Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 164, Decatur, Adams County, 12 July 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 164.

*•' FOR IKE — YOU BET! i KI 1• T Hit II I I I il' ; uHBBI Bl Ip IK i ■ ft m JH I ABSOLUTE POSITIVE BACKERS of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower are shown with the General’s wife. Mamie, in a family gathering at the “Ike” headquarters. They are (1. to r.) grandson Dwight David 2nd, Mrs. Eisenhower holding granddaughter Susan, 6 months, granddaughter Barbara Anne and Mamie's sister, Mrs. Francis Moore. -f: T .. . k

Democrats To Meet July 21 In Convention 1' i :

WASHINGTON. (UP) — The Democratic presidential race, temporarily slowed down as the Repicked, their standard roared into the final lap today. 1 With ‘the Democratic (convention eight days away. Democratic presidential hopefuls opened their sprint in the wide-open scramble, to face Gen. Dwight.-D. Eisenhowv er in November. ; Democratic party leaders, who have been sitting on the awaiting the outcome of the GOP convention. ' generally viewed: Eisenhower as a ’’strong" candidate. They agreed Eisenhower’s' nomination • would necessitate ?aj I vigorous campaign, and a power-? ful vote-getter to assure a Demo-1 cratic victory in ( November. There was no unanimity in the. divided Democratic camp, hqw-i ever, over the proper candidate Vtoj lead the Demor/cats to victory. President Truman, who w i 1 1| probably play a key role at the? | party’s: convention in Chicago in - swinging the tide to a single can-; didate, kept his political silence. He had no comment on Eisenhdw-; er’s victory. The President hasj repeatedly stated in the past, how* ever, that Sen. Robert A. Taft was his "favorite” candidate for the GOP nomination on the grounds;' > the Ohioan would be the for the Democrats to beat. » ? I Four avowed Democratic * dates —Sens. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, Richard B, Russell oft Georgia* and Robert S. Kerr of.; Oklahoma, and foreign aid sd-? ministratqr Averell Harriman »—i each wasted po time in champion-: ing himself as the candidate to tangle with Eisenhower in Novein-? ■ bet. ■ i \| The candidates agreed that je-, | ( . gardless of whom the i Democrats nominate, victory for their pajty? is assured. But each touted him-; self as, the candidate who woiijld have the best odds to beat the? general’. , ' ; J Russell said he “will welcome; the opportunity” to meet Eis|in!g hower "with full confidence off Democratic victory in November. In a congratulatory telegram; toEisenhower, Kefauver said, "1 jamT ; looking forward to debating the issues of the campaign with jjfeug in the fall.” i i 4n a separate statement, Kefauf ver said,. Eisenhowdr’s victory eon? firms his position that “the rank* and-file members of both political parties axe going to have there; way in spite of the attempted obstruction of selfish political \ bosses.” ' ‘ "‘This makes it all the more? necessary that we Democrats offer' the nation a revitalized party‘s cleap and progressive, free, at racketeers and any other un) wholesome influences, bolstered by the enthusiasm of youth and ready to campaign on the big issues,”i Kefauver said. Harriman said in a statement <Tnrw Tn Pot* 8I<» > ' Noon Edition !

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Steel Industry May Make New Bid To Union : . f ’ 7’ ’ ’ L Phil Murray Hints At Conference With Industry Leaders RIT.TSBURGH,|’UP -p Hints by CIQ president Philip Murray that he Would meet again today with topi steel officials! indicated the industry might make a new proposal on.the union shop, major issue in the cost which has idled more than 1,000,000 Workers, ' jj J Murray renewed negotiations with steel executives Thursday and Friday ostensibly in response to ar, industry appeal to permit iron ore shipments to thq strikebound mills while the Great Bhkes are still navigable. But their discussions had turned tA. the strike of Murray's 650,000 steelworkers which began 41 days Mo- \ Following the joint session Friday, "both sides in the dispute which has staggered the nation’s economy held separate sessions. Murray, also president of the United Steelworkers of America, declined to comment on what went on at the conferences but said it “reasonable” to expect more negotiating today. A belief thdt the industry’s stand against the union shop Bright bd softening grew from a One-man change in the steel negotiators’ lineup. Bethlehem Steel vice presdient Joseph replaced: Republic steel president Charles White, an outspoken (opponent of the union shop, which would require workers In the industry to join the

