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Ti LAMAR CAUDLE, former assistant attorney general fired last November by President Truman. confers with Robert Chiller (left) counsel for the Chelf house subcommittee probing the:-justice departinent. During closed-door hearings over the Week end Caudle Is : reported to have named officials who sought to exert pressure on him fn tax eases. One of the probers-said the list srtClude<l members of the White House staff. j . i ’ ' ‘ ji.

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Two quick developments occurred in the Adams county central consolidated school injunction suit in the bast few hours, and the H. G.x Reiff Construction Co, of Bluffton moved in early this morning and started construction of s the center section of the proposed 'eonsolid at- ? ed school at the west edge of Mon- ' roa. I B ; / ■ Judge, Homer Byrd in Wells cir- ' Cult court late Monday afternoon dissolved the injunction which held up awarding of a contract for the cent ?r section of the building. The dissolution petition was filed Iby D. Rurdette Custer, of Cifster and Smitjh, attorneys for the . school board.'; / 1 / ■ ?' ' T1 e- was obtained about 10 days ago by the Adams courity freeholders association, a group of citizens of the shlps which lias been opposed to the , pres ?ni plan of Consolidation. Bond ‘ at ti e time 4-as set at SSOO and Custer argued Monday before Judge . Byre fthat the bond was riot high enough to guarantee the loss which the consolidation might-suffer. ’ As Soon aa Judge Byrd dissolved k... the order/the. Adams Central school boari? ; met and awarded the contract from bids which 'had been received several days ago to the Reifi .Co., which was the jlow bidder dth a price of $136,647. Judge Byrd also assessed all • costtj against the plaintiff in the proceedings!. The contract!with the I Reiff concern is the general contract Sind other contracts for heating. plumbing and wiring are yet td bg awarded. . ’ , p The’ center section of the build.- , | ing, : which wiljl .be constructed Os brick, will include the gymnasium, largest in 'Adams county, and nuqtirous ! cliss and. offiefe rooms. The general office, principal's office, home economic rodms, dining ioom and other class roomswill be housed' in the fifst of three sections of the proposed building. All htonies used to construct the center section Will jbe expended from the cumulate building fund, There is still an injunction suit pending agalnsj . - boridk to build tire other two units • of' the school. This, cause will, be heard in Wens cjrcuft/court Friday. Another suited halt"the quiet Os of titles on ttie smaller now. inoperative. tin> Monroe townie ship, fib they dan be sold, also |s . scheduled foh-WIU circuit court in the next I# days. . The contfra§tsWb allows 300 4ays for . completion of the building project iihd carries a SSO a day penalty Clause for (every day over 300 days which is consumed 4n coastruction. This means at least the copter part of the school, will be operation in 1953? Employes \)t the Reiff concern lost no time in starting .work at. \ the school site. The fence was removed early this, morning and construction of a tool - house was started. Actual work of conslructibn wijl start irrimediately. ■ . I INDIANA WEATHER I Fair and a little warmer tonight.,) Wednesday fair and warm. Cow tonight near 60; high Wednesday 8&-95.\

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■ Primaries Are Held In Eight Slates Today Republicans Win In . Maine But Margin Is Far Less Than Usual j] By United press 'Voters; marked their I ballots today, in eight state primaries that, wilt nearly complete the nomination of candidates for tile November;- general elections. ■ The polls opened in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Arizona, Colpjrado, Hampshire, Utah. Vermont and Washington, National interest centered on the fate of Joseph McCarthy, R-Wwl who iA seeding reiipmination. I \ • ' Massachusetts and Rhode island the last states to nominate, Candidates for the NoV’einbejr election, will pick their congressional candidates later this mointh. Traditionally Republican Maine srwept ,GOP candidates |o victory ih its first-in-the-nation state election Monday. But ths margin of Victory was fair short of the mark set in 1948 wtien U. S. Sep. 