Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 186, Decatur, Adams County, 7 August 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 186;

Funds Alloted To Two Stalest Hit By Drought President Allots Three Milliori In Emergency Funds 1' 1 WASHINGTON. 3PP~ President Truipan today alloted 13.000,000 in emergency funds to provide feed for dairy and beef herds in d rough t-stricken and Tennessee. . 1 ' Both states previously had , been declared disaster areas. Mr. Truman told a news enee- the relief program wil| be handled by the housing and home finance agency and v the department :of agriculture. He said Tennessee and Kentucky have been the hardest hit but “as Other states ask for help, they will get immediate consideration.” The 'President, said he actec| at the -request of Govs. Lawrence W’etherby of Kentucky and Gord- // on Browning, of Tennessee. ' Mr. Truman in a statement said “the federal government is going Jo do everything it can “t° belp the farmers in jithose areas.” He said “the department of pg- ' riculture, underwits own authority has already , recognized disaster . conditions in 10 states arid is offering the credit and other assist- ,? ance.” 7 -J Burned up pastures and scorch- . ed hay crops have" put a premium on feed and threaten ruinous livestock losses in Tennessee and Kentucky. Mr. Truman mentioned distribution of the $3,000,000 pn “reasonable terms,” indicating the program would not be on the outright giveaway basis as was the case of (operation haylift which .the government undertook to feed battle stranded by Kansas and Missouri floods last year. J; Secretary of agriculture Charles F. Brannan had -anticipated the President’s action. Brannan said while the dryspell has been * disastrous to southern farmers* he does not think it will have any “real impact” on food prices< or the nation’s food supply.' He said that the chief crops damaged have been tobacco and cotton. z The disaster Vlabel now covers the parched states of Tennessee. Alabama, Gbbfgia, Kentucky, Mississippi.* Smth • Carolina? North Carolina as well as +4 counties in \ Missouri, Maine and Massachusetts. ' ' t ■ 1,-.; .. ■ v Few Workmen Return -» I To Struck Factory Small Band Returns To Terre Haute Plant TERRE HAUTE, rind. (UP) — A small band ofjybrkmen returned to their jobs' at the strikebound Allis-Chalmers jet engine plant today under the watchful ejies of. 100 uniformed polibe and firemen. There was no recurrence of a skirmish which erupted from a , similar back-to-work movement last week, in which six men were injured. Police chief Frank Riddle said police wrire alerted that some CIO-UAW workers would attempt to reenteJ the plant. He estimated 10 did. [ Pickets who /have marched around the plant/ sincp the strike started 13 weeks) ago were order’ed away from gates by police. They saw fellow workmen enter the plant gates in automobiles but did not try to interfere. It was believed the men who returned to work were the same 10 who asked Mayor Ralph Tucker for police protection Wednesday. They expressed a desire\ to go back to work at that time. Neither management nor labor had plans for negotiations in attems>t4 to settle the dispute, now hinged almost solely \on a whge issue. Federal labor conciliator Arthur Ingles said there ‘is “no outlook for settlement.” State labor commissioner Thomas; R, Hurtson agreed the situation H'just 'deosn’t look good” ( but added he would keep trying to settle the strike a,nd thereby assure completion of the $10,000,000 plant which would employ 3-.000 to 4,000 persons. About 340 now are on strike. Meanwhile,' a 22-week-old strike of 80 AFL members at the Unique Printed Products Co. here reached an end. General manager M. A. Denny said workers agreed to return to their jobs to--1 ? (Tuts T® Page Five)

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Gals Jump As Vets Play | . El I I ar * EgJW ■ I ALFRED HASINGER, Legionnaire from Ford City, Pa„ uses a noise- , maker to make two girls squeal and junlp away from the •Strafford Hotel entrance in Philadelphia. Other Legionnaires, watching the horse-play, are in Philadelphia for the organizations 34th annual state convention. The victims shown are Evelyn Orowitz and Susan Lee, bdth of Philadelphia.

