Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 250, Decatur, Adams County, 22 October 1952 — Page 1

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Se®mSz ■' \'''> - He*M ' VT*** X is Hl’ x j y v Herbert I. Johnson /Three Democratic’candidates for state office will be in Adams county all day Thursday, it --was announced today by Dr. Harry Hebble. Adams county Democratic chairman. The candidates wlio will visit Decatur. Rjyne, Geneva, Monroe and other points in/an all-day motor trip are: f Herbert I. Johnson* candidate for auditor of stater . — - * Arthur R. Kinser,, candidate for treasurer of Mate. L. Leßoy Wllltrou|, candidate for \ g X “ \ • • ~ i ~

Truman Warns Labor Against G. 0. P. Victory Says Republicans Would Drive Labor Back To Slavery EN ROUTE WITH TRUMAN UP —President TriAnan declared today that a Republican the November elections will “drive 1 labor back to slavery.”; Stumping through Pennsylvania. Mt. Truman told a ctdwd at WilkesBarre. estimated by! local Demo- \ critic officials at 17,d00, that therewere_ two depressions under GOP pdininistrations with (7,060.000 men idle in qne and 14.d00;000\in the Other. - \ \ “If you put them back in. you will have, 28,Q00,0001 unemployed,” he said. L ' ~ ■. M He told the crowd,which included delegations representing unions; in the coal, steel apd garmenU industries, to “elect people who will fkatid up son the rigljts of labor.” > The President’s train stopped at WilkesrPane while I Mr. Truman.' made an aptomobilef trip to Scranton, Pa., for, a speech. He then returned to Wilkes-Barre to reboard the z | rain. Wilkes-Barre schools were-recessed, swelling the crowd. 1 He had told a group in Reading. ,Pa.. that it was better to have a civilian rather than a military man - as a political leader, adding: “L found it necessry td reduce a five star general who got too big for his britches.’* > Although he did not mention Gen. Douglas MacArthur by name, there was no cjuestibn but what be] referred to the deposed Far East edipmander. : "ijater he spoke to about 6,000 persons at the Pottsville. Pa., high school football field. Mr. Truman spoke to 15,000 persons at Scranton, inany of Worn could nbt hear because of a failure of the amplifying system. He said the Republican presidential candidate called the social security Act “bi-partisan Vand Said the overwhelming majority of his party vbted tor it.” ■ “That,” Mr. Trpman said, “is taking extreme liberties with the truth. I am not Bure of course,', that the candidate was deliberately trying to deceive people. | It wspll be that he lust doesn’t, know the facts on his 1 party’s; re- ■ cord.’’ 1 ■ J' ~ Mr, Truman stumped west across Pennsylvania by auto apd train, with a night jspeech at Pittsburgh to cap his day’s campaign- ’ ing for the Democratic ticket.. ; He was on the second leg of a three day “give ( ’em hell” campaign Bwhy; through New Ij*ennsy 1 vSma and (West Virgin!i. His itinerary also included one rei r platform speech each in Delaware, and Maryland. ; , Mr. Truman opened the short; swing Tuesday with a speech in Wilmington. Del., ind 10 in Penn(Tun To itxge-SU) \ ' < , INDIANA WEATHER Fair and •omawhat warmer tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 33-38 ' north, 28-33 south. /►Hflh Thursday 60-65. -—? t

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Democratic Candidates In County Thursday

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■ '. judge of supreme poutt. The three men will arrive at. Democrat headquarters id Decatur at 10 o'clock tomorrow' morning and, after a brief informal reception at headquarters, they will be joined by a group of Adams county candidates and wijl be-escorted to all townships of the county. - Thei -p w ill be nd speaking at any of the stops but the group will visit business houses in Berne. Monroe. Geneva. Pleasant Mills, Linn Grove and Preble. ,1' The group will return to Decatur. ,—; i i I.J-*. ir