'Margaret Chase S mith 1 received 71.4 percent of the vote. « A state liqu >r commission Scandal was blare e® for the slip in Republican s:rength ih Maine. GoV. Frederick G. Payneiwon election U. S. senate by a comfortable 2 to 1 margin oiier Demo-cra-t Roger Dupe. ) McCarthy’s strength Vith the Wisconsin Republican organization wa.4 expected °to Help him to victory over his opponentj Leonard Svbmitjt of Merril). Wis., But the leathej-lunged. who conducted 10 “talkathons; U-ours-long question and answer radio programs—during the campaign. has attracted widespread public interest. -’McCarthy said he wa| “badly” in need of votes. Today’s primaries will select a tbtal of 32 nominees for house seats and six nominees ■ for senate seats/ ' : ?; , Dozens of major state and local offidis were als<i> at stake as the voters Went to the polls; Arizona Republicans ; centered their interest in choosing a edndijiate cto oppose senate majority leader Ernest W. McFarland, who is seeking a third term. The Democratic senator is unopposed, but two Republicans were fighting for the nomination. They are Barty : M. Goldwatey and Lester Kahl: In Utah, Marrlner S. Eccles, former governor) of the federal reserve board, empolyed ;a “telethbft” television broadcast at 4 p. ,m. Monday In an attempt to insure ! a victory dver iricumbent Sen. Arthur V. Watkins in the Republican primary. Eccles plani (Continned Ou Paa* Mix)

19 CommunistFighter Planes U.N. Victims 150 Russian-Built Jets Fight Vainly Against Air Blows SEOUL, Korea, UP — United Nations jet plane*; destroyed or damaged 19 MIG-15 fighters today when 150 of the Russian-built jets tried in vain to stop an Allied air assault on a North Korean military academy. Allied F-86 Sabrejets knocked down seven MIGg and damaged 11 more, while an F-84 Thunderjet fighter-bomber accounted for the 12th damage claim. The Sabre-MIG duels came while Thunderjets from two fighter-bomb-er wingls roared over the military academy at Sakchu deep in Northwest Korea, only 39 miles from the tChinese Communist'base at Antung, Manchuria. [ . A The Allied, planes caught the Reds feverishljt; repairing damage inflicted in a previous attack July V .Vq -±’•B4 pilots flew more than 80 sorties over the target, scoring 97 direct hit?. Billowing clouds of black smoke hid the schcql and prevented a full estimate of damage. < Today’S claim gave Allied pilots their best day of MIG-hunting jn September and brought the enemy jet toll for the month to 29 destroyed, one probably destroyed and 29 damaged. Other U. N. warplanes hurled bombs, rockets and flalming jellied gasoline on Chinese Communists holding Capitol hill in an attempt to soften them up for a counter* attack by South Korean soldiers. Shooting Stars, Mustangs and F-84 Thunderjets took part. Although the? Reds were temporarily in possession of the biody height, a South Korean officer estimated 4t cost them 954 killed *nd wounded. il ' r '■ ' [■ The Chinese also held Finger hill,] near Capitol hill, after South Ko-i rean troops surged to within 20: yards of the crest * the were thrown back. Chinese Communists on the west* ern front made a half-hearted attempt to probe U. B. marine positions on Bunker hill, east of Panpiunjom, but the Leathernecks easily repulsed the attack. Men of the. 25th division’s Wolfhound regiment gave the same treatment to a North Korean attack north of the Punchbowl on the eastern front. Taft Awaits Signal - Al To Aid Eisenhower Expect Conference Later This Week | WASHINGTON, UP —Sen. Robert A. Taft, with a smile as wide as his face and a “very forgiving nature,” today awaited the signal to pitch in and help Dwight■ D.\ Eisenhower’s \ bid for the presidency. I Taft said he expected to hear from Sen. Frink Carlson, R-Kan., one of Eisenhower's top aides: todajr or Wednesday on when and where a meeting With the Republican ' candidate can be scheduled. Chances are the long - awaited conference will be in New York late this week, both men appealed anxious to meet at the other’s convenience, another sign that feey are patching up'their differences. Eisenhower told a‘ new* conference in Taft’s home state of Ohio Monday that iwould meet lat the senator’s convenience and cuss anything Taft wants to talk about. , ' j L “In any administration the Republicans set up, Taft will be cine of the greatest figures in that administration,” Eisenhower said iln extending a king-size olive branch to the man he whipped for fee GOP presidential nomination. ; Taft, told newsmen here he dotes not “want to disturb Eisenhower’s schedule.” He said the methods and extent” of his aid will be .settled when they meet face-to-face, Jj Taft emphasized that bygones are bygones as far as the Eisenhower camp’s bitter pre-conven-tion charges of “vote stealing" are concerned. “Sore at anybody?” Taft was asked this as he celebrated his 63rd birthday wife chocolate ice cream and a fluffy cake whipped up by Edna Wagner of his staff. ' ■■ h T j, I “I’m never sore,” Taft roared with laughter. “I’ve a very forgiv(Coatiaued Oa Page Six)

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Decatur, Indians, Tuesday, September 9. 1952.

