Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 225, Decatur, Adams County, 23 September 1952 — Page 1

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—— ———. —. j Newsman Alive As POW j MMk .3 W I w 8b ' I i X • ' * ' WrTw.' AJK*. -■% k 1 r< , .JKBHMHHh ''- ■ ■ < :’’■ -F THIS PICTURE, obtained by International News Photos;photographer Dave Cicero from a Communist newsman at Panmunjom ts graphic . confirmation that International News Service-London observer cor- .. respondent Phillin Dean XMichael Gigantes) is alive hnii i prisoner of the Reds in Korea. The v picture Shows Dean (right)\ with French newsman Maurice fChanteloupe..correspondent for the French “AFP” ~ ’ and also a prisoner, and was taken in a Communist POWt camp for I ciyllianinternees. . -- • \ ?

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, . By UNITED PRESS | A political storm brewed 5 today* * over private hinds jjaid' to Sen. I Nixon. Republican vice presiden- ; tial candidate, and to Illinois state t i y officials appointed by Gov. Adlai > * ■ Stevenson. j The l St. Louis Post-Dispatch said ( , in a Copyrighted story that Dana ■ Smith, the lawyer who adminis-' tered Nixon's 118,235 fund, gos help \ 1 from. Dixon's office in pressing a tax claim against the government. * ’ The paper , said in a story.-from . Los Angeles Ujat'Smith has Dniade ■ . “some: progress!’’, in Claiming' a tax : refund of SOO (TOO to $600,000 for \ the Red River-timber Co., owned ■ by Smith’s famlily The Post-Dispatch said John J., Irvrtin, former administrative assistant to Nixon, introduced Smith ’ to'a lawyer in the Justice department’s tax division about a [year , ago. - . Meanwhile, ‘informed sources' said the justice department is studying fund. to see if any law violations wjere involved. But officially, the department declined ! to comment, \ , 5 Nixon, Who acknowledged receiving $18,235 fron) a £ ro up of wealthy Californians during the last two h years, planned a nationwide telecast and radio 1 broadcast tonight to give his version of the affair. Meanwhile, Republican leaders were reported to be divided On whether" to retlain Nixon as the ; Republican vied presidential candidate- \ I f Gen. tlwight Eisenhower appar-. ently w’as awaiting his young running mate’s public -explanation tonight before reaching a decision , on whether i'io ask Nixon to .quit the ticket. | , But several influential Republicans were in Nixon’s cornerSen. Robert A. Taft said it was “perfectly legitimate” for a senator to have a campaign fund “for the whole time he’s in office.” Stevenson, thd Democratic presidential candidate, and his running mate, Sen. John Sparkman of Alai, hama. refrained! I from any direct | criticism of Nixon. • I | StSyenson himself acknowledged | that some of hs state appointees | were helped by a fund. 1 8. This disclosure came about as I ■ the Yesult of a telegram sent to I Stevenson by Kent Chandler, ,Chif cago industrialist. | called on Stevenson to I acknowledge existence of the fund. I Stevenson did in a statement isI .sued 4 Monday nisht in New Ybrk. | Hel siid he- had made no secret ! ■’ of Ms > policy to provide extrd flnancial inducement in trying to re- * cruft able men frpm private busi- * ness. I > Chandler replied Stevenson ■ ; should have.spocen out Jour days ’ ago when the Nixon dieclpsure | first was made. He agreed with j Stevenson there was nothing wrong I with the practice. ! But he said-there was nothing <Tur» Ta Paa* «*) A"

