Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 215, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 215.

McMillen Industries Observe 18 Years Os ' ,i - T ■ ' ;: Progress In Decatur

McMillen Industries today cele- : biate their 18th year of progress in • Decatur. ' A \ yhe years Iftve seen axtiny nest ; of some 40 stlos mushroom out until today over 200 gargantuan silos s sprawl at least a half mile, marking it as the storage place of the largest soy beat) processors In the world. -In honor of the occasion, the over 700 "employes of the massive operation played host to the city of Decatur, and indeed anyone anywhere who wanted to. see the great industrial giant at wprk. To begin at the beginning, an approach to the, plant from any direction brings Into view the towering silos, reaching like giant fingers into the clear' sky) They are the heart, the life's blood of Me- % Millen, they attest to the new stature of the once lowly soybean. A swing west and we move Intel a sleek driveway, at the end of which is a low modern structure which faintly resembles a hospital clinic; and it almost is that. It'is. the feed research building, wherein experimental feeds arg fed to farm animals to determine actual worth. From this buildingemerge the formulae which are used to make up millions of sacks of teed that supply farm animals with their every nutritional need to the last toenail. Feed research head James Myers, Dick Childs, nutrP tlanal technician, and Weldon Solch ner, associate -director of feed rte* search, see that everything goe| smoothly in their department; it is one of the most important, at the plant. | Research Important In the building itself diyt tests are conducted op) white mice—since they respond readily to any dle|| changes—ahd chicks who have yet reached maturity. Precise rec*? ords are kept to eliminate any? chance of slip up in formula effect. A stroll out the rear of tM building leads to an immaculatij farm that is the dream of anil raiser of livestock. Flpe stalls limf the calf bam where healthy-look* ing animals ingest the different mixtures of feed to see which onH • they best react to. We are swiftly getting the idea -that these animals ahe eating better than the humans. The guide assures, us with a wise smile that such is indeed the case. Gilts,, barrows and sows also live “the life“ r in their own scrubbed enI closures. The place is so clean, [ that suddenly pigs lose their usual odor. McMillen indeed working . miracles. , . > i. tinder construction, nearby, are ( dog kennels to house the canines ! to go on special diets .to see what’s ! best for them. | ' I A brand-new broiler and turkey ! house is near completion that . shows promise of being the Wal-dorf-Astoria of the poultry world!. ! On to the power plant. A squeaky clean place run by engineer Jim Basham and power plant supervisor d)Hersel Nash. The building hum# I with generators producing the 4,000,000 watts it takes to keep the production line on the move. Laboratories Now, the vitamin laboratories, . where analysis is made of count-' - less ingredients to check and re», check the multitude of requires meats, McMillen demands. , Itj charge of the operation is T. C| I Smith, chief chemist. Needless td say, this department is as clean as any you’ve seen so far. McMillen likes cleanliness, it seems. A. short tyalk, once more, and i we arrive at the “mouth” of Central Soya. A length of track the size of a freight car, split at both ends and lying beneath a shedded building. LOoks innocent, enough. On, it rolls a freight car Which is heaved aloft like a toy, rolled over at a 4'5 degree angle, dumping its contents' into a hopper. We are informal that this operation used to talite two . men two hours to complete, but with this fantastic device, Jt takes but one hour to unload aboiiit _ seven freight cars. Cliff Steintd*, elevator superintendent, calls this bis baby and sees that all goes well. After the beans go in the.hoppey, ' they are heated to remove any rat-., getting moisture, and stored jn tl(e elephantine bins. They are, we age told, 120 feet high and 28 feet in diameter, large enough to store. 60,000 bushels of beans. \ ' g The feed mill i beckons wherfe the finished product is packaged for 'shipments. There, 52 ingredients are blended and mixed, in “just so?, proportions. An acre of space iji used to store etnpty bags. In charge is Chai Bollenbacher, feed mill(Tara T* Pace Five) ,y' , • .. A • !

