Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 168, Decatur, Adams County, 17 July 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 168;

Truman Signs 61 Bill For \ ■ i Korean Vels :i New Bill Provides Free Schooling, Job Training For Vets WASHINGTON (UP) —Korean veterans today became eligible for th? same government-paid readjustment privileges enjoyed by World War IT 7 veterans. A npw Gl bill * rights, estit mated to cost the government sl,annually, was signed into law Wednesday by President i Truman. .■ Like its World War II cotinterpart, the new hill provides free schooling and, jofli-training, government guaranteed home and busi- \ ness loans, mustering-out pay«and unemployment compensation. Generally eligible are veterans who served at least 90 days any - place in the world since the start of the Korean War, and who were not dishonorably discharged., Schooling allowances may be drawn Starting Aug. 21. Principal benefits .provided in the new bill: 1 —r Education—-School credit Will be granted at a rate of 1% days of ). school for each day of service after June 27, 1950, with a maximum of 36, months except for veterans who! also served in World War 11. J . . r Monthly payments —The Veteran in full-time twining will get sllO monthly, if single, $135 with one dependent, and $l6O if he has two or more dependents. From this he would pay tuition, books and living expenses? , On the job and farm These provide a lower scale of allowances subject to reduction as training,.progresses. On-farm training will be limited to persons who - own or control their own land, tire benefits in .such cases amounting tff $95. sllO with one dependent and. $l3O with two [or more de- . pendents. World War IF veterans — They will not. be eligible for additional schooling benefits .If they have used up all the benefits given them under, the World War II bill. How- . ever, such veterans who did not exhaust their previous benefits could get schooling benefits '-raised ~ ‘ to MS School months by serving since June 27, 1950. Cut-off date* for education arid training— must be started by August 20, 1954, or Within two years after release from active duty — whichever is later. The period of the payments Will be limited to seven years after discharge. dr seven years after the - end of the current emergency — whichever is later. ’ Loan guarantees —- The government will guarantee loans on homes up to $7,500, on other real estate up to s|,ooo ai)d on other loans up to $2,000. Mustering-out pay—“The' bill proi vides payknent of SIOO Tot- service \ ' less than 60 than 60 days stateside, and $306 for more than 60 days served overor in Alaska. This applies to ' ."all servicemen honorably \dischargedkup to the rank’ of eaptaip in the -army and air force and lieutenant senior grade in the i- navy. Payment would be staggered. -V, Unemployment compensation -A. L Veterans could get up to $26 a ! week, for up to 26 weeks. This provision dies five years after the end of the emergency. Frank Yahne, Jr. Is Taken By Death Frank Yahne, Jr., 45, formef Decatur resident, died Wednesday in the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne after a brief illness. Yahne had resided in Fort Wayne for the last 25 years and was vice-presi-dent of the National Hotel Public Co., of that city. Yahne is survived by his wife, Betty; two brothers, Ed apd Harry both of Fort Wayne, and four children J His . mother, Mrs. Colonel Foreman, also survives. Funeral services have not been arranged. Friends may call at the Klaehri funeral home. Fort Wayne, after 6 o'clock tonight. 'J 14-Year-Old Boy • Drowning Victim KNOX, Ind. UP —Eldon Mays. 14, Winamac, drowned Wednesday j night in Bass Lake near here. Es- . forts by resuscitator squad to revive him failed. 12 PAGES

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> '' AAi- ■ ■■■ flip- f SSBBI bi- 't JI IM >OBB I* tl f Jfifi IN ADDITION to a spanking new paint job, and about everything else except air conditioning. Chicago's International Ampitheatre Will have new portraits gracing its walls when the Democrats open for convention business Monday. Above, portraits of Jefferson. Jackson. Wilson, Roosevelt, and Truman* move into the giant hall to be placed above the speakers’ rostrum. v

