Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 158.

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Congressmen Hoping To End Session Today Vital Bills Facing Congressmen Intent On Party Conclaves WASHINGTON, UP — The Bsnd congress, with political conventions and home in mind, rushed: fit work jtoday in an all-out effort to wind up tonight. The diji'inakers still had a stack of vital Ibjlls, including billions of dollars \fo’i| appropriations and military bases, facing them-as they began their final day. 'Also on tap w'as a t controversial farm price support bill. » r Even the last act of|he session threatened a scrap. Senate and house administration leaders were determined to adjourn .congress sine die—for keeps unHl the next congress meets in January. But senate Republican leader Styles Bridges told newsmen he might move to recess subject to call of the leaders, keeping congress on call to come back after the conventions if the steel strike Is not settled. -House Democratic leaders reported only scattered sentiment for a temporary recess, and speaker Sam. Rayburn was determined to adjourn. 'As congress went into its final sprint, 1 this was the status of major legislation; « Military — The $ 46,610,938,912 militaryVtnoney bill carrying funds to provide a, 143-wing air force by mid-19fi5 was awaiting action hy the senate. It also includes a rider which would provide-$45 amonth! combat pay for members of the armed services attached to combat units |h Korea. Military' Construction A $2.396,302.800 hill awaited action by both houses. The compromise, reached Friday night, authorizes military construction around the world to give the United States a ring of bases from which to' blast a potential enemy. Civil Functions—A bill to finance flood control projects and rivers and harbors developments was still in a conference committee.. ,• ... Atomic-Eorelgn Aid —A bill carrying aboyt $10,000,000,000 to finance atomic expansion, foreign aid and the military construction program was, still being drafted in a conference committee. State, Justice and Commerce— A compromise $1,015,981,710 bill to finance the state, justice and commerce departments was awaiting action by the senate. It would bar XL S. funds for the. international iTnr" To Page f Noon Edition

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Engle Inducted As Rotary President i J: s Harold Engle, manager of the hardware department of the Schafer Co., was formally inducted into office as president of the Decatur Rotary club at the weekly meeting of the service club Thursday evening. ‘ j | ’ ; Engle succeeds Jqhn Welch, GZ E. manager, who hks served for Lbe past year.. Other new officers are Robert Ashbaucher. vice president; William' Sehnepf, Jr.; sec re-, tary; E4 E. Rydell, treasurer; ; the Rev. W. C. teller and Earl Fuhrman, -A past president’s pin, gift,of the s club, was presented by the new president to the retiring president who will continue to serve on the board of directors. ----- Chinese Reds Say Talks At Crucial Stage Secret Truce Talks On Prisoner Issue ' PANMUNJOM. Korea, UP — The Chinese Communists indicated today that the Korean truce talks have reached a crucial stage on (he last issue blocking an armis-tice-repatriation of war prisoners. ■ With a news cloaking (he progress, if ai\y, of the negotiations. Radio Peiping had this to say of the talks: , | "Now that the talks ’ have entered executive session, there is no reason why a final agreement could not be reached if both sides faithfully carried but the agreed principles and do not engage\|n unilateral action disposing of -war prisoners while negotiations for settlement pre in progress. . ’ J “Results of the executive [sessions will show whethep the American delegates are really p'ilßng to negotiate a settlement on egual terms.” J ’' . The broadcast again -lattacked (he United Nations for “detaining” loO.OlhS? Chinese and Korean war prisopers, but in milder tern(s than heretofore. The 100.000 prisoners are U.N. contends Would rffSrcibly rekb<t repatriation. Radio Peiping alsfl' hroadcasjt a fantastic propaganda sffeqyr.- i The Chinese Commuhfet radio said it was “believed in, Washington” Britain intends tp test hew types of atomic arms on Korean prar prisoners in Australia. [ ’“The Americans are to hhve given their consent to the dispatch of 50,0 Korean war prisoners to Australia,” the Peiping broadcast said. “Jbey are to be selected on Koje Island and other camps on Instructions of Generals Mark W. Clark and Haydon L. Boatner.” ' -• i if.-

