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Chinese Reds Open Heaviest Drive 01 Year Two-Thirds Os War ' Front Flares Into Violent Warfare ; SEOUL. Korea, UP; — Twelve thousand screaming Chinese Communists, smashing at United Na- ' lions lines across most of the battlefront, seised seven poSitlons today. from hard-fighting Allied ground soldiers. L. ’ - 1 1 , Two-thirds of the 155-mile front flared into violent action. Monday night as the Redik began a series of ' 35 separate attars, the\ heaviest of tjjie year, from the-Western Sector * t<i theEast-Centra! Ffonh C '“They attacked in waves, shouting arid shooting wildly" in evtery direction,*’ said One officer. "The' artillery was deadening.’* 27 „lThe heaviest Communist effort of "\the day. came northwest of Chorwon rat Arrowhead Ridge and Whitehorse Mountain, where two regiments— about 6.CHJO men—used 30 tanks, self-propft|led guns and artillery and mortar fire in an atteiupt to dislodge U? N. soldiers. The Reds even opened the sluice gates rit POngnae Lake in the hope of cutting off Allied positions encircled by the River. i The roll call <|of embattled hills contained such well-known names as Bunker, Big Kort, Finger Ridge, Capitol, Stay Fight and Tessie. With the exception of a knob on Finger Ridge. Ijjowever. the U.N. repulsed attacks on these major points. I United Press correspondent Warren. Franklin reported from the Whitehdrse-Arrotyhead area northwest of Chorwonthat 64 U. : N. warplanes attacked Chinese troops in the Arrowhead Sector 15 times. Allied pilots dropped 33 tons of j bombs and 3,OOoFpounds of jellied gasoline and fitted hundreds of rockets into jump-off posh j tions. Chinese anti-Mrcraft guns un- , leashed what an air forc£ officer 1 told Franklin viras “the heaviest barrage we’ve seepi along the front in Korea in mor| than a year.” \ Using battalloips of 800 men as though they were platoons, the Reds exploded jheir series of attacks like gigantic firecrackers. Allied officers said they had no • indication they were the forerunner of any fullscale' operation.. '>■- Allied troops In the WhitehorseArrowhead area]] were digging in in case of another attack tonight. « The Sth army! communique said battle reports are "still being eval- ' uated.". - J A low hill of Panmunjom was lost to a battalion of Reds; a small hill in thelchorwon sector to’ two platoons; 'rii position south, of j Pyngang to a reinforced company: ; ah advance position northwest of Finger Ridge? td an undetermined I , number of Reds' and dther losses were a small kndb on Finger Ridge and another advanced position east of the Mundung .jValley. \ Allied fighter-bombers lashed Red ; \ (Continued jOn Page Six)

<■ .. ■]-" 7 ! ‘■’T* f— —T-7 7 :1 ‘ . Dwight Kimble Climbing In Ranks O£ Scientists

i Next to parental pride) in who succeed in lite, a teacher probJ i ably receives |thue wannest heart ' glow when a fonder student climbs ' the ladder of successto,,l he lbusi ’ ness or professional world.’ Such is the relitionship 'between W. Guy Brown, city superintendent of Schools and ope of his former students . • . Bright M. Kimble, (DHS ’3B) and sop of Mr. and Mrs. \ Dwight Kimble, 5(>4 N Fifth street. In the world oil science byway of chemistry research laboratories, Dwight Kimble Has “arrived;” Recognized by the American Chemical Society, the omega of all scientific groups, comparable with the Loqvfre’s acceptance of na artist, - the Jfotmer Decatur high school student appeared oh the ABC’s proJ. gram last month In Atlantic City,' AL J.. 'j'7 ■ ' < s Beaming with jpride for his former high school student, who Was a Chemistry* pupil |>f the late R; A. Adams. Subt. Brqjwn cited .la few of the highlights Os Dwigtit’B lumInpus career as a young chetoist. L_• Enthusiastically, Brown r said, “the whole town; is proud oyer 1

