Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 163, Decatur, Adams County, 11 July 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 163.

Dwight Eisenhower Wins Republican Presidential Nomination On Ist Ballot

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I J “Operia(ion skywatch” begins Monday morning at 8 ofelock at the watch post at Hanna-Nuttman park. The post is just opposite the Boy Scout shelter house. It is a 24-hour-a-day project that may continue indefinitely, according to air force officials. Col. James T: Emott, a top civilian defense coordinator, spoke at a meeting of defeinse officials in Decatur recently and said that it is absolutely possible for Russian planes to reach the U. S. in something like nine hours. r Local Officials think, therefore, that it wouldn’t take much ha\rd flying on the part of the enemy to be over this area in. a short titne. Said Emott, “At a meeting .in New York City recently, air force heads declared that it would be an impossible task for the air force jo undertake protecting every mile Yiif the : IT. S. without the whole- • hearted support of civilian ground spotting crews—on watch throughout the day and night.” Local head Floyd Hunter Said, in releasing the following watch Ijst: “The project can only be successful through the efforts of the individual observer, iheir failure to -keep on schedule. show up on time, can throw the whole program out of whack." Pi Following is a two day list. It Was prepared with-l. concern for working hours, and in general was made with consideration toward special circumstances: List Spotters Monday x / 8 a. m:to noon, Freela Webster. Noon to 4 p. m., Bertilene Hess. -. 4 p. m. to 8 p. m„ Ida Holthouse' .18 p. m. to 10 p. m., Don Wolfe J’ and Kenneth Butcher. 1 10 p. tn. to midnight, Joe Hunter and Fred Wagner. Tuesday V Midnight to 2 a. m., Elmer Dau--p wachter and Hugh Engle. 2 a,, m. to 4 a. m., Don Burke and. Otto Spiegel. 4 a. m. to 6 a. m., Theodore Bak- }■ er and Pete Smith. 6 a. m. to 8 a. m., Keith Hunt. 8 a. m. to noon, Mrs. Waldo Marbach.

Allies Offer Work On German Treaty b ! Direct Offer Made Without Red Veto WASHI NG Tp N, UP — The United States, Britain and France today confronted the Kremlin with a direct offer to start working toward a German peace treaty without any Red vetp. The offer of„ four-power talks appointment of an impartial, vetofree commission to study the possibility of holding all-German elections was the key point in the latest Big Three notes to Moscow on the crucial German issue.; In identical notes, the i three Western powers -Thursday, night charged the Russians with tightening the Iron Curtain and splitting Eastern and Western Germany while paying lip service to expressions t>f hope for German unity. These h “unjustified . . . measures aggravate the arbitrary division of Germanjb’ the Allies said. This was a barbed reference to recent Communist moves to , barricade Eastern, Germany by digging trenches, m6vtng houses, bpsting heavy guardSr and attempting to intimidate the West. \ The Western offer to meet with the Soviets to selejct an election inquiry group left no!_room for the Russians to bid for a \ major conference on Germany at this time. ! L - '’-.I \ • - ■-■ I . k School Distribution Announced By State Checks for the state’s semi-ap-nual distribution to schools we#e mailed today by the Indiana auditpr’s office. The total distribution —331,337,768—is the first to be made under a 360,000,000 appropriation voted by the legislature for the ensuing year. Adams county’s share is 3173,792. Shares of other counties in this area are: Allen, 3980,590; Blackford, 3116.532; Wells. 3151,172; Huntington, 3238,093; Whitley, 3158,851; Jay, 3201,890.