61 Benefits ' , Are Extended By New Bill Congress Passes Bill On Benefits To Korean Veterans WA-SIIiINGTON, UP — A new QI bill dr rights that will cost an estimated $1,000,000,000 a year was sent to the White House today for President Truman's signature. It provides for persons who have served in the armed forces since outbreak of the Korean war free schooling, loan guarantees, mustering out pay, unemployment compensation and other benefits similar to- the GI bill of World War 11. Here are the ihain pro’" of the compromise measure :< r by and senate Frida>. Eligible — All pejrsons discha. ed honorably after June 27, 1950, who have at least 90 days’ service. Schooling — School credit would be granted at a rails of I*£ days for each day of service after June 27, 1950; with maximum of 36 school months except for persons who served also in World War 11. Payments The veteran in fulltime! . training would get “<sllo monthly, if single, $135 w'ith one dependent arid $l6O if he has two or tnore dependents, to pay all costs including tuition, books and living expenses. On jop and farm training — provision is made with a lower scale of allowances subject to reduction as (raining progresses. Oil-farm trailing w’ould be limited to persons who own or control their own land, the benefits in such cases amounting to $95. sllO with one dependent and $l3O with two or more dependents. courses — Courses taken for pleasure or as a hobby would be barred. World War II veterans — Not eligible for additional schooling benefits if they dsed up all the benefits given them under the World War II bill. Veterans who did not exhaust previous benefits ■ could get schooling benefits raised <Tiir« To Pace Six) Add To Schedule For Decatur Free Fair Additions t« the schedule for the Decatur tree 2—were announced today by Walter Fprd, secretary of the Chamber of. Commerce. The Boy Scout cabin will be used for the following exhibits for the entire week of the fair: Tuesday and Wednesday, July 29 and 30—home economics show; Thursday, July 31 —flower show; Friday, August I—ceramics1 —ceramics show. In charge of the announced exhibits will be Mrs. Catherine Lose| Mrs. Roy Price, Mrs. John Doan and Mrs. Fred Ashbaucher.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 5, 1952.

Violent Deaths Mar Indiana's Holiday 9 * ‘ i' At Violently In State By UNITED PRESS Indiana highways crowded with Fourth of July fun-seekers became death lanes for many Hoosiers'as the holiday week end death toll mounted. There were at least 13 violent deaths, and one Hoosier drowned near the state line. The state death toll included 9 traffic fatalities, 2 drownings, a race-track death, and a train mishap. The toll ‘marred an otherwise near-perfect day. Skies were blue and temperatures throughout the state had the warmth of summer but none of the heat-wave discomfort which plagued Hoosiers until inid-week'. : Today and Sunday were to be and a little warmer, with (■•Tatures in the high 80's or ■;» ad's. About 6.500 persons witnessed one of the holiday deaths. At Fort Wayne, race driver Robert L. Jolies, 26, Chesterfield, was injured fatally when his roadster overturned in the southeast \ turn of the Fort Wayne Speedway, pinning Jones in the wreckage. Officials blamed excessive speed, William Caudill. 27; Keystone, was killed near Hartford City when his motorcycle skidded in\ gravel and Caudill fell to the ground, Samuel Hostetler, 54, Terre Haute, was hurt fatally in a two-car collision on U. S. 40 near Terre Haute, and Charles Phillips, 23, Richmond, died of injuries suffered when a car struck a tree on Ind. 227. Bonnie Purdue, 9, Walton, was killed when a car rammed- the Ptlrdue family auto from the rear on Ind. 14 near Rochester. Joseph Pratt, 22, Indianapolis, discharged from the army only two weeks ago, was killed when a car in. which he rode overturned on Ind. 46 near St. Lawrence. Another auto passenger. Ed-1 ward Reece, 18, Lafayette, died when the car in which he rode struck the rear wheel of a truck and overturned on Ind- 28 near Attica. Drowning victims were Walter R. Early, 9, Mitchell, and James Whitehead, 18, Princeton. - The Early boy drowned while swimming in deep water at Hindustan Falls near Loogootee, and Whitehead drowned in Lake Lawrence in Illinois, across 1 the state line from Vincennes.' Arrests were made in two fatal accidents which occurred in the Indianapolis area. Victims were Barbara Cunningham, 15, and one-year-old Connie Haus, both of Indianapolis. Police said the Cunningham girl was hurled 30 feet from a car driven by Marion Bickley, 28. Indianapolis, as\ Bickley fled after Striking one auto, then collided with a second. He was arrested (Twra To Pace Fire)

