Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 240, Decatur, Adams County, 10 October 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 240.

Gov. Schricker Says UN Musi Be Preserved f l Schricker Speaks Thursday Night At, Friedheim School ■ Vowing support of the United Nations, Gov. Henry F. Schricker said /The United Nations must be preserved. It brings all the nafionk of the -world arounrb * the i— same conference table, and is far better than the bld-style secret diplomacy 1 and closed door business of the past. “We must also continue ’to "'support the North Atlantic pact.’’ And he took a poke at Sen. Jenner. his opponent for the senate. “One of the four lawmakers who voted against the North Atlantic pact, everytime was,jSen. Jenner.” And Korea . . ; “We had to go into Korea because; we had \ an dhiigation to fulfill. When it isA bver. I’m sure the good will outweigh the cost.” said Schricker. \ < “Without the good will of Greece, Turkey. Italy and Yugo- . slavia, only recently.-Stalin would ' close foe door to /the sea and make it his own private pool, and then take bver." , - Farmers . . . He told the farming people that before the Democrats took over the i reins' of government in, 1932, prided were so low that many farmers were forced put and many, were defeated because of the low market pribe for their ' produce. “The farmer is entitled, to h reasonable profit for his farm! toil just as-anyone is in fields of Industry and manufacture. Parity has[ brought the farmer to his feet,” (he pronounced- ' i " 4 I i : ’- The state . . . "Our highways ai*e in excellent condition, never before in the History of the state ot Indiana hab their been such a great resurfacing > program and highway construction program as there has been tlfa bnd of the war.” ' - With the words of the chair- ., man G. Remy’Bierly at the Friedh!im school ibist evening, “an age produces few 1 individuals Such as ‘he - • • ” Gov. Schricker took, the speakers rostrtim, waiting calmly as the standing pvation of abput 150 cbuntry folk subsided. “You have never failed me. you ’ people of Adams county,” said he, softly. v lnasmuch as majorities - were concerned, you always .came through for me and I wish to thgrik you.” " >' I ,- 1 . Alluding to the dinner prepared -by Mrs. Herman Moellering for the governor and candidates, he said "it/takes! me back to ray childhood and those wonderful country dinners'l used to epjoy;’ Gov. Schricker, a . Lutheran said .he was'also reminded of childhood while he stood speaking there in tie Lutheran school; “my~ early education came only from tire Lutheran faith, in which 1 was raised, and the Lutheran, school, which hot only taught me the regular studies one expects, from a school, but it also gave-me spiritual trainihg.’/ The governor, of cburse, urged the folk to vbtd the Democratic state ballot and urged, especially.that Howard L Morrison, fourth district candidate for congrejss, be elected “so we may both lend each other support while ih Washing-. . ton.” "Nothing would please me more when I go out: of office in January, than to spe my office filled by I John A, Watkins, now your Heptenant governor.” “With the tremendous increase in the growth and population of the state, atl least 5000 new teachers will be needed and many more schools will have to be built. ; There has been more aid to state Institutions in the past few years than in the history of the state. 1 qver S4O millibhs spent alone in that category. ? . -j. -\nd in closing he said. *T want to be your United States senator.< I want to help Adlai A. Stevenson solve the problems oft the' country when he is President? I will carry out my duties honestly and fearlessly.” } , Earlier, Howard L. Morrison, i candidate for ' congress, spoke /. briefly and mentioned the electric stove used by Mrs. Herman Moellering to cook the ham supper enjoyed by the some 25 people.earl-' ier. "Without the extensile rural electrification program of the (Turn To EiwhO INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturday* Not'much change in temperature, except warmhr Saturday in extreme southeast. Low tonight 3048 1 north, 37-42 south. High Saturday mid or high 60«. / i ’ .- ? " A. “ ■ 1 - i ■

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Time Our For A Bite 1 s m JllsbJi GPV. ADLAI STEVENSON, Democratic presidential nominee takes time out from his presidential i campaign to take a bite of the apple given him by kn admirer while in St. Joseph, Mo. Residents of the locality, northwest Missouri, wanted to impress upon 'the Democratic candidate that the vicinity is noted for its apple growing.