Rotation Preterence To Front Line Gl's To Rotate Fighting Vets On 36 Points TOKYO UPj — Front line soldiers in Korea who; have 36 points will be, rotated at the ehd of Octoiler, but the soldiers elsewhere in the Far East cohr.nand'will need .38 points for rotation, Gen. Mark W.' Clark announyled today. The U- S. Far East commander said he was forced last month to set 38 points as a criterion for all rotations as a] “orecautionary measure" because of a shortage of replacements from the United States. “I' and my staff have devoted untold hours in; exploring every measure l|>y gwh-ieh the criteria for frbnt could he main‘This Ayas nd srnall and requ. i r 0 ; d Extremely complicated changes, adjustments and various expedients,’ hut despite these dis- _ ficulties,means have been found, and all front line sqldiers w’ith 36 poifits will be wipidrawp from the zpne at the . end of Octbber.” He said to achieve this, it will be necessary “to make shifts in personnel.” "Thia means that men in'units behind the linefc in Korea, and personnel in Jai>an and Okinawa must Accrue :mdre \>olnts before they Are eligible for rotation —at least until the fhyv of replacements from the United States is stepped up.’’* ' J iJ. : "1- !' '■! • Clark said he slure that “thbse individuals who are not ex- ' (Turn To Pftxe FAxht) ic'-Tj ‘0 Commissioners In Special Session County Board Meets z ln Session Today A special meeting of the county commissioners was held at the county auditor’s: today to elf ar away pending business. Mpeschbergef, of French township, appeared to request the bdjird 1 to clean a ditch that runs 'alongside his farm. Commissioners premised to look over the ditch at a later date not named. Leonard Kingsley. Cmtis WullimAn. Andrew Ifackenßfs and Albert Nussbaum/pptitioned the board tip blacktop four miles of county road 16 beginning one ipile west of U.. S. highway 27i The uommissionstated nothipg could be done about the request this year at leist. A rough estimate of the job by an informed sjoujee Was $25,000. Recently, a plot of seeded closer belonging to Romey Ruble of Union\ township, was burned by wbrkers of the highway department they weTe working on a ditch alongside his farm'.! The "county, it jvas learned, is not insured for such a loss. Therefore, Lewis Koldewey John Blakey were nanied to appraise the damage to Romey's land and to appoint a third appraised to aid in the determination. Miss Bernice Nejson appeared to ask the board to haye the walls and cfeiling of tti!e\coiinty welfare department offices cleaned. The re(T»r» To Pace Mi) J ' s - • --A- u : ' ! ' i' h"■ z

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and will make several visits to ■ local business houses and also will visit the court house. p '■ The visit is part of a tour which . the state Candidates are making that will take them into every county of the state prior to the November 4 election. Dr. Hebble has invited all citizens of the county to visit headquarters in the Brock building either tomorrow’ morning before; lhe caravan starts out or in the . afternoon when the group returns.

Ike Demands Democrats Be Handed Defeat _ : 2r ’ .. Says Republicans Can Cure Inflation If Election Winner EN ROUTE WITH EISENHOWER UP — Dwight D. Eisenhower demanded today* | in’ New Englund that the voters turn the Democrats, out of office and let the Republicans the drain of money through the hole in your pocket that is inflation.” r /. He charged in Connecticut that inflation could be. cured, or at least contained, by removal of an administration "that has become badly and dedicated to “stand-patisni.” He stated his basic campaign “ slogan as “prosperity wjr, peace in the vvorld.’! 1 The GOP presidential nominee oWned a three-state speaking swing at Hartford, Conn. During the afternooii and evening he was scheduled to speak in Massachusetts and upstate New York. ‘ ; “Any party tijat puts in faith ih a song called ‘Don’t Let ’em Take it Away’ is just plain crazy,” Eisen- ' hower Aaid of his] Democratic opposition. He spoke at East Hartford for a few minutes after alighting from his plaine from New’ York. “Our song,” he said, “should be ‘Let’s Get Ahead’ or ‘where are We Going in the Future?’/’ He spoke at ; Hartford from the portico of the Hartford Times, where President Truman spoke last week. Eisenhower’s audience was estimated by pblice to be about 50,000 persons? with another crowd cheering his procession as it paraded through tljie business section. As soon as Eisenhower gdt off his plane at East Hartford, he headed for an outdoor telephone! booth to call Mrs, Hejen Wycdff, den Hartford’ county coordinator of Eisenhower clubs. Several hundred jammed around the booth and photographers prevailed upon him to pose, holding the phone. Jet engines from the nearby United Aircraft plant, I however, drowned out b|is conversatipn. • u? Police at Hartford said the crowd sbemed to be somewhat than the throng which greeted Mr. Truman last Thursday. As Eisenhower rolled down Hartford’s main street, he w r as serenaded by the’ chimes in the belfry of the Church of Christ. There were some' crie's of “Stevenson” from the crowd, but mord for the Republican i nominee. One man held up a sign whiejh ■ prdfclaimed simply, “I Don’t.” Eisenhower landed at the private field of the plant at East Eartfoid and switched to his campaign train here fop stops later,jn the day at Spring- ’ field an«| Pittsfield. Mass., and Albany, Nl Y., where he was sched* ’ uled to I arrive at 5:30 p.m. e.s4* 1 i The GOP npminee at Hartford attacked the Democrats for wa<k ( ing “a campaign'of rear,” saying I “this sort of stuff might have been sold to Ameridans 100 years ago, but the people won’t believe their phony bunk today.” J J !!

