Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 223, Decatur, Adams County, 20 September 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L No. 223.

Nixon Pledges Accounting Os $16,000 Fund VJ< ! < Vice-Presidential Nominee Os G. O. P. I Pledges Accounting By UNITED PRESS •Sen. Richard M. Nixon, sus> tained by his running mate, - Dwight D. Eisenhower, promised today a full public accounting of the SI6JMM fund which he rece|v-\ ed from "wealthy Californians. , In rapid-fire order: 4 1. The Republican vice presidential candidate defended his right to use the fund and asserted that "not one red cent" of the money went into his pockets. 2. Eisenhower gave Nixon a clean bill of health and said that "wheg the facts are known ... they will show that Dick Nixon could not compromise with what is fight." | I . . 3. Goy. Adlai Stevenson, t tj e Democratic presidential candidate, took formal recognition of 'the development and called on the Republican party to ascertain the facts in the. case. 'He said the questions that arose were: “Who gave the money; was it given to influence the senator’s position on i public questions; and have any laws been violated." L "I am sure ihat the grejt Republican party will ascertain these facts, will make therri public, and act in accordance! with our best traditions and with- due respect for the second most important position in the land,” Stevenson said in New York? "Condemnation without all the evidence, a practice all too famil iar to us, would* be wrong." -Eisenhower, in Kansas City. Mo., where he made a ‘corruption’ speech Friday hlght attacking Stevenson as a front man for higOity political bosses.' accepted fully a statement by Nixon that there was nothing wrong and jihat the criticisms were only a. political "smear.” , Strike Threat Hangs Over General Electric NEW YORK. UP —The threat of a strike by 71,000 employes hung over the General Electric Co. today following an abrupt of mediation sessions. No’ further talks were scheduled. James B. Carey, International Union of Electrical Workers CIO president, said at' the conclusion of session “I don’t think the dispute will be settled here." He refused to say whether he planned to call his men out on I strike. A strike vote has been scheduled for Sept. 29. f Military Transport Crashes, Three Die Baris, UP — An American military air transport twin-engined DC-3 crashed in flames today into a houje 500 yards from Orly Airfield i killing three crewmen and critically injuring the fourth. The (plane struck a high tension wire while doming in for a landing on a flight from Chateauroux <air ■base, ih central France. Nonq of the occupants of the house was injured, the military air transport service officer said. .. 'i ‘ Z ~~ Comment Refused On Secret Meeting Secrecy continues to surround the meetihg last night of the so-; called south Adams county citizens? league abd some Jay county parties on the Amish school problem. s Attendance officer Mildred Fpley attended the meeting but stated the session took place behind closed doors and she could not properly deVulgri what transpired. ■ !■ f I I Another Seven-Ddy Truce Talk Recess PANMUNJOM, Korea, UP — United Nations negotiators cabled the Communists clumsy and stupid today at the first Korean meeting in eight days. Then, for the eighth straight week, both sides agreed to take another seven-day recess. They will meet again Sept. 28 with the question of forcible vs. voluntary repatriation of war prisoners * till the only Issue blocking an armistice. . \•’ <?.,' ' J Lt. Gen. ’ William K. Harirson, chief Allied told the Reds in today’s unproductive 42-irwhute meeting that they were guilty of "ridiculous lies and enormous crimes."

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!||’ ' ' : J|4? -J j 'J--T \'■ ■' -J " j: Rain Fails To Dampen Campaign By -7 - ■ GOV. ADLAI STEVENSON, (top) -Democratic presidential nominee, is greeted at Springfield, Mass., by Governor Dever as he arriypd for ani open-air address, only to be driven into Municipal Auditorium by a heavy rainstonh. He said the Republicans deem the top issue df the! campaign to be “hdmor,” which,, he said, they oppose. His Republican opponent, Gen.j Dwight D. Elsenhower, (bottom) meanwhile, was addressing an equally dampened meeting of several thousand from the rear platform of his "whistle-stomping” train at lowa Olty.son his swing through;the corn belt. \

