Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 248, Decatur, Adams County, 20 October 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 248.

7,000 Chinese ) Reds Smash At! Korean Points ( Win Or Die Assault L Launched By Reds Oii Triangle And Sniper L SEOUL, Korea UP'— Seve& thousand fanatic Chinese' Redij, backed by Russian-made “Katushaf rocket guns, smashed at Triangle - Hill and Sniper Ridge in a “wifc of die” assault today and one peak of each, The South Korean defenders df Sniper Ridge bounced back, how- < ever, and recaptured Pinpoir| z Peak in 10, houtfs of bitter and bloody fighting. But the Chinese id last reports still held Pikes Peak on American-defended Triangfe Hill. Amercians of the U. S. 7th division finally stopped the Ohinetfe drive up rambling Triangle 3M) yards from Jts main crest, -7 The Americans on Triangle an|l the Chinese on Pike’s Peak traded sporadic rifle fire during the dak but neither side hiade any attempt to attack. 1 Seventh division soldiers discoi’ered an old gold mine tunnel-bur- • rowing 1,000 yards beneath Tiqangle. They closed the exit aftqfc 12 Chinese hiding inside refused surrender. \ \ The assault marked the enemy’s sfFbngest effort yet to recapture the two dominant hill masses on thk v central .front lost to | United Nanons' ;“littJe offensive)’ last week, z > ; | , At the height' of the attack on Sniper Ridge, the Red| hurled a near record 44,059 mortal, artillery and rocket shells on thte South Koreans. The equalled the second'highest enemy bori£ bardment of the war for a kinglfe day. ' r Most of the rockets came from! multiple-firing "i<atushas“, to those used by -the Russians iiWorld War II against the German;! At Triangl4 Hill, the Red|s planter ed heavy barrages on Peak and Jane RUssell Peak aboil! 6:35p.m. Sunday and also shelleq Allied main line positions. Then Communist infantry swep? over Pike's Peak, surrounding’ aj 'American unit. The U. S. riflemei| battling desperately in Hand-tl hand duels, cut their way throug| the encircling Reds and Joined othbc Americans oh Triangle's ma id peak. - ■; V. . 4 Hand-to-hand fighting broke out on the ridge between the crest a'nA (Turn To Pnge Six) | Urges Employers To f Permit Workers Vote 1 SPRINGFIELD. 111.. UP —Gov| Adlai E. Stevenson, Democratic presidential nominee, today urged employers to permit workers t| vote during business houys. s 4* He wired his Republican opponf ent, Gen. .Dwight D. Eisenhower;”1 trust you will Join me in working toward this objective.’* . | Youth Hospitalized ; Following Accident j. Auto Is Overturned 4 Afternoon | Charles Niblick, 22. route 1, Dt| catur, is in the kdams county me| mortal hospital 1 suffering five fractured ribs, contusions and atf injured shoulder blade silstaipect i in a mishap oni U. highway 2T ; at the Coppess. Corner turn Sat| urday at about 4 p.m. |, > Also in the car at the time were Roy McKean, 22, 109 South lltH; street, and Satti Yost, of De* ’ catur. McKean was treated at ths hospital for htead lacerations anq was released. Yost escaped uni4 jured. ’ J; According to the reports Oi sheriff Robert Shraluka and stat| policeman Walter Schindler, whq . investigated, the car w'as headed north and went out of control at the sweeping turn. It skidded off the road and turned over before coining to a stop approximately 360 feet .from where it left the highway, alongside th|s ■ road. : • > ■ Occupants oft the car, gay police., are giving conflicting stories s|s to who was driving’ the car Investigation is continuing. | . I i -L INDIANA WEATHER | Fair and polder tonight.; iTueeday fair* not so coldt norths and central In afternoon. Low* tonight 17-42 north, 20-25? south. High Tuesday 44-49. S 4 444? 1 v ? \'.

