Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 226, Decatur, Adams County, 24 September 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L No, 226.

Implement Store Destroyed By Fire 1 - > -■—r* >.. ( ■ ■> ' dp; mm'iiMll* -■ ' ' ' A wE2&^r sa wfc* * . J flnMvjapi M ~: w ■ j Pictured above is a general view of the fire which destroyed the Mollenkopf & Kiting implement tore on North Thirteenth street Tuesday afternoon. The photo was taken at the height of the blaze.

Farm Store Is Destroyed By Fire Tuesday

Owners of Mollenkopf & Biting. ■ Inc., have not as yet made any decision regarding the rebuilding of their farm implement building that was yesterday burned to a mass of scorched carbonized garbage in, a lightning-quick raging inferno. The: fire occurred at about 2 p.m. At 3 p.m. yesterday, only the bare walla of the once beautiful .structure were left standing; At 4 pan., not eVen those were left. ? Six people—employes of the firm — are reported to have been in the building at the time: R. Sefkin'g, a parts man; Amy Reynolds, office worker; Leo Merriman, .foreHomer' Rauch. . mechanic; Carl Bishop, mechanic;' Delmas Janes, set-up and Charley _ Stucky, a eo-owner. That all managed to get out-of the building in is considered ito be something of a miracle by fire chief Cedric Fisher, who observed that the fire was hopelessly out of control although the fire trucks arpVed at within mintues 6tj the alarm. , V-- Confusion surrounds the moments immediately before the outbreak, One perspil reports seeing some flame high up on the chirnmney,and then the flames weye all around with no chance ti> grab a phone or a fir«A extinguisher. Amy Reynolds said she smelled gasoline fumes; and suddenly flames were all about- her. barely giving her a chance to escape’ Those in the. building seem not to know 1 how they escaped as eyery- ; thing happened so fast. : Chief Fisher and his whole squad of volunteers battled the, blaze with every inch of hose on training ' jeven -muzzles at the fire, all to no - avail, everything had gone too fastBob Biting, co-owner, estimated the losses at 150,000. He said, a . great deal Was lost in machined pdrts for the farm equipment they .work on: '-He said there wasn’t much machinery in . the ' building at the fime. w ' Traffic on U.S. highway 27 was held up for! at least an hour and a half with the city police, the sher- ' -iff’s department, and a state troj> cr detouring traffic away fyom the ■■•fire.'' h. ’■; • J , The origin of the fire is stilfnOt certain but fire chief Cedric Fisher said he thiniks gasoline fumes are the cause of the fire spreading as quickly as it) did ‘if not for actually < being the cause of the tragedy. V' Red Cross head Mrs. Mhx Scha- . fer, tame to the scene with doughnuts add poffee for the . firemen.'; , / Everything in the building was burned *to a cinder except a few sheaves of records. 65 Absentee Voter Ballots Mailed To. Date From County County clerk Edward Jaberg re- : f > ports 65 absentee ballots have I . been sent out from his office thus \ far. half of these going to men in v the service. Jaberg stated absenz tee ballot holders .may bast their vote at the clerk’s office anytime , - from Oct. 25 to Nov. IV ' He said there are still. 35 applications in the mail for absentee , bhllots; this number, if added to those already approved, . would bring the total to 1,00, an 'indicatidn, thinks the county clerk, of an exceptionally high regular vote £or v this general election. Jaberg utges all who have notalready registered to do .so as .soon' as possibly. The deadUhe ; for' reg- ''' istration is Oct. 6, ij; 1*