Ike Defends |1 f. Running Mate On Donations : Gives Clean Bill Os 1 Health To Nixon On I $16,000 Donations . y | ■ CITY. Mo. (ijp) — ■ifwight, D. EisenhoWer took time o|jt to give a clean’bill of'health tl- his runniiiiig mate, Sen. Richard M- Nixion, -Friday night, and then ; in a major speech lashed out at € 6v. Afllai Stevensoh ~as a {‘front” t jir “corrupt" city bosses. ■ The Republican cjindiddte addressed \a crowd of about 14,000 ,in this stronghold of tle late Thdmas the ' who< launched President ■fj-umah into' national politics; , Eisenhower rerwrote the first tart of his speech to express, his «omplete confidence in Nixqn, who s dmitted accepting $1*6,000 from ? : group dt California backers t uring ? the .past two years ito defray office and other expenses. The crowd in Kansas City Mui|icipal .auditorium cheered; when kSiSenhOWer told them that f'kdnwfrig Dick Nixon as ij do, I believe that wheh the facts are known to all of Us, 1 thfisy will show that Pfck Nixon would not compromise with 4hat i|f right Both he and L,beijifeve in a single standard of mor!ity iii public life.” j . j i Then the j fordier general unched into thie “dorruptipn'i isle in his fight with ' Stegen&on, largirig the Illinois; governor got sie Democratic presidential nomination because the city bosses |new they needed “an honest than out in front" tn thi£ year ( s election. I | “Well, they got brte," Eisenhower said, but he added: \\ ; . ‘‘l sympathise with the nominee (1 the Democratic party bfecause ft the company, he is obligated to «eep. Perhaps he may disown (hat company altogether. Bit this 5 the payoff questifon: Will the >osses disown him?” | He described th£ “bosses”! as the heirs and joint heirs of the I <elly machine in Chicago, [the Tammany machine in New; Ybrk, he Hague machine in New Jertey and the Pendergast machine ' U Kansas City— to name a few of them.” He read to his audience a Statement which 'NiMon forwarded through Sen. Fred Seaton of Nebraska, one of Eisenhowers advisers. TJie vice presidential canbidate swore therej was Nothing wrong, that hot profit personally nor girip any special fav»rs to his benefactors. Nixon alio .promised that fc full public riceounting would be made; “The facte will show that pub-blc-Spirlted dtigjms who [contributed to this fund asked nothing «f me nor did they receive anything from me in any way Os spe-. fclal favors, consideration or treat-' t (Coßtlawed Ob i>ffe Six) F ' Wi J

— ; -b-T-Mark Publication . Os Revised Bible City-Wide Service s Here September 30 ' 4 \ ' . .. ' ■ i I . A community-wide service Tuesday evening is .planned ia.Decatur to honor the publication Os the hew revised standard Version Os the Holy Bible. On same evening, similar interchurch. meetings will be held in at least 3,000 other communities throughout the United States and Canada. \ The Rev. [John E. Chambers, general chairman of the local committee planning for the revised standard version Bible observance for the week of September 28 to October 5, announced today that the meeting for this community will be held in the First Baptist church at 7:30 p.m. The program will include reading a portiop of the new revised standard version of the Holy Bible along with similar readings from the Hebrew, Creek, and Latin languages and from the major English translations, 'hn address by the Rev. J. Hunter Colpitts of Fort Wayne; on the' observance theme, “The: Word of Life in Living; Language,” presentation of five copies of the new Bibile to representative persons, and a litany of thanksgiving and dedication. | ‘ >' : .ij> “The completion of th® revised standard version of the Holy Bible marks an epoch in the religious life of the English-speaking peoples comparable to that marked by the issuance of the King Jambs version in l&ll,” stated Rev. Chambers. j i > “Recognizing the need for a new version, the former international council of religious educatiori, representing 40 major denominations In the U. S. and Canada, authorized a revision and appointed a committee of 32 eminent Bible scholars •to study all the past versions as well as all the available manuscripts in order to prepare a revision of the King James and the American standard version* that would present the wofd of God accurately and in good English for twentieth century readers," Rev. Chambers continued. To accomplish this gigantic task, the Bible scholars, with Dr, Luther A. Weigle, dean emeritus of Yale University divinity school, have been working since 1930*, translhtlnig frtom Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic. Latin and English sources and checking add rechecking each other’s work. No changes from the older authorized versions have been made without the approval of two-thirds of the committee. The New Testament, being thd\ smaller, was completed first and was published in 1946. The Old Testament is scheduled for publication in two volumes, as well as in combination with the New Testament, on September 30. The publishers are Thomas Nelson and Sons, New York. This service in Decatur is being sponsored by the associated <Tbtb Tb Pbsb Six) V ; !! !

