Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 154, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1952 — Page 2

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Great Lakes Heat Relief Is Temporary J At Least 180 Dead After Week-Long v High Temperature By UNITED PRESS A weak “cold front’’ brought temporary relief to ihe dfeat Lakes region today but to the south a-Hd west a relentless period of hot weather dragged on. Since the heat set in a week ago and sent temperatures .soaring to record highs, at least 180 persons had died. The deaths included beat prostration cases, numerous drowhings, and a few Midwestern sjlorm victims. \ Americans were not the only ones suffering from the heat. A blast of hot air moving across the Mediterranean from Africa pushed temperatures to oppressive levels, in Italy. Florence recorded 94 degress. \ . \ In Switzerland record teniperaitures were reported during ■ the weekend and still hotter weather was (expected today. The worst drought ever suffered by Australia’s northern territory sent hunger-maddened animals on food forays in back-country towns. One community. reported a “plague’’ of hungry wildcats. A drought in North and South Dakota was broken by heavy rain, U.S. forecasters reported. -Temperatures were lower today in the lower Great Lakes region and in the New York City area, but the relief was only temporary in the Great-Lakes area. High temperatures were forecast there for Tuesday. At Raleigh, N. C.. Bart Hickman ran a three-line want- ad offering a 420-inch fan for $45. He sold it within an hour, but prospects kept calling, offering as much as $75. Hickman fled to his office, where callers tracked him down. Finally he went to an air-conditioned movie, sat through two shows and went home to findVthe telephone still ringing. South Carolina reported five

liniliirf & Ippliaiiif AUCTION Tuesday, July Bth, 7 P.M. D.S.T. This is an exceptionally good lot of Furniture ahd Appliances. Some like new. t LOCATION—Corner Mercer Avenue and Studebaker Street, Decatur, Indiana, or J/ 2 block South of the Railroad on Mercer Atrphue. 8 Ft. Philpo Refrigerator; 2 Estate Gas Ranges; Easy Spin Dry Washer; Bendix Automatic Washer; 2 Maytag Washers; 2 Double Tubs; Kelvinator Ironer; 2 Combination Radio and Record players; 2- 9k12 Rugs: f>Xl6 Rug and pad; 2 Chrome Breakfast sets; Several Qccafcional Chairs; Beautiful Dining Room Suite with 6 chairs, buffet and china closet; 3 Chest of Drawers; Studio Couch; Pp. Walnut Bedroom Suite, like new; Good Desk and chair; Coffee Tables and End tables; Wood Breakfast;set; % Gas Stove; Voss Washer; % Bed complete, like hew; Living Room Suite; Several Desks, Chairs, Floor Lamps, Tables and other ..miscellaneous articles. TERMS —Cash, unless other arrangements are made with the owner. Mr. & Mrs. Paul Strickler, Owners Gerald Strickler & D. S. Blair—Auctioneers Pauline Haugk, Clerk • , , C. W. Kent, Sales Mgr. I Sale Conducted by The Kent Realty & Auction Co. Decatur, Indiana , Phone 3-3390 Not responsible for accidents. 30 2 \7

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drownings during the Week end And North Carolina six heat deaths. Alabama reported threw heat deaths and six drowhings. Kentttfcky had seven heat deaths since. Friday. In Illinois, at I ! east 10 persons died in the heat during the week end. Wet, Hot June To Be Ended Tonight Mercury Readings ' i Haver Around 100 f INDIANAPOLIS, (UP) — Hoosiers bid goodbye towlght to a June which re-wrote the record books—the wettest since 1928 and the hottest since 1934. .. '* July will emerge hot, with ho pronounced cooling trend In sight to give relief from the week-end heat wave. ‘ A ] ' H * A late tabulation shows 24 heat deaths in Indiana in this first scorcher of the slimmer. There were 16 drownings and eight deaths due to heat prostratioth Rainfall during the month averaged 8.77 Inches, tying the June. 1928, record. The wettest June in. 5 Indiana history was in .1875, when more than a foot water, soaked the state over the 30-day period. W: A. Bertrand, Indianapolis weather bureau chief, said June temperatures averaged 78.5 degrees, highest since 1934 when 78-6 wW recorded. ' J “It's been over 90 in Indiana since June 23,” Bertrand said,, “and the all-state average was seven decrees above normal at 78.5.” Mercury readings Sunday hovered near 100. Indianapolis airport (was “joolest” With 97. Evansville blistered at lj)h, Marion reported 101, Lafayette and Rochester each had 100, Terre Haute and Fort' Wajrne OH. and South Bend 98. A northerly ‘wind will lower the humidity but not the temperature today and tonight, Bertrand said. Sunday’s reading averaged 73. It is expected to stay; in rhe 60’s’today. * July will carry on V where June left off with temperatures for Tuesday expected to be in the 90’s and, the humidity back at an uncomfortable 1 stage. »'• God’s warnnigs to nations are serious yet full of mercy.