Say Stevenson Would Accept Outright Draft Say Governor Would t Accept Draft But Is Not A Candidate Springfield, hl, up — Gov.< Adlai- E. Stevenson's ! lieutenants and aides were positive today 'that their boss would acce:it a presidential draft, but they were just as-sure that he doesn |t wan|t the joi), - The governor’s assistants felt th|W StevenspiLcould net reject the presidential domination {if the Democratic national convention handed iL to hta nelxt week. ? But Aey said privately that thfeT Illinois governor was sincere in his frequent, and patient;/ denials that \he is a candidate for. the nomination. “ » Nprie of Stevenson’s official fanv ily Would permit himself to be quoted Ivy name. They are intensely determined not to embarrass their boss. In private conversations, they put it this way: ' ' Htevenson is not interested in the White House in 1952 and wants to win another term as of Illinois. Hut his high respect for the presideimy would make, it impossible for him to refuse if the convention overrode his wishes and picked him to run againsjt the -GOP nominee, Dwight D. EisinhoWer. Stevenson himself is through talking about the whole Ruestiort for y while. " He has .passed-the wOrd that ,he absohitely will not say another word bn the subject until the convention starts—and possibly not even then. .. '*j Korean Truce Talks To Be Resumed Today Break Expected By U. N. Negotiators In Resumed Talks PANMUNJGM. Korea, UP — Allie trffce negotiators expected the. Communists to come up with something “extremely important” when truce negotiations resume Friday . (8 p.m. CST), tonight after a five-day recess. ! . Allied officers positively refused to commit themselves oh the nature of the expected “break” in the negotiations. Nor would they say whether they thought; it meant a speedy end tp the Korean War was imminent. Two moves by the Compninists Wednesday hinted strongly that important decisions have been made in Peiping. Pyongyang and possibly Moscow. r' L / In apparently related acl|ions, the Reds asked for an additional tWodayyecess in the armistice talks here and announced over Peiping Radio that the Chinese Communists recognized the Gepeva convention for the treatment-of prisoners. V : ; ’ I *| ' The trjice negotiators Hast ml?t Sunday. t On Monday, the Reds asked for a two-day |eftess and on Wednesday they asked for an ex- | (Taunt To Pace E»aht)

Redecorate For Democratic Convention

Purchase New Truck For County Surveyor Contract Awarded By Commissioners The. county commissioners accepted the bid of Butler’s garage yesterday in their purchase bf a new truck for the surveyor’s department. The bid w r as $3,999.29 on a two and a half ton General Motors truck. Mollenkopf and Eiting entered the only other bid. f Recently, Charles Ehinger, president of the Citizens Telephone Co., suggested to the board of commissioners that a public telephone be installed in the immediate vicinity of the court house for the convenience of local people’Tas well as tourists just passing through. The board thought if was a good idea and voted to have a phone installed at the southeast comer of the eourt houset It 4s Imported that the booth will be &t the glass enclosed type—modern and attractive. / Austin. McMichael came before the commissioriers yesterday with a dicth problem in St. Mary’s township. \The ditch is part tile and part open, he said, and he wants it cleaned out. Herman Moellering, county surveyor,- directed by the board to inspect the drain in question. It is known, however, that the tile portion of the clogged drain (s in need of repaid. The board, in addition -to any action that may be takbn through the appearance of McMichael, will call other people who are involved with the drain in for a Session. ’ The Bpard received formal request from the Decatur Chamber of Commerce to put up “no parking” signs all along Archbold road —the northern boundary of the free fair site. Also asked of the board, was that Archbold road be sufficiently oiled to keep dust down during the week the fair will be in progress. Both requests were granted with the job delegated to the Meshberger Bros. Stone Co. The cost of the' job—to be defrayed by the county, will be S4OO. The job will be under the supervision of Frank Singleton. Adams county highway I superintendent. ■ v ' ■ r , I. ■ - \ J Bloodmobile Unit Makes Fifth Visit Year's Fifth Visit Is Made To Decatur For the fifth* time this year, the Red Cross was in town today to receive donations from citizens for bipod to be used on the battle fields and in private hospitals. It was reported that at press time donations had not been up to expectations, , officials, however, have hopes that the quota of 125 pints will be filled. * Following are the workers who donated time in today’s blood operation: \ * The boys who unloaded the equipment: Robert Sprague, Dick Gaskill, and Wayne Brunner. Counter workers: Mesdames Joe Clint Hersh, Roscoe Glendening, Alva Buffenbarger, Hersel Nash, Wendell Seeman, Edgar Reinking, L. Archbold and William Noll., J . - Staff aides: Mesdames H. P. Engle, Rorbert Gase, Norman Kruse, Adrian Wemhoff. Norman Leonardstm and L. C. Smith. Nurses aides: Mesdames Niland Ochsenrider and Lester Lehman. Registered nurses: Miss Margaret Eiting, Mrs. Edna Meyers and ' (T»r» To Pa«e Klcht)

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 17, 1952.

