Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1952 — Page 1

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List Program For Fair Here July 28-Aug. 2

Following Is the schedule released by the Decatur tree (air com- •’ mittee, for the (air at Hanna-Nutt-man park, July 28 to August 2, inclusive. ' Monday Morning Entries accepted all day for crocheted work, embroideredwork, rugs, quilts, aprons, feed bag garjnents, 'afgaris, junior sewing—tills •will be at the- Boy Scout shelter house. Monday Afternoon 2 o’clock: Captain Kuhn's wild lion act. 3 o’clock: a repeat performance. Monday Evening At 8 and 9 o'clock: The lion act. 10 o’clock: ,Jagpe Teeter, high wire act. I . ■ ' " ■- Tuesday Morning 9 o’clock; Cattle . judging show - opens with Ayrshires; home economics show opens. v 10 o’clock: Tractor pulling congest. > \ \ Tuesday Afternoon 1 o’clock: Rabbit judging show; tractor pipling contest. At 2 and 3 o’clock: The lion act. 4 o’clock: The high wire act. Tuesday Evening [ At 8 and 9 o’clock: The lion act. 10 o’deok: The high wire act. ■\' Wednesday Morning 9 o’clock: Cattle judging continues with Guernseys; tractor pulling contest. \ 10 o’clock: Home economies judging. Judging begins on poultry. Wednesday Afternoon • 1 o’clock: Kiddies matinee,prices reduced on many things; tractor r pulling contest; dairy show continues. . . r - ' 2 o’clock: Comille’s 1 dog show. 3 o’clock: Danny Daniels) -— one man vaudeville show. 4 o’clock: The high wire .act. Wednesday Evening 8 and 9 o’clock: The dog and vaudeville shows. 10 o’clock: the high wire act. Thursday .Morning 9 o’clock: Dairy show; swine show begins; Entries for flower show accepted up to 12. o'clock. 'Thursday Afternoon 1 o’clock: Judging flower show begins; cattle and swine, judging continue. 2 o’clock: The dog \ 3 o'clock: The’’vatulevlile show. 4 o’clock.: high wire act. Thursday Evening 8 O'clock: The vaudeville and dog shows., , 10 o'clock: The high wire act. Friday Morning ~ • 9 o’clock: Dairy show. Brown Swiss; entries accepted^ for ceramics show at shelter house; liorse pulling contest. \ ■ Friday Afternooin 1 o’clock: Dairy show continues, Jersey cattle. « 2 o’clock: The dog show. ,3 o’clock: -The vaudeville show. 4 o'clock: The high wire act. Friday Evening / -8 o’clock: The Jog and vaudeville shows. ' 10 o’clock: The high wire act. 7 Saturday Morning 9 o'clock: Horse pulling contest. • Saturday Afternoon 2 o’clock: The’ dog show A ’ 3 o’clock: The vaudeville show. , ; 4 o’clock; The high wire act. Saturday Night • At 8, 9 and 10 o’clock there will be a repetition of the same free acts. ■ The Adams county 4-H,band will play on the free act platform in the afternoon and night shoxys. The free fair coinmittee secured . the services of W. W. Yapp of the , University of to act as cattle judge—be 'has a national reputation as a judige of livestock. Urgent Appeal Is 1 Issued For Visit \ • ! Os Bloodmobile Unit An urgent appeal was issued today-' by the Adams county Red Cross .chapter for volunteer registered nurses and nurses’ aides to assist during the visit of the Red Cross bloodmobile unit to Decatur .Thursday. Mrs. Max Schafer, chapter secretary, also stated that 35 more donbrs-_A re needed in order that the county may reach its quota of blood this month. The. bloodmobile will be stationed at the American Legiort home Thursday morning and afternoon.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Truman To Halt Any Attempts At Party Draft • - ! Truman Intimates Say President Is i Determined To Quit WASHINGTON, UP — Intimates of President Truman reported today that the chief executive . will intervene quickly to kill any effort in , the Democratic natiofapl convention to draft him for re-election. The President during the past two weeks has been under greater pressure to run again than at any time since his March 29 announcement that he vtould not accept, renomination. . Mr. Truman, according to friends who have heard him discuss the matter within the last few days, is flattered to some extent by the pressure that appears to increase as the Democratic convention nears. But he is said to be. unmoved, and even more determined than ever to retire. , According to those friends, if any serious draft-Truman movement becomes evident in Chicago next week, the. president personally will act speedily to stop it before tlie movement can develop momentum. . Under such circumstances, the President does not believe he Will have to face the prospect of actually rejecting renomination. \ “He’s through and he means it;” a close friend said. “If someone tries to draft him, he’ll stop it the instant he heArs about* it. \He is very determined on that point. He simply 4on’t be drafted.’’ The President has seen-a number of .Democratic leaders in the past three weeks, most of them as on-the-record callers and some after hours and in the seclusion of his study. He has insisted that the “Fair Deal” prograni should be -the-yardstick for measurihg prospective Democratic I presidential candidates. \ The actual mechanics of how the President voices his! support) of one particular candidate apparently have, not been settled. According to the] present understanding at the Wmte House, Mr.' Truman Is expected to indicate his preference through “Thomas J. Gavin. Kansas City, Mo. The President is a convention delegate from Missouri, but since he will not attend the sessions prior to the nominations. Gavin, as his alternate, will cast Mr. Truman’s ballots. "It Is quite possible that Gavin won’t be told anything until two or three hours before the balloting starts,” one source said. “It certainly wouldn’t be necessary to say anything earlier." \ V ' ' A i - ; r