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Early Snowfall In Milwaukee v ; t : ! ' ' -• W-3 .mK A. ■ WINTER HAS ARRIVED ahead of schedule in Milwaukee. Wis. The city had its earliest snowfall in 41 years when a fall ,of one-inch was recorded. The-last October snowfall was on Oct. 6, 1911. i

Truman Boards Campaign Train Again Tonight ' .'’■’l , ’?S ' ’• ■ Three-Day Swing in Three [East States . Will Open Tuesday WASHINGTON — Preßident Truman hoards his'campaign train again late tonight for his third whistle-stop tour in support©! the Democratic ticket The forthcoming three-day swing through New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West. Virginia will he his nexttolast trip of the'campaign, and will include major speeches at Philadelphia. Pittsburgh and Pottsville. pa. White House aides said Mr. Truman may devote one or more of his public appearances to replying to the criticism which Republicans and others have directed at him for accusing the GQP of “anti-CnthollHsm and antisemitism.” Mr. Truman rjiade the charge last week lii 'a I message to the national welfare hoard. .ft drew prompt rebuttals from prominent Jews Republican leaders bitterly denounced, the attack, and vice presidential j candidate Richard M. Nixon called it “gutter politics." 'The President Returned to Washington early Sunday after a campaign swing! through New England and New York (City. Police estimated thatfi more than 1,000,000 persons turned dut, to see him as he drove through the streets of Lower ‘Malhhattan and Brooklyn, tn a Brooklyn speech Saturday night, he said the; Republicans have been conducting-“the lowest streetgutter campaign I have ever seen.” The tentative schedule for the new tour called; for Mr. Truman to make his first appearance at Jersey City, N. J., at 10:30 a.m. e.s.t. Tuesday. He will leave his train at Jerseys City for an auto trip through Newark, Elizabeth, Perth Amboy, New . Brunswick. Trehton and Camden in New Jersey,' and then' cross into Pennsylvania for a late afternoon speech at Philadelphia. Entraining again at Philadelphia', he will go on to Reading and Pottsville With an evening speech at the latter. On Wednesday, Mr. Truman will leave the train at Wilkes-Barre, Pa-, for a motorcade to Scranton and Kingston, then return to the rails for visits to Williamsport and Altoona, and an evening speech at. Pittsburgh. . : . ' ■ . Thursday his train' will cfoss in(Tnra Te Pa<e Six) Annual Fish Fry Thursday Evening Decatur’s merchants; ard busy preparing for the annual fish fry at x the Decatur high school gym Thursday evening. ' Appointed to the entertainment committee ;are Cal Peterson and Bob -Morissey; tilso, a detachment of the Fort Wayne Shrine club will assure a bundle of laughs for all who attend. Tickets are on sale throughout the county and may be secured locally at the Chamber of Commerce office In addition to several other places in the' city. ' V ' ( i„ ■ ■ ■ . rin ! ■