lii a secret conference with the union in York last month Bethlehem Steel offered a modified version of the union shop accept* able to Murray. Major basic ,steel producers rejected the idea, however. It was estimated that steel companies how are losing about 2,800,000 tons of ore shipments weekly because of the layoff of some 23,000 iron ore miners, ■ The stride also idled more than 525,000 workers in the automobile, oih railroad, mine and lake transportation industries in additioq to about 590,000 members Qf the USW. — ; INDIANA WEATHER Fair and slightly warmer tonight. Sunday partly cloudy and warm. Scattered thundershowers and turning cooler extreme north in afternoon. Low 66-70. High 90-94.

B-29'sDrop 450 Tons Os Bombs On City Pyongyang, Badly Battered, Again Is Heavily Bombed SEOUL*, KOrea, UP — B-29 Supierfortresses Friday night dumped 540 tons of boknbs on Pyongyang, already shattered and burning from a record-breaking 850-plane daylight raid. Fifty-four B-29s from Japan and .Okinawa teamed up soon after darkness for what they hoped would be the knockout blow at the North Korean capital, its industrial complex and supply lines. “Excellent results” were reported. It was the biggest armada of fourengined bombers assembled for a Korean raid in recent months. The devastating daylight fighter-bomber assault which preceded it had been the biggest air attack of the two-year-old Korean war. \ The one-two blow was the second major step in United Nations commander Gen. Mark W. Clark’s “get tough” strategy with the stalling Communists, who have built up a new army and air force during a year of truce talks. 1 The first “persuader” raid came threeweeks ago, when Clark lent 500 U. N. planes to destroy North Korea's s trat eg i c hydroelectric plants at Suiho dam pn the south bank of the Yalu River, just across from Manchuria. An army photographer said the U, N. armada did most of its damage in the first mornihg attack Friday. “There was such a terrific amount of flak,” M-Sgt. Robert E. Moore, Fort Wayne, Ind., said. “We went in behind waves of fighterbombers and 1 saw supply points, the rubber factory and a railroad roundhouse all burning.” “The effect of the morning mission must have been tremendous, because the flak wasn’t nearly so heavy in the afternoon,” Moore said, J ‘ M

10 Men Unhurt As Big Plane Crashes, Bursts Into Flanges In Takeoff Friday MOUNE, Ilk, UP — Air forces officials began an investigation today into the} crash of a C-82 "Flying Boxcat*” in which 10 men narrowly escaped injury. The plane ‘crashed and burst into flames heye Friday while taking off from the!Moline airport. The men, members of an air rescue squadron stationed at Lowry field in Denver,leaped from the burning plane and raced to safety. The aircraft was destroyed. Capt. Scott Johnson, Clam Falls, Wis., said a power failure on the takeoff cause the plane to dip and strike the runway. The plane bounced high in the air and the righgt engine fell off. The plane was en route back to Denver after an unsuccessful search for a light plane believed down in the Carrbll county, 111., area. I [• 1 • J

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Eisenhower In Pledge For Fighting Crusade T A j 1 In Acceptance Speech