Some County Office Budgets Are Filed Final Filing Date For Budgets July 20 \ Some budget reports were received today: estimating the amount of money needed for the various county departments, it was announced by the auditor’s office. The highway Supervisor requests $196,905 for his department; the prosecuting attorney's office, $4,805; the county\coroner, $985; the Washington township assessor $3,390; the Adhms county assessor $3,561; the agricultural agegnt SB,560; tlie Adams county recorder’ $6,219. , • " In order to be finally passed and officially written into the 1953 budget, the reports must travel a gauntlet of county and state financial departments. First, the estimates go before the board of county commissioners, if the reaction is favorable they are passed on to county council, on to the county tax adjustment board and for final approval to the state board of tax commissioners. ' ? The final date for filing budget reports is July 20.

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HER THIRD SET OF TWINS—aII girls—poses with 26-year-old Mrs. Selman of Effingham, Illinois, in this exclusive picture taken at their christening. The latest twins arrived on JYily 4. They join two-year-olds Teresa and Peggy on either side of the motjier, and 4-year olds Debby and Cindy (rear) and a brother, Thomas Jr., who is six. ;

U.S. Orders Soviet Russia End Propaganda ! Orders Russia Halt Publication Os All Propaganda In U. S. WASHINGTON, (UP) — The United States today curtly ordered Russia to stop publication of all propaganda in this country in a new major blow in the cold war. j In a 300-word note to the Krem-i Un, it also said it has ordered an immediate halt to publication of Amerika, the Russian-language magazinne this country publishes in Russia. The istate. departrtient edict applies to the Soviet information: Bulletin, a slick-paper magazine giving Americans a rosy view of life in thq Soviet Union. It also cracks down on all other Red prqpaganda flowing from Moscow. The action, leaves the department's Voice, of America ak the only information link between the American and Russian people. The Kremlin has never, been able to \silence its broadcasts, despite widespread jamming efforts which have been stepped up in the past tew months. The state department said iti took the action because the Kremlin used “obstructionist” measures to slash the circulation of Amerika: to a few thousand copies to keep Soviet readers from getting a “true picture of American life . .. . ” The note said Russia., could resume publication of its bulletin if it would grant Amerika the “same freedopi of publication distribution and sales which has been accorded Soviet publications in the' United States.” One condition, it said, would be permission for American diplomats to check Amerika’s circulation. The department actioh got an immediate approving nod from Sen. Karl E. Mundt, R.-S. D., who (Turn Ta Pane Bight) Decatur Jbycees Aid In Parking Chores At Fair Parking problems and arrangements for Decatur fair activities, were thrashed out last night at a regulars meeting of the Decatur Jaycees at the Chamber of Commerce office. 7 Present at the meeting were: Vic Porter, C. W. Porter, J. W. Bashaw, Doyt Miller, L. Roth, Ted Hill, Doyle Keller, Jack Heller, D. Langston and Joe Kaehr. At special times assigned to tHem, groups of Jaycees will patrol the stands and fair grounds to see that everything goes right. Their wives have volunteered to help their husabnds with fair chores—some of which are by day, some by night. It is reported that they will sell ice cream and coke to thie mobs expected to visit the annual festival. Jaycees will take care of the parking of cars on the 760-car parking lot. • i

