Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 190.

Reorganize Revenue Service Bureau \ ■lk. dMk fj|sl Ute ■' —W tfr - 1 'j > A > . JJBBay£sofc: wl- :< W ■ - W - **“' K - - S ffiS a • jkMlFiT jtWMm2j inii" * , .jjesjl jH CEREMONIES marking the reorganization of the internal revenue service bureau in Washington, 4ake> place Monday as new headquarters officials of the service are installed The new officials shown iiM 11’ tO rJ internal revenue commissioner John B. Dunlap; .assistant revenue commissioner Justin F. Winkle; secretary of the treasury John Snyder, and assistant commissioners Norman A. Sugarman and Edgar E. Hoppe.

Stevenson And - ' .. . ; • / I • Truman Confer In Washington 1 ■ ■ A ' ’ ■ A '"' To Study Campaign Strateg/y; Briefing On World Situation WASHINGTON, UP — Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson arrived today tri thi'esh- out with President Trurqan whether or not there will be a “giv,e-em-heH” presidential campaign this year. The Democratic presidential nominee was met at National Airport when he landed by Sen. John J. Sparkman of Alabama, his vice presidential running mate, and members of the White House staff. The Illinois governor, sipiling and dapper, told Sparkman, j‘*l hadn’t anticipated all this reception.” He referred to a crowd of about, 300 that thronged airportj) rails for a glimpse of the Demo'cratic. nominee. ' 1 Stevenson said he had come at the invitation of Mr. Truman and .that after n luncheon with Mr. Truman and the cabinet he expected to visit the Democratic national. headquarters. — “That’s all I can say because that’s all I know,” Stevenson said. The governor was nattily dressed in a brown slimmer suit, straw hat. brown sniped shirt and a red and blufe necktie depicting dancing donkeys 1 ?"; i Stevenson tifen was driven to the Whitg Hohse for a conference with Mr. Truman and a briefing on the international situation by the President’s military and civilian advisers. Mr. Truman laid aside all other business 40 play host to the man he hopes will succeed him. He invited all members of the cabinet to a White House luncheon, in Stevenson’s honor, and called in secretary of state Dean Acheson, Gen. Omar N' Bradley and four, other high officials to arm Stevenson with secret- facts and figures ion the world Situation and the U.S. rearmament drive. Before leaving for Washington, Stevenson received another-pledge of support from a defeated candidate for the Democratic presidential nominaTion—this time from Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. After a four-hour party harmony conference Monday, Kefauver told reporters he had urged the Illinois governor to emphasize “new faces,” youth and ! women’s activities in the coming campaign. I kefauver said he was “satisfied” Stevenson as presidept would “take a strong stand against chiselers and wrongdoers” in the government and “lead in combatting the criminal element in this country.” J The Tennessee senatoY said he was confident Stevenson would win in November and said he personally intends to do whatever he "appropriately” can to help in the Democratic campaign. In his private talk with Stevenson after lunch, Mr?T\ruman hoped to get his own campaign j "marching orders.” He has been*[ waiting ever since the Democratic i convention for the nominee to take him up on his offer to off my ctoat and do everything I can to help yoii win." -

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Study Damage From Drought In Indiana State Farm Leaders Study Reports Today ' LAFAYETTE, Ind. UP —lndiana farm leaders met today to study reports of drought damage to crops in counties bordering on the Ohio River and determine whether Governor Schricker should seek federal “djsaster” aid. The meetink was held in the office of Ralph C. Phillipi, state director of the home administration. Officials attending included L. Marshall Vogle?, ’ chairman of the Indiana production and marketing administration. Recommendations will be forwarded to the governor, who in turn will report to tbe federal agriculture department. Schricker said he expects to mqke recommendations to federal authorities by tonight. They [previously werei advised of the Southern Indiana situation, but a request for aid was withheld pending analysis of the extent of damage. Schricker toured the area last week. He said there appeared to be “widespread” damage- in all counties along the river, extending northward about 50 miles. He said corn crops fn high land areas were most “seriously damaged.” More Rainfall , INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Indiana farm lands soaked up more than an inch of rainfall from overnight showers today, weathermen said more is in store during the next five days. The heavy rainfall was —in the Evansville area, as far north as Fort Wayne, and centered in the Logansport region. Most extreme downstate counties where crops are suffering drought damage were slighted. An extended outlook * predicted about an inch of rain diiring the remainder of the week. Scattered showrers were expected tqj begin Wednesday ni|fht or Thursday. It will be a Tittle warmer Wednesday or Thursday; the weatherman said, and temperatures will average near 6r slightly above normal. That tyould make it near 90 degrees by daji and near 70 by night l . ’ New Serial “Magic Is Fragile,” is the title of a new story in serial form which will start in Wednesday's Daily Democrat. The novel was written by Elsie Mack. It is the story of a J young man in love with his foster sister until a rival steps in. ■ 1.70 Inches Os Rain Boon To Crops Hete J Com and soybeans and pasture lands benefited greatly from rain that fell here Saturday afternoon and Monday, total rainfall amounting to 1.70 inches. Herman “Hi" Meyer, local weather recorder; announced. Fort Tie 24-hour period ending at 8 o’clock this morning, rain amounted to 1.22 inches, Meyer said. Saturday's precipitation was measured at .48 of an inch. Farmers were jubilant over the badly needed rain and said that the Saturday and Monday showers would “just about make the corn crop.”