Watkins Speaks On Local, State Issues i' • " ' V ■ I ‘ Endorses Four-Lane Project On U. SJ27 Lt. Gdv. John Watkins, Democratic nominee for governor, be* fore a crowd in the circuit court room of the court house Saturday night, wholeheartedly endorsed pledged to carry through the fourlane building, of tl. S. highway 27 from Decatur to Fort Wayne. d Watkins’ speech on local and state issues climaxed a day spent in Adams county and a. tour through the county from. Geneva to Preble, Referring to U. S. 27, Watkins said, ‘flrode over part of this road this evening and wholeheartedly endorse bnd Support this much needed improvement.” The road project isestimated at $3,100,000 and work on the first two lanes will begin pext spring, the speaker explained. During the past three and onehalf years of Democratic control of the Indiana state highway commission, $558,158.32 has been spent in Adams 1 county and adjoining area for major highway improvements, not including the cost of resurfacing street;} in Decatur. Watkins emphasized- \ The speaker these, projects as follows; Resurfacing U. S. 224 between Decatur and miles at a cost of $242,901.11. Resurfacing patching of! U. S. 224 from Decatur east to the Ohio state line, 7.29 miles, coot, $235,601.61. - ■ . I : Resurfacing of U. S. 33 horn Decatur, east to the Ohio state line, 7.47 miles, cost $79,565.60. Watkins also pledged taiyxtend this road building program, if given the opportunity to head the state‘government year. “During my tour of your' county today I was shown other roads and streets which I believe al Demo cratic administration Can and will repair for you. This includes re-1 paving of US highway 27 between Decatur, and Monroe and improvements to certain highway; in Decatur and Berne. These improvements will be made without incurring a cent of .-public debt?’ Gene Hike Presided \Gene Hike, town clerk of Monroe. was\ chairman of Saturday night’s which was moved inside the court house because of; the chilly weather. Lt. (jbv. John Watkins was presented as “the next governor of by G. Remy Bierly, candidate for reelection as joint state representative from Adams and Wells counties. A • ! ’ ; Adams county Candidates were also introduced at the meeting. Pledges Local Cooperation . Continuing his talk on issues of vital interest to the people in Adams county and the local area, Watkins said: j J “On my first stop in ybur comity this morning at Geneva I found the Gene Stratton-Porter Memorial being maintained bythe Indiana department of conservation in a good state of repair and a suitable recognition of one of Indiana’s greatest novelists -and nature writers. I congratulate citizens of Adarhs and Jay bounties who havb perpetuated her work by the establishment of a bird sanctuary in cd-operation with the Indiana department of conservation on the Adams-Jay ccpnty line (Turn To Page Six,)

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 20, 1952.

More Than 300,000 __jj I'.JJ J Soft Coal Miners Out On Unofficial Strike

Federal Panel Rules Red Party Must Register Finds Communist Party In U. S. Is Soviet-Controlled WASHINGTON UP—A government hearing panel ruled today that the U- S. Communist party "is directed, dominated and controlled by the Soviet Union” and should register with, the attorney general. J • > In the 'first Recommended decision handed down under the .1950 internal security act a two-mem-ber'. panel; of the subversive activities control board said the ev.iA dence clearly shows that the U. S.\ Communist party was founded “as a puppet of the Soviet Union, and so remains?’ The panel said the Red organization lives in this country lor the day w-hen it can install h So-viet-type dictatorship and establish “United States of Soviet America.’’ ... we conclude that respondent the Communist party is directed. dominated and controlled by the Soviet and that respondent operates primarily to advance the objectives of the world Communist movement,” the panel said. v The findings are the recommended decision cjf Peter Camp bell Brown, board chairman, and Kathryn McHale, a lioard member, who sat for almost IS months hearing casfe. If the other two board members Concur in the findings, as expected,\ the Communist party will be ordered to register; with the justice department. But it can appeal the ora-, er to| the courts. The ruling was a victory fbr government attorneys w h o brought a parade of ex-Commun-ists to the witness stand during the panel’s lengthy hearings to swear, that the party was a -subservient to Moscow. Community party attorneys sodght to refute the charge. | \. . The law, the so-called McCarran act, requires ithat any group found by the board to be a “Communistaction organization’’ must list its officers and members with the justice department, file dnniial financial reports, identify all material sent through mail with i a special label and similarly identify radio a<id television broadcasts which the organization sponsors. ' ' The act also bars members of Communist-action groups from seeking federal employment, applying for passports or working in defense plants. Violation of a final board order is • punishable by a fine qf tip to SIO,OOO and five years’ imprisonment.

