Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 227, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L.-No. 227,

Stevenson To Speak Friday In Indianapolis Plan Big Welcome For Stevenson In L Indiana Appearance \ INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Presl, dential nominee Adlai Ste.venson arrives Friday for a 24-hour visit, in Indiana and his first campaigning for 13 electoral votes which (haven’t gone to a Democrat since 1936. ’ The Illinois governor will speak in two cities Evansville shortly after nbtpi and here in the Evening —- then depart Saturday for Kentucky and an appearance with Vice-President Alben W. Barkley. Democratic , state chairman “Charles E. Skillen said Stevenson's welcoming here will be one of the biggest party, shindigs in Indiana history. Hoosier Democrats, regard Stevenson as a close “favorite neigirboP’ candidate, for ,it was Indiana Gov. Henry F. Schricker who nominated him. More than 12,000 seats will be available for Stevenson’s \ major campaign speech in the Fair* grounds. Coliseum at 9 p. m. CDT. Friday. Skillen said loudspeakers will be set up ins, the l lobby and nearby cattle barn th handle an expected overflow crowd. . Look. To , Truman \ SPRINGFIELD,, in. (UP)—Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson’s looked today to President Truman , toh take up the campaign battle cry now that the Illinois governor has drawn the blueprint. The Stevenson camp hopes that Mr. Truman —a master of the whistle-stop technique/ will come' into the election fray swinging freely and directly at Dwight D„ Eisenhower, the Republican nomi nee to whom the President pnce offered the Democratic nomination, - . = • • n I:

Meantime. Stevenson was standing firm' on his decision rfot to drag into the public limelight his fund to help supplement salaries for top state , administrators. ; "If I. have anything to say. I’ll say it," the Democratic presidential nominee said Wednesday, in rejecting Sen. Richard M. Nixon’s demand that report hip ’finances to the, nation as Nixon did Tuesday night. , , ! 'Mr. Truman for • the most part stayed out of the campaign’ spotlight in September in conformance With an understanding reached shortly after Stevenson was nominated at Chicago in July. . The general nature of the understanding was that as far as the Democrats were concerned, Steveiison would have the national stage to himself during September. stating his position bn basic issues. October will be devoted to re-emphasis and rebuttal. After campaign swings! into thh west, the east and into the upper ;\ south, Stevenson has blueprinted his stand on virtually all of this basic . issues before the electorate this fall-foreign policy. Communism:, corruption, taxes,, inflation', labor. ‘Conservation,’ civil rights, and Agriculture. Mr. Truman! now has his cues from the nominee and, according to information here., Will operate within the policy framework constructed by Stevenson in September.’ The President, however, win be his own boss when it comes to "personalities. 4 j — -*7 ' ■

Youthful Escapee Is Nabbed By Posse Convicted Killer Caught At Store LAPORTE, Ind. UP — A farmer led a posse of neighbors Into a hardware store today and captured a 21-year-old convict sentenced for murder who escaped Indiana state Polson about 12 hours earlier. State police said Lewis Wolters led the band to a Wanatah hardware store in search of John R. ParnelJ, St. Louis, Mo., after theescapee had forced his way into the farmer’s home. They said Wolters obtained help ♦from neighboring farmers and went to Wanatah where they “jumped” Parnell in a hardware store and tied him up. Parnell was taken into custody by LaPorte county sheri iff’s officers. Warden Alfred F. Dowd said Parnell apparently escaped Wednesday by hiding in a bo* jof baled paper while helping load aj salvage truck. Parnell, who was employed in the pffspn storeroom, and three other men were convicted and sentenced to H<e for the slaying of Franklin P (Contfaaed Oa Pa*e Six)

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MRS. BETH CAMPBELL SHORT, widow of Joseph Short, presidential secretary, takes the oath as one of President Truman’s three top secretaries in a ceremony in the White House. The President is witness as chief White House clerk Frank Sanderson administers the oaXh. Mrs. Short, filling post held until recently by William D. Hassett, is first woman in history to hold such a poit. t

