Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 228, Decatur, Adams County, 26 September 1952 — Page 1

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Official Red i . ■ .■ L 'A '»■ ■ ' Newspaper In Blast As Envoy U. S. Ambassador To Russia Is Attacked As A Slanderer MOSCOW. UP —Pravada, official newspaper iof the Russian Communist party, attacked U. S. ambassador George F. Rennan *t<> day as “a slanderer masking' as a diplomat/’ Veterari observers here could not ,recall that any diplomat accredited to the Kremlin had ever; j been attacked with such violence. Western diplomats speculated on whethler the Russians were preparing to I designate Kennan as “persona non grata”—a diplomatic stej? that wpuld almost certainly result in his recall by Washington. f " Pravda accused Kennan of “viI Clous hostility" to the Soviet union. It accused him of defaming Russia and lying.about if.. / , Pravda’s attack was caused by a statement Keinnan made in Berlin Sept. 19 that! Western diplomats IfaL Moscow, are now kept in "icy cold” isolation. ' ’ ' ' "Kennan violated certain elementary rules obligatory for diplomats with respect to the countries they are accredited to,” Pravda said. It said that hie remarks on life in Moscow “could he said only by a man who can |not restrain his vicious hostility ~to the Soviet union . . . Kennan long ago recommended . himself! as ah enemy of peace and therefore an enemy of the Soviet uniori.” tjKennan made! the statement on - hlw way from, Moscow to London to attfend a meeting of key United States diplomats which fenced toda>< , r ' / '■ i |A United Rresls London dispatch said he was shown the report of the Prhvda attack at the American embassy and said “no comment.” Georgi Zarubiji, the new Soviet ambassador to the United States;- , presented his credentials to Presl- .< dent Truman in Washington Thursday/ He told Mrj. Truman the Rus- / sian people have “feeling of sincere friendship for the American people and that Russia is striving for peafee. I Later! talking to correspondents, he denied there was any “hate America” campaign in Moscow. .J. The President told Zarubin that the American j people “have only the friendliest of feelipgs” for the a Russian people and that the United States seeks a peaceful, prosperous world. /'I/ ’ Mclscow newspapers this morning gave prominence to Washington dispatches telling of-the exchange between President Truman and the new Soviet ambassador. /Diplomats here attached the most serious ,'tlmportance to the Pravda attack On Kennan and its ; (Continued On Fame Six) 'i Plan Public Works Conference Oct. 1 Mayor John M. Doan and other city officials have been invited to a conference on public works planning and financing at Fort Wayne on October 1. Similar conferences are scheduled over the state under the joint auspices of the Indiana economic council and the Indiana building congress. The Fort Wayne meeting will be held in the I. O. O. F.' building, 210 E. Jefferson street at 8 p.m. The panel chairman will be George Caleb Wright, an Indianapolis architect. \ ; j “ S ' ! -1 | \ ,y Erie Schedules To Be Changed Sunday Schedule, changes on the Erie railroad to become effective Sunday with the ! return to central standard time, were announced today by W. M. Bumgerdner, Decatur Erie agent. New departure times are as follows: Westbound — No.. 1, 4:21 a.m., regular stop; No. 5, 1:50 p.m., not regular stop; No. 1?, 9:44 1 j>.m., reg-, ular stop. Eastbound '—: No- 8, 1:21 a.m., not regular stop; No. 6, 1:29 p.m., not regular stop; No. 2, 9:35 p.m. regular stop. - s ?•< • ■'a Hower Funeral To Be Held Saturday < Members of Adams Post 43, American Legion, are asked to be at the Legion home at 9:45 o’clock Saturday morning to attend funeral services for Chalmer Hower, who Idled Wednesday night. Services will be held at 10 a.m. at the Black funeral home. Military rites will be conducted at the, grave at the Decatur cemetery. ’

