Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 151, Decatur, Adams County, 26 June 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L

No. 151.

Roll Call Vote Scheduled On Price Control \ Democrat Leaders Insist On Recorded Votes On Measure BULLETIN WASHINGTON, UP — The I house voted tentatively today to end federal rent controls Sept. 30 in all but “critical defense housing areas”! or where local governments, specifically request them. j WASHINGTON. UP — Democratic leaders, with an eye on the November' elections, ordered the rebellious house to stand up an 4 be counted today on Rs tentative votes to kill price controls. \ : The final outcome was in doubt. Republican and Democratic leaders agreed the roll call votes—on which j each member's vole is recorded —would be “dose.” rAs the house's amendment-' bartered bill moved toward final passage, it was stripped of virtually all economic controls except those over strategic materials and rento.’ -•■_!' . Jhe present; controls law expires at midnight Monday. A senatei house conference committee will be assigned to work out a compromise between the House’s “de control” bill and the Senate bill which would extend' all economic controls for eight or 12 months with ’comparatively minor changes. Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall said Wednesday night It would be better for • congress to -“kill” wage-price controls entirely than to enact a “fake” controls program, weakened and crippled by amendments. -Crucial house foil call votes were slated on A —An amendment by Rep. Henry O. Talle R-lOwa which would end nearly all price* controls at midnight Monday by limiting ceilings to Items which are either rationed or allocated, and B An by Riep, Graham A. Bar-aen7.D-N,C. that would repeal outright all remaining price-wage curbs oft July 31. » The Taße amendment, tentative-! ly approved 146-88 Friday, was conceded a better chance of surviving rthe showdown than the Bar-; den amendment, approved 1181-87 Wednesday. ijouse Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. voted against' the Barden amendment, but many other Republicans and " many . Southern Democrats supported it. " The GOP - Southern Democrat coalipon controlled the chamber in the absence of scores of Northern Democrats normally support the administration. Absenteeism by ' electioneering members was so rife that less than half of the chamber’s 435 members were present to vote on Several key tests. _

Cooling Breezes Forecast Tonight I Relief From Heat j; Wave Is Predicted INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Indiana; will cool off tonight from the sum-1: mer season’s first heat wave which may skyrocket temperatures to the[ 100-degree mark in a final fling, the weatherman predicted. b Thunderstorms were to move into hot and humid Hoosierland late today. But forecasters said be-; fore those showers, afternoon me.t-1 cury readings may climb to 100 degrees in i Southern Indiana. - j| ShowersVand cooler weather are, expected upstate in the\ afternoon arid down through Central Indiana tonight and Friday, it will be bet-; ter sleeping weather-about five degrees cooler - tonight and- in the?Ws Friday, tire weatherman said. ; Hot weather Wednesday! was; blamed lor two state deaths. In a lighter an Indianapolis thief stole a SIOO pair of ice skates; during 92-degree | weather. Mrs.. Howard J. Hiatt said they were packed in a car trunk in preparation for. a July 4 jaunt to an in-, dtpior rink in Michigan. Albert Hayes, 74, Noblesville, \ (Turn To Pare Five) '’ : . Summer Schedule At Library On July 1 The Decatur public library will start Its summer time schedule July T, Miss-. Bertha Helfer, librarian, announced (today. Summer hours for the local library, effective July 1, will be: Mondays and Saturdays, 12 noon to 8:3-0, Jj.mj. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays land Fridays, 12 noon until 6 p,m. The library also wijl be closed all day Friday, July 4., /

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Young’ Heroes Receive Medals ■ nnkWA-1 i ■ Sb S 3 MF t AS ' 1 H ' k | ■ Wof? Sifßi ‘ | ' i 111111 Ship I ■ IKJ ‘L--I • f ■ . B * ■ K* - #4 r f - TWQ AMERICAN BOYS and one girl receive medals frpm President Trpman at the White House for bravery and outstanding service during 1951. Receiving mbdals are (ffom left) Stuart W. Oberg. 17, Millihocket, Me., for outstanding service to his school, town and country; Parker E. Stratt, 10,\ Coral Gables, Fla., for risking his life to stave a girl. Gerry Gustafson, who was attacked' by a huge dl : gator, and Margaret -Galassi, 16. jSpringtield. 111., for saving tji Os seven young children when the home where she was babysi bui tied to the ground.