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Baby Girl Is Added fTo Sheriffs Family ’ I I ■ Sheriff and Mrs. Robert Shraiuka have taken another individual 4nU> their custody.’’ {This one, however, is, a mighty Welcome visitor. S# For this morning, a baby girl was (born to dhe Sheriff’s wife at the Adams edunty memorial hospital; /time bf arrival was 11:24 o’clock. >The baby weighed six pounds and JI ounces, and has been named Dee. 1 This Is the second ’child and fitat daughter in the aniUy: ,! '| ■ » South Korean Soldiers Rouf Reds’ Attacks Beat Off Assaults By Screaming Reds On Strategic Hill SEOUL, Korea, SJP — Heroic South Korean soldiers, weathering the most punishing artillery barrage of the Korean war, hurled back two| Chinese Communist coiihter-attacks on' bloody .Capitol Hill Wednesday night and early today. fl This morning’s attack on the hill was the fourth sinclp the Koreans recaptured it Tuesday night. Soldiers of the cajpitol division’s horseless “cavalry rfegimlenty beat off the attacks by streaming Reds despite the fact they! Were stunned and shaken from a record 48,000round - barrage of f artillery and mqrtar shells laid down in Wednesday night’s attack. I ‘ ; One Red assault hit the hill, recaptured by. the Koreans only 24 hdurs earlier, about |o: 30 p.in., but the defenders leaped from their foxholes and chased the Chinese down the slopes. I(' United Press war| correspondent Frederick C. Paintonj reported from the scene that the Bouth Koreans were aigipst foolhardy in pursuing the Chinese. He sqid they could have more easily stayed in their (foxholes and cut dok’n the! attackera. I J The second, attack jeame at 12:30, a.m. The Chinese gained the crest of the h||l. and botft. sides fought with grenjades, bayonets, fists and riflebutts until the fell back and finally quit at 61:30 a m. . The two attacks fcost the Reds 700 men iylied or wounded. The fighting took place Sever a grisly, rain-drenqhed battlefield littered with the dead from jseven days of Unceasing battle. *' ■ 1 ' Painton said he had “never seen anything like the artillery barrage’’ the Chinese laid do#n on the hill. > Division officers sa|id it was “fantastic’’ and at first to be- . lieV,e the count of 48,000 epunds. '< "Incoming shells during part Os • rhe' fighting were falling at the of 15 a minute on a single position,’* Fainton repotted. The artilleijy barrage eclipsed the previous Communist record of 30,000 rounds in their original and successful attack ajainst Capitol hill Saturday night.: Chinese troops surrounded ‘tlapitdl hill at one point of the attack early this morning, but a South Korean division stent reinforcepiqnts into the fight, dispersed the Reds and pounded them with artillery. 7 ; .■ | . ■ ( Ground fighting teas relatively light in all pther sectors. > The fight for Capitol hill, as Ravage ae any of the battles for Heartbreak and) Bloody Ridges, bld Baldy, Gibraltar and Bunker I 1 (Uontlnued On Ptace Six) Cloid Ratliff Dies After Heart Attack ki r .i i • I ' ' ''' ■ ill' ?'I * Cloid Ratliff, 58, of Markle brother-imlaw of Homer Goodin of this city, died Wednesday night following a heart attack suffered Sunday might. A former Bluffton - bank employe, Mr. Ratliff wag well kpown In Decatur, particularly in I Masonic circles, in which <he was exceptionally active. Survivors include his wife, Ruth. i Funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the McGuffy , funeral home at Markle, with burial in Fairview cemetery at Bluff- ? t-on. | ■ i