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Lewis, Moody To Confer On New Contract Lewis Holds Whip Hand On Southern Soft Coal Owners WASHINGTON, 0P — John L. Lewis. Wearing' poker face and jib Wing all the carps, d&alt southerh soft coffl operators a losing hand today that .meant a big wage boost for his miners! or a strike in, one weefc. u i ■i The United Mine [Workers’ chief Was scheduled to meet with Joseph E. Moody, president of the Southern Coal Producers’ Association, toij takl over a new contract. ' 1 Lewis’ demands were well known '—■ho less than a $1.90 daily pay bike and a 10-cent-a-ton increase] in management’s welfare fund pay-! ments won last week) fropi northern] Soft coal . operators. Otherwise, some 100,000 southern diggers will! -walk out Oct. 1. Moody has described the as “awful rough,” adding that he recommend that his ] lion Reject the settlement. However, Jhp betting [ was k that he would have to take it. ; Observers poipted] out \ that the Southern producers had little choice but to sign one of the ' highestpriced agreements in the union’s .history. If they were shut down Whilb the northern mines operated, it vyoujd >n|fean losing customers in an already highly-competitlve inLew is.® who [has been noticeably silent aiput' his victory Over the parthernjpart Os the] industry, was well awjre of the (situation and cbuld afford to sit back until Moody rijiade hh decision. But the veteran labor leader was not through In pis fight for higher wages fojr his miners. He still had to face ! the government’s wage stabilization board before the increase cbuld go into effect.. [ Uhe new wage [ Increase—whicl| brings thb miners’ daily basic wage to . slß.2s—is- well over the amount that could be automatically approved by the board. More Traffic Lights Requested By Council j A resolution was passed by the ! city council at its regular session past night, approving a request to jthe state highway commission to ! place stop and go traffic lights on i Monroe str® ets a * the corners of Fifth. Ninth and Thirteenth I. (streets. H' The council deemed the Fights I Necessary because of the eveb increasing traffic oh the street, which is also U. Si highway 224. Specifically, the resolution states that because of the great traffic flow, citizens candot cross the streets easily to get ’to, schools and churches. : Vv: - \ : ■ j li' ■ .1. , , INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair with rising temperatures tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 44-48 • n p r th, 48-53 south; high* Thursday 75-80. 7 :.?7'' \ . di 1' . Il [ ■ ’ ■ !

Gen. Clark And Top Aide; Meet In Korea Today Land Sea And Air Commanders Meet With (general Clark SEOULg Korea (UP) |— Gen. Mark Clark. U. N. Far East commander, mielj today with ! his top land, ! sea and air commander!) but declined to reveal the reason for the high-level conferences. Attending the conference were Gen. James A. Van Fleet, eighth army Commander; Lt. Gen. Glenn O. Baucus,! fifth air force commander, and Vice Adm. Robert P. Briscoe; Far East navy commander, who flew to Seoul with Clark.' \ j Clark said he expected to be in Korea for *‘a conple of days” and that he had “all kinds of things to discuss.’! Even as the meeting took place, Chinese Communists repelled a savage, tank-supported attack bn Kelly Hill on the western front by soldiers from the 65th Puerto Rican regiment of the U. S. Third Division. The Puerto Ricans werb forced to give up after more than sevep hours of heartbreaking fighting, . ! ! • • Clark said he would also confer with Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison, senior Allied delegate to the i Panmunjom truce negotiations. It | was believed Harrison would come to Seoul to sit in with the other commanders in the meetings with ClabkThe abortive assault on Kelly was proceeded by the heaviest Allied artillery and, mortar barrage on the western fropt in seven months. \ ; ; , U. N. soldiers, backed by tank .fire, launched the attack at dawn after a diversionary attack to the Northeast An hour later United Press staff correspondent Warren Franklin skid a “handful of then” were on the crest, fighting against overwhelming odds to rout the Chinese Rbds from their bunkers and trenchjes. But the; Reds were too strongly entrenched. Allied officers estimated that about 200 Reds held Kelly Hill and that |OO reinforcing soldiers, were dug in on another hill close by. North Korean Communists had a harder j time of: it when "they struck the northernmost hill the Allies hold 'along the 155-mile battleline. • • Between > 700 and 800 Reds assaulted the eastern front' height, only two [miles inland ' from the Sea of Japan. The Allied troops held fast and stopped the enemy. : ] r| The bulk of the Red attack was aimbd at another hill adjoining to the south, j! The Communists forced their way to the top, but the Allied soldiers counterattacked immediately and knocked the enemy back. B-29 Superforts 826 light bombers teamed to make , the night as miserable for the Reds as infantrymen did during, the day. | Twelve dropped ( more than 100 tons of tfombs on Red supply center at Pachurigjbng, I'7 miles south of Hamburg in eastern Korea. 1 i 'B-26 light bombers, maintaining their steady pounding of Red supply routes, knocked out 120 Supply trucks during the night. i j ' H. 1 [ ' U' . r •: ’! Fort Wayne Boy Is Drowned In River FORT WAYNE, UP Denhis Ceccanese, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. .Albert Ceccanese drowned in St. Mary's; river Tuesday when he toppled into the stream while playing.

