Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 202.

Two Survivors Os Downed B-17 Rescued At Sea Accidentally Shot Down By Sabrejet - Fighter On Monday s EG LI N AIR BASE, Fla., tip — •The Pensacola, Fla., ? naval air Station said today it liad received a radio message fro/n the USS Seer, a navy minesweeper, saving the vessel had peeked up two survivors from the B-17 shot down accidentally Monday by a, sabrejet fighter. * - „ The radio message said the two men were taken aboard from a HJe raft. It said they were in good condition and came aboard the minesweeper under their own power. J The minesweeper reported it was bringing the two survivors tn Pensacola. V Their identities or the location of the rescue were not given. Eglin Held authorities meanwhile ordered more planes and surface craft brought into the search for possible additional survivors. ' \ / /The B-17 carried an eight-man , crcw - \ .' ' i Planes and navy and coast "fcuard surface craft ranged over the Gulf of Mexico 50 miles off the Northwest Florida coast. The weather hi ttie search area was reported “very poor.” The air force said the pilot of the new model F-86D Sabrejet mistook the control, plane for a crewlees B-17 target “drone” it was guiding byvracHo in secret target practice to tbst new all-weath-er rocket firing equipment. A ’’Mighty Mouse” rocket loosed by the Sabrejet caused the B--17 to burst into flame and within a few minutes to “disintegrate” into biasing chunks which plummeted into the stormy Gulf. Witnesses aboard other planes reported seeing several parachutes open and one man was seen floating amid debris. Bad weather closed over the scene beftore crash boats could reach him. The air force reported that Col. Arthur F. Debolt, of Columbus. OJaio, the Sabrejet pilot, was so upset by his mistake that he had to be placed under the care of a physician. " ' ’t , Questioned on his return to the base here, Debolt was unable to explain how he mistook the control plane for the target, flying , a mile from it. The air force said they were distinguished: by suitable mar-kings. •“I was only looking at radar at the time,” Deholt said in his haltring account ;of the tragedy. $1 did not realize until two minutes later that* I had shot down the wrong 'plane. “Then I heard voices from personnel of other planes. I heard someone say, ‘Lookout sot the i ’chutes. He got the wrong plane.’ I looked around then and saw two ’chutes opening, I couldn’t see any sign of the 847.” k 1 ■■* r _ , ; Councilmen Discuss Airport Proposal Besides the budget; business be* ing taken care of at the special meeting of the city council Monday night, a discussion arose pertaining to the effort to get the airport on U. S. highway 27. south • of the city, taken over by' the city. Generally the attitude of the couriicilmen was not too favorable ' toward the project although nothing ; definite was decided upon. The single item that bothered most of the council was money. Mayor John Doan suggested that public opinion ilk. part make the decision of the council. He suggested to the Democrat reporter that a request be made for people to send in their opinions, for or against to the paper, and in that wajr tpe officials could act on the will of the people. Invitations were extended to all 1 the cduncflmen to attend the, flying demonstrations at the local field Sunday at 2 p.m. It is reported that aerial crop dtfsters wlllgfve demonstrations and the accessibility of the field will be shown by pilots who will fly in from nearby fields. 90-Year-Old Lady Dies This Morning Mrs, ’ Sarah Elizabeth Boze, 90, of Berne, died this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been ill for some time with infirmities. The body was removed / tothe Yager funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. ' v

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Ike, Mamie, Get Legion Cheers 8F - ' s.' a ? I f r krE GENERAL and,Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower acknowledge a thunderous ovation at the 34th national convention of the American Legion in /Madison Square Garden in New York. Addressing the openingday session, Republican candidate Ike promised a bold program for containing Soviet influence, if he is elected president. \

