Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 229, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L No. 229.

Sent Six Os Nine Sons To War, One Wounded

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Adlai Prepares Statement On Political Fund Democrat Nominee To Release Figures On Political Funds INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (UP) —\ Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson burner! the midnight oil early today preparing a statement on his political fund to help deserving state employee and an aide said the statement would be issued, soon. The statement, was given to newsmen about 4 a. m. CST. However, Stevenson requested that the statement and other material attached be held for release at 4 p m. for publication In Sunday newspapers. 4 > " The statement was about 900 words long. Stevenson also made available a l|st of the state appointees who had received money from the fund and said he would furnish a list of contributors. Stevenson had promised to make an accounting of the fund and list those who contributed and those who benefited sometime today, when he moves his campaign into Kentucky. Stevenson, who tpld a cheering crowd here last night that he was “guilty" Qt helping good men in government jobs, has been asked by Repuolicanh to bare his financial life to the nation as did Sen-: Richard M. NixOn, the GOP vice, presidential candidate. Stevenson has said the fund was used to “reduce the financial sacrifices” \of top men he recruited from private business to help him administer the state. Yesterday he revealed that about “eight or nine” appointees benefited from the monies. * f p The candidate turned one of the upstairs guest rooms in Indiana Gov. Henry F‘ Schrieker’s official mansion into an office and worked far paet midnight, although he had campaigned l in .Evansville, Ind., and made a major speech here last night, Today he will fly to Paducah, Ky.. where lie will have a picnic with his close friend Vice President Alben W. Barkley and the Kentucky Democratic party high „comm|and. , . During the late afternoon, he wag to fly from Paducah to Louisvijle for a speech on foreign pol--3 icy. The'speech will be broadcast ahd telecast locally. , .s' Last night Stevenson ripped into the Republican presidential candidate, Dwight D. Eisenhower, on the former general’s views on defense materials and how to pay M for them. Stevenson came here last night to speak of economy in government and, 1 more /to the political point, to do what he could to help Schricker In his bid to defeat Sen, William E. Jenner fojr senator. - But he broached the fund subjeet at the Start of his speech, which was greeted with volleys of applaqee by the some 14,000 persons who crowded into the fairgrounds coliseum. “If it is a crime to help good people in government, then I am guilty.” Stevenson said. It was a departure from his text , and the newsmen, and observers in the audience caught its significance as an amplification of how 4Twr« To SIX)

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Lewis, Mine Heads , Work Out Contract Stammering Away At Points • •• £■' ' Washington, (upj— John L and northern soft coal operators hammered today at “technic&r’vpoints in their new contract with a deadline only two days aw£y-’ United Mine Workers' boss was' scheduled to meet with Harry Mu&es, chief industry negotiator, in an attempt to rush through a formal' agreement before the union’s 200-mah wage policy commßtee ,meets Monday. Both sides hoped to work out the remaining snagft so the contract could be given to the UMW group for * ratification. ' ‘ The agreement calls for a f 1.90-a-d&y wage hike and a 10-cent-a---toiC boost in payments to the welfai4 fund. 1 ■' When the contract is formally drawn up, Lewis was expected to hq4d the pact to the stouthern'sotlt coati operators. So far the soutiier(£ group has balked at the tprms, bu|; it expected to make a final decision —probably to sign —at a •meeting Tuesday. The southern meeting was called less than 24 hours before southern miners were due to 'strike— at 18:01 a. m. Wednesday. , . , t ;<|h(ormed sources reported that McfsCs was insisting on a stipulation that the agreement be subject < to' approval of the wage stabilisation lioard. However. Moses in effect denied this, reporting that “no major snags" had devel- ; oped" in working out the agree- ' ' , ' \ V He said the parties would work today with their attorneys to draw up formal language, and that: it might take several days to work out the final pact. • . r ‘' '; t T ■ ' Briefs Are Filed In ! Suit Over Buildings : 1 Briefs were filed in Wells cir- . cuit court yesterday in the suit of z Adams central consolidated school against Monroe township. Judge Homer C. Byrd presided and, after about five hours of argument. took the case under advisement. I The suit involves an adverse "'possession charge by the school whereby, if upheld by the court, ths school would be granted the right to sell the former school buildings in question. ) for the defendants is Robert S. Anderson; for the plaintiffs. Custer and Smith. ' V’’T . v Miss Sandrq Reppert Stricken By Polio. Miss Sandra Sue Reppert, 14-year-old Decatur high school is reported to be in I serious condition at St. Joseph’s 1 hospital In Fort Wayne, the county‘s 3th reported case of polio for this year. The high school student, dajugh-ter-of Mr. and Homer Repjpeai, 344 Line street, is suffering from bulbar polio. She became ill'* Wednesday, with the polio symptoms first apparent Friday radrning, \jand .she was taken lm| mediately to the hospital for treatment. Vs* ' i I ’