Presidential Hopefuls All See Victory Rash Os Victory 7 Claims Made Today By Top Candidates WASHINGTON, UP — Rejpublicau and ’ Democratic presidential candidates broke out in a rash of victory claims today in an effort to jspread “bandwagon fever” tin ong still - uncommitted convention delegates. ”, b ‘ Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s manager predicted in that the general' will win the GOP nomination on the “sec’onjd or third ballot.” Ben. Robert A. Taft’s campaign hejadquarters prepared a “conservative” tabulation claiming at least 601 convention delegates for the Ohio' senator—just three short of the number required for nominaUion. ‘ . In the, Democratic race, Sen. fßlchard B. Russel, D-Ga., said he wjll have 300 delegates on the first ballot and will gain steadily thereafter until he wijis the nonjipation. Ills managers asserted that he has gained strength rapidly during his current Western tour. ?’ Sen. Estes Kefauver, D-Teri'n., derided Russell’s claim, and stood pat on his Own forecast that “it .Will be Kefhuyer on the fifth or Sixth ballot.” !: But the consensus of leading "Washington political writers was iitltat neither Russell nor Kefauver, but Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of ill’ linois. was the most likely Dernocratic presidential nomineh. Newsweek Magazine polled 50 of the pundits and found that 30 expected Stevenson to win thle nomi* ;nation despite his insistence that he doesn’t want it. Nine picked Kefauver, five name Vice President Alben W. Barkley, and tliere were three for President; Truman, tvhb for Russll, and one for Fot*eiign Aid Administrator W. Averelll Harriman. > ; ;The photo-finish quality of the GOP. race was reflected in an almost even split i 25 of the writers guessed Taft would win, 24 thought it Would be Eisenhower, ope held out for Gov. Earl Warren Os California. A month ago, before Eisenhower returned from Europe, 35 of the writers picked him to win, while only 11 placed their bets on Taft. . ■ i ■ ' ' INDIANA WEaVhER Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, 'phance of scattered showers late tonight or Friday z near Lake Michigan. Cooler north and central tonight and over most of state Friday ex- ■: cept little change In' temperature in extreme southwest Low tonight 66-72 north, 7278 south. Highg Friday 76-82 extreme north to 94-98 near i the Ohio river.

Civilian Defense Meeting Held Here Operation Skywatch Will Start July 14 (J' ' 7 Ground observers of Adams county civilian defense posts of Berne, Monroe and Decatur heard three civil air defense official's explain the newly . set "observation Skywatch” scheduled to start here July 14, at a county meeting held here last night. Eugepe Rydell, county director of-civil defense, presided and introduced Captain F. R. Shafer of the South Bend office; Lt. Col. Dan Smith, of the 3®th air division headquarters. Willdw Run. Mich., ami Lt. Col. James Emott, state coordinator. f More, volunteers are needed for the around the clock observation Scheduled to start in the midwest July 14. Two hour shifts are planned for volunteers and about 75 more are needed in Adams county. ! The visitors explained that while i;adar can be used successfully to detect enemy planes at high altitudes*. It is\ necessary to have a ground observation force to spot planes up to she 5,000 foot level. The plans. Scheduled for several weeks ago, were postponed because of lack of interest in many communities. 7 The new effort! scheduled for Jqly 14, will be tried in'six midwest States. - Indiana is regarded as the center of the industrial midwest, and that is the principal reason why national air defense authorities are anxious to organize a complete ground observation corps in every county in Indiana. ' / — Final Band Concert On Friday Evening \ \ The final band concert of the summer |by the Decatur high school band directed by Clint Reed be presented at 5:30 o’clock Friday evening on the court house lawn. Popular and semi-classical music will be played. Featured will be a Dixieland group, composed of: Shiela Ahr, clarinet; Ronnie Robinson, trombone; Ron Secaur, trumpet; Ron Murphy, trumpet; Pete Dalzell, bass; Bob Ochsenrider, drums. Following the concert, the band members will enjoy a smorgasbord and dance at the high school, Auto Accident Takes Third Victim Today LOGANSPORT, Ind. UP -4 Gather Swisher, 60. Logansport, died in Memorial hospital today of injuries suffered in a June 14 auto collision which claimed two .other lives. His wife, .Edna, 46, and daughter Sharon, 13, were killed when the Swisher auto and one driven by Thomas Flowers, 25, Lafayette, collided on Ind. 25 near the CassCarroll county line. Flowers, charged with feckless homicide, is frecovering in St. Joseph hQs_pital.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 26, 1952. —-