Farm Output Os Country To j' Be Near Record Grain For Feeding | i Livestock Short In Monthly Forecast WASHINGTON, UP— The near-record tonnage of food grains headed for American tables is boosting the country’s total supply of farm crops (this year to near the second largest in history. But buried In the healthy crop outlook is a “pessimistic" forecast for the srops that feed livestock and wind up as steaks and chops in the corner grocery, Short supplier of feed grains may result in boosted meat production in the future, but lighter supply-later as farmers and ranchers are forced, to hold back and rebuild depleted herds. Department experts said movement of Cattle to market thus far by farmers unable to scare up feed for their animals has not been “unusually hea|vy.” But they said many sections bf the soiith and southwest: —where cattle raising is a major industry—expest “serious feed shortages this winter.” | The agriculture department’s monthly crop report Wednesday forecast ,a 3315,237,000-bushel crop of corn, a key livestock feed. But the fourth largest corp crop on record is accompanied by a “nearly average” bats crop, a “small” barley crop; and “only half a crop” of sorghum grain. The report said that although hay prospects improved during August as rains brdke Dixie droughts, the hay supply is "poorly distributed.” The report pointed out the “numbers of livestock to be fed” are at near-record levels. In another pessimistic report on the farm situation, the department predicted farmers’ net income this year may be a little lower than in 1951. ' , The department reported farmers made 118,900,000,000 on their crops andplivestock during the first eight months of this year—3 per cent morft than in the same period last year. A 5 per cent gain in farm marketing more than Compensated for slightly lower crop prices. But at! the same time, the department said, farmers’ production costs averaged 4 per cent higher ■ through August, with the result that “farmers’ ne| Income this yqar may be little lower than in 1951.” The 117 f OOO,OOO of feed grains in prospect compared with a department goal of 128,000,000 tons. The goal—set before planting time —would have been even higher if the department had not figured it was the “maximum feasible level in light of the need for production of other crops.” The k department pointed out then that the need for feed grain production was much more “urgent” than the need for food grains. Ex-Internal Revenue Official Is Indicted i : V '' \ 1 Evasion Os Federal . Income Tax Charged • J- iv ■ - '' : NEW YORK, UP — Former Assistant U, 3. internal revenue oom-, missioner Daniel A. Bolich was indicted today on five counts of income tax evasion by a Brooklyn federal grand jury investigating tax scandkls. Bolich, an executive in the Brooklyn tax office prior to' his term in Washington, w*as charged with evadihg |7,444 in income tax payments during the five \years from 1946 to 195 Q. In Washington, attorney general James P. McGranery said the special Brooklyn jury “is continuing its investigation,” despite an‘announcement previously that regular juries would take over the work of special panels. McGranery said the indictment covers th® years 1946 through 1960. Bolich figured prominently in an investigation by the house ways and means subcommittee (Tara T« Pace BUrht> >

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Decohir, Indiana, September 11 z 1952

Lutheran Speaker I* i I :J ■■JHb i Rev. Armin C. Oldsen 1 1 -_ . J Lutheran Hour Rally In This City Sept. 21 Rally Feature Os ' District Laymen's League p The Rev. Armin C. Oldsen, nationally famous Lutheran Hour speaker, will deliver the principal address at the Lutheran Hour rally, to be held at the Decatur high school auditorium at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Sept. 21. public is invited to attend thig' program. The rally, will be the outstanding feature of the eighth annual 1 Northern Indiana district Lutheran laymen’s league convention,; whlcty will be an a|l-day affair. Rey. Oldsen is heard by mi>‘ lions of radio listeners r throughout the country every Sunday during the Lutheran Hour broadcast, one of the most popular ligjoute programs on the Cohvention activities for the day for the laymen will open with the convention service at 10:30 a. m. at Zion Lutheran church in Decatur, host church for the convention and rally. The Rev. Edgar P, Schmidt, district pastoral advisor and pastor of the Decatur church, will deliver the sermon. ■ Registration fee for the lay{ men’s convention will be 50 cents; and Registration can be made at the parish hall, adjacent to the church, before or after either morning service, or at the front entrance of the high school audit torium before and following the Lutheran Hour rally. , A short business meeting will be held in the school auditorium immediately following the rally, After this meeting, members and guests are Invited to ijisit a dis- . play at the Zion parish hall ot various- Lutheran laymen league activities, covering national, \ dis 1 trict and local arranged by. Reinhard Werling. The convention will close with (Continued On Pare Six) Henry F. Schinnerer Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon i Henry F. Schinnerer, 85, retir : ed farmer of Willshire township, died at 2 o’clock Wednesday ar ternoon at his home one-half mile east of Willshire, O. He had been in failing health for several years and bedfast for the past two weeks. I( ■ . His wife, Louise, died July 22 of this year. , Mr. Schinnerer was borh in Mercer county. 0.. May 2, 1&67,» a son of Frederick and Elizabeth Schumm-Schinnerer, but had lived in Willshire townfthip most of his life. He was a member pt the Zion Lutheran church at Schumm, O. Surviving are two sons, mHI- - G. of Fort Wayne and Fred, at home; pne daughter, Miss dia Schinnerer, at home; and three sisters, Mrs. Hannah Scare . and Mrs. T. C. Hofmann of Willsfiitee township, and Mrs. B. B, Balyeat of Altedena, Calif. One son and one daughter preceded : him in death. | Funeral services will be h6ld at 2:30 p. m. Saturday at the home and at 3 o’clock at the Zion Lutheran church at Schumm, the Rev. W. P. Kuhlberg officiating. Burial will be In the church cemetery. The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral home to the residence, where friends may call after 8 o’clock this evening. v. L \ ®