Response To Polio Vaccine Reported

CLEVELAND, (UP)—A Johns \ Hopkins University scientist 'reported today he had obtained "favorable responses" from a polio vaccine designed to give immunity against all three types of paralyzing infantile paralysis; .[ The reports of the new vaccine Was made by Dr. Howard A|. Howe of the Johns Hopkins poliomyelitis laboratory at the opening session of -the American health association convention here. Howe’s report said the tests had been performed on six Baltimore children. In all cases, he said; the children developed antibody or immunity levels to Lensing, Leon and Brunhilde types of polio. The Immunity was , comparable to antibody levels previously reached in laboratory experiments on monkeys and chimpanzees, Howe said. \ Antibodies are substances produced by the body to fight infection. Their continued presence In V-

4 — j Here Tonight i < Wjt II ‘ ■ • >'■ ■ oi ESen., Homer Capehart M-fe- ,~4 H — ' ?W: ' ' ' . ' Senator Capehart *’ ’ i In Decatur Tonight Will Speak Tonight At Republican Rally senior United States senatM-, Homer Capehart, arrived in Dhoatur this afternoon and. was scheduled ;to deliver an address at the l|i* P- borne at 8 o’clock tonlghtj -under the auspices of the Republican bounty committee. ,• Seq-j Uapehai t was also scheduled to hegii a reception Republican Headquarters on North Second streeAfrom 4 o’clock this afternoon until h: 30 o’clock. The public is invited 8o the informal reception and also tb the speaking tonight. Adiftns couttty Republicans are irivitdh to a free lunch from 5:30 to 7 -felock tonight at the K. of P. hpme|lprejceding the speaking program; / v . . Rolwern Smith. Decatur attorney, will the senior senator a: tbniglit’s program. . Capehart is a holdofer Senator this election. Cotiiiiy Republican candidates also will be introduced at'the meeting ufHightt. and Harry Essex, county district G.O.|*. chairman, has extended an invitation to prominent Kepub®k'ans from pother parts of the fourth district. Forty Hours Devotion Opens j Friday Morning • Forty Hours devotion will open at St. Mary’s datholic chttrch Friday morning at 6:45 o’clock, the Very Rev. Msgr. 3. J. Seimetz, announced Masses on Friday’ and Saturday will-be at 5:45 7 and 8 h.m; (On Sunday, the regular schedule will h e observed. There will be a prayer hour each (afternoon from 2:30 to 3:30 o'clock and evening services at 7:30. with the sqlemn close of the devotions on Sunday. A missionary ptiest will feive the sermons at, the morning masses and evening

the .blood in sufficient quantities prevents the\ disease from spreading. yhe major obstacle in preinfantile \paraiysis has been of vaccines to acniete this similar to those, alin use against measles and other diseases. , Howe said Vthe vaccine he used was prepared from polio vitus "killed" and rendered inactive with 1 a chamical called formalin. The vaccine itself could not catjise the disease, he said, but tests showed that "dead" virus stimulated the production of antibodies to combat infection by the active virutS \ Howe said the tests were not completed, more extensive laboratory work would be necessary t to perfect a vaccine suitable for general use. But the report yas the first of successful immunization to the dread disease in humatis, and marked another large step forward in the battle to beat polio.

