Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1952 — Page 1

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Vol. L. No. 220.

FBI Cracking | Down Anew On Reds In U. S. 18 Party Leaders ln ; Midwest, West | Coast Are Arrested | WASHINGTON. UP — The Fiji cracked ; down on the- Communist party again today, arresting $8 midwest and? west coast Commaynist lenders On charges they conspired? to teach and f advocate violent overthrow of the government. \ I FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who announced the ’arrests, saift the 0 18 constituted the leaders otf . the ConrrntrnisU party in the stat£ of Missouri, s Washington, . an| Michigan. . ~ • ,/j. I The,, made al various St. Louis| Charleston. Mb.; Hock Island. Ill.| Seattle, Wash/; Detroit; Los An? geles; Portland and Eugene, Ore. Chicago, and Minneapolis. The justice department said\ all? will be arraigned I and their cases presented\to fed-? eral grand juries as soon as pos-l "FTTfle. ' ■ • I Those arrested included Helen Mary Winter, 44. Detroit,? Mibb.,' wifje of one of the 11 top Communist leaders who were convicted in New York in 1949 of similar changes. Also afcrested were: Paul Miller Bowen, 30, Chicago, arrested in Chicago. John Shields attle, attested in Seattle. Barbara Hartle. 44. arrested at her Eugdne, Ore., home. Henry P. Huff, -58 J Portland, i Ore., chairman of the Washirigton ■ state of the party, attest- i ed at Portland. \ Karlj£ Larsen, 47, East Stan- • wood. Wash., at a Port : land, Ore., hotel. 4 | William J. Pjennijck, 37. Seattle, Wash., arrested at Seattle. tor of\ the WestCOast Communist newspaper Daily People’s World, arfested in Minneapolis. /Robert Manewitz. 35, Los Angeles, arrested' there. i William Allah, 45, Detroit correspondent for-Yhe Daily, Worker. ’Thdmas. DeWitt ,Dennis Jr., 34, Detroit, »organizational secretary for the Qjmmuyist' party in Michi- • gan; arrvsted in Detroit. Natjian Kaplan,\47, D e ti r o i t. menibbr/ of the national .committee of the Communist pif*ty; ar- • rested in Detroit.' , Philip S/hat. SB, Detroit, orgnnizational secretary of the Foyd section of' the Michigan Oornmun- _ ist party, arrested in -Detroit. ’. . Saul Laurence Wellman, 38. /- Detroit, a coordinator of the* Communist Party, Arrested in Detroit. ? ' James % Frederick Forest, 42. state .chairman of the Communist Party 7 in Missouri,-'arrested in St. Louis. j ’Bbrbthy Ros? Forest, 37, James Frederick’s wife; arrested in St. Louis. . ■ i . v ' • reus AlphopAe Mutphy, 44, Chahlejstori, Mo., arrested in Charleston. ,- I ■ ... ' \ • William -*Mo., arrested (at a itock Island, 111/* hotel. ’ The.justice department said all those ay-rested |in Detroit will be arraigned*’ before U. S. District 1 Judge Thomae P. Thornton of Michigan. > Sentner yas scheduled’ for ar--7 raignment at Rock Island, 111., before U. S. Commissioner Thomas P Simj^tt; - James and Dorothy [ Forest at St. Louis before* U. S, ' Commissioner Edwin J. Bean; Murphy at Capp Girardeau, »Mo., before U. S. Commissioner R. P. I Smith; Manewitz pt Los Angeles; ? Daschbach and Pennock at Seattle; at Chicago; Huff, Larsen and fjjy-tle at Portland, . and Pettus at Minneapolis before U. S. Commissioner Charles O. [Lundquist.* ' The arrests were thd latest blows' a ln a three-year-old -war against Re<f leaders, which sb far • has netted 31 convictions on char- , ges of violating the Smith act of I 1940. - , 1' /V- ; •' 7 ■ ; - New Gas Line Main j Is Being Installed |) A new gas lifee main is being ■r Installed by Northern Indiana Pub- | .he Service Co. ipn Second street | to M'adison street. Workmen are | digging the , trepch through the !> street and laying the new and / larger pipe alongside the old main,. ; Work is being done to accom- | rhodate users of gas for heating j: purposes, it was learned. The old’ paains which will be supplanted are 'I ' ”* W to be more than 60 years old.

