Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 149, Decatur, Adams County, 24 June 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 149.

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Allied Planes Hit Again At Power Plants British Laborites Demand Debate On Bombing Os Plants \ SEOUL, Korea. (UP) — AUi&i fighter-bombers struck again Tu«|r day at three of the five vital Nortji Korean electric power platMs smashed in Monday’s record 500plane assaults destroying buildings and transformers. J The sth air force sent moppingup missions to drop bombs on plants attached to Fusen Dams No. 3 and 4 and Chosen Dams No. 3 and 4 in northeast Korea. . X. However, one of the plants, the Fusen No. 3, yvas still masked by heavy tylack smoke so thick that Thunderjet planes were forced in; stead to" attack alternate targets along a rail lifte south of Ilungijam The bombers hitting the other three plants “completed the destruction of several buildings and .transformers,” the sth air forge said. The Allied planes did not fly over Suiho, the Orient’s largest hydroi-electric plant, left a skeleton in Monday’s raid. j . Meanwhile, U. N. commander Gen. Mark Clark congratulated his sea and air commanders for the work their fliers did in reducing the five plants to heaps of flaming rubble. . ...... Clark, said: "The result of the attack contributed materially to the reduction of the enemy’s warmaking potential. Thp co-operation and co-ordination naVal. marine and air forces left nothing to be desired . . ” It {was disclosed the United Nations lost ontyt one of 1 the 500 places which carried out Monday’s mission. x \ / Demand Debate LONDON, (UP) The Labor party, fearful that the Korean y ar may .be extended, demanded an immediate house of commons debate Tuesday, on the devastating United Nations air attapk on Yaltr river power plants. \ The speaker interVenjed to delay the demand but said th|it he might permit a motion later for the debate. - * i , Labor’s distrust of .American policy was shown when a leftist Laborite asked prime minister Winston Churchill whether, aS British newspapers suggested, the 'Yalu River raids meant a change in United Nations Churchill said.that they did not. "... It is the policy of the U.N. command to. limit hostilities,’’ Churchill said. “While there has> not been much ground fighting in the past few months, air operations by the U. N. forces have continued with the entirely legitimate object of decreasing the enemy war po-tential-in Korea. j >Labor leader Clement R. Attlee, who? normally tries to soften the attacks of his leftist wing oh voice his own fears and demand American policy, moved in to an immediate debate. • ■ I ( INDIANA WEATHER Continued hot and humid to- " : night and Wednesday. Mostly : fair south, partly cloudy north with scattered thundershowers extreme north. Low tonight 7075 north, 74-78 south. High Wednesday 90-95 north, 93-97 south.- : ,

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BULL E T I N Anthony Holthouse, 68, well known farmer of near Craigvilie, died at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital following an extended illness. \ I. ■ Atom Bomber Crashes, 11 Aboard Dead First Os America's New Atom Bombers To Crash In Britain LAKENHEATH AIR BASE. England. Hj’P) j a U. S. air force B-,50 ■"atom bomber" crashed and burned Tuesday after taking off from|nearby tyildenhall British air force base. The United States air force said all 11 crew were killed. The plane, first of America’s new atom-bombers to crash ih Britain, Was bne of a group of planes of .the sp9th bomber wing on rotational training from Walker a|r base in New Mexico. Names of the victims were withheld pending notification of relatives,’ Thp ill-fated plane was one of a formation of *lO which had jdst taken off : from Lakenheath. Twelve minuses after the takeoff, the plane fell out* of fdrfnatfion, crashed and burst into flames. , Air force headquarters said the plane' crashed? at 12:06 p. n).J 5:06 am., CST. li plunged into waste ground betweien tWo fields at, Bryaht May Bottom, a hamlet ' near Lakenheath. An English police officer wpo rushed to the scene said ‘"phe B-50 <as burned Hght out. There are no survivors so far as I have been able to check to date.” ' '■< '■[ ■ I > A f ■ ■ Hos, Humid Weather Continues In State iNDIANAPpLIS, UP — Hoosiers will continue ;jto’swelter In hot and humid weathtr and temperatures will average from five to 10 degrees above normal for the next five d&ys, the weather bureau reported Tuesday. i I, No sharp changes whsi expected exceptlocally- and briefly during scattered showers. Heaviest rains are expected Thursday and again (luring the week end ranging up to threefourths of an inch in the horth and one-half inch in the south. H I . ; ' _________ Electrical Storm Here Last Evening ’{Rain came Jdown in such torrents last? bight that it put out the lights it lasted only a half hopr dr so—in a dozen homes within minutes of the beginning of the J, I Lightning J flashed f frequently apq thd thunder roared fitfully and rplljed about the heavy skies. The lightning struck a few places about foe;city, in c|ne case, hitting a circuit breaker pn a transformer feedfogs 500 subscribers- in Monroe.. Stfoh ocdurrances are provided for at the plant and service was restored within minutes. , Herman "Hi” Meyers local webther observer, reported a , fall ot .41 inches, a comparatively hedvy fall the short tinfo.

