Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 3 July 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 157.

Truman Hits At U.N. Critics In Annual Report Says Opponents Are j Advocating Course ■ Leading Up To War WASHINGTON, UP —PretMent .Truman said today Americans! who want to puli out of the Unit* ed Nations and “go it alone” are advocating a course “that can on? , ly lead,to the holocaust of world' wide war.” . In what he termed his “final ’ report” as President on U.S. participation in the United Nations, Mr. Truman told congress that certain “blind” leaders have > undermined confidence in the U.N; * through “partisan attacks.” \ He jsaid this country is continuin the past he has directed similar chticisni at such Republicans as Sen. Robert A. Taft, Gen. Douglas MacArthur and former president Herbert Hoover. Expressing confidence thit Americans lyould reject these “voices of despair," r Mr. Truman also said she TTnitedStates add its U.N. partners werd, “right” to take up arms in Korek. to repel Coiqmunist aggression. > But he admitted concern about the Jact that the\ United States is still shouldering most of the Korean >war 'burden. \ > This country, he said, is providing 50 percent of the ground forces in Korea, 86 percent of the nayal forces and 93 percent of the total air forces fighting The war; He said this countr yis contthu■>ing to press its allies for larger troop contributions* . \ Summing up his Interest in the U.N./over seven years in office, , Mr. lTruman said his “paramount aim’! has been to work for peace and that the U.N. was the best route to .it. He recalled the high hopes _for the U.N. when it ngM organized in 1945.- * \ j "But these hopes have been by the conflicts yX the succeeding years and by the hostile attitude of the Soviet Union,” ’ MF Truman said. “AS a result, voices have been raised, questioning the value of the United Nations and the need for maintaining it. “ ‘ "Somekd these attacks are made in a spirit of impatience that Can only* lead to the holocaust of worldwide war,” he said. , ■ ’ .* j “Most of, thbse who urge us* to ‘go it alone’ are blind to the fact that such a course would destroy the solid progress towai-d world peace which the United Nations hasTnade in thivpast seven years. I am confident that the American people will reject these voices of despair. ' “We cam wjp peace, but we cannot win it alone. And’, above all, we canpdt win it by force alone. We can Iwin the peace only by continuing to work for Tnterna--1 tional justice and morality through the United Nations.” t

J Hit Army Engineers flood Relief Work . * t ': ■“ y ' House Committee Lashes Engineers-- ’ VyASHINGTON, (UP) — The house appropriations committee t cliarged toddy that the army engif: beets, after spending nearly $2(12,OQO.OOd on the Missouri river between Syt. Louis and Sioux City, : lowa. has actually increased floods ; "year after year,’’ The committee, in a general re- ' , port onUhe vast channel stabilization and” navigation project, said. - the engineers treated the project “most lightly and. in some Hnrecklessly.” “the committee is thoroughly dissatisfied with the corps’ performance,” the report said, _.feels that such substantial doubt I has been cast upon the corps’ methods that their results are hardly worthy of credence.”; j »The'committee accused the engineers of \“wizarding with figures” •in an effort to inflate the estimated benefits of the project. The project, started in 1912, is b scheduled for > completion in 1960 i at an estimated additional cost of ioi,iooo,ooo. i The work/ 79 percent complete, I has included revetmemts,. dikes,' [ removal of rock frorOthe' 'river bed, cutoffs to eliminate 'long bends, chute, closure dikes and removal of snags. ; “The corps of engineers have spent over a quarter of a billion dollars,” the committee said, “on ~ channel stabilization and naviga1 (Tim To Pace Klcht)

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\ “Here’s How, Son” ■HL f ■ ’ i■* * * 1 IM.’ .1 iOlOfc . ¥|« ’ I J (■■Hwy* J SENATOR ROBERT A. TAFT, in Chicago for pre-convention maneuv- ( ering \which finds him overriding all opposition in seating of contested delegates, giveis a paternalistic hand-shake to hik eon, Lloyd B. Taft, as they discuss politick, “father-and-son Young Taft arrived in Chicago Wednesday to be with his dad in the final days of the Senator’s fight for the GOP presidential nomination.