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Noon to 4 p. m.. Laura Hancher. 4 p. m. to 8 p.m., Rose Ellen Miller. ' 8 p. m. to 10 p. in., Frances Noack and Leo Ehingen. IO p. in. to midnight, yßobert ' Ashbaucher and We n dell Macklin. \ . \ Wednesday Midnight to 2 a. in;. Orin Stulljz and Harry Martz. 2 a. m. to 4 a. in., Aide MyerA and Dick Llchtensteiger\ 4 a.m. to 6 a. th., Ronald Ballard s and Clarence Hook. 6 a. m. to 8 a. m., Bill Hunter. Air force instructions state! that during the day only four-motored planes and any planes ot an ui|usiial‘design or flight are to be reported in. At night, all planes will be reported. \ Thih is the procedure from the moment a plane is spotted,Either seen or heard: 1 , 1 • Procedure (1) Try to discover how high the plane is: this majr be; grouped approximately as: high, very high, low ot - very low. (2) Get down the direction the plane is flying from the post. That point is especially important and wjll be stated through the points of the cbmpass, east, southeast. etc. ■ (3) Once you hive the proper data to your lift the receiver and you will immediately be connected with the filter center at South Bend. After you have done your part. South Bend will integrate your information with reports from other posts in the area. That Way they can actually plot the course the plane is flying and will be able to know where the plane will be at any time. Other watch lists will be prepared and published, meanwhile, any questions from those assigned to watch duty—the ones who volunteered —may ckll Floyd Hunter for any further information. Hunter appeals to all citizens to participate in the program and sign up immediately. He said there is great need for more volunteers to inake this a success. ! ■

Sen. Russell Forecasts His Convention Win Sen. Kef a u ver Says \ Republican Party Is Badly Divided WASHINGTON- UP—rSen. Richard B. Russell served notice today he’ doesn't intend to be overshadowed in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination by Sen. Estes Kefauver’s reputation as an anti-crime crusader.The Georgian sprinkled a bit of. cold water on the nationwide acclaim given the lanky TeqnesseeaM who directed the senate crime committee’s televised crime gearings. Appearing on the Columbia Broadcasting System’s televised "Mark - Evans Show" Thursday night, Russell noted | that he had presided over the senate hearings on President Truman’s dismissal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Recalling that the MacArthur inquiry was held in perhaps “the most surcharged atmosphere of our times,’’ Russell said: “If I' could have put my show on the road, it would have far exceeded any other investigation.” Rqssell said he had to jfight \against televising the MacArthur inquiry because a third of the data revealed during the closed-door hearings involved American military plans. <■ Russell predicted he will have “some additional strength come to me on the second and succeeding ballots” at the Democratic national convention which opens in Chicago July 21. He said “I hope" to get the 616 votes required for nomination “somewhere between the fifth and eighth ballots.” Kefauver took another crack at the Republicans when he told Massachusetts' Democratic delegates in <Tm To Pat*

Allied Planes Blast As North Korean Capital Biggest Air Blow Os War Struck At Pyongyang Today SEOUL, Korea (UP) — The United Nations, mounting its biggest air offensive of the war, hurled 850 planes today against Pyongyang, battered capital of North Korea, 1 in a massive daylong assault against Communist supply concentrations. Three waves of Allied planes reared over Pyongyang beginning at 10 a. m. sending bombs, napalm, rcokets and machine gpn bullets crashing into the Red supply center, leaving it In ashes. • The Allied planes also bombed the strategic Sariwon-Hwangju road south of the North Kprean capital, near Korea’s west coast. i By 5:30 p. m., when the third wave attacked, the U- N. warplanes had flown more than -1,850 sorties. ■ Hundreds of planes from the sth air - froce, American and British aircraft carriers, South African air force. Royal Australian air force and Republic of Korea air force swept the target in relays. \ The planes picked out rubber factories, ammunition factories and dumps, truck and tank repair shops, military headquarters of both the North Koreans and the Chinese, supply installations and tfoop billets. , The raid followed the Allied pattern set earlier in the war of. letting the Communists pile up supplies unhampered, than knocking them off in a gigantic hammer blow delivered without warning. Twelve enemy M<IG-15 jets flew down from Manchuria in an attempt to intercept the raiders. Eight sabrejets pounced on them at 37,000 feet, damaging one. It seemed evident that the new and crushing assault was a continuation of the Allies’ “negotiate or take the consequences,” attitude. The peace talks at Pknmunjom have been stalled over the Communists’ insistence of forcible repatriation of prisoners of war. Meet Again PANMUNJOM, Korea, (UP) — The Chinese Reds told the United with the lives of prisoners” and Nations today to stop “bargaining accept the Communist demand for forcible repatriation of all captives. “An armistice will result without delay if the American delegates let all Chinese prisoners and all Korean prisoners whose homes are in North Korea return home to (Turn Ta Pace Five*

