Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L No. 180.

Large Crowds Continue At Decatur Fair Free Acts Changed Todays Horse Pulling Contests Planned Ry the thousands they came—aboU| 8,000, thinks the fair board, to take advantage of the only week in the year Decatur cuts loose. Roy Price, fair chairman, business is good for everybody—the people love it, it’s airy, roomy, there’s plenty to see and do. and >mdre than enough to choose from in the line of food, A number of state policemen wete; assigned to the fair grounds in addition to a regular patrol of city police—neither arm of the law, they report gratefully, has had tol use its authority since the fair came. Said one copJ: “they're well behaved and aren’t causing any disturbance at all—both local and carnival people.” z Last evening, there was a minor disturbance in the doodling outfit — somebody took sls, to be exact; the culprit got away. ; , or four people won fullsited ducks last night, quacks .and all. One fellow didn't quite Want tbi go home after he go£ the bird and a strange sight was provided as the fellow and hi# squawking white buck promenaded along the fairway, duck on a leash. Freddie, the—armless wonder at the freak show, draws and writes with his toes; at the end of his ! performance" be offers a mild, somewhat timid smile and says: “See what you can bo if you have to.” He then adds a genuine wish —“I hope you never have to.”. Helium-filled balloonsfloat above some of the more enterprising attractions permitting one from far across the fairway to spot it and go thither .. . . or is it hither. . .Each of the shows, rides and specialties is doing weH with very few exceptions. ’• |vj, ' ' V daptain Kuhn’s lion'act did "its last performance last night— and it as good as the first, fresh, daring and dangerous—a sure-fire formula for any fair anywhere. \ Walter Ford, secretary of the \ fair, reports that twd new free acts I will be moving in today. Unlike hie other free attractions, says Ford, these will be performed on the free act platform ...the raised affair from which the 4-H band has done its stuff since the fair opened Monday. Danny Daniels, the ope-man vaudeville ■ show performed at 3 o’clock with Comille’s courageous canines preceding it at 2. Always a knockout attraction at all of Decatur’s .ftiirs has been the horse-pUlling contest . . . this fair will be no different. Friday morning Sind' Saturday morning at 9 o’clock sharp, the muscle-men of the horse world will gather to haul hundreds of pounds of raw. dead-weight metal tor specified distances. “air officials expect record attendance at this one. VA man, it seems, takes particular pride in the accomplishments of an animal that becomes* more of a friend than a beast of burden after a; very short time. j Terre Haute Strike Negotiations Fail Strike Approaches To Thirteenth Week (

TERRE HAUTIp. UP — A strike of CIO United Workers at Allis-Chalmers Corp, plant approached its ,13th week today with a wage issue still blocking settlement. ; ; ■ Negotiations, broken off com- , pletely several weeks ago and renewed Wednesday at the suggestion of Allis-Chalmers President Wijliam A. Roberts/ Milwaukee, collapsed again Wednesday night. Roberts conferred with Mayor Ra|ph Tucker and the two men attended the first few minutes of the session. Both urged negotiators to settle the strike and resume pro- ’’ duction. After five hours of discussion, however, the meeting adjourned “subject to call by either party.” B. F. Coleman, company nego* tiating committee chairman, said the union refused to bargain on 'area rates and would discuss only aircraft rates. Coleman said no further meetings are planned. Union spokesman Frank Bartee r said the union was “ready andL willing to meet, any time the com/ pany cdlled.”

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Britain “Greets” New Ambassador I fiiv '***' ANDRIE GROMYKO (right), Soviet Russia’s new ambassador to Great Britain, Was greeted with shouts of *IGo home Gromyko” on his arrival in London. The Soviet ainbassadoT is shown being Interviewed at London’s Victoria Station Its he stepped from his train.