Acheson Meets With Eden On World Status \ Opens Momentous Series Os Allied Talks On Problems LONDON, UP — Secretary of state Dean Acheson conferred with foreign secretary Anthony Eden Tuesday, opening a momentous series of Allied talks on Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. A one-sentence communique said of the two-hour and 20-minqte meeting: "The foreign ministers met with their advisers artd reviewed the situation in purope and the Middle East.” I Under discussion were the troubled Allied relations with Russia, German rearmament, the threats ened Soviet blockade of Berlin, Britain’s disputes with Ekypt over the Suez Canal and the Sudan, the Iranian oil situation and other issues which keep Europe jittery. From the foreign office, where Tuesday morning’s meetings was held, Achesn went directly across Downing street to lunch with prime minister Winston Churchill while Eden lunched with United Nations secretary General Trygve Lie. The Acheson-Eden talk was then resumed. Before he leaves London for Berlin and Vienna Saturday, Acheson is to confer with French foreign minister Robert Schuman, who will join him and Eden here, a Acheson also will confer at length with George F. Kennan, United States ambassador to Russia, who after only six weeks in his new post is coming here to report.’ Diplomats attach great importance to Kennan’s visit. He has Ibng been the state department’s No. 1 Russian expert. Not only will he be able to help Acheson, Eden and Schuman in orienting their policy but it is understood he will tell Acheson that hq is seriously worried by the bitter antiAmerican campaign which the Russians have started in their pfficiat press. A prime topic of discussion at the morning meeting, it was understood, was the German situation. Special attention was paid .to the desire of all Germans for the final unification of their country. The desire of Britain* France and Western German)’ for some sort of fourpower meeting with Russia on German unity presumably was discussed. ■

City Receive? Bids For New Fire Truck Bids on a new fire truck for Decatur Were opened at 2 o’clock this afternoon by the board of works and safety and clerk-treas-urer H. Vernon Aurand. The half dozen bids and alternate bids were being tabulated today and'.it was indicated the board would study the figures before making.a final award. Members of the board are councilman Donald Gage, city attorney Robert Anderson and Mayor John Doan. Fire chief Cedric Fisher also was at foe meeting as a technical advisor. It was indicated that the contract for the new truck would be awarded in a day or two. Most of the bids totalled in the vicinity of $18,0(F, payable in installments. \ i

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, June 24, 1952. -

Gov. Schricker Opens State Convention In Defense Os Policies ,> - I IIF , > , i • >

Delegates At Large Backers Os Stevenson i Illinois Governor Assured Os 18 Qf Indiana's Votes INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Indiana Democrats chose eight more gates to the party's national convention Tuesday, hand-picked by the state organization which favors Illinois Goy. Adlai Stevenson for President, thus assuring Stevenson of at least? 18 of the 26 Hoosier votes. J { The eight, chosen .as at-large delegates by acclamation' at the state convention, get only vote each. Their four Votes were added to 14 others gained for Stevenson Monday nigh£ at district caucuses. I Actually, Stevenson probably would get more than 18 of the 26. Only one of the other e»gh.t preferred another candidate. Former Rep. Andrew Jacobs of Indianapolis favors Sen. EStes Kefauver. The other seven were non-cominit-at. None was instructed. Delegates-at-iargel are Gov. Henry F. Schricker. Reps. Ray J. Madden and Winfield K. Danton, state chairman Charles E. Skitlen, national committeeman Paul Butler, national vice-committeeman Mrs Inez Scholl, state vice-chairman Mrs. Lawrence Arnsman, and state CIO secretary Neal Edwards. The Indiana strategy swung on the hope that Stevenson will enter the race or accept a draft. The Illinois governor has: repeatedly denied he is a candidate and has said he "could not’’ run. But the Indiana Democrats applied new pressure on Stevenson Monday by pledging more than half their 26 nominating votes to him. . The at-large have only half a vote each at the national convention. Thus 26 Indiana votes are divided among 30 delegates. Indiana’s Governor Hanry F. Schricker, a confidant and close ally of Stevenson, said he was “sure” Stevenson would be available for : the nomination by the time the Democratic national convention meets in Chicago July 21. Sen. Estes Kefauver captured only one of the 22 district delegates chosen Monday, although three of the Stevenson backers said they would throw their support to the Tennessee senator if Stevenson did not run.

