Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 148, Decatur, Adams County, 23 June 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 148.

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Decatur’s new diesel electric power plant, biggest in Indiana ■ and second biggest diesel power plant east of the Mississippi river, i is ready for delivery, according to officials of Lima-Hamilton Co., Hamilton, 0., builders of the unit. "it Jtf not likely, however, that the big ylinder engine pictured on this! page will be /ready for opri eration; here until after January 1. 1953. Construction of the building to house the unit is being‘slowed down bjv the steel strike. The unit is capable of generating 3,810-k'ilowatts of electricity an hour and can be slewed down <■ to generate any needed load, ac- 1 cording to Lester Pettibone, city light and power, superintendent, who has watched construction of the' giant plants— * , ” The new diesel unit will be along with the 5,100 kilowatt steam boiler as regular equipment of~ the Decatur utility. The 1,000 and 2,000-steain generators, now in. use, will cease operation__when the new plant is completed, but they will be kept intact-for emergency purposes. At present the two small boilers are used as auxiliary units, but it is necessary to keep the boilers biinked at all times . for emergencies. and this is at a cost of about $15,000 a year. This cost will be eliminated-with the new Test runs of tlie ( giant unit have been made at the Ohio plant where the machine was built and a form- , al tpst run is planned later at which time several Decatur people will witness th§ operation. To date Pettibone, Mayor John Doan and a few others have inspected the engine at Hanjtlfton. ■ , It is the hope-ref city officials that some day all of Decatur’s electricity and power will be manufactured by diesel engines. It is a s much cleaner and more economical process than manufacturing it with steam boilers. i. ’ . 1— ■■ Lions Club Family Picnic On Tuesday ' ' ; l' _r ■■ ' ■ 8 The Decatur Lions club, in its final It, meeting until September, will hold a family picnic at 6:30 \ o'clock Tuesday Evening at the shelter house at Hanna-Nuttinan park. V ; Each family is requested to bring a covered dish and own taxi ble service. Meat, dessert and drinks will be furnished by the committee. Following the picnic? a square dance will be - held at Geels’ barn, starting at 8:30 o’clock. .

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Ask Repeal Os Buy American Act Os 1933 Materials Policy Commission Urges Laws Be Repealed , . I j . WASHINGTON UP — President ’Truman’s materials policy cpintnission Monday recommended repeal of the “Buy American” act of jl!):j3 and similar laws rrestricting federal and s ate. purchases of foreign materials. The commission said legislation which seeks to kvard off foreign competition is a “relic of depression psychology” dnd Jimoupts to a “self-imposed blockade.” ! . fn a time of tigh production and full employment .such, as the present, it said. ct|rbs on Imports Os raw materials! succeed only ’in increasing costs :jt home. ''“lnsidiously rising costs of materials can undermine our , risii/g standard <ii‘. living, impair, the dy\najmic quality of American capitalism, and weaken; the economic foundations of national security,” the commission sjiid. The five-man commission, hdaidpd by William !S. Paley, board chairman of the Broadcasting System, vias appointed by Mr. Truman Jan.’ 22, 19’51,/to investigate the loiig-range problem .of raw material sjupplies, , Other members; include industrialists George Rufus Brolwn and Arthur.H. Bunkerj magazine editor Eric Hodgins, ancj Edwqrd S. Mason of the committee for economic development and the American economic asscojatjion. ' Mr. Truman sent Paley a letter praising the report as “a Japdmark its field?’ He fornmended close of i't by congress,; federal officials, state and Icoal officials, and representatives of agriculture, labor, and industry. - * ! comrpissipn’s 140.000-word report contained 'more than 70 irevommendations on how existing and threatened shortages may be alleviated in the, next_2s years. Fopr other reports, going, over the Same ground in more detail, will follow. I j ' The report sgid the United i (Tun To Pxe Six)

