Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 221, Decatur, Adams County, 18 September 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 221.

Charges Nixon Paid $16,000 Since Election j ' .. California Lawyer / ; Says Wealthy Men Paying Sen. Nixon NEW YORK, TJP —A California attorney was quoted by the 'New York Post today as saying that a group of wealthy Californians had paid Republican vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon between >46,000 and ~17,000 since his ejection to the senate tw© years J ago. The newspaper quoted Dana/C. Smith, disburser -of the alleged “Millionaires’ Club” donations, as saying ttie contributions were made from a trust fund set up solely “to enable Dick to do a selling job to'the American people in behalf. of private enterprise and integflty in government.” The dispatch said Smith made the disclosure in a joint interview ■with the post’s reporter. Leo er; Ernest Brashear of the Los AfTgeles Daily “Slews and Richard DOnovah of Reporter Magazine. It described Smith as a corporation attorney, k investment | banker and head of the California volunteers for Eisenhower. He said the fund raising, began shortly after Nixon’s election in 1950 to the - senatorial post which c carries a yearly salary of, f 12.500 and a yearly tax-free expense account df >2,560. / * Smith said it was apparent to Nixon’s wealthy backers that his senate salary was “pltifuly inadequate’’ for “the kind /of job he wanted to do and t.hat we wanted him to do.” ' ■ “We limited contributions from any one spurce or any one to 1500 a year so that no one could say tliat we were buying a senator or accuse us of owping one,” Smith was quoted. V . '

He said he had disbursed, to Nixon. 116,000 or $17,000 of the monies collected from “between 0 Md lOOjpebple” and placed on deposit with the First Trust and Sayings Bank of Pasadena. The newspaper said: “The total amount of the fund and how much still remains to be expended during the current year was hot disclosed.” " The newspaper said that “it was apparent" Smith “saw no similarity between the gifts from the trust fund and- those gifts, received by inembers of the administration, which Nixon has labeled “corruption’ in his campaign Speeches.” Spilth Was quoted as. saying the funds solicited on the ground that Nixori would be competing for prominence with his fellow California Republican Sen. William ■ E. Knowland, who is-wealthy in his own righty and would need tnore money for entertainment and living expenses than when he was a member of the house of representa- _• tives. * ‘ ’ c Smith said he and the contributing group found Nixon more representative of their views than Knowlapd or Gov. Earl Warren. . . “Kpowland, is almost unknown,” he said. “Warren has too much the social point of view for the people behind Dick ... We couldn’t go tdr Warren, but Dick did Just what we wanted Mm to do.” Smith was quoted as saying he ha 4 “been told" that he signed the check which repaid Maine Sep. Owen Brewster for a campaign loan made to Nixon through Washington mysitery man Henry Grunewald ‘in. 1950. ' ■ He said tie didn’t remember sign-' tng the check'but “if I signed the. check 1 then I must have been ■ the person who Repaid \ it,” the loan. He said paypient was made from the senatorial campaign not from the ISlixon trust fund. ~ . ■ Smith eald he and ; other fund contributors had not sponsored Nixon’s nphiination to the vicepresidency add would have preferred that lie complete his senate term. He implied, the newspaper j'l'urw T« »•«»* Klirht’ James B. Kitchen Slowly Improving . James \B.,Kitchen, Jr M young De; catur business man severely burned ip the explosion of a water heater -at his home more than tiwo months ago, is reported improving slowly at the Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne. Grafting of skin on the burned area was begun this • ’ week. ! \ INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with occasional showers tonight. Cooler north , tonight Friday showers ending and cooler. Low tonight near 55 Extreme north to 6569 extreme south. High Friday

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ITS BODY WRENCHED from the chassis, a high sdheol bup lies along the rails at a crossing at Collinsburg, Pa., where it was thrown when a speeding freight, train crashed into It, killing three students and injuring 47, 12 of them seriously. The crash occurred during foggy weather. The bus driver, Edward Steiner of Smithton escaped unhurt. , . H, ii i .\ v.j