Ike Is Facing Delicate Situation On Backing Bill Jenner In Race

More Shakeups Predicted For Justice Dept. Attorney General McGranery Presses Department Change * WASHINGTON, UP -? Further shakeups in the justice department high command uro expected shortly,- informed sources disclosed today. ix j Attorney general Jernes P. McGranery, these sources said, is still pressing the reshuffle which has resulted \in the departure of most of the top aides who served with his predecessor, J. Howard’ McGrath. Some of the U. S. attorneys, who handle federal cases in the nation’s 94 federal district courts, are under investigation reliable sources said. | . I Ellis N. Slack, acting assistant attorney general in charge of the department’s sex division, is slated to be deposed, according to these reports, but no decesion has been reached on whether he will be fired, asked to resign or shifted U, some other post In the department. Slack figured in recent testimony before a bouse judiciary subcommittee which heard that he tried, on orders of his superiors, to stymie fee activities of a federal grand jury delving ihto St. Louis tax cases. * , i; His former boss, T. Lamar Caudle who was fired last Nov. 16 as thie government’s chief tax fraud '■ prosecutor, is scheduled to testify in public before the subcommittee Sept. 18. Members said they expect him to “name names”' of government officials and congressmen who allegedly pressured, him tb take “improper” actlpn in tax cases. Chairman Frank L. Chelf D-Ky and Rep. Kenneth R\ Keating RN. Y. tojd reporters Caudle has' testified behind closed doors that persons inside the government — including members of congress—exerted “more than normal pressure” on him to take actions in tax cases. Chelf quoted Caudle as ’ saying none of the pressure came from President Truman, bu| Keating sharply disagreed with Chelf’s statement that apparently po one else at the White House was involved. “I Will say,” Keating snapped, “that there is • evidence from ! (Tbhi T» Pace fClaht) [■ ——- ■ Lewis Orders 26,000 Miners Resume Jobs :i. » '■ I I < K -M ’ * Wildcat Strikers , Ordered To Return PITTSBURG, (UP) — United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis' ordered 26,000 miners to get back to work today in 3jl western Pennsylvania coal mines hit by wildcat strikes Monday. The miners were expected to fellow ; Levis’ back-to-work order, in which he termed the wildcat “unfortunate . . while negotiations in progress.” John P. BuSarello, ITMW district 5 president, said 24 mines employing 19,50(j in his dtestrfet. largest in Western Pennalvanla. were ihut down by the pickets. The president of District 4, William ltynes,| said seven mines in his district | were closed, idling between 6,000 and 7,000 workers. A spokesman for the Western Pennsylvania Coal Operators’ Assn. Said most of the closed mines Were [“captive” pits owiied by steel companies. Some industry observers speculated the wildcat strikes were designed to cut down the nation’s huge stockpile oK coal to secure a mofe favorable position in the current coptract talks.

