Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1952 — Page 2

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Lion Tamer, JVi/e Te 77 j O/ Variec? Kxperzeuces

Captain Eddy Kuhn likes\anima|s. the bigger they are, thg better. Lions . . . panthers . . . bears; and alt with big shaTp tefcth, that, Kuhn says, could rip a man to pieces without much effort. _ J . Captain Eddy'and his lovely wife Sharleqa, who bills herself as the “queen of the jhngle,” are currently showing Decatur fairgoers the fine art of making inherently deadly beasts make like a lot of kittens and romp around 'from platform so platform and pose like a frustrated baby at the phtotographers for flle first tirfie. ] 1 Kuhn' said he and Shprlena,.who, by the way, have two beautiful daughters. Joyce, 13, aqd Jeanie. 11 got into the lion taming business in 11945 and J have been dying the lioh act everl since. - gg The couple, living near. the cats for §o long, have gotten to the point where they can pick out separate ' personalities for each creature. ' “They have their bad days and good days just like people,” says Kuhn, “and when you get to know them you can almost feel theiit ‘think - .” . ' , “What do they think ■ - ()h," says Kuhn nonchalantly; “how to get rid of whoever happens to be working them at the time.” •"Ever had any unusual expert ences with the toothy mob?" \ “Well,” says the eaptain with a gleam in his. eye. “I can remembef

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4* • — — the time one of them actually set a trap for me. biding his time until t\he moment was ripe for the attack. The'most amassing part of it is, though, that he whs In cahoots with . another lion . . . they both planned to make a meal out of me.” “W-what happened,” the bystandastounded bystander? Kuhn went on: /‘For weeks; I hadn’t noticed that at a certain point in the routine, when 1 had the lion lie dpwn in a certain spot, he moved up a few inches, so little, in fact, that 1 didn't notice. Gradually this wise baby iwa’s forcing |me closer and clpser buddy who was playing possum pn a platform, making out that he knew ffopi nothing. After about a week, the lion had me within leaping distance of the liotpon the platform. Thih, mind you. was without my slightest feeling that something was wrong. “W-what happened,” th ebystandI er asked, knees a’knocking. "One day.” he recounted with a , reminiscent voice, “the smart lion’s day had evidently arrived—(the buddy flexed his imdkcles for the death-leap... My > wife, Sharlena, notided something out of line and suddenly, though nothing had. happened, she yeiled for me to duck, and just as I Mid, a couple of hundred pounds of raging, gnashing jungle flesh cleared me by only inches. ' “Have you anyl parting thoughts, Sharlena. on this animal taming 1 business?” asked the wide-eyed by- ’ standee. “Just one,’": slaid the blonde I thoughtfully, “the more 1 associate i with people, the more 1 like the , eats.” ■ ;. ; I j v With that, the bystander kneeled to pat the Kuhn’s pet' dog on the head< and trudged off to find tamer pursuits, j | i “ ‘ ' —/rt it

Decatur Youth is Fined And Jailed Charles R. Johnson, 20. Decatur,; was fined $35 afrd sentenced to 10 : days in jail by: Alton L. Bloom/ Fort Wayne city court judge. Monday. Jol/sop Was Charged with driving while Iris operator's license was The Decatur -youth has it record of four reckless [driving , convictions i bejtwepi July IS. 1951, . and May 301 1952. Monday's. sentence ..resulted froth. property Aamagq.. resident hi Fort Wayne last Tlfbfßday. Fort Wayne .police said Johnson Went t<i Willshire, 0.. unjd bought an Ohio operator's license after his Indiana licence was suspended tin Mav. ; r -4/ / -jl