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Budgets Fixed For Community Fund Campaign Quota Is Slightly IHigher; Drive Will |Start On October 8 ■* . . . ■ |ihe board of directors of the Decatur Community Fund, Inc., met with the budget committee lasi night at the First State bank and approved a budget total of for the coming drive to coyer Appropriations for the next .chlbndar year. This year’s campaign is to begin October 8 and will be \hearted \by co-chairmen Wilbur E. Petrie and Joe Kaehr. This amount is only slightly higher than lAst year’s goal of 89.8 1 |5.25. The drive last year, ,headed by co-chairmen William Linn and John Halterman, brought a total of 89,547.76 in cash and pledges. - ,f ' !■ H \ *- tiach budget request was carefully considered on the basis of the hew budget request forms as approved by the annual meeting last . spring. Each participating agency submits’ its own budget, a statement of its activity and its expenditures during past year, including any reserVp. and, its plans for the future. The Decatur Community Fund was ej*. to. consolidate as many! drives iif.d appeals as possible into one uiftited effort. ■ It was pointed out that since there are a total of seven agencies, each filling a definite community need, the total amount was really quite small when Decatur’s growing ppplulation is considered! The budget for 1963 needs is as follows: ;/■[ '/[. . . , Cirl Scouts l r _ 81700 Boy Scouts 1900 The Den (teen-age canteen) _i 1765 Recreation committee (playground equipx nrent\ etc.) -.A ' 1000 . Adams Cq. Cancer Society / 1000 * Salvation Army 1200 , tilnited Deferise ; Fund, Inc. (replaces U. 5.0.) _J_ 948 Operating Expense 500 - . ■ It -—M’’ •,/ ' |i 810,013 Thfe Campaign organization and itfe workers will anripunced ehjly next week. f.AH contacts agiln are t< be made to employers and employes at thipir places oL employment rather than a hpuse-to-house solicitatioh. Robert Ashbaucher is president of the Decatur Community Fund. Catl Gerber and Roy Kalyfer se|ye hs first and secohd vicepr&idents. Charles Langston is treasurer and Dorothy Shhnepf Is secretary. Other Hoard members include Harry Dailey, Paiil Moore, Hfeimdn Alherding, and the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt. Ears M. Castoh of the First State bank is the executive secretary and (arranges much of the campaign detail and handles, the payroll deduction plans, ‘ : , Carl Gerber is chalrma|n of the budget'committee. Other membe'Hs fire Ray Leitz. Colin I, Finlayson, and Louis A. Jacobs. INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturday; somewhat cooler extreme north tonight; a little warmer . Saturday; Low tonight 44-49; high Saturday 69-74 Aiorth, 74-78 south. | \ /■ ■ . ' ■■ : ; ! ■ \ ■

Huge Gold Theft In Canada Is Revealed} $356,000 In Gold ( Bullion Is Stolen h rl -* \ 1 •. ■ I ■ ■' : I TORONTO UP — Police trols fanned out along the! U.S.Canadian border today in an effort to stop $356,000 Wortp stolep gold bullion from being smuggled into the United States. \ State police in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York ajl of New England were alerted to be on the lookout for unidentified planes which may be carrying the bullion. J Police officials said the gold, which weighs 'airpost half a ton would be worth $700,000 on the U.S. black market and as much as $!,- 000.000 in Europe or the Orient. the largest gold thtft in Canada’s history was revealed yesterday. Thirty-six hours after ! the theft, the police still didn’t knoW how or when the gold disappeared. Police said the had been shipped from the Noranda mines in northern Ontario for refining here, and then was to go through Montreal by plane to England and Europe. First word oi the theft came when a Montreal Trans-Canada Airlines employe discovered only four instead of lO boxes in a shipment for flight to Montreal. Police said that apparently a Brink’s Express truck dumped the gold at the loading shed at Malton Airport sometime before 5 p.m. Wednesday. The 1 gold Was left unguarded and when the TCA employe loadipg cargo on\the plane returned there were only four boxes. The airline apparently didn’t re-’ port the missing cargo until 10 p.m. when it landed in Montreal, giving the bandits' a six hour lead on the -police. Airlines officials, executives of the investigating Canadian National Express company, Brink’s Express and various insurance companies withheld public disclosure of the theft until yesterday “in the hopes of aiding the swift recapture of the thieves or the discovery of where the gold might have been mislaid/’ “We haven’t even got a suspect yet,” one inspector said. “Our men are still trying to** clear up just when the gold was taken.” Police believe the gang \was wellorganized and hud inside contacts and might be the same gang that walked off With SBO,OOO from a unguarded \railway mail coach at Sudbury last May. No trace of that gold has been found. Officials said the robbers probably left \£he four boxes containing $150,000 in gold (behind because their car or light truck could not carry the additional weight. !' ' • \ / Slated G. E. Strike Vote Is Cancelled NEW YORK, UP — The International Union cf Electrical Workers CIO announced today that it has called off a strike vote, set for Monday, in General Electric Company plants. The union said it acted because company (“interference and coercion” made, it impossible to take a “fair and unbiased” vote. The announcement was made in a statement Union President James B. Carey issued during continued negotiations for a new contract under the auspices of federal mediators.

