Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 207, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1952 — Page 2

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I • .... * ~ 1 ' Jg - I If ; 4T **■»>, • 19**' ■ ‘ £gj • ■ ' SUk: j/ 4 1 Joseph Franklin Bent Jr. jfc ; AGENTS, of the Federal Bureau of ' Investigation captured Joseph I rankliq Bent Jr, 25; one of the nation's ten “most wanted” criminals, in Texas Cfty, Tex. He “fought like a crazy man" before . > being subdued Bent, who has \ been hunted from Alaska to Mexico for ijis months, was charged * \ with attempted murder and armed robbery]' f I ntemational) Protests Death Os Red Wir Prisoner PANMUNJOM. Korea t VP — Nqrth Korean Gen. N&m II formi ally protested today against the “barbarous butchering” of a Com--7 munist war prisoner, who in, reaps ity' hqnged himself in g United j Nations prison camp Saturday. ~ J J Nani also protested against the wounding of 16 other Communist 1 prisoner!?, who disobeyedi guards. The protests were contained in: a letter handed Allied representatives at a brief liaison j meeting. •„ / f ' j i.J

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fojir Minor Parties Seek Ballot Spots Indiana Election Board Meets Today INDIANAPOLIS, UP —The Indiana election board met today to determine'which political partlesjfrom among six applicants qualify for a place on the Hoosier ballot. ; .Four minor parties hope to be listed alongside the Republicans 1 and Democrat#. The minor groups !tare the American First party, Progressive party, Socialist-Labor Jlfirtjf and Prohibition party. j only three of the miparties plus the two major groups had asked for a place on the ballot. But Lari Duly, national Of the America First party, sajd his gyoup mailed a petition to the governor’s office Monday. j , T$ qualify, the. petition must be I post|ii»ai-ked before midnight. Daly said;>it was. He said it contained signatures qf 5,900 Hoosiers. r .Tire Progressive party filed a petition bearing 10.45(1 signatures Saturday. Earlier, the L&bqr party handed in more than signatures ana the Prohibi-' lioiiiits filed by virtue of holding! a nominating convention and more than half of one penterit of total ballots cast for semitary of state in 1950, t'here were, four minor parties onHithe 1»4»8. ballot. .Progressives itMri.l’polled 9,649 votes, SoclalistLaMr 763, Socialist 2.179;. and Prohibitionists ; 14,711. jiL i —-

>» : 11 ■. ■ _ ■» ? w ® w| i/i IMIBI A \9r I ’ Mjßlk l» OBilW IBH4 Jmmßm lh i MUIMI _T iiiilw EiMI JI MBBBM—- ■ • ■. i ■ ■ . l PICTURED ABOVE are seMjpral Lutheran leaders who are assisting in Arrangements! tor the convention of the Lutheran league of the Northern Indiana district, w t hkh will be iheld in Decatur Sunday, Sept. 21. Feature of jhe convention will be the Lutheran Hour rally at 2p. m. [in Decatur high school auditorium, with Prof. C, Ohlsen. Lutheran Hour speaker. ,giving the address. \ I Seated, left to right—Reinhard Werlirtg, Henry Krueckeberg, the Rdy. E.} P. Schmidt, Gerhard Schultz. D. Hoyt Callow. , | I “ Standing, left to right—Norman Witte, Reinhold Sauer. Karl Caston, jd. If. Krueckeberg. Louis J Jacobs, secretary of the district laymen’s league, is <noit.irH:lud;ed in the p|:ture. i*l ~ —'—" —’— r * 1 tr —— i— t —