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’ Unpredictable Truman - j \ I. ■ \- PRESIDENT TRUMAN, arriving in Philadelphia to address the American Hospital Association convention, shakes hahd-s with Mayor Clark after a typical bit 6f presidential by-play. Greeted by Penn- ' sylvania’s Republican Governor Fine. President Truman was intro!duced by him to Democratic Mayor Clark. Extending his hand to Clark,, Mr. Truman said facetiously to photographers:''Take my picture with the Democrat.” Gov. Fine laughed and stepped aside. Above ds the result. >

Stevenson To Take Shot At iSen. McCarthy Plans Address lit - ! Milwaukee Against j Republican Senator I" NprINGFIELD. 111. UP Obv. I dial jj. Stevenson has virtually lecided to go into Wisconsin next nonth for a single campaign shot it Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy R-Wid 5 ,- Stevenson’s Wisconsin plans were lot settled as to date, but Mil? svaukee will be the place for his Attack against McCarthy, according to a tentative campaign blueprint. /The Democratic presidential lionilnee. meantime, busied him* elf with ’get-away plans for jhis |rst extensive eastern /tour which »peins Thursday in Coripecticut. uli itinerary fqr this ifip was ex? iFft.ed .from Steyenson: headqtihr* era today. | 'j ; Aod?d to the Stevensop entourage |eriiporafily was Sen. \J. William fulbright D-Ark who suggested- A in |94G that President Truifraw appoint j Republican secretary of state, then resign the presidency rather fhan war with the GOP ROtp epntress. Fulbright also] headed the loniiniHee /which conducted the RFC investigations .v hjlch embarrassed the administration. I Fulbright i< not be ng added to t3ie Stevenson campaign organizatjon? but was invited here as part 4f the governor’s general plan:of Jonsulting with experienced, friendly southern pplitical leaders. | McCarthy’s name seamed\, to dominate the news in thb Stevenson camp in the (wake of two developments Tuesday night: | The governor rti|e|t with Thorrias E. Fairchild, Dem(j>c|ratic Candidate deposing McCarthy sor 0 (re-election, ifairchild urged SteVensbn to visit "at the qjarliept opportunity” for a homeground; attack on t|ie Republican Communist-hunter. j/As Fairchild departed, BtevenSpn f|rll<6,Wed their discussion of McCartiyism by issuing a 'statement did not mention the senator 14- name, the governoj- warned “im atmosphere of fearj and sus•j (Tur® T® Pace Kl«ht» 1 r'/ ’/■''> ' i j . - ■ ‘ / I * | ■ Kay Klouse Reported As 'Very Serious' - ■| / 5 e A late report from the Adams : bounty memorial hospital states kay Kiottse. thd 15-year-old \ girl t>f Willshire, 0., w|ho was among |he injured- in the wreijk Sunday flight near ChattonoOgaJ 0., is in I’very serious” condition due to |he compound skull frajeture she buffered in the collision, i | Barbara Hurst, 19, route 3, Is |itill in serious condition. Thh hospital says she is 1 "uneomfqrtjabld.” -She has two broken legs and multiple cuts and biruisejs about the face and body. | I | Shirley Butler, 17, route 3| who /ras in the same car vHth Barbara. |s “improving slightly/’ according io the report. She has n broken tollarboife, a \cut right knee| and i |>ruises. .Daisy Dhvis, 18, roitte i, Mas released yesteMgy and is at jtome. . ;

