Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 177.

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32 Are Saved In Dramatic Rescue Sunday

- ■ . ■ C ' 3 | WESTQVER AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. UP — A dramatic air-sea rescue of 32 persons from a downed Tropic Airlines plane in the Mediterranean Sea Sunday, i| was announced here today. I Word of the fescue was radioed here from Wheelus Field at Tripoli — center of the rescue effort in which both air force and a British The half-drowned survivors were I hauled to safety after clinging to _ i two partly ’deflated life rafts in J W'hite-capped seas. incite than four _’hours. ■ All 32 survivors — 28 passengers and four\. cfew members* — were aboard the Tropic Airlines plane on a 500-mile run from Malta to Bengasi. Libya W'hen one of the engines dropped off. , -v Unable to maintain altitude, the craft was ditched after the two partly inflated life rafts —actually rubber, dingys built for six passengers—were tossed Overside. -I First word of the plane’s plight came to Malta when the radioman aboard the Stricken craft reported that one of the engines had been lost.’ • All loose and personal equipment was tossed out in a vain effort to maintain altitude and reach the plane’s destination 100 miles away. Within minutes affer notification of the trouble it w’as evident that the plane could not remain aloft apd it was ditclied in the rough -sea. All Ships, planes and ' rescue agencies in the North African area alerted and sent speeding to ■ , the scene. ..... \ Among the craft joining in the I maximum effort call issued from Malta was a Grumlann SA-16 piloted by Capt. Kendrick Reeves of Charleston, S. C. A British European Airways Vi-, king, diverted off course to parties ipate in the mission, spotted the life rafts with the survivors—hob- . ing up and down near the plane's \ last reporte'd position. The British craft continued.- to circle the area until the arrival of Capt, Reeves. He then took over j the circling watch, deciding to. wait.for surface craft because he ibelieyed it too rough to land his plane on the sea. However, he could See waves breaking over the heads of the survivors clinging to the rafts and decided to take a chance and land. He managed to get his plane down orito the water an taxied up to -the castaways, Because of (the size of his plane, Capt. Reeves could not take all aboard. As mhny as possible were quickly lifted to safety. Then the two elght-m’an life rafts on the SA-16 wefe inflated, tied J to the plgne and the survivors were lifted into them. "... I For more than an hour Capt. Reeves and the survivor? rode out the rough seas while a British def /Turn To Pace Two) -1 ■ ■'!

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! : i. . \ i Three Missing Alter Severe Wind Squalls Four Persons Dead T In Savage Thunder Squall On Sunday SALEM,', Mass. (UP) — Coast guard and other craft scanned the waters and shores of Salem harbor today! for possible survivors of a savage thunder squall whose hutricane-forpe winds capsized more than\loo small boats, drowning at least four \\ Three persons still were reported bussing in the fierce, thrdeh minute storm., that sent 85-mije-an-hour winds ripping across the harbor Sunday. They were identified as Edwin NoWak, 42. Danvers, Mass.; Harrisoh Cole, Beverly, Mass., and a “Mr. Chekoulis*’ of Lynn, Mass. ' t The known dead, whose bodies were recovered, were identified by police as Kenneth Drew, 62, Lynn; John Boisvert, 66. .and Isaidore Le Beouf, 57, Lovell. Mask,, and Sampel Weiner, 56, Maldep, ■Mass. ! j They lost their lives as hun- - dreds of Sunday fishermen, their i wives and children were tossed inIto the water by 3d-foot waves whipped ,up by the gales in the I shallow water. The storm lasted but three minutes. . ; Hundreds were rescued by powder launch owners, lobstermen;, coast guard and livery boats shuttling; to and from the harbor. ' ; Fourteen of the rescued were hospitalized but none was report- ■ ed~in serious-condition. 1 ? |> Before it hit the harbor, tlio- - squall, described by the epafcf guard as a “freak thunderstorm;’’ ifipped a narrow swath through j half a dozen communities, toppi ling trees and cutting \off tele; phone and electric service in areas of Danvers, Wakefield, Melrose, Malden and Stoneham. Damage was expected to total hundreds of thousands of dollars. • ! Many of those rescued were hysterical. Others were griefstricken, having seen members Os their parties slip beneath the towering spas. / •'| ! Roland Chute, 42, Beverly, said /Turn To Pave Five) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and cooler to- t night; scattered thundershow- > ers south and central portions. \ Tuesday mostly fair and cooler. Low tonight 6064 north, 64-69 : south; . high Tuesday 78-82 north, 82-86 south.