Nationwide

Crisis Shapes Up From Continued Steel Strike

Allied Truce Head Stymies Communists , , Top Negotiator For 5 Reds Embarrassed On Repatriation > PANMUNJOM, Korea, (UP) - Chief Allied “truce negotiator MajGen. William K. Harrison had Communist delegates stymied today for the first time since the long hassle over repatriation of •isoners of jvar began. Hirrison hammered ait the enj- - raised Reds wjthout letup \ at tuoay’s 35-minute armistice meeting demanding a satisfactory explanation of how they could oppose voluntary repatriation in Korea after Russia had introduced the principle during World War 11. Top Communist representative North Korean’Gen. Nam II stammered under the heat of Harrison’s pointed remarks and the American general indicated he intended to make (he best of the Reds’: precarious position. For the first time in recent months. Harrison retrained fron. asking for a recess of the longstalemated truce talks. He repeatedly had said that further meetings were useluss until the Reds were ready to borne up witli new proposals on the POW problem. Harrison told newsmen aft er the meeting that he had the impression Nam 11 “doesn’t like the present situation” and that the Communists' truce defenses were “a little bit confused.’’ Destroy Airstrip \ SEOUL, Korea, (U 0 — Marine tighter bombers destroyed two Communist airstrips in North Korea near the capital city of Pyongyang today in another attack to beat down growing Red air power. The American pilots claimed total destruction of one strip and 95 percent damage to the other. Air operations stepped *up all along the front as sth Air Force planes pounded advance enemy positions and supply buildup areas. The attacking fighter-bombers, throwing rockets, demolition and napalm bombs, struck nine separate supply centers, • leveling supply stacks and storage buildings. In the ground war. a U. N. raiding team beat off three Communist armored vehicles and a platoon of \enemy infantrymen to occupy a hill northwest of Yonchon after a five and one-half hour fight. , 7 -7 ( ■ . .. | . Lee Reffey Dies At Hospital Early Today Funeral Services Saturdby Afternoon Lee Reffey, 81, well known Decatur resident, died at 3! 15 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. He suffered a stroke Wednesday at ;his home, 231 North Eleventh street, and was removed to the hospital. Mr. Reffey was (>orn in Monroe township July 24, 1870, and was a lifelong resident of Adams county. He had been employed as a painter and later as a watchman at the Decatur Casting Co. .He was married to Pearl Baker Oct. 29, 1899. . Surviving in addition to his wife ■-e five daughters, Mrs. Adrian ..u«er, Mrs. Leland Smith and Mrs. Theodore Soyine, all of Decatur, Mrs. Raymond BrandybeVry of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Harry Merriman of Kankakee, 111., and six grandchildren. Three brothers and two bisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral' home, the Rev. Samuel Emerick officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends hiay (fall at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.

Ike's Headquarters To Move To Chicago Campaign Manager Announces Plans DENVER. UP - Gen’ Dwight D. Eisenhower will piqve his campaign headquarters to Chicago next week, his campaign manager said here today. \ ■\ Sen. iHenry Cabot Lodge Jr. RMass., who is \managing EisenhojVer’i campaign to gain the. Republican presidential nomination, made (he announcement this morning. 4 • \ . . Lodge said the move to Chicago would be made because “it is our plan to have him continue the process of meeting with delegates because it has been impossible for him td meet all the. delegates who have wanted to see him during the short time he has been home.” The recommendation to move apparently! came from Lodge who arrived here Wednesday night. Meanwhile, Eisenhower is expected to . make his final major paign speech here tonight at the Denver Coliseum. His backers said his speech will be devoted to domestic affairs. They \said arrangements had been made to seat 11,000 persons at the Coliseum for a rally and Eisenhower’s speech; which will Ve bfoadlast nationally by the Columbia Broadcasting Co. at s:‘3o p.m. CST.\ j-Hen- Henry Cabot Lodge, Eisenhower’s campaign manager, flew here last night to confer with the general. He told newsmen Eisenhower would win the presidential nomination on the “second or third balloj.” Lodge R-Mass. claimed Eisenhowu’s arch opponent. Sen. Robert A- Taft of Ohio, "knows the jig is up" because he had suffered ’’great reversals” in the 4>ast few' days.One of Taft’s setbacks. Lodge said, was a request from Republican . P\a rt y Treasurer Sinclair Weeks that the Ohio senator withdraw from the GOP presidential dtrbj(» in favor of Eisenhower. Lodge described "Weeks as “a tremendous power” in the Republican Party.

