award which may be picked up at the Democrat office. r % ■ . .4 I ;

Boy Scout Waste Paper Pick Up Saturday

No Restriction On Planting Os Wheat Official Goals To Be Set Next Month WASHINGTON, UP — Wheat farmei s planning next year’s plantings won’t be restricted by federal' acreage allotments and marketing quotas. \ Although wheat production this year has \been so large that the agrlcu ture ( \ department probably could clamp down on next year’s crop, secretary Charles F. Brannan announced Thursday that he won’t use his statutory powers and that farmers will have a free rein. The "national emergency,” Brannan said, requires sufficient production to meet “unpredictable situations” at home and to fill the ever-g’eat demands of foreign nations. .j But next month, when official goals or the 1953 wheat crop will be set, the department will let farmeis know just what it thinks is j “sufficient production.” Indications ire that it will set a goal somewhat smaller than the actual 1952 crop, which is expected to be near-rocord in size. Indirectly, therefore, the department wtll encourage wheat farmers to control themselves. Income Higher WABHINGTON UP i— Farmers are making more money these days, but they are also shelling, out more, the agriculture department ’eported Friday. A farm-income report said that cash receipts from farm marketings during the first half of this year showed a four percent gain from l year ago. But the increase, the department said, vas-cancelled by an equal jump n farm production costs. With both of these trends expected to continue “ilarm operators’ realize net income this year is not likely to show any increase over 1951 and may well be somewhat lower,” the department said. In terms of pre-World War II dollars, farmers’.purchasing power this year is expected to match t)|iat ol about 10 years ago. Farriers net income jumped IS percent last year, after three consecutive years of decline, and hit $15,00(|l,000,000. The big gain, chiefly due to stepped-up demand following the Korean outbreak, still kept the income level below the 1947 record" of $17,100,000,000. ; - \ i Six Break-ins Are Reported At Monroe SSB In Change Only Loot In Robberies _ Wholesale break-ins and the robber/ of six business establishments in Monroe early this morning brjke a period of exceptional tranquility that law officers had been enjoying for many weeks in. this county. Robbed were Zurcher’s filling station. S4O in small change; the Central Market, $lO in small change;-the Adams County Co-op, $3 in small change; the Farm Bureau Lumber Co., $4 in small change; the railway station, $1 in change; and the Burk Elevator Co., this place was “hit” once before and the thief or thieves found nothing. Deputy sheriff Jim Cochran said that in all the cases the break-tn was messy; they used a crow-bar to jimmy the front door or a will-’ dow open. He said that it didn’t look very professional as in each case ti e stores were disarranged and turned topsy-turvy with drawers pulled out and things in a general turmoil. > . In one case, the Farm Bureau Lumbe- Co., the burglar went to a concealed button that opened a cash drawer —something. Cochran said, a person unfamiliar with the layout would have a great deal of difficulty in finding. The discovery of the chain of burglaries began with Paul Zur* cher calling the sheriff's office to reveal the theft, at 7 o’clock this morning. The time estimated for the crimes was sometime after midnight. The deputy said that the burglar or burglars must have a passion for small change as they overlooked a lot of valuable goods such as rubber tires, auto accessories and some other easily usable items. •Cochran began a full investigation but he admitted the clues were very slim. ,\

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMES BOUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 20, 1952.