British Fear Communists' 0 ! ( , I A■■ p■■ Coup In Iran ■ Churchill Convenes His Cabinet Into Special Meeting • LONDON, UP — Prime Minister Winston Churchill convened a special meeting, today ' to discuss-the “vety grim” prospects of a Communist coup in Iran. Britain was renorsea preparing new proposals for a -settlement of the Anglt/iranian oil dispute in an attempt to keep Iran from falling to thie Reds. | “The latest reports from Tehran indicate tl?e 'situation is becoming very grim."” a foreign office spokesman said. r.The spokesman said reports from Tehran by British and American officials coincided and anxiety was mounting in both countries. Churchill and his ministers planned to assess the Situation and determine whaty if anything, can be done, to forestall any Red grab for power. ; ' The government was believed to be in close touch with the United States on the Red threat and the two powers presumably would act together. The U-S. has helped arm and train the Iranian army arid has made Iran a key country in its point four economic assistance program. Reliable sources Said sudden British naval movements in the Mediterranean last week end were prompted more by the deteriorating situation ip Dan than by developments in Egypt, as first suggested. 1 , Kashani Elected TEHRAN, Iran, UP — Fanatical religious leader Seyed Ayatullah Kashani wari eledted speaker of the house of parliament today after m uproar caused by approval of a motion to- release the assassin of forrrier premier Aly Razmara. Kashani; Irpn’s mpst. powerful religions leader, was elected by 3? votes to 10 wit|h five abstentions. The 10 votes went to deputy Abdulla. M azami. , The house recessed briefly when an uproar began over a motion by 3D deputies to release the assassin of Razmara. JV’hen the session resumed, the motion was approved amid a new round of shouted arguments, ( j\The motion said the assassin, a Moslem religiciins fanatic, should be released because “Razmard’s treachery is ebvibus to the Iranian natidni” The slaying": of the proBritish premier touched off the Anglo-Iranian crisis. Razmara was assassinated in IT.ra To l*ac® Six) I ■ - I Democrat's Editor Home From Cruise y Arthur R. Holthouse, editor of the Decatur Daily Democrat, arrived home Wednesday afternoon after completing an eight-week? tour with the midshipman’s training cruise,; as the guest of the United States navy. . 7 ; The newspaperman was' quartered on the USS Wisconsin on the lengthy! cruise. A feature article written by the editor as the cruise neared'its completion, will be published by the Daily Democrat within a few days. I ' i

Southern Democrats Backing Stevenson Sen. Russell Sees Stevenson Victory SPRINGFIELD, 111. I§> — Gov. Adlai Stevenson found his right flank secure today and moved to strengthen his left. The ccjnservatlvei southern wing of the Democratic party appeared to be falling in line behind Stevenson’S candidacy for the presidency. While there was never any qiuestion that the northern liberal wing was committed to \l/im, Stevenson conferred today with two, of its leading spokesmen. \; He needs strength in the north, too. ; The two new callers were mutual security administrator Averhll Harriman, who ran fourth in early balloting for the Democratic presidential nomination, and Sen. Blair Moody of Michigan. Moody; a “young Turk” liberal Democrat, proposed the “loyalty” bledge which almost drove the squth out of the national convention last month. Another Stevenson caller. Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia, had some angry comments Wednesday on the Moody loyalty pledge. “The south is Democratic and is going to stay that way,” Russell told reporters. “They’ (Jon’t proposri to be driven out of the house of their -fathers by a group Os newcomers.” F Harriman, Moody and Russell, /ill in Sipringfield at the invitation of Strivenson, were overnight guests at the Illinois executive mansioh. All three sat l and talk- 1 .ed to 'Stevenson under a bright moon in the walled garden of the mansion Wednesday night. Russell, first to arrive, conferred at length with Stevenson Wednesday. Backed by most of the sopth, he ran third throughout the convention balloting which ended with the nomination of Stevenson for president. After; the Stevenson-Russell conference, the two men emerged to tell reporters that they were not afraid of the possibility of a southern bolt from the party this yean | > \ . StCvenson said he was delighted by the action Os South Carolina Democrats, who endorsed him at Wednesday’s state convention. ' ; Russell reported that he had told Stevenson v he the Democratic nominee to carry all Southern states. He did say, however, he also expects Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican nominee, to show more strength in the south than any GOP candidate in recent years. The Georgia senator also predicted Stevenson will be elected in November by one of. the larg<Tnr® To Pare Elsht) J Legion To Install Officers Monday New officers of Adams Post 43, American Legion, will be formally installed Monday night at 8 o’clock, with Charles Fraze, new fourth district commander, as the Installing officer. Don Cochran will be installed as commander of the local post, succeeding Robert Ashbaucher,' who has served for the past year. Refreshments will be served follow'ing the meeting and *ll members are urged to be present.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 7, 1952