- I f i Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 20, 1952. [

Stevenson Starts First South Campaign; Asks GOP Report On Nixon

W T 11 1 ■" South Koreans Fight Fiercely Against Reds Two-Mile Front In | Korea Boiling In Battles For Hills SEOUL, Korea. UP — Sogtif Korean infantrymen killed >’or wounded 300 Chinese Communists' today as they battered back a Tte<f assault on Finger Ridge on the Korean central front. Other, tank-supported Chinese captured an important hill sobth of the truce city of Panmunjbm after heavy fighting on the western front. ? War plants from four separate sth air force wings and two marine air groups roared out in mfer sion after mission in support \ of. Allied infantrymen along the boiling two-mile battlefront near Panmunjom. An estimated 85 Chinese i Reds were killed or wounded , by (Allied air power and artillery tire in the fight for the western front height. Two hundred more Comrhunist casualties were claimed by the U. N. after the Reds assaulted an advance position east of the PUkhan river on the east central froint. In the see-saw battle for four hills in the Panmunjom sector— Kelly Hill, Old Baldy, Tessle Hill, and Bunker Hill—Allied infantrymen batted with a Red battalion of about 800 men. The Reds were driven from all four hills about 2 a.m. However, one Communist company reorganized,'launched another attack against one of the lower * peaks, and forced Allied defenders off the crest seven hours late* In the air war, Far East air (forces announced 10 Allied aircraft were lost during the week ended Friday. U. N. Sabrejets, however, some armed with a mysterious new device, gave the Communists one of their worst beatings the past week by shooting down 16 MIG-15 Jets. Only one Sabre was lost in air-to-air combat, i The air force said the Allied victories brought the Sabres’ monthly total to a record 46 MIGs destroyed, five more than the previous record set last April. ■ • .j. U i " ■ I - Submit Evidence In Quiet Title Suit To Submit Briefs In Property Suit Attorneys for Adams county central consolidated school board, Robert Smith and D. Burdette Cutter, and attorneys for the civil township of Monroe township. Robert Anderson and Howard Baumgartner, the latter of Berne, completed ihtroducing evidence (in the quiet title school property suit in Wells circuit court Friday. Briefs will be submitted next Friday, and it is believed likely that Judge Homer Byrd will take the matter under advisement and rule later. The suit, brought originally dn Adams circuit court arid \ then Venued to Wells county, sea suit to clear title to several old school houses and the adjoining land in Monroe township. The school consolidation attorneys claim the title should be in the name of the consolidated board and the civil township also claims ownership of the properties. It is believed that whichever group wins title to the properties will eventually dispose of them because the schools are not used any more. k : ! \ ... ■ \ INDIANA WEATHER •> Mostly fair tonight and Sunday; continued cool. High to-, day 66-70; low tonight 42-48. ‘ : '■ P" ■■ ■ ■?. '■ r ? Jjl