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South Korean Soldiers Retake Pinpoint Hill, Reds Lose 1.200 Men

Adlai Charges G. 0. P. Opposes Social Justice , ? Says Social Justice « Strongest Defense To Communism EN ROUTE WITH STEVENSON, UP-Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson today accused Republicans who \have opposed Democratic social and economic programs of playing into the hands of Communism. In a speech prepared for delivery at the campus Os Notre Dame University in South Bend. Ind.. Stevenson said he would not accuse the Republicans “as their leaders do me, of being ‘soft toward Communism.” “But I do say that it seems to me high time that the leaders of the Republican party- or at least one wing rof it —start realizing that their opposition to the programs of social justice in Anjierica is opposition to the building of dur strongest defenses against Coin-] munism.” ' i J ’ ' The Speedo, addressed to CatliQjj lies in general and Students of the university in particular, described Communism as a ‘’disease” for which the only cittfe is "social justice” for all peopleL Before he drove to the Notre Dame campus, where 6.000 studenfs\ from that and nearby St. Mary's College, waited to hear him. Stevenson spoke briefly at the railroad station as. his: train arrived, Sheriff’s deputies estimated the crowd at and,Stevenson said it was: the biggest crowd he's had so early in the morning. ; Concerning foreign policy isStevenson said Dwight Eisenhower "jumped off ihis platform and onto ours in broad daylight.” He/said with only two weeks left before the election! he doesn't know what the GOP stands for. “except on one or two issues.” “Sen. Robert Taft has become the foremost authority on what the general really thinks,” Stevenson said.- I V Steyenson said a new act to replace the Jaw is the "first order of business” for his administration. He said he wants to end racial discrimination as a political football. He said the “most important | issues is "peace on earth.” I His talk at the Notre Dame campus was the first of half a dozen scheduled today" his special campaign train rolled eastward (Turn? To Pa Ke Klxht)

Gamma Globulin Aids Fight Against Polio

CL«EVELAND, UP -— Injections of gamma globlilih have been shown as providing “marked protection” against paralytic poliomyelitis for at least five weeks, it was announced here today. The finding was based on con-' trolled tests involving some 55,000 youngsters in three infantile paralysis epidemic areas. It was reported to the 80th annual meeting of the American public health association by Dr. William |,MeD. Hammon of the University of Pittsburgh. J' “ ! Hammon said that of 90 cases of paralytic polio which occurred among the 54,772 children involved in the test, 26 were in children who had received -the gamma globulin injection and 64 were in children of the “control group” who had been injected with an inactive gelatin. Hammon said there were indir cations that gamma globulin Was pseful in modifying the severity of the case- He said that one half of the injected children! who developed paralytic polio were completely recovered within 30 days. None of the cases among the control group -V which received a Hj y: ' ■; w j : ' ‘; J ■ . . h.■ k’l

Community Fund At 65 Percent Os Goal .Total Contributed To Date Is $6,600 Totals of cash and pledges in the current Decatur Community 1 Fund drive to date are about 16,t 600 .or about ,65 percent of $lO.(>1.3,. according to a; report- made today py Earl Castoh. fund executive secretary. Approximately half of; the solicitors have made their reports, and co-chu|rnmn Wilbur Petrie and Joe Kiehr are still optimistic that minimum budget requirement can be attained. The largest single total to be reported to date is that of the General Electric Co., with its total of >2,288.41. This figure includes 41,20'9i60 in payroll deduction pledges, J 5328.81 in cash : contributions, and the company contribution of $750. While this total is slightly less than last year’s fund officials were ; pleased to learn ■ a greater percentage off the employes pad participated, although there are about 150 less people employed by G. E. this year. The Central Soya Co. reports an increase of about $i5Q; over last I year. Their drive netted $1,951.70. 1 Payroll pledges totaled \5272.50 and ‘(fiftfjtflbutioTrs r-rrtounted 'to >479;50/ The Central Slnya itself contributed $1,200. The Schafer Co. reported employes cash donations of $38.50, and payroll deduction pledge of $223.50, with the Schafer Co. contributing $l5O. to make their total flag Service emp|byfes donated SBO and the company 'contributed 175, fpr a total of slas. A number of other industries have pot yet completed their drives.. ' .■ Various clubs and fraternal organizations; which usually account for a considerable amount of the year’s totals have not yet reported. The drive chairmen again tirged (Turn To P«w Elxht) Officials Inspect Walk-Wait Lights . \ \ Walk-and-wait lights were inspected. by Mayor John Doan and police yhief Borders yesterday to choose the type head spited to the intersection at Monroe and Secohd streets. Several types ivere shown but it seems as though plain forked neon gas tubes are In the lead and will ultimately be chosen. The ■ tentative estimate for a set of eight [ signals was SSOO, subject to’ change.' Delivery may come within three weeks. Tile signals are of a new type recently developed. I r -.