Ike Returns To Campaign Trail In lowa Today Makes Swing Across Corn Belt In Rear Platform Speeches / DAVENPORT, lowa, UP — Dwight D. Elsenhower, returned to the campaign trail today with a swing across the com belt after letting labor leaders know that he does not favor repeal of the TaftHartley act. ’ Eisenhower resume<j his rble as 4 rear platform speaker in an Attempt to woo, lowa b ack to its traditional Republicanism. Aides said the Republican, presidential nominee;; would dwell on the “corruption” ispue in appearances during ' the day and make a major farm speech tonight at Omaha, Neb.' Eisenhower told an audience in the Rock Island. 111., armory Wednesday night that he is against repeal of the Taft-Hartley 'but favors , amendment “ip many iniportapt particulars.” i r lit Was a replay of hik before ttip AFL convention in New: York earlier in the day. The nqßiinee told the AFL leaders that the labor lalw should be altered to eliminate “Union-busting” provisions apd to require employers, as well ks union leaders, to take nott-Communist oaths. But the rest of the Taft-Hartley provisions should be left jon the books, he told the convention delegates. • Eisenhower, hfter speaking in Davenport, scheduled stops at lowa ' ‘City, Marengo, Grinnell, Newton, Des Moines, and Council Bliiffa, with “slow downs” at West Liberty and Brooklyn. * i, The trip was a strong bid for the 10‘electoral votes of the. state which went Democratic in 1948—4 he fourth time in half a cfentury. . The former general’s visit to the Quhd City area of Davenport and Moline, Rock bland, and East Moline, Hl., did not bring out (Torn To Poore V3iaM>

Mrs. Luella Macklin Dies Wednesday Night ? " i i ' : '' " : ‘ Mrs. Luella Macklin, 7s, a native of Jay county, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Minch, in Dbcatur Wednesday night at Iff: 30 o’clock. Mrs. Macklin born in Jay county October 2, 187’2. j Surviving besides Mrs. Minch is another daughter, Mi-s.f Harlie Pape, Lorain, O. Three grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren also Two sisters are living, Mrs. Macklin spent most of her life in Jay county. The body was reinoved to the Baird funeral home at Portland. Funeral arrangements had not -been made late this afternoon, but services will be held at the Macklin church in Jay county. i;

Conservancy Meet Next Monday Night Local Citizens To Attend Meeting Walter Ford, Chamber of Commerce secretary, has added his name to the ever-growing list of citizens who ape going to attend the conservancy district meeting at Fort Wayne Monday; evening. Thus far, three of the county Commissioners and county Auditor Thurman I. Drew arle planning to attend, and Mayor John Doan may yet decide to go when he returns from Indianapolis-! where he is attended sessions oi the municipal league. , I Ford said he realized “the extreme > importance of the issue” in deciding to attend. He said< the county can. have five cents in taxes added on with very little to be said about it if the deal goes through. Since Decatur paya at least one-fourth of all the taxes in Adams county—this mearia a great deal to the city as well a« the county. \ \ ; State laws are set up to favor the formation of a cdnservancy district; that is, it makes it easy to form and difficult to fight. For instance, only-500 Signatures are necessary to get -the petition into a court to be acted upon. Fort ■ Wayne need not go put pf her city limits to directly affect six counties involved in the proposal — Steuben, Noble, . Allen; DeKalb, Wells and Adams. Fort . Wayne is vitally interested in the district because of flood danger. In Adams coppty the need is not quite po imminent, according to county officials. If, however, farmers can be directly aided through goqd 'damming a!nd drainage it likely pas' a better change of bping approved by this county. ■ ■ A meeting was held July 23 at telty hall here. Present were important men from Indianapolis. Fort Wayne and Ohio -who connected with conservancy. Also on hand were a score of Decatur and> Adams county citizens,' Mayor John Doan And the county agricultural agent, L. E. Archbold. . Archhold attacked the plan from the standpoint of Adams county. He said unless very definite guarantees are given’ to the farmers bt the county, and concrete intentions are shown then it would be a very difficult thing, he predicted, to get the approval of Adams county taxpayers. The general attitude of the Ad* ams county people who attended l was: “show me.” They felt there was more in it for Fort Wayne than could be hoped for this county —unless very definite guarantees were given as to the benefits Adams would receive from its additional taxation. Sponsoring the concerted AlIeR county effort for a watef district is the Fort Wayne citizens civic association. \ n 12 PAGES 0 0 : S ■ ■ I . . .. •—!