May Call Congress Into Special Session To Deal With Increase In Prices

Allied Planes Continue To Wreak Havoc / ; ■ j •’ Four Enemy Planes Destroyed And Five Others Are Damaged SEOUL, Korea, (UP) -p Swift American Sabrejets knocked four Communist MIG-15 jet planes out of the skies and' damaged five others today in high altitude air duels over North Korha. ijj On 1 the ground, hard-fighting South Korean infantrymen pushed' Chinese troops off vital Capitol Hill on th*e Central Front. It was the sixth time th# height has changed hands since Thursday. Sevehty-s\ix Sabres clashed with 120 MIGs in seven air /battles, several of them taking place near Sinuiju, only a few miles' south of the Yalu River boundary between North Korea and j Manchuria. The nine MlGri shot down or damaged today brought the toll of enemy jets for August to 41. Dogged Republic of Korea soldires of the famed capitol division fought a see-saw battle-tor control of the key hill west <>f the Pukhan river on the central front. \ The hill changed hands for the sixth time early today as the Korean infantrymen smashed to the top and regained control. During the day. Allied fighterbombers and\ artillery kept up a ner.ve-shattering series of Attacks on the Chinese' to keep them from counter-attacking the U. N. defenders. The South Korean attack b«gan at 5 a. m. and three hours later 1 had knocked the Chinese Off the crest. ' *•' Earlier today, the Comhfiuhists had won control and had driven on to the U. N.’s main line. They were driven back. The attack that brought the Reds temporary possession of the hill whs preceded by a 24-hour mortar and artillery barragp, during which the Reds fired 9..000 shells. It was one of the heaviest barrages of the Korean war. William H. Engle Dies This Morning Retired Rural Mail Carrier Dies Today William F. Engle, 73, well known Decatur man and retired rural mail earlier, died unexpectedly,^presumably of a heart attack, at Ferndale, Mich., this morning. Mr. Engle was vacationing at Ferndale with a son, John Engle, of Bryan, O. A lifelong resident of Decatur, Mr. Engle was born in Adams bounty Feb. 14, 1879, a son of John D. and Sarah Barnett-Engle, and was married to Mary EL Walters Oct. 19. 1903. His Wife died in 19i\34. Mr. Engle was a member of the First Christian church and the Loyal Order of Moose. Surviving are two sons, John A. of Bryan, 0., and lyilliam L. Engle of Dayton, O.; twoj daughters, Mrs. Milton Swearingen of Decatur/ and Mrs. Dick Durkin of Niles, Mich.; three grandchildren; one brother, Leo E. Engle of Monroe, and two sisters, Mrs. Sam D. Johnston of Rome City and Miss Ev;a E. Engle of Monroe route 2. \Two sifters preceded Kim in death. ! t Funeral wi|l be donducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Black funeral home, with burial in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock Friday evening. Rural mail carriers out of the Decatur post office will serve as pallbearers. INDIANA WEATHER , \ Fair tonight. Friday mostly fair and warmer. Low tonight - 58-64. High Friday 82-88.

Reds Making Issue Os Alleged Shelling Charge Panmunjom Shelled By Allies PANMUNJOM/ Korea, (UP)—Gommunist propagandists warned today that the refusal 61 the Nations to Investigate an alleged Allied shelling of Panmuujom wag, a “seroius violation” of (he agreement to keep the -truce village a neutral zone. The Communists seemed intent on making an issue of the shelling, wheih they said took place last Saturday. Four pieces of shrapnel were found. V Communist and United Nations security officers made an on-the-spot'check, but the U. N. turned down Red demands for a formal joint investigation on the ground there w%s! no evidence the shell fragments came from U. N. guns. The Communist Radio Peiping reported Red staff officers delivered a note on Wednesday to Allied staff officers again demanding a formal investigation. Tfhe broadcast quoted the note as ■ sayipg: ■ “If is impossible for you to deny the agreement violation in the incident of Aug. 2 in which your ground forces shelled the conference site.” ’ ' • „ Tbe broadcast claimed that “■wHiresses*’ testified' the shells canie’ from Allied; lines. It concluded by saying, “it will be a serious agreement violation” if the ( U. N. refuses the investigation. • Peiping charged Wednesday Allied Jet fighters also violated the neutral zone by flying over it /three times. The broadcast said the Allies a request to investigate. j Ttuce negotiations have bden recessed until Monday. \ i . ' ' ' . - Mad Killer Sought By Chicago Police " Hammer Killer Is Sought In Chicago CJJICAGO, UP — Police patrol cars cruised through the narrow streets of Chicago’s near north side today searching for a hamper killer who threatened to kill again and begged, “Stop me, for God’s gake, before it’s ! too late.” The dragnet was thrown out after a man wearing a “light” suit confronted two women at a streetcar stop 'and told them, “I have killed a man with a hammer and I know how to take care of myself.” > • The killer had police scurrying all over the city Wednesday night and early today when he made fivd phantom telephone calls to headquarters and threatened to invade two swunk hotels in his quest for blood. Officers found the battered body of Tom Acton, 35, Birmingham, Ala., in a dingy hotel room after, a man with a voice described as “raspy? with a whine” called and said they would “fipd something in the room. \ I The: homicide squad was trying to locate Robert Moore, 35, who had registered in the hotel room with Acton. He was described as wearing a “light gray” suit and had borrowed a claw hammer from a hotej Jnaid. Acton was beaten to death with a claw hammer. TheSjtwo women reported to a foot patrolman that they were 'approached by a man about 35 years old, who wore a “light” suit. They said lie acted “crazy” and told them be had killed a man with a hammer. The women said they dismissed him jas an idiot and boarded their' car. On the streetcar they opened a newspaper and read of Acton’s slaying/the women said. They immediately reported the incident, but the foot patrolman let them slip away without getting their names. In his second telephone call, the (Tun. To P««e El t kt)