Auction School To Open Here July 28 Summer Session To Be Held Three Weeks The Reppert school of auctioneering* open tor its regular three weeks course of instruction July 2s,_;. After its start by the reknowned Col. Fred Keppert 31 years ago. the school went forward to earn one of the most envied reputations in auctioneering in the world. Students come yearly from far and wide to eproll in its highly accelerated i course of only three weeks instruction. Instruction is given mostly in thC open at Bellmont park, about one half mile east of the city, 'the students —-how many has not yet been;/ determined —may take their choice of bedding down at the modern clubhouse at the school site or come into town and get a room in a private home. The speeded up course includes physical culture, voice building, all types of real estate selling, livestock judging, personality training, andy personal training ip all subThe latter part' of the course deals with sales procedures and motives —leading directly to the important parts of an auction sale. A comprehensive course in pedigree study is given knd is designed- to make the auctioneer more familiar with his products. The students, some of whom may have never spoken publicly nor had any occasion to do any formal selling are versed in overcoming the novice salesman’s blight—stage fright. He Is called upon openly for recitations and daily talks to help him . (Tern Tn Pace Kicht) •_ M

House Group Cuts Funds 25 Percent ‘ '■ ; ' *1 Military Building Program And Other Funds Are Slashed appropriations committee today slashed 25 percent from qidministratiou requests totalling |13,750,4588,280 for foreign aid, military construction, atomic expansion arid other items. » The 110,282,532,030 which the committee okayed will be spent or in large part obligated during the 1953 fiscal year which starts next Tuesday. The committee, serving notice in Its report that it is determined to save money wherever possible, cut the military construction program by >BOS, 968,600, the atomic energy commission’s request ,by |l,706,000,000, the emergency-born agencies such as the civil defense administration by >579,920,000, and the foreign aid program by >150,120,000. ! Here in brief, are the' requests made by various government agencies and the amounts allowed by the committee: Defense department, >2,993,868.440' asked and >2,187,899,840 allowed; atomic energy commission, asked and >1,485,000,000 fallowed; emergency agencies, >661,610,000 asked and >81,690,000 allowed; mutual security administratilm, >6,526,060,750 asked and >6,275,940,750 allowed; labor-feder-al security, >110,710,400 asked including >80,000,000 for school construction in defense areas and >lO,537,750 allowed. ? ! In cutting by more than half the funds requested by the AEC for a big expansion program—the biggest ever planned by the agency—the coinmittee invited the commission to pome back later if it needs more mbney. (But the committee insisted that the AEC be prepared to present detailed specifications and plans fqr its building program if it expects to get the full amount. In the cut of >805,968,600 in the military construction program, the committee said it did not want the army, navy or air force to build “half a runway or half a hanger” in the expectation that congress would supply the rest of the money (Turn To Pace Five) , , ,j u ■ 7. ,: . . x I ' \ Rules Shock Estate Exempt From Taxes Parrish Decision Upheld Wednesday f INDIANAPOLIS, UP 4 A bequest by the late Arthur Schock of Decatur to the Shriners’ Hospital for Crippled Children in Colorado has been exempted from Indiana inheritance tax. The Indiana appellate court Wednesday upheld an Adams circuit court judgement. The court cited Indiana and Colorado lajvs providing reciprocal exemptions in , out-of-state bequests to charitable organizations. . Bulk Os Estate The late Arthur Schock of this city left the bulk of his I morp than >2bG’,ooo estate to the Ihdiana Masonic Home at Franklin and the Shriner’s Hospital for Crippled Children, Denver, Col. The Indiana treasury department brought suit hare Several months ago to collect inheritance tax ®n the portion of the money left to the Colorado hospital. \ Judge Myles F. Parrish, A dams circuit court, held that because pf reciprocal laws between Indiana and Colorado, no Inheritance tax was due. The treasury department appealed the decision of Judge Parrish and the appellate court upheld the Adams circuit court.