22 Killed By State Traffic | Over Holiday | *At Least Four Os I Deaths Blamed On [ Rainy Favements 4 y By UNITED PRESS ‘ Traffic accidents in Indiana killed at least 22 persons ranging in age from nipe months to| 76 years during' the last vacation] season holiday week end of l|lo2, i At least four deaths were hlj rhed on wet pavement as thun| ershowers swept the state. Four other persons died in ri iis-' cellaneops accidents for an |sd- . hour total of 26. L [ Nine-months-old Freda ' J»ne j Miller was one of three persons ; killed on U. S. 24 near Peru|| in I an accident blamed on the riiii She was the youngest of four children of the. Rev. and Mrs. Fredk erick A Miller, Hartford Utty. All six\ Millers and Mrs. Miller’s phrents\were injured. } Mrs. Elizabeth Carr. 58. fort, was killed outright in |he; accident. The baby died Bhoitly before midnight and) Mrs. Cajfr’s husband, James A., 70. died, in Peru hospital early today. Another 7(byearold victim Was Mrs< Viola Church. Lafayette, whose car A /was struck Saturday near her home by a . Wabash milroad train. ’ I 'i Among the miscellaneous t deaths were those of Donald Led-1 ford, 24. Salem, and Wesley Winkle, 50. Muncie. Ledford tea# crushed beneath a car hoist and Winkle was crushed by a train oij a trestle in Muncie. Other traffic accident victim# included: \ 'i'. ' ; i Mrs. Lucille peland, 37. Evansville. second victim of,an accident on Ind. 66 near Evansville Satur? day whlchAkilled Mrs, Martha Agnew, Henderson. Ky. ; \ j Joe \Vood, 20, Evansville. Who: died Monday: of injuries suffered when a car and a truck Collided; near Evansville. ! ‘ j Joanne Adams. 20, Bexley. . 0... and Margot Schauwecker. Colum-.' bus, Ohio, Rilled Monday night wthen their car went out of control ran wet pavement and lilt a tree off Indi 32 near Westfield. Donalld pea),\ 35, Winchester, killed tehen a car ran. off U.. S, 27 near Winchester on a Mrs. Alberta Kincaide. 30, Chicago, killed'■When a car ran ;off U. S. 20 near Gary. Floyd F. Staggs, 29, Bloomington, injured fatally when his autp went out of control in Ind. 37 nearBedford. \ Henry Meller. 28, Goshen, killed on U. S. 6 near Bremen when his ; car overturned. ' I Rudolph Olivo. abouL 35,. Dallas. Tex-, killed on Ind. 1 near Blufftori.' Homer Arensman. 19. New Albany, a soldier stationed at Camp Atterbury, killed . when thrdwn from car as it plunged over 80foot eriibankment near New Albany. • / Albert P.' Chandler. 42, Hartford City, and Mrs. Flossie Lowe, '3.4. Gadsden, Ala., killed ini a three-c.ollision on Ind. 3 rie/ Hartford City. * \ ‘ ■ r . > i ; i Daniel Johanna 21; Connersville, injured fatally in U. S? 52 near Lebanon. Ira Wallace. [ 68. Fish killed Monday when his car was hit by truck near LaPorte in Lind. 4 Jack Waak. 18, LaPorte., the truck driver, was injured and ■+ charged with failure to yield right ,of way. f ' If.!