Jehovah Witnesses Hearing Held Here Attorney Admits Act Constitutional | Over 150 people, crammed intd tlie court room of the Adams county courthouse at 2 p. m. MonLday to fitness the first hearing | of the Witnesses of De•catur agiinst the city board of zoning appeals. Judge Myles. P {residing. /At the outset of the case, thh oplj' question to be decided-wap ■Whether a writ of j cfertiorarji should be issued by the court denyihg.the methods used by the appeals board in deciding against the church proposed by the Witnesses on corner of Monroe and Ninth streets. '. In a case of that nature, no evidence is taken into account by the court; issues are not tested,, merely - legal methods. If fee cpute issues a writ then and only then may evidence be entered And the case decided on its merits. ' Pleading the. case of the Witnesses was Hayden C. Covington, a.. Brooklyn, N. Y. lawyer, Who, it became, evident, had no mean experience in cases of this type, it not actually with the religious group themselves. [ ■ He began by admitting the !>oard pf, zoning appeals wan a lawfully constituted group and the ordinance in dispute, 1-1949, was constitutional. civlngton said he and his colleagues, Custer and Smith, took issue with the ’ discretion’’ ot the board in making its unreasonable, arbitrary and unlawful” decision. The'Brooklyn lawyer, a Jehovah's Mfeness himself, pleaded f’The denial of these people to build a church ini the proposed plgce ip an abridgement of the institution; it conflicts with the' right to assemble apd to worship.” \ Covington said in his opinion the ordinance was enforceable as far as other buildings were concerned: but hot to church structures pr assembly halls. At the end of his speech, the defense counsel', Robert Anderson, was called On to present the case of the defendants, the city board of zoning appeals. Anderton begap ‘by asserting “this issue must be decided purely on the original application of the group in asking for a variance <Tnr» To Pace Et«ht) Mrs. Eliza Miller Is Taken By Death Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Mrs. Eliza Miller, 70,, of 714 Dierkes ■ street, died at\ 3:05 o’clock Monday afternoon at the home of her brother, William Burry of Berne, after a year’s illness. She had been at the brother's home for seven months. She was born in Basse!, Switzerland, April 3, -1882, a daughter oi John and Anna Anthony-Burry, She was first married in 190? to Abraham Hullinger, wife died May 5 24,1931. Her second husErnest riuggel, died in 1936. She was married to Charles Miller of Preble in 1945 and he was killed in an huto accident Sept. 23. 1949. ! Mrs. Miller was a mernbeF of the Zion, Evangelical and Reformed church. , ■ Surviving in addition to the brother are three sops, Ervin Hullingefr of Angola, Albert Hullinger of Monroy and Lawrence Huilinger of Lima, O.: one daughter, Mrs. JiValfer Cable of Tocsip; 18 grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren*. Twelve brothers and sisters are deceased. | r Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. ns. Wednesday at the ZWick funeral home, the Rev. C. A. Schmid of Berne officiating.. Burial- wilj bq in the Magley cemetery. .Frfendq mpy call at the funeral home until time of the se, vl?es.