Australia To Back U. S. On 1 • . < . • Truce Issues i. ' \ Rejects Forcible Repatriation As Price For Peace UNITED N. Y.\UP — Australia declared today that it will “stand besidj* the United states i|n Rejecting forcible repatriation of prisoners as a price for Korean peace, s [ Australian foreign;'minister R. G. i (jas-ey t ild the United Nations general assembly that Russia in the past has gone much further than the U. N. in\ opposing \forcible Repatriation and official Soviet publications had described the principle during KVqrjd War II as “Repressing the highest act of humanitarianism.” , j ■ . Victor Andres Bejaunde of Peru meanwhile proposed an alternative plan for solving the Panmunjom truce deadlock, proposed .t'hat prisoners resisting Jrepatriation be placed in a special zone of Korea umjer the (protection and guarantees of the U. N. Belaqhdjefs Apian called for the creatioh of a special international commission, including \all interested parties, countries “enjoying' she coinfidence of the assembly” and neutral countries not members * of the U. js.. to assume responsibility (for the prisoners. .y ;* The Peruvian plan, which. Belaunde put forward; informally for assembly cohsideriation. was a modification of an earlier Mexican proposal for U. N. member countries to grant asyliim to prisoners resisting Soviet foreign minister Andrei Y, Vishinskiy’s venomous outburst of last Saturday left U. N. diplomats pessin|istic about chances of any settlement of the Korean war at this i Asseimbly. . The first official American answer to Vishinsky came from assistant secretary of state John ( D. Hickerson, who said: “Mr. Vishinsky disappointed those who had hoped against* hope that he would modify, if only slightly, (his typical vitriolic performance. liistead. he played again his same old worn-out phonograph record ot lies and hate.” ■* Sen. Alexander Wiley R-Wis., a member of the American delegation to the Weekrold Geheral Assembly, told hewsmen Vjsiiihsky's charges were “ev|l statements made by a blind man.” \ ' I Still. U. N. diplomats persisted,in their earnest search for a formula (Turn To Page Six) Mrs. Albert Geisel Is Taken By Death Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Mrs.. Mary L. Geisel. 76, wife qf Albert Geisel, died at 6 o'clock Sunday nynning at her home, 513 Jefferson stieet. following an illness of 18 months of complications. She was born in Wells county Dec. 7. 1875, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dures Leysj, but had resided in Adams gounty most of her life. Mrk. Geisel was a member of she Pleasant Dale Cturch of the Brethren. Surviving in addition to her husband are two daughters, Mrs. Arthur Barretto of Fort Wayne and Miss >fargaret Geisel of Mishawa'ka; one son, Oscar Geisel of Decatur route 2; grandsons, and one sister, Mrs. J. O. Shafer of Ossian. Funeral services will be conducted at (1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home and at 2 o’clock at the Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren, the Rev. John Mishler officiating. Burial will be in tjhe church pemetery. Friends may call at the fitneral home\ until time of the services.

Brief Session Held By Supreme Court To Study Phase Os Taft-Hartley Law WASHINGTON, UP — The supreme court agreed today to decide whether a union violates the Taft-Hartley labor law. when it causes a menjibef to bd denied a job for breaking unions rules. In a brief session, the tribunal also: . e -‘ . Ruled that, iseven persons, including the regional director of Har'ry shoremen’s Union, must staqd trial at Honolulu on ghhrges of conspiring to\ teach and advocate tie (violent overthrow- of this government. '-Ji; i -Dpomed four convicted murderers awaiting execution. Left standing a lower court,ruling which makers & CoCleveland backing firm, the winner of a long-standing dispute! with the KaiSer-Frazer Corp, over a 1948 stock deal. Tihe question dealing with the Taft-Hartley Uw was contained in -|tWq cases involving two AFL unions the International Brotherhood of Teamstersl and the Radio Officers Union of the Commercial Telegraphers Union. In the teamsters case, a truck driver with the Byers Transportation Co,, Kansas iCty, Ma, was , reduced in seniority for work because he failed to pay his union dues on timd. In the other, Willard Christian ‘Fowler, Miami, Flai- was denied a job as radio officer with the Bull Steamship Co., because be negotiated with a company official before getting union “clearance,” The national labor relations board found that these practices violate the Tbft-Hartley ladv. The second U. S. circuit court of appeals upheld the board in the Fowler case; Hut the eighth U. S. circuit court of appeals took the opposite vievv |in the teamster case. , | ■ Among the convicted murderers doomed by the tribunal were Joseph Louis paonesse. for the kidnap-murder of a 14-year-old Poughkeepsie)'.; N. Y. boy; Alton Paris. Montalba, Tex., for the murder of a state wild, life biologist in a game preserve, and Robert Dessauer) for the'murder of his common-law wife in Hollywood, Calif. .. ' Orders Rumpel To Stale Institution Case h Referred [To Health Council Manfred Heinz Rumpel, the 31-year-old landscape gardener of Bertie, and a D. P.. was today judged to be a “criminal sexual physcopathic” by Jud£e Myles F. Parrish. His pronouncement is based on a decision of two Fort Wayne phyChiatrists. Drs. Dunstone and Stellner. Two weeks ago, Rumpel admitted under questioning to grabbing a 13-year-old girl on the streets of Bej-ne. ■ ■ I | \ J ■' The case has been referred to the Indiana council for mental health, which will determine in whht institution Rumpel w-ill be placed. He will, be confined until he is completely recovered from his mental illness. Under the 1947 acts of the state legislature. Rumpel will not be made to face the charge of assault which went along with th,e sexual charge. If he becomes normal he will go free. , Rumpel was brought to this country three years ago by several Berne residents- In a statement to police Rumppl said he ; was in the German army for seven years, having fought on the Russian front, and also wounded. Rumpel said “the Reeling cams over me about a month ago.” Rumpel wil be confined to the Adams county jail until an tion is named for him.