White-Wash Os St. louis Tax Fixes Charged Investigators For House In Charge On 4 Justice Department - House investigators charged today that a justice department official had “approved” a federal grand jury’s initial report white-washing tax scandals in St. Louis. The official was identified as Ellis N. Slack, an assistant attorney general. A house judiciary subcommittee made the charge as it opened public hearings into complaints that certain justice department offic« ials “attempted to improperly influence” the gj-and jury and sidetrack its inquiry into alleged taxfixing. L s The grand jury investigation eventually led to the indictment of former internal revenue collector James P. Finnegan, but only after Federal Judge George H. Moorp angrily denounced the initial repdrt and questioned whether the jury had been influenced by “someone.” Subcommittee counsel Robert A. Collier identified the justice department official as Slack, then an attorney in the department’s tax division who subsequently was promoted to acting assistant attorney general in charge of the division. . v Collier said the departipent sent Slack to St. Louis during the inquiry and that he appeared before the grand jury at least once and then “read and approved” the group s initial report' before it was submitted to Moore in April, 1951. Slack’s boss at the time was formeri assistant attorney general T. Caudle. Slack moved Into Caudle’s job after the latter was ousted for “incoppatible” outside activities. \ Slack was one of seven persons' summoned for questioning by the subcommittee headed by Rep. Frank Chelf, D-Ky. The subcommittee said it would call an “important” mystery witness. Subcommittee sources hinted that the unidentified witness provide sensational testimony about the St. Louis tax scandals. Aq the hearing opened, Colliej read into the report Mbore’s angry new charge to the jury aftef he had received its initial “partial report.” Moore denounced the initial report as a “complete vindication” of all St. Louis tax officials of all tax-fixing allegations over the last five years- and told jurors he wondered whether the report was their “own idea” or ..“someone else’s.” ‘ . Moore said he realized the jury wasn’t ■ getting the “cooperation” it should from government offi-\ cials, but demanded that iie inquiry resume to ferret out |wrosgdoers. ?**!' The jury some months later indicted Finnegan for bribery and misconduct in office and returned & number of other indictments. Finnegan was convicted last To Vase Mi)

Nominees To Speak At Plowing Contest Both Will Speak At Farm Event Sept 6 ROCHESTER, Minn.- UP —Officials of the national plowing coptest relented today and decided to let * Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson speak at the farm event the same day as his presidential adversary, Dwight D. Eisenhower. An invitation asking Stevenson to speak at the national soil conservation day fend plowing contest Sept. 6 at Kasson, Minn., will be sent to the Democratic presidential nominee today. If Stevenson accepts the invitation, the prize mixup of the young campaign will be Unsnarled. The Illinois governor’s staff. said in Springfield that they would reserve comment, until the invitation arrives. The plowing contest board Os directors changed their minds tor the fourth time Monday night when they voted eight one to allow both major presidential candidates to speak at Kasson Sept. 6. A petition signed by 500 farmers from Dodge'county, Minnesota, apparently was the lever that caused the board to change its mind. The petition asked that Stevenson, as well as Eisenhower, be given a chance to address the plowing contest crowd. The farmers were led by C. J. Woolison. Henry Show, who owns the farm where the contest will take place, was one of the signers. The secret ballot Monday night reversed the stand taken by program director Robert Hurdle of Rochester, who said earlier that Eisenhower’s acceptance “closed the door” on an appearance by Stevenson. When the first arose last week, Hurrle moaned, “It’s all a mistake?’ x »• He first' contended that Stevenson had not been invited, but the governor’s staff produced the letter of invitation. The board pf directors backed Hurrle and decided that Stevenson could not appear Sept. 6. They tendered an invitation for Sept. 5, but Stevenson equid not accept because of previous commitments. At the suggestion of Wilson Wyatt, Stevenson’s personal campaign manager, the board then voted to allow Stevenson to appear the sixth, if Eisenhower had no objection and vtes allowed io decide who should speak first. A little later the board reversed itself and decided that only Eisen* hower could speak Sept. 6. Again they offered to let the Democratic nominee speak Sept. 5. After Monday night’s vote, the (T»r» T® Paste Plv®> Offers Reward If Thief Returns Money ± MUNCIE, Ind. UP — Mrs. Rose Smith, a widow, offered today to give $5,000 to the thief who stole SIO,OOO from her home. Mrs. Smith reported the pioney was removed from a hiding place in her bathrooom. She said she withdrew it from a bank to pay taxes. ■ . ' \ She authorized detectives to offer half the loot to the thief and exemption from arrest of he returned $5,000 of the missing money. \

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. i ' • Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 26, 1952.