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Deadly Guided Missile ■ - I j : V.’, ■ ■ i' • ' Planes In Use By Navy Against Reds In Korea

Adlai Takes His Campaign J To East States \ I ■ • 1 : Major Statement On Atomic Energy Is | Scheduled Tonight ’SPRiNG'FIDLD, Hl. UP — Got. Adiiai E. Stevenson headed his “propeller-stop” campaign into the east today with his first major statement on atomic energy scheduled' for tonight at Hartford, Conn.

Stevenson’s campaign plane took off at 6:30 CST, with the first stop scheduled for Bridgeport, Conn. Atomic energy, normally a delicate subject' for poilfieil discussion, was chosen as i: |ie topic for the Democratic nominee’s main Connecticut speech, for two apparent reasons: 1. Stevenson’s advisers are still wrestling with the task of getting their candidate wellknown and on recqrd on as many liasio questions possible before the pace of the presidential race is stepped up in October, 2. Connecticut Is a highly atomic-conscious ar,ea. The\ first atomic submarine is being built at' New London. Tills was also the home state of the late Sot. Brien McMahon, who was chairman \of the joipt ; ' congressional atomic | energy committee. Stevenson left his Illiliois base of operations with the advice and good< wishes of a new, if temperary, adviser. Sen. J. .William Ftilbrlght, D.-Ark. Fulbright, after a long huddle with' the governor, told reporters candidly that Stevenson , laced a “tremendous problem in getting the people acquainted with the kind of man he is, the way he thinks.” Fulbright said he feared that what he called the “Taft-Eisen-hower coalition” would mean that in event of EisenhoWer’s election, Sen. Robert A. Taft. R.-OhiO, “would be in a dominant position for at least four years and, I assume, under their i agreement would have a lot to (to with thp appointment! of | the cabinet and other officials of the government.’? I He said he saw no analogy in President Truman’s position with Stevenson should the govefebr win. 7 “Mr. Truman wjll be complete ly out of office,” he said? “I don’t know how a man can disassociate himself any more from political power.” . s He sought *to disassociate Stevenson from any of the! corruption that occurred under the Truman (Turn To Pa«e Elxht) Five Sailors Killed As Mine Blasis Ship U. S. Destroyer Is Struck InJapan Sea TOKYO, UP — A Communist mine blew in the bulkhead protecting the forward fireroom of the U. S. destroyer Barton, killing five men and injuring sfeven,. the navy announced today. , The accident happened Tuesday night while the Barton w;as plowing through the Japan sea. serving as a screening vessel for h task‘force built around the aircraft carriers Bon Homme Richard and Princeton. j It Yas the second fatil accident for t|ie destroyer. Aug. 10, shore batteries off Wonsan killed one sailor and wounded anqther. iThe seriously injured included Donald Anthony Pettis,: fireman, brother of Edna Cooper, Chicago, and Gerald Richard Poznanski, fireman apprentice, son of Lio Stanley Poznanski, rural Niles, Mfch. v None of the dead pr pther injured were from the midwest. J '