President Truman _ I h ; Takes Dig At Ike Platform Os Peace

Heart Attack Fatal 'jWF ’ ■ 'I To Admiral Ingram Outstanding Naval Commander Is Dead SAN DIEGO, Callfi Up —Adm. Jonas H. Ingram, famed Naval Academy athlete who became one of World War H’s outstanding naval commanders, died. Wednesday of a heart attack. He was ! Ingram was Allied commander of-/ ; the Soteth Atlantic ; fleet in World War II and later commandfid the entire Atlantic fleet. He Served as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s advisers at the Yalta conference. ' ' ; Ingram, one of the nation’s most decorated military men. suffered a heart attack aboard a train enroute here liuesday night from Culver, Ind. He' died in the U. S. naval hospital, i p ■ , Ingram was awarded two congressional medals of, honor—one of the few Americans so honored—and also held the naVy cross, three distinguished service ■ medals,; piiyple heart and several foreign awards. Ingram’s athletic achievements (ktlU are legend at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was one of the academy’s greatest football fulTbacks. captained the varsity racing crew and wak a middle distance runper on the track team. The firtet of three brothers to star in athletics at Annapolis, he was awarded the navy athletic sword as the best all-around athlete at the. academy. After his retirement in 1947 as a fun admiral, Ingram became vice-president and director of Reynolds Metals Co. He was a native of Jeffersonville, Ind., and is survived by\ his widow. Jean, Coronado, Calif., a son, William Thomas, Louisville, Ky., and a daughter, Mrs. Lawrence C. Hays, Coronado. Six Central Texas Town! Are Flooded Cloudbursts Total 22.9 Inches Rain • SAN SABA, Tex. UP —.. Cloudbursts, totalling ute tq 22.9 inches of rain in 24 hpiirs, isolated or poured flood waters intp six central Texas towns today, killing at least three and perhaps five persons. I '! \ ' " F. O. \ McKimmry, 65, was drowned near Fredericksburg when the bank of a stream gave rway under him and he plunged into the torrent. A wreck, caused ‘by automobiles skidding on a rain-slicked highway near Beeville killed William E, Belcher and a three-month-old baby. At Blanco; Tex., a man, who was believed to have a woman with him, drove his automobile into a flooded) creek. The automobile was foiund but neither the man n6r the woman reported with him were found. , The Katy Flyer, a Missouri-Kansas-Texas railway Jrain running between Kansas City, Mo.) and- San Antonio, was stalled by a washout three south of New Braunfels. Officials said there were such deep washouts on either side of the track that it could not proceed. They said about 100 passengers wiere £ii board. ( None was reported in danger, but the railroad wajs trying to get army trucks from Sah'Antonio to evacuate them.<f< (The. floods hit m* ott the towns ,of Kbrrville, Fredericksburg, Comfort, San Saba, Johnson. City and Marble Falls. G. L. Tatqm, a rancher near Blanco reported that 1 22.9 inches of rain fell at his place in 24 hburs. Another rancher, Henry Safford, who lives five miles east of Comfort. Tex., reported 21 inches# At many points, it was either still raining or threatening. ; A record drought ' had killed grass, trees and shrubs in that (Tara T» Pa«e Kl*M)