Glowing White Lights Chased By Jet Planes Mysterious Objects Are Reported Over National Capital WASHINGTON, UP — Jet p|anes capable of speeds of 600 miles an hout made a futile at tempt to intercept mysterious glowing objects that streaked over the capital for the second consecutive week end. ’t’he air force, which always has maintained a skeptical attitude about “flying saucers,” said today it was investigating the unidentified objects, described as “glowing white lights,”: that were spotted by radar and then visually by air force and . commercial pilots Saturday night. J “We don’t know what they are, but we fare investigating.” an air force spokesman said today. "We have no concrete evidence that they are. flying saucers. “Conversely, we have no concrete evidence that they Are not flying saucers,” The spokesman said the reportshad been Yelayed to intelligence officers in the Pentagon and to the air forge technical intelligence center at Wrlghti Patterson air fore? base, Dayton, Ohio—center\ for the investigation of “flying saucer” reports. H ' ■ - ;/ V “The air force will take whatever action is; necessary to evaluate the reports,” the spokesman said. He pointed out that air force intelligence officers had been sent to the civil air route traffic control center to observe the mysterious objects on the radar screen Saturdayrnight. The CAA control center, located at the airport across the Potomac river from Washington, first picked u.p the mysterious objects on Its radar screens at 7:08 p.m. CST Saturday. In the next four hours before the objects disappeared, the CAA reported as many as 12 Df the unidentified “blips” appeared on the radarscope at the same time. CAA officials Immediately alerted the air force and commercial pilots to be on the lookout for the objects, and the air force ordered up F-94 planes in attempt to intercept the mysterious lights tracing an eerie pattern over Washington. > Two jets from the Newcastle, Del., air force base gave chas? from 10:15 a.m. Suhday. One of the pilots reported spotting the objects twice but said he was unable to overtake them. Two other jets went aloft at 1:40 a.m. and remained itt the air tracking down the objects without success until 2:2(7 a.m. Civilian pilots also reported seeing the “lights” on four different occasions from 7:15 p.m. to 8:46 p. m. all in the immediate vicinity of Washington. One was spotted by a National airlines f)ilot near Andrews air force base, one by a United Airlines pilot, seven miles from Herndon, Va., (Turn To Pace Vive)

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Pres. Truman, Barkley To Aid Gov. Stevenson To Stump Country For Stevenson In Election Campaign CHICAGO, UP — Gov. Adlai fc. Stevenson prepared to return to his governor’s mansion at Springfield today after learning that President Truman and Vice-Presi-dent Alben Barkley will the' country for him in the coining presidential campaign. 1 Stevenson’s train will leave Chicago at 8:25 a.m. CST and will stop briefly at the Democratic nominee’s home town of Bloomington, 111., about 10:45 a.m. After a brief rear platform speech there the train will push on to Springfield and is expected to arrive about 1 p.m. s A “non-partisan” celebration and homecoming awaiteik Stevenson in the capital city. The streets of Springfield were festodned with bunting and welcoming signs a few hours after the radio blared the news of his, nomination. The Illinois governor spent a hectic week end in his fashionable “hideout” on Chicago’s near north side. ♦ \ A steady stream of Democratic I party dignitaries called on hint to chat ; and lay plans before grabbing trains out of town.\ The politicians, and the governor, were genuinely weary after the marathon sessions of the Democratic national convention that nominated the reluctant Stevenson.’ Democratic national chairman Frank fa. McKinney emerged from a meeting with Stevenson Sunday and announced that the battle plan Cor the fall campaign against GOP nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower called for a “four-edged sword instead of a two-edged sword.” McKinney explained that Mr. Truman and Barkley ftould bring their political experience, and campaign rhetoric, to bear against the Republicans along with Stevenson and his viee-presidetatial running mate. Sen. John J.\ Sparkman of Alabama. The President and Barkley will campaign “to the fullest extent," Mcßinney said. The national chairman, whom Stevehson named to continue in his post, said the Democrats haVe decided a “sharp, hardhitting” campaign, not to last more than two months, will insure them tne White House in November. Thus the campaign will not begin until around Sept. 1. It has long been understood that Mr. Truman\ wanted a chance jtp campaign with the nominee tljis fall and felt that the convention must choose a candidate who could stand with the President on the Fair Deal program. The plan will give Mr. Truman a chance to lambast the Republicans, defend his own record and help the man he personally chose to lead the party. It was a matter of course that Barkley, the wellloved workhorse of the party, would be on the job. Sparkman, who was picked as (Tnt" To Pare Five) J. See More Pressure For Wage Increases y AFL Officials Will Serve On New Board WASHINGTON, UP — Top AFL officials voted today to serve 6n the revised wage stabilization board but warned that the new price-wage controls law would “inevitably lead” to nipre rounds of wage< increases. \ \ The AFL executive council, composed of presidents of major AFL unions, said ip a statement that it hkd decided to take part in the new wage stabilization? program although the defense production act “materially weakens wage stabilization policy.” . The council acted just two days before the new board was scheduled to take over the wage control program. However, it was reported that establishment of the board might be delayed due to White House difficulty in finding new members. The CIO is believed certain to take a similar step soon and send representatives to the new board. The council asserted that living costs are at an “all-time high and threatening to go still higher” because of the emasculated controls law. - “This will inevitably lead to further pressure for wage increases in the months ahead,” it added.