Bigges! Night Raid Batters Korea Factory 63 Superfortresses Wage Biggest Night Raid Os Korea War\ SEOjJL, Korea, 'UP — Lt. Gen. P. Weyland, Far East air commander, announced today American B-29s scored “good tp excellent" results in the biggest night raid of the War Wednesday' night on a factory only four niiles fronq Red China’s border. x Pilots and crews Os tae 63 participating Superfortresses from Okinawa and Japan said they saw their 600 tops of bombs “plaster” the Oriental Light Metals company plant, a recently-expanded North Korean aluminurp alloy factory just south of Sinuiju, near the mouth of the Yalu River. In addition to being the biggest night liombing raid, it was the greatest bomber attack on a single target in the War and the first major raid in the Yalu River area since U._ N. planes hit_the power plant June 23. All the B-29s returned safely de* spite opposition by Communist MIG-15; jets, propeller-driven fight* ers and radar-controlled 1 anti-air craft guns. | One Red propeller interceptor was shot down by airman 2C Julius W. Mqintel of Wheeling, W. ya., a central fire control gunner on one of the B*29’s. ' 1; The. bomber crews relied on electronic aiming devices and precision navigation to plaster the target. and to avoid flying over or bombing Manchuria. They rtlso were ordered |o avoid hitting about 300 buildings pear the factory.: which we.re t.believed to housecivilian workers./ The metal planjts had been under aerial Observation for abouta yehr. Civilian workers had been warned by leaflets dropped from Allied planes .to stay away from targets of this type. i ,j , ‘ On the. ground, heavy rains continued to slow operations. However, Allied foot soldiers slithered through the mud ito take back an advance position northwest of Yon--dhon which had been’ lost to' the Communists July 28.

FAIR PROGRAM Thursday Night 8 p. m. —-Comille’s dbg :show. 9 p. m.-—Danny Daniels, one man vaudeville show. 10 p. rr». —Jaque Teeter 1 , hig’n wire act. Friday Morning ' j I ■ 9 a. m.—Judging Brown Swiss’ show. 9a. m.—Horse pulling contest. r th Friday Afternoon "i'l, 1 p. m.—Judging Jersey show.' 2 p. m.—Comille’s dog show. 3 p. m.—Danny Daniels oneman vaudeville show. 4p. —Jaque Teeter, hign wire aict. Friday Night 8 p. m.—Comille’s dog show. 9 p. m.—Danny Daniels onemar vaudeville show. 10 p. m.—Jaque Teeter, high wire act. J —4— ■I '■ I ’ Il 1 ■ ■ -I 1 INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Friday. A little warmer Friday afternoon. Low tonight 54-62 north, 63-67 south. High Friday 84-88.