Eight Killed As Bus Hits Parked Truck 4 . ■ ' I* A \ Greyhound Bus Hits Truck At Winnipeg 20 Others Injured I' W • • V '• ' v ‘ WINNIPEG.Man. UP— a Greyhound bus ripped into the (side of a parked trailer trudk near here early today and eight pbrsonk were killed and 20 injured. H I .At least seven of the Injured weye Americans. The death list will not be ma<|e available until next of kin have! been informed. Officials said it: might be several hours before they* positively identify al! the dead. They said several bodies were badly mangled and the victims’ baggage was strewn over a wide area. Royal Canadian mounted police said some of th« 4 injured w'ere in critical condition! The crash tore out, the side of tjhe bus and Greyhound officials said it waß . the worst in the company’s history in Western Canady. Both drivers were.seriously injured. X The crash occurred shortly before 2 a. m? on Route 75 near \ Norbert, Man. The bus was bn a trip from Minn., to Winnipeg. Its -passengers included, at least IQ.Canadian soldiers on leave. Some from the Valcartier, Que., army Camp. The bus driver was Robert Staves of Crookston, Minn. Witnesses said /he truck i w’as parked at the side of the highway when the big buij hit it from behind. The truck driver said he set out flares while he tU flat tire. Bob Rapelje, 17, of St. Thomas, Ont., said the bus driver told him he was temporarily blinded by the headlights of oncoming traffic. ■ Most of the passengers * were sleeping or doling when the bus crashed. The injured were rushed to three Winnipeg hospitals In six ambulances. • i v Walter Blendick. 23, of Toronto, said he was asleep in his seat lust behind river when ”1 heard a noise, next tHinfetl knew I was lying yi the middle of the pavement. “I saw a little; girl about 10 feet away. She was dead. And I heated Screams. They came from the injured who incldideii several; women.” L •> I Rifleman GeoCfe-n Doyle of ‘the Royal Winnipeg Rifles was {rapped two hours in hjs seat. pinned between\two bodies. Police and other travelers pulled him free. i Mrs. Myrtle Gillette of \orand Forks, N D., said she did not hear', anything. i“I Vjust blacked out.” she said. i

Jobless Pay Claims Are Nearly Doubled INpIANAPOLIk, UP—The Indiana Employment Security Daviston reported, today that, unempjdyrtient coinpefiSatjion claims list week reached th< highest point' in nearly six monthp. New claims, imany rpade by workers laid off in the steel shortage. numbered \lo;4s3,\nearty double the previous! Week. The total of 3J.200 claims was the highest in 20 A " -- INDIANA WEATHER A Clearing, cooler and less humid tonight. Friday fair and pleasant. Low tonight from 62 north to 72 south. High Friday in the low 80’s.

Swimming Pool Open On Friday Afternoon • Hubert Zerkel, Jt„ supervisor of the city swimming pool, announced today that the pool will be opeir from 2 to 5 o’clock Friday afternoon,! July 4. There will be no evening swimming hours on the holiday. ' • 4

Six Billion Foreign Aid Up To Senate Senate Committee Approves Measure For Senate Action WAS HINGTON, UP —A $6,031,947,750 foreign aid bill went to the Senate today, carrying almost $2,000,000,000 less than President Truman had requested. The senate approprlati mittee worked until shortly midnight before approving . measure. Members said the group approved the exact figure voted by the house for all military, ecenomic and point fOur aid to Europe, Asia, Africa, the Near East and the Pacific for fiscal 1953, which began Tuesday. The .senate w’as scheduled tb meet elkrly today and was expected to pass on scores of minor nonrcoijtroversial or private bills. If a single senator objects to a bill under the ’’unanimous consent” procedure, thb measure is automatically passed lover, f The senate then was-Expected to tak£ up the foreign aid and other funds approved by the appropriations committee. . Mr. Truman had asked $7,900,000,000 for foreign aid. Congress had authorized spending a total of $6,526,060,750. The $6,031,947,750 approved by the senate appropriations committee Was nearly $1,000,000,000 less than the safe minimum prescribed by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower before he retired as supreme Allied commander in Jiurope. But the amount was almost identical with the $6,000,000,000 which: Seh. Robert A. Taft, Eisenhower’s ijhief rival for the Republican presidential nomination, has said would be adequate. ; The total of the “catchall” bill approved by the appropriations committee was not available immediately. Besides foreign aid, the m£asur*e includes funds for atomic expansion, military construction, the economic; stabilization agency, office of defense mobilization, civil defense administration and many other federal agencies. The house approved a total of $10,122,840,780, but the senate committee version would be considerably less because the committee chopped nearly all funds for military construction on the “technicality” that, the senate has not yet acted on another measure authorizing the construction.

Hugo M. Reinking Is Taken By Death Hugo M. Reinking, 59, a native of Adams cqurity, died of a heart attack Wednesday at Lake James. He was the senior partner of Rein-king-Kern & Co., certified public accountants, Fort Wayne. Surviving a;e his wife, Edith; one son, one daughter, two brothers and two sisters. * Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday- at the Rodenbeck funeral home, with burial In Concordia cemetery.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 3, 1952.