Military Body Is Set Up For Pacific Defense Anzus Conference i Ends As Resistance ~ Campaign Mapped \ ‘ J' .—■ HONOLULU, T. H. UP —Pacific mutual defense treaty makers got , “off to a good start” today in their campaign to resist; Communist aggression. 1 Top diplomats from the United States, Australia and New Zealand ended their historic three-day conference at midnight after setting up a permanent military body to work out resistance plans. “We have got. this thing off to a good start,” secretary of state Dean, Acheson said. “Everyone is pleased with this meeting.” Before announcing formation of the military group, the foreign ministers of the three conferring nations made plain • they con- , sjdered Communist China the greatest threat to and ‘security in the Pacific. I Acheson and the external affaire ministers of the other two countries concluded the conference, designed to implement the Anzus treaty signed in San Francisco last September, by agreeing not to at- . tempt to establish (formal relationships with other Pacific states at this time. The establishment of the military organization to function under the council was considiered. the major accomplishment of /he sessions.. Adm; Arthur W. Radford, com-mander-in-chief of tjhe U.S. Pacific flqet, w’as the first member named to the military group. The Australian and New Zealand members will be named later, reportedly because their foreign ministers wanted to consult home government# first. In a joint communique, Acheson announced along with Australia’s Richard G. Casey land New Zealand’e T. Cliftdn 'lVebb that the military organization would hold “an early meeting” in Honolulu. At the first meeting and subsequent annual sessions the military body will work out details of the machinery which will function under the defense pact binding the three great English-speaking nations of the Pacific.; , The diplomats agreed that mem- ( bers of the council would “continue ( to keep in close touch through ex- ( isting channels with other states . concerned to preserve peace in the < Pacific Airea.” j- • • ' : ■ I . ~ ' h•' ' 'V'-- I ~ ■ ' •; ( i U. S. Steel, Union Talks Are Recessed . ' I Bethlehem Second 1 Producer To Sign < PITTSBURGH, UP —Represent- 1 atives of U. S. Steel: Corp, and the 1 CIO United Steelworkers said to- 1 day that negotiations on a new' ' contract have been recessed until 1 a date to be announced later. A spokesman for the company ’ said negotiators mejt at two ses- ' sions Wednesday and that the talks were recessed late Wednesday night. He refudpd to say , whether any progress had been 1 made. . ( With the temporary postponement In talks here it was announced in New York that Bethlehem < Steel ; Co. had become the second I major steel producer! to sign a union contract embodying terms of < the interim agreement which end- 1 ed the nationwide sjeel strike. ] The Bethlehem agreement, which runs until June 30, 1054, gives em- 1 ployes a 12%cent hourly wage in- '« crease, six paid holidays a year, i increased shift payments and oth- li er benefits. The wage increase is 1 retroactive to March 1. j