— — I Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 26, 1952.

Stevenson To Publish List Os Contributors, Beneficiaries Os Fund

Southern Coal Men Irked At Steep Demands Expected To Bow To ; Lewis Terms Despite Anger At Demands WASHINGTON. UP —Southern coal operators, balking at John L. lewis’ steep contract demanddr, said today no agreement will be reached! before Tuesday, one day ahead of a strike deadline. \ Joseph E. Moqdy, president of the Southern Coal Producers’ Association, said directors of the \group have returned to their districts “mad as hell” about Lewis’ demands; The United Mine Workers boss js heli«ve< to have asked 81.90 a day pay and a 10-cents-a-ton boost in payments to the miners’ welfare fund, as well as other contract improvements northern operators agreed to last week, \ Unless a new contract is signed before 12:01 a. tn. next Wednesday, 100,000 soft coal miners are due to walk out of southern pits. Despite the southern operators angry attitude, they were expected td sigij, on Lewis’ terms, before the strike deadline. Meanwhile, attorneys for the union and northern soft coal operators were reported hitting snags in their efforts to put a new contract in writing. That agreement? reached last week, called for the same wage increases Lewis is demanding of the southern operators. However, minor amendments were said to be blocking a final contract. . Joseph E. Moody, president of the Soutnerp Coal Producers’ Association, reported that “negotiations are still going on” with the unionMobdy was reported demanding some concessions jto offset \ the wage boost, particularly a move' to dut out compensation for “idle” time. Moody ’sought to cut out paid lunch hours x and portal-to-portal pay and demanded that the miners help support the welfare fund, now entirely financed by the operators. < - The southern producers were ■scheduled to meet in executive sessiop next’ Tuesday tp\ act on any agreement — if Lewis and Moody; manage to corhe to terms before then. !•/.' ' ; . . . /! Briefs Are Filed In ; Zoning Board Case ' ' Jehovah Witnesses Case Up To Judge Attorney for the board of zoning appeals Robert Anderson, late yesterday filed his brief in thp case of the Jehovah’s Witnesses of Decatur agaipst the city zone appeals board. . Hayden C. Covingtdn, attorney for the Witnesses, filed .his brieft earlier. Judge Myles F. Parrish said .he bxpects a decision to be forthcoming some time next wefek, after a thorough study of the contents. The decision* in the case ebnceijns whether a writ of certiorari shall'be issued; if if is, then the decision of the zopTng board will it it is not appealed to an appelate court. A writ of certiorari attacks the legal methode used tjo Arrive at a decision, as in the cpse of the refusal of the zoning board of appeals to grant a variance to an ordinance keeping the Witnesses from building a church at Ninth and Monroe streets. Thp Witnesses claim the ordi-' nance is unconstitutional and an abridgement of religious liberty. The board of zoning appeals maintains the case should be decided wholly on the strict conformance to the limitations. of the ordinance and not on religious grounds.