Adlai’s W Whistle-Srop Tour Finished Makes Speech I" On Corruption In j | Californio Tonight |LO» UP — Gov. A|lai .E. hiaJite's a major speech here toniraß in ? whieh he is to enlace oq bis theory tt^t' corruption not a genuine isftpue in the The Democrats nothlnee hammered on that theme Wednesday aa< he made the iirst whistle-stop togr of his campaign, <an eightstep swing down California’s central valley. ! * W ' Members of the Stevmson staff ; ware secretive as to ue I actual extents of tonight's spdfch. They advised reporters that he v|buld *‘tell the truth ftbout A the campaign and the future of the country.” ??(. ■ | . |But some of his advUers con* filled to friends he tackle wjiat he does not think »|a “real” isteue—corruption. 5 |?he Illinois governor’^advisers wfjere well aware that s|e prime campaign issue in of the Republican opposition corrtiptlon, based on congressional investigations and a series’ of grand jm-V indictments of internal revenue officials. It was belfteved they ffit his current 7,6o<£mil|i| invasion oDthe\west would be an Ideal ttmg t<| meet the corruption question ' |stevfnson said Wednesday at Sin Francisco that he and Dwight DMllisenhower, the GOP candidate, w|re in agreement on aptico|ruption and tjhat he knew of no candidate running on a “pro-eor-rutelilon” ticket. ll addition to his speech tonight at |>hrine Auditorium, Stevenson willlmake a. les;; formal talk at a midWay luncheon. Friday he will speaf in Phoenix;!! Aris., and Albuquerque, N. Mex„ before returning ifo his headquarters at SpringCentral Philippines Jolted By Earthquake' ul? — Earthquakes jolted a wide area of the Central Philippines early today, but no damage or deaths were reported. J ■ | — | ■ i ** ; ' s*> 7 ’ • McMillen Banquet Here This Evening j' 1 , v-'-is ■ . I‘ i— . 900 Are Expected To , | Attend Festivities i i ( At (least 900 people will attend banquet tonight at the Decatur high sc howl gymnasium in honor dis McMillen Industries’ open house —the 18th anniversary celebration. ‘ | :''i. .(i* , I Brudi, FortJ Wayne caterers, it if reported, Will supply the 400 ghic|ens to be served. Members df the Adamjj couhty home demonstration chorus have been retained to serve the food; | Tables and' chairs cover) the gym floor from stem to ktern; special brackets have been fabheated to adapt, tables to tit on ■_|he bleachers in an Ingfnioub Way- Covering this tables are uableclpths opj which is inscribed, i yery few irichep, the McMillen rade mark. Balloons and hunting festoon eyery bare ineji of j pace# Tiny j formal place cards i ire being prepared fdr each of i|ie 900-odd places.! An electric f gan and piano, R is reported, ill supply mikstc. The time set for the banquet is <:3O. ATI employes not on the job 1 ave been inftted,: together with ill Decatur officials. Many couht|( officials hive been asked and fiany dut-of-tpwn texecutlves Wfll lie present. 3 ’V ‘ | I '■ • '