Cqol Weather For Most Os Country •’ Predict Frost In ■ Scattered Areas ; By UNITED PRESS Most of the country was cooling Off ’today under fresh gusts of Canadian air, and the weatherman said?it was the "first real frost situation of the year.” I Fripm the western slopes of the ' f fcocky to the Atlantic Bdkboard it was cool, and in places '.the jfjr was chill enough for-top-coats: i p The U. S. weather bureau predicted frost in> scattered areas and especially in the northern corn and fcreat plains states of WisconSih, 'M innes ot a, the Dakotas, . pprtiieih lowa and Nebraska. Frjxst was unlikely in the fruit apd citrus states of the West edast and forecasters said it would be “pretty warm” west Os the Rpckies. QThe Canadian oOld froifyt swept wwq the great plains and Great Lakes states Friday, wak turned by t|e warm air mass south of the Ohio rivtr and headed for the east coast; where it was expected to arrive full force today, u- , Scattered showers and clouds preceded the cold front. From Pennsylvania westward to' Mie, Western slopes of tl|ie Rockies the qold air was expected to bring' lowsi ranging from the upper 40’s to beloW freezing. The highs were likely to range in the upper 60’s frohr Chicago to the Appalachians. So«ne portions of the nation were still ( warm enough to bring back memories of a scorching summer. Presidio, Tex., reported 101 degrees- and Del Rio arid Salt Flat, Tex., each had 100. jkrdmore and Hobart, Okla., each recorded 97. Meanwhile, a government soil conservation official. Übuis P. Merrill ,»aid in Texas the<27-ihonth-old drough there, is the worst in history; and surpasses even the dust bowl years of the 1930’5. He said the effects of the drought, which is still continuing, would be felt foi yeara. | ■ ' * - ' Probe New Lead In < j’.q. ( (I , (Kansas City Fraud : Gain Permission To Inspect Documents WASHINGTON, UP —House investigators were hot today on a new lead on an old mysteiy—the Kansas City vote fraud carie. Tlte house subcommittee investigating the justice department announced attorney general James P. McGranery has granted it permission to inspect documents allegedly "stripped” from FBI files pn the, ease. ' ..' ( ! The lead was furnished Friday by Rep. Clause I. Bakewell RMo„ wl|o quoted FBI director J. Edgar Hoover saying former fcttomey] general Tom (j.i Clark ordered a lot of material “deleted” froni the FBI files on the case five years ago. ' S According to Bakewell, Hoover didn’t get any of the material back until' two years later when Clark was elevated to the supreme court. ' , The House subcommittee promptly requested and received permission from McGranery to inspect the “deleted" material. Chairman Frank L. Chelf D-Ky and .Rep. Kenneth B. Keating Rraaklng mihority member of announced their group would begin inspecting the “missing" documents Monday. The justice department ordered only a preliminary investigation in Kansas City until someone blew up the Jackson county courthouse Bate and stole the disputed ballots. It then ordered a full-scale in-‘ quiry. Republican congressmen have complained that (he FBI should have been cut loose before' all the evidence was gone. The Subcommittee, meantime, took’ a breather in its cross-exam- \ XTara Ta Paca Six) .'■l : : ‘as -VA Ul . . ! '