Stevenson In New Attack On Ike's Policies I'l ' I | Foreign Policy Os ! Eisenhower Lashed . In Seattle Speech , SEATTLE, UP —Gov. Adlai E. Sfevenson headed for San Francihcb Today to make a major foreign policy statement after making another pointed attack on the foreign policy of his Republican op|>onent, Dwight D.' Eisenhower. ‘ The Democratic presidential nominee was scheduled tb make hid| most iipporfent foreign policy speech to date; in a nationwide malo aiid television appearance •(C|JS) from ths Veterans Memorlalfl Auditorium Mn San Francisco at|B:3o p.m., COT. The governor’s aides expected thg speech, one| of the most careI prepared jbf the Democratic ign, to sapport current adration foreign policy in terms; Vfeh new criticism enhower for his statements of the Eastern Eurolations from Communist ty- • L i■ \ enson spoke here Monday principally on the subject ural resources, conservation fellc power, but he opened dress with an ad >b U Eisenhbwer was engaging little vote-patching” wife his raendations for , the libera--1” Eastern Europe. Illinois governor said he, it “the general’s foreign polhe has so far revealed it >les our own In every imporsspect except, of course, the irats are adbninisteffing it I of the Republicans—except respect—and that is hisi pretion wife the early liberation! or the peoples in Europe .behipch the Chrttiin.” “T|e general has Since been at J ITura To Pape Tw6 Local Winners In Poster Contest i J ■ Vil’' ■ \ 1 ' K Winners In |i District Contests ■Mjss Margaret . Biting, chairman of the poppy poter contest for tliejs ladies auxilary of Adams Posg 43. Amerfegn Legion, has I>eeg notified, that Adams county entfents won of the three firsjt prizes in district compete tioi| feass I jwinner i ; ls Judy Ruble, daughter of Mrs. Romey Rul|e. She was student last veag in fee Luclfey school in Union I township, tg|ght by Miss \\Viljlia Andrews., .' This class in-' iludi sx fee fourth, fifth and sixth] iradpq. ■ .C: I winner in. slass ill, which inclildes the sevijith, eighth and ninth grades, is Gerry Girod, son Os Mr. and Mrs. Glen Girod. He was | a member the seventh grade at 'Monmogth, with Mrs. Rus|eJ Owens hlfe ’art instructor. E<ch winner received $5 in fee county contest and will iU)WS receive $5 - additional f|r om I the Ideal auxiliatH There are 35 unit| in the foii|-fe district, and the Uocal unit hhd three classes fe fee. content. Tlie posters were judged po|nti| 50 for appeal, > fer originality? 15 for artistic valuj! and 10 for neatness. > 1 —‘ ■ 12th Polio Case Is Reported In County Adams county”| polio incidence for the year has increased to 12, withjthe admission of Daniel Robert (gefeer, aged $, fe St. Joseph hosp|talj at Fort Wayne with the diseaie. He is the; sdh of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gerber of Geneva route 1 U I

Free Bus Rides To Soya's Plan! Tour ■ ' ■ n-iT,|A.i, ,/■ | Kalt-Hour Service ere.'On Thursday i J Free bus rides to and from Central Soya company’s. plant tour Thursday will be provided from 14 comer stops throughout the qify, F. I. “Scotty” Finlayson, local plant manager, announced today. A map is published in this fesue of this newspaper showing where the stops will be made. An “x" marks the bus stop. Bus rides will begin at 7:30 *an. and continue every half-hour throughout thfe day, up until 3:30 p.m., it was announced. .i The advertisement explains, “To catch your ride to the plapt, be at/ a pick-up pegnt. j Following your tour of. the plant, a courtesy car' Will return you fe the pickjnp point nearest your honje.” j / - Following a tour of the; gigantic plant, refreshments will bp served on the grounds. Open house day is in observance of the completion of the |vast improvements and additions: to CenSoya company and ilcMilien {Feed Mills, rounding \?outf an 18year program which developed these industries into the[ world’s largest processors of soybeans. Central Soyaeompany was founded In 1934 by Dale W. McMillen, Sr., of Fort Wayne. !' The local plant employs moire than 500 persons. The company also has plants in Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania. , J , ' ' T . . J V j : q Socialist May Be Taken Off Ballot ■ '. \ . '■ : I ' Some Signers Not Qualified Voters . The name of Lawrence E. Brayton, Socialist 'candidate for congress from the fourth Jmjiana district, may be omitted from the A lams , county ballots, it was learned todgy." County clerk Ed Jjiberg said that on a check of signatures ot 713 names on Brpyfen’s petition, m|any signers were hbot qualified voters at the signing. A check is alpo befeg made In counties of the fourth district and the various, pounty election commissions hive contacted the state election board for a ruling. I Sixteen Decatur persons, whb are not now eligible to vote, were among the 713 signers .of the petition. It iwas learned i that more than 100. ineligible signers appear oh fee petition with ffort Wayne addresses. i L j No final decision has jbeeri reach-, ed by the Adams county board off election coihmission!rt| concerVfeg the placing of Braytonls name dp the November but it is believed thd lopal board will follow the action of h majority of boards in the district , ■ ; ? i r • I Coupty clerk Jaberg, member 1 ot the Adams county bbard, has returned from the annual sumnfet' meeting of the Indiana county clerk’? association held over fee week-end at , Turkey Run state park: Jaberg said'the clerks received information pertaining, to the conduct of their office! from heads of numerous state departments. _____ ■’ 12 Parachute From f Crippled Superfort PHILLIP9RURGH, Mont., UP— Twelve crew, members who parachuted from a.-crippled B-29 Superfort before it crashed and exploded on a Montant mountainside were being returned to feeir home base today. The crewmen left the plane when one engine of the four-engin-ed heavy bomber caught fire Monday. The huge plane ricocheted off Mount Stuart three miles north of hare and plunged into j heavy woods where it exploded.