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J\_Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 24, 1952.

■ \ : ,?s . ijj i —| ■ r , ■" "■ • —~ -" — — Ike, Nixon To Confer Tonight If Nixon To Stay On As Candidate

Nixon Cancels Air Tour Os Three States Flying To Wheeling v For Persoal Talks With Top Candidate EN ROUTE WITH NIXON, 1 UP —Sen. Richard M. NlxOn 5 today cancelled an \aerial tour of three states and left by air for Wheeling, W. Va.,. and a personal meeting tonight with Dwight D. Eisenhower.; The meeting has been scheduled for 7:30 p.m. c.s.t. J and should decide whether the California .senator stays on the Republican ticket as \vice president. Nixon’s spirits received a tremendous lift at Missoula, Mont., when a crowd police > estimated at 4,000 turned out ft* chee'r him. It was the warmest reception Nixon has received since he starred his whistle stop tour of the WCst at Pomona Sept. 17. . He spoke briefly, only a few hours after his unprecedented television radio appeal to the people of America to express their views to GOP leaders on whether he should stay on the ticket.. Nixon has been under fire for the past week as the result of disclosure that he had used as 118,000 privately contributed fdnd during his two years in the Senate to finance his 1 “political” expenses. “We are going to meet Ike Eisenhower," he told ithe cfowd, “and all I can say to you is that we have just beguh to fight." There were no signs displayed by the Missoula crowd heckling Nixon about the SIB,OOO fund. N6r did the audience interrupt his speech to demand he explain his financial circumstances. Nixon’s speech Tuesday night brought an immediate response from EJisenhower. “Your presentation Was magn|flcient,’’ Eisfenhower wired Nixon from Cleveland. “I feel the heed to see you personally.” Nixon’s speech included both a' defense»of his accepting an $18;000 fund and challenges to Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson and Sen. John Sparkman\ to make similar 'financial statements. ' T r L : “Not one cent of the SIB,OOO or CTura Ta Pure ECl*kt) 1 1 ’! ■ \ Two Minor Fires In City Tuesday Night Little Damage Done By Fires Last Night Two mipor [fires—rone at 7 p. m. the other at JO p. m.—brought thh number to three the calls that firemen answered Tuesday. The 7 o’clock call came from the home of James T. McGill, 71g Mercer avenue, nothing serious, too hot a skillet plus too much grease equals a lot of smoke. No damage was caused, except to the frayed nerves of firemen that had already been treated to their share of fire for the day. At about 10 o’clock the City Fruit market put ip a ; call that turned ' out to be for an over-ac-tive salamander, used to keep the, frost from fruits when the weather turns chilly. Comment from firo chief Cedric Fisher: “Kind of lc|oks like that old saying about fire* coming in three’s \turned out to be true this time.” - \ The chief had an additional comment. He said when the call was answered to Mollenkopf & Eating the city was left without adequate firq protection. It wopld have been the choice of taking away a fire engine from the already disastrous fire. Be that as it may, thinks the chief, the city hasn’t enough fire equipment; he is looking forward to the time, probably next month, when the city’s newest fire engine is ready for delivery.