Decatur Fair Opens Formally Tonight At Hanna-Nuttman J i ’Fa j ' i ~ i • ' ‘ \ ' ' !' I •! !

jen. Brien McMahon Dies This Morning Prominent Democrat Senator Dies Today WASHINGTON, \UP Sen. Brien McMahon, noted (’onnecticutt Democrat and chairman of the joint congressional atomic energy Annmittee, died ‘today after being bed ridden for weeks by a-spinal ailment. He whs 48. , Georgetown hospital, where he has been confined, said he died at 11:10 a.m. EDT. His doctor. Dr. Philip A. Caulfield. said the cause was cancer of the lung which spread to the senator’s' back and pelvis. \ Besides his wife, members of the family at the senator’s bedside included his mother, Mrs. William H. McMahon, two sisters, Mrs. Eugenie and Eileen McMahon and two brothers, Drs. .William H. McMahon, and John McMahon. Rep. Car) T. Durham, D-N. C„ automatically became acting chairman of the atomic energy committee. McMahon was in the hospital several weeks, vainly fighting to rally from a critical “sacroiliac condition.” His doctor said only his youth and vigor kept him alive. McMahon entered the hosiptal four weeks ago for treatment qf what pwas then described as a “sacroiliac condition.” He underwent a spinal operation\ on June (Tnr* To Pace Six) 18th Stafe Park To Be Dedicated Sunday HAMMQND, Ind. UP — Gov. Henry F. Bchricker will dedicate a 3.oo'o,acre wood and farmland area in Lkke county next Sunday as Kankakeej river state park, Indiana's 18th state park. Conservation organizations started planning for the park in 1928 and were encouraged in their work in 1948 when Murray M. Baker.Peoria, 111., industrialist, gave 1,600 acres for park purposes. ) ' .r~' ' Six Violent Deaths Reported On Sunday Five Persons Dead In Highway Crashes Dy UNITED PRESS Indiana’s week end violent death toll piled up in a single day with at least six dead in traffic and by drowning. No deaths were reported Saturday. Bitt four Hoosiers, a Florida man and, an Illinois woman died as 90-plus weather crowded baeches and highways. Authorities recovered the body of Leona Yurkstas. 22, Chicago, after dragging Bass Lake near Knox for six- hours. £he was floating in an innertube, lost her balance and slipped into about 10 feet of water. The! Florida traffic victim was Roy Grull, Miami. He died in Greenfield hospital shortly after his station wagon ran off U. S. 40 near Knightstown and struck a parked house trailer. Another accident involving a parked vehicle killed Frank Plummer. 28, Wabash. A passenger in a car driven by Garl Fox, 32, Bryant, Ohio, Plummer was killed when the auto struck a truck parked along Ind. 57 four miles south of Washington. Hugh Shannon, 37, Muncie, was killed and three persons were injured When two cars collided at a Muncie intersection. At Logansport, Guy Aronhlat, 65, Kokomo, died in St, Joseph hospital of injuries suffered in a Thursday car-truck crash which killed his wife, Helen, ' Plainfield police held Lowell L. Gibbons, 20, Stilesville, pending an investigation into the death of Robert E; Arnold, Plainfield. He was killed when Gibbons’ truck struck his bicycle, hurling him 70 feet. j-\