Nixon Plans . < Campaign On Two Issues Truman Record And Communism Held Out As Top Issues CHICAGO, ,UP — The young man who parlayied Whittaker Chambers’ pumpkin papers into a vice presidential nomination was ready when the lightrting struck. Sen. Richard M. Nixon held a midnight press conference in his hotel room after getting the ’Republican bid to serve notice oni the Democrats and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower that they’re going to see something new in veeps when he hits the campaign trail The Californian said that as far as tie is concerned, there are only two Issues—“the Truman record" and “Communism at home and abroad?’ On tfyose issues, and with Eisenhower at the head of the ticket, he said, “We can defeat any Democratic candidate.” . “Because,” he added, “regardleap of who he is. be will be « Truman-named, Truman controlled candidate.” ■ “Any Democratic candidate will oe stuck with the Truman record,; and that gives us our issue.” As soon as the GOP cohventionformally nominated him Friday, night. Nixon hustled pver to Eisenhower’s headquarters to talk over the strategy they will follow in the election campaign between now and November. 1 ? He said the general agreed with him he won’t be dropped int<i the traditional oblivion of vice presidepts if they win the election: Elsenho wer assured him. he said; that he envisioned the vice presidency as "a job w<iich could be greatly enlarged so far as responsibility is concerned.” \ Nixon heads back for Washingtpii this week end to map out his cainpaign. He made it plain that it will be a fighting, anti-Truman anti? Communist campaign (that wilj serve notice on his friends and enemies that he is a rising young man in the political trade. Nixon, who wasn’t even a delegate to his party’s [ convention in 1948, skyrocketed to national prominence as a Communist-huntpr. He did it without getting the ‘ witchhunter” tag pinned on many of his congressional colleagues. As a member of the house unAmerican activities committee, he hammered away at the case bf state department official Alger Hiss for months after the rest of the committee and the generhl IT»ni Tn Pace 81k >

Adams County's Crop Prospects Excellent

“Crop development add plant progress in general Is, oh the average, the best I have seen, in 20 years,” said L. E. Archbold, Adams county agricultural agent, in a special interview today. \ l 5 As far as comparative growth in the northern and southern parts of Adams county is concerned, said Archbold, the moist spring had a great effect. More so in the north than in the south because of the greater amount of rain. Corn should have been planted much sooner than it was dp north, resulting in a bad showing in June as with the southern crop. The weathen hot, with a degred of moisture, was so favorable to corn, that the lost time has been all but averaged out and la fine over-all crop is expected. Archbold declared: “This is ope of the most unusual and favorable seasons—despite the moisture —that farm men have seen in these part’s in more than 10 years.” “The reason for this,” he said, “is the thing we feared most at the beginning—the excessively rainy spring. It has after all turned out

For Vice President I W -I Sen. Richard M. Nixon Indiana Delegates Stand Pat On Taft y Refused To Change Convention Votes CHICAGO. UP —Cale J. Holder Who, with, 29 other Indiana delegates to the Republican national convention, stuck with Sen. Robert A, Taft even after his defeat,' whs reported ready to resign today because Dwdght D. Eisenhower was nominated for President. ' The Hoosiers let stand on their own record.books theiri 30-to-2 vote toy Taft on the single! ballot Friday that put Eisenhower at the head of the ticket and resulted in the nomination of Sen. Richard M. Nixoh of California as h'isi vice presidential running-inate. They could have changed their vote when Eigenhowhr’s nomination was certain. They were committed by a state convention resolution to support Taft only until he withdrew or dropped out. Technically,. when Eisenhower got enough votes. Taft was out.Other states changed their vote for the record to string along with the bandwagon. But Indiana did not. j Only Illinois and Ohio cast mqre votes for Taft in the final reckoning than Indiana. Fiftynine Illinois votes stayed with Taft' and the-Senator's home state of Ohio refused to release its >56. Although the national committee’s. books show the nomination unanimous by adoption of a motion to that effect, Secretary Lisle Wallace of the Hoosier group said Indiana's records show 30 to 2 for Taft and will stay that way. Holder, a young attorney who asqended to the state chairmanship in 1950 with little previous large-scale political experience, de<Tur," To Pnare Five*

to be a blessing.” , /fit- has been noticed, he said, “that some corn looks straggly as compared with corn growing in a field right next to it.” He explained thjp some farmers in their anxiety over getting the 'corn in so lute, jupiped the gun and planted 1 in gribund that was too moist. As a result, many of the seeds rotted in the ground, and other abnormal growth followed. ~ He explained that small grains and grasses do best at the begin-]) ning with fairly cool and moist \ conditions—just as was ' had this spring. That, he said, took care of the hays and wheat. “Then, he said, “overnight, the conditions changed-—they became perfect for corn and tomatoes. Hot and dry.” “I can say that if things keep up the way they have been, and there ; aren’t any sudden changes of any kind, Adams county, at least, can look forward to \a record yield;” He than added with a little wonder, “we have actually had two seasdns in the time usually permitting only one. Why, since the wheat (Tarn To Pace Three)