Democrats To Open Campaign Saturday Parade And Picnic i Saturday Afternoon ' 'j Committee chairmen forv various phases of the Democratic pichlc and parade scheduled fpr 2 o’clock next Saturday afternoon reported today to general chairman Gene Hike that all was in readiness for the formal opening of the Democratic campaign tn Adams county. Mayor E. Spencer Walton. Mishawaka, candidate for lieuten-ant-governolr, and Thomas Callahan. East Chicago, candidate for secretary of state, will be< the principal speakers and will lead .the parade along with the Adams county 4-H band. \ i _ Thurman Drew, chairman 6f the arrangen|entß committee, staged that a platform would be eredted ;ht Hanuh-Nuttman park for the speakers. AH county candidates' also will be introduced s.t the j. ineeting and Howard' Morrison, fourth district Democratic congressional candidate, who s making a strong bid to unseat h s Republican opponent, will be on band for a snort talk. Lewis L. Smith, Adams county prosecHtor-elect, will have charge bf refreshments and sandwiches and soft drinks will be served tn everyone free of charge. Roberi Heller, parade marsht.l and former speaker of\ the Indiana house of representatives, said the parade would get started promp ly at 2 o’clock from in .front c f the jail on First street. The parade route will be down Seconj street through the business district and theh west to Hann/ Nuttman park, where the balance of the program will be held. ' Democrats from all parts of Adams county and from Wells, 4.1-. len, Jay and other [ neighboring counties have been incited to attend the first county*wide meeting of ttie campaign. Chairman Hike Will introduce « the speakers and county candidates. Walton- and Callahan will share speaking honors, dealing with §tate and national issues. \ i \' I ~ ; ! Local Lady's Mother Dies This Morning Heart Attack Fatal To Mrs. Carl Odle Mrs. Carl C. Odle, 67, mother of Mrs. James Kane of this city, died at 12:20 o’clock this morning of a heart attack at the home of her sis-Xer-in-law, Mrs. Charles Reed of near Dunkirk. Mrs. Odle, who lived near Portland, had been visiting with Mrs. Reed, whose husband died three weeks ago. Surviving in addition to the daughter in this city are another daughter, Mrs. Charles Holdeman <?f Winchester; a son, Truman of hear Portland, and aix grandchildren. The body was removed to the Williamson funeral home in Portland. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday September 17/1952.

Ike Favors Changes In Taft-ilartley Act, Fails To Specify Any Details r .< . . r It —$ \ ‘ : A ■ ■ I

Government lb Act To Freeze Coal Shipments Freeze Shipments Thursday At Mines Facing Coal Strike BULLETIN ; WASHINGTON, UP — John L. Lewis and hard coal operators today ai.g<ned in “Interim” contract, assuming production of home-bitrnfng coal . through the winter. [j. A 7 ?; i ’■ ■ - I WASHINGTON, UP — The gov.efnment will freeze coal shipments Thursday from many strike-threat-ened bituminous mines in an effdrt to build up a stockpile for emergency needs in case of a strike. Undersecretary of interior Vernon D. Northrop bnnouneed today the* action will be taken by the defense solid fuels administration, an interior department agency responsible for keeping ftie coal in* dpstry oil an even keel. , \ Y ! The-order to be Issued. day will apply only to soft coal plines which have received notices |rnm the United Mine Workers that would permit termination of their contract. h? /Under the forthcoming order, these mines would be prohibited v from shipping Coat after midnight Thursday. Even cohl on loaded cars which* are not billed 1 as of midnight will be- effected* UMW president John L. Lewis was moving nearer a contract settlement with hard coal operators but closer to a possible far-flung strike in the soft coal industry. As the government’s intention was anineunced. he resumed bargaining with anthracite producers over an “interim” agreemerit that would keep Lard coal production for home furnaces going past Oct. 1. put there’s a good chance of a •sop coal strike, .beginning at Sunday midnight. Northrop said the order principally will effect producers who are members of the bituminous coal operators association which includes so-called ’’captive” mines of the steel companies and cj>mmeVcial mines located primarily in «T»n» T®' Pa«c hikM) Justice Department Defended By McGrath ' Says Other Bureaus To Blame In Delays WASHINGTON, — Former attorney general J. Howard McGrath “dared” congressional investigators today to/ prove the justice. department tried to stifle a 1951 tax scandal ilnqeiry in St. Louis. * “The trouble was not in our shop,” he said. " McGrath suggested that delay in tax prosecutions which prompted a St. Lovis federal judge, George H. Moore, to attack the justice department Was the fault instead Os the etreas|ury department and the bureau of} internal revenue. The role of Ellis N. Slack, then an attorney in the justice department tax division, came up often. Slack wks sent to St. Louis twice during the tax scandal inquiry. Judge "Moore !later accused him of trying to apply whitewash. McGrath Clack is “an upright and honorable man” and “he did his duty in St. Louis?’ McGrath said. “I think he did, too,” snapped chairman Frank L. & Chelf D-Ky “and I think somebody directed him to do something.” McGrath snapped back: *1 dare you to produce evidence to ; prove that he was directed to do anything but go out there and give the utmost of cooperation.” McGrath told bouse investigators there were only two St. Louis tax(T®r» T® Pace