Rabbit Show Champs At Fair Announced Winders Are Listed For Decatur Fair ■ ■ I '■ . . \ \ Bunnies, big. ones, little ones, nosfes a'tw itching, came into their own at th< Decatur fair Wednesday to demonstrate to the bunny-loving audience vhat it takes to raise a prize winding long-ear. A multitude of prizes were awarded beginning with: California Jr. doe —first, Theo. C. Grotrain; second, Thurman L. Baker; third, Herbie Bros. The scorecard as the prizes -.were givdn was as follows: Creme D’Argent Jr. doe—first, Van Horn Bros; second also taken by Van Horn' Bros. The best opposite— Van Horn Hrqs. . .. Creme D'Argent Jr. buck—first, Van Horn pros. Creme D'Argent Sr, doe—first, Van Horn Bros. Cd.eme D’Argent Sr. buck—first, Hebbiq Bids; second. Hebble Bros. Best-of-bneed —Hebble Bros. New Zealand Red Jr. buck —first, Mr. and Mns. Russell King of Warreh; 1 also winners of the second prize. I Nqw Zealand Red Jr. doe —first, sepond and third, Mr. and Mrs. Russell King. Best-of-bneed —Mr. and Mrs. Russell King. ' , _ . Fawn Flemish,- six and eight month \buck- — first, and second, Everett C. pingleton. Chanipaigne D’Argent Sr. doe — first: and second,. Hebble Bros;; third, Theo C. Grotrian; fourth, Hebble Bros. Pes^of-breed—Hebble Bros. Champaigne D’Argent Jr. doe — first and second. Hebble Bros. (thpcolate Dutch Jr. doe —first, Thurman L. Baker; second, CoxBoroff of Montpelier, O.; third, Sidney and Michael Beery; fourth, Cox-Bor off. Best opposite—Thurman I. Baker. Chbcolate Dutch Sr. buck—first, Cox-Boroff; second, Sidney and Michael Beery. Best-of-br ;ed —Cox-Boroff. Chocolate Dutch Jr. duck I—Hubert Njtzsclie of Fort Wayne. Blue Dut;h Sr. doe —Cox-Boroff. i, Black Dutch Jr. doe —first, CoxBoroff; second, Hebble 8r05.% Black Dutch Sr. buck—Alvin C. McKeeman of Fort Wayne. Black Dutch Jr. buck —first, CoxBoroff; second, Herbert Nitzsche, Tortoise Dutch Sr. buck —CoXBoroff. * Tortoise butch Jr. buck —CoxBqroff. \ Tortoise Dutch ' Sr. doe—CoxBoroff. j ' Tortoise tDutch Jr. doe —CoxBoroff firdt and second. Grey Duitci Jr. doe —first, Hubert Nitzsche; second, Cox-Boroff; third, Hubert Nitzsche. New Zealand White Jr. doe —first and second, Ardon Mosser. New Zealand White Pre-Jr. —Van Horn Bros. '* New Zealand Jr. buck —Ardon Mosser. ' New Zealand* White Sr. buck — first, Mr. ant Mrs. Russell B. King; second,' Arden Mosser; thfrd, Van Horji Bros.- ‘ £T New Zeala id whjte Sr. doe —first, Van Horn Bros.; second, Ardon Mosser; third, Everett C. Singleton: fourth, Ardon Mosser. Best opposite—Van Horn Bros. 1 New Zealand. 'White 8-month doe \ —first ' and second, Everett C. Singleton; third, Anjon Mosser; fourth, Everett C. Singleton. NeW Zealand White 6-8 month buck—first. Mr. and Mrs. Russell B. King; second, Everett C. Singleton. - » Best-of-breqd—Mr. and Mrs. Russell B. King. White Rex Sr. doe—Albin C. Mc(Tura T® Pace KUrht)

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 31, 1952.

Atom Energy Group In Report On Progress In Regular Report

Egypt Removes Its Censorship Os Newspapers Abolition Os All Titles Seen Move Toward Democracy CAIRO, Egypt. (UP) — Egypt •lifted military censorship of its newspapers today and moved closer to democracy with abolition of all titles. Military censorship of the dor mestic press, which began during y the Palestine war in 1948. was liftg ed at 9 a. m. 1 a. m. CST. Cem a sorship of press cables addressed abroad continued, but also may I- be lifted soon. The Cairo press hailed the gov- !. ernment’s abolition of the titles of i. pasha and bey as a progressive step [toward democracy. Al Ahre am called it “one of the greatest decisions of the new order ” The decision to do away with J titles was announced Wednesday night by Aly Maher, f who became i premier after Maj. Gen. Mohammed Naguib 4 ’s military coup last , week. Naguib said, however, that .. Egypt would continue a constitu- , tlonal mondrcTFf. The Cairo .city \ government has , proposed to Naguib that the KoUb- • beh and Mohatpmed Ali palaces be converted into national mu- . seums and their extensive grounds ■ into public parks. It also propos--1 ed that Abdine Palace be made the Caird citly hall. . Unformed sources said author!* • ties were planning to form committees of legal experts to make - inventories of the contents of the four royal palaces in Cairo and t Alexandria and assess their value. The government modified Egyptian law to permit foreign invest- • drs.to own 51 percent instead of ; 49 percent df any company oper- , ating in Egypt. American oil iompanies which had pulled out of Egypt after enactment of the 49 - percent law may return. The government also released . prisoners convicted during depos- - qd King Farouk’s regime of of- • fending the monarch. ‘ .