Ike's Campaign Moves On Into Arizona Today Says Pres. Truman Is Spokesman For Democrat Nominee ,EN ROUTE WITH tEISENHQWER UP — Dwight D, Eisenhower invaded the Depiocratk stronghold of Arizona today with a charge that President Truijiian is a “White House spokesman” dealing out. the kind of topgh talk, that Gov. Adlai Stevehson can.’ti j“bring himself tb t say.” 1 He Hoarded a Campaign train for Phoen|ix Thursday \night after saying that >Mr. Truman yras .making political statements that Stevenson ‘T'ould not bring himself to say.” The Republican presidential candidate told a*■ cheering crowd rtearly 9,000 persons in Los Angeles, Calif., that the President w v as acting A as ’ “White House spokesman” tor the Ddiifocratic nominee, i While a crowd of dbout 20,000 stood outside jam-packed PanPacific auditorium in Los Angeles .listening tp. Elsenhower’s speech’ over loudsireakers. the GOP candiiiate told thef’tfad.ience: inside that the Presidieni whs “gding up and down the land saying things I feel sure the administration candidate could not bring: himself to say.’ The. speech \ was perhaps ah ahifwfer to Stevenson’s repent charge that Eisenhower was embracing and endorsing coaiservative Republican senators even though he “could not bring hirhself even to speak their nanfas.” . Although Eisenhower did not mention Mr. Truthan biy name, he made it dear barbs were directed at the President. He recalled that during Calvin Coolidges administration — not mentioning him by nanie — the President had a “ghcstly” Whifo House “spokesman”'to issue statements he did not wish attributed to -himself. , “Now it is the administration candidate who has the White House spokesman,” said Eisenhower, adding that “I have no ghostly spokesr man, and when I have anything to say to the peopte, I’ll say ft myself.”' " .—4 ", Eisenhower, who received a tumultuous reception at the auditorium and was preceded by a floor show featuring sOme of the most famous' stars pf ; Hollywood, des--bribed the Democratic campaign as aii attempt to perpetuate “special privilege of big government.” '■ He flayed Democratic criticism ot Republican sodial security plans dk “downright sinister” and took issue with' President Truman’s stand for federal aid to education by offering his own broad social -program, which . included federal to “needy states" for school construction. ‘ ■’ t i Kendallville Child V Is Fatally Burned KENDALLVILLE, Ind. UP — Michael Hart, 6, was ■ burned to death Thursday when his clothing caught fire as he played in a parked auto. \ , The child, son. of Mrp. Betty Jane of Kendallville, brawled from the car with -his .dotting afire, a neighbor woman saidj The woman, Mrs. Phul Cunningham, covered the hoyjwith a blanket and smothered the flames. He died soon afterward id a hospital. ■ ?■ .' ? : .l J’ . :

Pledge Early Action In Attorney's Case Small Fortune Made By U. S. Attorney - WASHINGTON, UP —lnformed sources said today the justice department will take “early action” on the case of Howard L. Doyle, U.S. attorney at Springfield, 111., who has made a small fortune practicing law on the side. ’ - Attorney general JanieS P. MeGranery was expected to announce sOon—possibly® today—what he intends to do about Doyle’s admission that he "overlooked” $5,000 of his outside income in making out his 1945 tax return. 1 A house judiciary subcommittee, which questioned Doyle at a public hearing Thursday, sent copies of his income tax returns, bank statements, and cancelled checks to McGranery for study. Duplicates of the same financial records were turned over to the\ internal revenue bureau after Doyle agreed subcommittee.members that .it vras a “proper procedure” for the investigators to follow. The 58-year-old attorney, whosip private law practice netted him at least $56,517.25 from 1945 through 1950, testified that he has never kept a. permanent) record of his outside\ income during the 17 years he served as U.S. attorney in the Southern Illinois district. His government salary for the six-year period was $48,468.09. He said he jots his earn ings down on scraps of paper and keeps them in his pockets or desk drawer \ >until he destroys them “every now and then?’ Each March 15, he said, he prepared his tax returns from his bank statements and from'memory. Asked if he knew the law requires permanent records and provides criminal penalties for failure to keep them, Doyle think that is true.” \ Doyle disclosed that he amended his return last week to include a $5,000 legal fee he originally “overlooked.” He did so, he said, after learning that the subcommittee had subpenaed two checks — one for $7,500 and the other, for ss,oQo—tsent to him that year by the American Distilling Corp, for (Turn To P»Kf EIkM)