————— ... ’ -3F • i . \ ■ fourth Child Dies From Bulbar Polio V Milwaukee Family y Loses Fourth Child 1 ‘ MILWAUKEE, Wis. UP — Bul,&tr polio has killted four of Leo Linnpjpanaton’k eight children in pine days. Barbara, I]3, the fourth victim, » pied Tuesday night. Funeral serv- , Icqp were'.held the same day for , bar eight-year-old sister, Mary |lnn. '■ , | Paul, 16, died Sept. 15!. Lorraine, ’ 4, died the next day. \ l' f All the children died within 48 i hours after they entered the h©s- , idtal with the toughest type of polio. Hospital aqthortiies said that it 'Js the first time that four cases Os bulbar polio have been recorded in one family. , '4 “God must have wanted them very much," Mrs. Linnemanstons |aid when her third child died. s And now, Barbara, Is dead, too. Mrs. Linnemanstons stayed with Barbara Tuesday while her husband attended Mary Ann’s funeral, f The other children are quarantined at home. They are John, 20, a marine on bmejgency leave from his California post, > Janet, 18, ffraneia. 11, and Yvonne, 1. f-Sb far, done <as had any sign 0f a polio infection. t The Linnemanstons prayed that they Would be spared. They asked their friends and fainily pray too. They said they were “almost kfraid to wake up in the morning.” : A' fund has been started to help the family. ; Linnemanstons is a brewery Worker. Frederick C. Miller, president of. the brewery employing tinnehianstons, gave the first dqnatiori to the fund. , { Barbara whs stricken with the disease Sunday. She was rushed to South View hospital. She became worse Monday night and died Tuesday night. 1 Maty Ann was. stricken last Thursday and died Saturday. 29-Hour Rioting In Prison Is Quelled Screams Os Wounded Youth Halt Ridting CHESTER, 111. UP — The screams of a wounded .youth stilled a 29-hour riot at Menard state prison and, one by ond, 300 rebellious convicts were checked today for their grievances and concealed weapons. [ •, j Michael Seyfrit, director of the state department of public safety, took charge, of an investigation ■into prisoners’ grievances that ina demand for “more meat and I|bss State police helped regular guards watch over the* restless prison of 1,844 convicts. Six hundred prisoners started rioting Monday night. armistice was reached Tutefjday, but 300 convicts b.roke the trpee Tuesday night.' Police fired at least 20 tear gas bombs and volleys of shotgun shells from riot guns at the dows in the five-tiered east cell block;building. The prisoners used fire hoses and tore steel from the walls and fixtures and hurled it at the authorities. A shotgun pellet hit Paul Tuck* es, ISA Decatur, 111., in the face. Tucker, who was wielding one of the fire hoses, fell to a catwalk and his piercing screams brought silence in the cell block. The rampaging prisoners shuffled off to their cells and guards entered and carried him to the infirmary. One bi the meh carrying him a guard and gave up a homemade I kpife. Tw*o prisoners, William V. Bell, 2S, car thief from San Antonio, Tex., and Earl Hamilton, Chicago, 1 were isolated On suspicion of being 1 ringleaders in the uprising. Both ! . (Ten* To Pase Kiakty