harmless and inactive gelatin in-jection-"-had recovered in that period, he said. During, the second to fifth week after injection, when ’the immunity was'highest, only six of the injected children contnacted paralytic polio as compared with, 38 in the control group, Haimmon said. ■ He said that the gamma globulin offered little protection during the first week after it was administered. apparently because the children \ stricken during that week had “caught” the disease before the injection. h , The tests were carried out under a $1,000,000 grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in the areas of Provo, Utah, Houston, Tex., and Sioux City. la”. The Utah test was made in September, 1951, arid the| other two irt July of It was said to be :the largest field trial of a disease preventive in medical history. ’ '! Hammon said two important questions remained to be answered in determining the gamma globulin’s eventual usefulness. Most important is whether the (Turn, To 'P«#e Ristat) ',\ 4 y J ! ■ \ ' .. ■ y V ' • ' ■ I p

Abandon Hope Lewis ToEnd Miner Strike Prolonged Strike In Nation's; Coal Mines Is Feared WASHINGTON UP — Government and industry leaders abandoned today whatever faint hopes they had that John L. Lewis might call i off the “milk money” strike of 350.000 soft coal miners. They thought the latest pronouncement from the United Mine Workers’ president sounded very much like the official sjgnal for a prolonged shutdow n. I \ The miners began walking out last week, without any formal authorization from their union, after the wage stabilization board lopped off 40 cenU of the $1.90-a-day raise,’ which Lewis, had nk gotiated. Harry M. Moses, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association, appealed to .Lewis to" order the meh j:baek to w’ork for the $1.50-a-day. increase approved by the board. Lewis replied Igte Tuesday with d rift lollc.letter accusing the wage board of trying tof*lfilch milk money from the , miners’ purse.’\ He told Moses that if the operators want any coal dug. they had better petition the wage; board to "review” its ruling and approve the full amounjt. ! Moses declined : immediate comment on the Lewiss suggestion. But industry circles said it was doubtful that the operators would appeal to the wage board; to change Its ruling. ' . A' fc There also was no indication government officials Were planning to (Turn Tu l-Jgr Eight) Petition Removal Os Road 224 From City Forward Petition To I State Commission A petition-was received by councilmen last night calling for the complete removal of U. S. highway 224 from within the limits of the city. The petition was signed by 45 freeholders of West Monroe street, headed by Henry Krueckeberg of 1227 Monroe street. The petitioners claim the vibration of the traffic on the main thoroughfare is causing foundations to lerack and constitutes a' traffic menace. The petition was made a matter, of record] and wu| be forwgrded to the state highway commission, \which hais jurisdiction in these matters 1 . . \ ;J ■ An informed source stated that since the Monroe street bridge is the only way traffic can ,traverse the St. Mary’s river for ,a distance, of about 13 milgo, 1 ] it would cost several hundred thousand dollars to construct a road, equalling in quality the present route, and building another bridge across the river. - ' . Referred To Engineer Director of traffic in Indiana, ,N. F. Schafer, contacted the council during the; Week anh said the matter of the city’s request that the state highway commission place traffic signals on Fifth, Ninth and , Thirteenth street intersections with Monroe \street, has been referred to district engineer George Lutz! fpr an appraisal of the traffic! situation. A \ petitibhj for! a rural line extension for J. B. and Tillie M. Sheehan; of rural Decatjir, was approved and madej a matter of record. An additional $383 was approved for a motor control center for the diesel,' power, plant to be installed within three months at the light and iiower building. The change was approved by the. city’s engineers in this project, Emery, Marker and Emmery, Toledo, O. ' ■■ •