DECATUR DAILY JJEMOCRAT

Here Thursday -«*.r I MI f ' jl k / Gov. Henry F. Schricker — ; —1 i; L_ v' •' x ; > j Gov. Schricker In County On Thursday Speaks In Evening At" Friedhefm School GoV, Henry Schricker, Democratic candidate for United States senator, will be in Adams county about three hours Thursday aftjernoon. and will wind tip his visit with an address at Friedhejlm school jn Preble townkhip at 6iis o'clock-: The visit was hnnounped ptoday by Dy. Harry Hebble; Adams 'county Democratic chairman. : Gov. Schricker is scheduled (or a night meeting at .Fort -Wayne, and through the efforts of the Adamg- county Democratic committee zhe was prevailed on to visit Adams county. There Will be no other speakers wf the Friedheim meeting and Hebble said that the public is invited to attend. A redebtion committee? headed by C. H. Muselman and G- W. VizaTd as co-chair-men Herman -Moellering, Fred Kolter, Mrs. Mabel Striker and dwies-r-knapp, will \ escort Gov. Schricker to the school from Democratic headquarters in I>Ccatur.’ The governor will (visit for a short time at the Herman Moellering home in Preble township and will be served a supper to be prepared by 'Mrs. Moehering. The governor will go from there directly to the school far the short addrdss7 Governor Schricker always has - been ri favorite amongj the people of, Adams county and ! a capacity crowd fe expected to] hear his address? ' , Chairman Named It also was announced today that Mrs. Justus Augsburger, Geneva, has been appointed Adams county chairman of the one-week drive for small contributions for the, £jtevenson J Spar‘ltmari' campaign. Mrs. Augsbprgei] will name several; assistants ‘ throughout the county and the plan is to collect gs; mank $5 contributions as posfefble ..between now and, October Tn Paar* — ■■ 1 "■■■’! ""~ '■

Dwight's standing in thje scientific world,, which presages greater success 'wijh the years.” f A condensed version of Dwight's paper 'before the greatest scientific leaders in the world, was printed jn the current ihsufe of the American Cherhical Society journal: The. paper deals with [“Reactions' of akkoxy radicals with aromatic airtines,” which he developed while ' employed as a chemist in the chemical and physical research laborsfortes of Firestone Tire and Rubber company. Akron. Sole author of these technical theses, one paper deal! the reaction otf peroxides with aromatic amines. The chemistry involved is important -to the stabilization of oils and rubber against oxygen deterioration and has broad application to many industrial products and processes including combustioni of hydrocarbons. The second paper was given before the analytical division of the society. It deals with an improved Grignard apparatus, based on a / novel stopcock design. Thb apparatus. will find wide, use in all (Tara T» Page FtvO ■ ’W; ' ' J ■ ~ . 11 :• 5 r- . ; ■