4,132 New Cases Os Polio lit Past Week I ' .1 I; '• ■ 'l. I Total Two Thousand Record Year j WASHINGTON, UP —The federal, security today reported th® outbreak of f,032 new cases of i>olio last week, an increase of 208 Over the 3,824 new cases reported in the previous week. .'• week’s new ;cases sent the total number of case® for the “di; year," which began about 16,034 cases last yetr and 28,060 in 1949,41)6 previous Record year. Officials of the public health service refused to speculate on 'Whether the epidemic is past or -at its peak. They noted that increase in new cases has varied. widely in past weeks and, as put it, i “knocking out all our Calculations,” 'iWe have been fooled before," bemadded. B • ! 1 The agency said a “large Increase”! occurred ;in Minnesota wlijsre the number of new cases totalled 405, compared with 283 new in the previous week. ft added that increases” were reported from five other states — California, Kansas, The Agency said there also was an'increase in lowh but the nunv bei of new cases last week was les® th®n the new 'cases reported two weeks ago. ; Decline In tfhicago CHICAGO, UP — Health officials wejre hopeful today that a recordbreaking polio epidemic had reached; its peak and Yould begin to define by the end of the week. ;Dr. William I. Fishbeln, epidemic specialist for the health department said the epidemic may start dropping by Saturday but that hts prediction was tentative and several factors might change overnight to upset the forecast. He said a dropoff of seven in the number of cases reported j this iwegb from the 52 c®ses the same par| of last week indicated a decline was in progress. \ toll stood Wednesday at 813 cases arid 50 deaths, compared with 246 cases and 11 deaths at this/ time last year.

t 1 “7 —7 — Church Youth Plan For Clothing Drive ■ j ■ i ■' ■. Collection Oct. 2 |?or Korean Victims The ybuth of the associated Thur|hes of Decatur• are \ planning a ci|y-wide clothing collection at 5 p.Jpi. Thursday, 2. The in-ter-church yputh council met to begin preparations for the drive. Alf garments collected will be shipped to Korea by churc|i world sertfige, an interdenominational relief, agency. Lois Strahm. and Vera Walters were? appointed co-chairmen sor 1 the Clothing \drive, with other comnjittees as follows: trucking, JackJLawson and .Marilyn Jaberg; personnel, Mary Jane Smith anTi Sundna Re<ppert; publicity. Leah and Ruth Townsend; Bhlpp|pg, Larry HutUer and Nahcy JCirsch. a f The youth council stated that many- volunteer workers will be needed from thp churches to assist as truck drivers and in sorting and packing garments th® evening of Oct 2' Those who attended Wednesday’s! initial: meeting were Jack Laws§n, Leah Brandyherry, Mary Jane -Smith, Marilyn Jaberg, Shirley l|tu Its, Shirley Worklngbr, Lois iStrahm. Vera Walters, Sundra Reppert and Ruth Townsbnd Residents of. Decatur are asked to participate in the collection by shsttliMf used garments with the unfortunate war victims of Korea. Further details of the clothing drive will be made public later.

Ranks 01 Soli Coal Operators Split By Lewis I 200,000 Miners Expected To Strike At Midnight Sunday | WASHINGTON, UP — John L. jOewis today split the ranks of soft Goal operators, but apparently not enough to win a peace agreement on his own terms and avert a .major strike. j;As a result, some 200,000 northern soft coal miners are expected to strike at midnight Sunday, haltHlg production of 4g per cent of industry’s basic fuel. The northern fners<are due to be followed 10 ys ihter by 100,000 diggers in pits. informed sources reported thit a “number” of major co>;al companies v in Illinois Was ready to xgake peacp with Lewis in order to ayoid being shut down. These companies were said to be propping out of the Illinois Opera idrs’ Association, a part of the Bi tdminous Coal Operators* Associa tibn now bargaining with Lewis however, f. R. Henderson, chair ffipn of this Bituminous Coal Pro ducers ofcr Illinois, said “I don’l tfrink there's a Chinaman’s chance* of this happening. i Lewis has threatened to strike against only association members, living nbn-members free to operif they'.agree to accept terms dffi the cpntrabt which is finally signed with the operator organizations. | There was no indication that the bituminous group or the Southern Opal Producere’ Association was about to accede to Lewis’ demands. On the ! contrary, Joseph EJ Mibody, president of the southern group, said it would be “economic sttjcide” to grant the wage and welfare fund, increases and shorter working day demanded by the United Mind 55 r ° rlcers chief. >The miners’ boss * Wednesday signed an “interim” agreement with hard coal producers/ calling f(Mf a 20-cent-a-ton boost in the operators’ contributions to the anthracite welfare fund. The pact assures no xyork stoppage on Oct. 1, the termination date of the hard coal contract, and no let-up in prffductibn of the home-burning fuel. ' ■ !