Contract July 15 To Resurface 33 To Resurface From City To Ohio Line Contract for resurfacing U.S. highway 38 from| the corporation line at the south edge of Decatur to the Ojiio state line will be let July 15, according to an announcement of the state highway commission. Work on the project will start as soon as the contract is completed. Legal j notice of lettipg of the contract will be published in the Ipaily Democrat June 26 and July 3. The resurfacing will be for a distance of 7.47 miles and will be of bituminous concrete material. It . wag explained that the resurfacing project of this particular part of the highway was put in this year’s program as a protective measure. The road is showing only slight- signs of deterioration, but highway engineers believe that resurfacing at this time will save the road and also be more economical from their cost standpoint. The road, which. leads to Willshire,' 0., and other Ohio points, is a heavily travelled road.

fight States Hit 8y Severe Storms i At Least One KilledS In Central States , J By United Press drenched Minnesota aijd northern Wisconsin areas Tuesday In the Wake of tornadoes and tnjrr|cane-forjee winds that lashed eight North Central states Monday night. p’be stormis that tore across the aifea Monday caused at least one> Several other persons weW iiKjutsed by twisters that fa|rn| buildings. ■ area pattered by the stprrns ii|litded Nebraska, the Dakotas, ldw;|, Minnesota, Wisconsin, lilin|is|and Indiana. Heavy rains in for|ced the White and Wabash rivfers ovffr their banks, flboding widje area's of farmland. Minn., was deluged by inches- of rain. One resident wiis when a lightning bolt his antenna and into) the garage where he whs -working beneath his car. jßtjr-hester, Minn., reported four irfch|s of i-ainfall from a series oB storms on Sunday and Monday. jA atruck two farms pear D|- brass, Minn., leveling barns arid telephone poles. Mr. and Mrs. 4 Mathews of Larabee, lowa, injured slightly when a "baby twister’’ wrecked several farm hpmes in the vicinity. aNinety-mile-an-hour gusts {were repotted at Okoboji Lake in lowa aad'jtwo airplanes were wrecked at Ajilford when the wind tossed « (Tutu To Pace Kight) Motorist Guides Airliner To Safety WAYNE, Ind. UP — An unidentified motorist was credited Tjiesiiay with guiding an airliner to safety after a power failure during a thunderstorm plunged Baer Field into darkness. Ttje motorist rounded up seven other cars and lined them up to illuminate a runway, thus enabling aj D<|-3 Trans World Airliner with eight persons aboard to land safeU- M ■ /

Judge Parrish On Resolutions Group | Serves During State Democrat Conclave ■ 1 1 ■ ?Judge Myles F. Parrish of Decatur sea member of the resolutions epmjnittee today at the Indiana l|eniQdratic convention in session al tjie statje fair Judge Parrish is the committee! mejnber (foni tile fqurth congressional district. I . ? Otiher fourth district committee njenibers irjclude: f M|rk France, Fort Wayne, credentials: Elmore Sturgis, Bluffton, r&le| and permanent organization. .Jami’S Koons, Avilla, fourth districi| chairman, was named presidenaal elector from the district, (jiegter Watson, Fort Wayne, was ejecged a vice-president of the convpnfton; C. H. Grube, Butler, was nfanwd assistant sergeant-at-arms ajid ’ Donald Leßruh, ( Columbia |(atj was named assistant secreJU vo delegates and two altert®ti s were elected by tjhe district ts i o to ttie national convention ii (; aicago July 21. They included '' i'! Sim pons, Bluffton, and Harcpui t Sheets, Angola, as delegates, ajid A. M. Milnar, Kendallville, afid Mrs. Hildreth Jacobson, Co--Idm >ia City, as alternates. sT le two; district delegates are upilstructed to the national convjbn ion. The only candidate for a sfal > office from the fourth district 1 rank Thompson, Bluffton, candtdi tie for state treasurer. Thompson I a long time runner in Democracounty and state politics has surfed as mayor of Bluffton, joint representative, state auditor a|d|is at present a member of the sCa& board of tax commissioners. it ■