Lewis Brands Taft As Enemy Os The People Opens Convention Os Miners; Blasts Sen. Taft's Record p CINCIN’NATI. O„ UP—-United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis today branded Sen. Robert A. Taft a “zombie of oppressive and predatory w-eafth in America” as he opened the 41st convention of the union here. To cries of “give them hell, John” from the, 3.000 delegates, Lewis charged in the Ohio Republican senator’s home city I that Taft’s support would serve as a “millstone” around any candidate’s heck. ' u , [ Lewis made no open indorsement of any presidential candidate although his remark was obviously directed at Taft's support of Republican presidential nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower. 1 Lewis called Taflt “an enemy of the people/’ and belabored ’ the senator for his sponsorship of the Taft-Hartley labor law which Lewis said “was designed to prevent citizens from collective bargaining with their employers.” There was a note Os suspense as the convention opened—a question of whether Lewis himself would endorse Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson for President of the United States. ,\ \ A spokesman for the UMW said that whatever action Lewis takes in the presidential campaign probably will not be announced today. He gave no direct hint oi Lewis’ future policy in the campaign. But the spokesman added that edCa/’ candidate only once in its history. That was iri 1936 when Lewis and the Mine Workers actively supported \ Franklin D. Roosevelt in his successful campaign against Republican candidate Alfred M. Landon. Sources close to the UMW said “trade unions just don’t ordinarily” endorse presidential candidates. They cited as an example that the American Federation of Labor’s approval of Stevenson was its first such convention act in its history\ Lewis had a cold Monday aind remained in his hotel room, but was expected to recover sufficiently to make a long speech to delegates representing the 600,000 miners belonging to his union. It was known Lewis definitely favored the Democrats tihs year and would speak harshly of the Republicans. v The last time Lewis personally endorsed a candidate was in 1940 (Continaed On P**e SIX J I y : . ■ Scouts Will Conduct Get-Out-Vofe Drive National Campaign Saturday, Nov. 1 Thri monthly meeting of district Boy Scout leaders was held Monday evening, with principal stress placed on the national “get out the vote campaign which will be held Saturday, Nov. 1, by all Boy Scouts in the United States. the rfbove date, the lasi; Saturday before the Nov. 4 election, Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts visit every home in Decatur, Berne, Monroe, Preble, Pleasant Mills, Magley and urge all to Vote in \the general election. Th'e Scouts distribute a “Liberty bell,’’ bearing the words, “Get out to vote,” on every doorknob in these cities and towns. The nationwide canvass will rie held from 9 a.m. to 12 noon on Nov. 1. \ * , ' George Bair, camp activities chairman, will be in charge of the house-to-house campaign, aided Dick Linn «md Watson Maddox, assistant commissioners. -The Scout leaders also heard Dick Harklees speak on leadership training at their meeting last night. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fallr tonight and Wednesday; codl tonight and some- \ what warmer Wednesday. Low tonight 25-32. High Wednesday near 60.

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I. ||>H HI — ■■llli Stengel Strategy t ' • A' ' I b L .'i . "W-” - S'! ~ ■ s '*->■ - •! ’tv,’.’, -t’.t -- . •_•. ?- ,*,y. - . ST y ML ; .. BL'' 11 ' H . iJw A I J IM 'JLd IB : l&W. BBWtedMQ. / s ■■ ■ ■■ ■' ■ '' ■ g? " ! ' ■ ’ ■■ < ' I WITH THE “TYING RUN” on base In the feighth inning of the sixth game of the 1952 World Series at'Ebbets. . Field, Yankee skipper Casey Stengel stands on the pile her.-’ moUi)d and waves. Vic Raschi (left) out of the game in favor of Allie Reynolds (Hghtl. Bitching after only one day rest, and originally" slatted td pitch the seventh (If necessary!) game, Reynolds put the Indian sign oft dangerous Roy Campanella (ft get the Dodgers outjn tlie'eighth and held them scoreless to give the Yankees the game anjl work the series into a full seven games. ’ ' \ ■- !•

Three Airmen Die As C-47 Plane Crashes Three Others Hurt As Transport Plane Crashes In Woods PHILADELPHIA, UP — Three men were, killed and three others were injured, .one of them seriously, today when an .Air Force C-47 transport plane became lost in a fog and crashed into a densely Two of the injured, although bleeding profusely, stumbled more than a mile through the woods to get help. The other injured man. althbug'h suffering painful wounds and pinned' in the wreckage, blew a whistle continuously to guide rescuers to the scene. “You better leave me and go get help,” the trapped man told his companions. “Just let my folks know- in Michigan.”! The injured men said they were putting on their parachutes Ato “bail out” when the plane into the treetops in the northeast section of Philadelphia only one mile from Northeast Airport. The dead, believed- to have been the pilot, co-pilot and flight engineer, were in the demolished forward section of the plane. The injured men were described as passengers riding in the cargo compartment. The wreckage was scattered over a 300-yard area. The air force withheld the names of the dead and injured pending notification of next of kip. The injured, however, however, were identified by police as William Hansel, 27, Staten Island, N. s Y.; Ralph Kupkel, 2U Allentown.’Pa., and Donald Bertram, 22, Kenmore, N. Y. Betram, identified by police as the man pinned in the wreckage. 1 suffered a fractured right leg, deep head cuts and a possible skull fracture. Hansel and Kunkel were treated for cuts And bruises. The pilot had been talking by radio with the control- tower At International airport in the extreme opposite end of the city at 2:02 am. only a few minutes before the crash. Police believed he may have run into trouble and tried to land at the smaller Northeast Airport. The control tower operator said that the pilot told him he was en route to New York but found LaGuardia Airport and Mitchell air force base closed in by fog. After circling over the New York area for nearly an hour he decided to try for a landing at Philadelphia. The injured, pair then stumbled <Tarn To Page ®Tre> ■ ' J : •'P■ P■ ■