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U. N. Soldiers Hurl Back 20 Probe Attacks I 1 Harassing Actions h By Reds Repulsed f By Allied Troops SEOUL, Korea, u|p Comrriuhfet soldiers launched 2o probing attacks across the Korean battlefront f today, but U. N. (roops battered < them back with artillery, , mortar and machine gun fire. | Six,of the assaults came in the Runkpr Hill area, four came arbtmd Heartbreak Ridge northwest of the Punchbowl and three wfere.on the east-centralifront near tlje rocky peak called Luke the Gpok’s Castle. /Ail eighth army brief|ng officer said he .believed the prbbes were jiest "harassing actions,*’ pFighter-bombers, hampered by d^hse 7 clouds, flew support fissions for infantry fighting todqiy. and U. S. Sabrejets swept Mkx Alley in northwest Korea without sighting a single Russianbuilt MIG-15 jet. i . < fighter-bombers blasted supply Points directly behind Clommunist lines north of oj’destroying bunkers, supply shelters -and mortar The eighth army announced that AJlied group troops lhst’| week inflicted the fourth highest casualties of the year on \<hjmmunist forces. . - Some 3,332 Reds were taken out of action, including I,Bs>B killed, L|42 wounded and ,32 captured, a drop of from the preceding w'tiek. The record fort the year was set during! the firßt twit ‘weeks in January, when more tsan 9,000 Communist casualtiles wehre inflicted. South Korean soldier* of the eighth (Republic of-Korean division solidified their control of Cradlq Hill northeast of .thfe Punchbowl, which they lost Monday to North Koreans, but recaptured after 15 hours of bitter fighting. An estimated 117 North Koreans were killed and 322 wounded in the Action. ’ ; ! • - | Tlie air war Monday Was highlighted by the damaging bf four MIG-15’8 by Allied Sabrejets. The claims brought the.,fsabre pilots’ September toll of MiG’s io W destroyed, four probably destroyed and 48 damaged. The total of 102 equaled; |he war’s I Unloaded nearly tons of 100-pound bombs on tWo miliareas eight miles north ; 4 (Coutl»Be4 Ou Page SU) ■ -i ; Tr i

Stevenson To Speak Tonight On Living Cost To 'Outline Formula On Radio Broadcast At Baltimore Today NEW YojftK, (UP)*—Gov. Adlal Stevenson today rolled up a prescription for the American wage earner and II his housewife to use against a lingering economic upset, the high cokt of living. The prescription required two active ingredients — Stevenson’s election, pluis a cooperative Democratic congress. ’ ' j The \ Deinocratic presidential nominee will outline his formula tonight when he speaks from Baltimore, Md.i His speech will be carried nationally- by radio and telefision CBS-TV and ABC-radio at 10 p. m.j EDT. \ This will > be Stevenson’s first major stateinent since he received the Democratic presidential nomination, on the sensitive subject of the daily. damage to the American billfold. His speech on how to reduce the cost of living comes at the end of a considered, month-long program to familiarise American .voters with himself and his views on the basic issues he feels will influence them in November. Stevenson’s staff members feel that in the past month the candidate has put down the foundation of his' campaign, give or take some lesser subjects. They believe he can now look to an October of rebuttal, quick strikes Into uncertain voting areas and a frequent restatement of his position. Staff members indicate the governor will continue to stump by plane until the latter part of October, covering the middle west and the south. Then, according to present plans, he will shift to a train and “whistle-stop” the last two weeks before the election. Stevenson was scheduled to leave New York at 1:40 p. m. EDT today, arriving at Baltimore about 3 p. m. He was scheduled to go by car from Friendship International Airport to the Emerson Ho- | tel, his temporary headquarters until he flies -back to Springfield, 111., Wednesday, v As he prepared to leave New York for Maryland, Stevenson revealed signs of speaking more directly against Dwight D.; Eisenhower, the: GOP presidential candidate. In the early stages of the campaign, Stetenson contented himVTurw To Pace Five) I v Study Conservancy District Formation Adams County Men Object To Plans ! “For the purpose of obtaining views and, recommendations regarding the formation of a conservancy district” —includirg Adams county:—was how invitations read to the meeting last night at the Fort Wayne Chamber o ! Commerce; the ho#t was the. Fort Wayne Citizens Civic Association. Specimens of a petition for the formation of what is formally labeled as “The Northeastern Indiana conservancy district,” were circulated among the 50 representatives of farm and civic groups in northeastern Iridiana. Also on hand were officials of DeKalb county, Adams County and Auburn. Executive secretary of the Fort Wayne civic group ThomaS Riddle, .Led the discussion and explanation of what the petition intended to accomplish. As the meeting wore on, however, it appeared that the Fort Wayne group was attempting \ to force the petition .down the throats of the parties present. At one time during the meeting Riddle asked for a vote of confidence for the petition; or to carry on the work of the petition. After some haggling about who was and who was not eligible to vote, 13 men were picked out of the 50 present and pronounced eligible. Os that number 12 voted “yes" and one voted “no.” ( TNie dissenting vote came from Mayor John Doan of Decatur. 'x , i H .. ■ i‘j r i Throughout j the meeting question after question arose! as to what the directors of a district could do and what they could not do. Decatur Chamber secretary Walter Ford; state representative 0. Remy Bierly and Mayor Doan stood by the Adams county ‘cause’ and demanded that Riddle spell out every hitch this county wou|d \ (Ten Te P«<e Tws> : , . \\. 11. " ■ [; M . i "