Ike, Fighting Mad, To Battle At Convention Against Taft Tactics

Taft Keeps Up < Pressure For Vole Control Taft Steamroller Continues To Line' Up Contest Votes CHICAGO, UP — Robert A. Taft’s tightly organized national committee task force Was withiuj minutes today of giving the senator another covey of convention delegates as he called .on Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to shift his fire from fellow Republicans to the Truman administration. Immediately at stake werie 13 Louisiana seats in the Republican national convention —claimed alike by Taft and Eisenhower. Next up will be Mississippi, Missouri and Texas contests involving 43 seats'. General Ike was taking off from Denver Xor a whistle stop sortie through Nebraska and lovfa en route to, Chicago with a promise to “roar our as leader of a fight to keep the Republican Party clean. Denver reported a fighting maid Eisenhower was determined to take the five-star high command in the bitter pre-conven t ion battle with Taft over contested delegates In Louisiana and elsewhere. Let Eisenhower roar out qgainst President Truman and the Democratic administration on his whistle top swing, Taft said in his regular ■ s conference here. . hope, he roars out against Trumftn. Acheson and Brannan in the farm districts,” Taft said, “as wel as against the Republicans.” Eisenhower w-as all fight, Taft ail smiles today with the convention’s presidential balloting just one week distant. , “Now that I’m in the fight, I’m (Turn To Pace Elatot)

Three American Priests Freed Today By Russ Release Catholic * Priests Seized At x East-Westßorder BERLIK UP — The Russians today released three young American Ronlan Catholic priests whom they seized Wednesday, on the border line between West and East Berlin. |■ I \ A United States army spokesman said the priests and a German woman who was guiding them on a sightseeing tour were freed at 4:30 p.m. 9:30 a.m: CST. They had beeri Russian prisoners for about 30 Hours. \ The priests, all from .. Chicago, are Martih Boroczyk, George -Gorski and Bronislaus Sokolowski, affiliated with the National Catholic, welfare conference. Their guide was Mrs. Katharina Winckler, Berlin secretary of the Cathplic relief roganizatibn Cralog. j They were taken to [American military police headquarters for questioning immediately after their release. Western sources said the Russians arrested two British soldiers today in their new campaign of sealing oft the border between' the Allied and Red sectors of Berlin. At the >ame time, West Berlin police headquarters said another ranking officer of the East German Communist police—Col. Ernst Bellow,* commander of one of four units assigned to seW off West Berlin froth the Soviet ’Zone —asked for political asylum*, BottCw said he fled because the Communists were converting the police to a “civil war army.” He, his wife and three children, rode Into West Berlin by elevated train. West Berlin police said the two British soldiers were arested by (Tara To Face Five)

Costello's Appeal Rejected By Court Congress Contempt j Conviction Upheld NEW YORK, UP — The United States court of appeals today upheld Frank Costello's conviction for contempt of congress in walking out on the sebate crime investigating committee but reversed his conviction on seven other counts. The thfee-tnan court held that Costello was within his rights in refusing, because of possible selfin< ilminatlon, to answer questons regarding his net financial worth and indebtedness. Trial Judge Sylvester J. Ryan had ruled that Costello waived his right to invoke the incrimination privilege by his answers to other questions about his financial status. “' : The court of appeals opinion said’: "The defendant did not waive his right when he gave testimony as to his assqts or when he agreed .to furnish the committee with a Complete finahcial statement.” The decision does not reverse any part of Costello’s sentence — 18 months in prison and $5,000 flue since it was handed down on the three affirmed counts. He is presently free in $5,000 bail pending the appeal which was ru,led on today. The three counts on \which the conviction was upheld are those in 'Which Costello was charged with terminating his appearance before the committee — by claiming a sore throat and walking out —and for wilfully! refusing to testify on one \iay. Reports On Building Permits For Month Building permits and amounts spent during last month show that construction is down a shade as compared to June of last year, with the majority of the money going for new houses. The report from the city engineer’s pfflce\ shows $51,775 declared for building last month, of which $45,955 alone went for new houses. The, balance, $5,820, was declared/" for additions on houses, garages, and miscellaneous minor construction. \ 7 ■ ■> - ' \