Halt Providing Stone At School Bus Turns 'I ? ■ Commissioners In Decision Monday At: th? regular meeting of the county Commissioners Monday,' it was unanimously voted to stop providing stone in the county for those places where school busses make turns.; The board ruled that the township , trustees should haul and dump the stone ; as it was determined that this was their responsibility and not that of the commissioners. , In making the decision, the commissioners said the busses make turns, in two or three different places each year, the commissioners being called on bach time to layseveral of Stone at the sites. Frank Singleton, county highway superintendant, was directed to cease the; laying of stone at these points' hereafter. L ■ , Frank jldby, Ray Bluhm, Clayton Holloway and-George Hirschy, presented a petition of about 68 names before the board to improve the county road blacktop fjjom U.S. highway ’• 27 in Monroe township west two: miles to: the Frepch-Mon-roe township line. The board said work would be impossible this year. Roscoe Banter ■ appeared in regard to a drain across county highway 38, ;and a tfap. or one-way valve, to be placed where the drain empties into the Wabash river Jo ‘a back flow of the river'intq the drain. The drain Is situated near the Linn Grove bridge* in Hartford township. Romey Ruble appeared concerning the loss of thriee acres of seeded clover the highway department accidentally destroyed when fbey were burning\ a ditch-path. The matter was referred to the SchugBerne. One bid was entered to supply groceries' for the county home. Spiegel’s was awarded the contract at a 1 bid of $374. AJ C. Os €. Secretary To Attend Hearing Walter . Ford, executive secretary of the Decatur i Chamber of Commerce f will attend a public hearing by the interstate commerce commission at Indianapolis Wednesday. Heard • will be protests from throughout the state on the |i.so surcharge’ on freight shipments of less than 5,000 pounds. Many complaint? have been received from met-chants and trucking companies on thia surcharge. Any local persons Mshing to add to the complaints are asked to call Ford at 3-2604 this evening. ■l■ ' '