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SS United States . . \ Makes Record Run Round Trip Speed Run Os Atlantic NEW YORK, UP -4- The new queen of the seas—the superlinet United States-—docked today coml pleting a round trip speed run of the Atlantic. The Hudson River becama a canyon of heroes with bunting, brass bands, buzzing helicopters and totaling ships as the United States steamed in for a vi(rtoridus welcome. \ The superliner stemmed .up the harbor through a drifting fog from her maiden round trip voyage, flying from her mast a 20 by 40 foot “blue Jribboh” for breaking both eastbound and westbound Atlantic spetd records. The liner returned the spee£ records to this country for the first time in 100 years. Thousands gathered along the waterfront before the dock and traffic on the West Side highway, running at deck height along the waterfront, was snarled Js drivers slowed to look at the triumphant ship. New York city's traditional welC|O]nie for heroes-rr-a tickej* tape parade—awaited the j commodore and his crew Friday. The official time for the: return voyage waS three days. 12 hours and 12 minutes, knocking nine hours and 36 minutes the previous record set by Britain's Queen Mary in 1938. The time was one hour and 3? minutes slower than the record-breaking .passage to Europe last week. The maiden voyage ended with a wrangle still going op at Washington over her cost, however. 'The new queen of the seas probably will sail from New York several more times before the justice department decides (whether pub lie paid too much and United States Lines Co. too little for the superliner. The total cost was more than $70,000,000, of which the government paid three-fifths in the form of subsidies. President Truman directed attorney general James t*. McGranery to look into the possibility of “excessive” federal subsidy after a series of flare-ups between comptroller general Lindsay Warren and Secretary of commerce Charles Sawyer. Warren contended the subsidy was too highland asserted if the ship were turned pver to U.S. Lines the. title would be “tainted.” Sawyer overrode Waren’s protests and turned over the vessel to the company. LATE BULLETINS NEW ORLEANS, UP — The U. S. weather bureau dispatched a “hurricane hunter” plane i Into the Gulf of Mexico today to investigate a, “suspicious” area of : squalls, and warned, smalt, craft #rom Pensacola, Fla., to Galveston, Tex. not to venture into open Gulf for\ the next 24 hours. WASHINGTON, UP — The government permitted manufao x- turers of civilian goods today to resume buying steel from warehouses — but only types net needed by the military.

Union Fail To Agree On Strike Settlement

Lists Watchers For S ■ -.i- : ' i v Operation Skywatch Schedule Is Listed* Through Thursday Floyd Hunter, local air defense head, reports that the watch was covered during the night with assigned showing up on time; hpwever. he reports that the volunteers slated to go on watch at 8 i/clock this morning and at noon today were “unable to get away," shus leaving the defense pattern in this area that much weaker. Hunter released the following operation skywatch list-covering the post at Hanna-Nuttman park until 4 o'clock Friday moming: Wednesday 8 a.m. to noon: Mrs. Kenneth Small. -Noon to 4 p.m.: Miss Catherine Andrews. 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.: Mrs. Jack Irwin. 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.: Charley Morgan and VVaynre Peterson. I \ 10 p.mA to midnight: Ellis Call and Donald Cochran. Thursday 12 a.m. to 2 a.m.: Jay Minch and Raymond Geimen 2 a.m, itq 4 a.m.: James Burdg and Paul Bucher. \ 4 a.m. to 6 a.m.; J. K. Staley and T. H. Gehrig. 6 a.m. to 8 a.m.: Hugh Andrew’s. S'am. to noon: Lorina Keler. Noon to 4 p.m.: Betty Friedly. 4 p.m. to S p.m.: Ava Kraft.- . 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.: Rev. O. C. Busse and Willianj Linn. 10 pan. to midnight: Lee Mcßride and Jabk Irwin. ‘ Friday ' Midnight to 2 a.m.: Waldo Marbdch and Clyde Johnson. 2 a m. to 4 a.m.: V; J. Bormann anstyponald Liechty.