No Progress Made To Avert Packers Strike ■ -i ■> a Compromise Offer Sought To Prevent Nationwide Strike - CHICAGO, UP — The United Packinghouse Workers today reported “no progress”- in its contract negotiations with the “Big Four” meat producers, and federal conciliators waited anxiously for a compromise that would avert a nationwide strike. “We have 'met throughout the day with Cudahy, <Swift and Armour and are reporting no progress,” a spokesman foi< the CIO union said early today.; “Meantime, the contracts awith the ‘Big Four’ meat packing Bsmpanies have expired," he said. “We may have a statement on a strike today.” c The union w r ould not comment when asked if any new offers had been \ made at Monday night’s meeting. The UPW' scheduled a meeting with Swift Co. for today and bne with Wilson & Co. for Wednesday. Negotiations with Armour and Cudahy were .recessed fpr today. \ The union spokesman emphasized thal the UPW is urging its members to stay on the job as long as negotiations continue. However, he said that, “a lot of locals Still feel they won’t work without contract.” “Spontaneous” walkouts hampered operations in six major "Big Four”, plants across the country Monday, but 2,300 workers who walked out at the Armour plant at South St. Paul, 'Minn., voted to return ‘to work today. Work cohtracts between the union and Swift and Cudahy expired at midnight Monday night. The negotiators gave notice that the expirations were not to be the signal for a crisis in these companies when they recessed their talks several hours before the expiration deadline. The UPW represents 80,000 workers in 68 meat packing plants: The rival AFL Butcher Workmen and Meat Cutters, with a membership oL 40,000, will begin negotiations on new work contracts later this week. If talks bog down and a strike by both! unions takes place, most cuts of meat would disappear from retail butcher shops within a week, said George Nepil, secretary of the national association Os retail meat dealers. However, president Earl Jimerson of the AFL Meat Cutters said there was little threat of a strike by his union. The UPW is seeking a general wage increase, union shop, cost-of-living bonus, guaranteed annual wage and other benefits. j . INDIANA WEATHER Fair north*, clearing south portion and ” cooler tonight Wednesday generally fair and warmer. Low tonight 5056 north, 56-62 south; high Wednesday lower B(Xs north, mid 80’a e?uth. • i

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 12, 1952.