Urgent Repairs Are Needed To High School Bricks In Walls Are j Crumbling; Plan On Immediate Repairs Superintendent W. Guy Brown' and- the Decatur school board are taking Immediate steps to correct a condition at Decatur junior-sen-ior high school building which, ac* cording to engineers, could become very serloqs in the next 12 months.' The bricks in _,the walla, are crumbling and the north wall has crumbled away in places to sucli an extent that water, plaster and pieces of brick are in evidence on the floors of several of the north rooms, „t p The board met this week with A. M. Strauss, architect when the building was in 1938, and another meeting is planned for July 2. In the meantime, Howard ,C, Buckel, Strauss engineer, is making a thorough stuljy of the condition of the 14-yearrold building and will make a colnplete re-j bort t<> Supt. Brown and the board prior to the July .2 meeting. ( Buckel was In Decatur today and spent several hours examining the bujlding. He stated that he would not make an effort to estiihate the repair cost until he had time to study the situation. It is.believ\ed;. however, that the cost will be several thousand dollars. Water has seeped through the walls in many places and winter freezes and thaws have caused many of the bricks to brealr and crumble. , i I Several feet of the north wall probably will have to be torn away in the repair program. It is believed that if the work can he done immediately before further: damage is done, thousands of dollars will be saved by the school city. The engineer expressed an unofficial opinion that the condition had been discovered just in time to avert a much more serious prpblem, both as to cost and safety. j ; The junior-senior high school was constructed in 1938 and it: houses the Decatur high school and the seventh' and eighth grades. It (Turn Te Pase.Four) Russia Charges Jiwedes Lie On Plane Incident Reject Protests By Sweden On Shooting Down Flying Boat STOCKHOLM, Sweden, UP — Russia accused Sweden of lying Friday and insisted that the Catalina flying boat shot down by Soviet planes last Monday fired first. A Soviet note said Sweden’s contentions the Catalina' neither was! armed nor violated Soviet territory “contradict the. facts and are void of all foundation.” The 1 note rejected Sweden’s protests of Monday and Wednesday against the downing of the plane and simultaneously demanded, this country cease violating the Soviet Union’s frontiers, i The' cabinet F as expected to meet Friday or Saturday to consider this new .chapter in Sweden’s deteriorating relations with the Soviet Union. Jt came in the midst of these other developments: L The Swedish defense staff announced its naval and air forces would continue their regularly scheduled maneuvers and training trips in Swedish and international waters. It said all units' have “routine Orders” to use “armed force in self-defense.” 2. The defense staff finally confirmed reports the Catalina shot down by Soviets over the Baltic Monday was thp same flying boat which inadvertently flew over Soviet Estonia three days earlier in bad weather. Sweden already has apologized to Russia for this incident. \ • 3. Premier Tage Erlander rejected at least temporarily a , request by Soviet Ambassador Con* stantin Rodionov for permission tt> interview five Latvian refugees who claimed to have seen Russian planes shoot down |the U.. S'.'Navi plane which disappeared over (Tur* T® Face Two)

House Tentatively Decides Practical Death For Controls

Truce Negotiators Meet Again Today t Resume Talks After i Three-Day Recess MUNSAN, Korea, UP j- Truce 3 meet again Saturday , at Panmunjom after a three day recess but the chief Allied spokesman said another walkout is possible if the Reds have nothing to . offer except propaganda. 1 Red tj'hina accused • thia United States Friday of blocking a Korean : tfejee to keep war production going. J -United Nations spokesman Brig. ! Gen.\William P. Nuckols said the ! AlilM team is willing to jgo back • as long as there is an ’‘'outside j (thance” of an armistice. • /‘However, he said. ‘!if they i launch and sustain another propa- : gamla barrage, it certainly’ is with- ; in the realm of possibility: 1 jyijl insist on another respite . . . L ’Some pretty positive is i required if we are to brihg them | the ; Reds to their senses and j them we mean business.” , ; China’s Radio Peiping unleashed | pfopaganda barrage Friday at- ; Ucking the recess called’ by the I Allies Tuesday to give the Reds : time to reconsider their 'position. ! The Reds broadcasts alsio denied ’ a; U-N- allegation that the Chinese ■ qhd North Koreans not : placed proper markings op camps • holding Allied prisoners pf war. ■; They said the Americans have : been informed of the exact locatjonS, but still bomb the camps. i ! Dike Eddleman Is Speaker At Rotary ■; Dike Eddleman. recreation direc--1 tor for the Central Soya Company ■ ittUhis city, was the guest • speaker at the weekly meeting of’the Decaliir Rotary club Thursday eve- - ntng. i ; ; Eddleman. famous athljete now ; wtfeh the Fort Wayne Zoll'ner Pisi tUps; basketball team, related some ' of; his outstanding experiences as a ; sjar athlete in football, basketball and track while in high school, at thje University of Illinois, jnd with the U.S. Olympics team. 0. L Fin- ; layson was chairman of ihe? pro- ' grant. J -—- di . Gas Rate Increase Granted Thursday State Commission j | Approves Increase Decatur gas consumers will receive about an 11 percent rate increase as a\ result; of thd action yesterday of the Indiana public ; service commission in approving a ;petition of Northern Indiana Publid Service to increase ,The new rate will become effective in the next two weeks, it wps announced. NIPSCO (officials , stated that the increase was made necessary because the Company which furnishes the gas: to the loT'al utility increased the! wholeisple price of gas. | | .|t was pointed out that I the in- , j creased rate would not patrons using 2,000 or less "cubic feet ! j of gas per month. The rpte will ; ’.jump five cents per thousand cubic feet for those who use between and 3,000 cubic feet a month \aud 10 cents a thousand for users ! of more than 3,000 cubic fjeet. • -It is the first gas increase in (several years and the average cost hot heating a house In the (Decatur ] ! J area_ will still be below the cost < .of oil. Other northern Indiana com- : ’rtfunities affected b/the Increase 1 pin addition to Dedatur are: j 1 •; Fort Wayne, Columbia City, j!Bluffton. South Whitley, | Ossian, < Roanoke, New Haven, Preble and . .Tocsin. ' ' j