Mrs. Dallas M. Reed Is Taken By Death Former Resident Os ; City Dies Thursday Mrs. Dallas M! Reed, a folrmer resident of this city, died Thursday morning at her home in Indianapolis, following an extended illnless. Formerly Miste Bertha Fiillenkamp, the deceased was a daughter of the fate Jacob and Mary Fullenkamp of this city, foer father! was one of the early merchants in Decatur. Besides her husband she is survived by three children, Robert of Indianapolis. Mrs, Walter Crumble of Pennsylvania and Mark of Rushville. Four sisters, Mrs. IE. F. Gass and Mrs. M* J. Mylott of this city; Mrs, Edward Weisling and Miss Rose Fullenkamp of Findlay, Ohio; and two Fred Fullenkamp of this city and Herbert Fullenkamp of Findlay, also survive. 1 The has been moved to the Grinsteeners funeral home, 1601 East New York street, Indianapolis, where friends may call. Funeral services will be held Mon day at 10:30 a.m. in the Church of the Little Flower, Indianapolis; Burial will be in Holy Gross cemetery.

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Wild Battle Continues For Strategic Height On Korean War Front

Adlai Warns Against GOP Election Win Republican Victory Might Put Nation On Disaster Road OKLAHOMA CITY, Okfa. UP— Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson said today that the collective security program has worked so well that Soviet Russia is pitobalhy getting, ready for another qound of soft talk with the United Statee. But he warned that a Republican victory in November might wreck American participation in collective security 1 and put the nation on “d sure Toad to disaster” J --.J h •Stevenson said that the nation should keep its guard up because at least sign of weakness “the -Kremlin can change fts signals again.” .1' The Democratic presidential candidate, once a United Natiops delegate who dealt closely .with the Russians, based bis opinion oh recent “peace" talk by Soviet Pyenader Joseph Stalin and the current meeting of the Soviet con? gress in Moscow. \ “Our policy of c 0.1 1 e c t i.v e strength has worked,” he said in a speech prepared for dedivejry at a Democratic rally here. “It has wbrked so well thdt we may well be seeing—this week in Moscow — a shift in, Russian policy which may be of the greatest importance. “The Russians., may have decided that their aggressive policies have been too risky-, and. that they have more to gain by honey, than by vinegar. I said ’may have’ but that is at least-a possible interpretation of Stalin's recent statement. Only time will tell.” > He referred to. Stalin’s recent stateriient -opening the Soviet congress. in which the Russian leader expressed faith that the east and the west can live together in peace. Stevenson said it would be dangerous to “talk tough unless we are. ready to act tougk.” J He said Republican policy'settjns to be one. of talking tough while at the same time “we weaken our defenses and alliances.” “That just doesn’t make sense to me?’ the Democratic presidential candidate said. “That .is a sure road to disaster.” Resuming his “Give ’Em" Hell” type of campaigning after a sober discussion in 'St. Louis -last night of the “new horizons” open to a\ greater America if the right economic policies are followed. Stev(Tijrn To Page Eight > •