Ike Winds Up Campaign Tour Os Southland Renews Efforts To Swing South States To G. O. P. Column NEW YORK, (UP)—Dwight D. Eisenhower returned to his New York headquarters today after telling a cheering Dixieland crowd the Tfuman administration, has abandoned A the principles ofThomas Jefferson, father of the Democratic party. \ The Republican presidential nominee wound up a 6,915-mile campaign tour that was climaxed Friday by an invasion of the “Solid South” in an effort to swing traditionally Democratic votes into the Republican column in November. Eisenhower shrugged off his first campaign mishap, which came at Richmond, Va., Friday night when temporary wooden stands collapsed under the weight of a ctowd that surged toward , him at the end of his speech. The general fell down but wasn’t hurt. He told newsmen today when his special train rolled into Pennsylvania station at 6:05 a.m. CST that “I feel fine” and “it’s good to be in New York.” The general left the railroad station in a limousine for his home on Morningside Drive near Columbia University. Mrs. Eisenhower, however, remained aboard the train. An aide said she was feeling fine and merely had decided to sleep Hate. / Eisenhower had no major appointments scheduled for the weekend and planned to rest before resuming his campaign. He charged in Richmond Friday flight before a crowd estimated by police at more than 12,000 that the Truman administration and “big city bosses” have corrupted the Democratic party into j’downright crookedness.”. At the finish of< his address, part of the temporary wooden stands on the state capitol steps collapsed. Eisenhower and six other persons fell down about six feet but was injured. 1 Eisenhower got up. brushed himself and then flashed his characteristic grin. I 7l "I’m glad nobody was hurt,” he 1 V ? O'7. UJ His next trip opens Tuesday With a flight to Columbia, S. C.. under the auspices of Gwr. James F. Byrnes, one-time administration stalwart who has endorsed the Republican nominee. Last night’s charge that; the Democrats have abandoned Jeffersonian principles, accompanied with warm praise for Seni Harry Put Six) ' — Autos Sideswipe, i One Man Is Killed LA PQRTE, Ind. UP — Edward Murray, 36, LaPorte, was injured fatally late Friday night when an auto in which he rode stde-swiped : another car and foiled over sevi eral times in U. S. 35. t John Walong, 43, LaPorte, rid- ' \ing with Murray, was hurt but not seriously. Carl Bishop, 30, LaPorte ' driver of the other car, was uninjured.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 27, 1952. ...... . _'.—_ ;