Infest Hurricane [ May Miss Mainland Third Big Blow Os Year Is Boiling Up MIAMI, Fla. UP —Hurricane ’Charlie” .packing winds up to 1 1(M miles per hour, lumberecf slowly northwest today some 30Q'miles off! the Florida coast and weather experts said there was a 5 “possi.bfiity’’ it would not hit the mainland. small but potent hurricane, the third big blow of the year, belled up suddenly and spread over* an area of roughly 160 miles, before it was discovered by a navy hurricane hunter plane. The turbulent area of the storm enlarged slightly as the Miami weather bureau reported in its* 4 a.m. c.s.t advisory that “gales extend outward about 125 miles to the north and east and 50 miles to the south and west.” Gusts of 100 miles per hour were reported with, the highest winds near the center estimated at 85 miles an hour, the weather bureau said. ’ The hurricane, located about 420 miles .east southeast of Jacksonville. was expected to continue on a north northwest course “for the next several hours” a speed of Ift miles per hour, stated the advwbry. • , But av weather bureau Spokesman said there was a “good that the* hurricane will turn to a more northerly course and it has. a possibility of not affecting any land area.” An area of suspicion about 800 miles east southeast of San Juan. Puerto Rico, which could turn into the year's fourth hurricane was being scouted by a hunter plane. .Ohly one ship was reported in the path of the hurricane as small craft warnings were hoisted along northeast Florida, Georgia and the Carolina coasts. But the vessel. UVifFB T® P®JK® »IX) George W. Appleman Dies Here Thursday Funeral Services Monday Morning .George W. Appleman, 75, prominent retired businessman, died at 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the. Adams epunty memorial hospital following a month’s illness of com'jplica,ti6ns. ' t Mr. Appleman operated a grocery store at Monroe and Seventh streets- in this city for many years and since retirihg from the grocery business had assisted his 60n,, Andrew Appleman, in the West End\ restaurant. He Was also a former city councilman. \ . He was born in Ohio Sept. 19, 1877, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew APPlnnian, but had spent most of his life in Decatur. His wife. Rose, preceded him in death. &r. Appleman was a member of the St. Mary’s Catholic church the Btoly Name-society, Knights Os Columbus and Loyal Order of Moose. ’ Surviving are three daughters,* Mrs. Theresa Korb of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Celia Williamson of Lincoln, Neb., add Miss Matilda Appleman, at horpe; two sdns, Andrew of Decatur and Theodore of Fort Wayne; 'nine grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; one brother, Joseph APPl eman °f Decatur, and four sisters, Mrs. John Shafer of Fort Wayne, Mrs. William Faurote of near Monroe, and the Misses Lena and Rose Appleman, both of Decatur. One daughter is deceased. 'Ftthetal services will be conducted at 9 a. m, Monday at St. Mary’s 4 Catbolic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating.. burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral* home; where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening. The Hply Name Society Will (recite the rosary at 8 p, m. Sunday. / ' - /- I