VP Candidate Not Satisfied With Platform Nixon Terms Party Stand Ambiguous On Some Issues CHICAGO, (UP) — Vice presidential nominee Richard M. Nixon said today the 1952 GOP platform is not “completely satisfactory” because it is “too ambiguous” on some issues. However, the 39-year-old California senator said, “as platforms go, it is probably as adequate as it can be.” Nixon told a news conference he would be "less than frank” if he said the platform is “completely Senate Republican whip Levercan work under it." The GOP nominee for the nation’s second highest office singled out the civil rights and labor planks as two on which he said ”1 | would have liked to have positions taken more directly.” \ Nixon said “in those cases Where I think the platform is ambiguous, 1 will interpret it as clearly as possible to the people." He served on the resolutions committee which drafted the document. The California senator’s reservations were not shared by some of the party’s other leaders. Gov. John S. (Fine of Pennsylvania said “I approve of the platform? wholeheartedly.” Sen. William Fv Knowland, RCalif., who headed the California convention delegation, termed it “an excellent, platform stating the issues that face the American people.” ! X Sen. Irving M. Ivps, R.-N. Y„ who also was bn the platform committee, said he felt that the Civil rights plank will be no handicap to the 1 in large northern urban, cities. “The interpretation placed upon it by the conventidn,” Ives said, “shows, that it definitely favors a compulsory federal fair employ-, ment practices agency.-’ Some Negro leaders had criticized the plank as being too vague on civil rights. They made no floor fight against its adoption. The foreign policy plank, which Nixon termed “one of the best,” also drew- praise from several others. i Sentae Republican ■whip Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts (Turn To Pace 8lx)

Fight Rare Disease In Midwest Swine I .■ ■ ' Veterinarians Will Meet Next Tuesday LINCOLN. Neb. UP — Veterinarians from 15 states will rneerTn Washington Tuesday to (nap plans in their drive, to stamp but a rare disease which has strqck midwest hags,. Nebraska state veterinarian E. P. Anderson said today. Anderson said the men will discuss uniform measures to control the, outbreak of vesicular exanthema which already has 4 appeared in 14 of the 15 states. Dr. P. T, Simms, chief of the U. S. bureau of animal industry, tcalled the meeting. Representatives will attend from Nebraska, California, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, lowa, Missouri, Minnesota, and three other states. Spokesmen said t'he disease has been diagnosed *in 'all the participating states except Minnesota. lowa secretary of agriculture Clyde Spry placed a 'ban op importation of hogs into lowa for breeding, exhibition or butchering. Spry said thb bar Twas caused by the outbreak of the disease,. Indiana Announced a similar embargo on swine shipments from western states infected by the malady.

Widow Is Evicted From Michigan Home Widow Is Evicted In Bloody Battling LAPEER, Mich. UP — Sixteen' red-eyed officers, nerves wire-tight by a sfeepless night of tense waiting for trouble, stood silent guard today as an "outsider” settled down on the farm homestead from which a kicking, screaming 6Oyear-old widow yvas evicted in bloody battling Friday. Gov. G.\Mennen Williams pleaded with all concerned to “refrain from further action of any kind which might precipitate further violence,” pending a possible grand jury investigation. Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens, broken in spirit at the loss of the home where she had lived for 25 years, rested at the home of a son. It was Mrs. Stevens' five-year refusal to pay an assessment levied against stockholders of the bankrupt firm that led to her eviction; Friday morning Sheriff Clark, Gregory and 12 deputies, with 60 state troopers etabding by, descended upon the Stevens honie to carry out the law and removed Mrs. Stevens .and her meager possessions. i-i , , Belligerent neighbors ancf fhree fighting sons had blocked previous attempts. In the last try, only a few weeks ago, Gregory and a deputy were bruised.and battered. He found stout planks barring entrance when he arrived at the farm Friday, The burly sheriff battered his way into the house by sheer force. Gregory faced a tight - lipped Stevens in her dining room. He said: “I don’f like this any better than you do. But the law is the law.” The bespectacled little woman i held her post stubbornly as dep- j uties carried out her belongings, ripped a television antenna from the roof and emptied the barn of 400 bales of hay. The items were piled haphazardly beside the road. Mrs, Stevens and her sons remained quiet—but a swirling, bloody battle flared when two i<Twr» To Pace Six) \