Highway Death Toll Is Low In Indiana Airplane Crash Near Portland Kills Man By UNITED PRESS \ ! Death was easy with motorists on Hoosier highways during the summer’s first weekend, but struck in other forms of violence. There were only three fatal auto accidents, but other accidents took up the slack. At ..least four persons drowned, one was killed in an airplane crash and another died in a fall from an oil well derrick. Charles Crowe, 60, Winslow, drowned in the Patoka river in Pike county. State police identified two of the drowning victims at Ideal jleach on Shafer Lake as Ray Linn, 27, Indianapolis, and George F. Knight. 29, Sequatchie. Tenn. Police said Ijinn and Knight drowned when they were thrown from an outboard motorboat stored by Raymond D. Joyce, 53, Indianapolis. ,Joyce returned to the two qien immediately but they went under before he could help. William Schiesser, 17, St. John, drowned in a small lake at the Lake County fairgrounds while swimming Sunday: A 70-foot fall from an oil well derrick five miles south of Vincennes j was fatal to Earl Pattiersoil, 32, Mt. Carmel, 111. A piece of pipe pierced Patterson’s chest as he fell. He died later in Good Samaritan Hospital, Vincennes. Karl R. Meyer, 37, Chicago, was killed Sunday when the- left wing of a single-engined twd passenger plane clipped a tree and sent the plane crashing to the earth on the Gerald Hill farm,\two miles southeast of Portland, j. , . Hill, who.ni Meyei' was visiting, said the plane was about 80 feet in the air when it struck the ttoe,. The plane landed upside down. Weldon Dean Lassiter, 20, Warren, was killed Sunday when his aUtff ran through a dead-end and overturned on a county road nine miles south of Huntington. Donald Knies, 17,: Jasper, was injured fatally Sundky when the car in which he rode struck a tree alopg . Ind. 45 near Jasper. State pojice said the car was driven by Sylvan Jahn, 18, Jasper, who was injured. \ Philip Robert Miller, 19, Marion, died Sunday in Marion General Hospital of injuries suffered when a car containing foqr youthst.. returning from a dance hit a bridge oh Ind. 15. Miller, sen of a Marian surgeon, wks vice-president of the Indiana University freshman class.

INDIANA WEATHER Hot and humid tonignt and Tuesday., Mostly fair but a few local thundershowers north and east. Low tonight 66-70 north and east central, 70-74 elsewhere. High Tuesday 87-92 north, 9095' soutn.

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Russians Free 43 Kidnaped West Germans Reds Withdraw From Strip Os Territory Tn The British Zone BERLIN, UP — The Russians freed kidnaped West Germaris Monday knd withdrew from a strip of British zone territory grabbed by the Reds a week ago. p Tlie Soviets’ double) backdown came as the Western Allied high commissioners sent a hew note to t'he Russians demanding again the right to patrol the 11'0-mile highway between Berlin and Western Germany. ® U\ S. army headquarters also disclosed that “shots” which the Soviets charged had fired by American trooffs from a military train in Berlin’s Communist outskirts- actually had been firecrack 1 ers tossed out by American BOv Scouts on their way to a jamboree. Fprty-two of the 43 West Germans set free by the Reds * were seized at gunpoint by two Soviet troops and 30 East German police in a raid across the border into the; British zone at Sc'lioeninger., due west of Berlin. Sunday. Ten . other West Germans escaped the kidnapers in a hail of bullets from East German police [machine guns. All 52 West Germans haff heen working in railway yhrds on the British side of the frontier. Following a British protest to Soviet authorities. East German police brought the 42 men and an engineer seized with his locomotive in the same area Sunday to the border early Monday and released them. The ftoed men said they had been taken to |the Soviet zone frontier setation of itfarienborn, opposite Helmstedt. They said they were well treated and were. questioned by the Russians or East Zone police. At the same time, Soviet troops and East German police withdrew from a strip of territory they had seized inside the British zone >T Rrll To Pawo„«lx)

Greencastle Man Heads State VFW INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Clyde Miller, Greencastle, was elected commander without opposition of the Indiana departmeht of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Sunday as it closed its 31st annual encampment. i Others elected were John G. Tinder, judge advocate, and Richard L. Roudebush, senior vicecommander, both of Indianapolis; Glenn C, White, South Bend, junior viceTommander, and Orval C. Holycross, Attica, quartermaster.