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Russian Diplomat Arrested, Released Embassy Secretary In London Involved LONDON, UP — British agents arrested and released a Russian diplomat accused of receiving secret information from a British foreign office radio operator, it was revealed today. . Prosecutor J. Bass said at the third hearing for William Martin Marshall, young radio operator accused of giving Britain’s secrets to Russia, that Pavel Kuznetsov, second secretary at the London Soviet embassy had been arrested with Marshall-June 13. However, aS soon as Kuznetsov produced credentials showing he had diplomatic immunity, he was released. Kuznetsov is the fifth ranking diplomat at the Soviet embassy here and it is not likely the Russians will turn him over to British authorities. Marshall was arrested w'hile in Kuznetsov’s company in a London park. The 24-year-old radio operator is charged with betraying “dangerous’’ information to Russia. ' . Bass said Kuznetsov was searched .by Scotland Yard special branch agents A who found 25 pounds (|7O) on him. ] The Soviet embassy said Kuznetsov , still was in London. The British foreign office has indicated it willi demand Kuznetsov’s recall —if the , charges against Marshall are proved in court. i Bass asked Magistrate T. Clyde Wilson today to commit Marshall for tridl. The prosecutor presented his case and then the tiny courtroom was cleared, while four witnesses gave evidence. J.— —— : James Alva Harvey Dies Last Evening Heart Attack Fatal To Local Young Man James Alva Harvey, 28, of 620 tMeibers street, died suddenly of a heart attack about 7 o’clock Wednesday evening at the farm home of his father, Harold Harvey, two miles north of Decatur on the River road. , ; Harvey was aidipg his father in baling hay and bad been working only about 20 minutes when he suffered the fatal seizure, dying before medical aid could be summoned. He had worked during the day at the American Steel & Dredge Co. in Foil Wayne, where he was employed in the stock room. He was born in Washington township Aug. 10, 1923, a son of Harold and Francile Burger-Har-vey, and was married to Virginia Taylor Feb. 6, 1944. Surviving in addition to his wife and parents are a daughter, Gloria Jean Harvey, at home; a grandfather, Alva Burger of Union township; two brothers, Donald Harvey,of Decatur and Gary Harvey, athome, and two sifters, Miss Jarfe Harvey, at home, and Mrs. Arven of Rochester. One brother is deceased. e Funeral services wiil be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the home and at 2:30 o’clcok at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev, Merlin Taylor and the Rev. John E. Chambers officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body will be removed from the Black funeral home to the residence, where friends may call after 2 o’clock Friday afternoon. Youth Is Killed In Traffic Accident BOONVILLE, Ind. UP Francis <l. Johnson, 17, Was Rilled Wednesday night in, a traffic accident on Ind. 68, west of Relvin, state police reported.

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Nationwide Crisis Shapes Up In Industry I \ \ Mounting Losses In Production From Continued Strike . t.. . * . . \ - •• PITTSBURGH, UP — A nationwide industrial crisis shaped up today with mounting losses in production resulting from the 24-day strike of the CIO United Steel- s wor kerS . The American Iron and Steel Institute predicted that by the end. of the week approximately 9,100,000 tons of steel will have been lost because of steel strikes in late April, early May and June. As the Korean war headed into its third year, there were evident lags in defense production. Before the week is out. nearly 56,000 workers in automotive and allied plans will be idle. Industrysources fear even greater layoffs next week. ■ > The steel strike Jiad nearly immediate repercussions in other industries. Soon after 650.000 CIO United Steelworkers walked off their jobs June 2,~ mass layoffs followed in mining- and railroad industries. More railroaders. 6.000 lake boat ethers were idled along with 25,000 ployes and 600 river workers. General Motors workers arc 6ri the drastic list in the new layoffs. A total of 10,006 Chevrolet workers at Flint. Mich. wRI be laid -oft before the day is ov4r. “Several hundred” were furloughed at Buick’s Fllne plant Wednesday. Approximately 5.500 workers at Chevrolet’s Buffalo plant will finish their jobs today. Layoffs are scheduled Friday for 5,000 foundry workers and 1,200 other Chevrolet workers in Saginaw. Mich. Defense production will be hit in Ohio with laying off 12.000 at its Toledo plant. Jet engine parts will be choked off at Cleveland where the Steel Im-, provement & Forge Co. laid off 306 and eliminated the third shift. Budd Co., manufacturer of automotive parts, said an extension of the steel strike would force layoffs of more than half its 8,600 workers Friday. Nakh said it would furlough 10,00$ at its Milwaukee and Kenosha, Wis. plants July 3. Chrysler said it could hold off only for a “few more days” furloughs for 4,500 workers turning out three quarter-ton trucks for military use. Ford Motoi- Co., however, believed its 100,000 production workers could keep going full blast this week. Hint By Truman WASHINGTON. UP — President Truman propped a possible hint today that he may not invoke the Taft-Ilartley law to end the steel strike. Without mentioning the, TaftHartley alct he told a ’ group of young citizenship students that “sometimes it is not possible” to carry out laws passed by congress. He said this doesn't happen very often, but “it can _ happen.” . His remarks came only a few hours aftef the WTiite House said that Mr. Truman has not changed his view that congress cannot force him to use the Taft-Hartley law. I But the senate and house have gone on record “requesting” him to invoke the law to end the steel strike. „ Mr. Truman spkoe informally in the White House rose garden to members of the national YMCA youth and government assembly, Thb army said that the strikeinduced steel famine had forced a halt in production qf certain types of military equipment notably trucks. It also said that production of other military items, including tanka, is scheduled to stop in the near future because of the strike.