Reds Accuse UN Prolongs War In Korea Resumed Screening Os Prisoners Held As Prolonging War PANMUNJOM, Korea, UP — Commurtist truce negotiators accused the United Nations Tuesday of prolonging ttfe*' Korean War by resuming their screening of war prisoners on Koje Island. North Korean hen. Nam 11, head of the Red delegation, shid the resumed screening was "a dangerous step.” He accused the U. N. of refusing to return war prisoners or to negotiate. \ “In fact,” he-skid, "you . . .< show that you do not hesitate to extend the Korean War.” Nam also disputed a statement by. Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison, chief U.l N. negotiator, that the major obstacle to settlement of the prisoner question was the number of prisoners the U.N. would return under its policy of voluntary repatriation. “This is an absurd assertion,” Nam said. “The practice \of retaining war prisoners in, any' form is in violation of the Geneva convention and the jninimum standards of humanitarianism.” Nam ignored the U. N. reminder that the Soviet army in 1943 of; sered Gey matt troops "voluntary repatriation” df they would surender. Harrison said that the only point holding up an armistice was the Reds’ insistence on the forced return of all prisoners. “We cannot and. will hot barter the right of any individual,” he said. “We recognize the individual a’s possessed of free will . . . not al slave bound without choice to ‘a lifetime of servitude.” Screen 15,000 \ KOJE ISLAND, Korea, UP — United Nations teams, questioning more than 1,006 prisoners an hour, have screened 15,000 Communist prisoners on Koje Island in the past two days, Brig. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner announced Tuesday. Boatner, the tough, commander who restored order among Koje’s turbulent hard-core Red prisoners, saijl the screening program is.“go(Turn To Pace Four)

Civilian Defense Meeting Wednesday Report Operation ' Skywatch Planned A civilan defense questloh and answer session will be held Wednesday night at 7:30 at ,the AmerLegion home with special guest Capt. Schafer of the South Bend defense set-up in charge. It is reported that he will notify local defense officials that beginning July 14 until September 1 a round the clock watch will be maintained. The activity—labeled operation skywatch — is regarded by ptate officials, who will also be present, as being of the utniost importance in keeping strong the defense network in this area. , The public is "urgently requested to attend,” — w'atehers are needed. The skywatch will be 24 hours a day activity. \ Upon assignment, watchers will be notified and thoroughly trained as to their duties. An announcement was made last mopth—just before a similar “operation skywatch”—that called the whole thing off. It was hinted broadly that state directors of defense showed little cooperation with federal defense agencies, and the network planned for Indiana was being abandoned in disgust. 7 In the light of today’s release, however, it seems as though there has been a meeting of the minds between state and federal defence people. , - ■' a 1 . ’ '

Funds Are Voted By Senate Committee Funds Approved Are Less Than Request - WASHINGTON, (UP)—The senate appropriations committee Tuesday approved $1,015,016,735 for the state, justice and commerce departments in the coming fiscal year. •■Before clearing the big money bill for floor action, however, the committee amended it to prevent the state department from spending any funds for international organizations advocating "one world government” or "world citizenship.” ' It aLso voted to ban expenditures for U. S. participation in the international materials conference, unofficial organization allocating the free world’s supplies ojf critical materials, but knocked out a house proviso that would have prevented President Truman from appointing an ambassador-to the Vatican without prior senate approval. The senate committee’s version of the moneyJbili Is for $228,120,074 less than Mr. Truman’s original budget request and $1,120,074 under the amount already approved by the house. In other congressional developments: SINGLE CATALOG —The house passed and sent to the White Hohs|e legislation requiring the armed services to compile and use a single supply catalog. The one catalog would replace 15 or more currently in use. GERMANY — On/a 9to 1 vote, the senate foreign relations comniittee approved an agreement extending guarantees of the North Atlantic\ treaty to Western’Germany. Lone dissenter was Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper, R-lowa. He wanted a restriction specifying that direct congressional authority was necessary before the President could take any military action under the agreement, v French Divisions ! Visited By Ridgway BADEN BADEN, Germany, UP —Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, Allied supreme commander in Europe, visited crack French divisions -under his command Tuesday. In the second daiy of a three-day inspection tour of 500,000 frontline troops in his Western defense force, Ridgway landed at Lahr airbase, in the French zone of Germany. \