ONLY DAILY NIWPAMR IN ADAM* COUNTY Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 23, 1952.

— ——t % ... : AFL Convention Urges Eight Million Members To Vote For Stevenson.

- — • Inflation Hit ' By Eisenhower : In Ohio Talks . Says Administration ‘ Slogan Is Inflation ? Is Best Policy 4 ABOARD EISENHOWER SPEf CI AL, UP—Dwight D. Eisenhower j accused the Truman adminisfra--3 tion today of running on a slogan 3 that “inflation is the ‘best polldy.” , Speaking to a crowd of mure t|ian 5,000 at Middletown, 0,, in I his first |vhistle-stop in Ohio, the Republican presidential candid ite j out vigorously at Deiaoe cratic [ claims the people of ihe „ country have the greatest poos\perity they ever known, ■ j He said “inflation” also wo ild be ther subject of a major spe< ch scheduled tonight at Cleveland at ’ the end of a day of campaigning f across the state. “This party wants |o substitute t frugality in government.” he s|id j “We dbn’t want men too little or k their jobs and too big for thpir t britches.” . , ’To demonstrate what deficit ( spending inflation has brought to . the country. Elsenhower showed . the crowd three pieces of wh te pinn- Thp largest was what cot Id . be bought for 15 cents in 1945, te . said. A smaller piece! represent 8d i what could be bought today. A much smaller piece was shown hs ’ \what 'it would be if inflation ednr tinues at the satne rite for foir more years, he shid. ~ j "How fdr can j 5 cents -gc down . and still rattle a dime against a . nickel in ybur pocket,” he asked. Eisenhower took a poke' at his . Democratic opponent, Gov. Adlai . Stevenson, although he. didn’t tpention him by hame. He called hipt V Eisenhowfer referred' to tlie Truman administration as “wh it Humourous calls the Fair Deal|” He added that the Democrats “haye made all of the [ promises possible” i. ; Sen. Robert A.j Taft, Eisenhower’s leading opponent for the Republican nomination in the feliicago convention,: spoke briefly. He urged support of \ the jehtitfe ’ Republican ’ticket and a “return (Continued On Page Six) [ Big Three To Reject German Peace Talks To Reject Russia's Demands For Talks WASHINGTON, \ UPjThe j United States, Britalb ' and Erance [ wejb scheduled to deliver notes to Moscow today rejecting Russia’s demand for a Big Four peac4 conference on Germany next mpnth. Informed sources said" the notes would dismiss the Soviet proposals Jas. unacceptable but at the same time leave the door “wide open” for a meeting on set by the west. , . I v The Kremljn called for the conference in a note Aug. 23 in a major new effort to get the Ger T mans to balk at ratifying the Ab. lied-sponsored agreements creating a European army and ah independent rearmed West : Ger* many. . j ' It blandly agreed to difccuss creation of a commission tp investigate the chances for. fred, allGerman elections, as the B i g Three demanded in their last 5 note of July 10. ; ' But the Soviets insisted thei first things to be discussed should be drafting a treaty, creation df an all-German government- and jholdtng all-German elections. In their new notes, the B i g Three were expected to disagree and argue, as they have before, that.it is ridiculous to begin: working oh the details of a treaty until theie is assurance free all*German [elections are possible. I ' 1 ' \ > i /