MacArthur Boom As Vice President Grows In Chicago

Offers To Bet Taft Will Not Be Elected NEW YORK, UP — A Wall Street laiwyer has bffered to bet S2OOO that Sen. Robert A. will lose thte presidential .election ;if jionpnatedl j ; i«eo Gottlieb said he u’as giving 7 |o 5 odds that the Ohioan will no! get intp the White House. He Eaid he was making the bets for hree clients and had "sent word o Chicago” but so far had no takers. Holiday Death Toll Mounting Across Nation Accidental Death Toll Over 200 On July 4 Holiday By UNITED PRESS .Sunburned pleasure seekers, out th make the most of a long Fourth of July holiday, jammed the highways today as the accidental death toll soared past the 20d mark. Millions of persons flocked back to ball parks, beaches and resorts to resume their July 4 celebration and enjoy the. generally pleasant weather. But the inevitable total of accidental deaths began to climb sharply, \< -At least 246 persons were dead, a United Press sutvey since 6 p.m. Thursday showed. There were 164 traffic fatalities, 56 drowning deaths. 7 in plane crashes and IX in miscellaneous mishaps. One fireworks death was reported. While most Americans lolled in the sun Friday, gawked at sppc-| tabular fireworks displays or frolicked at amusen ent parks, the Fourth was a grim holiday for Spme. At ISstelline, S. D., a grandstand epilapsed and dumped 1,500 persons onto the ground. At least persons were injured, 35 seriously. At least 14 persons had broken legs and others suffered and kidney injuries; City officials 'said the grandstand was badly “overloaded." Two men were blown out of a speeding cpr near Kansas City, when one of them carelessly tossed a match into a gross of firecrackers. The car was almost flemolished by the blast. A group of boys at Oklahoma City ,Okla.. hatched a plan “to kill a lot of fish.’” They emptied the powder from (Turn To Page Three) Big Air Raid Made By American Planes Officer Training 7 School Is Target SEOUL. Korea, UP — An important Communist North Korean officer training school near the Yalu River border of Manchuria was the “mystery, target" perhaps destroyed in a giant Fourth of July American air raid, it was disclosed today. Far . East air \ forces revealed simultaneously that the number of Red MIG-15 jet fighters destroyed or damaged in an air battle touched off by the raid had been revised upward from 19 to 21. A study of gun-camera, film showed American airmen got their second highest bag of Red planes in the war—-12 definitely shot down, as w£ll as two probably downed and seven damaged: Sabrejet pilots got their largest number of Red planes Dec. 13, 1951, when they destroyed 1.? MIGs, probably destroyed two mt re and damaged another. Fifth Air Force Thunderjet fighter-bombers returned to Northwest Korea again today to systematically destroy Communist (Turu T® Pace Three)