Don Cochran Named Legion Commander Annual Election Is Held Monday Night Don Cochran was elected commander of Adams 43, American Legion at the annual election jof officers ! held Monday night at the Legion home. He succeeds Robert Ashbaucher, who is retiring as commander. \ Harold Hoffman\ was named first yice-commander and other vicecommanders include: ' Walter Koeneman, second; T. D. third, and Frank Detter, fourth. Leo Ehinger was elected trustee to serve three £ears. Francis Noack was named finance officer and T. H. Gehrig was elected adjutant. The state convention of the) American Legion will be held at Fort Wayne July July 29, inclusive, and a large delegation of Decatur members will Attend. Following are the Acfoms post delegates to. the state meeting:, , Robert Ashbaucher, Don Cochran, A. J. Baker, V, J. Bormann, O» C. Busse, Hugh J. Andrews, T. H. Gehrig, Charles "Morgan and O.W.P. Macklin. The annual Adams post picnic will be held Sunday. / ,

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Hits At GOP Fanaticism As Keynoter Hoosier Democrats Meet For Selection Os State Candidates BULLETIN INDIANAPOLIS UP —Arthur R.'\ Kinser, Bedford, was nominated for state treasurer yby the Indiana Democratic convention Tuesday. Kinser got 1,031 votes to 689 for Frank G. Thmopson, Bluffton. Observers considered it a rebuff for the party state organization which backed Thompson. BULLETIN > INDIANAPOLIS, UPf?Gov. Henry F. Schricker was nominated by acclamation for U. S. senator Tuesday after keynoting the Democratic state convention with a blistering attack on Indiana Republicans for their ‘fanatic’ fight ahainst public welfare secrecy. ” , Schricker and seven other unopposed candidates for the 12-place state ticket were nominated together. INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Gover nor Schricker again defended his views od the famous Hoosier Republican fight against public wefc fare secrecy Tuesday In a Democratic state convention keynote speech charging GOP "fanaticism.” Schricker spoke as 1.807 delegates met to nominate 12 candidates sot places on -the November election ticket, including himself as Republican Sen. Jenner’s opponent for re-elernVn. ' Schricker and seven unopposed. There were four contests. i z The governor devoted his speech to praising his ' state adftiinistration for its accomplishments the last four years, iHe left national issues to Reps. Ray J. Madden ot Gary, temporary Chairman, and Winfield K. Denton, permanent chairman, of the convention. Schricker recalled the last Jegislature was “the scene of a bitter and unwarranted attack” on the state welfare department. j “The Republican majority, in an unbelievable show of partisan fury, sought to pass legislation which would have deprived Indiana of $20,000,000 annually in federal grants representing tax monies already collected from the people of the state of Indiana,” Schricker said. .■ - 1 Schricker recalled that Jenner introduced and sponsored in the 1941 legislature, also during a Schricker gubernatorial term, "the very welfare act which the Republicans tried so assiduously to amend in 1951.” Schricker vetoed it and the Igeislature passed it over his veto. “For some strange reason, this bit of history has been studiously withheld from the public by the Republican press,” Schricker said. Denton and r Madden urged a strong program of “international cooperation” in their speeches. Madden accused Jenfier of being "the most pronounced isolationist and irresponsible reactionary in Washington.” , As the convention opened, delegates lined up behind candidates in four state, ticket nomination contests, Fights were waged by an antiorganization bloc of delegates, its strength unknown and untested, to keep Lt. Gov. John A. Watkins from being nominated for governor. With WatkFns, the bloc also opposed three other candidates reportedly tagged by party leadership for places on the November ballot. The convention met In the Fairgrounds Coliseum as temperatures mounted toward sthe 90’s in one of the season’s hottest days. The delegations from Lake and Ftaaw Ta Pace Elect)