Ninth Secret Parley On Prisoner Issue '■['ll ■ ' Last Obstacle For Korean Armistice PENMUNJOM, Korea, (UP) — Communist ttuce negotiators have unbent somewhat in the privacy of the secret truce negotiations on the prisoner exchange problem, a United Nations spokesman said today. Brig. Gen. W’llliam P. Nuckols said after today’s 2«-minute meeting betw’een Allied and Red representatives that the Communists “are continuing to talk about the problem at hand.” Repatriation of war prisoners is the last obstacle to a Korean armistice. ; \ Nuckols saw something hopeful in the fact that after nine straight secret sessions here the meetings had become less formal. Nuckols, an official U. N. spokesman, \declined to say whether the two sides were getting smoewhere on the POW issue, however. K. C. Installation Next Monday Night The annual installation of officers of the Decatur council, Knights of Columbus, will be held Monday .night at the K. of C. hall. The Daily Democrat erroneously stated Friday that the installation was held this week. All members are urged to attepd the ceremonies Friday, when William Lose, Jr., recently-elected frgnd knight. Other officers will be formally Installed.

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i Lashes Record Os Democrats Over 20 Years Ike Bewildered, Bit Uncertain On Campaign Battle CHICAGO, UP — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is “a little bewildered, upset and uncertain” over the presidential campaign job he has taken on. i But he's mad at the Democrats, too. The general lashed out\ at the ‘‘arrogance and corruption” of the Truman administration in his acceptance speech to the Republican national convention Friday night and he promised to lead his party down a “fighting road” to victory in November. “I accept your, summons.” he told the’ roaring delegates. “I will lead this crusade.” In measured but forceful tones,, he lambasted the Democratic rec- ► ord of the past 20 years and served 1 warning that, while sticking to his no-personalities pledge, he will pull * no punches in the coming cam--1 paign. “Our aims — the aims of this Republican; crusade •— are clear! ‘ To sweep from office an adminis--1 tration which has fastened on every one of us the wastefulness, the 1 arrogance and corruption in high ‘ places, the heavy burden and the anxieties which are the bitter fruit of a party too long in power,” he ‘ said. T"* “Much more, it is our aim to give to our country a program of progressive policies drawn from our finest Republican traditions; to unite us wherever we have been divided; to strengthen freedom wherever among any group it has been weakened ;i to .build a sure I foundation for sound prosperity | for ill here at home and for a just and sure peace in our world.” Eisenhower told the, victoryStrved Republicans that he is shooting for 1 complete GOP triumph this fall, from the White House down to state and local offices. - ,

Harking back to his days as commander of Allied forces in Europe, he recalled that before every battle he had sought out the men in camps and along the road. In this political fight, he said, he will “meet and talk with Americans face to face in every section, every corner, every nook and cranny of this land. He warned the delegates, still bruised from the angriest convention the GOP has held in 40 years, tpat they cannot win if their forces are divided. The general was bombarded with cheers, confetti, and shouts of “Wje want Ike” as he and his wife, Maunie, marched down the center aisle of the huge convention Amphitheatre to mount the rostrum for his acceptance speech. a Convention Chairman Joseph W. Martin Jr., introduced him as “the next president of the United States,” and bedlam broke loose. The famous JSisenhower grin was plastered across the general’s face as Martin pounded his gavel in a vain effort to be heard. “We want Ike,’ A the crowd thundered. | "If you’ll keep quiet,” Martin said with a smile, “I’ll give him (Tarn To Page Four) \ —■■ Parents Os Three Killed In Crash BROOKVILLE, Ind. UP —The parents of three small boys were killed and the children and two other persons injured Friday night in a two-car and truck collision on U. S. 52 two miles southeast of here. The dead were Joseph E. Banks, 33, and his wife, Rita, 29, Brookville, The three children, Ronald, 5, John, 3, and Jerry, 2, were hospitalized at Batesvile. Authorities said Ronald was in critical condition. i