BULLETIN I An explosion at 2p. m. today had—in a matter of minutes-—reduced Molienkopf and Eiting,, farm implement dealers building on North Thirteenth .street, to almost rubble. The building at press j time, was a blazing inferno that seemed to be entirely opt of control and lhad already gptted the in-U side of the building. /i II is not known jas yet what caused the explosion —according to fire thief Cedric Fisher. Every volunteer fireman on the squad is at* the blaze in an effort to save something. . There seems to be a ‘present danger of walls falling in and firemen are foretd to £tay at a respectable distance from the holocaust. \ In seconds the fire spread throughout the entire building, laying a thick blanket of murky smoke qver the entire north sectioii of the city. Six people were in the building When the fire broke out. No one was hurt: Amy Reynolds; ah office worker said, “I smelled gas, then the whole building was on fire.” Flames swejpt through the building and at 3 o’clock only the bare walls were standing. ' \ I Na Objections To Adjded Appropriation A’ meeting with ’ a field man aof the jstate board of tax commissionera wks. held today foi an additional $6,50p ; appropriation for the repair of Decatur high school. No rempnstrators appeared and a report Will subsequent!j be filed. I : '. j--Rural Schools Show Enrollment Increase Increase Os 16 In H Schools Os Coiinty Tih|jfe has been an increase Os 16 \students In Adorns county school over that of last year’s ehrollmCpt, it was announced today by Adams county attendance officer ?Mrs. Mildred Foley. Following is a breakdown of enrollment In each of the county controlled? schools} Adairs Central grade school, 525, high school, 163, an increase of nine oyer last year. Blue Creek township: Kimpey, 58, Lincoln, 66, a decrease of seVen. Hartford township: Hartford gj-adeSschool 128, high school 54, an increase of■B. Jeffertsop tdivnship: Jefferson high school, 56. grade school, 118,' a decrease of eight. Roof township: grade school, 170, Monmouth high school, 147, an of one. Pleasant Mills: grade school, 99, high school, 114, ai increase pt nine. . ■ * Bobo: grade school, 79, an increase, of 14. „ Union township: Lpcky grade school} 38; Schnepp grade school, 33.' a decrease of three. Wabash .township: Wabash grade an increase! of one, \ I . An accounting of the enrollment of the parochial schools in the county: i ' * St. Johp’s, 70; St. Paul’s 50; Zion,-51; St. Peter’s, 46; Immanuel, 58, a total decrease of sig. Total students attending schools controlled by the county in Adams county-is 2,617. Last year it was First- President Os ', Finnish Republic Dead HElAlNki. Finland, UP — Kaarlo Juho Stahl berg, 87, first president of the Finnish Republic died here (Monday night. ' . r