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Stop-Gap Extension likely On Controls ' f j Short Extension To I Provide Bill Study : WASHINGTON, (UP) — House said Monday it “probably” |»H|l be necessary for congress to rush through a stop-gap extension sof' tht? controls Claw which expires in just -one IWeek. s # Key Tiepublicans already have eassured the Democratic leadership |th4t they will go along with a extension of the eonfrqls law, provided it is limited o -10 or 15 days. j That would lie just long-enough congress, to finish work on a •‘‘lOngrange” extension bill, coh|loti|ng controls for somewhere between eight months and a year. i -The senate already has approved hut: eight-month extension. The Ininse is scheduled to resjime-yot-InjEj Wednesday on its own version pfidhe legislation, which would continue and rerit controls for iorje year, but eliminate most price Ceilings and all erhdit restrictions, at once. | Administration supporters ,hoped totiound up enough absentee members by Wednesday to reverse the Vote of 164 to S»S by which Ih# 1 house Friday opproved a Kepublican-sponsored amendment |o|lift -price, controls from all com’rndMities except those which are rationed or I allocated. That would mean eliminating ceilings from all fotlds; clothing.' home furnishings hnd most Imilding materials. | tecohomic stabilizer Roger L. jpulnam called the amendment a hnbhstrosity” and voiced hope ihdt congress would change its inind by Wednesday.

Brazil Police Close In On 100 Escapees SAO PAULO, Brazil, UP — Rebiforced police and marine units were reported Monday to be closing in on nearly 100 escaped convicts who fled to the mainland last Friday from the nearby Anchieta island Prison, where desperate (riniinals Two of the fugitives were killed gnd ninb recaptured in Sunday night’s pitched battle with police knff marines which took place' near Parati township in Rio de Jaijerio State. After the sharp exchange of gunfire the convicts broke off the fighting ai}d retreated inland into the LaS Matas region. 0 H■ ' - ! i ■ ■ ■ Allies Plan To Free Civilian Internees | . j Communist Truce I Negotiators Object ) PANMUNJOM, Korjea, (UP) — Qommunist truce negotiators' objbeted (Monday to an Allied deci-.-iioii to .release 27,000 Korean civilian internees. j North Korean Gan. Nam II said the Cbmmunists never . have recOgniged the U. N. right to reclassify those persons from war prisoners to civilian internees. | The Allies did not include the tiiimes of the 27,000 on pristfnbr lists submitted to the Communists. | Nam’s protest came after Maj. den. William K. Harrison, chief Allied delegate, told him the civilians were iffterned by mistake and do not wknt to b - ? turned over to the Communist hands. j The Ui S. announced plans ,for tlie.intprnees’ release Sunday, Sayih’g they bad been impressed into the Communist aim; or had (been held pending investigation of possible Coihrhunist sympathies. \ ® Nam also charged ‘hat two more prisoners on Koje' Island were killed Sunday. He demanded a ’Tespbnslhle accoutring for the Mated (incident of s’au-;!.ter.”