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Production Os Beef Reported Increasing U. S., Production Is Well Ahead Os 1951 . WASHINGTON, Up —Beef',production [is on the way up, assuring housewives more and better cuts at possibly lower prices during the i coming months. The agriculture department reported today that U„ S. beef prct duction is well ahead of last year —which sate the smallest supply in eight years—and is continuing 'to rise. Another. indication of a retail price break on beef this fait and next year was the lifting o(. the six-year embargo on Mexican cattlp. Seicrptary of agricuture Charles F. Frannan and President Miguel' Alenjan of Mexico announced i jointly Monday that foot and mouth disease Mexican cattle has been , eliminated and that henceforth such cattle can be sold in this country. Agriculture department officials estimated that about 500.000 head of live Mexican cattle will be imjported into this country in the next year, adding to the big p.S, suppjy. ''V '' \ | ' Total meat production this year' is. : already 5 percent? over- last year and the trend is, expected tp continue. The gain from now on ; will be< made up “almost entirely of beef,” the department said./ I — <■ H Hundreds Os 4-Hers Attend State Fair -' T I ' Hundreds of Adairis county 4-H pit tubers with their adult leaders attended the, stale fair Saturday, related county ageht. L. E. Archbold. * It was really an inspirational experience for these boys and; girls, to mingle with the top notch 4-Hbrs )f Hoosierland; s\ee their 4-H exhibits and observe the colorful .4-H parade of champiohs /in the coliseum.’-. 1 \ i ■' ;■1 \ ■ ; The LaGrange dcunty 4-H band, under the guidance of their county agent. Riley Casel held the spotlight in thfe parade. The Adams county band Ijias participated in the £Veijts Tor thejpast years? This ytait the Adorns county band will take part in the farmers day parade Thursday. Four busses will be heeded to transport the band. The group plans to leave the extension office at 5 a.mj. and will begin tl>efr trip home .at 4 p.m. the same day. J ' . . i \- '■ - '! n , 1 t .jp 1 ' I • 1 K v ; -> ' •A7ARY HENDERSON PARKER, 20, of .Camden. N.J., will represent x her slate at the “Miss America” beau- . ty and talent pageant in Atlantic City. She is a senior at Rutgers ’ University. ", ' (InUnMional)

: ; jh ■ • ; V Southern Tour Launched Today By Eisenhower terms Democratic Administration Mess Top To Bottom EN ROUTE WITH EISENHOWER. UP — Dwight D. Eisenhower called the Truman administration today a “top-to-bottom mess” created by men who are “too small for theif jpbs, too big for their breeches and top long in power.” . The only cute, he said] is *\a whoUsale clean-out of the political bosses iri Washington." i Lashing ,out at the apposition’ for the first time in; the campaign, ' the. .Republican presidential nominee opened a two-day southern tour using such terms as “incompetence, stupidity and corruption” and “peddlers/of arid destioyers of decency” who are “careless with the truth a|nd the taxpayers’ money.” I As first GOP presidential candidate in history to ilnvjide the i traditionally Democratic old south, 4<i-- nhower scheduled speeches today a* Atlanta. Ga.; Jacksonville, [Fla.; rind Miami. Fla. He speaks Wednesday at Tampa, Fla.; Birmingham, Ala., and Little; Rock, Ark/ I' 1 ? :, ' . ■ '/ He slet the theme ol the southern sw.ing |wlth a speech ■ prepared for den'ferjy in Atlanta attacking the '‘metis in Washington” as a product | qf |he Democraiic administration. “This Washington mess is not, a one-agericy niess or a onei-bureau or a one-department mess.” lie saict. "|t js a tOp-tb|bottom j mess . ,■ i “It was brewed by sciheming . politicians whose, idea of public t service) is service to their own' i puriles ar thleir own power . . . this mess i<| the inevitable and sure-fire ' result bf an administration by too many [nen who are too small for ; their jobs, too big *br their breeches , and top long in power." i He the "mass” had gone too far ter Jbe cured by any halfI measures of the “refreshening” I pr<j>lnishd by Democratic candidate ,f A ilia i EL Stevenson. J “A job w’on’f do it either,”! he ‘saidl “The only cleapup .that!? will do the job is a wholesale 1 clean-out of the political bosses in Washington.” ' !’ ( The Republican candidate invited j the south to break away from its!! traditional ties with the Democratic party and join him in the Nov. 4 elecLt'iO’h in q crusade to “restore decency and 'honesty and integrity to the nation's capital.” fs-Ilf told the southerners, in effect, rhat they were captives of big city Democratic machines who have, been? "counting the votes of the south ahead of time along with the tombstones and the ’.•acant lots that they carry oh the ejection rolls in some of the cities I they.run up north.” f _ - i Criticize Cutting Os Mail Deliveries I N$W YORK. UP —The nation’s mail* men have baw-led but their boss, ( ’ i AFL letter carriers holding their ' annqal convention hpre adopted a I resolution Monday criticizing postj master general Jesse Donaldson ' for issuing an “infamous” ; order in cutting home mail deliveries tb one a day. Wiliam C. Doherty, president of the National, Association of Letter Carriers, said flatly he would like to see Donaldson replaced. Donaldson is the first career postal ein-; ployi to’ be , appointed posiihaster ; general, ; I J•; ; J ■ : v