Speaks At Monroe ; i VI i ‘ : ’1 - 1 i ’Erbs y F< • ■ ® ?. ;! Earl M. Utterback —U 1—U—4—H—i — Democratic Rally At Monroe Tuesday Earl Uterback Is Principal Speaker Earl M. Utterback. : Democratic candidate for superintendent : of public instruction, (will be the ’ principal speaker at a Democratic rally to be held at the Monroe school house next Tuesday night at 8 o’clock. i The meeting will b$ in charge of Gene Hike, Monroe clerk-treas-urer and a group of Monroe Demo- . crats. rggarilCd as one of the outstanding educators and speakers in the state, will talk on state issues. The speaker, it is generally believed, also will discuss the southern Adams county problem of School attendance. already has given a! public stakklent on the qualifications which he believes a private school must have to operate in Indiana and hb no doubt iill elaborate on this statement. County candidates'aiso will attend the Monroe meeting and will be introduced prior to the principal address. This will be the only public Democratic meetihgt at Monroe prior tp the election November 4 and the general public is invited. Coffee and will be served following the speaking program and a musical program also is being arranged, j l ! ; -—-4 Police Head Reports On Blocked Streets Complaint Probed By Chief Borders Police chief Jaiftes Borders Tuesday night gave copncilmen a 'thorough i eport of parking, and blocked street conditions in the immediate area of the Decatur Industries on Eighth and streets. The investigation, came about through a complaint registered at the last> meeting of the council where pictures w’ere shown of trucks blocking the street and cars parked on both sides of the street, alleging it to be congested. Borders said the allegations in the comolaint were trub, one, truck haying been observed io block the street entirely fdr at least 20 minutes during a transferring operation. The chief stated cars itere parked on bjith sides of the street although at the time h-e was there ho driveways were blocked. He said he visited the owner of tur Industries, Noah Steury, and was told he, would cooperate as far as the trucking went* and try to' minimize the street condition. I As for the which may block; private driveways, chief Borders said traffic ydllow lines should be painted at those driveways showing it to be unlawful to park in those off-Hmit places. The chief’s report was duly noted and taken under advisement. ’ ■ ' '■/ ' ■ j ' '■

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Sniper Jlidge Hill Retaken r . . i ■.. From Chinese Two Battalions Os Chinese Chopped Up In Futile Assaults SEOUL, Korea UP — South Korean infantrymen recaptured Pin-, point Hill on Sniper Ridge today, killing an estimated 1,200 Chinese soldiers who churned through a sea of inud to win temporary control of the. strategic central front height. Troops of the Republic of Korea 2nd division counted 654 bodies and estimated 600 more were sprawled in the red mud on both the northern and southern slopes. "We chopped up the better part of two battalions,” a South Korean regimental commander said. Late reports from the Sniper Ridge sector indicated that the Chinese battalions, approximately 1,500 men, smashed their way into a neatly-laid South Korean trap. South Korean commanders said : ROK infantrymen poured murderous fire from previously prepared. » positions into the waves of attack- ■ ing Communists. I ’ The Chinese began their assault - on Pinpoint, the highest peak on i Sniper Ridge a mile east of Tri- • angle Hill, at dusk Tuesday night in a driving rain. By 10:40 p.m. they had captured the hill. High-ranking Chinese officers were counted among the dead littering the slopes, he said. The ROK’s hurled the Chinese off Pinpoint after] an all-day battle. Troops of the ROK 2nd division stormed up the muddy slopes of tbe hill at 8 a.m. in the first of a series of day-lonV attacks. They reported tlmy were again in full possession of the crest at 3:15 p.m.. 16 hours after the Chinese reached the top. Elsewhere on the battlefront, rain, fog and muddy hillsides hampered action. A Soufh Korean attack bogged down 40 yards from the crest of Communist-held Iron Horse Mountain. Chinese troops attacking ROK’s on the southern slope were driven back after a 1 % hour fire fight. In the extreme west, Chinese units up to platoon strength probed Bunker Hill east of Panmunjom. Other light Red feeler attacks were reported near Finger Ridge east of the Pukhan River. Clearing weather brought a resumption of the air war. In three battles flpught between eight Sabrejets and 11 Communist MIG-15 jets, the F-86’s probably-shot down one MIG and damaged two others. Three other MIG damage claims were reported by Sabre pilots but were held u|> until gun camera film could be examined. The confirmed damage claims went to Maj. William Hoelscher of Edwardsville, 111., and Marine Corps pilot Capt. Donald E. Francke of Waukegan, 111. Thunderjets bombed 15 buildings west of Hwangju while Pantherjets smashed at 10. more porth of Yonan. The Thunderjets also scored 15 rail cuts and tunnel and supply area south ojf Haeju. '! ! _____ . ' * ' Two Polling Places ChangedUy Board s Two pqlling place changes have been made by the of commissioners for the coming general election November 4. Voters concerned are asked to take note of the changes so that they may lose as little time as possible on election day. - j Precinct number 16 in South l Monroe has been changed from the Election school to the Muensterberg school. Precinct number 39 in Decatur-Root has been changed from Mollenkopf and Biting, burned down recently, to the Homewood grocery, on Washington street. All other precincts remain unchanged.