Two Butler Men Die As Auto Overturns AUBURN, Ind. UP — Louis Pepper, 31, and Oscar E. Rhodes, 58, bioth of Butler, died in Souder here Wednesday of injuries suffered when the car in which they were riding overturned on U. S. 6, about a mile east of the Indiana-Ohio state linp. Von Arnold Winner In Tractor Pulling ' Second Os Contests Is Held Wednesday The tractor pulling contests at tlie Decatur fair continued for the second day in! succession to see seven light heavyweight tractors vie for honors on the now deeply gutted pulling area. Here are the results: Von Arnold, working an Oliver 88j, took first; [place tugging 125.6 percent above its own weight. Hugo Bulmahn, in his Oliver 77; pulled next with 120.9 percent over its weight. Orville Neuenschwander in. a Co-Op pulled 9j.9 percent over its weight.. Alvin Krueckeberg, next in a Farmall with a close 91.6 percent. A John Deeta driven \by Verh Macke scored 76.2 percent more than its bulk. Raymond Beecher,, in a Farmall, hauled 68.9 percept plus its weight. James Smith, in his Ford, rounded the session with a pull of 59.7 percent over weight.

Moderate Quake In Southern California Termed After-Shock Os Big Temblor , LOS ANGELEJS, UP— A “mod* erate’’ earthquake shook Southern California today but experts said it was merely another Os the big tembler which rocked the area,, killing 13 persons, 11 days ago. / \ Today's quake jarred thousands of jittery residents into wakefulness at 5:09 a. m. PDT. They said it was the sharpest after-shock since Tuesday. Seismologists at nearby California institute of Technology in Pasadena. described the afterst»ock as ‘ moderate” hut said they wbuld have td check* their instruments to determine its exact inV tensity. ' ; The tembler gave Los Angeles only >a gentle jolt and Went unnoticed in the police. station at Long Beach’, Scene of\ a tragicquake In 1933. The sheriff's office in Bakersfield, hardest hjt by the week-long series of after-khocks followjng thd main quake iof July 21, described the tremor as a “pretty' fair little jolt.” Hollywood police reported, the tremor caused lights in the station tw ’Tlick-er a hit”- -but did not appear hard dnough to cause damage. Street lights went out in one section of East Pasadena. The main quake and the afertshocks have been the result of shifting in the Bear Mountain (Tnr» To Pace Riaht) Judging Results In Guernsey Show Judging Os Cattle Continues At Fair Cattle judgifig continued at the Decatur fair with Guernseys in (he spotlight showing off the outcome of their breeding to W. W. Yapp, gives a thorough explanation Os each and every point before he makes a decision. First judged were male classes of cattle with the following results: ' \

Three-year-old bull—first, Peter B. Lehman. Two-year old bull 3 —first, Parmerlee Place. Jr. yearling bull —Purviance and Cartwright. Sr. calf —Rhany farms. Jr. champion—Rhany farms. Sr. champion—i Peter B. Lehman. Grand champion—Peter B, Lehman. Reserve champion—Peter B. Lerman. Female Classes Jr. calf-«-Peter B. Lehrtian. Sr. calf —first, Parmerlee \[Place; second, Peter B. Lehman; third, Parmerlee Place. Jr. yearling—first, Rhany farms; second,, Peter ,B. Lehman; third Linda Lee Brubaker; fourth, pArmerlee Place; fifth, Peter B. Lefman. , ’ ’ Sr. yearlings first. Peter B. Lerman: second, Parmetlee Place. Two-year-old cow S—first, Peter B. Lehman; second, Peter B. Lehman. Three-year-old dows —first, Parmerlee Place; second, Peter B. Lehman. Four-year-old cows—first, Parmerlee Place. r Five-year and older—first, Parmerlee Place; second, Peter B. Jr. champion—Peter B, Lehman. Sr. champion—Parmerlee Place. Grarid champion — Parmerlee Place. Reserve champion — Parmerlee Place. Jr. get-of-sire—Peter B. Lehman. Produce of dam —Peter B. Lehman. William H. Kohne & Son showed their Red Poll cattle as previously scheduled, but due to a lack of contestants in this class, judging was cancelled.