Sen. Sparkman Hits Al GOP J? i - ; ' [' ' '' Farm Program , Says Republicans Opposed Progress For Twenty Years MASON CITY, lowa UP — Democratic vijc* presidential candidate Sen. John J. Sparkman arrived here today In his rapid-fire stump tour of the midwest after telling Minnesotans their prosperity is no accident apd the Republicans have voted against progress tor 20 years. " Sparkman spoke at seven Minnesota towns in his one-day motor swing /through the Southern part of the state Wednesday. ’; He centered his attacks against the GOP stand on farm problems atid said Republican congressmen fought 90 per cent parity for farm crops ’’from beginning to eqd.” He answered demands by Republican vice \ presidential candidate Richard and told hewsmen about his wife being on the government payroll. ■ ‘.‘l want everybody: to know that r4y wife is on my payroll in Washington and has been since 1942, earning every dollar she got,” he .s!id s • ’ ' ? i J His secretary, E0 Hyde, told newsmen Mrs. Sparkman’s salary was $4,500 a year, J “I’ve got no deajs to hide,” Sparkman said. “l’B| not afraid to tfell anybody what imy financial “status is.” He opened his Minnesota swing at Worthington where he spoke to\ a* crowd estimated at 42,000, mostly farmers, at the annual turkey festival. 1 The Alabama senator said farmers voted Democratic in 1948 because “they got a brief but vivid warning from the Republican 80th congress of what short-sighted Republican policies could do to farmers.” , i '

“I have one word, of advice for the farmers in this area —if you voted Democratic in 1948 you’d 'better vote Democratic in 1952, too,” he said. “The Republicans haven’t changed a Hit.” At Austin, wherdH he clbsed his Minnesota tour, heqtold some 400 persons at a Democratic tally he didn't believe “the 'people of the country would vote for a change after seeing the miserable record the-Republicans have of voting against change during the past 20 wars.” Schricker Joins In Criticism Os Nixon Decries Senator's a- Acceptance Os Aid GARY, Ind. UP t- Gov. Henry joined the criticism of Sen. Richard Nixon for accepting qutside aid Wednesday night and said he would rather “live in a trailer” than accept such aid. :"“I pledge you that even if Mrs. Schricker and I have to live in a trailer we are not interested in rich Santa Clauses back fcqme collecting money for us,” he said in reference to the $18,235 fund contributed for Nixon’s expenses. Schricker, Democratic opponent of Sen. William Jepner R-Ind., took a strong stand in favor of a federal civil rights program and tonguet (Tur« Pace EKM)

- ’ -A: ■ >■ ■ Y ■ : ‘ ■ BULLETIN H George Appelman, 75, wellknown Decatur retired ; businessman, died at about 3 o’clock at the Adams county memorial hospital thia afternoon. He also was a former city councilman. H® had been ill aeveral weeks, r Caudle's Testimony Finished Wednesday House Probers Leave Case Up To. McGrath WASHINGTON, \UP — House Investigators left it up to J. Howard McGrath today to explain Or deny his reported claim of having enough information about th® White Hottse “to Mow the place sky high." * If and when McGrath speaks out, they said, it “perhaps will explain more satisfactorily’’ President Truman’s firing of Ti Lamar Gaudlel as the government’s chief tax frauds pik>secutor last Nov. ife. The President dismissed Caudle for outside activities “incompatible” with his official duties shortly before house tax scandal investigators disclosed he accepted fees in airplane and oil deals, and got free trips, a TV set and a reduced price on a mink coat. The drawling North Carolina attorney, completing a long story of his stormy six years in Washington, told a house judiciary subcommittee Wednesday that McGrath, after his firing as ajttorney general last April 3, blamed his and Caudle’s ousters on a “White House clique.” ( I Although McGrath did not name names, daudle said his “m idea was that the group included Charles “Murphy, counsel to Mr. Truman; the late Joseph Short, the President’s press secretary, and David Stowe, an aide to presidential assistant John R. Steelman. :

Although Caudle could not remember McGrath’s exact words, he said the ousted attorney generaid tpld him he had enough information about the clique’s operations to “blow the White House so high it would become another satellite in the orbit, and; gravity would never bring it back to eqrth.” Despite a White House \ denial, Caudle insisted he had been told by “friends" that Mr. Truman feels he made a big mistak;|e in firing Caudle and will “rectify i|” perhaps with a public apology Jalfter the November elections. ‘V Caddie said he "sure hopes” Mr. Truman does so, but\ that he is not banking on it, Chairman Frank.L. Chelf, D-Ky., and Kep. Kenneth B. Keating, RN.Y.,'issued a joint statement after Caudle concluded, saying they are convinced he is “an honest map who was indiscreet in his associations and a pliant Conformer to the peculiar moral climate of Washington.’* They said McGraths’ 'o!wn ver* sion of the/‘White House clique” might shed more light on dismissal. But Chelf said the subcommittee has "no intention” of recalling McGrath, who last testified on Sept. 17. This would indicate that it is up to the former attorney general to volunteer the information. | INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonljjnt and Friday, turning coder extreme north Friday. Low tonight 4654. HI ph Friday 75-80 except 70-75 extreme north.