Truman Starts Tonight On What May Be His Last Great Political Effort

U.N. Soldiers Repel Drive On Allied Outpost Smash Red Attack After Eight Hours Os Bitter Fighting SEOUL, Korea UP — American and Belgian infantry; men weathered a blazing (Communist mortar and artillery barrage: today to smash a Red attack on a <nited Nations outpost west of Chbrwpn after nearly eight hours. of I fightJng. .-. | Two Chinese Companies, about 30& men, had tried desperately all night to over-run the outpost po|sitibn held by the U. S. third diylsion. ■ V ■ V - .' d An estimated 500 rounds qf Red mortar and artillery fire fell on the Allied position, but the U. N. troops took heavy toll of Chinese and hurled them back. In tlife air war. Allied B-29 Slu- ; perforts bombed the Communists' , Pachungjan military supply, area, , 15 miles south of Hardhung on j the) ( east coast. I - ‘ I Ten Superforts dropped 10j0 tops ’ of 500Jpound bombs oh the Important target an started countless I fires and secondary explosions. . , “The explosions started jimmeI diately when tjie first liiHKpoundpr hit,” said Airman 1-C Eugene J. Pings, Sauk City, “And theft they spread dompletely surrouiiding the bomb pattern. It was the second time in four 5 nights B-29s had bomtreld the Coln- ’ munist supply center. . H r Meanwhile, the air force aw ] nounced that* marauding M, N. S|at brejets destroyed or damaged 22 1 MIG-15's this week withou: losing , a plane themselves. The week’s bag made (Septepi- ’ iber the worst month Os Ihe war . fpr the powerful Red a|ir fbfce. ' Sabre pilots met the Russian- , built jet fighters in aerial combat on four seperate days. They knocfk--1 ed down eight MiG’s, probably de--5 stroyed one and damaged thirteen. r The only Allied loss was hn Fj-7- . F Tigercat downed by “unknown 1 causes.” , The Sabrejets’ monthly total . soared to 11.2 MIG claiifts, IWmore than the 14>2 record setllast March. The week’s air wab also saw > Capt. Robinson Oklahoma . City, Okla., shoot down his fourth and fifth MiG’s to make him the r 20th jet ace of the Korean war. r. J y ; Staff Is Announced • -L * \ \ ■■ ■ I’l j* \ For School Yearbook I•’ I ' I Staff Os Ravelings\ [ Is Announced Today Members of the istaff of “RaVel--1 ipgs.” the yearbook of Decatur high ' school, were choseb this week and announced by Hugh 4. Andrews, f principal of Decatur high school. Editor, Marilyn I assistr ant editoik: Marvene Krick; art ■ editor, Lois Wood; business! maina- ’ ger, Allan Cole; assistant business 1 manager, Jim Engle; photography • editor, Carol Kalver; assistant photography editor, Carolyn HfcDou1 ghl; snap shots, Beverly Elliott; as- ■ slstant snap shots. Jim • boys’ sports, Russ Plumley; assistr ant boys’ sports, Neil Keller; girls’ spdrts, Sharon Kimble assistant girls’ sports, Marilyn Kirchenhaper. City editors are Louann Davidson, Bartiara Bowman, Joari Kruse and Carolyik Strickler. Faculty adyisors of the staff in-. I elude Fred, Boiler, general super- [ visor; Lowell J. Smith, photography [ supervisor; and Miss Kathirjta I Kauffman, art supervisor. • : v1 1 ‘ y H —H; 'i . '■ ' INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday; > warmer Sunday. Low tonight 48-56; high today 69-75 north, 74-78 south. '

Woman Drowned As Two Ships Collide Two Other Persons Reported Missing v SAN FRANCISCO UP — One woman was drowned a.nd two other persons-weye missing today after a 9,999-ton Swedish motor vessel rammed and sank a small s&foot fisjing vessel 500 yards off Albattar. Island in San Francisqo Bay. The- Swedish ship Los Arigejes hit! the fishing boat Turtle last niglit and threw the five passengers aboard the lighter craft into the bay. < . Mrs. Haroldine Jones. 29. of San Francisco, died - in the crash and Mr. and , ,Mrs. Harold Dwydr, of Ran francisco, are missing and presumed dead after am intensive coast guard search of the area. Mrs. Jones’ 14-yeai>old daughter, Nancy Williams, and the captain of the Turtle, Charles Astikian. 36. of San Francisco were rescued,.and; treated for submersion. According to the. coast guard, the Los Angeles hit the right side of the - smil! fishing craft about 7;30.' w p.m. p.d.t. sank almbaf, instantly. \ ; ,f Astikian, who takes fishing parties out into the bay, was hired yesterday to take the Dwyers and Mrs. Jones on a cruise. I ' \ “i didn’t see any, other ships nearby and was pointing opt the sights,’’ Astikian said. “All 1 of a 1 turned my head to the starboard - and saw a ship bearing down on me. I didn’t hear any warning whistles \as the Los Angelas: hit lis and\ we almost immediately.” However, a lighthouse keeper op Alcatraz, Chester A. Burns, said the! freighter sounded her warning ?igna.l and “seemed aware of the fishing boat.” Soviet Attacks On Kennan Propaganda State Department > Tians No Protest Dp -4 The united States today wrote oft Moscow’s. .slashing attack on Ambassador George F. Kennan as merely another dose of Soviet propaganda, informed sout-ces said the state department does not plan a formal protest, although secretary of state Dean Acheson yesterday called the outburst wholly unjustified and improper. . The Official Soviet newspaper ,Pravda charged Kennan with “slanderous fabrications” when he said Russian treatment of Americans, in Moscow- reminded him of the; Nazis. It was one of the sharpest attacks Russia ever has levelled against a foreign diplomat. ,li 1 There was immediate speculation that the Kremlin was getting set to. declare Kennan “persona non grata" or. that the United States would recall him as no longeruseful. But experts here out both possibilities. They said the Pravda article was particularly, vicious, but that it is jusi something western diplomats —and Especially Americans—have to expect. Former Ambassador Alka G. |Klrk, they said, was the victim of similar attacks. There was no dqubt the assault on Kennan was ordered by the highest Soviet authorities, possibly the Politburo itself. The ■ tip-off, informed sources said, was that the United Press from Moscow, citing the possibility of Kennan’s ouster, cleared censorship in 15 seconds flat. But experts said there was ho reason to assume Kennan would be ordered out of Russia. They said he was under heavy Soviet attack even while the Kremlin nyas considering his nomination as ambassador. During a recent visit to Berlin, Kennan told newsmen it has come impossible for Americans to (T«m T» Pas* Three)