United Defense Fund In Community Fund Budget

The united defense Tund hobes to receive $948 from foe current drive by the Decatur Community Fund. This amount is? Decatur’s quota of the $19,451,340 nationwide budget requirements. More than three of every four dollars contributed to UOF will go to USO for the important task of setting up many more USO operations for members of the arined forces here and overseas. USO camp shows anticipate audiences that will more than double the total of 1.200,010 guests that saw camp shows in its first year dft reactivation. Services to the armed forces, including ,USO,. American social hygiene association, apd national recreation association, comprise nearly 82% oft the UDF goal. Some social work is also being done in crowded defense areas. About four percent of the total budget has been assigned to American relief for Korea, to process apd transport more than ten million pounds of clothing for Koreans! \ The Decatur Community Fund was organized several year’s ago

Coal Industry Asks Pay Boost Approval ' ‘ 1 ? Ask Stabilization 'Board For Approval WASHINGTON., UP — The soft cpal industry pressed the wage stabilization board today for quick approval ,of the new Increase gianted the UnitetT Mine Workers. ■Management officials werd seeking board action before Wednesday — the, next payday in the There is' a 1 good jehanqe the industry will be hit by work stoppages if the miners’ ; $1.90-a-day raise doesn't come through qn time. » Hairy’ M, Moses, president of the Hituminpus Coaii Operator's’ ’ Association. and Joseph E. Moody, president of Southern Coal Producers’ Association;, were Scheduled to appear before £he board to aisk for approval of the contract they negotiated with John L. Lewis late last month. The industry officials were prepared to argue that the wage increase—which boosts the average basic pay?in the mines to a day—fs not inflationary. •The ?vage hike, however, was far above what could automatically be approved by the tyoard, leaving a question as to what action the board liquid take. Should the board vote to cut down the terms of the contract! or delay its approval, Lewis could be expected to hit the industry with at least a partial strike? ; Meanwhile, the government virtually turned thumbs down on a request that ceiling prices be taken off,soft coal. Industry leaders, supported: by Lewis, had asked that co;al ptices be de-controlled because of the high cost of the new settlement and'. the floor economic condition sos foe industry. i -; ; ' Probe School Breakin At Pleasant Mills A burglary was investigated this morning the Pleasant Mills high school. According to police reports, access was gained through, a lower Window: The soft-drink machine wa® broken into and some change removed. The burglars then moved to f the iMncipal’s office where a filing cabinet and a frail safe were (broken into. In all, say police, about S4O was {Sheriff Robert Shraluka is awaiting the arrival of state detective Truman Bierie, who has been investigating the' burglary of a school at Ossian kfot night. It is not yet known whether there is any similiarlty jn the crimes, although it may be possible for the same burglars to have done both jobs. ? ■ \ O?' ■ I

to Consolidate a number of wbrthwhlle drives into one cooperative effort, and thus save considerable timb for the volunteer workers and; possible annoyance to contributors which repfeated solicitation mig|i| bring. This year there are seven agencies included. Contributors jmust remember that unless' coiitributiortfe are sufficient to cover all needs so that minimum budget requirements can be met, the plan may fail and the former method of many duplicated drives reinstated. Board members are - elected at the anriual meeting in April for a threp year-term. - Each board member is to represent a certain Segment of the community, such as faisiness, churches., industry, schools; labor, etc; Two nominees are selected for sach of three vacancies each year, by a nominating committee, ;but additional nominations can be made upon request of sive members. Board meetings ere held at the First State Bank on the second Thursday of each month. They are open meetings and any member is (Tarn To P«ce Ei*kt>