tljanquet Speaker • / ■ ” * . I ■ "t'.K j 4 SHHEBh National President •• • ‘ Speaks At Banquet Jo|obs Will Speak Tc|Lutheran Laymen' / E. 1 (fl Jacoby, national president Ls laymen’s league, will the principal speaker at the bupquet. Which will bring to a cloeelthe eighth annual Northern Indiana?district Lutheran laymen’s league Convention, Sunday. . will be held in the' Zion P#Hh hall auditorium at 6:30 p.m, DjjHoyi Callow of Decatur, ia in chaiSe of the banquet arranger ■ ments «nd ticket sales. Enteifainment will be furnished by the |pinous JG, E. Aeolian choii* of pkcaffiur, under the direction of David A f<^siu ; re of ; the afternoon proprograiM will be the Lutheran Hour at the Decatur high school Auditorium at 2 o’clock. | The liiblic is invited to attend. < r' ??-■—-*■ f L I Eight; Die In Texas As Train Hits Auto • 1?; ■ ' { ' < Seek Identities Os Eight Crash Victims EIGHT DIE IN TEXAS ' AUSTIN. Tex. UP—Authorities tried tooy to verify the identities of eight! tperspns ;who were killed late- Tuesday night When their I automobile was struck by a freight train. Justicklpf the peace Robin Forrester litade tentative identifications of Jail eight on the basis of pipers' fdund in the car and the eljOthing /of ' the victims,, but said today hd| was not certain that all eighi weie correct. It appeared six of the victims Were miefmliers pf the same family. Appt her wasr a soldier stationed at:Fort Hood. Tejx., arid the eighth a teen-age youth from I San Angelo,. Tex. Highway patrolman B. J. Gunn said the’.car was. knocked about 125 feet Sy the crash. It was overturned. jbhe engine was 100 feet from thot ? batteried. and .tWisted The, bcgiieK were scattered'over 60-foot atea on both sides of the railroad IlfbiANA WEATHER } cloudiness tonight,j|catte?*ed snowers and mostly in south and portions; Thursday partly ;/:loudy and somewhat cdoler/with scattered th unde rsoutheast and extreme south portions in forenoon. Low tonight 52-58 nortn, 58-64 south ;|hlgb Thursday 75-80. /' I 1 11. f y Believe Incidence Os Pcijlio At Peak INDIANAPOLIS, UP —The number of polio cases in Indiana this year climbed to 619 up to last Saturday amid evidence the peak Os the season's incidence has been reached;