—| Report Lewis Near Pad In Coal Industry Lewis Awaits Poll | Os Northern .Owners On New Agreement Washington, (Vp)— John l. Lewis, whittling away at the flahks o< the soft coal industry, today seemed likely to carve out a new victory for his miners without a strike. The; United Mine Workers’ chjef—Jiis demands on the table —awaited a poll of northern co|l. .operators on whether they w’duld agree to pay Lewis’ demands or suffer a strike Sunday mipnight. ' i ; Uewis wa(g reported risking in th| neighborhood of >I.BO a day boost, a 10 cent increase in operator payments to the union welfare fund and a shorter work day. The miners are new paid a basic daily wage of $16.35. Industry ..sources reported Lewis and Harry Moses, chief negotiator for the northern soft coal in£:ry, were (dose to agreement these tennis. However, there still a question whether a majority of the operators represented by Moses would go along with such a contract.* \ Ts they reject, some 200,000 miners are slated to, walk off tliqir jobs in the northern soft coal pits at the first shift Monday—to be followed 10. days later by 100,000 miners in the south. The master labor strategist—by a "divide arid conquer” technique against the operators—wag making sharp headway against at least part of the industry. Thes Illinois Coal Operator, Assn, virtually disbanded Friday when a majority of the companies voted to bow to Lewis’ terms in order to prevent being shut down. companies chose to leave the association which Lewis has warned will W hit. by a strike, and decided; Instead to accept contract Lewis finally negotiates jw(th the soft coal associations. I' The union has promised to continue work at the mines that accfept this deal, meanwhile concentrating on tljtpse , companies remaining in the association led by Moses—the Bituminous Coal Op-< erators’ -Assn. -4-4 — . . ! i • . > Local Lady'? Father Dies Friday Night John Koch Dies At Chattanooga Home John Koch, 75, retired farmer, died at 10; 15 o’clock Friday night at his home in Chattanooga, O. He been in failing health four years and bedfast for three months. fie was borh In Liberty township, Mercer county, 0., Feb, 14, 1877, and was .married in 1902 to Elizabeth Fisher. They had resided in Chattanooga for the past six years. , ; Mr. Kpch was a member of the St Paul Evangelical and Refolrmed church near Chattanooga. -Surviving are his wife; three daughters, Mrs Ben Eichenauer of Drieatur, Mrs. Paul Snyder of Rock? ford, 0., and Mrs. Art Gerringer of Toledo, O.; three sons, Arlie Koch o< Rockford, O„ Glen Koch of Pharr, Tex., and J. Morris Koch of Rockford, 13 grandchildren; one brother, George Koch, and a sister, Mts. Henry Baker, both of Rockford. \ , Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Monday at the St. Paul Evangelical and Reformed church, the Rev. John Perl officiatiing. Burial will be in the mausoleum at Chattanooga, j The body will be removed from the Yager funeral home to the residence, where friends may call after noon Sunday. • I 1 V - 1 ' ’L?

Youth Is Arrested Forßank Robbery Youth Robbed Bank For College Tuition SELLERSBURG, Ind. UP — A county sheriff said today he believes that a 17-year-old bandit robbed the Sellersburg State Bank to pay his college tuition., John Colby Richardson 111, Nicholasville, Ky., who was arrested by state police Friday after the , bank was robbed of $31,300, told , authorities he was “short on funds 1, td enroll this year. He was .[ a freshman at the University of Kentucky last year. Charges of bank robbery and au- . to brinditry were scheduled to be 1 filed today, according to sheriff James M. Plaskett, who believed . the youth to be an “exceptionally bright kid.” Richardson was arrested by ; stjate police about 10 miles from • hpre. He had hopped into a par l outside the bank and ordered the driver to head toward Louisville, ; Ky. L The youth at first falsely identified himself as James Carroll , ,Riley, 22, of Cleveland, Ohio, so . his parents wouldn’t know he was . jiqvolv|ed in a holdup. f’ t Nettie Belle Pierie, acting bank j manager, riaid the dark\hatred i youth entered the bank arid handed . her a note saying: ' f “Dear Madam: This is a holdup.” She screamed. He herded her, j three women employes, town mart shal Ralph Amos and barber Scott ■ Cp?k into a vault, instructing «them . to (remain there for* five minutes. The young bandit then ran into the street where Harold Loveless . and his four-year-old son, Daniel, . w*ere stopped in their auto for a . traffic signal. He hoped in the bgck sealt and ordered Loveless to hiiad for Louisville. \ ' . Ten (ninutes later? state police troopers j Robert Miller, Robrirt , Belles and Harry Crandell blocked the car at an intersection near Jeffersonville, Ind. Miller approached the car arid Richardson pointed his Luger automatic at him. The other troopers (ConUaued On Pane Six) Mock Declines To j Preside As Judge j { Davis Selected In Adams Central Case George Mock, Bluffton attorney named earlier, this week to serve ir the venued case of Adams county freeholders against. Adams county central consolidated i school board to prevent the latter from issuing bonds to aid in construction of a new consolidated school at the west edge of Monroe, declined Friday to qualify as special judge. ;( MOck (old Judge Homer Byrd |of Wells circuit court, where t|ie cause had been venued from Adaihs circuit eour(, that he could not serve because of ill health. A fdW days earlier, after Judge Byrd had disqualified himself following a motion by the plaintiff for a change of judge,, three Bluffton attorneys were named on ,a special panfel. They were ’ Mock, Frank Gordon and John Decker. The two sides each struck (a name, leaving Mock as special judge. . 4 As soon as Moqk declined to serve, Judge Byrd named thjee more Bluffton attorneys on a second panel. They were Elmore Sturgis, Walter Hamilton rind George C. Davis. The names of Sturgis and Hamilton were struck, leaving Davis as the special judge in the matter. j . | Davis has until next Tuesday jto qualify. He was out of the city Friday and Saturday and no word was obtainable whether he would serve, but it is believed likely thgt he w|ll take charge of the matter and probably qualify Monday. -’• , ■ 7 Noon Edition / jT . , •'1 : * '■ : . ' j • • 5 | '