Rival G.O.P. Camps Firing Bitter Words '' ■ . . \ ■ Sen. Taft Brands Eisenhower Aides As New Deal Wing WASHINGTON, UP —The TaftEisenhower battle for the GOP presidential nomination took On an angrier tone Friday as two former Republican national chairmen traded bare-knuckle political blows on behalf of the rival candidates. Campaign • lieutenants for- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen. Robert A, Taft clearly felt that it was time to take off the gloves and slug it out until the GOP convention in Chicago July 7. Even the principals in the race were beginning to talk more bluntly. in a nationwide radio and television broadcast Thursday night, Taft branded Eisenhower’fe backers “the New peal wing of the ’Republican party” and said they cannot lead the party to victory in November on a “me-too” campaign. Taft also claimed that he now has the support of 588 convention delegates — just 16 short of the number required to win the nomination on the first ballot. Eisenhower supporters here pooh-poohed the claim. While unwilling tb divulge their own computation of Taft’s delegate strength, they said it was not “anywhere near” what Taft claimed. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., R-Mass.. Eisenhower’s campaign manager, said ib\ a statement Friday that he has “just completed my first state-by-state canvass of delegate strength *BlllO6 Eisenhower’iji return and what I have learned exceeds my best expectation.” “It shows that uncommitted delegates and delegates formally committed to Sen. Taft are pledging their support and this movement is growing in volume and promises to assume the proportions of an avalanche,” Lodge sdid. “Sen. Taft, from the first, has smugly predicted that win on the first ballot, and all of his committee’s efforts —the attempted steal, the rigging, the smear—are directed toward this goal . . . “Directly allied with these tactics are the fantastic claims of delegate strength which the Taft forces are now making. These periodic claims have been proved false time and again throughout the campaign .(. . An examination of these synthetic claims, state by state, will reveal this lack of substance. . .” The United Press tabulation Os delegates, which is based on formal pledges and know first-ballot preferences, credited Taft with 471 delegates and Eisenhower. with 405. It showed 120 still uncommitted publicly to either 1 candidate, and 67 contested, including Texas’ 38 delegates who have become a major bone of contention between the rival camps. From Denver came word that. Eisenhower was ready to speak . out sharply about the alleged Taft “steal” of Texas delegates when he delivers a major address in Dallas Saturday night,.. Mahlon Hutchison Funeral Saturday Funeral services for Mahlon Hutchisod, 72, of Churubusco, whA died Wednesday, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home in Fort Wayne. ' Survivors include his wife; five daughters, four sons, including John Hutchison of Decatur, and 13 grandchildren.