Reveal Further Concessions To John L Lewis * ■■ Previsions In New j Contract Show Coal Miners Benefited WASHINGTON, UP— John L. Lewis’gl bargaining victory over north|erfl soft coal Operators looked even better today as southern producers Considered the alternatives of accepting the same settlement terms hr facing a strike. Newjj| revealed contract provissipns showed further 4 concessions by northern producers to the United Mine Workers’ chief—pn tppipf a'<l.9o yiaily wage bopst and a 10increase in welfare fund payments. j: Theso-calledj “miscellaneous” items 0f the contract were npt spelled out ai i the time it was signed. -jHcweyer, these provisions indicate# that the union is now free from law suits for wildcat strikes and other! unauthorized actions while the operators can no longer 'lease thOir land to nonunion mines, i | Thiat'.Was tbe contract facing Joseph Moody, president of the Souther# Coal! Producers’ Association, who was due to meet soon with iiiwis to be “offered” the same { If the southern operators refuse tp sig#} some !100,000 diggers will leave the southern i pits Oct. 1. ; Moody said he kill I recommend that his association “reject” the cohtrjacU when >his five-mine executive!board tneetls here Wednesday. ! “I don’t believe my people can live with it,” Moody said. However, hard} economic facts of the appear to leave the souther#! operators no choice but to sigp up. In the highly competitive industry, coal operators have been fighting- for markets which would be lost to the south if it was shut down while northern production went optThe Contract between the UMW and northern operators includes a provision that all disputes Svill be settled “by collective bargaining without tecoursei to the courts.” Harry [M. Moises, president of the Bituminous ooal Operators’ Association, who signed for the northern operators, said this does not mean the ; uniOn‘could not be sued for unauthorized He cited the contract phrase that both sides “affirm that they will maintain the integrity l of this contract” to support his view. However, Moooy saw the provitCoatlnurd On Pace Six) •! I — Four Tourists Die When Hi! By Train Michigan Persons - j L Killed On Trestle JELLICO, Tenn. jUP — Four Michigan tourists! were killed late Monday |vhen th|e Louisville and Nashville railtoafl’s crack Southland passenger train knocked them from a high trestle‘near here. Two other Michigan tourists narrowly escaped death in the accident. The victims, all from Belding, Mich., were Identified as Leon Clefford, 26, ahjd his wife Evelyn, 24} Harold Wilbur, 30„ and his Wife Ruth, 23, , Mr. and Mrs. 'Herbert Race, also of Belding, escaped death, apparently because they had lagged behind ag the others walked out op the treetie to do some sightseeing. ' Eyewitnesses told officers the Southland, running - late on . its northbound Knoxville to Cincinnati run, struck the four victims gt the mouth of p funnel and hurled them all from the same side of the span, which is #bout 40 feet high where the accident occurred. , ! , -i' ! r . :

——H —7—-nH Speculation Oier Possible Nominee Knowland And Cain Named Prominently ! WASHINGTON, UP—Setos., Wililiant) F. Knowland of- California and Harry P. Caln of Washington* figured prominently today in capital speculation about a possible successor to jlichard M. Nixon as Republican vipe presidential candidate,! if he resigns. ! [ Also mentioned — admittedly as a long-shot guiess — was Sen. Robert A- Taft of: Ohio. Veterap political observers, doubted thiat Taft would accept : second place on the ticket headed iby Dwight D. Eisenhower. But they saw ah outside change that: “Mr. Republicah” might yield tp an appeal to help held the party together in an hohr of crisis. } Reports frofn Los Angeles , that Nixon will withdraw from the GOR ticket found ho immediate confirmation here. In fact, some Republican organization .“regulars” professed confidence that Nixon will remain In the;race. But they acknowledged that they were still whiting for the finial word on.Nixoh’s fate, which probably wilt be spoken by Eisenhdwer after Nixon’s : “fell all” broadcast to the nation [tonight. Should Nixom bow out. chairman Arthur E. Summerfield Is expected to call the (Republican national committee Intp emergency session at ohce to chpose a replacement. Under party rtiles, the committee can either make the decision on ■its own. or cajl a special national convention to nominate a new vide presidential candidate. - With the campaign already in full swing, the committee doubtless would take the speediest course and do} the job itself, with Eisenhower leaving a dominant voice in the selection. Boih Knowlhnd and Chin were regarded as eonthnderh for the GOP vice presidential nomination •before Eisenhower settled bn Nixon at the Julyj convention , in Chicago. [Besides being comparatively youthful, a qualification Eisenhower particularly [wanted in his run- | j race Caudle Testifies On liifluence) Attempts From Congressmen, White House Aides WASHINGTON, UP —T. Lamar Caudle told house investigators today that congressmen and White House aides frequently, tried to “Influence his judgment when he was the governjnent|o chief prosecutor of tax frauds. j j President Tnjman fired Caudle Nov. 16 becaus# of outside activities which the president said were “incompatible!’ With Caudle's Justice Department! post. Caudle testified that before his dismissal he hjid received many calls ffom congressmen, and Rep. Kenneth B. Keating R-N.Y. commented that such efforts to in fluence the taxi prosecutorwere “highly improper.” ; „ i Caudle was testifying tor the' third day a judiciary colmmittee investigating the justice department. He? said, he got calls fr#m two Whit# Hbuse aides in connection with tax cases. He identified the as Matthew J. Connelly, President Truman’s appointment secretary, and David K. Njl#s, who resigned l&bt spring as White House adviser on minority problemsKeating asked; if Caudle::“went out of the way” to satisfy the White House aides., “I suppose you’d say I leaned over backwards,!’ Caudle replied.. “I certainly was really courteous . . . ■ genuinely courteous.” But he said in every caserwhether the White House or congressmen were involved—he emphasized that unless arguments were supported by the facts “it 4Tini t» Pace Nx);