Former Brink’s Guard Confesses Robbery Os Armored Truck Monday

Tighe Woods Is Appointed As Price Boss 1 Rent Stabilizer Is Appointed Controller To Succeed Arno 11 WASHINGTON, UP —President Truman today appointed rent stabilizer Tighe E. Woods as price controller to succeed Ellis Arnall. A mail, long at odds with other administration officials on stabilization issues, has resigned and will turn his office over to Woods on Monday. -\ 1 The shift was announced by economic stabilizer Roger L. Putnam after a conference wtlh President Truman at which Arnall and Woods were present. Arnall, former governor of Georgia, had informed the President earlier this month that he wanted so be relieved by Sept. 1. He had been embroiled with other, officials ever since he took the price job last February as successor to Michael V. DiSalle. His first clash ®was with defense mobiliser Charles E. Wilson over how much of a price increase could be granted the steel Industry it it granted its employes pay boosts proposed by the wage stabilization board. Arnall said steel was entitled under the law to no more than $3 a ton. Wilson, who thought agreement had been reached on a larger sum, resigned in March when President Truman supported Arnall. ‘ The steel wage dispute finally was settled last month with the government okaying an average •price increase of $5.65 a ton—just about the same figure Wilson thought had been settled on in March. v Arnall said the price grant was “a very, very bitter pill” for him. He predicted it would boost the average familys living costs SIOO a year. Arnall, who originally planned to stay on the job only six months," also wanted relief because he felt (Continued On Page Six) INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and not much change In temperature tonight and Wednesday. Low'tonight 58-65; high Wednesday 85-90. City's 1953 Budget Approved Last Night City Council Votes Approval Os Budget At a special meeting of the city council last night, for the purpose of approving the city budget, the following advertised estimate for 1953 was approved: $172,520,98. That is the figure necessary to run the city for a year, officials estimated; With certain deductions and additions for revenue, and fees, the actual money to be raised by tax levies is $144,233.98. Net taxable property within city limits is $,10,243,379. The rate for each SIOO of assessed valuation has been computed to be $1,512. A breakdown of this figure shows $1.42 for the general fund; eight cents for the park fund v and two cents for police pension, a total of $1.52 —the levy on property. All. males from the ages of 21 to 50 are required to pay $1 along with property levy, this is the poll tax; /there are 1,222 polls in Decatur. This approved budget must now go to the tax adjustment board for approval; that group may cut; the budget but not raise it. lit meets on September 8. If the adjustment board approves the budget it goes on for final approval to the state board of tax commissioners, where if given the okay it becomes law.

Indiana State Fair Will Open Thursday Centennial Fair At j State Fairgrounds INDI AN POLIS, (UP) — The $14,000,000 Indiana, state fair “city within a city”dattered with colbrful activity today as final touches were /put on the fair’s 100th edition opening Thursday. > The 10-day celebration will feature a century of Hoosier agricultural and industrial progress with the old and new exhibited wherever possible in side-by-side contrast. It is billed as the most elaborate program in state fair history. Officials have lined up' a variety of “name” entertainment, and have *,received record entries In ,mogt classes of agricultural exhibits and dempnstrations. Fair visitors are expected to add to the list of records by setting an attendance mark of more than 1,000,000. That would be 450,000 \ higher than the previous all-time high set in 1946. , As usual, the state’s famed Hoosier livestock and agricultural exposition, will be the backbone of the fair. This year’s premium list totals a record of $405,914. The first fair in 1852 offered $2,Q00 in premiums and lasted only three Fair officials predicted / .that last week’s ban imposed on swine shipments from out-of-state would have little effect on the quality or quantity of animals 'shown. They sqid they had more swine than they/cbuld handle anyway. The same holds true of 4-H club exhibits in which entries are so numerous that judging and demonstration competition will begin a day early, on Wednesday, and last through Saturday. A special youth day program will be staged in the, Coliseum Saturday afternoon as a climax of activities. More than l ? 000 club members will attend the stgte fair girls’ school of home economics and the boys’ camp <Tun To Pace , Six) Two Men Are Seized For Bank Robberies Disabled Vet, Farm Laborer Arrested FLINT, Mich. UP —An unemployed farm laborer admitted today he helped a disabled ex-ma-rine/ stage a $5,700 daylight holdup at the Hemlock, Mich., bank and said both of them pulled a similar robbery at a Grand Blanc, Mich,, bank earlier this month, state police reported. ElVerton Jack Brink, 31, CadilMich., sai*d he was supposed to help Raymond J. Long in his getaway Monday but they “got signels mixed” and failed to rendezvous after Long pulled the stickup. Brink told officers they stole two cars from used car lots, bne in Saginaw and one in Flint, for the getaway. Long, 33, was arrested ja short tirrie after the holdup in a running gun battle with police. Brink admitted he and Long robbed the Grand Blanc bank Aug. 8. Long, held by the FBI in Saginaw, denied participating in the earlier robbery. V Brink was arrested at his home in Cadillac after police checked a list of Long’s acquaintances and found Brink's description fitted that given by witness r to the Grand Blanc holdup. Long blamed Monday’s robbery on alcohol, indebtedness and the steel strike. ’ I “I was in debt over my head,” said Raymond J. Long, who was captured less than an 'hour after he robbed the nearby Hemlock, Michi, bank of $5,791. J 'Mrs. John Rachodz, a bank tel-' ler said Long entered the bank at cldsipg time Monday and ordered het at gunpoint to “give me every* thing you have in that drawer.” fTwra T® Pax* Six) J :<■ - ' a