Stevenson To Chart His Own Campaign Plan Democrat Nominee To Plan His Own Campaign Strategy SPRINGFIELD, 111. UP —Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson charted his course for the 1952 presidential campaign today without promising unswerving allegiance to the ■White House programs of the last 20 years. The Illinois governor was relying on the polished professionals of the Democratic national committee to prepare his campaign itineraries, * after consulting with them and vice-presidential nominee Sen. John J. Sparkman of Alabama. But he planned to base the tone and nature of his campaign on his own ideas. “I propose to run my campaign, as far as the ideas and conterit of the speeches are concerhed, entirely myself,” he said. Stevenson, who was “drafted" for the Democratic presidential nominatioh last week, even assumed that' he would have “some control over! the icampaign plans of President Trtiunan, who has promised to stump the country for the governor. \ o Stevenson has not yet prepared a blueprint for a campaign organization —a job hd hopes to finish in the next two weeks. He did, however, give some indication of his views during a news conference under an ash tre,e on the lawn of the state executive mansion Wednesday. The governor was asked if he felt he would have any control over other Democrats engaged in the campaign and if he might be able to control how much Mr. Truman campaigns in his behalf. “The President has offered every cooperation, and I would assume I might have some control over that," Stevensdn said. “I think there are a good many others involved . . . There will be, I believe, a great deal of coordination required for this effort and I’m sure it can and will be satisfactorily achieved.” .\ - The nominee was asked if he (Turn To Page Klubt)

More Steel Arrives For New City Plant Deliver Steel For k Plant's South Wall | Due to a lack of steel to act as bracing for the south temporary wall of the new light and power plant now going up at Seventh and Dayton streets, the wall ruptured about a month ago, leaving the wall bulging and out of line. A representative of the firm of Emery, Marker and Emery, Toledo engineers, issued a statement absolving the Yost Construction Co. pf any neglect and in fact being one of the superior outfits in this area. The engineer stated the wall buckled because of a number of factors, foremost of which was the steel holdup in the fabricating plant. L. C. Pettibone, city power and light superintendent, today announced that steel for the south wall has 7 been delivered and- is in the process of being installed as rapidly as possible. Pettibone,, in ipaking the announcement, pointed out that the rise in thq of steel —which was announced yesterday as going to average of over $5 a ton—will have no effect on the steel at the lighi and power plant. Pettibone sai(| that Yost had been cut in theß price of steel and, therefore, the cut was passed on to the city, an announcement of this was made at the last meeting of the city council.

Long Period Until Production Normal Faimal Permission For Steel Increase ' PITTSBURGH, UP — Production continued to climb toward pre-strike levels In the nation’s steel industry today, but consumers faced a long period <of shortages until supplies- reached normal. i Industry sources said it would j be at least two weeks before a high operating rate is achieved, despite the rapid resumption of production at most mills. A defense department official soundbd a further word of warning to steel buyers Wednesday when he said it would be necessary for the military to take twice as much steel for the next six months to rebuild war production. With the industry pledged to aid the government in this task, civilian consumers w&l get that much less for their own use. - While the fight for steel grew, the government formally granted permission for thesprice increase sought by the industry in return for a pay hike to the 650,000 United Steel workers. The qffice of price stabilization, headed by Ellis Arnall. signed an order permitting a $6.20 a ton increase on carbon steel and more oh alloy types. U. S. Steel already has boosted its prices by the amount \granted in the OPS order and other big steel companies were epected to follow suit. r' . Copters Evacuate Marooned Troops SOMEWHERE IN KOREA, UP — Twenty helicopters evacuated 800 United Nations troops today after the rain-tewollen Pukhan river. marooned them at a quartermaster service center. , The airlift began at noon and lasted four hours. It was ordered because the center’s officers believed the "water too deep to risk having the men wade to safety. The troops had one day’s “A” rations and one - day’s “C” rations and day’s supply of water left