Allied Planes In Biggest Air Strike Os War Over 500, Airplanes Smash Power Plants Over North Korea 7 ’ -- r ■ ■' * ;> SEOUL, Korea, UP — More than 500 air force, marine and navy planes, combining forces for the biggest air attack of the. Korean WarJ smashed power plants at the huge Suiho daim on the Yalu river and four other North Korean hydro-, electric dams Monday. } The U.S. - fighter-hombers pulled the switch on 90 per cent of North Korea’s electrical potential in one hour and a half of concentrated raids. The plants that attacked Suiho on the YalU counted 208 MIG-15 Communist jet fighters sitting on the gxdund at Antung, on the'Manchurian side of the Yalui. The MIGs made no effort to. break lup the smash attack. While the power plants were demolished in the raid, the dams were left standing. The Suiho dam was the world’s fourth largest It was built by the Japanese in Warld War 11. * f While the powerhouses were located conveniently on the North Korean side Yalu River, the loss of the stations were expected seriously to cripple the power Available to Manchurian factories and cities. Suiho alone generates some 60,000 kilowatts of power daily. Air force spokesman Col. John D. Nottingham of Houston, . Tex., said that undoubtedly the tower operator at the Manchurian air base at Antuhg could see what was going on. However, the MIGs, lined up neatly oil the airstrip, stayed on the ground during the Allied attack. . Two MIGs at an adjoining air base took to the air, but did ndt offer to oppose the Allied warplanes. .. *■' The other four hydro-electric plants - hit were the Fusan No. 3 and Fusan No. 4 on the Songchon river, about 1$ miles north of Hamhung; and Chosen No. 3 and Chosen No. 4 on the Hunghum river 10 miles northwest of Hungham. \ “The superb co-operation by the navy anti the marines with the sth air force was outstanding,” said Lt. Gen. Glenn O. Barcus, commander of the sth air force. Communist air force did not attempt to interfere with oflr operation and we did -not lose a single aircraft.” The aerial blow to Red power installations came as the ground wai- tapered off for the first time ' (Turn To Pave Five) ■ ■ - Young Fathers May Face Draft In 1953 Draft For Fathers Seen By Hershey LANSING, UP—Fathers in the 2<h26 yeari old bracket may have to be drafted starting Jan. 1, 1953, Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national selective service chief, said Sunday. ( Hershey spoke to some 900 Michigan draft board workers here during dedication of the new $250,000 structure which will house state selective’, service headquarters. “I anticipate the heaviest draft calls during the 1952-53 fiscal year since the present selective service act went into effect/’ Hershey said. “At the same time most states are nearing the bottom of the barrel in available manpower for the draft. “To meet the demands of the armed services, it will he necessary to find a new pool of manpower and I believe It will be young fathers.’’ ,

Warns Against Any Military Bill Cut Warning To Senate Given By President ’ WASHINGTON, * UP —President Truman warned the senate Monday against slashing the military construction bill, saying a rumored 5Q per cent cut would be a “terrible disaster.” Mr. Truman said in a letter to chairman Richard B. Russell DGa. of the senate armed services committee he has heard that the committee is considering a 50 per cent slash in the housetapproved $2,758,000,000 military construction bill. | "I do not know, whether these reports are well-founded,” the President wrote, “but Jhey havV disturbed me very greatly and I wish very earnestly to ask the committee to guard against such a dangerous course. It would be a terrible disaster to lose half these facilities at a stroke. We just can’t afford to let it happen.” The senate' committee is holding hearings on the authorization measure. .! The house, on June 12, ( a military construction program which includes secret work at overseas bases fron? which American atomic bombers cQuld “saturate” Russia within a few days in event of war. The house measure calls t(fr about 250 army, navy and air bases in this country and Around much of the rest of the free wdrld. Mr. Truman told Russell that the air bases, depots and other installations covered by the house bill are “absolutely vital to our whole defence plan.” Farley Forecasts Possible Deadlock WASHINGTON, UP — Former Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley 'Monday forecast a possible national convention deadlock in the “wide-open race” for the Democratic presidential nomination. Fdrley, one of Anerica’s shreydest political observers, said Sens. Estes Kefauvef of Tennessee and Richard B. Russel of Georgia “could easily deadlock the situation and then someone else would be named,” ' ; '___ . 4-H Band Will Play During Decatur Fair Play During Fair At Hanna-Nuttman The Adams county 4-H band has been contracted to furnish music for the Decatur free fair to be held at Hanna-Nuttman park July 28 to August 2, iiiclusive, Roy Price, general chairman, announced today. The Adams county musical organization will furnish music for the midway and acts, it was announced. The band will play each afternoon and night during the week’s festivities. Price also announced that Leon Alter, Columbia City, well-known hog raiser and swine judge, has been obtained to judge the -swine show at the local fair. Most of the judging personnel has been contracted for, Price shid. Secretary Walter Ford stated there had been a lively sale of midway space and indications are this year's event, first to be staged at Hanna-Nuttman park, would be one of the in years. A few more jqdges will be named in the next two weeks, it was said. Very little" space remains to he sold for the fair!. Rides and shows for the Mill be provided by the Gooding Aniusement Co., largest orgamzatioh of its kind in the world. ■ A group of free acts, with a change at the niid-week mark, will be furnished - by the Gus Sun Fairbooking Co. of Springfield, O. ,