President In Hospital For Close Check 1 Wife Arrives From Missouri To Visit Husband In UP - -Mrli. Tru ; man arrived here frorn Missouri today and hurried to the side of the President who is receiving treatment for a virus infection at Walter Reed general hospital. The first lady! looked; tired and rumpled as she I stepped from the train at nearby Silver Spring, Md„ after the long tHp from Independence, Mo. But she gave the photographers a cheerful “Good morning.” As she arrived, the White House, announced Mr. Truman spent a "very good night” but that he might run a “little bit” of fever later today. , Nevertheless, it said, his condi? tion continues good. Mrs. Trumhn was accompanied by the President’s naval aide, Adm. Robert Dennison. Secret service men refused to allow reporters to talk to her in the interests of hurrying her on to the hospital. Meanwhile,' medical specialists scheduled a series of-exhaustive tests to determine the physical! toll seven years in the White House have taken on the President. Mr. Truman’s personal physician, Maj. Gen. W alia c e H. Graham, wanted him to have a thorough checkup before he becomes embroiled in the hot-and-heavy political coming up. White House press secretary Joseph Short said that the President expected to be back in the (Turn To Par* Attend Meeting Os Municipal League Mayor John Doan arid clbrktreasurer Vernon Aurand attended a jmeeting of the Indiana municirral league Wednesday at the fyotel Van Orman in Fort W T ayne. They heard Mayor Harry Baals, of Fort Wayne, and Vincent Youkey, secretary of the league, tell about the necessity of passing state legislation to permit ijiore state funds to be returned to local municipalities. ' They said the high cost of living, increased taxes', and upped prices in general, make it urgent that some sort of change be introduced to bring back more taxed funds to where they 1 came from. Report Admission To Adams County Thefts One of the five youths picked up in Fort Wayne, last Friday is reported to have implicated the rest of his companions in the burglary last week of Connie's Market near Monroe and it,he Cottage Lunch at Geneva where an estimated SBOO in losses w-ere incurred through the theft and damages. \ The suspects are now in the Allen county jail urider SIO,OOO bond for armdd robbery. All five are from Fort Wayne and -their names are: Albert Beam, 18i John Mur[ phy, 17; Hill Cook, 19; and two juveniles w ! ho are unnamed. Prosecuting attorney Severin Schurger says he doubts -if the subjects will be returned here as the charge they now fkce in B'ort Wayne is of a much more serious nature.

Sen. Russell Bolts ■.’l - ' ■ - Southern Stand In Bid For Nomination

Plane Plunges Into residential Area Four Persons Aboard Private Plane Dead EL SEGUNDO, Calif. UP — A erippled private plane plunged into p crowded residential area in the early morning fog today, kilh; ipg all four persons aboard and set-! tihg two homes afire. Several persons, neighbors of the owners of the damaged homes, received minor burns as they set Up an amateur hose brigade to fight the roaring flames. One borne was leveled and the 'other badly seared by the gasolinefed; flames. Only the quick action of the neighbors saved bordering homes. I \ The fdur-place Stinson sputtered loW over the neighborhood shortly after taking off from the Hawthorpe Municipal airport, then dived into the home of the vacationing Q. B. Corley family. [l it Tipped through the roof of the COrley home and slammed into 1 the side of the bedroom of the Sain Caldwell home next door. But it filled to awaken the Caldwell’s two-year-old son, Sammy, Jr. sleepiap in a nearby crib. “It is a miracle we escaped,” Caldwell said. «Hlood was spattering on adjoiniffft homes from two of the bodies. Two wire thrown clear of the srhall ci*aft. - , \ The plane, piloted by Dale Baker, Grass Valley, Ore., w'hose body (pwias found wedged at the controls, was en route to Fpesno,; Calif., when its engine apparently cut out; Jobless Pay Claims Show Big Increase INDIANAPOLIS. (UP) — Labor disputes and seasonal layoffs were blamed today for an 89 percent ihfcrease over last year in unemployment insurance claims for the Week ending July 12. The > Indiana Employment security, division 'office said the total 52,226 claims was the highest since rnld-December. 4949. Claim activity took) a 45 percent juinp over the week before, and initial claims, which ffiimbered 23j()!92 last week, jumped more thrin 8,400, the office said. Chancy Yoder Dies Wednesday Evening Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Chancy Yoder, 52, of near Berne, a farmer and area supervisor for McMillen Feed Mills of this city, died at 6:55 o’clock Wednesday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been ill one month and bedfast 10 days with a heart ailment. He was born in Adams county' Nov, 29, 1899, a son of Joshua and Ahna Rich-Yoder, and was a lifelong resident of the Berne community. _ > Mr. Yoder was a member of thle Evangelical Mennonite church west of Berne. Surviving are his wife, Lillian; three sons, James R. of near Berne, Kenneth and Muri, at home; six daughters, Marjorie, Vera, Darleen and Janis, all at home, Mrs. Milo Nussbaupi of near Berne and Mrs. Bruce Hirschy of near New Haven; five grandchildren; four brothers, Jesse and Joe, both of’ Fort Wayne, Albert of Berne and Denver of near Berne, and three sisters, Mrs. Homer Habegger and Mrs. Raymond Winteregg, both of Berne, and Mrs. Sylvan Lehman of Lima, O. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Evangelical Mfennonite church, the Rev. E. G. Steiner officiating. Burial will be, in the chufch cemetery. The \body will be removed from the Yager funeral home to the residence, two miles west and one and one-half miles north of Berne, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this e« Oi n S . (