Candidates For 4 ■ -I Vice President Bid For Voles Sparkman Accuses Ikei OF Surrender To; Senator Taft PONCA CITY. Okla. UP — Democratic vice presidential nominee Sett. John J. Sparkman planned leisurely airplane trip back to today after hunting lor farm votes in a oneday, four-speech tour of Oklahoma. Sparkman : accused the Republican presidential Candida*", Dwight D. Eisenhower of “surrender” to Sen. Robert' R-O. during a speech before a crowd of 1,300 in the Ponca Ciiy baseball park last night. . J He Spent the night here, planning to ride his chartered plane to Dayton. 0., for a luncheon stop today, then flying on to Washington for three week-end appearances on radio and. television. Y The Alabama senator departed from fife prepared text of his speech here to assert thatithe Republican party is headed ny Taft, rathealhan Eisenhower. “We thought General Eisenhower won out, in Chicago,’* he said, "but he lost out in New york.” The seven-page statement issued by Taft after his New York conference with Eisenhower “had everything but tjie hour that Eisenhower surrendered sword, Sparkman said. jh Nixon In Texas OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. UP — Some of Sen. Richard M. Nixon’s campaign aides\were confident today that the Republican vice presidential nominee has gained support from the attacks on his $lB,235 expense fund and his emotional television speech explaining it. The young California senator won clfpers at Amarjllo, Tex., last night i'Jaen he charged that\"the attempt by the Truman Democrats to steal the tidelands’ 'is “outright, downright theft in the worse) sense.’L ' Nixoh’s strategists based their| feeling that he is gaining strehgth on the increased crowds, and en thusiastic receptions he has received since his dramatic "tell all” natiomwiile TV appearance. He has had no real heckling (Continued On Pace Six) New Hurricane Brews In Caribbean Area Hurricane Charlie Away From Coast , MTAMt Fla. (UP)—The fourth big blow of( the hurricane season brewed slowly In the Caribbean sea today as hurricane "Charlie” carried its howling 125 mile per hour winds away from the, iL S. seaboard. The new storm boiled up some 456 miles east of the! British island of Afttiguat on, the edge of the Caribbean with winds of 75 miles an hour whipping out of a small center, the San Juan, Puerto Rico, weather bureau reported. \ Hurricane “iCharlie” picked up speed as it aimed for thp shipping lanes bfetween the Carolinas and Bermuda with its foHvard movement; estimated at 23 per hour, the Miami wfeather bureau repotted in its 5 a. m. advisory. The two-day-old \ sneak storm which billowed up from almost nothing was about 390 miles east southeast of Cape Hatteras, the weather ) bureau said, and “should continue ■to \move northeast to east northeast at about 25 miles per hour for the next 12 hours.” Ships in the third hotvler’s path were warned to steer clear of its buffeting winds which radiated out over some 200 miles of the Atlantic from a 20-mlle wide center.