Police Seek Slayer Os Young Secretary jLove-Crazed Secret Admirer Is Sought NEW YORK. UP — Police believed today that a pretty 18-year-old secretary was to death at her Columbia University desk by a love-crazed secret admirer unable to break the girl's faithful ties to a fighting; Marine. Honey-blonde Eileen Fahey instantly as a mysterious dark, “thin man" fired six bullets at her, as she sat reading a letter from her leatherneck lover, Pfc. Ronald Leo, in Korea. - I Friends described her as “a wonderful girl with a wonderful character.” Her family said she had neVer dated\ another man since she> met young Leo five years ago. They were to have been married when he returned from Korea. At a Ist marine division jcamp in Korea, the young private buried his head in his hands and cried. “Why would someone kill her?” s he asked through his tears. “Why? Why? Why? Everybody likes her. I don't know anybody who would want to, do a thing like that.” Leo's mother, Mrs. , Margaret Lep, said she had asked marine conimandant Gen? L. C., Shepherd Jr. to grant her son an emergency furlough to return for Eileen’s fungral Friday. Detectives working through the night questioned more than 100 friends, relatives and neighbors of the girl, apparently without finding, a clue to her slayer, even though he was seen by seyeral qf Eileen's co-workers as he left the building.' They continued a house-to-hou&e canvass, of her home neighborhood, and 35 detectives searched the Columbia campus on the chance the killer had thrown his .22 calibre automatic into a bush or a trash can hs he left. \ INDIANA WEATHER \ Partly cloudy arid a little cooler tonight; Wednesday generaly fair and warmer. Low tonight 58-63 north, 63-68 south. High Wednesday 8086.

Charge Bribe Attempt Made! On Delegates Kefauver Campaign Manager In Charge Os Bribery Attempt CHICAGO, UP — The wide-open battle for Democratic presidential nomination boiled up today\ with charges of attempted bribery of .some delegates to next week’s national convention. ; As the big field of candidates jockeyed for pre-convention strength, Sen. Estes Kefauyer’s campaign manager accused an unidentified supporter of Sen. Robert S. Kerr, Oklahoma, of attempting tp bribe some Sputhern California delegates to switch-from Kefauver after the first ballot in return for frlee transportation, to Chicago. Gael Sullivan; who made the charge at a news “conference, emphasized that he was in ho way linking Kerr himself with the alleged delegate bribe attempt. California’s 68 delegate votes are pledged to-Kefauver. Sullivan also said that Kefauver supporters Want 1 tke convention which opens here next Mondky to be free of what he called “fixers and masters of the doubl jrcroSs.” He said it “could be” that the “fixers” do not have the authorization of the various candidates. Sullivan also claimed there is a drive under way to “stpp”i-Ke-fauver. Kefauver at the moment has more convention delegate votes than any of the other 16 who have been mentioned as candidates. Sullivan, former executive director of the Democratic national committee, said a Kefauver leader in California told him that a Kerr backer contacted\ eight delegates "and w’as saying arrangements could be made for transportation” of the delegates to Chicago, Thp transportation would be paid, P e charged, if the delegates-switched Itheir support from Kefauver after (Turn To I’aire F.lirbt) Truman Condition Reported improved Restrict Schedule For Several Days WASHINGTON, UP—The White House .reported today that President Truman's condition was “improved” but he must follow a restricted schedule for peveral days because of a “mild virus infection.” “The President’s condition is improved today,” said press secretary Joseph Short. “He will have to remain in his quarters'on the advice of his physician, fbr today. I “If the doctor has his way,, the President will take it easy fbr a couple of days more.” Mr. Truman became ill Sunday. On orders of fils physician, Maj. Gen. Wallace H. Graham, all engagements Monday were cancelled. Two engagements tentatively set' for today also were cancelled, j According to Snort, the President still has “a slight temperature,” but is able to be out of 'bed “part of the time.” Although Mr. Truman remained in his personajl quarters on the second floor of the White House, he devoted considerable time to working on legislation passed in the closing days of congress. He has until midnight next Tuesday to act on the last of the bills to reach him. Short dismissed as *‘poliiical claptrap” a story published on the west coast that Mr. Truman had told vice president Alben W. Barkley one of the reasons to seek re-election was that Mrs. Truman was suffering from high blood pressure. “That story cqmes under the heading of political claptrap and I am not going to comment on it,” Short said. ; \