Hard coal producers will now pa| 50 cents per ton info the fund, which uhioh officials said “can not noyr meet its obligations” for death, pension and other payments. Filial contract terms will be drawn <T»ra Tw Past Klrkt) ; i B ' ' ■ • * Wayne A; Wagner Is Taken By Death Native Os Decatur Dies At Fort Wayne I Wayne A. Wagner, 47, of 1706 Eyewater aventie, Fort Wayne< died at 5:25 o’clock Wednesday eve"nliS at the Lutheran hospital in that city after an illness of only twp days. He was born in Decatur June 3, 1905, a son of Nicholas H. gnd Eligybeth M. Wagner > and lived moat of his life in this city until abottt 12 years ago. He was chief engineer for the Wayne Co-op milk plait at Fort WaTne. Mr. Wagner was a- member of ttie/Lutheran church. v Surviving are his wife, Margaret; a daughter, Donna Mae, at home; a sister, Mrs. Edward Meyers of Ho-bibs, N. M.; and three brothers, Fre4 Wagner of Depatur, and James H.; and Stanford. W. Wagner of Fort Wayne. ! * ‘ The body was removed so the D. 0. McComb & Sons funeral hoffie at Fort Wayne, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this eveFuneral arrangements hayb not been completed.

Sen. Lehman Hits At McCarthyism ‘ Called Grave Danger To Civil Liberties

NEW YORKj UP —Sen. Herbert H. Lehmaii, D-N.Y., told the American Federation of Labor today that “super-patriots” following the lead of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wls., are “helping the Communists, even if unconsciously.” •In a speech prepared for delivery at the AFL national convention here,. Lehman described l“McCarthyism" as “the greatest and most immediate danger to our civil liberties.” “The McCarthyites say they are fighting Communists,” he said. “I say they are helping the Communists, even If unconsciously. Indeed, the effect of McCarthyism is to destroy the greatest defenses we have against Communism at home —the people’s faith in freedom and their devotion to democratic principles.” ,i Lehman mentioned no political candidates by name in his address, but said Americans should insist candidates treat the questions of foreign policy, civil rights and civil liberties “on the. highest plane of national and not as mere pawns on the political chessboard.” , The end and object of McCarthyiem,” he said, “is to drive the incumbent political party out of office by leveling unsupported charges of disloyalty against some individuals direcjly or indirectly connected with the government. That if the cheap and easy way to political power.” | ; ; He said the “deadly and Infectious quality? of McCarthyism Was demonstrated! in the Wisconsin Republican primary election last week, in which McCarthy won renomination by a heavy majority. “The McCarthyites unquestionably have an appeal. They come before the people as super-patriots. They play: hard on the natural fears and alarms aroused by Communist successes abroad. They thrive on' fear. They revel in it," he said. Lehman, a leader in the liberal wing of the Democratic party, said; “the greatest obstacle to Communism in this country is not McCarthyism, but a strong, free and democratic labor movement.”