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First Time In History For Such Action Unanimous Vote Is Cast For Adopting Vote Resolution NEW YORK, iIP — The 71st annual American Federation of Labor convention unanimously adopte# today a report urging the. 8,098,302 AFL members to vote for Adlai E. Stevenson for President of the United State#. The endorsement of the Democratic candidate [was the first by an AFL convention since the Federation was founded in 1881. It was the first AFL backing of a presidential ticket since 1024. However, the endorsement of the elder Robert M. LaFollette, the Progressive candiin that year! was by the executive council and not by convention vote. ' ’ ■ ’ | The vote today came after the delegates had given a one-minute cheering reception ta. the report, , prepared by the executive council, which said Steviehson “inspires our full confidence.” i When AFL President William Green asked for remarks following the reading of the report, one delegate began 4o talk about labor unity, but he was at outed down and ruled out of bider. Green called for a standing vote of the delegates. None rose in opposition. However, a few delegates, including some in the Carpenters’ union section and some in the Pulp, Sulphite and Paper M 11 Workers’ section, did not rise to vote in approval. When there were no negative votes. Green declared the adoption unanimous. The report, although “advising and urging” every AFL member to vote for* Stevenson, saiyi that the executive council emphasizes that AFL affiliated unions ■ and every one of their members “Ure free to make their own individual political decisions withou.t any compulsion on our part.” Following adoption the report? the convention unanimously elected William Green to his 29th term as AFL president. .[ Green, who will be 80 ybars old next March, has been <AFL president since Ithe death of Samuel Gompers in 1924. I “Fully conscious of oir responsibility as trade union leaders and as Americans, : we advisie and urge each and member of the AFL to vote for Adlai E; Stevenson for President pf the United States on Nov. 4,” t#e report said. “Governor Stevenson! has acquired knowledge} training and experience in the problems of government as tne chief executive of a great state,” the report said. “He has show# himself [throughout . the campaign to be a mjin of courage, humility gnd integrity, as well as of great personal chajrm.” The council said Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican [candidate, had won the respect of the world’s free people with his rfi Hilary achievements. However,] it added: “There Is little evidence available on record I that ? Geh|ral Eisen- • hower possesses apy intimate '*■***»■ To PM* etx) Approves Requests For Appropriations The state board of tag commissioners today approved Che following requests for appropriations: St.z Many’s township, $1,500; Berne-French township school tuition and special school fund, $4,800; Union township, 12,000. INDIANA W6ATHER Mostly fair tonight and Wednesday; a little cooler tonight with scattered light frost, mostly in* mucklands northwest portion; slightly warmer Wedn day. Low toil night 35-40 north, 38-43 south; \ high Wednesday 65-70 north, 70-74 south.