Stevenson Io Speak Tonight On Radio, TV b ! * ’J Charges Eisenhower Giving Comfort To > Russia On Views SAGINAW, Mitfh. UjP — Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson accused Dwight D. Eisenhower today of giving comfort to Russia with charges that American prosperity, is based o| a war economy. [The Demoratic presidential candidate. who today entered what his aides have hinted will be a new arid harder-hitting phase of the campaign, hurled the charge at Elsenhower in a speeqh prepared for delivery here. “There is no greater disservice] the Republican candidate' could do America in its world j-ole than to suggest that our economic strength here at home is a ]var prosperity.” the Illinois governor said. “When the general speaks of our ui-osperity as being war-born, who qßft gain comfort except the Soviets, who shout to the world that we have undertaken our defense program, not to insure peace but tp i prevent a depression at home by waging;' war Stevensbri asked. j Stevenson, who recently said “"there is a great temptation” to base his campaign on prosperity under 20 years of Democratic rule, today said “it looks as though” the GOP planned “aft economy in which a handful of insiders get i lamb chops and the great mass of Amterfcamt get the paper Jackets ori ihe epd bones.” ! Tonight, at Detroit, iSteyenson has scheduled one of his most important addresses, a 30-minute talk over CBS radio and television on trie explosive issue of the Communist menace, at hoime and abroad. : He is expected, among other things, to answer Republican charges of Communist infiltrhtionr ipto the state department and criticisms of his own relations with Alger Hiss, kormer stajje department official convicted bf perjury in connection with Red Spy activities. The blunt attack agalftst Eisenhower in the Saginaw speech was in line with predictions by Stevenson aides that the Illinois governor would begin to swing harder and harder in the closing weeks of the campaign. “Who can be dismayed by such lalk except our hard-pressed allies who know that another American depression would lead -to thejir ruin? he said of /Eisenhower’s “false prosperity" charges. .. Referring to the fact that Eisenhower as a five-star general in 7/ ] (Turn To Face Five) , Mrs. Leone Spitler Is Taken By Death Funeral Services ' To Be Wednesday ,tMrs. Leone Elizabeth Spitler, 76, died at 4:45 p.m. Monday at the home of a son, Johh Spitler, at Willshil’e/0., of a cerebral hemorrhage. She had been bedfast for the past five months. She ;!Was born in Linn Grove July 14, 1876, d daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John, Runyon, and had lived at, Willshire for the! past 22 years. Her husband, Otis P. Spitler, died in 1947. , j Mrs. Spitler was a mpmber of the Willshire Methodist church and the Dorcas class of the churbh. ' -.Surviving three .sons, John of Willshire, Earl Spitler of Ohio O., and Harry Spitler] of Grayville,, Ili., one daughter, Mrs. Kermif; B|enz of WillshirO; eight grandchildren; four great grandchildren: two brothers, Cliff Runybn of Alberton, Mont., and Lpon Runyon Os Fort Wayne, and two sisters, 'Miss Pearl Runyon of 6eand .Mrs. Estella Balduc of Trenton; .Mich. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. (iEST). at the Willshire Methodist, the Rev. W. A. Turner officiating. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. Friends may call at the Cowan 4 Son funeral home in Van Wert, 0., until 11 a.m. Wednesday. The body will lie in state at the chureh ftftler noon Wednesday.

, 7! : LT ]/.. - ; Protests Expense Os , Repairs To School Ehinger Appears At Board Meeting What started opt to be a Routine meeting of the Decatur school board last night, at the office of school superintendent W. Guy Brown, ran more like a quiz show, With Charles Ehinger, 609 Madison street, manager' of Citizens Telephone Co., the quizmaster. Ehinger explained that he ’appeared strictly as an individual, and with regard to the school, a disintersted taxpayer. (<Khinger’s children will attend the Catholic school). Ehinger said he was “worried about the alleged inferiority of the brick used to construct the Decatur high school.” i The answer was “yes,” there was a possibility that the brick ]\was soft. /; .. f , Ehinger stated “What’s to keep the same thing froip happening a few years from now?” One individual answered, “All we can do is pray.” Ehinger said he thought that some firm, should be contacted to waterproof the building, so at' lekst if it does happen again the school board will have tried! to remedy the conditionEhinger struck at the $26,000 being spent to repair the 14-year-old structure. He described it as a “horrible expense.” 1 ' IA. M. Strauss came into the picture as Ehinger, an engineer, said he would have hired someone else for the - job since Strauss was responsible somewhat for the condition of the building. Another bone of contention at the meeting was the over era witeg of the city schools. Ehinger wanted to know what was being done since, he said, “Wrong impressions” may have been given, from the story v of the last meeting at Lincoln school last month. Ehinger w'as assured that the first, second and third grades w’ould taken care of and some extra space secured. The board said they planned a survey next year. > Ehinger said some concrete proposals were- made by the board concerning the Lutheran school taking at least 5() students off the city school’s enrollment. The board said some more students could possibly be subtracted if the Union township trustee removes some’ students from the Decatur schools, j ' - 1 , n ' - - - j Set Pay Scale For Election Workers The following salary scale was decided upon for election workers on November 4 by the county commissioners: 1 T . ' Inspectors, S2O; clerks arid judges, $9; sheriff, $6; meals, $3. Formerly, Mollenkopf and Eiting was used as a polling place. In view of the fact that a fire destroyed their building, Roop’s grocery, or the Homewood Grocery, on Washington street; was chosen as the polling place in Decatur-Root election precinct.