Propose Two-Cent Hospifal Tax Cut , Four-Cent Levy Is Proposed In Budget The annual tax levy for the Adams county memorial hospital will be two cents lower in 1953 than in 1952, when six cents per SIOO of valuation was levied. For the first six months of this year, the hospital took in $87,693 for room rentals and so forth. They spent, for the first six Jnonths $93*020.16, a deficit of $5,327.16., In lieu of the increased income |he tax levy will be from six cents to four cents per SIOO of valuation. Official soirees feel that the gopd record shown by the hospital fiscally, is due to the increased room rates in force since the beginning of the year. i The hospital is operating on a budget of $187,701 —for next year they request $200,561, about a $12,000 difference. A study of the budget reveals a raise in the estimates tor telephone and telegraph cooks 1 salaries, foods ahd office supplies.* The greatest single group of items calling for an increase is in supplies and materials of all kinds — close to $3,50Q. The budget also includes $4 000 salary for the new lab technician now working at the institution. — The hospital today entered a request,; to be heard at the next meeting of the county council, for an electric cardiogram machine—s7oo; a basal metabolism rate„ machine —$350; and a diathermy machine—s 800. In the request It is pointed out that the money (vould, if granted, be appropriated from the hospital’s balance and cause no additional taxation. It states that the increased -ates now in force at the hospital and the fact that a lab technician is now working has added gteatly to the income of the hospital and shows an even greater potential for future. ' Jet P ane Explodes On Ship, Eight Die Many Others Hurt On Carrier Boxer WASHINGTON, UP —The navy announced that a jet plane exploded aboard the carrier Boxer off North Korea, Wednesday killing eight meh, injuring many more, and seriously damaging the 27,000ton craft. Os the Injured, only two were listed as being in serious condition. Both are enlisted men. The navy identified them as: Michael! F. Hannify whose mother lives in Miami, Fla. He was seriously burhed. Ralph L. Finley, Fornfelt, Mo. He is in a critical condition with compound! leg fractures and multiple injuries. Names lof the dead —a medical officer aqd seven enlisted men—and of thie others injured will be published i after next-pf-kin have been notified. The navy said 63 men trapped by flames jumped overboard and were picked up later by small boats and helicopters. The a carrier of the Essex class, was one of the first U. S. warships to fight in the Kojeah war J, ■ • . r —— > • , Scouts Leave Nation Capital This Morning Mrs. Silvester Everhart received a telephone call from her husband, who! is leading the group of Decatur Ijoy Scouts an<! Scouters op the annual \ summer trip, that they left Washington, D. C. this morning, j ■ j A The group attended the Washington Sepators-New York Yankees baseball game Tuesday night and spent all day Wednesday sightseeing in and neir the nation’s capital. They expect to arrive home Saturday afternoon.

Price Five Cents

Pres. Truman Considering Special Call No Final Decision Made, President Informs Newsmen 1 WASHINGTON, UP —President Truman said today he is considering calling a special session of con- ’ gress to deal with the rise in • prices. ! However, he told a news eonfer- ■ ence he has made no final deci- ■ sion. I Mr. Truman said he has the - question under consideration, but I will have to wait and see if he thinks it is necessary. He declined to comment on re> i ports that price stabilizer Ellis • Arnall has resigned or is plaumug i to resign. Associates of Arnall s have said he plans to quit Sept. 1. Mr. Truman was asked if the • price situation would be the only J reason for calling congress/ back t into special session if he decides • to do so. He said it wobld be. He gave no indication of at what > lime he might call a special sess slon should he consider it neces- > nary. Js Meanwhile, Arnall’s statement that Mr. Truman might have to 1 call the congress back into session t to deal with the price situation > drew from both Repub- ■ licans in congress and his own col--1 leagues. Rep. Jesse P. Wolcott, R-Mich., • 5 ranking GOP member of the house ‘ banking committee, said it was ’ “perfectly ridiculous” for Arnall 1 to suggest that President Truman 1 may have to call congress back : into special session to tighten 1 pried controls. Secretary" of agriculture Charles ! F. Brannan challenged Arnall’s prediction that the summer-long in eastern and southern states will drive up food prices. And stabilization director Roger L. Putnam indicated he does not share Arnall’s apprehensions about the recent steel price increase. Arnall paid a call at the White House Wednesday. He told reporters he “suggested” to Mr. Truman that “it may be necessary and proper to call a special session if food prices continue to get out of hand.” See Control Lifted On Housing Credit Action Is Expected Late In September WASHINGTON, UP— Regulation X controls on housing credit probably will be lifted late next month, officials said today. The defense production act says the controls must come off, or be greatly relaxed, if the rate of new housing starts falling below 1,200,00-per-year for three months in a row. Acting defense mobilizer John R. Steelman reported to President Truman Wednesday the number of new houses started in June was 10 percent below that rate. The federal reserve board and the housing and home finance agency, which administer regulation X, will use figures for June, July and August to determine whether they must ease off on mortgage credit. Officials are almost certain July ahd August figures will remain below par. The law gives the agencies 30 days in which to act after the end of the three-month period, and late September is regarded by most authorities as the probable date of suspension. ; > COUNTY 4-H FAIR Article® pertaining to the Adams county 4>H fair, Which closes at tonight, are published oh page 8 of today’s Dally Democrat