United States Proposes Disarmament Conclave Os The Big Five Powers

Chinese Reds Hurled Back By U. S. Marines Horde Os Screaming Communist Troops Thrown Back Today l-t fighting U. S. Marines threw back a horde of screaming Chinese Communists who tried in vain to retake Bunker Hill today and •grimly braced themselves for another assault as night fell over the battlefield. The counter-attack on the strategic hill five miles east iof the truce village of Panmunjdm came at 4 p. m„ less than 12 hours after the Leathernecks took it in a surprise move. The battle for Bunker hill began 'Monday night with a marine tank attack. The Leathernecks then caught the Reds off balance by feinting an attack at nearly Siberia hill with flamethrowers and infantry. Then they attacked and took the higher Bunker hill by- dawn. During the day, Allied fighterbombers, tanks, artillery guns and small arms fired shells, bullets and bombs at the 'Communisits' with the aim of weakening the expected counterattack. The Leathernecks A meanwhile worked frantically against J tinjie to set up pre-fabricated bunkers out -of logs they had carried with them up the hillside during the attack. ] When the grenade-carrying Chinese began the attack, the marines were ready. The sharpshooting Leathernecks mowed down the advance Communist battalion as it moved forward. A marine front line \ officer said, “We stopped them cold.’’ But he warned the batHe could begin again* in darkness—and that lit could go either way, Bunker hill dominates a valley and the marines can see enemy buildup areas both to the east and the west. Moreover, they , said they can “look down the throdfa” (Tuts To Pa*» Six) ,T Young Berne Girl Stricken By Polio Miss Donna Mae Habegger, lit, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Sprunger of Berne, has been reported as Adams county's third polio victim in the past three days. Suffering from the bulbar type, the Berne girl has been placed in an iron lung at the Lutheran Jtospital in Fort Wayne. Her condiObn W reported as fairly satisfactory. Little Activity In Korean Truce Talks UN Apologizes For Neutral Zone Flight PANMUNJOM, Korea, UP —The United Nations admitted today ‘.‘in all probability” Alied jet planes entered the Panmunjpm neutral zone Sunday and apologized for the incident. In a written reply to a Cqmmunist protest, senior U. N. liaisdn officer Col. Charles W. McCarthy said, “our side will make continued efforts to prevent occurrences bf this type.” The note was handed to the Copimunists at a meeting between liaison officers, the only activity kt the truce camp. The\ armistice talks are in another one-week recess, called Monday by the Allies for the third time in many weeks on grounds the Reds have offered nothing new in the deadlocked discussions on prisoner exchange. The U. N. said in its note of apology that “it appears at’ least two and possibly three jet-type aircraft flew over the conference site area at approximately 1900 hours on 10 August, 1952.” j.

To Build Atomic Factory In Ohio Explosives Plant Near Portsmouth WASHINGTON, UP — The atomic energy commission announced today that it will’build a $1,200,000,000 atomic explosives plant on a 6,500-acre site about 22 mites north of Portsmouth, Ohio. The huge plant will be the mak jor new facility to be built as part ie of a vast atomic expansion prpr o gram expected to cost more than d $3,500,000,000 in the next five a- years. t The announced purpose of the expansion, project is to maintain e and increase this country’s atomic >f lead over Russia. \ ' ® The new works will be a gaseous 2 diffusion plant to produce the k atomic explosive uranium-235. It will have more than twice the cae’ pacity of the similar plant built at >e Oak Ridge, Tenn., in World War' s 11. e The site announced today is in y Pike county in Southern Ohio. Its ' 8 Selection followed survey of ■ sevoral potential sites in the Ohio riv!r er valley.-, The AEC said availability! of r ‘ water and of power at reasonable d costs “were important factors in the site.” 8 Construction of the entire plant e is scheduled to take about four yejars. But the AEC said portions e will be placed in operation as soon e as completed. Average construe-; 8 tion employment is expected not h to exceed 17.000 but a'peak of e about 30,000 workers will be necessary for a short period. | ' The new plant will be oh l ’ Scioto river which flows into the Ohio river at Portsmouth. \ d Congress in its closing hours t_ this year appropriated $2,986,894,OOji) star a start on the new five- • year expansion program, e n j | . — \'■ y Perform Operation :l On Bullet Victim t Remove Portion Os \ I Bullet From Skull Lawrence “Cedric" McCullough, 34|( of Monroe, in the ForT Wayne Veterans administration hospital s ' aftor a .22 caliber bullet, crashed j through a portion of his skull, yesj terday underwent a “crainiectpmy,” an opening of'the skull, to remqve ’ a portion of lead from his brain! a ’ cavity. - ’ His .injury had previously been ' diagnosed as little more than; a creasing of the skull; it was not thought that a portion .of the bullet had actually lodged in hjs brhin cavity, as a doctor at the veterans hospital stated today. Along with the fragment, a blood clot was removed,' McCullough’s condition is described gs “serious” and it will take —said hospital sotfrees— at least three wgeks before “something definite regarding his condition can be ascertained.” The Yost Construction Co. truck e driver was discovered lying in his t front yard Saturday at about 4:30 8 p.m. by Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hocker; 1 police were called and after a e thorough investigation sheriff Robert Shraluka and state policeman Ted Biberstine ruled out a robbery 1 motive since McCullough’s wallet with over S2OO was lying close by. 1 They discounted any foul play at all f and are still investigating the possibility of a suicide attempt. Powder • burns on the victim’s face indicate the gun. a single-shot .22, was 1 fired fronts very close range.\ ' s Police tried to talk to McCullough Sunday morning but copld 5 get n!o response; in the light of the 3 latest diagnosis—the lead fragment l in the brain cavity—it can be seen that the victim may have been imable to talk. Now, however, a doctor at the Fort Wayne hospital 1 though McCullough doesn’t talk much, he does talk and seems; to 8 be in “fairly” good spirits. 1 * Sheriff Shraluka said as soon as -1 (Tura To Pace Six)