38 Red War Prisoners And Guard Injured Enemy Prisoners 7 Renew Harassing Prison Incidents SEOUL, Korea, UP — Thirtyeight Communist prisoners of war and an Allied guard were injured on Koje Island Aug. 11 in one of a number of “harassing incidents” created by hard-core” Reds, the army disclosed today. An Official spokesman said total casualties were higher but that accurate figures were not available immediately. The 38 Reds and the U.N. guard werd hurt when prisoners refused to break up an illegal singing demonstration and began throwing rocks at guards outside their enclosure. The . guards fired 12 shotgun shells and’ tear gas into the compound. Seven prisoners were hospitalized. Name and condition of the guard were not announced. Lt. William Hall, spokesman for Maj. Gen. Haydon L. Boa tn er, commander of ti. N. prisoner camirn, saiid: “There is ho doubt the prisoners have orders to create harassing incidents in prisoner camps. "I know several clashes have occurred and that there have been injuries. But we won’t have accurate figures on all of them until tomorrow.” ' \ Another incident, Hall i said, occurred on Cheju Island Aug. 17 when prisoners demonstrated and flew crude Communist flags. U. N. troops moved into the compound but the prisoners dispersed without bloodshed and burned the flags. Note One Change In School Book List • One change was noted today in the Decatur junior high school book list, published last w'eek. The change is in- the eighth grade, where the proper textbook is “This Is American Story,” priced a| $2.88. This book is to be used instead of “The Rise of Our Free Nation,” as published last week. ' ■ Two More Chinese Attacks Repulsed Costly Losses Are Suffered By Reds Seoul, Korea, UP — The Chinese hurled two battalion attacks against battle-wrecked Bunker Hill Monday night and early today in costly but vain attempts to recapture the prize peak five miles east of Panmunjom. Maj. Gen. John T. Selden, commander of the American division defending Bunker Hill, said he expected more Chinese efforts “to get us of there.” The Communists Monday night suffered* their heaviest losses since U. S. marines cut down 3,000 Chinese who battled for the same ridge two weeks ago. Allied infantrymen said they killed at least 100 Chinese and wounded 170. A full battalion of, Chinese—Bo9 men—wa\ied through barbed wire entanglements set up in the mine fields to charge the crest at 10:30 p. m. Screaming and hurling grenades, the battalion attacked behind a “very heavy” artillery and mortar barrage. Allied machine guns and rifles poured streams of fire into the onslaught, driving the Reds back after an hour and a half. The Chinese failed to reach U. N. bunkers on the crest. Seldon said a second Chinese battalion attack was stopped at 2 a.m. at the outer defenses of Bunker Hill.