Charges Ike's ; Smoke Screen Hides Issues < President Truman Says Loose Charges About Communism EN ROUTE WITH TRUMAN JJ'P — President Truman charged Dwight D. Eisenhower today with “making loose charges affbut Communism” and “putting put a smoke scree! to hide the issues.” Mr. Truman rriadp the charge at Rochester, ,N. ¥., as he stumped through New York state on the next to last day of a two week, coast to coast, “give ’em hell”, campaign trip fbr the Democratic ticket, “The Republicans in this campaign are telling more half truths — and more deliberate, unvarnished lies — thaii in any other campaign in 1 my recollection,” the President said. The Republican presidential candidate, Mr. Truman said, “is going around the Country making loose.charges about Communism in the government’ ’> when “he knows better.” “He knows that for years l the government has had an effective program ,to keeo Communists out of the> government service," Air. Truman Said. Because Eisenhower has “been a military man all his life and doesn’t kiiow anything about most of the issues.” Mt. Truman charged, “he’s gone around the country, putting: out a; smoke screen to hide the issues/ .. The president Said “shouting about corruption in th<p government, when, he knows only a fraction 1 of the 2,500,000 federal employes have “even the slightest taint of corruption.” \ “He knows that the corrupt employes have been fired,” Mr. man said; -{‘and haye been tried and convicted where laws are violated. The President said that the only “firm unequivocal stand” Elsenhower' has taken is in favor of a /‘wholly new clifaate in Washing(Turn To Pairr ElKht) •I'M ' i ’ - ■■ i. -

High School Offers Adult Farm Classes Wihter Classes At Local High School Adult \ farmers classes- will be held at Becatur high school all through the winter; the. courses will deal mainly with farm management. The first series of classes will be devoted to farm records and acincome tax returns, depreciation and inventory evaluation. Next, it is reported,-a series of IjO meetings will deal with the more general problems farmers confronted with: Farm rental relations; buying and selling livestock and grain; farm business analysis; and developing livestock and cropping. systems. \ The classes are offered as a regular function of the vocational agriculture department of Decatur a» a free service toi the community. The knowledge that may be imparted to those who attend is seen as being invaluable and of vital importance to farmers . today. All ■who are interested in the courses are urged to attend, Although no details are as- yet ready, it is know'll that the meetings will be weekly. ? ' It is asked that W- H. Journay, vocational agriculture instructor at< Decatur high school, be contacted for further information. Advisory council members, are: Ben Gerke, Lawrence Beckmeyer, Oscar Fuelling, Edgar Thieme, Henry Hetman and Dewey Plumley. ■ d ’I ; ’

British Train Crash Toll Mounts To 107 ) . Third American Is Listed Among Dead HARROW, England UP -- The death toll in Britain’s iyorst train wreck in 37 years reach 107 today, and a third American was identified among the dejad.' Officials announced the death toll from Wednesday’s triple —- ’train crash was 106. They said 87 of (the injured still were in hospitals, some in critical condition. \ Salvage crews were masked with medicated gauze to prevent possible infection as they gathered up crushed remains from beneath a htige engine. Rtescue workers said more bodies may be entombed beneath foe wreckage. Scotland Yard identified Mrs. Aghes Swaine, of Flint, Mich., as one of the dead. Previously two other Americans had been identified as dead--Ajrs; Rosetta Lawrence, 56, Green Island, N. Y., and U. S. air force airman Donald Woodall, of Jersey. Woodall wa® stationed at the U.S. Burtonwood air hasP, .but army authorities have not released his rank or hometown. His British Wife. Joan, also was killed in the ctash. The rescue and salvage squads still had not reached the bottom of the 30-foot pile of wreckage left when two express trains ploughed into a computers’ local standing in Harrow station during the morning rush hour Wednesday. ?Tho locomotive of the “Night Scot,” one of the expresses, is bb-’ ing cut to pieces by acetylene torches to give rescue workers access to a commuters’ coach smashed beneath the 100-ton engine. Many bodies pre believed still in this coach, as well as under other debris.