- T — - — Ike Launches 2nd Drive For Voles In South First Appearance On Whistle Stop Tour Made In Pajamas ABOARD EISENHOWER (SPECIAL | UP —i A pajama - clad Dwight D. Eisenhower, colorfully supported by H giy Mamie” in a pink wrap, began his second drive for outhern votes today with an early, morning whistle stop “ait Salisbury, N.C. * ' , The presidential candidate wooed voters of Worth; Carolina Virginia after climaxing \Tliursday’B drive through Maryland by demanding at Baltimore an end th \“dis<irder and duplication and in military spending. The Salisbury stop was unscheduled. It caught the Eisenhowers not yet dressed for the day. But that didn't stop them from appearing on the rear platform to greet 100 earlier risers gathered to cheeir the general. ..1 ' \ j Eisenhower stepped onto the back platform of thet train in pajamas and bathrobe and started signing autographs. ’ ' ■ ' ( A moment alter Mrs. Eisenhower joined him. and someone In the crowd shouted. “Hl ya. M»mie. You-all look good to us even in the piorning.” The Eisenhowers roared wit?h lauglter. The pink-wrapped Mrs. Eisenhower had her hair in curlers. The! special Went on to Charlotte, N. <3.;> where the candidate was greeted by about 2,000 persons ait the station ahd other /thousands lining the streets. Eisenhower told a Memorial Stadium crowd at Charlotte had been, warned before going south that he would be wasting his time “because the whole Country /Ms mortgaged to one political group.?’ The Crowd roared, /"No.” He said the Truman administration has dragged down U. S. pr«o(Continned On Paare Six) ' | Studebaker Recalls . | 2,000 Os Workers SOUTH BEND, Ind. UP — Thfe Studebaker Corp, today recalled about 2,000 workers, effective next Monday, when a partial seephd shift will be added. I P. O. Peterson, executive vice president, said the shift will be divided between passenger car and military truck production. He said the addition of a second shift was delayed by the recent steel strikftSuggests Exposition Os Decatur Products C. Os C. Secretary Makes Suggestion m j “It’s surprising how few people in town are Acquainted with the multitude of products produced right hete in [Decatur and shipped all ovef- the country,” said. Chantber of (Commerce secretary Waltef Ford, in an interview today. Many products made here, said • Ford? are sent far and wide across the country add considered the finest of their type. Decatur hah manjT thingy that have “put us bn |be inap,” he Averred. In an effort to demonstrate to the map on the street just how prbud olr Decatur he has a? right to be, Ford suggested an exposition for homey tline in the near future where samples of the town’s industries arb paraded; before the dyes of the general public. As this effort, saierthe executive, would have to ble quite ambitious from the standpoint .of preparatioh and* setup. Ford suggested that people who may have opinions on this ambitious prbjdct contact either the r (Daily Democrat or the Chanibef of Commence office by mall,

Sen. Nixon Resumes Campaign In West To Put Spotlight On Gov. Stevenson isALT LAKE CITY, Utah UP — Sen. Richard M. Nixon set out today to put Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson <^n ( the hot spot and keep him there as long as he can about the use 0f “special funds.” The Republican vice presidential nominee made it plain that he intends to keep hammering at Gov. Stevenson jin an effort to force a “full disclosure” of any outside funds used by the Democratic presidential njominee. Njxon knows how hot the spotlight of adverse publicity can: be. He [got uot from under it only Wednesday night after a week of political [Sweating before-his GOP running ; mate, Dwight D. Eisenhower, “vindicated" him it Wheeling, W. Va. He had sweated for a week over his own 818,235 special expense fund raised by wealthy California supporters. The 39-year-old Californian, who picked up l*iis speaking tour here last night before a cheering crowd of 6,000, also planned a direct bid for the votes of insurgent Texas Democrats 4h a speech tonight at Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. The Republicans hope to carry the Lone (Star state this year for native son Eisenhower —and largely because of Stevenson’s Views on oWnerihty of the oil-rich I tidelands. Nixoii has been a supporter of state ownership of tidelands resources. California sides with Texas for state control Jn the tidelands Stevenson, Democratic presidential nominee, has indicated he supports federal control. j ( ' The .GbP presidential nominee had a iull day’s schedule covering four states. An early morning motorcade from here vjas due at Ogden, Utah, for a 9f30 a/m. MST„ 12:30 p. m. BDT., speech. He was to pick Up his jbig chartered plane the “Dick Nixon Special,” in Og den for stbpsj later at Grand Junctipn and Colorado Springs, Colo., • and Amarillo before heading into Oklahoma City, Okla., lo spend the night. District Governor Visits Rotary Club | R. S. Kastendieck I Pays Official Visit j The Decatur Rotary club was host Thursday evening to Raymond S. Kastendieck, of Gary, governor of the 224th district of Rotary International, Mrho made his official visit tp the local service club at its weekly dinner meeting at the K. of P. home. H - IThe Rotary official, one of the 207 district governors who supervise the activities of some 7,600 Rotary clubs, stressed the fellowship of Rotarians in hiS informal address to the Decatur club. Kastendieck spoke of the many friendships with Rotarians from all parts of the world which he made during the of all new district governors at Lake Placid last summer, and at the annual convention of Rotary International last June. ’ ! The governor, who is Owner of R. S. Kastendieck & do., architec-tural-engineering firm at Gary, also pointed to the steady * growth of Rotary throughout the i world. First started in Chicago in 1905, Rotary in its more than 7,600 clubs, has a membership Os 360,000 business and professional executives in 83 countries and geographical regions throughout the world. During the past fiscal year, 219 new Rotary clubs wer*' organized in 32 countries of North, South and Central America, Asia, Africa and the Islands of the Pacific. The district governor met with officers and chairmen of the leading committees of the club prior to and following the dinner meeting, with Harold Engle, club president, in charge. ;