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Ike Resumes His Assaults On Democrats Republican Party \ Heads Cheered At Nixon Exoneration ABOARD EISENHOWER SPECIAL, (UP) — Dwight D. Eisenhower resumed his assaults on administration “thievery” today after the dramatic meeting Wednesday night in which he “exonerated” Sen. Richard M. Nixon of wrongdoings As the Republican presidential nominee resumed the whistlerstop trail, elated GOP leaders said the Eisen hower-Nixon ticket had emerged “stronger than ever” from the furor over th£ California senator’s privately endowed political expense fund. Eisenhower said he will talk in Baltimore tonight about the necessity of arraying “superior force” against the Communists and of using this force “intelligently and economically.” The GOP nominee carried his campaign into Maryland for the first time. The state \ gave its nine electoral votes to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey in 1948 At Cumberland, Md., a crowd estimated by Police Lt. Raymond Johnston at about 6,000 heard the candidate accuse the Democratic administration of imperilling the constitution and (of tolerating tax scandals which necessitate \“h cleanup from top to bottom.” Eisenhower denounced President Truman’s seizure of the steel mills and said it is “time to rise up’’ against an administration which "thinks it is all powerful” and against officials who are “too big for their britches.” The general’s first stop en route to Baltimore whs at Keyser, W." Va., where he was met by about 1,800 persons. \ 7 . The candidate charged the Truman administration has permitted “thievery in high places.” He said “we don’t have to put up with this kind of government.” Every morning newspaper, he added, carries new reports of government scandal. \ “We’re In fine shape except politically,” he contihued. “We have got a< national leadership which has not performed Well for the past seven years.” The United States,- he said, tnust have “adequate military strength . «Twrw To Pace KKht)

Polio Outbreak Is Worst In History 4,190 New Cases During Past Week \ p WASHINGTON, UP — The 1952 outbreak .of polio is • the worst in history, the U.S. public health service said today, reporting 4,190 new cases occurred last week. These raised the total for this season to 34,291, the all-time high. Worst\ prior outbreak was 30,253 cases in 1949. In 1951, the nation had 17,302 cases. The 4,190 cases last week was a gain of 158 —an increase of about 3 per cent—over the 4,032 of the previous week. Health service officials said hopefully the 1952 epidemic: “might be on the wane” despite the 3 per cent increase for the week. S They noted that last week’s increase was confined almost entirely to five states —Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. The five had a combined total of 1,354 cases, 250 more than a week ago. There were 436 cases in Illinois, 283 in Ohio, 260 in Michigan, 223 in Wisconsin and 152 in Pennsylvania. In the 43 other states, the week’s total was 2,834 cases, a 7 per cent decline from the previous week.

Sen. Taft Says U. S. Is At Crossroads -■ y I, Speaks To Michigan : Republican Workers GRAND Lapids, Mich. UP — Sen. Robert 1 A. Taft said today the V:. S. stands at the crossroads of freedom and socialism and the November election may decide “the = coiirse\of the nation for the next s>o years." .4 The only way to “turn back the tide of socialism," said xthe Ohio senator,! is to turn out the greatest flood of Republican voters in the nation’s history. 1 ;“We must stimulate voters’ interest in their future and the future of their country,” he said. Ih the past, he said, voters’ willingness to go to the ballot boxes “has been sasy lacking." 1 “It is our job to get out the vote." he told an overflow crowd of 450 Republican workers at a breakfast .meeting. “The people have a‘right and a duty to pass oh the Issues Which now are clearly drawn.” Taft said voters had a choice between ’a government of “honesty and integrity" under Dwight Eisenhpwer, or a government bent on Socialism under the New Dekl-Fair Deal i He scored the Democratic party’s foreign policy which he blamed for the "stalmate” war in Korea, and on the domestic front said government spending and taxation are threatening the nation’s economy. ’ He told a rrowd of 3,000 at St. Joseph. Mich.. Wednesday, that the Congress of Industrial Organizations CIO “is not a labor union at all, but a socialist political party,’’ ' Taft attacked statements on labor, policy by Gov. Adlai Stevenson, Democratic capdidath for President, and accused' him of “talking through; his hat.” Stevenson, he said, “makes it perfectly clear that all he really wants is to amend the Taft-Hartley law. but he is playing for the labor vote by talking about repeal."