Steelworkers Stream Back Into Plants Industry Moving For Full Output As Strike Ended PITTSBURGH, (UP) — Steelworkers streamed back into mills all over the nation today and the Industry rolled uyt- its sleeves /and moved toward full production. Although some union men in the ' Pittsburgh district, dissatisfied • with their wage increase, voted toi return under protest, production workers in most plants joined maintenance and repairmen in an all out effort to restore full pro-! duption. v While maintenance and repairmen ‘worked at U. S. Steel plants, throughout the distreit, Jones and Laughlin’s plants in Pittsburgh add Aliquippa were shut down until late Sunday night when' maintenance crews adjourned day-long meetings. After the meetings broke up union officials said the men were returning to work under protest ’ because Os dissatisfaction with the i ire/Ar* ra‘t f led by the ■ wage-policy committee in Wash--1 ington. \ ,\ ■ ■ James McLaughlin, president of J & L Local 1843, said the men wanted an “across the board” increase Which would give workers in all classifications the same hourly boost in pay. Under terms

of the settlement, it now stands, increases will be graduated from 12-and-a-half cents for the lowest classifications to 25-cents an hour {or the highest. : Meanwhile, U. S. Steel and other major producers were off to a flying start and officials predicted the first “heats” would be tapped ■ from open hearth furnaces within a matter of days. At least a third of the industry’s productiop force was expected to report for work today with full shift operations scheduled to, get underway' Tuesday or Wednesday. In Detroit. Great Lakes Steel began shipping steel early Sunday and full scale operations’ got underway at midnight. The Detroit plant, which supplies the automotive industry, employs 18,000 men. Production workers'also reported at U. S. Steel's sprawling Irvin works to start the flow of steel at one', so the world’s largest strip mils.' ’ Daring Thrust Made By Red Jes Planes Three Os British Warplanes Damaged SEOUL, Korea, UP — Communist Mid-15 jet fighters swooped down more than 200 miles from Manchuria Sunday in their most daring thrust In months and damaged three British propeller-driven warplanes. j It was the first MIG attack of the war agains) British carriedbased planes and "the deepest southward penetration of Korea made by the Russian-built jets in many weeks. 1 AU of. the ’damaged planes were two-seater “Fireflies” from the carrier Ocean. One plane was forced down in the Yellow Sea off the West Korean coast. Another made a forced landing on an Island and the third staggered back to a landing on the carrier. The navy said none of the plan? crews was hurt. The swept-wing Communist jets dived out of the sun to attack four Fireflies and four Sea Furi?s at about, 5,000 feet altitude just as the British fighter-bombers were striking Red supply and troop concentrations south and west of Chin nampo, port for the North Korean capital of Pyongyang,

Argentina Mourns Its First Lady .. j i ■ \ i ■ ’ n i * i Eva Peron Is Dead After Long Illness ’■ f ,r 7 BUENOS AIRES, UP tina was shrouded in mourning today for its first lady, Mrs. Eva Peron, and thousands filed past her bier in a last tribute. The wife of President Juan D. Peron died Saturday night after a lingering illness. Preparations were underway for an unprecedented funeral. Throughout Sunday and Sunday night one of the biggest crowds in Argentine history, estimated at 500,0D0 persons, jammed downtown Buenos Aires as the mourners struggled to enter the ministry of labor building where Mrs. Peron’s body lay in state. Authorities reported that at least three persons—-all of them women—were killed in the crush, while first aid stations said some 2,000 others were injured. The undersecretariat for information and press announced that the president had ordered Mrs. Peron’s body to remain in state indefinitely until all those who desirted had an opportunity to hommage. j No date had been set for tne. funeral, but thte chief of the nation’s armed forces ordered that she be buried with military honors granted -only twice previously in Argentine history— ex-presidents Manuel Quintana and Roque Saenz Pena, w’ho died in office. An official 30-day mourning per-