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Sirs! Eisenhower peech On August 5 To Speak To Annual Convention Os VFW [DENVER, (UP) — Dwight D.; Elsenhower’s first speech since title Republican national convention will he delivered in the huge Los Angeles Coliseum on Aug. 5,: it [Was announced today. : //[ The GOP presidential nominee Will address the 53rd annual enca npment of the- Veterans Foreign Wars. /./ | Arthur H. Vandenberg, Eis(en-' hbwer’s executive assistant, said the speech would be “non-pqlitical in nature.” But other members of Eisenhower’s staff conceded t tat he ween now and election day any speech made by the general Nov. 4 would have political’overtor es. . , - > ' Vandenberg said that "of course" Eisenhower would rettrh to California for c d a mpa I g n speeches after the whistle - stop : tqur begins in the early fall. The VFW will award Eisenhower its first annual Bernard M. Baruch miedal. This medal is to be giv?n each year to the person wlho “has made the greatest contribution to the cause of American;' unity and world peace.” The Eisenhower party will travel to and from Los Angeles via chartered airliner. Eisenhower had several political conferences scheduled for Ml is week before making his first addreks as a political candidate, Hb| had a liineheon engagement today wit i Sen, Hugh Butler of Nebr; ska. a staunclr- supporter of ,S(?n. Robert ,L Taft for the GOP ndn inatliln prior to Eisenhower's selection. \ ■ ! B .ttleij\ wanted to assure Else thower of full support in the fort t-, coming presidential* campaign. Hugh Baillie, president of tie Uni ed Press, spent a half-hot r' witl Eisenhower Monday renet, ing an old acquaintance, Balllie I knew Eisenhower in Europe du - ing Woi’ld War II Ll L-—” V ! riant Expansions Reported Abandoned | INDIANAPOLIS. UP The Ind ana! state Chamber of Commerce [said! today a survey showed plans ‘for more than $32.00(1,000 in plant ;ekp;msions atrd-capital outlays b; [Hoosier business firms were a'banhlonod because federal income tastes ncreased the last two years. 'The chamber said 107 firms abar[doned plans the Korean War parted. ' |

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Obtains $350 Loan, Contract Torn Up CHICAGO. UP — A young Chicago housewife made the kind. a loan most people dream about. : She didn’t have to pay it back. Mrs. Bernic'e C. Rod,riguez apI plied for a $350 loan at the Chicago National bank to pay medical expenses, The loan '[contract, after being duly approved, was torn up in celebration of the bank's ■ 35th anniversary of the founding | of its personal lending service.; , Indiana Democrats Plan For Campaign Candidates To Open Campaign On Sept. 1 INDIANAPOLIS. (UP) Indians Democratic candidates will open their fall campaign about Sept. 1. state ( hairman Charles E Skillen announced today. Skillen. and imost of the candidates conferred Monday. He said they agreed to carry their plan 4o voters scion after the Indiana Dem.ocratic editorial association’s fall meeting at French Lick. Aug. Gov. Adlai the party’s presidential nominee, has been invited to attend the French Lit k meeting, i Four candidates; - appellate court judge Warren M a r t i n ; Mishawaka Tkltiyor E. SjmncOr Walton, for lieutenant governor; Rep. Earl Uttejrback, for superins .tctKien: <■>!' public ills’i-.iction. ami Thomas ,W. Callahan. f«rr secre-. tary of state [were appointed to. a pubiiefty-spebker’s coordinating committed. Skillen Said Ur.ftis Hostetter, Lafayette, will assist the state .ommitteC.'s publieny depnutmeut and William (’. Wilson. Crawfordsville. head the pdrty's sjM>akers' hurt .in CHURCH REWS Church of God The regular j mid-week prUyer meeting or the Church of God will be) h< Id Wednesday at '7:30 with ?Robert G. Strickler, as leader. “Christians at end prayer meeting regularly!” i Yout'h and sanctuary choir will practice at S:3( p.in.\ with Mrs. Kenneth Watkifis and Mrs. Kenneth Roop as directors. The puhli - is nailed to all services. All Christians are members 'of the Church of\ God. See Acts fe 7 - p In four presidential elections, Franklin D. Roosevelt rolled up 1,- ■ S7,R electoral votjes against- a com’ > bined total of for his opponents.

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Call Scientists In On Flying Saucers Air Force Calls On Scientists To Aid WASHINGTON, (UP) - Those "mystery-objects” swooped in over; the capital again today as an aroused air force called in top Scientists to find out what flying, Saucers really are. j' The eiVif /aeronautics adminisj (ration traffic contro) ' center reported that its radar picked up; the objects, for about six straight hours early this morning. The object k, a CAA official said, were travelling abbpt 1(H) tq 120 miles an hour in a 10-hijle arc' around the capital, between Herndon. Va., and Andrews air forte base in nearby Maryland. It was in this same afea that . radar screens recorded the strange •■targets" the past two Saturday nights, setting-off a rash of .■ flying saucer”, rumors in the capital. ■ \ j■, Top air force brass has decided to'get to.the bottom of the mysteryt Forsaking an earlier attitude iheji are enlisting top scientists in that "tiiere ain’t no such animfrk" a nfejor new saucer ■.study,, it was learned today. ■ ;-A.,CAA official said the control < 'iijer radar first started picking i up the strange "blips” about 1:30 a. th. and that thejy continued showing up on the radarscope until 6 a. tn. this morning. At sortie 1 rimes, ho sigd, there Vere as many .js j i.-at to 12 of the objects on : i ■ scope ar rhe same time. . A pilot aboard an Eastern AitLines Constellation Was directed to c)ieck on the objects at about 3 a. m,. but he reported, he saw no lights despite a 15-mile visibility, Hie CAA official said the objects o from the radar screen when the plane was in the area where they had been tracked and "then came back in behind) him.” Nd jets' from the air defense command were sent up to chase d|iV new objects as pn Saturday. Then a jet pilot repotted sighting 'steady White lights” but . said his .übo-miieoin-hour 1 jet was unable to “close hi.” Asked why the ajr defense command had not been (alerted, the CAA official said “we wbre too busy with other things and besides those objects aren't hurting any- • j The official said the objects appeirfd mudh the same as on last Saturday night except that there was not, "quite as much definition” to the “blips.” He described the ('blips" as the smae kind ds made by an airplane but with "lighter, intensity.” ■ \ j The air force will rely primar-j ily on physicists for its-“flying