Calvin D. Kunkel _ Is Taken By Death ' Prominent Farmer Dies Last Night ■■ B “’■ - " Calvin Dorwin Kunkel, 89. prominent Root township retired farmer, aftd a member of one of Adams county’s pioneer families, died at 11:45 o’clock c Wednesday night at his home, two miles north of Decatur on ,U. S; highway 27. He had been in failing health for the past year. i Mr?'Runkel' was born in Root township March\ 19, 1863, aid lived his entire life on the same fqrm. He was a -son of Samuel D. and Martha Dorwin-Kunkel, who came to Adams county in 1846. fte was married to Sanna Pillars April 17, 1883. Mr. Kunkel taught in the county schools for several years and also was a teacher in the North Ward and Central schools in Decatur for five years. He attended tKfe Decatur schools and Lebanon College at Lebanon, O. lie was the list surviving member of the Poe quartet, famous for many years v in this area. ‘Mr. I Kunkel was an active member' of the First Presbyterian church in this city. Surviving In addition to his wife are a; daughter, Mrsi Dale Moses, and a hon, Sherman Kunkle, both of near Decatur; eight grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. Three sistelrs preceded him in death; Tuheral services will be conducted at 2:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the Zwick , funeral home, the Rev. Robert H. Hammond officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. Friday until time of the services.

Speedy Trials Are Sought For 18 Communists Justice Department . Seeks Speedy Trial For Indicted Reds 3 WASHINGTON, (UP) — T h e justice department intended today to push for speedy trials of 18r second and Communist party leaders indicted on charges of conspiring to teach and advqbate violent overthrow- of the United States. ' The 18 were arrested in seven state| Sept. 17 by swift-striking FBI Bkenjts continuing the three-year-|ld roundup of alleged subversives. . \ Indictments followed swiftly. Eirstf six Red party leaders were Indicted at Detroit. Then Wednesday indictments were returned agaihst 12 others at SL. Louis, and Seattle. The seven indicted at Seattle are( Henry P. Huff, 58, chairman of the Washington branch of the Communist party; William J. Pennock. 37, Seattle: Karly Larsen. 47, East Stanwood. Terry Pettus, 48, Seattle, northwest editor of the west coast Communist newspaper, the Daily People’s World; Paul Miller “Bowen, 30, Chicago; John Shields Daschbacfi. 38, Seattle: Barbara Hartle; 44.: Eugene, Ore. Conviction would mean c maxb mum penalty of 10 years in prison,; a 810.000 fine, or both. 'the 18 newly-indicted joined 32 others awaiting action. The cracks down started in 1949 with the conviction of 11 of the party’s top officials in New York. Last month 14 “second springers” were convicted In i Calfforriia. ,) Six others previously had been convicted in Maryland. Two persons. Isidore Begun and Simon W. Gerson of New York, were found innocent of such charges in New York this > week. "the St. (Louis indictments were the first tp be returned T|Vednesdajf; Named in the indictment were William Sentner, labor leader;: James F. Forest, chairman pf the Communist party in Missouri; his wife Dorothy Rose Forest, a party worker, all of St. Louis. Others were Marcus A. Murphy, Charleston, Mo., former education director of the party, and Robert Manewitz. former member of the Com(Twin T® Pare Etrht*

Mollenkopf-Eiting In Temporary Office R■■ ' 1 p Owners Study Plans For New Location J Mollenkopf & Eiting, International Harvester dealers in Decatur, whose big store and business office on U.S. road 27 in the west part of Decatur was completely destroyed by fire Tuesday, announced today they would set up a temporary office. The office will be located in the Retaking garage, directly across the street from the scene of the fire. The owners of the local establishment are- sending out a% appeal to all persons who owe them money on open account to call at the temporary offices either Saturday or Monday between 7 o’clock in the morning and 5 o’clock in the afternoon. Th* | owners say that they will have to depend entirely on the honesty of the people with whom they dealt,* because the open account books were completely destroyed in the fire. \ The local firm hopes to straighten out Its account books in the next tew days. Plans for a new locktion are being studied and an announcement will be forthcoming soon, the owners said.