Predict Veto For Fair TradeßUL Senate Passes Bill \ By 64 To 16 Vot\e WASHINGTON, UP — Informed sources predicted today that President Truman wijl veto the socalled ‘‘fair trade”'bill which the senate passed and sent to the White House by a 64 to 16* vote Wednesday night. They pointed \out that Mr. Truman sent word to congress, while the bill was still pending before the house in May, that it was 'not |n accord” with his legislative, program. The. measure tyould legalize price-fixing on name-brand prod* nets.' A manufacturer who wanted to prevent price-cutting competition among dealers could sign a ‘fair trade” agreement with a single Tetailer, fixing a minimum preie, which w’ould then be legally binding on all other retailers in that state. J The -law would be Effective in 45 states which have “fair trade” statutes. Texas, Vermont, Missouri apd the District of Columbia would not be affected. The fair trade laws Were hepres-sipn-born, most of them being enacted around 1937. After 14 yCars of operation, they were upset last year by a supreme court ruling that retailers who do not sign price agreements cannot be bound by therh'.' It set off a spectacular "price war” on name brand goods.

School Board Plans Repairs To High School I ; Appropriation For c $19,000 Likely To t Pay School Repair •I - TlTat at least $19,000 would have t!o be appropriated for extensive Repairs of Decatur high school was pne of the definite things decided dt a meeting last night of ? the filchool board anff architect A. M. Strauss, who designed the building in 1938. 1 ‘ , r Board members Geral<F> Cole, Harry Hebble and George Helm, and school superintendent Vv. Guy Brpwn heard Strauss give a general description of the damage|to the school. Strauss said most pf thd damage lies apparently in thi front parapet wall with lesser erosion in parapet walls. He , added that it would; be well to take preventative measures in the gymnasium as there is evidence to show that a certain weakening exists. ■I \ ■ ' The money tor the repairs will cpme -ffbin thd school’s building fund, called the' cumulative; sinking fund, and will be used for materials, sheet metal workers, carpenters. plasterers, laborers and hbisting-engineers. Robert Anderson, acting as attorney for the school board. w r as directed to take all the legal steps necessary for a meeting to set up a wage scale rate to be paid workers on, the job. Joe Thompson was chosen to bargain for the school'.

Appropriated funds, it was decided, will not ger wholly for repairs; a room in the school is planned to be partitioned to provide ,a book room' and a photographic darkroom. Board member ' Harry Hebble qujestioned Strauss on the possibility of a recurrence of the damage., Strauss said that he doubted it woulci happen again in viewjof the preventative between - the - wall - flashing to be'installed. Additionally, ,he said, a provision will be made for a coat pf transparent waterproofing to be applied to the face of the building every three orjour years. The assurance, however, did not completely satisfy the board and the question of some sort of guarantee was raised. Strauss said that tacking a guarantee on the contracts would probably “chase away some bidders.” It was tentatively decided to place a five or ten year guarantee on an alternate bid. Robert Anderson will start the machinery for the appropriation and the getting of a minimum wage scale. First, a letter will be sent to the governor to appoint a man to the board and a similar letter to the state federation of labor to appoint another. The'school board h,as .already named Joe Thompson to represent them. A | hearing date has tentatively been set for July 17 ■ to formally state the amount of money needed and the urgency tor construction, after which a hearing will be held by the state board of tax commissioners. > f Three Public School Teachers Quit Posts School sul>erlntendent W. Guy Brown announced resignations today of three school teachers and the appointment of a new one to fill a vacancy. ■ . Vocational agricultuW instructor Vaughn Miller resigned to take a position in Huntertown; first grade teacher Gladys Zimmerman resigned to go to Goshen; \and Mary Jo Hoffman left to continue her studies, she taught the third grade—Jesteen Cole was name? to fill her position.

Cool Front Sweeps Across This State Drop Temperatures Into 60's Tonight Bv UNITED PRESS | A cool front -swept across Indiana today bringing relief from the longest heat wave in years. Thunderstorms and rain squalls lowered temperatures and' humidity. This may be the first day since June 10 it hasn’t at least 90 degrees in some Indiana 'city. y, Moreover, forecasters said, the storms and cool front; wouiu drop temperatures into the 60’s tonight. Fourth of July celebrants may see the mercury stay. In the 80’s Friday throughout the;state. Partly cloud}’ and drier air are fore' cast. ; \ c The mercury topped 90 all around the state Wednesday in the J2nd day of the heat wa\ve. It was 99 at Lafayette, 98 at Rochester and Vincennes, 96 at Evansville, Indianapolis and Columbus. But rain began during the night and dropped temperatures at some points, holding them down at others. Meanwhile, the death toll In Indiana due to drowning and heat prpstration jumped to 44. In Indianapolis, Mrs. Valeria Goens,; 34, mother of three, died of the heat after doctors fought three hours to save her life. She, was expecting a fourth child. At Greencastle, Putnam 1 circuit court bailiff Arthur Reat died of heat prostration. ' At South Bend, Lee Hayes, 41, leaped a railroad bridge after complaining about the heat to a companion. Police dragged the St. Joseph river but couldn’t find his body. ■ — .