Eight Os One FamilyStricken By Polio . One Child Is Dead, Seven Others 111 SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. UP — A frightened mother - today kept watch near the sick beds If her seven polio-stricken children and mourned for another child who died of the same crippling disease. Six of the children were rushed to St. Mary’s hospital here a few houys aftey their 11-year-old broth- . er, ' Bobby Rogers, died of polio Wednesday. The seventh child had been admitted for treatment ear-. Her. Their mother, Mrs. Frank Rogers, hovered near their rooms, waiting for word of their progress. The grieving mother could not see her qhildren, however, because they -were' still In isolation. Hospital attendants said she was “too ovftecome with grief to talk.” The Rogers children played and quarreled Al their hospital rooms unaware! t|at their brother had died. tThe victim, fivemonth bld Frances, was “the best off of the lot,” according to nurses. Taughs and eoos and. holds her own battle,” a nurse said. Polio first struck the Rogers family Saturday at its farm home near Neb, Janet, 7, was ta>fcen to ‘the hospital and placed in isolation then. . #. Bobby was admitted Tuesday night and was dead by 4 a.m. Wednesday. A few hours later the other Rogers children displayed symptoms pf the disease and were bundled intp a battered Ford automobile and hurried here. Albert Shefneer, Sidney, Neb., and uncle of the children# said they ■were all in good spirits during the drive to the hospital, except for 12-fear-old Alberta. “Both parents are pretty well broken iip,” Shefneer said. ‘‘lt all happened so quickly,” he said. Fortunately, Bobby’s brothers and sisters seem to have contrao ted lighter forms of the disease than that which struck the dead bbf, > '( — New Polio Cases Set New All-Time Record i Total Cases Above 1949*5 Record Pace WASHINGTON, UP—New polio cases set { another all-time record lasi week and pushed the total number of cases in this yepr’k outbreak past the record pace set in JL94{9, the public health service re~ported today. The service said 3,82*4 cases were reported in the week ending Sept 6. It was the third consecutive week new cases have reached an ; all-time high. The increase Was about eight percent over the previous week. - {j For the current “disease year,” which starts with the first Week in April, the total number; of cases reported ed the first time since the present .outbreak reached its height that the total has exceeded the record year of 1949 in which 25,429:; were reported in the same period. A public health service spokesman said medical authorities hopte the; current yreek m a f »«© the peak of the new polio outbreak. « The report noted high incidence of polio in Deuel county, S. D., where only one case had been reported previously this year. The report said It is “qgite possible” that the outbreak there may later be diagnosed as some other virus infection similar to polio since the cases are mild arid without paralysis. ' INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair, continued warm tonight and Friday. Low tonight 56-C3. High Friday 86M.

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Declares GOP ■ ' : X J Congress Not To Mean Peace Says Isolationist > < Congress Would Be No Peace Guarantee WASHINGTON, UP —President Truman today took a dig at Dwight D. Eisenhower’s peace platform and the newspapers supporting the Republican, presidential noipinOe. Mr. TrUman told a news conlerence that the election of “an isolationist Republican congress", will not mean peace by any means. And he said he doesn’t give a hoot what the newspapers say editorially about him ahd Democratic ciandidates ate long as they get the truth in their news stories. Mr. Truman read a prepared statement pointing out that few newspapers had supported him in his successful 1948 campaign.. i / Noting that a majority of newspapers also are opposing the Democratic ticket this time, he said. that he did not think it wduld. make any difference again. Mr. Truman approved the recent statement of Gbv. Adlai E. Stevenson, Democratic presidential homines, saying that what this country should fear is ft one party press in a two party country rather than a one party country. J In answer to a reporter's quetef tion about whether he agreed w*ith Eisenhower's recent statement that a change in administration is now the No. 1 campaign issuer rather than peace, Mr. Trnnian said that he did not. He said his administration has been working for seyen years (for world peace and that he still viras hopeful it would be achieved, i He said that he based his statement that a Republican congress, if elected with Eisenhower, woyld be isolationist on the voting record of Republican congressmen# Mr. Truman replied sharply t<j> a reporter who asked it the President thought such an “isolationist Republican congress” would mean war. . . The President said no, that he meant it vtould not mean wojrld. peace. In his statement on newspapers’ political standft, Mr. Truman said that the nation s “one party press,” | made mattery “particularly” difficult for Democratic congressmen who could not get -what he called a fair break in their I ( He said daily newspapers now are “b|g business and big business traditionally i has always been Republican.’* \ He added that In his 30 years of political experience he had never had much support from newspapers and it had never hurt him. { In 1948, he said, only 10.3 percent of the nation’s 1,769 daily newspapers supported the Democratic candidates and “almost all” the big circulation magazines were for Republicans. ! Mr. Truman included radio and television in what he termed his hope that the nation’s new media would be fair in their political stands and reporting. G. E. Says Latest Wage Offer Final NEW YORK, UP—L. R. Boulware, General Electric vice presi-1 dent in charge of employe relations, said today the company will r.ot go beyond its latest offer of 7% to 13 cents an hour pay boosts for its 200,000 employes. The offer was made to the .Internaitional Union of Electrical, R a.d 1 o and Machine Workers CIO and other unions representing GE workers. Some unions were reported to have accepted the offer but others £e holding out for a greater inease. . 11 ‘ I