Girl Scouts Are Aided By Community Fund

Decatur’s youth! program receives tl)e biggest share of the 1952-53 budget assignments from \tlliß year’s Community Fund drive which begins Wednesday. The Decatur Girl Scout couhcil will receive $1,700 for , its ambitious program. - , There are eight Brownie troops, eight intermediate troops, and two senior troops active at the present time with about 100 adult leaders registered who have volunteered to assist the girls in various capacities. The Ddcatur Girl Scout council is beaded by Mrs. T. C. Smith. Mrs. ■ Chester Dalzell and Mrs Roy Kalver! serve as vice-presidents. Mrs. Vincent Bormann is and Mrs. Ronald Parrish is the treasurer. The girls thefnselves help to plan their own troop programs with special emphasis on yearround outdoor activity, interesting service projects give each girl an awareness of the community and of her civic responsibilities to her community, as well as an opportunity to participate in activities with girls of different religions, nationalities, and home backgrounds. Dur-

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Black, Lopaf Start Final Series Game Hard-Fought Series Winds Up Today In Brooklyn's Park Score by Innlngc: RHE New York 000 111 100—4 W 4 Brooklyn 000 110 000—2 8 1 Todays Lineups Mwr York Brooklyn McDougald, 3b \ Cox, 3 b Rixxuto, ss Reese, ss Mantle, cf A Snider, cf MiaO, lb Robinson, 2b Berra, c Campanella, c Woodling, If Hodges, lb Noren, rs Shaba. If ! Martin, 2b Furillo, rs E Lop at. p Black, p BROOKLYN UP—Eddie Lopat 1 was named today to pitch for the New York Yankees in the final game of the World Series. Joe Black was the. Brooklyn pitcher as the teams squared off with the serielF tied at three games each. Black, winner of one series game and loser of another already this year, had been named Monday. Manager Casey Stengel. insisted Monday bight and agaisp ; this morning he didn’t know w'ho he would pitch. Finally, an hour and a half before the game, be decided on Lopat. ‘Lopat pitched the .third game of the series and lost it. 7 y The play-by-play follow®: F»i. First -Inalng Yankees—"McDougald rolled out f to Reese. Rizzuto bunted and ; Hodges tagged him out. Mantle 1 went down swinging. Dodgers — Cox went down swinging, butt Berra had to tag him out after dropping the third strike. Reese bounced to McDougald and was safe at first when McDougald threw wild. Snider was called out on strikes. Woodling made a spectacular running catch of Robinson’s long drive to left center. No runs, no hits, one error, one left. Second inning \ Yankees—Mize walked. Berra filed to Snider. Woodling flied to Shuba. Noren flied to Furillo. No runs, no hits, no errors, one left. , ’ Dodgers — Campanella bounced out to Lopat. - Hodges filed to ' Mantle. Shuba singled to 'center. Furillo bounced tp McDougald. A Third Inning Yankees —Martin flied tiT" Snider. Lopat rolled out to Hodges. McDougald bounced out; to Cox. Dodgers — Black went down swinging. Cox bounced out to McDougald. Reese filed to Noren. Fourth Inning Yankees —Rizzuto doubled past third. Mantle bounced out to Hodges, Rizzuto moving to third. Mize lined a single over Cox’s head. Rizzuto scoring. Berra hit into, a double play, Robinson to Reese to Hodges. One run. two hits, no errors, \ (Continued On Pane Six)

ing the year the girls aided other civic organizations, assisted at the library, participated in a reading program for shut-ins, sent gifts to children in various institutions, > made tray favors for the county home and hospital at Christmas, helped the Good fellows club, and even acted as ibaby-sltters during several P.-T.A. meetings, to mention only a few examples of their community service. , The annual day camp held ,in June was a popular success Courses in singing, dramatics, handicraft of various Kinds, dancing and outdoor camping add cookery were given by qualified instructors. The_ Decatur Girls Scout, leaders club, with Mrs. Lowell Harper as president, meets monthly with interesting and educational programs. Many of these leaders spend many hours learning how to improve their techniques in order to insure an active and Interesting program tor the girls. The Girl Scout program hopes to make better citizens for the Decatur of tomorrow. You can help by contributing to the Decatur Community Fund today.