Price Five Cents

Refuse To Work After Hike In Pay Is Denied WSB Cuts Off 40 Cents Os Increase Recently Granted ' ; ■ ; 'i By UNITED More than 300,000 af\ the nation’s 375)000 soft coal miners, stayedhome today in apparently was the start of an “unofficial” qationwide bituminous strike. There was no formal strike order from John L. Lewis, but moqt of his United Mine Workers apparently felt that the government had canceled their contract by cutting 40 cehts off their recently negotiated $1.90 daily payY aise - Spokesmen for the miners said they were sticking to their traditionai policy of (“no contract, no work.” | i At Washington, defense mobilization chief Henry H. Fowler indi- , cated approval of the wage stabil- . ization board’s decision to dut the . pay raise negotiated last month by . Lewis and the coal operators. ThUs there appeared little imt mediate prospect qf a settlement. A spot check of the nation's > richest coal fields showed only a - handful of mines in operation. i All mines were reported closed 1 ■ in West Virginia with an estimated 95,090 miners off the job. 1 Almost all of Kentucky's 50,000 1 UMW members were reported off the job. Similar reports came from Illinois, with abottt 18,000 UMW miners, and Alabama, with 16,000. An estimated 7uh)o were out in southwestern Indiana, but Roscoe McKinney, president of the union’s District 11, said he did not consider the men to be on strike. “They had a contract wRh the operators-and* the wage stabilization board has interfered with it,” he skid. Western Pennsylvania reported about 35,000 men idle W’ith only onte major mine working. That was the J. & L. Shannopin pit, where miners were on strike from Aug. 20 to Oct. 1 and apparently wanted to make up lost pay. In central Pennsylvania's coal fields, no big mines were operating and an estimated 37,000 were idle. In Kentucky- <L W. Ward, secretary of the Harlan county coal operators association said the operators, “can take no action, and it looks like it’s up to John L. and the government, now.” In Missouri and. Kansas, 600 men were out and their district UMW president, Henry Allai, said “the wagfe stabilization board hqs canl celed our contract.” (Even, before the WSB ruling Saturday, 100,000 miners bad quit work becausS of the delay in receiving their pay raise. \ 'Meanwhile, Sett. Homer Fdrguson R-Mich. said in Washington that President Truman should invoke .7 the national emergency provisions of. the Taft-Hartley act to stall a walkout. Mr. Truman could appoint a fact-finding board and obtain an 80-day injunction. But government officials adopted a “wait and see’ attitude and gave ho indication that the Taft-Hartley act would be invoked. John L. Lewis, the UMW’g president, was reported to have motored to Washington from Charleston, WVa., where he conferred with other (Turn To Page Six) Floren C. Archer Dies At Fort Wayne Ftoren C. Archer, 52- former Adams county resident, died Sunday morning at St. Joseph’s hospital in* Fort Wayne. Surviving are three brothers, Dwight and Isaac W. Archer of Fort Wayne, and idoyd B. Archer of Columbia City. Ftineral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. at the D. O. McCord b & Sons funeral home, the Rev. Stuart G. Billings officiating. Burial will be at Pleasant Mills. r I , ■ ■