Price Five Cents

Stevenson On First Indiana Campaign Trip To Announce Names Today Or Saturday; In Capital Tonight ; - I ' EVANSVILLE, Ind. UP — Gov. Adlai Stevenson announced today he will reveal the names of those who gave and received his controversial fund to augment salaries of top Illinois state officials, and carte to Indiana for his first cartpaigk visit. Stevenson arrived by plane at 11:03 a.m. OST., from, Springfield, where he announced he wxruid make public the list today or Saturday. The plane landed 13 minutes behind schedule in sunny, pleasant weather. { Stevenson made the arhiouncement in reply to questions from reporters who crowded around him at Capital ! Airport as he boarded a plane to leave on a ,two-day swiftx through Indiana and Kentucky. U. F He said there were “eight or nine" officials who received money from the fund and he had contacted all of them Thursday night to discuss making the i fund public. He said he would issue a statement although he might later refer to the matter in; a speech. Wilson Wyatt, his personal campaign manager, had indicated earlier that the list was [forthcoming. Meanwhile, two more? Illinois state acknowledged they received' cash Christm'as gifts from Stevenson. They are J. Edwatd Day, state director of insurance, and Fred K. (Hoehler, director of welfare. Day confirmed he had received gifts from the furid raised by Stevenson to the salaries Os some of his top state employes. He declined further comment. Hoehler refused to say how much he got, but ’ pointed out Stevenson had promised an accounting. Hoehler, who has held his 810.000 a year job since 1949, said he received the gifts in 1950 i and 1951. " ... ■ ‘ T ; He saift the checks! were signed by Stevenson, and that at the time he 1 thought it was Stevenson’s money. Hoehler said nobody (ever asked him for. a favor. The [Tribune quoted David H. former state purchasing agent, as saying Stevenson told a meeting in the Chicago Club in Septeinber, 1950, thgt he was seeing ujp a fund for “special purposes." He said Stevenson told y the group that the fund would be separate from the party treasury. ’ ! Meanwhile, a former state purchasing agent, who said yesterday that Stevenson’s hides solicited about 8100,000 for political purposes from firms thajt sold services or goods to the (state, began to", waver. William J. McKinney at first told reporters that.“al least 8100.000” was collected Arohn state suppliers during the years of 19HO-5O and that he believed “part of the money went to Stevenson and part to the Democratic state central committee.” Before leaving on wfhat his family called “an outside trip” today. McKinney acknowledged that he didn’t know how much money was solicited for the alleged fund. “It could be a lot less?’ he said. The former Stevenson administrator said he now believed the money “was simply a Democratic party fund for the campaign of 1950.", t “All I know is they needed money for that campaign,” he said. McKinney, who resigned Ms job Nov. .17, 1960 when Stevenson told him that the state Legislature would not re-conflrm him, said he could not “conceive” of Stevenson misusing fwnds. ! (