House Keeps Curb On Cheese Imports Dairy Congressmen Elated At Decision WASHINGTON, (UP) — Dairy state congressmen were elated Friday ovei’ the house decision to detain curbs on imports of cheese, butter and other fats and oils. 1 Thqy were confident that the senate will reverse itself and accept the. curbs whgn the pricewage .control bill goes to a conference foi adjustment of differences in the house and Senate versions. • Congress last summer clamped a flat embargo on butter imports and • tight restrictions of imports of fats, oils and cheese to protect the U. S. dairy industry from foreign competition. President Truman has demanded its repeal, protesting that it has hAmpered European countries in earning dollars they need to become less dependent on U. S. foreign aid. < Rep. Hale Boggs, D-La., offered the repealer during house debate Thursday, bat lost on a 105-25 standing vote. That left in the bill a slightly modified version approved by the house banking cbmI mittee which would permit some relaxation of the year-old ban. Rep. August H. Andresen, RMinn., who sponsored the original curbs, told the house he was satisfied that the new proposal gives “adequate protection” to the domestic dairy industry. ‘lt provides that the curbs may be applied selectively so that noncompetitive foreign products, such as Roquefort cheese, could be shipped to this country in greater quantities. The secretary of agriculture could, at his" discretion, boost imports of restricted items by 10 percent if this would promote trade without damaging the U. S. industry. The house rejected, 86-30. an amendment which would have lifted the curbs completely on any foreign product for which the retail price was 10 percent or higher than that of the comparable domestic item. District Attorney Fired By McGranery First Step Is Made Against Corruption WASHINGTON, UP — Attorney general James P. McGranery said Friday the ouster of U.S. district attorney Lester Luther of Topeka, Kans., was only the first step in his drive to rid the justice department of corruption “as quickly as I uncover it.” McGranery told newsmen he will act swiftly whenever he finds evidence of misconduct, and will announce his action immediately, he said. ( “There w6n’t be any secrets,” McGranery announced Thursday j night that President Truman had j fired Luther for allegedly accept- j ing outside fees while working for the government. He said Luther will be investigated by a federal grand jury. _ ( Luther’s ouster was the. first since McGranery succeeded J. Howard McGrath as attorney gen- • eral with a pledge to get ridjjf ail | wrong-doers. Three assistant attor- j ney generals resigned last week by f request. They were not fired. McGranery said the case which i tTuru To P»ce BIX) I INDIANA WEATHER ] Mostly cloudy tonight' and Saturday with frequent show- < ers and thunderstorms. Some- ( what warmer Saturday. Low i tonight 53-58 north to 65-69 1 near the Ohio river. High Sat- ] urday 75-89 north to 92-96 near s the ; Ohio river. 1

Price Five Cents

'/' ' ■! i ; ■'■l ' Would Remove Control Os All But Few Metals Action By House As Work Proceeds On Control Extension WASHINGTON, UP—The house voted tentatively Friday to kill price controls on everything not rationed or allocated—an action which in effect would remove price curbs from all but a few metals. No consumer goods are being rationed. The teller vote was 146 to 88. The action is subject to a later .rollcall vote. The action was taken as the house worked on a bill to extend price-wage-rent controls beyoiul June 30, The de-control amendment was, offered by Rep. Henry O. Talks R-lowa. Administration support* ers attacked it as an indirect method of killing price control. Chairman Brent Spence, D-Ky.. of the house banking committee said: ; "Os course, no raZ tioning. The people don't wank rationing.” -A Talle’s amendment provides ceiling prices “shall” be suspended on non-farm products as long as they are “not being allocated for civilian use.” It provides that ceilings on farm products — or products processed' in | whole or part, from farm commodities — shall' be suspended as long as they are “not being rationed at the retail level of consumer goods for household and personal use.” "In essence/’ complained Rep. Wayne L. Hays, D-Ohio, "there will be no price control law. Why not strike the enacting clause of the bill and kill controls in a clean way.” I The house measure would continue in weakened form the government's authority to control prices, wages, rents - and scarce materials. Th€ controls, as contained in the defense production act, are scheduled to expire June 30. t Truman had requested a two-year extension w’ith stronger controls. The sjenate has voted to continue the authority for only eight months. Telephone Company Installing Cables Improved Service Aim Os Company The Citizens Telephone Co. this week began installing cable of a highifer message capacity to improve service for rural and toll customers, announced Charles Ehinger, president of the company. On the Dent and Monmouth roads, 51-pair cable is being strung in addition to the 26-pair cable that is there now. The**Hfew cable will permit that many more rural calls than before. Cable work, he said, for a new toll line system will begin shortly for subscribers in Berne, Geneva, Monroe, Linn Grove, Bryant and Portland to improve the quality of transmission and enlarging the message capacity. The crew will start at Schirmeyer street, go south to the railroad, and then out to Willow Run. Capacity will be increased from 909-pair wire to 1212pair Wire. Alluding to the new sewer intended for the northwest section of the city which eventually may invite stepped up real testate development, Ehinger said that there is a 300pair wire cable there ready for Installation almost immediately when it is needed. ' , fe.