Miners Return As 'Memorial' Holiday Ends Many Workers Fear [New Mine Stoppage [By End. Os Month PITTSBURGH, UP .— An unwanted 19-day “memorial” holiday enAed today for 475,000 unionized h<im and soft doal miners. Meml>ers of the United Mine Wqfkers of Anftericd started returning to their pits in in atmosphere of pessimism. Many believed ‘jthere would be another work stoppage before the month is J j • i[ ! j I? MW President John L. Lewie ordered the 10-day layoff to begin Aug. 23 as a tribute’ to the memory of 334 miners who were killed! in the pits during a sevenmqntb period. L’r [ The long shutdown sliced 1,000,off the nation’s abovegrpisnd supply; of coal, strengthening Lewis’ position in his* contract talks with operators. though the ' miners had been ; hit hard; .financially during the layoff caused by the prolonged steel strike, they obeyed Lewis’ “memorial holiday” stoppage to the last man. ;!|The air of as they trudged back [to their jobs was reflected by Eid Smith, worker tn a [mine operand by U, S. Steel a|[ Uniontown, jpa. “We’ll oe ndek to work tomorrow, but I wouldn’t know about thireej weeks from note,” Smith said Monday njght. /[Were all hbpirig and praying there’ll be no strike. Bat that depends on the operators and the m.sn with the “'bushy eyebrows.’ John Li. knows what he’s doing. I qidn’t even want this memorial period. But that’s the way it goifs.” ; Lewis recently served official on the ■ government that coal mine operators had failed to settle his undisclosed demands. So|he labor observers feel Lewis wo*’t take Jess than the 16-«ent hourly wage increase given union stet 1 ! workers. ■ I) 1 The UMW contract With norithSlrh operatqrs ends Sept. 21 under Sa Lewis cancellation order and agreements with southern coal obce a^ora an d anthracite companies Tuns out Sept. 30. ft i L ■ ALLIED PLANES (Cpntlnwd Page One? platoon probed Old Baldy hill west of Chbrwoq under cover pf a heavy mortqr barrage ,U. N. ! defenders knocked ti|e Reds bacjc after a brief/fight.i Small Communist groups attacked advance positions east of ijhnkef hill o»/the eastern front, | but;,’the Allied troops repulsed the enemy.

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Two Auto Mishaps Here Over Holiday Two Are Injured As Bleacher Collapses The sheriff’s office Recorded two one-car mishaps over the Labor, day weekend and Walter Clem reports the collapse? of a six-toot long foot board in the f bleachers at the ?ace track which caused injuries to two local people. ) A car drfveh by Frank Rayfield, 19, Fort Wayne, in which his wife*Robb|e, 18,[ a brother! James, and his wife Alitq,, 16,. was totally demolished at 5:45 a.mJ Monday when —according; to sheriff Robert j Shraluka and state trooper Ted Biberstine, whqi investigated, r-f I their car, heading north on U. S. j 27 about five and a half miles | south of here,! apparently ® went I out of control and turned over several times. It happened at sweeping curve at Coppess corjner. The men received bruises but ! were not ‘ hospitalized. Alice Rayfield was treated at the Adams county memorial hospital but w’ajs released shortly. Tile sheriff’s department learneid of an accident involving Sherman Nyffeler, route 6, arid another man late Saturday night, Nyffeler told ’ the sheriff there hhd ibeen an ac- ’ cldent somewhere roear Piqua road, 1 northwest of town.! Syffeler wqs taken to the Adams? county’ memorial hospital with, minor .injuries and was soon dismissed. > 4 T-l ■ [ The Sheriff said the driver hpd I neglected to report the accident so' far. ■' .' ' f Walter Clem, operator of ihe' Clem’s lake enterprise, reported [ that a foot board in the at the race track collapsed at Sjin-