Prof. J. 0. Cline ■ Dies Early Today Former principal \ - Os Decatur High Prof. J. Lee mer principal of the Decatur high school and a native of Adams county, died early today at a Warsaw hospital following a three months illness of nephritis. 'Mr. Cline began his teaching career in Union township schools in 1900 and was later principal of the Silver Lake high school. Alter serving one year as principal of the Decatur high school many years ago, he became principal of the junior high school at Warsaw, a position he held until his retirement in 1950. Following his retirement, he was elected treasurer of Kosciusko county in 1950, and held this position at the time' of his death. Mr. Cline was born in Union township May 21, 1882, a son of George and Lavina Luckey-Cline. He was a jnember of the Warsaw Methodist church. Surviving ire his wife, Daisy; one son, Dr. Eldred Cline, Fort Wayne dentist, and one sister, Mrs. W; E. Smith, wife of the Decatur physician. iFpneral services will be conducted at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Warsaw Methodist church, With 'burial at Silver Lake.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July 11, 1952.

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Five Placed In Nomination As Convention Nominations Made Late Last Night And Early Today CONVENTION HALL, Chicago, UP — Names of five prominent American citizens were placed in nominatidn Thursday night and early today at the Republican national convention, as candidates tor president of the United States. The men seeking to become the party’s standard bearer were: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Sen. Robert A. Taft R-Ohiol Cov. Earl Warren of California,; Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin of Maryland- placed Eisenhower’s name before the convention “to redeem our nation from the evils of one party rule” and *to “lead us to victory in November,” “If we are to redeem our nation from the evils of one-party rule; if the two-party system is to be given renewed and deepened vitality, 1952 must; be the year of de-, cision McKeldin said. “Ladies and gentlemen, Ike is coming: He is coming through for another victory—a glorious victory for the Republican Party in. November.” \ • j Taft's name was placed in nomination by Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois W'ho described the Ohioan as a man of “great courage” who will carry the GOP to national victcry for the first time in 24 years. “He is, a fighter that fras the taler t and courage and capacity to fight,” Dirksen said. He said Taft “will appeal to the young men of America” and “to every race and every gi*oup in the country who know thesevils of war.” Sen. William F. Knowland RCalifL said Gov. Earl Warren deserves the GOP presidential' nomination because he is the most experienced governmental executive among the Republican candidates; “Ab governor of the second largest state in the union,” Knowland said, in placing Warren’s name in nomination, “he has had more executive experience in civil government than any other candidate whose name is before the convention.” A Minnesota housewife entered Harold Stassen’s name, describing him as the man who would attract independent voters “and.-gis- , (Turn To Pue Eigkt)

Kear-Recwd Crops Forecast In 1952 '■ ■■■ . I' . 2nd Largest Corn* Crop In History R WASHINGTON, UP—With good luck and good weather, U. S. farmers will produce this year an all-crop volume second only to 1948 farm output. In prospect are the second largest corn-crop in history, the third largest wheat crop, a record rice crop and a larger-than-average oats crop. In the overall production picture, hopes for these big crops more than offset expectations of the smallest rye Crop on record, hnd the smallest! barley crop since 1936. The brightest spot in the agriculture department’s first big monthly cfop-report of Thursday- was the corn crop forecast. Although total acreage planted to corn this year is less than last year, acreage was up in high-yield-ing corn jbelt states and pushed prospects 'for a 3,365,089,d0b. bushel crop. This is only 10,0(H),000 bushels less than called for in\ production goals. Thp department said supplies of livestock feed grains. this year.will be “fairly large.”- Ttic shott barley crop and smaller - than average carry-over stocks from previous year's crops, however, will keep the per animal unit supply below that in the three years 1948-50. These feed supplies —coin, oats, (Tnyn To Pace Kight) Calland Speaks On Community Center An interesting review; ibf the status of. the Decatur Community Center wai presented at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary Thursday^ evening by J. Ward Calland. one of the leaders in the community project. Calland reported on the excellent progress made in the drive for funds and on preliminary work done by volunteers on the building site, just ekst of the, river bridge along U. S. highway 224. He also urged the Rdtarians to assist in apy way to assume succds of the community project. Appropriation Bill Signed By Truman! WASHINGTON, UJ 9 —President late Thursday signed sl,0'15,911,710 appropriations ! bill \ to run the state, justice qj)d commerce departments during fiscal 1953. The amount was 18 per cent less than the President had requested. The total cut was 3217,701,424. V