'Cheap Little' Deals Assailed .■ ■ I By Eisenhower Hotly Reacts To Series Os Defeats On Delegate Votes ABOARD THE EISENHOWER Special En Route to Chicago, UP <-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, an ijrtigry man campaigning for the Republican presidential \ nomination, arrives in Chicago today to do battle with “arrogant” politicians and, what he their “cheab little’J’ deals. j Eisenhower’s special train tys due at the Chicago and North Western terminal at It a. m. CST. From there he will go to his hotel and conferences with his convention leaders seeking to bring the general a nomination victory over Sen. Robert A. Taft. As his special train sped eastward across Nebraska and lowa from Colorado he reacted hotly to a series of defeats in delegate contests and to the action* of leaders who voted to compromise the bitter Texas dispute as Taft asked. \The general said that so far as is concerned politics “is not a business of buying and selling and backroom bidding.” “It is not a network of privilege or of cynicism dr of iron party discipline that reaches out from Washington to the fringe of the last cheap little deal.” He left Clinton, lowa, shortly after 7 a. m. CST on the last lap of his trip to Chicago, after telling an early morning crpwd that Americans are demanding their "birthright” to run themselves. A band concert brought him out of his car, smiling, to a back platform. He said "I am deeply touched at the early-hour demonstration.” He told Ipwans that it was allimportant to “throw out the bumbling government in Washington.” He renewed an appeal that the party seek td attract young voters, and said that “the young people of this country are not going to be attracted to any party whose program cannot be called idealistic.” Speaking on the NBC—Life magazine “We the People” radio program Friday night, he vehemently rejected the principle of J’Tnra To Pax® Six)

Hilliard Bell Dies After Heart Attack \ Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon -1 I’ ■ . ' ..■ ’ ■ e '■ Hilliard H. Bell, 68, retired farmer and employe of the Meshberger Stone Co. of Linn Grove, died unexpectedly of a hegrt attack at 11:30 o’clock Thursday nignt at his home in Graigville. He was born in Adams county and Sarah Alexander-Bell, and lived in this county for 44 years before moving to Craigville. He was a member of the Christian Union church. Surviving are his wife, the former Bessie J. Hauck; two sons, Dwight Bell of Fort Wayne anVl Brooks Bell of Ambia; one daughter, Mrs. Charles Salisbury of Dunkirk; six grandchildren; one greatgrandchild; tWo brothers, Vin'cent of Fort Wayne and Godfrey of Indianapolis, and two sisters, Mrs. Osie Xerkel of Decatur and Mrs. Mary Parrish of Muncie. Two brothers and three sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Craigville E. U. B. church, the Rev. J. Smith and the Rev. W. E. Workman officiating. Burial will be in Elm Grove cemetery at Bluffton. The body has been removed from the Jahn funeral home to the residence, where friends may ckll until time as the services. \

Sewer Bond Issue Approved By State Tax Board Approves Decatur Bond Issue i The state board of tax commis-' sioners today approved the $100,00(k bond issue for the construction of a new sewer in the north part of town. In spite of passing this major hurdle, there still is one more obstacle to surmount. The state stream pollution commission refused to give the go ahead signal to the city without first getting the assurance that, a sewage disposal plant would be built to prevent dangerous contamination pf the St. Mary’s river. The city council had previously notified the corhmission that a plant would be' built in “three or four” years. The commission thought that wasn’t definite enough and demanded something more concrete before they would give permission to build the server. The council then told the commission they would defiaitejly start on the plant in two years. ’The commission waa to hold a meeting last week but it was postponed because of the i lack of enough members present to vote. The stream commission has seven members. Robert Anderson contacted the commission today to see what was to bq done. Anderson said hei received word that a meetnig would be held July 9 and there was an indication from a reliable source that the pity’s plan would be approved.