Food Prices To l I V ■ • Boom As Main Crops Lagging Warn Housewives Against Boost In Already Top Prices WASHINGTON, (UP) —Housed wives, already aghast at the highest prices in history, were forewarned today to brace themselves for worse. \ ’ The agriculture department reported that this year’s production of 23 popular food 'crops is lagging behind 1951 output. Most of the foods for which reduced supplies are in prospect are fruits and vegetables, which are exempt from price controls. They rose sharply in price last month, and officials can find nothing in the latest Crop report to indicate the trend will be reversed. There were some bright spots, however, to the statistic-laden report which the agriculture department issued lae Monday. Despite widespread drought, farmers are expected to turn in a bumper wheat crop and tile fourth largest corn crop on record. 1 i- That means 4hat the. livestock feed situation, while 11 \ may be tight, at least won’t be desperate. Here are the food crops that will be in shorter supply this year than last: Apples, peaches, dried beans, dried peas, grapes, pecans, sweetpotatoes, plums, watermelons, tomatoes, onions, cabbage, celery, sweet corn, snap beans,, cauliflower, cucumbers, beets, green peppers, spinach, lime beans, eggplant and milk. Officials said summer production of commercial vegetable crops for fresh market sale is running 4 percent off last year. The main crops for freezing and canning show a 20 percent decline from 1951. Os chief [concern to agriculture officials is how the prospective tight supply of livestock feed will affect future supplies of steaks and chops. ' Pastures are in the worst shape they’ve been in since the great drought. bf the 1930’5, while livestock numbers are at an all-time high. On the heels of its crop report Monday, the department designated all of New To Paso Marfin Venis Dies At Hospital Monday Funeral Services, Thursday Afternoon Martin Sylvester Venis, 84, lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 4:15 o’clock Monday after-’ noon at the Adams cuonty memorial hospital following an illness of three days. He was born in Adams county’ March 10, 'IBOB, a son of Rudolph and Elizabeth Hower-Venis. Mr. Venis was a member of the First Methodist Church and the I-. O. O. F. lodge. Surviving are his wife, Rose; four daughters, Mrs. Inez Dady c< Fort Wayne, Mrs. Alpha King of Piqua, 0., Mrs. Russell Bowman of Uecatur and Mrs. Milton Werling of Preble; one son, Charles Ray of California, and one sister, Mrs. Samantha Walters of Defiance, O. One son, one daughter, four brothers nad two sisters arel deceased. . ? ' Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the home, 216 South Tenth street, and at 2 o’clock at the First Methodist church, the Rev. Samuel Emerick officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body will be removed from the Black funeral home to the residence, where friends may call af(er 7 o’clock this evening.