Victory Climaxes Bitter Battle In G. O. P. Convention

Steel Industry And Union Leaders Meet Secret Preliminary Meet Held Thursday PITTSBURGH, UP — Representatives of the steel industry, spurred by an Increasingly critical iron ore shortage, met today with CIO United Steelworkers officials in talks that pave the way, for settlemjent of the 41-day nation-' wide steel walkout. A secret preliminary meeting was held Thursday night and a U. S. Steel spokesman confirmed that another session was called The industry’s immediate aim is td geit 23,000 ore mine workers back on the job, because the vast bulk of the ore is moved liy water during the seven-month.l Great l\akes season. Loss of shipments now threaten, drastic ore shortages next winter when the lakes freeze over. - Representatives of more than 20 railroads met in Chicago l to discuss “plans for supplementing lake shipments with rail hauling when the ,ore mines reopen. ‘ ' fl ; The strike of 600,000 steel workers has idled more thin 525,000 in allied industries ants industrialists warned that production ctit backs tapd workpryfurloughß will continue, seven if the steel walkdut is settled, because of drained inventories. Mrs. Orville Puckett Is Token By Death i Mrs. Orville Pupkett. 47, of New Haven, died Thursday at the Vaq Wert, 0., county hospital after a long illness. Survivors include her husband, her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Frank DeCamp of Grover Hill. O.; seven sisters and four brothers. She was a niece of Mrs. James Meadows and James Gattshall of this city. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Pentecostal church in Scott, 0., with burial in Blue Creek cemetery. The i body was removed to the Didrick funeral home in Grover Hill.

Report Deadlock In Terre Haute Strike Company Rejects Offer To‘Mediate r 7 INDIANAPOLIS, UP — A “deadlock” in negotiations k between Allis-Chalmers officials at Terre Haute and union officials was reported today by mediation officials. State labor k commissioner Thomas R. Hutson said company officials turned down a state offer to arbitrate the dispute Which has idled the plant for nine weeks. He said the firm rejected his suggestion that a governor’s arbitration panel be named. Hutson said 340 striking CIOUAW members agreed to abide by a decision of an arbitration panel and ihe union-also agreed to ask its men to return to work immediately pending a decision by a thred-man panel. He said fha union seeks an aircraft industry wage scale similar to that paid by Allison’s In Indianapolis. He said air force personnel are remoying machinery from the planj because of the strik.ei INDIANA WEATHER Mostly 1 fair and warm tonight and Saturday', Possibility of thundershowers in extreme north Saturday. Low tonight 65-70; high Saturday 90-95, except near 85 in extreme northwest

Lady Senator In Race For * Second Spot ) Margaret C. Smith First Woman Listed For Veep Nomination CHICAGO, UP — The Republicans began shopping for vice presidential prospects to fill out their ticket today, and GOP women leaders decided; to make history by offering one of their number — Sen. Margaret Chase Smith ot Maine. The two front-running organizations of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen. Robert A. Taft insisted they were concentrating only on the presidential fight. But informed sources said both groups were. ..looking for strong running mates to bolster their bids for the OOP presidential nomination. ’ Speculation centered on Gen. Dduglas MacArthur as a possible Vice presidential! nominee on a Taft ticket, and at least five potential running mates for Eisenhower —Sens. Riichard M. “Nixon and William F. Knowland of Call-,' fornia. Sen. peverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts, and Govs. Theodore McKeldin of Maryland and Alfred E, Driscoll of New Jersey. Knowland also is being wooed by the Taft strategists, 6ut he is reported cool to the idea, Mrs. Smith agreed to enter the veep competition, with playwright-actress-politiclan Clare Booth Luce making the nominating speech after the presidential balloting ends. That makes her the first woman in history to go after the vice presidential nomlnaition, Mrs. Luce said there is one “if” in the ladies’ plan. She would not propose Mrs. Smith if the party leaders settle on ; a single: candidate who has the overwhelming support of the convention, because that would “embarrass” everyone concerned. Not even Mrs. Luce gave the lady from Maind a chance of actually getting the nomination. But the Republican women were (Twra To Pace Eicht)