i ' . ' -I >" " ' ■ Adlai Rejects Nixon Demand ’ 1 r L A j 2 ! On Disclosure |||_ ’ I v x ' ' ! Defends Practice ’ Os Augmented Pay To State Officials v ! i ■il ■ ' T ■ BALTIMORE, ;Mjd. UP Gov. Adl|i E. Stevensoh flatly rejected today Sen. .JRich|rd M. Nixon’s demand that he names of Illinois state officials whose salaries he augmented with cash gifts. But at 'the shme time Stevenson defended the practice as one necessary to obtain and hold the services of men of “outstanding ability” in government. : Nbcon, in explaining to the nation his own acceptance of an $18,235 expense allowance Tuesday hight, challenged [the Democratic hoimnee to makq public the names of Illinois officials! whose salaries hayb been augmented, a step Stevenson had admitted. ’Th e Democratic presidential nominee told a meeting of Yolunteei* Campaign wlorkers that he no purpose) ijn disclosing thb nafnes of the persons br the amounts*’ involved To do so, he said, would give them “undeserved 1 publicity" and would be a “breach of faith on myx part.” Stevenson told the breakfast meeting of several hundred cam-, paigjn workers that) “adequate compeh|ation is a pressing neiei-i” for good government. He did npt mention; the number of state efaployes who were aided by the gifts. But he said it was a "small phmber.” When Stevenson concluded his explanation there was a sh|rp and prdlpunged burst 0f applause firom his campaign workers. ! Stevenson delivelred a major address on economic policy Tuesday night before a capacity audience of 9,000 in Baltimore’s Fifth Regiment Armory. He! opposed a tax redtiction until th| federal budget is balanced, and warned that “tighter” wage and price Controls may be necessary next year to combat inflation. His address was carried to the riatibn by television at ilO p.m. e.d.t,, imniediatell after Nixon had; made his own! dramatic broadcast defending his acceptance of an $18,235 private political fund. Stevenson would, not discuse the Nixon speech for publication, pending a full study of {statements made by Nixon and Eisenhower, the GOP •presidential nominee. The Dehiocratic candidate also chose to ignore [Nixon’s demand that he make a public financial statement Os the politfcal fund in Illinois used by Stevenson to help some of his appointive: officials in the state government. Members of \ 01 (Continued On Pare Six) i —. ! • ! Lions Club Hears | District) Governor Lester Davis Pays "His Official Visit ) Lester D. Davia, of Warsaw, governor of district jss-B, Lions International, paid his .official visit tb the Decatur Liens club t at the weekly dinner meeting of the organization Tuesday’ evening at. the K. of P. home. Davis, who is principal of the Atwood high school, discussed duties of the district governor under ; Lions International, and functiohk of the international office. The Lions official complimented the local club on its fine record of activities both as a club and in community service, apd for the good leadership given to the club by lbs officers, i Ronald Parrish, club president; whd Conducted the meeting, also an*\ nounced that a representative from the federal bureau of investigation will: apeak at next week’s meeting i of the club. i

Rotary Governor Raymond ! *S. Kastendieck, of Gary, governor of the 224fh district of Rotary international. Will make his pfficial vidit to the Decatur jßotary Club <at its weekly dinner meeting at 6:30 p. ;m. I Thursday at the Bl off P. home. The governor Will confer with Harold P. Engle, president, William Schnepf, , Jr., secretary, and other local club officers on Rotary administration and service activities, and wilt give his official address during s the meeting of the entire club. : 1 ! ■ j • ! !■ ; ■ . City Councilmen In Meeting Last Night |-J Approve Contract On Lubrication System In regular session Tuesday evening, the city council transacted some routine business together with an emergency appropriation for city operations. ! ■ 3 Mr. aiid Mrs. B. Sheehan, route 3, Decatur, requested the council, by! petition, I for an extension of light |nd power, on his property;. The b eti ßpn was referred to the light anjd power (department in conjunction with the power superintendent! | > A staU Os emergency was declared regarding additional fuhds for the police debartment and the street and; sewer I department. Councilmen ; voted $?0O , additional for contract and supply funds for the police department:, and $J,025.60 for contractual fuhds for the street and sewer department. The reason for the additional money was reported because of the cleaning; of a sewer from Marshall to Dayton streets, and: a motor replaced ih a city truck. Floyd Hunter, 321 North First street, appeared to register complaints from him and some of his neighbors regarding the indiscrlmß date dumping of garbage on the city dump, causing “a horrible Odor to float in the doors and windows of opr homes.” Hunter named the General Electric factory and jthe Central Soya Co., as being jthe cause of the condition. He aaid G.E. dumps loads of scraps and garbage on the dump; as for Cenrtal Soya, HuhUr said they dump manure from their farm, on the pile, causing the stench. j A contract was approved by the council calling for a special pressure lubrication system to be installed w|th the city’s new diesel power plujut 'when it is ready for delivery—about December 1. The system will enable lubrication to begin with the starting of’ the plant—something which is reported to be difficult if no system is installed, ; Engineer G. R. Emery of Emery, Marker and Emery, said engines of the type for Decatur have been known to butn up in the first few minutes of operation because of the lack of lubrication. The price for this, not originally included in thb original contract, will be $220. j . A meeting was held with the engineer before the formal meeting of the council at which time Emery, gave a Tep<|rt of the tests of the power plant. The council was satisfied as far as the testa went, however, it remains for! plant installation here, to sep what the actual performance will be.