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Nomination As Senator To Go To Schricker Delegates Likely To Back Stevenson 1 As Party's Leader INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Indiana Democrats choose 22 national convention delegates at district caucuses Monday night, and despite a last-minute personal bid by Sen. Estes Kefauver for. their favor it appeared Hoosier suppor* would go to Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson for President. The 22 delegates will be selected at 11 district meetings of the 1,307 delegates. They will name eight more at the biennial gtate convention Tuesday. . The convention will nominate candidates for governor, U. S. senator and 10 other state offices who will campaign against a Republican ticket nominated 16 days . ago. The senatorial nomination will I go to Gov. Henry F. Schricker, convention keynoter. Schricker made . himself available Saturday, saying i he kould turn a Jdeaf ear to the • party’s “earnest appeal” no longer, t He was unopposed for the right to i oppose Sen. William E. Jenner next • fall. ! The governor race is between Lt. . Gov. John A. -Watkins, Bloomfield newspaper publisher, and B. Howard Caughran, Indianapolis, former U. S. district attorney for Southern Indiana. Vyatkins apparently has organization backing but Caughran was reported coming up fast. Scarcely an hour before the filing deadline, Thomas W. Callahan, former East Chicago city judge, got in the lieutenant-governor race, making it a four-way affair. Callahan was. endorsed during the weekend by Lake county delegates. Other candidates are Mayor E. Spencer Walton of Mishawaka, Earl Everett, Muncie, and Clifford Cardwell, Tipton County armer. •. Frank G. Thompson, 62, Bluffton, former state auditor, created the convention’s third race by filing Monday morning for state treasurer. He will' oppose Arthur R. Kinser, Bedford. The district caucuses were set for 8 p.m. CDT in three Indianapolis hotels. Each will name two j national convention delegates. The convention will name eight at-large j delegates Tuesday. But they get only one-half vote each, a Schricker, whose leadership of the Hoosier party came into focus last month as national committeeman Frank McHale and State chairman Ira L. Haymaker were deposed, is a personal friend of Stevenson. When Kefauver dropped in on the governor last month to inquire about the political situation in Indiana, Schricker told him’ politely Hoosiers favor Stevenson. Charles E. Skillen, Winamac, who succeeded Haymaker as chairman, also favors -Stevenson. So did Haymaker and the, old party organization. , Kefauver came here' from Chicago and plans to pump hands with delegates at a reception. Democrats; capitalizing on a GOP convention battle over the method of nominating candidates, planned to cast secret ballots on each office separately. The Republicans voted |>n all offices in a “package” system. The party leadership also expected that despite Stevenson’s popularity, the delegation will go to Chicago next month uninstructed. J * Second Band Concert Here Tuesday Night The Decatur high school band will present the second band concert of thb season Tuesday night on the lawn on the east side of the courthouse. The concerts are sponsored by the Jaycees. The •band gave its first semi-classical and pops concert last Thursday night and was very well received.