Acheson Charges Misquotes By Ike Eisenhower, Aides Lashed By Acheson WASHINGTON, UP — Secretary of State Dean Acheson (Will keep I his sleeves rolled up, ready soy a tight yvith the Republicans on\ foreign policy during the remainder of the political campaign, administration sources reported today. Jhey said Acheson, who up to now has borne silently the broadside attacks from critics, is determined to “keep the record straight” on charges leveled by Dwight D. Eisenhower and other Republicans. Acheson discarded his self-pre-scribed inactive campaign role yesterday to; say that the Republican presidential nominee “tortored the facts” and “misrepresented” and “misquotea" Acheson’s views on Korean defense before the war began. He broadened his attack to include "those upon whom” Eisenhower relied for advice, an obvious slap at John Foster Dulles, GOP foreign policy expert who was once one of Acheson’s top aides. The secretary’s normal diplomat- ’ ic manners were junked in over the GOP nominee’s statement in Cincinnati Monday night that Acheson in January, 1956, had declared that “Ameriba’s so-called ’defensive perimeter’ excluded areas Von the Asiatic mainland such as Korea:” , This perimeter, Acheson told a news conference, “was the line developed by dur military authorities at that time.” He said it meshed entirely with Eisenhower’s opinion when he was army chief of staff. j Acheson wrote another long statement, defending his position that he .had also warned! •in January, 1950. that the United Nations would I act to resist any attacks on nations outside the American; defense perimeter! • I 1 — ■ Newspaper Week To Be Marked By Elks Special Observance PlannecßOctober 2 Qeorge F. Laurefty,, exalted ruler of the B. P. ! O. Elks, announced today that the Decaitur Elks lodge will observe national week with a program at the lodge’s meeting on Oct. 2. \ - The 1,615 Elks lodgqs throughout the country Will join in the observance of the week, at the request ftf Sam Stern of Fargo, N. D., grand exalted ruler of the BPOE. Stern, in his letter to the Decatur lodge said, “The constitutional guarantee of freedom of the*, press is one of the most precious birthrights of Americans.” \ Plans for the Decatur program are being drawn up by lodge of ficer®. There will be a speaker at the meeting, who will expand on the newspaper week ; slogan, “Your right to know ... a constitutional guarantee.” The grand exalted ruler’s message pointed out “that while we do hate a right to know, we must fight constantly to preserve our rights. More and more frequently efforts arq being made to curtail the press’ I freedom to search oui the truth jsnd report It to the people. Such .efforts are direct attacks upon our right to knpw by people who don’t want us . to knolw.” It was klso emphasized that the constitutional guarantee of a free prbss is not a privilege of the newspaper, but a protection for American liberties, National.newspaper week will be observed from Oct, 1 to 8. Noon Edition ■ I I; ,444 t). - i: 'j’- r ■;;' r ;

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Whistle Mop Campaign Tour For Democrats To ( Travel Through 24 States, Plans For 87 Addresses WASHINGTON, UP — Veteran whistle-stopper Harry Truman will embark tonight on what may be his las|. great political effort", a coast-to-coaat;tour in behalf of Gov. AdJai E. Rteyenson. The President will travel through 24 states. He’ll stop in 16 to deliver 87 speeches, at least 16 of them classified as “major.” Mr. 'i'rumgn’s train will leave at 10:30 and is scheduled to return Sunday night, Oct. 12, two weeks hence. ' Besides the drums for Stevenson. Mr. Truman undoubtedly will take the offensive against Republican presidential l nominee Dwight D- | Eisenhower, who has charged the administration with corruption, subversion, bungling and fostering It’s the kind of campaigning the President likes best and the kind at which he proved himself a master four years ago when he whistle stopped_ around the country in behalf of ms own candidacy. Margaret Truman will travel with her father, but. Mrs. Truman will stay behind. ( \ This will be the. most extensive, but not the first, of Mr. Truman’s efforts fbr Stevenson. The President shared political season opening day honors with the Democratic nominee on Labor Day. speaking to a Milwaukee rally while Stevenson, the Illinois governor, was kicking off his own campaign with a Detroit speech, Mr.' Truman’s jvhistle-stop itinerary calls for major speeches at lelast these points: , Chester, Mont.; -Hungry Horse Damj Mont., which he will dedicate; Spokane, Seattle- and Tacoma, Wash.; San Francisco; Pro- . v 6, Utah; Shenandoah, la.; Buffalof N. Y., and New York City. « Tne Chester speech on Tuesday, at ground - breaking ceremonies for Tiber Dam, is the first of these: The next day Mr.-Truman will dedicate Hungry Horse Dam and then move on to Tacoma for. another major address that night. >ln Fort Wayne INDIANAPOLIS, UP — President Truman follows up Adlai Stevenson's visit to Indiana Sunday wHth a five-minute stop at Fort Wayne as he travels from Washington on a western trip in behalf of'the Democratic election campaign.' Mr. Truman’s train was scheduled to make only one stop in its 175-mile roll across northern Indiana. The Fort Wayne stop is at 3:06 p.m. c.s.t * , Indiana Democratic party headquarters said the President would To P**» «lx» Standard Time Will p Return Here Tonight Daylight saving time .ends in Decatur at midnight tonight. Clocks will be\turned back one hour as local residents have an. opportunity to the hour of sleep lost last spring when daylight time went into effect. Local residents will bb among the some 66,006,600 U. S. iftKizens (who will revert to standard time tonight. Oct 6 Deadline For Voter Registration Resident of Adams county may register to vote in the coming geneither their precinct committeeeithe rtheir I precinct committeemen or directly with the county clerk at Deca|ur, it was announced today by Ed Jaherg, clerk of the Adams circuit court. } Jaberg stressed once more that to vote, registration must take place on or before Monday October 6.