20 Children In Korea Killed As Irain Derailed locomotive Blows Up On Trestle As j \ Cars Are Derailed OItYU, Korea, UP — Twenty Korekh children were killed and at least, 200 others injured today when a locomotive blew up and derailed three coaches on a railway trestle. The train was carrying 400 to 500 passengers, most of them children gedng from the west coast port of' Inchoaa to schools in SeouL While the train was crossing a near Oryu, the locomotive noile/, exploded, twisting the three cars oft the tracks. One coach crashed into a parallel span, cracked open and threw passengers Into a pond 40 feet below. Another coach toppled on Its side and also broke open. . f .1 Mai Edwin Mercer, National City, JJalif., who helped direct rescue operations, estimated “that ap* proximkteiy 20 are dead.” Metier said that most of the dead Were betweed 8 and 1 years. He sai.dr 150 of the 200 injured were released from hospitals after treatment.!? '' V. S. army doctors sped to the scene Uh 25 ambulances P® r ’ formed 10 emergency amputations to free ipassengfers trapped in the twisti’d wood and steel. Koreans and ij N. soldiers watched in horror. ; 4 The; streams of an 18-year Old girl silenced the crowd as a bloodspattered American doctor worked for 2| minutes to amputate her right arm. She was the. last living passenger removed from the wreckage. Still, ipside tf l ® twisted mass hangiiß over the trestle were five Army began removing them from blow torches and Only two bodies were visible. Mothers who hurried to the scene from iearby Inchon went from stretcMr. to stretcher in search of their children. Schoolbooks and jacket/; Were piled up neatly beside the trapks, > v L ” — * ' Castigates G. 0. P. For Use Os Big Lie l\ Uli ' . \ j; McCarthy, Jenner LaShed By Truman \ WASHINGTON,; UP-+-President Truman today accused the Republicans, ; particularly Sens. Joseph R. McCarthy and William E. Jenner, otl\using the “immoral and subversive weapon of the big He.” Mr. Trumai| also took an apparent dig; al GOP presidential nominee D. Eisenhower for supporting the Wisconsin and Indiana senators who are up for reelection this year. i “A ngan who uses the weapon of the 'fig lie is not a good man,” the Dissident said. “He should be rejected by all good citizens, regardless of party.” \ Mr. truman delivered his seh-ontf-attgek on the Republicans dn as days in a speech to the national conference on citizenship, cflf|hbrating the nation’s first annual citizenship day. Tuesday he chaMised Eisenhower for being a pullback” with “horse and buggy” notions about medical,/legislation, \ “It isif the duty of our political parties and our candidates to go before the people with the facts/’ Mr, Trjiman said. "Unfortunately, there is a tendency in this country? today to resort to the use of jgie' big lie in order to reap personal’ or partisan advantage. “It i/git big lie, for example, to say that! we tolerate Communists and otmijr disloyal persons in our government. It is a big lie to attack oijie of the greatest generals . (Tar® T® Pm* ElchtS \L

Honor McMillen At Program Thursday Civic And Service Groups Pay Tribute Walter Ford, executive secretary of the Decatur \ChambeV of Commerce, today announced the program tor Thursday evening at the Moose home, when honor will be paid to Dale W. McMillen, Sr„ founder and chairman of the board of Central Soya compariy, for his numerous contributions tn the city’s industrial and eivic life during the past 18 years. McMillen will be guest oL.honor of the Chamber of Commerce, the Jaycees, the Lions and Rotary , clubs at a banquet at 6:30 p.m. City aftd school officials, business and civic leaders will join in ex-' pressing the community’s gratitude to him for his industrial leadership, his civic spirit and his outstanding achievement as a home- , builder. Mayor John M. Doan will repre- , sent the city and present McMillen with an ornamental golden fashionI ed key to Decatur. John-Welch and Joe Kaehr, preei- . dents of the Chamber of Commerce and the junior division, will speak > for those organizations. Ronald Parrish, president of Lions Club, and Harold Engle, president of ’ Rotary, will present certificates of membership to honored guest. > W. Guy Brown, superintendent ’ of city schools, will be the program j chairman ana Arthur R. Holthouse , will be toastmaster. Invocation will , be given by the Very Rev. Msgr. . J. J. Seimetz, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic church. • The Women of the Moose will, serve the banquet. Following the.speakipg program, the Shrine Masquers from Fort Wayne, a group of 20 entertainers, will provide a program. Reservations are being made for more than 250 members of the sponsoring organizations.' Three Children Die : - ■ ■ I’ ■ As Train Hits Bus Loaded School Bus Hit At Crossing CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. UP — Three children were killed and 44 Others were injured today when a /ittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad qoal train Hit a loaded school bus 1a grade crossing. ’he victims were three teen-age Is from Qollingsburg, a small il mining community where the ddent occurred, about 15 miles m here. • Jtate police listed 14 of the ined as in serious condition. They d they were unable to verify what a railroad spokesman described as an “unconfirmed" report that five children had been killed. The accident occurred shortly after 8 a.m. while the bus was carrying the Children to thei Rost/aver township Junior high school in Pricedale. The driver, identified as Edward C*. Steiner of rural Smithton, was treated at cliarleroi-Monessen hospital for bruises of the left leg. State police aaid he would be held for a coroner’s Jury upon release. Strike Vote Sept. 29 At Fort Wayne G. E. The IUE-CIO announced from New York last night that a strike vote would be taken fit the Fort Wayne General Electric plant on Sept. 29. \ The union is thfe bargaining , agent for employes in Fort Wayne. Last\ Saturday Local 901 voted down the G. E. offer and L. R. , Boulware, in charge of company labor relations, announced that the . offer of a wage boost was final. The strike vote does not affect Decatur G. E. employes who are represented by the UE-Ind.