Farm Policy Review Snagged By Politics Keep Review Under Wraps For Month WASHINGTON, (Up)—An agriculture department spokesman said today the department’s controversial “farhi policy review” will be kept under wraps possibly another month —at least until after the political conventions, The review, which may play an explosive part in election campaign attempts to woo the crucial farm vote, has been in the works since last summer, when secretary of\ agriculture Charles F. Brannan ordered a nationwide survey of farm opinion. For the past seven months agriculture officials have been preparing a long-delayed summary of the ideas and suggestions on government farm policies that poured in from farmers. The summary has been completed, but its publiqatibn has hit a political snag. The spokesman said many members of the non-government advisory group, which will be consulted before the department makes the review public, have been busy conferring with platform committees of both the Democratic and Republican parties. The advisers are- scheduled to review the farmers’ suggestions and make recommendations to grannan on farm policy. . ■. -> “We’re all ready to go,” the spokesman said, "but we are not going to try]: to get the advisory group tbgether until after the conventions are out of the way.” The department failed to get the advisers together before the Republican convention, and it is felt that calling a meeting just prior to the Democratic convention would leave the department open to Charges of “politics.” The farm survey} labeled the “Family Farih Pqlicy / Review,” already has been branded with a political tag President Allan B. Kline of “the . powerful Farm Bureau Federation. The Farm Bureau has charged that the timing of the release of the survey desigtted\ to furnish the Democrats with campaign fodder. “ i . ■ - Brannan said he ordered the review because he wanted to give farmers a cliancerto express theirsentiments op farm policy. Lone Bandit Caught After Robbing Bagk State Police Nab Bandit In Illinois MT. PULASKI, 111. UP — A lone gunman robbed the Farmers’ Bank of $3,000 to $5,600 today but was captured by state police in p nearby cornfield iless than two hours later. ' Lt. John Stuper and Sgt. Clyde Oliver, both of Springfield, cornered the banpit in the field and took him into Custody without gunplay. The prisoner gave his as Harold paneitz. Police said he w’as positively identified by bank employes as the’gunman who held up the bank shortly before noon. State records showed that a Harold Paneitz had a previous criminal record of armed robbery in Illinois. Police believed it w r as the same map. The gunman, who had a crewcut haircut and wore sunglasses, walked into the bhnk, pulled out a gun and told employes so “Stick ’em up or you’ll get shot.” He pocketed two guns he found in the bank, Scooped up the money from a cash draw’er and dashed out on foot. Roadblocks immediately were set up throughout the area. The bandit; was described as 25 to 30 years old, slender and be-, tween 5 feet 110 inches and 6 feet tall. He was wearing light summer wash trousers.. Bank President George Voile at first was unable to estimate the loss. After a pheck, however, bank officials said it was somewhere between ' $3,000 and $5,600.

Price Five Cents

Confer For Two Houk, Fail To Selfie Dispute Representatives Os Industry And Union Meet In Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, UP —Representatives of the steel industry and. the CIO United Steiworkers met today at the request of the government but were unable to reach a settlement of the 44-day walkout o£ 590,000 basic steel workers. After a two-hour conference with industry negotiators CIO President Philip Murray announced: “We have contiiiued our discission this morning and are still in disagreement,.” He said that he and Joseph Larkin, Bethlehem Steel vice president representing the major steel companies, had reported to acting defense mobilizer John R. Steelman by telephone. “He has requested us to stand, by for further word from him,’* Murray saidig The union head said; he expected Steelman to communicate with him “within a fev/ hours." Larkin was non-committal when asked if there would be another negotiating session. Y “We’re standing by,” he said. “We expect to hear within a few hours.” Today’s meeting was arranged by Steelman after a series z of weekend talks broke up with Murray rejecting a neV industry "suggestion” for ending the walkout, most costly in tarnation’s history. Steelman named Larkin and Bethlehem’s general counsel. Joint M. .Morse, to represent the compa'nies in the “command performance” talks. USW Counsel Arthur Goldberg joined in the unproductive conference. . Two points apparently were blocking a settlement: 1— The controversial union shop clause. 2 — Revision of the wage structure for iron ore workers. Hopes for a weekend settlement were grounded on the union ship ispue when the union refused to accept an industry plan for "watering down*’ the Bethlehem-type union shop. i Under the Bethlehem plan, rejected three weeks ago by the industry’s "Big Six,” new employes would have to sign up as union members but could sever their connection with the union by giving written notice in a 30-day period: The union contends the proposed revision of this ■ plan is - shot through with lodpholes which would allow newly i hired men to evade membership. In, the iron workers case the USW contends a 1 complete overhauling is necessary to erase existing job inequities. The union demands a complete reclassification of jobs and a fixed increment in pay between various job grades. The industry said the union proposal would result in a costly upgrading of pay rates and would upset the balence between surface and deep-pit mining operations. The company heads claimed a lioost in the cost of deep-pit operations would be the disturbing factoir. The paralyzing effects of the> strike spread to allied industries where 600,060 men have been idled. Hardest hit by the creeping paralyssi were the automotive, steel, fabricating, coal, oil and water transportation industries. State's September Draft Quota 1,015 INDIANAPOLIS, UP —lndiana’s September draft quota will be 1,015 men, the largest call since March, 1951. State selective service headquarters said the armed services quota compares with 341 in June, 999 in July and 86ff in August.