saucer” investigation. This is in line With a tentative opinion ah ready rear hed in some air force circles that the variously describe ed mystery objects in the sky actually are physical phenomena, however imperfectly understood up to now, rather than actual fly, ing discs. Terre Haute Police Braced For Rioting Fear Resumption Os Fighting At Plant TERRE (lAUTE. Ind., (UP) — Fifty l polled, armed with tear gas. stood reader today to quell any resumption iof rioting at the Allis Chalmers jplant where fighting) broke out Monday between rival union members. AFL forces, whose back-to-work movement started the brawl, kept a promise Ito state labor commissioner Thomasi R. Htitson that they wouldn't try to breach the CIO picket, lines. About 250 pickets and hangerson, anticipating more trouble. Atood afouid the plant entrance as time<or the day shift to report approached and passed. __ The picket lines w|ere tightened. Even women office workers were denied admission.' ; T > After the fight, jin which six per, sons were injured, four by knivgs. Mayor Ralph Tmxker asked the Allis Chalmers Co.- tb close the plant but tpe request was turned down. Martin L. Carson, general nnanaW' of the plant said the,firm is engaged in defense work and the “plant would stay open for all who wan: to work. i \ The pitched battle* began when About :t<' AFL workers massed and hurled a \ flying wedge dt t picket line of striking CIO United Amo Workers at the Allis Chalmers jot engine plant. In the mirdlej of the wedge were rebellious C3O workers who wished to return to their jobs. \ In the all-out fight that endued sik persons. *ere hurt, One seriously- . , |'' \\ Almost the entire. Terre: Haute “police force was alerted for possible titOUbld ditrina the night but none was reported; . ] . Lee Baker! public relations representative I for said Ije expected more trouble to day. > ■ I . "From a!) reports they’re going tor ire back today." he said, "appalently in increased Police said the Wedge was parMaljy successful. They estimated tliitt 34 of about 99 CIO wor kiers gained entra ice. into the plant but the rest weire turned back by the pickets O'Dwyer May Become Citizen Os j ) MEXICO s (‘ITY. UP — Ambassador Wilhajm \ O'Dwyer dropped hints to friepds today he may become a Mexican, citizen when he piits away his diplomatic dhds next 3an nary ■ . The fotrtie • New York mayor, nn extremely popular figure in this colorful land of sombreros ind serapCs,- x said the prospect of taking up permt Residence here was “attractive." L ’ Signpjosts Wanted GREENWICH. Conn. UP — Hhe Historical Society wived their flint locks when the town fathers decided tb remove the old towij signposts. William Finch qf the society sairl the posts "preserve the of the past.” Si.rnposts' are a nold-over from .early New England. Town notices s ill are tacked on them.

Legion Convention Ends Session Today Indiana Legion To Name New Officers i • FORT WAYNE, Ind. UP — Hoosier members of the American Legion planned to close their 34th annual convention today- with election of officers. \ '7 / t w There were no contests for the top state posts. John K. Chappell, Petersburg Attorney apd World War 11 veteran, , was unopposed to succeed Gilbert Hates, Warsaw, as state commander. A spokesman also expected

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didatesj for vice-commander to be unopposed. They are John Wilson, Bloomington, and Ira Lyon, Greenfield, for the southern district, and j Frank Floikowski, South Bend, and j John Adams, Huntington, in the Inorth. A .ciowd estimated at 50,000 watchejd the Legionnaires parade Monday night. It took two hours for th’eWne of marchers to pass the tr reviewing stand. j National commander Donald R. Wilson urged convention delegates to maintain the Legion’s fight against Communism. He said “eyes -of Jfll Communists will be on the ! Legion" at its national convention in New York late in August. v- ; l T ? '■ 1’ r”' ' * ■| < - Trade in a Gooff Town—Decatur.