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opposes Kepeai In Address To AFL Conclave Gives No Detoil On Amendments Favored To Tdft-Hartley Act NE WYORK, UP —Dwight D. Eisenhower told the American Federation of Labor today he favors amendment but not repeal of the controversial Taft-Hartley law. The Republican presidential candidate did not specify in detail the amendments he would faWpr. But he said he knows the present law “might be used to break unions” and said, “that : must be changed.” \ / He also said the law’s requirement of non-Communist oaths from union leaders should be made also on employers. * • // ’ After recalling his own role in the 1946 railroad dispute, Eisen-, bower said: “I don’t want arbitrary i>ower over either labor or industry. I do not believe that the president of ; a nation can have such power [ without that nation Ibsing its free- , dom. ' “My opponent made plain on La- ’ bor Day that he wanted power, as president, to compel arbitration. That i» exactly what I am against. “If you want the basic* irreconcilable difference between-his posi- ■%. tlon and mine, there it is. He and his party embrace compulsion. I reject compulsion.” On the othei 1 hand, Eisenhower ■ listed some of the principles he feels must be retained. These were: “The encouragement of collective bargaining: the right to shrike; 5 an advance notice before 4 Strike is called; a requirement that both un- '• ions and employers live up to their contracts; the assurance that members of unions get a regular report on their organization’s finances.” In making his first major labor speech of the campaign, Eisenhower said he did. not come before the AFL convention, which oas pending a resolution endorsing his Democratic opponent, “*to curry any special favor.” “I have not come to bid'br compete for your endorsement,” he said. “My views toward labor-will be the same as they Jon|g have been, regardless of the action taken .by the AFL at this convention in the matter of endorsing a presidential candidate.” Eisenhower argued the Republican record on labor matters is not as black as the Democrats would paint it. | A He said it was the Republican party which first established in law the right of labor to organize-and bargain collectively—inthe rail- i, way labor act of 1926. "It was considered a model law,” he said, “until later administrations began playing politics with it. That law worked well.” He also recalled it was a Republican administration which passed the Norris-LaGuardia anti-injunc-tion law. t . ’ Eisenhower said he has ho use for those people, regardless of (Coatlaved O» Pa*® Sfe) George Mock Named As Special Judge George Mock, Bluffton attorney, has been special judge in the case of Adams county freeholders against Adams county central consolidated school board in their effort to stop issuance of bonds and construction of a consolidated school at the West edge of Monroe. Trial date has not been set. ' ; r The cause was venued from Adams county some time ago and ' last week the freeholders group filed a motion for a change of judge from Judge Homhr Byrd, Wells circuit judge. Mock was selected from a panel oFthree Bluffton attorneys to hear issue. Others on the panel were Frank Gordon and John Decker. The latter two names were struck by plaintiff and defendant.