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Ike To Decide On Future Os Running Mate Meet In Wheeling Tonight To Talk Over Donations ABOARD EISENHOWER SPECIAL, UP —Dwight D. Eisenhower headed fpr Wheeling. Va.. today for a face-to-face meeting with Richard M. Nixon to decide if Nixop can stay in the race for vice president. All indications pointed to Eisenhower’s intention • to. keep Nixon, but the retired general said he wanted a faco-to-face talk with the California senator before making his final decision. Eisenhower himself threw away a prepared speech in Cleveland Tuesday night to declare he was impressed with Nixon’s courage in a radio-television speech ih which Nixon bared his personal financial affairs. Today the general said he was swamped with “I like Dick” telegrams as top Republicans voiced their approval of keeping Nixpn on the ticket. Developments in, the Nixon affair came fast aboard the train and in top Republican circles elsewhere following the California senator’s public discussion >of his financial affairs and. Eisenhower’s invitation to Nixon 'to meet him in Wheeling tonight. Eisenhower left the train in Portsmouth for a telephone call to Arthur Summerfield, Republican national committee chairman in Cleveland. Summerfield said immediately afterward he was “certain”'Nixon would stay on the ticket. A ( ; Aboard the train, Gov. Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, the chief of staff of Eisenhower’s campaign. said arrangements for the , meeting topight have jjeen completed. Adams, however, gave no further t details of the meeting. During a stop at Kenova,|W.Va.. ' aides aboard thg Eisenhower trainmade arrangements by long distance telephone for the i general to meet Nixon at the Wheeling airport. l! „ - Appearance of Eisenhower at Wheeling stadium, originally scheduled for 6:30 p. m. CST., will be delayed until the general greets Nixon and takes his run-ning-mate to the meeting with him. Eisenhower stuck by Nixop in Cleveland Tuesday night where he threw away a prepared speech to praise his courage. However, he mentioned the Nixon affair only once this morning as he “whistle stopped” across southeastern Ohio Into West Virginia. His mention of Nixon came at Portsmouth, O. [He said he normally received imany telegrams when his campaign train stopped but he doubted |e would get any today as the Western Union people saiA they wefe “swamped with ’I like Vick’ ” tejlegrams. Republican .national headquarters in Washington, meanwhile, announced that it Iwas receiving a fl-bod of telegrams. 98 percent of which approved of Nixon’s stay- ’ <Tnr» T» Pa*e m«ht) Decatur Returns To Standard Time Saturday Midnight Decatur and Adams county, along with other cities and areas in much of the, midwest, will return to central standard tims at midnight Saturday night, r Daylight saving time, in effeci here since the last Saturday night in April, will end. here at midnight Saturday, (will all business, isohool and social activities revert- j Ipg to standard time Sunday. Clocks will be! moved back one hjour Saturday night, permitting residents to catch up on the hour Ipst last spring; when the clocks werb moved ahead. I ? : 7 ' - : . \