Recalls Republican Convention Os 1912 A -.l ' Doubts Similar Split In Party This Year CHICAGO, UP — Eighty-three-year-old Bill Busse, who as a delegate watched) the Republican party split at a conyention in 1912, said today that he doesn't think it will happen again. I He was a member of the Illinois delegation at the 1912 convention and cast a vote for “Teddy” Roosevelt in his contest with William Howard Taft, father of Sen. Robert 'A. Taft, who now seeks the GOP presidential nomination at the convention which opens next Monday. Backers of Gen.\ Dwight D. Eisenhower, battling with Taft for the nomination, have said Taft forces control the convention machinery in 1952. “T. R.” came, to Chicago in 1912 with the same charge against (he of the elder Taft. \ “But he made more noise about it,” said Busse. When Roosevelt lost but, he and his backfers bolted the convention and formed the progressive “Bull Moose” party. The split in Republican ranks helped Democrat Woodrow Wilson win the presidency. Bhsse, still an active member of the Cook county board of commissioners, said he doubts that a third party will be formed this year. “The entire situation has changed,” he said. “Teddy had been President. He wa? extremely well liked by the people and able to make a lot of noise.” Busse said the 1912 convention fight centered around % 246 disputed delegates, most of them from southern states. Roosevelt arrived on June 15 to take personal charge of what he called a “naked fight against theft and thieves.” A rip-roaring floor fight began in convention at the Chicago Coliseum. A credentials committee was formed, with national committeeman Thomas J. Devine of Colorado elected chairman. Busse said he was considered an anti-Roosevelt man. He defeated W. S. Lauder of North Dakota for the chairmanship of the committee! Then Roosevelt turned his battle against the nomination of\ Elihu Root as convention chaMnan. He feared ftoot favored Taft, Roosevelt lost again, and Root, who had been temporary chairman, took over as permanent chairman. Roosevelt forces accused the elder Taft of “steamroller” tactics when the convention voted to allow contested Taft delegates to .vote ton the membership of the all-imbortant credentials committee. When the committee returned its report, allowing the contested delegates to remain on the temporary roll, Teddy walked out and formed his own party. John Lapp, 73, a friend and political adviser to former Indiana Sen. Albert Beveridge, who was a delegate to the convention, said the forthcoming GOD convention is “amazingly similar*’ to the 1912 affair. . \ “The contested delegates again are mostly from the south,” he said, and predicted that contested Taft delegates will be seated just as they were in 1912. ‘ * But he concurred with Busse, and said he did not think there would be a bolt or a party split. "It will be a long time before the Republican party comes up with a leader as magnetic as Teddy Roosevelt; a man who could command enough votes'to form his •own party,” he said. Busse doesn’t plan to attend this yeans Convention. “I’ve been a delegate at four conventions,” he. said. “This time I’m going to sit at home and watch it on television.” I LEADERS SEEK ((joatinned Frfrni FMKe On*) < nient. ~r Puerto Rican Constitution — The hbuse gave final approval to a compromise resolution ratifying the new Puerto Rican constitution. It now goes to >the senate. The resoituion was stripped, in conference committee, of a clause requiring U. S. congressional approval for any amendments voted by the Puerto Rican people. ' Adjournment — McFarland told the senate, which is further hehind than the house, it would have to meet July 4th and forego “excessive” oratory for the remainder of the session if it meets the adjournment deadline of Saturday night. With the Republican national convention beginning/ one week from today, and the Democratic convention two weeks later,. lawmakers of both parties were anxious to wind up their legislative duties so they can devote full time to election-year politicking. McFarland Said he does not expect President Truman to call the arid senate back for a “turnip day’’ special session after the political conventions, as he did in 1948 when the GOP-controlled 80th congress quit without acting on several of his legislative requests. Trade in a Good Town—Decatur . \