Compromise On Civil Rights Plank Spurned New Deal Democrats Spurn Southerners' Compromise Offers " I ‘ , . ■ CHICAGO, (UP) — New Deal Democrats today spurned compromise offers of southerners, and deL rpanded party platform planks calling for tough civil rights legislation, an end lo sienate fillibusters, and a denunciation of “McCarthyism.” Rep. Emanuel Celler, D. - N. Y. proposed the plank condemning ‘^McCarthyism”—the methods useid by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R.Wis., to try .to prove administration is infested with Communists and fellow-travellers. Celler said he was particularly concerned about this issue because McCarthy addressed the Republican national, convention. H “We will serve our country \»ill it we keep silent on this issue,” hte .said. “This is a damnable evil.” ! Cellar was one of a number Os witnesses to testify before the Demo< ratio platform writing subcommittee, which will make . recommendations for a platform to the full resolutions committee. / Middle -of - the - road Democrats and pro-administration southr erners on the group hoped to work out a compromise on the civil rights plank in order to prevent a recurrence of the 1948 Southern bolt. But Celler and northern and left-wing Democrats vehemently rejected any talk of compromise on the issue. V . “We dare not descend frorp the 'mountain peak of 1948 as to civil rgihts," Celler said. “Let not the dead hand of reactioii and intolerance guide bur action.” |He called particularly for a comlpulsory fair employment commission to prevent discrimina L tion in employment. He accused the Republicans, in adopting a plank opposing discrimination in principle, of merely uttering “palaiver and innocuous phrases." “Let us make one plank, plain, simple, unequivocal so that even Dwight D. Eisenhower, with all his (naivete and" gullibility, can understand,” he Said. Stanley Gerwitz, chairman of the, national executive committee of Americans for Democratic Ac[ tion, also called for a strong civil rights plank. He warned that minority groups and independents" may stage a sit-down strike on election day unless the Democratic (Turn TO Pose Five) . ' ' . \ - ; Moformen Blamed For Subway Crash 100 Persons Injured In Rush-Hour ! NEW YORK, UP —Authorities blamed two motormen today for a collision of subway trains in a steaming tunnel deep under Manhattan’s financial district in which more than 100 screaming rushhour passengers were injured. A Brooklyn-bound express train rolled backward into another train at the Fulton* street station of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Co. at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday. Brief panic broke out in the stuffy subway tunnel when the impact knocked crowded straphangers off balance, i Police reported that most injuries were slight. Only a few of the [victims were forced to remain in the six hospitals where they were taken for emergency treatment after the crash. The New Yd»rk board of transportation ordered suspension of the two motormen operating trains pending completion of an investigation.