MacArthur Readies Keynote Address To Deliver Keynote Speech Monday Night NEW York, UP — The tall man the corncob pipe put the final touches today to his pl'an?ofbattle for the Republican party. pen. Douglas MacArthur made ready for one of the most important events in his climax-studded career—the keynote address at the Republican national convention. The elbquent general, who carried his fight to the coqntry after being dismissed from his Far East commands, was expected to deliver an impassioned attack on the Democratic administration while steering a straight and peutral course between the quarreling factions of his own paijty. MacArthur has worked and reworked the text of the address he will make Monday night in Chicago, setting down his carefullywrought sentences in longhand. The general writes hisA own speeches, scribbling with a pencil in his skyscraper apartment overlooking midtown Manhattan. t Although he has kept his travel plans secret, it is expected \he will fly to Chicago a few hlours before his speech and return to New York soon after speaking. The general lias not made himself available for comment on persistent reports from Chicago that he is willing to accept the vicepresidential nomination and speculation that the nomination for the presidency would be his in case of a Taft-Eisenhower deadlock. His aides won’t even say whether he will address the convention in uniform or civvies. * Friday in Washington Sen. Robert A. Taft said he had received information that MacArthur "would not reject” the vice presidential nomination on a Taft-MacArthur ticket. However, MacArthur boosters in Chicago have sgid only the top .job befits the stature of their man. Fred J. Coogin, of Sayre, Okla.v chairman of the “Delegates for MacArthur” organization which now has headquarters in Chicago, said earlier this week that it was “entirely possible” MacArthur’s speech would stampede the convention and get him the presidential nomination. '

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Taft Managers Seek Victory On Ist Ballot Taffs Associates Speak Well Os Mac For Running Mate

CHICAGO, UP — The MacAr-thur-for-vice-president boom was thundering in this convention city today as Taft managers maneuvered for a first ballot nomination. Sen. Robert A. Taft’s associates in public and private were speaking well of MacArthur as a running {mate. Former President Herbert {Hoover Was believed to be a key jnan in plans Tor a Taft {ticket. Trie latest United Press tabulation (showed Taft has at least 530 convention votes to 425 for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. But nothing was in the bag. Eisenhower strategy w’as to play the corruption and vote-stealing issue against Taft to the limit before taking the delegate contest dispute Monday to a showdown on the convention floor. Both sides were full of fight. Iketnen planned a spectacular "Dixie indignation meeting” today in the Blackstone Theater across the street from the Conrad Hilton Hotel convention headquarters. They were whooping it up for a standing-room only meeting which would jam 1,500 persons into the place. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Eisenhower's campaign manager, will be master of ceremonies. In bitterness and political impact Eisenhower’s charges of cor-, ruption made against Taft in connection with selection of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia delegates has exceeded all expectations. It not only has shocked the voters but it has jared Taft’s pret-convention campaign and, many believe, seriously damaged party prospects in November. “Cftodp little deals,” is w*hat Ike called the methods by which 76 of 96 contested delegates were awarded by the Republican national committee to Taft and only 20 to him. Lodge abruptly rejected all compromise Taft proposals and brushed aside Mr. Hoover’s offer to referee the disputes. Lodge said the national committee had become “a puppet for the ruthless steamroller tactics of the Taft machine.” Taft strategy was a first ballot blitz when the rolßis called next Wednesday or Thursday. He had about 100 more pledged votes than Eisenhower on the United £ress tabulation but was about 75 short of the 604 necessary to nominate. .. — The national committee’s contest hearing ended Friday with another Taft triumph, but this time on a compromise basis dictated by the senator’s supporters. The contested Texas delegation was divided, Taft 22, Eisenhdwer 16. Lodge had rejected the 22 to‘ 16 compromise proposal but the committee forced it on him. Os the 96 contests among seven states and Puerto Rico, the committee decided 76 in favor of Taft and 20 for Eisenhower. The leaders were arriving today, Taft from Washington, Eisenhower aboard his whisTle-stop special from Denver, Gov. Earl Warren by train with the 70-vote California delegation. Gen. Douglas MacArthur and. Mr. Hoover are due Monday, MacArthur to make the keynote speech that night. Taft acknowledged before leaving Washington that he had received word MacArthur “would not reject” second place on a Taft ticket. Gen. Albert <L Wedemeyer, chairman of the citizens committee for Taft, -arrived with kind words for the MacArthur boom. Jg ■ INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight. Sunday mostly fair and a little warmer. High 88 to *3. Low 64 to 70.