Frederick Kaeser Dies Last Evening Six-Yfear-Old Boy Is Taken By Death Frederick Eugene Kaeser, six-year-old; son of Mr. and Mrs. Orval , Kaeser of Berne, died at 7:15 p.m: at the St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne fallowing an illness of several months. The child had been Undergoing, treatment’for aplastic anemia and had been bedfast the last seven sleeks. He was born in February, 1946, in this city. The parents formerly resided in Decatur. Surviving in addition to the father and mother are a sister, Stephanie, at home; the paternal grandmother, Mrs. J. F. Kaeser, of Berne; a foster grandmother, Mrs. Ben Liechty, Geneva; and a step-grandmother, Mrs. J. L. Kelly, Bluffton. The body is at the Yager funeral home, where friends may call from 7:30 p.m. today putil 1 p.m. Sunday. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Cross Evangelical and Reformed church in Berne, with the Rev. C. Schmid officiating. The Rev. Dwight R. McCurdy, of this city, will assist. Burial will be in the West Lawn cemetery at Geneva.

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I CONVENTION HALL, Chicago, UP —• Geh. Dwight D. Eisenhower captured the Republican presidential nomination today with a firstballot victory over Sen. Robert A. Taft. The 61-year-old general, who started :his campaign late and lagged behind the senator in all preconvention delegate countk rode to triumph on a bandwagon that really got rolling only a few days ago. The 62-year-old Taft went down to defeat despite desperate stopIke efforts in which his camp tried at the llth-hour to turn the Eisenhower bandwagon into a hearse. It was Taft’s third—and. he has said, his last —unsuccessful try for the nomination. He lost in 1940 to the late Wendell L. Willkie and four years ago to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York. The nomination came when Minnesota obtained recognition after the roll call vote and announced it was casting its entire 28 votes for Ike, giving him 19 more. That put Ike over with the following total's: Taft 500, Ike 614 Warren 81, Stassen 1, Mac 10. Ike’s victory, elimaxed "the Republicans’ 25thand bitterest national convention, leaving the wearied and woupd-licking delegates only the anti-climactic task of pickfrig a vice presidential nominee. • This convention’s angry Taft-Ike climaxed by Eisenhower’s victory on Wednesday in the battle for ‘‘stolen” Southern' delegates, left deep scars which the party must try to heal if it hopes to win their campaign to unseat the Democrats in November. Ike’s victory was foreshadowed days before t£e balloting started. Just before the session Harold E. Stassen released six of his Minnesota votes and said Ah£y would go to the general. * ’ But the forces of Sen. Robert A. Taft, desperately pushing a stopIke movement, claimed to he making inroads in Eisenhower’s reserve strength. Taft declared that “Eisenhower' is through” unless he wins on ballot No. 1— w’hlch Taft asserted, he can’t. Before the first rolLcall started Eisenhower was leading Taft 579 to 506 in a United Press tabulation of indicated first ballot votes. Ike’s total was just 25 short of. the 604 needed to win. Taft at a pre-balloting rally of delegates committed to him said Republicans switching to Ike “may not be getting on a bandwagon, they may be getting on a hearse.” Taft said he couldn’t see Eisenhower “under any circumstances” getting more than 560 votes on the first go-around. But as he talked mote Ike votes were being counted with the Stassen development. Meanwhile, delegates were beginning to think of vice,presidential possibilities. A reliable source said Senate Republican leader Styles Bridges, N. H., would accept the second spot if it were offered him. The sleep-starved delegates, who stayed in session until nearly 2 a.m. Thursday night to hear nominating speeches, had only to name their man, give him a vice presidential running mate, and go home to pray for victory in November. The vice presidential race was still wide open, with a half-dozen prospects in the field. It looked like Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for the top spot. The United Press tabulation just before the balloting showed Ike far out in front with 572 known votes in the bag, just 32 short of the 604 needed to nominate. Taft had an even 509. A tip-off that everyone was itching to get aboard the right bandwagon at the right time came from the Wyoming delegation. Its chairman, Marvin Bishop, said his state’s 12 delegates would vote for Eisenhower on the first ballot if he appeared to be getting “close” to a majority. Wyoming is last on i’Twra To Paso Six)