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Criticism Os . ■ r - • ■ ... i ■ Gen. Marshall Poser To Ike Eisenhower Makes Initial Campaign Visit To Indiana INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Dwight D. .Eisenhower landed here today, on his first campaign visit to Indiana and came face to face wfth i delicate question. ; The problem involved Sen. William E. Jenner, Eisenhower’s tlcketniate in Indiana, who has been a severe critic of Eisenhower’s good friend, George C. Marshall.; The Republican presidential candidate’s plane landed here after a flight from Cleveland. Climbing into Mayor Alex Clark’s official car, Eisenhower rode through cheering crowds lining a roundabout route to his hotel. Jenner met him at the airport and rode along, i ; ‘ They drove through a Negro, disArict and Eisenhower stopped a moment to shake hands wjth Marcus C. Stewart, editor of the weekly Indianapoltz Recorder, a Negro newspaper, Stewart told Eisenhower he would vote for him. 5 The edravan stopped again at international headquarters of the AFL Carpenter Union, whose president emeritus, William L: Hutcheson, was one of two Hoosier GOP delegates to vote for Eisenhower in the Chicago nbfeinating (convention. ." V /'vi ! There, Eisenhower I mpcr Edwin ' Brubeck, a working carpenter who lis running for a seat in the Indiana legislature. He- Yanted to meet Hutcheson but fee aging pnion leader was in New York for a convention. i ! w , * . Eisenhower’s visit to Indianapolis included b talk before fee 75th anniversary fenchpon of the Indiana Republican -Editorial Assn' and a major speech at night 9:30 p.m. NBCABC before a huge GOP rally, in Butler Udlversity field house. Jenner also jwill be a speaker on the night program. Jenner, in a senate speech attacking administration foreign policy, referred to Marshall, retired army chief of staff and later secretary of state, as a I’living lie,” Eisenhower only the highest praise for Marshall, under whom ha served as a five-star general In command of Eferopepn forces in World War II?) . But,\he also is convinced thit if he is ejected president in November he wfe need Republican control of congress tb carry out his program; The delicate problem of wfcai to do about Jenner was put up fe Eisenhower during a press copferl ence in Cleveland late “Are you going to ask fee Indfetaa voters to support Jenner?” he was asked. ? will ask all voters to support Jthe Republican team,’/ Elsenhower replied. ’ “What about his criticism of Marshall?”' Eisenhower reminded that he has expressed, time and again, his admiration for Marshall and his disagreement with those who imply that his onetime army colleague was a “traitor.” A reporter wapted to know whether Eisenhoweir would put Jenner in thfe samb “category” : with Sbn. Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, another Marshall critic for whom the presidential candidate (Tww Pmw si*» • .. . '. Donald Barkley Is Badly Burned Today Donald Barkley, 22, was severely burned at his. near Decatur early today ‘ when fee fluid he was using to clean the engine of an automobile ignited and spread over his body. Barkley is the son of Mr. and. Mrs. Alpha Barkley of Decatur, route 3- How serious his condition was could not be learned ht Tress time today. Barkley Isa patient at Adams county memorial hospital.