Layoffs Grow, Steel Strike In 32nd Day Nearly Million Are I Idled In Crippled Industrial America CLEVELAND, Ohio, UP — Layoffs idling nearly 1,000,000 workers crippled industrial - America today as the deadlocked steel strike entered its 32nd day. The number of workmen either taking part in the strike or laid off as a result of steel shortages passed 90i0,000 with new plant shutdowns in the automotive industry. More lay-offs probably will be ordered during the holiday week end. The Nash Automobile Company sent 10,000 workers home from its Kenosha, Wis. t plant, and Studebaker laid off 17,000. General Motors ' announced that “thousands” of its employes at a bazooka .shell plant would be idle by the end of the week. Meanwhile it was reported that the “big six” steel companies held a-secret meeting here Tuesday and decided unanimously to keep a “solid front” against union demands which brought about the strike of 600,000 steelworkers June .2. An earlier report had indicated the big companies might accept a modified version of the union shop demand which is the major disagreement in the strike. More than 30 smaller steel companies have signed contracts with the CIO United Steelworkers with a provision for a union shop that would allow employes to withdraw from the union 30 days after they are hired- , > An official of U.S. Steel Cq. Wednesday rejected a challenge by USW President Philip Murray to debate the union shop issue publicly nexflireek. C. F. Hood, executive vice presi(Tara Ta Pace Eicht)'

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Blasts Taft Steamroller For Tadics Pledges To Fight For Clean Party At G.O.P. Convention ABOARD EISENHOWER SPECIAL TRAIN ENROUTE TO CHICAGO, UP—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower left for the Republican national convention today, pledged, as “a soldier in the ranks" to fight for a “clean and' honorable" party able to win the presidency in November. Just before his special train pulled out of Denver, .Colo., for Chicago, Eisenhower swung at what he regards as .steamroller tactcis by hte forces of Sen. Robert A. Taft by saying, “Our party cannot go before the public and ask for its votes unless it comes into court with clean hands.” This was a reference to the redhot fights before the Republican national committee over the seating of contested convention delegations. In the past two days, the committee has dealt Eisenhower forces a series'of rebuffs. The general, speaking from the rear platform of his train, made clear that he will now seek “to reverse the committee actions in the convention.itself. He declared: “I’m going to ask every delegate t(b help in this fight for fair proceedings at the convention. I am going to ask every delegate to de his part to see to it that the proceedings and-decisions of the convention conform to the American and Republican principles of clean and honorable conduct ? . . and f want you tp know I haven’t the slightest doubt of the' outcome.” Eisenhower, who only a month ago declared that he would wage no active campaign for the Republican nomination, began a sloW, 1,000-mile trip to the convention with at least nine public appearances scheduled enroute. He said that since that time “issues of deep and vital importance” to the party and the nation have arisen which changed all this. “I’m going to Chicago—as a soldier in the ranks—to have a hand in that, fight . . a fight to keep our party clean and fit to lead our nation,” Eisenhower said. He promised that his office door in Chicago would be open at all to all delegates, ( The Eisenhower campaign train steamed slowly • across Colorado and Nebraska toward Lincoln, speech tonight from the steps of Neb., where the general delivers a the state capitol. Eisenhower received two telegrams from Nebraska delegates before boarding his trains Four delegates signed the first telegram, saying they intended to vote, for Eisenhower at least on the second ballot because he “can best lead a victorious appeal to all sections.” - Two of the delegates formerly were pledged to Taft.' They were Lt. Gov. Charles Warner and Arthur Weaver, who is in Chicago as the Nebraska member of the convention rules committee. The other two who signed the telegram were R. C. John and Terry Carpenter, both previously committed to Eisenhorwer. Annual Farm Bureau Picnic On Sunday The annual Adams county Farm Bureau picnic will be held Sunday at St. John’s, grove, .north of Decatur on U. S. highway 27. The picnic will open Mh a basket dinner > at noon. Coffee and , cold drinks will be furnished. * —44 Hassel Schenck, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, will f be the principal speaker. Music will be provided by the county 4-H band, and winning contestants in the county variety show will present thfelr acts. |