Record Round-Trip Atlantic Crossing British Jet Plane Establishes Record ALDERGROVE, North Ireland, UP — A British. Canberra jet, the world’s fastest bomber, telescoped time and space today and made a record* round-trip crossing of the Atlantic between sunrise and eunset. The Canberra sped from Aldergrove to Gander, Newfoundland, and back in a total unofficial elapsed time of 10 hours and 2 minute»-4 hours 33 minntes for the east-west Crossing, 3 hours 29 minntes for the trip back and two hours for lunch in Gander. The Canberra completed the homeward crossing at 4:39 p. m. 9:39 a. m. CST. Three: British war heroes became the first men to fly across the Atlantic both ways in a single less time than a commercial day. The round-trip flight took airliner requires normally to fly /one way across the Atlantic. The Canberra, whose top speed is better than 600 miles per hour failed by less than 15 minutes to break the record for the east-west trans-Atlantic run which another Canberra recorded last year in 4 hours, 18 minutes, 24.4 seconds. But the teip back was an easy west-east record since there was no previous official record for the Gander-North Ireland run. The sun had been „up for 16 minutes when the three men climbed abord the jet and sent it howling over the mist-covered Irish hills, then westward over the ocean. The takeoff was timed at 6:35.19.6 a.m. 11:35.19.6 p.m. CST. \ Almost before their early (Coxttxaed Ox Pace Six) Jurors Are Chosen For September Term Grand, Petit Juries Drawn Here Monday Jurors for the September term of circuit were chosen a( the clei-k’s office yesterday by the jury commissioners, Ed Berling and Frank Rowley. About 60 names were chosen recently by the commissioners, and handed over to Ed Jaberg, clerk of the court, for inspection. He removes any persons on the list over 60 for by law those people cannot serve on juries in the state. Yesterday, the last Monday before the opening of the September term, the eligible names were put into a box and 36 names picked out lottery fashion. Those chosen were placed on both petit and grand jury panels. AU that is actually necessary is IS jurdrs, 12 on the petit jury and 6 on the grand jury; extras or supernumeraries are named in case of sickness. Following is the list of jurors: Petit jury: George Hirschy, Monroe; Leslie L. Sprunger, Jefferson; Daniel Kehrn, Kirkland; Richard A. Briggs, Geneva; Hilbert R. Frey, Decatur; Edwin Collier, Berne; Raymond Filer, Hartford; Fred Morbach, Union; Earl James, Jefferson; Theodore S. Heller, Kirkland;* Richard D. Moser, Geneva; Roger J. Kaehr, French; Louis Drake, Union; Alfred W. Bollinger, Monroe; Nora E. Herron, Berne; Joseph Murtaugh, Decatur; Donald A. Heiman, Union; Claude I. .Monee, Hartford; j Daniel C. Lantz, French; Leroy E. Rich, Decatur; Ralph M. Hobbs, Decatur. Root; Lee F. Mcßride, Decatur; Floyd M. Sheets, Decatur-Root; Clifton Liechty, Hartford. \ Grand jury: Carl V. Fast, Root; Albert Fox, Monroe; 'AI D. Schmitt, Decatur; Edward C. Orator, Decatur; Gerhard Bultemeier, Preble; Frederick Bittner, Union: Harvey Crandall, Jefferson; Henry Drayer, French; Henry Conrad, Preble; Glenn Grogg, Hartford; Wilma E. Stoltz, Jefferson; Effie P. Campbell, Geneva.

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$65,000 loot Recovered In Hiding Place Duplicate Key Used By Former Guard To Rob Armored Truck WASHINGTON, UP—A former Brink’s guard today confessed a $65,000 armored truck robbery and led police to where he hid the money—all of which was recovered. ■Police and FBI agents said that 26-yekr-old Ray E. Farmer, a bakery truck driver, admitted looting an unattended Brink's truck Monday while its four guards were “out to lunch.” They said he used •_ duplicate key he had made in 1949—a year before he was fired by Brink's for allegedly associating with members of a teen-age gang of petty thieves called the “Pimple-Faced. Gang.” Farmer was arraigned before U. S. commissioner Cyril S. Lawrence oh a grand larceny charge and a federal charge of violating the federal banking robbery law. He was ordered held in $46,600 bail for grand jury action. _ An FBI agent testified at the preliminary hearing that Farmer admitted looting the truck by using a duplicate key while tha truck crew was having lunch at the Wardman Park Hotel employes’ cafeteria. When the guards returned from lunch they found that a canvas bag containing $65,000 in small bills had been taken from the truck and that some $200,000 in bills of larger denomination had been left undisturbed. Ray Morris, sales manager ’of the bakery firm which employed Farmer, described him as an “average” worker. He said Brink’s gave Farmer “a pretty good report” when the bakery hired him in November. 1950. Four Iron Lungs Flown To Chicago CHICAGO, UP — An air force transport completed a mission of mercy today when it landed here with four iron lungs needed by polio patients in the Chicago arefu.< The C-46 ferried the iron lungs from Hanscom Air Base at Bed- ( ford, Mass., is response to a plea from W. M. Runyon, Illinois representative of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Fifteen new polis cases, and two deaths from the disease, were reported in Chicago .over the week end. - ! V''.' 1 Snyder Optimistic Os Economic Might MADISON, Wis, UP —Secretary of the treasury John W. Snyder has painted an optimistic picture of America’s economic might. “We have a far greater industrial capacity than ever before,” he said. “Our farms are producing food, fibre, and livestock in quantities that were thought impossible a decade ago. “Purchasing power is higher than ever before and business in recent years has been more willing to risk its capital in building for the future,” Snyder told 693 bankers frdm 31 states at the University of Wisconsin school of banking Monday night. Eghth Polio Case j Reported In County Adams county’s eighth polio victim of the year was reported today, with diagnosis of the Illness of Miss Colleen Lobsiger, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Noble Lobsiger, 521 Madison street, as •polio. . . ' The latest victim, the third in the city, has a relatively mild paralysis of one leg, and is being treated at her home.