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Adlai Speaks To Grads At Marine Base Tells Marines U. S. Must Continue To Battle Aggression QUANTIOO, Va„ UP—Gov. Adlai Stevenson said today thqt even if the Korean war could hav» been avoided, the United States would have taken a fighting stand against Russian aggression somewhere in (he world. Ip a speech for graduation exercises at the U. S. marine bases here, the -Democratic presidential candidate told the newly commissioned Leatherneck officers that they 4 defend their country “not to make good the ertors of the past . . i but the promise of the future," '4 Stevenson’s son, Adlai Ji*(j was one of the 600 marines -who received ' his second lieutenant’s commission at the ceremonies. Stevenson said American policy . leading up to the Korean war is like the rest of history—"ai ecord, in tragic parts, of things I (don® Which should not have been done, ' things not done which should have been done.” But he said he hoped service men did not think they had -been called on to sacrifice their young years because of “some failure of foresight or decision.” “It, the Korean war. is fighting which mighL conceivably, have been avoided on that particular battlefield had we acted otherwise than we did, though as to that no man can surely say," he said, A* “But (t is fighting which must Inevitably bave been faced, somewhere in the world; so long as the Soviet Union pressed its purpose to subjugate the free, peoples ot the earth retain (heir purpbse to resist.’ Jy.’ Stevenson said he hoped to answer “the question in the hearts of many of you” by outlining the purpose of the course of American foreign policy. Reduced to its simplest terms, Stevenson said it was to “press home" the courage to resist which the United Strifes and its Allies rallied two years ago and “to affirm and establish' the faith that a peace- 1 ful world can in truth be built.” Stevenson said the United. States does not expect the “inevitability of world war.” Stevenson came to Quantico from - Washington for a swing through Virginia in a “non-polit-kal” invasion of the South, his first of the presidential campaign. 'He told a cheering cro**d of nearly 1,000 persons at National Airport on his arrival from New York that today’s speeches would be non-political because of Rosh Hashane, the Jewish New: Year which ends at sundown.. His speech at Richmond, Va., this evening, however, is expected to be a full-blown political address. The governor did not allude in Quantico or Washington tb the issue of whether GOP vice presi-:' dential nominee Sen. Richat-d M. Nixon broke laws by accepting . $16,000 in contributions tbward political expenses. While in New York, he had called on the Republican party to prove Nixon’s: innocense arid requested the GOP to tell, who gave Nixon the money ahd "was it given in influence the senator’s position on public questions.” However restrained Stevenson’s language may have been, it represented a long-deliberated decision on the part of the Illinois governor’s camp to make a full issue of Nixon and his contributions. The Stevenson staff had not wanted their candidate to jump into the Nixon controversy immediately and alsoa debated, among itself as to how mudh attention a presidential candidate ' should pay to an opposition' vice presidential candidate. ■ r