iod was ordered. Flags were flown at half mast and black crepe ribbons were attached to them. Lamp ' posts were draped in black. Radio ' and \ television stations broadcast only sacred music and funeral bulletins. Comedy programs were banned for the remainder of the mourning period. The crow’d Sunday heaped a veritable mountain of flowers outside ministry budding, where Mrs. Peron’s coffin had i been placed on a bier near the door of her former office. Mrs. Peron died at the presidential residence after an 11-month illness. She underwent a major operation last November for an unspecified ailment and recently her condition became grave. Firs! Aid Tent At Fair Entire Week Red Cross Chapter | Volunteers Services The Adams county chapter of the American Red Cross will maintain a first aid tent at the Decatur free fair, a service which the Re<| Cross has extended for a numbef of years. The Red Cross, cooperating with the merchants of Decatur, recruited volunteers from the first advanced class in first aid, the Decatur home economics club and the Decatur business and professional women’s, club. The tent will be open from 2 to 10 p.m. daily. Workers in the first aid tent for the week are: Gerald Durkin, Mrs. Eugene Durkin, Mrs. William Kohls, Mrs. Kenneth Runyon, Mr?. Ruth Virginia Railing, Mrs. Everett Faulkher, Robert Railing, Mrs. Gerald Eady, Mrs. Norman Leonardson, Miss Grace Lichtensteiger, Mrs. Walter Lister and strs. Max Schafer. ■ v ’ In addition, the following persons Will be at the tent to recruit donors for the Red Cross blood program: Mrs. Oren Schultz, Mrs. Harold P. Engle, Mrs. Norbert Gase, Mrs. Joseph Oelberg, Mrs. Wendel Seaman, t Mrs. T. C. Smith, Mrs. H.\ D. VonGunten, Mrs. R. E. Glenden|rig, Mrs. Ed Bauer, Mrs. W. E. Brant, Mrs. John Bayles, Mrs. ‘George Myers, Mrs. Ed Reinking, Mrs. Charles Magley, Mrs. Noble Reynolds and Mrs. R. C. Hersh. •

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Fair Grounds All Sei For Fair Opening Fair To Continue All Week At Site Os City's Park The fair grounds are in the last stages of being set up today at Hanna-Nuttman park. Most \ ot the carnival folks worked until late last night on most of the . heavy werrk when thfc sun wouldn’t bother them. / The 150 foot high ladder went up yesterday for the high wire. act; on the adjacent course report the ladder can be seen from, the furthest reaches of the fairway. Captain Kuhn’s lions are there, roaring their disapproval at being pent up in their cramped quarters. Captain Kuhn may have only promsied the people of; Decatur lions, but it is reliably reported that a couple of brown bears are in the shuffle, too. The cats’ rup- ’ way is staked out and the cage ' —with all its platforms and color- ! ful paraphernalia—promise an exciting evening tonight at 8 o’clock, when the lion trainer puts the ’• toothy lions through their paces. ’ A motorcycle , sphere will be on hand thrill one and al), the fair 1 committee reports. Upon investigation and an explanation from ’ those in charge of the act, it works like this. A metal sphere is set up and into it go a couple of motorcycles. They spin around the bottom of it until they get their speed up. At the proper moment, when they’ve really traveling, they climb up the walls of the round cage, criss-crossing and actually rdiing upside down across the north pole of the cage. The carnival folks, a traditionally clannish group, come from all over to display their goods—in this case, noise, color, fyot dogs and barkers. A consensus show’s there are representatives from Florida, Texas, Ohio and many others, testified to by the assorted licehse plates foreign to this state. Ladies assigned to the home economics contest will be at the Boy Scout shelter house receiving entries all day long. Comers were slow in showing up early this morning, but the ladies report things picked up later on in the day. Roy Price, the fair committee reports that the livestock will come in later today and tonight, th? tents being all ready to receive them. The area reserved for the parking lot —formerly high wtih grassy growth —- was burned to the earth to provide a uniform field for the some 800 cars that it can hold. In connection with parking, Roy Price reports the managers of the golf course offered to donate part of the fairway to the fair if their own lot gets too crowded. The Jaycees and Psi lota XI both have concessions set up on the main line and are waiting for the crowds to show up. In all, everything seems to be almost completed for the grand opening this evening,. The fair committee hinted at a surprise for one and all tonight which only the privileged are in one. “Just a little patience,” they say, “and you shall soon know." —— — - - . Two Soldiers Killed ] In Auto-Truck Crash LEBANON, Ind. UP — Two sol-A diers stationed at Fort Harrison, Ind., were killed today and trucker w’as hurt in a collision on U. S. 52. ■ ' i The dead were identified as Cpl. Robert M. Shelton, 23. Crawfordsville. Ind., and Cpl. Clyde W. Cunningham, 20, Melrose Park, 111. Injured was John Richardson, 33, Indiana, the truck’s relief driver. State police said the soldiers’ car evidently sideswiped the truck driven by Hubert Richardson of Indianapolis.