SALE CALENDAR SEPT. 4—<>t3o p. m. Mr. Mrk Tom Smitjh, owners, 401 W. Wabash St.. Bluffton. Modern home an 4 household goods. D. S. Blair, Gerald Strickler, C. W. Kent, sa, e mgr. SEPT. 6 —1:00 p. m. Mrs. Amu Atnstutxi owner. Corner U. S. 27 and Van Buren St.. Bern|. 7-room modern home and household goods. MH’s Realty; Auction Co.'. Melvin E. Lieclky;. Auct. SEPT. 6 —10:00 a. m. Preble IVolintetr .Fire Fighting Livestock, machinery, h4y, £rain and straw, household Renifc, I miscellaneous items.! Auctioneers from Dedatur and Surrounding territories. : SEPT. B—-Marshall Foust, Si* jjniles West and 5 North of North Man- < cfiesterv lnd. on Highway No. 15. Highly Productive 150 ‘z- \ acre, farm wit)i complete set of Modern Improvements, 1:30 / p. m. Midwest Reality Auction Col, J. F. Sanmann, Amk. SEPT. 12 —?:00 a: m. Abanin jF. Sprunger & Steffen Implement Co.. I 5 miles Southeast of Decatur Ur 3 miles East of Monroe then 2 miles North | then East, or miles West,of Pleasant Mills. Gattie, [hogs, ishetp and new and used f4rm machiq» , ___ ery. Roy & Ned Johnson, Auctioneers. ' SKPT. p. m. L. F. Siela & Son, owners. 3 miles -south of Bluffton on Stl Rd. 1 to Poplar Grovp School, then mile. I west. 34 head registered And gradis black Angus cattle. ERenberger Bjos.. auctioneers. -SEPT. 13—40:30 A. M., (EST, Gordon BechardJ 1 mile south of WiUshire, Ohiq enj road 0 then 1 mile east on the Vau W rt & Mercer county line j:oad. Two improved 40 acre farms, im- .- , ■ ' plements, livestock and' furniture. Roy S, Johnson & Son. Auctioneers. , I L, t ■; : ' Sep. 15—1:00 p.m. C. E. BELL, & M. O. STOUTHNBERRY, milea east of Decatur, mile north of road No 224. 45 head of registered and gradd Halsteins. Roy & Nqd Johnson, SEPT. 15—12:00 Noon. 6Ch Annfial Whitley County! Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ Sale.,. Whitley County 4+H Fair .Grounds, Cfilum bia City, Kenneth E- Sherbahn, sale mgr. .Sep. 16—1:00 p.m)- EST WILpiAM. LESTER LVDIVIG & EVELYN i CAMPBELL. 5 rtnilek south of Paulding, ohio on toad 127 i then l-% miles >east|. First road south, of Blue them 1-U miles east. 80 acre farm. Rdy Johnson & Son, auct s. — 4 — ti L

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1952

I ' 1 ■■ ■ 1 - day night’e races, causing injuries to Keinneth Eunyon. 234 North First street, am| David Langston .of Homestead 13 Runyon was taken to the hospital with an injured right: leg and rigi it arm and a blow on the heaxt Run,'on said Langston caught himself and got -only a bruise on the chest. The insurance man said it hardened as he and ' Langston stood up on the board to stretch; he said there was a lot of traffic ou me ioard snd evidently the strain wa£ too much. They were eight to 10 feet above the J “ : ground, said Runyon. - K w 9E: W ■ 'JI ' ■ a| - r’D'JSTRIALIST William A. Purt“ll, 55. of West Hartford,; j tvas appointed by Gov: John lod »e as U.S. Senator far tour r??,nths to fill the interim unexj p rqrl term of the Late Sen, Brien J IlcMnhon. a Democrat Purtell is r the Republican, nominee for the f••. 11; «ix-year Senate term, opposj irsjScn. William Benton, pemo-r-apc incumbent (International)