Huntington Woman Is Found Murdered Authorities Seek Estranged Husband ■ ■- ■ ? \ -■■ HUNTINGTON, Ind. UP —The battered body of Mrs: Lula D. Holley, 52, was found on a burning bed in her home today. Police sought her estranged husband whose nickname is “Smokey.” Mrs. Holley’s body was found by firemen. She had a cut across her forehead, her face was battered and her body was nude from the waist down. ' I Officers said there were signs of struggle In'the living room. A rocking chair was overturned and there were blood splotches on the'floor. Fire damage Vas confined to the bedroom. \ .Police said a neighbor reported Holley said her husband was at* the hiouse last Monday night despite a restraining order to keep him away. I . • ' 'f Police said the couple was married in 1951, the fourth marriage for each of them, but they had domestic trouble frequently. They said Mrs. Hoiley sued for divorce last March. \ The case was .dismissed, but she filed a second suit September 4. Authorities said Mrs. Holley lived in Fort Wayne before her marriage and has a sop by a previous marriage in that city. They said Holley was employed at a factory in Wabash. :

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Push-Button War Opened By U. S. In Korea ’ *- jNavy Has Fleet Os 1,800 Deadly Guided Missile Planes Now TOKYO, (UP)—The U. S. navy has a fleet of 1,800 deadly guided missile planes and is already using some of them against the Communists in Korea. F The navy's leading ©aided missile expert In the (Far East, Lt, Cmdr. Lawrence - Kurts, said today the United States has enough of the accurate hard-hitting robots “immediately available to launch large scale attacks.” ' Some of the 1,800 planes * converted to guided missiles are capable of delivering, the atomic bomb, Kurtz said. ; “It is just' a question of time until the guided’missiles take over aerial war,” he said. “They can be refueled in the air, making continent-to-continent warfare possible.’* This correspondent saw the missiles in action .against the enemy on the carrier Boxer in Korean waters several day® ago. -when ah. enemy target was successfully destroyed’ by a robot. It was like watching the war a£ the future. Kurt* said thw navy has converted 1,800 planes to drones,, but She paid that not all of them were i equipped with television, which ’is used to guide the robots to their targets, tie said drones without television had' been used in World War II with some success. >. ' Some of the converted planes 1 are in use hauling targets and in training guided missile personnel and in experiments, he said. Kurtz agreed it is possible that “missile-to-missile” and “contin-ent-to-continent" air war technfcpies will replace present dogfighting and bombing by living pilots. . “It. is possible that a fleet of guided missiles control! ed by a single mother plane could be used ,lr. large-scale war in Korea,’ said Kurtz, commanding officer of the first missile unit to fkght in the Korean conflict. i “You can strike anywhere in the world with guided missiles and the first indication the enemy would have is when the plane dived down,* Kurtz said. ' The guided missile I saw was perched on the deck of the Box-’ er, ready to destroy a. Communist target within an hour. Push buttons and television were going to aim st. ' I The missile was a World War II Grumman Hellcat outfitted with television eyes and. a 2,000; pound bomb. It had no pilot, T A red-haired crewman warmed up the doomed Hellcat’s engine, taxied it to the catapult and left the cockpit. . | - I - Then the robot “kamilkaze” X streaked into space, climbing leftward to join its motner plane. There was silence on the deck. Then a murmur of awe spread through the crew members, many of them veterans' of two wars fought with weapons requiring men to risk their- lives. ' Rear Adm. Apollo Soucek, commander of Task Force 77, watched the mother plane — an attack Douglas 2—©k;k up the drone and head toward North Korea. A crewman who had helped roll the missile onto the eleVator be(Continued On Pace Six) . ' - —- ,■ ■ Odle Funeral Rites At Portland Friday Funeral services for Mrs. Carl C. Odle, mother of Mrs. James Kane of this city, who died unexpectedly* Wednesday (morning, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the iMhlfams funeral home in Portland, the Rev. George Addington officiating. Burial will be in the Lawndale cemetery near Ridgeville. i i r