World Peace Major Issue—Eisenhower • ■ To Open Campaign In Eastern City DENVER, UP — Dwight D. Eisenhower is expected to open his presidential campaign ip a large eastern city about Labor day with a speech on what he considers the overshadowing issue of the dayworld peace. The precise time and place of the speech have not been decided, but the GOP nominee Inade it clear at a news conference Monday he will discuss the subject of in lust about every speech he makes. . — “There never will be a talk in_ which I don’t bring that in,” he said. r f Asked whether there was any foundation to reports that he had decided to open his campaign with a major speech in Philadelphia Aug. 28, Eisenhower his executive assistant, Arthur H. Vandenberg, and then said there was hothing definite yet. He indicated that his campaign would be opened shortly after he goes to New York Aug. 25 to address the American legion convention. The legion speech, billed as non-politlcal, is one of a limited number of public appearances that the GOP nominee has scheduled during August. Reporters asked Eisenhower' whether he agreed with John Foster Dulles, author of the foreign policy plank of the GOP platform, that if the present foreign policies are not changed this country will be placed in great peril. \ “After all, if we don’t put our hearts and souls into working this thing out, something constructive rather than negative, I would say the situation would deteriorate,” Eisenhower replied. , “I am not a prophet. I can’t say what is going to happen. But this is a question of overshadowing importance.” Dulles had said he thought Eisenhower was the only man who could; check the trend toward war. Eisenhower said of this that he didn’t want to be put in the position of representing himself as a messiah, but added that he thought “the Republicans can do a better (Tht« Ta Pace MX) ' ■ Legion Officers Installed Monday Don Cochran New Post Commander Seventy-five members 1 a $ t night witnessed the annual installation of officers of Adams Post 43, American Legion, at the Legion , home; Don Cochran assumed the duties eff post commander succeeding Robert Ashbaueher. ' • The installation was conducted iby, ; fourth district Legion comCharles Fraze. \ following men were installed and directed to take over their elected, duties: Harold Hoffman, first vice commander; Walter Kbeneman, second vice commander; T. D. Schieferstein, third vice commander; and Frank Detter, fourth, vice commander. Leo Ehinger took over duties as trustee, service officer and grave registrar. , Tilman Gehrig as adjutant ahd* Francis Noack as financial officer rpunded out the panel of officers. As the first official duty of post commander, Cochran made the following appointments: Historian, Jbb Laurent; chaplain, the Rev. O. C. Bosse; ser-geant-at-arms, \ Fred Bieberich; athletic officer. John Voglewede; child welfare. Ed Bauer; Americanism, the Rev. Lawrence Norris; boys’ state, Vernon Aurand; Boy Scout troop, Lawrence Rash; oratorical, Robert Anderson; and school awards, Ed Jaberg. ‘

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Proposal Made, At Meeting Os UN Commission Favor Elimination \ Os Mass Destruction Weapons Os Warfare NATIONS, N; Y., UP —The United States today proposed a disarmament conference of the Big Five powers to consider permitted arms and agree upon elimination of mass destruction weapons Including atomic bombs-. U. S. delegate Benjamin V. Cohen made the suggestion to the 12-nation disarmament . commission. In conjunction with Britain and France, he submitted a supplementary working plan designed tp meet Russian objections to an earlier proposal to put ceilings on armed forces. On May 28, the three powers proposed that the armed strength of the U. S., Russia and China should be limited to 1,000;000 to 1, men and Britain and France to 7WhOOO to 800,000. Qther countries would disarm on a proportionate basis under the plan. Russia rejected that proposal as “radically deficient”; because It did not deal specifically with distribution of armed forces among the land, sea and air services and did not restrict armaments permitted for the support of the armed forces allowed. our proposal for fixing numerical limitations on ail armed forces is accepted,” Cohen told the commission, “and the powers principally concerned are prepared to undertake serious negotiations, the procedure we are suggesting, is as follows: “Arrangements might be made for a conference of the five great powers which are permanent members of the security council:' U. S., Britain, France, Russia and China; with a view to reaching tentative agreement among themselves by negotiation on: “A The distribution by principal categories of the armed forces that they would consider necessary and appropriate to maintain within the agreed numerical ceilings proposed for their armed forces; “B The types and ’ quantities of armaments which they would consider necessary and appropriate to support permitted armed forces within the proposed numerical ceilings; “C The elimination of all armed forces and armaments other than those expressly permitted, it being understood that rail major weapons adaptable to mass destruction should be eliminated and atomic energy should be placed j under effective international control to insure its use* for peaceful purposes only.” When the Big v Fire powers reached tentative agreement on their own armed strength, according to the plan, regional conferences would be held to decide similar ceilings for the smaller powers. Cify Parking Lot Ready For Public Ready for the public,” says Mayor John Doan of the city’s new parking lot at the Monroe street bridge. The lot this week underwent the last stoning and rolling operations and, with the installation of lighting by city electrical crews, the lot is pronounced fit for use. * 1 Next summer, after the fine gravel has settled into the more coarse stone beneath, reports Mayor Doan, the lot will be blacktopped and lined off. All funds used for the lot came from the city parking meters. In addition to providing the obvious convenience a large well-attended parking lot offers, officials foresee a lessening of the traffic problem through the main intersection of town by cutting down on —street parking.