Hold Gloomy Views On Truce In Korea Negotiators Keep Machinery Moving PANMUNJOM, Korea, (UP,) — Both the United Nations and the Communists took gloomy views of the; chances for an earlv truce in Korea today, Hut staff officers kept the atfnistice machinery in motion by haggling over petty changes in the proposed cease-fire agreement. \ Radio Peiping, propaganda voice of Red China, joined Bth army commander Gen. James A. Van Fleet in taking a pessimistic view of the prospects for agreement, but for different reasons. ' Van Fleet told a press conference Wednesday there is “less chance” of an armistice than ever before. His reasons! were that the Reds had survived a hard winter, are id a position to attack if they want to, and have thinned out their lines, making it harder for the U, N. to deliver punishing air and artillery blows at concentrated troops. He indicated only “military pressure” cou!4 force the Reds to come to terms. i . Radio Peiping said American “tactics” at Panmunjom, such as the current seven-day recess in high-level truce talks and prisoner screenings, have "driven the talks into the most, serious crisis since they began.” It said the U. N. has employed “underhanded means to destroy the hope of an armistice.” Again it accused Washington of seeking to prolong and extend the Korean war. ■Another meeting of staff officers will\ be held Friday (8 p. m. today CST.) \

Price Five Cente

Production Os * A-Bombs Mounts Steadily Here Semi-Annual Report To Congress Keeps Most Details Secret WASHINGTON, UP r- The atomic energy commission made public today a semi-annual report which gives Russian spies much to worry about—but not much to send home. The report to congress said, in effect, that the U. S. atomic program is doing just fine: A-bomb production is “increasing” steadily. “Substantial progress” has been made this year in perfecting new types of weapons. Larger supplies of uranium ore are pouring in from Canada and western United States, and new sources are opening up in Australia and South Africa. Headway is being made on development of atomic planes and submarines. But the diligent Soviet agent who rushes over to the government printing office to buy a copy dr the report will be hard put to get 50 cents? worth of details. The secusity-conscious AEC for a long time has been putting less and less in its public’ reports, and K this time it. carried the process to its logical conclusion. For example, the report did. not once mention the hydrogen bomb, which informed sources have said is about ready for testing. Nor was there any allusion to the new types of tactical atomic weapons, for battlefield use, tested in Nevada this spring. There was just this one sentence to comfort patriots and confound the enemy: “For reasons of security,' it is impossible here to specify the record of accomplishment in weapons development but it may be stated that substantial progress was made.” Like all >. its predecessors, the AEC report conveyed the news that more A-bomb explosives were turned out during the .past six months than during the six months before that. With a $3,500,000,00(7 expansion, program in the works, and all present plants operating at full blast, it is safe to predict the next report also will tell of “increasing” output. Encouraging outcroppings < f uranium ore were found an the Black Hills of South Dakota—a new re-gion-while the old faithful Colorado plateau was found to contain uranium over a broader reach than previously suspected, including the Navajo Indian reservation of Arivona and the area around Grants, N. M. The AEC disclosed that it has signed an agreement with Australia to supply uranium to the United States, but there was no indication what tonnages might be forthcoming.! The report also revealed that the first of several uranium plants being constructed in South Africa “is nearly ready to start production.” J —- h , • : Indiana Taps Nation In Bond Sale Gain INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Indiana led the nation in its, percentage of gain in bond sales for June over the same period last-year, the U.S. Savings Bond division office announced today. Hoosiers registered a sales gain of 45 percent in all series of defense bonds, the office said. The spurt in bond sales was attributed to increased investment yields and to the renewed interest the volunteer bond Organizations in the state have shown in the newly improved Unied States securities.