United States To Press For Austria Treaty Acheson Promises Austrians U. S. To Press For Treaty VIENNA, Austria, UP — Secretary of state Dean Acheson saitt today that Russia's obstruction o(f an Austrian peace - treaty “is a matter of serious and continuing concern” to the United States. He promised Austrians that the United States will continue to press for a treaty wfrieh will restone Austrian independence add sovereignty. Acheson flew here Sunday from Berlin, which like Vienna is an island inside the Soviet occupation zone. i At a .press conference, he first read a prepared statement in which he said: ( “To the United States, it is a matter of serious and continuing concern that because of the obstructionism of the Soviet Union, Austria has had to experience seven years of occupation. "Make no mistakfe about it, of the four powers in Austria, three want to go home.” \ . He then said that “our Soviet friends” have refused even to discuss a treaty in businesslike man, ner and promised: “We will continue to press for a response and acceptance Os the treaty.” Communist attempts to foment demonstrations against Acheson flopped. While he was holding his press conference in the American embassy three Red youths tried to lie down in ffopt of the wheels of his limousine. Police hustled them off and released them. When AcheA son came out he was cheered by a small crowd outside the embassy. The United States, Great Britain and France proposed to Russia last March the conclusion of an “abbreviated” treaty which ivould give Austria its independence, leaving details to be worked out later. •

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Sentiment Growing For Stevenson, Kerr Sentiment Mounting By Party Regulars WASHINGTON, UP — Democratic sources reported increasing sentiment today among party "regulars” for a Stevenson-Kerr ticket. Gov. Adiai E. Stevensop of Illinois would be the Democratic presidential nominee on sdeh a ticket, with Sen. Robert S. Kerr D-Okla. as his . vice-presidential running mate. , Stevenson said several weeks ago that he “could not” accept the presidential homifiation. But he has been getting less and less emphatic abodt it lately, and a large number of | professional politicos here now take it for granted that he Is “available.” Kerr is an active Candidate tot the presidential nomination, and predicted In Salt Lake City Sunday that he will win it an the fifth or sixth ballot. Many party leaders believe he. ivould be receptive to the vice presidential nomination if he fails to win top spot on the ticket. * Talk of a Stevenson-Russell ticket, popular in Democratic circles a few weeks agq, ip waning. Close associates of Sen. Richard B. Russell I>Qa. are convinced that Russejl means just what he says about wanting the presidential nominal

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tion dr nothing. Sen, Estes Ketauver. D-Tenn., now leading all other Democratic presidential candidates in pledged delegates, is not often mentioned as a, possible Stevenson running mate for two reasons : He has said emphatically that he Isn’t interest ed in the vice presidency; the same party regulars who are backing Stevenson are strongly antiKefauver. ■ — Vice president Alben W. Barkley has made it clear that he is not seeking another term in his present job, although he would accept the presidential nomination if. it should come his way. Prohibition Parly Closet Convert™ Cowboy Evangelist fattfi Candidate WINONA LAKE, Ind. UP — Prohibition party members headed home today after hearing presidential candidate Stuart Hamblen predict, “We may be paying our taxes to Russia by the time the next election rolls around.’ Hamblen, a self-styled cowboy evangelist, reformed alcoholic and composer, addressed about 5,000 Prohibition party delegates Sunday in a speech accepting the presidential bid. \ He said he had no quarrel with candidates ffbtn the Democratic Or

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nouncement op candidates for the state ticket would be delayed till the ticket is completed in late August. \ \ • 21 Freight Cars Derailed At Paoli PAOLI, Ind. UP — Workmen today cleared- t>he wreckage of 21 cars of a derailed Southern Railroad freight from a -Monon railroad branch line about four miles north of here. I The cars jumped the track Sunday causing heavy damage, but injuring no one. !The derailed cats were part of a 65-car train en route from Louisville to St. Louis.. TJie Southern has been using the Monon branch while repairing a section of its track near English.