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Missing French Sub At Bottom Os Sea Hope Is Abandoned For 48 Trapped Men TOULON, France, UP — The French Navy found its missing submarine La Sibylle today on the bottom of. the Mediterranean, a half mile below the surface, and abandoned hope for the 48 men trapped in the vessel. The missipg l,oo(btpn submarine was found 38 miles east of this naval base —its home port. Officials said the Davis escape apparatus carried jon the! submarine cannot be used from depths of much more than 100 meters. La Sibylle is 2,2.75 feet below the surface. Naval search planes spotted a large 'oil slick off Cape Camarat this ifiorning and warships rushed to the area. Radar found the missing submarine lying on the bottom of the sea. Because of (he great depth, aIT hope of rescue was immediately given up. The French Naval Ministry announced there was “no hope" of rescuing the 45 enlisted men and three officers. The next of kin of the men were notified the entire crew was lost. The submarine tailed to surface 'Wednesday aftei; taking part in anti-submarine exerciser- 4 * r All other naval operations immediately were stopped and the entire French Mediterranean Fleet : took up the b UQ t r t-he midsing vessel. ( The giant battleship Richelieu, (the cruisers Glofre and Montcalm, an air craft carrier and a pack of destroyers hunted a square area 30 miles off the southern coast bf France. • ' ' u The warships swept the water with searchlights looking for an oil slick or a buoy which the mis - ing sübmarine might have released. Radar and other devices also tracked the water looking for a trabS of the missing submarine. , At dawn land and carrier based planets took off to. again join the searth. Naval planes found the oil slick and called for help. Raday on the French warships promptly confirmed the slick was over the missing sub. Radar , also showed a depth of 700 meters of Mediterranean Sea over the icraft. The Naval Ministry in Paris and officials here then announced that the’ depth made rescue impossible. Ila Sibylle could under wa(Tum To Paa* Eicht)

Chalmer 0. Hower V ■ : Dies Last Evening Funeral Services Saturday Morning Chalmer O. (Chad) Hower, 62, lifelong resident of Decatur, died at 5:20 o’clock Wednesday evening at the Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been taken yesterday morning. He had been ill for the past five weeks with a heart ailment, and his condition became critical Wednesday morning. He was born in Decatur Aug. 20, 1890, a son of Dallas and Alice Stalter-Hower. His wife, the former Marie Meyers, died in 1936. Mr. Hower, aft employe of the Decatur General Electric plant, was a veteran of World War 11 He was a member oft the First Methodist church, the Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars ’and the Loyal Order of Moose. Surviving are one’brother, Alton P. Hower of Fort Wayne; and three sisters, Mrs. A. D. Ford of Muncie, Mrs. J. D. Dailey of Paulding, 0.. and Mrs. F. R. Sowers of Ridgeville. , t Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. Samuel Emerick officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery, with the Legion and VFW conducting military rites. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. ( ■ ••

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No Comment On Expense Funds Os Sen. Nixon Points To Message To Congress In 'sl Urging Legislation UP —President Truman said today he stilf believes congressmen and top government officials should make public their entire financial status. Mr. Truman made the statement at a news "conference at which he had no,comment on the expense fund of Sen. Richardl M. Nixon, j However, he suggested Reporters read a message he sent to Congress Sept, 27, 1951. J ih that message, Mr. Truman recommended that congress enact: legislation "requiring officials ,inj all branches of the government to j place on the public record each j year full information concerning i their incomes from all sources, public and ! private.” Mr. Truman said in message he believed that would be an important step in “assuring the integrity of the public service and in protecting “-government officials against false and unfounded huproper conduct.” M|*. Truwan defended his action of placing' Mrs. Truman on his office payroll while he was a senator. He said it was exceedingly difficult fbr a senator to live in Washington on the salary he got in triose days and that' Mrs. Truman helped the board bills by working in his office. \ During his 10 years in the senate, Mr. Trupiarf’s salary was 0.000 a year\ Congressional salaries later were increased to sl2;500 plus a $2,500 tax-free expense account. Mrs. Truman received $4,500 a ytear as Mr. Truman’s secretary. The President gets SIOO,000 a year salary, plus a $50,000 tax-free Expense account. Reporters; asked numerous questions about the Nixon fund incident. But Mr. replied no comment to AH of them. He told a reporter that he would haye to wait and see whether his views on the matter are aired during his forthcoming campaign trip which begins Saturday ni£ht. • t s Mr. Truman said he never had any special expense fund as Nixon did. Then he said that he, like Sen. John J. Sparkman, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, had bis wife on his senate office payroll. The President refused comment on the. fund that Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, Democratic presidential candidate, used to supplement the salaries of some top Illinois officials. / .

'Normal' Winter Is Forecast By Rushville Prophet RUSHVILLE,Ind. UP — Weather prophet Mark Purcell today forecast a “normal” winter Ifof Indiana with frequent changes in temperatures and probably more snow than the average. Purcell, who reads wind directions during the three-day equinoctial periods, said he hoped he had a more accurate forecast than the one he issued last December for the 1952 summer. “I think I missed the summer forecast more than any season since I started this business in 1918,” Purcell said. He forecast normal summer weather, but a June-July heat wave that set alltime records in some places "dropped me down to only 90 per x cent accuracy,” Purcell said. Purcell said the winter from Dec. 22 to March 22 would be marked by “no long cold no long warm spells.” “There’s bound to be Some snow,* though,” he said, “because there Will- be many abrupt changes in temperatures and that means more show and rain than usual.” '• J TT 12 PAGES