Ex-Student Admits Slaying Secretary Mad At Columbia, Killed Young Girl BOSTON, UP —A former Columbia University student confessed today he murdered pretty Eileen Fahey, 18, because “I was mad at Columbia” and she was “the first person I ran into.” Bayard Peakes, 29, of DoverFoxcroft, Me., arrested by New York detectives shortly after midnight he walked into a police trap, said he wanted revenge against the school because it had rejected his "thesis on electronlies.” New York detectives James Corcoran and Lolnis Behrens and Boston police, acting on a tip supplied by an unidentified professor at Columbia, surrounded the building in the Back Bay section of Boston where Peakes lived. A few minutes after midnight Peakes returned from his work at a packing house and the detectives closed in on him. “You gqt me—l’m the one who killed her,” Corcoran said the selfstyled electronics expert told him at the time of his arrest. \ “I was mad at Columbia because I had been refused readmission to the University and 1 just took it out on the first person I ran into who I thought was to blame," Peakes told police. (‘He said he had written a thesis on physics,” Detective Capt. Francis G. Wilson of Boston said. “He claimed* he could make men live 500 years." The detectives said Peakes told them he had submitted the thesis along with his application for readmission to the university and believed it had been rejected by the American physical society, where Miss Fahey worked as a secretary. The detectives disclosed that the arrest was the result of a tip from the Columbia professor who saw an artist’s sketch of the slayer in a New York newspaper. The professor told them it resembled a student who gave “a rough time” in 1947 when he turned down a thesis written by the student. The professor, who requested that his name not Be mentioned, recalled that the student came from Northwestern University in Boston. Peakes told police that he came to the Columbia campus last Monday morning with a .22 caliber automatic pistol and entered the phy(Turn To Face Five) Operation Skywatch Turns To 'Nowatch' .h '■ 'h ■ ' ',, ■ ' Observers Fail To Show Up For Duty In the short span of two days, “operation skywatch” has turned, it geetns, into “operation nowatch,"' reports Floyd Hunter, air defense head. Since Monday, said Hunter, the watch was maintained |n a pretty on-offish sort of away. Early this morning, he says, the trend of cooperation in Decatur was finally established. There is not enough cooperation from the majority of the people involved in the local setup to make any sort of success, he thinks. ' Hunter on to tell what happened early this morning. His story: “The watch was kept up until 2 Icfclock this morning when thfe assigned party failed to show uj). When Jay and Raymond Gbimer saw they weren’t going to be relieved, they called me. The outcome, was that Path Bucher, wfho, by the way, walked to HannaNuttman park from town, and I stood the watch. The point is that no one showed up at the post since 4 o’clock this morning . . . and the place has not covered since.” Hunter looked as though he were a,bout to throw ii| the towel and call it <iuits unless more cooperation is shown and more volunteers are secu red. >

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Bids For Vole Os Labor And Racial Groups Georgia's Senator And Strategists In Bid For Nomination CHICAGO, UP — Georgia’s Sen. Richard B. Russell and his presidential campaign strategists were bolting the conservative south today in a bid for support of racial groups and organized la|jor in next, week’s Democratic national convention. Russell himself jolted Democrats by' cafling for repeal of the TaftHartley act for which he twice voted in 1947.* The second vote was to override President Truman’s veto. JThe senators platform strategists meanwhile moved for compromise on the civil rights issuer which aroused the southern state’s rights rebellion in 1948. This move by his friends was undertaken independently of the senator. Both maneuvers meshed with rethat some big,city bosses, including Jacob M. Arvey of Chicago, were ready to [‘talk business” with Russell if fie can square himself ; with the administration’s left wing and labor allies. informants said Arvey had sent word , to Russdll that “getting right” w’ith labor was even more important than the troublesome civil rights issue. RUssell and Sen. Estes Kefauver reached Chicago almost together Wednesday, and other Democratic presidential hopefuls we<e streaming toward the convention city today in batches. ■With four days to go.before the convention gets underway, the race was still w-ide open. The latest United Press tabulation of delegate votes showed Kefauver still out in front with 267, Russell next with 117.% Averell Harrimari, in third place with 113%, and 16 others bringing up The rear with convention support ranging from % vote Up. . i The largest bloc of 324% was still in the “uncommitted” column and no candidate was even in sight of the 616 required for nomination. While Russell made the news with hig Taft-Hartley statement, Kefauver won their fiifst on-the-scene skirmish for labor votes; He capped the Georgian’s labor bid by reminding a news Conference that he had been against Taft-Hartley from the start—voted against it on the first congressional go-round, Russell came to town promising to “take Ike to the cleaners” if nominated by the Democrats.! He claimed 300 first ballot votes. Kefauver arrived proclaiming ’ that Dw’ight D. ! Eisenhower, the Republican presidential candidate, is looking “weaker and weaker.” Kefauver said he, expected to win the Democratic nomination by the sixth ballot. Russell and Kef a u v*e r were agreed on one thing vital to each — that Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois is out of the presidential contest. Illinois national committeeman Jacob M. Arvey boosted the morale of both senators and all other aspirants by saying he has “no hope at tall” now that Stevenson will permit his name to be put before the convention. Belief was growing that Stevenson really is out. This was accompanied by much talk of VicePreslediU Alben W. Barkley as a compromise choice. There was some Barkley sentiment in the big New Ydrk delegation, most of which is committed to Averell Harriman. President Truman has support froim coast to coast but he is not counted a candidate. .■ v ' ! INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness, continued warm and humid with scattered showers tonight and Friday. Low tonight 70-75. High Friday 85-90.