UMW Favors Federal Tidelands Control Beat Resolution For Socialized Medicine CINUINNATi; O. UP — The United Mine Workers today unanimously approved a resolution favoring federal control of tidelands, oil and. voted down a resolution asking for socialized medicine. The; 3.000 delegates attending the union’s 41st annual! convention here also defeated a resolution to establish a “large daily labor newspaper.” Ifoe delegates , representing 600,000 miners had previously voted in favor of a resolution calling for a lowering the age requirements for federal social security benefits from 65 to'60 1 . The union reasserted its opposition tb universal military training. A resolution was approved branding UMT as "un-American" and an “attempt to saddle this foreign born idea on the backs of the American people.” Approval of the highly controversial tidelands oil issue put the union in line-with (the Democratic party platform which urges the off-shore lands of tne seacoast states be controlled by the federal government. ' The resolution , stated that the UMW disapproved “state’s rights the oil of the sea and that the right Os tideland oil should remain or be placed under the cdntrol of thb department of interior, wherebjr; revenue derived; . . /could be equally divided among all peppie of this nation." The resolution also rapped Gov. Allen Shivers Off Texas without mentioning him by pame. The resolution rapped “the pressure and threats by certain unscrupulous governors, especially the governor of i Texas, who threatened to walk out on or stand agalhst any presidential nominee who wants to be fair with all the people if his selfish desires are not satisfied." Shivers (Torn To Pace \ Six) / '• ' : ■ ’ ■ .. Hu-

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Mountain Top At Stake In Wild Battles Wild Hand-to-Hand Battle Breaks Off i Flare Drops SEOUL, Korea, UP — South Ko. reans and Chinese abruptly broke off a wild hand-to-hand battleratop White Horse fountain tojnight when an Allied plane broke through the clouds to drop powerful flares. - ; South Koreans fell back 150 yards toregroup, leaving the crest temporarily in the hands of a small ,group of Chinese. Most of the Communists slid down the corpse-littered slopes to reorganize their own forces. - The South Koreans stormed the crest in an attack that began at . 8:30 p.m. the fourth time today they have charged up the bloody Slopes of the central front height. Three times the fanatical Chinese forced the dauntless Koreans off the crest in “human sea" attacks but each time they returned, under orders from their commander to capture and hold the peak. “The Chinese know and I know that whoever controls White Horse controls the Chorwon Valley," said Maj. -GenJ Kim Chong Oh, commander of the Republic of Korea 9th division.. The Chorwon Valley is used by *both sides as a supply route. An important Allied railway runs ' through part of it and White Horse Mountain itself guards the invasion route to Seoul. In their night assault, the South Koreans engaged the Chinese; in savage hhnd-to-hand combat with 700 fresh Chinese dug in on the ridgeline. I -J I The attack began in a pouring | rain. The rain later stopped, but streams of water still washed around bodies on both northern and southern slopes. *; Both sides were psing knives, fists and rifle butts in the bitter fighting; front line reports said. A front line officer said the battle “is beihg waged ( in complete darkness.” He said the only sounds were a scream when 'someone gets knifed and the moans of the wounded. Sometimes a grenade goes off." -Artillery ceased fire when the two sides (hosed in hand-to-hand fighting. Neither side fired flares. ■ Thte South Korean attack followed a ;successful assault by the Chinese, who ‘used “human sea” tactics against the hard-fighting Allied defenders. The Chinese forced the South Koreans down the southern slopes with bayonets and grenades. , After the South Koreans reached the crest in their night attack, the fighting broke off into small engagements, each side piling up bod- ( ies and fighting from behind bar-., ricades of bone and flesh. -J In one of the heavier engagements, many of the South Koreans lost their helmets. They began grabbing off Headgear in * ofder to sort out thejeflemy in the pitch blackness,.an officer said. “If they felt close-cropped hair the South Koreans knew the man was Chinese and-killed him,” he said. “If they felt longer hair, they knew«Jt' was\a Korean.” White Horse Mountain'- has changed hands 21 times in four days of fighting. Cursing and swinging their fists some 700 Chinese seized the height in an attack that began at 5:30 p.m. Before the attack, Red artil(Tar* To Pas* Sla) \ “b Rev. Robert Hammond Rotary Club Speaker [ The Rev. Robert Hammond, pastor of the First Baptist\ church, was the guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening. Cal E. Peterson was chairman of the pro-